rejected for Kansas public libraries by Attorney General Phill Kline's office:
* Alice In Chains, "Greatest Hits," "Live"
* Big Punisher, "Yeeeah Baby"
* Blink 182, "Cheshire Cat"
* Foxy Brown, "China Doll"
* Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting," "Classic Masters"
* Cypress Hill, "III," "Live at the Fillmore"
* Da Brat, "Unrestricted"
* Devo, "Pioneers Who Got Scalped"
* Heavy D, "Heavy"
* Jagged Edge, "JE Heartbreak"
* Live, "The Distance to Here"
* Mase, "Harlem World"
* NAS, "It Was Written," "Nastradamas"
* Notorious B.I.G., "Born Again"
* OutKast, "Aquemini," "Stankonia"
* Rage Against the Machine, "Renegades"
* Lou Reed, "Growing Up in Public," "Rock and Roll Heart," "Sally Can't Dance," "Walk on the Wild Side"
* Silver Chair, "Freak Show"
* Soul Asylum, "Candy From a Stranger," "Let Your Dim Light Shine"
* Stone Temple Pilots, "Tiny Lights: Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop"
* Toadies, "Hell Below"
* "Bad Boy Records Greatest Hits"
* The Wu-Tang Clan, "The W"
* Wyclef Jean, "The Carnival"
Since riders are already adding weight to their bikes to meet the minimum weight rules, perhaps they'll just integrate one of these with each of the team bikes.
udev has full devfs compatibility, but it does it in userspace.
Userspace is usually preferable to kernel space because it avoids bloat, it is simpler to write and maintain, and it greatly simplifies handling of a lot of exceptional cases.
Not only that, but devfs requires support from every driver in the kernel, which many driver writers consider cruft that they would rather get rid of if they do not need it.
Add to this the fact that devfs is not maintained and has known fixable and unfixable race conditions, and we end up with the desire to remove it in favor of udev.
Your fears are justified, I'd be lying if they weren't. All I ask is that, when trying to quantify the risks of nuclear power, you compare them to the well quantified risks of the source they would be replacing, namely coal.
It would be interesting if someone could give me hard data on the following questions:
Q) Which power source has put more long half-life radioactive material into the environment per megawatt over the last fifty years? I suspect that coal would win this one, even with the monumental screw-up of Chernobyl on the side of nuclear power. After all, there are a great number of near-1gW nuclear plants that have been putting no measurable radiation into the environment for decades, their only radiation "leakage" coming from uranium mine tailings.
Q) Which power source has done more environmental damage per megawatt in the last fifty years? Again, even with Chernobyl included, I'm certain that this one comes up against coal. Acid rain, CO2 output, coal mining, and degraded air quality greatly outweigh the environmental problems with nuclear power, namely localized warming of water habitats and uranium mining.
Q) Which power source has killed more people per megawatt in the last fifty years? Unfortunately this one cannot be quantified because of the impossibility of measurement of harmful effects at very low dosage levels. However the only deaths which I think can be attributable to nuclear power are those of Chernobyl (32 immediate, 1000-8000 long term), an early test reactor in the US which killed less than a dozen, and those deaths due to mine tailings (I am leaving out reactor-attributable deaths in nuclear submarines). I believe that these are far outweighed by the deaths of coal miners alone, not to mention the billions of people minutely affected by coal power effluent.
All in all, while I agree that nuclear power has greater potential risks, they are far far less likely, and end up being much less of a problem than the well documented and global risks of coal power.
This brings me around to my original point, that new advances made in the last 30 years since the US stopped building nuclear make it an even more attractive option, due to greater safety (default safe reactors) and less waste output (new reactor designs which re-process waste to extract more power).
I'm pretty sure that a 747 flying into a reactor containment vessel would result in a broken 747 and a scrammed (ie. inert) reactor. Is that the kind of damage you're talking about?
Of course, if we could build a modern reactor, it would be even safer, but I suppose you're one of those people against building newer, safer nuclear reactors.
Didn't you notice that the right hand lane is full of tractor trailers doing 55?
This is California, not Massachusetts. The right most lane on California freeway is not for normal traffic, it's the trucking/merging lane. If not de jure, then de facto.
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Hit reload, it's only one of many (I got The Onion the first time)
That's something like being in a religious argument and having Moses show up to argue your point, isn't it?
You don't actually turn your head, you just move your hide to each side.
I've had one for a few months, and it works great for flight sims (WWIIOL in my case).
Correct, the term for this is "positive void coefficient".
M: "Anyone have clay?"
E: "What do you have to trade?"
M: "... Sheep."
E: "..."
M: "... They dance!"
Apparently sheep are overrepresented because the original game was going to have ships for ports, which would require wood for sails.
The new installer can get debian installed in 11 keystrokes -- 10 of which are 'Enter'.
