My dear Doctor, readability metrics boil down to personal tastes - subjective, in other words. While perhaps what you choose is even the preference of the majority of coders, it's not mine.
Advocating for braces and the negatory conjunctive "else" on the same line is not the same as "having more code per line," e.g. more than one statement per line.
In the responses to the OP, we've if/else on three lines-
if (...) { ...
} else { ...
}
-and six lines-
if (...)
{ ...
}
else
{ ...
}
Whilst reading six lines is not a problem for me, I prefer the three line variant, as it means less scrolling over slow ssh connections. Thank goodness we have automagic reformatting IDEs for those who won't accept other formats.
However -- it is a sorry state of affairs that on/. the replies to an enquiry about "coding standards" end up focusing on code formatting... I'd much rather have been debating architectural design patterns as the response to "coding standards."
Positions on design patterns, over the last few years, appear to have accreted into two clusters, those for and those against. I am one of those in the "for" camp, where learning the whys and wherefores of a particular set of data structures and classes, and behaviors arising from said structures, determine architecture.
Those "against" appear, to my reading, to be willing to forgo such learning and accept whatever baked-in design patterns the platform's designers chose.
Now, on the one hand, I accept that that's the case, as there is an observable stratification of programming ability existing in the world of software developers. One most go with one's strengths, and not everyone is suited to solving the issues architecture.
On the other hand, if a developer is so inclined, there is still plenty of latitude available when structuring applications.
Finally, there appears to have been a rise in the strongly anti-design patterns camp - the learning and applying thereof, that is. Most particularly, the anti-Java, pro-Ruby/RoR camp, where seemingly one must accept the baked-in design patterns chosen by the platform's architect, without variation.
A direct descendent of that camp, the adherents to the prototype.js and scriptaculous libraries, accept the original author's patterns to the point where performance deficits due to overuse of lambda functions are not only accepted, they are ignored.
That, IMNSHO, is sad comment on the state of software development. Productivity over performance is an awkward choice, to say the least.
You don't join the military for a life of luxury, you join to serve your nation. Luxury accommodations are out-of-scope. A poor example for those under your command, and a bad precedent for where the U.S. command is headed.
The question isn't jump-seats versus a luxury suite. First-class airliner seats, six to ten grand, and that they already have. Mil-spec, hardened laptops, five, six grand, standard equipment. Good quality food and drink, gronk.
Multi-million dollar traveling accommodations? Quit the government, join the corporate world, and earn your way up to rewards that come from generating profits, not being a tax-paid decision-maker. The senior officers I've admired most are the ones who drive their own cars, and don't try to lead the pampered life on the taxpayers' dime.
one advantage of socialized medicine is that the government gets to decide when further treatment doesn't make "economic sense"
Oh really? Have you got anything to back that statement up?
You believe that doctors in countries with state-run medicine can say to patients and their families, "Look, this is getting expensive, and it looks like s/he is going to die in a few weeks anyway. Checkout is on down the hall on the left"... etc.?
I can't imagine where you're getting your ideas from. Personal experience: my ex is a doctor from a country with "socialized medicine"... from what I saw and heard during my time there (Germany), it doesn't work like that at all. End-of-life was one of the biggest issues she dealt with, because -get this- they saw patients through to the end. Preventative care and perhaps the much lower obesity rates probably have a little *something* to do with their lower per-capita medical costs..
If a computer repair technician without a government-issued private investigator's license takes any actions that the government deems to be an "investigation," they may be subject to criminal penalties of up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine, as well as civil penalties of up to $10,000. The definition of "investigation" is very broad and encompasses many common computer repair tasks.
*If* you take action deemed to be an investigation. Sheesh, 700+ comments, mostly out of ignorance of the facts. See something illegal, don't report it, that's it. The police don't want tainted evidence. You could still report the bugger, though...
Flash no more "subverts" the web than Photoshop "subverts" image processing
Apples vs oranges comparison, or in this case, text vs binary. HTML is an open, text-based representation of document layout and text content. Flash also, as one of its many features, provides document layout and text content. The difference is that HTML is easily parsed and understood by *many* consumers; Flash has mainly one consumer at the client, and SWF content is not very easily parsed and understood outside of Adobe's plugin.
So Flash is opaque, relative to HTML. Yes, yes, there are some parsers, and Adobe has very recently committed to working with search engine companies to assist them in developing parsers. But look how long it took! The fact that Adobe has to actually assist a company the size of Google is a byproduct of the SWF format's opacity (and proprietary-ness.)
