The entire southwestern coast of Italy and parts of the Sicily coast were depopulated by piracy. Demographics there haven't rebounded since the 16th-18th centuries.
I get good internet in Anchorage AK, and that city has half the population of the state. Actually, internet in Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks is pretty good and those areas make up about 70% of the state.
Same goes for Nevada, the bulk of the population are in Reno and Las Vegas, both have very good connectivity. Kansas has most of it's population to the east and theres alot of broadband there.
Better examples of states that suck for broadband would be the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, West Virgina or Hawaii. Non-centralized populations, vast distances or disruptive geography.
So which terribly expensive and terribly polluted site are we going to spend billions of dollars to restart?
And why when we have a stockpile of over 9,000 nuclear weapons do we need new plutonium pits?
"In 2004, the stockpile included 5,886 strategic warheads and 1,120 non-strategic weapons. The strategic weapons included 1,490 ICBM warheads, 2,736 submarine launched ballistic missile warheads, 1,660 bomber weapons (strategic B61 and B83 gravity bombs, ALCM, and AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles), and several hundred spare warheads. The tactical weapons consist of 800 tactical B61 gravity bombs and 320 nuclear warheads for Tomahawk missiles."
If a Republican Congress voted money to restart Plutonium pit fabrication it'd be one of the greatest wastes of military spending ever in the United States. Worse than the Sgt York ADA system.
Umm, because the production and manufacturing processes for Plutonium are really expensive and are really toxic?
Do you know anything about Plutonium?
Some tidbits about the most toxic metal on the planet.
"It reacts with carbon, halogens, nitrogen and silicon. When exposed to moist air, it forms oxides and hydrides that expand the sample up to 70% in volume, which in turn flake off as a powder that can spontaneously ignite."
"Reactor-grade plutonium from spent nuclear fuel contains various isotopes of plutonium. Pu-238 makes up only a percent or two, but may be responsible for much of the short-term decay heat because of its short halflife. This is not useful for producing Pu-238 for RTGs because difficult isotopic separation would be needed."
100 kg of reactor fuel will produce about 400g of Pu-238 after three years.
The US was in on the industry, remember the entire Nuclear Weapon Complex the US had/has from Savannah River to Oak Ridge to Pantex to Rocky Flats to Los Alamos to Hanford?
Plutonium is a pain to produce, clean up and deal with.
We only made it in the US at Hanford and Savannah River, both of those are shut down now.
It's very toxic, very hard to work with and very flammable and very much controlled, so thats why no private companies are in the market to produce it.
To produce Pu-238 you produce a ton of weapons grade plutonium, do we really need more of that crap churned out?
The SVR is the successor to the KGB's First Chief Directorate, the section that is responsible for intelligence and espionage activities outside the Russian Federation. It works in cooperation with the Russian military intelligence organization GRU, negotiates anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies, and briefs the Russian president.
The FSB is the domestic intelligence organization handling counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance.
So it's like the division of the CIA and FBI with the GRU being the DIA.
Back in the Cold War, the ten Russian spies would have been working for the KGB, they didn't work for FSB this time however, they worked for SVR.
Now in addition to PTSD from cancer and chemo I'll have "picky eating" as a psychiatric disorder.
Yea, I'm a picky eater, in addition to chemo palate some foods and smells will trigger my PTSD. See when I had cancer some things would set off my nausea.
But the process is very heavily weighted for European countries.
All of Asia - four slots representing 3.88 billion people.
Africa - six slots (including 1 for the host)representing 1 billion people
Central and North America, Caribbean - 3 slots for.528 billion people
South America - 5 slots for.385 billion people
Europe - 13 slots for.731 billion people.
And one slot up for grabs between Asia and Oceania.
Asia should have 7 slots, Europe, 8, South America 4, Africa, 7, North/Central America 4 with the last spot interchangeable with South America like how Oceania and Asia's is now and Oceania 1. Thats 31 plus 1 for the host country.
I'm only interested in a couple sports (American Football, Soccer, Hockey) and almost none of the Winter Olympics, but I love Curling, it's addictive to watch and try and figure out.
It's not really a World Cup, it's a European-South American Cup with a couple countries from other continents invited.
The US is top tier in FIFA rankings compared to China, India, Russia, the Islamic World. I'm also amused that they put Israel in with UEFA and not in AFC because the Islamic nations won't play them. Put Israel in AFC and if they won't play then they forfeit.
Kinda sucks for those of us who didn't spoof their name on their account near 6 years ago because we didn't think Blizzard would do something this stupid.
It'll take an act of Congress to change the name that's associated with my account.
And I'm the only one in the US or EU with my name.
And when Blizzard started this Real ID was only going to attach a real name you friended for cross-faction/game/realms.
Then few weeks into that they announce it's going to the forums.
