Personal stuff first, flamer. My brain is on, but I don't watch TV. I grabbed the ID because of my interest in both subjects which I have pursued long enough to earn a BA in Classics from Tulane U, a BS in Mechanical Engineering from LSU, and now I'm working on a MS in Nuclear Science at LSU. TV rots the head, and primarily sells Stupid Urban Vehicles. Widomaker? Widowmaker? that's great. I don't think I want to look at that one.
Now for the point.
Self inflicted scarcity is backward! Efficiency is a means, not an end. Your self loathing is a waste of personal energy. Your desire to punish others for perceived waste is awful. It will be a dark day if the US ceases to research reasonable potentially world benefiting research for fear of success!
Focus on the positive things people do with their resources and try to contribute. You were raised, educated and drive a Honda... don't you want such things for others? Like that 40 watts per square meter the sun throws? That's great, work on it make it cheaper and better. Not a rocket scientist? OK, the economy needs all types so just do what you can. The rest of the world will follow as it is able. People come to the US from all around the world to learn how we do things. Some surpass their teachers and contribute here, all are better off. Only more freely available resources can lead to better living conditions and education that prevent waste. The evil actions of some are no reason for you to give up.
It is the wealth of this country that have allowed you to the time to reflect on these things. That wealth is built on ever more efficient utilization of resources. The world needs more, not less, for others to enjoy what we do.
Do not limit your thoughts to the present level of production or the current relative wealth of the world. The entire world's population could be housed in a suburb the size of Texas. People in some places are indeed murdered by their supposed leaders who feel compelled to compete with them for a surplus of scarce resources. Most people, however, succumb to ordinary shortages of food and medicine. Changing this takes time, but it is happening. The Earth's resources are immense, and the resources of the universe are unlimited. The only real limit is our ability to manipulate these resources.
Projections are 100 years worth of Uranium exits at current consumption.
Workers can be shielded and fuel can be reprocessed. It's more expensive, but better in the long run to seperate the longer lived "waste" also know as fuel, from the shorter lived fision procucts that only have to be stored 200 years or so to be safe. Sure, it's not easy but it has been demonstrated.
I thought the primary reason Jimmy Carter killed reprocessing was non proliferation. Well, that worked great...
Thanks for the nice waste compairison. One of my proffesors worked just this problem, among others, with a planned fusion reactor. He concluded that both kinds of plants produce equal amounts of waste.
Politics don't change reality. Breeder reactors work, and can produce enough power to be considered limitless.
It's foolish to throw out what works today for something that might work in the future. With this attitude, we might as well go back to slash and burn agriculture until aliens come and save us from our selves.
Right on! Nuclear problems are mostly policy problems. It's good to see common sense here with all the anti technical BS.
Fission fuel reprocessing is more expensive than the current high burn up cycle, but it could provide nearly limitless energy. The component of "Nuclear Waste" that lasts for thousands of years is fuel! The other nasties only have to be contained for a couple of hundred years before they are safe. Several schemes for seperating the two have been proposed and proven. The current US nuclear policy, and Propaganda, however has the potential to burn up the worlds Uranium deposits before the world runs out of petrolium. Thanks Jimmy Carter, non proliferation was a dismal failure!
There's no free lunch but there are better things that can be done. Fision produces the second cheapest and safest power in the US. Natural gas is safer and cheaper, but the CO2 people have really done this in. As several people have pointed out here, fusion plants don't last forever and are radioactive when finished. Let's hope that US education does not continue it's dismal descent into social policy propaganda oblivion, reasonable leaders are elected, and the real pros and cons of various energy scheams are wheighed correctly.
Why is it that some people have to bash everything with potential to produce more for less?
The more resources people have, the better off they will be. Sure, cheap power and goods will not bring spiritual fulfillment to all, but better resources can keep people from starving to death! Yes, people in "unconventional places" might be able to enjoy sanitary living, medicine, and better education. Rather than practice subsistence agriculture, they might then spend their time putting that education to use for everyone. Think of the good things people do with the resources they have and remember that ignorance is wasteful.
Power is the ultimate resource. It gives people the ability to modify the world around them in any way they see fit. It mines raw resources, processes them and assembles the results into the things you and I enjoy every day. Let's try to make more to share with everyone!
If you don't like cheap power, try trading places with some poor bastard living in a cave. In no time, you will learn that other people have greater problems than dull food. You have the choice to live where you will, most people don't. That choice was given to you, pass it on.
