Actually, my family is one that lost everything they had in hurricane Katrina. We lost two houses, they were covered by insurance. And the insurance company refused to pay.
The claim was made that if they paid out to all the people filing claims, they would not have enough money to cover future potential claims. And they got away with it.
Yucca Mountain is great if you enjoy enjoy throwing 98% of our fuel in a hole instead of using it.
Despite false claims of the threat of nuclear proliferation, feeder breeder reactors are vastly cheaper and more efficient than the current breed of wasteful reactors that have intentionally been crippled to allow the coal and gas industries to remain economically viable alternatives. And on the plus side, once fully used, the waste products from a feeder breeder reactor will burn out much faster and be safe within a couple hundred years instead of a couple thousand for the standard nuclear waste.
If anything we should be mining the nuclear waste depots and using them to feed the next generation of highly efficient and safe feeder-breeder reactors.
In the moons night sky, the earth is more than 4 times larger than the moon is in our sky. The earths albedo is also about 3 times higher than the moon. So "Earthshine" on the moon is about 12 times brighter than moonshine is on earth.
Effectively, the night time on the far side of the moon is about 12 moonshines darker than the near side.
If we built 10 thousand square miles of solar thermal power plants in the US southwest and a few hundred feeder-breeder reactors elsewhere, we could completely replace the low efficiency and high pollution electrical production of the US while expanding our capacity to be 2 or more times its current amount.
This would allow us to also switch over to grid powered electric rail lines and widespread use of economical electric cars. Even without dramatically improved battery technology, long distance private vehicles could become viable if a charging rail system was installed along interstates and major highways to allow short range EV to charge on the move.
The cost of the initial investment would be high (a few trillion) but over the course of a few decades it would easily pay for itself (assuming electrical rates similar to today).
I would note that was the BEST ford I ever had the opportunity to drive. I loved that car, the only reason I gave it up is that my girlfriend refused to ride with me and she kept worrying I would get pneumonia from the fumes/weather.
I also had a 1992 escort, my sister had a 1998 escort, my brother had a 2002 Tourus and a 2006 f150, my fiance's father had a 2000 escort, and I have had ample opportunity to drive 3 or 4 other ford trucks that my friends had.
In every case they were overpriced, prone to break down, had poor efficiency and horrible handling.
Let me tell you about the best ford I have ever owned. It was a Mark 1 escort rally car that was given to me for free while I was in college, i loved driving it and it was worth every penny.
It was however a death trap. I had to bolt the drivers seat to the frame because the floor board had rusted through and the plywood I put down wasn't stable enough, the drivers side door was held closed by a bungee chord and the exhaust vented directly into the cars cab so I had to drive with the windows down even in the rain.
I have comcast cable, and I was wondering how they plan on allowing me to monitor my usage so that I can regulate my own activity to below the 250G cap?
Have you priced a BMW truck lately? My Toyota truck has nearly 200k miles on it and it runs like a dream. For an investment significantly lower than anything I could get from BMW.
The only truck I have personal experience with that is comparable to the qaulity/cost of Toyota is Chevy. Ford is just a joke at this point. And I haven't had a Nissan yet, my Toyota has lasted too long to think about switching.
There is a much more accurate way to test this machine.
Give all test subjects instructions to act normally. Get their permission to use a taser and pepper spray on anyone who "tests positive". Give each test subject a sealed package and instruct them to look inside. Most of these packages are "normal", few of them are "terrorist". They are not allowed to reveal if they have the terrorist package.
Perform this test several times, issuing different packages each time. Make sure that the test subjects witness the taser/pepper-spraying of positives and false positives alike.
This would at least give a glimpse on how it would work in real life. No, I do not think this is actually a good idea, because people would grow to fear the false positive (with the exception of the odd true masochist), increasing their stress and making them more likely to test positive and receive punishment.
And in America a students freedom of speech is already covered by other laws as well. Like the first amendment and the preponderance of case law supporting it. And this ruling is in direct contradiction to this.
The natural limitations of ones rights end where the rights of another begin.
Shouting fire in theater is not protected speech because it endangers the lives of others. As for your sex offender example, that depends on the laws for such.
I am not arguing that it was OK for the child to do what she did. I am arguing that the school has no right to punish her for that. That is reserved for the child's parents and the findings of civil courts if defamation of character is pursued.
The purpose of school is to educate children, nothing else. Yes students have fucking rights, they are human beings. All humans have rights, and people like you are working very hard to change that by treating children like inanimate meat.
If students had no rights, schools would be permitted to use any means necessary to ensure a students compliance, including torture, murder and rape. This ideology that you spew is exactly what I was talking about when I said there is a movement to treat children as cattle so that they can be made ignorant of their rights and complacent with a fascist state.
What the hell? The last place I thought I would have to defend the first amendment is on slashdot.
A threat against another is a statement of intent to deprive others of their right to live. To lie under oath is to deny someone the right to justice. Both are crimes, both are denying someone else a right.
She has denied no one of any rights, she has committed no crime, her actions were completely outside the sphere of influence of the school.
