A bit of a difference is the IT guy is the dog that ate the homework of the guy that wants to move the blame.
The job of an IT guy in a messed up situation is to have the spare resources to deal with somebody else's fuckup so that you can pull their balls out of the fire before they push your face into the fire. So it's not just about doing your job right, and it's not just about having the logs to show that you are doing your job right, it's also about second guessing other people's fuckups so they don't cause you to lose your job to save theirs. So it's not the developer of the insecure piece of shit rushed into production that loses their job, it's the admin that didn't build a supporting exoskeleton to prop up the piece of shit that gets shown the door, especially if they are on record complaining about the fault that causes the problem. To some people "I told you so" means it must be sabotage, I lost a good staff member that way because the incompetent developer was better at playing office politics than software development.
You missed the gangster angle and the strong entanglement between organized crime (eg. "Lucky" Luciano") plus a few legitimate US businesses in Cuba with US politics of the time. Some big political donors suffered when Castro took over and that meant a grudge that lasted far longer than the cold war. Say what you like about Castro, it's probably all true, but before his takeover Cuba was a corrupt cesspool that was making a lot of money for US organized crime, and that money was buying a lot of influence. Mother Teresa could have taken over the place and they'd still be a long grudge.
Bring back the ponies - all the other Slashdot April 1 things have just been lame and remind me why I avoided this site for a couple of days last year.
Wow - some of those U-238 numbers are two orders of magnitude higher than I've ever seen. Still, it's a bottom ash situation because it's going to be heavy and not going to be reduced in the boiler. As others pointed out that ash still has to go somewhere even if it's not actually going up the stack, so it's not something that can be ignored.
Yes but I've had several long discussions here where fanboys insisted that word meant that anything less than supersonic is not a "real" explosion so bits of Fukushima and Chenobyl did not explode - just an example of one of the tricks used to attempt to fool the gullible.
When burnt, between 1% and 10% of the ash escapes the scrubbers
Citation required. Other bits may be fair enough, if incredibly unlikely, I'll check later (since you haven't linked you table2, I'll assume by mistake not misdirection, I'll have to do a bit of digging won't I to find your source info?), but you've got a key assumption that completely ignores how devices designed to remove gas (their entire purpose is to remove NOx and SOx) deal with solid material. That very unlikely number you've found may be true for the material in the bottom ash or even in the ash dam, but it's a very wild claim that it's coming out the stack. We've had the technology to detect heavy metals in the flue gas for a century+ (spectroscopy) but nobody has seen any yet.
So mentioning any problem in something is a sign of being "against" it? Thanks for the example of a clueless rabid fanboy instead of an informed advocate.
There's been a lot in the media, books, all kinds of things. You know what really happened so please stop pretending that it wasn't a textbook "might makes right" situation where a loyal party member was pardoned out of being caught breaking the law for very petty reasons.
It has to be a joke because obviously even when government gets down to the level of minor warlords they can still grant boons. So please explain the joke because I'm missing it.
No, retard, the statistics cited include the known and forecast problems from fukushima.
Since the figures quoted are normally ones that have been out for a while (and there's nothing wrong with that) they don't include Fukushima - and a citation is definitely needed with your forecast claim with more recent things because there doesn't seem to be anything around that matches what you describe. Did you make it up or can you point to something real?
What sort of echo chamber does this woman live in to think she's got a good record as a manager to run on?
The Enron book "The Smartest Guys in the Room" has got some good examples of people that far out of touch with reality and some broad hints as to how they ended up that way. Goldman Sachs was another very weird 1300s Venetian Merchant Prince sort of environment that was probably even more fucked up. IMHO she's thinking she was born to rule and everything else is just a detail or someone trying to get in the way of her destiny.
Ah yes, another career politician who plays the "not a politician" card. Well if he hasn't been working as one for all this time kick the lazy leech out.
