And don't forget that each state will want to lower requirements and increase times in order to attract businesses. And as soon as one ups the time, the others will follow suit... just like price wars, in reverse.
Fine with you? Maybe you like downloading, what, another 2, 3 megs of driver and 2, 3 megs of potential bugs because nVidia decided to write their own 'rendering path' or whatever you want to call it for a benchmark... Me, I like the drivers small, so I can fit them on my flash keychain (Yes, I know the joke already, go away) in case I need to upgrade my parent's computer.
Aggregate data is fine, for the most part (obviously, if your consumer base is 5 people, there might be an issue), but for this, I don't see the problem. And I'm a serious privacy advocate...
Why would this not be proof? It's not evidence, it's set up in a way so as to show the contradictory assumptions inherent in the christian view of god. In other words, it takes the evidence that you can see and constricts a proof of the non-existance of the christian god.
There are bound to be metals that this doesn't cause a problem for. I do know that titanium is affected by H2 embrittlement, at least durning annealing (which means heat... engine heat would probably cause problems, too). But what percentage of H2 is needed for it to be a problem?
You need to have less than a 42% H2 mix with air (I can't remember if air is 21% O2 by volume or weight... you need twice as much H2 by volume, or 16 times more O2 by weight), which might be enough to fix the problem. Metal manufacturing isn't my focus, unfortunatly for this discussion.
I always wanted to get a Vespa. Paint it black, with flames on the front... And wear a leather jacket and one of those half-helmets like the hard-core bikers tend to. Of course, I'm the sort of person who would mow the front lawn with a hooded black robe and a scythe...
Right, sort of. The damn thing will end up burning the lubricants, like any 2 stroke engine... unless, of course, the H2 burns at a lower temp than the oil. I left my Thermodynamics book at work... But I think that might end up being the case, in air, anyway. Releasing H2 into the air won't really be much of an issue, assuming that they can keep the percentage down to reasonable.
2 stroke is simpler, that's probably why it was done that way.
The real problem is how the laws passed that ban 2-stroke engines (standard gas ones, anyway) affect this. Are they written to allow for a 'clean' 2-stroke (i.e. emissions dependent), or do they ban 2-strokes totally? That could get ugly.
We don't have official icons of her. If you WANT Her to wear a calico hat, ASK Her to. She might say yes. She might say no. Or she might turn your skin calico. But you can ASK.
It seems to me, and I may be wrong living on the other side of the pond, that the BBC is more willing to go against their purse-string-holders than US media corps do. Maybe the government is more willing to allow free speech regarding their motives than a profit-mongering board of directors? They are more in the public eye...
I like this. The dude knows how to separate his professional responsibilities from his personal ones. A lot... and I mean A LOT... of politicians could take a hint from him. I can't say that I support his views on a lot of things, but I think I can respect this comment, at least.
Flamebait? The only thing that could even be vaguely considered that was an incredibly obvious quote from Dennis Leary. If you don't know the hat joke ('Of course I'm god, look at the size of my hat!'), go listen to some of his stuff.
You're assuming he's an athiest. I'd have said something similar, and I'm a Discordian. Don't make assumptions.
On your whole 'you have to have faith' rant... You really have no clue about thinking, do you? Not a flame, I'm just saying that you have one way of thinking and can't seem to comprehend that someone else might have a different way of going about it. Atheists do NOT have 'faith' in anything. They beleive based on facts, period. If there is no evidence, there is no 'belief' (that word doesn't really fit, as it has a connotation of 'without proof').
Atheism isn't 'a-rational' [sic]. Religion is irrational, pretty much by definition (what proof do you have that god exists? answer: none (the most common answer is 'we exist', which is not proof, of course). In fact, the normal christian god can be explicity disproven).
'Eternal force.' Funny, I don't know anyone who believes in an eternal force. You're trying to say that the way things work is somehow equivilent to a person who makes every molecule behave in certain ways. It doesn't work that way. The 'laws of physics' aren't based on some assumptions, they're based on observing how things actually behave. It's not eternal... if things stopped behaving that way, the 'laws' would change. Where do you think relitivity and quantum physics came from? The 'eternal force' of Newton's Laws of Motion?
