Actually, I've had endless premade patch cables fail while nobody was near them. It's called thermal expansion; look it up.
Yup, like I said, yor dewing it rong.
How do you know I'm not smoking crack, like your mom obviously did?
Oh you probably are, but it was unlikely that it was around when I was born, but it was around yesterday*
Braiding cables, even the ones inside of a PC (I've had cables like that go bad, too) is a stupid idea on every level. Nothing you say can change that. Thank you.
I see, so what your saying is you have perfected the art of performing oral sex on yourself. Well no wonder you don't get out much. That's quite alright, any time.
* see what MrKaos did there. The quip was turned around on the poster in the form of a lame joke so that the posters mum was made out to smoke crack during her pregnancy with the poster AND that the poster was born yesterday, implying that the poster is not very worldly wise and has had mental capacity issues due to exposure to those toxins during fetal development. The combination of lameness and obviousness in the comments were intended to appeal to the posters retarded development and draw the poster's trollish nature out further. It's more than likely this poster will be unable to resist posting again.
I thought that was understood at the time I made the prediction.
My sides are hurt for how delusional you are, your prediction, if that's what it can be called consists of one line;
Yes, this is correct. Wait a month and you'll see that we turned the corner about a week ago.
You made that statement on the 31st March 2011, which means you claim all these things were done by 24th March 2011. It's not my fault that you made a lazy and vague point to make your grandiose statement. Your bullshit is on the record as is you inability to define what you mean by your statement and your subsequent attempts to backpedal and massage some meaning into your statement as new information becomes available and then claim that you were right all along to satisfy your sense of self importance and attempt to recover some dignity. You took a gamble that I didn't have any facts to present and that I would back down like everyone else you have bludgeoned with your arrogance, that is so sickening to watch, and you turned out looking like a fool.
The *facts* I have presented for all to see remain as cogent as the day I presented them. They speak louder than anything you have presented to date. Your "predictions" are as reliable as chewing with a broken tooth. But since you have decided to entertain me more...
Here's another prediction. Collective human exposure from the radiation released at Fukushima as measured in Sieverts will turn out to be at least two orders of magnitude lower than in Chernobyl. That's despite estimates that more radiation was released by Fukushima than by Chernobyl.
I'm simply not that arrogant to make a prediction. History has demonstrated that when government don't want to know they simply don't allow the science to be done. No hard data collection effort was made after TMI, funding was cut for statistical health measurements for victims of Chernobyl. I certainly don't expect there to be any difference for Fukushima. There won't be a cover up, there just won't be any serious data collection effort thus claims such as yours will be supported by a *lack* of available evidence.
When coupled with the existing interdiction order that the IAEA has over the WHO in all matters nuclear it makes for an altogether, a neat solution to a devastating political problem for the nuclear industry.
Your prediction will however prove quite useful as a means to ridicule you even further and I predict that the likelihood of slashdot seeing repeat episodes of Dr khallow's arrogance in the future to be extremely high, Thank you for providing me with the probability of such enjoyable future entertainment.
Earlier, you accused me of being "lazy". That's absolutely correct. I used a relatively small amount of effort to defeat your arguments.
Well thats what you say, but the record shows something quite different. Your vapid statement to the contrary is merely your way to try and color other readers perceptions and claw back some self respect. What else do you expect as you have never brought any facts or evidence, for which to base reasoning on, to our interactions. Your claim infers you have defeated those facts and evidence yet still remain. You, again, are being ridiculous.
Fukushima demonstrates why that matters. The life of the plant was extended in large part because several new Japanese nuclear plants were nixed in the late 90s and early part of this decade. Several of The last of Fukushima's reactors were originally scheduled to be shutdown around the time of the earthquake. I think it likely that the accident would have been less damaging if the shutdown process had been underway.
It is simple, just don't renew the PA act and Nuclear power just goes away leaving America with a toxic mess that will take hundreds of years to clean up and billions of peta-joules of energy to actually do. I let you attempt to wrestle with the notion of why the PA act remains that will demonstrate your naivety to yourself more powerfully than any words I can say to you.
So sounds like a good argument to renew the PA act. We can all come up with legislative changes that are destructive to society. That's not a useful thing to do. I too would like to do away with the Price Anderson act, but you need something to replace it if only for a temporary time. Abruptly changing the risk conditions under which a large business has operated for many decades isn't fair to the business. I consider that more important than vague and probably imaginary benefits to public welfare.
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It's also worth noting that we've had technology in place for quite some time to recycle fuel rods and disposal of nuclear waste and eliminate the worst of the problems you cite above. Failing to use those technologies isn't the fault of the nuclear companies or regulatory law.
You still posess no understanding of the technology or the material technology required to solve the problem, still nothing new from Dr Khallow. still no understanding of the lifecycle of a Nuclear reactor or how to make it work and still no ability for you to listen to those who do try to seek an evolution of the technology. You are unable to evolve your argument, You are the biggest threat to nuclear power because your thinking is as obsolete as this industry is. Fortunately it's beyond your control, it must be tramatic for you. This way Dr khallow...what a waste, how disappointing, such a pity
Rubbish, you continue to attempt to reframe your statement based on retrospective observations. Here's another one of your "predictions;
Finally, "turn the corner" on a problem doesn't mean completely fixed a problem. It means the worst is over. My view is that sure, some degree of radioactive contamination of the environment will occur. Yet Japan now controls the reactors that melted down, the fuel ponds, and so on. Soon they'll be able to transition from merely controlling the situation to clean up. The harm that this accident caused and will cause is now strongly bounded.
I see no "control" over this accident. I see barely under control. Now you reframe your 'turn a corner statement' again to suit new information and claim validation of your "prediction". More Dr Khallow Bullshit.
I speak in Ground Acceleration, S, B and C class facilities and the regulations that apply to such. You, as usual, have provided no evidence. I cite references such as the World Nuclear Organisation to support my claims and you provide nothing but your overblown sense of self importance. I am fucking tired of people like you talking shit. Provide evidence and provide fact or STFU because you have no argument.
