The basis for the inspectors complaint is, in large part, not that the plant is not capable of withstanding the quake, nor that the analsyis is faulty or incorrect, but rather that the licensing basis document has not been revised to require a higher peak acceleration design level. It is debateable whether such a would make any difference, since they are already required to analyze for the higher levels. Meanwhile, the concern is being handled through the appropriate processes.
I agree with your conclusion however I took away a different interpretation from TFA: the Hosgri fault was discovered during construction and not properly accounted for in the first place- making the comparison of the Shoreline fault to the Hosgri fault data questionable.
"Peck wrote that after officials learned of the Hosgri fault's potential shaking power, the NRC never changed the requirements for the structural strength of many systems and components in the plant."
Yes it does. Any toleration of law breaking undermines the order of society.
Order of society flows from legitimacy rather than enforcement of law. While related the capability to enforce law is directly dependent on ability to obtain legitimacy.
Loss of legitimacy undermines the order of society. Unenforceable law erodes legitimacy.
Tolerance of law breaking is an important safety valve.
See the feedback loop?
If you need convincing you need only look into history of prohibition and war on drugs to see what happens when legitimacy is eroded.
Realities of environment in which people live matters. In extreme circumstance if enough people are desperate enough even normally universally agreeable rules against stealing can temporarily fall into the realm of unenforceable where the peoples only perceived choice is steal or starve/die. This is why governance is difficult and why zero tolerance is reserved for North Koreans, decapitated dictators and hypothetical alien overlords.
"Cashless" is also a giant vacuum sucking service fees back to the banks and so on. Retailers pay a certain amount per transaction to a payment processor, even if you the customer don't pay directly. Think that doesn't come out of your pocket in the end through higher prices?
THIS. I can't believe everyone is so supportive of a cashless society when cash is the only transaction-free method of payment (also anonymous). Paying 3-5 percent convenience charge simply to not use cash boggles my mind. I often ask for a cash discount on large purchases and usually the merchant is quite eager.
The Gestapo actually wasn't that good at spying. The German people were, however, quite good at turning their neighbors in to the Gestapo.
How is this different than public cameras, ISPs, your phones and internet-of-things supplying your information, exactly? The NSA generously collects data from external sources.
*BINGO* the left loves to co-opt libertarian arguments about privatization to create these 'public-private' partnerships specifically because they create legal gray areas where tons of power, weapons, and money are moved outside accountability.
FTFY. Massachusetts is one of the bluest of the blue states.
So why did you buy an OS which MS published was going EOL in 2008?
My company just purchased a quarter million dollar piece of equipment a few months ago. Guess what, the new computer came with XP. There was no choice offered us.
We are trying to get an upgraded OS under warranty.
XP was going out on new systems just last year, not 5 years ago.
Wow, that's an utterly stupid analogy. No one is still selling Windows XP, and I doubt anyone cares if someone resells their old computer with XP on it.
My company paid a quarter million 6 months ago for a test system that came with XP. Our suppliers purchased other equipment with XP just last year. I bet you can find "new" XP licenses still going out the door.
Wow, that's an utterly stupid analogy. No one is still selling Windows XP, and I doubt anyone cares if someone resells their old computer with XP on it
My company paid a quarter grand for a test system that came with XP. Last year or suppliers purchased additional equipment with XP. XP was still available for new computers just a few months ago.
Indeed. I shouldn't be, but am quite amazed with how people abuse their votes, and WILLFULLY put ignorant imbeciles in congress. And then don't even have enough shame to rectify the mistake. Congress should have our very best people, not dregs.
They represent the people. Nowhere does it say they have to be the best people. Some representatives are above average. Most are average. Some are below average. Pick whatever criterion you choose for your comparison.
To add some flavor, the people who run for office are not an even distribution of the population. Lawyers are highly represented.
Nope. You're talking about free (gratis) software, not "Open Source".
