No, because Japan is an igneous country with no lignite to burn. Furthermore, it doesn't have a land border with an all-nuclear nation that it can sip surplus power from on pollution-advisory days.
But putting x-ray tech in the hands of police means that you people can use it too. You know, to detect hidden caches of bagels or Hollywood screenplays.
If technology like this us being used to detect terrorists, it should be under DHS control, to be deployed under logged circumstances when there is a security threat. Local police have no business using it.
It's impossible to assign a single cancer death to any diffuse cause such as pollution or radiation. Three people were "confirmed" dead at Fukushima: two drowned when the tsunami came over the seawall, and one was in a high crane on the property that tipped over during the earthquake.
"It takes a lot longer than 4 years for irradiation-related cancers to form."
That's why we're still waiting for the "millions of cancers from Chernobyl" after all these years. The form of radiation that causes the most cancers, year after year, remains sunlight.
You're clearly unfamiliar with the Peoples' Republic of California. If you own an RV, you can't park it long-term in a parking lot, company or private, or even in your own backyard. You have to take it to a s special RV storage facility, which is sometimes run as an adjunct to a conventional storage-unit business, that will host your RV for a monthly rental. You are not allowed to live in an RV while it is stored in such a place.
Though rules like this are generally a feature of the suburbs, you will sometimes see them enforced in rural areas like Palmdale.
"But yes, housing stays cheap there for a very simple reason: No jobs."
This also describes many of the prettiest and most livable parts of the country, where techie telecommuting could bring prosperity. To save living expenses, you shouldn't have to hole up in a Mad Max basement compound in Detroit.
One place where this could work is the eastern suburbs of Phoenix. This area is already home to a whole cross-section of semiconductor and software firms, has has a major university at its center, and new energy and transportation infrastructure. It even has lots of techie Indians (Diwali is bigger than Christmas in that area). What it doesn't have is SV real estate prices. You can get a family-sized freestanding house for $200K, and there is still plenty of open land for building.
This is like the problem I faced when I worked in Tokyo. I was making good money, but nothing like what it would have taken to buy local real estate, so I saved a bundle by living the simple life - wring the most out of the company rent subsidy, use public transportation instead of driving and walk wherever possible, go to an economical native-mode diet (not the expense-account Japanese we are familiar with) as in eating ramen years before it was cool. But by the time I returned Stateside, I had meaningful savings I could never had accumulated by staying home.
The TMT is not being blocked by "locals" acting alone but by out-of-state Green organizations who have flocked in to fluff up long-standing local bad feeling over "colonialism" in the state's founding. The mainland puppet masters running the protest "movement" are using a script they tested unsuccessfully in Arizona during the Nineties (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-010-0049-9_6#page-1). Though Greens have long opposed engineering applications like nuclear power and GMOs, the Arizona effort was their first move against scientific research itself. In their TMT effort, they have used social media to add weight to their campaign, and we're letting them get away with it without putting up much of a fight. Astronomers are the kind of people who have spent their lives responding to bullies by hiding out in study hall until the school bell rings, so they're not going to defend themselves in any meaningful way.
Look forward another decade: while California fights a full-blown polio epidemic as it vainly tries to prevent its remaining desalination plants from being blown up by suicide bombers, will anyone notice the decaying ISS fall out of orbit? Will anyone notice that JPL's deep space mission pipeline has quietly dried up over the intervening years?
But the US is not the world. Consider that China is one of the partners in TMT, and has a strong interest in seeing it built. If we could relocate the build to the Qinghai Plateau, where the seeing is equally good and the Greens have no power to infiltrate, the construction could proceed as soon as new local contractors were signed.
"You don't want some idiot's surname on a species just because he had money considering we'll be stuck with that name for centuries."
But after centuries, or even a decade or so, who will remember the ephemeral people who bought those names? If they want to pay a lot for a shot at ersatz immortality, then so be it.
