The problem in Japan is that the rods in question are in cooling ponds with no coolant. They are outside the containment (ie, not in the reactor). The power company itself said yesterday that "The possibility of re-criticality is not zero". You're probably right in that they'll most likely get water back into the ponds and things will settle down. Keep your fingers crossed. There are three ponds in this state and the engineers don't seem to know if the ponds are even able to hold water after the earthquake.
You're driving your car. Here are your five threat levels:
1) "Sha-na-na-na, sha-na-na-na-na-na,..." (Cruising for burgers) 2) "What an idiot!" (Where'd that bozo get a license?!) 3) "WTF?" (Damn! Where'd that car come from?) 4) "Oh, shit!" (Mother of God, please make the airbags work!) 5) Wham! (preemptive strike without warning)
Sure you can, but how much are you willing to spend to get your part, which is, let's see, 138M tax payers, 10K books, leaves you with 1/13,800th of a book. With any luck, it'll be an entire word.
Doesn't work for me. I live in a rural area and when you go to town during the summer you have to remember to lock your car. Otherwise, you'll come back in half an hour and it'll be full of zucchini.
If only all NASA missions were this successful If they were all successful, it would mean we weren't pushing the envelope, weren't making mistakes and weren't learning from them.
You're describing what one should do if the brakes fail, not if the engine is at max throttle. If the throttle is stuck and you have a manual transmission (which you imply), you should put it in neutral and use the brakes to stop. By definition, engine braking doesn't happen if the throttle is wide open.
Back when we ran a small, dialup ISP, we charged everyone the more or less standard $20 per month. Then we did a little number crunching and found that most people used less than 100 hours a month, but there were a handful that were online pretty much 24/7. In at least one case, it was a family that had mom on ebay during the day, the kids gaming until late and then dad on during the wee hours. They complained bitterly when we raised the fee for "unlimited", but calmed down when we explained that it cost us around $22 a month just for the phone line they were using and by charging them $20 a month, we were subsidizing their connection. At least in our area, the situation remains somewhat the same, where ISPs have to buy more bandwidth to keep customers happy during the peak evening hours when more people are streaming more stuff (ie, Netflix and p2p) every day.
Not to say you're not right, but what would prevent MSE and/or MWB from removing it? We're scanning a non-boot drive from a clean machine with no malicious code running.
Indeed, the new ones are bad. However, this has worked for me: Take the drive out and put it into a fully-updated Windows box as a second drive, then run updated MS Security Essentials and updated MalwareBytes against it. It takes a while to run full scans, but it seems to work ("seems" being the operative word).
As you explain, there's not much reason to come here to get resources. That said, a logical reason they'd come all this way is to wipe us off the galactic map. If we make enough noise to attract some civilization's attention, their next step is to send stealth probes into our system to collect data. We're obviously constantly learning more as time goes on and aliens might reach the conclusion that we'll eventually become a threat to their existence. They could argue that even though they haven't been able to do it, we might get lucky and invent some form of Alderson drive, giving us the ability to pay them a possibly hostile visit without slower-than-light travel. Better to eliminate us while it's still relatively easy.
For that matter, why bother with collecting data and wasting the time needed to send the masterstroke? They don't need us. Their probe(s) could be unaliened (as in unmanned) and under the control of a relatively simple AI whose task is 1) locate all major locations of intelligent life in the system and 2) nuke them all and 3) repeat as necessary and 4) report success.
(See "The Killing Star" by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski).
This attitude might be one of the reasons why geeky types have a hard time acquiring wife units. In reality, the wife is the programmer and you-know-who is the device.
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is the new height at which it sets the bar for an epic fail.
The problem in Japan is that the rods in question are in cooling ponds with no coolant. They are outside the containment (ie, not in the reactor). The power company itself said yesterday that "The possibility of re-criticality is not zero". You're probably right in that they'll most likely get water back into the ponds and things will settle down. Keep your fingers crossed. There are three ponds in this state and the engineers don't seem to know if the ponds are even able to hold water after the earthquake.
...prolific...
I believe you mean they are "ubiquitous".
