One of the funny moments in the SCO vs IBM (over linux), where Darl McBride deliberately drove a company into a wall and gave most of the lucrative legal work to his brother, was a bit about a guy getting off a light plane in Germany with the entire printout of linux source code in his briefcase. They just had no clue at all about the size of the project and made such a silly gaffe, which when it comes down to it, is some very pointless petty perjury.
How about having the cop ride in the vehicle with the accused, recording it the whole time, and then a jury can determine if they were in fact too impaired to drive based on the video?
Were you impaired when posting? In the case where someone is too impaired to drive, is it not both an incredibly stupid risk and a totally fucking stupid idea? Testing breath is not stupid but not accurate - blood is a bit more stupid but by delegating it to a health professional the risks are low. Tongue twisters, acrobatics or even a ride along for a small subset of road conditions are both stupid and inaccurate. The study of a LOT of corpses has provided information about the correlation between blood alcohol content and accidents.
Calling her "Clinton" is confusing so why bother with such ridiculous nitpicking? And it's not false equivalency or a big deal - plus OF COURSE a State Governor had access to classified and other sensitive information. Where did you put your brain today? Why bother replying when you are in such a state?
There are bigger scandals and she is part of them. Get off your backside and leave the petty shit alone - there's plenty to show she's done a lot worse than Palin because she's done a lot more than the email thing. I've got no idea why you didn't comprehend that much from my previous post when I even gave an example. Prove to us that those student loans were not a waste of money - I'm sure you can do better.
I was referring to a talk on small modular reactor
Where small reactors such as pebble bed are used the idea is to have several of them in series or parallel heating up steam for each turbine.
Turbines on the 200MW scale are also small enough to move by truck
So are the 650MW ones. I did some work at a plant with 240MW turbines. It was built in the 1960s. It has since been demolished for being inefficient.
COTS steam turbines
No such thing - you order one and wait a few years. If you have your construction schedule right it arrives before you have finished your boilers/reactor/whatever. You break a rotor, you'd better have a spare or it could be three years. Nearly every utility worldwide has spares.
That bad? Are you sure? The breath results are not considered enough in most of the world. You may be armed, but it doesn't seem to be making you very free does it?
this is doubly so for Chernobyl because that was built from stolen plans, with a known flaw, by people that didn't give a shit
Very interesting world you live in. The formerly Russian turbine engineer I worked with a few years ago that had worked on that type of plant would disagree.
I don't recall the sizes of each but it was something like 200MW turbines and 300MW reactors
Far too small - nukes are about a lot of heat and big turbines. That's how they can be viable with a high capital cost and long construction time. Thermal power solutions such as nukes perform better at very large scales. A large turbine will have the steam go through in three or more passes to extract most of the energy out of the steam and that's only possible if you have a LOT of steam hitting the turbine. Small turbines waste a lot of that energy.
cells they rarely or never make it to market because of cost
Silicon wafers are dirt cheap so if surface area is not limited they win. The new high performance stuff is in use but in niches such as satellites.
What I also found was ample evidence that roadside BAC testing is terribly inaccurate
Hence following up with a blood test before you get a ticket, or is your local law enforcement too incompetent for that or you are just totally unaware if they follow up or not?
Just as realistic as teenagers going on about how they are wonderful at multitasking. Alcoholics are a mess at everything - very sad to watch it happen.
I always suspected that song was about the Detroit People Mover and the vain hope that it would revive the city. Anyone closer to the subject matter have any ideas on that?
Are you still going on about this email thing when there are real scandals like the Pfizer donations after Hillary decided to drop penalties and all the stuff about Hillary that came out with the Manning leak? Funny how the email was not a big deal with Palin but it is with Hillary - but it's still just being lazy instead of going after real scandals that are far worse.
So the claim is terrorists use "whatsapp" - then what are their names? I think the claim, like many others, is a lie. How many terrorists even use a timer on bombs let alone more advanced technology? They are just being used as an excuse to lie and push an agenda.
