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just eat "grandma foods"

And work "grandma jobs", live "grandma lives" and last but not least - have "grandma child mortality rate".
How many grandma's siblings never made to puberty - while their genes did?

It's not that simple.
What back in grandma's days was a rare occurrence (be it chocolate cake or a rare genetic trait) is MUCH more common now, with all these extra humans and all these resources at our disposal.
One of the reasons why we have all these dietary medical issues now is that back in grandma's days people who had them would just get "sickly" and die.
Another one is that we've basically solved the "world hunger" problem. Granted, we haven't yet figured out the equal distribution issue and we did solve it in the fastest and cheapest way possible...
Then we solved that whole walking everywhere issue...

Hell, there was this guy recently claiming to have solved the whole chewing issue.
And many other issues.
Back in grandma's time, he'd be the village idiot, telling grandma to forget about washing clothes cause she could just order more from China.
And grand-grandpa would probably periodically have to chase him away with an axe.
Yet today... He sold millions worth of his "food" invention.

We are living in a very different world from grandmas, in many ways.
In others, maybe not as much.

The problem for me is that a lot of warmist articles include "facts" that were later proven wrong, and some years ago they were TOLD it is fine to lie in their studies, and deliberately misrepresent data to get people to accept climate change. So much of the warmist FUD looks like a scam to give to key politicians and astroturfing organisations a way to funnel the money back to their coffers.

FTFY

Win or lose, people are going to remember Trump.

That's a pretty low bar. You know who else people remember?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/ima...

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi...

They weren't "bought and paid for" either.

So tell us great sage, who should we turn to for help against criminals,

You probably have no recourse. If someone breaks into your house, the police aren't even going to take fingerprints, if they even come out at all.
If you get death threats, the police will tell you they can't protect you. They have no legal obligation to do so.

So Trump attempting to ban minorities by seeking the highest office of the free world and riling up mobs until they start beating up said minorities = "He has a right to speak!"

What the fuck? He hasn't done any of that!

Donald Trump on Muslims: 'They're not coming to this country if I'm president
Donald Trump on protester: 'I'd like to punch him in the face'
Trump supporter charged after sucker-punching protester at North Carolina rally

What the fuck? Ya' live in a cave!?

Yeah, about that 97% consensus... It's a pretty cooked statistic, cooked nearly as much as Mann's single bristlecone tree which produced the infamous hockey-stick of warming. But it does make a great talking point, even if it's not true!

Contrary to what Madonna thinks, Jews don't get to choose to be Jews and Catholics don't get to follow 'some' of the rules. You either are or aren't, there is no in-between.

That's total bullshit. No Catholic follows all the rules. And there are plenty of people of Jewish descent who simply ignore their so-called heritage. Even more telling are those galleries of "20 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Black". Heck, even many recent African immigrants will refuse to be identified with African Americans.

In reality, race, ethnicity, and religion are largely a personal choice and a cultural construct. Sure, someone with jet black skin can't pass for having generations of Swedish ancestors, and vice versa, but both light skinned and dark skinned individuals can usually identify as dozens of different ethnicities.

Any jew who calls himself a neo-nazi

Hitler had Jewish and African ancestry, and apparently knew it too. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/his...

Because everyone knows that the US is the only country that spies on people ;-) Surely those good EU countries would never stoop to things like this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

Matt Ridley is certainly optimistic, but I'm not entirely sure it's rational. His optimism allowed him to ignore the impending financial disaster that lead to the failure of his bank. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin... . Is it possible his pollyannaism (and possibly his own coal interests) are making him blind to the costs of global warming?

As you say, it is a complicated subject. If you trust one just one source you would need to know that they were providing a complete picture.

It feels very strange to me that someone could be set for life, catapaulted to wealth far beyond what most individuals might accrue, based on a legal judgement like this.

Indeed. Another case here is Erin Andrews. She was awarded USD 55 million dollars from a hotel chain, because a creep had photographed her naked there.

