Comment head emission (Score 1) 85
If each HEAD of the cattle emits so much methane, imagine how much the other end must emit!
Comment Re:This is proof? Really? (Score 1) 282
This. During the Balkan wars, for example, Deutschmarks and later Euros were still usable while local currencies were worthless. In fact Kosovo and Montenegro just adopted Euros as the official currency.
Comment Re:Scanning random QR codes (Score 1) 234
You use a mirror or, in case of back-only camera, two mirrors.
Comment Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs (Score 1) 674
<quote>(all while making you 30% cooler)</quote>-56 °C? No, thanks!
Comment Re:Reagan's sound check (Score 1) 147
It's not like Reagan could have been 100 % sure it will not be accidentally broadcast.
Comment relative or absolute decrease? (Score 1) 146
Just doubling the salaries will get you to 4-6 %.
Comment Re:Better be an open system (Score 1) 311
I would guess some communication goes on before the charging starts. So Tesla can license this to Nissan, who may then also have to pay Tesla for each charge (depending on their contract). Nissan can demand Leaf owners to pay for each charge (using some other channel, most probably on-line). You don't pay, your Leaf doesn't charge.
Comment Re:Doesn't really matter (Score 1) 198
Once you do all this, you will NOT be cheaper than the grid. Not even with future's higher grid prices.
Comment Re:A solution to a problem that doesn't exist (Score 1) 233
<quote><p>they take too much space per passenger (at rush hour, on average, 1.02)</p></quote>
1.02 may be the number of people per car. The number of passengers per car is even lower. When I drove my wife to the airport and then returned home, the average was 0.5 passengers (plus 1.0 drivers which don't actually want to go anywhere).
1.02 may be the number of people per car. The number of passengers per car is even lower. When I drove my wife to the airport and then returned home, the average was 0.5 passengers (plus 1.0 drivers which don't actually want to go anywhere).
Comment preindustrial turbulence level (Score 1) 184
Yes, lucky Wright brothers and Icarus for enjoying the smooth flights of the preindustrial era...
Comment restrictions/rights (Score 1) 351
Why re-defining the R to mean restrictions? Rights management is the correct term, where "to manage X" means "to lessen X/to lessen the effects of X". Like weight management, crisis management, anger management...
Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 727
you can be just as ambiguous in French as in English.
And this is exactly the reason why it's useful for diplomatic traffic.
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Submission + - Thoughts on the near-Earth object impact threat, UN style (unvienna.org)
alpinista writes: From: Recommendations of the Action Team on Near-Earth Objects for an international response to the near-Earth object impact threat"
"When a threatening object is detected and the threat is deemed credible by IAWN, this fact and the associated details should be presented to the Committee on
the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. The Committee should assess the risk and encourage spacefaring nations to move forward to develop plans, coordinated via
the space mission planning advisory group, to deflect the threatening object. At the same time, the Committee should notify the impact disaster planning advisory group
of the threat and could establish an ad hoc mitigation mission advisory group to encourage international response activities and advise planning for and response to
the threat, including deflection (if time allows), civil defence actions and disaster mitigation."
Do we really want to leave this to a committee?
"When a threatening object is detected and the threat is deemed credible by IAWN, this fact and the associated details should be presented to the Committee on
the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. The Committee should assess the risk and encourage spacefaring nations to move forward to develop plans, coordinated via
the space mission planning advisory group, to deflect the threatening object. At the same time, the Committee should notify the impact disaster planning advisory group
of the threat and could establish an ad hoc mitigation mission advisory group to encourage international response activities and advise planning for and response to
the threat, including deflection (if time allows), civil defence actions and disaster mitigation."
Do we really want to leave this to a committee?
