Not to mention the automatic bias built in to TV interviews - the more sensational it sounds, the more likely you are to get on to TV. But what can you express from CNN, the channel where no one knows what a meter is (check any recordings of the reports on the day after the tsunami), much less how to distinguish between the prefixes milli and micro. Hello America - the metric system is about powers of TEN - how fucking hard can it be?
You know that with hindsight, the Japanese government is probably going to consider processing these fuel rods now instead of leaving them lying around, in a pool or otherwise...
Nuclear blasts involve supercritical masses, not critical masses.
That's why you have the whole "explosives to compress the core" thing dontcha know. While criticality will produce a shitload of nasty (read gamma rays) radiation as opposed to less harmful alpha and beta particles, and it would also produce enough heat to melt and even vaporize the fuel, leading to a nice plume of radioactive material, you are NOT going to get a "nuclear blast". EVER. So how about learning some physics if you want to keep coming to this site?
I wonder which diverticulum the 30% savings number was pulled from. Oh wait, TFA mentions a single company lowering AUTO INSURANCE rates by 30%. Then the author goes on to equate this with a 30% savings in "basic living expenses". Must be nice to be a comic strip author, where your only living expense is auto insurance, apparently. Hmm, maybe Scott Adams is secretly running the Fed...
I agree that saying the mouse is "unchanged" is like comparing a modern day car to a Model T. While cars today still have 4 wheels and are used for transport, that is where the comparison ends.
Today's mice work in fundamentally different way, using laser diodes to detect astoundingly small movements compared to the mechanical mice of antiquity that used other, less accurate means - from variable resistance to spinning disks with photo-optics.
Well yesterday I went to an even cooler place, but I can't tell you. There was so much amazing stuff, I was shocked. This was like a million times better than going to Lucasfilm. After the first couple of things happened I knew that my life had changed forever. Thanks to Frank for telling me about this fantastic place, Joseph for pointing out the last things and letting me take one home, and Sarah - you know exactly what for!
I'm going to go post this on slashdot now so that all the nerds can get jealous!/sarcasm
also, seriously slashdot, wtf?
Seriously, isn't this cheaper than we can do ourselves?
Well it would be if America would have won the space race. But they declared victory half-way through and decided not to compete anymore. Soon the US will not even have a manned space program at all. Reminds me of a certain fairy tale involving turtles and hares...
Your comment makes no sense if it's an answer to mine. Mode = Most frequent IQ in the sample. Mean = average IQ of the sample. For fun and extra credit, median is the IQ which 50% of the sample is above and 50% is below - which happens to be the 50th percentile on a normal curve. I was speaking about abstracts and failed to mention any numbers in my post. Mode and mean necessarily require hard data to calculate. A normal curve, however, implies certain conditions which fit a general picture - for example people on the left have a lower IQ than people on the right, and most people have an IQ around the median. This can be stated without actually knowing the numbers involved. Enjoy your stay on the left side.
Draw a normal curve of facebook users with IQ on the x axis and number of people on the Y axis. Now without thinking too hard, estimate the amount of people to the left of the peak in the curve. Approximately 50%. Wow - coincidence? Also for extra credit, quote that "correlation is not causation" to me to properly assign you your place on the curve.
I am glad that the Department of Homeland Security has arrested this terrorist. I feel much safer now when I travel because I know that my vehicle will not be subjected to unauthorized and possibly copyright infringing links. I am glad that my tax dollars have been used to eradicate this type of horrible crime, and that further funds will be spent both to destroy quality of life of this dangerous criminal, yet keep him alive, housed and fed for many years to come. And if you can't detect the sarcasm in this post, you really should not be on the internet...
The only difference is the organization of cells on a molecular level. I doubt that running out of ATP and being flooded by Calcium ions will make you see "god".
No. They have other problems. Like having their torrent bandwidth throttled, infecting their machine with trojans, or getting corrupted files or incomplete DRM circumvention causing their games to stutter/crash.
