Well I can't speak for the nuclear side of it, but the steam turbines had problems too. One was that they were getting buildup in the generator stator core cooling tubes. See, a large steam turbine like this has a really massive electric generator. In most motors that people think of, the windings are made of copper wire.
Wait, wait, wait...
What was wrong with San Onofre WAS covered in the various news papers. We don't need to go over that again.
What this article laments is that the newspapers did not bother to explain the future, how the power needs would be met, what changes this would force on the region when the big boys shut down.
Rehashing WHY the plant was to be shut down is water under the bridge by now. (Actually, we've all passed a lot of water since then). The author is more concerned that the public is unprepared and uneducated about where they go from here.
It was a thin excuse for an article, and as the GP pointed out, the author never even touched on these subjects himself, and leaves the whole issue unresolved. A bitchy second guessing article that offers nothing but complaints.
Instead it was disturbed by 12000 years of warfare and reworking of the land in the Americas. It is a shame though that most of the Amerindians didn't have writing. There are so many things we could learn, for example, about the Mississippian culture, the spread of maize agriculture northward and its effect on how people lived, ecological problems they encountered in say the Southwest and Ohio Valley, etc. etc., etc. Not to mention the eternal riddle of why they tolerated those hairy smelly invaders from across the Atlantic.
P.S. Great book on the pre-Columbian Americas is 1491 (there's also a good "sequel" called 1493).
Well, actually no. There were no major wars on North America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Minor tribal skirmishes, but no enduring structures overlaying prior structures. In fact the only enduring structures of any kind were in the desert southwest. Natives did not heavily work the land, and practiced slash and burn for their agriculture more than anything else. This is why early viking settlements stand out so obviously.
The net result is that many (thousands) of native north american settlements were discovered in undisturbed state, even in heavily populated areas of the north eastern states. Even Clovis and pre-Clovis sites, when found, don't show the heavy disturbance of plows, later civilizations, or buildings. Mound builder's mounds are virtually always intact. The history of the land was very different.
Middle american indigenous people did build extensive structures which were also more or less abandoned intact after the Spanish.
The internet is not what is under discussion here. We are talking about your private email, your cloud storage, your pictures, etc that you put into the trust of a company.
Its clear allowing that company to store your documents in a foreign country puts your data under the rules of a foreign government. But it need not be that way.
It has nothing to do with accessing websites over seas.
Since it's far more arid in the Middle East, the use of dung for fuel was more obvious due to dried dung being a common thing to find laying around. Where as in Europe, which is far wetter, seeing green things sprout up in dung in the Spring was more easily observed.
Not true. 8000 years ago was smack dab in the middle of the middle of the ‘African Humid Period’.
Much of north Africa and ME countries were much wetter, and much more lush in prior times, beginning 12,000 years ago and lasting until 3,500 years ago. There is no way civilization would have begun in a middle east as arid as it is now, let alone flourished.
But the intelligence was probably more focused on survival skills. What plants you could eat, where/when to hunt, how to avoid predators and enemy tribes, sources for workable stones, skins, etc. Much of this was oral knowledge.
They may well have had their share of imbeciles and morons. There is probably no consistency in how these were handled in all early civilizations, but I suspect more than a few were drowned or sacrificed.
On the other hand they probably did not put up with anti social or homicidal whack jobs like we do today. Those people either became tribal leaders, or were executed. Probably both, in that order.
notwithstanding some form of oral transmission of knowledge
That a pretty big thing to simply dismiss out of hand.
Oral traditions can extend back thousands of years. They are the first thing extinguished when writing arrives, and the next war, fire, flood, removes them from human knowledge.
Or they're applying today's understanding to something that looks similar and claiming it's ancient knowledge. Coincidence is the first thing to be discarded when you want more grant money. When something is dated several millenia before the birth of civilization, you're going to need more than a few holes in the ground to have real evidence for extraordinary claims.
There is a lot of truth to what you say. Far too often ancient things are re-interpreted in the light of modern knowledge to be things that would have been completely un-necessary to the ancients.
The study took "yaahrs", but it never occurred to them that this area was heavily forested before roman times, and their pits and polls would not have been able to be used to measure sun or moon rise. Hunter gatherer societies weren't very good at clearing the land.
