The U232 makes it deadly to handle therefore extremely difficult and unlikely to use for machining into something usable as a weapon. I'd never say someone couldn't but there are likely easier ways of getting U. Anyway, If you have a LFTR reactor, you already have a bunch of U in the core. The U232 is bred in the blanket later of a LFTR reactor, filtered out through fluorination and pumped back into the core for fuel.
A Th reactor can cook above delayed critical (obviously, otherwise how does it power up?
A LFTR starts with a core of U (I believe it is U235) in the Berylium Fluoride - That is what powers it. The Thorium (in the blanket layer) is only there to breed more U (U232), slow neutrons, carry away heat. LFTR's are still reactors powered by U, the cool thing is 1. breeding more U, 2. operates at atmospheric pressures, 3. uses Berylium Fluoride for cooling & heat transfer and therefore does not need water, 4. They don't need massive containment vessels for steam so they are also much smaller. No water means no pressure build up (steam) and no hydrogen being split from H2O (big boom & fire).
Somewhere in the decay chain, Pu can/is created but in very minute quantities, not enough for weaponization and I believe it gets consumed as well in the long run. I haven't read up on LFTR for a while so I forget where the Pu goes. I read/saw somewhere the amount that was generated and my feeble memory wants to believe it was a few milligrams per year in an ocean of molten Beryllium Fluoride.
If all you have to do is increasing profits, it is then perfectly OK to release dangerous products, abuse your employees as much as possible under applicable legislation (and then maybe a bit more), harm the environment with your production methods, or risk people's life savings in absurd investment schemas, among many other horrors of modern life.
Doing so is NOT in the best interest of the shareholders because it brings lawsuits and negative attention to the company which reduces sales and therefore dividends to the shareholders.
Idiots in management may believe such behaviour is good to achieve their quarterly targets but it screws the company longterm.
So those people will eventually die off because they're unwilling to receive the help they'll need, while those of us that would be happy to use a lab-grown replacement heart/kidney/left-leg with no possible chance of tissue rejection would continue the human race...
That would be nice, but chances are quite good that they've procreated before they would need a replacement part that they can't get.
will heat up like the center of the sun, whir like a 747, weigh a metric ton and never be moved from the desk upon which it will sit, consume as much power as a low end desktop, and work for about 6 months to 1 year until thermal stress takes hold and it becomes worthless for any use. much like jumbo shrimp, conservative republican, and tactical nuclear weapon, this "gaming laptop" capable of running crysis for all of 20 minutes before thermaling out, is an oxymoron.
You have perfectly described the Alienware 7700m I was given. 12.5lbs of HOT underperforming frustration.
I did take it with me though, it didn't sit on the desk 24/7. I liked sneaking a round of UT99 or BF1942/DC at lunch. It was much more convenient for lan parties, too.
There is a lot of Telus hating going on in this thread. I've used Telus Mobility since November 2001 in Alberta. I'm not exactly happy with the cost but the service for me has been excellent - voice and data coverage as well as data tech support and customer service. For a little more than double what a landline costs, my wife and I are completely mobile.
Because of their quality in comparison to the competition, I have had no reservations about signing long term contracts to get a free or discounted phone (I know i'm paying for it in the end, i may as well get a tech refresh). Unfortunately, I'm hard on phones but they have been willing to renew my contract early (twice now) for a discount on a pda phone. It helps me out because I don't need to pay the full price up front. I was going to continue service longterm with them anyway.
Whenever I call their service line (once or twice per year) The Telus representatives are always helpful and proactive to see if I'm getting the best bang for my buck compared to useage and rate plan.
Before Telus I tried Cantel (now Rogers) in Manitoba and Alberta and the phone service was horrible. Constant dropped calls and poor signal with any phone. As soon as I switched to Telus those problems went away. Rogers could be better now but Telus works for me.
I do not agree with this current stunt they are pulling on customers - they need a slap from the CRTC for bait & switch.
I don't know if there is a limit, but you can re-save the message by pressing "9" so it isn't erased. It still consumes 1/3 slots in your vm quota though.
The less we pump/dump into our lakes/rivers, the better. However, it is phosphates that appear to be the culprit, not nitrates. Unfortunately I can't respond to all the "omfg nitrates" posts so since yours is the first I saw that specificially mentions the Nitrates I'll plunk this in here:
In a famous 1974 aerial photograph published by the journal Science, two portions of their experimental Lake 226 were highlighted. One side was treated with carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous. The other was treated with just carbon and nitrogen.
