How does nuclear look if you change the metric to "lives significantly damaged"? It's hard to find stats but Fukushima alone is at least 300,000 by conservative estimates.
How many of those 30K "lives significantly damaged" were the result of Fukushima, and how many were the result of the Earthquake and Tsunami?
However, it should be noted that more people have died, just in the USA, just in the 20th century, than even your worst case for nuclear (counting "significant damage" against "death") worldwide....
When they talk about people "having hunger" the standard is exactly that - being involuntarily hungry at least once that year.
Note that the standard in the USA for "hunger" is "missed a meal". By that definition, I have been suffering from hunger every year of my life, since I manage to be busy enough with something to miss a meal at least once a year....
The rich will no longer need worker bees to make them money
As long as the "worker bees" require money to buy the stuff "the rich" make, "the rich" will need "worker bees".
No, there's not going to be a "subclass", particularly. No more than now, anyway. What there will be is an increasingly large class of people who have the leisure time that "the rich" have now....
Let's not forget that it was basically Russia who won WWII
Well, they certainly bled enough in WW2. But remember that the USA fought Germany and Japan both, while supplying the UK, Russia and China (we sent north of 10,000 tanks to Russia. And a similar number or warplanes. And a metric fuckton of other war material).
2. The private property is sufficiently large that the precise locations are far more than 5 meters from any public location.
Five meters my left hind leg! I can tag a pokestop from across a five-lane road. And the pokestop in question is set back from the far side of the road by 20 meters or so....
Well, glad I decided to read to end of thread before I told you that you were full of it. The "previously used" launcher is going to be putting up SES-10, not AMOS-9.
In any case, if NPR is saying it's the "previously used" Falcon 9, you can be forgiven for saying that. If you were just confused, than OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!1!!
Seriously, not sure why anyone thought this was the "previously used" Falcon. It was only announced that they'd found a customer a few days ago, and launches aren't worked up that quickly. Yet....
But I think it's important to admit that there is a real subject of debate here.
No. There isn't.
Problem is that encryption is more than just sending messages to your co-conspirators. There's banking. Paying bills. All that other good stuff that we do without thinking about the encryption. Back door on encryption means that that's all gone. Can't afford to do online banking with broken encryption. Can't afford a lot of the conveniences of modern living (haven't had to actually write a check in years. And don't expect to have to again)....
Patrol times were limited by space available for food, not because the Navy thought crews couldn't deal with longer trips.
For longer patrols (which occasionally happened when your partner boat wasn't available for one reason or another), it wasn't unusual for the crew to be walking on cases of canned food until they'd eaten enough to clear the passages.
Note, by the by, that Triton's submerged circumnavigation of the world would NOT have qualified as a "longer patrol".
Who is 83? The woman in TFA is 65. The only place I saw "83"mentioned was the distance....
Note that both my mother-in-law and my both my grandmothers could have made that shot. The one shot skeet with her husband till his friends complained that she always won the pot (they generally bet the price of the range-time, I understand), and the other two shot for the pot....
True, but they don't stay submerged for months on end.
SSBN. USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) had, as its normal mission "Sail out of harbor, submerge, make circles in the ocean for the two+ months of the patrol, surface, go back into port".
Yes, I was part of her crew. So, yes, I know for a fact that we went out, submerged, and stayed that way. No port calls, no surfacing, no resupply. Just make holes in the ocean till the patrol was done.
On the other hand, there's a brand new market to provide Eurocentric news in Euro languages from somewhere outside the EU. No fees, so Google doesn't have a problem with displaying them, plus ad revenue, lots of eyes because it's what the Euro types see when they type a search into Google, etc....
Sounds like what Hillary has said she'll do about gun control if elected. If Congress won't give her what she wants, well, she'll do it with Executive Orders....
Unfortunately the summary describes a 16 hour week + "additional flexible hours". Beyond that, the only clue is "30 hours per week", which is evenly divisible by five days (or six), but not four.
Hence my comment....
Personally, I've been looking forward to the four day work-week for a long time. Last time we shortened the workweek (from six days per to five) was before my father was born....
How about making it 32 hours a week for 80% pay, and have them work Mon-Thu? Four 8-hour workdays a week would be much better than five 6-hour workdays....
I'd be interested in knowing WHY the robot babies failed.
Perhaps because human females are hardwired genetically to like babies?
Actually, this whole notion is from a very old science fiction story. Main characters had to deal with robot baby before they could get a license to have a real one. Very funny story.
But, as it turns out, completely unnecessary, since higher standard of living seems to reduce reproduction rate nicely in the Real World (tm).
