It is not an Ad Hominem falacy to point out that the person in question posts many negative nuclear related articles.
From your own quote:
"An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument."
It would be ad-hom to say "ignore this because mdsolar has bad morals". It is not ad-hom to say "beware, mdsolar is obsessed with nuclear energy".
I can see how you can claim that nuclear (or any other electricity generation method) can't fix everything, but to claim it can't fix anything is wierd.
The problem with this is that failing to attack terrorists who hide among civilians give terrorists greater incentive to hide among civilians.
What makes you think that "terrorists" and "civilians" are disjoint sets? Al-Q don't "hide among civilians", they live with their friends, family and neighbours.
The energy trap has closed. 40 years ago was the time to act.
That would only be true if it would take more that 40 years to replace all of a countries electricity generation by nuclear.
And we know that's not true, it can be done in 26 years.
(In 1974 France decided that it would transition to nuclear for electricity generation. The first new reactor came online end 1981, the last of 58 came online in 2000).
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Don't tell the fundies that, maybe they'd stop breathing.
Uh, hang on a minute, let me rephrase that... ... Please tell the fundies that, with luck they'll stop breathing.
Well, it depends.
If you go many-worlds then the cat is both alive and dead - but in the world were you are, yes, it's either alive or dead.
Let's just bear in mind the old saying, "A camel is a horse designed by committee."
Which would you rather have in a desert? That comittee must have been pretty good.
Not only irrelevant, but wrong.
Mesa
What, you mean this isn't about Black Mesa?
it could also be used to get rid of the plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons, too.
Hell, even a crappy Fukushima style BWR can burn plutonium, you don't need no fancy molten salt stuff for that.
A hundred years is a good estimate of a practical upper limit before a concrete and steel structure has serious problems.
Steel maybe, but we have concrete structures up to 2000 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome
Are you Dutch?
Cause they always be whining about belgians...
(Stupid ) Flanders is Dutch Belguim so great recursion if poster is
Well, France regards Wallonia, Francophone Belgium, as its retarded cousin, so I can imagine that Holland feels the same about Flanders.
It is not an Ad Hominem falacy to point out that the person in question posts many negative nuclear related articles.
From your own quote:
"An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument."
It would be ad-hom to say "ignore this because mdsolar has bad morals". It is not ad-hom to say "beware, mdsolar is obsessed with nuclear energy".
Why do we care what she thinks?
Because serfs should know what their hereditary rulers think.
You'll know it's all over when you hear of the first Bush/Clinton intermarriage.
Do you think the mother would have been able to live with herself, knowing her baby was gone and could have been saved?
Yes.
You know fuck all about people. People can "live with themselves" after all sorts of shit.
It's as dumb as asking "will the child be able to live with itself knowing it killed its mother".
Yup, because countries with significantly less governement intrusion, like France and the UK have much lower health care costs.
Did I make some mistake here?
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
-- George E. P. Box
You might like to read the thread you're replying to:
how long it takes to build nukes,
We know that:
Decision: 6/3/1974 ...
Fessenheim 1: 12/1979 ( 6 years)
Fessenheim 2: 3/1978
Civaux 2: 2000 (26 years to build enough reactors for 80% of electricity generation).
Thorium can be, and has been, burned in PWR's.
I can see how you can claim that nuclear (or any other electricity generation method) can't fix everything, but to claim it can't fix anything is wierd.
So we should drone 'em all.
Sorry, I have a functional air defense system.
The problem with this is that failing to attack terrorists who hide among civilians give terrorists greater incentive to hide among civilians.
What makes you think that "terrorists" and "civilians" are disjoint sets? Al-Q don't "hide among civilians", they live with their friends, family and neighbours.
I can't imagine that killing off AQ leaders doesn't hurt them some
Argument from incredulity.
Who cares what you can or cannot imagine. Does it work is the question.
Strategic bombing involves a beatable enemy with clearly definable material & infrastructure.
And has never worked even under those conditions.
And those same Green fucktards have no problem with burning increasing amounts of filthy brown coal.
Do they have any viable long term plans to deal with the waste from that? Do they fuck as like.
Die Grünen - the worst thing to happen to the environment ever.
Reprocessing. This is France, not the USA.
You can't save everyone.
So don't bother trying to save anyone, That makes things easier.
Do you have a donkey phobia?
Arseholes, not assholes.
Sorry, braino, the first came online in end 1977, (Fessenheim), not 1981.
Decide go nuke in 1974, first working plant December 1977, second March 1978, tell that to the kids of today.
The energy trap has closed. 40 years ago was the time to act.
That would only be true if it would take more that 40 years to replace all of a countries electricity generation by nuclear.
And we know that's not true, it can be done in 26 years.
(In 1974 France decided that it would transition to nuclear for electricity generation. The first new reactor came online end 1981, the last of 58 came online in 2000).