It boils down to text versus image data -- Flash deals in both. A website built around Flash is going to look more opaque to a consumer that wants to digest text, such as a crawler. Browsers entirely outsource dealing with Flash to plugins.
W3C is an organization supporting a distributed information system, the World Wide Web. In this realm, machine-readable information is king, while arbitrary binary content, such as the image, audio, video and motion data found in a SWF, is not easily understood by machines. The SWF format is primarily suited for human consumption - our computers mostly are capable of only playing them back for humans to view. That has much less value in an open information system, next to text.
That may be why the W3C is slow to pursue technologies similar to Flash. On the other hand, visual technologies like SVG and VRML are expressed with machine-readable text-based markup. More easily machine-consumed, therefore more support from W3C.
If he had first-hand knowledge of the murder, and didn't report it, he's subject to accomplice charges. In some jurisdictions, being accomplice to a murder, or even near the scene, can get you charged with murder.
Case-in-point, Texas has one of the strictest accomplice laws on the books, known as the "law of parties." Kenneth Foster was charged with murder one and given the death sentence for unknowingly (according to his testimony) driving a man to a soon-to-become murder scene. The governor of Texas intervened and commutted his sentence to life in prison. Ridiculous case, if you ask me.
Doesn't Microsoft employ "bloggers" to seed pro MS babble to Web sites like Slashdot? Just sayin'...
If you're going to troll, it might be a good idea RTFA beforehand so that you don't make a fool of yourself. Two examples:
Erm, for the record they also cover applications created by MS Research, using MS technologies - e.g. one called MapCruncher, which runs/ran on IIS. See 5 Application Design and Flash Crowd Experiences. Another examples include SQL Server, but the article's pretty much technology agnostic, on the whole...
We were surprised that our web server had failed to keep up with the request stream until we realized the dataset was many times larger... The next day, we published our maps to Amazon S3, and had no further performance problems.
In all, a very interesting article. I didn't get much or any MS-centric chest-thumping from it.
Since the OP appears to read/write English, there's also German, Dutch and a host of tangentially related languages (Swedish is semi-related, I think, going by the swedish subs sometimes included in DVDs and the like, might not be so difficult to learn. Plus, think of the dating opportunities while visiting...)
As much as we don't like Lori Drew and her despicable, possibly criminal behavior, this isn't the way to go about it (from the posts so far, seems most here agree that way.)
No anonymity would lead to a boring internet... people would begin to resort (more) to (ab)using open proxies to get the job done.
I think we agree in principle, it's just not that black and white. Employers do have to show cause (violation of company policy etc., easy to do) and cover ass (document it.) At least the states I've worked in (blue.) I've been on both sides of the table, in two states, and I definitely agree it's expensive and hard to fight. Ratio of resources, company vs. ex-employee.
Employers have it over employees, no doubt; the reason most allegedly incompetent employees keep their jobs is, firing them and hiring a replacement is a big hassle. Paperwork, stress, loss of employee-stored knowledge, etc. Employers would fire more often if it were easier to find replacements, and maintain morale in the rest of employees. Balancing act.
I've seen high and low-level employees, both competent and incompetent, terminated by employers; they know it can be done with relatively low risk because the fired employee almost never fights back.
We have today's corporate culture and Bush's corporation-friendly NLRB to thank for that, only too happy to bend over backward to please the companies they know they'll soon go back to work for.
In most states you can be fired for any reason at all and have no legal recourse.
Assuming you meant "states" of the U.S., that is most definitely not true, though you would be a lot more accurate by restating that as "fired for any reason at all and have expensive legal recourse." You'll need a good and strong case to attract a labor lawyer willing to take on a very recently unemployed worker.
Then there's the matter of unions, which raise higher the requirements for being fired, bringing with it good and bad consequences for society.
...corporate culture. The world of employment...
AKA military culture:
Ranks: mercs (consultants), enlisteds (regular employees), NCOs (supervisors and leads), and officers (management, directors on up, generally well-educated and/or connected.)
Enemies - the competition
Campaigns - new product releases, adverts
Remuneration - for most, not as good as you'd like, so there's always envy
Strategies and tactics
Recruitment - HR, recruiters
Consequences - courts-martial aka firing
Would corporate culture have evolved with all these parallels without the military as an obvious model? Who knows, maybe maybe not.
