No, agreed. However, a man like him is intent on causing death, he'd find away. He'll get a lorry or produce a bomb or some other way of death production. The point isn't the weapon, it's the person. Although having guns available widely does deserve questioning.
Hmmmm, until this site can make a 3D working print of a person's brain, and his body, and somehow make it all work together to produce a mass murdering idiot, then this site isn't.
Anyway, last time I checked, knives were lethal weapons, and 2" of water in a bathtub can also be a lethal weapon.
I told you where you can find knives and guns, because I'm an advertising agency. Does that make me complicit to a murder you then commit using the weapons you purchase from those places I told you about?
Another absurd rule written be people who "just don't understand"...
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To children of today who study about Turing, they have no conception of the sort of environment that he lived in. Sure, they'll be told about oppression and persecution, but as soon as that lesson is over, they'll forget about it. If they learn that he was pardoned, they'll think "oh, that's ok then". I believe that in fact, NOT pardoning him makes it all the more poignant for those who can't imagine a world like the world he lived in.
And, as the article says, it'll remind us never to return to those times again.
To be honest, playing Uplink just for the soundtrack makes it totally worth it! The music is available on their website (at least, it was, I'm sure you can get it somewhere).
I've been a long term fan of Introversion since 2002, I even went to their Darwinia launch party at their house, which was awesome. I was so stoked about the Humble IV Bundle that even though I had bought the games twice in the past (disc and steam) I had to buy this too, both to support IV and also Humble (backed by the same people who backed Google so probably don't need that much support!).
Regards the source. That has been available for about 6 years now on the Uplink dev disc. This costs about £20. I haven't looked into the restrictions on using it but as the previous poster recommends, contact them before doing anything that might piss them off. They're really nice guys and deserve support for making what are, really enjoyable games. Uplink was in the PC Zone top 50 games, and in LXF's top 20 games for scaring the sh1t out of you.
Hopefully this/.'ing will bake the bundle sell even more. It was at about $510,000 last night, so will be interesting to see how it goes up after this.
They'd have to build one first. And before that, adjust the English water table, create a man made lake, and then fill it with water. Still, with British ingenuity, it's conceivable within 10,000,000 years I guess...
Sweetheart rates? We're insured by a private insurer, but thanks for checking your facts. And when there is a catastrophic accident, the government would support us, just like they'd support you if a catastrophic accident took out your hospital.
It's almost as if you don't actually use nuclear power...
OK, I'm a reactor operator for a nuclear reactor and this report is talking about "beyond design basis" faults. Faults which were not taken account for within the safety case for the plant. Now, bear in mind that this area of the world is not susceptible to the kinds of earthquakes Japan is, and also the fact that tsunamis just cannot happen to most of France's plants because they're inland, would make the event that happened in Japan certainly beyond design basis.
Now, that's not to say that more safety cannot be added. Many of France's plants are relatively old and new ideas have been integrated into newer plants. All this report is talking about is that more things can be done to address big bang type stuff, stuff that's practicable and useful, like adding more generators and installing them onto roofs. Not prohibitively costly, and can be useful in most faults. There's always more things that can be done to all plants, it's a judge of whether it's practicable, economical and in all probabilities, worth it. If statistically, an event is not likely to happen for 10,000,000 years, are you really going to design it out?
This report isn't saying that France's plants are unsafe. The editor should be shot. In my opinion, Fukushima was a success. These plants were due to be taken out of service within a year, they were very very old, old design and old in age. Yet, even with a massive earth quake, and a beyond design basis fault that wasn't understood during their design phase, no-one died due to radiation and contamination is well controlled and understood. It's also worth noting that all the modern PWRs in Japan surrounding Fukushima all shut down properly with no issues.
Subsidized? Really? I work for a large scale nuclear generator and we're certainly not subsidized by anyone. The only subsidized "large" scale generators out there are renewable projects, notably wind farms, because they can't generate cheap enough for it to be viable.
I'm trying to work out if you're being sarcastic or not. Of course you can have uncontrolled criticalities in a shutdown reactor. All you need to do it put enough fissionable material together and you'll get a criticallity event. They're usually just flashes and last fractions of a second, but it does happen. History is littered with these events.
A shutdown reactor with the right levels of boron, still with core geometry intact will not have un-controlled criticalities, in that you are correct. However, this reactor does not have core geometry anymore and you can therefore not prove that the boron is getting everywhere and that the fuel hasn't managed to arrange itself into fissionable quantities.
I work on a nuclear power station and there are several people who are nearing the age of retirement who are "information hoarders". They have the opinion that the more information that only they know, they more powerful and secure they are. I have come to learn the exact opposite is actually true.
