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Comment Re: For now (Score 2, Insightful) 84

Climate change has political ramifications. But that's not the problem at hand here.

Climate change poses big political questions: 1) Do we want this? 2) If not, do we want to do something about it? 3) Either way, who will pay for it?

"Politization" means that people try to answer 3) with "someone else than me" by either claiming question 1) does not exist at all, or answer 2) depending on their political affiliation, completely ignoring 3).

Comment Re:The IT industry is full of shit. (Score 2) 103

American companies, once proud of being red white and blue and boasting how many jobs they were creating, are now “global companies” that celebrate headcount reduction in the US..

When shoud that have been? I am in the field since about 30 years, and I can't remember those alleged days.

Comment Re:An entity in the US of A won't entertain this.. (Score 2) 40

The "higher up" would be the Minister of Defense, and if that fails, the Chancellor of the Republic Austria. But as the head of Direktorat 6 and the Cyber corps is not a political appointee, but a career soldier, it's quite complicated for the Minister of Defense to buy Office Licenses while the head of Direktorat 6 refuses to install it on any army computers.

Comment Re:An entity in the US of A won't entertain this.. (Score 4, Insightful) 40

It does not work that way. The "CTO" would be Generalmajor (Major General) Hermann Kaponig, as the commanding officer of the Cybertruppen (Cyber corps). But he has no right to purchase anything, because this would be the task of the Ministry of Defense. On the other hand, the Ministry of Defense would not buy any software the Direktion (directorate) 6 does not condone.

Comment Re:Parents removed the last ban in 1974 (Score 2) 191

You don't solve the problem at hand. Businesses right now already have the right to open whenever they see fit. But they all synchronized on a 9-5 schedule. Why is that? Because customers have to know when to expect businesses to be open, and businesses have to know when to expect their business partners to be open, so they can schedule accordingly.

Time zones are how customers and businesses are synchronized, if they are not immediate neighbors. Time zones are a result of the invention of telegraphs and railways, for the first time making it necessary to know the local time of people you can't just walk over and ask. And as long as you don't abolish long distance communication and travel, the need for time zones will continue.

Comment Re:It's been done (Score 1) 191

Brazil is around the Equator, where there is basically no difference in daylength between summer and winter times.

DST is for countries outside the Tropics, where the time of Sunrise and Dawn differs greatly between the saisons.

It makes sense for Brazil to have no DST. It makes sense for Minnesota to have it.

Comment Re:Really??!! (Score 2) 173

While your hypothesis looks nice at first glance, it has a glaring hole: Experiments with turbine powered cars had ended before the first NOx legislation. The Chrysler Turbine Car dates from 1963. At the same time in the UK, Rover debuted the P6, which was engineered to host the Rover gas turbine, which was tested in a Rover P4 as the T2, T3 and T4 prototypes, but it never came to pass. Then you have some experiments with gas turbine powered race cars until 1968. The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act was enacted in 1965.

The experiments to put gas turbines into cars for sale ended two years before NOx mandates were enacted. They were continued for race cars, which aren't affected by the mandates, but fizzled out a few years later.

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