For anyone who is interested the modern advertising industry is the brain child of one Edward Bernays who deceived women into thinking that smoking was a sign of their freedom.
I highly recommend a documentary called Century of the Self for anyone who want to see just how we got into the situation we are in now.
For all of the things that a human beings time gets wasted on, advertising has to be the most offensive.
OK, let me call the Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance to race up the huwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawei.
This whole situation is fucking ridiculous and deserves parody in a lame joke because that's how lame it is. One because China is obviously lying and two because the US does it too and they are having a tantrum over who is going to control the biggest segment of the population so they both can fucking ass rape our freedom with a jackhammer.
A police state in everything but name.
Meanwhile people seeing this post on facebook have a mild moment of outrage and say "yeah" and slip back into their apathy as they keep scrolling.
It is very difficult to believe that the company that got the world into this situation is the one that will get us out of it.
No it's not. The situation was created through errors and negligence that were supported by a closed and punishment free working environment. The company none the less is full of intelligent experts within their field.
Yet here we are with four smouldering reactors. It's stupid and naive to trust them to fix this issue.
With the eyes of the world looking over them and their local regulators bearing down on them it is perfectly believable that they are among the best placed to get us out of a bad situation, they have more to lose than ever.
There is one born every minute.
Comparing this to Chernobyl is silly. They are very different accidents, with very different scenarios, with very different systemic causes, overseen by a very different political environment, in a very different time in history.
Fukushima proves that the Nuclear industry learned nothing from the Chernobyl disaster.
The GP was right, the original assertion that "massive long term damage" is done, used in the same sentence as "soil and ocean" is sensationalist. The only massive long term damage will be in the immediate vicinity of the reactor.
Uptake, absorption and retention are particular to the specific radio-isotope, they all different. Some don't, many toxic ones do. Plutonium Chloride, for example, as an iron analogue is readily absorbed because iron is the beginning of many metabolic processes in the ocean.
Radio-isotopes bio-accumulate in the environment, they do not dilute.
Either you don't know the meaning of bio-accumulate, the meaning of the word dilute, or the size of the environment.
An assumption on your part. Sea grasses and plankton take up a variety of radio-isotopes and then more complex animals eat them.
Just because something can bio-accumulate doesn't mean it isn't also diluted when released into a large environment.
Except that they are opposing things, accumulation and dilution. Living things don't dilute in the ocean until they die. Sometimes they die getting eaten and those radio-isotopes are then absorbed by a larger animal until they get to us.
I don't understand why this modded as troll when the post you are responding to is more trollish.
I think it's a good example that illustrates the point because it is difficult to imagine how radio-isotopes propagate through living things. More than likely it is difficult to accept that radio-isotopes propagate through living things.
Uranium mineral rights are largely held by the English Royal Family and amount to some 35 Trillion dollars.
Can I get a smoke on that - it must be some strong shit.
If you'd claimed that the Crown Estate - a very different thing to the Royal Family (hawk, spit) held a lot of U mineral rights
Please forgive my error, but how far down the rabbit hole should I dig? I held the information with as much disbelief until I considered it from the perspective Would those families deceive us as to their true wealth? I came to the conclusion that they would.
If I can dig out the documentary that this assertion came from I will however what I was doing was offering some conjecture as to how the true situation is distorted by the financial interests that rule the world.
California needed $1100 million to patch a leaky spillway at a dam.
The work done at Orville dam was amazing. It was an urgent problem that had to be dealt with, I wouldn't want to be down stream of a dam that large if it burst. They did a big engineering project because it was a clear public safety issue.
It would take a few trillion dollars for California to contain a damaged reactor.
It would cost a few billion dollars to reduce the fuel packing density in spent fuel pools around the U.S. Currently that is much denser than it is at Fukushima which has approximately 6000 spent fuel rods on site. This is a clear public safety issue.
incorrect - it will be diluted at that point to the extent it can be detected but does not cause any permanent damage (except idiots who panic about nothing causing alarm to the rest of the population)
Radio-isotopes bio-accumulate in the environment, they do not dilute. They accumulate in the food chain because radio-isotopes appears as micro-nutrients to metabolisms. For example, plutonium chloride is highly soluble and appears like iron to metabolisms, which would be absorbed into blood, for example. Radio-cesium and strontium also have these characteristics.
So what is true? Probably some of both. But which?
