All this showed to me sadly was how quickly people are willing to give up their own freedoms because of fear. This is a sad slippery slope we are on
This is NOT the real slippery slope
The REAL slippery slope is in letting people like those two terrorists into our country
They have no business in the United States in the first place
And when the FBI got the tip from Russia that the elder brother was involved with Islamic extremism they merely "interview" that guy, and then set him free
In this case, the FBI acted not in the interest of the country, but rather, the FBI suspect Russia more than the possibility that that guy could be one of the planted cell for Islamic terrorism in the USA
How many more of similar Islamic terrorists are inside USA now ???
Why did we let them in, in the first place ?????
Too many of the liberals think that "education can solve the problem" --- without understanding that the TRUE NATURE OF ISLAM --- which is, no matter how high a guy's has been educated, Islam will find a way to brainwash that person
Case in point, # 1:
ALL the terrorists who hijacked the planes in the 9/11 case were college educated
Case in point, #2:
That Islamic terrorist who shot dead our 13 soldier boys and wouded 29, inside Ford Hood, was a very highly educated person
If you guys truly understand the danger of Islam you would never be as naive as you are
When people tried to JUSTIFY the killing in the Boston Marathon and I objected to that asinine notion, again my comment was modded down to the basement
When someone claimed that I have a problem with Islam and I countered that it was ISLAM WHICH HAS A PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD, you know what ? That comment too was modded down to the basement
As an American I am extremely angry at those who create troubles for my country, particularly those who came to America but refuse to live peacefully with the others
If they do not want to live peacefully with the rest of us in the United States of America they can either ***NOT*** coming to America in the first place, or, get out of America before they start creating trouble for others
I was very very angry at what happened to the World Trade Center in NYC, and I AM very very angry at what happened at the Boston Marathon
If people of a certain violent sect want to kill and main people, they should do it in THEIR OWN COUNTRIES
Stop doing it in the United States of America !
If you party is for "Justice", then do justice to the Americans --- get those troublemakers out of our society !!!
Also, he used a phrase "If the world can't keep Islam and all the Islamic violence out, at least USA can try" - which would seem to imply that he has a problem with the religion and the violence
It is not me having a problem with Islam
It is Islam that has a lot of problem with the world
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which burned down the great library in Alexandra, Egypt
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which bombed the train station in Madrid
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which bombed the subway in London
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which brought down the World Trade Center in New York
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion who cut off the head of little children in Thailand
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion who cut off the heads of school girls in Indonesia
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion who killed the Christians in Nigeria
Do you need more proofs ???
Yes, I do have a lot of problems with the violence that brought on by Islam
The United States of America is ***MY*** country and I have the right to protect my country from Islam !!!
If you love Islam so much why don't you move to Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Egypt ?
Slashdot has become a place where all the anti-American-freaks congregate
All messages warning against the dangerous Islamic religion were modded down, and on the other hand, all messages accusing America of aggression (and Pro-Islam) got modded up and up
What if country X has a law which states that *All information passing through our country must carry the slogal "THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY Y IS A BITCH"*, then what?
Should all the emails, PDF and whatnots that somehow pass through that country X have to carry that silly and provocative slogan??
The terrorists who hijacked the planes and then slammed them into the World Trade Center (and the Pentagon and the one which crashed in Pennsylvania) were ALL college educated
You're obviously a person who knows how entice yourself into doing something - even when that something has become boring and routine
Would you mind sharing with us in what way you encourage yourself to carry on in what you have been doing, and in overcoming fears of the unknown when you are about to do things that you have never done before (facing new challenges) ?
They are saying that Qualcommâ(TM)s Snapdragon 800 chipset are much superior than anything else, even surpassing Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa
Not that I'm in the "more core more better" camp, but I can't help but wondering what makes Qualcomm's offering so attractive to those folks in the first place...
'We don't sell any washing machines, we don't sell radios. We are not focused on the next server farm to offer data services. It is a question of focus.'
Kobo's CEO may think that he's the only one doing the focusing and he's implying that Amazon has lost focus...
