Well that's why I provided a link, because it gives more context...
Anyway, by "it", I meant "all of it". The increase of human population. The growth of human economies. No form of energy generation will be enough to last us forever.
At the current rate of growth, even if we cover the entire surface of the earth with 100% efficient (ha!) solar panels, we won't make it 400 years.
Zero people died from radiation released from Three Mile Island. The effected population has been monitored extremely closely, and their has been no statistically-significant increase in cancer or other diseases.
Zero people died from radiation released from Fukishima. The effected population is being monitored extremely closely.
The gulf oil spill killed 12. That's an important difference. And Katrina killed 1,800. That's not even the same ballpark.
Yeah, if you look at two people, one male one female, with the same amount of education and experience working in the same job for the same number of hours, the woman makes 91 percent as much.
That in itself is a problem worth fixing.
But 77 percent is still the "right" number to focus on, because the fact that women don't get the same education, work experience, jobs, and hours, are also problems worth fixing.
(I say this as a man in a male-dominated field whose wife is better-educated and better-paid than him.)
Whitehouse.gov (and, actually, a lot of other places too) uses a broken regex to "check" email addresses for "validity."
It disregards any email address with a hyphen ('-') in it. Both my primary email addresses (work and personal) include my last name... which includes a hyphen.
(It turns out, determining valid email addresses is really hard. For instance: ValidEmail?"Yes it is!"@AB:CD:EF:00:01:02:03:04 is a valid email address. Really people, other than checking for a '@', it's easier to not filter at all.)
Typically in these cases, your talking about something like cobalt-60, which is a gamma emitter. Worse than x-rays, and considered "nuclear".
Most famous wasn't a software error either. It was a scrap dealer who took apart a machine that he didn't know what it was, that never should have been scrapped, and killed 10 people.
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Anyway, by "it", I meant "all of it". The increase of human population. The growth of human economies. No form of energy generation will be enough to last us forever.
At the current rate of growth, even if we cover the entire surface of the earth with 100% efficient (ha!) solar panels, we won't make it 400 years.
Really, it's a fascinating link.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
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Re: Actually, no.
(Not that that makes it right. Titles aren't written by the same people that write the article, and are often wildly inaccurate.)
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Zero people died from radiation released from Fukishima. The effected population is being monitored extremely closely.
The gulf oil spill killed 12. That's an important difference. And Katrina killed 1,800. That's not even the same ballpark.
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Solar is the best of the bunch, but not going to be enough on its own. We've got to pursue them all, INCLUDING nuclear.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/02/the-alternative-energy-matrix/
And it DEFINITELY won't last forever. A couple hundred years, at the rate we're going.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
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Re: Some megadoses of vitamins are okay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C_megadosage#Possible_adverse_effects
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Re: Re: Fucking Weasels
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77%
That in itself is a problem worth fixing.
But 77 percent is still the "right" number to focus on, because the fact that women don't get the same education, work experience, jobs, and hours, are also problems worth fixing.
(I say this as a man in a male-dominated field whose wife is better-educated and better-paid than him.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken,_Alaska#History
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https://www.google.com/search?q=gender+dysphoria
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Re: Wait a second.
As for the Girl Scouts: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/subtitle-II/part-B/chapter-801
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/220506
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Re: wrongdoing?
Whatever. Here's a list to get you started.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/04/bradley_manning_trial_10_revelations_ from_wikileaks_documents_on_iraq_afghanistan.html
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Re: Waste of Money
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90%. In less than a day. With a single machine.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwo rds/
Yes, the NSA can crack your hashed password.
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Funny, that's the same problem we have with the NSA.
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e-mail address filter is broken too
It disregards any email address with a hyphen ('-') in it. Both my primary email addresses (work and personal) include my last name... which includes a hyphen.
(It turns out, determining valid email addresses is really hard. For instance: ValidEmail?"Yes it is!"@AB:CD:EF:00:01:02:03:04 is a valid email address. Really people, other than checking for a '@', it's easier to not filter at all.)
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Most famous wasn't a software error either. It was a scrap dealer who took apart a machine that he didn't know what it was, that never should have been scrapped, and killed 10 people.
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In before...
Which, by the way, is how the production ADS is imagined to work: With a proton beam aimed at a thorium target.
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