...as it stands right now. See the Price-Anderson Act for more details. If nuclear power plants had to insure themselves in the case of accidents, etc., nuclear power would be even less viable than it is today. The point of Price-Anderson was to make it possible for private companies to get into the market to make nuclear energy viable. In almost 50 years the nuclear energy industry has failed to do that and the current energy bills in congress are looking to extend the Act permanently.
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The Democrats seem to have a devil-may-care attitude when it comes to this sort of thing. My friends and I were applying to be delegates to our state DFL convention and we asked if it would be a problem if I wasn't registered as a Democrat and was actually more of a Libertarian-leaning Green, and they had no problem with it. 'The more the merrier.'
From what I hear about how the GOP runs this sort of thing, I would've been asked to sign a loyalty oath to the party/President Bush before I stepped foot into the local caucus, let along go to state...
I think you mean 'kanji' which are the Chinese characters used in Japanese to represent various words/meanings. Kenji is Japanese boy's name, and if that's what you're into, be my guest, I'm not here to judge.
From what little I understand of string theory, it's the other way around: the math works out perfectly, but there's no testable hypotheses, thus it isn't going to displace current theories among the majority of physicists until some such test can be devised.
I understand you're trolling, but that's a funny thing you've got going on there, being able to reach a constant speed from a dead stop without accelerating.
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This reminds me of an anime I've been watching recently. Normally I'm not too big on anime, but my brother was nagging me to check out this new show called 'Planetes' that's currently being fansubbed, so I did, and was pleasantly surprised. It's set in the near future and revolves around a crew of debris collectors who live and work in orbit around Earth. The idea being that in the future, space industry and space resources are so important, and the spaceships needed so prevalent that any small ammount of debris has a very high probability of strking into one of the many vessels in orbit around Earth and cause immense damage. Episode #3 centers around a space casket sent off ~50 years ago that couldn't escape Earth's gravity and had returned.
My favorite part about sci-fi is when characters are presented in a semi-fantastic/futuristic world where it's just taken for granted that their universe is as such, without making a big deal about it. The focal point has thus far been on the characters, while the world they live in has been mostly taken for granted, so the character development has been quite nice. In addition to that, I like how the series has thus far avoided all of the horrible anime cliches I've become so desensitized to.
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HEY! Don't push your modernist science bullshit on me, PATRIARCH. My goddess awakening mentor told me about you so-called intellectuals. Using 'symbols' and 'information' is just another form of OPPRESSION.
And rereading my post made me sound like an ass, sorry for that, I had just got out of class and was kinda pissed at my first physics test grade. Again, sorry:P
...to any normal person, but my relationship was my brother has only went UP since we've started IMing each other. I'm in college now (still living at home) and since we're not both going to the same high school we don't know some of the same people, or hang out as much as we used to. I've got my computer in my room and he's constantly on the computer in the living room and though a lot of time it's just idle chit chat, or passing links or questions about when dinner is, etc.; it's given us a link that we didn't have for a while. I'd be at school all day and return dead tired and plop down in front of the computer, at least now we'll chat instead of before we would IM and I could go weeks without having any sort of conversation with him.
IMs with him will actually end up provoking real life conversations, and we get to find out we have a lot more in common than we had previously thought.
When I judge a post based on proper spelling and punctuation vs. the message you are trying to get across, your post loses every time.
When I see a post citicising another for spelling (and incorrectly for grammar) then I see they have little contribution other than to bait the parent. Certainly nothing valuable, on topic or intelligent.
When I see a post piggy-backing on another one by copying the format and changing around certain words and I see they have fucked up trying to close the italics tag, umm, fuck you:D?
Could you expand? I've only just finished Calc 3 @ $local_university and we've never brought up any zeroes, ones, or infinities when talking about straight-up division by zero..?
I've always wondered how big an LOC (library of congress) unit is. I know the joke is always kicked around here on/., but I've never seen anyone attempt to define it as X number of bits or bytes. Anyone know of any attempt/estimation to represent the ammount of info in the LOC in terms of bits and bytes?
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Troll? Fucking bullshit! This is at least an interesting point to be made, even if its leanings are very anti-microsoft, it's certainly not _out_ of the question. Because we all know what great people run Microsoft and the ethical decisions they continually strive to make? I wish I wish I wish I hadn't ran out of mod points just yesterday.
