By some Bizarre twist of fate I have actually worked with two people who have run afoul with this sex offender list thing. One was convicted of Internet child porn swapping (In the worst miscarriage justice I have ever witnessed). With the other it involved his ex-wife and his kid. From my perspective the first guy I listed became pawn in various people's games to stay in elected office and consolidate power while the second one really had something fishy going on (he signed up to be youth councilor at a local church). So how does this sort of thing distinguish between some poor sod who wants just live his life and someone truly out to continue the activities that got him on the list to begin with.
Also don't you think you're on the borderline of encouraging vigilante behavior? This is where I really question the rationality behind the creation of these lists. If you've done something against society and you go to jail for it, doesn't your debt to society end when you are released? Why then the list? If you say it's because of the high incidence of repeat offenders, then you also must admit that just sending these people to jail doesn't really work (with the exception of protecting society while they are in jail). So shouldn't then the emphasis be placed on understanding the causes of the repeat offense and real solutions to socialize these people rather than just some high-tech branding?
I really agree with Richard Feynman with this and say that the justice system has everything to do with retribution and nearly nothing to do rehabilitation and as such has no emphasis on efficacy. And honestly I'd rather live in a society which really changed the behavior of these anti-social types rather than perpetuating some weird catch-release cycle.
I have a Dual G5 PowerMac along with a couple of older X86 boxes. I will steal an OS X ISO the first chance I get and play with it on the boxes I have now. If the Mactel hardware continues to command the ridiculous price premium that Apple traditionally enjoys and if they become real pricks about people trying to make white boxes work, the G5 I have will be the last sale Apple makes from me.
However If the Mactel hardware is reasonably priced and the just make using white box hardware technically difficult (rather than legally perilous) then I will be more inclined to continue purchasing Apple products.
If somebody sells a white box PPC for a reasonable amount of money I would be interested. If someone sells a Cell box that is really fast at doing the sorts of things I do, I'd get it. Bottom line... I'm not really an X86 fan, I am really, really sick Microsoft's laundry list of technical & moral issues, I'm sick of Linux distribution and applications sporadic non-usability issues, I'm over the computer OS fascination I had as young man, and I just want a very, very fast computer that will allow me to do new interesting things without having to get a PhD in esoteric inner workings every time I change a configuration or install a program. I also want an OS that does not treat my like a suspect every time I have to do an update or something. However I don't want these things so bad I'm willing to fund Apple's path to the "Dark Side"
On a side note, As a paying Apple customer I would like to on record and say charging for QuickTime Pro for OS X is fucking stupid (It has got to be the biggest gateway to pirating application of all time) and If.Mac came with free updates to the OS and iLife I'd pay 125 euros a year for it.
The benefit of space research can be summed up in one word: Tang!
OK now seriously... From my point of view much of space research benefits are much the same as pure research... so the progression of technology is in part driven by these sorts of research. Sure medical research is an easily justifiable money sink but the technology that comes from space research accelerates the rate of medical research. I'm in the medical device development business and in the past I have been a part of successful NASA sensor technology transfers. I think the value of all pure research is tremendously undervalued because of the difficulty of seeing immediate quantifiable benefits... sort of like the child that doesn't understand why they have to take physical education or art classes.
Also I think that space research is a necessity to the long term survival of our species for a variety of reasons. One: given the rate of expansion of population the competition for non renewable resources must surely continue to increase as well. Two: to quote Larry Niven "The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program". Three: Eventually, I think, our rate of increase of technology will be hampered just because we are limited to being just on this one planet... so the benefits of space research are similar to the European ocean explorations in the 1500's.
I've saved my most cynical comment for last: I'm not so sure that money can cure the "Human Condition". I think if the US spent 10 times the money they spend on their military budget on humanitarian aid that the benefits would NOT be increased on the same scale. In other words if humanitarian aid dollars were increased a thousand fold human suffering would not decrease more than 100 fold. So it's not really like: for every dollar spent on space research a little African baby starves to death or something like that.
Oh... and I think that the "National Mathematics and Computation Administration" is really called the "NSA" and they get much more money than NASA.
One more thing: The results of Googling around (feel free to correct me). US Gross Domestic product 17 Trillion US Dollars, US defense budget 360 Billion USD, NASA Budget 16 Billion USD, Department of Homeland security 37 Billion USD. (I couldn't find anything on foreign aid numbers quickly)
I'd have to say because unlike a toll for a tunnel or a bridge there is no practical way to distribute advantages of space research to only those who funded it... or are you suggesting that the sole application for space research is public nationalistic masturbation?
