Actually, the nuclear reactions did not stop immediately. The *primary* reaction did, but that had already created other radio-active isotopes. The decay activity of the daughter isotopes is what kept the system hot for so long.
A back-up landline? Really? Note:it doesn't exist! The distances and terrain to northern Canada are truely immense. The cost of providing (and maintaining!) a landline to northern communities is probably more than putting up 1 or more spare satellites!
I think the difference he was trying to articulate is that sending a picture of text is not the same as sending text. All useful operations on a document are just lost once it has been faxed.
"Content Creation" is perhaps a bad name for it, but the point is, I think, salient. An old saying that's been kicking around my head at least for years:
I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
Yes - pack a gun. Really. Declare it, they will inspect it in front of you, make you lock it with a *real* lock, and nobody else in the airport is allowed to screw around with it. Put all the other stuff you want them to not screw around with in the same case.
Doesn't even have to be a 'real' gun - get a starter's pistol.
Bzzt! The Bill Of Rights is *not* an exhaustive list! The Constitution limits what the government can do, it does *not* enumerate what you can do. In fact, fear of this kind of thinking led many people to oppose the Bill Of Rights. This led to the Tenth Amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
-Os *is* an optimization. Memory fetches are slow. If the runtime of the code is not a critical factor, then it is best to get it in fast. Smaller code also leaves more room in the (small, extremely valuable) L1 cache.
'Close enough' is the amber light. Assuming the amber light time is set properly (sometime not true, but go along with me), then if you are in the intersection when the light turns red, *you're doing it wrong*.
Amber means 'Stop if it is safe to do so', not 'gun it and hope you get through in time'.
Couple of problems
- The generators/switch gear are designed to produce transmission voltages. Industrial voltages for the plant are probably taken from a normal power substation, not directly from the high voltage transmission lines. It's likely the sub-station servicing the plant was wiped out.
- Strangely enough, generators don't work properly if there isn't *enough* load. It's unlikely that the needs of the plant are high enough to keep the generators online.
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Um, yeah, I think that was *exactly* his point. "WHOOSH" for you!
Then, when you refuse, their only option is... to ask you to leave.
"wrap a submarine in about 300 turns of cable and run a few thousand amps through them."
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Actually, the nuclear reactions did not stop immediately. The *primary* reaction did, but that had already created other radio-active isotopes. The decay activity of the daughter isotopes is what kept the system hot for so long.
A back-up landline? Really?
Note:it doesn't exist! The distances and terrain to northern Canada are truely immense. The cost of providing (and maintaining!) a landline to northern communities is probably more than putting up 1 or more spare satellites!
I think the difference he was trying to articulate is that sending a picture of text is not the same as sending text. All useful operations on a document are just lost once it has been faxed.
"Content Creation" is perhaps a bad name for it, but the point is, I think, salient. An old saying that's been kicking around my head at least for years:
I hear, and I forget.
I see, and I remember.
I do, and I understand.
Dude, the light source is almost certainly vehicle headlights. Not single source, not point, not distant.
Yes - pack a gun. Really. Declare it, they will inspect it in front of you, make you lock it with a *real* lock, and nobody else in the airport is allowed to screw around with it. Put all the other stuff you want them to not screw around with in the same case.
Doesn't even have to be a 'real' gun - get a starter's pistol.
What? No, both are vector quantities. One is just the negative of the other, they each have just as much 'context'.
Bzzt! The Bill Of Rights is *not* an exhaustive list! The Constitution limits what the government can do, it does *not* enumerate what you can do. In fact, fear of this kind of thinking led many people to oppose the Bill Of Rights. This led to the Tenth Amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Furrfu, I'm Canadian and even I know this!
The point is not to scan pilots. It's to scan people *dressed* as pilots.
You exempt *foo*, and (the thinking goes) people will disguise themselves as a foo. See 'Catch Me If You Can'.
The thinking is, of course, overly simplistic, but it also provides easy-to-follow rules - scan everyone.
Obscured by the dust in our own galaxy.
-Os *is* an optimization. Memory fetches are slow. If the runtime of the code is not a critical factor, then it is best to get it in fast. Smaller code also leaves more room in the (small, extremely valuable) L1 cache.
The charge is used to isolate the particle. Once it is positron bound, it is overall neutral. How do you isolate it?
'Close enough' is the amber light. Assuming the amber light time is set properly (sometime not true, but go along with me), then if you are in the intersection when the light turns red, *you're doing it wrong*.
Amber means 'Stop if it is safe to do so', not 'gun it and hope you get through in time'.
Not true. In BC at least, the only thing you need is a safety inspection and Daylight Running Lights - $150 at Canadian Tire.
The US speeometer (with itty-bitty kilometer markings) was never an issue.
...And it's not true. Brought a US built Neon into Canada. Only problem was having Daylight running lights installed - $150 at Canadian Tire.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Or, "Provenance matters".
The difference between a geek and a nerd is that a geek knows the difference between a geek and a nerd.
I'm sure there's just a little hyperbole here. The 'connectors didn't match' probably because the voltages / amps / phase didn't match.
If the generator is 480 / 3 phase, but the industrial input is (say) 380 / 3 phase, all bets are off.
RTGs have outputs measured in watts. Note the lack of any prefixes denoting 'lots of'.
Couple of problems
- The generators/switch gear are designed to produce transmission voltages. Industrial voltages for the plant are probably taken from a normal power substation, not directly from the high voltage transmission lines. It's likely the sub-station servicing the plant was wiped out.
- Strangely enough, generators don't work properly if there isn't *enough* load. It's unlikely that the needs of the plant are high enough to keep the generators online.
http://xkcd.com/619/
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