I had a border collie/black labrador mix. This was the smartest non-human animal I have ever known. He was also manipulative and sometimes an asshole.
My dog knew I was the alpha and that I didn't take any shit from dog. My friend's german shepard bit me one day and, since my mate was ok with it, I bit the dog back until it yelped - the look of surprise on the dogs face was - 'ok, I won't do that again' - from then on the dog was completely submissive.
I think dogs need to be put in their place so that they interact with people respectfully.
For example, he would go to the door and signal when he needed to go outside to pee (no one taught him this).
Yeah, my BC required very little training too. I even squared of a corner of yard and told it 'poo here' and it did, no poo anywhere else in the yard.
One day he wanted to lay on the couch but there was no room for him, so he went to the door and signaled. Someone got up from the couch and opened the door for him. He quickly ran and sat on the vacant spot on the couch. He then made a facial expression that seemed to communicate "ha ha dumbass I got your spot." We let him stay there.
I think you have to say 'get the fuck off my lounge' and make it clear in no uncertain terms that you are the alpha and you will not be fucked with. I never let my dog into the main house, laundry is as far as you come and you sleep outside (except when winter was really cold - then sleep in the laundry). Never ever ever is a dog allowed in the kitchen or where the humans chill, and never ever on in or anywhere near a human bed room, it's out of bounds for dogs.
He also understood the english language, not just command words but naturally spoken phrases. No one taught him that. He was a doggie Einstein.
Yeah, same. I would make up all sorts of dog games. Once I accidentally locked her in the garage (she was asleep) before dinner and she couldn't get out when I called her. Nothing more pathetic than going up to railway workers and saying have you seen a black and white collie about so big and the knowing look of how shit it is when your dog goes missing. Well when I opened up the garage door and there she was, in no uncertain terms, I got told off by my dog, the look, no bark but arrrrRRRRrrrRRRrrRRRRrrrRR and you better apologize for locking me in here, which I did and then gave her two dinners - after which she fell asleep and all was forgotten.
My B.C was really smart. She was really easy to train and such a great friend, gentle with kids, even when they weren't so gentle.
The best thing about dogs is they teach you how to be a better person and live more in the moment just by throwing a ball. If your dog is too fat, you need to exercise.
I'm sure it will be removed from the code base post haste and we can all rest assured it's all gone, forgotten and that our faith and trust can be restored.
I do not yet have a smart phone addiction. In fact I most often leave mine completely OFF unless I need to use it for something. Sometimes it stays off for a week at a time. Amazingly liberating.
This shows the dangers of dogmatic skepticism, social proof and imposing a idealistic belief system
You mean politics?
I mean refusing to update information about the reality of the nuclear industry, accepting something as fact because it is popular and having a personal vision of the nuclear industry that doesn't reflect reality.
Politics is a different domain, insofar as at a political level nuclear industry assets, like a proposed reactor, are used as tax credits for the oil and coal industry.
Oil and Coal industry political lobbying is what destroyed practical burner reactor technology that used plutonium and DU to mitigate the waste problem created by the nuclear Industry whilst creating hydrogen and electricity. Why would oil and coal want that when they can heap blame on NIMBYs and greenies while fleecing taxpayers... and so on..
What really blows is that for a few hours, maybe even a day or two, you feel like you're actually getting better, even though you're certainly going to die.
Great, that's just...great.
Walking Ghosts, I'd never heard that before - that is fucked.
Inevitably this accumulates in the food chain so the sooner we resolve the situation the less damage will be done to the human genome and our foodchain.
What elements are producing this radioactivity?
The one that concerns me the most is Plutonium Chloride, highly soluble and readily absorbed into blood and bone as an Iron analogue. I'd expect an alpha emitter that energetic to do a lot of damage inside the body, especially if it is organically bound. IIRC Oppenheimer said it was fatal in the microgram range or it will turn you into spiderman, I can't remember which one is right.
Depleted uranium is radioactive too but we use it regularly as a radiation shield, as it's radioactivity is more theoretical than anything since it's so low.
It also has spontaneous criticality which makes it 10 times more radioactive in bursts as it decays, pyrophoric when used as a munition where it burns into a ceramic DU ash which is an inhalant. It's responsible for creating the next generation of X men in Iraq, so much cheaper and harder to remove than land mines.