It didn't do any actual damage - her career seems to have been moving along just fine. And 55 million dollars for not actual damages is utterly and completely insane. When she looks back at this in a couple of years, it will be as one of the best things that ever happened to her - some blurry nude photos of a pretty normal woman, and suddenly her fame factor skyrockets and she becomes extremely rich.

Well. That's fine if you're able bodied but what if you're in a wheelchair, have a pushchair, a disability, carrying heavy shopping? Public transport means all the public not just the ones able to nimbly hop from moving platform to moving platform.

1. the bus driver is a human being with all sorts of ability to make judgements about the fragility of the passengers, and when he might think it's a good idea to wait a bit longer before driving off.
2. This is already a thing: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi... (yes that is a new bus design and they drive with the back doors open). You have to make your own judgement whether to jump on or off, or you can just wait until the stop. And they're *much* more convenient, every traffic jam / light becomes a busstop.

If you look carefully, you'll realize, the gloomy predictions tend to include non-committal words like "may" or "could":

Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee

This makes them non-falsifiable and thus unscientific...

Unscientific, but convenient... Years later, when the earlier peddled fears fail to materialize, the peddlers offer you new ones without having to blush about the past ones: we never said, it will stop snowing in Scotland, only that it could .

Picture of NK submarine. Pretty sure this sub sunk on its own.

Please read something of the article: the link in it poits to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/, not forbes.com ;/

Did you not know about the Climategate scandal? “Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Do it like India showed us last week, all exams are do be done in swimming gear, preferably on glass desks.

You mean in their underwear

That creates an interesting question assuming you agree with the empirical evidence that Ted Cruz is very dishonest.

I basically see three main possibilities:

1) It's just a coincidence that a very insincere face is coupled with a very insincere man. The researcher suggests this though he's basically just repeating the null hypothesis.

2) Cruz's face behaves the way it does because he's so dishonest. The brain uses different circuits when lying or manipulating (ie fake smile vs genuine smile). If he's spent years being highly manipulative the circuits that control how his face move might work subtly different.

3) Finally he might be lying so much because he realizes he looks dishonest and has come to identify as such (or he's learned people won't believe him regardless).

I suspect it's one of the latter two, our brains don't do perfect heuristics but they're often based on something real.

This reminds me of the study that found hockey players with rounder faces were more aggressive. Of course that doesn't tell you if the aggression and round face were both caused by the same underlying factor (ie testosterone) or if the players were acting more aggressive because they looked more aggressive.

Its obvious that LYING OBAMA SHITSTAIN is talking up the economy. As you see, the I_MAXI_PAD has made games into fuckign angry birds. In turn, real games such as Deus Ex 1, which require a brain and have dialogue are gone and ANGRY FAGS and CANDY SHIT CRUSH are what we got.

Now the economy is SHIT and VIDEO GAMES SUCK DICK as a genre.

March 4 2016

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

93,688,000 Americans Not in Labor Force...
http://cnsnews.com/news/articl...

Deficit with China GROWS...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wir...

Exports hit 5-1/2-year low...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wir...

ROGERS: 100% Probability of Recession...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Gold soars into bull market as growth fears mount...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bus...

"Today's news"
JOBS, JOBS: FEB +242,000, 4.9%...

Enough is enough. As the leader of the free world, shouldn't you be doing something about this? Besides everyone else, the families Kim is gassing would be thankful if you stopped turning a blind eye to Kim's shit. http://www.theguardian.com/wor... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... Time to give this fucker the same body piercing the SEALS gave Osama bin Laden. BANG! BANG!

Get Gatling guns on one ship, the next pirate crew will show up with an RPG.

Next?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi...

They've already been doing that for years.

You can be as gun-ho about this as you want from your armchair

The crew of the ship where that picture was taken faced off the RPG wielder with molotov cocktails.

Now it's not about capacity, but how much is being produced at any given moment?

It always was about how much is being produced, so I don't really know what you're talking about. Do you remember all those discussions about the problems of intermittent energy sources, non-dispatchable generation, power quality etc.? Those are about the same problem under different names, and those were discussed since the beginning.

