nope, only the dolts who put the generators at low elevation, definitely not the reactor designers. At similar plants in the US the generators are very high off the ground in rooms with waterproof doors.
sure I make mistakes, that's why engineers work in teams, have reviews, safety tests, regression tests, outside independent testing, etc.
Number of alarms irrelevant if a reactor by design has positive feedback loop causing disaster faster than a human can react. Positive void coefficient, horizontal cooling channels, dead space at end of control rods that displace coolant, no containment.....dumb-ass design.
utter bullshit, many tinfoil hat sites make that claim but for the truth you'll find arsenic, mercury, lead are more toxic (CDC list of ranked toxic substances, for example, pu is WAY down the list after #1, #2, #3 which I've just mentioned). There are no known deaths for plutonium ingestion, but plenty for other substances.
Even that's not quite right, 0.1 Sv (10 REM) of acute dose would give detectable signs of radiation sickness within the body (millions of cell deaths but not noticeable by recipient), that 1Sv is where the recipient has some serious symptoms THEY will notice
I would dare do so, because that toll is *tiny* compared to people killed by rescuing those in burning buidings or floods earthquakes in a single year. get some perspective. how dare you compare that puny toll to the brave police, firemen, coast guard deaths *each and every year*. Not to mention, Chernobyl was due to moron engineers who designed it, and moron electrical engineers ignorant of nuclear reactors who defeated all safety systems for a pointless test. Death by moronism, that's all that's about.
You have a common misconception, depleted uranium has plenty of radioactivity, when ingested not only has 60% the alpha release of natural uranium but also makes beta emitters as decay products (thorium-234 and protactinium-234) with twice the disintegration rate of the alpha emitters.
In my country, the USA, all the reactors are 40+ year old technology (true in many other countries). And the core reason for the failure was backup power failure, which can happen by other means than Tsunami (considering most U.S. plants have exactly two backup generators per reactor)
Now I'm pro-nuclear, but the way in which we derive most nuclear power in the world is quite stupid and dangerous, with very, very long term risks.
The land area that is contaminated with cesium levels of any possible concern is quite small. Get some perspective, it's minuscule compared to land area of Japan.
and more importantly, the updates to the ten-year-old common applications are available for free ($0 and with freedom) too. abiword, mozilla application suite, gimp, GNOME, KDE, etc.
I work for a VAR (sells HP, IBM, Dell, Oracle, EMC, etc.etc.etc.) and we sell machines with Windows 7 plus a Windows XP downgrade. Microsoft has extended the right to buy Windows XP Downgrade till 2020.
I laugh at your ignorance of how the major pieces of software everyone runs work fine on practically all distros of Linux and all the BSD too.
And a second thing to laugh at, Ubuntu itself still puts out powerpc builds, still forums for resolving problems, and still plenty of companies will provide paid enterprise support for it, including myself and my employer if you have the money.
In my day, 20 years before your day, we had pretty much the exact same damn graphing calculators! (xkcd #768 could have gone back to the TI-81 in 1990 had only display res and overall capabilities mentioned)
Those agencies all have a boss, for all but one the same boss.
I'll counter your "stupid" argument that Obama is in every way even more stupid and even more a bitch of the mega-corporate elite than Bush. I wouldn't have believed it possible but there it is, Obama is worse than Bush on every issue of interest to a "progressive socialist" or "enlightened liberal". Just incredible.
Second, someone would have had a great deal of foresight to convince someone at the hospital to fake a birth announcement so that 40 years later he could become president.
No, only a recent fake birth record would need be created; that's the whole point, the record shown publicly is computer generated and recent.
My birth certificate contains no medical information other than race, weight, etc.
No blinders, a form that *recently* came out of a computer and was stamped proves nothing. A very small handful of people who claim such a form is sufficient proves nothing. A newspaper announcement that could have been phone in from anywhere proves nothing. A governor who claims he remembers the birth of his golfing buddy proves nothing. Where is the long form birth certificate? I have mine, and I was born not a year later. why does not Barack have his? Is he a Kenyan usurper of the U.S. presidency?
not quite true about the penis, there are Japanese porn titles osme actress vs. the 25 cm dick, etc.
I know this because, uh, a friend told me...yeah, that's it, he's such a pervert....
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nope, only the dolts who put the generators at low elevation, definitely not the reactor designers. At similar plants in the US the generators are very high off the ground in rooms with waterproof doors.
it has one duck-mass, neutral buoyancy, comprised of three quacks which break echo symmetry, and decays by moulting.
no, that rating system is too coarse. there are much finer graduations possible such as
[] would if a bag was over her head
[] would drink her bath water
[] would scare a hound dog off a meat truck
assure her it wasn't the solar panels, just a little residue ionization from the above ground nuclear tests of decades past.
sure I make mistakes, that's why engineers work in teams, have reviews, safety tests, regression tests, outside independent testing, etc.
