Personally I think that if not on reality, de facto the Tea Party are the best agents that the Chinese government could have found to hasten the beginning of the New Chinese Century and put USA in the same place that the UK or France are today.
Americans will be at a loss to find new words to describe the new failed states north of the border of the current USA-Mexico. I suggest New Michoacán, New Tamaulipas, New Chihuahua or New Ciudad Juárez. Considering the higly issolationist and selfish nature of most conservatives in America, I have serious doubts that they could manage to form even a county.
Conservative and libertarian americans are really desperate to hand over world's leadership to China. I'm from Mexico,you would be tempted to guess that americans would want to know why my country is almost a failed state and South Korea that was a very similar country to Mexico 30 years ago -development wise- no. We have implemented many of those "small government" ideas, and now we have to bury our neighboors and double check if the trash bag on the street is really a trash bag or it is filled with a mutilated corpse. And they wonder why people risk their lives in the desert triying to slip in the USA:
I wouldn't say that USA is Israel's government's pet, more like Israel's government's bitch or beaten wife; but, like in families, this sick relationship is bad and damaging for the couple.
The Apple II and the original Macintosh were mind blowing technology. Also, the iPhone and the iPad -mostly price wise, it was expected to have a price tag of USD$1000- were mind blowing technology. After all, there is a reason of why these products established technology trends.
This is something that everyone is missing. They are adding value not on the hardware and OS side, they are adding value in the apps included in the iPhone and trying to make a compelling case to use iCloud services.
I don't have any love for TEPCO, because due their incompetence I was forced to cancel my trip to western Japan in march 2011, and lost at least 1000 dollars in the process, but what are you saying is absolutely wrong. The fuel in Unit 4 of Fukushima I has been cooling since November 30th 2010, it had almost 4 months of proper cooling and handling before the disaster. That's why the fuel despite the lack of cooling and the fire in unit 4 caused by the destruction of the core of unit 3 didn't got damaged. After almost 3 years, the heat output of this fuel has dropped considerably, and unless all, all the countermeasures in place fail, including the fire engines placed in the NPS and nobody does anything about this fuel in a week or two, then it could become dangerous. Also, most of the fuel in the pool of unit 4 is not irradiated, so it will not be a pressing source of concern. For the rest of the damaged units, the fuel has been cooling for even more time than the fuel of unit 4. The real, pressing issue, since march 2011 is all the radioactive contamination coming out of the damaged cores of units 1, 2 and 3.
The spent fuel pools are already more or less secured, and the cooling since august 2011 has been properly done, with heat exchangers put in place and redundant systems. The Unit 1 is already fully covered by a new structure, Unit 2 is closed, in unit 3 there is work underway to remove all the rubble and cover the building, and in Unit 4 they are building the structure to remove the fuel from the spent fuel pool an the pool itself has been reinforced, so the possibility of Tokyo or any city or village in Japan becoming uninhabitable by the spent fuel pools of Fukushima I is very close to 0.
They talk like all of the 6 units are equally damaged. Units 5 and 6 are, if not intact, in a good enough shape to be returned to be returned to commercial service like the surviving reactor from Chernobyl. The pool of unit 4 as been reinforced, and the structure, after having all the debris from the explosions removed, have a better chance to survive another quake. The building of Unit 2 is almost intact. Unit 3 is the one with the most damage, and have the crane and many large pieces of equipment and debris inside the spent fuel pool; that will be a real challenge. The good thing is that in Unit 4 they don't have to deal with the makeshift cooling equipment to the damaged cores and the radiation coming out from them. The task to clean up the mess in Fukushima I is actually easier in Unit 4, thats why they starting with the fuel removal from the spent fuel pools there.
