Public safety issues? Your post is a little confusing, are you saying that closed source is for safety issues? I agree with regulation and security measures like requiring users to specifically allow unsigned content to run, but uh...
When's the last time anyone complained about an open source hammer?
It sounds silly, but imagine if they could ensure you only hammered approved nails? Part of having freedom is that flip side, where people are free to make poor choices. For some, it might be a bad idea using software, for otherwise, it's a benefit.
Have to let people make that call for themselves, part of living, like everything else.
I've seen comments on this article saying the researches deserve the credit for the work they did. It's true, they do.
However you have to remember that these cells were part of a human being, a person. They're part of what ended their life, it's what killed them. If you liked it to a criminal who killed someone, but then managed to do something for the scientific community, do we ignore the victim?
No it's not even quite the same, but I wanted to grab your attention for a moment with the fact that a young women died because of this. She managed to leave humanity a gift without knowing it in her passing. They're still her cells, that we have kept alive.
So we need to have respect for her remains, as that's what they are. I'm sure all of us would like to know the next generation would honor our remains if we were killed by something like that, a senseless death if you will. At least something came of it.
So yes, I believe she deserves credit as well. As they are part of her body, part of her being, continuing to help us.
CoD...one track mind..sounds like a console gamer!
No no, I jest.
Blizzard itself has made a lot of great games, and I keep looking forward to their next sequel. Starcraft, Starcraft 2. Amazing. Heart of the swarm? Amazing. World of Warcraft? I'm personally tired of it, yet, amazing. Warcraft 1-2-3, great games. Diablo 1/2, amazing. Enjoyed d3 but..eh.
They're not perfect, but their PC marketed games have done very well and have been good. Why complain about good?
Someone already posted that comment and it was an easy retort. If steel is going to explode, spread steel in a 20KM death radius where no one can live anymore, spread steel all around the globe and have untold effects, while people have lives shortened by steal sickness and increased cancer (We have lots of things that do that already, why add more?), then yes, we should stop using it. Cities are made of this stuff and would destroy the world many times over.
Especially if steel is going to become invisible and impossible to detect by humans without special equipment, so that you don't even see the hazard, get sick from it, and start to die.
Like biological warfare. Using engineered viruses to kill your enemy. I'm against that too. Just say no to resident evil.
The amount of radiation released by the way, was CHERNOBYL level. Japan keeps trying to hide it, came out years later, guess what, yeah, level 7 reactor meltdown in several reactors.
Good thing they had ocean to dump on it, which another news article says, guess what, leaked into the ocean. I think one of my biggest problems with radiation, is that you don't even know. You see a fire? You know you get close to it, it will burn you. You see sharp metal? Or a gun pointed at you? You can see and know the danger.
Radiation? You only know when it's too late. If you're close to something extremely radioactive, so that your skin starts blistering like a burn. Even if it just starts and you get away, it's too late. You're dead, not even the best medical equipment currently in use can save you. You'll die from radiation sickness at much lower dosages that cause instant blistering etc.
Conspiring can happen without doing wire fraud, you get charged for that. Wire fraud itself, could happen without you conspiring with other people, therefore, is just wire fraud.
Plus they want to put as many charges on you as possible, and see which ones they're able to stick based on evidence.
Miniature - sure. I don't have a problem with the technology itself. I just have issues with large scale deployments that can have chain reactions causing large damage radiation zones.
You're automatically assuming they use light to detect the atmosphere of our planet. Also if at five minute-years away, the light is the same, then 1000 light years would as well, with the normal affects from physics and other celestial objects. Therefore, for it to work, it would have to work on something that has nothing to do with light or our cloaking system would have to diffuse light at a further distance.
So clearly, you have to have some sort of non-light atmosphere sensor (Since light might be a poor detector anyway for it) which HAARP protects us from!
I won't be killed by a coal related incident as I don't work in a coal mine. I could live in the city that is near the coal mine, and be fine. Coal mine goes, people die. Terrible and tragic (Not sarcasam, it really is sad when this happens). People in the city live.
Coal miners etc, are generally aware that it's a dangerous job they're accepting.to do, like many dangerous jobs, generally higher pay etc.
