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Comment How far can the Magnetic Pulses propagate ? (Score 1) 72

Let's say it's a huge earthquake, something along the line of the 8.something earthquake that shook Fukushima, causing tsunami and untimately got that nuke plant to melt ...

In a big quake like that, how _far_ can the magnetic pulse propagate ?

10 miles ? 100 ? 1000 ?

Has anyone got any info ?

Comment Government of the people ? (Score 5, Insightful) 347

When I first came to America I was very impressed with the idea that America has a government of the people, by the people and for the people

For a kid from a Communist country, I can't tell you how much awe I had for the notion that a government is actually on the side of the people !

But then ... I was naive

It turns out that the government of the United States is not what I imagined to be

The government of China is definitely NOT on the side of the people - and they do not have to be, because they never say that they are a democracy

But in the United States of America, we are supposed to be a Democracy, which means that the government has to rely on the VOTES of the people in order to be formed

So, what the fuck has gone wrong ???

Comment The dog has eaten the Constitution (Score 3, Interesting) 269

If that dog only ate your homework the consequence is limited between that dog and you

But in the reality is that the dog, aka, the Government of the United States of America, has eaten the Constitution

The Constitution of the United States of America used to be the HIGHEST LAW OF THE LAND, used to be , no longer, because the way that motherfucking dog is behaving, it not only ignores the Constitution, it goes directly AGAINST what the United States of America is all about !

We call ourselves a "democracy", we call ourselves "the land of the free, home of the braves" ?

Well ... the only FREE thing is the freedom of that fucking dog in destroying the country, and the BRAVERY of the government to LIE UNDER OATH !!

It's not that I like to swear, it's not that I enjoy using vulgar words, but as an American, I simply can't stand any longer what is going on !!

Submission + - Top 5 tips for NSA apologists (eff.org)

Taco Cowboy writes: In order to help the NSA apologists to sound a little bit more legit, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has kindly provided 5 tips for them:

1. The NSA has Stopped 54 Terrorist Attacks with Mass Spying

2. Just collecting call detail records isn’t a big deal

3. There Have Been No Abuses of Power

4. Invading Privacy is Okay Because It’s Done to Prevent Terrorist Attacks

5. There’s Plenty of Oversight From Congress, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and Agency Watchdogs


Submission + - Kerry calls Snowden a *coward* and a *traitor* (thewire.com)

Taco Cowboy writes: Jim Kerry, the Secretary of State of the United States of America, publicly escalated his criticism of Edward Snowden, calling him a *** COWARD *** and a *** TRAITOR *** and saying that the NSA document leaker should return to the United States from Russia and “make his case.”

Edward Snowden is a coward, he is a traitor and he has betrayed his country,” Kerry said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown” with Chuck Todd.


Submission + - Official MPG figures unrealistic (www.rte.ie)

Taco Cowboy writes: A research carried out by UK consumer magazine What Car? which concluded that official manufacturers’ MPG figures are unrealistic.

Based on the research new car buyers in the UK who trust official, government-sanctioned fuel economy figures will pay an average of £1,000 (€1,216) more than they expect on fuel over a three-year period.

Since launching True MPG two years ago, What Car? has tested almost 400 cars in real-world conditions, using cutting-edge test equipment and achieving economy figures that are on average 19% lower than the government figures.

Comment They should ask the Chinese (Score 1) 19

I am a Chinese from China

We Chinese who survived the People's Commune and the Cultural Revolution can tell you that the idea of a "Total Wealth Equality" among all people is but a big BULLSHIT

Even inside the People's Commune where supposedly every single person get to share every single thing equally, INEQUALITY STILL EXISTED

Those who belong to the Communist Party would get more than those who weren't

Those who had connections (in Mandarin, it's called Guan Xi ) to someone in the top echelon got to enjoy much more than the working stiffs in the fields

I have lived outside China for more than 40 years and in these 40 years I have nothing but amusement of those so-called Western Intellectuals who espouse to the notion of "inequality is bad"

Inequality is the one force that push people to work doubly hard. It is because of inequality that poor people will get more incentives to move up the social ladder

Everywhere I went, from China to Europe to Americas to Africa, I see the same thing happening -- kids from poor families are more motivated than kids from rich families

Because of their poverty, because of the inequalities, kids from poor families have decided, ever since they were toddlers, to do whatever they can to get to the level of those who are richer than them

On the other hand, kids from rich families, because they never need to worry about where the next meal may come from, because they have a warm and happy and loving family, because they are spoilt from all the richness and wealth around them, kids from rich families tend to be complacent, lazy, unmotivated

In other words, the Western world is in a very troubling state right now because your so-called "intellectuals" are nothing more than a bunch of monkeys

Submission + - US to keep Chinese from attending Def Con (reuters.com)

Taco Cowboy writes: The Def Con Hacking Conference is an annual conference attended by hackers of all kind

Since its start back in 1993, the conference has opened its doors for all, but that policy may come to an abrupt end

The government of the United States of America has decided that hackers from China will not be permitted to attend future Def Con, and has moved to restrict visas for Chinese nationals from now on

Comment Re:It didn't take long to leave our mark in the se (Score 2) 136

It is already known that new microbes evolved which can consume plastic and disintegrate it

While it is known that scientists have found microbes in landfill sites and plastic floatsam in the sea that can consume / digest plastics, it is still an unknown whether those microbes could break down the many types of toxin that are embedded inside the plastics, such as phthalates, or merely pass the toxins intact, on to the next higher level organism on the food chain

http://www.nature.com/news/201...

Submission + - 1 TB memory chip about to become reality (phys.org)

Taco Cowboy writes: Toshiba, teaming up with its memory partner Sandisk, in a deal worth a reported 500 billion yen ($4.84 billion) to set up a plant to produce flash chip which can be as large as One Terabyte (TB) each

Inside the 1TB flash chip several layers of wafers would be stacked on top of each other using the 3D packing technique

The different layers of wafer would hooked on and linked to each others using the through-silicon via (TSV) technology

The proposed chip would be 16 times as large as the 64gigabyte (GB) flash chip Toshiba produces.

Comment Why do we have to be scared of "them" ?? (Score 2, Insightful) 182

Posting AC because you liberal pussies are going to clutch your pearls and mod me down into the dirt, even though deep down you know I'm right

I post messages using my own account and I know how they have modded my posts deep down into the abyss, but why should I be scared of *them* ??

Their behavior is so damn predictable ... they say one thing but their action reflects another.

For example: They say they believe in "freedom" but they are the one who will do _anything_ to silence their critics.

They will also stick all kinds of labels onto their opponents, in the hope that the labels would somehow ruin their opponents' reputation.

In other words, they are pussies.

Why should we have to be scared of them pussies?

Comment The term "Sexual Harassment" is very misleading ! (Score 0, Troll) 182

The term "Sexual Harassment", - with the word "Sex" followed by another word "Harass", - sounds awfully serious.

But, like all other liberal creation (social welfare, for example) "Sexual Harassment" itself has been abused.

Nowadays you can be slapped with a "Sexual Harassment" lawsuit if you comment on the way someone dress herself or "itself".

In fact, I can be charged for "Sexual Harassment" right now, because of the term "itself" that I've used to describe people whom I do not know how to describe (they are not male, nor female).

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