The phase of the moon is not particularly important to hunter/gatherers. Night hunts (which are not common in any primitive societies) are possible when you have a moon and weather, but you don't need a lunar calendar to tell you when that will next be the case. Some marine food sources are more accessible during certain tides, but you either live by the sea and know this is going to happen again just like last year, or you don't partake of this harvest.
Nor would a people that lived exclusively out of doors need an observatory to tell them the time of year. If anything the change of the season is all too painfully obvious to people who eat, sleep, and live outside their entire lives.
I don't doubt that there may have been some old geezers pondering the movements of the moon and trying to figure them out.
And being elders, they would have no problem talking kids into digging holes and pounding stakes for them. But this would have been simply an inquisitive project of someone too old and infirm to hunt and gather, not something the society relied upon. And it would have been done with very little labor probably in summer, or times of plenty, because hunter gatherer societies were not large bands, and had no excess labor to donate to much besides staying alive.
In some ways this is a more appealing and defensible theory than building a calendar with which to survive. Because they have survived long enough to build the calendar clearly shows they didn't need the calendar, and also it indicates reflection and contemplation of the world around them started way earlier than most people believe.
Few fortunes have ever been made by trying to find a way to sell things for more.
Nonsense. Fortunes are made by trying to exact the maximum profit possible. Sometimes that means a lower price, in the hopes of making it up on volume, but more often than not, the process involves seeking a higher price via any means possible. Better product, buying up the competition, what ever.
It is a sorry study of history that suggests the road to riches is to offer the lowest price possible until forced to do so.
However Samsung wants to expand their foundry business badly.
What is your source for this? The only reason they would want to expand their foundry business would be if it was hugely profitable, and offering Apple even bigger discounts than they already were getting would make it LESS profitable. Further, Samsung already can handle Apple's total chip requirements, so this wouldn't involve an expansion at all.
Samsung might not want to IDLE any of their foundries by losing Apple business, but with Android sales surging to 70% market share world wide, there is little risk of that having any long term effect.
All this would be much easier if we just got away from huge Multinational corporations being able to run their local branches as if the were in the US.
I'm fine with Google being incorporated in multiple countries, as long as they are separate entities, (both for tax purposes and legal requirements) AND if they kept private data within national (or EU) borders.
How hard would it be to keep German Google user's data inside Germany? Gmail, google drive, and several other services would simply host all user's data in-country. This doesn't require a monster data centers everywhere, simply multiple smaller data centers hosting only the user's data.
The search engine data, maps, etc could be hosted anywhere.
Apple knows which side of the iPad the butter goes.
And Apple found out its not a simple as they thought to produce in quantity. I hope Samsung dictated a price increase sufficient to cover any Apple law suits.
What I'd really like to know is whether Merkel's rule only apply to US corporations. In other words, will France's DGSE's collection of the same information as that the USG is collecting through US Corporations get a free pass? From the info I can find, it seems so...
Chances are that Germany has spy programs every bit as intrusive as the US does, and that every German telcom and data retention company is every bit as "backdoored" to agencies of the German Government just as the are in the US.
To now expect the US firms to adhear to a level of privacy that firms in her own country flaunt is simply playing to the masses. She will sell them out behind the scenes in a heartbeat.
This ought to be a requirement. Sure, the poll would need some form of authentication so that labor unions and big business can't hire hordes of minions to stuff the electronic ballot box.
But given that, any vote against majority wishes should be published, and the legislator should have to account for it. The majority isn't always right, but they are always the majority, and if you can't get them to elect you in spite of the fact they occasionally have to be ignored, then you probably shouldn't be running.
Voters are actually mature enough to be told why they couldn't have everything their way, and why new taxes might actually be needed.
How about decades of programming in various environments with blatant differences in quality based on work ethic. FYI there's a fuckton of information and research on this.
Brilliant!.
Your statement fits the bill perfectly: random off the top of your head examples cherry picked at random from unverifiable sources.
Well played sir! Well played.
And posting as AC to boot. Bonus points for style!
Citation needed. Or, since you will never find correlation between quality and seriousness, how about some random off the top of your head examples cherry picked at random from unverifiable sources?
The only long distance distance wires in use at that time were telegraph wires. Rails are grounded. Short runs of wire, like fences do not build up a significant charge.
the Internet is mostly ruled by the clueless, and they gang up against the occasional visitor who tries to fix things
Since you hide behind the same name as the people you lament, and several thousand others posting here, how would anyone know the relative percentage of clueless vs cluefull?
