Shutting down IFR research to indulge nuclear hysteria? Democrats Shutting down Yucca Mountain with no scientific justification? Democrats Cancelling the Superconducting Super Collider? Democrats
We could have had the Higgs Boson over 15 years ago. We got Clinton instead.
Broken. Right there. The only worthwhile solution has no transfer of payment instrument credentials. None, ever. No numbers, no PINs, no CVVs, no expiration dates. Nothing.
That's done with a broker. That's how Paypal works and that's how Bitcoin works. The fact that credit cards don't work that way is indifference on the part of banks. Banks fail to provide and alternative to handing over the keys to random and sundry knuckleheads and their insecure systems.
Until transactions are performed through a bank run broker such that the retailer NEVER GETS THEIR PAWS ON ACCOUNT CREDENTIALS, it's all a waste of time. I blame the banks; Target episodes are inevitable as long as the banks fail to provide an alternative to having retailers schlep around account credentials.
then what's to stop them from passing a law banning homosexual activity?
The Supreme Court obviated all such laws ("sodomy", etc.) in 2003. California could pass such a law, but it would be found unconstitutional rather quickly. Also, as history has demonstrated, anti-homosexual laws can't pass in California; California voters and their representatives don't support such laws, either as ballot initiatives or as bills in the legislature. The reason you don't understand this is because you been trained to conflate opposition to gay marriage with hate for homosexuality.
A stupid question instantly modded +5.... if there is a mod-point cabal, you are certainly involved.
But go ahead, keep attributing opposition to the Koch brothers or some other libtard boogeyman. The more time you spend barking up the wrong tree the better.
This "food security" tripe has been the rationale for more laws and taxes by the exact same bunch of statists that have us burning 40% of our corn crop for fuel. The fact that more people see through this nonsense isn't terribly mysterious.
The Russian oil oligarchs want the natural gas deposits
They also want don't want a hostile government in Ukraine governing over the gas and oil pipelines that run through Ukraine to the rest of Europe.
The regulars of Slashdot have no difficultly connecting every single policy or action of the US to oil. When Putin and the Russians pull something, however, they get the benefit of the doubt and no rationalization is too outrageous or implausible to be offered.
As for this thread generally; I've seen a few of these "I thought we were better than this now" replies since Putin moved on Crimea. It's frustrating that peace and prosperity produces such naivety. We've accumulated about 60 years worth of la-la land mentality and it's not good for us.
I'm not even sure what "unfairly tough and racially biased requirements" means
Unfairly tough and racially biased requirements are whatever is required of or tested for among people that are employed by some segment of the workforce that exhibits an incorrect ratio of racial participation.
For example, since New York fire department minority applicants tended to fail the entrance exam at a higher rate than white applicants the entrance examine is, by definition, racially biased. When medical school requirements are found to impede racial quotas the solution is to create separate standards by race that specify "adjusted" MCAT and GPA figures to correct for systemic bias. The fact that the scores required of black/latino students are significantly lower than those of white/asian students DOES NOT INDICATE A LOWERING OF STANDARDS. Oh no. Rather, the lower score reflect the degree of inherent racial bias in the education system.
Got it?
The IT industry has escaped the good graces of contemporary racial justice for too long, as illustrated by your naivety. We welcome the good Reverend Jackson to the den of racial iniquity that is Silicon Valley and we look forward to the application of racial fairness we know he'll provide, and we're certain you do as well.
How much sludge does a company have to pour into a river before the government not only takes notice but does something about it?
TVA is wholly owned by the federal government. The federally owned earthen embankments were known to be leaking by the federally funded TVA employees for years before the slurry that the federal government was responsible for containing broke lose.
If only the US hadn't antagonized Stalin the Soviets wouldn't have built nukes and the world would be at peace. Shame on us.
Also, the US Military Industrial Complex is using Putin to scare the US into a defense build-up; the Russians are innocent pawns of US capitalists and none of this is their fault.
That should about cover it. Please forgo repeating the above in 80% of the threads that follow. Thanks.
For Fukushima you're talking about a far smaller dose.
That's not the case. The total radiation released by Fukushima Daiichi is far smaller than Mayak or Chernobyl, but there are concentrations of radiation (from Cs-137 and Cs-134) as high as 30M Bq/m2 in the several kilometers of land Northwest of Fukushima Daiichi. This is equivalent 0.8 millicuries which puts it into the ballpark of the Urals EURT areas of 1.8-3.4 millicuries that were studied by the Soviets; high enough to measurably effect the life cycle of saprophage.
