What does count as having read a book? Does it count that I've read portions of it that is recurring topic in college exam of books subject or do I have to read it entirely or almost entirely. If its latter I think literacy is overrated. I assumed literacy is overrated.

Its just very shameful that game makers consider that games are only played by children and make only that kind of content, 1987 they made only child's games and they didn't fix that by 1996 or 1997 maybe they will fix it now.
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A) Someone launches nuclear holocaust, or bio weapon holocaust.
B) Some self replicating nanomachine makes everything on the surface a replica of its self.
C) Runaway global warming kills us all. (If reasonably bad global warming goto A)
D) Jesus comes back and Judges everyone by their actions. (For all crimes death penalty, now only question is that has someone already suffered yours.)
F) Some solar event kills all communication and reconnaissance satellites and systems. Goto A.

Do you mean reactors built when PDP-10 was new kid on the computing ground, and nobody could imagine that people would own computers in home. When those reactors get hit by 9.0 magnitude earth quake and resulting tsunami, then there would be major nuclear accident with ZERO or near zero death toll (too early to tell). Compared to tens of thousands of people who would of died out of respitatory problems if its electricity production would of been done by fossil fuels instead. The total power generation capacity of Fukushima plant is about what 2.5 million people in western industrialized country requires with supporting industry. The coal power plant producing equal amount of electricity would put 25 tons of uranium to atmosphere each year. So that about 1000 tons of uranium during the already used life time of Fukushima plant coming from coal plants producing equal amount of electricity.

Yeah. There's real risk that we might get several kilos of uranium somewhere from that nuclear power plant released so we would be SO much better if we just would get 25 tons of uranium guaranteed from coal instead of risk of getting some from nuclear.

Good enviromentalists want to improve the productivity of our agriculture AND dedicate larger area to nature, by reducing number of farms. Good enviromentalist want to ban ALL fossil fuels including burning renewables in relatively short period, and replace them with lots of nuclear power stations using spend nuclear fuel as its own fuel by shipping it to across the continent to recycling center and back. Its all about land use, the denser mankind means far more area for nature, and nuclear is about as dense power source as you can get, and sheer volume of waste in other methods of electric production is unbelievable.
Getting rid of fossil fuels means reduced inhaling problems. Good enviromentalists want to ban tobacco and alcohol and marihuana. Both cause both enviromental problems at production, and health problems and problems to bystanders. Good enviromentalists want to increase durability of products so that far less production is required for given living standards, oh and electrical efficiency is nice bonus. Good enviromentalist want to reduce commute and shopping distance by living in dense city centers, instead of on some god forsaken far away location.

The idiot enviromentalists only considers things by emotion, if it feels good it is good and if it feels bad it is bad, no matter what the numbers tell us.

Unfortunately idiot enviromentalists dominate the numbers and media.

I just used this to estimate their price 100 000 numbers mailing and printing on 96 page version. With everypage 4 color. Cost 1.2 dollars per issue per subscriber, if I went to over board with all the options the price would be 1.6 dollars.
http://www.printpelican.com/magazine-5-8.html

And for bigger size magazine the cost can go upto 2.2 USD.
http://www.printpelican.com/catalog-8-11.html

Of course 192 pages which is maximum they print the cost becomes 4USD. But thats 0.5" pile of paper.

I'm sorry sir, no movies with Summer Glau in it. It's proven that images of beutiful women reduce male intelligence by small amount.
And reduced intelligence increases your chance of death.
What you feel unhappy?
Here's latest medication for that.

No way to practice German?
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,11936,00.html

Just assimilate from TV, like Finnish people do for English.

Mankind posses technology to divert the asteroid, OR we have already died horribly by some great disaster.
And by then we personally may or may not have died depending on speed of life sciences research and our living habits.

The civilization is going to change by this, no matter what. And we still have some say on the magnitude and type of change.
For instance flooding of florida and california, extra nasty storms and droughts, and extra heat on the outside, some nice diseases coming north with their carriers living conditions. And most of all lots of desperate people with nukes.

statistics is EASY atleast in university.

Just look dozen of previous exams
spend one hour with someone who really knows their math to solve some of the problems.
Go to exam.
Repeat until passed.

Sometimes statistical analysis gives you enough exact questions that are coming in next exam.
  If it doesn't then you can continue collecting more data, until you get it right ;)
And it doesn't even matter if its the anomalous data point the time when you pass.

In Finland my 6th grade schoolbook explained it about 17 years ago that Africa will eventually split in Ethiopia. And no Finland is not in Africa its in northern Europe.

Liter is volume of cubic decimeter.
So you are off by 1000.

Typically if you make mistakes in using metric units you are off by 10 or 100 or 1000 and you can know by intuition that you where wrong, provided you have lived with the system and not with something else.

The liter is used for everyday stuff. But normally scientific and large volume stuff uses cubic meters as measure of volume.

For some people 30 grand is day's income or couple of days income, or even less than days income.
Then look what 30 grand gets them...

a) Something other people with similar income will recognize from that he is their peer. Which is good for business.
b) Something that improves their chance of getting laid when trying to, as it both shows money and isn't too much of a showing off.
c) Good watch. People who have truckloads of money will probably try to get highest quality stuff since you don't enjoy that much of having million pairs of cheap socks, and thousand of cheap TV-screens, or thousand cheap watches in their basement. So what they can do with their money? Buy stuff that is far more expensive than what people consider almost as good. But as long as they think its higher quality its probably worth it for them because their time is really expensive for them.

I think b) is the thing what most slashdotters would gladly pay couple of days salary. While a) is probably most common reason to get that expensive watch.

Put a small laptop inside of it, with every software required to run it inside the laptop. AND a bluray disk with all the software required to run and all the data for multiple operating systems in case the laptop fails and people still use bluray...