Nuclear plant goes critical near a city people are living in.....I know radiation sickness is NOT a way I want to go.
Er exactly like Chernobyl but contained better, sort of, at least in the air. 20k limit...Chernobyl only has a 30k radius, without even having ocean to dump it into.
Chernobyl - Meltdown Fukushima - Meltdown You'll see they share the same word. Chernobyl's cooling system failed to prevent a chain reaction too.
Key differences - Chernobyl did not have an ocean nearby to cool it / dump radioactive water everywhere. It's like saying you were in a car crash. If you crash at 10 kmh/mph or 30 kmh/mph, you still crashed.
So hopefully less damaging by spreading out the radiation through the ocean, hopefully the dillution prevents any adverse affects.
P.S We got radio active snow / ice on the west coast of Canada now, northern side. Not anywhere considered lethal or suspected to be harmful, but uh, yeah. P.P.S Or you can say 'We detected an increased level of radiation in the snow' Vs whatever levels they are normally at from previous incidents/natural sources.
As I commented to someone else actually I'm a firm believer in alternative energy sources. I would love to see more hydrogen powered cars because I believe there is significant risks with oil drilling and the deaths it causes. I don't believe any power source is 100% safe, but I do believe in reduction of risks.
I don't think you should tote the,line though. People have always feared radiation and for good reason. Governments and corporations do love nuclear power plants as they're a cheap profitable way to generate electricity. Deaths are always downplayed.
You can get yet you will be told every other thing that can cause it, and that psht...radiation probably had nothing to do with it, unless you have hard proof.
Probably should have a read at that too - that's just the things we find out about. People often do not get the full details of the true risks. People cheating to hide radiation dosage levels and so on. So it might be a little worse than you think.
This often causes me to go against the grain slightly but I don't believe that adding fuel to the fire is okay because someone added more fuel prior. Just because you can find things that have reportedly killed more people doesn't mean things that kill less people should be encouraged. The problem with radiation is that the full effects are never measured, or at least avoided.
Quite frankly they don't want people to be afraid of nuclear power plants because let's face it, they're profitable and ignoring the safety risks, an excellent way to generate electricity, cheaply. I don't people should exactly fear them either, but I'm certainly against them being anywhere near me. I still stand by my statement about experience.
I used to leave change in my old car (It was a junker anyway) visible in the middle section. So someone busted my window and stole my change. I was told it was a bad idea to do that, I was told someone would break in, and I ignored it until it happened. I try not to do that anymore, if something is likely to happen, I really think about it and try to avoid it, instead of waiting for it to happen, then avoiding it in the future which is the common response.
I would think that having delt with radiation prior people would be 'No way' Japans government also tries very hard to maintain a positive image. I really do hope things aren't that bad as they say.
Given the history of spills I also believe that going after oil is dangerous and is something we need to step away from as well as it keeps happening. I'm a firm believer in developing alternative renewable energy sources as we can to increase safety. I don't believe in any energy source as 100% safe, but when something goes wrong with a hydro dam, somewhere as far as Japan, you don't end up with radiation in the snow on the west coast of Canada.
Sure, maybe it's not so bad for Tokyo, but even if no one "dies" from it, it's reached out pretty far. Setting up for events like this to happen again and again sounds like a bad idea (And the definition of insanity - performing the same action over and over yet expecting different results) I don't mean just Japan either, I don't rather much like the idea of large scale nuclear reactors period, anywhere.
People get , maybe radiation caused it, but they'll definitely tell you 'Well, you could have gotten X anyway so it might not be the radiation and these other no radiation things could have caused it' time and time again. Call it safe, build another plant.
P.S No the radiation levels weren't lethal or expected to cause any health concerns, but just a point at how far that stuff travels. Given how much radioactive water was dumped into the ocean....
W'e're in contact from evil aliens and letting them hide here. We use our cloaking / camouflage planet system to hide them from aliens who are good, against corruption and greed. They would free us and bring us to a utopian era, but the evil "The man" trying to keep us down with their fortress of HAARP will do their best from liberating us.
