It's funny... he's talking about systemic oppression and discrimination of the kind that the 1st world nations haven't seen in a hundred years... and idiots like you are comparing it to the icky habits of those uncouth NASCAR-loving Americans. I know that your large intestine is stopping you from seeing things in perspective, but c'mon, really...
Yep. I'm still amused by the fact that 5-6 days of spare laptop-CPU time I spent last year is now worth $500. Makes me wish I'd kept the client running longer.
Too boring. Who wants to pay to see a guy getting stuck with an IV, and then falling asleep? Just go volunteer at the local hospital!
No, what we need is a viewer-vote program:
"Welcome to the execution hot-line! This Fridays execution features 5-time killer and rapist Joe Bob from Somewhweres, Kentucky. If you would like to see Joe boiled alive in Crisco Brand cooking oil, press 1 now! If you would like to see him garroted with Sea Striker brand fishing line, press 2! To see a firing squad sporting this years line of assault rifles from Colt Firearms, press 3 now! For this weeks recommended pick featuring Lions from the San Diego Zoo, press 4."
The product placement fees alone would net you a nice bundle, and if you charge $5 per call you'd be raking in the dough like crazy!
Canada had TWO major nuclear incidents at Chalk River with the NRX reactors, in 1952 and 58.
Incident 1: A mere 10 years after the commissioning of the first-ever nuclear reactor, an experimental reactor design undergoing testing experiences a minor malfunction which is then exacerbated by mistakes and miscommunication amongst personnel attempting to fix the problem. The incident contaminates a few hundred liters of water, and the exposed personnel as a group experience a marginally smaller rate of cancer-death than the general population.
Incident 2: Six years later, a second experimental reactor overheats, and one of the fuel rods catches fire and then falls from the crane while being transported away from the reactor. The incident is contained by teams of scientists and technicians running around with buckets of sand. No deaths are attributed to the incident, and all affected personnel are exposed to radiation levels well within established safety guidelines. The reactor is brought back online less than a year later.
So... major incidents? If by "major" you mean that they caused damage to the reactors and cost a lot of money to clean up and repair, then yeah, they were major. However, considering that these were experimental reactors built in the nineteen-fifties, that the radiation was contained to the immediate area of the reactors themselves, and that not a single death - either at the time, or now, 50+ years later - can be attributed to these incidents.... no, they certainly don't qualify as "major nuclear incidents". Even three-mile-island resulted in more contamination, and that was a fairly minor incident which also resulted in zero deaths.
Meanwhile the other 8 reactors built and operated by Chalk River Labs have never had an incident, and the NPD - the first CANDU reactor - has been running since 1962 without a hiccup, and improvements on that design have made modern CANDU reactors more reliable, more powerful, and even safer. Likewise, AFAIK, no other CANDU reactor has ever had a major incident.
As a fellow Canadian, I am not so sure we can be that arrogant in our attitudes.
It's not arrogance - it's science!:p
Yes, we need to be careful, but that doesn't mean we can't honestly say that we have an excellent track-record, and that we build the safest reactors in the world.
Also, if Canada, supposedly one of the more open and free democracies in the world (whatever that is supposed to mean anymore) can downplay and/or suppress information about it's major nuclear accidents, how many other "incidents" do you think might have happened around the world and we've never heard about?
The information was suppressed at the time because the technology was new and most (if not all) of it was considered classified. The information is freely available today - you can even read about it on wikipedia! That there aren't a huge volume of books talking about the incidents is due mainly to the relatively minor nature of the incidents themselves; to claim that the information is being actively suppressed by the government, without providing some evidence, seems like sheer paranoia. As for the second question... major nuclear incidents aren't exactly easy to cover up. A totalitarian nation might be able to hide the details and downplay the effects, but they won't be able to hide the fact that something happened.
Sad thing is, compared to fossil fuels, what real choice do we have? Realistically, conservation, wind and solar (green power) sources just aren't cutting it. I'm not talking about home use, trying running a major manufacturing plant or oil refinery on wind or solar power.
Agreed. Which is why we should be pushing for the building of new reactors using the best available designs, inst
If the Japanese can't do this shit safely, then who can?
Canada. The CANDU is the safest and most versatile proven reactor design in the world. There are others which, in theory, could be even more foolproof, but none that have actually been used in a real-world scenario (eg. pebble-bed reactors look great on paper, but, IIRC, the few that have been built turned out to have all sorts of unanticipated problems).
While you're right for the most part, there are exceptions. Just yesterday I had to rewire a network drop that was causing some strange connection problems. Apparently, when it was first installed, the individual wires lined up the same way on both sides, but didn't follow either the T568A or T568B standard. Originally it was attached to a 10 megabit hub, and later a 100 megabit hub. It ran fine for years. However, when the hub was upgraded to a gigabit model, it started causing all kinds of problems. It still worked in a fashion, but the connection speed and web-page load times would fluctuate wildly, file transfers would fail randomly, etc. So there are certainly situations where a digital cable can work, but not work well.
