Ok, how do you start upgrading? Oh yeah, you decommission the old one! So your whole argument makes very little sense...

Lots of films have sections that require subtitles and it's much more convenient to have them bundled with the file, yes, even films that idiots like you watch latest Planet of the Apes, Inglorious Basterds, they are needed for those bits where folks talk funny.

I think that's a pretty blatant misunderstanding of the workings of these things, the longer you leave things the less is known about them and the more shocked the new generation of engineers is at the practices of their elders, "what do you mean you just threw it all in a big hole??"...

As a Scotsman I should advise you no to assume "notoriously inhospitable" towards you doesn't mean to everyone. If you reference was more to the weather it's probably worth pointing it that our winters here are milder than those in most of North America, it's about the same temperature here today as it is in Houston, so warmer than most of the rest of America. Electricity costs are higher than in America, but funnily enough building new infrastructure is quite expensive - I believe it's called investment. If it's choice between paying slightly more and risking the stability of the planet then I'm probably willing to pay a bit more.

You should join a group of other enthusiastic optimists and group together to put your pension funds into it, it'll easily be done in time for you to retire and live like a king.

The biggest hand waving always comes with decommissioning, there are very few examples of a nuclear site being successfully fully cleaned (and even if someone said it was would you buy a house built on the land?) .

Hardly, if you do something full time for nearly 3 years you should be expert at it, you may not be the best in the world, but that obviously is a different proposition, for that you need skilled instruction from someone who is already among the best in the world and likely some sort of "hand up", ie you have very fast reflexes or are unusually strong or have particularly deft hands. Do it right now and surprise yourself, start doing something you are awful at but want to be good at and see how long it takes you to improve.

Yeah, we don't need any research you already know everything! We should just all come to you with our questions. Explain to me again the thing about the earth being a perfect black body or something.

Typical stupidity, is Research the same as propaganda?

The curly exclamation mark at the end of the statement is called a "question mark" and is used to indicate the previous statement is of an interrogative nature, the particular example you are referring to uses the "question mark" in such a way as to imply suspicion as to the validity of the preceding sentence.

The basic principle stands though and bizarrely seems to shock quite a few people - if you want to be good at something, do it for quite a long time.

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I despise the term "founding Fathers" so patriarchal, so overly reverent. It's reminiscent of fascist hero worship. Mob rule is another term for the sam fallacy. Basically you're too stupid to make your own decision, you should only choose which one of us will make them for you. An easy argument to sell and maintain when you look at the standard of American political debate.

Well, "give away" is a very interesting description, maybe you should look into the PATH malaria initiative and their policies on Private Sector collaboration, what will this Malaria vaccine be worth if it is discovered and who will profit from it?