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Great News!!!
This is some very welcome news in developments at Fukushima as the foundations of Unit 3 are damaged. Workers at Fukushima have already removed 1000 fuel rods IIRC from that reactor building due to concerns about what would happen if the building collapsed.
To get a better understanding of why its an urgent issue, a report called Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities explored vulnerabilities at nuclear power plants.
From that report the issue of spent fuel pool vulnerabilities warranted further study in the now declassified report Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report by the Committee on the Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage within the National Research Council. It details variations of scenarios created from vulnerabilities to terrorist attacks, however the potential outcomes are similar if they are initiated by a natural disaster.
The most sobering scenarios came from analyzing what happens from loosing the cooling water from a spent fuel pool. Spent fuel rods are kept in a pool with a constant supply of water because the water not only cools them, it moderates the neutrons so that they don't become critical. One scenario examined from loosing the cooling water was a plutonium fire that creates plutonium oxide in the smoke with reactors that are MOX fueled, such as Unit 3 was. With several hundred tons of fuel it would be the largest plutonium fire we have ever faced, it would also be in open air.
You can find information about plutonium oxidization Evaluation of source-term data for plutonium aerosolization which starts at around 500 centigrade. I think that because of the proximity to the sea, plutonium chloride would also be created.
Actions to reduce the possibility of these kinds of scenarios are simple and cost effective. Mainly by dry cask storing fuel that has cooled for 5 years and separating and dispersing spent fuel recently removed from the reactor throughout the pools of reactors that are still operating. All very practical, affordable actions for reducing this risk of reactors that are still operating.
Information about the fuel removal process and the damage to the Unit 3 spent fuel pool in Tepco's Fukushima spent fuel removal plan.
There is very little point arguing about Nuclear power from an idealistic viewpoint. To idealize that nuclear power is perfect and requires no improvements means that the nuclear industry cannot evolve legal requirements for new processes. This, according to the official report into the Fukushima accident, is the main reason the disaster occurred.
So this is a great time to commend the workers and engineers at the Fukushima plant and express gratitude for their efforts to get this disaster under control. Thank you!!!!
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References:
A report called Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities explored vulnerabilities at nuclear power plants.
From that the issue of spent fuel pool vulnerabilities warranted further study in the now declassified report Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report by the Committee on the Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage within the National Research Council which details variation of the above scenario from a terrorist attack, as opposed to a disaster.
You can find information about plutonium oxidization Evaluation of source-term data for plutonium aerosolization which starts at around 500 centigrade.
Actions to reduce the possibility of these kinds of scenarios are simple and cost effective. Mainly by dry cask storing fuel that has cooled for 5 years and separating and dispersing spent fuel recently removed from the reactor throughout the pool. All very practical, affordable actions for reducing this risk.
Information about the fuel removal process and the damage to the Unit 3 spent fuel pool in Tepco's Fukushima spent fuel removal plan.
There is very little point arguing with people who look at Nuclear power from an idealistic viewpoint. For them Nuclear power is perfect and requires no improvements. This, according to the official report into the Fukushima accident is how it occurred.
Again I would like to express my gratitude to the workers and engineers attempting to get the Fukushima disaster under control.
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Re:Mars
Just curious - is that true ? a) escape velocity b) sizable rocks not just vaporized rocks c) not so hot of an impact to annihilate any actual life on said rocks?
Yes, for a sufficiently large impact, such as Chicxulub.
It is also a very serious idea that life did not originate on earth, but started from meteorites containing simple organisms like the above.
Not "on said rocks", but deep inside them, in order to survive radiation on the long cold journey.
It would explain why the first life appeared so early in Earth's history.PBS SpaceTime:
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Re:Simple fix
Actually, no, "Google Authenticator" is just an app which implements the OATH TOTP protocol (a.k.a. RFC 6238). There are several other implementations out there, and they're pretty much all compatible.
It's possible (although I don't know if Google's app does so) for the generator application to be a purely offline app with no external access whatsoever.
It functions essentially like one of the old RSA SecurID tokens - an offline token generating 6 or 8 digit time-based id numbers.
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Re: Of course...
So cheating tens of millions of Americans in a primary is only a minor infrastructure, like a kid shoplifting, basically American democracy is who gives a fuck.
One and only one reason why they would choose to interpret a blanket ban on prosecution a whole lot of corrupt people were involved in baking the last elections, the Republicans and the Democrats straight up working together to keep the Libertarians and the Greens out and then numbers way, way down.
