That's still following the letter of the definition, if not the spirit. Chastity just means the abstainment of sexual intercourse. I.E. no penile penetration of her genitalia since she was female.
Yeah, you might want to check definitions before you spout off shit. It will make you not look stupid, like in this case:
per se -
by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically. "it is not these facts per se that are important" synonyms: in itself, of itself, by itself, in and of itself, as such, intrinsically;
No, the question show absolutely no literacy of even the most basic of science. The "question" shows that the querent didn't even bother to look up how greenhouse gasses even work on a basic level, ala Wikipedia, and was just spouting off some pseudo science crap they read somewhere once.
And Stephan answered the question. It is not his fault that you appear to be too illiterate to even read the post. The only thing he posted that was questionable was deliberately confusing the "c" used here to denote Centigrade for the "c" used for the speed of light.
The only one "calling people idiots" here is you. Perhaps you should take your own advice and not say anything. You can take the time you save by not posting to educate yourself in the areas of reading comprehension and basic sciences since you seem to be having a hard time with both.
It's also only roughly 1.86x10^-2 percent of the park.
That being said, it really depends on what sort of biome was destroyed. If it was normal forest and brush, not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things ( not that it was a GOOD thing, but...). If it was a rare soil biome or some other rare desert biome then that would be worse.
(Your typical electronic bedside alarm clock, though, doesn't include the WWVB radio. Instead it runs its timer by counting the cycles of mains power, achieving the same long-term accuracy as a sync-motor clock. If it has a battery and crystal oscillator it only uses them to keep (decent) time during power outages.)
I bought a $20 alarm clock from Walmart something like 4 years ago that has radio Atomic Time sync. I haven't looked around lately, but I would think more clocks would have this feature these days since it should be even cheaper now that it was back then. It doesn't even plug in, just throw 4 AA batts in it every ~2.5 years.
Yeah, because he is obviously talking about small time consumer buyers, not large scale distributors buying directly from drug manufacturing cartels.
Or do you really live in such a shithole neighborhood that you can go to the "poor side of town" and pick up 200 kilos of coke, 15 kilos of good weed, and maybe 60 kilos of H with a couple kilos of Fentanyl to cut it with?
The vehicle wasn't totaled because it wasn't insured. It had never been owned by anyone. It was damaged somehow. And the factory fixed it.
If it was damaged during shipping, shipping insurance would have paid for it. I also would not be surprised if the factory itself was insured against accidental damage - even if they would likely not file a claim for the occasional one-off that could be repaired and wasn't a total write-off. This in itself may constitute fraud if it causes issues down the road to the consumer due to the repairs not being disclosed.
Yeah. So why all the hoopla. They aren't lemons, they're just damaged before delivery. And the buyer was told they were not new.
They are still new cars. They hadn't been sold yet. Just because something is refurbished does not mean it is a used - read second hand or more - item. A first owner car is a new car, and they should have been listed as refurbished new vehicles, with major damage repairs being disclosed.
It was never owned before, so it is not "refurbished." Even so, "refurbished" means "used", so if you say it is not "used" then it cannot also be "refurbished".
Wrong. Refurbished just means repaired to be as close to original as possible, usually by the original manufacturer. There is absolutely no requirement for the item to have been sold for it to be refurbished, it just so happens that 99% of the time the item is second hand so people equate refurbished with "used". An item can be refurbished and sold as refurbished if it was damaged in shipping and returned to the manufacturer even if nobody buys it in the original damaged state.
You're buying it used. If you don't like the warranty, don't buy it. If it fails outside of warranty, well, that's why a warranty has a lifetime.
What does "liking" the warranty have to do with anything? The issue brought up was parts failing before the normal life span, but likely after the warranty end date. Here is a little tip for you: the warranty is designed to expire well before normal lifetimes of the part roll around. Let Tesla create bad will all they want, I really don't care. I don't own one and have no plans on buying one.
So just to be clear, Tesla had demo and/or loaner vehicles which were repaired (at some expense which might be described as "high") before they were delivered to customers. These repairs were performed by Tesla, which then sold them as demo and/or loaner vehicles.
The issue is that "high dollar" repairs could be for myriad things. A complete engine swap for a failed engine would be a high dollar repair ( from a customer viewpoint, the manufacturer installing the replacement engine and labor is obviously much cheaper ) to customers but not necessarily to the manufacturer. Such a thing I personally would have no problem with.
