Disagree. My understanding is that all they needed was backup power coming from outside the plant, and there would have been no meltdown. They still might have had some leakage from the earthquake damage, but the situation would have been much better.
A system where a power outage causes a NUCLEAR MELTDOWN is unacceptable.
We're a country that's lagging behind on STEM (science, technical, engineering & math) education and experiencing somewhat of a shortage of people from the technical fields to fill jobs in our country because our educational system is a joke.
Shortage of people to fill jobs?!?
There is a shortage of jobs to support people!
Has been for years, likely will be for years.
People are going to go from college straight to the unemployment line.
GPS proves Einstein partially wrong. If relativity was as Einstein stated, GPS syncing would be impossible.
They use SR and GR to determine the correction factor to apply to the satellite's clock - but the Earth frame of reference is a privileged frame of reference in reality and in the equations they use.
GPS would not work if SR and GR were exactly as Einstein stated! GPS techs use a version of SR and GR which are tweaked to work - which is more important than being true to the original theories - but if you say anything about Einstein not being 100% right, you are labelled a crackpot!
Education needs a infusion (A large one enough to change the schools culture) of professionals who are good at what they do to teach information that will be more practical for real life situation and really open up a dialog on how things really work.
Our licensing laws are a problem with this too. Knowing a lot about your field and how to teach someone what you know is often legally not enough - sometimes you need to be a education major (or close to it) to pass the requirements, but have little requirements for subject area knowledge.
So if someone gets a gunshot wound, has sickle cell anemia, gets food poisoning, gets Ebola, or breaks a leg, it is due to nerve function and you can just "adjust" them and they'll be fine?
Most D.O.'s don't believe that extreme (and wrong) of a position.
1. They destroyed a religious sects property (Sky Kingdom) because it was considered an apostate offshoot of Islam and imprisoned people involved with it for YEARS! 2. Fat kids are being given bad grades in school now as a matter of national policy - it is for "health". One kid could eat total junk and be a couch potato and have a fast metabolism and be left alone, another could eat well, exercise, be fat, and be given bad grades, because he "chose" to be "unhealthy". Ironically the fat kids will be less likely to get "fat" diseases. 3. Another "health" initiative: Gay kids are being rounded up and put into reeducation camps. Because just like fat, they consider being gay a choice. This and the fat initiative came out together - related "health" initiatives. (If it wasn't for the religious differences, the Republican Party could actually like Malaysia - at least as regarding the gay issue. They have a lot in common. Well, the Democrats want to regulate health behaviors - so they'd like the "fat" initiative.) 4. Censorship and lots of it. Officially sanctioned. Email will be censored and people will go to prison for years. Count on it.
I hate to say it, but perhaps we need to use nuclear.
Yes, I know what you are going to say:
Three Mile Island: Mostly contained, little radiation released, root cause of accident was bad design and boneheaded proceedures. Chernobyl: Good ole Soviet "engineering" - no containment building and a reactor which can go runaway (positive feedback instead of negative. Fukushima: Huge earthquake and tsunami, old design which can't rely only on passive cooling, insufficient engineering to mitigate risks.
Perhaps it is the end of the "Age of American innovation".
Where is the money for high speed rail?
P.S. On that subject, I'd like to ask Congress why they denied Nevada ALL funding for high speed rail?
Like people don't want to travel between Las Vegas and Los Angeles/San Diego/Tijuana. Well they're making the I-15 (die 15) wider though. Deadliest freeway in the USA.
In order to get any care you have to sign away most of your HIPAA right to privacy.
There is like a dozen exceptions on the forms that make you sign as a condition of getting care - they can pretty much give your info to anyone they consider an affiliate, the gov't, people suing you, researchers, heck almost anything you can think of short of selling it on eBay or useful things like letting family and friends know how you are doing in the hospital - now THAT'S illegal.
If anything, the authorities were caught completely flat-footed and are still scrambling. People in many areas were left for days to their own devices with no official response anywhere in sight.
