The released radioactivity from a coal plant is up to 100 times that of a nuclear power plant
Divide by zero error. Pick any number up to infinity because a perfectly designed nuclear plant is going to be letting out zero on paper. Real plants are a different story with their contents ending up somewhere eventually, hopefully with the waste well managed. Unless there is an actual plant name on such claims it's best to assume that it's the imaginary perfect one instead of a real one that had spills into the Irish Sea, Pacific or wherever.
Note the conclusion of that link that is supposed to prove me "wrong":
Radioactive elements in coal and fly ash should not be sources of alarm
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html Background radiation exists, so neither you, your lunch or fly ash is non-radioactive in large enough sample sizes and small enough intensities. However calling this, or a banana grove, or a statue of Lincoln, radioactive waste when it's less so than the contents of a typical childrens sandpit is very misleading.
Read the comments on the record low from S.A. to see what people with a clue corrected it with. They reprinted shit from an Oak Ridge newsletter written by a middle manager who has published a lot of fiction and NASCAR stuff but no scientific papers. For extra laughs track down the online copy of that newsletter and make sure you read as far as the "OMG terrorists!" bit.
Where the fuck did this weird "SJW" insult come from? Was it from some cocaine ravaged former DJ on Fox or did you catch it from a different vector, "reality" TV or something? Googling hasn't helped much, it just makes it look all the more stupid. I've stopped watching TV for a few years and now so sometimes I don't have a fucking clue about what you kids are on about and why you want to look so stupid.
That IS their job. How well they do it really depends on where you are. If you are in a democracy you can get off your arse and vote for someone that wants ideal first world police instead of heading for the dregs of the third world. You are probably one of those that actually does that but there seem to be a lot of people that complain without bothering to get off their arses and perform the easiest duty of citizenship.
There's no way it can be compared to perfect on paper designs because the earlier stuff was also perfect on paper before reality got in the way. A lot of the domain knowledge in fabrication has gone so it's likely that the next generation of reactors is going to have far more problems than the previous, not less. Nuclear needs a continued committed effort to be viable - to use a software analogy the Win2k and XP people had left the building when it was time to do Vista. The US nuclear lobby gave up on doing anything new years ago (as seen with their brutal opposition to the Clinton era thorium project that drove some to the best out of the nuclear industry), the Germans stopped building long ago which made their plant retirement announcements "cheap" green politics (since the plants were due be retired from age soon anyway), the French were spooked by superpheonix and are not keen to get out of the 1970s. So that leaves Russia, India and maybe China as the only places that are going to build anything modern and keep on building on experience. Those new plants WILL have problems, but that's what pilot plants are for. You don't get better than that 1% (or far better) without being able to learn from those mistakes and we can't learn from mistakes that nobody can remember.
This again? The fly ash is the light stuff so not much room for heavy metals there. Nobody has EVER found that radioactive fly ash despite looking since the 1970s.
Don't take my word for it. Use your brain. Think of what coal is made of. Fossil vegetable matter with less than 10% sand mixed in, and what do you personally know about beach sand? Is it mostly iron? Is it mostly lead? Is it mostly gold? Is it mostly silica with the heavy stuff not carrying far? How about the radioactive carbon? Is there anything left after a few million years? It all adds up to fly ash being less radioactive than your lunch. The whole stupid thing is due to manipulative prick of a middle manager at Oak Ridge starting a scare campaign in the 1970s including such gems as terrorists getting material from ash heaps to build nuclear bombs. Are the Iranians stupid to have spent so long on reprocessing Uranium instead of just using ash or is the entire pile of crap utter bullshit? Use your brain and you'll work it out.
That's not to say that coal doesn't kill people in a lot of real ways - just that the "coal is radioactive too so why do we need such tight nuclear waste restrictions" propaganda from the 1970s is utter bullshit that we should not be swallowing. There's plenty of real problems with NOx and SOx emissions causing lung problems without imagining something that isn't there. There are plenty of direct mining deaths without making up bullshit.
We keep on making the mistake of thinking it's about guns and thinking that a reasoned discussion is going to happen. They have them as a symbol - a combined flag and penis substitute instead of the useful tool that gun owners in other places see them as. The mere situation where they vehemently insist that sporting clubs are a "well organized militia" shows how far it has diverged from anything resembling reality. They want the reward of military grade hardware without the responsibility of being in the military. All glory, no guts. I'm amazed that they don't get called out as cowards more often. So to me it looks like a statement of someone who wants all the entitlements of being a citizen while shirking the responsibility. They like to call up the ghost of George Washington but I doubt he'd think they are worth spitting on.
