Nuclear decay is how things were done before wind turbines and solar panels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

Personally, I'd love to see Stirling radioisotope generators put into real world use.

When I look at the American immigration debate, this topic practically never gets up. It's 95% about illegals (and even then most people think "Mexicans"), and 5% about outsourcing and H1Bs. The legal immigration track is not discussed at all.

So no, you as a nation have not decided it. It's not even the politicians that have decided it for you. It's the bureaucrats.

Whether you want it to be easy or hard is another matter, but the barriers should at least be sensible - i.e. they should select people for some meaningful positive traits, or discriminate against some meaningful negative traits. Randomly denying applications because the immigration officer had a headache is not useful to anyone.

Do you think those extra people just work 24/7, and don't eat, don't need a place to live and a car to drive etc?

More people means more customers, not just a larger labor force.

If you know Russian, you may find this of interest. In general, searching for aksenov+goblin+seylem will yield more info.

Depends on the extent of the infrastructure, and I'll point out that the ISS was built modularly as well, so if you need 2-3 launches so be it. I'm thinking seed earth side, seed farside, and center station(which does things like control ribbon length for deployment). Once you have that initial cable you start lifting more cable and supplies as necessary.

Are you proposing an orion drive? Or did you meak 30k kg or 30 tons? Right now, from a risk assessment point I'd vote for staggering the launches - launch the station first, followed by the seed cable, then depending on the weight and placement of the station maybe a third for the balance cable/mass.

Every proposal I've seen has the first couple years of establishment of the seed cable being primarily lifting more cable. You don't need to be able to lift another whole seed immediately. Instead you lift 'strands' that are individually a lot less capable than the seed.

N. Korea shares a border with russia, and have far too much to lose selling a warhead to Ukraine, while Ukraine is not short on nuclear engineering ability and would gain little from having the warhead earlier because they certainly cannot trust a N.Korean design to be at all reliable

I know what KVM means, thanks, but you weren't clear about what kind of machines you're using them on.

I'm in IT and I wouldn't have any problem with Classic Shell itself being on a Win8x computer. I use it myself, after all.

Did you have something intelligent to add? Besides the derp in your second para, just ask your IT guy to install CS for you on "KVM types of machines", whatever that means.

Directly, no. The product of our water usage is, and that was the article's point.

Tatars were already a minority there when they were deported, actually. They used to be about 20-25% compared to today's 10-15%.

The reason why Russians are a majority in Crimea is because it was steadily settled by Russians ever since Russia took it away from the Ottoman Empire under Catherine.

You're deliberately distorting the issue. One of the first actions of the new government was to repeal a law about regional languages signed by Yanukovich that is widely believed to be flawed both inherently and procedurally - this was repealed among several other such laws. This reverted the country to the language laws that were in place since 1989 (back when it was still the Ukrainian SSR). A committee was immediately formed to author a new law to replace the repealed one, and in the meantime the acting president has vetoed the repeal of the old law, citing concern about the interim period.

The whole diatribe about racist assholes is just verbatim Russian propaganda. If they are so racist, why did Lviv hold a "Russian language appreciation day"? Why did the Right Sector troops participated in the burial of several observant Jews who died on the barricades of Maidan (presided by a rabbi, no less)? Why do the majority of Russian speakers in Kiev say that they want Putin to fuck off?

For that matter, why is that the new government in Crimea is led by outright criminals? The new prime minister, Aksenov, had criminal record for assault and extortion back in 90s. Why are the pro-Russian figures in Eastern Ukraine outright Nazis, like Gubarev, the wannabe "people's mayor" of Kharkov, who turned out to be an ex-member of Russian National Unity, a neo-Nazi organization with swastika as an emblem?

Soviets didn't attack right away. They basically sat and waited for Germans to steamroll over the most efficient Polish units in the west, and only went in in two weeks, after it was mostly all over (indeed, the official pretext for Soviet occupation was that Polish government "ran away, abandoning the country"). Consequently, Soviet units didn't see much resistance when they entered - Polish military was already disorganized and demoralized, lacking orders from the central government, and being unclear over whether Soviet troops are there to help them fight off the Germans.

The irony about that statement is that, if uniformly applied, it would invalidate a great many other things. For example, the lease agreement that Russia signed with Ukraine which permits the former to have a naval base in Sevastopol, and troops to defend it (the same ones that effectively took over the entire peninsula).

They have a prior agreement to be in Crimea to secure their naval base in Sevastopol. They certainly don't have any prior agreement to blockade and assault Ukrainian army bases and barracks and border posts.

This isn't even to mention the uniformed troops with no identification patches, which everybody knows are Russian (by their own numerous admissions when asked), but which Russia refuses to acknowledge outright. That alone is a war crime.

Should not have been modded down. Shame on you guys.