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I personally see little value in 8k displays under the size of an /entire wall/ of your house.
That being said, in 10 years, who knows, maybe we'll lay a flat, OLED sheet on a black painted wall and.... you know 240" TV?

As for the frame rate, for the /most part/ I see little value in high refresh displays, but there are uses. If this plus is 'open' (no license fee) and powerful, well so be it. The more performance the better.

That being said I did just discover this recenttly
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
Sigh.... standards? Can we just have fucking one, open, real goddamn powerful one and be done with it?

Were these rather generous photographs or partially obscured faces wearing hats in a crowd? Was the database of potential people in the billions? Identifying the subject of a selfie at your university might not be the most difficult task, but identifying everyone in an arbitrary crowd is going to be a lot more involved. The process could probably benefit from being able to map relationships to narrow partial matches down, hence Facebook.

Except cameras have barely altered crime rates at all. http://www.google.com.au/searc...

Just one of them is from a book on genetically modified fish

That is the only one that even comes close. Here is the quote from the book.

sterile or genetically modified fish are commonly incapable of producing viable offspring.

Genetically modified fish produce offspring but they are not viable. Since sterile fish produce no offspring the also produce no viable offspring. That is also not a formal definition.

Every reference to a formal definition equates sterility to the inability to produce offspring. How about this quote from the Concise Encyclopedia Biology;

Sterility, infertility: the partial or complete inability of an individual to produce functional gametes, and in a wider sense viable zygotes, under existing environmental conditions.

Since the mosquito offspring pass far beyond the zygote stage this definition does not apply.

If you can quote a formal definition I might believe you. Inferring from usage is not a formal definition.

Searches for "incapable of producing viable offspring sterile" show many results, and a number of them are straight definitions from biology books. Just one of them is from a book on genetically modified fish

Australian Holden cars from 1971-1978 had a low tech solution to the blind spot problem at the front - the A pillar, though deep, was made narrower than the distance between the average pair of pupils. That way you only ever had at most one eye blocked. Very crashworthy cars for their day too. http://www.australiastoughestc... https://www.google.com.au/sear...

But you see, the very fact that you have to test out these updates is proof positive that Windows updates break the living shit out of Windows machines.

Only the most incompetent of system admins would not test updates and this is likely where all your complaints stem from. All operating systems have had their issues with updates breaking things and suggesting that they dont just because you have never encountered them is just ignorant. You could just do a quick google search to confirm this but obviously that is too difficult for you. OSX Yosemite had a lot of issues breaking existing functionality and if you have ever browsed the apple forums you would see all the mavericks updates that broke things all over the place though they have gotten significantly better than the older versions of OSX. Just browse linux kernel mailing list and you will see all of the various things that kernel updates have broken along the way that needed patches issued for.

As an osx and linux user I would love to live in your fantasy world where the only broken operating system is windows.

While I agree with your point, it is worth noting that there have been several studies over the last half-century disproving the diet-heart hypothesis.

Pfffft, agreed, a bit more like this.

...what happens if you put the robot upside-down, or on its side? It looks to me like the robot is fine so long as it doesn't tip over. It's like a tank, but able to be flexible by not carrying a fixed payload.

Nice hobby object, but I can't see the point.

There are lots of example uses of these rough terrain robots. In particular they used in the RoboCup Rescue challange, which is an initiative to develop disaster recovery robots. They are also used for things like bomb disposal.

Selling sand to an Arab!! Hah, now I've heard it all.

What's next? Selling snow to an Eskimo?

No. But Australia exports camels to the Arabs for racing stock.
https://www.google.com.au/#q=a...

It's funny how even scientists tend to forget about the Australian Aborigines. They actually would have migrated through Indonesia approximately 10,000 years before this painting was made. They have a well documented history of making paintings exactly like the ones shown in this cave.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Aboriginal hand paintings:

https://www.google.com.au/sear...

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eEkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19-IA11&lpg=PA19-IA11&dq=ohio+two+cars&source=bl&ots=vH5b1GK1e7&sig=wcEUh8ohjrgR81exFfFreMdRgr8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=F94WUd3HF6aPiAe_kIAY&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=ohio%20two%20cars&f=false/

No, see, that tiny patch of the globe representing southern canada and northeastern US where the temperature trendline is actually slightly negative is storing so much hidden cold it completely contradicts any observations that the average temperature of the rest of the planet.