Fukushima wasn't a failure of nuclear power. It was a failure of backup (non)redundancy which had nuclear consequences. Basically, because of unwarranted paranoia about nuclear power, everyone concentrated on going over the nuclear parts of the plant with a fine-toothed comb to make sure it was safe. As a result, the non-nuclear backup systems didn't get enough scrutiny, and that's what failed.
If you read The Official Report you will find that it was a belief system that nuclear power was a safe high tech energy source that appropriate upgrades weren't performed to the installation due to collusion between the Operator (TEPCO) and the regulator (NISA and NSA).
This shows the dangers of dogmatic skepticism, social proof and imposing a idealistic belief system onto the nuclear industry.
The Fukushima accident shows that the nuclear industry learned nothing from the Chernobyl accident, which is also a conclusion made by the report.
The two questions I have is why was Fukushima still active after 30 plus years? What exactly is the warranty period for nuclear power plants.
TEPCO voided any implied warranty by not operating the installation according to the criteria GE specified. Thus they exposed two Design Basis issues, which created hydrogen and caused the explosions.
There is this concept in liability law called Act of God. The Japan Tsunami qualifies if anything ever did.
Not really, the reactor was rated to 600Gal for earthquakes and survived the quake. The operator installed back-up generators where they could be flooded and did not perform the upgrades to the sea wall to protect it from a Tsunami.
Not an act of God, it's an act of Criminal Negligence by the board of TEPCO and some of them have been charged.
That is Biblical level apocalyptic disaster right there.
It’s bad, and it’ll probably take a long time to be solved... ultimately getting to some point similar to Chernobyl.
They will have to dismantle the reactors.
Not in the same scale I mean, but like years from now they’ll just encase the whole thing in concrete and abandon it there because there’s not much else to do.
The main issue is the ground water and the amount of highly radioactive water the site leaks. Encasing the site in concrete will not solve that problem so it has to be dismantled.
The site continues to leak about 400 tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific each *day*, that's 876000 tones of radioactive water so far, and climbing.
Inevitably this accumulates in the food chain so the sooner we resolve the situation the less damage will be done to the human genome and our foodchain.
I always like to remind people that this thing was older than Chernobyl. This was NOT a modern nuke plant with decent safety features that went meltdown. There is no comparison.
So often we've been reminded that the 'positive void co-efficient' safety feature of these reactors made a Chernobyl style explosion impossible, yet it happened. Rendered ineffective because TEPCO by-passed requirements to operate the reactors safely.
We need an international effort to resolve this issue. The international community can bring a lot more resources and focus to resolving the issue than TEPCO can.
In other words you called me out for stating something you already knew and believe, just using different words (and furthermore accuse me of whining).
I was calling you out on what specific issue you have with the Affordable care act. Since you have no specific complaint what would you call it other than whining?
I always thought that repeal and replace was the wrong order. We first need a viable alternative, then we can dismantle ObamaCare.
So how would you know? He could cut and paste the entire affordable care act, call something else and say it helps whomever he wants to please and you wouldn't know.
Three clauses (Sec. 10407) (Sec. 10408) (Sec. 10409) makes it look like they really want to nail down where diabetes comes from, do you object to that? Health care for uninsured (Sec. 10504)? Taking care of Coal miners (Sec. 1556) with black lung and their family? Do you object to prohibiting genetic screening to refuse insurance? What about children's healthcare and preventing States from excluding them? That directly affects you. You want to repeal all that?
There are some warts here, however as someone with no dog in this fight, as act of law to look after people, this is pretty good, there is a lot more here than I mentioned. You certainly have a lot to lose, from what I've read so far, from it being repealed.
Is it because it's an Obama thing and it has to go? I don't understand how a country can be so polarized that they will destroy something that really does make america great again?
I'm not having a go at you or being a cunt to you, I'm trying to cut through the political bullshit to get to the issue. Conservatives raised valid points about this act regarding insurance company welfare and that has somehow transmuted to it's gotta go - Wouldn't it be easier just to fix it?
I have a full-time job and look over my kids while my wife is at her part-time job; I don't have the luxury of 4 hours to digest legalese. I have heard some of the weak points, such as millions of people will lose eligibility.
