the german norm I read states lumen and candela.

My old dynamo was 6 watt , and I replaced it with a fully legal 12 watt dynamo. There is no limitation on input energy , which would be downright stupid, but on output "lux" over a specific surface.

My understanding is that the laser is used to pump energy efficiently in a light emitting substance, thus making it a classic point light which expand spherically. They are not using laser directly to light the road which would be pretty much useless (you want a rather wide cone to show the whole road and a bit on the side).

Nonehteless I am betting such light would be forbbidden in many country in europe where the maximum intensity you can pump is limited by law. And rightfully so, the "normal range light" are okish but the "long range" light are already quite blinding, and usually leave me blind fully for 3 to 4 seconds when one is oncomming and forgot to switch back to normal range light. I can't imagine regulator allowing even more powerful long range light being able to light everything on 600m.

Evolution is the observed fact. Natural selection is the scientific theory. Why do you think it is called "theory of evolution by natural selection" ? Evolution is what is observed. Natural selection is the explanation we came up to explain the observation. Damn it, get it right.

https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu... trully spectaculare.

In the old version the title of post were in green background, easy to read. New version it is in white background => they should change that because it makes it hard. There are a few kink here and there (can't click on the comment moderationand see the history easily so far as i can see), but I find the new version not "too bad". Just a question of getting user to it.

Look my older cat is 8 year old, and I paid 60 euro per year for it. About 36 euro in 3 vets visits 12 euro per visits, the rest was the price for , 2 vaccination, and 1 de-worming. My younger cat is 5 year old same price. Even counting the castration which was maybe 60 euro , how the heck do they cam eto such horrendus price ? I have to count all food, cat toilet stuff and playtoy to come to 700+ euro top.

Imagine the situation, you are working ahrd and do not get a lot of money, tehn suddenly due to company actively providing cheap transport to people better off than you, then area get gentrified. Your renter ask for more. And you get outpriced. Now in addition to having the *cost* of moving to somewhere cheaper (it ain't free), you also most probably have additional transportation cost (from your already small budget) to go from your new place to your work, and have longer transportation (thus even less free time). In other word that little perk of google worker, make the life of people already not having money worst. Of that perk was not there, maybe those worker would have sought another place to live.

This gentrification seems good on superficial view, but the reality is that for the local renter, it will *sucks* hard.

So , those protest don't look so dumb now you know what the problem is ?

Personally I am ambivalent on that, but gentrification can be a real problem when the lower class get bigger and bigger.

You lost a $100 bill, but another one can be printed. In fact a lot of bill can be printed. A bitcoin is lost forever, and the number of bitcoin is not infinitely extensible. A better analogy would be that you lost (dropped in maria trench) a pound of gold. There is a reason we went away from metal based currency like gold, and as long as we are in an inflationary economy, fiat currency is much more useful than gold coin, sorry i meant bitcoin. *if* we ever switched to a a stable economy in the future, something like bitcoin would make sense. And only if it was not first-comer get all, otherwise there is noway you would get widespread adoption. Why would anybody use your currency if you hoarded it all ?

keeping the data in EU means two very great things for me. 1) NSA must work harder to get it on their grubby hands , whereas with US firm they jsut need to ask 2) I can check the data and ask for rectification and so forth as an EU citizen, but good luck doing that in the US 3) it is much harder to market "me" in the Eu than it is in the US. My data you see cannot be sold that easily. 4) US law enforcement can pretty much run roughshed on my data in the US anyway so it isn't as if the EU law enforcement would be any worst

AS an EU citizen I'll take that convenience of 1 ,2 and 3 , and give my finger in the general direction of US firm and the NSA. Thank you.

So back at you.

And any other ad server get disabled scripts. Picture do not get loaded either if you block major ad network (adblock, host file etc...).

The ONLY workaround is putting *all* ads as being served by teh website you contact. Good luck with that.

Apple device include ipods and iphone and you are comparing that to "windows PC" a category of its own ? That's pretty stupid.

Look I have seen *plenty* of situation where one person (sibling, friend, S.O., fatehr/son) put the hand over the arm, the chest or whatever. Those are gesture to *calm* down the person, and are in no way shape or form a restraint against a violent gesture to come. That youa re trying to use it as a justification to fear immeninent violence says more about you , and your *utter inability* to analyze a situation , than it says anything about the victim. You are the poster child on who should not be allowed to have a gun, just by the plain fact they can be misinterpreting normal social situation as imminent violence.

I am a pessimist and i think the world is headed to two classes , middle class disappear, and we will have on the long run a quite rich class, a quite poor.

nitpick : there has not been any study showing GMO currently cultivated to be unhealthy, but there has been 1) GMO made with nut allergene (thankfully stoppedby the firm before commercialisation) 2) evidence of resistance gene spreading in the wild which brings all sort of complication (but again is thankfully not an health problem, more like a crop versus pest growing problem).

But basically you are righ and GMO hater are nutter (pun intended).