Reprocessing is where this will eventually go. It simply has to. Dumping "waste" that is 80-90% usable fuel is about as stupid as it gets. Reprocessing will create new, usable fuel, reduce the volume of the high level nuclear waste and make the problem much more manageable. Burying spent fuel assemblies in some mountain is absolutely stupid.
Um.. Not true... Where he has the concurrence of Congress, he's gone that route. We got the tax cuts and the removal of Obamacare's mandate out of Congress you recall. Congress has a low low approval rating for a reason and their inability to actually do anything, right or wrong, is chief among them. This is not something the president has any power over.
So 45 was left with E/O's and executive branch activities to push his agenda, and that's what he's doing. Further, one has to wonder where you where with "I have a phone and an pen" used by the last oval office occupant? Do understand that a LOT of the E/O's from 45 have been undoing 44's E/O's, which 46 will have the option of reversing again. Don't bash 45 for acting the dictator when he's only undoing and doing stuff like 44 did..
If you want to bash somebody, bash Congress for doing nothing..
Actually, I don't think Agile runs contrary to Brooks. In fact, I think Agile flows pretty naturally from Brooks.
Of course, the term "agile" can be abused in astonishingly foolish ways (and yes, I've lived though some of these), but I actually think true Agile addresses many of the issues raised by Brooks as being keys to successful projects when properly done.
I read it because I need to remember the lessons. IF the young skulls full of mush refuse to understand it is their folly, not mine. They can take my advice, or not; they can learn the easy way (from others' mistakes) or the hard way (by making their own mistakes). Personally, I'm so close to being done here, I don't have a dog in this hunt anymore.
I've seen some young "professionals" dismiss "The Mythical Man Month" because it is old.
This is folly.. Brooks was right, there is nothing really new about the problems of executing engineering projects, and there solutions will never change.
Sitting here in Wilmimgton and this storm is a BIG nothing burger.
Good luck, keep your feet dry... I have friends in New Bern 100 miles north of you and I can tell you it's not a pretty sight there with the water backing up in the river which is over it's banks more than 5 feet and rising. It's going to be a mess down town and along the river. If you are above the water level, I guess it would be just a stormy and windy afternoon in Wilmington, it's mostly that in New Bern if you are on higher ground.
Also, remember this storm is only a cat 1 now, having dropped in intensity significantly before coming close to you. Further, it's going to be blowing and raining in Wilmington for more than a day more. Stay dry.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead.
I just searched Google and Twitter and there are no stories about it yet. I guess if Google doesn't know then it's likely not true or he just died seconds ago?
HSMM-Mesh works line of sight too. With 2W amps readily available, 600 Miles isn't some huge problem here. You may have to dial up the right parameters on the 802.11 link to account for the delay, but that's not hard with the HSSM-Mesh software.
Adhoc networking using HSMM-Mesh has been a reality on WRT54 hardware for YEARS. It can service multiple connection nodes, more than 1,000, including internet access if available to one or more nodes.
The flying of a GSM MSC/cell tower may be a bit less complex for the end user than having to have an HSMM-Mesh node to attach a network cable to but ham radio guys have been doing this on 2.4 GHz for years.
Also, flying a MSC/Cell Tower isn't all that unusual or novel either. We've been flying such things on fixed wing aircraft or in the back of trucks with crank up towers to provide emergency communications using cell phones for a long time too. Plus, flying HSMM-Mesh nodes on balloons has been done a lot too, to provide data network access to the balloon's GPS and cameras and run QSO's via data the data links.
My dad, a union member and a life long employee of a major airline, lost a lot of his his pension partly because the various unions forced the airline into an unsustainable financial condition. The demise of the airline was plain to see for a decade or more but the unions didn't care about if the airline survived, only that they negotiated more and more benefits, higher and higher pay, regardless of the company's ability to survive such costs. For decades the airline was underfunding the pension funds, acquiring massive debt and the unions didn't even bat an eyelash at the obvious disaster that approached. The unions just let it happen, let the bankruptcy happen, full knowing that the pension was under funded, that their past members would pay the price, facing a loss of income and health care coverage though the company.
