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Comment Re:No Evidence (Score 1) 215

The myth is that we can wipe our ass with the biosphere continually and still live here.

If you need to feel bad to change your habits, then I hope you do. Otherwise, all else equal I would prefer that you feel good about yourself, because hurt people hurt people.

Thank you for providing supporting evidence. We're not actually doing that, but you choose to believe it anyway.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2

Comment Re:Too old. (Score 1) 204

Alright. I expect to see a new window system built by you by next weekend. Let's git r dun!

Why not, it worked for Berlin/Fresco or whatever it was called.

Berlin even uses CORBA inside the display server itself, although in-process objects are accessed almost as quickly as normal objects with virtual methods.

Yow buzzwords from the past!

Comment Re: Let's get rid of EU (Score 1) 272

At least [EU] HAS a parliament, unlike the WTO, NATO

EU has a powerless parliament, who cannot propose a directive, who cannot have the last word against the EU council (except to reject a directive),

So they cannot have the last word, except that they have the last word?

and who does not decide the budget.

Except that they can reject it.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
-- Paul-Muad'Dib

Comment Re:Let's get rid of EU (Score 1) 272

The non elected EU commission that is only real power in the EU besides the individual ministers of each country that deal with european affairs.

The commission is the cabinet. I cannot think of any system where the cabinet is elected.

Since the electing circles in the EU and most of Europe don't work as in the UK/US, you'd have to explain everyone how a senate works

Why would someone from the UK know how a senate works? The UK doesn't have a senate.

Comment Re:Not so quick (Score 1) 305

Actually, mobile networks seem to be adopting IPv6,

Hum.

bash-3.2$ ip addr show dev rmnet0
2: rmnet0: <UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/[530]
    inet 10.2.148.75/8 scope global rmnet0
    inet 10.2.148.75/24 brd 10.2.148.255 scope global rmnet0
    inet6 fe80::1c69:a3e7:7a60:52f0/64 scope link
      valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Not all of them. (This is Free Mobile, in France.)

Comment Re:Fuck IPv6 (Score 1) 305

Right, and the company I work for has 200+ servers that need to be accessible from the world. Sure, we could do some horrible port forwarding bullshit and run services on non-standard ports and all that crap but why should we?

"Well known ports" is the dumbest part of the whole internet.

Fucking SRV records, what are they for?

Comment Re:Progenitors? (Score 1) 686

Life does not need intelligence.

True, but if you have radical changes to the environment and there have been a few in our planet's history then life-forms which cannot adapt are going to become extinct.

But do you have any evidence that intelligence helps species adapt?

Comment Re: Progenitors? (Score 1) 686

In addition to that, [bacteria] will never be able to actively prevent their own extinction on a solar or galactic level, nor will they be able to actively spread on those levels.

Any evidence that humans will achieve those feats? So far our "spreading on a solar or galactic level" consists of a few day trips to a nearby moon nearly 50 years ago.

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