And anybody who reads slashdot pays them absolutely no mind. Whatever the situation.
Most slashdot readers probably don't frequent those stores in the first place. I can't remember the last time I was in a Best Buy, and I know I've NEVER gone there to look for cables. I either deal with stores where they treat me like a competent adult, or I buy stuff online.
I once asked one of them how upscaling on dvd players work.
I think the proper answer there would have been "it doesn't".
The site works well for me; I've got my account prefs set to use the old Discussion System (D1).
Well, sure, I did the same, but it's ridiculous that we need to go and use an older version because some twits completely screwed up the implementation of the new-and-improved version. I LIKED the old dynamic layout. It was a heck of a lot more convinient than D1. But once they made these newest changes, it got so goddamn frustrating that I had no choice but to switch to D1. As a result, I end up missing a lot of the discussions, and spending less time on the site. If they had any common sense, they'd either roll back to the earlier version of the dynamic system, or fix the bugs that they introduced; instead they seem to be determined to break it even further.
You really don't have anything but hatred, do you? Nothing logical or coherent, no new evidence, no refutation of logic, just a bad temper and a loud mouth.
Nope, and nope. And, even if it happened to be true in 1% of cases, firefox still wins out in extensions alone. Chrome is ok for the average user, just like IE, but you won't catch me using either one of them except for compatibility-testing my sites.
Now, why exactly did you write that? What was your intention? What sort of information were you trying to convey?
That, unlike you, they seem to have figured out step 3 and gotten to step 4. So far you're still stuck on step 2.
So, while I can not claim with certainty, "them quitting and blowing the whistle made nuclear power more safe," you can not claim that the lack of nuclear accidents implies they were wrong.
I have no idea what they said, so how could I possibly claim they're wrong? That's where the whole "make a coherent point, you meandering motherfucker" part of my previous comment becomes relevant.
Gay slurs? Really? That's a new low, even for you.
Great example of argumentum ad hominem towards those three, trying to sully their name by implying they quite to make more money. You really are a class act.
I don't quite know why they did anything. But I do know that you don't know what an ad-hominem is.
You do realize that these three guys are one of the main reasons we haven't had anything worse happen?
Yes, and my tiger repellent is the reason there aren't any tigers in Canada. Teach me some more about logical fallacies, oh wise one!
Does the truth matter more, or less to you than being right does?
Ask me that after you've presented a coherent argument which challenges anything I've said. As long as you're just running around directing everyone to the wikipedia page of your three boyfriends, I don't see any reason to take you seriously.
So, were the three GE engineers who quit their jobs over the design of these reactor cores just running around screaming that the sky is falling?
The fact that they had to wait 34 years before they got their "told you so! look at all the people who could have sorta died. maybe." moment tends to suggest that they were, yes. Also, they certainly got step 4 down pat. Why bust your ass working as a nuclear engineer when you can be a "technical advisor" for Hollywood.
Dunno about LightDM or wayland, but Unity and Chromium are a massive step backwards rather than an improvement. Unity is buggy and a pain to use, and Chromium has shit for extensions and still won't work right with adblock. No thanks. You want a better experience, install XFCE and XDM with Compiz Fusion for the eye-candy. You want bloated garbage that makes your computer completely unsable, install the new default Ubuntu or Kubuntu distros.
Given that WL 'clean up' the documents before they leak them to the media, don't you think someone who'd leak the top secret information to the media, or the entire batch of uncleaned files... would be both dangerous and would ruin WL's credibility?
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The simple truth is, there are always multiple interpretation of things, all of which can be accurate.
..... there are two ways I can respond to this:
1. That is, by far, the stupidest thing I've read online this month, even if we include /b/.
2. Really? Name one example.
Which do you prefer?
It's funny ... he's talking about systemic oppression and discrimination of the kind that the 1st world nations haven't seen in a hundred years ... and idiots like you are comparing it to the icky habits of those uncouth NASCAR-loving Americans. I know that your large intestine is stopping you from seeing things in perspective, but c'mon, really ...
Yep. I'm still amused by the fact that 5-6 days of spare laptop-CPU time I spent last year is now worth $500. Makes me wish I'd kept the client running longer.
Pay-per-view executions.
Too boring. Who wants to pay to see a guy getting stuck with an IV, and then falling asleep? Just go volunteer at the local hospital!