The bridge closing guy is still in the race? They really must be short on contenders since he's got the stink of a scandal to overcome before he can convince anyone that he's be a viable President.
Those empty buildings HP are a selling point to a certain ideology. A wrecking ball is the ideal for those "small government" folks who want a government too small to be able to catch those buying off government granted boons with bribes.
It's just like how their safety figures don't include the mines, processing or power station accidents that are not related to radiation exposure. They have to play stupid political games because only governments will put up the money to build the things.
I suggest you look at the Harford web site to learn about turning waste back into fuel to get a bit more of an understanding of the situation. Steel pipes that have been exposed to enough neutrons to become radioactive themselves are not something you want near people for example - by volume the vast majority of nuclear waste is not fuel rods. Oversimplifying the situation into "it can all be used as fuel" is counterproductive if you want to see any of it used as fuel.
I mean burning it and letting spread across the land is just fine. How about the coal ask ponds
You've already answered that the ash is not spread around the land with the mention of those ash ponds (dams really, since they are not small).
Alex Gabbard's stupid "but coal ash is nuclear waste too so why restrict nuclear waste" propaganda is still doing damage to minds. I suggest finding the numbers for the most radioactive coal on the planet and calculating how many hundreds of thousands of tons you need of it to get a banana dose to correct the mental damage. Coal use has a lot of problems, many of which kill people, so I suggest focusing on what is real instead of failed 1970s nuclear propaganda from a guy mostly known by his NASCAR books.
The clueless nuke fanboys (as distinct from those that know their topic) like to pretend that was not an explosion but "deflagration" instead, so the events at Fukushima are not considered relevant to them in a discussion of nuclear energy safety. So yes, they like to pretend that nuclear plants don't "blow up" and that the steam explosion that scattered stuff at Chenobyl and the explosion at Fukushima didn't really happen but were just fires or something. So there's no point discussing these things with such folk that are divorced from reality.
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A bit of a difference is the IT guy is the dog that ate the homework of the guy that wants to move the blame.
The job of an IT guy in a messed up situation is to have the spare resources to deal with somebody else's fuckup so that you can pull their balls out of the fire before they push your face into the fire. So it's not just about doing your job right, and it's not just about having the logs to show that you are doing your job right, it's also about second guessing other people's fuckups so they don't cause you to lose your job to save theirs.
So it's not the developer of the insecure piece of shit rushed into production that loses their job, it's the admin that didn't build a supporting exoskeleton to prop up the piece of shit that gets shown the door, especially if they are on record complaining about the fault that causes the problem. To some people "I told you so" means it must be sabotage, I lost a good staff member that way because the incompetent developer was better at playing office politics than software development.
This isn't really news when you are reaching for the sky instead of just filling in a hole in the road.
You missed the gangster angle and the strong entanglement between organized crime (eg. "Lucky" Luciano") plus a few legitimate US businesses in Cuba with US politics of the time. Some big political donors suffered when Castro took over and that meant a grudge that lasted far longer than the cold war.
Say what you like about Castro, it's probably all true, but before his takeover Cuba was a corrupt cesspool that was making a lot of money for US organized crime, and that money was buying a lot of influence. Mother Teresa could have taken over the place and they'd still be a long grudge.
Bring back the ponies - all the other Slashdot April 1 things have just been lame and remind me why I avoided this site for a couple of days last year.
Wow - some of those U-238 numbers are two orders of magnitude higher than I've ever seen.
Still, it's a bottom ash situation because it's going to be heavy and not going to be reduced in the boiler. As others pointed out that ash still has to go somewhere even if it's not actually going up the stack, so it's not something that can be ignored.
Thanks.
Yes but I've had several long discussions here where fanboys insisted that word meant that anything less than supersonic is not a "real" explosion so bits of Fukushima and Chenobyl did not explode - just an example of one of the tricks used to attempt to fool the gullible.
Citation required.
