I seriously doubt the airlines were aware that those decisions introduced a SPoF (single point of failure) in a critical avionics feature. Commercial aircraft must be built for high reliability, built with redundancies.. A system that wrests control from the pilot from the input of single sensor goes against decades of engineering convention in aircraft design and plain old common sense
To believe in the myth of American meritocracy would require you to believe that the genetic package known as "Trump" would have also succeeded had he been born in Compton. I'm pretty sure we all know Donny from Compton would have been lucky to make Head Box Stacker in Walmart... If he was lucky.
No doubt hard work affects your socio economic outcome, but your parents economic class and the location of your upbringing have long been known as the most powerful predictors of economic success.
That study ranked California 42nd among the fifty states and the District of Columbia for the amount of federal per capita expenditure ($9,172).
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The LAO also cites figures from a March 2016 report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. It found the federal government spent nearly $356 billion in California in fiscal year 2014, for salaries and wages, grants, contracts, retirement benefits and other benefits. That same year, California paid about $369 billion in total federal tax -- or about $13 billion more than it received -- according to the Internal Revenue Service Data Book, 2014.
1. Yet Yucca remains unused today and is there is no schedule for it to ever open. The entirety of the nations nuclear waste is left in short term storage on reactor sites
Through this program, the U.S. nuclear power industry has roughly $12 billion in liability insurance protection to compensate the public in the event of a nuclear accident.
As a point of reference the Fukushima cleanup is, at the moment, estimated to require nearly $200 billion, and that is NOT counting the economic loss of an entire uninhabitable region for decades or more
You are conflating widespread natural disasters with entirely unnatural mechanical or design failures committed by a single entity that leave a region uninhabitable for decades or more.
Yes the same PG&E that dumped approximately 370 million gallons of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, which eventually killed and maimed many residents of Hinkley and made Erin Brockovich famous.
Diablo Canyon (Nuclear) Power Plant, located in San Luis Obispo County California, was originally designed to withstand a 6.75 magnitude earthquake from four faults, including the nearby San Andreas and Hosgri faults [BTW, the Hosgri fault (active) was discovered while the plant was under construction] ...
The Shoreline Fault] is a 25 km long vertical strike-slip fault, identified in 2008, which lies approximately three hundred meters from the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California. According to Pacific Gas & Electric, the fault may produce quakes up to 6.5 magnitude. Mandated three-dimensional seismic studies have not been yet completed, and are not prerequisites for reissuance of the operating licenses for the two onsite units.
And guess who owns Diablo??? PG&E. Yes the same PG&E that is currently filing for bankruptcy. Guess the joke will be on the taxpayers. Again.
So the obvious solution is to do nothing and everything will be all fine forever?
I remember way back in my youth hearing about this thing called "erring on the the side of caution", especially when consequences rise to the level of 'catastrophic'.
This issue qualifies, and the vast majority of the experts and empirical evidence point in one direction, catastrophe. However, in this case 'erring on the the side of caution' doesn't do this choice justice. This is more about the difference between wishing something were true and informed expert opinions, intelligence and wisdom
the Republican establishment having to suck up to him and appease his followers because they need that portion of the electorate to win elections.
So what you are saying is that the republican establishment is happy to sacrifice the country and wipe their asses with the constitution in order to maintain power.
If that was a defense of the republican party I'm not seeing it.
I have a list - companies I refuse to support. I know, it's easy to just say "screw it", take the cynical-resigned-to-the-race-to-the-bottom route.
If everyone could muster the strength to send a message to these people, these shitty parasitic companies... the world would be a better place.
Public and private entities are not inherently good nor evil, they are both made of people and are both susceptible to human flaws and weaknesses. Does the American government really kill more Americans on an annual basis than private entities??? I think the case can be made that they don't.
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I seriously doubt the airlines were aware that those decisions introduced a SPoF (single point of failure) in a critical avionics feature. Commercial aircraft must be built for high reliability, built with redundancies.. A system that wrests control from the pilot from the input of single sensor goes against decades of engineering convention in aircraft design and plain old common sense
As far as I can tell, Wells Fargo is largely a very poorly concealed criminal enterprise.
To believe in the myth of American meritocracy would require you to believe that the genetic package known as "Trump" would have also succeeded had he been born in Compton. I'm pretty sure we all know Donny from Compton would have been lucky to make Head Box Stacker in Walmart... If he was lucky.
No doubt hard work affects your socio economic outcome, but your parents economic class and the location of your upbringing have long been known as the most powerful predictors of economic success.
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Got to agree with this... everybody move to Texas and we'll rough it out here in CA alone.
Markets have spoken and found that should be more expensive in CA. I've been to Texas, all over Taxas, and you definitely get what you pay for.
California's energy markets were deregulated 20 years ago
PG&E has been proven mismanaged for decades. .
Just as Erin Brockovich
2. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention (and this is just the tip of the iceberg):
https://www.chicagobusiness.co...
https://www.tampabay.com/news/...
https://www.recorder.com/Vt-Ya...
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As a point of reference the Fukushima cleanup is, at the moment, estimated to require nearly $200 billion, and that is NOT counting the economic loss of an entire uninhabitable region for decades or more
You are conflating widespread natural disasters with entirely unnatural mechanical or design failures committed by a single entity that leave a region uninhabitable for decades or more.
Yes the same PG&E that dumped approximately 370 million gallons of chromium-tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, which eventually killed and maimed many residents of Hinkley and made Erin Brockovich famous.
And guess who owns Diablo??? PG&E. Yes the same PG&E that is currently filing for bankruptcy. Guess the joke will be on the taxpayers. Again.
Florida is not a private entity. Commercial reactors are a major risk designed and built by private parties for the purpose of profit.
1. When you have a viable (politically and otherwise) solution to long term waste storage.
2. Proper funding of costs for decommissioning of private reactors as they reach the end of their useful life.
3. A rational emergency fund pool.should, dear god, catastrophic failure occur to a private facility.
So the obvious solution is to do nothing and everything will be all fine forever?
I remember way back in my youth hearing about this thing called "erring on the the side of caution", especially when consequences rise to the level of 'catastrophic'.
This issue qualifies, and the vast majority of the experts and empirical evidence point in one direction, catastrophe. However, in this case 'erring on the the side of caution' doesn't do this choice justice. This is more about the difference between wishing something were true and informed expert opinions, intelligence and wisdom
So what you are saying is that the republican establishment is happy to sacrifice the country and wipe their asses with the constitution in order to maintain power.
If that was a defense of the republican party I'm not seeing it.
To be fair, if each of the authors had "economist" after their name my confidence in their conclusion would be no different.
...disabled features. I have an unlocked S7, and for some reason the unlocked model does not have "WiFi Calling".
The phone co. branded versions of the S7 do, and I'm sure the unlocked phone has the capability but it is not enabled or accessible for some reason.
It will be interesting to see how this will affect choice rights. Is this considered conception, if so, at what point?
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I have a list - companies I refuse to support. I know, it's easy to just say "screw it", take the cynical-resigned-to-the-race-to-the-bottom route. If everyone could muster the strength to send a message to these people, these shitty parasitic companies... the world would be a better place.
Except that is not the only task of CMS: https://carbon.nasa.gov/cgi-bi...
Public and private entities are not inherently good nor evil, they are both made of people and are both susceptible to human flaws and weaknesses. Does the American government really kill more Americans on an annual basis than private entities??? I think the case can be made that they don't.
... hide the evidence
Dumping Net Neutrality was all on the Trump Administration, Republican congress-critters were thoroughly insulated. This vote puts them on record.