Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania are very happy with the environmentalist movement - they've been guaranteeing increasing coal orders for decades.
Radioactive stuff that has been neutron-activated from the operation of a reactor. Like, say, the reactor vessel itself.
In the decommissioning of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Oregon, they removed the reactor pressure vessel whole, encased it in concrete foam, and then barged it up the Columbia River to Hanford, and put it in a 90 foot deep hole, covered with 45 feet of gravel.
Because there's absolutely no way to negate human error with safe design, redundancy, and better knowledge of the physics involved. All reactors are exactly the same since 1950, right?
The problem with those measurements in your referenced post, is that a Bq is defined as one disintegration per second.
Yes, a nuclear disaster is going to have a high Bq count, because of the amount of short-lived isotopes present in an operating reactor. They are, however, short-lived. They go away in hours / days / weeks / months.
The Bq count coming from coal will be around for decades / centuries, because it's long-lived isotopes. Also, the type of decay matters, which isn't represented by a Bq count. 1 Bq could be an alpha decay, which wouldn't even pass through the layer of dead skin on you, or it could be a beta decay which would be much worse.
Trojan Nuclear Generating Station was decommissioned and disposed of voluntarily by the operator while still having almost 20 years left on the license. The pipes used in the primary steam loops had manufacturing defects that the manufacturer didn't want to warranty, blaming it on the construction contractor who installed them. Also, the steam generators needed to be replaced. It turned into a massive legal clusterfuck, and PGE decided it wasn't worth the hassle and spent $230M to tear it down and bury the radioactive bits at Hanford.
Not all operators are complete bastards. Granted, Trojan was a huge piece of shit as far as reactors go, but they didn't push it as far as the rhetoric around here would suggest.
More to the point - Do what the parent post said, but use something like FreeBSD or Solaris and ZFS with a raidz3 setup (essentially RAID6), which gives you block level dedup, snapshotting, compression, encryption, etc.
Two businesses compete head-to-head in the same market. One is has better managed expenses, does a better job of marketing, and thus increases market share and hires more people; while the other stays stagnant due to having poor market visibility and unnecessary overhead, and doesn't hire more people.
Would you content that the better management is creating jobs, where the poorly managed company is not?
The current YouTube app hasn't changed since the original iPhone in 2007. It sucks so powerfully that it causes localized weather changes.
This is a change for the better for everyone - Apple doesn't have to maintain a shitty app, Google can update the app at will, and users that want to have it there can put it there; users that don't want it there can finally get it the fuck gone.
iOS users can also now make that same decision, because Google is releasing a YouTube app on the iOS app store. In iOS 5, you cannot make that decision, as you cannot remove the YouTube app - you can only hide it.
So by your own logic, this is an improvement because it allows more user choice, right?
"God, it's just so hard that I'm not even going to try."
Other people have done it out of worse circumstance than you. The difference? They didn't have the defeatist attitude from the beginning.
Start doing after-hours work to build the business up while retaining your current position. When it starts to take off, quit your job you don't like and do your new business full time. It's a hard concept, I know.
When "growth" occurs, you end up with more work than your existing employees can effectively handle, thus you add a headcount to handle the additional work. This additional person is then paid money as compensation for their time and effort towards the common goals and accomplishments of the business.
Yeah, the ones are so much more oney than if you use a non-premium brand HDMI cable that costs 10% of what Monster charges! Monster's cable quality is so superior to other brands - I mean, look at how they crimp on the connection. If you don't get a nice tight crimp with all that hard plastic around it, the zeros will fall out of the cable, and you'll have a big mess on the ground behind your TV, or a bucket that you'll have to dump every once in a while.
I know that reading is hard, but Phil Schiller said "Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making itourmost successful release ever."
No one made a direct comparison between Mountain Lion's sales and Windows 7's sales, until you just did right before disproving it. This is what we call a classic straw man argument.
Mac OS X uses a concept called "preference domains" for all of it's settings, and it's also how every application that has been written after the developer read the platform documentation stores their settings.
You have the following folders, in order of supercedence (there are some settings that have to be in specific places, but they are rare exceptions, and usually have to do with system daemons):
Number 1 is for user-specific preferences and settings, and is stored in the user's home folder (/Users/user_short_name). Number 2 is for machine-wide preferences, which act on system-level services and also act as defaults for users that don't have their own preferences in #1. Number 3 is an optional domain, which can be used by administrators to provide workgroup-level defaults through the use of an auto-mounting share. #2 and #1 override #3. Number 4 is the Apple-provided defaults, and should never be changed since they can be overrided by numbers 3, 2, and 1. This is a failsafe so that core system frameworks always have a known-good configuration.
