Well, there are good reasons why Nuclear power industry is regulated - and if you dont want another big accident, that should continue. Given that, alternatives make more commercial sense..
"Hello? Is that AOL? I am phoning on behalf of Crappyshite College, we want to offer our students an on-line connection. Could you send a quantity of CD's? How many? Oo, well we have 500 students at the moment.."
Nuclear waste is still *yet* to be dealt with fully - there is a lot of unprocessed waste being stored at various places. And if the companies cant afford to do it and go belly up, who do you thinks going to pay? Why the government..
The biggest argument is cost - these plants are proving very expensive to decommission, and the waste expensive to dispose of adequately. In the UK, its the poor taxpayer who is being left with this bill from the first generation of plants..
The biggest arguments against Nuclear are capitalist (cost) - not anti-capitalist. Although there are also Environmental issues..
At one time I was getting 50 virii/day, all small variants of a few types. It would have been so much better for everyone to have them filtered at ISP level. Seems like an easy fix at router level.
And no reason I can see why every one should have AV software because of this..
Yeh, alternative energy is "anti-capitalist", Linux is "communist", etc..
Truth is that Wind power is a hard paying proposition - cheap energy, doable today, without all the headaches that comewith nuclear.. In what sense is that "anti-capitalist"?
How about funding an extensive renewable program in North Korea, in return for no nukes? In the UK we will be getting off-shore wind farms generating power for as little as $0.03/kw/hr.. (British Wind Enrgy Association page )
Except that after a Depleted Uranium shell explodes, you breathe in the dust. Even relatively mildly radioactive particles stuck in lung tissue are very very bad for you..
The reactor described in the article generates good old fashioned Plutonium, not depleted Uranium..
It sound good in theory - yes reprocess and you loose the plutonium. In practice, the UK had to shut down their reprocessor reactor - they had real headaches with certain products, ie liquid waste, which became very expensive to handle safely. And you still get all sorts of high/medium level waste - no process is perfect. And even the short-half life products are *still* problematic, even if they dont last thousands of years. Thanks to reprocessing, the Irish sea is now the most radioactive in the world..
I would agree with the first part - the big problem is decommissioning & storing waste - which has to be kept out of terrorist hands for thousands of years - apart from future risk, its just plain *expensive*. Oh sure, maybe nuclear electric is $0.04/kw/hr, as long as the government covers that future cost..
Alternatives are already feasable, wind power is contracted to supply offshore UK power for $0.03/kw/hr - and that is set to *drop*. See British Wind Enrgy Association page. The UK, US, Australia, etc all have enough offshore space to generate 100-1000% of all their power needs..
I think ther are all sorts of reasons for not giving nuclear a "second chance". Even if you make it relatively "meltdown-safe", you still have huge issues as to what to do with the waste. The plutonium generated by the reactor described has to be stored for thousands of years, guarded against terrorist use. That is a massive hidden future cost, financial & risk-wise. Decommissioning old plants is very costly - again another hidden cost. If you try to get rid of the plutonium by reprocessing, you run into another set of waste-disposal headaches.
Renewables have matured considerably since nuclear power was first envisaged - to the point where they are very competitive. Some of the new offshore wind farms are contracted to supply power to the UK grid for $0.03/kw/hr - and that figure could drop with scale. See the British Wind Enrgy Association page. Other forms like tidal, solar, etc are promising, yet unexploited..
There is no good reason to take the risk with nuclear, we have better alternatives these days..
The Readers Digest Monty Python and the Holy Grail. --- What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It could grip it by the husk! It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut!
Who's that, then? I dunno. Must be a king. Why? He hasn't got shit all over him.
Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
'Tis but a scratch. A scratch? Your arm's off! No, it isn't.
She turned me into a newt! A newt? Er.. I got better..
We dine well here in Camelot. We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Run away!
Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to yours. We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen- and- a- half, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us. Oooh. It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing, making exciting underwear..