And it's not only about how much, but also when: in 2010/2011 there were a lot of articles about wind turbines in the U.K. producing electricity when there was no need of it (and at the time the installed capacity was quite low) and so the government had to pay to halt them or had to buy energy it had no use for (and which can cause problems to the grid). For reference: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-sco... || http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... It

They're planning to go to the moon by 2020. We're planning to build a permanant manned moon base by 2020.

This isn't the first time us Brits have come up with solar for cloudy days. See:
British scientists develop solar panels which work better on a cloudy day [March 2014]
Both articles lack details about the efficiency in diffused light conditions.

Researchers from the University of Surrey in the U.K. studied the eyes of moths to create sheets of graphene that they claim is the most light-absorbent material ever created.

I doubt this very much, the best solar collectors will collect 46% of light, but of course they don't come cheap, current cheap cells are the ones collecting up to 15 to 22% of light.

Cell Efficiency Chart (jpg)If the researchers had created solar collectors with more than 46% efficiency then they would say what the efficiency is and have it verified and it would be big news.

Some in the EU do care about privacy but not everyone here does.
Google has had more access to Downing Street than any other company in the past 20 years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

Oh my, it looks like you've got a bad case of EYES EVERYWHERE!!

Actually, according to Dr. Drake, the inventor of the Drake Equation, founder of SETI, Earth is becoming less visible all the time. The satellites you talk about aren't pointed out into space, they are pointed towards Earth. We have also switched from analog to digital transmissions, so essentially everything we're transmitting at this point is indistinguishable from noise. Broadcasting large amounts of energy into the universe in analog is not something that we can expect other civilizations to do for a very long time, if our own civilization is any guide. Not only that, but the Sun also produces a fair amount of radio-frequency radiation, so there's a pretty high noise floor. Even when we're trying to talk to Mars, the SNR is miserable.

The odds against detecting extraterrestrial transmissions, or extraterrestrials detecting us, are so insurmountably vast as to defy description. I think that Dr. Drake should accept the logical conclusions of his statements and end the SETI project. We have met the Great Filter and he is us.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-... (the Pacchieri baby snatching case)
https://www.lifesitenews.com/n... (they even go so far as to prohibit the mentally ill from having sex)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... (or those deemed to have learning difficulties to marry... Mark and Kerry have been happily married now for seven years and are very good friends of mine)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... (background on the CoP and the evils that it can order: abortions, caesarians, experimental surgery and medication, euthanasia (AKA Liverpool Care Pathway which is just another term for "withhold all food, water and painkillers"), sterilisation, forcible restraint, incarceration "for the public good" even if no danger to the public has been evidenced)

You're the one who hates the facts, and you're the one who is lying to "make a point." You just had to do a bit of research. W'e're talking about places like Damascus where wages average $50 a month, and one month's salary buys 15 kg of bananas. People smugglers aren't running a charity. There's the cost of illegal transport, fake documents, bribes, etc.

Abu Mahmoud is richer than he has ever been, even when he was a doctor in Aleppo. Smuggling Syrians into Europe has made him $100,000 (£60,000) this month alone. But it is not an easy life.

While he charged $1,100 (£700) for a crossing to Greece per refugee, to get to Germany might cost 2,000 euros, but to go on to Sweden or Norway, which are seen to have generous asylum and resettlement policies, costs another 3,000 or 4,000 euros on top.

And that's not counting the "incidental expenses" ...

Or this

Migration solutions like a hundred thousand dollar speedboat run from Libya to Italy are apparently on offer but overall the transportation market is divided across national and racial lines. Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa pay on average around 700 euro per person to ride down in the cargo holds of whatever boats are available, often with catastrophic results. Richer patrons from the Middle East may pay 2000 euro a head to travel on the same boat, but they are up on deck.

The most popular way to enter Europe remains by plane. So far, no solid data exists on the number of people who use planes as facilitators for slipping through Europe’s closed border. Anecdotes suggest that reaching Europe by air often involves a complex strategy. Iraqi refugees, for instance, can pay 16,000 euro to fly from Mosul to Paris via – and here’s the trick – Cayenne, Belem, Sao Paulo and Istanbul. Moroccan facilitators offer migrants a flight to Paris for five thousand euro that lets them bypass immigration authorities, instead using a hidden exit at Charles de Gaulle airport, an operation that obviously requires accomplices among airport staff and state administration.

