How come when the Americans, the Brits, the French, and the rest of Western countries violate the 'international laws' it's okay, but when the Japs go for a hunting trip, it's not okay?
Because when they do it, it's terrorism and when we do it, it's counter terrorism. Think of it this way, if you are walking down the street and think 'hey, that guy is thinking of harming me', it's totally acceptable to beat the living crap out of him and his family because you think he might hurt you. If he does the same thing you are perfectly entitled to beat the living crap out of him.
Got that!.
Incidentally the leading cause of whale deaths in the environment is scientific research.
I suffer from chronic pain. I use painkillers to dull it, but it never goes away. Sometimes it is useful, telling me that something I'd wrong, but most of the time it's just meaningless suffering without end.
After years of competition martial arts and sports like hockey, football and soccer I snapped an achilles tendon, the injury was so bad that a secondary injury was a snapped cruciate ligament in my knee. I went through about a litre of morphine (the bottle was attached to a clicker), so much that I said I couldn't deal with it any more. After it wore off, they didn't ask me if I wanted it, they just jabbed me. The pain was so extreme that after surgery the doctor explained that my legs had been in severe pain for so long that *every* sensation translated to pain.
6 casts/months later they demonstrated by dragging a silk cloth over my leg which felt like a flamethrower had been applied to it. My leg was crimson purple and after the foreplay was over I spent the next 2 years learning to walk again, the physiotherapy was an exercise in agony and even the weight of a sheet on my legs was more pain than anything else.
Many doctors visits later I was diagnosed with chronic reoccurring pain syndrome and depression, I'd used all my savings, I was 100kg plus from 84kg whilst fit and I couldn't drive a car more than 20 minutes without the pain shutting me down. I either stopped or fainted, it was that simple. I couldn't work so I started training weights and stretching to try to help myself.
Unfortunately there was a lot more going on for me and the injuries weren't my most major concern. I couldn't reason with the pain and thoughts of the best way to end myself started to appear in my head like an impulsive little idea. When I realized what was happening I knew I had to find a way to fix it.
What I need is something to turn off the meaningless chronic part, but leave the acute pain there so I realise when I am damaged or unwell.
After seven or so years I found a way out (I'm still working at it, but the end is in sight). With all sincerity I want to share it because I wouldn't want anybody to suffer the way I did. I'm hoping this helps people overcome anything similar to what I suffered. Chronic pain takes everything from you.
I started recording data about my body to try to understand what the pain was. I thought my geek could save me, and it did, the body is, I reasoned, just a complex machine. Fortunately martial arts training helps you channel pain so for brief periods of time I could be an *observer* of my own pain. By combining the two I was able to gain insight into how the pain worked.
I discovered that because we have short memories we don't remember all the injuries we accumulate. For context, I had also suffered three neck injuries where I was concussed enough to require medical assistance, the AC joint in my right shoulder was torn, my right elbow hyper extended, left wrist was broken, left elbow didn't have full range of motion, I was also crushed around my torso by an old set of lift doors and fully rolled my left ankle, my rib cage folded over itself. This was on top of the conditioning where I would absorb full force kicks or punches to my legs arms and body. I was not your normal geek, if there is such a thing.
However I overcame the pain from injury, it was possible - I hope this helps you, anyone.
I found that the cavitation of joints is a key sign of how good a physio session was so I started to measure that. That cracking of your fingers happens in every joint in my body.
So I devised a method to take a metric of that and started to record the frequency and type of cavitation. Slowly, the connection to the old injuries became apparent and what I thought was one signal from everywhere, was actually several different signals. My brain was just overloaded with processing pain from so many places.
Scar tissue, also happens *in* your muscles, like a scab. Like a scab that
It's such a rare and insightful perspective. Criminals can be executed instead of suffering their guilt while incarcerated for their entire life. Meanwhile whole families are sentenced to watching a loved one suffer, be humiliated and eventually die in the most horrible ways when they have already chosen to die. It's a fucked up society that will take a life but will allow someone who is perfectly innocent to suffer for a long time before an inevitable, un-revocable, death penalty.
People who haven't suffered adversity probably don't understand.
