A large nuclear plant produces only a few semi loads of high level nuclear waste a year. Actually, it's only a few hundred pounds. Given ground transport with it's relaxed weight restrictions, with it's very easy to make a container that will survive 200 mph collisions (head on accident + margin).
Also, if you read the posts, you'll find that many of us support the use of breeder reactors, that would reduce the fuel requirements by a factor of up to a hundred.
As for Yucca Mountain, I think that we'll eventually end up digging up & reproccessing anything we put there. It's still good fuel!
Drop the price of electricity enough, and it becomes economical to use it to power vehicles. Especially in the cities with lower driving speeds, shorter total distance,
Also, coal would become dirt cheap, and coal can be processed to make natural gas or even gasoline with the proper processes. The methodolgy also keeps alot of the contaminates out of the atmosphere from what I've heard.
Isn't the commonly quoted problem with global warming the flooding from the icecaps? Warmer temperatures can carry more moisture, you'd have more precipitation.
I figure fission technology is perfectly acceptable given that we probably still have at least 50 years until "next generation" power generators come along (and online). I really don't like coal power.
Better a proven disaster than a "might be" disaster There's no "might be" to it. He would have been a complete and utter disaster. I actually support Bush on the war(I've wanted Iraq taken care of for a long time), and I've seen Kerry's voting record. Just about everything I objected to about Bush, Kerry's worse.
Your studies must be incredibly insightful; why don't you post them? I didn't exactly compile a report, keep links and references. If I had, I would of had a book.
Investigators said that the tubes were inadiquate for gas centrifuges and they were intended for "traditional" weapons The tubes were so short of a story that I don't remember seeing it. Why don't you post links?(Googles) Hmm... Yeah, looks fishy. Some of Bush's staff said that they could be used in gas centrifuges, some disagreed. Bush decided to pursue the more serious possibility. Richard Clark? Who's that? (googles a bit) Oh yeah. He's the Clinton appointee that Bush kept for continuity until he ended up resigning due to "differences of opinion". lying to them and us in effort to engage in a war One of the things that the investigation was trying to determine. Basically the most that they have is that Bush emphasized the immediate danger. Intelligence given to the president was bad. WMD: They've found plenty of evidence that Saddam was looking at restarting his programs as soon as he could do it Links to Al Queda: They've found them, and to other terrorist groups. Liberation from tyranny: They've already found more bodies in mass graves than Bosnia. Violation of peace agreement: He kicked out the inspectors, divereted oil-for-food funds, tried to import items for forbidden weapons systems, continued attacks on American forces...
It would seem, at times, to me, that some people only see value in life as it resides in the womb or in the form of a stem cell, but in the world it is somehow less precious It's a matter of innocence. An unborn baby/embryo by definition is innocent to them. Congratulations, you found something that I am closer to Kerry on. It's just not a big issue for me, as I figure the research will be done elsewhere.
I'm sure that religion played a role in this, as it does anytime abortion comes up. Do you remember Kerry going after the Catholic vote as he's catholic, despite the fact that the Catholic church is strictly pro-life? People have changed churches because of this (and other) issues.
It is my hope that the rest of our nation, the ones with that extra synapse that tells you Bush is an utter disaster
Bush may be a disaster, but I've studied Kerry and I believe that he would be an utter and complete disaster.
should any church that decided to get involved with the election process loose their tax exempt status?
Yes. As should the ACLU
Should the encouragement of church involvement by the Bush campaign be challenged as unconstitutional?
It's not unconstitutional. They're allowed to campaign how they like. Now if the church endorses them they should lose their tax exempt status, but that's a decision for the church.
Is it true that it is only in the past two elections that exit polls are suddenly wholey inaccurate? Shouldn't this be subject to some kind of scientific scrutiny?
Sure, but I seem to remember that the same thing happened to Carter.
Oh, and shouldn't we consider impeaching a president who contradicts intelligence about aluminum pipes in order to justify an unjustifialble war- blatantly lieing to congress and the American people?
Well, I believe that he believed what he said. He made decisions based on intellegence that later turned out to be flawed. But they have found that Saddam was ready to restart various WMD programs given the opportunity. Personally, I think that WMD's were low on the list of reasons to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but were used because that was what other countries would be most worried about.
Didn't the Republicans take our previous democratic president to court under a much less greivous offence? Isn't it time to take the gloves off and start fighting dirty with the rest of them? Do we have a chance if we don't?
I found most of the anger at the previous president to be for his lying before congress, more than the act. Besides, there have been multiple investigations into 9/11 and Iraq, and I haven't heard any calls by them for impeachment.