Are people as ignorant as you allowed to access even the internet? Surely you've noticed that the internet is populated even with people who have different national, language, cultural and educational backgrounds?
Or should everybody be speaking/writing only English and perfectly even to your specs, before they should be even allowed online?
Set down your comic books and pay attention. If Rutan et al had claimed it went orbital, you'd have some validity to your complaint, but they don't. It's a "suborbital" ship, hence 110 km, that's their only claim.
As one of the few non-governmentally planned-and-built space ships in existence ever to make (and *survive!*) the flight to space (not once but twice), give it a rest.
Oh, right, it doesn't meet *your* specs for a proper space ship. Well then, drop us a line when *yours* is ready to go into orbit, yes?
You seem to be misreading my point, coward -- I use Windows every day, at work and home (where it runs under Parallels on my Macbook.) Lots of great software runs under it, the benefits are tangible and positive.
Vista, however, was marketed as a speedy, pretty *new* O/S. I'd expected a redesigned kernel to do better than it actually does.
I've been programming and using computers since teletype days (jr. high anyways.) That O/Sen require so much horsepower bothers me so. The Vista upgrade at work ran too slow on my core2duo Dell laptop, so I downgraded to XP, sadly. Yes, even OS X runs slower than I'd like. There's always Linux for compute-intensive jobs, however.
Rubbish. Most electronic gadgets come with limited 30-day manufacturer warranties, with arduous repair/exchange requirements, and it's the retailer that offers an "extended warranty."
Here, we have the next datapoint in the series, giving product away for free! But only if you pick up the expensive "warranty."
The very fact that hardware manufacturers no longer stand behind their product means they now *anticipate* a high failure rate, which indicates they no longer design with reliability in mind. Gadgets have become disposable crap. Quality is no longer assured, it's avoided. Welcome the new revenue stream, "Quality Insurance," if you will.
*That*, my industrialist-named friend, is the "scam" nowadays. Manufacturers have shifted reliability and warranty concerns from their pocketbook to the consumers.
they should stop saying dumb things like "we are going to destroy the earth".
Care to share any quotes? The "environmentalists" that I know are scientists, trainied in biology, statistics, scientific method, etc. They do not make such claims.
"Activists," on the other hand, are prone to making exaggeration to push their agenda. Perhaps this is what you speak of?
world government enforced ban on combustion
But, who is making such statements? To me, this sounds like the fringe of the fringe. If you're spending all your time and energy fighting the fringe, you'll come away with false wins. They'll never succeed in their agenda, but you'll think you beat them, simply because you're opposing a piece of tissue paper!
most of the world moving to nuclear for all electricity generation
Really?? The U.S. has not approved any new nuclear plants in years. China is coal, gas and petroleum-driven. A handful of countries, at best, are strongly nuclear, but everybody's transportation is petro-base.
I would welcome nuclear plants in every neighborhood. Why don't the environmentalists typically agree?
The power plants currently running in the U.S. have aging kettles, are of antique design (half a century old!), and they have been amply proven to be on the edge of failure. For instance, Indian Point is currently up for recertification, yes? To disable Indian Point, it has been shown that all you need is to set fire to the single control wiring tunnel that connects the reactors with the control room. A meltdown will ensue, and the Northeast will be contaminated. That is why environmental scientists and activists alike are anti-nuke. Bad design == poor risk == danger, will robinson.
If they really want a solution to the problem they should be the biggest nuclear power advocates out there and would even be willing to live near nuclear waste disposal sites
I would not want to expose my children to radioactive isotopes, leached into the groundwater table via faulty design of waste barrsels. The Yucca Mountain debacle has shown that there is no safe long-term, or even short-term (given that a few centuries is "short" in the half life sense) solution for the kind of waste produced by today's running plants. We need a manhattan project sustainable fusion power, or even solar power, which finally begins to show promise.
After all the alternative is Armegeddon, right?
How you are leaping to these conclusions I do not know. Good luck with that world view.
wasn't aware that we had the power to destroy the earth
Ah yes, the deniers favorite redirection - that we're simply not able to "destroy the earth." Not such a cute canard anymore, that one.
For the record, it means "destroy our world," our world means those aspects of the Earth and its habitats that we human beings occupy, grow food in, take water from, excrete back into, etc. *That* world is the one folks are concerned about polluting, changing the chemistry of, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
In other news-
- Hell froze over
- The moon turned blue
- George Bush renounced violence as the pathway to peace
- Oh, and Microsoft "embraced" open-source software
In the press release, Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "This is going to hurt you a lot more than it will me."
