Some of the waste becomes safe in 30 years, but Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
We can dig very deep holes and put the high level waste in the ground.
And I think Plutonium 239 can be used as reactor fuel too.
If that's true it is down-cycling, eventually you always end up with highly dangerous radioactive waste you'll have to stockpile for tens of thousands of years.
Note that less than half of the GOP voted for Trump in the primaries - even though by the time of the later primaries most of the other candidates had bowed out.
There are plenty of Republicans who didn't want this President, and painting all of us with that brush is just as foolish as the prejudiced tweets from the Blowhard-In-Chief.
Then get your act together, reclaim your party. Reform your primaries so you candidates can make unpopular but necessary decisions while in office without having to fear being primaried by a nut bag pervert like Roy Moore in the following election cycle. Then try to work together with your opponents in congress to end the tribalism and trench warfare in the US. You need to take your congress back to an earlier age when Democrats and Republicans could cooperate and compromise on sensible legislation that most American voters could live with. Until both the Dems. and the Reps, realise that the tribalism and 'my way or the highway' politics have reached the end of their lifespan the US will remain a basket case and an international laughing stock.
The only thing he validated is the utter stupidity of our president. Anyone that votes for the GOP based on this is a fool, and yes the GOP is populated by fools. Anyone else will flee the Republican Party.
"There is no Republican Party. There's a Trump party. The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere."
There's a huge difference between predicting "Apple is dying/dead" and stating that Apple will likely be surpassed in the near future in a single market segment.
Apple makes high end equipment, the fact that Xiaomi is now moving into the medium to low-end market and will be outselling Apple in terms of devices sold does not require any kind of prescience since that is a market segment that Apple has historically not bothered with. This revelation that Xiaomi is hoovering up the low end of the market is more of a *yawn* than anything else.
Coca-Cola Remains Best-Selling Soft Drink With 180 Billion Beverages Last Quarter
This isn't news. Pretending otherwise insults us both.
Even shills are more discrete. This is tour-guide bullshit.
No, maybe not, but it is still fun to rub this in the faces of people who predicted the Apple Watch would be a complete and utter flop and get reactions like the one you just gave.
We should be building planes with longer ranges or evaluate the need / effectiveness of carriers when weapons like the DF-21 stonefish exist.
If it's any consolation, the Chinese Chengdu J-20 is thought to cost in the vicinity of $120 million per unit. I rather like the Chinese concept behind the Chengdu J-31 better, it is estimated to costs only about $60-70 million per unit. It may not be quite as sophisticated as the F-35 but if you can build it in larger numbers that won't matter too much and if the Chinese can achieve the kind of cost lowering the F-35A has achieved as production of it ramped up, the price tag on a J-31 could drop into the $50 million range or lower. In an all out war my money is always going to be on the guy who can make adequate tanks/guns/planes in huge numbers and not on the guy who goes beyond the point of diminishing returns to include lots of engineering excellence in their designs or wastes resources on bleeding edge projects like the Nazis did (and they did both those things).
The Navy wanted a dual purpose fighter-attack aircraft. To get it, the sacrificed range. The aircraft it replaced had far longer range, being designed for their task. Ever since, the Navy has been reliant on mid-air refueling to get anywhere. Planes launch with large bomb loads and nearly empty tanks, and have to mid-air refuel before they event start the mission.
That sounds like something that would be disastrous in anything other than uncontested airspace. One can only imagine what kind of havoc a few J-20 stealth fighters penetrating a Navy fighter CAP could do if they caught one of those strike packages still suckling fuel from their milker cows. All they'd have to do was burn into the area, hose of a ripple of medium range missiles and haul ass. I'm reminded of stories told by Luftwaffe veterans of flying into huge formations Lancaster/Halifax bombers getting themselves into order for attacks on Germany or coming in after an attack and just tearing one bomber after the others to shreds. Not only could you move more or less undetected among the enormous amount of air traffic, you could just fly down the approach lanes and shoot the big fat things down one by one as they came in for a landing and then finish the job by dropping a few sticks of small bombs or a cluster bomb on the runway. Once you were done the news spread like wildfire among the still airborne bombers turning an already hard to handle air traffic control situation into a glorious mess and if you were lucky some more bombers would be lost to forced landings and mid-air collisions. Eventually Hitler actually forbade intruder missions by German night fighters over the UK in one of his temper tantrums which was a good thing for the RAF, because they were very effective.
