Then uhhh, maybe they should stick with Windows? I don't give a shit. Really. It's the "open source evangelists" and pathological liars like Mark Shuttleworth who are trying to push Linux on uninterested users like it was crack rock. It's a good system, and there's a lot of rewards for people who are willing to do a little bit of research and put a little bit of work into it, but if they don't want to do it, fuck 'em. They want free Windows, they can go bark up somebody else's tree.
Government isn't the answer to many problems; it's the answer to one problem (protecting its individual members from the use of coercive force). Anything else, the government is using it's monopoly on coercive force to violate the rights of a group of individuals for the "greater good."
I'm about 90% convinced that the real reason for debunking corn-based ethanol is that Bush endorsed it in his SOTU address. I tell you, if he endorses solar, the lefties will start trashing the Sun.
The vast majority of "nuclear waste" produced by power plants is low level stuff like paper towels. As far as the fuel goes, I'm all for recycling. Hell, a breeder reactor isn't really necessary; just use chemical separation to reclaim the unused U-235 and dump the fission products in a salt mine somewhere.
My WiFi provider was very up front about it. They sell 1500 Mbps down, but they don't have capacity to provide 150 0 down to everyone at once. Considering cable & phone companies won't come to my little town (about 1000 people, and 10 sparsely populated miles betweek us and anywhere, just no money in it) I'm kinda stuck. I don't bitch too much, though; KTorrent with protocol encryption works fine, and normal HTTP/FTP downloads aren't throttled.
No, no, they can only extend it to forever MINUS a day. The Constitution calls for securing protection for a limited period of time. Other than that, I'm in agreement though. I'd say go for 40 years across the board for a decent compromise figure (it's all arbitrary anyways, and 6/17 years like I've heard here enough times makes about as much sense as a 95 year term). That gives them the initial release, and the ability to pump out a new "Special Edition" every few years, without being completely insane. I wouldn't set the creator's lifetime as the baseline, for the simple reason that it's not unheard of for an artist to make a last work so their wife and kids can live on it afterwards (A Clockwork Orange comes to mind, although Burgess fucked that analogy up by not dying when he was absolutely certain he was going to).
There's never been any pbjective standard on what exactly constitutes a *coercive* monopoly worthy of intervention under the Sherman Act. Basically, it boils down to a US Attorney saying "You know what? We think you're it, and we're going to bone you in the ass for it" MS's "monopoly" came into existence for one and only one reason: the complete and utter incompetence of just about everyone else in the software market (and I say this as a Linux/BSD guy). It's not like they stuck a gun in WordPerfect's back and said "Make this completely unusable in a GUI so everyone buys Word".
No, the "trick" is military action against Iran that is direct and total in its scope. While the jihadists are more than willing to die to spread Islam, no one wants to die for a lost cause. We need to convince them that we will never go away, and that the posture taken by hostile nations such as Iran is little more than a death march. Saudi Arabia is dependent upon us economically. The rest of the Sunni nations can be cowed. Iraq is as poor a choice for military action now as it was five years ago. It has to be Iran, and if we don't bring it to them, they'll bring it to us.
Hmmm, I beg to differ. Iran and Iraq aren't going to fight each other; hell, Iraq is majority Shia. While the tribal conflicts keep them from killing US troops, with the troops gone, the Sunni backers won't be able to keep up with Iran's expenditures, and they will eventually back out and leave the place to Iran. Iran is the real danger in the Middle East; they've got a heavy hand in Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, and a handful of the peninsula states bordering Saudi Arabia; they're also committed to converting us at the point of the sword and have by their own admission been in a state of war with the US since 1979. Saudi Arabia is small shit by comparison.
Adjusted for inflation, gas prices actually aren't all that bad. They were artificially low for most of the '90s, and they look absolutely shitty by comparison now. Realistically, any attempt to 'fix' gas prices is just going to cause shortage in the long run. The price we pay for gas now is a premium that ensures the gas will be available.