I was talking about the attitude of many projects in my many years of experience, free or not. Lots of asshats. Lots of superiority complexes. Lots of minimizing customer complaints and not properly testing functionality. Blaming the customer is a common trap of shitty development. This thread is full of it.
3. Bribe. Offer to send a case of beer (or bag of whatever).
This is a good summary of why people are discouraged to use Open Source. All "options" avoid developer responsibility and quality control. The first solution does nothing. The second is very difficult both technically and socially (making a main branch checkin isn't usually permitted by strangers). The third assumes you know someone and are willing to bribe them to fix what they broke because they have no incentive otherwise.
This article states that like New Hampshire, Texas makes up for its lack of an individual income tax with higher property tax, which the landlord ends up passing on to the tenant.
Having lived in Massachusetts and recently moved to New Hampshire, I can say that the lack of income tax and sales tax and lower insurance much more than makes up for the property tax which, frankly as a percentage isn't much more than MA and dollar-wise lower due to lower property prices. My rent is the same for a much larger and nicer place with a garage compared to the relative dump I had in the suburbs of Boston.
What do you think the founders believed? In the early revolutionary period, the US had no navy. They issued letters of marque to privately owned, armed ships. As in: private individuals owned war ships.
Wrong... dead wrong. The States each had their own Navy, and they were combined in 1775. The first Continental Navy ship was launched in September, 1775.
I applaud your Libertarian worldview, but it is not consistent with reality in this instance.
Privateers is the word you are looking for. The Continental Navy had less than a hundred ships compared to the nearly two thousand privately owned war ships. http://www.usmm.org/revolution.html
1. The taxes at issue here are YOUR STATE'S taxes. It's not you (as a resident of State A) being forced to pay State B's taxes. The question is under what circumstances a business can be forced to collect State A's taxes for purchases made by residents in State A.
Perhaps, however I live in New Hampshire (which has no sales tax) and was forced to pay another state's sales tax when I purchased a gift and had it mailed to the recipient. It has nothing to do with MY STATE'S taxes. I was forced to pay State B's taxes or else deny the sale. As it was a gift, I went ahead but it's not like I got anything for my tax dollars. Talk about taxation without representation.
Uhh, no, they updated their charger interface more than once. Try using an iphone 1 charger with an iphone 4 and get back to me.
I just upgraded my original iPhone to the iPhone 5 this year and I am still using all of my wall and car chargers. I only had to replace the cable that was worn out anyway.
Can you be a bit more specifc? What exactly is crappy about USB?
Also, do you still remember the time before USB? *shudder*
USB Cables exist in 4 dimensional space. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388
Of the 6 different types of USB connectors, all are hard to plug in without seeing both the connector and the socket. (Type A is somewhat easier because it is large) I have to carry both an iPhone 5 and another phone with USB connector for work, and the Lightning connector is a tremendous improvement in ease of insertion over micro-USB. I can insert the plug one handed in the dark in my iPhone 5 (in my car, without taking my eyes off the road). I have never been successful at achieving the same with my micro-USB phone.
I assure you I am not an Apple Fanboy, however I believe the connector is really nice. It's unfortunate they won't push it to become a standard USB interface.
Shielding is an easy answer but very complicated to implement without degrading the signal under certain circumstances. It will take more serious spoofing threats to redesign the common shipboard GPS antennas.
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512GB with a max read/write speed of 90-95MB/s will take at least an hour and a half to transfer all of the data.
The basis for the inspectors complaint is, in large part, not that the plant is not capable of withstanding the quake, nor that the analsyis is faulty or incorrect, but rather that the licensing basis document has not been revised to require a higher peak acceleration design level. It is debateable whether such a would make any difference, since they are already required to analyze for the higher levels. Meanwhile, the concern is being handled through the appropriate processes.
I agree with your conclusion however I took away a different interpretation from TFA: the Hosgri fault was discovered during construction and not properly accounted for in the first place- making the comparison of the Shoreline fault to the Hosgri fault data questionable.
