Well, I would just like to say that I for one welcome our new biological overlords, and the people who created them from easy to use kits to wipe out our human species.
You're taking into account the entire process involved in nuclear power generation. This is good. However, you're forgetting that it will inevitably be used to replace coal, which is not good.
I agree, a total comparison of coal with nuclear is useful.
Read the parent post I wrote - it says all energy sources.
Of course, if we follow your wise comment, we would have to ask the obvious question:
What if we had spent $1,600,000,000,000.00 USD on building alternative energy sources (not including nuclear fission) instead of on the Iraq War costs to date.
If we had done that the sheer literal economies of scale would have reduced the cost per energy unit to below that of oil or the more expensive nuclear fission.
Think of how much solar photovoltaic cells used to cost - $2 a Kwh - they now cost less than $0.20 a Kwh and we've invested one ten-thousandth that amount in actually building them, so the economies of scale haven't even started to kick in.
Or think of wind energy - in the EU it costs less than 4 cents a Kwh while it's twice as expensive here because we don't invest in building units.
And for nuclear fission, the reality is that there are significant downsides rarely mentioned in the popular media.
These include, but are not limited to:
a. deaths in the mining process itself; b. waste byproducts from the mining process; c. heavy metal contamination from the ore extraction process; d. chemical contaminants released into the environment during ore extraction; e. air and water pollution due to methods used for ore extraction; f. failure to consider the 100,000 plus year lifespan of the spent elements in risk scenarios.
I'm not saying, looked at from the viewpoint of fuel rod usage that the reactors aren't safe, although the CANDU and French reactors are safer by virtue of design.
But the risk factors of the full process are rarely measured properly when compared with other methods.
All energy production entails contaminants of some sort in the full life-cycle spectrum, and nuclear fission is not much cleaner than many other less risky choices.
Heck, I even took my son to Paris so we could buy Pokeman Electrique Jaune (Electric Yellow) games.. and band dessines (manga for french people).
A concerned parent plays games with their kids - partially to understand what they're talking about, partially to be able to encourage and discourage actions (my son originally wanted to grief people in WoW but now runs guilds instead and helps out starting players).
It's just the form of the games that varies.
Life is a teaching experience.
My personal fave thing to do when my son was very young was to go to all ages raves with him and twirl him around and stuff - super cool!
My son and I have a shared WoW account, and I try to play most of the games that I buy him for our game consoles and computers.
But outdoors? Um, dude, he has friends for that. We live in a city, not the country.
When I grew up in the boonies on a tree farm I played games with adults and older kids a lot more - because there were fewer kids my age in easy distance to play with - in a city, as our society has moved from a farm-based agrarian culture (1900) to a city-based culture (2000) it is very easy for kids to find nearby kids who are the same age to play with - who don't live (true fact) 25 miles away (most of my girlfriends since I was 10 lived about that far away).
Plus, in some online games, we even coexist on the same server and sometimes run each others characters... "Dad! Can you make sure I don't die while I go to the bathroom?" "Sure, np".
Right now, I and a lot of other people who have owned Windows machines (and MS DOS before that) have pretty much given up on buying a Windows OS ever again.
Myself, I'm torn between an Apple OS and a Linux box at this point.
But there is one category it won't be, and that's Microsoft.
Sad but true.
Not sure why... might have been the constant invasion of privacy, the endless interruptions for patches, the integrated programs that hog your machine and do things when you told them not to do them.
But at this point it's the law of diminishing returns for me.
In Soviet Amerika is all phone calls and Internets being listened to.
Even printer paper is having of watermark.
Only way to avoid NSA is to write in coded messages in text on paper reused from old books.
All hail Glorious Leader!
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seriously, when I was in the Army, I was in the Yakima shack that all long-distance (and I do mean all) telephone calls that went out were routed thru - this started years ago and only expanded its already intrusive scope since 2000.
Releasing GTA: Emerald City and including the Emerald City Sonics basketball team in the city maps at Key Arena when everyone knows Seattle is renaming the team OK Go! and shipping them to Oklahoma.
If I walk into a Walmart cause I'm stuck in middle america and I need to buy water as I drive to the next town - I don't endorse anyone choosing to buy from Walmart.
If I buy gas from a service station as I drive thru Nevada - I don't have a choice - I don't endorse their gasoline brand.
If I buy a license from Microsoft for software - when I'd rather be buying from Apple or a Linux brand if I had a choice - I don't endorse their OS or the company (even if I did work there and my ex-wife does work there).
