Because, in order for the reactor to produce power it needs at least some of its control rods to be removed. Having the control rods removed during an emergency is FAR FAR more dangerous than a loss of cooling. The point of the cooling pumps is to prevent the core from getting so hot that it melts the control rods and the slags down to the bottom of the containment chamber. All modern reactor designs do not need active cooling like these reactors do. They are some of the oldest reactor designs in existence and upgrading such reactors have by put off due to cost and unending legal challenges by environmental groups. It's sad that we could replace our horrendous coal and hydroelectric power grid that does untold damage to the environment, with modern safe reactors within a few decades but can't because "Environmental" groups hold on to this windmill pipe dream... oh wait, they file legal challenges on the windmills to...
Most cellular data networks converge with their landline networks almost immediately. If it were possible/desirable to "throw crap packets" or "exploit" their network, I believe their DSL customers would pose a much bigger threat. Most of these phones REQUIRE the user to get an unlimited data package when you purchase them.
If the law means that 21 years of bribing 2 major countries political officials leads to a $10 million dollar fine, then the law is a joke anyway. After they pay the fine they are likely to throw a party and toast each other for getting such a good deal.
Willful and systemic disregard for the law by a business like this should lead to the business either being shut down by the feds, or fined so heavily that they have to file for bankruptcy. Who authorized the bribes? No jail time? Sad...
Bribes ARE the way things are done in India. It's to the point now that regulations are so twisted and unmanageable that the only way to get anything done is with bribes. But that doesn't mean it's right. In the US we are supposedly given a vote. But our choice is between people that want to take our money and waste it on government programs that do more harm than good, or people that want to take our money and waste it on tanks and jet fighters when our enemies are 2 guys in a pickup truck and a hunting rifle.
Just because things have always been this way does not mean they will always have to be this way. Just ask the people of Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and on and on. Stand up, say NO MORE. If they don't give you a choice worth voting for, write someone in. If you can't write someone in, don't vote. At least admit it's wrong and say so, loudly.
Um... the ENTIRE European union? Are you crazy? Lets compare our dept to every other wealthy western nation combined... oh look they're ahead. Who'd have thunk it?
I'm sure everyone would love the downfall of the united states. But lets just put things in perspective: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/2010_Nominal_GDP.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/e28cfcc56891df08bf32a556eb9d6d90.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage
If my neighbors gave me have the shit Google does for free, they could write down all they want.
The government on the other hand, takes 30% of my pay, charges be an extra 6% on everything I buy, is recording FAR FAR more personal data about me than Google could ever dream, and most importantly has a long and storied history of arresting, imprisoning, torture and lets not forget executing people it deems criminals or enemy combatants.
The result of Google collecting data on me? Free email and long distance calls with the downside of targeted adds. The result of the Government collecting data on me? Nothing good, but the possibility of discrimination, arrest, imprisonment and death.
If I need a "bill of rights" to protect me from something, lets start with the thing that could possibly KILL me before we worry about target advertising.
You are young my friend... all these lessons were learned BY Microsoft FROM Apple. Apple already screwed the pooch doing this same sort of stuff in the 80s. The iPod/iPhone have given them a second chance and they're doing it all over again.
I just have to thank you for posting this because I was seriously starting to doubt there was anyone with common sense left in the world. I've been the sole person in my social circles calming everyone down and reassuring them that Japan isn't about to fall into a nuclear holocaust that will be picked up by the wind and spread cancer to every corner of the earth. Officials in Europe have been calling it a nuclear APOCALYPSE. Seriously... apocalypses? For fucks sake... anyway, thank you for restoring my faith in the intelligence of man.
and how soon after they get finished building this will they be visited by the NSA with a "request" to install some minor software patches the public need not know about?
So you want to know how to turn terabytes of naked pictures of little old ladies and children from your full body scanners into actionable intelligence on Islamic radicals and wikileaks contributes? If you actually get some software, let me know... because whoever comes up with it has got to be the coding Messiah.
