Russian security official Alexander Bortnikov says "in all likelihood it was a terror attack" that caused EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo to crash into the Mediterranean early Thursday with 66 people on board.
Yes good points regarding difficulty of all roads.
I don't want to sit in a car, bored to tears, when I could be spending my time driving; driving's fun, and it's certainly more fun than sitting and waiting.
The efficiencies they're talking about are more along the lines of a trip taking a reasonable amount of time. Where my trip to work should be 25 minutes (no traffic), today it was 40 minutes. One woman in front of me was driving stupidly as she put on her makeup. If she were in a self-driving car instead, then she wouldn't have contributed to the traffic problem. Removing these inconsistent drivers would lead to less time on the road. So therefore, your choice would be between driving and sitting on the brakes for 40+ minutes, or waiting (but not driving) for 25 minutes.
Furthermore, I forgot to add that pointing to the places in the world that are worse is valid, when the reason they are worse are the consequences of what Bernie is trying to say.
Is capitalism great? No.
Why don't we do Socialism? Because people suck, in general.
What is the best system, taking into account that people suck? Capitalism.
Should those people you mentioned have been prosecuted? Yes. Hopefully that changes. But to strive for this "perfect" world you speak of with imperfect human actors in charge is a recipe for disaster.
Right now it is just Wall Street that wasn't prosecuted, but in the new Democratic Socialist America you can start to see all kinds of people who are immune from prosecution for their malicious or bad decisions.
But what about all the millennials like myself and my friends who went to engineering school and things are pretty good?
You have choices, and to my peers who went into "communications" and came out with any debt at all are suffering as they wait tables. Just because you made an easy but uninformed choice doesn't mean the entire world needs to reset.
Going to post-secondary school is not the answer. Going into a field that (gasp) has DEMAND for jobs is a good answer. The millennials who went to trade or engineering schools are singing a different tune than their Bernie-supporting peers.
But as an addendum, for anyone wanting to understand more, say you are in a society that I am "bashing", the quality of the environment is just horrible. This lack of quality everywhere is what would leave the greatest effect on the aforementioned American college students.
OK great, you don't need a car. But it seems more that you can't afford one as opposed to not wanting one? Having a car is, at the basic level, the freedom to go to your garage, get in a car, and go where you want.
For the places in Eastern Europe that I've frequently visited over the last 3 years:
The air reeks of diesel.
The quality of everything is terrible; tiles on the floor, indoor or outdoor walls (why is everything so crooked??), the roads, everything seems like the guy who made or installed it was drunk, stupid, or just didn't care.
If you are really a programmer and did not have excess money for savings or leisure, then try to see what went wrong with your situation in the US. That might happen for those on the bottom of their career in San Francisco but the United States is much bigger than the bay area.
Yes I'm sorry I should have said "Post-Soviet". As in other comments I think my description of "Eastern Europe" doesn't match that as people who believe they live in "Eastern Europe."
As far as experience I travel ~7 times a year to a "Post-Soviet" country that would like to consider themselves in "Europe", but are geographically more in "Eurasia." As far as this country is concerned on the potentially most eastern edge of "Europe," I don't see any of what you are saying.
Perhaps you live in a Polish city or Prague (or similar), which I personally don't consider "Eastern Europe"? If you are from one of those places and you consider yourself in "Eastern Europe", perhaps you should change your branding to something else, like "Central Europe"!!
My only solace is that America is still immigrating a substantial proportion of their population. The "backhill hillbillys" of America who "love Capitalism" need to realize that their most benevolent Capitalistic friends are immigrants, who fought to get to America over the bullshit from where they came, and these "millennials" (of which I am one? but whatever) are the spoiled idiots who have yet to see what destruction their misinformed "opinions" can bring.
People only see and evaluate their experiences; what they have lived. If you put these same college students into another system for a couple months they might change their tune.
All it takes is a trip to Eastern Europe for any American to realize their world is pretty darn good. But given modern politics we might have to bring the Post-Soviet style problems to America firsthand before they can realize the situation.
That's quite a different argument and not one I think you could prove where you suffered any consequence.
