You really have no idea. I pity you. If you think my indie news link is radical politics and only for the brainwashed... total irony. Well, I hope that you will never give up or learn anything so you continue to be unconvincing to intelligent people rather than have to face yourself someday or be capable of influencing thinking people.

The other reply to you did well enough pointing out your ignorance.

Rape was not involved. Don't people read or remember anymore??

He wasn't charged; it is questioning but under their system questioning is higher level than it is here it's still below being charged with the crime. The crime in this case is involuntary rape using US terms; we don't have something like that here which is way it sounds so stupid. Even over there they have a top court ruling that essentially throws it out, making it one of those laws on the books but is functionally dead. They are stretching in the extreme to persecute him and anybody who can't see that with even half the facts is gullible as hell.

You give away you know nothing. Turn off your TV and learn to think.

Just /. trolling for "news" to get people blabbing.

Not worth my time; but somebody could write up a similar thing talking about immunizations and parents of Autistic children...

They have Autistic children so they must consistently out perform pHDs on things their children (or the pregnant mother) did during their development.

Too bad the internet wasn't 20 years younger so I could have experienced all this BS with the fight over smoking causing cancer.

1) Cutting waste in demand is a huge huge factor-- migrating to light bulbs from incandescent heaters was a BIG DEAL no matter the power sources; which do not get cheaper over time. You waste power because it was cheap; it is going up overall and for most, incomes have been in decline. Population rise = more demand; cheap fuels are running out, expensive coal and oil are plentiful; ignoring the high indirect costs of their continued over use. Fixating on old tech is ignoring the underlying problems. Even with cheap fusion power, if 7 billion people used the power of an American we'd have global warming just from the heat loss all that energy use produces. In the USA, we had to have a big fight just to kill the stupid light bulbs and raise car millage; hell just getting seat belts was a huge fight and even involved espionage.

2) Next Generation grid - no, not the "smart grid"; but a modern smartly designed grid which Germany has also been working on. Wind and sun happen somewhere in the nation. You can't route power around the earth cheaply enough (yet) but you can run it 100s of miles and have been for a century - it can be done smarter, cheaper, and more distributed.

3) Power storage. Germany just started a huge initiative that will move storage technology forward in a huge way just like their Solar policies did. From household to local to regional power storage, Germany is going to be leading on it.

4) Solar power surpassed nuclear power in cost. It doesn't need heavy regulation to keep it safe and risk the neglect and corruption nuclear power always brings (government run plants have significantly less risks.)

5) Initial Costs; aka long term investment. Without somebody jump starting it, we'd never be "ready" -- see Tesla. Germany can afford to be early adopters and smart enough to have an economic boom at the same time instead of taking a loss.

6) German power is more democratic, more distributed. It seems to be getting more so with time. A different kind of market is forming. They may even get to having their backup baseload being actual public utilities where the gov runs them at a loss for energy emergencies. It's not going to be profitable to run a conventional power company in the climate they are creating. WHY SHOULD THEY DEFEND AN OUT OF DATE INDUSTRY?

Russians have gas/oil and need money.
EU has the money and wants gas/oil.
They exchange them.
Putin has the power to upset everybody a great deal, to the point where he might not survive such a disruption. EU doesn't have the power to upset it's people by pushing Putin into such a situation- they still have democracy... Either way, they are not going to change their economic situation for long.

We are talking about something that is not simple and clear cut to begin with. Welcome to the the edge of science, the "soft" sciences where the boundaries of science are routinely explored and often exceeded. Hey, at least they can be serious, educated and somewhat formal in their attempts rather than just guessing the result like some cable newscaster.

Where did he conduct perjury? I don't think he did. He LIED plenty but that is not a crime. Contempt of Congress etc? Well, something they seem to love to do is to NOT swear in these officials "out of respect" so while you may testify to congress under oath and they may require you to do so, these people are allowed to skip the disrespectful procedure. (Besides they feel there are legitimate public lies these officials have to make from time to time... which they could simply decline or put it off for the private session... which again, they probably don't do under oath.)

The constitution is supreme. No law can over-ride the amendments to the constitution. It takes an amendment to do that. The Patriot act is unconstitutional lawyer games which nobody in their right mind would allow (except a lawyer and their definition games where things like the supreme court ruling tomatoes are vegetables by their own unscientific definition.)

This shockingly sane unanimous ruling must be a result of their experience with smart phones. Some might not mind trashing the constitution or nation but when that could involve THEMSELVES... that is another matter.

