I think it's absolutely hilarious that you're arguing about NPR's funding sources in the context of defending a racist coward who believes a white person should never help a black person "because po widdle white boy might get hurt" (rule 10h).
Zero people have died so far from the radiation released by Fukushima.
What a bogus metric.
The primary effect of a nuclear disaster isn't immediate radiation deaths. It's long term contamination of land, air and water resources, the costs associated with managing cleanup, and long term health costs. Talking about deaths from radiation in this context is like talking about deaths from food poisoning during a catastrophic forest fire.
Why do you nuke shills still pretend that Fukushima was not important or disastrous? Don't you realize it makes you look like total idiots? You may as well tattoo "my opinion is not worth listening to" on your forehead.
If you want to make an intelligent argument for nuclear power you should acknowledge Fukushima, advocate shutting down all corporate-owned BWRs, and start talking about research and development of safe fission technologies, or better yet fusion. Everybody knows all those aging reactors Bush/Cheney relicensed are unsafe and you aren't doing the pro-nuclear lobby any favors by pretending they aren't.
I read the list and "rampant sexism" is not a hit. The US has an increasing number of women in high positions of authority (well hello, Hillary) and oppression of homosexuals is on the wane.
But yeah, you've got at least 13 out of 14 hits there. It's too bad the list is from rense.com.
I'm convinced by the evidence I've seen that we could satisfy our power needs with wind, solar, and nuclear. Yes, I'm an environmentalist who supports nuclear power. It's the greenest energy source we have currently available.
You were doing great until the very last sentence.
My 2002 Prius has over 125,000 miles on it and requires less maintenance than any vehicle I have ever owned, bar none.
I have owned more than ten vehicles - my first car was a 1967 Pontiac Catalina that I bought in 1978. I've owned Ford, Datsun/Nissan, Toyota, several VWs, Porsche, Honda, and various flavors of GM and Chrysler. I have always done all my own maintenance and repairs (except for recall work, because that comes free). I have successfully done a total VW engine rebuild including line-boring the main bearings and regrinding valves. So it's not like I don't know what I'm talking about.
The vehicle I traded in for the Prius in 2001 was getting about 16mpg and the Prius has averaged around 47mpg.
47 - 16 = 31 difference in mpg 125k / 31 = 4032.25 difference in gallons of gas 4032.25 x $3 a gallon = $12,096 dollars saved
I suck at math. Somebody check my work? It looks to me like the Prius will literally pay for itself if I keep it for another 100k miles. The car cost me $20K in 2001.
There's about half a dozen different techniques, and while there's definitely still room for innovation the problem is effectively solved for large off-shore wind turbines.
But the anti-wind nutbags like to ignore facts that don't fit their narrative - in the anti-wind world, there is no such thing as energy storage (cue shrill cries of "the wind doesn't always blow") and there is no way to deal with too much wind. You can't reason with them.
I understand that the nailing and underlayment for solar shingles are critically important to get right. If you decide to use them, try to find an experienced installer or sign up for a workshop before you do it yourself. You might also be interested in Home Power Magazine, it's kind of west-coast biased but still an excellent resource.
I really don't understand why no major company has come up with mass produced smaller panels in a roofing-shingle form factor, but, entirely different topic.
Solar shingles have been around for quite some time.
If our conversation is going to follow the pattern of a typical slashdot discussion thread, you will now need to retroactively define the terms "major", "mass produced", and "smaller" in such a way that you can insist that I am not only wrong, but also a smelly hippy that likes Hitler.
I've been using RAID10 on my squeezeserver/mythTV box, personally, for about five years now. But I got a case of server-grade hard drives for free (nearly all my equipment is dumpster-diving booty) and honestly I built around what I had on hand. Outrageous performance but it's a noisy, power-hungry machine compared to most home servers, even with temperature controlled fans and so forth.
I'm about due for a home server rebuild too, and I was also thinking about RAID6 this time around. Unless I find another case of hard drives somebody's throwing out, I guess.
RAID5 was a great solution when disks were very small and very expensive. Now they are relatively huge and cheap, so RAID5 is almost never a good idea.
Researchers studying different types of reactors (Bussard polywells, tokamaks, LENR like the Rossi eCat, Farnsworth fusors, etc.) seem to spend an inordinate amount of time making negative public statements about each others' work.
Are there any researchers outside your own field that have attacked your work? Do you see this as a problem? Is it an unavoidable consequence of trying to gain funding when fission is the favored technology? Does all non-fission research suffer when fusion researchers fight among themselves, or is this just part of the normal scientific debate?
Wow, here I was, all set to point out that the (European) system of feet & inches is actually more far useful for human purposes, which is why we Americans purposely chose it over the (French) metric system long ago.
