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  1. Tufts, as a school, is amazing. Tufts as a vet school, is OK.

  2. in a small school, I would agree with you. But Tufts? ????

  3. weird. on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmmm. She really should insist on taking a comprehensive test at this point and proving herself. She has a 3.9 on the Masters and 3.5 on the Doctorate. While Tufts is not that top notch, it certainly is not a fluff school either. Simple testing should prove what she knows/does not know.
    As it is, if somebody really knows how to crack, then they would purposely change their mac (easy enough to do). I would be curious about her relationship to the other grades that changed.

  4. Actually, this could be a good thing on US Army Assures Public That Robot Tanks Adhere To AI Murder Policy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, there is multiple issues with current war. The biggest is that innocent civilians are being wounded/killed. The reason is that enemies like to use civilians as shields, or dress to look like civilians so as to infiltrate western troops. Likewise, we have friendly being killed.
    With this, it will be able to make much quicker decisions and should have far less friendlies being killed. Obviously, enemies will not be happy about this, but hey, it will likely happen

  5. Re:But GRID! on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    yup. That is exactly the sound of all that water going to the pacific.
    Whoosh.

  6. good lord. With arguments by ACs, it is no wonder that /. has become trash.

  7. Re:Wrong, lol Republican math fails again. on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany/France have proven otherwise.

  8. Re:Wrong, lol Republican math fails again. on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    God I fucking hate ACs, but, I am curious. Exactly HOW will you generate electricity during the monsoons, july-sept, when clouds really block the sun? Or when Yellowstone or one of California's volcanoes blow, wich will block more than 50% of the sun for many months. How then will you deal with it?

    BTW, France is over 95% clean on their electricity. Germany with similar energy usage, is at around 35-40% clean energy. Yet, oddly, France spent a FRACTION of the money that Germany did.
    So, please, explain to us how this will work. Because I KNOW that p51d007 approach WILL work.

  9. Re:what about wind and solar? on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    true,
    BUT, wind is cheaper and solar on buildings/parking lots not only convert light that would have gone to heating earth goes to electricity, AND lowers the heat on both.
    In addition, we made the mistake of moving to heavy use of coal ( 70% at one time, now less than 30% and dropping). We need to have an ENERGY MATRIX. Wind/solar should be about 1/3 or less of our energy matrix. Ideally, we would run fission nuke up to 33%, and use geo-thermal for another 33%. Also add in hydro and we are at about 110% of TODAY's usage. Adding in vehicles, we will likely need to increase geo-thermal and nuclear, perhaps up 50-60% each. IOW, they would bring us up to around 140-160% of today's total. That will give us nice buffering as we move over from gas/diesel vehicles to EVs.

  10. Re:Nuclear plants should be built in cities on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not a fan of the old gen 3 and before plants.
    We really need to use gen 4 SMRs, such as NuScale. With multiple small reactors (60-300 MW), it becomes possible to generate a fair amount of electricity and low heat, that gets used for other uses. For example, if the steam can be used for heating not just buildings, but also ovens of various uses, it increases the efficiency.

  11. Re:Nuclear plants should be built in cities on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    bingo.
    And to take it further, during the summer, excess heat should be used to drive AC that cools the water down.
    The fact is, that we are screwing up with coal and nat gas power plants. We need to push NuScale, along with thorium reactors, and ideally, ones that can burn up most of the used nuke fuel.

  12. this is why France, Northern EUrope on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    make heavy use of Nukes. They can work when needed, without pollution.

  13. Re:"Tainted"? One man's trash.... on Report Finds Widespread Contamination at Nation's Coal Ash Sites (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    correct. If we will get nuclear power plants with 800C or above, we can actually separate those elements out FISCALLY and environmentally sounds. Ideally, we would then use old mines for storage of separated elements.

  14. want to remove this? on Report Finds Widespread Contamination at Nation's Coal Ash Sites (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Time to build Nuclear power plants that have temps of 800C or so. That can be used to efficiently melt and separate the elements in the ash. IOW, using nuclear power, we can mine the ash and clean it up. Any waste elements such as mercury, lead, etc should be put in designated mines that can handle 1 type of element. IOW, 1 mine just for mercury. Another for lead. Another for tungsten. etc. etc. etc. Like Helium, these can then be sold at global market prices, or sold locally at 10% below global.

  15. Re:In before Republicans lie. on Report Finds Widespread Contamination at Nation's Coal Ash Sites (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Your hands are as dirty as the roughest coal miner.

    Yes and No. In general, it was not civilians that decided on Coal for electricity.
    However, it was foolish far lefties that screamed against Nukes.
    Then they screamed against Coal.
    Now they will scream against nat gas, since Nat gas, semi-trucks and planes are America's growing sources of CO2/pollution (interestingly, as I pointed out before, automotives did NOT cause America's CO2 increase this last year).
    And all of that with EVERYBODY esp the far righties, scream that the costs are too high, OR that they oppose one form or another.

