The other big difference is that the 6 million killed in the Holocaust were largely white, while the 58 million Indians were more of a brown colour. I don't like to be the one crying racism, but it's kinda hard to get away from.

I'm pretty sure that policy was around long before Obama...

You know who has it even worse? People who come from other countries to work in the USA. I don't have any investments back home, but if I did the US government would feel entitled to get a cut from them. I guess the US has been poking their nose into other countries laws enough that now they think it's part of the US.

Slashdot is not a single hive-mind, that very scenario gets brought up most times there's an article about self-driving cars. Also, if you'll look up the thread you'll see some people coming out in favour of HFT. Mind=blown?

Even though you've already been thoroughly debunked, I feel the need to chime in about this global cooling malarky.

See, there are two types of gasses that make a difference to these discussions. Carbon oxides and sulphur oxides. Sulphur oxides reflect heat, so warmth from the sun bounces back out into space and the earth cools down a little bit. Fortunately for us, scrubbing our exhaust gasses and purifying our fuels meant that we could stop pumping suplhur oxides into the atmosphere. Yay us!

Carbon oxides behave a little differently, they absorb heat, so any heat that would be radiating out gets caught by the carbon oxides and makes them wiggle a little faster, which warms up all the air around it. Unfortunately, no one has come up with an "easy" way to stop pumping carbon oxides into the atmosphere, everything we have would require us to change what we are doing. We don't want to change, so the science telling us about it must be wrong.

Well, I count "going out of town for a long weekend" as a good enough excuse to take a sick day, so I can't really fault him.

I'm intrigued as to how you think we'd be getting around without naptha...

All of life is a risk trade-off. I took a huge risk by getting out of bed this morning, any number of things could have killed me by now, but I don't want to spend my life lying down.

Are you sure they weren't telling you it's inflammable?

On a more serious note, relating to the comment of the AC, one of the ways to make a fuel oil storage tank more safe it to pump fuel gas into it. The idea behind it is that if the entire atmosphere is hydrocarbons you can keep the oxygen concentration below the LFL and have a very low risk of fire. With proper safeguards hydrogen should be no more dangerous.

Any of those would make golf more exciting. I'm thinking: instead of hitting the golf ball with a club, you load it into a cannon with what you think is the right amount of powder, point it in what you think is the right direction, then boom! Putting would also become more interesting.

The habitable zone gives us something we can focus on. Sure there could be all kinds of weird and wonderful life forms that can survive on planets far hotter or colder than Earth, but that gives us no scope to limit our search. There are a lot of planets out there so we need to look at the ones which are most likely to have life we'd recognise first.

It's an example of limiting freedoms for the general good, the only difference is that no one has faked a study to show that driving down the correct side of the highway causes autism.

No, good news would be that Google has completely disregarded any communications. The fact that the word "many" was used rather than "all" means that it is in fact quite bad news.

Perfect time to show them what Google really does for them: any page that includes the name of the studio, or any of the movies that the studio has ever made will no longer appear in search results. See how long it takes them to realise their folly.

I am not "believing" I am accepting the conclusions of multiple independent studies. I am willing to force others to conform to my views if it meets the right balance of liberty and safety.

First, where did the "more than 1 in ten" figure come from? All of the vaccines with which I'm familiar have effectiveness of >99%.

Second, if you don't want to get vaccinated, kindly stay away from me and my family, you've claimed that there's a >10% we're not protected from you even if we're vaccinated, and I don't want to take that risk.

Good point, to continue to express my liberty I'll be driving home down the wrong side of the highway, with spray nozzles squirting oil under the tyres of the cars coming the other way. My freedoms shall not be abridged!