I'll note that many of the right are seriously upset about the patriot act, however Kerry's voting record doesn't inspire, given as how he voted for it too. And if you think that Bush is right wing, come talk with some of my friends. I'm a libertarian, and I think Bush is liberal.
1) Politics, and political party, is a function of personality, upbringing, and a number of other influences. 2) Personality traits affect the chances that any particular individual will participate in a poll.
Given that personality plays a part in choosing a party, and a part in participating in a poll, it's a valid hypothesis that members of different parties have different percentages of poll participation. In this case it would be expressed as a lower percentage of republicans participating in polls. It just has to be tested.
1) Republicans are more likely to say "none of your business" 2) Polsters aren;t budging from the larger cities, so smaller, more conservative rural precincts are underrepresented.
He'd still have to get himself naturalized rather quickly.
The Governator is a US citizen, he's just a naturalized one, instead of either being born a citizen or being in the USA when the constitution was signed.
As this item wouldn't be a "cigarette" per the law, it wouldn't be taxed the same as a pack. Add in that it's reusable and supposably safer and it doesn't matter if it even costs a little more.
The plane is a modified 747. No stealth capabilities, low speed and manuverability. It depends on staying in safe areas and the ability to destroy anything guided that breaks it's horizen.
It's intended use is against SRBM's at most. Of course, a SRBM is still a hard enough target that fighters and anti-air missiles are easy targets.
The Satan is an incredably advanced MIRV. We're mostly worried about nutsos with hopefully limited resources. Hidden ground based lasers of uber power might have a shot with a good enough tracking solution.
IIRC, about three or four years ago Russians have successfully tested a system to permanently fry satellites from the ground using a high intensity laser beam. AFAIK US military still don't have anything along those lines.
AFAIK indeed. Given that we're testing an aircraft based anti-missile/plane laser, it doesn't seem hard to believe that we have a laser for that purpose already, it's just that we've kept more quiet about it.
1: Having the capability doesn't hurt if you find a need for it. Military people want all options available. 2: Can be used as a bargaining point. It's one more item in America's arsenal. 3: It's less destructive than our previous system which involved a missile, possibly with a nuclear warhead. 4: Can save troops in an AOR if the enemy is trying to use guidance from the system for munitions, etc. We have the capability to mess with GPS so that if the enemy doesn't have the encryption and other devices, we can tell their devices whatever. With more and more foreign communication satellites as well as the possibility of a foreign GPS type system, we need more options. 5: If we use this system, the country in question probably has more to deal with than just us disabling/jamming a few satellites.
Technically it was 2.2 buildings(don't forget the pentagon wing) and four planes.
So we still have to take out a chunck of Libya or Iran.
If you take out the Statue of Liberty (even though it was given to us by the French), the White House, and Wall Street I'd expect nothing less than the invasion of three countries, not including the invasion of france to grab some artists to replace the statue. (I'm kidding)
A problem I see with making the PCB smaller would be the heat dissipation. When I look at a modern motherboard, I don't see much space that's doesn't have either a connector there or heat sink/fan. Now yes, you could add alot of complexity, more signal traces and such. I already have trouble connecting everything in my computer.
Another factor to think of: By making the components so small, and still having good reliability, the costs saved per unit can actually add up to be more than making a large repairable unit.
Which would you rather have: A unit that costs $10, with an expected lifespan of 5 years, or a unit that costs $20, with life expected until the first repair needed of 5 years, and a repair cost of $5?
Now, the ratios change around and such, but for most consumer goods, at $20-30 an hour for a repair tech, it has to be a pretty pricey item for it to be worth paying to have it fixed (though both my parents and grandparents have had TVs fixed in the last few years).
I think that some electronic item manufacturers seem to place components all rated for about the same lifespan, as it seems that once you have the first repair done, you will end up doing it again every six months or so for this or that component in the item. It's a tough decision: "Do I spend $50 to get it fixed, or a $100 for a new one with a warrenty?"
With computers, often the cost of replacing a particular component with an updated version (better performance and all that) is cheaper than repairing. If my motherboard fries(~100 for a good recent one) after a year, I'd probably be able to pick up a new (old style) one for ~$50. This means that if it would take the tech more than an hour to diagnose and fix the problem, it's cheaper to replace.
I've heard a good explanation for these "amazing coincidences".
Say you take a thousand fourtune-tellers(all fakers) and make them predict some future event.
Say five hundred of them get it right. You then ask them to predict something else. You're now down to 250. Wash rinse and repeat a few more times.
You're now down to one guy who's gotten them all right, around 9 more times. Now ask him another question. His odds? No better than the other thousand, but odds are that 1 of the thousand would make it that far.
