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Comment Re:Ask Japan... (Score 4, Informative) 309

1 with a modern reactor?

So far we've had a partial meltdown that hurt nobody, an "accident" so cartoonishly stupid that it should more accurately be called insider sabotage, and an outdated reactor that was hit with multiple extreme natural disasters simultaneously.

These emotional knee-jerk reactions from Japan, Germany and others are counterproductive and could hurt financially if any kind of global carbon-trading scheme is put in place. Besides, I prefer my nuclear waste nice and contained rather than flowing continuously from the smokestack of a coal power plant.

Comment Protections you say? (Score 1) 100

He also asked what protections have been provided to ensure that information computers gather and often transmit wirelessly isn't used in a harmful or invasive manner."

Same as in the tech industry - somewhere between "absolutely none" and "we intentionally use it in a harmful or invasive manner, that's our business model...and the NSA demands access too."

Comment Re:There's a whole industry based around Elite Pan (Score 1) 339

Maybe the new path to the middle class will be in selling doomsday bunkers to paranoid trillionaires.

Too late, this business picked up in a big way not long after the Great Recession hit. Wired had an interesting article and photo gallery on "luxury doomsday shelters" but I can't find it now.

Comment Re:Escaping only helps you until a war. (Score 2) 339

Same here. This is the second time I've heard of NZ being used as the real-life Elysium, and the first time I thought it was a joke. NZ is going to be among the first of the first-world countries to revolt, they're not an economic powerhouse. 1%ers would land on their airstrips to find their compounds looted and burned, and walk right into an ambush ready to Gadhafi them, if they don't find an IED in the runway first.

Freedom Ship was actually a clever idea. Basically a floating Elysium station. If they're really clever they could even get protection on our dime in the form of a few battleships.

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