Rejected CDs
rejected for Kansas public libraries by Attorney General Phill Kline's office:
* Alice In Chains, "Greatest Hits," "Live"
* Big Punisher, "Yeeeah Baby"
* Blink 182, "Cheshire Cat"
* Foxy Brown, "China Doll"
* Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting," "Classic Masters"
* Cypress Hill, "III," "Live at the Fillmore"
* Da Brat, "Unrestricted"
* Devo, "Pioneers Who Got Scalped"
* Heavy D, "Heavy"
* Jagged Edge, "JE Heartbreak"
* Live, "The Distance to Here"
* Mase, "Harlem World"
* NAS, "It Was Written," "Nastradamas"
* Notorious B.I.G., "Born Again"
* OutKast, "Aquemini," "Stankonia"
* Rage Against the Machine, "Renegades"
* Lou Reed, "Growing Up in Public," "Rock and Roll Heart," "Sally Can't Dance," "Walk on the Wild Side"
* Silver Chair, "Freak Show"
* Soul Asylum, "Candy From a Stranger," "Let Your Dim Light Shine"
* Stone Temple Pilots, "Tiny Lights: Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop"
* Toadies, "Hell Below"
* "Bad Boy Records Greatest Hits"
* The Wu-Tang Clan, "The W"
* Wyclef Jean, "The Carnival"
It's a tragedy that this won't be modded funny.
And on the off chance that you're serious, don't use strncpy, since it doesn't terminate your strings if it hits the byte limit.
Personally, I'm a fan of snprintf(), and I think the last few decades of Unix would have been a lot safer had it existed in K&R stdio.
Since riders are already adding weight to their bikes to meet the minimum weight rules, perhaps they'll just integrate one of these with each of the team bikes.
udev has full devfs compatibility, but it does it in userspace.
Userspace is usually preferable to kernel space because it avoids bloat, it is simpler to write and maintain, and it greatly simplifies handling of a lot of exceptional cases.
Not only that, but devfs requires support from every driver in the kernel, which many driver writers consider cruft that they would rather get rid of if they do not need it.
Add to this the fact that devfs is not maintained and has known fixable and unfixable race conditions, and we end up with the desire to remove it in favor of udev.
Your fears are justified, I'd be lying if they weren't. All I ask is that, when trying to quantify the risks of nuclear power, you compare them to the well quantified risks of the source they would be replacing, namely coal.
It would be interesting if someone could give me hard data on the following questions:
Q) Which power source has put more long half-life radioactive material into the environment per megawatt over the last fifty years?
I suspect that coal would win this one, even with the monumental screw-up of Chernobyl on the side of nuclear power. After all, there are a great number of near-1gW nuclear plants that have been putting no measurable radiation into the environment for decades, their only radiation "leakage" coming from uranium mine tailings.
Q) Which power source has done more environmental damage per megawatt in the last fifty years?
Again, even with Chernobyl included, I'm certain that this one comes up against coal. Acid rain, CO2 output, coal mining, and degraded air quality greatly outweigh the environmental problems with nuclear power, namely localized warming of water habitats and uranium mining.
Q) Which power source has killed more people per megawatt in the last fifty years?
Unfortunately this one cannot be quantified because of the impossibility of measurement of harmful effects at very low dosage levels. However the only deaths which I think can be attributable to nuclear power are those of Chernobyl (32 immediate, 1000-8000 long term), an early test reactor in the US which killed less than a dozen, and those deaths due to mine tailings (I am leaving out reactor-attributable deaths in nuclear submarines). I believe that these are far outweighed by the deaths of coal miners alone, not to mention the billions of people minutely affected by coal power effluent.
All in all, while I agree that nuclear power has greater potential risks, they are far far less likely, and end up being much less of a problem than the well documented and global risks of coal power.
This brings me around to my original point, that new advances made in the last 30 years since the US stopped building nuclear make it an even more attractive option, due to greater safety (default safe reactors) and less waste output (new reactor designs which re-process waste to extract more power).
I'm pretty sure that a 747 flying into a reactor containment vessel would result in a broken 747 and a scrammed (ie. inert) reactor. Is that the kind of damage you're talking about?
Of course, if we could build a modern reactor, it would be even safer, but I suppose you're one of those people against building newer, safer nuclear reactors.
You're right, I can't imagine this ever happening on a NASA flight either.
"Virgil Grissom..."
... What's your middle name?"
"Gus."
"Gus?"
"Nobody calls me Virgil."
"Gus, we can't call you Gus!
"Ivan"
"..."
-- paraphrased from The Right Stuff
I had an air-raid siren in my front yard when I was growing up in Ventura, CA (1982).
Up in the Five Cities area they still use them as warning sirens for the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
Didn't you notice that the right hand lane is full of tractor trailers doing 55?
This is California, not Massachusetts. The right most lane on California freeway is not for normal traffic, it's the trucking/merging lane. If not de jure, then de facto.
No, if it were 99 he would have gone through Bakersfield a few seconds after the Grapevine (the point where the early hills disappear).
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oh shi
The first supersonic test was on December 17th, the 100th anniversary of powered flight.
This Monday will be April 12th, the anniversary of the first human spaceflight, and the first shuttle launch.
Perhaps we can expect a major milestone next Monday?
Have you tried w3m? I couldn't live without it.
I've got my money on April 12th, of course (anniversary of Yuri Gargarin's flight and the first US Space Shuttle launch).