Being a little unhappy here. These people are in bankrupcy. Their tech is 70 years old and they cannot figure out the tech to do better. Their senators just got done raping me and everyone in the Northwest in order to try to keep them afloat.

reactor fuel is easy and cheap to come by. And I am sure if we need some the iranians can supply us.

But we are not even getting close here to the real deal. Damn.

Curious. Military types get suicide missions. In the day there was always a plan to get home, even though it was folorn. Some one always really serious tried to show up at the pickup point for the extraction. Can you say: I hate human space flight? I am a shill? I will say anything to get my agenda? You agenda may be the best thing since sliced bread but I think I need to invent a difference news site that 86s you just for irritating me.

Look at the original proposal by Turing. I imagine Turing was very conscious about gender issues since after winning wwii for the old boy network they decided he was a felon. It seems to me the five eyes gives us Turing test success and...wait for it ... means that is not really what we meant by human intelligence.

Also us yanks cannot orbit without permissions as I recall. Some treaty with a sort of traffic control formalism plus maybe some other reasons about flocks of geese and nuclear spasm. I think the details say that even the feds have to let the neighbors know the initial orbit before hand. It does not quite say we cannot sort of cheat on the orbit a little bit later.

Maybe. But science has problems. Science + public policy is something out of hell. Add that a lot of good science ends up conflicting with other good science. Sorting it out takes lifetimes.

I will support this provided the GOP applies it to all agencies and branches of the federal government. :-)

Just like the occupiers the way it worked well was a lot of ordinary sane concerned people took to the streets, in a sense. These sort of people are not so much around anymore.

The OWS types did actually do street demos. And their camp out in that private park was nicely legal. Took a bit to push them out. This is in the home of concentration camp free speech zones.

The tea party mainly went to public meeting with their reps and had the silly idea that they had free speech. Hmm. Okay. But no more open public meetings in local publicly owned venues for years.

i imagine occupy people voted dem and the other people voted republican. I am sure both sides are so pleased with how well things worked out.
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The only bad thing i will say about the tea types is that they should have leaders. And for occupy the bad thing is they thought they should not have leaders .

Third item is the capability to play with data even is they are lusers. Think python packages of data and software that does nice graphs and so on. This is already being tried and I expect you could help.

You sound unfortunate. I guess if I bought one of these high spec items and had trouble then I could call tech support and get the explanation about the weak QC and an apology and immediate RMA for something that does what it says.

I love ARM. Validating the first Cpu designs in your head when IBM teams were in Fail mode inventing pipelining. Noticing that their chip was unexpectedly working even with a fail power supply. Low royalities and not big revenue even though they have designed most of the computers on the planet.

When I went to school at Oregon State University back in the Neolithic i was told something like Fortran could substitute for the foreign language requirement. So, honor your ancestors and those who keep their values alive. Or something.

Besides, this is political call and it is often best if it does not make sense. If you knew what making sense here then you would be sad.

Wolfram alpha says 12.51/ kw-hour in 2011. Thus for a megawatt hour $125 for the utilities vs $143 from the article for solar. The curve on utility electricity prices over time is relevant. Time to get serious here. If you think the curves are future predictions and you have the space and the capital...

History is fun. We may know more about the past then the present, well, up until we got into Dataworld. But there a bug somewhere in the idea that an exobyte of numbers is more than a koan. And a bug in the idea that a job is more productive than play. Of course, around here we know that Everything has Bugs.

Perhaps "behaves like"? Still I think her ad hominum passes the relevancy test and yours fails.

Does your new beta have a way for me to filter out comments with such useless sexual insults? Well, useless except as a diagnostic tool.

Your army cannot carry weapon in the US?

Silly. I remember army tanks on the streets in the US. This was regulars. The feds have a responsibility to do this when the govenor asks nicely. Get off my lawn. Oh. I want to be rude or stupid here, but instead, good post.