Welp, since there's no PC version of Destiny.....me and mine won't be playing it.

It is important to keep in mind that there is no factual proof that he lost his offer of employment at UoMMC or his tenure at Wayne due to the comments on PubPeer. Sarkar's lawyer claims that the retraction letter from UoMMC says this is why, but has declined to offer the letter as proof.

All that is factually known at this time is that the scientific integrity of Sarkar's articles have come under scrutiny, and that a potential job at UoMMC didn't pan out for him.

I ran into this once, but with a different outcome. I was in college, on a date at the Outback Steakhouse, and a big fella was smoking in the restaurant, which was non-smoking. People were muttering, but no one directly said anything to him, probably because he was intimidating looking.

I went over to his table, and asked him to put his cigarette out because it was a non-smoking establishment. He looked me up and down, then took a long drag on his cigarette and blew it at me. When he put it back in his mouth, I reached over and plucked it from his mouth....I was young, in the army, on a date trying to impress....and so the only logical thing was obviously to grind the cigarette out on the palm of my hand while glaring at him.

On the plus side, most of the restaurant - servers included - applauded.
On the minus side, I still have a scar on my palm.

Just wait until next week, when they announce that cigarettes are actually good for us!

From the article:

"French artificial heart maker Carmat says it will not perform another human implant until it has determined the cause of death of the first patient fitted with the device."

Six months later: Implanting a new heart, despite still not knowing what happened the first time."

There will not be teeth to this. There are no teeth to any NATO measures.

The summary could just as easily read:

At the upcoming NATO meeting, according to the NY Times, the 28 member states are expected to talk about some shit that no one will do anything about. Not for the first time, they will pass a meaningless resolution without teeth that no one will pay attention to.

Here's a link to the Dorchester County Board of Education members. There's an e-mail address there where you can tell them what you think of them as well.

http://www.dcps.k12.md.us/Boar...

There's a difference between "best games" and "best games for friends."

For best games, you can't go wrong with old school RPGs from Squaresoft back in the day. Any of them. Particular favorites: Chronotrigger and Final Fantasy III.

For friends, get "Risk" the board game. Hours of fun.

RTFA.

-Microsoft develops product in U.S, generating tax credit for R&D.
-Microsoft shifts ownership, or "Profit Rights" of product off-shore, to say....The Bahamas.
-Microsoft Bahamas subsidiary sells U.S developed product to Americans.
-Microsoft Bahamas claims all profit. Microsoft America gets all Tax Credits.

And that's how they avoid paying taxes. It's legal. It might not be "right," but it's legal, and won't change until our nation's useless politicians do something about it. This debate has been going on for a decade or more.

No longer.

My wife's uncle until recently had a series of Apple Orchards in Michigan, with the processing plant on the same road. For years, it's been seasonal labor harvesting apples, and the orchards selling to the plant.

His orchards are now plowed under because he can't compete with China. Apparently China can ship Apples to the United States, have them offloaded from a boat, trucked to Michigan, and delivered to this processing plant cheaper for less money than it costs the orchards across the road to harvest apples with seasonal (read: Mexicans) labor.

China is having delays too.

But understand this: China ordered 2-3 AP1000 plants from Westinghouse. Westinghouse built them, but concurrently sold the design for the AP1000 plant to China, knowing that China would steal the design anyway.

China intends to go fully nuclear, using the AP1000 design; their major hiccup is that their internal chinese suppliers - the same ones that WE use for non-nuclear power utilities. Chinese vendors forge parts. They forge forgings, as in "Fake forgings." WCC instead of LCC, calling coated nickel SA316, faking coupons and CMTRs - it's not only the US that Chinese vendors screw, it's also China.

Hopefully Morgan Freeman will still be around to save us from ELE!

Seconded. Nothing like an article that makes a false assertion. =D

Are new Soy products going to unseat McDonalds' Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese as the world's tastiest burger?

Or since we're talking about bitcoins, how about this for a tag:

Will the increased discussions about bitcoin finally reveal it as the scam it is?

Chiming in here because I used to be directly involved with this project.

Supplier delays come down to government regulation, ASME and NRC interference, and I offer this as an example:

-Congress had to approve the specific design plan for this plant (and every other plant).
-ASME randomly updates a portion of Section 8 code that changes the definition of SA316SS.
-Supplier tasked with supplying 316SS components finds out that these components are no longer viable due to the changed definition of the material.
-ONE YEAR of back and forth between supplier (who purchased $2,000,000 worth of SA316 bar stock to fulfill builder requirements) and builder.
-Builder eventually approves the use of replacement material.
-NRC steps in and revokes approval, because the revision does not have Congressional approval.

In sum:
-ASME committees report to no one, and make industry changing decisions ad-hoc.
-Suppliers and builders are aiming at shifting targets in compliance.
-Response time from NRC and ASME takes months and years. Send a clarification request to ASME? Response time: 1 year+.
-NRC equally confused about ASME shifting requirements.
-It takes an act of Congress to change any design parameters.

If you want to know why we cannot build nuclear facilities in our country, look no further than the mess we've made in South Carolina and Georgia. Years behind schedule and billions over budget because regulatory bodies keep changing the targets.

Oh, and I think that every Society for Black Engineers needs a counterpart Society for White Engineers.