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According to recent information and studies there seems to something to the Low Carb High Fat diet, not just for weight loss, but for much better serum cholesterol numbers and lower inflammation markers. But citing Joe Mercola probably isn't convincing anybody of the credibility of what you're saying.

Your link is nothing but stuff the FDA complained about Mercola doing. Frankly, in my book, anyone that the big-pharma paid and Monsanto-protecting corporate-controlled bully that the FDA is today wants to discredit must be someone who is doing something right.

Stalin youth pictures: http://www.menshairforum.com/t...
Tsarnaev brothers: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

All came from the Caucasus where the semites escaped to after the Romans killed their brothers at Masada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

Romans, how they dealt with the people they wanted to conquer who resisted them (traian's column): http://textbookformypillow.fil... from http://textbookformypillow.wor...

Hitler, who 5 years after the Stalinist purges started his attack: http://assets.nydailynews.com/...

History keeps repeating itself. For every action there are consequences.

Stalin youth pictures: http://www.menshairforum.com/t...
Tsarnaev brothers: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

All came from the Caucasus where the semites escaped to after the Romans killed their brothers at Masada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

Romans, how they dealt with the people they wanted to conquer who resisted them (traian's column): http://textbookformypillow.fil... from http://textbookformypillow.wor...

Hitler, who 5 years after the Stalinist purges started his attack: http://assets.nydailynews.com/...

History keeps repeating itself. For every action there are consequences.

[mercola.com]

According to recent information and studies there seems to something to the Low Carb High Fat diet, not just for weight loss, but for much better serum cholesterol numbers and lower inflammation markers. But citing Joe Mercola probably isn't convincing anybody of the credibility of what you're saying.

It's also not great with disks of mixed size. For example, you can't create a 4TB mirror using a 4TB drive and 2x2TB drives (spanned). For home users, who will have a collection of mixed-size disks, you can do things, but it involves partitioning. I ended up doing something along the lines of this guy: http://tentacles666.wordpress....

All these archeologists on a wild goose chase actually think they keep finding stuff...
The real (very recent, modern) history of stonehenge:
http://weoccupyearth.wordpress...

My smartwatch does everything my smartphone does, plus I saved $199 - $299. Here's my swanky new smartwatch: https://matburyau.files.wordpr...

"It's extremely difficult to 'improve' on the lethality of nature.

So the cross between ebola and the common cold, which was a terrible, terrible thing, wasn't an improvement on lethality?

The 1998 starting date is always used by AGW deniers. Always.

Here is a "denier" graph using a starting date other than 1998. That was very easy to find. I suppose you will complain about the data set they are using. (The RSS data shows the least amount of warming.) Fair enough. Here's a "denier" graph showing where the trend lines hit zero for the various datasets. You will note that not one of them uses 1998 as a start point.

What if we take into account the margin of error, where we can't rule out a trend of zero? (from here)

For UAH: Since March 1996: CI from -0.001 to 2.341
For RSS: Since December 1992: CI from -0.015 to 1.821
For Hadcrut4: Since November 1996: CI from -0.003 to 1.184
For Hadsst3: Since August 1994: CI from -0.014 to 1.666
For GISS: Since October 1997: CI from -0.002 to 1.249

I don't see 1998 anywhere.

What about mainstream sources? Here is a link to the journal Nature that acknowledges the "mysterious" 16 year pause.

Judith Curry writes: "Depending on when you start counting, this hiatus has lasted 16 years. Climate model simulations find that the probability of a hiatus as long as 20 years is vanishingly small. If the 20 year threshold is reached for the pause, this will lead inescapably to the conclusion that the climate model sensitivity to CO2 is too large. Further, 20 years is approaching the length of the warming period from 1976-2000 that is the main smoking gun for AGW."

Are you linking to the published temperatures or the measured temperatures?

Really? Every time it rains in Washington, DC 4 Billion liters of inexpensive, clean water that doesn't require large amounts of energy to process falls.