I'll leave aside the humor in the phrase 'Religion is..a rationalization', and comment on the violence thing. I hate to inject a note of actual historical knowledge into these procedings, but religion has always been the best rationilization for violence. WWII, Crusades, Iran/Iraq, and political wars like McCarthyism are all excelent examples. Racism often has a religious basis of some sort (see the Hindu caste structure, the KKK, or Hitler against the Jews for obvious examples). And as for nationalism, I have one quote for you... 'We are a Christian nation'.
"The only difference between religion and a cult is... unthinking obedience to another person."
Nah. It changes the link. Click on it, and look. Instead of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200347 you get http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/slashdot/index.html?id =200347
"anonymous cashless society, which despite the Orwellian protests of the tin-foilers, is IMO, A Good Thing(tm)"
I think you're misinterpreting the privacy advocates, here. We don't have problems with an anonymous cashless society, I think... just one where there is no such thing as an anonymous purchace. Most cashless societies tend to have a link back to who you are (ATM cards, credit cards, etc.). This idea wouldn't, so I don't mind it as much. It's like certified credsticks.
"I wish more and more brick and mortar stores would check your signature"
I used to work for Sears. I did this. One guy comes up, tried to buy something, I think a faucet, and gave me an unsigned credit card. I asked him for ID, he gave it to me, complaining, and I handed back the ID and the card, and asked him to sign it. He refused, started yelling, and walked out.
Mind you, the card quite clearly states 'not valid until signed'. And this wasn't an isolated incident, either.
That is why stores don't check signatures very well. Customers don't want the security it provides.
I'm guessing that the data is correct. Thing is, if you ingest that much caffeine at once, you're in trouble. But if you spread it out, it's not a problem. Plutonium sticks around. There's probably other things, like caffeine would spread out in the bloodstream, and plutonium concentrates somewhere making the effective lethality more, but to be honest, I'm googled out right now.
"after a few THOUSAND YEARS the mess is cleaned up"
Assuming the plant detonates. This kind of reactor doesn't. Although a water cooled one of this type would be better (shutting off the cooling shuts off the reactor in this type).
"Just like I can tolerate only a certain amount of stupidity."
I wouldn't make comments like that if I were you.
"Plutonium, did you know that Marie Curie died in agony of multiple debilitating cancers"
"You can't "shut down" the process of radioactive decay"
No, but you can shut down what powers a nuclear plant, the chain reaction.
"It's all the peacenik's fault that we have nuclear waste"
Your reading comprehension sucks. Try reading what he says. Let me rephrase to make it easier on you. "If we recycle the waste, less of it will be in dumps, and the anti-nuke people make this impossible, even though it can be safe." And before you get stupid on me again, note that not all of it would be safe, etc. But some, if not most, of that can be recycled, but that option is blocked by paranoia.
"What does this have to do with a lot of outrageous misinformation regarding radioactivity and nuclear waste?"
He was explaining and giving examples of why he would be considered 'green'. This is called an informal version of 'establishing credentials". He has. You haven't. I have... at the least, I've shown I know how to use google, which you have failed to do.
"You've got a long way to go yourself, pal"
Pot, stop talking to the kettle, you're giving me a headache.
"What the hell does this have to do with nuclear waste?"
I don't know, sewage vs. nuke waste, seems a fairly decent analogy to me. Maybe I'm just smarter than you.
Problems: Cost of the land isn't factored into your equation. One of these modular nukes probably needs 4 acres (guestimate, yeah, but I'm probably in the ballpark). That's cheep. A couple thousand acres for the same power isn't. Just calculate the taxes, never mind the distributed acquisition costs.
And don't forget the massive (choose one: extra surplus required, or massive battery banks) that wind would require. First one compounds the above problem, and the second one is a worse disposal problem than nuclear is by a long shot.
Add in that this generates fuel for cars and power for cities at the same time, that they can be buried so they aren't an eyesore, and less suceptibility to longer term weather problems (imagine a week of no wind...) and you can see the advantages.
What, you mean (well, the original poster of that meant) things like the letter I just got today?
'Certified Mail, Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe' etc. etc. Making it look like a legitimate bill or something. Guess what? It's an ad for a local car dealership.
Or stuff that looks like bills, notifications from legitimate organizations, etc. that's all ads? Sure, if you're paying attention, it doesn't work, but I was opening mail on the way to my vehicle. It's the same thing.
I hope that someone does another suit, wins, so we can start suing those idiots doing it in 'real life'.
Replace 'games' with 'movies' and your sentance is just as true. Probably any major entertainment media, really.
