If this uranium solution was intended for a Naval nuclear reactor, the voices in my head tell me that it would be at about 97% enrichment. Critical mass for U-235 in a sphere is 50 kg according to Wikipedia. At 9 gallons spilled, let's assume 4000 cubic centimeters per gallon (not exact). Uranium has a density of 19 grams/cc. Do the math and that works out to about 680 kg. Now that doesn't really correspond to the sphere figure, since it's in solution and thus forms a plane (*MUCH* narrower cross section for neutron fission), but it's definitely a major fuckup.
I doubt this is an administration issue. *Any* information relating to the Navy's nuke program is classified, and has been since the days of the Rosenbergs. If something of this magnitude got leaked, then it was a gross failure of the system. (Whether it was morally right for them to have classified something like this is another issue entirely.)
That's generally what they do. I don't think that Wal-Mart actually does the censoring in question. (Why would they? They just make their displeasure known and the record companies bend over backwards to get their sales dollars.) Some artists just prefer to bleep, record backwards, or whatnot as opposed to recording alternate lyrics (and some, like Eminem, do both depending on the song).
Personally, I think it's a little silly. Wal-Mart has no problem selling R-rated movies, M-rated games, tobacco or alcohol (and all of them are flagged for an ID check). What makes music so different?
What claim do the Cuban or North Korean people (or for that matter, the Chinese, the Iranian, or daresay the Iraqis) have that must be paid for with our blood and tax dollars?
For that matter, the degree of oppression sounds like a red herring to me. What was fundamentally true in the American Revolution, and considerably less so in our modern-day nation building boondoggles, is that the ideas of personal liberty and democracy (as an extension of liberty, not as an axiom in and of itself, which is something neither the Right nor the Left seem to get nowadays) were well-entrenched. The philosophical and sociological ideas of writers like John Locke and Thomas Paine were widely read and understood. Can one say the same for China (not just under the CCP, but also the KMT and Imperial governments)? Or North Korea? Cuba? The Middle East? Really, any attempt to intervene in the name of "freedom" where the ideas of personal liberty and individual rights are seen as ludicrous (or even blasphemous) is a complete waste of time.
However, the two (power concerns and enviornmental concerns) are not separate. If condenser outlet temperature (controlled by both the plant and inlet temperature) gets too high, smaller marine life will die. Some of it will die in the actual condenser tubes, creating a nasty scale that will make it even harder to transfer heat to the sink. Eventually, they have to shutdown anyways and blast all the condenser tubes clean.
True enough. When I was on a 688 up in the Arctic Circle, the plant was *much* more efficient than it was down in the Bahamas. Too bad we couldn't say the same thing about the crew...
It's not just fish. Smaller aquatic life tends to die off and do so in a manner that clogs the (narrow) condenser tubes and/or forming a scale that retards further heat transfer, necessitating shutdown and an injury-waiting-to-happen commonly known as a "hydro lance".
I think looking towards institutional change as the prime mover is a rather concrete-bound way of looking at things. The main factor in the Industrial Revolution, IMO, was the Enlightenment. The industrial progress happened on the back of scientific progress, because the best minds were convinced that the world perceived by the senses was in fact the one worthy of study, as opposed to esoteric questions of angels and sewing apparati. The "work ethic" in question was a product of the selfsame atrophy of religion. The peasant of the Middle Ages may have had an intense physical burden, but it was the burden of his fathers and grandfathers and such long before him, with little change. The size of the burden, and the inevitable famine, disease, and death were simply his God's will, and his reward was a place in his God's heaven. With the idea that our life on this Earth was something worthwhile in and of itself came the idea that productive labor was necessary to sustain, and attempt to improve that life.
Why should health care be based upon need? Will a patient's need push the car of the doctor who heals him? Will it put food on the table of the nurse who watches over him? Will it pay for the education of the children of those who provide the drugs, the surgical instruments, the rubber gloves and toungue depressors? Will it give me value for the money I am forced to pay to supply them with their *need*?
Drop everything but the first two sentences and I think you've got yourself a plan. Free market healthcare hasn't really existed in the US since the introduction of Medicare (and its coercive price structure that still drives up costs for the rest of us today). It's a moral crime to demand anyone's goods or services without offering something in trade, and a greater moral crime to use the coercive power of government to make it happen.
If you're referring to the NX bit, 32-bit Linux supports it for K8+ as well. As for performance, I doubt she'd notice the difference, more registers or not.
Web browsers would be in the clear because they have, in the words of the US Supreme Court in the Betamax case, "substantial non-infringing uses." I doubt a p2p network like Napster met that standard (facilitating distribution instead of personal time, space, or media-shifting), and I doubt that Automatix would meet that standard as well, at least in regard to libdvdcss or w32 codecs.
Personally, I think that xterm sucks ass compared to aterm/rxvt. Granted, konsole, gnome-terminal and the like can all take a long walk off a short pier...
