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Comment private (Score 1) 99

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) 187

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) 187

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) 88

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. 

Comment low frontier (Score 2) 36

by noshellswill (#65782826) Attached to: The First New Subsea Habitat In 40 Years Is About To Launch
I have never understood the "high frontier" concept. Why spend trillions going to Mar ( which hates us and makes astroboiz eat toothpaste  ) ...  instead of spending millions  at off-shore Hawaii where every lunch is lobster or maimai .  And snorkling 1st class. We don't even talk of  sufacing into  sunny afternoons spent surfing, instead of hiding in a  gawdforsaken  ( -80 F ) cave while dust-storms rage just feet away. And does kevlar/teflon astro-sheik compare to  palm-frond hula-babe dancing ? What's the perv against our low frontier with all the untapped minerals 1000 generations of humans would crave ?   I just don't understand current priorities.

Comment Re:Dark energy discovered 27 years ago?? (Score 1) 90

by noshellswill (#65777748) Attached to: Universe Expansion May Be Slowing, Not Accelerating, Study Suggests
Space itself ... if a self exists ... but if it doesn't exist how can you bend it? .  The "aether" assumption was well motivated. Maxwell believed it, Lorentz believed it. I suspect the  Aharanov/Bohm effect implies it. How to get-around the Michaelson/Morley result I have no idea. 

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