A very good example on the domestic level that we can all safely point at (since it's dead and buried) is Enron. The final CEO of that Texas based company spent the majority of several years in Washington forging strong political links and calling in favors. That is a major reason why what turned out to be a company with far less than zero worth was able to get away with running like that for so long before the bankers tore them apart. On the foreign side - Joint Strike Fighter. So many allies have been told by the US government to give money to Lockheed Martin. There is a LOT of that sort of thing going on with government helping out defence contractors at the expense of foreign policy with so much money and trips to Vegas just falling into people's pockets it smells almost as bad as the sort of corruption you get in China.
Being good at all the political games to get into a high position does not automatically mean competence with a different skillset. Especially when there is nepotism in the mix.
Remember this? "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"
The NIMBY attitude generally prevents new reactors from being built in the US
Only it isn't stopping them. Here are two more from the article and they are very major projects:
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Units 3 and 4 in Georgia and Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3 in South Carolina are scheduled to become operational in 2019-2020, adding 4,540 MW of generation capacity
Isn't it funny how Carter gets blamed for new new nukes despite stuff actually starting when he was in office but then nothing under Reagan, Daddy Bush and Clinton? With Reagan maybe the economy could be blamed a bit, but it's more likely strong oil connections were a factor. With Daddy Bush and Clinton it was definitely strong oil connections getting in the way (and the eat their own children bizzare activity of the nuclear lobby opposing Thorium research when Clinton was in power couldn't have helped).
Does this statement mean that this reactor has no foreign [manufactured] parts?
I doubt it, that would require building a lot more infrastructure just to avoid buying stuff from places like the Japanese factory that has been building a lot of the stuff worldwide designed for very radioactive environments since the 1970s (name escapes me, but maybe Westinghouse owns it these days after they bought up a lot of Japanese nuclear technology companies). The long timeline for reactor construction used to be due to a waiting list for reactor vessels at that plant. Even well away from the reactor things like the turbine rotors probably came from Germany.
You don't get the infrastructure unless you are doing stuff a lot - see also that example with Russian space tech.
There was a bit of a scam going on at the time taking advantage of the government offer to buy all Plutonium produced. That's the core of the story. Besides there is still Plutonium being produced in the USA anyway by a military owned facility so the ban has plenty of loopholes and can be repealed if needed anyway.
The "ironic" thing is a huge amount of it is completely unusable as fuel due to either being not very radioactive or being very active with far too short a life to be used as fuel.
I'm no expert
You don't have to be but at least average level of general knowledge that you'd get out of reading one Reader's Digest article would kind of help before posting. The Harford web site has a bit about waste and how they make MOX fuel from some of the waste that may get you up to speed instead of pretending that nuclear waste does not exist and that it's all potential fuel.
India is doing stuff as well. They have been working on a thorium design that exceeds the usual slashdot nuke fanboys dreams of 1950s US thorium tech that they want to see revived.
If nuke fanboys want to be able to write something with meaning instead of just mindless cheering they should look into it. Wikipedia and the Harford web site will help with the big words.
An accusation is an accusation; and the one woman who did go to the police counts as... what, exactly?
It counts as something other than what was being discussed and something other than what you defended.
This is a serious issue. A couple of women have been raped and murdered in my street in the last few years and the same will have happened near you, situations where an autopsy shows without doubt that rape happened and nobody can deny it or write it off as "crying wolf" or "into that kind of thing -- different strokes and all that" . Pretending that rape is very rare but false reports are common based on something almost completely unrelated is that word you like - "sociopathic".
No liar stands behind his words with as much conviction as I have
Prisons are full of many liars who have stood behind their lies with far more conviction than than this thread. If you really believe that phrase of yours I have quoted then you still have a lot of growing up to do.
What about the post where I quote myself explaining and clarifying no fewer than 11 times
Evasions, distractions, excuses, never an actual answer was there? I have not found one in all that noise
How? By standing my ground?
Obviously not since I obviously wrote that about you suggesting that I am a child rapist. Those who brought you up would be very disappointed in you using something so extreme as a simple insult to someone that has annoyed you in a trivial online discussion wouldn't they?
Exercising poor judgment and naivety in early adulthood, obviously
From your "enhanced" story you were just a passive bystander that was blamed for no reason - hence me rubbing your nose in your fucking "they all cry wolf" evil rapist apologist shit.
they were just unstable sociopaths (as you seem to be)
Sigh. At least that is a step up from you calling me a child rapist. When are you going to stop piling on more shit and apologize for the earlier deadly insult?
