The thing that bugs me, is we haven't really even given Nuclear power a very good try yet.

We barely dipped our toes into the technology and then stopped, its only been a few decades worth so far. Imagine if we gave up on other technologies such as electricity, refrigeration, combustion engines, farming, aircraft, boats, or whatever after only a couple of decades of trying.

There is massive potential for engineering solutions to be developed to the problems that are present in these early attempts at nuclear power.

For people to just who totally say "no nuclear power", I say you are taking an ANTI-SCIENCE position.

The thing that bugs me, is we haven't really even given Nuclear power a very good try yet. We dipped our toes into the technology and then stopped. There is massive potential for engineering solutions to the problems that are present in those early attempts at nuclear power.

For people to just totally say "no nuclear power", it is just anti-science.

The concept of Open Source is not nearly as prevalent in hardware as it is in software. There are still many people who just don't get the ideas of Open Source in the world of electronics hardware design.

However, over the last few years I have seen more and more people coming into electronics hardware from the software side via paths of arduino, raspberry pi, beagleboard, or even robotics, UAV, 3d printing, ham radio, etc.

And its interesting to see the software people start to question why not make hardware designs open source in the same way as software.

s/seer/steer

I thought everyone knew that the Food Pyramid was totally made up by big business and in collusion with the government.

The Food Pyramid was designed in order to seer the masses to foods that could be grown/produced which would feed the people with the most PROFIT margins for commercial farming interests, such as grains, corn, etc..that favored massive commercial farming, and away from foods that required more effort to produce and favored small family farm production methods.

If anything, the move away from Google will be not to another commercial big corporate engine, but to one that people will flock to for privacy such as https://duckduckgo.com/

Does it bother anyone else that the scientific method does not seem to really be followed by these climate people?

What people don't get is this. Microsoft is totally being left out of the cloud.<br><br>The fact is that no cloud provider wants to keep track of licenses, so all cloud platforms, all the new and exciting PaaS platforms etc. are based on ALL OPEN SOURCE. And there is a reason for this.<br><br>When you are offering a system that can fire up nodes and destroy them dynamically and on-demand, its just not worth it to have to keep track of some piece of that being commercially licensed and all the restrictions you end up with on your freedom to fire up new nodes on demand etc..<br><br>Microsoft has been totally shut out of the cloud offerings and PaaS developments out there because licensed software slows you down and restricts all the freedoms to be dynamic in a cloud world that makes it attractive in the first place.<br><br>Maybe if open source<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Net takes off we will see it begin to become another offering by cloud providers and as part of popular PaaS platforms.

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