You are the buffoon, ignorant of human nature, and it is laughable you imagine public education as being run like any profitable business.
I have worked at a dot-com startup with less than a hundred employee, that was given a couple hundred of millions of dollars by investors. The company proceeded to waste tens of millions of dollars per year on unneeded staff and equipment, lavish bonuses were given out, incredible company outings and parties thrown. Needless to say, when the money ran out in a few fun-filled years, most the people were thrown out the door, most the gear sold, moved from beautiful high rise in one of nation's largest cities to tiny building.
The problem with the educational system (and the entire U.S. federal government) is exactly the same as this internet startup, with exactly the same problems and needing exactly the same solution.
The difference is what is put on police reports and certification of cause of death, often labeled as "accidental".
Suicide is not a crime in Japan, as opposed to other places where suicide made illegal to allow possibility person attempting it might be stopped and helped). Suicide is seen as honorable a way to get forgiveness for any transgression or failing, no matter how severe, the successful act seen as heroic.
Has anyone ever told you that you write the way a LOLCat talks?
For fun, we can actually do Chernobyl equivalents by amounts of long-term contamination released, ignoring the short lived isotopes.. Chernobyl released 2.5 megaCuries of such contamination. If a spent fuel pool at Fukushima Dai-ichi has uncontrolled fire and eventually melts (unlikely we hope), it will release tens of megaCuries, outdoing Chernobyl. But if reactor vessel containment breached, will thankfully be much less then one Chernobyl. If another very unlikely thing happens, unmelted fuel manages to form critical configuration with enough energy to burst containment, then we could have substantial fraction of Chernobyl, perhaps approaching one.
You are absolutely correct there are all those isolation systems (and actually more than that, the GE BWR is in many of my classic nuke engineering texts), but after repeated huge internal explosions *assuming* that all that is still functioning, intact and ship-ship isn't wise.
It could just be a private writing system for a personal language for a semi-literate, demented, dyslexic street person who successfully integrated quantum theory with a general relativity variant that explains the origin of dark matter and all the correct mass/spin/charge values of the Standard Model.
I really doubt it. If anything, the near-perfect organisation of Japan has saved countless lives.
With tens of thousands of suicides a year, I think not. Another example of a modern society self-driven to neurosis.
The WHO even disputes Japan's definition of suicide that makes the reported numbers an estimated three times lower.
won't work in this case, still have closed metal vessels that must be cooled, not open to sky like Chernobyl. concrete in this case will only hinder cooling and cause larger melting before the concrete even set, and in the case of spent fuel pools those are on top level.. with any fuel that was removed in last 2 refuelings they would overheat too with even more contamination.
If one counts only long term isotopes, Chernobyl released 2.5 megaCuries of contamination, a spent fuel pool has tens of megaCuries. Don't need to cause a meltdown or very small yield nuclear explosion (cue the urban legend people insisting that can't happen with civilian enriched fuel, but truth is it can and I can cite the field's most respected textbooks with conditions and yields) with those by piling insulators on them.
If the pressure vessels were open to the sky, then burying might be an option. but in this case could make things worse as there is then less cooling for the pressure vessels, weight of concrete might cause more damage to pipes and suppression torus. This is different configuration than the remains of chernobyl.
After checking on NHK and IAEA websites, there is no such information about a cracked pressure vessel, the contaminated water found may merely have passed through leaking valves, pipes, or suppression torus system. Remember this is a BWR, the coolant goes all the way to the turbine building and back, many paths for leaks if valves not doing their job or pipes cracked. The condition of the reactor vessel is at this point still unknown, premature to go off half cocked.
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there are many valves and pipes (look at quaint containment torus with its connections through concrete containment) through which the contamination may be leaking. This is a boiling water reactor, the coolant goes all the way to the turbines and condenser. A cracked pressure vessel is a very premature conclusion.
and if China develops a system that renders our nuclear missiles useless, and then wipes out a couple major cities, they can say "but the alternative plan was much worse!" And you'll nod your head and say, gawd bless those merciful Chinese.
just because YOUR country isn't having its engineers and scientists and students study Chinese doesn't mean that other countries aren't seeing the future. In India and SE Asia, they are studying Chinese because of the huge increase in trade since 1990s. My nieces and nephews in SE asia are learning Chinese in grade school to college levels.
Also worth noting the major global players on the planet are putting in the machinery to ditch the U.S. dollar as world currency.
All this will come together and leave most U.S. residents surprised their country is a has-been used-to-be.
where did I say this was bad or to be feared? the west is deserving of its decline. This will be the last Chinese supercomputer to use Xeon CPU and NVIDIA GPU
Yes, there is fundamental change in that the west didn't make it, and the next version will use chinese processors. Harbinger of things to come, the decline of the west.
