If you're going to pirate, do it on a big scale. It also helps that he's 92. By the time the MPAA collects from him, it'll just be a claim against his presumably small estate. Go get him, girls! The current laws are heavily skewed in favor of those who distribute content but new technology has made the distribution an almost trivial portion of the process. What we need are new laws that favor the content creators and the content consumers and just give a tiny fee to the middleman distributors (aka MPAA members) who don't actually provide anything useful anymore anyway. This story really highlights that. Here are the thousands of military people who are hungry for the content and there is the mountains of content that would make their lives better with the only obstacle being a lot of laws and rules that 'Big Hy' blasted right by out of compassion for those who serve.
Don't know about other hybrids but my 2006 Prius has 120K on it now and has never needed anything but maintenance and tires. It seems to still run as good as when it was new and it definitely saves a lot of fuel. Would I buy another one? Maybe...maybe not. It would depend on what I wanted the car for when the time came. If I was hauling firewood, towing trailers, transporting a big family or dealing with a mid-life crisis and needed a lot of raw power to impress women...then no. If I wanted reliable and thrifty transportation that hauls up to four fairly comfortably...then yes. TFA is misleading because...honestly...does ANYONE ever really buy the same car again? Our life circumstances change and the car we were happy with at one point is no longer suitable at a different stage. The 2-seater that we loved when we were 23 isn't so appealing when we're 34 with kids. That's just reality.
Aspartame artificial sweetener. It releases methanol, a known neurotoxin, as it is broken down in the body. Developing infants would be exposed when pregnant women drank diet pop, chewed chewing gum, or consumed other artificially-sweetened foods.
Domestic oil production is irrelevant to the pump price because the United States uses more (way more) oil than it produces domestically. The shortage is made up with imports and those are priced at the world market level. Sure...we could force the domestic oil companies to sell domestic oil at a below-market price...but all that would do is create cheaper gasoline in the part of the country where the domestic oil was refined and more expensive gasoline in the rest of the country. The benefits of doing that (cheaper prices to the favored few) are far outweighed by the cost to the national economy of an artificial pricing scheme such as that.
..."it could 'theoretically' power itself indefinitely"
The power-itself-indefinitely discovery is way more important than the 'swimming jellyfish' invention. The former would be an astounding change in our understanding of physics...while the latter is mere technology (important but not going to reorder the universe or anything). What the article is claiming is invented here is a method to separate hydrogen gas from the ocean using less energy to accomplish the capture than what they obtain in the captured hydrogen. If this is confirmed, we will no longer have to mess around drilling for oil. Instead, we'll just process seawater and capture hydrogen fuel. We can all use hydrogen-fueled cars, hydrogen-fueled power plants, and hydrogen-fueled snowmobiles. This discovery solves multiple crises including global warming, the global energy shortage, mideast war, petroleum shortages, the gas price at the pump, air pollution, and Obama's re-election. Who woulda thunk?
"And yet we do expect hydrogen and oxygen to self-assemble into water."
We expect chemical bonds to form and separate based on our current understanding of chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and entropy. We don't expect hydrogen molecules or oxygen molecules to self-assemble into some sort of unbelievably complex self-replicating machine.
"Intelligent Design (ID) is not scientific because if it where scientific it would provide a set of hypotheses which can be falsified..."
It's not incumbent upon a theory to provide its own hypotheses. Theories of self-assembly have not provided any hypotheses which can be 'falsified' or tested. The scientific process requires only that the scientist attempt to answer questions using objective measurable evidence. It does not require that anything that is not understood sufficiently to pose testable hypotheses cannot be true.
"ID claims the evolution is false and therefore ID must be true..."
No, it doesn't. ID only questions rather 'evolution' can even provide a mechanism for the origin of life. As mentioned in the earlier post, a self-assembling theory of creation (which is not evolution) is not substantiated by any work to date. Studies have identified such things as formation of amino acids, self-replicating RNA structures and the formation of crude non-functional artificial membranes but no study to date has ever shed any illumination on a process by which a functioning biological cell might have been formed. The process of evolution, on the other hand, is substantiated by countless studies of fossil evidence, and relationships among living creatures.
