faith in Slashdot. Yes, why is the US goverment giving money to corporations rather than to basic research on which corporations are often founded?
Could it be that we've had a string of business friendly adminstrations that think money is the basis of all good (so money making business is always a good thing) followed by a socialist adminstration that wants not only the peoples wealth but the peoples power. Doing basic research and creating new technologies that empower individuals is no way for a govenment to gain power. It will be the last thing you see coming out of Barry's administration.
The way the media (and Slashdot) eats up statements like this as though there were no question of it's validity while, at the same time, rejecting similiary silly (because it is a silly statement) statements that don't corespond to your world view.
Look for this guy to be gone soon. A half brained monkey with turetts can tell you that the "white roof" concept is only going to be useful in a warm climate area and that excludes much of the US. How about pushing to build more nuclear power plants so we can actually power those electric go-carts Obama will mandate "The Peoples Car Company" (formerly GM) make.
Get the DAMN THING TO RUN ON 1 PROCESSOR WITHOUT CRASHING!! For heavens sake!! It reminds me of an early version of IE. How sad. I can't go to my local weather page without it crashing! It's crazy bad.
Actually, it's not. That was the 1920's flu and studies of that are still not 100% confident that it wasn't a mixture of pre-bacterial medicine (much less viral) leading to some very ineffective treatment that led to much of the spread.
This flu has been killing the old, the young and the very poor. 36,000 people die of the plain old, hum drum, non-news worthy flue every year. This is no different other than the media blitz. Something interesting happens it will all go away almost imediately....
...TMI will be remembered as the rallying call for media disinformation about nuclear power and possibly the turning point in US history where we gave up being leaders and began the long descent into being idiotic sheep. If there was one incident in history where the media should be blamed for causing irreparable harm to the people of the United States this was it.
The TMI systems worked so well that even in the face of a core meltdown (however small) no one was harmed and virtually no radiation released. Yet, despite this, the media used lies and myths about TMI to prevent nuclear based power from ever growing to be the dominate form of power generation in the US.
Truly a true crime against humanity (and the climate, Mr Green).
It really amazes me how terrified people are of nuclear energy. It's really amazing. I'm old enough to remember Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Three Mile Island should have been a testament to how safe American nuclear systems are. That reactor started to melt down and yet what escaped was completely within safe limits. Nobody can show any damage or harm whatsoever. Yet the media turned it into something horrific without any facts at all.
Chernobyl on the other hand is truly a worst case scenario. Even at that, if you ask someone how many people died they'll tell you hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands. In fact only a handful died of direct radiation and though many were effected I think the actual number of serious cases of directly related illness was around 56.
We really live in fear of what the media tells us to fear. I find that more frightening than anything.
Yes, it is. Yucca mountain has been ready for use for over a decade. If we were 100% nuclear tomorrow Yucca has capacity to store the low level waste (the high level only stays so for a short time and quickly becomes inert) for 1000 years. If we haven't solved the fusion problem (or found something better) in a thousand years, well, we can talk about it again then...
Nuclear fuel contains 68,000 times more energy than an equal amount of coal. How save if burning coal? Talk to some coal minors. Not very safe. Many of the newest reactors (particularly compact ones) are of the Dyson design that makes losing control impossible. Yes, that's right, impossible. If the reactor over heats the nuclear material melts, revealing a neutron absorbing material that dampens the reaction. These reactors are self dampening in an emergency.
Nothing is inexhaustible. Eventually maybe even solar and geo power sources may become practical. But right now they are not no matter what Al Gore would like you to think. Nearly every "alternative" power source has real issues if we depend on them. Maybe you're OK living like we did 200 years ago. Me, I have no fear of nuclear. It's practical and it's proven. It can easily provide us with a bridge to better energy sources. Even if there's only 100 years of uranium left in the ground that's still plenty of time to develop other technologies.
By this logic we should all hide in cave and hope the scary terrorists don't hurt us.
Learn to live without fear. The whole point of terrorism is to plant the seeds of fear. These seeds die if we proceed with logic and no fear. Of course security steps would have to be taken. So what. Don't you lock your door at night? Doesn't stop you from having a home though, does it?
.. is suitable for realistically providing power for the typical modern life.
Nuclear is clean, safe and practically inexhaustible. The latest advances could provide small nuclear "batteries" the size of a hot tube that could provide power to an entire neighborhood decentralizing much of the power systems (and huge networks of wires) we've come to think of as unavoidable. Making our power systems virtually fool proof. For too long we've lived in the fear from the propaganda of the illiterate press. It's time to start using the miraculous energy source we uncovered and made practical nearly 3/4 of a century ago. It's there, it's understood, it's completely doable and for a hell of lot less money than the democrats want to steal from the people of the US right now.
