This venture is being funded by EBAY founder Pierre Omidyar (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-usa-security-greenwald-idUSBRE99E18D20131015).
what damage? All he did was release the information that NSA was electronically evesdropping on US citizens. Something everyone knew anyway including our "enemies". He released no names of any covert agents, troop movements, or what Obama had for breakfast.
My pooch will stare at our 42" LED screen. He goes crazy when a talking head appears and stares back at him. The dog doesn't like strangers staring at him. He also reacts to other animals on the screen and cartoon characters. Sometimes he'll run around to the other side of the wall on which the TV is mounted as if he is looking for something behind the TV/wall as if the TV were a window to the other side of the wall. And no, the dog is not on drugs (neither am I).
The predecessor goes back to the MIT machine in the 60's, the Link-8 which became the PDP-8. It had two DEC tapes, 4KB ram. We programmed it in LAP-4 and had to key in a bootstrap loader on the front panel to load in the OS. At the time we wrote a 64 point FFT and a routine to output the results to a Calcomp plotter. It took 5 minutes to run the FFT. Memory was divided into 2 2KB segments, one for data and one for program. We used one page (512KB) as an executive routine and the other 3 pages to program the FFT which kept the DEC tapes spinning as different segments of the program were shuttled in and out of those 3 pages.
If you listen to the interview between Greenwald and Snowden (on http://democracynow.org/ you will see that Snowden could have released a lot of information that could have made him a lot of money and pretty much taken down the whole program by exposing specific details about programs and individuals. He did none of that. It should be up to the American people to decide if we want such surveillance. If we do then keep these programs. If not then the answer is obvious.
"The congressional notion was that the Postal Service was making lots of money selling its products and services, and so it might be a good idea to put those profits into pre-funding future retiree health care benefits for the next 75 years and do so in a decade. No one else, public or private, does this – but it would put the Postal Service that much more ahead of the game in terms of future liabilities. And so, in 2006, Congress mandated that the USPS do so, at a price tag of about $5.5 billion a year. " (http://www.cnbc.com/id/45049636/Fixing_the_US_Postal_Service039s_Finances).
I don't think there is a low dose minimum. Sure we have background radiation. So this plus whatever folks received from the leakage from the Fukushima plants is considered low? What BS. Just because the effects might not be seen for 10 or 20 years doesn't mean there aren't any. Of course you can't prove a negative and trying to prove an effect that happens decades later is nearly impossible. Oh wait, we can do an experiment. Lets take a bunch of identical twins, expose one to so-called low level of radiation and the other to no radiation, keep them in an insulated box for several decades and see if the one exposed to the radiation gets sick. Oh you say we can't do that experiment? Of course. But looking at the basic physics and the effects of radioactive molecules on nearby cells, we can with a certain amount of certainty say that radiation in any amount will have not so good effects on the human body. Look up some of Helen Caldicott's work.
See http://www.mric.net/ This is a rural wireless internet coop in a hilly/mountainous region that is heavily wooded. They were set up 10 years ago and have over 500 members.
What I heard this morning is that a number of the plants are in a refueling cycle and not in operation. No fuel in the reactor and at least some of the backup diesel generators undergoing overhaul. The current NRC regulations do not require that the spent fuel ponds use the generators for cooling the spent fuel rods, instead relying on the grid. So, it the grid goes down, which it likely will, then its possible that the spent fuel rods can overheat due to lack of circulating cooling water. That's probably the major issue here.
There was a situation last year from Irene. There was so much water that the propane tanks floated away down a river toward a hydroelectric dam near one of the reactors (I think it was in Connecticut). The road to the reactor was closed fearing an explosions from the tanks. I don't think that disaster planning for the reactor design included such a scenario.
Yes Colorado is a water poor state--semi desert. Fracking uses a shit-load of water that cannot be reused. There is an ever increasing demand on the Front Range (Pueblo to Ft Collins, including the Denver metro area) for water (can you say uncontrolled growth?). The proposed source for this water is from the western slope, ie, the Colorado River drainage, which is already over subscribed! I guess at some point this will be self limiting. Not too long ago, Douglas County, north of Colorado Springs was the fastest growing county in the country. The wells that people had on their properties were certified by State Engineers as being 100 year wells. The rapid growth and development depleted those wells in just a few years, leaving the home owners literally high and dry. So, lets keep fracking and burning the natural gas with its, albeit reduced, CO2 levels, and deplete the water supply and raise the environmental temperature. That will surely limit growth and the need for water and natural gas from fracking.
Some of the 12900 employees that were laid off or had voluntarily retired were doing things outside of the 5 areas of focus. Some on my development team were in one these areas but the bulk of the development in this area was shifted overseas. A large number of the voluntary retirees were doing work in these areas as well. With some of these folks in very key roles.
I had a '56 chevy that I put on a bunch of devices that were supposed to save gas. Every few miles I had to stop and siphon the tank to keep it from overflowing!!!
Lets see, a 3 fold increase would be from 'a' kwh to '3a' kwh. The percent increase would be 100%*(3a - a)/a = 200%. So is it 3 fold increase or 300% increase (which would be 4 fold increase).
Cheerup, this is only the beginning with warming global temperatures, the atmosphere holding more moisture, more intense and frequent storms, yada yada yada.
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The 0.7 deg C is not a fluctuation but a trend. Very different from a fluctuation.
This venture is being funded by EBAY founder Pierre Omidyar (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-usa-security-greenwald-idUSBRE99E18D20131015).
to quote Jim Hightower, "If god wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates"
of course he does.
what damage? All he did was release the information that NSA was electronically evesdropping on US citizens. Something everyone knew anyway including our "enemies". He released no names of any covert agents, troop movements, or what Obama had for breakfast.