I work in the main control room and frequently have to call the system experts about an alarm or an anomaly and you very quickly figure out who are the more useful and who are the most useless. The useless ones are the ones who restrict the information. I need to speak to people who openly share their knowledge and information. I don't "steal" it, or never need them again. In fact, since I know how useful they are, I tend to deliberately not remember what they say because I know I can just go back to them.
Information shares and people who are happy to help are more useful and more powerful than the latter.
I saw something on a BBC show called The Code. A guy walked around an office asking people how many jelly beans were in a big jar. Answers ranged from 40 to 80,000, when the actual answer was something like 1440. He asked 160 people, and when averaged, the final figure was 1445.
There is wisdom in crowds. Specially regard the stock market, which it's the crowd sentiment that determines the stock price, not the value of the company.
The reason I love Gmail is simply due to the conversation grouping. I totally agree regard the interface. When it first started, it took be a few seconds to figure out where the send button is. It still is pretty strange, but the way they group conversation is genius and I'm yet to find an email app that does the same. Is there some patent issue on that?
Sure you can. You can separate them physically and chemically. But, if you wanted plutonium, you wouldn't use a commercial PWR to do it, but it is very possible.
Not true. Light water reactors can make plutonium and infact, all light water reactors DO make plutonium. They also burn plutonium later on in their operating cycle (usually 18 months to 2 years). The reason you don't get plutonium from light water reactors is because it's all gone by the time you refuel. It's created from neutron capture of U238 but gets burned up and helps produce power.
If they take this plant offline within months of being at power, then we need to think a little more about it. However, Russia will be watching and also the IAEA will have cameras watching the fuel route. If you want plutonium, you don't do it with commercial light water reactors.
Yup, a little excessive but I have eight discs in my rig at the moment, five of which are in those removable caddies and form a 2.5TB array, RAID 6 so two redundant drives. Call me paranoid but I know that one drive will die during the period i'm replacing an already duff drive...
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No, agreed. However, a man like him is intent on causing death, he'd find away. He'll get a lorry or produce a bomb or some other way of death production. The point isn't the weapon, it's the person. Although having guns available widely does deserve questioning.
Hmmmm, until this site can make a 3D working print of a person's brain, and his body, and somehow make it all work together to produce a mass murdering idiot, then this site isn't. Anyway, last time I checked, knives were lethal weapons, and 2" of water in a bathtub can also be a lethal weapon.
How are nuclear getting guaranteed profits? They don't generate, they don't get income, and the price they get is determined by the market...
I told you where you can find knives and guns, because I'm an advertising agency. Does that make me complicit to a murder you then commit using the weapons you purchase from those places I told you about?
Another absurd rule written be people who "just don't understand"...
To children of today who study about Turing, they have no conception of the sort of environment that he lived in. Sure, they'll be told about oppression and persecution, but as soon as that lesson is over, they'll forget about it. If they learn that he was pardoned, they'll think "oh, that's ok then". I believe that in fact, NOT pardoning him makes it all the more poignant for those who can't imagine a world like the world he lived in.
And, as the article says, it'll remind us never to return to those times again.
I hope the MAFIAA read this... Specially the last paragraph...
Ah yeah, that's where I got it from. Was so long ago. Quality stuff though :-)
To be honest, playing Uplink just for the soundtrack makes it totally worth it! The music is available on their website (at least, it was, I'm sure you can get it somewhere).
I've been a long term fan of Introversion since 2002, I even went to their Darwinia launch party at their house, which was awesome. I was so stoked about the Humble IV Bundle that even though I had bought the games twice in the past (disc and steam) I had to buy this too, both to support IV and also Humble (backed by the same people who backed Google so probably don't need that much support!).
/.'ing will bake the bundle sell even more. It was at about $510,000 last night, so will be interesting to see how it goes up after this.
Regards the source. That has been available for about 6 years now on the Uplink dev disc. This costs about £20. I haven't looked into the restrictions on using it but as the previous poster recommends, contact them before doing anything that might piss them off. They're really nice guys and deserve support for making what are, really enjoyable games. Uplink was in the PC Zone top 50 games, and in LXF's top 20 games for scaring the sh1t out of you.
Hopefully this
Yeah, or become a sovereign state my owning one nuclear warhead strapped to the side of a motorcycle... Extra points for those who know the book.
Interesting... Just like how you claim we have a low liability cap apparently set by the government, without even knowing what country I'm in?
They'd have to build one first. And before that, adjust the English water table, create a man made lake, and then fill it with water. Still, with British ingenuity, it's conceivable within 10,000,000 years I guess...
