When a state university has campuses in more than one city, they tend to differentiate between them all by appending the city name to the name of the university.
Professor Perry has many posts regarding the imbalance between private and public salaries. The government pays much better than the private sector in most areas.
So, just because *you* don't have time for this in your life, anyone else must be criticized/condemned because they do? Buddy, you're the one who either decided to have a wife and kids, or you let the little woman browbeat you into your present situation. Your attitude and that of anyone who agrees with you just sounds like sour grapes.
I'm 43 too; I get up at 5AM, out the door at 5:30, at work by 7, out the door at 3PM, home by 4:30, pretty much the same sort of evening chores, so you're neither the first person nor the last to have a busy schedule.
On a kinder note, let me assure you that your current schedule will get easier. I have 4 girls, so I've been there. It gets easier.
In the meantime, try not to be too jealous of those who have chosen to live their life in a manner that doesn't match yours.
Was it that long ago that I posted that to Volokh? Wow, time flies. I could have sworn it was just a month or so ago. I didn't post it to bitsandbrews though.
I recently was part of a discussion about energy here in the US and this was my brother's contribution:
It's quite simple, actually. The United States has not built a nuclear power plant since the seventies. Almost all of the plants we built then, and all of the plants that are still online, are pressurized light water (PLW) designs. This means that that coolant in the reactor, which also moderates the nuclear reaction, is ordinary water under great pressure (typically at least twice the industrial norm of 600 lb/in^2 steam). A PLW reactor produces as much plutonium 239 as it consumes uranium 235. We erroneously call Pu-239 nuclear waste, and the governments since the Clinton Administration have been looking to find a place to bury it for a quarter of a million years.
However, until the Clinton administration, your government was busy designing a better reactor. The program was called integral fast reactor, or IFR. IFR was a metal-moderated reactor. The coolant was liquid metal, sodium or lead. These elements don't moderate the neutrons, they fly unhindered through the pile. That means they can fission Pu-239. In fact, they can fission anything higher than uranium on the periodic table. That's not all a fast reactor can do, though. It can also turn anything on the other (left) half of the bottom row of the periodic table into fissionable material. That's what "fast" means in the name. The reactor produces its own fuel from thorium or uranium in its natural state! Just the uranium that has been mined to date, which we use for cannon shells once we've taken the U-235 out of it, is sufficient for 300-400 years of the US energy needs. The known reserves are good for 50,000 years or so. Uranium is more plentiful in the earth's crust than gold or tin, and there is three times as much thorium as uranium. Energy forever.
What does "integral" mean? It means that the fuel is recycled on-site. The fuel in the IFR is in metallic, rather than ceramic form. It is simply re-smelted periodically (not the whole load, just a few rods' worth), and the slag is the only waste. The balance of the fuel plus a tiny bit of uranium or thorium in its natural state, is recast into pellets and returned to the reactor. The volume of the nuclear waste is reduced by several orders of magnitude. The nature of the waste is only the light elements that are the products of the fission reaction. They have either extremely short half lives, measured in seconds to months, or such long half lives that they are essentially stable. They are also mainly low-energy beta emitters, instead of neutron and gamma emitters. While this waste is hellishly radioactive at first, it will be less radioactive than uranium ore in less than 300 years, and reactors might produce a couple hundredweight in a fifty year lifespan, instead of thousands of tons of spent fuel rods as a PLW reactor would.
Additional benefits of the IFR design? The fuel is in metallic form, suspended in liquid metal. It gets no hotter than the coolant, and thus cannot have a catastrophic loss of coolant, or "blow down", which is what happens if there is a leak in the primary circuit of a LWR. The fuel in a LWR is in ceramic form, and gets much hotter than the coolant (which is in turn much hotter than liquid sodium). If it were not continuously cooled, it would destroy its container and melt, hence the term "melt down." If that happens to enough fuel elements in a reactor, the fuel gathers at the bottom of the vessel and continues to react, until it melts through the bottom of vessel, or the "china syndrome." None of these is possible with the IFR design. As it gets warmer, the fuel assemblies expand and move away from each other, slowing or stopping the reaction. The IFR, in fact, was tested for this. They turned off the control system. The reactor heated slightly, and stopped working. The cut off the heat exchanger (simulating what happens if the heat exchanger or a turbine goes bad at a LWR plant)--same thing. The reactor heated slightly and shut itself down,
This has to be an urban legend because the tide is not at the same height at the same time each day. The full tide cycle is roughly 12 hours, 18 minutes, so the time of high tide is going to be at a different time each day.
