Please! Bin Ladin was never "opressed" by the horrible imperialistic U.S. Bin Ladin plan was always to use us as a boogeyman to get what he wanted, temporal power as the new Caliph of all Islam. The "opression" that he claimed to hate the most was the U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia. You know, the bases that the Saudis asked us to build to keep their own fellow Arab neighbor from taking over their big fat oil fields. Have we screwed up in the years since he started this? Sure. And every screw up has cost us. But to Bin Ladin, we were always a means to an end. Go google "near enemy" and "far enemy" and see Bin Ladin's real motivation.
Bin Ladin's ideology was that everyone must be a Muslim, that women must be the covered-up property of men, and that everyone must do what he says. That's evil, and fighting it is a good cause.
Used elements were simply left on site and had been for years.
As opposed to our clearly superior American system where used fuel elements are . . . . ALL left on site and will be for years to come because we don't have a long-term storage facility.
We're missing the real problem here. If these test results are correct, (and there's some question about that) then there is still a critical reaction going on intermittently. The reactors's scrammed nearly two weeks ago and therefore couldn't be putting out something with a half life of days or hours unless fission had restarted. That would be a Very Bad Thing.
The NRC says it believes that the spent fuel pool in reactor 4 has a major breach, meaning a part of the wall is gone, making it impossible to fill it with water. Do you consider this, you know, under control
Okay, I admit the post it still up. I didn't see it there.
But I strongly disagree that the problems we are seeing are not with the reactors. The spent fuel pools are a massive problem, but we still have multiple reactors in which the water level is BELOW the fuel. Exposed fuel elements in a reactor is a major problems. In addition, there is at least one reactor with a probable containment breach. Heck, even reactors 5 and 6, which were not seriously damaged have dangerously low water levels in the reactor
Yes, MIT, which brought us the widely quoted "why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors" blog post early on. What's that? You can't find "why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors?" Oh, it seems mitnse.com has taken that highly rosy, bright and shiny optimistic tract down. Probably because the disaster that it dismissed has slowly happened. You can read that original post with a little googling. Pay close attention to the "worst-case-scenario" at the end. Forgive me if I don't automatically accept the rosy outlook of people who are going to college to build and run nuclear plants.
Has there been breathless overreaction? Absolutely! I still hear crap on the news that makes me facepalm. But at the same time, TEPCO has consistently downplayed the real situation. other actual experts are considerably more worried about the ability of TEPCO to get a handle on this.
I found the movie to be much dumber than the cartoons. For crying out loud, Bumblebee pees on a secret government agent stripped to his humorous boxer shorts.
This isn't particularly comforting. It sounds like they don't have a clear picture of current conditions in the reactors.
"To pump in the water, the Japanese have apparently tried used firefighting equipment — hardly the usual procedure. But forcing the seawater inside the containment vessel has been difficult because the pressure in the vessel has become so great.
One American official likened the process to “trying to pour water into an inflated balloon,” and said that on Sunday it was “not clear how much water they are getting in, or whether they are covering the cores.”
The problem was compounded because gauges in the reactor seemed to have been damaged in the earthquake or tsunami, making it impossible to know just how much water is in the core."
The problem is that a state legislature is politicallh micro-managing individual curriculum decisions because they are worried that teachers are too "red." The different forms of government are already taught.
In the real world outside of Utah, state boards of education get together a group of experts, teachers and sometimes even parents to come up with a comprehensive curriculum that is then revised every few years as needed.
If this trend continues, I suppose we can look forward to the next few bills:
HB221 - Mandates the teaching of teaching of 2 + 2 = "Ronald Reagan"
HB222 - Dinosaurs to be referred to as "Jesus Horses"
HB223 - Students must chant,"USA, USA, USA" at the beginning of all U.S. Government classes.
HB224 - Kindergarteners taught that sharing is Socialist.
Okay, I can go with that. So long as you change the rules to allow schools to summarily fail students who miss too much work and can't demonstrate on homework, test and projects that they have learned what they are supposed to from the classes. You'll also need to convince politicians to start ignoring dropout rates and test scores.
The real problem is that teens aren't adults. Their brains aren't done cooking yet and they can't make decisions on what is good for them in the long-term. For many of them, skipping geometry and going out under the bridge to smoke pot instead makes perfect sense. In two years when they really want to be an engineer but can't figure out how to keep a popsickle stick bridge from falling down, they will probably regret their decision. Until then, schools sometimes have the unenviable task of forcing kids to go to class for their own good. And since most of society recognizes this, they hold schools responsible for doing it.
If you haven't realized it yet, you aren't average.
I'll go along with allowing your kid to skip whenever he wants if you agree that his teachers don't have to spend their time creating makeup assignments, tests and copies of notes from the days he missed. Let's see how that works out.
Please! When I was in the classroom, I wasted tons of time on skippers. I didn't waste time, I had too much material to cover. They would miss the material and then expect me to catch them up when I really wanted to spend time with the majority that were actually in class. I won't say that every teacher uses their time wisely, but most of us do. Dealing with the perpetually tardy and absent who get suddenly serious around report card time wastes a lot of teacher time.
