Actually, proper procedures and equipment that didn't involve buckets existed and were documented. The workers cut corners because using buckets were more convenient.
This kind of makes sense. The kind of people smart enough to know the dangers of working with radioactive material and take the necessary precautions wouldn't work at a power plant.
Hmm, real life Homer Simpsons, now that is scary. So I guess it's not just airport security that has under trained people in important jobs.
Something about this says "poor management choices" to me. The workers were preparing fuel for an experimental reactor, with buckets. It's not hard to imagine that the proper equipment would have put the project over budget, so they were told to make due. I know that every business cuts corners somewhere, but maybe nuclear facilities should be an exception to this.
If you want something published on the public internet to be private,
Then don't post it on the internet. Just like if you don't want people to see you in your underwear you should stand in your front yard in just your underwear holding a sign saying "Don't look at me". The space might be private, but the view is public.
This sounds great for tweens and teens, they frequently love to be super up to date with every aspect of their friends lives, and they don't usually pay their own phone bills. For the rest of us, this may be "TMI 2.0"
Because even if it takes the reviewer 1 minute to decide on each upload, those 100,000 videos would take 1,666 hours to review. And if they sit on YouTube for a week, all the pirates will have downloaded them already. To get them reviewed in one work day it would take 208 people. And you think those 208 people are going to have less than a 0.06% error rate?
Now if this "permission to track users for purposes of selling info" clause is found in the EULA for all major ISPs, whose case does that strengthen? If everyone has it, then it is standard and thus should be reasonably expected. On the other hand, if everyone has it, then the user is at a complete disadvantage on that point. The case would probably go to the ISPs, if for no other reason than "the terrorists" excuse. They have to track everyone it's their patriotic duty.
Speaking of commercial stuff, aren't commercials what paid for the investment of the shows in the first place? Shouldn't YouTube just add the Commercial Time (billable by Viacom)to the videos? Opening a new market instead of killing one?
I appreciate your rejection of all governments as self feeding power machines, but even en masse anarchists will not help the ills of society. Largely because anarchists are not very organized, but also because government is a necessary evil. Necessary if for nothing else to free us from more oppressive governments. So I ask you as your fellow countryman, to get personally involved in politics. No revolution was won by apathy. (pun only partially intended)
From Common Sense
government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
Perhaps a digital photo frame would work nicely for you, if all you really need the laptop for is photo review. $450 for 30GB of cards is alot cheaper than replacing your laptop after you: wack your pack on a rock/fall into a stream/get you laptop "inspected" at a border. You might consider mailing some cards home to have them downloaded to your computer, then mailed back to you next planned stop. Maybe internet cafes would let you upload to flickr, to free up space. But as it seems your photos are going to be quite important to you, I would definintely not have them all in one place traveling with you.
Now if these chips can be safely supported and powered by my organic self, that might be something truely interesting. A chip that can allow me to turn on the OLEDs in my hand, all powered by oxygen and gluecose would be quite interesting. The super downside? Powered organic RFIDs.
The threat to national security is not the file sharing software it's the asshats who have access to classifed documents,who are installing Kazaa on their government owned work computers. You could just as likely leave a few thumbdrives with trojans sitting around where these guys have lunch.
Using a mobile phone at all (except with hands-free kits) is illegal while driving.
Sorry to break it to you but hands free doesn't help the problem of focusing on driving.
The study reinforced earlier research by Strayer and Drews showing that hands-free cell phones are just as distracting as handheld cell phones because the conversation itself - not just manipulation of a handheld phone - distracts drivers from road conditions....Each of the study"s 40 participants "drove" a PatrolSim driving simulator four times: once each while undistracted, using a handheld cell phone, using a hands-free cell phone and while intoxicated to the 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level after drinking vodka and orange juice. Participants followed a simulated pace car that braked intermittently.
Both handheld and hands-free cell phones impaired driving, with no significant difference in the degree of impairment. That "calls into question driving regulations that prohibited handheld cell phones and permit hands-free cell phones," the researchers write.
Or in a paper and pencil notebook, record what picture # you are on in which sd card. Just go buy 10 gigs of sd cards. They weigh nothing and aren't that expensive.
it's practically nonexistant outside of the US, Brazil, and Sweden. That means you can't take road trips,
Oh no, no more road trips to Sweden?!? You can find ethanol in every hardware store in the US and Canada. It's call denatured alcohol, it's in the paint supplies isle.