The side receiving phosphorous rapidly developed a huge bloom of blue-green algae. The side not receiving phosphorous remained in near-pristine condition.
Plase, slashdotters weigh in, because I've missed something here.
Would you like to buy a vowel? An 'e'?
I'll post something useful later when I get home to dig through my electronics box/books. I have some "From the ground up" stuff - theory and then some simple projects (burglar alarm, strobe light, colour organ)
First: Thank you Mr. Geist for being a vocal representative for us.
Several months ago there was an amendment to our copyright legislation (bill C-59) that made the "camcording" a criminal act....mostly due to the "rampant piracy" [insert blame canada here] reported by us corporations.
I couldn't find a date when that legislation was passed (introduced June 1, 2007 - does that mean passed as well?) but since then, only TWO people have been charged and the second was just a couple days ago.
Thank you MPAA (and canadian derivatives) for wasting my fucking tax dollars to prop up your business model. It's doing a swell job catching all the bad camcords going to the U.S.
Thank you Bev Oda and Maxime Bernier for representing foreign interests. traitors.
When I was younger, we made it at home from real milk, sugar and a bit of flavoring agent in a hand-turned ice-cream maker and it was yuumm. Very different from the goo they sell today
You could always refer to the recent Ask Slashdot on this very topic.
The Linksys NSLU2 is a little slow & not very intuitive but I just replaced my home file server (Athlong 1.4Ghz, 512MB, yaddahaddah) with one of these.
There is a big fanbase for this little device and 3rd party firmware.
Insert - I've never had a use for "write over mode." Has anyone?
Shift+Insert Pastes from the keyboard (Windows). If you are using console apps or telnet/ssh to somewhere, you can Shift+Ins to paste commands/text because the Ctrl+v paste sends a control character and is interpreted differently.
Once in a long long long while, overwrite mode is useful. I have an MS split ergo keyboard @ home that doesn't have an Ins button - pisses me off because that's where i do most of my command line a & telnet/ssh interaction.
I'm @work so I can't search it for you but youtube has a video of a smartcar @ highspeed vs a cement barrier. To me it looked like it survived quite well. IANACTSE (I am not a crash test safety expert)
Don't forget the stroke of luck it takes to make it to full term anyway without self aborting.
The only thing I have to thank religion for (specificially Catholicism) is that it brainwashed my 16yr old birth mother and her parents in the 70's. I'm sure that is the only reason I'm alive today for which I am extremely grateful. I pretty much won the lottery there and when I got my adoptive parents.
Myself, I'm pro-choice but detest this particular practice - It could have happend to me! Of course there wouldn't be any cells to "know" this but now that I have the hindsight it's very inspiring to have been allowed to continue.
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A Th reactor can cook above delayed critical (obviously, otherwise how does it power up?
A LFTR starts with a core of U (I believe it is U235) in the Berylium Fluoride - That is what powers it. The Thorium (in the blanket layer) is only there to breed more U (U232), slow neutrons, carry away heat. LFTR's are still reactors powered by U, the cool thing is 1. breeding more U, 2. operates at atmospheric pressures, 3. uses Berylium Fluoride for cooling & heat transfer and therefore does not need water, 4. They don't need massive containment vessels for steam so they are also much smaller. No water means no pressure build up (steam) and no hydrogen being split from H2O (big boom & fire).
Somewhere in the decay chain, Pu can/is created but in very minute quantities, not enough for weaponization and I believe it gets consumed as well in the long run. I haven't read up on LFTR for a while so I forget where the Pu goes. I read/saw somewhere the amount that was generated and my feeble memory wants to believe it was a few milligrams per year in an ocean of molten Beryllium Fluoride.
Doing so is NOT in the best interest of the shareholders because it brings lawsuits and negative attention to the company which reduces sales and therefore dividends to the shareholders.
Idiots in management may believe such behaviour is good to achieve their quarterly targets but it screws the company longterm.
That would be nice, but chances are quite good that they've procreated before they would need a replacement part that they can't get.
Why is whatcouldpossiblygowrong laser and sharks not a permanent tag on every article?
Me: "My system is overheating (127C!!!!) when I play BF1942/DC, specificially the vid card"
Alienware Support tech: "Well, don't play that game."
That is not true. I had an Alienware 7700m. Upgraded the vidcard from a Geforce 6800 GO to a Geforce 7900 GO.
