Could a Harvard graduate from the era be able to send an email from a laptop? Would he know how to even turn-on the laptop?
I guess it would all depend on the time scale. If you set a laptop down in front of him(and they were all males back then) and said, "Send me an email in the next 5 minutes stating your name and major" then yes, he would fail. However if you gave him a day and allowed him unlimited access to the laptop then he might be able send one. Critical thinking skills are pretty timeless, and unfortunately seem to be lacking in today's college environments.....
I think you are missing a small, but very important distinction. Death threats against specific individuals are almost always prosecuted, regardless of the party. However thinly veiled calls to violence(such as a politician uttering the phrase "second amendment solutions" are pretty much ignored when the Republicans make them, but if a democrat ever uttered anything like he would instantly be vilified as the worst person ever to walk the face of the planet.
Not to mention you have the issue of actually mining and shipping the stuff. The amount of uranium and/or plutonium that needs to be shipped is relatively small and it can be stored for long periods of time relatively easily. Now compare that with coal. Really the only economically viable places for Japan to get coal are China, which has already limited exports of natural resources it considers to be "valuable" to it's own industries, The United States which is a pretty long ways away(even further when you consider a lot of the coal is on the east coast of the US), thus shipping in that much coal is expensive, or Russia, which may be Japan's best bet for getting coal, but the seaways between Japan and Russia are vulnerable to attack from both the North Koreans and the Chinese.
Nuclear power is really the only feasible long term power source for Japan. Without any other natural resources to fall back, they are quite vulnerable to what their sometimes unstable, and often antagonistic, neighbors do.
Most are already offline, it happened at 11:30 there, the shinkansen have probably almost all stopped, most regional services in the area probably weren't running at any real capacity anyway, so I doubt they would be running there. It was far enough away from Tokyo that I doubt any of the metros were really affected.
FWIW I was riding on the shinkansen(headed to Germany for a bit since I didn't have water and food at my place:P) when a 6.1 struck Shizuoka. I have to hand it to the designers and operators of those cars, they handled it really well. You could actually barely feel anything on the car, but all of a sudden the lights went out and the train came to a sudden, but not abrupt stop since we lost all power. No derailing, no injuries.
Yeah, if you will recall there actually was a precursor 7.0 earthquake on the 9th of March, a tsunami warning was issued for Sendai, Miyagi(and probably Iwate too), but there was no tsunami.
This isn't really about cuts though, if the Tea Partiers actually gave a shit about deficits(here's a hint, they don't), then they would be chopping programs like Social Security and the DoD. However since either of those would be politically unpopular, what they have done instead is focus SOLELY on programs that benefit Democrats(Research, most PhDs aren't republican, NPR, family planning etc). This has nothing to do with cuts and everything to do with the Republicans being puerile and bullying everyone they don't agree with, no matter what the long term consequences for the nation are.
There are also practical reasons for this. Armenia is a land-locked country whose neighbors, for the most part, don't like it too much. They don't really have a lot of practical ways to connect to the internet save through Georgia, and it's really Georgia, not Armenia, who can really dictate which cables get placed where.
Maybe, but hard to say. Nintendo doesn't have nearly the global presence that Sony and Microsoft have and are much more vulnerable to a strong yen(the yen is insanely strong right now, even before the quake it was nearing an all time high vs. the dollar and euro). The last time Nintendo lost money the yen was also strong(though not as strong as it is now). Nintendo is very vulnerable to moves in foreign exchange rates since most of their costs are still in yen but the bulk of their sales come from the US and the EU.
Sexual transmission of HCV is considered to be rare. Studies show the risk of sexual transmission in heterosexual, monogamous relationships is extremely rare or even nil.[22][23] The CDC does recommend the use of condoms between long-term monogamous discordant couples (where one partner is positive and the other is negative).[24] However, because of the high prevalence of hepatitis C, this small risk may translate into a nontrivial number of cases transmitted by sexual routes. Vaginal penetrative sex is believed to have a lower risk of transmission than sexual practices that involve higher levels of trauma to anogenital mucosa (anal penetrative sex, fisting, or use of sex toys).[25]
The reason it's so rare is it essentially requires broken skin on both partners, and for the virus to find it's way out of the wound on the infected partner into a wound on the other infected partner(or for hetero sex, the infected partner to be a menstruating woman). So yeah, it's rare, but it's certainly not impossible. This is also why it's not really considered an STD, it's PRIMARY infection vector is not sexual contact.
