That "50% of gamers are women" statistic includes mobile and facebook games.
Is that not where the "gaming" market is going? The PC gaming market is shrinking, as has the console gaming market. Where do you think the people have gone?
"If support freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you may suffer damage to your reputation."
Good to know your stance on the topic. I hear there's a hivemind sync scheduled in 25 minutes, make sure your brain has enough room for today's new correct opinions.
Sure, and that's the way it should be. You can blather on about "hiveminds" like you had some sort of point, but promoting every viewpoint as if it was as equally valid as every other is hardly the path to enlightenment.
During one of the trips a person on the tour asked our tour guide "The boilers didn't become 60 years old overnight - why didn't the school board put some money away every year for future maintenance and upgrades?"
You can't "put away money" in public departments. Someone will look at the books, and the school system's "extra money for future improvements" fund is someone else's proof that the system gets more money than it needs, and that money is then taken and given to a different department.
The only way to keep funding is to SPEND it. When cutting costs in one year means you get far less money in the next year, maybe not enough to make real ends meet, or to survive an unexpected shortfall, you start learning how to not cut costs.
Fiscal responsibility is punished which is why every department in government is a money pit.
Amusing that the link comes from the VTA site. The VTA fought tooth and nail for years to stop, then delay the BART extension to San Jose. One transit system trying to fight competition from another transit system.
I know... do they really expect the system to last forever? Surely they had a plan replace/upgrade after 20 years or so?
They did, but the Republicans started defunding infrastructure construction and maintenance projects over thirty years ago. We are just now starting to pay the interest on some of the debt accrued by such neglect.
Bay Area voters almost never vote down a BART funding increase. Somehow, the money never gets into the system -- it's used to pump up the salaries of BART administrators and union members, all of whom are compensated far far above market rate now.
Changing a broken system that cannot ever afford to actually go down EVER does not require funding. It merely requires justification.
Unfortunately, that means deaths have to occur, and lawsuits rack up into the billions in order for cities to justify the spend.
Neither are true. There have been weekends when BART has gone down for maintenance. It's pretty rare (doesn't happen every year), gets advertised well in advanced, and no deaths or lawsuits have yet to prompt them.
The system is also down every day from about midnight to 5 am, which makes it a PITA since most major metropolitan public transit runs 24/7. Except BART.
Just got get a car like a *normal* person and be done with it....
It may cost you a few more dollars, but you eliminate the PITA of public transportation like this...
Not when the car takes 2-3x as long to get where you want to go, not unheard of for a metropolis. And when you have to pay $20-$30 PER DAY for parking (parking in SF is at a premium) it's hardly economical.
Radioactive waste from fission accumulates a massive liability for future generations
So does climate change caused by our fossil fuel dependence, as we get told every day. Frankly, the radioactive waste problem seems by far the less troublesome option.
So? Think that's a big barrier should societal, political, or economic will wish otherwise? What Carter suspended could be just as easily unsuspended should any other President desire to do so.
Or maybe I am able to read. His distinctive lack of pro-solar-ness has been pointed out on many occasions and is backed up by his posting history which compared to many others here on slashdot doesn't actually include a lot of pro-solar stories.
But hey insults are easier. You're a dickbutt.
I think mdsolar is "in favor" of solar in the same way that a Democratic Party super-pac is "in favor" of a particular candidate. The rules state they can't campaign specifically on behalf of any one candidate, so they post attack ads against the opposition. They don't build up their candidate as much as they spend lots of resources to tear the other guy down.
mdsolar strikes me as a super-pac guy. He spends all his time trying to tear down the competition. Who knows why he can't be honest and come out in favor of solar. Maybe he's found the attack-ad approach to be one people respond to more. Fear certainly works better than hope.
there is still waste that is waiting for long term solutions
For that all you have to do is be able to say "Fuck you, Harry Reid, we don't care about what you think anymore." That day will come. It's just not here yet.
None of these were failures intrinsic to the reactor.
Why does that matter? All of those disasters were still disasters. They still happened. Saying "well, the core design might be good. People did stupid stuff" is absolutely no comfort.
I really want to love nuclear power. I used to be very on-board with nuclear power. Now, I can only be happy with a reactor that is absolutely 100% idiot proof from the executive level all the way down to the lowest maintenance tech. Because apparently it doesn't matter how high-profile a reactor is going to be, you have to assume that the contractors building it will be lazy and leave equipment out in the rain to degrade, that the managers will look for each and every opportunity to cut a corner, that the staff will make Homer Simpson look competent. Because all of that is what we're going to get. We can't seem to do things any other way.
Laws being passed without a general populous vote is a load of crap. I don't care what the reason is. It may seem ludicrous in the here and now, but if we started our laws in that manner then we might re-evaluate what really needs a law and what is just common sense. Besides, if they don't understand the law then they don't know the law and cant follow it anyway. Try again;)
The US is not, nor should it be, a direct democracy. You want everyone to vote on all the laws, and you'll get exceptionally ill-informed voters who suffer from voter fatigue. Election turnout will be so lackluster, that the participation rate in your Participatory Democracy will be far lower than we have with our Representational Democracy.
