They don't understand it, so it must be witchcraft. Here's a solution. To get rid of the evil demons that inhabit your iPhone, simply bury it at a crossroads at midnight during a full moon. Problem solved.
They should leave all the reactors offline that have safety flaws common to the Fukushima plants (close proximity to tidal wave hazards, external diesel generator fuel tanks, etc.) and start up all the rest.
Arizona has no such signs, because Arizona has no "Slower Traffic Keep Right" law on the books. This allows Californians to cruise Interstate 10 all the way to Phoenix without moving out of the left lane. They always look genuinely surprised when someone passes them on the right and gives them a dirty look.
1. SSST was written by members of the Compuserve Science Fiction and Fantasy forum from July 23 1989 through August 21 1989.
2. The "DSPSG" mentioned in the story was the "Disgusting Slobbering Patrick Stewart Groupies," a loose confederation of female Trek fans on Compuserve who swooned over the actor.
3. The "Picard Maneuver" or "PM" was the periodic adjustment Captain Picard made to his uniform. It consists of grasping the coverall on both sides at the waist and jerking it downward.
4. The "EG" was the Enigmatic Gesture. It's described in the official printout as "a gesture resembling shooting an imaginary rubber band. Usually accompanies the command 'Engage'."
5. "SIG" stands for "Special Interest Group." Star Trek discussions were held in the Star Trek SIG of the CompuServe SciFi Forum.
6. The "humanoid male in a wheelchair with a rabbit, a gopher, and a penguin shouting, 'AHEAD WARP ZILLION!!!!!!!!!!!'" refers to a wheelchair-bound Trekkie who was in the comic strip "Bloom County."
Remember David Gerrold telling his "penguin joke" in about six different installments? Remember Ron Moore and Michael Okuda hanging out with us? Ah yes, those were the days...
I bet over 2/3 of americans either a. don't know that this is going on or b. don't care. Even if people actually gave a damn we tend to not take any action.
I'll bet half of the Americans who do know about this are enthusiastic supporters. I am. After 9/11 there was a huge outcry because the government didn't collect information and "connect the dots" to prevent the attack. Now there is a huge outcry because the government is collecting information and trying to "connect the dots" to prevent another attack. My government should be scrutinizing everyone who enters my country. That's what I pay them to do.
Earth First tried this back in the 1980s with the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona. First they grounded out some of the transmission lines, and then a few years later they tried to topple a transmission tower. In the first case they forgot to ground out all of the lines, so power to the plant was still available and the event was little more than an inconvenience. In the second case their group was infiltrated by the FBI, who arrested them in the desert before they could do any damage. Even if they destroyed one transmission line, there are ways to route the power to the destination using alternate paths.
The best thing for a terrorist to do...will not be posted here by me. They have too much help already.
Plus add to that the cop isn't supposed to fire his weapon at all not without at least uttering the words freeze police! or holt or I'll shoot!! That is supposed to not only give the cop extra time to make a good call if needed but to also inform the suspected purp that he is confronting a cop and his next action could cost him his life if he doesn't make the right choice here. Basically freeze/halt and do whatever the man with the badge and gun tells him to do. Any cop that would shoot an individual without at least giving warning would loose his badge real quick, I.A. (Internal Affairs ) would see to that.
I would be very surprised if your local law enforcement agency uses this policy. If I am hacking at you with a machete, the arriving officer must take the time to shout a verbal warning, thus allowing me a few more (possibly lethal) strikes? I don't think so. Here's what our local Sheriff's Office policy states:
When feasible, a verbal warning shall be given.
Here's another example: The officer stops a vehicle and the driver comes out shooting (one of the scenarios we see in our annual shoot/don't shoot requalification). It would be ridiculous to require a verbal warning in that situation. While we are trained to offer the standard challenge (Police! Don't move!) if there is time, it is not mandatory for every event.
Yeah, except the fact that people can still suffer injury or death from tasers...