These kinds of scholarships are completely marketing BS anyway. Give them out for any reason whatsoever. Like car insurance, I get a "discount" for just about anything.. but only 1, I can't stack them (since they have such a long list the sales person can choose from to make you feel special.)

Sports have no place in college. period. It is simply embarrassing the way we irrationally defend them. Just say you do it because you like the sport and want an excuse to get young men to play and prep for the pro sport (ok, and a few women for the few successful sports they have... and no! we do not need equality; it is bad enough we do this crap for the men.)

So if you want to equate video games with sports; go right ahead. They are equally meaningless recreational activities with no academic purpose whatsoever. Teamwork and thinking on the spot-- just a rationalization to pull something of merit out of it-- it has nothing to do with why sports programs exist. (if that is the excuse then tons of things are equivalent, including being in a GANG. probably more thought goes on in a criminal gang...)

In the USA, your state college funding is actually influenced by how well a college football team does. seriously! (not by ticket sales, it's the legislature doing it.)

Things can be agreed upon before the official formal agreement happens. This is not unusual. Business meetings do this all the time before the lawyers get into the details of writing up the formal agreement which can literally take months to get a final deal.

This this means is that officials and governments have signed on to the basics the financial industry bribed them to do. It is more likely they will follow thru officially later one because of the power of the banksters over the world.

Also, I do not claim to understand how all governments function; some of the governments may be capable of officially "signing on" to open ended deals before they are formalized. A dictator for example could do something like this (and just as easily break their word later on;) a verbal general agreement would be possible.

The few AP courses available to me in high school were CRAP. They taught to the test; I got out of 2 semesters of Calc. I took Calc in college anyway and it was almost a different world.

All people care about are simplistic certifications - which is what the AP stuff is. It will gravitate an education into a certification training course and there is a big difference between the two of those. Forget actual understanding or building up skill level (aka IQ) in the area.

I would recommend AP Statistics not because I know anything about it but because statistics are so important today so any increased understanding (even if it is just at a shallow certification level) is better than NOTHING which is what most people have. Perhaps a better understanding will help to undermine the meritocracy we continually try to prop up using a poor understanding statistics (and that is just part of the problem... the other is the idea that all aspects of life can be quantified and ranked as well as being programmed by laws/policies we blindly adhere to like good little authoritarians we are raised to be.)

I don't know about AP CS. I have taught a programming course in a high school and I'm confident I went way beyond whatever AP covers in terms of practical skills. I teach in a university now and it is similar because it's me but also differs greatly because I can extract many hours outside of class from my students which was never possible in high school.

As others (quietly) say all the time-- if you put college into the high schools then that reflects BADLY upon high schools and colleges!!!!

It is unrealistic to think we will have new jobs to replace the ones that technology has taken from us - optimistic capitalists and consumerists with no concept of limited resources or limited consumer demand. You can't grow forever but we built everything around infinite growth.

2/7 people in the world are poor and it is is NOT their fault; the % who are to blame for their plight is not insignificant. This is today's numbers, that ratio will go up. If you think I'm exaggerating, you are probably an American (there are billions of poor worldwide and they are not lazy scum.)

Most people didn't care all that much but when it starts impacting everybody... the way to sustain it will have to involve segregation, along with tribalism. History and the present show us the path humans will continue upon until it becomes impossible. It is going to be difficult to isolate those who have decent jobs from those who do not as the ratio increases... I suppose a blind eye cognitive dissonance will develop, like you see in India where the middle and upper class have a difficult time not being aware of the less fortunate but find rationalizations to essentially defend their success at the expense of others.

There is no clock speed. It is asynchronous and analog. Even if it had some kind of natural timing to it, some things will fire faster others slower. Chained signals will have delays along the path. The result is something without any clock speed with operations happening at the speed of analog (as fine grained as the physics allows... so in other words, crazy fast to capture it all in digital.)

Absolute precision will not be required just as analog audio doesn't need to be converted at the rate the individual molecules move and as they differ -- that level of detail is "noise" even if it is not actual random noise. You can get plenty good approximations with a decent sampling rate... but for this kind of stuff I doubt it's even 200Hz let alone 80Hz. The degree of the signal sent by neurons is not binary... so if you were thinking maybe it's 8bits... somehow I can't see how creatures which can hear better than 8bit 11 Khz audio would think at a slower rate. (ok i realize the ear is physically doing the FFT so the brain only gets the spectrum.)