Most people can't even name their state representatives. Local issues are similarly ignored. You expect them to vote up or down on every issue? Because... uhhh, somehow that reflects the will of the voter?
4 meter concrete walls. Spent fuel stored in barrels and dropped down in holes in the concrete + a cover on top of each hole..
Sounds like you just designed a place that will be leaking nuclear waste in short order. Concrete cracks over time and four-meter-thick concrete doesn't take much longer. That's a facility that's impossible to maintain.
The word need is often used as just a want, "I need those shoes", but English is an ambiguous language and you often need (not just want) context to work out the words true meaning.
I think he's using the word need in a valid way there. What he is saying that to be a gaming PC, it needs certain features, like an up-to-date GPU, or actual games support. Otherwise it won't fulfill the spec of gaming PC.
Way back when, Apple was claiming that its computers lasted longer, and retained their usefulness longer, than other computers. Suddenly, this is supposed to be a problem?
That was before Apple became a "gadget company," and the huge revenues they've built up since then depend on repeat customers year after year.
I think the outrage is real. The -causes- are rooted in phoniness, and they have no real philosophy behind them more complicated than a single-sentence sound-bite, but I've seen enough of the outrage to know it's a real reaction.
Shouldn't he be dicking around in the Fruitvale station? Now THAT would cause some real delays, given the numbers of trains from three different lines that go through that shared station. Instead, the problem is in front of the end station on a single line, which doesn't significantly affect the other lines.
And yet ironically, the concept of the Devil was born, and managed to stick around.
I don't know that that is irony. It's more another example of what the parent post said -- when we don't immediately see the source of "bad things that happen," we invent it to band together against it. Human society has always favored uniting against an adversary over just accepting that "Shit happens."
You show some serious lack of understanding about what influenza actually is. The grandparent just explained it to you, and you just showed that what he said went in one ear and out the other.
Wakefield's con cost lives, so let's be a complete asshole to anyone who might have bought his con for a few days before looking into it and finding he might have been wrong.
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That "50% of gamers are women" statistic includes mobile and facebook games.
Is that not where the "gaming" market is going? The PC gaming market is shrinking, as has the console gaming market. Where do you think the people have gone?
"If support freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you may suffer damage to your reputation."
Good to know your stance on the topic. I hear there's a hivemind sync scheduled in 25 minutes, make sure your brain has enough room for today's new correct opinions.
Sure, and that's the way it should be. You can blather on about "hiveminds" like you had some sort of point, but promoting every viewpoint as if it was as equally valid as every other is hardly the path to enlightenment.
During one of the trips a person on the tour asked our tour guide "The boilers didn't become 60 years old overnight - why didn't the school board put some money away every year for future maintenance and upgrades?"
You can't "put away money" in public departments. Someone will look at the books, and the school system's "extra money for future improvements" fund is someone else's proof that the system gets more money than it needs, and that money is then taken and given to a different department.
The only way to keep funding is to SPEND it. When cutting costs in one year means you get far less money in the next year, maybe not enough to make real ends meet, or to survive an unexpected shortfall, you start learning how to not cut costs.
Fiscal responsibility is punished which is why every department in government is a money pit.
Amusing that the link comes from the VTA site. The VTA fought tooth and nail for years to stop, then delay the BART extension to San Jose. One transit system trying to fight competition from another transit system.
I know... do they really expect the system to last forever? Surely they had a plan replace/upgrade after 20 years or so?
They did, but the Republicans started defunding infrastructure construction and maintenance projects over thirty years ago. We are just now starting to pay the interest on some of the debt accrued by such neglect.
Bay Area voters almost never vote down a BART funding increase. Somehow, the money never gets into the system -- it's used to pump up the salaries of BART administrators and union members, all of whom are compensated far far above market rate now.
Changing a broken system that cannot ever afford to actually go down EVER does not require funding. It merely requires justification.
Unfortunately, that means deaths have to occur, and lawsuits rack up into the billions in order for cities to justify the spend.
Neither are true. There have been weekends when BART has gone down for maintenance. It's pretty rare (doesn't happen every year), gets advertised well in advanced, and no deaths or lawsuits have yet to prompt them.
The system is also down every day from about midnight to 5 am, which makes it a PITA since most major metropolitan public transit runs 24/7. Except BART.
Meh.....
Just got get a car like a *normal* person and be done with it....
It may cost you a few more dollars, but you eliminate the PITA of public transportation like this...
Not when the car takes 2-3x as long to get where you want to go, not unheard of for a metropolis.
And when you have to pay $20-$30 PER DAY for parking (parking in SF is at a premium) it's hardly economical.
Radioactive waste from fission accumulates a massive liability for future generations
So does climate change caused by our fossil fuel dependence, as we get told every day. Frankly, the radioactive waste problem seems by far the less troublesome option.