Excuses 101.
Let me put it another way, 20 sections of this law are related to children's health and could save you, personally a lot of money. Have you considered reading it just to understand what is in it for you? Isn't that worth a few hours so you are immune to the political dogma?
Male and female power structures are different and I can't see saddling graduates with debt as a great way to encourage entrepreneurial risk only to be told that they are too old to be there once they become useful. That's a lot of factors against IT as a career choice.
Outsourcing attracted people interested in the money, not the craft and created an adversarial aspect to IT that didn't really exist before. All the parasites that have attached themselves to IT to drive down the cost of talent have done everything they can to make IT suck as a career for the creative people they seek.
I've just gone through all that with another poster and we couldn't find a thorium reactor that will burn putonium and DU. If you find one that specifically burns PU and DU please send a link.
Indeed. The sobering thing though is the Sphinx, claimed to be 4000 years old exhibits the weathering of a structure 35000 or more years old and erosion from thousands of years of rain when there hasn't been rain on the Giza plateau for about 8000 years(IIRC).
According to whom? The last I read about weathering of the Sphinx was not due to rainfall but runoff of rainfall which is different.
Apologies, I did not see your reply.
I see what you mean about the sheet runoff, the implication being that chemical changes to the limestone may make it more susceptible to erosion, it's a good point. I reviewed my knowledge about the 35,000 year claim and found it was a documentary and the geologist concerned was expressing an opinion that the quarry structure looked between 35000 and 120000 years old. From the supporting evidence in research papers, you sent and I found it would seem that geologists are reluctant to challenge the archaeologists established dogma at this time. Thank you for helping me evolve my knowledge.
What the new geological evidence presents is a challenge to the claim that the Sphinx is 4000 years old. The structure could not have started to erode before it was built, or have water erosion after Giza turned to a desert so that leads me to doubt the archaeologists claims about the age of the structure and the interest in maintaining it. Additionally the Pyramid quarries do not exhibit as much erosion as the Sphinx quarry so it is possible the structures were built at different times.
As I pointed out in this post astronomical evidence connects the structures to their zodiacal counterparts. If you accept the alignment of the sphinx to Leo then the structure is over twice the age the archaeologists claim. Of course until astronomers and geologists present more evidence to challenge the established archaeological dogma it's all conjecture, however the math encoded into the great pyramid shows it was a sophisticated society that didn't do things by accident.
Plutonium isn't waste. It's a valuable resource to prevent the spread of the Chinese Communist Party.
Now yer talking Hal.
Also DU is an important resource used to prevent the spread of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, now mostly extinct.
How did those kooky sand neggers get US oil under their soil?
Still DAESH, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah and so on are still in operation - though in DAESH's case only barely so.
Yer right to kill those fucking towel heads, after you've killed all the iraqi christians on your side the 'slims won't have anyone opposing them, great work
You don't even need to convince them to buy it, you can just hose them down with it from a Gatling gun whether they want it or not. I'm sure they'll even helpfully start shit so the US doesn't have to.
Yeah you sure showed them so brave and honorable that you don't have to start shit to give em what they deserve.
Hell in a battle with the Iranians or Hezbollah the US could stay out and sell DU rounds to the Israelis or Saudis.
What better way to get them them to poison themselves which is so much cheaper than deploying landmines, and you can't remove DU from the soil like a landmine so it will spread all over the middle east. Such genius, you guys really gave those fucking towelheads everything they deserved Hal, women and children for generations (if they have any more generations). Great works, no wonder everyone loves you guys.
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I had a border collie/black labrador mix. This was the smartest non-human animal I have ever known. He was also manipulative and sometimes an asshole.
My dog knew I was the alpha and that I didn't take any shit from dog. My friend's german shepard bit me one day and, since my mate was ok with it, I bit the dog back until it yelped - the look of surprise on the dogs face was - 'ok, I won't do that again' - from then on the dog was completely submissive.
I think dogs need to be put in their place so that they interact with people respectfully.
For example, he would go to the door and signal when he needed to go outside to pee (no one taught him this).
Yeah, my BC required very little training too. I even squared of a corner of yard and told it 'poo here' and it did, no poo anywhere else in the yard.
