I can not lay my hand on any power given to the Union Congress which allows them to shutdown the mail
Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 7 The congress has the power, not the obligation, to establish the post office. If it wants to it can shut down any or all parts of the system (so long as it isn't in violation of the Amendments).
When the pressure in the pressurizer dropped to a prescribed value, the PORV was suppose to close; it did not. The accident was now underway. The control panel had an indicator that showed the valve to be closed, (i.e., power was going to the valve to close it) but there was no way to determine that the valve was actually closed.
“the valve [was] closed” and “power was going to the valve to close it” are two COMPLETELY different things for an indicator to be showing. Only a complete moron would assume that the latter always implied the former. In reality the light in question actually showed if power was going to the valve to open it. The light being dark showed that power wasn’t being applied which if the valve was functioning properly would have closed the valve. However the operators had reasons to suspect that the valve was not functioning properly before the incident happened, one of which included the high downstream temperatures being indicated (which suggest the valve was leaking). In addition during the actual incident things like a higher then average containment building pressure and temperature, and the containment building sump filling with water should have indicated that there was a loss of coolant incident occurring.
In case of an accident, a nuclear power plant has tanks of water with pumps that can quickly introduce water to cool the reactor. One of these automatically started. This was noted by the operators, but then they looked at the indicators for the pressurizer, these indicators were telling them that the pressurizer was full of water (which it was because of the steam in the reactor core area).
Again a pressure indicator does not indicate water level, it indicates pressure. I’m not sure why you and your source have such a hard time with this concept. Beyond that if the operator in question had looked at
That's bad data. had the indicator actually read the valve was open rather then closed, I corrective action might have been able to be taken. Had they known the pressurizer was filled with steam, rather then liquid-water, different actions might have been taken.
If the data was bad then how come the next shift of workers in the control room was able to figure out what was going on shortly after they started? The problem was that the TMI operators made some shitty assumptions, if their instruments disagreed with their assumptions they ignored the instruments, or if their readings could be explained by their assumptions they didn’t consider any alternative explanations. When new operators arrived who weren’t invested into these shitty assumptions they had no difficulty in coming up with a good grasp of what was happening.
I've backed my point with what appears to me to be a authoritative source, care to back yours?
Your “authoritative source” can’t even agree with it self over a single sentence as to what a light means (and with two chances doesn't get the lights meaning correct), and you expect me to believe it can explain the cause of a nuclear meltdown?
Beyond that: The instant the main pumps failed, three auxiliary coolant pumps kicked on. That would have been enough to prevent the whole incident from occulting, if (completely counter to NRC regulations) the valves to the auxiliary feed-water system were closed, making the pumps useless. You seem fond of lights, so it’s worth pointing out there were lights indicating these valves were closed, these lights were ignored.
Be sure to file those papers right away when you sell a car, and keep a copy to prove that the transfer occoured before the toll was incurred.
I don't know how it works in California, but in New York you keep the plates when you sell a car. If that's the case in California then the system is going to have a pretty hard time photographing your license plates when they're sitting in your garage waiting to be returned.
Other way around. Nautilus was launched in January 21st 1954. Obninsk came on-line in June 26, 1954.
Also, Nautilus was powered by a 2nd generation submarine reactor, the 1st generation prototype was a land-based but built inside a submarine hill and was first used for power operations in May of 1953.
Note that the first few lines are: 1) ExxonMobile 2) PetroChina 3) Apple 4) BHP Billiton 5) Microsoft... Feel free to go farther down the list if you're curious, but I don't expect a huge swing in 14 days.
Punch those companies into a source of near-real-time stock information. I used Google. Make sure to adjust for currency exchange rates if you use more then one Exchange.
Find out that the Market Cap for those companies is now approximitly: 1) ExxonMobile - $393B 2) PetroChina - $253B 3) Apple - $320B 4) BHP Billiton - $252B 5) Microsoft - $242B
Reorder to get 1) ExxonMobile - $393B 2) Apple - $320B 3) PetroChina - $253B 4) BHP Billiton - $252B 5) Microsoft - $242B
GE probably doesn't care as long as they get their service contract. I'm not sure of locomotives fall into this catagory but a lot of the big GE items (tubines, medical equipment, etc.) are sold at cost or with extreamly slim margins. The place they make their money is on the service contracts. So if GE can somehow sell 25 service contracts without to build the locomotives they are probably thrilled.