We don't expect to see a pile of bricks self-assemble themselves into a wall and yet the fundamental idea of 'Non-intelligent Design' is that amino acids and proteins self-assembled themselves into something unbelievably more complex...a functioning biological cell. The key concept behind 'Intelligent Design' is that someone or something had to create a plan and assemble the first few units which then began self-replicating and evolving based on the conditions they were living in. Call the creator 'God' or call it 'Extra-terrestrial Designer/Builder' but isn't that at the very least a viable explanation for the origins of life on Earth? Why should the theory of biological self-assembly be the only explanation considered scientifically viable? Recent self-assembly theories have attempted (desperately) to identify certain rock structures surrounding deep ocean thermal vents as a possible substrate for self-assembly but any close examination of that mechanism makes it appear as so much scientific hand-waving due to problems with sequence, complexity, protein chirality, length of time needed, etc. making the Intelligent Design theory appear to be well-substantiated in comparison. Human arrogance appears to exclude any extra-terrestrial origin based on nothing but 'We don't need no stinkin' outsider doing creation.'
Nuclear power is very expensive, generates toxic dangerous waste that requires long-term storage, and has the sizable potential to contaminate large areas of land making them uninhabitable for decades. Other power generation methods are much better.
5 years ago, you were considered a little nutty if you ranted about the loss of privacy on the internet. Now, in 2012, people are finally starting to realize that 1) loss of privacy on the internet has big consequences and 2) loss of privacy is not mandatory or required to use the internet. Those 'free' email addresses on gmail or hotmail are not really free but are paid for with your personal information and...that price is high.
On the first day, the denial-of-service attack resulted in 28 times the normal traffic to the church site, rising to 34 times the next day but did not crash the site.
The only way that evil can win is if good people fail to act. If the Catholic Church is the Body of Christ started by a divine Jesus Christ, then obviously wicked men practicing their pedophaelia or hackers targeting it's website cannot destroy the Church. Metaphorically speaking, they can load the pistol and pull the trigger but the weapon will misfire, their aim will be off, the shot will be deflected, or something else will happen that prevents the shot from reaching the target. Just sayin...
Incoming solar radiation would be about 121 petawatts, not 173 petawatts since you must consider the Earth's albedo which averages about 30 percent. More importantly, though, is your statement 'I doubt it's that sensitive' suggests that you miss the entire point about the AGW debate which is 'does the increase in atmospheric co2 concentration caused by man's use of fossil fuels change the earth's heat balance sufficiently to cause global surface temperatures to increase?' By definition, a change in the co2 concentration of a few tens of ppm would be a perturbation that only a very sensitive climate system would respond to given that by far the majority of the atmospheric 'greenhouse' effect is caused by not co2 but h2o which is both present in the atmosphere at a much higher concentration in its non-condensed form and has a much more potent ability to absorb outgoing radiant energy. Ergo, if you want to believe in AGW, you HAVE to believe that the climate is extremely sensitive to very small perturbations, such as might be caused by the cycling of the planetary reactor which is theorized to lie at the Earth's core. Finally, the 4 terawatt number is obviously a very rough estimate for the heat output from something that no one is even sure exists. The actual number may be orders of magnitude greater (or less) than that.
The funniest quote was from the University of Colorado Professor Wahr who states: ""It is awfully dangerous to take an eight-year record and predict even the next eight years, let alone the next century," he said." That's what us deniers say! Maybe we are reaching a 'consensus.' He prefaces his comments by saying: "Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year, people should be just as worried about the melting of the world's ice as they were before." I can assure Professor Wahr that denier concern levels about the melting of the world's ice is unchanged from before the release of the study. Most importantly for Prof. Wahr, 'everyone else' is still solidly behind the 'we are losing huge amounts of ice' school of thought in spite of the pesky Himalaya study.
*boggle* Whatever you're smoking, you should probably cut back, at least during the day.
If I understand your comment, you're suggesting that an alphanumeric identifier is either only useful for someone smoking a hallucinegenic substance or, perhaps, would only be possible for people smoking that substance? Actually, you use these sorts of things every day. For example, your telephone number, your social security number, your driver's license number, your mailing address string, your medical insurance plan number, etc. Facebook, of course, uses your email address which is nothing but an alphanumeric identifier. The email address could be used but would be less efficient because it doesn't have a consistent length, there's no character positional information possible with it, and the assignment of to an individual or business can vary depending on their access to a particular domain name.
Exactly right. Facebook is a man-in-the-middle attack on privacy...and it's all controlled by one company. Moreover, it's use is not voluntary since it has become the primary form of online communication between those under the age of 25. What is needed as an alternative is a open-source specification for a new social networking protocol that can be implemented on any server as a peer-to-peer system that will service any social networking client that conforms to the specification. Unfortunately, the only way that that could be implemented efficiently would be if every global user were assigned a unique alphanumeric identifier and THAT would take some sort of global registry maintained by some organization like the United Nations.