One day he wanted to lay on the couch but there was no room for him, so he went to the door and signaled. Someone got up from the couch and opened the door for him. He quickly ran and sat on the vacant spot on the couch. He then made a facial expression that seemed to communicate "ha ha dumbass I got your spot." We let him stay there.
I think you have to say 'get the fuck off my lounge' and make it clear in no uncertain terms that you are the alpha and you will not be fucked with. I never let my dog into the main house, laundry is as far as you come and you sleep outside (except when winter was really cold - then sleep in the laundry). Never ever ever is a dog allowed in the kitchen or where the humans chill, and never ever on in or anywhere near a human bed room, it's out of bounds for dogs.
He also understood the english language, not just command words but naturally spoken phrases. No one taught him that. He was a doggie Einstein.
Yeah, same. I would make up all sorts of dog games. Once I accidentally locked her in the garage (she was asleep) before dinner and she couldn't get out when I called her. Nothing more pathetic than going up to railway workers and saying have you seen a black and white collie about so big and the knowing look of how shit it is when your dog goes missing. Well when I opened up the garage door and there she was, in no uncertain terms, I got told off by my dog, the look, no bark but arrrrRRRRrrrRRRrrRRRRrrrRR and you better apologize for locking me in here, which I did and then gave her two dinners - after which she fell asleep and all was forgotten.
cats are smart enough to have staff, not a master.
I can't work out if you are dissing cat owners or dogs.
My B.C was really smart. She was really easy to train and such a great friend, gentle with kids, even when they weren't so gentle.
The best thing about dogs is they teach you how to be a better person and live more in the moment just by throwing a ball. If your dog is too fat, you need to exercise.
Glitter is another way to sell more oil.
Faith No More's Black Friday, says it all, enjoy!
Getting direct X working and running the game was cool!
Make sure you have the right drivers for your graphics card under linux!
How unexpected, who would have expected it?
I'm sure it will be removed from the code base post haste and we can all rest assured it's all gone, forgotten and that our faith and trust can be restored.
Never do it again, promise.
I do not yet have a smart phone addiction. In fact I most often leave mine completely OFF unless I need to use it for something. Sometimes it stays off for a week at a time. Amazingly liberating.
Plus really good battery life.
This shows the dangers of dogmatic skepticism, social proof and imposing a idealistic belief system
You mean politics?
I mean refusing to update information about the reality of the nuclear industry, accepting something as fact because it is popular and having a personal vision of the nuclear industry that doesn't reflect reality.
Politics is a different domain, insofar as at a political level nuclear industry assets, like a proposed reactor, are used as tax credits for the oil and coal industry.
Oil and Coal industry political lobbying is what destroyed practical burner reactor technology that used plutonium and DU to mitigate the waste problem created by the nuclear Industry whilst creating hydrogen and electricity. Why would oil and coal want that when they can heap blame on NIMBYs and greenies while fleecing taxpayers... and so on..
No kidding.
What really blows is that for a few hours, maybe even a day or two, you feel like you're actually getting better, even though you're certainly going to die.
Great, that's just...great.
Walking Ghosts, I'd never heard that before - that is fucked.
Inevitably this accumulates in the food chain so the sooner we resolve the situation the less damage will be done to the human genome and our foodchain.
What elements are producing this radioactivity?
The one that concerns me the most is Plutonium Chloride, highly soluble and readily absorbed into blood and bone as an Iron analogue. I'd expect an alpha emitter that energetic to do a lot of damage inside the body, especially if it is organically bound. IIRC Oppenheimer said it was fatal in the microgram range or it will turn you into spiderman, I can't remember which one is right.
Depleted uranium is radioactive too but we use it regularly as a radiation shield, as it's radioactivity is more theoretical than anything since it's so low.
It also has spontaneous criticality which makes it 10 times more radioactive in bursts as it decays, pyrophoric when used as a munition where it burns into a ceramic DU ash which is an inhalant. It's responsible for creating the next generation of X men in Iraq, so much cheaper and harder to remove than land mines.
your broadening from "Japan's nuclear industry" to the world's nuclear industry
Yes, I did. I should avoid posting before breakfast while attempting to recall a report I read four or more years ago.
