Actually, I didn't include that out of spite for anyone. It was a fact. If he had said that God loves me, and God bless me any more times in our short conversation, I was going to be sick.
It's pretty rare that people really try hard to push their morals on you. This guy was the exception.
I worked in the adult industry for a while. Ok, quite a while. It didn't take very long before seeing a naked woman was perfectly normal. I held intelligent conversations with women with no clothes on, and there was nothing exciting or arousing about it usually. It didn't change my natural sex drive, other than seeing nudity nothing more than being without clothes. Actually, after a while, seeing a well dressed woman was way more attractive to me, than a naked one. But, when the time came for nudity to be required (i.e., we're having sex) nudity was very acceptable.:)
It reminded me of a "Night Court" episode where the defendant was a guy from a country where the climate was always nice, and everyone walked around naked. He was checking out Christine Sullivan (Markie Post) because she had clothes on. He explained the whole clothing thing, and she threw on an overcoat, which just drove him nuts.
I still wonder where they kept their car keys and wallet.:) Maybe there are some things I don't really want to know.:)
Ya, a vacation condo rented to someone under (or even around) 25 could potentially be that renter looking to rent a party spot.
Then again, anyone can do that.
I knew of a hotel in the town I grew up in, that wouldn't allow unmarried couples to stay there. The restriction was that if a man and woman were sleeping in the same room (even if in separate beds), they had to be married, with the same last name, and provide photo ID's to prove it. I was talking to the owner, and he said it was to keep people from coming to his fine establishment and committing sins. Oh, did I mention that they sold bibles and a whole assortment of religious crap in their lobby?
You gotta love the hard core bible thumpers. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't say in the bible that two people can't rent a hotel room and not have sex.:)
Well, click on start. Then right click on my computer. Select Properties. Click "Device Manager". Pick the category of the device. If you don't see the device here, it may be in another category. Look around for it. Right click once you find it, and select Properties. Click the Details tab. Select "Hardware Ids" under properties. Put those numbers into Google, and hopefully you'll find an answer, probably on a Linux message board.
Lets look at how this looks. I'm comparing one of my Linux servers, to the Windows workstation I'm on.
Linux:
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 1644
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 24
Memory at fc9c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at fc9b0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fc9a0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data <?>
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
Windows:
USB\VID_050D&PID_705C&REV_4810
... and how do you like that. When I search Google for this piece of something that's attached, all the results I spotted were Linux, with actual details of what the device is, and what driver goes with it.
If you were to really look at the options, rather than either looking at the anti-Linux slander, or going to 4chan for help, you'd see that there's a really excellent community. That is, unless you like to bitch all the time.
It all depends. How easy is it to get one? If I knew there was a guy in town that had a knock-off phone shop, and he'd warranty it for a year, I'd spend the $40 with him, rather than full price elsewhere, or to be tied into a perpetual contract. Hell, if he warrantied it for 6 months, he'd probably get my sale.
I'm one of many, who usually don't qualify for the discounted 2 year plans, so my choices (if I wanted an iPhone) would be the full retail no-contract rate, which I believe is somewhere in the ballpark of $400, or one of the unsubsidized phones for $40. If I go through less than 10 phones in 2 years, I'm still ahead.:)
Well, "a bit too far" could, and probably should, be translated to "criminally and civilly illegal"
Once the criminal trials are complete, the civil trials could begin and bankrupt the school system and ensure everyone involved never worked in any capacity resembling ever again, once they got out of jail.
And as a lovely side note, pedophiles don't do well in prison. Inmates aren't just bad guys. The are people who do have families back home. They have little sisters, daughters, and nieces. When the other inmates find out that one committed a crime against a child, they think "that could have been *my* kid." Now they're not just serving time. They're serving time with a bunch of people who don't necessarily respect the law.
"changing clothes" equals a nude person. Unless of course, you don't take off your clothes when you change clothes. I'm sorry my friend, that may be by some people avoid you.:)
So back to your question. Would a full nude photo of your 14 year old daughter be considered anything less than child pornography? Not just nudes shot by herself or her boyfriend, but nudes shot by an adult, who is in a position of authority over her. A person she didn't even know was watching her. They weren't peeping through an open window. Despite her beliefs that she was alone and unseen, safe in her own room.