So? Think that's a big barrier should societal, political, or economic will wish otherwise? What Carter suspended could be just as easily unsuspended should any other President desire to do so.
Or maybe I am able to read. His distinctive lack of pro-solar-ness has been pointed out on many occasions and is backed up by his posting history which compared to many others here on slashdot doesn't actually include a lot of pro-solar stories.
But hey insults are easier. You're a dickbutt.
I think mdsolar is "in favor" of solar in the same way that a Democratic Party super-pac is "in favor" of a particular candidate. The rules state they can't campaign specifically on behalf of any one candidate, so they post attack ads against the opposition. They don't build up their candidate as much as they spend lots of resources to tear the other guy down.
mdsolar strikes me as a super-pac guy. He spends all his time trying to tear down the competition. Who knows why he can't be honest and come out in favor of solar. Maybe he's found the attack-ad approach to be one people respond to more. Fear certainly works better than hope.
You're not going to get much of a credible counter-claim from mdsolar. He's a paid shill.
there is still waste that is waiting for long term solutions
For that all you have to do is be able to say "Fuck you, Harry Reid, we don't care about what you think anymore." That day will come. It's just not here yet.
None of these were failures intrinsic to the reactor.
Why does that matter? All of those disasters were still disasters. They still happened. Saying "well, the core design might be good. People did stupid stuff" is absolutely no comfort.
I really want to love nuclear power. I used to be very on-board with nuclear power. Now, I can only be happy with a reactor that is absolutely 100% idiot proof from the executive level all the way down to the lowest maintenance tech. Because apparently it doesn't matter how high-profile a reactor is going to be, you have to assume that the contractors building it will be lazy and leave equipment out in the rain to degrade, that the managers will look for each and every opportunity to cut a corner, that the staff will make Homer Simpson look competent. Because all of that is what we're going to get. We can't seem to do things any other way.
Then maybe it is not that important.
If you don't understand it, it's not important?
Laws being passed without a general populous vote is a load of crap. I don't care what the reason is. It may seem ludicrous in the here and now, but if we started our laws in that manner then we might re-evaluate what really needs a law and what is just common sense. Besides, if they don't understand the law then they don't know the law and cant follow it anyway. Try again ;)
The US is not, nor should it be, a direct democracy. You want everyone to vote on all the laws, and you'll get exceptionally ill-informed voters who suffer from voter fatigue. Election turnout will be so lackluster, that the participation rate in your Participatory Democracy will be far lower than we have with our Representational Democracy.
Most people can't even name their state representatives. Local issues are similarly ignored. You expect them to vote up or down on every issue? Because... uhhh, somehow that reflects the will of the voter?
4 meter concrete walls. Spent fuel stored in barrels and dropped down in holes in the concrete + a cover on top of each hole..
Sounds like you just designed a place that will be leaking nuclear waste in short order.
Concrete cracks over time and four-meter-thick concrete doesn't take much longer. That's a facility that's impossible to maintain.
Are you saying I'm racist because I acknowledged the existence of a black man?
The word need is often used as just a want, "I need those shoes", but English is an ambiguous language and you often need (not just want) context to work out the words true meaning.
I think he's using the word need in a valid way there. What he is saying that to be a gaming PC, it needs certain features, like an up-to-date GPU, or actual games support. Otherwise it won't fulfill the spec of gaming PC.
Quit shilling Apple crap. The Mac Pro is an indefensible POS. There are no redeeming qualities about it.
Jesus. Now who is shilling?
Way back when, Apple was claiming that its computers lasted longer, and retained their usefulness longer, than other computers. Suddenly, this is supposed to be a problem?
That was before Apple became a "gadget company," and the huge revenues they've built up since then depend on repeat customers year after year.
I think the outrage is real. The -causes- are rooted in phoniness, and they have no real philosophy behind them more complicated than a single-sentence sound-bite, but I've seen enough of the outrage to know it's a real reaction.
Shouldn't he be dicking around in the Fruitvale station? Now THAT would cause some real delays, given the numbers of trains from three different lines that go through that shared station. Instead, the problem is in front of the end station on a single line, which doesn't significantly affect the other lines.
And yet ironically, the concept of the Devil was born, and managed to stick around.
I don't know that that is irony. It's more another example of what the parent post said -- when we don't immediately see the source of "bad things that happen," we invent it to band together against it. Human society has always favored uniting against an adversary over just accepting that "Shit happens."
You show some serious lack of understanding about what influenza actually is.
The grandparent just explained it to you, and you just showed that what he said went in one ear and out the other.
I thought Alex had been demoted down to doing life insurance commercials for Colonial Penn. Talk about a career low.
I don't know if that's a low. He's getting paid. He likes the money. I would sure do it. Why not?
The fact is that Wakefield's con cost lives
Wakefield's con cost lives, so let's be a complete asshole to anyone who might have bought his con for a few days before looking into it and finding he might have been wrong.