How does that refute what I wrote in any way? I think it reinforces it. It the fanboys actually thought on more than a very shallow level on the issue they would understand that a lot of infrastructure is required to keep civilian nuclear going and that a lot has to be rebuilt before much is possible let alone a competitive option. If they want their nukes that look good on paper they have to understand that it's a long road to anything better than the odd 1970s throwback as anything other than a prototype - and they seem to think the paper designs will work perfectly first try without a prototype and advocate building dozens of untried things at once (which would not be possible anyway without building up a LOT of infrastructure). I'm very offended that you didn't bother to try to comprehend my post and then threw the "unicorn farts" dismissive insult in my face. Why bother to put in the effort to reply when you don't put in the effort to read?
So somebody with a great deal of political influence who was even born to it, and who has even run played politics to the extent of this not being his first run at President is still an outsider? It looks like the inside is a very tiny group by your definition. I consider your three points fairly worthless as a definition since they would even fit some of the "neocons" that hung around Washington for decades.
The Constitution gives a government rights. We get the rest. For example, if the 2nd amendment was the only thing granting the right to bear arms we'd have to hand them all back in at 40, and women would get the right to have them at all. Funny how a thing about conscripting citizens into a militia got twisted into "freedom" by some NRA idiots. We've got the right because there is nothing to say we do not have the right.
With Carter undermining a scam and Reagan pushing oil etc with nobody to promote civilian nuclear since (except for a stillborn thorium project in Clinton's time that the nuclear incumbents actually opposed), it's been dying for years. If you want a nuclear industry (or just about any industry) you've got to keep on building equipment or you end up with nobody capable of building or running it. As an example, if it wasn't for a pile of R&D paid for by the Japanese taxpayers Westinghouse would have nothing viable to build today. If it wasn't for a pile of work for them ordered from China they wouldn't have the skilled people to build anything tomorrow. In the USA civilian nuclear died long ago. You want nukes, you've got to fund a nearly complete restart of an industry or rely on imports.
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One of the funny moments in the SCO vs IBM (over linux), where Darl McBride deliberately drove a company into a wall and gave most of the lucrative legal work to his brother, was a bit about a guy getting off a light plane in Germany with the entire printout of linux source code in his briefcase. They just had no clue at all about the size of the project and made such a silly gaffe, which when it comes down to it, is some very pointless petty perjury.
The point is James Bond was not involved and the fuckup that happened is well the understood result of people being idiots and going too far.
How about having the cop ride in the vehicle with the accused, recording it the whole time, and then a jury can determine if they were in fact too impaired to drive based on the video?
Were you impaired when posting? In the case where someone is too impaired to drive, is it not both an incredibly stupid risk and a totally fucking stupid idea?
Testing breath is not stupid but not accurate - blood is a bit more stupid but by delegating it to a health professional the risks are low. Tongue twisters, acrobatics or even a ride along for a small subset of road conditions are both stupid and inaccurate. The study of a LOT of corpses has provided information about the correlation between blood alcohol content and accidents.
Calling her "Clinton" is confusing so why bother with such ridiculous nitpicking?
And it's not false equivalency or a big deal - plus OF COURSE a State Governor had access to classified and other sensitive information. Where did you put your brain today? Why bother replying when you are in such a state?
There are bigger scandals and she is part of them. Get off your backside and leave the petty shit alone - there's plenty to show she's done a lot worse than Palin because she's done a lot more than the email thing. I've got no idea why you didn't comprehend that much from my previous post when I even gave an example.
Prove to us that those student loans were not a waste of money - I'm sure you can do better.
Never seen the movie but yes, excellent book - far too many years since I've read it. Too long since I've read any Vonnegut too.
Where small reactors such as pebble bed are used the idea is to have several of them in series or parallel heating up steam for each turbine.
So are the 650MW ones. I did some work at a plant with 240MW turbines. It was built in the 1960s. It has since been demolished for being inefficient.
No such thing - you order one and wait a few years. If you have your construction schedule right it arrives before you have finished your boilers/reactor/whatever. You break a rotor, you'd better have a spare or it could be three years. Nearly every utility worldwide has spares.
That bad? Are you sure? The breath results are not considered enough in most of the world.
You may be armed, but it doesn't seem to be making you very free does it?
