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Only in places where there is limited cooling water

You make it sound like they just built the plants in the wrong place.

Nuclear plants have some pretty difficult requirements for location. You need somewhere that is geologically stable, where there is sufficient space and isolation to build the plant, waste storage and security apparatus. It needs a supply of water for cooling. It needs to be sheltered from severe weather and natural disasters as far as possible. And it has to have good infrastructure to keep it supplied, connect it to the grid and allow staff and emergency services to get in and out.

Your Forbes link doesn't open for me, but I note that when it gets hot in the US nuclear plants have to shut down because the sea gets too warm: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/...

Not to mention the inland ones suffering from droughts. https://www.newscientist.com/a...

It was considered scandalous if a newspaper reported something that wasn't factual. Prestige newspapers still won't print anything that wasn't verified, and then work hard to regain their credibility when they find out one of their staff falsified the report. The reputation of the paper is valuable and affect subscriptions. Compare that to blogs that appear and disappear constantly with very little credibility to lose in the first place, or with services like buzzfeed that are geared towards click-bait and not actual news.

You want citations? Look up Jayson Blair, AP fires reporter and editor over McAuliffe, and many other examples are available from a simple Google search

Ultimately, of course, this is all just a bunch of people being brave in hindsight. We know that guns are effective at deterring normal crimes, however an insane shooter obviously offers a different problem. At some point a shooter is going to run up against an armed citizen, and then we'll find out for sure just how effective they will be.

yes, someday,

perhaps in the far-flung future,

we'll see what actually happens

when armed citizens

confront crazed mass shooters.

surely, such an event will irrevocably alter the dialog on armed self-defense from that day forward.

I am sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the move or Northrop Grumman's corporate HQ to Virgina in 2010, but only after a bunch of "meetings" with McDonnel.

Nope, not a thing.

In fact, I am sure Grumman is not going to win any of these contracts.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/apr/26/grumgat26_20100426-184201-ar-156839/

Yeah he does his job and he has 4 years more experience doing it than these guys do. No sexual scandals. No kick-backs to friends he has in big business.

Sure, no kickbacks to heavy donors or special favors to his constituency, not President Obama!

Amazon are about to open a new distribution center near Richmond VA, and local retailers are a bit pissed that Amazon will not be collecting sales tax from VA residents.

Amazon purchases to remain free of Va. sales taxes

I want what I want when I want it

Ironically enough, this is the quote under Eric Cantor's yearbook photo.
(he is the House Republican Majority Leader)

Sorry, but my numbers are correct. They came direct from the Virginia Department of Health. It's not up anymore because ALL restaurants are now supposed to be smoke-free, but feel free to look for archives if you want to dispute my numbers with something other than opining that "a bunch of made up sounding BS".

As far as the closing restaurants, that's all stuff that I have observed, so there's no way to dispute it, it's just fact. You can go talk to the (former) owners of Mile Post 5 and Caddy's, if you don't believe me. You can also ask the owners of the other restaurants that are defying the ban.

If you're going to post a study to back up your own opinions, you might want to find one that actually ... backs up your opinions. The one you posted says that "We found no significant change in the overall number of patrons before and after the ban," contrary to your claim that occupancy increased.

regarding point #2: the scientists that generate the data (ie: PhD and MSc students) are typically flat broke.

I guess you missed the news.

The VA State Attorney General still has his own investigation (which TFA mentions) which is supposed to root out Mann's monetary fraud when he was at UVa. Yet this is the same AG who claims his own anti-Healthcare lawsuit against the Federal government won't cost the state more than the $350 filing fee. Somehow I don't think that he gets the irony of this situation.

And yes I do realize that this comment is more fitting for Craigslist than /.

While it won't be filled up with computer equipment, Quality Technology Services just bought the former Qimonda fab plant in Richmond VA for use as a data centre. At 1.3 million square feet it ranks (according the link) as one of largest in the USA. Who knows how much of it will be actually used, as I heard an interview with the CEO that said one of the reasons they bought the site was because it had "room for growth".

if you mean the first mammal cloned: British scientists?