Given the fact that T-Mobile has invested in their infrastructure so much that it can compete or beat Verizon's, your experience before "Binge On" is almost always going to be worse than the present.
Are the metabolic processes that absorb radio-isotopes into the food chain part of the studies to be a Nuclear Engineer?
Yes.
Your not the only smart person here and if you don't have the patience to defend your point of veiw when challenged then it must be pretty fragile.
If you had knowledge the world was round and MrsKaos was posting on a website about how it is obviously flat, and your shipping business depending on it, wouldn't you say something?
I'll get to answering your other points as I get time over the next couple of days.
I'll be here, "freakishly", waiting to help answer any questions you have.
Brain cells and associated nerve connections are necessary to operate muscles. If you exercise more, or perhaps even hone a skill associated with exercise (playing basketball or tennis perhaps), then you would also expect the brain to grow connections associated with these activities.
So yes, the brain grows. Does it make a person smarter? Not necessarily, it makes a person more able to move that muscle with finer control.
Also, this seems to be a repeat of the same study in the past, though its first occurrence on/.?:
In case you didn't see the reply of raymorris below, your guess that "you", the "train passenger", pays for infrastructure for motorists is quite in fact blatantly wrong and actually the inverse; motorists pay a portion of the infrastructure costs of a "train passenger."
Also I second what raymorris says; the problem of traffic jams is factors such as accidents. I would add that, related to Chicagoland, my rant:
Policemen sitting on the side of the road causes traffic to slow down dangerously and abruptly when 'stupid' drivers see the police officer (since everyone is 'speeding' above the 55mph) and think that by braking they are going to somehow help the situation; in fact it causes a chain reaction of brakeing aka traffic. On this topic I think it would be great public policy of Policemen weren't allowed to sit on the side of the road acting like they're going to pull someone over for speeding; they never do! What are they doing? Waiting for an accident to happen so they can go respond? They're really raising the probability of an accident it seems by creating traffic.
On that topic 90% of drivers think they are in the top 50% of skilled drivers, and that drivers who don't drive like them are 'wrong' and 'stupid', including myself. So this means when you get the idiot incapable of managing a short but safe distance, breaking irregularly, or enforcing a 60mph speed in a 55mph zone because "people who break the law by speeding are stupid and I need to do something about it", this also causes traffic. I follow cars extremely close and drive 70+mph like a majority of drivers in rush hour Chicago, and it works great as long as everyone else maintains the pattern; counting on the fact that the driver 4 cars ahead of you braking will cause the car 3 cars ahead of you to need to brake, etc., but not really caring about the driver directly ahead of you because for all intents and purposes the driver ahead of you should be driving and not braking on the interstate highway system.
I would gladly give up my extremely-close-following-speeding driving pattern when we all have cars driven by AIs and the cars are almost touching bumper to bumper in a much more optimal configuration for high density traffic, but for now I'll just have to continue cursing at the idiots who actually think they are helping by being the standout fool braking and leaving too much space. Thanks for the traffic today, stupid person!
But when you drive down I-65 in Indiana and all the windmills aren't turning, what do you do?
1. Write a letter to Congress by the candlelight asking to re-institute regulated markets and then loosen regulations on nuclear plants and coal plants
2. Pray to the sky fairy for better storage technology next year before your third kid dies from lack of electricity at the local hospital.
Does it really matter that $WindPower can reach astonishingly low $/kWh "some" of the time?
Which is also has not been subjected to any enrichment by nuclear industry processes. I specifically referred to artificially made elements.
Fission power plant fuel has minor enrichments to the level of 3-4% U-235. Artificially made elements that occur through the transmutation of U-238 and other transuranics in the fuel material are also contained within the cladding. What "artificially made" elements are you referencing? Humans do not come into contact with "artificially made" transuranic elements that are of concern for internal exposure in their daily lives.
Yes I can, I just don't know how much of them Fukushima, Chernobyl or other accidents have released.
You literally get more radiation living next to a coal power than you would living next to Three Mile Island at the time of the disaster, or presently.
