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  1. Re:Alternatives? on Japan's Nuclear Energy Industry Nears Shutdown · · Score: 1

    You could also check out some of the spiegel.de articles over the last two months. In which they showed that the only reason that renewable energy is profitable is due to massive government subsidies(covering around 80% of the costs), which the government is now cutting. Germany is going to have a very massive power problem very soon. Either power is going to hit 0.30kwh or more soon, or they're going to be restarting those nuke plants as opposed to buying all their extra power from France.

  2. Re:Won't Make an Impact on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 1

    The problem is there is no crutch to aid you to the new one, and the majority outside of tech circles have no idea these things exist. For the regular common person who sees this new UI, they'll simply throw up their hands in frustration and want to be downgraded to windows7.

  3. Re:Why these ideas will not gain traction on Book Review: Occupy World Street · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Tea Party almost brought the US debt into discredit for the first time in the history of the United States through some sort of mad desire to remain ideologically pure. No thanks, don't want that kind of revolution.

    Yeah I mean it couldn't have ANYTHING to do with Obama's failed economic plan of Keynesian economics of blow lots of money without any plan at all right? I mean how the hell do you blow ~$4 trillion in under 3 years alone except by being an idiot? That you blame the tea party simply says you're wallowing in what you're being told instead of understanding the metrics and economics of what Obama and his panel of idiots pulled.

    That plan: Throw money at it. Tell me, does throwing money at something ever work? And does cutting 1% to 'save' yourself while in debt up through your asshole work either? Of course it doesn't. At best the US needed to take direct spending cuts, at worst they needed to properly prioritize, the entire government bureaucracy is top heavy and start gutting. Want to know how I can say this? Because we had someone here in Ontario by the name of Bob Rae(now Liberal leader) who did exactly the same thing that Obama is doing. It ended with our rating cut here, and it should only be another 20 years or so before the province pays off his debt. And he only doubled it.

    Enjoy your taste of socialism. Because that's all it was.

  4. Re:People who are naturally interested in programm on Ask Slashdot: Do Kids Still Take Interest In Programming For Its Own Sake? · · Score: 1

    True, they are a tiny minority. Kinda like kids and fixing cars. They're honestly both niche jobs, but both can be very rewarding and interesting. I know, I've done both...and combining the two skills in the workforce can make for an interesting grading scale for pay. But, should the average 10 year old? Pft not. At 10, most kids are interested in screwing around and enjoying themselves, probably easier than we did at that age. Then again they have other things to deal with too.

  5. Re:Constitution? on Canadian Music Industry Wants Subscriber Disclosure Without Court Oversight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Our charter? Yeah it does. Actually a significant portion of the charter covers prosecution and protection from the law, of law, and other such sundry things. This will get no where because it has no basis in canadian law, fair dealing takes care of it. And that they've already agreed to the levy, means that they already get money. In turn the courts will toss this right out and slap them with yet another fine.

  6. Re:McCarthy would be proud of you guys. on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 2

    Actually the US does allow inspections at their nuclear facilities. So do all western countries that can build nuclear weapons but don't possesses them if they're members of the NPT. Non-NPT are exempt, though sanctioned countries that have abide by agreements like Iran,

    And before Iraq don't get the right to disagree in the 'losers side' to what happens. Lets not forget, if Saddam had agreed to the terms of the ceasefire and disarmament fully, none of this would have happened. The world stage of the UN loves to give dictators a pat on the back, because the majority of the UN is full of dictators who look out for each other.

  7. In other news... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    This amazing product not only slices, dices and puree's, but melts faces, and causes near catatonic states for non-purified members of the elite guard(ranked IR5 or lower).

  8. Re:Dangerous Denial Of Brutality on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 2

    Here's the problem. Can you name one police college off the top of your head that trains using debasement? That's physical and verbal attacks. I doubt it, all of the ones that I know are in Canada. The ones in the US that used to removed that part of the program because of leftie hand-wringing that it was too "mean" and might "provoke a response". So to be honest, I'm not surprise that newer cops are being provoked by taunts. They're not being trained to ignore them.

    And yes debasement works. I've gone though it, the casual disregard of the idiots makes your day much easier.

  9. Re:Read Republicans on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    While most do. Most consider the sun a "minor" contributor instead of a major contributor.

    Sure. But I'll let you hunt for it on your own, but let you read this one instead. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1954v1.pdf

  10. Re:Screw NG, go Ethanol. on US Wants Natural Gas As Major Auto Fuel Option · · Score: 1

    The second that you resorted to a adhom with a fallacy attached to it, you lost what little credibility you had. But yes feed-in-tariffs had as much to do with the topic at hand as anything else.

  11. Re:Public transit sucks on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    How about you realize that public sector unions in Canada make 20% more than the average person does now? That it takes 3-4 people to cover the wages and benefits one person in the public sector? So indeed fuck them. Their wages are out of line with the current job sector, and everyone is paying for it.