As to radioactive material release, we have yet to see a serious issue there. Sure, due to public hysteria, there will be a costly cleanup, but those fears haven't been borne out. And IMHO, that should be borne by the public, since it is their hysteria which is generating the costs.
Finally, I can't support removal of the Price Anderson Act until the US nuclear industry is protected from the legal implications of this public hysteria. So far, the public trust put into nuclear via this act has been justified.
With such grace you lie to yourself. It must be a deep seated fear, I wonder what it is. You cannot stop making excuses Dr Khallow. Take the PA act out of the letter then, or is it too hard to remove a sentence for you. Most word processors had a delete function that you can use before printing the letter. But here we see the depths at which your paralysis grips you.
Presented with reasonable action to your challenge you fold and fall back into chasing the tail of your own dogma yet again, coming up with excuse for inaction and blaming others. In the maze of your belief system all signs point to an exit but they lead you deeper into your own paradox. I imagine your mind is like an M.C Escher picture where you wander aimlessly repeating the patterns presented to you as if you have never seen them before.
Apart from our previous interactions, I think this statement illustrates your naivety is exceeding your understanding of reality. You will have to work harder to correct this
It's amazing how people fail to follow their own advice. As I pointed out, if the problem is poor regulation of nuclear power, then fix the fucking problem. Don't waste my time talking about how naive I supposedly am. I have no patience with people who can't be bothered to go past step one like Poperatzo and unilaterally declare the problem "impossible".
Fortunately private organisations are realizing that it's just not economically viable and when democracies are allowed to speak on the subject, like Italy did, we see that Nuclear power doesn't have much support because the available evidence shows that it is unsafe. But until the Nulcear industry is wound down you can be comforted by knowing that Seimens funding for Nuclear will probably go to make Solar and Wind power more economically viable.
So what? This just indicates a problem with some democracies not with nuclear technology. If you're able to shut down nuclear because it's unpopular, then you can shut down anything that becomes unpopular. A society should have safeguards against that. For example, the US has its Constitution which prohibits a number of ways for a majority to shut down the work of a minority.
As usual another weak, flailing and impotent response, Your statement ignores constructs within the 2005 energy act which gives a minority the right to impose it's will on a majority. Look it up yourself, you have continously demonstrated inability to answer facts or argue based on evidence when supplied so what's the difference to you between heresay and fact when you have been provided with ample references and evidence that you continue to ignore.
If Nuclear Power was safe why does the Price Anderson Act, a temporary act put in place until Nuclear Power proved itself safe and set to expire in 1967, still exist? If Nuclear power was indeed safe why is it necessary to continue to renew this act? No other industry needs such a construct. The act's continued operation and constant renewal suggests that Nuclear Power is not safe, viable or economical without such an artificial construct, quite diametrically opposing your notion that it is simply "unpopular", which it undoubtedly is.
It is simple, just don't renew the PA act and Nuclear power just goes away leaving America with a toxic mess that will take hundreds of years to clean up and billions of peta-joules of energy to actually do. I let you attempt to wrestle with the notion of why the PA act remains that will demonstrate your naivety to yourself more powerfully than any words I can say to you.
Don't talk to me about 'wasting your fucking time' when you have constantly demonstrated your mental laziness and sheer ignorance pertaining to these matters in many of the posting you have submitted here, Dr Khallow. I have no patience for people who make flaccid excuses to maintain the status quo, impose their dogmatically skeptical word view on others in the most arrogant and inaccurate way. That's why I am in your face, because you are rude and full of shit Dr Khallow. You lack imagination to solve these problems, so you just give up and fall back on what you think is the 'educated' response but all it does is demonstrate your limited insight and lack of substantive research on the topic, Dr Khallow.
Impossible. As long as you put something as important as energy into the centralized hands of a few corporations, they are going to exert outsized influence on governments so that meaningful regulation never happens.
Then do the "impossible". Also put in heavy penalties, such as jail time and huge fines, for those who would attempt to exert "outsized influence". As I said, the solution already exists. It's dumb to pretend that we're too helpless to implement it.
But, of course it's never your failing is it? "we're too helpless to implement it" inherently blames others for their inaction and absolves you from having to do anything because you've provided a "solution". How clever of you. You claimed on March 31;
So I call you on your bullshit. I've provided a letter so you can write a letter to your congresscritter and ask them to implement such things on all American Nuclear plant RIGHT NOW! Perhaps you can add to the letter and post it to this forum to show us your efforts at making Nuclear Power safe for everybody. Not Pro or Anti-Nuclear, Responsible Nuclear Advocacy.
Here is a outline for you to follow, but by all means, do use your own creativity to its fullest extent and put that PhD to work on something useful.
Dear Honourable congressperson such and such,
I have recently learned of the appalling state of safety and regulation in the Nuclear Power Industry in my beloved home, America. I have learned that failure, by plant operators, to abide by the regulatory actions prescribed by the NRC have left many Nuclear Power plants vulnerable to the same kinds of failure that have occurred at Fukushima. This is unacceptable as Nuclear Power is a valuable National asset which must be operated safely by all operators at all times. American Energy security must be taken seriously and as such I call for;
The immediate upgrading of all safety regulations where Accident Sequence Precursors (ASPs) are enforced with a mandatory safety audit.
Plant operators are liable with jail time for ignoring or not reporting ASPs.
All US power plants be scutinised for new Basis Design Issues due to their age.
Energy company Directors and shareholders can be held financially responsible for Nuclear power accidents
The immediate audit of the San Onofre and Palo Verde Nuclear power facilities
I am dismayed that the continuance of the Nuclear Power Industry in America relies on the existence of the Price Anderson Act. I call for a review of the Act under the premise that it has failed to deliver on its charter of legislation over its numerous extensions. I call for a time limit on the act on the basis that under the extensions of this temporary Act Nuclear power has not been able to develop adequate safety system therefore proving the act is invalid.
Furthermore I call for the immediate establishment of a geologically stable spent fuel containment facility built into granite, as this is what the science supports as appropriate, and an infrastructure program to transport all stored spent fuel to such a facility as soon as is practicable. I see this as a necessary means to protect America from a Fukushima style disaster.
