Fukushima will never even approach the death count of the tsunami. Unlike in Chernobyl, evacuation was timely and long before the levels got dangerous. Human life is treated with much better care and people don't enter "hot" areas without proper protection. The death count may reach low hundreds at worst.
As for property loss... lots of land is lost but great most of property in the area has been already destroyed by tsunami when the exclusion zone has been established, so it will be hard to write that up as victim of Fukushima. Also, most of the excluded land is wilderness/mountains. Chernobyl proves nature can deal with radiation very well, ecology of the ukrainian zone flourishes, so no serious loss here.
Chernobyl casualties are ~5000, 43 died in the explosion, radiation during the recovery killed most - causing cancer within a couple years after the accident.100.000 is way overblown number attributing every single cancer case in the area to the accident.
As for property loss, the flood destroyed 470 km^2 of mostly densely inhabited terrain. The exclusion zone would be ~1400km^2 (half-circle of radius 30km, the other half is sea) with most of the area being uninhabited mountains - only about 50km^2 of the densely populated shore area would be affected.
The tsunami destroyed houses and movable property, it left the land alone. The land will have to be cleaned of the rubble. Houses will have to be rebuilt there, movable property bought anew. This is the cost of tsunami recovery, times most of the 470km^2
Now the nuclear accident didn't damage most of movable property. People (from areas not affected by tsunami) can evacuate taking most of it with them. Cars, home appliances and so on. OTOH houses and the land are contaminated. The value would be about the cost of lease of all the land in the area for ~40 years, plus cost of houses (which after that long time will have to be scrapped). That plus price of one nuclear power plant. Also, most of industry machinery won't be irradiated beyond recovery, so it could be reused at different location. No such luck with flooded factories.
So, the accident excludes only about 50-100km^2 of houses+land, leaving movable property (+ ~400km^2 of uninhabited land, not really lost as ecology of Chernobyl proves.). The tsunami destroys 470 km^2 worth of houses and movable property, leaving the land.
You're forgetting this is Armenia. A mass-produced chessboard with a set of pieces is like $0.30 imported in bulk from China. Getting a computer capable of running Battle for Wesnoth may be beyond capabilities of most schools, and even if they have a computer lab, it is likely occupied most of the time by IT classes, simply no time to occupy it for another 2h a week for each group. And funding another computer lab just for playing nethack...?
Interesting, which direction did the Iron Curtain work.
While the East had a pretty reasonable clue about culture of the West, importing songs, "stealing" inventions, importing luxury wares for special shops where you could buy them with dollars.
It seems, the west has no clue about rich academic culture of the East (science was really valued), only begins to discover the sci-fi writers, will never understand the subtle humor (bypassing the censorship), very surprised slowly discovers quality animated movies... Yes, you COULD choose in the university. And it seems the west had very little clue what was going on behind the Iron Curtain...
There is one serious problem with sending robots there. All the old BOFH jokes about cosmic rays? It's all true in there. High radiation levels make bits skip like crazy in high-density memory and CPUs. Your parrot drone's firmware would crash within a mile of the power plant, unless you shield the CPU with enough lead so that it would never take off.
Then try to drive that remotely. The name "radioactivity" is not there in vain. It really creates horrible noise in all radio frequencies, so forget "fly by radio" models. Either it's autonomous, or driven by cable, or you set up a goddamned 100KW radio tower for driving your drone to overcome all the noise.
And then you got a ground drone with all electronics shielded by an inch of lead, driven by a mile long spool of cable unwound from a roll on the back. Now give it a camera that can still see the outside and won't crash due to radiation - possibly analog, with only the CCD exposed, and in such a way that radiation won't pass inside bypassing the lenses. Give it a manipulator arm that has all electronics shielded. Give it a battery that will be able to drive the half a ton of lead, 100kg of wire, and another half a ton of hardware of the device - forget your fancy micro engines, every exposed part must be thick rugged so that electric noise doesn't affect it. Make sure it's radiation-leak proof, because even a small hole in the shield may crash the software.
And now build it. How long will it take you to do it?
Could anyone provide figures of property lost value and dead count caused by:
- the Fukushima accident - the earthquake, excluding the tsunami - the tsunami, excluding the Fukushima casualties
?
I mean, the power plant problem is a big one, but I'd really like to see how it compares to the big image. Somehow I have a feeling that even establishing a permanent 30km exclusion zone around the power plant, and all the cancer accidents resulting from radiation leaks will not get anywhere near to the number of dead and value of property destroyed in whole towns levelled with the ground by the tsunami wave. Yet we shrug the tsunami as yet another natural event while screaming about dangerous nuclear technology causing a disaster the scale of...
