Gandalf's magic doesn't really have any effect on the story, except his foresight. Otherwise, he's just a formidable, wise old man.
His foresight is presented in a mystical, almost religious manner. The Lord of the Rings is not a book that asks the question "What if Wizards roamed the earth?" Instead, it says "Wasn't it great when the gods walked among us and told us what to do?"
In fact it's the opposite problem: spent fuel pools were ok, but the folks at Fukushima didn't know it and wasted a lot of time and man power trying to correct a non-existent problem. But your point is still good. Without cooling even the spent fuel pool will boil away after awhile (days? weeks?) and the bare fuel could melt down.
Let's not forget about the increase in terrorism and drug smuggling that's sure to follow the invention of star trek transporters. We really should be thinking and planning for this problem while there's still time.
Uranium reserves are so big that there's no need even for breeder reactor for centuries. We have lots of time to work on this. There's also thorium in the meanwhile.
Who am I to decide? I'm a human with a functioning brain. Quit bitching about me using it and learn to use yours.
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He's doing them a disservice by fixing their problems. In the old days you bought a computer and there was no software for it, so you got a magazine with a program and you copied it in. You had no clue how the jumble of characters made it work, but it did... until it didn't. If you dive in to fix the problem or to make it do something new on your own, you end up learning something about the system, about why things are the way they are.
GP needs to stop playing daddy and let the newbs grow by fixing the problems themselves.
"So let's *not* talk race. Let's talk education and economic opportunity. If people have a way up, see that way, and believe they can do it, they will rise."
Maybe, but you take a white kid who sees a path up through education takes it, graduates, applies for job, and his competition is a black guy who did the same thing, more likely than not, it's the white guy who gets a job.
Something I found out only yesterday. After the 2008 crash, unemployment for black college grads jumped to 8%, but for white college grads it only went to 4%.
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Gandalf's magic doesn't really have any effect on the story, except his foresight. Otherwise, he's just a formidable, wise old man.
His foresight is presented in a mystical, almost religious manner. The Lord of the Rings is not a book that asks the question "What if Wizards roamed the earth?" Instead, it says "Wasn't it great when the gods walked among us and told us what to do?"
Which is socialist. You do not understand that capitalism and socialism are not opposites.
"One of the interesting things about food is that no matter how rich or how poor you are you can only consume so much food."
Incorrect. Acquiring and destroying food is not the same as eating food.
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Indeed. McCoy is a scientist by trade. Kirk, is not.
Maybe advocates for those with disabilities will be able to broaden this ruling.
Does the book go into detail on why string theory ate Physics?
You need to be modded up, good sir or madame.
In fact it's the opposite problem: spent fuel pools were ok, but the folks at Fukushima didn't know it and wasted a lot of time and man power trying to correct a non-existent problem. But your point is still good. Without cooling even the spent fuel pool will boil away after awhile (days? weeks?) and the bare fuel could melt down.
Let's not forget about the increase in terrorism and drug smuggling that's sure to follow the invention of star trek transporters. We really should be thinking and planning for this problem while there's still time.
Uranium reserves are so big that there's no need even for breeder reactor for centuries. We have lots of time to work on this. There's also thorium in the meanwhile.
Min/maxing is half the fun of D&D. The challenge is to create a game that is fun with unbalanced characters. Other systems have succeeded in that.
According to the gov, 33% total efficiency for coal. I don't know what part of that is turbine efficiency. Only natural gas is significantly better.
If you're too stupid to realize that nobody 100% separates fantasy from reality, then you have the typical intelligence of a slashdotter.
Only in the sense that it would take too long and they aren't required to know assembly.
Right. Before they wrote compilers, the concept was considered possibly a hard AI problem. Now they have you write a compiler as an undergrad.
Exactly.
You could just ask them.
It wouldn't be the first stupid thing they've done. Not all these boys aced the SATs, that's for sure.
Please. That origin story was put there by Satan to test our faith. You don't really believe it was all made up, do you?
Even for a computer?
Who am I to decide? I'm a human with a functioning brain. Quit bitching about me using it and learn to use yours.
He's doing them a disservice by fixing their problems. In the old days you bought a computer and there was no software for it, so you got a magazine with a program and you copied it in. You had no clue how the jumble of characters made it work, but it did ... until it didn't. If you dive in to fix the problem or to make it do something new on your own, you end up learning something about the system, about why things are the way they are.
GP needs to stop playing daddy and let the newbs grow by fixing the problems themselves.
Modded down for telling the truth. These guys are wasting a small town's worth of power to do worthless calculations.
"So let's *not* talk race. Let's talk education and economic opportunity. If people have a way up, see that way, and believe they can do it, they will rise."
Maybe, but you take a white kid who sees a path up through education takes it, graduates, applies for job, and his competition is a black guy who did the same thing, more likely than not, it's the white guy who gets a job.
Something I found out only yesterday. After the 2008 crash, unemployment for black college grads jumped to 8%, but for white college grads it only went to 4%.
I interviewed someone who had a four year degree in EE, had five years of work experience, and didn't know what a diode did. We hired him. He's white.