Well, I don't know Mr. Andrew Dewit and Mr. Christopher Hobson, but obviously they don't know technically what they are talking about. They should have restricted themselves to policy or economic matters. In this comment I outlined why these fears are so unlikely to happen: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4141363&cid=44704783
Nonsense, the arrays are already encased in boron cages in the fuel storage racks, they will not go critical even if they are not cooled. Cooling is needed to keep the fuel arrays mechanically sound so they couldn't release the radioactive materials inside them. There is no serious damage in the fuel arrays in the spent fuel pool of unit 4. The damage in each of the 4 units destroyed is very different, so a single event making all of the remaining fuel release their radioactive materials is highly unlikely, and even if it happens, they have in their favor that the fuel in the spent fuel pools have already undergone 2.5 years more of cooling and decay of its radioactive material since the accident, so any new emergency in the pools will be easier to manage than in 2011. The fire in unit 4 was caused by the hydrogen released by the damage in the core of unit 3, not by any release from the fuel in its spent fuel pool. Still, there are a bunch of morons of TEPCO's management that should be behind bars due their criminal incompetence and negligence.
The worst possible things about Fukushima I have already happened. The leaks from the storage thanks, the damage to reactors buildings, the evacuation, the radioactive contamination of the surroundings, the explosions, the makeshift equipment, all that could and should have been avoided if TEPCO's management had made the necessary expenditures to protect and improve the safety of their nuclear power stations. 4 nuclear power stations were hit by the quake and the tsunami but the only ones that suffered serious damage were the ones mismanaged by TEPCO. The scarecrow of new explosions and accidents only deflect the attention of the public away from the long delayed trial against TEPCO's managers for their criminal negligence.
Nonsense, the arrays are already encased in boron cages in the fuel storage racks, they will not go critical even if they are not cooled. Cooling is needed to keep the fuel arrays mechanically sound so they couldn't release the radioactive materials inside them. There is no serious damage in the fuel arrays in the spent fuel pool of unit 4. The damage in each of the 4 units destroyed is very different, so a single event making all of the remaining fuel release their radioactive materials is highly unlikely, and even if it happens, they have in their favor that the fuel in the spent fuel pools have already undergone 2.5 years more of cooling and decay of its radioactive material since the accident, so any new emergency in the pools will be easier to manage than in 2011. The fire in unit 4 was caused by the hydrogen released by the damage in the core of unit 3, not by any release from the fuel in its spent fuel pool. Still, there are a bunch of morons of TEPCO's management that should be behind bars due their criminal incompetence and negligence.
At the time as soon as you connected a Windows PC to the net you will be ending catching a virus. Those were the days of Windows 98 and the "Active desktop". The easy design and setup may appear overrated, but the fact that it was so easy to setup, used far less power than comparable PC's at the time, the small footprint and the fact that it didn't had fans made it perfect for bedrooms and classrooms, and, in case you needed to move it around the home, it was a easy and fast task. My first Apple product was a eMac, that lost the fanless aspect, but was extremely sturdy, almost kids proof, with good performance and a nice price, and a amazing built quality only found in expensive Sun equipment, and running Unix, what was not to like about it?
Because only TEPCO's NPS failed when the tsumami hit. They already had the studies made in 2008 that the seawall was way below the required height for the recorded tsunami levels in their zone. The nuclear power plant from Tohoku Denryoku, Onagawa, that was in the closest point to the quake's epicenter and was hit by a higher wave didn't fail; to the south of TEPCO's Fukushima II the power plant from Japan Atomic Power Corporation Tokai-2 was hit by a similar wave that hit and damaged Fukushima II and didn't face any emergency because due to the same study that was shown to TEPCO in 2008 instead of doing nothing they built a higher and stronger seawall. The lack of a proper seawall killed 2 workers that drowned at Fukushima I.
To further complicate things, instead of starting the decommissioning of unit 1 of Fukushima I TEPCO requested and got granted a license to keep it working despite it being the oldest unit in service in Japan. Had it been in cold shutdown since February 2011 as scheduled despite the lack of proper countermeasures against tsunami they could have had the manpower and resources available to better deal with the emergency in units 2 and 3. On the other hand, if units 4, 5 and 6 hadn't been in a planned outage at the time of the tsunami the disaster could have been of biblical proportions.
Although there are requirements in SOLAS (SOLAS Regulation VI/2) for a declaration of the gross weight of the container, there is no requirement for the actual weighing of the container. The sole exception to this actual weighing requirement is for export from the United States. Recently, a broad spectrum of industry organizations and countries, Denmark, The Netherlands, the United States, BIMCO, the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), and the World Shipping Council (WSC) submitted a formal proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require all containers to be weighed in order to determine their actual weight.
