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Comment Low hanging fruits are gone. (Score 1) 474

IMHO as a statistician, I can assure you, that as the knowledge expands it is easiet to see the big picture. The problem is tha all low hanging fruits are gone and new discoveries are not cheap and easy now. Most of current progress is made because new machines/methods/reagents allow to do experiments that were beyond any budget in the past. I believe that most research will move to Asia, becouse big corporations kills american science. For example: Illumina sells sequencing reagents to China 10x (ten times) cheaper than to customers in the USA.

Comment German MINIVAN: 50 MPG (not sold in the USA) (Score 2) 891

Why everyone can buy 7-passenger Minivans such as Volkswagen Touran with 50MPG, but such cars are forbidden here in fuck#n California. In the USA you can only get minivans with terrible gas mileage (~20MPG).

Annual cost:
50MPG = $990
21MPG = $2,357

Here is info about this minivan that is banned in the USA:
http://www.car-emissions.com/cars/model/volkswagen/touran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Touran
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/touran-gp-ii/which-model/compare/interior?p=2
http://www.green.autoblog.com/2010/04/12/volkswagen-intros-updated-touran-minivan-51-1-mpg-with-bluemoti/

Moreover, CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicles are insanely expensive because thise politician-corporate chimera caused every CNG part insanely expensive! For example home refueling station (tiny box that allow to refuel CNG car at home) costs about $7000 (seven thousend). Now you understand how this bust#rds make american to be slave by poitician-corporate mafia.

Comment They started to climb-up to the top decades ago. (Score 0) 645

It is not like being a top star in sports or show business. Entrepreneurship is based on trust and it takes decades or even generations to be trusted by others. It also takes a lot of effort to climb to the top, so people who were persistent for the last 20 years are at the top. I am a scientist, and I do not see black people around. I can not imagine doing anything else, but I "wasted" last 20 years working ~70 hours per week and my compensations for the first 15 years was below earnings of almost everyone I know.

Submission + - Internal Security Agency fights free speech (google.com)

PythonM writes: On Friday at 6AM local time, the Polish government's Internal Security Agency (ABW) searched premises and confiscated laptop of 25-years old man because his website parodied Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski [source: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rp.pl%2Fartykul%2F661531_ABW_wkracza__bo_serwis_parodiowal_prezydenta.html ]. The Civic Platform punish any criticism against its prime minister Tusk or its president Bronislaw Komorowski, who is particuraly well known for funny statements [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FlL8_awJDo ]. Recently the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in a letter to the polish Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration protested against the closure of stadiums because of the anti-government content on the banners. Will the ruling party (Civic Platform) close stadiums for Poles during Euro 2012 to silent anti-government criticism?

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