Instead of taking away wealth creation from the companies that succeed, why not punish those who fail by not bailing them out? Your business fails you go out of business, pretty simple process actually.
Too big to fail is a big fat lie.
The issue is that you're "punishing" the fictional person, rather than the actual person making the decisions, and thus the entire "simple process" fails completely in achieving its goal.
The heavy water acts as a neutron moderator, same as it does in a light water reactor. It absorbs energy from the free neutrons to slow them down (slow moving free neutron+U-235 atom=unstable atom=fission (atom breaks apart, releasing some neutrons in the process)=heat+fission productions (waste)). The purpose of using heavy water rather than light water is that heavy water absorbs energy from the neutrons, but doesn't absorb the neutrons themselves as much (It still does occasionally, resulting in tritiated water (water with tritium, rather than hydrogen), which needs to be filtered out on a regular basis), so you can get away with using lower concentrations of fissile material (U-235 in uranium reactors, or U-233 in a thorium reactor)
Because they already have the heavy water reactors (They're basically a CANDU derivative, so getting them to run on thorium is pretty simple), as opposed to having to build a new system from scratch.
What 'toxic chemicals' are in solar panels besides the little plastic electronics box? This has to be some fresh-made right-wing bull****. It is mostly sand, silicon, and aluminum...
Cadmium telluride is a popular alternative as it's cheaper than silicon panels. Also, refining the high purity silicon to make crystalline silicon panels is hardly a tidy process, such as the production of silicon tetrachloride.
to say nothing of the fact that there are tens of millions of goobers in this country who can't even figure out how to fill out a paper ballot.
Small wonder when the ballots seem to be designed with malicious intent towards that end.
If you actually hear of people having difficulty figuring out a Canadian style ballot (Hell, my legally blind grandmother voted fine last election), let me know.
Hutterites have been living in a society of common ownership for over a century and they appear to be functioning fine. Evidently something about their society (probably religious ties, or could be the limits on colony size) allows it to work where it failed for the Jamestown bunch.
But they aren't really paid twice as much. It's a myth that they are. If you are a contractor you get more cash, but yo ustill have to buy your health insurance, pay your own retirement, pay for all the benefits government employees take for granted.
It's twice as much AFTER ADDING IN BENEFITS.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees, POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees, POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.
And when they talk about how much Federal employees make vs Contractors they never factor in that a Contractor doesn't get any benefits, any life insurance, any health insurance, or anything.
Except that they did factor that in.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees, POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries
It existed some time before that. It was part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. When education got spun out into it's own department, it became the Department of Health and Human Services.
But with just a vacuum, couldn't that heat just go out as energy?
Technically, you could, but radiation is far less efficient than conduction or convection for transferring heat.
Power transferred via thermal radiation is proportional to surface area, something a processor has very little of (a square inch or so). Given orbital temperatures, you would be able to radiate away about 0.35 watts, which is decidedly insufficient for most purposes.
Hence why you need a radiator with loads of surface area and a method of moving the heat from the processor to that radiation, such as a heat pipe.
But nuclear has similar problems as its output can't be changed effectively.
Not really. Properly designed nuclear plants (e.g. Bruce Nuclear) can do that just fine. You just adjust the power output via the steam loop rather than the reactor, neatly dodging the xenon poisoning problem.
Just a technocality: I think most states there have to be a two year age gap between the kids... so it would be an 18 y/o with a 16 y/o
Nope, not most states. A total of 8 have such an exemption. NY has criteria that affect whether it is a felony or "merely" a misdemeanor, but no further sanity than that.
First, I dare you to design coal-powered cars and airplanes.
You can convert coal into gasoline and diesel via several coal liquefaction processes. Germany did it during WW2 when they got into oil supply problems.
Unless there are health complications to men from HPV
HPV is shown to cause throat, penile, rectal, and testicular cancer in men. They're rarer than cervical cancer in women, so you don't hear as much about them.
It is astronomically unlikely that I become a carrier. And even so, it is astronomically unlikely that I ever pass it on.
You must live in a very small cosmos to think that 1 in 7 is "astronomical". Approximately 15.2%* of US women are infected with one of the high-risk types of HPV.
*Prevalence of HPV Infection Among Females in the United States, February 28, 2007, Dunne et al. Journal of the American Medical Association.
Depending on where you live, you either get AT&T, Centurylink (formerly Qwest, and USWest before that), or Verizon.
here's a map. A bit old, so the names are wrong, but the areas are still accurate.
USWest is now CenturyLink, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell, Bellsouth, and Ameritech are now the new AT&T, and Bell Atlantic and NYNEX formed Verizon.
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Instead of taking away wealth creation from the companies that succeed, why not punish those who fail by not bailing them out? Your business fails you go out of business, pretty simple process actually.
Too big to fail is a big fat lie.
The issue is that you're "punishing" the fictional person, rather than the actual person making the decisions, and thus the entire "simple process" fails completely in achieving its goal.
There's also the "Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act" (They couldn't agree on a short title) that was passed last year, though the implementation of it is moving at a glacial pace.
Fusion has nothing to do with any of this.
