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Comment Re:IF.. (Score 1) 561

The researchers actually observing this long-ago concluded that it has nothing to do with being black, hispanic, white or asian and almost exclusively to do with economic and social factors.

Other researchers, who know how to control for those factors, say otherwise.

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Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly 461

assertation (1255714) writes with this interesting tidbit from Reuters about the state of solar power in Germany: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said. The German government decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022.

Comment Re:Gotta agree with it being illegal (Score 1) 404

Well, technically they aren't accessories. But that doesn't mean it's legal. Quite the opposite, in fact.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-...

All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it
be felony or misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit the act
constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, or, not
being present, have advised and encouraged its commission, [...] are principals in any crime so
committed.

Comment Re:Mozilla II (Score 1) 132

How does that justify taking functionality - that was already there and working fine- away? How does it justify changing things just for the sake of changing them?

Stop and ask yourself this question: "What's the problem that I'm trying to solve?" If you can't answer that, or the best you can come up with is "it's the wrong colour" then it's probably best to leave it the fuck alone.

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