Carnival’s cruise ships emit more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s *cars*.  That’s neither a greenhouse gas nor more than “all of Europe.”  It’s still bad, but try to stick to the facts.

That’s not a nuclear plant— that’s Europe’s largest lignite coal plant, and the second-largest fossil fuel plant in the world. The part you’re thinking of as “nuclear” is just a cooling tower, and the hyperboloid cooling tower design can be used with any power plant that makes power by heating water into steam. It’s…

I have the XM2s, and this bugged the crap out of me as well— but I discovered that they’ll stay on if you connect them to a bluetooth source, even if that source isn’t playing any audio. If I just leave them paired to my phone and then don’t play any music on the phone, they stay on indefinitely. Sure, this is still…

> What about the bidirectional nature of the port?