On top of that, does it really matter? Is this all just some massive multi-level marketing scheme where we distrust our own judgment enough that we have to convert the whole neighborhood too? I love Linux/BSD, I use FreeBSD for my main OS and have for quite some time, and honestly, I really don't give a goddamn what anybody else runs. Friends and family want to run Windows/OSX? Hey, when it breaks, just say "I'm more of a Linux guy" and leave 'em to their own devices.
Sure, the whole "Free Software" thing is nice, and it would be great to free more and more people from the evil clutches of proprietary software. But with more "desktop penetration", proprietary software quickly becomes the big selling point. PCLinuxOS is basically Mandriva with all the proprietary stuff turned on; same for Mint and Ubuntu. Ubuntu sets up non-kosher vidcards and wireless by default now. And even that isn't good enough, with the users wanting more and more. The fact that the base OS is free isn't going to turn people on to free software in general.
And finally, when does Linux/BSD stop being really good *nix and start being a watered down Windows/OSX clone? The AIGLX/Compiz thing, which was one of the few really interesting innovations, quickly decayed into Expose and 7000 variations on the Vista theme. If I had to choose between 0.4% of the market using Linux, and loving it for what it is, and 40% of the market wanting "free Windows" and ready to desert at the first hint of a CLI, I'll take the former anytime.
Tried the last few releases of Wine? It's been able to install and run for almost a year now without any patching or XOver/Cedega bullshit. Granted, the last patch broke me on FreeBSD, but still...
Singles have always been the dominant form; it's just that the record industry hasn't found a way to cater to that market since the 45 RPM record bit the dust.
Why do you think the *BSD port is called Project Evil? I had to deal with ndiswrapper for a Marvell card I had (did you know that some people think running cables along the floor makes a hallway look bad?) and it was utter pain. I've got an Atheros card using madwifi now; it's not a hell of a lot better on Linux, but FreeBSD (my main OS) supports it natively due to their "Heinz 57" kernel licensing policy.
You know, you don't have to compile everything. There's sites like linuxpackages.net that offer binary packages. You check dependencies (they show them for you) download, install, and they like, work and stuff. Running backwards through dependencies can be a bit of a pain if they're deeply nested (although I've never seen them get more than 1 or 2 levels deep, probably thanks to the good library selection present in Slack). When I was running 10.2 on my main box, I had multimedia, codecs, and such ready to go in half an hour.
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If this uranium solution was intended for a Naval nuclear reactor, the voices in my head tell me that it would be at about 97% enrichment. Critical mass for U-235 in a sphere is 50 kg according to Wikipedia. At 9 gallons spilled, let's assume 4000 cubic centimeters per gallon (not exact). Uranium has a density of 19 grams/cc. Do the math and that works out to about 680 kg. Now that doesn't really correspond to the sphere figure, since it's in solution and thus forms a plane (*MUCH* narrower cross section for neutron fission), but it's definitely a major fuckup.
I doubt this is an administration issue. *Any* information relating to the Navy's nuke program is classified, and has been since the days of the Rosenbergs. If something of this magnitude got leaked, then it was a gross failure of the system. (Whether it was morally right for them to have classified something like this is another issue entirely.)
That's generally what they do. I don't think that Wal-Mart actually does the censoring in question. (Why would they? They just make their displeasure known and the record companies bend over backwards to get their sales dollars.) Some artists just prefer to bleep, record backwards, or whatnot as opposed to recording alternate lyrics (and some, like Eminem, do both depending on the song).
Personally, I think it's a little silly. Wal-Mart has no problem selling R-rated movies, M-rated games, tobacco or alcohol (and all of them are flagged for an ID check). What makes music so different?
What claim do the Cuban or North Korean people (or for that matter, the Chinese, the Iranian, or daresay the Iraqis) have that must be paid for with our blood and tax dollars?
For that matter, the degree of oppression sounds like a red herring to me. What was fundamentally true in the American Revolution, and considerably less so in our modern-day nation building boondoggles, is that the ideas of personal liberty and democracy (as an extension of liberty, not as an axiom in and of itself, which is something neither the Right nor the Left seem to get nowadays) were well-entrenched. The philosophical and sociological ideas of writers like John Locke and Thomas Paine were widely read and understood. Can one say the same for China (not just under the CCP, but also the KMT and Imperial governments)? Or North Korea? Cuba? The Middle East? Really, any attempt to intervene in the name of "freedom" where the ideas of personal liberty and individual rights are seen as ludicrous (or even blasphemous) is a complete waste of time.
Ironically enough, I drive a big environmentally-unfriendly 3/4 ton diesel pickup, and what do I do with it? I go repair wind turbines.
However, the two (power concerns and enviornmental concerns) are not separate. If condenser outlet temperature (controlled by both the plant and inlet temperature) gets too high, smaller marine life will die. Some of it will die in the actual condenser tubes, creating a nasty scale that will make it even harder to transfer heat to the sink. Eventually, they have to shutdown anyways and blast all the condenser tubes clean.
True enough. When I was on a 688 up in the Arctic Circle, the plant was *much* more efficient than it was down in the Bahamas. Too bad we couldn't say the same thing about the crew...
