Adam503

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by Adam503 17y ago
Nobody is going to take the time to go through a complex credit card transaction in order to pay a dime or a quarter to read a newspaper. If the transaction is anything easier than a credit card transaction to process, it's not gonna be sec
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by Adam503 17y ago
Cool. Now we can do an open source moon mission.
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by Adam503 17y ago
Please do. Few will pay, and the NYT will make itself even less prestigious.
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by Adam503 17y ago
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan was having a hrd time reaching the many very young players on his roster (NBA's 2nd youngest) on a regular basis until an experiment with trying to text his players got back almost instantaneo
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by Adam503 17y ago
Maybe, but Google took some of their profits and invested in open source projects like Wave. Microsoft took the money they made and spent it on Vista and 7.
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by Adam503 17y ago
Agreed. Golson does a faceplant on the definition of the word "arrogance." Usually I can piece together what word they were trying to use . Not this time.
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by Adam503 17y ago
Apparently, that doesn't include the daydreaming one might be doing while teaching is going on though.
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by Adam503 17y ago
Because when a crisis strikes, it's the bankers and derivative traders we really need to here from. Now, you scientists, you need to go out and do something useful. Go shopping.
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by Adam503 17y ago
And you're going to tell us that there is no need to store materials that are going to be reprocessed because they will always exit initial processing in exactly the amount needed for the next reprocessing step "recipe." There will also nev
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by Adam503 17y ago
Hanford was reprocessing nuclear materials, what the author of the article was advocating in his article. The horrible mess at Hanford is EXACTLY the kind of mess when you operate reprocessing reactors.
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by Adam503 17y ago
That's incorrect. "Accidents are very strictly defined, and none have happened in the history of the US Navy..." ...according to what isn't classified as a state secret. We have no idea whether or not the US Gov't has classified 0, 1, or ma
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by Adam503 17y ago
Nonsense. Let me introduce you to the town I was born in. Richland WA. "...A huge volume of water from the Columbia River was required to dissipate the heat produced by Hanford's nuclear reactors. From 1944 to 1971, pump systems drew coolin
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by Adam503 17y ago
Tell us all how anti-nuclear activists caused Chernobyl. Ohhh... they didn't. "Nuclear submarine leaked radioactive waste into British waters, secret report reveals The Royal Navy's main nuclear submarine base has repeatedly leaked radioact
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by Adam503 17y ago
Nonsense. "Nuclear submarine leaked radioactive waste into British waters, secret report reveals By Matthew Hickley Last updated at 12:24 AM on 28th April 2009 The Royal Navy's main nuclear submarine base has repeatedly leaked radioactive w
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by Adam503 17y ago
This guy was working for UBS. The same UBS that hired Phil Gramm as their Vice Chair. This wasn't some multi-national corporation stuck with working with Phil Gramm in order to make a killing in some scheme. UBS went out and actively sought
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by Adam503 17y ago
Under the system in place since the Glass Steagall Act of 1933, traders and bankers were supposed to be entirely different beasts. The Gramm Leach Bliley Act of 1999 repealed a big chunk of the Glass Steagall Act, commercial and investment
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by Adam503 17y ago
You aren't a skeptic. You have already made a decision that this palladium/deuterium nuclear effect is invalid. Since you've made that decision without looking at the most current data, that means your decision is based on nothing but your
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by Adam503 17y ago
You were pretty casual in your dismissal of a scientist the American Physical Society recommended as an impartial judge. Do you even have the faintest clue what organization's judgment you have so casually dismissed? You better go look. ht
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by Adam503 17y ago
60 Minutes went to the American Physical Society to provide an impartial scientist to 60 Minutes to go out to one of the labs where the work was being done and do a hands on review of the work being done. That scientist went to that lab, lo
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by Adam503 17y ago
Clearly you didn't even bother to watch the clip. The American Physical Society IS the ultimate authority this topic. 60 Minutes went to the American Physical Society to provide an impartial scientist to 60 Minutes to essentially go out to
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by Adam503 17y ago
There's some really incredible things people say "a friend of theirs saw." Here's a regularly updated page with 25 of those things people swear their friends were eyewitness to... http://www.snopes.com/info/top25uls.asp
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by Adam503 17y ago
The US standard for poverty is roughly $10,500 a year. Palo Alto's median income more than 5 times the US poverty standard. Go find me a place IN Palo Alto someone whose income is $10,500 a year can pay what the US Fed. Gov't standard for w
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by Adam503 17y ago
There's official US. Gov't standards for these types of things, you know. I use the same terminology and standards the US. Gov't does. http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/threshld/thresh07.htm... If someone insists on trying to communi
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by Adam503 17y ago
You think there's poor people in Pala Alto, CA, huh? Wikipedia has per capita income in Palo Alto, CA as $56,257. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_locations_by_per_cap...
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by Adam503 17y ago
Those are lower middle class people buying those services. The poor would be choosing between their cellphones and shelter. Am not saying there are no people that choose to be homelessness and keep their cellphone, but there aren't very man
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by Adam503 17y ago
Bruce Sterling "Poor folk love their cellphones." "Poor folk" don't have cellphones. They can't afford them.
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by Adam503 18y ago
Looks like throwing bill collectors and lawyers at people that don't owe money, or fully paid their bills is the big growth industry right now. Between this report, and all the reports I've seen of AFNI try to collect (and harrassing if the
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by Adam503 18y ago
The combination of Fox "News" the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. left 85% of Americans believing Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 at the time the Congress was voting on whether to invade Iraq. That was, of cours
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by Adam503 18y ago
"letting the market figure it out" is unregulated capitalism. Unregulated capitalism is exactly the extremist economic policy nonsense that created the mess we are in. When Bush eliminated most of the regulation on the financial services in
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by Adam503 18y ago
The "magic" of unregulated capitalism brought us Fox "News" and the economic collapse we are currently experiencing. Unregulated capitalism is an extremist form of economic system. There are no answers to be found in extremism. The answers

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