More whole divisors is functionally far better, if you are an actual working man with dirt on your hands and not some uncalloused, useless ivory tower knowitall.
But then I saw the pyramids at the bottom of your infographic. D'OH! Yeah, you win, you're right, we're complete idiots. The American system of date ordering (which is officially & legally not the American system, by the way, but in practice is what actual Americans insist on using no matter how many times our government tells us not to) is moronic and counterproductive nonsense. There's no good reason to put dates in anything other than dd-mm-yyyy format, it's completely indefensible. We're just stupid.
In what way is paying for your own domain and hosting your own email not a good answer? Why is an "other than" needed?
I ran my own domain out of my basement for years, but gradually all the ISPs stopped letting me do that on an affordable connection. The amusing part is that they blocked my 100% uptime, 100% reliable, 100% spam-free mail servers and forced my mail traffic to proxy through their virus and spam riddled mail hubs in the name of fighting spam.
You got "insightful" for agreeing with me, and I didn't even get "informative" for quoting the relevant part of the summary./. moderation gets more idiosyncratic every day!
Eight recipients of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatched kidney and FC/HSC transplants underwent conditioning with fludarabine, 200-centigray total body irradiation, and cyclophosphamide followed by posttransplant immunosuppression with tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil.
That's directly from the abstract linked above. How 'bout that "drug free" headline there, eh?
The real news is that a couple of these people were successfully weaned off immunosupressants. And only one of the patients died from the treatment I think (corrections appreciated).
The damage terrorists do, even when they have their greatest successes, is as nothing when compared to the damage done by regular for-profit criminals.
Whisky kills more people than terrorism, and we here in the USA have already decided (volstead act, anyone?) that it's really not that big of a deal.
Ignore terrorists. They are useless losers who are less dangerous to you than texting drivers. You are more in danger from wild dogs than you are from terrorists.
You're trolling, right? Basically, you're asking me "why do you want to own a chainsaw when your neighbor has a nice dull stone axe he's willing to let you borrow?" I actually find that hard to answer... mostly because of the laughter!
OK, let's see; an example might help. In most languages (including C) you use a single operator, the addition operator, to add variables of any data type.
You don't have to to know about the library that implements the add_*() family of functions, or define an add_float(a,b), add_integer(a,b), add_double(a,b) function for each data type, you don't have to write separate code for each one or spend hours figuring out how to make a generic one (which is actually not possible in C, but you can get really close). You just use a plus character and make sure you have matching data types for all the variables in the expression. For example, total = subtotal + entry does not have to use a special datatype specific operator, or include a math library, or any such pointless wastes of programmer time.
In nearly all languages, not including C, exponentiation works the same way. You just say a_cubed = a^^3 or something like that. In scientific computing, exponentiation is very heavily used and in most languages it's dead easy.
If you enjoy languages that waste your time and effort for no good reason, you'll just love exponentiation in C. You'll hate all the sane and normal C operators, though - so I recommend this language to anyone who thinks C's treatment of exponentiation is reasonable. You'll love it!
William Coley, the father of immunology, cured fully metastasized cancers in the early 1900s. Look it up - Dr. William Bradford Coley. We had a cancer cure, and this article is about a similar potential cure. Coley mixed up highly individualized brews of dangerous disease organisms and shot them into cancer tumors, and trained the patient's immune system to recognize cancer cells as something to be destroyed. You want to know why we outlawed Coley's system and are just now rediscovering it?
Because nuke shills. That's why. Nuke shills, like the fission-obsessed irrational numptys who reauthorized Price-Anderson and are unwilling to fund LENR or clean fusion research. Science is no match for politics and propaganda - if it was, we'd have progressed past fossil fuels and corporate nuclear fission decades ago.
C isn't a perfect language? The base language reads like a cross between Macro'd ASM and algebra. This IS the perfect syntax.
It doesn't have a data-type-independent exponentiation operator. It's got plus, minus, division, multiplication... but no exponentiation. Sorry, but that omission is just fundamentally retarded.
And I am a big fan of C, incidentally - I prefer it above other languages for its efficiency and near-universal portability. Only perl comes close to being as portable, and perl is a nightmare of overlapping, gibberishy TMTOWTDI syntax.
C's got serious problems. So does perl. Neither one is anything close to perfect, but they are almost certainly the best languages to write in because of their extreme portability. Using C, I can run code written for a PDP-8 on an MVS mainframe, a linux PC, or a DEC Alpha. Using perl, I can run the exact same code on windows and unix. It doesn't make sense for me to throw away that portability unless I am purposely writing a niche solution to compensate for a specific OS's problems.
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I think it's absolutely hilarious that you're arguing about NPR's funding sources in the context of defending a racist coward who believes a white person should never help a black person "because po widdle white boy might get hurt" (rule 10h).
