And, I suppose, the thought has never crossed your mind that your wife's cancer could be the result of fallout from earlier nuclear tests and/or accidents? Our technology level does not allow us to confirm such things, and yet you only associate the technology positively? I used to think the same way until I was forced to flee my home of 6 years for the safety of my family.
Do yourself and the world a favor. Change your perspective before being forced to by unfortunate events.
Great, you do not know the details about either, but you are "sure" the coal and oil is worse than the meltdown . . .
Here is a mind experiment . . . If you had to pick one, which would you pick: 1) coal plant fire 2) nuclear meltdown? Nuclear was only "safer" when we were assuming meltdowns would not happen.
Yes, but no less sick than the fucks who have been downplaying this event the whole time with relatively low personal exposure.
If you really think the situation is not serious, then how much Japanese stock have you bought since this began? Better yet, I have a house within 100 miles of the plant. Above market price should be a steal at this point (based on the "downplaying" argument). Put your money where your mouth is or STFU.
I agree that Japan's problem is not lack of money. However, Japan does have a serious problem in regards to appropriate allocation of resources in response to recent events, specifically when it comes to transparent measurement data of radiation (which is not unique to Japan). So, if you wanted to donate to Japan, this was a good way to do it.
Personally, though, I see this developing into something like the fon network, with global participation only requiring you buy a compatible device. In times like these, I think spending money to participate in such a network (regardless of where you live) would be a very good way to spend your money.
I find it extremely ironic for a TEPCO apologist to make such a statement. You are obviously oblivious to the "kisha club", the "amakudari", or the fact that foreign journalists do not even bother going to QA sessions where they know they will have their intelligence insulted. It is hard to find MSM articles of TEPCO misdeeds because of the above and the fact that the government is trying to censor such "illegal information" to "protect citizen morale."
As to not noticing the size of the disaster, I was there and had carved out quite a life before having to leave it behind. Perhaps being directly impacted by such corruption does limit my objectivity, or perhaps it enables me to provide a perspective on the situation otherwise not possible due to the level of censorship that has been occurring.
What a relief . . . here I was thinking TEPCO would become the poster child of the part of Japanese society that remains corrupt, arrogant, and incompetent. Good thing they have apologists like yourself . . .
Such posters have spent a lot of effort supporting a technology that, by itself, had a lot of potential. Unfortunately, we humans seem incapable of creating the proper organizations to effectively manage such technology to the acceptable risk tolerance level.
Coming on Slashdot and downplaying the situation is not very costly for these people compared to what they have invested so far. However, do you think they will move to the effected area and buy a 440K USD house there (which is up for 400K, at the moment)? In contrast, do you think someone, like myself, who has been financially devastated by such a technology will ever indulge the idea ever again? Actions speak louder than words.
Their support at this point does not mean much . . . every idea has a fringe group and that is what they have just become.
Finance would not be so lucrative to work in if the markets were not so inefficient. Instead of financial reporting standards, force public companies to constantly publish standardized raw financial and operational data as it is captured. Force all market transaction data (including OTC) to be public and free to everyone. Eventually everyone would be on a level playing field and profits would disappear to some lower equilibrium point (marginal cost of maintaining automated arbitrage programs). As a plus, the markets and economy overall would be a lot more stable.
I know, some of my fellow US countrymen will lament how our schools wasted billions on technology. And they are right, you know, if you look at the average US worker who is barely competent in technology (MS=PC/Internet) and could easily be replaced by a very short shell script.
You are already way ahead by focusing on FOSS. Add a short section on how to install a FOSS system and how to submit good bug reports, and I would say you are light years ahead of the average US technology education programs (again, US citizen here, to the flaming patriots among us).
Alright, how about creating clusters of grappled objects every 10 degrees or so with an army of micro satellites. Catalog and RFID tag each object. Then move your "factory" to the closest plane that has the most valuable cluster of objects. If no such plane exists, then just wait until one is created (I am sure the rate of space junk will just increase here on out). Send new factories up to lucrative groupings of planes too different for existing factories to reach. . . . Profit.
I have seen the Netwalker from Sharp at every major electronics store that I have gone to in Tokyo recently (http://www.sharp.co.jp/netwalker/). It exclusively runs Ubuntu and is one of the smallest and cheapest netbooks you can get in a store.
Then there is always the Dell website. You can get even cheaper mini 10s from there. I have purchased 2 such machines for friends and family as return gifts (Okaeshi). Doubt either know they are running Linux, but they are plenty happy to have a convenient webbrowsing/Skyping machine.
I would say there is quite a bit of activity recently in this space in Japan, if you know where to look.
It was easy to install and all the hardware runs fine without tweaking. However, just a couple caveats:
-the "Control Panel" (drakconf) is sometimes too big (eeepc has same issue with programs like Skype)
-Don't think it automatically sleeps when shut (I think fn + Esc works, though)
To increase performance, you can try other window managers (Mandriva makes it pretty easy to try other WM). Just 2 cents from someone who has actually installed a different distro on their eeepc . . .
