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Correct which is why India will no longer receive aid in the amounts it was once given.

The US spent a lot on color revolution efforts over the years and really wants to see some payback

Russia has spent a lot on separatism efforts in many countries after the Soviet Union, centered in Russia, had previously shipped ethnic Russians to live in many occupied countries, often after engaging in various flavors of ethnic cleansing or other mass killings. We can expect more "protection" to be needed by those Russian in years to come, and Russian aggression and occupation of those countries will always be a danger under the current Russian government.

US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (26 November 2004)
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

There is a great deal that the account you reference leaves out, including government election fraud and thuggery. Lets add some more background.

Ukraine's Orange Revolution

The US really wants NATO up against Russia (encirclement, containment) - like the Soviet Union used Cuba.

Having regained its independence after a long, bitter period of foreign rule, Ukraine really, really wants to remain independent with its territory intact. By itself against Russia it is unlikely to do so given Russia's history and power, as we are seeing demonstrated now, and previously in Georgia.

You may recall that the Ukrainians have plenty of motivation to be free of Russia since a special word is used for the crime against humanity inflicted upon them by the Soviet Union, the heart of which was Russia: Holodomo. The Ukrainian terror famine killed perhaps as many as 10,000,000 people as the police, secret police, and army were used to confiscate food and prevent people from leaving.

The Soviet Story - trailer
The Great Famine

The Soviet Union had to be contained, Russia didn't ..... or are we seeing now that it does?

Your example in the first paragraph isn't really applicable: imagine if the majority of Iraq's population were Americans... completely different context.

lol.. not really applicable? The first gulf war didn't end, there was a cease fire with conditions that were not met to the satisfaction of parties to the war. You are correct it is not applicable to Russia invading Crimea which is why it isn't a precedence.

Also, keep in mind that the USA had several opportunities to resolve the WMD inspection problem (like allowing the EU to chose the inspectors) but they always chose the escalating "my way or the highway" option.

And the sanctions against Iraq would have been effective if France, Russia, and China hadn't scammed the UN oil for food program to get cheap oil in violation of sanctions they voted to put in place. OF course this wouldn't have been possible without the corruption in the UN also, Kofi Annan and his family made out pretty well on it too.

The only thing about the Iraq invasion that can be legitimately traced to oil is the strong opposition by the countries and people extorting Iraq for their oil before the invasion.

Just look at who controls all of Iraq's oil exports right now.

You mean China? After the US invasion, the UN still tightly controlled Iraqi oil and over the years released larger amounts to the control of the Iraqi government until finally, they lifted the restrictions on it. If you are going to imply the US controls it or at some time controlled it, you have absolutely no fact based evidence of such happenings. China moved in as soon as the oil became available and is purchasing the vast majority of it. The best you can do is somehow conflate a situation in which the US benefits and planned on benefiting from other countries buying up the Iraqi oil.

I'm sorry but your worldview on the subject simply does not match reality much.

What if the gold-plated ones actually sounded much better because they were better made, and more expensive, and didn't rust sitting on the warehouse shelves. What if they also didn't destroy as much groundwater in the making and the workers we're happer and better treated?
The gold/organic doesn't matter, it just makes things easier to find.

If we all demanded organic Orange Juice from Florida, the reduction in fertilizer alone could solve a lot of problems:
 
    https://www.fit.edu/research/p...
http://unclematts.com/dev/conv...
  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...

That's just orange juice, in one state. There are thousands of examples.

It often tastes better too, which is a bonus.

I disagree. In my opinion, the IP issues are merely an attempt to move the goalpost, so that anti-science becomes the much more reasonable anti-corporation. For example, the Honeycrisp apple used to be patented. The patent expired, but in that time the breeding program was able to recoup their costs and make enough to develop new varieties, such as the fabulous SnowSweet. Who complained? No one, that's who, because the system worked, and GMOs weren't involved. Now Monsanto patents a variety of soy, which I might remind you goes off patent before the end of this year, uses that money to produce new things like DroughtGard, a drought tolerant corn (assuming that works, independent data not yet in), and that's bad? They have a monopoly you say? Tell that to BASF, Syngenta, Dow Agrosciences, Pioneer, Bayer Cropscience, Vilmorin, and all the other small seed companies. Of course, given that less that 2% of the population is actively connected to agriculture, are you really surprised that we don't have a huge number of companies? Hell, everyone owns computers and there's really only two major companies selling operating systems so I'd say the seed world is doing pretty damned good.

