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It's a dead end, Jim.

Already been done. The conservatives had a shitfit when their ads were blocked. http://www.bloomberg.com/polit...

Naturally that was that and this is this and it's totally different when it's their message being blocked by the carriers.

The actual rules are only eight pages. The rest is legal justification if the rules are litigated (go to 1:50 in the video):

Wheeler Interviewed At MWC

Not really. If you knew the debt a lot of countries have because of wind power (e.g. Spain, Germany) to generate a lot less energy than what France generates with nuclear we wouldn't be having this discussion. France also has the cheapest electricity in Europe and that is one big reason why they still have a manufacturing industry in there.

Areva probably is overdimensioned. France has a lot of installed nuclear power capacity. Areva is scaled for maintaining that capacity. But France is reducing the amount of nuclear reactors they have. Also, like the summary said, they have had a lot of issues with EPR construction in Finland and France. As any new project it was bound to have delays and EPR is among the most complex LWR designs in the market.

Most of the cost in nuclear power plants is the loans to build large structures in concrete and steel. The more delayed a project is the more the loan interest starts piling up. Once generation starts the power plant quickly pays for itself.

Okay, but as you well said Judge James Rodney Gilstrap serves at the Marshall division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. But TFA clearly states, the case took place at the Tyler division, which is served by District Judges Leonard Davis and Michael H. Schneider, Sr., both of whom, along with Chief Judge Ron Clark were appointed by George H. W. Bush (not that who appointed a judge at that level has as much significance as it does for Supreme Court Justices).

Here's an idea - how about you do some, I dunno, decent research, before you spout veiled partisan politics.

Greece has untapped oil reserves.

Why the hell would Sony focus on _one_ division that basically sells a dumbed-down crippled PC ?

They already bailed on the PC market last year

Their TV division loses money hand over fist:

Sony, the parent company doesn't stick to selling insurance policies. It sells TVs, too, even though it canâ(TM)t manage to do so profitably. Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai said the company will lose money on its television business for the 10th year in a row, with the red ink for TVs this time amounting to Â¥ 25 billion yen.

And you want them to focus on a shitty under-clocked PC ???

Can we mod article: -1 Clueless Author

Why the hell would Sony focus on _one_ division that basically sells a dumbed-down crippled PC ?

They already bailed on the PC market last year

Their TV division loses money hand over fist:

Sony, the parent company doesn't stick to selling insurance policies. It sells TVs, too, even though it canâ(TM)t manage to do so profitably. Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai said the company will lose money on its television business for the 10th year in a row, with the red ink for TVs this time amounting to Â¥ 25 billion yen.

And you want them to focus on a shitty under-clocked PC ???

Can we mod article: -1 Clueless Author

We're not even over the NSA hard drive hacks and now this?

Next you're gonna tell me Americans shove food up people's ass for freedom. Oh wait they do.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

"hard drive" isn't even mentioned in the summary. You idiots got misdirected.

The focus should be on the fact that all hard drives from major brands can be fucked with by the NSA and there are no solutions, the focus shouldn't be on some fucking hacking group:

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Why don't you stupid American fucks sue the NSA and all the American corporations exposed by Snowden.

You Americans idiots bitch and moan about little adware from others while ignoring the biggest exploits developed by your own people.

Fuck off.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

The NSA bugs all hard drives, there are your END USERS.

Slashdot kept burying the story, while minor Chinese related news gets double exposure.

Obvious NSA American dumb down operation at work.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Come on slashdot, stop deleting the NSA hard drive backdoor news submissions, it's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call this a geek site? Stuff that matters my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Competition is good but if this heats up any more it could come to blows. Maybe a hostile takeover involving assault rifles. It's been done.

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

Who went to jail for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Or this: http://www.justice.gov/crimina...

From 2006 to 2010, the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, the Norte del Valle Cartel in Colombia, and other drug traffickers laundered at least $881 million in illegal narcotics trafficking proceeds through HSBC Bank USA. These traffickers didnâ(TM)t have to try very hard. They would sometimes deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows in HSBC Mexicoâ(TM)s branches.

Or this: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

The 1970 Bank Secrecy Act requires banks to report all cash transactions above $10,000 to regulators and to tell the government about other suspected money-laundering activity. Big banks employ hundreds of investigators and spend millions of dollars on software programs to scour accounts.

