The other thing I'm concerned about is what happens to everyone else's pay. Will they guy that's now making $15/hour (like the EMTS, construction workers, etc.) now get $20?
Good question. I should note that when I was a young man, I never saw a minimum wage hike that affected my (higher) pay. I was just closer to minimum as a result....
4. They suspect that people who can't spell common words like "they're", "their", or "there" reliably, they also can't think clearly enough to make a meaningful point in a discussion.
Of course, I'm a grade-A asshole, so what do I know about what motivates that sort of person?
It's actually something of a mystery, but crime rates have dropped in pretty much all first world countries despite their having wildly disparate crime policies.
Not really much of a mystery. Read up on lead (the metal), reduction of same and correlations with crime rates....
Really? Fewest fatalities and injuries per MWHr of any type of power generation in the USA is a bad thing?
Hell, if you include installation/building of power plants statistics, nuclear is safer than solar (people fall off roofs installing solar systems pretty regularly).
For the most part, nuclear power is (if you'll pardon the expression) safer than houses. And clean.
And don't get me started on how much cleaner it would be if reprocessing spent fuel rods were allowed. Suffice it to say that spent fuel rods still have the overwhelming majority of the fissionables present (it's just contaminated with fission byproducts that suck up the neutrons), and that NOT reprocessing the fuel rods would be comparable to throwing out a solar panel because it got some pollen on it, rather than hosing it down....
"24/7 is The" should include "less than 90 mRem per year" between "is" and "The". Plus other verbiage in "2." that isn't all that important to the message.
1) Allowable dosage for a Navy nuclear plant worker (not the guys in the ship, but the guys who actually work in the nuclear plants on the ship) is 500 mRem per year. The dosage they could pick up if they were working in the contaminated areas 24/7 is The Navy's allowable dosage is 1/10 the allowable dosage for civilian nuclear plant workers.
So, worst case, if someone were to spend his entire Navy career (to include eating and sleeping in the contaminated piping) in the contaminated areas, he'd get somewhere around 2% of the legal dosage.
IOW, nothing to see here, move along....
PS. It should be noted that 600 Rem in a short period is the point where you have a significant chance of dying. "A short period" is generally considered to be 24 hours. The dosage you could get from working in that contaminated piping for a 20 year Navy career is 2 Rem.
I wouldn't be surprised if US nukes like the Virginia class are actually even quieter than a NK diesel, at least when it's moving.
Note that it's easier to find a Virginia-class boat by listening for places that there are NO FISH NOISES than by listening for submarine noises. The Virginia-class is actually quieter than ambient - it sounds like a hole in the water....
Hmm, Thresher and Scorpion are still in "port and starboard", last I checked.
Note, for those who aren't aware of Navy slang, "port and starboard" is (among its other uses) slang for "standing one watch in two". Whenever a boat comes even close to sinking, the expression used is "trying to take Thresher and Scorpion out of port and starboard"....
20/20 hindsight would have had Stalin and Truman not fucking over Korea by partitioning it into 2 rival states in the first place.
Well, given that Uncle Joe wasn't about to let the whole of Korea be occupied by the West (read: USA), your solution would have been to let the whole country become a Soviet satellite?
Yeah, that worked really well for Eastern Europe, so we should have used that system everywhere....
Hmm, the last nuclear power plant I spent any time at had "primary heat exchangers" that were better than an inch thick. Somehow I don't think an M4 is going to be an issue with an inch of armour to punch through....
Throw in some minute mention of increase in cancer risk, and you have the recipe for a FUD meal served up for the uninformed.
174 got enough of a dose to increase their chances of dying after developing cancer by 0.5%. Which means there's a 87% chance that ONE guy will die of cancer as a result of Fukushima.
Wow. The second-worst nuclear disaster in history, and it MIGHT cause ONE death. In thirty or forty years....
As for his assertion about being extradited from Sweden to the US. Sweden doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.
Extraditing from the UK (which is the US's BFF) to Sweden (which doesn't particularly care for the US) in order to get Assange extradited to the US really makes no sense at all.
If we'd really wanted Assange all that badly, we'd have just asked the UK to extradite him straight to the US and been done with it....
You seem to think that doing whatever the President says is part of a Senator's job. Alas, this is not so. Just because the President (Obama, Reagan, whoever) nominates someone in no way obligates any Senator to vote to confirm him. That's why we have Senate confirmation, after all....
Oh, and what "usually" happens when you you use a collection of preused ideas is that you create something that is unoriginal, at best. Though I must admit that your spelling is original. Perhaps that's what you were talking about?
Mr. Leinster, at least, seems to have imagined some of the technology that our children use today. And he was a decade older than MY grandparents (and I'll be a grandfather soon).
But your point is still reasonable, if a longer timeline is used. Why should we expect that Charlemagne should have anticipated the modern world? And we should we think that we can anticipate the limits of the possible for our descendants in 1200 years (for those of you who are unaware of "Big Charlie", he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800AD (and yes, it was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire, but that's what history likes to call it anyway - deal))?
Many years ago DOD used to dither the timing signals on GPS (called "selective availability") to downgrade the position quality.
And the people who really needed accurate positioning information did "differential GPS".
Which basically consisted of a GPS receiver at a known surveyed point and a transmitter that sent corrections out in realtime based on the difference between where GPS said they were and where the survey said they were. Worked quite well close to the survey point (within a few dozen miles), not so well further away. So the whole point of SA was eliminated....
Why would I HAVE bought it? Where did this (relatively) new bit of illiteracy come from? And when? Are they really teaching this in school, or are more people getting through HS/College without ever having to write anything?
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Good question. I should note that when I was a young man, I never saw a minimum wage hike that affected my (higher) pay. I was just closer to minimum as a result....