Well, he might have a point... but then, he's not entirely right either
You see, Amazon may have branched out to non-book categories, but that does not mean they have lost focus
What happens is that Amazon has shifted their focus onto something else
It's all about business viewpoints
Amazon started out carving out a niche market --- selling books online --- but when that niche market is filled with competitors, such as Kobo, it's no longer a niche market
If you're the first one who came out with the instant noodles, you got the whole market to yourself
Even if you restrict yourself in selling instant noodle that came with only ONE FLAVOR, the customers will have no choice to buy instant noodle of that particular flavor
But when you start to have competitors that came into the market selling noodles with more exciting flavors, what do you do?
You can either fight back, selling instant noodles with even more choices of flavor...
You can fight back with pricepoint --- lowering the price of your instant noodles...
Or... you can shift your focus away from instant noodles, into something else
As a business person myself I keep on reminding myself to be extremely flexible and agile in dealing with the marketplace
The only real resources that fluctuate are labor and renewables
I guess you are not in the high tech field
As one in the tech field since the 1970's, one very real resource that I count on is BRAIN-POWER, aka, ideas
Timber can cut into wood for burning, or could be turned into tables and chair by carpenters, or could be used for building a dormitory, or, in the hands of master crafter like Stradivarius, becomes his world famous violins
Actually, depending on how you define best (do laboratory samples count?) I think they're past 40% now
If you read closely on how they achieve the more than 40% efficiency you would see that they are not "1 sun" PV structure
Case in point, Solar Junction ( http://www.sj-solar.com/ ) came out with the "lattice matched 942X" which has 44% conversion rate
That "942X" denotes "942 suns", which means, the PV from Solar Junction is not flat panel type of PV, but rather, achieve its high efficiency with the use of focusing optics
"... Think of a magnifying glass. Basically, you have a very high performance solar cell that sits at the focal point of these focusing optics. The solar cell converts the photon flux into electrons, and power
What America needs is not what this bill is providing
I am saying this as an American, as one who have funded many startups in America, and as one who have providing jobs to many of my fellow Americans
What America needs are people who are entrepreneurial, who are risk takers, who provide jobs for others
What this bill intends to do is to import even more tech-grunts under the H1-B visas, and to open up the gate for MILLIONS of undocumented aliens, most of them unskilled/low-skilled, lacking in enthusiasm to compete, and they will end up burdening the already over-burdened social welfare system that we have in our country
... they've discovered a lot of organic molecules that have the potential for 10% or better conversion; roughly equivalent to the current best PV material
The current best PV materials have 20% or better conversion rate
Even the garden variety stuffs from China gets you about or above 15% conversion rate
I reckon the organic compounds are better, in the sense that they do not pollute the environment as much, but to that they are "equivalent" to the "best PV material" in terms of conversion rate, tastes a little bit funny to me
Slashdot Mirror
Is Japan going the way of Iran, blocking the flow of information, for the sake of the ruling elites ?
All this showed to me sadly was how quickly people are willing to give up their own freedoms because of fear. This is a sad slippery slope we are on
This is NOT the real slippery slope
The REAL slippery slope is in letting people like those two terrorists into our country
They have no business in the United States in the first place
And when the FBI got the tip from Russia that the elder brother was involved with Islamic extremism they merely "interview" that guy, and then set him free
In this case, the FBI acted not in the interest of the country, but rather, the FBI suspect Russia more than the possibility that that guy could be one of the planted cell for Islamic terrorism in the USA
How many more of similar Islamic terrorists are inside USA now ???
Why did we let them in, in the first place ?????
Too many of the liberals think that "education can solve the problem" --- without understanding that the TRUE NATURE OF ISLAM --- which is, no matter how high a guy's has been educated, Islam will find a way to brainwash that person
Case in point, # 1:
ALL the terrorists who hijacked the planes in the 9/11 case were college educated
Case in point, #2:
That Islamic terrorist who shot dead our 13 soldier boys and wouded 29, inside Ford Hood, was a very highly educated person
If you guys truly understand the danger of Islam you would never be as naive as you are
Islam is evil
When I said that the bombing was the work of the MUSLIMS my comment was modded down to the basement
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3663921&cid=43488935
When people tried to JUSTIFY the killing in the Boston Marathon and I objected to that asinine notion, again my comment was modded down to the basement
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3663921&cid=43489101
When someone claimed that I have a problem with Islam and I countered that it was ISLAM WHICH HAS A PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD, you know what ? That comment too was modded down to the basement
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3663921&cid=43490981
Now ... the truth is out !!