When people are depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars via custom boxes that fit teller slots, how the heck are you not responsible especially since laws and regulations require you to report suspected money-laundering activity?

Many people would still be alive today if the banks didn't help drug lords launder billions of dollars. Without the money their armies wouldn't be as well funded or equipped.

Developers are already building solar farms in the Atacama:

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

Not only is it very sunny, it is high altitude and cold. Less air above it means the sunlight is more intense, and solar cells are more efficient when they are cooler. The combination makes it the best place in the world for solar, aside from the fact nobody lives there and you need power lines to the coast, where people actually live.

Wrong. They currently don't even have to pay the interest.

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

They were able to stay in business longer because of cell phones, which hit a peak in the nineties. In fact, their stores that will stay open will be owned by a cell phone carrier and branded as such.

No matter what, they were myopic to their original business model and their employees. Otherwise, they could have been a Digikey or Mouser when it came to components. But I did know that this day was inevitable, if not predicted.

Yeah, I feel that way too... See also my other comment to this story (which links to my Jan 15 comment).
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Or, as it says here:
""This Is Why RadioShack Is in Trouble"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
"Feb. 2 -- Radio Shack is in talks to close half it's stores and convert the other half into Spirit mobile shops. If that happens will anyone even notice? Bloomberg took to the streets of San Francisco to ask potential customers how much they really know about Radio Shack. The lack of knowledge or attachment to the brand illustrates just why Radio Shack is going broke."

I'm still attached to the brand somehow from my memories of the 1970s and early 1980s though, and so I am saddened by this news, but I also felt for decades that the brand is no longer what I remember and so the 1990s-2010s RadioShack is not really *my* RadioShack. Although, since I also went to RS together with my father, if he is not around now, it can't ever be the same in that sense, and my own kid has different interests in any case, sigh.

And of course there are also some bad memories from the 1970s-1980s of the difficulty of actually purchasing anything as they wanted your address and phone and so on for every tiny order; I guess it was a good exercise in eventually learning to say "no thanks" to such requests. :-) But even with that, it was a positive experience overall to have a place to go that somehow seemingly respected the tinkerer and the learner (even if it charged 2X for lesser components that what I later learned you could get mail order -- the cost of having a storefront I guess). Nowadays, makerspaces and online forums may be filling that need more. It's too bad RS could not connect better to that, even though they tried some at the end with Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

Sears faced the same sort of challenge tracking changing needs. With the history of the Sears mail order catalog, one might have expected that Sears should have dominated internet sales, but Sear's web presence was poor, and they lost that emerging space to Amazon. Likewise, one might have expected that, in theory, Radio Shack's online presence could have been what Make Magazine, AdaFruit, and so on became. Or why did RS not make something like the Raspberry Pi? Or the BeagleBone (which is from that group working with *Texas* Instruments)? So, some missed opportunities in leadership (in retrospect, which is easy to say with 20/20 hindsight).

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

The factory will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy, including from a new local solar farm

Presumably that's being done not just for good press for being green but also because of the unreliability of the power grid in the area if what you say is true.

They would probably be better of selling the building to someone else and locating their data center elsewhere, but I suppose they're trying to save face after the whole fiasco involving GT and the sapphire displays.

With modern tech, private toll roads would work even better than they have in the past.

Yeah. It's worked out really well for selling (actually leasing) the Indiana Toll Road. The current owners of the lease filed for bankruptcy last year after operating the road for 8 years. The tolls on the road hadn't increased for 20 years prior to the lease being signed in 2006, but nearly doubled coinciding the beginning of the lease, with yearly guaranteed rate increases every year since. The road's condition is horrible, and one major interchange near Chicago where I80/I-90/I94 intersect has been closed because they don't know what the hell to do with it since they don't have any money.

Privatization rules, since Indiana made $3.8b off of the deal. Except when the private company can't operate what they paid for and live up to their end of the bargain.

Nope they do not prohibit possession of firearms. They are restricted in a number of ways and concealed carry generally is not allowed. That said there are plenty of fully automatic rifles in the hands of criminals and others. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
banning something has little effect on the non law abiding. Look at the speed limits in the US they are designed with the assumption that they will be broken by people going about 7% over the posted limit.