If I had meant that, I would have said it. The man who cloned the first animal was here in the US, and died 13 years before Dolly was even cloned.

Again, you are citing "stuff somebody did long long ago" in order to support your "USA is #1" mantra, blithely ignoring the fact that this whole thread is about current events, namely the retirement of the space shuttle (and the implied loss of technological capability).

.. And so on for the rest of your post - half of it wasn't even disagreeing with me.

I'm getting the strong impression we aren't even on the same page here. You seem to define "technological leadership" in terms of "we have outpatented the rest of the world, now we can sit back and rake in the money".

How about a reality check:

• you need to import "hi tech" products because there are no factories left in your country
• newer, better technologies are suppressed because they would reduce the profitability of "old" technology (Hollywood, Detroit, ...)
• your education system fails to promote scientific thought (or even promotes the opposite, wherever the religious right manages to influence the curriculum).
• substatial parts of your national infrastructure (power grids, factories, mines, bridges, power plants) are decrepit from age. The owners are happy to rake in any profit, but once the sh*t hits the fan it is the taxpayer/the former employees who are left holding the bag.

Of course, none of these "local problems" matter to the people "owning" everything. Too bad for the rest of us though.

If Virginia's IT overhaul is any indication, this is going to be a slow-motion cluster of a mess for the next 10-20 years

Let's not forget that Vivek Kundra was Virginia's CIO when that fiasco took place. I predict that this will be at least as bad as the Virginia situation.

If Virginia's IT overhaul is any indication, this is going to be a slow-motion cluster of a mess for the next 10-20 years

In the United States, we'll shoot at helicopters with actual people in them.

If you are wanted for the murder of eight in Virginia - or think adding "Cop Killer" to your rap sheet is worth a mod up to +4.

Childs admitted that when he took a job flying the state's MedFlight helicopter, he didn't expect to face the threat of small-arms fire very often.
Last week, the state police helicopter he was flying took seven rounds from a high-powered rifle.
The shots came while Childs was attempting to help police locate Christopher Speight, who authorities believe killed eight people Tuesday in a deadly rampage in Appomattox County.
Checking out the exterior of the helicopter, he noticed the fuel tank had been hit by one of the rounds.
In all, seven shots hit the chopper, damaging the underbelly, the fuel tank and one of the rotors.
Childs is no stranger to violence. His daughter, Heidi, a Virginia Tech student, was killed in Montgomery County in August with her boyfriend, David Metzler. That crime has not been solved.

Pilot of downed police helicopter cites 'divine intervention'P>

Haven't the 'important' members of the Association committed Hari-Kari yet over 'Property Values'? That's their primary obsession in life...

If not, here's a Ham Radio Antenna to push them over the edge....

All you need around these parts to piss of a HOA is a flagpole! Henrico Medal of Honor recipient, 90, ordered to remove flagpole

They are selling it as MORE, not less, because there is MORE community, more local services and shops within walking distance, MORE connection with a MORE secure local economy that is MORE reliable, intimate and connected to servicing other local economy relationships of interdependence.

No thanks. I'm all for local control and if that's the kind of locality you would like to live in, I really do wish you the best. Unfortunately, this won't work for me on so many levels.

Let's start with the basics -- I live about a stone's throw from each of my neighbors and I like it that way. I would not chose to live at much higher density because I like having my space. Moreover, it removes the sources of petty conflict (random e.g. that's fresh in my mind: my friend got the police called on him for working on his truck in the driveway of his home, the cop had to politely explain to his neighbor that there's nothing illegal with that, even if it's loud and smelly). Similarly, I was reading about places that don't allow line drying (http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/home_garden/article/H-CLOT26_20090625-185602/276372/) because they don't like the way it looks. As people live closer and closer together, they get more and more meddlesome. God forbid I should burn my leaves instead of taking them to the city-approved dump where they can charge me $2/bag to take leaves!

