I never said, nor implied that coal ash was more radioactive than spent nuclear fuel. That said, over the lifetime of burning coal, there is much more radiation released to the environment. And directly into the atmosphere. And... oh wait, many fewer people regularly die working for nuclear fuel. There are 70 or so people who die each year in mining accidents, as well as 12,000 or so injured, and as coal is the main thing that is mined, it's the main cause of those deaths and injuries.
The article you cite as a source is sloppy journalism at best, and just like you, completely ignores reality. He complains that the author of the article he's criticizing says you get more radiation from fly ash than from shielded nuclear waste, and how that's not far. The problem is that THAT IS REALITY. That's how things are done, right now, this very instant. So coal ash most certainly DOES emit more radiation than nuclear waste, because it's not shielded, it's just dumped. Period, end of story. And that's just the fly ash... what about the shit that's pumped into the atmosphere? Repeat after me, "clean coal is a myth."
It's not propaganda if you disagree with it. It's still a fact. I have yet to meet anyone who can tell my how coal is better than nuclear power using ANY kind of actual science, statistics or research. The word "nuclear" should not scare you. It should scare you less than "coal" or "oil shale" or many other forms of traditional energy. If it doesn't, you have a serious disconnect with facts and an irrational fear of high-energy particles, most likely based on ignorance.
We all use electricity. And we're using more and more of it as time goes on. Coal releases tons of radiation and kills miners as well as being horribly dirty (there is no such thing as clean coal). We're running out of oil and it pollutes. Wind isn't always blowing or in the right place, sun isn't always shining or in the right place, water isn't always available for dams or in the right place and kills huge aquatic populations, not all of the population lives where tidal generators are a possibility... we're running out of options if we want electricity. Nuclear is great for providing a base generating capability, and there's not a whole lot else right now that's feasible or economical, especially considering the amount of nuclear waste we're planning on storing under a rock in Nevada.
Hell, the Fukushima reactor mostly survived the 4th largest earthquake since 1900. And that's a 40 year old design. We're talking the same year that the Intel 4004 was released. That's a hell of a testament to the design of modern nuclear power plants that are more efficient and even safer.
Yes, shit happens. Fukushima failing is horrible. But it's like being afraid of flying when you're perfectly ok with riding your bike, even though you're much more likely to die.
It's not "nuclear apologists". It's realists who want to maintain our standard of life, and understand what acceptable risks are. Life is all about risk management, and flipping out about the word "nuclear" is very poor risk management.
So that 3G is magically fed Internet over the... aether? Or something? The 'net access has to get to the towers somehow, and they don't have THAT long of range.
WTF Slashdot... how technologically ignorant do you have to be to say something like this or mod it up?
They're also 2 and less than one, not 5 and 6. Within a few years, I'm sure they'll be able to handle a few hours of amusing themselves with only minor interruptions.
And that is why when you work at home, you have to make a little bit of time for face time, as well as working to keep yourself and your works visible to the players instead of just being a black box.
That's why you have more than one child;) I have a 2 year old and an 8 month old, and they can already amuse each other for 30 minutes or so while I make dinner for them.
So they're not worth worrying about, because they're not and never will be your customers. Look at how much money the indie devs made as compared to what they were on track for without that promotion. Look at all the charity that was helped because of it.
Yes, there are douchebags out there. But the majority of people are decent folk that understand value exchanges. Give them value for their money, and they'll gladly part with it at appropriate price points. Especially if you make it easy like Steam does.
Don't forget, the Wii has lots of games like "House of the Dead: Overkill" and "Madworld" and such. It's not all kiddie-friendly. It just isn't centered around frat-boy games.
And it's been 30 years since they've done anything useful. Those base inventions don't make up for the amount of consumer abuse that they have caused, or will cause if this deal goes through.
The problem is when people are ignorant and proud of it.
"Tide goes in, tide comes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that." - Bill O'Reilly
The same thing is happening here. People hear the word "nuclear", mispronounce it as "nukeular", and go apeshit because of their ignorance, while ignoring the real dangers of factories burning and coal plants actually releasing radiation into the atmosphere, car accidents, chemical spills... whatever. Risk assessment has never been a strong suit of humanity, and it makes it worse when people are adamant about remaining ignorant. So yes, it does piss those of us who know better off, and we may not be the kindest when we respond. It's because we are also human.
