Seriously, the NIMBY (not in my nackyard) and BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) mentalities have held back nuclear power as much as anything else, especially after TMI. Getting local communities to agree to construction will be no small task.
BS. I have a security clearance, and as long as you're honest they will overlook almost anything. Lieing is the number one way to get yourself denied a clearance. Sure they want to know about your foreign contacts, that don't talk in your sleep, or leave yourself open to blackmail, but keeping those things secret is much worse.
Living in America, I don't think me emails go across their border, but maybe. If they do, they can have another copy. Plus, I'm pretty sure they're not allowed to look at or have any pr0n on a government machine, so I wonder how they're going to handle that.
I'm seriously considering buying one of their Ubuntu machines, maybe holding out until their mini notebook comes out. I already use Ubuntu for free on my desktop. So why would I buy it? One, to vote with my dollars. Buying Vista then installing Ubuntu sends two wrong messages; MS gets another sale and Ubuntu gets no sale (and not even a download, since I already have several install CDs). Two, just to make sure it's compatible with the hardware. I'm not a developer, and though I can trouble-shoot some common problems, I'd rather buy it knowing most if not everything will work out of the box, especially wireless, webcam, etc.
I'M on a high horse? For what, pointing out how poor I've been? You're blaming the victim, calling them stupid for living where they do, making fun of the way they talk, discounting all the hardship and turmoil theses people go through, and I'M on a high horse?
I think we'll see what's going on now with more fidelity, but weather prediction is still limited by chaos. Weather is sensitive to initial starting conditions, so no matter how well we know those starting conditions (today's weather), we will not be able to predict future weather more than about 10 days out with any kind of fidelity. We've also noticed that some weather patterns are more chaotic than others. You may notice sometimes they say stuff like, "The hurricane will make landfall tomorrow morning at 2am here." And sometimes they say, "We really don't know what this storm is going to do. It could land tonight or blow north. We'll have to see." What they do is run several simulations using variables a few decimal places off. Sometimes they all do the same thing, sometimes they vary so much there's no way to know what's going to happen. Adding new radar will not change the fact that weather is inherently chaotic and unpredictable.
Well, when you're poor there aren't many great options of where to live. I'm sure if they could afford better real estate, they would move. When I was poor I lived in an apt near an airport because it was all I could afford. If all I could afford in my area was a trailer in a tornado zone, well then I guess that's where I'd live.
Patenting DNA was a problem maybe 10 or so years ago, but since then much of the patents and patentable information on DNA has been collected in open repositories of information. Drug companies have found it much more lucrative to open up this information and share it with other companies rather than keep it to themselves - shouldn't be too surprising to open-source enthusiasts. Instead, they have been concentrating on deriving income further downstream from the drugs produced from the DNA data. Right now, most of your DNA is open-source.
Hey, I'm just asking for some sense of proportion here. In general, I believe the government should be open in all matters not related to national security, and even a few that are. But FCC's classification for broadband? Is this really worth getting riled up about? Get upset when people are locked up without seeing a laywer, or when judges are bribed, or kittens are murdered. Getting indignant over this just makes you look like a zealot.
Yeah, can you imagine the nightmarish Orwelian scenario where citizens wouldn't know how the FCC classified their broadband access in their area? Won't somebody think of the children?
I think we're talking about different terms. Reserves are not based on price, it is based on volume available. Reserves have gone up regardless of price since oil was discovered. New information on old reserves and new reserves being discovered have led to ever-upward revisions in available crude. New technologies have also continually reduced the price of extraction.
And very soon production will catch up to demand again, as it has every time there has been a surge in prices, and a glut of cheap oil will follow. It happens every time. Read some history on it.
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are 45 backyards in which to build them.
Seriously, the NIMBY (not in my nackyard) and BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) mentalities have held back nuclear power as much as anything else, especially after TMI. Getting local communities to agree to construction will be no small task.
Between this and the FCC not releasing how it classified broadband penetration, it's enough to drive me to drink.
BS. I have a security clearance, and as long as you're honest they will overlook almost anything. Lieing is the number one way to get yourself denied a clearance. Sure they want to know about your foreign contacts, that don't talk in your sleep, or leave yourself open to blackmail, but keeping those things secret is much worse.
