Why do I keep having to say this? If you think that there are no problems with nuclear power, move to Chernobyl or Fukushima. Put your physical well being where you mouth is. It easy to make inane geeky comments when you don't have any stake in the real consequences of failure.
Can India, China or Viet Nam build one reactor and keep it safe? Perhaps. Can they build dozens and have them all work without a disaster? Absolutely not. There is not a sufficient culture of regulatory independence to insure safe operation. If the regulators failed in Japan, do you think they will succeed in any of these countries?
It is not even clear the the US or any of the European countries are immune from this kind of failure. The only way we will find out that there is a problem is when the radiation detectors go off.
Want an example? Half the licensed nuclear facilities in the US are not in compliance whit NRC fire regulations.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is routinely waiving fire rule violations at nearly half the nation's 104 commercial reactors, even though fire presents one of the chief hazards at nuclear plants.
The policy, the result of a series of little-noticed decisions in recent years, is meant to encourage nuclear companies to remedy longstanding fire safety problems. But critics say it is leaving decades-old fire hazards in place as the NRC fails to enforce its own rules.
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At the Browns Ferry plant in Alabama, where a devastating cable fire 36 years ago prompted the NRC to adopt tough new fire rules, the plant still doesn't comply with the requirements to protect cables.
This is not about Assange and alleged criminal behavior, it's about silencing someone who made powerful figures look stupid.
The "crime" that he is accused of is almost never prosecuted in Sweden. This may be the first time in the history of the Swedish judicial system that anyone has been extradited for this class of offense. One of the accusers has left the country and is not available for either the prosecution or defense.
There is little chance of justice in this circumstance. He is being railroaded. The international banking system has shut down WikiLeaks. How is he going to be fairly defended? By some junior public defender? If you believe that you must also still believe in the tooth fairy.
The US is pulling every string they can to destroy Assange and WikiLeaks. I think they are planning to extradite him to the US or, if they think that they can get away with it, Guantanamo. Even if he ends up on US soil, they will give him the same treatment they gave Manning, which is real torture. Sleep deprivation, using the pretense of a suicide watch to keep the subject unclothed and with no bedding, multiple day interrogation by rotating teams of unaccountable "contractors", no real access to legal assistance. You don't have to inflict direct pain to effectively torture someone.
Just watch for Sweden to get some sort of sweet economic deal from the US as a reward of they get Assange. A new military base, some sort of co-development in the artic, joint mineral development. whatever. That's how the CIA got secret prisons in Poland. The Polish government got the promise of the anti-missile bases, which would have put a big long term chunk of US dollars into their economy. It's called bribery, and it works (at least in the sort run).
I almost can't believe that you expect "justice" in this relentless pursuit of Assange and WikiLeaks. Are you really that stupid? You really should spend more time over here in the real world, as opposed to whatever fantasy you seem to be inhabiting.
His position is so abstract that it does not reflect reality.
What is the hardware equivalent of Bezos' One Click patent? A binary switch? With software/business patents the way they are, you can patent trivial features and then extract fees or at least gum up the works for actual innovation. Do hardware patents allow someone to patent a set of logic gates and then scan all existing designs for that subset of logic? That would be the equivalent situation.
Do hardware designers have to not use obvious logic design patterns because some not very bright examiner said they belong to someone else? Even CPU instruction sets are not patentable. I think that you can copyright an instruction set representation (the human readable form), but not the bit patterns and execution results. (This may have changed since I was involved in this area a long lime ago.)
So the guy who started the current mess is defending his bad idea. Why am I not surprised? Has he any other real accomplishments, or is this his only claim to fame? As far as I can tell his only "innovation" was dragging software down to the level of scummy lawyers.
Why are you bringing up unions in this context? All the positions being discussed are exempt, so there are no unions involved in either the direct government employment or contractor situations. It's all white collar work.
So if you don't like what unions do, why are you OK with the inefficiency and corruption of the big military contractors? I've seen the inside of high tech military contracting from the inside, and it stinks. If you don't hire the right number and rank of retired military officers you will not get the contracts. Once you get over the half billion annual business mark you had better have at least one general on your board of directors. Over a billion and you need multiple ex-generals with more then one star each.
As for "campaign contributions" (aka bribes), they are even more direct then the retired brass hats. With the ex-military you just need someone, they are not required to have direct knowledge of the project, they just have to be there. This lets the current people in uniform know that you are a participating member of their future employment pool, and that as long as outfits like yours are in business they will never lack for a fat paycheck to pile on top of the military pension and lifetime health benefits.