Only the poor wait in the UN camps.

Contactless cards: how to avoid paying twice
"Credit cards that you simply wave at a reader save time and are a boon for visitors to London. But they can also raid your bank account invisibly" (11 Nov 2014)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...
or from slashdot back in 2012 "Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data" (June 21, 2012 )
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Whats the new news AC? The risks of some of the newer cards and bank services have been in the tech media for years and been reported by the media too.

There's not a whole heap of evidence in favour of the rape charges either

Well, other than the complainants, and the fact that the Assange refuses to face questions.

A reminder: he said that he would answer the questions, and had his friends post two hundred thousand pounds bail against his promise that he would appear. Which they lost.

Strangly alot of them seems to survive that. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... http://reverbpress.com/news/in...

Is this good enough?

After all, he has the motive...

Sheep are changing colour and short-nosed dogs are stressed out.

When North America gets rid of its 5000 nuclear warheads it will have the moral right to squeal at North Korea. As it stands NK should be applauded for its technological advances. Same goes to Iran.

Well, as long as it is just about "technological advances" you may be interested is some other areas in which North Korea may in fact be a "word leader." You can read about that here and here.

I expect you will approve, but I am curious as to your evaluation. Wouldn't it be better for more of the earth to be controlled by governments like North Korea?

Steven Pinker received death threats for writing an un PC book.

"That is a matter of math, or not? Either you fix the wrong name plate, or you fix the place where you place them. I mean: if a wind turbine is rated to yield 8MW power at a wind speed of 30feet/sec but you put it on a place where that speed is rarely reached or exceeded, it can't be the wind mills fault."

Apparently, it happens often enough. One can put the blame on everyone else, the fact remains that the actual energy most windmills deliver are de facto a lot less than promised. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

note that the situation won't improve, since the first windmill-parks are obviously going to be build in the best wind-covered places. Additional ones will get *less* good spots, since the best ones are already taken. So, it's not that they can't technically possibly get to their vaunted maximum, it's that they just don't, in practise. This relates to the stochastic nature of wind.

Changing the 'nameplate' to a more realistic output would indeed solve that part...well: why, then, do green sites/blogs/groups never do that? Note that this would also mean that, when they compare 100 windmills of 8MW to a nuclear plant of 800 MW, they're actually NOT using an adequate comparison, since they would need, in fact, *300* windmills for that, thus, with triple the price - and still being stochastic in nature. It's math, yes. So why does the pro-camp not apply it correctly?

"The costs are calculated quite different than you think. A guy pacing a wind farm somewhere surely knows how much energy he can expect over the year and if an investment makes sense."

Wrong. You may not be aware of this, but wind-energy is *heavily* subsidies by the state, in most countries. This, in turn, means the actually efficiency DOES NOT (or at least, far less) matter, since they don't earn directly from the cost/benefit that it delivers, but by being subsidized. As long as you can make profit with the subsidies, it doesn't really matter *how* efficient it is. The taxpayers pays for it anyway. And that's also the reason why, in countries that stop with all those huge subsidies, a lot of those wind-mill companies close doors and can't survive. In short, the whole wind-energy industrial complex is a heavily subsidised one, which only survives thanks to those subsidies (aka, money that was first derived FROM the economy, thus).

"That is wrong. If that was the case you would need for every classical plant a classical back up plant, too."

?

What ARE you talking about? A gas-powered plant does not need a backup, because it's not stochastic in nature. It has a constant, well-defined amount of energy (gas) that it can use. It can do load-balancing. Thus, it can level out the peaks and valleys of demand and supply (of energy) on short notice.

The fact you say is wrong, simply indicates you are totally unaware of the facts. They do. It's not surprising you don't know, because many like you just don't research things, but repeat what others (greens) say (and of course, they'll always ommit things that speak unfavourable of it). Here, let me give you a link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...