I'm glad to see at least one person that's worried about contributing to the Chineese Military. I'm not too keen on helping out a govenment that murders it's own citizens on TV.
It's hard to find a friend. I'm a research associate, live next to a CS major, and have a CS major who works part time for me. They have better things to do with their lives than help me figure out X.
As easy as things are getting, they could be better. I was taught fortran at school, and I've taught myself C/C++ and some miserable Windoze programing with a Watcomm compiler (nice compiler!), and I've used Sun products. Still, it took me a long time to put Red Hat on my machine. Drivers for my cheap hardware killed me. Mostly what I got, I got from self help books on Linux and man pages. There is still no substitute for someone who simply knows.
It would be nice if a company could package the help I could not find for free. From what I've read here, service is supposed to be one of the open source business models. Education is worth money. I'll be looking here for ratings.
It's all about people who are victims of bullies, uhh, that's most of us. From the article:
Vita, the federal firearms official, says school officials need Mosaic and other tools to deal with an ever more complex threat in which relatively good students with access to guns may erupt because they feel victimized by bullies or by the school system.
"They're the hard ones for the school administrators to identify," Vita said. "It's easy to pick out the gang members with tattoos. It's these other people that kind of surprise administrators, and these are the ones they really need to identify."
Yep, the Feds want to profile good students to identity killers instead of people with criminal records. It can easilly be demonstrated that this will never work due poor statistics (too few suicidal psychos to build a real model).
Who do you think will be profiled? People with access to guns and sicko's who harm animals were mentioned, but there were no hard and fast rules. Administrators will target those that are targeted now, the people writing in. This is not paranoia, this is predicting the future from experience. I think they have better statistics.
So what is the real intent? $10k per school for vendor, and more federal intervention in public schools. What is the real cost? Profiled citizens, invasive government, punishment without crime.
I work in a Transportation Research Center, and these new tracking systems have me very concerned. Limited range tags are nice, but that's not what I've been reading about.
What I've been reading about is satilite tracking systems that can turn any road into a turnpike! That's right, no toll booth needed, drive down this road and a bill gets mailed to your house. Beware!
Cameras in cars are a good idea. They can be used for crime prevention and accident analysis. Broadcast is not needed, however, and is invasive and potentially taxing. Tolls is what this is really about. Transportation types are drooling over "virtual toll booths" with variable rate tolls depending on the time of day. Every road in the world could be turned into a turnpike with this with charges being the highest on the unavoidable routes. Fight this!
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I'm sure that these people can tell you stories about the effective uses of resources.
Now for the point.
Self inflicted scarcity is backward! Efficiency is a means, not an end. Your self loathing is a waste of personal energy. Your desire to punish others for perceived waste is awful. It will be a dark day if the US ceases to research reasonable potentially world benefiting research for fear of success!
Focus on the positive things people do with their resources and try to contribute. You were raised, educated and drive a Honda... don't you want such things for others? Like that 40 watts per square meter the sun throws? That's great, work on it make it cheaper and better. Not a rocket scientist? OK, the economy needs all types so just do what you can. The rest of the world will follow as it is able. People come to the US from all around the world to learn how we do things. Some surpass their teachers and contribute here, all are better off. Only more freely available resources can lead to better living conditions and education that prevent waste. The evil actions of some are no reason for you to give up.
It is the wealth of this country that have allowed you to the time to reflect on these things. That wealth is built on ever more efficient utilization of resources. The world needs more, not less, for others to enjoy what we do.
Do not limit your thoughts to the present level of production or the current relative wealth of the world. The entire world's population could be housed in a suburb the size of Texas. People in some places are indeed murdered by their supposed leaders who feel compelled to compete with them for a surplus of scarce resources. Most people, however, succumb to ordinary shortages of food and medicine. Changing this takes time, but it is happening. The Earth's resources are immense, and the resources of the universe are unlimited. The only real limit is our ability to manipulate these resources.
Workers can be shielded and fuel can be reprocessed. It's more expensive, but better in the long run to seperate the longer lived "waste" also know as fuel, from the shorter lived fision procucts that only have to be stored 200 years or so to be safe. Sure, it's not easy but it has been demonstrated.
I thought the primary reason Jimmy Carter killed reprocessing was non proliferation. Well, that worked great...
Thanks for the nice waste compairison. One of my proffesors worked just this problem, among others, with a planned fusion reactor. He concluded that both kinds of plants produce equal amounts of waste.
Fission byproducts that are not FUEL have short half lives as well.
