So I get a bit what he's saying, though I don't completely agree with him. If you read the whole article, it does - quite emphatically - say that ICS is great. I think where he (and I, to some extent) felt like it was negative was in the "cold" metaphor.

It was a joke.

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Oh, man, poor AMD. Hey, guys, we have a 16-core chip!

Did you notice he didn't say a word about the environment? He said the trade deficit. Now I'm with you, Li+ batteries are TERRIBLE on the environment, plus (assuming we don't revamp our electrical grid any time soon - a good assumption) we'd still have to charge them using our coal backbone. But his point about the…

The Columbia with the little reflective dots?

No. Because mother nature didn't create the highly radioactive steam that is spreading throughout the world thanks to Fukushima's disaster. We did.

So that article doesn't really say what creates the problems they speak of. It just says they exist. Nor can I find the actual NRPA report anywhere. Do you have a link to something that actually says what the problems are, rather than simple allusion to them?

No, that's like saying that hydro-electric is bad if an earthquake were to crumble a dam AND contaminate it with radioactive material, thereby creating an uninhabitable zone for quite a long time.

This really caught my interest, so I've been reading up on it. From what the Thorium Energy Alliance says, the U-233 is mixed with U-232 and is not easily separated from it, so it is not a nuclear proliferation risk. Doing a quick bit of research, here's the argument against Thorium as being safe from proliferation: [w…

Anyone else think that sounded just a smidge too much like AT&T's response to the lawsuit to block them from acquiring T-Mobile?

I'm not sure whether or not to believe your evidence, but I believe the assertion. iSuppli seems to get its information based off the component costs they can find in the market, and then try and guess at what the bulk discount the company is getting. That works for companies that work in small bulk, because the bulk…

Yes. But did you notice step 2 includes what is called a theory? Which was my point of posting that. P'raps I should have bolded it or something. Now that I look again, it doesn't quite pop like it should have. My bad.

A hypothesis is used to test a theory. It goes like this:

That's the one! Stupid angle...

This reminds me of what we used to call "The MySpace Angle" or simply "The Angle." It was that odd high tilted angle that every single god damned girl on MySpace used that made it so you couldn't tell if they were attractive or not. This was most frustrating to high school me.

You can't get TOO mad at him. After all the abuse George Lucas himself dealt to Star Wars, maybe some people think they're supposed to fuck it up.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck that.

One time I posted a comment promoting the idea of driverless cars on Jalopnik, and the commenters took me to town. Apparently they think that it's an evil idea because they're driving enthusiasts.

Ah, now I understand. I don't think it's something that's a problem. Or at least, I've never heard of someone with brown eyes being less prone to UV radiation damage than someone with blue eyes.