Never taught have you. I have. I was "volunteered" to be on the team that was responsible for tracking down the slacker that had more than six unexcused absences. I had to have them sign a form acknowledging that I had told them that their sorry tails needed to be in class instead of out smoking pot somewhere. I then had to call their parents and tell them this, even though the computer automatically called them every day their kid skipped. This is, of course, on top of the form the kids and parents sign at the beginning of the year that acknowledges they have read the attendance rules and consequences.
Why did we have to do all this crap? Because even when we do, there are a large number of parents who, when confronted with little Jimmy's 15 absences in a semester, will threaten lawsuits, call board of ed members and threaten to get everyone fired because their little sunshine isn't going to graduate. And if parents have enough political pull in the community, they may get you fired. It's a little more than "inconvenient."
And before someone brings up the almighty "teacher's unions," remember that in most states (especially the South) there are laws that prevent teacher's unions from being anything more than professional organizations with no bargaining power.
Mainly because the times when I actually need to use two programs at the same time on my iPhone are vanishingly small. It already did some multitasking (ie, listening to music while web surfing. In fact, the main complaint was that people wanted to be able to stream Pandora while doing other things.
When it comes down to it, you're looking at a screen smaller than a deck of cards. Multi-tasking on that is pretty much useless.
I have never been to a bar that was so fabulous, so wonderful, that I would give up my fingerprints or even a scan of my license to get in.
By the same token, I have never been in a bar or club that I would remotely trust with that information.
Don't be afraid to jump in with bad information. As a teacher in NC, I admit that education is not perfect and is far too focused on testing, but it's not the worst in the country or even close to it. And teachers don't get testing bonuses anymore either.
I live there. They will only be hiring about 50 people. There will not be a housing boom because there is plenty of good, cheap housing available for great prices (I should know as I'm trying to sell my house). The road improvements for Apple were minimal and are long done. I doubt 50 new people will be needing more teachers, restaurants, retail centers, etc. It will be a long-term bump for the tax base once the incentives run out, but not much else. Perhaps some increased corporate giving to local charities.
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"Having the game makers and designers working on it can only improve what has been, for quite some time, a really awful form of movie."
Yes, perhaps we'll have more pieces of high art like the Wing Commander movie if the creator's of the game are involved.
Please!
Bin Ladin was never "opressed" by the horrible imperialistic U.S. Bin Ladin plan was always to use us as a boogeyman to get what he wanted, temporal power as the new Caliph of all Islam. The "opression" that he claimed to hate the most was the U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia. You know, the bases that the Saudis asked us to build to keep their own fellow Arab neighbor from taking over their big fat oil fields. Have we screwed up in the years since he started this? Sure. And every screw up has cost us. But to Bin Ladin, we were always a means to an end. Go google "near enemy" and "far enemy" and see Bin Ladin's real motivation.
Bin Ladin's ideology was that everyone must be a Muslim, that women must be the covered-up property of men, and that everyone must do what he says. That's evil, and fighting it is a good cause.
Used elements were simply left on site and had been for years.
As opposed to our clearly superior American system where used fuel elements are . . . . ALL left on site and will be for years to come because we don't have a long-term storage facility.
We're missing the real problem here. If these test results are correct, (and there's some question about that) then there is still a critical reaction going on intermittently. The reactors's scrammed nearly two weeks ago and therefore couldn't be putting out something with a half life of days or hours unless fission had restarted. That would be a Very Bad Thing.
I'm right here, thank you very much.
I'm liberal, I think the app creator is an evil bigot, and I think this is censorship and a bad move
"under control"
The NRC says it believes that the spent fuel pool in reactor 4 has a major breach, meaning a part of the wall is gone, making it impossible to fill it with water. Do you consider this, you know, under control
Okay, I admit the post it still up. I didn't see it there.
But I strongly disagree that the problems we are seeing are not with the reactors. The spent fuel pools are a massive problem, but we still have multiple reactors in which the water level is BELOW the fuel. Exposed fuel elements in a reactor is a major problems. In addition, there is at least one reactor with a probable containment breach. Heck, even reactors 5 and 6, which were not seriously damaged have dangerously low water levels in the reactor
Yes, MIT, which brought us the widely quoted "why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors" blog post early on. What's that? You can't find "why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors?" Oh, it seems mitnse.com has taken that highly rosy, bright and shiny optimistic tract down. Probably because the disaster that it dismissed has slowly happened. You can read that original post with a little googling. Pay close attention to the "worst-case-scenario" at the end.
Forgive me if I don't automatically accept the rosy outlook of people who are going to college to build and run nuclear plants.
Has there been breathless overreaction? Absolutely! I still hear crap on the news that makes me facepalm. But at the same time, TEPCO has consistently downplayed the real situation. other actual experts are considerably more worried about the ability of TEPCO to get a handle on this.
Yep,
I clicked on a CNN video of the explosion at the plant, and was conveniently served an ad about "Safe, Clean, Coal"
I nearly retched.
