I am GM of a nuclear power plan and my bonus is based on the total production of my power plant. My engineering tells me I have to take an outage to fix a pump but if I do that I am going to mix my goal
Somehow I have a hard time believing that the GM of a nuclear power plant can't spell "plant" and "miss".
I also can't think of a nuclear power plant design that has a single pump that requires the plant to shut down to repair. All the ones I know of have backup pumps that allow repairs to offline units without having to shutdown....
Fund the government at zero cost through the Fed. Inflation is eliminated by indexation of all incomes: if your income to prices ratio is 3/2 today and 6/4 tomorrow and 12/8 the day after, it still reduces to a constant 3/2. Purchasing power does not change. Simple math.
Wow, someone who still believes in magic! And fairies. And probably ponies.
That peculiar notion of yours works right up until someone decides to save a bit of money. Because last year's dollars are worth much less than this year's dollars.
Which means saving up for a down-payment on a house becomes pretty much impossible. And setting money aside for retirement is a waste of the time filling out the paperwork.
So, proper behaviour becomes "as the end of the fiscal year approaches (and your new raise comes due), spend every penny you have, because prices are going to jump to match the new payscales".
If so, I fail to see a problem - for the low price of zero dollars, NYC got exactly nothing, and Verizon spent some money for which they'll get no return.
CIA people have been in the Whitehouse since 1980, out in the open (it's debatable before then).
Debatable? The CIA works directly for the President. Always has, even when it was the OSS (run by a personal friend of the then-President, in case you were unaware).
If the President didn't want them doing something, they wouldn't do it.
It's not as easy to sneak onto a military base (where, you know, base housing is located) as the TV/movies would have you believe. You do know that, right?
Yes, actually it is as easy to get onto a military base as TV/movies would have you believe. As long as the base includes housing, your worst cast scenario for "sneaking on base" is "steal a car with a base sticker and drive right in". Usually it's easier than that in CONUS.
its 27-tonne weight could be launched to LEO by a single Delta-IV Heavy and hauled off to intercept by a second launch vehicle.
I find this an interesting statement. Running the numbers, I find that you'd have to be using a rocket burning something rather better than H2/O2 (we're talking Isp >500 just to reach escape speed, much less to reach the target rock) to allow two launches of a delta-IV heavy.
And this entirely ignores that noone actually has a Tsar Bomba sized nuke available to be detonated.
Oh, and you didn't allow for a backup - if your delta-IV heavy blows up on launch (no it won't be a nuclear explosion, much less a tsar bomba sized nuclear explosion), getting another Tsar Bomba put together with a launch vehicle in your now shorter window (and it'll require more deltaV, since you'd presumably do your first launch attempt at the point that minimizes deltaV requirements)...
In other words, it'll be a bit more difficult than two delta-IV heavy launches, even if things go perfectly. If they don't it'll be a lot more than two...
BLOCKQUOTE> you can say Obama is a cock-sucking negro ape
is clearly a matter of opinion, and thus protected speech.
On the other hand:
BLOCKQUOTE>you can say Bush staged 9/11
is a statement of purported fact, and thus libel/defamation/slander begins to rear its ugly head.
Note that Bush being an ex-President is a counterweight to the libel/defamation/slander thing - it's really hard to bring such charges against comments about someone in that public a position....
The risks of nuclear are much larger than the estimates at the beginning of the nuclear age, which are used by the merry slashdot pro-nuclear band.
And yet, to date, nuclear power has done less damage to the environment, as well as killing fewer people (by several orders of magnitude) than just coal mining, much less coal power in general.
If we'd gone all nuke back in the 60's, we'd not have had the last half century worth of coal mining deaths, nor would we have the coal ash heaps piled untidily about our environment. And best of all, we wouldn't be talking about AGW, since CO2 levels wouldn't be this high by a significant margin....
That said, the ability to reach an NEO means putting a multiton spacecraft farther out (in deltaV terms) than we've ever gone before.
