See integral fast reactor. The only waste produced by the plant is safe in about 300 years. It's also the sort of waste that you can get away with burying (it's metal and ceramic), and you don't have to deal with cockamamie schemes for warning away future cavemen.
It was cancelled around 1994 by a faction led by John Kerry. (Though the opposition was led by Dick Durbin, also a Democrat; opposition to nuclear power is not as unthinking and monolithic as some would believe.)
Only on Slashdot is the revocation of habeas corpus morally equivalent to taking away your DVD cloning software. Yes, they're both bad. But if I had to choose between the two, I don't think I'd lose much sleep over it.
Yes, I think I'll just stop eating pasta, and go on a high fat diet; that should definitely help me finish that 10K... You must be joking.
For what it's worth, low-carb diets do work. You just have to be willing to stay on them for the rest of your life, and you will start craving bread, rice, bagels, that sort of thing. But it is a legitimate nutritional approach.
The rest of the grandparent post is, of course, handwavey nonsense unlikely to convince anyone who didn't agree with him in the first place. But then, that's not surprising.
Consider the libertarian paradise of Somalia, where one can live free from the overreaching hand of government. Also, you can buy weapons as easily as you can buy bread. Fun times all around! I expect the original poster who started this whole mess will be moving there as soon as he can escape his parents' basement.
So, what if the customers aren't killed, but crippled and made to die horrible, lingering, expensive deaths where they can still purchase the product until they croak? (See the tobacco industry.) Or what if the doom won't occur until after you score your golden parachute? Why would you, as a CEO, care? (See American car manufacturers and SUVs.) Or what if what you're externalizing isn't actually killing your customers, just the people around them?
You propose a poor, poor pressure to keep corporations from doing evil.
Those who can't vote with their dollars aren't trying hard enough, I'll bet. Why, if they were more worthy, and not so lazy and welfare-queeny, we'd get rid of government and we'd have eight times as much wealth for each person (I've seriously seen that argument made), and we'd all sing kumbaya from deep within our heavily-fortified Fortress Mini-Americas.
Oh, wait, looking at his follow-up, I see that he's just blithely arguing that the market never, ever fails, and that state intervention is always for the worse. Should've seen that one coming.
I hear a lot about Slashdot's liberal bias whenever a political story is posted, but I think what makes the place really special is how we get the "if we didn't have government, we would all fly personal helicopters to our golden palaces" libertarian types on the oddest of stories. Maybe it has something to do with the demographic. After all, I went through a libertarian phase when I was a pissed-off high schooler.
Labeling laws are skirted by industry and made worthless. The solution, by you, is to get rid of labeling laws, instead of strengthening them or closing the loopholes.
"What do you know? These antipsychotic meds only make me a little less crazy. I guess I'd better just stop taking them at all."
And copper is easier to repair - one can disassemble and remake joints by desoldering and resoldering. Plasic uses fusion welds, which cannot be un-fused - only cut out and couplings installed, which can triple the amount of joints.
HAHAHAHA. No.
Here's the process for brazing copper pipe: assemble the pipe to the fitting. Schmear flux around the joint. Hold a blowtorch to the pipe until it's probably hot enough. (If you're repairing it in-place, try not to point the torch at those dry wooden structural members!) Touch the solder to the joint and watch it flow into it. Turn on the water, and yell "shit! turn it off! TURN IT OFF!" as it sprays onto the nearby bookcases. Fail to empty the water from the pipe, and end up boiling it off with the torch. Try to braze the joint again. Lather, rinse, repeat, ignore family members asking if they'll ever be able to shower again.
I've installed at least a hundred PEX joints. Slip the ring over the pipe, put the pipe in the fitting, slide the ring to the end of the pipe, and clamp. I have yet to see a single joint fail. It replaced the feed pipe to the washing machine, which had been leaking on and off for a year, despite our attempts to patch or replace pieces of it. We tore the whole mess out and replaced it with PEX in a single afternoon, and it hasn't leaked since.
Sure, it might all spontaneously dissolve tomorrow. But there are some pretty solid reasons for the DIYer to use it.
Betty Crocker icing gets its bright white color not from natural cream and egg whites but from *titanium dioxide*, a mineral that is also used in house paints.
You'd think the college's gateway would be able to at least block exploit packets. I remember that UConn's network blocked the SMB ports at the internet gateway to cut down on exploits. How do most of these work? Why aren't they blockable with a simple packet filter?