Only one problem, during the terrorist attack the entire building was destroyed by a volcano.
The land around Fukushima Daiichi does not fit your terrorist+volcano analogy. The land and around the plant is foothills and the water did not get far inland. The plant itself was build only after the site had been graded to within ~10m of sea level (which is probably the single biggest mistake implicated in the whole event.) So the surface fallout may be studied just fine.
The sea around Fukushima Daiichi may also be meaningfully studied despite the tsunami. One need only establish control areas that are similar to the Fukushima Daiichi area but well away; kilometers or tens of kilometers north and south of the plant and relatively free of radioactive contaminants. Post tsunami recovery of organisms may then be studied and comparisons between Fukushima Daiichi and these control areas can be made.
FYI: this work has been started and is ongoing. Unlike the Soviet case we won't have to wait decades for the cover-up to finally fail and the results to appear, either. Japanese and Western researchers are eager to publish about Fukushima Daiichi.
When the Soviets contaminated over 800 square kilometers with high levels of Strontium 90 in their first big nuclear disaster, post Lysenko geneticists and biologists studied the effects of this radiation on the entire biocoenosis. Z. A. Medvedev wrote about the results of this work in his book, Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (ch.8):
The given contamination levels (1.8-3.4 millicuries per square meter) were highly destructive for soil animals. Predatory beetles suffered least; their numbers in the contaminated area were reduced to only 66 percent of the figure in the control area. Non-predatory beetles, beetle larvae, and other insects that feed on plants (phytophaga) suffered the most; their numbers fell to 56 percent of those in the control area. Soil animals that feed on organic products in the soil (where the highest level of strontium concentration was found)—the saprophages—died out almost completely; their numbers fell to 1 percent of the control group. Taxonomically, the groups studied were Aranea, Mollusca, Lithoblidae, Geophilidae, Lumbricidae, and Diplopoda.
So small critters in the soil that eat leaves are highly sensitive to radioactive contamination. This has been known for a long time now; at least 40 years. Your skepticism is misplaced; that Chernobyl should have caused a big die-out among the creatures the decompose detritus is entirely predictable. Wait a few years and you'll get to read about the same thing around Fukushima, only there we'll learn about the effects on marine life as well.
I am surprised by the people complaining about the price hike.
People don't complain about price hikes in Australia? What are you using for money down there? Friendly smiles? You just grin bigger to cover higher costs? I'll bet that makes your face hurt.
There probably isn't a supply of bio-diesel in the capitol, so they'd have to chopper in the fuel. There is already an ample supply of Jet-A to fuel our hypothetical bio-diesel choppers due to the squadron of giant Marine One Sikorskys the president uses to fly to and from either of his 747s.
So yeah, a bio-diesel car could work among all those turbines, and it'll give the greentards another fine token to hang their hat on.
But since Washington D.C. already has an ample supply of electricity from its notoriously dirty 100+ year old coal burning power station, using a battery powered limo is probably the better choice. Then they can forgo the whole bio-diesel chopper supply thing and nothing says you love the "environment" quite like a genuine coal-powered car.
I'm amazed that anyone who considers themselves a freedom loving American
Likewise. It would be interesting to actually analyze the "ads" that Facebook has actually removed. My bet is they fall into three categories; thug life types passing around $50 zinc belly guns, the fabulously stupid, and all of the above. Competent gun owners don't resell guns on fucking Facebook.
Anyhow, precious few of us will be the least bit upset about Facebook's little manufactured controversy. Corporate anti-gun grandstanding is about as novel as Guardian stories on Israeli "crimes."
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First, they made it so you had to update your DNS record once a month to avoid being cancelled
For the record, the first impediment I encountered was requiring a valid credit card to establish a free account.
15 years..... some of the users they're trying to monetize weren't born when dyndns started this deal.
Shutting down IFR research to indulge nuclear hysteria? Democrats
Shutting down Yucca Mountain with no scientific justification? Democrats
Cancelling the Superconducting Super Collider? Democrats
We could have had the Higgs Boson over 15 years ago. We got Clinton instead.
Keep knock'n back that kool-aid son.
chaotic pile of shit known as South America
New Orleans had several days of warning. Not hours.
But yeah. Bush's fault. And stuff.
see the card once
Broken. Right there. The only worthwhile solution has no transfer of payment instrument credentials. None, ever. No numbers, no PINs, no CVVs, no expiration dates. Nothing.