Yup, the 97% is bollocks, Richard Toll has shown that clearly.

The consensus is of course in the high nineties. No one ever said it was not.

-- Richard Toll

gets both larger, (higher BMI, greater average height), and older, (aging population). Something's gotta give.

Maybe ?

http://ejbron.wordpress.com/20... (in dutch. A poll held by a broadcasting company. Title 'Three quarters of Dutch Muslims thinks Syria-goers are heroes')

You mean like all the great references from the article? Hey let's ask the people that are trying to downplay this situation what their take on the whole thing is?

But here you go: reference. He didn't review it. He just gave it title spot and listed it as a stand out.

I found this by actually following one of the references from the article.

What I found out by following those references: she started sleeping with him in May. This article was published in January. To quote Gjoni's account:

To be clear, if there was any conflict of interest between Zoe and Nathan regarding coverage of Depression Quest prior to April, I have no reason to believe that it was sexual in nature.

(source)

It is therefore irrelevant.

Stop moving the goalposts. The accusations by here boyfriend are here:

http://thezoepost.wordpress.co...

Tell me, which one of these accusations is false?

Those aren't the false accusations referred to by the article. The false accusations are the ones that suggest that she slept with Nathan Grayson in order to persuade him to write a positive review of one of her games. These accusations were quite widespread (e.g. 1, 2, 3), and appear to be completely false because nobody has pointed out a review written by Grayson of any of Quinn's games which was published after the date she's accused of sleeping with him.

Honestly, I'm not sure why anyone who doesn't know her personally would care what men she chooses to sleep with. It's not like it's actually any of our business, really. The one important accusation, that she used sex to get positive reviews for her game, turns out to be false. So let's just forget about the rest, OK?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

I see the words "objectivity", "mpartiality", and "fairness" all included as part of the second paragraph as common parts of established journalistic codes. I'm pretty sure when you have had a sexual relationship those are going to be very difficult things to maintain when speaking about that person or their work. I wouldn't actually expect anyone to say in their article "We shagged and they were awful in the sack, but the video game was pretty great." I would instead expect the journalist to either state that they had a more than professional relationship with that person, or most likely just abstain from writing about them or their game. He should have told his Editor that he had a non-professional relationship with her and had someone else write any articles regarding her or her work, or including plugs for her work.

You see, that's the interesting thing about this story: everyone assumes that he wrote about her games at some point while they were together. But he didn't. As far as I've been able to discover, he last mentioned one of her games in an article he wrote in January (link). He also mentioned her on a personal level, but didn't discuss any of her games, in an article he wrote in March (link). Yet according to her ex's account, he only started sleeping with her in May. So what exactly is unethical here?

He says billions of new games come out every day. Then gives a picture of her game as the only picture in the article and lists it as the number one stand out. You call that "in passing"? I call that "favourable".

Fine. It's a favourable, if brief, review. But as it was written 4 months prior to there being any kind of relationship between the two of them (according to her ex's account) it's quite tricky to see what, if anything, is wrong with it.

He didn't write an article specifically written as a review of her game. What he did was write an article about how there were thousands or more new indie games. Then in that article he said that her game, was the big standout and the only graphic in the article was for her game. That isn't exactly a review but it sure is a ringing endoresment. And while that can sound like nothing of consequence a mention like that on some of these gaming related news sites can make or break a game in a huge way. Just look at how Minecraft went from something no one had heard of to an incredible success in the course of a single weekend, arguably because of a silly web comic.

Yes, but according to her ex's account, she only started sleeping with him in may, and this was published in january. So, it's hard to see how this would be evidence of any kind of malfeasance.