I mean... Fukushima disaster scale is slowly approaching 1.0 Chernobyl events. But how many Tsunami Events is it?
Except if you are -very- competetive about athletics, you don't have time for properly learning all the rest (but being a promising athlete helps to pass).
You're just barely getting by, and in the end you are not competent in your learned work field. You're extremely competetive though, so you do get to a higher (managemental) position than the nerds who didn't compete at sports and learned their job instead.
And that's the image of your current corporate structure. Highly competetive, aggressive, and utterly incompetent jerks are the managers, meanwhile talented experts stay at the bottom, because not being very competetive doesn't fit the image of a "person deserving a success" for the managers, who, after all, fought tooth and nail for their positions.
Yes, it's true there is a lot of jobs which are easier to get if you have all the competetive skills. It's easier to get a better-paying job that way. It's definitely profitable to the person in question. It's just utterly harmful to the whole system.
Actually, this sounds like a pretty solid blow to the N.W.O. Not only the currency consolidation falls apart, people and governments become aware of what shitty idea it is.
Still, as goes for "new window placement" GIMP seems to have it set to "Obstruct as much of work area as possible". Like, there are tools where you click on the image and drag to perform action, and they open windows for extra options (like entering the parameters in pixels). And they seem to insist to open these windows exactly where I clicked and am about to start dragging, obscuring precisely the area I need visible at the moment.
Also, as I resize the toolbox (because tool option is too long and doesn't fit horizontally, ARGH!), location of all tool buttons changes, so I have to look... bucket fill was second-to-last row on the right, now it's somewhere on the left... Pencil tool was just above it, now it's a row higher, on the right... Totally kills productivity.
Actually, prices of the -games- went down. As well as amount of content in the games. This is recuperated in premium with DLC which makes the price seriously exceed that of the old, while returning content amount to standard levels.
There's unfortunately a huge gap between what should be and what is, and the gap is defended by a bunch of rabid lawyers who will do everything in their power to prevent making them obsolete.
I've worked for a company with completely opposite politics: report that everything is in order, operation completed successfully, even if authentication fails.
The system is not 100% secure. It never is. Poke at it enough and you WILL find a way in, one we never thought about. But one way to stop you from poking enough is to convince you you succeeded. Yay, the clever hacker circumvented the dumb authentication system, victory is theirs, let's look for something else to break. The system gives impression of accepting the input correctly, passing it along for storage or moderation or whatever, except the input is really discarded, while "completed successfully" is given in return.
Thing is, the MAD doctrine based peace required this.
Both countries had arsenals that could not be fully stopped. Defense was bound to fail. Only threat of assured destruction kept opponents from attacking - Russians knew well that launching a full-scale attack against the US would mean the end of the Soviet Union, but they knew just as well that not being capable to launch such an attack effectively would tempt the US into attacking the SU.
Yes, they did have plans of attacking the US, just like the US had plans of attacking the SU. It's just that knowledge of consequences - mutually assured destruction - kept both from doing it.
you might recheck your data. A set of C64+power supply+disk drive+2 joysticks+all the cables+a box of floppies (and maybe even a monitor) currently costs an arm and a leg. A C64 without this all will be dirt cheap but good luck completing all the components on your own. In the end it may cost more than the whole set.
Keep your PC humming under your desk where is its place. C64 does not make noise.
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I think you set the age bar far too high. I'm below 33, I fondly recall my Atari 65XE and later Amiga 600, I think I could afford such a toy, I have some spare time and no, you are the one who is stupid.
Interestingly, "not quite". It is doubtful the real, conservative institution of church would ever agree with it, but the Church as it should be - by enlightened, ethical and wise people (yes, there are few in there, if not all that many), does agree with it.
The church (as it should be) has the ultimate priority of some moral goals. Commonwealth. Cooperation. Peace. Wisdom. These pretty much agree with ultimate goals of hackers. It also has some means to achieve these goals. Authority. Blind faith. Rituals that appeal to lesser minds. Rigid structure and deep traditionalism. These methods are completely in conflict with all Hackers represent by themselves. Still, as long as the ultimate goals are pursued, the church should be perfectly fine with alternative means, with people doing the Good Thing not in the name of God. Different methods, different target audience, same goals. This has been recognized.