I think part of the answer to it is in who controls the mineral rights of the two competing energy industries of the world today. Oil and Coal are essentially the Rockefeller's considered to be the wealthiest Americans of all time. Uranium mineral rights are largely held by the English Royal Family and amount to some 35 Trillion dollars.
That kind of influence must compete to manifest its version of reality amongst the populace through media organizations they both control.
The report is scathing and contains lines such as a multitude of errors and willful negligence that left the Fukushima plant unprepared for the events of March 11 and describes the mindset that supported the negligence behind this disaster.
It is very difficult to believe that the company that got the world into this situation is the one that will get us out of it. Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement took the combined resources of the European Union to fund and was designed by the British.
VMware stated that it "continues to be a strong supporter of open source software development,"
Curious how vSphere doesn't run on linux though. You *used* to be able to use it on Linux and is one of the only damn things left keeping me using Windows.
In Australia the summer day is long and very hot. DST helps separate trades people and office workers on the road. One wants to avoid most of the heat of the day a and the other wants a little day left over.
I think Seasonal Affective Disorder is also influenced by this, especially during winter when day becomes much shorter.
I'd be more worried that every email, text message, and phone call is being intercepted. But building a traffic pattern analysis DB from our mail envelopes, that's bad too.
So am I. It just shows that the rabbit hole is much deeper that we believe it is.
Opening envelopes takes work for every individual one. For encryption backdoors, it just takes a bit of electricity once the software is written.
I understand that they are doing something insidious by simply scanning the from and to address on every piece of mail and making a database of associations. All automated.
Now we get to watch people who claim to be feminists in that they believe in treating women and men equally will not in any way whatsoever fight against women being paid more than men.
It's not about getting equal, it's about getting even.
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This is hilarious - thanks!
Crazy times those crazy times.
Edward Bernays was born to a Jewish family
A nephew of Sigmund Freud.
For anyone who is interested the modern advertising industry is the brain child of one Edward Bernays who deceived women into thinking that smoking was a sign of their freedom.
I highly recommend a documentary called Century of the Self for anyone who want to see just how we got into the situation we are in now.
For all of the things that a human beings time gets wasted on, advertising has to be the most offensive.
I'm hearing you. It seem less like a place to thrash things out now and more like a place where ideas are corralled into a outcome.
Your huwaaaaaaaawie meter is broken, complete redline.
sowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwyyyy
I don't get your joke. Please explain.
OK, let me call the Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance to race up the huwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawei.
This whole situation is fucking ridiculous and deserves parody in a lame joke because that's how lame it is. One because China is obviously lying and two because the US does it too and they are having a tantrum over who is going to control the biggest segment of the population so they both can fucking ass rape our freedom with a jackhammer.
A police state in everything but name.
Meanwhile people seeing this post on facebook have a mild moment of outrage and say "yeah" and slip back into their apathy as they keep scrolling.
Either way, we loose, get it?
Don't buy huwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawei, it's my way or the huwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawei.
This is a joke, btw.
It is very difficult to believe that the company that got the world into this situation is the one that will get us out of it.
No it's not. The situation was created through errors and negligence that were supported by a closed and punishment free working environment. The company none the less is full of intelligent experts within their field.
Yet here we are with four smouldering reactors. It's stupid and naive to trust them to fix this issue.
With the eyes of the world looking over them and their local regulators bearing down on them it is perfectly believable that they are among the best placed to get us out of a bad situation, they have more to lose than ever.
There is one born every minute.
Comparing this to Chernobyl is silly. They are very different accidents, with very different scenarios, with very different systemic causes, overseen by a very different political environment, in a very different time in history.
Fukushima proves that the Nuclear industry learned nothing from the Chernobyl disaster.
The GP was right, the original assertion that "massive long term damage" is done, used in the same sentence as "soil and ocean" is sensationalist. The only massive long term damage will be in the immediate vicinity of the reactor.
Uptake, absorption and retention are particular to the specific radio-isotope, they all different. Some don't, many toxic ones do. Plutonium Chloride, for example, as an iron analogue is readily absorbed because iron is the beginning of many metabolic processes in the ocean.
Radio-isotopes bio-accumulate in the environment, they do not dilute.
Either you don't know the meaning of bio-accumulate, the meaning of the word dilute, or the size of the environment.
An assumption on your part. Sea grasses and plankton take up a variety of radio-isotopes and then more complex animals eat them.
