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Comment Abortions are murder cases now ? (Score 1) 557

by homerjaythompson on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @11:09AM (#64257176) Attached to: Frozen Embryos Are 'Children,' According To Alabama's Supreme Court

If the person discarding a fertilized embryo could be liable in a wrongful death case, then the naturally occuring abortion should be treated as a murder case. Who is responsible? The mother? The embryo for commiting suicide ? What a bunch of lunatics...

Comment Year of the linux desktop not as relevant anymore (Score 1) 108

by homerjaythompson on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:39PM (#63177022) Attached to: Is 2023 the Year of the Linux Desktop?

The concept of the year of the linux desktop was relevant a decade ago. Not so much nowadays, unfortunately !

Submission + - Microsoft battles Vista perception issue (apcmag.com)

Submitted by

LambAndMint

on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @10:20PM

LambAndMint writes: "In what can only be described as an act of utter desperation to overcome Vista's mostly negative public perception issues, Microsoft has put together an online "Fact or Fiction" quiz about Windows Vista. Every person who submits themselves to Microsoft indoctrination gets a free shirt and the chance to win a $15,000 prize. Some of the supposed "fact" will make you feel dirty and ready to get a job as a computer salesman for a mass-market retailer as you go through the quiz."

Comment Re:reading (Score 1) 256

by homerjaythompson on Sunday December 02, 2007 @03:03PM (#21553281) Attached to: DS Games for Pre-readers?

It is an excellent opportunity to learn to read ! I learned reading and speaking english (i'm french native speaking) by playing Final Fantasy 1 on nes !

A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming 496

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 06, 2006 @05:32AM from the thinking-big dept.

ultracool writes, "While the only permanent solution for human-driven global warming is developing renewable energy, a temporary hack to counteract possible abrupt climate change is to build a giant sunshade in space. The sunshade would be launched in small pieces by electromagnetic launchers, conventional chemical rockets being far too expensive. The sunshade could be developed and deployed in 25 years, would last about 50 years, and would reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth by 2% — enough to balance heating due to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere." From the article: "The [trillions of] spacecraft would form a long, cylindrical cloud with a diameter about half that of Earth, and about 10 times longer... Sunlight passing through the 60,000-mile length of the cloud, pointing lengthwise between the Earth and the sun [at L-1], would be diverted away from our planet... The sunshade could be deployed by a total 20 electromagnetic launchers [collectively] launching a stack of [a million] fliers every 5 minutes for 10 years."

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