AGW science uses sophisticated computer modelling to show that the Earth's climate is driven by the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere...the 'forcing function'. The nuclear core theory provides for a nuclear reactor generating 4 terawatts of heat that must be continuously radiated into space. Moreover, the nuclear reactor output varies over time from full production to zero production to full production.
Such variation obviously has never happened or we would have seen major changes in the long-term climate. Therefore, the AGW science has thoroughly discredited the nuclear core science since there are obviously thousands of scientists who believe the AGW science versus only one or a handful who believe in nuclear core science and we have to give the verdict to the majority opinion. That's how we do science in the 21st century... As for TFA, is the Earth gaining or losing mass? Duh! + 40000 + 160 -15 = a whole lot of gain. There...solved that question too.
It's unlikely that this the first time that Google has done this in Kenya or anywhere else...especially considering that their Indian call centers are apparently involved.
From TFA: "To get a steady 40 MPG (let alone 50 MPG) out of any hybrid -- and I have driven all of them, extensively -- you must keep your speed under 50 MPH and treat the accelerator as if it were a Fabergé egg."
This is just bullsh*t. I've got a 2006 Prius that gets a very consistent 44 mpg on every tankfull with a combination of city and highway driving. We drive it just like any other of our cars and it's driven by old, middle-aged, and teen drivers and has 114k on the clock. If the Prius suddenly started getting 35 mpg, I'd assume something was very wrong with it (like one of the cylinders was not firing or an injector was clogged) and take it in to the dealer for a checkup.
Don't know what to suggest as tools but...at least the question is being asked. High schools today teach kids to be...users, not creators. Their idea of 'tech ed' is to teach kids to use a recent version of MS Word or Excel. Even the old English class standby has become more about reading stuff that someone else wrote and answering questions about it and much less about writing something new. The high school yearbook class has become all about snazzy software to present graphically-attractive pages rather than the content within. So...when someone wants to actually have kids work on creating a new video game, they are really swimming upstream against the current thinking. More power to 'em.
What would have been amazing is if the Kindle Fire had NOT had these sorts of problems. Amazon is trying to release a cutting edge tablet but has no corporate ability for hardware or software design and development. It's a little like buying an automobile from an airline or books from an oil company or something. Kudos to Amazon for doing as well as they did.
If Firefox gets most of its funding from either Google or (potentially) Microsoft doesn't that make them just another software outlet beholden to one very large company? Seems like a long way from the idea of open source software being supported by the donated time of thousands of dedicated volunteers. Am I missing something?
These observations will be repeated...and repeated...changed...and repeated...analyzed...repeated. But...what if the unthinkable is true and the observation is correct? What does that mean? Most likely, it means that the exotic structure proposed for space-time termed a 'wormhole' really exists and the neutrinos are somehow traversing one or more of these.
On the one hand, it says nuclear power is green, carbon-free, let's build more nukes. On the other hand, it says all of the cs137 and sr90 waste from those nukes should sit in unsafe temporary storage sites forever rather than send it to Yucca mountain safe storage in Nevada. If nothing else, TFA should be a reminder that every nuke is cranking out long-lived cs137 and sr90 isotopes every day and they WILL go somewhere...hopefully not into our food chain like Fukishima's did.
Trotting out a list of financial companies and then doing a pseudo-technical analysis to establish that they 'control' the economy seems like nothing but an effort at demagogy. For example, stockbrokers ALWAYS exercise a measure of control because most of their clients choose to have the stockbrokers retain their shares and vote them on their behalf. Similarly, every bank always exercises 'control' of the funds that you have on deposit so what would be suspicious is if there was a large bank that was NOT on the list. Everyone wants to hate financial companies when they have less wealth than they feel like they are entitled to. There will always be a few large financial companies in 'control' of the economy unless we enact legislation that limits the maximum size of financial companies in which case we would have more financial companies exercising control of the economy but nothing else otherwise much different. The alternative to having financial companies in 'control' of the economy is to have everyone keep their money in the form of gold bullion in their mattress (been there, done that) which would result in a shrunken world economy driven by barter or to have a huge government apparatus in 'control' (been there, done that too.)
