. . . for a nuclear plant, and a coal plant, and for gas a oil fueled plant.
Take into account the full effects of the pipelines and/or rail cars required to bring the fuel to the site, and to dispose of ashes or depleted fuel rods.
Include full costs for the health and environmental effects of uranium mining.
Include a complete report on how the waste heat from nuclear plant will effect the river that cools it.
Note the adverse political consequences that oil money has on the politics of the supplying nations.
Oh, wait, I forgot! Existing power plants are totally exempt from this sort of analysis, because they're made of cupcakes and sunshine.
In an article in SEED magazine, Geoffrey Miller suggests that technological civilizations lose ambition toward real achievement once they start playing computer games.
What, they think they have some kind of power to question the authority of our Decider and Commander and Chief?
Who appointed them as the law makers?
Next thing you know those "Representatives" will claim they can hold the president accountable for lying, breaking the law, and violating his oath of office.
I'd like to see them just try something like that.
We've gone from the Electronic Frontier to a bunch of company towns run by greedy bastards and populated by idjiots who are happy as long as their YouTube videos play OK.
The lessons will take an "abstinence only" approach, and will feature a videotape titled Internet: A System of Tubes of Terror showing the like-true story of an 18 year old whose accepts an invitation to a slumber party that turns out to take place in the basement bedroom of a 320 lbs., 48 year old furry fan.
Seriously, what if there's a inhabited planet around one of those stars and they find out what we think of them some day? We might be the ones who end up getting the shock-and-awe treatment, with a Mother Of All Nova Bombs.
The only collection of objects that might deserve the name Cheney might be a scattering of parasite-ridden coyote droppings. Although given that scavenger dung may have better poll ratings . . .
No, no, no! Keep on spanking the monkey, but for the sake of the camera do it while surrounded by:
Roll 1d8:
1) Stuffed animals 2) Feminine hygiene products 3) Jars of Bovril 4) Jars of Marmite 5) Old computer hardware 6) Cassette tapes of ABBA albums 7) Duct tape 8) Any two of the above
With any luck, the Demographic Analysis software will either give up or -- unless 1960s SF shows have taught me wrong -- spew reams of paper tape, shout "DOES NOT COMPUTE!" in a tinny voice, and catch on fire.
According to a related story, the mastermind of a major body snatching ring -- the one that looted Alistair Cooke's cancer-ridden corpse -- was Michael Mastromarino.
I mean, wow! If there's a name that shouts "Unscrupulous Villain," it's Mastromarino.
Maybe not as much as "Hans Darkbloode" or "Lucious Skjulreever," but still . . .
Um. Seriously. I'm glad there's a service pack out. But I'm going to wait a few weeks and see if it causes USB drives to melt, or sends your life history to the Ministry of Total Information Awareness.
They congresspeople who put this bill together stood up to the Bush administration's paranoid, fear-mongering bullshit. Their actions mean that they've gone on record stating that telecomm immunity has nothing to with national security.
It's precedent. It's courage.
Would you have preferred they do nothing? Stood around and bitched about The Man?
Even a magic Go Anywhere Fast drive, one that worked for interplanetary as well as across the depths of interstellar space, would not automatically open up the universe for colonization.
We'd still need great improvements in reaction drives, for example, to overcome the velocity differences between different star systems.
Lacking magical Star Trek style sensors, we'd need to find ways to detect and analyze planets.
Life support systems. Expedition craft that can handle a takeoff as well as a landing. Power sources. Cripes, it goes on and on.
Really, it's not like Masters of Orion or some other 4x game.
Me, I'd settle for that Mr. Fusion someone mentioned uptopic.
Well, the initial plans called for wipers, but that would have required another.4 kg of expensive plutonium pellets in the RTG, and the added mass of the motor, intermittent-wipe controller, and the mechanism for changing spare wiper blades would have meant that the hermetically sealed capsule containing the Blob (frozen by Steve McQueen in the 1950s) would have been bumped to another deep-space probe.
" . . . blamed the breaches in part on the telecommunications companies, who submitted more information than was requested . .."
Who needs abusive government bureaucracies to abuse our rights when corporations can do the job even better?
It's time to drag the paranoid, power-hungry trolls responsible for these outrages out into the sunlight for a little disinfecting.
Issue the subpoenas, investigate these abuses, and, yes, impeach the president. Even if he wasn't responsible for this debacle, then he's derelict in his duties to uphold the constitution.
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. . . right wing trolls who are deeply offended by anything vaguely new and unfamiliar.
Really. Just scroll up the page.
. . . for a nuclear plant, and a coal plant, and for gas a oil fueled plant.
Take into account the full effects of the pipelines and/or rail cars required to bring the fuel to the site, and to dispose of ashes or depleted fuel rods.
Include full costs for the health and environmental effects of uranium mining.
Include a complete report on how the waste heat from nuclear plant will effect the river that cools it.
Note the adverse political consequences that oil money has on the politics of the supplying nations.
Oh, wait, I forgot! Existing power plants are totally exempt from this sort of analysis, because they're made of cupcakes and sunshine.
