Perhaps Amazon is not so profitable because it is a technology firm and is expected to invest in future innovations rather than save profits for large dividends to investors (compare dividend yields).
Perhaps investors understand that Amazon is in the process of taking over the industry and are willing to weather lower profits now to see significant gains in value later (compare P/E ratios).
Perhaps brick-and-mortar stores have higher barriers to market so they can charge more monopoly rents than online retailers.
There are many reasons some companies are currently profitable, none of those reasons necessarily mean the company will be profitable in the future, especially when face with disruptive technological trends.
I see, you made a mistake, but it was Slashdot's fault, not yours. Oh, but it actually was not a mistake in the first place . . . (why the fuck did you bring it up, then?)
I guess we know exactly the kind of person you are then . . . (and if you are running a nuclear plant, we are all fucked. ..)
For what it's worth, my response was actually intended to be a child of this post . . . not a generic response to the article.
So you made a mistake, just fucking admit it and end it there. Why post anything else? You want to argue about how I interpreted your fuck-up? You have enough karma to have a default 2 score, please learn to post right. When you make a mistake, learn to own up to it upfront to avoid further conflict. No wonder Slashdot is becoming a hell hole . . .
I did not read the rest of your post because you made a fucking mistake, and I am ending this thread here.
Your direct response to the article, itself, (not an anti-nuke comment to the article) on industry insiders coming out about specific details to an accident that could have been prevented is: "stop being afraid of nukes, people, it is safer than everything else . . . look at this blog post."
Do you post the same thing to discussions about preventable plane crashes or usually safe surgeries? "People, planes are safer than any other form of transportation. Why are you even discussing that the pilot may have been intoxicated?" You are so off kilter that I am surprised you found my post sarcastic at all.
You are like the mother-fuckers who protest against "fags" at soldier funerals in protest to the Iraq war. You do a complete disservice to whatever cause you thought you were supporting. Perhaps nuclear power would not have such a PR problem right now if people like you posted less. . . .
Hate to reply to my own post, but I realize that even with the level of extreme sarcasm I intended to include in my parent post, most./-ers will take it as sincere and will agree with it without much thought. . .
I wonder if this is how Colbert felt at the Bush correspondence dinner . . .
Irregardless to design, implementation, or governance. Look at the blog post. End of story. We don't need to do anything else or ask any questions.
If you are critical or skeptical about anything nuclear related, you are simply afraid. The technology itself is simply safe and no other factors will ever mitigate that. All designs, implementations, and governance structures are equally safe. Now STFU, and give your money to the industry.
This agreement was written by the global entertainment industry in order to advance their own interests at the expense of the freedoms that make a modern democracy possible. It was secured in the U.S. by the open bribery of the U.S. Congress and President. It has been foisted on the rest of the world through the hostile use of U.S. economic might, in illegal secret negotiations that violate the laws of almost every country involved.
This single agreement represents the undermining of thousands of years worth of social evolution, and those in public office who support it should be immediately dismissed, criminally charged, and incarcerated for their remaining years on this Earth.
Changelog:
elrous0 - original comment
Idou - revised to blame global entertainment and added some action items
They've confirmed there are no major breaches . ..
in the places that they have looked at so far (which was difficult because of all the moister i.e. "steam"). They also confirmed that there was no water where they had been claiming the water level was, so they just say "oh, the water level must just be a couple more meters down . .."
This, plus your comment, supports the notion that this is not a scientific endeavor that we are observing but a propaganda one . . . The most optimistic view that cannot be unproven at the moment becomes the assumed truth up until the point reality slams into it, and then they retreat to the next most optimistic view. This is all "Baghdad Bob," and those who are buying into it do so because they are either extremely naive or are part of the propaganda machine.
not so much a cause for alarm
You do realize that at 3M they sealed things for 7 and a half years before investigating (claiming no fuel had melted the whole time). In contrast, the Japanese government is already drilling holes in reactors less than a year later in desperation. Nothing to see here folks, no cause for alarm . . . RIGHT. . .