Ok in growing children, physical activity doesn't have as much direct effect as I would have assumed. But I made that assumtion based on the direct effect that physical activity has on the health of adults. If school is there to help prepare our youth to be highly functional adults, learning to value physical fitness and activity is still an important thing to instill in the kiddies, not just for health but for general succes in life. "No woman or guy wakes up beautiful in the morning. The beautiful is a result of smart life choices, smart shopping choices, smart diet choices, smart makeup choices, smart outfit and accessories choices and even smart chair-stylist choices.""It is not just politicians whom we prefer to be beautiful. A number of studies, many involving American economist Daniel Hamermesh, have found that "ugly" people earn less in many walks of life, from advertising to law. The beauty premium seems to apply even in professions where there is no reason to expect that beauty counts."
I didn't mean to come across as prickish. My TV is from 2001 as well. It will weather this change just fine, because it's hooked up to cable. "Approximately 70 percent of all households subscribe to cable television service. Only 15 percent of Americans now receive TV solely from over-the-air ("free") broadcasting. The remaining 15 percent subscribe to direct broadcast satellite services. "http://www.democraticmedia.org/resources/filings/c aucusMemo.html I'm guessing that of the 15% who don't have cable, a vast majority don't have internet access either. That is what I was refering to when I mentioned the digital divide. The poorest of our country who don't have home computers or internet access, they miss out on alot more than what is broadcast "on air". I meant to say that giving eveyone access to the learning and social networking abilities of the internet might be more important than a token reimbursment on a digital- to analog converter. To the middle class who doesn't have cable: Get a cable package with your broadband, if you don't like it, then push for better streaming media.
Those Consumers haven't invested billions of dollars, that's why they have old ass obsolete TVs. The poor are the only ones that could really need this, and a $40 voucher isn't the way to mend the digtial divide. The $100 laptop would be a better use of this money.
If the main reason for big engines is high torque, how does Hybrid tech change our engine needs? If we can continue to tweek combustion for a set load (generator) we just need the electric motors and batteries to catch up to the demands of heavy hauling to make mileage improvements in SUVs and Big Rigs. Sure this might be the reapplication of old tech, but every step towards efficency helps. If an ethanol injected engine becomes "cool" with the SUV crowd, then we all win. Many if not most SUVs are status symbols more than heavy haulers. How often do you see someone towing their boat trailer uphill, really, not in a commercial?
there is no denying the fact that this has become such an emotionally charged issue
At a fact loving nerd site, it's easy to forget how important semantics are to decision making for a vast swath of general populous. If this issue wasn't emotionally charged, it wouldn't really be an issue, at least not in the political/let's-do-something-about-it sense. In short, when people care about an issue, it really is "caring" on an emotional level.
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Actually, proper procedures and equipment that didn't involve buckets existed and were documented. The workers cut corners because using buckets were more convenient. This kind of makes sense. The kind of people smart enough to know the dangers of working with radioactive material and take the necessary precautions wouldn't work at a power plant.
Hmm, real life Homer Simpsons, now that is scary. So I guess it's not just airport security that has under trained people in important jobs.
Something about this says "poor management choices" to me. The workers were preparing fuel for an experimental reactor, with buckets. It's not hard to imagine that the proper equipment would have put the project over budget, so they were told to make due. I know that every business cuts corners somewhere, but maybe nuclear facilities should be an exception to this.
If you want something published on the public internet to be private,
Then don't post it on the internet. Just like if you don't want people to see you in your underwear you should stand in your front yard in just your underwear holding a sign saying "Don't look at me". The space might be private, but the view is public.
This sounds great for tweens and teens, they frequently love to be super up to date with every aspect of their friends lives, and they don't usually pay their own phone bills. For the rest of us, this may be "TMI 2.0"
Because even if it takes the reviewer 1 minute to decide on each upload, those 100,000 videos would take 1,666 hours to review. And if they sit on YouTube for a week, all the pirates will have downloaded them already. To get them reviewed in one work day it would take 208 people. And you think those 208 people are going to have less than a 0.06% error rate?
Now if this "permission to track users for purposes of selling info" clause is found in the EULA for all major ISPs, whose case does that strengthen? If everyone has it, then it is standard and thus should be reasonably expected. On the other hand, if everyone has it, then the user is at a complete disadvantage on that point. The case would probably go to the ISPs, if for no other reason than "the terrorists" excuse. They have to track everyone it's their patriotic duty.
Speaking of commercial stuff, aren't commercials what paid for the investment of the shows in the first place? Shouldn't YouTube just add the Commercial Time (billable by Viacom)to the videos? Opening a new market instead of killing one?
I appreciate your rejection of all governments as self feeding power machines, but even en masse anarchists will not help the ills of society. Largely because anarchists are not very organized, but also because government is a necessary evil. Necessary if for nothing else to free us from more oppressive governments. So I ask you as your fellow countryman, to get personally involved in politics. No revolution was won by apathy. (pun only partially intended)
From Common Sense http://www.bartleby.com/133/1.html
the idea of degradable logic is pretty enticing for the military.
