Hurricanes impacting the US have been on the decline for decades. The warmists wanted to start naming hurricanes after congressional "deniers" in 2013. Only problem was we didn't get any. At least none worth trying to use for political demagoguery.
Didn't somebody else say there are about 10 identical plants
No, nobody said their are 10 identical plants. I said their are about 10 other RMBKs operating in Russia. The actual number is 11 and the list is here.
None of these reactors are "identical." They've all incorporated various design changes during construction and retrofits since. Regardless, they all have a high positive void coefficient and low power instability. Operated incorrectly every one of them is still capable of exploding and burning and their containment is no better than Chernobyl's.
The GP can somehow claim that won't happen, and I lack the crystal ball that says hes wrong, but there is nothing in physics that precludes another RMBK steam explosion.
The EU is paying for the new shelter, not Russia or Ukraine. The construction of the old shelter/sarcophagus is a lie. They're still running about 10 of these RMBKs in Russia proper.
And somehow, in your mind, this qualifies as "taking responsibility."
turn the tide of popular opinion
The problem of popular opinion about nuclear is a symptom of cheap fossil fuels. Give people a little energy scarcity and they'll warm right up to nuclear. Until then they'll indulge the the nuclear hysteria they've been trained with.
Drawing down strategic weapons is a part of the "peace dividend" in the public mind. What "dividend" is the public supposed to believe will appear by making energy into an expensive luxury? This analogy is just bogus.
The fact that Nevada et al. are sovereign and have used that power to preclude waste storage doesn't immunize them from being ridiculed for it. Reid and rest are free to govern their states in whatever idiotic and reprehensible way they see fit. I said nothing to the contrary and whatever has you thinking I did is a figment of your fevered imagination.
One person
Guess you somehow missed the "...and the libtard moonbeamers..." part. I don't attribute all of this idiocy to one person. I attribute it him AND the millions of fuckwit constituents that support him.
Ok. Whatever source of information has led you to that belief...... never go back there. Just don't. They've messed you up and you must get away from them.
Seriously.
In fact there is no waste inside Yucca mountain. Zero.
The only thing we've stored in Yucca mountain is bullshit from Harry Reid and the libtard moonbeamers that run this pathetic romper room country. We keep it there because he is old and when he dies we'll need a continuing supply Harry Reid's bullshit to keep the system running. There is enough bullshit stored in Yucca mountain to keep the system operating for approximately 20 years, during which time we will have to develop a new source of bullshit and transition our system to this new bullshit supply.
Activists SHOULD set the evil bit to zero (0) while hunting violators of pollution regulations and other worthy causes. The cops MUST set the evil bit to one (1) while abusing power. At other times the cops MAY set the evil bit to zero (0), especially when gathering evidence on rich people, gun owners, for-profit corporations and non-compliant ranchers.
For people that actually drive and must cope with vehicles that effectively have no driver because cell-phone there is nothing compelling about your question; the answer is self-evident.
A lot of these people have shit colored glasses bolted to their skulls. Combine this with an irrational hate for anything corporate and there you go; petulant little office trolls emoting on Slashdot.
Theo et al. have and are publically seeking for both individual and corporate support for both the OpenBSD Foundation and LibreSSL, and are specifically seeking a "Stable Commitment of Funding."
Unlike some of the malcontents that haunt Slashdot, they actually spend their time writing open source code. As such, they are painfully aware that large scale open source work is not actually the exclusive product of self funding trust fund rebels.
That naturally brings to mind Travon/Zimmerman. Had their been infrared aerial surveillance of that scene then better evidence would have been available to the jury about exactly who was closing to engage with whom that night.
Hoddie or not.
No, this is not advocacy for surveilling everything, but the "hoddie" argument is weak and poor arguments need to be avoided. The statists will get their way anyhow, but we don't need to make it easy for them.
Sometimes I even have the strange thought that energy conservation ideas hurt society's growth. It would be almost better if we used more power in the short term so energy could invest in itself and provide more power at lower costs down the road. I mean it is better to conserve electricity, but I don't hear people championing the idea of creating a global energy surplus.
The nations with the highest power consumption have ceased excessive breeding. They're all near or below replacement population growth among their indigenous population.
That right there is an outstanding argument for surplus energy.
