Either we have free speech, or we do not have free speech.
Then I guess we don't have free speech, because there's a couple hundred years of judicial precedents that limit your ability to incite violence or cause a breech of the peace.
The world isn't black or white and neither are our laws. These are nuanced issues that call for nuanced responses. Stop trying to dumb everything down to an either/or situation.
Defanging the EPA will NOT lead to more "Love Canals". Love Canal was a result of ignorance and greed on the part of both Hooker Chemical AND the local Niagara County government. The EPA would not have prevented it. If the presence of the EPA prevented environmental disasters, then every environmental accident since the EPA's creation wouldn't have happened.
The only reason the BP spill was so large is because the EPA didn't require the basic precaution (required in Europe) of simultaneously drilling a secondary well to cap off the primary if it blew.
I am actually quite well informed. I think I've proven that with some of the information I've provided.
In the United States, most coal plants are grandfathered in under the newest regulatory requirements. They're allowed to fix/replace anything up to something like 15%~20% of the plant's cost in a year without coming under the new regulatory rules. In other words, they could rebuild the plant completely over 5 or 6 years and never have to install modern emissions control devices.
I considered going into the SuperFund issue, but I suspect you're not as well informed as you think.
there's a lot of mythology around many such things. having a few pints with an old master blacksmith can be interesting. there's a number of master blacksmiths who spent years figuring out how to make blades which were almost indistinguishable from wootz but the point to keep in mind is that the challenge was to figure out how they did it with tech of old. not how to make superior metal.
Wootz/Damascus steel was not created with "tech of old" It came about because a certain mine in India had naturally occuring trace impurities in the steel. When the mine went dry, so did the world's supply of wootz. That's what took so long to figure out.
And when it comes to metal, "superior" depends on the application you have for it.
The best blades ever produced in ancient times wouldn't hold a candle to the best that could be made now by the best engineers now. If you made a blade using single crystal superalloys like they use in jet engine turbine blades it would make a mockery of the best of the best in ancient times
And yet here we are trying to recreate techniques for firing ceramics from thousands of years ago. Like I said, it depends on the application you have for it. Not everything can be made of diamonds, rubies and single crystal superalloys.
I'm not sure of a good way to capture *skill*--it's usually passed on person-to-person.
It's called "good documentation". I recall reading that the F-22 production line was videotaped from start to finish, with workers explaining their jobs and going through the motions. This was fleshed out with interviews in order to capture institutional knowledge that usually disappears when production lines are shut down and workers leave.
Ceramics enjoyed an extended period as a top tier technology and then continued on as a legacy, but still critical-for-civilization technology. Once we reinvent their old technology, there's no reason for it to ever be lost again.
They packed more powerful components, more efficient components, into the same size with ever increasing battery technology.
The iPhone 5 is 1.778 mm thinner than the previous iPhone. That's almost the difference between the Droid Razr and the Droid Razr Maxx.
You know what the Razr Maxx did with that extra thickness? They almost doubled the battery capacity and now have a phone that outlasts everything else.
But people are used to plugging in their smart phones to charge every night, so Apple doesn't lose anything by adding thinness instead of battery life.
I don't buy that. The contents of my speech do not make me liable for the actions of others in response to that speech.
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting words" those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
â" Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 1942
I suspect the attacks would have happened anyways, as something of a 9/11 anniversary present, but the notion that the contents of your speech does not make you liable is entirely incorrect.
If the employees are underwater on their stock for the forseeable future, it's going to be hard to keep them motivated.
Being underwater on a stock can be useful for tax management purposes. You sell the stock, mark the difference as a loss, and then use that to manipulate your tax liability.
Ideally, if you think Facebook is going to bounce back, you invest the money you made from the sale into some other vehicle that holds Facebook stock.
Politics in a democracy involve two sides cheering for their own while doing anything they can to damage the other side.
Whenever a disaster happens, whichever side that named its underlying cause as an issue makes a huge deal of the event. To gain maximum publicity for their (righteous) cause, they overstates the event and style it as a new coming apocalypse.
Your position ignores that sometimes there is an objectively "correct" thing to do and that sometimes, someone is objectively wrong for arguing against it.