HAARP prevents us from seeing what's really on the moon since it modifies the sky above us, so we can't see it properly. The moon is used as a place for interrogation, as it's too risky for certain individuals to have the remote chance to escape and tell the public.So we basically turned the moon into an orbiting prison.
Both nuclear bombs and reactors go through a process known as fission. Both can use uranium 235, most do. The/only/ difference is the enrichment process and rate of decay. Enriched uranium allows it to react faster to the decay which promotes more neutrons, which causes more decay, which causes even more neutrons, and the process continues. Chernobyl - That's what happens when it gets out of hand and goes too fast. Too much heat is generated, melts casing, destroys reactor roads, metldown. This is also what happened in Japan due to the tsunami, just not a complete failure like Chernobyl (Thank god / science / whatever you believe in that's good)
Nuclear bomb does the same thing. Just more enriched, faster reaction (Well, multitudes faster) and you get a massive thermal release, shockwave and radiation spread.
I don't think it's more of a sensitivity thing as more as of 'Actually, we know exactly how devastating this is, not something simulated or based on statistic, we actually know first hand, and maybe shouldn't do this'
Analogy? I wanted to have something really clever to compare it to. But really, I don't. It's a terrible thing that happened. Much like many things in history, we should do our best not to repeat it.
I don't believe they should have huge petro based power plants that should something go amiss incinerate exceptionally large areas and make them un-livable well beyond your life span, causing slow deaths to large populations with birth defects years to come.
That statement is just as silly as if you said 'OH, well bullets kill, and are made of metal, maybe no one should use metal there either?!'
I disagree with nuclear reactors in populated areas that should the worse happen would kill / destroy people's health. Most people ignore potential problems because it's never happened. Some people don't lock doors until something is stolen from them, as an example. Japan had first hand experience with how deadly radiation is. They should know the risks better than anyone, and I think the risks weren't worth it. Clearly it's hindsight now but I know I wouldn't want a large scale nuclear reactor anywhere near me. Accidents happen, but these become/huge/ accidents. I don't object to nuclear technology on small scale, submarines, space craft etc, where the risks are significantly lower.
Actually it's practical and would almost fall into the common sense category.
Japan experienced an atrocity when a nuclear bomb was detonated. Many suffered instant lost at the vaporization point. Many others survived in agonizing pain due to the effects of radiation poisoning, killing them in days to weeks. Some survived years and still suffered, and died because of radiation poisoning.
People to this day still experience some ill effects and birth defects due to that event. If I was a leader of my people and saw the suffering this technology had brought them in the past, I'd want to keep it as far away from them as possible as to not make them suffer similar ordeals again.
The dumb, insensitive, and offensiveness is the fact that nuclear reactors were built in japan anyway, and now their people are suffering from radiation yet again.
Given the history of japan, this may not be the ideal technology of choice.... No insult intended by mentioning the past, but japan has not had good fortune when it comes to matters involving radioactive materials:(
We're actually in contact with alien species and they're assisting us avoid detection from more hostile species that consume resources of habitable words like us. The changes HAARP initiates in the ionosphere, although not affecting us on the planet or anything overall in the near distance, planetary detection systems that have the ability to detect atmospheres to a limited degree are thrown off, making the assumption that this is not a water world with a perfect (life sustaining) temperature.
Naturally you can still tell by nearby areas like our solar system etc, but once you get a few thousand light years out we don't look so welcoming.
I'd insert comment about a specific alien overlord at this time but I don't want his followers..or...people who are against him or whatever "targeting" me but uh, yea, we're nice and safe from that dude now!
Government is the main body of power which regulates all other powers. We're concerned when the government is given even more insight into matters it does not need to regulate, giving it advanced abilities to target individuals that are not necessary.
The reason for this concern is that those in power often seek to remain in power, exercise power, or gain more power. Should they be able to find out any who might limit that power, vote against the power, or make way to remove that power, it becomes a threat. Then that power can use what is known as a very real thing, corruption, to use normal valid laws on unfounded principals to remove that threat. An example would be someone who is publicly outspoken of the current government. If this person has not broken any laws, the government could not have the police force officially detain them, put out a warrant to track them down and stop their protesting (Assuming it's legal protest) However, if the government knows who their friends are, what they do, where they go, who employs this person, their direct boss and so on, it makes it very easy to create a scenario where someone has now allegedly violated the law and can be brought it, or punished.
