Oh, you mean besides that tax increase that happened Jan 1?
"Progressives" complain that "Conservatives" don't compromise because they don't agree to every tax increase proposed. "Conservatives" complain that "Progressives" don't compromise because they don't agree to every spending cut proposed.
Nothing actually gets fixed, and we end up in the worst of every proposed solution because of bullshit arbitrary deadlines imposed like the Sequester. Bad policy never begets good policy, so the Sequester was flawed from the beginning.
That incident you are referring to was the result of an idiot bureaucracy with a culture of unaccountability that decided it was the Highway Department's responsibility to clear it, because the whale wasn't within the border of a State Park, and at the time, Oregon classified the beach as highway. And guess what's in the Highway Department's toolbox for clearing large obstructions? Big yellow excavation equipment, and TNT.
it's more a problem with proliferation than "we don't like Canadian designs."
CANDU designs, through their use of heavy water, produce Tritium, which can then be used in a "boosted fission" weapon design. Is the amount of Tritium enough to hold back adoption of CANDU? No, but it is a concern that comes up.
The solution, he said, was probably smaller reactors in which the heat could not push the temperature to the fuel’s melting point.
Probably. Or, design a cooling system that works on convection during a power-down state. Like modern Generation-3 and Generation-4 reactor designs utilize.
The Westinghouse AP1000 requires no operator action for 72 hours in the event of a shutdown.
Yes and no. It's true that isotopes with longer half lives are less radioactive in a prompt sense, but it also matters what the type of decay is and what it decays into.
If you have something that undergoes fission slowly, but gives off gamma radiation and splits into a chain of very nasty stuff that has half-life measured in minutes, you've got a problem.
Opteron was nice when it shipped, except had no software that really would use it to the fullest extents. Chicken and the egg, and all that.
However, it's biggest achievement was putting a stake through the heart of Itanium, guaranteeing that the only thing that came out of that Intel debacle was EFI.
Well, that's definitely a unique strategy - buy a washed up radio and phone manufacturer that most consumers won't buy a product from again, as practically everyone has been burned by a slip-shod Motorola product in the past, for a shload of money in order to gain a patent portfolio that can be used to strike back at your chief rival; and then proceed lose on every single count and have those patents invalidated as obvious after paying for 2.5 years of lawyer lawyer retainers and court costs.
Well, there are already background checks for firearm sales through dealers (just not gun shows or private sales), it's very illegal to "spray" even one bullet "across a crowd" as this is called Attempted Murder, and depending on your definition of "high-end military hardware" that is already highly regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1945.
There's still a need of 60 Senators to vote for cloture, then 51 to vote to pass, then if it's veto'd, it would need 67 Senators to vote for it again, with any Democrat openly and publicly showing the President (and leader of the Democratic Party) the finger.
The Senate would also need a vote of 67 "yea" tallies to override a veto. They can't even get 60 votes on a lunch order, much less a veto override - and this is also considering that the majority of the Senate is the same political party as the President.
The guys who make the right promises, and keep them, are too smart to go into politics in the first place.
If you're a good guy, you get drummed out of that game long before you get to national prominence; good guys don't win against mudslinging liars in the political game.
My family descends from a family farm, where they have received notice that a flour mill is being built nearby. My question for my father was "when that thing explodes, is the farm going to get a nice insurance settlement?"
The problem with economic growth, is that something like a $500M fertilizer plant brings lots of jobs. The people that work those jobs don't like driving 30 miles each way to get to work, so the town that used to be at a safe distance from the half-billion dollar industrial site grows towards it. Then the thing blows up and everyone asks "Why wasn't it in the middle of nowhere?"
What's even more interesting is that while all of this is going on, Dell has been on a shopping spree of buying up companies that do business with large enterprise.
My company uses a data-at-rest encryption product that is now owned by Dell, and we're looking at an identity management suite from a company that was just bought by Dell. They also bought Wyse, who is either #1 or #2 in Thin Clients depending on what day of the week it is (HP would be the other #1 or #2).
If a private equity deal was done in order to break up Dell and sell off chunks of the business, then these companies are royally screwed.
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Oh, you mean besides that tax increase that happened Jan 1?
"Progressives" complain that "Conservatives" don't compromise because they don't agree to every tax increase proposed.
"Conservatives" complain that "Progressives" don't compromise because they don't agree to every spending cut proposed.
Nothing actually gets fixed, and we end up in the worst of every proposed solution because of bullshit arbitrary deadlines imposed like the Sequester. Bad policy never begets good policy, so the Sequester was flawed from the beginning.
Good policy never comes from bad policy. The basic concept of the sequester is flawed.
That sounds like a challenge to me...
That incident you are referring to was the result of an idiot bureaucracy with a culture of unaccountability that decided it was the Highway Department's responsibility to clear it, because the whale wasn't within the border of a State Park, and at the time, Oregon classified the beach as highway. And guess what's in the Highway Department's toolbox for clearing large obstructions? Big yellow excavation equipment, and TNT.