Congressman, I realise what I ask for is ambitious but I submit to you that America is an ambitious nation able to overcome all sorts of adversity. I beleive that such a program is neccessary to to protect America's national and economic security and ask you to support introduction of such bills, and others you deem appropriate, that will implement positive steps to improving the safety of such a valuabl
There's an existing solution to the problem. If businesses are really getting more haphazard and dangerous, then enforce the regulation on the books. It's not complicated or a deep mystery.
Apart from our previous interactions, I think this statement illustrates your naivety is exceeding your understanding of reality. You will have to work harder to correct this
As to nationalized plants, they have a habit of cutting corners and waiving regulations. That's what happens when the same entity is responsible for operating the plant and vetting the safety and reliability of the plant.
You mean the same way the regulations were bypassed by a private organisation at Fukushima, we've gone over it in the past
For example, there was a vast cleanup problem in the wake of the US nuclear program. Russia, Britain, and France all have similar problems with their military-side nuclear programs
It makes no sense to hand over private nuclear power to the very entity which is failing hard at enforcing existing regulation.
Fortunately private organisations are realizing that it's just not economically viable and when democracies are allowed to speak on the subject, like Italy did, we see that Nuclear power doesn't have much support because the available evidence shows that it is unsafe. But until the Nulcear industry is wound down you can be comforted by knowing that Seimens funding for Nuclear will probably go to make Solar and Wind power more economically viable.
Well then I guess Seimens must have done the sums and found that Nuclear power just isn't a cost effective way to produce energy. Don't worry though, I'm certain they will invest that same money in a more reliable means of producing power, like wind or solar.
Oh Dear. I'm sensing that comprehension was not something you achieved strong marks with at school.
Q. Did I say that I plaited and braided the wiring in a car?
A. No, what I said was you have to figure out how to hide and manage the wiring.
Q. Did I say that I have plaited and braided a full rack?
A. No, what I said was I haven't tried it with a full rack yet.
To assist you I have bolded the key ideas. This should make it easier for you to comprehend. Now sometimes in life you have to combine ideas (try to keep up here if you have trouble I can use more bold) to do something. What I did was combine two ideas to make a suggestion to someone who asked a question about better cable management.
Whilst I appreciate that the quality of *your* ethernet cables may spontaneously fail on a regular basis, mine do not. Perhaps it's because you are doing it wrong. This may be explained by you having to do your own electrical work on your car because you are not skillful enough to make reliable ethernet cables and thus, you don't get paid enough to be able to afford an auto electrician. So, certainly, braiding it would be a retard move *for you*.
Speaking of "retard moves" (and I'll bold this bit to assist your comprehension) I suggest that next time you smoke a lot of weed, you refrain from posting.
I have more cable that I can think of to deal with so, even though it can be time consuming it's unquestionably neat. Plaiting and braiding cables is the way to go. Once you learn three, four, five and six way plaits and braids you can make any wiring loom neat and controllable in a unit.
Anyone lucky enough to have me build a performance gaming/audio/video workstation for them get the full service internally braided cables. Having hot rodded several cars, this is the one time I think a car analogy is in the right place. When you hot rod a car you have to figure out how to hide and manage the wiring. That skill translate perfectly onto computers and a box with hidden wires looks like an exceptionally neat piece of performance gear.
From that point it's relatively simple to come up with wiring looms for various discrete subsystems (like drum kit mike looms, braided low-voltage power supply cables). Don't try it with mains though, the inductance could be a fire hazzard. I've not tried it with a full rack, yet but I didn't experience any noise introduced into my signal path so I don't expect you would find increased packet loss from induced noise in ethernet cable. YMMV
Metro this, Metro that. Am I the only one fucking tired of hearing about Metro?
Thanks to Microsoft, the next person who says metro, in any form (including metrosexual or metropolis) is going to be filing an assault charge on me...
They are not the most obstrperous parrot (that is saved for the rainbow lorikeet) but the Sulphur crested cockatoo pictured are a really great confident friendly parrot. They are a pretty big parrot (about 30 - 40 centemeters beak to tail) long lived and very easy to get attached to and very intelligent. I've heard of these bird living up to 90 years so it's possible for them to out live their owners.
Australia has an amazing population of parrot species sociable birds and extremely entertaining to watch, sometimes I think they are putting a show on or just showing off. Even wild ones are easy to make friends with they are an australian favourite even though they tend to chew through just about anything (that beak could sever a finger quite efficiently) that they feel like. It's amazing just how sentient these birds are.
Probably the funniest thing to do is to give one of these guys an unshelled macadamia. They can smell how good the nut is but it's really hard for them to break it. Obviously if they learn to talk they would only ask for something to eat.
But of course, how silly of me to believe a Sad Santa was the only one able to attack the most powerful nation in the world with such guile and effectiveness.
You're joking, right?
Oh yes of course I am. ha. ha. ha. ha.
Hardly. It was a symbolic act in a war where symbols matter.
I didn't say not to kill him.But you could have done that after you subjected him to the media circus, questioning trial, imprisonment and then executed him after doing genetic tests to be sure, disassembling his ideals, disarming his followers. Hey you could have even tortured him in gitmo but no some guy that 'oh yeah thats him' was dumped over a ship. He wasn't a former CIA operative was he, and the US government have never lied to US citizens about anything have they?
But you got your symbol, at least.
It began long before that.
back in the 1800's some time I think...
This I agree with. The erosion of liberties and the cynical exploitation of the event still needs to be addressed.
Tewworfiwing when you don't know your enemy isn't it
It's shameful that the media coverage is merely a flashback back to 9/11, and I here nothing about the subsequent fear, paranoia, and loss of freedoms that have engulfed the country. It was certainly a horrible day, but the aftermath on our country has been tens of thousands of times worse.
We got into two wars that we're STILL it., We have this lovely patriot act, which continues to be renewed with little debate. We have a continually fearful public, cowed into submission to The Official Reaction. We have ever increasing security theatre at airports. But yet no coverage of any of that. It's all about the day, and nothing about the disaster afterward.
