True some important safety legislation came out of that though. Lets face it there were issues with the design which led to a catastrophic failure. Nothing like as bad as Chernobyl but then the Russians are still building fission reactors oooh and selling them to Iran. The people who point out 3 mile island as why nuclear is really dangerous are of the same mob as the people who want to close down the LHC because it might attract the attention of the Mutant Stellar Goat.
Already have a friend who does this he's the one who clued me in if it gets to the stage you are making too much money out of them they will just ban you from betting with them.
Agreed although I'm sure it would be back to normal once people had forgotten about it. I mean it's not like people have stopped building ridiculously tall buildings is it. And airport security seems to be there more for show than any kind of serious deterrent.
I just loved the 3 sites mentioned in the summary did anyone not know they were in the Nuclear industry??? You are correct though even if they did get their hands on Civilian Nuclear materials (Even the top end stuff) they wouldn't be able to make anything more than a dirty bomb. One quibble on that front though many of these facilities also produce Nuclear materials for the military. I'm sure they are only ever stored in small quantities before being shipped off somewhere that's actually secret i.e. not on this list but it's still a potential risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango generally they are quite hard to get on unless you are the wife of an MP or Captain of Industry or hubbies 1st name is either Sir or Lord. I seem to recall you get quite well paid for being on one too something like £500 a day + expenses (Obviously Citation needed but can't find one).
Nah the bookies like people who win if only because they are such a small proportion that they don't impact profits significantly and it's good advertising. There are plenty of people doing the maths already the bookies make their money out of the ID ten T's that are looking for that one big win. Trust me I lose a lot of money betting I just make more on average.
Spot on! Another reason people lose big time is because they bet stupidly I know people who bet their whole salary as soon as they get it hoping to get lucky. Personally I don't believe in luck I try to get 1 bet in 3 (or better) right but the stakes I play at are so small compared to my overall pot that I can cope with 19 losers in a row.
Fortunately most people think its a mugs game which unless you know what you are doing it most certainly is. However all the information on how to pick your bets is already in the public domain. Just do the maths and make sure the betting system you use can sustain 19 losing bets in a row and still give you your required ROI % for each bet when the 20th bet comes in. If you go more than 20 bets without a winner then either even the FSM hates you or you are dumber than the average American president
Agreed
Although the number of times I've been called in when the back up was cocked because nobody knew what they were doing make me think this is a little harsh. Good lesson here kids just because the tape was in overnight doesn't mean there's anything useful on it.
Because of course most of the arable land on the planet isn't currently needed to feed people. And even the current minuscule production of biofuels hasn't caused price hikes in food products that have left people starving to death.
If you hadn't been paying attention in the last couple of years there have been tremendous food shortages throughout the world (leading to numerous food riots) mostly caused by loss of food production due to the spread of the fungus UG99 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726474.400-killer-wheat-fungus-threatens-starvation-for-millions.html do we really want to produce even less food just so you can pump even more CO2 into the atmosphere???
As for Fission vs Fusion fusion is the very clean option fission is more geared to producing weapons grade plutonium and produces an awful lot of nuclear waste. Fusion on the other hand is extremely clean in comparison the only waste will be the reaction chamber when it is decommissioned.
It could be blown up but not easily as all the anti satellite missiles currently in any military service are purely designed to take out Satellites in Low Earth Orbit its a big difference between a 300 - 500km orbit and a 35750km orbit. Currently only 3 space agencies in the world are seriously capable of even thinking of such a feet (USA, Russia and ESA) and even then it would take months for the US or ESA to achieve it and weeks for Russia (They have always had a much higher turn around and more robust launch vehicles). Then there's the fact that you'd be dumping literally tones of junk into the geostationary orbit effectively wiping out decent sat coms for thousands of years!
(Routers & Switches) installed at these locations (Plus the DOD, FBI etc) are manufactured in China I'm surprised they'd even bother with something like this bearing in mind they can probably already read Obama's email and listen to most of his phone calls. If they did do it it was probably just a proof of concept or a shot over the bows.
Don't know where he was staying but sounds like he hod some of that "John Wayne" toilet paper we used to get in school because it's Rough, Tough and it takes no shit:)
Maybe they should go with that it may give the Fox execs the boot up the ass to re-launch the series. But then again if you boot a Fox exec up the ass is he going to know where you hit him????
Please tell me this is the start of April Fool's Day. The new movie looks like it's totally disrespecting the source material (seriously, the trailer made it look like a mindless sex-and-violence movie)... I'd rather not see more like that.
Erm did you ever see the original series in it's original late night spot???
Mindless sex and violence was what I remember but hey at least it was in space:)
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True some important safety legislation came out of that though. Lets face it there were issues with the design which led to a catastrophic failure. Nothing like as bad as Chernobyl but then the Russians are still building fission reactors oooh and selling them to Iran. The people who point out 3 mile island as why nuclear is really dangerous are of the same mob as the people who want to close down the LHC because it might attract the attention of the Mutant Stellar Goat.
Already have a friend who does this he's the one who clued me in if it gets to the stage you are making too much money out of them they will just ban you from betting with them.
Agreed although I'm sure it would be back to normal once people had forgotten about it. I mean it's not like people have stopped building ridiculously tall buildings is it. And airport security seems to be there more for show than any kind of serious deterrent.