Well it does look like they have finally got this under control, at least for the most part.
Hopefully now we can have the debate over what exactly is going to replace this reactor? It's obvious that these reactors will never generate electricity again, but they have provided something like almost 20% of the power to the Tokyo region.
Thus far we have heard nothing on what the government and/or TEPCO(probably soon to be one and the same) plan to do to generate more power. Factories that have repaired the physical damage to their plants cannot start up because they are under the constant threat of rolling blackouts. Even though the blackouts may only run a couple of hours, it basically scuttles production for the whole day as starting up a lot of the large(and expensive!) machines at some of these plants can take hours. The more time goes on without production the more damage it does to supply lines, and perhaps more significantly for Japan's long term prospects, it provides a huge financial impetus to move production overseas(mostly China and Korea).
China is already taking advantage of this opportunity to smear Japan and make it look more dangerous than it actually is. While one could argue this is largely China attempting to score a political victory(the past century hasn't been too kind to Chinese-japanese diplomacy), but just as importantly China is not so subtly trying to scare people into moving production from Japan to China. Japan needs a new plan for new energy quick....
This is going to be a really shitty(sweaty?) summer......
Of course the truth is the current budget cuts have absolutely 0 to do with the actual budget and everything to do with Republicans trying to cut funding to their political opponents while raining money on their political supporters. Critical thinking skills and being a Republican don't exactly go hand-in-hand and the Republicans will do anything to stay in power, even if that means sacrificing the future of our very nation just so they can score a cheap political victory. Lovely people.
I would have to say out of all the different fields of study, liberal arts are probably the most miserable(though of course for pretty much everyone grad school is a choice....)
Like, in TFA's view, biological sciences grad students, Liberal Arts grad students are incredibly cut throat. There is very little funding, I would argue significantly less per student than in any of the sciences(many don't get stipends), and literally dozens of PhD candidates for every one professorship. And the grads have an even more difficult time finding employment outside academia. If you think only knowing biological sciences is unmarketable, try knowing a ton about modern German literary theory and not much else of note.
The difference is that Europe has learnt some (not enough - and always dangerously close to forgetting it) humility while the US is still playing catchup. This is as you'd expect: Europe's had quite a few centuries' head start and two recent world wars to shake us up.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that is the most ADORABLE thing I've ever read on slashdot. Do you HONESTLY believe the Europeans gave up their colonies willingly because they all of a sudden became humble and realized how "bad" it was? Do you honestly believe that they had some great awakening and apologized to the people they raped, murdered, and stole from for hundreds of years? Fuck, the French are still trying to control their former colonies(see Ivory Coast). Guess what, they didn't. The only reason they don't have colonies anymore is because the colonists rose up and threw the bums out. You complain about Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet those are absolutely nothing to the war the French started in Vietnam. And yet the French get all bent out of shape about Iraq.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, sorry, it's just too easy to laugh at such Europeans, ignorant of their own history who criticize others for being so ignorant. If Europeans were truly sorry they would give back all their ill-gotten riches. But I don't forsee that happening.
lemme guess, you are from Europe, the progenitors of the biggest genocides in human history(who have yet to apologize for any of them btw), who is also rich largely due to it's massive colonial empire. While I don't agree with the invasion of Iraq, I find Europeans getting self-righteous about it to be incredibly hilarious.
You also have the problem of dealing with the cost to collect and enforce the taxes. In even shop-happy America the ratio of stores that sell junk food to the overall population is still quite high. That means you have to go after a lot fewer targets to collect your taxes and it's a lot easier to find(and punish) evaders of the tax. Now when you are trying to enforce this on every single individual you lose a lot of your economies of scale. Whatever revenue you may collect will pretty much only cover the cost to collect, if that.
