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Then users will slowly realize that the Google's search results are not trustworthy and they will move away from Google as the search engine. The market will correct itself.

In rebuttal, I submit this counterpoint.

Indeed, Greeks that have already moved their funds out of banks don't need Bitcoin and the ones that didn't don't have funds to purchase Bitcoin. With that said, capital controls are a concern for other countries besides Greece and at some point these warnings (Argentina, Cyprus and now Greece) indicate that it makes sense to keep a portion of funds in products that can't be easily confiscated, controlled or taxed. Bitcoin isn't going to solve Greece's citizenry's problems, but it sure could alleviate future meltdowns. Think that the Bitcoin volatility is bad? Try living for a week without access to a bank and maybe only $60 withdrawals per day. When countries horribly mismanage their finances, all of a sudden Bitcoin becomes far more attractive. Just ask any Zimbabwean who is getting $5 worth of value out of an account with anything less than 175 quadrillion Zimbabwe Dollars. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

This is rewriting history. In december 2008 SpaceX was at the end of its tether. Musk himself wrote that they had virtually no money left in the bank when they finally got the NASA contract in the nick of time. So it was rather a close thing:

In the meantime, at SpaceX, Musk and top executives had spent most of December in a state of fear, but on Dec. 23, 2008, SpaceX received a wonderful shock. The company won a $1.6 billion contract for 12 NASA resupply flights to the space station. Then the Tesla deal ended up closing successfully, on Christmas Eve, hours before Tesla would have gone bankrupt. Musk had just a few hundred thousand dollars left and could not have made payroll the next day.

Balls of steel but also tremendous luck.

I'm more interested in the context. It's classic click-bait - just dive right in to something without any context.

I assume the reporter asked a question, as opposed to Linus just randomly opening with that line of conversation. The rest are personal details that, if he feels are unimportant because of the competence of existing participants, are likewise unimportant to the rest of us.

IOW we've talked about this, and Linus mainly just merges to main, choosing what to include or what's not ready. There are at least a thousand people in the world who could do that, and maybe 5-10 who are ready to do it today.

The conversation, combined with Linus Torvaldsâ(TM)s aggression behind the wheel, makes this sunny afternoon drive suddenly feel all too serious. Torvaldsâ"the grand ruler of all geeksâ"does not drive like a geek. He plasters his foot to the pedal of a yellow Mercedes convertible with its âoeDAD OF 3â license plate as we rip around a corner on a Portland, Ore., freeway. My body smears across the passenger door. âoeThere is no concrete plan of action if I die,â Torvalds yells to me over the wind and the traffic. âoeBut that would have been a bigger deal 10 or 15 years ago. People would have panicked. Now I think theyâ(TM)d work everything out in a couple of months.â

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

The interesting question is how long can this last before we reach a level that is not affordable to the majority of the demographic that is being serviced.

Care to guess what happens at that point? New construction doesn't sell, developers go bankrupt, new construction is sold at auction for lower prices. Then the new units available at lower prices push down prices of other housing, which makes purchase more affordable, which results in renters buying, which curbs rent prices.

Unless of course, large financial companies and well-connected donors are threatened by that circumstance.

Then, the central bank will step in, through its many channels, to put a floor under rental prices ("So I think if we spent enough money, got enough of a hit right now, it would look like a floor on house prices, and we might have something every bit as good as a floor on house prices."). The multiple government housing agencies (Fannie, Freddie, FHA, VA, USDA, etc) can also step in to influence the rental market, as they did the housing market.

Blackstone is a company securitizing rental flows and selling them. They are the largest private equity company in the world ("By both profit measures, the first quarter set quarterly records for Blackstone, the world’s largest private-equity firm").

The former head of the US central bank, Bernanke, is now employed by Citadel, a massive hedge fund.

My point is simply this: house prices did not revert to historical norms because of the big players - donors - that would have been deleteriously impacted by it. With big players moving into the rental market, if something went wrong with their business plan, don't expect them not to use their clout to get the government and central bank to do something about it.

Square finally gave into the fanboys for the FF7 remake? They've resisted it for years because they didn't think they could make money at it, and with how pricy modern graphics are I tend to agree. Maybe Sony backed it as a marketing stunt...

