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Comment USA was #1, now is a land of lazy ... (Score 1) 361

USA was the land of opportunity. Now there are so many burocratic rules, nasty (lawsuits) customers, and ugly corporation-politician mafia that frozen innovation with patents. You would be better off paciking and going to Asia, where they teach students to work every minute of their life, to obey their masters, and never complain.

Comment Linux use in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology (Score 1) 1091

Every job I got in those fields required Linux skills. Please make great user friendly app to tinker with personal genomic data and people will sped hours searching for ancestry and trying to understand how to tune-up their bodies to improve quality of their lifes. Most of the building blocks (software packages) are GPLed and readily available, but the output of such software is hard to understand in current form.

Comment Ford Transit Connect Wagon (Score 1) 377

I need 7-passenger vehicle. There is no space left for 3rd row of seats after converting Ford Transit Connect Wagon to CNG.

Another car (not CNG) that is fuel efficient will not be sold in the USA in 7-passenger version (Ford C-Max).

So for 7-passenger vehicles I am left with minivans that use tons of gas.

I do not care if car is better 30MPG because of "MPG illusion": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_MPG_to_L-100km_v2009-10-08.svg

From http://www.cars101.com/fuel_economy.html If your car gets an average of 70 MPG you used 214 US gallons driving 15,000 miles and it cost this much per year (divide by 12 for what it costs monthly): 48 mpg (uses 312 US gallons to go 15,000 miles) 45 mpg (uses 333 US gallons) 41 mpg (uses 366 US gallons) 38 mpg (uses 395 US gallons) 35 mpg (uses 429 gals) 33 mpg (uses 455 gals) 31 mpg (uses 484 gals) 29 mpg (uses 518 gals) 27 mpg (uses 556 gals) 25 mpg (uses 600 gals) 23 mpg (uses 653 gals) 21 mpg (uses 715 gals) 18 mpg (uses 834 gals) 15 mpg (uses 1000 gals) 12 mpg (uses 1250 gals) 8 mpg (uses 1875 gals)

Comment Low hanging fruits are gone. (Score 1) 474

IMHO as a statistician, I can assure you, that as the knowledge expands it is easiet to see the big picture. The problem is tha all low hanging fruits are gone and new discoveries are not cheap and easy now. Most of current progress is made because new machines/methods/reagents allow to do experiments that were beyond any budget in the past. I believe that most research will move to Asia, becouse big corporations kills american science. For example: Illumina sells sequencing reagents to China 10x (ten times) cheaper than to customers in the USA.

Comment German MINIVAN: 50 MPG (not sold in the USA) (Score 2) 891

Why everyone can buy 7-passenger Minivans such as Volkswagen Touran with 50MPG, but such cars are forbidden here in fuck#n California. In the USA you can only get minivans with terrible gas mileage (~20MPG).

Annual cost:
50MPG = $990
21MPG = $2,357

Here is info about this minivan that is banned in the USA:
http://www.car-emissions.com/cars/model/volkswagen/touran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Touran
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/touran-gp-ii/which-model/compare/interior?p=2
http://www.green.autoblog.com/2010/04/12/volkswagen-intros-updated-touran-minivan-51-1-mpg-with-bluemoti/

Moreover, CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicles are insanely expensive because thise politician-corporate chimera caused every CNG part insanely expensive! For example home refueling station (tiny box that allow to refuel CNG car at home) costs about $7000 (seven thousend). Now you understand how this bust#rds make american to be slave by poitician-corporate mafia.

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