I've read that they're either filming or have filmed a zombie movie in Chernobyl. Must be getting safer. Heck, they were even having tours of the area.
And this would be different from the "fact" that we've been going to run out of oil in the next 50 years for the last 50 years?
New sources would be found. We'd end up using more efficient reactor types. Breeder reactors can "burn" the waste from current reactors for more power than the current ones get from fresh fuel.
Sure, the current deposits and mines would be exhausted in 50, but I'm sure that there's plenty more out there.
years until the surrounding areas become habitable I have news for you, chemical pollution is just as bad if not worse. Chemicals are often stable. Meaning they'll stay dangerous forever, at least until they get diluted or are broken down through chemical means. Many poisons can remain deadly for thousands of years in a contained enviroment.
Just about every power plant uses steam to power turbines, thus this accident could have happened at any of them.
Only types that don't use steam that I can think of off the top of my head is wind and hydroelectric. Most solar plants use mirrors to direct the light to a central point, using the collected light to make steam...
This was not a power plant accident, but a processing accident where the workers were, in my opinion, darwin award candidates. "Let's bypass safety procedures and rather than using the machine provided and doing it in small batches (to keep the uranium from going critical), we'll hurry it up by dumping it in a bucket and stirring it!"
It should be noted that more people die each year in coal mining/transportation accidents. But since these deaths happen so regularly, they're not reported in the news. It's like the fact that flying is safer than driving, but people pay lots of attention to plane crashes, because they're unusual.
I should be noted that the BBC makes some scary statements, like more than 300,000 people in the surrounding area were placed in danger. Other articles point out "Hundreds evacuated", which makes me think that the BBC is exagerating in their statement. Like most industrial accidents, the dilution needed to reach that many people would render it mostly harmless. The workers were harmed because they were right there.
Anytime industry gets big enough, accidents will happen occasionally. Especially with the universe conspiring to come up with bigger fools...
I've read that it's caused because it doesn't necessarily correct all of the light entering your eye. In nighttime, your pupils expand, and you start receiving more uncorrected light from the edges. Imagine having a smaller lens providing the correction for a larger lens.
Newer lasers can correct a larger radius, but of course this requires removing more material, so cornea thickness becomes a larger concern.
I was rejected for laser surgery because of the potential it'd mess up my night vision.
You see, that's the problem with trying to tax the filthy rich. They have the money to hire people to 'hide' and 'manage' income in order to avoid taxes. I've read that the really rich have always paid about the same percentage. Why? They're also the most mobile class of people. You try to soak them too much and they move. A flat percentage tax without deductions would actually get more money out of them.
Just felt I need to let you know, that while I support balanced budgets, I really hate this:
Federal Taxes->Federal Grants to State Governments->State Services.
If it's going to run a state service, it should be run from taxes at a state level. Why? Each step the money goes through wastes some of it. Some states might not need the service. Some might have a different solution.
As far as 'raiding social security' every administration has 'raided' it. It's actually in the codes, any surplus is placed in savings bonds.
In any case, the deficit was mostly caused by: decreased revenues from the dot.com bubble bust decreased revenues and expense from 9/11 stock market loss from Enron/Worldcom continuing costs from the war on terror.
Meanwhile, home ownership is at an all time high, a recovery is continuing, and unemployment is still several points below most of Europe.
Once you figure in shipping costs, customs & foreign legal costs, time delay, and sometimes translation problems sometimes changing how you operate in the USA can actually be cheaper.
I remember reading how MPC computers (formerly Micron) was considering outsourcing like dell and gateway have done. They took a different approach, and are doing much better. They have found that they can compete while staying in the USA and not outsourcing anything. Of course, the fact that they're not in a high-rent area of the USA probably helps. The cost of living in areas like California and NYC really skews the numbers.
Except that the cell phone *maker*, the one who manufactures the cell phone, doesn't lose money. It's the service provider who sells the phone to the public that loses money on the hardware, but gains it back (and hopefully more) from the service fees.
This is where open standard hardware with open service comes in. If you aren't locked into a service, and can even transfer your phone between services (using a little chip or something), competition occurs on both fronts, hardware and service. This is good for the consumer.
If you can get quality aftermarket ink for a printer, the printer manufacturer can't pull a bait & switch and charge crazy amounts for the ink, while taking an actual loss on the printer. This way you can get the printer at a little over cost, and the ink the same way, no 200+% profit margins.
Oops, not file after the fact, but pull up their records in case of an audit. Heck, you could have the servers accept all 'unlock' codes 3-4 months after the fact...
Thing is, more than just the tax tables change each year. Forms are adjusted, laws change, deductions are added and eliminated. While it might look the same, they have to rebuild the system each year, and that costs money, thus charging for an update.
But yes, at $10 a year, it's not too bad if it includes free federal and state returns.