Hardly. There is plenty of money to be made from this remake.
Square Enix Wins Cheers, Share Gain on Final Fantasy Trailer

The Final Fantasy VII remake trailer received the loudest cheers from gamers at Sony’s presentation at E3, the annual video-game conference in Los Angeles on Monday. Square Enix surged 2.9 percent to 2,956 yen, the highest since November 2008, at the close in Tokyo trading.

Either they didn't think that it was time for the remake until now or they just didn't realize how much the market wants it.
Regardless it is pretty obvious in retrospect that any other release wouldn't give the same ROI as a FF7 remake.

Silicon Valley is about the only place you can have your startup fail, walk down the street a few blocks, and have a nice safe job to tide you over until you decide you need to do another startup (if you do). In other words, there's a job safety net that is not there elsewhere (the article as much as admits this, for London).

The other issue with any place other than Silicon Valley: Silicon Valley is where most of the VC's are located, and it's where most of the VC's prefer their companies be located, so that they have the option of an acquisition as an exit strategy for the companies they fund. Other locations, not so much.

Jimmy Wales has a pretty safe gig, which allows him to live anywhere he wants, without having to get more funding, and without having to worry about money too much at all, or about having to get another gig. So he can live anywhere he wants to live, and it's kinda OK.

I'm personally OK with London as a very nice place to live, if you've got a steady income, and so on. It's an amazing place. But I think you would have a difficult time getting Series A funding there, compared to a 15 minute drive to Sand Hill Road. To get some sense of the absolute importance of this:

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

According to the headlines, Mother Nature disagrees with you.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-17/california-plagued-by-dry-wells-as-drought-makes-water-elusive

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/03/california-pumping-water-fell-earth-20000-years-ago

I skimmed an article about the pinch now hitting higher priority water rights holders while waiting at a doctor's office yesterday. Apparently people and corporations have water rights going back over a hundred years that control who does and does not get water. They still have to pay for it though. Seems like the legalized prioritizations might make a lot of the discussion about what water should and should not be used for moot. Or, as usual, that simplistic solutions aren't feasible.

The article also seems to think 3D printers can make anything out of thin air. You save transportation costs because you don't need to ship anything, and you avoid supply chain disruptions because you don't have to ship anything.

From the article:

The effects of natural disasters extend far beyond individual companies. In 2012, a severe drought temporarily halted the transport of goods down the Mississippi River, affecting the entire region. This is the type of problem likely to become more common in a changing climate. The ability to print goods where they are needed would clearly decrease vulnerability to droughts and other disruptive weather events.

From the linked Bloomberg Article on the drought:

which could be shut to cargo from companies including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. next month.

-Agricultural. We can print food now?

“If you’re shipping raw materials to a steel mill in Chicago, you’re trying to figure out if you can go to Cincinnati or Louisville, Kentucky, unload it out of the barge and rail it up to the steel mill.”

-Thank god 3D printers can print steel out of nothing

Barges on the Mississippi handle about 60 percent of the nation’s grain exports entering the Gulf of Mexico through New Orleans, as well as 22 percent of its petroleum and 20 percent of its coal.

Good thing we can print fossil fuels now too.

Well, among other things, he revealed that:

1) The NSA intercepts and stores virtually all communications sent on electronic networks anywhere it can reach. Not just metadata. In the case of phone calls, they also speech->text them and make that archive searchable.

http://rt.com/news/172284-nsa-...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/n...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

2) The NSA constantly works at ways to break into encrypted communications, including hacking into the VPNs of supposedly friendly governments.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

3) The NSA listens to the cell calls of friendly foreign leaders. (hopefully, also, unfriendly ones).

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

4) The NSA may have worked to weaken encryption standards in order to make their task easier.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9...
http://www.scientificamerican....

5) The NSA has physically broken into the fiber plants of major public Internet companies (ie. Google), supposedly without their knowledge, in order to steal data sent only internally.

http://www.extremetech.com/int...

6) Major Internet companies, and all telcos, have willingly shared much or all of their client's communications with the NSA.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

7) The NSA and foreign intelligence agencies share data in order to evade domestic spying restrictions.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

8) The NSA has hacked into at least one major supplier of SIM cards, in order to spy on calls made from the phones made with them.

http://news.softpedia.com/news...

but it's actually RUN by the board of directors who are elected by the share holders....