Reading between the lines, you have two points to make. One that you could argue that there isn't global warming while the ice sheets are melting so long as there is a large cooling elsewhere. And two that you don't find that this is a very compelling argument because there isn't such a cooling.

And sure. Ice sheet mass loss is indicative of regional warming, not global warming. 500 cubic kilometres represents about 46 trillion kilowatt hours. Incidentally, at current average Australian electricity prices, that would cost about the same as the GDP of the entire country for about 6.8 years.

It also represents about 0.01 W/m^2 for one year for the entire surface of the earth, or about 1-2% of the total energy imbalance. Possible to hide in other places, in principle, but you'd probably notice. And continued sea level rise is a bit of a cincher.

It would be interesting to research what type of parasite ecosystems build up around such giant creatures.

Conservatives, mostly.

https://www.google.com.au/sear...

Do "denialists" have a theory?

Yep. A grand conspiracy theory whereby all the world's climate scientists are perpetrating a fraud, and somehow everyone throughout the globe, and all incoming students are inducted.

They're total crackpots.

Do "denialists" get much research grant funding?

No, denialists aren't scientists. They're PR professionals. They get plenty of PR funding though.

Does they even get published?

Yes, they're well over-published. This is what PR is all about these days. What they're not is peer-reviewed. This is because they're crackpots.

I get the feeling you've missed something very important across this whole debate and that its done some damage to your credibility on this issue.

Somebody has.

Do "denialists" have a theory?

Yep. A grand conspiracy theory whereby all the world's climate scientists are perpetrating a fraud, and somehow everyone throughout the globe, and all incoming students are inducted.

They're total crackpots.

Do "denialists" get much research grant funding?

No, denialists aren't scientists. They're PR professionals. They get plenty of PR funding though.

Does they even get published?

Yes, they're well over-published. This is what PR is all about these days. What they're not is peer-reviewed. This is because they're crackpots.

I get the feeling you've missed something very important across this whole debate and that its done some damage to your credibility on this issue.

Somebody has.

Do "denialists" have a theory?

Yep. A grand conspiracy theory whereby all the world's climate scientists are perpetrating a fraud, and somehow everyone throughout the globe, and all incoming students are inducted.

They're total crackpots.

Do "denialists" get much research grant funding?

No, denialists aren't scientists. They're PR professionals. They get plenty of PR funding though.

Does they even get published?

Yes, they're well over-published. This is what PR is all about these days. What they're not is peer-reviewed. This is because they're crackpots.

I get the feeling you've missed something very important across this whole debate and that its done some damage to your credibility on this issue.

Somebody has.

Do "denialists" have a theory?

Yep. A grand conspiracy theory whereby all the world's climate scientists are perpetrating a fraud, and somehow everyone throughout the globe, and all incoming students are inducted.

They're total crackpots.

Do "denialists" get much research grant funding?

No, denialists aren't scientists. They're PR professionals. They get plenty of PR funding though.

Does they even get published?

Yes, they're well over-published. This is what PR is all about these days. What they're not is peer-reviewed. This is because they're crackpots.

I get the feeling you've missed something very important across this whole debate and that its done some damage to your credibility on this issue.

Somebody has.

To be honest, I was expecting something a smaller, affordable Midwest town or something

Rural people have much more need for a car than city people. Back in the early 80's I lived here, the town has been a ghost town since the mill closed down in the mid-80's, it's not even marked on google maps anymore. Sure I could walk out the front door and be at work, but as the AC/DC song goes, "it's a long way to the shop, if you wanna sausage roll"

That fell apart because Sony didn't anticipate what direction things would take, letting Apple overtake them along with just about everyone else.

I don't think that's quite right. Sony did anticipate the direction things were going take, they just tried to control it too tightly and had an overinflated idea of their own power to steer things. I think the Sony Network Walkman predates the iPod. I had an NW-MS9 and I think in many ways it (and the earlier versions) were ahead of their time. Tiny, digital, sleek, even the name "Network" hints and some anticipation of a future of medialess distribution.