There is no doubt this was a tragedy and a sad day for the American people but from an outsiders perspective (an Australian perspective) this is what we saw happening to you guys.
You were hurt and wronged, but before any investigation had been conducted fingers were being pointed.
To this date I know of no forensic investigation being conducted into this act. Why?
When OBL was killed the victims were granted revenge, a cheap imitation of justice.
Why has no forensic investigation ever been carried out and scrutinised? Why wasn't OBL tried and humiliated, and made to face his worst fear in front of the American public? I strongly feel that Americans have been denied actual justice and have instead been given a serve of McJustice by media/military. The true strength of Western democracies has been that they are countries run BY RULE OF LAW that has been refined over a roughly 800 year period. If we look at it from that perspective the military look like a very blunt tool, by comparison. Yet it was the tool of first resort. What does it say about our democracy that one of the strongest was so easily subverted?
The consequences of not applying those principles have drawn the U.S into an asymmetrical war that has cost trillions, without actually being able to hit a target of any meaning. I believe many forth amendment rights have practically been abandoned, you have a domestic spy policy now and bills introduced to protect the freedoms of everyday people are slowly being whittled down.
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin "The constitution in it's current form will not save the United States from Despotism". The American people have been lied to and deceived, I'm ashamed to say in part, by an Australian Media mogul who learned how to do what he is doing to America in my homeland.
Justice delayed, Just denied.
The war that was being waged on America began when the Towers were hit but the enemy has attacked in such a way that the freedoms that protected US citizens have been hit far more severely than those Towers. The institution of democracy was weakened from within at one of the modern cradles of it's creation and now I see it more compromised than it has ever been. Human rights, the bedrock of your enviable Bill of Rights, the true strength of your nation were treated as an inconvenience to circumvented. Yet it's the only weapon capable of disarming a martyr.
Know your enemy, Know yourself, and whilst the truth must be painful for you to hear will you bludgeon to death the friend who has the courage to look you in the face and tell it to you? The one who says, "hey mate, yer acting like a dickhead". How can you possibly win in Iraq and Afghanistan when the real war is in the cathedrals of your institutions by an enemy who is manipulating you so skillfully that you dance willingly to the tune. Stop, friend, before you destroy yourself and ask who the real enemy is, what the true theater of this war is and what forces are at play?
How many of Ben Franklins warnings will you ignore? Why do I, an Australian, have to point out the wisdom of your own founding fathers whose words have been paraphrased ad infinitum;
Those who trade an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither security nor liberty
I think you just have to look at who can afford to lobby government and provide more donations to political parties. The altruism of the Open Source Community is often used against it and, frankly, is seen as a source of cheap and excellent labour by technology companies. OSS is great, pervasive and largely unknown because those who know how to commercialise it, exploit it to their own ends.
I won' t bother naming names because of the inevitable clueless fanboi attack I'm likely to be subjected to, but those companies are out there pumping donations into political parties and lobbying government to use their products. All that OSS has to offer is greater government efficiency and saving the taxpayer money and what sane politician would want that.
Open Licences such as BSD and Apache have allowed these companies to plunder the intellectual capital of the Open Source Community whilst they marginalise it. That's not a criticism of those licences as that is their goal but until the day comes when there are hundreds of thousands of Open Source based services companies eating away at these corporate marauders who contribute nothing and use the community nothing will change.
Until legislation alters the way corporates can donate to political parties the playing field will never be level, the corporate will always have the advantage over the community. Wealth generation is the key goal of technology, and generating wealth with Open Source Technology is not yet well understood inside the community who creates it.
I am an older programmer and I like what I do. I like working WITH other people. I do not want to MANAGE other people. I also do not put up with CRAP. I want to solve computer problems and not deal with petty BS.
I'm roughly ten years younger than you and actually look (I'm told) ten years younger than I am. I'm fit, very fit so that probably helps as I have high energy levels. My experiences parallel your own as does my attitude, I like what I do, that's why I got into IT I want to code and create things, make things and I enjoy the challenge of solving problems. When people saw my full resume they easily worked out that I was mid-early 40's but when I cut the resume down and just got rid of 10-15 years worth of experience (yes I started really early) the job interviews started coming in and fortunately, because of my appearance, so did the job offers.
Whilst relieved, I am now mindful of this attitude in IT and really question the long term viability of it as a career path, but I like technology work why should I have to give it up for a management career, it's not who I want to be.
I am saddened by how utterly vapid IT seems to be and it's quite obvious that I will have to engineer a backup plan in case this career path is no longer viable. Where these perceptions come from is anyones guess. I keep updating my skills because IT interests me and I'm good at it. It seems the lack of respect to older people isn't a problem for the younger guys because they will never get old.
The app is surprisingly useful: accelerometer, audio spectrum analyzer, compass to name a few... it does everything you'd expect a "real" tricorder to do, with the only limitations being the phone hardware.
exactly, it is surprisingly useful. Surely it's possible for the app author to have the app exist just without a lCars skin? (maybe someone else can make one)
I mean, seriously, fuck you CBS, for ending my last bit of nerdiness fun with Star Trek. CBS have well and truly killed the innocent fun of ST more effectively than any Borg could. If I could shit in their mouths I would for the crap that dribbles of their chins.
Thank you moonblink for giving us this app while we could have it, and I will continue to enjoy it on my droid while I can. However it is OSS, where can I get the source and can you GPL 3 the shit out of it so that, somehow, CBS can't use the code base?
If Star Trek was a real utopian future, it would be an Open Source one I simply couldn't imaging a situation below happening
JLP: Mr Worf Fire Phasers and a full photon torpedo spread
WORF; Captain, Phasers and Photon torpedos are inoperable
JLP; Lt Worf, get the weapons operational and fire on that ship or we are all dead
WORF; Sir I cannot, the console is reading an obscure error message I have never seen before
JLP; Mr you are a trained federation officer, don't give me excuses a cadet would, fix the problem
WORF; Sir, I cannot, it says "licence key expired, enter new license key
RIKER; What is a license key?
