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Comment Re:The War On Common Sense (Score 1) 167

by Vernes (#41831105) Attached to: Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013
As an average Dutch driver I have to agree even if I feel I do not fit that description.
German drivers know how to drive on a highway.
Left side is for driving FUCKING FAST!
If you see the dot in your backmirror growing larger, it means there is someone driving FUCKING FASTER!
And they.. move aside to the right lane.
On the dutch motorways, you just dump your car infront of the guy driving 160kmh even though you are driving 100
Because god forbid you have to slow down and wait for him to pass.
In other news, flashing your breaklights is really fun if there is a slow moving traffic-jam, because the one thing moving traffic-jams need is a wave of breaking cars because you can't handle the gas-throttle between "pressed through your car-floor" and "firmly pressed on the break".

Dutch are in general, assholes as soon as they get in their car.

So, what's the ETA on that car-robot google seems to play around with?

Comment Re:Sweet (Score 2) 52

by Vernes (#41830819) Attached to: Curiosity Finds Volcanic Soils
They also like nutrients from the soil.
There are none on mars.
You will need to fling large amount of ready-to-use nutrient rich soil along with those plants.
Now you have plants converting nutrients AND carbon dioxide in more nutrients.

Thinking further, I think you need to resurrect one of em dinosaur era plants for trapping carbon dioxide.
Plants did a lot of carbon dioxide trapping in those days.
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Submission + - Google: Microsoft, Comcast and RIAA lead requests for content removal (businessweek.com)

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daktari writes: Google claims that among copyright owners Microsoft, Comcast and the RIAA make the most requests for removal of content from Google’s search service.

Microsoft requested 2.5 million pages be removed from Google's search service. They're followed by Comcast's NBCUniversal (1 million requests) and the RIAA (400,000) requests.

Submission + - Is There A Purity Test for Innovators? (forbes.com)

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gumsout writes: "The increasingly purist, exclusionary view of innovation inevitably will underestimate – significantly — the broader innovative potential in our nation, in our people, and in our companies, that might be awakened and cultivated."
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Submission + - Australians stuck with awful Diablo 3 latency (delimiter.com.au) 2

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: Enjoying Diablo 3? I'm sure you are, as it's likely to be one of the games of the year. Unless, of course, you're Australian, in which case you're probably struggling to play with an acceptable response time due to abominable lag to US servers, due to Blizzard's reluctance to establish Australian servers for the game. But then, it was the same situation with World of Warcraft and StarCraft II — looks like nothing has changed :(
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Submission + - Debate over Evolution Will Soon be History Says Leakey 1

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Hugh Pickens writes writes: "According to noted paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, scientific discoveries about evolution will have accelerated to the point that "even the skeptics can accept it." "If you don't like the word evolution, I don't care what you call it, but life has changed. You can lay out all the fossils that have been collected and establish lineages that even a fool could work up. So the question is why, how does this happen? It's not covered by Genesis. There's no explanation for this change going back 500 million years in any book I've read from the lips of any God." Leakey began his work searching for fossils in the mid-1960s and his team unearthed a nearly complete 1.6-million-year-old skeleton in 1984 that became known as "Turkana Boy," the first known early human with long legs, short arms and a tall stature. At 67, Leakey conducts research with his wife, Meave, and daughter, Louise and the family claims to have unearthed "much of the existing fossil evidence for human evolution." Leakey, an athiest, insists he has no animosity toward religion. “If you tell me, well, people really need a faith ... I understand that,” says Leakey, the son of the late Louis and Mary Leakey. “I see no reason why you shouldn’t go through your life thinking if you’re a good citizen, you’ll get a better future in the afterlife ....”"

Submission + - Scientific literacy vs. climate change belief (nature.com)

Submitted by gmfeier
gmfeier writes: An interesting study reported in Nature Climate Change indicated that concern over climate change did not correlate with scientific literacy nearly as much as with cultural polarization.

Comment Re:kids are worried ... (Score 2) 491

by Vernes (#39994673) Attached to: High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming
I was trying to offer the notion that each generation encompasses a world, not a country.
That everybody in the world feared 'The Bomb', and the claim "Neither happened" is untrue if you're born in the wrong country.
So dismissing these fears based on personal experience means dismissing events that matched these fears.

But you know this I'm sure, but perhaps... you misunderstand just for the hell of it.

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