"The thing that concerns me about this nuclear fuel is that now it has moved to Canada, it could find it's way into a new generation of US weapons"
Why would we need their unprocessed uranium oxide for nuclear weapons, when we have a shitload of weapons-grade plutonium 239 pits standing ready at Oak Ridge?
So what's this thing made out of? Unobtanium and pixie dust?
I'm sure that no strip mining or abrasive toxic chemicals would be used at all to make these things, because they harm the environment, and Roland Piquepallappepepqpqqqpepepelle says that these won't!
In addition, Grand Coulee is only one of 8 or so dams on the Columbia, and has some pretty incredible uses other than generation, such as making a large reservoir for irrigation of what would be arid desert otherwise, and flood control to prevent things like the destruction of Vanport, Oregon.
In fact, President Truman came to Portland shortly after the Vanport flood and spoke to this effect about building more dams for flood control.
Except that through clever engineering and 1960s technology, we *do* move power thousands of miles. For instance, the Pacific DC Intertie which moves 3.1 GW from the Pacific Northwest to Southern California in the summer for aircon, and moves power back north during the winter for electric heat.
It provides two or three million people with power in Southern California, and saves Southern California about $600,000 a day in electric costs.
Can't we just make a rule that says any nation with MIRV'd thermonuclear ICBMs and the ability to put a man in orbit and get him back alive is not a developing nation anymore?
So if they're issuing points for trolling lefty forums and keeping score, what score is necessary to earn an appointment to some position in some agency where I'm completely incompetent, yet responsible for nothing; I enjoy a very impressive title and $230,000 a year in salary as well as the best pension and benefits befitting the last remaining superpower nation?
EVERY document in the process, except the final 237 million signatures done at closing was sent to me in PDF, and I used a pen tool on a Wacom tablet to sign them, and email them back. Probably not the most secure way, but neither is the US Postal Service if you think about it.
Don't blame the law when it's just the luddites in the way.
*The Book contains entries of people that when the Geek Nation comes to power, will be the first ones up against the wall. Being entered into The Book usually requires committing offenses of a particularly egregious or massively annoying nature against common folk.
Your analogy isn't quite correct. If the entire internet blackholes the IP block, yes you aren't putting up an argument, but you are effectively making it useless for them and taking away their motivation to continue holding it.
Correcting your squatter analogy: The move into a house, and the city comes in and builds a 20' reinforced concrete wall around the place. They aren't going anywhere, and no one is coming in. The house is now effectively useless, and the world continues to operate around them.
Well, I'm guessing that Apple arrived at this number by sending 500 surveys to 500 well known companies who get listed in Fortune magazine annually, and getting roughy 167 favorable responses.
You don't state information like that publicly, in an SEC-mandated conference call, without checking it, and rechecking it.
Unless of course, you don't like money, or enjoy lawsuits.
I think it's more a problem with the original poster not knowing wtf he's talking about.
1. All waste from the Portland Metro area is collected by private contractors, and delivered to Metro (the regional governmental authority). Metro then aggregates it all together, and has a contractor haul it out to Eastern Oregon for landfill deposit.
2. Metro, the Port of Portland, and the Portland Development Commission has been very big into diverting this waste to as many recycling outfits as possible, including trying to attract biomass business to take care of it right here in the area ( http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=118670251320280000 ) because they don't like hauling all that shit 200 miles east on I-84.
3. Change doesn't happen overnight. Facilities and infrastructure have to be built. Already, the environmental quality here in Portland is night and day different than what it was on the first Earth Day in 1970. You can actually touch the Willamette River without developing an instant tumor. You can see Mt. Hood when it's not raining. Once they are done with the "big pipe" project, the sewer overflow issue will be taken care of. Even as I write this, the city is changing the recycling plan to use rollaway mixed-recycling bins to make things easier, and larger capacity.
Yeah, I think that actually knowing wtf you're talking about is a good place to start.
Have you ever watched the waste disposal guys? They have one truck for trash, and one for recycling. Yes, I live in Portland - inner southeast. I used to live out in incorporated Washington County, where it's even better. You don't even have to separate it - you chuck ALL your recycling into one big ass bin, and they haul it away.
Never mind that because of the nuclear boogeyman, there has been virtually no uranium deposit exploration since the 1970s. That 50 year estimated supply is based upon 40 year old research. I think we could go find some new resources to extend it using some of the new technologies developed since then.