DATA; A licence key is a obscure reference to a late twentieth century method of limiting the capabilities of computer systems to extract payment, it was often used with other techniques such as...
WORF; This enemy has the guile of a Romulan and the treachery of a Ferengi slave trader (Worf smashes his fist into the console in utter frustration)
JLP; Lt Le Forge, get us out of here maximum warp
Le FORGE; Captian, I love to comply but the anti-matter injector controller control systems are saying things I've never seen before
RIKER; Let me guess, another licence key expiry, the damn ship is falling apart, but it's still in one peice..
Le FORGE; No sir, the controller system is saying it has encountered a patent violation and cannot continue
DATA; As I was saying Sir, with other techniques such as patent encumberance, licence revocation and software keys. Generally it was found to limit innovation as it reduced the number of minds able to create and solve problems the human race faced with software. Those who did were branded Pirates and "Open Source Hippies"
JLP; Hippies?, I'm ashamed just how much like the Ferengi we were...
RIKER; (whispers to Picard) Captain, if we can stop them they can take the entire Federation without firing a shot
(just then the com heralds a message from Dr Crusher)
CRUSHER; Captain, all my medical equipment has suddenly lost all but the most basic functionality
JLP; We are encountering similar issue Dr Crusher, are there any messages
CRUSHER; Yes Captain, it's saying that our trial period has ended and we will have to "purchase" a full licence to access all the functionality, Captain we have wounded...
JLP; (just as LeForge steps out of the Turbo Lift) Dr Crusher, you will just have to resort to some of that "old Fashioned" medicine you speak of and...
WORF; Captain we are being hailed by the enemy vessel
JLP; On Screen
CBS MANAGEMENT; We've noticed that you have not been pulling the consistent ratings you've done in the past so we are pulling the plug, wind your series up in an express way that make some sense of the story line, you won't be funded past a 7th season
JLP; Release my ship immediately, we have no expectations of being good all the time, just the best we can be, now release my ship
CBS MANAGEMENT; Yeeees, except it's not really your ship it'
>>Because they "dare" question financial axioms like "greed is good" and infinite growth?
More because they've caused as many environmental problems as they've solved. Australia has around a quarter of all the uranium deposits in the world, but has no nuclear power plants. Opposition is greatest from Greens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Australia#Opinion_polls), and this in a country where only 7% of energy production comes from green sources.
Fighting for the status quo is a horrible idea when the status quo sucks.
Australia also has none of the nuclear fallout the rest of the world has from Chernobyl and Fukushima. Australia also has large deposits geothermal energy, space for wind, tidal and solar. As a last resort they have oodles of coal they can burn because it is cheap high quality coal.
Australia is burdened with uranium mining that is using a process call acid-leach in-situ mining, which is illegal in the U.S and Russia, on top of the great Artesian Bore, their ground water supply. Have a guess where that uranium is going?
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Yup, like I said, yor dewing it rong.
Oh you probably are, but it was unlikely that it was around when I was born, but it was around yesterday*
I see, so what your saying is you have perfected the art of performing oral sex on yourself. Well no wonder you don't get out much. That's quite alright, any time.
* see what MrKaos did there. The quip was turned around on the poster in the form of a lame joke so that the posters mum was made out to smoke crack during her pregnancy with the poster AND that the poster was born yesterday, implying that the poster is not very worldly wise and has had mental capacity issues due to exposure to those toxins during fetal development. The combination of lameness and obviousness in the comments were intended to appeal to the posters retarded development and draw the poster's trollish nature out further. It's more than likely this poster will be unable to resist posting again.
My sides are hurt for how delusional you are, your prediction, if that's what it can be called consists of one line;
You made that statement on the 31st March 2011, which means you claim all these things were done by 24th March 2011. It's not my fault that you made a lazy and vague point to make your grandiose statement. Your bullshit is on the record as is you inability to define what you mean by your statement and your subsequent attempts to backpedal and massage some meaning into your statement as new information becomes available and then claim that you were right all along to satisfy your sense of self importance and attempt to recover some dignity. You took a gamble that I didn't have any facts to present and that I would back down like everyone else you have bludgeoned with your arrogance, that is so sickening to watch, and you turned out looking like a fool.
The *facts* I have presented for all to see remain as cogent as the day I presented them. They speak louder than anything you have presented to date. Your "predictions" are as reliable as chewing with a broken tooth. But since you have decided to entertain me more...
I'm simply not that arrogant to make a prediction. History has demonstrated that when government don't want to know they simply don't allow the science to be done. No hard data collection effort was made after TMI, funding was cut for statistical health measurements for victims of Chernobyl. I certainly don't expect there to be any difference for Fukushima. There won't be a cover up, there just won't be any serious data collection effort thus claims such as yours will be supported by a *lack* of available evidence.
When coupled with the existing interdiction order that the IAEA has over the WHO in all matters nuclear it makes for an altogether, a neat solution to a devastating political problem for the nuclear industry.
Your prediction will however prove quite useful as a means to ridicule you even further and I predict that the likelihood of slashdot seeing repeat episodes of Dr khallow's arrogance in the future to be extremely high, Thank you for providing me with the probability of such enjoyable future entertainment.
Well thats what you say, but the record shows something quite different. Your vapid statement to the contrary is merely your way to try and color other readers perceptions and claw back some self respect. What else do you expect as you have never brought any facts or evidence, for which to base reasoning on, to our interactions. Your claim infers you have defeated those facts and evidence yet still remain. You, again, are being ridiculous.
Society *is*,
It is simple, just don't renew the PA act and Nuclear power just goes away leaving America with a toxic mess that will take hundreds of years to clean up and billions of peta-joules of energy to actually do. I let you attempt to wrestle with the notion of why the PA act remains that will demonstrate your naivety to yourself more powerfully than any words I can say to you.
So sounds like a good argument to renew the PA act. We can all come up with legislative changes that are destructive to society. That's not a useful thing to do. I too would like to do away with the Price Anderson act, but you need something to replace it if only for a temporary time. Abruptly changing the risk conditions under which a large business has operated for many decades isn't fair to the business. I consider that more important than vague and probably imaginary benefits to public welfare. br. It's also worth noting that we've had technology in place for quite some time to recycle fuel rods and disposal of nuclear waste and eliminate the worst of the problems you cite above. Failing to use those technologies isn't the fault of the nuclear companies or regulatory law.
