...or you could just teach your kids the value of the money they are spending on their phone. If that's too hard you could enable the restrictions *already in place* before you hand the phone over to them. Heaven forbid somebody actually take responsibility for their own devices.
No... the engineer's job depends on them doing the best they can with the techniques available to them. They can face civil and *criminal* consequences if they don't. It's their bosses jobs that depend on them saying everything is OK:P
But more importantly (and OP's intention) is that progress happens iteratively. There are always risks and room for improvement. I don't know when people became so risk averse that they'll shoot down a new idea which - although orders of magnitude safer than the status quo - may present new risks and challenges.
We aren't talking a lot of material here, all spent fuel in the US since the first reactor came online could be stored in a football field sized hole about 15 feet deep.
Or at least could be if I could convince my state government to allow it. I promise I'm voting as hard as I can on the matter! Everybody is so terrified of nuclear waste that they don't quite understand the sheer mass of coal that is used right now to keep American lights on. Freight trains miles long moving hundreds of thousands of tons of the stuff *every day* (wikis says a single Chinese rail line moves a million tons per day). The lack of perspective people have on this matter is simply mind boggling. It's like complaining about that one dirty dish in the sink when there are dirty dishes on all the counters, tables, couches, chairs, and the dog.
Thousands of modes of transportation have served humanity over the years. Only one of them *will* kill tens of thousands of people in the United States alone *this year*.
That's not safe. That's too dangerous to do anymore.
What you mean is that it's not credible that their airbags and crumple zones are safe. And more importantly, the people saying they're safe are not credible.
Ahh, nothing like a car analogy to put some perspective on a situation! How many people are saved yearly because we have abundant cheap energy to provide heat, motive power for growing foodstuffs, medical care, etc? One reactor is at risk (and most importantly, still has not gone catastrophically wrong or released poisons that are going to kill tens of thousands) and you want to eschew a major source of abundant and *clean* energy? I'm sorry but I find your post somewhat lacking in perspective and credibility.
Mindless fear mongering only serves to keep people uninformed and in the dark (literally). Get some data, show us viable alternatives, and get to work on implementing.
That'd be held up by the anti-rail lobby. If modern politics has taught us anything, it is far easier to mobilize against something that we don't know much about than for it.
That's the problem with most anti-anything lobbies. Their end game is to resist change and keep us in the stone age.
If he was at the Academy, he'd be an officer... Don't officers usually tell their sergeants "We need to take out that machine gun nest" and the sergeant say "Follow me!"
I spose I technically do agree with what you say about managers and leaders...
...which may be a concern for a racing sport bike, but isn't really the case for a lot of motorbikes on the road - hence why you see shaft driven motorcycles but not bicycles. So yes, for most applications, the small inefficiencies of using a shaft are negligible. Most chain driven bikes on the road are that way due to cost - with exceptions for some specific markets (sport bikes, off road, etc).
Oh I certainly wasn't trying to imply health concerns - my insanity has its bounds! I'm just saying that for normal people (y'know, non Hams;) ), the RFI isn't going to noticeably impact anything else they use.
Funny you mention that! My sister lives in a van by the river for half the year... I'm jealous of it - 1/2 year working, 1/2 year kayaking and mountain biking. I should have picked a more in demand profession...
If somebody buys my used iPad for $400, that's between them and me.
Hell, we should be so lucky to have such light depreciation in a consumer electronics device! Complaining that the used market isn't cheap enough really just makes you... kinda cheap.
*disclaimer* - I don't own or sell iPads, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
RFI won't be as huge of a deal inside your house - may interfere with other devices you have but I can't imagine power levels being high enough to really be a concern. Folks get used to crappy EMI design these days anyhow. I've had Dell computers whose low-level humming in my headphones would change when I scrolled a page on screen. I'd also be worried about it's ESD susceptibility - if you walk across a carpet and touch a computer in a regular case, at least it has a metal case around it to reduce the impact of that shock on your mainboard.
My point there is that it's something *they* don't like. If they aren't going to hire me over something petty, then I consider it a bullet safely dodged and people I do not want to work with. That said, I absolutely would not give employers access to to that sort of information - them asking for it makes them exactly the kind of nosey employers you describe, and again not somebody I want to work with.
Feature Creep kills more good projects than makes good projects great.
There's the winner right there. Modularity in design is great and can help reduce costs, but ultimately you need to decide what requirements you need to meet. Start throwing in a bunch of contradictory requirements and you end up with tradeoffs in design which means the final product doesn't meet any of the requirements all that well.
Why? Because somebody might find something I do objectionable? I'm all for privacy in those parts of my life that I *choose* to keep private, but I'm not going to encourage a society where everybody keeps a squeaky clean image in public all while hiding anything that could offend somebody. I'm not a deliberately abrasive person, but I'm also not going to let fear of what somebody else might think of me dictate how I present myself.
Curious what history books you read... Honest dealings between the Americans and natives were not exactly the norm during the US westward expansion. Taking a narrow view of history from any perspective doesn't do it any justice.
"Disabled." I know it's more syllables than we're used to having to utter, but for the sake of maintaining a reasonably accurate and descriptive language, let's just bite the bullet and say it.
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...or you could just teach your kids the value of the money they are spending on their phone. If that's too hard you could enable the restrictions *already in place* before you hand the phone over to them. Heaven forbid somebody actually take responsibility for their own devices.
Oh you're right, clearly this is Apple's fault.