IT WAS THE MUSLIMS AFTER ALL !!!
Just like I've stated earlier !!!
As an American I am extremely angry at those who create troubles for my country, particularly those who came to America but refuse to live peacefully with the others
If they do not want to live peacefully with the rest of us in the United States of America they can either ***NOT*** coming to America in the first place, or, get out of America before they start creating trouble for others
I was very very angry at what happened to the World Trade Center in NYC, and I AM very very angry at what happened at the Boston Marathon
If people of a certain violent sect want to kill and main people, they should do it in THEIR OWN COUNTRIES
Stop doing it in the United States of America !
If you party is for "Justice", then do justice to the Americans --- get those troublemakers out of our society !!!
When IBM decides to throw away its garbage, Lenovo will come begging
Also, he used a phrase "If the world can't keep Islam and all the Islamic violence out, at least USA can try" - which would seem to imply that he has a problem with the religion and the violence
It is not me having a problem with Islam
It is Islam that has a lot of problem with the world
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which burned down the great library in Alexandra, Egypt
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which bombed the train station in Madrid
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which bombed the subway in London
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion which brought down the World Trade Center in New York
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion who cut off the head of little children in Thailand
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion who cut off the heads of school girls in Indonesia
It was the people who practice the Islamic religion who killed the Christians in Nigeria
Do you need more proofs ???
Yes, I do have a lot of problems with the violence that brought on by Islam
The United States of America is ***MY*** country and I have the right to protect my country from Islam !!!
If you love Islam so much why don't you move to Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Egypt ?
Slashdot has become a place where all the anti-American-freaks congregate
All messages warning against the dangerous Islamic religion were modded down, and on the other hand, all messages accusing America of aggression (and Pro-Islam) got modded up and up
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17817173-one-boston-marathon-suspect-dead-another-still-on-run-officials-say?lite
Those of you hating the USA so much do not need to read the above link
Those of you still believing in the US of A, click on the above link and read it for yourself
The Boston bombers are foreign born, and they all had previous military training OUTSIDE OF AMERICA
The Boston Marathon Bombing and the subsequent shootout in MIT is yet another sign that America is under constant attack from the Muslims
Lest you have forgotten, Google is not based in Germany
Sue them for breaking german law
This begs a question ...
Can local laws dictate what Internet must do ?
What if country X has a law which states that *All information passing through our country must carry the slogal "THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY Y IS A BITCH"*, then what?
Should all the emails, PDF and whatnots that somehow pass through that country X have to carry that silly and provocative slogan??
Click on the following link ...
http://postimg.org/image/9ovtmetqr/
I've seen enough of faces like the one in the photo above in Pakistan and in Afghanistan to know who they are
Just in case you don't know it yet ...
The terrorists who hijacked the planes and then slammed them into the World Trade Center (and the Pentagon and the one which crashed in Pennsylvania) were ALL college educated
Are you saying that it's JUSTIFIED for them Muslims to place bomb in Boston just to kill innocent people ?
Are you saying that it's OKAY for the Muslims to bring down the World Trade Center in New York ? While more than three thousand people too ?
I simply do not believe what I am reading here ...
How can any kind of violence be justified ?
There was a rumor of a Saudi student being arrested .. ... and then the authority came out and said that Saudi student wasn't the suspect
Okay, I accept that
But the following action from the government of the United States have been very suspicious
They want to deport that Saudi student !!
Why ?
If that Saudi student is innocent, and if he is still studying, why deport that guy ?
Or is there something that the authority does NOT want us to know ???
http://www.examiner.com/article/saudi-person-of-interest-boston-bombings-to-be-deported
http://www.inquisitr.com/624111/saudi-national-no-longer-boston-marathon-suspect-may-face-deportation/
As an American I'm supposed to be open-minded
It's just that I can't stand it no more
America is my country - and they are whacking havoc in my country
I'm not saying that every Muslim is bad, but the fact is, most of those bombings are connected with Islam ...
I think it's time we do something about it
If the world can't keep Islam and all the Islamic violence out, at least USA can try
I know this comment is gonna be modded down to the basement, I do not care
I have had enough of bullshit already !!!