When you "support" (bribe) a federal elected official, they know who is paying the bill. You are paying for access and congressional set asides. It is pure pay to play. Grease the right palm and you get the congressional set aside. The only competition is if there is a bigger defense contractor in the same district who will get to the funds before you do.
I've see this first hand. And I haven't even talked about the all expense paid vacations and the socializing that is not "official business", so it's off the record.
Do you hang your KKK outfit in the closet where it won't get wrinkled but someone might see it, or do you fold it in a drawer where it might get wrinkled but is out of sight?
Let's look at one figure, the percentage change in the national debt. Take the two terms (Regan, Bush) before Clinton, and the two terms after him (Bush). Negative numbers are decreases, positive increases.
Regan +9.3%
George H. W. Bush +13.0%
Clinton -0.07%
Clinton -9.0%
George H. Bush +7.1%
George H. Bush +20.7%
The last time a Republican president decreased the National debt was Richard Nixon in his first term in 1973, +3.0%. This was over 9 presidential terms ago, over 36 years.
So when Republicans try and trash Clinton's economic record, they always quote misleading figures. Also known as lying.
You are dangerous, incompetent and unprofessional. I sincerely hope that you never work on any system that could even remotely threaten anyone's well being, either physical, mental or economic. There is no such thing as self documenting code. That idea was disproved with COBOL. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Despite some of the ill founded comments in this discussion, natural language is not comparable to computer language. Programming is closer to mathematics then human language. In the same way that mathematical expressions are always combined with text, code requires comments. No one expects to understand mathematics by just looking at equations, and no one should expect to understand code without comments.
Human language is reflexive in a way that software is not. This means that understanding software requires information that cannot be expressed in code statements. In order to be comprehensible, particularly when multiple people are involved, comments are a necessity. If you don't understand this you should really be in another line of work.
Move to Fukushima. Or Chernobyl, take your pick. Go now. Since you don't believe that there is any fundamental problem with nuclear power, you can ignore both the radiation issues and the complete collapse of the local economy in both locations. No problem.
And there will never be a melt down in China, because they do such a good job of building infrastructure that is failure proof.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-07-28/china-high-speed-rail-crash-likely-caused-by-signal-flaw.html
Beijing National Railway Research & Design Institute of Signal & Communication Co. apologized to the families of people killed or injured in the crash and said it would cooperate with the investigation, according to a letter posted today on its website. The company, a unit of state-owned China Railway Signal & Communication Corp, didn’t say what equipment it had supplied or designed.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201107250340.html Concerning the burying of a train car after the accident, a source in Japan who investigates train accidents said, "Investigative agencies in China are not very independent, and I have heard that in many cases they are influenced by what the government wants done."
After all the Japanese, one of the most technically advanced countries in the world, had four reactors explode due to regulatory failure. All it took to keep this worse case scenario from occurring was a bigger sea wall. But that would have cost some money, and be a public admission that there was an earthquake problem.
So China, which has no effectively independent regulators, will have no problems with the largest expansion of fission power in the history of the world. Care to bet your life on that? There are literally millions of Chinese citizens who are having that bet made for them, and they have no choice in the matter. Since you are so sure there is no danger, maybe your best move would be to relocate as close as you can to one of their reactors. They will be the leaders of the 21st century, as you said, and you should be where the actions is.
You really have a chip on your shoulder. This is a issue that is important for browser side environment, it's not about Java. Are you feeling insecure?
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed tells the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the airplane and the rigid airship--huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. It flies aerodynamically. It floats aerostatically. It carries bridges, buildings, fleets of trucks. It is a flying warehouse. It eliminates the need for roads, railroads, prepared harbors. Or so goes the dream. With an arching back and a deep belly, it looks like a tremendous pumpkin seed.
Your response is intrinsically stupid. What you are saying is that "two wrongs make a right."
In the first place, NPR is not the anti-Fox. It is just another news outlet. How does a failure at NPR relate in any way to bad behavior at Fox? Your argument implies complete contempt for the concept of "fair and balanced" and assumes that all news is propaganda and intentionally biased.