But Norway's police are geared toward protecting the public. Here in America, it's a revenue stream. Anything that gets in the way of revenue is a bad thing.
Those restrictions are FAR less than you get normally under copyright law. And they protect other people who would benefit from your developments on the code.
It's liberty because protecting everyone's rights at the cost of a few people's desires. If someone wants to go on a murderous rampage, we should most certainly stop that. His desire to do that may fit the dictionary definition of liberty, but it deprives other people of theirs in the process.
If we make a saner definition of Liberty to include not depriving others of their liberty, the GPL most certainly protects liberty, and is in no way Orwellian.
No, you don't have evidence any gods exist. You have a strong feeling and philosophical arguments, but you have no testable evidence or repeatable experiments verifying the existence of any kind of deity.
Fuck you and your victim mentality. Christians are FAR from being oppressed in the US. And as for portraying the typical creationist as an idiot who won't listen to scientific evidence? If you listened to scientific evidence, you wouldn't be a creationist. Period.
I understand the math perfectly. I'd love to be able to buy a device I wanted and use it with a carrier I wanted. But the US wireless system as it is now won't let that happen. Even worse, you pay the same amount monthly whether you have a phone you're renting-to-own or have your own phone that you already own. So where's the incentive to not get a new phone from the provider for free?
We Americans talk a good game about the "free market", but your European governments do a better job of actually enforcing one.
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I never said, nor implied that coal ash was more radioactive than spent nuclear fuel. That said, over the lifetime of burning coal, there is much more radiation released to the environment. And directly into the atmosphere. And... oh wait, many fewer people regularly die working for nuclear fuel. There are 70 or so people who die each year in mining accidents, as well as 12,000 or so injured, and as coal is the main thing that is mined, it's the main cause of those deaths and injuries.
The article you cite as a source is sloppy journalism at best, and just like you, completely ignores reality. He complains that the author of the article he's criticizing says you get more radiation from fly ash than from shielded nuclear waste, and how that's not far. The problem is that THAT IS REALITY. That's how things are done, right now, this very instant. So coal ash most certainly DOES emit more radiation than nuclear waste, because it's not shielded, it's just dumped. Period, end of story. And that's just the fly ash... what about the shit that's pumped into the atmosphere? Repeat after me, "clean coal is a myth."
It's not propaganda if you disagree with it. It's still a fact. I have yet to meet anyone who can tell my how coal is better than nuclear power using ANY kind of actual science, statistics or research. The word "nuclear" should not scare you. It should scare you less than "coal" or "oil shale" or many other forms of traditional energy. If it doesn't, you have a serious disconnect with facts and an irrational fear of high-energy particles, most likely based on ignorance.
We all use electricity. And we're using more and more of it as time goes on. Coal releases tons of radiation and kills miners as well as being horribly dirty (there is no such thing as clean coal). We're running out of oil and it pollutes. Wind isn't always blowing or in the right place, sun isn't always shining or in the right place, water isn't always available for dams or in the right place and kills huge aquatic populations, not all of the population lives where tidal generators are a possibility... we're running out of options if we want electricity. Nuclear is great for providing a base generating capability, and there's not a whole lot else right now that's feasible or economical, especially considering the amount of nuclear waste we're planning on storing under a rock in Nevada.
Hell, the Fukushima reactor mostly survived the 4th largest earthquake since 1900. And that's a 40 year old design. We're talking the same year that the Intel 4004 was released. That's a hell of a testament to the design of modern nuclear power plants that are more efficient and even safer.
Yes, shit happens. Fukushima failing is horrible. But it's like being afraid of flying when you're perfectly ok with riding your bike, even though you're much more likely to die.
It's not "nuclear apologists". It's realists who want to maintain our standard of life, and understand what acceptable risks are. Life is all about risk management, and flipping out about the word "nuclear" is very poor risk management.
