Typhon

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by Typhon 15y ago
It's a matter of national sovereignty. Greece has it, or should have it, as it is one nation. American states don't have it, as the USA are one nation (that's the idea, anyway).
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by Typhon 15y ago
It's funny, though, because many * channers probably consider a meme 'ruined' when reddit starts to use it. Some of them probably consider it ruined when it reaches 4chan/b/, actually. But it's not new. It's always the same " We used/liked
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by Typhon 15y ago
It's weird that English has a special word for a human that has breasts and a vagina as if they're not human. Oh wait no. Maybe it's completely normal, maybe the words aren't synonymous, maybe one is hyponymous to the other, and maybe you'r
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by Typhon 15y ago
How would you gather significant independent data on this subject matter ?
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by Typhon 15y ago
I just got myself a Blackberry. It was a promotional offer by my phone company, and I had choice between it and touchscreen phones. I hate touchscreens and I suspect I'm not the only one. Phones with an actual keyboard have a future.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Yes, that's why I was asking. Unless you're under 18, you can drink whatever you want and enter bars, in France. Mais alors avec modération, n'est-ce pas .
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by Typhon 15y ago
What do you mean by "under 21 friendly ?"
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by Typhon 15y ago
I disagree. In my opinion, if you can't explain something to someone else, you don't really understand it. But that doesn't make the article wrong. While you don't understand something until it seems obvious to you, it does not imply that y
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by Typhon 15y ago
Yes, but they're usually not the ones making a fuss in the media about it, and they're not the ones who will ultimately make or not make political decisions.
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by Typhon 15y ago
By focusing public attention on something else. It's not as if we had a shortage of problems. Then, the matter of climate change could be settled in a scientific manner, as opposed to a religious debate involving legions of people who don'
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by Typhon 15y ago
Doubt is a very good thing. It's propaganda versus propaganda now. I will never forgive whoever has made global warming a political issue, because it means debating rationally about it has become impossible. Climate is a very complicated t
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by Typhon 15y ago
It's more or less the same technology since 1957. It's the most reliable rocket in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_%28rocket_family%29
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by Typhon 15y ago
Anonymous has no leaders. Anonymous is not a hacker network. It may be that some people who belong to hacker networks use Anonymous as their name, but that doesn't involve Anonymous as a whole. The reason Anonymous is called Anonymous, wh
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by Typhon 15y ago
« So you think society's definition is stupid. Ok » Just because you claim something is "society's definition" doesn't imply it is anyone's definition but yours. « all those people is that they all are very interested in computers » Not
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by Typhon 15y ago
My claim : There is no proper definition of 'geek'. In order to refute such a claim, you mustn't limit yourself to saying there is one, you must say what it is and prove it is indeed the proper definition of 'geek' Unfortunately, the defi
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by Typhon 15y ago
I knew, before reading the first line of the article, that he was not suddenly going to change his mind. He managed to go lower than my lowered expectations by saying he had "hit a nerve", which doesn't mean anything about his degree of ins
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by Typhon 15y ago
They defeated the Persians in one of the most important battles in the history of western civilisation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis
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by Typhon 15y ago
Finally. Could we get one on the arc forum as well ?
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by Typhon 15y ago
I thought Apple products cost an arm and a leg, not a kidney.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Can we agree that any given reactor will likely have no core containment either, after a passenger jet crashed into it? No. A broken core containment still provides some protection. I take my optimism from the fact that I'm not too impres
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by Typhon 15y ago
Chernobyl had no core containment, it used graphite as a moderator, and it wasn't merely fire that disseminated radioactive material, it was a big explosion. Also, the director was incompetent. Note that the impact of Chernobyl remained rat
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by Typhon 15y ago
Compared to the WTC, it's quite small, and easy to miss from above. It's quite telling that most people identify a nuclear plant by its cooling towers, something that isn't a specific part of their design.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Yes, it is probably more unlikely than a big earthquake followed by a tsunami. How many terrorist attacks of that scale have been successfully conducted ? Over the last twenty years, only one. During the same period, there has been a dozen
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by Typhon 15y ago
As far as I know the damage to the containment was very limited in Fukushima Right. Except water from the ocean was going in and out through the few tiny holes, and maybe that was the main problem. See, uranium doesn't fly away when the
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by Typhon 15y ago
Yes, and ? Nothing happened. The fact is that terrorists want to target nuclear plants. What's unlikely is that any of them should succeed. Terrorism isn't that easy.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Not on a comparable scale. Besides, reactors are a small target that's mostly underground. That should limit the damage. In any case, may I remind you we're discussing a very hypothetical scenario ?
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by Typhon 15y ago
That's exactly why it's dangerous to anyone near the plant , as opposed to a Chernobyl-style or Fukushima-style disaster, where radioactive material is disseminated.
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by Typhon 15y ago
I don't read German. >« not a single site would survive a large passenger aircraft crashing into it. » Now, what does that even mean ? If surviving means "keep on working", obviously not. If it means destruction of the protection laye
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by Typhon 15y ago
I'm pretty sure a big earthquake followed by a tsunami is more damaging than a plane crash.
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by Typhon 15y ago
>« Even if nobody would die under normal conditions (nuclear and coal » Except the point of what I was saying and of the link I gave is precisely that under "normal conditions", people die due to coal, whereas it is not the case with

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