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Comment Re: Meanwhile (Score 1) 49

WTF are you talking about? WW2 had nothing to do with high speed trains in europe unless you think the nazis conveniently bombed a load of farmers fields dead level to lay the tracks on 40 years later in the 80s. And any purpose built city TGV stations in france for example were built long after wartime reconstruction had finished.

Comment Re:The Romans (Score 1) 60

Lead is a single poison and the body can just about cope up to a point. After all, those of us alive in the 20th century breathed a ton of the stuff in from car fumes.

The problem with plastic is that it isn't a single chemical, its a whole farmyard of them so it hits the body on a whole host of fronts with different toxic effects.

Comment Re: Interesting option... (Score 1) 95

Chlorine isnt too much of an issue as theres usually some bacteria that can break down organochlorides. The real problems start when theres fluorine in the mix. You REALLY dont want organoflourides in the enviroment but unfortunately we've been producing these forever chemicals such as PFAs for decades now and nothing in our ecosystem can break them down.

Comment Re: Did this just make recycling worth doing? (Score 2) 95

Not really because the fuel that would have been produced from the PVC will still be required, itll just come from oil instead. Plus you now have more toxic waste in the ground that will eventually leach into the ecosystem. Burning or converting plastic for fuel is the only sane way to dispose of this material.

Comment Re:Fsck their fules. (Score 1) 37

A mention is hardly the same as an entire article. As for secondary sources, if the code is available on the download webpage and that webpage is used as the primary source then how can it not be reliable enough? What do they want, someone to go and start another page and cut and paste everything from the 1st then they're happy? Its a joke.

Comment Fsck their fules. (Score 2) 37

"must be notable, verifiable and reliable."

For various definitions of those words. I and others wrote and edited a page about a specific 1990s TCP talk server codebase. Everything in it was verifiable given the author of the code wrote the majority of it, ditto reliable. Notable? Well the code was a Big Deal back in the mid to late 90s and the code in various forms gave rise to dozens of servers with possibly thousands of users spread across them in its hayday. But most wiki editors were probably still at school back then so never encounted the early internet, ergo the article was irrelevant so got deleted. What a total waste of everyones effort.

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