If you truly are a physician, It's hard to understand why you would choose to stay in practice with the arrogant attitude you have towards your patients.
Hard to understand? It's easy to understand, private airplanes, boats and vacation homes are NOT free!
"For patients whom drink more than 12 beers every day, and only patient whom drink more than 12 beers every day, the Surgeon General recommends that methanol and OJ is a better drink than ethanol and OJ; bottoms up!"
Methanol and OJ: We'll call it the "You're screwed! driver".
Sure, the model might work for something simple like a broken leg, but we have too many incurable chronic diseases that are expensive to treat, and to the chagrin of the moral police, not all of them are the fault of the sufferer.
If you are even one pound over weight, live in an area with any pollution, exercise any more (injury risk) or less than exactly one hour a day, drink at all, smoke or get within 500 feet of a smoker, don't eat 5 servings of organic fruits and vegetables a day - you will be considered to have brought any illness upon yourself.
It is the medium half life materials that are worst.
Short ones go away fast. I-131 isn't going to make a place uninhabitable for years or present much of a risk for very long (in a year it is almost all gone). Really long ones aren't very radioactive. (Bismuth in Pepto-Bismol is radioactive, but not much).
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Disagree. My understanding is that all they needed was backup power coming from outside the plant, and there would have been no meltdown. They still might have had some leakage from the earthquake damage, but the situation would have been much better.
A system where a power outage causes a NUCLEAR MELTDOWN is unacceptable.
We're a country that's lagging behind on STEM (science, technical, engineering & math) education and experiencing somewhat of a shortage of people from the technical fields to fill jobs in our country because our educational system is a joke.
Shortage of people to fill jobs?!?
There is a shortage of jobs to support people!
Has been for years, likely will be for years.
People are going to go from college straight to the unemployment line.
GPS proves Einstein partially wrong. If relativity was as Einstein stated, GPS syncing would be impossible.
They use SR and GR to determine the correction factor to apply to the satellite's clock - but the Earth frame of reference is a privileged frame of reference in reality and in the equations they use.
http://sciencewithoutfiction.com/uploads/GPS_and_special_relativity.PDF
GPS would not work if SR and GR were exactly as Einstein stated! GPS techs use a version of SR and GR which are tweaked to work - which is more important than being true to the original theories - but if you say anything about Einstein not being 100% right, you are labelled a crackpot!
Education needs a infusion (A large one enough to change the schools culture) of professionals who are good at what they do to teach information that will be more practical for real life situation and really open up a dialog on how things really work.
Our licensing laws are a problem with this too. Knowing a lot about your field and how to teach someone what you know is often legally not enough - sometimes you need to be a education major (or close to it) to pass the requirements, but have little requirements for subject area knowledge.
Are you INSANE? It is scary you have a license!
So if someone gets a gunshot wound, has sickle cell anemia, gets food poisoning, gets Ebola, or breaks a leg, it is due to nerve function and you can just "adjust" them and they'll be fine?
Most D.O.'s don't believe that extreme (and wrong) of a position.
Malaysia is a fascist country.
1. They destroyed a religious sects property (Sky Kingdom) because it was considered an apostate offshoot of Islam and imprisoned people involved with it for YEARS!
2. Fat kids are being given bad grades in school now as a matter of national policy - it is for "health". One kid could eat total junk and be a couch potato and have a fast metabolism and be left alone, another could eat well, exercise, be fat, and be given bad grades, because he "chose" to be "unhealthy". Ironically the fat kids will be less likely to get "fat" diseases.
3. Another "health" initiative: Gay kids are being rounded up and put into reeducation camps. Because just like fat, they consider being gay a choice. This and the fat initiative came out together - related "health" initiatives. (If it wasn't for the religious differences, the Republican Party could actually like Malaysia - at least as regarding the gay issue. They have a lot in common. Well, the Democrats want to regulate health behaviors - so they'd like the "fat" initiative.)
4. Censorship and lots of it. Officially sanctioned. Email will be censored and people will go to prison for years. Count on it.