Correction: The Fukushima accident shows the Nuclear Industry learned nothing from the Chernobyl accident.
My statement, not the reports, that was the conclusion I came to when I saw the Fukushima reactors exploding, I stand by it.
is inappropriate and misleading.
Well, you've got your opinion and I've got mine.
I hope you found the report enlightening, thanks for pointing that out.
Nit to pick --
for maximum safety, you want a negative void coefficient.
Indeed, thanks for pointing that out.
Fukushima wasn't a failure of nuclear power. It was a failure of backup (non)redundancy which had nuclear consequences. Basically, because of unwarranted paranoia about nuclear power, everyone concentrated on going over the nuclear parts of the plant with a fine-toothed comb to make sure it was safe. As a result, the non-nuclear backup systems didn't get enough scrutiny, and that's what failed.
If you read The Official Report you will find that it was a belief system that nuclear power was a safe high tech energy source that appropriate upgrades weren't performed to the installation due to collusion between the Operator (TEPCO) and the regulator (NISA and NSA).
This shows the dangers of dogmatic skepticism, social proof and imposing a idealistic belief system onto the nuclear industry.
The Fukushima accident shows that the nuclear industry learned nothing from the Chernobyl accident, which is also a conclusion made by the report.
That's why SONGS was shut down, and they have a lot more fuel in their storage pools that Fukushima does.
The two questions I have is why was Fukushima still active after 30 plus years? What exactly is the warranty period for nuclear power plants.
TEPCO voided any implied warranty by not operating the installation according to the criteria GE specified. Thus they exposed two Design Basis issues, which created hydrogen and caused the explosions.
There is this concept in liability law called Act of God. The Japan Tsunami qualifies if anything ever did.
Not really, the reactor was rated to 600Gal for earthquakes and survived the quake. The operator installed back-up generators where they could be flooded and did not perform the upgrades to the sea wall to protect it from a Tsunami.
Not an act of God, it's an act of Criminal Negligence by the board of TEPCO and some of them have been charged.
That is Biblical level apocalyptic disaster right there.
That is how the French described it.
It’s bad, and it’ll probably take a long time to be solved... ultimately getting to some point similar to Chernobyl.
They will have to dismantle the reactors.
Not in the same scale I mean, but like years from now they’ll just encase the whole thing in concrete and abandon it there because there’s not much else to do.
The main issue is the ground water and the amount of highly radioactive water the site leaks. Encasing the site in concrete will not solve that problem so it has to be dismantled.
The site continues to leak about 400 tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific each *day*, that's 876000 tones of radioactive water so far, and climbing.
Inevitably this accumulates in the food chain so the sooner we resolve the situation the less damage will be done to the human genome and our foodchain.
That's a fucked up way to die.
I always like to remind people that this thing was older than Chernobyl. This was NOT a modern nuke plant with decent safety features that went meltdown. There is no comparison.
So often we've been reminded that the 'positive void co-efficient' safety feature of these reactors made a Chernobyl style explosion impossible, yet it happened. Rendered ineffective because TEPCO by-passed requirements to operate the reactors safely.
It's reasonable to remind people it's the same type of reactor installed at Fukushima is operating in many locations throughout the U.S.
We need an international effort to resolve this issue. The international community can bring a lot more resources and focus to resolving the issue than TEPCO can.
In other words you called me out for stating something you already knew and believe, just using different words (and furthermore accuse me of whining).
I was calling you out on what specific issue you have with the Affordable care act. Since you have no specific complaint what would you call it other than whining?
I always thought that repeal and replace was the wrong order. We first need a viable alternative, then we can dismantle ObamaCare.
So how would you know? He could cut and paste the entire affordable care act, call something else and say it helps whomever he wants to please and you wouldn't know.
Three clauses (Sec. 10407) (Sec. 10408) (Sec. 10409) makes it look like they really want to nail down where diabetes comes from, do you object to that? Health care for uninsured (Sec. 10504)? Taking care of Coal miners (Sec. 1556) with black lung and their family? Do you object to prohibiting genetic screening to refuse insurance? What about children's healthcare and preventing States from excluding them? That directly affects you. You want to repeal all that?
