If you're paying attention to Pope Francis and his interviews, you are seeing what happens when Christ's message of grace, mercy, and love is preached, as the Pope is doing. Even his own church leadership is challenged by this.
God desires faith, and obedience not sacrifice. But obedience begins in the heart. Christ taught the faith and love were the new Law. All else is religion, and not necessary for salvation.
And yes, from faith and love come works. I also am concerned as to how faith and love lead you to protest at strangers' funerals and wish harm to others.
To be fair, He did tell us to stay out of the sewage outlet as much as possible, and to NOT play in it. If you don't read the operator's manual, don't blame the manufacturer for the results.
Nuclear is an elegant solution to base demand. Not 100% available, but more so than anything except hydro.
Wind is suited to peak or on-demand generation since wind is not 100% reliable. Fossil fueled plants can be base demand generators, but costs often force them into peak suppliers.
There were design issues and expensive problems. Shouldwould.
And like anything, there is often an economic reason to close a nuclear plant. Even though your old beater car is paid for, sometimes, it is not worth fixing.
I lived about 45 miles from the plant at the time. You are correct. NIMBY and the Greens had been after Maine Yankee for decades, but the plant was failing to meet spec, and not worth the fixes.
Sorry your dad lost his job. Lots of good people lived and worked there, and did their very best.
Neither of which are in the U.S., and both involving very very bad decisions that are unlikely to be made in the U.S.
Not impossible, just very unlikely. Fukushima, in particular, seems to be a failure of management. Chernobyl seems to be a failure in design first, which is an oversimplification. Par for the course here.
The plant was found to have significant safety problems, and Maine Yankee chose to close it rather than fix it. Little things, like the control room cables crossing outside the room, etc. They had a good record for a long time, but didn't keep the plant up to spec.
Last I heard, there was an effort to put in a gasification plant and generator to take advantage of the distribution lines. Town didn't like the idea.
There is work on a "1,000 MW underground hydro pumped storage generation facility located 2,200 feet underground adjacent to the decommissioned Maine Yankee site in Wiscasset, Maine", but that's in permitting and due in 2015 maybe.
"The Japanese political system is set up sort of like the US system in that the rural prefectures have a disproportionate amount of influence in the Diet."
Yeah, that's cute. I see the results of disproportionate rural representation in the U.S. all the time. Oh, wait, I don't.
To pile on further, hydro was perhaps the kiss of death for Atlantic Salmon, along with commercial fishing and pollution.
Polluted rivers in Maine were cleaned up during the 80s-90s-00s. Commercial fishing continues. Farming replaces some of that, but escapees breed with with salmon and leave us with salmon that don;'t migrate to spawn.
Hydro ladders and fishways fail. The Penobscot river is losing its hydro dams and having others modified. Other rivers are either off limits to hydro, or the choice is made to let the salmon population fail there.
I have fished for Atlantic salmon for the last time in the US., I know. Will any other generation have that opportunity?
We need not include impoundment in this discussion. Imagine a nuclear plant requiring a few square miles of land to be functional.
Hydro is not without consequences. Just like Nuclear, it needs to be sited correctly, or not at all.
Since Afghanistan's literacy rate was 43.1% among men in 2000, I wonder if they could care much at all.
And if you're wondering why I don't mention the literacy rate among women, you know so little about Afghanistan that you should be reading XKCD instead, where your ignorance is anticipated.
No, the Afghans don't much care about the Internet. Those who do are either the problem, or will be disposed of if the Taliban regain control.
Today, airlines enjoy a limited insurance exposure - civil suit is necessary to go past that.
Change the security rules to make the airlines responsible, and I expect their premiums to go up, since risk shifted from the federal government to the airlines individually.
But hey, the insurers could look the other way. No, they won't, but we can hope.
heck no, how you look or how you dress or talk is not enough to prevent you from flying.
I'm just confused as to how I, having lived in the US all my life saver a short stint in the military overseas, with obvious and limited association with foreign nationals, am treated as an equal threat as someone from a nation that openly declares their intentiion to attack us.
Wait, the problem isn't that we are profling now. the problem is that we were awakend to these nations' intentions, and so now we must practice security theater against everyone, for we are a free nation, and all are equally suspect.
Or some drivel like that. All the talk about skin and ethnicity is off topic.