Not really --- note that most Google shareholders hold stock with far fewer voting rights than the class "B" shares that Brin and Page hold. People holding the lesser "A" and "C" shares in Google don't really run anything,

These folks have come up with an idea to market a threat with some (but not all) the properties of spider silk. Using yeast. While I am more than willing to admit that this material sounds interesting, it is most certainly not spider silk. But it's not the first time we've seen an utterly misleading headline in both the article and in the Slashdot post.

TFA states "The company has developed a synthetic alternative to spider silk by engineering proteins identical to the natural threads stretched across the nooks in your basement."

Care to list the properties that the natural silk has that the synthetic silk doesn't?

That survey only looked at patents issued on a single day. There are still a couple hundred thousand unexamined patents from the 80s and 90s .. what will the patent term adjustment look like when they issue?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Nothing, because those patents don't get patent term adjustment. And while, yes, there are still a few patent applications floating around from that era, that law was changed 20 years ago. It's already been taken care of for everything since then, and since you can't apply it retroactively, there's nothing more that can be done.

That survey only looked at patents issued on a single day. There are still a couple hundred thousand unexamined patents from the 80s and 90s .. what will the patent term adjustment look like when they issue?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

In May, the railroads and their regulators learned 565 American Indian tribes had the right to review, one by one, whether 22,000 antennae required for the system to work might be built on sacred ground. That’s as many wireless tower applications as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission approves in two years.

“I’m just speechless,” said Grady Cothen, who retired in 2010 from the Federal Railroad Administration as the deputy associate administrator for safety standards. “I didn’t expect this issue to arise.”

The resulting backup may give railroads including Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe another reason to miss the December 2015 deadline to finish a $13.2 billion project covering one-third of the U.S. rail network.

Really nobody should be playing football.

Curiously this is almost always said by people who never played themselves. Tell me, what exactly is the problem with consenting adults playing a potentially violent game where there is some chance of getting hurt? How is it worse that an X-Games skateboarder who knows he's going to injure himself at some point? Or a sailor who knows they might drown?

You make very good points, though I read the GP as pointing out the apparent irrationality (to some) of playing football, rather than trying to outlaw it or something. It's one thing to make an argument that "no one should do X because X is bad, and thus X doesn't make sense"; it's slightly different to argue that "no one should ever be allowed to do X."

In any case, whatever the GP meant, I certainly don't have a problem with consenting adults doing whatever -- particularly if they are informed about the consequences of their actions.

Brain injuries are just one of the numerous medical problems caused by football

The only real problem I see with that is that children aren't adequately protected by the rules of the game when they play it.

Here's where your comment begins to seem a little disconnected from the current debate. You later go on to discuss "incidence of concussions and certain other injuries" for children and such. It's true that "concussions" and various other acute injuries are a significant problem, and perhaps modifications to rules to encourage more "sportsmanlike" play or whatever could help with some of those. But rule changes simply aren't going to change the fact that slamming your brain into your skull at high speed repeatedly for years on end now seems like it may have serious potential for chronic brain damage.

Perhaps even more distressing are recent studies that suggest the possibility of significant effects on the brain even without concussions. If this latter research is confirmed and shown to have long-term consequences, it suggests that the problem can't be fixed just by tweaking the rules or discouraging serious injuries -- the potential for chronic brain damage may simply be part of a game where people slam heads together on a regular basis.

I don't think there's enough evidence to make this latter claim yet, but if it proves to be true, there is in fact at least a valid argument to support GP's contention that "no one should be playing football," assuming they care about brain function. The use of padding, helmets, and various other equipment may have had a positive effect of preventing serious acute injuries, but it may also have the unintentional effect of allowing players to play longer and harder in other ways and thereby sustain serious chronic injuries without realizing it.

Weak labor market?

Unemployment benefit claims drop to 15 year low

"The unemployment rate held at 5.5 percent in March, its lowest since May 2008, the Labor Department reported earlier this month. That puts it close to the 5 percent to 5.2 percent range that Fed policy makers have defined as full employment."

Historically, small businesses create more jobs than any corporation does. Mom and pop businesses. Family businesses. Local cooperatives. Some individual who sticks his neck out - and entrepreneur. Young companies create jobs - older, more established businesses do not.

http://www.sbecouncil.org/abou...

http://smallbusiness.house.gov...

