Is there anyway to remove this thread from Slashdot so we don't look like people who should be prevented from reproducing?
Your concern is misplaced. To reproduce sexually, an organism has to engage in actual (rather than simulated or conjectured) intercourse with the other gender of the same species.
For the universe of Slashdot readers, a theoretical possibility to be sure, but in actual practice it is of little consequence.
But it sounds more than a little like the 'war on drugs'. Yes, there have been attempts at weaning Afghanistan farmers away from the lucrative poppy crop. Might have even put a bit of a damper on heroin production. But addicts got to get their fix, haters got to hate. I don't see it as materially improving the IED situation.
It might be able to prevent another Texas fertilizer plant explosion - that in itself is a worthy goal, but changing the dynamics of the Middle East, not so much.
While the articles are pretty inflammatory and don't really have any details (including the issue with cracks - that's not unexpected in prototypes of high performance watercraft, they can usually be fixed), the core issue is this:
This harsh analysis comes just days after the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report concluding the Defense Department has a problem with committing to expensive new weapons systems before development is complete.
This makes no sense whatsoever except as a lucrative cash cow (even a spherical one) for the contractors.
If you want cutting edge, create a skunk works (maybe the marine equivalent would be slime eel works?). Let them work out the bugs. Your PRODUCTION ships are well defined technology, as kept as simple as possible. Designed for real mission work - not fantasy battles with aliens. Less sizzle, more steak.
... It only needs to fire once to serve its purpose.
Bang! You missed.
Bang! Bang! Bang! (continue until magazine empty) --- finally hit your squirrely fat behind, you're dead.
I'm going to keep my accurately milled stainless steel Mini-14 over your plastic pathetic. Interestingly, the feds have no knowledge of me owning that perfectly legal gun. And further, they don't particularly care. If you're just trying to fire a single round, you just need a piece of pipe, a couple of springs and a small steel pin. Stuff you can find in even a TrueValue "hardware" store.
If someone breaks into my house in the middle of the night, the likely outcome is that he (likely a he) will trip over one of the sleeping black dogs scattered over the floor, break their leg and sue me.
Much easier than cleaning up shotgun mediated pieces parts.
I've got a number of guns, none of which are ready for instant action. That's what pepper spray (Bear spray in my neck of the woods). It's much easier for me to pull the trigger on 6 ounces of 10% capacin than an ounce of lead. Better patterning than 00 buckshot. Easier on the drywall.
I tried to look at their Facebook page but the entire Facebook site appears to be down. If Slashdot managed to trash Facebook, you can bet your toasted hard drives that there will be outrage, panic and Congressional Blue Ribbon committees.
And I remember ars before the op-ed ramblings on copyright and the video game reviews. You can't go back, so we just have the Old Geezer meeting on the second Saturday of every month. Newcomers are not welcome.
Then you could at least put up some wheelchair ramps and SPEAK UP SONNY!
Forget the guns. Radios are more important. If there is some sort of General Mess, either by collapse or insurrection, running around shooting or blowing up things isn't terribly important. Knowing who and where the enemy is becomes the key to staying alive.
That's why I giggle at the survivalist / prepper folks. Hide in your bunker. That just means you lost to a small infantry squad with a Sargent and a half dozen guys that listen to him. Even if all they have are some rocks and patience.
You can do that. It just might cost you. Space is money.
You can buy a walled mansion in Hollywood with armed guards. You can buy into a gated community with its paint Nazis (and you think the grammar Nazis here are bad). You can move into the bush. You can move to a society that values the perception of privacy (like Japan) with cultural norms that inhibit people from prying.
It is like many of the decisions in life, complex and ever changing. No guarantees. No refunds. Tax and batteries not included.
If you aren't sure that natural selection applies to viruses, you should quit posting in a thread that requires said knowledge to post correctly.
Antigenic shift and drift was discovered in influenza viruses. Protein self assembly and the genetics surrounding that, core concepts in molecular biology were also derived from virus studies. Viruses were key to unraveling the molecular components of natural (and unnatural) selection.
Well, the people that have been killed were old people, so it's not exactly a killer virus yet.
You ain't getting any younger, chucko. And just keep in mind, by the time you are 'old people', healthcare in the US will be limited to three generic aspirin tablets and a used bandaid per month.
All of the pounding noises in your respective heads don't come from the researchers. It comes from all the Mountain Dew and Cheetos you are are mainlining.
The newspaper article was hardly inflammatory. The Nature summary was actually pretty balanced. What it is showing is that bird flu variants with bird - human transmission seem to be following a pattern. A pattern we might be able to use to our advantage should a real, virulent, pandemic strain show up. Like it did in the 1920's.
Time to lay off the stimulants, guys.
I like the fun fact that a significant population of the world is at contact risk should that occur through air travel. Six degrees of separation my ass....
