I'm guessing they're actually doing the same thing that is usually done in popular science when talking about "cocaine in rivers". They're talking about benzoylecgonine, which is the metabolic end product of cocaine in human metabolism.
So you're saying that the researchers didn't give cocaine to the eels; rather, they snorted all the cocaine, then pissed into an aquarium full of eels?
Nitpicking a past study which nobody has the guts to attempt to properly recreate (or improve upon.) Many real actual atrocities which rhyme with the experiment is all we need to realize that environmental conditions GREATLY influence human behavior.
Um...let me try different words. The reason nobody has the "guts" to recreate this experiment, or use it as a foundation are as follows: https://www.psychologytoday.co...
1. The study was fake. 2. The control group was fake. 3. The students were paid actors. 4. They were COACHED on expected behavior during the study. 5. The paid actors then:
-Psychologically abused the inmates as they were coached and encouraged to do.
-Rebelled / Rioted as the news told them prisoners do.
After 6 days, the "game" wasn't fun for the prisoners anymore, they were tired of the psychological abuse, and Zimbardo ended the study, claiming to have proven something.
All he proved is that 18-22 year old psychology students getting paid $15 a day in 1970 will do what they're told to do. At least for 6 days.
Social experiments are difficult to perform with scientific rigor because they use people. It is generally either impossible or impractical to isolate people from outside influences and from unknown issues that bias the experiment. And thus it's difficult to prove anything. For this reason, physical scientists look down upon social science as "soft science".
Social experiments are difficult to perform with scientific rigor because they are rarely conducted by scientists, let alone scientists using the scientific method.
Take the landmark Zimbardo study here. This study came about because of the ongoing prison riots - He coached the guards on how to behave and mistreat the prisoners before the experiment started, "reinforcing" the expected behavior. The "prisoners" behaved as they thought they were expected to behave, based on what they saw on the news: Prison riots.
Imagine if Zimbardo had coached the guards differently: We're testing to see if prison guards can treat prisoners gently and humanely.
That study would have ended reinforcing his message. All of these were 18-22 year old kids, doing as they were told, behaving in accordance with the expectations laid out for them in this fake science.
Yeah, yeah how mature, blame the Congress... That incident was entirely caused by an engineering oversight. Engineers in US failed to heed expertise of international atomic industry and used alloys that were known to have issues with chemical and radioactive induced corrosion. That change that they were forced to do in 2010s was already implemented in France, Germany and Russia in early 2000s.
That's not what happened. I didn't go into microscopic detail because it wasn't particularly relevant, but since you're bringing scurrilous claims, let me expound:
-Manufacturing components for the AP1000 reactor caused the support industry to design larger components than had ever been used before, which in turn called for forged barstock of incredible size. -In this particular case, (working from memory) 6 foot diameter, hollowed out SA316 Stainless Steel shells to be used as bonnets for massive main steam safety valves (MSSV)s. -ASME published a revision to the document defining SA316SS to note that that cold rolled SA316 couldn't be more than "X" in diameter due to potential tensile weakness in the center 6" of the material. -This shouldn't have been relevant, because the giant bar stock in use was having the center 6" (12" actually) machined out anyway - neither form, fit, nor function were being affected. -However, the congress-approved AP1000 design for Vogtle and Sumner called for ASME-defined SA316 to be used in this capacity....and ASME just changed the definition of SA316, causing four problems:
1. Millions upon millions of dollars of material just got scrapped.
2. An industry standard was just overturned by a body of people not in the best position to make decisions about those standards.
3. The change requires a higher grade of material to be used in the design, which theoretically isn't a problem...
4. But since the design, including the use of SA316SS for the MSSV Bonnets had been Congressionally approved, the design couldn't be altered without Congressional approval.
That's how it ended up delayed for two years over a tiny issue. "Fine, we can't use SA316, despite the ASME ruling being ridiculous since it isn't relevant to the form, fit or function of our application...we'll use a better grade." Except Westinghouse couldn't approve changing the material type without congressional review. We can't go forward without an approved change, the change requires congressional approval. Congress isn't scheduled to even meet for 6 months, getting this onto their agenda for review is a problem....the NRC doesn't have oversight over this, nor are ASME decisions beholden to the NRC.