Didn't "go Chernobyl?" Just because the roof didn't blow off the building doesn't mean there hasn't been _severe_ consequences as a result of millions of gallons of sea water being irradiated. It wasn't long before the results of Japan's hubris started washing up on North American shores:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

An estimated 300 metric TONS of contaminated groundwater being spilled straight back into the sea as of 2014:

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

Consumption restrictions on just about every major foodstock:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Sea life being negatively affected, though as Japan still insists on slaughtering whales for "research purposes" (i.e. cutting up a whale, nodding and then selling the meat on the black market):

http://www.naturalnews.com/048...

The bad news goes on, and on, and on...and on. The only part you were right about is Japan's social structure being the problem. Superiors feel themselves kings of their respective industries, subordinates rarely if ever question the orders handed down from up top... As you said, the only reason the fuel rods didn't melt and go straight down the tubes, so to speak, was that the plant manager actually had a sense of morality. Meanwhile the Japanese government continued to play down the severity of the accident, even as the workers that they were sending in to take care of the mess were showing the effects of radiation sickness.

We're not talking university or trade school - we're talking about kids who haven't mastered the basics. And with the continuous dumbing down of grade school and high school education, and university degree inflation as a direct consequence, something's gotta give.

If you're going to go the trade route, programming isn't it. The majority of programmers leave the field by 40. I'm glad my daughters didn't go into it, and in retrospect, I regret that I did.

Not sure who decides, Congress or the FCC through its delegated powers, but as to where the money goes:

"Auction proceeds have allowed [the FCC] to claim that it self-funds its own priorities. About $7 billion from this auction will go to pay for a nationwide emergency communications network, something recommended a decade ago by the 9/11 Commission. The rest will be deposited with the Treasury to help pay off the government’s $13 trillion in public debt."

The purpose of all these regulations Uber and Lyft have been running into isn't safety or liability or anything like that

No, not anything like that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/06/03/uber-driver-with-felony-conviction-charged-with-battery-for-allegedly-hitting-passenger/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-09/uber-driver-charged-in-san-francisco-girl-s-death-in-crosswalk.html
http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-driver-charged-for-bashing-a-passenger-in-the-head-1639711808

Its all a conspiracy by "the man" to keep everyone "inside the box". Not like anyone's been hurt or killed, no nothing like that.

Who would trust them?

First this: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/ed...
(bitcoin trust)

Then this: http://www.investopedia.com/ar...
(bitcoin payment system)

Now this thing... ("regulated" exchange that can't leave the US for an international virtual decentralized currency...)

Perhaps they just didn't get that memo about their relevance having tanked somewhere after they wanted to
renege on their FB settlement and go for a do-over uh-gain:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Their fifteen minutes of fame is up. The harder they try and bring themselves
into relevance the funnier it gets. The bell has rung. Time to get off the stage little boys.

E

That is in fact exactly what the article says. While the profit margin on FiOS is apparently 4.4%, the wireless side had a 23.5% profit margin. While those numbers are heavily encrusted with bullshit, they do show the relative value of the technologies to Verizon.

This will bite them in the ass eventually, if not sooner. Verizon refuses to be price and feature compeditive on wireless. They are coming under pressure from increased wireless competition. The duopoly between Verizon and AT&T isn't such a duopoly anymore- there are lots of wireless players.

I have heard very few complaints from people about the fiber service aside from "it isn't available in my area". It is a lot easier to maintain a monopoly on fiber lines compared to wireless.

This really intrigues me because it never struck me that this could be a mechanism for antibiotic resistance. It is even more interesting to me knowing the first CRE (Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae)

clearly arose in India [source]

but the reasons weren't clear to me and I just naively assumed it was a random mutation. India, also according to to that same paper has quite a problem with antibiotic resistance which one wouldn't expect as there isn't so much of a problem with antibiotic overuse as there seems to be in the West. So, maybe not so random and maybe we have honed in on a legit reason for growing resistance.

The other problem in India and similar places is that the dosage wasn't what the label said. The doctor may have prescribed 500 mg of amoxicillin, and the patient bought capsules in a bottle labeled 500mg amoxicillin, but what was in those capsules was a fraction of the prescribed dosage.

Case in point is Ranbaxy who sold millions of doses of what they knew was non-performing anti-retroviral drugs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...
And more like this:
http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/...
http://fortune.com/2013/01/10/...

The bad part is Ranbaxy only got caught because one of their executives was an American who ratted them out.
Ranbaxy only got into trouble because they tried to sell their crap in the USA, otherwise nothing would have happened to them.
There are numerous other drug companies with the same ethics, but they don't try to sell in the USA or Europe, so they'll never get caught.

