It too profitable accept any patent, prior art or not. -The USPTO get fees paid for every submission -If the patent is invalidated, the USPTO is not affected in any way. -The USPTO has a monopoly on the situation.
Whenever you have a business doing something that the government should be doing you get issues like this. (e.g. The Fed, Private Prisons, etc.)
Thorium is currently a waste product of mining other elements that are in demand.
Though you could probably line the walls of your house with it and live just fine, Thorium is a bit radioactive and the Laws kick-in to prevent you from even stock piling the stuff.
TL;DR: Thorium is not a desirable element in mining. You can't get rid of the stuff. (in the UPS, at least)
Look like someone failed in physics/chemistry: [Pu238] is a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are used to power some spacecraft. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium
[Pu239] can sustain a nuclear chain reaction, leading to applications in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors.
RE: extra power being used to produce liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2 for mobile and transport needs.
You can't do that! The arctic would freeze and we'd miss out on wicked storms like Katrina. Shipping lanes in the Arctic are about to open up and hopefully some wars will occur because right-of-way, etc. Wars and storm cleanup are highly profitable./S
MS got an ISO standard by buying it about 2 years after ODF was the approved.
But the approval for Microsoft Office Open (aka "MOO") was too lateand came with a a few changes so they shipped Office 2010 it as is with MOO-original flavour.
**History lesson: How MS got Office Open XML approved** MS paid the ISO membership fees for a bunch of new ISO members for that one critical ISO vote. The new members were so happy, they voted to approve Open XML.
This way, the secretive and patent laden file format could be used in government bids where ISO file formats where required.
Soon after this outrageous manoeuvre, ISO lost it's reputation and became known as I Sold Out.
Re:They make it sound like that's a long time.
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Rumours at the time were that they came up with a update that included a new interface. Updates were free but they decided to charge for it and Windows XP was born.
There is "decay heat" but unlike traditional reactors, you can shut LFTRs down fairly quickly.
In fact, when they built the LFTR reactor in the 70s, nobody wanted to monitor them during the weekend. So they turned it off on Friday and turned it back on on Monday.
As far as Thorium bombs thing:
Where is all this crap coming from?: "Thorium Remix 2011"
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It too profitable accept any patent, prior art or not.
-The USPTO get fees paid for every submission
-If the patent is invalidated, the USPTO is not affected in any way.
-The USPTO has a monopoly on the situation.
Whenever you have a business doing something that the government should be doing you get issues like this. (e.g. The Fed, Private Prisons, etc.)
Oh, the USPTO *is* part of the government?
It sure doesn't act like it.
http://www.longest.com/2011/05/11/federal-government-slows-innovation-on-intentionally/
It's scary, SouthPark had it right years ago.
The message from the episode though is useless.
Short of being "liberated" by another country, we are screwed again.
Also, there was 2 types of tricorders:
Spock's regular tricorder
Bones' medical tricorder. (has a scanning cylinder that detaches fro the unit)
I guess that make USA #2?
Or is that the UK?
MS has exposed that ISO will accept "Cash for Standards".
This has the ISO earning the acronym: "I Sold Out".
How many OTHER ISO standards have be bought?
For all we know, the MOO standard may be only one of many.
Thorium is currently a waste product of mining other elements that are in demand.
Though you could probably line the walls of your house with it and live just fine, Thorium is a bit radioactive and the Laws kick-in to prevent you from even stock piling the stuff.
TL;DR: Thorium is not a desirable element in mining. You can't get rid of the stuff. (in the UPS, at least)
Again, this would have to be done in the robot.txt file.
And if such a parameter exists.
As a user seeing the result of this, if i see a link but no preview, why-the-Fsck would I click it?
It's looks just like the spam links in my email.
Look like someone failed in physics/chemistry:
[Pu238] is a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are used to power some spacecraft.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium
[Pu239] can sustain a nuclear chain reaction, leading to applications in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors.
RE: extra power being used to produce liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2 for mobile and transport needs.
You can't do that! /S
The arctic would freeze and we'd miss out on wicked storms like Katrina.
Shipping lanes in the Arctic are about to open up and hopefully some wars will occur because right-of-way, etc. Wars and storm cleanup are highly profitable.
I tried Foxit
My Quickbooks has Adobe PDF writer built-in (only good for QB use!)
Somehow, that has made Adobe Reader get called in FF instead of Foxit.
It reminds me of the file association wars between Quicktime, WinAmp and WMP.
They are imaginative but they do not hint to their function.
RE: I hate that governments can just rename a treaty or bill and resubmit it. I mean, with SOPA & PIPA.
BTW: It's called CETA now.
And it contains ACTA/SOPA/PIPA laws
and a bonus: Cities not allowed to have "buy local" tenders.
Read my post below.
MS got an ISO standard by buying it about 2 years after ODF was the approved.
But the approval for Microsoft Office Open (aka "MOO") was too lateand came with a a few changes so they shipped Office 2010 it as is with MOO-original flavour.
Now they want to give us MOO-ISO flavour.
Yay, another format change.
Bought for you by Microsoft.
**History lesson: How MS got Office Open XML approved**
MS paid the ISO membership fees for a bunch of new ISO members for that one critical ISO vote.
The new members were so happy, they voted to approve Open XML.
This way, the secretive and patent laden file format could be used in government bids where ISO file formats where required.
Soon after this outrageous manoeuvre,
ISO lost it's reputation and became known as I Sold Out.
It would show people when they are being x-ray'd.
Actually be the government, that's the best way to steal.
Proof: US Senators are allowed to commit insider trading.
Do you see the mention of warrants in his proposal?
None
It's all automatic like DMCA takedowns.
Guilty until proven innocent.
Nice try.
Kind of like the menu addon for Office 2010.
If you don't believe me:
http://www.addintools.com/office2010/professionalplus/index.html
Rumours at the time were that they came up with a update that included a new interface. Updates were free but they decided to charge for it and Windows XP was born.
There is "decay heat" but unlike traditional reactors, you can shut LFTRs down fairly quickly.
In fact, when they built the LFTR reactor in the 70s, nobody wanted to monitor them during the weekend. So they turned it off on Friday and turned it back on on Monday.
As far as Thorium bombs thing:
Where is all this crap coming from?: "Thorium Remix 2011"
They did build them.
The last one worked for 5+ years.
According to the Thorium Remix 2011 documentary, both China and India are working on it.
I have a feeling the Chinese are ahead though.
In 10-20 years we'll be buying their LFTR reactors, just you wait!
Sounds like what they did for XP.
back then it was know as Win2000 with the Fisher Price interface.
Thermal to electrical efficiency:
Light water: 32-36%
LFTR: 45%
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor#Economy_and_efficiency
Fuel Efficiency:
Light/Hard water: ~0.5% burned
LFTR: over 99% burned
Source: http://thorium.50webs.com/