That's kind of my point. Nuclear power and the meltdown didn't really cause much in the way of damage and effects. The damage and effects were due to poor planning, government incompetence and panic created by the media. For some reason Fukushima took all the headlines despite even under the worst case and including the evacuation damages and deaths still pales in comparison with the actual earthquake and tsunami that caused the nuclear problem in the first place.
An estimated 1600 deaths due to the nuclear evacuation vs the close to 16,000 deaths and 2500 missing from the earthquake and tsunami. I'm not too worried about the effects of a powerplant failure caused a disaster that was at least 10x worse even considering the mismanagement of the response.
I guess you don't go anywhere then. I just went to Japan on vacation and not only did they take my picture, they fingerprinted me when I arrived in their nation. You go to a foreign country, you play by their rules. If you don't play by their rules, don't get upset when they kick you out.
You mean the folks that received between 1 and 15 mSv for the inhabitants of the affected areas? Note that the average annual dose for Japanese citizens is around 4mSv. So for the most severe case of residents, they got a 4 year dose. Current residual radiation is lower than many cities natural background radiation. http://www.pref.fukushima.lg.j...
I doubt electric only will out sell or produce gasoline only production by 2035. I agree that hybrids are likely to gain a lot of traction, but I see the split being more like 15:60:25 for passenger vehicles. The cheap end of cars is going to be gasoline only for a long while considering the cost of batteries and that's a good amount of volume. People on a tight budget are unlikely to invest more capital up front to reduce fuel costs over the life of the vehicle. Also, pickup trucks are unlikely to transition to hybrids at all in the next 5 years and definitely won't be electric only for a lot longer. Electric only isn't going to take over commercial vehicles anytime soon either. Until batteries can charge in 5 minutes comparable to refueling or last an entire 8 or 10 hour shift employers aren't going to pay to sit around and wait for charging and they aren't going to maintain twice or three times the fleet or swappable batteries to keep a charged vehicle at the ready. Electric only might make some inroads to long distance freight trucks, but I see that being more of a transition to electric motors powered by a diesel generator similar to how rail is primarily powered today for freight.
Can I have some of what you are smoking? There is no way fossil fuel cars are going away by 2035. Even if the necessary energy storage and packaging issues are solved and electric cars become entirely feasible to replace gasoline and diesel, the electric grid cannot handle that hand off and it will take more than 17 years to add the infrastructure necessary to deliver that amount of energy much less produce it.
I don't know that I was that married to the original characters. Yes, I'm not happy with Luke's motivations or behavior in the movie. Yes, I'm not happy with how Leia survives an explosion, decompression, and floating in space while Ackbar just dies without note (that upset me a bit).
They introduce new characters that don't add anything to the story either... Rose is just there to tell the audience how horrible deserters, arms dealers, and horse racers are I guess? Except that makes her kind of horrible because she's in the Resistance who shouldn't be using tazers to prevent people from leaving almost certain death... The resistance also supports these arms dealers by buying their wares. WTF is horse racing doing in Star Wars again? Was pod racing not the only cool thing from Episode 1?
What the hell is Holdo doing? What kind of resistance leader keeps everyone in the dark about what their fate is and how they are going to keep resisting? Nope, just keep on getting bombarded and losing ships troops. Trust me, I have colored hair... I don't recall any other scene where Ackbar or Mon Mothma was like, we are going to send the entire fleet to the Death Star in what looks like a suicide mission, but we aren't going to tell anyone about the secret plan to send a team to disable the shields on Endor. We aren't even going to bother writing in a line about being worried about a mole so there might be SOME motivation for withholding the plan.
Also, I close my statement with Space Monte Carlo. SPACE FREAKING MONTE CARLO. Wait no, one more... Battering Ram Cannon? BATTERING FREAKING RAM CANNON? It's like they didn't even try to be creative or figure out what might be reasonable in the Star Wars universe.
