I read that whole page and it's sounds nice and all but where exactly on my tablet do I swap the current user? There is no log in screen and there doesn't seem to be an interface for that, at least I can't find it, so the parent was correct in a way. When most people (ie non programmers) see multiuser, they think switching users like windows, not just having separate saved variable spaces. IANAP.
I don't know what the odds are specifically but I know I taught 2 people how to drive when I was 20 while I was in the army. At that time I also taught many how to drive a manual transmissioned vehicle and how to drive "off road." So technically those people knew how to drive, just not a manual 6 wheel drive 2.5T truck. The first 2 came from up north though and so never needed to know how to drive because they had subways and whatnot.
Even though they are slow and outdated, the Casio line of phones are Milspec ruggedized and as long as the o-ringed jack plugs are in place, it will survive a beating. These phones are the called the Commando (droid), Brigade (a side flip w/keyboard), Boulder(flip), & Ravine(flip). You can even use the touchscreen and take a call on the Commando with it sitting in a bucket of water! I had one. It was sweet but an 800MHz cpu and Gingerbread left something to be desired.
But when you try to tell someone that, all they can think of is Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Imagine that. I guess we need to bring back the "Clean, Safe and Too Cheap to Meter" public service announcements.
You took that statement out of context and you know it. Nice try. The 3 major failures have all been because of human error, either in the operation of or in the design of said reactors. The newest reactors have had all those years and all those failures to recitify most of those problems. They will not be perfect, and there is a good probability that another disaster will happen regardless of what we do, but the newer designs are safer than the old precisely because we found out what went wrong then and designed around our mistakes. That's progress right there. Do you know how annoying it would be to get anywhere if we decided that because them newfangled horseless carriages were too dangerous and just stopped all development of the car at the Model T? Planes crash, cruise ships catch fire, bridges collapse, coal plants dump waste, wind turbines fall down, etc. We do not let that stop us. We get back on that bike and we keep riding. Be all bootstrappy n stuff. I know I've heard you preach that before, Pope.
Thanks for reducing your power consumption. Unfortunately, myself and millions of others have increased ours to compensate. I never claimed to not be part of the problem:)
Thanks, your post was quite informative. I stated elsewhere that all 3 of those events were PEBKAC errors. People are hard to engineer around. I haven't studied MSRs in great detail but what I have looked into with pebble bed reactors, was that because of the way the helium was blown through the reactor as the coolant, if that was lost then the reactor would simply cool down to the base temperature of the pile. It can't runaway. Did I read that wrong?
Newer reactors simply have the benefit of decades worth of safety enhancements being built-in from day-1.
That fact is what makes all the older reactors obsolete. Not only that but when I said that they have ran past thier expiry date, you probably already know, that the physical parts themselves have degraded. If it weren't for all the red tape and politics, it would be cheaper, easier, and safer to just make a new one than rebuild an old one.
And most definitely look at transitioning to carbon fiber bodies instead of that beautiful but terribly heavy stainless steel. At least they don't make them like they did in 1885- they were the size of TRAINS!
Well I will for one. I get my power from TVA which is government ran. It is hands down the best power system I have ever used and I would even say the best in the world. This is what taxes are for. I would have no problem paying taxes for quality infrasturcture like that and if you lived in this area you'd be crazy not to agree.
Oh I could foresee us using all the things you mentioned. I am not pro-nuclear in the sense that it is a one size fits all solution. You pick the technology that works the best for your area. If you got good winds, you do turbines. If you have a river, you build a dam. Right tool for the job as they say. I HOPE your thought that we'll need no reactors in 5 years happens. I just can't take that bet. So let's use em all.
Now that right there is some truth I can't argue over. The 3 biggest accidents we have had have all been PEBKAC. There's no stopping that. Humans will always screw off, get tired, cheap out, and so on. You don't let this stop the advancement in society. Sometimes a space shuttle will blow up, a plane will crash, a building may topple over, but you don't stop launching, flying, or building stuff. You analyze what the hell happened and you do what is reasonable to ensure it doesn't happen again. By no means should we lay down and give up though.
Oh well please, AC, enlighten us with how exactly you propose we generate and supply the 1.21 GW of power that each person will eventually need. Our society craves more power (of all kinds!) and capitalism flourishes when each participant is continuously consuming more and more. You will not get us, as a modern society with all of our toys, to take a step back in time and do without. It just won't happen. GP is correct, we have several technologies, such as pebble bed reactors, that are not the unsafe designs of the 50s and 60s. But when you try to tell someone that, all they can think of is Chernobyl and Fukushima. Both were outdated and should have been scrapped but due to irrational fear, were allowed to keep running past thier expiration date.
