GE really fucked up when they decided this was a good idea with the AP1000. China is about to have a ton of cheap and effective and safe nuclear reactors. All in all, they'll have put a small amount of money into it compared to GE and the US. GE will make some money, but will lose in the long run because everyone will want a Chinese reactor that's more efficient and cheaper than what it was copied from!
Until something goes wrong that makes Fukushima and Chernobyl look like a rainy day.
I agree with your assessment that war begins with a nuclear strike. You remember at the start of the Cold War, there were very few reasons for which we would nuke someone. Like if the Russians flooded through Berlin in an invasion with a shitload of tank companies (see The Day After movie). Or if we got nuked. That was about it.
I bet we'd use them for a lot more reasons now. Like how after 9/11, we were screaming to nuke everyone brown. Not just invade and kill them in a bloody/costly/ineffective war, but actually to nuke their respective countries. Tons of people wanted it. A lot of government people wanted it. It was actually considered for such a flagrant display of terrorism.
You know the reason that consumptionism took off is because corporations decided they could make money off it and marketed it, right? It wasn't like Jeb down the road one day decided it was okay for him to take out a home loan for a new radio, Model T, vacation to the nearest big city, dance lessons, etc.
Nope, what happened was about fifty years of good marketing on the part of corporations. Trust us, it's okay not to have money on hand for something you need. Everyone does it!
As the debt to income ratio increased, prices increased because now people were going to get their plasma TVs, vacation homes, and sports cars come hell or high water. Like a slower paced version of the college tuition scam..people are GOING to go and they're usually not paying with their money so what's the problem with taking more of it?
Alright, here's how it's going to work. Sony will threaten Slashdot with a lawsuit unless they cough up user IPs. If Slashdot doesn't, then they'll be aiding/abetting/participating in whatever nasty Sony is trying to say has been committed. Sony has a bigger legal budget than Slashdot, so without a technically competent judge (there aren't many), Slashdot loses. Unless they turn over the IP data.
Millions spent in legal defense, or giving up an IP address, which will they choose? As a car analogy, you can tell me all about that hitchhiker you picked up and dropped off last week or I can take your car/house/children/bank account/etc.
You have to understand the scope of the situation. Most likely they had radiation detectors set to the most sensitive level. As in, they'll detect you if you ate a banana three days ago because of the isotopes present in the banana.
They KNOW radioactive material has escaped, but the question is how dense will the contamination be? If you spread it equally all around the world there might be one or two deaths. Compare this to a boiler room explosion at a steam plant that can and has killed way more than this before, using a technology we developed hundreds of years ago.
I still think that it's rather funny that the country enforces a single marriage lifestyle. In reality, people should be allowed to do damn near whatever they want as long as it doesn't negatively affect the rights of others or the environment (too seriously).
To me, the 'single spouse' law would be like a 'single car' law, which pretty much wouldn't affect me at all but I could still laugh about and have debates about from time to time. On one hand, I'll never have two spouses/two cars. On the other hand, I feel that people SHOULD be able to have two spouses/two card.
It's one thing to slaughter your civilians using guns and light tanks, it's completely another to use artillery and bombers to destroy cities with heavy resistance movements.
The reason we're helping in Libya and not in the other countries is because the other countries aren't so blatantly anti-civilian. When you have to use your MILITARY to keep people under control, it's no longer a matter of people disagreeing with your government, it's a matter of you holding them hostage. Imagine if instead of getting mugged on the street, the mugger simply took office and demanded everyone's money or he'd order the military to napalm the city.
I don't think the lack of violence was caused by the lack of weaponry. I think the lack of violence was caused by the Japanese culture. They're all in this together, basically, instead of it being every man and woman for themselves.
Contrast to Katrina, where it was all about 'me' and there were various criminals running around. People still helped people, but things fell apart instead of coming together like the Japanese did. It wasn't 'oh they're out of food today guess we're out of luck' it was 'oh they're out of food today shoot their tires out and loot them who cares if people down the road haven't eaten in three weeks'
THIS. Ultracapacitors are a lot more awesome, are currently being produced, and have much higher performance than other capacitors of similar size. They're a bit expensive, but if you're making a fucking laser pistol you could afford to splurge.
