Earthquake - Tsunami, is done and over. All though many are off course still homeless and suffering in one way or another. Fukushima is ongoing, maybe the news reflects this?
As someone living in Japan and relatively close to Fukushima. I can tell you no one here has forgotten about the tsunami and the earthquake, it will be something that will live in our memories forever.
But even though the earth quake damaged my own house, and almost destroyed the neighboring house of my parents in law, my main worry right now is about the nuclear power plants in Fukushima, about whether or not the food is safe for my children. What kind of dose they received during the first couple of days after the accident. What they inhale when the wind is blowing up dust from the fields. And I although I am no nuclear physicist, I do work with several of them, and I have a decent understanding of the issues.
The earth quakes, you learn to live with when you live here. The nuclear accidents, not so much.
What every your opinon about nuclear power in general, the style of government in this country combined with the work culture of never questioning anything and the population accepting anything authorities tell them as truth without question, makes this country highly unsuitable for nuclear power generation, much more so than the tsunamis and earth quakes.
I lived in Europe close enough to the Chernobyl accident when it happened that we had to think about what was safe to eat and not when I grew up. I had hoped my children would not have to experience the same thing. But humans sure like to screw things up. -- If my comment didn't sound as good in your head as it did in mine, then I guess we all know who's to blame
Earthquake - Tsunami, is done and over. All though many are off course still homeless and suffering in one way or another. Fukushima is ongoing, maybe the news reflects this?
As someone living in Japan and relatively close to Fukushima. I can tell you no one here has forgotten about the tsunami and the earthquake, it will be something that will live in our memories forever.
But even though the earth quake damaged my own house, and almost destroyed the neighboring house of my parents in law, my main worry right now is about the nuclear power plants in Fukushima, about whether or not the food is safe for my children. What kind of dose they received during the first couple of days after the accident. What they inhale when the wind is blowing up dust from the fields. And I although I am no nuclear physicist, I do work with several of them, and I have a decent understanding of the issues.
The earth quakes, you learn to live with when you live here. The nuclear accidents, not so much.
What every your opinon about nuclear power in general, the style of government in this country combined with the work culture of never questioning anything and the population accepting anything authorities tell them as truth without question, makes this country highly unsuitable for nuclear power generation, much more so than the tsunamis and earth quakes.
I lived in Europe close enough to the Chernobyl accident when it happened that we had to think about what was safe to eat and not when I grew up. I had hoped my children would not have to experience the same thing. But humans sure like to screw things up.
Some of the negative comments on this post, has made me realize that I probably need to clarify my intended meaning somewhat.
As a power user, the last thing I need is for my desktop to try to be 'cool'.
It should help me perform the basic tasks of starting and managing running applications. It should be light weight and customizable.
So by trying to be 'cool' Unity alienates the power user community. And then by taking away the possibilities to customize it makes them install something else.
The compounds are so complex that their chemical structures resemble the makeup of coal and petroleum, the study's lead author Sun Kwok, of the University of Hong Kong, said.
Well I did not know that.
But in Japan (and large parts of the world), reprocessed Fuel is used for sure.
Also it looks like you may have missed some news sleeping off your hangovers.
Quoting wikipedias article about nuclear reprocessing:
President Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, but did not provide the substantial subsidy that would have been necessary to start up commercial reprocessing.[8]
In March 1999, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reversed its own policy and signed a contract with a consortium of Duke Energy, COGEMA, and Stone & Webster (DCS) to design and operate a Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility. Site preparation at the Savannah River Site (South Carolina) began in October 2005.[9][10]
Then again, many communities will oppose Plants running on MOX.
I should perhaps have mentioned this in my previous post.
But the Tokai Mura Criticality accident did not take place on the premises of the power plant. But rather in a Reprocessing plant on the other end of the village(inland), which was operated by JCO (previous JNFC). The entities are officially not connected, but their close proximity, the fact that they were under the same watch dog organizations. And they are all part of the "nuclear village" (Basically the brotherhood of all organizations that have anything to do with nuclear in Japan, holding each others backs). This all means that in the public eyes they are all the same.
Many believe that it is just TEPCO failing here, but the entire "nuclear village" (the term is used in daily language, it is not tin foil) has had a long history of lying an deceiving and screwing up badly.
It is not that easy.
Reactor no2 in Tokai mura came closer to disaster than anyone wants to admit. Two pumps may have survived, but only one generator (out of three) was working. Had it failed, the result would likely have been similar to Fukushima.