No, what we need is a viewer-vote program:
"Welcome to the execution hot-line! This Fridays execution features 5-time killer and rapist Joe Bob from Somewhweres, Kentucky. If you would like to see Joe boiled alive in Crisco Brand cooking oil, press 1 now! If you would like to see him garroted with Sea Striker brand fishing line, press 2! To see a firing squad sporting this years line of assault rifles from Colt Firearms, press 3 now! For this weeks recommended pick featuring Lions from the San Diego Zoo, press 4."
The product placement fees alone would net you a nice bundle, and if you charge $5 per call you'd be raking in the dough like crazy!
Canada had TWO major nuclear incidents at Chalk River with the NRX reactors, in 1952 and 58.
Incident 1:
A mere 10 years after the commissioning of the first-ever nuclear reactor, an experimental reactor design undergoing testing experiences a minor malfunction which is then exacerbated by mistakes and miscommunication amongst personnel attempting to fix the problem. The incident contaminates a few hundred liters of water, and the exposed personnel as a group experience a marginally smaller rate of cancer-death than the general population.
Incident 2:
Six years later, a second experimental reactor overheats, and one of the fuel rods catches fire and then falls from the crane while being transported away from the reactor. The incident is contained by teams of scientists and technicians running around with buckets of sand. No deaths are attributed to the incident, and all affected personnel are exposed to radiation levels well within established safety guidelines. The reactor is brought back online less than a year later.
So ... major incidents? If by "major" you mean that they caused damage to the reactors and cost a lot of money to clean up and repair, then yeah, they were major. However, considering that these were experimental reactors built in the nineteen-fifties, that the radiation was contained to the immediate area of the reactors themselves, and that not a single death - either at the time, or now, 50+ years later - can be attributed to these incidents .... no, they certainly don't qualify as "major nuclear incidents". Even three-mile-island resulted in more contamination, and that was a fairly minor incident which also resulted in zero deaths.
Meanwhile the other 8 reactors built and operated by Chalk River Labs have never had an incident, and the NPD - the first CANDU reactor - has been running since 1962 without a hiccup, and improvements on that design have made modern CANDU reactors more reliable, more powerful, and even safer. Likewise, AFAIK, no other CANDU reactor has ever had a major incident.
As a fellow Canadian, I am not so sure we can be that arrogant in our attitudes.
It's not arrogance - it's science! :p
Yes, we need to be careful, but that doesn't mean we can't honestly say that we have an excellent track-record, and that we build the safest reactors in the world.
Also, if Canada, supposedly one of the more open and free democracies in the world (whatever that is supposed to mean anymore) can downplay and/or suppress information about it's major nuclear accidents, how many other "incidents" do you think might have happened around the world and we've never heard about?
The information was suppressed at the time because the technology was new and most (if not all) of it was considered classified. The information is freely available today - you can even read about it on wikipedia! That there aren't a huge volume of books talking about the incidents is due mainly to the relatively minor nature of the incidents themselves; to claim that the information is being actively suppressed by the government, without providing some evidence, seems like sheer paranoia. As for the second question ... major nuclear incidents aren't exactly easy to cover up. A totalitarian nation might be able to hide the details and downplay the effects, but they won't be able to hide the fact that something happened.
Sad thing is, compared to fossil fuels, what real choice do we have? Realistically, conservation, wind and solar (green power) sources just aren't cutting it. I'm not talking about home use, trying running a major manufacturing plant or oil refinery on wind or solar power.
Agreed. Which is why we should be pushing for the building of new reactors using the best available designs, inst
If the Japanese can't do this shit safely, then who can?
Canada. The CANDU is the safest and most versatile proven reactor design in the world. There are others which, in theory, could be even more foolproof, but none that have actually been used in a real-world scenario (eg. pebble-bed reactors look great on paper, but, IIRC, the few that have been built turned out to have all sorts of unanticipated problems).
I'd have had some Arabic observers around for oversight, and I would have let them watch the live video feeds and verify the identity of the body.
Movie night at the white house! Popcorn provided, bring your own baklava.
While you're right for the most part, there are exceptions. Just yesterday I had to rewire a network drop that was causing some strange connection problems. Apparently, when it was first installed, the individual wires lined up the same way on both sides, but didn't follow either the T568A or T568B standard. Originally it was attached to a 10 megabit hub, and later a 100 megabit hub. It ran fine for years. However, when the hub was upgraded to a gigabit model, it started causing all kinds of problems. It still worked in a fashion, but the connection speed and web-page load times would fluctuate wildly, file transfers would fail randomly, etc. So there are certainly situations where a digital cable can work, but not work well.
And anybody who reads slashdot pays them absolutely no mind. Whatever the situation.
Most slashdot readers probably don't frequent those stores in the first place. I can't remember the last time I was in a Best Buy, and I know I've NEVER gone there to look for cables. I either deal with stores where they treat me like a competent adult, or I buy stuff online.
