Reminds me of every time someone wants to redesign a bicycle or a motorcycle.. They try to get ride of the chain.
Despite the fact that the chain drive is increadably cheap, reliable and efficent compared to more complex solutions, like a drive shaft or belt.
Steam turbines are very very efficent, very reliable, and depending the infrastructure required, relatively cheap.
You get the added bonus of using the cooling system to generate energy, a good plan since most energy generators produce more heat than anything. Steam is good for taking all that chaotic waste heat and turning it back into something we can use: rotary power to turn a generator. not to mention extra radiation shielding from all that water.
Remember that they legalized for medicinal uses, not recreational as far as I know.
In that case, you put a label on it like you would any judgement imparing drug: Do not operate automobiles or heavy equipment while taking this medication.
Yes, it is an appropriate way of looking at it. Let me explain why, the deaths themselves are tragic to the dead, but the higher the percentage of loss of society as a whole escalates as it goes up.
Do you know any American military service member killed in the first, second Iraq or Afgan wars? How about family members?
I don't, and I come from a military family, I was in the military, and I have lived in military heavy cities all my life. My cohort was smack dab in the middle of the first Iraq War, I was just exiting the service as it started to build up. I know three that served during all 3 actions and one has been at the tip of the spear in two of them. He has spent half his adult life at age 22 somewhere in the Middle East wearing a uniform.
The US is a nation of 300+ million people, the deaths of US military and civilians is around a hundredth of a percent in all 3 wars combined.
The odds of being personally effected by those three wars is statistically low, even though a single person or family might be heavily impacted by those killed in the war.
Compare that to Iraq, where 120,000 to 750,000 depending on the estimate, were killed directly or indirectly during the war. That is a half to one in a half percent deaths of a population of 51 million.
Those percentages mean every person has multiple deaths in their circle of family and friends.
Now imagine 10%.
I am not a super socialite guy, I am an introvert really, but I have more 100 people in my life that are friends, neighbors or coworkers. Probably more like 200 or 300 if I stretch the definitions a little to people I interact with 2 or 3 times per month, business or personal.
Now, 20 or 30 of them are dead. For someone like my sister, that number might be as high as 100 or 150. For a highly connected person, like a teacher, doctor, or a reporter, a thousand. For a socially central person like a minister or community leader/organizer, several thousand.
Russia after ww2 with a death rate of 23%? 70 to 100 dead for someone like me. In the span of 7 years.
I cannot even imagine it at 10 percent, it would certainly leave my life in drastic turmoil, if not devastation. At least on or more of my closest friends would have died, depending my age at the time.
25%? How do you even continue as a cohesive society? I think if you look at Russia, Germany, and Cambodia they cease to function as the former society and reform under a new but related social structure. In the case of Russia and Cambodia that was part of the plan for Stalin and Pol Pot.
America underwent two 10% losses, the Civil War and WW1 combined with the Flu afterwards. In both cases you can see radical and sudden shifts in our society directly related to the deaths.
That does not mitigate the losses of any war compared to any other, but it does measure the additional relative impact to the social fabric and cohesion.
In short, while US military losses are tragic on the personal scale, they barely register on the national scale, probably because they are mostly military. Dying is part and parcel of being a soldier, however remote the possibility. 9/11 deaths had far more impact, as do the civilian deaths in Iraq. They will likely be dealing with that for as long as they will be dealing with the deaths caused by Saddam's regime.
Your civil war numbers are very low, new estimates based on better ground penetrating radar finding mass gravesites push the number of military ONLY deaths up to 1 million
Civilian deaths are still unknown, but scaling to the Napoleonic Wars that would be one to two civilian deaths per combatant death due to direct action, population displacement, disease, food and water disruption.
It aligns well with the census data which shows the US should have grown in population much faster, 11-12m vrs the 9m recorded.
Furthermore, the population of the US was around 31m, so up 10% of the population was killed. Iraq population was around 50m, even 750k is 1.5 percent.
Germany and Russia during WW2 are the only other countries that could compare to the true decimation of the population during the US Civil War.
Of course not, because they made a movie showing a man trying to kill the president, not making a movie calling for the killing of a president.
They did not even rise to the level of King Henry, there is no way to construe the movie as a wish to kill a president.
Rather surprising, considering some tried to tie Palin to the shooting of Gifford's despite the only tie being a map "targeting" her district, and despite the fact that the "targeting" metaphor is used widely in political ads and flyers.