"Peck wrote that after officials learned of the Hosgri fault's potential shaking power, the NRC never changed the requirements for the structural strength of many systems and components in the plant."
They wasted a very valuable opportunity here. The jaws do not have razor sharp jagged teeth nor are either of the recipients over 7 feet tall.
Floating in space makes height somewhat irrelevant. Ability to chew through cables is obviously an advantage, though.
Yes it does. Any toleration of law breaking undermines the order of society.
Order of society flows from legitimacy rather than enforcement of law. While related the capability to enforce law is directly dependent on ability to obtain legitimacy.
Loss of legitimacy undermines the order of society. Unenforceable law erodes legitimacy.
Tolerance of law breaking is an important safety valve.
See the feedback loop?
If you need convincing you need only look into history of prohibition and war on drugs to see what happens when legitimacy is eroded.
Realities of environment in which people live matters. In extreme circumstance if enough people are desperate enough even normally universally agreeable rules against stealing can temporarily fall into the realm of unenforceable where the peoples only perceived choice is steal or starve/die. This is why governance is difficult and why zero tolerance is reserved for North Koreans, decapitated dictators and hypothetical alien overlords.
THIS. I wish I had mod-points.
"Cashless" is also a giant vacuum sucking service fees back to the banks and so on. Retailers pay a certain amount per transaction to a payment processor, even if you the customer don't pay directly. Think that doesn't come out of your pocket in the end through higher prices?
THIS. I can't believe everyone is so supportive of a cashless society when cash is the only transaction-free method of payment (also anonymous). Paying 3-5 percent convenience charge simply to not use cash boggles my mind. I often ask for a cash discount on large purchases and usually the merchant is quite eager.
Cash is king.
The Gestapo actually wasn't that good at spying. The German people were, however, quite good at turning their neighbors in to the Gestapo.
How is this different than public cameras, ISPs, your phones and internet-of-things supplying your information, exactly? The NSA generously collects data from external sources.
*BINGO* the left loves to co-opt libertarian arguments about privatization to create these 'public-private' partnerships specifically because they create legal gray areas where tons of power, weapons, and money are moved outside accountability.
FTFY. Massachusetts is one of the bluest of the blue states.
Absolutely. People cannot sell things they do not own. That is public space they are trying to sell.
I don't get this. The parking space is rented, the person parking pays to use the space. It's not a public park free to all.
These people are simply subletting their rented space with a convenience charge. I don't see why the city should care.
Of course San Francisco also recently put the kibosh on people renting their apartments out to travelers, so it's par for the course.
It's based on holding public space hostage.
How is it holding public space hostage?
People pay rent to use the space, it's hardly a public park free to all. A sublet would be an appropriate analogy.
Plus every single one of the guns used in these crimes was, at one point, legally sold to a responsible, legal gun owner.
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So why did you buy an OS which MS published was going EOL in 2008?
My company just purchased a quarter million dollar piece of equipment a few months ago. Guess what, the new computer came with XP. There was no choice offered us.
We are trying to get an upgraded OS under warranty.
XP was going out on new systems just last year, not 5 years ago.
Wow, that's an utterly stupid analogy. No one is still selling Windows XP, and I doubt anyone cares if someone resells their old computer with XP on it.
My company paid a quarter million 6 months ago for a test system that came with XP. Our suppliers purchased other equipment with XP just last year. I bet you can find "new" XP licenses still going out the door.
Wow, that's an utterly stupid analogy. No one is still selling Windows XP, and I doubt anyone cares if someone resells their old computer with XP on it
My company paid a quarter grand for a test system that came with XP. Last year or suppliers purchased additional equipment with XP. XP was still available for new computers just a few months ago.
Indeed. I shouldn't be, but am quite amazed with how people abuse their votes, and WILLFULLY put ignorant imbeciles in congress. And then don't even have enough shame to rectify the mistake.