(Unless this was marked troll because he copy and pasted it from somewhere else.. in which case though I imagine someone would've posted as such below to inform us.)
Use compression formats that are easy to fix if a few bits go bad (e.g. no spanning ZIP archives which are useless if the last disk goes missing).
Such as? I've been using spanning RAR archives for collections of files that require something like 20 CDs to fill, and all the files are a little under 200MiB, so if I were to archive them all so no file spans a CD It'd probably take (guessing here) maybe 25-30 CDs instead. So what would your recommendation be?
As an USian who feels the same way as yourself, I can say that it's still a fun thing to bat around. It's like when people make racist jokes and it's funny because you know they're not racist? But that's not quite it..
It's just an old stand-by, and you just get it pounded into you that "americans hate the French" that it becomes so cliche and boring that it comes full circle and the cliche becomes humorous itself. Bashing the French is so mundance and pedestrian, if a friend can come up with a clever joke involving the French we'll laugh at it, not becuase we hate the French or like to give them a good reaming, but because *wink*wink* *nod*nod* *nudge*nudge* we hate the French like good, hard-working proud americans should.
I believe you're mentioning Intel's forthcoming Prescott, which should be released in 2004? Or at least in the semi-near future, where as the New 'Scientist' article is talking about an architecture due to launch five years from now. Prescott is the one I believe that has the above mentioned qualities.
Almost every "indie" film shown in the US has gone through a distribtor associated with the MPAA, even if it's not a big name it'll be a subsidary of a larger firm who is a memeber of the MPAA. Sony Screen gems, etc. I've probably seen one "indie" film that wasn't distributed by an MPAA member in the past few months, and it certainly isn't from lack of trying. I go to plenty of independent movies because I enjoy a movie that doesn't talk down to you and makes you think, but I don't hold any notion that I'm not contributing the MPAA's reign of terror. Simply put, it's very hard to get wide distribution (even at art house venues) in the US without going through one of the MPAA members.
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...as it stands right now. See the Price-Anderson Act for more details. If nuclear power plants had to insure themselves in the case of accidents, etc., nuclear power would be even less viable than it is today. The point of Price-Anderson was to make it possible for private companies to get into the market to make nuclear energy viable. In almost 50 years the nuclear energy industry has failed to do that and the current energy bills in congress are looking to extend the Act permanently.
The Democrats seem to have a devil-may-care attitude when it comes to this sort of thing. My friends and I were applying to be delegates to our state DFL convention and we asked if it would be a problem if I wasn't registered as a Democrat and was actually more of a Libertarian-leaning Green, and they had no problem with it. 'The more the merrier.'
From what I hear about how the GOP runs this sort of thing, I would've been asked to sign a loyalty oath to the party/President Bush before I stepped foot into the local caucus, let along go to state...
I think you mean 'kanji' which are the Chinese characters used in Japanese to represent various words/meanings. Kenji is Japanese boy's name, and if that's what you're into, be my guest, I'm not here to judge.
From what little I understand of string theory, it's the other way around: the math works out perfectly, but there's no testable hypotheses, thus it isn't going to displace current theories among the majority of physicists until some such test can be devised.
He said "DMCA like law" not "DMCA", and as I recall a number of draconian DMCA-like software laws have been passing throughout the EU, non?
I understand you're trolling, but that's a funny thing you've got going on there, being able to reach a constant speed from a dead stop without accelerating.
This reminds me of an anime I've been watching recently. Normally I'm not too big on anime, but my brother was nagging me to check out this new show called 'Planetes' that's currently being fansubbed, so I did, and was pleasantly surprised. It's set in the near future and revolves around a crew of debris collectors who live and work in orbit around Earth. The idea being that in the future, space industry and space resources are so important, and the spaceships needed so prevalent that any small ammount of debris has a very high probability of strking into one of the many vessels in orbit around Earth and cause immense damage. Episode #3 centers around a space casket sent off ~50 years ago that couldn't escape Earth's gravity and had returned.
If you're interested, ed2k links here (if you sing up for an account), bittorrent links here (no signup, probably faster). I'd recommend these guys as far as fansubs go.
My favorite part about sci-fi is when characters are presented in a semi-fantastic/futuristic world where it's just taken for granted that their universe is as such, without making a big deal about it. The focal point has thus far been on the characters, while the world they live in has been mostly taken for granted, so the character development has been quite nice. In addition to that, I like how the series has thus far avoided all of the horrible anime cliches I've become so desensitized to.