It is convenient, more than anything else. Also, the Starbucks in USA are not the same than the ones in Japan or Mexico; the japanese ones are spotless, clean and have many nice things in the menu that are not seen anywhere else. In Mexico most of the time are cleaner than the ones in USA, but not as clean than the ones in Japan, but the personnel is friendly, and are a good spot to keep working outside school/workplace. The snobbery is more in the eyes in the ones that think that the patrons of Starbucks are snobs and hipsters in the same vein that the people that believe that users of Apple's products are snobs and hipsters when most of them aren't.
The most reasonable thing to do is to put into law that if the drivers own mobile phones or mobile data service that by procedure they will subpoena the service providers to see it the devices where actively used up to 10 or 15 minutes before the accident, or more time if the time of the accident is hard to be determined, in the same vein that there are done basic checks to see if the drivers are DUI.
If you write in a non alphabetic system the on screen keyboard is leaps an bounds better than a physical keyboard. In properly developed applications like Apple's Numbers the contextual keyboard is much better to data input than any physical counterpart. Only on plain text writing is a better choice an optional physical keyboard. Another benefit, from Apple's POV is that they only offer a single product for a worldwide audience, improving their margins and the management of inventory. There is more behind Apple's mountain of money than being "overpriced" or "fanboys".
The problem with TEPCO is that their top management has been late 10 years to their hanging. Their disregard to safety, their countrymen and even to investors is appalling.
At a press conference Monday night, Boston police commissioner Edward Davis refuted reports that a suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing was at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"I want to stress one thing," Davis said. "There is no suspect at Brigham and Women's Hospital. There are people that we are talking to but there is no suspect at Brigham and Women's Hospital as has been widely reported in the press. I would like to fix that right now."
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Personally I think that if not on reality, de facto the Tea Party are the best agents that the Chinese government could have found to hasten the beginning of the New Chinese Century and put USA in the same place that the UK or France are today.
Americans will be at a loss to find new words to describe the new failed states north of the border of the current USA-Mexico. I suggest New Michoacán, New Tamaulipas, New Chihuahua or New Ciudad Juárez. Considering the higly issolationist and selfish nature of most conservatives in America, I have serious doubts that they could manage to form even a county.
Conservative and libertarian americans are really desperate to hand over world's leadership to China. I'm from Mexico,you would be tempted to guess that americans would want to know why my country is almost a failed state and South Korea that was a very similar country to Mexico 30 years ago -development wise- no. We have implemented many of those "small government" ideas, and now we have to bury our neighboors and double check if the trash bag on the street is really a trash bag or it is filled with a mutilated corpse. And they wonder why people risk their lives in the desert triying to slip in the USA:
Attack on privacy is a far more correct and honest asessment.
I wouldn't say that USA is Israel's government's pet, more like Israel's government's bitch or beaten wife; but, like in families, this sick relationship is bad and damaging for the couple.
The Apple II and the original Macintosh were mind blowing technology. Also, the iPhone and the iPad -mostly price wise, it was expected to have a price tag of USD$1000- were mind blowing technology. After all, there is a reason of why these products established technology trends.
This is something that everyone is missing. They are adding value not on the hardware and OS side, they are adding value in the apps included in the iPhone and trying to make a compelling case to use iCloud services.
I don't have any love for TEPCO, because due their incompetence I was forced to cancel my trip to western Japan in march 2011, and lost at least 1000 dollars in the process, but what are you saying is absolutely wrong. The fuel in Unit 4 of Fukushima I has been cooling since November 30th 2010, it had almost 4 months of proper cooling and handling before the disaster. That's why the fuel despite the lack of cooling and the fire in unit 4 caused by the destruction of the core of unit 3 didn't got damaged. After almost 3 years, the heat output of this fuel has dropped considerably, and unless all, all the countermeasures in place fail, including the fire engines placed in the NPS and nobody does anything about this fuel in a week or two, then it could become dangerous. Also, most of the fuel in the pool of unit 4 is not irradiated, so it will not be a pressing source of concern. For the rest of the damaged units, the fuel has been cooling for even more time than the fuel of unit 4. The real, pressing issue, since march 2011 is all the radioactive contamination coming out of the damaged cores of units 1, 2 and 3.