In the second place, you are saying that as long as the "opposition" does something wrong, it justifies bad behavior on your side. That's a completely immoral position. Yet here you are, defending Fox by pointing the finger at someone else. As far as I know no religion condones this kind of response. It's like two kids fighting, and each saying the other person is to blame. Where is the adult behavior? Your argument is empty of both logic and morality.
I don't know how you were raised, but in my family I would have never been allowed to say this sort of thing. You need to grow up and start behaving as a reasonable adult, not like a grotesquely self centered child. I hope that you don't apply the same "logic" in the rest of your life, because if you do you are a danger to yourself and others.
But how does the FSM escape being eaten by the very large and hungry T-Rex? I know that sometimes just hearing about the FSM makes be a bit peckish myself.
What they want is to patent the wheel, so they can ride and the rest of us (peasants) can walk in the ruts. They deny the concept of the greater good, because they are degenerate sadistic elitists.
I have been thinking recently that the USA and Russia have been following the same course since the end of the cold war. Both countries have been taken over by government/business oligarchies that are ruining both the economies and the political culture of their respective nations. Hearing this kind of crap makes me even more fearful that I am right,.
I am starting to think that the only way to rid ourselves of these parasites is with ropes, pitchforks and torches, like Frankenstein and Dracula. Except it will be in color on TV.
"a pretty bad idea for Microsoft to get involved in the unfocused, money-losing Yahoo."
Am I wrong, or is the phrase "unfocused, money-losing" pretty much the definition of the stuff that Microsoft is rolling out these days? SilverLight, Bing, Zune,.NET languages,...
Combining Larry Elson with Steve Ballmer would form s material that could rend the very substance of space-time itself!!! Stop this madness before the universe is destroyed!!! There are some things that mere mortals should not even contemplate!!!
Moore is a wacky genius, so normal rules don't necessarily apply. For an earlier stage of this project, besides designing his own computer architecture to run his own minimal version of Forth called ColorForth, he also wrote his own CAD package in Forth. http://www.colorforth.com/vlsi.html Not only did he do his own CAD, but his own VLSI simulation. One of his goals was to use as few transistors as possible. I have no idea if any of this made it into this chip, but there is some chance that it did. If so, then the estimates for the number of masks based on normal industry practice would be too high.
This is all completely guess work on my part, completely unfettered by any facts. I was just surprised to see the low cost per chip, given that this is a very non-mainstream product. WHen I have looked at the cost of other opens source CPU chips they have been much more expensive.
I just ran some quick numbers, and with an 8 inch wafer they can get more then 200 of these CPUs. Each die is so small that their yield should be very high. A run of just 5 wafers would be around 10,000 units. I think this is reflected in their pricing. The minimum order is 10 chips for $200 US. They have an eval board with two chips, 288 CPUs for $450. This seems a little steep given the raw CPU price.
It will be a complete bitch to program. The native Forth is a tiny subset of standard Forth. There is a more normal higher level Forth that can be run on top of the native one, but this would have a dramatic impact on performance. Each CPU has almost no memory. The code space size per CPU is only 512 instructions. Forth is compact, but that is still a really small amount of code. Any meaningful computation requires that algorithm be distributed across the array. Also, the CPU is implemented in asynchronous logic. Just imaging the opportunities for obscure timing errors. As far as large scale users are concerned, I don't see who would want to use something this non main stream.
I suggest that you never use a weather report for the rest of your life, asshole. Where do you think weather satellites come from, Santy Claus? Any moron knows that without the Feds there would be no weather satellites. I guess you're not even at the level of the average moron.
Of course without the benefit of global weather forecasts international shipping by air and sea would be a lot more expensive, so you should also give up anything made outside North American.
And no GPS for you either. So that means no automated tellers, because they all use GPS time signals for synchronizing transactions.
So just get the hell out of here, since you have no regard for all the technology that has been developed by the US government in the 20th and 21st century. Go to Somalia, or the tribal areas in Pakastan/Iraq, or some other shithole were you can experience the glory of living without technology, or courts and law, or electricity, clean water or medical care. Because without state and federal government none of these things exist.
I'm fed up with freeloading asshats like you whining about the government while you expect all the comfort and perks of civilization handed to you for free on a silver platter. If you can't appreciate what you have here then get the fuck out.
Isotropically pure diamonds, either all C-12 or all C-13, have 50% higher thermal conductivity then isotropically mixed diamonds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopically_pure_diamond When using graphene for this kind of measurement, do they also use a single isotope of carbon? Does it make any difference if the carbon used in not isotropically pure?