There's nothing stopping the Chinese or any other country with loose morals from simply copying things they see from the patent database into their own inventions and turning a serious profit in nations that don't necessarily agree with patents. For example, the recipe for Coke becomes known and all of a sudden no one overseas is buying Coke because Cokee is the same thing at half the price, with added lead to make you feel more satiated.
Wiretap, noun - an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
No wiretapping was involved. Recording in public is 100% legal in all jurisdictions if there is no reasonable expectation to privacy. Police officers do not have an expectation to privacy whenever they pull someone over in public.
How the hell is this even a case? Oh, wait, gotta protect their own. Gotcha.
It's no longer necessary to hit the bar every night for a month to maybe find someone you're compatible enough to sleep with. This will ruin some marriages because sex can be just a click away, and all it takes is someone feeling scorned or lonely because their significant other went to bed early one night to sew the seeds of infidelity.
People are petty, petty creatures. The smallest slight can lead to a major affair down the road.
By breaking their TOS, you open yourself up to possible civil action. Not that they would sue you for giving out your password, sure, but it's the principal of the thing.
Dell buys bargain bin products and slaps the Dell name on them, so you know who to avoid. Things like monitors and mice and keyboards aren't too bad since most of them are already made as cheaply as possible and it turns out they can last a while, but things like PCs with 'all in one' sound/video/lan/etc chipsets being sold in Dell machines as performance machines is what I'm talking about. They'll look you in the eye and tell you that Intel onboard graphics is what today's gamers use.
They do this because there's not places FOR that kind of thing.
If there were even a mediocre coffee shop open all night with overpriced coffee style drinks and overpriced snacks I would totally go there for late night cram sessions providing they had plug in and free wifi. But there isn't. You can go to a Waffle House or similar 24/7 restaurant, but they typically don't have plugs and keep their restaurants at a balmy 45F.
That's what doesn't make sense with all the overseas contracting of things. These companies, if they took a little time to read up on it, would find that EVERYTHING that gets sent to Chinese factories ends up competing against their own products. Same or very similar designs for half the price. But wait, there's more. They'll often end up paying like $5 for a component that costs $4.98 and is vastly inferior to the $5 one the paid for, leading to horrible product quality. And if that wasn't enough, they'll end up having their designs improved upon and either sold back to them or sold to other consumers for a lower price than the original design they sent over.
..when I can't do the job I was hired to do, I'm either trained in how to do it or replaced by someone that can do it. If I were a biology teacher and couldn't teach biology, I should be trained in biology or replaced by someone that can teach biology.
So you're telling me that these people don't even have a HIGH SCHOOL level understanding of evolution? How can you even call yourself a teacher if you refuse to teach known science because someone might not like it? For people that don't believe in evolution, fuck them. It's science. They still make those people that don't believe in medicine about medicine and medical topics. They still teach Jews about the Nazis even though they're offended. They still teach blacks in America about the slavery era.
What's the problem?
For example, you can get put in jail for not paying your child support on time. The reasoning is because obviously you have the money you're just being greedy with it and not wanting to pay it up. This is pretty much unchallenged because no judges have ever had to try to pay child support when they're unemployed and have to choose between going hungry or going to jail.
Another example is how judges can decide that it's legal to arrest people for filming police officers because neither they or their friends have ever been the target of police brutality or straight up theft by the police.
Judges are so fucking disconnected from the real society the majority of us live in. Just like how the people that write and make laws are so fucking disconnected from the real world as well.
A lot of pilots have heard about this and are scared. Do you know what's scarier than a laser dot bouncing around your cabin full of shiny reflective things that could possibly blind you if it gets in your eyes? A laser dot that you can't see. This is a major issue with green and blue lasers because they might be putting out a lot of non-visible energy. All it takes is an instant to blind you permanently. Some green lasers can do it.
Look at oldschool Russian communism. Anytime something went wrong, they'd tortue/interrogate/imprison anyone in order to extol the virtues of communism. In fact, they'd rather throw hundreds of people under the bus than admit that maybe they might possibly potentially be a problem. Sound familiar? Businesses are the same way.