We are the Knights Who Say... 'Ni'!
Well, what is it you want? We want... a shrubbery!
So what is the speed of 2 swallows, if they are carrying a 1lb coconut strung on a strand of creeper vine held under their dorsal guiding feathers?
We need to know!..
Who's that, then?
I dunno. Must be a king.
Why?
He hasn't got shit all over him.
I would guess a lot of that is not legal, but heck, since when has spam been legal anyway? I like the Kazaa style idea - any single site could get shut down by a spammer with a good lawyer..
They actually seem to have got one guy to believe Gillian Anderson was flying in, shell out for a room at the Sheraton, then wait at Lagos airport with a sign saying "I love fags".. I almost feel sorry for them..
http://www.419eater.com/html/john_ademola.htm
Maybe the best cure for spam, big groups that bombard them with fake orders, cheques etc? I mean if the police cant get their arse into gear..
..PC Plod is still trying to work out how to use his mouse. Heck, these scammers are becoming really blatent in their activities, and law enforcement seems comletely unable to act..
Torvalds el al should ask the court that SCO should pay substantial cash sums into the court before they appear - ie - security for thier expenses, time, etc.. Remember that it is SCO bringing this case..
10 print chr$(12) 20 print "Your computer has been infected by a virus!" 30 print "Please place a blank cassette in tape deck # 1 and press play and record." 40 print "When finished, please mail this tape to everyone"; 50 print " in your address book who has a PET computer." 60 save "I LUV U",1
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Well, there are good reasons why Nuclear power industry is regulated - and if you dont want another big accident, that should continue. Given that, alternatives make more commercial sense..
"Hello? Is that AOL? I am phoning on behalf of Crappyshite College, we want to offer our students an on-line connection. Could you send a quantity of CD's? How many? Oo, well we have 500 students at the moment.."
A standard Uranium reactor produces Plutonium as a by-product.
I would guess just zipping it up would do for that.
Router/ISP-level virus blocking should only apply to themost prolific virii, which would probably have self-executing code in them..
Nuclear waste is still *yet* to be dealt with fully - there is a lot of unprocessed waste being stored at various places. And if the companies cant afford to do it and go belly up, who do you thinks going to pay? Why the government..
The biggest argument is cost - these plants are proving very expensive to decommission, and the waste expensive to dispose of adequately. In the UK, its the poor taxpayer who is being left with this bill from the first generation of plants..
The biggest arguments against Nuclear are capitalist (cost) - not anti-capitalist. Although there are also Environmental issues..
At one time I was getting 50 virii/day, all small variants of a few types. It would have been so much better for everyone to have them filtered at ISP level. Seems like an easy fix at router level.
And no reason I can see why every one should have AV software because of this..
Yeh, alternative energy is "anti-capitalist", Linux is "communist", etc..
Truth is that Wind power is a hard paying proposition - cheap energy, doable today, without all the headaches that comewith nuclear.. In what sense is that "anti-capitalist"?
No, its the dust thats kicking around for a long time after the explosion..
How about funding an extensive renewable program in North Korea, in return for no nukes? In the UK we will be getting off-shore wind farms generating power for as little as $0.03/kw/hr.. (British Wind Enrgy Association page )
Except that after a Depleted Uranium shell explodes, you breathe in the dust. Even relatively mildly radioactive particles stuck in lung tissue are very very bad for you..
The reactor described in the article generates good old fashioned Plutonium, not depleted Uranium..
It sound good in theory - yes reprocess and you loose the plutonium. In practice, the UK had to shut down their reprocessor reactor - they had real headaches with certain products, ie liquid waste, which became very expensive to handle safely. And you still get all sorts of high/medium level waste - no process is perfect. And even the short-half life products are *still* problematic, even if they dont last thousands of years. Thanks to reprocessing, the Irish sea is now the most radioactive in the world. .
Alternatives are safer, and now muchmore feasable - British Wind Enrgy Association page..