Wouldn't you now admit that those pictures were pornography created by a pedophile, and look for the absolutely worst sentence you could as the prosecution to give them? I would. Or I'd make sure justice was handled Dexter style. We never know how we'd react, until it happens to us. Hopefully it never does, because I don't want to find out what I'd do.
I know in some areas, the acceptable distances have really made things impossible. It's frequently, "any place that children may congregate, including but not limited to residences, schools, playgrounds, daycares, and bus stops"...
Being that I've gone driving around when the buses are picking up kids for school (something I strongly advise everyone against, unless you like slow painful drives), you'll find those little demons are everywhere. At 1k feet, it's easy enough to get someone in trouble. "Hey kids, go play over there while we call the cops on that guy."
Sometimes the offenders were caught for stupid things that didn't really deserve any punishment. That is completely unlike what we're discussing here though. They gave themselves the keys to a peophile's wet dream.
Anyways, it's become such a problem that many of those convicted go on the run. They'll live under bridges, or in camps, or abandon houses. Pretty much anywhere that they can without disclosing where they live. I've read about a few areas setting up specifically so those convicted have somewhere to live. Those measures have been taken away. Hell, one was a trailer park in the middle of nowhere. The owner and residents were good with it. It was busy bodies across town who didn't like it.
It's just another stupid thing with law. You can't (or shouldn't) enact laws that make for impossible situations.
You're on probation, so you can't leave the country.
You can't live virtually anywhere in the US, without breaking the law.
It's like lawmakers are driven by action groups who don't think through their requests.
Sure, I'd like to know there are no pedophiles or other sex offenders within 100 miles of me. Well, except maybe a few select hot freaky chicks, but I digress. If you made the law to say that they aren't allowed with 100 miles of a non-sex offender (i.e., me), I'd be happy, but it's set up an impossible situation to maintain.
It wouldn't last for a year. The first time they take a shower, {{KERZAP}}
Not a bad plan though. I can think of worse ways to put a pedophile out of his misery. Then again, I could write a pretty wicked murder mystery book, or horror film.:)
No shit. Not that I advocate underage people doing anything, but all it takes is one girl changing clothes in her room with the laptop turned on, and then they have a stack of federal charges.
I'm pretty sure there are some federal charges that can be associated with that anyways.
If you pay attention to the moderation scheme on here, that isn't very likely.
"moderators" are any average user. They get 10 points at a time to spend as they'd like. If they write a comment to a particular story, they can't moderate on that story.
"Metamoderation" lets you re-evaluate moderations, but you get limited information on the comment, basically the comment itself. Only 10 of these really count. More metamoderations can be done, but don't count as high.
In your first post, it was insightful, until you said that it should help your karma. Trolling for karma doesn't really help you out. Write good comments on a regular basis, and it will help you out.
I've seen your posts before, and from what I recall, they've been good ones. If you feel like commenting, then do it. Don't worry about your karma score. Maybe you've picked up an enemy or two. You can't satisfy everyone all the time. For example, I'm sure this will be scored down, because it is off-topic. Oh well, shit happens. For me, it's heavily outweighed by the number of good on-topic posts that I do.
Even my good posts get scored wildly. It's funny to look at the moderation that can send the score fluctuating from a -1 to a 5, but in the end, good posts end up with high scores, because so many people are moderators. I don't lose any sleep over it, and neither should you.
Well, I'd expect in time the line sharing rules, as exist with telephone and DLS, will apply to the larger pipes. Until that happens though, we'll see some serious monopolization. Really, where I am, you have two choices. Brighthouse/TimeWarner/RoadRunner (all one in the same) cable or Verizon FiOS/DSL. Not many people are going with 3rd party providers over the existing DSL lines. The large providers recognize that they have to do their best to reduce their loses, even if they are selling some items below cost.
