These problems occur, when a country prouding itself to be the greatest, democratic nation on earth, breaks its own rules(like : not intruding on other nations Sovereignty), which lead to other nations breaking those same rules,... This empire is on its way out i fear, and the results won't be pretty.
WHAT ? I'm not ignorant i know everything, you insesitive clod ! prepare for a flame war ! seriously, even on/., you can't get many people to admit they don't know everything...
Yup. People have forgotten that nations have been created by the rich and powerful to keep us divided, and this keeps us from realizing there are still classes.
well actually, i use the title 'software archeologist' rather negatively... i resembles digging in the dirt.
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yeah, as a software archeologist myself, i can testify that old systems still need maintenance: new laws, changes in organization, new products,... that means that those old systems all need continuous 'fine-tuning' - no administrative program really is 'complete'; to make matters worse: those systems get more and more complex. While a complete rewrite could save money in the long run, in the short term this would be very costly.
so you're saying : let them leak ? dollars over health ? we only need ONE major accident. And NO REACTOR is 100% failsafe. NOTHING ever built by humans is 100% safe.
this sums up pretty nicely my problem with nuclear power in private hands: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7522712.stm "an increased pressure to deliver energy quickly" I translate that as "cut costs by taking some risks". The company won't pay for the result of a major incident, it will - as usual - be the government(=YOU AND ME) that cleans up after them.
building & demolishing costs - that are already built into the price of the
Oh really ? I suggest you look up which commercial electricity company build their own nuclear power plant. I'll wait till you find one. don't find one ? i suggest you correlate the countries with most nationalised electricity with countries with the most nuclear power. (hint : suez is only in recent years a private company... partially)
It's easy to get lower costs, when you're not counting everything, like health problems (look up where the nuclear fuel comes from...), waste disposal, building & demolishing costs...
1/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7522712.stm 2/ nothing ever build by humans is 100% safe. there's ALWAYS risk involved, this means that major nuclear power plants WILL happen do you really want to take risks with a nuclear power plant ? 3/ has there ever been a privately build nuclear power plant ? I'll answer that for ya : NO, because that costs a LOT of money, all powerplants have been payed for by the public through taxes. NEVER will a nuclear power plant be cost-ompetitive with wind/solar+hydrogen storage.
what planet are you from ? business means cutting expenses. never will i trust a nuke plant owned by a business if it isn't thoroughly checked by at least 2 different independent government institutions.
I don't think that's exclusive to France, we have about the same stuff in Belgium. You can even opt for a third method, where the waterheater and the electric heating(convector) are put on a circuit that is turned on and off remotely, with an even lower cost.
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"Rules" are window dressing to amuse the earnest and naive people who believe in them
That's all true, but when you keep shouting at the top of your lungs about those moral standards, you're a hypocrite
These problems occur, when a country prouding itself to be the greatest, democratic nation on earth, breaks its own rules(like : not intruding on other nations Sovereignty), which lead to other nations breaking those same rules, ... This empire is on its way out i fear, and the results won't be pretty.
compare : 40000+ deaths on US roads. on avergae, in the last 10 years, there where only 400 terror-victims, That's only 1% of that number ...
recognizing one's own ignorance
WHAT ? I'm not ignorant i know everything, you insesitive clod ! prepare for a flame war ! /., you can't get many people to admit they don't know everything ...
seriously, even on
you can go driving on a circuit, where your inferior(=human) driving skills can't do much damage.
Yup. People have forgotten that nations have been created by the rich and powerful to keep us divided, and this keeps us from realizing there are still classes.
second that. And he comes the 6th of december, not the 25th...
that means the US has Antarctica for itself? seeing they use international treaties as toilet paper?
so I had to have data in the table I was trying to insert into in order to be able to insert into it. How they managed that is totally beyond me
I'm not into the specifics of oracle, but can't you insert the rows in those tables in 1 'transaction'?
COBOL was an exemplar of structured programming
not the pieces of software i got to see ...
Rewriting software should always be the last resort.
not if you could go from COBOL to a language that supports classes, or even just more modularity would be great ...
well actually, i use the title 'software archeologist' rather negatively ... i resembles digging in the dirt.
yeah, as a software archeologist myself, i can testify that old systems still need maintenance: new laws, changes in organization, new products,... that means that those old systems all need continuous 'fine-tuning' - no administrative program really is 'complete'; to make matters worse: those systems get more and more complex. While a complete rewrite could save money in the long run, in the short term this would be very costly.
this is why self-regulation does not work!!
so you're saying : let them leak ? dollars over health ? we only need ONE major accident. And NO REACTOR is 100% failsafe. NOTHING ever built by humans is 100% safe.
this sums up pretty nicely my problem with nuclear power in private hands:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7522712.stm
"an increased pressure to deliver energy quickly" I translate that as "cut costs by taking some risks". The company won't pay for the result of a major incident, it will - as usual - be the government(=YOU AND ME) that cleans up after them.
building & demolishing costs - that are already built into the price of the
Oh really ? I suggest you look up which commercial electricity company build their own nuclear power plant. I'll wait till you find one. don't find one ? i suggest you correlate the countries with most nationalised electricity with countries with the most nuclear power. (hint : suez is only in recent years a private company ... partially)
It's easy to get lower costs, when you're not counting everything, like health problems (look up where the nuclear fuel comes from ...), waste disposal, building & demolishing costs ...
1/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7522712.stm
2/ nothing ever build by humans is 100% safe. there's ALWAYS risk involved, this means that major nuclear power plants WILL happen
do you really want to take risks with a nuclear power plant ?
3/ has there ever been a privately build nuclear power plant ? I'll answer that for ya : NO, because that costs a LOT of money, all powerplants have been payed for by the public through taxes. NEVER will a nuclear power plant be cost-ompetitive with wind/solar+hydrogen storage.
business = taking risks
as long as they're operating safely.
what planet are you from ? business means cutting expenses. never will i trust a nuke plant owned by a business if it isn't thoroughly checked by at least 2 different independent government institutions.
climate change cultists
What is YOUR explanation for the fact that the avg global temperatures are rising while solar activity has been going down?
nuclear plants
Private or public ?
yes, and let our children clean up our mess.
I don't think that's exclusive to France, we have about the same stuff in Belgium. You can even opt for a third method, where the waterheater and the electric heating(convector) are put on a circuit that is turned on and off remotely, with an even lower cost.