A nuclear bomb has a mass of plutonium in the kilogram range. A nuclear reactor's fuel mass is in the 100-150 ton range. You are missing the difference between radiation and radionuclides.
You are missing the difference between nuclear bomb material and nuclear reactor fuel. Fuel in a nuclear reactor is of much lesser purity and cannot cause a nuclear explosion. The most that can happen is a chemical explosion and fire--in other words, what happened at Chernobyl. That that was a disaster that indeed caused deaths but overall wasn't even all that devastating even just to Ukraine, let alone the world at large.
Air travel can't wipe out the whole human race. An apocalyptic nuclear event can.
No, it can't. Stop being ridiculous. Chernobyl was about as bad as a nuclear accident could get, and it was bad, but it didn't come close to wiping out the human race. Hell, it didn't even wipe out the population of the city of Chernobyl, although it did make the city largely uninhabitable.
Their latest figures (2012, 2013) leave out Syria because it's undoubtedly impossible to get any kind of a count there at the moment (and that's why they didn't chart them). But if we assume as many people are dying in Syria as everyplace else combined, we still get a figure one-tenth the peak in the 1970s.
No idea where you get your ideas from.
Now you know. Where are you getting yours from seems to be the question.
Student debt. And student grants. When you pump more money into the demand for a good, the price of the good goes up as more supply is created. Basic econominics.
It's gambling with an illusion of having some control over the outcome, like the game of blackjack.
In reality, yes. But if it's classified as a game of chance, it'd be illegal under the online gambling laws. So the owners claim it's a game of skill. Since nobody's tried shutting it down, apparently the government agrees with them.
Illegal betting is not cheating (although it does encourage cheating), but match-fixing sure as hell is. Just because you haven't subverted the game program doesn't mean you're not cheating.
Or do you think that the employees at Consumer Reports spend their own private money for the products they review?? They need to buy all of them?
No, they spend Consumer Reports' money on all of them. Consumer Reports has a policy that they never accept vendor-funded review copies specifically to avoid this conflict of interest, and also to ensure that they in fact get the same product that's being shipped to customers.
I believe the latin phrase you're trying for is "panem et circenses", "bread and circuses", coined by the Roman poet Juvenal around 100 A.D.: "For the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions -- everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
Not likely. At any time, at any place, when people don't have to subsistence farm for a living, they don't. There's a reason for that: subsistence farming is back-breaking, monotonous toil that most people will do almost anything to escape.
I'd trust the Russians 1000%+ more than the US with the net.
Then you're a fool. The US wants to eavesdrop on everything said on the net, and that's bad. The Russians want to control what's said on the net, and that's worse.
No, it's not circular. I was referring mostly to "Social 'Justice' Warrior" part which the OP obviously (particularly with the scare quotes) regards as derogatory.
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I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!
I'm looking forward to Xenophobic Xylophone...
have an option for ignoring server updates if the time differential is too great.
You are missing the difference between nuclear bomb material and nuclear reactor fuel. Fuel in a nuclear reactor is of much lesser purity and cannot cause a nuclear explosion. The most that can happen is a chemical explosion and fire--in other words, what happened at Chernobyl. That that was a disaster that indeed caused deaths but overall wasn't even all that devastating even just to Ukraine, let alone the world at large.
No, it can't. Stop being ridiculous. Chernobyl was about as bad as a nuclear accident could get, and it was bad, but it didn't come close to wiping out the human race. Hell, it didn't even wipe out the population of the city of Chernobyl, although it did make the city largely uninhabitable.
And those links would be...?
Which doesn't mean it's wrong.
Nope. Not even close. See here for some people who have actually been toting up the numbers: http://www.undispatch.com/good...
Their latest figures (2012, 2013) leave out Syria because it's undoubtedly impossible to get any kind of a count there at the moment (and that's why they didn't chart them). But if we assume as many people are dying in Syria as everyplace else combined, we still get a figure one-tenth the peak in the 1970s.
Now you know. Where are you getting yours from seems to be the question.
Student debt. And student grants. When you pump more money into the demand for a good, the price of the good goes up as more supply is created. Basic econominics.
Is to wish really, really hard and think those good, positive thoughts.
I'm sure that will work out well for you.
In reality, yes. But if it's classified as a game of chance, it'd be illegal under the online gambling laws. So the owners claim it's a game of skill. Since nobody's tried shutting it down, apparently the government agrees with them.
Illegal betting is not cheating (although it does encourage cheating), but match-fixing sure as hell is. Just because you haven't subverted the game program doesn't mean you're not cheating.
Haven't you heard? Fantasy sports isn't gambling, it's a game of skill! *snerk*
No, they spend Consumer Reports' money on all of them. Consumer Reports has a policy that they never accept vendor-funded review copies specifically to avoid this conflict of interest, and also to ensure that they in fact get the same product that's being shipped to customers.
I believe the latin phrase you're trying for is "panem et circenses", "bread and circuses", coined by the Roman poet Juvenal around 100 A.D.: "For the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions -- everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
I am shocked! Shocked, i tell you!
"But it's different when it's us!"
Not likely. At any time, at any place, when people don't have to subsistence farm for a living, they don't. There's a reason for that: subsistence farming is back-breaking, monotonous toil that most people will do almost anything to escape.
For so thoroughly validating my decision not to upgrade to Windows 10.
Then you're a fool. The US wants to eavesdrop on everything said on the net, and that's bad. The Russians want to control what's said on the net, and that's worse.
Your local orchestra appears to have little idea how to price tickets. If they charged $2 and filled the hall, they'd make twice as much money.
Giggity giggity...
No, it's not circular. I was referring mostly to "Social 'Justice' Warrior" part which the OP obviously (particularly with the scare quotes) regards as derogatory.
I was speaking about the world at large, really. I know Slashdot's never had copyediting.
Oh, the irony.
"Ad hominem" means you hang a derogatory label on a person instead of refuting their assertions. Pop Quiz: What have you done in this statement?
Copyediting. It's a lost art.