Everything old is new again - we've finally ditched a whole lot of Virtual Basic shitty little applications by developers that did them and vanished, so now we need a new wave of things where bugs have to be worked around instead of fixed? Even perfect software can become unusable due to changing circumstances around it. Unless the software is only for short term use there is a need for someone to maintain it for longer than the short term.
So, you saw me taking a annoying revisionist prick to task and decided to be an annoying prick as well? All this shit over something incredibly trivial - and sinister shit about how you are going to check my qualifications no less because I disputed your definition of engineer that leaves those who run ships, locomotives, software and so on out in the cold! What a piece of work! So you don't believe I do what I do - how would you know? How about a clue as to what you do for a living that gives you such insight or are you ashamed of your profession?
Has it never dawned on you that I don't give a damn about Carter at all?
Yes, I'm very much aware that you jumped on my post just to have an easy win in some sort of fight and I have disappointed you by not giving in to that childish bullying. The bit about asking for proof of qualifications is a classic - I'm going to quote it next time it appears you have some sort of audience and are attempting to be taken seriously.
So it's OK for you to insult, to demand my CV and generally be utterly ridiculous, but it's not OK for people such as me to mention politics? It appear to be a definition of a thin skinned piece of shit to me.
The Japanese got it to work but they connected larger population centres than Santa Fe and Albuquerque - just as the Californians are going to do. It is a bit annoying that the last time a train did 100MpH near where I live was a century ago - on steam FFS.
It worked for the Romans and plenty since. Your local graft, corruption etc is not the norm globally and not the norm historically. I suspect if more people where you are bothered to vote there would be less opportunity for the corrupt to get elected. "jcr", do you bother to vote or are you just complaining about something you are not willing to improve with very minor effort on your part?
The days of Edison and similar tinkerers has long passed
They sort of had by then as well as illustrated by Edison's intense hate of alternating current that may as well have been voodoo to him since he had no desire to go near the maths required for an AC motor. Thus propaganda that set Tesla's personality and behaviour up as what we see as the mad scientist architype even today.
See other posts for a bit about how Bell Labs mostly existed due to tax advantages and how it is no longer what it was due to those advantages no longer being there. Industry mostly seems to fund research (as distinct from product development or tweaking old patents to keep them "fresh") when governments agree to let them do that part of their operations tax free.
Last I heard the banks were not run by labotomized lefties. I suggest you blame the correct people for the lack of funding halting construction instead of just kicking the cat.
It is not a scare though, it is a valid concern as Fukushima has really shown us that storing the spent fuel at reactor sites is a really bad idea when things go wrong.
It just confirmed what has been obvious for decades. Part of the long chain of fuckups at Fukushima was having stuff "temporarily" on-site that should have had something better than the ridiculous adhoc storage that was used implemented a couple of decades ago.
Also reprocessing is a method to avoid a shortage of fuel, it's not a waste management solution - in fact it results in an increase in low level waste. An illustration of that is that France, the only nation to do extensive reprocessing, this month shipped a few tons of radioactive waste to Australia. It is waste that is much easier to deal with and store than spent fuel rods but it still needs attention. Reprocessing is not a case of waving a magic wand and making the waste go away, it has an entirely different purpose which is very useful but not the same thing as waste management.
Considering how long it takes to get turbine rotors for coal fired units of a smaller size (~ 5 years) a lot of it was probably waiting for parts. There's a bit of a queue for rarely produced items.
The movie about Kaufman mostly boiled down to pathetic ethnic jokes done by someone (who should not be named since he was probably not responsible for such a bomb) awkwardly pretending to be him so that put me off. Was there ever anything put together with clips of Kaufman himself?
If you said "Carter worked in nuclear propulsion and he said idiotic things", I wouldn't have a problem with it because that would be factually true.
So, what does it say about you that you are unable to work that out for yourself from what I said above. Oh wait - you did work it out - yet you've complained at great length as if you have not? Think about that for five seconds and you'll see why I have a very low opinion of you and your behaviour on this thread. You've even demanded my fucking CV for fucks sake over something so incredibly trivial by using faux outrage, pretended stupidity and unrealisticly narrow personal definitions as an excuse.
The laws are obviously designed to protect entrenched interests. That's called "corruption". I wouldn't have any respect for them either.