In my view, the various unions failed my dad and their membership, past and present, by allowing the airline to go into receivership, cancelling all the union contracts for current members, destroying the financial lives or past members. They where more worried about staying in power so they could keep playing their political games as long as possible. They campaigned with their membership over "more money now" and simply didn't care about the future. They where stupid and in the end, EVERYBODY paid for their short sighted tactics. They blamed management for being poor, but in reality, they should have KNOWN what was about to happen and used their power to make management change, to keep the company from going down the drain, despite the failings of management. they could have, should have but simply didn't because it would have not served their primary purpose, stay in power and play political games. So they allowed the company to not fully fund the pension, allowed them to acquire unsustainable debts and literally strangled the goose laying the golden eggs by levying more and more labor costs on companies that could ill afford it.
In the end, it was Union members who paid the greatest price for this, guys like my dad who worked 25 years for the same airline and now faced a retirement with a fraction of the money he was promised, lost his travel benefits, lost his health care supplement and all the benefits the Union had negotiated for him in the past. But the Unions didn't get blamed much less accept responsibility for this, even though full knowing, the unions let it happen.
It would be really sad if this perception is true.
Personally, where I see the society decaying before my eyes and a general decaying has been evident though most of recent history, I don't think there is anything really new under the sun here. Society has cycled throughout history between excess and want, laziness and hard work, many times.
Perhaps the cycles are going deeper over time, but I see no natural reason why there won't be another resurgence of society eventually. Of course, such resurgences in society tend to be part of the aftermath of some huge human tragedy, such as a world war, financial collapse or deadly epidemic and it would be nice to avoid the suffering of such things, but history shows that eventually they come.
The evidence you cite, low sperm counts, gender identity and autism rates all could be brought back into historical line by any number of human calamities which could easily befall us. Sperm counts are largely due to the life of leisure to which we are accustom and perhaps the amount of hormones we ingest in our food supply. It's not that men cannot have kids, or even that they need medical assistance to overcome low sperm counts, though it will reduce the birth rate (which might not be bad for other reasons). The gender issue is self limiting and a reaction to the "free love" thing of the 1960's. The increase in autism may be due in large part to our ability to diagnose it, given it wasn't named before 1938 and was often seen and treated as other things before this point. It's sort of difficult to gauge the relative incidence in the population over long terms with only about 4 generations having been born since it was formally diagnosed as a disorder. Recent data on Autism does seem to indicate a rate increase, but it is likely due to diagnostic advances and catching less serious cases in our screening, not necessarily increasing rates. The lack of gender identity is not something I'm worried about, it will only limit population growth, which at this point wouldn't be a bad thing.
So, I cannot prove it will happen in the future, but history says we will cycle back up eventually.
Well, maybe, but I seem to recall MY parents saying that my generation took it to new lows too... I suppose one could argue that each generation since WW2 is worse than the last.
Which leads me to the following thought (not original to me). Hard times create strong people, Strong people create good times, Good times create weak people and Weak people create hard times.... It's a three generation cycle and we are three generations out from WW2, so could hard times be far off?
Just when you thought the snowflake generation couldn't possibly get any softer... they pull some shit like this.
Says every generation as they get older and wiser, looking at their offspring wondering "Why won't they listen?"
Why is it that I keep hearing my parents talk when it's my mouth that's moving? Why is it that the looks on my kids faces seem to mirror the thoughts I had when my parents tried to impart their life knowledge by saying similar things?
Somehow I figure the young will grow up eventually and will be saying the same things to their kids, in about 20 years..
I was *extremely* awkward and shy in High School/College and *HATED* public speaking. It's still high on my list of things I look for to NOT have as part of my job description. I am seriously bad at this kind of thing, but the fear of it it doesn't control me.
I was forced to do this in High School and College so I KNOW that I can do a presentation to a group, even a group of strangers. Where I still actively avoid such duties, but I'm not paralyzed with fear when doing such things is necessary. I don't want a job as a motivational speaker, but it was the standing in front of a class that got me past the fear of speaking in public. I don't like it, but I can do it.