Yes, unfortunately I can empathize with you. It was brain cancer. It was so fucked. The persons family believed in quacks and thought doctors, with years of experience, decades of research and 10's of millions of dollars worth of equipment, "didn't know shit" and didn't even let them try. Their answer to brain cancer was a plywood box around her head filled with rare earth magnets. It was the closest thing I'd seen to torturing a person, I didn't know a person head could swell so much.
She couldn't speak so I talked to her and let her answer by squeezing my hand. To this day I regret *not* asking her 'do you want me to get you out of here and see a real doctor, squeeze twice for no and once for yes'. Unfortunately, I wasn't her direct family, so my hands were tied.
It's been a hot start to summer so we are probably in for some bushfires unfortunately, I hope it's not too bad. Funnel web's and red backs are getting feisty, I was bitten by a whitetail once a tiny pimple looking bite with two holes. but oh my goodness, it activated the adrenalin and I was in serious full body pain for about three days. after that the pus literally poured out of the wound and I needed anti-biotics for weeks. My arm didn't necrotise, fortunately, but about a year after it had healed the bit location swelled for about 2 weeks and then died down again, very nasty.
Huntsmen - whilst harmless are so huge that you can't help freaking out, especially when you see them in the rearview mirror and can't work out if they are out or *in* the car and those fscking souther cross are just big with a big web and they just love putting those things where you walk gggaaaaaaahhh!, you can literally feel their weight when you splat them with a news paper.
I think a few people have had shark attacks. I found a blue ring octopus once, about the size of your hand, but mean looking and the blue rings glow as bright and deadly looking as anything I've seen saying 'don't fuck with me'. When I was body surfing, because I swim pretty deep to get a good wave, I got hit by a incoming bluebottle jellyfish swarm - The tentacles wrapped around my armpit (hitting the gland) over my chest, wrapped around the other arm from the bi-cep to the wrist to the back of my knees wrapping itself around my calf. It was sheer agony, which the life guard saw happen (fortunately) and they got me to the clubhouse and put me in a red hot shower (from nice cool surf). they had me down on a gurney for the next 3 hours with ice packs on me as I tried to hold myself from going into shock, I didn't have to go to hospital, but they wouldn't let me drive - so they took me home. The next week was nasty and it took two more years to extract all the stingers. roughly thirty other people got hit as well after me. not fun, lucky it wasn't a box or I'd be dead.
It's best to just keep your distance from crocs (unless you're hunting them - but they taste depending on what they eat - yummy if they've been eating fish - which is usually barramundi, not so nice if it was a rotton dead cow[I've heard a fresh cow makes them taste like steak flavoured fish]). It's been a bad start to drop bear mating season with some injuries recorded, sneaky fuckers. Red belly black and brown snakes are the reason why you keep the lawn mowed as they are very poisonous and whoever the genius who introduced that introduced pythons here (they aren't native) they are getting big enough to eat a roo - so to all those collectors of south american snakes that live here, thanks for that, it's not as if we don;t have enough things (hopfully they will eat cane toads brrrrrr).
Worst of all though, it's bogan season here and there are quite a few around, barefoot in the shopping centres, streets.
The fact that people still eat Cavendish bananas, Red Delicious apples and various varieties of ludicrously orange oranges with skins like pachyderms.
How do you shop? by smell or by the look for the fruit? I generally shop by smell however I do notice what you say about some of the American fruit - it looks great but tastes pretty ordinary. As the taste usually tells you about the nutrient content, you are right to pursue a natural taste, not just for taste.
I general let bananas ripen and other fruits for a day or more in the open air because of the amount of refrigeration and packing in sulphur dioxide gas to keep them in 'suspended animation' before shelving. It gives the fruit a chance to be a fruit again, instead of a consumer item.
Here in Asia, other less "industrial-grade" bananas still exist. They are sweeter, more flavorful and won't survive a plane crash like your laboratory-born neo-fruit.
The death of the Cavendish could be a wonderful thing.
Australian produce is fantastic. Oranges are so sweet that you can devour 5 of them before realising it. Mangos, cantelope (rockmelon). We have red delicious, but you have to get them at the right time for them to be juicy and sweet, at other times they are exactly as you say, however there are about 5 other types of apples to choose from, about 3 varieties of pears, excluding nashi. I would imagine that Asia as an amazing variety of things available from the few things I see brought over.
I checked and our local bananas are cavendish however there are another two varieties I generally see. I've found they are pretty good if you leave them ripen in the air.