The second plan approved by the State Council, the Twelfth Five-Year Plan and the 2020 Vision of Nuclear Safety and Radioactive Pollution Prevention -- the Nuclear Safety Plan, for short -- goes farther. It requires that all operating reactors maintain good safety records and avoid accidents. New reactors must put in place prevention and mitigation measures for severe accidents.
The wrote it down. They put it on the Internet. What else could they need to do?
Interest doesn't equal intent. The financial situation just doesn't make sense for nuclear (at present). Given the (artificially, temporary) low prices of natural gas and the relatively inexpensive and rapid timeline of a natural gas fired electrical generation plant AND the increasingly favorable costs for wind / solar conventional nucs just aren't a hot item. Especially since the 'new and improved' Gen III plants don't exist in the US just yet so it's a bit of a stretch to call up Westinghouse and ask for a tour (want to fly to Beijing?).
Let's face it, current LWR technology just hasn't worked out all that well. Turns out it's expensive to build and maintain. They're insanely complex. Impossible to insure (unless the feds step in). Covered by tons of regulations (would you want it any other way given human avarice and greed?). Enormous capital expenditures. Basically they got outcompeted. Yeah, free market?!$&#*&>.
Now, lets move forward a decade or so. Westinghouse and the French company (I want to say 'Avarice' but that's not it) are working on Gen III reactors being sited in China. IF (big if) they pull it off, get a couple of years of installing them and running them without major issues AND natural gas prices climb (again - follow The Oil Drum or similar sites, tl;dr the depletion rate of fracked natural gas wells is truly enormous) and nobody figures out a reasonable strategy to turn solar power into baseload power, THEN nuclear might have a chance.
All they would have to do is figure out the the little problem of waste storage.
Certainly, much of nuclear power's issues are political rather than technical in nature but politics is "the art of the possible". If we were rational creatures, Mr. Spock would be President for Life and we'd have flying cars.
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Is there anyway to remove this thread from Slashdot so we don't look like people who should be prevented from reproducing?
Your concern is misplaced. To reproduce sexually, an organism has to engage in actual (rather than simulated or conjectured) intercourse with the other gender of the same species.
For the universe of Slashdot readers, a theoretical possibility to be sure, but in actual practice it is of little consequence.
Uhu. So how much bleach and ammonia do you need to make a bomb?
RTFM
But it sounds more than a little like the 'war on drugs'. Yes, there have been attempts at weaning Afghanistan farmers away from the lucrative poppy crop. Might have even put a bit of a damper on heroin production. But addicts got to get their fix, haters got to hate. I don't see it as materially improving the IED situation.
It might be able to prevent another Texas fertilizer plant explosion - that in itself is a worthy goal, but changing the dynamics of the Middle East, not so much.
"Littoral" sounds meaner than "Shallow water".
Shallow water combat sounds like your mom won't let you into the deep end of the pool.
While the articles are pretty inflammatory and don't really have any details (including the issue with cracks - that's not unexpected in prototypes of high performance watercraft, they can usually be fixed), the core issue is this:
This harsh analysis comes just days after the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report concluding the Defense Department has a problem with committing to expensive new weapons systems before development is complete.
This makes no sense whatsoever except as a lucrative cash cow (even a spherical one) for the contractors.
If you want cutting edge, create a skunk works (maybe the marine equivalent would be slime eel works?). Let them work out the bugs. Your PRODUCTION ships are well defined technology, as kept as simple as possible. Designed for real mission work - not fantasy battles with aliens. Less sizzle, more steak.
You certainly can do both. You tend to get better reimbursement with multiple codes anyway.
... It only needs to fire once to serve its purpose.
Bang! You missed.
Bang! Bang! Bang! (continue until magazine empty) --- finally hit your squirrely fat behind, you're dead.
I'm going to keep my accurately milled stainless steel Mini-14 over your plastic pathetic. Interestingly, the feds have no knowledge of me owning that perfectly legal gun. And further, they don't particularly care. If you're just trying to fire a single round, you just need a piece of pipe, a couple of springs and a small steel pin. Stuff you can find in even a TrueValue "hardware" store.
If someone breaks into my house in the middle of the night, the likely outcome is that he (likely a he) will trip over one of the sleeping black dogs scattered over the floor, break their leg and sue me.
Much easier than cleaning up shotgun mediated pieces parts.
I've got a number of guns, none of which are ready for instant action. That's what pepper spray (Bear spray in my neck of the woods). It's much easier for me to pull the trigger on 6 ounces of 10% capacin than an ounce of lead. Better patterning than 00 buckshot. Easier on the drywall.
Oh, it's just ironic, isn't it.
You're describing Jevon's Paradox.
And you should be downmodded for using a hamburger analogy in a car thread. That's just not right.
If it's a medical term, then it has to have an ICD-10 code.
