True, I have heard this quite a bit. But now that the cold war is over, if there was a significant interest in nuclear power and new developments thereof, there'd be an interest in thorium. There's not so there's not (or rather not support for such endeavors), again, due to fear mongering.
Nuclear is going nowhere thanks to people spewing FUD like, hm, you? If it weren't for people opposing every little thing, we would have thorium reactors putting out tiny amounts of waste that degrades in decades or centuries, not tens of millennia, and burning off that existing waste for power. Global warming would be at a point where it's easy to stop if the US and china were mostly nuclear- the major polluters then would be cars, which could then be migrated to electric without the paradoxical dirty power generation. Nuclear power is the replacement for coal, and could have done so by now if not for anti-nuclear hysteria. Solar and wind energy have their place in the world, but that place is not base load power generation. That is much better filled by nuclear and geothermal plants.
"Nuclear is dangerous and bad and scary!" -- the coal energy lobby
And mdsolar. Guy's a fucking idiot, just look at his submissions.
Anti-nuclear crackpots are why we can't have nice things, like non-40 year old plants, and thorium reactors.
hm, interesting. What is with these trolls posting the full text of the gpl every few days? Anyway, real trolls release their penises under the WTFPL.
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If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably due to NASA project arcs and development cycles being longer than the usual politician's, and certainly president's, stay in office. Everyone has their own opinions about what NASA should do, and they get funding accordingly.
Well, I generally prefer to vote for those in favor of extending NASA's budget, but in reality, I haven't donated much besides my vote. After I've got the necessary education, though, I'd like to work there assuming it's still relevant to space travel.
Er- I support NASA, but I think you seem very misinformed about them, and the advancement of certain electronic technologies in particular.Television was available, albeit expensive, in one form or another since before the great depression, 30+ years before nasa was even formed. MP3 technology was created by a private company, as were cellphones which were initially developed in the conventional military (world war two bag/case radios and stuff). I would have picked more basic and credible technologies, miniaturized electronics, heavily ruggedized electronics, better computers in general, and I'm thinking that the apollo guidance computer was one of the first few using transistor based integrated circuits instead of the then normal vacuum tubes, so you can thank them for that too. Basically if not for NASA, many of our computer products might have been stunted in development, non-portable and fragile as they were in the 60's and 70's, today, but don't credit them with something they had no involvement in, e.g. MP3 players.
Depressingly, yes, at least 10-30% of the people I know are highly religious to the point of young earth creationism (though the actual percentage is probably much higher as I usually avoid the religious nuts). As for the space program, hopefully china will replace the USSR as far as a political contest in space goes, or private companies will take over and prices will be low, but I doubt either of those is going to happen. As is, in a few decades china might have a soaring space program while the US is in crushing debt.
Well, the shining examples of the US are already not "shuttle powered", Cassini-Huygens launched on a titan, the rovers launched on a delta II heavy, as did messenger, and deep space 1 (first ship with an ion drive), and many more. The shuttle? The ISS though parts are Russian, and it's an international effort. Galileo, too, but not much recently.
I do believe that the majority of americans, myself included, support space travel and exploration. If you don't like your tax money funding that, move to another nation that doesn't do research (as that's what you seem to be against). Good luck. Also, you'll have to check all your nasa created technology at the gate.
Yeah yeah, I'm not saying piracy is right (though for the purposes of screwing the bastards at the RIAA/MPAA out of money, it is), but comcast is one of the ISPs more notorious for monitoring and shaping traffic, and though they all do it to some degree, comcast goes "above and beyond".
Not a problem. I might be wrong though- I can't remember if it was based on gnome shell or gnome 3 fall back mode. I don't use docks anymore, but I believe I have used GLX dock with xfce in the past. Either way, gnome 2 is not coming back, so it's a good thing to look at alternatives.
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True, I have heard this quite a bit. But now that the cold war is over, if there was a significant interest in nuclear power and new developments thereof, there'd be an interest in thorium. There's not so there's not (or rather not support for such endeavors), again, due to fear mongering.