Wanna make a difference? Press for elimination of the DDT ban and start manufacturing it by the kilo ton and selling it dirt cheap to these countries that suffer from malaria. Eco idiots have murdered over 20 million people because of this ridiculous ban of a chemical so safe you can eat it by the pound with no ill effect. Rumors of damage to birds and other animals have been shown to be completely wrong.
Don't believe it? Al Gore is coming for you baby! Just wait and see.....
I have a pimple on my ass. The question is: WHO THE HELL CARES?
Another day, another politician. If this has brought you hope of change you're a moron. If you think a newbee congress creature with more melanine than the last one will bring peace and joy you're not only a moron put a semi-retarded one.
Please get off the Obama kick. Don't we get enough of this crap from every other media outlet?
we've got a pres-elect that, at a time when we're at war, the economy is in meltdown and the US is in the process of giving up the idea of democracy all together, has time to worry about poor people getting enough TV time with their TV. Yeah, that's what they need. More TV.....
"I think this post is more the cynical rant of a mid-career engineer who's been worked over by industry for 20 years rather than an actual Troll about prostitution"
Mid-career!!!? Mid-career?! You mean I have as much of this ahead of me as behind?!?!? Where's that gun....
I got a perfect score on my SAT's and ACT's. Graduated in the top 5 of graduate class at Cornell (1987) with a double Masters in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
I've been a highly paid male prostitute ever since. No kidding. Just ask my pim..err boss. I earn (well over) six figures a year and all I have to do is take it up the ass 5 days a week (occasionally 6)....
Tell your niece to become an entertainer or learn how to play a sport well (if she's black). She'll make more and have a hell of a lot better life than mucking around with technology all day long.....
"And it's not too far a stretch to presume this administration will demand a certain amount of transparency in the role , including an insistence on divestiture of share holdings in case of conflict of interest, but that's no matter -- what matters is not whether there's another Halliburton effect (there won't be) but whether or not the USA invests in technology at the appropriate scale."
Oh please... My word. Are you, like, 10 years old or have you just never had ANY experience in politics AT ALL. Despite what the media would have you believe, Saint Obama is a politician like any other (just slightly more melanin) and equally open to corruption. I won't even begin with what's already known about him. It doesn't matter. At the level the behavior is amazingly consistent. If you don't know what I mean you're not informed enough for your opinion to matter anyway.
"This is of Cabinet level importance."
No doubt. Exactly why you DO NOT WANT POLITICIANS HANDLING IT!! That's the difference between Socialists and normal working people. The government is just another weight on my back and the bigger it is the bigger the weight. I can take care of me just fine, thank you very much. The market can take care of itself as well. Technology, if you leave the government the HELL out of it, will take the direction the majority want it to take which is exactly what you should want. I don't care if one brilliant individual might be able to set things going in a good direction in one administration because one moron in the next administration will screw it all up. Better to not have the government in it at all! EVER!
"Free market. Right, you mean like the financial industry used? Thank you for playing. NEXT! "
The free market is the "next" you moron! Ever heard of France, Germany, Great Britain? And those are only somewhat Socialist. Of course China and Russia are doing fabulously!! What planet are you from? What would you prefer? Your Congress creature telling what to buy? Free markets are natural selection for business. Only the strong survive. Just as it should be.
Seriously, you really need to read a little more history and look into how economics work. Governments DO NOT make for good business, jobs or prosperity. History makes that crystal clear.
Yes it's funny but it's funny because of the hint of truth. Which is exactly why you do not want a CTO at a government level. How easy is it to corrupt government officials? How many of them are idiots (ever heard Nancy Pelosi speak, wow... just, wow...)? Sure Bill Joy would be great but what if next election you get Bill Gates? Or Steve F'in Balmer? How about MS Windows being mandated for all government work because of ? How about letting the free market (no, not an MS monopoly that is, despite stories to the contrary, slowly slipping away...) decide what works best rather than some government appointee with an agenda (or a greedy streak).
At worst deal with it at the state level so you can at least move if you don't like the way things are going.
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How about $11,399,999,999,999 + $1 ? Ha!! Smarty pants!! Of course that was before Obama.... The number is a lot bigger now...
faith in Slashdot. Yes, why is the US goverment giving money to corporations rather than to basic research on which corporations are often founded?
Could it be that we've had a string of business friendly adminstrations that think money is the basis of all good (so money making business is always a good thing) followed by a socialist adminstration that wants not only the peoples wealth but the peoples power. Doing basic research and creating new technologies that empower individuals is no way for a govenment to gain power. It will be the last thing you see coming out of Barry's administration.