Most households that I've seen, they go with one provider, who then provides their telephone, internet, and television services. Tie power and water into that somehow, and you'll be locked into your providers one-stop shop.
Shhhh.. People like to believe that they got what was advertised, and get really upset when you tell them they didn't. It doesn't even matter that they don't ever use it, it's the fact that they *could*.
Sorry for the car analogy, but... Look at the car ads on TV. Most people use a small percentage of their horsepower to get from Point A to Point B. They cruise just under the speed limit in heavy traffic, to and from work every day. Their car has never seen wide open throttle, and sometimes hasn't even seen the upper half of the RPM range.
I remember when you could first get 1000baseTX ports on desktops and laptops. Someone I knew got a laptop, and it had a 1000baseTX port. He was very insistant that we needed to upgrade to GigE. We took a switch intended for production, and a couple servers with 1000baseTX ports on them in the shop waiting to ship. I hooked them all up together. Between the servers, I could generate lots of traffic. His laptop? It struggled to get to 100Mb/s. He wasn't very entertained in finding that out.
The providers will probably keep their pricing at a reasonable level. It's not advantagous to them, to price it beyond the reach of the average customer. They'd rather have 100,000,000 customers at $20/mo, than 1,000 customers are $200/mo.
I'm partial to some of the alternative solar methods. They're doing some neat stuff with some fairly obvious technology. Parabolic trough collectors are really interesting. They superheat a heat transfer fluid (an oil) to run a turbine generator.
I was looking at the possibility of setting up some small scale plants, back when I had a little money to invest, and a few interested parties. It's amazingly difficult to source a turbine generator.
Wind is an interesting option, but the price per unit is still way too high, and unfortunately they need altitude and the right conditions to be a good option.
Hydroelectric is just too damaging, and has caused problems, and they will continue.
A couple that I can think of are...
1928 - St Francis Dam, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 600 dead.
1962 - Baldwin Hill Reservoir Dan, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 5 dead. 277 homes destroyed. The death toll was mitigated with an excellent emergency response.
1975 - Banqiao Reservoir Dam, China. 26,000 died immediately. 145,000 more died related to the disaster.
1985 - Val di Stava Dam, Tesero, Italy. 268 dead.
2005 - Shakidor Dam, Pakistan. 70 dead. 1,200 saved by Pakistan emergency military search and rescue.
2008 - China. I can't find the news stories, but there were many deaths related to a large earthquake, and the following floods. I suspect China hasn't allowed the release of many details.
To the best of my knowledge, this would indicate more people have died from faults with dams than other power related industries.
As sailors know, the water is a dangerous and finicky mistress, and must be treated with respect. Even with that respect, she may turn on you, and you will always lose. The sea is a dangerous thing. Creating your own sea above your own cities is even more dangerous.
If 70% of their generation is hydro or nuclear, that still leaves 30% that isn't.
Hydroelectric plants have their drawbacks. To build them, a large area has to be dammed up. This changes the flow of a natural river. Large areas upstream are flooded to make it. Downstream, the natural flow is frequently reduced, which can cause many other problems.
Nuclear plants are clean, except they usually have a large warm water outlet that changes the environment around it. That water is frequently contaminated with heavy metals. Not nuclear waste, but corrosion from the metal pipes from the inlet, through the heat exchanger and generators, on out to the exhaust. The spent fuel rods aren't exactly the cleanest thing either, but they end up going somewhere.
I won't say that changes away from dirtier plants isn't a good thing. We just have to really consider what we're doing, rather than blind faith in "new tech will save us". IF someone invented a new power generator tomorrow that seemed to have no emissions and would run seemingly forever, I'd still want to know what the drawbacks are. Oh like, 1 in 4 people within a 100 mile radius will die because of a previously unknown radiation. Bah, that'd never happen.
We only have so much storage in the infinite improbability storage drive (no relation to some other product we've heard exists in a starship). We can't include every word that's submitted. Our focus groups have shown that the readers lose interest after just a couple words, so that was sufficient. Mr. Prefect had been advised to keep his entries as short as possible. He knew better than to submit such a long entry for such an uninteresting blue-green planet out in the backwaters of the Milky Way galaxy.