The millions of dollars worth of barstock to be used in this instance actually met the metallurgical requirements for multiple higher grades of material - but again, getting the material reclassified to a higher grade of material doesn't help when it takes Congress to approve the change.
And that was one tiny, TINY little thing, out of many.
Westinghouse didn't underestimate the cost of building Vogtle and Sumner - it was pretty accurate for the information available at the time. Industry changes like this one can't be predicted, especially when they're nonsense - but if there is one thing you can be assured of...its that people with power will exercise that power, if for no other reason than to prove their relevance.
Fukushima has shown us that a loss of power for 36 hours at any of these facilities will cause them to boil off all their coolant, melt their containment vessels, and poison the surrounding environment for thousands of years. This includes both the reactor vessels and the waste/spent fuel rods in the local storage ponds.
The exact same GE model that failed in Fukushima runs 30 miles upstream from me on the Mississippi. Should it lose power as Fukushima did, the Mississippi river will be lost to our country. This reactor was scheduled for closure and was saved by my state legislature, and it should not be running.
That was one of the big sellings points of the AP1000 design. Fukushima was only made possible by a series of bad decisions that circumvented in-place safeguards by people afraid of losing face, mixed in with some corruption.
The AP1000 design had a cure for that.
We sold the DESIGN to China because after Fukushima, it couldn't get any traction, and China was going to steal the design anyway, so might as well get a little money for it.
they would have standardized on a single reasonably modern design ten of fifteen years ago
They did. It is the AP1000. It didn't solve any of the problems that you claim it magically would.
The future of nuclear power is still happening... in China, where government subsidies are less controversial.
I was a project manager for the AP1000 projects Sumner and Vogtle. I've told this story before, but these projects failed - along with the rest of the failed nuclear renaissance in America because of NIMBY and a conjoined abomination of regulation and oversight. For example: In ~2011(ish) ASME redefined SA316 Stainless Steel to change the tensile strength and allowable radius of forged material, which in turn affected the sourced materials and design plans for already purchased / designed / built components in stage 2 containment. These designs required congressional approval, which ASME is not beholden to.
The changed definition of SA316 required congressional approval....but congress wasn't in session. Tens of millions of dollars in cost overruns not withstanding, this tiny little thing caused a two year delay. Add together dozens of these type of issues happening across a myriad of issues, and that's why we can't have nice things.
You have to go down 14 definitions of "hack" to get to to this: --------- Computers. to modify a computer program or electronic device in a skillful or clever way: to hack around with HTML. to break into a network, computer, file, etc., usually with malicious intent. http://www.dictionary.com/brow... ----------
Hacking may have been popularized to describe computer hacking, but it means MANY OTHER THINGS TOO.
The other day, Slashdot had an article that she's going around Silicon Valley raising money for whatever her new scam is. I wonder if this will dampen her prospects.
Everyone I know who used Verizon has regretted it. Much slower to use with many more deadspots.
I had Straight Talk (prepaid vendor on the Verizon Network) and switched to Sprint because I was getting poor data in a lot of areas, and Sprint was offering the "free for a year" deal. I'm only three months into my Sprint "free" contract, but am trying to figure out if I should switch to Verizon because data availability is even worse.
Everyone seems to harp on the fact that Hotspot/jetpack is limited to 15gb of data per device. The issue you run into is what happened during the early days of the Feb unlimited plan when this wasn't enforced. We had a ton of people eliminating their home wifi networks and running their entire home/connected world (home security cameras, tablets, televisions, game consoles, media servers or purely cord cutting) off of a jetpack. This crippled the network. Then there were post everywhere about how someone couldn't send a snapchat of their dog farting and looking shocked. Much less the issue of businesses trying to oporate off of Verizon that couldn't send out invoices or ambulances that use verizon to get medical information out to the truck due to network congestion.
Under the current network restraints, it's just not possible to run things as fully unlimited the way people want. Much less for a lesser price and still have the money to build out a network that will be able to support your unlimited dog fart snapchats in the future.
And yet as of today, we have the fewest people out of work aince 1973.
If you look at the real unemployment number, not the "We're only counting people who actively reported looking for work while being out of work in the last four weeks" the unemployment in the US is 40%.
There's these things called "teenagers". They eat a lot.
