Slashdot Mirror


User: budgenator

budgenator's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
10,671
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 10,671

  1. a tsunami from the Canary Islands is a more likely danger than the sea rising 3 mm a year is; and if that happens Florida is erased anyway.

  2. Re:Poor planning on As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    It's rising at the rate of 3mm a year, even your graph shows that, not really that scary. If you really look close you'll see that the error band is bigger than the projected rise!

  3. Some Peanut Farmer from Georgia decide he didn't trust the process.

  4. The point is the oceans are rising at a rate of about 3mm per year, not likely to swamp anything expectantly, and if it does happen the reactors will have been at cold-halt status for decades.

    Records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year since 1900.

    This rate may be increasing. Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year. Is sea level rising?

  5. Re:Permanent Storage on As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    They need to do something quick, because after a measly 3 centuries all the Cs137 will be decayed and the remainder is high in pure plutonium and easily extracted!

  6. Re:Cities below sea level [Re:At My Door] on As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Different type of swamp, Florida has Fresh Water Lens contributes to the swamps; pumping out the fresh water and draining the swamps contribute to all of those sinkholes we keep hearing about.

  7. Re:Toyota has always had this problem on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't notice an A10 or a F16 coming to light your ass up until it 6 miles away your shit is weak anyway.

  8. Re:Toyota has always had this problem on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilux, 4x2 WorkMate Double-Cab Pickup 2.4L Turbo–diesel Towing capacity: 2,000 to 3,500 lbs (1587Kg), payload 2700 LBS 1240kg;
    ZSU 23-2 Weight 0.95 tonnes (2,094 LBS) the gun puts them at 76% capacity. Add in the stress from actually firing the gun fatigue failure will happen real quick especially if they were to try and carry some ammunition as well, the weight of a few 23×152mmB 50 round belts for a gun with a cyclic rate of 400 RPM adds up real quick. There is a real reason why the Russians put those guns on a trailer, It's a hell of a lot easier to engineer a single purpose trailer to withstand the stresses, than it it to engineer a single purpose truck.
      Ford F-250, Towing capacity: 12,200 to 12,500 lbs (5669 Kg), Payload: 3,058 to 4,059 lbs (1841 Kg), the Ford could pull this off, but it's iffy; the Ford can pull trailers that the Toyota couldn't keep it's front wheels on the ground trying to pull, try doing this in a Hilux.

  9. A. I am not convinced his life is definitely in danger.

    You know the funny thing about assuming the death threats are not serious is you only have to be wrong once.

  10. He's suing because that car salesman lied to him by saying they would remove the decals and they didn't; his Son was starting to remove the decals himself and the salesman told him to stop. If your going to assume responsibility for doing something, then you should whine about being held responsible for it.

  11. So we are going to give the Fatcat Corporate whore Car Dealership a free pass and rag on the poor plumber trying to feed his family and keep his employee's employed? The Plumber is getting 100's death threats, his poor receptionist is going to have PTSD from this ongoing harassment. I'll never figure out how you liberals think

  12. I, the High Priest of the Temple of the Mother, will sue your blasphemous ass for sullying the name of our beloved Goddess Isis!

  13. Re:Toyota has always had this problem on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This guy traded in a Ford F250, which is a medium duty full sized pickup truck with a 300HP engine vs, the toyota Hiluz a light duty compact pickup with a 150 Hp engine. The toyota has a hard time hauling a 12.5mm machinegun, that antiaircraft gun would definitely break it's back, I'd bet the F250 doesn't last long with that thing onboard. The gun is going to have no accuracy, after the first round the whole truck is going to rocking all over the place.
    Here's my version
    1. Get a bunch of F250's Mossy Oak Desert Camo specials,
    2. Sell to Turkish Used car Salesmen.
    3. Have onboard Sync send emails with truck's GPS location to IhateTerrorists@CIA.gov every day
    4. Have the trucks engine shutdown every time an A10 or F16 comes within 10Km of truck

  14. Re:Reagan Crime Wave caused by lead on Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The correlation of reduced lead in the environment and reduced violent behavior is a lot more plausible, and a lot more testable.

  15. Re:The wikipedia has the quote on Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well the ozone hole is still there, so I'd have to say the jury is still out on R12.

  16. At least with wind, you can still use the land for something productive like farming, a big solar farm is pretty useless.

  17. Good Grief, considering that Koko the Gorilla scored an 85 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, the scores on that list doesn't say much for our fellow humans.

  18. Re:Don't judge us by this place on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    These comments were reported not in The Onion, but rather by the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald. They came during a Woodland Town Council meeting in which Strata Solar Company sought to rezone an area northeast of the town, off of US Highway 258, to build a solar farm.

    So we have a News Paper Reporter, reporting on what someone said in public, being reported by yet an other Internet Journalist; Yeah that's going to be accurate.

    expressed concern that a proposed solar farm would block photosynthesis, and prevent nearby plants from growing.

    Silly woman didn't realize that were going to use the new invisible solar panels that shade the plants growing under them!

  19. Re:Don't judge us by this place on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, we all know the libtards journalists at Ars Technica will purposely seek out the most "colorfull" characters in town, to paint any deviation form their personal and institutional agenda in the worst possible light, unlike conservative jornalists who will purposely seek out the most "colorfull" characters in town, to paint any deviation form their personal and institutional agenda in the worst possible light.

  20. Re:Countdown ... on Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no way to know from the limited information in the article if the protein is important or not, or even if it is porcine, or some gene inserted from a virus. I know Humans have 30 copies of the gene for Reverse transcriptase, an emzyme only used by retroviruses,

    Farmers are pretty conservative, Mega-Ag can do a lot of advertising and social-validation campaigns that make it seem like everybody is jumping on the new latest-greatest thing, but Farmer's tend to wait until the County Extension Agent can point them to a couple Operations with good results in the real world locally. I see Farmers still using mouldboard plows from the 50's while their neighbor is using low-till, one pass tillage.

    Farmers don't care about their livestocks lifespan, if they live long enough to hit market weight they're happy.

  21. We urgently need the technology to hear the voices in the senator's head.

    We can't tell if it's encrypted or just gibberish.

  22. What I suspect is happening is they are trying to pass an inconsequential law that can't possibly do what it is supposed to do so nobody really opposes it, who is going to get excited over a law saying the government can try to decrypt comms that they can't decrypt? Later they use that as a precedence to get something more intrusive passed, like making it illegal to distribute encryption software w/o a backdoor.

  23. Re:Consider the progression on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    At best Trump is likely much better at getting himself surrounded by good people and pointing them at an ambiguous task and letting them off the chain; at worse he'll be our Zaphod Beeblebrox, who's purpose isn't to wield power, but to draw attention away from it.

  24. Re: Consider the progression on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Your right, in fact if a Republican is elected, Obama's Executive Orders will be reversed in mass within months. In fact I'm surprised that Conservatives haven't realised that if all States must except any States Same Sex Marriage Licenses, then All States have to except any States CCW permit.

  25. Mass shooting Tracker counted 2 kids with BB guns as a mass shooting