As you mention, the surrounding silt is at least mildly radioactive and some leaks are occuring into the aquifer. This doesn't sound like it can wait.
Building a caisson isn't difficult. People have been doing it for hundred's of years. The issue is just how hot the silt is. I guess that most of it is in the form of low-level waste which shouldn't be worse than some of the other cleanups.
Even if there is no pit, the standard Teller-Ulam design contains a cylinder of HEU or Pu-239 in the middle of the lithium-deutride fusion stag which acts as another 'heater' ptoducing neutrons and photons after compression by the fission trigger. As you mentioned, there is probably an HEU tamper as well (later designs used U-238).
In any case, the "Spark-plug" is definitely of weapons grade material and should be removed.
If you drink enough Hefe or Weiss (wheat beer for the non-Germans) you can and do get a hangover.
One important difference is that even after the relaxation of the beer purity laws (Reinheitsgebote), most people prefer the original style with no additives. Without the additives (or with whatever comes naturally), beer is a lot less likely to give you a hangover,
However, as with any alcohol consumption, rehydration is advisable before sleeping.
What is going on down there NOW is a good example of "...only outlaws will have guns", unfortunately...
By most reports of the Beslan seige, the shooting started when after the premature detonation, relatives armed illegally with Kalashnikovs started.
Good points. However, you forget the art of report writing at work. I don't get to code much these days at work, but I have to write a lot of reports.
With the advent of computers, wordprocessing and email, if anything, work related reporting has increased. Essentially, management laziness means that you state the problem, the conclusion (recommendations) and then the arguments.
Interestingly, I saw a news program calles "No comment", the idea being that it presented footage directly without editorializing or analysis. However, it is still 'edited', the cameraman selects what to photograph, and simply with the zoom lens, it is possible to select between showing a few noisy demonstrators in isolation or to show them as a threatening mob. The program editor selects what footage to use and what to ignore.
The same with a newspaper and it is even more intersting there as it is possible to suggest linkages by the use of layout. However the bias of newspapers (and many TV channels) is fairly obvious and you can select what you want. The problem is when there is no choice.
Would anyone really feel that handing their vote to an organisation that expresses a bias possibly against their choice is reasonable?
All media is biased to a lesser or greater extent, it is impossible to edit without showing bias. We buy papers that carry a viewpoint that is compatible with ours whether we agree with the viewpoint or not. However, we have a choice in what media we watch. This isn't the Soviet Union.
When you don't have choice, for example, in the way that vote is taken and passed, then that is something to worry about. Nobody forces you to buy the NYT or to watch Fox.
A long time ago, I had some dealings with enterprise-level backup systems. The system backed up to exchangeable volumes such as tapes or to special files. It could handle evrything from individual files throgh to whole volumes. The same program could also handle disk duplication (and optionally resizing or cleaning). With such overloaded functionality, it was a monster.
The worst part though was if you took a backup from one system with access control lists to another. Normalising the identifiers was *hard*. If you were always restoring on the same system (or something with the same rights identifiers), you had a perfect backup (except when backing up a file open for write).
Many years ago, I was writing backup software for tapes. Tapes are prone to bad spots but apart from the ECC in hardware, we would record backups in groups of blocks with each group protected by an XOR of the preceding data blocks. Bad spots on tape may be big enough to defeat ECC, but single block recovery was possible using the XOR block. As long as only one error occurred per redundancy group, it could be recovered.
Is there anything public domain that will do this? I tried Google and found nothing.
I read the MIT report, the Xenon problem was an important issue and ment that it was very difficult to 'relight' the reactor. When the raction restarted, it was too quick.
Since 9/11, it appears that you can get money for almost anything if you can link it with anti-terrorism. Expect soon evaluations of parapsychological methods for the use in evaluating future terrorist events!
Just because you can get funding doesn't mean that your research is legitimate!
I have been using a large and expensive test management program that is delivered usiing Active-X and delivered through an IE interface (it won't work with the Active-X plugin for Moz). It is crap.
