I think you're doing great and the proposed changes have me positively giddy. Please do keep up the good work. You seem to be on course for achieving everything for Microsoft that I might hope for, faster than I had believed was possible.
It was interesting and well written. It convincingly argues that coal plant cleanup is easier than nuke plant cleanup, which responds well to the parent.
Unfortunately for both you and the parent, Japan doesn't have any coal.
What Japan does have is abundant Geothermal energy. Decommissioning a geothermal plant is even easier, should that ever need to be done. But in over a century of geothermal energy production the need has not yet arisen.
The problem with geothermal is that it costs a bit more up front. This is offset by the fact that it needs no fuel, so ongoing costs are low.
This is Fukushima tea. Cooling it and reusing it does yield less, more concentrated tea. But this tea is already too hot to handle after one pass through the kettle. When the pot boils over, this is the steam that vents. The less concentrated the tea when that happens, the better.
Look cowboy, we're three weeks into this thing and it's nowhere close to over. It still gets worse every day. There may still be (probably is) ongoing unplanned criticality in not one, not two, but three reactors at the same site. Reactor one has admittedly breached primary containment, and reactor two probably but not admittedly so. The potential for a much worse incident than Chernobyl still exists. If one of these three reactors pops the entire site is a no-operations zone, and that means the other three reactors and their spent fuel ponds also go up for lack of rescue, and maybe even spent fuel in five and six as well. We don't have any data on what that level of contamination does to the ocean because Chernobyl wasn't on the shore and it was only 1/10th this much fuel - but it can't be good. Before this is over the entire planet may be drinking Fukushima tea.
Unacceptable levels of radioactivity have already been found in little fish 40 miles from this plant. Little fish are eaten by bigger fish, and big fish swim very far. As Cesium goes to the top of the food chain measurable amounts will be in our tin of tuna for the rest of time.
Every ship that sails the sea has barnacles on its hull, and barnacles soak up iodine, cesium and plutonium like you wouldn't believe. Japan is completely hosed now, as they will shortly be cut off from the global economy. Ships will soon not even dare venture to the west coast of Japan, as they'll be delayed in every port thereafter for many years. India has banned all Japanese food imports, and they're India - they don't block incoming food trivially.
That one reactor that used Plutonium MOX has enough toxic Plutonium in it to kill hundreds of millions of people. Saying there's only one reactor using Plutonium doesn't make it all OK now.
Just... stop. We get that you're a nuke fan. Some of us are too. But now is just not the time for that. The time for poo-poohing the damage is after the crisis is averted. Come back in December and tell us this was overblown - if it was.
It this succeeds, it validates their development framework: "See, it's so good the freetards even abandon their precious GNU and Java for it." But Miguel cannot possibly keep mono current, so the thing will always be obsolete. And then whenever MS wants they can shut down not only Mono, but all the projects built with it. That's the crippling blow they are waiting for. They are already directly suing over Android and that's not even slightly derived from MS products.
There are just too many good toolchains to invest the grey matter and training time in this trap.
Using any of their things, no matter how trivial or open, is just biting their hook. Once you're on the hook they'll let you swim around quite a while before they reel you in, in the hope you'll bring more friends. Just don't do it. You wouldn't drink from the outlet of a sewage treatment plant, would you? Clean water falls from the sky, and great toolchains from less revolting sources are available.
The time period is "since you were issued the dosimeter." Presumably at the start of your shift these days. It maxes at that exposure because at half that exposure you should flee. In normal plant operation you would then be banned from further work for a year.
It's not good to dump more radioactive water into the ocean. I would not approve of such a plan except in the most dire conditions. But let's not get crazy. Apparently that water was less radioactive than this particular bit of ocean already was.
Oh, yeah. All ten of the Italian Yahoo users will be protesting in the streets, undertipping and reducing their political contributions. Big impact. HUGE.
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Then this article's comments would be a case study in what to fix.
I would have gone with "word salad".
I think you're doing great and the proposed changes have me positively giddy. Please do keep up the good work. You seem to be on course for achieving everything for Microsoft that I might hope for, faster than I had believed was possible.
We may need nuclear power. Japan does not. There is more than enough geothermal energy under Japan to meet their needs until the sun grows cold.
Your cost computation omits the cost of a 500 year lease on 500 square miles of Japanese real estate. Please recalculate.
