Actually, there was some evidence that the Fukushima reactors did have containment damage from the earthquake. It's just that the problems caused when the tsunami took out the cooling (and these reactors need active cooling even for weeks after being shut down) were much worse.
Unlike chemical waste, radioactive waste destroys itself over time.
And the longer it takes to do so, the less of a problem it was to begin with. If it takes a million years, it's not very radioactive. If it's really, really radioactive, it will only last for days, weeks, or months. The main problem is with stuff with a half-life of decades, and likes to take the place of other elements in your body, such as the calcium in your bones, where it can irradiate you for the rest of your life.
Getting hooked on prescription painkillers is kind of different from getting hooked on completely illegal drugs like FUCKING COCAINE AND HEROIN that you have no business having in the first place.
Mini-DisplayPort connectors are strictly worse than HDMI, because they look just like HDMI connectors, but with only one dent in the metal instead of two.
SpaceX hasn't ramped up its production yet because the Falcon 9 v1.1 is the one they were planning to ramp up. This is its second launch. I expect to see things get really interesting now.
.NET is an abomination of performance and security disasters.
As clearly evidenced by a.NET patch being in almost every Patch Tuesday. Times three (1.x 2.x 4.x version all get patches most of the time). And the.NET installers are noticeably slower than most installers. Pay attention to what Windows Update is installing and you'll wonder how a programming language runtime could have so many bugs.
The United States relies too much on ULA for its space-launch, ULA has easily raised its price and the tax-payers ended up having to cough up the dough.
You have it backwards. This is a submarine with space inside it for planes. In order to make it wide enough to contain the planes and stable enough for take-off, they put two hulls together side-by-side.
Mostly they have to wait out all the people with analog-only TV sets. I've heard that some cable systems plan to use ATSC on 2-13 so that people with regular (digital) TV sets can get basic cable. It's half the bandwidth, but TV sets are not required to have a QAM decoder. (even though both are decoded by current tuner chipsets)
Give it a few years. It's been four years since the analog cut-off in the US, and almost everything is in HD now, though it was about half way already at the cut-off. Even the low-power television station from the local university went full HD last year. Really, my main peeve is the secondary channels. I don't mind them being low-def, but they're always set to 4:3, so wide-screen stuff ends up double-letterboxed. If there is an official "480p wide" mode in ATSC (that doesn't require manually setting the aspect ratio), I've never seen a station use it.
And put it up higher, and point it in the right direction.
and point it in the right direction
in the right direction
ATSC can be very directional. I have to go up on my roof and adjust my antenna every few months after wind blows it off angle. Although now that it's been up there over 10 years, corrosion may be causing some problems.
You can even use a piece of scrap wire as an antenna if you point it in the right direction. I know because I did it over Thanksgiving. New TV in a room that hadn't had TV for a while, two cable outlets in the room, neither of which had a signal, but a nice fat roll of speaker wire that I stuffed into the end of a gender changer. After a few seconds holding it at arms length and rotating myself, I quickly found the direction. Then I hid it under the rug. And I said let there be football*, and there was football.
*handegg actually, but no matter how it's played, everyone still wants to watch it
It's not just the gas tank. First of all, it was a hit to the side, which is the hardest to protect against with safety features. Then there was apparently a part made of magnesium right below the passenger box. And it's vaporized gasoline that's the real flammable stuff, so damaged fuel lines are much more of a problem than the gas tank.
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Ebay created the niche that PayPal needed to become relevant.
The best thing about solar panels is how they don't even work half the time.
Not only that, but coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste.
Dupe! http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/12/01/1847244/
I learned about it back in 1979 that you can make one out of stuff you can find at a junkyard, like a a cement mixer drum.
And Andy Griffith > > > Ethan Hawke + River Phoenix.
So you want to worship in a place with stained-glass windows?
Actually, there was some evidence that the Fukushima reactors did have containment damage from the earthquake. It's just that the problems caused when the tsunami took out the cooling (and these reactors need active cooling even for weeks after being shut down) were much worse.
