But don't you think the oil and coal industries might not have something to do with anti-nuclear legislation as well? Bush and the Republican congress has had six years to wipe away regulations against new nuclear power plants, yet they still exist. Why is that, you think?
I think, they are simply picking their battles. Can't fight them all at once — Bush only tried for the Social Security reform last year, because he viewed the tax cuts as more important, for example.
The administration is pushing for freer trade now, spent months fighting over new Supreme Court justices, and has to defend itself against the spying allegations. As usual in government, the critical takes precedence over urgent:-(
Also, I'm not sure, the bulk of anti-nuclear power regulations are Federal, rather than by the States and towns, which would surely add extra difficulties to trying to break them for the Federal government.
And finally, even if the oil and coal industries are actively lobbying against the nuclear one, Greenpeace et. al sure helped them quite a bit. Which was my point...
There most people would die comparatively young, age fast and suffer from many nasty cancers and other diseases through their middle age.
Well, I grew up in Kyiv -- 100 miles away from Chernobyl. We were there when it blew up in April 1986, we were there for a few weeks afterwards. We returned in August and continued "normal" life until emmigrating in 1992. Your attribution of "most people" dying "comparitively young" to nuclear reactors is wrong.
The low life expectancy is due to poor medical care and the general collapse of Socialist economy. And, of course, the industrial pollution -- but not because of the nuclear power plants. Nuclear ones are far worse.
And Chernobyl disaster was due to a grossly mismanaged experiment. Safety devices kicked in, but were repeatedly turned off by the scientists... Nothing anywhere close happened in the developed world.
After all the worst case scenario for nuclear plants is much worse than one for coal. And all the safety assurances of nuclear plants really depend on people and people are not that dependable.
As another poster pointed out already in this thread, there is more pollution produced by all coal plants per year, than there was by all nuclear plants -- including accidents like Chernobyl. How much worse is the "worst case scenario" in your opinion?
it is not the fault of environmentalists which have been criticizing coal as well as nuclear.
It is. We need energy. We need lots of it. They should've been concentrating on the worst polluters, instead of on those that were easier targets of rallies and the chain-oneself-to-the-tracks stupidity.
If nuclear plants were truly low cost, they would be getting built without government subsidies.
I wonder, then, why do Chinese plan to build dozens of nuclear plants by 2020? Do they know something, you don't?
Perhaps, the main burden preventing new plants in the US is the unsurmountable amounts of red-tape imposed by the Greenpeace-influenced electorate and politicians? Coal-firing plants, meanwhile, are getting exemption from environmental regulations -- because someone has to keep the lights on and nuclear remains an anathema. (Coal, I guess, reminds people of stoves and steamships of the "good old" era.)
As for having effect on the oil itself, energy is largely a commodity. Less demand in one area increases supply in the others. See other posts in this thread.
Nuclear is currently used primarily for non transport energy so would have near zero impact on our oil
Electrical heating, electrical rail road engines, electrical cars would've made far more economic sense if electricity was as cheap and abundant as nuclear power can make it.
You need to include all costs for an accurate comparision, this site includes all costs
That's the point. Greenpeace's et al.'s passionate protests make the nuclear power's cost much higher financially. Even worse -- politically it was prohibitively expensive for decades.
Now that Chinese (no more willing to depend on foreign fuel suppliers, than us) are about to build dozens of new nuclear plants (Toshiba's main motivation for this purchase), the world is suddenly reconsidering...
Also, having an abundance of cheap electricity would've made things like plugin hybrids more economically sensible and, possibly, retired the diesel railroad engines.
The convenience of electric home heating (and hot-water) could've been much cheaper, freeing more oil and natural gas for the plastics.
If not for the hysterical campaigns against nuclear energy, we would not be having this awful dependency on oil and other grossly unhealthy fossil fuels...
It seriously set the nuclear power industry back, which is a shame. Old plants continue to operate, but new ones are very slow to appear. Safe and non-polluting technologies were available for decades and we are wising up to using them only now.
Well, entering a search engine market is easier, than that of web-browsers. Just look at Google's own progress. Ultimately, if the consumers notice, they don't find certain things with Google, they will try other search engines. As they say: "Competition is only a click away".
It would to me too, if Google were government, of which there can only be one.
But they aren't. As soon as they are seen as abusive, we wouldn't even need to wait for the next elections to "throw them out". Just switch to a different search engine...
Update your knowledge.
Java has concurrent GCs now that do not freeze the entire VM while being run.
The latest 1.4.2 still freezes the entire VM. I support a Java application for a living -- keep your evangelism to newbies...
May be, 1.5 will bring some wonderful improvements in this area, but so far it, apparently, has not -- see another response to your posting.
And I've never seen the GC go "out of whack" and hang permanently (though I've seen many apps do this due to poor thread/resource management).
Of course, anything GC does is triggered by the application, and some apps are better than others with resource management.