You know, I don't think we've seen so much as a drop of oil out of Iraq. From what I've heard, China and Vietnam are the ones getting the contracts. Not that I really care; most of the Middle Eastern oilfields were illegally nationalized from US or British companies anyways. (If it wasn't for the West, they'd still be driving camels on top of the world's richest oil deposits.) That's the _really_ scary thing about Iraq; Bush honestly seems to believe that letting Iraq vote itself into another Islamic Republic is going to be the thing that brings peace and stability to the region.
As for public transportation, it's feasible -- in the metropolitan areas. Out here in farm country, it's a lost cause (and the lower property taxes and intangibles like better schools probably make up for the extra money spent on fuel).
At anything less than 5 USD a gallon, gas is still a bargain compared to what we get out of it. Habits won't change until gas gets really expensive (it's still cheaper now than it was in 1981, adjusted for inflation). And if Detroit could come up with an economical vehicle with the SUV's capacity and safety factor, they probably wouldn't be losing money per unit sold.
I hate to cross Godwin, but I'll just point out that no one put a gun to Novell's head and said "Make this deal with Microsoft right NOW!". They knew what they were doing, and if they didn't see that the FSF crowd would have a problem with it, they're either blind or fucking stupid.
As I've stated before, I really don't see what the downside here is. GCC just did a huge update, but GCC5 is a long time a-comin', glibc's rock steady, most of the toolchain stuff is stable and has been for the last five to ten years, Emacs 22 is vaporware, and I think we'd all prefer if Bash didn't update anymore. The Novell-MS deal is valid for five years, and Novell can do that standing on their heads with what they've got. The stuff users actually use might be a different area, but KDE's ultimately going to go the way Qt goes (haven't heard anything), and Novell's got enough pull in GNOME's development and/or the technical expertise to maintain a separate desktop if the pull doesn't go their way.
For that matter, I thought the whole point to the last few months of GPLv3 review was to come up with a way to keep Novell from distributing GPLv3 software.
As far as pebble bed reactors go, so far I've heard a lot of good things about them. I think it'll take some time and research before they go into widespread production, though.
I think the Nautilus is the only nuclear submarine museum out there. Most of the Skipjacks/Permits/Sturgeons are razor blades now, along with the early 688 class subs. Naval Reactors is a bit skittish on the whole open to the public thing for security reasons.
I'm ex-Navy, and probably brainwashed on the matter, but I really can't see how a PWR isn't fail-safe, unless you take extraordinary measures to defeat it, such as in TMI (the operators didn't understand the nature of the casualty, and ended up discharging large amounts of coolant and securing coolant pumps, which aggravated the casualty well beyond what would have happened The operational failures at TMI weren't just mistakes, they showed a fundamental lack of knowledge of plant conditions). As long as coolant flow is maintained (via natural circulation if necessary) decay heat can be eliminated via losses to ambient, and water's high negative temperature coefficient of reactivity prevents a positive feedback situation like in Chernobyl. Like any other nuclear reactor, though, it requires quite a bit of training to know what is going on and react accordingly.
As for the prevalence of PWRs in the US, bear in mind that most of the operating professionals are Navy-trained, and a huge body of knowledge exists on that reactor type due to the dozen surface ships and hundreds of submarines that have operated PWRs. (There was one liquid sodium cooled vessel, the second USS Seawolf (SSN-575), but it proved unfeasible).
Yeah, but Bush endorsed hydrogen, then it became inefficient. He then endorsed biofuels, and they became genocide to developing nations. If he endorses solar next, there'll be a move to boycott the sun.
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Then uhhh, maybe they should stick with Windows? I don't give a shit. Really. It's the "open source evangelists" and pathological liars like Mark Shuttleworth who are trying to push Linux on uninterested users like it was crack rock. It's a good system, and there's a lot of rewards for people who are willing to do a little bit of research and put a little bit of work into it, but if they don't want to do it, fuck 'em. They want free Windows, they can go bark up somebody else's tree.