And given it's fast obsolesence, all you'd need would be to require a key code to file electronically, and you'd keep a handle on pirates. That way people would be able to file after the fact.
However, there are a number of religions that will have to re-examine some their base premises, as their specific beliefs are that earth is the only planet with life, humans are the only intelligent life, etc etc etc. I have actually talked to some of these people, so I know they exist. I asked one what they'd do if probes found prevailing evidence of life on mars. He was fairly reasonable about it, saying that he'd have to pray, think and read more. But there are some who refuse to acknowledge anything that contradicts their beliefs, until they're basicly hit across the face with it.
Kinda like how people were killed over the idea that the earth might be round!
Well, my impression was that the guy is still crazy. On the other hand...
He could have had some contact with the scouting party. Their mental powers could have done something. But why they'd leave him to potentially uncover them...
The old 'Too wierd to be true' flipped on it's end.
And Randy's character never claimed to have been sexually molested, others picking on him said that.
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Well, then it falls down to the oldest tradition. Might makes right. If they can't project enough force to defeat us, they can't enforce any property rights. Otherwise it'd be like the native americans(and numerous other peoples).
Well, I object to not being able to exploit astral resources.
I do think that it should take serious effort to "own" an extraterrestrial object. Landing something on it should be an absolute requirement. Other than that, I'd go with something like the traditional 40 acres rules. You have to occupy it for a certain time and if you allow robotic/probes to claim, they would have to be of a certain sophistication/size/activity so that landing a close cousin of Sputnik wouldn't be enough. The robot should have to do something to prepare the area for further exploitation. It should be more than just collecting data, such as working on digging a shelter for humans to come later, mining, erecting a shelter, etc... I think that 10 years, with an active robot on the site for at least 50% of the time.
Landing settlers on the area should make it easier to claim. For example, the astronaught(and his or her country) owns the site and 40 acres around it if the astronaught can stay there for at least 240 days out of a year.
And finaly, for any object that is not occupied in some fashion for ~25-100 earth years, all claims are rendered null and void, open to fresh exploitation.
While they don't say that the yellow length was shortened, it's implied that they either did that or purposly selected lights with short yellows.
As for lowering speed limits, that's been a tradition of small towns on/by highways for generations in the USA. They usually go after out of town tags. Even write you up for one over. They pay for their police force that way.
It's the way we do it now. It's not a secret that you voted, it's a secret who you voted for.
You come in, they check off your name after you prove who you are, then you're handed a ballot that does not have your name associated with it. After marking it, you put it in the box without anybody else being able to see your votes.
And there are areas where the speed limits were lowered, and yellow lights shortened for 'revenue enhancement'. When placing cameras is more about making money than making traffic safer, you have a problem.
The whole point system was established because rich people could afford the occasional fine and violate the laws at will.
Per the article: An Ambulance would have been there in five minutes. Five minutes there. Say the ambulance takes the same time as the car. She would have given birth within two minutes of entering the hospital.
She didn't know that, of course, and probably panicked. Hubby paniced too, and followed her directions.
We're completely volunteer. In order to end up in the military here, you have to take yourself down to a recruiter's office, take a few tests, fill out a bunch of paperwork, and swear the enlistment oath in front of an officer.
Sure, we have selective service, but that hasn't been activiated since almost the vietnam war, and it isn't likely too.
Of course, my reaction was, "What, a military without internet access?" Why can't they get it during off duty hours?
AKA "Mandatory Sentencing" and "Zero Tolerance". I'm calling it zero brain policies, as their only purpose is to remove the requirement of the enforcers to use their brains. You make a maximum for an offense, for cases where the judge feels the need to "throw the book" at an especially dangerous or habitual criminal. The judge retains the option of "going easy" on a person who doesn't need the harsher sentence.
Sure-this system could theoreticly be used to issue tickets. However, unless they removed all speed traps or rewrote the laws, they might violate the double jeopardy rules (only tried once per crime).
Not to mention that without some very sophisticated systems (costing thousands?), you'd have a hard time seperating out: emergency maneuvers, private roads/racetracks, out of country driving, previous owners, and other drivers. Will you have to insert a drivers license to drive? Or will it take a picture, say, every five seconds, that useful for detecting sleeping at the wheel?
They don't want it for security camera footage. They want it for satellite imagry. "Homeland security" is a bit of a misnomer. Intelligence agencies would be a better fit. Basicly anywhere where you have digital images of insane resolution.
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I've read that they're either filming or have filmed a zombie movie in Chernobyl. Must be getting safer. Heck, they were even having tours of the area.
And this would be different from the "fact" that we've been going to run out of oil in the next 50 years for the last 50 years?
New sources would be found. We'd end up using more efficient reactor types. Breeder reactors can "burn" the waste from current reactors for more power than the current ones get from fresh fuel.