So... in Africa the laws of physics are some different and it makes sense to use a space ship to transport 50 cows to another planet to get a better price and dodge the sales tax?
or is it: only in Africa do they drive a star destroyer around looking for people who have absconded with less energy bars than I could put in the trunk of my car?
After reading the same "overwhelmingly positive ejaculations" I downloaded the whole series. Yes it is a space western, Yes the swearing in Chinese struck me as an attempt to retain the G rating, Yes the sexual tension between the captain and the companion is sophomoric, Yes the token lesbian scene was lame.
But the thing that struck me as the most improbable was the "loot" they stole or smuggled. OK the meds were probably pricey but COWS and energy bars!? What the fuck is that all about.
I enjoyed watching the series, I thought "Out of Gas" was good. But, as with the rest of Television content, it all strikes me a stupendously lame and quite honestly I'm baffled by the numbers of people that get so wrapped up in it. It all sucks! A friend gave a DVD of the Stargate TV spin-off: Sucked. He made me watch an episode of Babylon 5: sucked worse. I saw an episode of some Star Trek something: Sucked as well. I downloaded the Earthsea series that the SCI-FI channel did: it egregiously sucked.
I've read graphic novels which have more compelling plots than ALL of TV programming. I have thousands of books, and none of them suck as bad a what passes for entertainment on television.
The good part about Firefly: It sucks less.
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Randy!! When trying to present the voice of reason it is very important not to be lowered to to this point!
Honest! You've just been trolled! And still I will tell you: your 'Heinlein bucks' would better spent sending someone through a "Tunnel in the Sky" than trying to 'fix' the Human animal as we know it. Calling it surrogate homicide is using the same sort of logic that the BSA uses.
Besides, I hate to say it but, it is not like we will ever run out of people.
Peace man... and don't let this place get to you.
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1: Moon Travel is not a complete waste
2: It would be easier and cheaper to plan and execute a manned mission to the center of the Sun, rather than change the American health care system (The other prat that responded is a good example). There are two central problems preventing rational health care in the US... A lot of very, very wealthy & very powerful people are making huge amounts of money with the status quo and many Americans cling to the misguided conception that rational health care = communism = bad.
Disclaimer: My Father was one of those people who made ungodly amounts of money alongside Bill Frist so I suppose there's a little conflict of interest there.
To be honest these days I'm not really sure that a perfect health care system would do much to alleviate the human condition, as we are so bent on propagating misery.
I have three 400 gig drives sticky taped where this guy has that sheet metal thing. I have no problems except the Highpoint SAID RAID card ended any hopes I had of having the box deep sleep. For what it's worth it is not that easy to find an appropriate power supply for a DIY raid enclosure.
As a Apple user Canon has nearly convinced me to sell all of my canon stuff and go to Nikon, just because of the lack of a real SDK for there cameras. Then I tried to sign of for Nikon's SDK to compare them and found that they are have a contest of who can be the biggest asshole. Both companies ship a camera control program for Mac & Windows that I would say is like a demo in terms of quality and usefulness. So you know it's possible to control the camera from the USB port... but just try and get it done! There is only one way and it envolves using the current version of visual studio.
While I understand your point, you've got it all wrong. Apple has never been about computers for the unwashed masses, because there is not much money in the Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, São Paulo, or Beijing markets. What, you honestly beleive that that Microsoft get paid for all of the software running in the thrid world?
Also I don't think it'll be that long before someone comes up with the equivelent of a mod chip which will allow OS X to run on non standard hardware... in fact I'll bet there are people working on it as we speak.
I have 15K Euro as my guess and I expect it to have as many Cells as needed to get it up to that price. I also expect it to be big, loud, ugly,.... and black. It will use a currently unknown subset of DVI which only will drive Sony or Toshiba LCD monitors which cost over 3K Euro (which only come in back, non-widescreen formats). It will use a form of Rambus memory which not only do you have to pay per RAM update cycle but to use you must sign an confession stating that you have personally violated SEC regulations. It will have on board Super-Ultra DRM which ensure that only optical media it will play are region free triple layer blue ray-disks and this selection is limited to Hi-Def Japanese & German specialty porn (You know they make the best & weirdest porn)
Oh... and it will contain some bizarre GPL contortion that will create gigabytes of acrimonious discussion here on Slashdot.