My pooch will stare at our 42" LED screen. He goes crazy when a talking head appears and stares back at him. The dog doesn't like strangers staring at him. He also reacts to other animals on the screen and cartoon characters. Sometimes he'll run around to the other side of the wall on which the TV is mounted as if he is looking for something behind the TV/wall as if the TV were a window to the other side of the wall. And no, the dog is not on drugs (neither am I).
The predecessor goes back to the MIT machine in the 60's, the Link-8 which became the PDP-8. It had two DEC tapes, 4KB ram. We programmed it in LAP-4 and had to key in a bootstrap loader on the front panel to load in the OS. At the time we wrote a 64 point FFT and a routine to output the results to a Calcomp plotter. It took 5 minutes to run the FFT. Memory was divided into 2 2KB segments, one for data and one for program. We used one page (512KB) as an executive routine and the other 3 pages to program the FFT which kept the DEC tapes spinning as different segments of the program were shuttled in and out of those 3 pages.
If you listen to the interview between Greenwald and Snowden (on http://democracynow.org/ you will see that Snowden could have released a lot of information that could have made him a lot of money and pretty much taken down the whole program by exposing specific details about programs and individuals. He did none of that. It should be up to the American people to decide if we want such surveillance. If we do then keep these programs. If not then the answer is obvious.
"The congressional notion was that the Postal Service was making lots of money selling its products and services, and so it might be a good idea to put those profits into pre-funding future retiree health care benefits for the next 75 years and do so in a decade. No one else, public or private, does this – but it would put the Postal Service that much more ahead of the game in terms of future liabilities. And so, in 2006, Congress mandated that the USPS do so, at a price tag of about $5.5 billion a year. " (http://www.cnbc.com/id/45049636/Fixing_the_US_Postal_Service039s_Finances).
The president issued Executive Actions not Executive orders. The latter have the force of law, the former do not!
I don't think there is a low dose minimum. Sure we have background radiation. So this plus whatever folks received from the leakage from the Fukushima plants is considered low? What BS. Just because the effects might not be seen for 10 or 20 years doesn't mean there aren't any. Of course you can't prove a negative and trying to prove an effect that happens decades later is nearly impossible. Oh wait, we can do an experiment. Lets take a bunch of identical twins, expose one to so-called low level of radiation and the other to no radiation, keep them in an insulated box for several decades and see if the one exposed to the radiation gets sick. Oh you say we can't do that experiment? Of course. But looking at the basic physics and the effects of radioactive molecules on nearby cells, we can with a certain amount of certainty say that radiation in any amount will have not so good effects on the human body. Look up some of Helen Caldicott's work.
If the brain were simple enough to be understood, it would be too simple to understand itself. (anonymous author).
See http://www.mric.net/ This is a rural wireless internet coop in a hilly/mountainous region that is heavily wooded. They were set up 10 years ago and have over 500 members.
don't you feel stupid now seeing the damage this storm has caused already and isn't finished yet?
Yeah, only a cat 1 that's half the size of Texas with a storm surge extending out from that. Yawn.....
What I heard this morning is that a number of the plants are in a refueling cycle and not in operation. No fuel in the reactor and at least some of the backup diesel generators undergoing overhaul. The current NRC regulations do not require that the spent fuel ponds use the generators for cooling the spent fuel rods, instead relying on the grid. So, it the grid goes down, which it likely will, then its possible that the spent fuel rods can overheat due to lack of circulating cooling water. That's probably the major issue here.
There was a situation last year from Irene. There was so much water that the propane tanks floated away down a river toward a hydroelectric dam near one of the reactors (I think it was in Connecticut). The road to the reactor was closed fearing an explosions from the tanks. I don't think that disaster planning for the reactor design included such a scenario.
This was my post, I forgot to log in.
As I understand it, each hydraulic fracturing well requires several million gallons of water. In areas out west at least, water is a scarce commodity.
oops--my response has a bug! :(
Tester to developer: "Your code as a bug". Developer to tester: "Your test code has a bug".
Yes Colorado is a water poor state--semi desert. Fracking uses a shit-load of water that cannot be reused. There is an ever increasing demand on the Front Range (Pueblo to Ft Collins, including the Denver metro area) for water (can you say uncontrolled growth?). The proposed source for this water is from the western slope, ie, the Colorado River drainage, which is already over subscribed! I guess at some point this will be self limiting. Not too long ago, Douglas County, north of Colorado Springs was the fastest growing county in the country. The wells that people had on their properties were certified by State Engineers as being 100 year wells. The rapid growth and development depleted those wells in just a few years, leaving the home owners literally high and dry. So, lets keep fracking and burning the natural gas with its, albeit reduced, CO2 levels, and deplete the water supply and raise the environmental temperature. That will surely limit growth and the need for water and natural gas from fracking.
Some of the 12900 employees that were laid off or had voluntarily retired were doing things outside of the 5 areas of focus. Some on my development team were in one these areas but the bulk of the development in this area was shifted overseas. A large number of the voluntary retirees were doing work in these areas as well. With some of these folks in very key roles.
I had a '56 chevy that I put on a bunch of devices that were supposed to save gas. Every few miles I had to stop and siphon the tank to keep it from overflowing!!!
Lets see, a 3 fold increase would be from 'a' kwh to '3a' kwh. The percent increase would be 100%*(3a - a)/a = 200%. So is it 3 fold increase or 300% increase (which would be 4 fold increase).
Cheerup, this is only the beginning with warming global temperatures, the atmosphere holding more moisture, more intense and frequent storms, yada yada yada.
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if all your folly were changed to intelligence and divided amongst a thousand toads, each would be more intelligent than Aristotle.
Please note -- I didn't claim it was bullshit. Someone else did!