First, they are supposedly referring these students to the police for legal action... Which creates all kinds of problems when the traffic isn't, you know, illegal.
Last I checked theft of services is a crime. I would say that if the school is providing internet access iff it isn't used for P2P traffic, then when you use it for P2P traffic you're guilty of stealing that internet access.
NES with its left-handed joypad was first released as the "famicom" in 1983. Back then computers were barely an issue. The #1 selling computers of the time (Radio Shack TRS-80 and Atari 400/800) only sold 1 million units versus 30 million for the Atari console. It would have been more logical to copy the right-handed controls of the console.
While your sales numbers may be true it doesn't really tell the story. Computers were "barely an issue" at the start of 1983, but 1983 represented the takeoff of the Commodore 64, and the introduction of the Apple IIe and IBM XT. By the end of the year 5+ million of those units (that number may include older IBM PCs sold in 83) had sold, making computers a big "issue". The Famicom on the other hand took till the end of 1984 to reach 2.5 million in sales.
They already have the sound cannons that cause instantaneous and permanent hearing damage, and can rapidly cause permanent deafness.
They were used against protesters to the G20 meeting.
Just to protect against your comment being skewed as "police were causing permanent damage to protesters", the Toronto police were approved to use the LRAD in voice mode but blocked from using alert mode. Used as per their instructions and judge's orders, the devices are unlikely to cause permanent damage. Similarly, being authorized to carry guns isn't the same as shooting protesters dead.
I like how you take the time to do all that research but you don't bother doing something as simple as typing "Sonic Cannon G20" into Google. If you had you might have realized that he was probably referring to the 2009 meeting in Pittsburgh, not the 2010 meeting in Toronto.
This whole revisionism that swings the pendulum of near-complete responsibility for toppling Germany from the US to the USSR is just as wrong-headed as the original assumption. Do you really think the USSR could have survived a German military undivided by multiple fronts powered by an industry undisturbed by coordinated day and night bombing by the US and Britain? The USSR DID survive a German military undivided by multiple fronts powered by an industry undisturbed by coordinated day and night bombing by the US and Britain.
Combined US and British strategic bombing started in March of 1943. The vast majority of the German forces in the Stalingrad pocket surrendered in February of 1943. Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) was in mid 1943.
Could the USSR have beaten the Germans without the Allies, probably not, but they certainly could have survived. Even if the major early Soviet victories had gone to the Germans (Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad) there still would have been A LOT of people/equipment/industry/will left to fight the Germans.
I also have to point out that the "wholly assembled aircraft" the allies provided to the Russians were for the most part shit, and the myth that the Soviet industry was "crippled" at the start of the war is just that, a myth. That is unless you consider US industry "crippled" (For example the USSR produced just about the same number of tanks in 41/42 as the US did, and while lagging behind the US in aircraft production still managed to outproduce the Germans)
"The Hoover Dam no longer holds the title of the world's widest dam.
Well, given the fact that the Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station which was built in the 50's is almost 3000m wide, it's been a LONG time since the Hoover Dam was the worlds widest. Given the fact that the Hoover Dam is very narrow for a its overall size, I'd be pretty surprised if it was ever the worlds widest.
I think the growth of HD space since 1997 might have you thinking that they are the only way to store large amounts of data. You could have stored 40GB with a handful of tapes in 1997.
If you look like you might flee then you either get really high bail, or none at all. Terry Child was arrested preparing to flee the state. I don't know of any better way to announce the fact that you're a flight risk.
Remember that case where the two boys were charged with statutory rape, after a bunch of girls heckled a girl into killing herself? Yeah, it's possible for minors to commit statutory rape against each other.\
No. I do however remember a case where two adults were charged with statutory rape, At least one of those adults being involved in an assault on the day of the victims suicide.