You still posess no understanding of the technology or the material technology required to solve the problem, still nothing new from Dr Khallow. still no understanding of the lifecycle of a Nuclear reactor or how to make it work and still no ability for you to listen to those who do try to seek an evolution of the technology. You are unable to evolve your argument, You are the biggest threat to nuclear power because your thinking is as obsolete as this industry is. Fortunately it's beyond your control, it must be tramatic for you. This way Dr khallow...what a waste, how disappointing, such a pity
You are lost.
I see no "control" over this accident. I see barely under control. Now you reframe your 'turn a corner statement' again to suit new information and claim validation of your "prediction". More Dr Khallow Bullshit.
I speak in Ground Acceleration, S, B and C class facilities and the regulations that apply to such. You, as usual, have provided no evidence. I cite references such as the World Nuclear Organisation to support my claims and you provide nothing but your overblown sense of self importance. I am fucking tired of people like you talking shit. Provide evidence and provide fact or STFU because you have no argument.
With such grace you lie to yourself. It must be a deep seated fear, I wonder what it is. You cannot stop making excuses Dr Khallow. Take the PA act out of the letter then, or is it too hard to remove a sentence for you. Most word processors had a delete function that you can use before printing the letter. But here we see the depths at which your paralysis grips you.
Presented with reasonable action to your challenge you fold and fall back into chasing the tail of your own dogma yet again, coming up with excuse for inaction and blaming others. In the maze of your belief system all signs point to an exit but they lead you deeper into your own paradox. I imagine your mind is like an M.C Escher picture where you wander aimlessly repeating the patterns presented to you as if you have never seen them before.
You are lost.
Apart from our previous interactions, I think this statement illustrates your naivety is exceeding your understanding of reality. You will have to work harder to correct this
It's amazing how people fail to follow their own advice. As I pointed out, if the problem is poor regulation of nuclear power, then fix the fucking problem. Don't waste my time talking about how naive I supposedly am. I have no patience with people who can't be bothered to go past step one like Poperatzo and unilaterally declare the problem "impossible".
Fortunately private organisations are realizing that it's just not economically viable and when democracies are allowed to speak on the subject, like Italy did, we see that Nuclear power doesn't have much support because the available evidence shows that it is unsafe. But until the Nulcear industry is wound down you can be comforted by knowing that Seimens funding for Nuclear will probably go to make Solar and Wind power more economically viable.
So what? This just indicates a problem with some democracies not with nuclear technology. If you're able to shut down nuclear because it's unpopular, then you can shut down anything that becomes unpopular. A society should have safeguards against that. For example, the US has its Constitution which prohibits a number of ways for a majority to shut down the work of a minority.
As usual another weak, flailing and impotent response, Your statement ignores constructs within the 2005 energy act which gives a minority the right to impose it's will on a majority. Look it up yourself, you have continously demonstrated inability to answer facts or argue based on evidence when supplied so what's the difference to you between heresay and fact when you have been provided with ample references and evidence that you continue to ignore.
If Nuclear Power was safe why does the Price Anderson Act, a temporary act put in place until Nuclear Power proved itself safe and set to expire in 1967, still exist? If Nuclear power was indeed safe why is it necessary to continue to renew this act? No other industry needs such a construct. The act's continued operation and constant renewal suggests that Nuclear Power is not safe, viable or economical without such an artificial construct, quite diametrically opposing your notion that it is simply "unpopular", which it undoubtedly is.
It is simple, just don't renew the PA act and Nuclear power just goes away leaving America with a toxic mess that will take hundreds of years to clean up and billions of peta-joules of energy to actually do. I let you attempt to wrestle with the notion of why the PA act remains that will demonstrate your naivety to yourself more powerfully than any words I can say to you.
Don't talk to me about 'wasting your fucking time' when you have constantly demonstrated your mental laziness and sheer ignorance pertaining to these matters in many of the posting you have submitted here, Dr Khallow. I have no patience for people who make flaccid excuses to maintain the status quo, impose their dogmatically skeptical word view on others in the most arrogant and inaccurate way. That's why I am in your face, because you are rude and full of shit Dr Khallow. You lack imagination to solve these problems, so you just give up and fall back on what you think is the 'educated' response but all it does is demonstrate your limited insight and lack of substantive research on the topic, Dr Khallow.
Impossible. As long as you put something as important as energy into the centralized hands of a few corporations, they are going to exert outsized influence on governments so that meaningful regulation never happens.
Then do the "impossible". Also put in heavy penalties, such as jail time and huge fines, for those who would attempt to exert "outsized influence". As I said, the solution already exists. It's dumb to pretend that we're too helpless to implement it.
But, of course it's never your failing is it? "we're too helpless to implement it" inherently blames others for their inaction and absolves you from having to do anything because you've provided a "solution". How clever of you. You claimed on March 31;
Wait a month and you'll see that we turned the corner about a week ago. yet I still see no evidence of this.
So I call you on your bullshit. I've provided a letter so you can write a letter to your congresscritter and ask them to implement such things on all American Nuclear plant RIGHT NOW! Perhaps you can add to the letter and post it to this forum to show us your efforts at making Nuclear Power safe for everybody. Not Pro or Anti-Nuclear, Responsible Nuclear Advocacy.
Here is a outline for you to follow, but by all means, do use your own creativity to its fullest extent and put that PhD to work on something useful.
Dear Honourable congressperson such and such,
I have recently learned of the appalling state of safety and regulation in the Nuclear Power Industry in my beloved home, America. I have learned that failure, by plant operators, to abide by the regulatory actions prescribed by the NRC have left many Nuclear Power plants vulnerable to the same kinds of failure that have occurred at Fukushima. This is unacceptable as Nuclear Power is a valuable National asset which must be operated safely by all operators at all times. American Energy security must be taken seriously and as such I call for;
I am dismayed that the continuance of the Nuclear Power Industry in America relies on the existence of the Price Anderson Act. I call for a review of the Act under the premise that it has failed to deliver on its charter of legislation over its numerous extensions. I call for a time limit on the act on the basis that under the extensions of this temporary Act Nuclear power has not been able to develop adequate safety system therefore proving the act is invalid.