I come to this conclusion by blending the old PS2 content creation workstation with IBM's higher end workstations and mixing in a few of the various participants recent behaviors. In short it will be a device that a lot of here would like to have but none of us will have enough use for it to justify the staggeringly high price, thereby insuring that a relatively interesting device only reaches a production volume of a few thousand.
One: It would cheaper to buy a 3rd world nation from which to mine the diamond, or perhaps fund your very own coup, than to build the lab required for such an undertaking.
Two: The ridiculous outlay in cash is "proof that you truly love her" and without this she will have troubles interacting with her friends who, to a girl, have been subjected to the same brain washing and with her parents who partook in the brain washing.
Three: Buying blood diamonds has little impact on the goings on in Africa, it's an extremely fucked up place and the few dozen land mines bought from from the money from your diamond is nothing compared to mountains of small arms and land mines the G8 is selling to the various wacko revolutionaries and wacko tyrants or just the wacko white farmers, On CREDIT.
Three: While it is admittedly difficult to find a women worth spending your life with who doesn't want some ridiculus gem on her finger in the US, this is not so much the case elsewhere in the world.
Food for thought: How long does a diamond last? How long does a human last? How long does the average marriage last? Now considering these facts why isn't the used diamond market absolutely flooded? Where the hell did they go? OK My Mum had some from my Grannies that she gave to my sisters but come on, where are the rest?
My take on this... I fought a lot with my ex about this before we were married and she, of course, brought it up when we getting a divorce. Actually I'm pretty sure she still holds the comment "Do you realize how many land mines were planted in Africa with the money from that ring" comment, I made in front of our parents, against me. That was a sign I should have never married that women to begin with and should of held out for the fantastic Girlfriend I have now. I just pray that my daughter doesn't start to exhibit the same wacko tendencies...
I own a Dual G5 mac, I've signed the tablet petition, I'd buy a tablet for as much as they are selling iBooks for.
But here's some questions that just pop into my head. I'm an embedded developer and one of the projects I work on uses an xScale and the instructions look like an extension to a late model ARM processor, rather than PPC or X86. Also, what's the power dissipation of the xScale as compared to newer Freescale products?
Not knowing how much work either of these problems is to overcome (and working mostly in software) it would appear to me that the easiest path would be to squeeze Freescale for a lower power part and disappoint both of the gamers that signed the tablet petition. Having said that I wonder if Intel really has a manufacturing process IBM doesn't (the whole industry is pretty incestuous).
OK, I actually read the article and he's got some good points. However the whole reason that these companies have a lot of sway with the open source community is that they are actively participating within it! I agree with him that the open source community could use some added independence and the solution is simple: the EU should increase their participation within open source community!
Skype on my Mac (dual G5 PowerMac, iSight with Tiger) outright sucks (I loose sound out). In Fact I have some old laptop with windows which is the only thing I use it for
Shuttle's offerings, while innovative and pretty cool are not mini-macs you could probably get 6 mini-macs in the volume of the shuttle (this is a guess because I don't actually own a shuttle product)
Most of the work I do is in both German & English and you're right "the linguistic hilarity" is delicious! Particularly when you include regional dialects rather than just "proper grammar".
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You are working in the wrong country!
I moved from the US to EU and now I have an office with a door and 4 windows which completely open (1x1.5 meters). I share it with one co-worker and our assistant.
Why do so few of these laws have time limits? Why is the justice department holding seminars for law enforcement on how to apply these new anti-terror laws to regular criminals? Why does the Bush Administration violate basic human rights? These aren't extraordinary times! The US is just having another McCarthy era. It's times like this and attitudes like yours make me glad I've gotten the hell out of the insane asylum you folks call the US. I wonder how long it's going to be until all of this "War on Terror" crap is over because so far to me it looks like it's going worse than the "War on Drugs". How long until the unwashed masses in the US wake up and realize that all of the freedoms they had back in the '60s & '70s are gone and there is no real way to get them back? How many decades will pass before they start teaching about "The War on Terror" like they taught us about McCarthy?