The spent fuel pools are already more or less secured, and the cooling since august 2011 has been properly done, with heat exchangers put in place and redundant systems. The Unit 1 is already fully covered by a new structure, Unit 2 is closed, in unit 3 there is work underway to remove all the rubble and cover the building, and in Unit 4 they are building the structure to remove the fuel from the spent fuel pool an the pool itself has been reinforced, so the possibility of Tokyo or any city or village in Japan becoming uninhabitable by the spent fuel pools of Fukushima I is very close to 0.
They talk like all of the 6 units are equally damaged. Units 5 and 6 are, if not intact, in a good enough shape to be returned to be returned to commercial service like the surviving reactor from Chernobyl. The pool of unit 4 as been reinforced, and the structure, after having all the debris from the explosions removed, have a better chance to survive another quake. The building of Unit 2 is almost intact. Unit 3 is the one with the most damage, and have the crane and many large pieces of equipment and debris inside the spent fuel pool; that will be a real challenge. The good thing is that in Unit 4 they don't have to deal with the makeshift cooling equipment to the damaged cores and the radiation coming out from them. The task to clean up the mess in Fukushima I is actually easier in Unit 4, thats why they starting with the fuel removal from the spent fuel pools there.
Well, I don't know Mr. Andrew Dewit and Mr. Christopher Hobson, but obviously they don't know technically what they are talking about. They should have restricted themselves to policy or economic matters. In this comment I outlined why these fears are so unlikely to happen: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4141363&cid=44704783
Nonsense, the arrays are already encased in boron cages in the fuel storage racks, they will not go critical even if they are not cooled. Cooling is needed to keep the fuel arrays mechanically sound so they couldn't release the radioactive materials inside them. There is no serious damage in the fuel arrays in the spent fuel pool of unit 4. The damage in each of the 4 units destroyed is very different, so a single event making all of the remaining fuel release their radioactive materials is highly unlikely, and even if it happens, they have in their favor that the fuel in the spent fuel pools have already undergone 2.5 years more of cooling and decay of its radioactive material since the accident, so any new emergency in the pools will be easier to manage than in 2011. The fire in unit 4 was caused by the hydrogen released by the damage in the core of unit 3, not by any release from the fuel in its spent fuel pool. Still, there are a bunch of morons of TEPCO's management that should be behind bars due their criminal incompetence and negligence.
The worst possible things about Fukushima I have already happened. The leaks from the storage thanks, the damage to reactors buildings, the evacuation, the radioactive contamination of the surroundings, the explosions, the makeshift equipment, all that could and should have been avoided if TEPCO's management had made the necessary expenditures to protect and improve the safety of their nuclear power stations. 4 nuclear power stations were hit by the quake and the tsunami but the only ones that suffered serious damage were the ones mismanaged by TEPCO. The scarecrow of new explosions and accidents only deflect the attention of the public away from the long delayed trial against TEPCO's managers for their criminal negligence.
Nonsense, the arrays are already encased in boron cages in the fuel storage racks, they will not go critical even if they are not cooled. Cooling is needed to keep the fuel arrays mechanically sound so they couldn't release the radioactive materials inside them. There is no serious damage in the fuel arrays in the spent fuel pool of unit 4. The damage in each of the 4 units destroyed is very different, so a single event making all of the remaining fuel release their radioactive materials is highly unlikely, and even if it happens, they have in their favor that the fuel in the spent fuel pools have already undergone 2.5 years more of cooling and decay of its radioactive material since the accident, so any new emergency in the pools will be easier to manage than in 2011. The fire in unit 4 was caused by the hydrogen released by the damage in the core of unit 3, not by any release from the fuel in its spent fuel pool. Still, there are a bunch of morons of TEPCO's management that should be behind bars due their criminal incompetence and negligence.
Will be a good new name for them.
At the time as soon as you connected a Windows PC to the net you will be ending catching a virus. Those were the days of Windows 98 and the "Active desktop". The easy design and setup may appear overrated, but the fact that it was so easy to setup, used far less power than comparable PC's at the time, the small footprint and the fact that it didn't had fans made it perfect for bedrooms and classrooms, and, in case you needed to move it around the home, it was a easy and fast task. My first Apple product was a eMac, that lost the fanless aspect, but was extremely sturdy, almost kids proof, with good performance and a nice price, and a amazing built quality only found in expensive Sun equipment, and running Unix, what was not to like about it?
