the moronic "they hate us for our freedom" narrative always gets good traction here.
As it should.
They do hate you for your freedom. The only mistake most people make is believing the haters are the bearded brown people on the other side of the world.
Real freedom means being able to choose what you do all day and every day. That's something most wage-slaves dream about all their lives and if they're lucky, experience for a few brief twilight years of retirement. For a while there in the late '90s, after the fall of the iron curtain, people started talking about a "peace dividend". Prosperity was an expectation, and real incomes were high. In the west at least, many people were beginning to buy themselves out of their slavery earlier and earlier. Great for them, but a dangerous path for the capitalist economies.
As we've seen in TFA, the USA has spent $3 trillion on the invasions, but money is conserved almost as surely as mass and energy. All of those trillions have gone from the American public to... somewhere. From the outside, it looks like an unwinnable war was chosen as the most efficient way to pump wealth from workers to private industry; arresting one extremist was just the marketing ploy.
they are pumping between 6 and 9 tonnes of water an hour into the reactors and then extracting it again
“Reactor 3 at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station is leaking” — TEPCO says Cesium at 620,000 times above limit.
"Tokyo Electric Power Company says water containing radioactive material has been found flowing into a pit outside of the No.3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Workers could not confirm whether the water was leaking out into the sea, but they reported seeing froth near the water intake. TEPCO says the concentration of radioactive Cesium in water sampled from the pit was 620,000 times higher than the safety limit set by the government."
We have to take it on faith that those were the only cracks, and that they were sealed completely and permanently.
Even Tepco doesn't believe that:
"The company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak." from TFA.
I am disappointed that NASA engineers could not come up with a way to use the acronyms CLUCK and MOO.
I'm disappointed because I read it as fuel that tasted like children, and that made more sense, 'cos you'd get a LOT more fat from rendering down the average American kid than you would from a chicken.
Dunno, but there's plenty of Microsoft suits with pucker marks on their leather office chairs.
A gadget like this is going to make a lot of people people ask why they need an expensive, complicated, flaky and vulnerable Windows/Office box at all.
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You forgot the bogans. They're everywhere.
Google it.
the moronic "they hate us for our freedom" narrative always gets good traction here.
As it should.
They do hate you for your freedom. The only mistake most people make is believing the haters are the bearded brown people on the other side of the world.
Real freedom means being able to choose what you do all day and every day. That's something most wage-slaves dream about all their lives and if they're lucky, experience for a few brief twilight years of retirement. For a while there in the late '90s, after the fall of the iron curtain, people started talking about a "peace dividend". Prosperity was an expectation, and real incomes were high. In the west at least, many people were beginning to buy themselves out of their slavery earlier and earlier. Great for them, but a dangerous path for the capitalist economies.
As we've seen in TFA, the USA has spent $3 trillion on the invasions, but money is conserved almost as surely as mass and energy. All of those trillions have gone from the American public to... somewhere. From the outside, it looks like an unwinnable war was chosen as the most efficient way to pump wealth from workers to private industry; arresting one extremist was just the marketing ploy.
Without GPS, our army is lost in the middle of the desert. etc. etc.
Desert. Quagmire. What's the difference?
that plant was due for replacement/shutdown many years ago.
Browns Ferry, Oyster Creek, Scriba, Nine Mile Point, etc etc etc.
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist1.htm
I read that and immediately thought what fucking idiots would use Windows for anything so fucking important.
FTFY.
they are pumping between 6 and 9 tonnes of water an hour into the reactors and then extracting it again
“Reactor 3 at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station is leaking” — TEPCO says Cesium at 620,000 times above limit.
"Tokyo Electric Power Company says water containing radioactive material has been found flowing into a pit outside of the No.3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Workers could not confirm whether the water was leaking out into the sea, but they reported seeing froth near the water intake. TEPCO says the concentration of radioactive Cesium in water sampled from the pit was 620,000 times higher than the safety limit set by the government."
We have to take it on faith that those were the only cracks, and that they were sealed completely and permanently.
Even Tepco doesn't believe that:
"The company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak." from TFA.
...how many reactors there are in that area of Japan that are newer, and shut down without issue.
How many does it take to ruin the area for 20,000 years?
We should have continued building and updating designs over the last 30 or 40 years, but anti-nuclear nuts have left us all pretty damn screwed.
Ah, the familiar mating cry of the pro-nuclear lobbyist.
Come to me babies! I want to screw you (for 20,000 years).
My sarcasm detector is indecisive on this one
How about expressing it differently:
"Microsoft now has a choice between making a secure OS, or bundling Security Essentials with their insecure OS."
Do you have evidence that this exploit will work on any platform other than Windows?
Isn't lockin marvellous?
There's more OSX and Linux malware out there than you might think.
Examples?
Anyone else as surprised as I am that Microsoft HAS standards?
Of course they have standards! They bought ISO, didn't they?
What needs to be open sourced about Concorde?
The ignition keys.
there was a paper about combining a (crappy) machine translation with low-skilled workers
Even better, Distributed Proofreaders is Project Gutenberg's version of just that. They've probably passed 20,000 books OCR'd and proofed by now.
This article is strengthening the already published reports on open source OCR software: basically, it's not performing all that well. I wish it was.
Now that it's getting some exposure, I'd say it'll be performing a lot better soon.
Nothing like being in the public eye for attracting clever people's attention.
I am disappointed that NASA engineers could not come up with a way to use the acronyms CLUCK and MOO.
I'm disappointed because I read it as fuel that tasted like children, and that made more sense, 'cos you'd get a LOT more fat from rendering down the average American kid than you would from a chicken.
And how does sudo compare to logging out and logging back in as admin for convenience?
It's *not* a fair comparison for the simple reason that Linux is open source for most part.
Who gives a rat's arse if it's fair?
I just want to know which is BETTER.
but that is STILL not Microsoft fault.
Have you ever used any other operating systems?
A gadget like this is going to make a lot of people people ask why they need an expensive, complicated, flaky and vulnerable Windows/Office box at all.
At least Google is welcome
Nah, Microsoft's embracing the rest of the world as well.
Anyone want to start a pool on how soon we'll find the link back to them for this litigation?
There's a reason lasers are used to perform 3D scans. The iPhone screen is not a point source of light.