So I say, get up there and do it, even if you are afraid, even if you are not very good, even if you make a total mess of it. If it's really bad, do it more often, join Toast Masters, what ever you need to do to make public speaking something you can at least muddle though. Your career and self esteem will thank you.
Yea, I'm inclined to agree that any sort of addictive component needs to be limited to adult purchase only and that concentration limits need to be enforced on manufacturers. The question is two fold, what addictive components will we allow and what age will be allowed to buy.
Until the specifics of the rules are decided, it's hard to know if the FDA is being reasonable or not.
Pretty sure the kids know exactly what they are doing. Kids smoke actual cigarettes too- and those taste like shit.
Do we have to ban all flavoured alcohol as well? Caffeinated drinks? Unhealthy foods?
Well, there have been bans on soda cups over 24 oz. in some places.... It's not like I've never heard arguments to ban all these things from those with a specific political persuasion.
You can sue anybody and the judge can just toss your lawsuit to the curb... You might be able to get an attorney to file the lawsuit for you if you pay them enough, but suing the FDA will get it tossed out before it ever reaches trial.
The FDA has no authority to regulate if the juice contains no nicotine and teens who don't already spoke don't use the nicotine juice. You can make any flavor with or without it, the nicotine is an add on.
What? The Food and Drug Administration most certainly DOES have the authority to regulate these things, nicotine or not. If you ingest it, inhale it, rub it on your skin or otherwise use it to get stuff into your body, even if it isn't the intended result, they have a say.
This isn't to say they *should* do this, only that they do have the authority.
Personally, I think they *should* put some curbs into this vaping thing, but only to limit the levels of the addictive components and perhaps limit the sales of the devices and the consumed components with addictive components to adults only. However, I'm not ready to argue these until the FDA has established the acceptable levels and rules related to sales and I agree they've not overstepped reason.
Almost as if MS was slapped down for... anti-competitive behavior under this same topic: browser integration into the OS.
Nah. I must be having deja-vu again...
Exactly what I'm thinking.. Um, You M$ guys/gals, you may not be old enough to remember, but M$ got slapped pretty hard for anti-competitive behavior with IE in the past in multiple countries. I suggest you tread lightly here.
And you know that there isn't an issue with non-union built aircraft.
Unions have had their day but they lost their way long ago and quit being about the worker and became all concerned about themselves and their political power. As they stopped being about jobs and working conditions, they've stopped being useful. They have killed more businesses and lost more jobs than they have maintained though unreasonable and unsustainable demands. Every major airline, every major car manufacturer have been ravaged by such nonsense and union members past and present have lost.
Now unions are falling out of favor. The reasons are obvious, they have left their first job and stopped being about protecting workers jobs and negotiating for the good of workers. They now are power hungry, drunk on political power, making long term demands of management that strangle the goose laying the golden eggs. As such, they have become useless and a shell of their past selves, surviving on empty promises while enriching themselves on the backs of their members almost as much as the evil management was 50 years ago.
At 3x higher mass or volume that would be boring.
Or did they possibly mean energy density?
They mean "Look at us! Invest in this company so I can pay my mortgage!"
This is a PR stunt of an article that literally is nonsense, but sounds to the nontechnical like something worthwhile. This is just an attempt to garner some venture capital to keep the lights on and pay salaries is my guess. Where they might have some interesting ideas, they sure didn't promise anything solid with the 2-3 times whatever statement, which is weasel wording if you ask me. It would let the VC money believe something that wasn't true, without actually having to technically lie to them and get sued for fraud.
Personally, if I had capital to invest, such a PR campaign would turn me off... But I'm guessing they might catch some funding by some greedy soul who doesn't understand and falls for the PR.
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Reprocessing is where this will eventually go. It simply has to. Dumping "waste" that is 80-90% usable fuel is about as stupid as it gets. Reprocessing will create new, usable fuel, reduce the volume of the high level nuclear waste and make the problem much more manageable. Burying spent fuel assemblies in some mountain is absolutely stupid.
