Please mod this troll down! He or She knows nothing of what they speak. Firearm possession/ownership laws very greatly by state/municipality.
I owned my first rifle at age 6 (registered in MY NAME) and my first pistol at age 12.
Yes guns are dangerous, yes they can kill, that is in fact their primary use. No sane person can argue against that fact.
However, there are quite a few more people (more than most think at least) that are responsible enough to teach their children well to NEVER point ANY WEAPON, loaded or otherwise, at ANYTHING they DON'T intend to KILL!!
It really is this simple:
1. Never point a weapon at something you don't intend to kill
2. Never hand a loaded weapon to anyone, always verify the chamber is open and no rounds are in the mag/clip/butt
3. When you do find something (non-human in all but self-defense/war situations) to point your gun at, know what lies at least 2 miles beyond your intended target, as you may in fact miss
As long as you compare ALL life-cycle costs of EACH type of power plant, I could give a shit less how you stack them up. But coal, oil and natural gas, just don't magically show up at conventional power plants. They arrive there by the grace of OTHER FUCKING CARBON GENERATING PROCESSES, JUST LIKE NUCLEAR FUEL.
Normally I wouldn't feed the trolls, but OP is RIGHT. Nuclear plants themselves emit NO gases (unless there's a serious problem.)
Your link stacks up all the carbon emissions produced to mine, process, refine, enrich, clad (and the emissions from mining, processing, smelting, casting and welding the cladding), assemble, ship and swap a nuclear plants fuel source.
Fair enough, just let me in on the fossil fuels refill fairy and your secret's safe with me!
Ha! That's funny. So what, a few dozen machines at most? Try 500+ REGISTER systems, that had no outside comms with ANYTHING but a back office PC used for accounting, which already HAD AV on it. Now try updating those 500+ systems daily over a satellite link.
Yeah, but just because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should.
And just because I shouldn't do something, doesn't make it illegal to do so!!
People go on and on about the rights their society gives them without bothering to mention the responsibilities.
On this, we are in total agreement. But let us not forget that individuals are not the only ones with culpability. When our own president essentially says the "rule of law" doesn't apply to him or his staff, why should individuals be held to a higher standard. (yes, I know, straw-man, but still illustrative of the kind of brain dead thinking that allows these arguments to arise)
It's not that far a stretch to say that you have a responsibility to not wander around the President with a loaded gun or put the lives of the families of peace officers in danger.
As long as I'm abiding the law, I should be able to carry wherever I damn well please, as the 2nd amendment guarantees me that right. There is no law that says I can't be holding a loaded weapon within a specified distance of the president. Do I think you're example points out a situation in which it pays to err on the side of caution? Sure. However, by no means am I aware of any law that was broken.
Even if you knew for certain a cop was crooked, posting pictures of his house strikes me not only as obsessive, but also retributive without any court oversight, which is not what is supposed to happen in a society with the rule of law.
Another point we agree on. But you should have left out the 'court oversight' bit as there is never court oversight of vigilantism, and there are already laws on the books to deal with such crimes.
oh yeah, and quoting sanely appears to be hopelessly broken, even using paragraph or hard break tags,/code still munges my replies to the quote blocks...
You're missing the point. The difference between a half hour after shutdown and 10 YEARS after shutdown will be so minimal as to NOT WARRANT a difference in protective gear!
The real nastiness in radcon at a nuke plant comes from opening up primary systems, which you'll always do with some type of containment in place anyhow. Also, for the record, there is almost no "personal protective equipment against radiation" aside from lead blankets laid over hotstpots to minimize background.
Most personal protective gear in a situation like this is Anti-Contamination (i.e. we can't stop the radiation, so let's stop the radioactive sources from getting inside our body) only.
If it's activated material you're worried about, you'll be waiting a VERY long time for tear down. In most PWR (more common than BWR in the states) reactors, an hour is sufficient time to allow radiation levels to approach background.
Obviously the longer the particular plant has been in operation, the higher the background will be, but you'll get more radiation from living in Denver, CO (or taking a lot of high altitude flights) for a year than you will in your time doing decommissioning on a nuclear plant.