Then months later when the consequence isn't as big as they thought, the event and the issue it represents pass out of public consciousness.
There's a nasty see-saw effect as a result. We're either full on an issue, or have forgotten it, and our legislators write law accordingly. It's like a society without an attention span.
Do you know why Nixon (that notorious liberal) created the EPA? The second largest (deep water is #1) oil spill in American history brought so much attention to environmental issues that he had no choice.
That was 42 years ago. I wouldn't call 42 years "forgotten" or "see-saw effect" or "without an attention span."
Understanding the mechanics of memory may lead to breakthroughs which could cure diseases like Alzheimer's.
Which isn't to say that there is no danger. We develop biological and chemical weapons so that we can craft defenses for them, but we don't lie to ourselves that we haven't first created something with its own risks.
What is different is the PR campaigns. One side wants to primarily use the government tactics (which has merged with big business) to destroy the middle class, and the other side wants to primarily use big business tactics (which has merged with the government) to destroy the middle class.
I guess that's why the Republicans and Democrats have spent the better part of two years fighting over rescinding tax cuts for those making over $250k and extending social spending for those making less than $250k.
Maybe you'd like to explain your "destroy the middle class" comment a little further? Without any context, it just makes you seem ignorant.
I've heard the term gravity well used, but as far as I know there is no "outside of the well"
The effects of gravity die off exponentially the farther away you are from the source. So technically, we're experiencing the gravitational pull from objects on the other side of the universe, but practically speaking, their gravitational effect is as close to zero as to be unmeasurable.
It's also a bit relative. The smaller the object, the bigger the effective gravity well. The bigger the object, the smaller the effective gravity well.
If you want to be pedantic about it, the limit of any gravity well is roughly 13.7 billion light years which is the age of the universe.
TLDNR: A gravity well ends at the point where its effects are not going to screw with your calculations anymore.
Basically, the signup for Google Fiber was split along the line dividing historically white and black neighborhoods.
But Liimatta [who runs a Kansas City nonprofit that works to bring broadband access to low-income residents] says the pre-registration process itself set a high bar for those already on the wrong side of the digital divide. To pre-register, residents needed to be willing to pony up $10. They also needed a credit or debit card, a Google Wallet account, and a Gmail account, which are harder to come by if you never had internet access in the first place. "Many don't even have bank accounts," Liimatta says. "That's why there are so many check-cashing places out there."
The fact that they managed to get these neighborhoods qualified in 3 days says a lot about the lengths Google went to. The Wired article talks about Google sending out teams to knock on doors and expedite signups for families that don't have internet already.
More often than not, these well-meaning regulations are twisted to serve special interests once the regulations have outlived their useful purpose.
Are you claiming that the regulations requiring taxis to pick up all passengers has outlived its useful purpose? I cannot deny that regulations can end up serving special interests instead of the general public. My rebuttal is that we should have better regulation, not no regulation.
In this particular case, the regulations governing taxis generally serve the public and the regulations should remain that way.
The difference is, with free enterprise, you can opt out of a corrupt or discriminatory business or even create your own competing one.
The balance of power is not equal between someone who wants a service and someone who provides a service. This is why we have regulations.
Without regulations, there are monopolies and oligopies, not competition and free markets. This is what history shows us and ideology frequently strives to ignore or deny.
Basically a cabbie in new york, according to regulations, HAS to stop for anybody that hails them.
So bascially, this app makes cabbies into a pusedo limo service. They by pass people on the street hailing them, and go pick up the appointment.
but what is boils down to is, once again, government regulations stopping free enterprise. They need to drop this silly non-sense about limo service vs taxi service.
If you don't understand why taxis are legally required to pick up anyone hailing them, then I guess this doesn't make sense and you can shoehorn this into the traditional "government regulations are stifling free enterprise" world view.
There's a reason that the police and Taxi & Limosine Commision conducts sting operations to make sure that drivers are following the law. The main ones being: you can't charge handicapped passengers more, you can't kick someone out for wanting to go to a hospital, you can't discriminate based on race, and you can't refuse service based on destination.
More often than not, regulations are there because "free enterprise" misbehaved, not because the big bad government is out to stop free enterprises from making money.