That is really the bottom line here. If you want to be good at coding, you have to be smart, creative and logical. Additionally, it's also hard work so if you don't, at least, like it, you will not be able to take the pressure of the work that comes after you've overcome the frustration of something as fundamental as the semantics of coding languages.
Of course the way to fix this issue is to triple the salary of every coder, dba, sysadmin and networking professional on the face of the earth. But that won't happen because then there isn't a way to exploit the people who truley made for doing this work by driving the cost of employing them down. It's a delicious, if bittersweet, irony that technologists enjoy and tolerate simultaneously.
I know, it sounds elitist and politically incorrect however, that is just the reality of the situation. I didn't make it that way, the physics involved in the electronics of the machine running the kernel that compiles the code that I wrote, made it that way. The machine is ambivalent to your persona. Your warrior ways are meaningless compared to the power of the Source.
So, after acquiring all of the above attributes and then developing enough emotional intelligence to work with other people who share these skillsets, you will find that it doesn't matter if you're male, female, old or young, nor does your race, religion or sexuality - that actually makes it more interesting (to me anyway). Just be smart and cool, then you can join our club.
Pay attention the next time your senator or congresswoman or Attorney General or CIA head or ex head or President says, "Come on, Shelley. Give it a rest. We aren't going to abuse it."
Generally in politician speak you could translate that to: "We are going to abuse you with these laws, now bend over"
Encryption was considered a munition in America too, once, if it had greater than 40 bit keys.
Are you certain that wasn't for export restrictions as opposed to use inside your country?
This lasted until PGP came about and deliberately released the source code in printed format, so anyone could type or scan it in. It became a constitutional challenge, and the courts determined that code is protected by the First Amendment.
So no, encryption can't be classified as a controlled munition in America.
I hope you are right and as I said After editing the proposed act for compatibility with the American constitution it then becomes a Bill proposed to congress. However I think you will find that Bernstein was brought in 1995 and again in 1999, so you will have to assess how the wartime provisions, that allowed the passage of the homeland security act, affects your constitutional access to the objects created. i.e. the code maybe free speech, but that doesn't mean using the compiled binary is. It *maybe* the equivalent of using a controlled munition. In the American context, an open carry of a weapon maybe legal, however discharging it in a public space is not (no disrespect intended, considering what else has happened today).
Here, our deviously clever politicians are finding a way around that by classifying teaching people how to use it as a crime. What a controlled munition means for you is probably going to be different for what it means for me, so it is really up to you to figure that out what the consequences are for you.
I doubt you will be any happier with the situation than I am.
What is the function of an armed population? The answer is to balance the power of the people and government. They are for the protection of the people against a government that would coerce the population, that is why you have the right to bare arms in countries, so the population can respond to domestic threats. These events are an unfortunate consequence of having that freedom and any discussion about the merits of an armed population must be weighed up against that.
The question I'm wondering is why does this happen so frequently in the U.S whereas it doesn't happen in Canada or other armed populations? Making them illegal won't help because a criminal won't care if it is an illegal weapon, weapons training, whilst useful isn't helping, nor is it a law enforcement issue because police have plenty of powers of arrest.
It is fairly easy to see what the issue is *not* so is there a cultural issue driving these shootings? Are people so excluded from society that they feel this is the only option left?
It's another example of legislation framed in Australia and then exported to America. After editing the proposed act for compatibility with the American constitution it then becomes a Bill proposed to congress.
Don't let it pass. It has some really nasty provisions against using encryption by classing it as a 'controlled munition'. If it follows the Australian model then you will find that it has some pretty unpleasant provisions that grants the government the capacity to appropriate any software you may have written and then make you criminally liable for using the software you created. I tried, but not enough people here care or understand.
Whilst it is an unpopular to talk about IT unions here, this is one of the things they are tasked to be on the look out for. Frankly, I'd prefer to pay mandatory fees and have someone else do this so I could get on with the things I do best. I can't stand reading these legislations to see what the next thing is that government is going to use to fuck over IT professionals and the amount of time I spend writing letters to politicians, when they propose these bills, has become really intense over the last 18 months. Excluding the TPP, which is double the size I estimated (6000 pages), this is the 5th Act passed that affects Information Technology.