An example would be, suddenly everyone who has anything to do with this person suddenly gets constant audits, bank accounts frozen and other misuses of power while under legal investigation. They can find a variety of misc reasons, whereas the real reason is they're trying to put pressure on the person protesting the governments power, decisions and or anything relating to government interests (Note I say government, not the peoples)
The government could tell the active protester that they and their friends are under investigation in relation to allegations from an unknown source relating to why they were out of town etc. The active protester would know fully the message is back off or we make life difficult.
We trust third parties with information such as facebook because they do not have this power. The government keeps them in check and prevents this.
This is why though we get concerned when without permission the government is sifting through this third party information. It's the simple matter of giving some power to one group, and some power to the other, keeping them separate for balance. Then one group takes the power from the first group and combines it, then we get angry.
Makes sense. I relate the Government to Gannon. It may have the triforce of power, and that's fine. Need a good antangonist anyway. If it has the triforce of wisdom (All our information on everything) and then through legistration gets the triforce of courage, it becomes unstoppable, and everyone wish it wants is granted.
You'll need to add some sort of value to make it worth while for people to subscribe beyond just being able to read it online. Although people subscribe to newspapers etc so they can read it as it comes out, many people will wait to read it in a local coffee shop or other means without paying additional fees for it.
It's a problem that the music industry is running into. Originally people would borrow their friends tapes, a few would make copies, but often they would just borrow it and return it. Then they saw software licenses and they got all glossy eyed with cash signs. "What if, we could make it so every person had to pay to listen to it personally as a license, instead of sharing hard copies! We can move it from a you purchased this physical thing to a license!"
This was bad. It would be like if you bought your car, paid it in full, and then you gave it to your kid, and you were arrested as you only you have a license to own and operate that vehicle. That your kid had to purchase their own licensed copy of that vehicle, and you cannot resell yours.
So there will definitely be copies of your magazine around. The only real way is creating a system to reward loyal subscribers.
Actually a lot of species die out all the time, "We didn't kill them all.." - George Carlin.
Most creatures will be relatively fine, they'll just move a little higher. It's purely humans that will be drastically affected with our cities and ports etc. We're probably the largest quantity of species with the most habitats that will be wrecked. We can't move cities. Bears don't care if they poop a little further op.
I went to go see Man Of Steel in the theater. The ticket price was 10.50 or something rather then taxes. That price was actually really decent, figured, not bad for a movie experience.
Then I saw the concession stand. If I wanted two large popcorns, two pops, and a candy bar, it was 26$.
Yes, it was as expensive as dinner for two at a restaurant. Then you take on the movie, plus taxes. So if a couple goes to the movies, tickets, pop corn, a drink and a candy bar, you're looking at 50$. That, my friends, is what's killing the movies in my opinion, at least where I live around. I'd much rather go to a nice restaurant at that price for a good meal and conversation.
If a large pop wasn't 7$, then I might consider enjoying the movie theater experience, at a reasonable cost. Needless to say I saw the movie, enjoyed that, but didn't buy anything from the concession. Or I'd go to the drive in, it's about a 40 minute drive, but their food is cheaper, and I get 2-3 movies for the same price (10.50 or so), plus it's a real treat to have one still around.
Location - Canada, British Columbia, Cineplex/Silvercity
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Public safety issues? Your post is a little confusing, are you saying that closed source is for safety issues?
I agree with regulation and security measures like requiring users to specifically allow unsigned content to run, but uh...
When's the last time anyone complained about an open source hammer?
It sounds silly, but imagine if they could ensure you only hammered approved nails?
Part of having freedom is that flip side, where people are free to make poor choices. For some, it might be a bad idea using software, for otherwise, it's a benefit.
Have to let people make that call for themselves, part of living, like everything else.
I've seen comments on this article saying the researches deserve the credit for the work they did.
It's true, they do.
However you have to remember that these cells were part of a human being, a person. They're part of what ended their life, it's what killed them.
If you liked it to a criminal who killed someone, but then managed to do something for the scientific community, do we ignore the victim?
