"Hey if all the hardcore greenies die off" That is not helping. Simple truth is like so much of the "discussion" in the US this has become way to polarized. Here is my solution. 1. Listen to why they are afraid. 2. Try to find ways to make them less afraid. 3. Educate people about the real risks and benefits.
Part of the problem seems to be the "activists". Guess what, they get paid for scaring people and proposing extreme solutions that will never work but they will also never get adopted. If you scare people to death then suggest some utopian solution that will never work but is also never tested you will never be wrong. It does not matter if you are a left wing activist that says we can go 100% solar or a right wing activist that is proposing a flat tax. Fear sells. The other part of the problem is too many people are preaching to the choir. They look to get the people to already agree with them to praise them. Almost no one wants to try to take on the harder job of changing peoples minds. It is hard because sometime you run into something so off the wall that you just can not take it. Like the guy on slashdot that was measuring the radiation in spent fuel in "Megatons" which is just mindnumbing. What was worse is he was doing it in based on the fallout per megaton bomb yield which is totally meaning less since it is highly variable. Might as well used microwaved chickens as a unit of measure. BTW yes I know microwaves are not ionizing radiation and also do not emit neutrons so the only radiation would be that which was picked up from the environment like Carbon 14... That is the point.
For a place to crash it is called friends and or family. Honestly you will probably be shocked how many people will help. Unless you are a friendless jerk that is. Also the Red Cross helps people that have lost everything in home fires all the time. You really seem worried about something that is just not likely to happen. The spare mobile phone buried in a field seems really odd. How do you keep it charged? Overall the odds of this happening are far less than the odds of you dropping dead from a massive heart attack caused by you stressing out over it.
"The Megaton's refers to Fission Bomb yield equivalent.." Buzzzzz....Just in you are an idiot. The radioisotope yield of a bomb is variable. A one megaton bomb detonated at the surface will produce a much larger yield of fallout than one detonated at 20,000 meters. Also different bombs have different yields of fallout based on design. ": Modern N-weapon designs are ~50%fission(dirty)/~50% fusion(relatively clean), And only a small fraction is ready to deploy in an initial exchange." Ahnn no. I suggest you research 3 stage nuclear weapons. Most of yield is from fission. the D-T and T_T fusion of a nuclear weapon produce most of it's energy as neutrons. There is not scientific measurement of radiation as megaton yields. It is FUD a tool to manipulate people with fear.
"Meanwhile more than 150 times that amount resides inside NPP's around the world, and all it takes is a loss of electrical power to start the release process." And again no. You are counting all the spent fuel rods in your propaganda based calculation. Most spend fuel is being moved to dry casks as it has decayed to a level where it does not generate heat. Only the reactor and the new spent fuel need to be cooled and that is a small fraction of the total fuel at any one time. It would take a complete failure of all cooling systems and their back ups as well as the inability to restore them for an extended period of time. What you say is sort of true in that it would in theory "start" the processes but as in most lies the most effective distort the truth instead of creating a complete fiction.
You have also not mentioned your ASTRONOMICAL error claiming 60 million deaths from fall out. Really take the time to learn some real physics before spouting off.
That should have been leaning is biase. Autocorrect strikes again. The issue is that if you pick your news source based it it reinforcing your worldview you will never challenge your worldview.
"With ~150,000 megatons(*) worth of fission byproducts lying about, waiting for the next accident/natural disaster/Loss of cooling/war to be released into biosphere. The last thing we need, to is increase that inventory above the ~5,500 megatons we currently are producing each year." Really? what the heck are you talking about? Just what unit of measure are you using? Megatons? There is are not 150 billion tons of spent fuel rods? And no reactor has 80 million tons of fuel " The addition of those radio-isotopes to our biosphere sent at least 60 million humans to an early grave [americanscientist.org]" Can you even read? The link does not say that 60 million people would die at all. The only place in the link that it mentions 60 million is here.
"A total of about 1,800 deaths from radiation-related leukemia might eventually occur in the United States because of external (1,100 deaths) and internal (650 deaths) radiation from NTS and global fallout. For perspective, this might be compared to about 1.5 million leukemia deaths expected eventually among the 1952 population of the United States. About 22,000 radiation-related cancers, half of them fatal, might eventually result from external exposure from NTS and global fallout, compared to the current lifetime cancer rate of 42 percent (corresponding to about 60 million of the 1952 population)."
What is says is that their may be 11,000 deaths from cancer cause by fall out out of a total of 60 million total lifetime cancer deaths!
For the sake of the planet please do not try to discuss anything involving energy policy until you learn how to read and some basic science.
This would be great for NAS if they make motherboards with a large number of SATA ports. Yes I know you can add a card but that drives up the costs and complexity.