However they utterly ballsed up the execution. Partly on the software side (the associated software was an absolute dog which seemed to go out of it's way to make things painful) but mostly because they were trying to own the future with their MagicGate DRM (which they even seemed to be trying to sell as something exciting for the consumer, though it was responsible for much of the pain in using the software) and codec restrictions.

Sony saw the future, they just wanted to own it and in trying to do so produced something that served them more than it served the buyer.

You could do a lot worse than using Australian Jarrah wood. It's lovely looking, hard, and can be brought to a smooth finish. My speaker cabinets use this wood for their veneer.

https://www.google.com.au/sear...

An emissions trading scheme is a different strategy? Do you *know* what was just abolished?

1 - From 1st July 2012: a carbon tax priced at $23 per tonne of carbon with a 2.5% increase each year, until

2 - From 1st July 2014 (was 2015 but brought forward a year in 2013) it changes to an *Emissions Trading Scheme*, which was trading at $6 per tonne as per the EU ETS 2014-15.

So what you wanted was ready to go, at a quarter of the impost of the carbon tax, in alignment with other countries ETS either already in place or bringing them online.

here
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No, I based that on science.

No you didn't.

Your long winded tirade didn't say anything about why 100 hours is required to learn how to drive and why mandatory waits are useful. In fact you pointed out why they aren't. One thing you forget, is that people forget. As I said, we have these mandatory hours and waits in Australia, they haven't helped one bit as new drivers do their hours quickly and sit around or just fabricate them.

Like most people, you're basing your opinion on bad ideas.

If you want to improve driver training, you need to improve the content, not the length. People drive badly because they were never taught how to drive properly in the first place, not because they haven't spent enough time doing it. People drive for 40+ years badly because they were never taught properly... After 40 years are you going to tell me it's because they haven't had enough practice?

My reaction time is low.

Now I know this is complete bullshit.

First of all your reaction time varies based on a number of factors (most notably fatigue but distraction is another big one), this ranges between 250ms and 5 seconds but the average time is around 2.5 seconds.

here's some actual studies on the subject.

You dont have a low reaction time, like most bad drivers you've convinced yourself that you have a low reaction time when you really do not (the old Dunning-Kruger effect in action).

I actually understand that when I'm tired, it's dark or I'm distracted my reaction time will not be as good as it could be, so I adjust my driving style accordingly. I have had accidents (none were my fault) but there have been no fatalities or serious injuries because I drive to mitigate risk, not because I believe I'm that good.

You lie https://www.google.com.au/maps..., Republican (for most of the rest of the world that's now recognised as an insult without any embellishment, well, as long as you're referring to an American variant or someone behaving like an American variant).

There was an outbreak of whooping cough in Australia a couple of years ago, my immunised ex-wife caught a dose. Turned out it was a new strain of whooping cough the vaccination is still effective but not as effective as it was for the old strain. If the US vaccination rates haven't changed recently then I would put my money on it being the new Aussie strain.

https://www.google.com.au/webh...

US concentration camps were nothing like German concentration camps. They were a national disgrace, but not a war crime.

"Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated one million [German] men, most of them in American camps . . . Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American history . . . an enormous war crime."

--Col. Ernest F. Fisher, PhD Lt.
101 st Airborne Division, Senior Historian, United States Army

Google search for Eisenhower's Death Camps

No every ounce counts when you want to get somewhere fast with minimum effort. If you want long distance riding you should take a look at what some of the professional tourers do. Some of the features of one bike I saw on display:

- Steel alloy frame won't crack at the first sign of a jolt, and easy to repair with a welder.
- Large tyres with thick rubber to ride over glass, rocks and other nasties.
- Internal gear hubs (hub is heavier than both of my racing wheels + tires combined).
- HID headlamps and large lithium batteries.
- 2-way radio + antenna.
- Solar power to recharge batteries and run radio during day.
- Single wheel trailer to carry water, spare parts, and supplies.

The bicycle I described and several very similar bicycles rode from Perth to Broome and from Brisbane to Canberra 6 months after that.

2000km in one trip, and they definitely do not care about weight.

