European hypocrisy has hit new heights. The Europeans practically invented spying on allies and the British had pretty much developed it into an art form by the start of WW1. The British were known for an active foreign policy in which they manipulated their allies into actions that fit their policy goals. There is some thought that in the post WW1 period they maneuvered the international scene so as to break up the budding alliance between the US and the Japanese. This was done to because the combined navies would prove too much a challenge to British power at sea. The French are just as bad as they have a tendency to break into the hotel rooms of their allies diplomats and search them. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks.".

Yes but how does it compare to the Tegra 4 with the GeForce cores?

Those numbers posted in Wikipedia are very misleading. Britain has no real carriers and probably won't until 2020. Only the French currently have a small aircraft carrier the other are little more than helicopter carriers.

Even with Thorium there are waste products that have a half life far longer than the entire recorded history of the human race. We can not comprehend that kind of time frame let alone adequately store waste safely for that period. Just look at how the waste was stored at Fukushima. Solve the waste problem then fission reactors become useful.

I checked and it appears to be that somewhere around 10% use fuel oil for heat. Not a high percentage but still a lot of people. But even eliminating that concern we still have a giant strip mine whose benefit will only go for export if the Keystone pipeline is built while the danger occurs along the length of the line. Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

Two tons dug up from a giant strip mine produces extremely low grade crude hard to process into gasoline. This is one reason that the main affect the keystone pipeline will have is to increase the cost of heating oil in the Midwest as the source of their heating oil is shipped out for export.. The second would be to increase the profits of the various energy companies, it is unlikely to provide any help to the average consumer and may, indeed, cost them money.

Perhaps that is why Facebook performance sucks. The more stuff they add in the worse the software works. They might be better off just getting it to work correctly.

They just have no clue about the actual source of the problem. Regulations do not develop in a vacuum.

Theft and violence? I guess I have to add paranoid to that. It is unfortunate that Civic Virtue is not longer taught in schools.

Pretty much true avoiding extremes usually works best.

Sort of like the same place from which American libertarianism comes. You know the never-never land where the magic "free market" is never manipulated by greedy corporations and everyone lives by "enlightened self-interest." That way everyone lives in peace and harmony. (That is if you have several billion dollars.) Libertarianism - sociopathy massaged into a political philosophy.

Are those the same universities that produced the last four US Nobel Laureates in Physics?

It is a myth that most liberal are recipients of some sort of government aid. I suspect most are at least upper middle class especially people in tech related jobs. As to the hated 1%, please note that not all are so lacking Civic Virtue as to become tax whiners who insist on cannibalizing our infrastructure.

It is amazing how an article like this gets so many responses that say it should not be posted yet Slashdot has so much pseudo libertarian crap posted that it sounds like a Ron Paul commercial. I doubt that two thirds of these people them have any real idea of what libertarianism is. The worst part is that these so called libertarians are being manipulated by people that are no more libertarian than Wilhelm Keppler or Orval Faubus.

Yah, Well I live in Santa Clara, California and our power is provided by Silicon Valley Power a municipal power company owned by the city. My rates are the lowest in California and lower than many places in the country. Their service is better than the other power providers and a large portion of it comes from renewable sources. So perhaps the old whine about how terrible the government is doesn't seem to fit.