It's not always a matter of cheaper per watt, if you don't have the watt when needed, and more and more that's the problem with Solar/wind. Besides being totally honest Tepco's reactors experienced an earthquake at least ten times more powerful than their design limit and almost daily earthquakes at their design limit, then add in a tsunami about twice as high as designed for, and the reactors themselves were well beyond the manufacturer's life. I'm not sure their experience is applicable any more, an GE AP1000 is so much more advanced, has less mechanical safety equipment to fail or need power and is actually capable of passively cooling itself for 72 hours without intervention or any power.
It actually makes a lot of sense to Decommission our older gen I and II nuclear plants as well as coal fired plants with gen III+ and gen IV nuclear reactors due to their comparatively reduced radiological emissions potential.
Having the price corrected is not necessarily a good thing, most contracts generally have a clause where the total cost of all the parts is a percentage of the cost of a new end item. If all the parts purchased individually might be priced at 350% of a new plane, then when the price of a toilet seat that will probably never be replaced get adjusted down, then the prices of parts that are likely to be actually purchased automatically go up! Commodity parts are usually accurately priced, you can buy a grade 8 bolt anywhere, but a carbon-carbon brake pad for an F-18 is single sourced.
How do we know they aren't using performance enhancing drugs? We should test all physicists for drugs when they start talking about new forces or new theories of reality.
What would be performance enhancing drugs for a physicist, Provigil and perhaps Adderall or maybe Welbutrin?
Damn, I guess that explains the French and especially their men rather well. I don't think you can have an effective military made up of people who didn't even rate hind tit.
The other thing everybody forgets is the Corporate tax rates are what 17% vs. about 38% for the typical stockholder, so corporate income taxes is like a 50% tax break for the rich. If I had my way, corporate income taxes would be 33% of the dividends paid to non-US taxpayers and be done with it. That's something that would put a major dent into a lot of corporate graft, corruptions and other unpalatable shenanigans.
Well the reason it'll only dive to 60ft is it's made out of poorly made Kevlar/carbon fiber/fiberglass composite. If the used high quality steel it would go down 300 ft instead of 60 ft; however the composite is virtually invisible to the Navy/Coast Guard, so 60 ft is plenty.
I got to say you nailed it on the head there, if Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants produced an award of $2.86 million, reduced to $640,000 over coffee; imagine how much product liability insurance for cocaine would be.
TFA says he was an IT employee at British Airways. He was a dumb terrorist but also, a lousy IT professional, thinking that his substitution cypher was better than AES.
As they say: even worse than an idiot, is an idiot with initiative.
Call Karim an idiot is fitting for other reasons
Woolwich Crown Court was told that Bangladeshi Islamic activists who were in touch with Karim had rejected the use of common modern systems such as PGP or TrueCrypt in favour of a system which used Excel transposition tables, which they had invented themselves.
I've used some pretty sophisticated cyphers in my career, and they always boil down to how badly you want to keep your information private compared to how badly the other guys want your information, and that is moderated by how long your private information needs to be private. Having said that a single character substitution cypher is fine for a word or two,but for much more frequency analysis is going to bite your ass. Using double characters allows you to add multiple code groups per character based on frequency and even for word spaces, so now that would be good for sentences or even paragraphs. Triple character code groups allow you to add common words as well as characters so you can increase traffic quite a bit before frequency analysis bites you. Now here's one thing to keep in mind, using cyphers and encryption only draws attention to your communications, and sometimes who you are talking to is as important or more so than what your saying.
Well that's the whole point, the Japanese were running a race of a hundred heats and losing every one in a photo-finish, it's a testament to their fortitude that they hadn't given up in frustration along the way; and it's amazing that things aren't worse than they are.
The generators have been on site for quite a while now, long enough for them to have run out of fuel a couple times. I think you underestimate the enormity of the problems encountered. The Generators are on semi-trailers, three to a generator set, they don't fit into a normal cargo plane, you need something like a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy or a Antonov An-124 to do it, otherwise you have to ship them via cargo ship. If the Generators aren't sitting on the dock in Alaska, they take forever to get there. The generators suck fuel in monstrous amounts, Japan just doesn't have the infrastructure to keep them fueled in the area, their refineries which get most of their crude oil from near by Alaska are on the coast to facilitate receiving the crude and quite a few of them were smashed flat. Hi-ways are gone, bridges washed away, everybody that can help is helping, there are no spare resources to truck fuel in with.
How about fuel, the fuel pods washed away; enough fuel to run a generator big enough to put out 1,000 Amps at 11.8KV for a week, times 6 is what they needed. Fuel is a big problem now, they lost a lot of refinery capacity,
Why ban them for the few of us left with classic cars in 2050?
