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Comment Re:Both [Re:Too many desperate people] (Score 1) 47

And, in reverse, when you have no possibility of getting an education and no jobs, then you live in poverty, and are likely to commit crimes as a way to improve your situation, or even as a way to survive.

An education is not something you get, it's something you take.

It requires you to avail yourself of every opportunity, rather than sitting around waiting for someone to give it to you.

While this is a harder road to travel, it's one many people in the U.S., Europe, China, and elsewhere have successfully pursued.

Comment Re:Exactly how long does it take to make a ton of (Score 1) 147

Carbon Neutral isn't enough.

You should sequester the carbon internally instead of exhaling it, by converting your bones to diamond.

Sweden had a similar absurd claim about stopping all greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. Which would, of course, have included farting humans, cows, and reindeer.

So I made up Swedish flag T-shirts that had printed across the yellow horizontal bar "Do Your Part: Don't Fart".

Comment Exactly how long does it take to make a ton of CO2 (Score 2, Interesting) 147

Exactly how long does it take to make a ton of CO2 for an exhaling human being?

A human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide per day if they are sedentary, and up to 18.4 pounds if they are very active.

So on average, unless you are an athlete, every 2 years, you exhale a ton of CO2.

It will be fun to see them tax that... $7.50 a year from homeless people, or they are required to quit breathing.

Comment The Samsung rumor is at least consistent... (Score 1, Interesting) 107

The Samsung rumor is at least consistent with one of the patent applications I made while at Google; it was for a multidirectional camera using a single CCD to effectively create more than one camera aperture.

Mostly the intent was to reduce COGS (Cost of Goods Sold), by about $35 per camera assembly.

In practice, it might also have resulted in an overall thinner device.

Comment maybe it will at least help sales of electric cars (Score -1, Troll) 306

"maybe it will at least help sales of electric cars"

I certainly hope so.

I look forward to more children dying in third world countries which have lithium and other rare earths used in the production of batteries and solar cells.

We clearly do not have enough conflict lithium being mined via slave labor.

Yay, electric cars!

Comment [...]strike against California[...] (Score 3, Informative) 306

More like a strike against Chevron(*), which controls he reformulation of gasoline in California to prevent importation of gasoline refined in other states, and artificially raise the price.

State specific environmental regulations should be held to he same bar as state specific laws... subject to the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution: Federal regulations override state.

(*) From those wonderful folks who brought you MTBE

Comment You don't, without something that works. (Score 1) 128

You don't, without something that works.

Mozilla was pure mental masterbation for years, until it was possible for someone outside the company to build a working version of a browser.

Until and unless that happens, you've merely "declared a project", and like most such projects on SourceForge or GitHub -- absolutely no one will give a damn, until you ive them the power to tinker.

And you will not do that without working code.

By the way: if you are actually a UNIX/Linux systems programmer... it will take you less than three months in your spare time to get your compiler up and running on LLVM.

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