Just because something can bio-accumulate doesn't mean it isn't also diluted when released into a large environment.
Except that they are opposing things, accumulation and dilution. Living things don't dilute in the ocean until they die. Sometimes they die getting eaten and those radio-isotopes are then absorbed by a larger animal until they get to us.
And the fact is that nuclear is a boondoggle.
http://feedthedatamonster.com/...
http://www.pollutionissues.com...
https://www.quora.com/Is-dilut...
These are interesting links - thank you.
I don't understand why this modded as troll when the post you are responding to is more trollish.
I think it's a good example that illustrates the point because it is difficult to imagine how radio-isotopes propagate through living things. More than likely it is difficult to accept that radio-isotopes propagate through living things.
Can I get a smoke on that - it must be some strong shit.
If you'd claimed that the Crown Estate - a very different thing to the Royal Family (hawk, spit) held a lot of U mineral rights
Please forgive my error, but how far down the rabbit hole should I dig? I held the information with as much disbelief until I considered it from the perspective Would those families deceive us as to their true wealth? I came to the conclusion that they would.
If I can dig out the documentary that this assertion came from I will however what I was doing was offering some conjecture as to how the true situation is distorted by the financial interests that rule the world.
California needed $1100 million to patch a leaky spillway at a dam.
The work done at Orville dam was amazing. It was an urgent problem that had to be dealt with, I wouldn't want to be down stream of a dam that large if it burst. They did a big engineering project because it was a clear public safety issue.
It would take a few trillion dollars for California to contain a damaged reactor.
It would cost a few billion dollars to reduce the fuel packing density in spent fuel pools around the U.S. Currently that is much denser than it is at Fukushima which has approximately 6000 spent fuel rods on site. This is a clear public safety issue.
incorrect - it will be diluted at that point to the extent it can be detected but does not cause any permanent damage (except idiots who panic about nothing causing alarm to the rest of the population)
Radio-isotopes bio-accumulate in the environment, they do not dilute. They accumulate in the food chain because radio-isotopes appears as micro-nutrients to metabolisms. For example, plutonium chloride is highly soluble and appears like iron to metabolisms, which would be absorbed into blood, for example. Radio-cesium and strontium also have these characteristics.
So what is true? Probably some of both. But which?
I think part of the answer to it is in who controls the mineral rights of the two competing energy industries of the world today. Oil and Coal are essentially the Rockefeller's considered to be the wealthiest Americans of all time. Uranium mineral rights are largely held by the English Royal Family and amount to some 35 Trillion dollars.
That kind of influence must compete to manifest its version of reality amongst the populace through media organizations they both control.
It's been eight years since this disaster occurred.
The official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission contains a wealth of information for anyone interested in the facts regarding this disaster.
The report is scathing and contains lines such as a multitude of errors and willful negligence that left the Fukushima plant unprepared for the events of March 11 and describes the mindset that supported the negligence behind this disaster.
It is very difficult to believe that the company that got the world into this situation is the one that will get us out of it. Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement took the combined resources of the European Union to fund and was designed by the British.
VMware stated that it "continues to be a strong supporter of open source software development,"
Curious how vSphere doesn't run on linux though. You *used* to be able to use it on Linux and is one of the only damn things left keeping me using Windows.
In Australia the summer day is long and very hot. DST helps separate trades people and office workers on the road. One wants to avoid most of the heat of the day a and the other wants a little day left over.
I think Seasonal Affective Disorder is also influenced by this, especially during winter when day becomes much shorter.
I'd be more worried that every email, text message, and phone call is being intercepted. But building a traffic pattern analysis DB from our mail envelopes, that's bad too.
So am I. It just shows that the rabbit hole is much deeper that we believe it is.
*Robot sucks on power cord, eyes glow brighter and brighter as it leans back and shudders with delight*
muhahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Opening envelopes takes work for every individual one. For encryption backdoors, it just takes a bit of electricity once the software is written.
I understand that they are doing something insidious by simply scanning the from and to address on every piece of mail and making a database of associations. All automated.
It is still illegal to open somebodies snail mail. Why is encryption any different, legally, than an envelope?
Now we get to watch people who claim to be feminists in that they believe in treating women and men equally will not in any way whatsoever fight against women being paid more than men.
It's not about getting equal, it's about getting even.
wow - some moderators seem to have lost their sense of humor.