You cannot really trust Warrior Skeletons to be truthful, they weren't that bright to begin with anyway. When I am clearing a dungeon I am much more likely to pay attention to what the Archer Skeletons say, I mean, they at least had to put in some training to their skill set.

So one of the beauties of a free market system is in how it deals with risk and liability. Governments try to address this through regulation and safety laws, but the market invented liability insurance to cover all the bad stuff that could happen from your business setting up shop. So whether you are a doctor, a lawyer, a coder or a mining company, you have to deal with a mix of regulations and insurance requirement to do business. But when your business has the very real risk of blowing da fuk up, poisoning the air land and water in all directions for generations, killing loads of people, and forcing parents to watch their kids die screaming from radiation poisoning due to iodine and cesium contamination, its kinda hard to get a free market actuary like Lloyds of London etc to sign on. Enter the Price-Anderson Act which poof! magically created an insurance scheme, erm "pool" run by the nuclear companies themselves, and HEAVILY subsidized by guess who? All us fucking socialist tax payers! Its a pretty sweet deal, the NRC comes up with some low ball ball dollar values to "blowing da fuk up, poisoning the air land and water in all directions for generations, killing loads of people, and forcing parents to watch their kids die screaming from radiation poisoning due to iodine and cesium contamination" then multiplies that by its own infinitesimally small number of probability that anything will EVER go wrong (Chernobyl, Fukishima? Never heard of 'em) >"One of the probability figures on the staff table of results (the chance of a cancer fatality within 10 miles of the plant) for a particular configuration is presented as 2 trillionths per year (2×10-12). Or, to put it another way, if a plant kept operating forever in that configuration, the accident might happen about once in 500 billion years. That’s once in 30 lifetimes of the universe." and whoopso presto we have a liability number! And again, that bill is picked up by all us socialists paying taxes. Small problem. Fukishima not only did happen, its still is. To the tune of $750B and climbing. The US has around two dozen such reactors, all over 40 years old, now I'm no mathematician but two dozen times $750B is a Big Fukin Number. On that this magical insurance "pool" comes nowhere near being able to cover. So the numbers not only don't make sense, they REALLY don't make sense, esp to the vendors: >"...the vendors continue to maintain their insistence on freedom from liability for offsite consequences." If you accept the NRC accident estimates, the risk the vendors would run without an exemption from liability would be very small, and likely a lot smaller than other corporate risks they routinely run. What is clear is that the nuclear firms—the largest of which possess an understanding of nuclear safety far beyond that of the public—do not believe the NRC safety conclusions that the risk of a catastrophic nuclear accident is infinitesmal. Nor do they accept that probable risk—probability of an accident times the consequences, were one to occur—as the right measure of risk to their companies. They don’t want to risk their companies, period." So its the same old same old: vendors make a Killing off of those sweet government funded cost+ contracts to build this crap and do a piss poor job of maintaining, securing and running (not to mention what to do with the waste, shhhhh!) and they shunt all the risk off onto this highly subsidized insurance scam, erm pool, that won't even come close to covering the cost of an accident WHEN it happens. Privatize profits, socialize risk. Its the Republican Way. Yeah yeah they bribed some Dems too, but when you are looking to avoid accountability and make working people pay and take all the risk, you call a Republican. And this is why they are pushing Nuclear so hard, and if this particular cylinder falls over, who picks up the bill? https://thebulletin.org/2020/0...

High School through first couple of years in undergrad.

I prefer rm -fr / because then in my mind I can blame it on the French.

The only solution is to send researchers there and see if their dead girlfriends start showing up.

What's lacking, is not tech or economics. Alternatives such as Biobutanol can be used as a direct substitute for gasoline with minimal to no alteration on current vehicles, and they pack about 90% ~ 95% of the energy density as gasoline. If we took the $30-50billion we spend EVERY YEAR on subsidizing outlandishly profitable Oil companies like Exxon, and put even a fraction of that money towards developing Industrial scale economically viable biobutanol, biodiesel distilleries/refineries which could run off of agricultural waste, and other non food renewable resources. We could cut our fossil fuel use, cut pollution (biobutanol burns cleaner), and have a readily available bridge source of energy to power our transportation network until other, cleaner tech come on line. We can do this now, hell we could have done it a decade ago. But as long as politicians of both parties are bought off by the Energy Oligarchs, public funds will continue to subsidize fossil fuels instead of cheaper less destructive technologies.

I work quite a bit with the YouTube (Gdata) API and have also worked with many Open Source platforms as well. With Open source I am limited pretty much only by my ability in terms of finding out how things work and where the "hooks" are to get the most out of the system. With an Open API such as Gdata I am at the mercy of Google's developers as to what they wish to expose. I can make a request, but good luck with getting it fulfilled if it doesn't fit with their business model.

Maybe apple is trying to introduce its new cuneiform based programming language to the Canadians first!

If ebooks can penetrate the K-12 market and lower costs significantly, then much power will be taken out of the Texas Board of Education's hands. School districts around the nation could decide for themselves if they wanted to teach that humans played with dinosaurs 5000 years ago, and not be forced to buy text books that spout such nonsense because Texas is the largest market and gets to set curriculum.

Unless your organic farm is hermetically sealed, chances are getting greater and greater that you'll be close enough to a GMO farm to cross pollinate, whether by wind or rapidly diminishing bee population. Monsanto, BASF and their ilk have already won, lets just hope that we got the non sterile seed time capsules fully stocked in preparation for the imminent food collapse.

I don't walk around with my SSN printed on a tshirt, neither do I post stuff on facebook that I don't want everyone to see or expect to be brought up in a job interview etc. Facebook is a cool way to connect with friends I haven't seen for awhile, shake my tiny fist on soapbox issues, and stay in touch with people in a more public and interesting way than email. I, like 99.56% of everyone else, have never read their privacy policy because I have zero expectation of anything I share on FB EVER being kept private. If I need privacy, I have encrypted email, which will keep the majority of noses away from my private communiques. If someone hacks my online banking account, the bank will reimburse me as long as I take timely and reasonable steps to let them know. Paranoia about personal data is useless, the banks already know every place you have ever lived, every bill you have ever been late on, neither should you be careless about giving out personal data on ANY public forum, whether FB or your tshirt. FB may be greedy capitalists willing to sell your personal info to the highest bidder, but once you know that responsibility is yours for protecting yourself.

Hopefully they can get started on the Gobstopper next.

The face of Napoleon keeps changing, but the Seven Commandments, in the form of the Patriot Act, stay pretty much the same. One problem the current Napoleon is going to have is he is too effective at killing off his Snowballs. The trick is to keep them alive, at least in the populaces minds, so that there is always justification for disregarding the Fourth Amendment. I wish Ron Wyden luck in his fight, especially against Section 201 and 225 of Title II of the "Patriot Act", the low bar of pretty much doing what you want without warrant in the name of Terrorism, as set out by Section 201, is rendered almost completely moot by Section 225 where the FBI is immune from FISA oversight anyway.

"Damn these Glasses" "Ok, I damn thee!"

Dude. Who do you think we'll be fighting?