Nuclear power power has high costs (construction, maintenance, fuel, decommissioning). The usual calculations assume at least 30, often 40 or 50 years of service life, generating a net profit after 15 - 30 years (some sources even claim it is never profitable). I don't even want to discuss these numbers, that's not even my point. The main "problem" I see is the price and growth of solar power. In Germany, in several summer months the price of electricity drops below zero during the day (in 2020 it was 300 hours with negative pricing already), since solar systems produce a lot more than is needed, especially at noon. This already has started to affect the nuclear industry in France, who already had to decrease their nuclear energy output during the day. (You can find data about this eg. here https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenergy-charts.info%2Fcha... ). That effect wasn't there at all in 2020, but go a few years into the future, the effect will increase and even though it mostly affects the summer months, it will make nuclear power even less attractive in the future. Please note that you can't quickly turn nuclear power plants on and off and when you turn them off, it is costly. On top of that, batteries have become really cheap. I am actually pondering buying a little system myself, it should pay off in a few years AND make me mostly independent in the summer months. Enough storage to get me through the night. When it rains a few days and in winter, I need utilities, sure. What I don't see yet is a nice solution for the winter months, but using nuclear power only in winter is not attractive commercially. So, building new plants feels quite risky to me.

A reactor the size of JET cannot produce excess energy. It is impossible with current and foreseeable technologies. But that's fine and totally expected. To really generate a net profit, you need a larger reactor. The physics is actually quite well known, the current problems are, well, elsewhere. ITER, a larger reactor was planned to go online in 2015 and it is expected to produce 10x more energy than it needs. Well, it obviously was delayed. And delayed again. Why? To build ITER, the collaborating members not only provide money, they also provides parts. And, surprise, surprise, the parts do not fit together. A new roadmap will be presented this year, rumor has it that it will take till 2035. Depressing, huh? There are already people who want to skip ITER completely and skip to DEMO, a real "productive prototype". Prof. Hartmut Zohm (look him up) recently stated that he believes that the Chinese will have productive reactors by 2050. Because they will just build the thing.

I am not sure if anybody here has actually tried it, I did. I did an opt-in for the alpha version and have used it for a while now and it works really well. It is a lot faster and some rendering problems I had with derstandard.at (an Austrian newspaper) are gone. A few things were changed, e.g. the url input bar is now on the bottom, took me a while to get used to it. But in the end, it didn't change a lot (for me). Of course, there are people, where any change is bad. I actually don't understand the comment about the back button. I have a back button!? I understand the people who complain about missing extensions, only a few heavily used ones like uBlock, Noscript, ..., are currently supported. Most of the less used extensions are not available at the moment. Maybe this could have been handled better ...

I can only agree. I have and AMD card and the company dropped driver support for my card, a Radeon 4870, in 2012. The card is still able to play most games, it was a really good card when I bought it. Was really p*ssed off, when AMD dropped the support. For me, Mesa improvements were awesome. In 2012, Mesa/Gallium was a lot slower and had a lot less features. Personally, I saw the most improvements in 2014, speedwise. But 2015 wasn't bad either. When Witcher 2 was released early this year/last year(don't remember) it didn't work at all with stable Mesa drivers, but it worked with drivers from the trunk. When Civ5 BE was released, the game didn't work at all. Couple of weeks later, it worked somewhat and I just tried it, it seems to work flawlessly. Sure, there are still lots of problems, e.g. Divinity OS EE was released (finally) a few days ago. Doesn't work. It seems, the game needs an OpenGL 4.2 function which is still not implemented on Radeon. But chances are good, that it will be implemented in the next couple of weeks, it's only one of two missing extensions to become 4.2 compliant. http://mesamatrix.net/

While that number is not reasonable by itself and far to high ("only" 200.000 people were deported to Mauthausen and its subcamps), even if it were correct, not all of those prisoners were vitims of slave labour digging a huge underground complex. I guess someone looked into WP and simply took the highest number it could find.

Of course I can read German. Sure, there is probably something there, some tunnels, a storage area maybe, but a secret/unknown "75-acre underground complex"? Those articles are totally exaggerated. There is no evidence at all for anything. Currently it's just rumors.

Na, no measurements. The filmmaker heard some rumours that the Germans experimented with nuclear weapons too. And he dug a hole. End of story.

I just searched for St. Georgen: The current top story in local newspapers is: A lumberman was hit by a bouncing branch. Of course, that Nazi story can be found too, but it doesn't get a lot of attention. Nobody cares because there is simply no story. That filmmaker just dug a hole and found a staircase. That's all. Well, that's not a 100% correct: They also found an army helmet, an army bike and several warning signs. Not really surprising, since it was a well known nazi base. But hey, maybe the staircase will indeed lead to a super-secret 75-acre nuclear testing underground complex dug by 320.000 inmates that died from it. Or maybe these numbers are simply completely bogus too. The actual number of victims in KZ Gusen (I + II + III) was 44.600, that includes children and people that died from exhaustion after they were freed).

Your "personal definition" of a scientific theory is flawed. You have to throw away the thought "It's just a theory". In the end laws and theories in science are equal citizens in the city of science. A very simplified explanation might be: A scientific law is a description of an observed phenomenon. But it doesn't explain why it is that way. A theory is a scientific explanation of an observed phenomenon. Unlike laws, theories actually explain why things are the way they are. So, in a way theories are even bigger than laws. I guess, it would have made things easier, if they had called it a "law", back in the day. But in the end, it doesn't make a difference.

To quote Magnus Carlsen from a recent interview: "I find playing against computers very depressing. I don’t like losing." http://venturebeat.com/2014/01... Of course, computers profit alot from opening books alot and the books must be tuned to their play. Computers play best against humans if they avoid positions that require highly positional play (basically closed positions). The benefit of endgame tables isn't that clear. It is very costly to hit the database, giving a benefit only in some positions. Till 2013 Nalimov tablebases were pretty much standard, but they have been replaced by Syzygy tablebases, with better compression and better performance. Anyway, I don't think that even a Magnus Carlsen, whose playing style is very, very good against computers would win against a match against monsters like Stockfish, Komodo or Houdini.

Current information on the fight against polio can be found here: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx While India is polio-free, the worldwide cases actually increased last year. Well, let's hope for the best, that the optimistic assessment of Dr. Jafari is true.

Well, it seems people could sue the law firm, alas, the amount is too small, so the effort is rather high, even if it is likely that they win. But at least one person has already disputed the claim and sues over it. And: Berlin public prosecution department has already started an investigation of the matter. It seems they sent their applications to 16 different courts, most granted their application, but more than a quarter didn't. Such applications (regarding filesharing!!) are quite common and usually the request is granted. Well, the case at least gets a lot of press and hopefully things improve.

Not so fast. First of all, the lawyers "cheated". They avoided the term "streaming" in their applications to court and made it look like a typical filesharing case. The courts granted most of their applications because of "unbefugtem öffentlichen Zugänglichmachen über eine sogenannte Tauschbörse" that means "unauthorized sharing of files through a file sharing network". German internet law blogger Thomas Stadler explains in his blog, why their applications are invalid (for various reasons). German link: http://www.internet-law.de/2013/12/warum-die-streaming-abmahnungen-der-rechtsanwaelte-uc-unwirksam-sind.html