Laws such as a 10% sales tax on all retail transactions - I suppose you could say a government getting funding from their citizens is an entrenched interest:) Other include roadworthyness, it's not just what you appear to expect of using a personal vehicle for commercial purposes since that's more of a problem for insurance companies here than the government.
Here is what I was paraphrasing you thin skinned piece of shit: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19940423&id=2-YyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=twcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4388,4763372&hl=en
So nothing ventured - therefore confirming nothing as big as your ego! Yet you now demand to check my background. If I mention the country where I am a registered professional engineer will you go all nationalistic on me? I'm pretty sure you will based on your comments to date. I have been a member of the ASTM since 1994 if you think only American things are credible. I find your tribalism of attacking because I said something that could be considered positive about a democrat utterly pathetic - the world is a big place and such pettiness marks you as a special kind of loser.
You picked a fight over nothing but some stupid political tribalism over something trivial and wish to complain that I did not roll over? Consider the complaint delivered and given the complete lack of consideration it deserves.
I questioned it. Rather than calmly looking at my objections, you lashed out immediately
Because you were doing the equivalent of calling me a liar for stating that water is wet and stupid enough to fall for some distraction to boot - so I responded as I'm sure you expected to such ridiculously insulting behaviour. Surely you've got better things to do than jump on people's posts and attempt to bully them, then whine when they show a backbone. You haven't got better things to do? How pitiful!
All this shit over a paraphrase of part of a Dave Barry "the whitehouse must have a dumb ray" column - what is your problem? It's universally accepted that somebody called an engineer that works with nuclear stuff can be summed up as a nuclear engineer (as Dave Barry did) - what is your problem here? What dog do you have in the fight to waste so much time trying to give me a hard time over it?
The bit "correcting" me about a job title you clearly do not possess was a bit of a giveaway wasn't it? If you had tried a bit harder and studied in a different country you could have been one of my students instead of being envious of a title you do not have (and shouldn't be envious of anyway - you are pathetic).
Fair enough, but it's a very different situation with taxis where I live yet Uber is attempting to muscle in despite being hit for $1.7 million in fines so far for breaking various laws. The tax evasion problem has not yet reached the court. Personally I doubt they are what I or any customer with a bad review thinks since they show so little respect for others in situations such as breaking those laws.
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Everything old is new again - we've finally ditched a whole lot of Virtual Basic shitty little applications by developers that did them and vanished, so now we need a new wave of things where bugs have to be worked around instead of fixed?
Even perfect software can become unusable due to changing circumstances around it. Unless the software is only for short term use there is a need for someone to maintain it for longer than the short term.
So, you saw me taking a annoying revisionist prick to task and decided to be an annoying prick as well?
All this shit over something incredibly trivial - and sinister shit about how you are going to check my qualifications no less because I disputed your definition of engineer that leaves those who run ships, locomotives, software and so on out in the cold! What a piece of work! So you don't believe I do what I do - how would you know? How about a clue as to what you do for a living that gives you such insight or are you ashamed of your profession?
So Reagan, Bush, Baby Bush and Thatcher were labotomized lefties?
Yes, I'm very much aware that you jumped on my post just to have an easy win in some sort of fight and I have disappointed you by not giving in to that childish bullying. The bit about asking for proof of qualifications is a classic - I'm going to quote it next time it appears you have some sort of audience and are attempting to be taken seriously.
So it's OK for you to insult, to demand my CV and generally be utterly ridiculous, but it's not OK for people such as me to mention politics? It appear to be a definition of a thin skinned piece of shit to me.
Nokia had a far better solution on the N900 - it does the OBVIOUS and asks you if you want to connect via the phone network if WiFi is not availabe.
The Japanese got it to work but they connected larger population centres than Santa Fe and Albuquerque - just as the Californians are going to do.
It is a bit annoying that the last time a train did 100MpH near where I live was a century ago - on steam FFS.
It worked for the Romans and plenty since. Your local graft, corruption etc is not the norm globally and not the norm historically. I suspect if more people where you are bothered to vote there would be less opportunity for the corrupt to get elected. "jcr", do you bother to vote or are you just complaining about something you are not willing to improve with very minor effort on your part?
They sort of had by then as well as illustrated by Edison's intense hate of alternating current that may as well have been voodoo to him since he had no desire to go near the maths required for an AC motor. Thus propaganda that set Tesla's personality and behaviour up as what we see as the mad scientist architype even today.
