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how they are no longer permitted to enjoy hugely popular streaming services from Tencent and Baidu ??

Hey dude, can't you see the irony?

Great Point.. This is how we are being so played. One batch pits Red vs Blue with Social media. the other boasts that it wants to ascend to world leadership. US has its own leader running (ruining?) his country pushing his Wall (ego .. a personal tribute to his presidency) instead of jobs and middle class. Coal Miners? Lets look at that . https://www.politifact.com/tru... ... Here is what we hear internationally: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politi... ,.. How to get US back on track?

The Japanese space agency's budget ... is far less than that of NASA, Roscosmos and the ESA. This mission is a remarkably ambitious example of doing more with less.

Considering what their relatively puny budget, Japan's space program is arguably the most advanced in the world.

They tried all sorts of new stuffs, such as this one:
A low cost version of the rocket which can be quickly assembled, with off-the-shelf parts commonly used by many other electronic industries

While the above rocket ended as a failure, it does illustrate the Japan's willingness to 'think outside of the box' - which, unfortunately, has been critically lacking in NASA and other space agencies, from Russia to India to Europe to China.

other companies have already engineered their cars, built battery plants

A list of car companies with their battery plants would be nice if you're making such claims.

Like this Or this Or this Or this

And keep in mind those articles are a couple of years old. The other car companies just don't blab and have publicists that inflate their CEO's and company's reputation like Musk does.

Tesla fanboys live in a bubble and know nothing of the auto-industry or its trends. They believe all the hype and Musk's bullshit.

Google and Apple have the funds to build a new car line. So far, nothing out of either of them.

Why should they? The automotive industry is all about MASSIVE volume (millions of cars a year, not 100,000) because the margins are so low, making 6.2% net is the high bar. It takes literally tens of billions of dollars of investment and decades of building up a supply base and industrial capacity to, at the end of it, hopefully make 6 bucks on every 100 dollars of revenue - provided you can sell more than a few hundred thousand vehicles a year.

...a good product is one that sells...

The rumblings about iPhoneX are getting stronger...

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Samsung to slash OLED panel output as iPhone X slumps

https://asia.nikkei.com/Busine...

..."Samsung Display now plans to manufacture organic light-emitting diode panels for 20 million or fewer iPhones at the South Chungcheong site in the January-March quarter. The initial goal was to supply panels for 45 million to 50 million iPhones," the FT owner's Asian biz news service reports....

Full overview here.

Bitcoin is classify as money in: - Europe (Except France) http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/up... - Japan http://asia.nikkei.com/Politic... - Mexico https://sppld.sat.gob.mx/pld/i... - Afghanistan http://www.coindesk.com/how-bi... - Czech Republic http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/e... - South Africa http://www.treasury.gov.za/com... I don' have links but I heard it's also consided a currency in - Russia, Switzerland and Nigera

The high levels are inside the containment.

In other words Yes folks, the fuel is indeed outside of the reactor core.

Let's, for a moment, consider what words were spoken inside the TEPCO media relations meeting;

• Engineering: Well the robots have indeed discovered evidence of fuel outside of the reactor.
• Media Relations: how can you be sure it's outside the reactor?
• E: Because we found an area where fuel shouldn't be, a grating melted all the way through and the ES1000 started malfunctioning because the radiation levels were so high. We had to abort before it got stuck in the containment building.
• M: Containment Building?
• E:Yes, were not sure how much containment was destroyed, but the evidence suggests we are close to locating a section of the melted core.
• M:Then all we have to do is reassure people it's in the containment. Susan get me some overalls, we need to do a press conference!
• E :-O
• M: turning back to E oh, great work, robot broke down - we'll run with that...

This is exactly the kind of slimy trick the Nuclear Industry PR would use to downplay evidence of fuel being outside of the reactor, maybe I've been napping however I've not seen the headline Evidence of Nuclear Fuel Found outside of Fukushima Reactor Core anywhere. I'm just supposed to be comfortable that it's inside the containment as if it's no big deal that it didn't melt *INSIDE* the reactor where it should be.

