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  1. Re:What do you mean "will"? on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 1

    I actually know a lot about methane

    Clearly.

    So how many CNG vehicles are there on the roads today for example in Europe, or Asia?
     

  2. What do you mean "will"? on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Is.

    Google will tell you.
     

  3. Re:No, the US has too much freedom for Apple. on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    Besides the USA is Capitalism.

    No, it's proto facism. Cronyism would be the closest I could come to.

  4. The next primary fuel will be methane not ethanol. on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 0

    So it's good that this research is privately funded and isn't wasting taxes.
     

  5. Fascism in action on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 2

    For the children.

    There are no individuals, no people. Only workers and management.

    What is breathtaking is the irony.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

  6. When people lose confidence in Treasuries on Is Facebook Becoming a Central Bank? · · Score: 1

    The popping of the Treasury bubble is pretty much the event which will cause both stocks and more particularly commodities to increase. The bond market is several times that of the stock market and the stock market is many times larger than the commodity market. The result will be inflation as the money bids up raw materials.

    For example the USG inability to roll existing debt due to the debt ceiling. Inability to roll due to China selling. Inability to roll the debt simply due to the realisation that a 10% of GDP deficit is never going to change.

  7. And megaupload's legitimate clients? on Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry? · · Score: 2

    Get screwed as well.

    One or two minor teething niggles with cloud services.
     

  8. .com is US on Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry? · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't matter where the servers are.

  9. Look I'm sure they'll only create a few extra on Is Facebook Becoming a Central Bank? · · Score: 4, Funny

    When they discover they can get stuff for free. Same way the US government has done.
     

  10. There are more pressing problems on 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    For arable land than climate change. Peak phosphorus for example, or soil erosion. Current farming methods are a long way from sustainable. Increasing energy consumption has allowed the process to continue unabated.

  11. The relationship between politician and population on Microsoft Pushes For Gay Marriage In Washington State · · Score: 1

    Is that of a pimp to his prostitutes.
     

  12. The drug companies do the research for government on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 1

    And where is the most money? Military research.

    Clearly it's going to be weaponised. They're probably researching selectivity now.

    Doomsday weapon; kill all humans on the planet. Except that's not really what you want, it might get you. What you want is to selectively be able to kill someone. Maybe an individual, maybe a certain ethnicity etc.

    So. They've already got the doomsday weapon now, the biological equivalent of the hydrogen bomb. How do you control it? How do you make it only kill Russians, or Iranians? Could it be used to assassinate Putin?

  13. Because when you weaponise it on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 1

    The military are going to want something which is both easy to pass on and effective at taking out the enemy population.
     

  14. Counter party risk on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    Oh my goodness. Who could possibly have forseen that might be a problem.
     

  15. Aerosol LSD on NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns · · Score: 1

    Terrorists! If all (or most) passengers were armed, there is no way a terrorist would be able to hijack the plane.

    Spray an aerosol of your favourite hallucinogenic.
     

  16. The US constitution is just a piece of paper on US Supreme Court Upholds Removal of Works From Public Domain · · Score: 1

    What America are you living in? The constitution has been bypassed. It's pretty much irrelevant now.

  17. The dirty little secret of capitalism on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 2

    If you could churn out houses for 5c, they would have to knock other houses down to destroy the supply.

    Here's the problem. The price of anything is a function of supply and demand. If there is too much supply the price falls. If there is too much demand the price rises, and vice versa.

    If all the demand for housing is ever met by the supply, the price of a house would fall to effectively nothing. This causes a problem with capitalism because the money to buy the houses, is borrowed into existence. Your neighbour bought his house, 5 years ago for 500,000 and now houses are worth zero. He has a half million dollar debt to pay on something now worth zero. The bank has lent money into existence on something worth nothing.

    So. What do you do? You make damned sure that demand for housing (any product) is never met. Think about that for a second. Put another way, you make sure that there are not enough homes for people. That homelessness exists. Houses must be scarce to have value. They will literally bulldoze houses to make sure that remains true. [1][2]

    You guarantee that homelessness and poverty exist because if they didn't, the banks wouldn't have anyone to lend money to and without money being loaned into existence, the economy would by definition, decline, not grow. "The economy" being the growth in credit.

    You want to know why after 2000 years and the vast progress we have made in every other endeavour there is still poverty, still homelessness? The answer is, it's the nature of how money is created.

    We rely on moneylenders to create our money for us. Isn't that the dumbest thing you've ever heard?

    [1] http://rt.com/usa/news/bulldozing-america-bank-america/
    [2] http://www.newser.com/story/124793/why-banks-are-knocking-down-foreclosed-homes.html

  18. In Germany they'll put a house up in 8 hours on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have a look at "fertighaus" builds on youtube.

    8 hours:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vexbKmmPw8M

    All designed, manufactured, tested in a factory. Built on site on a standard base with facilities in place. This particular one is a passivhause, which means the level of insulation is such that it doesn't need any heating, or cooling.

  19. Re:the lack of simple digital publishing tools? on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 0

    You'll find that life will improve if you stop being such a pedantic fuck.

  20. the lack of simple digital publishing tools? on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 2

    Any text editor.
    Any word processor.
    Any desktop publisher.
    Any web page editor.
    Any wiki page.
    Any blog.

    i.e. WTF?

    Is this like when they branded lemonade as "Sprite" to increase the margin?

  21. A good cyber attack on Israel Faces Escalating Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Would have the bombers hit the wrong target.
     

  22. Corrupt, don't bring down on Israel Faces Escalating Cyberwar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fixing a non working system is easy.

    Corruption can't be fixed. If you want to cause real damage, you corrupt data, you don't delete it. Corruption, is very difficult to recover from, and the longer the corruption goes on unnoticed, the worse it is to recover.

    Taking down a system denies the use of the system as an asset. Corrupting the data or processes on the system makes that system work against it's owner. It becomes worse than useless.

  23. Pricing it lower will lead to shortages on Raspberry Pi $25 Linux Computer Now In Production (Video) · · Score: 1

    Economics.
     

  24. The Chinese consumer on China Internet Users Hit Half a Billion · · Score: 1

    Makes you wonder if China really needs all those American IOUs.

  25. Ron Paul will have a JFK moment. on Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If he ever becomes president.

    Seriously, it won't be allowed.