With this momentous scientific breakthrough I expect the year of Linux Desktop dominance is surly right around the corner right after my flying car delivers itself to my driveway. Kidding aside, it is nice they are making progress with fusion, but the news needs to calm down about world changing implications. The real change will only come after someone builds a working prototype power plant that actually outputs working electricity.

Oh look another Slashdot comment that blindly blames a politician for a companies decisions that have much more to do with the intricacies of the industry involved than the flailing of the current administration. Trump actually has little to do with GM and Ford's decision to stop production of sedans. (That is what is going on here, they are stopping production or sedans.) You want to blame Drump's tariffs with china but more steel goes into a Chevy Silvarado or Tahoe than an Impala or Cruze. The bear truth is that the North American market has spoken with it's collective wallet that sedans are not worth buying when I can fit more burgers in my large SUV. GM decided that if those cars were not going to sell well they would have to ax them so that they could reinvest in electric cars.

Those car plants will probably be retooled over the span of a year or two and start producing Electric and Autonomous vehicles and the jobs that they couldn't automate will come back. The real losers here will be all the mechanical engineers that will be replaced with electrical engineers because those jobs are not coming back once the transition to electric cars is complete. This sucks but such is the cost of progress.

Seriously, they should just ban private cars from the Island of Manhattan all together. I recently visited NY and having lived in Chicago for years all I have to say is that NYC is not really setup for cars. The buildings are too close together and there is way to much traffic. They are dependent on their mass transit system to function because of this and frankly it sucks. I mean Chicago's CTA system is no spring chicken but the MTA made it look amazing by comparison. If Chicago can get basic maintenance done and keep its system running what is the problem with NYC. It sounds to me like it is mostly corruption which coming from Chicago makes me feel like I'm throwing stones in a glass house but yeah.... But honestly NYC needs to encourage more usage of the public transport system by the upper class. Then they will have skin in the game and maybe the system will actually get the capital it needs to be fixed. Banning cars from Manhattan would do that. It could be sold as an environmental thing (Because it is). Maybe link into that the idea that taxi's that operate in Manhattan must be electric to ease the sell and allow trucks to still be allowed but only with a new licensing fee that helps subsidize the mass transit system.

Viking sagas don't exactly go back 12,000 to 3 million years.

Here, there was a giant blip in the waning ice age 12,000 years ago that coincided with a major extinction level event of the mega fauna on the North American continent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This crater if eventually tied to 12,000 years ago may just be the smoking gun...

This is assuming that the electricity being produced isn't from fossil fuels. It would be interesting to see what is more efficient, this new process with a coal fired power plant vs just burning coke to make the steel directly. However, I can see how this process could be extremely useful if we ever get something like a moon base up and running. You could setup a large solar array or nuclear reactor and then use this process to produce oxygen to breath and steel to continue expanding the moon base. If that panned out you could start building space ship parts on the moon which would greatly increase the size of ships that could be built given the smaller launch costs.

I would be really interesting to see some sort of demographic break down on those TV numbers regarding things like income level, geographical location, employment, etc. I have a gut feeling that TV viewing has gone up in some demographics and down in others. Honestly I don't even know many people who watch more than 4.5 hours of TV a week much less a day. But most of my friends play video games instead of watch tv so it's not like we have any stones to throw about sitting on the couch to much.

You are aware that the majority of Germans were Catholics and Lutherans in 1938 right?

It only makes sense that a political party in a certain country would be made up of people who believe in the two most represented religions in that country. So maybe, just maybe this is correlation not causation. Just saying.

Or you live in one of the the big city markets where making $90k a year is just making it if you want to live in any place that has decent schools for your kids to go to.

With the way that some bicyclists ride around here in Chicago such as running reds, riding between lanes instead of in the bike lane, blowing past cars with right turn signals on at a light on the right side. I am not surprised that riding a Motorcycle is safer. At least motorcyclists get ticketed for driving like jackasses. Though I have had my fair share of scary mishaps with cabbies while riding my motorcycle. (Seriously who turns right from the left turn lane across 4 lanes of traffic. Fucking Cabs.)

Obligatory xkcd!

Doubtful. The Catholic church bans all contraceptive methods based on an edict from the Pope Paul VI.

Who says the Canadians don't do that. If I was them I would because if they didn't they would look pretty silly if the USA ever did declare war on them. Just saying.

Microsoft has tried to kill normal installers twice now. The first one was with Click Once, which only installs things in a non-privileged mode. The other one is Windows Store in Windows 8. They tried to even force this in Win RT and everyone bitched.

Microsoft is damned if they do and damned if they don't. They can't take away normal installers because people will go "WTF!! Why can't I install Super Coupon Bug!" and they can't leave them in because people will go "WTF!!! Why did you let Super Coupon Bug install a virus!".

Though I have to say at my company we are happy to remove the ability to run all installers except for signed click once installers through our group policy.