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Comment Re: We need nuclear (Score 0) 48

you're funny. Nuclear ground bursts on fusion plants would do the same. and be irrelevant next to taking out dozens of military bases and targeting over a thousand siloed nukes.

Fission in plants with proper containment and reactor design is the smart choice. Fusion power plants are speculation and might not work. Hope you werent misled by claims of breakeven by 400MJ of electricity to lasers making 3 MJ of fusion energy.

Comment Re:Did anyone do the math? (Score 2) 79

I wonder if anyone has ever done studies of ad effectiveness vs frequency. If they had half the ads which were twice as effective, they could charge twice as much and have the same revenue and happier customers. There must be some sort of Laffer curve. No ads == no revenue but more watchers. 100% ads == no watchers and no revenue. Where is the sweet spot? Some old TV shows were 55 minutes long with 5 minutes of ads, then they switched to 50 minutes and 10 minutes, so they have to chop out 5 minutes to syndicate them.

I bet the broadcasters have done the studies, and 10 minutes must produce more revenue, but I'd really like to see those studies.

Comment Bait and switch (Score 1) 79

When they first bundled video with Prime, I figured it wouldn't be too long before it went south. It did. Series would include the first season only, they dropped a few I was in the middle of watching, they shifted some shows to Britbox and others which had been included.

Then they announced the ads, and I stopped watching. You're going to charge me for something I didn't ask for and can't get a reduction for not using, AND you're going to interrupt it with ads? No thanks. Stopped watching. Well, I was probably watching only one or two shows a week.

But it still annoys me that I'm paying for something I don't want which is supported by ads. I've been watching how much free shipping I get and comparing to Walmart and others. It's close enough that one more screwup and I might dump Prime.

Comment Re: It's all so confusing (Score 0) 57

since the 1960s military has of course run other models and evaluated prototypes, and even some large cities law enforcement were having demos and doing evaluations though as far as I know there was no official purchases and use by any cops before 2002. But what were three letter agencies like CIA doing with them, there could be classified programs.

Comment Re:All in on what? (Score 0) 112

No, we pro-fission people use facts. There are no SMR in the west, only China and Russia have those. You can't talk of costs for something that only exists as fanciful designs and marketing spew and investor bait.

And someone here had misconception navy reactors were SMR. No, those things loaded with 93-97 percent enriched fuel are different animals having nothing to do with civilian designs using civilian fuel to generate electricity

Comment Re:uranium (Score 0) 112

Maybe same places USA buys it.
Canada, Kazakhstan, Australia, Russia, and Uzbekistan....yeah until of last year USA was buying nuclear fuel from Russia, funding their war machines with billions of dollars. See the problem there?

Right now over 75% is bought from the other three of those countries, and there are exceptions that still alllow buying from Russia but I don't have current data on 2025 yet, just from last year.

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