A degree of conservation is a fine thing, but it's also a cop-out and a means of comfortable people to pull up the ladder behind themselves. Our millions of elite Al Gores will always live comfortably regardless of how hungry and cold they make you. Thousands of elderly Briton pensioners are learning all about that as the UK inflicts energy poverty on them.
Cops, fire fighters, city managers and the rest routinely gouge huge chunks of money out of city and state governments in the US. Most of the time they get a pass. After all, why shouldn't some LA assistant chief pull $260k a year bilking double and triple time hours recorded while getting dressed for work? That's nothing compared to some evil capitalist pig-dog bankster. Right?
That's the rationale, anyhow. So now this culture of corruption has gone and created a way to launder some of their bribes through a charity. And we're supposed to go all pitchfork and lick-spittle about it?
the government will never give you more than what was agreed on
Contractors routinely soak the federal government for billions in overruns. You happen work for a peon outfit that lacks the leverage to get away with it. France et al. have a little more pull.
How hard can it be to make a budget plan and stick to it?
I'm afraid that is naive. In the real world the figures are low-balled to get signatures knowing that once the commitments are made and the real figures are revealed backing out will be politically difficult for the funding parties.
This isn't the last cost bump either. There will be more as the years pass, each carefully calculated to be just feasible politically.
Right now they can get away with bigger bumps because Obama et al. have never seen a demand for money from Europe they weren't eager to cover. This extra few billion might involve one whole phone call from Hollande if things get rough. More likely it will be pencil-whipped through by the NSF or whatever other TLAs are involved.
62% of the Canadians who bothered to vote, voted against this government, so we have the tyranny of the minority
Remember the days before Harper when Canada's electoral system was incessantly lauded as the obviously superior system? Since conservatives took power that view has not been offered as frequently around here.
All those proud anti-Harper Canadians must be languishing is some NWT gulag where they can't post that stuff anymore... it couldn't be that they forgot how wonderful their system is when it fails to produce their preferred outcome.
I'm told mainstream media outfits like CBS are the exclusive property of profits-before-all Corporate America and its free market, planet wrecking, right wing fat-cat captain of industry one-percent types.
So, either Colbert is a sell-out, or the MSM is nothing like as hostile to libtards as is claimed.
Then you're a fool. The catch is the "adopt trade-secrets protections."
I know from personal experience that an employer can turn effectively any montage of trivial business practices into a "trade secret" strong enough to crush a competitor that hires a former employee. When I mean crush I mean obliterate; they can sue your new employer or start-up out of existence and walk away with the trademarks and copyrights.
Unlike a most non-competes and all patents, trade secrets are not limited in time. Under a strong enough trade-secret regime you can be sued by any employer for whom you've ever worked.
I guess this is the sort of thing BadAnalogyGuy is supposed to handle, but he wandered off years ago so here goes............
After Stalin died in '53 a large number of zeks were amnestied from Soviet gulags. And while not all of the gulags were shut, so many victims were released that the critical mass necessary to sustain the gulag culture collapsed and the gulag culture, central to the lives of so many Russians, lost its vitality. Those that were not released were left to the ravages of forced labor, sans the support network they'd relied on for years.
Navel gazers. I swear to God. I really hate to say it but this demented shit is exactly what Hanns Johst had in mind when he wrote (approximately); "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning."
Why the hell does an inert slug encased in a discarding sabot cost twenty grand?
The only way these get cheap is if we have to make a lot of them to fight a war. Be thankful we only have to deal with low-rate peacetime economics where the development costs of unique tooling gets amortized across a small number of prototype rail gun slugs creating a big per-unit price tag that causes fools to go apoplectic.
Slashdot Mirror
Hurricanes impacting the US have been on the decline for decades. The warmists wanted to start naming hurricanes after congressional "deniers" in 2013. Only problem was we didn't get any. At least none worth trying to use for political demagoguery.
such an event would take a long list of intentional actions taken by a team of people
Which is precisely what happened at V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station, a.k.a Chernobyl.
Didn't somebody else say there are about 10 identical plants
No, nobody said their are 10 identical plants. I said their are about 10 other RMBKs operating in Russia. The actual number is 11 and the list is here.
