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Comment: Re:No no no no no... (Score 1) 598

by Gorimek (#37167604) Attached to: Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US

Your argument rests on the faulty assumption that there is an infinite number of dirt poor people in the world. This is simply not true.

  About 1/3 of the world (Europe, North America and Australia, Japan etc) are already rich since a long time. China and India is another 1/3 that are rapidly moving up to that state. Several other places are also reducing poverty, and the fact is that we'll run out of dirt poor people in a few decades.

The globalisation and outsourcing that so many people are complaining about is actually part of the greatest eradication of poverty in history.

Comment: So what IS the new budget? (Score 1) 385

by Gorimek (#35769140) Attached to: No U.S. Government Shutdown This Week

All this excited reporting, and nowhere can I find the actual numbers of this new budget deal. And I have both a serious news addiction and considerable search term skills.

Does anyone know the correct values of X and Y in this sentence?

For the fiscal year of Oct 2010 - Sep 2011, the US government plans to spend $X out of an expected income of $Y.

On a more rhetorical level I also wonder why it is this simple basic fact about the dominating news story for at least several weeks is simply not reported?

Comment: Re:I'd be open to it, but good luck with everyone (Score 1) 430

by Gorimek (#35500620) Attached to: Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants

It's fine to come up with standards for safe power, as long as you apply them equally to all power generation.

For this one I guess the question is if you would want to live by the exhaust of a coal fired power plant?

I know I would much rather live by the nuclear storage. No other place will be as monitored for radiation, for one thing.

Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it.

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