When all costs are included, nuclear is not financially cheaper than coal. Those costs include regulatory, security, and yes, financial -- both loans and insurance
Are you including the costs of cleaning up the pollution caused by coal?
"Creating a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans" has the exact same level of support. (pdf, p. 11) So needless to say, neither of these things will ever happen.
You are right! There used to be a time when people used to drink alcohol and drive their cars. Then new laws came about that made is so that you'd lose your license and spend a few months in jail. After that, no one ever drove while drunk anymore. Problem solved!
People still drink and drive, but at much lower rates than before. Drunk driving fatalities have steadily decreased over the years.
They tried that with alcohol too! (From 1920 to 1933) It also worked like a champ! No one ever drank alcohol and crime sunk to all-time lows.
The RIAA will win the appeal, it will head to the Supreme Court, and they will uphold the damages. From FindLaw:
the Court has held the Clause inapplicable to civil jury awards of punitive damages in cases between private parties, ''when the government neither has prosecuted the action nor has any right to receive a share of the damages awarded.''
If it wasn't clear before, recent rulings have made it abundantly clear that you should expect no justice of any kind from the Supreme Court.
Don't you mean, to keep us bankrupt trying to outrun the Ruskies? We spend as much on our military as the entire rest of the world put together spends on theirs. If anyone is going bankrupt due to military expenditures, it's US.
MSVDM is crashy as all hell, so I haven't tried it with a multiple monitor setup. Does it actually provide a separate set of workspaces for each monitor?
the US Supreme Court has set a rough guideline that punitive awards should rarely exceed 4 times actual damages (i.e. $1.40 per infringed recording) and almost never exceed 9 times actual damages (i.e. $3.05 per infringed recording).
I've seen the idea floating around/. that the actual damages are not the purchase price of the song, but instead the price of a distribution license. Is the RIAA pushing that argument? I imagine the fact that "making available" was never proven would be a problem there.
What's the alternative? Give those people without a moral compass absolute power and allow them to quash those who disagree with them? In a functioning democracy, even if every persons moral compass points different ways, we end up roughly in the middle.
Really? A very very large portion? How many people are alive today because of knowledge gained from nazi medical experiments? You are engaging in hyperbole.
Besides, the situation is completely different. Even if you assume that the subjects of nazi experiments were going to die anyway, the experiments caused excess suffering. Stem cell research causes no suffering.
If we ripped fetuses out of women for the sole purpose of doing experiments on them, then you would have some cause to compare it to the nazis. This however is pure trolling.
If you never do research with fetal stem cells, you'll never know what they can do. When the alternative to fetal stem cell research is throwing the fetal stem cells in an incinerator, don't we have a moral obligation to get the best use out of them that we can?
I need something in the middle -- a separate workspace for each screen, so that I can have independent virtual desktops on each screen, but still have the ability to move applications between monitors
How long has Windows allowed that, which virtual desktop manager do you use that supports it?
That sounds awful. Suppose I have IRC on one desktop, and real work on another desktop. My real work requires a few different things. Maybe switching between a browser and GIMP on separate virtual desktops.
Under your plan, every single time I switch between my browser and GIMP I have to manually move my IRC window. Sure there are kludgy workarounds like "span all desktops" but they're kludgy workarounds and this is just a quick example.
I agree with you, moving windows around is a waste of time. That includes manually moving them between desktops.
What happens when you change a virtual desktop on the left monitor? Does it also change on the right? That's what happens in my experience. Maybe twinview has this fixed, but that's only a solution for those with nvidia cards.
If you define any one thing as "the enemy" instead of presenting facts and letting them use their own mind to make decisions, you are putting blinders on them. Someday they'll figure out that your way isn't the only way. If you haven't given them the tools to make their own decisions, they're going to be in a lot of trouble when that happens.
Absolutely. My father was an ex-catholic, and really completely nonreligious. I got confirmed as a methodist entirely of my own accord. Eventually, I figured out on my own that nobody really knew anything about god or the afterlife, so I left it all behind.
There's way too much religion in the world to raise your kids without exposure to it. Show them, and let them make up their own mind. The only value that's important to instill in a kid is the value of independent thought. They'll figure out the rest.
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They experimented with nuclear cruisers in the 60s but retired those ships & didn't venture back into that area.
Lots of people experimented in the 60s. Free love, LSD, nuclear cruisers. Groovy.