While I usually refer to myself as a geek, rather than a nerd (geek = nerd + personality [IMHO]) this is one that hits home with me. I've been married 2 years now and been trying to conceive for 3+ with no luck. Testing has determined that I have an abnormally low count (healthy in all other respects) and no current cause has been identified.
So no, being a geek/nerd DOESN'T mean you have better sperm, you INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Seriously, it's only 200 kW? That being the case, a few square meters of solar panel should do just fine, even at Mars like distances, you'd still be getting enough energy that it would be trivial ( something like 5 square meters would be sufficient at even Mars furthest distance of 2.5EE6 KM from the sun)
Yes, I know my figures aren't exact, but this is/., so I'm sure someone will come along and actually do the calculations.
Not sure why the difference between US/UK, especially considering we have much more land and so require less in the way of food imports, but the situation is exactly the opposite here in the states. In fact, until recently, the cheapest diet you could get was strictly fast-food.
To truly eat healthy here will cost 2-3 times the amount it takes to load up on junk food and frozen dinners. And that's taking into account all the fresh local produce I can get 8 months of the year in east-central PA.
Anita, at least post your contradicting crap a few threads away from each other when you're going to troll. And yes, I'm the same AC that slapped you down above for your post that's exactly the opposite from this rant.
No offense meant to the parent, but you're like the 3rd or 4th person to hit on this issue and I've seen only one other mention of AutoDesk v. Verner which just upheld DoFS for the defendant, IIRC a reseller of boxed copies of AutoCAD via eBay.
You answered your own question there. Cell phones have been available in the states for more than 20 years, and 3G only started rolling out in the last 2 years or so. Also, try to consider the fact that just the state I live in (PA) would take more cell towers to cover than your entire country and PA is only about the 29th or so biggest state. Then you start to see the scale of the problem.
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Please mod this troll down! He or She knows nothing of what they speak. Firearm possession/ownership laws very greatly by state/municipality.
I owned my first rifle at age 6 (registered in MY NAME) and my first pistol at age 12.
Yes guns are dangerous, yes they can kill, that is in fact their primary use. No sane person can argue against that fact.
However, there are quite a few more people (more than most think at least) that are responsible enough to teach their children well to NEVER point ANY WEAPON, loaded or otherwise, at ANYTHING they DON'T intend to KILL!!
It really is this simple:
1. Never point a weapon at something you don't intend to kill
2. Never hand a loaded weapon to anyone, always verify the chamber is open and no rounds are in the mag/clip/butt
3. When you do find something (non-human in all but self-defense/war situations) to point your gun at, know what lies at least 2 miles beyond your intended target, as you may in fact miss
In 4 milliseconds, the reactor went prompt critical,
FTFY
You meant Prompt Critical.
Ahh fer christ's sake! Just print the god-damned thing!
And this is why I don't feed the trolls...
As long as you compare ALL life-cycle costs of EACH type of power plant, I could give a shit less how you stack them up. But coal, oil and natural gas, just don't magically show up at conventional power plants. They arrive there by the grace of OTHER FUCKING CARBON GENERATING PROCESSES, JUST LIKE NUCLEAR FUEL.
Normally I wouldn't feed the trolls, but OP is RIGHT. Nuclear plants themselves emit NO gases (unless there's a serious problem.)
Your link stacks up all the carbon emissions produced to mine, process, refine, enrich, clad (and the emissions from mining, processing, smelting, casting and welding the cladding), assemble, ship and swap a nuclear plants fuel source.
Fair enough, just let me in on the fossil fuels refill fairy and your secret's safe with me!
Ha! That's funny. So what, a few dozen machines at most? Try 500+ REGISTER systems, that had no outside comms with ANYTHING but a back office PC used for accounting, which already HAD AV on it. Now try updating those 500+ systems daily over a satellite link.
Sorry, ignore my last sentence, as apparently it is only the preview that is broken...
Yeah, but just because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should.
And just because I shouldn't do something, doesn't make it illegal to do so!!
People go on and on about the rights their society gives them without bothering to mention the responsibilities.
On this, we are in total agreement. But let us not forget that individuals are not the only ones with culpability. When our own president essentially says the "rule of law" doesn't apply to him or his staff, why should individuals be held to a higher standard. (yes, I know, straw-man, but still illustrative of the kind of brain dead thinking that allows these arguments to arise)
It's not that far a stretch to say that you have a responsibility to not wander around the President with a loaded gun or put the lives of the families of peace officers in danger.