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

http://www.nber.org/digest/feb...

Of at least equal importance, is the question of WHEN do businesses create jobs?
Small businesses, new businesses, and startups create jobs all the time. Large corporations instead only "create" jobs in times of plenty. That is - they stand back, and watch the small players take the risks. When they see little guys making a go of it, then they either buy out the little guy, or go directly into competition with that little guy.

Depends on how you slice it.

What I hear from Canadian patients inspires no envy what so ever.

You should update what you hear. Canada's health care system is ranked 7 spots higher than that of the United States, even before the ACA was implemented.

Even Forbes magazine, no socialist propaganda sheet, ranks Canada's health care system higher. And Bloomberg ranks it twenty-three spots higher in terms of efficiency.

http://thepatientfactor.com/ca...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/da...

http://www.bloomberg.com/visua...

Do you understand what 'rich fuckers' do now?

Yes I do! They avoid paying taxes using the following strategies:

-Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich
-Foreign Holdings
-Inversion
-Stock Options
-Living Trusts
-Blind Trusts
-Public Welfare
-Many, Many, More

These strategies do not even account for the many ways that they screw their workforce.

They then take the enormous pile money that they have and use it to buy politicians and
manipulate the system.

They also use the system to privatize anything that can have money squeezed out of it, such as schools, healthcare, and roads. Finally, they use the money to distort the reality of what they have done so people consider them to be "Heros", "Pillars of the Community", and such. The Nobel prize, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, etc. That is what those "Rich Fuckers" do.

Maybe you live in a mythical world where your imagination allows you to create arguments using rare occurrences. I mean if we are going to use exceptions to asses the situation then I don't know what to tell you. BTW, not only school zones require 40km/h zones. There are plenty of residential areas where kids are present in numbers that justify 40km/h as a deterrent for speeding since the fines are high.

It's not creating an argument, it is a single example that you theory of "speed enforcement is science" is bunk. I have plenty more, but you seem to already be aware of this with your comment "kids are present, the speed limit should be 40" comment. So much for the science eh? Speed laws are mostly emotive and political.

Yes it was but some did believe and push that agenda. Regardless there are other examples like earth being the center of the universe...

So this automatically makes you right somehow? I'm failing to see how this adds any weight to your argument

Re: self driving cars: http://www.bloomberg.com/slide... http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/... http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Yes we're all familiar with the current robot car tech, the gap which you don't seem to be aware of is that there is a LONG, LONG, road between concept and mainstream reality. Even if the Tech was perfect, which it isn't, it will still take another 20 years to get past the legal and political hurdles. http://www.technologyreview.co...

Neither did I but you can't deny the need for speed limits.

Never did. Speed laws are mostly emotive and political, not science.

And that 40km/h zone suddenly gets applied outside of school hours too without warning, at 3am at night and on weekends. Yet strangely in wealthy suburbs with lots of lawyers their schools are somehow exempt. I'd love to hear your scientific theory for why that is?

Maybe you live in a mythical world where your imagination allows you to create arguments using rare occurrences. I mean if we are going to use exceptions to asses the situation then I don't know what to tell you. BTW, not only school zones require 40km/h zones. There are plenty of residential areas where kids are present in numbers that justify 40km/h as a deterrent for speeding since the fines are high.

Earth was supposed to be flat,

That's a well worn myth.

Yes it was but some did believe and push that agenda. Regardless there are other examples like earth being the center of the universe...

we weren't supposed to go on the moon

Says who?

There are some today that still push the idea that we never landed on the moon.

and flight was never going to become an important method of transportation.

Says who?

History of the Wright brothers. And it wasn't the first time they were told this.
Wilbur told Orville on the train ride back to Dayton, "Not within a thousand years would man ever fly."

A flying car would be extremely convenient

Explain because as far as I recall it cost a lot more energy to keep the vehicle above ground than it does to power a 1000 HP truck engine and that doesn't include the thrust you need to go forward, turn and stop.

No they aren't.

Re: self driving cars:
http://www.bloomberg.com/slide...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

As I said in my first post, road safety is not as simple as speed bad, slow good.

Neither did I but you can't deny the need for speed limits.

