A negative vote against a particular candidate cancels one vote for that candidate. This levels the playing field for 3rd party candidates because a significant portion of people voting democrat or republican are not voting explicitly for their party, but rather against a party they can not tolerate.
This year, I am not voting for Obama, rather I am voting against McCain. Unfortunately my vote does not count either way because I live in a red state. I have no say at all in the choice for president due to the electoral college system unless I move to one of the few contested states. Some fucking democracy.
As a patriotic American, I wish that were still the case. Unfortunately, I weep, because I see that this is where we as a nation are going.
I can only hope that the EFF and other patriots succeeds in the good fight and holds back the darkness. But I fear that our tyrants will do to little bleeding, and our patriots too much to keep the tree of liberty alive.
I've done over 35 on a crappy wal-mart bike on a strait level road. Unfortunately there was a pile of wet leaves I didn't notice till it was too late. Time really does seem to slow down when it feels like you are about to die. It felt like forever for the bike to flip over and land on my head while I used my face to brake in the gravel and dirt on the side of the road. It didn't really hurt until they started sewing my ear back on.
Motor Vehicles require licenses because they can be used as deadly weapons both intentionally and unintentionally. While it may be possible to kill someone with a bike, it certainly takes a bit more effort.
But yes, a bike user must obey all traffic laws as a motor vehicle. This is a fact that sorely uninformed in American society. Parents do not teach their kids, and i have personally witnessed police officers lie to children, telling them to ride on the left side of the street in blatant and unashamed violation of the law and public safety. It quite pissed me off.
Just prior to the Oxygen Catastrophe, soluble iron was leached en mass from the worlds oceans to form massive iron oxide deposits of a red color. That was hundreds of millions of years ago when early plant life started producing oxygen. These deposits might have made a shallow sea appear red if they were exposed close to the surface of the water.
negative temperature is real. It is actually hotter than the hottest positive temperature. I imagine it would look something like Jessica Alba in bed with my girlfriend.
Wrong. Freedom of speech is a natural, fundamental and inalienable right of all humans. It is merely protected by our constitution. Just like the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Those who want to kill you are trying to take away your natural, fundamental and inalienable right to life. They deserve the legal consequences of that crime.
plutonium is only part of the life cycle that fuel can take in a breeder reactor. Breeders designed to continue using fuel past that stage will burn that plutonium and convert it into other materials and will not produce usable plutonium.
1: It has a day/night cycle very close to ours. A solar power solution only has to store 12 hours worth of energy. 12 hours that most of the crew will be resting, so peak power need not be maintained.
Contrast that with the ~14 days of darkness on the moon, half to 2/3 of that will have the crew active and working.
2: The Martian atmosphere regulates temperatures to be slightly worse than the antarctic winter. This means that its a lot easier to keep heated than the cold long lunar nights and will likely require little to no cooling compared to the blisteringly hot lunar days.
Nuclear waste is not waste, it is nuclear fuel that has been partially used, but still retains 90% or so of its functionality. Using feeder breeder reactors we could easily reprocess this "waste" while generating close to 10 times the energy of a standard nuclear reactor (for the same amount of fuel) while producing waste that is only potentially dangerous for a few hundred years, vs potentially thousands of years.
The only problem is that people are dumb. And the idea of building anything nuclear (pronounced Nook you ler) invokes the same kind of response as declaring that you worship satan in a southern baptist church.
Very American indeed. We as a nation really need to strip away the injustices that have been enacted to take away our natural individual rights and erode the protections of the constitution.
I am a patriotic American.
Unfortunately this is all off topic. On topic, I am seriously hoping that there are criminal and civil charges filed against the scientologists for sending these illegal DMCA notices.
In order to move to a location where comcast does not own a monopoly on cable+ high speed internet means moving many many miles farther away from my job and friends. Moving there will place me within the monopoly of a different cable company.
I can not afford to risk many thousands of dollars in moving expenses, commute expenses, lost time, etc to take the chance that some other cable monopoly will be slightly less draconian than comcast while still providing the basic functionality I require.
This is the truth. Had I mod points at the moment, I would use them here.
We could solve america's energy problems by massive construction of solar thermal plants in the southwest, combined with feeder-breeder reactors in areas with less sun or more destructive weather.
Ideally that would be combined with grid electrification of the railways and interstate highways, allowing most of our transport to charge while moving. That way even without technological improvements in mobile energy storage, short range electrical vehicles could be used for most nearly all of our transportation needs.
Unfortunately each of these projects would be as massive as the interstate highway system or lunar program. Despite the massive economic benefits, it is unlikely to happen any time soon.
Its not disingenuous, its compact, succinct. It was my way of pointing out that we have two really good options for long term power production. Neither one is perfect, but together they would be ideal.
We could meet our current energy needs with 10 thousand square miles of solar thermal plants. Using a hot salt or oil reservoir they can even produce base load at night. Do not discount the environmental issues raised by dedicating that much land to energy production. Their costs are not however fixed, they are very very fragile in inclement weather. One hail storm, tornado or sand storm could effectively destroy a solar power plant.