Government isn't the answer to many problems; it's the answer to one problem (protecting its individual members from the use of coercive force). Anything else, the government is using it's monopoly on coercive force to violate the rights of a group of individuals for the "greater good."
I'm about 90% convinced that the real reason for debunking corn-based ethanol is that Bush endorsed it in his SOTU address. I tell you, if he endorses solar, the lefties will start trashing the Sun.
I thought leaven was the big deal during passover, not kosher.
The vast majority of "nuclear waste" produced by power plants is low level stuff like paper towels. As far as the fuel goes, I'm all for recycling. Hell, a breeder reactor isn't really necessary; just use chemical separation to reclaim the unused U-235 and dump the fission products in a salt mine somewhere.
My WiFi provider was very up front about it. They sell 1500 Mbps down, but they don't have capacity to provide 150 0 down to everyone at once. Considering cable & phone companies won't come to my little town (about 1000 people, and 10 sparsely populated miles betweek us and anywhere, just no money in it) I'm kinda stuck. I don't bitch too much, though; KTorrent with protocol encryption works fine, and normal HTTP/FTP downloads aren't throttled.
Wouldn't a criminal already know who sent him to prison? Right to face one's accusers and all that?
No, no, they can only extend it to forever MINUS a day. The Constitution calls for securing protection for a limited period of time. Other than that, I'm in agreement though. I'd say go for 40 years across the board for a decent compromise figure (it's all arbitrary anyways, and 6/17 years like I've heard here enough times makes about as much sense as a 95 year term). That gives them the initial release, and the ability to pump out a new "Special Edition" every few years, without being completely insane. I wouldn't set the creator's lifetime as the baseline, for the simple reason that it's not unheard of for an artist to make a last work so their wife and kids can live on it afterwards (A Clockwork Orange comes to mind, although Burgess fucked that analogy up by not dying when he was absolutely certain he was going to).
Just my $0.02 on the matter.
There's never been any pbjective standard on what exactly constitutes a *coercive* monopoly worthy of intervention under the Sherman Act. Basically, it boils down to a US Attorney saying "You know what? We think you're it, and we're going to bone you in the ass for it" MS's "monopoly" came into existence for one and only one reason: the complete and utter incompetence of just about everyone else in the software market (and I say this as a Linux/BSD guy). It's not like they stuck a gun in WordPerfect's back and said "Make this completely unusable in a GUI so everyone buys Word".
Suddenly, the Navy's whole "no computer technology anywhere in reactor control" mindset makes a whole lot more sense.
No, the "trick" is military action against Iran that is direct and total in its scope. While the jihadists are more than willing to die to spread Islam, no one wants to die for a lost cause. We need to convince them that we will never go away, and that the posture taken by hostile nations such as Iran is little more than a death march. Saudi Arabia is dependent upon us economically. The rest of the Sunni nations can be cowed. Iraq is as poor a choice for military action now as it was five years ago. It has to be Iran, and if we don't bring it to them, they'll bring it to us.
Hmmm, I beg to differ. Iran and Iraq aren't going to fight each other; hell, Iraq is majority Shia. While the tribal conflicts keep them from killing US troops, with the troops gone, the Sunni backers won't be able to keep up with Iran's expenditures, and they will eventually back out and leave the place to Iran. Iran is the real danger in the Middle East; they've got a heavy hand in Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, and a handful of the peninsula states bordering Saudi Arabia; they're also committed to converting us at the point of the sword and have by their own admission been in a state of war with the US since 1979. Saudi Arabia is small shit by comparison.
Adjusted for inflation, gas prices actually aren't all that bad. They were artificially low for most of the '90s, and they look absolutely shitty by comparison now. Realistically, any attempt to 'fix' gas prices is just going to cause shortage in the long run. The price we pay for gas now is a premium that ensures the gas will be available.