There's a lot of development going on in this space lately, with a lot of VC flowing to various startups. One of the more interesting is Ambri (fka: Liquid Metal Battery Corp.), which is gearing up to full-scale production "real soon now". The linked article also briefly profiles a few other players in this emerging market, as well as some of the VCs. Suffice to say, there are several solutions in the pipeline for the near future.

$1300 per kWh price is also out of whack. It is much higher than current batteries already in use for off-grid systems. Not to mention new technologies. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Since you don't seem to understand the concept of net worth, here's some light reading about Yahoo for you:

How much is Yahoo worth without Alibaba? Not much.

Now according to that particular story, Alibaba only makes up 88% of Yahoo's total value. But others have calculated it differently, with their share of Alibaba being worth even more. Google can help you find those.

Half of U.S. Fracking Companies Will Be Dead or Sold This Year

Demand for fracking, a production method that along with horizontal drilling spurred a boom in U.S. oil and natural gas output, has declined as customers leave wells uncompleted because of low prices.

Of course, when Russia decides that their economy has taken enough damage that forces them to pull out of the Ukraine, and the Big Oil players have completed buying out the going-out-of-business small/middle sized oil and drilling companies and their mineral leases, then the West will signal the Saudis that its ok to cut back production and let oil/gas prices rise again.

Could you link to those sources instead of only naming them? The only "fugitive banker" that I know of in Switzerland was Raoul Weil, and a quick Google search for the query [us fugitive bankers switzerland] only throws up that name as well, so I'm guessing you're misremembering the details of this particular story.

Raoul Weil is (a) not American, (b) had nothing to do with the financial crash and (c) did in fact get extradited to the USA accused of (effectively) not being an unpaid agent of the IRS .... where he was so convinced of his innocence he decided not to plea bargain, went to court, and achieved complete victory with jury deliberation of just over an hour. Raoul did not testify in his own defence and presented no witnesses, yet the case against him collapsed almost immediately as the primary witness had been given a sweetheart deal by US prosecutors and appeared to be lying on the witness stand. There was no evidence he knew anything about what bankers far below him in the organisation had been doing.

Not sure where you got the idea that agricultural water users pay nothing for water use. If anything, they're currently paying more and more (Source.). Also, the market doesn't decide where almonds and lettuce should be grown. Soil and climate determines that and, for the past century, California's had both the soil and the climate.

Whoosh?

They didn't stop telecoms from merging either.

U.S. Moves to Block Merger Between AT&T and T-Mobile
T-Mobile Antitrust Challenge Gives AT&T Little Recourse

They didn't stop any of the airline or bank mergers that we have seen since 2009.

US government seeks to block American-US Airways merger
U.S., Filing Suit, Moves to Block Airline Merger

They didn't reign in the massive control that the insurance industry has over the consumer (indeed they gave the industry more power)

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN AND PHYSICIANS HEALTH PLAN OF MID-MICHIGAN ABANDON MERGER PLANS: Decision to Abandon Deal Follows Justice Department's Decision to Challenge the Acquisition
The Minimum Standards all Health Insurance Plans Sold on and Off the Exchange
Federal Insurance Office Act"
the 2010 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

This seems highly unlikely given the pro-monopoly stance that...

U.S. Moves to Block Merger of 2 Theater Ad Companies
FTC Sues To Block Sysco-US Foods Merger
U.S. Sues to Block Big Beer Merger
3M Drops Avery Dennison Unit Buyout Amid Antitrust Worry

etc

Whoosh?

They didn't stop telecoms from merging either.

U.S. Moves to Block Merger Between AT&T and T-Mobile
T-Mobile Antitrust Challenge Gives AT&T Little Recourse

They didn't stop any of the airline or bank mergers that we have seen since 2009.

US government seeks to block American-US Airways merger
U.S., Filing Suit, Moves to Block Airline Merger

They didn't reign in the massive control that the insurance industry has over the consumer (indeed they gave the industry more power)

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN AND PHYSICIANS HEALTH PLAN OF MID-MICHIGAN ABANDON MERGER PLANS: Decision to Abandon Deal Follows Justice Department's Decision to Challenge the Acquisition
The Minimum Standards all Health Insurance Plans Sold on and Off the Exchange
Federal Insurance Office Act"
the 2010 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

This seems highly unlikely given the pro-monopoly stance that...