If you discount both of those factors, yes, solar is cheaper and cleaner than nuclear power. Take them into account, and you will find that they are much much closer. Also consider that I am suggesting the use of feeder-breeder reactors that can be up to 10 times more efficient in their fuel use than the current breed of nuclear dinosaurs. Using these more efficient reactors and consuming the previous generations waste as fuel, we could power all the energy needs of humanity for several centuries.
Combine the two technologies and we will have power for millennium of use at minimal environmental impact.
1: There is no chance for chernobyl to happen again. Chernobyl is what happens when you decide to test your badly designed reactor by intentionally shutting off all safety systems.
2: The Three Mile Island "disaster" was never a threat. The radiation release was minor, and fully contained. The hype surrounding the "disaster" was in fact caused by a movie called "the china syndrome" that was released a couple weeks before the accident.
3: All modern reactors are designed in such a way that utterly prevents them from ever having a meltdown. Its just not a physical possibility.
Using the incredibly wasteful techniques currently allowed by our non-proliferation treaties, nuclear waste is a problem. However a feeder-breeder reactor can use "nuclear waste" as a fuel source and in some cases, a neutron absorber.
The after sufficient reprocessing, the spent fuel will be either short half life (decades) or long half life (millions of years). The isotopes with long half lives do not pose a serious radiation threat. While those with short half lives will decay to be non-threats within the lifetime of a hardened concrete container.
How are people living close to a reactor site being screwed? Did you know that more radioactivity is released into the environment by the average coal burning plant than the entire nuclear industry in the US? Did you know that more people die from industrial accidents in coal power plants in one year in the US than have ever died in Nuclear powerplants (of any cause, including natural) combined with deaths caused by nuclear accidents?
Nuclear power is many tens of times safer than the default energy production method in this country. And using Feeder-Breeder reactors, they could be 10 times safer and more efficient yet.
There is little that annoys me more than people pandering to fear of nuclear energy based on their own ignorance.
There is no greener and safer energy than nuclear (I would note that solar energy is a kind of nuclear energy).
But this could very well be a good thing. Especially if combined with the the german idea of not prosecuting casual users ttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/15/1252217
Assuming of course that one does not over interpret the concept of a derivative work.
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I promote the negative vote.
A negative vote against a particular candidate cancels one vote for that candidate. This levels the playing field for 3rd party candidates because a significant portion of people voting democrat or republican are not voting explicitly for their party, but rather against a party they can not tolerate.
This year, I am not voting for Obama, rather I am voting against McCain. Unfortunately my vote does not count either way because I live in a red state. I have no say at all in the choice for president due to the electoral college system unless I move to one of the few contested states. Some fucking democracy.
As a patriotic American, I wish that were still the case. Unfortunately, I weep, because I see that this is where we as a nation are going.
I can only hope that the EFF and other patriots succeeds in the good fight and holds back the darkness. But I fear that our tyrants will do to little bleeding, and our patriots too much to keep the tree of liberty alive.
I saw the clit first
I've done over 35 on a crappy wal-mart bike on a strait level road. Unfortunately there was a pile of wet leaves I didn't notice till it was too late. Time really does seem to slow down when it feels like you are about to die. It felt like forever for the bike to flip over and land on my head while I used my face to brake in the gravel and dirt on the side of the road. It didn't really hurt until they started sewing my ear back on.
Motor Vehicles require licenses because they can be used as deadly weapons both intentionally and unintentionally. While it may be possible to kill someone with a bike, it certainly takes a bit more effort.
But yes, a bike user must obey all traffic laws as a motor vehicle. This is a fact that sorely uninformed in American society. Parents do not teach their kids, and i have personally witnessed police officers lie to children, telling them to ride on the left side of the street in blatant and unashamed violation of the law and public safety. It quite pissed me off.
Well...
Just prior to the Oxygen Catastrophe, soluble iron was leached en mass from the worlds oceans to form massive iron oxide deposits of a red color. That was hundreds of millions of years ago when early plant life started producing oxygen. These deposits might have made a shallow sea appear red if they were exposed close to the surface of the water.
negative temperature is real. It is actually hotter than the hottest positive temperature. I imagine it would look something like Jessica Alba in bed with my girlfriend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
I don't need to hide porn from my woman. She is freakier than me any day.
Wrong. Freedom of speech is a natural, fundamental and inalienable right of all humans. It is merely protected by our constitution. Just like the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Those who want to kill you are trying to take away your natural, fundamental and inalienable right to life. They deserve the legal consequences of that crime.
plutonium is only part of the life cycle that fuel can take in a breeder reactor. Breeders designed to continue using fuel past that stage will burn that plutonium and convert it into other materials and will not produce usable plutonium.
I have to disagree with you here.
Mars is a really nice place.
1: It has a day/night cycle very close to ours. A solar power solution only has to store 12 hours worth of energy. 12 hours that most of the crew will be resting, so peak power need not be maintained.