Hmm, 166 users, 71 of whom were known depressed. 70% accuracy means they picked 50 of the depressed people as depressed, and 28 (or 29) of the non-depressed people as depressed.
Given that the national depression rate is 6.7% (take that with a grain of salt), we'd expect to see, based on this test, 32.7% of the population found to be depressed. Of that 32.7%, one in seven would actually be depressed....
And yet the Netherlands has no problems with flooding despite most of the country being below sea level..
Of course, the Netherlands don't have a 3M km^2 watershed dumping water into them, either. And the Netherlands is smaller than Louisiana alone (by a factor of about 2.5), much less the Mississippi watershed (by a factor of about 80)....
The USA is the country which was in the right place at the right time to dominate everything for the last couple hundred years.
Couple??? No, the USA has dominated for the last century, maybe. In the 19th century, we were mostly a non-entity outside North America (and arguably South America). We didn't really take over as the dominant world power till WW2. Before that, the UK was still the big dog....
If the police are going to run serial numbers, that's going to convince people not to sell their guns to the cops. Which means it'll work like most "gun buy-backs" - they get a lot of crap (like a WW1-era rifle) instead of the guns they want to get (the ones the gang-bangers are using).
The local laws in Chicago are some of the most restrictive in the USA. Basically, it reduces to "no guns for you unless you're politically connected".
And yet, the bad guys still seem to get guns with no real issues. Perhaps because if you're a criminal, you see nothing particularly wrong with breaking the gun laws, but who knows?
It would be far better to legalize drugs, defunding the gangs.
Of course, as a privileged white male from the suburbs, I could be wrong.
Once upon a time, we tried a "noble experiment" that we called Prohibition. For Chicago, as for most of the nation, the result was vastly increased crime, and gun battles in the streets (remember "the Night Chicago Died", anyone?).
Eventually, we got rid of that particular notion, and thing settled down.
And then we decided we needed to Do Something (about the recreational chemicals of choice of certain, shall we say, darker-skinned citizens) and now we have The War On Drugs.
So far, the War on Drugs (AKA Prohibition II) has had pretty much exactly the same effects as Prohibition.
So, let's try a really bold experiment! End the War On Drugs (Prohibition II), and see if it has the same effects that ending Prohibition had. After all, we can always restart the War On Drugs if ending it doesn't fix the problems.
And, what the Hell, it just might work to let people drink/smoke/inject whatever they want, rather than trying to be Mommy to every citizen....
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How many of those 30K "lives significantly damaged" were the result of Fukushima, and how many were the result of the Earthquake and Tsunami?
However, it should be noted that more people have died, just in the USA, just in the 20th century, than even your worst case for nuclear (counting "significant damage" against "death") worldwide....
Note that the standard in the USA for "hunger" is "missed a meal". By that definition, I have been suffering from hunger every year of my life, since I manage to be busy enough with something to miss a meal at least once a year....
As long as the "worker bees" require money to buy the stuff "the rich" make, "the rich" will need "worker bees".
No, there's not going to be a "subclass", particularly. No more than now, anyway. What there will be is an increasingly large class of people who have the leisure time that "the rich" have now....
Well, they certainly bled enough in WW2. But remember that the USA fought Germany and Japan both, while supplying the UK, Russia and China (we sent north of 10,000 tanks to Russia. And a similar number or warplanes. And a metric fuckton of other war material).
The fact that a Montessori School grad can't spell "whose" reliably doesn't leave me a favourable impression of Montessori schools....
Five meters my left hind leg! I can tag a pokestop from across a five-lane road. And the pokestop in question is set back from the far side of the road by 20 meters or so....
Crying chicken? I'm confused...Oh, you meant "crying foul"! Never mind....
Well, glad I decided to read to end of thread before I told you that you were full of it. The "previously used" launcher is going to be putting up SES-10, not AMOS-9.
In any case, if NPR is saying it's the "previously used" Falcon 9, you can be forgiven for saying that. If you were just confused, than OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!1!!
Seriously, not sure why anyone thought this was the "previously used" Falcon. It was only announced that they'd found a customer a few days ago, and launches aren't worked up that quickly. Yet....
Citation? Murders, murder/suicide, and accidental gun deaths only accounted for about 13K deaths in the USA in 2015.
No. There isn't.
Problem is that encryption is more than just sending messages to your co-conspirators. There's banking. Paying bills. All that other good stuff that we do without thinking about the encryption. Back door on encryption means that that's all gone. Can't afford to do online banking with broken encryption. Can't afford a lot of the conveniences of modern living (haven't had to actually write a check in years. And don't expect to have to again)....