Furthermore I call for the immediate establishment of a geologically stable spent fuel containment facility built into granite, as this is what the science supports as appropriate, and an infrastructure program to transport all stored spent fuel to such a facility as soon as is practicable. I see this as a necessary means to protect America from a Fukushima style disaster.
Congressman, I realise what I ask for is ambitious but I submit to you that America is an ambitious nation able to overcome all sorts of adversity. I beleive that such a program is neccessary to to protect America's national and economic security and ask you to support introduction of such bills, and others you deem appropriate, that will implement positive steps to improving the safety of such a valuabl
Apart from our previous interactions, I think this statement illustrates your naivety is exceeding your understanding of reality. You will have to work harder to correct this
You mean the same way the regulations were bypassed by a private organisation at Fukushima, we've gone over it in the past
Nice to see you're finally reading some of the links I sent you.
Fortunately private organisations are realizing that it's just not economically viable and when democracies are allowed to speak on the subject, like Italy did, we see that Nuclear power doesn't have much support because the available evidence shows that it is unsafe. But until the Nulcear industry is wound down you can be comforted by knowing that Seimens funding for Nuclear will probably go to make Solar and Wind power more economically viable.
Talking about Fukushima, let's try to be more factual: the expected death toll is less than you'd expect from a major bus accident. So far we know of no deaths related to Fukushima.
Well then I guess Seimens must have done the sums and found that Nuclear power just isn't a cost effective way to produce energy. Don't worry though, I'm certain they will invest that same money in a more reliable means of producing power, like wind or solar.
A. No, what I said was you have to figure out how to hide and manage the wiring.
A. No, what I said was I haven't tried it with a full rack yet.
To assist you I have bolded the key ideas. This should make it easier for you to comprehend. Now sometimes in life you have to combine ideas (try to keep up here if you have trouble I can use more bold) to do something. What I did was combine two ideas to make a suggestion to someone who asked a question about better cable management.
Whilst I appreciate that the quality of *your* ethernet cables may spontaneously fail on a regular basis, mine do not. Perhaps it's because you are doing it wrong. This may be explained by you having to do your own electrical work on your car because you are not skillful enough to make reliable ethernet cables and thus, you don't get paid enough to be able to afford an auto electrician. So, certainly, braiding it would be a retard move *for you*.
Speaking of "retard moves" (and I'll bold this bit to assist your comprehension) I suggest that next time you smoke a lot of weed, you refrain from posting.
I have more cable that I can think of to deal with so, even though it can be time consuming it's unquestionably neat. Plaiting and braiding cables is the way to go. Once you learn three, four, five and six way plaits and braids you can make any wiring loom neat and controllable in a unit.
Anyone lucky enough to have me build a performance gaming/audio/video workstation for them get the full service internally braided cables. Having hot rodded several cars, this is the one time I think a car analogy is in the right place. When you hot rod a car you have to figure out how to hide and manage the wiring. That skill translate perfectly onto computers and a box with hidden wires looks like an exceptionally neat piece of performance gear.
From that point it's relatively simple to come up with wiring looms for various discrete subsystems (like drum kit mike looms, braided low-voltage power supply cables). Don't try it with mains though, the inductance could be a fire hazzard. I've not tried it with a full rack, yet but I didn't experience any noise introduced into my signal path so I don't expect you would find increased packet loss from induced noise in ethernet cable. YMMV
Metro this, Metro that. Am I the only one fucking tired of hearing about Metro?
Thanks to Microsoft, the next person who says metro, in any form (including metrosexual or metropolis) is going to be filing an assault charge on me...
You sound like a metronome, duude!
That should read "none of them are the missing link". (Hangs head in shame for watching TV while commenting)
But of them, are the link missing none? This dinosaur stuff is really confusing sometimes.
The poster is actually a dinosaur troll from the lameassic age.
So the interface is sooooooo Metro-sexsual, darling
and I bet they don't need film anymore
Australia has an amazing population of parrot species sociable birds and extremely entertaining to watch, sometimes I think they are putting a show on or just showing off. Even wild ones are easy to make friends with they are an australian favourite even though they tend to chew through just about anything (that beak could sever a finger quite efficiently) that they feel like. It's amazing just how sentient these birds are.
Probably the funniest thing to do is to give one of these guys an unshelled macadamia. They can smell how good the nut is but it's really hard for them to break it. Obviously if they learn to talk they would only ask for something to eat.
But of course, how silly of me to believe a Sad Santa was the only one able to attack the most powerful nation in the world with such guile and effectiveness.
Oh yes of course I am. ha. ha. ha. ha.
I didn't say not to kill him.But you could have done that after you subjected him to the media circus, questioning trial, imprisonment and then executed him after doing genetic tests to be sure, disassembling his ideals, disarming his followers. Hey you could have even tortured him in gitmo but no some guy that 'oh yeah thats him' was dumped over a ship. He wasn't a former CIA operative was he, and the US government have never lied to US citizens about anything have they?
But you got your symbol, at least.
back in the 1800's some time I think...
Tewworfiwing when you don't know your enemy isn't it
It's shameful that the media coverage is merely a flashback back to 9/11, and I here nothing about the subsequent fear, paranoia, and loss of freedoms that have engulfed the country. It was certainly a horrible day, but the aftermath on our country has been tens of thousands of times worse.
We got into two wars that we're STILL it., We have this lovely patriot act, which continues to be renewed with little debate. We have a continually fearful public, cowed into submission to The Official Reaction. We have ever increasing security theatre at airports. But yet no coverage of any of that. It's all about the day, and nothing about the disaster afterward.
I guess it's 9/11 24/7 for America now
There is no doubt this was a tragedy and a sad day for the American people but from an outsiders perspective (an Australian perspective) this is what we saw happening to you guys.
