I sailed past Peleliu in 1994, the 50th anniversary of the battle. It was horrible to see that insignificant hunk of rock where so many young men died for... what, exactly? It was dubiously important in the first place and looked an awful lot like other rocky islands I'd seen, which drove home the utter futility and waste that it represents. It was a very emotional experience and I'm getting choked up now remembering it.

I'd be perfectly happy never seeing another battlefield in my life.

> How does having a larger number of small reactors

He didn't say that. He said modular. As in, each turbine module should be separable from each reactor module. Within the reactor itself, you'd have separate modules that you could inspect or replace, rather than bringing the whole facility down for eight weeks. If you're looking at cooling issue, you take one cooling module down at a time rather than taking apart the whole facility.

Often, larger things are more modular, while smaller versions are built in one piece, so "more modular" certainly does not mean "smaller" or "a larger quanity of".

You're right, mdsolar seems to have submitted something that isn't outright propaganda. It IS about precautions regarding a potential flaw with the UK's reactor design, so in that sense it is "anti-nuke" and by extension "pro (md)solar", but it's largely objective and factual.

The Lenovo looks good, but a brief session with it at the store left me feeling like it wasn't sturdy. If you think it's good, I'll give it another look. I'm pretty sure my sort experience with it was not enough to form an opinion.

The reason I have the 2 Surface Pros is because I got one and it really fit my needs and then bought a second newer model. I didn't really look at other options, but I will.

Well, you've already decided that "racists will go to great lengths to try to rationalize their bigotry". You probably decided that a long time ago, probably before even examining the facts involved. But you want to call me prejudiced?

We have examples a-plenty of racists trying to rationalize their bigotry, so I'm able to make a generalization. I don't have any examples with you, so I cannot.

First, you better be able to point to which gene does what. The genetic differences between races is so minuscule that you had god damn better be able to say, "See, that gene right there is different and that's the gene for living in a trailer park and being a NASCAR fan".

Because we've had some very bad experiences in this world with people trying like hell to use ethnicity as markers for behavior.

It's not like we are talking about Poodles and Retrievers. It's exactly like "all humans are poodles" and we are arguing superiority based on hair style.

Good one. I plan to use that, just so you know.

The reason these geneticists are decrying this study is not because of the results, but what people have done with them. Last century, we had a pretty big blowup because of "scientific" correlations between genetics ethnicity and behavior. And it's not like these correlations are well understood.

And look at how many of these studies regarding ethnicity and behavior later turned out to be bogus as hell, but not before providing racists with cover.

It has happened before. Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity while goofing off at the Swiss Patent Office.

http://xkcd.com/1067/

Two problems:
1. How do you know that your database has been compromised? A hacker isn't going to send you a text message and let you know. Most security breaches are inside jobs, which are even harder to detect.
2. Many people use the same password for all their accounts. So even if one site invalidates it, a hacker can use the same login/password combination on other sites.

Half of the NSA's budget is spying.
The other half of the NSA's budget is defending the US government from spying.

You shouldn't assume that all of the NSA's activities are in the first pool.

I have the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga. Had been looking at the Surface (because I loved the pen input for note taking on my old WinXP Tablet.). I ended up going with the Yoga because
1) Full keyboard/touchpad/nub (whatever you prefer) and self supporting screen like a laptop
2) Pen input for note taking was important to me (not all subjects are great for keyboard input)
3) i5 with 4GB or i7 with 8GB pretty much matches hardware in Surface.

vs Surface where
1) Keyboard sucks
2) Display can't support itself, so it's only useful on a table or handheld, not as a laptop with a keyboard on your lap.

Cons (depending on perspective) is that it's larger (with larger screen). The keyboard is not detachable but does recess and become un-pressible (pretty solid) when in tablet mode.

Alternatively the Transformer is also pretty decent, if you're ok with the Baytrail class Atom processors. Still have been quite impressed by those. My old Atom's were painful to do much with, but I have a coworker that has used his Transformer to run Visual Studio and work on.

It would be trivial to get this information:

The human genome project aims to map distributions of known gene alleles across the entire genomic space of the human species; and there are many studies that track individual and sets of alleles across geographic and ethnic group boundries.

This study focuses on a single regional and ethnic group, but narrows action of a set of alleles.

Comparing both data sets to each other, will give you the difference in distribution of those alleles across the regional and ethnic domain.

I am not weighing in on either side of this sordid argument; just saying that studies specific to the mindset of "Nu uh! I want to see your studies SPECIFICALLY TRACKING these genes, or you are WRONG! WRONG I SAY, WRONG!" are not necessary.

You can get that data without bias from the statistical data already collected from the human genome project, once you have a set of target genes to cross reference, which this recent study provides.

Or maybe there's real-world ugly truths that the utopianists and progressives refuse to accept.

Well, possibly, but experience teaches that flat-out racism is a more likely culprit. We've seen people of all races and ethnic background perform at a very high level at every possible field, including Jewish and Italian basketball players and African-American pure mathematicians. What Murray (and you) are always looking for is the ceiling and floor. That's racist.

Plus, we've learned that there is one additional defining characteristic of racists: They will go to great lengths to try to rationalize their bigotry. And that, was my point. You've confirmed that.

Yeah, unfortunately, there is a cohort in Science (Charles Murray, I'm looking at you), who will inevitably try to make this all about the blacks and the Jews.

Ugliness dies hard in the human spirit.

In the US at least, the word "elementary" means "elementary school" 95% of the time, so that's the association I have with the word "elementary". I'm sure I'm not the only one. It doesn't look like it's actually designed for children, so why in the world would they use that name. Might as well call it Kindergarten OS or Playskool OS.