Because only TEPCO's NPS failed when the tsumami hit. They already had the studies made in 2008 that the seawall was way below the required height for the recorded tsunami levels in their zone. The nuclear power plant from Tohoku Denryoku, Onagawa, that was in the closest point to the quake's epicenter and was hit by a higher wave didn't fail; to the south of TEPCO's Fukushima II the power plant from Japan Atomic Power Corporation Tokai-2 was hit by a similar wave that hit and damaged Fukushima II and didn't face any emergency because due to the same study that was shown to TEPCO in 2008 instead of doing nothing they built a higher and stronger seawall. The lack of a proper seawall killed 2 workers that drowned at Fukushima I.
To further complicate things, instead of starting the decommissioning of unit 1 of Fukushima I TEPCO requested and got granted a license to keep it working despite it being the oldest unit in service in Japan. Had it been in cold shutdown since February 2011 as scheduled despite the lack of proper countermeasures against tsunami they could have had the manpower and resources available to better deal with the emergency in units 2 and 3. On the other hand, if units 4, 5 and 6 hadn't been in a planned outage at the time of the tsunami the disaster could have been of biblical proportions.
Although there are requirements in SOLAS (SOLAS Regulation VI/2) for a declaration of the gross weight of the container, there is no requirement for the actual weighing of the container. The sole exception to this actual weighing requirement is for export from the United States. Recently, a broad spectrum of industry organizations and countries, Denmark, The Netherlands, the United States, BIMCO, the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), and the World Shipping Council (WSC) submitted a formal proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require all containers to be weighed in order to determine their actual weight.
What’s the Weight? Why Weighing of Cargo Containers is Critical/
It is convenient, more than anything else. Also, the Starbucks in USA are not the same than the ones in Japan or Mexico; the japanese ones are spotless, clean and have many nice things in the menu that are not seen anywhere else. In Mexico most of the time are cleaner than the ones in USA, but not as clean than the ones in Japan, but the personnel is friendly, and are a good spot to keep working outside school/workplace. The snobbery is more in the eyes in the ones that think that the patrons of Starbucks are snobs and hipsters in the same vein that the people that believe that users of Apple's products are snobs and hipsters when most of them aren't.
The most reasonable thing to do is to put into law that if the drivers own mobile phones or mobile data service that by procedure they will subpoena the service providers to see it the devices where actively used up to 10 or 15 minutes before the accident, or more time if the time of the accident is hard to be determined, in the same vein that there are done basic checks to see if the drivers are DUI.
If you write in a non alphabetic system the on screen keyboard is leaps an bounds better than a physical keyboard. In properly developed applications like Apple's Numbers the contextual keyboard is much better to data input than any physical counterpart. Only on plain text writing is a better choice an optional physical keyboard. Another benefit, from Apple's POV is that they only offer a single product for a worldwide audience, improving their margins and the management of inventory. There is more behind Apple's mountain of money than being "overpriced" or "fanboys".
This is the strategy that was implemented in Mexico with catastrophic success. Who wants to move here?
The problem with TEPCO is that their top management has been late 10 years to their hanging. Their disregard to safety, their countrymen and even to investors is appalling.
A crushing blow, if I have ever seen one.
I have yet to see a PC that doesn't feel slow rendering a full HD movie shot.
iAgree.
Seem you are the one who failed with your inane speculation.
A Saudi National has been detained. Mostly because he seems to have blown himself up.
Just a bit of advice...if the idiots are agreeing with you, it's time to reassess your position.
An advice that all of us should heed.
Boston police commissioner says no suspect is in custody in marathon explosions
At a press conference Monday night, Boston police commissioner Edward Davis refuted reports that a suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing was at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"I want to stress one thing," Davis said. "There is no suspect at Brigham and Women's Hospital. There are people that we are talking to but there is no suspect at Brigham and Women's Hospital as has been widely reported in the press. I would like to fix that right now."
If I have learnt something from The Simpsons, is that Florida only needs to leave in the wild snail eating snakes to fix this problem.