I'd take issue with your characterization of styrofoam. We don't want inert substances in landfills, we want biodegradable ones. Also the use of inert plastics does cause problems, the pacific garbage patch being one example.
Nah, that comparison does not stand. There was not an influential, well funded anti Iraq war lobby. There is an influential, well funded environmental lobby. I do agree with you that the existing nuclear industry is ossified and resistent to change, but it goes beyond that. There is strident political, ideological resistence to nuclear on the left, and willful laziness with nuclear on the right.
Not just non-techies. I'm about as tech-a-licious as they come and I love the tablet form factor, and especially one with a cellular data connection. For casual browsing from anywhere you just can't beat it.
I guess we'll see when the bulb gets delivered. Only time will tell. And its not kickstarter that makes any claims, its the individual projects. I have gotten useful products from each project I've contributed to so far.
In a free market companies are free to do whatever they want, so they manipulate. I think what you desire is a well regulated market, or at least one where the power of the companies is balanced out by the power of employees, i.e. unionization.
I'm approaching my 20th year in the tech industry, so I've been around the block a few times. Tech workers are abused because we allow ourselves to be. Unfortunately that will probably not change for a generation or more, maybe never. We give employers the power to abuse us. The industry manipulates because it can, because we let them. They will not stop out of the goodness of their hearts. Maybe a bit more abuse will be necessary to wake us up. Maybe nothing will be enough. Who knows?
At an unemployment rate of 2.2% we could use the competition of H-1Bs. (I'm a software engineer myself, so I have a stake in this.) With that low of an unemployment rate we'll start getting unqualified people entering the field just to get jobs, much like what happened during the late 90's tech boom. Yes, the H-1B program can be abused, I've seen it myself many times. But these are actually the conditions where it works.
Here is a better article than the small blog post cited. Read the whole thing. The clincher for me was that when lead was removed from gasoline in different states at different times the reduction in violence in those areas tracked perfectly two decades later. Not only that, but the shape of the violence reduction data tracked well with the shape of the lead reduction data. (i.e. a fast phase out of lead resulted in a fast reduction of crime twenty years later.)
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Untrue. I've lost 20lb and my systolic BP went down by 15 points since eating lchf.
A low carbohydrate, high fat diet can also help reduce, or eliminate, symptoms of schizophrenia.
I'd take issue with your characterization of styrofoam. We don't want inert substances in landfills, we want biodegradable ones. Also the use of inert plastics does cause problems, the pacific garbage patch being one example.
Certainly. Anti nuclear protestors are the shock troops hired by fossil fuel interests to kill nuclear. :)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9784044/China-blazes-trail-for-clean-nuclear-power-from-thorium.html
Nah, that comparison does not stand. There was not an influential, well funded anti Iraq war lobby. There is an influential, well funded environmental lobby. I do agree with you that the existing nuclear industry is ossified and resistent to change, but it goes beyond that. There is strident political, ideological resistence to nuclear on the left, and willful laziness with nuclear on the right.
And environmentalists give the lobbyists political cover. And the environmental lobby itself has considerable power, if you hadn't noticed.
Oh, it'll come from outside the US. China is the best bet so far.
Citations, please. Your numbers for Chernobyl are not reflected in the U.N. report.
And all of those accidents combined have killed how many people? Compare that to the projected effects of climate change...
Until nuclear is no longer suppressed for political reasons energy generation will be dirty.
Environmentalists need to take their heads out of their asses.
Not just non-techies. I'm about as tech-a-licious as they come and I love the tablet form factor, and especially one with a cellular data connection. For casual browsing from anywhere you just can't beat it.
AFAIK the Chinese MSR test reactor is still going forward. No recent news to the contrary.
I guess we'll see when the bulb gets delivered. Only time will tell. And its not kickstarter that makes any claims, its the individual projects. I have gotten useful products from each project I've contributed to so far.
In that case the 12W Nano Light will blow the Philips light out of the water.
In a free market companies are free to do whatever they want, so they manipulate. I think what you desire is a well regulated market, or at least one where the power of the companies is balanced out by the power of employees, i.e. unionization.
So do you see any legitimate use for the H-1B program?
Methinks you consider any use of H-1B as abuse.
I'm approaching my 20th year in the tech industry, so I've been around the block a few times. Tech workers are abused because we allow ourselves to be. Unfortunately that will probably not change for a generation or more, maybe never. We give employers the power to abuse us. The industry manipulates because it can, because we let them. They will not stop out of the goodness of their hearts. Maybe a bit more abuse will be necessary to wake us up. Maybe nothing will be enough. Who knows?
That sounds reasonable.
At an unemployment rate of 2.2% we could use the competition of H-1Bs. (I'm a software engineer myself, so I have a stake in this.) With that low of an unemployment rate we'll start getting unqualified people entering the field just to get jobs, much like what happened during the late 90's tech boom. Yes, the H-1B program can be abused, I've seen it myself many times. But these are actually the conditions where it works.
Because the government defined what money is...
...the president's claim to kill political dissidents...
Citation please.
You can't prove a negative.
Anyway, you can argue all day that the waves aren't knocking your sand castle down, but after the tide comes in you look like a complete idiot. :)
Here is a better article than the small blog post cited. Read the whole thing. The clincher for me was that when lead was removed from gasoline in different states at different times the reduction in violence in those areas tracked perfectly two decades later. Not only that, but the shape of the violence reduction data tracked well with the shape of the lead reduction data. (i.e. a fast phase out of lead resulted in a fast reduction of crime twenty years later.)