This is a really bad year to make this complain. A hard science fiction book (The Three-Body Problem) won the award for best novel. Very far away from a low rent soap opera in some vague dimensionless settings.

You know that a science fiction book won best novel this year? I don't think hard science fiction needs a separate award.

You piss in Putin's face? Remind me which country Crimea belongs to? Remind me which country has troops in Ukraine? And please don't start with sanctions, these don't mean shit. Having nuclear weapons has worked out well for every country that got them. Israel, India, Pakistan & North Korea are all very glad they have them. They are great as defensive weapons if you have other countries that are desperate to topple your government.

No matter how Iran would behave Saudi Arabia would still be working to screw them for being Shias,

Look I don't expect that people to read the article but at least read the whole summary: Residents of neighborhoods have very good reasons to want the laws enforced. Residential neighborhoods aren't places for twenty somethings to spend a holiday drunk and disruptive. It's illegal because making it legal wrecks neighborhoods. Malum in se.

The biggest competitor to Evolution is named Agora which is a pretty great name.

7$/gallon would have a huge effect but it wouldn't be the end of civilization. Germany has gas that costs more than 7$/gallon and people haven't started making rafts yet here.

While differences between men and women might play a part in this they can't wholly explain it. In Germany the percentage of female CS students has been rising for years.. Still only at about quarter but higher than in the US, so culture does seem to play a part.

This is what living in a totalitarian country is like, being afraid of getting caught reading the wrong thing.

Heise didn't change their social 'like' buttons. They introduced them. Heise never had these buttons before because of the privacy issues.

Actually the s is for sÃure not sauer. While sauer can be used for acid most of the times it just means 'sour'.

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Useless feature without porn.

And it still works fine under Windows 7, so that's where all that money for backwards compatibility went.

The paper was preliminary to begin with. It is currently withdrawn in order to fix minor typos

Minor typos like a ! that m,ade it into the paper by accident.