Really? After taking into account the cooling systems and safety shut offs and the mechanisms and processes for installing and removing fuel rods?
Forgive me, but I think you're just making shit up.
I wonder if these things show up on radar. And how easy they'd be to shoot down. Because they'd make dandy kamikaze weapons.
In an article in SEED magazine, Geoffrey Miller suggests that technological civilizations lose ambition toward real achievement once they start playing computer games.
Cripes, I known fellers like that.
Cthulhu's watery resting place.
Hmmmm, just think: With Greenland and Antarctica melting, Google Ocean will eventually get bigger as Google Earth shrinks a bit around the edges.
What, they think they have some kind of power to question the authority of our Decider and Commander and Chief?
Who appointed them as the law makers?
Next thing you know those "Representatives" will claim they can hold the president accountable for lying, breaking the law, and violating his oath of office.
I'd like to see them just try something like that.
Really. I would.
Please.
From the 1971 Centuri Engineering catalog, their concept Space Shuttle model.
. . . bitter.
What, you think I'm joking?
We've gone from the Electronic Frontier to a bunch of company towns run by greedy bastards and populated by idjiots who are happy as long as their YouTube videos play OK.
In these troubled times, those of you with yards might want to get the goat.
If teens stop running up huge credit card debt that there parents end up shouldering, the economy could become dangerously understimulated.
The lessons will take an "abstinence only" approach, and will feature a videotape titled Internet: A System of Tubes of Terror showing the like-true story of an 18 year old whose accepts an invitation to a slumber party that turns out to take place in the basement bedroom of a 320 lbs., 48 year old furry fan.
Seriously, what if there's a inhabited planet around one of those stars and they find out what we think of them some day? We might be the ones who end up getting the shock-and-awe treatment, with a Mother Of All Nova Bombs.
The only collection of objects that might deserve the name Cheney might be a scattering of parasite-ridden coyote droppings. Although given that scavenger dung may have better poll ratings . . .
That's the first I've heard of this. Can you supply a link?
No, no, no! Keep on spanking the monkey, but for the sake of the camera do it while surrounded by:
Roll 1d8:
1) Stuffed animals
2) Feminine hygiene products
3) Jars of Bovril
4) Jars of Marmite
5) Old computer hardware
6) Cassette tapes of ABBA albums
7) Duct tape
8) Any two of the above
With any luck, the Demographic Analysis software will either give up or -- unless 1960s SF shows have taught me wrong -- spew reams of paper tape, shout "DOES NOT COMPUTE!" in a tinny voice, and catch on fire.
. . . "Stay out of our way and nobody gets hurt."
According to a related story, the mastermind of a major body snatching ring -- the one that looted Alistair Cooke's cancer-ridden corpse -- was Michael Mastromarino.
I mean, wow! If there's a name that shouts "Unscrupulous Villain," it's Mastromarino.
Maybe not as much as "Hans Darkbloode" or "Lucious Skjulreever," but still . . .
. . . and now he's mad.
Um. Seriously. I'm glad there's a service pack out. But I'm going to wait a few weeks and see if it causes USB drives to melt, or sends your life history to the Ministry of Total Information Awareness.
The moment I saw "MULE" in TFA, I knew someone would bring up the game, and hoped someone would post a link to the music.
Here is the Atari 800 version
They congresspeople who put this bill together stood up to the Bush administration's paranoid, fear-mongering bullshit. Their actions mean that they've gone on record stating that telecomm immunity has nothing to with national security.
It's precedent. It's courage.
Would you have preferred they do nothing? Stood around and bitched about The Man?
. . . don't stick the terminals to your tongue to see if there's still a charge.
Even a magic Go Anywhere Fast drive, one that worked for interplanetary as well as across the depths of interstellar space, would not automatically open up the universe for colonization.
We'd still need great improvements in reaction drives, for example, to overcome the velocity differences between different star systems.
Lacking magical Star Trek style sensors, we'd need to find ways to detect and analyze planets.
Life support systems. Expedition craft that can handle a takeoff as well as a landing. Power sources. Cripes, it goes on and on.
Really, it's not like Masters of Orion or some other 4x game.
Me, I'd settle for that Mr. Fusion someone mentioned uptopic.
Well, the initial plans called for wipers, but that would have required another .4 kg of expensive plutonium pellets in the RTG, and the added mass of the motor, intermittent-wipe controller, and the mechanism for changing spare wiper blades would have meant that the hermetically sealed capsule containing the Blob (frozen by Steve McQueen in the 1950s) would have been bumped to another deep-space probe.
"Hah hah!"
"Someone set us up the server!"
" . . . blamed the breaches in part on the telecommunications companies, who submitted more information than was requested . . ."
Who needs abusive government bureaucracies to abuse our rights when corporations can do the job even better?
It's time to drag the paranoid, power-hungry trolls responsible for these outrages out into the sunlight for a little disinfecting.
Issue the subpoenas, investigate these abuses, and, yes, impeach the president. Even if he wasn't responsible for this debacle, then he's derelict in his duties to uphold the constitution.