MrExpatEgghead - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 569

by MrExpatEgghead on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:02AM (#45277385) Attached to: Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere?

I like the 'only nine'. Currently the US Navy could take on all the countries on the planet and destroy the entire non USA flagged merchant vessels and then sink, take, burn or destroy all their warships. I hope USians feel really safe queuing up in their local soup kitchens.

Comment Re:Huh, wut? WTF it's raining anyway.... (Score 1) 290

by MrExpatEgghead on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:48PM (#33852658) Attached to: Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water

Oooo! We had the same crap stuff here in the Middle East. All those unused oil tankers. Sure.... The next big thing was a pipeline. All politicos pipedreams

Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water 290

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 10, 2010 @11:40AM from the corn-in-odessa-stomach-in-paris dept.

theodp writes "Newsweek reports on a company called True Alaska Bottling that has purchased the rights to transfer 3 billion gallons of water a year from Sitka, Alaska's bountiful reserves. If all goes according to plan, 80 million gallons of Blue Lake water will soon be siphoned into the kind of tankers normally reserved for oil and shipped to a bulk bottling facility near Mumbai. From there it will be dispersed among several drought-plagued cities throughout the Middle East. Think of it as a proof of concept for turning life's most essential molecule into a global commodity." I'm sure the residents of Saratoga Springs and Perrier (not to mention the island nation of Fiji) can think of some prior art.

China's Response To the Internet Addiction Death 250

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 10, 2009 @09:55AM from the i'm-sure-everyone-will-get-a-fair-trial dept.

eldavojohn writes "Last week, news broke of a tragic incident that resulted in the death of a 16-year-old boy at one of China's internet addiction camps. Details were scarce except for reports that the camp remained open. New reports are now coming in from China Daily that report 13 arrested and the camp closed down on Friday with 122 participants being sent home. The vice-chief of the district has stated that the authorities are working on the case to identify and punish the criminals involved in the death. Xinhua is reporting that the camp was unlicensed. This is directly in conflict with what the Southern Metropolis Daily reporter is saying, 'When the reporter arrived outside the rear wall of the school, children on the third and fourth floors started to stick notes into aluminum cans, drink bottles, and slippers, and others folded notes into paper planes. They tried to throw them over the wall, but owing to the distance, none of them succeeded. Some children had papers bearing the messages "SOS" and "beating" which they waved out the windows. Some wrote calls for help on their clothing, which they displayed to the reporter. Some even yelled for help. They were all stopped by the instructors.' Here is that original story in Chinese. Is China handling this delicate issue appropriately or are the news reports of justice and monitoring treatments merely a facade?"

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