Heres the thing: MY daughter and her school has just come back from Europe yesterday. Our school board had issues with the students going to Paris due to the recent terrorist attacks there, so the itinerary was changed so that they were only to be at the airport. Arrangements were made to instead go to Belgium. Then at last minute plans were changed to go to Amsterdam instead. Someone knew something 2 weeks ago and somehow our school board knew? Seems too much like a coincidence to me. Or we just got lucky I don't know, just glad my kid is home safe.
HEADLINE: Radioactive Bananas Responsible for King Kong
Scientists have come to the conclusion after doing extensive research that the incredible size and ferocity of King Kong is overwhelmingly due to the radioactive bananas he has been consuming since he was just a wee gorilla in the rainforests of Borneo. Says scientist Iziro Ishtawri "You see, we had a suspicion that bananas were the cause of King Kongs Giant size but we were not sure. So in the lab we began to feed a juvenile gorilla these bananas, and wouldn't you know he got bigger. Now he didn't get to Kongs size, but we measured some growth and extrapolating we figured that with especially radioactive bananas and given enough time, that young gorilla would get to the size of King Kong." Fascinating. Asked about the incredible size of Godzilla Iziro says " Well, we didn't want to ruin our premise by feeding a lizard the bananas, you know, Godzilla is a special case." Laughing he adds "We certainly didn't want another remake of 'Godzilla Vs King Kong.'"
Ef dey 's anyt'ing dat riles me
An' jes' gits me out o' hitch,
Twell I want to tek my coat off,
So 's to r'ar an' t'ar an' pitch,
Hit's to see some ign'ant white man
'Mittin' dat owdacious sin—
Wen he want to cook a possum
Tekin' off de possum's skin.
W'y dey ain't no use in talking',
Hit jes' hu'ts me to de heart
Fu' to see dem foolish people
Th'owin' 'way de fines' pa't.
W'y, dat skin is jes' ez tendah
An' ez juicy ez kin be;
I knows all erbout de critter—
Hide an' haih—don't talk to me!
Possum skin is jes lak shoat skin;
Jes' you swinge an' scrope it down,
Tek a good sha'p knife an' sco' it,
Den you bake it good an' brown.
Huh-uh! honey, you 's so happy
Dat yo' thoughts is 'mos' a sin
When you 's settin' dah a-chawin'
On dat possum's cracklin' skin.
White folks t'ink dey know 'bout eating',
An' I reckon dat dey do
Sometimes git a little idea
Of a middlin' dish er two;
But dey ain't a t'ing dey knows of
Dat I reckon cain't be beat
Wen we set down at de table
To a unskun possum's meat!
It is unfortunate that Japan has to consider rearming itself, but with North Korea's ability to launch (possibly nuclear) missiles at Japan, and China's increasingly belligerent tone in the south china sea, Japans current pacifist constitution cannot stand. It cannot rely on the US to wholly protect her. If we could all take a step back and realize the silliness of it all, the world would be a much nicer place, but we are all jerks to someone else, whether you want to be or not and you do need to protect yourself, lest you get shot bringing words to a gun fight.
"You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count."
I have been on slashdot since I found it back around year 2000. I have seen the good times and bad times: I keep coming back as it is one of my favourite sites. But I was never motivated to register until now. Why? The garbage that mdsolar keeps posting about nuclear OK, scratch that, mod me down as Flamebait for my first post I don't care.
There are a majority it seems on slashdot in favour of nuclear power and the potential it has to alleviate the amount of carbon we are putting into the atmosphere. Yet rarely have I seen a pro nuclear article on slashdot. Yes we humans have changed the world. But it is not recent, we have been doing this for at least 12000 years or longer (start of the last great extinction event surely caused by natural climate change and us hunting). We manipulate and take advantage of nearby resources to improve our lives and ensure the survival of our offspring. Our society progresses, life spans get longer, overall life quality improves, we get smarter as a society. This is the cycle of human improvement. Nuclear is a viable option for electricity generation and is a part of that cycle. Energy needs are always increasing and nothing scales quite like nuclear. Expensive to design/construct yes. But fuel is literally dirt cheap. The major cost in maintaining a nuclear reactor is manpower: Training, operations, maintenance, engineering, support, but it still produces plentiful cheap baseload power that solar and wind cannot and that it does not pollute the environment like coal or natural gas does, and has capability to increase baseload that hydro cannot (most major sources of hydro have already been tapped).
I work in the nuclear industry, in the control room. My finger is literally on the keys, monitoring for any problems, issues, deviations from normal and we take appropriate action. If that means shutting down the reactor I do it. There is always a new engineering issue that crops up and we deal with it, we make it safer every time. The margins of safety always increase. The fact that there is yet another post about an issue with a nuclear plant only proves the point that the problem identified is being dealt with, not swept under the rug like in other industries. The nuclear industry is a learning one, we take the lessons from that past and improve our performance.
You are never going to see another Chernobyl, what they did was just crazy. Three mile island? we've learned from that, we have procedures in place, we have training in place, we believe what our instruments are telling us and we take action to deal with the anomaly. Fukushima? yeah we've learned about the vulnerabilities with that too and made improvements to deal with a total station blackout. It would be great if we could get new designs approved that are failsafe but since the climate in North America for nuclear is cold, we deal with the old designs. They really do work well.
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Heres the thing: MY daughter and her school has just come back from Europe yesterday. Our school board had issues with the students going to Paris due to the recent terrorist attacks there, so the itinerary was changed so that they were only to be at the airport. Arrangements were made to instead go to Belgium. Then at last minute plans were changed to go to Amsterdam instead. Someone knew something 2 weeks ago and somehow our school board knew? Seems too much like a coincidence to me. Or we just got lucky I don't know, just glad my kid is home safe.
