Comment Re:DroidWall (Score 2) 182
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The whole point of that arrangement was to avoid sanctioning action that might actually lead to WWIII - the 5 veto powers were the 5 nations that had nuclear weapons.
Umm... No.
In 1946, considerably fewer than five countries had nukes. Hell, France barely had a country.
... against whom? the rebels or the saudis?
Noone with half a brain believes Assad is behind the chemical attack
WTF is it necessary to slander Herman's Hermits?
No actually we didn't. We validated our pages against the W3C validator. I'm certain others do too.
Then once the standards were met, we would selectively make whatever changes we had to make to get things functioning where there were bugs.
God you must have produced an unmaintainable mess.
Effective communication is the foundation of productive work by groups.
Wait... who the hell asked you to join in the first place?
Bloody Americans.
Given the use of the word 'bloody', I assume you're a UKian. In which case "I learned it from watching you!"
It's kind of hard to rebuild in an area where a nuclear bomb was dropped you know.
And yet at least two of the places where this has happened were able to rebuild, and quite magnificently, I might add.
I think it gives you a very good sense of how and why facebook will default to decisions not in your interest
how is it that common standards make so much sense for html, programming languages, engineering but not for human communication?
HTML and other standards do change but usually to add clarity or features.
I can see the value of changes to language which increase clarity or make it more concise (for example sharing a common vocabulary of "patterns" can increase your teams design and programming effectiveness. )
But arbitrary slang which the other person is unlikely to understand or which doesn't have a clear and common meaning- not so much.
They've repeated lied in the past and will continue to lie in the future.
Understand if you post on Facebook, you have no privacy.
Even if other people post about you on facebook, your privacy is going to be impaired.
Understand *you are the product being sold*.
It's a challenge for me. I finally withdrew from facebook. It's taken a while for people to start emailing me. At first they were annoyed that I needed special handling and they couldn't just set the event up on facebook. But now there are more of us avoiding facebook so email is coming back.
I wouldn't have withdrawn if they hadn't been such weasels about privacy settings.
I think your graphite point is valid.
However, we don't know what we don't know.
Say there was an earthquake; the pool was breached; and all the water was lost for 24 hours.
How bad could that get?
Most likely just a raised cancer risk for all but maybe 500 square miles.
But it's getting worse and we don't know what's still undiscovered or unreported.
From WSJ:
[...] Tepco said it doesnâ(TM)t think that water has flowed into the sea but canâ(TM)t say for sure. Some of the flooded reactor basements are similarly too hot to approach, and it is still not clear where the melted fuel cores are, or in what state.
âoeIn the future there might be even more heavily contaminated water coming through,â said Atsunao Marui, head of the groundwater research group at Japanâ(TM)s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a member of a blue-ribbon panel set up in May to figure out ways of managing the radioactive water. âoeItâ(TM)s important to think of the worst-case scenario.â
Mr. Marui and others say the biggest reason for the scramble now is that Tepcoâ"and the government bodies that oversee itâ"werenâ(TM)t planning far enough ahead and waited too long to respond to problems they should have seen coming long ago.
Fukushima Daiichi was built some 40 years ago on the site of a river that was diverted in order to situate the plant, Mr. Marui says. It should have been clear that lots of groundwater would be rushing through the site, he says, and that any walls or barriers built on the seaward side would soon be overwhelmedâ"something that, indeed, has happened in recent weeks. [...]
Man, I so wanna steal a residential speed sign and hang it out my back window on the highway. It applies to police cars as well, right?
Police cars don't have to obey any of the normal traffic rules. I've seen police drivers do some monumentally dumb things in the UK.
It happens in the US as well. In thirty days, the state I live in is going to make talking on a cell phone without hands free an excuse for a stop (currently, it can be cited, but only incidental to a stop for another reason, such as, driving erratically.) Yet it's not unusual for me to see a police officer operating a cell phone (held to ear, not with a bt earpiece) and a laptop computer while driving. I've seen some use two cell phones at the same time. And follow speed limits, laws regarding signalling, etc, etc? Forget about it.
Just put up the sign for the true limit.
299792458 m/s
Such a pessimist.
He's probably a tralfamadorian, unfamiliar with human customs and just wanted to verify his studies of our species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chernobyl_radiation_map_1996.svg
The Chernobyl exclusion area is about 700km from tip to tip. Varying from about 300km wide to 100km wide.
Total "lost" area is 2,600 km.
If a similar area were lost in Japan it would be
I agree, it's unlikely. But it's not impossible.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
