Integral Fast Reactors (and I'm sure some of the similarly-working newer designs) do put out waste, but (shamelessly stolen from the wiki on IFRs) "The two forms of waste produced, a noble metal form and a ceramic form, contain no plutonium or other actinides. The radioactivity of the waste decays to levels similar to the original ore in about 200 years."
And that ain't bad. We've already got Yucca pretty much ready to go. It's completely feasible to keep waste contained safely in Yucca for *200* years. Granted, a mountain of radioactive ore? Still not the coolest thing around, but think it's safe to say that's a lot better than the alternative. Which is an overflowing Yucca that's glowing for, what was it, 200 *thousand* years?
Actually I've heard that they're supposed to be more resilient than jet engines, because they don't have all those tiny little rapidly-spinning compressor blades. The compression is accomplished just from the pressure of the incoming air, the shape of the scramjet, and the combustion of the fuel (and doesnt it combust due to the high pressure / hence heat?)
I dunno. I've not looked into them for a while now and I'm not an experimental-propulsion-systems-making-dude, so I may be a bit off, but it's my understanding that ram and scramjets should be less vulnerable to ducks.
Well that's a bit silly. We already have plenty of robots who can't perform anything they were not specifically designed and programmed to do. The whole point of creating AI robots is so they can adapt to novel and new situations without explicitly being instructed what to do.
The firepower the cartels wield is not smuggled in from the US. 87% of the firearms Mexico asks the ATF to locate, are traced to the US -- but they only request that sort of thing on a small percent of the firearms they seize, 10%-ish I believe. Basically, they only request it when they have reason to believe the guns came from the US.
The M16s? The grenades? Those aren't being smuggled across the border unless the government is doing it. They're not, incidentally, most those sorts of things are sold to the cartels from the Mexican army (yay for corruption!). AKs and other soviet weaponry obviously is a lot easier to find on black markets, and that's not smuggled from the US either.
When you're making the kind of money the cartels were, you're not going out and buying semi-autos or hunting rifles, you're buying military hardware. And you don't buy that sort of thing in the US. Other than that, though, yep. Clearly has something to do with the violence that's been going on down there, whether or not it works I think depends on how splintered the cartels actually are. Honestly would not be surprised if only certain cartels were targetted -- it's happened before, but I believe that involved police and not the mexican miltary.
DX10 was a flop because Vista was a flop. If MS let users of XP grab DX10, DX10 would have caught on in games, but it was Vista-only and no game makers were about to (or are about to) invest a ton of money in a game that's either Vista-only or in the work to make a DX9 game actually make full use of DX10 features. DX10 just was irrelevant because a great majority of the market wasn't able to use it.
I think that last bit could be a bit more accurate..
"Agents of the colonial powers arrived on the scene of what was already, and had long been, a complex political and social stage, full of all kinds of various actors and groups. And then they showed them how gunpowder works, whereupon the natives were so impressed they fell over and died."
.. right, I don't even own an xbox, thanks. I'm pretty tired of people mistaking me for a 16 year old when I talk about video games. If you want to find actual skill and a level of competition that's high enough you could actually call something a sport, just go gander at a random FPS tourny, or even a fighting game tourny. WoW was not designed as a competitive PvP game. I mean, hey, people hold RPS tournies, that doesn't mean they're skilled at RPS. It'd be like winning a coin toss tournament and then claiming you actually are skilled at saying "HEADS!" or "TAILS!".. baloney. And so is WoW's PvP.
PvP in WoW is bad. Not because some OP class beat me, but because it's just bad. Seriously. And, no, I don't know a single person who thought the PvP system was good 4 years ago. PvP in WoW was around before honor.. and it was more fun before honor. WoW managed to turn something that should be fun in and of itself, with no rewards -- PvP -- and twist it into just another gear ladder to climb.