Unlike chemical waste, radioactive waste destroys itself over time.
And the longer it takes to do so, the less of a problem it was to begin with. If it takes a million years, it's not very radioactive. If it's really, really radioactive, it will only last for days, weeks, or months. The main problem is with stuff with a half-life of decades, and likes to take the place of other elements in your body, such as the calcium in your bones, where it can irradiate you for the rest of your life.
Look at Rush Limbaugh.
Getting hooked on prescription painkillers is kind of different from getting hooked on completely illegal drugs like FUCKING COCAINE AND HEROIN that you have no business having in the first place.
That's why metal recycling places in the US have radiation detectors at the entrance.
Mini-DisplayPort connectors are strictly worse than HDMI, because they look just like HDMI connectors, but with only one dent in the metal instead of two.
My patent based on yours:
All that on a computer .
That's certainly one way to keep the janitor from plugging his floor buffer into the UPS outlet at night!
By that logic, RS-485 was the origin of USB. And unlike SIO, RS-485 actually uses a balanced pair for its data lines.
I also prefer regular-sized USB because it also fits into an Ethernet jack, so it can take you THREE times to get it right.
SpaceX hasn't ramped up its production yet because the Falcon 9 v1.1 is the one they were planning to ramp up. This is its second launch. I expect to see things get really interesting now.
.NET is an abomination of performance and security disasters.
As clearly evidenced by a .NET patch being in almost every Patch Tuesday. Times three (1.x 2.x 4.x version all get patches most of the time). And the .NET installers are noticeably slower than most installers. Pay attention to what Windows Update is installing and you'll wonder how a programming language runtime could have so many bugs.
A quine chain in ~50 languages: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
Now that's what I call cross-language interoperability.
For bonus points, they're even in alphabetical order.
The United States relies too much on ULA for its space-launch, ULA has easily raised its price and the tax-payers ended up having to cough up the dough.
FTFY. This is the first commercial satellite launched in the US since November 23, 2009 when Intelsat 14 launched on an Atlas V from LC-41.
You have it backwards. This is a submarine with space inside it for planes. In order to make it wide enough to contain the planes and stable enough for take-off, they put two hulls together side-by-side.
Mostly they have to wait out all the people with analog-only TV sets. I've heard that some cable systems plan to use ATSC on 2-13 so that people with regular (digital) TV sets can get basic cable. It's half the bandwidth, but TV sets are not required to have a QAM decoder. (even though both are decoded by current tuner chipsets)
Give it a few years. It's been four years since the analog cut-off in the US, and almost everything is in HD now, though it was about half way already at the cut-off. Even the low-power television station from the local university went full HD last year. Really, my main peeve is the secondary channels. I don't mind them being low-def, but they're always set to 4:3, so wide-screen stuff ends up double-letterboxed. If there is an official "480p wide" mode in ATSC (that doesn't require manually setting the aspect ratio), I've never seen a station use it.
And put it up higher, and point it in the right direction.
and point it in the right direction
in the right direction
ATSC can be very directional. I have to go up on my roof and adjust my antenna every few months after wind blows it off angle. Although now that it's been up there over 10 years, corrosion may be causing some problems.
You can even use a piece of scrap wire as an antenna if you point it in the right direction. I know because I did it over Thanksgiving. New TV in a room that hadn't had TV for a while, two cable outlets in the room, neither of which had a signal, but a nice fat roll of speaker wire that I stuffed into the end of a gender changer. After a few seconds holding it at arms length and rotating myself, I quickly found the direction. Then I hid it under the rug. And I said let there be football*, and there was football.
*handegg actually, but no matter how it's played, everyone still wants to watch it
Porsche makes cars your granny can drive.
But the Carrera GT is not one of them.
It's not just the gas tank. First of all, it was a hit to the side, which is the hardest to protect against with safety features. Then there was apparently a part made of magnesium right below the passenger box. And it's vaporized gasoline that's the real flammable stuff, so damaged fuel lines are much more of a problem than the gas tank.