Nuclear is going nowhere thanks to people spewing FUD like, hm, you? If it weren't for people opposing every little thing, we would have thorium reactors putting out tiny amounts of waste that degrades in decades or centuries, not tens of millennia, and burning off that existing waste for power. Global warming would be at a point where it's easy to stop if the US and china were mostly nuclear- the major polluters then would be cars, which could then be migrated to electric without the paradoxical dirty power generation. Nuclear power is the replacement for coal, and could have done so by now if not for anti-nuclear hysteria. Solar and wind energy have their place in the world, but that place is not base load power generation. That is much better filled by nuclear and geothermal plants.
Good luck explaining that to mdsolar.
"Nuclear is dangerous and bad and scary!" -- the coal energy lobby
And mdsolar. Guy's a fucking idiot, just look at his submissions.
Anti-nuclear crackpots are why we can't have nice things, like non-40 year old plants, and thorium reactors.
Will you quit? It'd be contributing to their research, and more of a contribution than you likely make. Inferior troll is inferior.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably due to NASA project arcs and development cycles being longer than the usual politician's, and certainly president's, stay in office. Everyone has their own opinions about what NASA should do, and they get funding accordingly.
Well, I generally prefer to vote for those in favor of extending NASA's budget, but in reality, I haven't donated much besides my vote. After I've got the necessary education, though, I'd like to work there assuming it's still relevant to space travel.
Blame the MSM for that, most americans I know are pitifully misinformed.
Er- I support NASA, but I think you seem very misinformed about them, and the advancement of certain electronic technologies in particular.Television was available, albeit expensive, in one form or another since before the great depression, 30+ years before nasa was even formed. MP3 technology was created by a private company, as were cellphones which were initially developed in the conventional military (world war two bag/case radios and stuff). I would have picked more basic and credible technologies, miniaturized electronics, heavily ruggedized electronics, better computers in general, and I'm thinking that the apollo guidance computer was one of the first few using transistor based integrated circuits instead of the then normal vacuum tubes, so you can thank them for that too. Basically if not for NASA, many of our computer products might have been stunted in development, non-portable and fragile as they were in the 60's and 70's, today, but don't credit them with something they had no involvement in, e.g. MP3 players.
Depressingly, yes, at least 10-30% of the people I know are highly religious to the point of young earth creationism (though the actual percentage is probably much higher as I usually avoid the religious nuts). As for the space program, hopefully china will replace the USSR as far as a political contest in space goes, or private companies will take over and prices will be low, but I doubt either of those is going to happen. As is, in a few decades china might have a soaring space program while the US is in crushing debt.
Well, the shining examples of the US are already not "shuttle powered", Cassini-Huygens launched on a titan, the rovers launched on a delta II heavy, as did messenger, and deep space 1 (first ship with an ion drive), and many more. The shuttle? The ISS though parts are Russian, and it's an international effort. Galileo, too, but not much recently.
I oppose a position that someone else takes- that means I oppose positions and free speech? Interesting....
Block politics then. *shrug*
I do believe that the majority of americans, myself included, support space travel and exploration. If you don't like your tax money funding that, move to another nation that doesn't do research (as that's what you seem to be against). Good luck. Also, you'll have to check all your nasa created technology at the gate.
Which would be out of patent protection if the interface was in fact, patented.
Yeah yeah, I'm not saying piracy is right (though for the purposes of screwing the bastards at the RIAA/MPAA out of money, it is), but comcast is one of the ISPs more notorious for monitoring and shaping traffic, and though they all do it to some degree, comcast goes "above and beyond".
Thank you. That is all.
United states.
Comcast, why am I not surprised?
Plenty of decent FPS engines free in linux anyway, darkplaces, whatever powers warsow, etc.
Just looked it up out of curiosity. The pirate bay has an alexa ranking of 87, so assuming they mean most popular, ironically yes.
Genius! Tell me where the ISP you speak of is! Where I live, I've got two choices and most people don't have that many.
Not a problem. I might be wrong though- I can't remember if it was based on gnome shell or gnome 3 fall back mode. I don't use docks anymore, but I believe I have used GLX dock with xfce in the past. Either way, gnome 2 is not coming back, so it's a good thing to look at alternatives.
Mint would be perfect for you. Everything you just asked for, plus full ubuntu package and ppa compatibility. 11 though, not debian edition.