This isn't news, our military has been using degraded logic for years.
Perhaps a digital photo frame would work nicely for you, if all you really need the laptop for is photo review. $450 for 30GB of cards is alot cheaper than replacing your laptop after you: wack your pack on a rock/fall into a stream/get you laptop "inspected" at a border. You might consider mailing some cards home to have them downloaded to your computer, then mailed back to you next planned stop. Maybe internet cafes would let you upload to flickr, to free up space. But as it seems your photos are going to be quite important to you, I would definintely not have them all in one place traveling with you.
Now if these chips can be safely supported and powered by my organic self, that might be something truely interesting. A chip that can allow me to turn on the OLEDs in my hand, all powered by oxygen and gluecose would be quite interesting. The super downside? Powered organic RFIDs.
The threat to national security is not the file sharing software it's the asshats who have access to classifed documents,who are installing Kazaa on their government owned work computers. You could just as likely leave a few thumbdrives with trojans sitting around where these guys have lunch.
Sorry to break it to you but hands free doesn't help the problem of focusing on driving.
http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=062206-1
Or in a paper and pencil notebook, record what picture # you are on in which sd card. Just go buy 10 gigs of sd cards. They weigh nothing and aren't that expensive.
It would seem you have backed yourself into a corner here.
it's practically nonexistant outside of the US, Brazil, and Sweden. That means you can't take road trips,
Oh no, no more road trips to Sweden?!? You can find ethanol in every hardware store in the US and Canada. It's call denatured alcohol, it's in the paint supplies isle.
hmmm, I always thought that lower demand = lower prices.
Ok in growing children, physical activity doesn't have as much direct effect as I would have assumed. But I made that assumtion based on the direct effect that physical activity has on the health of adults. If school is there to help prepare our youth to be highly functional adults, learning to value physical fitness and activity is still an important thing to instill in the kiddies, not just for health but for general succes in life. "No woman or guy wakes up beautiful in the morning. The beautiful is a result of smart life choices, smart shopping choices, smart diet choices, smart makeup choices, smart outfit and accessories choices and even smart chair-stylist choices." "It is not just politicians whom we prefer to be beautiful. A number of studies, many involving American economist Daniel Hamermesh, have found that "ugly" people earn less in many walks of life, from advertising to law. The beauty premium seems to apply even in professions where there is no reason to expect that beauty counts."
Both quotes from:http://www.slate.com/id/2161615/
I didn't mean to come across as prickish. My TV is from 2001 as well. It will weather this change just fine, because it's hooked up to cable. "Approximately 70 percent of all households subscribe to cable television service. Only 15 percent of Americans now receive TV solely from over-the-air ("free") broadcasting. The remaining 15 percent subscribe to direct broadcast satellite services. " http://www.democraticmedia.org/resources/filings/c aucusMemo.html I'm guessing that of the 15% who don't have cable, a vast majority don't have internet access either. That is what I was refering to when I mentioned the digital divide. The poorest of our country who don't have home computers or internet access, they miss out on alot more than what is broadcast "on air". I meant to say that giving eveyone access to the learning and social networking abilities of the internet might be more important than a token reimbursment on a digital- to analog converter. To the middle class who doesn't have cable: Get a cable package with your broadband, if you don't like it, then push for better streaming media.
While the mags will be missed, the internet is far better of a medium for game journalism than print.
I fully understand why gaming mags would succumb to tech first, but can the rest of print journalism be far behind?
Those Consumers haven't invested billions of dollars, that's why they have old ass obsolete TVs. The poor are the only ones that could really need this, and a $40 voucher isn't the way to mend the digtial divide. The $100 laptop would be a better use of this money.
Why is this modded troll? Because he's saying that Dell might actually want this info from the public?
If the main reason for big engines is high torque, how does Hybrid tech change our engine needs? If we can continue to tweek combustion for a set load (generator) we just need the electric motors and batteries to catch up to the demands of heavy hauling to make mileage improvements in SUVs and Big Rigs. Sure this might be the reapplication of old tech, but every step towards efficency helps. If an ethanol injected engine becomes "cool" with the SUV crowd, then we all win. Many if not most SUVs are status symbols more than heavy haulers. How often do you see someone towing their boat trailer uphill, really, not in a commercial?
"despite the detailed complaints from national standards bodies."
So what is the point of these national standards bodies? Standards without a method of enforcement, are called "suggestions".
there is no denying the fact that this has become such an emotionally charged issue
At a fact loving nerd site, it's easy to forget how important semantics are to decision making for a vast swath of general populous. If this issue wasn't emotionally charged, it wouldn't really be an issue, at least not in the political/let's-do-something-about-it sense. In short, when people care about an issue, it really is "caring" on an emotional level.