Very interesting world you live in. The formerly Russian turbine engineer I worked with a few years ago that had worked on that type of plant would disagree.
Far too small - nukes are about a lot of heat and big turbines. That's how they can be viable with a high capital cost and long construction time. Thermal power solutions such as nukes perform better at very large scales. A large turbine will have the steam go through in three or more passes to extract most of the energy out of the steam and that's only possible if you have a LOT of steam hitting the turbine. Small turbines waste a lot of that energy.
Silicon wafers are dirt cheap so if surface area is not limited they win. The new high performance stuff is in use but in niches such as satellites.
The states don't have the money to spare so that is a non-issue.
Silly acrobatic tests or tongue twisters do not test for that either. How much alcohol is in the blood is as close as we can currently get.
Having a law against it and the associated social stigma is probably the major cause of that attitude shift.
Hence following up with a blood test before you get a ticket, or is your local law enforcement too incompetent for that or you are just totally unaware if they follow up or not?
Just as realistic as teenagers going on about how they are wonderful at multitasking.
Alcoholics are a mess at everything - very sad to watch it happen.
I always suspected that song was about the Detroit People Mover and the vain hope that it would revive the city. Anyone closer to the subject matter have any ideas on that?
Are you still going on about this email thing when there are real scandals like the Pfizer donations after Hillary decided to drop penalties and all the stuff about Hillary that came out with the Manning leak?
Funny how the email was not a big deal with Palin but it is with Hillary - but it's still just being lazy instead of going after real scandals that are far worse.
So the claim is terrorists use "whatsapp" - then what are their names?
I think the claim, like many others, is a lie.
How many terrorists even use a timer on bombs let alone more advanced technology? They are just being used as an excuse to lie and push an agenda.
His track record is exactly what I am writing about FFS!
How does that refute what I wrote in any way? I think it reinforces it. It the fanboys actually thought on more than a very shallow level on the issue they would understand that a lot of infrastructure is required to keep civilian nuclear going and that a lot has to be rebuilt before much is possible let alone a competitive option.
If they want their nukes that look good on paper they have to understand that it's a long road to anything better than the odd 1970s throwback as anything other than a prototype - and they seem to think the paper designs will work perfectly first try without a prototype and advocate building dozens of untried things at once (which would not be possible anyway without building up a LOT of infrastructure).
I'm very offended that you didn't bother to try to comprehend my post and then threw the "unicorn farts" dismissive insult in my face. Why bother to put in the effort to reply when you don't put in the effort to read?
So somebody with a great deal of political influence who was even born to it, and who has even run played politics to the extent of this not being his first run at President is still an outsider? It looks like the inside is a very tiny group by your definition. I consider your three points fairly worthless as a definition since they would even fit some of the "neocons" that hung around Washington for decades.
It's easier than solving problems.
Perhaps you should think about that a bit more and perhaps take a look over at Russia's oligarchy for some parallels to help you out with it.
The Constitution gives a government rights. We get the rest.
For example, if the 2nd amendment was the only thing granting the right to bear arms we'd have to hand them all back in at 40, and women would get the right to have them at all. Funny how a thing about conscripting citizens into a militia got twisted into "freedom" by some NRA idiots.
We've got the right because there is nothing to say we do not have the right.
I keep seeing that but it's not his first run for President and he has effectively been an insider since the day he was born.
No need. The convention doesn't have to actually support the winner of the primaries as shown by the Democrats some years ago.
With Carter undermining a scam and Reagan pushing oil etc with nobody to promote civilian nuclear since (except for a stillborn thorium project in Clinton's time that the nuclear incumbents actually opposed), it's been dying for years. If you want a nuclear industry (or just about any industry) you've got to keep on building equipment or you end up with nobody capable of building or running it. As an example, if it wasn't for a pile of R&D paid for by the Japanese taxpayers Westinghouse would have nothing viable to build today. If it wasn't for a pile of work for them ordered from China they wouldn't have the skilled people to build anything tomorrow. In the USA civilian nuclear died long ago. You want nukes, you've got to fund a nearly complete restart of an industry or rely on imports.