Ah, but as Mac becomes 20 percent of the market and the Wii dominates, most games release for Wii within 6 months...
Microsoft is even having to try to trick laptop refurbishers not to wipe WinVista and install Ubuntu Linux in their latest program, because so many people see no utility in having WinVista or even WinXP anymore.
The problem is that the scientist incorrectly classified these as zombie attacks.
Everyone with an ounce of scientific training can tell that these were actually attacks by ninja pirates, and that the vampire zombies were defending the inhabitants.
Exactly. Sometimes I have in-game friends who aren't in my guild that can take basic leather and make it into good armor for a druid, for example. But they usually need a bunch of items sent, so it takes forever mailing the stacks one by one.
Not sure, I know other Care Bear guilds exist (I started it with Taurean Druids on one server), it's been great for having Bear Dance Parties...
But the existence of Guild Banks in 2.3 means that guild masters (called Squirrel Masters in Squirrelly Wrath) don't have to carry around all those items and use up their own bank slots to keep them when the whole guild should be able to share items.
The 12 item per mail limit increase is also nice when you bump up a level and get new armor but want to send your old armor to a friend or alt. Won't work for bound items, of course, but a lot of basic equipment is quite expensive when you get to a new level.
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Well, I would just like to say that I for one welcome our new biological overlords, and the people who created them from easy to use kits to wipe out our human species.
I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "may".
The correct word to use is "does".
I believe I used the word all. And I meant it.
You're taking into account the entire process involved in nuclear power generation. This is good. However, you're forgetting that it will inevitably be used to replace coal, which is not good.
I agree, a total comparison of coal with nuclear is useful.
Read the parent post I wrote - it says all energy sources.
Tell that to the radioactive underground plumes and spent nuclear fission shells in my state.
They'll be radioactive for a lot longer than 500 years.
As you very well know.
Of course, if we follow your wise comment, we would have to ask the obvious question:
What if we had spent $1,600,000,000,000.00 USD on building alternative energy sources (not including nuclear fission) instead of on the Iraq War costs to date.
If we had done that the sheer literal economies of scale would have reduced the cost per energy unit to below that of oil or the more expensive nuclear fission.
Think of how much solar photovoltaic cells used to cost - $2 a Kwh - they now cost less than $0.20 a Kwh and we've invested one ten-thousandth that amount in actually building them, so the economies of scale haven't even started to kick in.
Or think of wind energy - in the EU it costs less than 4 cents a Kwh while it's twice as expensive here because we don't invest in building units.
And for nuclear fission, the reality is that there are significant downsides rarely mentioned in the popular media.
These include, but are not limited to:
a. deaths in the mining process itself;
b. waste byproducts from the mining process;
c. heavy metal contamination from the ore extraction process;
d. chemical contaminants released into the environment during ore extraction;
e. air and water pollution due to methods used for ore extraction;
f. failure to consider the 100,000 plus year lifespan of the spent elements in risk scenarios.
I'm not saying, looked at from the viewpoint of fuel rod usage that the reactors aren't safe, although the CANDU and French reactors are safer by virtue of design.
But the risk factors of the full process are rarely measured properly when compared with other methods.
All energy production entails contaminants of some sort in the full life-cycle spectrum, and nuclear fission is not much cleaner than many other less risky choices.
Recent discoveries and proof of concept research seems to be pointing towards the use of bio drives in the very near future.
So, while SSD may be interesting in the short term, it's unlikely they will have more impact than Bernouilli disks did in the long run.
"What is it, Obi wan?"
"It's as if I can hear millions of minds crying out in relief that their boot times are shorter and the viruses are no longer a threat."
"Well, yeah, but that would have been true with Linux or BSD, not just switching to MacOS Leopard."
"I see wisdom in you, young Luke."
Passive, fat-ass mediums such as T.V., movies, etc. don't generate enough new experiences to contribute to a relationship.
I see you don't own any Wii sports games.
Heck, I even took my son to Paris so we could buy Pokeman Electrique Jaune (Electric Yellow) games .. and band dessines (manga for french people).
A concerned parent plays games with their kids - partially to understand what they're talking about, partially to be able to encourage and discourage actions (my son originally wanted to grief people in WoW but now runs guilds instead and helps out starting players).
It's just the form of the games that varies.
Life is a teaching experience.
My personal fave thing to do when my son was very young was to go to all ages raves with him and twirl him around and stuff - super cool!
