I went back and read some Bloom County books recently. They are as dated as Doonesbury from the early 70s. Not that the weren't great, but they were a product of their time.
Read your Calvin and Hobbes books instead. Those are timeless. My kids love them.
Doesn't that seem stupid? They pay all that extra and they, at least the ones in the aisle throne, get every coach passenger's ass in their face as the hoi polloi wriggle themselves back to the cattle car. First class should board last, during a 10 minute period following an announcement in the lounge that all non-first passengers have boarded.
I can't imagine that the debate is really among the engineers. Any engineer that I've known would want to break the wings, just because it would be fun, make a big mess and a loud noise. The debate must be between the engineers and some management element that wants to portray the wings as 'unbreakable'
Daddy is a secret agent, so it is too dangerous for you to come to work with me. You can also use related stories to explain some of that 'Overtime' to the wife.
The side effects of losing 3 liters of blood before I can get you to the hospital are already well known and likely to be worse than the side effects of artificial blood. The big news here is that it could be stored longer with less refrigeration, so I can carry it on my bus.
That'd be true if the fuel costs were 100% of that 2.5 cent production cost. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute website:
U.S. nuclear power plants have the lowest production costs of any large-scale source of electricity, except hydroelectric. In 2005, the production cost for nuclear-generated electricity was 1.72 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), compared with 2.21 cents per kWh for coal, 7.51 cents for natural gas and 8.09 cents for oil. Fuel accounts for only 26 percent of the production cost for nuclear-generated electricity. In contrast, fuel accounts for more than three-quarters of the cost of coal-, gas- or oil-generated electricity.
Still, I would have guessed uranium cost were a lot less than 26%. I guess you learn something everyday, even if you spend it reading slashdot
Yeah, the prices seem awfully low to me too. I'd guess that the cost of fuel is not a large portion of the cost of operating a reactor facility.
Gasoline is about 20 - 30% of the cost of running a car IIRC, so a 50% increase in cost is huge. If fuel costs are only 1% of the cost of running a reactor, a 900% increase increases production cost by less than 10 %, an I bet fuel costs are far less than 1% of the total.
Since 9/11, US nuclear plants have probably spent as much money on guns for the security personel as they have on fuel. (assertion based on no real numbers)
I'd love to be able to pay less for an internet connection that is subsidized by MicroYahGooMazon payments my ISP and delivers fast performance to their sites, and vastly worse performance to other sites. Net Neutrality would prevent any carrier from offering such a plan.
The important part is "without a box" you can't use your old cable box and see the "in the clear" QAM channels. You need the HD box or NO box to see the HD channels included with your basic cable subscription.
I never knew about any of this until I bought an HD set to replace my old SD set. I was not planning on having any HD content, but when I plugged in my cable, there it was. Would not have seen it if I had a cable box in the way.
As a side note, I do not allow the cable companies to put their box in my house. I already have enough remotes to deal with. I don't want theirs.
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Sadly, the two Senators would be Barney Frank and Larry Craig.
Exactly. If I didn't have a use for Windows, I wouldn't have a use for Linux either.
Sounds like feature creep and bloat to me.
Lot of Andre Reed fans out there at Google, I guess.
I went back and read some Bloom County books recently. They are as dated as Doonesbury from the early 70s. Not that the weren't great, but they were a product of their time.
Read your Calvin and Hobbes books instead. Those are timeless. My kids love them.
Doesn't that seem stupid? They pay all that extra and they, at least the ones in the aisle throne, get every coach passenger's ass in their face as the hoi polloi wriggle themselves back to the cattle car. First class should board last, during a 10 minute period following an announcement in the lounge that all non-first passengers have boarded.
The Cat Herding commercial was funny if you were previously familiar with the cat herding metaphor.
If you ask me, all fonts besides Courier New and Arial are superfluous. I guess you could also have a proportional serif font, but I wouldn't use it.
Maybe that's why I'm not a web designer.
I can't imagine that the debate is really among the engineers. Any engineer that I've known would want to break the wings, just because it would be fun, make a big mess and a loud noise. The debate must be between the engineers and some management element that wants to portray the wings as 'unbreakable'
Daddy is a secret agent, so it is too dangerous for you to come to work with me. You can also use related stories to explain some of that 'Overtime' to the wife.
The side effects of losing 3 liters of blood before I can get you to the hospital are already well known and likely to be worse than the side effects of artificial blood. The big news here is that it could be stored longer with less refrigeration, so I can carry it on my bus.
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I like the idea of Unsupervised Software.
Whatever annoys Stallman the most.
That'd be true if the fuel costs were 100% of that 2.5 cent production cost. According to the Nuclear Energy Institute website:
U.S. nuclear power plants have the lowest production costs of any large-scale source of electricity, except hydroelectric. In 2005, the production cost for nuclear-generated electricity was 1.72 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), compared with 2.21 cents per kWh for coal, 7.51 cents for natural gas and 8.09 cents for oil. Fuel accounts for only 26 percent of the production cost for nuclear-generated electricity. In contrast, fuel accounts for more than three-quarters of the cost of coal-, gas- or oil-generated electricity.
Still, I would have guessed uranium cost were a lot less than 26%. I guess you learn something everyday, even if you spend it reading slashdot
Yeah, the prices seem awfully low to me too. I'd guess that the cost of fuel is not a large portion of the cost of operating a reactor facility.
Gasoline is about 20 - 30% of the cost of running a car IIRC, so a 50% increase in cost is huge. If fuel costs are only 1% of the cost of running a reactor, a 900% increase increases production cost by less than 10 %, an I bet fuel costs are far less than 1% of the total.
Since 9/11, US nuclear plants have probably spent as much money on guns for the security personel as they have on fuel. (assertion based on no real numbers)
My wife can't do that with the wok either.
I'd love to be able to pay less for an internet connection that is subsidized by MicroYahGooMazon payments my ISP and delivers fast performance to their sites, and vastly worse performance to other sites. Net Neutrality would prevent any carrier from offering such a plan.
37 year old System Admin that figured out last year that I really wanted to be a Doctor. We should start a club.
The important part is "without a box" you can't use your old cable box and see the "in the clear" QAM channels. You need the HD box or NO box to see the HD channels included with your basic cable subscription.
I never knew about any of this until I bought an HD set to replace my old SD set. I was not planning on having any HD content, but when I plugged in my cable, there it was. Would not have seen it if I had a cable box in the way.
As a side note, I do not allow the cable companies to put their box in my house. I already have enough remotes to deal with. I don't want theirs.
Not as far as I am concerned! To arms, my Brothers! Remember the Maine!
All future Apple products will support the Evil Bit.
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Let's wait to see whether the spouse he picks out doesn't spend everything he saved ....
I'd mod that up if my wife hadn't used up all my mod points.
This post is not a troll
I must inform President Kerry!
Me too. And I don't even password protect it.I can't afford to forget that password.
I store it on my easily stolen PDA as well.