That's done with a broker. That's how Paypal works and that's how Bitcoin works. The fact that credit cards don't work that way is indifference on the part of banks. Banks fail to provide and alternative to handing over the keys to random and sundry knuckleheads and their insecure systems.
Until transactions are performed through a bank run broker such that the retailer NEVER GETS THEIR PAWS ON ACCOUNT CREDENTIALS, it's all a waste of time. I blame the banks; Target episodes are inevitable as long as the banks fail to provide an alternative to having retailers schlep around account credentials.
then what's to stop them from passing a law banning homosexual activity?
The Supreme Court obviated all such laws ("sodomy", etc.) in 2003. California could pass such a law, but it would be found unconstitutional rather quickly. Also, as history has demonstrated, anti-homosexual laws can't pass in California; California voters and their representatives don't support such laws, either as ballot initiatives or as bills in the legislature. The reason you don't understand this is because you been trained to conflate opposition to gay marriage with hate for homosexuality.
Out of curiousity, are you paid?
A stupid question instantly modded +5.... if there is a mod-point cabal, you are certainly involved.
But go ahead, keep attributing opposition to the Koch brothers or some other libtard boogeyman. The more time you spend barking up the wrong tree the better.
This "food security" tripe has been the rationale for more laws and taxes by the exact same bunch of statists that have us burning 40% of our corn crop for fuel. The fact that more people see through this nonsense isn't terribly mysterious.
They would have "missed" Tsarnaev if he had a siren and a pink neon "TERRORIST" sign bolted to his forehead. Re: Nidal Hasan.
They only miss things they aren't interested in finding.
The Russian oil oligarchs want the natural gas deposits
They also want don't want a hostile government in Ukraine governing over the gas and oil pipelines that run through Ukraine to the rest of Europe.
The regulars of Slashdot have no difficultly connecting every single policy or action of the US to oil. When Putin and the Russians pull something, however, they get the benefit of the doubt and no rationalization is too outrageous or implausible to be offered.
As for this thread generally; I've seen a few of these "I thought we were better than this now" replies since Putin moved on Crimea. It's frustrating that peace and prosperity produces such naivety. We've accumulated about 60 years worth of la-la land mentality and it's not good for us.
So go on Putin. Start some shit. We need it.
NOTHING to do with Canonical at all.
Yet there is Mark Shuttleworth, replying the same day to this supposedly "personal" blog with:
It was amazing to me that competitors would take potshots at the fantastic free software work of the Mir team
But hey... that's Google+, not ubuntu.com or whatever, so that's got nothing to do with Canonical either. Right?
I'm not even sure what "unfairly tough and racially biased requirements" means
Unfairly tough and racially biased requirements are whatever is required of or tested for among people that are employed by some segment of the workforce that exhibits an incorrect ratio of racial participation.
For example, since New York fire department minority applicants tended to fail the entrance exam at a higher rate than white applicants the entrance examine is, by definition, racially biased. When medical school requirements are found to impede racial quotas the solution is to create separate standards by race that specify "adjusted" MCAT and GPA figures to correct for systemic bias. The fact that the scores required of black/latino students are significantly lower than those of white/asian students DOES NOT INDICATE A LOWERING OF STANDARDS. Oh no. Rather, the lower score reflect the degree of inherent racial bias in the education system.
Got it?
The IT industry has escaped the good graces of contemporary racial justice for too long, as illustrated by your naivety. We welcome the good Reverend Jackson to the den of racial iniquity that is Silicon Valley and we look forward to the application of racial fairness we know he'll provide, and we're certain you do as well.
hire unqualified people just because they are black or latino
If minority candidates aren't qualified then the problem is unfairly tough and racially biased requirements. Get your mind right.
Last time I checked
If you had checked anytime since about 1976 you might have discovered this.
How much sludge does a company have to pour into a river before the government not only takes notice but does something about it?
TVA is wholly owned by the federal government. The federally owned earthen embankments were known to be leaking by the federally funded TVA employees for years before the slurry that the federal government was responsible for containing broke lose.
If only the US hadn't antagonized Stalin the Soviets wouldn't have built nukes and the world would be at peace. Shame on us.
Also, the US Military Industrial Complex is using Putin to scare the US into a defense build-up; the Russians are innocent pawns of US capitalists and none of this is their fault.
That should about cover it. Please forgo repeating the above in 80% of the threads that follow. Thanks.
For Fukushima you're talking about a far smaller dose.
