I think that's kind of the point. Actions like this are to tell the people targeted that they are worthless and that the people perpetrating it can do anything they like to them.
There isn't a technical solution, it's a social one of removing the pricks on a power trip who don't seem to give a shit about doing a professional crime investigation.
Study after study has shown that concealed carriers commit far fewer crimes
It makes perfect sense because if they are too cowardly to openly carry then they are likely to be too cowardly to commit crimes so they are not people that society needs to worry about. A stupid fantasy of pulling a hidden gun on a shocked mugger should not be pandered to by law. Wear the fucking thing on your belt and you won't get fucking mugged in the first place.
An armed populace makes enforcement of a police state impossible by default.
Very wrong. Tragically wrong. A well armed lone gunman is just a target to a large well armed and well run group. You've got the lone hero myth stuck in your head. It's bullshit. Washington didn't win a country. Washington and his army won a country.
As an example of an armed populace under a police state - Chile under Pinochet. People could buy all the automatic weapons they could afford but they were getting truly fucked over by their government.
Not just because a large portion of said Army would walk out the day after being ordered to attack citizens
The Russian solution to that (which you will find has been copied and applied to the troops near you) was to post people in places a long way from where they are born so they have little empathy with the people they may have to control. It worked brutally well in the USSR.
Also you seem to have forgotten examples of US National Guard firing on protesters when ordered to do so. They didn't walk out. It was a long time ago but what has changed that would make them walk out?
If things go to shit so badly that the Army is called in they are going to know they are needed and will do the job, no matter how bad it sounds, and not desert. A few guys who hunt for ten days a year, even if they have the best guns they can buy, are going to be nothing but quick suicide by a professional force. All this "arming for revolution" shit is just a way for people to be legends in their own minds.
Never happened. People have know to keep their boiler water clean for at least one and a half centuries. On the other side of the condensors it can even be sea water but that boiler water is kept clean. Nukes have the extra loop that exchanges heat with the boiler water - thus cooling water that goes through the cooling towers is the third loop. If anything from the first loop has made it into the third it's either a string of failures or a huge catastrophic event obvious to anyone within miles.
While I've done a lot of work as an engineer in power stations I'm no nuclear engineer (and the ones I worked with were Russian!), but the cooling towers work the same way in coal fired power stations. It's not steam anywhere in the cooling towers FFS - it's not even very hot. Same molecule - so - it's not the "steam" molecule so how does that make it correct?
My comment above was mostly exasperation at the almost content free article and their interview with the manager who knows as little about his plant as you do. It's a little depressing that so many here thought actual hot steam was coming out of those things.
FFS - just look up the wikipedia article for cooling towers instead of revealing that you are commenting on a topic you have zero clue about. The water in those things is not very hot, it's typically starting at 40C or so and the stuff that comes out is fog.
As for your nuclear engineering comment - irrelevant - the guy that made the "steam" comment - footballer, historian and lawyer with a career mostly in banks. He doesn't know any better. You should.
Funny - that's exactly what I thought when you wrote "The result is an obviously incompetent IT staff at IBM". It's a pity you didn't get the message despite the overblown and unsubtle way I presented it. How blunt do I have to be next time? Red text and BLINK tags?
THINK - If that was really the case then why was nearly every other nation in the Pacific reason invited years ago and not China? Why is Kerry inviting a journalist with an empty promise instead of inviting diplomats with a real one? This has been going on for YEARS and TPP drafts have featured on wikileaks. It's good that you are taking an interest but I suggest that before you go around "correcting" people it may be worth taking a bit more of an interest and get some background on the topic. I didn't expect some sort of attack from someone not very aware of the issue just for describing it in broad terms.
Yes, it's IBM wearing the little red skirt that is the problem not Microsoft dragging her into an alley. IBM was obviously asking for it. Yes I think your argument was THAT stupid and almost as offensive. Am I supposed to have heard of Flextronics and be awed? Sorry it doesn't ring a bell.
That's what the TPP was supposed to be about. However it hands out sweet deals to other nations (deals that hurt the USA) while carrying later added malware that inflicts US I.P. law on those other nations and pisses them off, so it barely encourages those other countries despite the cost. It also relies on China standing still for a decade while their balls are nailed to the wall. So your idea isn't new and the current attempt at implementation appears to be worse than not trying at all. It's probably not a bad idea in itself though.
The mystery here is how he's going to change anything when even his own party hates him. He can't even stack the Supreme Court with a dozen new people without the house on his side - so there are two branches against him.