Something meant to put men on Mars MIGHT be suitable. Or not, depending on the orbit of the particular NEO that turns out to be a threat.
Yes, we're likely to have years of warning to develop the needed hardware. But "likely" isn't certainty, and it would really suck to waste ten years mapping NEOs only to discover that the last one we found was going to impact in nineteen months....
Which is why the development of suitable spacecraft should be done in parallel with the search for NEO's, NOT in series with the search....
It already has weeded out large landbound reptiles that can't take the heat (or the cold) due to meteor strikes.
I really, really hope you're not talking about dinosaurs here. Since dinosaurs were more closely related to birds than reptiles (why do you think they move Aves under Dinosauria recently?)....
Do you even understand why the medallion system was implemented? I'll give you a hint, it has nothing to do with so-called taxi cartels.
Let's see. A bit of reading shows that the medallion system was implemented because of "public fears" that taxi drivers were driving too much, and therefore not doing proper maintenance on their vehicles.
So, the solution to "public fears" was to limit the number of taxis (which would require the taxi drivers to drive even more, thus further limiting their time spent on maintenance, OR to reduce the general availability of taxis, since they'd have fewer taxis working fewer hours each)....
Yeah, that's a strong argument in favour of the medallion system alright.
You are entitled to a private life, but if you make something public, it's public, period. No take backs. Not because I said so but because of the nature of public information.
For the sake of argument, what if someone with a twitter feed decides it's newsworthy and does it for you?
Umm, for someone with a twitter feed to decide some part of your private life is newsworthy, you had to have told him about that part of your private life.
And once you tell someone something, it's no longer "private".
Remember: "three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead"....
Why is is that after more than fifty years of progress, the United States is taking more time to put humans into orbit than it took to go to the moon?
Two reasons, really.
1) We spent money like water on the moon race.
2) We really don't care about putting men in space these days.
Okay, 3 reasons:
3) Two shuttles full of dead people in a risk-averse society. We've gotten so we get panicky when people die, especially when they do it on TV. So we're insisting on an insane level of perfection for putting people up. Hell, Dragon could've been putting people up for a couple years now, if it weren't for NASA's "man-rating" standards....
If they get that going beyond the talking stage, I demand that they include a clause banning divorce in that proposed amendment. Vows that include the phrase "as long as we both shall live" should mean something, dammit!
Note that marriage is NOT a religious thing. It's a government thing. The religious ritual is completely irrelevant to marriage in the USA, since the only thing that makes a marriage valid in the eyes of the law is that marriage license you get at City Hall (or wherever the appropriate office is where you live).
The words the pastor says no more a marriage make than your father saying "well, you're ready to drive" means you have a Driver's License....
Of course they will. Because if it costs money to develop GMOs, then there had better be a return on investment. Or noone will bother.
And since GMOs, like any new drug, includes a lot of trial & error (mostly error), your successful new GMO (or drug) has to carry the costs of all your unsuccessful ones. So you have to be able to make a lot of money on any success, or noone will bother.
Note that the cost of developing this failed GMO will have to be paid, down the line, by higher costs on other products produced by the same people.
39 of the rockets they've "acquired" have never flown. LauncherOne is over a year away from its first test flight.
Arianespace's soyuz launchers (the other 21) have at least actually, though why they're not buying soyuz launches directly from the Russians is unclear.
Except that if "State", only means individual states, then many of the constitutional amendments - including the second - fall apart on the federal level.
I'm curious as to which part of the Second falls apart on the Federal level. I'm assuming it's "shall not be infringed", but I'm not sure what that has to do with the "State".
Note that "being necessary to a free State" does not actually imply that the Federal Constitution is any less bound by "shall not be infringed" (since the Second is a modification of the FEDERAL Constitution, not a State Constitution).
That's a pretty bold claim considering a 1KW lithium ion battery currently cost 10x that.
***shrugs***
Harddrive prices fell that fast. Or perhaps faster. In my lifetime, they increased in capacity by a factor of 100,000 or so, and the price per HDD fell by a factor of five or more (100000x the drive for 1/5th the money)....