I'm guessing you don't do a lot of your own baking. Salt does a lot more then just adjust things for taste. For example it also controls the fermentation rate of yeast, and modifies the gluten protein structure to dough. Try making a decent loaf of bread without salt and let me know how it works for you.
False. Most unions base a state workers wage (plus benefits) at a percentage of the private sector equivalent.
In my experience "private sector equivalent" actually means "what the state would pay a private contractor to do the same work for the state" not "what a state employee would make doing the same work in the private sector". The difference can be pretty huge.
I can specifically remember one job I had about 10 years ago where I was working at a state university as a private contractor. The rate for this work was $38/hr. A state worker doing the same job would have made $32/hr. The rate for basically the same job at the nearby private university was $18/hr.
I don't get your point. WW1 started because Austria-Hungry was occupying territory, and the population of said territory got pissed off and launched a terrorist attack. Everything beyond that was politics or military strategy, but the root cause of it all was troops being somewhere where they wern't wanted, which would seem to me to support the point he was trying to make.
Some of these cars have a push-button ignition switch. My dad has one. But I do not know what happens if you try to push the sbutton to switch off the engine while it's howling away at 5500 rpm. Will it shut off, or just ignore your suggestion to kill the ignition? Who knows.
I bet the owners manual knows.
Anyone who puts themselves and their family into 2000+lb missile capable of going 100+ MPH, and when confronted with a control system they've never seen before doesn't take the time to refer to the owners manual is a real moron.
I really hope you've never driven your dads car. Knowing how your vehicle works before you turn it on is a very important part of being a safe driver. If you can't take the time to drive safely then don't drive at all.
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I can not lay my hand on any power given to the Union Congress which allows them to shutdown the mail
Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 7
The congress has the power, not the obligation, to establish the post office. If it wants to it can shut down any or all parts of the system (so long as it isn't in violation of the Amendments).
When the pressure in the pressurizer dropped to a prescribed value, the PORV was suppose to close; it did not. The accident was now underway. The control panel had an indicator that showed the valve to be closed, (i.e., power was going to the valve to close it) but there was no way to determine that the valve was actually closed.
“the valve [was] closed” and “power was going to the valve to close it” are two COMPLETELY different things for an indicator to be showing. Only a complete moron would assume that the latter always implied the former. In reality the light in question actually showed if power was going to the valve to open it. The light being dark showed that power wasn’t being applied which if the valve was functioning properly would have closed the valve. However the operators had reasons to suspect that the valve was not functioning properly before the incident happened, one of which included the high downstream temperatures being indicated (which suggest the valve was leaking). In addition during the actual incident things like a higher then average containment building pressure and temperature, and the containment building sump filling with water should have indicated that there was a loss of coolant incident occurring.
In case of an accident, a nuclear power plant has tanks of water with pumps that can quickly introduce water to cool the reactor. One of these automatically started. This was noted by the operators, but then they looked at the indicators for the pressurizer, these indicators were telling them that the pressurizer was full of water (which it was because of the steam in the reactor core area).
Again a pressure indicator does not indicate water level, it indicates pressure. I’m not sure why you and your source have such a hard time with this concept. Beyond that if the operator in question had looked at
That's bad data. had the indicator actually read the valve was open rather then closed, I corrective action might have been able to be taken. Had they known the pressurizer was filled with steam, rather then liquid-water, different actions might have been taken.
If the data was bad then how come the next shift of workers in the control room was able to figure out what was going on shortly after they started? The problem was that the TMI operators made some shitty assumptions, if their instruments disagreed with their assumptions they ignored the instruments, or if their readings could be explained by their assumptions they didn’t consider any alternative explanations. When new operators arrived who weren’t invested into these shitty assumptions they had no difficulty in coming up with a good grasp of what was happening.
I've backed my point with what appears to me to be a authoritative source, care to back yours?
Your “authoritative source” can’t even agree with it self over a single sentence as to what a light means (and with two chances doesn't get the lights meaning correct), and you expect me to believe it can explain the cause of a nuclear meltdown?