Politics don't change reality. Breeder reactors work, and can produce enough power to be considered limitless.
It's foolish to throw out what works today for something that might work in the future. With this attitude, we might as well go back to slash and burn agriculture until aliens come and save us from our selves.
Fission fuel reprocessing is more expensive than the current high burn up cycle, but it could provide nearly limitless energy. The component of "Nuclear Waste" that lasts for thousands of years is fuel! The other nasties only have to be contained for a couple of hundred years before they are safe. Several schemes for seperating the two have been proposed and proven. The current US nuclear policy, and Propaganda, however has the potential to burn up the worlds Uranium deposits before the world runs out of petrolium. Thanks Jimmy Carter, non proliferation was a dismal failure!
There's no free lunch but there are better things that can be done. Fision produces the second cheapest and safest power in the US. Natural gas is safer and cheaper, but the CO2 people have really done this in. As several people have pointed out here, fusion plants don't last forever and are radioactive when finished. Let's hope that US education does not continue it's dismal descent into social policy propaganda oblivion, reasonable leaders are elected, and the real pros and cons of various energy scheams are wheighed correctly.
Don't give up. Keep saying what must be said.
The more resources people have, the better off they will be. Sure, cheap power and goods will not bring spiritual fulfillment to all, but better resources can keep people from starving to death! Yes, people in "unconventional places" might be able to enjoy sanitary living, medicine, and better education. Rather than practice subsistence agriculture, they might then spend their time putting that education to use for everyone. Think of the good things people do with the resources they have and remember that ignorance is wasteful.
Power is the ultimate resource. It gives people the ability to modify the world around them in any way they see fit. It mines raw resources, processes them and assembles the results into the things you and I enjoy every day. Let's try to make more to share with everyone!
If you don't like cheap power, try trading places with some poor bastard living in a cave. In no time, you will learn that other people have greater problems than dull food. You have the choice to live where you will, most people don't. That choice was given to you, pass it on.
Thanks, I'd been too lazy to look that up. Now I know that my lazy pronounciation was about right.
I'm glad to see at least one person that's worried about contributing to the Chineese Military. I'm not too keen on helping out a govenment that murders it's own citizens on TV.
From each according to their tallent, to each according to their needs. -Marx.
Give it up bitch. -Lennin.
A person who does not own or control the fruits of his labor is a slave.
Giving is admirable, stealing is a crime.
When thieves control the state, official murder is to be expected.
I think you missed Tienemen Square. Call it what you want, totalitarianism looks bad under a tank.
As easy as things are getting, they could be better. I was taught fortran at school, and I've taught myself C/C++ and some miserable Windoze programing with a Watcomm compiler (nice compiler!), and I've used Sun products. Still, it took me a long time to put Red Hat on my machine. Drivers for my cheap hardware killed me. Mostly what I got, I got from self help books on Linux and man pages. There is still no substitute for someone who simply knows.
It would be nice if a company could package the help I could not find for free. From what I've read here, service is supposed to be one of the open source business models. Education is worth money. I'll be looking here for ratings.
Vita, the federal firearms official, says school officials need Mosaic and other tools to deal with an ever more complex threat in which relatively good students with access to guns may erupt because they feel victimized by bullies or by the school system.
"They're the hard ones for the school administrators to identify," Vita said. "It's easy to pick out the gang members with tattoos. It's these other people that kind of surprise administrators, and these are the ones they really need to identify."
Yep, the Feds want to profile good students to identity killers instead of people with criminal records. It can easilly be demonstrated that this will never work due poor statistics (too few suicidal psychos to build a real model).
Who do you think will be profiled? People with access to guns and sicko's who harm animals were mentioned, but there were no hard and fast rules. Administrators will target those that are targeted now, the people writing in. This is not paranoia, this is predicting the future from experience. I think they have better statistics.
So what is the real intent? $10k per school for vendor, and more federal intervention in public schools. What is the real cost? Profiled citizens, invasive government, punishment without crime.
I thought Mosaic was a browser.
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What I've been reading about is satilite tracking systems that can turn any road into a turnpike! That's right, no toll booth needed, drive down this road and a bill gets mailed to your house. Beware!
Cameras in cars are a good idea. They can be used for crime prevention and accident analysis. Broadcast is not needed, however, and is invasive and potentially taxing. Tolls is what this is really about. Transportation types are drooling over "virtual toll booths" with variable rate tolls depending on the time of day. Every road in the world could be turned into a turnpike with this with charges being the highest on the unavoidable routes. Fight this!