This. Chernobyl is currently being fitted with a new containment vessel and they think the new one will last 100 years. Given the thing is going to be hot for the next hundred thousand years or more, this is a real cost just like global warming.
And I wonder if their christian friends in dallas will travel to that religiously diverse Qatar for togethers? And hopefully Ahmed does not decide to switch to christianity. Doing so in Qatar could be deadly.
Government should subsidize when it is in the interest of its people. When these ports were first built, the US was a net exporter, so making shipping cheaper was a plus. Now we are a net importer, so we should no longer do this. Making foreign goods cheaper hurts domestic manufacturers. Sure goods may be cheaper, but if you have no one with a job to buy them, only the few benefit, with a long term detriment to your people.
Trucking and rail move both domestic and foreign goods, so less of an issue.
Exactly how would this work exactly boss (soon to be my ex-boss), I get a new job that forbids me from working for someone else. Now suntrust needs help and you want me to break the terms with my new employer who is paying me money so I can help you(suntrust)? I'll check with my new boss, but I think the answer will be no.
I just saw a story on PBS that the port of jacksonville was trying to get tax dollars to pay to deepen the channel so bigger ships could come thru. They already are deepening the panama canal. This is all done with "free" money with respect to the shipper. If the shipping companies really want to have deeper channels, they should pay for them and increase the ship costs to the true unsubsidized cost. Imagine if I went to the government and asked for money to build a T-shirt factory. I'd get laughed at. But somehow the shipping companies have managed to convince us that we should collectively pay to export our jobs.
I don't know how well their windows emulator works, but when emulators work they can be very helpful. I was trying to write a simple app for my nexus phone and started looking into it and found it was going to be overwhelming. But then I stumbled on androwish, a tcl/tk environment for android and found it trivial to write my app. So this was a case of a emulator/port saving substantial amounts of time.
There is another factor which is completely left out, the parents and their culture. Note the article says whites and asians. I would argue a white or asian parent is more likely to push their kids towards getting good grades. My parents were pretty low income and yet we were expected to bring home good grades. No excuses. I certainly see higher incomes as having an advantage, but cultural norms are a factor as well. I don't know how you would fix cultural norms except by taking the kids away from the parents and adopt them into families with high educational expectations.
I've said before to underwhelming response, we need to spend on protecting this gorgeous planet of ours from big rocks coming at us. It has happened before, so instead of trying to get off this really nice planet on to a crappy cold rock, we should first make sure we can defend the nice home with air, water and food before trying to build on a long shot.
There was no holodeck on the original star trek. Vacations were rare for the main characters. Generally the whole ship took a vacation on vacation like planets. And there were many episodes that dealt with "money" and exploitation. Planets for mining like the one with the silicon based creature that was killing the miners, the one where there was a cloud society that was supported by the workers on the ground, Harvey Mudd and the tribles, which were sold for credits, and many more. Dilithium crystals in particular were very valuable and mined if I remember right.
The guy who lost his permitted king cobra in florida has had nothing happen to him. The guy in texas who lost his cobra was killed by it. And then there is the guy in california who was bit by the rattlesnake he was playing with. So should we ban all snakes?
U-236 has a half life of 23 million years. To get down to a survival range, many half lives needed, at 10 half lives (230 million years, (1/1024 or about.1% of the current radiation levels) you'd still probably not be able to live in the area of the reactor. In the show, the reporter was very anxious to get out of the really hot spots like the old hospital. They were wearing protective clothing. Unprotected I think the kill time was about 5 minutes, so it was still very very hot. Keep in mind chernobyl was in the 80's so already 30 years later and still deadly areas exist outside of the reactor itself.
There was an interesting frontline about chernobyl I saw. There is work going on there to build a new containment structure for the reactor. The old concrete jacket is wearing. The area is so "hot" that the new vessel must be built away from the old area and later will be craned over the old reactor. The thing they are building is massive. The theory is the new structure should hold it for another 100 years. Then they will do it again I guess. The thing will be hot for as long as we have a sun, I think they quoted 4 billion years this thing will need to be covered. It makes me rethink if nuclear is a good idea, given the fukashima thing may turn into the same problem. How many of these reactors can we have around the world that will need to be shielded until the end of times?
Or you can write and use a text editor for terminals. I redid the old Rand Editor and called it sre. I have the source on my website. Took awhile, but I use it for coding exclusively. I also have written over the past decade or so a integrated circuit layout editor that has a limited DRC/LVS along with a matching schematic editor. The performance of the layout editor exceeds that of the "big" guys. A solo programmer can do alot with the tools available.
So I wish them luck, but to do what they want means they need 3 billion degrees to ignite and they are at 10 million. Over two orders of magnitude seems difficult. I like that their reaction is not radioactive though. It means if they ever do hit the 3 billion, the reaction will not destroy the equipment from the radiation.
