Actually there is a lot to the geometry of creating the right explosions around a fissile material in order to compress the enriched core to become super critical.

In addition, the more difficult aspect is purifying the uranium and/or getting enough fissile material.

Actually as a private orginization they can do this. Take a look at augusta national golf club. Until about 10 years ago, they didn't even have women and blacks were admitted only 20 years ago.

I think what this entire debate is ignoring is the fact that indian usage of power correlates directly with how hot it gets.

The area of concern gets to 40C during the summer time, and with air conditioners running at full blast, its eats up a lot of power.

My bigger worry is that despite everything, a lot of the planning and monies dedicated for this project will get eaten through the pipeline.

The only power capacity India has really added in the past few years to the grid,except for individual gen-sets, is wind power. India has not been able to really add large power plants due to one faction, protest, or corruption...

They arrest this guy on money laundering, but let HSBC http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... off the hook.

Land rovers are notorious for breaking down. If you look at any reliability data for cars, land rovers consistently rank at or near the bottom. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/02/land-rover-and-jd-power/

My argument is the treasury didn't have to sell and take a loss. They could have left the stock on its balance sheet as stock.

The whole point of the bailout was to prevent a systemic collapse of the US economy. A GM failure would have probably caused losses upwards of 105 billion dollars of lost tax revenue (http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/09/news/companies/gm-bailout-stock-sale/), which is paltry in context of the direct loss of 10 Billion.

The treasury would have had to sold it at 53 USD to break even on the stock. Today's price is around 41 USD. I don't think it would be unusual to see a move closer to 53, as long there is no major calamity in the general economy or through the performance of GM.

The treasury sold it voluntarily. The treasury could have waited until the price was non-loss making.

Lets say you get (god forbid) cancer. What do you do then? Or in an accident? Or whatever. This is probably the worst advice I've heard-- not getting health insurance.

use a bidet or as in asia http://www.minishower.net/minish_commode.html

we need an energy/oil based currency, whereby all goods are priced in barrels of oil.

Lets say you owned a business that was returning 30% per year on the amount invested by you, why would you want a dividend? The best you can do with a risk free cash investment is 3-5% in the bank, if even.

In a vacuum if the continually resulted in a 30% return, it would be better to compound your money there.
The key thing is you need to buy stocks cheap ie as close to per share book value as you can.

Foxconn makes terrible margins on their product. (10-14 %)

Why on earth does it make sense to buy foxconn? Foxconn does not have anything proprietary that a dozen other assembly mfg companies in China can do.

One big thing is taxes:

share buy backs would not incur a double taxation that a dividend might.

This is already happening:
http://www.magna.com/en/capabilities/vehicle-engineering-contract-manufacturing
http://www.valmet-automotive.com/automotive/cms.nsf

If you have a problem with this, buy new balance:

http://www.newbalance.com/company/committed-to-american-workers/?action=recommendContent&pageID=%2Fcompany%2Fcommitted-to-american-workers%2F%23comment6761&pageTitle=Committed%20to%20American%20Workers

In addition, you can even select shoes by either made in america or assembled in america (less than 60% american content).