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At the very least, the lawsuit in the discovery phase (which wouldn't take long to get to) would allow you to subpoena the code that's supposedly in violation. Just like the RIAA suing to find out who people are, and getting the names from ISPs and then dropping the suit, right?
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And don't forget that each state will want to lower requirements and increase times in order to attract businesses. And as soon as one ups the time, the others will follow suit... just like price wars, in reverse.
Fine with you? Maybe you like downloading, what, another 2, 3 megs of driver and 2, 3 megs of potential bugs because nVidia decided to write their own 'rendering path' or whatever you want to call it for a benchmark... Me, I like the drivers small, so I can fit them on my flash keychain (Yes, I know the joke already, go away) in case I need to upgrade my parent's computer.
And script kiddies. That'll be one heck of a Denial of Service attack, won't it?
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Aggregate data is fine, for the most part (obviously, if your consumer base is 5 people, there might be an issue), but for this, I don't see the problem. And I'm a serious privacy advocate...
Why would this not be proof? It's not evidence, it's set up in a way so as to show the contradictory assumptions inherent in the christian view of god. In other words, it takes the evidence that you can see and constricts a proof of the non-existance of the christian god.
I had to do something special for someone who quotes Steven Wright in his sig.
You need to have less than a 42% H2 mix with air (I can't remember if air is 21% O2 by volume or weight... you need twice as much H2 by volume, or 16 times more O2 by weight), which might be enough to fix the problem. Metal manufacturing isn't my focus, unfortunatly for this discussion.
I always wanted to get a Vespa. Paint it black, with flames on the front... And wear a leather jacket and one of those half-helmets like the hard-core bikers tend to. Of course, I'm the sort of person who would mow the front lawn with a hooded black robe and a scythe...
2 stroke is simpler, that's probably why it was done that way.
The real problem is how the laws passed that ban 2-stroke engines (standard gas ones, anyway) affect this. Are they written to allow for a 'clean' 2-stroke (i.e. emissions dependent), or do they ban 2-strokes totally? That could get ugly.
We don't have official icons of her. If you WANT Her to wear a calico hat, ASK Her to. She might say yes. She might say no. Or she might turn your skin calico. But you can ASK.
It seems to me, and I may be wrong living on the other side of the pond, that the BBC is more willing to go against their purse-string-holders than US media corps do. Maybe the government is more willing to allow free speech regarding their motives than a profit-mongering board of directors? They are more in the public eye...
I like this. The dude knows how to separate his professional responsibilities from his personal ones. A lot... and I mean A LOT... of politicians could take a hint from him. I can't say that I support his views on a lot of things, but I think I can respect this comment, at least.
This page contains a bunch of links explaining the Argument from Evil.
You're assuming he's an athiest. I'd have said something similar, and I'm a Discordian. Don't make assumptions.
On your whole 'you have to have faith' rant... You really have no clue about thinking, do you? Not a flame, I'm just saying that you have one way of thinking and can't seem to comprehend that someone else might have a different way of going about it. Atheists do NOT have 'faith' in anything. They beleive based on facts, period. If there is no evidence, there is no 'belief' (that word doesn't really fit, as it has a connotation of 'without proof').
Atheism isn't 'a-rational' [sic]. Religion is irrational, pretty much by definition (what proof do you have that god exists? answer: none (the most common answer is 'we exist', which is not proof, of course). In fact, the normal christian god can be explicity disproven).
'Eternal force.' Funny, I don't know anyone who believes in an eternal force. You're trying to say that the way things work is somehow equivilent to a person who makes every molecule behave in certain ways. It doesn't work that way. The 'laws of physics' aren't based on some assumptions, they're based on observing how things actually behave. It's not eternal... if things stopped behaving that way, the 'laws' would change. Where do you think relitivity and quantum physics came from? The 'eternal force' of Newton's Laws of Motion?
I'll leave aside the humor in the phrase 'Religion is..a rationalization', and comment on the violence thing. I hate to inject a note of actual historical knowledge into these procedings, but religion has always been the best rationilization for violence. WWII, Crusades, Iran/Iraq, and political wars like McCarthyism are all excelent examples. Racism often has a religious basis of some sort (see the Hindu caste structure, the KKK, or Hitler against the Jews for obvious examples). And as for nationalism, I have one quote for you... 'We are a Christian nation'.
