What they do is they cooperate with federal agents.
There is plenty of room for that to be improper, but there is also lots of room for it to be like the federal agents are using the Microsoft people as consultants.
I have no idea what their manufacturing quality is, but Zenni Optical charges between $20 and $80 to upgrade both lenses to higher refractive index materials (photochromatics push that towards $180 for both).
Even if Zenni is really bad, it seems like there might be some markup in that $520.
That was 25 years ago. I suppose many of the advances in electronics have made them less robust, but it does seem like the sort of problem someone would be working on.
That's overstating it a little bit, the cost of constructing the Fukushima reactors has already been paid, it is very unlikely that construction of a bunch of molten sodium reactors would have resulted in the shutting of these reactors.
If that article was anything but innocent, the people behind it were really bad at what they were doing. It only took the fuel rods catching fire for the article to look a little too relaxed about the situation, a day or 2 after it had been published.
Making that assertion with no reference to the costs or consequences of the 1000+ year events is just insane. It might not make sense to plan for 1000 year events, but no trivial analysis could possibly demonstrate that.
Does the black woman doing a separate but equal speech really qualify as subtle?
There were plenty of scenes in the movie with black South Africans saying stuff about the aliens, and at one point the black security guard in the group with Wikus was going to shoot the smart alien kid for playing in front of a door.
It depends a little bit on what you want to call deep, but the only way they could have made the apartheid theme more prominent would have been to state it directly in narration. But sure, people could watch the movie and miss it.
As far as the categorization stuff, I don't really get into it, I just read or watch what I enjoy. I certainly enjoy stuff less when the treatment is arbitrary, but the arguments used to separate hard and soft science fiction are usually pretty thin (many of them amount to the commenter simply preferring one fantastical element to another).
That 'reasonable' depends an awful lot on the costs involved.
If building the tsunami resistance to a 10,000 year standard increased the lifetime costs of the plant by 0.01%, I wouldn't call it reasonable to engineer them to a 1,000 year standard.
Why would you not expect better? There were engineering and economic decisions made about the design of the plant, both of which have proven to be insufficiently conservative.
Of course this is much clearer in hindsight, but the fact that they lost normal cooling operations is exactly a failure of planning and design.
What deeper ethical question? The movie was a blatant fable about apartheid being wrong, with the monstrous human (he makes a joke out of the extermination of the nest early in the movie) learning his lesson as he was transformed into one of the creatures he believed to be a subhuman monster.
I mean I liked the movie quite a bit, but it wasn't particularly subtle or deep.
It is good that the reactors didn't crack open or wash away into the sea, but those aren't particularly conservative design constraints for a reactor that you choose to build near active fault lines.
So what is a good design criterion for a nuclear reactor? I think the loosest constraint would have to be no releases of radioactive material directly into the environment, a test these reactors failed on Friday or Saturday.
Those releases were not a catastrophe, but it shouldn't be controversial that they represent a failure of the planning and design of the reactors.
And when I talk about release or radioactive material as a design constraint, that doesn't mean that each release or radioactive material is cause for a shutdown of plants of that type, I mean that each release of radioactive material at least triggers a review of the design.
Reports about tens of thousands of people simply not being accounted for at all have been on the news since Friday, along with reports of official numbers of dead and missing.
The focus has certainly been on the nuclear situation.
Reactor 1 at Fukushima 1 has a rated output of about 480 megawatts (it is smaller than the other reactors at the site). That's the electrical output of the steam turbines, the actual core is putting out even more heat than that (something like a factor of 3). The cooling pools have spent fuel from several complete changes of the reactor core.
So in a relative sense, they aren't very efficient at producing heat.
Much of the volume of the pools is occupied by the rods, and the whole pool doesn't have to evaporate to expose some of the rods.
So there could be exposed fuel much earlier than the point where all the water has boiled away.
I did see some expert state that he was surprised that the pools had heated up so quickly, so the pools were not behaving in the way he expected, which is cause for concern.
Didn't the battery operated pumps go out when the batteries ran out of energy?
That's still a failure of that system, but it seems less of a maintenance failure and more of a part of the interconnected failures that came from underestimating nature.
I'm probably an asshole, but any kids I end up having will be enjoying buying left and right and up and down on their etch-a-sketch, not buying virtual food for their cartoon friends.
When poster said "set for life", they meant exactly that he has a good chance of successfully pursuing whatever career takes his fancy, it was not a reference to the 100 thousand dollars.
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What they do is they cooperate with federal agents.
There is plenty of room for that to be improper, but there is also lots of room for it to be like the federal agents are using the Microsoft people as consultants.
I have no idea what their manufacturing quality is, but Zenni Optical charges between $20 and $80 to upgrade both lenses to higher refractive index materials (photochromatics push that towards $180 for both).
Even if Zenni is really bad, it seems like there might be some markup in that $520.