If you want a good “authoritative source” on the TMI incident I recommend the commission report: http://www.pddoc.com/tmi2/kemeny/ Particualry their writeup of the actual incident: http://www.pddoc.com/tmi2/kemeny/wednesday_march_28_1979.htm
Beyond that: The instant the main pumps failed, three auxiliary coolant pumps kicked on. That would have been enough to prevent the whole incident from occulting, if (completely counter to NRC regulations) the valves to the auxiliary feed-water system were closed, making the pumps useless. You seem fond of lights, so it’s worth pointing out there were lights indicating these valves were closed, these lights were ignored.
Be sure to file those papers right away when you sell a car, and keep a copy to prove that the transfer occoured before the toll was incurred.
I don't know how it works in California, but in New York you keep the plates when you sell a car. If that's the case in California then the system is going to have a pretty hard time photographing your license plates when they're sitting in your garage waiting to be returned.
Other way around. Nautilus was launched in January 21st 1954. Obninsk came on-line in June 26, 1954.
Also, Nautilus was powered by a 2nd generation submarine reactor, the 1st generation prototype was a land-based but built inside a submarine hill and was first used for power operations in May of 1953.
I don't think you're going to find a citation on this one. If you're really interested you can do the same research that I did.
Grab the last list put out by the Financial Times at the end of last year.
http://media.ft.com/cms/253867ca-1a60-11e0-b003-00144feab49a.pdf
Note that the first few lines are: ... Feel free to go farther down the list if you're curious, but I don't expect a huge swing in 14 days.
1) ExxonMobile
2) PetroChina
3) Apple
4) BHP Billiton
5) Microsoft
Punch those companies into a source of near-real-time stock information. I used Google. Make sure to adjust for currency exchange rates if you use more then one Exchange.
Find out that the Market Cap for those companies is now approximitly:
1) ExxonMobile - $393B
2) PetroChina - $253B
3) Apple - $320B
4) BHP Billiton - $252B
5) Microsoft - $242B
Reorder to get
1) ExxonMobile - $393B
2) Apple - $320B
3) PetroChina - $253B
4) BHP Billiton - $252B
5) Microsoft - $242B
And observe who #2 is.
Yes. Second largest. Behind Exxon Mobile, ahead of everyone else.
GE probably doesn't care as long as they get their service contract. I'm not sure of locomotives fall into this catagory but a lot of the big GE items (tubines, medical equipment, etc.) are sold at cost or with extreamly slim margins. The place they make their money is on the service contracts. So if GE can somehow sell 25 service contracts without to build the locomotives they are probably thrilled.
Where exactly in the US Constitution is the right of freedom of movement spelled out?
First, they are supposedly referring these students to the police for legal action... Which creates all kinds of problems when the traffic isn't, you know, illegal.
Last I checked theft of services is a crime. I would say that if the school is providing internet access iff it isn't used for P2P traffic, then when you use it for P2P traffic you're guilty of stealing that internet access.
NES with its left-handed joypad was first released as the "famicom" in 1983. Back then computers were barely an issue. The #1 selling computers of the time (Radio Shack TRS-80 and Atari 400/800) only sold 1 million units versus 30 million for the Atari console. It would have been more logical to copy the right-handed controls of the console.
While your sales numbers may be true it doesn't really tell the story. Computers were "barely an issue" at the start of 1983, but 1983 represented the takeoff of the Commodore 64, and the introduction of the Apple IIe and IBM XT. By the end of the year 5+ million of those units (that number may include older IBM PCs sold in 83) had sold, making computers a big "issue". The Famicom on the other hand took till the end of 1984 to reach 2.5 million in sales.
Why can't you just encrypt a thumb drive? Or use one that has built in encryption (eg. an Ironkey)?
Then make your choice.
Sitting around and doing nothing isn't making a choice. Complaining when someone makes it for you when you refuse to is a pretty lazy thing to do.
I've personally made my view very clear on organ donation to those who it matters, and I know all my close families views.
Could you provide a few names or authors of that sci-fi?
I like how you take the time to do all that research but you don't bother doing something as simple as typing "Sonic Cannon G20" into Google. If you had you might have realized that he was probably referring to the 2009 meeting in Pittsburgh, not the 2010 meeting in Toronto.
