Oh. I dunno. The CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?
It clearly outlines the use of the Electoral College for appointing the chief executive position.
Remember, we're a Federal Republic. We're a nation built of many states. And the EC ensures that all states actually have a voice in the election.
The amalgamated totals of the popular vote are irrelevant as anything other than an interesting statistic, as this country does not elect it's chief executive by mob rule.
All states can figure out their own method for appointing their "personal" federal representatives. But the executive office is different. Since it's beholden to no one state.
No. He lost because our government requires broad support from across the nation, rather than simply the support of city dwellers and the assorted weird shit leaking out their ears.
Do a little research on "Federal Republic". Then you'll understand why this country is set up the way it is.
And if you don't like it, you're free to emigrate to Canada or some other shithole someplace else in the world that you imagine will be more fair to you and in line with your delusions.
Not to mention Razer's "We hit the bottom of the barrel, so we got some explosives and blasted our way through to a whole new level!" LoQC (Lack of Quality Control). Look up "shit" in the dictionary and it says "At least it's not Razer!"
I mean, we have Apple to demonstrate that you can label (not polish, just label) an actual turd and some jackass will still spend exorbitant amounts of money to buy it. But how Razer's rectal-cancer level LoQC hasn't killed the fucking company in the last 15 years leaves me more stunned than Amy Schumer contemplating President Elect Trump...
Considering the sheer amount of land use required for PV solar (or even solar thermal), capacity planning a a bit more involved than simply dropping a couple extra gigawatts of reactor capacity.
Sure, cover the whole Sahara and wreck the ecology there. Turning it from a desert biome into a pure waste by covering it over with solar panels.
Then there's the problem of building the infrastructure to actually export all that power (oh, did we mention concerns like national borders, etc, etc, etc)?
Pretend it's a simple equation all you like. It isn't. And never will be.
Do you know how much energy is needed to produce "nuclear diamonds?"
No. Please provide exact numbers rather than vague statements like "more than was generated during the creation of the waste".
Because then you're talking about power production in the gigawatt-to-terawatt range, since the C14 is culled from the graphite control rods. And most control rods have a usable lifespan between 8 and 20 years, with a median age of 12.
That's an absolute FUCKTON of power. And I seriously doubt that the vapor recovery and deposition of C14 takes THAT much power on a per-diamond or even a per-batch basis.
The largest solar PV station in the world is in China, covers almost 18 square miles and puts out 850MW. We can build single reactors that output 1GW The largest nuclear power plant in the world rings in at just under 8GW and covers about 1.7 square miles. The largest operational power plant in the world rings in just north of 6GW and covers 3.5 square miles.
Thorium reactors will be available >> breeders with sodium ? Yeah, no danger sir. We can wipe a continent if a bigger fire brakes out. We cannot put out this fire with water, or else booom:)
OMG! You're right! Because it's not like, in case of a fire the fuel can be dumped into a dump tank away from the reaction catalyst. Because fires really love to huff and puff and go after a double-walled dump tank inside a double walled containment vessel buried in concrete!
EUREKA! How could we have been so foolish!
ZOUNDS!
Rather than simply spouting a bunch of gobbeldygook in an attempt to sound educated, do some real research.
You mean like a wildfire at a massive solar farm. Sure, the fire may not kill anyone. But if the power that's being generated is being COUNTED on in the base load, you're going to run short, you're going to have situations where power-critical events are disrupted and people are going to die.
Also, you're still conveniently ignoring that nuclear power has still killed fewer people than ANY other form of power extant.
So, as soon as you can point out these "multitudes" you're citing, we can move forward.
"We already have safe, reliable nuclear power plants. We have them all over the world. "
Exactly, and we will have to store and guard their ashes from terrorists for 184000 years, which won't come cheap.
Which is why it's nice that there are newer reactor designs that produce less long-lived waste. Plus, there are new techniques coming out that allow us to further use certain types of waste in ways not imagined earlier.
Okay, Lessig is a smart, maybe even brilliant, man.
But he's still suffering from Idealogue syndrome.
