Yes it is indeed a shame that the English no longer teach their children how to speak and we Americans must pick up the slack.

So, the Trump fans are now pivoting from "Everything is excellent with out great beloved leader in power!" to "Yes, we and our leader are complete fuckups, but so is everybody else!" ? Is that what you are saying?

"meaning that these "people" would not be capable of speech or abstract thought (or really much more than rats or similar-sized animals are capable of)."

Brains are not equal. A parrot does a lot with a tiny brain for example. I think the rest of the argument is more compelling

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No need to announce your arrival any more than your departure, just fuck off

Yes, you trolls certainly are small people.

That's a great concept of a plan!

So as long as they can keep secrets until they get approval they're home free? This is as thoughtless as all of your proposals.

You are begging the question.

The answer to that question is no.

I agree. The thing is that nuclear cannot be safe and economically viable at the same time. The only question is how different countries chose to make this impossible trade-off. The only rational version is, clearly, not to play this stupid game at all, but irrationality, greed and delusions are strong forces.

I also like the morons that claim nuclear is always available. These idiots do not even know the basics of a power-grid. For example, nuclear is not suitable as regulation energy at all and a grid with more nuclear than 70% cannot be made stable. The rest needs to be fast regulation energy because when a nuke SCRAMs, it begins to draw quite a bit of power for a long time and does so with no warning. Nuclear is about the most stupid, most limited, most unreliable and most expensive form of generating electricity.

Ah, sorry. I get confused about the number, because it does not really matter, only that it is exceptionally small. You are right, it was 21.

That just means you have no clue what you are talking about...

At this time, this is the only rational stance left. There is no indication that QCs can ever scale to useful size, but a ton of indicators that they likely will not. There is not even solid proof that QCs work at all, because the longest, most complex complex calculation ever done successfully is apparently factoring 29 with a specialized algorithm for 29. That is easily in range for a conventional analog computation by non-quantum mechanisms. Hence while I think it is unlikely, the computation mechanisms that QCs rely on may still turn out to be hallucinations. Also note that even very, very, very minor deviations from the theory (and we _always_ had those in the past as soon as we had equipment to verify theory against reality precisely enough) would completely kill the QC idea. The precision required to do, say, a 128 bit calculation precisely, is unimaginable and a digital computer only reaches it by extreme measures.

You should read the accident report some time.

Sweden is a very interesting case. I think what they have is a result of mindless enthusiasm and not thinking things through colliding with reality. Reality always wins out in the end, but it can take some time.