We might also try for species-appropriate naming. Imagine a scorpion called Centruroides trumpii or a primate, Hylobates fiftycentus
I'm a Republican, and if I needed research funds for my obscure moth project, that's exactly what I would do.
Naming rights build football stadiums, so why shouldn't they fund scientific research? If we auctioned off naming rights to those features on Pluto and Charon that New Horizons just imaged, imagine how much money we could raiseP
"f your God was so fucking awesome, why did he let this guy get beat within an inch of his life and left to die?"
Because even He has no sympathy for a white guy who leaves a formal and then, all dressed up, takes the subway home, in Atlanta. That's hanging a Beat Me And Leave Me For Dead sign on his back.
A big part of the problem is that ISPs, not end users, now do most of the spam filtering. Under the old scheme, each user trained her own email client by using Spam/Not Spam buttons until the program learned that user's specific patten of expected mail. The complaint I get from users now is "My spam buttons stopped working!" By which they mean that they are seeing spam for which the Spam button in their client stays grayed out because the ISP decided the message was spam. Worse, they are seeing an increasing number of valid messages land in their Junk folder, and with no Not Spam button available. So now that ISPs are "helping" kill spam, we have to get used to treating our Junk folders as a specially flagged part of our Inbox.
Credit bureau data as a guide to employability? Yeah, right. Where paying off accounts and then closing them counts against you. Where paying off o,d accounts and leaving them open counts against you. Where shopping around for the best credit deal counts against you. Where just checking your credit counts against you.
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"Japan should take the lead from Germany"
No, because Japan is an igneous country with no lignite to burn. Furthermore, it doesn't have a land border with an all-nuclear nation that it can sip surplus power from on pollution-advisory days.
If gutters and footprints in Kanda (downtown Tokyo) were actually glowing, we would all know it by now.
The family who gave Clock Boy a dinner invitation.
Does anyone know the Arabic for schadenfreude?
Cancer would be renamed Freedom Ray Fry.
But putting x-ray tech in the hands of police means that you people can use it too. You know, to detect hidden caches of bagels or Hollywood screenplays.
If technology like this us being used to detect terrorists, it should be under DHS control, to be deployed under logged circumstances when there is a security threat. Local police have no business using it.
It's impossible to assign a single cancer death to any diffuse cause such as pollution or radiation. Three people were "confirmed" dead at Fukushima: two drowned when the tsunami came over the seawall, and one was in a high crane on the property that tipped over during the earthquake.
"It takes a lot longer than 4 years for irradiation-related cancers to form."
That's why we're still waiting for the "millions of cancers from Chernobyl" after all these years. The form of radiation that causes the most cancers, year after year, remains sunlight.
You're clearly unfamiliar with the Peoples' Republic of California. If you own an RV, you can't park it long-term in a parking lot, company or private, or even in your own backyard. You have to take it to a s special RV storage facility, which is sometimes run as an adjunct to a conventional storage-unit business, that will host your RV for a monthly rental. You are not allowed to live in an RV while it is stored in such a place.
Though rules like this are generally a feature of the suburbs, you will sometimes see them enforced in rural areas like Palmdale.
"But yes, housing stays cheap there for a very simple reason: No jobs."
This also describes many of the prettiest and most livable parts of the country, where techie telecommuting could bring prosperity. To save living expenses, you shouldn't have to hole up in a Mad Max basement compound in Detroit.
One place where this could work is the eastern suburbs of Phoenix. This area is already home to a whole cross-section of semiconductor and software firms, has has a major university at its center, and new energy and transportation infrastructure. It even has lots of techie Indians (Diwali is bigger than Christmas in that area). What it doesn't have is SV real estate prices. You can get a family-sized freestanding house for $200K, and there is still plenty of open land for building.
This is like the problem I faced when I worked in Tokyo. I was making good money, but nothing like what it would have taken to buy local real estate, so I saved a bundle by living the simple life - wring the most out of the company rent subsidy, use public transportation instead of driving and walk wherever possible, go to an economical native-mode diet (not the expense-account Japanese we are familiar with) as in eating ramen years before it was cool. But by the time I returned Stateside, I had meaningful savings I could never had accumulated by staying home.