There is absolutely no practical reason that anyone in the NYPD needs an armoured vehicle with a machine gun turret.
The South African Police had those a while back - consider what they thought of the people they were deploying them against and you've got some idea of what the people running the NYPD think of New Yorkers. Note I wrote "the people running" - so Horse Judges with well connected friends instead of something resembling professional law enforcement.
It's always been full screen for me and pissed people off. I'll have to look at it again and see if I can get it running that way. Of course that still doesn't help with the stuff that still needs 16bit (AutoCAD), but I can see a use with a whole lot of label printing abandonware etc.
or perhaps the secrecy of such observation allowed the US hawks to spin and get the level of overkill the US eventually achieved
So yes, that's one accurate example. I didn't put a Kennedy's name on it so that I could delay the descent into cheerleading for one team or the other or a backlash for daring to say something bad about their "Saint". Some people will not allow a bad word to be said about Saint Kennedy or Saint Reagan, so I find in this place it's better to write about the actions instead of what team they played for or if they are one of those two mythical figures that can do no wrong. That's especially after a tedious thread spanning weeks with an idiot that insisted the the Cuban missile crisis was a spectacular victory for the USA and having to give up the missiles in Turkey and Italy was "belly button lint". I'd dared to question his Saint.
Yet it didn't seem to fool the Brits at all, or the Americans in the military, or even the general public who were laughing at the "send the missile trucks around the block so it looks like more of them" tactics. They were no so "very, very good" at hiding large amounts of infrastructure as you seem to imagine. Also it's counterintuitive - if they were so good at hiding things then how can someone see so many extra things than actually existed? It's a moot point since the entire missile gap platform sprang directly from political rhetoric without reference to reality. Disclosure of previously secret intelligence information has shown that reliable information was available and known to be reliable. The missile gap was pure propaganda and the military knew it.
Consider the above posters posting record. I think in his view both transgressed against their leaders so seen as equivalent - King before Country. So with that viewpoint Benedict Arnold is the patriot and Washington the traitor. Funny how someone can grow up like that in the USA isn't it, but there you go, it takes all kinds.
Only a public lack due to secrecy. US intelligence was actually run with some competence in the 1950s before the plum posts were used as rewards for cronies.
Sadly there's still a pile of stuff that won't run on Win7 or later, while the newest MS Office runs on XP, so more reasons against than for in some cases. Also for some odd reason many users seem to hate mucking about with a VM - their nice seamless desktop paradigm gets broken by it or something, so some refuse to use it if there is an alternative. I've had to run an old version of AutoCAD (with the old interface the user likes) on WINE on a linux box and export it via X to the users Win7 box to make them happy - icon launch or nothing for that person and forget about a VM. The user already had X for some scientific software so it was doable.
If there was a way to launch the MS Windows application from an icon without presenting the user with an extra desktop that would make a difference. Trivial in X circa 1990 or later but for all the bleatings about revisions to remote desktop I just cannot see a way to get a remote or VM app exported from an MS system to act like a local application.
Despite the first Delta IV Heavy launch failure the DoD still chanced it
Looks like space has become a commodity in the eyes of some people. I suggest you take a look at the history of spaceflight to get some understanding of why you don't give up entirely at the first glitch. Giving up too early results in a lack of progress. Also are you sure SpaceX needs a perfect flight every time to stay in the game?
or perhaps the secrecy of such observation allowed the US hawks to spin
See the "missile gap" for the most ridiculous amount of "spin". Whoever did not take the lie as real was seen as being too soft, and there was no venue for the truth even if someone in intelligence had done a Snowden.
Here's a spot down the road from me on Jan 22nd during the highest tide of the year: http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/newstead-and-albion-streets-flooded-during-king-tide/story-fni9r0hy-1227193417069 Add a few inches on top of that plus a storm surge and things are getting really ugly.
Give it up, he's been posting similar things since Win98SE was the "gold standard". You'll just get an empty content free evasion decorated with occasional bits and pieces of fluff he's heard of second hand over the last decade and a half.