You know, I don't think we've seen so much as a drop of oil out of Iraq. From what I've heard, China and Vietnam are the ones getting the contracts. Not that I really care; most of the Middle Eastern oilfields were illegally nationalized from US or British companies anyways. (If it wasn't for the West, they'd still be driving camels on top of the world's richest oil deposits.) That's the _really_ scary thing about Iraq; Bush honestly seems to believe that letting Iraq vote itself into another Islamic Republic is going to be the thing that brings peace and stability to the region.
As for public transportation, it's feasible -- in the metropolitan areas. Out here in farm country, it's a lost cause (and the lower property taxes and intangibles like better schools probably make up for the extra money spent on fuel).
At anything less than 5 USD a gallon, gas is still a bargain compared to what we get out of it. Habits won't change until gas gets really expensive (it's still cheaper now than it was in 1981, adjusted for inflation). And if Detroit could come up with an economical vehicle with the SUV's capacity and safety factor, they probably wouldn't be losing money per unit sold.
I hate to cross Godwin, but I'll just point out that no one put a gun to Novell's head and said "Make this deal with Microsoft right NOW!". They knew what they were doing, and if they didn't see that the FSF crowd would have a problem with it, they're either blind or fucking stupid.
As I've stated before, I really don't see what the downside here is. GCC just did a huge update, but GCC5 is a long time a-comin', glibc's rock steady, most of the toolchain stuff is stable and has been for the last five to ten years, Emacs 22 is vaporware, and I think we'd all prefer if Bash didn't update anymore. The Novell-MS deal is valid for five years, and Novell can do that standing on their heads with what they've got. The stuff users actually use might be a different area, but KDE's ultimately going to go the way Qt goes (haven't heard anything), and Novell's got enough pull in GNOME's development and/or the technical expertise to maintain a separate desktop if the pull doesn't go their way.
For that matter, I thought the whole point to the last few months of GPLv3 review was to come up with a way to keep Novell from distributing GPLv3 software.
Wonder if he'd be suing Richard Stallman for beard infringement...
It's the capital city for the Tauren (giant man-cows) in World of Warcraft.
Right idea, wrong exchange.
If you're ever in South Carolina, give Patriots Point a try. It's a WWII carrier & sub, and most of the vets running it are top notch.
As far as pebble bed reactors go, so far I've heard a lot of good things about them. I think it'll take some time and research before they go into widespread production, though.
I think the Nautilus is the only nuclear submarine museum out there. Most of the Skipjacks/Permits/Sturgeons are razor blades now, along with the early 688 class subs. Naval Reactors is a bit skittish on the whole open to the public thing for security reasons.
I'm ex-Navy, and probably brainwashed on the matter, but I really can't see how a PWR isn't fail-safe, unless you take extraordinary measures to defeat it, such as in TMI (the operators didn't understand the nature of the casualty, and ended up discharging large amounts of coolant and securing coolant pumps, which aggravated the casualty well beyond what would have happened The operational failures at TMI weren't just mistakes, they showed a fundamental lack of knowledge of plant conditions). As long as coolant flow is maintained (via natural circulation if necessary) decay heat can be eliminated via losses to ambient, and water's high negative temperature coefficient of reactivity prevents a positive feedback situation like in Chernobyl. Like any other nuclear reactor, though, it requires quite a bit of training to know what is going on and react accordingly.
As for the prevalence of PWRs in the US, bear in mind that most of the operating professionals are Navy-trained, and a huge body of knowledge exists on that reactor type due to the dozen surface ships and hundreds of submarines that have operated PWRs. (There was one liquid sodium cooled vessel, the second USS Seawolf (SSN-575), but it proved unfeasible).
Yeah, but Bush endorsed hydrogen, then it became inefficient. He then endorsed biofuels, and they became genocide to developing nations. If he endorses solar next, there'll be a move to boycott the sun.