Because they are EVIL(tm) and people who use them are Apocalyptic Global Warming Heretics. Even if you were allowed a dispensation then everyone would want one. Far better to stamp them out like vermin; beside they are going to need the fuel for the Desert Wars. It's unlikely we'll be able to build the Saharan Solar Complex to generate electricity for European Union without a fight.
You're a Troll when you purposely "whack the hornets nest" to stir things up, this is really exclusive of being insightful or informative; like the child who cried out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" in The_Emperor's New Clothes. I actually enjoy seeing a good insightful Troll, they give my Oppositional-Defiant string a little stimulation. So it's really easy to be seen as a Troll and as insightful in a controversial thread, what happens later in meta-moderation is a different matter as well; not to often do you find people go back a re-read a thread to gain context before meta-moding.
looking through the timeline of programming languages, I don't see where Plankalkül is reported as being actually implemented, where as the big three Fortran (1957), Lisp(1959) and COBOL(1960). The 1960's literally exploded with new languages. Lisp is really from back there, the Lisp functions CAR and CDR are actually CPU registers from the IBM 360 and refer to how linked lists were stored on the machine.
magies are frequently modulated by switching the cathode voltage on and off to produce pulses or by varying the current to cause an amplitude modulation or by varying the voltage produce an FM modulation. An other possibility is constructing a waveguide with a flash tube through it, when the flash tube fires, the waveguide shorts out and causes the power output to shift allowing for modulation of the RF output. Magnetrons is notoriously frequency unstable, this usually isn't a problem in radar where a portion of the output of the transmitter RF is fed into the receiver's magic T mixer for frequency tracking. Personally I'd stay with FM modulation, the infinite sidebands will mitigate a lot of the carrier frequency instability. OBTW I was a missile guy not a radar guy, it was 30 years ago and certainly a long way from being a microwave engineer so anything I said may be full of shit.
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But what nobody is sure of is how many gallons of "gasoline" does it take to put a gallon of gasoline in the pump.
It's not always a matter of cheaper per watt, if you don't have the watt when needed, and more and more that's the problem with Solar/wind. Besides being totally honest Tepco's reactors experienced an earthquake at least ten times more powerful than their design limit and almost daily earthquakes at their design limit, then add in a tsunami about twice as high as designed for, and the reactors themselves were well beyond the manufacturer's life. I'm not sure their experience is applicable any more, an GE AP1000 is so much more advanced, has less mechanical safety equipment to fail or need power and is actually capable of passively cooling itself for 72 hours without intervention or any power.
It actually makes a lot of sense to Decommission our older gen I and II nuclear plants as well as coal fired plants with gen III+ and gen IV nuclear reactors due to their comparatively reduced radiological emissions potential.
mostly solutes and precipitates, maybe a trace of tritium or ditritium oxide and diduterium oxide
Wile should get extra points for being an old-school hacker, every Acme product he used was for a purpose unintended by the manufacturer.
Having the price corrected is not necessarily a good thing, most contracts generally have a clause where the total cost of all the parts is a percentage of the cost of a new end item. If all the parts purchased individually might be priced at 350% of a new plane, then when the price of a toilet seat that will probably never be replaced get adjusted down, then the prices of parts that are likely to be actually purchased automatically go up! Commodity parts are usually accurately priced, you can buy a grade 8 bolt anywhere, but a carbon-carbon brake pad for an F-18 is single sourced.
It's hard to get funding for philosophical wankery these days so most of the wankery occurs in Climatology now.
How do we know they aren't using performance enhancing drugs? We should test all physicists for drugs when they start talking about new forces or new theories of reality.
What would be performance enhancing drugs for a physicist, Provigil and perhaps Adderall or maybe Welbutrin?
Obviously you weren't around in the late 60's and early 70's when getting the real-deal LSD was pretty easy.
We'll see, the sound of ga-ga has been associated with babies cooing for so long it may well be indefensible trademark-wise.
Damn, I guess that explains the French and especially their men rather well. I don't think you can have an effective military made up of people who didn't even rate hind tit.
The other thing everybody forgets is the Corporate tax rates are what 17% vs. about 38% for the typical stockholder, so corporate income taxes is like a 50% tax break for the rich. If I had my way, corporate income taxes would be 33% of the dividends paid to non-US taxpayers and be done with it. That's something that would put a major dent into a lot of corporate graft, corruptions and other unpalatable shenanigans.
Well the reason it'll only dive to 60ft is it's made out of poorly made Kevlar/carbon fiber/fiberglass composite. If the used high quality steel it would go down 300 ft instead of 60 ft; however the composite is virtually invisible to the Navy/Coast Guard, so 60 ft is plenty.