Why indeed...
Most of what they have they stole from the US anyway...
Boobies and science!! It's simply not possible to get any better than that (Ok, maybe boobies, science and beer...)
The way the media (and Slashdot) eats up statements like this as though there were no question of it's validity while, at the same time, rejecting similiary silly (because it is a silly statement) statements that don't corespond to your world view.
Look for this guy to be gone soon. A half brained monkey with turetts can tell you that the "white roof" concept is only going to be useful in a warm climate area and that excludes much of the US. How about pushing to build more nuclear power plants so we can actually power those electric go-carts Obama will mandate "The Peoples Car Company" (formerly GM) make.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the mad debating skillz of the open sorce community are clearly unbeatable."
Yeah, and we can manage to craft a sentence with less than two misspelled words. Clearly a Yale man....
Ahahahahahahahahaha!! Bet you voted for Obama too! Geez, stupid people are so cute!
Get the DAMN THING TO RUN ON 1 PROCESSOR WITHOUT CRASHING!! For heavens sake!! It reminds me of an early version of IE. How sad. I can't go to my local weather page without it crashing! It's crazy bad.
Actually, it's not. That was the 1920's flu and studies of that are still not 100% confident that it wasn't a mixture of pre-bacterial medicine (much less viral) leading to some very ineffective treatment that led to much of the spread.
This flu has been killing the old, the young and the very poor. 36,000 people die of the plain old, hum drum, non-news worthy flue every year. This is no different other than the media blitz. Something interesting happens it will all go away almost imediately....
This was about Arlen Specter.
The TMI systems worked so well that even in the face of a core meltdown (however small) no one was harmed and virtually no radiation released. Yet, despite this, the media used lies and myths about TMI to prevent nuclear based power from ever growing to be the dominate form of power generation in the US.
Truly a true crime against humanity (and the climate, Mr Green).
"None of us is as stupid as all of us together"
Wow! A group of pretend space people in the biggest organization of pretend do gooders on the planet.
And the only thing more silly is someone being inspired by it all... Again I say.. Wow...
It really amazes me how terrified people are of nuclear energy. It's really amazing. I'm old enough to remember Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Three Mile Island should have been a testament to how safe American nuclear systems are. That reactor started to melt down and yet what escaped was completely within safe limits. Nobody can show any damage or harm whatsoever. Yet the media turned it into something horrific without any facts at all.
Chernobyl on the other hand is truly a worst case scenario. Even at that, if you ask someone how many people died they'll tell you hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands. In fact only a handful died of direct radiation and though many were effected I think the actual number of serious cases of directly related illness was around 56.
We really live in fear of what the media tells us to fear. I find that more frightening than anything.
Yes, it is. Yucca mountain has been ready for use for over a decade. If we were 100% nuclear tomorrow Yucca has capacity to store the low level waste (the high level only stays so for a short time and quickly becomes inert) for 1000 years. If we haven't solved the fusion problem (or found something better) in a thousand years, well, we can talk about it again then...
Nuclear fuel contains 68,000 times more energy than an equal amount of coal. How save if burning coal? Talk to some coal minors. Not very safe. Many of the newest reactors (particularly compact ones) are of the Dyson design that makes losing control impossible. Yes, that's right, impossible. If the reactor over heats the nuclear material melts, revealing a neutron absorbing material that dampens the reaction. These reactors are self dampening in an emergency.
Nothing is inexhaustible. Eventually maybe even solar and geo power sources may become practical. But right now they are not no matter what Al Gore would like you to think. Nearly every "alternative" power source has real issues if we depend on them. Maybe you're OK living like we did 200 years ago. Me, I have no fear of nuclear. It's practical and it's proven. It can easily provide us with a bridge to better energy sources. Even if there's only 100 years of uranium left in the ground that's still plenty of time to develop other technologies.
By this logic we should all hide in cave and hope the scary terrorists don't hurt us.
Learn to live without fear. The whole point of terrorism is to plant the seeds of fear. These seeds die if we proceed with logic and no fear. Of course security steps would have to be taken. So what. Don't you lock your door at night? Doesn't stop you from having a home though, does it?
.. is suitable for realistically providing power for the typical modern life.
