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  1. Re:FRIB on Scientists Build Graphene From Scratch, Atom By Atom · · Score: 2

    You can't be a thinking country without being a making country.

    Once you don't make anything, why would anybody waste time thinking?

  2. Re:obligatory... on Mastering Engineer Explains Types of Compression, Effects On Today's Music · · Score: 1

    Not much chance of that happening. ;)

    And, you guys are a riot

    -oh. It's all bits and pieces then, how unusual for /.

    It isn't nice of us to pick on the mentally handicapped though.

    - we are very civil, could never be accused by anybody of anything.

  3. Re:obligatory... on Mastering Engineer Explains Types of Compression, Effects On Today's Music · · Score: 2

    Actually those won't be the issue for you, as long as you don't accidentally allow other people closer than about 17.8 meters to your equipment. You see, the natural current condensation that is transferred through your power outlets has already harmonised with your own natural molecular frequency, so from your perspective you don't want to disturb the gentle balance you already have there. Just make sure to wrap a few pieces of tin foil around yourself to achieve electrostatic balance as well (aluminium would work, but it's increases the tremble a bit), you don't want static anywhere near yourself.

    But if other people come closer than the mentioned distance, it is likely to cause disharmonisation of the wave field particles, then you are in trouble, you'd need bring a large container of argon and flush the place.

    Incidentally, women carry more of the disharmonization charge, so stay as far as possible, you wouldn't want to spawn a spontaneous electron discharge or cause the high gain/low noise mixing to have current bleeding topology interrupted. You want to keep performance high with the effect of current injection and local oscillator (LO) manual amplification instead.

  4. Re:not going to happen. on Russia Has Sights Set On Manned Moon Landing By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Their audience just lives such self-hating crap.

    - there isn't anything 'self-hating' there at all, it's an objective observation of fact. Of-course between 1992 and 2009 I observed this fact from a very large distance (also working and later contracting for various employers, and some of them had billions of dollars of revenue). Since I decided to build up my own line of products and gotten myself at least one client back in that country, it became possible to form a much more precise opinion based on much more specific and more in-depth knowledge.

  5. not going to happen. on Russia Has Sights Set On Manned Moon Landing By 2030 · · Score: 1

    This is not going to happen given the political and economic situation in the country.

    The economic situation follows the political one, and there is NO NEW CATEGORIES OF WEALTH created in Russia. It's all the same thing: pump oil and gas and cut some logs and mine some metals and then sell all this stuff, but it really does not require that many people working compared to the entire population.

    The political situation is such that the old categories of wealth are plenty enough to keep a gigantic bureaucratic apparatus going, feeding off those pipes and shipping routes and containers, etc.

    The people in Russia who are not politicians and are not connected (the majority) cannot really run their own independent businesses without getting clobbered, all of the real investment money goes ONLY towards big national and quasi national corporations to do the same thing - move energy and raw materials out of the grounds and sell it.

    The manufacturing numbers are falling.

    The overall wealth of individuals is falling.

    The inflation is rampant (10 and more % per year) and this reflects in prices fairly consistently.

    The lack of manufacturing and huge inflation leads to stagnation, underproduction, lack of savings, lack of investment into private independent businesses. This leads to decrease of standard of living of individuals.

    The ONLY way to 'fund' this insane project is to divert a stream of gas or a stream of oil or something similar towards it, and then what else? Taxes. Raise more taxes on already overtaxed businesses.

    In USA the taxes for businesses start at 50% and go up to 95% (all real actual compound aggregate taxes), all while the political class is using class warfare tactics to diver attention from its own behaviour that destroys individual rights and liberties and the economy.

    In Russia there are no individual rights and liberties anyway, the political class is a simple minded Mafia structure, WHY would it do any of this stuff that it promises during elections?

    Why? Well, it's simple - try to raise some sort of national idea, it is a diversion. There will be no Russian moon station with people by 2030 nor by 2070.

  6. Re:Engineering shortage? on Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers · · Score: 1

    Jesus, dude, then you are not talking about tons, then you are talking about megatons.

    Get with the program.

  7. Re:Engineering shortage? on Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers · · Score: 1

    This isn't true. It depends on the company of course, but in my experience, at the large companies (like Intel), there's tons of women.

    - an interesting choice for a measurement unit: 'tons of women'.

    In many cases 'tons of women' is really only a few heads.

  8. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone disputes the necessity of auto insurance or the laws requiring it.

    - I DO DISPUTE IT.

    Your statement is proven false.

    --

    It is none of government's business whether I have insurance or not. Also government shouldn't even be allowed to build or operate or own roads and to have anything to do with licensing drivers.

  9. WITCHES! on Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    WITCHES!!

    BURN THEM!

