How about let it compete on price. It would be extremely competitive if we stopped all subsidization of oil. And also recoup all subsidies to oil in the past 20 years. We can start with a tax to recoup the costs of the war in Iraq (I heard a figure of $420 billion but I am sure it is higher by now), and then once that is paid off we can work on others (epa regulation and cleanup costs, increased medical costs from smog, ect).

I know, its hard when your black and white world starts all looking a little grey.

Ok, then one more point the environmental movement has:

Nuclear energy can not be regulated very well. On the other hand, wind and solar and everything else fluctuates _a lot_. So you have the permanent base supplied by nuclear, but just let the energy produced by e.g. stronger winds just go to waste? There are studies (the ones I know of are in German, sorry), that 24/7 energy is possible through using a broad array of different (renewable) energy sources, like wind, solar, water, biogas etc.
The advantage of water and biogas is that it is much better at adjusting to current demand.
So the way I see it, nuclear development would hinder the development of cleaner energy, as it would lead to certain amounts of it going unused, thus making it that much less profitable.

Yet this whole debate can hardly be held in slashdot comments, as it is much too complex.

So you are telling me that Apples target consumer is the "valley girl", omg like, crew cut with striped sideburns, neon in their cars and bedazzled phones?
wait a second.... did it start with those "Neony" type MacBooks and iMacs?

Curse you Apple, you made people dumber!!!

Perhaps you should open source it.

A large part of the entire point of this exercise is that MacMillan wants the ability to flex prices, such that a new book out in hardcover is $15 as an ebook and the price then flexes down over time.

I completely agree. If they were a viable alternative then they would need billions of dollars in taxpayer money to stay in business.

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Yes, use an IE thermometer on your cheeks, if they are hot, your capilliarys are dialated, your drunk, and you will regret 'hitting that'

Fast breeders don't necessarily produce any plutonium, unlike normal thermal reactors. A PWR on a current once-through cycle will burn mostly U-235 and produce Pu-239 - so no plutonium in, some plutonium out. A fast breeder with a closed cycle and Pu as the fissile material can be arranged so that only as much plutonium comes out as goes in.

You can't indefinitely recycle plutonium in a thermal reactor due to complications with particular isotopes building up, affecting stability.

Nothing in those videos indicated that they didn't have those at some point. Much like any vehicle, if you break it and you want it to work properly, you fix it... Or you deal with the brokeness. Secondly, the AC never specified what they wanted in a vehicle besides a vehicle that was under $50k and was over 300 miles to the gallon. For all we know, they expect that at a price point of $49,999.99 all the way down to free. If people post stupid comments, they will get stupid responses.

I agree, and the "you don't travel that much very often" argument is bogus. It's a major aspect of having a car that you *can* make a 10 hour round trip any time you want without having to arrange for charging your car for hours. People have cars because of freedom as much as for their daily commute. What we need is a common platform and swappable batteries, so that you can go to a gas station, swap out your battery against a charged one for a fee, and keep driving.

Until a century or two ago, books were mostly recited out loud. If in a group of people recitation may have been for entertainment. Or if alone or in a church you barely vocalized it. In that era authors designed their books to be read out loud. Their prose may have sounded more majestic or poetic than now. I fact I find it hard to read a poem silently and get it.

Besides the quiet, silent reading enables speed reading. If you volcalize, you slow down to a few hundred words a minute at best. A speed reader can reach 500, 1000 or more.

Many languages have two words for the act of reading. The older word has the connotation of reading out loud, kind of like English "recite". The newer word means silent reading.

Not only that, but even if you fix the double h and put the requisite slashes after the colon, you get this [warning, link doesn't work]. So you think, "oh I see, they forgot to put the dot in between 'government' and 'html'!" It is then that you realize the url has no slashes or periods at all.

For everyone's hilarious enjoyment, here is the full text of the broken url

hhttp:latimesblogslatimescomentertainmentnewsbuzz201001avatar-pulled-from-2d-screens-by-chinese-governmenthtml

I can hire 5 people from India for your salary and they will accomplish about twice what you do(all totaled).
They tried to outsource my department..it failed.
We were able to get rid of most of the developers since they're a dime a dozen.
I do both coding and 3rd level support and the support people are by far more competent with a computer than the developers who get lost outside their IDE.
Your software won't be worth crap if you can't get it distributed.

This just validates that Avatar has any kind of noteworthy message that we haven't heard before.

I expect an outpouring of sympathy from the international community at such a flagrant disregard of the basic human right to not suffer through another Chow Yun Fat performance.