Since you are so afraid of nuclear power plants why don't you move yourself and your family within two miles of a coal burning plant?
I never said anything about how great Coal was. Please don't put words in my mouth.
I live in Pennsylvania. Every day it rains, we receive acid from the "Tall Stacks" that are used at Coal burning plants throughout Ohio and Indiana.
Since your brought up Coal, if I was given the choice, I would suggest using Natural Gas as a fuel to power electricity. It is cleaner AFAIK, it is much more efficient. However, try to ask citizens to pay the costs of replacing coal fired plants with Natural Gas fired plants and most will be willing to live with coal.
storing waste safely in places like Yucca Mountain
Dave, but why don't you move to Nevada? After a few years and a couple of kids, let me know what you think of the Yucca Mountain, then?
In fact, since you are so unafraid of Nuclear Power Plants, I assume you live near one. If you don't, then why don't you move to be within, say, two miles of a plant? Then, start sending your notes.
Please moderators. I am not trying to start a flame, I'm just bringing up a point. If you are so unafraid of Nuclear Power, then move your family to within site distance of a plant.
Why on earth didn't they just link straight to Wikipedia?
One of the reasons not to link to Wikipedia is the fact that it is simply not a reliable source of information. Anyone can make changes to a definition at just about any time.
I am not trying to defend Answers.com using Google ads, I am just trying to point out the huge weakness with Wikipedia.
Ooh, a hospital. One of my past clients was a hospital. One time, I found out that the business office (not the nurses or doctors, but the people who ran the back office HR and Accounting operations) worked on Memorial Day. They said "Of course, we work Memorial Day, do you think no one gets sick on holidays?" I replied with a question, "So, what about all of those Saturdays and Sundays you have taken off?"
Seriously, that hospital was messed up. I hope your situation is better.
Of course, you get to take Flag Day as a paid holiday.
I'm not trying to be a Troll. I used to work in the public sector. It's just I decided that the higher salary was worth having to work on Columbus Day.
If you don't think of the passbook of a Swiss numbered bank account as being a form of ID
Yes, it is. But, if I understand how Swiss banks work correctly, they don't keep track of all of my activities (just key Financial transactions). An ID card issued by the goverment would, by it's very definition, keep track of all of my activities in a central location (Financial and non-Financial).
I'll take off my tin-foil hat now. I am being a bit over-reactionary. But, as I posted elsewhere, here in the United States, we do tend to cite privacy concerns when it comes to the idea of the national government keeping track of all of our activities. In reality, I know they COULD keep track of me today, if they tried. I'm just being a bit of a devil's advocate.
I did happen to know about the multi-language issue in Belgium, but thanks for pointing out the details behind the issue.
And, I have to admit, I am being a bit over-reactive with my post. However, in the United States, it is a bit of a tradition to be overly-sensitive to the idea of the government keeping track of it's citizens through a common ID card system.
OTOH, the government (and private companies) do keep track of us through Driver's Licenses and other cards (such as credit cards). Even so, the idea of a completely centralized database holding ID card information for all citizens does tend to raise privacy concerns here on the left side of "the pond".
To avoid confusion for the Europeans reading this post: Driver's Licenses are issued by each of the fifty individual state governments. An ID card system would be run by the federal (national) government.
. See, for instance, what Stalin did with the veterans of the Russian Revolution, or how Fidel Castro got rid of Che. Every revolution has ended up eating its children; i can't see why the Open Source Revolution should be different.
You know, a psychologist would probably be able to interpret many interesting things from your post.
I've seen Episode II a bunch of times, but frankly, I can't figure it all out.
It's not exactly complicated...
Actually, I agree with the GP. I have followed all of the movies and Ep II is way too complicated (not to mention boring). I had to watch it three times in order to understand ANY of the politics (on HBO -- I wasn't about to pay to see the movies in the theater again).
I consider Ep II to suffer from a similar problem to Godfather III. Each movie is way too complex (the Senatorial politics of Ep II/the Vatican politics of G-III)). And, each movie has one horrendous acting performance (Hayden Christiansen/Sophia Coppolla).
I would suggest that you don't watch ANY of them. Honestly, they just aren't worth it. And, this is coming from someone that went to the theater multiple times when Star Wars first came out.
Use vivisimo instead of clusty. It is the same search engine/company, just different names. If you search use Vivisimo, the sponsored links aren't quite as obnoxious. Unfortunately, the firefox extension uses Clusty, not Vivisimo.
As for the names, both of the suck big-time. "Vivisimo" and "Clusty". Geez. I remember a few years ago, Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting decided to change their name to "Monday". I wonder if the folks at Vivisimo hired anyone from PWCC, because their names suck almost as much.
Agreed. I've been using Vivisimo/Clusty for over a year now (I prefer to use Vivisimo, since the "clusty" name sucks). I think it is a great search engine.
Rumack: Mr. Striker, the passengers are getting worse. You must land soon. Ted Striker: Surely there must be something you can do. Rumack: I'm doing everything I can... and stop calling me Shirley.
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I never said anything about how great Coal was. Please don't put words in my mouth.
I live in Pennsylvania. Every day it rains, we receive acid from the "Tall Stacks" that are used at Coal burning plants throughout Ohio and Indiana.