Me personally? Well I have a sealed lead acid battery on my bicycle that I drive to work every day. I ripped the thin racing tyres off and put the largest reinforced tyres that would fit on my rim on my bike. I carry a backpack to work with a laptop, change of cloths, and some lunch.

You'll find most commuters or long distance riders do not give a crap about weight, just like most vehicle commuters are not sports cars.

No every ounce counts when you want to get somewhere fast with minimum effort. If you want long distance riding you should take a look at what some of the professional tourers do. Some of the features of one bike I saw on display:

- Steel alloy frame won't crack at the first sign of a jolt, and easy to repair with a welder.
- Large tyres with thick rubber to ride over glass, rocks and other nasties.
- Internal gear hubs (hub is heavier than both of my racing wheels + tires combined).
- HID headlamps and large lithium batteries.
- 2-way radio + antenna.
- Solar power to recharge batteries and run radio during day.
- Single wheel trailer to carry water, spare parts, and supplies.

The bicycle I described and several very similar bicycles rode from Perth to Broome and from Brisbane to Canberra 6 months after that.

2000km in one trip, and they definitely do not care about weight.

Me personally? Well I have a sealed lead acid battery on my bicycle that I drive to work every day. I ripped the thin racing tyres off and put the largest reinforced tyres that would fit on my rim on my bike. I carry a backpack to work with a laptop, change of cloths, and some lunch.

You'll find most commuters or long distance riders do not give a crap about weight, just like most vehicle commuters are not sports cars.

That's disingenuous. The colonies failed once the ocean froze over again.

More related to the Vikings having depleted the soil fertility, I suspect. But regional climate change may have played a part.

Our recent observations amount to jack in the long history of the earth.

Right, but the current climate change affects the planet since the industrial revolution, not since the history of the earth.

Warmer too, for instance forests growing faster in northern climes in the past and plant life that can't grow there right now existing in the past.

It's possible regionally. Where are you talking about? Globally we're probably warming than any time since the peak of the interglacial before last one, and possibly all times in the last 2-5 million years.

Anthropogenic Global Warming is a theory.

No. Theories get lots of hits on google scholar, because scientists have written about them. Quantum Field Theory is a Theory. It gets nearly half a million hits on google scholar.

Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory is not. It gets less than 100 hits, mostly denialist writings of no scientific note.

The basic theory that explains Anthropogenic Global Warming is optics, which explains how greenhouse gasses cause the greenhouse effect.

That's disingenuous. The colonies failed once the ocean froze over again.

More related to the Vikings having depleted the soil fertility, I suspect. But regional climate change may have played a part.

Our recent observations amount to jack in the long history of the earth.

Right, but the current climate change affects the planet since the industrial revolution, not since the history of the earth.

Warmer too, for instance forests growing faster in northern climes in the past and plant life that can't grow there right now existing in the past.

It's possible regionally. Where are you talking about? Globally we're probably warming than any time since the peak of the interglacial before last one, and possibly all times in the last 2-5 million years.

Anthropogenic Global Warming is a theory.

No. Theories get lots of hits on google scholar, because scientists have written about them. Quantum Field Theory is a Theory. It gets nearly half a million hits on google scholar.

Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory is not. It gets less than 100 hits, mostly denialist writings of no scientific note.

The basic theory that explains Anthropogenic Global Warming is optics, which explains how greenhouse gasses cause the greenhouse effect.

They were a magnificent achievement for the '70s

No. Bad design, bad development program and non-existent development path, bad operations, etc. It was astonishing that they got such monstrosities to fly at all (let alone for over 20 years), but they were not "magnificent".

They were more like the Spruce Goose, or Concord, or Russian K-7, or Caproni Ca60, or other ridiculous aircraft.

I'd classify most of them as curve stitching but I agree, some of them do look like spirograph patterns... man, talk about a blast from the past!

I didn't claim there is no nuclear waste, just that it's nowhere near as bad as the NG article would have you believe.

Yeeeeaaaahhh, Naaaahhh, I think they have more credibility than you do.

Meanwhile, the properties of U238 are public knowledge, look it up in any reputable source and see if what I said about it is true.

This is the truth you are referring to.