The people in charge will do absolutely anything to remain in charge. This includes cherry picking the most complacent and defeated workers, and even creating the most complacent and defeated workers through a long series of soul crushing punishments. Like punishing you with menial labor if you finish your assigned duties before the end date. Put in 110% once? Congratulations, that 110% is now your 100%. You'll miss that raise for not giving even more than that when someone else makes tiny but consistent improvements over a few years, even though you work twice as fast, more efficiently, etc.
The end result is a crushed and defeated workforce. You can see this when people are too terrified to say hi to their supervisors or higher ups when they see them out in public. They instead avert their eyes in shame. Same thing in Russia, back in the day. You don't talk to a member of the Party because you might get interrogated.
As the law stands now, it would currently work. Especially if the file is encrypted and you can't see that.R00 is actually a part of some copyrighted work. As in, you can't extract some of the movie/song/etc and see what it is or see file names, etc.
However, either a new law would be passed to hold each site responsible for sharing the whole work (as if all sites that hosted a piece hosted the entire work), or old laws would be stretched to apply to this situation as well. Given the amount of things I would like to see debated in court and the things that are actually debated in court, we'd never get resolution on this. It would just be pay up or we'll absolutely crush you legally because we can afford better lawyers. It wouldn't make it to the supreme court.
A lot of classes don't teach for understanding. They may try it but if you memorize it enough you can fake understanding by simply reciting everything. Then you promptly forget these things. Perhaps if failing didn't mean we students would have to change majors or drop out with nothing to show for our $50k in debt things might change. Of course there will always be the people that do as little as possible and harass others for the answers..when I was a freshman in college I saw a lot of these people fail out on the first semester because there were several versions of the same test per class.
Pretty much the only reason they come up with programs like this is to get votes and perhaps more funding. This piece of evidence is a good indicator of it.
If we're so concerned with this, why don't we make everyone who has ever had a DUI get arrested for stepping into a bar? Or all thieves being arrested for being near possessions? Or murderers get arrested for picking up something pointy or blunt and heavy?
Point is, they're ALL more likely to do the same crimes again.
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Like they're doing with nuclear reactors?
GE really fucked up when they decided this was a good idea with the AP1000. China is about to have a ton of cheap and effective and safe nuclear reactors. All in all, they'll have put a small amount of money into it compared to GE and the US. GE will make some money, but will lose in the long run because everyone will want a Chinese reactor that's more efficient and cheaper than what it was copied from!
Until something goes wrong that makes Fukushima and Chernobyl look like a rainy day.
I agree with your assessment that war begins with a nuclear strike. You remember at the start of the Cold War, there were very few reasons for which we would nuke someone. Like if the Russians flooded through Berlin in an invasion with a shitload of tank companies (see The Day After movie). Or if we got nuked. That was about it.
I bet we'd use them for a lot more reasons now. Like how after 9/11, we were screaming to nuke everyone brown. Not just invade and kill them in a bloody/costly/ineffective war, but actually to nuke their respective countries. Tons of people wanted it. A lot of government people wanted it. It was actually considered for such a flagrant display of terrorism.
You know the reason that consumptionism took off is because corporations decided they could make money off it and marketed it, right? It wasn't like Jeb down the road one day decided it was okay for him to take out a home loan for a new radio, Model T, vacation to the nearest big city, dance lessons, etc.
Nope, what happened was about fifty years of good marketing on the part of corporations. Trust us, it's okay not to have money on hand for something you need. Everyone does it!
As the debt to income ratio increased, prices increased because now people were going to get their plasma TVs, vacation homes, and sports cars come hell or high water. Like a slower paced version of the college tuition scam..people are GOING to go and they're usually not paying with their money so what's the problem with taking more of it?
Alright, here's how it's going to work. Sony will threaten Slashdot with a lawsuit unless they cough up user IPs. If Slashdot doesn't, then they'll be aiding/abetting/participating in whatever nasty Sony is trying to say has been committed. Sony has a bigger legal budget than Slashdot, so without a technically competent judge (there aren't many), Slashdot loses. Unless they turn over the IP data.
Millions spent in legal defense, or giving up an IP address, which will they choose? As a car analogy, you can tell me all about that hitchhiker you picked up and dropped off last week or I can take your car/house/children/bank account/etc.