I'm tired of defending them (if I was into that I could easily be working for them and be living much nicer than I do now), but I wish people would stop with the bullshit about them. Plant patents are good. Sorry, you might not agree that the people improving the plants that help make your lifestyle possible deserve to make a living themselves, but they do. You think plant breeding is easy? You think genetic engineering is simple? It isn't! Ever had a pluot? Ever had a really nice watermelon or ear of sweet corn? Years of someone's dedicated effort went into that. You want to attack Monsanto? Fine, whatever, go ahead, but try to stick to the real and the rational.

I want them labeled because I don't want a dime of my money to go to Monsanto.

Great, now Syngenta's GMO sweet corn is labeled and Monsanto's non-GMO broccoli is not. You do realize the topic is more complicated they you're presenting it yes?

I want Monsanto to die because of their patent policy,

You mean the ones anti-GMO groups routinely lie about? The one where no farmer has ever been sued for accidental cross pollination despite the lies to the contrary? The one that has allowed them to recoup losses to reinvest in new projects like Vistive Gold soybeans and DroughtGard corn, the exact thing patent laws are supposed to do? The one that basically all plant breeders use to fund themselves without controversy (you think your non-GMO crops are not patented? Think again). The one where their first GE soy goes off patent this year? What exactly do you find wrong with it?

It's an informed consumer issue, nothing more.

I want textbooks to be labeled as identifying evolution as just a theory. It's true, you know. Evolution is just a theory, disagree with that? Then why not label it, just for information's sake? Or, do you think that selectively deciding what gets labeled and what does not is a deceptive and biased lie by omission? Most people have no idea what goes into their food, what things breeders do, and you want to irrationally single out one aspect, one that is the easiest to identify (corn, soy, cotton, canola, alfalfa, sugar beet, summer squash, and papaya are the only species that are GE) and call that informative? Instead of spreading education the pro-labeling people just want a label that says nothing other than how a crop was improved, completely ignoring the nature of the modification and rational behind it. In other words, a label that contains no information. I tell you I modified my computer; tell me exactly what I did to it. Can you do that? If not, my statement was not informative, was is? That pro-labeling people push for something that is the target of fearmongering, that you know damned well will be taken to be a bad thing if singled out, without attempting to inform or educate or give context should tell you something.

That's incorrect.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/business/global/quebecs-rules-on-signs-not-in-french-lead-to-lawsuit.html

I think the graphic on the NYT showing the enrollment of both genders is informative:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepa...

I wasn't in the field in 82, so don't know much about that time, but interest from both genders spiked around the dot com bubble, which from my experience correlated to more folks who were less interested in Computer Science and more interested in the anticipated salaries. I do think there are more few factors at play, but the respective spikes seem more like aberrations than norms.

I apologize if you have already hit your NY Times limit for the month, but here's a pretty decent article describing the features in non-geek terms.

In case you did hit your paywall limit, here's the relevant text:

It begins with technology that is de rigueur on most luxury cars: Radar adaptive cruise control lets the Infiniti regulate its speed, even in stop-and-go traffic, with no need to touch the gas or brake pedals. But the radar tracks not just the car ahead, but the one ahead of that, providing more time to warn drivers and make smart decisions during chain-reaction stops.

  More autonomy groundwork is laid with the optional Direct Adaptive Steering: The world’s first steer-by-wire system in a production car eliminates any physical link between the steering wheel and the turning wheels. It’s all done electronically, with three separate controllers for fail-safe redundancy. If all else fails, a clutch re-connects the mechanical steering column to restore physical control.

You can see where this is headed. Another option, Active Lane Control, links lane-keeping cameras with electronic steering that subtly turns the steering wheel (drivers can adjust the level of assistance) to center the car in its lane and adjust for crosswinds and pavement.

With the Q50 managing its own speed and adjusting course, I could sit back and simply watch, even on mildly curving highways, for three or more miles at a stretch.

Drivers can also toggle up standard or customized settings for power assist and steering ratio, the latter making sharper turns for a given amount of steering input.

