If Google starts paying more attention to your favourite social bookmarking site, spammers will write automated tools (or exploit the existing API) to spam it with their crap and ruin it for you. Unless, of course, your social bookmarking site has a better idea for rooting out automated accounts than Blogger does...
Opera caches every document and lets you go back as far as you want without reloading. IE reloads every time the back button is hit. Each reload counts as one or more unique hits. This means Opera will always be undercounted in any stats analysis that goes only by hits.
Opera, as a rule, tells all server cache demands to get stuffed. This means you can instantaneously go back as far as you want without reloading (which is wonderful on, say, my bank's website because I can just wave myself back to the main page and drill down to a different account and not worry about the SSL Page Expired bullshit I'd get in Firefox; ditto for my university's course selection site). It also means that it will be horrendously undercounted on any server that forces IE to reload over and over again.
Living in parents basement: Check
Anti-social behaviour: Check
Radical beliefs: Check
Terrorist activities: Check
Hey! I may be a terrorist, but I am a white-hat terrorist! I only blow buildings up to publicize flaws in anti-bomb security. If I didn't perform this valuable public service, some unscrupulous black-hat terrorist might have blown it up. And black-hat terrorists are all unethical capitalist bastards. That must not come about!
Googling turns up this:
- Radioactive Elements in Coal and Fly Ash: Abundance, Forms, and Environmental Significance - Radioactive elements in coal and fly ash should not be sources of alarm. The vast majority of coal and the majority of fly ash are not significantly enriched in radioactive elements, or in associated radioactivity, compared to common soils or rocks. This observation provides a useful geologic perspective for addressing societal concerns regarding possible radiation and radon hazard.
- Coal Combustion:Nuclear Resource or Danger - Third, large quantities of uranium and thorium and other radioactive species in coal ash are not being treated as radioactive waste. These products emit low-level radiation, but because of regulatory differences, coal-fired power plants are allowed to release quantities of radioactive material that would provoke enormous public outcry if such amounts were released from nuclear facilities. Nuclear waste products from coal combustion are allowed to be dispersed throughout the biosphere in an unregulated manner. Collected nuclear wastes that accumulate on electric utility sites are not protected from weathering, thus exposing people to increasing quantities of radioactive isotopes through air and water movement and the food chain.
I've heard it elsewhere before. Googled for stats yesterday. Seems like 1982 is the most popular year.
It's physically impossible for a pebble-bed reactor to meltdown. It does not have cooling rods. It does not have heavy water.
Cleaner? Coal and gas give off Carbon oxides and other nasties. Yes this is a problem.
Coal also gives off quite a lot of radioactivity, and it's going straight into the atmosphere. In 1982, US coal power plants released 800 tons of radioactive uranium and 2000 tons of radioactive thorium burnt straight out of coal directly into the atmosphere. Nuclear power plants, as a rule, don't do that. We need to shut down every damn coal plant as soon as humanly possible.
Other coal nasties include sulphur dioxide, the thingie that reacts with water in clouds to drop a lovely rain of sulphuric acid on our heads. Yay!
Oil and coal are obviously bad. Natural gas releases a fair bit of carbon dioxide, and it will run out sooner rather than later if we keep building more plants. Hydroelectric power drowns whole ecosystems. A pretty giant lake where there was no pretty giant lake before is very environmentally unfriendly.
Look, I support solar and wind power. I would support a proposal to make rooftop solar power panels mandated by law for all buildings. Windfarms are a good idea, even if they seem to be evoking silly NIMBYism out of some people. But we need nuclear power in the triptych, at least until we get fusion figured out.
You can't produce a lot of megawatts with solar and wind in a single location without using up a ginormous amount of space. That space isn't magically appearing out of nowhere. Something is being displaced, be it a forest, a field, or some sort of human usage. Nuclear power is relatively compact by comparison. In many cases, the choice is between either compact or nothing.
Ideas can't be owned. At best one may be granted a temporary monopoly on such by one or more governments. If that's socialism, then all of this planet is socialist. Yay socialism.:)
Unfortunately, Javascript doesn't have the fine control over screen pixels you'd need to write a custom HTML renderer. Actuall, with SVG and canvas, it does, but MSIE doesn't support those at all. So, you can pull in an HTML page, but you can't push pixels at the screen.:P
Real evolutionists get their morals from their biology textbooks.
