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Comment Re:IQ? Please! (Score 1) 174

IQ doesnt impress me - accident of birth like big tits.

Even if it does not impress you. it should not convince you that the holder of that IQ has nothing to say.

As for the other accident of birth you referred to, some owners of those are extremely smart too.

Comment I suspect (Score 4, Insightful) 174

The chronically uninformed and uninformable* will find some way to deny this is happening.

* - people who feel that their ignorance outweighs the knowledge of any scientist and so nobody with an IQ over 125 has anything to tell them.

Comment How about this (Score 1) 138

There have been several tools to search multiple search engines at once and aggregate the results.

How about a multiple search over different countries Googles and just show the differences?
That would immediately show specifically what someone wants to hide.

For instance, I could do a search on somneone in Spain and would immediately see what financial instabilities do not show up here.
Someone in China could look Chinese historical events and immediately have them pointed out.

Comment Patchy? (Score 1) 259

I suspect that it depends on where you go. My family is from Orkney and I find it pretty well covered when I'm back.

As far as London and Edinburgh seem to feel, we are somewhere around the North pole and have a population of about 25. If its up here, it may be even better covered down south where (self) important people live...

Comment Lets have a real time measurement. (Score 1) 209

If we can identify a zero point, we should just calculate all technical time in seconds past that date. There is already a Julian Day. I would call it the Julian Second. It is now 212,268,345,960. That is not much good for daily activities but perfect;y fine for any electronic system Trivial to write for phone, computer or whatever.

Earth

Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming 379

An anonymous reader writes "According to scientists we can look forward to more devastating wildfires like the ones scorching Southern California because of global warming. "The fires in California and here in Arizona are a clear example of what happens as the Earth warms, particularly as the West warms, and the warming caused by humans is making fire season longer and longer with each decade," said University of Arizona geoscientist Jonathan Overpeck. "It's certainly an example of what we'll see more of in the future.""

Comment Re:American company (Score 1) 226

Well that's pretty hard to predict, so you just need to be prepared to abandon a company quickly if they are bought out by an American or multinational.

If the USA starts acting in an illegal manner, there might be moves to block such acquisitions. Yes, the USA would then start to block foreign buyouts of its companies. If that continues, eventually over 4% of humanity would be structurally, financially and socially isolated from the rest of the planet. Trade wars tend to favour the bigger players. It does not look like the USA is going to stay one of those forever.

Comment Re:Frist pots (Score 1) 341

Most of the 1% to .1% are nothing more than...

people with a very successful choice of parents

Even those who have far exceeded their parents can often be seen to have been comfortably off before they grew up. For example. Bill Gates does not come from poor origins, does he?

The major exception to this are people with sociopathic tendencies or worse. There are certainly plenty of those in organised crime - legal and illegal.

Comment Sounds like another reason (Score 1) 386

I'm quite happy not to be from your country. There are other variations of what we do elsewhere but in the UK, tax is deducted by my employer and sent to the "tax man". There are fairly simple ways of calculating how its done but basically, I pay 1/12 of my tax each month. Other deductions aside, I get about £10k tax free per year and pay 23% on the rest. If I was higher paid, some would be at the higher rate. If I was self employed, I would need to do what you have to do but even a tiny business can deal with PAYE (Pay As You Earn). I ran a payroll once and it took less than 2 days work per month to do about 350 peoples pay & deductions. Your system seems very complicated/labourious.

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