And arguably, nuclear could be cheapened a bit if the greenies dropped their unnecessary opposition and NIMBYs were ignored.
China don't just ignore them, they threaten to lock them up, yet nuclear isn't as dirt cheap as you pretend even there. Maybe a bit more R&D could deliver your dream but things like the AP1000 are the best available now and compare poorly with other forms of electricity generation.
While I agree with a stop to build new ones, it's insane to turn off the ones that are still running reliably
Indeed, which is why it isn't happening anywhere. As reactors hit an age when they need seriously expensive work to continue operating they are being shut down. We haven't seen any relatively new reactors shut down since 1979 when TMI scared everyone enough to shut down the obvious 1960s deathtraps and upgrade everything else.
France which relies on nuclear power for nearly all of its electricity generation
So Cordemais with 2.6GW of coal fired base load doesn't exist? Grand'Maison Dam with 1.8GW of hydro neither? It's counterproductive to use bullshit to push an agenda when reality is impressive enough to do it on it's own.
In the UK there was a deliberate move from a manufacturing economy to a financial services economy, and it was funded by the windfall from North Sea oil sales. You don't need much coal when you are not making much. The UK, especially Scotland and Wales, hasn't recovered. It wasn't "hard economics", it was "hard politics" of the fuck you if you are not in banking or real estate variety.
Yes, but it's not really full mastery being discussed is it? My first exposure to python for example was to fix some errors in somebody else's code due to them not having enough background in mathematics to solve a problem. The simple stuff is possible just being able to look up the syntax and having done some work in vaguely similar languages earlier. I'm definitely not special, it's a skill every programmer gets at some point IMHO - even starting off on FORTRAN and LISP like I did.
Knowledge segmentation is standard spook tradecraft. How could they possibly screw up something so simple so badly?
They kind of fucked that up on day one. They learned the nasty lesson from UK spooks of using criminals to do various work, but they didn't learn to keep them at arms length and in the dark (good segmentation) but invited them into the fold to become full members of the org. The Church Commission stuff and many other things go on about such fuckups at a fundamental level and it's very likely to be just as fucked up now a few decades later.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect Hence using an electrochemical effect like a battery instead. Why not since it's to power devices that are already invasive?
Very bad analogy. A lot of programming languages are very similar to each other. It's not going to take a couple of years for a Java programmer to pick up C#. Even things like Lisp don't take a long time to get your head around even when you are only used to languages based on different concepts.
This is a popular conceit, but it's still a conceit. The skills and concepts and idioms you need to work with dynamically typed "scripty" languages to write a web app
So? Aren't you supposed to learn both as you are initially getting you feet wet in learning how to be a programmer?
Interpreted languages are fine so long as there isn't a lot of code sticking together the stuff in those libraries that are nicely compiled for you. If there is a lot of code to interpret they suck just as much as they always have - hence some really sloooooow stuff out there. There's some appallingly slow stuff running on fast hardware - things like GUIs that take a couple of seconds to respond to a mouse click and bring down a menu despite being on a 4GHz machine that's not doing a lot other than waiting for input. That's the sort of thing that shows off a failure of lazy programming and using the wrong tool for the job (eg. a massive lump of custom java instead of handing over to a library).
Try again and see what you missed last time. Clue - it's a three letter word that suggest magnitude instead of whether something happens at all or not at all. Maybe consider how deep this vault is and how much permafrost a fox or whatever would have to dig through. There's a bit of a difference between digging one metre through frozen soil and ten.
Goalpost shift - and what's so strange about the USA coming up frequently on an English language site anyway? Also something like Wikileaks only really has an impact in places with a democracy. A massive scandal in Russia, Iran or China isn't going to result in a government being in danger of getting voted out is it? So stuff from those places isn't going to be common or maybe even coming in at all.
Also think about what is IS and what it PUBLISHES. If a lot of their readers are in the USA isn't it very likely that most of the submissions would come from the USA?