Just like technology has been reducing the life-cycle of their products, so too do parents need to get with the times. By the time that child is 9 or 10, you need to start thinking about changing it out for a newer model.
.We are due for a reckoning and frankly if mankind goes extinct, nothing of value will be lost. We live as wasteful parasites on this planet that we rape relentlessly. You have to settle the score sooner or later, it's just how things go. Don't think of me as hateful, just hoping that we can either be humbled, or perish so something better might come later
I never understood this mindset.
How do you live with yourself? If you're the ultimate parasite that deserved extinction as a wasteful, raping, relentless parasite....and you don't kill yourself, you're immoral.
Don't get me wrong; the world has plenty of immoral people in it...but most of them don't so readily identify themselves as immoral; they think they're justified in what they're doing.
Why haven't followed through with the sentiment of your post?
Keep in mind that the control group of people questioned fall into the following category: -Surf the internet looking for quizzes to take. -Have nothing more important to do than take online quizzes.
Extrapolating that the world isn't ready for retirement based on a three question survey delivered via online quiz is bad science.
Here's a better headline:
The more likely you are to know what kind of fruit represents your personality, the less likely you are to be prepared for retirement.
"In [Faber's] case, she checked up on her ex-boyfriend and saw he was spending money on pizza and the popular video game Fortnite -- and making regular payments to one girl, who Faber guessed is his new hook-up. "
Slashdot Mirror
Mature Fish Like It Deep, Really Deep
This could have been your headline Slashdot but you blew it. ;)
Do YOU like Fishsticks?
I'm guessing they're actually doing the same thing that is usually done in popular science when talking about "cocaine in rivers". They're talking about benzoylecgonine, which is the metabolic end product of cocaine in human metabolism.
So you're saying that the researchers didn't give cocaine to the eels; rather, they snorted all the cocaine, then pissed into an aquarium full of eels?
Yes, this is the vampire haven we've all been craving...
Nitpicking a past study which nobody has the guts to attempt to properly recreate (or improve upon.) Many real actual atrocities which rhyme with the experiment is all we need to realize that environmental conditions GREATLY influence human behavior.
Um...let me try different words. The reason nobody has the "guts" to recreate this experiment, or use it as a foundation are as follows:
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
1. The study was fake.
2. The control group was fake.
3. The students were paid actors.
4. They were COACHED on expected behavior during the study.
5. The paid actors then:
-Psychologically abused the inmates as they were coached and encouraged to do.
-Rebelled / Rioted as the news told them prisoners do.
After 6 days, the "game" wasn't fun for the prisoners anymore, they were tired of the psychological abuse, and Zimbardo ended the study, claiming to have proven something.
All he proved is that 18-22 year old psychology students getting paid $15 a day in 1970 will do what they're told to do. At least for 6 days.
Social experiments are difficult to perform with scientific rigor because they use people. It is generally either impossible or impractical to isolate people from outside influences and from unknown issues that bias the experiment. And thus it's difficult to prove anything. For this reason, physical scientists look down upon social science as "soft science".
Social experiments are difficult to perform with scientific rigor because they are rarely conducted by scientists, let alone scientists using the scientific method.
Take the landmark Zimbardo study here. This study came about because of the ongoing prison riots - He coached the guards on how to behave and mistreat the prisoners before the experiment started, "reinforcing" the expected behavior. The "prisoners" behaved as they thought they were expected to behave, based on what they saw on the news: Prison riots.
Imagine if Zimbardo had coached the guards differently: We're testing to see if prison guards can treat prisoners gently and humanely.
That study would have ended reinforcing his message. All of these were 18-22 year old kids, doing as they were told, behaving in accordance with the expectations laid out for them in this fake science.
The participants acted towards expected behaviors to reinforce the study's foregone conclusion at the coaching of Zimbardo.
It wasn't a scientific study.
You can read about it here. https://www.psychologytoday.co...
Yeah, yeah how mature, blame the Congress... That incident was entirely caused by an engineering oversight. Engineers in US failed to heed expertise of international atomic industry and used alloys that were known to have issues with chemical and radioactive induced corrosion. That change that they were forced to do in 2010s was already implemented in France, Germany and Russia in early 2000s.