This oughta be more fun than a barrel fulla monkeys. It ain't over till the fat lady sings ... just wait until other shoe drops... yadda yadda.
This is a big problem in many states, particular the Northeast, and especially New York State. NYS limits the selling back of surplus home-generated power to 0.1% of the state's total electrical power supply (note NYT article from 1996, though I heard a few months ago this cap was still in effect.)
This has the effect of keeping alternative power out of the grid, and limits one potential economic incentive for homeowners.
My dear Doctor, readability metrics boil down to personal tastes - subjective, in other words. While perhaps what you choose is even the preference of the majority of coders, it's not mine.
Advocating for braces and the negatory conjunctive "else" on the same line is not the same as "having more code per line," e.g. more than one statement per line.
In the responses to the OP, we've if/else on three lines-
if (...) {
...
...
...
...
} else {
}
-and six lines-
if (...)
{
}
else
{
}
Whilst reading six lines is not a problem for me, I prefer the three line variant, as it means less scrolling over slow ssh connections. Thank goodness we have automagic reformatting IDEs for those who won't accept other formats.
However -- it is a sorry state of affairs that on /. the replies to an enquiry about "coding standards" end up focusing on code formatting... I'd much rather have been debating architectural design patterns as the response to "coding standards."
Positions on design patterns, over the last few years, appear to have accreted into two clusters, those for and those against. I am one of those in the "for" camp, where learning the whys and wherefores of a particular set of data structures and classes, and behaviors arising from said structures, determine architecture.
Those "against" appear, to my reading, to be willing to forgo such learning and accept whatever baked-in design patterns the platform's designers chose.
Now, on the one hand, I accept that that's the case, as there is an observable stratification of programming ability existing in the world of software developers. One most go with one's strengths, and not everyone is suited to solving the issues architecture.
On the other hand, if a developer is so inclined, there is still plenty of latitude available when structuring applications.
Finally, there appears to have been a rise in the strongly anti-design patterns camp - the learning and applying thereof, that is. Most particularly, the anti-Java, pro-Ruby/RoR camp, where seemingly one must accept the baked-in design patterns chosen by the platform's architect, without variation.
A direct descendent of that camp, the adherents to the prototype.js and scriptaculous libraries, accept the original author's patterns to the point where performance deficits due to overuse of lambda functions are not only accepted, they are ignored.
That, IMNSHO, is sad comment on the state of software development. Productivity over performance is an awkward choice, to say the least.
"no NO!! Must not put elses near braces, my precious!" - Larry Wall
I, for one, have never understood Larry's War on Cuddled Elses. It's almost symptomatic of OCD.
Besides, how is the "else" getting "lost?" I mean, it's only two characters from the left margin! Saves lines too.
Maybe it's that I prefer reading source that is not so vertically spread out. The more code and logic on the screen, the better. Density factor.
You don't join the military for a life of luxury, you join to serve your nation. Luxury accommodations are out-of-scope. A poor example for those under your command, and a bad precedent for where the U.S. command is headed.
The question isn't jump-seats versus a luxury suite. First-class airliner seats, six to ten grand, and that they already have. Mil-spec, hardened laptops, five, six grand, standard equipment. Good quality food and drink, gronk.
Multi-million dollar traveling accommodations? Quit the government, join the corporate world, and earn your way up to rewards that come from generating profits, not being a tax-paid decision-maker. The senior officers I've admired most are the ones who drive their own cars, and don't try to lead the pampered life on the taxpayers' dime.
From what I know about the UK it isn't *cost*, like the GP claimed, it's availability of specialists and donors.
Oh really? Have you got anything to back that statement up?
You believe that doctors in countries with state-run medicine can say to patients and their families, "Look, this is getting expensive, and it looks like s/he is going to die in a few weeks anyway. Checkout is on down the hall on the left" ... etc.?
I can't imagine where you're getting your ideas from. Personal experience: my ex is a doctor from a country with "socialized medicine" ... from what I saw and heard during my time there (Germany), it doesn't work like that at all. End-of-life was one of the biggest issues she dealt with, because -get this- they saw patients through to the end. Preventative care and perhaps the much lower obesity rates probably have a little *something* to do with their lower per-capita medical costs..
Apparently, nobody RTFA? FTFA-
*If* you take action deemed to be an investigation. Sheesh, 700+ comments, mostly out of ignorance of the facts. See something illegal, don't report it, that's it. The police don't want tainted evidence. You could still report the bugger, though...