The medallions are owned by Regular people and very expensive so there are lots of interests in keeping the system as it is
The medallions are owned by Really Rich people and are extremely expensive so there are lots of interests in keeping the system as it is. In 2012, the lowest winning bid for a medallion was $1.201 million The Regular people who drive cabs have to lease from millionaires who can afford the medallion.
The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission screwed things up in in the early 80s when it allowed cabbies to be treated as independent contractors, which broke the taxi union and changed the balance of power. Combine that with the few (if any) new medallions issued and you essentially have a cartel of medallion owners that are screwing the drivers and the public.
Sanitation is the greatest medical milestone of the last century and a half, acccording to a poll carried out by the British Medical Journal.
Sanitation was the clear winner among 15 milestones shortlisted by readers of the journal, including the development of vaccines, which has safeguarded many children's lives, and the invention of the contraceptive pill, which was a contributory factor to significant social change.
Getting shit away from us has saved more lives than hand washing and antiobiotics.
It's hard for people in the developed world to understand the conditions that exist throughout Africa and Asia.
The main difference is that Cartels involve purposeful collusion, while Oligopolies usually end up with the same behavior without active collusion.
I would consider dumping product as an abuse of a monopoly and Amazon had done just that with our books in the past and there's no reason they won't do so in the future to further cement their monopoly in online physical book sales and e-books via the Kindle.
Which is probably why Amazon thinks the settlement is such a great deal: Speaking at an event in California to unveil new Kindle Fire tablet computers, Amazon executive Jay Marine said the settlement was "great for customers." (by customers he means Amazon can start again in 2 years and doesn't have to pay any fines)
Just as a point of argument, there ARE other ways to do this sort of thing. The Russians like to put things together on the ground and then lift the entire mess up. I'm sure there were spirited discussions on the pros and cons of doing this in the 60's but this way certainly has been quite flexible.
Id rather stick with the principle "The IRS looks it over and its none of your business", honestly.
You mean like Romney's $20 million I.R.A.?
Even though the IRS costs about six pennies for every hundred dollars of tax revenue it collects, the agency is not given the resources to sift through the complicated tax dodges employed by corporations and the 1%.
The media makes everything so sensational these days its sickening; can we just focus on actual politics?
The 13.9% tax rate that Romney pays is central to the country's current state of affairs. The kind of tax dodges that we know Romney employed and the kid of tax dodges we suspect Romney employs are politics.
If you think the low taxes and massive accumulations of wealth are media sensationalism and not fundamental issues of public policy, you have been gravely misinformed.
In the USA, we create laws that are ostentiably within the bounds of the Constitution, despite not being explicitly stated in the document. In the rest of the world, they amend and rewrite their Constitution (on average) once a generation.
The USA has an odd Constitutional fetishism that does not exist anywhere else in the world. Without that fetishism, we wouldn't have idiots pointing at every law about guns or seatbelts and saying "that's not in the Constitution!!11!1"
Fluorinert is crazy expensive. A liter of the stuff costs around $440~$540 Fluorinert made since with the Cray computers because they were already crazy expensive monsters. You can get recycled Fluorinert for cheaper, but you're still talking hundreds of dollars for the volume of liquid necessary to submerge a motherboard and provide a useable thermal mass.
Mineral oil is a vastly cheaper alternative. Now that Intel has done R&D that satisfies their engineers, they can roll this out to the masses at a reasonable cost
The solution? Smarter and more involved voters. Politicians will not change unless we make them. We let this happen.
Part of the problem is the "more involved voters" who came in on the Tea Party movement. Those Representatives have tried to bring government to a complete halt.
Our system of government was not designed to be controlled by a minority of filibusterers.
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DARPA? You mean the Government?
Obviously private industry already did it faster and cheaper without government subsidies.
Either we have free speech, or we do not have free speech.
Then I guess we don't have free speech, because there's a couple hundred years of judicial precedents that limit your ability to incite violence or cause a breech of the peace.
The world isn't black or white and neither are our laws.
These are nuanced issues that call for nuanced responses.
Stop trying to dumb everything down to an either/or situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill
We went 42 years without another massive offshore drilling accident after the EPA was created.
