My mistake. After reviewing my notes I see the prob. of external hazards (not talking about core failures or operational error since the core didn't fail, it was a giant wave) is between 1:10000 years to 1:1000000 years. With over 13000 reactor years it's not an altogether unexpected event.
Unit 1 was designed for a peak ground acceleration of 0.18 g (1.74 m/s2) and a response spectrum based on the 1952 Kern County earthquake.[8] The design basis for Units 3 and 6 were 0.45 g (4.41 m/s2) and 0.46 g (4.48 m/s2) respectively.[15] All units were inspected after the 1978 Miyagi earthquake when the ground acceleration was 0.125 g (1.22 m/s2) for 30 seconds, but no damage to the critical parts of the reactor was discovered.[8] The design basis for tsunamis was 5.7 meters.[16]
So they modeled off a specific earthquake. But people certainly knew it was possible that a larger earthquake could happen. The probability of operational error for the plant was on the order of 10^4 or 10^5 and this thing was in operation for about 10^5 hours.
Problem is, how do you make it 'difficult' without being 'grindy' outside of PvP, and still making it attainable for everyone with the dedication.
The WoW game at it's heart is simply too easy. It's intentionally set up so that clever tactics can't be used (simple physics, fake terrain, non-existent line of sight rules, etc.) and the longer it lives the more it just becomes about cycling through hotkeys.
I've found that with each further patch in WoW, there were fewer and fewer people out "doing stuff." In fact, WoW is pretty much a glorified chat room for the queuing system at this point. You never have to leave Ogrimmar and you can essentially 'win.'
I'm personally tired of this idea that it's "okay" to lobby for anything because the Congress should be the moral perfect body of all knowledge - or something - and should ergo have the foresight to only pass perfectly just, perfectly moral laws. The Congress is comprised of flawed people. And anyway, by your own logic, it's not the fault of the reps., it's the fault of citizenry that did the voting.
It's just a way to talk about things that we observe in the world with some precision. If you're willing to put some thought in, you can probably figure it out. Your brain does math on it's own all the time, you just need a vocabulary. In essence, that vocabulary is moving math from one part of your brain to another through symbolism.
But it's not as if things aren't negotiated on WITHIN the government itself. You suppose it is a monolith when it is anything but. There are many factions and competing interests that directly alter the "government" perspective all the time. How is this not the same than competition in the marketplace?
How does the government count as one person, and "the free market" count as some number more than this?
As if there isn't competition within the government...
[quote]There are almost an infinite number of ways to structure a maze[/quote]
Not really. Consider you're limited by corridor width and overlap rules of some kind. Also, certain maps do not make for a playable game experience (routes of escape and choke points are things to consider). In addition, maps in games like this tend to exhibit some sort of symmetry which further limits the number of maps.
On topic, do developers really have a copyright (or some other claim of ownership) to maze layouts? That seems far-fetched.
One reason a mutation does not necessarily result in an error is the redundancy of the RNA codon. Multiple triplet RNA codes can code for the same amino acid (DNA->RNA->Amino Acid->protein). Some amino acids or coded in 4 unique triplet RNA sequences. So, even if an error is made, the result is often a synonymous mutation - one that codes the same amino acid. So if RNA polymerase picks up an A instead of G at this spot for some reason - it might not matter anyway.
While it may have been coined as the official term, I've always perceived The Central Dogma as a bit of a tongue in cheek jab at the field of biology. It's an approximation - a substitute - a catchall for as yet unknown processes. An assumption on some level.
Lengthy prison sentences are a product of, not only politicians and the War on Crime, but corporate ownership of jails. There is a financial and electoral incentive for putting people in jail. The growth of the prison population has grown dramatically in the last 50 years as a result of the commercialization of the penal system.
It's pretty easy to rationalize something as low as 5 deaths per year. Many corporations are responsible for many more deaths than that. Granted they are not obvious "zomg-died-in-space" deaths.
Solution: outsource space exploration to Mars.
Probably going to wait for the expansion...
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I already know they're leaving things out, so I will probably just wait for the inevitable expansion pack.
Social security is a great example. Before social security, a large proportion of seniors were living in poverty. This proportion was lowered greatly. Now-a-days, people are living longer so it makes sense to increase the age of payment for social security. People should be working longer and should plan for it. This fact alone suggests that there is a growing well of productivity in the economy that is yet untapped.
In other words, no we can't maintain the status quo for social security. But if we abandon it entirely, a bunch of people will be pushed into poverty (a result that may end up hurting the economy a lot more in the long wrong). The solution is to raise the age of first payment and convince the boomers they need to work longer because they are getting the benefits of advanced medical care.
Cutting all social programs doesn't make any sense. It will just make the lower income earners suffer and inevitably lead to less growth because of the downward cycle of poverty (no money, no education, no opportunity).
The reason I don't see it is that your argument is, essentially, everything that happened which was viewed as positive over the last century was actually a huge negative in disguise. I don't buy your premise that the debt is fundamentally beyond payment nor that the only way to balance the economy is to confiscate massive amounts of money or disband the entire military.
Cuts need to be made, the entire economy is not a total loss. I find it hard to believe that you actually believe this considering your '
Stop Koolaid Politics' moniker. It's straight from Glenn Beck.
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My mistake. After reviewing my notes I see the prob. of external hazards (not talking about core failures or operational error since the core didn't fail, it was a giant wave) is between 1:10000 years to 1:1000000 years. With over 13000 reactor years it's not an altogether unexpected event.