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Divide by zero error.
Pick any number up to infinity because a perfectly designed nuclear plant is going to be letting out zero on paper. Real plants are a different story with their contents ending up somewhere eventually, hopefully with the waste well managed. Unless there is an actual plant name on such claims it's best to assume that it's the imaginary perfect one instead of a real one that had spills into the Irish Sea, Pacific or wherever.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
Background radiation exists, so neither you, your lunch or fly ash is non-radioactive in large enough sample sizes and small enough intensities. However calling this, or a banana grove, or a statue of Lincoln, radioactive waste when it's less so than the contents of a typical childrens sandpit is very misleading.
Read the comments on the record low from S.A. to see what people with a clue corrected it with.
They reprinted shit from an Oak Ridge newsletter written by a middle manager who has published a lot of fiction and NASCAR stuff but no scientific papers. For extra laughs track down the online copy of that newsletter and make sure you read as far as the "OMG terrorists!" bit.
Where the fuck did this weird "SJW" insult come from? Was it from some cocaine ravaged former DJ on Fox or did you catch it from a different vector, "reality" TV or something? Googling hasn't helped much, it just makes it look all the more stupid.
I've stopped watching TV for a few years and now so sometimes I don't have a fucking clue about what you kids are on about and why you want to look so stupid.
That IS their job. How well they do it really depends on where you are. If you are in a democracy you can get off your arse and vote for someone that wants ideal first world police instead of heading for the dregs of the third world. You are probably one of those that actually does that but there seem to be a lot of people that complain without bothering to get off their arses and perform the easiest duty of citizenship.
There's no way it can be compared to perfect on paper designs because the earlier stuff was also perfect on paper before reality got in the way. A lot of the domain knowledge in fabrication has gone so it's likely that the next generation of reactors is going to have far more problems than the previous, not less. Nuclear needs a continued committed effort to be viable - to use a software analogy the Win2k and XP people had left the building when it was time to do Vista.
The US nuclear lobby gave up on doing anything new years ago (as seen with their brutal opposition to the Clinton era thorium project that drove some to the best out of the nuclear industry), the Germans stopped building long ago which made their plant retirement announcements "cheap" green politics (since the plants were due be retired from age soon anyway), the French were spooked by superpheonix and are not keen to get out of the 1970s. So that leaves Russia, India and maybe China as the only places that are going to build anything modern and keep on building on experience.
Those new plants WILL have problems, but that's what pilot plants are for. You don't get better than that 1% (or far better) without being able to learn from those mistakes and we can't learn from mistakes that nobody can remember.
Tell me how Donald Trump (for example) behaves when an underling questions him and then get back to me about how "cultural" this is.
This again? The fly ash is the light stuff so not much room for heavy metals there. Nobody has EVER found that radioactive fly ash despite looking since the 1970s.
Don't take my word for it. Use your brain. Think of what coal is made of. Fossil vegetable matter with less than 10% sand mixed in, and what do you personally know about beach sand? Is it mostly iron? Is it mostly lead? Is it mostly gold? Is it mostly silica with the heavy stuff not carrying far? How about the radioactive carbon? Is there anything left after a few million years? It all adds up to fly ash being less radioactive than your lunch. The whole stupid thing is due to manipulative prick of a middle manager at Oak Ridge starting a scare campaign in the 1970s including such gems as terrorists getting material from ash heaps to build nuclear bombs. Are the Iranians stupid to have spent so long on reprocessing Uranium instead of just using ash or is the entire pile of crap utter bullshit? Use your brain and you'll work it out.
That's not to say that coal doesn't kill people in a lot of real ways - just that the "coal is radioactive too so why do we need such tight nuclear waste restrictions" propaganda from the 1970s is utter bullshit that we should not be swallowing. There's plenty of real problems with NOx and SOx emissions causing lung problems without imagining something that isn't there. There are plenty of direct mining deaths without making up bullshit.
Help out with grading student programming projects and you'll see that anything can be a write-only language.
We keep on making the mistake of thinking it's about guns and thinking that a reasoned discussion is going to happen. They have them as a symbol - a combined flag and penis substitute instead of the useful tool that gun owners in other places see them as. The mere situation where they vehemently insist that sporting clubs are a "well organized militia" shows how far it has diverged from anything resembling reality.
