We do not have a shortage of CS workers in this country, we have a surplus, and with some provinces having over 10% unemployment rates Harper is seemingly doing everything he can to keep Canadians out of Canadian jobs.
Fucking neocons.
There is probably some clauses in the deal that state that they will allow two for one. Two foreign for one domestic. Not fair you say? Well, it will cause a depletion of jobs from Silicon valley as permanent jobs move north.
For northerners (we Canadians), there should be an increase in jobs for domestically qualified software developers. Why, we may even see an immigration of US citizens to Canada because of it. The net benefit will, of course, be corporate tax revenue for Canada. If MS comes to Quebec, for example, we are already multilingual (we live with and are fluent with two languages French, and English) and most of our university graduates have perfect fluency in a third language (Spanish, Portugese, Greek, Arabic), typically the language of their parents and grandparents.
you are better off with generation-1 than generation-current.
never trust the very leading edge. and, we're talking Seagate, here; their enterprise drives are ok but I wouldn't touch them, these days, for consumer drives. no way!
no way I'm trusting helium, either; since it escapes and makes the drive useless a few years down the line.
I have this point to raise. Today it is sata 3 as the fastest connection to drives. In 5 years, will it still be sata 3? Will the connectors continue to be the same as today's standard? Reminder, we no longer support pata ribbon connections. That type of connection is deprecated.
In two years should we expect to have very large SSD devices in the multi-terrabyte ranges? Should we foresee arrival on the scene of dual ported SSDs permitting two concurrent accesses? One access port for the current application, the second port for a second computer system. The latter to serve as a hot standby or as the system that does the backup from the active system. I would consider relying on 8 terrabyte drives when dual ported SSDs arrive on the scene.
This will cost us billions of dollars in the private and public sector,
who is this "us" he is talking about? because with just a little thought, you quickly realized these "billions of dollars" are just transfers from the (assumed) wealthy building owners to the less wealthy contractors and workers.
one person's cost is another's paycheck and kids tuition payment.
if the public good is really being served here by improving safety of citizens, why isn't the discussion framed more along these lines?
LA is trying to prevent that San Francisco style earthquake that essentially destroyed the city back then... He wants buildings to follow the City of SF building codes.
Why the hell is that unfortunate? Utilities should be nationalized. Their existence and proper functioning is essential to society and shouldn't be subject to the whims of shareholders and career tigers or 'operating at a profit'. Even though I believe nationalized industries do not necessarily have to be less 'efficient' than private ones (the efforts to make them efficient have been meager and successes underreported), I'd rather have inefficient organizations operating at a net loss than ones that will fuck me over left and right to extract every penny they can and don't give a flying fuck about the service they should be there to provide.
This 'socialism bad, free market good'-crap really needs to stop.
Wow, is this a repeat of the ice-man who lost his business to air-conditioning and to home refrigeration? I have no sympathies for them. The gravy train stops when the technology becomes too expensive, or is displaced by newer lower cost alternatives.
When I signed up for Comcast Business Class recently, they told me I had to use their modem+wireless router combo.
I managed to put their modem in bridge mode (i.e. let me use my own router) and "disable" the wireless functionality so I can use my own access points, but I can't seem to find any way to disable the damn public network.
I've confirmed that the public network uses a different public IP (clients connected to it get a private IP), but I'd still like to be able to disable it.
Bastards.
There is a simple solution. Get a very large soup pot that inverted, can cover the comcast equipment. Cover the equipment with the pot, (do not to put the equipment into the pot). It may need some free air, so let it just get air from the bottom by leaving the pot about 1/4 inch (1.5cm) wedged open at the bottom.
Really want to kill their signal, Put a bigger pot over the first one.
One must note that environmental science is best at observation, and typically poor at prognostication.
One must note that slashdotters are best at making unsubstantiated assertions, and typically poor at well argued comments.