But what if the repair that was done, and then never specified, included repairs from someone smashing the vehicle into a pole or tree, or dropping the completed vehicle off of something when loading it / coming off the assembly line ( in which case the vehicle SHOULD have been reported as an accident repair / totaled vehicle repair)? No matter how well the repairs are done the frame is never going to be the same as it was pre-accident. Even if everything looks perfect the frame could be out of specifications, putting extra stress on steering and wheel parts that won't be seen until parts start failing earlier than they should, for seemingly no reason. Probably just outside of warranty. In this case I would be pissed that they didn't indicate what really happened, and may even have a chance to win a case in court over it.
In other words, it depends on what the repairs actually were for. As a side note, as this reads they were selling these cars as used / loaner vehicles even though the damage that was repaired was incurred before they were ever sold or used as loaner cars the first time. A vehicle that was damaged and then repaired before ever being sold is NOT a used vehicle, it's refurbished merchandise that was originally damaged in shipping / manufacture.
Especially for Windows 8 machines, why the hell should they be forced to run older and likely not updated ( or updated as fast ) versions of office when the OS itself is supported for 4 years yet when office 2019 comes out?
Note that LibreOffice dropped support for OSX 10.8 (2012) and required various Linux components (Kernel/GTK) from 2006.
I wasn't aware that LibreOffice was a large corporation that prided itself on backwards compatibility and being the default go to for an office suite. Here I thought it was a mostly volunteer Open Source effort that didn't have gobs of money to throw at people to keep maximum compatibility with different versions of operating systems.
Because that is a thousand times easier to detect. You may gather data faster in the short term, but won't be able to gather data over the long term. It's far more likely that exploiting hardware vulnerabilities won't trigger any detection programs while a malicious kernel module will be found in a much shorter time.
It's all about how long the box is owned, not how hard it is owned.
Hell on servers you can enable / disable the patch with two regedits and a reboot. So I don't see this being too hard to exploit ( especially for dumbass admins ): exploit some known exploit to elevate privileges, write the two registry keys to disable the patch and install your backdoor, then crash the server forcing a reboot ( that will be blamed on the patch ). Boom, instant owned server.
A good admin would probably catch this, but lets face it... there are tons and tons of shit admins that would just shrug the crash off, reboot and go about the day.
Also on the server OS's you had to manually input the registry keys to ENABLE the patch that was installed. You only found this out if you read the patch release page. I wonder how many people just patched their 2k12R2 / 2016 servers and never read the page so as to have a "patched" yet still vulnerable machine.
What an error rate. My guess is the methods they are using for dating materials is a complete joke, but no one likes to admit it.
It's radio isotope dating. Since you are so smart, please enlighten us stupid scientists using isotope parent / daughter ratios how we can narrow down the statistical ratios to get an exact year. You would probably get a Nobel prize after publishing that paper even!
As for the 60,000 year date, either you misinterpreted things, or whoever you had been listening to hasn't updated their knowledge in decades. We know at the very least Homo Erectus had traveled out of Africa relatively early, with possibly Homo Ergaster, the precursor to Homo Erectus, having already spread to neighboring areas.
Yeah, but do other networks allow me to use the data in 100+ other countries with no extra charges or anything needed to be done by me?
I could also opt out and just pay the extra money to make the "problem" go away.
Either way it's a win / win situation from what we had a month ago. A month ago 15GB of data would have cost $150 instead of the now $60. This means paying full price for higher usage literally doesn't change, but from 6-15GB can be over 50% cheaper.
Other networks also don't work out as cheap for a data plan either. I normally use between 500-800MB a month since wifi is damn near everywhere now. That means I pay $5-$8 per month for my data plan. $25-$28 / month for coverage from three different carriers across the U.S. and data in 100+ countries is pretty damn nice.
The slightly longer answer: Trade, due to the fact that there has been large amounts of English speakers since the spread that happened shortly after modern English first was a pidgin language ( again because of trade ). Trade - and wealth in general - drives the cultural and military conquests 95% of the time.
Imagine two countries separated by a decent amount of traveling time. They want to trade, but don't speak the others language. It's likely, especially these days, that both have people trained in speaking English for trade with English speaking countries. Boom, instant trade language between the two countries. Now they can trade as much as they want without having to hire yet another translator / learn another new language.
