The problem with natural power is that it's low yield and relative expensive. You can't serve a country's power requirement unless you're willing to blanket the land with windmills or solar panels.
Nuclear has different problems: proliferation (ironically the countries whining the loudest are the same with the most nuclear weapons), cost of fuel, which is relatively rare and needs further processing, waste disposal, accidents are more dangerous because of the radiation.
Thorium would be a step up in nuclear fuels. Unfortunately we have legacy players here too (processing uranium and handling waste is apparently profitable business) and ones who would lose influence and $$ if cheap electricity replaced oil, coal and gas.
This whole concept of agencies collecting all kind of ridiculous fees on the assumption that "it knows how to distribute it fairly" seems laughable to me.
Even if they'd be trustful (don't laugh!) distribution must go through a bunch of sketchy speculations on what owned to whom.
Let the artists monetize themselves what they can, and leave alone what they can't. My guess is they would be better off anyway.
No trumped up levies on everything remotely connected to transmitting art, thank you..
You still waging a (not so cold) War on Everything. Of all the nations of earth, only the USA spend still as much money on it's military as in the cold war. Go figure.
I don't think AQ gives a flying fuck about snowden.
They're laughing their ass off, sitting back and enjoying a beer (or the middle east equivalent) and watching as the western governments do their job at terrorizing their own people.
This is a serious fallacy, as you have an infinite supply of digital goods with minimal additional cost (bandwidth ?).
That's why the "lower cost, higher volume" model works so greatly.
"devaluing the books" - what a crap. What value are we talking about?
Price? Surely it dropped, but why is that matter when the profit still rise? (also, I don't agree that paying more for something somehow create greater "value". That maybe works for the fashion industry, but not books)
Intellectual Value? And how is that anyhow related to the price of the book? A free and good book is still valuable, while an expensive crap book is still crap.
M$ and the gray fruit bought the patents, promising not to use it to litigate, but license it. They circumvented this condition by passing the patents to a shell company.
It'd be interesting to see what the courts have to say about this.
Also: Fuck patents already. No productive and innovative company needs them to innovate.
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Nuclear has different problems: proliferation (ironically the countries whining the loudest are the same with the most nuclear weapons), cost of fuel, which is relatively rare and needs further processing, waste disposal, accidents are more dangerous because of the radiation.
Thorium would be a step up in nuclear fuels. Unfortunately we have legacy players here too (processing uranium and handling waste is apparently profitable business) and ones who would lose influence and $$ if cheap electricity replaced oil, coal and gas.
The result is fearmongering and much handwaving.
On the post: Online Retailer Says If You Give It A Negative Review It Can Fine You $3,500
Re: Re: The stupid, it burns!
His "wife" is not bound by terms of sale since she didn't bought anything.
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Even if they'd be trustful (don't laugh!) distribution must go through a bunch of sketchy speculations on what owned to whom.
Let the artists monetize themselves what they can, and leave alone what they can't. My guess is they would be better off anyway.
No trumped up levies on everything remotely connected to transmitting art, thank you..
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Of all the nations of earth, only the USA spend still as much money on it's military as in the cold war. Go figure.
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This is actually good
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On the post: You'd Think NSA Employees Would Know Better Than To Hand Out Their Passwords, But Many Gave Them To Snowden
Re: My suggestion
Let me propose a counter-offer:
Lock the above mentioned persons in a work camp for lifetime, to pay back the tax money they wasted on these programs.
Dismantle the NSA, CIA and a few other shady agencies, and use the money for really useful things, like paying back the trillions $ debt the USA in.
Use the NSA facilities to test orbital bombardment.
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How's living under the rock? Do you get obamacare?
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That should be considered an honor. An indication that you're doing fine.
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They're laughing their ass off, sitting back and enjoying a beer (or the middle east equivalent) and watching as the western governments do their job at terrorizing their own people.
Terrorists win.
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Re: Re: Re: This is restraint of trade, and "TOS" are not legally enforceable.
Drawbacks of his MPD.
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Canada
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So you admit the CIA is working with terrorist tactics?
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On the post: US Court Rules Again That Natural Phenomena Cannot Be Patented, Casting Further Doubt On Gene Patents
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If he has nothing to hide, he shouldn't be afraid, right?
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That's why the "lower cost, higher volume" model works so greatly.
"devaluing the books" - what a crap. What value are we talking about?
Price? Surely it dropped, but why is that matter when the profit still rise? (also, I don't agree that paying more for something somehow create greater "value". That maybe works for the fashion industry, but not books)
Intellectual Value? And how is that anyhow related to the price of the book? A free and good book is still valuable, while an expensive crap book is still crap.
...?
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On the post: Patent Troll Shell Company Owned By Microsoft And Apple Launches Massive Patent Attack On Android
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M$ and the gray fruit bought the patents, promising not to use it to litigate, but license it.
They circumvented this condition by passing the patents to a shell company.
It'd be interesting to see what the courts have to say about this.
Also: Fuck patents already. No productive and innovative company needs them to innovate.
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