As for your victim card story. You keep on going on and on about Kool-aid and the "drank the Kool-aid" Jim Jones meme as if it's important instead of just calling it a drug in a drink. Is that some sort of gullibility test? Newspapers love that sort of stuff and the most trivial Kool-aid drugging or poisoning story would get widely reported due the the Jim Jones connection in people's minds. You keep on trying more and more to make it look like fiction, maybe to make fun of me or something? Since your victim card was not relevant I didn't challenge whether it was real or not - so no - you have not fooled me for a second, I just kept ignoring it as the noise it is instead of calling you out as a possible liar on a side issue. So no, the joke is not on me, I just did not care one way or another if the victim card you were hiding behind to try to avoid criticism for your evil shit was real or not, it was never big enough to hide the "they all cry wolf" shit.
And what started here as, possibly, ignorance or misunderstanding
It's all up there above. You've held up well crafted anecdotes possibly related to your own life as an example of how it's normal for women to cry rape when there was not one.
Then a lot of whining, pretended misunderstanding, personal attacks, a deadly insult and even hiding behind your wife FFS!
Hence the words "storm front" wiping out a lot over several states and not a storm wiping out a few in a small area. Current balloons are very fragile, even more so than Italian technology of the 1920s let alone rigid stuff.
Since your other stuff turned out to be false equivalence and you've hid behind that victim card dozens of times (even when it was obvious that I was referring to other stuff), your very unlikely story is getting incredibly hard to believe. Even if it was true you have used it shamelessly as an offtopic distraction, a victim card to try to stop people questioning your other statements. All attempts to discuss things separate from your victim card led to a lot of anger and whining. Sorry kid, it's looking more and more like a petty argument tactic than reality, and I wish you would stop acting like a kid.
It's totally unrelated to whatever sordid goings-on led to what you say was three women calling you a rapist (if they ever really called you that at all), just as your attempted distraction about the violent girl had nothing to do with it unless you are implying that she deserved bad treatment herself.
Accusations such as you describe are incredibly rare. WTF were you doing to get accused THREE times, if that ever happened at all.
You keep saying "proof" and I keep pointing out that I intended to "prove" nothing
You still have not explained why else you would do it mr false equivalence guy.
While your lifestyle may have had you being called a rapist three times (here's a clue kid - that stuff you are pushing as ordinary is pretty fucking rare and unusual - not a lot of people get called rapists in relationship breakups without the police getting involved) the only person that has come close to calling me that in my entire life is you with your disgusting accusation above of "quite possibly a serial rapist and abuser, possibly even involving children" - and now you are trying to backtrack and pretend you never wrote it. So much for your "upbringing", you really are letting those who raised you down. Nobody on this site has insulted me in that way before and I've been hanging around here as an AC since day one (along with thousands of others so that's not a big deal it's just a lot of elapsed time).
Fair enough. I'm still on CentOS5/RHEL5 since that's what the workstation software, even this year's update, requires. There are still a lot of vendors specifying RHEL6, so yes, after I spent those few seconds, upstart. A fair chunk of RedHat's sales are for support of things older than RHEL7 so the statement above about the sales pointing to support for systemd is not something I agree with.
You put your petty relationship problems (altered to make you look like nothing but a passive participant) up as "proof" that there are a lot of false rape accusations going on. Do you mean you really didn't expect a bit of disbelief, disgust, and sheer wonder that you had the audacity to go so far as to suggest such things were equivalent to the very serious crimes being discussed? Your action of calling me a rapist just because I annoyed you shows how little you take such things seriously. It's more than just a little sickening. This "mens rights" shit is like Afganistan at home.
So rare that it didn't even happen now. Before posting such a silly and ignorant thing you should have learned that RHEL6 and RHEL5 do not use upstart. It would have only taken a few seconds to do so.
Which changed everything, such as you being a financial support for one person. Even your "victim card" turned out to be about drunken misadventures only classed as a crime due to a higher age of consent than in a lot of other places.
The usage statistics of all the major Linux distros and the financials of the major Linux companies (Red Hat, IBM, SUSE, Oracle, Canonical) don't seem to suggest that at all.
They all have strong sales of their old versions without systemd (eg. RHEL6 and even RHEL5) because that's what the workstation software vendors demand.
Only if you care about getting a single delivery from A to B as quick as possible instead of sending a lot of stuff over time. With people every 26 months makes sense. With various supplies they get there when they get there so we don't have to use Buzz Aldrin's fastest method. If it takes a very long time but they have to decellerate less at the Mars end then all the better, so long as it's not the only thing coming.