Of course we're not talking about "the real Church" here - the megacorporation that controls vast material wealth, suppresses all opposition, fights dirty for political influences and so on. The institution has long lost its original sense of purpose. But still, there are people there who still remember the original goals and speak up from time to time (even if to buy some positive PR). In this case, the hackers really are friends of "Church As It Should Be". Gathering people to whom the Church has no appeal and getting them to do the same good stuff the Church tries to get all the rest to do.
I never had an iPad in my hands so I don't know - I just wonder, how comfortable is it for producing content (vs consuming it)? Which is the primary difference between TV (consume) and the modern media (participate).
I mean, I have Opera Mini for my Android phone. It provides superior browsing experience. It's fast, pages load fast, picking links is easy, windows switching is a breeze. But it absolutely sucks when it comes to creating content. Writing posts is difficult. Native language characters are not available. File upload - nada. Editing posts is an exercise in futility. And if you want to paste anything from an outside application, you better have it in the clipboard already - switching tasks kills current session, and you'll have to browse to the posting page anew from scratch. Meanwhile the built-in browser, while much slower, with much more issues when it comes to viewing pages, slow and annoying, makes posting information on the net possible. Not exactly easy or comfortable, but quite doable, better by a landslide than Opera. So, Opera is information consumer app, watch but don't touch, while the built-in allows to participate. So, isn't iPad another device to "watch but not touch" the content?
Prerequisite: the team must be equipped with powertools to cut through the red tape.
Say, open line to the CEO who just says "yes" to anything they say and authority to fire whoever stops them from performing their task.
Depending on company structure, 10-60% of the time of any "revolutionary" change is spent actually developing the change, the remainder is asking, waiting, begging, urging, pressing, explaining, escalating and generally overcoming people who while aware of the necessity of the change and futility of their resistance, will resist the change as much as they can (or see it as the opportunity to exercise their decision-making power, which is totally unneeded and unwelcome there but by no means anyone could ever notice that.)
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Fukushima will never even approach the death count of the tsunami. Unlike in Chernobyl, evacuation was timely and long before the levels got dangerous. Human life is treated with much better care and people don't enter "hot" areas without proper protection. The death count may reach low hundreds at worst.
As for property loss... lots of land is lost but great most of property in the area has been already destroyed by tsunami when the exclusion zone has been established, so it will be hard to write that up as victim of Fukushima. Also, most of the excluded land is wilderness/mountains. Chernobyl proves nature can deal with radiation very well, ecology of the ukrainian zone flourishes, so no serious loss here.
Chernobyl casualties are ~5000, 43 died in the explosion, radiation during the recovery killed most - causing cancer within a couple years after the accident.100.000 is way overblown number attributing every single cancer case in the area to the accident.
As for property loss, the flood destroyed 470 km^2 of mostly densely inhabited terrain. The exclusion zone would be ~1400km^2 (half-circle of radius 30km, the other half is sea) with most of the area being uninhabited mountains - only about 50km^2 of the densely populated shore area would be affected.
The tsunami destroyed houses and movable property, it left the land alone. The land will have to be cleaned of the rubble. Houses will have to be rebuilt there, movable property bought anew. This is the cost of tsunami recovery, times most of the 470km^2
Now the nuclear accident didn't damage most of movable property. People (from areas not affected by tsunami) can evacuate taking most of it with them. Cars, home appliances and so on. OTOH houses and the land are contaminated. The value would be about the cost of lease of all the land in the area for ~40 years, plus cost of houses (which after that long time will have to be scrapped). That plus price of one nuclear power plant. Also, most of industry machinery won't be irradiated beyond recovery, so it could be reused at different location. No such luck with flooded factories.
So, the accident excludes only about 50-100km^2 of houses+land, leaving movable property (+ ~400km^2 of uninhabited land, not really lost as ecology of Chernobyl proves.). The tsunami destroys 470 km^2 worth of houses and movable property, leaving the land.
You're forgetting this is Armenia.
A mass-produced chessboard with a set of pieces is like $0.30 imported in bulk from China.
Getting a computer capable of running Battle for Wesnoth may be beyond capabilities of most schools, and even if they have a computer lab, it is likely occupied most of the time by IT classes, simply no time to occupy it for another 2h a week for each group. And funding another computer lab just for playing nethack...?
Interesting, which direction did the Iron Curtain work.
While the East had a pretty reasonable clue about culture of the West, importing songs, "stealing" inventions, importing luxury wares for special shops where you could buy them with dollars.
