Not really. The facts are on the side of the pro-nuclear groups. We can SOLVE the nuclear waste issue by building more nuclear plants...
If we build a modern generation of feeder-breeder reactors that are something close the 97-99 times more efficient than the old breed and can consume previously generated nuclear waste as fuel.
USM (University of Southern Mississippi) strongly supports linux. The default student userspace is hosted on linux (until recently you had to ssh into a shell account to check your campus email, they now have a web interface as well). The CS departments higher classes generally require the use of linux as a programming environment (more specifically ssh shell accounts into the CS departments server). As for IT support for linux desktops/laptops? I am not sure, but all the CS computer labs dual boot into SUSE and win xp when I was last there.
Scientology is not a religion because it is a for profit organization that provides "mental health services" to its paying members. Recall that believes that its counsel is an appropriate and even superior replacement for psychotherapy.
It also would not run on the not apple certified hardware running win xp that was the reference machine for everything else, so the comparison would be moot.
I have to agree. I am generally in favor of free and open source software. But MS exchange and the software ecosystem surrounding it is highly available, reliable, feature rich, painlessly scalable from a small operation up to hundreds of thousands or possibly even millions of users at a price point that almost any business can afford. Its one of microsofts best products, and there really isn't anything I have seen in any competitors that can meet, much less, beat Exchange at its game.
Hardly insightful. we have about an 11-13 trillion dollar economy, our current federal commitments are about 2-3 trillion. We have problems, but they are nothing close to what you claim.
any given point in earths orbit is completely inhabitable for most of the year as well. The only exception is when the earth is there. Earths moon lacks the mass to contain an atmosphere at its temperature.
A planet like jupiter or larger (as many such large planets have been found) in the "green" zone around a planet could easily have an earth sized moon orbiting it. That is what they are talking about when they mention habitable moons.
I am sure that not every school has them. I should note that the last high school I was in was in the state of Mississippi, one of the top states for obesity and one of the bottom states for education. That may throw some bias on this topic for me.
You learn something new every day. I had not known about that.
IQ typically varies by a large margin anyway. I don't really put much stock in it.
Its just MENSA has always been a pet peeve of mine, they use a deviation of 15 and yet claim test scores into the low 200s as if they were authoritative facts.
absolutely. Nothing says proper education like monetization of a captive audience with the twin addictions of caffeine and sugar... In public schools they now have vending machines and snack patrols for those who need candy in the five minutes between class, but don't have the athleticism required to walk all the way down the hall and back.
Don't forget nuclear. Be a fan of nuclear power if you want to be green. We need to start building new feeder/breeder reactors. They can use the waste of the previous generation of plants as fuel with a much reduced waste footprint. Combine that with the small area and resistance to adverse climate and it makes a good compliment for other "green" energy.
Wind IMO is not that great for large scale deployment, to unreliable. Though it would be quite acceptable over time for tasks that don't require constant power, such as water purification or hydrogen electrolysis.
I would rather legally install the latest Ubuntu than steal windows 7. If you steal windows 7, you are still supporting (even if only indirectly) the company that you feel ripped you off.
I would love to see your reference. Every math PHD and statistics lecturer I have ever heard mention the topic has said essentially the same as I did.
Those values may exist and may even be likely in a sufficiently large population. But they can not be measured with anywhere near the same confidence as the rest of the bell curve.
Quite possibly I am not as intelligent as I have been told. Wouldn't surprise me in the least. The spelling is a hereditary medical condition though, disgraphia. When writing I tend to start a word in the middle and finish the ends later, I sometimes even write upside down if I am not paying enough attention.
Very high values for IQ may be defined, but they are largely meaningless, and can not be effectively measured. Its hard enough to get a measure more accurate than non-functional, handicapped, slow, normal, smart, very smart or really very smart.
regardless of his intention (and yes there is evidence he was intenting to change term limits, see the ballot boxes stuffed with fake votes), it was illegal for him to have called for any referendum to change the constitution while in office. He had to be removed.
And yes, you are very much right about the constitution needing a provision to remove a criminal president from power. Sometimes even that is not enough, as the first 8 years of this century have shown in the US.
There are no IQ's "over 170" IQ is a statistical measure conforming to a standard bell curve with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Like all such measures, any value beyond 3 standard deviations is an outlier and can not be considered accurate.
My "MENSA ego stroking BS IQ for people stupid enough to pay to be told how smart they are" is 186, my real IQ is 143.
Quite frankly, I would have killed to have been in high school for 4 years. I only got to spend 6 months in high school before I was forced to quite and take my GED.
Except that the president himself violated the constitution, an act that called for his removal from power (even though a means of removal from power was not defined in the constitution). He did this to remove term limits and instill himself as president for life, subverting democracy in the process. Did you know that the referendum he called for had ballots stuffed with winning number of vote? Even though the referendum was never actually voted on? How about that the nations democratically elected congress and legitimate supreme court were the ones to call on the military to remove Zelaya for his crimes? The issue here is that the Honduran constitution was self contradictory, calling for removal of a president without a formal impeachment process.
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Not really. The facts are on the side of the pro-nuclear groups. We can SOLVE the nuclear waste issue by building more nuclear plants...
If we build a modern generation of feeder-breeder reactors that are something close the 97-99 times more efficient than the old breed and can consume previously generated nuclear waste as fuel.