You don't think the English can profile the Irish? Or the Scots? Even if they say not a word?
I can pull off being Native American Indian or Indian National fairly convincingly, even without a tan.
I'm guessing the TSA pulls your brother out of line for some other reason - not necessarily unrelated to profiling, but travel history or association. I fly no more than 2 segments a year, and sometimes not at all in a year, so I have no travel hustory to be scrutinized.And so far I've avoided annoying TSA agents, so they haven't yet noticed me sufficiently to list me.
If flight attendants ever get access to the DLF list, I am, however, in trouble. Those fascists sometimes get under my skin.
As soon as you make this an insurance problem (calculating and recovering loss) you change the pricing formulas for air travel. It becomes either unprofitable or unaffordable.
How do you deal with foreign flights? Who pays then?
Actuaries can neatly estimate the loss of life? You haven't actually done that, have you? How would you start estimating the value of an 8-year-old's life? If he was the star pitcher on his Little League team? Or had a prodigal aptitude in robotics? Or was the local playground bully? Which set of parents would value their child less?
No, insurance doesn't fix a darned thing. It didn't fix much for the 9/11 attacks. victims are just as dead.
"Of course, profiling is a great way to appease people who have a problem with brown-skinned people, Arabic-speaking people, or whatever group we decide we hate next."
It seems to me that the problem is the brown-skinned people, Arabic-speaking people, or whatever group that hates us. We hate them because they acted on their hate. They hate that too.
And they moved here a long time ago. I played soccer one summer with students from Egypt, Iran, Norway, Nigeria, Columbia, and England. We got along fabulously well. I profiled them based on their habits on the field, not their habits in the toilet or over a stove, and certainly not by the color of their skin. And neither did the mix of local high-school and college students, and alleged adults...
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If you're paying attention to Pope Francis and his interviews, you are seeing what happens when Christ's message of grace, mercy, and love is preached, as the Pope is doing. Even his own church leadership is challenged by this.
God desires faith, and obedience not sacrifice. But obedience begins in the heart. Christ taught the faith and love were the new Law. All else is religion, and not necessary for salvation.
And yes, from faith and love come works. I also am concerned as to how faith and love lead you to protest at strangers' funerals and wish harm to others.
To be fair, He did tell us to stay out of the sewage outlet as much as possible, and to NOT play in it. If you don't read the operator's manual, don't blame the manufacturer for the results.
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Nuclear is an elegant solution to base demand. Not 100% available, but more so than anything except hydro.
Wind is suited to peak or on-demand generation since wind is not 100% reliable. Fossil fueled plants can be base demand generators, but costs often force them into peak suppliers.
Even tidal projects are not full-time generators.
There were design issues and expensive problems. Shouldwould.
And like anything, there is often an economic reason to close a nuclear plant. Even though your old beater car is paid for, sometimes, it is not worth fixing.
Lobstering in Maine is in trouble due to oversupply. Prices are down. Management of the stock has resulted in good supply.
There is also technology in Maine. And light manufacturing, though the shoe industry is a wreck. Living out in the country is a challenge, though.
I lived about 45 miles from the plant at the time. You are correct. NIMBY and the Greens had been after Maine Yankee for decades, but the plant was failing to meet spec, and not worth the fixes.
Sorry your dad lost his job. Lots of good people lived and worked there, and did their very best.
Neither of which are in the U.S., and both involving very very bad decisions that are unlikely to be made in the U.S.
Not impossible, just very unlikely. Fukushima, in particular, seems to be a failure of management. Chernobyl seems to be a failure in design first, which is an oversimplification. Par for the course here.
There were other reasons to close it.
The plant was found to have significant safety problems, and Maine Yankee chose to close it rather than fix it. Little things, like the control room cables crossing outside the room, etc. They had a good record for a long time, but didn't keep the plant up to spec.
Last I heard, there was an effort to put in a gasification plant and generator to take advantage of the distribution lines. Town didn't like the idea.
There is work on a "1,000 MW underground hydro pumped storage generation facility located 2,200 feet underground adjacent to the decommissioned Maine Yankee site in Wiscasset, Maine", but that's in permitting and due in 2015 maybe.
"The Japanese political system is set up sort of like the US system in that the rural prefectures have a disproportionate amount of influence in the Diet."
Yeah, that's cute. I see the results of disproportionate rural representation in the U.S. all the time. Oh, wait, I don't.
