Abd they're apparently demonstrating this to the Japanese government by saying 'Look we'll switch the rest of the world back on and use them as guinea pigs'. Typical modern day Sony i'm afraid. What a wasy for a company to go from the top of the pile to the foul smelling underbelly
You cannot disprove a negative theorem. Which is why we should all bow down and give thanks to His Noodly Goodness the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And have a bowl of pasta.
2 equal theories both having equal amounts of independently peer reviewed scientific evidence supporting them may well be treated as being as valid as each other. Unfortunately Creationism/Intelligent design doesn't have any independently peer reviewed scientific evidence supporting it. Yes creationism/Intelligent design should be taught. In the religious/theology department. Science it is not.
It seems that approximately half of the accidents listed therein were down to operator error, mainly down to what would be referred to in the UK nowadays as SPAD (signals passed at danger- aka a red light). The article is about serious flaws in the equipment, not user error.
If Motorola never liked the spirit of Android, why did they hop on the band wagon?
Because as far as Motorola were concerned the bandwagon was a _brand_wagon, and that brand was the only thing which would save the company. They road on the android coat tails in order to avoid bankruptcy.
It was, in that they removed the book silently and arbitrarily, which they had no moral or legal right to do this, and hid behind their corporate facelessness until the press eventually outed them.
are you by any chance a terminal hoarder of hard drives, who will only quit doing it when your house undergoes gravitational collapse under the weight of all those drives?
The real fallout that Japan needs to worry about is that they have permanently lost a substantial part of their capacity to generate electricity and won't be able to replace it anytime soon. The US and other countries with these high power nuclear plants should learn a lesson. It is better to build several smaller plants instead of a few megaplants. That way, if one of them is out of commission, it is not a total loss to the power grid.
The lack of power in Japan will be a significant issue as the country tries to react to the quake and tsunami and will hamper long term recovery efforts, too.
Russia has diverted 6000 MW of power Japan's way, that should help them a bit.
Well, actually I'd put any death's caused by lack of power related to the plants being down as deaths "caused" by the reactor.
As opposed to putting them down to the fact that the Tsunami washed away the power lines to/from the reactor connecting it to the grid that the consumers would be linked to?:)
Those reactors are already destroyed. They will never be operational gain (it says that in the article I linked to).
They're not so much destroyed as rendered unusable. The evocative word 'destroy' is, i suspect, being used by you here to spread mental images of the reactors being in little bits spread over several kilometers. Handily they were starting to be decommissioned anyway since they're 40 years old and definitely past their projected lifespan, so the cost of the loss of energy production was already being planned for.
A complete meltdown will lead to a huge discharge of radioactive waste similiar to Chernobyl. That's what they are trying to avoid at all costs. The fact that the reactor is "off" is irrelevant.
No, it would not. These reactors are designed so that they have a catching mechanism below the reactor _within_the_containment_structure_ that spreads any debris from the reactor core above and thusly reducing any reaction, plus there is boron underneath too, which poisons the fuel by absorbing neutrons so that they cannot cause reaction. Bottom line there is not any real issue from a meltdown!
It's my WAG that the Japanese control systems are much better than others in use around the world. If their designs failed, then it calls everyone else's design into serious question.
These reactors are 40 years old, and designed by Westinghouse, a US company.
Sure there is. Remove all privacy inherent in hard cash. Don't have untraceable money. Use cryptographically sound multi-factor authentication with a ridiculous number of bits in the key.
Make "money" revoke-able so when some one looses a case in court and is required to pay money if they don't WANT to, the governing body could revoke that money as simple as pressing a button.
RED ALERT! said governing body could well be the government by any chance? Well **** that for a start, they're already treating us like cattle in so many ways, you think that hard cash should be next?
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So are you saying that Apple has catastrophically bad failure rates, and has dismal software security, or the opposite?
Abd they're apparently demonstrating this to the Japanese government by saying 'Look we'll switch the rest of the world back on and use them as guinea pigs'. Typical modern day Sony i'm afraid. What a wasy for a company to go from the top of the pile to the foul smelling underbelly
And this is just becoming obvious to you?
You cannot disprove a negative theorem. Which is why we should all bow down and give thanks to His Noodly Goodness the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And have a bowl of pasta.
