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Comment Re:Surprising! (Score 1) 59

by noshellswill (#65795970) Attached to: Where Have All the TV Cameras Gone?
Yep I read it: It's advertisements all-the-way down.

"...1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to methods, systems and computer programs for adding content to streamed media, and more particularly, methods, systems and computer programs for embedding advertising within television programming. ..."

Comment Re: this is getting old (Score 1) 175

You are cherry-picking the  human effects of AGW;  one persons thorn is anothers blackberry. Areas like northern USA,  Canada and Russian Siberia are headed for a climate golden age.  Global food production should rise not fall. You DO know I imagine that African dessert regions are cyclic, and  "green" savannah will return as  earths precession changes independent of temps.  China and India do get hammered -- both have been long over-populated --  but the borderland region continues to elevate due to plate movement; so each will get a bit more high-forest regions.  Leave Australia to the death-adders & crocs. Also too bad about those pesky Polynesians; great opportunity for some massive earth-moving by resort owners and pearl farmers ; call  lawyers to make deals.

Comment nothi (Score -1) 175

Four degrees Fahrenheit is nothing . Florida is hot in the summer anyway, and oil-tankers love  ice-free  northern oceans. But, as solutions go  that's just the tip of the iceberg.  We have all those newly minted nuclear power plants to cool our buildings and even construct reverse green-houses for sugar maple & birch. Thank gawd we built 30 6-GWatt units starting in Y2K, because ...  oh wait ...

Comment private (Score 1) 161

by noshellswill (#65791082) Attached to: UC San Diego Reports 'Steep Decline' in Student Academic Preparation
Does that decline in college preparation also hold for students coming from private or Catholic schools ?  Does it hold for traditional  HOME-SCHOOLED kids. And does it also hold for people entering the "skilled" trades ? Are new writers from The Paris Review and The NewYorker less literate than previous generations. Question really is: has America stopped preparing it's able citizenry for intellectual challenge.  Of-course in previous eras  ---  if you didn't work smart, then  you didn't get laid and didn't eat.

Comment Re:There is no unmet demand in the US (Score -1, Troll) 206

by noshellswill (#65789462) Attached to: China's EV Market Is Imploding
Why should America finance our most aggressive and deadly existential enemy ?  Of every dollar whisked to a Chinese owned company 90-cents ends up in CCP weapons pointed at us. Very imprudent behavior. You are US ... aren't you ... or are you one of the rats-nest of Chi.com agents posting on slash-dot &  pimping-the-ride for CCP expansionist agendas ?

Comment YAAF (Score -1) 206

by noshellswill (#65789454) Attached to: China's EV Market Is Imploding
Yet another American folly. China does what ? "...Bloated by excessive investment, distorted by government intervention, and plagued by heavy losses ..." Can you believe China fell for it ?

First we tried to  teach Chinese religion, but they were too smart even for the Jesuits --- who conquered Japan. Then we tried to teach THEM politics, but we nothing better to offer than another warlord .  Then we tried to teach them modern science & medicine , but China loves rogue bats. Then we tried to teach them industrial finance ... and they said WOW --- 'let's get it on!' So they build  roads & bridges  ... & cars like  1960s  GM, but it's 2025 and ... GM and China automakers go broke.  You would think an 8,000 year old culture --  rich & corrupt when Euro-whites were running around in bear-skins --- would believe St Paul, not Rousseau or dear-Lord-almighty ... Greenspan ! 

Comment trillions (Score 2) 69

by noshellswill (#65788278) Attached to: AI's $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says
Trillions and trillions ... sounds like purposeful over-capitalization to me. Industry leaders want every aspect of American (world?) finance to have a dog in the hunt (for the money-bunny).   Actions too big to fail and too widespread to ignore. And if that rabbit turns into a wolf ... and eats the dogs ... well there's always government bail-out.

Comment Re:It'll never stop (Score 1) 19

by noshellswill (#65787916) Attached to: A Jailed Hacking Kingpin Reveals All About Cybercrime Gang
Well stated limitations on laws. One reason for having a king + senate, rather than a republic. The king can/will act beyond the laws, when the laws assuming good-will fail the common good. The king would "simply" have this  digital sociopath tracked-down and  shot dead.  ARCH-TYPE  Germanicus preferably, but otherwise  Aurelius/Augustus  not Nero/Caligula.

Comment Re:Claustrophobia (Score 1) 89

An orchard or garden might be 200 yds wide, but a "forest" ? Perhaps you grew up/live in a big city and have never trekked a high plains   forest , grouse-hunted a swale forest of low pine,  followed a stream thru a forest valley or skied a mountain forest run.  Arguably if you can see to the end of it, it's a park, not a forest.

Comment yet again (Score 0) 10

by noshellswill (#65787834) Attached to: UK Signs Scaled-Back Scientific Collaboration With China
Brits gave Russia the jet engine after WW2;  claiming ...' one fellow socialists gift  to another ...'  Now the Brits give  ( another jet engine / *.ai / cypher ? )  to kommi-con China; I guess one mongrelized faded empire  bows to  new blood . Does the sun ever set on a Chi.com empire that manufactures American bacon and is permitted to buy American property ?

Comment Re:It won't last. (Score -1, Troll) 40

by noshellswill (#65786610) Attached to: World's First Green Fuel Levy To Add Almost $32 To Air Fares
Tha'r she blows ! You make an amusing point. Whales are one of the last large pack-forming mammals yet to be domesticated. You would think with the millennia-long demand for lubricating/fuel oil some enclosed volume of ocean ( the Baltic ? ) would have been  cooperatively set-aside by surrounding nations and whale-farming practiced. Never happened AFAIK. Wonder why ? Mebby "krill"  is impossible to grow systematically.

Comment Re: Who cares? (Score 1) 51

Not so fast, mercantilist ! I can go out to the forest or beach  anytime I desire and gather a free lunch. Guess you are not much of an out-door person. Also, bread , beans and milk are SURPLUS products almost everywhere on earth --- production is higher than consumption --- so why does their cost inflate with available dollars ? Items in scarcity ... like caviar , 15 Y/O scotch,  GPUs or silk shirts ...  of-course   price differently. 

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