Because then he'd lose control of the reputation of the name.
I still prefer reading them in that order. Broadest timescale to most precise.
So that 3G is magically fed Internet over the... aether? Or something? The 'net access has to get to the towers somehow, and they don't have THAT long of range.
WTF Slashdot... how technologically ignorant do you have to be to say something like this or mod it up?
Neat chips, but for $400 you can get an i5-2500K+motherboard. You won't get 10 cores, but it's still stupidly fast ;)
They're also 2 and less than one, not 5 and 6. Within a few years, I'm sure they'll be able to handle a few hours of amusing themselves with only minor interruptions.
Sounds like you chose the wrong spouse, one that doesn't respect you.
And that is why when you work at home, you have to make a little bit of time for face time, as well as working to keep yourself and your works visible to the players instead of just being a black box.
That's why you have more than one child ;) I have a 2 year old and an 8 month old, and they can already amuse each other for 30 minutes or so while I make dinner for them.
So they're not worth worrying about, because they're not and never will be your customers. Look at how much money the indie devs made as compared to what they were on track for without that promotion. Look at all the charity that was helped because of it.
Yes, there are douchebags out there. But the majority of people are decent folk that understand value exchanges. Give them value for their money, and they'll gladly part with it at appropriate price points. Especially if you make it easy like Steam does.
"copyright or patent infringement", or since we're talking about "content" here, copyright infringement is all you need.
You don't want your kid to be the cool kid?
Don't forget, the Wii has lots of games like "House of the Dead: Overkill" and "Madworld" and such. It's not all kiddie-friendly. It just isn't centered around frat-boy games.
Nothing stirs irrational fears like the words "terrorist", "think of the children" or "nuclear"
600W? A deep-cycle automotive battery has something like 1.3KWh of capacity. Plenty of power.
And it's been 30 years since they've done anything useful. Those base inventions don't make up for the amount of consumer abuse that they have caused, or will cause if this deal goes through.
I don't know if it's stupid to be corrupt... unethical maybe, but not stupid
The problem is when people are ignorant and proud of it.
"Tide goes in, tide comes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that." - Bill O'Reilly
The same thing is happening here. People hear the word "nuclear", mispronounce it as "nukeular", and go apeshit because of their ignorance, while ignoring the real dangers of factories burning and coal plants actually releasing radiation into the atmosphere, car accidents, chemical spills... whatever. Risk assessment has never been a strong suit of humanity, and it makes it worse when people are adamant about remaining ignorant. So yes, it does piss those of us who know better off, and we may not be the kindest when we respond. It's because we are also human.
But Norway's police are geared toward protecting the public. Here in America, it's a revenue stream. Anything that gets in the way of revenue is a bad thing.
Those restrictions are FAR less than you get normally under copyright law. And they protect other people who would benefit from your developments on the code.
It's liberty because protecting everyone's rights at the cost of a few people's desires. If someone wants to go on a murderous rampage, we should most certainly stop that. His desire to do that may fit the dictionary definition of liberty, but it deprives other people of theirs in the process.
If we make a saner definition of Liberty to include not depriving others of their liberty, the GPL most certainly protects liberty, and is in no way Orwellian.
No, you don't have evidence any gods exist. You have a strong feeling and philosophical arguments, but you have no testable evidence or repeatable experiments verifying the existence of any kind of deity.
Fuck you and your victim mentality. Christians are FAR from being oppressed in the US. And as for portraying the typical creationist as an idiot who won't listen to scientific evidence? If you listened to scientific evidence, you wouldn't be a creationist. Period.
Didn't you ever wonder why the bank pays interest on savings accounts and CDs and such? It's because they're paying you to use your money for loans.
It doesn't mean that it's not generic just because they used it first.
I understand the math perfectly. I'd love to be able to buy a device I wanted and use it with a carrier I wanted. But the US wireless system as it is now won't let that happen. Even worse, you pay the same amount monthly whether you have a phone you're renting-to-own or have your own phone that you already own. So where's the incentive to not get a new phone from the provider for free?
We Americans talk a good game about the "free market", but your European governments do a better job of actually enforcing one.