Being a KY resident, I can also provide some further insight.
Our governor, Steve Beshear, had the wild idea awhile back that building casinos all over the state would fix our economic troubles. Well, turns out not many people agreed with him and his idea didn't go through. There are a lot of people with a lot of money who are very mad at him now. So, if he can't build them shiny new casinos, the least he could do is get these other guys to stop 'stealing their business'.
Actually, to my understanding the ruling is that the Site Owners have 30 days to block all KY traffic on their respective sites. If they do not comply, their Domains will be acquired by the state.
So yeah, they're gonna appeal.
The US Banking indusry was destroyed by Woodrow Wilson in 1913 when he created the Feral Reserve. And I quote:
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
-Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence.
Free Market is not the problem. It is government involvement in said Free Market which creates ALL the issues.
I certainly agree with you on creating a nuclear agenda, but the big pitfall there seems to be getting investors behind the idea. On the social scale, nuclear is simply not trusted (again, yet), and it will be difficult to grow the confidence of the same financiers who lost billions in the same industry many years ago.
What a waste. There is a reason that this has not been developed faster. I would venture to guess that there is a LOT of heat dissipation (ie wasted energy) with this process. Also, the surface area required to obtain the same amount of energy as a solar cell must be much larger. Our resources should be focused on making more efficient batteries and solar cells rather than trying to bake the world's largest potato.
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Being a KY resident, I can also provide some further insight. Our governor, Steve Beshear, had the wild idea awhile back that building casinos all over the state would fix our economic troubles. Well, turns out not many people agreed with him and his idea didn't go through. There are a lot of people with a lot of money who are very mad at him now. So, if he can't build them shiny new casinos, the least he could do is get these other guys to stop 'stealing their business'.
Actually, to my understanding the ruling is that the Site Owners have 30 days to block all KY traffic on their respective sites. If they do not comply, their Domains will be acquired by the state. So yeah, they're gonna appeal.
The US Banking indusry was destroyed by Woodrow Wilson in 1913 when he created the Feral Reserve. And I quote:
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
-Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence.
Free Market is not the problem. It is government involvement in said Free Market which creates ALL the issues.
I certainly agree with you on creating a nuclear agenda, but the big pitfall there seems to be getting investors behind the idea. On the social scale, nuclear is simply not trusted (again, yet), and it will be difficult to grow the confidence of the same financiers who lost billions in the same industry many years ago.
What a waste. There is a reason that this has not been developed faster. I would venture to guess that there is a LOT of heat dissipation (ie wasted energy) with this process. Also, the surface area required to obtain the same amount of energy as a solar cell must be much larger. Our resources should be focused on making more efficient batteries and solar cells rather than trying to bake the world's largest potato.