The TMT is not being blocked by "locals" acting alone but by out-of-state Green organizations who have flocked in to fluff up long-standing local bad feeling over "colonialism" in the state's founding. The mainland puppet masters running the protest "movement" are using a script they tested unsuccessfully in Arizona during the Nineties (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-010-0049-9_6#page-1). Though Greens have long opposed engineering applications like nuclear power and GMOs, the Arizona effort was their first move against scientific research itself. In their TMT effort, they have used social media to add weight to their campaign, and we're letting them get away with it without putting up much of a fight. Astronomers are the kind of people who have spent their lives responding to bullies by hiding out in study hall until the school bell rings, so they're not going to defend themselves in any meaningful way.
Look forward another decade: while California fights a full-blown polio epidemic as it vainly tries to prevent its remaining desalination plants from being blown up by suicide bombers, will anyone notice the decaying ISS fall out of orbit? Will anyone notice that JPL's deep space mission pipeline has quietly dried up over the intervening years?
But the US is not the world. Consider that China is one of the partners in TMT, and has a strong interest in seeing it built. If we could relocate the build to the Qinghai Plateau, where the seeing is equally good and the Greens have no power to infiltrate, the construction could proceed as soon as new local contractors were signed.
"You don't want some idiot's surname on a species just because he had money considering we'll be stuck with that name for centuries."
But after centuries, or even a decade or so, who will remember the ephemeral people who bought those names? If they want to pay a lot for a shot at ersatz immortality, then so be it.
We might also try for species-appropriate naming. Imagine a scorpion called Centruroides trumpii or a primate, Hylobates fiftycentus
I'm a Republican, and if I needed research funds for my obscure moth project, that's exactly what I would do.
Naming rights build football stadiums, so why shouldn't they fund scientific research? If we auctioned off naming rights to those features on Pluto and Charon that New Horizons just imaged, imagine how much money we could raiseP
"f your God was so fucking awesome, why did he let this guy get beat within an inch of his life and left to die?"
Because even He has no sympathy for a white guy who leaves a formal and then, all dressed up, takes the subway home, in Atlanta. That's hanging a Beat Me And Leave Me For Dead sign on his back.
"I would, then I would slap it down on the desk, pull out my junk and promptly piss all over it"
If you don't sign, you don't get severance. If you do as described, you won't have the severance it would take to make bail.
"UPDATE accounts SET debt=0;"
There's a whole TV series based on this single SQL statement.
"It's not going to supersede Federal law. Federal minimum wages still apply."
The SCOTUS hasn't had a real live Thirteenth Amendment case in years. This will get interesting.
The problem with mandatory drone registration is that queen bees will now have to spend their entire careers doing paperwork.
My 72-year-old mom also switched to Mac n my recmmendation. She is now 94, and inherits each one if my hand-me-downs.
For the most part they don't, but their users still do.
"Disruptive" means hacking around a legal regime that is mainly set up to lock out competition.
A big part of the problem is that ISPs, not end users, now do most of the spam filtering. Under the old scheme, each user trained her own email client by using Spam/Not Spam buttons until the program learned that user's specific patten of expected mail. The complaint I get from users now is "My spam buttons stopped working!" By which they mean that they are seeing spam for which the Spam button in their client stays grayed out because the ISP decided the message was spam. Worse, they are seeing an increasing number of valid messages land in their Junk folder, and with no Not Spam button available. So now that ISPs are "helping" kill spam, we have to get used to treating our Junk folders as a specially flagged part of our Inbox.
Credit bureau data as a guide to employability? Yeah, right. Where paying off accounts and then closing them counts against you. Where paying off o,d accounts and leaving them open counts against you. Where shopping around for the best credit deal counts against you. Where just checking your credit counts against you.