Um.. Not true... Where he has the concurrence of Congress, he's gone that route. We got the tax cuts and the removal of Obamacare's mandate out of Congress you recall. Congress has a low low approval rating for a reason and their inability to actually do anything, right or wrong, is chief among them. This is not something the president has any power over.
So 45 was left with E/O's and executive branch activities to push his agenda, and that's what he's doing. Further, one has to wonder where you where with "I have a phone and an pen" used by the last oval office occupant? Do understand that a LOT of the E/O's from 45 have been undoing 44's E/O's, which 46 will have the option of reversing again. Don't bash 45 for acting the dictator when he's only undoing and doing stuff like 44 did..
If you want to bash somebody, bash Congress for doing nothing..
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Actually, I don't think Agile runs contrary to Brooks. In fact, I think Agile flows pretty naturally from Brooks.
Of course, the term "agile" can be abused in astonishingly foolish ways (and yes, I've lived though some of these), but I actually think true Agile addresses many of the issues raised by Brooks as being keys to successful projects when properly done.
So let's call Agile and Brooks complementary.
But will they learn the lessons from it?
I read it because I need to remember the lessons. IF the young skulls full of mush refuse to understand it is their folly, not mine. They can take my advice, or not; they can learn the easy way (from others' mistakes) or the hard way (by making their own mistakes). Personally, I'm so close to being done here, I don't have a dog in this hunt anymore.
I've seen some young "professionals" dismiss "The Mythical Man Month" because it is old.
This is folly.. Brooks was right, there is nothing really new about the problems of executing engineering projects, and there solutions will never change.
Everybody who engineers or manages engineers needs to read this book every few years.
"The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks.
Sitting here in Wilmimgton and this storm is a BIG nothing burger.
Good luck, keep your feet dry... I have friends in New Bern 100 miles north of you and I can tell you it's not a pretty sight there with the water backing up in the river which is over it's banks more than 5 feet and rising. It's going to be a mess down town and along the river. If you are above the water level, I guess it would be just a stormy and windy afternoon in Wilmington, it's mostly that in New Bern if you are on higher ground.
Also, remember this storm is only a cat 1 now, having dropped in intensity significantly before coming close to you. Further, it's going to be blowing and raining in Wilmington for more than a day more. Stay dry.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead.
I just searched Google and Twitter and there are no stories about it yet. I guess if Google doesn't know then it's likely not true or he just died seconds ago?
HSMM-Mesh will do 802.11b/g speeds just fine. Which is pretty good for remote data links build with nodes which can be had for less than $50 each...
HSMM-Mesh works line of sight too. With 2W amps readily available, 600 Miles isn't some huge problem here. You may have to dial up the right parameters on the 802.11 link to account for the delay, but that's not hard with the HSSM-Mesh software.
I'm sorry, this isn't some huge accomplishment.
Adhoc networking using HSMM-Mesh has been a reality on WRT54 hardware for YEARS. It can service multiple connection nodes, more than 1,000, including internet access if available to one or more nodes.
The flying of a GSM MSC/cell tower may be a bit less complex for the end user than having to have an HSMM-Mesh node to attach a network cable to but ham radio guys have been doing this on 2.4 GHz for years.
Also, flying a MSC/Cell Tower isn't all that unusual or novel either. We've been flying such things on fixed wing aircraft or in the back of trucks with crank up towers to provide emergency communications using cell phones for a long time too. Plus, flying HSMM-Mesh nodes on balloons has been done a lot too, to provide data network access to the balloon's GPS and cameras and run QSO's via data the data links.
Sorry Google, I'm not all that impressed..
My dad, a union member and a life long employee of a major airline, lost a lot of his his pension partly because the various unions forced the airline into an unsustainable financial condition. The demise of the airline was plain to see for a decade or more but the unions didn't care about if the airline survived, only that they negotiated more and more benefits, higher and higher pay, regardless of the company's ability to survive such costs. For decades the airline was underfunding the pension funds, acquiring massive debt and the unions didn't even bat an eyelash at the obvious disaster that approached. The unions just let it happen, let the bankruptcy happen, full knowing that the pension was under funded, that their past members would pay the price, facing a loss of income and health care coverage though the company.
