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Comment Re:Drama queen (Score 1) 196

To be fair we had several massive revolts so far, with no effect, especially one that came after they gutted FF's UI. A lot of people just left for alternatives.

None of it had any impact on Mozilla. They just don't give a toss about their userbase.

Comment Re:Drama queen (Score 1) 196

At this point, Adblock's development is largely irrelevant. As long as adblocking lists are maintained, you as end user are fine. And ablock+ itself has been forked enough times to ensure that someone will keep on developing anyway.

This is what happened when adblock+ stopped working on Pale Moon for example and adblock+'s creators refused to fix the problem.

Comment Re: Lasers are easy to stop (Score 1) 517

Yes, and that progress took them to where they are today - being slightly better than modern artillery. Before this progress, they were significantly worse.

Remind yourself that modern metallurgy pushed artillery quite a bit, and for example victory in Iraq's first war was largely attributed to the fact that US artillery had about 10km more range than Iraq's older artillery. That is where most of the damage came from, not the much advertised air strikes with guided weapons.

Comment Re: Lasers are easy to stop (Score 1) 517

Yes, the rail guns they use are marginally more powerful than modern artillery, while requiring utterly impractical:

1. Energy source.
2. Capacitors.
3. Cooling.
4. Survive only a handful of shots even at those power levels before entire barrel assembly must be replaced due to massive forces it has to handle deforming and destroying it.

Railgun with capabilities suggested is not present anywhere except the article I linked. The forces required for the railgun you suggest are far greater than what these massively impractical, largely dysfunctional test models that are already sitting on the bleeding edge of what we can do in terms of materials we can make.

Comment Re:Have I lost my mind? (Score 1) 378

IIRC pre-birth vagina's PH changes to allow bacterial migration from anal opening. As baby is born, it literally licks up the vaginal walls. In caesarean section birth doctors now take vaginal swabs and put them in baby's mouth to produce the same result.
Follow-up comes through child having an instinct to put things in their mouths and mother's milk.

Remind yourself that women commonly suffer urinary tract infections for that same reason - something that men almost never suffer from in comparison.

Comment Re:Okay, so... (Score 1) 378

That is not what is implied here. To get fat from energy, you need said energy to be absorbed form your gut into your bloodstream.

In this case, it appears that certain kind of gut microbiome may consume this energy without transferring it to the bloodstream. In other words, the suggestion that "what you eat ends up in you the same way it does in that other person" is factually incorrect - we already know that microbiome is individual and significantly impacts your ability to absorb nutrients.

The question here is how much of a difference it is.

Comment Re: Lasers are easy to stop (Score 1) 517

I'l like to see the quote on that from ballistics expert. How are you planning to have muzzle velocity high enough to get that kind of range on a ballistic weapon that has no motor and have the weapon survive the firing? And if you do manage to get it that high, how will you stabilize the weapon to have any kind of meaningful accuracy at that range?

The only source for this claim that I can find is here:
http://nationalinterest.org/co...

And it can be summarized as "wishful thinking".

Comment Re:What's the difference between China and EU? (Score 1) 222

You show your ignorance of reality again. Greece's problems weren't originally rooted in their debt. Their debt was a symptom of the far larger problem - their underlying social and economic structure.

In Iceland on the other hand, underlying structure was fine. The problem was that they allowed their banking sector to become oversized in relation to their actual economy due to its foreign investments.

These are two very different problems. Attempting to draw parallels between them betrays complete lack of understanding of underlying issues on your part.

Comment Re:What's the difference between China and EU? (Score 1) 222

As I said, you have a problem with reality. I'm even further convinced after your Iceland statement.

Iceland is in a dire situation as we speak. They have huge foreign debts to the worst of the worst - vulture hedge funds. The only reason their economy currently looks decent is because they forbade taking any money out of the economy without permission from their central bank. As a result, their economy looks stable because all the money they owe to foreign entities is forcibly retained within their economy.

Of course, that also means no meaningful foreign investments in their country, no purchasing power for their people due to inability to pay to any foreign entity without special permissions and so on. They are pretty much in the same position as Argentina. Any property of the government outside Iceland is forfeited, no government owned property including ships or airplanes can ever exit the country without being impounded to pay for debts and so on.

The only thing they avoided is the immediate effect of those debts. Just like Argentina did when it defaulted. Only that didn't really save it from those debts - they're still hanging over it to this day.

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