"The only difference between religion and a cult is... unthinking obedience to another person."
So, you're saying... no differance at all.
Nah. It changes the link. Click on it, and look. Instead of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200347 you get http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/slashdot/index.html?id =200347
I think you're misinterpreting the privacy advocates, here. We don't have problems with an anonymous cashless society, I think... just one where there is no such thing as an anonymous purchace. Most cashless societies tend to have a link back to who you are (ATM cards, credit cards, etc.). This idea wouldn't, so I don't mind it as much. It's like certified credsticks.
I used to work for Sears. I did this. One guy comes up, tried to buy something, I think a faucet, and gave me an unsigned credit card. I asked him for ID, he gave it to me, complaining, and I handed back the ID and the card, and asked him to sign it. He refused, started yelling, and walked out.
Mind you, the card quite clearly states 'not valid until signed'. And this wasn't an isolated incident, either.
That is why stores don't check signatures very well. Customers don't want the security it provides.
That's not a problem. Just turn your wallet into a farraday cage.
Is that a metal cage in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
I'm guessing that the data is correct. Thing is, if you ingest that much caffeine at once, you're in trouble. But if you spread it out, it's not a problem. Plutonium sticks around. There's probably other things, like caffeine would spread out in the bloodstream, and plutonium concentrates somewhere making the effective lethality more, but to be honest, I'm googled out right now.
Assuming the plant detonates. This kind of reactor doesn't. Although a water cooled one of this type would be better (shutting off the cooling shuts off the reactor in this type).
"Just like I can tolerate only a certain amount of stupidity."
I wouldn't make comments like that if I were you.
"Plutonium, did you know that Marie Curie died in agony of multiple debilitating cancers"
Try reading sometime.
"How are you even able to post on Slashdot?"
Sure, he was wrong, but that question applies even more to you. You accused him of inaccuracy and didn't even fact-check... Are you implying that Nagasaki wasn't bombed by plutonium or that the thousands of deaths from a power plant melting downis more than the amount of deaths caused by a nuke?
"You can't "shut down" the process of radioactive decay"
No, but you can shut down what powers a nuclear plant, the chain reaction.
"It's all the peacenik's fault that we have nuclear waste"
Your reading comprehension sucks. Try reading what he says. Let me rephrase to make it easier on you. "If we recycle the waste, less of it will be in dumps, and the anti-nuke people make this impossible, even though it can be safe." And before you get stupid on me again, note that not all of it would be safe, etc. But some, if not most, of that can be recycled, but that option is blocked by paranoia.
"What does this have to do with a lot of outrageous misinformation regarding radioactivity and nuclear waste?"
He was explaining and giving examples of why he would be considered 'green'. This is called an informal version of 'establishing credentials". He has. You haven't. I have... at the least, I've shown I know how to use google, which you have failed to do.
"You've got a long way to go yourself, pal"
Pot, stop talking to the kettle, you're giving me a headache.
"What the hell does this have to do with nuclear waste?"
I don't know, sewage vs. nuke waste, seems a fairly decent analogy to me. Maybe I'm just smarter than you.
And don't forget the massive (choose one: extra surplus required, or massive battery banks) that wind would require. First one compounds the above problem, and the second one is a worse disposal problem than nuclear is by a long shot.
Add in that this generates fuel for cars and power for cities at the same time, that they can be buried so they aren't an eyesore, and less suceptibility to longer term weather problems (imagine a week of no wind...) and you can see the advantages.
'Certified Mail, Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe' etc. etc. Making it look like a legitimate bill or something. Guess what? It's an ad for a local car dealership.
Or stuff that looks like bills, notifications from legitimate organizations, etc. that's all ads? Sure, if you're paying attention, it doesn't work, but I was opening mail on the way to my vehicle. It's the same thing.
I hope that someone does another suit, wins, so we can start suing those idiots doing it in 'real life'.
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1990/0 6/549944.html (second paragraph, or try google yourself, for free!)
Replace 'games' with 'movies' and your sentance is just as true. Probably any major entertainment media, really.
At the very least, the lawsuit in the discovery phase (which wouldn't take long to get to) would allow you to subpoena the code that's supposedly in violation. Just like the RIAA suing to find out who people are, and getting the names from ISPs and then dropping the suit, right?
You catch that bit, too? Bet he dropped out because he failed an ethics class...