That's not what happened. I didn't go into microscopic detail because it wasn't particularly relevant, but since you're bringing scurrilous claims, let me expound:
-Manufacturing components for the AP1000 reactor caused the support industry to design larger components than had ever been used before, which in turn called for forged barstock of incredible size.
-In this particular case, (working from memory) 6 foot diameter, hollowed out SA316 Stainless Steel shells to be used as bonnets for massive main steam safety valves (MSSV)s.
-ASME published a revision to the document defining SA316SS to note that that cold rolled SA316 couldn't be more than "X" in diameter due to potential tensile weakness in the center 6" of the material.
-This shouldn't have been relevant, because the giant bar stock in use was having the center 6" (12" actually) machined out anyway - neither form, fit, nor function were being affected.
-However, the congress-approved AP1000 design for Vogtle and Sumner called for ASME-defined SA316 to be used in this capacity....and ASME just changed the definition of SA316, causing four problems:
1. Millions upon millions of dollars of material just got scrapped.
2. An industry standard was just overturned by a body of people not in the best position to make decisions about those standards.
3. The change requires a higher grade of material to be used in the design, which theoretically isn't a problem...
4. But since the design, including the use of SA316SS for the MSSV Bonnets had been Congressionally approved, the design couldn't be altered without Congressional approval.
That's how it ended up delayed for two years over a tiny issue. "Fine, we can't use SA316, despite the ASME ruling being ridiculous since it isn't relevant to the form, fit or function of our application...we'll use a better grade." Except Westinghouse couldn't approve changing the material type without congressional review. We can't go forward without an approved change, the change requires congressional approval. Congress isn't scheduled to even meet for 6 months, getting this onto their agenda for review is a problem....the NRC doesn't have oversight over this, nor are ASME decisions beholden to the NRC.
The millions of dollars worth of barstock to be used in this instance actually met the metallurgical requirements for multiple higher grades of material - but again, getting the material reclassified to a higher grade of material doesn't help when it takes Congress to approve the change.
And that was one tiny, TINY little thing, out of many.
Westinghouse didn't underestimate the cost of building Vogtle and Sumner - it was pretty accurate for the information available at the time. Industry changes like this one can't be predicted, especially when they're nonsense - but if there is one thing you can be assured of...its that people with power will exercise that power, if for no other reason than to prove their relevance.
Fukushima has shown us that a loss of power for 36 hours at any of these facilities will cause them to boil off all their coolant, melt their containment vessels, and poison the surrounding environment for thousands of years. This includes both the reactor vessels and the waste/spent fuel rods in the local storage ponds.
The exact same GE model that failed in Fukushima runs 30 miles upstream from me on the Mississippi. Should it lose power as Fukushima did, the Mississippi river will be lost to our country. This reactor was scheduled for closure and was saved by my state legislature, and it should not be running.
That was one of the big sellings points of the AP1000 design. Fukushima was only made possible by a series of bad decisions that circumvented in-place safeguards by people afraid of losing face, mixed in with some corruption.
The AP1000 design had a cure for that.
We sold the DESIGN to China because after Fukushima, it couldn't get any traction, and China was going to steal the design anyway, so might as well get a little money for it.
Right. Like how the word "hack" could be used to describe TFA.
I'm not sure the author can hack it as a writer.
they would have standardized on a single reasonably modern design ten of fifteen years ago
They did. It is the AP1000. It didn't solve any of the problems that you claim it magically would.
The future of nuclear power is still happening ... in China, where government subsidies are less controversial.
I was a project manager for the AP1000 projects Sumner and Vogtle. I've told this story before, but these projects failed - along with the rest of the failed nuclear renaissance in America because of NIMBY and a conjoined abomination of regulation and oversight. For example: In ~2011(ish) ASME redefined SA316 Stainless Steel to change the tensile strength and allowable radius of forged material, which in turn affected the sourced materials and design plans for already purchased / designed / built components in stage 2 containment. These designs required congressional approval, which ASME is not beholden to.
The changed definition of SA316 required congressional approval....but congress wasn't in session. Tens of millions of dollars in cost overruns not withstanding, this tiny little thing caused a two year delay. Add together dozens of these type of issues happening across a myriad of issues, and that's why we can't have nice things.