There are some warts here, however as someone with no dog in this fight, as act of law to look after people, this is pretty good, there is a lot more here than I mentioned. You certainly have a lot to lose, from what I've read so far, from it being repealed.
Is it because it's an Obama thing and it has to go? I don't understand how a country can be so polarized that they will destroy something that really does make america great again?
I'm not having a go at you or being a cunt to you, I'm trying to cut through the political bullshit to get to the issue. Conservatives raised valid points about this act regarding insurance company welfare and that has somehow transmuted to it's gotta go - Wouldn't it be easier just to fix it?
I have a full-time job and look over my kids while my wife is at her part-time job; I don't have the luxury of 4 hours to digest legalese. I have heard some of the weak points, such as millions of people will lose eligibility.
Excuses 101.
Let me put it another way, 20 sections of this law are related to children's health and could save you, personally a lot of money. Have you considered reading it just to understand what is in it for you? Isn't that worth a few hours so you are immune to the political dogma?
Male and female power structures are different and I can't see saddling graduates with debt as a great way to encourage entrepreneurial risk only to be told that they are too old to be there once they become useful. That's a lot of factors against IT as a career choice.
Outsourcing attracted people interested in the money, not the craft and created an adversarial aspect to IT that didn't really exist before. All the parasites that have attached themselves to IT to drive down the cost of talent have done everything they can to make IT suck as a career for the creative people they seek.
I've just gone through all that with another poster and we couldn't find a thorium reactor that will burn putonium and DU. If you find one that specifically burns PU and DU please send a link.
Indeed. The sobering thing though is the Sphinx, claimed to be 4000 years old exhibits the weathering of a structure 35000 or more years old and erosion from thousands of years of rain when there hasn't been rain on the Giza plateau for about 8000 years(IIRC).
According to whom? The last I read about weathering of the Sphinx was not due to rainfall but runoff of rainfall which is different.
Apologies, I did not see your reply.
I see what you mean about the sheet runoff, the implication being that chemical changes to the limestone may make it more susceptible to erosion, it's a good point. I reviewed my knowledge about the 35,000 year claim and found it was a documentary and the geologist concerned was expressing an opinion that the quarry structure looked between 35000 and 120000 years old. From the supporting evidence in research papers, you sent and I found it would seem that geologists are reluctant to challenge the archaeologists established dogma at this time. Thank you for helping me evolve my knowledge.
What the new geological evidence presents is a challenge to the claim that the Sphinx is 4000 years old. The structure could not have started to erode before it was built, or have water erosion after Giza turned to a desert so that leads me to doubt the archaeologists claims about the age of the structure and the interest in maintaining it. Additionally the Pyramid quarries do not exhibit as much erosion as the Sphinx quarry so it is possible the structures were built at different times.
As I pointed out in this post astronomical evidence connects the structures to their zodiacal counterparts. If you accept the alignment of the sphinx to Leo then the structure is over twice the age the archaeologists claim. Of course until astronomers and geologists present more evidence to challenge the established archaeological dogma it's all conjecture, however the math encoded into the great pyramid shows it was a sophisticated society that didn't do things by accident.
Plutonium isn't waste. It's a valuable resource to prevent the spread of the Chinese Communist Party.
Now yer talking Hal.
Also DU is an important resource used to prevent the spread of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, now mostly extinct.
How did those kooky sand neggers get US oil under their soil?
Still DAESH, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah and so on are still in operation - though in DAESH's case only barely so.
Yer right to kill those fucking towel heads, after you've killed all the iraqi christians on your side the 'slims won't have anyone opposing them, great work
You don't even need to convince them to buy it, you can just hose them down with it from a Gatling gun whether they want it or not. I'm sure they'll even helpfully start shit so the US doesn't have to.
Yeah you sure showed them so brave and honorable that you don't have to start shit to give em what they deserve.
Hell in a battle with the Iranians or Hezbollah the US could stay out and sell DU rounds to the Israelis or Saudis.
What better way to get them them to poison themselves which is so much cheaper than deploying landmines, and you can't remove DU from the soil like a landmine so it will spread all over the middle east. Such genius, you guys really gave those fucking towelheads everything they deserved Hal, women and children for generations (if they have any more generations). Great works, no wonder everyone loves you guys.
You should be proud.