Maybe this works for you, someone who is happy to use older versions that don't have any new improvements. There is nothing wrong with that, I've frozen versions before too, until I couldn't work with the old versions anymore due to lack of newer RAW support. But I like my life being made easier by improvements to content aware stuff, and all of the other improvements they have made over the years. I could do everything I do these days with PS7.0, but it would take me significantly more steps and longer. I like the software being smart enough to automate large chunks of the boring shit for me.
That being said, I mostly kept up with upgrades on an every other release. I can also do the math - the renting is cheaper than upgrading every two years. $10.00 / month for two years = $240. Much cheaper than a license upgrade, AND I get Lightroom thrown in for "free" as well. Upgrades were $300-$400+.
Not only is it cheaper over all, but I never have to worry about waiting a year or more to use new features from a major point release. I will always have them as they come out. If I wanted this on the old upgrade model it would cost me double the amount that I used to pay, which was already significantly more than the cost of subscription.
Yeah you are missing something. The fact that the court ruled the new law can't apply to the ~20% of the total poles that ATT / Comcast own and pay upkeep for. The ruling didn't specifically address the poles that the city owns and pays upkeep on, meaning the law should still stand on those poles.
Furthermore, ATT / Comcast must obey the federal laws and move their own crap within, if I remember correctly, 14 days of the initial request or face fines from the city and pay the going rate of the contractor that the requester hires to then move the equipment.
Most coals average between 1-4 ppm Uranium. That's 1-4 grams of Uranium per ton of coal burned. Some coals are as high as 20 ppm leading to 20 grams per ton burned. I don't happen to remember off the top of my head how much Uranium is the relatively inert non-fissile ratios that are very low radiation, but I am sure that there is at least a few mg of the higher radiation U isotopes being released per ton as well.
Not to mention that studies that have shown that there is an elevated statistically significant increase of risk of harm from living near a coal plant VS. near a Nuclear plant due to the additional radiation exposures from the fly ash. The risk isn't exactly significant in day to day life, but it is there none the less, on the order of those living near the Nuclear plants having a 1:1,000,000,000 ( 1 in a billion ) chance of developing radiation derived health risks in their entire lifetime to coals 1:10,000,000-1:100,000,000 ( 1 in ten to 100 million ).
It is a level 4 if one person is killed form radiation OR there is a release of radiation that will affect local populations with effects not greater than local food contamination controls OR fuel melt / damage to fuel that has more than 0.1% of the total core weight leak from containment OR release of high amounts of radioactive material in containment that also have a high probability of public exposure.
As for differentiation - A reactor that produces electricity is run by people and inspected by the international community. A weapons reactor is run by military personnel that let's face it, most of them couldn't get into the same training programs in civilian life if they tried... there is a reason they went into the military, and for most of them it isn't patriotism. Also it's a "government secret" so has no international oversight.
The main problem is we don't use the fuel we can scavenge from so called "depleted" nuclear fuel. We have reactor designs that are safe and can burn depleted fuel while producing both usable fissionable isotopes as burn byproducts and much shorter half-life isotopes as "waste" ( and heat which can be turned into energy the same as just about any other reactor, as well as the "waste" being fuel for another reactor too). But those isotopes can be "weaponized", so the answer is to just bury the used fuel after stripping out whatever usable isotopes you can from it.
Hell we have reactor chain designs that could virtually eliminate waste from the nuclear chain, leaving behind barely radioactive stuff similar to the amount of radiation mine tailings put out. Unfortunately they all depend on the first and second tier reactor designs that can produce "weapons grade" fissile material. This material has properties that make it a great choice for reactors too: it's stable in known configurations, it doesn't have much if any impurities that would cause spontaneous fission I.E. unstable fissile element isotope contamination, and it's a cleaner decay chain due to knowing exact mixes of exact isotopes - with little variations from contamination from same element undesired isotopes.
Situation 1: You walk into a gas station to buy a candy bar with a $100 bill. Gas station says no, we don't handle bills above $20. Same goes for filling up your fuel tank if it is posted prominently that large bills are refused
LEGAL - you have not incurred a debt yet on the candy bar since the store still owns it, and you were warned by prominent signs that company policy states that the large bill would not be accepted.
Situation 2: you order food at a restaurant and eat it. No signs or other indications are present.