Another thing I did not know is that the FDA almost never test drugs for efficacy.
What happens is the drug company does the tests and the FDA looks at the drug companies documentation and procedures and signs off on that. This is why cheaters don't get caught - they are grading their own papers, so to speak.

BTW, Ranbaxy was bought by Sun Pharma, so Who Knows where their drugs are going now.

Perhaps you didn't read the study that the pacific has been absorbing the energy causing the seeming 'hiatus' in rising temps. linky So it's quite plausible that the pacific has been redistributing the heat lower into the ocean columns. Eventually though it stops being able to do that and the atmospheric heating continues...now with a warmer ocean to boot.

It's a complex system and we don't know everything but we continue to study and learn. As opposed to your ilk who just say 'nope, no problems' with no evidence to explain the workings of the system.

Much like claiming a snow storm means the climate isn't warming. It IS warming and has been for decades but because of a single blip in the trend you're ready to throw out decades of factual solid data on temps.

The human race (at our favored levels of population density) has evolved past the point where a natural state of good health can be maintained without access to bulk electricity, which equates to drinkable tap water. This is a greater factor than access to doctors or medicine. We pledge 'aid' to help to help countries around the world but so much of that help is NOT building infrastructure.

What China is doing is building a modern China from scratch in record time. They have the blueprints in hand. They even know that they are making mistakes (eg, coal) but they're focused on the prize. Cuba trades doctors for useful things. China will be able to trade everything for things.

To me it seems our major export these days are Financial Instruments and Financial Middlemen, and the structured debt that arises in their wake. But not to worry, the principal of these loans do not tap your hard-earned taxpayer dollars, many of which go toward repayment of interest on our own national debt. This is magical unicorn money that will come from World Investment Funds and Bank perpetual money machines that are backed by International Corporate Banks that bought shitloads of worthless paper and were bailed out by Bushobama with the Fed minting virtual money that saved the banks' balance sheets from ruin, and Treasury Bonds purchased by the Chinese who have said fuck-it and have decided to decouple and give Africa (for example) their time and especially their money directly, some of which would ultimately come from us as repayment on debt to China with China becoming Africa's direct partner in infrastructure instead. This does not make sense on so many levels.

The United States has shown the world what it means to have access to so much energy and surplus income: property, personal transportation, washing machines, treated water and sewage, road trips, stocked supermarkets.

And yet, nothing presently "made in America" could prevent its decline. Not only have most of its factories closed, the basic blueprint for every consumer item and industrial process which supports the modern lifestyle is shared throughout the world. This is a done deal.

For a price --- China is now fully equipped to build an 'America' anywhere in the world it chooses. From surveying to road building to farm machinery to industrial process and infrastructure, electricity plants and grids, telecommunications, water distribution and treatment. Everything from rivets to houses, the mailbox, the picket fence and the white paint. Everything.

And why wouldn't they? They have begun taking steps to decouple their economy from our own [bloomberg.com]. At this point in time the US cannot afford to be parlaying with Malthusian governance artists who seize on theories of environmental catastrophe and leverage 'affluence guilt' to tax everyone (YOU first). The ONLY thing that can save us is to do something extraordinary, something that changes the game. Something made in America (first) that changes the world.

Such as some form of base load energy that is cheaper than coal.
At this point anything else the United States could offer the world, or China, is worth less than a fart in a high wind.

And if he did go you'd complain that he wasnt somewhere else putting out some other fire.
That's how the game works: the President has a million things to do on any given day, so no matter what he does, you have 999,999 other things to blame him for not doing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/polit...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Let’s dispense with this specific question with no more than the attention it deserves: It would have been all but insane for President Obama to participate in a march, in public, in a foreign country, with a couple million people around him. The security requirements necessary to protect him make it impossible. The Secret Service has to do an extraordinary amount of work and planning for him to drop by Ben’s Chili Bowl a mile from the White House; the idea that with a couple of days notice he could walk through the streets of Paris in an enormous throng of people is absurd.

There was also an attempted NAACP bombing, but no one cares about that.
there was also 2000 killed in Nigeria, but no one cares about that either.
We're presently in tremendously important trade talks with India, but that's also not important.