A Langston Field will protect you from the heat and radiation, at least for a while...
Come on, at least give 'em partial credit for getting "it's" right.
That hat makes you look like an idiot.
Cute and from National Treaure: Book of Secrets
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465234/quotes
The TSA didn't catch the shoe bomber or the underwear bomber, for that matter. Both were screened abroad.
You're driving your car. Here are your five threat levels:
1) "Sha-na-na-na, sha-na-na-na-na-na, ..." (Cruising for burgers)
2) "What an idiot!" (Where'd that bozo get a license?!)
3) "WTF?" (Damn! Where'd that car come from?)
4) "Oh, shit!" (Mother of God, please make the airbags work!)
5) Wham! (preemptive strike without warning)
Sort of gives a new meaning to the phrase "crash and burn".
:"The Metroplex" is the Dallas-Ft Worth area in Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth_metroplex
Damn! If this was the Spinal Tap edition of /. I'd be able to give you another mod point.
Looks can be deceiving. The beast guarding the Cave of Kyle Banor in The Holy Grail was furry and cute, too.
That thing looks unnervingly like the rolling trash can in my garage.
Sure you can, but how much are you willing to spend to get your part, which is, let's see, 138M tax payers, 10K books, leaves you with 1/13,800th of a book. With any luck, it'll be an entire word.
Doesn't work for me. I live in a rural area and when you go to town during the summer you have to remember to lock your car. Otherwise, you'll come back in half an hour and it'll be full of zucchini.
If only all NASA missions were this successful
If they were all successful, it would mean we weren't pushing the envelope, weren't making mistakes and weren't learning from them.
You're describing what one should do if the brakes fail, not if the engine is at max throttle.
If the throttle is stuck and you have a manual transmission (which you imply), you should put it in neutral and use the brakes to stop. By definition, engine braking doesn't happen if the throttle is wide open.
A VT-100 should be plenty for anyone.
Back when we ran a small, dialup ISP, we charged everyone the more or less standard $20 per month. Then we did a little number crunching and found that most people used less than 100 hours a month, but there were a handful that were online pretty much 24/7. In at least one case, it was a family that had mom on ebay during the day, the kids gaming until late and then dad on during the wee hours. They complained bitterly when we raised the fee for "unlimited", but calmed down when we explained that it cost us around $22 a month just for the phone line they were using and by charging them $20 a month, we were subsidizing their connection.
At least in our area, the situation remains somewhat the same, where ISPs have to buy more bandwidth to keep customers happy during the peak evening hours when more people are streaming more stuff (ie, Netflix and p2p) every day.
Not to say you're not right, but what would prevent MSE and/or MWB from removing it? We're scanning a non-boot drive from a clean machine with no malicious code running.
Indeed, the new ones are bad. However, this has worked for me:
Take the drive out and put it into a fully-updated Windows box as a second drive, then run updated MS Security Essentials and updated MalwareBytes against it. It takes a while to run full scans, but it seems to work ("seems" being the operative word).
Reminds me of an old saying: "A long journey begins with the first few steps on the basement stairs."
As you explain, there's not much reason to come here to get resources. That said, a logical reason they'd come all this way is to wipe us off the galactic map. If we make enough noise to attract some civilization's attention, their next step is to send stealth probes into our system to collect data. We're obviously constantly learning more as time goes on and aliens might reach the conclusion that we'll eventually become a threat to their existence. They could argue that even though they haven't been able to do it, we might get lucky and invent some form of Alderson drive, giving us the ability to pay them a possibly hostile visit without slower-than-light travel. Better to eliminate us while it's still relatively easy.
For that matter, why bother with collecting data and wasting the time needed to send the masterstroke? They don't need us. Their probe(s) could be unaliened (as in unmanned) and under the control of a relatively simple AI whose task is 1) locate all major locations of intelligent life in the system and 2) nuke them all and 3) repeat as necessary and 4) report success.
(See "The Killing Star" by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski).
This attitude might be one of the reasons why geeky types have a hard time acquiring wife units. In reality, the wife is the programmer and you-know-who is the device.