Sure it's not connected to a character unless they choose too, here is an example of how that's broken.
Guild X is posting LF guildies and Guild X's recruiting officer puts up the post and uses their real name but no character. So you see Tammy.Jo posted it. You hop on WoW and ask someone in Guild X who their recruitment officer is and now you have Tammy.Jo's real name and character names.
Now, how long before blizzard shifts this tagging characters and Real Names into Armory?
"All pilots operating within and near this area including the shoreline should exercise extreme caution due to the numerous low level operations associated with the deepwater horizon/mc-252 incident 3000 feet and below.
Aircraft involved in these operations may make sudden changes in direction, speed, and altitude. For additional information, participating aircraft altitude assignments and awareness, all pilots are recommended to review the following web site dedicated to the aviation cleanup efforts at: https://1afnorth.region1.ang.af.mil/deepwater_spill/default.Aspx
With the exception of aircraft conducting aerial chemical dispersing operations;no fixed wing aircraft are authorized below 1000 feet above the surface unless for landing and takeoff"
The FAA rules are to keep collisions from happening.
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And where are those billions of dollars coming from? And who is going to lead changing the nuclear weapons treaties with the Russians?
Furthermore, in a world where we are trying to keep nuclear weapons from Iran and North Korea how exactly does starting up Plutonium production look?
This is Plutonium for space research, other isotopes can be used for RTGs, other elements can be used for power production, how is this vital?
We did?
I've a pro-fission guy, and pro-atomic weapons, but even I realize that Plutonium was a fraking mess at best.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/earth/11plutonium.html?src=mv
Triple the amount of waste in the soil than was projected at Hanford, in a couple hundred years it'll be in the Columbia River.
And we produced more than twice the amount of Plutonium we needed
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/rced97098.htm
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06352.pdf
It cost 10 billion dollars to clean up Rocky Flats, a "clean" site compared to Hanford.
It's going to cost the UK a total of 146 billion dollars to clean their Plutonium site up.
So why in 40+ years didn't we figure this out if we were so damned good at it?
Like there aren't restive jackasses on the left.
Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher the anti-vaxer or my favorites...MEChA
The entire southwestern coast of Italy and parts of the Sicily coast were depopulated by piracy. Demographics there haven't rebounded since the 16th-18th centuries.
Old infrastructure. Telcos. Government.
I get good internet in Anchorage AK, and that city has half the population of the state. Actually, internet in Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks is pretty good and those areas make up about 70% of the state.
Same goes for Nevada, the bulk of the population are in Reno and Las Vegas, both have very good connectivity. Kansas has most of it's population to the east and theres alot of broadband there.
Better examples of states that suck for broadband would be the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, West Virgina or Hawaii. Non-centralized populations, vast distances or disruptive geography.
http://gigaom.com/2008/05/27/report-state-of-broadband-according-to-akamai/
Live map
http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/
No other country that is at the top of the broadband list has 100 million homes.
http://top10.com/broadband/blog/2010/02/top_10_broadband_countries/
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/01/news/economy/broadband_internet_connection/index.htm
It's much easier to throw alot of broadband out when your populations are centralized, or the country is small.
But we don't need Plutonium for nuclear power.
U-233, Thorium, U-235 are all viable for traditional, breeder reactors or modular "pebble-bed" reactors.
And I doubt if something traumatic like the oil running out, that the species will be extinct in a couple hundred years.
The species has survived much more than that.
So which terribly expensive and terribly polluted site are we going to spend billions of dollars to restart?
And why when we have a stockpile of over 9,000 nuclear weapons do we need new plutonium pits?
"In 2004, the stockpile included 5,886 strategic warheads and 1,120 non-strategic weapons. The strategic weapons included 1,490 ICBM warheads, 2,736 submarine launched ballistic missile warheads, 1,660 bomber weapons (strategic B61 and B83 gravity bombs, ALCM, and AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles), and several hundred spare warheads. The tactical weapons consist of 800 tactical B61 gravity bombs and 320 nuclear warheads for Tomahawk missiles."
If a Republican Congress voted money to restart Plutonium pit fabrication it'd be one of the greatest wastes of military spending ever in the United States. Worse than the Sgt York ADA system.
Umm, because the production and manufacturing processes for Plutonium are really expensive and are really toxic?
Do you know anything about Plutonium?
Some tidbits about the most toxic metal on the planet.
"It reacts with carbon, halogens, nitrogen and silicon. When exposed to moist air, it forms oxides and hydrides that expand the sample up to 70% in volume, which in turn flake off as a powder that can spontaneously ignite."
"Reactor-grade plutonium from spent nuclear fuel contains various isotopes of plutonium. Pu-238 makes up only a percent or two, but may be responsible for much of the short-term decay heat because of its short halflife. This is not useful for producing Pu-238 for RTGs because difficult isotopic separation would be needed."
