No, they probably are not paid, I give you that. They are useful idiots. For every poster that is actually engaging into a discussion, I can give you ten who just spam the site with the usual lies like "coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste". What I find most fascinating is the fact that in the nuclear threads, suddenly stuff like global warming and peak oil is real and nuclear power is our salvation. In every other thread, those two things are usually made up by a global conspiracy of socialist scientists and/or Al Gore for the sole purpose of grabbing your hard earned and well deserved money.
So, as you acknowledge a state of war between the US and the finely defined entity of "terror" - if an Al Quaida operative were to shoot your president, or a member of congress or perhaps one of the chiefs of staff - that would be an legitimate act also? I guess you'd scream bloody murder then.
Nothing. That's why I added the part that you did not quote - the part about proper legal procedure distinguishing us from the barbarians. I am on your side here.
They probably were discussing whether they should get the fuck out before getting rounded up and put in some concentration camp, no? All a matter of perception, when you don't understand a word. That "I am no racist" disclaimer, well...think about it.
Hmm. Let's get theological here. On what part of scripture would you base a porn prohibition? Just curious, I don't recall anything that would lend itself to a sex=immoral interpretation without using a lot of good old puritan, non-scriptural background.
Well, in this case, there is probably really no room for doubt. Still should have kept up the procedure. That's what *should* distinguish us from random barbarians.
The whole concept of "disorderly conduct" if about social control and nothing else. The actions that fall under that completely arbitrary category never where about harming others, but mostly about stuff the "moral majority" does not want to see. Don't pretend this is a new one here.
I give you the point that Mayak was not about power, but about weapons. But seriously, less stupidity in America? You guys just got lucky regarding to Hanford, The stuff left to clean up there is still mindboggling today. Weapons program, again, though.
Now, when it comes to civilian deaths of nuclear energy, I only can go into statistics, I give you that. We will have cancer victims due to Fukushima, and we have cancer clusters in the vicinity of normally operating plants. Whether those are worse than the effects of coal plants, well, frankly I don't care, both have to go. We do have the technology.
I further give you the point that I might be biased - I come from a place that was a fallout hotspot after Chernobyl. We were 8 at the time.I am in my mid thirties, and I have seen an overproportional amount of my friends die of cancers or have their thyroids removed. p=0.95 compared to the nationwide cancer register. So, I am kinda pissed.
Well, yeah, but evolution kinda operates under a object oriented paradigma. Code reusability is the new big thing since a couple of 100s of millions of years... So this is still interesting.
Hm. From what I remember regarding current theory - and that is a decade ago - complexity is not even the question. I wouldn't outright qualify us as overcomplex deadend. You have to envision the whole process as a massively dynamic system. There is no best, there is no dead end - there is only temporary optimization towards local optima in the fitness landscape. At the moment, we seem to pretty much PWN one of those local optima, while at the same time eroding the boundary conditions that makes it optimal...
Dude, I 've been living and working in the US. I like the place, actually. I just don't like the patent system. Especially when I have to transfer US patents to Europe. Why so defensive?
However, new uses for known substances can be patent-worthy in themselves. It's called second indication. Hope he filed the application before going public...
Short answer - it does not. Not in any sane legal system, that is - I am only really familiar with european patent law. Wouldn't put it beyond american law to actually be that perverted...
It's a great way for preliminary testing - you use the simulation to identify classes of potential candidates, then test those classes on cells to identify individual potential candidates and then... well, then you need the big honking money to find out if those candidates are actually worth anything in real life.Drug development can be a frustrating business. So many potentially useful substances that in the end turn out to do shit or to have side effects that rule them out right away. I'd really like to see what exactly he did measure on that cells. Still, impressive start for that kid.
You are aware that your simulated global effect is a purely academic exercise? Cs bioaccumulates by a factor of roughly 2 per level of the food chain. It's gonna hang around in the local fisheries for a while and the resulting concentrations are quite different from your global dilution factor.
If you look at the EPA data, the radioactivity of fly ash is in the same order of magnitude as that of soil or fertilizer. Can we finally put this tired old propaganda crap to rest? Usually ash from coal plants is used as filler for concrete or blacktop. If the heavy metal content is too high for that, it is used as filler for construction works in mines. There is not the slightest problem with coal ash, unless some idiot decides to store it as slurry in unstable ponds.
You pray at the altar of your pet economic "theory" daily. That kind of supply side jesus.... Nevermind, I made the error of arguing with an idiot, getting dragged down to his level and beaten by experience. Carry on.
Wrong deal. I take the emissions from the solar thermal plants I am advocating. Then we are talking. Besides, the thorium from flyash? Same activity level as fertilizer, according to EPA data. Get a fresh strawman. It is getting stale. Also, I hear there are improved false dichotomies on sale. You might wanna stock up on those. Regarding H2S in coal plant exhaust? Holy thermodynamics, batman...
