If its history we're talking about, then what about America's history of human rights abuse (slave trade anyone?), or the UK (slaves again, plus that whole empire thing, and navvies).
I object to ALL human rights abuses. As it stands the subject of *this* conversation and *this* Olympics is China's human right's abuses.
So, check your history before declaring China to be the fount of all that is wrong in the world.
I'm well versed in the human rights abuses of Western countries, thank you very much. I did have an open mind on China during the lead up to the Olympics, but as I learned more it's evident that China has a record of human rights abuses at least as bad as western countries.
Oppression is a trans-national phenomenon that must be challenged wherever it occurs.
Yes, you can access slashdot from China. In fact, I'm sitting at a computer in one of Shanghai's suburban neighborhoods.
Ok, that answers the question - thanks.
You're jumping to some pretty big conclusions there.
Maybe, but China's history of human rights abuses speaks for itself. I guess for pointing that out I deserve to be modded a troll, thanks for that moderators. Frankly, it makes me angry, because oppression of any people in any country provides lessons to oppress people anywhere.
the Chinese government is so cruel and harsh that all the citizens are living in fear. Um, no.
Hmmm, I remember videos and reports of the Chinese government running over one of their own citizens with a tank. And more recently allegations of organ harvesting from Falon Gong members. So perhaps it's not fear more an imposed state of apathy, where it's extremely uncomfortable to talk about things the government doesn't want people to talk about. Tibet, Taiwan. Threatening two old ladies to 'hard labour re-education' because they *wanted* to protest reinforces the perceptions that the Chinese government is actually all that it's critics say it is. The emperor has no clothes.
We really aren't that affected at all, and I can say (because yes, I have lived in the US and Australia) that life here is no different, except for the annoying fact that I can't access Freewebs.
Great. Does that mean you a Chinese citizen? I'm free to say what I want and, yes, I'll defend your right to disagree with me, but I doubt that the same attitude is even vaguely present in China. I'm not having a go at you personally but I stand by my original "troll".
Because if it wasn't true then why would the Chinese government even need a 'Great Firewall of China'.
Can you even access slashdot from within China? Seems to me if you are in China you have 'No Rights On-line', come to think of it, if you are in China you have 'No Rights At-All'.
Now we know what it is like to live under a government that the people fear. A government so concerned about loosing face in the Olympics that they did everything they could do to embarrass themselves and prove what everyone has been saying about them all along. That they are a group of thugs prepared to subdue anyone that gets in their way. I'm sure you'll censor that Mr Hu Jintao. president of a Totalitarian State.
So now English citizens can look forward to having their freedoms raped in the name of 'Protecting the Olympics from Terrorism legislations' and the television stations can conclude their coverage with 'We will now return you to your regularly scheduled apathy'.
Bah, joke is on you, I am really Bullshitnakakrofl from secret east western ring of soviet service secret. You will of course be collected and sentenced to re-education for disclosing secrets to western dogs because everyone knows:
So I appreciate the spirit of your post, but please get your facts right next time. It's either "There is no reason why some of us can't have safe little nuclear power plants in our backyard, next week" or "There is no reason we all can't have safe little nuclear power plants in our backyard, next year."
I don't like the premise of your post and what you emply. The only reason *you* can't get a Nuukleer power plant in your backyard *today* is because you are obvously a communist. Communists can't have newqler power cause they make bombs with it. Backyard Atomics Inc *knew* you were a communist and said that to you cause they didn't want to hurt your left leaning touchy feely feelings. I said We, not You. You can't have nuguler bower.
So thanks for patronising my, you pinko, but obvousily *you* dind't get *your* facts* right.
True. There are many areas where solar isn't a good option,
The sun isn't as good as nuucler because you get sunburnt from the sun, and that's bad. Nuculer *never* gave people sunburn.
True. More people die from pollution than have ever died from radiation poisoning, and both plants and animals are flourishing in the Chernobyl fall-out area.
If we covered the world with newclear fallout, nature would flourish and global warming would go away. It would be utopia.
In fact, what I'd really like is an SRG in my electric motor home
I'm looking forward to a nucleia powered 97 inch TV, I would have nuquler movie nights and i would never turn it off. It's a dream we can all share.
Anyone who knows anything about solar power is that it is girly girly energy like this article proves. Poor people are poor because they probably deserve it or did something wrong. Solar cells won't ever be good enough for anything other than kids lab kits, and besides what happens if the sun goes out, where will your new age hippy solar cells be then. Nuclear is so much better than solar because it works in the dark and even when it rains. So what if it blows up from time to time, nuclear accidents are overrated anyway, and are probably good for the environment because it scares people away so the forest can re-grow.
