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Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 122

Big taxpayer bailouts of the domestic automakers as recently as 2008. Even before Chinese EV's the US vehicles are less desirable for most Americans vs Japanese or German luxury cars. Outside of V8 pickups what do they offer, does a FORD made in Mexico really count as an American car at this point. I'd rather drive a Tundra made in Texas or a X5 made in South Carolina. Until the US automakers kill NADA laws preventing direct sales they are always going to have legacy dealerships no one loves marking up their products. Every single time a US maker creates a vehicle I actualy want, when I go to the dealership they want ridiculous markups. I see a base $60k C8 on paper but I go to the dealer and its more like $80k that's happened when I tried to by a C5 and then again a C8. OK Raptor actually something I want, nope sorry ADM on top of the sticker. I gave up trying to buy the actual good cars US manufacturers make, for appliance cars why would I choose American.

Comment Restart So Cal San Onofre Nuclear Generating next (Score 5, Interesting) 275

by toy4two (#64206112) Attached to: Biden To Offer $1.5 Billion Loan To Restart Michigan Nuclear Power Plant
Why hasn't Caliofrnia's leadership asked the Biden administration for money to restart Southern Califonia's nuclear plant at San Onofre? If not restarting breaking ground on a replacement next to it. We had clean, safe, amoritized energy for Southern California for decades and then the power company installed leaking steam generator pipes. They decided it was better to be in the transmission business (PROFIT) than generation. As a shareholder in the company I'm happy for my ever increasing returns, as a consumer of their energy rates have gone from .13 Kwh to .33 Kwh. Sure, some of that is rate payers funding wildfire lawsuits payouts the shareholders don't want to pay, but quite a bit of that is due to shutting down the plant. I'd rather know where my pollution is then breathe it in with all the new gas peaker plants we had to build recently.
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Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain 270

Posted by samzenpus from the friends-and-really-good-friends dept.
ectotherm writes "According to Professor Peter Kelly, a director of Public Health in Great Britain: 'There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected.' Why the increase? People meeting up for casual sex through Facebook. According to the article, 'Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms.'"
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Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste 344

Posted by Soulskill from the but-where-will-we-get-our-superheroes dept.
separsons writes "A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes. They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste: Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor. The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent!"
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Google's New Approach For China Is To Serve From Hong Kong 295

Posted by Soulskill from the gauntlet-thrown dept.
abs0lutz3ro writes with a major update to the Google/China situation we've been discussing so much lately: "Google has stopped censoring simplified Chinese search results on google.cn by redirecting users to google.com.hk, which Google maintains is entirely legal. From the official blog: 'We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement. We believe this new approach of providing uncensored search in simplified Chinese from Google.com.hk is a sensible solution to the challenges we've faced—it's entirely legal and will meaningfully increase access to information for people in China. We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services. We will therefore be carefully monitoring access issues, and have created this new web page, which we will update regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services are available in China.' Seems like google.cn got served (from google.com.hk)."
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Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal 258

Posted by timothy from the so-be-sure-to-stop-in-late-june dept.
marklyon writes "HB 872, recently signed into law by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, makes Caller ID spoofing illegal. The law covers alterations to the caller's name, telephone number, or name and telephone number that is shown to a recipient of a call or otherwise presented to the network. The law applies to PSTN, wireless and VoIP calls. Penalties for each violation can be up to $1,000 and one year in jail. Blocking of caller identification information is still permitted."
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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 194

Posted by samzenpus from the good-riddance dept.
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."

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