Losing 300+ grams (11+ oz) a day is generally considered seriously unhealthy. Yeah, you started from a seriously unhealthy weight, but continuing a diet like that is a really bad idea.
Still, a major step, especially for the rarer bloodtypes. Be nice to not have to depend so much on donors, especially since donors are way more likely to have loathsome diseases transmitted via blood than any lab-grown blood....
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Somehow I have a hard time believing that the GM of a nuclear power plant can't spell "plant" and "miss".
I also can't think of a nuclear power plant design that has a single pump that requires the plant to shut down to repair. All the ones I know of have backup pumps that allow repairs to offline units without having to shutdown....
Wow, someone who still believes in magic! And fairies. And probably ponies.
That peculiar notion of yours works right up until someone decides to save a bit of money. Because last year's dollars are worth much less than this year's dollars.
Which means saving up for a down-payment on a house becomes pretty much impossible. And setting money aside for retirement is a waste of the time filling out the paperwork.
So, proper behaviour becomes "as the end of the fiscal year approaches (and your new raise comes due), spend every penny you have, because prices are going to jump to match the new payscales".
So, the city didn't pay Verizon any money?
If so, I fail to see a problem - for the low price of zero dollars, NYC got exactly nothing, and Verizon spent some money for which they'll get no return.
Debatable? The CIA works directly for the President. Always has, even when it was the OSS (run by a personal friend of the then-President, in case you were unaware).
If the President didn't want them doing something, they wouldn't do it.
TFA didn't describe it as a contract. No mention was made of money changing hands.
But, somehow, I can't see Verizon (or anyone else) spending the money to put fibre even kind of near everywhere in NYC without being paid.
So, where's the contract, and what was the fee paid for this?
Yes, actually it is as easy to get onto a military base as TV/movies would have you believe. As long as the base includes housing, your worst cast scenario for "sneaking on base" is "steal a car with a base sticker and drive right in". Usually it's easier than that in CONUS.
I find this an interesting statement. Running the numbers, I find that you'd have to be using a rocket burning something rather better than H2/O2 (we're talking Isp >500 just to reach escape speed, much less to reach the target rock) to allow two launches of a delta-IV heavy.
And this entirely ignores that noone actually has a Tsar Bomba sized nuke available to be detonated.
Oh, and you didn't allow for a backup - if your delta-IV heavy blows up on launch (no it won't be a nuclear explosion, much less a tsar bomba sized nuclear explosion), getting another Tsar Bomba put together with a launch vehicle in your now shorter window (and it'll require more deltaV, since you'd presumably do your first launch attempt at the point that minimizes deltaV requirements)...
In other words, it'll be a bit more difficult than two delta-IV heavy launches, even if things go perfectly. If they don't it'll be a lot more than two...
Note that:
BLOCKQUOTE> you can say Obama is a cock-sucking negro ape
is clearly a matter of opinion, and thus protected speech.
On the other hand:
BLOCKQUOTE>you can say Bush staged 9/11
is a statement of purported fact, and thus libel/defamation/slander begins to rear its ugly head.
Note that Bush being an ex-President is a counterweight to the libel/defamation/slander thing - it's really hard to bring such charges against comments about someone in that public a position....
Might want to look at total governmental debt instead of deficit. Deficit just marks the extent to which the debt is increasing year by year.
Or even look at current accounts deficit - the deficit ignoring interest on outstanding debt.
And yet, to date, nuclear power has done less damage to the environment, as well as killing fewer people (by several orders of magnitude) than just coal mining, much less coal power in general.
If we'd gone all nuke back in the 60's, we'd not have had the last half century worth of coal mining deaths, nor would we have the coal ash heaps piled untidily about our environment. And best of all, we wouldn't be talking about AGW, since CO2 levels wouldn't be this high by a significant margin....
Yes, I know you were being snide.