Here in CT we're still getting our electricity from the Filthy Five power plants http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07... which were exempt from the Clean Air Act in 1977 because they would be shut down for obsolescence "soon". There isn't a car on the road whose exhaust is worse than these babies.
On the other hand, some western location that gets power from Grand Coulee Dam...

Nice analogy... if you want a real world example of this happening, consider the storage facilities for fine wine in Manhattan-- flooded during hurricane Sandy
For (largely unexplained) reasons the storage facilities still won't allow the customers access to (or even look at) the wine they're supposedly storing...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12...

If there is one piece you must include, it is this. Asimov imagined 2014 in 1964, and he wasn't far off with some of his ideas.

While I'll be happy to admit that there are indeed a few people who actually benefit from a Leaf, the broader issue is that very few people actually do, most gain nothing from it, even those who fit "the profile" of an electric car driver.

There's not much of a profile of an electric driver. If you live in a city like mine, you just go about your business like normal, except you never stop at a gas station, ever, because your car gets charged at home, at the store, at the movies, pretty much wherever you go, with the added benefit of good parking spaces :)

You bring up the garage issue, that is actually a good one. Those who think electric cars will "take over" from gas cars in 10-20 years are completely missing the problem of where to park and charge at home. Only a fraction of car owners in this price range have a garage.

Leaf owners have been charging in carports for a while now, and it's not hard. It's just shared parking where there's no assigned spots, etc. where you've got a problem. Also, as electrics increase, chargers will increase. It's a simple, inexpensive amenity to add to communal areas.

You bring up the "It's environmentally friendly" point. Is it? Really?

Yes. It is. In short, in the worst of states, again, like Oklahoma or Kansas, you polute like a 40mpg car, and there aren't a lot of those -- you're at least competing with the very best gas cars. In the pacific northwest, you'd have to get nearly 70mpg to beat an electric in terms of pollution. ...and this DOES account for battery overhead. This NYT map is a little optimistic, but it's a good representation of where power is cleaner.
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

If the Leaf were $5K LESS to buy than the Civic, then you'd have something, a real arguement for why it makes sense to take the chance, but it doesn't, it costs more and "maybe" saves some money in fuel costs.

It doesn't cost more to lease, and that's per month - on a very simple timeline with guaranteed maintenance and obvious costs with a very low mileage estimate. No maybe. No risk. Just pay less money each month to drive a car. You can't still be denying that, can you?

It's the same basic problem with any website that tries to force it's "neat new features" on users. Youtube and googleplus is a similar thing. When google plus inevitably fails(and it will), they're going to have to go through an elaborate shutdown process that impinges on all the other google services people use.

Google's not going to shut down Google+. In fact, Google+ is central to their business. Google has admitted the main reason for G+ is to collect more user information. Given the unified privacy policy, the fact that Google can now track you through your use of its various products adds a ton of valuable information. And even if you don't "use" a G+ account, your use through YouTube etc, and those G+ buttons is monitored.

So no, G+ is NOT going to go away, because it's central to Google's business. Google even admits that while some people find it creepy, as long as they remain "good", they can get away with a ton of things.

...carried out beheadings in this century?

How many synagogues did they burn?

How many honor killings did they carry out?

Definatly not true.

Really? The trend has been downward for a number of years for everyone below the age of 55, a much as 59% for teens. For those older than 55 there is an upward trend, but overall the trend is down. http://www.bostonglobe.com/bus... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12... http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/...

I would rather that a huge corporation like Google buy/rent an *existing* corporate campus, instead of building a brand new one. Isn't that far more ecologically sound?

Google did that. The Googleplex was originally Silicon Graphics.

Last I checked, there is no large corporate campus vacant and available in San Francisco. (There's not a lot of vacant land to build a new one either).

There might be. Twitter found a large building to lease in the middle of downtown. The current mayor is extremely business-friendly compared to previous administrations, when companies like Adobe were fleeing to the suburbs.

Phil Gram repealed the law by himself? He was able to override Clinton's veto without any help? Whats that, there was a vote in Congress AND Bill Clinton signed it. So you are trashing a single person to promote a pro-government agenda.

Let me help you out more...
Story where George Bush proposed regulating Fannie Mae to prevent future massive losses by banks which caused the 2008 recession. You will notice at the end where Barney Frank-D said there is no problem and Bush is trying to regulate what doesn't need to be.