I got to say you nailed it on the head there, if Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants produced an award of $2.86 million, reduced to $640,000 over coffee; imagine how much product liability insurance for cocaine would be.
TFA says he was an IT employee at British Airways. He was a dumb terrorist but also, a lousy IT professional, thinking that his substitution cypher was better than AES.
As they say: even worse than an idiot, is an idiot with initiative.
Call Karim an idiot is fitting for other reasons
Woolwich Crown Court was told that Bangladeshi Islamic activists who were in touch with Karim had rejected the use of common modern systems such as PGP or TrueCrypt in favour of a system which used Excel transposition tables, which they had invented themselves.
than his choice of security tools.
I've used some pretty sophisticated cyphers in my career, and they always boil down to how badly you want to keep your information private compared to how badly the other guys want your information, and that is moderated by how long your private information needs to be private. Having said that a single character substitution cypher is fine for a word or two,but for much more frequency analysis is going to bite your ass. Using double characters allows you to add multiple code groups per character based on frequency and even for word spaces, so now that would be good for sentences or even paragraphs. Triple character code groups allow you to add common words as well as characters so you can increase traffic quite a bit before frequency analysis bites you.
Now here's one thing to keep in mind, using cyphers and encryption only draws attention to your communications, and sometimes who you are talking to is as important or more so than what your saying.
You say that like El Reg has too much journalistic integrity to backdate an April fool's day story; reading too much BOFH tends to warp you a bit.
Well that's the whole point, the Japanese were running a race of a hundred heats and losing every one in a photo-finish, it's a testament to their fortitude that they hadn't given up in frustration along the way; and it's amazing that things aren't worse than they are.
The generators have been on site for quite a while now, long enough for them to have run out of fuel a couple times. I think you underestimate the enormity of the problems encountered. The Generators are on semi-trailers, three to a generator set, they don't fit into a normal cargo plane, you need something like a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy or a Antonov An-124 to do it, otherwise you have to ship them via cargo ship. If the Generators aren't sitting on the dock in Alaska, they take forever to get there. The generators suck fuel in monstrous amounts, Japan just doesn't have the infrastructure to keep them fueled in the area, their refineries which get most of their crude oil from near by Alaska are on the coast to facilitate receiving the crude and quite a few of them were smashed flat. Hi-ways are gone, bridges washed away, everybody that can help is helping, there are no spare resources to truck fuel in with.
The reactors scram automatically durring an Earthquake, using the generator to run the pumps is what started the Chernobyl disaster.
How about fuel, the fuel pods washed away; enough fuel to run a generator big enough to put out 1,000 Amps at 11.8KV for a week, times 6 is what they needed. Fuel is a big problem now, they lost a lot of refinery capacity,
Why ban them for the few of us left with classic cars in 2050?
Because they are EVIL(tm) and people who use them are Apocalyptic Global Warming Heretics. Even if you were allowed a dispensation then everyone would want one. Far better to stamp them out like vermin; beside they are going to need the fuel for the Desert Wars. It's unlikely we'll be able to build the Saharan Solar Complex to generate electricity for European Union without a fight.
You're a Troll when you purposely "whack the hornets nest" to stir things up, this is really exclusive of being insightful or informative; like the child who cried out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" in The_Emperor's New Clothes. I actually enjoy seeing a good insightful Troll, they give my Oppositional-Defiant string a little stimulation. So it's really easy to be seen as a Troll and as insightful in a controversial thread, what happens later in meta-moderation is a different matter as well; not to often do you find people go back a re-read a thread to gain context before meta-moding.
looking through the timeline of programming languages, I don't see where Plankalkül is reported as being actually implemented, where as the big three Fortran (1957), Lisp(1959) and COBOL(1960). The 1960's literally exploded with new languages. Lisp is really from back there, the Lisp functions CAR and CDR are actually CPU registers from the IBM 360 and refer to how linked lists were stored on the machine.
Maybe that's because it pretty much was the first language, well if you don't count machine code and assembler.
magies are frequently modulated by switching the cathode voltage on and off to produce pulses or by varying the current to cause an amplitude modulation or by varying the voltage produce an FM modulation. An other possibility is constructing a waveguide with a flash tube through it, when the flash tube fires, the waveguide shorts out and causes the power output to shift allowing for modulation of the RF output. Magnetrons is notoriously frequency unstable, this usually isn't a problem in radar where a portion of the output of the transmitter RF is fed into the receiver's magic T mixer for frequency tracking. Personally I'd stay with FM modulation, the infinite sidebands will mitigate a lot of the carrier frequency instability.
OBTW I was a missile guy not a radar guy, it was 30 years ago and certainly a long way from being a microwave engineer so anything I said may be full of shit.