I take it that you do not consider Richard Dawkins an "evolutionist" then? I am sure he'll be glad. It's a rather crappy and misguided neologism.:P
"There is no inconsistency in favouring Darwinism as an academic scientist while opposing it as a human being; any more than there is inconsistency in explaining cancer as an academic doctor while fighting it as a practising one."
- Richard Dawkins | Rebelling against our selfish genes
You have to start with something. The initial cost is always high. It will be cheaper to expand later on, and multiplier effects will result in substantial increase in ridership as the system reaches farther.
Subsidized buses are used more. The more buses are used, the more can land use be intensified. The higher the density of land use, the higher the taxes and the more vibrant the community. Virtually any kind of public transit is a great investment.
I think you are confusing "irrational" with "practical". Of course, I say this with the full authority of a radfem and commie, both of which I sorta am.:P
Internet Explorer isn't distributed on its own. It's an integral part of the Windows Operating system. Saying that Microsoft gives out copies of Internet Explorer for free is like saying that Baskin Robbins gives out waffle cones for free -- you just have to buy two scoops of ice cream first.;)
True as your comment may be, I'd just like to note that this is about "eminent domain" being applied to patents. Steamboat Willie is restricted via copyright.
Please, I implore you. Never, ever use an apostrophe before a plural ending in English. Down with erroneous apostrophes! Up with revealing bikinis! Thank you.
Also, car accidents happen whether you walk across highways or not. Since walking across the highways is such a handy shortcut, we might as well keep doing that. Being hit by a car is just part of the natural cycle.
I paid for Opera 7 a few years ago. That gave me a free upgrade to Opera 8, but only on Windows. My Linux copy had to keep its ad-banner... until now. Yay.:)
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If Google starts paying more attention to your favourite social bookmarking site, spammers will write automated tools (or exploit the existing API) to spam it with their crap and ruin it for you. Unless, of course, your social bookmarking site has a better idea for rooting out automated accounts than Blogger does...
My stats. The thing is that I use my wiki to take notes, so I am always there myself, and I use Opera whether at home, at school, or at work.;)
Opera caches every document and lets you go back as far as you want without reloading. IE reloads every time the back button is hit. Each reload counts as one or more unique hits. This means Opera will always be undercounted in any stats analysis that goes only by hits.
Opera, as a rule, tells all server cache demands to get stuffed. This means you can instantaneously go back as far as you want without reloading (which is wonderful on, say, my bank's website because I can just wave myself back to the main page and drill down to a different account and not worry about the SSL Page Expired bullshit I'd get in Firefox; ditto for my university's course selection site). It also means that it will be horrendously undercounted on any server that forces IE to reload over and over again.
Living in parents basement: Check
::KA-BOOM::
Anti-social behaviour: Check
Radical beliefs: Check
Terrorist activities: Check
Hey! I may be a terrorist, but I am a white-hat terrorist! I only blow buildings up to publicize flaws in anti-bomb security. If I didn't perform this valuable public service, some unscrupulous black-hat terrorist might have blown it up. And black-hat terrorists are all unethical capitalist bastards. That must not come about!
Googling turns up this:
- Radioactive Elements in Coal and Fly Ash: Abundance, Forms, and Environmental Significance - Radioactive elements in coal and fly ash should not be sources of alarm. The vast majority of coal and the majority of fly ash are not significantly enriched in radioactive elements, or in associated radioactivity, compared to common soils or rocks. This observation provides a useful geologic perspective for addressing societal concerns regarding possible radiation and radon hazard.
- Coal Combustion:Nuclear Resource or Danger - Third, large quantities of uranium and thorium and other radioactive species in coal ash are not being treated as radioactive waste. These products emit low-level radiation, but because of regulatory differences, coal-fired power plants are allowed to release quantities of radioactive material that would provoke enormous public outcry if such amounts were released from nuclear facilities. Nuclear waste products from coal combustion are allowed to be dispersed throughout the biosphere in an unregulated manner. Collected nuclear wastes that accumulate on electric utility sites are not protected from weathering, thus exposing people to increasing quantities of radioactive isotopes through air and water movement and the food chain.
I've heard it elsewhere before. Googled for stats yesterday. Seems like 1982 is the most popular year.
A nuclear plants worst case scenario...