As long as I'm abiding the law, I should be able to carry wherever I damn well please, as the 2nd amendment guarantees me that right. There is no law that says I can't be holding a loaded weapon within a specified distance of the president. Do I think you're example points out a situation in which it pays to err on the side of caution? Sure. However, by no means am I aware of any law that was broken.
Even if you knew for certain a cop was crooked, posting pictures of his house strikes me not only as obsessive, but also retributive without any court oversight, which is not what is supposed to happen in a society with the rule of law.
Another point we agree on. But you should have left out the 'court oversight' bit as there is never court oversight of vigilantism, and there are already laws on the books to deal with such crimes.
oh yeah, and quoting sanely appears to be hopelessly broken, even using paragraph or hard break tags, /code still munges my replies to the quote blocks...
You're missing the point. The difference between a half hour after shutdown and 10 YEARS after shutdown will be so minimal as to NOT WARRANT a difference in protective gear! The real nastiness in radcon at a nuke plant comes from opening up primary systems, which you'll always do with some type of containment in place anyhow. Also, for the record, there is almost no "personal protective equipment against radiation" aside from lead blankets laid over hotstpots to minimize background. Most personal protective gear in a situation like this is Anti-Contamination (i.e. we can't stop the radiation, so let's stop the radioactive sources from getting inside our body) only.
If it's activated material you're worried about, you'll be waiting a VERY long time for tear down. In most PWR (more common than BWR in the states) reactors, an hour is sufficient time to allow radiation levels to approach background. Obviously the longer the particular plant has been in operation, the higher the background will be, but you'll get more radiation from living in Denver, CO (or taking a lot of high altitude flights) for a year than you will in your time doing decommissioning on a nuclear plant.
Who says parent supported Bush? It's possible he/she's not a sheep for either of the big 2 you know?
Free. Speech. Zone.
While I usually refer to myself as a geek, rather than a nerd (geek = nerd + personality [IMHO]) this is one that hits home with me. I've been married 2 years now and been trying to conceive for 3+ with no luck. Testing has determined that I have an abnormally low count (healthy in all other respects) and no current cause has been identified.
So no, being a geek/nerd DOESN'T mean you have better sperm, you INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Sound advice from an obvious vet. I was in the NAVY myself and just couldn't resist adding "Never Again Volunteer Yourself"
Semper Fi brother!
Seriously, it's only 200 kW? That being the case, a few square meters of solar panel should do just fine, even at Mars like distances, you'd still be getting enough energy that it would be trivial ( something like 5 square meters would be sufficient at even Mars furthest distance of 2.5EE6 KM from the sun)
/., so I'm sure someone will come along and actually do the calculations.
Yes, I know my figures aren't exact, but this is
And he led a trite and meaningless life...
Or a large fry basket from the O!
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African or European?
Not sure why the difference between US/UK, especially considering we have much more land and so require less in the way of food imports, but the situation is exactly the opposite here in the states. In fact, until recently, the cheapest diet you could get was strictly fast-food.
To truly eat healthy here will cost 2-3 times the amount it takes to load up on junk food and frozen dinners. And that's taking into account all the fresh local produce I can get 8 months of the year in east-central PA.
Damn, I fed the troll...
Anita, at least post your contradicting crap a few threads away from each other when you're going to troll. And yes, I'm the same AC that slapped you down above for your post that's exactly the opposite from this rant.
For pete's sake people! Someone did AND LOST!
No offense meant to the parent, but you're like the 3rd or 4th person to hit on this issue and I've seen only one other mention of AutoDesk v. Verner which just upheld DoFS for the defendant, IIRC a reseller of boxed copies of AutoCAD via eBay.
Turn in your geek card and get the hell off /. then!
This is how they work, and how that applies to your question is an exercise left to the reader.
You answered your own question there. Cell phones have been available in the states for more than 20 years, and 3G only started rolling out in the last 2 years or so. Also, try to consider the fact that just the state I live in (PA) would take more cell towers to cover than your entire country and PA is only about the 29th or so biggest state. Then you start to see the scale of the problem. HAND, nylyst