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Comment Re:How is it their fault? (Score 1) 653

"Thinking is the hardest work". Spoken like a true noodle armed beta fagg0t.

I weigh 200lbs, compete in mixed martial art comps and have titles in Jui Jitsu, and Escrima of which I compete in the heavyweight division. I train 3-6 days a week 2-3 hours per day and often best guys 60-80lbs heavier than me. Out of curiosity I measured my bicep girth and it's 17.5 inches, though I train for power, not show.

I think you'll find me to be the alpha male in any encounter we have, asshole troll.

Try running a jackhammer all day.

Why not a chainsaw, a shovel, a pick, or a welder, moving engine blocks is fun. I don't beleive you have ever run a jackhammer for work and I don't beleive you have engaged in tough mental work either. Being a geek for work is tough mental activity, I'm not taking anything away from people doing physical work but the difference is that you take mental work home with you which doesn't happen with physical work. I don't need a lot of education to operate a jackhammer.

Comment Re:How is it their fault? (Score 0) 653

I hate to make it sound like I'm pissing on the protesters, but how is it the fault of techies that house pricing is going up?

Look, it's simple, if you study and work hard in something you enjoy, but is difficult for other people to understand, let alone do, yet everybody wants more of then, you will be marginalized because people are afraid of the latent power that you poses. Unfortunately I'm only being half sarcastic.

People who work with technology will be subject to this because of the barrier to entry to work in technology is thinking and thinking is hard work, the hardest work. Technology should be driving down the cost of education but more importantly the availability of information to everyone. So with the realization that "Hey the spy agencies really do spy on us" and "Wow, tech companies are where they get it from" techies become the "How this is happening" or the "instrument", if you will.

I can't speak to the deeper social issues were that caused the spiraling house prices in the first place however, I do wonder how many of the people who protested are prepared to give up the technology tools they were using to organize themselves. I'm not saying they don't have a valid complaint however it's probably valid to ask and understand so there is an opportunity to act ethically about it.

At the same time you got to admit getting around on free private buses with wifi and not using the city's public transport is kinda "in ya face" and bound to make people wonder "well, why are you so special". I can see why people would think that's kind of Morally Superior.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 1146

Its strictly dollars and cents. CFC is a toxic nightmare, and LED costs more to buy and operate than incandescent.

It's a real pity the anti-nuclear lobby ensured we have no way to produce lots of cheap, non-polluting electricity, now isn't it?

Except that the evidence is that 93% of US emissions, according to data from the EPA, of CFC-114 is from the enrichment of Uranium. That is the official, government recognized, industrially measured component of nuclear fuel enrichment. CFC114 is an intrinsic part of the enrichment process called 'Gaseous Diffusion', and if CFC114 wasn't an intrinsic part of the process it would not be used.

This is because Ultracentrifuge is so difficult to establish on a industrial scale and has absolutely nothing to do with the anti-nuclear lobby.

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JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' 292

Velcroman1 writes "Banking giant JPMorgan Chase has filed a patent application for an electronic commerce system that sounds remarkably like Bitcoin — but never mentions the controversial, Internet-only currency. The patent application was filed in early August but made publicly available only at the end of November; it describes a 'method and system for processing Internet payments using the electronic funds transfer network.' The system would allow people to pay bills anonymously over the Internet through an electronic transfer of funds — just like Bitcoin. It would allow for micropayments without processing fees — just like bitcoin. And it could kill off wire transfers through companies like Western Union — just like Bitcoin. There are 18,126 words in the patent application. 'Bitcoin' is not one of them."

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