American corporations won't go against U.S. government policy

US Govt Policy is whatever the companies paying the campaign contributors want it to be.

Of course they wont go against it. They thought it was a good idea when they came up with it!

Oh I was kinda trolling a bit with the commie jibe. My point there is that people see a carbon price as somehow "stealing" from them whilst ignoring their own impacts on others. There are no free lunches in science but a lot of supposedly "capitalist" folks seem to want one when it comes to disposing the by products of their consumption, in this case by driving up CO2 levels and putting the climate out of whack.

For an oscilloscope, $300 is more like a nanobudget, or even picobudget.

True, though you can often pick up a good old solid Analogue CRO on Ebay for that price and honestly those old girls will still do the job marvelously for 99% of use cases.

Nobody needs to "spin proof" of AGW, any more than they need to "spin proof" of evolution, the solar centric motion of planets or anything else in science thats already proven.

Then quit pissing in the commons, disconnect your power, buy a solar powered (ONLY) car, avoid anything made with , well anything.

And then, after your satisfied your not increasing the risk to me and everyone else, I think it would be ok to not have any taxes go to cleaning up your mess.

Otherwise, quit freeloading off others, denialist commie.

Not really. The Kinect mostly is about image processing and highly parallel vector processing is just what that sort of application requires.

It would have been stranger if it DIDNT rely on the GPU.

I wish you americans would stop confusing the term republican for democratic.

You live in a republic AND a democracy.

Like North Korea you are a republic.
Like Australia you are a democracy.

Unlike Australia, you are a republic.
Unlike North korea, you are a democracy.

See? Its not that hard to understand. (Republic just means "No king". It doesn't specify what the king is replaced with).

When Google says "Not Where We Want to Be" , what they are saying is that it is time to start discriminating against white males

I will never understand how some peoples brains hear "Must discriminate against white people!" whenever someone says "Must not discriminate against black people".

Seriously, this white separatist thinking eally needs to die.

I don't understand why Congress doesn't run afoul of the conflict of interest laws when they are allowed to write legislation that favors the ones funding their campaigns. It is a clear conflict of interest when you are writing laws that puts money in your own pocket. They should have to recuse themselves just like judges have to when they have a conflict of interest in a case. Can someone explain why this isn't a worse case than judges with a conflict considering how it is the law that judges are supposed to be interpreting?

In most european/aust/nz countries, most of asia and good chunks of south america and africa, it would be called "Corruption". Belesconi went down for stuff far *less* brazen than what some congress too.These people belong in prison, not seats of power.

er, not "in the countries name", I mean "in the opposition parties name".
Pretty sure "USA" doesnt stand for "Democracy". (Freud would be amused I guess)

Sorry!

I understand what you are trying to explain about fatwas, but that is still very creepy for me, that someone would go for written approval from a religious figure for any important decision in their own lives. If you told me that your friends went to a Catholic priest, a Hindu Holy man, the Dalai Lama or Oprah Winfrey for recommendations, I would make me feel just as creepy.

Guess what you have to do to get a divorce in Catholicism.

Written advice from the bishop. A fatwa, so to speak.

In the hacker world being a snitch gets you hated, and maybe shitflooded on IRC.

In prison, being a snitch gets you a sharpened toothbrush rammed between your ribs.

Thats the difference.

Our founders VERY EXPLICITLY did NOT create a Democracy (some of the most-famous like Adams and Franklin cautioned strongly against it). They created a "Constitutional Republic" with "Democratic elections"

You do realize this is a talking point created by politically illiterate republican party activists who didn't like the fact that americas political system was in the countries name.

If you have elections, by definition, your a democracy. Thats all the word means.

If you dont have a monarch you are a republic.

Examples of Republics: United States , North Korea.
Not Republics: Australia, Saudia Arabi.

Examples of Democracys: United States, Australia.
Not Democracies: North Korea, Saudi Arabia.

I'd call American democracy a pretty good prototype of the real thing.

But its just a prototype, and beta ended loooong ago.

Honestly it sounds more like it wasn't a mistake, and something malicious if the server reformatted itself. To, you know, cover your tracks.

"All computers reformat NOW"

Is the server itself not a computer?

Its nightmare fuel for IT guys.