But the "you need not worry about memory management" was one of the top items in Java evangelism, and now the 'net is full of advice on how to manage memory in Java to avoid GC-related problems. Oops.
Some developers, though, continue to believe that "don't worry" hype. Hard to blame them, because without it, there are even fewer advantages to Java.
It wouldn't be hard to create a launcher that would run them all on the same virtual machine. Such a launcher would a candidate for the system integration you suggest. After all, if you needed to run Windows apps on your Linux box, you wouldn't run multiple instances of VMWare, would you?
Actually, a JVM is even less stable than Windows. It was not designed as a real OS. The garbage-collection, for example, will freeze the entire VM for as long as it needs to run -- and sometimes it goes out of whack and hangs permanently...
The algorithm's limbo has left libjpeg.so largely unmodified for a decade or so now. The most notable additions are the EXIF support and the addition of some more color-spaces in the version shipped by Sun inside Java's libjpeg.
What is sorely missing, though, is the way to crop and do 90, 180, 270 degree rotation without decoding/encoding (and thus without additional loss of quality). The jpegtran part of the free JPEG-distribution can do this, but the library itself remains too low-level and all graphics applications I know use the lossy decoding/encoding method.
Hopefully, once the patent-limbo is resolved, the "reference implementation" currently used by almost everybody will get some innovation into it. And I don't mind the patents themselves -- it is just this one's "we might decide to enforce it," that irks me.
He then truthfully answered that he did not have sexual relations with Lewinski because he did not have sexual intercourse with her.
"Truthfully answered"?! As in: "Truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"? Right. Sure. Seeing your appologist kind was rather sad back then, but today it is simply funny.
He lied. He lied (and obstructed justice), when he pretended to not know, what "having sex" means. He lied claiming to have had no "sexual relations" with her. I can fly to the Moon, you know -- for certain definitions of the words "Moon" and "fly", that is. And, of course, this lying helped him avoid conviction of the really disturbing crime of sexual harassment.
I hope you've learned your lesson about wikipedia.
What lesson? Clinton was impeached by Congress for perjury and Wikipedia mentions that fact.
The House of Representatives impeached Clinton for purely political reasons
The judge fined him for lying, and Arkansas Bar revoked his license for it. But they were all politicians -- according to you -- only the Senate was wise enough to rise above to the unspoilt hights of pure legalities. Ha-ha!
You know, you are out too early with this crap. Revisionists should wait at least 10 years before coming up with their "new and revised" versions of what happened. 20-30 is even safer, although with the life-expectancies growing, you may have to wait a little longer still.
Clinton broke NO laws. He got a blow job and then lied about it on TV, but neither are illegal.
In addition to lying about it on TV, which, indeed, was not illegal, he lied about it in a court deposition -- under oath. His crime was that of perjury (and the obstruction of justice), and Congress was absolutely correct in impeaching him. That Senate decided to allow him to stay — for political, rather than legal reasons — is another story.
Sorry, I'll go back to being a good complacent citizen until I have to risk my life instead of writing my congressmen after reading a newspaper article or two.
You'll be far more persuasive in your writings, if you avoid the stupid exaggerations like the one in subject.
but they don't salute the swastika, so they're obviously not bad guys.
They don't send millions of people to gas chambers either.
Interestingly, I mentioned three different real people-silencing regimes. But all the mouth-breathing responses — like yours — concentrated on one of them...
Just because the brownshirts don't patrol your street doesn't mean that your country is free. Read some Orwell for clues.
I read Zamyatin instead. I had to read it in samizdat. This new country of mine is free -- I can say that with more authority, than most of the US-bashers alive today.
Did he have to escape from a group of brownshirts in jackboots? Was he convicted as an enemy spy "attacking the Capitalist State and Social Order" and sent to a labor camp for 15 years? Perhaps, a fatwa was issued calling on the faithful to kill him?
No? None of that? Damn, this lousy government of ours. They can't even silence anyone!
It's an open question as to whether any purely domestic conversations have been tapped; the administration has claimed not, but there have been leaks to the opposite.
If the leaks were credible, you would've posted links, I'm sure. Until then, they are not purely domestic -- as my original posting suspected.
There are also serious questions as to whether results from the warrantless wiretaps were used to seek later FISA warrants without informing the judges [...]
That article can also be used to claim, "this administration seems to be trating brunettes as terrorists"... It is disturbing, that someone was (allegedly) arrested for taking down a license plate number, but, for some reason, the article did not bother to give the formal charge of the arrest.
Given the hysterics of some of the government-bashers, "the scepticism is warranted". Hopefully, the ACLU lawsuit will clear things out.
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How fast, you suppose, does an air liner pay for itself? An oil-exploration program? An Internet startup?
I think, they are simply picking their battles. Can't fight them all at once — Bush only tried for the Social Security reform last year, because he viewed the tax cuts as more important, for example.