U238. If we simply re-oxidise that and shove it back into the natural rock formations we got it from, how have we created a hazard that wasn't there since man evolved? It would actually be a bit LESS radioactive than it was before.

You would provide a radionuclide source that would introduce carcinogenic radioisotopes nutrient analogues into the food chain.

Meanwhile, weapons grade Pu239 is also known as high quality nuclear fuel. As CrimsonAvenger points out, it is now being used as such.

It's also a source of extreme toxicity when a reactor has an accident, as shown in Unit 4 Fukushima. You see the toxicity is a different property from radioactivity.

Pick any reputable source and look up the composition of 'spent' fuel rods. You'll see that it is about 95% usable fuel (after reprocessing). So when you read about all those tons of spent fuel, note that only 5% of it is actual nuclear waste. Also note the composition of that waste. None of it has the huge half-life that leads to the horror stories about needing to store it long after nobody can read English anymore and all that crap. It will be less radioactive than the background levels in about 500 years. It will be reasonably safe after 250 years. Those figures are on the web as well.

Not according to Oppenheimer, you know, the guy that invented the nuclear bomb. I've read some of his work on the toxicity of pu-239 which finds it to be fatal to humans in the 1 - 10 MICROGRAM range so it's not the big lumps that concern me. As far as your wild fantasy about the half life of pu-239 designed to ignore the physical properties of radioisotope decay into its daughter products, it's just stupid.

As for the last part, note that the leftover slag and sludge from coal and oil will still be carcinogenic in 500 years. If we treated the coal and oil industries like we treat nuclear, they would be forced to find a way to destroy it or prove that they could store it until the end of time. We would certainly not let them pile it up outside and then put it in a landfill.

Well they are both poisonous industries, but guys like you are unwilling to challenge your belief systems with the actual facts and science to see past it. Until you do you will parrot the same mindless groupthink that afflicts all dogmatic skeptics.

Any time you can present some actual *facts*, I'll be happy to evaluate them. In the meantime there is very little credibility in your arguments.

Most of that 'Waste' is fuel that should be 'burned' in a reactor.

You mean in a "burner" reactor like IFR? That works for transuranics but still doesn't solve fissile ash or reactor disposal and the associated energy costs. Maybe when appropriate materials technology is available. Have you heard of what "Net Energy Return" is for a Nuclear Reactor?

The tailings came out of the ground in a mine and when the mine is depleted, they can go back in. The area will be less radioactive than it was before we started.

Except that now the radon gas that was previously contained can make its way into the water table courtesy of gravity. Next stop: Foodchain. What sorts of effects do you think highly soluble radon gas would have on apex predators, like humans, when they drink it?

So who do you think will pay for all of that?

The depleted uranium is just metal, nothing special about it except that it's density makes it a pretty good material for armor piercing rounds. We can use it for things like that,

You mean things like this. And as it goes on for generations in Iraq, do you think that Americans would point to that and say proudly to their children and grand children "see what we did for you"?

Personally, that's something I feel all the nice Americans will feel shame about, do you think I am wrong?

bury it,

Where?

or breed it into fuel

With what?

(or particalize it and blow it into the air like coal plants do, but I don't recommend that one).

When it's in the coal plant, does the magic enrichment fairy come along and process it out of it's natural ore into a fissionable uranium or does it just not matter where radioactive isotopes that get into the food chain come from?

The liquid waste is mostly water, if we apply a bit of energy to it (perhaps from a nuclear reactor), we can diminish that considerably and have a more manageable waste.

Really, how much energy do you think that would take at Fukushima? Will you check my math? 1 Calorie heats one litre of water 1degreeC which is 4.18 joules. If we assume 10degrees C average, hell lets make it a balmy 20 degrees C - it gets quite hot in Japan! So 80 degrees C = for 1 litre = 334.4 joules - but lets drop the decimal place to make it easy for me. So 334 times 1000 litres = 1 ton of water = 334000 joules per ton. and 300 tons per day = 100200000 joules/86400 seconds =1.159kW per second, lets call it an even 1kW per second = roughly 86400kW.per day just for the waste water. That's quite a "bit" of energy isn't it, just for Fukushima waste? How many homes do you think that would heat?