It's a bit like chutes and ladders. Sure, at the top levels of play I bet it's pretty complex and the top players would whip my ass. Sure. That doesn't change the fact that the game itself is not really an accurate meter to measure how good you are at video games. 99% of the trick in WoW is being a certain class and a certain spec and finding friends of certain classes with certain specs. Grats, you just pwned a spreadsheet (that's also why EVE is so damned boring, it's just spreadsheets in space..).
they could be in the process of being out-competed by less protected leaf systems, though. 500 years isn't a hell of a long time, especially when trees live so long. 500 years is a long time when there's active pressure, like predation or climate killing less fit members.. this is just a matter of more efficient plants out-reproducing those who invest more energy into needless things. Seeing as how this is New Zealand, I don't think they really have bad weather that would actually cause trees that waste energy on little spikes to die or be significantly less fit and able to reproduce. Evolution is sloooow, and this sort of evolution would cause change exceptionally slowly.
the change itself has no cost, sure, but it's not that there's a cost to evolve.. evolution is just the result of the pressure of survival and reproduction. there's nothing on the island selecting AGAINST jagged leaves, or at least any pressure on jagged-leaves trees is not strong enough to allow mutant varieties to out-compete the jagged-leaves.
That.. doesn't really work. A good story is a good story. LoTR wasn't unexpected at any point (this is/. if you haven't read LotR you don't belong here), that doesn't mean it was bad.
I'm not expecting a lot out of this movie, but it'll be neat just to have a movie out there with such a high (hopefully!) concentration of non-human characters that are more than backdrops. And that aren't named Jar Jar. Hell, just lifting the story straight from WC3 would make a pretty epic movie.
WoW really exists apart from the actual Warcraft universe if you will. I mean dude.. it's not like when they'd release a book or another WC game, they're going to include all the main characters sitting around 24/7 in their respective capital cities like they do in-game. Not gonna have all these boss npcs getting killed once a week by various small groups. It's a whole different thing, they only interact very nebulously.
1997, possibly, yeah. Any money they got in 1997 dried up a long, long time ago. After about a good 5 or 6 years in development, Helen Keller could've seen it was just a pipe dream. The people who were feeding them money from let's say 2003 onward? They're the fools.
Not exactly. I'm going to assume the folk you're referring to wish immigrants to adopt the traditions of their new land. That's not necessary, all that should be expected is that they respect them (and they should assume a mutual respect of their traditions as well, at least to the extent allowed by law -- no killing people and such). Much different than what I think you're understanding me to be saying.
Sure, it's pretty clear NOW that there was no actual threat. Doesn't change the fact that there WAS a specific threat made. If we were to use your logic, any time there's a bomb threat called in to a school it should just be ignored, right? The likelihood of it being real is pretty low. And heck, let's not even investigate it at all, KIDS WILL BE KIDS amirite?
Bombs can be snuck on to planes, and without investigating the matter at all there's no way of telling if this was just someone running their mouth or some kind of weirdo's legitimate threat. It's not like it took a huge amount of money to investigate. He mouths off in the trade channel, someone reports him, a Blizzard GM sees this and hey, wouldn't you know, they have his credit card info. Call the local cops where he lives and they go check it out. No more money was wasted on this than had there been a NOISE COMPLAINT called in on his place. In other words, the cost of looking into the matter was very low, but the potential cost of ignoring it could have been high. Without knowing anything other than Person X at Address Y made Threat Z, there's no real way to verify if it's a legit threat or not. Matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet that the cost of sending cops over to this ADULT's apartment was lower than the total cost for increased security the day of the threat would have been. So be happy. They arrested some irresponsible asshole AND saved money.
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in 2 years, 2GB will still be fine. Plenty of new games will still run acceptably well with a *half* GB vid card. Trust me, that's what I've got.
Then again, I *was* using a Voodoo3 up until 2002-2003.
No, grass is not a weed.. although, sometimes, grass is weed.
Integral Fast Reactors (and I'm sure some of the similarly-working newer designs) do put out waste, but (shamelessly stolen from the wiki on IFRs) "The two forms of waste produced, a noble metal form and a ceramic form, contain no plutonium or other actinides. The radioactivity of the waste decays to levels similar to the original ore in about 200 years."