Maybe if he had shot Carter instead someone would have tried to pin it on the filmmakers.
King Henry asked "Will no one rid me of this trurbulent priest?" Well, that is one version, there's are others reported, but the meaning was clear: someone cap that fucker. That incited some of his knights to do exactly that. Went medieval on his ass with broadswords.
If you wanted an updated version, it is like Don Corleone commenting what a beautiful family you have, and what a shame should something happen to them.
So if some one with sufficient real or moral authority and/or infulence made the same sort of comments about a President, it could be taken as a serious threat.
And when it comes to storage, it is the management software, not the hardware that is tricky.
30PB is a lot of data... Managing it is a big headache.
Tracking down how much is allocated and actually used, who owns what and how it is zoned on the fabric takes sophisticated software.
I work for a DC hosting company and when we take over operations from a non IT company and start accounting for storage, the amount of space that is mis-allocated or just plain orphaned runs about 20%?
Or more... It is amazing how much allocated but un-mounted storage we find.
Especially in this case where the brain trust appears to be one brain. Better to license and give him the resources to "feed the goose" than take this one golden egg.
Ditto on the Namiki Vanishing Point, but they do not write very fine.
Check out the Circa system on their site as well, very handy for organizing notes.
Paper is often overlooked. Buy yourself a few Rhodia pads to try out, the quality of the paper is much better, less writing friction and the skipping that causes and holds the ink better, reducing feathering and smear.
Slashdot Mirror
I tried, but my local shop was all out of buggy whips.
And Twinkies.
What I want to know is why autotrophs would need to drool.
Clearly not,
There were surviviors.
Reminds me of every time someone wants to redesign a bicycle or a motorcycle.. They try to get ride of the chain.
Despite the fact that the chain drive is increadably cheap, reliable and efficent compared to more complex solutions, like a drive shaft or belt.
Steam turbines are very very efficent, very reliable, and depending the infrastructure required, relatively cheap.
You get the added bonus of using the cooling system to generate energy, a good plan since most energy generators produce more heat than anything. Steam is good for taking all that chaotic waste heat and turning it back into something we can use: rotary power to turn a generator.
not to mention extra radiation shielding from all that water.
Kindergarten paste.
That has nothing to do with Slashdot, that is typical USian politics and religion.
Meh,
Give them a motorcycle license, if they are that bad of a driver, it will be self correcting.
Not having 2 tonnes of steel around you has a way of clarifiying your thoughts and reducing your distractions.
Yep, could be lack of sleep, alcohol, depression, grief, OxyContin, codine cold syrup, or Cannibis.
You don't have a right to drive, a you damn well don't have a right to drive impaired.
Remember that they legalized for medicinal uses, not recreational as far as I know.
In that case, you put a label on it like you would any judgement imparing drug: Do not operate automobiles or heavy equipment while taking this medication.
Typo above, 22 years of service, making him 41, not 22 years old as I wrote it.
Yes, it is an appropriate way of looking at it. Let me explain why, the deaths themselves are tragic to the dead, but the higher the percentage of loss of society as a whole escalates as it goes up.
Do you know any American military service member killed in the first, second Iraq or Afgan wars? How about family members?
I don't, and I come from a military family, I was in the military, and I have lived in military heavy cities all my life. My cohort was smack dab in the middle of the first Iraq War, I was just exiting the service as it started to build up. I know three that served during all 3 actions and one has been at the tip of the spear in two of them. He has spent half his adult life at age 22 somewhere in the Middle East wearing a uniform.
The US is a nation of 300+ million people, the deaths of US military and civilians is around a hundredth of a percent in all 3 wars combined.
The odds of being personally effected by those three wars is statistically low, even though a single person or family might be heavily impacted by those killed in the war.
Compare that to Iraq, where 120,000 to 750,000 depending on the estimate, were killed directly or indirectly during the war. That is a half to one in a half percent deaths of a population of 51 million.
Those percentages mean every person has multiple deaths in their circle of family and friends.
Now imagine 10%.
I am not a super socialite guy, I am an introvert really, but I have more 100 people in my life that are friends, neighbors or coworkers. Probably more like 200 or 300 if I stretch the definitions a little to people I interact with 2 or 3 times per month, business or personal.
Now, 20 or 30 of them are dead. For someone like my sister, that number might be as high as 100 or 150. For a highly connected person, like a teacher, doctor, or a reporter, a thousand. For a socially central person like a minister or community leader/organizer, several thousand.