You have to understand the scope of the situation. Most likely they had radiation detectors set to the most sensitive level. As in, they'll detect you if you ate a banana three days ago because of the isotopes present in the banana.
They KNOW radioactive material has escaped, but the question is how dense will the contamination be? If you spread it equally all around the world there might be one or two deaths. Compare this to a boiler room explosion at a steam plant that can and has killed way more than this before, using a technology we developed hundreds of years ago.
I still think that it's rather funny that the country enforces a single marriage lifestyle. In reality, people should be allowed to do damn near whatever they want as long as it doesn't negatively affect the rights of others or the environment (too seriously).
To me, the 'single spouse' law would be like a 'single car' law, which pretty much wouldn't affect me at all but I could still laugh about and have debates about from time to time. On one hand, I'll never have two spouses/two cars. On the other hand, I feel that people SHOULD be able to have two spouses/two card.
It's one thing to slaughter your civilians using guns and light tanks, it's completely another to use artillery and bombers to destroy cities with heavy resistance movements.
The reason we're helping in Libya and not in the other countries is because the other countries aren't so blatantly anti-civilian. When you have to use your MILITARY to keep people under control, it's no longer a matter of people disagreeing with your government, it's a matter of you holding them hostage. Imagine if instead of getting mugged on the street, the mugger simply took office and demanded everyone's money or he'd order the military to napalm the city.
I don't think the lack of violence was caused by the lack of weaponry. I think the lack of violence was caused by the Japanese culture. They're all in this together, basically, instead of it being every man and woman for themselves.
Contrast to Katrina, where it was all about 'me' and there were various criminals running around. People still helped people, but things fell apart instead of coming together like the Japanese did. It wasn't 'oh they're out of food today guess we're out of luck' it was 'oh they're out of food today shoot their tires out and loot them who cares if people down the road haven't eaten in three weeks'
THIS. Ultracapacitors are a lot more awesome, are currently being produced, and have much higher performance than other capacitors of similar size. They're a bit expensive, but if you're making a fucking laser pistol you could afford to splurge.
I think this is true.
There's nothing stopping the Chinese or any other country with loose morals from simply copying things they see from the patent database into their own inventions and turning a serious profit in nations that don't necessarily agree with patents. For example, the recipe for Coke becomes known and all of a sudden no one overseas is buying Coke because Cokee is the same thing at half the price, with added lead to make you feel more satiated.
Wiretap, noun - an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information. No wiretapping was involved. Recording in public is 100% legal in all jurisdictions if there is no reasonable expectation to privacy. Police officers do not have an expectation to privacy whenever they pull someone over in public. How the hell is this even a case? Oh, wait, gotta protect their own. Gotcha.
It's no longer necessary to hit the bar every night for a month to maybe find someone you're compatible enough to sleep with. This will ruin some marriages because sex can be just a click away, and all it takes is someone feeling scorned or lonely because their significant other went to bed early one night to sew the seeds of infidelity. People are petty, petty creatures. The smallest slight can lead to a major affair down the road.
Bbbbbut printer cartridges have a set life span for your own good! Else the ink coagulates and you have to buy a new printer cartridge!
Truth.
By breaking their TOS, you open yourself up to possible civil action. Not that they would sue you for giving out your password, sure, but it's the principal of the thing.
Dell buys bargain bin products and slaps the Dell name on them, so you know who to avoid. Things like monitors and mice and keyboards aren't too bad since most of them are already made as cheaply as possible and it turns out they can last a while, but things like PCs with 'all in one' sound/video/lan/etc chipsets being sold in Dell machines as performance machines is what I'm talking about. They'll look you in the eye and tell you that Intel onboard graphics is what today's gamers use.
They do this because there's not places FOR that kind of thing. If there were even a mediocre coffee shop open all night with overpriced coffee style drinks and overpriced snacks I would totally go there for late night cram sessions providing they had plug in and free wifi. But there isn't. You can go to a Waffle House or similar 24/7 restaurant, but they typically don't have plugs and keep their restaurants at a balmy 45F.