I would agree with the first part - the big problem is decommissioning & storing waste - which has to be kept out of terrorist hands for thousands of years - apart from future risk, its just plain *expensive*. Oh sure, maybe nuclear electric is $0.04/kw/hr, as long as the government covers that future cost..
Alternatives are already feasable, wind power is contracted to supply offshore UK power for $0.03/kw/hr - and that is set to *drop*. See British Wind Enrgy Association page. The UK, US, Australia, etc all have enough offshore space to generate 100-1000% of all their power needs..
It just needs political will to do it..
I think ther are all sorts of reasons for not giving nuclear a "second chance". Even if you make it relatively "meltdown-safe", you still have huge issues as to what to do with the waste. The plutonium generated by the reactor described has to be stored for thousands of years, guarded against terrorist use. That is a massive hidden future cost, financial & risk-wise. Decommissioning old plants is very costly - again another hidden cost. If you try to get rid of the plutonium by reprocessing, you run into another set of waste-disposal headaches.
Renewables have matured considerably since nuclear power was first envisaged - to the point where they are very competitive. Some of the new offshore wind farms are contracted to supply power to the UK grid for $0.03/kw/hr - and that figure could drop with scale. See the British Wind Enrgy Association page. Other forms like tidal, solar, etc are promising, yet unexploited..
There is no good reason to take the risk with nuclear, we have better alternatives these days..
The Readers Digest Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
---
What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
It could grip it by the husk!
It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut!
Who's that, then?
I dunno. Must be a king.
Why?
He hasn't got shit all over him.
Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
'Tis but a scratch.
A scratch? Your arm's off!
No, it isn't.
She turned me into a newt!
A newt?
Er.. I got better..
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Run away!
Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to yours. We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen- and- a- half, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us. Oooh. It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing, making exciting underwear..
We are the Knights Who Say... 'Ni'!
Well, what is it you want?
We want... a shrubbery!
---
Continued next issue..
So what is the speed of 2 swallows, if they are carrying a 1lb coconut strung on a strand of creeper vine held under their dorsal guiding feathers? We need to know! ..
Who's that, then?
I dunno. Must be a king.
Why?
He hasn't got shit all over him.
I would guess a lot of that is not legal, but heck, since when has spam been legal anyway? I like the Kazaa style idea - any single site could get shut down by a spammer with a good lawyer..
They actually seem to have got one guy to believe Gillian Anderson was flying in, shell out for a room at the Sheraton, then wait at Lagos airport with a sign saying "I love fags"..
I almost feel sorry for them..
http://www.419eater.com/html/john_ademola.htm
Maybe the best cure for spam, big groups that bombard them with fake orders, cheques etc? I mean if the police cant get their arse into gear..
..PC Plod is still trying to work out how to use his mouse. Heck, these scammers are becoming really blatent in their activities, and law enforcement seems comletely unable to act..
..have they got "Shaggy" from scooby-doo in the first part?
Otherwise not too bad, maybe a bit thin in parts. Still cant beat Tom Baker..
Everyone knows that Eros is my little weekend getaway. Didn't you see the "No Trespassers" sign at the cave entrance? Sheesh.
Zog the Embellisher,
Vent 61547,
Underwater Ocean City,
Europa,
nr Jupiter.
are belong to us..
Darl..
Torvalds el al should ask the court that SCO should pay substantial cash sums into the court before they appear - ie - security for thier expenses, time, etc.. Remember that it is SCO bringing this case..
Ok, everyone club together, and lets send up an ion drive, a few solar cells - 18 month /. moon mission anyone?
Or maybe a solar sail..
Low Earth Orbit shark with laser..
10 print chr$(12)
20 print "Your computer has been infected by a virus!"
30 print "Please place a blank cassette in tape deck # 1 and press play and record."
40 print "When finished, please mail this tape to everyone";
50 print " in your address book who has a PET computer."
60 save "I LUV U",1
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I'll now wait for the police to call..