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...says company that makes robots for assembly lines.

What's next, an article by Wall Street about how regulation is not needed in the banking industry?

If there is an article like that, the mainstream corporate mass media will simply read the press release, being careful not to accidentally question any of the information, motives, or blatant conflicts of interest of anyone involved. In the same manner they can read another press release from a competing Wall Street firm so they can reassure you about how "balanced" their coverage is.

You know, the same way they treat everything the government says and does. Just substitute "party" for "firm".

...says company that makes robots for assembly lines.

What's next, an article by Wall Street about how regulation is not needed in the banking industry?

It was so sad and funny at the same time - during the London Olympics open ceremony, while they were riding bicycles around heaping praise on their awesome National Health Service, General Electric ran a commercial about how they'd donated a bunch of neonatal incubators to a hospital in London because the NHS couldn't afford it!

Awesome health care, indeed.

If you think hospital wings in the US aren't stocked via philanthropy you would be pretty fucking wrong. Hospitals in the US (mostly) operate as nonprofits, so that they can ridiculously compensate all involved while jacking rates up exponentially year after year, and seek out donations from guilt-ridden capitalists. And the infant mortality numbers that were "Behind the average" at that hospital? They still beat the mortality numbers in the US, quite handily.

It was so sad and funny at the same time - during the London Olympics open ceremony, while they were riding bicycles around heaping praise on their awesome National Health Service, General Electric ran a commercial about how they'd donated a bunch of neonatal incubators to a hospital in London because the NHS couldn't afford it!

Awesome health care, indeed.

Not quite 'sickness', but my aunt lives on the side of a large hill overlooking a pretty valley... Her balcony used to be a nice place to sit and relax. Now her down-hill neighbor (approximately 2km away) has a wind turbine in his yard and the low frequency periodic noise from it has transformed her balcony into an annoying place to be and she can no longer sleep with the windows open. She's not claiming sickness, she's merely claiming annoyance..

Okay so let's say that from right up in front of the thing you experience 105 dB of sound. Now let's use some basic math to compute what 105 dB at 0.5 meters away sounds like when you're 2,000 meters away. 32.958 dB should be the intense ear splitting result at the balcony. Does your neighbor have some super noisy form of wind turbine or does your aunt go insane inside a kitchen when the refrigerator is running? Does she have to turn her air conditioning and refrigerator off in order to sleep? Because according to every resource out there, physics put that noise at sub 40 dB. Even if we bump it up to rock concert levels (120 dB) it should be 48 dB at 2 km and that's about as loud as an AC unit.

Now, how loud is acceptable at the edge of someone's property before you think the authorities should be involved? And think carefully about people who like to use air condition/compressors, mow their lawns, have yard parties with music, drive motorcycles and do any good patriotic non-save-the-rainforest stuff before you answer.

Fair enough. I'm sure that people have done the math from every angle. Still, even with the high capital costs, seems like there would be some people out there sensing a business opportunity. For instance, this or this.

That's funny - during the opening ceremony, while your country was extolling the virtues of your NHS to the world, the US broadcaster aired a commercial (advert) that described how some hospital in the UK desperately needed a bunch of hi-tech baby incubators and how GE donated them.

Why would that be, pray tell?

This looks rather like one of the 'Minutemen' group photos from 'Watchmen':

http://files.gereports.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/CopperMan1.jpg

...and bite my shiny metal ass!

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"It's not a building, it's a falsework designed to hide the building. Big difference."

Citation needed. Everything I've seen suggests the structures damaged in the explosions were the top parts of the building housing the reactors. These are not the secondary containment (the thick concrete "drywell" surrounding the reactor pressure vessel) but they very much are buildings. In particular, they cover the storage pools holding the spent fuel.

http://www.gereports.com/how-it-works-white-paper-on-mark-i-containment/

http://www.gereports.com/setting-the-record-straight-ge-and-taxes/

- GE paid almost $2.7 billion in cash taxes in 2010 on a consolidated basis (almost 19% of pretax income from continuing operations).

Link to actual project at General Electric, including access to the Edison audio.

http://www.gereports.com/edison-speaks-cracking-the-pallophotophone-code/