[As an aside, I always find this very puzzling -- I know all my neighbors and their families and kids' names, my friend that lives in a apartment buildings and rowhouses and don't know any of their neighbors. As far as I can see, living in closer proximity does not, in fact, actually create intimacy but actually causes people to retreat further into their personal space. By you logic, Manhattan should be an oasis of personable and pleasantly polite folks.]

I don't want to have to spend $20 grand every 5 years or so to stay with a current vehicle if my town can be designed to provide most of my needs and I can just walk everywhere, and go HIRE a car on those rare occasions I do need a vehicle. What kind of moronic society continues to build an oil dependent mode of city plan when we are this close to peak oil anyway?

I have never spent $20k on a car and they've each lasted me in excess of 10 years. You don't have to stay current with the latest model if you don't want to (isn't freedom grand). As for the city development, why don't we agree, as I posited at the top, that your city can develop in line with your (plural) shared priorities and mine can develop like we like our cities. Also, there are no traffic jams in my area -- there just aren't enough residents. And I enjoy my ride to and from work, it gives me some time to think and watch the pretty scenery go by.

Basically, the gist of what I'm saying is that you may have a wonderful solution for some people but don't try to force it on the rest of us because it's not well suited to us.

"I am writing this message in representation of the employees of Circuit City here in Richmond who are having to deal with inexcusable conditions being brought on by customers with retribution. Walk into any Circuit City store on any given day and you will find a handful of employees and a sea of customers. The fact that people have flocked to our stores en masse on a daily basis, creating Black-Friday style crowds, has been insulting to our employees and our business alike.

Where was this support when we needed it? Liquidation, for us, has brought great havoc on a series of levels. I've been working for the company for almost two years, and I have never seen anything worse than I have seen over the past month. Customers have gotten enraged over the fact that our discounts aren't good enough for them."

While I only shopped there if I wanted something *now*, I did go in once the closures were announced and you could see people loading up on stuff just because it was some % off. I never saw anything that I couldn't get a similar deal online at the time (and also came with warranty) so I couldn't understand the why people descended on the store en masse. The only explanation I can think of is a feeding frenzy brought on by greed. So from that perspective I can understand where the letters author was coming from

They are also the company that is basically taking over all of the IT functions for the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's working about as smoothly as you would expect.

I'm sure once all the agencies have turned over all their equipment, applications, and network services to Northrop-Grumman to be run from their new high-efficiency data center, that It service will improve, security will be rock-solid, and costs will drop like a stone.

Lines, whether it be at gas pumps, or schools, or at console retailers, is a sign of economic imbalance. The way you deal with supply/demand imbalance is to raise prices, not make people wait in line. When supply/demand/price get far enough out of line, people start getting in line not to purchase one for themselves, but to put it on Ebay, so they can get the profits that Sony should be getting.

"five years of continuous human habitation"

Is it really continuous if the occupants left the station? I guess hanging off the outside counts. ;)

Virginia Tech does this, and their grads are quite well-placed in the job market.

2) Besides, why should CS degrees be undesirable? All the stories these days are about CS departments losing enrollment. Seems like a good time to "buy in."

3) The money isn't in coding...it's in management. You are *far* more likely to land a management position with a degree. Granted, the profit motive isn't the only consideration, but still...

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Does anyone notice there are no or verry few white people? There is a bunch of low-class people there to buy a cheap low-class fag computer. Send them back to Redmond, give me a Sun Microsystems Sparc laptop at a hefty $5K pricetag and that'll be the deterant from all those fucktards.

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As this article in the local paper points out -

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pag ename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&c id=1031784321130

The systems were all four years old and had been used by high school students - no not just the computer class/AP calculus geeks, but everyone - the freaks, the jocks, etc. Graduating seniors had the option to take their iBooks with them. The fact that these models were no longer wanted by their prior owners should suggest that they were in far from new condition.

Why do they all look Pakistani in the picture?

Is this really Virginia? It looks like a terrorist convention!

And here is the true irony of the whole fiasco!

-h-

I retract my previous statement.