U.S. Moves to Block Merger of 2 Theater Ad Companies
FTC Sues To Block Sysco-US Foods Merger
U.S. Sues to Block Big Beer Merger
3M Drops Avery Dennison Unit Buyout Amid Antitrust Worry

etc

WTF are you talking about?
Inside Sony's Mysterious 'Red Pockets': Hackers Blow Open China Bribery Probe
Sony Probed India Business for Corruption, E-Mails Show
There are more cases, even including bribery of US politicians, but I couldn't find a link in 5 seconds so I leave that to the people interested to find.

There is plenty of stuff in the leaked data that Sony doesn't want to get spread because it shows that they are engaging in criminal activity on a global level.
The "It's only personal data, think about the children!" nonsense is a lame attempt at covering up their wrongdoings and make people not look to closely into the leaked e-mails.

Which is why a real journalist would go through the emails and select the ones that specifically show/relate-to the corruption, bribing politicians, etc, and publish/release those rather than just releasing thousands of other emails that do nothing but screw average employees by releasing their addresses, SSN, salary, etc.

"What's the value of an unsourced, unvetted story about a grown man drinking at a bar?"

WTF are you talking about?
Inside Sony's Mysterious 'Red Pockets': Hackers Blow Open China Bribery Probe
Sony Probed India Business for Corruption, E-Mails Show
There are more cases, even including bribery of US politicians, but I couldn't find a link in 5 seconds so I leave that to the people interested to find.

There is plenty of stuff in the leaked data that Sony doesn't want to get spread because it shows that they are engaging in criminal activity on a global level.
The "It's only personal data, think about the children!" nonsense is a lame attempt at covering up their wrongdoings and make people not look to closely into the leaked e-mails.

Try $40 million (Qualcomm is about that size, the CEO makes $60 million)

The $60 million is after stock options and bonuses. His base pay is $805,582. Notice the article only talks about base pay and not bonuses and profit from the company. I sense a little spin happening in the announcement.

"We are assured that rapid progress will soon bring self-driving electric cars,

Uh....

hypersonic airplanes,

Well...

individually tailored cancer cures,

cough-cough

and instant three-dimensional printing of hearts and kidneys.

You see...

We are even told it will pave the world's transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies,"

Aww screw it.

Could there have been worse examples of "LOL those crazy promises!"?

http://blogs.scientificamerica...

Thanks for the NASA study, it's a little lighter than I expected. It only talks about carbon deaths and assumes deaths from nuclear effluent do not exist. Also, as I said the IAEA has publishing interdiction orders over the WHO in all matters nuclear which I see cited in the references which automatically bias the report.

From the article:

The study also excludes aspects of nuclear power that cannot be easily quantified, such as deaths from nuclear proliferation.

That is basically all of them.

1. Cancers from bio-accumulation of radio isotopes are not easily quantified because they travel through the food chain for a random period of time and when they are finally ingested by a human there is another 6 years before it gestates into cancer depending where in the body it end up.

2. Transgenic disease that affect subsequent generations via absorption of low level radio isotope emitters that didn't kill the parents and damage DNA.

3. Failed pregnancies from absorption of medium level emitters of radioactivity.

4. Not including deaths from Nuclear proliferation isn't reasonable because U-238 is a by-product of fuel enrichment used in warfare. The radio-isotopes there will continue killing for generations. That said, I'll go over it again when I have more time to absorb it. I appreciate you sending it to me.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

As I said, it uses the flawed results of the Vattenfal study:

I'm not certain what NASA/UN studies you refer to? I do know that some rely on a document sponsored by the nuclear industry player Vattenfal, as does the IPCC, which gives them an overly optimistic picture of what is achievable with Nuclear.

Which is exactly what the bloomberg you have sent me indirectly does, as I've already read the study the UN and IPPC based their findings on.

Not if dealt with correctly.

And yet it still isn't being dealt with correctly and every day the Nuclear Industry releases more radio isotopes into the environment. I'm not interested in talking about another fuel cycle until this one is managed.

Um... What journal was that published? Who reviewed that?

The original report was prepared for the Dutch government. The report of 1982 and its methodology has been peer reviewed by the publication of a short version in Energy Policy in 1985 [Q2]. It was also referenced by the European Parliament and updated in 2000/2001, again in 2005,2008 and 2012 before it was published on the web. It has been cited over 70 times.