Why are we worrying about this problem. We opened the chute for global warming, and as the energy gains speed downhill, there is no way to put on the brakes. So, enjoy what we have destroyed. No not expect that your great grandchildren may even be alive when they reach maturity.
So far as I know, European countries do impose network neutrality. And they do it with faster broadband speeds. My son who lived in Riga, Latvia in 2010, had 8megabits per second fibre access to the apartment building in which he lived, and at a standard fee. (They actually had fibre, because thieves stole the wire for the metal it contained. One night the elevator cables were stolen.)
I have an interest in the FOSS software that is useful to me. I do help to test. I do not open a wallet for support, and I am retired, and I need my pesos for other things.
We are freeloaders because we don't have the means to contribute, or the link to where we could do it. I am waiting for an alternative to kickstart.com where I could have a login account, and therein, a list of software developers looking for donations. I would put some money into a $pool that is divided up by proportionally by popularity, based on the registered urls and password.
I'm sure they'll support the traditional model and maybe come up with a catchy edition title. For example they could label it 'New Windows' for the subscription model and 'Windows Classic' for the one model people are used too. Then of course they could come up with new editions like 'Windows Zero' or 'Windows Light' just to further confuse the marketplace.
I think that the very basic windows, just a shell, may go for a few dollars, and anything else that you would want to run on it, would require a license / year and $$$.
I think Microsoft on the desktop is near history, as alternatives are being used. (In all the tv shows and movies, I see APPLE logos on the laptops, and they are made prominent. People wants Macs, and not the MacDonalds kind. (By the way, Golden arches sales are down from 2% to 5%, depending on country and competition.) I use Linux. Once a week I boot windows 8.1 to fetch updates and play around in it so I won't forget how to use it.
You have to remember, there are two kinds of people in the world:
1) Those who begin their indexes at 1.
-and-
1) Those who begin their indexes at 0.
I programmed in APL, a most wonderful language. For each function, you could specify the index origin to be used. ([]IO was set to 1 or 0, as you wished). You could be in the same function with index origin 0 and later with it set to one.
This, in spades! The passive intake of information has, over the last few decades, grown from an occasional relaxation activity to a full-time pattern. Watching televised entertainment, watching training videos and sitting in long useless meetings all suppress mental activity. Then come the interruptions from phone calls, deleting 99% of emails, reading text messages and twits. Even if you are seriously trying to get into flow, too frequent interruptions leads to a kind of fatigue where you tend to just sit and wait for the next one to hit.
Since so much of "work", both white and blue collar, is now done on computers this pattern is extremely common. You can't get away from the computer and still do what you want to focus on. Simple solution: control your own micro-climate. Kill all the interrupting processes, put the office phone on DND, hang a sign that says "Working", plug in noise-cancelling headphone and play pleasant, non-distracting music or continuous nature sounds to drown office noise.
Some people will become annoyed that you don't instantly drop everything and respond to them. Too bad for them.
Regarding as we would say "Zits Flaish" (pronounce words phonetically) and it translates as sitting meat, the ability to allow you to watch a two hour movie. I seem to be unable to watch more than ten to twelve minutes without a pause/distraction.
I think we are conditioned to short short spells of concentration, and then.................. emptyness
I type this as someone who lost a good ISP when it was bought out by Time Warner, and I've seen too many Comcast issues from people I game with to look forward to a merger.
The funny thing, though, is it is that passage that OP seems to be mostly about, when it is the earlier part that should most alarm everybody: they aren't competing.
And they aren't competing (this is just simple truth), because they have most of the country "divided up" between them: "You have this territory, and we have this territory."
But that's ILLEGAL. Dividing up the country between companies into non-competing regions is in violation of a Federal antitrust law that was passed clear back in 1926. It's just as bad in its own way as the "no compete for employees" agreement that Apple and other tech companies had. But they've practically bragged about it to the FCC!