Even when I go to the opera, they manage to not break the 4th wall... I want to be lost in the fiction, be it science based or pure fantasy. TLJ could have been a movie made by cosplayers on Earth for how much I felt in a galaxy far far away.
It was a decent movie, but as Star Wars, it broke something for me. It was no longer a sci-fi universe, it was just a movie. So many small things brought you back out of Star Wars and into the theater as a human, on earth, today, watching a movie with jokes for you. Yes, the prequels sucked as movies, but at least they didn't have obvious audience nods that didn't fit in with the universe.
Based on my experience, that is untrue of Alexa. She is very much like DOS. If you don't know the command, she doesn't work. It has the ability to accept multiple ways to say the command, but the command must be known to work. This is why Amazon sends you emails constantly telling you about features. I still haven't figured out the correct command to control my thermostat so I just disabled the Alexa control and use my phone.
Google on the other hand... Their assistant is a Google search and as such does a far better job of handling any random query based on their vast knowledge of what people are asking for. It's much more general purpose.
I would be China does care less, but I guarantee the Chinese government has more to fear being discovered monitoring US citizens than the US government does. China would face some sort of international backlash if they did anything nefarious with the data. The US government would face a week of headlines and then be forgotten.
Also, this bullshit happened down the street from my office. Asshole cops around here have nothing to do but issue minor traffic citations. Did you hear the officer who swore at the old lady resigned and in his resignation complained that he didn't think he'd receive a fair investigation? What a douche...
I disagree. Twitter when it has customer service is way more awesome than other forms. I've personally had a fantastic customer service experience with Comcast (of all companies) on Twitter after getting pissed as hell using phone, email, and chat support methods. The Twitter support was able to do a private chat, not in real time (i.e. in between meetings and such during the day), and help me get an internet plan I actually wanted vs the shit that got pushed on me by the phone support and the absolutely useless live chat support.
The key with customer service is that the person working for the company has to have power to do something for the customer. If the Twitter representative is only authorized to say "sorry about that" it's not going to make people happy and be a shitty job (though again, still not nearly as bad as a million other real jobs). If the Twitter person is authorized to help customers, it can be a great system that makes the company better and the customer happier.
Not necessarily because of cheap Iranian exports. It could have been lobbyists for the competition of companies like Boeing that were jumping into the market of selling to Iran. I don't assume I am powerless to make decisions about my government, I KNOW I am powerless to make decisions. Even in a midterm primary election, the candidates are only from the two major parties and none of the candidates available on the ballot represent my views. Assuming my vote actually made a difference in a first past the post voting system, I have no one to support that would voice my views.
The learned lesson in this for other countries is to never make a deal with the President of the USA and expect it to last past the next election. If Congress doesn't pass the deal, then pray we don't alter it further...
I mean he did kind of throw away that whole post-partisan president thing early when it came to the Obamacare legislation...
Both sides are asshole filled committees that don't negotiate or deal. They only take bribes from lobbyists and make loud statements for the media to push as negotiations. I'm sure the Iran nuclear deal fell apart because some business interest wanted the sanctions again.
You jest, but this is what companies will do to game the numbers. Next time you are at the grocery store look at the nutrition information by serving on the front of frozen pizzas. You'll see within the same brand one reported serving size as 1/4 pizza, another 1/5 pizza, and another 1/6 pizza. If you can't establish a standardized serving size, then the nutrition information is going to be misleading at best. Also, what monster cuts a pizza into 5 slices?
I dunno, the pistol she did use only caused a single fatality and that was of the operator of the gun. Probably would have been easier to just drive a car through the front door...
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That's kind of my point. Nuclear power and the meltdown didn't really cause much in the way of damage and effects. The damage and effects were due to poor planning, government incompetence and panic created by the media. For some reason Fukushima took all the headlines despite even under the worst case and including the evacuation damages and deaths still pales in comparison with the actual earthquake and tsunami that caused the nuclear problem in the first place.