I spent part of today working around problems with a closed source application.
The other part of the day has been working with an open source program, where I've already solved the problem, and am documenting my changes to pass back to the author for the next release.
I'm not a "core" developer for any public projects. I've never submitted a bug fix to someone like Microsoft (but have sent bug complaints that went unanswered). I have sent quite a few bug fixes for open source applications, most of which were used in future release. I'm just another guy, or as indicated, another pair of eyes.
Please reference section 42 of your Slashdot User Agreement, and you will find it necessary to submit yourself to 30 lashes with a wet noodle, and turn in your geek card. You should hurry before your late.
Sorry about that. Ford only wrote "Mostly Harmless", not "Completely apathetic". You should have been aware of the rules. They were clearly posted.
In the cellar...
In the disused lavatory...
Clearly marked with the sign "Beware Of The Leopard"...
That's pretty much where we were taking samples. Oysters, and the water. The warm water outlet isn't that hot to us (like, you could comfortably swim in it), but aquatic life was seriously lacking for a large area near the outlet. There were oysters, some plant life, but not thriving aquatic life like in the surrounding areas with natural temperatures (all global warming discussion aside).
But ya, I learned quickly not to eat the local seafood. Then again, what food can we get that isn't tainted in some sort of way. I've opted for not really caring. I'll die from something sooner or later, lets just hope it's quick. I hope to die like my grandfather, peacefully in his sleep. Much unlike the other passengers in the car he was driving, who were screaming the whole way.:)
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Users, clients, other admins. Who cares. All I care is that my tasks keep going.
For some reason, no one else saw the humor of changing all the passwords but my own, and then "chattr +i /etc/shadow"
It really makes you some new fans when you reboot a machine, and then ask anyone else if they mind. Oops, sorry, you should have said something.
Actually, I didn't include that out of spite for anyone. It was a fact. If he had said that God loves me, and God bless me any more times in our short conversation, I was going to be sick.
It's pretty rare that people really try hard to push their morals on you. This guy was the exception.
You know, you're very correct.
I worked in the adult industry for a while. Ok, quite a while. It didn't take very long before seeing a naked woman was perfectly normal. I held intelligent conversations with women with no clothes on, and there was nothing exciting or arousing about it usually. It didn't change my natural sex drive, other than seeing nudity nothing more than being without clothes. Actually, after a while, seeing a well dressed woman was way more attractive to me, than a naked one. But, when the time came for nudity to be required (i.e., we're having sex) nudity was very acceptable. :)
It reminded me of a "Night Court" episode where the defendant was a guy from a country where the climate was always nice, and everyone walked around naked. He was checking out Christine Sullivan (Markie Post) because she had clothes on. He explained the whole clothing thing, and she threw on an overcoat, which just drove him nuts.
I still wonder where they kept their car keys and wallet. :) Maybe there are some things I don't really want to know. :)
Places set their own rules for their own reasons.
Ya, a vacation condo rented to someone under (or even around) 25 could potentially be that renter looking to rent a party spot.
Then again, anyone can do that.
I knew of a hotel in the town I grew up in, that wouldn't allow unmarried couples to stay there. The restriction was that if a man and woman were sleeping in the same room (even if in separate beds), they had to be married, with the same last name, and provide photo ID's to prove it. I was talking to the owner, and he said it was to keep people from coming to his fine establishment and committing sins. Oh, did I mention that they sold bibles and a whole assortment of religious crap in their lobby?
You gotta love the hard core bible thumpers. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't say in the bible that two people can't rent a hotel room and not have sex. :)
lspci -v
lsusb -v
dmesg
So.. What's your good option for Windows.
Well, click on start. Then right click on my computer. Select Properties. Click "Device Manager". Pick the category of the device. If you don't see the device here, it may be in another category. Look around for it. Right click once you find it, and select Properties. Click the Details tab. Select "Hardware Ids" under properties. Put those numbers into Google, and hopefully you'll find an answer, probably on a Linux message board.
