you damn well should have been taking the supplements if you were working anywhere near the reactor. The last thing you want is the thyroid absorbing radioactive isotopes.
You seem to be under the impression that a Naval reactor is a big tub of water filled with fuel rods, that we stirred by hand.
We used what's called a Pressurized Water Reactor. The contamination (those radioisotopes you're so concerned about) stayed in the primary loop, and we stayed outside the reactor compartment (for the most part - I got the majority of the total dosage I received in one night when the job required me to run into the (shutdown) reactor compartment for a couple minutes of every ten minutes all night long).
It's normal when working in a nuclear plant to be taking potassium iodide on a regular basis, which isn't something that the general populace is likely to be doing. It's also not typical for the general populace to be wearing protective gear either.
Really?
I've never worked civilian nuclear power, but when I was a Navy Nuke, we didn't wear protective gear, nor did we take potassium iodide supplements.
It has a magazine safety? I thought one of the major benefits of the original 1911 design is that it did NOT have a magazine safety? Perhaps my knowledge is incorrect.
And perhaps I am thinking of a later iteration than the original 1911.
Would be bad that criminals owning guns fire at police or soldiers, after all, so maybe would be nice to add a provision to avoid all people shooting at them.
I'd be willing to bet a lot of criminals would be in favour of interlocks on guns so they couldn't be used to shoot police or soldiers.
Think of the possibilities - steal a cop's uniform (or whatever the key is that the gun uses to determine that the target is a cop), and no gun will fire at you! Brilliant!
Agree completely. This is why I've mostly stopped watching TV - I spent too much time yelling at idiots who are supposed to be professionals who don't know basic gun safety rules....
But again, the gun buying thing is regional. As I said, some states sell them everywhere. Others only sell guns in official gun shops. Obviously mail-order guns and gun-show guns are everywhere.
Umm, no.
You need an FFL to sell guns as a business (private sales are legal, do enough of them, and the BATF starts looking into why you don't have an FFL).
Difference is that in some places, Wally-world employs a guy with an FFL so they can sell guns, some places they don't.
Oh, and when you buy a gun at a gun show, you're either buying it from a private citizen who is trying to sell a gun (usually so he can justify buying a replacement to his wife), or from an FFL holder (a professional gun dealer). In the latter case, the FFL holder has to run a background check, just like if he was in his shop.
And, finally, mail-order guns are illegal, unless mailed from an FFL holder to another FFL holder (so both parties in the process have to be licensed, and are obligated to do background checks in order to transfer the gun).
Note finally that it is illegal to buy a firearm outside your State of legal residence. If I want to buy a gun I see in Oklahoma, I have to arrange with the seller and a (local to my home) FFL holder to do the transfer. And yes, that (local to my home) FFL holder would be required to run a background check on me, even if we've known each other 20 years.
Your argument that criminals don't follow laws therefore we should not enact those laws is outright idiotic. Imagine if we applied that to all other laws. "Everyone speeds anyhow, so why post speed limits and have cops waste their time giving out tickets?" hey, the free market will sort out those who can drive from those who can't right?
Considering that the main reason for the existence of most speed limits is to allow the police to make extra money via the traffic tickets, I don't see a real problem with this idea.
Or have you never wondered why most speeding tickets are given out toward the end of the month? Hint: "you're behind on your quota of speeding tickets, boy..."
Or revolver. Several solutions that don't require "self loading" features.
I'm thinking a breakopen revolver like a Webley or old Smith & Wesson would work well....
WIth regards to what's going on with the NSA, this bill is being passed specifically to tax the NSA. It doesn't tax any other organization. And they waited to put this on the floor after the NSA had already begun construction. That sounds pretty unconstitutional to me.
I take it you didn't actually read the text of the bill, then?
The bill pretty clearly includes any military installations in Utah, including Utah National Guard.
And what it seems to do is establish an equivalent of the pre-existing municipal tax on energy to military installations which were previously exempt from such taxes.
So, the government is going to have to write the government a check?
The US Government is going to have to write the Utah Government a check.
Which really isn't all that unusual - the Feds send money to the States every year. This is just the NSA whinging that they shouldn't have to follow the law.