The enterprise where I'm currently working is a major bank. The server sits in NY, but the clients can be anywhere from Europe to Asia. Regrettably, the product doesn't understand timezones (even though it is in its 8th version) which makes collaberation difficult. When the server is down, the app is down, worldwide.
Then there is network time. Ok, maybe this ap is more centralised than an office program, but record updates over the net are tedious, especially when they are made one at a time.
I don't know if MS will make these mistakes, but it wouldn't suprise me.
I did adopt later versions of Office through to 2000 fairly aggressively. However as of XP, I gace up the upgrade. 2000 was quite stable for large documents and there were few things that XP offered me. It still is what you see isn't what you get for complex layouts, wtf am I upgrading for (the Microsoft benevolent fund?)
XML has its problems, the main one being the characterset representation which makes it so verbose. There is a variant called WBXML, which was designed for WAP based mobile phones (i.e., limited bandwidth). With this form you can considerably reduce the size of the XML and also ease the parsing process.
Interesting and I have witnessed the 'shimmer' too. Gravity doesn't travel in waves though, gravity waves happen when two extremely massive objects (black holes) rotate around each other, for example. The combined effect of the two gravitational fields should genereate the waves.
You did know that the PHONE object was easily disabled from outside your machine? Didn't you? You didn't even have to enable the thing for anyone if you didn't want to.
In the banking industry, in particular, the City, you are sent home on three months paid time, in which you may not work for anyone (it is paid). This gets over the non-compete issue. The time is usually referred to as Gardening leave.
This is an old mantra of engineeringt. In the end it comes down to a manager saying we have no budget to do it right but we must deliver ontime and within a budget. This really doesn't work!!!
In US terms it is as though the members of the presidential electoral college did not vote as directed by the electorate in their state. Council members are supposed to be on a tight leash, more so than the MEPs so it is interesting to see how they bypassed their own national policy.
Munich is the home of the EPO (also a very important MS Centre) as well as one or two cabals of IP lawyers. Of course, the Bundestag has embraced an open-source policy and the city of Munich is even trying to get open source solutions onto the desktop. An interesting dichotomy.
The federal government is confused. There are big German software company's too (SAP) with IP portfolios and they have respectable lobby groups. The EPO itself certainly seems to want software patents. It is difficult to go around such interst groups as individuals or as loose groups such us the FSF (Europe) and the FFII. It is possible though.
Note that the council are nationally appointed. The MEPs are directly elected. Guess who is more likely to listen to the people. Under the council are the mechanisms of the EU and the Eurocrats. Theoretically this should also come under the MEPs, but most of the control comes from the council. Again, guess where their loyalties lie.
Actually software is patentable, but only if it is part of a physical invention. A VHDL desciption may not be patentable, but the device created with it can be. A circuit diagram in itself can't be patented either, it is just the description of something that can be.
Actually your VHDL code may be copyrighted just as the circuit diagram can be. The problem is that when you copyright the design, it can't be used as the basis of a patent because it should be free of all encumberances after the protection period has expired.
Income tax was developed by the government of Sir Robert Peel in the UK as a temporary measure to fund the napoleonic wars at a rate of 2.5%. In theory the government facilitates the business environment where I make my profit so they get their share. If you want the alternative, almost zero government and no tax, go to present day Iraq.
However inequitable it may seem, income tax was fairer than most other taxation methods which were largely based on your assets on a particular day. Tax assesment was horrendous as it was very subjective.
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Building a caisson isn't difficult. People have been doing it for hundred's of years. The issue is just how hot the silt is. I guess that most of it is in the form of low-level waste which shouldn't be worse than some of the other cleanups.
In any case, the "Spark-plug" is definitely of weapons grade material and should be removed.
One important difference is that even after the relaxation of the beer purity laws (Reinheitsgebote), most people prefer the original style with no additives. Without the additives (or with whatever comes naturally), beer is a lot less likely to give you a hangover,
However, as with any alcohol consumption, rehydration is advisable before sleeping.
What is going on down there NOW is a good example of "...only outlaws will have guns", unfortunately... By most reports of the Beslan seige, the shooting started when after the premature detonation, relatives armed illegally with Kalashnikovs started.