Well, here's the other side..

zoe's then-boyfriend's account
http://thezoepost.wordpress.co...

wizardchan's experience with zoe
http://imgur.com/a/4VOcx

the birth of 4chan's 'vivian james' and zoe's attack on the fine young capitalists
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

david jaffe vs kotaku
http://kotaku.com/5883107/does...
https://soundcloud.com/ben-kuc...

anita sarkeesian is not a gamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

anita sarkeesian misrepresents the subject material. 'thunderf00t's analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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This is an issue of journalistic integrity and quite possibly attempts at reculturing a community to conform to specific political values. The charge of 'misogyny' is just an attempt to muddy the waters and/or poison the well of any would-be critics.

"Views on the ethics of infidelity. Which she maintained is inherently wrong even if the person who was cheated on never finds out, because (aside from willfully endangering their partner by way of increased STD risk) if the unfaithful party then has sex with their partner, they are doing so under false pretenses, and therefore without their partner’s consent. That is, sex with a partner who doesn’t know you’ve cheated on them is sex without consent."

See http://thezoepost.wordpress.co...

Stop moving the goalposts. The accusations by here boyfriend are here:

http://thezoepost.wordpress.co...

Tell me, which one of these accusations is false?

In this thread, the "accusation" is that the accusations against Zoe have truth to them. The accusation takes the form of a comment, not an article in its own right. Your "[citation needed]" post is out of place.

If you're curious about it, look it up. If you dispute it, dispute it. This is a website where people comment about the article, and often about things completely unrelated to the article. Some work on your part is required, the comment thread isn't a place for you to whine about not being spoon-fed. For your [citation needed] comment to be taken at all seriously, you have to at least add that you searched for it and couldn't find it, so you don't believe it's true without more work on OP's part, thus [citation needed].

As it turns out I was curious about the accusation as well so I searched for some more information. Took me about 10 seconds to find some interesting things:

http://www.escapistmagazine.co...
http://thezoepost.wordpress.co...
http://imgur.com/a/4VOcx
http://pastebin.com/Ph22THkJ

Posting anon because I enjoy my job.

For some reason, slashdot has mostly ignored this topic for the past couple weeks, and now we get an article that revels in moralistic naysaying while ignoring what keeps this going.

The recent "ugliness" is not just a product of sexism and misogyny. To be fair, women have been harassed. To be even more fair, not all women who have been harassed have been harassed by "gamers".

The fiasco that has now grown into "Gamergate" (not my term) is not easy to relate in few words, but I will summarize that it is a reaction by enthusiast gamers against a clique of prominent video games journalists, writers, and indie developers who have been using their personal connections to promote each other's works and political ideology, as well as exclude those who do not toe the line.

It began when the ex-boyfriend of indie developer Zoe Quinn made a blog post detailing with evidence how Ms Quinn cheated on him with at least five other people, as well as perceived attempts by her to emotionally manipulate him. (http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/) Among individuals named in the post were Nathan Grayson (a writer for Gawker Media's Kotaku and former writer at Rock, Paper, Shotgun) and Robin Arnott (a judge at the Indiecade independent games competition that later went on to give Ms Quinn's game an award). Initially, this post was ignored by games journalists, and was circulated in online gaming forums. However, many forums deleted any and all topics concerning the matter, including the largest reddit thread deletion in history (with over 20K comments deleted; http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2dz0gs/totalbiscuit_discusses_the_state_of_games/) concerning youtube commentator TotalBiscuit's response to Ms Quinn allegedly using a false DMCA request to take down one of the first videos discussing the subject (http://themundanematt.tumblr.com/post/95428752119/dmca-notice-and-removal).

Investigation by redditors and members of various boards on 4chan soon uncovered that Ms Quinn allegedly pointed her twitter followers to critique a new game charity designed to help female game designers have their ideas actualized because she felt the charity's profit-motivated goals and its policy towards transwomen (biological males who identify as women) were oppressive (http://static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/60/24/6024fb_5271447.jpg). When the creator of the charity attempted to seek promotion from major gaming journalist sites, he was told that since Ms Quinn had issues with the charity, no promotion would be possible (knowyourmeme.com/photos/814183-quinnspiracy).