Which, come to think about it, also isn't really that unusual....
it ill only be days at most before you're gonna try throwing it, at least partly because throwing whatever you have in your hand is what you would automatically do if you've got some pissed-off large animal (such as one thats just been prodded with a pointy stick) chasing you.
What you're describing is the guys who didn't pass along their genes to the next generation.
Throwing a spear leaves you unarmed. Throwing it at something charging you leaves you CLOSER to the thing charging you, and unarmed.
Not ideal choices if you want to pass your genes on to the next generation.
Note, by the by, that you won't be hunting large mammals alone with your little spear. You'll have a bunch of friends (well, better hope they're your friends) helping. When mammoth gets annoyed at you and charges, your friends will be poking it to distract it. As you will be after it turns on them (assuming, of course, that you weren't dumb enough to throw away your spear).
Not all animals would charge, especially after being wounded.
Note the "if you miss" part.
Hint: if you miss, the animal won't be wounded.
Note that even a "non-lethal" wound can be enough to bring the animal down...eventually. And I imagine a group of hunters chasing mammoth are going to have a bit more patience than your average person today. Ooh, butterfly!
Nowadays a researcher in Russia can publish his work and everyone in that field can know about it in seconds. Processes and discoveries are passed on in exacting detail. We should never again have to endure another dark ages with our current information sharing abilities.
I pretty much agree.
But (there's always a but) it seems to me we might, just possibly, get much the same effect from information overload - 500 worthwhile papers per year in your specialty may be something you can keep up with. But what happens when there are 500,000 worthwhile papers in your chosen field every year?
I'd speculate that humans used pikes as soon as they found 'em and threw 'em if it suited the situation.. it's not exactly rocket science.
A pike is 20 feet long (6 meters for you SI types), and not something that can be thrown effectively by anyone shorter than about 15 feet (4.5 meters).
Even knowing it can be done, actually getting a spear to fly point first is a non-trivial accomplishment.
Doing it for the first time ever? It may not be rocket science, but it's pretty damn close.
In other words, just because an idea is old to YOU doesn't mean it was easy for that first guy who ever had it...
which gets us to the question, what if tumblr was profitable, let's pick numbers like 20 million in costs and 24 million in revenue - would it have been worth 10 billion dollars then?
No.
$4 million annual income as a return on $10 billion isn't as good as parking the $10 billion in your typical savings account. Hell, at ONE billion, the savings account would probably still be a better choice.
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You seem to be under the impression that a Naval reactor is a big tub of water filled with fuel rods, that we stirred by hand.
We used what's called a Pressurized Water Reactor. The contamination (those radioisotopes you're so concerned about) stayed in the primary loop, and we stayed outside the reactor compartment (for the most part - I got the majority of the total dosage I received in one night when the job required me to run into the (shutdown) reactor compartment for a couple minutes of every ten minutes all night long).
Zero?
Really?
I've never worked civilian nuclear power, but when I was a Navy Nuke, we didn't wear protective gear, nor did we take potassium iodide supplements.
I dislike magazine safeties, mostly because they make lowering the hammer an intrinsically unsafe thing to do.
But I still own several pistols with magazine safeties, because I'm too much the packrat to sell them.
And perhaps I am thinking of a later iteration than the original 1911.
I'd be willing to bet a lot of criminals would be in favour of interlocks on guns so they couldn't be used to shoot police or soldiers.
Think of the possibilities - steal a cop's uniform (or whatever the key is that the gun uses to determine that the target is a cop), and no gun will fire at you! Brilliant!
Feel free to amend it out of existence. If you can.
But until then, it's the law of the land, so get over your attitude that if it's good enough for you, it's good enough for anyone.
Which, presumably, is why we have upwards of 10,000,000 accidental shootings every year.
Oh, wait, we don't, do we?
Note that the number of accidental shootings we have every year suggests that the number of "lax about safety" gun owners is less than 0.1%....
Colt 1911 has THREE safeties, as I recall - grip, manual, and magazine.
The grip safety is usually skipped on modern self-loading pistols, they make do with just two.
Agree completely. This is why I've mostly stopped watching TV - I spent too much time yelling at idiots who are supposed to be professionals who don't know basic gun safety rules....