Breastpounding of this being a western influence aside, if the times for women to be tech founders in the ME is now, then as a result it will be more popular and more will do it (and this is all good) but that does not mean it is a lasting effect, it could level out much lower than in the west or it could level out much higher, only time will tell - but for now we should be happy for the people who now have one more choice of path to make their life better.
Large percentages of the ME men, (yes, even in fairly tame countries like Jordan) have been shunted off to jihadism or the armies that attempt to control it. So they have had a decade of war (or closer to two decades), with disproportionate male losses.
Meanwhile the women start "companies", although the story says "Many firms run by women entrepreneurs deal with what are labelled female issues (weddings, parenting advice, recipes, and web businesses)". So other than keeping other women entertained, these are hardly the same thing as running industry, developing resources or running banks.
If you count these empty-afternoon enterprises as business you have to realize that this kind of stuff doesn't even get counted in the west. (And in the US you can't even tell except by inspecting first names if businesses are owned by men or women, gender tagging business licenses just isn't done).
It seems likely, when when the ME men settle down and stop trying to force Islam on the world, they will start forcing it on their families, and this "trend" of female entrepreneurship will disappear.
When you can look at a news photo of an Arab street and see 50/50 ratio of men to women (instead of 100males to 1), call me. Because until then, all the filling of afternoons while the children are at school with pretend companies means nothing.
Water is the fuel, sunlight is merely a power source. The solar arrays could be replaced with whatever power source you want - RTG, fission reactor, Li-ion battery, etc.
A fuel, by definition, supplies power. Water supplies none. Therefore it is not a fuel.
Water is merely a propellant.
You don't get to use the word "merely" in relation to a power source. That's totally backwards.
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Really? I mentioned the Spanish in passing, as the very last word, and that's all you saw?
Well I can't speak for the nuclear side of it, but the steam turbines had problems too. One was that they were getting buildup in the generator stator core cooling tubes.
See, a large steam turbine like this has a really massive electric generator. In most motors that people think of, the windings are made of copper wire.
Wait, wait, wait...
What was wrong with San Onofre WAS covered in the various news papers. We don't need to go over that again.
What this article laments is that the newspapers did not bother to explain the future, how the power needs would be met, what changes this would force on the region when the big boys shut down.
Rehashing WHY the plant was to be shut down is water under the bridge by now. (Actually, we've all passed a lot of water since then).
The author is more concerned that the public is unprepared and uneducated about where they go from here.
It was a thin excuse for an article, and as the GP pointed out, the author never even touched on these subjects himself, and leaves the whole issue unresolved. A bitchy second guessing article that offers nothing but complaints.
Instead it was disturbed by 12000 years of warfare and reworking of the land in the Americas. It is a shame though that most of the Amerindians didn't have writing. There are so many things we could learn, for example, about the Mississippian culture, the spread of maize agriculture northward and its effect on how people lived, ecological problems they encountered in say the Southwest and Ohio Valley, etc. etc., etc. Not to mention the eternal riddle of why they tolerated those hairy smelly invaders from across the Atlantic.
P.S. Great book on the pre-Columbian Americas is 1491 (there's also a good "sequel" called 1493).
Well, actually no. There were no major wars on North America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Minor tribal skirmishes, but no enduring structures overlaying prior structures. In fact the only enduring structures of any kind were in the desert southwest. Natives did not heavily work the land, and practiced slash and burn for their agriculture more than anything else. This is why early viking settlements stand out so obviously.
The net result is that many (thousands) of native north american settlements were discovered in undisturbed state, even in heavily populated areas of the north eastern states. Even Clovis and pre-Clovis sites, when found, don't show the heavy disturbance of plows, later civilizations, or buildings. Mound builder's mounds are virtually always intact. The history of the land was very different.
Middle american indigenous people did build extensive structures which were also more or less abandoned intact after the Spanish.
The internet is not what is under discussion here.
We are talking about your private email, your cloud storage, your pictures, etc that you put into the trust of a company.
Its clear allowing that company to store your documents in a foreign country puts your data under the rules of a foreign government. But it need not be that way.
It has nothing to do with accessing websites over seas.
Since it's far more arid in the Middle East, the use of dung for fuel was more obvious due to dried dung being a common thing to find laying around. Where as in Europe, which is far wetter, seeing green things sprout up in dung in the Spring was more easily observed.
Not true. 8000 years ago was smack dab in the middle of the middle of the ‘African Humid Period’.