Good points. However, you forget the art of report writing at work. I don't get to code much these days at work, but I have to write a lot of reports. With the advent of computers, wordprocessing and email, if anything, work related reporting has increased. Essentially, management laziness means that you state the problem, the conclusion (recommendations) and then the arguments.
The same with a newspaper and it is even more intersting there as it is possible to suggest linkages by the use of layout. However the bias of newspapers (and many TV channels) is fairly obvious and you can select what you want. The problem is when there is no choice.
Would anyone really feel that handing their vote to an organisation that expresses a bias possibly against their choice is reasonable?
When you don't have choice, for example, in the way that vote is taken and passed, then that is something to worry about. Nobody forces you to buy the NYT or to watch Fox.
The worst part though was if you took a backup from one system with access control lists to another. Normalising the identifiers was *hard*. If you were always restoring on the same system (or something with the same rights identifiers), you had a perfect backup (except when backing up a file open for write).
Is there anything public domain that will do this? I tried Google and found nothing.
Unless you want to pay money, you are stuck reading negative gifs (sucks when you get to the photographs), but this is pretty good.
I read the MIT report, the Xenon problem was an important issue and ment that it was very difficult to 'relight' the reactor. When the raction restarted, it was too quick.
Just because you can get funding doesn't mean that your research is legitimate!
The enterprise where I'm currently working is a major bank. The server sits in NY, but the clients can be anywhere from Europe to Asia. Regrettably, the product doesn't understand timezones (even though it is in its 8th version) which makes collaberation difficult. When the server is down, the app is down, worldwide.
Then there is network time. Ok, maybe this ap is more centralised than an office program, but record updates over the net are tedious, especially when they are made one at a time.
I don't know if MS will make these mistakes, but it wouldn't suprise me.
I did adopt later versions of Office through to 2000 fairly aggressively. However as of XP, I gace up the upgrade. 2000 was quite stable for large documents and there were few things that XP offered me. It still is what you see isn't what you get for complex layouts, wtf am I upgrading for (the Microsoft benevolent fund?)
XML has its problems, the main one being the characterset representation which makes it so verbose. There is a variant called WBXML, which was designed for WAP based mobile phones (i.e., limited bandwidth). With this form you can considerably reduce the size of the XML and also ease the parsing process.
Interesting and I have witnessed the 'shimmer' too. Gravity doesn't travel in waves though, gravity waves happen when two extremely massive objects (black holes) rotate around each other, for example. The combined effect of the two gravitational fields should genereate the waves.
You did know that the PHONE object was easily disabled from outside your machine? Didn't you? You didn't even have to enable the thing for anyone if you didn't want to.
In the banking industry, in particular, the City, you are sent home on three months paid time, in which you may not work for anyone (it is paid). This gets over the non-compete issue. The time is usually referred to as Gardening leave.
This is an old mantra of engineeringt. In the end it comes down to a manager saying we have no budget to do it right but we must deliver ontime and within a budget. This really doesn't work!!!
In US terms it is as though the members of the presidential electoral college did not vote as directed by the electorate in their state. Council members are supposed to be on a tight leash, more so than the MEPs so it is interesting to see how they bypassed their own national policy.
The federal government is confused. There are big German software company's too (SAP) with IP portfolios and they have respectable lobby groups. The EPO itself certainly seems to want software patents. It is difficult to go around such interst groups as individuals or as loose groups such us the FSF (Europe) and the FFII. It is possible though.
Note that the council are nationally appointed. The MEPs are directly elected. Guess who is more likely to listen to the people. Under the council are the mechanisms of the EU and the Eurocrats. Theoretically this should also come under the MEPs, but most of the control comes from the council. Again, guess where their loyalties lie.
Actually your VHDL code may be copyrighted just as the circuit diagram can be. The problem is that when you copyright the design, it can't be used as the basis of a patent because it should be free of all encumberances after the protection period has expired.
However inequitable it may seem, income tax was fairer than most other taxation methods which were largely based on your assets on a particular day. Tax assesment was horrendous as it was very subjective.