I don't think most people realize how hard it is to move a piece of software forward while supporting dozens of antiquated platforms.
How hard? Can you characterize cost benefit in this specific case or are you just stating a baseless opinion?
At some point, a professional should upgrade themselves
Hopefully by picking a different vendor.
It's one of those things that's kind of obvious if you have ever worked on software. Along with a few others I maintain a very complex suite of software on two separate platforms, Linux and a Unix OS. We only have to make the software work on one point release of each of two those two OS platforms but just that can be a nightmare simply because of the differences between the compilers and the build environments. Add to that the fact that other tools and libraries sometimes behave differently from platform to platform and you spend a significant amount of time trying to find something that works on both platforms. The older and more out of date your legacy platforms become the more they limit what you can do on the newer ones, it also raises the expense of development and those problems become more pronounced the more complex your software is. The alternative is to maintain several specialist branches for each antiquated platform and with them a whole bunch of specialist developers. I can only imagine what it would be like if I had to support Photoshop on all Windows versions from 7 onward and all MacOS versions from 10.6 onward (only fair since Windows 7 was released in 2009 and so was 10.6) and ensure that Photoshop also works flawlessly on all point releases of those two OS'es because somebody out there is running MacOS 10.6.6 or something and can't be moved to solve whatever issue he is having by upgrading to 10.6.7, never mind upgrade to the most current MacOS 10.13.6. Same rant for Windows.... It's easy to declare that supporting something as complex as Photoshop across every legacy Windows and MacOS version of the last 10 years and all point releases there of should be a walk in the park. It is a lot harder to be the one who actually has to walk through that park. Besides, you said it yourself, at some point a professional should upgrade, hopefully that includes the OS platform, their hardware and themselves for that matter.
...if those same voting machines were downloading movies or whatnot, why the Feds would be all over them with black helicopters, etc.!
You are over thinking this. All it would take to knock the Republicans out of their current state of wilful inaction on the subject of election security is if the hacks alluvasudden started benefitting the Democrats instead of them and their orange emperor.
This gives apps like OSMAnd an advantage over Google, whose support for persistent offline maps I've found to be a bit lacking.
I agree with that other than that I'd call say Google's support for offline maps sucks ass. Their assumption that you are always connected wherever you are is a fantasy that usually ends the moment you leave the city limits and/or the motorways. Also, if I had to choose between street view and being able to use the navigation app to locate goods and services I'd pick the later in a heartbeat.
OpenStreetMap is not a serious competitor to Google Maps. Nobody is, last I checked.
Three words:
Terrestrial virtual presence.
Knowing what a place actually looks like from the ground is often just as useful as knowing where it is on a map. Otherwise, regardless of what other mapping system a person is using, they are just going to go check on Google Maps for its Street View anyways... and at that point, one might as well just do everything right there.
I used an open source based mobile app (maps.me) for navigation all summer long, it was a perfectly adequate substitute for Google maps and it had real offline navigation capability whereas Google's offline capability kind of sucks. Google street view is a nice feature but when push comes to shove, I want something that can guide me to whatever house number I want without requiring a me to be network connected all the time. If I have trouble finding what I'm looking for once I'm in the general vicinity of my destination which usually boils down to being in the street but not finding the house I'm looking for I can usually solve that by asking a local resident.
There are things that hold Linux back.
Lack of games and lack of Adobe productivity tools. And to very recently shitty graphics subsystems, which is pretty all right now and only getting significantly better by the day. A lot of Windows/Linux gamin titles already run better on Linux.
You put games and Adobe tools on Linux, and watch user base migration.
When comes to phones - Huawei does NOT have this leverage. Same as with Nokia.
Gaming and Adobe graphics tools are not the two main forces that drive desktop sales, not by a long shot.
Manafort didn't pay taxes, and Rosenstein under Obama didn't think the government had a strong enough case to pursue him, but just last week he was sentenced to time in prison. The government does force you at gunpoint to pay taxes.