Congress should have our very best people, not dregs.
They represent the people. Nowhere does it say they have to be the best people. Some representatives are above average. Most are average. Some are below average. Pick whatever criterion you choose for your comparison.
To add some flavor, the people who run for office are not an even distribution of the population. Lawyers are highly represented.
The newly available spectrum is 5150-5250 MHz.
Nope. You're talking about free (gratis) software, not "Open Source".
I was talking about the attitude of many projects in my many years of experience, free or not. Lots of asshats. Lots of superiority complexes. Lots of minimizing customer complaints and not properly testing functionality. Blaming the customer is a common trap of shitty development. This thread is full of it.
1. Whine and moan.
2. Fix it yourself.
3. Bribe. Offer to send a case of beer (or bag of whatever).
This is a good summary of why people are discouraged to use Open Source. All "options" avoid developer responsibility and quality control. The first solution does nothing. The second is very difficult both technically and socially (making a main branch checkin isn't usually permitted by strangers). The third assumes you know someone and are willing to bribe them to fix what they broke because they have no incentive otherwise.
This article states that like New Hampshire, Texas makes up for its lack of an individual income tax with higher property tax, which the landlord ends up passing on to the tenant.
Having lived in Massachusetts and recently moved to New Hampshire, I can say that the lack of income tax and sales tax and lower insurance much more than makes up for the property tax which, frankly as a percentage isn't much more than MA and dollar-wise lower due to lower property prices. My rent is the same for a much larger and nicer place with a garage compared to the relative dump I had in the suburbs of Boston.
How do you incite a riot without physically assaulting someone?
Draw a cartoon of the Prophet, of course!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/19/muhammadcartoons.ameliahill
Wrong... dead wrong. The States each had their own Navy, and they were combined in 1775. The first Continental Navy ship was launched in September, 1775.
I applaud your Libertarian worldview, but it is not consistent with reality in this instance.
Privateers is the word you are looking for. The Continental Navy had less than a hundred ships compared to the nearly two thousand privately owned war ships.
http://www.usmm.org/revolution.html
1. The taxes at issue here are YOUR STATE'S taxes. It's not you (as a resident of State A) being forced to pay State B's taxes. The question is under what circumstances a business can be forced to collect State A's taxes for purchases made by residents in State A.
Perhaps, however I live in New Hampshire (which has no sales tax) and was forced to pay another state's sales tax when I purchased a gift and had it mailed to the recipient. It has nothing to do with MY STATE'S taxes. I was forced to pay State B's taxes or else deny the sale. As it was a gift, I went ahead but it's not like I got anything for my tax dollars. Talk about taxation without representation.
Right. His customers aren't the people seeking insurance. His customer is the Obama administration.
Uhh, no, they updated their charger interface more than once. Try using an iphone 1 charger with an iphone 4 and get back to me.
I just upgraded my original iPhone to the iPhone 5 this year and I am still using all of my wall and car chargers. I only had to replace the cable that was worn out anyway.
Can you be a bit more specifc? What exactly is crappy about USB?
Also, do you still remember the time before USB? *shudder*
USB Cables exist in 4 dimensional space. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388
Of the 6 different types of USB connectors, all are hard to plug in without seeing both the connector and the socket. (Type A is somewhat easier because it is large) I have to carry both an iPhone 5 and another phone with USB connector for work, and the Lightning connector is a tremendous improvement in ease of insertion over micro-USB. I can insert the plug one handed in the dark in my iPhone 5 (in my car, without taking my eyes off the road). I have never been successful at achieving the same with my micro-USB phone.
I assure you I am not an Apple Fanboy, however I believe the connector is really nice. It's unfortunate they won't push it to become a standard USB interface.
Shielding is an easy answer but very complicated to implement without degrading the signal under certain circumstances. It will take more serious spoofing threats to redesign the common shipboard GPS antennas.