In my view, the various unions failed my dad and their membership, past and present, by allowing the airline to go into receivership, cancelling all the union contracts for current members, destroying the financial lives or past members. They where more worried about staying in power so they could keep playing their political games as long as possible. They campaigned with their membership over "more money now" and simply didn't care about the future. They where stupid and in the end, EVERYBODY paid for their short sighted tactics. They blamed management for being poor, but in reality, they should have KNOWN what was about to happen and used their power to make management change, to keep the company from going down the drain, despite the failings of management. they could have, should have but simply didn't because it would have not served their primary purpose, stay in power and play political games. So they allowed the company to not fully fund the pension, allowed them to acquire unsustainable debts and literally strangled the goose laying the golden eggs by levying more and more labor costs on companies that could ill afford it.
In the end, it was Union members who paid the greatest price for this, guys like my dad who worked 25 years for the same airline and now faced a retirement with a fraction of the money he was promised, lost his travel benefits, lost his health care supplement and all the benefits the Union had negotiated for him in the past. But the Unions didn't get blamed much less accept responsibility for this, even though full knowing, the unions let it happen.
It would be really sad if this perception is true.
Personally, where I see the society decaying before my eyes and a general decaying has been evident though most of recent history, I don't think there is anything really new under the sun here. Society has cycled throughout history between excess and want, laziness and hard work, many times.
Perhaps the cycles are going deeper over time, but I see no natural reason why there won't be another resurgence of society eventually. Of course, such resurgences in society tend to be part of the aftermath of some huge human tragedy, such as a world war, financial collapse or deadly epidemic and it would be nice to avoid the suffering of such things, but history shows that eventually they come.
The evidence you cite, low sperm counts, gender identity and autism rates all could be brought back into historical line by any number of human calamities which could easily befall us. Sperm counts are largely due to the life of leisure to which we are accustom and perhaps the amount of hormones we ingest in our food supply. It's not that men cannot have kids, or even that they need medical assistance to overcome low sperm counts, though it will reduce the birth rate (which might not be bad for other reasons). The gender issue is self limiting and a reaction to the "free love" thing of the 1960's. The increase in autism may be due in large part to our ability to diagnose it, given it wasn't named before 1938 and was often seen and treated as other things before this point. It's sort of difficult to gauge the relative incidence in the population over long terms with only about 4 generations having been born since it was formally diagnosed as a disorder. Recent data on Autism does seem to indicate a rate increase, but it is likely due to diagnostic advances and catching less serious cases in our screening, not necessarily increasing rates. The lack of gender identity is not something I'm worried about, it will only limit population growth, which at this point wouldn't be a bad thing.
So, I cannot prove it will happen in the future, but history says we will cycle back up eventually.
Well, maybe, but I seem to recall MY parents saying that my generation took it to new lows too... I suppose one could argue that each generation since WW2 is worse than the last.
Which leads me to the following thought (not original to me). Hard times create strong people, Strong people create good times, Good times create weak people and Weak people create hard times.... It's a three generation cycle and we are three generations out from WW2, so could hard times be far off?
Just when you thought the snowflake generation couldn't possibly get any softer... they pull some shit like this.
Says every generation as they get older and wiser, looking at their offspring wondering "Why won't they listen?"
Why is it that I keep hearing my parents talk when it's my mouth that's moving? Why is it that the looks on my kids faces seem to mirror the thoughts I had when my parents tried to impart their life knowledge by saying similar things?
Somehow I figure the young will grow up eventually and will be saying the same things to their kids, in about 20 years..
Seriously, just do it.
I was *extremely* awkward and shy in High School/College and *HATED* public speaking. It's still high on my list of things I look for to NOT have as part of my job description. I am seriously bad at this kind of thing, but the fear of it it doesn't control me.
I was forced to do this in High School and College so I KNOW that I can do a presentation to a group, even a group of strangers. Where I still actively avoid such duties, but I'm not paralyzed with fear when doing such things is necessary. I don't want a job as a motivational speaker, but it was the standing in front of a class that got me past the fear of speaking in public. I don't like it, but I can do it.
