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Submission + - Report: Scientists at Center of 'Lab Leak' Concerns Misled Congress (hotair.com) 2

schwit1 writes: “A sprawling final report by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic provokes questions over whether some in the scientific community – including EcoHealth Alliance, the American nonprofit that collaborated on novel coronavirus discovery and engineering research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and its president Peter Daszak – could face criminal charges stemming from the COVID-19 tragedy.”

Submission + - Oceans cool the planet more than we thought, study finds (knowridge.com)

schwit1 writes:

The oceans have long been known as the Earth’s natural climate regulators, absorbing heat and redistributing it across the planet.

Now, scientists have discovered that the oceans also emit a sulfur gas that cools the climate more than previously thought.

This groundbreaking research, published in Science Advances, reveals how sulfur emissions from marine life play a crucial role in reducing global warming.

Why do scientists keep "refining" their climate models that already work so well they are beyond questioning?

Comment Re:Well, yeah... (Score 1) 296

The 486 couldn't run "any program of your choosing" any more than the Kindle Fire can! If the 486 was running *nix then it couldn't run any MS executables. If it's running DOS/Windows it couldn't run Mac applications. The same holds true for the Kindle Fire. It can run Android apps because it's running Google's OS. If you were to put a version of Ubuntu, it could run a wider variety of Linux programs (probably to include your BBS application). If you can manage to load an embedded version of Windows to the Kindle Fire, you'll be able to run Windows executables. That's an issue of operating system, not the definition of a computer.

But there was nothing stopping him from installing DOS, Windows, OS/2 (back then), *nix, or any other OS of his choice, to run the programs of his choice. Good luck doing that with a Kindle.

Comment Re:It's yhy anti-piracy is a BAD thing... (Score 1) 294

No it wasn't. Reread: "In the USA, life + 70 literally means that, at best, anything created in your lifetime will not become public domain until you are 70." In other words if Lady Gaga released a new CD today, and a baby was born today, and Gaga died in a horrible accident later tonight, her CD would not become public domain until the baby was a 70-year-old man. That's best case.

True -- I was focusing on the "anything created in your lifetime" part of the statement, and missed what was intended by "at best". Oh well...

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