It appears very much that you (and others) are basing your opinion on only two items - the Manning leak and the Democratic Party emails. Perhaps you should consider that and consider revising what could be seen as paranoia. I cannot see you they are out to get you or your country - just corrupt pieces of shit that happen to be there and others like that in some other places.
Indeed - you don't just blindly patch everything and be assumed incompetent if you don't blindly patch everything like the insulting AC above suggested.
You were doing so well at pointing the finger until point three.
The ground floor is permafrost - not actual concrete or any sort of reinforced material, so any lifeform that is capable of digging can penetrate this 'vault'
Any "life-form" that decides it wants to dig through a lot of ice. Before pointing at incompetence it may have been a good idea to consider what the word permafrost means and to lay off on the science fiction. Sure, it happens a lot in movies and novels that some alien thing tunnels through a lot of ice, but outside fiction nothing is munching on frozen mammoths or anything else in the permafrost because it's too damned difficult to get to the things.
He is beyond the reach of the courts so your long winded text about irrelevant legal issues does not apply. Legal issues sadly do not apply - just the advice of Congress and the will of the Senate.
What you're talking about is a pragmatic problem, not a legal problem
Exactly. He is beyond the reach of the courts so your long winded text about irrelevancies does not apply. I agree about how it SHOULD be, but it isn't like that. I wish you were correct instead of naive.
King George had complete and total immunity
WTF? OK - there's a bit more than just being naive at work here. Are you trolling me?
Bullshit. I have some fairly important software on a previous version because very major features are broken by a new patch. Test then deploy, not just deploy like a trained monkey.
I had a few where they would not update until I disabled all updates, rebooted, enabled updates and rebooted again. The update software ended up being seriously broken at some point.
I still laugh every time someone calls Microsoft's gaming OS gone wrong "enterprise". Still you have good points, but it has to be handled so carefully because it's a fragile piece of shit used in "enterprise" situations.
Windows 7 has more support for legacy applications
Because like everything else the backwards compatibility is fucked in MS Win10.
Assange now is because he blatantly targets the US and only very rarely targets foreign entities. Disagree?
Wikileaks won an award for some stuff about Kenya not long before the Manning leak. You only think Wikileaks is US-centric because your local media is (understandably) US-centric.
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China don't just ignore them, they threaten to lock them up, yet nuclear isn't as dirt cheap as you pretend even there.
Maybe a bit more R&D could deliver your dream but things like the AP1000 are the best available now and compare poorly with other forms of electricity generation.
Indeed, which is why it isn't happening anywhere. As reactors hit an age when they need seriously expensive work to continue operating they are being shut down. We haven't seen any relatively new reactors shut down since 1979 when TMI scared everyone enough to shut down the obvious 1960s deathtraps and upgrade everything else.
So Cordemais with 2.6GW of coal fired base load doesn't exist? Grand'Maison Dam with 1.8GW of hydro neither?
It's counterproductive to use bullshit to push an agenda when reality is impressive enough to do it on it's own.
In the UK there was a deliberate move from a manufacturing economy to a financial services economy, and it was funded by the windfall from North Sea oil sales. You don't need much coal when you are not making much.
The UK, especially Scotland and Wales, hasn't recovered.
It wasn't "hard economics", it was "hard politics" of the fuck you if you are not in banking or real estate variety.
Yes, but it's not really full mastery being discussed is it?
My first exposure to python for example was to fix some errors in somebody else's code due to them not having enough background in mathematics to solve a problem. The simple stuff is possible just being able to look up the syntax and having done some work in vaguely similar languages earlier. I'm definitely not special, it's a skill every programmer gets at some point IMHO - even starting off on FORTRAN and LISP like I did.
Maybe, but I think NASA's portable batch system (PBS/Torque) was released to the public before most Slashdotters were born yet it's still in use.
They kind of fucked that up on day one. They learned the nasty lesson from UK spooks of using criminals to do various work, but they didn't learn to keep them at arms length and in the dark (good segmentation) but invited them into the fold to become full members of the org. The Church Commission stuff and many other things go on about such fuckups at a fundamental level and it's very likely to be just as fucked up now a few decades later.