You know what, a trespasser will be prosecuted sign over a tiny fence or how about this https://www.google.com.au/maps... , complete insecure, no gate, yet claims of being able to prosecute with just a sign providing security.
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Re:Can work
You may have noticed all the bickering about even letting the Federal government meddle in this process at all. The American elections are complicated because America is such a ridiculously large and diverse place.
Large? Please.
Diverse? "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. is currently roughly 17 percent Hispanic, 13 percent African-American, and 5 percent Asian, and almost 78 percent white.Aug 22, 2014" huh, that NBC of yours must be using imperial maths.
According to the Australian 2011 census, 26% of the population were born overseas, with a further 20% having at least one parent born overseas.Back OT
Voting is performed at local schools at similar public spaces, with electorates managed so there's not too many voters per electorate. There's no reason why this would not scale relatively easily....unless you are closing all your public spaces down, or restricting where people can vote so that the time to count takes longer?I can understand delays due to time zones though - Alaska and Hawaii put you off a bit there, then you have those scattered islands and whatnot.
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Re:So how does Australia
Actually, now that you mention it, there has been a lot of publicity over crime by large gatherings of South Sudanese refugee youths.
Not nearly as bad as the refugee sex assaults in Europe, but still very scary .
They use social media to organise. That fear could be used to drive public acceptance for the laws.https://www.heraldsun.com.au/b...
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XKCDs timeline is quite horrific looking
Yeah, I know it's a cartoon and not precise scale but it's pretty blatant at the end of it, bad things are coming.
Combine this, with the recent discussion of methane finally escaping in siberia.
https://www.google.com.au/sear...It's only a matter of time, we're well past the point of no return. I can't really fathom a good analogy, perhaps the titanic? Except 10,000 times larger and moving much, much slower but we're only 6 feet from the ice burg. We're gonna take a little bit to hit it, but rest assured we absoloutely will be hitting that ice burg.
Don't breed, having kids in the future that's coming is only more depressing.
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YO-KAI WATCH
I looked at the list of titles as a list of games I probably need to check out... The last on the list Yo-kai watch... man oh man... that looks like pretty subversive stuff...
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O Really
A boring few minutes in google maps shows many stretches of the 101 with a lane on the right hand side separated from the main carriageway by a thick white line and a total absence of vehicles in it. Presumably they put that in because they had some spare asphalt, as opposed to maybe expecting people to stop in it if necessary.
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Re:Why not a middle ground?
What I meant was use a 2.5mm connector and people get their own 2.5mm to 3.5mm adaptor cheaply.
2.5mm has no patents/royalties to worry about and is commonly used for corded headsets and analogue video adaptors
There is no 3mm connector.
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
One way or another phone manufacturers are obsessed with making phones thinner, hence the compromise idea.
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How Nuclear power killed those children
Nuclear energy did not kill any of those children.
Yes it did. Depleted Uranium is a by product of the Uranium enrichment process. There is more of that than fuel. If it was unused and stored you maybe able to claim morality however a scenario mimicking Agent Orange is not Atoms For Peace, it's sub-critical nuclear warfare using Nuclear Industry fuel by-products.
The very fact that these weapons are fired with a Nuclear Industry fuel by-product, Depleated Uranium, as ordinance for a strategic advantage, cannot be denied.
The Nuclear Industry doesn't condemn the use of DU, it's an expense they don't have to sustain to store it. It's a revenue source.
The fact that you have to blame me for those deaths in order to retake the moral high ground demonstrates your cognitive dissonance.
I don't have to re-take anything, the facts stand despite your ignorance of them. It is FACT that DU is used as a munition as a primary weapon. It is known to cause mutagenic effects when it is ingested, it's toxic. Not only is it an emitter, it's spontaneous criticality creates bursts of alpha (and gamma IIRC) radiation 10-20 times higher than its normal decay. Once it's in the environment it can't be removed. DU ash from the 3000C pyrophoric flames it produces when fired is a durable microscopic ceramic oxide and can be ingested by humans and animals as an inhalant and in water to create those mutated babies whose image glue so easily into your mind.
It is immoral to use this as a munition because of the undeniable effect it has on pregnancies and children. The secondary effects destroys entire generations more completely than landmines ever could as a consequence. How would you like an aerosol of ceramic DU dust spread around your house, your town, your city, your crops, your water and your air?