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If you're going to pirate, do it on a big scale. It also helps that he's 92. By the time the MPAA collects from him, it'll just be a claim against his presumably small estate. Go get him, girls! The current laws are heavily skewed in favor of those who distribute content but new technology has made the distribution an almost trivial portion of the process. What we need are new laws that favor the content creators and the content consumers and just give a tiny fee to the middleman distributors (aka MPAA members) who don't actually provide anything useful anymore anyway. This story really highlights that. Here are the thousands of military people who are hungry for the content and there is the mountains of content that would make their lives better with the only obstacle being a lot of laws and rules that 'Big Hy' blasted right by out of compassion for those who serve.
Don't know about other hybrids but my 2006 Prius has 120K on it now and has never needed anything but maintenance and tires. It seems to still run as good as when it was new and it definitely saves a lot of fuel. Would I buy another one? Maybe...maybe not. It would depend on what I wanted the car for when the time came. If I was hauling firewood, towing trailers, transporting a big family or dealing with a mid-life crisis and needed a lot of raw power to impress women...then no. If I wanted reliable and thrifty transportation that hauls up to four fairly comfortably...then yes. TFA is misleading because...honestly...does ANYONE ever really buy the same car again? Our life circumstances change and the car we were happy with at one point is no longer suitable at a different stage. The 2-seater that we loved when we were 23 isn't so appealing when we're 34 with kids. That's just reality.
Aspartame artificial sweetener. It releases methanol, a known neurotoxin, as it is broken down in the body. Developing infants would be exposed when pregnant women drank diet pop, chewed chewing gum, or consumed other artificially-sweetened foods.
Domestic oil production is irrelevant to the pump price because the United States uses more (way more) oil than it produces domestically. The shortage is made up with imports and those are priced at the world market level. Sure...we could force the domestic oil companies to sell domestic oil at a below-market price...but all that would do is create cheaper gasoline in the part of the country where the domestic oil was refined and more expensive gasoline in the rest of the country. The benefits of doing that (cheaper prices to the favored few) are far outweighed by the cost to the national economy of an artificial pricing scheme such as that.
..."it could 'theoretically' power itself indefinitely"
The power-itself-indefinitely discovery is way more important than the 'swimming jellyfish' invention. The former would be an astounding change in our understanding of physics...while the latter is mere technology (important but not going to reorder the universe or anything). What the article is claiming is invented here is a method to separate hydrogen gas from the ocean using less energy to accomplish the capture than what they obtain in the captured hydrogen. If this is confirmed, we will no longer have to mess around drilling for oil. Instead, we'll just process seawater and capture hydrogen fuel. We can all use hydrogen-fueled cars, hydrogen-fueled power plants, and hydrogen-fueled snowmobiles. This discovery solves multiple crises including global warming, the global energy shortage, mideast war, petroleum shortages, the gas price at the pump, air pollution, and Obama's re-election. Who woulda thunk?
"And yet we do expect hydrogen and oxygen to self-assemble into water."
We expect chemical bonds to form and separate based on our current understanding of chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and entropy. We don't expect hydrogen molecules or oxygen molecules to self-assemble into some sort of unbelievably complex self-replicating machine.
"Intelligent Design (ID) is not scientific because if it where scientific it would provide a set of hypotheses which can be falsified..."
It's not incumbent upon a theory to provide its own hypotheses. Theories of self-assembly have not provided any hypotheses which can be 'falsified' or tested. The scientific process requires only that the scientist attempt to answer questions using objective measurable evidence. It does not require that anything that is not understood sufficiently to pose testable hypotheses cannot be true.
"ID claims the evolution is false and therefore ID must be true..."
No, it doesn't. ID only questions rather 'evolution' can even provide a mechanism for the origin of life. As mentioned in the earlier post, a self-assembling theory of creation (which is not evolution) is not substantiated by any work to date. Studies have identified such things as formation of amino acids, self-replicating RNA structures and the formation of crude non-functional artificial membranes but no study to date has ever shed any illumination on a process by which a functioning biological cell might have been formed. The process of evolution, on the other hand, is substantiated by countless studies of fossil evidence, and relationships among living creatures.