This is classic lying right wing Republican bullshit. Find an entertainment figure that you despise, then trash what they say in order to make Democrats seem like idiots. It's called an ad hominem argument, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem and it is a logical fallacy. It's what idiots do when they are incapable of rational discourse.
Over here in the real world, the Republicans are the anti-science, anti-intellectual party. That is not an opinion, it is an observation based on factual information. Want some examples?
Jon Huntsman Jr, a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isn't a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And that's too bad, because Mr Hunstman has been willing to say the unsayable about the Republican party in the United States, namely, that it is becoming the "anti-science party".
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Mr Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as "just a theory", one that has "got some gaps in it", an observation that will come as news to the vast majority of biologists. But what really got people's attention was what he said about climate change: "I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change."
That's a remarkable statement – or maybe the right adjective is "vile".
The second part of Mr Perry's statement is, as it happens, just false: the scientific consensus about man-made global warming – which includes 97% to 98% of researchers in the field, according to the National Academy of Sciences – is getting stronger, not weaker, as the evidence for climate change just keeps mounting.
More examples? How about Bobby Jindal and the Volcano?
(AP) A month after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal complained about wasteful spending in President Obama's economic stimulus package - including money he sneered was for "something called 'volcano monitoring'" - Alaska pilots were grateful for such expenditures.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory was ready with warnings to flight officials when Alaska's Mount Redoubt blew, sending potentially deadly ash clouds north of Anchorage.
And what about Michelle Bachman claiming hurricane Irene was divine punishment from god (note the lower case spelling) because the country was sinful? Or Rick Perry praying for rain to help with the Texas wildfires? You know what he did about fighting fires in Texas? Cut the state budget by 75%, then ask for federal FEMA support when the state was burning down. Yep, the Feds are useless until you completely screw up everything and need them to bail you out. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/perry-asks-for-federal-funds-to-fight-wildfires-after-slashing-state-fire-budget/
So the Republicans are the party of stupid. And you fit right in.
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Can India, China or Viet Nam build one reactor and keep it safe? Perhaps. Can they build dozens and have them all work without a disaster? Absolutely not. There is not a sufficient culture of regulatory independence to insure safe operation. If the regulators failed in Japan, do you think they will succeed in any of these countries?
It is not even clear the the US or any of the European countries are immune from this kind of failure. The only way we will find out that there is a problem is when the radiation detectors go off.
Want an example? Half the licensed nuclear facilities in the US are not in compliance whit NRC fire regulations.
http://www.propublica.org/article/nrc-waives-enforcement-of-fire-rules-at-nuclear-plants/single
The "crime" that he is accused of is almost never prosecuted in Sweden. This may be the first time in the history of the Swedish judicial system that anyone has been extradited for this class of offense. One of the accusers has left the country and is not available for either the prosecution or defense.
There is little chance of justice in this circumstance. He is being railroaded. The international banking system has shut down WikiLeaks. How is he going to be fairly defended? By some junior public defender? If you believe that you must also still believe in the tooth fairy.
The US is pulling every string they can to destroy Assange and WikiLeaks. I think they are planning to extradite him to the US or, if they think that they can get away with it, Guantanamo. Even if he ends up on US soil, they will give him the same treatment they gave Manning, which is real torture. Sleep deprivation, using the pretense of a suicide watch to keep the subject unclothed and with no bedding, multiple day interrogation by rotating teams of unaccountable "contractors", no real access to legal assistance. You don't have to inflict direct pain to effectively torture someone.
Just watch for Sweden to get some sort of sweet economic deal from the US as a reward of they get Assange. A new military base, some sort of co-development in the artic, joint mineral development. whatever. That's how the CIA got secret prisons in Poland. The Polish government got the promise of the anti-missile bases, which would have put a big long term chunk of US dollars into their economy. It's called bribery, and it works (at least in the sort run).
I almost can't believe that you expect "justice" in this relentless pursuit of Assange and WikiLeaks. Are you really that stupid? You really should spend more time over here in the real world, as opposed to whatever fantasy you seem to be inhabiting.
What is the hardware equivalent of Bezos' One Click patent? A binary switch? With software/business patents the way they are, you can patent trivial features and then extract fees or at least gum up the works for actual innovation. Do hardware patents allow someone to patent a set of logic gates and then scan all existing designs for that subset of logic? That would be the equivalent situation.