This has nothing to do with left or right politics. It has everything to do with a functioning democracy. It is naive to think that raw talent and intelligence is enough to succeed in this industry anymore, the game is much bigger. If you don't like the idea of an I.T union then start picking up legislation and using your big brain to analyze the effect it is going to have on you and your peers and start writing letters to politicians because the bottom line here is no one has got our back and these laws will continue to be framed to control what you think you can do by criminalizing your behavior when appropriate.
It's not a slippery slope any more, it's a full on uncontrolled slide.
With reprocessing, breeder reactors can theoretically generate no waste at all. In practice they do tend to produce small amounts, but the half-life is on the order of 30-40 years, instead of the 25,000 years stuff we produce now.
That is only for the first daughter product. You would then repeat the same time approximately 20 times as it decayed into each daughter product.
That is wrong.
Reprocessing produces more waste than just depositing the spent fuel.
You are right, they are wrong. Two other metals (IIRC, lithium, and something else I can't remember right now) go into the reactor process with pu-239, 1:1:1 ration and only plutonium comes out. That is why it is called a 'Breeder" but as usual people are "idealising" Nuclear Power based on some vague notion provided by social proof. The English language is being used in a specific way here, "Breeder" means it "Breeds" fuel.
FYI, the reactor this article is talking about is (light on detail) based on the EBR, if I have it correctly identified, it is the core technology of a set encapsulated into a closed loop called IFR, which I posted about before. The closed loop design was revolutionary and the burn-up rate of the radio-isotope was around 20% compared to the 0.3% of the currently deploy water and pressure reactors and, consequently, much more radioactive. The main problem though, was that it was sodium cooled - roughly 70tons of lava hot, radioactive sodium, and it's not a good idea to have that around water. The other idea was to cool it with lead. Make no mistake though these reactors become extremely radioactive.
What is interesting though is that the claimed advancement they have is cooling this reactor with salt. This actually is an advance in this type of technology, specifically because having this technology available means that U-235 becomes more valuable as a fuel (so as not to use it as mass for munitions) and also for nuclear disarmament.
As is usual for todays 'commercialized' Nuclear industry, you can see that the features to 'integrate' the fuel cycle (reprocessing and fuel storage) have been removed from this design to make it more cost effective. Safety is a design decision. To remove the safety features and then claim that this design is 'walk away safe' and transportable on a flatbed truck is close to the most insane thing I have ever heard. Once a design like this is placed and has been operational it will never be moved again because it will be highly radioactive and wherever it is installed it will stay for a minimum of 1000 years while the extremely radioactive fissile ash (probably sr90) decays. Asides for wondering how it would be defueled, I'd imagine you would want to keep water out of a decommissioned reactor full of radioactive salt.
To put it in a car analogy as often inappropriately used to describe something as complex as a nuclear reactor technology, it's like having an extremely powerful engine, with steering brakes and all neccessary mechanical requirements for a vehicle, however with seats and no vehicle body, doors, windsheild or seatbelts, driving down a freeway and bringin the family along for the ride. They are called "Fast" reactors for a reason and fast neutron reactors are more demanding to control.
Still, if they sited the reactor and designed to be geologically disposed of in place it could be a good way to end the radionuclide warfare that is being conducted which is already manifesting as genetic abberations and failed pregnancies. This is the distastful reality that also needs to be addressed.
I am highly dubious though about the reliability of such a device, would you also need to click start to scram it?;)
They are not even close to sufficient in weight bearing capacity for an earth space elevator. Nothing we have is within 3 orders of magnitude of being sufficient.
Well, you know, aim for the stars and you might end up with a wire that has some neat industrial applications.
Exactly! A S.E is a great thought experiment in what would it take to build one however even if we can't get that far having such a material for building and making things would probably introduce a new industrial revolution. We are still a long way off that though.
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How come when the Americans, the Brits, the French, and the rest of Western countries violate the 'international laws' it's okay, but when the Japs go for a hunting trip, it's not okay?
Because when they do it, it's terrorism and when we do it, it's counter terrorism. Think of it this way, if you are walking down the street and think 'hey, that guy is thinking of harming me', it's totally acceptable to beat the living crap out of him and his family because you think he might hurt you. If he does the same thing you are perfectly entitled to beat the living crap out of him.
Got that!.
Incidentally the leading cause of whale deaths in the environment is scientific research.