All property list files (plist) use a reverse-DNS style notation to prevent collisions between software vendors. Example: com.adobe.InDesign.plist has the settings for Adobe InDesign. com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist has the settings for Apple Software Update. These files are either in text, or binary. There are lots of tools you can use to read and change these files - there is nothing secret or encoded about them.
Guess what? There could be a law to ban all guns in the US, and people that want to shoot up a crowded theater will still do it, because the penalty for a felony weapons charge is a drop in the ocean compared to 70 counts of aggravated murder and attempted murder.
Do people really think that an extra 90 days in jail is going to change anything, if someone has homicidal thoughts in their mind? Oh, what a deterrent!
You know why the UN will never be able to have a treaty that disarms US Citizens?
There aren't 67 senators that want to retire at the end of their current term. Treaties have to be ratified by the US Senate before US Citizens are beholden to them. To ratify, it takes a 2/3rds majority vote in the Senate.
67 Senators can't even agree on what to have for lunch, much less on repealing the Bill of Rights.
That's fine, as long as she realizes that not killing herbivore animals and eating them is actually killing more animals. If she just doesn't like meat (preference, rather than a bogus moral argument) then that's perfectly fine, and I'm not one to argue.
I'm just tired of holier-than-thou vegans (not you, and not likely your mum) preaching about the least harm done, when there's published research showing otherwise.
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Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania are very happy with the environmentalist movement - they've been guaranteeing increasing coal orders for decades.
Radioactive stuff that has been neutron-activated from the operation of a reactor. Like, say, the reactor vessel itself.
In the decommissioning of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Oregon, they removed the reactor pressure vessel whole, encased it in concrete foam, and then barged it up the Columbia River to Hanford, and put it in a 90 foot deep hole, covered with 45 feet of gravel.
Because there's absolutely no way to negate human error with safe design, redundancy, and better knowledge of the physics involved. All reactors are exactly the same since 1950, right?
A lot of this already is tilting at windmills in the idiomatic sense.
The problem with those measurements in your referenced post, is that a Bq is defined as one disintegration per second.
Yes, a nuclear disaster is going to have a high Bq count, because of the amount of short-lived isotopes present in an operating reactor. They are, however, short-lived. They go away in hours / days / weeks / months.
The Bq count coming from coal will be around for decades / centuries, because it's long-lived isotopes. Also, the type of decay matters, which isn't represented by a Bq count. 1 Bq could be an alpha decay, which wouldn't even pass through the layer of dead skin on you, or it could be a beta decay which would be much worse.
Trojan Nuclear Generating Station was decommissioned and disposed of voluntarily by the operator while still having almost 20 years left on the license. The pipes used in the primary steam loops had manufacturing defects that the manufacturer didn't want to warranty, blaming it on the construction contractor who installed them. Also, the steam generators needed to be replaced. It turned into a massive legal clusterfuck, and PGE decided it wasn't worth the hassle and spent $230M to tear it down and bury the radioactive bits at Hanford.
Not all operators are complete bastards. Granted, Trojan was a huge piece of shit as far as reactors go, but they didn't push it as far as the rhetoric around here would suggest.
If they do it right, it shouldn't matter if it's 157 feet, or 157 million miles.
Are we supposed to believe that they haven't tested and hardened this before lighting the fuse?
More to the point - Do what the parent post said, but use something like FreeBSD or Solaris and ZFS with a raidz3 setup (essentially RAID6), which gives you block level dedup, snapshotting, compression, encryption, etc.
Two businesses compete head-to-head in the same market. One is has better managed expenses, does a better job of marketing, and thus increases market share and hires more people; while the other stays stagnant due to having poor market visibility and unnecessary overhead, and doesn't hire more people.
Would you content that the better management is creating jobs, where the poorly managed company is not?
The current YouTube app hasn't changed since the original iPhone in 2007. It sucks so powerfully that it causes localized weather changes.
This is a change for the better for everyone - Apple doesn't have to maintain a shitty app, Google can update the app at will, and users that want to have it there can put it there; users that don't want it there can finally get it the fuck gone.
Everyone wins. Why is anyone bitching?
iOS users can also now make that same decision, because Google is releasing a YouTube app on the iOS app store. In iOS 5, you cannot make that decision, as you cannot remove the YouTube app - you can only hide it.
So by your own logic, this is an improvement because it allows more user choice, right?
