I think the whole idea of comparing nuclear safety with mining safety is disingenuous. There have been a lot of deaths from trees, yet these numbers shouldn't be included when calculating the danger of building houses, or making a fire. Its almost like trying to include the total number of cancer deaths or concrete or steam related deaths as an indicator of how dangerous nuclear energy is. A nuclear reaction, in general, is not something any living thing would want to stand near, yet people make fire all the time. Fires kill far more people, so why doesn't everyone have their own nuclear reactor? If mining deaths are included in coal power safety, then why not include melanoma deaths caused by exposure to a nuclear reaction (aka the Sun)? Takes a lot of water to run those nuclear reactor plants... I wonder how many have drowned.
False. It will disappear in due time. The Market will cause this. The last few years alone have shown great strides in truly clean energy production (not to be confused with the often mistaken for clean clean-now-hide-the-dirt-til-later energy production, like nuclear). There are dozens, if not hundreds, of new ways to get to this clean energy... smart people keep mixing it up and it really is quite amazing. Its only a matter of time, and time calculated in decades (not the nuclear standard of calculating time in millennia), before one, or my guess, many new clean energy alternatives become not only viable but very profitable. Nuclear energy is just too expensive (when you add up the cost of the R&D, the educations required, and especially 4000-40000 years of waste storage, and last, not least, the whatif disasters like a chernobyl-scale (not chernobyl-like) disaster).
I seriously doubt fission nuclear energy production will make it to the next century (though the effects of using nuclear power will span far far far beyond that, unfortunately).
OMG breeder reactor! Yes, yes of course! Breeder reactors make nuclear waste a GOOD THING by using it for fuel, and producing LESS but MORE DEADLY waste! And when the breeder reactor's owners don't have the money to clean it up after its usefulness has run its course, well... lemmie read that wiki again... yes! yes of course! MORE breeder reactors will fix even that!
/fukusarcasm
I am sick to death of nuclear proponents throwing breeder reactors around like they are the Second Coming or something. At some point it'd be nice if someone just said "hey... we're using too much power... we need to find ways to cut back on that" instead of "full speed ahead! Breeder reactors!"
1) they are not clean, because
2) the waste they produce is even deadlier than regular nuclear waste, and
3) they're not a solution for the current problem of what to do with the current waste as that waste is stored all over, and can't safely be transported
wtf is perpetuating this obsessive love affair with fission? The trillions of dollars the US government has spent on its R&D to make it affordable? a power bill that is omg 40% less? Is that all? Because if you could remove that R&D our gov't so generously gave (our money) for the rest of the world (while figuring out the best way to make fuel for bombs), then nuclear power ends up COSTING MUCH MORE than, say, solar, wind or any other 'nice' energy generation. Further, if we gave the clean alternative energies a fair chance, they'd end up producing cheaper energy than fission in a very short time, a decade, two at most.
Bite the bullet.
pay a little more for power now, and poison our children, their children, their children times 100, a little less.
kthx
Hmm... I'd say by your definition of software, a random serious of 0s and 1s qualifies as such. Are music files software? Is data software? I don't think so... most definitions say something along the lines of "a collection of programs." An mp3/4 isn't a program.
Also, I wasn't even remotely being serious in my previous post.
But... then why did they change? I remember the days of that quaint little hardware company, Apple Computer. They made and gave away software to drive their hardware sales. But then they switched gears, and now resell music to support their hardware sales as a music retailer we know today as Apple Inc.
Just add your Google Voice # to your Fav5 plan or whatever and use these apps w/Google Voice to route all your outbound calls, the cellular company only thinks your calling the same number and google is routing it for you. If you willing to ditch caller-id you can configure google voice so all inbound calls have your Google # as caller ID.
This is clever, but I doubt it will work. First of all, Google will call you back when you make your calls, and you don't know what number Google will call from. (wait for it)
the cellular company only thinks your calling the same number
Secondly, even if Google is spoofing a caller ID# that is on your favorites list, its not really calling from that number... Do you really think Google's CallerID spoofing is going to fool your phone company? Really? If true, then all anyone would ever need to do to get free phone calls is be able to spoof caller ID. I doubt it can work. Caller ID spoofs the commercial caller ID, but the back end prolly still knows what the true number is. I bet you can't wait to see next month's bill.
Computer Science is a subset of Mathematics. You don't need a degree to do mere programming. You don't go to medical school and residency because you want to be a good phamacist.
son of a...
ok, a stick of gum probably weighs closer to 3 grams, so if an isolinear optical chip weighs the same as that, then, in the trek universe, we now get
0.0015g/petabyte
(sigh)
I was really going for funny, not stupid... fucking math.
The memory capacity of an isolinear optical chip is 2.15 kiloquads, which is about 2.15 exabytes. I don't know how much they weigh, but they're about the size of a stick of gum... I'd guess they weigh about the same... say... 20g... so that'd be about.002g/petabyte.
This is why I think A.I. enthusiasts will ultimately fail.
You, and every philosopher of mind, including Dennett and Searle. Ok, maybe Churchland disagress, but she's another misguided reductionist (LOL)... and I never really believe what women tell me anyway.