While specific written pieces promoting Ms Quinn's work were actually short in supply, further investigations showed that the relationships of other journalists to their subjects were less tenuous. Patricia Hernandez of Kotaku was shown through previous twitter conversations to have lived with and possibly had a romantic relationship with Anne Anthropy, an indie developer she directly promoted in several articles. Ben Kuchera of Polygon, among others, was shown to be a supporter of Ms Quinn on Patreon, a site designed to crowd-fund stipends to content-creators. In response to these issues, the two above mentioned games journalism sites posted clarifications and/or updates to their positions on conflicts of interest, noting that they would attempt more honest journalism in the future, as well as in the case of Kotaku disallowing writers to contribute to subjects' Patreon accounts.

This is when hell started breaking loose. Prominent games journalists and indie developers cried out on twitter that Kotaku and Polygon

Nonsense. They are figures at at incident radiation of 1367 W/m^2, which is sunlight at 1 AU, for the very reason that it is an approximation of Earth insolation. So in fact it would make a good representative example of what Spencer's model is supposed to be all about. ... ESA gives observed values for integrated emissivity and absorptivity for aluminum. This is a good approximation and it is used in the real world for aluminum in a vacuum. [Jane Q. Public, 2014-09-03]

Those ESA absorptivities are for absorption of sunlight. Consider the first diagram here which shows that 6000K sunlight has much shorter wavelengths than the radiation from objects at the temperatures we're considering. In fact they hardly overlap. But the emissivities are for radiation emitted by much cooler objects. That's one reason why those ESA emissivities aren't equal to their absorptivities.

Here's a good explanation of this problem: "... white paint is quoted as having an absorptivity of 0.16, while having an emissivity of 0.93.[9] This is because the absorptivity is averaged with weighting for the solar spectrum, while the emissivity is weighted for the emission of the paint itself at normal ambient temperatures. ..."

If you really insist on gray bodies that's up to you; but I do not acknowledge that there is any legitimate reason to NOT use reasonable approximations of integrated absorptivity and emissivity. [Jane Q. Public, 2014-09-03]

Since the absorption values you indirectly cited are for absorption from the 6000K radiation from the Sun, that seems like a legitimate reason not to use those values in a thought experiment where nothing is at 6000K. Again, another reason is that we'd have to recreate MODTRAN to derive heat transfer between non-gray bodies where emissivity and absorptivity are arbitrary functions of wavelength.

And once we debugged that new MODTRAN clone, we'd have to test it in a simple case, like the case of gray bodies where emissivity and absorptivity don't depend on wavelength. So we might as well solve the simple problem first.

We might be talking past each other. What you're calling steady-state is what I'm calling equilibrium. Radiative thermodynamic equilibrium doesn't require all surfaces to be at the same temperature, it simply means that temperatures don't change with time. At radiative equilibrium, power in = power out, which also means irradiance in = irradiance out.

You USED this before to ASSUME all surfaces were at the same temperature! I quoted you saying it in a post above, and you referenced that passage just the other day. In fact this was the source of much of the misunderstanding here. ... [Jane Q. Public, 2014-09-03]

Once again, I never said that. In reality, I said that both sides of a thermal superconductor are at the same temperature. This was the source of much of the misunderstanding here, and you strongly objected to the notion of a thermal superconductor. Again, that's why I calculated the small temperature difference across an aluminum shell with finite conductivity.

That's also

> there are numerous photos of T-72BMs in the Ukraine and the Russian military is the only military in the world to have access to and operate these:

Actually Ukraine had a number of T-72s left from the Soviet era. Here's one behind the Ukranian president:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bte...

Also it has been reported that Hungary has covertly sold 58 T-72s to Ukraine:
http://truthinukraine.wordpres...
http://www.defenseindustrydail...

...then there's got to be something to it.

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Original Taishan NPP plan schedule called for entering commercial service in 2013, full stop.

Then that estimate was quite simply wrong. There's no way in hell that October 2009 + 4 years means you start commercial service in 2013. My guess is it was a neat little fairy tale told to reporters to keep up a nice face, while the project managers knew well that 2014 was more probable.

