Andreas Vox

Andreas Vox

  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    I think it's obvious that the goal of any "war on X" has nothing to do with X but only with getting funding to the people who are supposed to make war on X (which are not necessarily the people...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    You aren't seriously suggesting to replace Russian gas with blubber from sperm whales, are you?...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    Germany needs gas to complement the non-constant supply of wind and solar. Nuclear and coal can't be used for that since it takes too long to start and stop....
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Researchers may have ID’ed first deer-to-human SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Oh deer, I'll cut down all my social contacts to deers immediately. I hope you'll doe likewise. Stay save....
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Well, watching from Germany, the winners of this war seem to be clear: the German government announced to over-achieve the NATO's 2% spending goal and will build a special fonds of 100bn Euro for modernizing the Bundeswehr. Energy companies will...
  • Commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
    Oh? I thought that as part of the Brexit deal, every day of the year was declared Fool's Day in the UK?...
  • Commented on So you say you want a revolution
    OGH: There will be a significant economic shock, but printing half a trillion pounds of virtual banknotes (and handing half of it to their friends) should paper over the cracks for a bit. There's a forgotten cliff edge that hasn't...
  • Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
    Well, there's also no inherent racism in wearing white robes with conical hats that cover your face except for eye holes. Given the history of the US, I'd still not recommend to wear it to a fancy dress party....
  • Commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
    Just got an email from Amazon that Invisible Sun is postponed, so I checked in and read about your loss. Take your time and best wishes!...
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
    That coincides with the deadline for the last opportunity for the WA to be ratified by this EP: next Thursday. TMay said in Parliament today that she wants to avoid taking part in the EP elections, but I don't see...
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    Fair point. My guess is that life has been too easy for the Tories in the last three decades, so now everyone things they can get by with just quips and platitudes. The lack of challenges let the more competent...
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    I think Terry Pratchett managed to describe the Tory attitude quite well in Jingo. Unfortunately the UK have no-one like Lord Vetinary to get them out of this mess....
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    My view on what happens next: It's all in Theresa May's hand. After defending against the leadership challenge she's immune against a further challenge for 12 months. As long as her cabinet follows her, she has control over the process....
  • Commented on Peak Brexit
    The backstop is a legal protocol as part of the withdrawal agreement that comes into effect if the EU and the UK can't find another agreement to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland after December 2020. It regulates movement...
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    You may find it an up-hill struggle to convince Germans of that idea: Germans and Americans 'worlds apart' in view of relations...
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    They updated the entry: from Guardian politics live blog Here's the origibnal twitter announcement: ECJ announcement It's not the ECJ decision, though, just the opinion of the Advocate General. Still more relevant as the pleadings from the hearing....
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    Just in: ECJ to rule on irrevocability of article 50 next Tuesday...
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    I think all those solutions concerning North Korea, North America or Australia are a little far-fetched and won't help with Brexit. Once the Britons realize that Brexit wasn't such a clever idea (so around May 2019), they'll have to look...
  • Commented on Happy Halloween!
    Oh great, OGH put cliff hanger in chapter 1: "Mo, Dr. O’Brien, is unavailable. Or maybe I’m just too much of a coward to talk to her since she . . . changed." So when do we find out what...
  • Commented on The Pivot
    Oh, and Paul Dacre apparently also doesn't want to join in the pivot....
  • Commented on The Pivot
    Looking at the Sun's frontpage from yesterday I don't think that Murdoch changed his view on Brexit. But reality is coming back to bite the Brexiteers. They promised something impossible and now find out they can't deliver. And even the...
  • Commented on Happy 21st Century!
    No, it's not the same dynamics, because "concentrated energy sources" don't regenerate themselves, or at a time scale that it makes no difference. There's no guaranty that a population system will reach a stable equilibrium, it might as well cycle...
  • Commented on On hold
    Personally, I think the base for civilization are shared stories. Homo Sapiens is a crude misnomer, it should be Home Narrans (or for the extant subspecies, Homo Narrans Stupidus). I see stories as the software to our biological hardware, and...
  • Commented on On hold
    Re civilization under water: Science would definitely develop along a different path. Eg. alchemy/chemistry was developed by humans relying to be able to boil water. Aquatic science would need to start with materials found under water and expose them to...
  • Commented on On hold
    Free markets are just the continuation of war with financial means....
  • Commented on On hold
    Well, you get part of the answer when you examine how the modern free market would deal in the Inka empire: If one region starves, food prices go up until the people have sold all their wealth and have indebted...
  • Commented on On hold
    I was talking about a non-expansionist civilization. There could be ideological reasons why a civilization stays localized, or a dependence on a local resource. And anyway, before 1500 human civilizations usually kept themselves to one or two continents....
  • Commented on On hold
    Have you read "Strata", a pre-Diskworld novel by Terry Pratchett?...
  • Commented on On hold
    I doubt that any ancient hitec civilization would be detectable unless it was also expansionist (covering most of Earth) and wasteful. Given that science has just started to detect civilizations in jungles (other than by accident) and that river delta...
  • Commented on On hold
    Wow! Macro evolution AND virgin birth. Creationists must be ever so happy....
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