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Comment Oh, well, change :) (Score 1) 22

Every change looks like corruption in the eyes of people who don't like it.

And corruption looks like evolution to some people.

Personally, I'm in favor of words meaning as much of the same thing over time as possible. It enhances communication and understanding. If you need a new meaning, you either need a new word or you need to explain yourself at a bit more length. Lest you "decimate" (cough) the listener's/reader's understanding... you get me?

Comment Re:If you have to ask then the answer must be no. (Score 1) 170

You do not need to adapt to cold.
You wear cloth.

And you can not adapt to heat. Yo take active cooling, like water sprayed on you or shadow or wind. Either by using electricity driven things like fans or AC, or water coolers, ice makers: or you do it manually, like carrying ice blocks from the next mountain. Digging caves, living underground, having intelligent (as in your mind) cooling patterns for the house. E.g. keeping windows shadowed and closed during daytime, and when the outside temperature is definitely below the inside one: open them.

Comment Re:If you have to ask then the answer must be no. (Score 1) 170

You can not farm in Siberia.
There is no farm land. That is all tundra and frozen moors. Just because the moors thaw, does not make them farm land. Next winter they freeze again anyway.

And the arctic winter /polar night is as long as always, it has nothing to do with temperature: it is just DARK. ALL DAY LONG.

Comment Re:If you have to ask then the answer must be no. (Score 1) 170

You can adapt to cold by wearing proper cloth.
Have a house/hut/tent with heating.

Adapting to heat: impossible.

Is a warmer planet all that bad?
Yes it is.
Because if you want to go away from your place where it is unbearable, you need a passport, a transportation, probably money. So ... how does a guy from Bangladesh get the option to settle in Canada or Siberia? Depending on time and regime: there might be dozens of borders where they simply will try to shot him, rape his wife before they shoot her and steal the 2 coins of gold he carries with him.

Comment Kind of nonsense (Score 2) 170

Mali is in the center of Africa.
El Ninho is a ocean current pattern in the pacific. It hardly has any influence on the other side of the planet.
This current El Ninho is roughly one year old.
It is completely implausible that this summer already an La Ninja pops up.
That will take 5 to 7 years. And there is no guarantee that after an El Ninho you get La Ninja. You easily get 2 in a row.

Comment Re:So they want to make things worse? (Score 1) 85

One of your insightful posts :P

My problem is that I do not get the mind shut off, so on weekends I'm still "working". And I live in Thailand, only banks and governments have weekends here. Of course, workers have a random day off (not related to the normal "week schedule") and if you see a house being build: the construction workers work every day. Well, there is basically every month a holiday around full moon ... and another holiday related to the royal family.

Comment Re:So they want to make things worse? (Score 1) 85

Depends what you are actually doing.
The office measures your hours by how many hours you spend in office.
But many intellectual work can happen when you are out of office.
What I mean: you are sitting on a bench in a park, but think about "your project".
You read a book about something completely unrelated, and suddenly have an idea about "your project".

Obviously a taxi driver or factory worker has to be on his machine ...

In my experience software development and similar things is best with 6h work days. I personally work every day. Mostly 6h without break, because it simply suits me. So I get roughly 40h per week, just like everyone else. But the bugs introduced Thursday and Friday by the guys doing over time are fixed on Monday already. In theory. Recent years I mostly work solitaire ...

Comment Re: No thanks. (Score 1) 74

Should we all go back to lead pipes for our sewer lines?
I guess for sewres that would not really be a problem.
Lead pipes are a problem for tab water.
But if you know better, just use ceramic or concrete.
Except for the first meters from the sink/toilet to the pipe outside of the house: no one uses plastic. Well, obviously your country might be completely different.

Comment Re:It wouldn't be ... (Score 1) 74

The fine is probably not a big deal, but the damage they might be sued for.

Some people do not grasp why France is throttling down nukes in summer. They claim: "to safe wildlife". Already idiotic to think wildlife has no value.

Point is: it is France. 90% of Frances population has 6 weeks holidays during mid summer. They make vacation. For example at the rivers above. If the rivers are full with stinking dead fish, then it has several drawbacks, e.g.: no fish to eat in the restaurants. In case you like fresh water fish like Trouts. So, you go there this year and can not bath in the river, because everywhere are dead fish, then you go next year to a lake in the mountains. And the restaurants, the fishers, and the hoteliers will sue the owner(s) of the plant(s).

It is not a "because of the fish" decision that France is throttling down plants: it is a damn decision of _common_sense_ to avoid billions of damage to the tourist industry. After all: those pay all taxes, and the plants run on tax money anyway. Why not buy cheap power from Germany or Portugal or Spain, and use the relaxed time to overhaul the plants. Oh, that is exactly what they did recent decades: every summer.

But just wait for atomicalgebra, sonlas and that MadMan to call this a conspiracy ...

Comment Re:If it can counter act Earth gravity (Score 1) 258

Exactly. And now you only have to figure against what an EM drive is pushing.
Do you get it now?

Either they work: then they are most likely pushing against something, or they don't work.
That is not really brain surgery, it is actually simple (no pun, but I intentionally avoided "rocket science").

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