Maybe they'll even let some of us study in their grad schools, like they did ours. In and out of classroom, in another culture, that would be fascinating.
Chinese invention of hybrid rice in mid 1970s allowing 6 tons per acre yield was game changer in asia. Artimisinin made by the Chinese in 1972 is used to globally to treat for drug-resistant malaria and blood flukes. Some say the Tianhe-1A supercomputer, the world's fastest, is a game changer too.
Forty years ago when I was young, we spent a quarter of the inflation-adjusted amount on education as we do today, and actually learned history, geography, English, and mathematics. Half the students today can not find the United States on a globe. There seems to be an inverse correlation.
Most of the money spent on education is wasted, look at at breakdown of your local schools for percent admin, special education, debt servicing, retirement benefits, etc. Slashing 25% or more across the board wouldn't need to change the amount spent on actually teaching.
Look it up, ramen is a japanese dish made with chinese wheat noodles
more importantly, grad school students may or may not produce anything useful, but they all turn food into poop
you're talking out of your ass. Have you ever seen a 5.5MW high voltage genset and the switchgear it takes to put into power grid of factory or nuke plant? You are not going to hang one of these fuckers from a helicopter or put on the back of your mama's 18 wheeler:
Animals in the wild generally don't live to old age. Heck, half the birds on the planet die each year. Coal pollution not an issue.
Plants like carbon dioxide. Coal pollution not an issue.
And then to human life. Has human life become longer, or shorter, since the widespread use of coal? The answer is, longer. Coal pollution not an issue.
and some of those idiots put a nuclear reactor in a fault zone known for monster quakes and monster tsunamis, and kept the spent fuel pools loaded with decades of fuel (contamination of Chernobyl, 2 megaCuries, contamination in rods of single Fukushima pool, tens of megaCuries if uncontrolled pool fire), and put the diesel generators under grade level! In Japan's fourth largest agricultural region! Heck, even at the nuke plant I worked on next to Lake Michigan, the generators were thirty or forty feet off the ground and behind waterproof doors *just in case* some cataclysm of biblical proportions got the water that high.
If you look at a side view diagram of the GE BRW/4, you'll see the crack might also be in containment vessel around reactor vessel, pipes or in valves leading into and out of reactor. Not even the plant operators know at this point.
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You are the buffoon, ignorant of human nature, and it is laughable you imagine public education as being run like any profitable business.
I have worked at a dot-com startup with less than a hundred employee, that was given a couple hundred of millions of dollars by investors. The company proceeded to waste tens of millions of dollars per year on unneeded staff and equipment, lavish bonuses were given out, incredible company outings and parties thrown. Needless to say, when the money ran out in a few fun-filled years, most the people were thrown out the door, most the gear sold, moved from beautiful high rise in one of nation's largest cities to tiny building. The problem with the educational system (and the entire U.S. federal government) is exactly the same as this internet startup, with exactly the same problems and needing exactly the same solution.
The difference is what is put on police reports and certification of cause of death, often labeled as "accidental". Suicide is not a crime in Japan, as opposed to other places where suicide made illegal to allow possibility person attempting it might be stopped and helped). Suicide is seen as honorable a way to get forgiveness for any transgression or failing, no matter how severe, the successful act seen as heroic.
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Has anyone ever told you that you write the way a LOLCat talks?
For fun, we can actually do Chernobyl equivalents by amounts of long-term contamination released, ignoring the short lived isotopes.. Chernobyl released 2.5 megaCuries of such contamination. If a spent fuel pool at Fukushima Dai-ichi has uncontrolled fire and eventually melts (unlikely we hope), it will release tens of megaCuries, outdoing Chernobyl. But if reactor vessel containment breached, will thankfully be much less then one Chernobyl. If another very unlikely thing happens, unmelted fuel manages to form critical configuration with enough energy to burst containment, then we could have substantial fraction of Chernobyl, perhaps approaching one.
You are absolutely correct there are all those isolation systems (and actually more than that, the GE BWR is in many of my classic nuke engineering texts), but after repeated huge internal explosions *assuming* that all that is still functioning, intact and ship-ship isn't wise.
It could just be a private writing system for a personal language for a semi-literate, demented, dyslexic street person who successfully integrated quantum theory with a general relativity variant that explains the origin of dark matter and all the correct mass/spin/charge values of the Standard Model.
I really doubt it. If anything, the near-perfect organisation of Japan has saved countless lives.
With tens of thousands of suicides a year, I think not. Another example of a modern society self-driven to neurosis.