You don't "require" a new vid card every few months. Game tech(bloat) is fast but not THAT fast.
You have perfectly described the Alienware 7700m I was given. 12.5lbs of HOT underperforming frustration.
I did take it with me though, it didn't sit on the desk 24/7. I liked sneaking a round of UT99 or BF1942/DC at lunch. It was much more convenient for lan parties, too.
Because of their quality in comparison to the competition, I have had no reservations about signing long term contracts to get a free or discounted phone (I know i'm paying for it in the end, i may as well get a tech refresh). Unfortunately, I'm hard on phones but they have been willing to renew my contract early (twice now) for a discount on a pda phone. It helps me out because I don't need to pay the full price up front. I was going to continue service longterm with them anyway.
Whenever I call their service line (once or twice per year) The Telus representatives are always helpful and proactive to see if I'm getting the best bang for my buck compared to useage and rate plan.
Before Telus I tried Cantel (now Rogers) in Manitoba and Alberta and the phone service was horrible. Constant dropped calls and poor signal with any phone. As soon as I switched to Telus those problems went away. Rogers could be better now but Telus works for me.
I do not agree with this current stunt they are pulling on customers - they need a slap from the CRTC for bait & switch.
I don't know if there is a limit, but you can re-save the message by pressing "9" so it isn't erased. It still consumes 1/3 slots in your vm quota though.
Recently on slashdot (July 22, 2008):
Scientists Solve Riddle of Toxic Algae Blooms http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1546259
Link to TFA http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=381d4ce5-89a2-4901-864e-34239419bf67
yeah - for base 10 numeric systems (as gp said: for how many fingers we have)
it's been past double digit for quite a while now in base 2!! How come no party?
Oh...that's right, because it still has quite a ways to go for double digit status in base 16
Would you like to buy a vowel? An 'e'?
I'll post something useful later when I get home to dig through my electronics box/books. I have some "From the ground up" stuff - theory and then some simple projects (burglar alarm, strobe light, colour organ)
For some adult projects try this book: Build Your Own Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun & Other Working Space-Age Projects
The author also has other books and if you search for them on Amazon as well it'll likely have other book recomendations.
And I was a formula bottle baby :(
yeah, because apples & cherries & oranges absolutely flourish in 6 feet of snow when the sun rises at 9AM and sets by 5PM...they TOTALLY love that.
Where I'm from we only have 2 seasons: winter, and that brief period of bad snowmobiling.
selfish hippy douche nozzles. Just because they can write, doesn't make them right.
Damn global warming!
No, to keep them out ;) potato potahtoh.
for SpaceShipXP Service Pack 4.
Several months ago there was an amendment to our copyright legislation (bill C-59) that made the "camcording" a criminal act....mostly due to the "rampant piracy" [insert blame canada here] reported by us corporations.
I couldn't find a date when that legislation was passed (introduced June 1, 2007 - does that mean passed as well?) but since then, only TWO people have been charged and the second was just a couple days ago.
Thank you MPAA (and canadian derivatives) for wasting my fucking tax dollars to prop up your business model. It's doing a swell job catching all the bad camcords going to the U.S.
Thank you Bev Oda and Maxime Bernier for representing foreign interests. traitors.
The previous Michael Geist /. link:
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/1150200
Same goes for the shills that sell me software/music. I have no recourse for refund when it doesn't work with my system or is an utter pile of crap.
Shall I get off your lawn? ;)
The Linksys NSLU2 is a little slow & not very intuitive but I just replaced my home file server (Athlong 1.4Ghz, 512MB, yaddahaddah) with one of these. There is a big fanbase for this little device and 3rd party firmware.
Once in a long long long while, overwrite mode is useful. I have an MS split ergo keyboard @ home that doesn't have an Ins button - pisses me off because that's where i do most of my command line a & telnet/ssh interaction.
I'm @work so I can't search it for you but youtube has a video of a smartcar @ highspeed vs a cement barrier. To me it looked like it survived quite well. IANACTSE (I am not a crash test safety expert)
The only thing I have to thank religion for (specificially Catholicism) is that it brainwashed my 16yr old birth mother and her parents in the 70's. I'm sure that is the only reason I'm alive today for which I am extremely grateful. I pretty much won the lottery there and when I got my adoptive parents.
Myself, I'm pro-choice but detest this particular practice - It could have happend to me! Of course there wouldn't be any cells to "know" this but now that I have the hindsight it's very inspiring to have been allowed to continue.