That said, the ability to reach an NEO means putting a multiton spacecraft farther out (in deltaV terms) than we've ever gone before.
Something meant to put men on Mars MIGHT be suitable. Or not, depending on the orbit of the particular NEO that turns out to be a threat.
Yes, we're likely to have years of warning to develop the needed hardware. But "likely" isn't certainty, and it would really suck to waste ten years mapping NEOs only to discover that the last one we found was going to impact in nineteen months....
Which is why the development of suitable spacecraft should be done in parallel with the search for NEO's, NOT in series with the search....
I really, really hope you're not talking about dinosaurs here. Since dinosaurs were more closely related to birds than reptiles (why do you think they move Aves under Dinosauria recently?)....
A plan to save us from NEOs would require some ability to actually reach an NEO before it hit.
Since we're not working to develop that capability, pretty much anything else we do is irrelevant....
Let's see. A bit of reading shows that the medallion system was implemented because of "public fears" that taxi drivers were driving too much, and therefore not doing proper maintenance on their vehicles.
So, the solution to "public fears" was to limit the number of taxis (which would require the taxi drivers to drive even more, thus further limiting their time spent on maintenance, OR to reduce the general availability of taxis, since they'd have fewer taxis working fewer hours each)....
Yeah, that's a strong argument in favour of the medallion system alright.
Umm, for someone with a twitter feed to decide some part of your private life is newsworthy, you had to have told him about that part of your private life.
And once you tell someone something, it's no longer "private".
Remember: "three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead"....
Two reasons, really.
1) We spent money like water on the moon race.
2) We really don't care about putting men in space these days.
Okay, 3 reasons:
3) Two shuttles full of dead people in a risk-averse society. We've gotten so we get panicky when people die, especially when they do it on TV. So we're insisting on an insane level of perfection for putting people up. Hell, Dragon could've been putting people up for a couple years now, if it weren't for NASA's "man-rating" standards....
Yep. Hence the "unclear", as opposed to "stupid decision" or something similar....
Note that marriage is NOT a religious thing. It's a government thing. The religious ritual is completely irrelevant to marriage in the USA, since the only thing that makes a marriage valid in the eyes of the law is that marriage license you get at City Hall (or wherever the appropriate office is where you live).
The words the pastor says no more a marriage make than your father saying "well, you're ready to drive" means you have a Driver's License....
Of course they will. Because if it costs money to develop GMOs, then there had better be a return on investment. Or noone will bother.
And since GMOs, like any new drug, includes a lot of trial & error (mostly error), your successful new GMO (or drug) has to carry the costs of all your unsuccessful ones. So you have to be able to make a lot of money on any success, or noone will bother.
Note that the cost of developing this failed GMO will have to be paid, down the line, by higher costs on other products produced by the same people.
39 of the rockets they've "acquired" have never flown. LauncherOne is over a year away from its first test flight.
Arianespace's soyuz launchers (the other 21) have at least actually, though why they're not buying soyuz launches directly from the Russians is unclear.
What, they decided to censor Civil War games too?
I'm curious as to which part of the Second falls apart on the Federal level. I'm assuming it's "shall not be infringed", but I'm not sure what that has to do with the "State".
Note that "being necessary to a free State" does not actually imply that the Federal Constitution is any less bound by "shall not be infringed" (since the Second is a modification of the FEDERAL Constitution, not a State Constitution).
***shrugs***
Harddrive prices fell that fast. Or perhaps faster. In my lifetime, they increased in capacity by a factor of 100,000 or so, and the price per HDD fell by a factor of five or more (100000x the drive for 1/5th the money)....
Losing 300+ grams (11+ oz) a day is generally considered seriously unhealthy. Yeah, you started from a seriously unhealthy weight, but continuing a diet like that is a really bad idea.
Shame it won't work the way it did in that story.
Still, a major step, especially for the rarer bloodtypes. Be nice to not have to depend so much on donors, especially since donors are way more likely to have loathsome diseases transmitted via blood than any lab-grown blood....