And yet the FCC is looking entirely the other way. This is Obama's crony-capital government for you. I mean sure, Bush did it too, to a lesser extent. But this merger would never have been even CONSIDERED during the Bush years.
The problem started with Alexander Graham Bell, which later became AT&T. And then the old dinosaur didn't know what to do with emerging technologies.
Just as solar power and possibly wind power is coming to smaller enterprises, so will the delivery system come for high speed internet. Who says we can't have it? I can see the fibre to the house as a revenue stream for towns, villages and cities.
If they hired better teachers, what would the teachers' unions do with the worthless teachers?
How do you define a worthless teacher? Is it one that works the 40hr week, and thats it. And takes the summer time to do some vacationing?
In our system, the teachers are required to obtain at least three college/university credits per year related to teaching. That's one summer course.
Yet they were among the first to adopt computers back in the 1950s.
Actually, that is the problem. Because they adopted computers so early, they are now stuck with slow legacy systems. It is similar to the situation with phone companies: America used to have the best in the world, because of investments in computers and automation. But today we have one of the worst telecom systems, because we are stuck with outdated systems, while other countries computerized with much newer technology.
Are you telling me that these banks still use state of the art "Burroughs hardware and software"?
And good riddance to it. It can go on the ash heap next to the network computer, Windows RT and.NET everywhere.
The tablet itself is not, and never was, a fad. The fad was the really bizarre belief that tablets could and would replace PCs nearly everywhere. So in that way it is very different than the other examples you listed--in my opinion they were all true fads. But then again, what is a ChromeBook if it's not the current version of the network computer???
I saw roles for tablets that were never thought of before. I was at a music show, where the performers each had their own tablet. The leader would chose a song or music on his tablet, and the other tablets (on music stands) synced to his selection. No turning pages or sheets falling on the floor. One orchestra leader synchronized all musicians to the same music appearing in front of them.
A second performance was with a small group of 5. The leader chose the song, and the words and music were immediately present on the other tablets, as you would expect, with the music tailored for that band member.
It sounds like the problem with people in general... You find these flaws emerge everywhere on the commercial software spectrum from mass-market consumer applications to meat and potatoes business applications, enterprise verticals, bespoke consulting and in-house development. There can often be a cult of the lead developer, architect, product manager, VP, primary customer, next customer, or last customer.
It seems to me that the only difference with open source, as with any labor-based market, is that your contributions are not as fungible as with cash purchases of software? It is not as trivial to change your mind and send your money elsewhere, both as an individual participant and as a customer base. It's a bit more like society and politics in that regard...
Some of the biggest flaws that I come across are in the documentation. The documentation is published, without it being vetted, and the grammar errors and facts therein are, well, just crap.
I took a sample document, and used opensource (libreoffice) to vet the writing, to correct the grammar, and to follow a consistent writing style. The organization would not accept libreoffice output, but wanted the documentation written with some pre-historic application. That application was chosen because one could create a pdf file and html output. Little did the organization realize that libreoffice does both exceedingly well.
I can't see myself writing in command line with the vim editor.
So, give a person today's gui tools, and you will have volunteers. That organization could write a python extractor that would take the libreoffice output and convert it to the format the old back-end required. WYSIWYG tools are required.
When a machine with artificial intelligence is created, one priority algorithm should/can be rational acts of kindness. Kindness as one would have to a wife, husband, friend, etc.
But not kindness when one is in palliative care and the pains of living are impossible to bear. That act of kindness needs a human decision.
Either way, storage is the "next big thing" for the electric grid. For one thing, it's essential for integrating intermittent sources like most renewables. But it will also help to make the entire grid more "islandable" -- diverse and distributed -- and thus more robust.
