Have very small nuclear reactors, the kind you find on Navy Submarines that can be used to power a very small area,
Small reactors like those on submarines tend to require weapons-grade fuel.
I see no reason that we allow people to have gas furnaces and water heaters in their houses, but do not allow them to have a small scale nuclear reactor.
You mean they'll always be way more scratched-up than if you owned them,
Yes, but you still won't care since you don't own them.
and sometimes you'll get about fifteen minutes in and it just stops working / won't go any further?
Probably not, because they're unlikely to repeatedly send the batteries through the US Postal System wrapped in nothing but a thin paper envelope. (Every Netflix disc we've had that wouldn't play was cracked all the way through the plastic, probably from this treatment.)
You will only care about that issue if you *own* the battery that comes with the car.
If battery swap stations were the norm, you undoubtedly would never own any battery. Instead, batteries would be like discs from Netflix.
In an ideal world, they would only be able to bill you for the actual amount of juice that you ended up pulling out of the battery before you have to swap it again (as determined by your car's and/or the battery's control logic).
It's not automatic, but at least on my version of MythTV the 'W' key cycles through all the zoom settings during playback, so you don't have to pull up a menu. I use it all the time on my analog cable channels.
I also usually set 4:3 broadcasts to "half zoom" so that it fills up more of the TV screen at the expense of chopping a tiny bit off the top and bottom. So now I when I start watching a program, I instinctively hit W once for normal shows, and twice for letterboxed shows.
Most of the houses in the US would simply not be passed as fit for human habitation in the UK, because of their shoddy thin-crappy-wood-over-thin-crappy-frame construction.
First of all, these days, it's usually not thin crappy wood. It's thin sheets of sawdust and glue (OSB). The latest trend is to make more of the frame out of sawdust and glue, too (LVLs, etc.)
However, the construction can be stronger than it looks. A lot of the damage from hurricanes can be avoided by spending a tiny bit extra to include the appropriate metal hurricane straps that help hold the major parts of the structure together better than plain nails. Also, wood frame houses generally have excellent earthquake resistance due to their non-brittle nature. If the UK ever had a strong earthquake (unlikely as that may be), I would *not* want to be inside one of those countless unreinforced masonry dwellings.
I know that you're being deliberately obtuse, but for the benefit of any people who may not see through your little charade, I'll point out the key difference between water vapor and the CO2 this technology would be replacing: The half life of CO2 in the atmosphere is nearly a century. The half life of water vapor is a couple of days.
If you're worried about contaminated fish, worry about mercury.
Like the meltdown spewage, mercury is also very dilute. In fact, only a few hundred tons of mercury can contaminate an entire ocean. How? Through bio-accumulation. The concentration of organomercury compounds in sea creatures can be millions of times higher than that of the water they live in.
This article only seems to address the low level of nuclear waste in the water. It doesn't analyze how much those materials might get concentrated as they move up the food chain.
So I wouldn't stop worrying about the meltdown quite yet.
There isn't enough oil under this continent to make a dent in global markets. As global oil reserves diminish around he world, prices are going up no matter what. All any incremental new oil we add to the global market will do is allow international demand to temporarily increase.
Prices will never drop below what newly created Chinese motorists can afford. The output variable is not gas prices, it's now many new cars get produced and sold in emerging markets.
In the real world, nothing is constant. Demand is not constant. The more oil we produce, the more cars Chinese consumers will be able to afford to operate. Any increase in our oil production is going to go to things like Chinese road trips, not to lower prices at US gas pumps.
Gee, who could've thought that after our boy-wonder President has taken a beating in the public for blocking the construction of the Keystone pipeline
It's pretty stupid that he's taking a beating, given that building the northern part of that pipeline (which is the only part he's blocking) would cause the gas prices in the central US to go up. It would basically allow the current glut of dirty Canadian (*not* domestic) oil to bypass Midwest refineries and be sent directly to the Gulf of Mexico, from which it would be loaded on tankers for export to higher bidders.
So much land is devoted to lawns because no matter where people go, they prefer to transform their surroundings to look like the savannas where humans first lived.
What they are doing at NIF has already been proven to work. They are basically making nothing more than tiny H-bombs.
You could just as easily say that ITER is a tiny little sun, so it's also proven to work.
Both statements have serious inaccuracies. For example, a real H-bomb uses X-rays from a fission bomb for ignition. But tiny little A-bombs don't exist, so they're trying to substitute a building full of laser beams for that, which is a totally different beast. This scheme has *not* yet been proven to work for net power generation any more than various other fusion technologies.