Do you life next to the damaged Fukushima reactor? You have a problem. Do you live 15km away from the Fukushima reactor? You are getting less radiation exposure than living in Colorado. Were you exposed to radionuclides after the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus, Ukraine, or Russia? Take the iodine pills the Soviet Union gave you immediately; after that your biggest health risk is the stress of living in what you "perceive" to be a toxic environment (though it was later proved not!).
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's irrational. What you're doing is how social proof spreads ignorance.
Not that I should make an appeal to authority or that you should trust me solely based on my credentials, but since you "called me out" for not understanding it I will inform you that I am a trained nuclear engineer working in the nuclear industry, wasting my time posting on the internet fighting someone like you because the level of misinformation out there is too much to bear. Please listen to experts and stop your conspiracy theories and stop spreading true ignorance of the basic reality.
Please elaborate. Even though you shouldn't trust someone because of their title, I literally work as a nuclear engineer in the nuclear industry and deal with these issues on a daily basis. I have the scientific and engineering training to calculate, assess, and actually understand the problems you are posing.
All of the waste of fission reactors are contained in the cladding. You actually get more radiation exposure living next to a coal plant, since the heavy metals are released into the atmosphere.
I don't want to discount your point that internal exposure is greatly more important for alpha emissions, but you cannot say that the environment has any alpha-emitting radionuclides that you can accidentally get into your body and worry about. Literally all radionuclides that you need to worry about for internal exposure are intentionally and deliberately ingested. The most recent case was the intentional poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko; that will not be happening to ordinary citizens.
TL:DR stop spreading irrational fear about nuclear fission power plants.
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Well to add to the AC's post, I have it already on my Lenovo X1 Carbon from a few years ago, and the AC is thinking on the right track.
So to prevent being abused by SJWs, you suggest exiling myself?
Literally incorrect, as AmiMoJo mentioned it first by all observational standards.
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Why can't we have intelligent discourse on this site, instead of this polarizing nonsense?
Russian security official Alexander Bortnikov says "in all likelihood it was a terror attack" that caused EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo to crash into the Mediterranean early Thursday with 66 people on board.
http://bigstory.ap.org/fc727f9...
Yes good points regarding difficulty of all roads.
I don't want to sit in a car, bored to tears, when I could be spending my time driving; driving's fun, and it's certainly more fun than sitting and waiting.
The efficiencies they're talking about are more along the lines of a trip taking a reasonable amount of time. Where my trip to work should be 25 minutes (no traffic), today it was 40 minutes. One woman in front of me was driving stupidly as she put on her makeup. If she were in a self-driving car instead, then she wouldn't have contributed to the traffic problem. Removing these inconsistent drivers would lead to less time on the road. So therefore, your choice would be between driving and sitting on the brakes for 40+ minutes, or waiting (but not driving) for 25 minutes.
Furthermore, I forgot to add that pointing to the places in the world that are worse is valid, when the reason they are worse are the consequences of what Bernie is trying to say.
Is capitalism great? No.
Why don't we do Socialism? Because people suck, in general.
What is the best system, taking into account that people suck? Capitalism.
Should those people you mentioned have been prosecuted? Yes. Hopefully that changes. But to strive for this "perfect" world you speak of with imperfect human actors in charge is a recipe for disaster.
Right now it is just Wall Street that wasn't prosecuted, but in the new Democratic Socialist America you can start to see all kinds of people who are immune from prosecution for their malicious or bad decisions.
But what about all the millennials like myself and my friends who went to engineering school and things are pretty good?
You have choices, and to my peers who went into "communications" and came out with any debt at all are suffering as they wait tables. Just because you made an easy but uninformed choice doesn't mean the entire world needs to reset.
Going to post-secondary school is not the answer. Going into a field that (gasp) has DEMAND for jobs is a good answer. The millennials who went to trade or engineering schools are singing a different tune than their Bernie-supporting peers.
OK great, you don't need a car. But it seems more that you can't afford one as opposed to not wanting one? Having a car is, at the basic level, the freedom to go to your garage, get in a car, and go where you want.