No it's not even quite the same, but I wanted to grab your attention for a moment with the fact that a young women died because of this.
She managed to leave humanity a gift without knowing it in her passing. They're still her cells, that we have kept alive.
So we need to have respect for her remains, as that's what they are. I'm sure all of us would like to know the next generation would honor our remains
if we were killed by something like that, a senseless death if you will. At least something came of it.
So yes, I believe she deserves credit as well. As they are part of her body, part of her being, continuing to help us.
Take that billions of dollars! You have no future!
CoD...one track mind..sounds like a console gamer!
No no, I jest.
Blizzard itself has made a lot of great games, and I keep looking forward to their next sequel.
Starcraft, Starcraft 2. Amazing.
Heart of the swarm? Amazing.
World of Warcraft? I'm personally tired of it, yet, amazing.
Warcraft 1-2-3, great games.
Diablo 1/2, amazing. Enjoyed d3 but..eh.
They're not perfect, but their PC marketed games have done very well and have been good.
Why complain about good?
The only winning move is not to play.
Someone already posted that comment and it was an easy retort.
If steel is going to explode, spread steel in a 20KM death radius where no one can live anymore, spread steel all around the globe and have untold effects, while people have lives shortened by steal sickness and increased cancer (We have lots of things that do that already, why add more?), then yes, we should stop using it.
Cities are made of this stuff and would destroy the world many times over.
Especially if steel is going to become invisible and impossible to detect by humans without special equipment, so that you don't even see the hazard, get
sick from it, and start to die.
Like biological warfare. Using engineered viruses to kill your enemy. I'm against that too.
Just say no to resident evil.
http://rt.com/usa/sailors-japan-fukushima-radiation-878/
http://enenews.com/japan-and-iaea-grossly-downplaying-fukushima-cesium-releases-audio
The amount of radiation released by the way, was CHERNOBYL level. Japan keeps trying to hide it, came out years later, guess what, yeah, level 7 reactor meltdown in several reactors.
Good thing they had ocean to dump on it, which another news article says, guess what, leaked into the ocean.
I think one of my biggest problems with radiation, is that you don't even know. You see a fire? You know you get close to it, it will burn you.
You see sharp metal? Or a gun pointed at you? You can see and know the danger.
Radiation? You only know when it's too late.
If you're close to something extremely radioactive, so that your skin starts blistering like a burn. Even if it just starts and you get away, it's too late.
You're dead, not even the best medical equipment currently in use can save you.
You'll die from radiation sickness at much lower dosages that cause instant blistering etc.
Conspiring can happen without doing wire fraud, you get charged for that.
Wire fraud itself, could happen without you conspiring with other people, therefore, is just wire fraud.
Plus they want to put as many charges on you as possible, and see which ones they're able to stick based on evidence.
Miniature - sure. I don't have a problem with the technology itself. I just have issues with large scale deployments that can have chain reactions causing large damage radiation zones.
Liquid metal? Who /DOESN'T/ want to become a t-1000?
Sci-fi fail.
You're automatically assuming they use light to detect the atmosphere of our planet.
Also if at five minute-years away, the light is the same, then 1000 light years would as well, with the normal affects from physics and other celestial objects.
Therefore, for it to work, it would have to work on something that has nothing to do with light or our cloaking system would have to diffuse light at a further distance.
So clearly, you have to have some sort of non-light atmosphere sensor (Since light might be a poor detector anyway for it) which HAARP protects us from!
Maybe it's a bit of nimbyism on my part.sort of.
I won't be killed by a coal related incident as I don't work in a coal mine. I could live in the city that is near the coal mine, and be fine.
Coal mine goes, people die. Terrible and tragic (Not sarcasam, it really is sad when this happens).
People in the city live.
Coal miners etc, are generally aware that it's a dangerous job they're accepting.to do, like many dangerous jobs, generally higher pay etc.
Nuclear plant goes critical near a city people are living in.....I know radiation sickness is NOT a way I want to go.
Before googling something simple like coal oil nuke deaths etc, you should be very aware of this kind of thing
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367776/UK-Government-covered-nuclear-reactor-blaze-caused-death-cancer.html
Radiation deaths have been downplayed consistently, I doubt we can get a true accurate number.