  12. AT&T learns from... on After Complaints, AT&T Solidifies, Increases Data Limit · · Score: 1

    Bell Canada? I'm pretty sure that Bell Canada said 90% of their subscribers use less than 15GB a month, right up until they were required to prove it before the CRTC.

  13. Re:My salute to all the Sysops out there ! on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 2

    They must have had university networks. Because when I was running my BBS in 1990-1995 people were still calling into local and LD hubs to upload/download packs. I was using the internet for my packs in '90. Which was still pretty typical of fidonet when most people still didn't have internet access. To be honest, internet access didn't really take off until 1996-1998 or so when computers became dirt cheap for everyone. I remember that as the year of the celery(celerons) which cut the cost of dirt cheap CPU's to dirt cheap prices at great performance levels for the entry consumer.

  14. Re:Privelege on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 1

    Case law isn't creating new laws. At least not in my country. They're the interpretation of the existing law, and how the judgement is to be applied in successive rulings. Perhaps that's a failing of the US judicial system? Sure seems like it.

  15. Re:Privelege on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you can't be above the law then why be a cop?

    Cops aren't above the law. Bad cops think they're above the law. In the same way bad judges think that ruling on law allows them to create new law.

    The role of the police is to be the enforcer of the law. The problem is, you have idiototards at police colleges now teaching that you're an enforcement arm of yourself, not to solve problems but to be judgmental of the law itself. Screw discretion...and to hell with case law.

    It only gets worse when you get the left-leaners with their carefully crafted policies that ensure that you can have no discretion at all, and if you violate it. It becomes a "PSA"(services act) issue. Common sense? Not allowed, the policy says fuck and you in that order. You use it, it's job loss+jail time sucker.

  16. Re:Public transit sucks on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    How about fuck'em? They have a better base rate of pay, benefits, and in general working conditions than the majority of canadians. So...yeah let me say fuck'em, they were simply greedy as hell.

  17. Re:All your base are belong to USA on US Shuts Down Canadian Gambling Site With Verisign's Help · · Score: 1

    The US is just pissed off because we(Canada) are selling our oil to China now.

  18. Re:Been there, done that on North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities · · Score: 1

    That should be modded +20 insightful and informative.

  19. Re:Important to note on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well this makes a bunch of really funny things going on for Obama. And what 8 or 9 failed solar companies that got massive hand outs and F&F plus an extra gun running program that was started that let guns walk. Obama not better than the last guy, he's much, much worse.

  20. Re:Screw NG, go Ethanol. on US Wants Natural Gas As Major Auto Fuel Option · · Score: 1

    Just like oil, right?

    Oil doesn't get subsidies. And most of the time, it doesn't even get tax breaks. Most of those go to exploration, and drilling. But hey, don't let reality worry you.

    Feed-in-tariff ringing any bells?

  21. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    I have had a car with a rear cam for a long time, and I never had to wipe mud or junk from it

    Lucky you? I have a GMC Terrain, and I need to clean the camera pretty much all the time. Then again I live somewhere, where we have winter(Canada). Which means that heavy slush, sand, dirt, grime, and in general crap on the roads is a fact of life.

  22. Re:Screw NG, go Ethanol. on US Wants Natural Gas As Major Auto Fuel Option · · Score: 1

    When it can compete on it's own without subsidies, then yes that will be fine. Until then it's a niche fuel.

  23. Re:Did they adjust for crazy? on Those Sleeping Pills May Be Killing You · · Score: 1

    There's no shortage of people(myself included) who don't sleep very much. A good night over the last two years for me would be 3 hours of straight sleep. Though the last week I've been sleeping 8-9 hours without a problem, mostly because I've started a new mix of pain killers and muscle relaxants.. It can be from a variety of problems though, but if they put up a request for volunteers to fill out info, they'd find them.

    For myself it's chronic pain. Protip: Don't fracture your C2 and C3 while exercising(particularly situps), though if you do call yourself damn lucky and take out lottery tickets. Sleeping becomes the least of your problems then, you usually just keep going until exhaustion hits.

  24. Re:Hmmm... Let's see... on Lawyers For Mining Companies Threaten Scientific Journals · · Score: 2

    Because mining jobs don't look fun and "empowering" on brochures.

    Okay? And that's a problem? Because here in Canada I can make between $22 and $43/hr in mining right now just running heavy machinery. It might not be "empowering" but damn if it doesn't pay better than most jobs in the tech sector.

  25. Re:EU Ratification on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    Well I can see it working mostly well in the UK. But LED lighting outside is pretty shit poor here in Canada. Too cold outside of summer, and it gets just warm enough that the snow sticks to it and causes it to cover up. My biggest complaint about highway lighting systems are when cities use LPS(low pressure sodium) lighting. And you get that healthy orange glow, it's almost impossible to see anything on blacktop especially when it's wet.