mick_m

From his linked-in profile: "... recently aquiring permanent residence from the German Bureau ..."

Things must be going really bad in America.

Complaints like this turn up ever so often, but I guess Paul is still bitter about losing the popularity contest back in high school (http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html) and now wants to create a popularity contest that's geared towards him winning from the get-go. Can't keep him from doing that, all we can do is ignore the mods.

A wholesale indictment of American capitalism, if I've ever seen one.

Both Bussard and his most likely competitor, Eric Lerner, have done presentations on Google Tech Talks, you can find them on Google video. Bussard died the other day unfortunately. Lerner's technology, Focus Fusion, seemed a more likely candidate anyway, in his talk he briefly mentions how much closer he is than Bussard to achieving fusion.

Hm, sounds like a whole lot stupid guys are throwing a popularity contest. Remind me not to apply for a job with carr's team.

> ... Takes an Open Mind

... or massive inflation.

No. of documents on climate change: 0

for a nice take on Lumpenprogrammmers read "Cube Farm" by Bill Blunden

Funny, the two most common labels I am hearing these days are not on the list: 'liberal' and 'conservative'. In political discussions a lot of ideas are suppressed - or at least verbally dismissed - using these labels.