NOTHING is a very big number ... like infinity. Excluding books ...  I just checked my sketchpad and recovered names of three "recent" movies I intend to see again:  <The Rapture ... Jacobs Ladder ... Beetlejuice >.  And almost any film featuring Shirley McClain or Alec Guinness. You really are known by the trails you trek & the  company you keep.

Parisians have seemingly slid (stumbled?)  into the bog of content consumption. I presume France maintains public parks, sea-shores, woodlands and trekking venues. How does some overpaid illusionists fantasy compare to the immensity and beautiful savagery of native environs ? Don't go naming a few creative works of art ... as Picasso observed damned-near every art-form  produced after 20-K BC is simple decadence. Create your own joy and endorphin-goading hi! If anyone the French ought to be held to this standard; Alpine meadows &  gorgeous Slovenian trout-streams are prolly hours away. Why settle for cultural  slops ( streaming media)  a  wild pig would ignore. Sad sad case.

That's a damned-funny post. Not everyone bows to the mandarin. You SHOULD get three (3) karma points for leading a verbal "ox" to gore the vastly entitled China-philates.

This is only any issue if you're nuking and doing a complete install. You know you don't have to do that, right?

If you're (simply) correct, then lots of Mediterranean cultures ought to have just-TONS of diabetics. But ... that is not so. You are missing some "hidden" variable that "directs"  sugar, carbs and alcohol into their disproportionate USA role.

LED lights are extremely directional, to the point it can be difficult getting them to diffuse like an incandescent bulb. Most streetlights (and now, lights in sports stadiums, parking lots and the like) are extremely directional, pointing straight down and having abrupt drop-off in illumination around the periphery. In fact, in my town, streetlights that are being replaced with LED are not as good because they don't cover as large of an area or fade out on the edges in a more natural way. They almost look light spotlights shining straight down - objects are either in the light or not at all.

So I guess the light pollution from LEDs is due to light reflecting off the ground? I'm just surprised LEDs haven't decreased light pollution because of how directional they are. They should definitely be decreasing light pollution outside of the visible spectrum, because that was always an issue with the various kinds of lights used in the past for lighting large outdoor areas. A big part of their inefficiency was generating unwanted infrared or ultraviolet as a by-product.

Sorry about the tarnished  karma, pal. You're gold, but  talking to a pack of luzerz who don't know: Spin & Marty, Atom Squad, Playhouse 90  and Omnibus/Dave Garaway. Nor Canadian football , gals roller-derby, Weds-night fights and Bobo-Brazil / Galager Bros. Or Fabians' ( A Lion walks among Us ) brilliant jail-scene. Don't even try.

I always hear statements like this thrown around in various contexts, and while on the surface it sounds admirable, it's really not accurate at all.

The most important people on the planet are those with the knowledge, skills and the actual power and means to accomplish what needs to be done. Without the core set of human adults that actually feed our population, keep it safe, fix broken and unhealthy bodies and the like, there would be no children. Or if there were children they would mostly be dying.

Also based on that logic, the instant a "child" becomes an adult sitting in that seat you kept warm for them, they're not important anymore, and the real focus is immediately on people younger than them. Unless there's like a grace period of importance - say you get 5 years of still being most important after you're no longer a child? See what I mean?

Obviously we need children, and we want the human race to continue and all that, and to provide for them a planet better than the one we started with and with more opportunities, but saying kids are the most important people sounds good in a Whitney Houston song, but isn't very realistic.

100% of Americans want the time changes to go away. The problem? 50% think DST should become the permanent time, while the other 50% think it should be non-DST. That's the real problem.

Personally, I'd rather have the extra hour of daylight in the evening. If it's dark in the morning then schools can start an hour later (which some in my region actually did for a week last year).

Either way, if it ever goes permanent, you're going to have half the population unhappy with what became permanent.

Even the slightest hint of non-wokeness gets zero (0) karma. And conservatives pointing pout that  obvious fact, get zero (0) karma. What malevolent insectivorus infestation does Slash-Dot support ?

Webster can say whatever it wishes and that text belongs to them. If one book does not give you definitions you want, then buy another book !

If we factor in all the up-stream cultural value derived using cheap energy ( like gas ), then we  will not  care how many  unproductive big-city hotentots or SJWs  drop dead early from smoggy skies or acid rain.

You sound like a person who has never produced anything of value. Able humans work for the pure joy of producing; wealth is a natural free-flowing result of any-such production. No doubt, the off-spring of wealthy parents become wealthy themselves W/O effort. The logic of allowing that is the 60% / 40% genetic gifting of ability --- so inheritance and marriage both have the same final cause ... identifying and gifting the most able. Likewise a culture allows wealthy corporations to continue producing wealthy because they are also ( until say Y2K ) the most like to product value. Think old 20-th Century  Westinghouse, Ford, DEC,  IBM, Amana, RCA, HP etcetc. 

Xs short-term valuations may be hurt, but its long-time existence will be favored. Companies/guilds etc that cater to "discriminating" buyers  tend to last much longer than fly-by-night / race to the bottom start-ups. Musk builds  for the long-haul and his stock-holders / workers / customers will reap the financial/cultural  benefits of quality and stability. Of-course GEN-Q "twitchers" cannot conceive the ansatz. 

Seriously.   Blatant chi.com apologist gets karma-boosted immediately. Makes you wonder (NOT) just how foreign agents exercise power on Slash-dot.