It seems, the west has no clue about rich academic culture of the East (science was really valued), only begins to discover the sci-fi writers, will never understand the subtle humor (bypassing the censorship), very surprised slowly discovers quality animated movies... Yes, you COULD choose in the university. And it seems the west had very little clue what was going on behind the Iron Curtain...
There is one serious problem with sending robots there.
All the old BOFH jokes about cosmic rays? It's all true in there.
High radiation levels make bits skip like crazy in high-density memory and CPUs. Your parrot drone's firmware would crash within a mile of the power plant, unless you shield the CPU with enough lead so that it would never take off.
Then try to drive that remotely. The name "radioactivity" is not there in vain. It really creates horrible noise in all radio frequencies, so forget "fly by radio" models. Either it's autonomous, or driven by cable, or you set up a goddamned 100KW radio tower for driving your drone to overcome all the noise.
And then you got a ground drone with all electronics shielded by an inch of lead, driven by a mile long spool of cable unwound from a roll on the back. Now give it a camera that can still see the outside and won't crash due to radiation - possibly analog, with only the CCD exposed, and in such a way that radiation won't pass inside bypassing the lenses. Give it a manipulator arm that has all electronics shielded. Give it a battery that will be able to drive the half a ton of lead, 100kg of wire, and another half a ton of hardware of the device - forget your fancy micro engines, every exposed part must be thick rugged so that electric noise doesn't affect it. Make sure it's radiation-leak proof, because even a small hole in the shield may crash the software.
And now build it. How long will it take you to do it?
Could anyone provide figures of property lost value and dead count caused by:
- the Fukushima accident
- the earthquake, excluding the tsunami
- the tsunami, excluding the Fukushima casualties
?
I mean, the power plant problem is a big one, but I'd really like to see how it compares to the big image. Somehow I have a feeling that even establishing a permanent 30km exclusion zone around the power plant, and all the cancer accidents resulting from radiation leaks will not get anywhere near to the number of dead and value of property destroyed in whole towns levelled with the ground by the tsunami wave. Yet we shrug the tsunami as yet another natural event while screaming about dangerous nuclear technology causing a disaster the scale of...
I mean... Fukushima disaster scale is slowly approaching 1.0 Chernobyl events. But how many Tsunami Events is it?
Except if you are -very- competetive about athletics, you don't have time for properly learning all the rest (but being a promising athlete helps to pass).
You're just barely getting by, and in the end you are not competent in your learned work field. You're extremely competetive though, so you do get to a higher (managemental) position than the nerds who didn't compete at sports and learned their job instead.
And that's the image of your current corporate structure. Highly competetive, aggressive, and utterly incompetent jerks are the managers, meanwhile talented experts stay at the bottom, because not being very competetive doesn't fit the image of a "person deserving a success" for the managers, who, after all, fought tooth and nail for their positions.
Yes, it's true there is a lot of jobs which are easier to get if you have all the competetive skills. It's easier to get a better-paying job that way. It's definitely profitable to the person in question. It's just utterly harmful to the whole system.
TAHT MEANS THEY MUST BE STOPPED!!!!1
this is the standard policy, isn't it?
Actually, this sounds like a pretty solid blow to the N.W.O.
Not only the currency consolidation falls apart, people and governments become aware of what shitty idea it is.
Oh, but India DOES have WMD. ;)
I believe this is just an excuse to provide all the necessary bandwidth for surveilance cameras.
After all rural camera coverage is so much worse.
Still, as goes for "new window placement" GIMP seems to have it set to "Obstruct as much of work area as possible". Like, there are tools where you click on the image and drag to perform action, and they open windows for extra options (like entering the parameters in pixels). And they seem to insist to open these windows exactly where I clicked and am about to start dragging, obscuring precisely the area I need visible at the moment.
Also, as I resize the toolbox (because tool option is too long and doesn't fit horizontally, ARGH!), location of all tool buttons changes, so I have to look... bucket fill was second-to-last row on the right, now it's somewhere on the left... Pencil tool was just above it, now it's a row higher, on the right... Totally kills productivity.
Actually, prices of the -games- went down. As well as amount of content in the games. This is recuperated in premium with DLC which makes the price seriously exceed that of the old, while returning content amount to standard levels.
There's unfortunately a huge gap between what should be and what is, and the gap is defended by a bunch of rabid lawyers who will do everything in their power to prevent making them obsolete.
I've worked for a company with completely opposite politics: report that everything is in order, operation completed successfully, even if authentication fails.