Russia after ww2 with a death rate of 23%? 70 to 100 dead for someone like me. In the span of 7 years.
I cannot even imagine it at 10 percent, it would certainly leave my life in drastic turmoil, if not devastation. At least on or more of my closest friends would have died, depending my age at the time.
25%? How do you even continue as a cohesive society? I think if you look at Russia, Germany, and Cambodia they cease to function as the former society and reform under a new but related social structure. In the case of Russia and Cambodia that was part of the plan for Stalin and Pol Pot.
America underwent two 10% losses, the Civil War and WW1 combined with the Flu afterwards.
In both cases you can see radical and sudden shifts in our society directly related to the deaths.
That does not mitigate the losses of any war compared to any other, but it does measure the additional relative impact to the social fabric and cohesion.
In short, while US military losses are tragic on the personal scale, they barely register on the national scale, probably because they are mostly military. Dying is part and parcel of being a soldier, however remote the possibility.
9/11 deaths had far more impact, as do the civilian deaths in Iraq. They will likely be dealing with that for as long as they will be dealing with the deaths caused by Saddam's regime.
Your civil war numbers are very low, new estimates based on better ground penetrating radar finding mass gravesites push the number of military ONLY deaths up to 1 million
Civilian deaths are still unknown, but scaling to the Napoleonic Wars that would be one to two civilian deaths per combatant death due to direct action, population displacement, disease, food and water disruption.
It aligns well with the census data which shows the US should have grown in population much faster, 11-12m vrs the 9m recorded.
Furthermore, the population of the US was around 31m, so up 10% of the population was killed. Iraq population was around 50m, even 750k is 1.5 percent.
Germany and Russia during WW2 are the only other countries that could compare to the true decimation of the population during the US Civil War.
Of course not, because they made a movie showing a man trying to kill the president, not making a movie calling for the killing of a president.
They did not even rise to the level of King Henry, there is no way to construe the movie as a wish to kill a president.
Rather surprising, considering some tried to tie Palin to the shooting of Gifford's despite the only tie being a map "targeting" her district, and despite the fact that the "targeting" metaphor is used widely in political ads and flyers.
Maybe if he had shot Carter instead someone would have tried to pin it on the filmmakers.
Come on, Rap is Crap...
Until Weird Al gets hold of it, then it is ART. =)
Really? Ok, I will bite...
King Henry asked "Will no one rid me of this trurbulent priest?"
Well, that is one version, there's are others reported, but the meaning was clear: someone cap that fucker.
That incited some of his knights to do exactly that. Went medieval on his ass with broadswords.
If you wanted an updated version, it is like Don Corleone commenting what a beautiful family you have, and what a shame should something happen to them.
So if some one with sufficient real or moral authority and/or infulence made the same sort of comments about a President, it could be taken as a serious threat.
You still did not back up the statement that it is "MOSTLY used by Criminals".
You just gave us a link to a site that the FBI is "concerned", and provides little actual proof that it is being used.
In fact, the only "proof" was reported nerd-on-nerd crime of malware stealing bitcoins.
No, not that one.
This one:
The feedings will continue until morale improves...
You mean like Gates at 17?
And when it comes to storage, it is the management software, not the hardware that is tricky.
30PB is a lot of data... Managing it is a big headache.
Tracking down how much is allocated and actually used, who owns what and how it is zoned on the fabric takes sophisticated software.
I work for a DC hosting company and when we take over operations from a non IT company and start accounting for storage, the amount of space that is mis-allocated or just plain orphaned runs about 20%?
Or more... It is amazing how much allocated but un-mounted storage we find.
Especially in this case where the brain trust appears to be one brain. Better to license and give him the resources to "feed the goose" than take this one golden egg.
Delivery, mostly.
Hardest hit: Regis Philben.
And lo, the Heavens opened up, and a great deluge descended upon the earth... and there was great suffering and destruction.
and the people stood in orderly lines while others suffered, awaiting the new mini-bread-and-circus. /s
Just wait until it is the UN dictating the rules.
They are already lining up "blasphemy" laws restricting free speech and eyeballing a global Internet Tax.
Ditto on the Namiki Vanishing Point, but they do not write very fine.
Check out the Circa system on their site as well, very handy for organizing notes.
Paper is often overlooked. Buy yourself a few Rhodia pads to try out, the quality of the paper is much better, less writing friction and the skipping that causes and holds the ink better, reducing feathering and smear.