None of these reactors are "identical." They've all incorporated various design changes during construction and retrofits since. Regardless, they all have a high positive void coefficient and low power instability. Operated incorrectly every one of them is still capable of exploding and burning and their containment is no better than Chernobyl's.
The GP can somehow claim that won't happen, and I lack the crystal ball that says hes wrong, but there is nothing in physics that precludes another RMBK steam explosion.
but they are taking responsibility for the mess
The EU is paying for the new shelter, not Russia or Ukraine. The construction of the old shelter/sarcophagus is a lie. They're still running about 10 of these RMBKs in Russia proper.
And somehow, in your mind, this qualifies as "taking responsibility."
turn the tide of popular opinion
The problem of popular opinion about nuclear is a symptom of cheap fossil fuels. Give people a little energy scarcity and they'll warm right up to nuclear. Until then they'll indulge the the nuclear hysteria they've been trained with.
Drawing down strategic weapons is a part of the "peace dividend" in the public mind. What "dividend" is the public supposed to believe will appear by making energy into an expensive luxury? This analogy is just bogus.
Obviously you are opposed to state rights
The fact that Nevada et al. are sovereign and have used that power to preclude waste storage doesn't immunize them from being ridiculed for it. Reid and rest are free to govern their states in whatever idiotic and reprehensible way they see fit. I said nothing to the contrary and whatever has you thinking I did is a figment of your fevered imagination.
One person
Guess you somehow missed the "...and the libtard moonbeamers..." part. I don't attribute all of this idiocy to one person. I attribute it him AND the millions of fuckwit constituents that support him.
You've got some reading comprehension issues.
Yucca Mountain is full
Ok. Whatever source of information has led you to that belief ...... never go back there. Just don't. They've messed you up and you must get away from them.
Seriously.
In fact there is no waste inside Yucca mountain. Zero.
The only thing we've stored in Yucca mountain is bullshit from Harry Reid and the libtard moonbeamers that run this pathetic romper room country. We keep it there because he is old and when he dies we'll need a continuing supply Harry Reid's bullshit to keep the system running. There is enough bullshit stored in Yucca mountain to keep the system operating for approximately 20 years, during which time we will have to develop a new source of bullshit and transition our system to this new bullshit supply.
Activists SHOULD set the evil bit to zero (0) while hunting violators of pollution regulations and other worthy causes. The cops MUST set the evil bit to one (1) while abusing power. At other times the cops MAY set the evil bit to zero (0), especially when gathering evidence on rich people, gun owners, for-profit corporations and non-compliant ranchers.
obvious question — why
For people that actually drive and must cope with vehicles that effectively have no driver because cell-phone there is nothing compelling about your question; the answer is self-evident.
Bye bye boys!
Have fun storming the castle.
(think it'll work?)
(it would take a miracle...)
Bye Byyyye
What's the problem?
A lot of these people have shit colored glasses bolted to their skulls. Combine this with an irrational hate for anything corporate and there you go; petulant little office trolls emoting on Slashdot.
Theo et al. have and are publically seeking for both individual and corporate support for both the OpenBSD Foundation and LibreSSL, and are specifically seeking a "Stable Commitment of Funding."
Unlike some of the malcontents that haunt Slashdot, they actually spend their time writing open source code. As such, they are painfully aware that large scale open source work is not actually the exclusive product of self funding trust fund rebels.
or if somebody is wearing a hoodie
That naturally brings to mind Travon/Zimmerman. Had their been infrared aerial surveillance of that scene then better evidence would have been available to the jury about exactly who was closing to engage with whom that night.
Hoddie or not.
No, this is not advocacy for surveilling everything, but the "hoddie" argument is weak and poor arguments need to be avoided. The statists will get their way anyhow, but we don't need to make it easy for them.
couldn't run nor catch a ball
Yeah, that's what they said. Now we've got a nation full of lard asses piling into SSI disability because their bodies are ruined.
Fifteen years from now we'll have all that plus they'll be profoundly nearsighted from excessive iPhone use starting at age 2.
Did anyone actually die from that?
Hard to say which "mass violence spree" involving a knife the GP has in mind.
Perhaps he is thinking of the one from 9 hours ago where five students were stabbed to death in Calgery, Canada.
But who knows.... Outlaw Guns! herp derp
You know what they say about correlation/causation right?
I know cop-outs when I hear them.