The first link to said search:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/sep/25/sonic-cannon-g20-pittsburgh/
During WW2 data was used to imprison millions of Americans who had done nothing wrong.
What millions would those be?
This whole revisionism that swings the pendulum of near-complete responsibility for toppling Germany from the US to the USSR is just as wrong-headed as the original assumption. Do you really think the USSR could have survived a German military undivided by multiple fronts powered by an industry undisturbed by coordinated day and night bombing by the US and Britain?
The USSR DID survive a German military undivided by multiple fronts powered by an industry undisturbed by coordinated day and night bombing by the US and Britain.
Combined US and British strategic bombing started in March of 1943. The vast majority of the German forces in the Stalingrad pocket surrendered in February of 1943. Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) was in mid 1943.
Could the USSR have beaten the Germans without the Allies, probably not, but they certainly could have survived. Even if the major early Soviet victories had gone to the Germans (Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad) there still would have been A LOT of people/equipment/industry/will left to fight the Germans.
I also have to point out that the "wholly assembled aircraft" the allies provided to the Russians were for the most part shit, and the myth that the Soviet industry was "crippled" at the start of the war is just that, a myth. That is unless you consider US industry "crippled" (For example the USSR produced just about the same number of tanks in 41/42 as the US did, and while lagging behind the US in aircraft production still managed to outproduce the Germans)
"The Hoover Dam no longer holds the title of the world's widest dam.
Well, given the fact that the Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station which was built in the 50's is almost 3000m wide, it's been a LONG time since the Hoover Dam was the worlds widest. Given the fact that the Hoover Dam is very narrow for a its overall size, I'd be pretty surprised if it was ever the worlds widest.
I think the growth of HD space since 1997 might have you thinking that they are the only way to store large amounts of data. You could have stored 40GB with a handful of tapes in 1997.
$5 million bail?!? WTF!
If you look like you might flee then you either get really high bail, or none at all. Terry Child was arrested preparing to flee the state. I don't know of any better way to announce the fact that you're a flight risk.
Remember that case where the two boys were charged with statutory rape, after a bunch of girls heckled a girl into killing herself? Yeah, it's possible for minors to commit statutory rape against each other.\
No. I do however remember a case where two adults were charged with statutory rape, At least one of those adults being involved in an assault on the day of the victims suicide.
I'm guessing you don't do a lot of your own baking. Salt does a lot more then just adjust things for taste. For example it also controls the fermentation rate of yeast, and modifies the gluten protein structure to dough. Try making a decent loaf of bread without salt and let me know how it works for you.
False. Most unions base a state workers wage (plus benefits) at a percentage of the private sector equivalent.
In my experience "private sector equivalent" actually means "what the state would pay a private contractor to do the same work for the state" not "what a state employee would make doing the same work in the private sector". The difference can be pretty huge.
I can specifically remember one job I had about 10 years ago where I was working at a state university as a private contractor. The rate for this work was $38/hr. A state worker doing the same job would have made $32/hr. The rate for basically the same job at the nearby private university was $18/hr.
I don't get your point. WW1 started because Austria-Hungry was occupying territory, and the population of said territory got pissed off and launched a terrorist attack. Everything beyond that was politics or military strategy, but the root cause of it all was troops being somewhere where they wern't wanted, which would seem to me to support the point he was trying to make.
Do you just stop reading when you hit a word you don't understand? Because the three words after "Entergy" tell you "What the hell" it is.
"Entergy, the plant owner,"
Some of these cars have a push-button ignition switch. My dad has one. But I do not know what happens if you try to push the sbutton to switch off the engine while it's howling away at 5500 rpm. Will it shut off, or just ignore your suggestion to kill the ignition? Who knows.
I bet the owners manual knows.
Anyone who puts themselves and their family into 2000+lb missile capable of going 100+ MPH, and when confronted with a control system they've never seen before doesn't take the time to refer to the owners manual is a real moron.
I really hope you've never driven your dads car. Knowing how your vehicle works before you turn it on is a very important part of being a safe driver. If you can't take the time to drive safely then don't drive at all.