ILLEGAL You have a debt owed to the restaurant now, they have accepted and entered into a situation where they are your creditor, and they MUST accept the legal tender offer.
Unless the restaurant here has signs and / or makes it abundantly clear that cash will not be an accepted form of payment before the food is consumed they have to accept cash. If they make it clear that cash cannot be used before the food is consumed they can legally refuse to accept cash, unless state law comes into play wherein the state says they have to accept cash.
And your post is the poster child for "I didn't actually read anything, or try to understand what little I read, but I am going to blather on on a point I feel somewhat strongly about anyways".
I know it can be quite difficult to grasp this, but sustainable doesn't mean growing. In fact the parent poster that you replied to didn't advocate for GROWING anything. It advocated for sustaining the current status quo, or at the very least a a decline that isn't as sharp as what is happening.
If you think comma abuse is relegated to the realms of the self published author you are sadly mistaken. There are plenty of examples in professionally edited and published works.
I think it was Chuck Palahniuk that was recommended to me as an interesting author to try out. I picked a random book to try and the first sentence had 23 commas. That was an immediate "fuck this shit".
I'm not a lawyer either, but I can read the ruling.
The judges said the law could not be applied to privately owned poles of which only ~20% of all utility poles in the are are, mostly owned by AT&T.
They way it is written and read, the city can use this ordinance on the city owned / publicly owned poles. Makes sense to me, if the city doesn't want to pay for installation and maintenance on the poles, they shouldn't be able to regulate the owner any more strict than the FCC does, but if the city owns the poles they should be able to demand faster turn around times.
That's like saying this pile of shit is better than that older pile of shit because the new one is still steaming.
Yay, FireFox has maybe caught up in speed, or at least can move faster than a half dead slug. Yay, they finally have threaded tabs after years of waiting. Yay, my eyes STILL bleed from the ugly as shit, hard to read flat UI.
Let's add in: Yay, none of my old extensions work anymore and who knows when / if they will be ported to the newest shiny extension style.
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That's still following the letter of the definition, if not the spirit. Chastity just means the abstainment of sexual intercourse. I.E. no penile penetration of her genitalia since she was female.
Yeah, you might want to check definitions before you spout off shit. It will make you not look stupid, like in this case:
per se -
by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically.
"it is not these facts per se that are important"
synonyms: in itself, of itself, by itself, in and of itself, as such, intrinsically;
Sure looks like he used it correctly to me.
No, the question show absolutely no literacy of even the most basic of science. The "question" shows that the querent didn't even bother to look up how greenhouse gasses even work on a basic level, ala Wikipedia, and was just spouting off some pseudo science crap they read somewhere once.
And Stephan answered the question. It is not his fault that you appear to be too illiterate to even read the post. The only thing he posted that was questionable was deliberately confusing the "c" used here to denote Centigrade for the "c" used for the speed of light.
The only one "calling people idiots" here is you. Perhaps you should take your own advice and not say anything. You can take the time you save by not posting to educate yourself in the areas of reading comprehension and basic sciences since you seem to be having a hard time with both.
It's also only roughly 1.86x10^-2 percent of the park.
That being said, it really depends on what sort of biome was destroyed. If it was normal forest and brush, not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things ( not that it was a GOOD thing, but...). If it was a rare soil biome or some other rare desert biome then that would be worse.
(Your typical electronic bedside alarm clock, though, doesn't include the WWVB radio. Instead it runs its timer by counting the cycles of mains power, achieving the same long-term accuracy as a sync-motor clock. If it has a battery and crystal oscillator it only uses them to keep (decent) time during power outages.)
I bought a $20 alarm clock from Walmart something like 4 years ago that has radio Atomic Time sync. I haven't looked around lately, but I would think more clocks would have this feature these days since it should be even cheaper now that it was back then. It doesn't even plug in, just throw 4 AA batts in it every ~2.5 years.
Yeah, because he is obviously talking about small time consumer buyers, not large scale distributors buying directly from drug manufacturing cartels.
Or do you really live in such a shithole neighborhood that you can go to the "poor side of town" and pick up 200 kilos of coke, 15 kilos of good weed, and maybe 60 kilos of H with a couple kilos of Fentanyl to cut it with?
The vehicle wasn't totaled because it wasn't insured. It had never been owned by anyone. It was damaged somehow. And the factory fixed it.