Oh, and all that waste sitting in casks that could easily be reprocessed and reloaded into reactors... that might extend the timeline a bit too. Now only if there wasn't some pesky Executive Order still on the books from the late 70s getting in the way (http://www.atomicinsights.com/oct95/Pu_oct95.html)...
Just because you want it to be so, doesn't make it so.
For example, please cite some sources about these magical batteries that don't lose capacitance for 10 years. Also, please tell me the manufacturer of these amazing electrical motors that last forever, and never need maintenance - I need to purchase their stock.
Also, pay no attention to the massive amounts of coal power in use throughout the US. In fact, the one region that does get a large chunk of power from hydroelectric (the Northwest US) actually gets more power from natural gas and coal (according to the Oregon DOE, 48.9% coal / gas versus 44.1% hydro - http://www.oregonecology.com/2007/09/oregon-power-generation.html ). Oh, and here in Oregon we have lots of people that want to remove the hydroelectric projects due to the damage it's doing to the salmon and eel runs in the Columbia river, and the cultural impact it has on the native american tribes of the area.
However, if you look at the US as a whole, 68.9% of power generated in the year 2006 was from coal or natural gas. Hydroelectric and the mysterious "other renewables" which I can only imagine means geothermal, wind, and solar combined is 9.5% percent.
68.9% > 9.5%
Due to these complete inaccuracies, fallacies, and being flat out wrong, I submit to the masses that your post is a prime example of pulling numbers out of your ass, hoping to make a convincing argument.
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Why worry that the Outer Space Treaty to which you allude only refers to the stationing of WMD in orbit, when you've got some US bashing to do?
I'd really like to know how Obama thinks he can put the super-criticality cat back in the physics bag.
Once the math is done, it can't be un-done. If someone wants a nuke bad enough, they can build one.
"The thing that concerns me about this nuclear fuel is that now it has moved to Canada, it could find it's way into a new generation of US weapons"
Why would we need their unprocessed uranium oxide for nuclear weapons, when we have a shitload of weapons-grade plutonium 239 pits standing ready at Oak Ridge?
Talk about fearmongering and FUD...
So what's this thing made out of? Unobtanium and pixie dust?
I'm sure that no strip mining or abrasive toxic chemicals would be used at all to make these things, because they harm the environment, and Roland Piquepallappepepqpqqqpepepelle says that these won't!
In addition, Grand Coulee is only one of 8 or so dams on the Columbia, and has some pretty incredible uses other than generation, such as making a large reservoir for irrigation of what would be arid desert otherwise, and flood control to prevent things like the destruction of Vanport, Oregon.
In fact, President Truman came to Portland shortly after the Vanport flood and spoke to this effect about building more dams for flood control.
So you're saying that people with AIDS don't suffer horrible agonizing death from various infectious diseases?
So does that mean there should be a +1 meta?
Except that through clever engineering and 1960s technology, we *do* move power thousands of miles. For instance, the Pacific DC Intertie which moves 3.1 GW from the Pacific Northwest to Southern California in the summer for aircon, and moves power back north during the winter for electric heat.
It provides two or three million people with power in Southern California, and saves Southern California about $600,000 a day in electric costs.
Good thing we've got loads of Thorium-232, which is also fissionable in a properly designed reactor for it.
I hear that heat is a pretty good catalyst for cracking hydrogen from water.
I also hear that nuclear power produces a shitload of waste heat.
There also seems to be some flirtation with hydrogen-powered cars.
There's probably no connection though.
"I'm sorry that the Port of Long Beach was just turned into a parking lot. Blame T-Mobile for having crappy coverage!"
Can't we just make a rule that says any nation with MIRV'd thermonuclear ICBMs and the ability to put a man in orbit and get him back alive is not a developing nation anymore?
So if they're issuing points for trolling lefty forums and keeping score, what score is necessary to earn an appointment to some position in some agency where I'm completely incompetent, yet responsible for nothing; I enjoy a very impressive title and $230,000 a year in salary as well as the best pension and benefits befitting the last remaining superpower nation?
Or is that on a different scale, like gold stars?
If that is so, then how did I close on my house?
EVERY document in the process, except the final 237 million signatures done at closing was sent to me in PDF, and I used a pen tool on a Wacom tablet to sign them, and email them back. Probably not the most secure way, but neither is the US Postal Service if you think about it.
Don't blame the law when it's just the luddites in the way.
Beat me to it...
I fscking HATE Notes, and I'm glad that it's being binned in favor of Exchange / Outlook later this year in this Fortune 50 company.
