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  1. Re:Congratulations! on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    has no alternative for the moment that's a load of bull. if the same amount of subsidies spent in nuclear is spent on solar and wind , there would be no economic contest from any other source, and that's only taking into account the raw offload-as-much-as-you-can-to-the-public economic cost: no safety costs, waste-storage costs and insurance costs.

  2. Re:Makes sense on Do You Need a Permit to Land on the Moon? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what do you want an extra arm and leg for ?

  3. Re:iran on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    What are the Bloods and Crypts fighting over in bombed out LA? because their leaders want to get prestige, and chicks?(=resources!) These leaders are their respective upper class.

    Why are indigenous peoples all over the world fighting waging war on one another, from ten member tribes to whole religious sects? see above.
    See, We could easily get back in caves or climb back up trees ... we're not more civilized than that.

    the man is keeping me down" mentality is an invention of lazy bottom feeders I think it's more an invention of realistic(cynic?) people.
    And I'm just pointing out here that war doesn't solve a dispute.
    and did you notice there is fighting here, with words? This is because people still can get it in their minds that they can sometimes be wrong - and that's got everything to do with our primal nature
  4. Re:You CAN end a war with weapons on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    That kind of war doesn't exist anymore. Let's take a modern war: Israel vs. Palestine. Israel has WMD's and tanks. Palestine has AK47's and rocks. No-one is winning, EVERYBODY is losing. The ONLY way to end it : talking where both sides have to give something up.

  5. Re:iran on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    international diplomacy what are these wars about? Money?resources?a border dispute?religion? Money from the upper class/resources from the upper class/borders are invented by the upper class/religion also. just to be able to send the masses into death.

  6. Re:iran on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    there can be no victory without the military. The best way to win a war is not to fight it.

  7. Re:You CAN end a war with weapons on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    and indeed: weaponry *NEVER* ends it, it's always the diplomacy afterwards that ends the war. (translation of this diplomacy: the side that has lost the most of their lower-class people has to give more money/lands/resources to the other side's upper class--> see my sig)

  8. Re:It's a law of econmics on End of Moore's Law in 10-15 years? · · Score: 1

    so you're 75? 80?

  9. Re:iran on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    i agree, it's peace you wanna win, not war.

  10. 10 years ... on End of Moore's Law in 10-15 years? · · Score: 1

    that means 2^5 ... that's 32 times more computing power on a single chip ... that's about 16 times the computing power I need.

  11. Re:You CAN end a war with weapons on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    tell me, which war was won by weapons ?

  12. Re:iran on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only real way to win a war millitarily then, is to totally annihillate the enemy. And that is no longer an option when you can't tell for sure who is your enemy and who isn't. And the fact that you kill a million people creates new enemies.

  13. Re:iran on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think that would effect the outcome of such a war ... The Us has 10 times stronger military material in Iraq, and they are not winning ... You Can't END a war with weapons, only with words (can someone SHOUT that to the neocons please?)

  14. Re:Killa-Minivan on Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference · · Score: 1

    time for computer-steered cars ? If they can get #accidents/million_passenger_Km down ...

  15. Re:0-60 in less than a second on Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference · · Score: 2, Informative

    1/4 mile times like that are pretty good for an electric vehicle though. I don't think performance is the problem with electric vehicles (show me a train that can hit 575kph(360mph) that is petrol-powered ...)
    It's storage that's the problem, and on such short distances ...
  16. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Thinking that you can just categorize people into two neat buckets is just silly. Have you heard Bush's speeches? He does that all the time. You're either good or bad, you're either patriotic or you're a traitor. You're either a kapitalist or a terrorist.
  17. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    well, i just observed the Uber-republican... he clearly sees the world only in black and white, where there are a million shades of a million colors.

  18. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Which is better (if at all) would depend on the situation. I can suggest : a clearer black-white situation favors conservative thinking and vice-versa ?
  19. Re:Do you know what a liberal is? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    from that article: "If you want people to flourish, let them run their own lives."
    What nearly always is forgotten, and is a necessary addendum is the fact that YOUR liberty ENDS where mine begins. If that part is not applied as well, we end up in the rule of the strongest.

  20. Re:It hurts me to say this on Bringing Science and Math Into Writing? · · Score: 1

    Are you vegetarian ?

  21. fry? rebate? on 1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster · · Score: 1

    obligatory:
    let's spend it all on coffees.

  22. Re:Good application for iRobot Create on Robotic Presence For a Telecommuter · · Score: 1

    It'll let the cleaning staff work remotely as well :)

  23. Re:Not to rain on their parade, but... on Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    looks like this Top500 list would do nicely for a definition of a supercomputer.

  24. Re:Why Not? on 200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but a point that is equally far from every other point in the universe I guess that means that at a center point in non-time/non-space, time and space just started ... which means that at that moment, ALL space was a single point, which means that that point is now smeared all over the universe ? something along those lines ? Any1 a physicist here ?

  25. application on Solar Powered Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    It's a great idea for remote small communities. It makes the world - again - much smaller.