I've excoriated you however I've also given you the benefit of the doubt whilst you were ignorant of the facts. They illustrate you have no claim to any morality whilst a Nuclear industry by-product, Depleted Uranium, is used as a munition and causes horrendous birth defects when ingested.. It's completely indefensible to use this material and it is undeniably connected to the the fuel used in nuclear reactors.One tenth of the ore is fuel for the reactor. The main use of what's left over is as a munition, for which it *is* used. You say it's immoral to oppose this. If you really think that, you have a serious problem.
Let me get this straight. I am an evil mentally-ill baby-killer communist? Because I think nuclear power is the only viable path forward on climate change(a stance a super majority of scientists share)?
What does climate change matter if we mutilate our own DNA permanently? I'm not saying we should'nt effect rapid action on resolving the carbon legacy we been given (clean up all the externalities), but not at the expense of genetically damaging the entire human race by spreading radioactive isotopes that destroy our DNA. You're basically saying we're too stupid to fix the problems we were handed from the industrial age and that we should hand a radio isotope legacy down to the next generation that can wipe humanity out within a few generations. You're so blinded by your ideology that you can not or will not examine the facts.
It would make you worse than a mentally-ill baby killing communist to possess that knowledge now and still say it's ok. The choice to do so would make you a psychopath as well because your idealism has been confronted and you won't even acknowledge the effect on the human race regardless of race or politics and you're trying to justify distributing doses of birth defects with rhetoric. Most sane people wouldn't try to justify something so he
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Re:Why is this being posted now?
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Re:Revenge porn is real? Where?
Oh it happens, but I don't think it's as widespread as people try to claim. Heres's an example of it that got to court almost a decade ago: http://www.google.com.au/search?rls=en&q=giller+v+procopets.
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Re:Totally ok to....BS
the 1st Amendment doesn't provide free speech. It prevents the US Government from creating laws that restrict it.
Perhaps you should read it.
Freedom of speech doesn't include incitement of hatred or violence, aka "fighting words"
3rd paragraph, page 68, "Recapturing the Spirit: Essays on the Bill of Rights at 200"
https://books.google.com.au/bo...
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Re:Why Lithium?
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Re:Why Lithium?
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The hyperbole is strong in this one
> most important, most successful, and most recognizable tech product that the world has ever seen
I think someone might have something to say about that.
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Repost of 2 weeks back, sorry
Explains why some of this is going on.
Here's some data which essentially completely confirms a lot of it is money laundering.
News from late Nov 2016
https://www.google.com.au/sear...Reaction to said news (click 1 year on the chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com....
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.Now, see this news also, Feb 2017
https://www.google.com.au/sear...See the reaction in other digital currrency markets (again, click the 1Y chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland.
Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is .nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.*
Regarding litecoin, this one is .particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency?
So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly .booming.insanely. in Mar 2017.
Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included)Bonus evidence of how it's being spent, here, just found this morning.
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Repost of 2 weeks back, sorry
Explains why some of this is going on.
Here's some data which essentially completely confirms a lot of it is money laundering.
News from late Nov 2016
https://www.google.com.au/sear...Reaction to said news (click 1 year on the chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com....
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.Now, see this news also, Feb 2017
https://www.google.com.au/sear...See the reaction in other digital currrency markets (again, click the 1Y chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland.
Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is .nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.*
Regarding litecoin, this one is .particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency?
So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly .booming.insanely. in Mar 2017.
Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included)Bonus evidence of how it's being spent, here, just found this morning.
http://i.imgur.com/aTGE6SV.gif -
I can explain some of it too, with some graphs.
Here's some data which essentially completely confirms a lot of it is money laundering.
News from late Nov 2016
https://www.google.com.au/sear...Reaction to said news (click 1 year on the chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com....
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.Now, see this news also, Feb 2017
https://www.google.com.au/sear...See the reaction in other digital currrency markets (again, click the 1Y chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
https://www.worldcoinindex.com... -- *(!!)Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland.
Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is .nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.*
Regarding litecoin, this one is .particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency?
So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly .booming.insanely. in Mar 2017.
Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included) -
I can explain some of it too, with some graphs.
Here's some data which essentially completely confirms a lot of it is money laundering.
News from late Nov 2016
https://www.google.com.au/sear...Reaction to said news (click 1 year on the chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com....
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.Now, see this news also, Feb 2017
https://www.google.com.au/sear...See the reaction in other digital currrency markets (again, click the 1Y chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
https://www.worldcoinindex.com... -- *(!!)Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland.
Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is .nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.*
Regarding litecoin, this one is .particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency?