Yeah, they always claim that "this time, we've fixed the barriers for good!". Then a few years later, you learn about some new barrier.
I had to deal with a subtle version of this just recently when they upped the hardware block size. Lots of fun trying to partition and boot my new disks; LBA didn't save the day there.
After hitting a dozen or so "barriers" over the decades, I doubt that they're ever going to really succeed in future-proofing systems for storage size.
Do you mean would PC manufacturers would design in arbitrary limits in their hardware and/or BIOS that would create some kind of "barrier", so that disks that are too big won't work with the system?
That's highly doubtful. Nobody would be that stupid... would they?
When the first moon landings happened, the technology that folks were able to take down to the surface was exceptionally limited. This means that any landings in the future will be able to carry out experiments that could have only been dreamed about in the 60s.
Probably the most prominent new capability is that due to advances in computing and robotics, these experiments can now all be carried out remotely without having to send costly meatbags to tend to them.
The number type represents real (double-precision floating-point) numbers. Lua has no integer type, as it does not need it. There is a widespread misconception about floating-point arithmetic errors and some people fear that even a simple increment can go weird with floating-point numbers. The fact is that, when you use a double to represent an integer, there is no rounding error at all (unless the number is greater than 100,000,000,000,000). Specifically, a Lua number can represent any long integer without rounding problems. Moreover, most modern CPUs do floating-point arithmetic as fast as (or even faster than) integer arithmetic.
Perhaps you have a code snippet for a specific IEEE 754 machine that can prove otherwise?
There is no way to apply math to mass hysteria. It's inherently chaotic. All economic models eventually fail, as was proven again just a couple of years ago.
Economics is a cargo cult science. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you'll give up stupid religious beliefs like "tax cut === good".
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You can spin it all you want. You can wave you hands around as much as you want.
But it doesn't change the simple fact that GWB's Iraq war was the biggest clusterfuck this country has undertaken in the last 40 years.
End of story.
Weapons are made with plutonium, it is a waste of uranium.
Except when you either can't get your hands on any plutonium, or you can't figure out the difficult engineering required to implode plutonium.
In those cases, they're made with uranium, wasteful or not. See: Hiroshima.
Have very small nuclear reactors, the kind you find on Navy Submarines that can be used to power a very small area,
Small reactors like those on submarines tend to require weapons-grade fuel.
I see no reason that we allow people to have gas furnaces and water heaters in their houses, but do not allow them to have a small scale nuclear reactor.
See above.
You mean they'll always be way more scratched-up than if you owned them,
Yes, but you still won't care since you don't own them.
and sometimes you'll get about fifteen minutes in and it just stops working / won't go any further?
Probably not, because they're unlikely to repeatedly send the batteries through the US Postal System wrapped in nothing but a thin paper envelope. (Every Netflix disc we've had that wouldn't play was cracked all the way through the plastic, probably from this treatment.)
You will only care about that issue if you *own* the battery that comes with the car.
If battery swap stations were the norm, you undoubtedly would never own any battery. Instead, batteries would be like discs from Netflix.
In an ideal world, they would only be able to bill you for the actual amount of juice that you ended up pulling out of the battery before you have to swap it again (as determined by your car's and/or the battery's control logic).
It's not automatic, but at least on my version of MythTV the 'W' key cycles through all the zoom settings during playback, so you don't have to pull up a menu. I use it all the time on my analog cable channels.
I also usually set 4:3 broadcasts to "half zoom" so that it fills up more of the TV screen at the expense of chopping a tiny bit off the top and bottom. So now I when I start watching a program, I instinctively hit W once for normal shows, and twice for letterboxed shows.
Most of the houses in the US would simply not be passed as fit for human habitation in the UK, because of their shoddy thin-crappy-wood-over-thin-crappy-frame construction.
First of all, these days, it's usually not thin crappy wood. It's thin sheets of sawdust and glue (OSB). The latest trend is to make more of the frame out of sawdust and glue, too (LVLs, etc.)
However, the construction can be stronger than it looks. A lot of the damage from hurricanes can be avoided by spending a tiny bit extra to include the appropriate metal hurricane straps that help hold the major parts of the structure together better than plain nails. Also, wood frame houses generally have excellent earthquake resistance due to their non-brittle nature. If the UK ever had a strong earthquake (unlikely as that may be), I would *not* want to be inside one of those countless unreinforced masonry dwellings.
I know that you're being deliberately obtuse, but for the benefit of any people who may not see through your little charade, I'll point out the key difference between water vapor and the CO2 this technology would be replacing: The half life of CO2 in the atmosphere is nearly a century. The half life of water vapor is a couple of days.
