That is what the person I was replying to claimed. You can replace baseload with Wind with natural gas peaking plants but I think Nuclear is a better long term source.

Microsoft has a shot if they do not destroy Nokia. I flat out think that Nokia makes the best looking phone. LG, Samsung, and Apple all use great displays, Android has the best feature set, Nokia the best camera,Motorola has the Motovoice feature that I really want, and Apple has great stability and battery life.
Windows Phone 8.1 actually looks pretty good now.
For me the perfect phone would be a Nokia with the screen from the G3 running Android with Motovoice.
Others would have a different prefect phone.

25 million people in Australia.
313 million people in the US.
It takes a while longer to roll out big changes like that. I have had a chip and pin card for over a year but not every location can take it.

Funny but I have actually written an IOS app and it is in the app store. I have a mac and I love it. This rev of the iphone has bigger screens... Like Android phones. NFC like Android phones. As to the rest of the statement... You do know that the Apple app store was the original home of the fart app...

IOS is fine for people that like it. I find it too restrictive and dull for my tastes but it is good OS and the phones are good hardware. They are just not worth the worship that heaped on them.

Why is Google better than Apple?
Simple, Compare an IOS phone with all the Google apps removed to an Android phone without any Apple apps.

NFC is cool and boy did people think it was neat when I paid for something at the 7-11 with my Galaxy Nexus a few years ago. You are right that it might finally take off in the US now that Apple is doing it. They are even following the standards so they can use the existing NFC machines at Walgreens, 7-11, and McDonald's. It is really not innovative but an example of the clout that Apple has with the carriers.

Yes but you will break no law if you burn yourself. The regulations are all about interference.

So when is the new Nexus coming out?

Over all I found the 6 to be a lack luster announcement. Nothing really new was announced.

So you want to hire and train people to run unused natural gas terminals? And how else does a tanker of natural gas get delivered but to a port?
https://www.google.com/search?...

Because solar and wind will not replace coal only nuclear, natural gas, or if you are lucky hydro. They use actually gets about a third of it's electrical power from non carbon producing methods and is growing that very quickly.
Anti-nuclear is pro carbon. It is as simple as that.

". Radio licensing is largely about safety with regards to high power transmissions since RF can burn and kill you (it is a form of electricity), and slackjawed mouth breathing fools have a tendency for "hold my beer, watch this" moments."
As opposed to know it all geeks that have hay this is cool moments.

Wow Radio Licensing is not largely about safety it is about interference. You do not want some self entitled libertarian deciding that they should black out the local TV station AKA "Max Headroom" or jam the police and fire departments communications, or any number of dumb things.
It takes A LOT of RF to burn you. It only takes a few watts of power to make problems for a 4 block radius.

So the "Green" party would have replaced the nuclear plants with coal....
And yet you feel this somehow changes my statement that it is useless?
Can we just replace Green with fear party and be done with it. Imagine if they had replaced the coal plants with solar and kept the nuclear.

So the solar program has not reduced the amount of the coal used at all? Instead it replaced the super low carbon nuclear plants?
That is about the most useless thing I have ever heard.

Okay.
1. Russia threatens Estonia or even Poland.
2. Nato moves troops into threatened nation.
3. Russia cuts off natural gas to Europe in winter unless the troops are moved because Russia thinks NATO is too weak to stop them.
4. The US takes the expensive tankers out of mothballs, trains the crews, and trains the people to run LNG depos that where built but never used or manned in a week.
5. A week later the first tanker arrives in the EU.
6. The next tanker has an accident on the way to the EU. It just blows up.
7. Another tanker makes it to the EU.
8. That tanker blows up in a harbor and takes half the town with it.
9. Nato starts escorting the tankers.
10. Russia thinks Nato is too weak to stop them so they just take the nation like they did with Crimea.

So you get fined.
Really people unless you are going to make people that cause an accident got to real driving school or forbid people from drinking ever again after a DUI this is just a clear knee jerk reaction to a popular hot button.
About 5 years ago I had a guy run into the back of my brand new "week old" bright red car while I was stopped at a stop light! He did not even get a ticket even though he hit my car. He was found at fault but he did not have to do anything but pay higher insurance and probably buy a new car.

How about putting the gene to make botox into e. coli or staph?
Over all bio-hacking seems to be right up with nuclear power, something best left to well trained individuals.