At least unless Obama had gone to France, in which case you would be blaming him for:
a) ignoring terrorism within our won country
b) ignoring terrorism in Africa
c) ignoring the needs of our economy by leaving a valueable trade partner in the middle of talks

$137 billion. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

“Healthy investment in clean energy may surprise some commentators, who have been predicting trouble for renewables as a result of the oil price collapse,” said Michael Liebreich, chairman of the advisory board of the London-based researcher. “Our answer is that 2014 was too early to see any noticeable effect on investment. The impact of cheaper crude will be felt much more in road transport than in electricity generation.”

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

Rgds

Damon

Well, the price quoted for tuition is $3800/year per student. Tack on a stipulation that anyone in the program cannot receive welfare or unemployment (which cost the government substantially more than $3800/year per recipient) and see if any jobs do open up -- that is, see if this does remove some people from the workforce and replace them with the currently unemployed. Supplement the difference with cuts to defense spending.

That, or just cancel the Littoral Combat Ships that still aren't survivable in combat and call it a day.

First lets go back and look at the original premise.

easy and fast access to medical information often trumps security."

I think you can have both.

The hospital I worked at had a book at the nurses desk with all the orders for each patient from the doctor, as well as the drugs, whatever set up you're talking about about has nothing to do with security or the system, it has to do with human error as you would never rely solely on an electronic system in a hospital, if they are they are batshit crazy.

So to take the example given.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

That is a one off, not a system wide thing, just read it and see they use the words "may have" quite a bit.
This:

No, it's not, at least for inpatients. Some hospitals require that all orders be entered electronically unless the entire system is down. Try getting a verbal or handwritten order entered at the VA, even in the midst of a crisis. Even if you're not physically in the hospital.

Has nothing to do with what we were talking about.

I wrote all this out once and it's gone now, I sure hope it was a submission error on my part, hate to think someone deleted a post.

Ok, so how was it unlikely that NK did the hack?

Technical fingerprints: the tools used in the hack were not unique to NK and the hackers' "C&C infrastructure" was public proxies. This renders worthless all of the FBI's proof against NK since it was based on no one else having these tools or IPs.

More technical fingerprints: Sony has been hacked by everyone for years. It can be assumed that multiple hacker groups were inside Sony at any time, and any one of them could have been the one to take over Sony's network and destroy their data.

Motive: One of the GOP hackers has been identified as a Sony sysadmin who said their motivation was equality. Sony had been caught paying a newly hired male executive $1 million more than a woman with the same job title a few months before that sysadmin lost their job at Sony. The stuff about North Korea came after the equality claim, after the media raised it as a possibility.

> Whereas most people in slashdot are brainwashed and gullible morons that would rather invest in the most useless and most expensive form of energy generation: photovoltaics.

I guess you think Warren Buffet is a moronic investor too:

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

And between Exxon and Google, guess which one has a private jumbo jet for its executives...

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

Exxon has at least 4 $50M Global Express and 4 $20M Challenger 500 jets.

The difference, of course, is that Google doesn't own their jets, they are owned by a separate LLC started by the founders that use the jets.

Part of it might have been that. Part of it might have been that it could have been more expensive to tear down and scrap what was built than to complete it and hope you could put it to some use. A big part, however, was the Republican senators from Mississippi who insisted that it be completed because it's such an important rocket testing center. (Read: This pork flows to our area and so it is important. The pork that flows elsewhere is the evil stuff that needs to be cut.)

In other words, Congress/the President make NASA cancel a rocket program for going over-budget. NASA says "Ok, then we'll stop building this testing facility that was related to this program." Congress says "No, you need to complete and maintain that" so NASA does so. Then NASA is lambasted for doing this because it reeks of wasteful spending. NASA isn't the one wasting money here. (Not saying they are perfect, of course, but this instance the blame doesn't rest on their shoulders.)

According to this study --> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...

The growth in childhood debilitating disease is overwhelmingly due to obesity, asthma, and ADHD. The last of which was only in the past decades recognized as an actual condition. Asthma is related to obesity, and obesity is related to kids not being as active as they once were, perhaps because sending your kid out to play can get you arrested and your child taken away from you.