Do hardware designers have to not use obvious logic design patterns because some not very bright examiner said they belong to someone else? Even CPU instruction sets are not patentable. I think that you can copyright an instruction set representation (the human readable form), but not the bit patterns and execution results. (This may have changed since I was involved in this area a long lime ago.)
So the guy who started the current mess is defending his bad idea. Why am I not surprised? Has he any other real accomplishments, or is this his only claim to fame? As far as I can tell his only "innovation" was dragging software down to the level of scummy lawyers.
So if you don't like what unions do, why are you OK with the inefficiency and corruption of the big military contractors? I've seen the inside of high tech military contracting from the inside, and it stinks. If you don't hire the right number and rank of retired military officers you will not get the contracts. Once you get over the half billion annual business mark you had better have at least one general on your board of directors. Over a billion and you need multiple ex-generals with more then one star each.
As for "campaign contributions" (aka bribes), they are even more direct then the retired brass hats. With the ex-military you just need someone, they are not required to have direct knowledge of the project, they just have to be there. This lets the current people in uniform know that you are a participating member of their future employment pool, and that as long as outfits like yours are in business they will never lack for a fat paycheck to pile on top of the military pension and lifetime health benefits.
When you "support" (bribe) a federal elected official, they know who is paying the bill. You are paying for access and congressional set asides. It is pure pay to play. Grease the right palm and you get the congressional set aside. The only competition is if there is a bigger defense contractor in the same district who will get to the funds before you do.
I've see this first hand. And I haven't even talked about the all expense paid vacations and the socializing that is not "official business", so it's off the record.
So why were you whining about unions again?
Do you hang your KKK outfit in the closet where it won't get wrinkled but someone might see it, or do you fold it in a drawer where it might get wrinkled but is out of sight?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
Let's look at one figure, the percentage change in the national debt. Take the two terms (Regan, Bush) before Clinton, and the two terms after him (Bush). Negative numbers are decreases, positive increases.
The last time a Republican president decreased the National debt was Richard Nixon in his first term in 1973, +3.0%. This was over 9 presidential terms ago, over 36 years.
So when Republicans try and trash Clinton's economic record, they always quote misleading figures. Also known as lying.
"Would you like an asteroid on your wrist?"
Despite some of the ill founded comments in this discussion, natural language is not comparable to computer language. Programming is closer to mathematics then human language. In the same way that mathematical expressions are always combined with text, code requires comments. No one expects to understand mathematics by just looking at equations, and no one should expect to understand code without comments.
Human language is reflexive in a way that software is not. This means that understanding software requires information that cannot be expressed in code statements. In order to be comprehensible, particularly when multiple people are involved, comments are a necessity. If you don't understand this you should really be in another line of work.
Check out the factorial function and get back to us when you realize what it means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial
And there will never be a melt down in China, because they do such a good job of building infrastructure that is failure proof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#2011_Wenzhou_train_accident
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-07-28/china-high-speed-rail-crash-likely-caused-by-signal-flaw.html Beijing National Railway Research & Design Institute of Signal & Communication Co. apologized to the families of people killed or injured in the crash and said it would cooperate with the investigation, according to a letter posted today on its website. The company, a unit of state-owned China Railway Signal & Communication Corp, didn’t say what equipment it had supplied or designed.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201107250340.html Concerning the burying of a train car after the accident, a source in Japan who investigates train accidents said, "Investigative agencies in China are not very independent, and I have heard that in many cases they are influenced by what the government wants done."
After all the Japanese, one of the most technically advanced countries in the world, had four reactors explode due to regulatory failure. All it took to keep this worse case scenario from occurring was a bigger sea wall. But that would have cost some money, and be a public admission that there was an earthquake problem.
So China, which has no effectively independent regulators, will have no problems with the largest expansion of fission power in the history of the world. Care to bet your life on that? There are literally millions of Chinese citizens who are having that bet made for them, and they have no choice in the matter. Since you are so sure there is no danger, maybe your best move would be to relocate as close as you can to one of their reactors. They will be the leaders of the 21st century, as you said, and you should be where the actions is.
Haskell
You really have a chip on your shoulder. This is a issue that is important for browser side environment, it's not about Java. Are you feeling insecure?
http://www.johnmcphee.com/deltoid.htm
In the first place, NPR is not the anti-Fox. It is just another news outlet. How does a failure at NPR relate in any way to bad behavior at Fox? Your argument implies complete contempt for the concept of "fair and balanced" and assumes that all news is propaganda and intentionally biased.