You have to go down 14 definitions of "hack" to get to to this:
---------
Computers.
to modify a computer program or electronic device in a skillful or clever way: to hack around with HTML.
to break into a network, computer, file, etc., usually with malicious intent.
http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
----------
Hacking may have been popularized to describe computer hacking, but it means MANY OTHER THINGS TOO.
In the olden days it was 99% garbage and 1% quality, now it's 100% garbage. Where are today's films that compare to the golden age of cinema?
You must not have seen Deadpool.
Link for context: https://science.slashdot.org/s...
The other day, Slashdot had an article that she's going around Silicon Valley raising money for whatever her new scam is. I wonder if this will dampen her prospects.
Everyone I know who used Verizon has regretted it. Much slower to use with many more deadspots.
I had Straight Talk (prepaid vendor on the Verizon Network) and switched to Sprint because I was getting poor data in a lot of areas, and Sprint was offering the "free for a year" deal. I'm only three months into my Sprint "free" contract, but am trying to figure out if I should switch to Verizon because data availability is even worse.
I don't know what to do.
"Do It For State" is a millennial phrase out of Iowa State like, "Do it for the boobies" or "I did it for the nookie" or "Man up and do it."
As for everyone saying that no one knows why Hopkins did it...
Obviously he did it for state.
Everyone seems to harp on the fact that Hotspot/jetpack is limited to 15gb of data per device. The issue you run into is what happened during the early days of the Feb unlimited plan when this wasn't enforced. We had a ton of people eliminating their home wifi networks and running their entire home/connected world (home security cameras, tablets, televisions, game consoles, media servers or purely cord cutting) off of a jetpack. This crippled the network. Then there were post everywhere about how someone couldn't send a snapchat of their dog farting and looking shocked. Much less the issue of businesses trying to oporate off of Verizon that couldn't send out invoices or ambulances that use verizon to get medical information out to the truck due to network congestion.
Under the current network restraints, it's just not possible to run things as fully unlimited the way people want. Much less for a lesser price and still have the money to build out a network that will be able to support your unlimited dog fart snapchats in the future.
And yet as of today, we have the fewest people out of work aince 1973.
If you look at the real unemployment number, not the "We're only counting people who actively reported looking for work while being out of work in the last four weeks" the unemployment in the US is 40%.
http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/...
Raise your hand if you're surprised.
The additional food cost is probably negligible
There's these things called "teenagers". They eat a lot.
Just like technology has been reducing the life-cycle of their products, so too do parents need to get with the times. By the time that child is 9 or 10, you need to start thinking about changing it out for a newer model.
.We are due for a reckoning and frankly if mankind goes extinct, nothing of value will be lost. We live as wasteful parasites on this planet that we rape relentlessly. You have to settle the score sooner or later, it's just how things go. Don't think of me as hateful, just hoping that we can either be humbled, or perish so something better might come later
I never understood this mindset.
How do you live with yourself? If you're the ultimate parasite that deserved extinction as a wasteful, raping, relentless parasite....and you don't kill yourself, you're immoral.
Don't get me wrong; the world has plenty of immoral people in it...but most of them don't so readily identify themselves as immoral; they think they're justified in what they're doing.
Why haven't followed through with the sentiment of your post?
Keep in mind that the control group of people questioned fall into the following category:
-Surf the internet looking for quizzes to take.
-Have nothing more important to do than take online quizzes.
Extrapolating that the world isn't ready for retirement based on a three question survey delivered via online quiz is bad science.
Here's a better headline:
The more likely you are to know what kind of fruit represents your personality, the less likely you are to be prepared for retirement.
That says it all.
You're refreshingly open-minded. 95% of people post here seem to believe on of two things;
1. Everything any Democrat politician ever says is stupid, and anything a Republican politician ever says is automatically right.
or
2. Everything any Democrat politician ever says is stupid, and anything a Republican politician ever says is automatically right.
The idea that perhaps people on BOTH sides of the political spectrum sometimes make a good point, or have a good idea, is rare, and refreshing.
There is another belief, which I think most of us actually have...
Everything any ____ politician ever says is stupid.
The skies the limit, here; this is a sport with few rules.
It is a sport that most of us don't want to play.
"In [Faber's] case, she checked up on her ex-boyfriend and saw he was spending money on pizza and the popular video game Fortnite -- and making regular payments to one girl, who Faber guessed is his new hook-up. "
That's a hooker.