Apples vs oranges comparison, or in this case, text vs binary. HTML is an open, text-based representation of document layout and text content. Flash also, as one of its many features, provides document layout and text content. The difference is that HTML is easily parsed and understood by *many* consumers; Flash has mainly one consumer at the client, and SWF content is not very easily parsed and understood outside of Adobe's plugin.
So Flash is opaque, relative to HTML. Yes, yes, there are some parsers, and Adobe has very recently committed to working with search engine companies to assist them in developing parsers. But look how long it took! The fact that Adobe has to actually assist a company the size of Google is a byproduct of the SWF format's opacity (and proprietary-ness.)
It boils down to text versus image data -- Flash deals in both. A website built around Flash is going to look more opaque to a consumer that wants to digest text, such as a crawler. Browsers entirely outsource dealing with Flash to plugins.
W3C is an organization supporting a distributed information system, the World Wide Web. In this realm, machine-readable information is king, while arbitrary binary content, such as the image, audio, video and motion data found in a SWF, is not easily understood by machines. The SWF format is primarily suited for human consumption - our computers mostly are capable of only playing them back for humans to view. That has much less value in an open information system, next to text.
That may be why the W3C is slow to pursue technologies similar to Flash. On the other hand, visual technologies like SVG and VRML are expressed with machine-readable text-based markup. More easily machine-consumed, therefore more support from W3C.
If he had first-hand knowledge of the murder, and didn't report it, he's subject to accomplice charges. In some jurisdictions, being accomplice to a murder, or even near the scene, can get you charged with murder.
Case-in-point, Texas has one of the strictest accomplice laws on the books, known as the "law of parties." Kenneth Foster was charged with murder one and given the death sentence for unknowingly (according to his testimony) driving a man to a soon-to-become murder scene. The governor of Texas intervened and commutted his sentence to life in prison. Ridiculous case, if you ask me.
Erm, for the record they also cover applications created by MS Research, using MS technologies - e.g. one called MapCruncher, which runs/ran on IIS. See 5 Application Design and Flash Crowd Experiences. Another examples include SQL Server, but the article's pretty much technology agnostic, on the whole...
In all, a very interesting article. I didn't get much or any MS-centric chest-thumping from it.
Spanish, within the U.S., is spoken by at least ten percent of the population (around 32 million domestically, plus Spanish is spoken by approximately 330 million worldwide), so that's a good starting place.
As it's a Romance Language, Spanish is an excellent gateway to Italian (around 60 million world-wide), Portuguese (together with Brazilian Portuguese, around 170 million), and French (80 million), not to mention all the second cousins (Catalan, Romansh, etc.)
Since the OP appears to read/write English, there's also German, Dutch and a host of tangentially related languages (Swedish is semi-related, I think, going by the swedish subs sometimes included in DVDs and the like, might not be so difficult to learn. Plus, think of the dating opportunities while visiting...)
The case law for online anonymity is currently unsettled (yes, I know some of those are incompatible jurisdictions.)
As much as we don't like Lori Drew and her despicable, possibly criminal behavior, this isn't the way to go about it (from the posts so far, seems most here agree that way.)
No anonymity would lead to a boring internet... people would begin to resort (more) to (ab)using open proxies to get the job done.
Maybe it's time to jump on some of those new "sports."
I think we agree in principle, it's just not that black and white. Employers do have to show cause (violation of company policy etc., easy to do) and cover ass (document it.) At least the states I've worked in (blue.) I've been on both sides of the table, in two states, and I definitely agree it's expensive and hard to fight. Ratio of resources, company vs. ex-employee.
Employers have it over employees, no doubt; the reason most allegedly incompetent employees keep their jobs is, firing them and hiring a replacement is a big hassle. Paperwork, stress, loss of employee-stored knowledge, etc. Employers would fire more often if it were easier to find replacements, and maintain morale in the rest of employees. Balancing act.
I've seen high and low-level employees, both competent and incompetent, terminated by employers; they know it can be done with relatively low risk because the fired employee almost never fights back.
We have today's corporate culture and Bush's corporation-friendly NLRB to thank for that, only too happy to bend over backward to please the companies they know they'll soon go back to work for.
Assuming you meant "states" of the U.S., that is most definitely not true, though you would be a lot more accurate by restating that as "fired for any reason at all and have expensive legal recourse." You'll need a good and strong case to attract a labor lawyer willing to take on a very recently unemployed worker.
