people who treat each other like shit : China Y / USA Y
all of who treat everyone who's not [LOCAL] like shit : China Y / USA Y
What a stupid culture : China Y / USA Y
great, your civilizatiion's four thousand years old : China Y / USA N
bury pottery armies : China Y / USA N
oppress your own people (and other people)? : China Y / USA N

|/flamebait
Ahem... Seems they beat you on Culture and artifacts. /flamebait

I roughly translate a good word from a french comic named Coluche :
"In the communist system man is a wolf for man. In the capitalist system it's the opposite"

just, democratic[...] government

Ok, I'll bite...
Just AND Democratic is nigh impossible. Masses have a tendency to create their own exclusion zone. We have a few centuries of classical greek and roman histories to illustrate the point of view of Democracy. More recently the USSR and other 'democratic' countries have shown how fast a democratic government can grow sour.

  Also we live in a Republic, and not a place where "every voice counts". It's too easy to manipulate the masses in a democratic system, as the Game Theory that would allow a democratic world is unapplicable, the conditions being that all participant are fully informed AND take the most logical decision to maximise gains.

Just AND Government is also quite difficult to define, except if you consider 'Just' as meaning that the laws are applied the same to everybody, which in itself is a nice intellectual consideration.

Please remember that we do not have the BEST system, just one of the less bad...

Now a perfect democratic system is the Tyranny. One vote, that of the tyrant. All the rest are equals.
But then it might not be your preferred system ?

"So as far as Israel being a threat... well, no, Israel isn't a threat. Not unless you think the idea of a radical theocracy armed with nuclear-tipped ICBMs is a potential threat."

There, corrected that for you ...

until you punch in the air as your team is close to scoring a goal and find yourselt automatically switched to the cooking channel...

Hello

Due to a personnal matter I recently relocated in Oymyakon, Sakha Republic, Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakon) and would like to offer my services as a programmer

Of my many qualities I would mention a strong, renewed passion for code quality and testing.

Some nights I shiver, alone, remembering that fatefull commit ...buro

Seems to improve that classic, yellow complexion somehow...

(/sarcasm_off... -- This indicator is a necessary precaution, mostly because of mods with atrophied sense of humor, and racists with an exarcebated one...)

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No.Comment.

Ah yes, maybe.

If you try... and it works... and you survive...
Please post 8p

And tell me why we don't already have Gigawatt, Flying batteries Overlords ?

Darn, lazy scientists !
1 / Read /., and not your gloosy, SCIENCE magazine
2 / SPEAK TO EACH OTHER, SU****RS !!!
3 / * ? *
4 / Profit

Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material 180
Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity 378
Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found 156
Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation 133
Superior Anode For Lithium-Ion Batteries Developed 77
Boosting Battery Storage With Seaweed 59
Polymer Gel Shows Promise For Smaller, Cheaper Batteries 108
Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created 91
Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% 182
MIT Develops Fast Charging Liquid Flow Batteries 135
Integrating Capacitors Into Car Frames 189

Nahh, what better fate than a .... MONSTER GARAGE DRAGSTER ....
(small cute chutes are even already included)

ah, yes, dibs on the toolbox with titanium cutting torch .... :p

To paraphrase a comment I read on this :

In the mining industry there is possibly two words for those rare metal deposit : ore, and dirt.

Ore is the state where you can collect it for less than the market price and make a benefit.

Dirt is the other one, aka 5 km deep underwater where the cost of recovering it TODAY would WAY exceed the possible ore value.

N.B. : IANADSM (I Am Not A Deep Sea Miner)

there was a huge problem wit the technology, every time you started running it looked like goddam 70s slow motion.
Also the noise was awful, sounded like an horrible little crescendo tune in a loop.

Too many defaults for the cost, we had to bin it 8p

You know reverse polish notation ?
This is the inverse finnish version 8p