There are plenty of reasons to be pissed about various corporate behaviors, and plenty of ways to try and control some of the more disturbing abuses of power we have seen. However this "corporations are all evil" neohippie bullshit is the product of mental masturbation by people with too few braincells. But hey, I would much rather live as a permanent peasant under the boots of some totalitarian government given all the powers required to crush those evil corporations...
You are getting it backwards. Most of the power of these evil corporations is backed up by the government. We only need the government to give less protection to them.
If you have Nuclear Reactors in the numbers necessary to replace the Oil sources then you you will have a lot more incidents, and some of them on a scale way more dangerous. Also, due to the mean life of some radioactive stuff, the time to clear a contaminated area will be way higher that an Oil spill:
"Eventually the land could be utilized for some sort of industrial purpose that would involve concrete sites. But estimates range from 60 – 200 years before this would be allowed. Farming or any other type of agricultural industry would be dangerous and completely inappropriate for at least 200 years. It will be at least two centuries before there is any chance the situation can change within the 1.5-mile Exclusion Zone. As for the #4 reactor where the meltdown occurred, we estimate it will be 20,000 years before the real estate will be fully safe."
From the wikipedia article on Chernobyl, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Radiation_levels
Invoking the 3MI and Chernobyl event really just declares yourself as utterly pig ignorant about modern nuclear power. And calling them "spills" merely triples the stupidity. Shut up and let the adults handle this. You're just another "OH NOES! RADIATION!!!1!" moron. Seriously, you could not have posted a more cliched and ignorant response if you trierd.
Wind energy this, Solar energy that. It's all fantasy dreamed up by hippies. It may or may not be able to meet a high percentage of our energy needs at some point in the future.
Nuclear power is here now. We know it works. We know it's safe, if done right. Sure, it's expensive, but if we'd invested a few trillion in nuclear power over the last 30 years ago we'd have ended up saving a shitload on foreign wars, cost to the environment from oil spills and pollution, etc...
And have more Three Mile Island and Chernobyl spills. No, I think I prefer an oil spill...
At the rate we're going now, nothing will have changed 20 years from now. Instead, we need to start building nuclear plants and investing in research on portable power like fuel cells so we can use that nuclear power outside of the main power grid.
Portable radiation sources! The solution to overpopulation, guaranteed...
If you're in a science class, you ought to be teaching science.
If you absolutely insist on teaching only science in science classes, then we'd need to get rid of science classes and replace the topic with something more useful. Science without any context whatsoever has devolved to mere data, and is basically useless.
No, Science isn't about data, it's about algorithms. The data is only to check the most correct ones.
It is another way of saying “Easy to Learn, Hard to Master”.
If a game with simple rules poses a problem that is complicated enough so that you can't find a trivial solution, that is half way to have a fun game.
There are other aspects like some randomness, enough to create variety but not to make it a luck game, etc...
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There are plenty of reasons to be pissed about various corporate behaviors, and plenty of ways to try and control some of the more disturbing abuses of power we have seen. However this "corporations are all evil" neohippie bullshit is the product of mental masturbation by people with too few braincells. But hey, I would much rather live as a permanent peasant under the boots of some totalitarian government given all the powers required to crush those evil corporations...
You are getting it backwards. Most of the power of these evil corporations is backed up by the government. We only need the government to give less protection to them.
"Eventually the land could be utilized for some sort of industrial purpose that would involve concrete sites. But estimates range from 60 – 200 years before this would be allowed. Farming or any other type of agricultural industry would be dangerous and completely inappropriate for at least 200 years. It will be at least two centuries before there is any chance the situation can change within the 1.5-mile Exclusion Zone. As for the #4 reactor where the meltdown occurred, we estimate it will be 20,000 years before the real estate will be fully safe." From the wikipedia article on Chernobyl, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Radiation_levels
Invoking the 3MI and Chernobyl event really just declares yourself as utterly pig ignorant about modern nuclear power. And calling them "spills" merely triples the stupidity. Shut up and let the adults handle this. You're just another "OH NOES! RADIATION!!!1!" moron. Seriously, you could not have posted a more cliched and ignorant response if you trierd.
Yes I could. And even without spelling mistakes!
Wind energy this, Solar energy that. It's all fantasy dreamed up by hippies. It may or may not be able to meet a high percentage of our energy needs at some point in the future.
A Nice Dream: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=portugal+energy+wind
Nuclear power is here now. We know it works. We know it's safe, if done right. Sure, it's expensive, but if we'd invested a few trillion in nuclear power over the last 30 years ago we'd have ended up saving a shitload on foreign wars, cost to the environment from oil spills and pollution, etc...
And have more Three Mile Island and Chernobyl spills. No, I think I prefer an oil spill...
At the rate we're going now, nothing will have changed 20 years from now. Instead, we need to start building nuclear plants and investing in research on portable power like fuel cells so we can use that nuclear power outside of the main power grid.
Portable radiation sources! The solution to overpopulation, guaranteed...
Why? How? By what authority? The free market is better than anything else ...
I think it is time to bury this "free market" myth right next to the "workers paradise" grave.
If you're in a science class, you ought to be teaching science.
If you absolutely insist on teaching only science in science classes, then we'd need to get rid of science classes and replace the topic with something more useful. Science without any context whatsoever has devolved to mere data, and is basically useless.
No, Science isn't about data, it's about algorithms. The data is only to check the most correct ones.
In over 30 years of using Apple products, I can't think of a single thing that Apple has prevented me from doing. Seriously.
It seems that you do very little with your Apple gear. Also you never had an iPhone, iPod or iPad, I presume...
If anything, it is the DEVELOPER community that held back the platform for several years, not Apple.
Those evil developers so lacking the vision of the great Evil Overlord are the ones to blame... Nice.
So, suck it. Because I don't.
Don't worry the iSuck will be released to fulfill your needs.
But don't ever mistake "don't want to" with "don't know how".
I think that you mistake "don't want to" with "can't because the evil overlord doesn't allow it"
Like when you teach someone to write the "Hello World program in C, you are only teaching them to type on an editor.
It is another way of saying “Easy to Learn, Hard to Master” .
If a game with simple rules poses a problem that is complicated enough so that you can't find a trivial solution, that is half way to have a fun game.
There are other aspects like some randomness, enough to create variety but not to make it a luck game, etc...
It seems that the control freaks at Apple are out of control...