"High level" and "low level" are insufficient terms to describe the waste produced.
There are at least two axes that we must look at when describing the waste:
density of the material radioactive part radioactivity of the material
Some waste will decay very rapidly. In fact, the shorter the half life, the greater the radioactivity. In the limiting case of infinite half life, there is no danger from decay products whatsoever.
So, when you refer to "high level" do you mean, high density, long half life; low density, short half life, or high density, high half life?
similar for "low level"
and this is before you take into account the CHEMICAL toxicity of the elements & compounds involved.
It's very unlikely that said people would've been cought a mere 52 minutes before her birthday (or that they couldn't wait the 52 minutes having already waited until almost the birthday) Furthermore, they only get the "child rapist" sign if they were arrested for a crime that actually existed.
If you disagree with a law, argue against its real flaws rather than some made-up flaws that exist in your own little world.
For instance, various "Megan's laws" to which you implicitly refered have the underlying assumption that rehabilitation is either impossible or impossible to determine. Either way, this brings up the question of whether reintegration should even be attempted. Instead of that question being asked, and the actual crimes involved being examined, we gloss over the issue with a perminant badge of evil.
Erm. no. that won't happen in the US. We have very strongly worded anti "ex post facto law" in the constitution. I sincerely doubt that an ammendment to repeal that provision would ever pass.
an article about easter "tradition" on EASTER sunday is irrelevant? Are you saying easter doesn't matter or just that nerds aren't interested in candy?
No, the solid state dimmer doesn't change the level of the peaks. It "chops" the current, not allowing any through for parts of the cycle. The output from a solid sate dimmer can be a higher frequency (and square-ish) than the input. Unless by "solid state" you're referring to some kind of inductance device, in which case, apologize to the power company at once.
To solve the problem of not being dicks to the poor, fairtax issues a stipend to every citizen in the country.
This does kinda solve the problem, but it is inelegant, and, obviously, requires some interraction between the participants and the government to enact, removing some of the appeal and a good deal of the simplicity of a sales-style tax.
Should we try it in its current state? sure. I can't really think of a more elegant way to solve the problem I've mentioned and there's no reason not to reap the benefits of simplicity until the proper solution can be found.
Where do you get the idea it isn't costing anything? It certainly costs the manufacturers something to put in a CCD and some optics. Where do you suppose they're getting the money for that then?
There are plenty of phones without cameras. As an especial bonus, they are usually cheaper than the picture taking variety. It's just that some of them aren't quite as stylish as the camera phones, but as long as it fits unobtrusively in a pocket I don't see the problem there. No matter how stylish the phone is, if it's mounted on a holster you look like a pansy-arse wannabe cowboy.
There will always be an organization in any field which is the biggest. This company is found by ranking all in its field by size and picking the top one on the list. (or the bottom one depending on how you sorted) It's really not unbelievable that Wal Mart is the biggest: someone had to be and if it wasn't Wal Mart, we'd be talking about them instead. Years ago I think it was Sears.
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"High level" and "low level" are insufficient terms to describe the waste produced.
There are at least two axes that we must look at when describing the waste:
density of the material radioactive part
radioactivity of the material
Some waste will decay very rapidly. In fact, the shorter the half life, the greater the radioactivity. In the limiting case of infinite half life, there is no danger from decay products whatsoever.
So, when you refer to "high level" do you mean, high density, long half life; low density, short half life, or high density, high half life?
similar for "low level"
and this is before you take into account the CHEMICAL toxicity of the elements & compounds involved.
But "residual value" is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophesy isn't it?
It's very unlikely that said people would've been cought a mere 52 minutes before her birthday (or that they couldn't wait the 52 minutes having already waited until almost the birthday) Furthermore, they only get the "child rapist" sign if they were arrested for a crime that actually existed.
If you disagree with a law, argue against its real flaws rather than some made-up flaws that exist in your own little world.
For instance, various "Megan's laws" to which you implicitly refered have the underlying assumption that rehabilitation is either impossible or impossible to determine. Either way, this brings up the question of whether reintegration should even be attempted. Instead of that question being asked, and the actual crimes involved being examined, we gloss over the issue with a perminant badge of evil.
you'd probably also have stopped quicker if you'd had bald tires.
Everything is a compromise.
Erm. no. that won't happen in the US. We have very strongly worded anti "ex post facto law" in the constitution. I sincerely doubt that an ammendment to repeal that provision would ever pass.
an article about easter "tradition" on EASTER sunday is irrelevant? Are you saying easter doesn't matter or just that nerds aren't interested in candy?
Wait.. to avoid signing up for some crazy internet company's service, you signed up for another internet company's service?
It only needs to be able to heal itself because replacement parts are neither cheap nor easy to install.
A standard light bulb in a complete vacuum would be nearly 100% efficient (subtract transmission losses in the glass itself).
What are you talking about? with "electric heating" it's *all* waste heat.
No, the solid state dimmer doesn't change the level of the peaks. It "chops" the current, not allowing any through for parts of the cycle. The output from a solid sate dimmer can be a higher frequency (and square-ish) than the input. Unless by "solid state" you're referring to some kind of inductance device, in which case, apologize to the power company at once.
Not true my friend. telephone patches on repeater systems for HAMs are certainly prior art.
No, it smacks of european "me-too"ism. Which frankly is unbecoming to the continent which brought us modern science.
BTW, what did you think the "D" in "DARPA" stood for anyway?
Why would you use a program called MS Tool? anyway, isn't that name a bit.. redundant?
If it "only" stops RPGs, that's still an improvement over current tech.
It still has some rough edges.
To solve the problem of not being dicks to the poor, fairtax issues a stipend to every citizen in the country.
This does kinda solve the problem, but it is inelegant, and, obviously, requires some interraction between the participants and the government to enact, removing some of the appeal and a good deal of the simplicity of a sales-style tax.
Should we try it in its current state? sure. I can't really think of a more elegant way to solve the problem I've mentioned and there's no reason not to reap the benefits of simplicity until the proper solution can be found.
It also does nothing to stop air-burst nuclear weapons and meteor strikes, but so what?
Carpet bomb with "Agent Jung?".. some kind of aerosolized prozac?
Where do you get the idea it isn't costing anything? It certainly costs the manufacturers something to put in a CCD and some optics. Where do you suppose they're getting the money for that then?
There are plenty of phones without cameras. As an especial bonus, they are usually cheaper than the picture taking variety. It's just that some of them aren't quite as stylish as the camera phones, but as long as it fits unobtrusively in a pocket I don't see the problem there. No matter how stylish the phone is, if it's mounted on a holster you look like a pansy-arse wannabe cowboy.
What did she expect "goodwill" to do with them?
That exists too. The current system protects from theater ballistic missiles and is about the size of 3 semi-trailers.
There will always be an organization in any field which is the biggest. This company is found by ranking all in its field by size and picking the top one on the list. (or the bottom one depending on how you sorted) It's really not unbelievable that Wal Mart is the biggest: someone had to be and if it wasn't Wal Mart, we'd be talking about them instead. Years ago I think it was Sears.
What? maybe LONG before the probes. I'm pretty sure we had spectrometers and telescopes available before any of those probes were sent though.
I thought that's what "underrated" was for..