We don't expect to see a pile of bricks self-assemble themselves into a wall and yet the fundamental idea of 'Non-intelligent Design' is that amino acids and proteins self-assembled themselves into something unbelievably more complex...a functioning biological cell. The key concept behind 'Intelligent Design' is that someone or something had to create a plan and assemble the first few units which then began self-replicating and evolving based on the conditions they were living in. Call the creator 'God' or call it 'Extra-terrestrial Designer/Builder' but isn't that at the very least a viable explanation for the origins of life on Earth? Why should the theory of biological self-assembly be the only explanation considered scientifically viable? Recent self-assembly theories have attempted (desperately) to identify certain rock structures surrounding deep ocean thermal vents as a possible substrate for self-assembly but any close examination of that mechanism makes it appear as so much scientific hand-waving due to problems with sequence, complexity, protein chirality, length of time needed, etc. making the Intelligent Design theory appear to be well-substantiated in comparison. Human arrogance appears to exclude any extra-terrestrial origin based on nothing but 'We don't need no stinkin' outsider doing creation.'
Nuclear power is very expensive, generates toxic dangerous waste that requires long-term storage, and has the sizable potential to contaminate large areas of land making them uninhabitable for decades. Other power generation methods are much better.
5 years ago, you were considered a little nutty if you ranted about the loss of privacy on the internet. Now, in 2012, people are finally starting to realize that 1) loss of privacy on the internet has big consequences and 2) loss of privacy is not mandatory or required to use the internet. Those 'free' email addresses on gmail or hotmail are not really free but are paid for with your personal information and...that price is high.
On the first day, the denial-of-service attack resulted in 28 times the normal traffic to the church site, rising to 34 times the next day but did not crash the site.
The only way that evil can win is if good people fail to act. If the Catholic Church is the Body of Christ started by a divine Jesus Christ, then obviously wicked men practicing their pedophaelia or hackers targeting it's website cannot destroy the Church. Metaphorically speaking, they can load the pistol and pull the trigger but the weapon will misfire, their aim will be off, the shot will be deflected, or something else will happen that prevents the shot from reaching the target. Just sayin...
Incoming solar radiation would be about 121 petawatts, not 173 petawatts since you must consider the Earth's albedo which averages about 30 percent. More importantly, though, is your statement 'I doubt it's that sensitive' suggests that you miss the entire point about the AGW debate which is 'does the increase in atmospheric co2 concentration caused by man's use of fossil fuels change the earth's heat balance sufficiently to cause global surface temperatures to increase?' By definition, a change in the co2 concentration of a few tens of ppm would be a perturbation that only a very sensitive climate system would respond to given that by far the majority of the atmospheric 'greenhouse' effect is caused by not co2 but h2o which is both present in the atmosphere at a much higher concentration in its non-condensed form and has a much more potent ability to absorb outgoing radiant energy. Ergo, if you want to believe in AGW, you HAVE to believe that the climate is extremely sensitive to very small perturbations, such as might be caused by the cycling of the planetary reactor which is theorized to lie at the Earth's core. Finally, the 4 terawatt number is obviously a very rough estimate for the heat output from something that no one is even sure exists. The actual number may be orders of magnitude greater (or less) than that.
The funniest quote was from the University of Colorado Professor Wahr who states: ""It is awfully dangerous to take an eight-year record and predict even the next eight years, let alone the next century," he said." That's what us deniers say! Maybe we are reaching a 'consensus.' He prefaces his comments by saying: "Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year, people should be just as worried about the melting of the world's ice as they were before." I can assure Professor Wahr that denier concern levels about the melting of the world's ice is unchanged from before the release of the study. Most importantly for Prof. Wahr, 'everyone else' is still solidly behind the 'we are losing huge amounts of ice' school of thought in spite of the pesky Himalaya study.
*boggle* Whatever you're smoking, you should probably cut back, at least during the day.
If I understand your comment, you're suggesting that an alphanumeric identifier is either only useful for someone smoking a hallucinegenic substance or, perhaps, would only be possible for people smoking that substance? Actually, you use these sorts of things every day. For example, your telephone number, your social security number, your driver's license number, your mailing address string, your medical insurance plan number, etc. Facebook, of course, uses your email address which is nothing but an alphanumeric identifier. The email address could be used but would be less efficient because it doesn't have a consistent length, there's no character positional information possible with it, and the assignment of to an individual or business can vary depending on their access to a particular domain name.
Exactly right. Facebook is a man-in-the-middle attack on privacy...and it's all controlled by one company. Moreover, it's use is not voluntary since it has become the primary form of online communication between those under the age of 25. What is needed as an alternative is a open-source specification for a new social networking protocol that can be implemented on any server as a peer-to-peer system that will service any social networking client that conforms to the specification. Unfortunately, the only way that that could be implemented efficiently would be if every global user were assigned a unique alphanumeric identifier and THAT would take some sort of global registry maintained by some organization like the United Nations.