Right now in America there is a homegrown movement in the public school systems to teach our children and young adults that their rights are meaningless and inconsequential, that their only value is in conformity, teaching them to live under the heel of a fascist state. And it fucking sickens me.
That may be the case, but a school district has no legal ability to sanction the child. Their only legal response could be to pursue for defamation of character in a civil court.
There are specific allowable responses. This is not one of them. A school has no business dealing with anything other than the education of students. If the principal chose to pursue civil litigation, that is a separate matter.
Freedom of speech does not mean being able to do anything you want, but it does mean being able to say anything you want.
If the principal decided to pursue civil action based on libel/slander, that is within his right. It is not within his right to arbitrarily punish a student for activities performed outside of school.
Minors have the right to pay taxes. Sales tax and income tax alike.
Anyone recall that saying "No taxation without representation"?
I am a Patriotic American. And I hate to see how far this nation has fallen. There is no issue here, she committed no crime. Therefore the only one with any right to sanction this child for her activities is her parents.
How about we stop using retarded 50 year old nuclear technology that only extracts 10% of the usable energy from nuclear fuel and throwing the rest away?
We could feed all our energy needs for centuries on feeder-breeder reactors. Not only this, but the final waste products of this process remain radioactive for only a few centuries vs thousands of years that conventional nuclear "waste" lasts. That makes the issue of disposing of nuclear waste vastly more simple.
I don't really promote 100% nuclear, closer to 50/50 feeder reactors and solar thermal power production. We don't really need to use any coal, gas or oil to power the grid at all. Hell we could even rid ourselves of fossil fuels for most transport as well if we invested in grid powered train tracks and charging rails for electric vehicles on the interstates and major highways.
This is all available on current technology, and it would cost vastly less than the mining, pumping, refining and foreign entanglement costs associated with limited fossil fuels. Why not take this step now? Instead of a hundred years from now when there will not be enough fossil fuels left to fight over. America and Europe were some of the first nations to go through the industrial revolution. Its time to pass the torch to the third world. Its time for us to move beyond industrialization. Its not just good for America, or Europe, its good for the entire world.
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Hell, I once had a dreams in C++ and assembly...
The C++ dream ended in a segmentation fault, the assembly dream ended with a stack overflow.
Actually, my family is one that lost everything they had in hurricane Katrina. We lost two houses, they were covered by insurance. And the insurance company refused to pay.
The claim was made that if they paid out to all the people filing claims, they would not have enough money to cover future potential claims. And they got away with it.
Yucca Mountain is great if you enjoy enjoy throwing 98% of our fuel in a hole instead of using it.
Despite false claims of the threat of nuclear proliferation, feeder breeder reactors are vastly cheaper and more efficient than the current breed of wasteful reactors that have intentionally been crippled to allow the coal and gas industries to remain economically viable alternatives. And on the plus side, once fully used, the waste products from a feeder breeder reactor will burn out much faster and be safe within a couple hundred years instead of a couple thousand for the standard nuclear waste.
If anything we should be mining the nuclear waste depots and using them to feed the next generation of highly efficient and safe feeder-breeder reactors.
Is the Pascagoula refinery back up and running? I remember when it blew up last summer.
actually, the dark side of the moon is more dark.
In the moons night sky, the earth is more than 4 times larger than the moon is in our sky. The earths albedo is also about 3 times higher than the moon. So "Earthshine" on the moon is about 12 times brighter than moonshine is on earth.
Effectively, the night time on the far side of the moon is about 12 moonshines darker than the near side.
hey... Thats my argument!
If we built 10 thousand square miles of solar thermal power plants in the US southwest and a few hundred feeder-breeder reactors elsewhere, we could completely replace the low efficiency and high pollution electrical production of the US while expanding our capacity to be 2 or more times its current amount.
This would allow us to also switch over to grid powered electric rail lines and widespread use of economical electric cars. Even without dramatically improved battery technology, long distance private vehicles could become viable if a charging rail system was installed along interstates and major highways to allow short range EV to charge on the move.
The cost of the initial investment would be high (a few trillion) but over the course of a few decades it would easily pay for itself (assuming electrical rates similar to today).
We already have programs that write themselves (within limits). They are rather useful in the field of AI.
nope, still available in MS. My girlfriend browses them regularly.
I would note that was the BEST ford I ever had the opportunity to drive. I loved that car, the only reason I gave it up is that my girlfriend refused to ride with me and she kept worrying I would get pneumonia from the fumes/weather.
I also had a 1992 escort, my sister had a 1998 escort, my brother had a 2002 Tourus and a 2006 f150, my fiance's father had a 2000 escort, and I have had ample opportunity to drive 3 or 4 other ford trucks that my friends had.
In every case they were overpriced, prone to break down, had poor efficiency and horrible handling.
Let me tell you about the best ford I have ever owned. It was a Mark 1 escort rally car that was given to me for free while I was in college, i loved driving it and it was worth every penny.