The administration is pushing for freer trade now, spent months fighting over new Supreme Court justices, and has to defend itself against the spying allegations. As usual in government, the critical takes precedence over urgent :-(
Also, I'm not sure, the bulk of anti-nuclear power regulations are Federal, rather than by the States and towns, which would surely add extra difficulties to trying to break them for the Federal government.
And finally, even if the oil and coal industries are actively lobbying against the nuclear one, Greenpeace et. al sure helped them quite a bit. Which was my point...
The low life expectancy is due to poor medical care and the general collapse of Socialist economy. And, of course, the industrial pollution -- but not because of the nuclear power plants. Nuclear ones are far worse.
And Chernobyl disaster was due to a grossly mismanaged experiment. Safety devices kicked in, but were repeatedly turned off by the scientists... Nothing anywhere close happened in the developed world.
As another poster pointed out already in this thread, there is more pollution produced by all coal plants per year, than there was by all nuclear plants -- including accidents like Chernobyl. How much worse is the "worst case scenario" in your opinion? It is. We need energy. We need lots of it. They should've been concentrating on the worst polluters, instead of on those that were easier targets of rallies and the chain-oneself-to-the-tracks stupidity.Perhaps, the main burden preventing new plants in the US is the unsurmountable amounts of red-tape imposed by the Greenpeace-influenced electorate and politicians? Coal-firing plants, meanwhile, are getting exemption from environmental regulations -- because someone has to keep the lights on and nuclear remains an anathema. (Coal, I guess, reminds people of stoves and steamships of the "good old" era.)
As for having effect on the oil itself, energy is largely a commodity. Less demand in one area increases supply in the others. See other posts in this thread.
Now that Chinese (no more willing to depend on foreign fuel suppliers, than us) are about to build dozens of new nuclear plants (Toshiba's main motivation for this purchase), the world is suddenly reconsidering...
Also, having an abundance of cheap electricity would've made things like plugin hybrids more economically sensible and, possibly, retired the diesel railroad engines.
The convenience of electric home heating (and hot-water) could've been much cheaper, freeing more oil and natural gas for the plastics.
It seriously set the nuclear power industry back, which is a shame. Old plants continue to operate, but new ones are very slow to appear. Safe and non-polluting technologies were available for decades and we are wising up to using them only now.
Unlike — as was my point — with a government...
But they aren't. As soon as they are seen as abusive, we wouldn't even need to wait for the next elections to "throw them out". Just switch to a different search engine...
May be, 1.5 will bring some wonderful improvements in this area, but so far it, apparently, has not -- see another response to your posting.
Of course, anything GC does is triggered by the application, and some apps are better than others with resource management.But the "you need not worry about memory management" was one of the top items in Java evangelism, and now the 'net is full of advice on how to manage memory in Java to avoid GC-related problems. Oops.
Some developers, though, continue to believe that "don't worry" hype. Hard to blame them, because without it, there are even fewer advantages to Java.
What is sorely missing, though, is the way to crop and do 90, 180, 270 degree rotation without decoding/encoding (and thus without additional loss of quality). The jpegtran part of the free JPEG-distribution can do this, but the library itself remains too low-level and all graphics applications I know use the lossy decoding/encoding method.
Hopefully, once the patent-limbo is resolved, the "reference implementation" currently used by almost everybody will get some innovation into it. And I don't mind the patents themselves -- it is just this one's "we might decide to enforce it," that irks me.
While you are still energetic enough for these sort of things to genuinely bother you, you should quit and join a start-up.
But, of course, the hotter it gets, the more appropriate BSD becomes.
He lied. He lied (and obstructed justice), when he pretended to not know, what "having sex" means. He lied claiming to have had no "sexual relations" with her. I can fly to the Moon, you know -- for certain definitions of the words "Moon" and "fly", that is. And, of course, this lying helped him avoid conviction of the really disturbing crime of sexual harassment.
What lesson? Clinton was impeached by Congress for perjury and Wikipedia mentions that fact.The judge fined him for lying, and Arkansas Bar revoked his license for it. But they were all politicians -- according to you -- only the Senate was wise enough to rise above to the unspoilt hights of pure legalities. Ha-ha!
You know, you are out too early with this crap. Revisionists should wait at least 10 years before coming up with their "new and revised" versions of what happened. 20-30 is even safer, although with the life-expectancies growing, you may have to wait a little longer still.
Yuck...
It can be edited by everybody. Including the "Congressional staffers". Why is it "censorship"?
Interestingly, I mentioned three different real people-silencing regimes. But all the mouth-breathing responses — like yours — concentrated on one of them...
No? None of that? Damn, this lousy government of ours. They can't even silence anyone!
Given the hysterics of some of the government-bashers, "the scepticism is warranted". Hopefully, the ACLU lawsuit will clear things out.