Since your brought up Coal, if I was given the choice, I would suggest using Natural Gas as a fuel to power electricity. It is cleaner AFAIK, it is much more efficient. However, try to ask citizens to pay the costs of replacing coal fired plants with Natural Gas fired plants and most will be willing to live with coal.
Dave, but why don't you move to Nevada? After a few years and a couple of kids, let me know what you think of the Yucca Mountain, then?
In fact, since you are so unafraid of Nuclear Power Plants, I assume you live near one. If you don't, then why don't you move to be within, say, two miles of a plant? Then, start sending your notes.
Please moderators. I am not trying to start a flame, I'm just bringing up a point. If you are so unafraid of Nuclear Power, then move your family to within site distance of a plant.
Slashdot REJECTED a story on Google? Is the world coming to an end?
One of the reasons not to link to Wikipedia is the fact that it is simply not a reliable source of information. Anyone can make changes to a definition at just about any time.
I am not trying to defend Answers.com using Google ads, I am just trying to point out the huge weakness with Wikipedia.
Bad for me -- At least, it will be bad for the bank account when my wife hear's about this...
"Today's Database was Driven by the Letter S and the Number 5"
Ooh, a hospital. One of my past clients was a hospital. One time, I found out that the business office (not the nurses or doctors, but the people who ran the back office HR and Accounting operations) worked on Memorial Day. They said "Of course, we work Memorial Day, do you think no one gets sick on holidays?" I replied with a question, "So, what about all of those Saturdays and Sundays you have taken off?"
Seriously, that hospital was messed up. I hope your situation is better.
Of course, you get to take Flag Day as a paid holiday.
I'm not trying to be a Troll. I used to work in the public sector. It's just I decided that the higher salary was worth having to work on Columbus Day.
Well, "Seven of Nine" has the huge knockers. After her, who cares what the rest of them are called?
Yes, it is. But, if I understand how Swiss banks work correctly, they don't keep track of all of my activities (just key Financial transactions). An ID card issued by the goverment would, by it's very definition, keep track of all of my activities in a central location (Financial and non-Financial).
I'll take off my tin-foil hat now. I am being a bit over-reactionary. But, as I posted elsewhere, here in the United States, we do tend to cite privacy concerns when it comes to the idea of the national government keeping track of all of our activities. In reality, I know they COULD keep track of me today, if they tried. I'm just being a bit of a devil's advocate.
I did happen to know about the multi-language issue in Belgium, but thanks for pointing out the details behind the issue.
And, I have to admit, I am being a bit over-reactive with my post. However, in the United States, it is a bit of a tradition to be overly-sensitive to the idea of the government keeping track of it's citizens through a common ID card system.
OTOH, the government (and private companies) do keep track of us through Driver's Licenses and other cards (such as credit cards). Even so, the idea of a completely centralized database holding ID card information for all citizens does tend to raise privacy concerns here on the left side of "the pond".
To avoid confusion for the Europeans reading this post: Driver's Licenses are issued by each of the fifty individual state governments. An ID card system would be run by the federal (national) government.
Take it a step further: I would consider the terms "ID Card" and "Privacy" to be contradictory.
Forget John Williams
If you are REALLY serious: You would re-incarnate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and have HIM conduct the orchestra.
Sorry about the Troll, man.
Has this post been throught the SUPPRG (Slashdot Users Preferred Posting Review Group) process?
You know, a psychologist would probably be able to interpret many interesting things from your post.
It's not exactly complicated...
Actually, I agree with the GP. I have followed all of the movies and Ep II is way too complicated (not to mention boring). I had to watch it three times in order to understand ANY of the politics (on HBO -- I wasn't about to pay to see the movies in the theater again).
I consider Ep II to suffer from a similar problem to Godfather III. Each movie is way too complex (the Senatorial politics of Ep II/the Vatican politics of G-III)). And, each movie has one horrendous acting performance (Hayden Christiansen/Sophia Coppolla).
Thanks for ruining the movie. By the way: Rosebud was his sled.
I would suggest that you don't watch ANY of them. Honestly, they just aren't worth it. And, this is coming from someone that went to the theater multiple times when Star Wars first came out.
Heh, heh. You said "beaver".
Only if it's being driven by an old korean...
Use vivisimo instead of clusty. It is the same search engine/company, just different names. If you search use Vivisimo, the sponsored links aren't quite as obnoxious. Unfortunately, the firefox extension uses Clusty, not Vivisimo.
As for the names, both of the suck big-time. "Vivisimo" and "Clusty". Geez. I remember a few years ago, Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting decided to change their name to "Monday". I wonder if the folks at Vivisimo hired anyone from PWCC, because their names suck almost as much.
Agreed. I've been using Vivisimo/Clusty for over a year now (I prefer to use Vivisimo, since the "clusty" name sucks). I think it is a great search engine.
Rumack: Mr. Striker, the passengers are getting worse. You must land soon.
Ted Striker: Surely there must be something you can do.
Rumack: I'm doing everything I can... and stop calling me Shirley.
Oh, isn't that nice. An AC calls me a moron. How cute. Grow some gonads, AC.