I'm sorry, but nobody in the photos of the event could ever pass for a genuine Apple user, like these beautiful and stylish souls. It's no surprise they've decided to switch their school system to Dell.

local richmond newspaper link

another local link with slideshow pictures

local richmond newspaper link

another local link with slideshow pictures

I had submitted this article this morning, with a little more information in case people were interested here is what I had posted:
Henrico Co. Schools of VA decided to change laptop suppliers at the end of their contract with Apple, opting instead for a contract deal with Dell and Microsoft. The result was a couple thousand laptops of no use. In a first attempt, Henrico Co. was going to sell laptops in a free for all at $50 dollars each, but subsequent meetings and enraged tax payers made them change to limiting the sale (at least this first sale) to Henrico citizens and tax payers. The sale occurred at the Richmond International Raceway where 1000 laptops would be given on a first come first serve basis with proof of residency/tax payments. The facilitators of the event decided to close the main gates of the area until 7 AM and begin the sale at 9 AM. This did little to deter people arriving as early as 1 AM and circling the area until the main gates opened. At 6:54 AM the main gates were opened and a massive stampede of over 12 thousand attendants for the event fought to be the first in line. Injuries (albeit minor according to the Times Dispatch) and chaos ensued. One unconfirmed report I was given by an attendee was of a lady who.s ankle was broken and her baby carriage trampled by the sheer number of people shoving to get through the gates. Police support was supposedly small with off duty officers working, the event planners obviously underestimating the popularity of this event. The details of the event including the specs for the iBook (12 inch, G3 500 MHz) can be seen at this posting on the Henrico Co Schools website. In the fall there is to be another sale of which no restriction will be made on buyers, but after today.s incident, one could only imagine that it will differ highly from the chaos of today. Photos of the scene can be viewed at the article in the Richmond Times Dispatch website .

This way, when a bank loses one DVD, 850 gigs worth of customer data can be stolen! How many social security numbers make up 850 gigs?

Because they are switching back to Dells.

Granted, OS X is not open-source, but I would have been OK with an OS X to complete-open-source migration. I am not OK with an OS X to Windoze backwards migration.

In Richmond, Virginia, several of the local DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) offices have taken it upon themselves to require additional verification (i.e. proof of residency) from individuals renewing licenses. (See this article from the Richmond Times Dispatch.)

The background is that some of the 9/11 hijackers were travelling under legally obtained VA driver's licenses. These DMV clerks have gotten word from on high that they need to crack down on illegals, so they have started asking to see a passport or other proof of legal residency. The problem is, by state law they aren't actually permitted to ask for that on renewals, only for a new license or a replacement for one that expired or been revoked.

The moment a lawyer shows up with the individuals, all the problems go away and they can get their license renewed.

Now, these people did not personally piss off anyone, but as a class of people there is a bit of a backlash against illegals in the US these days. You could also argue that the licenses are not really being suspended, but a lack of renewal amounts to the same thing.

Who said Afghanistan and Iraq were messes?

Afghanistan

That's actually an AP wire article, BTW, in case you are questioning the source.

Afghanistan is so peaceful we lost 4 soldiers there in October, and the total is up to 142 so far.

And everything is just peachy in Iraq too?

You also repeat the myth that the CIA provided aid and training to Osama bin Laden and his cohorts. But this is not true, both the CIA and Osama himself agree.

I guess MSNBC and The BBC are just lying then.

And if you want to live under the threat of a mushroom cloud over a European city the next time a terrorist doesn't like someone's policies, then, by all means, do nothing about the mideast...

It appears, based on the article, that this was the product of work by Republican Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. I'm pleased that he's enforcing the law, but by way of background, I should point out why he's choosing to enforce this particular law at this particular time.

Our governor, Mark Warner, is a millionaire hundreds of times over, having made his fortune in tech in Northern Virginia. He got elected on the strength of his business and tech expertise. His term is up in two years, and, under Virginia law, he can't run for reelection. So the race is on between Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine and Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, the presumed Democratic and Republican nominees.