In Quebec, we were accustomed to power outages, until the electric utility put James Bay online. This was a phenominal amount of water resource and cheap electricity. As a consequence, a majority of homes in Quebec switched to all electric heating and A/C. This consumption required redundancy for transmission towers and lines. That redundancy came after one bad winter storm tore down a few miles of towers and the lines. Now they are rebuilt and are transmission paths are in triple. The transmission lines are not side by side, but as I understand it, they run parallel about a mile apart. The towers are also much more reinforced.
Don't want outages, introduce redundancy.
The high costs of nuclear are driven by non technical issues. Five year Environmental impact studies, lawsuit after lawsuit, etc.
And the feds can definitely provide a framework and structure to a thriving private industry. Pre-approved designs, standard manufacturing facilities and techniques, etc can drive costs down. Right now, every plant is a one off and many parts are only made by one overseas company...the most expensive way to build anything.
The Koch brothers would not want clean nuclear reactors that could power a home or a community. You can bet they will be opposing it all the way to the bank.
A European study shows that windpower is 12x cheaper than alternate forms of energy. Go figure what will transpire. Will we have wind turbines on all mountain tops in the land?
It's OK to try and harm someone just because they are wearing a badge and talking to you?
Equally disgusting...
Because that's what the physical evidence, and now a grand jury who had ALL the facts, said.
What words were yelled out of the officer's mouth, at the boy. I can imagine that they certainly were not polite and provoking to a teenager.
Perhaps the words nigger and thief, fxxker, bxxtard, mother-xxxxxx were yelled at him. This exchange between the boy who was outside of the police car, and the policeman who had the car for protection was not part of the evidence. But the population knows, and that is the reason for that rioting.
Second point. The policeman did not follow the rules. You have to wait for your backup. I watched his telling of his story. Body language tells me a lot. He was guilty in face and body expression, and did not show being upset at the loss of life. "I was doing my job".
Really
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He must have also committed felonies or he wouldn't be a felon...
You can be a felon for having three marijuana cigarettes. Scarred for life, can't vote. Sigh, you would not be a felon for DUI.
We do not have a shortage of CS workers in this country, we have a surplus, and with some provinces having over 10% unemployment rates Harper is seemingly doing everything he can to keep Canadians out of Canadian jobs.
Fucking neocons.
There is probably some clauses in the deal that state that they will allow two for one. Two foreign for one domestic. Not fair you say? Well, it will cause a depletion of jobs from Silicon valley as permanent jobs move north. For northerners (we Canadians), there should be an increase in jobs for domestically qualified software developers. Why, we may even see an immigration of US citizens to Canada because of it. The net benefit will, of course, be corporate tax revenue for Canada. If MS comes to Quebec, for example, we are already multilingual (we live with and are fluent with two languages French, and English) and most of our university graduates have perfect fluency in a third language (Spanish, Portugese, Greek, Arabic), typically the language of their parents and grandparents.
you are better off with generation-1 than generation-current.
never trust the very leading edge. and, we're talking Seagate, here; their enterprise drives are ok but I wouldn't touch them, these days, for consumer drives. no way!
no way I'm trusting helium, either; since it escapes and makes the drive useless a few years down the line.
I have this point to raise. Today it is sata 3 as the fastest connection to drives. In 5 years, will it still be sata 3? Will the connectors continue to be the same as today's standard? Reminder, we no longer support pata ribbon connections. That type of connection is deprecated.
In two years should we expect to have very large SSD devices in the multi-terrabyte ranges? Should we foresee arrival on the scene of dual ported SSDs permitting two concurrent accesses? One access port for the current application, the second port for a second computer system. The latter to serve as a hot standby or as the system that does the backup from the active system. I would consider relying on 8 terrabyte drives when dual ported SSDs arrive on the scene.
This will cost us billions of dollars in the private and public sector,
who is this "us" he is talking about? because with just a little thought, you quickly realized these "billions of dollars" are just transfers from the (assumed) wealthy building owners to the less wealthy contractors and workers.
one person's cost is another's paycheck and kids tuition payment.
if the public good is really being served here by improving safety of citizens, why isn't the discussion framed more along these lines?
