What does the poster mean by "is not capable of creating nuclear warheads". Does he mean, "does not create by-products or waste that, if refined and combined with additional hardware, could possibly be used to create a nuclear warhead". Do we currently have nuclear power plants that are also capable of producing nuclear warheads (warheads that actually react and go boom and not just spread radioactive waste everywhere)?
He means that the spent fuel cannot be chemically manipulated to produce the correct composition of Plutonium.
We do currently have nuclear power plants in the US which produce weapons grade spent fuel.
Nuclear warheads require a certain ratio of Pu-239. Plutonium nuclides cannot be separated or enriched in an isotopic manner. (ie: if the spent fuel has 4% Pu-239, 90% Pu-240 and 6% Pu-241, it will always have that composition, you can't enrich it to 50% Pu-239) Therefore, unless the original Uranium fuel has the correct ratio of U-238 to the other nuclides, weapons grade plutonium cannot be crafted from the fuel, at any time.
"How long will it take before those people realize that they have everything they need to start their own company and compete with their former employers?"
Hello?!? How could they compete if they must pay *minumum wage*? "Those people" are doing what all buisnesses do and should do: make money. If the fucked up liberals of the US decide to require employers to waste money on frivolous lawsuits, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, etc, then the employers will simply leave the country. And that is what they are doing.
Try to look at the root of the problem instead of complaining that everything isn't handed to you.
You assume that taxes will have to be paid with nanotechnology. If there are no road to be repaired (as everything will be done in VR), no electricity to pay (as it will be free, b/c nanobots work for free), no FBI to pay (as nanobots work for free)... etc...
No food to be bought (as nanobots will make food from dust and input it into your body)...
Watch The Matrix and study it. They dont eat, everyone is in VR. Sounds like a perfect future to me. Execpt EVERYONE must be in the VR world otherwise dumbasses would set of an EMP and screw everyone over. If they dont go into the VR peacefully = execution.
Well, I people should be more pesismistic... Lets just look at this for a second: The US government is the only gov in the world that has Nanobots. Any other country who attempts to make them is severly punished (probably by destroying the labratory).
These nanabots are: 1 for every 1 sq. inch of space in the world (as they can duplicate them selves with things such as dust and dirt and rocks.)
They are inside your blood stream, inside your heart (as they are smaller than a cell).
If you _think_ anything bad about the gov, you have a "stroke"...
There is nothing to stop the gov from doing this if someone else doesn't beat them to it.
No, congress wont save you as: whoever is in control of the central control facility controls the world. Congress oppose/disagree with the nanotechnilogical dictatorship = congress dead.
What should be done is a bunch of corps with competing nanobots that are leased from the gov.
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What does the poster mean by "is not capable of creating nuclear warheads". Does he mean, "does not create by-products or waste that, if refined and combined with additional hardware, could possibly be used to create a nuclear warhead". Do we currently have nuclear power plants that are also capable of producing nuclear warheads (warheads that actually react and go boom and not just spread radioactive waste everywhere)?
He means that the spent fuel cannot be chemically manipulated to produce the correct composition of Plutonium.
We do currently have nuclear power plants in the US which produce weapons grade spent fuel.
Nuclear warheads require a certain ratio of Pu-239. Plutonium nuclides cannot be separated or enriched in an isotopic manner. (ie: if the spent fuel has 4% Pu-239, 90% Pu-240 and 6% Pu-241, it will always have that composition, you can't enrich it to 50% Pu-239) Therefore, unless the original Uranium fuel has the correct ratio of U-238 to the other nuclides, weapons grade plutonium cannot be crafted from the fuel, at any time.
"How long will it take before those people realize that they have everything they need to start their own company and compete with their former employers?"
Hello?!? How could they compete if they must pay *minumum wage*? "Those people" are doing what all buisnesses do and should do: make money. If the fucked up liberals of the US decide to require employers to waste money on frivolous lawsuits, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, etc, then the employers will simply leave the country. And that is what they are doing.
Try to look at the root of the problem instead of complaining that everything isn't handed to you.
not really, i just never read slashdot comments b/c they are a black hole of .... .... ... ... ...
uh.. where was I?
oh yea, time. slashdot is a black hole of time...
that was so disgusting!!!
you should go and kill yourself for making un-suspecting, high-bandwidth users experience that!!!
Too bad its 1 day old and no one cares anymore...
And what is bad about no one having a job?
You assume that taxes will have to be paid with nanotechnology. If there are no road to be repaired (as everything will be done in VR), no electricity to pay (as it will be free, b/c nanobots work for free), no FBI to pay (as nanobots work for free)... etc...
No food to be bought (as nanobots will make food from dust and input it into your body)...
Watch The Matrix and study it. They dont eat, everyone is in VR. Sounds like a perfect future to me. Execpt EVERYONE must be in the VR world otherwise dumbasses would set of an EMP and screw everyone over. If they dont go into the VR peacefully = execution.
Well, I people should be more pesismistic...
Lets just look at this for a second:
The US government is the only gov in the world that has Nanobots. Any other country who attempts to make them is severly punished (probably by destroying the labratory).
These nanabots are: 1 for every 1 sq. inch of space in the world (as they can duplicate them selves with things such as dust and dirt and rocks.)
They are inside your blood stream, inside your heart (as they are smaller than a cell).
If you _think_ anything bad about the gov, you have a "stroke"...
There is nothing to stop the gov from doing this if someone else doesn't beat them to it.
No, congress wont save you as: whoever is in control of the central control facility controls the world. Congress oppose/disagree with the nanotechnilogical dictatorship = congress dead.
What should be done is a bunch of corps with competing nanobots that are leased from the gov.
A way to fix the problem is to simply kill the virus writer, then you wouldn't have this problem.