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Comment Re:Polyethalene = oil doesn't it (Score 1) 262

I last failed chemistry 1 year ago and we're still fucked! The only solution is to grow plastics (like we grow biofuels), but that comes with significant downsides because farming is harder than drilling and well we need food too. IMO long term the solution is factory farming (they are starting to research this in Japan), but that requires a lot of energy.

Comment Re:Nuclear power plants are offtopic, but here goe (Score 1) 262

insightful my ass! Nuclear power for civilian purposes produces enough energy for France, in fact it produces enough excess that they can run CERN with no negative effect on the environment. The only thing keeping it down are the lobbiests for coal/oil, big woop obsolete jobs are obsolete, while that sucks for the people who work in the coal industry it's just the way it is.

Comment Re:I am shocked! (Score 1) 670

Perhaps, i think you underestimate the desire to avoid having a standing army AS a method of preventing a tyrannical government. Even ignoring that, the effectiveness of individuals resisting a well organised, well trained and well equipped army, which has tanks, planes and battleships is not the same as it was in the 18th century when they did not have such technology, so blindly following laws written for the 18th century is still pointless.

Comment Re:I am shocked! (Score 2, Interesting) 670

If it's such good advice then why does it matter who said it?

The desire to have no standing army (and even opposition to a full time police force) contributed largely to support of the 2nd amendment, this is no longer relevant. I'm not saying i'm for/against gun control just that the 2nd amendment was written in completely different circumstances. Concepts such as, social security, workers rights, a standing army, a full time police force, universal education, an agency to control use of highways, etc, were all unneeded back in the 18th century but clearly need government involvement in the 21st.

To cling to the founding fathers as gods is to ignore 200 years of rational debate, history is the past and applies no more to the present as examples from other countries.

Comment Re:Yeah, right! (Score 2, Interesting) 293

As a member of the unwashed masses, i would like to think that some of us eventually goon to become developers and generally help out when we can. Personally i've not done much other than help even newer users out with even simpler problems than my own, but a group of 16000 largely teenage geeks, will likely produce at least one developer, probably a few competent bug reporters and dozens people who will spend time on forums/irc to help out new users. So Canonical and the ubuntu community tend to think that more users = better, if you disagree your welcome to use fedora (or another distro that has a similar philosophy).

Comment Re:As somebody who moved Toronto to London recentl (Score 1) 1095

tfl website,is the best way to plan an A to B journey.
Night buses (signified by an N infront of the name) run 0100-0500 and don't always run the same route as the day version
Many bus stops have maps in them that make finding the bus you want easy
An oyster card with a week pass, is going to cost a bit upfront but will save money if you use the tube 3/4 times a day

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