Btw, yes, I am an immigrant in North America, coming from the old' Europe, currently in Canada, but YES, I *am* lurking hard to move south within the next 5 years. And YES, if that mean being a whore to a big tech company, I WILL be, without any remorse.
Looking back, I should probably have moved to the US first, but well... life...
Do you realize that some people might want to get a piece of the cake ? USA used to be a land of opportunities, it has merely became a land of privileges for those rightly born. I will not say that US workers are lazy, but if there is someone equally competent want it hard, there is barely anything you can do but toughen and get better. I know, this is pretty damn difficult. Asking question about oneself, accepting that you are not the best for a task is hard, but this is what make you stronger. If you want to hide yourself behind laws to make you life easier, fine, but don't come and whine when you start losing. All these immigration laws are just artificial protection to a way of life you no longer deserve. Wake up sweetheart !
I was merely correcting an incorrect fact about Tchernobyl
That being said, there is no safe design, ever. Planes can crash, car can malfunction, ship can sink, etc. All either because of material fatigue or human errors. But the average person will not care about the dust emission of coal, not will they care about crashing plane, because not only the physics is rather simple, but it was invented in a non-warfare context. The first contact of humanity with nuclear fission was Hiroshima and the Nagasaki (I skip the Trinity test, which was not public), thus the de-facto bad reputation of nuclear energy. Moreover, it is rather difficult to the average (dumb) person to understand what nuclear fission (or fusion) truly is.
That being said, on a global scale, Fukushima, Tchernobyl or Three mile island have not been that disastrous. A few hundreds squares kilometers of inhabitable land (for human) is not that much of a price to live by our standard.
OOTH, during the previous centuries, political bs has caused more death than nuclear waste will ever, so this would really be the last of my problem should a worldwide political crisis emerge. At worst, the storage site will turn out as a Tchernobyl-like exclusion zone, which is pretty OK.
There is plenty of option for fuel waste treatments. France has been the world pioneer and leader of reprocessing. Only the US have decided NOT to reprocess their spent fuel. This is a political problem, not an engineering one. After reprocessing, you are left with a small portion of the original spent fuel which can be vitrificated and buried. These waste have a really high density and do not occupy much space. Trash landfill is causing more harm on the long term than there waste, but you don't object to trash landfill...
US ain't the land of the free and home of the brave anymore. Don't you realize how dangerous it is to have free minds ? The Brave New World is more and more coming to a reality. There is a few thing that the government cannot touch, like the 2nd amendment, but it is trying hard to restrict it. All other amendment of the Bill of Rights have been eroded over and over as well...
The worst part is that even with all these changes US is still, on the paper, compared to all other western countries, a nation of Freedom... if you are rightly born.
I don't really know about Seattle, but I moved from Montreal, Qc to Vancouver, BC about a month ago. I was told winter would be nothing but rain and not so cold temperature (I love the cold). But I've been pretty surprised so far. Not much rain, and for the past week, it's been warmer in Montreal than here.n
Sorry, but I cannot feel anything but utterly patronized by your comment. Asking for a part of the cake is OK, but asking for the whole cake, the baker shop, and the baker is *too much*. Just the same way with unions. It was completely legitimate in the beginning, but now, the system has been perverted and abuse appears. No matter what, any entity which is given power will always wants more and more, even if it mean betraying its original purpose.
Then women are the one advantaged. They get more pardon, reduced sentencing and easier parole. I don't even start on domestic issues and divorce where they are more than likely to be seen as the victim, get alimony and child care...
This is newspeak. If 'equality' is neither fairness or identicality, then the concept you are trying to describe is not 'equality'. What is so wrong about the denial that men and women are "equal" ? Egalitarianism is total bs, women and men will never be equal, let's keep it that way...
The problem is to create an anonymous currency, not whether or not it is online or IRL. That being said, there will be no anonymous online currency without online anonymity, something that nobody (ie. neither tech companies or government) wants in these time of erosion of public liberties.
It already exists, it's called bank note and coins, especially the US Dollars. Why try to re-invent the wheel ?
It is the main way to exchange goods anonymously in the whole world. As long as enough people believe in and trust its value, it will continue to run. While some anarchist might argue that there is no place for a state controlled money, this argument is not really valid here. That argument has more to do with the fact that too much rely on it. What we are trying to assert here is the level of anonymity of the currency.
The same ending comment could be said about Obamacare's website, that is, with +600 millions, you could have funded a whole lot of OpenSource developers to build the stuff, and it might actually have been working. It can be said about everything the government is doing. Note that I don't even bother to say "doing wrong" because I would hate to repeat myself.
It would be an illusion to think the US are a democracy; it is a plutocracy governed by the businesses for the businesses. Open-source is going *against* this principle.
If you think American are sheep, wait until you have seen Canadian... No guts whatsoever, no rights AT ALL (our Charter of Rights and Freedom is a lieberal joke)... A land of subject, not free people.
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Btw, yes, I am an immigrant in North America, coming from the old' Europe, currently in Canada, but YES, I *am* lurking hard to move south within the next 5 years. And YES, if that mean being a whore to a big tech company, I WILL be, without any remorse.
Looking back, I should probably have moved to the US first, but well... life...