Yes, if you don't consider the delays, any project will be 'roughly on schedule'.

You can't honestly say that externally imposed unscheduled delays are to be blamed on the project's management. For example, blaming bad weather for not making your offshore wind farm construction schedules. Large projects can have unforeseen complications and first of their kind projects especially so. Cut the guys some slack, both the nuclear and wind ones, they've got a tough job. Design and manufacturing faults, though, (also mentioned in the linked article) are correct to blame on the project.

The net gain (86 Gigatons / year) over the West Antarctic (WA) and East Antarctic ice sheets (WA and EA) is essentially unchanged from revised results for 1992 to 2001 from ERS radar altimetry.

[emphasis mine]

Funny how these contrary studies have never seemed to make the headlines on Slashdot.

Another important factor is having a reliable source for your components (grumble)

all software architects ever do is waste and overhead from a lean perspective.

I have worked with software architects who might fit your description but for a big system to succeed someone competent still has to do the architecture. Kruchten for instance notes an example of a big agile project that fell over its lack of architecture. Coplien Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development is nearer the mark. He is, after all, an expert programmer as well as a software architect.

How many women fly fish? Not many. Guess how much sexism there is keeping women from fly fishing? Zero.

You post about how it's important to provide evidence for a hypothesis, then spit out a hypothesis about sexism with zero evidence for it. That's so remarkably thick-headed I have to think that maybe you're engaged in some sort of meta-troll? If not, then let me point out that a minute with the search engine of your choice can help prevent you saying stupid things:

Angling and Sexism

SEXISM in FISHING ADVERTISING, SHOWS & MAGAZINES

Wanton Sexism in Fly Fishing (What is Going On?)

Bait Shop Sexism

How many women fly fish? Not many. Guess how much sexism there is keeping women from fly fishing? Zero.

You post about how it's important to provide evidence for a hypothesis, then spit out a hypothesis about sexism with zero evidence for it. That's so remarkably thick-headed I have to think that maybe you're engaged in some sort of meta-troll? If not, then let me point out that a minute with the search engine of your choice can help prevent you saying stupid things:

Angling and Sexism

SEXISM in FISHING ADVERTISING, SHOWS & MAGAZINES

Wanton Sexism in Fly Fishing (What is Going On?)

Bait Shop Sexism

You should get counceling to treat your paranoia, seriously. Russia wants war alright.

... I was only partly wrong about the NATO rounds. ... I wasn't wrong, my information was just old. ... [Jane Q. Public, 2014-08-27]

Condescendingly lecturing a veteran like this was wrong: "Bullshit, dude. Maybe where your tour was... Just plain bullshit. ... Give up, man. You are trying to argue with someone who knows what she's [she's?!?] talking about. ... Jeez, dude. Do you even read your own bullshit? ... You may know more than I do about what the military is currently doing, but I do know something about 5.56 ballistics, thank you very fucking much. ... maybe you know more about what the military is doing these days, but if that's what they're doing, they're being just plain stupid. ..."

... So sure, I've made some small errors. And admitted them when I did. But that is only a minority of links above, which you are apparently trying to claim are all "nonsense". Like the beta decay: after some initial confusion I asked how the oscillations take place, and someone answered. I admitted that I was wrong. ... [Jane Q. Public, 2014-08-27]

No, after delt0r answered, you insisted he must not have understood your point. After I repeated delt0r's point, you claimed that you had got yourself sorted out already and accused me of butting in and insulting you.

You've repeated this pattern ad nauseum. After your neutrino rant, you repeatedly claimed that I missed where you admitted you were wrong and asked me "why didn't you bother to repeat the part...?" when I actually had repeated that part and responded to it.