DSL has CLEARLY defined speeds. You order 10mbs service, the speeds right in the name! Yet it never gets to that speed. No-where near it. Then the ISP claims that speed is inside their network, they can't guarantee the rest of the internet. Yet you can do speed tests to the ISPs own servers and still not even get to 80% of the speed your paying for. How is this legal? How is it that the government lets this kind of thing go on and then try to blaim the problem on the customers themselves or the services they are trying to access? The ignorance of the public, the greed of the ISPs and the apathy of our elected officials will be the downfall of the internet. We will bandwidth cap, DRM and QOS ourselves into a segregated internet. Check out my blog! Oh... I'm on ATT... you're on Comcast? Shit. Did I see which show? Whats that? Can't see that on my network sorry.
Just because you haven't been throttled yet (and I seriously doubt you stare at it all day long or are keeping cricket graphs like I am) doesn't mean you aren't under QOS Throttling simply means they put your traffic at a lower priority than other traffic. If the bandwidth available to your remote is big enough, and the people around you aren't capping it out, then you should never see a difference.
Usage caps do absolutely nothing to limit the amount of data your customers use. ISPs problems arise when a large portion of their customers use their cap at the same time... usually around 6-8pm. The rest of the day the ISP is idle for the most part. The people hitting caps like this are doing so because they are using their connection 24hrs/day. ALL ISPs in the US throttle peer to peer traffic, even if they don't admit it. So these people are already slowed way down during this peak period. So why are they doing it? New fees, plain and simple. It's the equivalent of credit card overages.
It's quite possible, and even likely that he wasn't the thief. Say someone traded the rings for drugs or a car stereo? The police don't have an unbroken chain from the victims house to the thieves hands, so unless he confesses they are going to have a pretty hard time convicting him.
" In late June, the Tokyo government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) announced that nearly half of Japan’s commercial reactors had problems that needed to be addressed and further inspections were deemed necessary.
NISA’s report noted that none of the reactors, "…had a problem that is not 'tolerable,”’ and that the majority of the country’s reactors got a passing grade.
But, the report did cast doubt over Japan’s nuclear safety record.
A particular problem seems to exist with the reactors operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) — 14 of their 17 reactors were considered to need additional inspections, with the No. 1 to 4 reactors of the Fukushima Prefecture No. 2 plant considered to have had ‘‘significant’’ problems following the mistaken discharge of radioactive materials into the sea through a drainage pipe that came to light in October 2009.
The Fukushima reactors have suffered a host of problems including in January 1989, when an impeller blade on one of the reactor coolant pumps in Unit 3 broke at a weld forcing a reactor shut down while in 2006 Fukushima’s Unit 1 was shuttered following leaking irradiated water."
If you're wondering, Fukushima would be the reactor in near meltdown right now. Next time you feel the need to call someone a liar I suggest you use www.google.com to do some research or shut your mouth.
The "real" evil here is that the political establishment is inventing a controversy out of nothing, so they have something they can pretend to stand for while at the same time not addressing any of the real issues that plague our country but are politically unpopular to deal with. Medicare, Social Security, Gay Rights, the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties, education. All require politicians to vote for things that will make them lose votes from both Republicans and Democrats, but would benefit the general public. Instead they do nothing... and create an emergency out of thin air that makes little sense so they can pretend to be on your side. Herb Kohl is doing nothing and acting the coward. It's shameful.
I'm not very good at math. Well, I should rephrase that, I'm not very good at sitting down and doing math problems, I always forget to carry the 1 or write down the wrong decimal place, something silly. What I do get is the theory. In programing it is incredibly important to know what things like a modulus is. You don't have to be great at working out the formula, but knowing it exists so you can search for pre-existing code that uses it to solve your own problems is vital. So, do you need math? Certainly. Do you need to be great at math? Definitely not.