The system is not 100% secure. It never is. Poke at it enough and you WILL find a way in, one we never thought about. But one way to stop you from poking enough is to convince you you succeeded. Yay, the clever hacker circumvented the dumb authentication system, victory is theirs, let's look for something else to break. The system gives impression of accepting the input correctly, passing it along for storage or moderation or whatever, except the input is really discarded, while "completed successfully" is given in return.
Thing is, the MAD doctrine based peace required this.
Both countries had arsenals that could not be fully stopped. Defense was bound to fail. Only threat of assured destruction kept opponents from attacking - Russians knew well that launching a full-scale attack against the US would mean the end of the Soviet Union, but they knew just as well that not being capable to launch such an attack effectively would tempt the US into attacking the SU.
Yes, they did have plans of attacking the US, just like the US had plans of attacking the SU. It's just that knowledge of consequences - mutually assured destruction - kept both from doing it.
As much as I'd like to say something teary-eyed, all I can think of is:
"And this is just how day-to-day GNOME development looks like."
you might recheck your data.
A set of C64+power supply+disk drive+2 joysticks+all the cables+a box of floppies (and maybe even a monitor) currently costs an arm and a leg.
A C64 without this all will be dirt cheap but good luck completing all the components on your own. In the end it may cost more than the whole set.
Keep your PC humming under your desk where is its place. C64 does not make noise.
I think you set the age bar far too high.
I'm below 33, I fondly recall my Atari 65XE and later Amiga 600, I think I could afford such a toy, I have some spare time and no, you are the one who is stupid.
Interestingly, "not quite". It is doubtful the real, conservative institution of church would ever agree with it, but the Church as it should be - by enlightened, ethical and wise people (yes, there are few in there, if not all that many), does agree with it.
The church (as it should be) has the ultimate priority of some moral goals. Commonwealth. Cooperation. Peace. Wisdom. These pretty much agree with ultimate goals of hackers.
It also has some means to achieve these goals. Authority. Blind faith. Rituals that appeal to lesser minds. Rigid structure and deep traditionalism. These methods are completely in conflict with all Hackers represent by themselves. Still, as long as the ultimate goals are pursued, the church should be perfectly fine with alternative means, with people doing the Good Thing not in the name of God. Different methods, different target audience, same goals. This has been recognized.
Of course we're not talking about "the real Church" here - the megacorporation that controls vast material wealth, suppresses all opposition, fights dirty for political influences and so on. The institution has long lost its original sense of purpose. But still, there are people there who still remember the original goals and speak up from time to time (even if to buy some positive PR). In this case, the hackers really are friends of "Church As It Should Be". Gathering people to whom the Church has no appeal and getting them to do the same good stuff the Church tries to get all the rest to do.
I never had an iPad in my hands so I don't know - I just wonder, how comfortable is it for producing content (vs consuming it)?
Which is the primary difference between TV (consume) and the modern media (participate).
I mean, I have Opera Mini for my Android phone. It provides superior browsing experience. It's fast, pages load fast, picking links is easy, windows switching is a breeze. But it absolutely sucks when it comes to creating content. Writing posts is difficult. Native language characters are not available. File upload - nada. Editing posts is an exercise in futility. And if you want to paste anything from an outside application, you better have it in the clipboard already - switching tasks kills current session, and you'll have to browse to the posting page anew from scratch.
Meanwhile the built-in browser, while much slower, with much more issues when it comes to viewing pages, slow and annoying, makes posting information on the net possible. Not exactly easy or comfortable, but quite doable, better by a landslide than Opera. So, Opera is information consumer app, watch but don't touch, while the built-in allows to participate.
So, isn't iPad another device to "watch but not touch" the content?
The sad part is that there *are* good consultants out there. I'm one of them. I'm extremely skilled, knowledgeable, and I bring a lot to the table.
...but that's what they all say.
Prerequisite: the team must be equipped with powertools to cut through the red tape.
Say, open line to the CEO who just says "yes" to anything they say and authority to fire whoever stops them from performing their task.
Depending on company structure, 10-60% of the time of any "revolutionary" change is spent actually developing the change, the remainder is asking, waiting, begging, urging, pressing, explaining, escalating and generally overcoming people who while aware of the necessity of the change and futility of their resistance, will resist the change as much as they can (or see it as the opportunity to exercise their decision-making power, which is totally unneeded and unwelcome there but by no means anyone could ever notice that.)
whoops. sorry for troll mod misclick. Posting to undo.