LA is trying to prevent that San Francisco style earthquake that essentially destroyed the city back then... He wants buildings to follow the City of SF building codes.
Why the hell is that unfortunate? Utilities should be nationalized. Their existence and proper functioning is essential to society and shouldn't be subject to the whims of shareholders and career tigers or 'operating at a profit'. Even though I believe nationalized industries do not necessarily have to be less 'efficient' than private ones (the efforts to make them efficient have been meager and successes underreported), I'd rather have inefficient organizations operating at a net loss than ones that will fuck me over left and right to extract every penny they can and don't give a flying fuck about the service they should be there to provide.
This 'socialism bad, free market good'-crap really needs to stop.
Wow, is this a repeat of the ice-man who lost his business to air-conditioning and to home refrigeration? I have no sympathies for them. The gravy train stops when the technology becomes too expensive, or is displaced by newer lower cost alternatives.
When I signed up for Comcast Business Class recently, they told me I had to use their modem+wireless router combo.
I managed to put their modem in bridge mode (i.e. let me use my own router) and "disable" the wireless functionality so I can use my own access points, but I can't seem to find any way to disable the damn public network.
I've confirmed that the public network uses a different public IP (clients connected to it get a private IP), but I'd still like to be able to disable it.
Bastards.
There is a simple solution. Get a very large soup pot that inverted, can cover the comcast equipment. Cover the equipment with the pot, (do not to put the equipment into the pot). It may need some free air, so let it just get air from the bottom by leaving the pot about 1/4 inch (1.5cm) wedged open at the bottom. Really want to kill their signal, Put a bigger pot over the first one.
One must note that environmental science is best at observation, and typically poor at prognostication.
One must note that slashdotters are best at making unsubstantiated assertions, and typically poor at well argued comments.
Why are we worrying about this problem. We opened the chute for global warming, and as the energy gains speed downhill, there is no way to put on the brakes. So, enjoy what we have destroyed. No not expect that your great grandchildren may even be alive when they reach maturity.
Give Jackson money and he'll go away.
So far as I know, European countries do impose network neutrality. And they do it with faster broadband speeds. My son who lived in Riga, Latvia in 2010, had 8megabits per second fibre access to the apartment building in which he lived, and at a standard fee. (They actually had fibre, because thieves stole the wire for the metal it contained. One night the elevator cables were stolen.)
However, docker is a great idea. Will I have enough diskspace for my program. My floppy only holds 1.44megs?
I have an interest in the FOSS software that is useful to me. I do help to test. I do not open a wallet for support, and I am retired, and I need my pesos for other things. We are freeloaders because we don't have the means to contribute, or the link to where we could do it. I am waiting for an alternative to kickstart.com where I could have a login account, and therein, a list of software developers looking for donations. I would put some money into a $pool that is divided up by proportionally by popularity, based on the registered urls and password.
I'm sure they'll support the traditional model and maybe come up with a catchy edition title. For example they could label it 'New Windows' for the subscription model and 'Windows Classic' for the one model people are used too. Then of course they could come up with new editions like 'Windows Zero' or 'Windows Light' just to further confuse the marketplace.
I think that the very basic windows, just a shell, may go for a few dollars, and anything else that you would want to run on it, would require a license / year and $$$. I think Microsoft on the desktop is near history, as alternatives are being used. (In all the tv shows and movies, I see APPLE logos on the laptops, and they are made prominent. People wants Macs, and not the MacDonalds kind. (By the way, Golden arches sales are down from 2% to 5%, depending on country and competition.) I use Linux. Once a week I boot windows 8.1 to fetch updates and play around in it so I won't forget how to use it.
We're talking about C. You want the zeroeth post.
You have to remember, there are two kinds of people in the world: 1) Those who begin their indexes at 1. -and- 1) Those who begin their indexes at 0.