There is no reason why we all can't have safe little nuclear power plants in our backyard, today.
Frankly, without someone to poke me with a sharp stick now and then, I wouldn't get much done.
Most people that I know in I.T do the work because they get enjoyment out of I.T type work, that's why I do it. I telecommute as much as I can and I think I'm more productive being away from the drone of a colleague telling me stories about his car, his lawn, his daughters at a private school over and over while I'm trying to focus on work.
Teleconferencing gives me the opportunity to decide the amount of focus to a meeting as it deserves. Enough so I am participating, but not so meetings monopolises my time and stops me from achieving what I am meant to do.
As for the perception of "not available" ummm Instant messaging anybody??? Can't call everyone for a meeting ummm isn;t that what a shared calendar is all about or -perish the thought, email - Hi everybody - just a quick message everyone be in the office 2pm Wednesday for a face to face, we're having a lunch for anyone who want to get there before 1pm - thanks - not really very hard is it.
This article reeks of mental laziness that is refusing to evolve with the times. If the Information Technology Industry can't deal with the soft issues of evolving effective telecommuting techniques that produce a less energy (and carbon) intensive business infrastructure for the rest of industry to follow - how the fuck are we supposed to deal with the hard issues of climate change?
Telecommuting and large telecommuting centres that organisations can share, are the future and if we have management that aren't capable of producing the type of management and social changes within business that support the technology innovations that society demands, then they aren't leaders are they and they should get out of industry that is responsible for innovation.
Well if China can sentence two old ladies to hard labour I'd imagine they could come up with something for this guy.
How did China even get the Olympics, it just proves that the ideals of the Olympic games have been trumped by vapid consumerism and it only has teeth when it is deciding where to host a new games.
In Australia, when its nesting season for Magpies they swoop people who go within their territory.
slashdotters may understand how scarey this is if they realise that Australian Magpies are large enough to steal a spark plug socket that you just happen to leave near the car while you are changing a tyre and have to answer the phone. I paid twenty bucks for that socket and was really pissed off when, through the kitchen window, I saw it fly away firmly wedged in the magpies beak - little shithead.
I've observed many species of birds and animals at my house and I have come to the conclusion they not just have some reasonable level of intelligence but are actually insane as well.
When a few of my friends and I were getting drunk in my back yard, a possum fell out of a tree with an enormous thud. We actually pissed ourselves laughing, the possum actually looked embarrassed!!! I think the magpies are a lot smarter than the possums.
I saw kookaburra (they're the ones that make that laughing sound you hear in all the jungle movies - and that is what a backyard in Australia sounds like) whilst hunting for a meal - fuck it right up and crash into the ground wings still open. He got up, looked around, looked right at me and had a look that almost said "meh, just a human" and flew off. When the magpies, kurrawongs and kookies fight - it's worth watching the battles.
I saw three Magpies attacking a Indian Myna bird. Two of them were holding the Myna bird down on the hot road (it was hot!) while the third was jumping and swooping in a way that it's sharp beak was trying to break through the myna birds abdomen. I was amazed at the co-operation between the magpies. The Magpies seem to be scared shitless of lorikeets (a parrot) though. I have seen the lorikeets going for the magpies feet.
I think you'll find the magpie was giving you a compliment by saying - 'hey you've got the best hair I've seen, I'll take some for my nest human'. just face the little fucker and snap him if it gets to close - and be sure to chase it around when it's on the ground - it will learn pretty quick.
For about a year I've noticed that the growing rhetoric in the mass media outlets is that encryption is something only paedophiles or criminals use . If you can't force people to disclose the passphrase you can sure make people who do use encryption look like criminals.
"Without Vista, anti-trust law suits and billions of dollars in fines, years of screwing over vendors, customers and anyone else who got in there way, I don't think it would have been possible for Linux to get a foothold."
One strategy for Microsoft in order to counter this trend is to modify its Windows OS license in a way that specifically prohibits this kind of set-up.
This way, a laptop will have to run a non Windows OS in order to be participant in DELL's "DELL Latitude On" or INTEL's "Intel Remote Wake."
Either way, they've retreated from the shared culture of our society,
Not neccesarily. Perhaps they find the mass mind rape of imposed "kulture" so droll, vapid and uninspiring that they are busy making culture for their own entertainment and their friends. I can get by with out 'faux news' and I'd rather spend my life actually living it than watching people live it on cable TV. Cable is a nice distraction, but that's about it.
so they have no right to comment about what happens in that shared culture.
