Very insightful reply. Thank you. I agree that LFTRs are father out than 'standard' IFRs, but if we set our minds to it, I bet we could design and build a safe*, working 1 GW+ LFTR reactor (or a bunch of smaller ones) within a decade.
*safe is an absolute; naturally there's no such thing, but I'll take 'as safe as can be designed' over continuing to burn coal.
Burning it in an IFR or LFTR (see Destruction of existing long lived wastes) will take care of the long-lived actinides and reduce the maximum half-life in the waste to something on the order of 30 years versus 24,000 years. "Fission products at that point, in about 300 years [10 half-lives], are less radioactive than natural uranium." - that's how 'clean' the waste is from a LFTR. Current PWR waste is 'hot' for 10,000-1,000,000 years in comparison.
Again, almost everyone is missing the big picture - I said it had to be a requirement as a result of being born, not as a result of anything else like owing a car/house/computer/etc.
Let me spell it out for you - Imagine someone born at home in the hills of West Virginia. The child's parents, for whatever reason, decide to home-school and provide all the necessities of life - shelter, food, etc, and the child does not choose to drive, etc. Once an adult, what actions must that person take or what expenses is that person liable for, BY LAW, by virtue of being born? All I can think of is register for the draft and be drafted if the person is male.
You didn't get the main point and went off on a rant. NONE of the things you mention are required AS A RESULT OF MERELY BEING BORN! Get it?
The mandatory purchase of insurance is not a tax, it is a financial purchase required because you were born.
Even if the fine has been declared a tax, it is still a penalty by whatever name they need to use to make it constitutional. If I have no taxable income, or even better, no income at all, am I still liable for the penalty 'tax'? If the penalty is not based on income, then it's clearly not a tax as we know it. It would be the first federal flat-rate, fixed-value 'tax' on the books that I know of.
The land one is an individual case based on being a landowner. I'm talking about something that is a universal requirement of action required by virtue of being born, not results of previously-made choices. The draft is a good example - I knew I'd forgotten one.
That government is not going to have a bigger hand in healthcare than it already has?
So you don't think that giving the IRS the power to enforce the insurance mandate AND ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL MEDICAL RECORDS isn't the government having a 'bigger hand'? That feels like the whole arm to me.
One guy in a previous post claimed he saw the Amber alert on the friggin' Keno machines in a casino, for Pete's sake. What's next? Electronic billboards? The instrument panel of your car? Hearing aids? Morse code flashing indoor lighting? Skywriting?
We don't ballyhoo our [non-existent] National Health Service to the world as the pinnacle of Socialism while accepting charity from a country we look down our noses at for being uncivilized and barbaric with regard to health care.
It would be like us claiming our system is perfect in the face of Obamacare while accepting donations of chicken bones and rattles from Amazonian witch doctors.
From a purely precedent standpoint, the OP is at least somewhat correct. This is the first time in the history of the US that any government - federal, state, or local - has been given the power to force a citizen (with the threat of fines and arrest) to purchase a commercial product. It was very obvious that Obama wanted to make this a precedent - he didn't take the easy way out and claim it was a tax, he wanted it to be clear that this was a new power for government.
Think about it a little - what other things can you think of that a citizen is required to do by a government as a result of being born and NOT as the result of a personal choice?
* Must you have a SSN? Nope. You are not required to apply for one. * Do you have to pay taxes? If you choose to not work, no job, no income, no taxes (I assume your family is willing to support you). * Do you have to attend public school? No, you can be home-schooled or just not attend (your parents might get in trouble if the gov't knows about you, or you could've been born at home).
The only thing I can think of is that males of a certain age must register for the draft. That's literally all, except now you must also buy insurance.
I ran into the same thing in Lancaster County, PA. Apparently there's a price/tax structure for Amish/Mennonites and everyone else. I bought some items at a farm stand, and noticed that there were two registers - one used for 'locals' and the other for 'the English'. Not sure why there's a difference. I'm fairly certain the totals were different, but I'm not sure if it was the price or the tax.
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Eventually, we could be spraying Vietnam era herbicides and defoliants.
We already are. The most popular herbicide around, 2,4-D, was a major ingredient in Agent Orange.
UDP? A single UDP port on my local box can send UDP packets to any host/port on the internet.
Very insightful reply. Thank you. I agree that LFTRs are father out than 'standard' IFRs, but if we set our minds to it, I bet we could design and build a safe*, working 1 GW+ LFTR reactor (or a bunch of smaller ones) within a decade.
*safe is an absolute; naturally there's no such thing, but I'll take 'as safe as can be designed' over continuing to burn coal.
Burning it in an IFR or LFTR (see Destruction of existing long lived wastes) will take care of the long-lived actinides and reduce the maximum half-life in the waste to something on the order of 30 years versus 24,000 years. "Fission products at that point, in about 300 years [10 half-lives], are less radioactive than natural uranium." - that's how 'clean' the waste is from a LFTR. Current PWR waste is 'hot' for 10,000-1,000,000 years in comparison.
