"The original post implies that nuclear plants have been turned down for decades and now suddenly they aren't. This is bullshit."
This is slashdot ideology. Ideology doesn't have to have any basis in reality, you just need enough "libertarians" shouting about something angrily enough and long enough to establish it as a fact.
I don't particularly care what Francis Fukuyama does with his free time, though I guess the more time he spends working on electronics hobbies the less time he can dedicate to screwing up the world through his incompetence.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
"he problem with the anti-Apple crowd is its sheer ignorance of reality just to make their distorted views seem accurate. The fact of the matter is that in the mobile market Apple simply has the best products, as is evidenced by sales figures [ijailbreak.com] and customer opinions [changewaveresearch.com]. I know the truth hurts, but put on your big boy pants and accept reality for what it is."
So we measure sales figures as representing product quality? You do realize you're essentially admitting that Windows is a far better operating system than OS X in that case?
I think the other characters didn't think it was justified, they just figured that now that it's done at least reap the benefit. They still wish they'd prevented it in the first place.
I've only seen people speculating that if either the U.S. or U.K. government was irritated enough by Sealand they could take it over quite easily, thus disproving the theory that this would be some way to protect wikipedia servers. "Fear" doesn't enter the picture.
True, there are a lot of grey areas in international law; I just don't think Sealand is anywhere near one of these grey areas. Under every legitimate theory I am aware of Sealand is the property of the UK.
It doesn't have to deal with Sealand specifically, as it applies and any boundary issues with France are irrelevant to the Sealand issue because Sealand is clearly closer to England. There are later modifications to the law setting specific coordinate boundaries at some locations.
Honestly, Sealand has no legitimate sovereignty under any orthodox interpretation of international law or UK domestic law.
Which ruled in 1968, when the UK's territorial seas only extended 3 miles. That case has been superseded by the Territorial Sea Act of 1987 which extended the territorial sea to 12 nautical miles.
You can't honestly imagine a company would invest BILLIONS to only be compensated for that investment if they're first to do something?
The X-Prize does NOT show the approach is sound. Look at who won; SpaceShipOne cost $100 million to build, so the project is in the hole $90 million dollars. Not every project will have a bored billionaire paying for it. And did SpaceShipOne do anything that the U.S. government hadn't already done decades before?
"Newt wants to take some small portion of the NASA budget to issue X-Prize style prizes that move private industry forward in the goal of a lunar space colony."
Ahhh, so he wants to just institute incredibly ineffective policies. Alright, that makes more sense.
Never been to America, have we? Always hilarious how the brits especially like to compare apples and oranges so they can say how great their apples are. "Ugh, American restaurants are dreadful, my local three star high-end restaurant does much better steaks than that Denny's I went to outside Omaha." There are many, many different kinds of cheeses in the United States, and not all of them are made in a factory.
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"The original post implies that nuclear plants have been turned down for decades and now suddenly they aren't. This is bullshit."
This is slashdot ideology. Ideology doesn't have to have any basis in reality, you just need enough "libertarians" shouting about something angrily enough and long enough to establish it as a fact.
I don't particularly care what Francis Fukuyama does with his free time, though I guess the more time he spends working on electronics hobbies the less time he can dedicate to screwing up the world through his incompetence. http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
"he problem with the anti-Apple crowd is its sheer ignorance of reality just to make their distorted views seem accurate. The fact of the matter is that in the mobile market Apple simply has the best products, as is evidenced by sales figures [ijailbreak.com] and customer opinions [changewaveresearch.com]. I know the truth hurts, but put on your big boy pants and accept reality for what it is."
So we measure sales figures as representing product quality? You do realize you're essentially admitting that Windows is a far better operating system than OS X in that case?
"iOS crashes more than Android"
The article promised us a "surprising" result. Where is it?
I think the other characters didn't think it was justified, they just figured that now that it's done at least reap the benefit. They still wish they'd prevented it in the first place.
Yep I have always been amazed at the disconnect between how Wine really runs and how the linux kool-aid drinkers think it runs.
You could pick one that doesn't violate the DMCA and probably be safe.
I've only seen people speculating that if either the U.S. or U.K. government was irritated enough by Sealand they could take it over quite easily, thus disproving the theory that this would be some way to protect wikipedia servers. "Fear" doesn't enter the picture.
Alternately, the Royal Navy can say "hey, what are you doing on HM Fort Roughs? That's a naval installation."
"I find it amusing that Americans could be so fearful of a couple of guys thousands of miles away marooned on a platform in the ocean."
Uhhh...huh? Can you name a single person who has indicated fear?
True, there are a lot of grey areas in international law; I just don't think Sealand is anywhere near one of these grey areas. Under every legitimate theory I am aware of Sealand is the property of the UK.
It was never a sovereign state, though; the UK certainly never recognized it as such.
It doesn't have to deal with Sealand specifically, as it applies and any boundary issues with France are irrelevant to the Sealand issue because Sealand is clearly closer to England. There are later modifications to the law setting specific coordinate boundaries at some locations.
Honestly, Sealand has no legitimate sovereignty under any orthodox interpretation of international law or UK domestic law.
No, that's not how it works in the Anglo-American system. A duly-enacted statute can override a previous high court decision.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/49
Which ruled in 1968, when the UK's territorial seas only extended 3 miles. That case has been superseded by the Territorial Sea Act of 1987 which extended the territorial sea to 12 nautical miles.
Sealand is 6 miles away from the coast of the UK, and thus lies within the UK's territorial waters. It is UK territory and best described as such.
So might as well go with the ambler.
You can't honestly imagine a company would invest BILLIONS to only be compensated for that investment if they're first to do something? The X-Prize does NOT show the approach is sound. Look at who won; SpaceShipOne cost $100 million to build, so the project is in the hole $90 million dollars. Not every project will have a bored billionaire paying for it. And did SpaceShipOne do anything that the U.S. government hadn't already done decades before?
Plus you can get free samples of food while you're there.
Yep, me too.
"Newt wants to take some small portion of the NASA budget to issue X-Prize style prizes that move private industry forward in the goal of a lunar space colony." Ahhh, so he wants to just institute incredibly ineffective policies. Alright, that makes more sense.
I really don't understand people like you. Why do you have such an emotional investment in a large corporation like that?
Best part is, like always, you can avoid all responsibility for your problems by placing all the blame on the eeeeevil Americans.
Never been to America, have we? Always hilarious how the brits especially like to compare apples and oranges so they can say how great their apples are. "Ugh, American restaurants are dreadful, my local three star high-end restaurant does much better steaks than that Denny's I went to outside Omaha." There are many, many different kinds of cheeses in the United States, and not all of them are made in a factory.