I even convinced the intern I spoke with that Sen. Feinstein was wrong for trying this. However, I do not believe senators like this care what me or any of the "little people" think. I now just try to convince their office staff to switch to another senator's office (should't be that hard in DC and most are volunteers, anyway). I long for the day that corrupt senators have to answer their own damn phone.
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"she wouldn't be able to do anything without going through an insane amount of dialogs trying to get her digital camera recognized, her pic(s) 'fixed', and finally email them to her family/friends/whatever."
Hi. You obviously have not used a recent Linux distro. A lot of people recommend Ubuntu (it is my second favorite), but I prefer Mandriva.
True story. My niece (she's 10) recently sent me a picture she had created using a program called "GIMP" that came on the netbook I bought for my sister. I was so pleasantly surprised I started sending her back versions of her picture using various GIMP filters. After commenting on how cool some of the pictures were, she finally said that people would think that I was a weirdo for being so in to pictures of ponies . . .
Look at all the "respected" finance firms that either no longer exist, are close to death, or turned out to be giant scams. The root to all this were complicated processes that lacked the necessary transparency. When something started to break, no one could determine which parts in the system were still valid, so everything grinded to a halt.
The moral of the story is that complicated systems need to be transparent, regardless of their industry. Assume the worst of what you and other vested parties are unable to see. Not being able to see the problem is worse than the problem itself.
Alright, how do you see producing 1,000 units as failure? Would not that be a sign of some success?
I believe there are a lot of sub $100 mp3 players,
here is one.
I do not have enough information to verify the rest of your comment,
but based on what I was able to verify, I have no good reason to
believe your opinion. Do provide better supportive arguments if you wish to convince anyone here.
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And, I suppose, the thought has never crossed your mind that your wife's cancer could be the result of fallout from earlier nuclear tests and/or accidents? Our technology level does not allow us to confirm such things, and yet you only associate the technology positively? I used to think the same way until I was forced to flee my home of 6 years for the safety of my family.
Do yourself and the world a favor. Change your perspective before being forced to by unfortunate events.
Great, you do not know the details about either, but you are "sure" the coal and oil is worse than the meltdown . . .
Here is a mind experiment . . . If you had to pick one, which would you pick: 1) coal plant fire 2) nuclear meltdown? Nuclear was only "safer" when we were assuming meltdowns would not happen.
If Fukushima Dai 1 were a coal power plant . . .
Right, because humanity will never discover a technology powerful enough to destroy itself, so we should just continue on the same path . . .
I am sure the universe is littered with the remains of civilizations that practiced your philosophy . . .
Yes, but no less sick than the fucks who have been downplaying this event the whole time with relatively low personal exposure.
If you really think the situation is not serious, then how much Japanese stock have you bought since this began? Better yet, I have a house within 100 miles of the plant. Above market price should be a steal at this point (based on the "downplaying" argument). Put your money where your mouth is or STFU.
if people are not willing to pay for safety, is not build things that are extremely unsafe without sufficient safety mechanisms.
The damage caused by a toxic substance correlates to the level of exposure and the concentration of these substances that end up in individual people.
I think we would all be much happier if Fukushima Dai1 were a coal plant at this point . . .
How about: The human species has never been here before, and no one really knows how things will progress from this point on.
Although, if you want something specific to be scared about, how about a huge steam explosion when the fuel hits the water table.
I agree that Japan's problem is not lack of money. However, Japan does have a serious problem in regards to appropriate allocation of resources in response to recent events, specifically when it comes to transparent measurement data of radiation (which is not unique to Japan). So, if you wanted to donate to Japan, this was a good way to do it.
Personally, though, I see this developing into something like the fon network, with global participation only requiring you buy a compatible device. In times like these, I think spending money to participate in such a network (regardless of where you live) would be a very good way to spend your money.
>Can we get some objectivity please?
I find it extremely ironic for a TEPCO apologist to make such a statement. You are obviously oblivious to the "kisha club", the "amakudari", or the fact that foreign journalists do not even bother going to QA sessions where they know they will have their intelligence insulted. It is hard to find MSM articles of TEPCO misdeeds because of the above and the fact that the government is trying to censor such "illegal information" to "protect citizen morale."
As to not noticing the size of the disaster, I was there and had carved out quite a life before having to leave it behind. Perhaps being directly impacted by such corruption does limit my objectivity, or perhaps it enables me to provide a perspective on the situation otherwise not possible due to the level of censorship that has been occurring.
That's all? So TEPCO did not falsify safety inspection records, cover-up a defective reactor, use the yakuza to get expendable workers, continue on with a foreign journalist QA session even without the foreign journalists, or make numerous blunders immediately after the tsunami to put us into the current situation ?
