Accountable?

The US Government?

Pfft!

I'll believe that shit when I start seeing it.

I hesitate to label them crooks, because crooks couldn't get away with the shit our government does.

Not to mention that crooks are more careful with money than the US government EVER was.

And this simile negates the REST of my point...uhm. HOW?

Obama isn't in a position to "let" or "prohibit" SHIT (even his own).

He's a fucking douchebag, Chicago Machine politician.

He has no opinions or even feelings outside of what his little cabal of "advisors" tell him he does.

He's also in NO position to dictate to the NSA what they will or will not do with an undiscovered bug in a security device/program.

The NSA damn well WILL use it, and so long as nobody leaks it to THE PUBLIC, it's "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" from the rest of the government.

Even if Obama were to, God forbid, try something PROACTIVE, they'd still just ignore it and sacrifice yet another desk jockey stooge once caught.

Okay, you're stunned that a company as culturally blinkered and rapacious as APPLE isn't turning over some of their huge cash hoard to fund Open Source projects that are outside of their control and might sabotage their patent warchest?

Why not just walk up to Smaug, kick him in the eyeball and demand the Arkenstone "OR ELSE" there Bilbo!

As long as you are witholding something Apple wants, they're either charming as fuck or litigious as hell in an effort to acquire it.

Once they have what they want out of you, you're a one-night-stand, it's the next morning and they can't be rid of you fast enough.

Basically they're only worth the effort it takes to ignore or dismantle.
In the case of online protests, they can be safely ignored.
In the case of physical protests, if there's no rioting, they're ignored.
If there's rioting, they're suppressed.

And not just in the US.

Look at the Kirchner kleptocracy in Argentina. They had tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people rioting in the street.
Kirchner's response? What riot? Ooh! Prada shoes! I'll nationalize something else, and squeeze a bit more money out of my citizens and I can buy all I want!

We're pretty much at the point where the government has stopped giving a fuck. They have more and bigger guns than we do, and that's the end of it.

The only way to effect real change nowadays is if lots and lots of people are willing to kill, bleed and die for their principles.

Unfortunately, things are too damn cushy for most people to want to go that far.

So, in the gilded cage we sit.

There's still a minimum conductivity in molar water. But it's several orders of magnitude lower than than tap or bottled water.

Again, primary conductivity of water is via impurities in the water, not the water itself.

Yep. Got to fiddle around with Fluorinert cooling years ago.

Interesting, just not very practical.

You really DO need a fully sealed system and ostensibly clean-room assembly. Because, while the coolant itself is non-conductive, any detritus that accumulates in the fluid after settling out of the environment ISN'T. That's the main thing about water (straight H2O) isn't conductive. It's all the other things in the water, minerals, dust, etc that's doing the conduction.

Also, as noted, there's STILL going to be use of fans and water. Because you still need systems that extract the thermal energy from the liquid medium. You simply remove them from the main system chassis.

It also doesn't change the fact that it's still a TERRIBLY inefficient way to cool the system. Unlike water cooling loops, where you have no more than maybe a pint or so of fluid cooling the major heat sources in the system, you have QUARTS of fluid basically covering everything. And you really have no good flow control, other than extremely high volume fluid exchange, which is energy inefficient in and of itself.

That's PROBABLY what a lot of the board re-engineering is about. Centralizing all the thermally active devices into a centralized area to limit the volume of immersion coolant required and to simplify flow control.

Sorry, when I see "deaf culture", that's impression I get.

Can you blame a parent for not wanting their child to be socialized in a broader environment?
Not hemmed in my an arbitrary, self-reinforcing "culture" based on something like a shared, but treatable disability?

This has the markings of more technophobic histrionics.

Yeah. Because F2P is a misnomer in most.

Basically it's tied to eastern-style grinding unless you shell out big bucks in the cash shops.
And talking about being nickeled-and-dimed to death?
Yeah. You WISH! Most transactions are $5, $10, $20 or more. What the fuck is "micro" about those transactions.
That and the gambling, Things like PWE's lockbox gambling system. The boxes drop free in the game. But you have to pay to open them. And they deliver random crap. And worse, some of the gear in the game is ONLY available this way.

This is the sort of thing that kept me AWAY from MMOs for so long.
I was pleasantly surprised by City of Heroes and the fact that they didn't treat their gamers this way. Even when they converted to a cash shop and F2P.
Unfortunately, nothing good lasts and those idiots at NCSoft killed the game.
Now all that's left are a bunch of cash shop pushers.

As such, I'll just avoid them altogether.

Let's take a look at OKCupid's CEO as well.

http://www.motherjones.com/moj...

In 2004 Sam Yagan donated $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah). Rep. Cannon voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, against a ban on sexual-orientation based job discrimination and for a prohibition on gay adoptions.

Okay! We have an area that's rife with startups that are putting billions into the local economy, causing it it go upscale.
The only people who can afford the upscale cost of living are the people at these startups.

What should we do!

I KNOW! Let's threaten to castrate a techie and demand low income housing!

Yeah. I can see these people are definitely NOT the brightest bulbs in the pack.

And does anyone else find it funny that anarchists are demanding that the government establish what are essentially anti-government communities?

Sorry, gentrification of an area happens. It sucks, and it isn't fair. But these companies and their employees have the same rights to set up shop in the area as everyone else. And, if they're willing to pay more to live someplace than you are? Sucks to be you.

Nonsense. "Mainstream" distrust of nuclear power is an engineered phenomenon.

As for "building trust". How do you build trust with someone who, no matter what you do, say, etc is going to scream "no nukes, no nukes", like you were going to be putting a bomb testing range under their kids' bed?

On the other topic, yes, I agree that Tepco's (mis)handling of the situation has worsened it. We'd have been better off handing over the reins of the operation to a blind quadriplegic in a permanent vegetative state.

Oh good for you.

"Cites numbers and "facts" to support argument"

Where do you see that?

"Look it up yourself."

Bzzt. It's not on me to do the research to support your position.

Try again.

If it comes down to eating grilled steak and getting colon cancer or eating beer-flavored steak and maybe not?

I'll choose colon cancer.