Rather than take the system as it is, working within it (and the confines of law and reality), he's caught up in his vision of "The Ideal". So, breaking laws, betrayal of public trust, and forwarding of the privileged insider caste at the expense of all else (because THEY know what's best for the rest of us) in his mind. Because the means justifies the ends (oh, and incidentally, it'll give him the result he desires but never mind that self-serving little piece of useless data).
Sorry Larry, but if you happen to dislike the outcome, work harder to make sure the next time we come to a decision, it agrees with your personal, philosophical and political proclivities.
And, while you're at it, excise a mountain of presumption Your Way is The One And Only Right Way.
In order to reduce its gender imbalance, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam will hold special election rounds, one in 2017 and one in 2018, for which only men can be nominated.
The plan "does not come at women's expense," argues the academy's president, Jose van Dijck, because all the regular election rounds for membership will also still continue as planned. Currently 13% of the academy's 556 members are men, a slightly higher percentage than the 10% at Germany's national science academy and the 6% in the U.K. The plan was proposed by two female board members and approved by a 73% majority, though ironically, the first male president of the U.S. National Academy of Science says "I don't think we would do that. Other people might feel that men elected this way somehow did not meet the same standards as their female counterparts, or even other men elected through the regular process."
If it had read as edited here, feminists would be shitting blocks of osmium.
Basically this has nothing to do with equality. This is all about "special" treatment because some selfish individuals simply can't understand that equal representation doesn't always happen, and even if it does, it takes TIME for it to percolate through every layer of society and profession.
This hurts EVERYONE. Because it's telling people that if you can claim to be in a suitably "oppressed" segment of society, that it's perfectly OK to lower standards just to let you get by...
In the end, it just becomes a race to the bottom, and the honors of such positions are rendered meaningless.
Now I'm pulling about 980/40 (Couldn't justify $300/month for bi-directional 2GB.)
I'm paying about $15/more a month than I would have been paying after the first year of the lower speed service (because you can't currently BUY a DOCSIS 3.1 modem, so there's rental fees).
I was never actually offered the $70 price.
Now, ask me if I have a problem with what I'm paying.
Nope.
Would I be happier if it were at a lower price point? Sure! I'm cheap! But if I have to pay $150 a month after everything for gig service? I'll take it. More important to me is the 40MB upstream speed. I work from home a lot. And I have to push files to our main office in Texas as well as to occasional clients. The faster I can push stuff to people, the better.
Are we THAT terrified of not getting luxury goods? Of having to actually do some of that heavy labor in-country here?
The way we're going right now, China's going to eventually own this country. Lock, stock and barrel.
If we want to prevent this from happening, this country's going to have to bite the bullet at some point.
I'd rather do it now, where it's only going to hurt a LOT. As opposed to 20-50 years down the road, when we're so deeply upside-down that China just forecloses on the country, and the REAL pain begins.
Preserving culture is like trying to keep the flu virus from mutating...
What he's talking about is preserving a culture of acceptance and assimilation from people who simply want to import their former culture and keep it alive in ghettos (just with THEMSELVES in positions of authority) without ever assimilating in the least.
What do you call a piece of software, outside of your control, that performs actions on your system against your will, operates outside your control, modifies your system without permission, steals data, spews unwanted ads at you, etc?
I use windows 10 and don't have this problem.
Good for you. Can you, authoritatively, say the same for the millions of other Windows 10 users?
What do you call a piece of software, outside of your control, that performs actions on your system against your will, operates outside your control, modifies your system without permission, steals data, spews unwanted ads at you, etc?
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What makes the popular vote irrelevant?
Oh. I dunno. The CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?
It clearly outlines the use of the Electoral College for appointing the chief executive position.
Remember, we're a Federal Republic. We're a nation built of many states. And the EC ensures that all states actually have a voice in the election.
The amalgamated totals of the popular vote are irrelevant as anything other than an interesting statistic, as this country does not elect it's chief executive by mob rule.
All states can figure out their own method for appointing their "personal" federal representatives. But the executive office is different. Since it's beholden to no one state.
