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Submission + - New graphene concrete is two times stronger (inhabitat.com)

Paige.Bennett writes: In a recent study, University of Exeter’s Center for Graphene Science used nanoengineering technology to add graphene to concrete production. The resulting graphene concrete is two times stronger than traditional concrete and four times as water resistant, but with a much smaller carbon footprint compared to the conventional process of making concrete. According to the university, the addition of graphene cuts back on the amount of materials needed in concrete production by nearly 50 percent and reduces carbon emissions by 446 kg per ton.

Submission + - SPAM: U.S. indicts 13 Russian nationals, three entities in alleged election meddling

schwit1 writes: A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia indicted 13 Russians and three Russian entities and charged them with trying to sway the election in favor of President Trump, according to court documents.

The indictment was sought through special counsel Robert Mueller, who has been tasked with investigating Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the election and any possible ties to the Trump campaign.

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Comment Re:How's that for gratitude (Score 1) 810

Comey got himself fired for basically, being bad at being Director of the FBI. I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier, but I would guess that Trump felt he had to dangle this idiot around a little longer until much of the Russia conversation passed, then he got shit-canned.

What you wrote is nonsense. The "Russia conversation" is just beginning. Comey was fired two days after he requested funds to extend the FBI investigation into Trump campaign dealings with Russia. Yeah, I'd say he was fired for performance. This smacks of Nixon's canning his Attorney General as the Watergate investigations got rolling. Didn't stop the train. If there's a flaw in my analogy, it's that what passes for the GOP is much lower than dogshit on the shoes of those 70s-era Republicans.

Comment Re:Did you alt-righters all fail logic 101? (Score 1) 488

"alt-right revisionists" That's rich. Considering that anyone who disagrees with Clinton is labeled as Alt-right these days. And as far as your comment goes about secret police...well it's clear whose side the secret police is on ;-) But hey, don't let me change your mind and make you the enemy of the Party, Comrade. I hear we're digging some fresh Gulags on an indian reservation in North Dakota.

Love, a Bernie supporter/socialist who is labeled alt right.

FYI, the guy you support thinks you're totally wrong about Hillary.

Comment Re:No union needed (Score 1) 262

That is akin to "the law already protects the innocent citizen, no need for a lawyer to dip his beak into the citizen's money bag."

A law is just some sheet of paper, you need people to actually enforce it.

The difference being that aside from a small retainer fee, a lawyer doesn't charge you unless he actually does something. A Union, meanwhile, is more than happy to siphon your paycheck for decades without doing a damn thing.

Also, if there's a law protecting your job, you don't need a Union to enforce it, just a lawyer. If you have a Union, plus a law protecting your job, now you pay the Union, then they go hire the lawyers on top of that. Unions are primarily useful in situations where there is NOT a law protecting the workers.

Actually most if not all of the laws protecting workers came as a DIRECT RESULT of unions.

Comment Re:Really Has Nothing to Do with Development (Score 1) 614

"The more open platform won?" Really?! Certainly not for all values of "winning." Not even for the most obvious ones.

Since your analysis seems to be lacking an actual connection with the facts, I'm guessing you would be surprised to learn that, using Reported Income as the most telling metric of success, Apple is blowing MS away.

For example, http://www.asymco.com/2011/09/29/comparing-revenues-apple-and-microsoft/ provides the following tidbits:

-- The Mac business generates more Revenue than Windows

-- iOS powered devices generate more revenue than all of Microsoft’s products put together

-- Apple’s revenues grew 413% since Q2 2007 while Microsoft’s grew 26%

So it seems if Apple is to be, as you claim, "a fading memory," it may be due to some diminishing capacity on your part, and not a true measure of Apple's continued success.

Comment Re:Because... (Score 1) 961

Really?!? And just how do you recommend each individual go about this "digging"?

Are we supposed to hop on a plane ourselves and head for Iraq to find (or not find) WMDs? (Imagine the flight delays, TSA questions, etc.)

Are we supposed to go to Hawaii and hold the President's birth certificate in our own two hands before we believe he was born there? (Hmm, Hawaii.)

And what about Bush continuing to read "My Pet Goat" instead of excusing himself to deal with a national emergency? (I am pretty sure he wanted to know how the story ended.)

Sorry what you're describing is so impractical as to be utter nonsense.

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