My sarcasm detector has no signal. What about the people who write music, and shows that are a commentary of our culture but don't have time for cable. Cable is pretty infertile soil for creativity.
From my understanding, about half that cost comes from dealing with the inevitable lawsuits that occur whenever a nuclear power plant is about to be built.
Changes introduced in the 2005 energy act prevent people from raising legal challenges to an installation of a 'pre-approved' nuclear power plant. Challenges based on the location, uncertainty of waste disposal or the need for the capacity are no longer permitted. Most of the cost comes from the substantial investment in concrete, which you may not be aware is the third largest cause of carbon dioxide emissions.
Most power companies run all their available nuclear power plants at full capacity (and hydroelectric if they have them) and then take care of the rest of the power needed with fossil fuel generators.
The 'full capacity' that Nuclear power plants achieve is roughly 24% utilisation of their potential capacity over their lifetime. This generation of once through reactors is inefficient in ways other than the fuel cycle.
The cost per kilowatt hour for nuclear power is a lot cheaper than fossil fuels, but there has been a lot of trouble building nuclear power plants due to legal issues.
Nuclear Power gets a tax credit of 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour so it does have substantial subsidisation before looking at other government support incentives. Unfortunately the legal issues you speak of include the dismantling of the Public Utilities Company Holding Act which was put in place to prevent a repeat of the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent economic depression that followed.
Hopefully that is changing now.
Well it has already, it's is a big reason why Wall St gets nervous about Nuclear Power.
With electric cars, you have basically four parts: a battery, a bunch of heavy gauge wires, a charge controller, and an electric motor.
The conversion in the article maintained the drive train, presumably in a dedicated electric car you would have motors mounted directly to the wheels reducing the weight of the vehicle by replacing the transmission, differential and propeller shafts with batteries and wires.
Further by implementing regenerative braking (such as that used on electric trains) you could recover energy and recharge the batteries increasing the efficiency of the vehicle whilst reducing the unsprung weight (i.e the car handles better). Placement of the batteries would also assist in the weight distribution of the vehicle producing cars that are more streamlined and have a better drag co-efficient. Controllers smart enough to recognise wheel spin and compensate and there you have traction control.
A major benefit would be that you would have three other motors available if one broke down AND they would be nicer to work on without dirty grease and oil. I haven't seen any major increase in fuel efficiency in combustion engines for a long time and if they were twice as fuel efficient then there would be an incentive to keep buying them when fuel is twice as expensive. I am fairly certain the the price of fuel is going to continue to increase so electric cars just keep on looking better and better.
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I object to ALL human rights abuses. As it stands the subject of *this* conversation and *this* Olympics is China's human right's abuses.
I'm well versed in the human rights abuses of Western countries, thank you very much. I did have an open mind on China during the lead up to the Olympics, but as I learned more it's evident that China has a record of human rights abuses at least as bad as western countries.
Oppression is a trans-national phenomenon that must be challenged wherever it occurs.
Ok, that answers the question - thanks.
Maybe, but China's history of human rights abuses speaks for itself. I guess for pointing that out I deserve to be modded a troll, thanks for that moderators. Frankly, it makes me angry, because oppression of any people in any country provides lessons to oppress people anywhere.
Hmmm, I remember videos and reports of the Chinese government running over one of their own citizens with a tank. And more recently allegations of organ harvesting from Falon Gong members. So perhaps it's not fear more an imposed state of apathy, where it's extremely uncomfortable to talk about things the government doesn't want people to talk about. Tibet, Taiwan. Threatening two old ladies to 'hard labour re-education' because they *wanted* to protest reinforces the perceptions that the Chinese government is actually all that it's critics say it is. The emperor has no clothes.
Great. Does that mean you a Chinese citizen? I'm free to say what I want and, yes, I'll defend your right to disagree with me, but I doubt that the same attitude is even vaguely present in China. I'm not having a go at you personally but I stand by my original "troll".
Because if it wasn't true then why would the Chinese government even need a 'Great Firewall of China'.
Can you even access slashdot from within China? Seems to me if you are in China you have 'No Rights On-line', come to think of it, if you are in China you have 'No Rights At-All'.
