USPS actually did a poorer job than Lysander Spooner's company, the American Letter Mail Company. ALMC provided better service to more people, for cheaper prices than the USPS. Then the government shut him down, and gave the USPS a monopoly. Thus there have been rising prices for over a century for mail.
UPS and Fedex and others don't break the monopoly because they can't - they're forced to pay whatever shipping cost the USPS would have charged the customer to USPS, and then add their own overhead on top of that.
I'm pretty sure they did something incorrectly, and that's just another smaller problem to solve. The nice thing about the pebble bed reactors is that they cannot explode, and even the problem that happened with the German plant was just a problem for the plant, no public danger.
Disregarding the car analogy, actual nuclear fission explosions aren't possible from nuclear power plants. 'Dirty' explosions aren't particularly likely, but one famous one did occur. A little thing called Chernobyl? Anyway, they basically turned off all the safety systems, turned off the cooling, and operated at over 100% capacity. And then were surprised when shit went to hell.
The point being, that actual explosions are nigh impossible if you follow the instructions on the box.
The fuel rods would have melted in the containment chamber and the plant would have lost a lot of money, but odds are that no seriously harmful radiation would leak.
I agree 100%. Pebble Bed Reactors are the best we can do now, and should be built. The japanese reactors are 40 or 50 year old BWRs that can fail like this. But it's not as though it will be significant compared to oil refineries exploding and such.
It's funny because what is happening in Japan is exactly why Nuclear Power is SAFE!
An earthquake 7 times more powerful than the biggest it was built for hit, and all that happened to the reactors that didn't shut down cleanly was a small amount of radioactive noble gases, which decay within minutes. Even if the cores DO melt, they're safely contained in... wait for it... containment chambers!
People don't realize the amount of engineering that goes into nuclear to make it safe.
I'm not particularly an advocate of what the article is suggesting, but essentially it's direct democracy rather than representative. You clearly didn't read the article too thoroughly.
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USPS actually did a poorer job than Lysander Spooner's company, the American Letter Mail Company. ALMC provided better service to more people, for cheaper prices than the USPS. Then the government shut him down, and gave the USPS a monopoly. Thus there have been rising prices for over a century for mail.
UPS and Fedex and others don't break the monopoly because they can't - they're forced to pay whatever shipping cost the USPS would have charged the customer to USPS, and then add their own overhead on top of that.
Yes, that's how it works.
Awesome press release, if they don't even get the terminology right.
Even then, it's only New Jersey.
Not the 5990, which doesn't exist.
Seriously, why do we even have editors?
You do realize those are completely separate teams and that this probably took a secretary an hour or so to do, right?
Sorry - 15/32.
Doesn't make their math any more correct, but at least I can save SOME face :D
32/15=.5?
Impressive editing skills here, keep up the good work.
I'm pretty sure they did something incorrectly, and that's just another smaller problem to solve. The nice thing about the pebble bed reactors is that they cannot explode, and even the problem that happened with the German plant was just a problem for the plant, no public danger.
False. Only certain breeder reactors produce weapons grade plutonium.
Most reactors (especially in USA) are non-breeders.
Disregarding the car analogy, actual nuclear fission explosions aren't possible from nuclear power plants. 'Dirty' explosions aren't particularly likely, but one famous one did occur. A little thing called Chernobyl? Anyway, they basically turned off all the safety systems, turned off the cooling, and operated at over 100% capacity. And then were surprised when shit went to hell.
The point being, that actual explosions are nigh impossible if you follow the instructions on the box.
The fuel rods would have melted in the containment chamber and the plant would have lost a lot of money, but odds are that no seriously harmful radiation would leak.
I agree 100%. Pebble Bed Reactors are the best we can do now, and should be built. The japanese reactors are 40 or 50 year old BWRs that can fail like this. But it's not as though it will be significant compared to oil refineries exploding and such.
It's funny because what is happening in Japan is exactly why Nuclear Power is SAFE!
An earthquake 7 times more powerful than the biggest it was built for hit, and all that happened to the reactors that didn't shut down cleanly was a small amount of radioactive noble gases, which decay within minutes. Even if the cores DO melt, they're safely contained in ... wait for it... containment chambers!
People don't realize the amount of engineering that goes into nuclear to make it safe.
That's called a 'Bad port' and game makers are /SLOWLY/ changing to actually focus on PC development.
I remember when GTAIV came out for PC and it crippled everything by being the worst optimized game I've ever seen.
Democracy is more free than the government they were under before, but it's certainly not free.
Yeah, this was an ego thing for sure. That's why he submitted it to a secret leaking organization anonymously.
Idiot.
Big Government agencies shouldn't exist to have privacy.
Only way to get rid of them.
But someone who sells things sees the same thing, and encourages them to sell at lower prices if they think the price of bitcoins will go up.
I'm not particularly an advocate of what the article is suggesting, but essentially it's direct democracy rather than representative. You clearly didn't read the article too thoroughly.
You completely missed the point.
Change for the better, no matter who you support. This can only let people have more direct say in their elected officials.
I know my megabits from my megabytes. Don't worry
I've got Verizon FiOS, and though I know it's not that common, but I can get steady 3.7 MB/s streams.