Then there's the matter of unions, which raise higher the requirements for being fired, bringing with it good and bad consequences for society.
AKA military culture:
Would corporate culture have evolved with all these parallels without the military as an obvious model? Who knows, maybe maybe not.
Are people as ignorant as you allowed to access even the internet? Surely you've noticed that the internet is populated even with people who have different national, language, cultural and educational backgrounds?
Or should everybody be speaking/writing only English and perfectly even to your specs, before they should be even allowed online?
ZOMG! A typo!! Must start flame war...
Set down your comic books and pay attention. If Rutan et al had claimed it went orbital, you'd have some validity to your complaint, but they don't. It's a "suborbital" ship, hence 110 km, that's their only claim.
As one of the few non-governmentally planned-and-built space ships in existence ever to make (and *survive!*) the flight to space (not once but twice), give it a rest.
Oh, right, it doesn't meet *your* specs for a proper space ship. Well then, drop us a line when *yours* is ready to go into orbit, yes?
You seem to be misreading my point, coward -- I use Windows every day, at work and home (where it runs under Parallels on my Macbook.) Lots of great software runs under it, the benefits are tangible and positive.
Vista, however, was marketed as a speedy, pretty *new* O/S. I'd expected a redesigned kernel to do better than it actually does.
I've been programming and using computers since teletype days (jr. high anyways.) That O/Sen require so much horsepower bothers me so. The Vista upgrade at work ran too slow on my core2duo Dell laptop, so I downgraded to XP, sadly. Yes, even OS X runs slower than I'd like. There's always Linux for compute-intensive jobs, however.
Rubbish. Most electronic gadgets come with limited 30-day manufacturer warranties, with arduous repair/exchange requirements, and it's the retailer that offers an "extended warranty."
Here, we have the next datapoint in the series, giving product away for free! But only if you pick up the expensive "warranty."
The very fact that hardware manufacturers no longer stand behind their product means they now *anticipate* a high failure rate, which indicates they no longer design with reliability in mind. Gadgets have become disposable crap. Quality is no longer assured, it's avoided. Welcome the new revenue stream, "Quality Insurance," if you will.
*That*, my industrialist-named friend, is the "scam" nowadays. Manufacturers have shifted reliability and warranty concerns from their pocketbook to the consumers.
The day of the bathtub curve is over and done.
But, which Vista? There are many, and the baseline versions don't run Aero. Got Aero?
lulz!@!!1! %^)
Care to share any quotes? The "environmentalists" that I know are scientists, trainied in biology, statistics, scientific method, etc. They do not make such claims.
"Activists," on the other hand, are prone to making exaggeration to push their agenda. Perhaps this is what you speak of?
But, who is making such statements? To me, this sounds like the fringe of the fringe. If you're spending all your time and energy fighting the fringe, you'll come away with false wins. They'll never succeed in their agenda, but you'll think you beat them, simply because you're opposing a piece of tissue paper!
Really?? The U.S. has not approved any new nuclear plants in years. China is coal, gas and petroleum-driven. A handful of countries, at best, are strongly nuclear, but everybody's transportation is petro-base.
The power plants currently running in the U.S. have aging kettles, are of antique design (half a century old!), and they have been amply proven to be on the edge of failure. For instance, Indian Point is currently up for recertification, yes? To disable Indian Point, it has been shown that all you need is to set fire to the single control wiring tunnel that connects the reactors with the control room. A meltdown will ensue, and the Northeast will be contaminated. That is why environmental scientists and activists alike are anti-nuke. Bad design == poor risk == danger, will robinson.
I would not want to expose my children to radioactive isotopes, leached into the groundwater table via faulty design of waste barrsels. The Yucca Mountain debacle has shown that there is no safe long-term, or even short-term (given that a few centuries is "short" in the half life sense) solution for the kind of waste produced by today's running plants. We need a manhattan project sustainable fusion power, or even solar power, which finally begins to show promise.
How you are leaping to these conclusions I do not know. Good luck with that world view.
Ah yes, the deniers favorite redirection - that we're simply not able to "destroy the earth." Not such a cute canard anymore, that one.
For the record, it means "destroy our world," our world means those aspects of the Earth and its habitats that we human beings occupy, grow food in, take water from, excrete back into, etc. *That* world is the one folks are concerned about polluting, changing the chemistry of, etc.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
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