Absolutely. All too often when one of these stories pop up they don't have a link to the original document up for discussion.
I suffer from chronic pain. I use painkillers to dull it, but it never goes away. Sometimes it is useful, telling me that something I'd wrong, but most of the time it's just meaningless suffering without end.
After years of competition martial arts and sports like hockey, football and soccer I snapped an achilles tendon, the injury was so bad that a secondary injury was a snapped cruciate ligament in my knee. I went through about a litre of morphine (the bottle was attached to a clicker), so much that I said I couldn't deal with it any more. After it wore off, they didn't ask me if I wanted it, they just jabbed me. The pain was so extreme that after surgery the doctor explained that my legs had been in severe pain for so long that *every* sensation translated to pain.
6 casts/months later they demonstrated by dragging a silk cloth over my leg which felt like a flamethrower had been applied to it. My leg was crimson purple and after the foreplay was over I spent the next 2 years learning to walk again, the physiotherapy was an exercise in agony and even the weight of a sheet on my legs was more pain than anything else.
Many doctors visits later I was diagnosed with chronic reoccurring pain syndrome and depression, I'd used all my savings, I was 100kg plus from 84kg whilst fit and I couldn't drive a car more than 20 minutes without the pain shutting me down. I either stopped or fainted, it was that simple. I couldn't work so I started training weights and stretching to try to help myself. Unfortunately there was a lot more going on for me and the injuries weren't my most major concern. I couldn't reason with the pain and thoughts of the best way to end myself started to appear in my head like an impulsive little idea. When I realized what was happening I knew I had to find a way to fix it.
What I need is something to turn off the meaningless chronic part, but leave the acute pain there so I realise when I am damaged or unwell.
After seven or so years I found a way out (I'm still working at it, but the end is in sight). With all sincerity I want to share it because I wouldn't want anybody to suffer the way I did. I'm hoping this helps people overcome anything similar to what I suffered. Chronic pain takes everything from you.
I started recording data about my body to try to understand what the pain was. I thought my geek could save me, and it did, the body is, I reasoned, just a complex machine. Fortunately martial arts training helps you channel pain so for brief periods of time I could be an *observer* of my own pain. By combining the two I was able to gain insight into how the pain worked.
I discovered that because we have short memories we don't remember all the injuries we accumulate. For context, I had also suffered three neck injuries where I was concussed enough to require medical assistance, the AC joint in my right shoulder was torn, my right elbow hyper extended, left wrist was broken, left elbow didn't have full range of motion, I was also crushed around my torso by an old set of lift doors and fully rolled my left ankle, my rib cage folded over itself. This was on top of the conditioning where I would absorb full force kicks or punches to my legs arms and body. I was not your normal geek, if there is such a thing.
However I overcame the pain from injury, it was possible - I hope this helps you, anyone.
I found that the cavitation of joints is a key sign of how good a physio session was so I started to measure that. That cracking of your fingers happens in every joint in my body.
So I devised a method to take a metric of that and started to record the frequency and type of cavitation. Slowly, the connection to the old injuries became apparent and what I thought was one signal from everywhere, was actually several different signals. My brain was just overloaded with processing pain from so many places.
Scar tissue, also happens *in* your muscles, like a scab. Like a scab that
Even our criminals are treated better.
It's such a rare and insightful perspective. Criminals can be executed instead of suffering their guilt while incarcerated for their entire life. Meanwhile whole families are sentenced to watching a loved one suffer, be humiliated and eventually die in the most horrible ways when they have already chosen to die. It's a fucked up society that will take a life but will allow someone who is perfectly innocent to suffer for a long time before an inevitable, un-revocable, death penalty.
People who haven't suffered adversity probably don't understand.
Ever watch a Cancer patient die?
Yes, unfortunately I can empathize with you. It was brain cancer. It was so fucked. The persons family believed in quacks and thought doctors, with years of experience, decades of research and 10's of millions of dollars worth of equipment, "didn't know shit" and didn't even let them try. Their answer to brain cancer was a plywood box around her head filled with rare earth magnets. It was the closest thing I'd seen to torturing a person, I didn't know a person head could swell so much.
She couldn't speak so I talked to her and let her answer by squeezing my hand. To this day I regret *not* asking her 'do you want me to get you out of here and see a real doctor, squeeze twice for no and once for yes'. Unfortunately, I wasn't her direct family, so my hands were tied.