To pile on further, hydro was perhaps the kiss of death for Atlantic Salmon, along with commercial fishing and pollution.
Polluted rivers in Maine were cleaned up during the 80s-90s-00s. Commercial fishing continues. Farming replaces some of that, but escapees breed with with salmon and leave us with salmon that don;'t migrate to spawn.
Hydro ladders and fishways fail. The Penobscot river is losing its hydro dams and having others modified. Other rivers are either off limits to hydro, or the choice is made to let the salmon population fail there.
I have fished for Atlantic salmon for the last time in the US., I know. Will any other generation have that opportunity?
We need not include impoundment in this discussion. Imagine a nuclear plant requiring a few square miles of land to be functional.
Hydro is not without consequences. Just like Nuclear, it needs to be sited correctly, or not at all.
Since Afghanistan's literacy rate was 43.1% among men in 2000, I wonder if they could care much at all.
And if you're wondering why I don't mention the literacy rate among women, you know so little about Afghanistan that you should be reading XKCD instead, where your ignorance is anticipated.
No, the Afghans don't much care about the Internet. Those who do are either the problem, or will be disposed of if the Taliban regain control.
Today, airlines enjoy a limited insurance exposure - civil suit is necessary to go past that.
Change the security rules to make the airlines responsible, and I expect their premiums to go up, since risk shifted from the federal government to the airlines individually.
But hey, the insurers could look the other way. No, they won't, but we can hope.
heck no, how you look or how you dress or talk is not enough to prevent you from flying.
I'm just confused as to how I, having lived in the US all my life saver a short stint in the military overseas, with obvious and limited association with foreign nationals, am treated as an equal threat as someone from a nation that openly declares their intentiion to attack us.
Wait, the problem isn't that we are profling now. the problem is that we were awakend to these nations' intentions, and so now we must practice security theater against everyone, for we are a free nation, and all are equally suspect.
Or some drivel like that. All the talk about skin and ethnicity is off topic.
Or sell clandestine lobsters... Or stolen maple syrup.
You don't think the English can profile the Irish? Or the Scots? Even if they say not a word?
I can pull off being Native American Indian or Indian National fairly convincingly, even without a tan.
I'm guessing the TSA pulls your brother out of line for some other reason - not necessarily unrelated to profiling, but travel history or association. I fly no more than 2 segments a year, and sometimes not at all in a year, so I have no travel hustory to be scrutinized.And so far I've avoided annoying TSA agents, so they haven't yet noticed me sufficiently to list me.
If flight attendants ever get access to the DLF list, I am, however, in trouble. Those fascists sometimes get under my skin.
Hey, I was using your example. I'd tout meant to be more granular, go for it.
As soon as you make this an insurance problem (calculating and recovering loss) you change the pricing formulas for air travel. It becomes either unprofitable or unaffordable.
How do you deal with foreign flights? Who pays then?
Actuaries can neatly estimate the loss of life? You haven't actually done that, have you? How would you start estimating the value of an 8-year-old's life? If he was the star pitcher on his Little League team? Or had a prodigal aptitude in robotics? Or was the local playground bully? Which set of parents would value their child less?
No, insurance doesn't fix a darned thing. It didn't fix much for the 9/11 attacks. victims are just as dead.
"Of course, profiling is a great way to appease people who have a problem with brown-skinned people, Arabic-speaking people, or whatever group we decide we hate next."
It seems to me that the problem is the brown-skinned people, Arabic-speaking people, or whatever group that hates us. We hate them because they acted on their hate. They hate that too.
And they moved here a long time ago. I played soccer one summer with students from Egypt, Iran, Norway, Nigeria, Columbia, and England. We got along fabulously well. I profiled them based on their habits on the field, not their habits in the toilet or over a stove, and certainly not by the color of their skin. And neither did the mix of local high-school and college students, and alleged adults...
Really? I ask, having lived at the time about 4 miles from the motel where the Boston crew spent the night before, and having seen their photos.
I paid attention to that part of it.
So the answer is to profile everybody. And to do it badly, I submit.
Yep. Gummint.
So you're going to bully jd2112 into changing their sig? Are you even reading this crap?
You need a better theatre.
Me , for one. The popcorn is better, the screen is bigger & better, the sound ditto.
You asked.