I really don't care if you secede from society and pay no taxes. Strangely enough, people who refuse to pay taxes still feel entitled to use facilities and services paid for with tax money. As far as I'm concerned, if you refuse to pay taxes you had better not make use of any single thing that was funded with tax money either. There are very few people who have the honest conviction to do that. Ayn Rand raged against social security all her life but ended her life on social security which makes her a hypocrite.
Makes a change from the septic tanks and their Russian masters spying on us I suppose.
No, not really, Russia is also ruled by Oligarchs and Kleptocrats and the Chinese are spying on you too. Meanwhile the US is ruled by an egomaniac real estate mogul and a billionaire boys club and the NSA is spying on everybody.
You Spend More Than 5 Hours Each Week Checking Your Email
Really? I regularly get chewed out by all kinds of people for not spending more than 5 hours each week checking my damn email. I only intermittently check, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and the rest of that garbage. Facebook gets a check about once every three months. The only way to make sure I get a message is to call me and failing that to track me down and tell me in person. Thankfully my boss usually prefers to do that.
Itâ(TM)s not just that, the bridge was hopelessly overloaded by traffic.
Have you ever driven in New York City? Every bridge is totally full of traffic nearly 24x7, during rush hour basically parked (it took me an hour once to cross George Washington bridge leaving NYC near rush hour). That happens every day, including in driving rainstorms... bridges are usually built assuming the bridge is packed with trucks, during the worst storm imaginable (including many feet of snow, far worse than rain), then use safety margins well beyond that. It seems the designers of this bridge cut some corners.
I’ve driven in all kinds of places. However, the real question is: Have you ever observed the dysfunctional cocktail of corruption, populism and incompetence otherwise known as Italian politics at work? In this case you have a steadily deteriorating bridge whose load carrying capacity is rapidly decreasing, that may not have been built to specs in the first place due to corruption and that was being subjected to traffic loads and thereby vibrations that its decayed structure could not handle. And the whole time there is a political cat fight going on with a bunch of populists wingnuts who are blocking the replacement bypass project, staging protests against any repair work and ridiculing anybody who spoke out about the danger of the situation. The bottom line is that this bridge should have been replaced and decommissioned at least ten years ago.
If corrosion weekend the cables by 20% of so, it seems like the original design didn't leave nearly enough margin for error!
I imagine they were not as concerned with 20% weakening thinking they had much more leeway.
It’s not just that, the bridge was hopelessly overloaded by traffic. There is a longstanding bypass project which has been fiercely opposed by the Five Star Movement for years. The Five Star Movement’s leaders, who now run Italy, actually cracked jokes about warnings that this bridge might collapse at regular intervals since the first warnings in 2012 or 2013. They are now trying to blame the EU (which gave them money for infrastructure sanitation) for the whole ugly mess.
I see a lot of claims with no sources or evaluations of magnitude or probability
Yeah but but pulling the claim that micro and nano plastics are completely harmless in every way out of your ass without a shred of evidence to back it up is just fine?
I've sailed through this so called pacific plastic mire and have seen absolutely nothing. I've even swam and scuba dived through it and didn't see anything. Those scientists say it's microscopic which they always conveniently fail to mention when talking about the magnitude of this problem.
It's not a big deal. Just scientists peddling fear for more grant money.
Yeah, because there are so many scientist who became billionaires by scamming people for grant money.
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Some of the waste becomes safe in 30 years, but Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
We can dig very deep holes and put the high level waste in the ground.
And I think Plutonium 239 can be used as reactor fuel too.
If that's true it is down-cycling, eventually you always end up with highly dangerous radioactive waste you'll have to stockpile for tens of thousands of years.
Note that less than half of the GOP voted for Trump in the primaries - even though by the time of the later primaries most of the other candidates had bowed out.
There are plenty of Republicans who didn't want this President, and painting all of us with that brush is just as foolish as the prejudiced tweets from the Blowhard-In-Chief.