It was however a death trap. I had to bolt the drivers seat to the frame because the floor board had rusted through and the plywood I put down wasn't stable enough, the drivers side door was held closed by a bungee chord and the exhaust vented directly into the cars cab so I had to drive with the windows down even in the rain.
I have comcast cable, and I was wondering how they plan on allowing me to monitor my usage so that I can regulate my own activity to below the 250G cap?
Have you priced a BMW truck lately? My Toyota truck has nearly 200k miles on it and it runs like a dream. For an investment significantly lower than anything I could get from BMW.
The only truck I have personal experience with that is comparable to the qaulity/cost of Toyota is Chevy. Ford is just a joke at this point. And I haven't had a Nissan yet, my Toyota has lasted too long to think about switching.
If its anything like my New Years Eve Party, the question might be. Do you know who the mother is?
/facepalm/
Its not that kind of number.
its less like 999.999.999.999, its more like FF.FF.FF.FF.
There is a much more accurate way to test this machine.
Give all test subjects instructions to act normally. Get their permission to use a taser and pepper spray on anyone who "tests positive". Give each test subject a sealed package and instruct them to look inside. Most of these packages are "normal", few of them are "terrorist". They are not allowed to reveal if they have the terrorist package.
Perform this test several times, issuing different packages each time. Make sure that the test subjects witness the taser/pepper-spraying of positives and false positives alike.
This would at least give a glimpse on how it would work in real life. No, I do not think this is actually a good idea, because people would grow to fear the false positive (with the exception of the odd true masochist), increasing their stress and making them more likely to test positive and receive punishment.
And in America a students freedom of speech is already covered by other laws as well. Like the first amendment and the preponderance of case law supporting it. And this ruling is in direct contradiction to this.
Sounds just like Mississippi.
The natural limitations of ones rights end where the rights of another begin.
Shouting fire in theater is not protected speech because it endangers the lives of others. As for your sex offender example, that depends on the laws for such.
I am not arguing that it was OK for the child to do what she did. I am arguing that the school has no right to punish her for that. That is reserved for the child's parents and the findings of civil courts if defamation of character is pursued.
The purpose of school is to educate children, nothing else. Yes students have fucking rights, they are human beings. All humans have rights, and people like you are working very hard to change that by treating children like inanimate meat.
If students had no rights, schools would be permitted to use any means necessary to ensure a students compliance, including torture, murder and rape. This ideology that you spew is exactly what I was talking about when I said there is a movement to treat children as cattle so that they can be made ignorant of their rights and complacent with a fascist state.
What the hell? The last place I thought I would have to defend the first amendment is on slashdot.
A threat against another is a statement of intent to deprive others of their right to live. To lie under oath is to deny someone the right to justice. Both are crimes, both are denying someone else a right.
She has denied no one of any rights, she has committed no crime, her actions were completely outside the sphere of influence of the school.
Right now in America there is a homegrown movement in the public school systems to teach our children and young adults that their rights are meaningless and inconsequential, that their only value is in conformity, teaching them to live under the heel of a fascist state. And it fucking sickens me.
That may be the case, but a school district has no legal ability to sanction the child. Their only legal response could be to pursue for defamation of character in a civil court.
There are specific allowable responses. This is not one of them. A school has no business dealing with anything other than the education of students. If the principal chose to pursue civil litigation, that is a separate matter.
Freedom of speech does not mean being able to do anything you want, but it does mean being able to say anything you want.
If the principal decided to pursue civil action based on libel/slander, that is within his right. It is not within his right to arbitrarily punish a student for activities performed outside of school.
Parody is not libel nor slander. And it is not a crime. If so then every comedian in the world would be in jail.
Minors have the right to pay taxes. Sales tax and income tax alike.
Anyone recall that saying "No taxation without representation"?
I am a Patriotic American. And I hate to see how far this nation has fallen. There is no issue here, she committed no crime. Therefore the only one with any right to sanction this child for her activities is her parents.
How about we stop using retarded 50 year old nuclear technology that only extracts 10% of the usable energy from nuclear fuel and throwing the rest away?
We could feed all our energy needs for centuries on feeder-breeder reactors. Not only this, but the final waste products of this process remain radioactive for only a few centuries vs thousands of years that conventional nuclear "waste" lasts. That makes the issue of disposing of nuclear waste vastly more simple.
I don't really promote 100% nuclear, closer to 50/50 feeder reactors and solar thermal power production. We don't really need to use any coal, gas or oil to power the grid at all. Hell we could even rid ourselves of fossil fuels for most transport as well if we invested in grid powered train tracks and charging rails for electric vehicles on the interstates and major highways.
This is all available on current technology, and it would cost vastly less than the mining, pumping, refining and foreign entanglement costs associated with limited fossil fuels. Why not take this step now? Instead of a hundred years from now when there will not be enough fossil fuels left to fight over. America and Europe were some of the first nations to go through the industrial revolution. Its time to pass the torch to the third world. Its time for us to move beyond industrialization. Its not just good for America, or Europe, its good for the entire world.