Do you realize that some people might want to get a piece of the cake ? USA used to be a land of opportunities, it has merely became a land of privileges for those rightly born. I will not say that US workers are lazy, but if there is someone equally competent want it hard, there is barely anything you can do but toughen and get better. I know, this is pretty damn difficult. Asking question about oneself, accepting that you are not the best for a task is hard, but this is what make you stronger. If you want to hide yourself behind laws to make you life easier, fine, but don't come and whine when you start losing. All these immigration laws are just artificial protection to a way of life you no longer deserve. Wake up sweetheart !
I was merely correcting an incorrect fact about Tchernobyl
That being said, there is no safe design, ever. Planes can crash, car can malfunction, ship can sink, etc. All either because of material fatigue or human errors. But the average person will not care about the dust emission of coal, not will they care about crashing plane, because not only the physics is rather simple, but it was invented in a non-warfare context. The first contact of humanity with nuclear fission was Hiroshima and the Nagasaki (I skip the Trinity test, which was not public), thus the de-facto bad reputation of nuclear energy. Moreover, it is rather difficult to the average (dumb) person to understand what nuclear fission (or fusion) truly is.
That being said, on a global scale, Fukushima, Tchernobyl or Three mile island have not been that disastrous. A few hundreds squares kilometers of inhabitable land (for human) is not that much of a price to live by our standard.
My machines are not, street's lights are not either.
However, a leak might introduce O2 and that can reproduce Chernobyl all over again.
Please go back to your history books. Tchernobyl was an accident caused by the unsafe design of the reactor and human error during a system test...
Give the earth a few millions years, and it will become "pristine" again. Life survived a meteor crash, it will survive mankind.
FWIW, there is at least an uranium deposit in the world which as undergo nuclear fission naturally, but hipster are silents about it...
OOTH, during the previous centuries, political bs has caused more death than nuclear waste will ever, so this would really be the last of my problem should a worldwide political crisis emerge. At worst, the storage site will turn out as a Tchernobyl-like exclusion zone, which is pretty OK.
There is plenty of option for fuel waste treatments. France has been the world pioneer and leader of reprocessing. Only the US have decided NOT to reprocess their spent fuel. This is a political problem, not an engineering one. After reprocessing, you are left with a small portion of the original spent fuel which can be vitrificated and buried. These waste have a really high density and do not occupy much space. Trash landfill is causing more harm on the long term than there waste, but you don't object to trash landfill...
US ain't the land of the free and home of the brave anymore. Don't you realize how dangerous it is to have free minds ? The Brave New World is more and more coming to a reality. There is a few thing that the government cannot touch, like the 2nd amendment, but it is trying hard to restrict it. All other amendment of the Bill of Rights have been eroded over and over as well... The worst part is that even with all these changes US is still, on the paper, compared to all other western countries, a nation of Freedom... if you are rightly born.
not if your goal *is* to produce weapon-grade material to be used in thousands of warhead then used to bully the world.
It's gonna take a whole lot more than wind, solar and geothermal to replace the energy provided by ~90 millions barrel of oil a day...
The problem is not so much in the hardware than in the software nowadays...
I don't really know about Seattle, but I moved from Montreal, Qc to Vancouver, BC about a month ago. I was told winter would be nothing but rain and not so cold temperature (I love the cold). But I've been pretty surprised so far. Not much rain, and for the past week, it's been warmer in Montreal than here.n
What makes you Righteous ?
Sorry, but I cannot feel anything but utterly patronized by your comment. Asking for a part of the cake is OK, but asking for the whole cake, the baker shop, and the baker is *too much*. Just the same way with unions. It was completely legitimate in the beginning, but now, the system has been perverted and abuse appears. No matter what, any entity which is given power will always wants more and more, even if it mean betraying its original purpose.
Given the lack of muscular development of most modern urban men, I'm not surprised women take more and more power :-)
"Equality" is a term full of resentment used by the weak (in Nietzsche's philosophy sense of the term) to try to justify regulatory capture...
Then women are the one advantaged. They get more pardon, reduced sentencing and easier parole. I don't even start on domestic issues and divorce where they are more than likely to be seen as the victim, get alimony and child care...
The day we cure death will be a very sad day for humanity.
This is newspeak. If 'equality' is neither fairness or identicality, then the concept you are trying to describe is not 'equality'. What is so wrong about the denial that men and women are "equal" ? Egalitarianism is total bs, women and men will never be equal, let's keep it that way...
The problem is to create an anonymous currency, not whether or not it is online or IRL. That being said, there will be no anonymous online currency without online anonymity, something that nobody (ie. neither tech companies or government) wants in these time of erosion of public liberties.
It already exists, it's called bank note and coins, especially the US Dollars. Why try to re-invent the wheel ? It is the main way to exchange goods anonymously in the whole world. As long as enough people believe in and trust its value, it will continue to run. While some anarchist might argue that there is no place for a state controlled money, this argument is not really valid here. That argument has more to do with the fact that too much rely on it. What we are trying to assert here is the level of anonymity of the currency.
The same ending comment could be said about Obamacare's website, that is, with +600 millions, you could have funded a whole lot of OpenSource developers to build the stuff, and it might actually have been working. It can be said about everything the government is doing. Note that I don't even bother to say "doing wrong" because I would hate to repeat myself.
It would be an illusion to think the US are a democracy; it is a plutocracy governed by the businesses for the businesses. Open-source is going *against* this principle.
If you think American are sheep, wait until you have seen Canadian... No guts whatsoever, no rights AT ALL (our Charter of Rights and Freedom is a lieberal joke)... A land of subject, not free people.