In the second place, you are saying that as long as the "opposition" does something wrong, it justifies bad behavior on your side. That's a completely immoral position. Yet here you are, defending Fox by pointing the finger at someone else. As far as I know no religion condones this kind of response. It's like two kids fighting, and each saying the other person is to blame. Where is the adult behavior? Your argument is empty of both logic and morality.
I don't know how you were raised, but in my family I would have never been allowed to say this sort of thing. You need to grow up and start behaving as a reasonable adult, not like a grotesquely self centered child. I hope that you don't apply the same "logic" in the rest of your life, because if you do you are a danger to yourself and others.
But how does the FSM escape being eaten by the very large and hungry T-Rex? I know that sometimes just hearing about the FSM makes be a bit peckish myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDS_Td0KIg
I have been thinking recently that the USA and Russia have been following the same course since the end of the cold war. Both countries have been taken over by government/business oligarchies that are ruining both the economies and the political culture of their respective nations. Hearing this kind of crap makes me even more fearful that I am right,.
I am starting to think that the only way to rid ourselves of these parasites is with ropes, pitchforks and torches, like Frankenstein and Dracula. Except it will be in color on TV.
Am I wrong, or is the phrase "unfocused, money-losing" pretty much the definition of the stuff that Microsoft is rolling out these days? SilverLight, Bing, Zune, .NET languages, ...
Combining Larry Elson with Steve Ballmer would form s material that could rend the very substance of space-time itself!!! Stop this madness before the universe is destroyed!!! There are some things that mere mortals should not even contemplate!!!
This is all completely guess work on my part, completely unfettered by any facts. I was just surprised to see the low cost per chip, given that this is a very non-mainstream product. WHen I have looked at the cost of other opens source CPU chips they have been much more expensive.
It will be a complete bitch to program. The native Forth is a tiny subset of standard Forth. There is a more normal higher level Forth that can be run on top of the native one, but this would have a dramatic impact on performance. Each CPU has almost no memory. The code space size per CPU is only 512 instructions. Forth is compact, but that is still a really small amount of code. Any meaningful computation requires that algorithm be distributed across the array. Also, the CPU is implemented in asynchronous logic. Just imaging the opportunities for obscure timing errors. As far as large scale users are concerned, I don't see who would want to use something this non main stream.
No, a Christian. Remember the only nation to use a nuclear weapon during wartime is the "Christian" USA.
Of course without the benefit of global weather forecasts international shipping by air and sea would be a lot more expensive, so you should also give up anything made outside North American.
And no GPS for you either. So that means no automated tellers, because they all use GPS time signals for synchronizing transactions.
So just get the hell out of here, since you have no regard for all the technology that has been developed by the US government in the 20th and 21st century. Go to Somalia, or the tribal areas in Pakastan/Iraq, or some other shithole were you can experience the glory of living without technology, or courts and law, or electricity, clean water or medical care. Because without state and federal government none of these things exist.
I'm fed up with freeloading asshats like you whining about the government while you expect all the comfort and perks of civilization handed to you for free on a silver platter. If you can't appreciate what you have here then get the fuck out.
Isotropically pure diamonds, either all C-12 or all C-13, have 50% higher thermal conductivity then isotropically mixed diamonds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopically_pure_diamond When using graphene for this kind of measurement, do they also use a single isotope of carbon? Does it make any difference if the carbon used in not isotropically pure?
Over here in the real world, the Republicans are the anti-science, anti-intellectual party. That is not an opinion, it is an observation based on factual information. Want some examples?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/04/evolution-climate-republicans-president
More examples? How about Bobby Jindal and the Volcano?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/24/tech/main4887816.shtml
And what about Michelle Bachman claiming hurricane Irene was divine punishment from god (note the lower case spelling) because the country was sinful? Or Rick Perry praying for rain to help with the Texas wildfires? You know what he did about fighting fires in Texas? Cut the state budget by 75%, then ask for federal FEMA support when the state was burning down. Yep, the Feds are useless until you completely screw up everything and need them to bail you out. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/perry-asks-for-federal-funds-to-fight-wildfires-after-slashing-state-fire-budget/
So the Republicans are the party of stupid. And you fit right in.