Try again.
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Outside of CRU, very likely. But as director of the center, he isn't going to willing completely surrender/delegate all his authority. Internal employees' paychecks will most likely still be subject to his authority, at least for a while. Given his display of ethics via the emails released, do you think he'll not use that power in internal debates/conflicts? And I don't mean that paycheck authority is the only thing that he might abuse. Project funding, grant application approval, etc.
The only path to Hadley CRU ever gaining respectability starts with Phil Jones' complete exit.
The man is still going to be at the Center, which means he'll use his "pull" to keep his fingers in the pie, kinda like Putin isn't President of Russia anymore.
I live adjacent to 250 acres of tree farm. It *is* a forest. No doubt about that. Around 1900, it was a sheep farm completely devoid of trees. Now only clear-cutting would keep it from becoming more of a forest.
And the dead trees from it keep my house warm in winter via my two woodstoves. I use less than 200 gallons of heating oil per year to keep my house warm.
The pic in the first linked article is a shot of the Apollo 11 lander approaching the orbiter while returning from the lunar surface. Besides, how does the Chandrayaan orbiter take a picture of itself in lunar orbit?
Maybe you made a typo, but Neptune orbits at roughly 30 AU from Sol, making Neptune at 1/10th the distance of the exo-planet in the article. Hence the question of WTF is it doing out so far from its primary?
However, if it wasn't a typo on your part, you need to bone up on your basic Solar system facts, and your theory about it being a typical planetary system would be dead wrong.
Sorry dude, the feminine form of the word to "chick" is "dude".
Okay.
The famine form of the word "guy" is "gal", which is rarely used because "gal" sounds akward.
"famine"? "akward"? As for the awkwardness of gal, speak for yourself. I like it just fine, and none of my gal friends complain about it.
The feminine form of the word "bitch" is "asshole".
Bitch is a feminine noun. It means female dog. However, I would offer "prick" as the term for opposite gender if we mean to stick to insulting humans. An asshole can be any gender, as both have them.
The feminine form of the word "beefcake" is "cheesecake", and the feminine form of the word "stud" is "slut" or "ho".
Slut or whore ("ho") would most likely be the feminine counterpart to "gigolo". A feminine counterpart to "stud"? "Bitch" for dogs, "mare" for horses. Humans? I don't know... I'd probably go with "babe".
It would be nice if people would learn a language before whining about it.
That's a bunch of crap. We share so many similar characteristics with other species, we *have* to have common ancestors. Number of vertebrae, number of plates in the skull, number of digits on our appendages, number and function and arrangement of internal organs, etc., etc., etc.
We evolved here on Earth, along with all the other fauna.
If the size of the universe is infinite, then it had no beginning. It's age must be infinite as well, because how can something start from a point source and expand to infinite size within a finite period of time?
So, if we assume that the universe is infinite and has been here forever, the night sky would be as bright as the noonday sky, because there would be stars in *every* direction, and they would have been shining *forever* and thus we would be getting starlight from *every* direction.
Thus, because we don't see the night sky in this way, the universe is both finite in size and age.
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http://www.wisconsin.edu/campuses/
When a state university has campuses in more than one city, they tend to differentiate between them all by appending the city name to the name of the university.
That's why there's UCLA, UC-Berkeley, etc. ( http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/ ).
Why, even Minnesota does it ( http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/campuses.php ); imagine that!
Of course, if you have a better system, by all means, let's hear it.
No sir, they do not.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post.html
Professor Perry has many posts regarding the imbalance between private and public salaries. The government pays much better than the private sector in most areas.
So, just because *you* don't have time for this in your life, anyone else must be criticized/condemned because they do? Buddy, you're the one who either decided to have a wife and kids, or you let the little woman browbeat you into your present situation. Your attitude and that of anyone who agrees with you just sounds like sour grapes.
I'm 43 too; I get up at 5AM, out the door at 5:30, at work by 7, out the door at 3PM, home by 4:30, pretty much the same sort of evening chores, so you're neither the first person nor the last to have a busy schedule.
On a kinder note, let me assure you that your current schedule will get easier. I have 4 girls, so I've been there. It gets easier.
In the meantime, try not to be too jealous of those who have chosen to live their life in a manner that doesn't match yours.