It was interesting and well written. It convincingly argues that coal plant cleanup is easier than nuke plant cleanup, which responds well to the parent.
Unfortunately for both you and the parent, Japan doesn't have any coal.
What Japan does have is abundant Geothermal energy. Decommissioning a geothermal plant is even easier, should that ever need to be done. But in over a century of geothermal energy production the need has not yet arisen.
The problem with geothermal is that it costs a bit more up front. This is offset by the fact that it needs no fuel, so ongoing costs are low.
This is Fukushima tea. Cooling it and reusing it does yield less, more concentrated tea. But this tea is already too hot to handle after one pass through the kettle. When the pot boils over, this is the steam that vents. The less concentrated the tea when that happens, the better.
Microsoft? The key to Android app portability? What the heck are you smoking?
Look cowboy, we're three weeks into this thing and it's nowhere close to over. It still gets worse every day. There may still be (probably is) ongoing unplanned criticality in not one, not two, but three reactors at the same site. Reactor one has admittedly breached primary containment, and reactor two probably but not admittedly so. The potential for a much worse incident than Chernobyl still exists. If one of these three reactors pops the entire site is a no-operations zone, and that means the other three reactors and their spent fuel ponds also go up for lack of rescue, and maybe even spent fuel in five and six as well. We don't have any data on what that level of contamination does to the ocean because Chernobyl wasn't on the shore and it was only 1/10th this much fuel - but it can't be good. Before this is over the entire planet may be drinking Fukushima tea.
Unacceptable levels of radioactivity have already been found in little fish 40 miles from this plant. Little fish are eaten by bigger fish, and big fish swim very far. As Cesium goes to the top of the food chain measurable amounts will be in our tin of tuna for the rest of time.
Every ship that sails the sea has barnacles on its hull, and barnacles soak up iodine, cesium and plutonium like you wouldn't believe. Japan is completely hosed now, as they will shortly be cut off from the global economy. Ships will soon not even dare venture to the west coast of Japan, as they'll be delayed in every port thereafter for many years. India has banned all Japanese food imports, and they're India - they don't block incoming food trivially.
That one reactor that used Plutonium MOX has enough toxic Plutonium in it to kill hundreds of millions of people. Saying there's only one reactor using Plutonium doesn't make it all OK now.
Just... stop. We get that you're a nuke fan. Some of us are too. But now is just not the time for that. The time for poo-poohing the damage is after the crisis is averted. Come back in December and tell us this was overblown - if it was.
And every dawn brings a worse problem to fix.
It this succeeds, it validates their development framework: "See, it's so good the freetards even abandon their precious GNU and Java for it." But Miguel cannot possibly keep mono current, so the thing will always be obsolete. And then whenever MS wants they can shut down not only Mono, but all the projects built with it. That's the crippling blow they are waiting for. They are already directly suing over Android and that's not even slightly derived from MS products.
There are just too many good toolchains to invest the grey matter and training time in this trap.
Using any of their things, no matter how trivial or open, is just biting their hook. Once you're on the hook they'll let you swim around quite a while before they reel you in, in the hope you'll bring more friends. Just don't do it. You wouldn't drink from the outlet of a sewage treatment plant, would you? Clean water falls from the sky, and great toolchains from less revolting sources are available.
Dance with the devil and you will pay his fee. There is no point to this. This Microsoft crap adds nothing you can't get without the taint.
The time period is "since you were issued the dosimeter." Presumably at the start of your shift these days. It maxes at that exposure because at half that exposure you should flee. In normal plant operation you would then be banned from further work for a year.
It's not good to dump more radioactive water into the ocean. I would not approve of such a plan except in the most dire conditions. But let's not get crazy. Apparently that water was less radioactive than this particular bit of ocean already was.
I should think geothermal would give it a run for its money in safety.
It's an unintentional side effect. - Linus
It's not, really. But I've said too much already. You're smart. Figure it out.
"If it harms noone, do what you will" shall be the whole of the law.
Linux won't take the desktop. It will obsolete it.
There is more net profit for the manufacturer in a smartphone than a desktop, and they move more units too. So the desktop is king of what, exactly?
We told you this was a slippery slope. Enjoy your slide into bacon-free health.
No, it's called a "torrent".
We're all in the same boat, friend.
Oh, yeah. All ten of the Italian Yahoo users will be protesting in the streets, undertipping and reducing their political contributions. Big impact. HUGE.