Defanging the EPA will NOT lead to more "Love Canals". Love Canal was a result of ignorance and greed on the part of both Hooker Chemical AND the local Niagara County government. The EPA would not have prevented it. If the presence of the EPA prevented environmental disasters, then every environmental accident since the EPA's creation wouldn't have happened.
The only reason the BP spill was so large is because the EPA didn't require the basic precaution (required in Europe) of simultaneously drilling a secondary well to cap off the primary if it blew.
I am actually quite well informed. I think I've proven that with some of the information I've provided.
In the United States, most coal plants are grandfathered in under the newest regulatory requirements.
They're allowed to fix/replace anything up to something like 15%~20% of the plant's cost in a year without coming under the new regulatory rules.
In other words, they could rebuild the plant completely over 5 or 6 years and never have to install modern emissions control devices.
I considered going into the SuperFund issue, but I suspect you're not as well informed as you think.
there's a lot of mythology around many such things. having a few pints with an old master blacksmith can be interesting. there's a number of master blacksmiths who spent years figuring out how to make blades which were almost indistinguishable from wootz but the point to keep in mind is that the challenge was to figure out how they did it with tech of old. not how to make superior metal.
Wootz/Damascus steel was not created with "tech of old"
It came about because a certain mine in India had naturally occuring trace impurities in the steel.
When the mine went dry, so did the world's supply of wootz.
That's what took so long to figure out.
And when it comes to metal, "superior" depends on the application you have for it.
The best blades ever produced in ancient times wouldn't hold a candle to the best that could be made now by the best engineers now.
If you made a blade using single crystal superalloys like they use in jet engine turbine blades it would make a mockery of the best of the best in ancient times
And yet here we are trying to recreate techniques for firing ceramics from thousands of years ago.
Like I said, it depends on the application you have for it. Not everything can be made of diamonds, rubies and single crystal superalloys.
I'm not sure of a good way to capture *skill*--it's usually passed on person-to-person.
It's called "good documentation".
I recall reading that the F-22 production line was videotaped from start to finish, with workers explaining their jobs and going through the motions.
This was fleshed out with interviews in order to capture institutional knowledge that usually disappears when production lines are shut down and workers leave.
Ceramics enjoyed an extended period as a top tier technology and then continued on as a legacy, but still critical-for-civilization technology.
Once we reinvent their old technology, there's no reason for it to ever be lost again.
They packed more powerful components, more efficient components, into the same size with ever increasing battery technology.
The iPhone 5 is 1.778 mm thinner than the previous iPhone.
That's almost the difference between the Droid Razr and the Droid Razr Maxx.
You know what the Razr Maxx did with that extra thickness?
They almost doubled the battery capacity and now have a phone that outlasts everything else.
But people are used to plugging in their smart phones to charge every night, so Apple doesn't lose anything by adding thinness instead of battery life.
I don't buy that. The contents of my speech do not make me liable for the actions of others in response to that speech.
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting words" those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
â" Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 1942
I suspect the attacks would have happened anyways, as something of a 9/11 anniversary present,
but the notion that the contents of your speech does not make you liable is entirely incorrect.
If the employees are underwater on their stock for the forseeable future, it's going to be hard to keep them motivated.
Being underwater on a stock can be useful for tax management purposes.
You sell the stock, mark the difference as a loss, and then use that to manipulate your tax liability.
Ideally, if you think Facebook is going to bounce back, you invest the money you made from the sale into some other vehicle that holds Facebook stock.
Politics in a democracy involve two sides cheering for their own while doing anything they can to damage the other side.
Whenever a disaster happens, whichever side that named its underlying cause as an issue makes a huge deal of the event. To gain maximum publicity for their (righteous) cause, they overstates the event and style it as a new coming apocalypse.
Your position ignores that sometimes there is an objectively "correct" thing to do and that sometimes, someone is objectively wrong for arguing against it.
Then months later when the consequence isn't as big as they thought, the event and the issue it represents pass out of public consciousness.
There's a nasty see-saw effect as a result. We're either full on an issue, or have forgotten it, and our legislators write law accordingly. It's like a society without an attention span.
Do you know why Nixon (that notorious liberal) created the EPA?
The second largest (deep water is #1) oil spill in American history brought so much attention to environmental issues that he had no choice.