Marty Mcfly is like "Uhh Doc. We have a problem, These self lacing shoes are a year late, we gotta go back in time to fix this!"
now all your eyes belong to us.
I'm freaked out right now. Whats going on here?
oh wait I get it lol... WAS red header, now green after I posted Yeah second post!!
I'm freaked out right now. Whats going on here?
...oh wait, nothing to complain about...well just make sure you don't step on my lawn then..move along
..and yet so far. Zero day release thats not a cam +1, only 48 hour rental? -1 net 0 benefit
HEADLINE: Radioactive Bananas Responsible for King Kong
Scientists have come to the conclusion after doing extensive research that the incredible size and ferocity of King Kong is overwhelmingly due to the radioactive bananas he has been consuming since he was just a wee gorilla in the rainforests of Borneo. Says scientist Iziro Ishtawri "You see, we had a suspicion that bananas were the cause of King Kongs Giant size but we were not sure. So in the lab we began to feed a juvenile gorilla these bananas, and wouldn't you know he got bigger. Now he didn't get to Kongs size, but we measured some growth and extrapolating we figured that with especially radioactive bananas and given enough time, that young gorilla would get to the size of King Kong." Fascinating.
Asked about the incredible size of Godzilla Iziro says " Well, we didn't want to ruin our premise by feeding a lizard the bananas, you know, Godzilla is a special case." Laughing he adds "We certainly didn't want another remake of 'Godzilla Vs King Kong.'"
POSSUM
Ef dey 's anyt'ing dat riles me
An' jes' gits me out o' hitch,
Twell I want to tek my coat off,
So 's to r'ar an' t'ar an' pitch,
Hit's to see some ign'ant white man
'Mittin' dat owdacious sin—
Wen he want to cook a possum
Tekin' off de possum's skin.
W'y dey ain't no use in talking',
Hit jes' hu'ts me to de heart
Fu' to see dem foolish people
Th'owin' 'way de fines' pa't.
W'y, dat skin is jes' ez tendah
An' ez juicy ez kin be;
I knows all erbout de critter—
Hide an' haih—don't talk to me!
Possum skin is jes lak shoat skin;
Jes' you swinge an' scrope it down,
Tek a good sha'p knife an' sco' it,
Den you bake it good an' brown.
Huh-uh! honey, you 's so happy
Dat yo' thoughts is 'mos' a sin
When you 's settin' dah a-chawin'
On dat possum's cracklin' skin.
White folks t'ink dey know 'bout eating',
An' I reckon dat dey do
Sometimes git a little idea
Of a middlin' dish er two;
But dey ain't a t'ing dey knows of
Dat I reckon cain't be beat
Wen we set down at de table
To a unskun possum's meat!
So in addition to my 29.99 % interest rate on my HD credit card, I will get a rebate of 35 cents. nice! now lets start planning out my new kitchen
It is unfortunate that Japan has to consider rearming itself, but with North Korea's ability to launch (possibly nuclear) missiles at Japan, and China's increasingly belligerent tone in the south china sea, Japans current pacifist constitution cannot stand. It cannot rely on the US to wholly protect her. If we could all take a step back and realize the silliness of it all, the world would be a much nicer place, but we are all jerks to someone else, whether you want to be or not and you do need to protect yourself, lest you get shot bringing words to a gun fight.
"You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count."
RIP
ahh how quickly we forget the Bushisms...
I have been on slashdot since I found it back around year 2000. I have seen the good times and bad times: I keep coming back as it is one of my favourite sites. But I was never motivated to register until now. Why? The garbage that mdsolar keeps posting about nuclear OK, scratch that, mod me down as Flamebait for my first post I don't care.
There are a majority it seems on slashdot in favour of nuclear power and the potential it has to alleviate the amount of carbon we are putting into the atmosphere. Yet rarely have I seen a pro nuclear article on slashdot. Yes we humans have changed the world. But it is not recent, we have been doing this for at least 12000 years or longer (start of the last great extinction event surely caused by natural climate change and us hunting). We manipulate and take advantage of nearby resources to improve our lives and ensure the survival of our offspring. Our society progresses, life spans get longer, overall life quality improves, we get smarter as a society. This is the cycle of human improvement. Nuclear is a viable option for electricity generation and is a part of that cycle. Energy needs are always increasing and nothing scales quite like nuclear. Expensive to design/construct yes. But fuel is literally dirt cheap. The major cost in maintaining a nuclear reactor is manpower: Training, operations, maintenance, engineering, support, but it still produces plentiful cheap baseload power that solar and wind cannot and that it does not pollute the environment like coal or natural gas does, and has capability to increase baseload that hydro cannot (most major sources of hydro have already been tapped).
I work in the nuclear industry, in the control room. My finger is literally on the keys, monitoring for any problems, issues, deviations from normal and we take appropriate action. If that means shutting down the reactor I do it. There is always a new engineering issue that crops up and we deal with it, we make it safer every time. The margins of safety always increase. The fact that there is yet another post about an issue with a nuclear plant only proves the point that the problem identified is being dealt with, not swept under the rug like in other industries. The nuclear industry is a learning one, we take the lessons from that past and improve our performance.
You are never going to see another Chernobyl, what they did was just crazy. Three mile island? we've learned from that, we have procedures in place, we have training in place, we believe what our instruments are telling us and we take action to deal with the anomaly. Fukushima? yeah we've learned about the vulnerabilities with that too and made improvements to deal with a total station blackout. It would be great if we could get new designs approved that are failsafe but since the climate in North America for nuclear is cold, we deal with the old designs. They really do work well.