I don't care how much less it is... There is simply not enough urea made in the entire country on a daily bases to produce enough H2 for fuel for even a small city.
I disagree. There is easily 40 gallons of urine produced daily for each person on the continent. You're only taking into account human produced urea... but any urea would do. There's a lot of horses and cows in this country, they make it too... and if we could tap into the urea produced by rats... but this is assuming cows, horses and rats don't need it for their own cars.
Fuck that. We should just abandon all science and research in energy that is more expensive than nuclear or coal. Yeah, fuck solar power... it might take actual work to get it to be econimically feasable. Meanwhile, we've already speant 100X what it would take to get solar power economically feasable on making nuclear energy economically feasable. We should just stop advancing technology and just stick with what we've already wasted trillions on... that way Joe Nuke's electric bill won't go from $60/month to $110/month and his whole economic universe won't collapse.
I found a safe, no-poison-needed way to keep ants out of pet food bowls: pet food in bowl, bowl on plate, small amount of water on plate... the water creates a moat that the ants, try as they may, can't get past...
Not sure who you are replying to... the OP?... your response seems to ignore the GP...
Anyway, the slickest, smartest, best educated, highest paid cutting edge group of Microsoft IT guys on the planet still must waste man-years on anti-virus and malware on any Microsoft installation of notable size.
I've been saying for years NT should be abandoned because of this extra built-in, and until recently ignored by MSFT, virus-tax.
It wasn't necessary for it to happen, but it has. Time to abandon Windows, let it topple and burn. Sure, other OS's might be vulnerable too, but we'll worry about abandoning them when they're overrun with virus/malware (and sufferring from inherent poor security).
But... where do we find an OS to replace Windows? Does such a thing exist that does such miraculous things like offer a desktop environment, web browsing, email, spreadsheet, word processing and calendar?
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Wal-Mart is who they are not because they are cheap, but because they were able to refine their logistics.
well, they're cheap too: union-free with dirt wages to boot
Why single out reactor accidents?
I think the whole idea of comparing nuclear safety with mining safety is disingenuous. There have been a lot of deaths from trees, yet these numbers shouldn't be included when calculating the danger of building houses, or making a fire. Its almost like trying to include the total number of cancer deaths or concrete or steam related deaths as an indicator of how dangerous nuclear energy is. A nuclear reaction, in general, is not something any living thing would want to stand near, yet people make fire all the time. Fires kill far more people, so why doesn't everyone have their own nuclear reactor? If mining deaths are included in coal power safety, then why not include melanoma deaths caused by exposure to a nuclear reaction (aka the Sun)? Takes a lot of water to run those nuclear reactor plants... I wonder how many have drowned.
Nuclear power is not going away.
False. It will disappear in due time. The Market will cause this. The last few years alone have shown great strides in truly clean energy production (not to be confused with the often mistaken for clean clean-now-hide-the-dirt-til-later energy production, like nuclear). There are dozens, if not hundreds, of new ways to get to this clean energy... smart people keep mixing it up and it really is quite amazing. Its only a matter of time, and time calculated in decades (not the nuclear standard of calculating time in millennia), before one, or my guess, many new clean energy alternatives become not only viable but very profitable. Nuclear energy is just too expensive (when you add up the cost of the R&D, the educations required, and especially 4000-40000 years of waste storage, and last, not least, the whatif disasters like a chernobyl-scale (not chernobyl-like) disaster).
I seriously doubt fission nuclear energy production will make it to the next century (though the effects of using nuclear power will span far far far beyond that, unfortunately).
OMG breeder reactor! Yes, yes of course! Breeder reactors make nuclear waste a GOOD THING by using it for fuel, and producing LESS but MORE DEADLY waste! And when the breeder reactor's owners don't have the money to clean it up after its usefulness has run its course, well... lemmie read that wiki again... yes! yes of course! MORE breeder reactors will fix even that!
/fukusarcasm
I am sick to death of nuclear proponents throwing breeder reactors around like they are the Second Coming or something. At some point it'd be nice if someone just said "hey... we're using too much power... we need to find ways to cut back on that" instead of "full speed ahead! Breeder reactors!"
1) they are not clean, because
2) the waste they produce is even deadlier than regular nuclear waste, and
3) they're not a solution for the current problem of what to do with the current waste as that waste is stored all over, and can't safely be transported
wtf is perpetuating this obsessive love affair with fission? The trillions of dollars the US government has spent on its R&D to make it affordable? a power bill that is omg 40% less? Is that all? Because if you could remove that R&D our gov't so generously gave (our money) for the rest of the world (while figuring out the best way to make fuel for bombs), then nuclear power ends up COSTING MUCH MORE than, say, solar, wind or any other 'nice' energy generation. Further, if we gave the clean alternative energies a fair chance, they'd end up producing cheaper energy than fission in a very short time, a decade, two at most.
Bite the bullet. pay a little more for power now, and poison our children, their children, their children times 100, a little less. kthx
I figure we have about 60 million years, give or take a few million, before Jupiter Defense Shield fails.