So while you try and make an anti-Republican, pro-government rant, the TRUTH is quite the opposite. It appears a DEMOCRAT president signed on repealing that law, and then DEMOCRATS in the Senate refused to regulate the bad behavior of the banks.

Thanks for lying to everyone and hope you enjoyed being called out as a partisan lying shill for democrats.

This caused at least on death: a worker who was torquing a bolt while building the first Saturn car factory snapped the head off a bolt and fell to his death.

While still a bad thing, this should never have happened. He should have been wearing redundant safety gear so that no matter what failed, he would have been safe.

While your point is still valid, it is hardly the only case where it is possible for a counterfeit high tensile bolt to cause a fatality.
It doesn't take much imagination to think of a problem.

Or were you under some deluded impression that private sector is some magical saviour, with a ward against all things that could possibly be bad or go wrong?

You have accurately summarized the American right-wing faith in a nutshell.

The amount of mental gymnastics you must have had to perform to reach that conclusion based on the comment you referred to is astonishing and takes a special kind of stupid to achieve.

I'm glad you appreciate the hard work, effort and (most of all) money that the Koch brothers have put in to advancing the cause of stupidity for the 21st century. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02...

Not really, no. Our system costs twice as much for less effective medicine.

I agree that Obamacare (AKA Romneycare) isn't really the answer but the GOP wouldn't allow an actual comprehensive system to get through the House.

Here's a citation from the peer-reviewed literature that supports your claim.

It's important to realize that when we say that Canada and other health care systems cost half as much as ours with about the same outcomes, that's not an ideological slogan like the Republicans use, but we have science-based facts to back it up.

http://www.openmedicine.ca/art...
Open Medicine, Vol 1, No 1 (2007)
Vol 1, No 1 (2007) > Guyatt
A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States

Methods: We identified studies comparing health outcomes of patients in Canada and the United States by searching multiple bibliographic databases and resources. We masked study results before determining study eligibility. We abstracted study characteristics, including methodological quality and generalizability.

Results: We identified 38 studies comparing populations of patients in Canada and the United States. Studies addressed diverse problems, including cancer, coronary artery disease, chronic medical illnesses and surgical procedures. Of 10 studies that included extensive statistical adjustment and enrolled broad populations, 5 favoured Canada, 2 favoured the United States, and 3 showed equivalent or mixed results. Of 28 studies that failed one of these criteria, 9 favoured Canada, 3 favoured the United States, and 16 showed equivalent or mixed results. Overall, results for mortality favoured Canada (relative risk 0.95, 95% confidence interval 0.92–0.98, p = 0.002) but were very heterogeneous, and we failed to find convincing explanations for this heterogeneity. The only condition in which results consistently favoured one country was end-stage renal disease, in which Canadian patients fared better.

Interpretation: Available studies suggest that health outcomes may be superior in patients cared for in Canada versus the United States, but differences are not consistent.

Speaking of ideological slogans from the Republicans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02...
Health Care Horror Hooey
Paul Krugman
FEB. 23, 2014
(Right-wingers convinced Americans that farms are being broken up to pay "death tax" estate liabilities, but there is not one singe example. Now the Republicans are creating Obamacare horror stories, which don't hold up upon fact checking. In the GOP response to the State of the Union address, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers claimed "Bette in Spokane" had lost hergood insurance and was forced to pay $700 a month more. Local reporters found the real Betty, and found out [Bette Grenier had a catastrophic plan, and she refused to look on the ACA web site.] In Michigan, Americans for Prosperity, funded by the Koch Brothers, is running an ad about Julie Boonstra, who has leukemia, saying that her new policy will have unaffordable out-of-pocket costs. But Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post found that she will be saving more than she will be paying in out-of-pocket costs. [The Obamacare out-of-pocket maximum is $6,350. Her premiums were cut in half, from $1,100/mo to $571/mo.])
the true losers from Obamacare generally aren’t very sympathetic. For the most part, they’re either very affluent people affected by the special taxes that help finance reform, or at least moderately well-off young men in very good health who can no longer buy cheap, minimalist plans. Neither group would play well in tear-jerker ads.

U.S. HEU Disposition Program has been up and running for several years now.