Er exactly like Chernobyl but contained better, sort of, at least in the air.
20k limit...Chernobyl only has a 30k radius, without even having ocean to dump it into.
Chernobyl - Meltdown
Fukushima - Meltdown
You'll see they share the same word.
Chernobyl's cooling system failed to prevent a chain reaction too.
Key differences - Chernobyl did not have an ocean nearby to cool it / dump radioactive water everywhere.
It's like saying you were in a car crash. If you crash at 10 kmh/mph or 30 kmh/mph, you still crashed.
Chernobyl's radioactive crap was blasted into the air when it blew off a 1000 concrete seal.
Fukushima was dumped into the ocean.
Literrally. They even admit they believe it drained out into the ocean.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/130722/fukushima-radioactive-water-leaking-pacific-ocean
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/05/fukushima-meltdown-manmade-disaster
3 reactor meltdown.
So hopefully less damaging by spreading out the radiation through the ocean, hopefully the dillution prevents any adverse affects.
P.S We got radio active snow / ice on the west coast of Canada now, northern side. Not anywhere considered lethal or suspected to be harmful, but uh, yeah.
P.P.S Or you can say 'We detected an increased level of radiation in the snow' Vs whatever levels they are normally at from previous incidents/natural sources.
As I commented to someone else actually I'm a firm believer in alternative energy sources. I would love to see more hydrogen powered cars because I believe there is significant risks with oil drilling and the deaths it causes. I don't believe any power source is 100% safe, but I do believe in reduction of risks.
I don't think you should tote the ,line though. People have always feared radiation and for good reason. Governments and corporations do love
nuclear power plants as they're a cheap profitable way to generate electricity. Deaths are always downplayed.
You can get yet you will be told every other thing that can cause it, and that psht...radiation probably had nothing to do with it,
unless you have hard proof.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/22/12884007-reports-workers-told-to-underplay-fukushima-radiation-dosage?lite
Probably should have a read at that too - that's just the things we find out about. People often do not get the full details of the true risks.
People cheating to hide radiation dosage levels and so on. So it might be a little worse than you think.
This often causes me to go against the grain slightly but I don't believe that adding fuel to the fire is okay because someone added more fuel prior.
Just because you can find things that have reportedly killed more people doesn't mean things that kill less people should be encouraged.
The problem with radiation is that the full effects are never measured, or at least avoided.
Quite frankly they don't want people to be afraid of nuclear power plants because let's face it, they're profitable and ignoring the safety risks, an excellent way
to generate electricity, cheaply.
I don't people should exactly fear them either, but I'm certainly against them being anywhere near me.
I still stand by my statement about experience.
I used to leave change in my old car (It was a junker anyway) visible in the middle section. So someone busted my window and stole my change.
I was told it was a bad idea to do that, I was told someone would break in, and I ignored it until it happened.
I try not to do that anymore, if something is likely to happen, I really think about it and try to avoid it, instead of waiting for it to happen, then avoiding it in the future which is the common response.
I would think that having delt with radiation prior people would be 'No way'
Japans government also tries very hard to maintain a positive image. I really do hope things aren't that bad as they say.
Given the history of spills I also believe that going after oil is dangerous and is something we need to step away from as well as it keeps happening.
I'm a firm believer in developing alternative renewable energy sources as we can to increase safety. I don't believe in any energy source as 100% safe,
but when something goes wrong with a hydro dam, somewhere as far as Japan, you don't end up with radiation in the snow on the west coast of Canada.
Sure, maybe it's not so bad for Tokyo, but even if no one "dies" from it, it's reached out pretty far. Setting up for events like this to happen
again and again sounds like a bad idea (And the definition of insanity - performing the same action over and over yet expecting different results)
I don't mean just Japan either, I don't rather much like the idea of large scale nuclear reactors period, anywhere.
People get , maybe radiation caused it, but they'll definitely tell you 'Well, you could have gotten X anyway so it might not be the radiation and these other no radiation things could have caused it' time and time again. Call it safe, build another plant.
P.S No the radiation levels weren't lethal or expected to cause any health concerns, but just a point at how far that stuff travels. Given how much radioactive water was dumped into the ocean....