Nuclear is clean, safe and practically inexhaustible. The latest advances could provide small nuclear "batteries" the size of a hot tube that could provide power to an entire neighborhood decentralizing much of the power systems (and huge networks of wires) we've come to think of as unavoidable. Making our power systems virtually fool proof. For too long we've lived in the fear from the propaganda of the illiterate press. It's time to start using the miraculous energy source we uncovered and made practical nearly 3/4 of a century ago. It's there, it's understood, it's completely doable and for a hell of lot less money than the democrats want to steal from the people of the US right now.
Go nukes! Go nukes! Go nukes!
Wanna make a difference? Press for elimination of the DDT ban and start manufacturing it by the kilo ton and selling it dirt cheap to these countries that suffer from malaria. Eco idiots have murdered over 20 million people because of this ridiculous ban of a chemical so safe you can eat it by the pound with no ill effect. Rumors of damage to birds and other animals have been shown to be completely wrong.
Don't believe it? Al Gore is coming for you baby! Just wait and see.....
SAVE THE BABY HUMANS!! BAN the DDT BAN!!
I have a pimple on my ass. The question is: WHO THE HELL CARES?
Another day, another politician. If this has brought you hope of change you're a moron. If you think a newbee congress creature with more melanine than the last one will bring peace and joy you're not only a moron put a semi-retarded one.
Please get off the Obama kick. Don't we get enough of this crap from every other media outlet?
we've got a pres-elect that, at a time when we're at war, the economy is in meltdown and the US is in the process of giving up the idea of democracy all together, has time to worry about poor people getting enough TV time with their TV. Yeah, that's what they need. More TV.....
"I think this post is more the cynical rant of a mid-career engineer who's been worked over by industry for 20 years rather than an actual Troll about prostitution"
Mid-career!!!? Mid-career?! You mean I have as much of this ahead of me as behind?!?!? Where's that gun....
I got a perfect score on my SAT's and ACT's. Graduated in the top 5 of graduate class at Cornell (1987) with a double Masters in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
I've been a highly paid male prostitute ever since. No kidding. Just ask my pim..err boss. I earn (well over) six figures a year and all I have to do is take it up the ass 5 days a week (occasionally 6)....
Tell your niece to become an entertainer or learn how to play a sport well (if she's black). She'll make more and have a hell of a lot better life than mucking around with technology all day long.....
"And it's not too far a stretch to presume this administration will demand a certain amount of transparency in the role , including an insistence on divestiture of share holdings in case of conflict of interest, but that's no matter -- what matters is not whether there's another Halliburton effect (there won't be) but whether or not the USA invests in technology at the appropriate scale."
Oh please... My word. Are you, like, 10 years old or have you just never had ANY experience in politics AT ALL. Despite what the media would have you believe, Saint Obama is a politician like any other (just slightly more melanin) and equally open to corruption. I won't even begin with what's already known about him. It doesn't matter. At the level the behavior is amazingly consistent. If you don't know what I mean you're not informed enough for your opinion to matter anyway.
"This is of Cabinet level importance."
No doubt. Exactly why you DO NOT WANT POLITICIANS HANDLING IT!! That's the difference between Socialists and normal working people. The government is just another weight on my back and the bigger it is the bigger the weight. I can take care of me just fine, thank you very much. The market can take care of itself as well. Technology, if you leave the government the HELL out of it, will take the direction the majority want it to take which is exactly what you should want. I don't care if one brilliant individual might be able to set things going in a good direction in one administration because one moron in the next administration will screw it all up. Better to not have the government in it at all! EVER!
Yeah, he's a moron. Not like you..... And kittens give Morbo gas...
"Free market. Right, you mean like the financial industry used? Thank you for playing. NEXT! "
The free market is the "next" you moron! Ever heard of France, Germany, Great Britain? And those are only somewhat Socialist. Of course China and Russia are doing fabulously!! What planet are you from? What would you prefer? Your Congress creature telling what to buy? Free markets are natural selection for business. Only the strong survive. Just as it should be.
Seriously, you really need to read a little more history and look into how economics work. Governments DO NOT make for good business, jobs or prosperity. History makes that crystal clear.
Yes it's funny but it's funny because of the hint of truth. Which is exactly why you do not want a CTO at a government level. How easy is it to corrupt government officials? How many of them are idiots (ever heard Nancy Pelosi speak, wow... just, wow...)? Sure Bill Joy would be great but what if next election you get Bill Gates? Or Steve F'in Balmer? How about MS Windows being mandated for all government work because of ? How about letting the free market (no, not an MS monopoly that is, despite stories to the contrary, slowly slipping away...) decide what works best rather than some government appointee with an agenda (or a greedy streak).
At worst deal with it at the state level so you can at least move if you don't like the way things are going.
Don't laugh. Be afraid. Be very afraid...
"Just clinging to my guns and religion..."