100 kg of reactor fuel will produce about 400g of Pu-238 after three years.
Yes, it can be used as Pu-239 in a reactor.
The US was in on the industry, remember the entire Nuclear Weapon Complex the US had/has from Savannah River to Oak Ridge to Pantex to Rocky Flats to Los Alamos to Hanford?
Plutonium is a pain to produce, clean up and deal with.
We only made it in the US at Hanford and Savannah River, both of those are shut down now.
It's very toxic, very hard to work with and very flammable and very much controlled, so thats why no private companies are in the market to produce it.
To produce Pu-238 you produce a ton of weapons grade plutonium, do we really need more of that crap churned out?
http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/plutonium.htm
The SVR is the successor to the KGB's First Chief Directorate, the section that is responsible for intelligence and espionage activities outside the Russian Federation. It works in cooperation with the Russian military intelligence organization GRU, negotiates anti-terrorist cooperation and intelligence-sharing arrangements with foreign intelligence agencies, and briefs the Russian president.
The FSB is the domestic intelligence organization handling counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance.
So it's like the division of the CIA and FBI with the GRU being the DIA.
Back in the Cold War, the ten Russian spies would have been working for the KGB, they didn't work for FSB this time however, they worked for SVR.
Now in addition to PTSD from cancer and chemo I'll have "picky eating" as a psychiatric disorder.
Yea, I'm a picky eater, in addition to chemo palate some foods and smells will trigger my PTSD. See when I had cancer some things would set off my nausea.
There is no "American Union", or are you saying Mexico, the US and Canada should get on spot total?
But the process is very heavily weighted for European countries.
All of Asia - four slots representing 3.88 billion people.
Africa - six slots (including 1 for the host)representing 1 billion people
Central and North America, Caribbean - 3 slots for .528 billion people
South America - 5 slots for .385 billion people
Europe - 13 slots for .731 billion people.
And one slot up for grabs between Asia and Oceania.
Asia should have 7 slots, Europe, 8, South America 4, Africa, 7, North/Central America 4 with the last spot interchangeable with South America like how Oceania and Asia's is now and Oceania 1. Thats 31 plus 1 for the host country.
I'm only interested in a couple sports (American Football, Soccer, Hockey) and almost none of the Winter Olympics, but I love Curling, it's addictive to watch and try and figure out.
If anything the UEFA cup should be called the World Cup because players from all over the world are in the European Leagues.
I know they call it the World Series because the best players in the world come to the MLB and all that, it's a dumb name for a series.
How many countries have a serious interest in Baseball? US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, RoK and Japan, that's pretty much it.
The MLB series should be called the Commissioner's Series.
Nor does the bulk of Asia.
It's not really a World Cup, it's a European-South American Cup with a couple countries from other continents invited.
The US is top tier in FIFA rankings compared to China, India, Russia, the Islamic World. I'm also amused that they put Israel in with UEFA and not in AFC because the Islamic nations won't play them. Put Israel in AFC and if they won't play then they forfeit.
Kinda sucks for those of us who didn't spoof their name on their account near 6 years ago because we didn't think Blizzard would do something this stupid.
It'll take an act of Congress to change the name that's associated with my account.
And I'm the only one in the US or EU with my name.
And when Blizzard started this Real ID was only going to attach a real name you friended for cross-faction/game/realms.
Then few weeks into that they announce it's going to the forums.
Sure it's not connected to a character unless they choose too, here is an example of how that's broken.
Guild X is posting LF guildies and Guild X's recruiting officer puts up the post and uses their real name but no character. So you see Tammy.Jo posted it. You hop on WoW and ask someone in Guild X who their recruitment officer is and now you have Tammy.Jo's real name and character names.
Now, how long before blizzard shifts this tagging characters and Real Names into Armory?
It's a dumb idea all the way around.
Is this going to tag a character on WoW Armory with the Real ID user name of the account holder?
It'd be awesome to find the names of an entire guild.
Worst damned idea ever Blizzard.
The no fly zone isn't a no fly zone.
It's a don't go under 3000 feet or you might hit someone trying to fix this mess and kill even more people.
Did you read the link you posted?
"All pilots operating within and near this area including the shoreline should exercise extreme caution due to the numerous low level operations associated with the deepwater horizon/mc-252 incident 3000 feet and below.
Aircraft involved in these operations may make sudden changes in direction, speed, and altitude. For additional information, participating aircraft altitude assignments and awareness, all pilots are recommended to review the following web site dedicated to the aviation cleanup efforts at: https://1afnorth.region1.ang.af.mil/deepwater_spill/default.Aspx
With the exception of aircraft conducting aerial chemical dispersing operations;no fixed wing aircraft are authorized below 1000 feet above the surface unless for landing and takeoff"
The FAA rules are to keep collisions from happening.