This will get me some great downmodding but I just don't give a damn. When Slick Willy was president, times were never better, especially for us geeks. We could get damned near any job we wanted, we were making high 5 & 6 digit salaries and because we were all viewed as rockstars, could dictate what we were paid, when the hell we were gonna show up and what we were gonna be wearing when we did it. The employee dictated to the employer but today? Hell no! We are continuously told we will work 80 hours this week and be on call the rest of our "free" time, we'll be fucking happy we get paid the pittance we do and if we don't like it, get the hell out cause there are 100 other unemployed programmers beating down the door to get in here. Not only that but the geek world was actually innovating. We had all kinds of bad ass projects going on* and money was flying. I don't give a damn what Clinton enacted and I certainly don't give a shit he was fucking ugly chicks. My standard of living has never been higher and I will tell my great great grandkids the best president EVAR was Slick Willy.
*Even everyone's favorite dead company to beat on, Neuticles, was innovating. They just didn't have much of a market.
Well from what I gathered from his post, you're the idiot. The links he posted are examples of this theater in action. He isn't defending it- go read all his other posts or if you can't even be bothered with that, read his damned sig.
Keep watching those protests. They aren't done and we don't know the outcome. In America we had an outstanding outpouring for the OWS movement but it amounted to fuck all.
I am making a claim about both parties- they fear loss of control, either of the market and status quo (the banks) and the loss of control of the citzenry and all those illegal things you mentioned (the gov). At this time you're correct, the financial threat isn't there for the bank. However, we cannot reliably predict where this thing will go if you allowed it to just run it's course. BC could flourish or it could fail spectacularly. If it did flourish though, then the banks would have a financial threat and the gov would have no control of the illegal activities. So from thier POV it's just easier now to kill it before it grows or at least throw up as many hurdles as possible to slow it down- ya know, just in case. I find the BC thing to be fascinating but whether it succeeds or fails is of no concern to me. I believe the current system is severly flawed and even if it wasn't, we should always be trying to innovate something new. Some of them fail and some of them are hits but you won't know until you try.
If there was no reason to feel threatened then why suddenly is the government trying to lock it down? If you aren't threatened you ignore it cause it doesn't matter. No, I am quite certain banks are fearful of breaking the status quo which they control and manipulate. The fact that it isn't widespread is why they are trashing it now, nipping it in the bud before it becomes too big to stop.
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I read that whole page and it's sounds nice and all but where exactly on my tablet do I swap the current user? There is no log in screen and there doesn't seem to be an interface for that, at least I can't find it, so the parent was correct in a way. When most people (ie non programmers) see multiuser, they think switching users like windows, not just having separate saved variable spaces. IANAP.
I don't know what the odds are specifically but I know I taught 2 people how to drive when I was 20 while I was in the army. At that time I also taught many how to drive a manual transmissioned vehicle and how to drive "off road." So technically those people knew how to drive, just not a manual 6 wheel drive 2.5T truck. The first 2 came from up north though and so never needed to know how to drive because they had subways and whatnot.
You sound like you were in that earthquake. Care to elaborate?
Alright then, it will slide in a northerly direction until it is out into the Pacific Ocean....is there really a difference?
This map shows this
CHECK OUT CHANNEL 9! It's the breast exam!
You mean ensure ;)
Even though they are slow and outdated, the Casio line of phones are Milspec ruggedized and as long as the o-ringed jack plugs are in place, it will survive a beating. These phones are the called the Commando (droid), Brigade (a side flip w/keyboard), Boulder(flip), & Ravine(flip). You can even use the touchscreen and take a call on the Commando with it sitting in a bucket of water! I had one. It was sweet but an 800MHz cpu and Gingerbread left something to be desired.
What WON'T Bill Gates say to try and prop up Win 8 sales??????
Emacs the answer is.
Wow....I didn't see what I did there...great catch!
You took that statement out of context and you know it. Nice try. The 3 major failures have all been because of human error, either in the operation of or in the design of said reactors. The newest reactors have had all those years and all those failures to recitify most of those problems. They will not be perfect, and there is a good probability that another disaster will happen regardless of what we do, but the newer designs are safer than the old precisely because we found out what went wrong then and designed around our mistakes. That's progress right there. Do you know how annoying it would be to get anywhere if we decided that because them newfangled horseless carriages were too dangerous and just stopped all development of the car at the Model T? Planes crash, cruise ships catch fire, bridges collapse, coal plants dump waste, wind turbines fall down, etc. We do not let that stop us. We get back on that bike and we keep riding. Be all bootstrappy n stuff. I know I've heard you preach that before, Pope.