Not to mention savings in certain areas like time, fuel, taxes and even import duties - depending where you live. I live in the 3rd world and previously I had the following choice:
1) Go to the (and I mean THE, because there was one in the whole country) brick and mortar store, choose from the limited selection of titles available of games from last year, pay $120 for a $40 title, ignore that the box has already been opened and the game already been "reviewed" and played by the store owner/employees, and hope that the serials haven't been made public meaning you can't install, or
2) Pirate and download a torrent for free, but be a criminal and risk having your machine compromised by a trojan, or
3) Order it from Amazon or an online retailer, wait 3 weeks while it clears customs, and pay at least double what it costs in S&H and customs duty.
Downloading games is worth it for some, even if we have to put up with crap like this at times.
Nope. There was oblivion, and then the feeling of being poked, prodded and ventilated as this happened in an ER (fortunately for me) right after I was brought back.
I see I'm not the only one who brought Katrina up.
While you are right - there are many fundamental engineering problems associated with building a city near the coast below sea level, what I believe everyone commenting on Katrina is referring to is the inaction as the hurricane approached, and the response (or lack of an effective one) by the US government in the days immediately after.
Speaking for myself I do not take joy in witnessing human tragedy unfolding, however in the case of the US, a nation that constantly reminds the rest of the world either overtly or covertly of their alleged position at the top of it, fiascos like the Katrina response demonstrate that perhaps the US isn't as good or as organized as it would have everyone believe. The proof is in the pudding, as it were.
Certainly it's a well known fact for those of us who have studied disasters and disaster relief that all regions are on their own for at least the first 24 hours after a disaster and must rely on local talent, emergency response services and infrastructure to deal with the crisis. Therefore the only way to effectively deal with such a situation is to be prepared for it. Once it happens, it's too late. This is a lesson that has been understood by Japan for many years.
The quake is not the killer - it's the tsunami. I am sure that it's still pretty hard to reach Sendai and the surrounding area to make an actual assessment because of the debris and destroyed infrastructure. It's not that I am wishing it - but this was a large tsunami and Myagi prefecture (where Sendai is located) has over 2 million people. You'll see.
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Not to mention the automatic bias built in to TV interviews - the more sensational it sounds, the more likely you are to get on to TV. But what can you express from CNN, the channel where no one knows what a meter is (check any recordings of the reports on the day after the tsunami), much less how to distinguish between the prefixes milli and micro. Hello America - the metric system is about powers of TEN - how fucking hard can it be?
You know that with hindsight, the Japanese government is probably going to consider processing these fuel rods now instead of leaving them lying around, in a pool or otherwise...
Nuclear blasts involve supercritical masses, not critical masses. That's why you have the whole "explosives to compress the core" thing dontcha know. While criticality will produce a shitload of nasty (read gamma rays) radiation as opposed to less harmful alpha and beta particles, and it would also produce enough heat to melt and even vaporize the fuel, leading to a nice plume of radioactive material, you are NOT going to get a "nuclear blast". EVER. So how about learning some physics if you want to keep coming to this site?
Well to be fair the plant was designed and installed by GE.
You're not a troll, just a dumb shit.
Just like 1000 MICROsieverts is different than, say, an invading German army.
Watching The Big Bang Theory does not make you intelligent, either.
I wonder which diverticulum the 30% savings number was pulled from. Oh wait, TFA mentions a single company lowering AUTO INSURANCE rates by 30%. Then the author goes on to equate this with a 30% savings in "basic living expenses". Must be nice to be a comic strip author, where your only living expense is auto insurance, apparently. Hmm, maybe Scott Adams is secretly running the Fed...
Today's mice work in fundamentally different way, using laser diodes to detect astoundingly small movements compared to the mechanical mice of antiquity that used other, less accurate means - from variable resistance to spinning disks with photo-optics.
Well yesterday I went to an even cooler place, but I can't tell you. There was so much amazing stuff, I was shocked. This was like a million times better than going to Lucasfilm. After the first couple of things happened I knew that my life had changed forever. Thanks to Frank for telling me about this fantastic place, Joseph for pointing out the last things and letting me take one home, and Sarah - you know exactly what for! I'm going to go post this on slashdot now so that all the nerds can get jealous! /sarcasm
also, seriously slashdot, wtf?
Seriously, isn't this cheaper than we can do ourselves?
Well it would be if America would have won the space race. But they declared victory half-way through and decided not to compete anymore. Soon the US will not even have a manned space program at all. Reminds me of a certain fairy tale involving turtles and hares...
