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Comment Not 100% correct (Score 1) 1168

A lot of other state have that in law have in *addition* ban on discrimination. Example : illinois they do indeed have a freedom fo religion act, but at the same time they have a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation. And as far as i can tell, when both conflict, the ban would take precedence.

Comment Wrong group (Score 1) 226

NASA, JAXA and similar outfit drool at the perspective to have a long term project where they need to send a lot of cargo up, means a lot of contract and assured budget.

Those folk tells the space solar collector are possible and desirable.
 
The folk at energy production on the other hand use a calculator for cost of setting up, maintaining compared to generated energy and they usually view that as possible but not profitable compared to a similarly sized (in megawatt) installation on earth with physical batteries.

Sorry I i trust far more than who are involved i energy generation, than those involved into profiting by cargoeing the stuff.

Comment That ethical challenge is nil (Score 5, Interesting) 177

Those made up example with the family van and the walker are laughable. Firstly out of my experience you do not have time while being in an accident to think that far as to check & see the family van is full of children. You steer , brake, and do as much as you can to avoid the walker. And the van. Secondly you really think there is even a concurrence ? The walker will get the full hit of the kinetic energy in his body. The van will absorb part of it in its structure. What sort of SICK FUCK would hit the walker rather than the van because there are children in the van ? There is no photo finish : You steer to avoid all, and if you cannot, you try to hit the target which will get the less physical damage from your damn car *if you can think that fast*. Does not matter if the walker is an old 99 guys and the van full of the brim of puppies and babies. I expect any automated car to make the same damn calculation : between hitting a car and a walker, go for the car. Hit the one with the most protection.

Comment And the passenger not reacting ? (Score 1) 737

If i see a terrorist taking a pilot hostage, fuck it, I rush him, even if I get gunned down. And far more if they have only plastic or ceramic knife. You would have to have far more bullet than 100+ passenger to be able nowadays to do that, or a bunch of terrorist with weapons. Is the high security door *that* necessary anymore ?

Comment not really. NPK fertilizer., Haber process. (Score 1) 573

" He argues instead that in a historical context, human activity has saved the planet, declaring that "at 400 parts per million, all our food crops, forests, and natural ecosystems are still on a starvation diet for carbon dioxide."

Our crop are starved from other stuff than carbon. if carbon was the problem only, we would put carbon in our fertilizer. But we don't what provocated an explosion of food production was not the CO2 increase during industrial revolution up to today, but NPK fertilizer (nitrogen, Potassium, phosphorus).

While it is true that plant growth would increase as a whole, our crop would still be far more dependent on fertilizer than CO2. And then there is the impact of the change of climate on the zone where the top soil is best for crop growth. If the winter and summer become more extreme, wheat growth might hit a water problem. What good is CO2 if you have not enough water to fix it ?

Comment Wrong in germany (Score 1) 366

Again, in germany EVERYBODY can become taxi driver, there is no medaillon no licence you can become a taxi driver in my city jsut by having the proper insurance the proper driving license and make sure you kilometer counter is checked to make sure you do not cheat. again do not think your local US regulation apply in other country there is next to no regulation for taxi in germany : everybody can be one. The only stuff I recall are that when night tarif start and end, who can park at the airport, and which driving line taxi can take. Nothing about incubent and established company.

Comment Wrong with germany (Score 1) 366

As said time and time and time voer and voer and it is really boring to repeat: EVERYbody can be a taxi driver in germany providwed they buy the commercial insruance and get a special driver licence and get their coutner verified by the government the last one being to make sure you do not count 900 meters to be 1 kilometer. Inflating price. So this is not about established player this is about making uber respect the law. Law as you amy not above does not really protect incumbent as the cost to be a taxi driver are minimal.

Comment And yet it did NOT happen (Score 1) 216

Nothing could do more damage to that movement than exposing that Das Fuhrer had the language skills of a middle school American sleeping through their first semester German class."

More than 10 million book copy were given away by the end of the war. It did not stop his rise. Neither did it help it falls. I keep hearing that showing people how bad the stuff is will actually work in favor of better udnerstanding and whatnot. All I see is actually is actually extremist spreading their stuff and nobody laughing at them , expect those which were *already* laughing at them before the spread of their toxic stuff. I am not advocating censorship I am simply stating : what you wrote is actually most probably bullshit.

Comment Only if you trnaslate in your head (Score 5, Insightful) 274

There are two ways to speak a non native language : translate every sentence in your head and run into the problem you indicate, or master it without constantly translating and your way of thinking will be sooner or later the same as a native. Once you start dreaming, thinking, in the other language, chance is that you are actually using very similar or even identical structure as the locals. Language is no hexenkunst.

Comment Incorrect (Score 1) 416

"In short, nothing in science proves the earth is older than 10,000 year old". Only if you posit miracle or posit fundemmental principle of physic are wrong/changed. Firstly proof is for math. In science we speak of evidence. For example Car start is seen at point A , car is seen at point B. both point at 60 mph. Accelerometer on board show zero deceleration and zero acceleration. What speed was the car between point A and B ? If you answer 60 mph, congratulation you used science and you showed earth billion year old. Why is that ? Well see, we have this things called radioactive elements, like uranium , thorium, etc.... And for those the isotopes decay at a certain statistical rate. And thus by seeing the quantity of such element left, the quantity of daughter element, we can estim ate how long it was there. The only way out of that conundrum is : 1) posit miracle 2) state that physic changed in the mean time 3) a cosmic joke by all gods human worshipped making a new earth looking like an old one. It is quite clear for anybody reading this, that all those 3 answers are belief answers, and none of them are scientific or even rational. It is like positing that the car was at 80 mph between point A and B despite no acceleration, because gods, whichever let us say Baast, made it so. Irrational.


The only valid conclusion with all the FUNDEMMENTAL premises we have now, is that the earth is far far older than 10K. Billion of year old.

Comment There is a good reason for that (Score 1) 163

We have seen abuse over abuse stappled over abuse in the last decade. At some point you start to WORRY a little bit especially with young children very weak to suggestion and advertising. That's not luddism, which would be rejection of ANY improvement, that's called being a realistic fuck which learned and lived through the last decade.

Comment It does put people in danger (Score 1) 760

If as an handicapped you are forced into another place not ready for you, in some case meaning you block the car circulation or get out where a lot of car go, then you are *effectively* putting somebody in danger by taking the handicapped spot. As for being an asshole due to not having plate, why not use the european system ? You just get given a "I just bought the car" temporary license plate easily recognizable by anybody (given by the car dealer), and you have to put one within time. We have no car whatsoever without licence plate here around.

Comment Yeah because you hide assets due to a fine (Score 1) 760

"Changing it to a percent of wealth or income would encourage more rich people to hide their assets overseas. It wouldn't fix the problem. " get real, you don't hide assets due to a fine. You do it maybe due to tax but not to fine. if somebody did not hide their assets in a fiscal heaven by now , fining them by assets will not make them do so. Furthermore hiding money in fiscal heaven has the problem that you have to turn back the money locally to buy stuff. And that's when the pointed question starts. That's why you only hide *part* of the money in fiscal heaven.

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