Haven't seen the whitewashing of his crimes against the populace at large that they're pushing in the schools? Don't have friends or family that live in that part of the world who lived through it? Well that's okay. Stalin was a mass murderer, like many communist and socialist dictatorships he set the tone for all the other countries that followed that same ideology. However, what's happening these days isn't any different from fascist groups who whitewash their favorite fascist leader.

In Ontario, where we have something similar to "Common Core" already in place. They pretty much gutted classical literature about the time I graduated from highschool in the mid-90's. If I walk down to my local highschool and ask them what they're teaching in terms of literature, you'll find insane things like "Twilight" and "Harry Potter." And I wish I was bloody well joking.

People who live in places under a similar system already know the writing on the walls with this, you can believe it or ignore it at your own peril. But don't say we didn't tell you.

That's because the marketing dept., hasn't figured out how to spin it as the next new hot thing. Like round corners.

Half a billion dollars has been stolen. Where's the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department? This is their job. It's embarassing that they haven't made any arrests.

Well now you're just being a jerk about it.

Earth shattering commentary from the obamacare crowd. Apparently the truth hurts so much, that the only thing left is insults. How's that "new tone" working out for you guys anyway?

Harry Reid is that you?

Obama shill or just ignorant, can't figure it out. Even those of us up here in Canadaland can't quite decide if Americans were insane, or just stupid to let the entire ACA go forward. Well whatever guys, feel free to get fucked over a barrel. Or smarten up and switch it to a state(aka province) run system like we have up here. One of my friends who I used to visit in Indianapolis moved to Alaska, 8ish years ago. His families premium would be $2700/mo+15k deductible. That was from the $210/mo with $1200 deductible. And the same for both of his sisters and their families in varying degrees. And I probably shouldn't mention that his one sister had her hours cut to 30h/weekly from 60h/weekly because that's how the employer decided to cut back on expenses.

Hey I know, maybe you can hook up with Harry Reid and scream at the top of your lungs that this is all fake too.

I didn't say they would. But you asked "how many replacement nuclear plants will be built for just $50 billion?" and I did some research and answered your question. Four. I believe a thank-you is in order.

So the only person lying is you. Living in a region with "heavy use" of green power(ontario), I'll now see my electricity rates peak at nearly 18c/kwh. In turn, becoming the most expensive place in north america, this is of course echoing germany where solar panels are also heavily in use along with "green energy" and many people pay between 20-40c/kwh. It's always good to start looking at why "FiT" is screwing everyone over.

Don't worry, if during your insults you get a dose of reality. After all, we wouldn't want to hurt that belief you're clinging to.

Rewnewable power as it stands right now, is driving the price up on electricity so fast, people are now making the choice between that and food. If you want to help the world, push for nuclear power. While pushing for other technologies that would allow directed microwave energy from space.

This has nothing to do with applying banking regulations to Mt Gox. It is about applying laws about fraud and theft. The difference is that regulations put a burden on innocent and guilty alike but potentially prevent problems before they occur, whereas laws simply attempt to punish the guilty and compensate the victims after the fact. If people do in fact recover any money as a result of this, it won't be particularly ironic since libertarians fully support laws on fraud, just not banking regulations, and complete federal control of currency.

Read the whole article. It's quite good.

It's not "youth" that's the problem. It's banality. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher, Facebook. Most of the "app" companies are not "tech" companies. They're fad publishers. The technology for doing routine web apps and phone apps is pretty much standardized now.

The engineering that goes into phone hardware is just awe-inspiring. Electronic design today is brutal. You barely get to use any power, the budget for each function is tiny, the size has to be very small, you have to operate multiple radios without interference right next to each other, and there's a new product to get out every six months. Most of that engineering is not done in the US. That's a big concern. The US probably doesn't have the technology to build a cell phone any more.

It's not as bad as the first dot-com boom. This time, there's usually revenue. Income, even. Even Twitter claims to be profitable (although they're not, really. Look at the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles results, not the ones excluding "one-time expenses".)

What we've learned so far from Bitcoin:

• The distributed, eventually-consistent blockchain anchored by mining works and is quite robust against attack. Nobody has yet successfully attacked the basic Bitcoin system and stolen money. So the low level technology appears to be secure.
• Irrevocable, remote, anonymous transactions are the con man's dream. Especially when they're assocated with a whole community of suckers who think anonymous anarchy is a good idea. The scam level in the Bitcoin world is huge. Over half the exchanges have gone under, and that was before Mt. Gox. Bitcoin-oriented "stocks" and "Ponzis" have an even worse record.
• Personal computers are not secure enough to store money. "Bitcoin wallet stealers" are a major problem. Many "online wallet" services turned out to be scams. Storing Bitcoins safely while still being able to use them is quite hard.
• Volatility is far too high for Bitcoin to be a useful currency. Since last October, Bitcoin has gone from $100/BTC to $1100/BTC to $600/BTC. Daily variation often exceeds 10%. The companies that accept Bitcoin for real products have to reprice every few minutes. Bitcoin behaves like a pink sheet stock. Too many speculators, not enough real customers.
• There are scaling problems. Currently, every user has to have a complete copy of the entire transaction journal back to the first Bitcoin, and has to keep up with all the transactions as they happen. The confirmation process has a 7 transaction per second limit. Confirmations take about half an hour before they can be trusted; longer during busy periods.
• "Mining" is more centralized than expected. The original idea was that "mining" would be a spare-time activity of each user's computer. In practice, "mining" is done in large data centers with custom water-cooled ASIC chips. Two mining pools control more than half of Bitcoin's mining capacity, and they have the power to set fees and change the rules.

That's a very good question. Linus's position on the Intel random number generator not needing additional enthropy indicates he can no longer be trusted.