That is what I was referring to - the ESA can do the same if you want to send your dollars into their "Commercial Space". The Titan IVB can do the same if you want to pay a US company enough for them to start building it again.
One more loop. You don't run lake water through your turbines, the turbines would not last very long. You exchange heat between lake water and the loop that runs through the turbines.
Care to explain how cooling tower emission would be contaminated?
Blowing the roof off the reactor will do it, but short of that not much. There's a heating loop, a turbine loop and then the loop that cools that turbine water - for anything to get through all three the failure would have to be massive.
Nearly there - wikipedia will help with the last bit. It's no more steam than the fog from your shower and in the cooling towers it's about the same input temperature as a warm shower (not hot shower).
No - even one more step removed. The water in the cooling loop never goes near the turbines or they corrode quickly. It's not steam, it's water, not even a lot hotter than a bath at that. The water in the cooling loop never becomes steam - the steam is on the other side of tubes in the condensor.
It's many years between the revision of standards so the year the standard is released is enough. Typically it's in big letters on the front cover and the spine or the first page of a PDF immediately following the standard number.
In the "beige box is not the hard drive and the LCD screen is not the computer" sense of right. Haven't you kids heard of fog? If you are not kids - shame on you. The idiot in the article is a Lawyer with a network of old buddies of the family from birth and a $44 million dollar golden parachute but you guys are supposed to get exposed to some sort of STEM if you want to eat.
With respect (fuck I have to use that a LOT here these days - check out the UK series "Yes Minister" for an explanation why) since the US nuclear industry has been in close to a state of statis since the late 1970s there will be very little to change. Major players (Westinghouse et al) lobbied hard AGAINST the Clinton era Thorium research and hounded the guy who was running it out of the industry. The nuclear lobby ate it's own children. Far more money has been spent on PR than R&D, a total waste since people do not trust the spin about the older technology and that money could have been spent on developing something worth cheering for instead. The only reason we have any advances at all is because Westinghouse bought a Japanese company that was doing R&D until they were bought out. It's so slow moving that pretty well anything designed after the wake-up call of Three Mile Island is going to be good enough today.
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California is just there as a warning to the rest of us that even Republicans can try to run things "nanny state" style.
I think that's kind of the point.
Actions like this are to tell the people targeted that they are worthless and that the people perpetrating it can do anything they like to them.
There isn't a technical solution, it's a social one of removing the pricks on a power trip who don't seem to give a shit about doing a professional crime investigation.
It makes perfect sense because if they are too cowardly to openly carry then they are likely to be too cowardly to commit crimes so they are not people that society needs to worry about.
A stupid fantasy of pulling a hidden gun on a shocked mugger should not be pandered to by law. Wear the fucking thing on your belt and you won't get fucking mugged in the first place.
Very wrong. Tragically wrong. A well armed lone gunman is just a target to a large well armed and well run group.
You've got the lone hero myth stuck in your head. It's bullshit. Washington didn't win a country. Washington and his army won a country.
As an example of an armed populace under a police state - Chile under Pinochet. People could buy all the automatic weapons they could afford but they were getting truly fucked over by their government.
The Russian solution to that (which you will find has been copied and applied to the troops near you) was to post people in places a long way from where they are born so they have little empathy with the people they may have to control. It worked brutally well in the USSR.
Also you seem to have forgotten examples of US National Guard firing on protesters when ordered to do so. They didn't walk out. It was a long time ago but what has changed that would make them walk out?
If things go to shit so badly that the Army is called in they are going to know they are needed and will do the job, no matter how bad it sounds, and not desert. A few guys who hunt for ten days a year, even if they have the best guns they can buy, are going to be nothing but quick suicide by a professional force. All this "arming for revolution" shit is just a way for people to be legends in their own minds.
Never happened. People have know to keep their boiler water clean for at least one and a half centuries. On the other side of the condensors it can even be sea water but that boiler water is kept clean.
Nukes have the extra loop that exchanges heat with the boiler water - thus cooling water that goes through the cooling towers is the third loop. If anything from the first loop has made it into the third it's either a string of failures or a huge catastrophic event obvious to anyone within miles.
It's a tertiary system. Wikipedia will help.
While I've done a lot of work as an engineer in power stations I'm no nuclear engineer (and the ones I worked with were Russian!), but the cooling towers work the same way in coal fired power stations.
It's not steam anywhere in the cooling towers FFS - it's not even very hot. Same molecule - so - it's not the "steam" molecule so how does that make it correct?