Ignorance really causes a lot of suffering.
. . . appear to believe in "drop bears."
It's called humor friend.
It's been a hot start to summer so we are probably in for some bushfires unfortunately, I hope it's not too bad. Funnel web's and red backs are getting feisty, I was bitten by a whitetail once a tiny pimple looking bite with two holes. but oh my goodness, it activated the adrenalin and I was in serious full body pain for about three days. after that the pus literally poured out of the wound and I needed anti-biotics for weeks. My arm didn't necrotise, fortunately, but about a year after it had healed the bit location swelled for about 2 weeks and then died down again, very nasty.
Huntsmen - whilst harmless are so huge that you can't help freaking out, especially when you see them in the rearview mirror and can't work out if they are out or *in* the car and those fscking souther cross are just big with a big web and they just love putting those things where you walk gggaaaaaaahhh!, you can literally feel their weight when you splat them with a news paper.
I think a few people have had shark attacks. I found a blue ring octopus once, about the size of your hand, but mean looking and the blue rings glow as bright and deadly looking as anything I've seen saying 'don't fuck with me'. When I was body surfing, because I swim pretty deep to get a good wave, I got hit by a incoming bluebottle jellyfish swarm - The tentacles wrapped around my armpit (hitting the gland) over my chest, wrapped around the other arm from the bi-cep to the wrist to the back of my knees wrapping itself around my calf. It was sheer agony, which the life guard saw happen (fortunately) and they got me to the clubhouse and put me in a red hot shower (from nice cool surf). they had me down on a gurney for the next 3 hours with ice packs on me as I tried to hold myself from going into shock, I didn't have to go to hospital, but they wouldn't let me drive - so they took me home. The next week was nasty and it took two more years to extract all the stingers. roughly thirty other people got hit as well after me. not fun, lucky it wasn't a box or I'd be dead.
It's best to just keep your distance from crocs (unless you're hunting them - but they taste depending on what they eat - yummy if they've been eating fish - which is usually barramundi, not so nice if it was a rotton dead cow[I've heard a fresh cow makes them taste like steak flavoured fish]). It's been a bad start to drop bear mating season with some injuries recorded, sneaky fuckers. Red belly black and brown snakes are the reason why you keep the lawn mowed as they are very poisonous and whoever the genius who introduced that introduced pythons here (they aren't native) they are getting big enough to eat a roo - so to all those collectors of south american snakes that live here, thanks for that, it's not as if we don;t have enough things (hopfully they will eat cane toads brrrrrr).
Worst of all though, it's bogan season here and there are quite a few around, barefoot in the shopping centres, streets.
The fact that people still eat Cavendish bananas, Red Delicious apples and various varieties of ludicrously orange oranges with skins like pachyderms.
How do you shop? by smell or by the look for the fruit? I generally shop by smell however I do notice what you say about some of the American fruit - it looks great but tastes pretty ordinary. As the taste usually tells you about the nutrient content, you are right to pursue a natural taste, not just for taste.
I general let bananas ripen and other fruits for a day or more in the open air because of the amount of refrigeration and packing in sulphur dioxide gas to keep them in 'suspended animation' before shelving. It gives the fruit a chance to be a fruit again, instead of a consumer item.
Here in Asia, other less "industrial-grade" bananas still exist. They are sweeter, more flavorful and won't survive a plane crash like your laboratory-born neo-fruit.
The death of the Cavendish could be a wonderful thing.
Australian produce is fantastic. Oranges are so sweet that you can devour 5 of them before realising it. Mangos, cantelope (rockmelon). We have red delicious, but you have to get them at the right time for them to be juicy and sweet, at other times they are exactly as you say, however there are about 5 other types of apples to choose from, about 3 varieties of pears, excluding nashi. I would imagine that Asia as an amazing variety of things available from the few things I see brought over.
I checked and our local bananas are cavendish however there are another two varieties I generally see. I've found they are pretty good if you leave them ripen in the air.
I hope they sort it out, I eat lots of them.
Hilarious, thank you!
That is really the bottom line here. If you want to be good at coding, you have to be smart, creative and logical. Additionally, it's also hard work so if you don't, at least, like it, you will not be able to take the pressure of the work that comes after you've overcome the frustration of something as fundamental as the semantics of coding languages.