Of course if we are going to be sending stuff to Mars with arrival times several times a year I'd expect a serious presence in orbit and on the moon. If we are going to be sending a lot of mass to Mars then I'd expect a fair bit of it would not be dragged up from Earth at vast energy cost.
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Well put.
A very good example on the domestic level that we can all safely point at (since it's dead and buried) is Enron. The final CEO of that Texas based company spent the majority of several years in Washington forging strong political links and calling in favors. That is a major reason why what turned out to be a company with far less than zero worth was able to get away with running like that for so long before the bankers tore them apart.
On the foreign side - Joint Strike Fighter. So many allies have been told by the US government to give money to Lockheed Martin. There is a LOT of that sort of thing going on with government helping out defence contractors at the expense of foreign policy with so much money and trips to Vegas just falling into people's pockets it smells almost as bad as the sort of corruption you get in China.
Being good at all the political games to get into a high position does not automatically mean competence with a different skillset.
Especially when there is nepotism in the mix.
Remember this?
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"
blamed for no new nukes
Only it isn't stopping them. Here are two more from the article and they are very major projects:
Isn't it funny how Carter gets blamed for new new nukes despite stuff actually starting when he was in office but then nothing under Reagan, Daddy Bush and Clinton? With Reagan maybe the economy could be blamed a bit, but it's more likely strong oil connections were a factor. With Daddy Bush and Clinton it was definitely strong oil connections getting in the way (and the eat their own children bizzare activity of the nuclear lobby opposing Thorium research when Clinton was in power couldn't have helped).
I doubt it, that would require building a lot more infrastructure just to avoid buying stuff from places like the Japanese factory that has been building a lot of the stuff worldwide designed for very radioactive environments since the 1970s (name escapes me, but maybe Westinghouse owns it these days after they bought up a lot of Japanese nuclear technology companies). The long timeline for reactor construction used to be due to a waiting list for reactor vessels at that plant. Even well away from the reactor things like the turbine rotors probably came from Germany.
You don't get the infrastructure unless you are doing stuff a lot - see also that example with Russian space tech.
There was a bit of a scam going on at the time taking advantage of the government offer to buy all Plutonium produced. That's the core of the story. Besides there is still Plutonium being produced in the USA anyway by a military owned facility so the ban has plenty of loopholes and can be repealed if needed anyway.
You don't have to be but at least average level of general knowledge that you'd get out of reading one Reader's Digest article would kind of help before posting. The Harford web site has a bit about waste and how they make MOX fuel from some of the waste that may get you up to speed instead of pretending that nuclear waste does not exist and that it's all potential fuel.
Stop the bribery and it may happen. Until then a lot of Vegas money is going to keep it out of Nevada. Similar deal with the California desert.
India is doing stuff as well.
They have been working on a thorium design that exceeds the usual slashdot nuke fanboys dreams of 1950s US thorium tech that they want to see revived.
If nuke fanboys want to be able to write something with meaning instead of just mindless cheering they should look into it. Wikipedia and the Harford web site will help with the big words.
Yes, "new" in terms of it being 1980s tech :(
It's just taken a long time before any got built.
Even South Africa has more advanced nuclear technology (pebble bed).
It counts as something other than what was being discussed and something other than what you defended.
This is a serious issue. A couple of women have been raped and murdered in my street in the last few years and the same will have happened near you, situations where an autopsy shows without doubt that rape happened and nobody can deny it or write it off as "crying wolf" or "into that kind of thing -- different strokes and all that" . Pretending that rape is very rare but false reports are common based on something almost completely unrelated is that word you like - "sociopathic".
Prisons are full of many liars who have stood behind their lies with far more conviction than than this thread.
If you really believe that phrase of yours I have quoted then you still have a lot of growing up to do.
Evasions, distractions, excuses, never an actual answer was there? I have not found one in all that noise
Obviously not since I obviously wrote that about you suggesting that I am a child rapist. Those who brought you up would be very disappointed in you using something so extreme as a simple insult to someone that has annoyed you in a trivial online discussion wouldn't they?
From your "enhanced" story you were just a passive bystander that was blamed for no reason - hence me rubbing your nose in your fucking "they all cry wolf" evil rapist apologist shit.
Sigh. At least that is a step up from you calling me a child rapist. When are you going to stop piling on more shit and apologize for the earlier deadly insult?