I programmed in APL, a most wonderful language. For each function, you could specify the index origin to be used. ([]IO was set to 1 or 0, as you wished). You could be in the same function with index origin 0 and later with it set to one.
How many who were tortured died from the action? Why wont the CIA fess up.
This, in spades! The passive intake of information has, over the last few decades, grown from an occasional relaxation activity to a full-time pattern. Watching televised entertainment, watching training videos and sitting in long useless meetings all suppress mental activity. Then come the interruptions from phone calls, deleting 99% of emails, reading text messages and twits. Even if you are seriously trying to get into flow, too frequent interruptions leads to a kind of fatigue where you tend to just sit and wait for the next one to hit. Since so much of "work", both white and blue collar, is now done on computers this pattern is extremely common. You can't get away from the computer and still do what you want to focus on. Simple solution: control your own micro-climate. Kill all the interrupting processes, put the office phone on DND, hang a sign that says "Working", plug in noise-cancelling headphone and play pleasant, non-distracting music or continuous nature sounds to drown office noise. Some people will become annoyed that you don't instantly drop everything and respond to them. Too bad for them.
Regarding as we would say "Zits Flaish" (pronounce words phonetically) and it translates as sitting meat, the ability to allow you to watch a two hour movie. I seem to be unable to watch more than ten to twelve minutes without a pause/distraction. I think we are conditioned to short short spells of concentration, and then .................. emptyness
For a good password, use your own phrase in place of "hello there" echo "hello there" | sha1sum 55e82e1eb131597ce6ef77ff775b2c2e5f4d6b45
I type this as someone who lost a good ISP when it was bought out by Time Warner, and I've seen too many Comcast issues from people I game with to look forward to a merger.
The funny thing, though, is it is that passage that OP seems to be mostly about, when it is the earlier part that should most alarm everybody: they aren't competing. And they aren't competing (this is just simple truth), because they have most of the country "divided up" between them: "You have this territory, and we have this territory." But that's ILLEGAL. Dividing up the country between companies into non-competing regions is in violation of a Federal antitrust law that was passed clear back in 1926. It's just as bad in its own way as the "no compete for employees" agreement that Apple and other tech companies had. But they've practically bragged about it to the FCC! And yet the FCC is looking entirely the other way. This is Obama's crony-capital government for you. I mean sure, Bush did it too, to a lesser extent. But this merger would never have been even CONSIDERED during the Bush years.
The problem started with Alexander Graham Bell, which later became AT&T. And then the old dinosaur didn't know what to do with emerging technologies. Just as solar power and possibly wind power is coming to smaller enterprises, so will the delivery system come for high speed internet. Who says we can't have it? I can see the fibre to the house as a revenue stream for towns, villages and cities.
If they hired better teachers, what would the teachers' unions do with the worthless teachers? How do you define a worthless teacher? Is it one that works the 40hr week, and thats it. And takes the summer time to do some vacationing? In our system, the teachers are required to obtain at least three college/university credits per year related to teaching. That's one summer course.
Yet they were among the first to adopt computers back in the 1950s.
Actually, that is the problem. Because they adopted computers so early, they are now stuck with slow legacy systems. It is similar to the situation with phone companies: America used to have the best in the world, because of investments in computers and automation. But today we have one of the worst telecom systems, because we are stuck with outdated systems, while other countries computerized with much newer technology.
Are you telling me that these banks still use state of the art "Burroughs hardware and software"?
And good riddance to it. It can go on the ash heap next to the network computer, Windows RT and .NET everywhere.
The tablet itself is not, and never was, a fad. The fad was the really bizarre belief that tablets could and would replace PCs nearly everywhere. So in that way it is very different than the other examples you listed--in my opinion they were all true fads. But then again, what is a ChromeBook if it's not the current version of the network computer???