See other posts for a bit about how Bell Labs mostly existed due to tax advantages and how it is no longer what it was due to those advantages no longer being there. Industry mostly seems to fund research (as distinct from product development or tweaking old patents to keep them "fresh") when governments agree to let them do that part of their operations tax free.
Last I heard the banks were not run by labotomized lefties. I suggest you blame the correct people for the lack of funding halting construction instead of just kicking the cat.
It just confirmed what has been obvious for decades. Part of the long chain of fuckups at Fukushima was having stuff "temporarily" on-site that should have had something better than the ridiculous adhoc storage that was used implemented a couple of decades ago.
Also reprocessing is a method to avoid a shortage of fuel, it's not a waste management solution - in fact it results in an increase in low level waste. An illustration of that is that France, the only nation to do extensive reprocessing, this month shipped a few tons of radioactive waste to Australia. It is waste that is much easier to deal with and store than spent fuel rods but it still needs attention. Reprocessing is not a case of waving a magic wand and making the waste go away, it has an entirely different purpose which is very useful but not the same thing as waste management.
Blame the banks for not wanting to risk money on new designs. Everything else is just kicking the cat.
Considering how long it takes to get turbine rotors for coal fired units of a smaller size (~ 5 years) a lot of it was probably waiting for parts. There's a bit of a queue for rarely produced items.
The movie about Kaufman mostly boiled down to pathetic ethnic jokes done by someone (who should not be named since he was probably not responsible for such a bomb) awkwardly pretending to be him so that put me off. Was there ever anything put together with clips of Kaufman himself?
So, what does it say about you that you are unable to work that out for yourself from what I said above. Oh wait - you did work it out - yet you've complained at great length as if you have not? Think about that for five seconds and you'll see why I have a very low opinion of you and your behaviour on this thread. You've even demanded my fucking CV for fucks sake over something so incredibly trivial by using faux outrage, pretended stupidity and unrealisticly narrow personal definitions as an excuse.
Laws such as a 10% sales tax on all retail transactions - I suppose you could say a government getting funding from their citizens is an entrenched interest :)
Other include roadworthyness, it's not just what you appear to expect of using a personal vehicle for commercial purposes since that's more of a problem for insurance companies here than the government.
Here is what I was paraphrasing you thin skinned piece of shit:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19940423&id=2-YyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=twcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4388,4763372&hl=en
So nothing ventured - therefore confirming nothing as big as your ego! Yet you now demand to check my background.
If I mention the country where I am a registered professional engineer will you go all nationalistic on me? I'm pretty sure you will based on your comments to date. I have been a member of the ASTM since 1994 if you think only American things are credible.
I find your tribalism of attacking because I said something that could be considered positive about a democrat utterly pathetic - the world is a big place and such pettiness marks you as a special kind of loser.
You picked a fight over nothing but some stupid political tribalism over something trivial and wish to complain that I did not roll over?
Consider the complaint delivered and given the complete lack of consideration it deserves.
Because you were doing the equivalent of calling me a liar for stating that water is wet and stupid enough to fall for some distraction to boot - so I responded as I'm sure you expected to such ridiculously insulting behaviour.
Surely you've got better things to do than jump on people's posts and attempt to bully them, then whine when they show a backbone. You haven't got better things to do? How pitiful!
All this shit over a paraphrase of part of a Dave Barry "the whitehouse must have a dumb ray" column - what is your problem? It's universally accepted that somebody called an engineer that works with nuclear stuff can be summed up as a nuclear engineer (as Dave Barry did) - what is your problem here? What dog do you have in the fight to waste so much time trying to give me a hard time over it?
The bit "correcting" me about a job title you clearly do not possess was a bit of a giveaway wasn't it?
If you had tried a bit harder and studied in a different country you could have been one of my students instead of being envious of a title you do not have (and shouldn't be envious of anyway - you are pathetic).
That from the immature fool that jumped on my post in an attempt to bully me?
Fair enough, but it's a very different situation with taxis where I live yet Uber is attempting to muscle in despite being hit for $1.7 million in fines so far for breaking various laws. The tax evasion problem has not yet reached the court. Personally I doubt they are what I or any customer with a bad review thinks since they show so little respect for others in situations such as breaking those laws.