Much of north Africa and ME countries were much wetter, and much more lush in prior times, beginning 12,000 years ago and lasting until 3,500 years ago. There is no way civilization would have begun in a middle east as arid as it is now, let alone flourished.
Yeah, the native americans that white people met when they arrived in the 16th century.
We have no idea what the native americans did or didn't know 8000 years ago.
We have the same source of knowledge of 8000 year old Americans as we do for 8000 year old Europeans.
And much more of it is preserved and undisturbed by 12 thousand years of European warfare and constant reworking of the land.
Something to be said for that theory.
But the intelligence was probably more focused on survival skills. What plants you could eat, where/when to hunt, how to avoid predators and enemy tribes, sources for workable stones, skins, etc. Much of this was oral knowledge.
They may well have had their share of imbeciles and morons. There is probably no consistency in how these were handled in all early civilizations, but I suspect more than a few were drowned or sacrificed.
On the other hand they probably did not put up with anti social or homicidal whack jobs like we do today.
Those people either became tribal leaders, or were executed. Probably both, in that order.
notwithstanding some form of oral transmission of knowledge
That a pretty big thing to simply dismiss out of hand.
Oral traditions can extend back thousands of years. They are the first thing extinguished when writing arrives, and the next war, fire, flood, removes them from human knowledge.
Or they're applying today's understanding to something that looks similar and claiming it's ancient knowledge. Coincidence is the first thing to be discarded when you want more grant money. When something is dated several millenia before the birth of civilization, you're going to need more than a few holes in the ground to have real evidence for extraordinary claims.
There is a lot of truth to what you say. Far too often ancient things are re-interpreted in the light of modern knowledge to be things that would have been completely un-necessary to the ancients.
The study took "yaahrs", but it never occurred to them that this area was heavily forested before roman times, and their pits and polls would not have been able to be used to measure sun or moon rise. Hunter gatherer societies weren't very good at clearing the land.
The phase of the moon is not particularly important to hunter/gatherers. Night hunts (which are not common in any primitive societies) are possible when you have a moon and weather, but you don't need a lunar calendar to tell you when that will next be the case. Some marine food sources are more accessible during certain tides, but you either live by the sea and know this is going to happen again just like last year, or you don't partake of this harvest.
Nor would a people that lived exclusively out of doors need an observatory to tell them the time of year. If anything the change of the season is all too painfully obvious to people who eat, sleep, and live outside their entire lives.
I don't doubt that there may have been some old geezers pondering the movements of the moon and trying to figure them out.
And being elders, they would have no problem talking kids into digging holes and pounding stakes for them. But this would have been simply an inquisitive project of someone too old and infirm to hunt and gather, not something the society relied upon. And it would have been done with very little labor probably in summer, or times of plenty, because hunter gatherer societies were not large bands, and had no excess labor to donate to much besides staying alive.
In some ways this is a more appealing and defensible theory than building a calendar with which to survive. Because they have survived long enough to build the calendar clearly shows they didn't need the calendar, and also it indicates reflection and contemplation of the world around them started way earlier than most people believe.
Few fortunes have ever been made by trying to find a way to sell things for more.
Nonsense. Fortunes are made by trying to exact the maximum profit possible. Sometimes that means a lower price, in the hopes of making it up on volume, but more often than not, the process involves seeking a higher price via any means possible. Better product, buying up the competition, what ever.
It is a sorry study of history that suggests the road to riches is to offer the lowest price possible until forced to do so.
However Samsung wants to expand their foundry business badly.
What is your source for this?
The only reason they would want to expand their foundry business would be if it was hugely profitable, and offering Apple even bigger discounts than they already were getting would make it LESS profitable. Further, Samsung already can handle Apple's total chip requirements, so this wouldn't involve an expansion at all.
Samsung might not want to IDLE any of their foundries by losing Apple business, but with Android sales surging to 70% market share world wide, there is little risk of that having any long term effect.
All this would be much easier if we just got away from huge Multinational corporations being able to run their local branches as if the were in the US.
I'm fine with Google being incorporated in multiple countries, as long as they are separate entities, (both for tax purposes and legal requirements) AND if they kept private data within national (or EU) borders.
How hard would it be to keep German Google user's data inside Germany? Gmail, google drive, and several other services would simply host all user's data in-country. This doesn't require a monster data centers everywhere, simply multiple smaller data centers hosting only the user's data.