Yeah, choosing which type of plane you fly on because you are worried about safety is folly, you should be much more worried about the airline operating the vehicle. Very, VERY few airlines go down because of engineering or manufacturing defects, most go down because of operational problems at the airline, poor or improper maintenance(either due to negligence on the part of the workers or greed on the part of management) or improper hiring, training, or management of pilots(again usually done to cut costs, though to a certain extent that shows how braindead management can be in certain areas, they are willing to take a cut-rate pilot to handle their multi-million dollar planes....)
It's not just past animosity, China has a HUGE economic interest in trying to smear Japan. A lot of Japanese factories have been knocked offline(a lot of Japanese factories with key technologies to boot), and you can bet your bottom yuan that China is licking it's lips trying to get as much of that capacity(and technology) moved over to China as they can. By making people think the case is much worse than it is, you will make investors get nervous and be much more willing to agree to the PRCs terms for doing business in China(the transfer of all that technology to the PRC government) so they can get their factories online somewhere "safe".
In Tesla's defense, it's not like actually driving the 55 miles would have taken that long. An hour, tops. If they cannot be invested enough in their review to actually you know, review, the product, then they shouldn't be reviewing the product, period.
You have to wonder who actually ordered the gas not to be vented into the atmosphere. If it was the engineers, then shame on them, but I'm willing to bet it was the suits at TEPCO and/or the government. When the disaster first struck TEPCO went out of their way to assuage everyones fears saying they had total control of the situation. Actually venting gas, even if it wasn't incredibly dangerous, would have been admitting failure, even just a little bit. It looks like the suits at TEPCO wanted to save as much face as possible, so they went with the riskier plan even if the worst case scenario was much more dire than if they had released the gas..... or I could just be a conspiracy cook:P
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Could a Harvard graduate from the era be able to send an email from a laptop? Would he know how to even turn-on the laptop?
I guess it would all depend on the time scale. If you set a laptop down in front of him(and they were all males back then) and said, "Send me an email in the next 5 minutes stating your name and major" then yes, he would fail. However if you gave him a day and allowed him unlimited access to the laptop then he might be able send one. Critical thinking skills are pretty timeless, and unfortunately seem to be lacking in today's college environments.....
Man, you guys never get news stories out in a timely manner, this one is 9 days old!
I think you are missing a small, but very important distinction. Death threats against specific individuals are almost always prosecuted, regardless of the party. However thinly veiled calls to violence(such as a politician uttering the phrase "second amendment solutions" are pretty much ignored when the Republicans make them, but if a democrat ever uttered anything like he would instantly be vilified as the worst person ever to walk the face of the planet.
I just have one question for the black hole, what did it taste like? And is tabasco required or is it spicy enough on its own?
Not to mention you have the issue of actually mining and shipping the stuff. The amount of uranium and/or plutonium that needs to be shipped is relatively small and it can be stored for long periods of time relatively easily. Now compare that with coal. Really the only economically viable places for Japan to get coal are China, which has already limited exports of natural resources it considers to be "valuable" to it's own industries, The United States which is a pretty long ways away(even further when you consider a lot of the coal is on the east coast of the US), thus shipping in that much coal is expensive, or Russia, which may be Japan's best bet for getting coal, but the seaways between Japan and Russia are vulnerable to attack from both the North Koreans and the Chinese.
Nuclear power is really the only feasible long term power source for Japan. Without any other natural resources to fall back, they are quite vulnerable to what their sometimes unstable, and often antagonistic, neighbors do.
Most are already offline, it happened at 11:30 there, the shinkansen have probably almost all stopped, most regional services in the area probably weren't running at any real capacity anyway, so I doubt they would be running there. It was far enough away from Tokyo that I doubt any of the metros were really affected.
:P) when a 6.1 struck Shizuoka. I have to hand it to the designers and operators of those cars, they handled it really well. You could actually barely feel anything on the car, but all of a sudden the lights went out and the train came to a sudden, but not abrupt stop since we lost all power. No derailing, no injuries.
FWIW I was riding on the shinkansen(headed to Germany for a bit since I didn't have water and food at my place
Yeah, if you will recall there actually was a precursor 7.0 earthquake on the 9th of March, a tsunami warning was issued for Sendai, Miyagi(and probably Iwate too), but there was no tsunami.
