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... it is a good side of having only 300000 of population. My observations convinced me that there can be no democracy with population bigger than 50E6 people.

I am talking about _computer_ scientists. Take biochemists for example. Or biologists.

Never been in India, but seem to be true to whole world.

What about scientists? - they are not the richest category of population (< 75k a person; usually 40-50k), but I am sure they use Internet a lot more often than let's say businessmen.

USA population is concerned about privacy much less than let's say European population. No wonder they do not see this a serious issue. I personally firmly believe - no privacy => no freedom.

TSA is great illustration for what American Democracy really is.

When I read "because USA is democratic", "large infrastructure" (yeah, that does not function anymore) I wanted to weep. This article seems to be very, very biased. Yes, perhaps you do need Chinese high speed rail, it does not mean that you do not need medium speed city/county light rails like NY has. If you look at congested I-5, I-95 or any other major interstate you'll see why - hundreds of cars moving 20m/h, burning enormous of fuel, producing tons of co2. Even riding a bus, a diesel thingy without regenerative braking gives you fuel efficiency ~100 mpg per person (if it has only 15 passengers). To have parity with a car (25 mpg) it is enough to have _only 4_ passenger on board. If you make a good working electric light rail system, it will be way, way more efficient than cars.

Airplanes can be efficient in fact, but in case of full load, but there is a MAJOR problem with planes - it is hassle, intrusive TSA and generally horrible service.

Also oil prices keep going up...

In USA? Well you ca change the outcome, but you can not change the outcome of outcome, it will be very similar, for both Democratic Wing and Republican Wing of the Corporate Party.

depends on who is lobbying better.

Apple might acquire BoA. Apple might acquire Chrysler. Apple might acquire Coca-Cola.

and so on.

Oh, how come? You are serious? We did not know that.

Sarcastically, of course.

It depends what you use Wikipedia for. As a source for political info it might be good or bad but you cannot rely on single source for this kind of information anyway. Math/physics articles are pretty decent, however.

Because it is poorly regulated.

That was not "not enough voltage", that was not enough current.

Even if they miss 1000000 centenarians it would not significantly change life expectancy - their population is big.

Iceland has second longest life expectancy but rather different food and lifestyle: http://www.iceland.is/history-and-culture/Traditions/Iceland...

USA the country who invented Internet, and the one to lose it first. How sad.

USA is rapidly deindustrializing and there is no necessity in damn science kits for kids. Kids must know what is credit card, lawyer, insurance and mortgage. And what is barista and security guard.

Americans. Do not invent new measures. Look what Europe (or even Australia and UK) does and just follow the wise. Instead of excessive tests for science kits it better if you ban unsafe components (such as azodicarbonamide and trans fats) from bread, ban corn syrup, stop importing apple juice from China, or some other, REAL things.

And, on the other hand bacteria from Intoxicated Miner's Spit can be carcinogenic.

IMHO whole title is kind of psychopatic - Right Kind of Ambition. Why in the hell anybody would tell me which ambition is right or wrong?

I think little imagination can help you.

Why work in corporation? Well, because 1) it is easier to find a job this way; 2) it is a good place to get experience.

I work for a corporation - for me it is easier, for now. I do not share any goals with the corporation at all. My goal is simple - to collect money (to drain the corporate cash), it is kind of opposite to the corporation's. Yet, my other goal is to maintain my integrity, so I am going to contribute as much as I think is justified.

You can work for yourself, even if you in somebody else's building.

I would argue (as a person who dislike hierarchies), that healthy, grown up person should care only about his very own goals, when working for a company. I am not saying that the goals should not be aligned with corporate ones, yet to care too much about goals of something amorphous, necessarily unstable system like a corp - well it may hurt one's identity, bring a false sense of excessive importance of corporate issues and, brutalize the person by making him/her overcommited to corp and ignoring of needs of people below.

Corporation is a fiction, only individual matters.

Yes, but take-out of the same quality as home cooking would cost waaaay beyond 50$ per person.

What a disgusting propaganda of corporate communism. A person, that is completely lacking sense of his/her own achievements is either liar or stupid or some kind of manipulator. It does not mean that narcissists are the best people, but the other extreme is not good either.

This is called Sonification. Have very old history, starting from listening to RF noise produced by logical elements switching from 1->0 or 0->1. I used this technique before when debugged software for Atmel AVR. Put your PCB inside the AM antenna of the receiver and you can hear (and guess) what is happening inside.

Amen.

Agree. Right solution would be something akin to BootMagic, which stores the code in a separate small partition. Or, as a half-measure the can use code compression (LZ77 or similar).

No, that was no Commodore. This a real new Commodore 64, daymit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV

Wind wire around yourself and get into MRI scanner's magnet.