Contrast that with the ~14 days of darkness on the moon, half to 2/3 of that will have the crew active and working.
2: The Martian atmosphere regulates temperatures to be slightly worse than the antarctic winter. This means that its a lot easier to keep heated than the cold long lunar nights and will likely require little to no cooling compared to the blisteringly hot lunar days.
Because it is a horrifically bad idea.
Nuclear waste is not waste, it is nuclear fuel that has been partially used, but still retains 90% or so of its functionality. Using feeder breeder reactors we could easily reprocess this "waste" while generating close to 10 times the energy of a standard nuclear reactor (for the same amount of fuel) while producing waste that is only potentially dangerous for a few hundred years, vs potentially thousands of years.
The only problem is that people are dumb. And the idea of building anything nuclear (pronounced Nook you ler) invokes the same kind of response as declaring that you worship satan in a southern baptist church.
Very American indeed. We as a nation really need to strip away the injustices that have been enacted to take away our natural individual rights and erode the protections of the constitution.
I am a patriotic American.
Unfortunately this is all off topic. On topic, I am seriously hoping that there are criminal and civil charges filed against the scientologists for sending these illegal DMCA notices.
In order to move to a location where comcast does not own a monopoly on cable+ high speed internet means moving many many miles farther away from my job and friends. Moving there will place me within the monopoly of a different cable company.
I can not afford to risk many thousands of dollars in moving expenses, commute expenses, lost time, etc to take the chance that some other cable monopoly will be slightly less draconian than comcast while still providing the basic functionality I require.
It exists: http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1156
This is the truth. Had I mod points at the moment, I would use them here.
We could solve america's energy problems by massive construction of solar thermal plants in the southwest, combined with feeder-breeder reactors in areas with less sun or more destructive weather.
Ideally that would be combined with grid electrification of the railways and interstate highways, allowing most of our transport to charge while moving. That way even without technological improvements in mobile energy storage, short range electrical vehicles could be used for most nearly all of our transportation needs.
Unfortunately each of these projects would be as massive as the interstate highway system or lunar program. Despite the massive economic benefits, it is unlikely to happen any time soon.
Its not disingenuous, its compact, succinct. It was my way of pointing out that we have two really good options for long term power production. Neither one is perfect, but together they would be ideal.
We could meet our current energy needs with 10 thousand square miles of solar thermal plants. Using a hot salt or oil reservoir they can even produce base load at night. Do not discount the environmental issues raised by dedicating that much land to energy production. Their costs are not however fixed, they are very very fragile in inclement weather. One hail storm, tornado or sand storm could effectively destroy a solar power plant.
If you discount both of those factors, yes, solar is cheaper and cleaner than nuclear power. Take them into account, and you will find that they are much much closer. Also consider that I am suggesting the use of feeder-breeder reactors that can be up to 10 times more efficient in their fuel use than the current breed of nuclear dinosaurs. Using these more efficient reactors and consuming the previous generations waste as fuel, we could power all the energy needs of humanity for several centuries.
Combine the two technologies and we will have power for millennium of use at minimal environmental impact.
1: There is no chance for chernobyl to happen again. Chernobyl is what happens when you decide to test your badly designed reactor by intentionally shutting off all safety systems.
2: The Three Mile Island "disaster" was never a threat. The radiation release was minor, and fully contained. The hype surrounding the "disaster" was in fact caused by a movie called "the china syndrome" that was released a couple weeks before the accident.
3: All modern reactors are designed in such a way that utterly prevents them from ever having a meltdown. Its just not a physical possibility.
Using the incredibly wasteful techniques currently allowed by our non-proliferation treaties, nuclear waste is a problem. However a feeder-breeder reactor can use "nuclear waste" as a fuel source and in some cases, a neutron absorber.
The after sufficient reprocessing, the spent fuel will be either short half life (decades) or long half life (millions of years). The isotopes with long half lives do not pose a serious radiation threat. While those with short half lives will decay to be non-threats within the lifetime of a hardened concrete container.
How are people living close to a reactor site being screwed? Did you know that more radioactivity is released into the environment by the average coal burning plant than the entire nuclear industry in the US? Did you know that more people die from industrial accidents in coal power plants in one year in the US than have ever died in Nuclear powerplants (of any cause, including natural) combined with deaths caused by nuclear accidents?
Nuclear power is many tens of times safer than the default energy production method in this country. And using Feeder-Breeder reactors, they could be 10 times safer and more efficient yet.
There is little that annoys me more than people pandering to fear of nuclear energy based on their own ignorance.
There is no greener and safer energy than nuclear (I would note that solar energy is a kind of nuclear energy).
And water is a significantly more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Besides that, its the solid fuel boosters that are real unpleasant.
But this could very well be a good thing. Especially if combined with the the german idea of not prosecuting casual users ttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/15/1252217
Assuming of course that one does not over interpret the concept of a derivative work.
It is crashing into planets (and other bodies). Look how well we did with the Mars Polar Lander and Mars Orbiter!
Ah, relatively new then. good to see it coming around.
I was unaware of this. Is it a new program?