These guys are going in "The Book*."
*The Book contains entries of people that when the Geek Nation comes to power, will be the first ones up against the wall. Being entered into The Book usually requires committing offenses of a particularly egregious or massively annoying nature against common folk.
Your analogy isn't quite correct. If the entire internet blackholes the IP block, yes you aren't putting up an argument, but you are effectively making it useless for them and taking away their motivation to continue holding it.
Correcting your squatter analogy: The move into a house, and the city comes in and builds a 20' reinforced concrete wall around the place. They aren't going anywhere, and no one is coming in. The house is now effectively useless, and the world continues to operate around them.
Okay, rather than prevent routing to their subnet, I'll just add the IP block to my deny filter on my SMTP server.
Done and done. Can't spam what won't let you connect.
That's odd, cause everyone I know has a Blackberry or an iPhone.
Perhaps basing statistics on "everyone you know" isn't a sufficiently large sampling pool?
Well, I'm guessing that Apple arrived at this number by sending 500 surveys to 500 well known companies who get listed in Fortune magazine annually, and getting roughy 167 favorable responses.
You don't state information like that publicly, in an SEC-mandated conference call, without checking it, and rechecking it.
Unless of course, you don't like money, or enjoy lawsuits.
I think it's more a problem with the original poster not knowing wtf he's talking about.
1. All waste from the Portland Metro area is collected by private contractors, and delivered to Metro (the regional governmental authority). Metro then aggregates it all together, and has a contractor haul it out to Eastern Oregon for landfill deposit.
2. Metro, the Port of Portland, and the Portland Development Commission has been very big into diverting this waste to as many recycling outfits as possible, including trying to attract biomass business to take care of it right here in the area ( http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=118670251320280000 ) because they don't like hauling all that shit 200 miles east on I-84.
3. Change doesn't happen overnight. Facilities and infrastructure have to be built. Already, the environmental quality here in Portland is night and day different than what it was on the first Earth Day in 1970. You can actually touch the Willamette River without developing an instant tumor. You can see Mt. Hood when it's not raining. Once they are done with the "big pipe" project, the sewer overflow issue will be taken care of. Even as I write this, the city is changing the recycling plan to use rollaway mixed-recycling bins to make things easier, and larger capacity.
Yeah, I think that actually knowing wtf you're talking about is a good place to start.
Have you ever watched the waste disposal guys? They have one truck for trash, and one for recycling. Yes, I live in Portland - inner southeast. I used to live out in incorporated Washington County, where it's even better. You don't even have to separate it - you chuck ALL your recycling into one big ass bin, and they haul it away.
Never mind that because of the nuclear boogeyman, there has been virtually no uranium deposit exploration since the 1970s. That 50 year estimated supply is based upon 40 year old research. I think we could go find some new resources to extend it using some of the new technologies developed since then.
Oh, and all that waste sitting in casks that could easily be reprocessed and reloaded into reactors... that might extend the timeline a bit too. Now only if there wasn't some pesky Executive Order still on the books from the late 70s getting in the way (http://www.atomicinsights.com/oct95/Pu_oct95.html)...
Just because you want it to be so, doesn't make it so.
For example, please cite some sources about these magical batteries that don't lose capacitance for 10 years. Also, please tell me the manufacturer of these amazing electrical motors that last forever, and never need maintenance - I need to purchase their stock.
Also, pay no attention to the massive amounts of coal power in use throughout the US. In fact, the one region that does get a large chunk of power from hydroelectric (the Northwest US) actually gets more power from natural gas and coal (according to the Oregon DOE, 48.9% coal / gas versus 44.1% hydro - http://www.oregonecology.com/2007/09/oregon-power-generation.html ). Oh, and here in Oregon we have lots of people that want to remove the hydroelectric projects due to the damage it's doing to the salmon and eel runs in the Columbia river, and the cultural impact it has on the native american tribes of the area.
However, if you look at the US as a whole, 68.9% of power generated in the year 2006 was from coal or natural gas. Hydroelectric and the mysterious "other renewables" which I can only imagine means geothermal, wind, and solar combined is 9.5% percent.
68.9% > 9.5%
Due to these complete inaccuracies, fallacies, and being flat out wrong, I submit to the masses that your post is a prime example of pulling numbers out of your ass, hoping to make a convincing argument.
After a couple million rickrolls, maybe the people monitoring would just blow their brains out. Brilliant!