I'm sick of the insighting of ...
Refer to my sig, please. The word is 'inciting'. Plus, I think it should be "I'm sick of the incitement of ...".
I don't know who S. Johnson is, but that's been my .sig for decades.
I agree - goat is magnificent! Curried goat or jerk goat, especially from The Jerk Pit here in RVA or from Rankin's Jerk Center on Grand Cayman.
Again, almost everyone is missing the big picture - I said it had to be a requirement as a result of being born, not as a result of anything else like owing a car/house/computer/etc.
Let me spell it out for you - Imagine someone born at home in the hills of West Virginia. The child's parents, for whatever reason, decide to home-school and provide all the necessities of life - shelter, food, etc, and the child does not choose to drive, etc. Once an adult, what actions must that person take or what expenses is that person liable for, BY LAW, by virtue of being born? All I can think of is register for the draft and be drafted if the person is male.
... implying around 2^61 to 2^62 mitosis events
I hope they used a 128 bit unsigned variable for that. If not, all their research material will disappear when it loops around 2^64. :-)
You didn't get the main point and went off on a rant. NONE of the things you mention are required AS A RESULT OF MERELY BEING BORN! Get it?
The mandatory purchase of insurance is not a tax, it is a financial purchase required because you were born.
Even if the fine has been declared a tax, it is still a penalty by whatever name they need to use to make it constitutional. If I have no taxable income, or even better, no income at all, am I still liable for the penalty 'tax'? If the penalty is not based on income, then it's clearly not a tax as we know it. It would be the first federal flat-rate, fixed-value 'tax' on the books that I know of.
The land one is an individual case based on being a landowner. I'm talking about something that is a universal requirement of action required by virtue of being born, not results of previously-made choices. The draft is a good example - I knew I'd forgotten one.
That government is not going to have a bigger hand in healthcare than it already has?
So you don't think that giving the IRS the power to enforce the insurance mandate AND ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL MEDICAL RECORDS isn't the government having a 'bigger hand'? That feels like the whole arm to me.
I didn't say it had to cost, I said it had to be a requirement as a result of being born.
Most of them rather not use that last word at all.
Sorry for the double reply - so substitute Civilization for Socialism; same idea.
Been there, seen first-hand the angst of people waiting for CAT and MRI scans for possibly life-threatening issues.
One guy in a previous post claimed he saw the Amber alert on the friggin' Keno machines in a casino, for Pete's sake. What's next? Electronic billboards? The instrument panel of your car? Hearing aids? Morse code flashing indoor lighting? Skywriting?
Sheesh!
We don't ballyhoo our [non-existent] National Health Service to the world as the pinnacle of Socialism while accepting charity from a country we look down our noses at for being uncivilized and barbaric with regard to health care.
It would be like us claiming our system is perfect in the face of Obamacare while accepting donations of chicken bones and rattles from Amazonian witch doctors.
From a purely precedent standpoint, the OP is at least somewhat correct. This is the first time in the history of the US that any government - federal, state, or local - has been given the power to force a citizen (with the threat of fines and arrest) to purchase a commercial product. It was very obvious that Obama wanted to make this a precedent - he didn't take the easy way out and claim it was a tax, he wanted it to be clear that this was a new power for government.
Think about it a little - what other things can you think of that a citizen is required to do by a government as a result of being born and NOT as the result of a personal choice?
* Must you have a SSN? Nope. You are not required to apply for one.
* Do you have to pay taxes? If you choose to not work, no job, no income, no taxes (I assume your family is willing to support you).
* Do you have to attend public school? No, you can be home-schooled or just not attend (your parents might get in trouble if the gov't knows about you, or you could've been born at home).
The only thing I can think of is that males of a certain age must register for the draft. That's literally all, except now you must also buy insurance.
It was so sad and funny at the same time - during the London Olympics open ceremony, while they were riding bicycles around heaping praise on their awesome National Health Service, General Electric ran a commercial about how they'd donated a bunch of neonatal incubators to a hospital in London because the NHS couldn't afford it!
Awesome health care, indeed.
Hilbert would be pissed if we started sending I/Q and stopped using his transform in SDRs.
I ran into the same thing in Lancaster County, PA. Apparently there's a price/tax structure for Amish/Mennonites and everyone else. I bought some items at a farm stand, and noticed that there were two registers - one used for 'locals' and the other for 'the English'. Not sure why there's a difference. I'm fairly certain the totals were different, but I'm not sure if it was the price or the tax.
I'm sure you do hear that a lot, but it's such a good joke, I couldn't resist.
It's really no different to someone being an "expert on historical linguistics" ...
Yes, but are you a cunning linguist?
Project HARP and Project SHARP.
Let me guess, the rounding difference between b = b + (VALUE + VALUE) and d = (d + VALUE) + VALUE ?
For what it's worth, Java returns the following using the default double type and with the strictfp keyword on the class:
Results:
0.060000000000000005000000000000
0.060000000000000000000000000000
0.060000000000000005000000000000
0.060000000000000005000000000000