But the one question that really holds my interest is how long is it going take the rest of the world to surpass the US in freedom, standards of living, fair medical care, education and technology because the Americans are busy having their militant theocracy and it's hard to get anything else done. And in my mind there are a lot of metrics to measure the "goodness" of a country and when I first moved to the US it was the top of most of them and now it seems that with every yearly study that comes out and with many of the new technological discoveries that are revealed the US slips a little more behind.
Actually that was true about solar power until something like 1989 or so. The same thing goes with Wind Power so those Wind Farms built in the late '70s / early '80s only made sense with the government incentives. If you don't reprocess spent fuel rods in the Nuke plants then the price also becomes prohibitively high (i.e. higher than coal or natural gas). So what it boils down to is a lot of people read one or two studies from 1974 and never think again about the topic despite the advances in those areas. As long as the cost of true waste management is not included when evaluating coal power generation techniques, coal will appear to be cheaper for a long time to come.
As I've said before these guys do not and will not get one cent from me from DVD sales or from cinema tickets (except for the waste they called episode III). I don't watch TV except for the odd football or ice hockey game at the local pub. And I'm sure that what ever they do some one will get around it and I'll learn how from them and the way communications are going it's not entirely unrealistic to setup a media server for my friends & family that can't do it on their own, despite the fact that some of them are halfway around the world. The last time I was at my little sister's house I setup a script that uses a few other programs to rip a DVD and then transcode it to H.264. So now she's got the whole Disney collection (Thanks Blockbuster!) that the kids watch over, and over, and over...
Whatever... Fuck them. The whole industry needs collapse under the combined weight of the absolute crap they call 'art' and their own inability to keep up with the times.
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By some Bizarre twist of fate I have actually worked with two people who have run afoul with this sex offender list thing. One was convicted of Internet child porn swapping (In the worst miscarriage justice I have ever witnessed). With the other it involved his ex-wife and his kid. From my perspective the first guy I listed became pawn in various people's games to stay in elected office and consolidate power while the second one really had something fishy going on (he signed up to be youth councilor at a local church). So how does this sort of thing distinguish between some poor sod who wants just live his life and someone truly out to continue the activities that got him on the list to begin with.
Also don't you think you're on the borderline of encouraging vigilante behavior? This is where I really question the rationality behind the creation of these lists. If you've done something against society and you go to jail for it, doesn't your debt to society end when you are released? Why then the list? If you say it's because of the high incidence of repeat offenders, then you also must admit that just sending these people to jail doesn't really work (with the exception of protecting society while they are in jail). So shouldn't then the emphasis be placed on understanding the causes of the repeat offense and real solutions to socialize these people rather than just some high-tech branding?
I really agree with Richard Feynman with this and say that the justice system has everything to do with retribution and nearly nothing to do rehabilitation and as such has no emphasis on efficacy. And honestly I'd rather live in a society which really changed the behavior of these anti-social types rather than perpetuating some weird catch-release cycle.
However If the Mactel hardware is reasonably priced and the just make using white box hardware technically difficult (rather than legally perilous) then I will be more inclined to continue purchasing Apple products.
If somebody sells a white box PPC for a reasonable amount of money I would be interested. If someone sells a Cell box that is really fast at doing the sorts of things I do, I'd get it. Bottom line... I'm not really an X86 fan, I am really, really sick Microsoft's laundry list of technical & moral issues, I'm sick of Linux distribution and applications sporadic non-usability issues, I'm over the computer OS fascination I had as young man, and I just want a very, very fast computer that will allow me to do new interesting things without having to get a PhD in esoteric inner workings every time I change a configuration or install a program. I also want an OS that does not treat my like a suspect every time I have to do an update or something. However I don't want these things so bad I'm willing to fund Apple's path to the "Dark Side"
On a side note, As a paying Apple customer I would like to on record and say charging for QuickTime Pro for OS X is fucking stupid (It has got to be the biggest gateway to pirating application of all time) and If .Mac came with free updates to the OS and iLife I'd pay 125 euros a year for it.
OK now seriously... From my point of view much of space research benefits are much the same as pure research... so the progression of technology is in part driven by these sorts of research. Sure medical research is an easily justifiable money sink but the technology that comes from space research accelerates the rate of medical research. I'm in the medical device development business and in the past I have been a part of successful NASA sensor technology transfers. I think the value of all pure research is tremendously undervalued because of the difficulty of seeing immediate quantifiable benefits... sort of like the child that doesn't understand why they have to take physical education or art classes.