No... the engineer's job depends on them doing the best they can with the techniques available to them. They can face civil and *criminal* consequences if they don't. It's their bosses jobs that depend on them saying everything is OK :P
But more importantly (and OP's intention) is that progress happens iteratively. There are always risks and room for improvement. I don't know when people became so risk averse that they'll shoot down a new idea which - although orders of magnitude safer than the status quo - may present new risks and challenges.
We aren't talking a lot of material here, all spent fuel in the US since the first reactor came online could be stored in a football field sized hole about 15 feet deep.
Or at least could be if I could convince my state government to allow it. I promise I'm voting as hard as I can on the matter! Everybody is so terrified of nuclear waste that they don't quite understand the sheer mass of coal that is used right now to keep American lights on. Freight trains miles long moving hundreds of thousands of tons of the stuff *every day* (wikis says a single Chinese rail line moves a million tons per day). The lack of perspective people have on this matter is simply mind boggling. It's like complaining about that one dirty dish in the sink when there are dirty dishes on all the counters, tables, couches, chairs, and the dog.
Thousands of modes of transportation have served humanity over the years. Only one of them *will* kill tens of thousands of people in the United States alone *this year*.
That's not safe. That's too dangerous to do anymore.
What you mean is that it's not credible that their airbags and crumple zones are safe. And more importantly, the people saying they're safe are not credible.
Ahh, nothing like a car analogy to put some perspective on a situation! How many people are saved yearly because we have abundant cheap energy to provide heat, motive power for growing foodstuffs, medical care, etc? One reactor is at risk (and most importantly, still has not gone catastrophically wrong or released poisons that are going to kill tens of thousands) and you want to eschew a major source of abundant and *clean* energy? I'm sorry but I find your post somewhat lacking in perspective and credibility.
Mindless fear mongering only serves to keep people uninformed and in the dark (literally). Get some data, show us viable alternatives, and get to work on implementing.
That'd be held up by the anti-rail lobby. If modern politics has taught us anything, it is far easier to mobilize against something that we don't know much about than for it.
That's the problem with most anti-anything lobbies. Their end game is to resist change and keep us in the stone age.
If he was at the Academy, he'd be an officer... Don't officers usually tell their sergeants "We need to take out that machine gun nest" and the sergeant say "Follow me!"
I spose I technically do agree with what you say about managers and leaders...
...God forbid a company try to make money for its hard work developing otherwise free services
...which may be a concern for a racing sport bike, but isn't really the case for a lot of motorbikes on the road - hence why you see shaft driven motorcycles but not bicycles. So yes, for most applications, the small inefficiencies of using a shaft are negligible. Most chain driven bikes on the road are that way due to cost - with exceptions for some specific markets (sport bikes, off road, etc).
Oh I certainly wasn't trying to imply health concerns - my insanity has its bounds! I'm just saying that for normal people (y'know, non Hams ;) ), the RFI isn't going to noticeably impact anything else they use.
Funny you mention that! My sister lives in a van by the river for half the year... I'm jealous of it - 1/2 year working, 1/2 year kayaking and mountain biking. I should have picked a more in demand profession...
I sense much anger within you...
If somebody buys my used iPad for $400, that's between them and me.
Hell, we should be so lucky to have such light depreciation in a consumer electronics device! Complaining that the used market isn't cheap enough really just makes you... kinda cheap.
*disclaimer* - I don't own or sell iPads, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
RFI won't be as huge of a deal inside your house - may interfere with other devices you have but I can't imagine power levels being high enough to really be a concern. Folks get used to crappy EMI design these days anyhow. I've had Dell computers whose low-level humming in my headphones would change when I scrolled a page on screen. I'd also be worried about it's ESD susceptibility - if you walk across a carpet and touch a computer in a regular case, at least it has a metal case around it to reduce the impact of that shock on your mainboard.
Do you realize how much stuff you can lug around in a minivan - especially with the seats removed? It is a *fine* mode of transportation!
My point there is that it's something *they* don't like. If they aren't going to hire me over something petty, then I consider it a bullet safely dodged and people I do not want to work with. That said, I absolutely would not give employers access to to that sort of information - them asking for it makes them exactly the kind of nosey employers you describe, and again not somebody I want to work with.
I'm not sure I believe this, I'm sure in 1985 you could buy plutonium at any corner drug store.
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It's no problem, we'll just set up a legal fund and accept donations via Paypal
Feature Creep kills more good projects than makes good projects great.
There's the winner right there. Modularity in design is great and can help reduce costs, but ultimately you need to decide what requirements you need to meet. Start throwing in a bunch of contradictory requirements and you end up with tradeoffs in design which means the final product doesn't meet any of the requirements all that well.
Why? Because somebody might find something I do objectionable? I'm all for privacy in those parts of my life that I *choose* to keep private, but I'm not going to encourage a society where everybody keeps a squeaky clean image in public all while hiding anything that could offend somebody. I'm not a deliberately abrasive person, but I'm also not going to let fear of what somebody else might think of me dictate how I present myself.
Blasphemer!!! Shun the nonbeliever!!
"Just pave it and you're done."
Kids these days just don't understand costs...
My kingdom for some mod points!!!!
Curious what history books you read... Honest dealings between the Americans and natives were not exactly the norm during the US westward expansion. Taking a narrow view of history from any perspective doesn't do it any justice.
"Disabled." I know it's more syllables than we're used to having to utter, but for the sake of maintaining a reasonably accurate and descriptive language, let's just bite the bullet and say it.