What a relief . . . here I was thinking TEPCO would become the poster child of the part of Japanese society that remains corrupt, arrogant, and incompetent. Good thing they have apologists like yourself . . .
Such posters have spent a lot of effort supporting a technology that, by itself, had a lot of potential. Unfortunately, we humans seem incapable of creating the proper organizations to effectively manage such technology to the acceptable risk tolerance level.
Coming on Slashdot and downplaying the situation is not very costly for these people compared to what they have invested so far. However, do you think they will move to the effected area and buy a 440K USD house there (which is up for 400K, at the moment)? In contrast, do you think someone, like myself, who has been financially devastated by such a technology will ever indulge the idea ever again? Actions speak louder than words.
Their support at this point does not mean much . . . every idea has a fringe group and that is what they have just become.
Finance would not be so lucrative to work in if the markets were not so inefficient. Instead of financial reporting standards, force public companies to constantly publish standardized raw financial and operational data as it is captured. Force all market transaction data (including OTC) to be public and free to everyone. Eventually everyone would be on a level playing field and profits would disappear to some lower equilibrium point (marginal cost of maintaining automated arbitrage programs). As a plus, the markets and economy overall would be a lot more stable.
How do we know we are not already living in one of these things? If so, this seems a bit redundant . . .
Oh, and how to submit bugs to projects!
What a wonderful initiative!
I know, some of my fellow US countrymen will lament how our schools wasted billions on technology. And they are right, you know, if you look at the average US worker who is barely competent in technology (MS=PC/Internet) and could easily be replaced by a very short shell script.
You are already way ahead by focusing on FOSS. Add a short section on how to install a FOSS system and how to submit good bug reports, and I would say you are light years ahead of the average US technology education programs (again, US citizen here, to the flaming patriots among us).
Just type: alien --to-rpm google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb
At least, this worked fine for Mandriva 2010.0 on a Dell mini 9.
Alright, how about creating clusters of grappled objects every 10 degrees or so with an army of micro satellites. Catalog and RFID tag each object. Then move your "factory" to the closest plane that has the most valuable cluster of objects. If no such plane exists, then just wait until one is created (I am sure the rate of space junk will just increase here on out). Send new factories up to lucrative groupings of planes too different for existing factories to reach. . . . Profit.
Who needs Italy . . .
That way we can have self-fabricating robots that also self-assemble themselves.
I have seen the Netwalker from Sharp at every major electronics store that I have gone to in Tokyo recently (http://www.sharp.co.jp/netwalker/). It exclusively runs Ubuntu and is one of the smallest and cheapest netbooks you can get in a store.
Then there is always the Dell website. You can get even cheaper mini 10s from there. I have purchased 2 such machines for friends and family as return gifts (Okaeshi). Doubt either know they are running Linux, but they are plenty happy to have a convenient webbrowsing/Skyping machine.
I would say there is quite a bit of activity recently in this space in Japan, if you know where to look.
It was easy to install and all the hardware runs fine without tweaking. However, just a couple caveats:
-the "Control Panel" (drakconf) is sometimes too big (eeepc has same issue with programs like Skype) -Don't think it automatically sleeps when shut (I think fn + Esc works, though)
To increase performance, you can try other window managers (Mandriva makes it pretty easy to try other WM). Just 2 cents from someone who has actually installed a different distro on their eeepc . . .
I even convinced the intern I spoke with that Sen. Feinstein was wrong for trying this. However, I do not believe senators like this care what me or any of the "little people" think. I now just try to convince their office staff to switch to another senator's office (should't be that hard in DC and most are volunteers, anyway). I long for the day that corrupt senators have to answer their own damn phone.
"she wouldn't be able to do anything without going through an insane amount of dialogs trying to get her digital camera recognized, her pic(s) 'fixed', and finally email them to her family/friends/whatever."
Hi. You obviously have not used a recent Linux distro. A lot of people recommend Ubuntu (it is my second favorite), but I prefer Mandriva.
True story. My niece (she's 10) recently sent me a picture she had created using a program called "GIMP" that came on the netbook I bought for my sister. I was so pleasantly surprised I started sending her back versions of her picture using various GIMP filters. After commenting on how cool some of the pictures were, she finally said that people would think that I was a weirdo for being so in to pictures of ponies . . .
Look at all the "respected" finance firms that either no longer exist, are close to death, or turned out to be giant scams. The root to all this were complicated processes that lacked the necessary transparency. When something started to break, no one could determine which parts in the system were still valid, so everything grinded to a halt.
The moral of the story is that complicated systems need to be transparent, regardless of their industry. Assume the worst of what you and other vested parties are unable to see. Not being able to see the problem is worse than the problem itself.
Alright, how do you see producing 1,000 units as failure? Would not that be a sign of some success?
I believe there are a lot of sub $100 mp3 players, here is one.
I do not have enough information to verify the rest of your comment, but based on what I was able to verify, I have no good reason to believe your opinion. Do provide better supportive arguments if you wish to convince anyone here.