All I see is a website that seems to be dedicated to anti-nuclear. Some of the reports listed at the end are in journals.

If your position is pro-nuclear then you'll characterize the information that way. They are scientists. If you read the thing they tell you they start with no fixed position and examine the lesser known parts of the industry.

Your assumptions are based on a flawed study that has not been peer reviewed and will soon been out of date. It is often used in the way you have used it, however if you read it you'll discover how flawed it is (and now, difficult to find). I'm not criticizing you, btw, it's a deception that was played on all of us. I didn't buy it and it did not take much research to see what a fragile house of cards it was.

Still, it will be interesting to see what happens over the next 4 years or whenever the next IPCC document is due.

http://blogs.scientificamerica...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

  I don't know if that is GP's objections but they are pretty good reasons to think radio isotopes are a threat to the environment and ultimately, humanity.

Not if dealt with correctly.
The spent fuel can be recycled. The short lived radio isotopes do not need to be stored very long. The medium waste goes back to fuel. The low level is close to background.

"Newer" reactor designs like the LFTR and I use new only in the sense that the prototype was built and tested about 40 years ago but not put into production. Produce a lot less waste and are walk away safe.

"And speaking of vilification, that is what happened to the peer reviewed science [stormsmith.nl] regarding the energetic return of the nuclear industry"
Um... What journal was that published? Who reviewed that? All I see is a website that seems to be dedicated to anti-nuclear. Some of the reports listed at the end are in journals.

Imagine:

1. US/Russia/China

2. France/UK/Japan

3. Canada/Norway/Austria

4. Ecuador/Israel/Palestine/

5. Somalia/Bolivia/Vatican

Transparency?! Probably no. None of these would dare that at full speed ahead. Not even Norway.

Besides, many more countries have too many politically influential people which have "secret" money hidden, where an open source transparency may ultimately remove too many hidden money sources.

Here is an example researched by the New York Times, "Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader".

Chinese leaders, however, deny (two years later) to be that rich, acording to an article, "China's former PM denies role in family's 'hidden riches'", in The Telegraph.

The Jeb B tribal/clan politicos? US is getting more inbred than Europe ever was at the political top :D



Tough fighting for open source at all levels? Yes. Just a guess.

12billion?
You are kidding? But your stance on radiation panic clearly shows you are an idiot, and not kidding.

Read this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Or this: http://www.psr.org/environment...

And try some of the links provided in the article ...

Here's something for Germany

Looks like it was roughly an hour from the drop to things being back to normal, with a downswing of about 8GW and an upswing of about 13GW.

Because bitcoin is secure against government seizure

Say what? Ross Ulbricht would like a word with you, apparently you know something he (and the government) doesn't.

Since such discrimination is illegal, and the government (and society) has an interest in getting these people jobs, expect any suspected discrimination to be challenged in the courts.

[Citation needed]

It's NOT illegal to discriminate against ex-cons. Otherwise, how it is that so many companies get away with running criminal background checks? Are you saying that all these companies pay to run background checks but then can't actually use them in the hiring decision process??

Things are changing a bit, though, and it is getting a little harder to discriminate overtly. For what's really happening, see for example, here:

Federal labor laws do not explicitly prohibit companies from discriminating against ex-offenders. ... Most of the rules spelling out what an employer can and can't do come from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which is stepping up scrutiny of employer hiring practices. Corporate policies that immediately screen former criminals can disadvantage minorities and violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the agency says. In April 2012 it issued a "guidance"--a set of rules for companies to follow in evaluating job applications of released prisoners. The guidelines "create a burden on the employer to do a more individualized assessment" at the start of the hiring process, says Andria Lure Ryan, a labor lawyer in Atlanta, and not simply weed out ex-offenders from the start. The agency acknowledges there are valid reasons why some employers--a day care center, for instance--might not want to hire someone who has committed certain kinds of crimes. In such cases, the guidance says rejecting those applicants is OK. And there are federal regulations against hiring people convicted of violent crimes for jobs in airport security, among other fields.

In sum -- there's no explicit law against discriminating against ex-cons. It *IS* illegal to discriminate against minorities, and since a disproportionate number of ex-cons are minorities, the federal government has said businesses need to be careful.