My son and I have a shared WoW account, and I try to play most of the games that I buy him for our game consoles and computers.
... "Dad! Can you make sure I don't die while I go to the bathroom?" "Sure, np".
But outdoors? Um, dude, he has friends for that. We live in a city, not the country.
When I grew up in the boonies on a tree farm I played games with adults and older kids a lot more - because there were fewer kids my age in easy distance to play with - in a city, as our society has moved from a farm-based agrarian culture (1900) to a city-based culture (2000) it is very easy for kids to find nearby kids who are the same age to play with - who don't live (true fact) 25 miles away (most of my girlfriends since I was 10 lived about that far away).
Plus, in some online games, we even coexist on the same server and sometimes run each others characters
Quick! Where's the Open Source PH meter?!?
You mean the test strips you can buy at any shop?
We used them checking the ACID levels of the IE webpages.
Was just one thing ...
... might have been the constant invasion of privacy, the endless interruptions for patches, the integrated programs that hog your machine and do things when you told them not to do them.
Mindshare.
Right now, I and a lot of other people who have owned Windows machines (and MS DOS before that) have pretty much given up on buying a Windows OS ever again.
Myself, I'm torn between an Apple OS and a Linux box at this point.
But there is one category it won't be, and that's Microsoft.
Sad but true.
Not sure why
But at this point it's the law of diminishing returns for me.
In Soviet Amerika is all phone calls and Internets being listened to.
Even printer paper is having of watermark.
Only way to avoid NSA is to write in coded messages in text on paper reused from old books.
All hail Glorious Leader!
-----
seriously, when I was in the Army, I was in the Yakima shack that all long-distance (and I do mean all) telephone calls that went out were routed thru - this started years ago and only expanded its already intrusive scope since 2000.
Releasing GTA: Emerald City and including the Emerald City Sonics basketball team in the city maps at Key Arena when everyone knows Seattle is renaming the team OK Go! and shipping them to Oklahoma.
Now that could be bad.
Like only shipping games for WinVista when most consumers are switching to Mac or Linux or BSD.
Or shipping games only for PS3 when most consumers are buying only PS2 versions or Wii or xBox360 and won't go near PS3.
I wouldn't worry about the retail outlets - there are a number to choose from and turnover is fairly fast.
Where I accepted the translation from "All your base are belong to US" instead of "All your base are belong to us".
If I walk into a Walmart cause I'm stuck in middle america and I need to buy water as I drive to the next town - I don't endorse anyone choosing to buy from Walmart.
If I buy gas from a service station as I drive thru Nevada - I don't have a choice - I don't endorse their gasoline brand.
If I buy a license from Microsoft for software - when I'd rather be buying from Apple or a Linux brand if I had a choice - I don't endorse their OS or the company (even if I did work there and my ex-wife does work there).
This is a very bad idea.
Ah, but as Mac becomes 20 percent of the market and the Wii dominates, most games release for Wii within 6 months ...
Microsoft is even having to try to trick laptop refurbishers not to wipe WinVista and install Ubuntu Linux in their latest program, because so many people see no utility in having WinVista or even WinXP anymore.
Maybe they were zombie pirate robots dressed up to look non-robotic?
The problem is that the scientist incorrectly classified these as zombie attacks.
Everyone with an ounce of scientific training can tell that these were actually attacks by ninja pirates, and that the vampire zombies were defending the inhabitants.
Exactly. Sometimes I have in-game friends who aren't in my guild that can take basic leather and make it into good armor for a druid, for example. But they usually need a bunch of items sent, so it takes forever mailing the stacks one by one.
IMO being a software engineer does not make you a successful person.
He's right. All the best people are bioinformaticians.
Not sure, I know other Care Bear guilds exist (I started it with Taurean Druids on one server), it's been great for having Bear Dance Parties ...
But the existence of Guild Banks in 2.3 means that guild masters (called Squirrel Masters in Squirrelly Wrath) don't have to carry around all those items and use up their own bank slots to keep them when the whole guild should be able to share items.
The 12 item per mail limit increase is also nice when you bump up a level and get new armor but want to send your old armor to a friend or alt. Won't work for bound items, of course, but a lot of basic equipment is quite expensive when you get to a new level.
And will be glad to use the Guild Banks to fill the coffers of Squirrelly Wrath, Blood Pact, and Care Bear guilds to the brim!
At last I can store all those mechanical squirrel boxes for guild members!