Then get your act together, reclaim your party. Reform your primaries so you candidates can make unpopular but necessary decisions while in office without having to fear being primaried by a nut bag pervert like Roy Moore in the following election cycle. Then try to work together with your opponents in congress to end the tribalism and trench warfare in the US. You need to take your congress back to an earlier age when Democrats and Republicans could cooperate and compromise on sensible legislation that most American voters could live with. Until both the Dems. and the Reps, realise that the tribalism and 'my way or the highway' politics have reached the end of their lifespan the US will remain a basket case and an international laughing stock.
The only thing he validated is the utter stupidity of our president. Anyone that votes for the GOP based on this is a fool, and yes the GOP is populated by fools. Anyone else will flee the Republican Party.
"There is no Republican Party. There's a Trump party. The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere."
-- John Boehner
"White House Says Anonymous 'Coward'..."
So who's the Anonymous Coward that goes by the name "White House"?
Well it can't Trump since he weaselled out of service in Vietnam using 'bone spurs' as an excuse which makes Mr. Trump a very public coward.
There's a huge difference between predicting "Apple is dying/dead" and stating that Apple will likely be surpassed in the near future in a single market segment.
Apple makes high end equipment, the fact that Xiaomi is now moving into the medium to low-end market and will be outselling Apple in terms of devices sold does not require any kind of prescience since that is a market segment that Apple has historically not bothered with. This revelation that Xiaomi is hoovering up the low end of the market is more of a *yawn* than anything else.
Coca-Cola Remains Best-Selling Soft Drink With 180 Billion Beverages Last Quarter
This isn't news. Pretending otherwise insults us both.
Even shills are more discrete. This is tour-guide bullshit.
No, maybe not, but it is still fun to rub this in the faces of people who predicted the Apple Watch would be a complete and utter flop and get reactions like the one you just gave.
These weapon systems are so expensive they try to not expose them.
F-35 = $103 million a copy CH-53E = $136 million a copy
The US armed forces tries to not use CH-53E in hostile territory because of cost.
How about F-35s that will never be combat ready. https://www.popularmechanics.c...
Why do we buy these systems?
We should be building planes with longer ranges or evaluate the need / effectiveness of carriers when weapons like the DF-21 stonefish exist.
If it's any consolation, the Chinese Chengdu J-20 is thought to cost in the vicinity of $120 million per unit. I rather like the Chinese concept behind the Chengdu J-31 better, it is estimated to costs only about $60-70 million per unit. It may not be quite as sophisticated as the F-35 but if you can build it in larger numbers that won't matter too much and if the Chinese can achieve the kind of cost lowering the F-35A has achieved as production of it ramped up, the price tag on a J-31 could drop into the $50 million range or lower. In an all out war my money is always going to be on the guy who can make adequate tanks/guns/planes in huge numbers and not on the guy who goes beyond the point of diminishing returns to include lots of engineering excellence in their designs or wastes resources on bleeding edge projects like the Nazis did (and they did both those things).
The Navy wanted a dual purpose fighter-attack aircraft. To get it, the sacrificed range. The aircraft it replaced had far longer range, being designed for their task. Ever since, the Navy has been reliant on mid-air refueling to get anywhere. Planes launch with large bomb loads and nearly empty tanks, and have to mid-air refuel before they event start the mission.
That sounds like something that would be disastrous in anything other than uncontested airspace. One can only imagine what kind of havoc a few J-20 stealth fighters penetrating a Navy fighter CAP could do if they caught one of those strike packages still suckling fuel from their milker cows. All they'd have to do was burn into the area, hose of a ripple of medium range missiles and haul ass. I'm reminded of stories told by Luftwaffe veterans of flying into huge formations Lancaster/Halifax bombers getting themselves into order for attacks on Germany or coming in after an attack and just tearing one bomber after the others to shreds. Not only could you move more or less undetected among the enormous amount of air traffic, you could just fly down the approach lanes and shoot the big fat things down one by one as they came in for a landing and then finish the job by dropping a few sticks of small bombs or a cluster bomb on the runway. Once you were done the news spread like wildfire among the still airborne bombers turning an already hard to handle air traffic control situation into a glorious mess and if you were lucky some more bombers would be lost to forced landings and mid-air collisions. Eventually Hitler actually forbade intruder missions by German night fighters over the UK in one of his temper tantrums which was a good thing for the RAF, because they were very effective.
