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Have you ever had personal experience of working for some time at a commercial station?

Not specifically, but noScript + flashblock ends up blocking many adverts.

No, it really isn't. It's about getting viewers, selling newspapers, and getting clicks. And the best way to achieve that is by using strong emotion, usually negative. Fear, hatred…

It crashes my browser

There's a lot more to an earthquake than its magnitude on the Richter scale. Their destructiveness can be increased by many factors, such as the type of ground that buildings are o…

With any new industry there's bound to be bugs in the system. Most other industries have laws regulating them going back decades or even over a century. You're not gonna get it per…

Politicians often don't have a clue about many subjects, but that's not necessarily too bad a thing. Politicians should be generalists not specialists. What they should do is surro…

And this is why we landed on the moon. Seriously. The Manhattan project involved 130,000 people at its peak and lasted four years, and it leaked. The Apollo program involved 400,00…

The Japanese by contrast never developed truly effective airborne radar during WW2, so actually did select the pilots with the best night vision to fly their night fighters.

That percentage will probably be even worse than that, since windows aren't at the best angle or position for solar panels.

I've often wondered how fail safe these things are. If you're lifting 200kg and the system fails, is that 200kg load suddenly being put onto your body?

What happens if somebody wants to join, but the Leads refuse? If a small minority of Leads can prevent people they don't like from joining, it seems like it risks reinforcing bigot…

I've been more annoyed by websites removing features than adding them.

"They're claiming to see a force one thousandth as big as the Chinese - probably because they are doing the experiment one thousand times more accurately. And still, some people ar…

Please be true, please be true! How big is a two megawatt nuclear power source anyway? A quick search showed nuclear power plants are in the hundreds to low thousands of megawatt r…

One factor that makes Methane not quite as bad as it could be, is it has an atmospheric half-life around 10% of CO2's So if a lot of Methane does get released into the atmosphere, …

Rumania vs Romania http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=rumania.romania

Out of interest, what if Ireland says they must not hand over the info, and the US says they must?

I find that downvote really funny.

I didn't make any argument

Chinese censorship exists to protect the state. EU right to be forgotten protects the individual. That's a pretty huge difference.