The WHO even disputes Japan's definition of suicide that makes the reported numbers an estimated three times lower.
won't work in this case, still have closed metal vessels that must be cooled, not open to sky like Chernobyl. concrete in this case will only hinder cooling and cause larger melting before the concrete even set, and in the case of spent fuel pools those are on top level.. with any fuel that was removed in last 2 refuelings they would overheat too with even more contamination. If one counts only long term isotopes, Chernobyl released 2.5 megaCuries of contamination, a spent fuel pool has tens of megaCuries. Don't need to cause a meltdown or very small yield nuclear explosion (cue the urban legend people insisting that can't happen with civilian enriched fuel, but truth is it can and I can cite the field's most respected textbooks with conditions and yields) with those by piling insulators on them.
If the pressure vessels were open to the sky, then burying might be an option. but in this case could make things worse as there is then less cooling for the pressure vessels, weight of concrete might cause more damage to pipes and suppression torus. This is different configuration than the remains of chernobyl.
After checking on NHK and IAEA websites, there is no such information about a cracked pressure vessel, the contaminated water found may merely have passed through leaking valves, pipes, or suppression torus system. Remember this is a BWR, the coolant goes all the way to the turbine building and back, many paths for leaks if valves not doing their job or pipes cracked. The condition of the reactor vessel is at this point still unknown, premature to go off half cocked.
no there are many valves and pipes (look at quaint containment torus with its connections through concrete containment) through which the contamination may be leaking. This is a boiling water reactor, the coolant goes all the way to the turbines and condenser. A cracked pressure vessel is a very premature conclusion.
and if China develops a system that renders our nuclear missiles useless, and then wipes out a couple major cities, they can say "but the alternative plan was much worse!" And you'll nod your head and say, gawd bless those merciful Chinese.
just because YOUR country isn't having its engineers and scientists and students study Chinese doesn't mean that other countries aren't seeing the future. In India and SE Asia, they are studying Chinese because of the huge increase in trade since 1990s. My nieces and nephews in SE asia are learning Chinese in grade school to college levels.
Also worth noting the major global players on the planet are putting in the machinery to ditch the U.S. dollar as world currency.
All this will come together and leave most U.S. residents surprised their country is a has-been used-to-be.
You are apparently unaware of the "SAT Dumb Down", which has happened several times in the last 40 years.
where did I say this was bad or to be feared? the west is deserving of its decline. This will be the last Chinese supercomputer to use Xeon CPU and NVIDIA GPU
thank you for the list of failures. The UK entry was especially funny.
Yes, there is fundamental change in that the west didn't make it, and the next version will use chinese processors. Harbinger of things to come, the decline of the west.
Maybe they'll even let some of us study in their grad schools, like they did ours. In and out of classroom, in another culture, that would be fascinating.
Chinese invention of hybrid rice in mid 1970s allowing 6 tons per acre yield was game changer in asia. Artimisinin made by the Chinese in 1972 is used to globally to treat for drug-resistant malaria and blood flukes. Some say the Tianhe-1A supercomputer, the world's fastest, is a game changer too.
Forty years ago when I was young, we spent a quarter of the inflation-adjusted amount on education as we do today, and actually learned history, geography, English, and mathematics. Half the students today can not find the United States on a globe. There seems to be an inverse correlation.
Most of the money spent on education is wasted, look at at breakdown of your local schools for percent admin, special education, debt servicing, retirement benefits, etc. Slashing 25% or more across the board wouldn't need to change the amount spent on actually teaching.
Look it up, ramen is a japanese dish made with chinese wheat noodles more importantly, grad school students may or may not produce anything useful, but they all turn food into poop
you're talking out of your ass. Have you ever seen a 5.5MW high voltage genset and the switchgear it takes to put into power grid of factory or nuke plant? You are not going to hang one of these fuckers from a helicopter or put on the back of your mama's 18 wheeler:
http://www.utilitywarehouse.com/info2/55mwhfo/55mwhfo.htm
Animals in the wild generally don't live to old age. Heck, half the birds on the planet die each year. Coal pollution not an issue.
Plants like carbon dioxide. Coal pollution not an issue.
And then to human life. Has human life become longer, or shorter, since the widespread use of coal? The answer is, longer. Coal pollution not an issue.
and some of those idiots put a nuclear reactor in a fault zone known for monster quakes and monster tsunamis, and kept the spent fuel pools loaded with decades of fuel (contamination of Chernobyl, 2 megaCuries, contamination in rods of single Fukushima pool, tens of megaCuries if uncontrolled pool fire), and put the diesel generators under grade level! In Japan's fourth largest agricultural region! Heck, even at the nuke plant I worked on next to Lake Michigan, the generators were thirty or forty feet off the ground and behind waterproof doors *just in case* some cataclysm of biblical proportions got the water that high.
If you look at a side view diagram of the GE BRW/4, you'll see the crack might also be in containment vessel around reactor vessel, pipes or in valves leading into and out of reactor. Not even the plant operators know at this point.