Now we know what it is like to live under a government that the people fear. A government so concerned about loosing face in the Olympics that they did everything they could do to embarrass themselves and prove what everyone has been saying about them all along. That they are a group of thugs prepared to subdue anyone that gets in their way. I'm sure you'll censor that Mr Hu Jintao. president of a Totalitarian State.
So now English citizens can look forward to having their freedoms raped in the name of 'Protecting the Olympics from Terrorism legislations' and the television stations can conclude their coverage with 'We will now return you to your regularly scheduled apathy'.
everybody knows that global warming is responsible for global cooling.
Bah, joke is on you, I am really Bullshitnakakrofl from secret east western ring of soviet service secret. You will of course be collected and sentenced to re-education for disclosing secrets to western dogs because everyone knows:
In Soviet Russia, Backyard Atomic Inc orders you!
Dear Sir,
It's great that little Jenny has an interest in sharing our Nuukler Dreem. You can order this kit today.
Fun and safe for the whole family.!!!!!!!!!
I don't like the premise of your post and what you emply. The only reason *you* can't get a Nuukleer power plant in your backyard *today* is because you are obvously a communist. Communists can't have newqler power cause they make bombs with it. Backyard Atomics Inc *knew* you were a communist and said that to you cause they didn't want to hurt your left leaning touchy feely feelings. I said We, not You. You can't have nuguler bower.
So thanks for patronising my, you pinko, but obvousily *you* dind't get *your* facts* right.
The sun isn't as good as nuucler because you get sunburnt from the sun, and that's bad. Nuculer *never* gave people sunburn.
If we covered the world with newclear fallout, nature would flourish and global warming would go away. It would be utopia.
I'm looking forward to a nucleia powered 97 inch TV, I would have nuquler movie nights and i would never turn it off. It's a dream we can all share.
Anyone who knows anything about solar power is that it is girly girly energy like this article proves. Poor people are poor because they probably deserve it or did something wrong. Solar cells won't ever be good enough for anything other than kids lab kits, and besides what happens if the sun goes out, where will your new age hippy solar cells be then. Nuclear is so much better than solar because it works in the dark and even when it rains. So what if it blows up from time to time, nuclear accidents are overrated anyway, and are probably good for the environment because it scares people away so the forest can re-grow.
There is no reason why we all can't have safe little nuclear power plants in our backyard, today.
The magpie(s) looked genuinely intimidated, they were trying to get away despite being much bigger.
They are redesigning the Apollo launcher, using the same 'committee' design process used for the shuttle. Well we all know how well that went.
Still there is always room for declination.
Most people that I know in I.T do the work because they get enjoyment out of I.T type work, that's why I do it. I telecommute as much as I can and I think I'm more productive being away from the drone of a colleague telling me stories about his car, his lawn, his daughters at a private school over and over while I'm trying to focus on work.
Teleconferencing gives me the opportunity to decide the amount of focus to a meeting as it deserves. Enough so I am participating, but not so meetings monopolises my time and stops me from achieving what I am meant to do.
As for the perception of "not available" ummm Instant messaging anybody??? Can't call everyone for a meeting ummm isn;t that what a shared calendar is all about or -perish the thought, email - Hi everybody - just a quick message everyone be in the office 2pm Wednesday for a face to face, we're having a lunch for anyone who want to get there before 1pm - thanks - not really very hard is it.
This article reeks of mental laziness that is refusing to evolve with the times. If the Information Technology Industry can't deal with the soft issues of evolving effective telecommuting techniques that produce a less energy (and carbon) intensive business infrastructure for the rest of industry to follow - how the fuck are we supposed to deal with the hard issues of climate change?
Telecommuting and large telecommuting centres that organisations can share, are the future and if we have management that aren't capable of producing the type of management and social changes within business that support the technology innovations that society demands, then they aren't leaders are they and they should get out of industry that is responsible for innovation.
How did China even get the Olympics, it just proves that the ideals of the Olympic games have been trumped by vapid consumerism and it only has teeth when it is deciding where to host a new games.
slashdotters may understand how scarey this is if they realise that Australian Magpies are large enough to steal a spark plug socket that you just happen to leave near the car while you are changing a tyre and have to answer the phone. I paid twenty bucks for that socket and was really pissed off when, through the kitchen window, I saw it fly away firmly wedged in the magpies beak - little shithead.
I've observed many species of birds and animals at my house and I have come to the conclusion they not just have some reasonable level of intelligence but are actually insane as well.
When a few of my friends and I were getting drunk in my back yard, a possum fell out of a tree with an enormous thud. We actually pissed ourselves laughing, the possum actually looked embarrassed!!! I think the magpies are a lot smarter than the possums.