No. He lost because our government requires broad support from across the nation, rather than simply the support of city dwellers and the assorted weird shit leaking out their ears.
Do a little research on "Federal Republic". Then you'll understand why this country is set up the way it is.
And if you don't like it, you're free to emigrate to Canada or some other shithole someplace else in the world that you imagine will be more fair to you and in line with your delusions.
Not to mention Razer's "We hit the bottom of the barrel, so we got some explosives and blasted our way through to a whole new level!" LoQC (Lack of Quality Control). Look up "shit" in the dictionary and it says "At least it's not Razer!"
I mean, we have Apple to demonstrate that you can label (not polish, just label) an actual turd and some jackass will still spend exorbitant amounts of money to buy it. But how Razer's rectal-cancer level LoQC hasn't killed the fucking company in the last 15 years leaves me more stunned than Amy Schumer contemplating President Elect Trump...
Considering the sheer amount of land use required for PV solar (or even solar thermal), capacity planning a a bit more involved than simply dropping a couple extra gigawatts of reactor capacity.
Sure, cover the whole Sahara and wreck the ecology there. Turning it from a desert biome into a pure waste by covering it over with solar panels.
Then there's the problem of building the infrastructure to actually export all that power (oh, did we mention concerns like national borders, etc, etc, etc)?
Pretend it's a simple equation all you like. It isn't. And never will be.
Do you know how much energy is needed to produce "nuclear diamonds?"
No. Please provide exact numbers rather than vague statements like "more than was generated during the creation of the waste".
Because then you're talking about power production in the gigawatt-to-terawatt range, since the C14 is culled from the graphite control rods.
And most control rods have a usable lifespan between 8 and 20 years, with a median age of 12.
That's an absolute FUCKTON of power. And I seriously doubt that the vapor recovery and deposition of C14 takes THAT much power on a per-diamond or even a per-batch basis.
Have you actually SEEN the schematics for an LFTR containment vessel?
Power density.
The largest solar PV station in the world is in China, covers almost 18 square miles and puts out 850MW.
We can build single reactors that output 1GW
The largest nuclear power plant in the world rings in at just under 8GW and covers about 1.7 square miles.
The largest operational power plant in the world rings in just north of 6GW and covers 3.5 square miles.
Thorium reactors will be available >> breeders with sodium ? Yeah, no danger sir. We can wipe a continent if a bigger fire brakes out. We cannot put out this fire with water, or else booom :)
OMG! You're right! Because it's not like, in case of a fire the fuel can be dumped into a dump tank away from the reaction catalyst. Because fires really love to huff and puff and go after a double-walled dump tank inside a double walled containment vessel buried in concrete!
EUREKA! How could we have been so foolish!
ZOUNDS!
Rather than simply spouting a bunch of gobbeldygook in an attempt to sound educated, do some real research.
You mean like a wildfire at a massive solar farm. Sure, the fire may not kill anyone. But if the power that's being generated is being COUNTED on in the base load, you're going to run short, you're going to have situations where power-critical events are disrupted and people are going to die.
Also, you're still conveniently ignoring that nuclear power has still killed fewer people than ANY other form of power extant.
So, as soon as you can point out these "multitudes" you're citing, we can move forward.
"We already have safe, reliable nuclear power plants. We have them all over the world. "
Exactly, and we will have to store and guard their ashes from terrorists for 184000 years, which won't come cheap.
Which is why it's nice that there are newer reactor designs that produce less long-lived waste.
Plus, there are new techniques coming out that allow us to further use certain types of waste in ways not imagined earlier.
Google "nuclear diamonds".
Okay, Lessig is a smart, maybe even brilliant, man.
But he's still suffering from Idealogue syndrome.
Rather than take the system as it is, working within it (and the confines of law and reality), he's caught up in his vision of "The Ideal". So, breaking laws, betrayal of public trust, and forwarding of the privileged insider caste at the expense of all else (because THEY know what's best for the rest of us) in his mind. Because the means justifies the ends (oh, and incidentally, it'll give him the result he desires but never mind that self-serving little piece of useless data).