USM (University of Southern Mississippi) strongly supports linux. The default student userspace is hosted on linux (until recently you had to ssh into a shell account to check your campus email, they now have a web interface as well). The CS departments higher classes generally require the use of linux as a programming environment (more specifically ssh shell accounts into the CS departments server). As for IT support for linux desktops/laptops? I am not sure, but all the CS computer labs dual boot into SUSE and win xp when I was last there.
I do not know if the latest version that the parent poster mentioned has a port to the windows version or not.
Scientology is not a religion because it is a for profit organization that provides "mental health services" to its paying members. Recall that believes that its counsel is an appropriate and even superior replacement for psychotherapy.
It also would not run on the not apple certified hardware running win xp that was the reference machine for everything else, so the comparison would be moot.
Wait a second, you and your girlfriend were testing out a new camera...
And you decided to take a picture of your face?
In the same situation, my girlfriend would have been nude within seconds.
I have to agree. I am generally in favor of free and open source software. But MS exchange and the software ecosystem surrounding it is highly available, reliable, feature rich, painlessly scalable from a small operation up to hundreds of thousands or possibly even millions of users at a price point that almost any business can afford. Its one of microsofts best products, and there really isn't anything I have seen in any competitors that can meet, much less, beat Exchange at its game.
indeed.
Hardly insightful. we have about an 11-13 trillion dollar economy, our current federal commitments are about 2-3 trillion. We have problems, but they are nothing close to what you claim.
any given point in earths orbit is completely inhabitable for most of the year as well. The only exception is when the earth is there. Earths moon lacks the mass to contain an atmosphere at its temperature.
A planet like jupiter or larger (as many such large planets have been found) in the "green" zone around a planet could easily have an earth sized moon orbiting it. That is what they are talking about when they mention habitable moons.
Sure you do. Of course we only have a few centuries of uranium already mined.
I am sure that not every school has them. I should note that the last high school I was in was in the state of Mississippi, one of the top states for obesity and one of the bottom states for education. That may throw some bias on this topic for me.
I would but my girlfriend wont let me!
You learn something new every day. I had not known about that.
IQ typically varies by a large margin anyway. I don't really put much stock in it.
Its just MENSA has always been a pet peeve of mine, they use a deviation of 15 and yet claim test scores into the low 200s as if they were authoritative facts.
absolutely. Nothing says proper education like monetization of a captive audience with the twin addictions of caffeine and sugar... In public schools they now have vending machines and snack patrols for those who need candy in the five minutes between class, but don't have the athleticism required to walk all the way down the hall and back.
Don't forget nuclear. Be a fan of nuclear power if you want to be green. We need to start building new feeder/breeder reactors. They can use the waste of the previous generation of plants as fuel with a much reduced waste footprint. Combine that with the small area and resistance to adverse climate and it makes a good compliment for other "green" energy.
Wind IMO is not that great for large scale deployment, to unreliable. Though it would be quite acceptable over time for tasks that don't require constant power, such as water purification or hydrogen electrolysis.
Well, since the goal is to retrofit existing coal plants to make them more efficient, it sounds good to me.
Though it is hardly a replacement for building new nuclear or fully solar thermal plants in the long run.
I would rather legally install the latest Ubuntu than steal windows 7. If you steal windows 7, you are still supporting (even if only indirectly) the company that you feel ripped you off.
I would love to see your reference. Every math PHD and statistics lecturer I have ever heard mention the topic has said essentially the same as I did.
Those values may exist and may even be likely in a sufficiently large population. But they can not be measured with anywhere near the same confidence as the rest of the bell curve.
Quite possibly I am not as intelligent as I have been told. Wouldn't surprise me in the least. The spelling is a hereditary medical condition though, disgraphia. When writing I tend to start a word in the middle and finish the ends later, I sometimes even write upside down if I am not paying enough attention.
Very high values for IQ may be defined, but they are largely meaningless, and can not be effectively measured. Its hard enough to get a measure more accurate than non-functional, handicapped, slow, normal, smart, very smart or really very smart.
no it wasn't. I maid sure to us a spiel cheek, it batter bee god. ;)
regardless of his intention (and yes there is evidence he was intenting to change term limits, see the ballot boxes stuffed with fake votes), it was illegal for him to have called for any referendum to change the constitution while in office. He had to be removed.
And yes, you are very much right about the constitution needing a provision to remove a criminal president from power. Sometimes even that is not enough, as the first 8 years of this century have shown in the US.
There are no IQ's "over 170" IQ is a statistical measure conforming to a standard bell curve with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Like all such measures, any value beyond 3 standard deviations is an outlier and can not be considered accurate.
My "MENSA ego stroking BS IQ for people stupid enough to pay to be told how smart they are" is 186, my real IQ is 143.
Quite frankly, I would have killed to have been in high school for 4 years. I only got to spend 6 months in high school before I was forced to quite and take my GED.
Except that the president himself violated the constitution, an act that called for his removal from power (even though a means of removal from power was not defined in the constitution). He did this to remove term limits and instill himself as president for life, subverting democracy in the process. Did you know that the referendum he called for had ballots stuffed with winning number of vote? Even though the referendum was never actually voted on? How about that the nations democratically elected congress and legitimate supreme court were the ones to call on the military to remove Zelaya for his crimes? The issue here is that the Honduran constitution was self contradictory, calling for removal of a president without a formal impeachment process.