Also I think that space research is a necessity to the long term survival of our species for a variety of reasons. One: given the rate of expansion of population the competition for non renewable resources must surely continue to increase as well. Two: to quote Larry Niven "The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program". Three: Eventually, I think, our rate of increase of technology will be hampered just because we are limited to being just on this one planet... so the benefits of space research are similar to the European ocean explorations in the 1500's.
I've saved my most cynical comment for last: I'm not so sure that money can cure the "Human Condition". I think if the US spent 10 times the money they spend on their military budget on humanitarian aid that the benefits would NOT be increased on the same scale. In other words if humanitarian aid dollars were increased a thousand fold human suffering would not decrease more than 100 fold. So it's not really like: for every dollar spent on space research a little African baby starves to death or something like that.
Oh... and I think that the "National Mathematics and Computation Administration" is really called the "NSA" and they get much more money than NASA.
One more thing: The results of Googling around (feel free to correct me). US Gross Domestic product 17 Trillion US Dollars, US defense budget 360 Billion USD, NASA Budget 16 Billion USD, Department of Homeland security 37 Billion USD. (I couldn't find anything on foreign aid numbers quickly)
I'd have to say because unlike a toll for a tunnel or a bridge there is no practical way to distribute advantages of space research to only those who funded it... or are you suggesting that the sole application for space research is public nationalistic masturbation?
But if IBM wasn't that interested Apple's business why would they be interested in this?
or is it: only in Africa do they drive a star destroyer around looking for people who have absconded with less energy bars than I could put in the trunk of my car?
But the thing that struck me as the most improbable was the "loot" they stole or smuggled. OK the meds were probably pricey but COWS and energy bars!? What the fuck is that all about.
I enjoyed watching the series, I thought "Out of Gas" was good. But, as with the rest of Television content, it all strikes me a stupendously lame and quite honestly I'm baffled by the numbers of people that get so wrapped up in it. It all sucks! A friend gave a DVD of the Stargate TV spin-off: Sucked. He made me watch an episode of Babylon 5: sucked worse. I saw an episode of some Star Trek something: Sucked as well. I downloaded the Earthsea series that the SCI-FI channel did: it egregiously sucked.
I've read graphic novels which have more compelling plots than ALL of TV programming. I have thousands of books, and none of them suck as bad a what passes for entertainment on television.
The good part about Firefly: It sucks less.
Honest! You've just been trolled! And still I will tell you: your 'Heinlein bucks' would better spent sending someone through a "Tunnel in the Sky" than trying to 'fix' the Human animal as we know it. Calling it surrogate homicide is using the same sort of logic that the BSA uses.
Besides, I hate to say it but, it is not like we will ever run out of people.
Peace man... and don't let this place get to you.
2: It would be easier and cheaper to plan and execute a manned mission to the center of the Sun, rather than change the American health care system (The other prat that responded is a good example). There are two central problems preventing rational health care in the US... A lot of very, very wealthy & very powerful people are making huge amounts of money with the status quo and many Americans cling to the misguided conception that rational health care = communism = bad.
Disclaimer: My Father was one of those people who made ungodly amounts of money alongside Bill Frist so I suppose there's a little conflict of interest there.
To be honest these days I'm not really sure that a perfect health care system would do much to alleviate the human condition, as we are so bent on propagating misery.
I have three 400 gig drives sticky taped where this guy has that sheet metal thing. I have no problems except the Highpoint SAID RAID card ended any hopes I had of having the box deep sleep. For what it's worth it is not that easy to find an appropriate power supply for a DIY raid enclosure.
As a Apple user Canon has nearly convinced me to sell all of my canon stuff and go to Nikon, just because of the lack of a real SDK for there cameras. Then I tried to sign of for Nikon's SDK to compare them and found that they are have a contest of who can be the biggest asshole. Both companies ship a camera control program for Mac & Windows that I would say is like a demo in terms of quality and usefulness. So you know it's possible to control the camera from the USB port... but just try and get it done! There is only one way and it envolves using the current version of visual studio.
Also I don't think it'll be that long before someone comes up with the equivelent of a mod chip which will allow OS X to run on non standard hardware... in fact I'll bet there are people working on it as we speak.
Oh... and it will contain some bizarre GPL contortion that will create gigabytes of acrimonious discussion here on Slashdot.
