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Comment Re:Danger. (Score 4, Informative) 240

Ranking states for Brady and violence is meaningless, as data show. Only ranking high violence areas versus low violence areas gives meaningful data. So ranking Chicago, DC, Detroit, and other large cities with high crime rates against large cities with low crime rates is an interesting comparison. London, as well as England and Great Britain, have high violent crime rates and strong gun laws. Are there large cities in the US with low crime rates? There are in Europe: Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, Switzerland, for example. If you do that in the US, you get confused, because Houston has a high violent crime rate, for example. It just is not obvious.

Comment Re:Liable Party in an Accident? (Score 1) 166

Drones MUST have the standard radio transponders commercial planes have. Also, they will need gyro guidance systems so if external guidance (radio, gps, etc) goes out, they will be able to fly, and should auto-return to launch site.
But flying weaponized drones over US air-space, outside of military bases, is unconstitutional, unless marshal law is declared.
And military flying of drones without weapons is also restricted to flying between bases or on training flights, where use of any spy abilities (cameras, radar, sonar, etc) is prohibited.
But that is just the opinion of a fol who believes the constitution means something...

Submission + - Meteor hits Cuba (investmentwatchblog.com)

rcamans writes: A meteor similar to the Russian impact last night hit in the province of Cienfuegos in central Cuba. Villigers describe a light growing and exploding, which sounds similar to the Russian videos. At least one crackpot site is claiming Nibiru (Planet X) Asteroids are falling everywhere.

Comment All climate stories are BS (Score 1) 655

As long as everyone writing "scientific" articles and "research" get the basics of climate all wrong, everyone is going to be driven to erroneous beliefs.
For example, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are current levels + C02 production (gas / oil / forest burning) + CO2 absorption (Oceans, for example) + CO2 consumption (trees). Playing with one factor is meaningless. We can make cars more efficient, but if trucks and ocean carriers are horribly inefficient, the total emissions are not going to be reduced at all. And letting people clear cut and burn the forests and jungles is a double whammy: putting CO2 in the air and removing C02 consumers. The solution is simple. Require all car / truck / boat / train manufacturers to plant twice as many trees as is necessary to consume the CO2 they emit. Require all gas, coal, and oil producers to plant twice as many trees as is necessary to consume the CO2 they emit. Require all power plants to plant twice as many trees as is necessary to consume the CO2 they emit. Require all tree cutters to plant twice as many trees as they cut. Require all clear cutters to replant or plant far faster than the 10 to 20 years they currently wait. Require all trucks / trains / ocean carriers to be more efficient. This would reduce the CO2 levels.

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