It was Paul Cameron, whose name you'll see tacked onto most faked-up research showing that gays eat babies and so forth. The clip you refer to is available here; look closely for the point at which Cameron agrees that he'd much rather get blown up by terrorists than have an uncomfortable shower moment.
I don't want an "ordinary Joe" in charge! I want someone smarter than me, an adept diplomat with a keen-edged mind and strong leadership potential. I want our mighty nation to pick the best person for the job. We have roughly three hundred million citizens to choose from; this guy is not the best we can do.
"Intellectuals scare me, and I find him nonthreatening" is possibly the worst rationale for picking a leader since "his father was king, too".
If clinton would have been on the ball instead of thinking with his balls, bin laden would have been caught as he had several chances to get him and chose not to.
I should start demanding a nickel every time someone claims this. Tom Tomorrow does a shinier job explaining why this is a pointless argument than I ever could.
In short: you claim that Clinton was distracted by the Republicans drumming up scandal. But that that's somehow Clinton's fault, right? Sheesh.
The bit about undereducated soldiers may be floating around because the service has been lowering its entrance requirements to include criminals, neo-Nazis, and gang members. They've also lowered their intelligence exam requirements, and heavily recruit from poor neighborhoods where people may not have as many options. (But they don't want gays. Definitely not gays. We have limits, you see.)
So if you're wondering why soldiers are stereotyped as violent, dimwitted brutes, it's because that's the pool the service is currently recruiting from. Probably because most folks aren't enamored of the "spend the next who knows how many years in a sandy hellhole hoping you don't drive over an IED" pitch.
It seems to indicate that there are clear rules that outline when you get a warrant and when you don't. So applications aren't submitted that won't ultimately succeed. What would be the point of that?
"Clear rules" doesn't mean "every wiretap is allowable under the rules" or even "every wiretap needed to prevent terrorism is allowable under the rules".
This actually seems almost plausible, but I didn't think this was the case because there are no such rules actually listed in the FISA law itself. If such laws existed, I guess they were secret. But why would they need to be?
But nevermind. I'm sure Karl Rove is out to listen to your private thoughts.
Huh; for a moment there, I thought you were actually debating in good faith. Silly me.
Look, if there were overly-restrictive secret rules that we didn't know about, there were legal ways to change that. Whether or not FISA provided the capabilities that the executive branch thought it needed is irrelevant. (Though I haven't seen anything convincing on that front, either.) The President felt that he could ignore the law and make up his own rules. The President thinks that he's a King.
Are you kosher with that? Does your snark about how I think Karl Rove is tapping my phone somehow keep you from caring that "but it's important!" is considered a perfectly fine reason to break the law?
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See integral fast reactor. The only waste produced by the plant is safe in about 300 years. It's also the sort of waste that you can get away with burying (it's metal and ceramic), and you don't have to deal with cockamamie schemes for warning away future cavemen.
It was cancelled around 1994 by a faction led by John Kerry. (Though the opposition was led by Dick Durbin, also a Democrat; opposition to nuclear power is not as unthinking and monolithic as some would believe.)
Where can you score one of those? It'd be the advantages of cash. Pretty sweet.
I can't find links to the free DRM-enabled downloads, only to the regular pay-downloads. A little help here?
I heard that Wang Yang, Communist Party of China Committee Secretary of Chongqing province, can't have an orgasm unless he kills a dog.
That's just what I heard.
Only on Slashdot is the revocation of habeas corpus morally equivalent to taking away your DVD cloning software. Yes, they're both bad. But if I had to choose between the two, I don't think I'd lose much sleep over it.
The rest of the grandparent post is, of course, handwavey nonsense unlikely to convince anyone who didn't agree with him in the first place. But then, that's not surprising.
Consider the libertarian paradise of Somalia, where one can live free from the overreaching hand of government. Also, you can buy weapons as easily as you can buy bread. Fun times all around! I expect the original poster who started this whole mess will be moving there as soon as he can escape his parents' basement.
So, what if the customers aren't killed, but crippled and made to die horrible, lingering, expensive deaths where they can still purchase the product until they croak? (See the tobacco industry.) Or what if the doom won't occur until after you score your golden parachute? Why would you, as a CEO, care? (See American car manufacturers and SUVs.) Or what if what you're externalizing isn't actually killing your customers, just the people around them?
You propose a poor, poor pressure to keep corporations from doing evil.