Lets look at how this looks. I'm comparing one of my Linux servers, to the Windows workstation I'm on.
Linux:
Windows:
If you were to really look at the options, rather than either looking at the anti-Linux slander, or going to 4chan for help, you'd see that there's a really excellent community. That is, unless you like to bitch all the time.
I guess that would all depend on the state of the kitten.
Live kittens are probably worth positive points.
Dead kittens propped up in branches, or nailed to the tree, ummm, probably not positive points. :)
Kitten in a noose? OOohh, definitely not positive points.
It all depends. How easy is it to get one? If I knew there was a guy in town that had a knock-off phone shop, and he'd warranty it for a year, I'd spend the $40 with him, rather than full price elsewhere, or to be tied into a perpetual contract. Hell, if he warrantied it for 6 months, he'd probably get my sale.
I'm one of many, who usually don't qualify for the discounted 2 year plans, so my choices (if I wanted an iPhone) would be the full retail no-contract rate, which I believe is somewhere in the ballpark of $400, or one of the unsubsidized phones for $40. If I go through less than 10 phones in 2 years, I'm still ahead. :)
-5 Karma Trolling.
Sorry dude, but those are life points. Go help a little old lady across the street, or save a stuck kitten in a tree. :)
Well, "a bit too far" could, and probably should, be translated to "criminally and civilly illegal"
Once the criminal trials are complete, the civil trials could begin and bankrupt the school system and ensure everyone involved never worked in any capacity resembling ever again, once they got out of jail.
And as a lovely side note, pedophiles don't do well in prison. Inmates aren't just bad guys. The are people who do have families back home. They have little sisters, daughters, and nieces. When the other inmates find out that one committed a crime against a child, they think "that could have been *my* kid." Now they're not just serving time. They're serving time with a bunch of people who don't necessarily respect the law.
"changing clothes" equals a nude person. Unless of course, you don't take off your clothes when you change clothes. I'm sorry my friend, that may be by some people avoid you. :)
So back to your question. Would a full nude photo of your 14 year old daughter be considered anything less than child pornography? Not just nudes shot by herself or her boyfriend, but nudes shot by an adult, who is in a position of authority over her. A person she didn't even know was watching her. They weren't peeping through an open window. Despite her beliefs that she was alone and unseen, safe in her own room.
Wouldn't you now admit that those pictures were pornography created by a pedophile, and look for the absolutely worst sentence you could as the prosecution to give them? I would. Or I'd make sure justice was handled Dexter style. We never know how we'd react, until it happens to us. Hopefully it never does, because I don't want to find out what I'd do.
I know in some areas, the acceptable distances have really made things impossible. It's frequently, "any place that children may congregate, including but not limited to residences, schools, playgrounds, daycares, and bus stops" ...
Being that I've gone driving around when the buses are picking up kids for school (something I strongly advise everyone against, unless you like slow painful drives), you'll find those little demons are everywhere. At 1k feet, it's easy enough to get someone in trouble. "Hey kids, go play over there while we call the cops on that guy."
Sometimes the offenders were caught for stupid things that didn't really deserve any punishment. That is completely unlike what we're discussing here though. They gave themselves the keys to a peophile's wet dream.
Anyways, it's become such a problem that many of those convicted go on the run. They'll live under bridges, or in camps, or abandon houses. Pretty much anywhere that they can without disclosing where they live. I've read about a few areas setting up specifically so those convicted have somewhere to live. Those measures have been taken away. Hell, one was a trailer park in the middle of nowhere. The owner and residents were good with it. It was busy bodies across town who didn't like it.
It's just another stupid thing with law. You can't (or shouldn't) enact laws that make for impossible situations.
You're on probation, so you can't leave the country.
You can't live virtually anywhere in the US, without breaking the law.
It's like lawmakers are driven by action groups who don't think through their requests.
Sure, I'd like to know there are no pedophiles or other sex offenders within 100 miles of me. Well, except maybe a few select hot freaky chicks, but I digress. If you made the law to say that they aren't allowed with 100 miles of a non-sex offender (i.e., me), I'd be happy, but it's set up an impossible situation to maintain.