And that ain't bad. We've already got Yucca pretty much ready to go. It's completely feasible to keep waste contained safely in Yucca for *200* years. Granted, a mountain of radioactive ore? Still not the coolest thing around, but think it's safe to say that's a lot better than the alternative. Which is an overflowing Yucca that's glowing for, what was it, 200 *thousand* years?
Actually I've heard that they're supposed to be more resilient than jet engines, because they don't have all those tiny little rapidly-spinning compressor blades. The compression is accomplished just from the pressure of the incoming air, the shape of the scramjet, and the combustion of the fuel (and doesnt it combust due to the high pressure / hence heat?)
I dunno. I've not looked into them for a while now and I'm not an experimental-propulsion-systems-making-dude, so I may be a bit off, but it's my understanding that ram and scramjets should be less vulnerable to ducks.
Well that's a bit silly. We already have plenty of robots who can't perform anything they were not specifically designed and programmed to do. The whole point of creating AI robots is so they can adapt to novel and new situations without explicitly being instructed what to do.
It's the quietest yelling you've ever read.
Misinformation is still information, after all.
No, no, it looks like the next item on the list is maple syrup.
The firepower the cartels wield is not smuggled in from the US. 87% of the firearms Mexico asks the ATF to locate, are traced to the US -- but they only request that sort of thing on a small percent of the firearms they seize, 10%-ish I believe. Basically, they only request it when they have reason to believe the guns came from the US.
The M16s? The grenades? Those aren't being smuggled across the border unless the government is doing it. They're not, incidentally, most those sorts of things are sold to the cartels from the Mexican army (yay for corruption!). AKs and other soviet weaponry obviously is a lot easier to find on black markets, and that's not smuggled from the US either.
When you're making the kind of money the cartels were, you're not going out and buying semi-autos or hunting rifles, you're buying military hardware. And you don't buy that sort of thing in the US.
Other than that, though, yep. Clearly has something to do with the violence that's been going on down there, whether or not it works I think depends on how splintered the cartels actually are. Honestly would not be surprised if only certain cartels were targetted -- it's happened before, but I believe that involved police and not the mexican miltary.
Wow, I was up with you until you implied that she's just lucky the cops didn't shoot her. I hope I'm misreading that. This isn't Russia.
Sweet, random Flamebait moderation! Some kind of die-hard DX10 / Vista enthusiast take offense?
DX10 was a flop because Vista was a flop. If MS let users of XP grab DX10, DX10 would have caught on in games, but it was Vista-only and no game makers were about to (or are about to) invest a ton of money in a game that's either Vista-only or in the work to make a DX9 game actually make full use of DX10 features. DX10 just was irrelevant because a great majority of the market wasn't able to use it.
I think that last bit could be a bit more accurate..
"Agents of the colonial powers arrived on the scene of what was already, and had long been, a complex political and social stage, full of all kinds of various actors and groups. And then they showed them how gunpowder works, whereupon the natives were so impressed they fell over and died."
I don't think I'd rag on browsers for displaying a shlob of code as it's given to them, I'd rather rag on the shlob of code for being a complete mess.
.. right, I don't even own an xbox, thanks. I'm pretty tired of people mistaking me for a 16 year old when I talk about video games. If you want to find actual skill and a level of competition that's high enough you could actually call something a sport, just go gander at a random FPS tourny, or even a fighting game tourny. WoW was not designed as a competitive PvP game. I mean, hey, people hold RPS tournies, that doesn't mean they're skilled at RPS. It'd be like winning a coin toss tournament and then claiming you actually are skilled at saying "HEADS!" or "TAILS!".. baloney. And so is WoW's PvP.
PvP in WoW is bad. Not because some OP class beat me, but because it's just bad. Seriously. And, no, I don't know a single person who thought the PvP system was good 4 years ago. PvP in WoW was around before honor.. and it was more fun before honor. WoW managed to turn something that should be fun in and of itself, with no rewards -- PvP -- and twist it into just another gear ladder to climb.