8K GBP is $13080! Were they INSANE?
I hate to say it, but perhaps we need to use nuclear.
Yes, I know what you are going to say:
Three Mile Island: Mostly contained, little radiation released, root cause of accident was bad design and boneheaded proceedures.
Chernobyl: Good ole Soviet "engineering" - no containment building and a reactor which can go runaway (positive feedback instead of negative.
Fukushima: Huge earthquake and tsunami, old design which can't rely only on passive cooling, insufficient engineering to mitigate risks.
What would've happened if it hit a US nuke plant, like Diablo Canyon. Watch this: http://diablocanyonpge.com/jim-becker-japan.html
We'd come through OK.
Still, nuclear power does scare me, but I'd take it over freezing in the dark in winter and boiling in the dark in summer.
Limiting awardable damages would help, i.e. tort reform.
Note, NOT the USA.
Perhaps it is the end of the "Age of American innovation".
Where is the money for high speed rail?
P.S. On that subject, I'd like to ask Congress why they denied Nevada ALL funding for high speed rail?
Like people don't want to travel between Las Vegas and Los Angeles/San Diego/Tijuana. Well they're making the I-15 (die 15) wider though. Deadliest freeway in the USA.
In order to get any care you have to sign away most of your HIPAA right to privacy.
There is like a dozen exceptions on the forms that make you sign as a condition of getting care - they can pretty much give your info to anyone they consider an affiliate, the gov't, people suing you, researchers, heck almost anything you can think of short of selling it on eBay or useful things like letting family and friends know how you are doing in the hospital - now THAT'S illegal.
If anything, the authorities were caught completely flat-footed and are still scrambling. People in many areas were left for days to their own devices with no official response anywhere in sight.
Like the US after Katrina.
Did we export the head of FEMA to Japan?
If you truly are a physician, It's hard to understand why you would choose to stay in practice with the arrogant attitude you have towards your patients.
Hard to understand? It's easy to understand, private airplanes, boats and vacation homes are NOT free!
"For patients whom drink more than 12 beers every day, and only patient whom drink more than 12 beers every day, the Surgeon General recommends that methanol and OJ is a better drink than ethanol and OJ; bottoms up!"
Methanol and OJ: We'll call it the "You're screwed! driver".
Sure, the model might work for something simple like a broken leg, but we have too many incurable chronic diseases that are expensive to treat, and to the chagrin of the moral police, not all of them are the fault of the sufferer.
If you are even one pound over weight, live in an area with any pollution, exercise any more (injury risk) or less than exactly one hour a day, drink at all, smoke or get within 500 feet of a smoker, don't eat 5 servings of organic fruits and vegetables a day - you will be considered to have brought any illness upon yourself.
It is the medium half life materials that are worst.
Short ones go away fast. I-131 isn't going to make a place uninhabitable for years or present much of a risk for very long (in a year it is almost all gone).
Really long ones aren't very radioactive. (Bismuth in Pepto-Bismol is radioactive, but not much).
The medium ones are dangerous for many years.
Death is permanent unconsciousness.
That is a disgusting lie.
Are you an atheist?
Has it come to the point where there has to be a knee-jerk reaction to everything just for the sake of it?
It's been that way for quite a while, from all sides of the political spectrum.
Sort of like the Republican party.
They used to stand for small government, BTW, remember those days?
9000 deaths are year due to DUI is the equivalent of having a September 11 attack EVERY 4 MONTHS.
And I'd heard it was 40000 deaths on US roads a year, 1/2 of them due to drunk driving, so isn't that 20000 a year.
That's like 9/11 EVERY 7 WEEKS.
The fact the Tea Party is against it also makes it sound like a good idea.
They should put ads on the site and use that to eliminate the IANA domain fee.
You forgot intellectual property.
Plus Nokia phones were (anyone know if they still are) nearly physically indestructable, even if thrown, you could just put it back together.
You need a catchy new name if you want to patent something for which prior art exists.