For the places in Eastern Europe that I've frequently visited over the last 3 years:
Yes I'm sorry I should have said "Post-Soviet". As in other comments I think my description of "Eastern Europe" doesn't match that as people who believe they live in "Eastern Europe."
As far as experience I travel ~7 times a year to a "Post-Soviet" country that would like to consider themselves in "Europe", but are geographically more in "Eurasia." As far as this country is concerned on the potentially most eastern edge of "Europe," I don't see any of what you are saying.
Perhaps you live in a Polish city or Prague (or similar), which I personally don't consider "Eastern Europe"? If you are from one of those places and you consider yourself in "Eastern Europe", perhaps you should change your branding to something else, like "Central Europe"!!
Yea sorry, I think my descriptor is off. I don't personally consider Prague as "Eastern Europe", in my mind.
Sorry to me I think of Poland as being in "Europe". Maybe a better descriptor would've been "Post-Soviet"?
My only solace is that America is still immigrating a substantial proportion of their population. The "backhill hillbillys" of America who "love Capitalism" need to realize that their most benevolent Capitalistic friends are immigrants, who fought to get to America over the bullshit from where they came, and these "millennials" (of which I am one? but whatever) are the spoiled idiots who have yet to see what destruction their misinformed "opinions" can bring.
People only see and evaluate their experiences; what they have lived. If you put these same college students into another system for a couple months they might change their tune.
All it takes is a trip to Eastern Europe for any American to realize their world is pretty darn good. But given modern politics we might have to bring the Post-Soviet style problems to America firsthand before they can realize the situation.
That's quite a different argument and not one I think you could prove where you suffered any consequence.
Given the fact that T-Mobile has invested in their infrastructure so much that it can compete or beat Verizon's, your experience before "Binge On" is almost always going to be worse than the present.
You have exactly that if you turn off "Binge On."
It is trivially easy to turn it on and off at your whim.
I'm a reasonable, smart guy
Bias runs both ways.
Are the metabolic processes that absorb radio-isotopes into the food chain part of the studies to be a Nuclear Engineer?
Yes.
Your not the only smart person here and if you don't have the patience to defend your point of veiw when challenged then it must be pretty fragile.
If you had knowledge the world was round and MrsKaos was posting on a website about how it is obviously flat, and your shipping business depending on it, wouldn't you say something?
I'll get to answering your other points as I get time over the next couple of days.
I'll be here, "freakishly", waiting to help answer any questions you have.
Brain cells and associated nerve connections are necessary to operate muscles. If you exercise more, or perhaps even hone a skill associated with exercise (playing basketball or tennis perhaps), then you would also expect the brain to grow connections associated with these activities.
So yes, the brain grows. Does it make a person smarter? Not necessarily, it makes a person more able to move that muscle with finer control.
Also, this seems to be a repeat of the same study in the past, though its first occurrence on /.?:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/study-people-who-exercise-have-larger-brains-later-in-life/264017/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/10/13/how-exercise-makes-your-brain-grow/#18d2c88248c1
In case you didn't see the reply of raymorris below, your guess that "you", the "train passenger", pays for infrastructure for motorists is quite in fact blatantly wrong and actually the inverse; motorists pay a portion of the infrastructure costs of a "train passenger."
Also I second what raymorris says; the problem of traffic jams is factors such as accidents. I would add that, related to Chicagoland, my rant:
Policemen sitting on the side of the road causes traffic to slow down dangerously and abruptly when 'stupid' drivers see the police officer (since everyone is 'speeding' above the 55mph) and think that by braking they are going to somehow help the situation; in fact it causes a chain reaction of brakeing aka traffic. On this topic I think it would be great public policy of Policemen weren't allowed to sit on the side of the road acting like they're going to pull someone over for speeding; they never do! What are they doing? Waiting for an accident to happen so they can go respond? They're really raising the probability of an accident it seems by creating traffic.
