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Comment not really. NPK fertilizer., Haber process. (Score 1) 573

" He argues instead that in a historical context, human activity has saved the planet, declaring that "at 400 parts per million, all our food crops, forests, and natural ecosystems are still on a starvation diet for carbon dioxide."

Our crop are starved from other stuff than carbon. if carbon was the problem only, we would put carbon in our fertilizer. But we don't what provocated an explosion of food production was not the CO2 increase during industrial revolution up to today, but NPK fertilizer (nitrogen, Potassium, phosphorus).

While it is true that plant growth would increase as a whole, our crop would still be far more dependent on fertilizer than CO2. And then there is the impact of the change of climate on the zone where the top soil is best for crop growth. If the winter and summer become more extreme, wheat growth might hit a water problem. What good is CO2 if you have not enough water to fix it ?

Comment Wrong in germany (Score 1) 366

Again, in germany EVERYBODY can become taxi driver, there is no medaillon no licence you can become a taxi driver in my city jsut by having the proper insurance the proper driving license and make sure you kilometer counter is checked to make sure you do not cheat. again do not think your local US regulation apply in other country there is next to no regulation for taxi in germany : everybody can be one. The only stuff I recall are that when night tarif start and end, who can park at the airport, and which driving line taxi can take. Nothing about incubent and established company.

Comment Wrong with germany (Score 1) 366

As said time and time and time voer and voer and it is really boring to repeat: EVERYbody can be a taxi driver in germany providwed they buy the commercial insruance and get a special driver licence and get their coutner verified by the government the last one being to make sure you do not count 900 meters to be 1 kilometer. Inflating price. So this is not about established player this is about making uber respect the law. Law as you amy not above does not really protect incumbent as the cost to be a taxi driver are minimal.

Comment And yet it did NOT happen (Score 1) 216

Nothing could do more damage to that movement than exposing that Das Fuhrer had the language skills of a middle school American sleeping through their first semester German class."

More than 10 million book copy were given away by the end of the war. It did not stop his rise. Neither did it help it falls. I keep hearing that showing people how bad the stuff is will actually work in favor of better udnerstanding and whatnot. All I see is actually is actually extremist spreading their stuff and nobody laughing at them , expect those which were *already* laughing at them before the spread of their toxic stuff. I am not advocating censorship I am simply stating : what you wrote is actually most probably bullshit.

Comment Only if you trnaslate in your head (Score 5, Insightful) 274

There are two ways to speak a non native language : translate every sentence in your head and run into the problem you indicate, or master it without constantly translating and your way of thinking will be sooner or later the same as a native. Once you start dreaming, thinking, in the other language, chance is that you are actually using very similar or even identical structure as the locals. Language is no hexenkunst.

Comment Re:Transparency in Government is good! (Score 2) 334

Actually, the Republicans had rather a lot to do with the drafting of it, even if none of them voted for it in the end. It went a lot like this:

R: If you remove X, I might vote for it.

Obama: OK, it now doesn't have X.

R: Psyche! Not good enough, sucker. Hahaha! But seriously, if you add Y, then I might vote for it.

Obama: OK, it now has Y.

R: OMG! Everybody, come look at Y! That's Death Panels! Obama wants to kill your grandmother!...

Comment Re:CODE Keyboard (Score 1) 452

I mouse with my left hand, so the G300 works better for me, but otherwise I'm doing the same. I don't even care that much about the price, but the mouse itself has been far more reliable. I think I bought it somewhere on the order of 3 years ago, and its still going strong.

Its annoying to have to go twiddle with their preset uploading software every time my computer comes back from sleep mode, but otherwise I'm really pleased with it.

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