That being said. It is my impression (as someone living in the vicinity) that Japan Atomic Power is running things a lot more responsibly than TEPCO. But then again the TM power plants used to be under direct control of JAEA, and JAP was created only when JAEA came under some heavy criticism after earlier incidents.
It may have survived, but it did so hanging on by a hair. The article only mentions the pumps, but in fact two of the three diesel generators were also out of order. Which means this could easily have turned real bad really fast.
Quoting Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC5%8Dkai_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Incidents
Following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami the number 2 reactor was one of eleven nuclear reactors nationwide to be shut down automatically.[4] It was reported on 14 March that a cooling system pump for the number 2 reactor had stopped working.[5] Japan Atomic Power Company stated that there was a second operational pump and cooling was working, but that two of three diesel generators used to power the cooling system were out of order.[6]
Also it remains to see if the reactor will survive politically. The Mayor of Tokai Mura has called on the government to decommission the number 2 reactor which is over 30 years old. There is a population of over one million people living within a 30km radius of the plant. And they have lost their confidence in the governments ability to safely run the plant. The well known Tokai Mura critically accidents a number of years ago probably didn't do much to boost their confidence either.
Sad as it may seem, we may be the most civilized/advanced species in the universe.
I think it is much more likely that we are somewhere in the mediocre middle of a bell curve. That is somehow where I always turn out to be anyways.
I think our best bet is that someone from the more intelligent slope of the curve has already invented space/time travel and want to trade technology it for earth mud.
Unfortunately it is all going to lead to war, as their one-click technology for starting the space ship violates earth patents.
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It's why we don't have operating systems written in perl.
Phineas: Ferb, I think I know what we're going to do today!
Earthquake - Tsunami, is done and over. All though many are off course still homeless and suffering in one way or another. Fukushima is ongoing, maybe the news reflects this?
As someone living in Japan and relatively close to Fukushima. I can tell you no one here has forgotten about the tsunami and the earthquake, it will be something that will live in our memories forever.
But even though the earth quake damaged my own house, and almost destroyed the neighboring house of my parents in law, my main worry right now is about the nuclear power plants in Fukushima, about whether or not the food is safe for my children. What kind of dose they received during the first couple of days after the accident. What they inhale when the wind is blowing up dust from the fields. And I although I am no nuclear physicist, I do work with several of them, and I have a decent understanding of the issues.
The earth quakes, you learn to live with when you live here. The nuclear accidents, not so much.
What every your opinon about nuclear power in general, the style of government in this country combined with the work culture of never questioning anything and the population accepting anything authorities tell them as truth without question, makes this country highly unsuitable for nuclear power generation, much more so than the tsunamis and earth quakes.
I lived in Europe close enough to the Chernobyl accident when it happened that we had to think about what was safe to eat and not when I grew up. I had hoped my children would not have to experience the same thing. But humans sure like to screw things up.
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If my comment didn't sound as good in your head as it did in mine, then I guess we all know who's to blame
Earthquake - Tsunami, is done and over. All though many are off course still homeless and suffering in one way or another. Fukushima is ongoing, maybe the news reflects this? As someone living in Japan and relatively close to Fukushima. I can tell you no one here has forgotten about the tsunami and the earthquake, it will be something that will live in our memories forever. But even though the earth quake damaged my own house, and almost destroyed the neighboring house of my parents in law, my main worry right now is about the nuclear power plants in Fukushima, about whether or not the food is safe for my children. What kind of dose they received during the first couple of days after the accident. What they inhale when the wind is blowing up dust from the fields. And I although I am no nuclear physicist, I do work with several of them, and I have a decent understanding of the issues. The earth quakes, you learn to live with when you live here. The nuclear accidents, not so much. What every your opinon about nuclear power in general, the style of government in this country combined with the work culture of never questioning anything and the population accepting anything authorities tell them as truth without question, makes this country highly unsuitable for nuclear power generation, much more so than the tsunamis and earth quakes. I lived in Europe close enough to the Chernobyl accident when it happened that we had to think about what was safe to eat and not when I grew up. I had hoped my children would not have to experience the same thing. But humans sure like to screw things up.
Some of the negative comments on this post, has made me realize that I probably need to clarify my intended meaning somewhat.
As a power user, the last thing I need is for my desktop to try to be 'cool'.
It should help me perform the basic tasks of starting and managing running applications. It should be light weight and customizable.
So by trying to be 'cool' Unity alienates the power user community. And then by taking away the possibilities to customize it makes them install something else.
Unity is too cool for power users?