Sorry Larry, but if you happen to dislike the outcome, work harder to make sure the next time we come to a decision, it agrees with your personal, philosophical and political proclivities.
And, while you're at it, excise a mountain of presumption Your Way is The One And Only Right Way.
Because Manning has already been made a laughingstock of.
I'm sorry, but I was under the impression that what was being asked for by the universal suffrage movement was EQUALITY.
This isn't equality. This is special treatment because equal treatment hasn't resulted in equal outcome.
This is awarding of a position because of reproductive anatomy, rather than intellectual anatomy.
In order to reduce its gender imbalance, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam will hold special election rounds, one in 2017 and one in 2018, for which only men can be nominated.
The plan "does not come at women's expense," argues the academy's president, Jose van Dijck, because all the regular election rounds for membership will also still continue as planned. Currently 13% of the academy's 556 members are men, a slightly higher percentage than the 10% at Germany's national science academy and the 6% in the U.K. The plan was proposed by two female board members and approved by a 73% majority, though ironically, the first male president of the U.S. National Academy of Science says "I don't think we would do that. Other people might feel that men elected this way somehow did not meet the same standards as their female counterparts, or even other men elected through the regular process."
If it had read as edited here, feminists would be shitting blocks of osmium.
Basically this has nothing to do with equality. This is all about "special" treatment because some selfish individuals simply can't understand that equal representation doesn't always happen, and even if it does, it takes TIME for it to percolate through every layer of society and profession.
This hurts EVERYONE. Because it's telling people that if you can claim to be in a suitably "oppressed" segment of society, that it's perfectly OK to lower standards just to let you get by...
In the end, it just becomes a race to the bottom, and the honors of such positions are rendered meaningless.
It is almost impossible to report news without some sort of bias, implicit or explicit.
No it's not. The news media has simply stopped trying. AT ALL.
Uh. No. The Gig-E service still comes with a 1TB data cap unless you pay the extra $50/month.
Previously I was on their 150/20 service.
Now I'm pulling about 980/40 (Couldn't justify $300/month for bi-directional 2GB.)
I'm paying about $15/more a month than I would have been paying after the first year of the lower speed service (because you can't currently BUY a DOCSIS 3.1 modem, so there's rental fees).
I was never actually offered the $70 price.
Now, ask me if I have a problem with what I'm paying.
Nope.
Would I be happier if it were at a lower price point? Sure! I'm cheap! But if I have to pay $150 a month after everything for gig service? I'll take it. More important to me is the 40MB upstream speed. I work from home a lot. And I have to push files to our main office in Texas as well as to occasional clients. The faster I can push stuff to people, the better.
He was a fuckup long before the meth.
Seriously.
Are we THAT terrified of not getting luxury goods?
Of having to actually do some of that heavy labor in-country here?
The way we're going right now, China's going to eventually own this country. Lock, stock and barrel.
If we want to prevent this from happening, this country's going to have to bite the bullet at some point.
I'd rather do it now, where it's only going to hurt a LOT. As opposed to 20-50 years down the road, when we're so deeply upside-down that China just forecloses on the country, and the REAL pain begins.
Seriously, initially this seems like a cautionary tale on curiosity.
But if you look at this poor guy's later life, you'll see it for what it really is. Mental illness.
He simply couldn't let his fixation go. He's been busted for trying to accumulate radioactive materials via theft as an adult too.
Never mind the damage he's done. To others as well as himself... Never mind the other negative consequences he suffered.
Basically there should have been psychiatric intervention years ago.
What he's talking about is preserving a culture of acceptance and assimilation from people who simply want to import their former culture and keep it alive in ghettos (just with THEMSELVES in positions of authority) without ever assimilating in the least.
I use windows 10 and don't have this problem.
Good for you. Can you, authoritatively, say the same for the millions of other Windows 10 users?
Really?
Okay, I'll offer you $10 a year with no benefits to do all my Cisco work for me...
Troll eh?
What do you call a piece of software, outside of your control, that performs actions on your system against your will, operates outside your control, modifies your system without permission, steals data, spews unwanted ads at you, etc?
Windows 10 is, BY DEFINITION, malware.