If it was damaged during shipping, shipping insurance would have paid for it. I also would not be surprised if the factory itself was insured against accidental damage - even if they would likely not file a claim for the occasional one-off that could be repaired and wasn't a total write-off. This in itself may constitute fraud if it causes issues down the road to the consumer due to the repairs not being disclosed.
Yeah. So why all the hoopla. They aren't lemons, they're just damaged before delivery. And the buyer was told they were not new.
They are still new cars. They hadn't been sold yet. Just because something is refurbished does not mean it is a used - read second hand or more - item. A first owner car is a new car, and they should have been listed as refurbished new vehicles, with major damage repairs being disclosed.
It was never owned before, so it is not "refurbished." Even so, "refurbished" means "used", so if you say it is not "used" then it cannot also be "refurbished".
Wrong. Refurbished just means repaired to be as close to original as possible, usually by the original manufacturer. There is absolutely no requirement for the item to have been sold for it to be refurbished, it just so happens that 99% of the time the item is second hand so people equate refurbished with "used". An item can be refurbished and sold as refurbished if it was damaged in shipping and returned to the manufacturer even if nobody buys it in the original damaged state.
You're buying it used. If you don't like the warranty, don't buy it. If it fails outside of warranty, well, that's why a warranty has a lifetime.
What does "liking" the warranty have to do with anything? The issue brought up was parts failing before the normal life span, but likely after the warranty end date. Here is a little tip for you: the warranty is designed to expire well before normal lifetimes of the part roll around. Let Tesla create bad will all they want, I really don't care. I don't own one and have no plans on buying one.
So just to be clear, Tesla had demo and/or loaner vehicles which were repaired (at some expense which might be described as "high") before they were delivered to customers. These repairs were performed by Tesla, which then sold them as demo and/or loaner vehicles.
The issue is that "high dollar" repairs could be for myriad things. A complete engine swap for a failed engine would be a high dollar repair ( from a customer viewpoint, the manufacturer installing the replacement engine and labor is obviously much cheaper ) to customers but not necessarily to the manufacturer. Such a thing I personally would have no problem with.
But what if the repair that was done, and then never specified, included repairs from someone smashing the vehicle into a pole or tree, or dropping the completed vehicle off of something when loading it / coming off the assembly line ( in which case the vehicle SHOULD have been reported as an accident repair / totaled vehicle repair)? No matter how well the repairs are done the frame is never going to be the same as it was pre-accident. Even if everything looks perfect the frame could be out of specifications, putting extra stress on steering and wheel parts that won't be seen until parts start failing earlier than they should, for seemingly no reason. Probably just outside of warranty. In this case I would be pissed that they didn't indicate what really happened, and may even have a chance to win a case in court over it.
In other words, it depends on what the repairs actually were for. As a side note, as this reads they were selling these cars as used / loaner vehicles even though the damage that was repaired was incurred before they were ever sold or used as loaner cars the first time. A vehicle that was damaged and then repaired before ever being sold is NOT a used vehicle, it's refurbished merchandise that was originally damaged in shipping / manufacture.
If the fucking OS is still supported why wouldn't Installing the latest damn office suite still be available.
Support ends:
Win 7 - Jan. 14 2020
Win 8/8.1 - Jan. 10 2023
Server 2012R2 - Oct. 10 2023
Especially for Windows 8 machines, why the hell should they be forced to run older and likely not updated ( or updated as fast ) versions of office when the OS itself is supported for 4 years yet when office 2019 comes out?
Note that LibreOffice dropped support for OSX 10.8 (2012) and required various Linux components (Kernel/GTK) from 2006.
I wasn't aware that LibreOffice was a large corporation that prided itself on backwards compatibility and being the default go to for an office suite. Here I thought it was a mostly volunteer Open Source effort that didn't have gobs of money to throw at people to keep maximum compatibility with different versions of operating systems.
Because that is a thousand times easier to detect. You may gather data faster in the short term, but won't be able to gather data over the long term. It's far more likely that exploiting hardware vulnerabilities won't trigger any detection programs while a malicious kernel module will be found in a much shorter time.
It's all about how long the box is owned, not how hard it is owned.
Hell on servers you can enable / disable the patch with two regedits and a reboot. So I don't see this being too hard to exploit ( especially for dumbass admins ): exploit some known exploit to elevate privileges, write the two registry keys to disable the patch and install your backdoor, then crash the server forcing a reboot ( that will be blamed on the patch ). Boom, instant owned server.