    Fact is, if we want CLEAN energy/air/water, then we need to stop all fossil fuels. We can not stop them overnight, BUT, we can and more importantly SHOULD stop adding fossil fuel plants. For electricity, that means, wind/solar (up to a point), Nuclear, hydropower (which America has almost maxed out), geo-thermal (which America has loads of and really needs to implement SOON), and of course, MORE Nuclear power. problem is, wind/solar can NOT do 100% (in spite of the far left lies), and in fact, should not be allowed past 1/3 of our energy matrix. And ideally, this should be on buildings covering their HVAC and more.

    Who is ultimately responsible? The energy ppl and gov that decided to go with 1 form or another of energy, but all of our hands are dirty.

  16. rods from god approach. on Deflecting an Asteroid Will Be Harder Than Scientists Thought (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if long thin titanium rods could be used to hit the front of the asteroid and continue with digging a hole through the center. In doing that, i would think that it would produce a lot of cracking through out and after maybe 20-30 rods hitting it, a nuke in the center could cause splitting. Of course, this would need a bit of known time to get it together. IOW, if we have a week before it hits us, then this would likely not work. BUT, a month or more, it might.

    Regardless, they will try different approaches on the models.

  17. No, you never show any lies. All you do is lie.

  18. Re: Yup. on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    oops. Mea Culpa.
    You ARE correct about your not saying that it was over Co2. I re-read our postings and yes, you did not say that it was about CO2.
    Still it remains the fact that Daimler paid a fraction of the amount that Google did.

  19. Aerogel is one of the best insulators on this globe. One of the issues with it is that it is relatively easy to decompose when moved around, bent, etc. Being in a sturdy frame makes a huge difference. With a metal frame, combined with glass locked in, it should be one of the best insulating windows on the planet.

  20. Re: Yup. on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh.
    Lets see. You said that Daimler paid 1B for defeating emissions, which was NOT the case. Now, you post to a story about FIVE European companies cheating for 14 years to the tune of 100s of billions of dollars, with an out and out anti-trust breaking numerous laws in numerous nation, etc. and they are fined a TOTAL of 2.9B. Google, who is ACCUSED of cheating for several years, and again, all they did was require that all 3 programs be installed, if the company wanted their play store.
    So, :
    1) you totally changed what the issue was from CO2 emissions to collusion.
    2) 5 companies were charged a TOTAL of 2.9B, which BTW, is far far LESS than 5B that Google was charged.
    3) Only Daimler paid 1B, which is again on 120+B YEARLY revenue, with a yearly profit of 9B, so, they paid less than 1/9 of their PROFITS.


    Google paid 5B on 100B revenue, 22B profit, which means that they are paying ~1/4 of their profits.
    And you tink that you have 'managed' something?

    Good god. If I did not know better, I would say that you are caffeinated bacon. You are lying through your teeth and lying with links.

  21. Actually, one of the moderators in this case, is almost certainly Caffeinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami. The guy is Chinese ( possibly Russian ). He simply mods me down on everything once he gets points (and /. owners are doing nothing about it). In this case, I suspect that CB/CT does not read English well enough to understand that I declared an opinion (and one heavily shared by most Americans and other westerners), called me a liar earlier (how the fuck do you lie on an opinion???) , and then keeps posting as AC.

  22. Re:One is solving, the other is blocking. Stop lyi on Democrats Will Introduce Bill To Bring Back Net Neutrality (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    relax. That guy is a Chinese (possibly Russian, but I doubt it) troll known as Crimson Tsunami/Caffeinated Bacon. He is a constant liar and just makes up all sorts of shit. Even now, I'm making an opinion on America needing a 3rd party and he claims that I am lying about it. Basically, he does not understand English enough to realize what I wrote.

    But, you should consider just ignoring him.

  23. a good thing about this, is a race on China's Huawei Has Big Ambitions To Weaken the US Grip On AI Leadership (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, America has been coasting since reagan. Back when we had the economy, we poured loads of money into R&D. Since 1980, America's GOP have continue to gut R&D, esp. basic R&D. Now, China is about to force us to change or lose.

  24. Re: Yup. on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What law was broken when they allowed any company to install and use android, but required google search/chrome IFF they installed google play? That is simply an app manager. Any company CAN make their own. Amazon did. The fact that Amazon did, SHOWS that they are not monopolizing android.
    So, what exactly was illegal about it? There was nothing like Microsoft with Windows who said that if you want windows, you had to install all of it. In addition, The European companies were hit with 1/10 for committing murder and TRUE monopolistic actions, while Google was hit with 1/4th of their TOTAL annual profits, which is a great deal more than anything that has been hit against european companies.
    VW was hit with 1B, so, I seriously doubt that Daimler will be hit with more.
    Just found this. In fact, Daimlers profits were 9B last year AND the fine for lying and murdering ppl with pollution was a whopping 85 MILLION Euros.
    That is why Daimler did not make that list of massive fines.

    You are now lying as bad as caffeinated bacon/crimson tsunami. I would have thought better of you.

  25. Re: Veto by trump on Democrats Will Introduce Bill To Bring Back Net Neutrality (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    Absolutely not. However, it will not reach trump. Senate will veto it. This is a fucking waste of time, and would be better spent on dealing with illegals, space, etc.