Oh a perfectly good post, and you go and invoke Godwin.
It wouldn't last for a year. The first time they take a shower, {{KERZAP}}
Not a bad plan though. I can think of worse ways to put a pedophile out of his misery. Then again, I could write a pretty wicked murder mystery book, or horror film. :)
No shit. Not that I advocate underage people doing anything, but all it takes is one girl changing clothes in her room with the laptop turned on, and then they have a stack of federal charges.
I'm pretty sure there are some federal charges that can be associated with that anyways.
You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.
[the masked stranger walks off towards his ship "Revenge"]
If you pay attention to the moderation scheme on here, that isn't very likely.
"moderators" are any average user. They get 10 points at a time to spend as they'd like. If they write a comment to a particular story, they can't moderate on that story.
"Metamoderation" lets you re-evaluate moderations, but you get limited information on the comment, basically the comment itself. Only 10 of these really count. More metamoderations can be done, but don't count as high.
In your first post, it was insightful, until you said that it should help your karma. Trolling for karma doesn't really help you out. Write good comments on a regular basis, and it will help you out.
I've seen your posts before, and from what I recall, they've been good ones. If you feel like commenting, then do it. Don't worry about your karma score. Maybe you've picked up an enemy or two. You can't satisfy everyone all the time. For example, I'm sure this will be scored down, because it is off-topic. Oh well, shit happens. For me, it's heavily outweighed by the number of good on-topic posts that I do.
Even my good posts get scored wildly. It's funny to look at the moderation that can send the score fluctuating from a -1 to a 5, but in the end, good posts end up with high scores, because so many people are moderators. I don't lose any sleep over it, and neither should you.
Well, I'd expect in time the line sharing rules, as exist with telephone and DLS, will apply to the larger pipes. Until that happens though, we'll see some serious monopolization. Really, where I am, you have two choices. Brighthouse/TimeWarner/RoadRunner (all one in the same) cable or Verizon FiOS/DSL. Not many people are going with 3rd party providers over the existing DSL lines. The large providers recognize that they have to do their best to reduce their loses, even if they are selling some items below cost.
Most households that I've seen, they go with one provider, who then provides their telephone, internet, and television services. Tie power and water into that somehow, and you'll be locked into your providers one-stop shop.
Shhhh.. People like to believe that they got what was advertised, and get really upset when you tell them they didn't. It doesn't even matter that they don't ever use it, it's the fact that they *could*.
Sorry for the car analogy, but... Look at the car ads on TV. Most people use a small percentage of their horsepower to get from Point A to Point B. They cruise just under the speed limit in heavy traffic, to and from work every day. Their car has never seen wide open throttle, and sometimes hasn't even seen the upper half of the RPM range.
I remember when you could first get 1000baseTX ports on desktops and laptops. Someone I knew got a laptop, and it had a 1000baseTX port. He was very insistant that we needed to upgrade to GigE. We took a switch intended for production, and a couple servers with 1000baseTX ports on them in the shop waiting to ship. I hooked them all up together. Between the servers, I could generate lots of traffic. His laptop? It struggled to get to 100Mb/s. He wasn't very entertained in finding that out.
The providers will probably keep their pricing at a reasonable level. It's not advantagous to them, to price it beyond the reach of the average customer. They'd rather have 100,000,000 customers at $20/mo, than 1,000 customers are $200/mo.
I'm partial to some of the alternative solar methods. They're doing some neat stuff with some fairly obvious technology. Parabolic trough collectors are really interesting. They superheat a heat transfer fluid (an oil) to run a turbine generator.
I was looking at the possibility of setting up some small scale plants, back when I had a little money to invest, and a few interested parties. It's amazingly difficult to source a turbine generator.
Wind is an interesting option, but the price per unit is still way too high, and unfortunately they need altitude and the right conditions to be a good option.
Hydroelectric is just too damaging, and has caused problems, and they will continue.