Sure, the current deposits and mines would be exhausted in 50, but I'm sure that there's plenty more out there.
years until the surrounding areas become habitable
I have news for you, chemical pollution is just as bad if not worse. Chemicals are often stable. Meaning they'll stay dangerous forever, at least until they get diluted or are broken down through chemical means. Many poisons can remain deadly for thousands of years in a contained enviroment.
Air pollution from coal-fired power plants accounts for about 30,000 premature deaths in the USA each year
Times Beach became a superfund site, relocated 2,000 people, and 265 kilotons of soil incinerated
Don't forget oil spills!
Polluted Sand isn't going anywhere
200 homes rendered uninhabitable due to wood preservative
Just about every power plant uses steam to power turbines, thus this accident could have happened at any of them.
Only types that don't use steam that I can think of off the top of my head is wind and hydroelectric. Most solar plants use mirrors to direct the light to a central point, using the collected light to make steam...
A better link would be Don't Mix Uranium in a Bucket
This was not a power plant accident, but a processing accident where the workers were, in my opinion, darwin award candidates. "Let's bypass safety procedures and rather than using the machine provided and doing it in small batches (to keep the uranium from going critical), we'll hurry it up by dumping it in a bucket and stirring it!"
It should be noted that more people die each year in coal mining/transportation accidents. But since these deaths happen so regularly, they're not reported in the news. It's like the fact that flying is safer than driving, but people pay lots of attention to plane crashes, because they're unusual.
I should be noted that the BBC makes some scary statements, like more than 300,000 people in the surrounding area were placed in danger. Other articles point out "Hundreds evacuated", which makes me think that the BBC is exagerating in their statement. Like most industrial accidents, the dilution needed to reach that many people would render it mostly harmless. The workers were harmed because they were right there.
Anytime industry gets big enough, accidents will happen occasionally. Especially with the universe conspiring to come up with bigger fools...
Well of course it's a "work in progress", if nothing else, StarForce is probably still licensing their system to new venders.
From what I've heard, they don't need to "speak" sign language, as they often learn to hear and talk to pretty much normal levels.
Now as far as knowing sign language goes, if they have a deaf parent or sibling, they'll probably learn.
I've read that it's caused because it doesn't necessarily correct all of the light entering your eye. In nighttime, your pupils expand, and you start receiving more uncorrected light from the edges. Imagine having a smaller lens providing the correction for a larger lens.
Newer lasers can correct a larger radius, but of course this requires removing more material, so cornea thickness becomes a larger concern.
I was rejected for laser surgery because of the potential it'd mess up my night vision.
You see, that's the problem with trying to tax the filthy rich. They have the money to hire people to 'hide' and 'manage' income in order to avoid taxes. I've read that the really rich have always paid about the same percentage. Why? They're also the most mobile class of people. You try to soak them too much and they move. A flat percentage tax without deductions would actually get more money out of them.
Just felt I need to let you know, that while I support balanced budgets, I really hate this:
Federal Taxes->Federal Grants to State Governments->State Services.
If it's going to run a state service, it should be run from taxes at a state level. Why? Each step the money goes through wastes some of it. Some states might not need the service. Some might have a different solution.
As far as 'raiding social security' every administration has 'raided' it. It's actually in the codes, any surplus is placed in savings bonds.
In any case, the deficit was mostly caused by:
decreased revenues from the dot.com bubble bust
decreased revenues and expense from 9/11
stock market loss from Enron/Worldcom
continuing costs from the war on terror.
Meanwhile, home ownership is at an all time high, a recovery is continuing, and unemployment is still several points below most of Europe.
Once you figure in shipping costs, customs & foreign legal costs, time delay, and sometimes translation problems sometimes changing how you operate in the USA can actually be cheaper.
I remember reading how MPC computers (formerly Micron) was considering outsourcing like dell and gateway have done. They took a different approach, and are doing much better. They have found that they can compete while staying in the USA and not outsourcing anything. Of course, the fact that they're not in a high-rent area of the USA probably helps. The cost of living in areas like California and NYC really skews the numbers.
Except that the cell phone *maker*, the one who manufactures the cell phone, doesn't lose money. It's the service provider who sells the phone to the public that loses money on the hardware, but gains it back (and hopefully more) from the service fees.
This is where open standard hardware with open service comes in. If you aren't locked into a service, and can even transfer your phone between services (using a little chip or something), competition occurs on both fronts, hardware and service. This is good for the consumer.
If you can get quality aftermarket ink for a printer, the printer manufacturer can't pull a bait & switch and charge crazy amounts for the ink, while taking an actual loss on the printer. This way you can get the printer at a little over cost, and the ink the same way, no 200+% profit margins.
Oops, not file after the fact, but pull up their records in case of an audit. Heck, you could have the servers accept all 'unlock' codes 3-4 months after the fact...