At what point does this actually happen?
the following sentences.
When you call your GV number from your phone and then dial out from there, it does not call you back. = Free call
ah... so... even before you had GV you had a free phone line or a free unlimited cell. What do you need GV for?
Hmm... I'd say by your definition of software, a random serious of 0s and 1s qualifies as such. Are music files software? Is data software? I don't think so... most definitions say something along the lines of "a collection of programs." An mp3/4 isn't a program.
Also, I wasn't even remotely being serious in my previous post.
There's no reason for them to change.
But... then why did they change? I remember the days of that quaint little hardware company, Apple Computer. They made and gave away software to drive their hardware sales. But then they switched gears, and now resell music to support their hardware sales as a music retailer we know today as Apple Inc.
Just add your Google Voice # to your Fav5 plan or whatever and use these apps w/Google Voice to route all your outbound calls, the cellular company only thinks your calling the same number and google is routing it for you. If you willing to ditch caller-id you can configure google voice so all inbound calls have your Google # as caller ID.
This is clever, but I doubt it will work. First of all, Google will call you back when you make your calls, and you don't know what number Google will call from. (wait for it)
the cellular company only thinks your calling the same number
Secondly, even if Google is spoofing a caller ID# that is on your favorites list, its not really calling from that number... Do you really think Google's CallerID spoofing is going to fool your phone company? Really? If true, then all anyone would ever need to do to get free phone calls is be able to spoof caller ID. I doubt it can work. Caller ID spoofs the commercial caller ID, but the back end prolly still knows what the true number is. I bet you can't wait to see next month's bill.
a free oss server... that's good news. Is there source for the neatx client somewhere?
Computer Science is a subset of Mathematics. You don't need a degree to do mere programming. You don't go to medical school and residency because you want to be a good phamacist.
And also how they handle in high temperatures.
That was my first thought. But maybe a closed loop liquid cooling solution might work, circulating a fluid into a hollow plastic heat sink.
...why he's patenting it.
Obviously its to cash in on the rush to prevent hurricanes. Then again, it could be to make the misdirection believable.
Question is: is there anything about that part of the ocean that our government doesn't want anyone to know they're interested in?
We're all so very gullible.
son of a ...
ok, a stick of gum probably weighs closer to 3 grams, so if an isolinear optical chip weighs the same as that, then, in the trek universe, we now get
0.0015g/petabyte
(sigh)
I was really going for funny, not stupid... fucking math.
bah... forgot to divide that in half... and was a decimal off ... it'd be .01g/petabyte...
The memory capacity of an isolinear optical chip is 2.15 kiloquads, which is about 2.15 exabytes. I don't know how much they weigh, but they're about the size of a stick of gum... I'd guess they weigh about the same... say... 20g... so that'd be about .002g/petabyte.
This is why I think A.I. enthusiasts will ultimately fail.
You, and every philosopher of mind, including Dennett and Searle. Ok, maybe Churchland disagress, but she's another misguided reductionist (LOL)... and I never really believe what women tell me anyway.
I don't care how much less it is... There is simply not enough urea made in the entire country on a daily bases to produce enough H2 for fuel for even a small city.
I disagree. There is easily 40 gallons of urine produced daily for each person on the continent. You're only taking into account human produced urea... but any urea would do. There's a lot of horses and cows in this country, they make it too... and if we could tap into the urea produced by rats... but this is assuming cows, horses and rats don't need it for their own cars.
Photographic identification cards aren't personal information! They point to a photographic representation of a person, not a person!
Fuck that. We should just abandon all science and research in energy that is more expensive than nuclear or coal. Yeah, fuck solar power... it might take actual work to get it to be econimically feasable. Meanwhile, we've already speant 100X what it would take to get solar power economically feasable on making nuclear energy economically feasable. We should just stop advancing technology and just stick with what we've already wasted trillions on... that way Joe Nuke's electric bill won't go from $60/month to $110/month and his whole economic universe won't collapse.
I found a safe, no-poison-needed way to keep ants out of pet food bowls: pet food in bowl, bowl on plate, small amount of water on plate... the water creates a moat that the ants, try as they may, can't get past...
Not sure who you are replying to... the OP?... your response seems to ignore the GP... Anyway, the slickest, smartest, best educated, highest paid cutting edge group of Microsoft IT guys on the planet still must waste man-years on anti-virus and malware on any Microsoft installation of notable size. I've been saying for years NT should be abandoned because of this extra built-in, and until recently ignored by MSFT, virus-tax. It wasn't necessary for it to happen, but it has. Time to abandon Windows, let it topple and burn. Sure, other OS's might be vulnerable too, but we'll worry about abandoning them when they're overrun with virus/malware (and sufferring from inherent poor security). But... where do we find an OS to replace Windows? Does such a thing exist that does such miraculous things like offer a desktop environment, web browsing, email, spreadsheet, word processing and calendar?
These 'bottlenecks' are in the DMZ, so why not just infiltrate them... and open them wide??? Could Iran's cybersecurity be all that great?
play pump... a... play... pump.... you mean masterbation could solve our energy crisis? ... did NOT see that comeing...