No one has ever been killed by a Taser. There have been plenty of allegations and court trials, but there is no documented evidence that a Taser caused a person's death. The "activists" hang their hats on statements like "the victim was killed after police used a Taser on him." They could say just as easily "The victim died after eating breakfast" and then sue Kellogg's for producing lethal corn flakes.
I visited Taser International and participated in their research program by taking a 15-second ride on the high voltage express. It was unpleasant, and I was almost completely immobilized, but I walked out of the facility and drove home 15 minutes later with no ill effects (and with a new X-26 in hand). And I'm no longer considered a youngster.
As thrillseeker said, law enforcement officers now have a great alternative to using high speed lead projectiles against dangerous subjects. It's preferable to temporarily incapacitate an attacker, rather than killing him. Tasers save lives.
It's not a bad thing if you consider the title of the section:
"SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS."
This means that if there's an environmental law preventing construction in the habitat of the Spiny Three-Toed Squealing Bullfrog, the frog is going to take second place to border security. And that is a Good Thing.
The explanation of the "rotsnake" illusion came from pages 261 and 262 of a long report. What was the guy supposed to do, retype the text and go find the original images? The PDF worked great, doing what it's supposed to do - displaying text and images in the same format as the original document no matter what platform it's viewed on.
In the 80s my dad told me that the reactors' containment mechanisms were designed to withstand an airplane impact and I thought, "man, are they paranoid." Now I think, "I wonder if they could really take it."
In December, 2002, the Electric Power Research Institute released an analysis entitled Aircraft Crash Impact Analyses Demonstrate Nuclear Power Plant's Structural Strength in which they ran computer models of a Boeing 767-400 crashing into a nuclear plant containment building, spent fuel pool, dry spent fuel storage container, and spent fuel transportation container. In all cases, there was no release of radionuclides to the environment.
Although it is an advocacy group, the Nuclear Energy Institute is a good source of technical information about nuclear power. It can be found at www.nei.org.
I work at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona. It is a Combustion Engineering "System 80" plant. The "System 80 Plus" design is one of three that has been certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a standardized design. This will save a ton of money and time if any company ever gets up the courage to build another nuclear power plant. Right now everyone is crazy about throwing together natural gas fired power plants, regardless of the fact that all the natural gas will be gone in a few years (I've heard that there's only 30 years of natural gas left in the world).
The reason we don't dry our clothing outside in Arizona is because the sunshine would fade the colors too much.
Submarine reactor plants must have changed since I left the Navy in 1977. The only US natural circulation submarine power plant I ever heard of was on the USS Narwhal (SSN671). The rest of them had Main Coolant Pumps and Main Circ Water Pumps.
High level waste (spent fuel) has been stored safely at nuclear power plants in the US since the nuclear power program began. Spent fuel has been stored in dry casks since 1986. It is highly regulated and very safe. I can assure you that no one is "messing around" with it.
Here is a link to information about spent fuel storage in the US.
High- and medium-level nuclear waste, however is a significant problem in development for nuclear power, and the means to deal with it are far less developed than those for dealing with simple toxic or corrosive wastes.
Not true. Because the government failed to provide a high level waste repository on time as required by law, every nuclear power plant in the US is storing spent fuel onsite. The fuel is stored either in pools of water or in reinforced and shielded containers. This storage method has been used for years, and it's very safe and secure. Now take those big containers, truck them to Nevada, store them on concrete pads inside the repository facility, and put a few security guards on the door. Same safe solution, different storage location. There have been no problems with the high level waste storage at the various plant sites, so there's no reason to assume there would be problems in Nevada.
By the way, there are three ways to protect yourself from radiation - time, distance and shielding. Limit the amount of time you're near the radiation source, stay a safe distance away from the source, or place shielding between you and the source. Put those shielded containers in the Nevada desert where no one lives and you've accomplished all three at once.
Playboy magazine had an article a few months back about a former Security manager at a nuclear power plant who tried to make a big deal about imagined vulnerabilities. In painting a colorful picture of the plant and its surroundings, they described the blue glow and called it "shrinkoff" radiation. They received a nice HA-HA response later from an alert reader.