An estimated 1600 deaths due to the nuclear evacuation vs the close to 16,000 deaths and 2500 missing from the earthquake and tsunami. I'm not too worried about the effects of a powerplant failure caused a disaster that was at least 10x worse even considering the mismanagement of the response.
I guess you don't go anywhere then. I just went to Japan on vacation and not only did they take my picture, they fingerprinted me when I arrived in their nation. You go to a foreign country, you play by their rules. If you don't play by their rules, don't get upset when they kick you out.
You mean the folks that received between 1 and 15 mSv for the inhabitants of the affected areas? Note that the average annual dose for Japanese citizens is around 4mSv. So for the most severe case of residents, they got a 4 year dose. Current residual radiation is lower than many cities natural background radiation.
http://www.pref.fukushima.lg.j...
I doubt electric only will out sell or produce gasoline only production by 2035. I agree that hybrids are likely to gain a lot of traction, but I see the split being more like 15:60:25 for passenger vehicles. The cheap end of cars is going to be gasoline only for a long while considering the cost of batteries and that's a good amount of volume. People on a tight budget are unlikely to invest more capital up front to reduce fuel costs over the life of the vehicle. Also, pickup trucks are unlikely to transition to hybrids at all in the next 5 years and definitely won't be electric only for a lot longer. Electric only isn't going to take over commercial vehicles anytime soon either. Until batteries can charge in 5 minutes comparable to refueling or last an entire 8 or 10 hour shift employers aren't going to pay to sit around and wait for charging and they aren't going to maintain twice or three times the fleet or swappable batteries to keep a charged vehicle at the ready. Electric only might make some inroads to long distance freight trucks, but I see that being more of a transition to electric motors powered by a diesel generator similar to how rail is primarily powered today for freight.
Can I have some of what you are smoking? There is no way fossil fuel cars are going away by 2035. Even if the necessary energy storage and packaging issues are solved and electric cars become entirely feasible to replace gasoline and diesel, the electric grid cannot handle that hand off and it will take more than 17 years to add the infrastructure necessary to deliver that amount of energy much less produce it.
I use Windows Defender because it's the only AV that isn't worse than the viruses it is supposed to be protecting against...
I don't know that I was that married to the original characters. Yes, I'm not happy with Luke's motivations or behavior in the movie. Yes, I'm not happy with how Leia survives an explosion, decompression, and floating in space while Ackbar just dies without note (that upset me a bit).
They introduce new characters that don't add anything to the story either... Rose is just there to tell the audience how horrible deserters, arms dealers, and horse racers are I guess? Except that makes her kind of horrible because she's in the Resistance who shouldn't be using tazers to prevent people from leaving almost certain death... The resistance also supports these arms dealers by buying their wares. WTF is horse racing doing in Star Wars again? Was pod racing not the only cool thing from Episode 1?
What the hell is Holdo doing? What kind of resistance leader keeps everyone in the dark about what their fate is and how they are going to keep resisting? Nope, just keep on getting bombarded and losing ships troops. Trust me, I have colored hair... I don't recall any other scene where Ackbar or Mon Mothma was like, we are going to send the entire fleet to the Death Star in what looks like a suicide mission, but we aren't going to tell anyone about the secret plan to send a team to disable the shields on Endor. We aren't even going to bother writing in a line about being worried about a mole so there might be SOME motivation for withholding the plan.
Also, I close my statement with Space Monte Carlo. SPACE FREAKING MONTE CARLO. Wait no, one more... Battering Ram Cannon? BATTERING FREAKING RAM CANNON? It's like they didn't even try to be creative or figure out what might be reasonable in the Star Wars universe.
Even when I go to the opera, they manage to not break the 4th wall... I want to be lost in the fiction, be it science based or pure fantasy. TLJ could have been a movie made by cosplayers on Earth for how much I felt in a galaxy far far away.