Your comment makes no sense if it's an answer to mine. Mode = Most frequent IQ in the sample. Mean = average IQ of the sample. For fun and extra credit, median is the IQ which 50% of the sample is above and 50% is below - which happens to be the 50th percentile on a normal curve. I was speaking about abstracts and failed to mention any numbers in my post. Mode and mean necessarily require hard data to calculate. A normal curve, however, implies certain conditions which fit a general picture - for example people on the left have a lower IQ than people on the right, and most people have an IQ around the median. This can be stated without actually knowing the numbers involved. Enjoy your stay on the left side.
By buying BoA, because the market is moving 100% counter-intuitively, thanks to the banks. Haven't you noticed?
Draw a normal curve of facebook users with IQ on the x axis and number of people on the Y axis. Now without thinking too hard, estimate the amount of people to the left of the peak in the curve. Approximately 50%. Wow - coincidence? Also for extra credit, quote that "correlation is not causation" to me to properly assign you your place on the curve.
I am glad that the Department of Homeland Security has arrested this terrorist. I feel much safer now when I travel because I know that my vehicle will not be subjected to unauthorized and possibly copyright infringing links. I am glad that my tax dollars have been used to eradicate this type of horrible crime, and that further funds will be spent both to destroy quality of life of this dangerous criminal, yet keep him alive, housed and fed for many years to come. And if you can't detect the sarcasm in this post, you really should not be on the internet...
Twits are attracted to it.
The only difference is the organization of cells on a molecular level. I doubt that running out of ATP and being flooded by Calcium ions will make you see "god".
Atheists want to convince us that there is no god and there is "freedom", through them.
No, actually atheists just want you to STFU. I have nothing else to offer you - especially not "freedom".
No. They have other problems. Like having their torrent bandwidth throttled, infecting their machine with trojans, or getting corrupted files or incomplete DRM circumvention causing their games to stutter/crash.
1) Go to the (and I mean THE, because there was one in the whole country) brick and mortar store, choose from the limited selection of titles available of games from last year, pay $120 for a $40 title, ignore that the box has already been opened and the game already been "reviewed" and played by the store owner/employees, and hope that the serials haven't been made public meaning you can't install, or
2) Pirate and download a torrent for free, but be a criminal and risk having your machine compromised by a trojan, or
3) Order it from Amazon or an online retailer, wait 3 weeks while it clears customs, and pay at least double what it costs in S&H and customs duty.
Downloading games is worth it for some, even if we have to put up with crap like this at times.
You obviously did not read BioWare's official reply - to sum it up: "It's in the TOS which you violated, so tough luck". No, no malice at all.
He bought the game from EA online store and because he was banned, the installer didn't work.
Thus effectively banning him from the game. Your point? Or do you wish to continue being a pedant?
Nope. There was oblivion, and then the feeling of being poked, prodded and ventilated as this happened in an ER (fortunately for me) right after I was brought back.
I see I'm not the only one who brought Katrina up.
While you are right - there are many fundamental engineering problems associated with building a city near the coast below sea level, what I believe everyone commenting on Katrina is referring to is the inaction as the hurricane approached, and the response (or lack of an effective one) by the US government in the days immediately after.
Speaking for myself I do not take joy in witnessing human tragedy unfolding, however in the case of the US, a nation that constantly reminds the rest of the world either overtly or covertly of their alleged position at the top of it, fiascos like the Katrina response demonstrate that perhaps the US isn't as good or as organized as it would have everyone believe. The proof is in the pudding, as it were.
Certainly it's a well known fact for those of us who have studied disasters and disaster relief that all regions are on their own for at least the first 24 hours after a disaster and must rely on local talent, emergency response services and infrastructure to deal with the crisis. Therefore the only way to effectively deal with such a situation is to be prepared for it. Once it happens, it's too late. This is a lesson that has been understood by Japan for many years.
The quake is not the killer - it's the tsunami. I am sure that it's still pretty hard to reach Sendai and the surrounding area to make an actual assessment because of the debris and destroyed infrastructure. It's not that I am wishing it - but this was a large tsunami and Myagi prefecture (where Sendai is located) has over 2 million people. You'll see.