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Comment Fuel (Score 1) 222

In the other hand, what can't be denied is that global warming provides more energy to the climate system. And in a system so complex that is the root of the butterfly effect concept adding more fuel will affect it, maybe even in ways that we didn't realized yet. And with a civilization that is rooted in stable and predictable climates (agriculture depends on that) it will hit us pretty hard in all those ways.

Comment Re:Sympton of a bigger problem (Score 1) 611

to convince people to work where they live.

Because there's nothing I like better than opening my window on a nice spring evening and having to listen to the honking of car/truck horns, the accompanying smell of exhaust, people yelling up and down the street, drunk staggering about and talking to themselves at 2 in the morning and people who think it's acceptable to have a party on the street a 4 AM.

Maybe you like to keep your windows closed every day of the year, but there are those of us who like to breathe relatively clean air and not have to deal with inconsiderate slobs who think it's their right to do what they want, whenever they want, without consideration for those around them.

Submission + - Personal Drones Coming to Dominate the Hobbyist Radio Control Market (terapeak.com)

aussersterne writes: Drones continue to be in the news, with more and more "personal drone" incidents making headlines. It's easy to think of such stories as aberrations, but a well-known market research company has studied the radio control hobbyist market on eBay and found that sales of radio control helicopters and, more importantly, "quadcopters" (which are most often understood to be the "personal drone" category of items) are now—when taken together—the dominant form of radio control items sold on eBay. Radio control quadcopters in particular are growing much more quickly than the rest. Are we poised to see personal drones become much bigger influences on news and popular culture? Is it time for regulation?

Comment Re:Other tags (Score 1) 162

Or maybe they didn't have their cameras where the looting was taking place. If they only had one crew it would be difficult under the circumstances for them to report it happening.

The did report on, and show, the body found in the burning car and showed pictures of blacks protecting white-owned businesses.

As to Brown, no sympathy. As the evidence showed, what some initially reported was completely false and even made up. He was hardly the saint people tried to make him out to be.

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