A good admin would probably catch this, but lets face it... there are tons and tons of shit admins that would just shrug the crash off, reboot and go about the day.
Also on the server OS's you had to manually input the registry keys to ENABLE the patch that was installed. You only found this out if you read the patch release page. I wonder how many people just patched their 2k12R2 / 2016 servers and never read the page so as to have a "patched" yet still vulnerable machine.
What an error rate. My guess is the methods they are using for dating materials is a complete joke, but no one likes to admit it.
It's radio isotope dating. Since you are so smart, please enlighten us stupid scientists using isotope parent / daughter ratios how we can narrow down the statistical ratios to get an exact year. You would probably get a Nobel prize after publishing that paper even!
As for the 60,000 year date, either you misinterpreted things, or whoever you had been listening to hasn't updated their knowledge in decades. We know at the very least Homo Erectus had traveled out of Africa relatively early, with possibly Homo Ergaster, the precursor to Homo Erectus, having already spread to neighboring areas.
For the last year or so it's between 2-10mbps. So HSPA speeds. Not exactly 4G LTE, but better than 256kbps.
Yeah, but do other networks allow me to use the data in 100+ other countries with no extra charges or anything needed to be done by me?
I could also opt out and just pay the extra money to make the "problem" go away.
Either way it's a win / win situation from what we had a month ago. A month ago 15GB of data would have cost $150 instead of the now $60. This means paying full price for higher usage literally doesn't change, but from 6-15GB can be over 50% cheaper.
Other networks also don't work out as cheap for a data plan either. I normally use between 500-800MB a month since wifi is damn near everywhere now. That means I pay $5-$8 per month for my data plan. $25-$28 / month for coverage from three different carriers across the U.S. and data in 100+ countries is pretty damn nice.
Close, very close.
The short answer is: trade.
The slightly longer answer: Trade, due to the fact that there has been large amounts of English speakers since the spread that happened shortly after modern English first was a pidgin language ( again because of trade ). Trade - and wealth in general - drives the cultural and military conquests 95% of the time.
Imagine two countries separated by a decent amount of traveling time. They want to trade, but don't speak the others language. It's likely, especially these days, that both have people trained in speaking English for trade with English speaking countries. Boom, instant trade language between the two countries. Now they can trade as much as they want without having to hire yet another translator / learn another new language.
Maybe this works for you, someone who is happy to use older versions that don't have any new improvements. There is nothing wrong with that, I've frozen versions before too, until I couldn't work with the old versions anymore due to lack of newer RAW support. But I like my life being made easier by improvements to content aware stuff, and all of the other improvements they have made over the years. I could do everything I do these days with PS7.0, but it would take me significantly more steps and longer. I like the software being smart enough to automate large chunks of the boring shit for me.
That being said, I mostly kept up with upgrades on an every other release. I can also do the math - the renting is cheaper than upgrading every two years. $10.00 / month for two years = $240. Much cheaper than a license upgrade, AND I get Lightroom thrown in for "free" as well. Upgrades were $300-$400+.
Not only is it cheaper over all, but I never have to worry about waiting a year or more to use new features from a major point release. I will always have them as they come out. If I wanted this on the old upgrade model it would cost me double the amount that I used to pay, which was already significantly more than the cost of subscription.
Yeah you are missing something. The fact that the court ruled the new law can't apply to the ~20% of the total poles that ATT / Comcast own and pay upkeep for. The ruling didn't specifically address the poles that the city owns and pays upkeep on, meaning the law should still stand on those poles.
Furthermore, ATT / Comcast must obey the federal laws and move their own crap within, if I remember correctly, 14 days of the initial request or face fines from the city and pay the going rate of the contractor that the requester hires to then move the equipment.
Bullshit to your bullshit.
Most coals average between 1-4 ppm Uranium. That's 1-4 grams of Uranium per ton of coal burned. Some coals are as high as 20 ppm leading to 20 grams per ton burned. I don't happen to remember off the top of my head how much Uranium is the relatively inert non-fissile ratios that are very low radiation, but I am sure that there is at least a few mg of the higher radiation U isotopes being released per ton as well.