There are examples of people who have been very absusive to their bodies and yet lived long, healthy lives
(Ossy, anyone?). There are other people who seem to be cautious enough, yet deal with various health issues.
Having better information up front about one's own genetic risks allows for better decisions based on reality, not
"professional" opinions founded on years of "experience" of observing the outputs of a very
complicated black box by your doctor.
Bottom line, DNA is the source code of how our bodies work. Some may think it is pretty useless at this point,
but we will only truly understand its value once we understand it. Most of science works like this . . .
Japan is extremely efficient and wastes little. That makes contamination containment a lot more difficult. I doubt any comprehensive high level mapping of the interactive supply chains exist, but that is what will need to be created to really contain anything. Concrete is a nice dead-end, at least for however long the structure will last. However, how will they dispose of these structures without reintroducing radioactive dust into the atmosphere again?
I think the Fukushima accident will show that the NRC and all other similar regulators have grossly, grossly underestimated the amount of intricate planning and updating of plans is required to prepare for such accidents. Costs of maintaining such plans will be the enormous but insignificant to the costs of not having a viable plan when an accident does occurs.
When there are still questions regarding how much radioactive material is still being spewed out and contaminated debris is being incinerated (and reintroduced into the atmosphere) through-out the country, I would have to say that concrete is a safer place to have radioactive contamination. At least it is better than the lungs, kidneys, and other vital organs . . . which is much harder to measure and remains one of the great unknowns of this crisis.
Using an API with an established service and creating your own solution with open source are two very different things that are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Rather than open API vs Open Source, I think it would more be about using someone else's system vs creating your own. There will always be situations why picking one over the other will be advantageous. However, this has more to do with the goals of the project than one method being superior to the other.
A couple of schools next to my house have sent invoices for millions of dollars in "decontamination" fees (which usually consists of washing the radioactive contamination down the drain to the water treatment plant with high power hoses . . . with minimal results). Guess how much they have received so far? I think the schools would get paid before I would, and personally, I do not feel comfortable trying to compete for money that could help reduce the exposure to the kids in my neighborhood. Irregardless, the money is just not there and probably will not be fore decades, if that.
I see estimates [newsonjapan.com] of those damages around 60 billion
Even YOUR link says 250 Billion. Plus, that is back in June. Everything about this disaster gets bigger as time goes by and more reality slowly seeps out. Besides, I think a professor at the most prestigous university in Japan carries more weight than "some private think tank." Finally the 20km radius buy-up is complete BS. The contamination is way higher in many areas outside of that arbitrary circle around the plant. There are non-contiguous hot spots all over Kanto. But, by all means, keep up your claims of this all being "nuclear hysteria" on the victims' part. I am sure the industry is depending on your ilk to keep costs down by blaming the victims. After all my family and I have been through, go ahead and continue your hard work to minimize the situation to fuck us over some more. I am sure your Duke Energy investment is certainly worth it . ..
rather big asset to just toss
Funny, but I would expect most Japanese citizens at this point no longer look at those as big assets but as big ticking bombs. Fukushima Dai-ichi will inevitably cost astronomically more than its book value was at the time of the accident. But here we are talking all about Japan, while your precouis US nuke industry is facing significant hardship. How are you going to convince Japan to stay with nukes, when your own country's nuclear industry is floundering?
isn't currently running anything significant and engineering related
So you are saying we need . . . some one from the nuke industry, right? This is not an engineering failure report, this is a governance failure report. The engineers do what management tells them or they get walking. This is an investigation of management's decisions.
What relevant credentials?
Again, see the above. The engineering aspect of this accident is actually quite simple and what could be modeled by the engineers already has been (though, the accuracy of those models will take, at least, decades to confirm). The decisions by management, however, have just started to become scrutinized. This a governance issue, as the crisis had already reached the limits of engineering within days after the earthquake.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, technically it is only micro . . . until you use it to print a printer, which can print true nano.
We must arm sharks with lasers!
So that you can identify witty responses to stupid posts?
Zidisha allows you to invest directly and collect interest (at the rate you choose, which can be 0%).