Of course the way to fix this issue is to triple the salary of every coder, dba, sysadmin and networking professional on the face of the earth. But that won't happen because then there isn't a way to exploit the people who truley made for doing this work by driving the cost of employing them down. It's a delicious, if bittersweet, irony that technologists enjoy and tolerate simultaneously.
I know, it sounds elitist and politically incorrect however, that is just the reality of the situation. I didn't make it that way, the physics involved in the electronics of the machine running the kernel that compiles the code that I wrote, made it that way. The machine is ambivalent to your persona. Your warrior ways are meaningless compared to the power of the Source.
So, after acquiring all of the above attributes and then developing enough emotional intelligence to work with other people who share these skillsets, you will find that it doesn't matter if you're male, female, old or young, nor does your race, religion or sexuality - that actually makes it more interesting (to me anyway). Just be smart and cool, then you can join our club.
Well LA has per crime now so what is next?
Thought police. They will arrest anybody caught thinking.
Pay attention the next time your senator or congresswoman or Attorney General or CIA head or ex head or President says, "Come on, Shelley. Give it a rest. We aren't going to abuse it."
Generally in politician speak you could translate that to: "We are going to abuse you with these laws, now bend over"
Virgil, did you lock the passenger cabin in?
Encryption was considered a munition in America too, once, if it had greater than 40 bit keys.
Are you certain that wasn't for export restrictions as opposed to use inside your country?
This lasted until PGP came about and deliberately released the source code in printed format, so anyone could type or scan it in. It became a constitutional challenge, and the courts determined that code is protected by the First Amendment. So no, encryption can't be classified as a controlled munition in America.
I hope you are right and as I said After editing the proposed act for compatibility with the American constitution it then becomes a Bill proposed to congress. However I think you will find that Bernstein was brought in 1995 and again in 1999, so you will have to assess how the wartime provisions, that allowed the passage of the homeland security act, affects your constitutional access to the objects created. i.e. the code maybe free speech, but that doesn't mean using the compiled binary is. It *maybe* the equivalent of using a controlled munition. In the American context, an open carry of a weapon maybe legal, however discharging it in a public space is not (no disrespect intended, considering what else has happened today).
Here, our deviously clever politicians are finding a way around that by classifying teaching people how to use it as a crime. What a controlled munition means for you is probably going to be different for what it means for me, so it is really up to you to figure that out what the consequences are for you.
I doubt you will be any happier with the situation than I am.
What is the function of an armed population? The answer is to balance the power of the people and government. They are for the protection of the people against a government that would coerce the population, that is why you have the right to bare arms in countries, so the population can respond to domestic threats. These events are an unfortunate consequence of having that freedom and any discussion about the merits of an armed population must be weighed up against that.
The question I'm wondering is why does this happen so frequently in the U.S whereas it doesn't happen in Canada or other armed populations? Making them illegal won't help because a criminal won't care if it is an illegal weapon, weapons training, whilst useful isn't helping, nor is it a law enforcement issue because police have plenty of powers of arrest.
It is fairly easy to see what the issue is *not* so is there a cultural issue driving these shootings? Are people so excluded from society that they feel this is the only option left?
CNN is reporting they were "AK-47-type" weapons.
They also reported that they were AR-15 as well.
It's another example of legislation framed in Australia and then exported to America. After editing the proposed act for compatibility with the American constitution it then becomes a Bill proposed to congress.
Don't let it pass. It has some really nasty provisions against using encryption by classing it as a 'controlled munition'. If it follows the Australian model then you will find that it has some pretty unpleasant provisions that grants the government the capacity to appropriate any software you may have written and then make you criminally liable for using the software you created. I tried, but not enough people here care or understand.
Whilst it is an unpopular to talk about IT unions here, this is one of the things they are tasked to be on the look out for. Frankly, I'd prefer to pay mandatory fees and have someone else do this so I could get on with the things I do best. I can't stand reading these legislations to see what the next thing is that government is going to use to fuck over IT professionals and the amount of time I spend writing letters to politicians, when they propose these bills, has become really intense over the last 18 months. Excluding the TPP, which is double the size I estimated (6000 pages), this is the 5th Act passed that affects Information Technology.
