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Comment Re:#staythefuckhome.com (Score 3, Insightful) 425

It took a hundred years to eradicate smallpox through generations of immunizations and careful management. Once a virus is out there, especially one that is mostly non-lethal, it stays in the population. This one is going to stay. The only way to "stamp it out" is to test everyone and kill the carriers. Hardly a useful solution. Too little is known about where it actually came from, where the reservoirs of virus are and how the human body reacts. Do you get immunity that lasts or just short term? But stamping it out, no. Controlling it, probably.

Comment Consumer power (Score 1) 348

As a media consumer we dont have much power. Doesnt matter if its cable or some streaming service. For me the ideal service would be where I can pick whatever I want to watch, be it old movies, series or new content. Payment? I would go for a fixed subscription fee with a set amount of hours and a tiered system that adds a set amount of hours for a fixed fee. That would be consumer friendly and the media industry would get their cut, even from old series and movies that noone watches today. If it can work for Spotify, why not for visual content?

Comment Invaluable anyway (Score 1) 436

Sure, not 100%, but I think that would actually make them less useful. I wear my Plantronics noise-cancelling headphones every day on my commute. Its 90 minutes when I can focus on my music, the video I am watching or whatever I have running on the phone. Before, I heard what the person next to me was yapping about with his girlfriend on the phone, the sounds of the bus and other annoyances. Still, when I walk I hear enough traffic noise to be able to hear when something is coming even if I dont pay full attention. Very useful, I will never buy anything but noise cancelling headphones.

Comment Re:How can we explain your imaginary world? (Score 1) 219

The viking farms were not under ice.

"What does seem to have contributed to the abandonment of the Western Settlements, archaeologists said, is climate change. The onset of a ''little ice age'' made living halfway up Greenland's coast untenable in the mid-1300's, argues Dr. Charles Schweger, an archaeology professor at the University of Alberta, who has studied soils around the Farm Beneath the Sand.

Dr. Schweger said the Norse were no match for cooling temperatures, which caused a glacier several miles up a valley to expand. As this glacier grew, it also released more water every summer into the valley, causing turbidity in drinking water and raging floods that blanketed meadows with sand and gravel. Today the edge of Greenland's ice cap is only six miles from the old farm site. But in the mid-14th century, it probably was far closer."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05...

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