My mom used to tell me her mom would make tomato sandwiches during the war. She loved them and viewed them as a treat. Later she found out that the reason she got them was that was all there was. And my mom was lucky, her parents had some land with some fruit trees and a big garden. I think one of the unfortunate things of today is when you are short of money, it is fast food that is the tomato sandwich, and the tomato sandwich had less calories than a big mac and fries.
I do own art as a matter of fact. Maybe 30K worth. I do value art. Oddly the artists I have did not go to college. Colleges tend to graduate art dealers, not artists.
I am afraid we are going to have to agree to disagree. Your commercial aircraft example is true, but the scarce availability of the equipment to general populace provides a good deal of protection, along with prevention cost is much less of an issue on a near billion dollar item compared to a 30k-ish car. Not to mention planes can and are grounded immediately if a problem is found. I do agree the prius was likely a real bug, but went with the "published" car mat explanation.
To further the farmer analogy, farmers do not plant weeds. You can't eat them. While weeds may be pretty, they are minimally useful to society. College could be free for degrees that pay off to society, assuming the student holds a B or better. If your parents are rich and want to pay for your weed degree, go for it. If your parents are rich and want to pay for you as you flunk out and party your way thru school go for it.
Except according to the news, the problem was floor mats. Whether it was or was not in this case does not matter. Cars will always have issues with physical bugs (think exploding airbags recently) which cannot be fixed by a magical sw patch. Therefore, real recalls must be effective and timely. I might argue that making OTA the norm will mean recalls requiring people to come in for physical objects to be replaced will get sloppier. And I maintain by allowing OTA access to the machine means there will be bad actors who can hack the machine. Nothing is unhackable.
Exactly what can be hacked if you disconnect the car from the interwebs AND keep your doors/windows locked so people cannot access the OBDII connector? Of course someone can always nick a brake line or puncture a tire, but no amount of OTA magic is going to prevent that. Not being connected has advantages.
Actually, the OTA makes it vulnerable. If the car is totally disconnected from the interwebs, then it cannot be hacked from the interwebs. My point was without physical security, there is no security, which is what happens if you leave the perp with access to the OBDII connector. The perp could also pop the hood and do nefarious things if you left the window open or door unlocked.
Many of these exploits I don't think of as exploits. They attach a device to the OBDII connector. Keep your doors and windows locked and voila not connectee. 2nd, be real, somebody really wants to mess with your brakes why not nick the hydraulic cable. Much easier. Much of this is hype. The exploit on the fob to unlock, I'd pay attention to. I thought I saw somewhere the land rover is so bad that insurance will not cover it in london unless parked in a garage.
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This. Chernobyl is currently being fitted with a new containment vessel and they think the new one will last 100 years. Given the thing is going to be hot for the next hundred thousand years or more, this is a real cost just like global warming.
And I wonder if their christian friends in dallas will travel to that religiously diverse Qatar for togethers? And hopefully Ahmed does not decide to switch to christianity. Doing so in Qatar could be deadly.
Government should subsidize when it is in the interest of its people. When these ports were first built, the US was a net exporter, so making shipping cheaper was a plus. Now we are a net importer, so we should no longer do this. Making foreign goods cheaper hurts domestic manufacturers. Sure goods may be cheaper, but if you have no one with a job to buy them, only the few benefit, with a long term detriment to your people.
Trucking and rail move both domestic and foreign goods, so less of an issue.
Exactly how would this work exactly boss (soon to be my ex-boss), I get a new job that forbids me from working for someone else. Now suntrust needs help and you want me to break the terms with my new employer who is paying me money so I can help you(suntrust)? I'll check with my new boss, but I think the answer will be no.
I just saw a story on PBS that the port of jacksonville was trying to get tax dollars to pay to deepen the channel so bigger ships could come thru. They already are deepening the panama canal. This is all done with "free" money with respect to the shipper. If the shipping companies really want to have deeper channels, they should pay for them and increase the ship costs to the true unsubsidized cost. Imagine if I went to the government and asked for money to build a T-shirt factory. I'd get laughed at. But somehow the shipping companies have managed to convince us that we should collectively pay to export our jobs.
I don't know how well their windows emulator works, but when emulators work they can be very helpful. I was trying to write a simple app for my nexus phone and started looking into it and found it was going to be overwhelming. But then I stumbled on androwish, a tcl/tk environment for android and found it trivial to write my app. So this was a case of a emulator/port saving substantial amounts of time.
There is another factor which is completely left out, the parents and their culture. Note the article says whites and asians. I would argue a white or asian parent is more likely to push their kids towards getting good grades. My parents were pretty low income and yet we were expected to bring home good grades. No excuses. I certainly see higher incomes as having an advantage, but cultural norms are a factor as well. I don't know how you would fix cultural norms except by taking the kids away from the parents and adopt them into families with high educational expectations.
Where do you think you get more soldiers?
And yet the fireball that hit russia a few years ago was spontaneous? Further, finding them is one thing, deflecting is a whole nuther problem.
I've said before to underwhelming response, we need to spend on protecting this gorgeous planet of ours from big rocks coming at us. It has happened before, so instead of trying to get off this really nice planet on to a crappy cold rock, we should first make sure we can defend the nice home with air, water and food before trying to build on a long shot.