The heavy water acts as a neutron moderator, same as it does in a light water reactor. It absorbs energy from the free neutrons to slow them down (slow moving free neutron+U-235 atom=unstable atom=fission (atom breaks apart, releasing some neutrons in the process)=heat+fission productions (waste)). The purpose of using heavy water rather than light water is that heavy water absorbs energy from the neutrons, but doesn't absorb the neutrons themselves as much (It still does occasionally, resulting in tritiated water (water with tritium, rather than hydrogen), which needs to be filtered out on a regular basis), so you can get away with using lower concentrations of fissile material (U-235 in uranium reactors, or U-233 in a thorium reactor)
Because they already have the heavy water reactors (They're basically a CANDU derivative, so getting them to run on thorium is pretty simple), as opposed to having to build a new system from scratch.
What 'toxic chemicals' are in solar panels besides the little plastic electronics box? This has to be some fresh-made right-wing bull****. It is mostly sand, silicon, and aluminum...
Cadmium telluride is a popular alternative as it's cheaper than silicon panels. Also, refining the high purity silicon to make crystalline silicon panels is hardly a tidy process, such as the production of silicon tetrachloride.
to say nothing of the fact that there are tens of millions of goobers in this country who can't even figure out how to fill out a paper ballot.
Small wonder when the ballots seem to be designed with malicious intent towards that end.
If you actually hear of people having difficulty figuring out a Canadian style ballot (Hell, my legally blind grandmother voted fine last election), let me know.
Hutterites have been living in a society of common ownership for over a century and they appear to be functioning fine. Evidently something about their society (probably religious ties, or could be the limits on colony size) allows it to work where it failed for the Jamestown bunch.
They include the benefits package to come up with that 2x figure.
But they aren't really paid twice as much. It's a myth that they are. If you are a contractor you get more cash, but yo ustill have to buy your health insurance, pay your own retirement, pay for all the benefits government employees take for granted.
It's twice as much AFTER ADDING IN BENEFITS.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees, POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.
http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/reports/contract-oversight/bad-business/co-gp-20110913.html#Summary%20of%20Methodology
If all these costs were accounted for then the supposed gap would be much narrower or potentially even non-existent.
Except that they are accounted for already.
http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/reports/contract-oversight/bad-business/co-gp-20110913.html#Summary%20of%20Methodology
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees, POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries and BLS’s 33.5 percent loading to private sector employee salaries to reflect the full fringe benefit package paid to full-time employees in service-providing organizations that employ 500 or more workers.
And when they talk about how much Federal employees make vs Contractors they never factor in that a Contractor doesn't get any benefits, any life insurance, any health insurance, or anything.
Except that they did factor that in.
Because the contractor billing rates published by GSA include not only salaries but also other costs including benefits contractors provide their employees, POGO added OPM’s 36.25 percent benefit rate to federal employee salaries
http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/reports/contract-oversight/bad-business/co-gp-20110913.html#Summary%20of%20Methodology
It existed some time before that. It was part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. When education got spun out into it's own department, it became the Department of Health and Human Services.
It's aether, not ether.
A device extracting energy from ether would be a diesel engine.
But with just a vacuum, couldn't that heat just go out as energy?
Technically, you could, but radiation is far less efficient than conduction or convection for transferring heat.
Power transferred via thermal radiation is proportional to surface area, something a processor has very little of (a square inch or so). Given orbital temperatures, you would be able to radiate away about 0.35 watts, which is decidedly insufficient for most purposes.
Hence why you need a radiator with loads of surface area and a method of moving the heat from the processor to that radiation, such as a heat pipe.
Yeah, but it gets taken to class by that radial design in terms of ability to actually cool stuff.
It's about the only useful product they make.
But nuclear has similar problems as its output can't be changed effectively.
Not really. Properly designed nuclear plants (e.g. Bruce Nuclear) can do that just fine. You just adjust the power output via the steam loop rather than the reactor, neatly dodging the xenon poisoning problem.
Just a technocality: I think most states there have to be a two year age gap between the kids... so it would be an 18 y/o with a 16 y/o
Nope, not most states. A total of 8 have such an exemption. NY has criteria that affect whether it is a felony or "merely" a misdemeanor, but no further sanity than that.
First, I dare you to design coal-powered cars and airplanes.
You can convert coal into gasoline and diesel via several coal liquefaction processes. Germany did it during WW2 when they got into oil supply problems.
Cunnilingus is performed by gay men? Perhaps you should invest in a dictionary.
You can test for it in a limited fashion in women with a simple cervical swab. No similar test exists for men.
Unless there are health complications to men from HPV
HPV is shown to cause throat, penile, rectal, and testicular cancer in men. They're rarer than cervical cancer in women, so you don't hear as much about them.
It also nets you the benefit of avoiding penile and testicular cancer.
It is astronomically unlikely that I become a carrier. And even so, it is astronomically unlikely that I ever pass it on.
You must live in a very small cosmos to think that 1 in 7 is "astronomical". Approximately 15.2%* of US women are infected with one of the high-risk types of HPV.
*Prevalence of HPV Infection Among Females in the United States, February 28, 2007, Dunne et al. Journal of the American Medical Association.
Not even a land line?.
Who do you think owns the landlines?
Depending on where you live, you either get AT&T, Centurylink (formerly Qwest, and USWest before that), or Verizon.
here's a map. A bit old, so the names are wrong, but the areas are still accurate.
USWest is now CenturyLink, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell, Bellsouth, and Ameritech are now the new AT&T, and Bell Atlantic and NYNEX formed Verizon.