Sweetheart rates? We're insured by a private insurer, but thanks for checking your facts. And when there is a catastrophic accident, the government would support us, just like they'd support you if a catastrophic accident took out your hospital. It's almost as if you don't actually use nuclear power...
My bad :-\
OK, I'm a reactor operator for a nuclear reactor and this report is talking about "beyond design basis" faults. Faults which were not taken account for within the safety case for the plant. Now, bear in mind that this area of the world is not susceptible to the kinds of earthquakes Japan is, and also the fact that tsunamis just cannot happen to most of France's plants because they're inland, would make the event that happened in Japan certainly beyond design basis. Now, that's not to say that more safety cannot be added. Many of France's plants are relatively old and new ideas have been integrated into newer plants. All this report is talking about is that more things can be done to address big bang type stuff, stuff that's practicable and useful, like adding more generators and installing them onto roofs. Not prohibitively costly, and can be useful in most faults. There's always more things that can be done to all plants, it's a judge of whether it's practicable, economical and in all probabilities, worth it. If statistically, an event is not likely to happen for 10,000,000 years, are you really going to design it out?
This report isn't saying that France's plants are unsafe. The editor should be shot. In my opinion, Fukushima was a success. These plants were due to be taken out of service within a year, they were very very old, old design and old in age. Yet, even with a massive earth quake, and a beyond design basis fault that wasn't understood during their design phase, no-one died due to radiation and contamination is well controlled and understood. It's also worth noting that all the modern PWRs in Japan surrounding Fukushima all shut down properly with no issues.
Subsidized? Really? I work for a large scale nuclear generator and we're certainly not subsidized by anyone. The only subsidized "large" scale generators out there are renewable projects, notably wind farms, because they can't generate cheap enough for it to be viable.
I'm trying to work out if you're being sarcastic or not. Of course you can have uncontrolled criticalities in a shutdown reactor. All you need to do it put enough fissionable material together and you'll get a criticallity event. They're usually just flashes and last fractions of a second, but it does happen. History is littered with these events. A shutdown reactor with the right levels of boron, still with core geometry intact will not have un-controlled criticalities, in that you are correct. However, this reactor does not have core geometry anymore and you can therefore not prove that the boron is getting everywhere and that the fuel hasn't managed to arrange itself into fissionable quantities.
I work on a nuclear power station and there are several people who are nearing the age of retirement who are "information hoarders". They have the opinion that the more information that only they know, they more powerful and secure they are. I have come to learn the exact opposite is actually true.
I work in the main control room and frequently have to call the system experts about an alarm or an anomaly and you very quickly figure out who are the more useful and who are the most useless. The useless ones are the ones who restrict the information. I need to speak to people who openly share their knowledge and information. I don't "steal" it, or never need them again. In fact, since I know how useful they are, I tend to deliberately not remember what they say because I know I can just go back to them.
Information shares and people who are happy to help are more useful and more powerful than the latter.
I saw something on a BBC show called The Code. A guy walked around an office asking people how many jelly beans were in a big jar. Answers ranged from 40 to 80,000, when the actual answer was something like 1440. He asked 160 people, and when averaged, the final figure was 1445.
There is wisdom in crowds. Specially regard the stock market, which it's the crowd sentiment that determines the stock price, not the value of the company.
The reason I love Gmail is simply due to the conversation grouping. I totally agree regard the interface. When it first started, it took be a few seconds to figure out where the send button is. It still is pretty strange, but the way they group conversation is genius and I'm yet to find an email app that does the same. Is there some patent issue on that?
It's amazing that it's taken this long for this very simple fact to be realised.
Engage your customer base, don't prosecute them...
Make good products, the customers will come... Simples...
"GOD" "SEX" and "LOVE"
Tut tut, you missed out "SECRET"...
You should prepare those carefully prepared memos more carefully...
Sure you can. You can separate them physically and chemically. But, if you wanted plutonium, you wouldn't use a commercial PWR to do it, but it is very possible.
Not true. Light water reactors can make plutonium and infact, all light water reactors DO make plutonium. They also burn plutonium later on in their operating cycle (usually 18 months to 2 years). The reason you don't get plutonium from light water reactors is because it's all gone by the time you refuel. It's created from neutron capture of U238 but gets burned up and helps produce power. If they take this plant offline within months of being at power, then we need to think a little more about it. However, Russia will be watching and also the IAEA will have cameras watching the fuel route. If you want plutonium, you don't do it with commercial light water reactors.
Yup, a little excessive but I have eight discs in my rig at the moment, five of which are in those removable caddies and form a 2.5TB array, RAID 6 so two redundant drives. Call me paranoid but I know that one drive will die during the period i'm replacing an already duff drive...