2 equal theories both having equal amounts of independently peer reviewed scientific evidence supporting them may well be treated as being as valid as each other. Unfortunately Creationism/Intelligent design doesn't have any independently peer reviewed scientific evidence supporting it. Yes creationism/Intelligent design should be taught. In the religious/theology department. Science it is not.
Heres hoping gel-circuitry doesnt get invented then
It seems that approximately half of the accidents listed therein were down to operator error, mainly down to what would be referred to in the UK nowadays as SPAD (signals passed at danger- aka a red light). The article is about serious flaws in the equipment, not user error.
would that be the department(ministry) of Plenty, and the department(ministry) of Peace respectively perchance?
If Motorola never liked the spirit of Android, why did they hop on the band wagon?
Because as far as Motorola were concerned the bandwagon was a _brand_wagon, and that brand was the only thing which would save the company. They road on the android coat tails in order to avoid bankruptcy.
That I hear a whoosh there. Maybe its that big group of birds up above? I think that they're seagulls ;)
What on earth are you doing having a pagefile on an SSD? You'll use up the writes ridiculously fast that way!
It was, in that they removed the book silently and arbitrarily, which they had no moral or legal right to do this, and hid behind their corporate facelessness until the press eventually outed them.
are you by any chance a terminal hoarder of hard drives, who will only quit doing it when your house undergoes gravitational collapse under the weight of all those drives?
The real fallout that Japan needs to worry about is that they have permanently lost a substantial part of their capacity to generate electricity and won't be able to replace it anytime soon. The US and other countries with these high power nuclear plants should learn a lesson. It is better to build several smaller plants instead of a few megaplants. That way, if one of them is out of commission, it is not a total loss to the power grid.
The lack of power in Japan will be a significant issue as the country tries to react to the quake and tsunami and will hamper long term recovery efforts, too.
Russia has diverted 6000 MW of power Japan's way, that should help them a bit.
Well, actually I'd put any death's caused by lack of power related to the plants being down as deaths "caused" by the reactor.
As opposed to putting them down to the fact that the Tsunami washed away the power lines to/from the reactor connecting it to the grid that the consumers would be linked to? :)
Those reactors are already destroyed. They will never be operational gain (it says that in the article I linked to).
They're not so much destroyed as rendered unusable. The evocative word 'destroy' is, i suspect, being used by you here to spread mental images of the reactors being in little bits spread over several kilometers. Handily they were starting to be decommissioned anyway since they're 40 years old and definitely past their projected lifespan, so the cost of the loss of energy production was already being planned for.
A complete meltdown will lead to a huge discharge of radioactive waste similiar to Chernobyl. That's what they are trying to avoid at all costs. The fact that the reactor is "off" is irrelevant.
No, it would not. These reactors are designed so that they have a catching mechanism below the reactor _within_the_containment_structure_ that spreads any debris from the reactor core above and thusly reducing any reaction, plus there is boron underneath too, which poisons the fuel by absorbing neutrons so that they cannot cause reaction. Bottom line there is not any real issue from a meltdown!
It's my WAG that the Japanese control systems are much better than others in use around the world. If their designs failed, then it calls everyone else's design into serious question.
These reactors are 40 years old, and designed by Westinghouse, a US company.
Solar and wind already cost less per KW than nuclear. I'd call that ready.
bullshit detected!
so thats the Republicrats and the Demoblicans, right?
just buy a 200mw laser pointer, and point it to the camera for a minute or so.
I'm guessing that's 200mW as in milliwatts, coz if you're talking a 200 megawatt laser pointer i'd like to know where i can get me one of those =D
Sure there is. Remove all privacy inherent in hard cash. Don't have untraceable money. Use cryptographically sound multi-factor authentication with a ridiculous number of bits in the key.
Make "money" revoke-able so when some one looses a case in court and is required to pay money if they don't WANT to, the governing body could revoke that money as simple as pressing a button.
RED ALERT! said governing body could well be the government by any chance? Well **** that for a start, they're already treating us like cattle in so many ways, you think that hard cash should be next?
While it's not a terrible idea, it might be worth pointing out that the military may regard that as an act of war.
Jamming communications so discriminately, affecting a load of neighbouring countries, is also an act of war.
I mean c'mon, rational?
You clearly aren't new here!
But shouldn't you do your political research on your own time, not your employers'?
Lies!
Pasta and meatballs, clearly
May his noodly appendage reach out and touch you