I made comments that given the hands on experience with radiation related issues Japan has all the fanboys jumped up and down and flagged it troll.
Hope they put one in THEIR back yards next.
Okay.
W'e're in contact from evil aliens and letting them hide here. We use our cloaking / camouflage planet system to hide them from aliens who are good, against corruption and greed. They would free us and bring us to a utopian era, but the evil "The man" trying to keep us down with their fortress of HAARP will do
their best from liberating us.
HAARP prevents us from seeing what's really on the moon since it modifies the sky above us, so we can't see it properly. The moon is used as a place for interrogation, as it's too risky for certain individuals to have the remote chance to escape and tell the public.So we basically turned the moon into an orbiting prison.
I don't think that's quite the same.
Both nuclear bombs and reactors go through a process known as fission. /only/ difference is the enrichment process and rate of decay.
Both can use uranium 235, most do.
The
Enriched uranium allows it to react faster to the decay which promotes more neutrons, which causes more decay, which causes even more neutrons,
and the process continues.
Chernobyl - That's what happens when it gets out of hand and goes too fast. Too much heat is generated, melts casing, destroys reactor roads, metldown.
This is also what happened in Japan due to the tsunami, just not a complete failure like Chernobyl (Thank god / science / whatever you believe in that's good)
Nuclear bomb does the same thing. Just more enriched, faster reaction (Well, multitudes faster) and you get a massive thermal release, shockwave
and radiation spread.
I don't think it's more of a sensitivity thing as more as of 'Actually, we know exactly how devastating this is, not something simulated or based on statistic, we actually know first hand, and maybe shouldn't do this'
Analogy? I wanted to have something really clever to compare it to. But really, I don't. It's a terrible thing that happened.
Much like many things in history, we should do our best not to repeat it.
I don't believe they should have huge petro based power plants that should something go amiss incinerate exceptionally large areas and make them un-livable well beyond your life span, causing slow deaths to large populations with birth defects years to come.
That statement is just as silly as if you said 'OH, well bullets kill, and are made of metal, maybe no one should use metal there either?!'
I disagree with nuclear reactors in populated areas that should the worse happen would kill / destroy people's health. /huge/ accidents. I don't object to nuclear technology on small scale, submarines, space craft etc, where the risks
Most people ignore potential problems because it's never happened. Some people don't lock doors until something is stolen from them, as an example.
Japan had first hand experience with how deadly radiation is.
They should know the risks better than anyone, and I think the risks weren't worth it. Clearly it's hindsight now but I know I wouldn't want
a large scale nuclear reactor anywhere near me.
Accidents happen, but these become
are significantly lower.
Actually it's practical and would almost fall into the common sense category.
Japan experienced an atrocity when a nuclear bomb was detonated. Many suffered instant lost at the vaporization point.
Many others survived in agonizing pain due to the effects of radiation poisoning, killing them in days to weeks.
Some survived years and still suffered, and died because of radiation poisoning.
People to this day still experience some ill effects and birth defects due to that event. If I was a leader of my people and saw
the suffering this technology had brought them in the past, I'd want to keep it as far away from them as possible as to not make them
suffer similar ordeals again.
The dumb, insensitive, and offensiveness is the fact that nuclear reactors were built in japan anyway, and now their people are suffering from radiation yet again.
Given the history of japan, this may not be the ideal technology of choice.... :(
No insult intended by mentioning the past, but japan has not had good fortune when it comes to matters involving radioactive materials
We're actually in contact with alien species and they're assisting us avoid detection from more hostile species that consume resources of habitable words like us.
The changes HAARP initiates in the ionosphere, although not affecting us on the planet or anything overall in the near distance, planetary detection systems that have the ability to detect atmospheres to a limited degree are thrown off, making the assumption that this is not a water world with a perfect (life sustaining) temperature.
Naturally you can still tell by nearby areas like our solar system etc, but once you get a few thousand light years out we don't look so welcoming.
I'd insert comment about a specific alien overlord at this time but I don't want his followers..or...people who are against him or whatever "targeting" me but uh, yea, we're nice and safe from that dude now!