Solar panels have dropped in price by 65% in the last two years. They're expecting another 60% price drop by 2020, and efficiency isn't being sacrificed - it's only getting better, with 25% being achieved in the lab now And they only generate power about 6 hours a day and not at peak need times. BTW peak need is between 5 and 7 pm not at solar noon. PVs are not the problem storage is and that is not improving anywhere near as fast. Throw in clouds, rain, and or snow and you should see the issue. Nuclear makes power 24/7. Solar is not as cheap as nuclear and again the limited generation time is an issue. The molten salt storage thermal can store power but they are a lot more expensive per kwh and not really going to work in many locations. For instance New York and Boston. Nuclear and the new 4th gen and 5th gen reactors are the way to go.
That is simply because a watch or clock really does not need to be more than +-30 seconds for most people. Pilots and others that do navigation are a special case but I doubt that any of those people use a watch for countdown timers today.
I suggest you look again. That was about 30 years ago and since then I think the government has forgotten that it is even there. I also doubt that you are remembering VOA but instead Radio Marti. However the simple truth is most people are dumb. They will feel that any news source that does not reflect their world view is biased. One should really pick a news service that does not reflect their views because the person will then doubt everything they say and will check the facts for themselves.
I didn't think the Aztek was butt ugly at all. I thought it was interesting. It is funny but I still see a good number of them running around. They might have been pretty good cars/SUVs/CUVs after all.
Of course at the same time the academics where also pushing LIsp as the end all and be all of computer programing. It got so far as hardware Lisp machines. OOP worked out Lisp is still around but not really mainstream.
"According to that document, they were only loadable with a pre-release Kickstart found on one of the disks (the Amiga 1000 booted an early BIOS from ROM and then loaded the Kickstart from disk). Evidently they changed the format before the commercial release." That makes no sense at all. The OS did not have a picture viewer or OS calls to load images from disk. Kickstart was basically just the ROM part of the OS. When launched AmigaOS was not stable enough to put in rom so Commodore stuck in a writeable control store. After Kickstart you had to boot the Amiga with the Amiga OS disk. In other words none of this makes any sense at all unless the disk format was different than the release version.
I had an Amiga 1000 and used Kickstart 1.0. I bought one at launch and the IFF format was fully documented by then. IFF might have started with EA but the IFF container was expanded to work with just about all datatypes. Simple truth is that "reverse engineering" graphics formats from that period on the Amiga is really simple. You knew it was one of a few resolutions and one of a few depths. If it was HAM you might have had a bit of an issue but HAM based paint programs were not yet common or frankly available. Compression was rare because of the time it took to decompress files when loading them into paint programs.
"and then selectively enforce rules with an iron fist, when they suddenly deem it worthwhile." 10 years and a million dollars in fines? Suddenly? Dude even if you do not think the that government should own the land it sure as shooting did not belong to that rancher! And I would like that rancher to please pay his back rent and lower the deficit by a million dollars!.
Pretty much illegal everywhere. Amature bands are restricted to un encrypted communications. You can use the ISM bands lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band almost everywhere.
"You mean the ham bands where you're not allowed to discuss anything political, not allowed to swear or basically have an opinion on anything even slightly controversial except who's going to win best tomatoes at this years vegetable growers competition?" Wow that sounds great. The combination of profanity, political opinion, and "controversial" subjects usually means an idiot.
Odds are very high that they where IFF. Commodore created a universal documented format container called IFF back in the day. The Graphics version was completely documented and is evens still supported by a lot of graphics programs.
Funny thing is that people think that I am saying that outcome would be a good thing. The simple truth is that the Supreme court ruled that marriage is in the hands of the state voters already when it overturned the defense of marriage act. The judges are exceedingly unlikely to change that ruling because if they do then it will also open up the door that polygamy is protected as well. If same sex marriage was protected under the constitution then it would have over turned the Protection of marriage act on constitutional grounds. Think of it more as a prediction of the weather than a desire of the result. It will have to come down to a constitutional amendment.
Actually probably not. Harris and the other aerospace companies employ a lot of programmers. But a degree in CS is not usually considered an Engineering degree. Also I would say that someone with no degree at all or one that is not in CS would not count as engineers. They are programmers. And we are talking about per capita. Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are all in areas that have a large population while Huntsville and Melbourne/Palm City are not large cities.
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"Hey if all the hardcore greenies die off"
That is not helping.
Simple truth is like so much of the "discussion" in the US this has become way to polarized.
Here is my solution.
1. Listen to why they are afraid.
2. Try to find ways to make them less afraid.
3. Educate people about the real risks and benefits.
Part of the problem seems to be the "activists". Guess what, they get paid for scaring people and proposing extreme solutions that will never work but they will also never get adopted.