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Because, in order for the reactor to produce power it needs at least some of its control rods to be removed. Having the control rods removed during an emergency is FAR FAR more dangerous than a loss of cooling. The point of the cooling pumps is to prevent the core from getting so hot that it melts the control rods and the slags down to the bottom of the containment chamber. All modern reactor designs do not need active cooling like these reactors do. They are some of the oldest reactor designs in existence and upgrading such reactors have by put off due to cost and unending legal challenges by environmental groups. It's sad that we could replace our horrendous coal and hydroelectric power grid that does untold damage to the environment, with modern safe reactors within a few decades but can't because "Environmental" groups hold on to this windmill pipe dream... oh wait, they file legal challenges on the windmills to...
Ever heard of Hitler? Napoleon?
Most cellular data networks converge with their landline networks almost immediately. If it were possible/desirable to "throw crap packets" or "exploit" their network, I believe their DSL customers would pose a much bigger threat. Most of these phones REQUIRE the user to get an unlimited data package when you purchase them.
If the law means that 21 years of bribing 2 major countries political officials leads to a $10 million dollar fine, then the law is a joke anyway. After they pay the fine they are likely to throw a party and toast each other for getting such a good deal.
Willful and systemic disregard for the law by a business like this should lead to the business either being shut down by the feds, or fined so heavily that they have to file for bankruptcy. Who authorized the bribes? No jail time? Sad...
Bribes ARE the way things are done in India. It's to the point now that regulations are so twisted and unmanageable that the only way to get anything done is with bribes. But that doesn't mean it's right. In the US we are supposedly given a vote. But our choice is between people that want to take our money and waste it on government programs that do more harm than good, or people that want to take our money and waste it on tanks and jet fighters when our enemies are 2 guys in a pickup truck and a hunting rifle.
Just because things have always been this way does not mean they will always have to be this way. Just ask the people of Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and on and on. Stand up, say NO MORE. If they don't give you a choice worth voting for, write someone in. If you can't write someone in, don't vote. At least admit it's wrong and say so, loudly.
This is all at least a week too late. The rebels are doomed. As usual the UN has hand-wringing down to a science.
Um... the ENTIRE European union? Are you crazy? Lets compare our dept to every other wealthy western nation combined... oh look they're ahead. Who'd have thunk it?
This disaster has destroyed what little faith I had left in the media. It's disgusting what they are doing right now.
and with 3 clicks in fireflox or chrome and its gone. So yes, it's that simple.
I'm sure everyone would love the downfall of the united states. But lets just put things in perspective:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/2010_Nominal_GDP.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/e28cfcc56891df08bf32a556eb9d6d90.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage
And the fact that you two seem to agree that "The World" consists of European leftists, speaks volumes.
If my neighbors gave me have the shit Google does for free, they could write down all they want.
The government on the other hand, takes 30% of my pay, charges be an extra 6% on everything I buy, is recording FAR FAR more personal data about me than Google could ever dream, and most importantly has a long and storied history of arresting, imprisoning, torture and lets not forget executing people it deems criminals or enemy combatants.
The result of Google collecting data on me? Free email and long distance calls with the downside of targeted adds.
The result of the Government collecting data on me? Nothing good, but the possibility of discrimination, arrest, imprisonment and death.
If I need a "bill of rights" to protect me from something, lets start with the thing that could possibly KILL me before we worry about target advertising.
4.2 grams is a "Stash"? lol
You are young my friend... all these lessons were learned BY Microsoft FROM Apple. Apple already screwed the pooch doing this same sort of stuff in the 80s. The iPod/iPhone have given them a second chance and they're doing it all over again.
I just have to thank you for posting this because I was seriously starting to doubt there was anyone with common sense left in the world. I've been the sole person in my social circles calming everyone down and reassuring them that Japan isn't about to fall into a nuclear holocaust that will be picked up by the wind and spread cancer to every corner of the earth. Officials in Europe have been calling it a nuclear APOCALYPSE. Seriously... apocalypses? For fucks sake... anyway, thank you for restoring my faith in the intelligence of man.
and how soon after they get finished building this will they be visited by the NSA with a "request" to install some minor software patches the public need not know about?
So you want to know how to turn terabytes of naked pictures of little old ladies and children from your full body scanners into actionable intelligence on Islamic radicals and wikileaks contributes? If you actually get some software, let me know... because whoever comes up with it has got to be the coding Messiah.
