Mmm, a terawatt of directed energy. I could think of some interesting applications.

But this time for the science minded. It's simulations all the way up!

Oh and this idea is as old as dirt.

It probably has electrolytes too!

> Energy is becoming rapidly less expensive because of modern technologies.

What are you smoking?

An FX-8150 has a specInt_rate of 115. I've never seen an 8350 but it should be around 130-ish, just like an Opteron 6212.

The AF may not, but the Army does. Theirs are really well equipped too(as of just a couple years ago), the one I used to work on my car in had nice lifts, paint shops, experienced mechanics(professional), great tools, and lots of other perks. They had 40 bays and it was hard to get in to one because people were always in there doing things from just changing their oil to in my friend's case welding a truck frame back together after it cracked. Right next store was a wood working shop that was really well equipped, and if you stayed in the barracks they also picked out technically savvy people to handle basic building maintenance which required training and access to all sorts of shops and equipment. I really wish that we had them in the normal world now that I'm out. It was a fantastic resource that wasn't ridiculously expensive.

Your forgot Thorium and LENR. Me, I prefer burning unicorns. They only emit rainbows.

The French never liked the term anyway.

Well there is always illegal porn.

There was a good discussion on reddit the other day.
1. Uninformed/stupid people who believe the propaganda
2. Cognitive dissonance
3. Christian extremists
4. People who only believe in money and don't give a crap about the science (IOW "the market will fix it when necessary")
That was pretty much the outcome.

There used to be a science based majority on /. but these days anything on climate science brings out mostly libertarian deniers-by-other-means. No there is no scientific debate.

"God"=="supernatural"=="not allowed by physical (natural) law." All of the multiverses are supposedly governed by physical law.

I can do all that with my Raspberry Pi. That doesn't sound all too challenging.
Still waiting for a tablet that runs Debian or Ubuntu...

I believe it is called "Bud", "Bud Light", etc., while the Czech company uses the "Budweiser" name.

And even that was contentious.

In the US, trademarks only extend as far as someone might be confused by their use. It's not a hard black and white line, but you can use "Word" if you wanted to, in an unrelated industry from Microsoft's, provided that nobody thought that customers might be confused and think that your product was, or was in some way related to, Microsoft's. (Obviously since Microsoft is such a big company and does so much stuff, this might be harder than if they were purely in the word processing business.)

A good example is Apple Records vs Apple Computer Corp. There was a lot of argument that went back and forth as to whether Apple Computers might be confused with Apple Records -- which seemed ridiculous at the time, because why would Apple Computer ever get into the music business? So they worked it out and came to a settlement to stay out of each other's turf. That happens very frequently. (It got interesting when Apple-the-computer-company decided to get into the music business; my understanding is that they made Apple Records an offer they couldn't refuse.)

And given how ubiquitous Microsoft's products are -- love them or hate them -- the breadth of their trademarks are probably not unreasonable. A no-name company ought not be able to assert a trademark with any similar breadth, because there's so little chance of confusion.