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Comment If you are buying Lenovo, avoid Ideapad's (Score 1) 219

Since the post is related, I will take my time to off-topically cast my votes as a consumer:
avoid Lenovo "ideapad" line like you'd avoid hell.

Mine has the worst screen I had ever seen in my life - worst contrast and highest reflection ever!
(it can't beat a generic sub $ 60 Chinese Android tablet's). Sound volume is poor almost as if non-existent,
keyboard build is flimsy.
Just say NO. And even if going to other Lenovo product lines, I'd be extra careful checking the overall building.

Comment In other news: Bonsai Kitten (Score 1) 149

Seriously!
Do you remember the 90's widespread hoax of a company selling kittens grown up inside glass bottles as "bonsai"? I consider this to be on the same level of hoax - but for some possible state-intelligence level sponsoring that could be used to stir even more the rage against "the terrorists". Just to keep the wars going, you know.

Comment Very well (Score 1) 216

Google certainly didn't ask for being mandated for governments. But when governments wanted to seize control of search results in name of "war against terrorism" people aplauded. Governments are in charge now, and there are just a couple information hubs they need to care about. So much for the World we've choosen to live in.

Comment Re:Gravity is the weakest force (Score 1) 231

Still, as they find slowly their way through what Plasma in space can achieve, mainstream science is blinded by Gravity only suppositions turned into "reality" with an increasingly set of fudge factors. TFA just list a small number of them. But talk someone on the "mainstream" - including just self-presumed scientifically educated persons that the Big Bang perhaps did not take place, and point to the political and social movements inside Science that led to its conformation, and you are as an "heretic" as someone who tries to tell a fundamentalist Christiant that Hell or Heaven may not be the way he have been told.

Submission + - Google News to shut down in Spain on December 16th, 2014. (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The news aggregation services offered by Google is set to be no longer available for Spain starting December 16th, 2014. The decision of Google comes as response to new Spanish legislation that gives publishers the right to claim compensation for republishing any part of their content. This follows news of services of startup Uber being forbidden in countries like Spain as well as Germany and some city councils worldwide like Delhi, or other services like AirBnb being put under pressure to cope with local laws in other jurisdictions. Big tech giants and aggressive startups, under the well-marketed flag of cool innovation and globalized modernity, keep bringing disruption to well established, albeit sometimes outdated, business models, laws and basic society rules (from fire regulations to content ownership), often not paying taxes in countries they take profits from with their activities, fees and advertisement. Sometimes they also pretend to be above the local laws by chiefly dismissing or fighting back court orders in countries other than America where the courts don't make the laws. While the political institutions of separate nations will stay apart for many years to come, (Internet) corporations are more and more globalized for the sake of business, sometimes seemingly imposing a flat model of culture, tradition and habits to anybody else in the world who is not aligned to their own. How far might the quest for new, modern services and business models reasonably go and can it go as far as pretending to disrupt the foundation of legal rights in well established societies that have taken many centuries to fine tune their current model of civilization?

Comment Re:"Icy nucleus" (Score 1) 47

BTW, the grandparent post was written in a "trollish" wording on purpose - but I seriously consider the electric comet theory - and would advise anyone not tending to hold "the most accepted current theory" in science as if it were a religious fact. If anyone one is curious about it, give it a read.

Now - I just got to this article and video depicting an explosion in Mars that fits quite well with the electric comet model - but which would get a hard time being explained by ice blocks: https://missiongalacticfreedom...

Comment "Icy nucleus" (Score 0) 47

I wonder why do they still write "icy comet nucleus" if no comet photographed up to today - and we have at least three close encounters with crafts - had displayed icy features. All of them are pretty much rocky.

By now it should be obvious that the light-show given by comets is electric in nature, and has nothing to do with melting ice or snow.

Comment " 300,000 years " or "300 million years"? (Score 1) 152

Given TFS later tells of "1.5 billion years since switching off", and the impossibility of measuring 300.000 years accurately in this context, I suppose the reactor was active for 300 million years, not 300 thousand years. Is ee the "300000" number is in TFA, but it looks suspect.

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