So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly .booming.insanely. in Mar 2017.
Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included) -
Re:Not affordable
Realities problem is the difference between telling a ripping yarn and a pretty picture. Obviously going straight over the video geeks heads. Problem is some geek, especially the super focused ones, get really locked into their version of a brain tasty world, what makes their brain feel good. They lose track of stuff like, which is better visually a good book or a bad movie, the book is hands down better because that particular one is valued good and you create the vision within your own mind and a shit movie is just a shit movie no matter how good it looks. The greatest purveyor of shit stories that look really great Jar Jar Abrams, before someone goes nuts on me, https://www.google.com.au/sear... (real Saturday morning cartoon fair and didn't he earn that search, your mum might think you are great Jar Jar but you tell shit stories).
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Re:HahaSO this guy was fired and this guy these people? and these people? these people? these guys and these people
All fired, correct?
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Re:I fear they are right.
There are profound legal reasons for not being required to remember anything. What if they ask you as question, for which you do not know the answer, are they entitled to punish you upon the basis they think you know the answer and thus imprison you for the rest of the life or until you can guess the answer you do not know. How about if they go to their evidence bin and grab the wrong phone and your password does not work, which you can not prove, until they can unlock the phone, their error, the rest of your life in prison. How about a personal lifetime warranty on your password working. How about bad memory https://www.google.com.au/sear...' 465,000 results but the law demands 100% recall.
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Re:as usual, title and summary incorrect
Well, great big ole fail there. Forget to define intimate didn't we, so https://www.google.com.au/sear.... Wow Google, you so evil, intimate image of mother and child. What the fuck US navy, seriously, take a picture of mother and child and go to jail, how fuckings nuts are you, sounds like some tools need to get grip of themselves or is that loosen up their grip, you know choking the chicken, buk buk bu-gaacccckkkk.
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Re:Old
The only one I bother with now, is does it come with a user removable battery. Trying to switch off a ringing smart phone is really annoying and seems to take forever. Ripping off the back and flicking out the battery is so much more satisfying and affirmative. Problem with data adding all sorts of things into a smart phone, it doesn't know when to STFU, switch off one thing, another kicks in, sometimes the fucking thing just refuse to switch off, you hold down that button and nothing, well, actually a whole bunch of annoying things continue to happen. Rip, flick is so much more guaranteed and just so satisfying (also it goes straight back to normal state without reconfiguring and enabling and switch it off and switch it back on seems to be the most effective way to manage buggy software, https://www.google.com.au/sear... 3000 results and in quotes so a real problem).
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Re:The Market at Work
I know a game reviewer that does this when truth does not match marketing, ding, ding, ding, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmTyOKAtN0). So here is a Google search https://www.google.com.au/sear.... So the top dominating return is not just an answer on no, it is a redirection to https://www.wsj.com/articles/s..., so was that redirection done for free or is it a paid advert that totally dominates the first page of search results. In reality what would I have really wanted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but oh know, where there is a buck to be made, lies will prosper, unless actions are taken to prevent it.
So how long before the same search scam is used to corrupt elections, with promotions and redirections. It is for sale, you can buy it, for any kind of marketing, including political, elections for sale to the highest bidder. In the age of the internet where all political information in the US could be distributed neutrally by the US congressional library, https://www.loc.gov/, should private for profit political advertising be banned (all the speeches, all the empty promises on record, you want it, you download it, no more public for votes face and private for profits face).
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Re:Mint
I use Mint too. But the ultimate Easy Linux would have to be Chrome OS .
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Re:LibreOffice
Apparantly you are wrong, https://www.google.com.au/sear... leads to https://ask.libreoffice.org/en.... Wow that was really so hard.
Next step in this story should be a in depth investigation of why the new incoming politician pushed so hard on this apparently with zero consultation with his IT staff. Most probable, M$ paid them a bribe (campaign contribution) to push it, so the arse holes at M$ could use if for marketing purposed and the stupendously invasive POS windows anal probe 10, dies a slow grim death.
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Re:Expenses
I gather you miss the whole logical yet humorous idea of getting two vices to combat each other, the vice of laziness and the vice of gluttony. Although the view is also nice, downhill more than uphill https://www.google.com.au/maps... (nominal starting point). Still not enjoying the hotdogs (neither the vienna sausages nor roll nor slaw made from scratch ain't that fanatical, the yoghurt for desert is low sugar http://margaretriverdairy.com....) as tiredness has combined with laziness to temporarily still thwart gluttony
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Re:Can't Be True!
vaccines may
... go back to start the autism before they are administered.Physicists have actually demonstrated this sort of thing is possible, using quantum entanglement contrary to common sense.