Absolutely right. Her primary application is the browser and now she no longer has to worry about losing any files.
For my mom . . . who is in her 70s. Windows should not even be considered for such a demographic.
There are many reasons some companies are currently profitable, none of those reasons necessarily mean the company will be profitable in the future, especially when face with disruptive technological trends.
Sorry if you thought there would be something more substantial in the body of this post . . .
Amakudari. And it is a recipe for disaster in every industry that it occurs in. . .
. . . 2.5 million years ago (when there was no ice on the poles)
And no humans. . .
Agree, neither did you : )
I see, you made a mistake, but it was Slashdot's fault, not yours. Oh, but it actually was not a mistake in the first place . . . (why the fuck did you bring it up, then?)
.)
I guess we know exactly the kind of person you are then . . . (and if you are running a nuclear plant, we are all fucked. .
For what it's worth, my response was actually intended to be a child of this post . . . not a generic response to the article.
So you made a mistake, just fucking admit it and end it there. Why post anything else? You want to argue about how I interpreted your fuck-up? You have enough karma to have a default 2 score, please learn to post right. When you make a mistake, learn to own up to it upfront to avoid further conflict. No wonder Slashdot is becoming a hell hole . . .
I did not read the rest of your post because you made a fucking mistake, and I am ending this thread here.
Who needs a strawman with a post like yours?
Your direct response to the article, itself, (not an anti-nuke comment to the article) on industry insiders coming out about specific details to an accident that could have been prevented is: "stop being afraid of nukes, people, it is safer than everything else . . . look at this blog post."
Do you post the same thing to discussions about preventable plane crashes or usually safe surgeries? "People, planes are safer than any other form of transportation. Why are you even discussing that the pilot may have been intoxicated?" You are so off kilter that I am surprised you found my post sarcastic at all.
You are like the mother-fuckers who protest against "fags" at soldier funerals in protest to the Iraq war. You do a complete disservice to whatever cause you thought you were supporting. Perhaps nuclear power would not have such a PR problem right now if people like you posted less. . . .
Hate to reply to my own post, but I realize that even with the level of extreme sarcasm I intended to include in my parent post, most ./-ers will take it as sincere and will agree with it without much thought. . .
I wonder if this is how Colbert felt at the Bush correspondence dinner . . .
Irregardless to design, implementation, or governance. Look at the blog post. End of story. We don't need to do anything else or ask any questions.
If you are critical or skeptical about anything nuclear related, you are simply afraid. The technology itself is simply safe and no other factors will ever mitigate that. All designs, implementations, and governance structures are equally safe. Now STFU, and give your money to the industry.
Great, so does this mean if we can make a 44% efficient solar panel, we have a way to generate electricity from heat caused by entropy?
Does that mean I can eventually use such a system instead of an A/C unit?
This agreement was written by the global entertainment industry in order to advance their own interests at the expense of the freedoms that make a modern democracy possible. It was secured in the U.S. by the open bribery of the U.S. Congress and President. It has been foisted on the rest of the world through the hostile use of U.S. economic might, in illegal secret negotiations that violate the laws of almost every country involved.
This single agreement represents the undermining of thousands of years worth of social evolution, and those in public office who support it should be immediately dismissed, criminally charged, and incarcerated for their remaining years on this Earth.
Changelog:
elrous0 - original comment
Idou - revised to blame global entertainment and added some action items
They've confirmed there are no major breaches . . .
in the places that they have looked at so far (which was difficult because of all the moister i.e. "steam"). They also confirmed that there was no water where they had been claiming the water level was, so they just say "oh, the water level must just be a couple more meters down . . ."
This, plus your comment, supports the notion that this is not a scientific endeavor that we are observing but a propaganda one . . . The most optimistic view that cannot be unproven at the moment becomes the assumed truth up until the point reality slams into it, and then they retreat to the next most optimistic view. This is all "Baghdad Bob," and those who are buying into it do so because they are either extremely naive or are part of the propaganda machine.
not so much a cause for alarm
You do realize that at 3M they sealed things for 7 and a half years before investigating (claiming no fuel had melted the whole time). In contrast, the Japanese government is already drilling holes in reactors less than a year later in desperation. Nothing to see here folks, no cause for alarm . . . RIGHT. . .