Dear Dr. Dyson,
You're obviously a person who knows how entice yourself into doing something - even when that something has become boring and routine
Would you mind sharing with us in what way you encourage yourself to carry on in what you have been doing, and in overcoming fears of the unknown when you are about to do things that you have never done before (facing new challenges) ?
One thing that I do not understand ...
They are saying that Qualcommâ(TM)s Snapdragon 800 chipset are much superior than anything else, even surpassing Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa
Not that I'm in the "more core more better" camp, but I can't help but wondering what makes Qualcomm's offering so attractive to those folks in the first place ...
'We don't sell any washing machines, we don't sell radios. We are not focused on the next server farm to offer data services. It is a question of focus.'
Kobo's CEO may think that he's the only one doing the focusing and he's implying that Amazon has lost focus ...
Well, he might have a point ... but then, he's not entirely right either
You see, Amazon may have branched out to non-book categories, but that does not mean they have lost focus
What happens is that Amazon has shifted their focus onto something else
It's all about business viewpoints
Amazon started out carving out a niche market --- selling books online --- but when that niche market is filled with competitors, such as Kobo, it's no longer a niche market
If you're the first one who came out with the instant noodles, you got the whole market to yourself
Even if you restrict yourself in selling instant noodle that came with only ONE FLAVOR, the customers will have no choice to buy instant noodle of that particular flavor
But when you start to have competitors that came into the market selling noodles with more exciting flavors, what do you do?
You can either fight back, selling instant noodles with even more choices of flavor ...
You can fight back with pricepoint --- lowering the price of your instant noodles ...
Or ... you can shift your focus away from instant noodles, into something else
As a business person myself I keep on reminding myself to be extremely flexible and agile in dealing with the marketplace
One of the main reason why the MAFIAA cases are still heating the courtrooms around the country is so cheap to sue somebody and so expensive to defend
When the justice system makes it so easy to attack someone and so hard to defend oneself, of course someone gonna abuse it to their own advantage
The only real resources that fluctuate are labor and renewables
I guess you are not in the high tech field
As one in the tech field since the 1970's, one very real resource that I count on is BRAIN-POWER, aka, ideas
Timber can cut into wood for burning, or could be turned into tables and chair by carpenters, or could be used for building a dormitory, or, in the hands of master crafter like Stradivarius, becomes his world famous violins
Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth?
No, finite resources do.
High public debt drains away valuable resources faster than low public debt
Given the same amount of initial resource, a country with high public debt will have smaller chances for recovery
But then again, most economies (other than that of North Korea) are dynamic, and the amount of resource fluctuates
Actually, depending on how you define best (do laboratory samples count?) I think they're past 40% now
If you read closely on how they achieve the more than 40% efficiency you would see that they are not "1 sun" PV structure
Case in point, Solar Junction ( http://www.sj-solar.com/ ) came out with the "lattice matched 942X" which has 44% conversion rate
That "942X" denotes "942 suns", which means, the PV from Solar Junction is not flat panel type of PV, but rather, achieve its high efficiency with the use of focusing optics
Allow me to quote from http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/10/solar-junction-does-it-again-sets-new-cpv-efficiency-record
" ... Think of a magnifying glass. Basically, you have a very high performance solar cell that sits at the focal point of these focusing optics. The solar cell converts the photon flux into electrons, and power
What America needs is not what this bill is providing
I am saying this as an American, as one who have funded many startups in America, and as one who have providing jobs to many of my fellow Americans
What America needs are people who are entrepreneurial, who are risk takers, who provide jobs for others
What this bill intends to do is to import even more tech-grunts under the H1-B visas, and to open up the gate for MILLIONS of undocumented aliens, most of them unskilled/low-skilled, lacking in enthusiasm to compete, and they will end up burdening the already over-burdened social welfare system that we have in our country
The current best PV materials have 20% or better conversion rate
Even the garden variety stuffs from China gets you about or above 15% conversion rate
I reckon the organic compounds are better, in the sense that they do not pollute the environment as much, but to that they are "equivalent" to the "best PV material" in terms of conversion rate, tastes a little bit funny to me
*The Chinese
*The Russians
*The Muslims
*The non-Whites
*The anti-capitalists
Who else ??