On that topic 90% of drivers think they are in the top 50% of skilled drivers, and that drivers who don't drive like them are 'wrong' and 'stupid', including myself. So this means when you get the idiot incapable of managing a short but safe distance, breaking irregularly, or enforcing a 60mph speed in a 55mph zone because "people who break the law by speeding are stupid and I need to do something about it", this also causes traffic. I follow cars extremely close and drive 70+mph like a majority of drivers in rush hour Chicago, and it works great as long as everyone else maintains the pattern; counting on the fact that the driver 4 cars ahead of you braking will cause the car 3 cars ahead of you to need to brake, etc., but not really caring about the driver directly ahead of you because for all intents and purposes the driver ahead of you should be driving and not braking on the interstate highway system.
I would gladly give up my extremely-close-following-speeding driving pattern when we all have cars driven by AIs and the cars are almost touching bumper to bumper in a much more optimal configuration for high density traffic, but for now I'll just have to continue cursing at the idiots who actually think they are helping by being the standout fool braking and leaving too much space. Thanks for the traffic today, stupid person!
But when you drive down I-65 in Indiana and all the windmills aren't turning, what do you do?
1. Write a letter to Congress by the candlelight asking to re-institute regulated markets and then loosen regulations on nuclear plants and coal plants
2. Pray to the sky fairy for better storage technology next year before your third kid dies from lack of electricity at the local hospital.
Does it really matter that $WindPower can reach astonishingly low $/kWh "some" of the time?
Which is also has not been subjected to any enrichment by nuclear industry processes. I specifically referred to artificially made elements.
Fission power plant fuel has minor enrichments to the level of 3-4% U-235. Artificially made elements that occur through the transmutation of U-238 and other transuranics in the fuel material are also contained within the cladding. What "artificially made" elements are you referencing? Humans do not come into contact with "artificially made" transuranic elements that are of concern for internal exposure in their daily lives.
Yes I can, I just don't know how much of them Fukushima, Chernobyl or other accidents have released.
Sorry but
Yes: http://science.time.com/2013/0...
You: http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
Can: http://www.who.int/ionizing_ra...
You literally get more radiation living next to a coal power than you would living next to Three Mile Island at the time of the disaster, or presently.
Coal source 1: http://www.scientificamerican....
Coal source 2: http://www.reboundhealth.com/c...
Do you life next to the damaged Fukushima reactor? You have a problem. Do you live 15km away from the Fukushima reactor? You are getting less radiation exposure than living in Colorado. Were you exposed to radionuclides after the Chernobyl disaster in Belarus, Ukraine, or Russia? Take the iodine pills the Soviet Union gave you immediately; after that your biggest health risk is the stress of living in what you "perceive" to be a toxic environment (though it was later proved not!).
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's irrational. What you're doing is how social proof spreads ignorance.
Not that I should make an appeal to authority or that you should trust me solely based on my credentials, but since you "called me out" for not understanding it I will inform you that I am a trained nuclear engineer working in the nuclear industry, wasting my time posting on the internet fighting someone like you because the level of misinformation out there is too much to bear. Please listen to experts and stop your conspiracy theories and stop spreading true ignorance of the basic reality.
The true problem is a stigma attached to the concept of radiation.
I do hear people in the U.S. fearing any exposure of radiation is negative.
Apologies with my reply to your other comment, I really wanted to back up and support your case, sorry that wasn't more clear.
Meanwhile check out MrKaos, the true enemy referenced earlier who replied to another of my posts here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Drafting a response to try to change his opinions with facts now...
No sorry, I meant to be on your side.
Please elaborate. Even though you shouldn't trust someone because of their title, I literally work as a nuclear engineer in the nuclear industry and deal with these issues on a daily basis. I have the scientific and engineering training to calculate, assess, and actually understand the problems you are posing.
All of the waste of fission reactors are contained in the cladding. You actually get more radiation exposure living next to a coal plant, since the heavy metals are released into the atmosphere.
I don't want to discount your point that internal exposure is greatly more important for alpha emissions, but you cannot say that the environment has any alpha-emitting radionuclides that you can accidentally get into your body and worry about. Literally all radionuclides that you need to worry about for internal exposure are intentionally and deliberately ingested. The most recent case was the intentional poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko; that will not be happening to ordinary citizens.
TL:DR stop spreading irrational fear about nuclear fission power plants.