If you do a little digging into the history of reactor design, you find out that there is already a working alternative:

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

The problem is that a LFTR reactor doesn't give you all those great by-products for thermonuclear weapons.

During a low, poor period of my life I was working "seasonally" at an official job and doing under the table construction to help make up the slack. My bank at the time was Wells Fargo. Often I would have to go to the bank to cover checks that were going to bounce with cash. I would get there at bank open and deposit cash, a transaction that is supposed to post immediately. They would delay the posting of my cash deposit to business close to let the checks bounce and levy a $33 dollar fee. When I confronted them about this I was told to read the fine print of my agreement, which summed up to "We do what we want, so go pound sand."

They did have a pop up picture showing a hairstyle and makeup application designed to defeat facial recognition software. I would rather be ID'ed than wear the hairstyle, but the makeup pattern was kinda cool.

I wonder how much of it is the age thing vs completely cryptic HR screens. It was so much easier when I was in the public sector and the job announcement followed a strict form. You set your resume to answer every bullet point in the job description and if you hit all the checks it got past the mouth breathers and onto the desk of who would actually be hiring you. In the private sector, I've seen job announcements like that to cryptic touchy-feely bullshit like "Do you dream in DLL? Do you get a chubby writing device drivers?" Honestly. Spell out what the hell the job does and leave it at that. All my degree did was give me an understanding of the language of software engineering. It did absolutely nothing to prepare me for the reality (not to mention that the language of choice in uni was Java and now I'm in a QT/C++ house. Not exactly square one, but certainly not hit the ground running like an old crusty grey hair with no degree would do).

... is going to be killer.

He is a dick for pointing out that currently IN THE US the weather computing power is at 0.07 petaflops? What was he supposed to google? How about "Is is a dick move to point out the lack of computer weather prediction capacity in the US without providing a non-sequitur mention of UK computer weather prediction capacity?"

I think what he is saying is that in his case, it pretty much was a penile head removal. Read up on botched electro-cautery foreskin removal, where there are cases of doctors burning off way too much skin.

There are still a couple of Burma Shave signs along the 101 in Oregon, although doubtless put up as novelty...or never taken down?

why no mod points when the funny is brought?

Sort of like Union Carbide and Dow Chemical, you mean?

There are some Indians who would like to see that corporate veil pierced

Why are you excluding extractive industry? That makes your point extremely disingenuous. What percentage of the Amazon is being deforested by indigenous peoples as compared to loggers working to build you cheap Cost Plus World Market furniture and lots of space for cattle monocultures? Try again. Science has already identified ecosystems' Achilles heels. The problem lies not with the science, but the politics and the unwillingness of the populace to do what is necessary to fix the issue. Insightful? Hardly.

Nor will anyone, as that is what the democratic process is all about. Candidates like him I am not worried about - I am more worried about the mainstream morons and nutjobs that represent the "middle". They are the ones who keep voting in morons and nutjobs going all the way back to Nixon.

Ron Paul may be extreme, but he is hardly a nutjob. I doubt that a pure libertarian stance would ever be enacted. However, the amount of tax money misappropriated, lost, unaudited, burned, spent on hookers for the Secret Service... shouldn't the government be held accountable for the necessary burden placed upon its citizenry? Do you think that, perhaps, some common middle ground could be achieved? Take this speech from Pete DeFazio, my favorite local Rep made about trying to pass an audit of the DOD:

DeFazio addresses House committee that blocked Pentagon audit

I am all for moderate amounts of taxes spent frugally and appropriately and in a completely transparent and open manner. I am not for blindly dismissing ideas from the right simply because they are on the right.