Then again what make you think it's water, perhaps the "344.5 million liters of high-level waste left over from plutonium processing" is referring to CFC114, perhaps it's strawberry milk? Would you swim in it?

The tools and such are low level waste. We don't want kids playing with it, but it's not worse in general than the various carcinogenic waste from coal and oil.

So, what your saying is, just leave them in the lockers and bins where they are stored now scattered across the country side where anyone can access it. No need for any waste facility and centralized access control because you think everything is perfectly fine where it is and we don't really need a waste facility at all?

Just think of the many gallons of toxic waste created when you build a solar thermal plant (and by toxic waste, I mean in the porta-pottys).

You mean, like the stuff dribbling off your chin right now? - hahah - just joking!

I could be wrong but they don't look like compound eyes to me. Coincidently I recently photographed a large green Mantis in my yard using a macro lens, unlike other large insects it feels like they are looking at you, they have what look like rudimentary pupils in the center of their eyes and turn their head so to follow your movements. The "head cocking" behaviour they display when observing a human is very similar to the way a bird behaves when it looks at you. Another similarity to birds is their reaction to shadows, they instinctively "duck down" when a heavy shadow passes over them.

Dragonflies are an example of a large insect that definitely does have compound eyes, a swivelling head, and if you've watched them hunt smaller flying bugs it's obvious they have very accurate depth perception. Their eyes allow them to see all directions at once and therefore don't appear to look at you at all, let alone watch your every move for 10-15 minutes while you fiddle with the camera.

Seriously? Five seconds. Stress induced high-blood pressure.

Additionally, stress causing sleep disturbance can weaken the lower oesophageal sphincter, which lets acid leak into the oesophagus at night. Stress also causes increased acid production. Combine the two (reflux) and you have the very, very common stress symptom of morning nausea. And if that causes you to start regularly vomiting bile (as the summary suggests happened in this case), you'll soon damage the thin membranes in the nose, drastically increasing the regularity of nose bleeds.

Not enough? Acid (from the reflux) on the throat increases your risk of throat infection, which means you cough a lot, which causes spiking blood-pressure from hacking fits, which overcomes already weakened nasal blood vessels.

There are a lot of possible paths. Which is why nose bleeds are such a common symptom of stress.

Nose bleeds, nausea, hair loss, rashes, joint pain, migraines, weakness, tiredness, weight loss/gain, sleep disturbances, mood swings, depression, etc etc.

Which happen to be the same symptoms as low-level persistent environmental poisoning. That's what makes it so hard.

Graduate-level CS encompasses a lot of ground!

Knuth is of course a valuable addition to the book-shelf — as others have pointed out, it's a superb source for chasing up information, details and citations for algorithms and data structures one needs to justify or investigate, if nothing else.

Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures has also already been mentioned, and I'd add my endorsement!

I would recommend two other texts to add to a collection:

• Computational Geometry by de Berg et al.: computational geometry techniques have a habit of turning up all over the place in CS and computing more generally, and this is probably the best overview text, providing motivating examples, a good high level theoretical discussion, and pseudo-code.
• Category Theory for Computing Science by Barr and Wells is an excellent introduction to both type theory and category theory, each informing the other.

I would recommend a book on convex optimisation and probabilistic graphical models, but frankly I don't know of a single text on either topic that I could whole-heartedly recommend. Any suggestions?

And I've worked with sealed generators designed to be submerged. It's cheaper to run an exhaust pipe and intake pipe 30 feet in the air, than mount a generator 3 stories up.

Certainly, if its designed to work that way I agree you are right. In comparison to the impact, it's just seem like it's the one time where you say "this really has to work and we should spare no expense to make sure that it does". What is particularly guiling about this one is that the design issues and consequences were known and understood.

It would seem they didn't spent enough to make sure it wouldn't fail. It's heard with such repetition in industrial accidents.

And it wouldn't have mattered much for fukushima, as the fuel was contaminated by the seawater. Though the responders would have had more options if they had a fuel-less working generator.

I don't know the specifics surrounding the failures of the generators at Fukushima. Are you saying the generators were damaged as well?

There were a lot of simple almost-free things that could have been done differently with the generators to prevent the problems caused by loss of power (then we'd know if the problems were caused by the earthquake, as the people responsible for the generators assert).

