The petition appears to be scamming. I donated USD 10 when it said it was at 190 of 250 and then I got a mail and when I clicked it I got another request to donate and it still said 190 of 250.
How about Christian Engström of the Swedish Pirate Party in the European Parlament for:
"a politician who thinks you're entitled to privacy AND votes that way"?
the enrichment process is more difficult and costly
What enrichment process?
Do you mean the chemical extraction of Thorium? How could that be expensive compared to cost of enriching U-235?
There is only one kind of Thorium (Th-232) when you mine it.
Turning it to U-233 requires neutrons but you are supposed to get enough extra of those when you burn the U-233 to make it economical.
Best explanation of the process I have seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8
We have tried that in Sweden and companies did:
* Make big promises
* Win auction
* Fail to deliver on promises
* Make excuses and avoid fines
*...
* Profit!
Next time the spectrum will probably be sold to those who will pay most money for it.
How about a space elevator that doesn't reach all the way?
How far would it reach with todays materials at same cost?
(Still centered at geostationary height, so you would have to fly up to it.)
While his probabilities look ok to me, he seems to have made a mistake about the 2007 russian-estonian cyber attack in his http://nuclearrisk.org/1why_now.phpprimer:
This attack is believed to have emanated from within Russia, with some believing the government to be responsible. It is contradicted by
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/25/0120221this slashdot article.
If he had written "was believed" instead it would have been more correct. Also, I didn't find any contact information on his website.
Maybe http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/ though less focused, would be a better place to go?
The answer is just in disclaiming that running certain types of services like bittorrent coupled with excessive transfer on a connection can lead to service degredation, not termination. They just need to put a process in place to handle this situation. Time warner claims that "5% of their customers use 50% of their bandwidth" - well - that seems pretty damn easy to fix doesn't it? Exceed a certain monthly transfer rate, send out a warning via e-mail - usage continues - put a cap that is far lower than their original amount.
Something like this is done for mobile broadband in Sweden. You get 5 Gbyte/month at 7.2 Mbit/s and then 30 kbit/s. Price is 99 SEK = approx. 15 USD per month. The lower speed is thought to be enough for e-mail and web browsing.
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The petition appears to be scamming. I donated USD 10 when it said it was at 190 of 250 and then I got a mail and when I clicked it I got another request to donate and it still said 190 of 250.
How about Christian Engström of the Swedish Pirate Party in the European Parlament for: "a politician who thinks you're entitled to privacy AND votes that way"?
the enrichment process is more difficult and costly
What enrichment process? Do you mean the chemical extraction of Thorium? How could that be expensive compared to cost of enriching U-235?
There is only one kind of Thorium (Th-232) when you mine it. Turning it to U-233 requires neutrons but you are supposed to get enough extra of those when you burn the U-233 to make it economical.
Best explanation of the process I have seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8
Yes, USD 11 seems more like the difference in price between 10/10 and 100/100. I'll be getting 100/100 at SEK 419(approx USD 49) per month.
Is that an argument for or against doing a "beuty contest" in place of a normal auction?
We have tried that in Sweden and companies did: ...
* Make big promises
* Win auction
* Fail to deliver on promises
* Make excuses and avoid fines
*
* Profit!
Next time the spectrum will probably be sold to those who will pay most money for it.
The idea is that once the ice has melted it will be cheaper to get to the fuel/resources there.
Yes, that is disappointing, it should have asked 0x10 and 0x4 with the correct answer being 20.
How about a space elevator that doesn't reach all the way?
How far would it reach with todays materials at same cost?
(Still centered at geostationary height, so you would have to fly up to it.)