A quick googling also turns up Metropolis as Hitler's fav (knew that one), but also Gone with the Wind and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (both news to me.) I wonder, not too much, what his favorite film really was...
HEY! Don't push your modernist science bullshit on me, PATRIARCH. My goddess awakening mentor told me about you so-called intellectuals. Using 'symbols' and 'information' is just another form of OPPRESSION.
Personally I'd try sphincter@optinbig.com, considering his line of work...
I like it when people get shut down by someone with UID seven times larger than the other guy. Good job :)
And rereading my post made me sound like an ass, sorry for that, I had just got out of class and was kinda pissed at my first physics test grade. Again, sorry :P
If you'll notice that text is in italics, meaning it was not the addition of an editor, which would have been in plain text. HTH
...to any normal person, but my relationship was my brother has only went UP since we've started IMing each other. I'm in college now (still living at home) and since we're not both going to the same high school we don't know some of the same people, or hang out as much as we used to. I've got my computer in my room and he's constantly on the computer in the living room and though a lot of time it's just idle chit chat, or passing links or questions about when dinner is, etc.; it's given us a link that we didn't have for a while. I'd be at school all day and return dead tired and plop down in front of the computer, at least now we'll chat instead of before we would IM and I could go weeks without having any sort of conversation with him.
IMs with him will actually end up provoking real life conversations, and we get to find out we have a lot more in common than we had previously thought.
When I judge a post based on proper spelling and punctuation vs. the message you are trying to get across, your post loses every time. When I see a post citicising another for spelling (and incorrectly for grammar) then I see they have little contribution other than to bait the parent. Certainly nothing valuable, on topic or intelligent.
When I see a post piggy-backing on another one by copying the format and changing around certain words and I see they have fucked up trying to close the italics tag, umm, fuck you :D?
Could you expand? I've only just finished Calc 3 @ $local_university and we've never brought up any zeroes, ones, or infinities when talking about straight-up division by zero..?
I've always wondered how big an LOC (library of congress) unit is. I know the joke is always kicked around here on /., but I've never seen anyone attempt to define it as X number of bits or bytes. Anyone know of any attempt/estimation to represent the ammount of info in the LOC in terms of bits and bytes?
Troll? Fucking bullshit! This is at least an interesting point to be made, even if its leanings are very anti-microsoft, it's certainly not _out_ of the question. Because we all know what great people run Microsoft and the ethical decisions they continually strive to make? I wish I wish I wish I hadn't ran out of mod points just yesterday.
(Unless this was marked troll because he copy and pasted it from somewhere else.. in which case though I imagine someone would've posted as such below to inform us.)
But regardless, how exactly is he heating the water to 80C?
Use compression formats that are easy to fix if a few bits go bad (e.g. no spanning ZIP archives which are useless if the last disk goes missing).
Such as? I've been using spanning RAR archives for collections of files that require something like 20 CDs to fill, and all the files are a little under 200MiB, so if I were to archive them all so no file spans a CD It'd probably take (guessing here) maybe 25-30 CDs instead. So what would your recommendation be?
So what are you hoping for, about 37 seconds of battery life?
It's just an old stand-by, and you just get it pounded into you that "americans hate the French" that it becomes so cliche and boring that it comes full circle and the cliche becomes humorous itself. Bashing the French is so mundance and pedestrian, if a friend can come up with a clever joke involving the French we'll laugh at it, not becuase we hate the French or like to give them a good reaming, but because *wink*wink* *nod*nod* *nudge*nudge* we hate the French like good, hard-working proud americans should.
I believe you're mentioning Intel's forthcoming Prescott, which should be released in 2004? Or at least in the semi-near future, where as the New 'Scientist' article is talking about an architecture due to launch five years from now. Prescott is the one I believe that has the above mentioned qualities.
Almost every "indie" film shown in the US has gone through a distribtor associated with the MPAA, even if it's not a big name it'll be a subsidary of a larger firm who is a memeber of the MPAA. Sony Screen gems, etc. I've probably seen one "indie" film that wasn't distributed by an MPAA member in the past few months, and it certainly isn't from lack of trying. I go to plenty of independent movies because I enjoy a movie that doesn't talk down to you and makes you think, but I don't hold any notion that I'm not contributing the MPAA's reign of terror. Simply put, it's very hard to get wide distribution (even at art house venues) in the US without going through one of the MPAA members.