There was no holodeck on the original star trek. Vacations were rare for the main characters. Generally the whole ship took a vacation on vacation like planets. And there were many episodes that dealt with "money" and exploitation. Planets for mining like the one with the silicon based creature that was killing the miners, the one where there was a cloud society that was supported by the workers on the ground, Harvey Mudd and the tribles, which were sold for credits, and many more. Dilithium crystals in particular were very valuable and mined if I remember right.
The guy who lost his permitted king cobra in florida has had nothing happen to him. The guy in texas who lost his cobra was killed by it. And then there is the guy in california who was bit by the rattlesnake he was playing with. So should we ban all snakes?
U-236 has a half life of 23 million years. To get down to a survival range, many half lives needed, at 10 half lives (230 million years, (1/1024 or about .1% of the current radiation levels) you'd still probably not be able to live in the area of the reactor. In the show, the reporter was very anxious to get out of the really hot spots like the old hospital. They were wearing protective clothing. Unprotected I think the kill time was about 5 minutes, so it was still very very hot. Keep in mind chernobyl was in the 80's so already 30 years later and still deadly areas exist outside of the reactor itself.
There was an interesting frontline about chernobyl I saw. There is work going on there to build a new containment structure for the reactor. The old concrete jacket is wearing. The area is so "hot" that the new vessel must be built away from the old area and later will be craned over the old reactor. The thing they are building is massive. The theory is the new structure should hold it for another 100 years. Then they will do it again I guess. The thing will be hot for as long as we have a sun, I think they quoted 4 billion years this thing will need to be covered. It makes me rethink if nuclear is a good idea, given the fukashima thing may turn into the same problem. How many of these reactors can we have around the world that will need to be shielded until the end of times?
Or you can write and use a text editor for terminals. I redid the old Rand Editor and called it sre. I have the source on my website. Took awhile, but I use it for coding exclusively. I also have written over the past decade or so a integrated circuit layout editor that has a limited DRC/LVS along with a matching schematic editor. The performance of the layout editor exceeds that of the "big" guys. A solo programmer can do alot with the tools available.
So I wish them luck, but to do what they want means they need 3 billion degrees to ignite and they are at 10 million. Over two orders of magnitude seems difficult. I like that their reaction is not radioactive though. It means if they ever do hit the 3 billion, the reaction will not destroy the equipment from the radiation.
My mom used to tell me her mom would make tomato sandwiches during the war. She loved them and viewed them as a treat. Later she found out that the reason she got them was that was all there was. And my mom was lucky, her parents had some land with some fruit trees and a big garden. I think one of the unfortunate things of today is when you are short of money, it is fast food that is the tomato sandwich, and the tomato sandwich had less calories than a big mac and fries.
I do own art as a matter of fact. Maybe 30K worth. I do value art. Oddly the artists I have did not go to college. Colleges tend to graduate art dealers, not artists.
I am afraid we are going to have to agree to disagree. Your commercial aircraft example is true, but the scarce availability of the equipment to general populace provides a good deal of protection, along with prevention cost is much less of an issue on a near billion dollar item compared to a 30k-ish car. Not to mention planes can and are grounded immediately if a problem is found. I do agree the prius was likely a real bug, but went with the "published" car mat explanation.
To further the farmer analogy, farmers do not plant weeds. You can't eat them. While weeds may be pretty, they are minimally useful to society. College could be free for degrees that pay off to society, assuming the student holds a B or better. If your parents are rich and want to pay for your weed degree, go for it. If your parents are rich and want to pay for you as you flunk out and party your way thru school go for it.
Except according to the news, the problem was floor mats. Whether it was or was not in this case does not matter. Cars will always have issues with physical bugs (think exploding airbags recently) which cannot be fixed by a magical sw patch. Therefore, real recalls must be effective and timely. I might argue that making OTA the norm will mean recalls requiring people to come in for physical objects to be replaced will get sloppier. And I maintain by allowing OTA access to the machine means there will be bad actors who can hack the machine. Nothing is unhackable.
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Exactly what can be hacked if you disconnect the car from the interwebs AND keep your doors/windows locked so people cannot access the OBDII connector? Of course someone can always nick a brake line or puncture a tire, but no amount of OTA magic is going to prevent that. Not being connected has advantages.
Actually, the OTA makes it vulnerable. If the car is totally disconnected from the interwebs, then it cannot be hacked from the interwebs. My point was without physical security, there is no security, which is what happens if you leave the perp with access to the OBDII connector. The perp could also pop the hood and do nefarious things if you left the window open or door unlocked.
Many of these exploits I don't think of as exploits. They attach a device to the OBDII connector. Keep your doors and windows locked and voila not connectee. 2nd, be real, somebody really wants to mess with your brakes why not nick the hydraulic cable. Much easier. Much of this is hype. The exploit on the fob to unlock, I'd pay attention to. I thought I saw somewhere the land rover is so bad that insurance will not cover it in london unless parked in a garage.