If you're worried about contaminated fish, worry about mercury.
Like the meltdown spewage, mercury is also very dilute. In fact, only a few hundred tons of mercury can contaminate an entire ocean. How? Through bio-accumulation. The concentration of organomercury compounds in sea creatures can be millions of times higher than that of the water they live in.
This article only seems to address the low level of nuclear waste in the water. It doesn't analyze how much those materials might get concentrated as they move up the food chain.
So I wouldn't stop worrying about the meltdown quite yet.
Q: What is a string?
A: A sequence of characters
Q: Ok, what is a character?
A: Well obviously, each character should be a string!
QED
The debris hits the Soyuz and not the main station?
If that happens, then the voice from Unreal Tournament comes on the station's PA and announces: "HEADSHOT!".
There isn't enough oil under this continent to make a dent in global markets. As global oil reserves diminish around he world, prices are going up no matter what. All any incremental new oil we add to the global market will do is allow international demand to temporarily increase.
Prices will never drop below what newly created Chinese motorists can afford. The output variable is not gas prices, it's now many new cars get produced and sold in emerging markets.
In the real world, nothing is constant. Demand is not constant. The more oil we produce, the more cars Chinese consumers will be able to afford to operate. Any increase in our oil production is going to go to things like Chinese road trips, not to lower prices at US gas pumps.
Gee, who could've thought that after our boy-wonder President has taken a beating in the public for blocking the construction of the Keystone pipeline
It's pretty stupid that he's taking a beating, given that building the northern part of that pipeline (which is the only part he's blocking) would cause the gas prices in the central US to go up. It would basically allow the current glut of dirty Canadian (*not* domestic) oil to bypass Midwest refineries and be sent directly to the Gulf of Mexico, from which it would be loaded on tankers for export to higher bidders.
So much land is devoted to lawns because no matter where people go, they prefer to transform their surroundings to look like the savannas where humans first lived.
What they are doing at NIF has already been proven to work. They are basically making nothing more than tiny H-bombs.
You could just as easily say that ITER is a tiny little sun, so it's also proven to work.
Both statements have serious inaccuracies. For example, a real H-bomb uses X-rays from a fission bomb for ignition. But tiny little A-bombs don't exist, so they're trying to substitute a building full of laser beams for that, which is a totally different beast. This scheme has *not* yet been proven to work for net power generation any more than various other fusion technologies.
Yeah, they always claim that "this time, we've fixed the barriers for good!". Then a few years later, you learn about some new barrier.
I had to deal with a subtle version of this just recently when they upped the hardware block size. Lots of fun trying to partition and boot my new disks; LBA didn't save the day there.
After hitting a dozen or so "barriers" over the decades, I doubt that they're ever going to really succeed in future-proofing systems for storage size.
Can current motherboards handle that?
Do you mean would PC manufacturers would design in arbitrary limits in their hardware and/or BIOS that would create some kind of "barrier", so that disks that are too big won't work with the system?
That's highly doubtful. Nobody would be that stupid... would they?
The fundamental principle behind stocks is to buy low, and sell high. Not the other way around.
You mean something like this?
new_mac = re.sub('(..)(?!$)', r'\1.', old_mac)
When the first moon landings happened, the technology that folks were able to take down to the surface was exceptionally limited. This means that any landings in the future will be able to carry out experiments that could have only been dreamed about in the 60s.
Probably the most prominent new capability is that due to advances in computing and robotics, these experiments can now all be carried out remotely without having to send costly meatbags to tend to them.
Not according to this:
The number type represents real (double-precision floating-point) numbers. Lua has no integer type, as it does not need it. There is a widespread misconception about floating-point arithmetic errors and some people fear that even a simple increment can go weird with floating-point numbers. The fact is that, when you use a double to represent an integer, there is no rounding error at all (unless the number is greater than 100,000,000,000,000). Specifically, a Lua number can represent any long integer without rounding problems. Moreover, most modern CPUs do floating-point arithmetic as fast as (or even faster than) integer arithmetic.
Perhaps you have a code snippet for a specific IEEE 754 machine that can prove otherwise?
you must build... an ark, with two of every device
I assume it has to be an arc-proof ark?
Under the highest magnification of our latest scanning tunneling microscopes, new images of these anti particles reveal that they sport tiny goatees.
There is no way to apply math to mass hysteria. It's inherently chaotic. All economic models eventually fail, as was proven again just a couple of years ago.
Economics is a cargo cult science. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you'll give up stupid religious beliefs like "tax cut === good".