In fact, the more I read of these old streams, the more I've found where I was actually correct. (Like the one on bicycle stability for instance.) I have a copy of that paper right here and it says I was correct. ... [Jane Q. Public, 2014-08-27]

It's more likely that your Sauron-class Morton's demon told you that it says you were correct. Just like you've insisted you were still correct about punctuation despite never providing sentences with the plurals of i, a, and u.

... YOUR problem is that you claim these things are nonsense, but you haven't disproved a single one of them. Why not? ... in a lot of it I wasn't wrong at all, you just think I was. ... [Jane Q. Public, 2014-08-27]

Because you're galloping faster than any Gish Gallop I've ever seen, and because despite your protests you seldom accept refutations for longer than about 5 minutes anyway.

... One last thing, to anybody else who has bothered to wade through a

I'm quite aware of how radiotoxicity of spent nuclear fuel works. There are in fact graphs detailing it. Fast reactors and actinide burners prevent the actinides from entering the waste stream in the first place, hence why their waste is below original uranium ore radiotoxicity levels after a few hundred years. After that, you can essentially throw the stuff back into the pit you got it out of, knowing that you've actually lowered the overall radiotoxicity of the original material. For current LWRs on a once-through cycle this doesn't occur until some hundreds of thousands of years in the future.

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My point is that you've been spreading nonsense like a firehose for years, and each time your Sauron-class Morton's demon convinces you that you're right and the other person isn't very good at refutation. This doesn't just apply to your nonsense about climate change, dark matter, neutrino oscillation, the Casimir effect and Maxwell's equations, creationists, Obama birthers and 9/11 Truthers.

It also applies to your nonsense about conservation of energy, beta decay, quantum computing, nuclear isomers, Cherenkov radiation, virtual particles, infinities, string theory, cold fusion, R o s s i ' s E - C a t L E N R h o a x, peltier coolers, GPS, bicycle stability, control theory, hyperbolic trajectories,

obviously, because global warming may lead to something very bad and very $$; if it doesn't lead to these things, not a lot of people will care.
How do we know global warming might lead to something bad , at least in a quantitative sense ?
All (all) of our detailed knowledge is from computer programs (climate models) which simulate changes in the future

However, It is an observed fact (fyfe) that over the last ten years, the surface temp of the earth has not increased as much as predicted by models; the models fail.
The models also can't reconstruct the last few thousand years (Liu), where we Know what happened.

This anomaly is the main current argument of denialists (those who think global warming is not occurring, or is not manmade, or is not important) and cause for concern among climate scientists.

Several attempts have been made to find the missing heat without great acceptance, eg Cowtan (who are not, afaik, climatologists) say that the missing heat is in the Arctic, which is not well measured by instruments.
It appears that Chen and Tung have found the answer: the earth is warming, but the heat is going into the ocean instead of the atmosphere.

SO: the models are clearly not accurate even on a 10year time scale.
so why should we take seriously alarmist views about the future ?
I guess it is probability: if there is even a X% chance that something really bad could happen, is it worth spending ~ 0.5% of global GDP (~ 850 billion dollars a year) to prevent this possible catastrophre ?

Me personally, my house is about 5 miles and 200 feet up from the Atlantic Ocean, so global warming is good for me: I get beachfront property......

Fyfe
http://hypergeometric.wordpres...

liu
http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...

cowtan
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

chen and tung
http://www.washington.edu/news...

Just don't look at Rob Ford. He's not even trying to disguise himself.

Well, at least he doesn't have a zipper on his forehead.

Infamous reference to Metagaming's game "Olympica" (c) 1977 top back cover subtitle:

https://whatarmy.files.wordpre...

From the back cover of the rule book:

"THE WEBBIES WANT YOUR MIND...

OLYMPICA simulates the U.N. Mars raid to capture the Web Mind Generator from a heavily defended area near Nix Olympica's massive caldera. The Webbie revolutionaries are deep in their tunnel complexes surrounded by strong points and infantry. The raiders will use infantry, laser tanks, lifters and the tunnel blasting BOAR drill. If they fail man's future may fall to the telepathic, religion/machine Web Mind of Mars.