I don't think most people realize how hard it is to move a piece of software forward while supporting dozens of antiquated platforms.
How hard? Can you characterize cost benefit in this specific case or are you just stating a baseless opinion?
At some point, a professional should upgrade themselves
Hopefully by picking a different vendor.
It's one of those things that's kind of obvious if you have ever worked on software. Along with a few others I maintain a very complex suite of software on two separate platforms, Linux and a Unix OS. We only have to make the software work on one point release of each of two those two OS platforms but just that can be a nightmare simply because of the differences between the compilers and the build environments. Add to that the fact that other tools and libraries sometimes behave differently from platform to platform and you spend a significant amount of time trying to find something that works on both platforms. The older and more out of date your legacy platforms become the more they limit what you can do on the newer ones, it also raises the expense of development and those problems become more pronounced the more complex your software is. The alternative is to maintain several specialist branches for each antiquated platform and with them a whole bunch of specialist developers. I can only imagine what it would be like if I had to support Photoshop on all Windows versions from 7 onward and all MacOS versions from 10.6 onward (only fair since Windows 7 was released in 2009 and so was 10.6) and ensure that Photoshop also works flawlessly on all point releases of those two OS'es because somebody out there is running MacOS 10.6.6 or something and can't be moved to solve whatever issue he is having by upgrading to 10.6.7, never mind upgrade to the most current MacOS 10.13.6. Same rant for Windows .... It's easy to declare that supporting something as complex as Photoshop across every legacy Windows and MacOS version of the last 10 years and all point releases there of should be a walk in the park. It is a lot harder to be the one who actually has to walk through that park. Besides, you said it yourself, at some point a professional should upgrade, hopefully that includes the OS platform, their hardware and themselves for that matter.
...if those same voting machines were downloading movies or whatnot, why the Feds would be all over them with black helicopters, etc.!
You are over thinking this. All it would take to knock the Republicans out of their current state of wilful inaction on the subject of election security is if the hacks alluvasudden started benefitting the Democrats instead of them and their orange emperor.
to build a nuclear plant.
Is it also enough time to make it price competitive without subsidies?
Three more words:
Always offline maps.
This gives apps like OSMAnd an advantage over Google, whose support for persistent offline maps I've found to be a bit lacking.
I agree with that other than that I'd call say Google's support for offline maps sucks ass. Their assumption that you are always connected wherever you are is a fantasy that usually ends the moment you leave the city limits and/or the motorways. Also, if I had to choose between street view and being able to use the navigation app to locate goods and services I'd pick the later in a heartbeat.
OpenStreetMap is not a serious competitor to Google Maps. Nobody is, last I checked.
Three words:
Terrestrial virtual presence.
Knowing what a place actually looks like from the ground is often just as useful as knowing where it is on a map. Otherwise, regardless of what other mapping system a person is using, they are just going to go check on Google Maps for its Street View anyways... and at that point, one might as well just do everything right there.
I used an open source based mobile app (maps.me) for navigation all summer long, it was a perfectly adequate substitute for Google maps and it had real offline navigation capability whereas Google's offline capability kind of sucks. Google street view is a nice feature but when push comes to shove, I want something that can guide me to whatever house number I want without requiring a me to be network connected all the time. If I have trouble finding what I'm looking for once I'm in the general vicinity of my destination which usually boils down to being in the street but not finding the house I'm looking for I can usually solve that by asking a local resident.
There are things that hold Linux back. Lack of games and lack of Adobe productivity tools. And to very recently shitty graphics subsystems, which is pretty all right now and only getting significantly better by the day. A lot of Windows/Linux gamin titles already run better on Linux.
You put games and Adobe tools on Linux, and watch user base migration.
When comes to phones - Huawei does NOT have this leverage. Same as with Nokia.
Gaming and Adobe graphics tools are not the two main forces that drive desktop sales, not by a long shot.
Manafort didn't pay taxes, and Rosenstein under Obama didn't think the government had a strong enough case to pursue him, but just last week he was sentenced to time in prison. The government does force you at gunpoint to pay taxes.
