The Alternating Current allows your muscles to have a chance to let go when you grab on to the wire, while DC will freeze your muscles up. That is one theory anyways... I have never personally been shocked good enough with DC to confirm this.

When you say Diesel, I think you mean bunker oil.

Safeness of nuclear power can be evaluated: 0.04 Deaths per Terrawatt hour Remember, that is with old designs.

Well, the other one you mentioned was Hydro and aside from killing entire ecosystems, most of the good places are already tapped. It's not really scalable much more than we already have.

I ask my question again: What is the ideal power generation tech?

Yes, but those are *ALL* the costs. With other generation technologies, there are hidden costs. Coal causes cancer. When you get Cancer, guess who pays? Hint: It's not the power company. Hydro, kills ecosystems. Solar creates huge amounts of carbon, other potent greenhouse gasses, and toxic waste in their creation. Wind kills endangered birds. Geothermal, while limited, is often located in sensitive environmental locations.

At least with the nukes, you know exactly what waste you are producing. The waste is extremely compact, but also extremely toxic. It's in a barrel, or cask, or pool, or whatever, not in the air.

That being said, we really need to work on thorium. I really hope that India's thorium reactor goes well... One day, it could be us buying reactor designs from the Indians.

What exactly are the "ideal options"?

It's surely not your expensive and low energy output tidal generators?

Apple spends a shitton on marketing, and I have never bought an Apple product. Either I am a far stonger willed person than you, or marketing doesn't control me 100%. You decide.

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Lucky!! I still have my tatoo from a pencil stabbing that happened over 15 years ago. It looks pretty much the same as it did 5 yeras ago. I don't thing it will ever dissapear. It it between my index and middle finger knuckles.

1) Aquafresh has done this for decades on some toothpastes, mostly kids ones.

2) I don't know about you, but toothpaste is one of the things I am least wasteful of. For the amount of tube squishing I do to get the last bit out, you'd think it cost $100/tube, not the $2 it actually does.

Are you deliberately being obtuse? He's talking about apps.

You forget that phone lines cross borders...

Yeah, I'd have to say, I'd confront my current employer, let them know about the offer, and give them a chance to keep me. They would have to take into account the commute too, so a 10k raise would be in order. If you really are needed, you'll get the money, otherwise enjoy the new job guilt free!

1) Roll the comments system version back like 6 years. Make it load fast. Make it load all the comments on a single page (according to your moderation score preferences) If i'm browsing at -1, I want to see it all.

2) Make it load faster. Sometimes pages take forever to load, then when they do load, they scroll slowly. I think this is caused by fancy javascripting or something. Just display the comments. We don't need/want any fancy web 2.0 features.

3) We need better trolls. The trolls right now are lame. What happened to GNAA? Maybe you should invite them back.

4) The comment quality is getting worse. Slashdot is now mostly mundane comments. Sure, some are funny, but most lack content.

5) Take a note from Ars Technica. They are getting better commenters, they have original content (why not have feature stories here). Ars's commenting system sucks, but yet they still manage higher quality comments.

6) Delete all accounts numbered 2,000,000+. Remove signup. Invite only.