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Comment if you're not reading science.. (Score 1) 770

why do you except scientific methods to be part of it?

economics can have some science to it, but mostly it's psychology and mostly it's guesswork. some better, some not so good. there's psych medicines that you can test with science and need science to produce, but the results in an individual can vary.. free will and all that. the other side of economics is just pure math, but that's just a side. you can calculate interest rates all you want but you can't really know if someone can pay it to you..

you can scientifically poll people with expertise in the field of maniacs though and therefore get a scientifically made up consensus to go by...

Comment Re:Nice timing (Score 1) 138

ok so the part of Russian Empire that provided plenty of goods for the St. Petersburg and had a bloody war between commies and whites to separate from the Russia/Ussr and had to fight two wars with Russia during WW2, one aligned heavily with nazis (only technically unoccupied european nazi partner whee!!/sarcasm)...

has not had to concern itself with Russian imperialism?? what the fuck! the entire Finnish foreign policy is only about how to keep Russia or earlier USSR out of Finland while at the same time doing trade with them to keep butter on Finnish tables. St. Petersburg is like a 3 hour train ride from Helsinki(+border formalities which add quite a bit). the entire if to join nato or not to join nato is about tiptoeing with the Russian bear - can't live without it and can't live with it. the entire Finnish defense policy is basically built around the fact that Finland could be invaded so fast, that it's better to teach everyone(man) how to shoot, so it would turn into Afghanistan^2 - but we really would rather be peaceniks.

point being, Finland is an ex-region of the Russian Empire(which had certain level of autonomy within the Empire) which according to some theory was let to gain independence only because Lenin thought it would join USSR anyways. However, using the same tactic to take over Finland that Putin used for Crimea and is trying in Eastern Ukraine now would never ever work for Finland. And it would ruin the value of the Russian oligarchs summer houses too... the whole Russia-Ukraine situation is affecting life very much on the street level of many people in Finland though, since it's banning some exports into Russia and there's significant trade between the two - and of course Finland has had to appease to american empires wishes too, which has cost plenty of good trade dealings with Russia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... ,Finland threatened with sanctions over providing tech to Russia)

Comment Re:Pet Peeve (Score 1) 147

it's cheap because it is cheap in dollars,
it's clean because using the power produces no big emissions(apart from manufacturing replacement parts).
and free.. well, it's free in the sense that you don't need to pay for the water with your foreign exports.

once it's up and running and put in a good place it's pretty ideal. that's why it's so hard to find. also the thing with salmon is tha wild salmon from the rivers wouldn't fill the supermarkets anyways - it's just a sport... a niche sport.

much better anyways than burning coal for the same power generation - or oil - or gas. for the neighbourhood too after initial transition time.

now.. if you go about it like the three gorges dam then obviously something went quite fucked along the way but that's hardly a stellar example of good dam use.. like, go norway.

Comment Re:Just the warm-up (Score 1) 48

samsung already has 2nd or another way of looking 3rd gen wearable on the market.

so apples entry will be a copy of that and copy of motos too... for apples sake it should at least have some more features! that's why the speculation has been around heartbeat or some other biosensory gimmickery..

Comment Re:When (Score 1) 110

Because phones and cellular networks are entirely software

pretty much yeahm they wouldn't do any parallel gpu processing unless instructed with software and they hardly invented parallel processing as such.

they're just pissed off because nobody wants to use NVIDIA's soc.. coming soon, watch samsung release a phone with nvidia designed chip, as a token release - and bury it with their other phone releases. kind of how they produced windows phones for surprisingly long - not that they put any effort into selling them or anything but at least they got something back on paper from their licensing of stuff for android use from MS while they worked out if they need to actually pay MS for using android or not(what I'm saying is, that MS used lawsuit threats etc to keep them producing windows phones while they figured out that they could sink Nokia and buy Nokia to keep at least one company producing windows phones. a shit tactic but there you have it.).

Comment Re:Ban when you are done testing? (Score 2) 322

supercarriers are expensive - on the stupidly ludicrous level of expensive, hypersonic missiles potentially not so much and can be exported and don't need billions to keep them operational.

so banning technology that could potentially cheaply destroy supercarriers would work in USA's favor. why would everyone else agree to such a ban though I got no idea. heck, what they're proposing to ban is "very fast objects"... yeehaaw. no.

it doesn't affect nuclear threat at all, only the threat to conventional weapons platforms.

Comment Re:Arevas failure (Score 1) 130

look man they had NOT DESIGNED the damn automation system by the time it was originally supposed to go online! they had plenty of time to design it but for some reason fucked up or didn't do it. plenty of time before 2008 that is.

that they fucked up many parts of the construction was another delay, possibly why they didn't finish the automation because they knew the construction was going slower than expected and maybe they didn't finish the construction on time because they knew the automation wasn't finished.. friggin frenchies.

Anyhow, Areva was also on the hook for paying for delays but I don't know how that has worked out, but that's what was on the finnish press some I think five+ years ago.

the fuckup by TVO was buying from these fuckups in the first place... now they're lucky if Areva doesn't go bankrupt before delivery.

Comment Re:Nuclear is dead on Earth (Score 2) 130

yeah because Finland is TOTALLY gunning for the new reactor for use with nuclear bombs and not for having cheap power to power the steel industry or anything like that...

some people... some people.. PHEAR THE FINNISH NUCLEAR THREAT!!!

*) disclaimer, Finland, if given some realistic incentive, could make a bomb in a few years, partially due to before mentioned expertise in steel and other high technology needed to accomplish such a feat. so you better fear it! and since Finland is not in NATO it's obviously a ROGUE STATE and since it's not allied with Russia either it's a double rogue state! homebase of the SPECTRE!

Comment Re:Excellent move for the government (Score 1) 62

there's no reason to carry positive on it, it's a prepay card.

besides, if mastercard shafts them, they could just implement the backend themselves.

HOWEVER.. having such card would make it rather easy for them to move official business to using said card for payments and that might cut 95% of sticky fingers.

Comment Re:yet if we did it (Score 1) 463

slap on a wrist is something else than nothing.

also, being a lying scumbag police officer is something that most of us do not do on everyday basis.

and would you have watched the trial the same way if she had been using her laptop while driving while also using her smartphone to do texting at the same time stamps and it had been shown that she lied about that and that there was evidence that she had been driving like that, as an accident waiting to happen, for a while?? I doubt that...

Comment Re:Broadcom... (Score 1) 165

they're claiming all the micro board successeses, but don't want others cloning.

you know what they are really doing? working _for_ the resources they are resources to.

the broadcom chip is stupid and it is stupid to make a clone with it. if you're cloning something clone the bbb.. or at least something capable of _decently_ driving a cnc or 3d printer(pi is shit for that, even if there's a proof of concept of doing it worse than 8 bit atmel..).

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