I come to this conclusion by blending the old PS2 content creation workstation with IBM's higher end workstations and mixing in a few of the various participants recent behaviors. In short it will be a device that a lot of here would like to have but none of us will have enough use for it to justify the staggeringly high price, thereby insuring that a relatively interesting device only reaches a production volume of a few thousand.
Excelent mining potential, I'll have business plans drawn up!
One: It would cheaper to buy a 3rd world nation from which to mine the diamond, or perhaps fund your very own coup, than to build the lab required for such an undertaking.
Two: The ridiculous outlay in cash is "proof that you truly love her" and without this she will have troubles interacting with her friends who, to a girl, have been subjected to the same brain washing and with her parents who partook in the brain washing.
Three: Buying blood diamonds has little impact on the goings on in Africa, it's an extremely fucked up place and the few dozen land mines bought from from the money from your diamond is nothing compared to mountains of small arms and land mines the G8 is selling to the various wacko revolutionaries and wacko tyrants or just the wacko white farmers, On CREDIT.
Three: While it is admittedly difficult to find a women worth spending your life with who doesn't want some ridiculus gem on her finger in the US, this is not so much the case elsewhere in the world.
Food for thought: How long does a diamond last? How long does a human last? How long does the average marriage last? Now considering these facts why isn't the used diamond market absolutely flooded? Where the hell did they go? OK My Mum had some from my Grannies that she gave to my sisters but come on, where are the rest?
My take on this... I fought a lot with my ex about this before we were married and she, of course, brought it up when we getting a divorce. Actually I'm pretty sure she still holds the comment "Do you realize how many land mines were planted in Africa with the money from that ring" comment, I made in front of our parents, against me. That was a sign I should have never married that women to begin with and should of held out for the fantastic Girlfriend I have now. I just pray that my daughter doesn't start to exhibit the same wacko tendencies...
But here's some questions that just pop into my head. I'm an embedded developer and one of the projects I work on uses an xScale and the instructions look like an extension to a late model ARM processor, rather than PPC or X86. Also, what's the power dissipation of the xScale as compared to newer Freescale products?
Not knowing how much work either of these problems is to overcome (and working mostly in software) it would appear to me that the easiest path would be to squeeze Freescale for a lower power part and disappoint both of the gamers that signed the tablet petition. Having said that I wonder if Intel really has a manufacturing process IBM doesn't (the whole industry is pretty incestuous).
OK, I actually read the article and he's got some good points. However the whole reason that these companies have a lot of sway with the open source community is that they are actively participating within it! I agree with him that the open source community could use some added independence and the solution is simple: the EU should increase their participation within open source community!
No if you meant recently then well I can't help you, it's just the times we live in.
Skype on my Mac (dual G5 PowerMac, iSight with Tiger) outright sucks (I loose sound out). In Fact I have some old laptop with windows which is the only thing I use it for
Shuttle's offerings, while innovative and pretty cool are not mini-macs you could probably get 6 mini-macs in the volume of the shuttle (this is a guess because I don't actually own a shuttle product)
Most of the work I do is in both German & English and you're right "the linguistic hilarity" is delicious! Particularly when you include regional dialects rather than just "proper grammar".
I moved from the US to EU and now I have an office with a door and 4 windows which completely open (1x1.5 meters). I share it with one co-worker and our assistant.
But the one question that really holds my interest is how long is it going take the rest of the world to surpass the US in freedom, standards of living, fair medical care, education and technology because the Americans are busy having their militant theocracy and it's hard to get anything else done. And in my mind there are a lot of metrics to measure the "goodness" of a country and when I first moved to the US it was the top of most of them and now it seems that with every yearly study that comes out and with many of the new technological discoveries that are revealed the US slips a little more behind.
Actually that was true about solar power until something like 1989 or so. The same thing goes with Wind Power so those Wind Farms built in the late '70s / early '80s only made sense with the government incentives. If you don't reprocess spent fuel rods in the Nuke plants then the price also becomes prohibitively high (i.e. higher than coal or natural gas). So what it boils down to is a lot of people read one or two studies from 1974 and never think again about the topic despite the advances in those areas. As long as the cost of true waste management is not included when evaluating coal power generation techniques, coal will appear to be cheaper for a long time to come.
Whatever... Fuck them. The whole industry needs collapse under the combined weight of the absolute crap they call 'art' and their own inability to keep up with the times.