Both their first bomb tests fizzled with yields about a tenth of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Not the same. Gun-type bombs are so easy that the US and South Africa (at least) built them and did not bother to test them. NK and Pakistan also did tests only for the more difficult implosion design. If they have sufficient highly enriched uranium, they will not waste it on a test.
. I'm sure far fewer people HAVE been injured by nuclear power than were injured by horses when everyone rode horses.
I'd go further: more people are killed or injured by horses than by nuclear power TODAY. Even in the developed world there are many hundreds of deaths annually.
repeatedly demonstrated their desire to conquer the world.
Funny then that they didn't start with Hong Kong or Macau. The 2nd Guandong Boy-Scout brigade equivalent could have taken Macau at any time over decades.
There are still people trying to prove him wrong too.
What do you mean "wrong"? Its a theory. It fits the observed universe closely, but not perfectly. Sure it is wrong, just less wrong than Newton, which is a pretty good achievement.
Yay! Nice to see somebody still understands obscure HHGTTG references on Slashdot! "Belgium", according to the original radio series, is of course the most unspeakably rude word in the universe. Something one might utter on hearing a story like this.
He did not say it had to run all flash apps, just his own. Maybe they are not CPU hogs? The old n800 tablet ran flash years ago on an ARM that must be dead slow by todays standards.
No, it is not just whites. The NE Asians (Japan, Korea, China) have proven quite capable of dealing with their overpopulation problems. Even India has made substantial progress, and those guys will be perfectly happy to let their high birth-rate underclass starve. You think whites are elitist? Then you have not travelled much.
Depends if Obama can keep his word about no ground troops. The first war with Iraq was a success because Bush-I resisted a full invasion. It destroyed Iraq as a regional military power. The bombing of Afghanistan in support of the Northern alliance was a successful act of revenge that even the Arabs respected. It only all turned to shit when the US tried to occupy and install their idea of democracy. Can the US accept the prospect of a divided Libya, with Gaddafi still ruling part, as Saddam did in Iraq for many years?
You're right. Khaddafi should be compared to Abraham Lincoln./troll
Troll or not, your comment is valid. The Chinese have begun to remove statues of Mao. How long before Americans do the same for Lincoln? The US civil war led to the deaths of millions. For what? It would only have been a matter of time before the impoverished southern states came back, grovelling for re-admittance. Yet Lincoln is a hero, not a mass-murderer. With this attitude I don't think we will see Cheney & Bush in The Hague any time soon.
... for anybody who would put their lives on the line like this. The Japanese are better at this than anyone else on Earth - honor and duty above all else.
The spirit of Iwo Jima? Will we be seeing mass-seppuku in the TECPO boardroom if they fail?
Obviously, if there was some standard way to hit a single button on phones and tap them together to exchange information, that would be easier - but at this point even everything like that just takes too much fiddling.
Bluetooth? select contact, menu, send via bluetooth, search, select receiver's phone. The receiver has to accept the message, then accept the contact. No more work than an SMS. Easier than copying from a business card. Only problem is when the other guy has a crippled phone. (No names mentioned, but I hear jailbreaking can remove some bluetooth restrictions.)
Saying that the dosage is just what you would have absorbed normally in 12 months is like saying that a drowning victim only consume the same amount of water they would have in three days.
Bad analogy. The dosage is nowhere near enough for acute effects (radiation poisoning).
I hope the recent coal-mining disasters will put an end to any new coal-fired plants. And the Deepwater Horizon kills oil & gas. And that Russian hydo dam disaster. Who'd have thought that dealing with enough power to supply a large city or ten could be so dangerous?
If the US air-force helped, I'm guessing it was by flying in diesel generators to power the cooling pumps where floods have damaged the onsite ones. The US airforce has a big presence in Japan.
a China Syndrome reactor accident would make Chernobyl look like Child's play
How is that? Chernobyl's core caught fire, putting large amounts of fission product up in smoke. A meltdown through the containment base could put some nasty stuff up in steam, but how is that so much worse?
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Both their first bomb tests fizzled with yields about a tenth of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Not the same. Gun-type bombs are so easy that the US and South Africa (at least) built them and did not bother to test them.
NK and Pakistan also did tests only for the more difficult implosion design. If they have sufficient highly enriched uranium, they will not waste it on a test.
. I'm sure far fewer people HAVE been injured by nuclear power than were injured by horses when everyone rode horses.
I'd go further: more people are killed or injured by horses than by nuclear power TODAY. Even in the developed world there are many hundreds of deaths annually.
repeatedly demonstrated their desire to conquer the world.
Funny then that they didn't start with Hong Kong or Macau. The 2nd Guandong Boy-Scout brigade equivalent could have taken Macau at any time over decades.