I really don't care if you secede from society and pay no taxes. Strangely enough, people who refuse to pay taxes still feel entitled to use facilities and services paid for with tax money. As far as I'm concerned, if you refuse to pay taxes you had better not make use of any single thing that was funded with tax money either. There are very few people who have the honest conviction to do that. Ayn Rand raged against social security all her life but ended her life on social security which makes her a hypocrite.
Makes a change from the septic tanks and their Russian masters spying on us I suppose.
No, not really, Russia is also ruled by Oligarchs and Kleptocrats and the Chinese are spying on you too. Meanwhile the US is ruled by an egomaniac real estate mogul and a billionaire boys club and the NSA is spying on everybody.
You can make a shotgun out of two pieces of pipe and a nail.
We talked about it and unanimously decided to appoint you to test-fire it.
You Spend More Than 5 Hours Each Week Checking Your Email
Really? I regularly get chewed out by all kinds of people for not spending more than 5 hours each week checking my damn email. I only intermittently check, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and the rest of that garbage. Facebook gets a check about once every three months. The only way to make sure I get a message is to call me and failing that to track me down and tell me in person. Thankfully my boss usually prefers to do that.
A sign the collage bubble will soon burst.
Wunderkinder who think college is useless have been predicting their demise since colleges were invented.
Quality on the outside that hides the crappy code...way to judge a book by its cover!
This is true.
And most importantly, they learn best practices that help them avoid pitfalls down the road.
You definitely don't learn this in college. That's the main thing I've had to teach new grad hires for most of my career.
And you are basing this assertion on the poor experience you had taking your college degree?
Itâ(TM)s not just that, the bridge was hopelessly overloaded by traffic.
Have you ever driven in New York City? Every bridge is totally full of traffic nearly 24x7, during rush hour basically parked (it took me an hour once to cross George Washington bridge leaving NYC near rush hour). That happens every day, including in driving rainstorms... bridges are usually built assuming the bridge is packed with trucks, during the worst storm imaginable (including many feet of snow, far worse than rain), then use safety margins well beyond that. It seems the designers of this bridge cut some corners.
I’ve driven in all kinds of places. However, the real question is: Have you ever observed the dysfunctional cocktail of corruption, populism and incompetence otherwise known as Italian politics at work? In this case you have a steadily deteriorating bridge whose load carrying capacity is rapidly decreasing, that may not have been built to specs in the first place due to corruption and that was being subjected to traffic loads and thereby vibrations that its decayed structure could not handle. And the whole time there is a political cat fight going on with a bunch of populists wingnuts who are blocking the replacement bypass project, staging protests against any repair work and ridiculing anybody who spoke out about the danger of the situation. The bottom line is that this bridge should have been replaced and decommissioned at least ten years ago.
If corrosion weekend the cables by 20% of so, it seems like the original design didn't leave nearly enough margin for error!
I imagine they were not as concerned with 20% weakening thinking they had much more leeway.
It’s not just that, the bridge was hopelessly overloaded by traffic. There is a longstanding bypass project which has been fiercely opposed by the Five Star Movement for years. The Five Star Movement’s leaders, who now run Italy, actually cracked jokes about warnings that this bridge might collapse at regular intervals since the first warnings in 2012 or 2013. They are now trying to blame the EU (which gave them money for infrastructure sanitation) for the whole ugly mess.
I see a lot of claims with no sources or evaluations of magnitude or probability
Yeah but but pulling the claim that micro and nano plastics are completely harmless in every way out of your ass without a shred of evidence to back it up is just fine?
https://www.lunduniversity.lu....
https://www.nature.com/article...
https://www.iflscience.com/env...
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
https://www.iflscience.com/pla...
I've sailed through this so called pacific plastic mire and have seen absolutely nothing. I've even swam and scuba dived through it and didn't see anything. Those scientists say it's microscopic which they always conveniently fail to mention when talking about the magnitude of this problem.
It's not a big deal. Just scientists peddling fear for more grant money.
Yeah, because there are so many scientist who became billionaires by scamming people for grant money.