As is often the case with vice-anythings, Kaine is forced to live under the shadow of Gov. Warner for the time being, while Kilgore is under the shadow of nobody. Kilgore tends to spend most of his time ensuring that people aren't having sex (he's working to keep Virginia's ridiculous bedroom laws on the books; sex outside of marriage is illegal, oral sex is illegal, homosexuality is illegal, etc.) and attempting to keep from getting indicted for his role in the recent Republican wiretapping scandal, something that has just been revealed in the past week.

So, Kilgore gets a twofer with this prosecution. Not only is this yet another thing that he can tout on the campaign trail ("Kaine? Tech? Hell, I brought two spammers back from Carolina, hog-tied and all!"), but he's no doubt hoping that this will overshadow, at least for a few precious days, some of the accusations against him for wiretapping charges.

Again, I'm glad to see this law enforced. Virginia's law is badly-written, in the sense that it must be enforced by Commonwealth's Attorneys, and few of them have the slightest concept of how to or desire to do so. It's good that our Attorney General is willing to take the lead in cracking down.

-Waldo Jaquith

Those people who are looking at the PSX as the "next generation gaming system" to upgrade from their current PS2s are not the audience Sony is looking for with the PSX.

The PSX is aimed at those people who have not purchased a PS2 yet and are thinking of not buying one until the PS3 comes out... which won't be until 2005 (so everyone's been saying). Those people who are not early adopters.

Yes, the diehard PS2 owners and gaming early-adopters are probably dying to get their hands on the "next new thing" from Sony. To them, I say wait for the PSP or the PS3. As many of you have already said - you already have DVD burners, TiVo units, or other media centers. Why would you want this as well?

So the PSX doesn't have all the features that we would want (and I agree, networking and MP3 ability shouldn't have been stubbed), but for someone who doesn't even have a PS2, it's certainly better than nothing.

Analysts have said that digital cameras and other gadgets are what's driving computer sales, not vice-versa. I suspect the same philosphy and target audience is where Sony is heading with the PSX - people who haven't quite gotten onto the electronics/media center bandwagon and are looking for an easy entry point.

Repair relations?

Quick question, where were the street protests when I was shipped to Bosnia? Where were the protests when he killed the Sudanese and Afganies?

A large majority of the world hated us when we were led by a Democrat too. And I should know I was shipped to parts of the world that didn't exactly want to *embrace* the American dream when I was there either.

The point I am trying to make is that as always people will hate us no matter what we do, so we should just do what we think in right.

Secondly, I don't think that the answer lays in either political party. They both have the same goals: the ruination of their opposing parties and the increasing of their own powers.

And in regards to the *one* person who is representing their views, it is a political calculation. The democrats would do the same thing if their main guy had a +70% approval rating, but they don't. Besides, if the are 70% approval ratings for what he is doing, that makes it a majority, right?

Alas, not completely.

This article reminds us that register.com has done similar things in the past.

I received at least two or three very deceptively worded domain renewal slips from them when my domain was registered though someone else.

Eventually I think that the FTC made them make "Transfer and Renew" much bigger (it used to be that "Renew!" was really big and "transfer" was basically in the fine print. In addition, the return address and the buniess envelope did not say "Register.com" on them.

I parked next to a denny's on senior night, and now my hard drive is full of Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. songs. Maybe this 802.11b sharing thing isn't such a great idea... Well, serves them right! They're probably starting up their El Dorados right now and are shocked to hear old punk covers of 80's tunes.

Oh, and I forgot about the porn problem. This article comes from the 12/5/01 Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the link may go bad in a few days. To sum it up, it seems some of the students have started saving porn of all kinds on to the iBooks. Teachers are noticing students with erotic desktop wallpaper, students watching porn movies in class, and the tech people are finding even more stuff when the iBooks go in for servicing. It seems the parents are not thrilled about this development....

I know there was one recently on ArsTechnica's forum about this. It links to a couple articles 1 2 discussing some of the ways people see this and why they see it as good or bad.

I know there was one recently on ArsTechnica's forum about this. It links to a couple articles 1 2 discussing some of the ways people see this and why they see it as good or bad.