So, they used half a ton of dynamite.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale
I was so going to post a massive bitch-fest about #1, until I saw #2 and started laughing.
Well done.
it's more a problem with proliferation than "we don't like Canadian designs."
CANDU designs, through their use of heavy water, produce Tritium, which can then be used in a "boosted fission" weapon design. Is the amount of Tritium enough to hold back adoption of CANDU? No, but it is a concern that comes up.
Taking the comparison a bit further, here are some (mostly) 2008 death statistics from the US:
Tobacco – 500,000
Alcohol – 100,000
Car Phones (2002) - 2,500
Motorcycles – 2,500
Agriculture - 1,300
Bicycles (1995) - 800
Candles - 126
Skiing deaths – 34
Dog Bites – 20
Drawstring hoods – 17
Window blind cords – 13
Roller skates - 10
Nuclear Power - 0
Roller skates are a much bigger menace than nuclear power.
The solution, he said, was probably smaller reactors in which the heat could not push the temperature to the fuel’s melting point.
Probably. Or, design a cooling system that works on convection during a power-down state. Like modern Generation-3 and Generation-4 reactor designs utilize.
The Westinghouse AP1000 requires no operator action for 72 hours in the event of a shutdown.
Except that when you buy a Prius, you're probably throwing away a perfectly serviceable vehicle. What's the environmental cost of that?
Yes and no. It's true that isotopes with longer half lives are less radioactive in a prompt sense, but it also matters what the type of decay is and what it decays into.
If you have something that undergoes fission slowly, but gives off gamma radiation and splits into a chain of very nasty stuff that has half-life measured in minutes, you've got a problem.
Opteron was nice when it shipped, except had no software that really would use it to the fullest extents. Chicken and the egg, and all that.
However, it's biggest achievement was putting a stake through the heart of Itanium, guaranteeing that the only thing that came out of that Intel debacle was EFI.
But 64 is twice as big as 32, thus it must be twice as good!
Well, that's definitely a unique strategy - buy a washed up radio and phone manufacturer that most consumers won't buy a product from again, as practically everyone has been burned by a slip-shod Motorola product in the past, for a shload of money in order to gain a patent portfolio that can be used to strike back at your chief rival; and then proceed lose on every single count and have those patents invalidated as obvious after paying for 2.5 years of lawyer lawyer retainers and court costs.
They'll never see that one coming!
Except that most "urban planners" are too busy spending money to try and get people out of their cars, instead of actually planning anything urban.
Streetcars and bioswales don't prevent this.
Excuse me, the NFA was enacted in 1934.
And you can buy a car through a private party without the credit check too.
Well, there are already background checks for firearm sales through dealers (just not gun shows or private sales), it's very illegal to "spray" even one bullet "across a crowd" as this is called Attempted Murder, and depending on your definition of "high-end military hardware" that is already highly regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1945.
Your point?
There's still a need of 60 Senators to vote for cloture, then 51 to vote to pass, then if it's veto'd, it would need 67 Senators to vote for it again, with any Democrat openly and publicly showing the President (and leader of the Democratic Party) the finger.
Not going to happen, if it's actually veto'd.
The Senate would also need a vote of 67 "yea" tallies to override a veto. They can't even get 60 votes on a lunch order, much less a veto override - and this is also considering that the majority of the Senate is the same political party as the President.
A veto would stick.
The guys who make the right promises, and keep them, are too smart to go into politics in the first place.
If you're a good guy, you get drummed out of that game long before you get to national prominence; good guys don't win against mudslinging liars in the political game.
My family descends from a family farm, where they have received notice that a flour mill is being built nearby. My question for my father was "when that thing explodes, is the farm going to get a nice insurance settlement?"
Not if... when.
The problem with economic growth, is that something like a $500M fertilizer plant brings lots of jobs. The people that work those jobs don't like driving 30 miles each way to get to work, so the town that used to be at a safe distance from the half-billion dollar industrial site grows towards it. Then the thing blows up and everyone asks "Why wasn't it in the middle of nowhere?"
It probably was when it was built 20 years ago.
Because clearly no Unionized facilities have every had anything unsafe happen. Nope.
Nice straw man.
When trashcans with pressure cookers in them explode during a public event, that's an attack.
When a fertilizer plant explodes, that's just an entry in the actuarial tables.
Do you really mind what happens in the world outside of US ?
Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't. In the times that I don't, I have the option, and free will, to not click the link if I don't care.
What's even more interesting is that while all of this is going on, Dell has been on a shopping spree of buying up companies that do business with large enterprise.
My company uses a data-at-rest encryption product that is now owned by Dell, and we're looking at an identity management suite from a company that was just bought by Dell. They also bought Wyse, who is either #1 or #2 in Thin Clients depending on what day of the week it is (HP would be the other #1 or #2).
If a private equity deal was done in order to break up Dell and sell off chunks of the business, then these companies are royally screwed.