No. It raises the PRICE of everyone's labour. There is a difference.
4. They suspect that people who can't spell common words like "they're", "their", or "there" reliably, they also can't think clearly enough to make a meaningful point in a discussion.
Of course, I'm a grade-A asshole, so what do I know about what motivates that sort of person?
Not really much of a mystery. Read up on lead (the metal), reduction of same and correlations with crime rates....
Which was intentional? The "write" or the "your"? Or both?
Umm, no. Apparently compliance rates of those gun control laws was almost 20%. So 80%+ of the gun owners just ignored the laws....
Really? Fewest fatalities and injuries per MWHr of any type of power generation in the USA is a bad thing?
Hell, if you include installation/building of power plants statistics, nuclear is safer than solar (people fall off roofs installing solar systems pretty regularly).
For the most part, nuclear power is (if you'll pardon the expression) safer than houses. And clean.
And don't get me started on how much cleaner it would be if reprocessing spent fuel rods were allowed. Suffice it to say that spent fuel rods still have the overwhelming majority of the fissionables present (it's just contaminated with fission byproducts that suck up the neutrons), and that NOT reprocessing the fuel rods would be comparable to throwing out a solar panel because it got some pollen on it, rather than hosing it down....
Argh! Preview is your friend!
And LT signs screw up your message.
"24/7 is The" should include "less than 90 mRem per year" between "is" and "The". Plus other verbiage in "2." that isn't all that important to the message.
It's early. I should still be in bed....
Specifically:
1) Allowable dosage for a Navy nuclear plant worker (not the guys in the ship, but the guys who actually work in the nuclear plants on the ship) is 500 mRem per year. The dosage they could pick up if they were working in the contaminated areas 24/7 is The Navy's allowable dosage is 1/10 the allowable dosage for civilian nuclear plant workers.
So, worst case, if someone were to spend his entire Navy career (to include eating and sleeping in the contaminated piping) in the contaminated areas, he'd get somewhere around 2% of the legal dosage.
IOW, nothing to see here, move along....
PS. It should be noted that 600 Rem in a short period is the point where you have a significant chance of dying. "A short period" is generally considered to be 24 hours. The dosage you could get from working in that contaminated piping for a 20 year Navy career is 2 Rem.
They mean "cheaper" than the guys who are paying us kickbacks....
Note that it's easier to find a Virginia-class boat by listening for places that there are NO FISH NOISES than by listening for submarine noises. The Virginia-class is actually quieter than ambient - it sounds like a hole in the water....
Note, for those who aren't aware of Navy slang, "port and starboard" is (among its other uses) slang for "standing one watch in two". Whenever a boat comes even close to sinking, the expression used is "trying to take Thresher and Scorpion out of port and starboard"....
Well, given that Uncle Joe wasn't about to let the whole of Korea be occupied by the West (read: USA), your solution would have been to let the whole country become a Soviet satellite?
Yeah, that worked really well for Eastern Europe, so we should have used that system everywhere....
Note the "Militia Act". It's still in force, having never been repealed or superseded.
You summarized it nicely, by the by. Yes, if you're an American citizen you're a member of the militia....
Hmm, the last nuclear power plant I spent any time at had "primary heat exchangers" that were better than an inch thick. Somehow I don't think an M4 is going to be an issue with an inch of armour to punch through....
174 got enough of a dose to increase their chances of dying after developing cancer by 0.5%. Which means there's a 87% chance that ONE guy will die of cancer as a result of Fukushima.
Wow. The second-worst nuclear disaster in history, and it MIGHT cause ONE death. In thirty or forty years....
1) those stadiums aren't just for football.
2) no city is obligated in any way to build a stadium for the NFL. And the NFL isn't obligated in any way to provide team for any particular city....
Extraditing from the UK (which is the US's BFF) to Sweden (which doesn't particularly care for the US) in order to get Assange extradited to the US really makes no sense at all.
If we'd really wanted Assange all that badly, we'd have just asked the UK to extradite him straight to the US and been done with it....
You seem to think that doing whatever the President says is part of a Senator's job. Alas, this is not so. Just because the President (Obama, Reagan, whoever) nominates someone in no way obligates any Senator to vote to confirm him. That's why we have Senate confirmation, after all....
There. Not they.
Academia. Not accademia.
Cite. Not site.
Oh, and what "usually" happens when you you use a collection of preused ideas is that you create something that is unoriginal, at best. Though I must admit that your spelling is original. Perhaps that's what you were talking about?
Fares. A level.
Literacy. It's everybody's friend....
Umm, no.
A gigawatt plant produces 10,000,000 KWhr in ten hours. We'd have to be paying about $100 per KWhr for this to be true.
And I don't know about you, but my electric bill isn't $30,000 per month....
"A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster (1946).
Mr. Leinster, at least, seems to have imagined some of the technology that our children use today. And he was a decade older than MY grandparents (and I'll be a grandfather soon).
But your point is still reasonable, if a longer timeline is used. Why should we expect that Charlemagne should have anticipated the modern world? And we should we think that we can anticipate the limits of the possible for our descendants in 1200 years (for those of you who are unaware of "Big Charlie", he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800AD (and yes, it was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire, but that's what history likes to call it anyway - deal))?
And the people who really needed accurate positioning information did "differential GPS".
Which basically consisted of a GPS receiver at a known surveyed point and a transmitter that sent corrections out in realtime based on the difference between where GPS said they were and where the survey said they were. Worked quite well close to the survey point (within a few dozen miles), not so well further away. So the whole point of SA was eliminated....
Why would I HAVE bought it? Where did this (relatively) new bit of illiteracy come from? And when? Are they really teaching this in school, or are more people getting through HS/College without ever having to write anything?