That was 42 years ago. I wouldn't call 42 years "forgotten" or "see-saw effect" or "without an attention span."
Understanding the mechanics of memory may lead to breakthroughs which could cure diseases like Alzheimer's.
Which isn't to say that there is no danger.
We develop biological and chemical weapons so that we can craft defenses for them, but we don't lie to ourselves that we haven't first created something with its own risks.
You know how I know this is a joke?
You asked everyone to tell their friends on Google+
What is different is the PR campaigns. One side wants to primarily use the government tactics (which has merged with big business) to destroy the middle class, and the other side wants to primarily use big business tactics (which has merged with the government) to destroy the middle class.
I guess that's why the Republicans and Democrats have spent the better part of two years fighting over rescinding tax cuts for those making over $250k and extending social spending for those making less than $250k.
Maybe you'd like to explain your "destroy the middle class" comment a little further?
Without any context, it just makes you seem ignorant.
How exactly do you define a gravity well?
Mathematically.
I've heard the term gravity well used, but as far as I know there is no "outside of the well"
The effects of gravity die off exponentially the farther away you are from the source.
So technically, we're experiencing the gravitational pull from objects on the other side of the universe,
but practically speaking, their gravitational effect is as close to zero as to be unmeasurable.
It's also a bit relative.
The smaller the object, the bigger the effective gravity well.
The bigger the object, the smaller the effective gravity well.
If you want to be pedantic about it, the limit of any gravity well is roughly 13.7 billion light years which is the age of the universe.
TLDNR: A gravity well ends at the point where its effects are not going to screw with your calculations anymore.
I just read this Wired article a few days ago:
Google Fiber Splits Along Kansas City's Digital Divide
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/google-fiber-digital-divide/
Basically, the signup for Google Fiber was split along the line dividing historically white and black neighborhoods.
But Liimatta [who runs a Kansas City nonprofit that works to bring broadband access to low-income residents] says the pre-registration process itself set a high bar for those already on the wrong side of the digital divide. To pre-register, residents needed to be willing to pony up $10. They also needed a credit or debit card, a Google Wallet account, and a Gmail account, which are harder to come by if you never had internet access in the first place. "Many don't even have bank accounts," Liimatta says. "That's why there are so many check-cashing places out there."
The fact that they managed to get these neighborhoods qualified in 3 days says a lot about the lengths Google went to.
The Wired article talks about Google sending out teams to knock on doors and expedite signups for families that don't have internet already.
More often than not, these well-meaning regulations are twisted to serve special interests once the regulations have outlived their useful purpose.
Are you claiming that the regulations requiring taxis to pick up all passengers has outlived its useful purpose?
I cannot deny that regulations can end up serving special interests instead of the general public.
My rebuttal is that we should have better regulation, not no regulation.
In this particular case, the regulations governing taxis generally serve the public and the regulations should remain that way.
The difference is, with free enterprise, you can opt out of a corrupt or discriminatory business or even create your own competing one.
The balance of power is not equal between someone who wants a service and someone who provides a service.
This is why we have regulations.
Without regulations, there are monopolies and oligopies, not competition and free markets.
This is what history shows us and ideology frequently strives to ignore or deny.
Basically a cabbie in new york, according to regulations, HAS to stop for anybody that hails them.
So bascially, this app makes cabbies into a pusedo limo service. They by pass people on the street hailing them, and go pick up the appointment.
but what is boils down to is, once again, government regulations stopping free enterprise. They need to drop this silly non-sense about limo service vs taxi service.
If you don't understand why taxis are legally required to pick up anyone hailing them,
then I guess this doesn't make sense and you can shoehorn this into the traditional
"government regulations are stifling free enterprise" world view.
There's a reason that the police and Taxi & Limosine Commision conducts sting operations to make sure that drivers are following the law.
The main ones being: you can't charge handicapped passengers more, you can't kick someone out for wanting to go to a hospital,
you can't discriminate based on race, and you can't refuse service based on destination.
More often than not, regulations are there because "free enterprise" misbehaved,
not because the big bad government is out to stop free enterprises from making money.