Was it that long ago that I posted that to Volokh? Wow, time flies. I could have sworn it was just a month or so ago. I didn't post it to bitsandbrews though.
Your rebuttal is an ad hominem attack? Normally I'd ignore you, but instead, I'll let you try looking at the first bullet point under the "Global Significance" section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor to see if you might change your mind. As for Libertarianism, do you have a better suggestion? At this point, almost anything has to be better than the two parties currently spending our children into oblivion: http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/files/2008/11/fed-rev-spend-2008-boc-s1-federal-spending-has-increased.gif
This has to be an urban legend because the tide is not at the same height at the same time each day. The full tide cycle is roughly 12 hours, 18 minutes, so the time of high tide is going to be at a different time each day.
Try again.
in 5, 4, 3, 2...
I'm moderately excessive.
Outside of CRU, very likely. But as director of the center, he isn't going to willing completely surrender/delegate all his authority. Internal employees' paychecks will most likely still be subject to his authority, at least for a while. Given his display of ethics via the emails released, do you think he'll not use that power in internal debates/conflicts? And I don't mean that paycheck authority is the only thing that he might abuse. Project funding, grant application approval, etc.
The only path to Hadley CRU ever gaining respectability starts with Phil Jones' complete exit.
The man is still going to be at the Center, which means he'll use his "pull" to keep his fingers in the pie, kinda like Putin isn't President of Russia anymore.
Video implies temporal, so yes, having 3D in the description implies all four dimensions.
Typical liberal response: Don't bother me with facts; can't you see I'm passionate about this topic?
Shouldn't that be:
I guess that means she's found out that I'm going to be tapping her sister.
Mod parent up. Foxit is light-years better than Acrobat.
I live adjacent to 250 acres of tree farm. It *is* a forest. No doubt about that. Around 1900, it was a sheep farm completely devoid of trees. Now only clear-cutting would keep it from becoming more of a forest.
And the dead trees from it keep my house warm in winter via my two woodstoves. I use less than 200 gallons of heating oil per year to keep my house warm.
It's kind of a joke:
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp
Yup. I was right. Picture #5 in this series:
The pic in the first linked article is a shot of the Apollo 11 lander approaching the orbiter while returning from the lunar surface. Besides, how does the Chandrayaan orbiter take a picture of itself in lunar orbit?
Maybe you made a typo, but Neptune orbits at roughly 30 AU from Sol, making Neptune at 1/10th the distance of the exo-planet in the article. Hence the question of WTF is it doing out so far from its primary? However, if it wasn't a typo on your part, you need to bone up on your basic Solar system facts, and your theory about it being a typical planetary system would be dead wrong.
Why would Iran refer to their space travelers with a Russian word?
Sorry dude, the feminine form of the word to "chick" is "dude".
Okay.
The famine form of the word "guy" is "gal", which is rarely used because "gal" sounds akward.
"famine"? "akward"? As for the awkwardness of gal, speak for yourself. I like it just fine, and none of my gal friends complain about it.
The feminine form of the word "bitch" is "asshole".
Bitch is a feminine noun. It means female dog. However, I would offer "prick" as the term for opposite gender if we mean to stick to insulting humans. An asshole can be any gender, as both have them.
The feminine form of the word "beefcake" is "cheesecake", and the feminine form of the word "stud" is "slut" or "ho".
Slut or whore ("ho") would most likely be the feminine counterpart to "gigolo". A feminine counterpart to "stud"? "Bitch" for dogs, "mare" for horses. Humans? I don't know... I'd probably go with "babe".
It would be nice if people would learn a language before whining about it.
Words to live by; too bad you don't.
That's a bunch of crap. We share so many similar characteristics with other species, we *have* to have common ancestors. Number of vertebrae, number of plates in the skull, number of digits on our appendages, number and function and arrangement of internal organs, etc., etc., etc.
We evolved here on Earth, along with all the other fauna.
If the size of the universe is infinite, then it had no beginning. It's age must be infinite as well, because how can something start from a point source and expand to infinite size within a finite period of time?
So, if we assume that the universe is infinite and has been here forever, the night sky would be as bright as the noonday sky, because there would be stars in *every* direction, and they would have been shining *forever* and thus we would be getting starlight from *every* direction.
Thus, because we don't see the night sky in this way, the universe is both finite in size and age.