So I say, get up there and do it, even if you are afraid, even if you are not very good, even if you make a total mess of it. If it's really bad, do it more often, join Toast Masters, what ever you need to do to make public speaking something you can at least muddle though. Your career and self esteem will thank you.
Yea, I'm inclined to agree that any sort of addictive component needs to be limited to adult purchase only and that concentration limits need to be enforced on manufacturers. The question is two fold, what addictive components will we allow and what age will be allowed to buy.
Until the specifics of the rules are decided, it's hard to know if the FDA is being reasonable or not.
Pretty sure the kids know exactly what they are doing. Kids smoke actual cigarettes too- and those taste like shit.
Do we have to ban all flavoured alcohol as well? Caffeinated drinks? Unhealthy foods?
Well, there have been bans on soda cups over 24 oz. in some places.... It's not like I've never heard arguments to ban all these things from those with a specific political persuasion.
Personally, I will sue the FDA if they do this.
No you won't.
You can sue anybody and the judge can just toss your lawsuit to the curb... You might be able to get an attorney to file the lawsuit for you if you pay them enough, but suing the FDA will get it tossed out before it ever reaches trial.
The FDA has no authority to regulate if the juice contains no nicotine and teens who don't already spoke don't use the nicotine juice. You can make any flavor with or without it, the nicotine is an add on.
What? The Food and Drug Administration most certainly DOES have the authority to regulate these things, nicotine or not. If you ingest it, inhale it, rub it on your skin or otherwise use it to get stuff into your body, even if it isn't the intended result, they have a say.
This isn't to say they *should* do this, only that they do have the authority.
Personally, I think they *should* put some curbs into this vaping thing, but only to limit the levels of the addictive components and perhaps limit the sales of the devices and the consumed components with addictive components to adults only. However, I'm not ready to argue these until the FDA has established the acceptable levels and rules related to sales and I agree they've not overstepped reason.
Ban cigarettes while your at it dipshit.
And piss off half of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina when you end their livelihoods? I don't think that's a political possibility.
Tabaco is still BIG money politically, even in it's much diminished state of late.
Almost as if MS was slapped down for ... anti-competitive behavior under this same topic: browser integration into the OS.
Nah. I must be having deja-vu again...
Exactly what I'm thinking.. Um, You M$ guys/gals, you may not be old enough to remember, but M$ got slapped pretty hard for anti-competitive behavior with IE in the past in multiple countries. I suggest you tread lightly here.
And you know that there isn't an issue with non-union built aircraft.
Unions have had their day but they lost their way long ago and quit being about the worker and became all concerned about themselves and their political power. As they stopped being about jobs and working conditions, they've stopped being useful. They have killed more businesses and lost more jobs than they have maintained though unreasonable and unsustainable demands. Every major airline, every major car manufacturer have been ravaged by such nonsense and union members past and present have lost.
Now unions are falling out of favor. The reasons are obvious, they have left their first job and stopped being about protecting workers jobs and negotiating for the good of workers. They now are power hungry, drunk on political power, making long term demands of management that strangle the goose laying the golden eggs. As such, they have become useless and a shell of their past selves, surviving on empty promises while enriching themselves on the backs of their members almost as much as the evil management was 50 years ago.
At 3x higher mass or volume that would be boring. Or did they possibly mean energy density?
They mean "Look at us! Invest in this company so I can pay my mortgage!"
This is a PR stunt of an article that literally is nonsense, but sounds to the nontechnical like something worthwhile. This is just an attempt to garner some venture capital to keep the lights on and pay salaries is my guess. Where they might have some interesting ideas, they sure didn't promise anything solid with the 2-3 times whatever statement, which is weasel wording if you ask me. It would let the VC money believe something that wasn't true, without actually having to technically lie to them and get sued for fraud.
Personally, if I had capital to invest, such a PR campaign would turn me off... But I'm guessing they might catch some funding by some greedy soul who doesn't understand and falls for the PR.