Number of alarms irrelevant if a reactor by design has positive feedback loop causing disaster faster than a human can react. Positive void coefficient, horizontal cooling channels, dead space at end of control rods that displace coolant, no containment.....dumb-ass design.
utter bullshit, many tinfoil hat sites make that claim but for the truth you'll find arsenic, mercury, lead are more toxic (CDC list of ranked toxic substances, for example, pu is WAY down the list after #1, #2, #3 which I've just mentioned). There are no known deaths for plutonium ingestion, but plenty for other substances.
Even that's not quite right, 0.1 Sv (10 REM) of acute dose would give detectable signs of radiation sickness within the body (millions of cell deaths but not noticeable by recipient), that 1Sv is where the recipient has some serious symptoms THEY will notice
I would dare do so, because that toll is *tiny* compared to people killed by rescuing those in burning buidings or floods earthquakes in a single year. get some perspective. how dare you compare that puny toll to the brave police, firemen, coast guard deaths *each and every year*. Not to mention, Chernobyl was due to moron engineers who designed it, and moron electrical engineers ignorant of nuclear reactors who defeated all safety systems for a pointless test. Death by moronism, that's all that's about.
You have a common misconception, depleted uranium has plenty of radioactivity, when ingested not only has 60% the alpha release of natural uranium but also makes beta emitters as decay products (thorium-234 and protactinium-234) with twice the disintegration rate of the alpha emitters.
In my country, the USA, all the reactors are 40+ year old technology (true in many other countries). And the core reason for the failure was backup power failure, which can happen by other means than Tsunami (considering most U.S. plants have exactly two backup generators per reactor)
Now I'm pro-nuclear, but the way in which we derive most nuclear power in the world is quite stupid and dangerous, with very, very long term risks.
The land area that is contaminated with cesium levels of any possible concern is quite small. Get some perspective, it's minuscule compared to land area of Japan.
Regardless of current argument, the Republicans did want Obama for interesting reasons, which is why they had the freaky McCain/Palin ticket.
what, no DOS or OS/2 run machines??? the manufacturing plant where I used to work still has theirs.
and more importantly, the updates to the ten-year-old common applications are available for free ($0 and with freedom) too. abiword, mozilla application suite, gimp, GNOME, KDE, etc.
I work for a VAR (sells HP, IBM, Dell, Oracle, EMC, etc.etc.etc.) and we sell machines with Windows 7 plus a Windows XP downgrade. Microsoft has extended the right to buy Windows XP Downgrade till 2020.
I can run 10 year old Linux *applications* just fine, that's the only meaningful thing since upgrading to a current distro to run it costs $0
The 10+ year life of XP is only do to multiple failures on Microsoft's parts. It's not something to point to as something good.
I laugh at your ignorance of how the major pieces of software everyone runs work fine on practically all distros of Linux and all the BSD too.
And a second thing to laugh at, Ubuntu itself still puts out powerpc builds, still forums for resolving problems, and still plenty of companies will provide paid enterprise support for it, including myself and my employer if you have the money.
In my day, 20 years before your day, we had pretty much the exact same damn graphing calculators! (xkcd #768 could have gone back to the TI-81 in 1990 had only display res and overall capabilities mentioned)
Those agencies all have a boss, for all but one the same boss. I'll counter your "stupid" argument that Obama is in every way even more stupid and even more a bitch of the mega-corporate elite than Bush. I wouldn't have believed it possible but there it is, Obama is worse than Bush on every issue of interest to a "progressive socialist" or "enlightened liberal". Just incredible.
That's fine, if Obama wants to be governor of Hawaii.
Second, someone would have had a great deal of foresight to convince someone at the hospital to fake a birth announcement so that 40 years later he could become president.
No, only a recent fake birth record would need be created; that's the whole point, the record shown publicly is computer generated and recent.
My birth certificate contains no medical information other than race, weight, etc.
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language since Shakespeare, but for his choice of genre he'll largely be ignored.
With Jerry Pournelle, the Mote in God's Eye , it's awesome.
The first Ringworld was ok, even with a few scientific oopses that were made into later plot devices for the other lesser novels.
No blinders, a form that *recently* came out of a computer and was stamped proves nothing. A very small handful of people who claim such a form is sufficient proves nothing. A newspaper announcement that could have been phone in from anywhere proves nothing. A governor who claims he remembers the birth of his golfing buddy proves nothing. Where is the long form birth certificate? I have mine, and I was born not a year later. why does not Barack have his? Is he a Kenyan usurper of the U.S. presidency?
not quite true about the penis, there are Japanese porn titles osme actress vs. the 25 cm dick, etc. I know this because, uh, a friend told me...yeah, that's it, he's such a pervert....