If Microsoft was so big on fucking DLC, then they should make the DLC from the 360 backwards compatible to the new Xbox. Thank you Microsoft for fucking me over and wasting shitloads of money which will not be usable on the new system. Thank you for being fucking arrogant about it as well, and telling me that I better keep my 360. I always have been an Xbox fan. Come end of the year, hello Playstation. Fucking arrogance like this crap cemented the idea of switching, "if you want the @#$@ing from Gamestop, go play PS4."
A migrating bird could have eaten a few seeds and in the course of traveling long distances, pooped it out. This happens all the time with migrating birds.
Personally, I have been waiting a very long time for this. PC users need not read this. I love this company as they have revolutionized many things. Just the App Store alone gives me enough reason to be loyal forever. iOS... just beautiful. The Mac Pro... mind blown..
I don't think it is as insane as you might think. He is guessing that the government would figure out who it was that leaked the information and then they would come after him.
The original law was on incredibly shaky ground however and the goverment isn't likely to want this issue to end up in court ever, so they would have to either terminate him (the nine-milimeter kind of termination) or prosecute him for child porn or something like that, or disappear him. Right now his name is published everywhere so they can't really do any of these things.
Dumbest fucking shit I ever read. This guy really post pictures of how to ball up your fist? I been in many fist fights growing up as a child, a teenager, and an adult. At my age, you do not get in any fist fights as anyone that attempts to attack me will get fucking shot on the spot. As far as getting in a fight(if you are a youngster), do not even attempt to box it out with the other guy. Rush in and bash away. Don't use haymaker sings though. Kick in the balls, bite, grab the nearest object and bash the other guy as all is fair game when it comes to a fight. I can't believe this guy said not to use kicks. A kick hits twice as hard as your arm would. Guess this guy has never heard of range. Anybody can use a kick. Ever heard of the term "kick like a girl"? Well guess what, it is fucking useful. Most public fights are over in less than a minute. Might as well go full steam and fuck the other dude up before he fucks you up.
I disagree. It's bad news for California, and bad news for the environment long-term. It's not an ideal nuke plant, but the current alternative is to kill ourselves burning oil and coal.
There aren't a lot of idled hydro, wind, or solar plants. Most of the idle plants are coal, with a small number of natural gas (higher construction cost per kw of capacity, previously more expensive fuel, but now natural gas is cheaper than the mitigated costs of coal, so they run gas and idle coal).
So, you'd be adding coal to the operating mix. The dirtiest plants are the ones which were idled, too.
In the 5 year timeframe, you could argue for building more natural gas, solar, wind, etc. to replace the nuclear, but as far as I can tell, wind and solar and being done as fast as they can, and the coal to gas transition is also happening.
There also isn't "one grid"; it's basically 3, and it's not like it has infinite capacity everywhere. Putting a bunch of wind in the Midwest or Texas doesn't really help California.
Also, an intuitive model of a single grid would be a bunch of ponds with small streams between them. You can't arbitrarily "wheel" power from one "pond" to another, you have to have in place sufficient transmission line capacity, which is not cheap.
What is the hydraulic analogy of reactance? inertial mass of pulsing water? (also, wtf does chrome on windows not include the word reactance in the dictionary?)
Considering the sheer energy that it makes available to us, if our main concern with Nuclear energy is that it makes water warmer, then I think I'm okay with that.
No, I meant trivia. I just thought it was interesting, my friends used to surf there. I think the biggest issue with nuclear power is the toxic waste with a half-life 500 times my lifespan.
It's only 600 years before it's no more radioactive than the ore it was mined from, "toxic" isn't a binary property. And it's not like it isn't valuable stuff, we're just too stupid to reprocess it.
A lot more than 1,000 people will lose their jobs as the costs inevitably go up. Even more if the grid becomes flaky.
The current alternative is to keep installing solar and wind and (eventually) wave plants ... which the smart money has been investing in, which require no government-paid insurance, and which generate no waste-that-has-to-be-safely-stored-forever.
Time-averaged outputs are 1,045 MW wind, 175 MW solar. (2nd table, in units of gigawatt-hours per year. The 1st table shows peak capacities: 4,967 MW wind, 855 MW solar).
Marginal additional energy in CA (to replace the nuclear capacity) means either burning more natural gas in-state or burning more coal in the Pacific Northwest.
Coal (and even natural gas, surprisingly) puts more radioactivity into the environment than nuclear fission. Plus, all the other negatives of fossil fuels (particulates, acid rain, risky mining, etc.). And global warming.
For anyone who wants numbers - coal puts out approximately 100 times the amount of radioactivity as nuclear power plants do and is responsible for about 1,000 times the deaths. There is a good stackexchange discussion with more detailed statistics, nuances etc http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1018/do-coal-pla...
But people just don't want to believe that. Renewable energy also has caused more deaths than nuclear power, even if you (completely unfairly) count the deaths resulting from the use of nuclear weapons. And the public reaction is to simply ignore this, and even deny it.