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They don't understand it, so it must be witchcraft. Here's a solution. To get rid of the evil demons that inhabit your iPhone, simply bury it at a crossroads at midnight during a full moon. Problem solved.
They should leave all the reactors offline that have safety flaws common to the Fukushima plants (close proximity to tidal wave hazards, external diesel generator fuel tanks, etc.) and start up all the rest.
Arizona has no such signs, because Arizona has no "Slower Traffic Keep Right" law on the books. This allows Californians to cruise Interstate 10 all the way to Phoenix without moving out of the left lane. They always look genuinely surprised when someone passes them on the right and gives them a dirty look.
1. SSST was written by members of the Compuserve Science Fiction and Fantasy forum from July 23 1989 through August 21 1989.
2. The "DSPSG" mentioned in the story was the "Disgusting Slobbering Patrick Stewart Groupies," a loose confederation of female Trek fans on Compuserve who swooned over the actor.
3. The "Picard Maneuver" or "PM" was the periodic adjustment Captain Picard made to his uniform. It consists of grasping the coverall on both sides at the waist and jerking it downward.
4. The "EG" was the Enigmatic Gesture. It's described in the official printout as "a gesture resembling shooting an imaginary rubber band. Usually accompanies the command 'Engage'."
5. "SIG" stands for "Special Interest Group." Star Trek discussions were held in the Star Trek SIG of the CompuServe SciFi Forum.
6. The "humanoid male in a wheelchair with a rabbit, a gopher, and a penguin shouting, 'AHEAD WARP ZILLION!!!!!!!!!!!'" refers to a wheelchair-bound Trekkie who was in the comic strip "Bloom County."
http://www.allspark.net/ssst1.htm
Remember David Gerrold telling his "penguin joke" in about six different installments? Remember Ron Moore and Michael Okuda hanging out with us? Ah yes, those were the days...
I bet over 2/3 of americans either a. don't know that this is going on or b. don't care. Even if people actually gave a damn we tend to not take any action.
I'll bet half of the Americans who do know about this are enthusiastic supporters. I am. After 9/11 there was a huge outcry because the government didn't collect information and "connect the dots" to prevent the attack. Now there is a huge outcry because the government is collecting information and trying to "connect the dots" to prevent another attack. My government should be scrutinizing everyone who enters my country. That's what I pay them to do.
Earth First tried this back in the 1980s with the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona. First they grounded out some of the transmission lines, and then a few years later they tried to topple a transmission tower. In the first case they forgot to ground out all of the lines, so power to the plant was still available and the event was little more than an inconvenience. In the second case their group was infiltrated by the FBI, who arrested them in the desert before they could do any damage. Even if they destroyed one transmission line, there are ways to route the power to the destination using alternate paths. The best thing for a terrorist to do...will not be posted here by me. They have too much help already.
Plus add to that the cop isn't supposed to fire his weapon at all not without at least uttering the words freeze police! or holt or I'll shoot!! That is supposed to not only give the cop extra time to make a good call if needed but to also inform the suspected purp that he is confronting a cop and his next action could cost him his life if he doesn't make the right choice here. Basically freeze/halt and do whatever the man with the badge and gun tells him to do. Any cop that would shoot an individual without at least giving warning would loose his badge real quick, I.A. (Internal Affairs ) would see to that.
I would be very surprised if your local law enforcement agency uses this policy. If I am hacking at you with a machete, the arriving officer must take the time to shout a verbal warning, thus allowing me a few more (possibly lethal) strikes? I don't think so. Here's what our local Sheriff's Office policy states:
When feasible, a verbal warning shall be given.
Here's another example: The officer stops a vehicle and the driver comes out shooting (one of the scenarios we see in our annual shoot/don't shoot requalification). It would be ridiculous to require a verbal warning in that situation. While we are trained to offer the standard challenge (Police! Don't move!) if there is time, it is not mandatory for every event.