There are even plans for down blending weapons grade Plutonium and burning the resulting MOX fuel in various reactors.

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Way to back that up with a source. (Since Jobs death, some manufacturing is moving back)
Also, go suck an egg with that elitist who cares about low tier jobs attitude.

The trouble is that with the methods en vogue among this young generation of terrorists (blowing themselves up), they can hardly accumulatae any experience. That is, if they survived training...

WASHINGTON — Only a few hours had passed after the $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable was announced last week when an early voice emerged endorsing the giant deal.

“Win-win situation for American businesses,” said the statement from the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

It was the start of what Comcast executives acknowledge will be a carefully orchestrated campaign, as the company will seek hundreds of such expressions of support for the deal — from members of Congress, state officials and leaders of nonprofit and minority-led groups — as it tries to nudge federal authorities to approve the merger.

But what the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce did not mention in its statement praising the transaction was that it had collected at least $320,000 over the last five years from Comcast’s charitable foundation, which is run in part by David L. Cohen, the Comcast executive who oversees the corporation’s government affairs operations....

Spoken like a paid government blogger.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...

Its ok, its the same reason the puppets on the potomac do what they are told.

you guys are just getting a little obvious now.

Police Say Schneier Found in Bag Probably Died by Accident

This has been an option since 2003. The TSA was put into place after 9/11 but airports were supposed to be allowed to return to private screening after two years. New legislation passed last year supposedly makes it easier to replace TSA agents with private contractors although few airports have done so.

Currently sixteen airports use private contractors instead of TSA agents. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03...

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Most CEO's do not make $20,000,000. Only a sliver of the very best and top bankers who have proven to make 10x that to their employers.

While certainly not "most", I'm having trouble defining Jamie Dimon as "the very best":

Fined Billions, JPMorgan Chase Will Give Dimon a Raise
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...

Sure, he got his pay docked by 1/2 to $11.5M for the bank's bad behavior - while he was at the helm - but then gets a a raise to (reportedly) $20M because, "Mr. Dimon should be rewarded for his stewardship of the bank during such a difficult period." -- a difficult period in which, again, he was at the helm.

Nothing but a boys club, patting each other on the back for screwing over the little people and the regulators...

Interesting! I just searched for their relationship with facebook and found this - In WhatsApp Deal, Sequoia Capital May Make 50 Times Its Money
That article says $8 mil was their initial investment, but has invested $60 mil in total!

I know this isn't a car forum, by my 2010 Toyota RAV4 lost its traction control one night. Anti-Lock works, as does the hill assist. But starting on a green light on a slick road, nope. Wheel will keep on spinning as long as I keep the throttle down. It's not supposed to do that. I took it to the dealer and they found nothing wrong in the diagnostics. I even went so far as to disconnect the battery for 30 minutes hoping it would "reset" whatever stuck logic was in place. Nope.

At least I can drag race now :-/. Seriously, it sucks not being able to find the root cause.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02...

Either Polish people are uniquely predisposed to thyroid problems around the turn of every millenium, or there's some indication that Chernobyl's effects on human health extended quite a bit beyond 50 miles.

I made it out in 1984, so I guess I dodged that bullet. Any Polish expats I know that left after 1986 have had thyroid surgery and/or will be taking thyroid meds for the remainder of their lives. All this, just from living hundreds of miles away from Chernobyl when it blew its top.

How do you explain this then:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02...

Sounds like they are trying again after getting blocked by the courts last time.

It did say "The commission will not seek to immediately reclassify Internet service as a utility. Mr. Wheeler said that the commission will retain the right to do so, however, if its new rules are approved and appear not to be working adequately." but this makes sense. Declaring ISPs common carriers has some side effects that may or may not be readily apparent.

^This
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12...
And ^this

The fact is there IS NO COMPETITION. In my area, if I want broadband over 1.5Mbps, I have only one choice and that's Time Warner cable. If Time Warner cable chooses to put the squeeze on Netflix or Amazon Prime to extort protection money from them, there is nothing they or I can do about it but pay the protection money or pray that the FCC or our elected representatives put the abusive cable monopoly in check. This is a fact and no amount of hand-waving can change the fact that there is one company between me and the content I want.

