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Comment Yellow journalism (Score 1) 548

The Kernel is a yellow journalist paper in my view. There style and coverage is nothing else, they are not to inform. They are just out there to gain publicity and clearly some income, they don't run any advertisement and have no income from the looks of it and don't seem to be an subscription magazine either.

I wrote a longer article here on this, http://www.jonfr.com/?p=8058

Disclaimer: That is my website.

Comment Re:And Putin continues (Score 1) 192

I see that russian part of slashdot has modpoints (I got mod down to troll for this fact). The fact is the fact.

This is not a question of when, since it has already happened. Now they are banning and making enemy out of homosexual people (both men and women). This is just the first step. Next step is to create some big foreign enemy, so far Putin has not yet done that since he is not ready. His military is not yet ready for such actions. In the meantime he is going to continue to increase his power in Russia and in the end cancel out already weak democracy in Russia.

He started on that the day he got into office and he is not going to stop until he gets what he wants. What Putin wants is a Stalin era power with him in control. We already know what Stalin did to the russian people and now Putin is going to do the same in due time if he is not stopped by powers inside Russia (if he has not already crushed them. As I think is most likely the case already).

I do not know how long this is going to take for Putin to implement. But my best guess is less then 20 years from now, depending on factors and what he can do in Russia and what the global reaction is going to be when the time comes.

Comment Re:Nothing ever comes of these "child geniuses" (Score 1) 163

You can only store data in 3 dimensions in quartz like materials. The problem is writing and reading and I just don't think the technical level is just there yet. They are now testing 5 dimensional storage. I am not sure how stable that is (due to quantum factors that is impossible to predict for) in the short and long run.

I am sure they are going to work out the issues in the end. It might take 30 to 100 years until they do so. I am not up to speed on how the progress has been going in this research.

Information:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/jul/17/5d-superman-memory-crystal-heralds-unlimited-lifetime-data-storage
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/jul/13_131.shtml

Comment Re:Fight it if you want to. (Score 1) 555

Where I live there are no border guards. They did go away mostly around 2001 on the Denmark - Germany border when Schengen started in Europe. The Nordic countries have not had any border controls between the nordic countries since 1958 when they created the nordic passport union.

Schengen Area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
Nordic Passport Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Passport_Union

There are minimal checks before you board an airplane and security checks inside Schengen, but nothing like they have in the U.S and Australia as example. Entering Schengen area means checks, but I do not know how extensive they are since I have not yet travelled outside the Schengen area.

Comment Public Court records (Score 1) 215

Someone needs to explain to Comcast the following words, "Public court records". This means that anyone who wants can read those documents and cover them in news. Comcast can not claim copyright over something they do not own copyright of, as is the case here.

There treath is a bullshit and it needs to be explained to Comcast in clear words. They clearly do not understand anything else.

Comment Re:The Romans found out about lead (Score 1) 780

Yes, but the difference is that the car industry has been forced by laws to install seatbelts and other safety features, something that they did originally refuse to do. What the car industry did success in was to destroy public transport in the U.S. That is why the private car is so common in the U.S today. If you can get this book, it is covered there in some details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

Comment Re:The Romans found out about lead (Score 1) 780

Yes, this line that you did show only applies to freedom of speech. It says nothing of not banning a organization in the U.S. Something that is actually done regularly (most foreign one) in the U.S.

Here are the latest victims of your gun freedom.

http://www.examiner.com/article/three-dead-after-gunman-opens-fire-penn-town-hall-meeting

Comment Re:The Romans found out about lead (Score 1) 780

What? I guess you have not been paying attention. Censorship is common in the U.S today, it is not mandated directly by laws, but rather "You scratch my back, and scratch your back" tactics in the media world.

Here is a good overview on what is happening in the U.S and this is not a wiki article.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/modern-media-censorship-in-america/10415

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