That's why my TV runs Linux. Never have to reboot.
Living in America, I don't think me emails go across their border, but maybe. If they do, they can have another copy. Plus, I'm pretty sure they're not allowed to look at or have any pr0n on a government machine, so I wonder how they're going to handle that.
Awesome. Better yet, I'll just forward all my spam.
At least it was a local call for customer service.
I'm not familiar with that metric. However, it is equivalent to just over 1 million bathtubs full of betamax tapes.
I'm seriously considering buying one of their Ubuntu machines, maybe holding out until their mini notebook comes out. I already use Ubuntu for free on my desktop. So why would I buy it? One, to vote with my dollars. Buying Vista then installing Ubuntu sends two wrong messages; MS gets another sale and Ubuntu gets no sale (and not even a download, since I already have several install CDs). Two, just to make sure it's compatible with the hardware. I'm not a developer, and though I can trouble-shoot some common problems, I'd rather buy it knowing most if not everything will work out of the box, especially wireless, webcam, etc.
you could just get Ubuntu from Dell. Hell, I'd take one of their DOS machines before buying Vista.
And imagine a beowulf cluster of those. Yeehaw!
I'm sorry you feel that way. I, for one, welcome our robots.txt overlords.
Yeah, and think about all those stupid morons who'll rebuild their homes after they're destroyed. Pfft. What idiots.
I'M on a high horse? For what, pointing out how poor I've been? You're blaming the victim, calling them stupid for living where they do, making fun of the way they talk, discounting all the hardship and turmoil theses people go through, and I'M on a high horse?
I think we'll see what's going on now with more fidelity, but weather prediction is still limited by chaos. Weather is sensitive to initial starting conditions, so no matter how well we know those starting conditions (today's weather), we will not be able to predict future weather more than about 10 days out with any kind of fidelity. We've also noticed that some weather patterns are more chaotic than others. You may notice sometimes they say stuff like, "The hurricane will make landfall tomorrow morning at 2am here." And sometimes they say, "We really don't know what this storm is going to do. It could land tonight or blow north. We'll have to see." What they do is run several simulations using variables a few decimal places off. Sometimes they all do the same thing, sometimes they vary so much there's no way to know what's going to happen. Adding new radar will not change the fact that weather is inherently chaotic and unpredictable.
Well, when you're poor there aren't many great options of where to live. I'm sure if they could afford better real estate, they would move. When I was poor I lived in an apt near an airport because it was all I could afford. If all I could afford in my area was a trailer in a tornado zone, well then I guess that's where I'd live.
Yeah, maybe if your neighborino was as coop-diddly-operative as Flanders. My neighbor sure wouldn't let me swab his cheek.
Patenting DNA was a problem maybe 10 or so years ago, but since then much of the patents and patentable information on DNA has been collected in open repositories of information. Drug companies have found it much more lucrative to open up this information and share it with other companies rather than keep it to themselves - shouldn't be too surprising to open-source enthusiasts. Instead, they have been concentrating on deriving income further downstream from the drugs produced from the DNA data. Right now, most of your DNA is open-source.
Hey, I'm just asking for some sense of proportion here. In general, I believe the government should be open in all matters not related to national security, and even a few that are. But FCC's classification for broadband? Is this really worth getting riled up about? Get upset when people are locked up without seeing a laywer, or when judges are bribed, or kittens are murdered. Getting indignant over this just makes you look like a zealot.
Yeah, can you imagine the nightmarish Orwelian scenario where citizens wouldn't know how the FCC classified their broadband access in their area? Won't somebody think of the children?
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I think 'free' uses the same number of zeros in Euros as it does in dollars.
Exactly. And what good is a newborn baby, either?
I think we're talking about different terms. Reserves are not based on price, it is based on volume available. Reserves have gone up regardless of price since oil was discovered. New information on old reserves and new reserves being discovered have led to ever-upward revisions in available crude. New technologies have also continually reduced the price of extraction.
And very soon production will catch up to demand again, as it has every time there has been a surge in prices, and a glut of cheap oil will follow. It happens every time. Read some history on it.