DSL has CLEARLY defined speeds. You order 10mbs service, the speeds right in the name! Yet it never gets to that speed. No-where near it. Then the ISP claims that speed is inside their network, they can't guarantee the rest of the internet. Yet you can do speed tests to the ISPs own servers and still not even get to 80% of the speed your paying for. How is this legal? How is it that the government lets this kind of thing go on and then try to blaim the problem on the customers themselves or the services they are trying to access? The ignorance of the public, the greed of the ISPs and the apathy of our elected officials will be the downfall of the internet. We will bandwidth cap, DRM and QOS ourselves into a segregated internet. Check out my blog! Oh... I'm on ATT... you're on Comcast? Shit. Did I see which show? Whats that? Can't see that on my network sorry.
What's a Zune? Microsofts spell check doesn't even recognize it.
and
When did Microsoft get into smartphones?
Just because you haven't been throttled yet (and I seriously doubt you stare at it all day long or are keeping cricket graphs like I am) doesn't mean you aren't under QOS Throttling simply means they put your traffic at a lower priority than other traffic. If the bandwidth available to your remote is big enough, and the people around you aren't capping it out, then you should never see a difference.
Usage caps do absolutely nothing to limit the amount of data your customers use. ISPs problems arise when a large portion of their customers use their cap at the same time... usually around 6-8pm. The rest of the day the ISP is idle for the most part. The people hitting caps like this are doing so because they are using their connection 24hrs/day. ALL ISPs in the US throttle peer to peer traffic, even if they don't admit it. So these people are already slowed way down during this peak period. So why are they doing it? New fees, plain and simple. It's the equivalent of credit card overages.
It's quite possible, and even likely that he wasn't the thief. Say someone traded the rings for drugs or a car stereo? The police don't have an unbroken chain from the victims house to the thieves hands, so unless he confesses they are going to have a pretty hard time convicting him.
And I quote:
" In late June, the Tokyo government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) announced that nearly half of Japan’s commercial reactors had problems that needed to be addressed and further inspections were deemed necessary.
NISA’s report noted that none of the reactors, "…had a problem that is not 'tolerable,”’ and that the majority of the country’s reactors got a passing grade.
But, the report did cast doubt over Japan’s nuclear safety record.
A particular problem seems to exist with the reactors operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) — 14 of their 17 reactors were considered to need additional inspections, with the No. 1 to 4 reactors of the Fukushima Prefecture No. 2 plant considered to have had ‘‘significant’’ problems following the mistaken discharge of radioactive materials into the sea through a drainage pipe that came to light in October 2009.
The Fukushima reactors have suffered a host of problems including in January 1989, when an impeller blade on one of the reactor coolant pumps in Unit 3 broke at a weld forcing a reactor shut down while in 2006 Fukushima’s Unit 1 was shuttered following leaking irradiated water."
If you're wondering, Fukushima would be the reactor in near meltdown right now. Next time you feel the need to call someone a liar I suggest you use www.google.com to do some research or shut your mouth.
The "real" evil here is that the political establishment is inventing a controversy out of nothing, so they have something they can pretend to stand for while at the same time not addressing any of the real issues that plague our country but are politically unpopular to deal with. Medicare, Social Security, Gay Rights, the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties, education. All require politicians to vote for things that will make them lose votes from both Republicans and Democrats, but would benefit the general public. Instead they do nothing... and create an emergency out of thin air that makes little sense so they can pretend to be on your side. Herb Kohl is doing nothing and acting the coward. It's shameful.
I'm not very good at math. Well, I should rephrase that, I'm not very good at sitting down and doing math problems, I always forget to carry the 1 or write down the wrong decimal place, something silly. What I do get is the theory. In programing it is incredibly important to know what things like a modulus is. You don't have to be great at working out the formula, but knowing it exists so you can search for pre-existing code that uses it to solve your own problems is vital. So, do you need math? Certainly. Do you need to be great at math? Definitely not.