and yet, Germany is the large per capita CO2 emitter in Europe at 9.7. In addition, with more coal plants coming on-line, again, Germany will jump up again.

No, Europe's really is about economics, but China and Russia join america's military focus on this.

Zero chance. America helped China before and what was found is that solutions were put into military before civilians. Basically, China values military use over civilian use of space.

where life us going to get interesting is when american private space lands on the moon in 2020-2022 and starts a base.

With $2 billion, he could afford a MSO.

No, the title did not register as a thing. Nonetheless, I stand by my assessment of Irrlicht as being... well, it doesn't suck at what it does necessarily, but it lacks almost everything you'd want these days.

Busses are too few and at this time, generally do not lend themselves well to pure electric approaches.
Far more important are the large number of Commercial vehicles, esp. Semis.
About 3 years, O and the Dems tried to push a tax break that would enable us to move new commercial vehicles off diesel and over the nat gas. Sadly, the neo-cons/tea* fought that because the large oil companies do not want to see the price of oil plummet.
What is really needed is to drop the massive subsidies that we have on oil/nat gas/coal, and the moderate subsidies on hybrids and electric vehicles.
Instead, we should have a set of LIMITED TIME subsidy that solves a few of these issues:
1) for any pure electric car with a range of 100-149 MPC (via epa rating), they get 7.5K. For any pure electric with a range above 150 MPC, give them $15K.
This should drop by $1.5K each year. 2) a subsidy for any commercial vehicle using [LC] Nat Gas. In addition, if this is for a serial hybrid, the subsidy should start at the same amount (i.e. a serial hybrid using Nat Gas will have double subsidy what a simple nat gas truck would have. In addition, the large the vehicle, the more subsidy for it. Finally, the nat gas subsidy should drop by 20%, and the serial hybrid should start dropping after that. So, that means that the nat gas subsidy is gone after 5 years, and the hybrid portion will be a steady rate for the first 5 years, but then drop 20% for the next 5 years, meaning that it will last 10 years.

Commercial vehicles makers are ready to do nat gas. It will be expensive at first, but will drop rather quickly. It is the hybrid portion that is of interest since it allows a company to focus on creating pure electric vehicles down the road.

Mojang are essentially toothless hillbilles.

Oh, it's worse than that. They're nerds.

But you have to admit, it's one hell of a trick.

I think the breakdown is:

- Minecraft IP: $1.9 billion
- Notch's good luck: $90 million
- Rest of company: $10 million
- Chance to port WinRT to the DCPU-16: priceless

First off, Minecraft is written in Java.

Secondly, while Irrlicht has improved recently, it's still a toy. Forward rendering only (hope you like fixed-function pipeline lights), nothing in the way of screen-space effects (motion blur, distortion, ambient occlusion, etc), or multi-pass rendering of any kind for that matter, no current-gen support (OpenGL 4 / D3D11), and even if you can overcome all that, it's still a rendering engine and not a game engine. No networking, no physics, no movie player (not even Vorbis)... need I go on?

Even Torque is better than Irrlicht, despite the crappy scripting system.

You take a picture of the card and that information is used to confirm with the bank that you're the card holder. The phone then gets a digital certificate that stored in the encrypted enclave and the photo is zapped. No credit card data is stored on the phone, nor on Apple's servers.

When you go to buy something the phone uses the cert to generate a one-time token and security code that's given to the merchant terminal via NFC and unlocked via TouchID.

The merchant doesn't get a name, doesn't get a card number, doesn't get a security code, and doesn't get a pin number, and as such, the thing is about a million times more secure than the existing magnetic swipe card system.

Sadly, idiots like you do not look at facts and need to put somebody else down all the time, typically with lies.
First, america or capita is about 2x both Europe's AND China. China's per capita has risen fast to be about Europe's rate.
Secondly, over the last 20 years, Europe's rate has not changed much. In POF, america is the only major nation to have made major cuts.
Thirld, Co2 is tied to manufacturing, not ppl. Those who choose per capita are kidding themselves. As such, Europe is in the lead on that, but america is in the middle of the European pack. But China is in the bottom 5 in terms of co2 per $ real GDP.

And while China continues to grow their emissions by 3-5% a year, and Europe is actually growing as well, only Americas continues to fall.

And yet, america has cut its emissions the most over the last 20 years. And when oco2 has numbers, it will no doubt shock the world to find USA at the lower end of emissions.

Well, that is either BS, or you just stunk bad due to lack of showering.

The fact is that the seats pitch is too little in terms of emergency operations. In a bad crash, far more ppl will be hurt due to inability to get out of the row. Finally, the airlines are hurting their reputation and profits with these antics.

Good science is rigorous, objective, and unbiased. Much of the research that comes out of the "social sciences" is a fucking joke compared to a field like, say, physics.

OK, you didn't understand what I said. That's okay, so let's go through this again.

The social sciences are fields like anthropology, sociology, psychology, and behavioural economics. These fields are just as experimentally-based, data-driven, rigorous, and objective as biology.

The humanities are fields like art, history, music, literature, and culture. These are often informed by science, but they are not science. They are still important to study.

Anita Sarkeesian is doing humanities, not social science. If you pay attention to her videos, she does report results from social science, because this is part of the methodology. But she is not doing science, and she would be the first to agree with this.

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