Also: the Time Warner / Comcast deal is a crock of shit. I believe I'm not the only one who feels that these companies provide terrible customer service and gouge us for shitty connection speeds. The cost of my connection has doubled since Time Warner bought Adelphia cable with no appreciable increase in speed. It's bullshit.

The fact is there IS NO COMPETITION. In my area, if I want broadband over 1.5Mbps, I have only one choice and that's Time Warner cable. If Time Warner cable chooses to put the squeeze on Netflix or Amazon Prime to extort protection money from them, there is nothing they or I can do about it but pay the protection money or pray that the FCC or our elected representatives put the abusive cable monopoly in check. This is a fact and no amount of hand-waving can change the fact that there is one company between me and the content I want.

Also: the Time Warner / Comcast deal is a crock of shit. I believe I'm not the only one who feels that these companies provide terrible customer service and gouge us for shitty connection speeds. The cost of my connection has doubled since Time Warner bought Adelphia cable with no appreciable increase in speed. It's bullshit.

Isn't it a weird coincidence that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has doubled since "anti-business" Obama took office?

Pretty much, yes.

But I bet a little war during the previous decade had a bit more to do with the economic issues of the time.

Not as much as you might think.

The country was 50% urban by census definition in 1860. Northern industry, agriculture and transportation prospered mightily during and after the war. The South no longer had a veto over economic development.

Cotton production in the South recovered rapidly. COTTON PRODUCTION FACTS STATISTICS OF THE YIELD FOR TWENTY YEARS.; STATISTICS OF THE YIELD FOR TWENTY YEARS. 1850-1880

The Snowden leaks started out with things the public actually needed to know. The NSA spying on Americans is a gross overstep of the organization's charter. Spying on friendly nation's leaders is an embarrassment. This, however, seems to me like them doing their job.

Here's the actual article being quoted from
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/us/eavesdropping-ensnared-american-law-firm.html

What's interesting is that the center piece of this /. summary was a throwaway paragraph at the end of a long article.
It added nothing at all to the story.

It's curious how The Guardian and Glenn Greenwald aren't writing the stories that people complain about as disclosing too much.
Instead it's the NY Times and Laura Poitras, Snowden's other confidant.

It seems like there are different agendas at play here and the NY Times is willing to disclose sources and methods where others are not.

From: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03...
"The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated. Keith Oatley, an emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto (and a published novelist), has proposed that reading produces a vivid simulation of reality, one that âoeruns on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers.â Fiction â" with its redolent details, imaginative metaphors and attentive descriptions of people and their actions â" offers an especially rich replica. Indeed, in one respect novels go beyond simulating reality to give readers an experience unavailable off the page: the opportunity to enter fully into other peopleâ(TM)s thoughts and feelings. The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life. And there is evidence that just as the brain responds to depictions of smells and textures and movements as if they were the real thing, so it treats the interactions among fictional characters as something like real-life social encounters."

Also: http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/you...

I'm not saying choose one or the other. I'm just asking, overall, at its best, and perhaps after the novelty has worn off, how does the level of engagement compare between immerse VR and a good "page turner" novel? Which do you feel better about afterwards?

Nobody in America currently has a choice between Comcast and Time Warner.

You are being myopic. The channel owners currently have a choice between Comcast, Time Warner Cable, etc. The networks would have far less ability to get the http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/business/media/cbs-and-time-warner-cable-end-contract-dispute.html?_r=0 kind of positive (for them) outcome like CBS did in their dispute with TWC if ComTWC controlled access to the combined set of advertising viewership.

No he didn't cross any line whatsoever. All the other countries knew they were spying on them already, they just didn't know that the NSA was *illegally* spying on the embassies which goes against the United Nations and World Court directives.

Spying on each other is why there are intelligence agencies as part of every government. The embassies being bugged I figure is also a given.
Don't forget about the U.S. Embassy built in Russia that had so many bugs installed it was unusable.

"Work on the embassy was stopped in 1985, after it was determined that the building was so riddled with listening devices implanted by Soviet workers that the structure was in effect a multistory microphone." http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06...

-Not a really good link but better than the rest-

Yes, there are legitimate workaholics that do 60 hours a week. Average Joes doing it? Rarely.

Maybe true in IT. But other fields like law, medicine, finance? The common perception is that when you're starting out as an intern or assistant, the way you get ahead is working 12 hours days or weekends or whatnot.

