It is not waste that is holding back nuclear power it's economics. There is a perfectly safe and valid solution for dealing with waste. Stick it in a (properly engineered) hole in the ground, go talk to the Swedes. The problem is that while coal and gas are cheap no-one wants to stump up $2bn to build a nuclear power station which they won't see any return on for 5-10 years (depending on how many public enquiries delay construction and operation). Making the reactor twice as expensive and complicated by adding more technology to it just makes this problem worse. It's great science but it's never going to fly in the real world.
The majority of music in the charts has always been rubbish. I'm no music historian but I'll bet if you look at the singles chart in the week The White Album was released you would find a lot of howlers.
There are plenty of bands recording now who are centred on the melody and/or have witty, meaningful lyrics you just won't find them playing on dodgy commercial radio stations.
You don't even have to make that much of an effort, try LastFM, it should point you at some new stuff based on what you already like.
The 900 model isn't really sold out it's not arrived at the distributors yet so it's not currently available.
Also the reason it uses GSM is that the team have tried as far as possible to use OPEN HARDWARE ie fully documented and not lumbered with proprietary closed-source drivers. GSM was the only option as all 3G hardware is completely closed.
Also please everyone, don't start the "it's not as good as the iphone" flamewars. If you want an iphone you don't want this and if you want this you probably don't want an iphone.
Why is it every time anything goes even slightly off-optimal in the nuclear industry it's news? Every day thousands are injured and killed in and by other industries and nuclear power just keeps on quietly pumping out the mega-watts but if somebody sneezes in the control room everyone in the world knows about it.
They are not going to ban all laser pointers. They are going to ban laser pointers above Class 2; unless you have a good reason to have one (which includes astronomy). Lasers over Class 2 can cause permanent damage to your retina faster than your blink response can save you (by definition). Having spoken to police officers who had one shone at them in a helicopter by some dumb kid who didn't know any better I support the ban. There, I've said it. Let the abuse and "freedom" related ranting begin.
How about the large vegetarian populations around the world? While many western vegetarians have become so in later life (including myself) I believe that many religiously motivated vegetarians have been so since birth. Are you suggesting that these people are in some way not fully developed due to their lack of meat eating?
I suppose you insist on using your appendix, tonsils and coccyx as well. Thankfully technology (which I assume you're a fan of if you're on/.) has allowed us to not be limited by the environment in which we evolved. Meat tastes good because of our evolutionary past but our moral sense tells us that causing suffering is not a good thing if it can be avoided. Bring on the vat-o-meat I say.
Exactly! Geiger counters are usually ridiculously sensitive. I don't think that "going berserk" can be easily translated to mSv/hr. Presumably this guy has no training in radiation safety and shouldn't be anywhere near the atoll.
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It is not waste that is holding back nuclear power it's economics. There is a perfectly safe and valid solution for dealing with waste. Stick it in a (properly engineered) hole in the ground, go talk to the Swedes.
The problem is that while coal and gas are cheap no-one wants to stump up $2bn to build a nuclear power station which they won't see any return on for 5-10 years (depending on how many public enquiries delay construction and operation). Making the reactor twice as expensive and complicated by adding more technology to it just makes this problem worse. It's great science but it's never going to fly in the real world.
The majority of music in the charts has always been rubbish. I'm no music historian but I'll bet if you look at the singles chart in the week The White Album was released you would find a lot of howlers.
There are plenty of bands recording now who are centred on the melody and/or have witty, meaningful lyrics you just won't find them playing on dodgy commercial radio stations.
You don't even have to make that much of an effort, try LastFM, it should point you at some new stuff based on what you already like.
The 900 model isn't really sold out it's not arrived at the distributors yet so it's not currently available.
Also the reason it uses GSM is that the team have tried as far as possible to use OPEN HARDWARE ie fully documented and not lumbered with proprietary closed-source drivers. GSM was the only option as all 3G hardware is completely closed.
Also please everyone, don't start the "it's not as good as the iphone" flamewars. If you want an iphone you don't want this and if you want this you probably don't want an iphone.
Why is it every time anything goes even slightly off-optimal in the nuclear industry it's news? Every day thousands are injured and killed in and by other industries and nuclear power just keeps on quietly pumping out the mega-watts but if somebody sneezes in the control room everyone in the world knows about it.
They are not going to ban all laser pointers. They are going to ban laser pointers above Class 2; unless you have a good reason to have one (which includes astronomy). Lasers over Class 2 can cause permanent damage to your retina faster than your blink response can save you (by definition). Having spoken to police officers who had one shone at them in a helicopter by some dumb kid who didn't know any better I support the ban. There, I've said it. Let the abuse and "freedom" related ranting begin.
How about the large vegetarian populations around the world? While many western vegetarians have become so in later life (including myself) I believe that many religiously motivated vegetarians have been so since birth. Are you suggesting that these people are in some way not fully developed due to their lack of meat eating?
I suppose you insist on using your appendix, tonsils and coccyx as well. Thankfully technology (which I assume you're a fan of if you're on /.) has allowed us to not be limited by the environment in which we evolved. Meat tastes good because of our evolutionary past but our moral sense tells us that causing suffering is not a good thing if it can be avoided. Bring on the vat-o-meat I say.
Exactly! Geiger counters are usually ridiculously sensitive. I don't think that "going berserk" can be easily translated to mSv/hr. Presumably this guy has no training in radiation safety and shouldn't be anywhere near the atoll.