This isn't really about cuts though, if the Tea Partiers actually gave a shit about deficits(here's a hint, they don't), then they would be chopping programs like Social Security and the DoD. However since either of those would be politically unpopular, what they have done instead is focus SOLELY on programs that benefit Democrats(Research, most PhDs aren't republican, NPR, family planning etc). This has nothing to do with cuts and everything to do with the Republicans being puerile and bullying everyone they don't agree with, no matter what the long term consequences for the nation are.
There are also practical reasons for this. Armenia is a land-locked country whose neighbors, for the most part, don't like it too much. They don't really have a lot of practical ways to connect to the internet save through Georgia, and it's really Georgia, not Armenia, who can really dictate which cables get placed where.
Maybe, but hard to say. Nintendo doesn't have nearly the global presence that Sony and Microsoft have and are much more vulnerable to a strong yen(the yen is insanely strong right now, even before the quake it was nearing an all time high vs. the dollar and euro). The last time Nintendo lost money the yen was also strong(though not as strong as it is now). Nintendo is very vulnerable to moves in foreign exchange rates since most of their costs are still in yen but the bulk of their sales come from the US and the EU.
Yes there have. From 'kipedia
Sexual transmission of HCV is considered to be rare. Studies show the risk of sexual transmission in heterosexual, monogamous relationships is extremely rare or even nil.[22][23] The CDC does recommend the use of condoms between long-term monogamous discordant couples (where one partner is positive and the other is negative).[24] However, because of the high prevalence of hepatitis C, this small risk may translate into a nontrivial number of cases transmitted by sexual routes. Vaginal penetrative sex is believed to have a lower risk of transmission than sexual practices that involve higher levels of trauma to anogenital mucosa (anal penetrative sex, fisting, or use of sex toys).[25]
The reason it's so rare is it essentially requires broken skin on both partners, and for the virus to find it's way out of the wound on the infected partner into a wound on the other infected partner(or for hetero sex, the infected partner to be a menstruating woman). So yeah, it's rare, but it's certainly not impossible. This is also why it's not really considered an STD, it's PRIMARY infection vector is not sexual contact.
Well it does look like they have finally got this under control, at least for the most part.
Hopefully now we can have the debate over what exactly is going to replace this reactor? It's obvious that these reactors will never generate electricity again, but they have provided something like almost 20% of the power to the Tokyo region.
Thus far we have heard nothing on what the government and/or TEPCO(probably soon to be one and the same) plan to do to generate more power. Factories that have repaired the physical damage to their plants cannot start up because they are under the constant threat of rolling blackouts. Even though the blackouts may only run a couple of hours, it basically scuttles production for the whole day as starting up a lot of the large(and expensive!) machines at some of these plants can take hours. The more time goes on without production the more damage it does to supply lines, and perhaps more significantly for Japan's long term prospects, it provides a huge financial impetus to move production overseas(mostly China and Korea).
China is already taking advantage of this opportunity to smear Japan and make it look more dangerous than it actually is. While one could argue this is largely China attempting to score a political victory(the past century hasn't been too kind to Chinese-japanese diplomacy), but just as importantly China is not so subtly trying to scare people into moving production from Japan to China. Japan needs a new plan for new energy quick....
This is going to be a really shitty(sweaty?) summer......
Of course the truth is the current budget cuts have absolutely 0 to do with the actual budget and everything to do with Republicans trying to cut funding to their political opponents while raining money on their political supporters. Critical thinking skills and being a Republican don't exactly go hand-in-hand and the Republicans will do anything to stay in power, even if that means sacrificing the future of our very nation just so they can score a cheap political victory. Lovely people.
I would have to say out of all the different fields of study, liberal arts are probably the most miserable(though of course for pretty much everyone grad school is a choice....)
Like, in TFA's view, biological sciences grad students, Liberal Arts grad students are incredibly cut throat. There is very little funding, I would argue significantly less per student than in any of the sciences(many don't get stipends), and literally dozens of PhD candidates for every one professorship. And the grads have an even more difficult time finding employment outside academia. If you think only knowing biological sciences is unmarketable, try knowing a ton about modern German literary theory and not much else of note.