It's a bit like chutes and ladders. Sure, at the top levels of play I bet it's pretty complex and the top players would whip my ass. Sure. That doesn't change the fact that the game itself is not really an accurate meter to measure how good you are at video games. 99% of the trick in WoW is being a certain class and a certain spec and finding friends of certain classes with certain specs. Grats, you just pwned a spreadsheet (that's also why EVE is so damned boring, it's just spreadsheets in space..).
Wow you need to stop smoking so much pot. Like, right now. Stop it.
On the other hand, money. Winner, money.
they could be in the process of being out-competed by less protected leaf systems, though. 500 years isn't a hell of a long time, especially when trees live so long. 500 years is a long time when there's active pressure, like predation or climate killing less fit members.. this is just a matter of more efficient plants out-reproducing those who invest more energy into needless things. Seeing as how this is New Zealand, I don't think they really have bad weather that would actually cause trees that waste energy on little spikes to die or be significantly less fit and able to reproduce. Evolution is sloooow, and this sort of evolution would cause change exceptionally slowly.
the change itself has no cost, sure, but it's not that there's a cost to evolve.. evolution is just the result of the pressure of survival and reproduction. there's nothing on the island selecting AGAINST jagged leaves, or at least any pressure on jagged-leaves trees is not strong enough to allow mutant varieties to out-compete the jagged-leaves.
That.. doesn't really work. A good story is a good story. LoTR wasn't unexpected at any point (this is /. if you haven't read LotR you don't belong here), that doesn't mean it was bad.
I'm not expecting a lot out of this movie, but it'll be neat just to have a movie out there with such a high (hopefully!) concentration of non-human characters that are more than backdrops. And that aren't named Jar Jar. Hell, just lifting the story straight from WC3 would make a pretty epic movie.
WoW really exists apart from the actual Warcraft universe if you will. I mean dude.. it's not like when they'd release a book or another WC game, they're going to include all the main characters sitting around 24/7 in their respective capital cities like they do in-game. Not gonna have all these boss npcs getting killed once a week by various small groups. It's a whole different thing, they only interact very nebulously.
... . . . rats.
OK! You've got me there. Somehow, though, TF2 always seemed more of an eventual, if distant, reality.
1997, possibly, yeah. Any money they got in 1997 dried up a long, long time ago. After about a good 5 or 6 years in development, Helen Keller could've seen it was just a pipe dream. The people who were feeding them money from let's say 2003 onward? They're the fools.
Not exactly. I'm going to assume the folk you're referring to wish immigrants to adopt the traditions of their new land. That's not necessary, all that should be expected is that they respect them (and they should assume a mutual respect of their traditions as well, at least to the extent allowed by law -- no killing people and such). Much different than what I think you're understanding me to be saying.
Sure, it's pretty clear NOW that there was no actual threat. Doesn't change the fact that there WAS a specific threat made. If we were to use your logic, any time there's a bomb threat called in to a school it should just be ignored, right? The likelihood of it being real is pretty low. And heck, let's not even investigate it at all, KIDS WILL BE KIDS amirite?
Bombs can be snuck on to planes, and without investigating the matter at all there's no way of telling if this was just someone running their mouth or some kind of weirdo's legitimate threat. It's not like it took a huge amount of money to investigate. He mouths off in the trade channel, someone reports him, a Blizzard GM sees this and hey, wouldn't you know, they have his credit card info. Call the local cops where he lives and they go check it out. No more money was wasted on this than had there been a NOISE COMPLAINT called in on his place.
In other words, the cost of looking into the matter was very low, but the potential cost of ignoring it could have been high. Without knowing anything other than Person X at Address Y made Threat Z, there's no real way to verify if it's a legit threat or not.
Matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet that the cost of sending cops over to this ADULT's apartment was lower than the total cost for increased security the day of the threat would have been.
So be happy. They arrested some irresponsible asshole AND saved money.