Pile up enough events, and you'll get "amazing coincidences".
It might not clog up with rust, but if you have dissimilar metals in your system, galvanic corrosion can take you out. In Dan's case, he had a copper piped radiator and an aluminium block.
Antifreeze may be the cheap solution, as many people have some left over for their car, but it's not ideal. I've read that Glycol only has about a third of the heat transfer ability of water. Thus the idea of the "water wetter" type products. You don't really need the glycol, you need the anti-bacterial and anti-corrosion treatments. So they made a product that contained them, along with something that reduces surface tension (better cooling).
But I'll say that I know that antifreeze has anti-biological properties. And if you use it, you can probably leave it alone for alot longer than a year as long as you have a resevoir and keep it topped off. My antifreeze is good for five years in my car.
Most non-profits try to max their profits just like anyohter company
Um, no. A non-profit company can't make any money other than "growth". They can have cash reserves, but by law they have to disperse their "profits" by very specific means. Now if you just meant max their income that would be a different matter. If they measure their "profit" as doing whatever charitable thing they incorporated for, then yes again. But they don't make profit in the sense that stockholders get dividends.
Not-for-profit works a little differently, they're allowed to do more, but again, they're not allowed to pay dividends or simply stockpile cash.
If they have a deep-instilled, genuine desire to be the jerk-off material for men they don't know, then hey, I'm powerless to stop them. But I just don't think that's the case.
You might be suprised. I've heard interviews of strippers, and they usually enjoy what they do. The ones I remember most were college students who were stripping as a part time job. They loved the attention they got, the pay (they made more a night than they could get working elsewhere for two weeks).
My policy: do it where I don't have to see it, and as long as nobody who's not made informed consent is harmed(and there are people, notably children, who can't really be informed), and I don't care.
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A large nuclear plant produces only a few semi loads of high level nuclear waste a year. Actually, it's only a few hundred pounds. Given ground transport with it's relaxed weight restrictions, with it's very easy to make a container that will survive 200 mph collisions (head on accident + margin).
Also, if you read the posts, you'll find that many of us support the use of breeder reactors, that would reduce the fuel requirements by a factor of up to a hundred.
As for Yucca Mountain, I think that we'll eventually end up digging up & reproccessing anything we put there. It's still good fuel!
Drop the price of electricity enough, and it becomes economical to use it to power vehicles. Especially in the cities with lower driving speeds, shorter total distance,
Also, coal would become dirt cheap, and coal can be processed to make natural gas or even gasoline with the proper processes. The methodolgy also keeps alot of the contaminates out of the atmosphere from what I've heard.
Isn't the commonly quoted problem with global warming the flooding from the icecaps? Warmer temperatures can carry more moisture, you'd have more precipitation.
I figure fission technology is perfectly acceptable given that we probably still have at least 50 years until "next generation" power generators come along (and online). I really don't like coal power.
Better a proven disaster than a "might be" disaster
There's no "might be" to it. He would have been a complete and utter disaster. I actually support Bush on the war(I've wanted Iraq taken care of for a long time), and I've seen Kerry's voting record. Just about everything I objected to about Bush, Kerry's worse.
Your studies must be incredibly insightful; why don't you post them?
I didn't exactly compile a report, keep links and references. If I had, I would of had a book.
Investigators said that the tubes were inadiquate for gas centrifuges and they were intended for "traditional" weapons
The tubes were so short of a story that I don't remember seeing it. Why don't you post links?(Googles)
Hmm... Yeah, looks fishy. Some of Bush's staff said that they could be used in gas centrifuges, some disagreed. Bush decided to pursue the more serious possibility. Richard Clark? Who's that? (googles a bit) Oh yeah. He's the Clinton appointee that Bush kept for continuity until he ended up resigning due to "differences of opinion".
lying to them and us in effort to engage in a war
One of the things that the investigation was trying to determine. Basically the most that they have is that Bush emphasized the immediate danger. Intelligence given to the president was bad.
WMD: They've found plenty of evidence that Saddam was looking at restarting his programs as soon as he could do it
Links to Al Queda: They've found them, and to other terrorist groups.
Liberation from tyranny: They've already found more bodies in mass graves than Bosnia.
Violation of peace agreement: He kicked out the inspectors, divereted oil-for-food funds, tried to import items for forbidden weapons systems, continued attacks on American forces...
It would seem, at times, to me, that some people only see value in life as it resides in the womb or in the form of a stem cell, but in the world it is somehow less precious
It's a matter of innocence. An unborn baby/embryo by definition is innocent to them. Congratulations, you found something that I am closer to Kerry on. It's just not a big issue for me, as I figure the research will be done elsewhere.