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Thanks for reducing your power consumption. Unfortunately, myself and millions of others have increased ours to compensate. I never claimed to not be part of the problem
That fact is what makes all the older reactors obsolete. Not only that but when I said that they have ran past thier expiry date, you probably already know, that the physical parts themselves have degraded. If it weren't for all the red tape and politics, it would be cheaper, easier, and safer to just make a new one than rebuild an old one.
And most definitely look at transitioning to carbon fiber bodies instead of that beautiful but terribly heavy stainless steel. At least they don't make them like they did in 1885- they were the size of TRAINS!
Well I will for one. I get my power from TVA which is government ran. It is hands down the best power system I have ever used and I would even say the best in the world. This is what taxes are for. I would have no problem paying taxes for quality infrasturcture like that and if you lived in this area you'd be crazy not to agree.
Oh I could foresee us using all the things you mentioned. I am not pro-nuclear in the sense that it is a one size fits all solution. You pick the technology that works the best for your area. If you got good winds, you do turbines. If you have a river, you build a dam. Right tool for the job as they say. I HOPE your thought that we'll need no reactors in 5 years happens. I just can't take that bet. So let's use em all.
Now that right there is some truth I can't argue over. The 3 biggest accidents we have had have all been PEBKAC. There's no stopping that. Humans will always screw off, get tired, cheap out, and so on. You don't let this stop the advancement in society. Sometimes a space shuttle will blow up, a plane will crash, a building may topple over, but you don't stop launching, flying, or building stuff. You analyze what the hell happened and you do what is reasonable to ensure it doesn't happen again. By no means should we lay down and give up though.
1.21GW-- That's a Back to the Future reference.
Oh well please, AC, enlighten us with how exactly you propose we generate and supply the 1.21 GW of power that each person will eventually need. Our society craves more power (of all kinds!) and capitalism flourishes when each participant is continuously consuming more and more. You will not get us, as a modern society with all of our toys, to take a step back in time and do without. It just won't happen. GP is correct, we have several technologies, such as pebble bed reactors, that are not the unsafe designs of the 50s and 60s. But when you try to tell someone that, all they can think of is Chernobyl and Fukushima. Both were outdated and should have been scrapped but due to irrational fear, were allowed to keep running past thier expiration date.
Oh no thank you, Officer. All I need is my Wizard Robe and Hat!
This will get me some great downmodding but I just don't give a damn. When Slick Willy was president, times were never better, especially for us geeks. We could get damned near any job we wanted, we were making high 5 & 6 digit salaries and because we were all viewed as rockstars, could dictate what we were paid, when the hell we were gonna show up and what we were gonna be wearing when we did it. The employee dictated to the employer but today? Hell no! We are continuously told we will work 80 hours this week and be on call the rest of our "free" time, we'll be fucking happy we get paid the pittance we do and if we don't like it, get the hell out cause there are 100 other unemployed programmers beating down the door to get in here. Not only that but the geek world was actually innovating. We had all kinds of bad ass projects going on* and money was flying. I don't give a damn what Clinton enacted and I certainly don't give a shit he was fucking ugly chicks. My standard of living has never been higher and I will tell my great great grandkids the best president EVAR was Slick Willy.
*Even everyone's favorite dead company to beat on, Neuticles, was innovating. They just didn't have much of a market.
Well from what I gathered from his post, you're the idiot. The links he posted are examples of this theater in action. He isn't defending it- go read all his other posts or if you can't even be bothered with that, read his damned sig.
Keep watching those protests. They aren't done and we don't know the outcome. In America we had an outstanding outpouring for the OWS movement but it amounted to fuck all.
I am making a claim about both parties- they fear loss of control, either of the market and status quo (the banks) and the loss of control of the citzenry and all those illegal things you mentioned (the gov). At this time you're correct, the financial threat isn't there for the bank. However, we cannot reliably predict where this thing will go if you allowed it to just run it's course. BC could flourish or it could fail spectacularly. If it did flourish though, then the banks would have a financial threat and the gov would have no control of the illegal activities. So from thier POV it's just easier now to kill it before it grows or at least throw up as many hurdles as possible to slow it down- ya know, just in case. I find the BC thing to be fascinating but whether it succeeds or fails is of no concern to me. I believe the current system is severly flawed and even if it wasn't, we should always be trying to innovate something new. Some of them fail and some of them are hits but you won't know until you try.
Didn't Ann McCafrey stop writing Pern books years ago? I'm so behind on my scifi.
If there was no reason to feel threatened then why suddenly is the government trying to lock it down? If you aren't threatened you ignore it cause it doesn't matter. No, I am quite certain banks are fearful of breaking the status quo which they control and manipulate. The fact that it isn't widespread is why they are trashing it now, nipping it in the bud before it becomes too big to stop.