Not to mention that studies that have shown that there is an elevated statistically significant increase of risk of harm from living near a coal plant VS. near a Nuclear plant due to the additional radiation exposures from the fly ash. The risk isn't exactly significant in day to day life, but it is there none the less, on the order of those living near the Nuclear plants having a 1:1,000,000,000 ( 1 in a billion ) chance of developing radiation derived health risks in their entire lifetime to coals 1:10,000,000-1:100,000,000 ( 1 in ten to 100 million ).
No.
It is a level 4 if one person is killed form radiation OR there is a release of radiation that will affect local populations with effects not greater than local food contamination controls OR fuel melt / damage to fuel that has more than 0.1% of the total core weight leak from containment OR release of high amounts of radioactive material in containment that also have a high probability of public exposure.
As for differentiation - A reactor that produces electricity is run by people and inspected by the international community. A weapons reactor is run by military personnel that let's face it, most of them couldn't get into the same training programs in civilian life if they tried... there is a reason they went into the military, and for most of them it isn't patriotism. Also it's a "government secret" so has no international oversight.
The main problem is we don't use the fuel we can scavenge from so called "depleted" nuclear fuel. We have reactor designs that are safe and can burn depleted fuel while producing both usable fissionable isotopes as burn byproducts and much shorter half-life isotopes as "waste" ( and heat which can be turned into energy the same as just about any other reactor, as well as the "waste" being fuel for another reactor too). But those isotopes can be "weaponized", so the answer is to just bury the used fuel after stripping out whatever usable isotopes you can from it.
Hell we have reactor chain designs that could virtually eliminate waste from the nuclear chain, leaving behind barely radioactive stuff similar to the amount of radiation mine tailings put out. Unfortunately they all depend on the first and second tier reactor designs that can produce "weapons grade" fissile material. This material has properties that make it a great choice for reactors too: it's stable in known configurations, it doesn't have much if any impurities that would cause spontaneous fission I.E. unstable fissile element isotope contamination, and it's a cleaner decay chain due to knowing exact mixes of exact isotopes - with little variations from contamination from same element undesired isotopes.
Actually it depends.
Situation 1: You walk into a gas station to buy a candy bar with a $100 bill. Gas station says no, we don't handle bills above $20. Same goes for filling up your fuel tank if it is posted prominently that large bills are refused
LEGAL - you have not incurred a debt yet on the candy bar since the store still owns it, and you were warned by prominent signs that company policy states that the large bill would not be accepted.
Situation 2: you order food at a restaurant and eat it. No signs or other indications are present.
ILLEGAL You have a debt owed to the restaurant now, they have accepted and entered into a situation where they are your creditor, and they MUST accept the legal tender offer.
Unless the restaurant here has signs and / or makes it abundantly clear that cash will not be an accepted form of payment before the food is consumed they have to accept cash. If they make it clear that cash cannot be used before the food is consumed they can legally refuse to accept cash, unless state law comes into play wherein the state says they have to accept cash.
And your post is the poster child for "I didn't actually read anything, or try to understand what little I read, but I am going to blather on on a point I feel somewhat strongly about anyways".
I know it can be quite difficult to grasp this, but sustainable doesn't mean growing. In fact the parent poster that you replied to didn't advocate for GROWING anything. It advocated for sustaining the current status quo, or at the very least a a decline that isn't as sharp as what is happening.
If you think comma abuse is relegated to the realms of the self published author you are sadly mistaken. There are plenty of examples in professionally edited and published works.
I think it was Chuck Palahniuk that was recommended to me as an interesting author to try out. I picked a random book to try and the first sentence had 23 commas. That was an immediate "fuck this shit".
I'm not a lawyer either, but I can read the ruling.
The judges said the law could not be applied to privately owned poles of which only ~20% of all utility poles in the are are, mostly owned by AT&T.
They way it is written and read, the city can use this ordinance on the city owned / publicly owned poles. Makes sense to me, if the city doesn't want to pay for installation and maintenance on the poles, they shouldn't be able to regulate the owner any more strict than the FCC does, but if the city owns the poles they should be able to demand faster turn around times.
That's like saying this pile of shit is better than that older pile of shit because the new one is still steaming.
Yay, FireFox has maybe caught up in speed, or at least can move faster than a half dead slug. Yay, they finally have threaded tabs after years of waiting. Yay, my eyes STILL bleed from the ugly as shit, hard to read flat UI.
Let's add in: Yay, none of my old extensions work anymore and who knows when / if they will be ported to the newest shiny extension style.