That's what doesn't make sense with all the overseas contracting of things. These companies, if they took a little time to read up on it, would find that EVERYTHING that gets sent to Chinese factories ends up competing against their own products. Same or very similar designs for half the price. But wait, there's more. They'll often end up paying like $5 for a component that costs $4.98 and is vastly inferior to the $5 one the paid for, leading to horrible product quality. And if that wasn't enough, they'll end up having their designs improved upon and either sold back to them or sold to other consumers for a lower price than the original design they sent over.
..when I can't do the job I was hired to do, I'm either trained in how to do it or replaced by someone that can do it. If I were a biology teacher and couldn't teach biology, I should be trained in biology or replaced by someone that can teach biology. So you're telling me that these people don't even have a HIGH SCHOOL level understanding of evolution? How can you even call yourself a teacher if you refuse to teach known science because someone might not like it? For people that don't believe in evolution, fuck them. It's science. They still make those people that don't believe in medicine about medicine and medical topics. They still teach Jews about the Nazis even though they're offended. They still teach blacks in America about the slavery era. What's the problem?
This is typical of judicial behavior.
For example, you can get put in jail for not paying your child support on time. The reasoning is because obviously you have the money you're just being greedy with it and not wanting to pay it up. This is pretty much unchallenged because no judges have ever had to try to pay child support when they're unemployed and have to choose between going hungry or going to jail.
Another example is how judges can decide that it's legal to arrest people for filming police officers because neither they or their friends have ever been the target of police brutality or straight up theft by the police.
Judges are so fucking disconnected from the real society the majority of us live in. Just like how the people that write and make laws are so fucking disconnected from the real world as well.
Here you go.
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1999_h/99-02-11daly.htm
A lot of pilots have heard about this and are scared. Do you know what's scarier than a laser dot bouncing around your cabin full of shiny reflective things that could possibly blind you if it gets in your eyes? A laser dot that you can't see. This is a major issue with green and blue lasers because they might be putting out a lot of non-visible energy. All it takes is an instant to blind you permanently. Some green lasers can do it.
Look at oldschool Russian communism. Anytime something went wrong, they'd tortue/interrogate/imprison anyone in order to extol the virtues of communism. In fact, they'd rather throw hundreds of people under the bus than admit that maybe they might possibly potentially be a problem. Sound familiar? Businesses are the same way.
The people in charge will do absolutely anything to remain in charge. This includes cherry picking the most complacent and defeated workers, and even creating the most complacent and defeated workers through a long series of soul crushing punishments. Like punishing you with menial labor if you finish your assigned duties before the end date. Put in 110% once? Congratulations, that 110% is now your 100%. You'll miss that raise for not giving even more than that when someone else makes tiny but consistent improvements over a few years, even though you work twice as fast, more efficiently, etc.
The end result is a crushed and defeated workforce. You can see this when people are too terrified to say hi to their supervisors or higher ups when they see them out in public. They instead avert their eyes in shame. Same thing in Russia, back in the day. You don't talk to a member of the Party because you might get interrogated.
As the law stands now, it would currently work. Especially if the file is encrypted and you can't see that .R00 is actually a part of some copyrighted work. As in, you can't extract some of the movie/song/etc and see what it is or see file names, etc.
However, either a new law would be passed to hold each site responsible for sharing the whole work (as if all sites that hosted a piece hosted the entire work), or old laws would be stretched to apply to this situation as well. Given the amount of things I would like to see debated in court and the things that are actually debated in court, we'd never get resolution on this. It would just be pay up or we'll absolutely crush you legally because we can afford better lawyers. It wouldn't make it to the supreme court.
Corruption is a serious issue.
A lot of classes don't teach for understanding. They may try it but if you memorize it enough you can fake understanding by simply reciting everything. Then you promptly forget these things. Perhaps if failing didn't mean we students would have to change majors or drop out with nothing to show for our $50k in debt things might change. Of course there will always be the people that do as little as possible and harass others for the answers..when I was a freshman in college I saw a lot of these people fail out on the first semester because there were several versions of the same test per class.
Pretty much the only reason they come up with programs like this is to get votes and perhaps more funding. This piece of evidence is a good indicator of it.
If we're so concerned with this, why don't we make everyone who has ever had a DUI get arrested for stepping into a bar? Or all thieves being arrested for being near possessions? Or murderers get arrested for picking up something pointy or blunt and heavy?
Point is, they're ALL more likely to do the same crimes again.