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Comment: Who Wants to be the Statistic? (Score 1) 200

by BrendaEM (#40094449) Attached to: Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity

Unless, you are working there or eating the local food or water, the risks from Fukushima are small, BUT....
Who wants leukemia or thyroid cancer?

Say the risks are 1:100,000, then 37 people will get cancer in LA, alone.
Although the odds are quite low, someone will be the statistic, and it will never be blamed on the source because that is how money works.

Comment: It's Worse Than That--They Lied (Score 1) 267

by BrendaEM (#38503552) Attached to: Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident

I have read US reports and findings that that type of reactor will melt down about the time that they now admit that did.
Did they think that their reactor was magical?

Sitting at home in your livingroom and one trip to wikipedia, you had all the information you needed to know when the reactor's melted down. The buildings exploded from the hydrogen produced from the breakdown of the cladding of the fuel and radiolysys, both of which show that the fuel was melting. Do you actually think that the engineers did not know this?

I think that it is easier to accept that they made mistakes, rather than admit that they lied.

Comment: Usability Has Taken A Back Seat - Not a Tablet (Score 1) 1040

Both Unity and Gnome 3 have both taken steps that degraded usability for the sake of looks.

Gnome 3:
You can't log off, as if we were using a tablet and had unlimited resources.
Having more than one window open is hard.
The windows are not side aware because that's what you have in a tablet.
If it weren't for the hot corner, it would take one more mouseclick to do almost everything; now you must constantly take trips to the screen corner.
Clicking on a minimize/maximize button is faster than double-clicking on the menu bar.
There is no parent/child organization of programs by type; there is no organization period, so the user has to type in multiple searches.

Unity:
Ubuntu with Unity's footprint is almost twice that of Gnome 2, and for what?
Menubars are hidden for the sake of appearance.
Unity is subversive to Gnome, on which it depends; this is a suicide attempt.
Please, everyone do not use Unity, just because a marketing person puts it on a disk doesn't mean that you have to use it.

Both Unity and Gnome have taken steps to disempower the user for the sake of looks and constricting the users actions all to force a method of using the computer which is not sound.

Hand out the impeachments.

Comment: Melted down right on scheduele. The Lying Began. (Score 1) 276

by BrendaEM (#37917144) Attached to: White House Responds To Software Patents Petition

U.S. Research modeled those reactors, finding that they would melt down something like 16 hours after a coolant failure. In Japan, they lied about the extent of the accident, and needlessly endangering people's lives.

Up front, it was evident that the explosions were from fuel cladding degradation and radiolysis from fuel damage, and they lied. What is it about nuclear power that makes people lie so readily?

I still suspect that the nitrogen injection was not to prevent an explosion, as I find it dubious that nitrogen would prevent an explosion whereas the radiolsys would also supply oxygen as well as fuel for the explosion, but in reality, the nitrogen was to help put out the many nuclear fuel fires they had, just like the Windscale fire.

Hoping to goodness is not theologically sound. - Peanuts

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