I saw kookaburra (they're the ones that make that laughing sound you hear in all the jungle movies - and that is what a backyard in Australia sounds like) whilst hunting for a meal - fuck it right up and crash into the ground wings still open. He got up, looked around, looked right at me and had a look that almost said "meh, just a human" and flew off. When the magpies, kurrawongs and kookies fight - it's worth watching the battles.
I saw three Magpies attacking a Indian Myna bird. Two of them were holding the Myna bird down on the hot road (it was hot!) while the third was jumping and swooping in a way that it's sharp beak was trying to break through the myna birds abdomen. I was amazed at the co-operation between the magpies. The Magpies seem to be scared shitless of lorikeets (a parrot) though. I have seen the lorikeets going for the magpies feet.
I think you'll find the magpie was giving you a compliment by saying - 'hey you've got the best hair I've seen, I'll take some for my nest human'. just face the little fucker and snap him if it gets to close - and be sure to chase it around when it's on the ground - it will learn pretty quick.
Magpies aren't just intelligent - they're crazy.
Which is a pity because using encryption is one of the best mechanisms we have to secure ourselves against Identity Theft.
For about a year I've noticed that the growing rhetoric in the mass media outlets is that encryption is something only paedophiles or criminals use . If you can't force people to disclose the passphrase you can sure make people who do use encryption look like criminals.
da eeeeeeeee with windows lame
thanks for making a million variations of that song go through my head while I'm so busy, btw.
Looks like you are receiving a call. Do you want to;
Take the call. Ignore the call. Reject the call.Send the call to the answering machine.
Maaaaaaaaah, the phones done a white scream of noise again.
da windoze way.. da windoze way..
"Without Vista, anti-trust law suits and billions of dollars in fines, years of screwing over vendors, customers and anyone else who got in there way, I don't think it would have been possible for Linux to get a foothold."
--there, fixed your fixed it for you.
Darth Gates: "We will make it illegal"
Darth Monkey Boy: "Yes, My Master"
Chernobyl 2640 Square kilometres of farmland, 1900 sqkm of forest. How big would that solar array be?
Not neccesarily. Perhaps they find the mass mind rape of imposed "kulture" so droll, vapid and uninspiring that they are busy making culture for their own entertainment and their friends. I can get by with out 'faux news' and I'd rather spend my life actually living it than watching people live it on cable TV. Cable is a nice distraction, but that's about it.
My sarcasm detector has no signal. What about the people who write music, and shows that are a commentary of our culture but don't have time for cable. Cable is pretty infertile soil for creativity.
Changes introduced in the 2005 energy act prevent people from raising legal challenges to an installation of a 'pre-approved' nuclear power plant. Challenges based on the location, uncertainty of waste disposal or the need for the capacity are no longer permitted. Most of the cost comes from the substantial investment in concrete, which you may not be aware is the third largest cause of carbon dioxide emissions.
The 'full capacity' that Nuclear power plants achieve is roughly 24% utilisation of their potential capacity over their lifetime. This generation of once through reactors is inefficient in ways other than the fuel cycle.
Nuclear Power gets a tax credit of 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour so it does have substantial subsidisation before looking at other government support incentives. Unfortunately the legal issues you speak of include the dismantling of the Public Utilities Company Holding Act which was put in place to prevent a repeat of the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent economic depression that followed.
Well it has already, it's is a big reason why Wall St gets nervous about Nuclear Power.
The conversion in the article maintained the drive train, presumably in a dedicated electric car you would have motors mounted directly to the wheels reducing the weight of the vehicle by replacing the transmission, differential and propeller shafts with batteries and wires.
Further by implementing regenerative braking (such as that used on electric trains) you could recover energy and recharge the batteries increasing the efficiency of the vehicle whilst reducing the unsprung weight (i.e the car handles better). Placement of the batteries would also assist in the weight distribution of the vehicle producing cars that are more streamlined and have a better drag co-efficient. Controllers smart enough to recognise wheel spin and compensate and there you have traction control.
A major benefit would be that you would have three other motors available if one broke down AND they would be nicer to work on without dirty grease and oil. I haven't seen any major increase in fuel efficiency in combustion engines for a long time and if they were twice as fuel efficient then there would be an incentive to keep buying them when fuel is twice as expensive. I am fairly certain the the price of fuel is going to continue to increase so electric cars just keep on looking better and better.
I wish I had one.