OLYMPICA is the clever tactical creation of Lynn Willis. His future history of the Martian revolution of 2206 hinges on the crucial U.N. raid. The game is easy to learn, fast playing, and challenging. Like the other Microgames, it is ideal for beginners and fun for pros. OLYMPICA is the perfect game for those who've never tried science fiction games.

Components for the game include a 24 page rules booklet, play counters, and hex gridded map of the Nix Olympica region."

http://boardgamegeek.com/board...

During the 11th March earthquake in Japan a couple of plants experienced problems with their SCRAM mechanisms.

Yes, that's possible, however the control rod budget is quite oversubscribed, so that even if some of them fail, there should be enough of them to stop the reactor. Should the gravitational system itself fail, it's always possible for the drive mechanism to push them inside after the fact. Lastly, should this fail, modern reactors (such as the AP1000) have on gravitational injection of borated coolant water, which kills the reaction, though takes a little longer and relies on the reactor vessel being intact.
As for the leaks of reactor pipes, it's always a possibility due to their unfortunate high-pressure vessel design. To my knowledge no reactor vessel or piping has ever catastrophically failed (double-ended pipe break), though Fukushima obviously did leak in places. However, I don't think that the inability of operators to monitor was the direct cause of the issues, as right after the earthquake monitoring equipment was still operational. Instead the problem was the fact that the site was 100% dependent on on-site diesel, which was flooded half an hour later when the tsunami arrived - I can't imagine which idiot thought placing the diesels in the basement and air intake louvers so low was a good idea. The hydrogen explosion problem could have been averted had they used proper passive autocatalytic recombiners, but they cheaped out and instead decided to just duct the hydrogen away, which is a boneheaded idea.
In any case, I'm much less a fan of these old plant designs. They're much better than the sitting bomb RBMK designs, but they're certainly very far from perfect (early Gen II - basically designed when these were the most powerful computers available). Don't you think we might have made significant advancements since then in safety? I'm especially interested in the denatured molten salt reactor, which avoids the complexities of salt reprocessing and brings full passive safety with it.

I know, I run my Bitcoin operation on your system. Thanks, btw!

http://storageservers.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/synology-nas-systems-hacked-and-being-used-for-crypto-currency-mining-schemes/"

I think if I knew about TDD at the start of wanting to learn to program, I think I would have avoided it completely, and done something else with my time. Seriously, for all the advantages of TDD, the problem is it is just not fun at all.

Since no one answered this question, I did a simple google search which threw up these results :-

Nimrod: A New Systems Programming Language
Category:Nimrod
Consider the Nimrod Programming Language
What I like about the Nimrod programming language
Araq/Nimrod
Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming
Nimrod: A new statically typed, compiled programming language which supports metaprogramming

I am just a layman when it comes to Wikipedia editing, but it looks pretty substantial to me. It would appear that the complaint that notability requirements are too strict has just cause.

I really want fusion to happen, but this gives me pause: http://matter2energy.wordpress...

Extremely well written and by an expert in the field. Perhaps a novel approach can push past these limitations, but I'm with you on being low on enthusiasm. Still, research, test, explore!

http://internationalextraditionblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/us-sweden-extradition-supplementary-treaty-35-ust-2501.pdf
The supplementary treaty between Sweden and U.S.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/25/the_brilliant_legal_calculus_behind_assanges_asylum_request
The legal calculus behind Assange's asylum request

And you also have this monster thread regarding this (in Swedish) with over 62000 comments!
https://www.flashback.org/t1275257
Wikileaks grundare Julian Assange eftersokt for valdtakt i Sverige

Or this one http://woburnferalcats.org/yah...
or this one http://gkimagery.files.wordpre... ....

you keep saying the exact opposite of reality

I'm not the one confusing unsubstantiated computer models with reality.

and no, 1970 was not some local minimum

I looked before I posted.

Rosie, cover your audio inputs. What?! Eeeek! Don't say that!