Please read up before claiming something is wrong out of hand.

"Obviously, because of the continent wide grids, wind plants can back up each other just as classical plants back up each other."

No, they can't. Because every windfarm is stochastic in nature, not just your own. This means you're basically playing statistical roulette, and *hope* it will *ALWAYS* be enough. And: WHAT 'continent wide grid'? Do you have any idea what trillions that would cost?

"I stop here with debunking your bullshit."

No, please continue, since we were just coming to the good part. As you can see - I've provided links this time - it's YOU who are

It is also worth noting that British crime data is fiddled with at every level all the way up to Scotland Yard. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Also murders in England and Whales are only counted after arrest, conviction, retrial and been jailed. This is unlike literally every other country where "Dude he was murdered and we do not know the killer" is the rule to count as a murder.

That is pretty much the difference between a death and a homicide (and an application of the innocent until proven guilty principle). There are many other classifications of death such as accidental or deliberate manslaughter (murder/homicide == intent to kill, manslaughter == unintentional death). Its not the fault of the British that other countries get it wrong.

It is also worth noting that British crime data is fiddled with at every level all the way up to Scotland Yard. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Also murders in England and Whales are only counted after arrest, conviction, retrial and been jailed. This is unlike literally every other country where "Dude he was murdered and we do not know the killer" is the rule to count as a murder.

Does witchcraft involve the rape of children? If not then shut the fuck up...

No, but it does involve throwing children into a vat of boiling chese. Now you shut up.

It's out there if you look.

'Paedophilia is natural and normal for males' - How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer conferences
Conference aims to normalize pedophilia

Now that the battle to normalize homosexuality is largely won there are a growing number of voices in society (including academicians) working to normalize pedophilia.

No there aren't.

Yes, there are. And I'll note that there are social scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists among them. Some of them aren't simply trying to "better understand" something "icky" but are trying to move policy and social acceptance. There are others working for it to gain acceptance.

And this isn't something that was just going on 30-40 years ago, it is sill going on.

One other thing, if the research is truly in its "infancy" as you claim, then why the advocacy for normalization and decriminalization? Wouldn't a prudent, ethical researcher adopt the principle of "do no harm"? I would think they would adopt that outlook until far more is known, but that doesn't seem to be the universal stand.

'Paedophilia is natural and normal for males' - How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer conferences

"Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males,” said the presentation. “At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children Normal males are aroused by children.”

Some yellowing tract from the Seventies or early Eighties, era of abusive celebrities and the infamous PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange? No. Anonymous commenters on some underground website? No again.

The statement that paedophilia is “natural and normal” was made not three decades ago but last July. It was made not in private but as one of the central claims of an academic presentation delivered, at the invitation of the organisers, to many of the key experts in the field at a conference held by the University of Cambridge.

Other presentations included “Liberating the paedophile: a discursive analysis,” and “Danger and difference: the stakes of hebephilia.”

Hebephilia is the sexual preference for children in early puberty, typically 11 to 14-year-olds.

Another attendee, and enthusiastic participant from the floor, was one Tom O’Carroll, a multiple child sex offender, long-time campaigner for the legalisation of sex with children and former head of the Paedophile Information Exchange. “Wonderful!” he wrote on his blog afterwards. “It was a rare few days when I could feel relatively popular!”

"Pedophilia Chic" Reconsidered - The taboo against sex with children continues to erode

UNTIL VERY, VERY RECENTLY, public questioning of the social prohibition against pedophilia--to say nothing of positive celebration of child molestation--was practically non-existent in American life. The reasons why are not opaque. To most people, the very word "pedophilia" summons forth a preternatural degree of horror and revulsion; and the criminal law that reflects those reactions has consistently treated the sexual molestation of minors as a serious and eminently punishable offense. So it is small wonder that, historically speaking, the taboo against using legal minors for sex was no more publicly controversial in the United States than the prohibitions against, say, cannibalism or bestiality. Those few partisans of the idea who did sometimes sally forth customarily found themselves regarded as the lowest of the social low, even by the criminal class.