  10. Re:End copyrights and patents - just one more reas on Indian Gov't Uses Special Powers To Slash Cancer Drug Price By 97% · · Score: 1

    Pure nonsense. The only reason the R&D takes all that money is that FDA is standing in the way with its requirements not only for safety but also for proving efficacy, while the market would do that just fine on its own.

  11. Re:End copyrights and patents - just one more reas on Indian Gov't Uses Special Powers To Slash Cancer Drug Price By 97% · · Score: 1

    that's a really weird argument, because to do testing of drug safety, there is no test of how the drugs are made, there are all sorts of tests against more and more complex organisms (going up the ladder towards animals and then humans).

  12. End copyrights and patents - just one more reason on Indian Gov't Uses Special Powers To Slash Cancer Drug Price By 97% · · Score: 1

    This just proves my point, that I am making here for a long time - patents and copyrights are gov't subsidised nonsense and you see how a gov't can easily confiscate something from you, you thought you had in your pocket anyway.

    Copyrights and patents need to be abolished and for companies that produce drugs this is only a plus in a situation where it's really their own research, it's called: trade secret.

    Sure, pills can be reverse engineered, but that's always the case. The difficult part in many situations is not what is but how it is made, the difficult part in many cases is the actual manufacturing process.

    As to the /. crowd, who is very often against the suggestion of ending copyrights, because many here believe that they have some 'natural right' to be given a government subsidy in form of a patent or a copyright - that's not a natural right.

    You have some information that you don't want anybody to have? Don't release it or release it only under strict non-disclosure act. You don't get any protections from government against people plagiarising your work, and that's it. You have other tools in your disposal: trade secrets, a strong brand (I am not against trademarks by the way, but again, not trade marks that are enforced by government in any way :)

  13. Re:Fake on Nanoscale Race Car Gets 3D Printed With a Laser · · Score: 1

    I bet it's going to sound crappy too, it'll be a rip off, just like this 'vehicle', and it's not really nano either - too big for that.

  14. Re:Not really nanoscale on Nanoscale Race Car Gets 3D Printed With a Laser · · Score: 2

    The only legitimate question remains, and it's this:

    Dude, where is my car?!

  15. Fake on Nanoscale Race Car Gets 3D Printed With a Laser · · Score: 0

    The ONLY reason I clicked on this link and went to see the story is that I thought it was a real race car printed on a 3d printer with a laser. I didn't even care to see the shark that the laser was attached to. /. tricked me at looking into TFA and I find it abhorrent, absolutely unacceptable behaviour on the part of /. - tricking people to click on TFA link.

    Oh, it's not a real car, did I mention that?

    Nano car. Crap.

  16. Re:Not true on Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad · · Score: 1

    Oh, did I forget to mention that everything being incidental to the profit of companies as long as the profits to their shareholders are maximised is a GOOD thing? It is a good thing.

    It is the best thing we can hope for - that all people always act in their own self interest, as long as this does not capture the government system.

  17. Re:Not true on Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad · · Score: 1

    That's simply a fine tuned lie, designed for your consumption.

    The first and foremost responsibility of any company, including J&J is to their shareholders.

    EVERYTHING else is incidental to their profit. Everything.

  18. That's right.
    Philips TV - this could well be iPad.

  19. Apple never has been, nor will they ever be the only company to do this. IMO, any company who does this is run by jerks. I realize companies exist to maintain profit for their shareholders, but that doesn't mean you have to be a jerk at every opportunity.

    - a company must always apply maximum of what it can to beat the competition, every single thing, if it means that some people think they are jerks, it means they are doing it right.

  20. Re:Apple TV is an iPad accessory on Third-Generation Apple TV Lands With a Thud · · Score: 0

    I think the following quote is in order:

    In the game of chess you can never let your opponent see your pieces

    But I also think this next quote really sums it up nicely:

    The quickest way to a girl's bed is through her parents. Have sex with them and you're in.

  21. Re:I'm an exception to the rule on Humans Are Nicer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many more kicks to the head you need in order to learn.

  22. Re:It amazes me that we have to keep rediscovering on Humans Are Nicer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    Guilt? They better not feel guilt. There is absolutely nothing to be guilty about - life is tough, either you come on top or you sink, there is no third option.

  23. Re:Canoes intead of trolleys on Humans Are Nicer Than We Think · · Score: 1

    The fat guy needs to be proactive and kick a couple of smaller people into the water. He must do it, otherwise it's clearly a dictatorial majority 'democracy' bullshit of 4 against 1 based on a visible difference between otherwise similar people.

  24. Re:Bottom line: never cooperate with the authoriti on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 1

    When in jury duty on cases involving an individual vs government, always nullify the law.

    In all cases where gov't is on one side and individual is on the other, government is always wrong and individual is always right.

  25. Re:Easy fix? on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 1

    Two words: inner thigh.