Nope. Academia is set up to produce *lots* of competent scientists, mostly because grad students and postdocs are cheap, highly skilled labor. About 1% of those get a faculty job somewhere. Some others marry someone with a good enough job that they can entertain their academic habit as a research associate or equivalent. Most of the rest head off to industry, often doing things that are tangentially, or not at all related to their training. But quite a few try to become science popularizers, writing blogs, making YouTube videos, etc. Hire some of them as your science journalists.

So you're the idiot that named the Ford "Ka" ?

It's because the living dragons have a hydrogen flame, and the white walker dragon has a methane flame, obviously.

Suddenly a joke from the space race era gets new merits:

"What if the Russians get to the moon first?"
"They'll probably paint it red."
"So we have to hurry!"
"Relax. If they do, just send up a crew with loads of white paint and have them write "Coca Cola" across"

And? That's better worse than what? The most popular electric car in Europe is named Zoe. From the same company that brought you the Twizzy and the Twingo. A popular city car is called ForFour, and ForTwo depending on how many seats it has. That's to say nothing of American ingenuity naming their car "Ka". Hell some car companies openly mock themselves in their own ads like the quite popular Dacia Duster. In Germany they are running the advert: "What car does you father drive?" "Dass da!" (German for "this one"). "Which one?" "DUSTER".

Shitty names are par for the course for car companies.

The single best thing that can protect you from US cops is not living in the US.

A democracy without referenda, and without any cap on funding, which is not even transparent, is no real democracy.

Billboards are illegal in my state - outlawed back in the 1970's. How will these laws stand up against the out-law space region?

This is the ultimate in light pollution preventing astronomers from seeing the night sky. As a person with a small backyard telescope it might be interesting to view them. But for those multi-hour images I just hope these don't drift into my view. It'd be like that annoying mime at the park who keep trying to photo-bomb.

Great.. now im gonna have to figure out how to Ad-Block SPACE! (Pops open UBlock Origin Umbrella)

And they own Sting! Does that cover his work when he was still active with The Police?

Which brings us to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Microsoft was found by the USDoJ to have abused its effective monopoly position in the marketplace in essentially every way possible. Then Ashcroft (under Bush) declared that penalizing Microsoft would not be in the best interests of the nation. Then Bill put his money into his so-called charitable trust, where it can't be taxed, and it's much harder to take away. And there are a variety of ways to get the money back out as needed; there's more in there than he can spend, anyway.

So my question is, what deals did Billy G cut with TPTB behind the scenes? I have no suggestions as to what they might have been at this time, but I've been wondering about it ever since it happened. Was it simple palm-greasing, or are there greater plans afoot? I don't spend a lot of time speculating about it, I don't have a manifesto or anything, but the subject comes up frequently enough that I think it might be kind of important.

There is no such thing as socialism that works. It turns to shit and millions die. Call it whatever you want, but please remember that is how shit starts, with everyone dying eventually. So either way, you defense of so called socialism is not helping.

Look, I'm on my second Zoe since 2015, and I love it. It's a fantastic car. It demonstrates affordability in a way that the Model 3 doesn't. But this isn't a zero sum game: Tesla has obviously been hugely influential for the German car makers in particular. Yes, eGolf, but it's MEB that matters, and that was clearly more prodded along by Tesla than Renault. What Nissan/Renault did was change things in Europe, especially in creating some pull for public infrastructure and policy. I doubt we'd have the Kia et al without Nissan/Renault. And hopefully Zoe 2 will be a further significant shift along. What I'm saying is there's plenty of credit to go round, and I'm glad that both established carmakers like Renault and newbies like Tesla have dented this particular universe.

Why? Was their primary goal to drive heavy competition and development in renewables?

As someone who plays video games I'm often told that micro-transactions and DLC are needed to help feed the developers who make the games, where in reality those people get fired as soon as a project is finished. If game designers actually got paid based on the success of their product then they can better decide what makes a fun game instead of what profits the few on top. I'm sick and tired of the disconnect there is between the consumer and the designer.

When I read the first three words of that headline, I was shocked, until I read the rest.

This analogy might prove interesting to you.

Another system that is incredibly complex in terms of a lot of moving bodies is a liquid. One cubic centimetre of water (the size of a sugar cube?) will have on the order of 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 molecules in it, crashing into each other billions of times every second.

And yet single-molecule condensed phase spectroscopy has been a thing for at least 20 years: https://doi.org/10.1146/annure.... Heck, people can make movies of individual chemical reactions happening at the femtosecond timescale!

M.P. Minitti, J.M. Budarz, A. Kirrander, J.S. Robinson, D. Ratner, T.J. Lane, D. Zhu, J.M. Glownia, M. Kozina, H.T. Lemke, M. Sikorski, Y. Feng, S. Nelson, K. Saita, B. Stankus, T. Northey, J.B. Hastings, and P.M. Weber. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 255501 – Published 22 June 2015

I am not saying that M87 is similar to a box of water in terms of the challenges it presents. But I am saying that the combined amount of human knowledge surrounding some of these problems can make complex things doable.

Primaries don't matter.

If Republicans don't care about winning, then they will force a primary. Trump will run again if he wants to, and so will split the vote and let a Dem win. Republicans have to decide whether that is a better outcome for them.

That's one way to put it. Another way is that it's because of our personal experiences with a long history of abuse by Microsoft. Mozilla may be squandering millions of dollars in donations on things users don't want (e.g. Pocket) but lacking a dominant position in the marketplace, they're at least not spending the money making computing worse for other players, if only because they can't. Microsoft and Google both appear to be doing things which are harming Firefox, if not due to actual malice, then at least through negligence.

Microsoft was found in federal court to have abused its dominant market position (and effective monopoly) in basically every way possible, setting computing back possibly as much as ten years in the process. You can't simply dismiss that as "predisposed hatred", however technically accurate that phrase might be. Microsoft earned it.

It's not now, there have been signs all along. And Edge (And Aieeee! before it) can be part of the problem, and Chrome can be another part.

Seal level to rise to historic levels......in my model.

>Note all the idiots who keep repeating that Nazis were socialists, not because they learned this in a history book but because those are the talking points they're told to repeat. Nazi's were certainly more socialist in terms of economic policies than say, the Democratic or Republican Parties of 1933 were.

Heck, it's almost like you are trying to ignore the fact that NAZI is a contraction of National Socialist German Workers' Party.

Ah, man... they own Cheetos? That's it, boycott is over. They can cover up the big dipper with a giant Mt. Dew ad for all I care, I'm not giving those up.

Chair Face Chip-n-Dale!

Looks like the next black hole we are going to image is going to look like the pepsi swirl logo...