When all costs are included, nuclear is not financially cheaper than coal. Those costs include regulatory, security, and yes, financial -- both loans and insurance
Are you including the costs of cleaning up the pollution caused by coal?
"Creating a government-administered public health insurance option to compete with private health insurance plans" has the exact same level of support. (pdf, p. 11) So needless to say, neither of these things will ever happen.
You are right! There used to be a time when people used to drink alcohol and drive their cars. Then new laws came about that made is so that you'd lose your license and spend a few months in jail. After that, no one ever drove while drunk anymore. Problem solved!
People still drink and drive, but at much lower rates than before. Drunk driving fatalities have steadily decreased over the years.
They tried that with alcohol too! (From 1920 to 1933) It also worked like a champ! No one ever drank alcohol and crime sunk to all-time lows.
It's hard to smuggle a cell phone tower.
The RIAA will win the appeal, it will head to the Supreme Court, and they will uphold the damages. From FindLaw:
If it wasn't clear before, recent rulings have made it abundantly clear that you should expect no justice of any kind from the Supreme Court.
That's way too low. Forfeit your license, your car, and spend a couple months in jail. Then people would start taking it seriously.
Or if that's too harsh, just ban cell phones entirely.
They're worse. Why let the white man inject something into your blood when you can just cure AIDS by raping an infant?
Why use lasers when you can use a mosquito net?
Don't you mean, to keep us bankrupt trying to outrun the Ruskies? We spend as much on our military as the entire rest of the world put together spends on theirs. If anyone is going bankrupt due to military expenditures, it's US.
MSVDM is crashy as all hell, so I haven't tried it with a multiple monitor setup. Does it actually provide a separate set of workspaces for each monitor?
I've seen the idea floating around /. that the actual damages are not the purchase price of the song, but instead the price of a distribution license. Is the RIAA pushing that argument? I imagine the fact that "making available" was never proven would be a problem there.
Gives a new meaning to "Drums > Space".
What's the alternative? Give those people without a moral compass absolute power and allow them to quash those who disagree with them? In a functioning democracy, even if every persons moral compass points different ways, we end up roughly in the middle.
Really? A very very large portion? How many people are alive today because of knowledge gained from nazi medical experiments? You are engaging in hyperbole.
Besides, the situation is completely different. Even if you assume that the subjects of nazi experiments were going to die anyway, the experiments caused excess suffering. Stem cell research causes no suffering.
If we ripped fetuses out of women for the sole purpose of doing experiments on them, then you would have some cause to compare it to the nazis. This however is pure trolling.
If you never do research with fetal stem cells, you'll never know what they can do. When the alternative to fetal stem cell research is throwing the fetal stem cells in an incinerator, don't we have a moral obligation to get the best use out of them that we can?
I don't get it. That joke in no way implied that my mom was fat or a whore. How is that funny?
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How long has Windows allowed that, which virtual desktop manager do you use that supports it?
That sounds awful. Suppose I have IRC on one desktop, and real work on another desktop. My real work requires a few different things. Maybe switching between a browser and GIMP on separate virtual desktops.
Under your plan, every single time I switch between my browser and GIMP I have to manually move my IRC window. Sure there are kludgy workarounds like "span all desktops" but they're kludgy workarounds and this is just a quick example.
I agree with you, moving windows around is a waste of time. That includes manually moving them between desktops.
How many virtual desktops do you have on each screen? Do they change independently of each other?
That's not what he wants. He wants 2 monitors and (probably) 8 desktops, 4 per monitor.
What happens when you change a virtual desktop on the left monitor? Does it also change on the right? That's what happens in my experience. Maybe twinview has this fixed, but that's only a solution for those with nvidia cards.
If you define any one thing as "the enemy" instead of presenting facts and letting them use their own mind to make decisions, you are putting blinders on them. Someday they'll figure out that your way isn't the only way. If you haven't given them the tools to make their own decisions, they're going to be in a lot of trouble when that happens.
Absolutely. My father was an ex-catholic, and really completely nonreligious. I got confirmed as a methodist entirely of my own accord. Eventually, I figured out on my own that nobody really knew anything about god or the afterlife, so I left it all behind.
There's way too much religion in the world to raise your kids without exposure to it. Show them, and let them make up their own mind. The only value that's important to instill in a kid is the value of independent thought. They'll figure out the rest.