I found the movie to be much dumber than the cartoons. For crying out loud, Bumblebee pees on a secret government agent stripped to his humorous boxer shorts.
This isn't particularly comforting. It sounds like they don't have a clear picture of current conditions in the reactors.
"To pump in the water, the Japanese have apparently tried used firefighting equipment — hardly the usual procedure. But forcing the seawater inside the containment vessel has been difficult because the pressure in the vessel has become so great.
One American official likened the process to “trying to pour water into an inflated balloon,” and said that on Sunday it was “not clear how much water they are getting in, or whether they are covering the cores.”
The problem was compounded because gauges in the reactor seemed to have been damaged in the earthquake or tsunami, making it impossible to know just how much water is in the core."
And one of the more realistic characters in the book.
The problem is that a state legislature is politicallh micro-managing individual curriculum decisions because they are worried that teachers are too "red." The different forms of government are already taught. In the real world outside of Utah, state boards of education get together a group of experts, teachers and sometimes even parents to come up with a comprehensive curriculum that is then revised every few years as needed. If this trend continues, I suppose we can look forward to the next few bills: HB221 - Mandates the teaching of teaching of 2 + 2 = "Ronald Reagan" HB222 - Dinosaurs to be referred to as "Jesus Horses" HB223 - Students must chant,"USA, USA, USA" at the beginning of all U.S. Government classes. HB224 - Kindergarteners taught that sharing is Socialist.
I started trying to match rotation with the joystick that wasn't sitting on my desk. Now what's the button for the docking computer again?
Okay, I can go with that. So long as you change the rules to allow schools to summarily fail students who miss too much work and can't demonstrate on homework, test and projects that they have learned what they are supposed to from the classes. You'll also need to convince politicians to start ignoring dropout rates and test scores. The real problem is that teens aren't adults. Their brains aren't done cooking yet and they can't make decisions on what is good for them in the long-term. For many of them, skipping geometry and going out under the bridge to smoke pot instead makes perfect sense. In two years when they really want to be an engineer but can't figure out how to keep a popsickle stick bridge from falling down, they will probably regret their decision. Until then, schools sometimes have the unenviable task of forcing kids to go to class for their own good. And since most of society recognizes this, they hold schools responsible for doing it.
If you haven't realized it yet, you aren't average. I'll go along with allowing your kid to skip whenever he wants if you agree that his teachers don't have to spend their time creating makeup assignments, tests and copies of notes from the days he missed. Let's see how that works out.
Please! When I was in the classroom, I wasted tons of time on skippers. I didn't waste time, I had too much material to cover. They would miss the material and then expect me to catch them up when I really wanted to spend time with the majority that were actually in class. I won't say that every teacher uses their time wisely, but most of us do. Dealing with the perpetually tardy and absent who get suddenly serious around report card time wastes a lot of teacher time.
Never taught have you. I have. I was "volunteered" to be on the team that was responsible for tracking down the slacker that had more than six unexcused absences. I had to have them sign a form acknowledging that I had told them that their sorry tails needed to be in class instead of out smoking pot somewhere. I then had to call their parents and tell them this, even though the computer automatically called them every day their kid skipped. This is, of course, on top of the form the kids and parents sign at the beginning of the year that acknowledges they have read the attendance rules and consequences. Why did we have to do all this crap? Because even when we do, there are a large number of parents who, when confronted with little Jimmy's 15 absences in a semester, will threaten lawsuits, call board of ed members and threaten to get everyone fired because their little sunshine isn't going to graduate. And if parents have enough political pull in the community, they may get you fired. It's a little more than "inconvenient." And before someone brings up the almighty "teacher's unions," remember that in most states (especially the South) there are laws that prevent teacher's unions from being anything more than professional organizations with no bargaining power.
Not sure it you are meaning to be ironic or not, but doesn't a non-multitasking iphone do all that anyway?
Mainly because the times when I actually need to use two programs at the same time on my iPhone are vanishingly small. It already did some multitasking (ie, listening to music while web surfing. In fact, the main complaint was that people wanted to be able to stream Pandora while doing other things. When it comes down to it, you're looking at a screen smaller than a deck of cards. Multi-tasking on that is pretty much useless.
I have never been to a bar that was so fabulous, so wonderful, that I would give up my fingerprints or even a scan of my license to get in. By the same token, I have never been in a bar or club that I would remotely trust with that information.
In the South big government spending is okay if it is approved by the Holy Chamber of Commerce and is good for "bidness"
Very true. And Maiden is about an hour north of Charlotte. Firmly in the Piedmont.
Don't be afraid to jump in with bad information. As a teacher in NC, I admit that education is not perfect and is far too focused on testing, but it's not the worst in the country or even close to it. And teachers don't get testing bonuses anymore either.
I live there. They will only be hiring about 50 people. There will not be a housing boom because there is plenty of good, cheap housing available for great prices (I should know as I'm trying to sell my house). The road improvements for Apple were minimal and are long done. I doubt 50 new people will be needing more teachers, restaurants, retail centers, etc. It will be a long-term bump for the tax base once the incentives run out, but not much else. Perhaps some increased corporate giving to local charities.