Yeah, except the fact that people can still suffer injury or death from tasers...
No one has ever been killed by a Taser. There have been plenty of allegations and court trials, but there is no documented evidence that a Taser caused a person's death. The "activists" hang their hats on statements like "the victim was killed after police used a Taser on him." They could say just as easily "The victim died after eating breakfast" and then sue Kellogg's for producing lethal corn flakes.
I visited Taser International and participated in their research program by taking a 15-second ride on the high voltage express. It was unpleasant, and I was almost completely immobilized, but I walked out of the facility and drove home 15 minutes later with no ill effects (and with a new X-26 in hand). And I'm no longer considered a youngster.
As thrillseeker said, law enforcement officers now have a great alternative to using high speed lead projectiles against dangerous subjects. It's preferable to temporarily incapacitate an attacker, rather than killing him. Tasers save lives.
"Barking moonbats, dismayed when legitimate news media refuse to run their wack-a-loon conspiracy theories, turn to lunatic fringe blogs."
It's not a bad thing if you consider the title of the section:
"SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS."
This means that if there's an environmental law preventing construction in the habitat of the Spiny Three-Toed Squealing Bullfrog, the frog is going to take second place to border security. And that is a Good Thing.
The explanation of the "rotsnake" illusion came from pages 261 and 262 of a long report. What was the guy supposed to do, retype the text and go find the original images? The PDF worked great, doing what it's supposed to do - displaying text and images in the same format as the original document no matter what platform it's viewed on.
In the 80s my dad told me that the reactors' containment mechanisms were designed to withstand an airplane impact and I thought, "man, are they paranoid." Now I think, "I wonder if they could really take it."
In December, 2002, the Electric Power Research Institute released an analysis entitled Aircraft Crash Impact Analyses Demonstrate Nuclear Power Plant's Structural Strength in which they ran computer models of a Boeing 767-400 crashing into a nuclear plant containment building, spent fuel pool, dry spent fuel storage container, and spent fuel transportation container. In all cases, there was no release of radionuclides to the environment.
Although it is an advocacy group, the Nuclear Energy Institute is a good source of technical information about nuclear power. It can be found at www.nei.org.
I work at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona. It is a Combustion Engineering "System 80" plant. The "System 80 Plus" design is one of three that has been certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a standardized design. This will save a ton of money and time if any company ever gets up the courage to build another nuclear power plant. Right now everyone is crazy about throwing together natural gas fired power plants, regardless of the fact that all the natural gas will be gone in a few years (I've heard that there's only 30 years of natural gas left in the world).
The reason we don't dry our clothing outside in Arizona is because the sunshine would fade the colors too much.
Submarine reactor plants must have changed since I left the Navy in 1977. The only US natural circulation submarine power plant I ever heard of was on the USS Narwhal (SSN671). The rest of them had Main Coolant Pumps and Main Circ Water Pumps.
Here is a link to information about spent fuel storage in the US.
Not true. Because the government failed to provide a high level waste repository on time as required by law, every nuclear power plant in the US is storing spent fuel onsite. The fuel is stored either in pools of water or in reinforced and shielded containers. This storage method has been used for years, and it's very safe and secure. Now take those big containers, truck them to Nevada, store them on concrete pads inside the repository facility, and put a few security guards on the door. Same safe solution, different storage location. There have been no problems with the high level waste storage at the various plant sites, so there's no reason to assume there would be problems in Nevada.
By the way, there are three ways to protect yourself from radiation - time, distance and shielding. Limit the amount of time you're near the radiation source, stay a safe distance away from the source, or place shielding between you and the source. Put those shielded containers in the Nevada desert where no one lives and you've accomplished all three at once.
Playboy magazine had an article a few months back about a former Security manager at a nuclear power plant who tried to make a big deal about imagined vulnerabilities. In painting a colorful picture of the plant and its surroundings, they described the blue glow and called it "shrinkoff" radiation. They received a nice HA-HA response later from an alert reader.