I once asked one of them how upscaling on dvd players work.
I think the proper answer there would have been "it doesn't".
it is about the prestige... not the ROI.
Yeah, because inventing a FRIGGIN TRICORDER wouldn't be prestigious enough on it's own. Probably wouldn't even make the 5th page of the local paper.
The site works well for me; I've got my account prefs set to use the old Discussion System (D1).
Well, sure, I did the same, but it's ridiculous that we need to go and use an older version because some twits completely screwed up the implementation of the new-and-improved version. I LIKED the old dynamic layout. It was a heck of a lot more convinient than D1. But once they made these newest changes, it got so goddamn frustrating that I had no choice but to switch to D1. As a result, I end up missing a lot of the discussions, and spending less time on the site. If they had any common sense, they'd either roll back to the earlier version of the dynamic system, or fix the bugs that they introduced; instead they seem to be determined to break it even further.
Being angry at cutting costs and being angry at consumer price are not mutually exclusive.
Obviously: that was my point.
Now if people were rational, we wouldn't see such behavior, but as it stands ...
Here, let me quote the key portion before you jizz yourself:
"with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say"
By the way, I think your username is rather amusing when juxtaposed with this discussion.
You really don't have anything but hatred, do you? Nothing logical or coherent, no new evidence, no refutation of logic, just a bad temper and a loud mouth.
*facepalm*
I think we're done here.
Nope, and nope. And, even if it happened to be true in 1% of cases, firefox still wins out in extensions alone. Chrome is ok for the average user, just like IE, but you won't catch me using either one of them except for compatibility-testing my sites.
Now, why exactly did you write that? What was your intention? What sort of information were you trying to convey?
That, unlike you, they seem to have figured out step 3 and gotten to step 4. So far you're still stuck on step 2.
So, while I can not claim with certainty, "them quitting and blowing the whistle made nuclear power more safe," you can not claim that the lack of nuclear accidents implies they were wrong.
I have no idea what they said, so how could I possibly claim they're wrong? That's where the whole "make a coherent point, you meandering motherfucker" part of my previous comment becomes relevant.
Gay slurs? Really? That's a new low, even for you.
Also, stop being such a pussy.
Great example of argumentum ad hominem towards those three, trying to sully their name by implying they quite to make more money. You really are a class act.
I don't quite know why they did anything. But I do know that you don't know what an ad-hominem is.
You do realize that these three guys are one of the main reasons we haven't had anything worse happen?
Yes, and my tiger repellent is the reason there aren't any tigers in Canada. Teach me some more about logical fallacies, oh wise one!
Does the truth matter more, or less to you than being right does?
Ask me that after you've presented a coherent argument which challenges anything I've said. As long as you're just running around directing everyone to the wikipedia page of your three boyfriends, I don't see any reason to take you seriously.
So, were the three GE engineers who quit their jobs over the design of these reactor cores just running around screaming that the sky is falling?
The fact that they had to wait 34 years before they got their "told you so! look at all the people who could have sorta died. maybe." moment tends to suggest that they were, yes. Also, they certainly got step 4 down pat. Why bust your ass working as a nuclear engineer when you can be a "technical advisor" for Hollywood.
I find the anti-BP argument usually boils down to something along the lines of:
"FUCK YOU BP for trying to cut costs! Assholes! Oh, and FUCK YOU for charging me so much at the gas pump! Douchebags!"
Damned if they do, damned if they don't ....
1. Run around screaming that the sky is falling.
2. Wait until a satellite deorbits.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Dunno about LightDM or wayland, but Unity and Chromium are a massive step backwards rather than an improvement. Unity is buggy and a pain to use, and Chromium has shit for extensions and still won't work right with adblock. No thanks. You want a better experience, install XFCE and XDM with Compiz Fusion for the eye-candy. You want bloated garbage that makes your computer completely unsable, install the new default Ubuntu or Kubuntu distros.
Nice! I've never seen ANYONE pull the white-mans-guilt card so smoothly before. Be honest: you've been practicing, haven't you?
c6gunner, why do you have such a hard-on for the US military?
Hazel, why do you support terrorism?
If you destabilise a country then its residents are going to collect compensation.
Yeah, I mean, just look at all the compensation that Japan and Germany collected after WW2! All those Japanese pirates were a HUGE problem.
Actually, the REALLY funny part about what you just said is that you apparently think Somalia was stable at some point!
Next Question!
Given that WL 'clean up' the documents before they leak them to the media, don't you think someone who'd leak the top secret information to the media, or the entire batch of uncleaned files... would be both dangerous and would ruin WL's credibility?
Someone like, say .... Bradley Manning?