Or you live in peace with your hidden knowledge. "I never did crack the darn thing..." I suppose it comes down to what's in the notes.
Unit 1 was designed for a peak ground acceleration of 0.18 g (1.74 m/s2) and a response spectrum based on the 1952 Kern County earthquake.[8] The design basis for Units 3 and 6 were 0.45 g (4.41 m/s2) and 0.46 g (4.48 m/s2) respectively.[15] All units were inspected after the 1978 Miyagi earthquake when the ground acceleration was 0.125 g (1.22 m/s2) for 30 seconds, but no damage to the critical parts of the reactor was discovered.[8] The design basis for tsunamis was 5.7 meters.[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant
So they modeled off a specific earthquake. But people certainly knew it was possible that a larger earthquake could happen. The probability of operational error for the plant was on the order of 10^4 or 10^5 and this thing was in operation for about 10^5 hours.
Say you crack the code. Would you divulge the key?
Problem is, how do you make it 'difficult' without being 'grindy' outside of PvP, and still making it attainable for everyone with the dedication.
The WoW game at it's heart is simply too easy. It's intentionally set up so that clever tactics can't be used (simple physics, fake terrain, non-existent line of sight rules, etc.) and the longer it lives the more it just becomes about cycling through hotkeys.
I've found that with each further patch in WoW, there were fewer and fewer people out "doing stuff." In fact, WoW is pretty much a glorified chat room for the queuing system at this point. You never have to leave Ogrimmar and you can essentially 'win.'
I'm personally tired of this idea that it's "okay" to lobby for anything because the Congress should be the moral perfect body of all knowledge - or something - and should ergo have the foresight to only pass perfectly just, perfectly moral laws. The Congress is comprised of flawed people. And anyway, by your own logic, it's not the fault of the reps., it's the fault of citizenry that did the voting.
Duke is going to have talent points.
It's just a way to talk about things that we observe in the world with some precision. If you're willing to put some thought in, you can probably figure it out. Your brain does math on it's own all the time, you just need a vocabulary. In essence, that vocabulary is moving math from one part of your brain to another through symbolism.
Curse you redundancy, curse you.
Facepalm.
But it's not as if things aren't negotiated on WITHIN the government itself. You suppose it is a monolith when it is anything but. There are many factions and competing interests that directly alter the "government" perspective all the time. How is this not the same than competition in the marketplace?
How does the government count as one person, and "the free market" count as some number more than this? As if there isn't competition within the government...
[quote]There are almost an infinite number of ways to structure a maze[/quote]
Not really. Consider you're limited by corridor width and overlap rules of some kind. Also, certain maps do not make for a playable game experience (routes of escape and choke points are things to consider). In addition, maps in games like this tend to exhibit some sort of symmetry which further limits the number of maps.
On topic, do developers really have a copyright (or some other claim of ownership) to maze layouts? That seems far-fetched.
Thanks for the correction.
One reason a mutation does not necessarily result in an error is the redundancy of the RNA codon. Multiple triplet RNA codes can code for the same amino acid (DNA->RNA->Amino Acid->protein). Some amino acids or coded in 4 unique triplet RNA sequences. So, even if an error is made, the result is often a synonymous mutation - one that codes the same amino acid. So if RNA polymerase picks up an A instead of G at this spot for some reason - it might not matter anyway.
While it may have been coined as the official term, I've always perceived The Central Dogma as a bit of a tongue in cheek jab at the field of biology. It's an approximation - a substitute - a catchall for as yet unknown processes. An assumption on some level.
Lengthy prison sentences are a product of, not only politicians and the War on Crime, but corporate ownership of jails. There is a financial and electoral incentive for putting people in jail. The growth of the prison population has grown dramatically in the last 50 years as a result of the commercialization of the penal system.
Whether I take this definition:
A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status.
Or this one:
The best or most skilled members of a group.
I still want those people in governance positions. Certainly when posed with this question I prefer elite to rabble.
And we need even more elitism in government. The non-knowledgable need to be nay-sayed.
It's pretty easy to rationalize something as low as 5 deaths per year. Many corporations are responsible for many more deaths than that. Granted they are not obvious "zomg-died-in-space" deaths.
Solution: outsource space exploration to Mars.
I already know they're leaving things out, so I will probably just wait for the inevitable expansion pack.
So it matters what order runes are added? Every single permutation of skills can't possibly be that different.
Social security is a great example. Before social security, a large proportion of seniors were living in poverty. This proportion was lowered greatly. Now-a-days, people are living longer so it makes sense to increase the age of payment for social security. People should be working longer and should plan for it. This fact alone suggests that there is a growing well of productivity in the economy that is yet untapped. In other words, no we can't maintain the status quo for social security. But if we abandon it entirely, a bunch of people will be pushed into poverty (a result that may end up hurting the economy a lot more in the long wrong). The solution is to raise the age of first payment and convince the boomers they need to work longer because they are getting the benefits of advanced medical care. Cutting all social programs doesn't make any sense. It will just make the lower income earners suffer and inevitably lead to less growth because of the downward cycle of poverty (no money, no education, no opportunity).
The reason I don't see it is that your argument is, essentially, everything that happened which was viewed as positive over the last century was actually a huge negative in disguise. I don't buy your premise that the debt is fundamentally beyond payment nor that the only way to balance the economy is to confiscate massive amounts of money or disband the entire military. Cuts need to be made, the entire economy is not a total loss. I find it hard to believe that you actually believe this considering your ' Stop Koolaid Politics' moniker. It's straight from Glenn Beck.