Thursday's Quickie
Well, we have had the confirmation of Alito, and the first thing he does is deny an execution request. GOD! My civil liberties are being trampled! No, seriously people, we all need to get over this paranoia nonsense, its just silly that we go nuts over what really doesn't make that much of a difference.
Next issue was the State of the Union address. Of particular importance to me is the American Competitiveness Initiative. This is a very good thing for business but even more for my side of engineering because that is where the solutions to the problems being seen comes from. Hydrogen fuel cells, lower emissions, and all types of power consumption and conversion are dealt with by engineers, particularly Mechanical. So i like alot of this energy talk because its importance both domestically and internationally but also from a business stand point for me. Oh, I am really waiting to see proposals for new nuclear power plants come online. And before anyone makes silly comments about nuclear meltdown scenarios, lets review a few things. Nuclear reactors have had exactly one large safety incident, and that was in Russia. Yeah it was bad because there was zero containment in a heavy water reactor and they had no fail-safes. 3 Mile Island you say? Actualy there was an overheat in the reactor and its did what it was supposed to do and shut down. First fail-safe worked perfectly. No radiation leak, no danger of meltdown. There was several other fail-safes behind it as well that were all working. Now, its even safer as the entire reactors are shielded, and the technology is so different that there is no real way to have a meltdown because the reaction is never self sustaining. Thats a recent development. So i support it highly because its cheaper, more available, and safe.
In Science news, there is a 10th planent in the solar system. Kinda. Its under debate but its larger than Pluto so it can't really be a moon. Cool eh?
The new computer is up and running, though it has issues at the moment. The problem you ask? Freaking Windows XP x64. Sure the operating system is decent, but there are like no drivers for anything. I can't run my new TV card on it! Microsoft, you suck.
This is just disgusting
I think this is being blown out of proportion. Freedom of expression and speech mean that you will have to hear offensive things. Otherwise, if we are not allowed to be offended, all ideas have to be censored since everything will be considered to be offensive to someone.
Lastly, since the US, EU, and Israel are going to stop funding the Palestinian Authority (yes money goes to palestine from israel), Arab countries are saying they will pick up the slack. Excuse me if i am doubtful, but since more Arab countries are more than strapped for cash. These economies as a whole are in the toilet so any significant amount of money would be extremely hard to get. So i am saying, don't plan on it.
Next issue was the State of the Union address. Of particular importance to me is the American Competitiveness Initiative. This is a very good thing for business but even more for my side of engineering because that is where the solutions to the problems being seen comes from. Hydrogen fuel cells, lower emissions, and all types of power consumption and conversion are dealt with by engineers, particularly Mechanical. So i like alot of this energy talk because its importance both domestically and internationally but also from a business stand point for me. Oh, I am really waiting to see proposals for new nuclear power plants come online. And before anyone makes silly comments about nuclear meltdown scenarios, lets review a few things. Nuclear reactors have had exactly one large safety incident, and that was in Russia. Yeah it was bad because there was zero containment in a heavy water reactor and they had no fail-safes. 3 Mile Island you say? Actualy there was an overheat in the reactor and its did what it was supposed to do and shut down. First fail-safe worked perfectly. No radiation leak, no danger of meltdown. There was several other fail-safes behind it as well that were all working. Now, its even safer as the entire reactors are shielded, and the technology is so different that there is no real way to have a meltdown because the reaction is never self sustaining. Thats a recent development. So i support it highly because its cheaper, more available, and safe.
In Science news, there is a 10th planent in the solar system. Kinda. Its under debate but its larger than Pluto so it can't really be a moon. Cool eh?
The new computer is up and running, though it has issues at the moment. The problem you ask? Freaking Windows XP x64. Sure the operating system is decent, but there are like no drivers for anything. I can't run my new TV card on it! Microsoft, you suck.
This is just disgusting
I think this is being blown out of proportion. Freedom of expression and speech mean that you will have to hear offensive things. Otherwise, if we are not allowed to be offended, all ideas have to be censored since everything will be considered to be offensive to someone.
Lastly, since the US, EU, and Israel are going to stop funding the Palestinian Authority (yes money goes to palestine from israel), Arab countries are saying they will pick up the slack. Excuse me if i am doubtful, but since more Arab countries are more than strapped for cash. These economies as a whole are in the toilet so any significant amount of money would be extremely hard to get. So i am saying, don't plan on it.
posted by Maddawg at 2/02/2006 09:40:00 AM
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