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Comment Re:Soros-funded occupuppets... (Score 1) 451

Comment Re:Soros-funded occupuppets... (Score 1) 451

The REAL enemy is NOT the banks/Wall Street/Big Corps...Its FUCKING BIG GOVERNMENT!! The government that practically FORCED banks to make loans to people who had ZERO capability of repaying the loans.

Irregardless of the [citation needed] aspect of this statement, did the government force the rating agencies and banks to repackage said loans as A, AA, AAA packages and sell them to investors? That, if anything, was a LACK of government oversight (i.e. regulators.)

The government that falls all over itself to pass laws that are written by 4-letter groups who are part/parcel of the mass media, with said laws being totally against the Constitution.

And who owns the mass media? (I'll give you a hint, it's not the government.)

With the shellacking that the "New American Communist Party" got in 2008, I strongly doubt Dear Leader is going to risk allowing another debacle like that.. Knowing how corrupt this regime is, I'd not put it past him to stage a false-flag "incident" that inflames the country, giving him the ammo he needs to declare martial law, shut down ANY sources of info besides his pet media, better known now as Pravda or the Ministry of Propaganda.

While I have no great love for our current president; I really don't get the fear that he's angling for martial law and some kind of communist agenda. He has waaay to many corporate benefactors for that to be true. You really think goldman sachs is interested in a president that wants to claim their money "for the people"? I highly recommend you spend some time studying socialism and communism before accusing the democratic party of being interested in them. No doubt there are socialists in the party, but the laws the government passes are more in line with a corporateocracy than any of the "isms."

Android

Submission + - Intel Supports Any x86 Android, So Long As It's Th (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: "Intel's decision to join Google and become a major Android developer was big news in 2011, but it appears the CPU giant's fondness for x86 support in Android is a wee bit more specific than you might have thought. Intel has made a number of major contributions to Android in the past six months, but the Android-x86 project, which substantially predates Chipzilla's efforts, has been left in the cold. Apparently, AMD has reportedly stepped into that gap. The lead developer of Android-x86, Chih-Wei Huang, has stated that "Yes. AMD provides great support to us, including devices donation and engineer's support. On the other hand, Intel still refuses to provide any help to this project. They closed all contact windows I've ever tried.""
Google

Submission + - Google goes IPv6 for internal network (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: "In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network.

Google network engineer Irena Nikolova discussed the company-wide implementation and shared some lessons that other organizations might benefit from as they migrate their own networks to the next generation Internet Protocol."

Technology

Submission + - GEnx-Powered Boeing 787 Dreamliner Sets New Distan (gereports.com)

ambermichelle writes: This week, Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner powered by GE’s GEnx engines took off from Seattle for a record flight to circumnavigate the globe. The plane stopped only in Dhaka, Bangladesh for two hours of refueling. The flight set two new world records for its weight class in nonstop distance flown and speed for an eastbound flight around the world.
NASA

Submission + - NASA warns of potential climate doom (scienceblog.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have long warned the world must cut carbon emissions to keep overall temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celcius. A new assessment from NASA finds we're doomed if temperatures go up even that much — a target few think the will be achieved. Instead of sea levels rising by a few feet, as previous studies have found, levels could rise four to six meters higher than today. “It would be a prescription for disaster,” said James E. Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Comment Re:No, they aren't (Score 5, Informative) 585

Global warming is a done discussion. Governments and corporations are already moving to adapt -- except for a few parasites like the Koch brothers (who are funding much of the anti-science "research" that you are lapping up so eagerly), who simply need to be pried off our nation's neck and burned like the blood-ticks that they are.

Except the Koch brothers latest efforts were less than fruitful: http://www.berkeleyearth.org/Resources/Berkeley_Earth_Averaging_Process

China

Submission + - The First Documentary About Thorium Nuclear Energy (motherboard.tv)

CoveredTrax writes: "Motherboard is airing online a new half-hour documentary called "The Thorium Dream," about the folks who want to shift the world's power supply to a nuclear fuel and design they insist is safe, clean, green, and, well, "magic." China and India are now exploring thorium; rumors have circulated about using thorium to power cars. It's an old American idea, naturally, but we've mostly forgotten it."

Comment Re:So... not related to light at all really (Score 1) 132

This has absolutely nothing to do with light, and instead has absolutely incredible implications for power generation. Graphene geothermal probes for more efficiency, graphene cooling tubes for maximum gas/oil/coal electric power generation, nuclear power (bonus: extra radiation protection)... Hell, strap graphene to just about any process that involves waste heat and get power for "free!"

This would be perfect in a car if they could use it to cool the engine as well as generate elecity without a generator.

From TFA:

In most materials, superheated electrons would transfer energy to the lattice around them. In the case of graphene, however, that’s exceedingly hard to do, since the material’s strength means it takes very high energy to vibrate its lattice of carbon nuclei — so very little of the electrons’ heat is transferred to that lattice.

Perhaps I'm reading that wrong, but it sounds like it captures heat. Unless it rapidly converts said heat to electricity that strikes me as a good way to increase the heat in your engine compartment, not reduce it.

Comment Re:most universities need reform at the lower leve (Score 1) 487

The costs of education are definately rising faster than general inflation. Filler classes definately suck. I'm assuming (dangerous I know) that you're referring to liberal arts eduction. I say this because technical schools and job training programs focus only on 'work place based class work.' Personally, I prefer working with those with liberal arts style training. All those theory based classes (if well done) train someone to wrap their head around abstract concepts. For example, a business person with some basic understanding of scientific theory will know the difference between causation and correlation. Similarly, a tech or research person with a basic understanding of finance can understand and make a better case for using X high cost method over Y low cost method. Put another way, the cross training involved in liberal arts education gives all those involved a common language to speak. Something that someone who focuses only on their particular 'work place' will not share.

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