I saw roles for tablets that were never thought of before. I was at a music show, where the performers each had their own tablet. The leader would chose a song or music on his tablet, and the other tablets (on music stands) synced to his selection. No turning pages or sheets falling on the floor. One orchestra leader synchronized all musicians to the same music appearing in front of them. A second performance was with a small group of 5. The leader chose the song, and the words and music were immediately present on the other tablets, as you would expect, with the music tailored for that band member.
But, how is that specific to open source?
It sounds like the problem with people in general... You find these flaws emerge everywhere on the commercial software spectrum from mass-market consumer applications to meat and potatoes business applications, enterprise verticals, bespoke consulting and in-house development. There can often be a cult of the lead developer, architect, product manager, VP, primary customer, next customer, or last customer.
It seems to me that the only difference with open source, as with any labor-based market, is that your contributions are not as fungible as with cash purchases of software? It is not as trivial to change your mind and send your money elsewhere, both as an individual participant and as a customer base. It's a bit more like society and politics in that regard...
Some of the biggest flaws that I come across are in the documentation. The documentation is published, without it being vetted, and the grammar errors and facts therein are, well, just crap. I took a sample document, and used opensource (libreoffice) to vet the writing, to correct the grammar, and to follow a consistent writing style. The organization would not accept libreoffice output, but wanted the documentation written with some pre-historic application. That application was chosen because one could create a pdf file and html output. Little did the organization realize that libreoffice does both exceedingly well. I can't see myself writing in command line with the vim editor. So, give a person today's gui tools, and you will have volunteers. That organization could write a python extractor that would take the libreoffice output and convert it to the format the old back-end required. WYSIWYG tools are required.
When a machine with artificial intelligence is created, one priority algorithm should/can be rational acts of kindness. Kindness as one would have to a wife, husband, friend, etc. But not kindness when one is in palliative care and the pains of living are impossible to bear. That act of kindness needs a human decision.
Either way, storage is the "next big thing" for the electric grid. For one thing, it's essential for integrating intermittent sources like most renewables. But it will also help to make the entire grid more "islandable" -- diverse and distributed -- and thus more robust.
In Quebec, we were accustomed to power outages, until the electric utility put James Bay online. This was a phenominal amount of water resource and cheap electricity. As a consequence, a majority of homes in Quebec switched to all electric heating and A/C. This consumption required redundancy for transmission towers and lines. That redundancy came after one bad winter storm tore down a few miles of towers and the lines. Now they are rebuilt and are transmission paths are in triple. The transmission lines are not side by side, but as I understand it, they run parallel about a mile apart. The towers are also much more reinforced. Don't want outages, introduce redundancy.
The high costs of nuclear are driven by non technical issues. Five year Environmental impact studies, lawsuit after lawsuit, etc.
And the feds can definitely provide a framework and structure to a thriving private industry. Pre-approved designs, standard manufacturing facilities and techniques, etc can drive costs down. Right now, every plant is a one off and many parts are only made by one overseas company...the most expensive way to build anything.
The Koch brothers would not want clean nuclear reactors that could power a home or a community. You can bet they will be opposing it all the way to the bank. A European study shows that windpower is 12x cheaper than alternate forms of energy. Go figure what will transpire. Will we have wind turbines on all mountain tops in the land?
It's OK to try and harm someone just because they are wearing a badge and talking to you?
Equally disgusting...
Because that's what the physical evidence, and now a grand jury who had ALL the facts, said.
What words were yelled out of the officer's mouth, at the boy. I can imagine that they certainly were not polite and provoking to a teenager. Perhaps the words nigger and thief, fxxker, bxxtard, mother-xxxxxx were yelled at him. This exchange between the boy who was outside of the police car, and the policeman who had the car for protection was not part of the evidence. But the population knows, and that is the reason for that rioting. Second point. The policeman did not follow the rules. You have to wait for your backup. I watched his telling of his story. Body language tells me a lot. He was guilty in face and body expression, and did not show being upset at the loss of life. "I was doing my job". Really