The Japanese parliment commissioned a report (warning:pdf) which found it was "wholely man made" systemic failures that led to the generator and sea wall not functioning.

However, what is it you mean about what could have been done differently?

MU-MIMO is part of wave 2 of the 802.11ac standard. Right now every shipping product is wave 1.

If we are lucky the routers will get wave 2 this year, or if not this year definitely next. Apart from allowing more devices to share the same cell MU-MIMO is nice in that it reduces power consumption of devices like phones, as they only see the packets for their stream. Wave 2 also bring doubling of the bandwidth (if the spectrum is available) and other efficiences which translates to 2..3 times the speeds of wave 1. This means unlike wave 1, wave 2 should be able get 1Gb/s in the real world.

All very nice. The only issue is we won't see wave 2 client chips in laptops, phone and the like until 2016 at the earliest. So unless you are doing back to back routers or range extending, don't expect this shiny new Qualcomm chip to make see any measurable improvement in any of your existing 802.11ac devices, or in any you buy in the next 2 years.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=birds+in+the+desert

That name, Siding Spring, comes from the name of Siding Spring Observatory, the most significant optical observatory in Australia, operated by the Australian National University. The mountain is part of the Warrumbungle Range, in the state of New South Wales, near the town Coonabarabran. It is the site of the Anglo-Australian Telescope, among others. Also see Google maps at 31.273038S 149.066804E.

The irony is: "Entities" are the only ones "who" can "live" greater than the 100 years + ~18yrs (of an adult who can acquire these rights legally).

When we estimate that, due to human negligence we may have to evacuate whole countries due to one meager nuclear power plant

Which isn't much of a standard since a number of countries are no bigger than small cities and human negligence hasn't been responsible for a big nuclear accident in almost 30 years.

I refer you (again) to the official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission prepared for the The National Parliment (Diet) of Japan, which says;

Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster. It was a profoundly manmade disaster – that could and should have been foreseen and prevented.

So it would seem that the official findings differ from your opinion.

One important thing would had been competent people handling the plant.

This has never been shown to be an actual problem at Fukushima. I've complained about this attitude since shortly after the disaster happened. Where's the evidence that TEPCO acted incompetently? Instead, I see now as I did back when, that TEPCO recovered well from a huge disaster.

The evidence to the contrary has been examined by appropriately legislated independent Japanese bodies. You just refuse to recognize it as such, your complaints are, therefore, irrelevant.

The Fukushima plant was exposed due to one of the largest earthquakes of modern history to conditions beyond its design specifications and it behaved as intended with a contained meltdown of several reactors.

TEPCO re-rated the plant to 600Gal, the plant was only ever exposed to 150Gal during the Earthquake, so clearly this is an incorrect statement.

TEPCO then acted to prevent the situation from getting worse. They've since expended considerable effort to clean up their mess and take responsibility for their actions (which includes compensating those who have been harmed by the Fukushima accident).

Your posts come across as if you are you an apologist for TEPCO or the Nuclear industry. Are you in any way related to, paid for by or sponsored in any way by the Nuclear industry or TEPCO in a professional or other capacity?

So where is this alleged evidence of incompetence?

I ask again. Do you have evidence of incompetence?

Yes. The answers you seek are contained in the official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission prepared for the The National Parliment (Diet) of Japan, which cites (amongst others);

• a multitude of errors and willful negligence that left the Fukushima plant unprepared for the events of March 11
• serious deficiencies in the response to the accident by TEPCO, regulators and the government
• TEPCO must undergo dramatic corporate reform, including governance and risk management and information disclosure—with safety as the sole priority.

The most telling citation I can provide you from the official report is how the nuclear industry managed to avoid absorbing the critical lessons learned from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. I'm sure you've sen that before.

I think I've seen these circular farms before... that is right, they are in Arizona: https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=32.930174,+-111.924419&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=0&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=13&iwloc=A

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Google already answers questions. Try for yourself:

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If you want to stop ID then you must explain to religious people why ID is actually the work of Satan deceiving them into blasphemy. Since there is plenty of evidence of satan in human suffering this should not be a problem to accept but it's not a language either side of this fucking debate seems to understand.