If you scare people to death then suggest some utopian solution that will never work but is also never tested you will never be wrong.
It does not matter if you are a left wing activist that says we can go 100% solar or a right wing activist that is proposing a flat tax.
Fear sells.
The other part of the problem is too many people are preaching to the choir. They look to get the people to already agree with them to praise them. Almost no one wants to try to take on the harder job of changing peoples minds. It is hard because sometime you run into something so off the wall that you just can not take it. Like the guy on slashdot that was measuring the radiation in spent fuel in "Megatons" which is just mindnumbing. What was worse is he was doing it in based on the fallout per megaton bomb yield which is totally meaning less since it is highly variable. Might as well used microwaved chickens as a unit of measure.
BTW yes I know microwaves are not ionizing radiation and also do not emit neutrons so the only radiation would be that which was picked up from the environment like Carbon 14... That is the point.
For a place to crash it is called friends and or family. Honestly you will probably be shocked how many people will help. Unless you are a friendless jerk that is.
Also the Red Cross helps people that have lost everything in home fires all the time.
You really seem worried about something that is just not likely to happen. The spare mobile phone buried in a field seems really odd. How do you keep it charged? Overall the odds of this happening are far less than the odds of you dropping dead from a massive heart attack caused by you stressing out over it.
"The Megaton's refers to Fission Bomb yield equivalent.."
Buzzzzz....Just in you are an idiot.
The radioisotope yield of a bomb is variable. A one megaton bomb detonated at the surface will produce a much larger yield of fallout than one detonated at 20,000 meters. Also different bombs have different yields of fallout based on design.
": Modern N-weapon designs are ~50%fission(dirty)/~50% fusion(relatively clean), And only a small fraction is ready to deploy in an initial exchange."
Ahnn no. I suggest you research 3 stage nuclear weapons. Most of yield is from fission. the D-T and T_T fusion of a nuclear weapon produce most of it's energy as neutrons.
There is not scientific measurement of radiation as megaton yields. It is FUD a tool to manipulate people with fear.
"Meanwhile more than 150 times that amount resides inside NPP's around the world, and all it takes is a loss of electrical power to start the release process."
And again no. You are counting all the spent fuel rods in your propaganda based calculation. Most spend fuel is being moved to dry casks as it has decayed to a level where it does not generate heat. Only the reactor and the new spent fuel need to be cooled and that is a small fraction of the total fuel at any one time. It would take a complete failure of all cooling systems and their back ups as well as the inability to restore them for an extended period of time. What you say is sort of true in that it would in theory "start" the processes but as in most lies the most effective distort the truth instead of creating a complete fiction.
You have also not mentioned your ASTRONOMICAL error claiming 60 million deaths from fall out.
Really take the time to learn some real physics before spouting off.
That should have been leaning is biase. Autocorrect strikes again.
The issue is that if you pick your news source based it it reinforcing your worldview you will never challenge your worldview.
"With ~150,000 megatons(*) worth of fission byproducts lying about, waiting for the next accident/natural disaster/Loss of cooling/war to be released into biosphere. The last thing we need, to is increase that inventory above the ~5,500 megatons we currently are producing each year."
Really? what the heck are you talking about? Just what unit of measure are you using? Megatons? There is are not 150 billion tons of spent fuel rods?
And no reactor has 80 million tons of fuel
" The addition of those radio-isotopes to our biosphere sent at least 60 million humans to an early grave [americanscientist.org]"
Can you even read? The link does not say that 60 million people would die at all. The only place in the link that it mentions 60 million is here.
"A total of about 1,800 deaths from radiation-related leukemia might eventually occur in the United States because of external (1,100 deaths) and internal (650 deaths) radiation from NTS and global fallout. For perspective, this might be compared to about 1.5 million leukemia deaths expected eventually among the 1952 population of the United States. About 22,000 radiation-related cancers, half of them fatal, might eventually result from external exposure from NTS and global fallout, compared to the current lifetime cancer rate of 42 percent (corresponding to about 60 million of the 1952 population)."
What is says is that their may be 11,000 deaths from cancer cause by fall out out of a total of 60 million total lifetime cancer deaths!
For the sake of the planet please do not try to discuss anything involving energy policy until you learn how to read and some basic science.
The same as a world without lawyers...
This would be great for NAS if they make motherboards with a large number of SATA ports.
Yes I know you can add a card but that drives up the costs and complexity.
Solar panels have dropped in price by 65% in the last two years. They're expecting another 60% price drop by 2020, and efficiency isn't being sacrificed - it's only getting better, with 25% being achieved in the lab now
And they only generate power about 6 hours a day and not at peak need times. BTW peak need is between 5 and 7 pm not at solar noon.