Government is the main body of power which regulates all other powers. We're concerned when the government is given even more insight into matters it does not need to regulate, giving it advanced abilities to target individuals that are not necessary.
The reason for this concern is that those in power often seek to remain in power, exercise power, or gain more power.
Should they be able to find out any who might limit that power, vote against the power, or make way to remove that power, it becomes a threat.
Then that power can use what is known as a very real thing, corruption, to use normal valid laws on unfounded principals to remove that threat.
An example would be someone who is publicly outspoken of the current government. If this person has not broken any laws, the government
could not have the police force officially detain them, put out a warrant to track them down and stop their protesting (Assuming it's legal protest)
However, if the government knows who their friends are, what they do, where they go, who employs this person, their direct boss and so on,
it makes it very easy to create a scenario where someone has now allegedly violated the law and can be brought it, or punished.
An example would be, suddenly everyone who has anything to do with this person suddenly gets constant audits, bank accounts frozen and other
misuses of power while under legal investigation. They can find a variety of misc reasons, whereas the real reason is they're trying to put pressure on the
person protesting the governments power, decisions and or anything relating to government interests (Note I say government, not the peoples)
The government could tell the active protester that they and their friends are under investigation in relation to allegations from an unknown source relating to why they were out of town etc. The active protester would know fully the message is back off or we make life difficult.
We trust third parties with information such as facebook because they do not have this power. The government keeps them in check and prevents this.
This is why though we get concerned when without permission the government is sifting through this third party information.
It's the simple matter of giving some power to one group, and some power to the other, keeping them separate for balance. Then
one group takes the power from the first group and combines it, then we get angry.
Makes sense.
I relate the Government to Gannon. It may have the triforce of power, and that's fine. Need a good antangonist anyway.
If it has the triforce of wisdom (All our information on everything) and then through legistration gets the triforce of courage, it becomes unstoppable, and
everyone wish it wants is granted.
You'll need to add some sort of value to make it worth while for people to subscribe beyond just being able to read it online.
Although people subscribe to newspapers etc so they can read it as it comes out, many people will wait to read it in a local
coffee shop or other means without paying additional fees for it.
It's a problem that the music industry is running into. Originally people would borrow their friends tapes, a few would make copies, but
often they would just borrow it and return it. Then they saw software licenses and they got all glossy eyed with cash signs.
"What if, we could make it so every person had to pay to listen to it personally as a license, instead of sharing hard copies!
We can move it from a you purchased this physical thing to a license!"
This was bad. It would be like if you bought your car, paid it in full, and then you gave it to your kid, and you were arrested as you only you
have a license to own and operate that vehicle. That your kid had to purchase their own licensed copy of that vehicle, and you cannot resell yours.
So there will definitely be copies of your magazine around. The only real way is creating a system to reward loyal subscribers.
Actually a lot of species die out all the time, "We didn't kill them all.." - George Carlin.
Most creatures will be relatively fine, they'll just move a little higher.
It's purely humans that will be drastically affected with our cities and ports etc. We're probably the largest quantity of species with the most habitats that will be
wrecked. We can't move cities. Bears don't care if they poop a little further op.
I went to go see Man Of Steel in the theater. The ticket price was 10.50 or something rather then taxes.
That price was actually really decent, figured, not bad for a movie experience.
Then I saw the concession stand. If I wanted two large popcorns, two pops, and a candy bar, it was 26$.
Yes, it was as expensive as dinner for two at a restaurant. Then you take on the movie, plus taxes.
So if a couple goes to the movies, tickets, pop corn, a drink and a candy bar, you're looking at 50$.
That, my friends, is what's killing the movies in my opinion, at least where I live around.
I'd much rather go to a nice restaurant at that price for a good meal and conversation.
If a large pop wasn't 7$, then I might consider enjoying the movie theater experience, at a reasonable cost.
Needless to say I saw the movie, enjoyed that, but didn't buy anything from the concession.
Or I'd go to the drive in, it's about a 40 minute drive, but their food is cheaper, and I get 2-3 movies
for the same price (10.50 or so), plus it's a real treat to have one still around.
Location - Canada, British Columbia, Cineplex/Silvercity