"Some virologists suggest the virus may eventually become "almost harmless" as it continues to evolve"

It would be harmless if the virus did not encode for a homologue of the human lipid peroxidase inhibitor glutathione peroxidase. See Keshen's disease (China).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

What they say might be happening but what *also* would explain that (and they did not check, a simple serum selenium test would differentiate) is:

Bloomberg news 2013:
"... selenium for two years were able to delay their need for antiretroviral therapies by about half compared with those given a placebo, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study followed 878 HIV-infected adults from Botswana, a nation with one of the highest rates of infection of the AIDS virus."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

(they need to read Fosters papers, B, C and E boost the immune system but it's Tryptophan, Glutamine and Cysteine that the virus encodes for and strips from the body)

Summary:
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Aidsan...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Watch these -
Theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Case study:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then read his (free) book:
http://www.soilandhealth.org/0...
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/cont...

See also:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/...
http://aras.ab.ca/articles/rfw...
http://www.fosterhealth.ca/nut...

Also:
1. Foster HD. How HIV-1 causes AIDS: Implications for prevention and treatment," Medical Hypotheses, Vol. 62(4), p 549-553, 2004.

2. Foster HD. What really causes AIDS. Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2002. Free download at www.hdfoster.com .

For further reading:

"HIV/AIDS: a nutrient deficiency disease," Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, 2005, Vol. 20(2), p 67-69.
Environmental factors and the pathogenesis of selenium-CD-4 cell tailspin in AIDS. Chinese Journal of AIDS and STD, Vol. 10(5), p 390-392,402 2004.

AIDS and the selenium-CD4T cell tailspin," World Journal of Infection, Vol. 3(6), p 456-459, 2003.
Micronutrients in pathogenesis and treatment of AIDS," Foreign Medical Sciences: Section of Medgeography, Vol. 24(2), p 49-53, 2003.

Why HIV-1 has diffused so much more rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa than in North America. Medical Hypotheses, Vol. 60(4), p 611-614, 2003.

"How HIV-1 kills: Implications for the treatment and prevention of AIDS. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, No. 255, p 76-78, 2002.

"Aids and the 'selenium - CD4T cell tailspin': the geography of a pandemic," Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, No. 209, p 94-99, 2000.

And if your country has oil, keep quiet about it or the US will come free the shit out of you.

The US is the world's biggest oil producer nowadays. Getting Iraq's oil back then — which anti-Americans like yourself keep alluding to — would've been far simpler by simply lifting the embargo, not go to war. Oil is much cheaper than blood — both to humans and the "evil KKKorporations"... Venezuela — not anyone from the Middle East — used to be our main foreign oil supplier, but we neither attacked it nor planned to, even though its leaders kept talking up the threat of "American invasion" to justify their own failures.

Will this stupid meme ever die? Not as long as Kremlin propagandists keep pushing it, I suppose... Meanwhile, Russia itself is busy sabotaging — and even invading — anybody with gas deposits, that might compete with Gazprom. Putin much?

What you are looking for is the ProCap: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Not quite, It is more Apple ruined them by promising to buy their product and then not following through after they had already heavily invested in meeting the supply for that promise. regardless they need to accept responsibility for entering into such a lopsided agreement. You make stupid decisions and stupid things happen. Why would you trust any company in this way, especially apple.

Well, the other problem was the sapphire wasn't of sufficient quality. Apple's contract said they'd buy it if it was of a certain quality and it failed to meet the bar.

And while lopsided, Apple did lend over $1B as part of the contract to build the factory and merely demanded repayment on a schedule.

Now, Apple is claiming innocence to the fact that they didn't know of the troubles - saying if they knew they would've worked with GTAT to fix issues. Whether it's true or not, we don't know.

Apple bears part of the blame for coming up with the lopsided agreement in the first place. That's not to detract from the blame GT deserves for signing.

Well, Apple has lawyers draw up the contract. GTAT has lawyers to review the contract. It's not Apple presenting a contract to a 1-man shop - it's an organization that's been around and has the resources to scrutinize and negotiate. If GTAT only saw dollar signs when they were handed the contract and didn't review it closely, that's their fault. This isn't a big supplier going after a lone inventor (who may be given leeway for not completely understanding the deal).

Interestingly, Apple is keeping the plant and planning on re-hiring laid off workers. GTAT will be selling off the furnaces but Apple paid ofr the factory and is keeping it to manufacture... something.

The Republicans could put a Ham Sandwhich against Hillary and win.

Not real sure where you are getting this. Any data I can find shows it exactly wrong. Right now, polling is showing Hillary beating any Republican put up against her. The one that does best is Romney, and the one they tried that does worst in Rand Paul. Its been this way for months, if not years.