I just loved the 3 sites mentioned in the summary did anyone not know they were in the Nuclear industry??? You are correct though even if they did get their hands on Civilian Nuclear materials (Even the top end stuff) they wouldn't be able to make anything more than a dirty bomb. One quibble on that front though many of these facilities also produce Nuclear materials for the military. I'm sure they are only ever stored in small quantities before being shipped off somewhere that's actually secret i.e. not on this list but it's still a potential risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango generally they are quite hard to get on unless you are the wife of an MP or Captain of Industry or hubbies 1st name is either Sir or Lord. I seem to recall you get quite well paid for being on one too something like £500 a day + expenses (Obviously Citation needed but can't find one).
Nah the bookies like people who win if only because they are such a small proportion that they don't impact profits significantly and it's good advertising. There are plenty of people doing the maths already the bookies make their money out of the ID ten T's that are looking for that one big win. Trust me I lose a lot of money betting I just make more on average.
Spot on! Another reason people lose big time is because they bet stupidly I know people who bet their whole salary as soon as they get it hoping to get lucky. Personally I don't believe in luck I try to get 1 bet in 3 (or better) right but the stakes I play at are so small compared to my overall pot that I can cope with 19 losers in a row.
Fortunately most people think its a mugs game which unless you know what you are doing it most certainly is. However all the information on how to pick your bets is already in the public domain. Just do the maths and make sure the betting system you use can sustain 19 losing bets in a row and still give you your required ROI % for each bet when the 20th bet comes in. If you go more than 20 bets without a winner then either even the FSM hates you or you are dumber than the average American president
people can get emotionally attached to horses unlike lawyers. And I can make more than 20%
Agreed Although the number of times I've been called in when the back up was cocked because nobody knew what they were doing make me think this is a little harsh. Good lesson here kids just because the tape was in overnight doesn't mean there's anything useful on it.
Because of course most of the arable land on the planet isn't currently needed to feed people. And even the current minuscule production of biofuels hasn't caused price hikes in food products that have left people starving to death.
If you hadn't been paying attention in the last couple of years there have been tremendous food shortages throughout the world (leading to numerous food riots) mostly caused by loss of food production due to the spread of the fungus UG99 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726474.400-killer-wheat-fungus-threatens-starvation-for-millions.html do we really want to produce even less food just so you can pump even more CO2 into the atmosphere???
As for Fission vs Fusion fusion is the very clean option fission is more geared to producing weapons grade plutonium and produces an awful lot of nuclear waste. Fusion on the other hand is extremely clean in comparison the only waste will be the reaction chamber when it is decommissioned.
For those who are interested you can build a fusion reactor in your garage http://www.brian-mcdermott.com/fusion_is_easy.htm
Cheers
At end-of-life, geostationary satellites are moved into a higher orbit to make way for new ones.
This has only recently started to happen and doesn't cope with older satellites that are not designed to do this or satellites that malfunction.
instead of doing something really useful by trying to solve humanity's biggest problems.
He's a Lawyer all he needs to do that is a gun and 1 bullet
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I used to have a signature but I got board
was attached to an Embasy :)
Great! Now you just have to "monetize" it...
BINGO!!!! :)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2007/05/chinas-solar-powered-city-48605 China is already way ahead
Yup that could do it. BTW I think given today's news we can add China to that list http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/China_launches_global_positioning_satellite_report_999.html
It could be blown up but not easily as all the anti satellite missiles currently in any military service are purely designed to take out Satellites in Low Earth Orbit its a big difference between a 300 - 500km orbit and a 35750km orbit. Currently only 3 space agencies in the world are seriously capable of even thinking of such a feet (USA, Russia and ESA) and even then it would take months for the US or ESA to achieve it and weeks for Russia (They have always had a much higher turn around and more robust launch vehicles). Then there's the fact that you'd be dumping literally tones of junk into the geostationary orbit effectively wiping out decent sat coms for thousands of years!
(Routers & Switches) installed at these locations (Plus the DOD, FBI etc) are manufactured in China I'm surprised they'd even bother with something like this bearing in mind they can probably already read Obama's email and listen to most of his phone calls. If they did do it it was probably just a proof of concept or a shot over the bows.
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Attempting to run video, gaming, VOIP or J2ME content over 3G is utter, utter pants.
Hmmm I regularly play WOW over a 3G connection without any issues other than I get the odd bad connection (Lots of latency & disconnects)
Don't know where he was staying but sounds like he hod some of that "John Wayne" toilet paper we used to get in school because it's Rough, Tough and it takes no shit :)
It may start to grow again or it my shrink even further all we really know is one day it will probably disappear only to be replaced by another
Perhaps they should re-christen it the OnePod. I mean it could have been worse he could have given her the Royal Wii :)
Maybe they should go with that it may give the Fox execs the boot up the ass to re-launch the series. But then again if you boot a Fox exec up the ass is he going to know where you hit him????
Please tell me this is the start of April Fool's Day. The new movie looks like it's totally disrespecting the source material (seriously, the trailer made it look like a mindless sex-and-violence movie)... I'd rather not see more like that.
Erm did you ever see the original series in it's original late night spot???
Mindless sex and violence was what I remember but hey at least it was in space:)