Now go away.
Let me sum up what you just said:
"God, it's just so hard that I'm not even going to try."
Other people have done it out of worse circumstance than you. The difference? They didn't have the defeatist attitude from the beginning.
Start doing after-hours work to build the business up while retaining your current position. When it starts to take off, quit your job you don't like and do your new business full time. It's a hard concept, I know.
Clearly, you've never heard of "Growth."
When "growth" occurs, you end up with more work than your existing employees can effectively handle, thus you add a headcount to handle the additional work. This additional person is then paid money as compensation for their time and effort towards the common goals and accomplishments of the business.
How is that not creating a job?
At $50 for a USB cable, you're better off buying a $50 USB printer, and reselling the ink on eBay!
Maybe he means Fry's Food Stores, and he's off-topic?
If you're basing your decision of what region in which to live on proximity to a retail big-box chain, you've got some serious fucking problems.
Yeah, the ones are so much more oney than if you use a non-premium brand HDMI cable that costs 10% of what Monster charges! Monster's cable quality is so superior to other brands - I mean, look at how they crimp on the connection. If you don't get a nice tight crimp with all that hard plastic around it, the zeros will fall out of the cable, and you'll have a big mess on the ground behind your TV, or a bucket that you'll have to dump every once in a while.
Don't forget Megacorporations like Samsung, Motorola, and Nokia; none of which don't have their own ace teams of lawyers and ongoing lawsuits.
Everyone seems to think that Apple is the only one doing this.
Which "small fry" are you referring to? Samsung? HTC? Motorola? Nokia?
Yeah, they're tiny shops.
I know that reading is hard, but Phil Schiller said "Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever."
No one made a direct comparison between Mountain Lion's sales and Windows 7's sales, until you just did right before disproving it. This is what we call a classic straw man argument.
Mac OS X uses a concept called "preference domains" for all of it's settings, and it's also how every application that has been written after the developer read the platform documentation stores their settings.
You have the following folders, in order of supercedence (there are some settings that have to be in specific places, but they are rare exceptions, and usually have to do with system daemons):
1. ~/Library/Preferences /Library/Preferences /Network/Library/Preferences* /System/Library/Preferences
2.
3.
4.
Number 1 is for user-specific preferences and settings, and is stored in the user's home folder (/Users/user_short_name).
Number 2 is for machine-wide preferences, which act on system-level services and also act as defaults for users that don't have their own preferences in #1.
Number 3 is an optional domain, which can be used by administrators to provide workgroup-level defaults through the use of an auto-mounting share. #2 and #1 override #3.
Number 4 is the Apple-provided defaults, and should never be changed since they can be overrided by numbers 3, 2, and 1. This is a failsafe so that core system frameworks always have a known-good configuration.
All property list files (plist) use a reverse-DNS style notation to prevent collisions between software vendors. Example: com.adobe.InDesign.plist has the settings for Adobe InDesign. com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist has the settings for Apple Software Update. These files are either in text, or binary. There are lots of tools you can use to read and change these files - there is nothing secret or encoded about them.
Hope that helps.
Guess what? There could be a law to ban all guns in the US, and people that want to shoot up a crowded theater will still do it, because the penalty for a felony weapons charge is a drop in the ocean compared to 70 counts of aggravated murder and attempted murder.
Do people really think that an extra 90 days in jail is going to change anything, if someone has homicidal thoughts in their mind? Oh, what a deterrent!
You know why the UN will never be able to have a treaty that disarms US Citizens?
There aren't 67 senators that want to retire at the end of their current term. Treaties have to be ratified by the US Senate before US Citizens are beholden to them. To ratify, it takes a 2/3rds majority vote in the Senate.
67 Senators can't even agree on what to have for lunch, much less on repealing the Bill of Rights.
That's fine, as long as she realizes that not killing herbivore animals and eating them is actually killing more animals. If she just doesn't like meat (preference, rather than a bogus moral argument) then that's perfectly fine, and I'm not one to argue.
I'm just tired of holier-than-thou vegans (not you, and not likely your mum) preaching about the least harm done, when there's published research showing otherwise.
Why not use the seawater to cool your cooling fluid instead of using saltwater directly? Pump the heated waste water far offshore.
I hear that salt water tends to corrode steel. Just a rumor though.
Also, due to using seawater as emergency coolant at Fukushima, we learned that the presence of salt in the water causes the fuel rods to oxidize much more rapidly, and dissolve.
Not the best idea in the world, unfortunately.