Those who can't vote with their dollars aren't trying hard enough, I'll bet. Why, if they were more worthy, and not so lazy and welfare-queeny, we'd get rid of government and we'd have eight times as much wealth for each person (I've seriously seen that argument made), and we'd all sing kumbaya from deep within our heavily-fortified Fortress Mini-Americas.
Oh, wait, looking at his follow-up, I see that he's just blithely arguing that the market never, ever fails, and that state intervention is always for the worse. Should've seen that one coming.
I hear a lot about Slashdot's liberal bias whenever a political story is posted, but I think what makes the place really special is how we get the "if we didn't have government, we would all fly personal helicopters to our golden palaces" libertarian types on the oddest of stories. Maybe it has something to do with the demographic. After all, I went through a libertarian phase when I was a pissed-off high schooler.
Wait, wait. Let me see if I have this straight.
Labeling laws are skirted by industry and made worthless. The solution, by you, is to get rid of labeling laws, instead of strengthening them or closing the loopholes.
"What do you know? These antipsychotic meds only make me a little less crazy. I guess I'd better just stop taking them at all."
Here's the process for brazing copper pipe: assemble the pipe to the fitting. Schmear flux around the joint. Hold a blowtorch to the pipe until it's probably hot enough. (If you're repairing it in-place, try not to point the torch at those dry wooden structural members!) Touch the solder to the joint and watch it flow into it. Turn on the water, and yell "shit! turn it off! TURN IT OFF!" as it sprays onto the nearby bookcases. Fail to empty the water from the pipe, and end up boiling it off with the torch. Try to braze the joint again. Lather, rinse, repeat, ignore family members asking if they'll ever be able to shower again.
I've installed at least a hundred PEX joints. Slip the ring over the pipe, put the pipe in the fitting, slide the ring to the end of the pipe, and clamp. I have yet to see a single joint fail. It replaced the feed pipe to the washing machine, which had been leaking on and off for a year, despite our attempts to patch or replace pieces of it. We tore the whole mess out and replaced it with PEX in a single afternoon, and it hasn't leaked since.
Sure, it might all spontaneously dissolve tomorrow. But there are some pretty solid reasons for the DIYer to use it.
Also toothpaste and some tattoos. Am I supposed to be spooked by this?
I think the standard Ubuntu install has ssh (22) active by default. And there was a remote exploit for ssh a few years ago, wasn't there?
You'd think the college's gateway would be able to at least block exploit packets. I remember that UConn's network blocked the SMB ports at the internet gateway to cut down on exploits. How do most of these work? Why aren't they blockable with a simple packet filter?
What a nightmare. I wonder how long it took them to get their data off, wipe the systems and get a clean reinstall of everything.
Are those just login attempts, or exploit attemps? Is there any way to tell?
It was Paul Cameron, whose name you'll see tacked onto most faked-up research showing that gays eat babies and so forth. The clip you refer to is available here; look closely for the point at which Cameron agrees that he'd much rather get blown up by terrorists than have an uncomfortable shower moment.
I don't want an "ordinary Joe" in charge! I want someone smarter than me, an adept diplomat with a keen-edged mind and strong leadership potential. I want our mighty nation to pick the best person for the job. We have roughly three hundred million citizens to choose from; this guy is not the best we can do.
"Intellectuals scare me, and I find him nonthreatening" is possibly the worst rationale for picking a leader since "his father was king, too".
In short: you claim that Clinton was distracted by the Republicans drumming up scandal. But that that's somehow Clinton's fault, right? Sheesh.
The bit about undereducated soldiers may be floating around because the service has been lowering its entrance requirements to include criminals, neo-Nazis, and gang members. They've also lowered their intelligence exam requirements, and heavily recruit from poor neighborhoods where people may not have as many options. (But they don't want gays. Definitely not gays. We have limits, you see.)
So if you're wondering why soldiers are stereotyped as violent, dimwitted brutes, it's because that's the pool the service is currently recruiting from. Probably because most folks aren't enamored of the "spend the next who knows how many years in a sandy hellhole hoping you don't drive over an IED" pitch.
Huh; for a moment there, I thought you were actually debating in good faith. Silly me.
Look, if there were overly-restrictive secret rules that we didn't know about, there were legal ways to change that. Whether or not FISA provided the capabilities that the executive branch thought it needed is irrelevant. (Though I haven't seen anything convincing on that front, either.) The President felt that he could ignore the law and make up his own rules. The President thinks that he's a King.
Are you kosher with that? Does your snark about how I think Karl Rove is tapping my phone somehow keep you from caring that "but it's important!" is considered a perfectly fine reason to break the law?