Thing is, more than just the tax tables change each year. Forms are adjusted, laws change, deductions are added and eliminated. While it might look the same, they have to rebuild the system each year, and that costs money, thus charging for an update.
But yes, at $10 a year, it's not too bad if it includes free federal and state returns.
And given it's fast obsolesence, all you'd need would be to require a key code to file electronically, and you'd keep a handle on pirates. That way people would be able to file after the fact.
However, there are a number of religions that will have to re-examine some their base premises, as their specific beliefs are that earth is the only planet with life, humans are the only intelligent life, etc etc etc. I have actually talked to some of these people, so I know they exist. I asked one what they'd do if probes found prevailing evidence of life on mars. He was fairly reasonable about it, saying that he'd have to pray, think and read more. But there are some who refuse to acknowledge anything that contradicts their beliefs, until they're basicly hit across the face with it.
Kinda like how people were killed over the idea that the earth might be round!
Well, my impression was that the guy is still crazy. On the other hand...
He could have had some contact with the scouting party. Their mental powers could have done something. But why they'd leave him to potentially uncover them...
The old 'Too wierd to be true' flipped on it's end.
And Randy's character never claimed to have been sexually molested, others picking on him said that.
Well, then it falls down to the oldest tradition. Might makes right. If they can't project enough force to defeat us, they can't enforce any property rights. Otherwise it'd be like the native americans(and numerous other peoples).
Well, I object to not being able to exploit astral resources.
I do think that it should take serious effort to "own" an extraterrestrial object. Landing something on it should be an absolute requirement. Other than that, I'd go with something like the traditional 40 acres rules. You have to occupy it for a certain time and if you allow robotic/probes to claim, they would have to be of a certain sophistication/size/activity so that landing a close cousin of Sputnik wouldn't be enough. The robot should have to do something to prepare the area for further exploitation. It should be more than just collecting data, such as working on digging a shelter for humans to come later, mining, erecting a shelter, etc... I think that 10 years, with an active robot on the site for at least 50% of the time.
Landing settlers on the area should make it easier to claim. For example, the astronaught(and his or her country) owns the site and 40 acres around it if the astronaught can stay there for at least 240 days out of a year.
And finaly, for any object that is not occupied in some fashion for ~25-100 earth years, all claims are rendered null and void, open to fresh exploitation.
Well, short term bans (or a point system before a ban except for major issues), will work more evenly than fines.
As for short yellows:
2.7 seconds
Caution raised on red-light cameras
While they don't say that the yellow length was shortened, it's implied that they either did that or purposly selected lights with short yellows.
As for lowering speed limits, that's been a tradition of small towns on/by highways for generations in the USA. They usually go after out of town tags. Even write you up for one over. They pay for their police force that way.
It's the way we do it now. It's not a secret that you voted, it's a secret who you voted for.
You come in, they check off your name after you prove who you are, then you're handed a ballot that does not have your name associated with it. After marking it, you put it in the box without anybody else being able to see your votes.
And there are areas where the speed limits were lowered, and yellow lights shortened for 'revenue enhancement'. When placing cameras is more about making money than making traffic safer, you have a problem.
The whole point system was established because rich people could afford the occasional fine and violate the laws at will.
I do speed trials on my three mile driveway!
Per the article: An Ambulance would have been there in five minutes.
Five minutes there. Say the ambulance takes the same time as the car. She would have given birth within two minutes of entering the hospital.
She didn't know that, of course, and probably panicked. Hubby paniced too, and followed her directions.
We're completely volunteer. In order to end up in the military here, you have to take yourself down to a recruiter's office, take a few tests, fill out a bunch of paperwork, and swear the enlistment oath in front of an officer.
Sure, we have selective service, but that hasn't been activiated since almost the vietnam war, and it isn't likely too.
Of course, my reaction was, "What, a military without internet access?"
Why can't they get it during off duty hours?
AKA "Mandatory Sentencing" and "Zero Tolerance".
I'm calling it zero brain policies, as their only purpose is to remove the requirement of the enforcers to use their brains. You make a maximum for an offense, for cases where the judge feels the need to "throw the book" at an especially dangerous or habitual criminal. The judge retains the option of "going easy" on a person who doesn't need the harsher sentence.
Sure-this system could theoreticly be used to issue tickets. However, unless they removed all speed traps or rewrote the laws, they might violate the double jeopardy rules (only tried once per crime).
Not to mention that without some very sophisticated systems (costing thousands?), you'd have a hard time seperating out: emergency maneuvers, private roads/racetracks, out of country driving, previous owners, and other drivers. Will you have to insert a drivers license to drive? Or will it take a picture, say, every five seconds, that useful for detecting sleeping at the wheel?
They don't want it for security camera footage. They want it for satellite imagry. "Homeland security" is a bit of a misnomer. Intelligence agencies would be a better fit. Basicly anywhere where you have digital images of insane resolution.