As for your victim card story. You keep on going on and on about Kool-aid and the "drank the Kool-aid" Jim Jones meme as if it's important instead of just calling it a drug in a drink. Is that some sort of gullibility test? Newspapers love that sort of stuff and the most trivial Kool-aid drugging or poisoning story would get widely reported due the the Jim Jones connection in people's minds. You keep on trying more and more to make it look like fiction, maybe to make fun of me or something? Since your victim card was not relevant I didn't challenge whether it was real or not - so no - you have not fooled me for a second, I just kept ignoring it as the noise it is instead of calling you out as a possible liar on a side issue. So no, the joke is not on me, I just did not care one way or another if the victim card you were hiding behind to try to avoid criticism for your evil shit was real or not, it was never big enough to hide the "they all cry wolf" shit.
It's all up there above. You've held up well crafted anecdotes possibly related to your own life as an example of how it's normal for women to cry rape when there was not one.
Then a lot of whining, pretended misunderstanding, personal attacks, a deadly insult and even hiding behind your wife FFS!
Is this really the person you wanted to be?
Hence the words "storm front" wiping out a lot over several states and not a storm wiping out a few in a small area. Current balloons are very fragile, even more so than Italian technology of the 1920s let alone rigid stuff.
Until a storm front comes through.
Then it's back to the drawing board and playing catchup with something from 1929.
Since your other stuff turned out to be false equivalence and you've hid behind that victim card dozens of times (even when it was obvious that I was referring to other stuff), your very unlikely story is getting incredibly hard to believe. Even if it was true you have used it shamelessly as an offtopic distraction, a victim card to try to stop people questioning your other statements. All attempts to discuss things separate from your victim card led to a lot of anger and whining. Sorry kid, it's looking more and more like a petty argument tactic than reality, and I wish you would stop acting like a kid.
It's totally unrelated to whatever sordid goings-on led to what you say was three women calling you a rapist (if they ever really called you that at all), just as your attempted distraction about the violent girl had nothing to do with it unless you are implying that she deserved bad treatment herself.
Accusations such as you describe are incredibly rare. WTF were you doing to get accused THREE times, if that ever happened at all.
You still have not explained why else you would do it mr false equivalence guy.
While your lifestyle may have had you being called a rapist three times (here's a clue kid - that stuff you are pushing as ordinary is pretty fucking rare and unusual - not a lot of people get called rapists in relationship breakups without the police getting involved) the only person that has come close to calling me that in my entire life is you with your disgusting accusation above of "quite possibly a serial rapist and abuser, possibly even involving children" - and now you are trying to backtrack and pretend you never wrote it.
So much for your "upbringing", you really are letting those who raised you down. Nobody on this site has insulted me in that way before and I've been hanging around here as an AC since day one (along with thousands of others so that's not a big deal it's just a lot of elapsed time).
Considering it's less advanced than an airship from 1929 what is the big deal here?
Fair enough. I'm still on CentOS5/RHEL5 since that's what the workstation software, even this year's update, requires. There are still a lot of vendors specifying RHEL6, so yes, after I spent those few seconds, upstart.
A fair chunk of RedHat's sales are for support of things older than RHEL7 so the statement above about the sales pointing to support for systemd is not something I agree with.
You put your petty relationship problems (altered to make you look like nothing but a passive participant) up as "proof" that there are a lot of false rape accusations going on. Do you mean you really didn't expect a bit of disbelief, disgust, and sheer wonder that you had the audacity to go so far as to suggest such things were equivalent to the very serious crimes being discussed?
Your action of calling me a rapist just because I annoyed you shows how little you take such things seriously.
It's more than just a little sickening.
This "mens rights" shit is like Afganistan at home.
So rare that it didn't even happen now. Before posting such a silly and ignorant thing you should have learned that RHEL6 and RHEL5 do not use upstart. It would have only taken a few seconds to do so.
Which changed everything, such as you being a financial support for one person. Even your "victim card" turned out to be about drunken misadventures only classed as a crime due to a higher age of consent than in a lot of other places.
They all have strong sales of their old versions without systemd (eg. RHEL6 and even RHEL5) because that's what the workstation software vendors demand.
A car from 1995 is old?
Only if you care about getting a single delivery from A to B as quick as possible instead of sending a lot of stuff over time.
With people every 26 months makes sense. With various supplies they get there when they get there so we don't have to use Buzz Aldrin's fastest method. If it takes a very long time but they have to decellerate less at the Mars end then all the better, so long as it's not the only thing coming.
Of course if we are going to be sending stuff to Mars with arrival times several times a year I'd expect a serious presence in orbit and on the moon. If we are going to be sending a lot of mass to Mars then I'd expect a fair bit of it would not be dragged up from Earth at vast energy cost.