There have been recent stories of Wall Street firms trying to get people to stay home on Sundays. (The assumption being, of course, that everyone has to work on Saturdays.)

Thankfully, some physicians have finally started speaking out about the grueling hazing done on residents and young doctors at hospitals, where insanely long hours actually put lives at risk.

Maybe other professions can finally start catching on....

Twenty states and the District of Columbia allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, and two of those states, Colorado and Washington, have also legalized the recreational use of the drug. Those numbers may grow this year, as several other states are considering measures to legalize marijuana use.

I understand Rhode Island also allows recreational use of the drug via a piece of legislation.

Explain why some oil companies are trucking in water to ppl who have had their water
wells ruined by fracking fluids.

Are you one of the paid corporate bloggers, or one of the ones for the government that
helped make the Halliburton Loophole ? So they could legally hide 8 of the ingredients
that are toxic sludge that causes cancer and organ failure.

http://www.independentwatertes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...

http://www.earthworksaction.or...

So when it comes to lying plutocrats puppetteering the government regulations
so they can squeeze out a little more profit at the cost of ruining the ENTIRE
north american water table, I find it hilarious that ppl will come on here and
post a shill post when the oil companies have been filmed hauling drinkable
water to ppl because their damn water wells are ruined and even reverse
osmosis filtering won't get the toxic crap out.

A lot of people go to college to get art degrees. And I do not see adding an extra tax on millions of minimum wage workers.

Ok, lets subsidize it entirely on an art exchange tax. Every time some awkward crap sells for a couple million dollars, take half of that as a tuition tax.

One example:
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com...
Water above 75F (24C) requires shutting down the reactor.

Water cooled nuclear plants operate at 350C, 20C difference in cooling water reduce the thermal cycle which reduce turbine efficiency.
That the part I understand exactly why.

It could be one extra example of NRC overregulation, I'm not sure this is really necessary, or just, the reactor hasn't been tested with temperature above a certain temp, so we can't allow it to be operated at such and such temp.

I know LFTR reactors are designed to operate between 700 and 800C, and specifically allow for cooling from water or air.

This wonderful research was brought to you by: (source) The study, conducted by the University of Texas and sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund and nine petroleum companies,. Main idea there was the gas leaks from fracking sites is more than estimated by EPA but much less than environmental groups.

One of the minor finding of this research was, compared to liquid hydrocarbons, the gaseous hydrocarbon burns cleanly and produces less carbon dioxide, but leaks more in the present day (paraphrased and emphasis by me) infrastructure. One would think the right thing to do is to plug the damned leaks, especially because the leakers are distributed according to power rule. (nothing to do with political power, power rule is a statistical term). Like 80% of crime committed by 20% of criminals, or 80% income earned by 20% of the employed, 80% of the leaks come from 20% of the leakers and 1% of the leakers basically account for 50% of all leaks. So it would be very cost effective to go after the leaks, plug it and make natural gas better than liquids as transportation fuel.

The immobile consumers of energy (offices, homes, factories) have alternatives to fossil fuels to varying degrees, mostly in the form of renewable electricity. But the transportation sector (except of electrified rail) relies totally on fossil fuels. Planes burn kerosene, no alternatives in sight. Trucks burn diesel some vague alternatives for delivery loops on the horizon, none for long distance haulers, yet. Diesel locomotives drag a long chain of LPG , CNG rail cars, but don't have the ability to use one of them as the fuel tank. But if the natural gas prices keep dropping, we can expect them to take a look. The railroads phased out all the steam locomotives and switched diesel in just one decade in 1950s. Cars have some alternatives within striking distance. No alternatives to fossil fules in sea cargo side either. The dependency of transportation sector on fossil fuels is not likely to be shaken for considerable future. Taking the effort to plug the leaks and switching to gaseous hydrocarbons instead of liquid hydrocarbons is the most viable thing to do to tackle climate change.

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By the way, what exactly is the thought behind replacing one fossil fuel with another?

The exact same line of thinking which describes natural gas as "clean". It allegedly has less impact on the environment than coal, which led to some people pushing it as a stop-gap measure until better technologies are deployed. You'd get the impression that natural gas *is* the better and environmentally-harmless technology listening to some people though.