I find it easy to believe : mounting slippery glass panels on rooftops ... not very safe, maintaining and cleaning them, again obviously not safe[1]. There are also recorded accidents with solar panels falling off rooftops into people (they are large, heavy glass shards by the time they hit the ground, so you can imagine what happens, let's just skip the photos). Putting generators on poles 50m or 100m above the ground (or 150m above the sea surface) is not a safe occupation and those generators cannot be as safe as the ones on the ground. So maintaining those is generating a steady stream of death and disfigurement[2], and catastrophic failure means the tower collapses, you don't want to be below one, like a catastrophic failure in the UK where a wind turbine locked up and crashed into a school playground, thankfully an empty one. Or just search youtube [4][5][6]. And dam-based electrical power has the same problem as nuclear power : if it works, great. If it fails, it can fail catastrophically, taking a lot of people with it[3].
Also keep in mind the EROI of the different solutions. Meaning how much energy is produced given input energy. Renewables (except hydro) are in the 0.5-2 range (and "small" renewables, like solar recharging bluetooth headsets, are 0.1 at best), oil used to be 20-30 but have dropped to 15 at best and is rapidly decreasing (a fact that has been accused of being the real cause of the global economic slowdown). Coal is also around 10-15 range average globally. Nuclear, is at least 150000. Whatever disadvantages nuclear power has is related to the amount of material used, and that amount is tiny.
> And the public reaction is to simply ignore this, and even deny it.
That pattern seems to apply to most risk. There is huge fear over rare plane accidents that affect up to a few hundred at once, while ignoring the traffic accidents that kill 3,000 people a month (US) in ones and twos. Even terrorism is rare, and 9/11 is a blip compared to those traffic accidents. A nuclear accident could affect lots of people at once, while coal/renewables are doing it in dribs and drabs for far greater totals.
If you want to include deaths from nuclear weapons, nuclear is way negative, in that nuclear weapons largely kept the cold war cold. A hot ww3 would have been in the millions.
I don't know the exact model of this plant, but I read about the Fukushima plant in Japan.
The Fukushima plants had control rods, they are inserted in the reactor to stop almost entirely the uranium fission. They were inserted automatically, so most of the heat creation was stopped in a short time.
The problem is that the fission creates some unstable atoms, that continue to decay mostly in a few days and create additional heat. The refrigeration must have continued for some days, but they couldn't because they lost all the alternative electricity sources. :(
So the reactor overheated and they must release steam and use sea water to cool it and things like that. Those measures released some radioactivity to the environment.
After a few days, the only active nuclear reactions are the spontaneous fission of uranium and the decay of the other radioactive intermediate products. This created very few heat and they wouldn't need any active refrigeration. They were able to put the other reactors in Fukushima in this state, so they didn't create any problem.
The power plant in California is closed since one year, so it's almost sure in a stable state that doesn't create too much heat, so the probability of a nuclear disaster is very low.
You missed the main part of the disaster where the cores of reactors 1, 2, and 3 melted down (fuel rods melting and collecting in a pool at the bottom of the core) after the cooling failed. This led to hydrogen explosions, the boiling away of most of the coolant, and some problems with the waste fuel pool (also lost cooling shortly after the meltdown I think).
Also it wasn't "after a few days." The site wasn't stable until almost nine months later (December, 2011).
The issues here is what is your worst case when you loose your cooling. After Three Mile Island and Fukushima we have some answers for their respective designs: pressurized water reactors which have everything "hot" inside the classic dome also keep enough of that hot stuff in it, boiling water reactors that have things spread out in a rather complicated design don't.
Ok, this is a safer design. Anyway, my point is that loosing the cooling system of an active nuclear plant is much worse than loosing the cooling system of the shutdown nuclear plant (but don't try that at home). So it's not necessary to rush to dismantle the nuclear material, because of the fear of a tsunami. Those material should be handled properly.
That's one columnist's opinion, and it seems like he's just trumpeting the W.H.O.'s story. I don't think it's safe to call this book closed. There are other opinions, and facts.
Now it says there must be physical contact, but the cop would probably just bump into you to get the charge. Look at what happened to Adam Kokesh during the Philadelphia Smoke Down Prohibition event. They claimed Adam assaulted the officer when he clearly just bumped into him and was trying to gain his balance.
These people take serious things like assault and water the definitions down to suit their corrupt MO.
EDIT: Tangential, but Kokesh was just arrested again during Smoke Down Prohibition D.C.
Some places will charge you with "addressing words to officers". The real problem is a cop can arrest you for anything and call it obstruction of justice. And then either the prosecutor will reject the case or you'll get charged and have to spend $2000+ to plead not guilty. Or pay an attorney $250 to get a plea deal of the lowest possible infraction.
There are zero repercussions for a cop falsely arresting you and no one cares about the truth or justice. Just pay to make it go away.