I'm sure that religion played a role in this, as it does anytime abortion comes up. Do you remember Kerry going after the Catholic vote as he's catholic, despite the fact that the Catholic church is strictly pro-life? People have changed churches because of this (and other) issues.
I find plain old text setting to work well, it still recognizes the common html tags. Maybe I should say that preview is your friend ;).
Remember, if you use html, you have to use the P tag to mark your paragraphs.
Bush: 1206
Kerry: 1190
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1: paragraph breaks are your friend ;)
It is my hope that the rest of our nation, the ones with that extra synapse that tells you Bush is an utter disaster
Bush may be a disaster, but I've studied Kerry and I believe that he would be an utter and complete disaster.
should any church that decided to get involved with the election process loose their tax exempt status?
Yes. As should the ACLU
Should the encouragement of church involvement by the Bush campaign be challenged as unconstitutional?
It's not unconstitutional. They're allowed to campaign how they like. Now if the church endorses them they should lose their tax exempt status, but that's a decision for the church.
Is it true that it is only in the past two elections that exit polls are suddenly wholey inaccurate? Shouldn't this be subject to some kind of scientific scrutiny?
Sure, but I seem to remember that the same thing happened to Carter.
Oh, and shouldn't we consider impeaching a president who contradicts intelligence about aluminum pipes in order to justify an unjustifialble war- blatantly lieing to congress and the American people?
Well, I believe that he believed what he said. He made decisions based on intellegence that later turned out to be flawed. But they have found that Saddam was ready to restart various WMD programs given the opportunity. Personally, I think that WMD's were low on the list of reasons to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but were used because that was what other countries would be most worried about.
Didn't the Republicans take our previous democratic president to court under a much less greivous offence? Isn't it time to take the gloves off and start fighting dirty with the rest of them? Do we have a chance if we don't?
I found most of the anger at the previous president to be for his lying before congress, more than the act. Besides, there have been multiple investigations into 9/11 and Iraq, and I haven't heard any calls by them for impeachment.
Right wing politicians? Does this name look like a right wing organization? The Nazi's were seriously LEFT wing.
Nazi Party's official name: National Socialist German Workers Party
How Nazis are like the *Radical* Left Wing
I'll note that many of the right are seriously upset about the patriot act, however Kerry's voting record doesn't inspire, given as how he voted for it too. And if you think that Bush is right wing, come talk with some of my friends. I'm a libertarian, and I think Bush is liberal.
I think that he has a valid point.
1) Politics, and political party, is a function of personality, upbringing, and a number of other influences.
2) Personality traits affect the chances that any particular individual will participate in a poll.
Given that personality plays a part in choosing a party, and a part in participating in a poll, it's a valid hypothesis that members of different parties have different percentages of poll participation. In this case it would be expressed as a lower percentage of republicans participating in polls. It just has to be tested.
A couple of theories for this:
1) Republicans are more likely to say "none of your business"
2) Polsters aren;t budging from the larger cities, so smaller, more conservative rural precincts are underrepresented.
He'd still have to get himself naturalized rather quickly.
The Governator is a US citizen, he's just a naturalized one, instead of either being born a citizen or being in the USA when the constitution was signed.
physical destruction is the only authorized destruction method for many classified drives.
On my base, we sometimes took the drives over to EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal). They reportably had a great time.
Sin Tax.
As this item wouldn't be a "cigarette" per the law, it wouldn't be taxed the same as a pack. Add in that it's reusable and supposably safer and it doesn't matter if it even costs a little more.
The plane is a modified 747. No stealth capabilities, low speed and manuverability. It depends on staying in safe areas and the ability to destroy anything guided that breaks it's horizen.
It's intended use is against SRBM's at most. Of course, a SRBM is still a hard enough target that fighters and anti-air missiles are easy targets.
The Satan is an incredably advanced MIRV. We're mostly worried about nutsos with hopefully limited resources. Hidden ground based lasers of uber power might have a shot with a good enough tracking solution.
IIRC, about three or four years ago Russians have successfully tested a system to permanently fry satellites from the ground using a high intensity laser beam. AFAIK US military still don't have anything along those lines.
AFAIK indeed. Given that we're testing an aircraft based anti-missile/plane laser, it doesn't seem hard to believe that we have a laser for that purpose already, it's just that we've kept more quiet about it.
1: Having the capability doesn't hurt if you find a need for it. Military people want all options available.
2: Can be used as a bargaining point. It's one more item in America's arsenal.
3: It's less destructive than our previous system which involved a missile, possibly with a nuclear warhead.