This social consensus against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, however--unlike those against, say, animal sex or incest--is apparently eroding, and this regardless of the fact that the vast majority of citizens do overwhelmingly abominate the thing. For elsewhere in the public square, the defense of adult-child sex

I don't like this kind of stuff very much. It seems like this administration is willing to get us involved in every conflict on the globe... but not very much involved. Enough to piss all the locals off, but not enough to affect the outcome of whatever is going on. I'd rather see the US adhere to the so-called "Powell Doctrine" (much older than Powell) - stay out of other peoples' business until significant national interests are really at stake. And if you have to go to war you don't do it half-assed.

The target countries specified are part of the larger war being fought against Al-Qaeda and Daesh (IS) :

Somalia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Yemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Well then, you should welcome me to your club.. Your panic is duly noted. Wake up, white people!

Remember when I wrote that people in the UK and Europe were afraid of reporting, investigating, or prosecuting immigrants for fear of being called racists? You just demonstrated my point with your little race baiting comment.

Rotherham: In the face of such evil, who is the racist now?

The Yorkshire town where 1,400 girls have been sexually abused by Asian men is a byword for depravity – all because people wouldn’t rock the multicultural boat

Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds
A 'new dimension' of sexual assault in Cologne
Germans outraged by mayor’s advice for women after raft of harassment
It’s not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Sweden’s record is shameful

Actually, recent studies show that the remote pilots do have PTSD issues....they don't just fly a drone in, launch a missile from 20 miles, and leave. The pilots often work 10-12 hour shifts 6 days a week, and they often follow their targets for weeks if not months before any attacks. After the attack, the drone has to hang out and continue watching, doing an assessment of the damage; ie a body count. The drone team (usually three people) has to count and catalog each dead body. It's highly stressful; these soldiers know damn well it's NOT a video game, they know they are actually killing people. And when they do go home from the office, they can't talk to anyone about the burning bodies of the children they had to tally up that day.

Here's more articles on this, if you don't believe me.

Of course things being destroyed, and by design at that. What if they don't want "merging and assimilation"?

What if they don't want Sharia?

Muslim patrols could become more prevalent and more violent, warns anti-extremist

Don't make it like it's a bad thing?

I will throw you a bone in that the elites of the US, UK, much of Europe are engaging in reckless policies that will fundamentally change the nations and societies involved, generally for the worse.

Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Legal Immigration: Lifeblood of the Left

It's pretty sad when the people advocating and participating in the destruction of their own culture aren't self-aware enough to recognize it.
John Cleese: London's no longer an English city

It's an established fact that Google already does this for child pornography. This became public back in 2014. So it's not much of a stretch to move into scanning for this. Some would call it a "slippery slope", but that's the world we find ourselves in.

> And in much of Europe the employer would be breaking the law (wiretapping) if they did such monitoring.

There was a fairly clear recent EU case about just this sort of use of work resources for private communications.

        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

Quoting the article:

        But on Tuesday the court ruled that it was not "unreasonable for an employer to want to verify that the employees are completing their professional tasks during working hours"

I'm afraid that EU privacy laws and practices are widely misunderstood. They are not absolute, and they certainly do not protect employees from workplace monitoring of workpace resources.

That's okay, because migrants are filling up the void thanks to Merkel!

Never mind that they may not speak English, or their ability to work is vastly reduced, or that 'moderate' Islam isn't so moderate after all or that sexual assault is ingrained into their culture....

Everything's going to okay...

So do China and India and they are both pushing hard. China is investing heavily and has ambitiously planned to have a full sized thorium reactor in place in 10 years.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026863/china-going-for-broke-on-thorium-nuclear-power-and-good-luck-to-them/

Google "china thorium reactor progress" and see for yourself. Then weep for the lost opportunities in advanced power production being squandered by the US in particular and "the West" in general. The best hope for ubiquitous safe carbon neutral power and we aren't even interested on the national level.

I'll just leave this partial point right here: https://xkcd.com/1162/