It's not just fish. Smaller aquatic life tends to die off and do so in a manner that clogs the (narrow) condenser tubes and/or forming a scale that retards further heat transfer, necessitating shutdown and an injury-waiting-to-happen commonly known as a "hydro lance".
Why don't they just replace Rickover's tombstone with a large magnet, and generate power from the somersaults he's doing in his grave?
I think looking towards institutional change as the prime mover is a rather concrete-bound way of looking at things. The main factor in the Industrial Revolution, IMO, was the Enlightenment. The industrial progress happened on the back of scientific progress, because the best minds were convinced that the world perceived by the senses was in fact the one worthy of study, as opposed to esoteric questions of angels and sewing apparati. The "work ethic" in question was a product of the selfsame atrophy of religion. The peasant of the Middle Ages may have had an intense physical burden, but it was the burden of his fathers and grandfathers and such long before him, with little change. The size of the burden, and the inevitable famine, disease, and death were simply his God's will, and his reward was a place in his God's heaven. With the idea that our life on this Earth was something worthwhile in and of itself came the idea that productive labor was necessary to sustain, and attempt to improve that life.
Why should health care be based upon need? Will a patient's need push the car of the doctor who heals him? Will it put food on the table of the nurse who watches over him? Will it pay for the education of the children of those who provide the drugs, the surgical instruments, the rubber gloves and toungue depressors? Will it give me value for the money I am forced to pay to supply them with their *need*?
Drop everything but the first two sentences and I think you've got yourself a plan. Free market healthcare hasn't really existed in the US since the introduction of Medicare (and its coercive price structure that still drives up costs for the rest of us today). It's a moral crime to demand anyone's goods or services without offering something in trade, and a greater moral crime to use the coercive power of government to make it happen.
If you're referring to the NX bit, 32-bit Linux supports it for K8+ as well. As for performance, I doubt she'd notice the difference, more registers or not.
Web browsers would be in the clear because they have, in the words of the US Supreme Court in the Betamax case, "substantial non-infringing uses." I doubt a p2p network like Napster met that standard (facilitating distribution instead of personal time, space, or media-shifting), and I doubt that Automatix would meet that standard as well, at least in regard to libdvdcss or w32 codecs.
Will it spam Sunder Armor too?
Wrong. XP was NT 5.1, Windows Server 2003 was NT 5.2, and Vista is NT 6.0
Personally, I think that xterm sucks ass compared to aterm/rxvt. Granted, konsole, gnome-terminal and the like can all take a long walk off a short pier...
On top of that, does it really matter? Is this all just some massive multi-level marketing scheme where we distrust our own judgment enough that we have to convert the whole neighborhood too? I love Linux/BSD, I use FreeBSD for my main OS and have for quite some time, and honestly, I really don't give a goddamn what anybody else runs. Friends and family want to run Windows/OSX? Hey, when it breaks, just say "I'm more of a Linux guy" and leave 'em to their own devices.
Sure, the whole "Free Software" thing is nice, and it would be great to free more and more people from the evil clutches of proprietary software. But with more "desktop penetration", proprietary software quickly becomes the big selling point. PCLinuxOS is basically Mandriva with all the proprietary stuff turned on; same for Mint and Ubuntu. Ubuntu sets up non-kosher vidcards and wireless by default now. And even that isn't good enough, with the users wanting more and more. The fact that the base OS is free isn't going to turn people on to free software in general.
And finally, when does Linux/BSD stop being really good *nix and start being a watered down Windows/OSX clone? The AIGLX/Compiz thing, which was one of the few really interesting innovations, quickly decayed into Expose and 7000 variations on the Vista theme. If I had to choose between 0.4% of the market using Linux, and loving it for what it is, and 40% of the market wanting "free Windows" and ready to desert at the first hint of a CLI, I'll take the former anytime.
Tried the last few releases of Wine? It's been able to install and run for almost a year now without any patching or XOver/Cedega bullshit. Granted, the last patch broke me on FreeBSD, but still...
Am I going to find "Tales of Topographic Oceans" in your collection?
Singles have always been the dominant form; it's just that the record industry hasn't found a way to cater to that market since the 45 RPM record bit the dust.
Why do you think the *BSD port is called Project Evil? I had to deal with ndiswrapper for a Marvell card I had (did you know that some people think running cables along the floor makes a hallway look bad?) and it was utter pain. I've got an Atheros card using madwifi now; it's not a hell of a lot better on Linux, but FreeBSD (my main OS) supports it natively due to their "Heinz 57" kernel licensing policy.
That was referring to the Ubuntu part of the OP's complaint.
What exactly is Slackware's init system? It's not System V, and it's really not close to BSD except for the rc. prefix in front of all the scripts.
You know, you don't have to compile everything. There's sites like linuxpackages.net that offer binary packages. You check dependencies (they show them for you) download, install, and they like, work and stuff. Running backwards through dependencies can be a bit of a pain if they're deeply nested (although I've never seen them get more than 1 or 2 levels deep, probably thanks to the good library selection present in Slack). When I was running 10.2 on my main box, I had multimedia, codecs, and such ready to go in half an hour.