The medallions are owned by Regular people and very expensive so there are lots of interests in keeping the system as it is
The medallions are owned by Really Rich people and are extremely expensive so there are lots of interests in keeping the system as it is.
In 2012, the lowest winning bid for a medallion was $1.201 million
The Regular people who drive cabs have to lease from millionaires who can afford the medallion.
The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission screwed things up in in the early 80s when it allowed cabbies to be treated as independent contractors, which broke the taxi union and changed the balance of power.
Combine that with the few (if any) new medallions issued and you essentially have a cartel of medallion owners that are screwing the drivers and the public.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jan/19/health.medicineandhealth3
Sanitation is the greatest medical milestone of the last century and a half, acccording to a poll carried out by the British Medical Journal.
Sanitation was the clear winner among 15 milestones shortlisted by readers of the journal, including the development of vaccines, which has safeguarded many children's lives, and the invention of the contraceptive pill, which was a contributory factor to significant social change.
Getting shit away from us has saved more lives than hand washing and antiobiotics.
It's hard for people in the developed world to understand the conditions that exist throughout Africa and Asia.
Monopoly ... mono ... kind of indicates the singular so I don't see how multiple publishers can have a singular monopoly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
The main difference is that Cartels involve purposeful collusion, while Oligopolies usually end up with the same behavior without active collusion.
I would consider dumping product as an abuse of a monopoly and Amazon had done just that with our books in the past and there's no reason they won't do so in the future to further cement their monopoly in online physical book sales and e-books via the Kindle.
Which is probably why Amazon thinks the settlement is such a great deal:
Speaking at an event in California to unveil new Kindle Fire tablet computers, Amazon executive Jay Marine said the settlement was "great for customers."
(by customers he means Amazon can start again in 2 years and doesn't have to pay any fines)
Just as a point of argument, there ARE other ways to do this sort of thing. The Russians like to put things together on the ground and then lift the entire mess up. I'm sure there were spirited discussions on the pros and cons of doing this in the 60's but this way certainly has been quite flexible.
The Russians like to move their rockets by rail.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/02/article-1372645-0B724A6200000578-45_634x286.jpg
It's a much simpler and faster process than the mega crawler NASA went went.
Id rather stick with the principle "The IRS looks it over and its none of your business", honestly.
You mean like Romney's $20 million I.R.A.?
Even though the IRS costs about six pennies for every hundred dollars of tax revenue it collects,
the agency is not given the resources to sift through the complicated tax dodges employed by corporations and the 1%.
The media makes everything so sensational these days its sickening; can we just focus on actual politics?
The 13.9% tax rate that Romney pays is central to the country's current state of affairs.
The kind of tax dodges that we know Romney employed and the kid of tax dodges we suspect Romney employs are politics.
If you think the low taxes and massive accumulations of wealth are media sensationalism and not fundamental issues of public policy, you have been gravely misinformed.
In the USA, we create laws that are ostentiably within the bounds of the Constitution, despite not being explicitly stated in the document.
In the rest of the world, they amend and rewrite their Constitution (on average) once a generation.
The USA has an odd Constitutional fetishism that does not exist anywhere else in the world.
Without that fetishism, we wouldn't have idiots pointing at every law about guns or seatbelts and saying "that's not in the Constitution!!11!1"
Fluorinert is crazy expensive. A liter of the stuff costs around $440~$540
Fluorinert made since with the Cray computers because they were already crazy expensive monsters.
You can get recycled Fluorinert for cheaper, but you're still talking hundreds of dollars for the volume of liquid necessary to submerge a motherboard and provide a useable thermal mass.
Mineral oil is a vastly cheaper alternative.
Now that Intel has done R&D that satisfies their engineers, they can roll this out to the masses at a reasonable cost
The solution? Smarter and more involved voters. Politicians will not change unless we make them. We let this happen.
Part of the problem is the "more involved voters" who came in on the Tea Party movement.
Those Representatives have tried to bring government to a complete halt.
Our system of government was not designed to be controlled by a minority of filibusterers.
You must know nothing about government.
His card looks like this: SSA Christopher K. Stangl from FBI RCAT & NY FBI OERT
They probably have a bar game where everyone throws their card into a hat and the agent with the most acronyms gets free drinks all night.