Is that some new brand of wooden peg legs?
You mean, she knows I'm down here?
My mom pays for all basement electricity, you insensitive clod!
So if I understand this correctly. If I were to copy , (using the cp or copy command) some copyrighted files from friends PC to my USB.
That would be mere cloning / copyright infringement?
While if I were to use the mv or move command that would be stealing?
OK, got it. Thanks.
Not really.
It prevented me from posting "First Post!!! suckers!!!" and instead post something semi-meaningful.
So it turns out, pirating is stealing after all?
Free Gas, Next station 200 light years?
Slashdot just cooked me up a fresh batch of mod points. Even says "Use 'em or loose 'em!" right there next to the announcement. ;-)
Meanwhile, just as in real life, philosophers are starving to death.
No they wouldn't, because there is a limited amount of forks you see. Haven't you ever heard about Dijkstra's dining philosophers problem?
I find myself strangely lost for words, yet somehow I am posting this.
Oh if only I hadn't spent all my mod points on women, wine and music.
But in Japan (and large parts of the world), reprocessed Fuel is used for sure.
Also it looks like you may have missed some news sleeping off your hangovers. Quoting wikipedias article about nuclear reprocessing:
President Reagan lifted the ban in 1981, but did not provide the substantial subsidy that would have been necessary to start up commercial reprocessing.[8] In March 1999, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reversed its own policy and signed a contract with a consortium of Duke Energy, COGEMA, and Stone & Webster (DCS) to design and operate a Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility. Site preparation at the Savannah River Site (South Carolina) began in October 2005.[9][10]
Then again, many communities will oppose Plants running on MOX.
regarding no 4. Do you think fuel is not reprocessed today?
I should perhaps have mentioned this in my previous post. But the Tokai Mura Criticality accident did not take place on the premises of the power plant. But rather in a Reprocessing plant on the other end of the village(inland), which was operated by JCO (previous JNFC). The entities are officially not connected, but their close proximity, the fact that they were under the same watch dog organizations. And they are all part of the "nuclear village" (Basically the brotherhood of all organizations that have anything to do with nuclear in Japan, holding each others backs). This all means that in the public eyes they are all the same. Many believe that it is just TEPCO failing here, but the entire "nuclear village" (the term is used in daily language, it is not tin foil) has had a long history of lying an deceiving and screwing up badly.
It is not that easy. Reactor no2 in Tokai mura came closer to disaster than anyone wants to admit. Two pumps may have survived, but only one generator (out of three) was working. Had it failed, the result would likely have been similar to Fukushima. That being said. It is my impression (as someone living in the vicinity) that Japan Atomic Power is running things a lot more responsibly than TEPCO. But then again the TM power plants used to be under direct control of JAEA, and JAP was created only when JAEA came under some heavy criticism after earlier incidents.
Quoting Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC5%8Dkai_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Incidents
Following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami the number 2 reactor was one of eleven nuclear reactors nationwide to be shut down automatically.[4] It was reported on 14 March that a cooling system pump for the number 2 reactor had stopped working.[5] Japan Atomic Power Company stated that there was a second operational pump and cooling was working, but that two of three diesel generators used to power the cooling system were out of order.[6]
Also it remains to see if the reactor will survive politically. The Mayor of Tokai Mura has called on the government to decommission the number 2 reactor which is over 30 years old. There is a population of over one million people living within a 30km radius of the plant. And they have lost their confidence in the governments ability to safely run the plant. The well known Tokai Mura critically accidents a number of years ago probably didn't do much to boost their confidence either.
I kind of see where you are going with this. But then, what is a 'tronomer'?
Sad as it may seem, we may be the most civilized/advanced species in the universe.
I think it is much more likely that we are somewhere in the mediocre middle of a bell curve. That is somehow where I always turn out to be anyways.
I think our best bet is that someone from the more intelligent slope of the curve has already invented space/time travel and want to trade technology it for earth mud.
Unfortunately it is all going to lead to war, as their one-click technology for starting the space ship violates earth patents.
They don't even need to look in the referer, the search terms are encoded in the outgoing URL from google.
Look here, I did a search for slashdot anonymous coward on google.
The outgoing URL of the first result looks like this (notice the 'q=slashdot+anonymous+coward'):
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=slashdot+anonymous+coward&pbx=1&oq=slashdot+ano&aq=1&aqi=g3g-v1&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=0l0l2l80l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=83772172fe6f82d1&biw=1840&bih=990
So technically I don't see how this would be affected by changing to https.