I guess I just have a sick sense of humor.
What a bogus metric.
The primary effect of a nuclear disaster isn't immediate radiation deaths. It's long term contamination of land, air and water resources, the costs associated with managing cleanup, and long term health costs. Talking about deaths from radiation in this context is like talking about deaths from food poisoning during a catastrophic forest fire.
Why do you nuke shills still pretend that Fukushima was not important or disastrous? Don't you realize it makes you look like total idiots? You may as well tattoo "my opinion is not worth listening to" on your forehead.
If you want to make an intelligent argument for nuclear power you should acknowledge Fukushima, advocate shutting down all corporate-owned BWRs, and start talking about research and development of safe fission technologies, or better yet fusion. Everybody knows all those aging reactors Bush/Cheney relicensed are unsafe and you aren't doing the pro-nuclear lobby any favors by pretending they aren't.
I think they should be applauded, for using the word "unlikely" instead of "inconceivable".
I read the list and "rampant sexism" is not a hit. The US has an increasing number of women in high positions of authority (well hello, Hillary) and oppression of homosexuals is on the wane.
But yeah, you've got at least 13 out of 14 hits there. It's too bad the list is from rense.com.
You were doing great until the very last sentence.
We'd be a lot better off if that was actually true.
http://www.google.com/#q=president+authorizes+release+strategic+petroleum+reserve
My 2002 Prius has over 125,000 miles on it and requires less maintenance than any vehicle I have ever owned, bar none.
I have owned more than ten vehicles - my first car was a 1967 Pontiac Catalina that I bought in 1978. I've owned Ford, Datsun/Nissan, Toyota, several VWs, Porsche, Honda, and various flavors of GM and Chrysler. I have always done all my own maintenance and repairs (except for recall work, because that comes free). I have successfully done a total VW engine rebuild including line-boring the main bearings and regrinding valves. So it's not like I don't know what I'm talking about.
The vehicle I traded in for the Prius in 2001 was getting about 16mpg and the Prius has averaged around 47mpg.
47 - 16 = 31 difference in mpg
125k / 31 = 4032.25 difference in gallons of gas
4032.25 x $3 a gallon = $12,096 dollars saved
I suck at math. Somebody check my work? It looks to me like the Prius will literally pay for itself if I keep it for another 100k miles. The car cost me $20K in 2001.
Why yes they have!
There's about half a dozen different techniques, and while there's definitely still room for innovation the problem is effectively solved for large off-shore wind turbines.
But the anti-wind nutbags like to ignore facts that don't fit their narrative - in the anti-wind world, there is no such thing as energy storage (cue shrill cries of "the wind doesn't always blow") and there is no way to deal with too much wind. You can't reason with them.
Talking about nuclear power, Ayn Rand, or libertarianism on Slashdot is about as productive as trying to discuss Zionism on Wikipedia.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-06-14/
Those options are not mutually exclusive.
Are you new here? Just kidding. I've had too many conversations with superkendall and hairyfeet I guess.
Irony is a lost art. Apparently lost to me, anyway. I guess I need more practice.
http://wavs.unclebubby.com/wav/MOVIES/Roxanne/irony_rox.wav
I understand that the nailing and underlayment for solar shingles are critically important to get right. If you decide to use them, try to find an experienced installer or sign up for a workshop before you do it yourself. You might also be interested in Home Power Magazine, it's kind of west-coast biased but still an excellent resource.
Solar shingles have been around for quite some time.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=solar+shingles
If our conversation is going to follow the pattern of a typical slashdot discussion thread, you will now need to retroactively define the terms "major", "mass produced", and "smaller" in such a way that you can insist that I am not only wrong, but also a smelly hippy that likes Hitler.
I've been using RAID10 on my squeezeserver/mythTV box, personally, for about five years now. But I got a case of server-grade hard drives for free (nearly all my equipment is dumpster-diving booty) and honestly I built around what I had on hand. Outrageous performance but it's a noisy, power-hungry machine compared to most home servers, even with temperature controlled fans and so forth.
I'm about due for a home server rebuild too, and I was also thinking about RAID6 this time around. Unless I find another case of hard drives somebody's throwing out, I guess.
Don't use RAID 5.
RAID5 was a great solution when disks were very small and very expensive. Now they are relatively huge and cheap, so RAID5 is almost never a good idea.
Researchers studying different types of reactors (Bussard polywells, tokamaks, LENR like the Rossi eCat, Farnsworth fusors, etc.) seem to spend an inordinate amount of time making negative public statements about each others' work.
Are there any researchers outside your own field that have attacked your work? Do you see this as a problem? Is it an unavoidable consequence of trying to gain funding when fission is the favored technology? Does all non-fission research suffer when fusion researchers fight among themselves, or is this just part of the normal scientific debate?
