FAIK, science- / engineering-based Germany may embrace LFTR's as -acceptable- risk nuclear power...

Ideally, gov'ts will create a new regulatory category for LFTR's, to enable them to come on-line soon.

Battery-swapping EV infrastructure providers - such as BetterPlace.com - are to buy Green energy, ie, as they put more of their EV's on the road.

Competitors will forced by the market to do the same. & - hopefully - sign-up to compatible battery-swap standards.

Julia Gillard was looking either solemn or broken, as she read her [spoof] doomsday message - at JJJ's request - recently.

We happened to find it a day or 2 after viewing 2 more helpful video shorts from NASAtelevision channel @ YouTube.com

Julia, what were you thinking, when you agreed to make your silly spoof?!?

I say: If you can't take your job seriously, please find another job.

Sorry, Elan, I -don't- need 30 min's to use the toilet & to enjoy a drink, while an EV charges.

Don't you think it's time to get on-board the battery-swap band-wagon, so your customers can enjoy -under- 1 minute refuels?

I think your busy customers will jump on that bandwagon, if you don't, ie, as soon as BetterPlace's battery-swap stations become available so support the same California roads as you've announced, recently.

I urge you to: Lead the EV industry by offering some "battery-swap station compatible" vehicles, that all EV's can use, so all EV owners (of any brand EV) will - someday - benefit from.

May that day come soon! :-)

Where are those brave folks, who'd say: Nope, if you're not "Free," then you don't get Me!
If -enough- folks made it -clear- that they won't support restrictions, just maybe it may help.

Another thought I had was: These "Help my data jump over the Great Firewall" articles
-may- be "plants" to help draw out any remaining workarounds to the latest version of
Great Firewall controls.

By answering, we may by listing any of the remaining workarounds, we're helping the ones,
who maintain TGF to close yet another door...?

Subj says it all. Others may have noticed the same.

Could those in the extra 53% suicidal women have suffered earlier miscarriages, by any chance?

So, if Skype is now such a dog (eg, due to coming ad's & its previous acquisition by Microsoft), where are all the Open Source counterparts?

Windows' ubiquity may have contributed to Linux & FreeBSD's growth...

Won't the ad's and/or Microsoft refurbishing of Skype contribute to the growth of Open Source, Skype-counterparts?

If not now / soon, when?

We have a LOT of geometrical shapes to wade through

Will USPTO deem a 1,000,000-sided polygon to be significantly different from a 999,999-sided one, and all the ones with fewer sides?

Apples lawyers will surely have job security for generations!

Or... maybe smart people just need to move-on to other interesting work...

"Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It"

(There are -also- some very good videos about of Lessig presenting its main ideas;
we heartily recommend them to all.)

So, the Australian parliament has WASTED weeks on a "Return [former PM Kevin] Rudd" & it -almost- began a similar "Dump Julia [Gillard]" campaign recently.

Question time Q&A's are broadcast in ABC "News" Radio, and often shows the idiocy of personal attacks & insults that Elected Members can get up to...

All this useless time-wasting means AU's parliament gets stuck "cycling on the negative" while other, more intelligent legislatures move their countries -ahead- of Australia, despite its potential to lead & succeed.

WHAT AU NEEDS is Direct Digital Democracy, eg, in the form of FEEDBACK to the Speaker (who can stop proceedings, name Members who are deemed to be playing-up, & even -eject- Members who ignore his/her instructions to cease misbehaving.

Suppose it were possible for a random & changing collection of Citizens (in statistically significant numbers) - who are monitoring (in Real Time), from anywhere across Australia - to indicate their Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction with the proceedings at the moment, ie, in the House and/or Senate, and BE HEARD (electronically) and EFFECTIVELY STOP / CHANGE those proceedings.

So, if a random sampling of current (in real time) listeners and/or viewers of those proceedings could Press either a YES or a NO button, to register or withhold, resp., their support for what how their Elected Members are -currently- (at that moment, + or - say 5 - 15 min's) using their time...

and a TALLY-based RESULT (CONTINUE or STOP) indicator was presented to the Speaker of House & Senate... the Speaker could - moments after getting that
RESULT indicator - rule to STOP (eg, & move on to a next item, that might use that house's time better) or ALLOW the current proceedings to continue.

The idea is that - today - the Public can only grow angrier... but has No Agenda or Unit-of-Proceeding level way to indicate what they like or dislike, akin to a Presidential "Line-Item Veto" power.

This proposal would give the Public a feedback control power, not quite as rich as Citizen Initiated Referendum (CIR) power enjoyed by more democratically-wealthy Swiss, but perhaps "safer"... until we can competently handle the responsibility of CIR power. Perhaps this Speaker Feedback mechanism would help the Public learn to handle power, so that - some years after having & exercising it - they'll be ready to take-on CIR powers. :-)

My 2.2 cents.

Perhaps this will boost interest in desktop Linux?

But can VLC do what M$ wants $$ to enable? IF so, M$ might as well give DVD playing away free.

Enough is Enough, already!

Let's put all the $$$ into building Schools & Hospitals in developing nations, instead of into the construction of very high end sports stadiums, that are now deemed to need extreme military weapons, in the midst of urban sprawl, for the Games' protection,

We;ve had (in past) player murders; what next, deaths & injuries in surrounding communities, due to bits of metal falling from the sky, eg, after ground to air missles knock down their targets?!?

Let's stop while we're ahead.

So, Smits creates habitat for orangutans, mostly by restoring diverse flora in formerly dismal/barren parts of Bornio.

They've noted significant changes to local (micro-)climate, ie, over their new plantations & living spaces, for both people & oran's.

Brief reports of the changes are to be heard in Smits' excellent TED talk on his purpose & means to restore habitat to these sensitive animals:

+ http://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest.html

There may be some more details on the hows & outcomes, eg, in resources to be found here:

+ http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/03/learn_more_abou/

(For a few blog articles, search TED.com for "orangutans")