AGW science uses sophisticated computer modelling to show that the Earth's climate is driven by the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere...the 'forcing function'. The nuclear core theory provides for a nuclear reactor generating 4 terawatts of heat that must be continuously radiated into space. Moreover, the nuclear reactor output varies over time from full production to zero production to full production.
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Such variation obviously has never happened or we would have seen major changes in the long-term climate. Therefore, the AGW science has thoroughly discredited the nuclear core science since there are obviously thousands of scientists who believe the AGW science versus only one or a handful who believe in nuclear core science and we have to give the verdict to the majority opinion. That's how we do science in the 21st century... As for TFA, is the Earth gaining or losing mass? Duh! + 40000 + 160 -15 = a whole lot of gain. There...solved that question too.
It's unlikely that this the first time that Google has done this in Kenya or anywhere else...especially considering that their Indian call centers are apparently involved.
From TFA: "To get a steady 40 MPG (let alone 50 MPG) out of any hybrid -- and I have driven all of them, extensively -- you must keep your speed under 50 MPH and treat the accelerator as if it were a Fabergé egg."
This is just bullsh*t. I've got a 2006 Prius that gets a very consistent 44 mpg on every tankfull with a combination of city and highway driving. We drive it just like any other of our cars and it's driven by old, middle-aged, and teen drivers and has 114k on the clock. If the Prius suddenly started getting 35 mpg, I'd assume something was very wrong with it (like one of the cylinders was not firing or an injector was clogged) and take it in to the dealer for a checkup.
Don't know what to suggest as tools but...at least the question is being asked. High schools today teach kids to be...users, not creators. Their idea of 'tech ed' is to teach kids to use a recent version of MS Word or Excel. Even the old English class standby has become more about reading stuff that someone else wrote and answering questions about it and much less about writing something new. The high school yearbook class has become all about snazzy software to present graphically-attractive pages rather than the content within. So...when someone wants to actually have kids work on creating a new video game, they are really swimming upstream against the current thinking. More power to 'em.
What would have been amazing is if the Kindle Fire had NOT had these sorts of problems. Amazon is trying to release a cutting edge tablet but has no corporate ability for hardware or software design and development. It's a little like buying an automobile from an airline or books from an oil company or something. Kudos to Amazon for doing as well as they did.
If Firefox gets most of its funding from either Google or (potentially) Microsoft doesn't that make them just another software outlet beholden to one very large company? Seems like a long way from the idea of open source software being supported by the donated time of thousands of dedicated volunteers. Am I missing something?
I wouldn't trust Zuckerberg to watch my dog and yet 100s of millions of people entrust his company with their most personal information. Odd, that.
These observations will be repeated...and repeated...changed...and repeated...analyzed...repeated. But...what if the unthinkable is true and the observation is correct? What does that mean? Most likely, it means that the exotic structure proposed for space-time termed a 'wormhole' really exists and the neutrinos are somehow traversing one or more of these.
On the one hand, it says nuclear power is green, carbon-free, let's build more nukes. On the other hand, it says all of the cs137 and sr90 waste from those nukes should sit in unsafe temporary storage sites forever rather than send it to Yucca mountain safe storage in Nevada. If nothing else, TFA should be a reminder that every nuke is cranking out long-lived cs137 and sr90 isotopes every day and they WILL go somewhere...hopefully not into our food chain like Fukishima's did.
Trotting out a list of financial companies and then doing a pseudo-technical analysis to establish that they 'control' the economy seems like nothing but an effort at demagogy. For example, stockbrokers ALWAYS exercise a measure of control because most of their clients choose to have the stockbrokers retain their shares and vote them on their behalf. Similarly, every bank always exercises 'control' of the funds that you have on deposit so what would be suspicious is if there was a large bank that was NOT on the list. Everyone wants to hate financial companies when they have less wealth than they feel like they are entitled to. There will always be a few large financial companies in 'control' of the economy unless we enact legislation that limits the maximum size of financial companies in which case we would have more financial companies exercising control of the economy but nothing else otherwise much different. The alternative to having financial companies in 'control' of the economy is to have everyone keep their money in the form of gold bullion in their mattress (been there, done that) which would result in a shrunken world economy driven by barter or to have a huge government apparatus in 'control' (been there, done that too.)