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Comment Re:As an American I think this is tip of the icebe (Score 2) 106

by servies (#65244495) Attached to: Dutch Parliament Calls For End To Dependence On US Software Companies

It's not just Trump (you're giving him to much credit). It's also the Republican Party...
If you want to cure your country first thing you'll have to do is to get rid of the "first past the post" election system. That's just an utterly retarded system and has nothing to do with democracy....

Comment Staying at home (Score 1) 425

by servies (#59834296) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: How are YOU Handling the Coronavirus?

Here in the Netherlands all universities are closed. They're providing remote lectures if possible. All schools are closed, except for those in their final year.
Daycare centers are closed except for children where the parents are working in hospitals and other comparable organisations.
Dentists are closed unless it's urgent.
Sportclubs, bars and restaurants are all closed, coffeshops also, which caused long lines of people trying to get some hash/weed in advance.
I expect more shops are being closed in the next week...
Where possible people are working from home. At my work most office people work from home, on the workfloor where it's impossible to work from home the shifts no longer overlap and we reduced the workforce...
I'm not to concerned for me, my wife and my children, but I'm concerned for our parents.
I put our parents in quarantine, as they're at risk. My father has COPD and some other lung problems. If he gets the virus he won't survive. My mother is a heart patient... Same story there. And my mother in law has undergone a surgery less than a week ago...
I've set up Google Duo for video calling and we're doing the shopping/groceries for them, minimizing the contact with the outer world, just to make the chances of survival as large as possible...
The Almighty Buck

SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe 412

Posted by timothy from the one-billion-dollars dept.
jones_supa writes: Saxo Bank, an investment bank based in Denmark, has released a list of its outrageous predictions for 2016. Among these predictions, economist Christopher Dembik claims that Europe will consider the introduction of a universal basic income to ensure that all citizens can meet their basic needs in the face of rising inequality and unemployment. This will come on the back of increased interest in basic income from Spain, Finland, Switzerland, and France.

Comment Re:Last straw? (Score 1) 533

Ehh... Hawker Hurricane based on a biplane? Are you serious?
Yes, the punishment of Germany after WWI was way to harsh and we should kick the French in their nuts for that... but Nazi Germany could have been stopped early 1930's.
Chamberlain was only thinking shortterm and was to eager to preserve peace while war was inevitable...
Movies

"Star Trek 3" To Be Helmed By "Fast & Furious" Franchise Director Justin Lin 332

Posted by timothy from the just-this-guy-you-know dept.
Dave Knott writes Although J.J. Abrams directed the first two films in the popular revamped Star Trek series, his new job masterminding the Star Wars sequels had left Star Trek 3 as one of the most prestigious unfilled directing assignments in Hollywood. No longer. It is now known that Justin Lin will direct the third Star Trek film. Lin is best known for revitalizing the long-running Fast & Furious series, helming the third through sixth films in that franchise. Several top-flight directors were under consideration for Star Trek 3, but Lin was the only one actually offered the job, following the postponement of the Bourne Legacy sequel that he had previously been set to direct.
Earth

Aral Sea Basin Almost Completely Dry 151

Posted by Soulskill from the brand-new-beach-front-property-for-sale dept.
An anonymous reader writes: In 2000, NASA began taking satellite images of the Aral Sea in central Asia, which was once the fourth-largest inland lake in the world. At that time, there was an expansive eastern basin, and smaller basins to the north and west. In images recorded just last week, we see that the eastern basin is completely gone, and the western basin just a thin strip of water. The local fishing industry has been devastated, old ship graveyards now rest on dry ground, and salt-heavy sand is being blown around the region, causing health issues.

Most of the lake's decline is attributable to human intervention: "In the 1950s, two of the region's major rivers – the Amu Darya and and the Syr Darya – were diverted by the Soviet government to provide irrigation for cotton production in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, starving the Aral. It has been diminishing ever since, with the sea level dropping 16 meters between 1960 and 1996, according to the World Bank. Water levels are believed to be down to less than 10 per cent of what they were five decades ago." Low levels of rain and snow didn't help.

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