Comment Reason? (Score 2) 36
I wonder, did Rite Aid use race and income or store theft rates in deciding where to deploy this?
Comment Re: Face it (Score 3, Insightful) 354
I would suggest the victim mentality is not limited to just one party or even to just politics. How many rich celebrities play the victim game for example.
Comment Wrong assumption (Score 1) 354
So many want to assume conservatives support Trump. As a conservative myself, I donâ(TM)t like Trump but dislike the leftâ(TM)s platform even more. If I could, I would readily trade Trump for a random selection of the last three Republican presidents. Iâ(TM)d vote 3rd part if that wasnâ(TM)t just a protest vote.
Comment Hopefully (Score 2) 29
Hopefully they didnâ(TM)t feed it Reddit...
Submission + - First New US Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades Gets Permission to Begin Fueling (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar nuclear power plant began construction in 1973. Its first reactor was completed in 1996, and it began operation. Work on its second reactor paused in 1988, and only resumed in 2007. That reactor is now complete — the first newly-operational Generation II reactor since the 1990s. The new reactor has been granted an operational license, and it will soon begin fueling. While the Gen II reactors aren't unsafe, they're much less safe than the Gen III AP1000s. "Compared to a Westinghouse Gen II PWR, the AP1000 contains 50 percent fewer safety-related valves, 35 percent fewer pumps, 80 percent less safety-related piping, 85 percent less control cabling, and 45 percent less seismic building volume. ... If an accident happens, the AP1000 will shut itself down without needing any human intervention (or even electrical power) within the first 72 hours."
Submission + - California Bullet Train Project Hurdles (latimes.com)
willworkforbeer writes: The proposed US$68B high speed rail project in California faced extraordinary hurdles, both in the budget and timeframe. Even Einstein (no, not that one, but a leading tunnel expert) says the scheduled is probably not possible.
"Herbert Einstein, an MIT civil engineer and another of the nation's top tunneling experts, said, "I don't think it is possible."
"Having looked at a number of these long tunnels, [the California] plan is aggressive," said Einstein, who has consulted on a 35-mile-long tunnel under the Swiss Alps. "From a civil engineering perspective it is very, very ambitious — to put it mildly."
New York's 11-mile East Side Access tunnel project is 14 years late and about 2.5X its original budget. If California's 72 miles of tunnels (twin tunnels of 36 miles) goes like New York's, that would be over US$160B spent with an opening date sometime in the 2030's.
"Herbert Einstein, an MIT civil engineer and another of the nation's top tunneling experts, said, "I don't think it is possible."
"Having looked at a number of these long tunnels, [the California] plan is aggressive," said Einstein, who has consulted on a 35-mile-long tunnel under the Swiss Alps. "From a civil engineering perspective it is very, very ambitious — to put it mildly."
New York's 11-mile East Side Access tunnel project is 14 years late and about 2.5X its original budget. If California's 72 miles of tunnels (twin tunnels of 36 miles) goes like New York's, that would be over US$160B spent with an opening date sometime in the 2030's.
Comment Makes sense (Score 5, Insightful) 621
Because clearly he deserves more recognition for reassembling a clock than Olivia does for discovering a new way to detect Ebola...
Comment Re:Monstrously Stupid Idea (Score 1) 1216
Either that - or simply fire the cleaning lady, and outsource cleaning the building to a non-employee. Fire the bottom earners, cut costs and raise the CEOs pay #WhatElseCouldGoWrong
please mod this up!
Comment Would we apply the cap to athletes? (Score 1) 1216
Will the NFL have to cap the highest earning player's salary to 12x the average fan's salary?
Comment Re:Danger. (Score 1) 240
This wouldn't be nearly as dangerous if we didn't live in a society where a significant portion of our law-enforcement feel like above-the-law gung-ho cowboys...
This wouldn't be nearly as dangerous if citizens didn't regularly shoot cops and each other.
Comment Wicked Witch (Score 5, Funny) 337
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of all...
Comment One word solution (Score 1) 225
Youtube.com
Comment in other news (Score 2) 567
Millions of Americans waste their lives scanning countles hours of tv for small bits of humor...
Comment deploy this in the US (Score 2) 282
I'm not sure my friends out in the "sticks" would enjoy drones circling overhead, but they would get excited about FTD (faster than dialup) internet. And this would give the military a way to practice their internet enabling battle plans.
Comment Seen this before (Score 1) 239
I just finished reading One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name (Baen Publishing).The story is set in the future where all machines and appliances have AI and are connected to the "Net". So you have to be nice to your washer so it doesn't gossip about you, etc. I trust (as I adjust my tin foil car bra) that the system would be used only for good purposes, but I can't help think that we are hurrying to reach the cool/scary future that is often depicted in sci-fi literature.
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