This has nothing to do with left or right politics. It has everything to do with a functioning democracy. It is naive to think that raw talent and intelligence is enough to succeed in this industry anymore, the game is much bigger. If you don't like the idea of an I.T union then start picking up legislation and using your big brain to analyze the effect it is going to have on you and your peers and start writing letters to politicians because the bottom line here is no one has got our back and these laws will continue to be framed to control what you think you can do by criminalizing your behavior when appropriate.
It's not a slippery slope any more, it's a full on uncontrolled slide.
Timely and accurate reporting.
Fair and balanced.
The people have a right to know.
An educated and informed populous.
Unbiased reporting.
Democracy for all.
Freedom of speech.
Freedom of association.
Right to protest.
The free world.
Left and Right wing politics
Elected Representative.
Your vote matters.
As likely as lightning striking in the same place twice
Walk away safe.
Capacity Factor.
Clean, cheap, efficient.
Yes, I can see how certain people fall for this bullshit.
It was funny for a little while, btw.
With reprocessing, breeder reactors can theoretically generate no waste at all. In practice they do tend to produce small amounts, but the half-life is on the order of 30-40 years, instead of the 25,000 years stuff we produce now.
That is only for the first daughter product. You would then repeat the same time approximately 20 times as it decayed into each daughter product.
That is wrong. Reprocessing produces more waste than just depositing the spent fuel.
You are right, they are wrong. Two other metals (IIRC, lithium, and something else I can't remember right now) go into the reactor process with pu-239, 1:1:1 ration and only plutonium comes out. That is why it is called a 'Breeder" but as usual people are "idealising" Nuclear Power based on some vague notion provided by social proof. The English language is being used in a specific way here, "Breeder" means it "Breeds" fuel.
FYI, the reactor this article is talking about is (light on detail) based on the EBR, if I have it correctly identified, it is the core technology of a set encapsulated into a closed loop called IFR, which I posted about before. The closed loop design was revolutionary and the burn-up rate of the radio-isotope was around 20% compared to the 0.3% of the currently deploy water and pressure reactors and, consequently, much more radioactive. The main problem though, was that it was sodium cooled - roughly 70tons of lava hot, radioactive sodium, and it's not a good idea to have that around water. The other idea was to cool it with lead. Make no mistake though these reactors become extremely radioactive.
What is interesting though is that the claimed advancement they have is cooling this reactor with salt. This actually is an advance in this type of technology, specifically because having this technology available means that U-235 becomes more valuable as a fuel (so as not to use it as mass for munitions) and also for nuclear disarmament.
As is usual for todays 'commercialized' Nuclear industry, you can see that the features to 'integrate' the fuel cycle (reprocessing and fuel storage) have been removed from this design to make it more cost effective. Safety is a design decision. To remove the safety features and then claim that this design is 'walk away safe' and transportable on a flatbed truck is close to the most insane thing I have ever heard. Once a design like this is placed and has been operational it will never be moved again because it will be highly radioactive and wherever it is installed it will stay for a minimum of 1000 years while the extremely radioactive fissile ash (probably sr90) decays. Asides for wondering how it would be defueled, I'd imagine you would want to keep water out of a decommissioned reactor full of radioactive salt.
To put it in a car analogy as often inappropriately used to describe something as complex as a nuclear reactor technology, it's like having an extremely powerful engine, with steering brakes and all neccessary mechanical requirements for a vehicle, however with seats and no vehicle body, doors, windsheild or seatbelts, driving down a freeway and bringin the family along for the ride. They are called "Fast" reactors for a reason and fast neutron reactors are more demanding to control.
Still, if they sited the reactor and designed to be geologically disposed of in place it could be a good way to end the radionuclide warfare that is being conducted which is already manifesting as genetic abberations and failed pregnancies. This is the distastful reality that also needs to be addressed.
I am highly dubious though about the reliability of such a device, would you also need to click start to scram it? ;)
They are not even close to sufficient in weight bearing capacity for an earth space elevator. Nothing we have is within 3 orders of magnitude of being sufficient.
Well, you know, aim for the stars and you might end up with a wire that has some neat industrial applications.
Exactly! A S.E is a great thought experiment in what would it take to build one however even if we can't get that far having such a material for building and making things would probably introduce a new industrial revolution. We are still a long way off that though.
I knew it was around somewhere: www.nss.org:8080/resources/library/spaceelevator/index.htm