It's physically impossible for a pebble-bed reactor to meltdown. It does not have cooling rods. It does not have heavy water.
Cleaner? Coal and gas give off Carbon oxides and other nasties. Yes this is a problem.
Coal also gives off quite a lot of radioactivity, and it's going straight into the atmosphere. In 1982, US coal power plants released 800 tons of radioactive uranium and 2000 tons of radioactive thorium burnt straight out of coal directly into the atmosphere. Nuclear power plants, as a rule, don't do that. We need to shut down every damn coal plant as soon as humanly possible.
Other coal nasties include sulphur dioxide, the thingie that reacts with water in clouds to drop a lovely rain of sulphuric acid on our heads. Yay!
Oil and coal are obviously bad. Natural gas releases a fair bit of carbon dioxide, and it will run out sooner rather than later if we keep building more plants. Hydroelectric power drowns whole ecosystems. A pretty giant lake where there was no pretty giant lake before is very environmentally unfriendly.
Look, I support solar and wind power. I would support a proposal to make rooftop solar power panels mandated by law for all buildings. Windfarms are a good idea, even if they seem to be evoking silly NIMBYism out of some people. But we need nuclear power in the triptych, at least until we get fusion figured out.
You can't produce a lot of megawatts with solar and wind in a single location without using up a ginormous amount of space. That space isn't magically appearing out of nowhere. Something is being displaced, be it a forest, a field, or some sort of human usage. Nuclear power is relatively compact by comparison. In many cases, the choice is between either compact or nothing.
Ideas can't be owned. At best one may be granted a temporary monopoly on such by one or more governments. If that's socialism, then all of this planet is socialist. Yay socialism.:)
Whew. I was dreading you were going to say "Atlantis" or "Lemuria" or somesuch.:P
Pardon? Which continent did curiosity kill?
Unfortunately, Javascript doesn't have the fine control over screen pixels you'd need to write a custom HTML renderer. Actuall, with SVG and canvas, it does, but MSIE doesn't support those at all. So, you can pull in an HTML page, but you can't push pixels at the screen.:P
It cleans the fridge, table, oven, microwave, and floor... but not the kitchen sink.;)
Real evolutionists get their morals from their biology textbooks.
I take it that you do not consider Richard Dawkins an "evolutionist" then? I am sure he'll be glad. It's a rather crappy and misguided neologism.:P
"There is no inconsistency in favouring Darwinism as an academic scientist while opposing it as a human being; any more than there is inconsistency in explaining cancer as an academic doctor while fighting it as a practising one."
- Richard Dawkins | Rebelling against our selfish genes
You have to start with something. The initial cost is always high. It will be cheaper to expand later on, and multiplier effects will result in substantial increase in ridership as the system reaches farther.
Subsidized buses are used more. The more buses are used, the more can land use be intensified. The higher the density of land use, the higher the taxes and the more vibrant the community. Virtually any kind of public transit is a great investment.
I think you are confusing "irrational" with "practical". Of course, I say this with the full authority of a radfem and commie, both of which I sorta am.:P
Internet Explorer isn't distributed on its own. It's an integral part of the Windows Operating system. Saying that Microsoft gives out copies of Internet Explorer for free is like saying that Baskin Robbins gives out waffle cones for free -- you just have to buy two scoops of ice cream first.;)
True as your comment may be, I'd just like to note that this is about "eminent domain" being applied to patents. Steamboat Willie is restricted via copyright.
Does it have legislation for that plan yet?
Well, assuming that the increase in the movement of air molecules is causing an increase in the movement of air masses does not seem unreasonable.
Just like you should have the rights to download OS or applicaiton updates forever?
As a Debian user, I have to agree with this. I have the right to download OS and application updates forever. Easiest OS ever.:)
Define 'won'. Opera has more market share now than it did before Firefox existed.
More Bikini's[sic]
Please, I implore you. Never, ever use an apostrophe before a plural ending in English. Down with erroneous apostrophes! Up with revealing bikinis! Thank you.
Also, car accidents happen whether you walk across highways or not. Since walking across the highways is such a handy shortcut, we might as well keep doing that. Being hit by a car is just part of the natural cycle.
I paid for Opera 7 a few years ago. That gave me a free upgrade to Opera 8, but only on Windows. My Linux copy had to keep its ad-banner... until now. Yay.:)