A couple that I can think of are...
1928 - St Francis Dam, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 600 dead.
1962 - Baldwin Hill Reservoir Dan, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 5 dead. 277 homes destroyed. The death toll was mitigated with an excellent emergency response.
1975 - Banqiao Reservoir Dam, China. 26,000 died immediately. 145,000 more died related to the disaster.
1985 - Val di Stava Dam, Tesero, Italy. 268 dead.
2005 - Shakidor Dam, Pakistan. 70 dead. 1,200 saved by Pakistan emergency military search and rescue.
2008 - China. I can't find the news stories, but there were many deaths related to a large earthquake, and the following floods. I suspect China hasn't allowed the release of many details.
To the best of my knowledge, this would indicate more people have died from faults with dams than other power related industries.
As sailors know, the water is a dangerous and finicky mistress, and must be treated with respect. Even with that respect, she may turn on you, and you will always lose. The sea is a dangerous thing. Creating your own sea above your own cities is even more dangerous.
That is, "clean-ish".
If 70% of their generation is hydro or nuclear, that still leaves 30% that isn't.
Hydroelectric plants have their drawbacks. To build them, a large area has to be dammed up. This changes the flow of a natural river. Large areas upstream are flooded to make it. Downstream, the natural flow is frequently reduced, which can cause many other problems.
Nuclear plants are clean, except they usually have a large warm water outlet that changes the environment around it. That water is frequently contaminated with heavy metals. Not nuclear waste, but corrosion from the metal pipes from the inlet, through the heat exchanger and generators, on out to the exhaust. The spent fuel rods aren't exactly the cleanest thing either, but they end up going somewhere.
I won't say that changes away from dirtier plants isn't a good thing. We just have to really consider what we're doing, rather than blind faith in "new tech will save us". IF someone invented a new power generator tomorrow that seemed to have no emissions and would run seemingly forever, I'd still want to know what the drawbacks are. Oh like, 1 in 4 people within a 100 mile radius will die because of a previously unknown radiation. Bah, that'd never happen.
We only have so much storage in the infinite improbability storage drive (no relation to some other product we've heard exists in a starship). We can't include every word that's submitted. Our focus groups have shown that the readers lose interest after just a couple words, so that was sufficient. Mr. Prefect had been advised to keep his entries as short as possible. He knew better than to submit such a long entry for such an uninteresting blue-green planet out in the backwaters of the Milky Way galaxy.
JWSmythe
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
That's kinda funny.
I spent part of today working around problems with a closed source application.
The other part of the day has been working with an open source program, where I've already solved the problem, and am documenting my changes to pass back to the author for the next release.
I'm not a "core" developer for any public projects. I've never submitted a bug fix to someone like Microsoft (but have sent bug complaints that went unanswered). I have sent quite a few bug fixes for open source applications, most of which were used in future release. I'm just another guy, or as indicated, another pair of eyes.
Please reference section 42 of your Slashdot User Agreement, and you will find it necessary to submit yourself to 30 lashes with a wet noodle, and turn in your geek card. You should hurry before your late.
Sorry about that. Ford only wrote "Mostly Harmless", not "Completely apathetic". You should have been aware of the rules. They were clearly posted.
In the cellar...
In the disused lavatory...
Clearly marked with the sign "Beware Of The Leopard"...
In the bottom of the locked file cabinet...
Under a mostly dead parrot.
Like I said, clearly posted.
That's pretty much where we were taking samples. Oysters, and the water. The warm water outlet isn't that hot to us (like, you could comfortably swim in it), but aquatic life was seriously lacking for a large area near the outlet. There were oysters, some plant life, but not thriving aquatic life like in the surrounding areas with natural temperatures (all global warming discussion aside).
But ya, I learned quickly not to eat the local seafood. Then again, what food can we get that isn't tainted in some sort of way. I've opted for not really caring. I'll die from something sooner or later, lets just hope it's quick. I hope to die like my grandfather, peacefully in his sleep. Much unlike the other passengers in the car he was driving, who were screaming the whole way. :)