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No, they probably are not paid, I give you that. They are useful idiots. For every poster that is actually engaging into a discussion, I can give you ten who just spam the site with the usual lies like "coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste". What I find most fascinating is the fact that in the nuclear threads, suddenly stuff like global warming and peak oil is real and nuclear power is our salvation. In every other thread, those two things are usually made up by a global conspiracy of socialist scientists and/or Al Gore for the sole purpose of grabbing your hard earned and well deserved money.
Might be that you read at -1 and he doesn't, so he can't see those anti-nuke comments that get promptly hammered by the shills of the bury brigade.
So, as you acknowledge a state of war between the US and the finely defined entity of "terror" - if an Al Quaida operative were to shoot your president, or a member of congress or perhaps one of the chiefs of staff - that would be an legitimate act also? I guess you'd scream bloody murder then.
Nothing. That's why I added the part that you did not quote - the part about proper legal procedure distinguishing us from the barbarians. I am on your side here.
Propaganda. Learn to identify it.
They probably were discussing whether they should get the fuck out before getting rounded up and put in some concentration camp, no? All a matter of perception, when you don't understand a word. That "I am no racist" disclaimer, well...think about it.
Fnord!
Hmm. Let's get theological here. On what part of scripture would you base a porn prohibition? Just curious, I don't recall anything that would lend itself to a sex=immoral interpretation without using a lot of good old puritan, non-scriptural background.
Well, in this case, there is probably really no room for doubt. Still should have kept up the procedure. That's what *should* distinguish us from random barbarians.
The whole concept of "disorderly conduct" if about social control and nothing else. The actions that fall under that completely arbitrary category never where about harming others, but mostly about stuff the "moral majority" does not want to see. Don't pretend this is a new one here.
Now, when it comes to civilian deaths of nuclear energy, I only can go into statistics, I give you that. We will have cancer victims due to Fukushima, and we have cancer clusters in the vicinity of normally operating plants. Whether those are worse than the effects of coal plants, well, frankly I don't care, both have to go. We do have the technology.
I further give you the point that I might be biased - I come from a place that was a fallout hotspot after Chernobyl. We were 8 at the time.I am in my mid thirties, and I have seen an overproportional amount of my friends die of cancers or have their thyroids removed. p=0.95 compared to the nationwide cancer register. So, I am kinda pissed.
Well, yeah, but evolution kinda operates under a object oriented paradigma. Code reusability is the new big thing since a couple of 100s of millions of years... So this is still interesting.
Hm. From what I remember regarding current theory - and that is a decade ago - complexity is not even the question. I wouldn't outright qualify us as overcomplex deadend. You have to envision the whole process as a massively dynamic system. There is no best, there is no dead end - there is only temporary optimization towards local optima in the fitness landscape. At the moment, we seem to pretty much PWN one of those local optima, while at the same time eroding the boundary conditions that makes it optimal...
Dude, I 've been living and working in the US. I like the place, actually. I just don't like the patent system. Especially when I have to transfer US patents to Europe. Why so defensive?
True - no contradiction there. You just gotta file the patent before any doctor gets the idea for the off-label use. Standard novelty thing.
However, new uses for known substances can be patent-worthy in themselves. It's called second indication. Hope he filed the application before going public...
Short answer - it does not. Not in any sane legal system, that is - I am only really familiar with european patent law. Wouldn't put it beyond american law to actually be that perverted...
It's a great way for preliminary testing - you use the simulation to identify classes of potential candidates, then test those classes on cells to identify individual potential candidates and then... well, then you need the big honking money to find out if those candidates are actually worth anything in real life.Drug development can be a frustrating business. So many potentially useful substances that in the end turn out to do shit or to have side effects that rule them out right away. I'd really like to see what exactly he did measure on that cells. Still, impressive start for that kid.
You are aware that your simulated global effect is a purely academic exercise? Cs bioaccumulates by a factor of roughly 2 per level of the food chain. It's gonna hang around in the local fisheries for a while and the resulting concentrations are quite different from your global dilution factor.
Did you just admit that you are *really* that stupid? I might have respected you as a troll, but... Jesus, you are serious?
Here you go.
If you look at the EPA data, the radioactivity of fly ash is in the same order of magnitude as that of soil or fertilizer. Can we finally put this tired old propaganda crap to rest? Usually ash from coal plants is used as filler for concrete or blacktop. If the heavy metal content is too high for that, it is used as filler for construction works in mines. There is not the slightest problem with coal ash, unless some idiot decides to store it as slurry in unstable ponds.
Even he cannae change the laws of physics, though :D
You pray at the altar of your pet economic "theory" daily. That kind of supply side jesus.... Nevermind, I made the error of arguing with an idiot, getting dragged down to his level and beaten by experience. Carry on.
Wrong deal. I take the emissions from the solar thermal plants I am advocating. Then we are talking. Besides, the thorium from flyash? Same activity level as fertilizer, according to EPA data. Get a fresh strawman. It is getting stale. Also, I hear there are improved false dichotomies on sale. You might wanna stock up on those. Regarding H2S in coal plant exhaust? Holy thermodynamics, batman...