There are examples of people who have been very absusive to their bodies and yet lived long, healthy lives (Ossy, anyone?). There are other people who seem to be cautious enough, yet deal with various health issues. Having better information up front about one's own genetic risks allows for better decisions based on reality, not "professional" opinions founded on years of "experience" of observing the outputs of a very complicated black box by your doctor.
Bottom line, DNA is the source code of how our bodies work. Some may think it is pretty useless at this point, but we will only truly understand its value once we understand it. Most of science works like this . . .
Japan is extremely efficient and wastes little. That makes contamination containment a lot more difficult. I doubt any comprehensive high level mapping of the interactive supply chains exist, but that is what will need to be created to really contain anything. Concrete is a nice dead-end, at least for however long the structure will last. However, how will they dispose of these structures without reintroducing radioactive dust into the atmosphere again?
I think the Fukushima accident will show that the NRC and all other similar regulators have grossly, grossly underestimated the amount of intricate planning and updating of plans is required to prepare for such accidents. Costs of maintaining such plans will be the enormous but insignificant to the costs of not having a viable plan when an accident does occurs.
When there are still questions regarding how much radioactive material is still being spewed out and contaminated debris is being incinerated (and reintroduced into the atmosphere) through-out the country, I would have to say that concrete is a safer place to have radioactive contamination. At least it is better than the lungs, kidneys, and other vital organs . . . which is much harder to measure and remains one of the great unknowns of this crisis.
Using an API with an established service and creating your own solution with open source are two very different things that are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Rather than open API vs Open Source, I think it would more be about using someone else's system vs creating your own. There will always be situations why picking one over the other will be advantageous. However, this has more to do with the goals of the project than one method being superior to the other.
Even as a foreigner, you'll have a concrete claim
A couple of schools next to my house have sent invoices for millions of dollars in "decontamination" fees (which usually consists of washing the radioactive contamination down the drain to the water treatment plant with high power hoses . . . with minimal results). Guess how much they have received so far? I think the schools would get paid before I would, and personally, I do not feel comfortable trying to compete for money that could help reduce the exposure to the kids in my neighborhood. Irregardless, the money is just not there and probably will not be fore decades, if that.
I see estimates [newsonjapan.com] of those damages around 60 billion
Even YOUR link says 250 Billion. Plus, that is back in June. Everything about this disaster gets bigger as time goes by and more reality slowly seeps out. Besides, I think a professor at the most prestigous university in Japan carries more weight than "some private think tank." Finally the 20km radius buy-up is complete BS. The contamination is way higher in many areas outside of that arbitrary circle around the plant. There are non-contiguous hot spots all over Kanto. But, by all means, keep up your claims of this all being "nuclear hysteria" on the victims' part. I am sure the industry is depending on your ilk to keep costs down by blaming the victims. After all my family and I have been through, go ahead and continue your hard work to minimize the situation to fuck us over some more. I am sure your Duke Energy investment is certainly worth it . . .
rather big asset to just toss
Funny, but I would expect most Japanese citizens at this point no longer look at those as big assets but as big ticking bombs. Fukushima Dai-ichi will inevitably cost astronomically more than its book value was at the time of the accident. But here we are talking all about Japan, while your precouis US nuke industry is facing significant hardship. How are you going to convince Japan to stay with nukes, when your own country's nuclear industry is floundering?
isn't currently running anything significant and engineering related
So you are saying we need . . . some one from the nuke industry, right? This is not an engineering failure report, this is a governance failure report. The engineers do what management tells them or they get walking. This is an investigation of management's decisions.
What relevant credentials?
Again, see the above. The engineering aspect of this accident is actually quite simple and what could be modeled by the engineers already has been (though, the accuracy of those models will take, at least, decades to confirm). The decisions by management, however, have just started to become scrutinized. This a governance issue, as the crisis had already reached the limits of engineering within days after the earthquake.