Yes which is the only reason why we are not shouting these "just use nukes" people down as idiots - government controlled "civilian" vessels are a half way step towards privately owned nuclear vessels. Some day in the future Russia may sell a nuclear cruise ship so it's possibly SF and not fantasy.
and automated manufacturing has a lower defect rate than hand crafted
You had something sensible and then you spoiled it with that bit. Taking care and good design results in less defects, not some sort of magic due to mass production but I suppose it's a common mistake to make since mass production often comes twinned with more attention to quality control.
Using a lot of closed source software and going through weeks of support hoops for each problem has made me a very big fan of open source software and searchable mailing lists. There's also the different practices - tiny patch today for a single problem versus waiting up to three months for a huge patch for a long list of problems. Open source developers are willing and able to take responsibility for their own work instead of having to wait weeks to get it signed off.
In 1977 there were Japanese cars with more fuel-efficient engines that were more reliable. It's just that by 1985 even the cheapest of the cheap made Detroit look bad. The "making cars which lasted wasn't a good business" was just one of the idiotic ideas that trust fund babies had when the only things that were keeping them going were size and incumbency. Some of the really good ideas that came out of US wartime aircraft development ended up in the suspension and other parts of European cars when the inventors couldn't get anyone at home to listen.
Molten stuff in a ship made of metal that is prone to liquid metal embrittlement? I think the things currently in use in nuclear powered icebreakers etc are a far saner idea.
Your gut feeling requires a lot of changes to happen while the above poster is describing the current situation of a low volume military application which requires higher standards than a high volume civilian application. Hand crafted versus mass produced. Things may some day get to where your gut is feeling but it's a very long way off and would require a lot of capital to get there. It may happen but it's a pretty big "IF", so going around telling people they are incorrect based on a long chain of events that have not happened is somewhat rude.
Yes, but irrelevant since it's military technology that nobody involved is going to let outsiders even look at let alone sell to them. The fear is IMHO mostly a bit of a kickback from decades of people being told it is perfectly safe and then getting a big shock from those times when it wasn't. It's like getting a nasty bite from a cute puppy and ending up with a fear of dogs. With all the "too cheap to meter" and "clean" bullshit PR it was bound to happen.
However there is far more opportunity for something to be done due to more available developers being able to do something about it than the one or two people at a commercial software house that have responsibility over the portion of code with problems. I've hit that wall on many occasions.
I use a lot of closed source stuff on linux. It takes months to years from when a bug report is submitted to when a patch or new release fixes the problem.
The most annoying one was a bug that needed one extra byte in a header of information being sent to a printer. Without it no maps could be plotted at all, and no PDF output in that application either (plus clients wanted everything on paper back then). Seven months from when the problem was reported, including what byte to add, to when the patch was released. Luckily a wrapper script around the right binary pretending to be the binary was not difficult to do and could intercept the output to add the extra byte. In all the other cases all I could do is wait for things to be fixed inside the hidden black boxes. I'm still waiting on some things which is why I have three versions of the software in use - all with different bugs or woeful performance compared with an earlier version (really slooow GUI - three seconds to open a menu versus milliseconds).
So there you go, if it does the job then fine but as soon as something goes wrong be prepared to wait a very long time before you can get hold of a fix.
You wasted a VAST amount of time repeating the email thing over and over but no Pfizer stuff in sight despite you saying otherwise. Go on - it will only take a few seconds to cut and paste to prove that you are not a liar.
It's not "stalking" - it's a consequence of your actions and me asking you to prove that your word is not entirely worthless.
That's probably the first link to Forbes on this site that has actually been relevant and in a field their writers actually know something about. Well done! I may have chosen a poor example but there is certainly some blatant tax evasion going on. Toyota did/do a lot of it for example.
Calling it "Mt. Gox" instead removes a very major clue as to why it failed. For some reason a hobby card swapping site turned out to be less than ideal for exchanging bitcoins with currency - who would have thought?
It promised to replace coal and oil but Clinton shut it down
The even more annoying thing is he did it at least partly because Westinghouse and other parts of the nuclear lobby spent a lot of money convincing him to do so. Apparently they saw it as a threat to their business model because they had sunk money into Uranium and it used Thorium. While I think he should have told them to go fuck themselves because they themselves were using previous government nuclear research and should not stand in the way of others doing the same it played out the way it did - donor money won. Despite "winning" by shutting down the program they defamed the head of the IFR project and drove him out of the nuclear industry.
What, you mean make it mildly radioactive for a short half life?
No. Please go look at something like the Harford site or read something else about radioactive waste instead of just guessing. Stuff like synrok would not have needed to have been developed if reality matched the fantasy.
I suggest you consider what released neutrons do to everything around them and you may be able to work out what low level waste is. If you have done high school level science it should be enough.
I was speaking specifically of fast burner
You wrote "all the waste", a depressing mistake since it shows you do not understand the topic at all. There is a lot more than fuel rods to deal with.
How about learning some science. The Harford website will help.
Seriously guys - it's people living in a fantasy world like the above poster that cause things like the waste being left in ponds instead of reprocessed and the remainder stored safely.
I can't leave this discussion without a mention of Manna by Marshal Brain http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
It's two extreme scenarios for what might happen if we are able to replace the entire workforce.
Gaaaah - looks like Greg Egan's stuff done badly but I may have hit a few rough spots. What's with the flag icon? Is he pushing libertarian politics or something?
The assumption of there being no resource limits appears to put it firmly in the Fantasy end of SF&F, but then again so is anything about a manned US space program at the moment:(
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Yes which is the only reason why we are not shouting these "just use nukes" people down as idiots - government controlled "civilian" vessels are a half way step towards privately owned nuclear vessels. Some day in the future Russia may sell a nuclear cruise ship so it's possibly SF and not fantasy.
