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Submission + - Obama says 3% of GDP should fund science R&D

tritonman writes: Obama wants to set a goal that the US spend 3% of it's GDP on scientific research and development. "I believe it is not in our character, American character, to follow — but to lead. And it is time for us to lead once again. I am here today to set this goal: we will devote more than 3 percent of our GDP to research and development," Obama said in a speech at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.

Comment Re:Total Body Replacement? (Score 0) 83

don't count on any real technology soon. The problem is that the brain doesn't have a language. People learn things differently and certain neural connections mean one thing to one person and another thing to another person. Outside of the pretty much useless technology of detecting the amplitude of brain waves, there really won't be any really cool advances in this I think.

Comment Re:Funny but true.... (Score 0) 461

very true, also their comment about Microsoft undermining the unix businesses is not a very good one. With introducing an actual affordable solution for startup companies without having to search for and pay for unix gurus, this fueled a lot of startup companies that wouldn't have had the initial capital to get started. It also helped with small networks who were stuck in the world of novel networks which were also expensive to maintain.

Comment To be fair (Score 1) 332

Well, to be fair, you can do a google image search and find tons of vulgar images when it wasn't intended in your search, so it probably makes sense that someone wanting to filter all this from their kids would have it blocked and use MS's own search engine which they are responsible for.

Comment What we should really do (Score 0) 305

Come on people, we can survive without music for maybe 6 months. That should be long enough to bring them to their knees. If we stopped listening to radio and buying music online or in stores, this would stop all of their craziness when the radio stations go out of business because they were trying to bleed us dry.

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