Why yes it is.

M: Susan, make sure the by-story runs that it is *inside* the containment, we need to make sure the fans have a counter argument. People, we're running with the robot broken down story and that we think it might have kinda possibly run into a tad bit of radio stuff,, we have to get on top of this before the mainstream get a hold of the news. Susan, where are those overalls!

to calm y'all down even further

This article from the Japanese daily contains the video feed from the robot. Above the hole you can see the base of the reactor pressure vessel. Your statement seems a trite summation considering the evidence discovered.

It's perfectly reasonable to be angry about the incompetence that led to this disaster, what's weird is trying to say it's no big deal. The international community who shares the coasts of the pacific ocean will suffer the consequences of this over a very long time. This is what a big deal is.

I don't see any justification for supporters of nuclear energy to play the same morally superior dogmatically skeptic attitude they have had over the last decade anymore, this is an INES7 scale accident. Information is available now, and people can read so what need is less downplaying so we can figure out the nature of the mess the nuclear industry has left us and where these 3 cores are.

Evidence of reactor fuel found outside of the Fukushima reactor is the information and the nuclear industry is very carefully avoiding any further criticism.

I also noticed this when I was in HK. But really it probably has less to do with prestige and more the fact that you can buy it for half of its pricetag with guaranteed buyback of up to 75%. That's a crazy good deal.

JR will finance this through earnings from their Shinkansen lines.

You mean they *had* plans to it in breeder reactors.
Japan's fast breeder plan has been more or less mothballed after the failure of Monju and Fukushima out cry:
http://asia.nikkei.com/Politic...

57 microSv/hr hotspot in Kashiwa.

I heard there some empty flats in Ramsar and Guarapari.

Alright, why not advise that he BORROWS one from an organization then? Like from Safecast?

And what misunderstanding? Maybe he has a kid that likes to play and eat mud and he noticed the 57 microSv/hr hotspot in Kashiwa. Who knows wtf is going on around Tokyo, but woudn't a legitimate geek response be to scientifically test the area, just in case? Your response is either non-geek like (for a geek site) and/or just playing "nothing to see here, folks" shill-speak.

I suggest to read the comments on Ars Technica - and even better follow all the link the said Newspaper:

http://www.nikkeieu.com/index_e.asp

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20100409D09EE596.htm

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20100409D09EE593.htm

http://www.nikkei.com//news/headline/related-article/g=96958A9C9381959FE2EAE2E7E28DE2EAE2E6E0E2E3E2E2E2E2E2E2E2;bm=96958A9C9381959FE2EBE2E6938DE2EBE2E6E0E2E3E29494E0E2E2E2

For me this sounds like a sure way to get lots of those "illegal" inbound links very fast.

I suggest to read the comments on Ars Technica - and even better follow all the link the said Newspaper:

http://www.nikkeieu.com/index_e.asp

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20100409D09EE596.htm

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20100409D09EE593.htm

http://www.nikkei.com//news/headline/related-article/g=96958A9C9381959FE2EAE2E7E28DE2EAE2E6E0E2E3E2E2E2E2E2E2E2;bm=96958A9C9381959FE2EBE2E6938DE2EBE2E6E0E2E3E29494E0E2E2E2

For me this sounds like a sure way to get lots of those "illegal" inbound links very fast.

I suggest to read the comments on Ars Technica - and even better follow all the link the said Newspaper:

http://www.nikkeieu.com/index_e.asp

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20100409D09EE596.htm

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20100409D09EE593.htm

http://www.nikkei.com//news/headline/related-article/g=96958A9C9381959FE2EAE2E7E28DE2EAE2E6E0E2E3E2E2E2E2E2E2E2;bm=96958A9C9381959FE2EBE2E6938DE2EBE2E6E0E2E3E29494E0E2E2E2

For me this sounds like a sure way to get lots of those "illegal" inbound links very fast.