Haven't owned a modern revolver for a few years, but last one I owned wouldn't allow the cylinder to be opened while the hammer was cocked.
Course that one was older than I am, so things may have changed.
Umm, no.
You need an FFL to sell guns as a business (private sales are legal, do enough of them, and the BATF starts looking into why you don't have an FFL).
Difference is that in some places, Wally-world employs a guy with an FFL so they can sell guns, some places they don't.
Oh, and when you buy a gun at a gun show, you're either buying it from a private citizen who is trying to sell a gun (usually so he can justify buying a replacement to his wife), or from an FFL holder (a professional gun dealer). In the latter case, the FFL holder has to run a background check, just like if he was in his shop.
And, finally, mail-order guns are illegal, unless mailed from an FFL holder to another FFL holder (so both parties in the process have to be licensed, and are obligated to do background checks in order to transfer the gun).
Note finally that it is illegal to buy a firearm outside your State of legal residence. If I want to buy a gun I see in Oklahoma, I have to arrange with the seller and a (local to my home) FFL holder to do the transfer. And yes, that (local to my home) FFL holder would be required to run a background check on me, even if we've known each other 20 years.
I'm sure Generals Pakenham & Jackson remember that quite well...
Considering that the main reason for the existence of most speed limits is to allow the police to make extra money via the traffic tickets, I don't see a real problem with this idea.
Or have you never wondered why most speeding tickets are given out toward the end of the month? Hint: "you're behind on your quota of speeding tickets, boy..."
The Brazilians would like a word with you....
Quite correct. A pepperbox (or other multibarrel concept - your basic double-barrel derringer comes to mind) is the logical next step in the process.
But, dollars to donuts, someone will be working on a revolver design somewhere. Just because it's an interesting technical problem.
As for me, I'm still in the "you can't pay me enough to pull the trigger on one of those" camp....
Or revolver. Several solutions that don't require "self loading" features. I'm thinking a breakopen revolver like a Webley or old Smith & Wesson would work well....
I take it you didn't actually read the text of the bill, then?
The bill pretty clearly includes any military installations in Utah, including Utah National Guard.
And what it seems to do is establish an equivalent of the pre-existing municipal tax on energy to military installations which were previously exempt from such taxes.
The US Government is going to have to write the Utah Government a check.
Which really isn't all that unusual - the Feds send money to the States every year. This is just the NSA whinging that they shouldn't have to follow the law.
Which, come to think about it, also isn't really that unusual....
Can you say "hunting season"? Sure you can.
Seriously, easiest way to guarantee your meat is antibiotic free is to shoot it yourself.
What you're describing is the guys who didn't pass along their genes to the next generation.
Throwing a spear leaves you unarmed. Throwing it at something charging you leaves you CLOSER to the thing charging you, and unarmed.
Not ideal choices if you want to pass your genes on to the next generation.
Note, by the by, that you won't be hunting large mammals alone with your little spear. You'll have a bunch of friends (well, better hope they're your friends) helping. When mammoth gets annoyed at you and charges, your friends will be poking it to distract it. As you will be after it turns on them (assuming, of course, that you weren't dumb enough to throw away your spear).
Note the "if you miss" part.
Hint: if you miss, the animal won't be wounded.
Note that even a "non-lethal" wound can be enough to bring the animal down...eventually. And I imagine a group of hunters chasing mammoth are going to have a bit more patience than your average person today. Ooh, butterfly!
I pretty much agree.
But (there's always a but) it seems to me we might, just possibly, get much the same effect from information overload - 500 worthwhile papers per year in your specialty may be something you can keep up with. But what happens when there are 500,000 worthwhile papers in your chosen field every year?
A pike is 20 feet long (6 meters for you SI types), and not something that can be thrown effectively by anyone shorter than about 15 feet (4.5 meters).
Even knowing it can be done, actually getting a spear to fly point first is a non-trivial accomplishment.
Doing it for the first time ever? It may not be rocket science, but it's pretty damn close.
In other words, just because an idea is old to YOU doesn't mean it was easy for that first guy who ever had it...
No.
$4 million annual income as a return on $10 billion isn't as good as parking the $10 billion in your typical savings account. Hell, at ONE billion, the savings account would probably still be a better choice.
Much less some real investment...