My comment above was mostly exasperation at the almost content free article and their interview with the manager who knows as little about his plant as you do. It's a little depressing that so many here thought actual hot steam was coming out of those things.
FFS - just look up the wikipedia article for cooling towers instead of revealing that you are commenting on a topic you have zero clue about.
The water in those things is not very hot, it's typically starting at 40C or so and the stuff that comes out is fog.
As for your nuclear engineering comment - irrelevant - the guy that made the "steam" comment - footballer, historian and lawyer with a career mostly in banks.
He doesn't know any better.
You should.
Funny - that's exactly what I thought when you wrote "The result is an obviously incompetent IT staff at IBM". It's a pity you didn't get the message despite the overblown and unsubtle way I presented it. How blunt do I have to be next time? Red text and BLINK tags?
THINK - If that was really the case then why was nearly every other nation in the Pacific reason invited years ago and not China? Why is Kerry inviting a journalist with an empty promise instead of inviting diplomats with a real one?
This has been going on for YEARS and TPP drafts have featured on wikileaks. It's good that you are taking an interest but I suggest that before you go around "correcting" people it may be worth taking a bit more of an interest and get some background on the topic. I didn't expect some sort of attack from someone not very aware of the issue just for describing it in broad terms.
China was not a party to the TPP.
That was the entire point, to fence China in with the help of other countries. Did you read before commenting?
Yes, it's IBM wearing the little red skirt that is the problem not Microsoft dragging her into an alley. IBM was obviously asking for it.
Yes I think your argument was THAT stupid and almost as offensive.
Am I supposed to have heard of Flextronics and be awed? Sorry it doesn't ring a bell.
That's what the TPP was supposed to be about. However it hands out sweet deals to other nations (deals that hurt the USA) while carrying later added malware that inflicts US I.P. law on those other nations and pisses them off, so it barely encourages those other countries despite the cost. It also relies on China standing still for a decade while their balls are nailed to the wall.
So your idea isn't new and the current attempt at implementation appears to be worse than not trying at all. It's probably not a bad idea in itself though.
The mystery here is how he's going to change anything when even his own party hates him.
He can't even stack the Supreme Court with a dozen new people without the house on his side - so there are two branches against him.
That is what I was referring to - the ESA can do the same if you want to send your dollars into their "Commercial Space". The Titan IVB can do the same if you want to pay a US company enough for them to start building it again.
One more loop. You don't run lake water through your turbines, the turbines would not last very long. You exchange heat between lake water and the loop that runs through the turbines.
Blowing the roof off the reactor will do it, but short of that not much. There's a heating loop, a turbine loop and then the loop that cools that turbine water - for anything to get through all three the failure would have to be massive.
Nearly there - wikipedia will help with the last bit.
It's no more steam than the fog from your shower and in the cooling towers it's about the same input temperature as a warm shower (not hot shower).
No - even one more step removed. The water in the cooling loop never goes near the turbines or they corrode quickly.
It's not steam, it's water, not even a lot hotter than a bath at that. The water in the cooling loop never becomes steam - the steam is on the other side of tubes in the condensor.
It's many years between the revision of standards so the year the standard is released is enough. Typically it's in big letters on the front cover and the spine or the first page of a PDF immediately following the standard number.
They do change if you stupidly just specify the standard number and not the date (version number). If it is done properly it is as you say.
No.
Look at a phase diagram of water and stop your science teacher from crying.
Cooling towers cool the water that has come out of the condensors - follow the link and you will learn!
In the "beige box is not the hard drive and the LCD screen is not the computer" sense of right.
Haven't you kids heard of fog? If you are not kids - shame on you. The idiot in the article is a Lawyer with a network of old buddies of the family from birth and a $44 million dollar golden parachute but you guys are supposed to get exposed to some sort of STEM if you want to eat.
With respect (fuck I have to use that a LOT here these days - check out the UK series "Yes Minister" for an explanation why) since the US nuclear industry has been in close to a state of statis since the late 1970s there will be very little to change. Major players (Westinghouse et al) lobbied hard AGAINST the Clinton era Thorium research and hounded the guy who was running it out of the industry. The nuclear lobby ate it's own children. Far more money has been spent on PR than R&D, a total waste since people do not trust the spin about the older technology and that money could have been spent on developing something worth cheering for instead.
The only reason we have any advances at all is because Westinghouse bought a Japanese company that was doing R&D until they were bought out.
It's so slow moving that pretty well anything designed after the wake-up call of Three Mile Island is going to be good enough today.