Closest I found was:
W17.1XXA Fall into storm drain or manhole, initial encounter -
but perhaps since EA has been screwing up for some time, we should use
Code W17.1XXD, Fall into storm drain or manhole, subsequent encounter or perhaps
Code 17.1XXS, Sequela of falling into storm hole or drain
I tried to look at their Facebook page but the entire Facebook site appears to be down. If Slashdot managed to trash Facebook, you can bet your toasted hard drives that there will be outrage, panic and Congressional Blue Ribbon committees.
Sorry to break the news, but MCAT, GRE and SAT are run by private firms. They're 'non profits' but they are not government entities.
And I remember ars before the op-ed ramblings on copyright and the video game reviews. You can't go back, so we just have the Old Geezer meeting on the second Saturday of every month. Newcomers are not welcome.
Then you could at least put up some wheelchair ramps and SPEAK UP SONNY!
Forget the guns. Radios are more important. If there is some sort of General Mess, either by collapse or insurrection, running around shooting or blowing up things isn't terribly important. Knowing who and where the enemy is becomes the key to staying alive.
That's why I giggle at the survivalist / prepper folks. Hide in your bunker. That just means you lost to a small infantry squad with a Sargent and a half dozen guys that listen to him. Even if all they have are some rocks and patience.
You can do that. It just might cost you. Space is money.
You can buy a walled mansion in Hollywood with armed guards.
You can buy into a gated community with its paint Nazis (and you think the grammar Nazis here are bad).
You can move into the bush.
You can move to a society that values the perception of privacy (like Japan) with cultural norms that inhibit people from prying.
It is like many of the decisions in life, complex and ever changing. No guarantees. No refunds. Tax and batteries not included.
I bet you get invited to all the global warming parties.
If you aren't sure that natural selection applies to viruses, you should quit posting in a thread that requires said knowledge to post correctly.
Antigenic shift and drift was discovered in influenza viruses. Protein self assembly and the genetics surrounding that, core concepts in molecular biology were also derived from virus studies. Viruses were key to unraveling the molecular components of natural (and unnatural) selection.
Well, the people that have been killed were old people, so it's not exactly a killer virus yet.
You ain't getting any younger, chucko. And just keep in mind, by the time you are 'old people', healthcare in the US will be limited to three generic aspirin tablets and a used bandaid per month.
You damn well hope we figure it out before then.
The power switch?
All of the pounding noises in your respective heads don't come from the researchers. It comes from all the Mountain Dew and Cheetos you are are mainlining.
The newspaper article was hardly inflammatory. The Nature summary was actually pretty balanced. What it is showing is that bird flu variants with bird - human transmission seem to be following a pattern. A pattern we might be able to use to our advantage should a real, virulent, pandemic strain show up. Like it did in the 1920's.
Time to lay off the stimulants, guys.
I like the fun fact that a significant population of the world is at contact risk should that occur through air travel. Six degrees of separation my ass....
Google: All your bits are belong to us!
But, But ...
They said they were going to do it right
The second plan approved by the State Council, the Twelfth Five-Year Plan and the 2020 Vision of Nuclear Safety and Radioactive Pollution Prevention -- the Nuclear Safety Plan, for short -- goes farther. It requires that all operating reactors maintain good safety records and avoid accidents. New reactors must put in place prevention and mitigation measures for severe accidents.
The wrote it down. They put it on the Internet. What else could they need to do?
Please reply with further geopolitical analysis regarding whatever topic you feel appropriate.
All your base belong to us!
No, no. To be on topic you have to say:
"All your base load belong to us!"
That works, scarily enough.
Interest doesn't equal intent. The financial situation just doesn't make sense for nuclear (at present). Given the (artificially, temporary) low prices of natural gas and the relatively inexpensive and rapid timeline of a natural gas fired electrical generation plant AND the increasingly favorable costs for wind / solar conventional nucs just aren't a hot item. Especially since the 'new and improved' Gen III plants don't exist in the US just yet so it's a bit of a stretch to call up Westinghouse and ask for a tour (want to fly to Beijing?).
Let's face it, current LWR technology just hasn't worked out all that well. Turns out it's expensive to build and maintain. They're insanely complex. Impossible to insure (unless the feds step in). Covered by tons of regulations (would you want it any other way given human avarice and greed?). Enormous capital expenditures. Basically they got outcompeted. Yeah, free market?!$&#*&>.
Now, lets move forward a decade or so. Westinghouse and the French company (I want to say 'Avarice' but that's not it) are working on Gen III reactors being sited in China. IF (big if) they pull it off, get a couple of years of installing them and running them without major issues AND natural gas prices climb (again - follow The Oil Drum or similar sites, tl;dr the depletion rate of fracked natural gas wells is truly enormous) and nobody figures out a reasonable strategy to turn solar power into baseload power, THEN nuclear might have a chance.
All they would have to do is figure out the the little problem of waste storage.
Certainly, much of nuclear power's issues are political rather than technical in nature but politics is "the art of the possible". If we were rational creatures, Mr. Spock would be President for Life and we'd have flying cars.
But we're not. So we can't have nice things.