If it pans out, the French will end up wearing their new tokamak (an uberexpensive adventure, as tokamaks go) in a less than complementary way. I'm surprised they didn't wait.
Why didn't the French (actualy the EU, China, India, Japan and the US) wait and see whether the polywell works?
Because sitting around waiting for someone else to do the work isn't how you get things done.
If a group of Neo-Nazis was going to burn a bunch of copies of the Talmud in Skokie, would anyone really care if a bunch of local Jewish teens came out and beat the living shit out of them?
Who needs neo-Nazis when you can have paleo-Nazis?
When one has studied the Jewish question in Europe for decades, the animosity towards the Jews is to a certain extent understandable, even if we look past the racial theories, that mean so much in the national socialist world view [...] We know, that tens of thousands of Jews condemn the Jewish business sharks, the Jewish pornography speculators and the Jewish terrorists. But still, it can not be denied, that the experiences which the Germans - as many other continental peoples - have had with regards to the Jews, form a certain basis for their persecution. One must give Germany, that they have a right to dispose of their Jews.
Jyllands Posten (the newspaper that published the "Mohammed cartoons") commenting on Kristalnacht.
Have you ever been to DC? It's pretty much impossible to miss... you get off the Metro (the same stop for all of the famous memorials) walk toward the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial is staring you in the face from the other side of the reflecting pool.
"Get off the Metro"?
What are you, some kind of socialest? Real Patriots drive pickups, they don't use so-called "public transport", paid for with cash torn from thier hands by MEN WITH GUNS (TM).
Public transport is one of the few areas where the whole thing could be improved a lot just by throwing some processing power at the problem. Timetables are still fixed and designed in more or less the same way that they were a hundred years ago, rather than quickly adapting to changes in demand.
There is a certain incompatibility between "timetables" and "quickly adapting to changes in demand".
I find it fascinating that we are losing Afghanistan to the most primitive people on earth
Well, there's your problem, right there. If you go around dismissing people as "primitive" without bothering to spend even a minute finding about these so called "primitive" people then don't be supprised when they kick your ass.
It is even more important that the US is only killing civilians by accident and has a very good track record of hitting combatants by the standards of military history, while other parties are intentionally attacking civilians.
So the US isn't nasty, just incompetent.
Balls. You only get to use "civilian casulaties were an accident" once. If you run your wars in such a way that civilians always die in great numbers don't expect anyone to believe you when you trot out that old "whoops, I did it again" crap.
The British and Roman empires were waging at least as many as we are, and were just as ruthless.
No, they were far more ruthless than we are. The Romans would have conquered Afghanistan a long time ago -- it's much easier to pacify a population when you are willing to kill anyone capable of offering resistance and sell the survivors into slavery.
The Romans may have been more ruthless, but would it have worked? They couldn't even conquer Scotland.
And the British Empire had little success in Afghanistan.
(The Russian empire didn't have much luck either).
Slashdot moderation is amazing. You've got +5 insightful for this dribbling (as of 3/7/2010) when you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
As nicer people than me have pointed out:
This is about citing already published papers in the IPCC report, not peer review.
The papers were, in the end, cited - some all powerful conspiracy, that.
The papers were total crap, and should not have passed peer review, never mind end up being cited in the IPCC report
Funny how we have to keep re-posting links to the actual emails when all you have to do is claim it's all a lie and a fantasy.
Funny how you have to keep demonstrating total absence of reading comprehension when quoting cherry-picked parts of e-mail conversations out of context in order to claim things happened that didn't actualy happen.
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Iceland? Bunch of theiving scum who based their former prosperity on banking fraud, lost it all, and are now begging to joing the EU?
I think not.
Because if it had a "leader" it wouldn't be free.
Why didn't the French (actualy the EU, China, India, Japan and the US) wait and see whether the polywell works?
Because sitting around waiting for someone else to do the work isn't how you get things done.
Fucking slashdot, home of the know nothing twit
No toxic waste from a Thorium reactor? You ignorant fuckwit.
(I am a strong supporter of the thorium cycle, but the idea that it produces no waste is a new low in delerium even for the home of the "nerds").
There are no plans to make power plants on the NIF design. There never will be. NIF is for bomb research, not power research.
And a splendid success that has been.
There were no radical Islamic groups in Iran before the US started propping up (a great euphemism) the Shah.
The Taliban were created by the Pakistani ISI.
And Saudi Arabia? The actual funding and religious support for Al-Qaeda?
You might like to re-read your posts before hitting submit.
Saying "there is no such thing as X", followed immediately by "X is..." makes you look like a fool.
But then again, maybe you are a fool?
Who needs neo-Nazis when you can have paleo-Nazis?
Jyllands Posten (the newspaper that published the "Mohammed cartoons") commenting on Kristalnacht.
Oh yes it does. Check out squatter.
This cheap "wisdom" turns out not to be true. Who wrote the history books after Vietnam?
What scientific debate? The debate is purely politcal.
Wtf? Informative.
The UFO is way north of the Lincoln memorial.
You get the Lincoln repeater in the Museum of American History.
Wat core tenet? That your money is only safe in the hands of the rich?
"Get off the Metro"?
What are you, some kind of socialest? Real Patriots drive pickups, they don't use so-called "public transport", paid for with cash torn from thier hands by MEN WITH GUNS (TM).
There is a certain incompatibility between "timetables" and "quickly adapting to changes in demand".
Well, there's your problem, right there. If you go around dismissing people as "primitive" without bothering to spend even a minute finding about these so called "primitive" people then don't be supprised when they kick your ass.
If they can present a clear and present danger to the USA surely they can present a clear and present danger to tiny little Sweden.
Oh, I see what you did there, sorry...
Hoi Polloi? Are you really sure that's the phrase you meant to use? "The masses", "The mob"?
An organisation that has in the past been accused of being a CIA front criticizes wikileaks.
Colour me supprised.
Oh, I don't know. I seem to remember the Romans running roughshod over half the world.
For a very small value of "half".
Part of Europe and the shores of the Mediteranean don't exactly make up "half the world".
It is even more important that the US is only killing civilians by accident and has a very good track record of hitting combatants by the standards of military history, while other parties are intentionally attacking civilians.
So the US isn't nasty, just incompetent.
Balls. You only get to use "civilian casulaties were an accident" once. If you run your wars in such a way that civilians always die in great numbers don't expect anyone to believe you when you trot out that old "whoops, I did it again" crap.
The British and Roman empires were waging at least as many as we are, and were just as ruthless.
No, they were far more ruthless than we are. The Romans would have conquered Afghanistan a long time ago -- it's much easier to pacify a population when you are willing to kill anyone capable of offering resistance and sell the survivors into slavery.
The Romans may have been more ruthless, but would it have worked? They couldn't even conquer Scotland.
And the British Empire had little success in Afghanistan.
(The Russian empire didn't have much luck either).
Rummy, is that you?
Funny how you have to keep demonstrating total absence of reading comprehension when quoting cherry-picked parts of e-mail conversations out of context in order to claim things happened that didn't actualy happen.