Sometimes I even have the strange thought that energy conservation ideas hurt society's growth. It would be almost better if we used more power in the short term so energy could invest in itself and provide more power at lower costs down the road. I mean it is better to conserve electricity, but I don't hear people championing the idea of creating a global energy surplus.
The nations with the highest power consumption have ceased excessive breeding. They're all near or below replacement population growth among their indigenous population.
That right there is an outstanding argument for surplus energy.
A degree of conservation is a fine thing, but it's also a cop-out and a means of comfortable people to pull up the ladder behind themselves. Our millions of elite Al Gores will always live comfortably regardless of how hungry and cold they make you. Thousands of elderly Briton pensioners are learning all about that as the UK inflicts energy poverty on them.
Oh look at the outrage.
Cops, fire fighters, city managers and the rest routinely gouge huge chunks of money out of city and state governments in the US. Most of the time they get a pass. After all, why shouldn't some LA assistant chief pull $260k a year bilking double and triple time hours recorded while getting dressed for work? That's nothing compared to some evil capitalist pig-dog bankster. Right?
That's the rationale, anyhow. So now this culture of corruption has gone and created a way to launder some of their bribes through a charity. And we're supposed to go all pitchfork and lick-spittle about it?
Selective outrage. That's all it is.
the government will never give you more than what was agreed on
Contractors routinely soak the federal government for billions in overruns. You happen work for a peon outfit that lacks the leverage to get away with it. France et al. have a little more pull.
How hard can it be to make a budget plan and stick to it?
I'm afraid that is naive. In the real world the figures are low-balled to get signatures knowing that once the commitments are made and the real figures are revealed backing out will be politically difficult for the funding parties.
This isn't the last cost bump either. There will be more as the years pass, each carefully calculated to be just feasible politically.
Right now they can get away with bigger bumps because Obama et al. have never seen a demand for money from Europe they weren't eager to cover. This extra few billion might involve one whole phone call from Hollande if things get rough. More likely it will be pencil-whipped through by the NSF or whatever other TLAs are involved.
$3.9E+09.... about four days of Fed money printing.
Perhaps we could forego half a weeks worth of bubble inflation and fund it that way.
62% of the Canadians who bothered to vote, voted against this government, so we have the tyranny of the minority
Remember the days before Harper when Canada's electoral system was incessantly lauded as the obviously superior system? Since conservatives took power that view has not been offered as frequently around here.
All those proud anti-Harper Canadians must be languishing is some NWT gulag where they can't post that stuff anymore... it couldn't be that they forgot how wonderful their system is when it fails to produce their preferred outcome.
No way!
I'm told mainstream media outfits like CBS are the exclusive property of profits-before-all Corporate America and its free market, planet wrecking, right wing fat-cat captain of industry one-percent types.
So, either Colbert is a sell-out, or the MSM is nothing like as hostile to libtards as is claimed.
Which is it?
I fully support this.
Then you're a fool. The catch is the "adopt trade-secrets protections."
I know from personal experience that an employer can turn effectively any montage of trivial business practices into a "trade secret" strong enough to crush a competitor that hires a former employee. When I mean crush I mean obliterate; they can sue your new employer or start-up out of existence and walk away with the trademarks and copyrights.
Unlike a most non-competes and all patents, trade secrets are not limited in time. Under a strong enough trade-secret regime you can be sued by any employer for whom you've ever worked.
I guess this is the sort of thing BadAnalogyGuy is supposed to handle, but he wandered off years ago so here goes............
After Stalin died in '53 a large number of zeks were amnestied from Soviet gulags. And while not all of the gulags were shut, so many victims were released that the critical mass necessary to sustain the gulag culture collapsed and the gulag culture, central to the lives of so many Russians, lost its vitality. Those that were not released were left to the ravages of forced labor, sans the support network they'd relied on for years.
Navel gazers. I swear to God. I really hate to say it but this demented shit is exactly what Hanns Johst had in mind when he wrote (approximately); "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning."
Why the hell does an inert slug encased in a discarding sabot cost twenty grand?
The only way these get cheap is if we have to make a lot of them to fight a war. Be thankful we only have to deal with low-rate peacetime economics where the development costs of unique tooling gets amortized across a small number of prototype rail gun slugs creating a big per-unit price tag that causes fools to go apoplectic.