Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Simple...

It's the water reacting with metal under high temperature.

Same problem with Three Miles Island, where everyone was fearing that the "Hydrogen Bubble" might lift the top off the structure.

DEAL WITH IT!

We are dependent on energy? Say it ain't so.

Well, up until the point where we can simulate all those billions of brains on buried quantum computing mainframes that manage to run on the small heat differential between the upper crust and the mantle, energy demand will only go up!

As for not giving "governments wide-ranging scope", Big Energy is the _least_ of your problems.

Cue Greenpeace howls and anger!

"There are still farms in Britain affected by the consequences of Chernobyl".

...because "disposing of" is equivalent to blowing the whole graphite/uranium core of an RBMK through the nonexistent containment roof.

In the mind of some.

Btw, wikipedia is now "current events":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[The last I heard of Japan maintenance skills in nuclear reactor management was that they were crap except when it's about covering the ass. That doesn't bode well.]

Fire icon because Fire.

"Financials" suck, but....

...a "hedge" fund, as the name implies, is about "hedging", i.e. offsetting risks in share pricing or other instruments. They are not into "breaking up companies" [that's what companies doing Leveraged Buyouts do, a weird practice that became possible once Government thought it might be a good idea to flood the economy with easy credit] or dictating strategic decisions. Or at least they should not.

Needs more jigawatts!

I was hoping someone had finally managed to prove the existence of axions and at the same time put it to good engineering use [which would be - pass light through magnetic field on side A, some photons turn into axions, pass through wall, where another magnetic field turns some back into photons for detection]. That would have been something, even at 330 bps.

Still pretty good though.

The gripping hand of it is ...

they should actually have opted for a simple, cost effective and useful o/s.

Yup...

As the saying went "Shake hands with Microsoft, better check that your arm is still attached."

1 billion USD over 5 years may not even be that much. In 5 years, the whole US monetary base might just be worth a cheeseburger with freedom fries on the side.

That's ok

Finally a good use of all that Panzer Kit we bought for the War on Terror.

Lolwut?

Spare us the defenseless widow with children spiel!

How are Red Hat Sharp Practices [tm] going to impede your income?

Maybe you are confused about what a RHCE is all about. It means you can handle a Red Hat System. It doesn't mean you can do all the support that comes with a Red Hat license yourself. If in doubt, ask for Red Hat support, which is presumably being paid for by your customer.

Ta!

We now know who "the enemy" is.

"The military mentality is a bandit and raider mentality. Thus, all military represents a form of organized banditry where the conventional mores do not prevail. The military is a way of rationalizing murder, rape, looting, and other forms of theft which are always accepted as part of warfare. When denied an outside target, the military mentality always turns against its own civilian population, using identical rationalizations for bandit behavior."

- BuSab Manual, Chapter Five: "The Warlord Syndrome"

By you know whom

"In the late afternoon of September 1, 1870, King William I, surrounded by a pompous staff of princes and generals, was looking down from a hill south of the Meuse at the battle in progress, when an officer brought the news that the capitula­tion of Napoleon III and his whole army was imminent. Then Moltke turned to Count Falkenberg, who like himself was a mem­ber of the Parliament of Northern Germany, and remarked: "Well, dear colleague, what happened today settles our military problem for a long time." And Bismarck shook hands with the highest of the German princes, the heir to the throne of Württemberg, and said: "This day safeguards and strengthens the German princes and the principles of conservatism."[i]In the hour of overwhelming victory these were the first reactions of Prussia's two foremost states­men. They triumphed because they had defeated liberalism. They did not care a whit for the catchwords of the official propaganda: conquest of the hereditary foe, safeguarding the nation's frontiers, historical mission of the house of Hohenzollern and of Prussia, unification of Germany, Germany foremost in the world. The princes had overthrown their own people; this alone seemed im­portant to them."

Why does he love Hitler and what does he have against Italian ladies?

>Err, firing procedures? What?

Better than gassing procedures, right?

"you have to look at the individual"

Cue "data protection" and "privacy" problems galore.

If an insurance decided to up the premium against the guy who gets spastic rage attacks every 5 minutes on the highway because he's just wired that way as a PET scan would objectively show all hell would break loose which at least 50 QUANGOs and oppressed minority spokespersons filing amicus curiae briefs.

"But it would be unfair to charge you a premium based on your surname because there is nothing inherent about your surname that affects your driving."

As any statistical hypothesis testing would show. And that's why insurance isn't calculated on star signs.

"Men have more accidents. Being a man doesn't cause accidents."

Causality is irrelevant. Learn2statistics.

Never speak against Luxembourg

If you knew what percentage of the population were state-employed bourgeoisie looking forward to vesting pension schemes you would understand why high tax revenue is VITAL for that country.

Of course not!

Cash is easy and plentiful, interest rates are low, risks of inflation are being poo-pooed, Krugman is everywhere in the news and Bernanke is rolling out Quantitative Easing 2.

Living the vida loca à la Keynes? What's bad about that?

Hold on, there is a mustachioed guy in uniform at the door.

Like Overseer's "Heligoland"

Good stuff.

Highly unlikely.... oh!

Hey, it's Matt.

Some people's head are messed up

"And wasn't it LACK of government intervention... "

and other seriously wacky ideas like "I have insects crawling under my skins", "aliens fisted me yesterday" and "World Trade Center was brought down by nanothermite placed by GIULIANI".

I think here is an -excellent_ place to start with some base-level education:

http://mises.org/mediaPlayer.aspx?MediaId=5702/How-Mainstream-Economics-Miseducates-About-Money-and-the-Fed

It's amazing what a whip-wielding command-economy can do

at least in the short run.

When it's up against another command economy that splurges mainly on wars and pork and has everything gridlocked through "Intellectual Property" faggotry.

What's slightly creepy about this case?

The Child Pornography Service?

Burned fingers eh?

It's good to know that our GSM have that much power output.

Now why not let people phone in peace? Nobody forces you to use mobile, stay with landline.

Why do men watch porn? What do women want?

Unanswered Questions of the Universe!