You had something sensible and then you spoiled it with that bit. Taking care and good design results in less defects, not some sort of magic due to mass production but I suppose it's a common mistake to make since mass production often comes twinned with more attention to quality control.
Using a lot of closed source software and going through weeks of support hoops for each problem has made me a very big fan of open source software and searchable mailing lists.
There's also the different practices - tiny patch today for a single problem versus waiting up to three months for a huge patch for a long list of problems. Open source developers are willing and able to take responsibility for their own work instead of having to wait weeks to get it signed off.
In 1977 there were Japanese cars with more fuel-efficient engines that were more reliable. It's just that by 1985 even the cheapest of the cheap made Detroit look bad.
The "making cars which lasted wasn't a good business" was just one of the idiotic ideas that trust fund babies had when the only things that were keeping them going were size and incumbency.
Some of the really good ideas that came out of US wartime aircraft development ended up in the suspension and other parts of European cars when the inventors couldn't get anyone at home to listen.
Where did that political shit come from? All I did was point out what we currently do with the very heavy fractions of oil.
Molten stuff in a ship made of metal that is prone to liquid metal embrittlement? I think the things currently in use in nuclear powered icebreakers etc are a far saner idea.
Make roads out of it.
Your gut feeling requires a lot of changes to happen while the above poster is describing the current situation of a low volume military application which requires higher standards than a high volume civilian application. Hand crafted versus mass produced. Things may some day get to where your gut is feeling but it's a very long way off and would require a lot of capital to get there. It may happen but it's a pretty big "IF", so going around telling people they are incorrect based on a long chain of events that have not happened is somewhat rude.
Yes, but irrelevant since it's military technology that nobody involved is going to let outsiders even look at let alone sell to them.
The fear is IMHO mostly a bit of a kickback from decades of people being told it is perfectly safe and then getting a big shock from those times when it wasn't. It's like getting a nasty bite from a cute puppy and ending up with a fear of dogs. With all the "too cheap to meter" and "clean" bullshit PR it was bound to happen.
However there is far more opportunity for something to be done due to more available developers being able to do something about it than the one or two people at a commercial software house that have responsibility over the portion of code with problems.
I've hit that wall on many occasions.
I use a lot of closed source stuff on linux.
It takes months to years from when a bug report is submitted to when a patch or new release fixes the problem.
The most annoying one was a bug that needed one extra byte in a header of information being sent to a printer. Without it no maps could be plotted at all, and no PDF output in that application either (plus clients wanted everything on paper back then). Seven months from when the problem was reported, including what byte to add, to when the patch was released. Luckily a wrapper script around the right binary pretending to be the binary was not difficult to do and could intercept the output to add the extra byte.
In all the other cases all I could do is wait for things to be fixed inside the hidden black boxes. I'm still waiting on some things which is why I have three versions of the software in use - all with different bugs or woeful performance compared with an earlier version (really slooow GUI - three seconds to open a menu versus milliseconds).
So there you go, if it does the job then fine but as soon as something goes wrong be prepared to wait a very long time before you can get hold of a fix.
You wasted a VAST amount of time repeating the email thing over and over but no Pfizer stuff in sight despite you saying otherwise.
Go on - it will only take a few seconds to cut and paste to prove that you are not a liar.
It's not "stalking" - it's a consequence of your actions and me asking you to prove that your word is not entirely worthless.
That's probably the first link to Forbes on this site that has actually been relevant and in a field their writers actually know something about. Well done!
I may have chosen a poor example but there is certainly some blatant tax evasion going on. Toyota did/do a lot of it for example.
It's Magic the Gathering Online eXchange
Calling it "Mt. Gox" instead removes a very major clue as to why it failed. For some reason a hobby card swapping site turned out to be less than ideal for exchanging bitcoins with currency - who would have thought?
The Sanders type people have not run the USA in living memory and are unlikely to do so any time soon, apart from in novels of course.
The even more annoying thing is he did it at least partly because Westinghouse and other parts of the nuclear lobby spent a lot of money convincing him to do so. Apparently they saw it as a threat to their business model because they had sunk money into Uranium and it used Thorium. While I think he should have told them to go fuck themselves because they themselves were using previous government nuclear research and should not stand in the way of others doing the same it played out the way it did - donor money won.
Despite "winning" by shutting down the program they defamed the head of the IFR project and drove him out of the nuclear industry.
No.
Please go look at something like the Harford site or read something else about radioactive waste instead of just guessing.
Stuff like synrok would not have needed to have been developed if reality matched the fantasy.
You wrote "all the waste", a depressing mistake since it shows you do not understand the topic at all. There is a lot more than fuel rods to deal with.
ALL the radioactive waste?
How about learning some science. The Harford website will help.
Seriously guys - it's people living in a fantasy world like the above poster that cause things like the waste being left in ponds instead of reprocessed and the remainder stored safely.
Consider "News Corporation" and "Fox" for increased understanding about what the poster above and others are going on about.
Google can give you one answer. Try feeding these search terms into google:
"cayman islands corporate tax rate"
Look up "transfer pricing".
One of many acts of massive tax evasion and to put it bluntly outright fraud.
You can read books by people other than Rand you know :)
Trump is the embodiment of an oligachy. He's not separate to Rubio, Clinton and Bush, he's one tier up on that same system.
I can't leave this discussion without a mention of Manna by Marshal Brain http://marshallbrain.com/manna... It's two extreme scenarios for what might happen if we are able to replace the entire workforce.
Gaaaah - looks like Greg Egan's stuff done badly but I may have hit a few rough spots.
:(
What's with the flag icon? Is he pushing libertarian politics or something?
The assumption of there being no resource limits appears to put it firmly in the Fantasy end of SF&F, but then again so is anything about a manned US space program at the moment