Fukushima 1 reactor 3 was running on fuel that was reprocessed in France.
That was 25 years ago. I suppose many of the advances in electronics have made them less robust, but it does seem like the sort of problem someone would be working on.
That's overstating it a little bit, the cost of constructing the Fukushima reactors has already been paid, it is very unlikely that construction of a bunch of molten sodium reactors would have resulted in the shutting of these reactors.
Did anything in most post look like I was disputing their claims? I found your post a little over simplified, so I posted slightly more information.
And of course the plants were not as safe as they could have been, that is always true about everything.
GE did the designs. Lots of companies were involved in the construction, with GE, Toshiba and Hitachi supplying the reactors.
Yeah? By calling it astroturf, you are saying that someone with an agenda spread it on purpose.
30,000 internet people is nothing, it is a non-statistic, it is well explained by the article simply sounding credible and spreading around.
If that article was anything but innocent, the people behind it were really bad at what they were doing. It only took the fuel rods catching fire for the article to look a little too relaxed about the situation, a day or 2 after it had been published.
Making that assertion with no reference to the costs or consequences of the 1000+ year events is just insane. It might not make sense to plan for 1000 year events, but no trivial analysis could possibly demonstrate that.
http://www.google.com/search?q=X+Server+as+a+browser+plugin
Seems someone did do it.
A migration path for simple apps (in either direction, from web to desktop or from desktop to web)?
Does the black woman doing a separate but equal speech really qualify as subtle?
There were plenty of scenes in the movie with black South Africans saying stuff about the aliens, and at one point the black security guard in the group with Wikus was going to shoot the smart alien kid for playing in front of a door.
It depends a little bit on what you want to call deep, but the only way they could have made the apartheid theme more prominent would have been to state it directly in narration. But sure, people could watch the movie and miss it.
As far as the categorization stuff, I don't really get into it, I just read or watch what I enjoy. I certainly enjoy stuff less when the treatment is arbitrary, but the arguments used to separate hard and soft science fiction are usually pretty thin (many of them amount to the commenter simply preferring one fantastical element to another).
That 'reasonable' depends an awful lot on the costs involved.
If building the tsunami resistance to a 10,000 year standard increased the lifetime costs of the plant by 0.01%, I wouldn't call it reasonable to engineer them to a 1,000 year standard.
Why would you not expect better? There were engineering and economic decisions made about the design of the plant, both of which have proven to be insufficiently conservative.
Of course this is much clearer in hindsight, but the fact that they lost normal cooling operations is exactly a failure of planning and design.
What deeper ethical question? The movie was a blatant fable about apartheid being wrong, with the monstrous human (he makes a joke out of the extermination of the nest early in the movie) learning his lesson as he was transformed into one of the creatures he believed to be a subhuman monster.
I mean I liked the movie quite a bit, but it wasn't particularly subtle or deep.
It is good that the reactors didn't crack open or wash away into the sea, but those aren't particularly conservative design constraints for a reactor that you choose to build near active fault lines.
So what is a good design criterion for a nuclear reactor? I think the loosest constraint would have to be no releases of radioactive material directly into the environment, a test these reactors failed on Friday or Saturday.
Those releases were not a catastrophe, but it shouldn't be controversial that they represent a failure of the planning and design of the reactors.
And when I talk about release or radioactive material as a design constraint, that doesn't mean that each release or radioactive material is cause for a shutdown of plants of that type, I mean that each release of radioactive material at least triggers a review of the design.
Reports about tens of thousands of people simply not being accounted for at all have been on the news since Friday, along with reports of official numbers of dead and missing.
The focus has certainly been on the nuclear situation.
Reactor 1 at Fukushima 1 has a rated output of about 480 megawatts (it is smaller than the other reactors at the site). That's the electrical output of the steam turbines, the actual core is putting out even more heat than that (something like a factor of 3). The cooling pools have spent fuel from several complete changes of the reactor core.
So in a relative sense, they aren't very efficient at producing heat.
Much of the volume of the pools is occupied by the rods, and the whole pool doesn't have to evaporate to expose some of the rods.
So there could be exposed fuel much earlier than the point where all the water has boiled away.
I did see some expert state that he was surprised that the pools had heated up so quickly, so the pools were not behaving in the way he expected, which is cause for concern.
Didn't the battery operated pumps go out when the batteries ran out of energy?
That's still a failure of that system, but it seems less of a maintenance failure and more of a part of the interconnected failures that came from underestimating nature.
The great majority of corporations are small businesses, I don't think there are as many puppies as you think there are.
I'm probably an asshole, but any kids I end up having will be enjoying buying left and right and up and down on their etch-a-sketch, not buying virtual food for their cartoon friends.
When poster said "set for life", they meant exactly that he has a good chance of successfully pursuing whatever career takes his fancy, it was not a reference to the 100 thousand dollars.