You can actually have the past depend on the present, but the catch is that it cannot be used to transmit information back in time. Causality is not violated so long as the effects are not observed until after the cause.
This is important: the very act of detecting autism with the MRI will break the quantum entanglement and stop the vaccine from causing autism.
This may be a cure!(I hope there are still enough nerds on slashdot to appreciate this potential breakthrough.)
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Re:Something is missing
From the article "the company said that the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km, and 190,000 litres of fuel had been saved." this makes no sense what so ever. I smell the smell of share pumping, this type of article normally means bad news is floating about and they want to soften the blow. You can no travel both further and shorter at the same time. The drop in mileage would indicate a drop in market share, most likely due to the other great UPS saving, tossing parcels over the fence. This all driven by given drivers impossible targets so as to minimise bonuses. Here is what I think really happened https://www.google.com.au/sear....
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Android Pay works totally fine here, so....?
I mean I don't like banks but I'd assume this is Apples doing? They must be pushing for something ridiculous in some way, because Android Pay appears to use the standard Pay-Wave technology of normal cards.
I'm normally very much a luddite on this stuff but I thought I'd give it a shot and I hate to admit, it's genuinely better than cash, purely from a "wow, it's even quicker than cash" perspective.
(I've *always* hated cards normally, because I'm stuck behind idiots taking forever with PIN# business or swiping a different card, etc)None the less it's literally faster than cash, it's a very very fast transaction and (to my knowledge) any place with Pay-Wave (very common) works fine.
I believe Pay-Wave is just our contactless card thing, you guys might call it something else.https://www.google.com.au/sear...
(NOTE: I hear you guys in the US have only just got the card tap and pay stuff? We have it in I would say at least 90% of places in the metro / city areas and maybe 60 or 70% out in the country regions)
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Re:Wake me up
If you're implying that Trump is some how anti-semetic or anti-Jewish
...Trump is not anti-Jewish*, but he sure does not like the other semites. Excpet the Saudis - they're good for business. Love the Untied States.
* Trump made Steve Bannon leave his white hood at home.
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Re:iPhony
Apple just invented the floating wick candle
That's like saying the horseless carriage is a horse carriage. Because there is no fucking wick in that patent.
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iPhony
Apple just invented the floating wick candle
The Patent claim:
A chamber body [check]
is to receive therein a substance that is to be vaporized or sublimated into a vapor. [check]
A plate whose bottom face rests on the substance inside the chamber body [check]
is temperature regulated, e.g., using a heater therein, [check]
which releases heat directly above the substance that lies below. [check]
The plate slides downward as the substance is consumed [check]
by vaporization or sublimation. [check]
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Levelised costs
A better measure is levelised lifetime costs, as these include amortised construction capital costs too (otherwise solar looks nearly free):
Geothermal: 45.0
Advanced Gas CC: 57.2
Wind: 64.5
Hydroelectric: 67.8
Solar PV: 84.7
Advanced Gas CC with CCS: 84.8
Biomass: 96.1
Advanced Nuclear: 102.8
Advanced Coal with CCS: 139.5
Wind (Offshore): 158.1
Solar Thermal: 235.9Total levelised cost values in 2015 dollars per MWh, not including tax credits.
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Re:What's to stop..
Black IPAs are delicious, and apparently popular even with peppermint.
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Re:Why would this concern Trump?
pfft use google and you get thousands of images for Clinton kissing Saudi butt what off it.
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
What I am talking about is real hard bribe money from a dictatorship that hates gays and restricts women's rights in the last election donating to a left leaning democratic party.
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Little lose on the facts here...
"After oxygen, silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth's crust, and yet it has nothing to do with biological life. "
Silicon has a LOT to do with biological life. Plants slurp the stuff up non-stop.
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Re:Bullshit?
Er yeah, that got screwed up. I blame the thought influencer. Try this link instead.
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Re:Bullshit?
Their demonstrations and patents convinced Google, Qualcomm & others to invest hundreds of millions in them (twice).
I tried the link. First patent I saw was for mind control.
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Re:Bullshit?
If it's a scam, then it's an unusually clever one. Their demonstrations and patents convinced Google, Qualcomm & others to invest hundreds of millions in them (twice). Maybe soon we'll find out for sure.