Man, you're lucky. The top results for my name(esp. my full name) are pretty much all porn.
The difference is that Europe has learnt some (not enough - and always dangerously close to forgetting it) humility while the US is still playing catchup. This is as you'd expect: Europe's had quite a few centuries' head start and two recent world wars to shake us up.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that is the most ADORABLE thing I've ever read on slashdot. Do you HONESTLY believe the Europeans gave up their colonies willingly because they all of a sudden became humble and realized how "bad" it was? Do you honestly believe that they had some great awakening and apologized to the people they raped, murdered, and stole from for hundreds of years? Fuck, the French are still trying to control their former colonies(see Ivory Coast). Guess what, they didn't. The only reason they don't have colonies anymore is because the colonists rose up and threw the bums out. You complain about Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet those are absolutely nothing to the war the French started in Vietnam. And yet the French get all bent out of shape about Iraq.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, sorry, it's just too easy to laugh at such Europeans, ignorant of their own history who criticize others for being so ignorant. If Europeans were truly sorry they would give back all their ill-gotten riches. But I don't forsee that happening.
oh yeah,HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
lemme guess, you are from Europe, the progenitors of the biggest genocides in human history(who have yet to apologize for any of them btw), who is also rich largely due to it's massive colonial empire. While I don't agree with the invasion of Iraq, I find Europeans getting self-righteous about it to be incredibly hilarious.
You also have the problem of dealing with the cost to collect and enforce the taxes. In even shop-happy America the ratio of stores that sell junk food to the overall population is still quite high. That means you have to go after a lot fewer targets to collect your taxes and it's a lot easier to find(and punish) evaders of the tax. Now when you are trying to enforce this on every single individual you lose a lot of your economies of scale. Whatever revenue you may collect will pretty much only cover the cost to collect, if that.
Well, it does prove one thing. In the future, humans will have evolved more hands so that they can actually USE emacs.
Yeah, choosing which type of plane you fly on because you are worried about safety is folly, you should be much more worried about the airline operating the vehicle. Very, VERY few airlines go down because of engineering or manufacturing defects, most go down because of operational problems at the airline, poor or improper maintenance(either due to negligence on the part of the workers or greed on the part of management) or improper hiring, training, or management of pilots(again usually done to cut costs, though to a certain extent that shows how braindead management can be in certain areas, they are willing to take a cut-rate pilot to handle their multi-million dollar planes....)
But whats the point if it is just a human-milk like substance that comes from a cow. Thats no fun to milk.
It's not just past animosity, China has a HUGE economic interest in trying to smear Japan. A lot of Japanese factories have been knocked offline(a lot of Japanese factories with key technologies to boot), and you can bet your bottom yuan that China is licking it's lips trying to get as much of that capacity(and technology) moved over to China as they can. By making people think the case is much worse than it is, you will make investors get nervous and be much more willing to agree to the PRCs terms for doing business in China(the transfer of all that technology to the PRC government) so they can get their factories online somewhere "safe".
In Tesla's defense, it's not like actually driving the 55 miles would have taken that long. An hour, tops. If they cannot be invested enough in their review to actually you know, review, the product, then they shouldn't be reviewing the product, period.
You have to wonder who actually ordered the gas not to be vented into the atmosphere. If it was the engineers, then shame on them, but I'm willing to bet it was the suits at TEPCO and/or the government. When the disaster first struck TEPCO went out of their way to assuage everyones fears saying they had total control of the situation. Actually venting gas, even if it wasn't incredibly dangerous, would have been admitting failure, even just a little bit. It looks like the suits at TEPCO wanted to save as much face as possible, so they went with the riskier plan even if the worst case scenario was much more dire than if they had released the gas..... or I could just be a conspiracy cook :P
Being an engineer doesn't lend itself to being a kamikaze too.
Really? In my experience being an engineer means you have no life.
Thank you, Thank you, I'll be here all night because my boss over promised and I'm the one who has to pick up the slack.