They want the reward of military grade hardware without the responsibility of being in the military. All glory, no guts. I'm amazed that they don't get called out as cowards more often. So to me it looks like a statement of someone who wants all the entitlements of being a citizen while shirking the responsibility. They like to call up the ghost of George Washington but I doubt he'd think they are worth spitting on.
The South African Police had those a while back - consider what they thought of the people they were deploying them against and you've got some idea of what the people running the NYPD think of New Yorkers.
Note I wrote "the people running" - so Horse Judges with well connected friends instead of something resembling professional law enforcement.
It's always been full screen for me and pissed people off. I'll have to look at it again and see if I can get it running that way. Of course that still doesn't help with the stuff that still needs 16bit (AutoCAD), but I can see a use with a whole lot of label printing abandonware etc.
So yes, that's one accurate example. I didn't put a Kennedy's name on it so that I could delay the descent into cheerleading for one team or the other or a backlash for daring to say something bad about their "Saint".
Some people will not allow a bad word to be said about Saint Kennedy or Saint Reagan, so I find in this place it's better to write about the actions instead of what team they played for or if they are one of those two mythical figures that can do no wrong. That's especially after a tedious thread spanning weeks with an idiot that insisted the the Cuban missile crisis was a spectacular victory for the USA and having to give up the missiles in Turkey and Italy was "belly button lint". I'd dared to question his Saint.
Yet it didn't seem to fool the Brits at all, or the Americans in the military, or even the general public who were laughing at the "send the missile trucks around the block so it looks like more of them" tactics. They were no so "very, very good" at hiding large amounts of infrastructure as you seem to imagine. Also it's counterintuitive - if they were so good at hiding things then how can someone see so many extra things than actually existed? It's a moot point since the entire missile gap platform sprang directly from political rhetoric without reference to reality.
Disclosure of previously secret intelligence information has shown that reliable information was available and known to be reliable. The missile gap was pure propaganda and the military knew it.
Consider the above posters posting record. I think in his view both transgressed against their leaders so seen as equivalent - King before Country.
So with that viewpoint Benedict Arnold is the patriot and Washington the traitor. Funny how someone can grow up like that in the USA isn't it, but there you go, it takes all kinds.
You clearly missed the: "But because SpaceX isn't Lockheed Martin or Boeing they can't get the same privilege."
Only a public lack due to secrecy. US intelligence was actually run with some competence in the 1950s before the plum posts were used as rewards for cronies.
Sadly there's still a pile of stuff that won't run on Win7 or later, while the newest MS Office runs on XP, so more reasons against than for in some cases.
Also for some odd reason many users seem to hate mucking about with a VM - their nice seamless desktop paradigm gets broken by it or something, so some refuse to use it if there is an alternative. I've had to run an old version of AutoCAD (with the old interface the user likes) on WINE on a linux box and export it via X to the users Win7 box to make them happy - icon launch or nothing for that person and forget about a VM. The user already had X for some scientific software so it was doable.
If there was a way to launch the MS Windows application from an icon without presenting the user with an extra desktop that would make a difference. Trivial in X circa 1990 or later but for all the bleatings about revisions to remote desktop I just cannot see a way to get a remote or VM app exported from an MS system to act like a local application.
If it's so slow, why was it on the original Nintendo DS? Hardware has got a bit more capable since then.
VB pretty well was Pascal in one incarnation.
Looks like space has become a commodity in the eyes of some people. I suggest you take a look at the history of spaceflight to get some understanding of why you don't give up entirely at the first glitch. Giving up too early results in a lack of progress.
Also are you sure SpaceX needs a perfect flight every time to stay in the game?
See the "missile gap" for the most ridiculous amount of "spin". Whoever did not take the lie as real was seen as being too soft, and there was no venue for the truth even if someone in intelligence had done a Snowden.
More competition can be good but pretending you are inventing a new industry - not so good.
Here's a spot down the road from me on Jan 22nd during the highest tide of the year:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/newstead-and-albion-streets-flooded-during-king-tide/story-fni9r0hy-1227193417069
Add a few inches on top of that plus a storm surge and things are getting really ugly.
Give it up, he's been posting similar things since Win98SE was the "gold standard". You'll just get an empty content free evasion decorated with occasional bits and pieces of fluff he's heard of second hand over the last decade and a half.