I just proved that I'm stupid, by writing dd-mm-yyyy when I meant yyyy-mm-dd, which is the most logical order and trivially sorts clean.
Wow, here I was, all set to point out that the (European) system of feet & inches is actually more far useful for human purposes, which is why we Americans purposely chose it over the (French) metric system long ago.
More whole divisors is functionally far better, if you are an actual working man with dirt on your hands and not some uncalloused, useless ivory tower knowitall.
But then I saw the pyramids at the bottom of your infographic. D'OH! Yeah, you win, you're right, we're complete idiots. The American system of date ordering (which is officially & legally not the American system, by the way, but in practice is what actual Americans insist on using no matter how many times our government tells us not to) is moronic and counterproductive nonsense. There's no good reason to put dates in anything other than dd-mm-yyyy format, it's completely indefensible. We're just stupid.
I ran my own domain out of my basement for years, but gradually all the ISPs stopped letting me do that on an affordable connection. The amusing part is that they blocked my 100% uptime, 100% reliable, 100% spam-free mail servers and forced my mail traffic to proxy through their virus and spam riddled mail hubs in the name of fighting spam.
You got "insightful" for agreeing with me, and I didn't even get "informative" for quoting the relevant part of the summary. /. moderation gets more idiosyncratic every day!
That's directly from the abstract linked above. How 'bout that "drug free" headline there, eh?
The real news is that a couple of these people were successfully weaned off immunosupressants. And only one of the patients died from the treatment I think (corrections appreciated).
The damage terrorists do, even when they have their greatest successes, is as nothing when compared to the damage done by regular for-profit criminals.
Whisky kills more people than terrorism, and we here in the USA have already decided (volstead act, anyone?) that it's really not that big of a deal.
Ignore terrorists. They are useless losers who are less dangerous to you than texting drivers. You are more in danger from wild dogs than you are from terrorists.
You're trolling, right? Basically, you're asking me "why do you want to own a chainsaw when your neighbor has a nice dull stone axe he's willing to let you borrow?" I actually find that hard to answer... mostly because of the laughter!
OK, let's see; an example might help. In most languages (including C) you use a single operator, the addition operator, to add variables of any data type.
You don't have to to know about the library that implements the add_*() family of functions, or define an add_float(a,b), add_integer(a,b), add_double(a,b) function for each data type, you don't have to write separate code for each one or spend hours figuring out how to make a generic one (which is actually not possible in C, but you can get really close). You just use a plus character and make sure you have matching data types for all the variables in the expression. For example, total = subtotal + entry does not have to use a special datatype specific operator, or include a math library, or any such pointless wastes of programmer time.
In nearly all languages, not including C, exponentiation works the same way. You just say a_cubed = a^^3 or something like that. In scientific computing, exponentiation is very heavily used and in most languages it's dead easy.
If you enjoy languages that waste your time and effort for no good reason, you'll just love exponentiation in C. You'll hate all the sane and normal C operators, though - so I recommend this language to anyone who thinks C's treatment of exponentiation is reasonable. You'll love it!
No, that's us. They're the Judean Popular Peoples' Front.
Bloody splitters.
William Coley, the father of immunology, cured fully metastasized cancers in the early 1900s. Look it up - Dr. William Bradford Coley. We had a cancer cure, and this article is about a similar potential cure. Coley mixed up highly individualized brews of dangerous disease organisms and shot them into cancer tumors, and trained the patient's immune system to recognize cancer cells as something to be destroyed. You want to know why we outlawed Coley's system and are just now rediscovering it?
Because nuke shills. That's why. Nuke shills, like the fission-obsessed irrational numptys who reauthorized Price-Anderson and are unwilling to fund LENR or clean fusion research. Science is no match for politics and propaganda - if it was, we'd have progressed past fossil fuels and corporate nuclear fission decades ago.
It doesn't have a data-type-independent exponentiation operator. It's got plus, minus, division, multiplication... but no exponentiation. Sorry, but that omission is just fundamentally retarded.
And I am a big fan of C, incidentally - I prefer it above other languages for its efficiency and near-universal portability. Only perl comes close to being as portable, and perl is a nightmare of overlapping, gibberishy TMTOWTDI syntax.
C's got serious problems. So does perl. Neither one is anything close to perfect, but they are almost certainly the best languages to write in because of their extreme portability. Using C, I can run code written for a PDP-8 on an MVS mainframe, a linux PC, or a DEC Alpha. Using perl, I can run the exact same code on windows and unix. It doesn't make sense for me to throw away that portability unless I am purposely writing a niche solution to compensate for a specific OS's problems.