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Comment: Re:I have no idea (Score 1) 498

by Xenna (#38826907) Attached to: Where does your electricity come from?

Yeah, anyone being paid a salary from a bank account has the same problem. You just don't know where your money comes from.

It's the same for the electricity grid. It's just an accounting system. Energy is poured in from a number of sources. The customers take it out again.

Same as with the banks although the banks have a neat trick: they actually create money in the process!

I pay for nuke-only.

Comment: Re:Expert says it can't be done (Score 1) 416

by Xenna (#38762564) Attached to: What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship?

> Almost as good (and hopefully unrelated translation): "no one has goats that are large enough".

Yeah, that one is easy to explain. The dutch word 'bok' means 'male goat' and 'floating crane' as well as other things. The context decides which one makes sense. You'd think even the dumbest algorithm would figure the context of this article out, but no...

The article says that there aren't any floating cranes large enough to lift ships like this one. The floating crane building hasn't kept up with the boat building. No one has goats that are large enough...

Comment: Expert says it can't be done (Score 3, Informative) 416

by Xenna (#38761002) Attached to: What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship?

A salvage expert (former CEO of the leading company in that field Smit Tak) says it can't be done in the following Dutch newspaper article (google translated):

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fm.trouw.nl%2Farticle%2F15%2F3126744%2FIn-stukken-zagen-dat-is-enige-optie.html&act=url

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