There are still people trying to prove him wrong too.
What do you mean "wrong"?
Its a theory. It fits the observed universe closely, but not perfectly.
Sure it is wrong, just less wrong than Newton, which is a pretty good achievement.
Yay! Nice to see somebody still understands obscure HHGTTG references on Slashdot!
"Belgium", according to the original radio series, is of course the most unspeakably rude word in the universe.
Something one might utter on hearing a story like this.
Well %$#^* Belgium!
Pardon my French.
Pretty cool, huh? Almost as if Google has created a perpetual motion machine
Don't worry, one day they will release their "Vista", and nobody will be fussed about upgrading to the latest any time soon.
He did not say it had to run all flash apps, just his own. Maybe they are not CPU hogs?
The old n800 tablet ran flash years ago on an ARM that must be dead slow by todays standards.
No, it is not just whites. The NE Asians (Japan, Korea, China) have proven quite capable of dealing with their overpopulation problems.
Even India has made substantial progress, and those guys will be perfectly happy to let their high birth-rate underclass starve. You think whites are elitist? Then you have not travelled much.
Depends if Obama can keep his word about no ground troops. The first war with Iraq was a success because Bush-I resisted a full invasion. It destroyed Iraq as a regional military power.
The bombing of Afghanistan in support of the Northern alliance was a successful act of revenge that even the Arabs respected.
It only all turned to shit when the US tried to occupy and install their idea of democracy. Can the US accept the prospect of a divided Libya, with Gaddafi still ruling part, as Saddam did in Iraq for many years?
What? No shortwave or CB radio?
I live in Ireland. We don't have major national emergencies. Just irritations.
Tough people the Irish. Even a famine that kills a million people is a mere "irritation".
Of course they were. They were farming gold or whatever in (thinking back 6 years) for World of Warcraft and Second Life.
100 million urban Chinese kids were gold-farmers? I find that hard to believe.
You're right. Khaddafi should be compared to Abraham Lincoln. /troll
Troll or not, your comment is valid. The Chinese have begun to remove statues of Mao. How long before Americans do the same for Lincoln?
The US civil war led to the deaths of millions. For what? It would only have been a matter of time before the impoverished southern states came back, grovelling for re-admittance. Yet Lincoln is a hero, not a mass-murderer. With this attitude I don't think we will see Cheney & Bush in The Hague any time soon.
... for anybody who would put their lives on the line like this. The Japanese are better at this than anyone else on Earth - honor and duty above all else.
The spirit of Iwo Jima? Will we be seeing mass-seppuku in the TECPO boardroom if they fail?
Obviously, if there was some standard way to hit a single button on phones and tap them together to exchange information, that would be easier - but at this point even everything like that just takes too much fiddling.
Bluetooth? select contact, menu, send via bluetooth, search, select receiver's phone. The receiver has to accept the message, then accept the contact.
No more work than an SMS. Easier than copying from a business card.
Only problem is when the other guy has a crippled phone. (No names mentioned, but I hear jailbreaking can remove some bluetooth restrictions.)
Saying that the dosage is just what you would have absorbed normally in 12 months is like saying that a drowning victim only consume the same amount of water they would have in three days.
Bad analogy. The dosage is nowhere near enough for acute effects (radiation poisoning).
I hope the recent coal-mining disasters will put an end to any new coal-fired plants. And the Deepwater Horizon kills oil & gas.
And that Russian hydo dam disaster. Who'd have thought that dealing with enough power to supply a large city or ten could be so dangerous?
If the US air-force helped, I'm guessing it was by flying in diesel generators to power the cooling pumps where floods have damaged the onsite ones.
The US airforce has a big presence in Japan.
a China Syndrome reactor accident would make Chernobyl look like Child's play
How is that? Chernobyl's core caught fire, putting large amounts of fission product up in smoke.
A meltdown through the containment base could put some nasty stuff up in steam, but how is that so much worse?
a full installation with all kinds of stuff fit on something like 6 3.5" floppy disks.
You lucky bastard! My first download of Linux came on 600' of paper tape.
(And your 6 floppies must have been without X-windows.)
Calling on all Australians to work extra hard over the coming months to make the list for 2012. Damn those Canadians. Even the Spaniards beat us.
OK, it took a few hundred million years, but it did cover the planet.
just say "when you've made 5M bucks off your book, it's off copyright"?
I don't know about books, but for movies that would equate to perpetual copyright
My first thought was Brisbane City Council, then Birch Carol Coyle Cinemas, then realised it must be Blind carbon copy.
Less colloquially, it means Basal Cell Carcinoma. I thought they have a cure for a cancer!
You mean carnal knowledge?