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Comment Re:They're called trees. (Score 1) 128

but a car is carbon neutral as well. It produces as much carbon as it consumes

You really need to share some of the drugs you are taking. They must be awesome. So, what kind of photosynthesis does a car do?

the addition of a forest where previously there was not is a carbon sink

Yes, for a little while. In the fastest growing period. Once the forest is somewhat established, the rotting processes etc in that forest will produce as much carbon as the forest consumes. Sure, the growth stage is semi-long in human terms, but it is both far too slow and far too inefficient to do anything about our current emissions.

As for cars, putting any kind of restrictions on cars to curb CO2 emissions is retarded, since personal transport constitutes a tiny part (4-5%) of the total CO2 emissions. Going electrical is retarded since the electricity used to drive the car is, in the end, produced by burning coal. None of the current efforts to curb CO2 emissions have any theoretical possibility of making a dent in CO2 emissions since they do not encourage, or enforce, a reduction in (or stopping of) the burning of coal.

Germany has gone to 30-40% electricity production using renewable energy. Still, their CO2 emissions have increased at exactly the same rate as the rest of the world. For two main reasons - 1/ The morons are shutting down nuclear plants, and 2/ when mixing renewable energy and fossil burning, the fossil burning becomes far less efficient and the CO2 emissions from coal and oil increases quite significantly.

Comment Re:convicted monopolist shuts down open source dep (Score 1) 110

If there's a lot of bad blood between you and would be contributors

There isn't. Remember, most of the world is not as closed minded and insane as the average slashdotter.

It really is best not to ignore social component even if the licence doesn't mention it

There was probably a full argument in there in your mind, but you only wrote about half of it.

Comment Re:convicted monopolist shuts down open source dep (Score 2) 110

Giving tools to developers for lock-in technologies

Yeah, you are right. They have only open-sourced .NET and it is now available on all major (and quite a few minor) platforms. They have open sourced the C# compiler. They have open sourced just about anything web related they are doing. So, what else should they open source? Windows? According to Microsoft that is apparently also an option they keep open.

What, specifically, are you missing?

Comment Re:You have to be careful (Score 1) 173

you would now that squeamishness is not associated with process but with the risk of failure in that process

Well, perhaps not. It may also be associated with pure and genuine mental retardation, self-inflicted mental retardation, not the one caused by actual brain damage or deficiency.

Comment Re:You have to be careful (Score 1) 173

Why are we wasting money on desalination when we can recycle our water for a fraction of the cost?

We are talking about a state where in some municipalities, they will completely empty the local water supply when a drunk teenager is caught on camera pissing in it. They even have cameras watching the reservoirs for cases such as this.

So, how do you think these retards will feel if you say to them: From tomorrow on you will be showering in recycled piss. They will go ape. OK, so we use the recycled water for agriculture only, then they will go ape because their food has been "showered in piss".

The "average person" is fundamentally retarded, that's (part of the reason) why.

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