I'll take an Ewok over a Porg any day, any time. Ewoks were cute and actually participated in the plot.
It was a decent movie, but as Star Wars, it broke something for me. It was no longer a sci-fi universe, it was just a movie. So many small things brought you back out of Star Wars and into the theater as a human, on earth, today, watching a movie with jokes for you. Yes, the prequels sucked as movies, but at least they didn't have obvious audience nods that didn't fit in with the universe.
Based on my experience, that is untrue of Alexa. She is very much like DOS. If you don't know the command, she doesn't work. It has the ability to accept multiple ways to say the command, but the command must be known to work. This is why Amazon sends you emails constantly telling you about features. I still haven't figured out the correct command to control my thermostat so I just disabled the Alexa control and use my phone.
Google on the other hand... Their assistant is a Google search and as such does a far better job of handling any random query based on their vast knowledge of what people are asking for. It's much more general purpose.
I would be China does care less, but I guarantee the Chinese government has more to fear being discovered monitoring US citizens than the US government does. China would face some sort of international backlash if they did anything nefarious with the data. The US government would face a week of headlines and then be forgotten.
Sadly, the comments are about the same quality on the two platforms...
As of last night, RedTube is still going strong...
Sadly, I almost trust China to be more responsible with illegally taking my data than my own American government...
Where is the "Sad but true" mod? Underrated?
Also, this bullshit happened down the street from my office. Asshole cops around here have nothing to do but issue minor traffic citations. Did you hear the officer who swore at the old lady resigned and in his resignation complained that he didn't think he'd receive a fair investigation? What a douche...
How about the entirety of the Washington DC metro area?
I disagree. Twitter when it has customer service is way more awesome than other forms. I've personally had a fantastic customer service experience with Comcast (of all companies) on Twitter after getting pissed as hell using phone, email, and chat support methods. The Twitter support was able to do a private chat, not in real time (i.e. in between meetings and such during the day), and help me get an internet plan I actually wanted vs the shit that got pushed on me by the phone support and the absolutely useless live chat support.
The key with customer service is that the person working for the company has to have power to do something for the customer. If the Twitter representative is only authorized to say "sorry about that" it's not going to make people happy and be a shitty job (though again, still not nearly as bad as a million other real jobs). If the Twitter person is authorized to help customers, it can be a great system that makes the company better and the customer happier.
Not necessarily because of cheap Iranian exports. It could have been lobbyists for the competition of companies like Boeing that were jumping into the market of selling to Iran. I don't assume I am powerless to make decisions about my government, I KNOW I am powerless to make decisions. Even in a midterm primary election, the candidates are only from the two major parties and none of the candidates available on the ballot represent my views. Assuming my vote actually made a difference in a first past the post voting system, I have no one to support that would voice my views.
The learned lesson in this for other countries is to never make a deal with the President of the USA and expect it to last past the next election. If Congress doesn't pass the deal, then pray we don't alter it further...
I mean he did kind of throw away that whole post-partisan president thing early when it came to the Obamacare legislation...
Both sides are asshole filled committees that don't negotiate or deal. They only take bribes from lobbyists and make loud statements for the media to push as negotiations. I'm sure the Iran nuclear deal fell apart because some business interest wanted the sanctions again.
You jest, but this is what companies will do to game the numbers. Next time you are at the grocery store look at the nutrition information by serving on the front of frozen pizzas. You'll see within the same brand one reported serving size as 1/4 pizza, another 1/5 pizza, and another 1/6 pizza. If you can't establish a standardized serving size, then the nutrition information is going to be misleading at best. Also, what monster cuts a pizza into 5 slices?
Or they got lucky that the plane was able to descend fast enough to keep their brains from asphyxiating...
Yep, common issue. Get you one of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
I dunno, the pistol she did use only caused a single fatality and that was of the operator of the gun. Probably would have been easier to just drive a car through the front door...