Other bits may be fair enough, if incredibly unlikely, I'll check later (since you haven't linked you table2, I'll assume by mistake not misdirection, I'll have to do a bit of digging won't I to find your source info?), but you've got a key assumption that completely ignores how devices designed to remove gas (their entire purpose is to remove NOx and SOx) deal with solid material.
That very unlikely number you've found may be true for the material in the bottom ash or even in the ash dam, but it's a very wild claim that it's coming out the stack.
We've had the technology to detect heavy metals in the flue gas for a century+ (spectroscopy) but nobody has seen any yet.
My side? Do you mean the side that believes in the rule of law because I've certainly never voted for the Democratic Party of the United States.
Come off it. Your bullshit is ridiculous and you know it. Here's what really happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
So mentioning any problem in something is a sign of being "against" it?
Thanks for the example of a clueless rabid fanboy instead of an informed advocate.
There's been a lot in the media, books, all kinds of things. You know what really happened so please stop pretending that it wasn't a textbook "might makes right" situation where a loyal party member was pardoned out of being caught breaking the law for very petty reasons.
It has to be a joke because obviously even when government gets down to the level of minor warlords they can still grant boons. So please explain the joke because I'm missing it.
Since the figures quoted are normally ones that have been out for a while (and there's nothing wrong with that) they don't include Fukushima - and a citation is definitely needed with your forecast claim with more recent things because there doesn't seem to be anything around that matches what you describe.
Did you make it up or can you point to something real?
The Enron book "The Smartest Guys in the Room" has got some good examples of people that far out of touch with reality and some broad hints as to how they ended up that way.
Goldman Sachs was another very weird 1300s Venetian Merchant Prince sort of environment that was probably even more fucked up.
IMHO she's thinking she was born to rule and everything else is just a detail or someone trying to get in the way of her destiny.
That's part of the problem right there. There should never be enough VPs that you can't put them in a small room.
Ah yes, another career politician who plays the "not a politician" card. Well if he hasn't been working as one for all this time kick the lazy leech out.
The bridge closing guy is still in the race? They really must be short on contenders since he's got the stink of a scandal to overcome before he can convince anyone that he's be a viable President.
Those empty buildings HP are a selling point to a certain ideology. A wrecking ball is the ideal for those "small government" folks who want a government too small to be able to catch those buying off government granted boons with bribes.
You mean just like in the early days of the USA when anyone who moved in could vote? Can't have that!
It's just like how their safety figures don't include the mines, processing or power station accidents that are not related to radiation exposure.
They have to play stupid political games because only governments will put up the money to build the things.
I suggest you look at the Harford web site to learn about turning waste back into fuel to get a bit more of an understanding of the situation. Steel pipes that have been exposed to enough neutrons to become radioactive themselves are not something you want near people for example - by volume the vast majority of nuclear waste is not fuel rods.
Oversimplifying the situation into "it can all be used as fuel" is counterproductive if you want to see any of it used as fuel.
You've already answered that the ash is not spread around the land with the mention of those ash ponds (dams really, since they are not small).
Alex Gabbard's stupid "but coal ash is nuclear waste too so why restrict nuclear waste" propaganda is still doing damage to minds. I suggest finding the numbers for the most radioactive coal on the planet and calculating how many hundreds of thousands of tons you need of it to get a banana dose to correct the mental damage.
Coal use has a lot of problems, many of which kill people, so I suggest focusing on what is real instead of failed 1970s nuclear propaganda from a guy mostly known by his NASCAR books.
The clueless nuke fanboys (as distinct from those that know their topic) like to pretend that was not an explosion but "deflagration" instead, so the events at Fukushima are not considered relevant to them in a discussion of nuclear energy safety.
So yes, they like to pretend that nuclear plants don't "blow up" and that the steam explosion that scattered stuff at Chenobyl and the explosion at Fukushima didn't really happen but were just fires or something.
So there's no point discussing these things with such folk that are divorced from reality.
What's with the spin? It wasn't like that at all.