That's not the case. The total radiation released by Fukushima Daiichi is far smaller than Mayak or Chernobyl, but there are concentrations of radiation (from Cs-137 and Cs-134) as high as 30M Bq/m2 in the several kilometers of land Northwest of Fukushima Daiichi. This is equivalent 0.8 millicuries which puts it into the ballpark of the Urals EURT areas of 1.8-3.4 millicuries that were studied by the Soviets; high enough to measurably effect the life cycle of saprophage.
Only one problem, during the terrorist attack the entire building was destroyed by a volcano.
The land around Fukushima Daiichi does not fit your terrorist+volcano analogy. The land and around the plant is foothills and the water did not get far inland. The plant itself was build only after the site had been graded to within ~10m of sea level (which is probably the single biggest mistake implicated in the whole event.) So the surface fallout may be studied just fine.
The sea around Fukushima Daiichi may also be meaningfully studied despite the tsunami. One need only establish control areas that are similar to the Fukushima Daiichi area but well away; kilometers or tens of kilometers north and south of the plant and relatively free of radioactive contaminants. Post tsunami recovery of organisms may then be studied and comparisons between Fukushima Daiichi and these control areas can be made.
FYI: this work has been started and is ongoing. Unlike the Soviet case we won't have to wait decades for the cover-up to finally fail and the results to appear, either. Japanese and Western researchers are eager to publish about Fukushima Daiichi.
When the Soviets contaminated over 800 square kilometers with high levels of Strontium 90 in their first big nuclear disaster, post Lysenko geneticists and biologists studied the effects of this radiation on the entire biocoenosis. Z. A. Medvedev wrote about the results of this work in his book, Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (ch.8):
The given contamination levels (1.8-3.4 millicuries per square meter) were highly destructive for soil animals. Predatory beetles suffered least; their numbers in the contaminated area were reduced to only 66 percent of the figure in the control area. Non-predatory beetles, beetle larvae, and other insects that feed on plants (phytophaga) suffered the most; their numbers fell to 56 percent of those in the control area. Soil animals that feed on organic products in the soil (where the highest level of strontium concentration was found)—the saprophages—died out almost completely; their numbers fell to 1 percent of the control group. Taxonomically, the groups studied were Aranea, Mollusca, Lithoblidae, Geophilidae, Lumbricidae, and Diplopoda.
So small critters in the soil that eat leaves are highly sensitive to radioactive contamination. This has been known for a long time now; at least 40 years. Your skepticism is misplaced; that Chernobyl should have caused a big die-out among the creatures the decompose detritus is entirely predictable. Wait a few years and you'll get to read about the same thing around Fukushima, only there we'll learn about the effects on marine life as well.
I am surprised by the people complaining about the price hike.
People don't complain about price hikes in Australia? What are you using for money down there? Friendly smiles? You just grin bigger to cover higher costs? I'll bet that makes your face hurt.
There probably isn't a supply of bio-diesel in the capitol, so they'd have to chopper in the fuel. There is already an ample supply of Jet-A to fuel our hypothetical bio-diesel choppers due to the squadron of giant Marine One Sikorskys the president uses to fly to and from either of his 747s.
So yeah, a bio-diesel car could work among all those turbines, and it'll give the greentards another fine token to hang their hat on.
But since Washington D.C. already has an ample supply of electricity from its notoriously dirty 100+ year old coal burning power station, using a battery powered limo is probably the better choice. Then they can forgo the whole bio-diesel chopper supply thing and nothing says you love the "environment" quite like a genuine coal-powered car.
When the EBT cards quit working after we print our currency down the drain you're going to find out what the problem is. You are going to find out.
I'm amazed that anyone who considers themselves a freedom loving American
Likewise. It would be interesting to actually analyze the "ads" that Facebook has actually removed. My bet is they fall into three categories; thug life types passing around $50 zinc belly guns, the fabulously stupid, and all of the above. Competent gun owners don't resell guns on fucking Facebook.
Anyhow, precious few of us will be the least bit upset about Facebook's little manufactured controversy. Corporate anti-gun grandstanding is about as novel as Guardian stories on Israeli "crimes."
The two are basically the same, or so the physiologists tell us.
Foxconn is Apple morality. They've made exploiting Asia so profitable they can afford to green-wash their domestic operations.
If it's good enough for commercial aircraft it's good enough for your car.
They'll have to fund some R&D instead of padding TEPCO retirement portfolios. Not the worst thing that could happen.