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Comment Re:Especially solar cells and carbon fiber windmil (Score 1) 214

and its takes nothing to mine, process, refine and transport fossil fuel?

Far less than it does for the other, since we have either pipes in the ground to move it. Or are using byproducts of the refining process to further process it, and in some cases are using non/semi-recyclable materials like car tires, and asphalt.

Comment Re:Eh? (Score 1) 99

The Conservatives got training from the American Republican Party. They have been caught cheating, there is lots of other evidence of other cheating and now they're changing the rules so that our formally excellent system is no more.

Oh please. The liberals got exactly the same training, and were caught cheating in the elections during the 90's but I sure don't hear you bitching and moaning about that.

Comment Re:A possum playing possum (Score 3, Insightful) 270

This would happen to any group that gains market control.
IBM, Microsoft, Apple...

If a Linux distribution somehow got a large foothold in the market, they will find a way to keep their dominance. Having a particular fork of the kernel, a distribution system that is a bit different, rename some folders around. Add a closed source install tool or Windows manager....

Comment Re:Why? (Score 0) 111

We all should ware Kevlar vests to protect us from shootings. Those who got killed and didn't wear a Kevlar vest is their own damn fault.

You find a flaw, you report it. If they choose not to act and something goes wrong, it is the guys who failed to take actions fault, with the guy who did the crime, you end up the Hero. If you find a flaw and exploit it. It is all your fault, and you are the villain.

Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 65

That and the impressive movie interface isn't necessarily good for normal use.

The issue with Misted and Movie 3d displays is the normal translucency and clarity. Sure it is nice to see an object in 3d and it can give you some scale... However the real need is to see the detail.

3D Star Wars style, makes for a good movie, but are you better off talking to a shaky Yoda in blue, but in 3D, or a 2d full color high resolution Yoda.

I say the real trick for teleconferincing today is to move the camera behind the screen so when you look at the persons eyes on the screen you are looking into the camera so it seem like you do have eye contact.

Comment Re:He's right! (Score 2) 581

You can teach them to code, but I don't think most of them will want to code.

People are not stupid they can learn... However (especially in america) people identify themselves with the work that they do. The fact that they identify themselves as a miner is an important aspect to themselves, attributes that make a good miner are attributes that the person values and strives in themselves. Physical Strength, Courage, Hard Work, working with big equipment...
Taking this person and tell them that you need Patients, Attention to Detail, Creativity, and Sitting at a desk, to succeed, is at odds with their favorite values of themselves. You will be better off giving them a job wired networking, or laying out fiber across the country, if they want to go in technology.

Just as me a Software Developer was told that I need to work in the Mines. Yes I can learn how to do it. However I wouldn't really fit in too well. For one I would get really board as my mind wouldn't be as active, as well as I would be more miserable as I am not working in a comfortable work environment. As well as I may be a bit more sweemish as I am in a place that could kill me at any minute.

Comment Re:Seriously, $250,000? (Score 1) 44

We will cloud source it to the internet and come back with a solution.

Found it.
We will get Chuck Norris to launch a Australian Pirate Zombie Ninja from a catapult at Mars. which is the perfect candidate because being a Pirate they will want to collect treasure, being a Zombie they will be immune from death, and as a ninja they will be stealthy and fast, the Australian part is because they will know how to boomerang themselves back to earth.
Flawless where is my $250,000 I have a mortgage to pay off.

Comment Re:If you make this a proof of God... (Score 1, Interesting) 612

So we see evidence of a seeming Miraculous event in the universe. One that seems to defy logic. And you use it as a time to get angry at people who believe in God.

Is your atheism so week, that you fall back on violence if confronted with evidence that seems to force you to realign your belief structure.
So tell me again how atheist are better than religious people?
Or is it that you are just as human as the rest of us, and will strongly hold onto our belief structure and get very angry when something dissuades it.

Comment Quality lowers from a government official. (Score 2) 104

Did you ever notice that Police Dashboard cams seem to glitch out between the time they do the stop, and during an escalation. Then seems to be working when a bruised suspect finally hits the cop.

I expect the same thing...
You see a video of the inspector. Talking to the owner who is wearing a nice gold watch. Well lets take a look at that refrigerator, the display get very pixally the sound wavers and is hard to hear, then it finally comes back on, with the inspector well it looks good then shakes the guys hand with a tan line, while the inspectors is wearing a gold watch.

Comment Re:Especially solar cells and carbon fiber windmil (Score 1, Flamebait) 214

- i think you are referring to fossil fuels in that statement.

Pretty sure I'm talking about exactly what I stated. It's very similar to recycling paper, vs making it from new trees via tree farms. On average it takes 2-6 times more energy and water to make "recycled" paper than it does to make new paper. In turn, it takes a massive amount of energy to get, collect, refine, and turn minute amounts of trace metals required for specialized use in many of these green energy projects. And many of the processes are exceptionally toxic for the environment.

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