The search engine data, maps, etc could be hosted anywhere.
Apple knows which side of the iPad the butter goes.
And Apple found out its not a simple as they thought to produce in quantity. I hope Samsung dictated a price increase sufficient to cover any Apple law suits.
What I'd really like to know is whether Merkel's rule only apply to US corporations. In other words, will France's DGSE's collection of the same information as that the USG is collecting through US Corporations get a free pass? From the info I can find, it seems so...
Chances are that Germany has spy programs every bit as intrusive as the US does, and that every German telcom and data retention company is every bit as "backdoored" to agencies of the German Government just as the are in the US.
It was only 5 days ago that Merkel was justifying not only her own government's spying, but also the NSA spying.
To now expect the US firms to adhear to a level of privacy that firms in her own country flaunt is simply playing to the masses. She will sell them out behind the scenes in a heartbeat.
This ought to be a requirement.
Sure, the poll would need some form of authentication so that labor unions and big business can't hire hordes of minions to stuff the electronic ballot box.
But given that, any vote against majority wishes should be published, and the legislator should have to account for it. The majority isn't always right, but they are always the majority, and if you can't get them to elect you in spite of the fact they occasionally have to be ignored, then you probably shouldn't be running.
Voters are actually mature enough to be told why they couldn't have everything their way, and why new taxes might actually be needed.
The counterpoint to this is from the TFA:
His wife abducted his son and disappeared...
indicating the man has successfully reproduced. Granted the "porn addiction" appears to have started after he reproduced, but he has still reproduced.
Heh, maybe he should have sued his wife, not Apple. It would have been cheaper, and either way he's not getting anything.
How about decades of programming in various environments with blatant differences in quality based on work ethic. FYI there's a fuckton of information and research on this.
Brilliant!.
Your statement fits the bill perfectly: random off the top of your head examples cherry picked at random from unverifiable sources.
Well played sir! Well played.
And posting as AC to boot. Bonus points for style!
Citation needed. Or, since you will never find correlation between quality and seriousness, how about some random off the top of your head examples cherry picked at random from unverifiable sources?
That's nonsense.
The only long distance distance wires in use at that time were telegraph wires. Rails are grounded. Short runs of wire, like fences do not build up a significant charge.
That you can toll the internet and find the odd exception, merely proves the rule.
If you want to apply for those programs clearly you would have to reveal your gender.
But to simply file for a business license, no gender information is requested.
the Internet is mostly ruled by the clueless, and they gang up against the occasional visitor who tries to fix things
Since you hide behind the same name as the people you lament, and several thousand others posting here, how would anyone know the relative percentage of clueless vs cluefull?
Please tell me you didn't cite a television show as part of your argument!!!
Breastpounding of this being a western influence aside, if the times for women to be tech founders in the ME is now, then as a result it will be more popular and more will do it (and this is all good) but that does not mean it is a lasting effect, it could level out much lower than in the west or it could level out much higher, only time will tell - but for now we should be happy for the people who now have one more choice of path to make their life better.
Large percentages of the ME men, (yes, even in fairly tame countries like Jordan) have been shunted off to jihadism or the armies that attempt to control it. So they have had a decade of war (or closer to two decades), with disproportionate male losses.
Meanwhile the women start "companies", although the story says "Many firms run by women entrepreneurs deal with what are labelled female issues (weddings, parenting advice, recipes, and web businesses)". So other than keeping other women entertained, these are hardly the same thing as running industry, developing resources or running banks.
If you count these empty-afternoon enterprises as business you have to realize that this kind of stuff doesn't even get counted in the west. (And in the US you can't even tell except by inspecting first names if businesses are owned by men or women, gender tagging business licenses just isn't done).
It seems likely, when when the ME men settle down and stop trying to force Islam on the world, they will start forcing it on their families, and this "trend" of female entrepreneurship will disappear.
When you can look at a news photo of an Arab street and see 50/50 ratio of men to women (instead of 100males to 1), call me. Because until then, all the filling of afternoons while the children are at school with pretend companies means nothing.
Water is the fuel, sunlight is merely a power source. The solar arrays could be replaced with whatever power source you want - RTG, fission reactor, Li-ion battery, etc.
A fuel, by definition, supplies power. Water supplies none. Therefore it is not a fuel.
Water is merely a propellant.
You don't get to use the word "merely" in relation to a power source. That's totally backwards.