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
Hence using an electrochemical effect like a battery instead. Why not since it's to power devices that are already invasive?
Very bad analogy.
A lot of programming languages are very similar to each other. It's not going to take a couple of years for a Java programmer to pick up C#. Even things like Lisp don't take a long time to get your head around even when you are only used to languages based on different concepts.
So?
Aren't you supposed to learn both as you are initially getting you feet wet in learning how to be a programmer?
Interpreted languages are fine so long as there isn't a lot of code sticking together the stuff in those libraries that are nicely compiled for you.
If there is a lot of code to interpret they suck just as much as they always have - hence some really sloooooow stuff out there.
There's some appallingly slow stuff running on fast hardware - things like GUIs that take a couple of seconds to respond to a mouse click and bring down a menu despite being on a 4GHz machine that's not doing a lot other than waiting for input. That's the sort of thing that shows off a failure of lazy programming and using the wrong tool for the job (eg. a massive lump of custom java instead of handing over to a library).
Try again and see what you missed last time. Clue - it's a three letter word that suggest magnitude instead of whether something happens at all or not at all. Maybe consider how deep this vault is and how much permafrost a fox or whatever would have to dig through.
There's a bit of a difference between digging one metre through frozen soil and ten.
Goalpost shift - and what's so strange about the USA coming up frequently on an English language site anyway?
Also something like Wikileaks only really has an impact in places with a democracy. A massive scandal in Russia, Iran or China isn't going to result in a government being in danger of getting voted out is it? So stuff from those places isn't going to be common or maybe even coming in at all.
Also think about what is IS and what it PUBLISHES. If a lot of their readers are in the USA isn't it very likely that most of the submissions would come from the USA?
It appears very much that you (and others) are basing your opinion on only two items - the Manning leak and the Democratic Party emails. Perhaps you should consider that and consider revising what could be seen as paranoia. I cannot see you they are out to get you or your country - just corrupt pieces of shit that happen to be there and others like that in some other places.
Indeed - you don't just blindly patch everything and be assumed incompetent if you don't blindly patch everything like the insulting AC above suggested.
Calling ME patronising? Remember I'm not the one calling people incompetent here.
Any "life-form" that decides it wants to dig through a lot of ice.
Before pointing at incompetence it may have been a good idea to consider what the word permafrost means and to lay off on the science fiction. Sure, it happens a lot in movies and novels that some alien thing tunnels through a lot of ice, but outside fiction nothing is munching on frozen mammoths or anything else in the permafrost because it's too damned difficult to get to the things.
He is beyond the reach of the courts so your long winded text about irrelevant legal issues does not apply. Legal issues sadly do not apply - just the advice of Congress and the will of the Senate.
Exactly.
He is beyond the reach of the courts so your long winded text about irrelevancies does not apply.
I agree about how it SHOULD be, but it isn't like that. I wish you were correct instead of naive.
WTF? OK - there's a bit more than just being naive at work here. Are you trolling me?
No.
WTF is it with people giving lectures to "correct" an opinion when they are basing it on nothing but gut feeling?
Bullshit.
I have some fairly important software on a previous version because very major features are broken by a new patch.
Test then deploy, not just deploy like a trained monkey.
I had a few where they would not update until I disabled all updates, rebooted, enabled updates and rebooted again.
The update software ended up being seriously broken at some point.
I still laugh every time someone calls Microsoft's gaming OS gone wrong "enterprise". Still you have good points, but it has to be handled so carefully because it's a fragile piece of shit used in "enterprise" situations.
Because like everything else the backwards compatibility is fucked in MS Win10.
Wikileaks won an award for some stuff about Kenya not long before the Manning leak.
You only think Wikileaks is US-centric because your local media is (understandably) US-centric.
You have a fucking King in all but name who is above the law in every way so long as half the Senate like him.