Why has no forensic investigation ever been carried out and scrutinised? Why wasn't OBL tried and humiliated, and made to face his worst fear in front of the American public? I strongly feel that Americans have been denied actual justice and have instead been given a serve of McJustice by media/military. The true strength of Western democracies has been that they are countries run BY RULE OF LAW that has been refined over a roughly 800 year period. If we look at it from that perspective the military look like a very blunt tool, by comparison. Yet it was the tool of first resort. What does it say about our democracy that one of the strongest was so easily subverted?
The consequences of not applying those principles have drawn the U.S into an asymmetrical war that has cost trillions, without actually being able to hit a target of any meaning. I believe many forth amendment rights have practically been abandoned, you have a domestic spy policy now and bills introduced to protect the freedoms of everyday people are slowly being whittled down.
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin "The constitution in it's current form will not save the United States from Despotism". The American people have been lied to and deceived, I'm ashamed to say in part, by an Australian Media mogul who learned how to do what he is doing to America in my homeland.
Justice delayed, Just denied.
The war that was being waged on America began when the Towers were hit but the enemy has attacked in such a way that the freedoms that protected US citizens have been hit far more severely than those Towers. The institution of democracy was weakened from within at one of the modern cradles of it's creation and now I see it more compromised than it has ever been. Human rights, the bedrock of your enviable Bill of Rights, the true strength of your nation were treated as an inconvenience to circumvented. Yet it's the only weapon capable of disarming a martyr.
Know your enemy, Know yourself, and whilst the truth must be painful for you to hear will you bludgeon to death the friend who has the courage to look you in the face and tell it to you? The one who says, "hey mate, yer acting like a dickhead". How can you possibly win in Iraq and Afghanistan when the real war is in the cathedrals of your institutions by an enemy who is manipulating you so skillfully that you dance willingly to the tune. Stop, friend, before you destroy yourself and ask who the real enemy is, what the true theater of this war is and what forces are at play?
How many of Ben Franklins warnings will you ignore? Why do I, an Australian, have to point out the wisdom of your own founding fathers whose words have been paraphrased ad infinitum;
Those who trade an essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither security nor liberty
Then why America why, do you keep doing it?
A circle jerk of pro nuclear fanbois.
I think you just have to look at who can afford to lobby government and provide more donations to political parties. The altruism of the Open Source Community is often used against it and, frankly, is seen as a source of cheap and excellent labour by technology companies. OSS is great, pervasive and largely unknown because those who know how to commercialise it, exploit it to their own ends.
I won' t bother naming names because of the inevitable clueless fanboi attack I'm likely to be subjected to, but those companies are out there pumping donations into political parties and lobbying government to use their products. All that OSS has to offer is greater government efficiency and saving the taxpayer money and what sane politician would want that.
Open Licences such as BSD and Apache have allowed these companies to plunder the intellectual capital of the Open Source Community whilst they marginalise it. That's not a criticism of those licences as that is their goal but until the day comes when there are hundreds of thousands of Open Source based services companies eating away at these corporate marauders who contribute nothing and use the community nothing will change.
Until legislation alters the way corporates can donate to political parties the playing field will never be level, the corporate will always have the advantage over the community. Wealth generation is the key goal of technology, and generating wealth with Open Source Technology is not yet well understood inside the community who creates it.
I'm roughly ten years younger than you and actually look (I'm told) ten years younger than I am. I'm fit, very fit so that probably helps as I have high energy levels. My experiences parallel your own as does my attitude, I like what I do, that's why I got into IT I want to code and create things, make things and I enjoy the challenge of solving problems. When people saw my full resume they easily worked out that I was mid-early 40's but when I cut the resume down and just got rid of 10-15 years worth of experience (yes I started really early) the job interviews started coming in and fortunately, because of my appearance, so did the job offers.
Whilst relieved, I am now mindful of this attitude in IT and really question the long term viability of it as a career path, but I like technology work why should I have to give it up for a management career, it's not who I want to be.
I am saddened by how utterly vapid IT seems to be and it's quite obvious that I will have to engineer a backup plan in case this career path is no longer viable. Where these perceptions come from is anyones guess. I keep updating my skills because IT interests me and I'm good at it. It seems the lack of respect to older people isn't a problem for the younger guys because they will never get old.
Funny that, how we devalue experience.
The app is surprisingly useful: accelerometer, audio spectrum analyzer, compass to name a few... it does everything you'd expect a "real" tricorder to do, with the only limitations being the phone hardware.
exactly, it is surprisingly useful. Surely it's possible for the app author to have the app exist just without a lCars skin? (maybe someone else can make one)
I mean, seriously, fuck you CBS, for ending my last bit of nerdiness fun with Star Trek. CBS have well and truly killed the innocent fun of ST more effectively than any Borg could. If I could shit in their mouths I would for the crap that dribbles of their chins.
Thank you moonblink for giving us this app while we could have it, and I will continue to enjoy it on my droid while I can. However it is OSS, where can I get the source and can you GPL 3 the shit out of it so that, somehow, CBS can't use the code base?
If Star Trek was a real utopian future, it would be an Open Source one I simply couldn't imaging a situation below happening
for wasting my time with all this interesting, educational (mostly) stuff, it was great and is appreciated.
>>Because they "dare" question financial axioms like "greed is good" and infinite growth?
More because they've caused as many environmental problems as they've solved. Australia has around a quarter of all the uranium deposits in the world, but has no nuclear power plants. Opposition is greatest from Greens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Australia#Opinion_polls), and this in a country where only 7% of energy production comes from green sources.
Fighting for the status quo is a horrible idea when the status quo sucks.
Australia also has none of the nuclear fallout the rest of the world has from Chernobyl and Fukushima. Australia also has large deposits geothermal energy, space for wind, tidal and solar. As a last resort they have oodles of coal they can burn because it is cheap high quality coal.
Australia is burdened with uranium mining that is using a process call acid-leach in-situ mining, which is illegal in the U.S and Russia, on top of the great Artesian Bore, their ground water supply. Have a guess where that uranium is going?