In practice, however, what this means is now many companies tend not to do a background check immediately upon receipt of an application, but rather do some sort of interview or other screening first, then only do the background check later in the process.

At that point, employers still often toss people out of the pool of applicants for previous convictions. There's no federal law preventing that, particularly if the company gave them "fair consideration" early in the process before doing the background check. (Some states and cities have more policies to prevent such discrimination, such as the "Ban the Box" movement, but if a company can justify running a background check, it's hard to prevent discriminatory actions.)

He lost his penis once because of circumcision.

And now he's gonna do it again with his new penis.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

The transplanted penis wasn't circumcised and it will be at least several months before the patient can return for the medical procedure

And lack of demand for oil is due to economic growth?

Obviously not. The GP is inventing a narrative to fit his worldview.

The oversupply that has dropped oil prices is not due to lack of demand. The oversupply has been created by N. American independent oil producers that have absolutely flooded the market with non-cartel controlled oil. There is so much oil sloshing around N. America that they are having trouble finding places to store it. This activity, combined with an effective moratorium on pipeline construction, is why you keep reading news stories about oil train derailments, fires and explosions.

Crucially, this new supply of oil is not controlled by international oil cartels. Prior to the fracking boom, most oil production (on the order of 93%) was controlled by nationalized oil companies. These nations collude to constrain supply. The appearance of a huge supply of non-cartel oil has broken this arrangement and caused a price collapse.

And lack of demand for oil is due to economic growth?

Obviously not. The GP is inventing a narrative to fit his worldview.

The oversupply that has dropped oil prices is not due to lack of demand. The oversupply has been created by N. American independent oil producers that have absolutely flooded the market with non-cartel controlled oil. There is so much oil sloshing around N. America that they are having trouble finding places to store it. This activity, combined with an effective moratorium on pipeline construction, is why you keep reading news stories about oil train derailments, fires and explosions.

Crucially, this new supply of oil is not controlled by international oil cartels. Prior to the fracking boom, most oil production (on the order of 93%) was controlled by nationalized oil companies. These nations collude to constrain supply. The appearance of a huge supply of non-cartel oil has broken this arrangement and caused a price collapse.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

Almost 50 percent of Quanta’s revenue comes from HP, data compiled by Bloomberg show. It’s also selling hardware directly to Google (GOOG) and Amazon.com (AMZN), which require massive collections of servers to keep their websites humming.

So you were saying?

My dear friend, you do not understand how these things work.

You work at NSA, you are always using the latest, newest, biggest, baddest, sweetest technology ever devised by men. You literally have computer companies begging you to buy their stuff. For a lot of these people (heck, that may even include me) that is motivation enough.

AND, if you are discreet about it, you can even be privy to potentially very lucrative a lot of state secrets. Or even personal secrets, who knows?. Obviously, if Snowden gave us something, it is the knowledge that NSA is not very good at information compartmentalization...

But here is the kicker: if you ever decide to leave the NSA, for retirement or otherwise, the private sector (at least the US private sector) will greet you with open arms and pay you a sh*tload of money to work as a consultant or senior manager. And we are talking about a SH*TLOAD of money, conflict of interests be damned. You are now one of the big boys, kid, enjoy your (semi-)retirement.

No need to betray US interests, no need to reveal super secret information: you are NSA. You are above the law. Just leave your morals at the door, please.

My dear friend, you do not understand how these things work.

You work at NSA, you are always using the latest, newest, biggest, baddest, sweetest technology ever devised by men. You literally have computer companies begging you to buy their stuff. For a lot of these people (heck, that may even include me) that is motivation enough.

AND, if you are discreet about it, you can even be privy to potentially very lucrative a lot of state secrets. Or even personal secrets, who knows?. Obviously, if Snowden gave us something, it is the knowledge that NSA is not very good at information compartmentalization...

But here is the kicker: if you ever decide to leave the NSA, for retirement or otherwise, the private sector (at least the US private sector) will greet you with open arms and pay you a sh*tload of money to work as a consultant or senior manager. And we are talking about a SH*TLOAD of money, conflict of interests be damned. You are now one of the big boys, kid, enjoy your (semi-)retirement.

No need to betray US interests, no need to reveal super secret information: you are NSA. You are above the law. Just leave your morals at the door, please.

Might as well be an insider trading as the risk / return ratio seems a hell of a lot better.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...