Patrol times were limited by space available for food, not because the Navy thought crews couldn't deal with longer trips.
For longer patrols (which occasionally happened when your partner boat wasn't available for one reason or another), it wasn't unusual for the crew to be walking on cases of canned food until they'd eaten enough to clear the passages.
Note, by the by, that Triton's submerged circumnavigation of the world would NOT have qualified as a "longer patrol".
Who is 83? The woman in TFA is 65. The only place I saw "83"mentioned was the distance....
Note that both my mother-in-law and my both my grandmothers could have made that shot. The one shot skeet with her husband till his friends complained that she always won the pot (they generally bet the price of the range-time, I understand), and the other two shot for the pot....
SSBN. USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) had, as its normal mission "Sail out of harbor, submerge, make circles in the ocean for the two+ months of the patrol, surface, go back into port".
Yes, I was part of her crew. So, yes, I know for a fact that we went out, submerged, and stayed that way. No port calls, no surfacing, no resupply. Just make holes in the ocean till the patrol was done.
On the other hand, there's a brand new market to provide Eurocentric news in Euro languages from somewhere outside the EU. No fees, so Google doesn't have a problem with displaying them, plus ad revenue, lots of eyes because it's what the Euro types see when they type a search into Google, etc....
Sounds like what Hillary has said she'll do about gun control if elected. If Congress won't give her what she wants, well, she'll do it with Executive Orders....
Unfortunately the summary describes a 16 hour week + "additional flexible hours". Beyond that, the only clue is "30 hours per week", which is evenly divisible by five days (or six), but not four.
Hence my comment....
Personally, I've been looking forward to the four day work-week for a long time. Last time we shortened the workweek (from six days per to five) was before my father was born....
How about making it 32 hours a week for 80% pay, and have them work Mon-Thu? Four 8-hour workdays a week would be much better than five 6-hour workdays....
Perhaps because human females are hardwired genetically to like babies?
Actually, this whole notion is from a very old science fiction story. Main characters had to deal with robot baby before they could get a license to have a real one. Very funny story.
But, as it turns out, completely unnecessary, since higher standard of living seems to reduce reproduction rate nicely in the Real World (tm).
Hmm, 166 users, 71 of whom were known depressed. 70% accuracy means they picked 50 of the depressed people as depressed, and 28 (or 29) of the non-depressed people as depressed.
Given that the national depression rate is 6.7% (take that with a grain of salt), we'd expect to see, based on this test, 32.7% of the population found to be depressed. Of that 32.7%, one in seven would actually be depressed....
Color me less than impressed with this study.
Of course, the Netherlands don't have a 3M km^2 watershed dumping water into them, either. And the Netherlands is smaller than Louisiana alone (by a factor of about 2.5), much less the Mississippi watershed (by a factor of about 80)....
Couple??? No, the USA has dominated for the last century, maybe. In the 19th century, we were mostly a non-entity outside North America (and arguably South America). We didn't really take over as the dominant world power till WW2. Before that, the UK was still the big dog....
Note that I did not use the phrase "gun homicide rate" in descrbing Chicago. There's a reason for that.
Note also that "gun homicide rate" and "crime rate" are not synonymous.
Note, finally, that the 15.1/100K you mention is well over twice the national average....
Didn't you notice OP's "no questions asked"?
If the police are going to run serial numbers, that's going to convince people not to sell their guns to the cops. Which means it'll work like most "gun buy-backs" - they get a lot of crap (like a WW1-era rifle) instead of the guns they want to get (the ones the gang-bangers are using).
The local laws in Chicago are some of the most restrictive in the USA. Basically, it reduces to "no guns for you unless you're politically connected".
And yet, the bad guys still seem to get guns with no real issues. Perhaps because if you're a criminal, you see nothing particularly wrong with breaking the gun laws, but who knows?
Once upon a time, we tried a "noble experiment" that we called Prohibition. For Chicago, as for most of the nation, the result was vastly increased crime, and gun battles in the streets (remember "the Night Chicago Died", anyone?).
Eventually, we got rid of that particular notion, and thing settled down.
And then we decided we needed to Do Something (about the recreational chemicals of choice of certain, shall we say, darker-skinned citizens) and now we have The War On Drugs.
So far, the War on Drugs (AKA Prohibition II) has had pretty much exactly the same effects as Prohibition.
So, let's try a really bold experiment! End the War On Drugs (Prohibition II), and see if it has the same effects that ending Prohibition had. After all, we can always restart the War On Drugs if ending it doesn't fix the problems.
And, what the Hell, it just might work to let people drink/smoke/inject whatever they want, rather than trying to be Mommy to every citizen....