4: Can save troops in an AOR if the enemy is trying to use guidance from the system for munitions, etc. We have the capability to mess with GPS so that if the enemy doesn't have the encryption and other devices, we can tell their devices whatever. With more and more foreign communication satellites as well as the possibility of a foreign GPS type system, we need more options.
5: If we use this system, the country in question probably has more to deal with than just us disabling/jamming a few satellites.
Technically it was 2.2 buildings(don't forget the pentagon wing) and four planes.
So we still have to take out a chunck of Libya or Iran.
If you take out the Statue of Liberty (even though it was given to us by the French), the White House, and Wall Street I'd expect nothing less than the invasion of three countries, not including the invasion of france to grab some artists to replace the statue. (I'm kidding)
A problem I see with making the PCB smaller would be the heat dissipation. When I look at a modern motherboard, I don't see much space that's doesn't have either a connector there or heat sink/fan. Now yes, you could add alot of complexity, more signal traces and such. I already have trouble connecting everything in my computer.
Another factor to think of:
By making the components so small, and still having good reliability, the costs saved per unit can actually add up to be more than making a large repairable unit.
Which would you rather have: A unit that costs $10, with an expected lifespan of 5 years, or a unit that costs $20, with life expected until the first repair needed of 5 years, and a repair cost of $5?
Now, the ratios change around and such, but for most consumer goods, at $20-30 an hour for a repair tech, it has to be a pretty pricey item for it to be worth paying to have it fixed (though both my parents and grandparents have had TVs fixed in the last few years).
I think that some electronic item manufacturers seem to place components all rated for about the same lifespan, as it seems that once you have the first repair done, you will end up doing it again every six months or so for this or that component in the item. It's a tough decision: "Do I spend $50 to get it fixed, or a $100 for a new one with a warrenty?"
With computers, often the cost of replacing a particular component with an updated version (better performance and all that) is cheaper than repairing. If my motherboard fries(~100 for a good recent one) after a year, I'd probably be able to pick up a new (old style) one for ~$50. This means that if it would take the tech more than an hour to diagnose and fix the problem, it's cheaper to replace.
Probably meant for the bathroom in a clinic for certain gastronomical problems...
Actually, it's more for areas where the janitor only comes along once a year to restock the roll. Have you ever seen a big roll in a public restroom?
I've heard a good explanation for these "amazing coincidences".
Say you take a thousand fourtune-tellers(all fakers) and make them predict some future event.
Say five hundred of them get it right. You then ask them to predict something else. You're now down to 250. Wash rinse and repeat a few more times.
You're now down to one guy who's gotten them all right, around 9 more times. Now ask him another question. His odds? No better than the other thousand, but odds are that 1 of the thousand would make it that far.
Pile up enough events, and you'll get "amazing coincidences".
It might not clog up with rust, but if you have dissimilar metals in your system, galvanic corrosion can take you out. In Dan's case, he had a copper piped radiator and an aluminium block.
How to bake your CPU!
It should be noted that "dissimilar" metals could be as similar as two different alloys of copper.
Antifreeze may be the cheap solution, as many people have some left over for their car, but it's not ideal. I've read that Glycol only has about a third of the heat transfer ability of water. Thus the idea of the "water wetter" type products. You don't really need the glycol, you need the anti-bacterial and anti-corrosion treatments. So they made a product that contained them, along with something that reduces surface tension (better cooling).
This site has some advice
But I'll say that I know that antifreeze has anti-biological properties. And if you use it, you can probably leave it alone for alot longer than a year as long as you have a resevoir and keep it topped off. My antifreeze is good for five years in my car.
Most non-profits try to max their profits just like anyohter company
Um, no. A non-profit company can't make any money other than "growth". They can have cash reserves, but by law they have to disperse their "profits" by very specific means. Now if you just meant max their income that would be a different matter. If they measure their "profit" as doing whatever charitable thing they incorporated for, then yes again. But they don't make profit in the sense that stockholders get dividends.
Not-for-profit works a little differently, they're allowed to do more, but again, they're not allowed to pay dividends or simply stockpile cash.
If they have a deep-instilled, genuine desire to be the jerk-off material for men they don't know, then hey, I'm powerless to stop them. But I just don't think that's the case.
You might be suprised. I've heard interviews of strippers, and they usually enjoy what they do. The ones I remember most were college students who were stripping as a part time job. They loved the attention they got, the pay (they made more a night than they could get working elsewhere for two weeks).
My policy: do it where I don't have to see it, and as long as nobody who's not made informed consent is harmed(and there are people, notably children, who can't really be informed), and I don't care.