PVs are not the problem storage is and that is not improving anywhere near as fast. Throw in clouds, rain, and or snow and you should see the issue.
Nuclear makes power 24/7. Solar is not as cheap as nuclear and again the limited generation time is an issue. The molten salt storage thermal can store power but they are a lot more expensive per kwh and not really going to work in many locations. For instance New York and Boston.
Nuclear and the new 4th gen and 5th gen reactors are the way to go.
And if they did not put electric cars in the most positive light you would say that it was right winged biased.
Learning is bias
That is simply because a watch or clock really does not need to be more than +-30 seconds for most people.
Pilots and others that do navigation are a special case but I doubt that any of those people use a watch for countdown timers today.
I suggest you look again. That was about 30 years ago and since then I think the government has forgotten that it is even there. I also doubt that you are remembering VOA but instead Radio Marti.
However the simple truth is most people are dumb. They will feel that any news source that does not reflect their world view is biased. One should really pick a news service that does not reflect their views because the person will then doubt everything they say and will check the facts for themselves.
It is impossible to post anything on the internet that is so crazy that nobody believe it.
David's first law of the Internet.
"There is not a good left-leaning news channel out there"
you are correct.
You also can not have a good right-leaning news channel.
Are you looking for news or propaganda you like?
Honestly try VOA. It seems to work the hardest to not be right or left leaning.
I didn't think the Aztek was butt ugly at all. I thought it was interesting.
It is funny but I still see a good number of them running around. They might have been pretty good cars/SUVs/CUVs after all.
Of course at the same time the academics where also pushing LIsp as the end all and be all of computer programing. It got so far as hardware Lisp machines.
OOP worked out Lisp is still around but not really mainstream.
"According to that document, they were only loadable with a pre-release Kickstart found on one of the disks (the Amiga 1000 booted an early BIOS from ROM and then loaded the Kickstart from disk). Evidently they changed the format before the commercial release."
That makes no sense at all. The OS did not have a picture viewer or OS calls to load images from disk. Kickstart was basically just the ROM part of the OS. When launched AmigaOS was not stable enough to put in rom so Commodore stuck in a writeable control store. After Kickstart you had to boot the Amiga with the Amiga OS disk. In other words none of this makes any sense at all unless the disk format was different than the release version.
I had an Amiga 1000 and used Kickstart 1.0. I bought one at launch and the IFF format was fully documented by then. IFF might have started with EA but the IFF container was expanded to work with just about all datatypes.
Simple truth is that "reverse engineering" graphics formats from that period on the Amiga is really simple. You knew it was one of a few resolutions and one of a few depths. If it was HAM you might have had a bit of an issue but HAM based paint programs were not yet common or frankly available. Compression was rare because of the time it took to decompress files when loading them into paint programs.
No nuclear weapons means a world safe for massive conventional warfare between superpowers.
"and then selectively enforce rules with an iron fist, when they suddenly deem it worthwhile."
10 years and a million dollars in fines? Suddenly?
Dude even if you do not think the that government should own the land it sure as shooting did not belong to that rancher!
And I would like that rancher to please pay his back rent and lower the deficit by a million dollars!.
Pretty much illegal everywhere. Amature bands are restricted to un encrypted communications.
You can use the ISM bands lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band almost everywhere.
"You mean the ham bands where you're not allowed to discuss anything political, not allowed to swear or basically have an opinion on anything even slightly controversial except who's going to win best tomatoes at this years vegetable growers competition?"
Wow that sounds great. The combination of profanity, political opinion, and "controversial" subjects usually means an idiot.
Odds are very high that they where IFF. Commodore created a universal documented format container called IFF back in the day. The Graphics version was completely documented and is evens still supported by a lot of graphics programs.
Welders make good money in oil and gas fields but a good welder can make money in a lot of other industries as well.
But in Atlanta or Denver it is really good. Not sure about Austin.
Funny thing is that people think that I am saying that outcome would be a good thing.
The simple truth is that the Supreme court ruled that marriage is in the hands of the state voters already when it overturned the defense of marriage act. The judges are exceedingly unlikely to change that ruling because if they do then it will also open up the door that polygamy is protected as well.
If same sex marriage was protected under the constitution then it would have over turned the Protection of marriage act on constitutional grounds.
Think of it more as a prediction of the weather than a desire of the result. It will have to come down to a constitutional amendment.
Actually probably not. Harris and the other aerospace companies employ a lot of programmers. But a degree in CS is not usually considered an Engineering degree. Also I would say that someone with no degree at all or one that is not in CS would not count as engineers. They are programmers.
And we are talking about per capita. Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are all in areas that have a large population while Huntsville and Melbourne/Palm City are not large cities.