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Ruslan Sharifov
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China Building Nuclear Reactors With Radically Different Design
“Are pebble reactors the future of nuclear power? @greenpeace says no nuclear reactor is safe. - http://nyti.ms/i6yqaQ”http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/25/business/energy-environment/20110325-chinanuke.html?scp=3&sq=pebble%20bed%20reactors&st=cseI would agree with @greenpeace.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/global/25chinaside.html?ref=energy-environmenthttp://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=pebble+bed+reactors&more=date_allNo further report.http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=pebble+bed+reactorsI have been figuring out the control strategy.It may be to regulate the number of spheres in the reacting mass.This would explain why the Germans abandoned their effort when the exit mechanism jammed.
If the Chinese were to loose both the grid and the emergency power as the Japanese did they will have runaway reactors.Maybe the battery can handle the shut-down.
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jfreund
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Clarence Clemons, E Street Band Saxophonist, Dies at 69
“....and the house band is no more. *mourns* Clarence Clemons, E Street Band Saxophonist, Dies at 69 - http://nyti.ms/micoGu”OK
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pat_muko
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In Coney Island, Landmark Status for Fire-Eaters’ Showplace
“In Coney Island, Landmark Status for Fire-Eaters’ Showplace - http://nyti.ms/fAwHNn”It looks as though the condoes and hotels will not happen.The fight over that beach front goes on.
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Spicy Shrimp Salad With Mint
Another really easy recipe From minimalist.
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thenakedshort
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China Building Nuclear Reactors With Radically Different Design
“Are pebble reactors the future of nuclear power? @greenpeace says no nuclear reactor is safe. - http://nyti.ms/i6yqaQ”No nuclear reactor is safe.Living in the tropics in a grass hut is not safe.Let the design engineers work and see how many of the problems can get solved.
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Manufacturers Are Coming Back to the U.S. - Room for Debate
Corporations large and small are moving production of off-shored products back to the U.S. at lower overall cost and better quality.". . . there are only three ways to add value. The first is to "get it out of the ground" by mining (or drilling), thus creating a commercial commodity where none existed before. The second, of course, is "grow it": prepare the soil, fertilize, seed and harvest; again producing, through agriculture, an economically desirable product. The third, and most important, is "making it": using ingenuity, labor and capital to transform the products of mining and growing into hard tangible consumer goods."
There must be demand to have value at all. No one really wants junk. -
Diane Court
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Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft
“Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft - http://nyti.ms/oexBvs”http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20compute.html?ref=ushttp://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=Aaron+Swartzhttp://blog.demandprogress.org/2011/07/federal-government-indicts-former-demand-progress-executive-director-for-downloading-too-many-journal-articles/"“It’s even more strange because JSTOR has settled any claims against Aaron, explained they’ve suffered no loss or damage, and asked the government not to prosecute,” Segal added.
James Jacobs, the Government Documents Librarian at Stanford University, also denounced the arrest: “Aaron’s prosecution undermines academic inquiry and democratic principles,” Jacobs said. “It’s incredible that the government would try to lock someone up for allegedly looking up articles at a library.”"
Copyright fight. The law will change soon.
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Officers Found Guilty in Hurricane Katrina Bridge Shootings
A bit more resolution.
A far better result than some we have seen.
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Why Do Russians Hate Ice?
I will go with the dilution theory.
Put the bottle of vodka in the freezer.
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S.P. Sullivan
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What Does Newt Gingrich Know?
“"To avert disaster, Gingrich had no choice but to present many numbered lists." http://nyti.ms/kV5BTz”I found no content.
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Reagan vs. Patco: The Strike That Busted Unions
Ronald Reagan’s confrontation with the air traffic controllers’ union undermined the bargaining power of American workers.Replacement workers or scabs have always been a way to break a union.Sit down strikes have been the tactic used against replacement.Outsourcing or factory moving has become a management weapon.Assigning blame is unimportant. Assigning responsibility for the continued success must be done.-
Bill Propp
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Getting to Crazy
“Getting to Crazy - http://nyti.ms/oHGo0H”http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/the-arithmetic-of-near-term-deficits-and-debt/http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/a-blast-from-the-recent-past/
A Blast From the (Recent) Past
Rating Itself: S&P Defends Lehman’s “A”
Detailed self-review lets it off the hook for giving the bank high marks during its slide toward bankruptcy.The link: http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/12295579?f=relatedRating Itself: S&P Defends Lehman's "A"
Detailed self-review lets it off the hook for giving the bank high marks during its slide toward bankruptcy. Why? Investor fear did it in.http://www.ianwelsh.net/comments-on-the-sp-downgrade/"4.) If Obama did not want this to happen, it would not happen. Could you imagine what LBJ, Nixon or Truman (or, hell, Bush Jr.) would have done if a rating’s agency tried this? The President has the necessary tools to utterly destroy S&P and every senior analyst working for them. You could use terrorism statutes or RICO, just as two examples. Send the FBI into their offices, seize all the assets of both the company and everyone working for it, and then got through their records. I guarantee, as absolutely as the sun will rise tomorrow morning, that there is enough evidence of fraud in those records to put them away for life. In the meantime, RICO laws are used to seize all the assets of everyone involved, meaning they will be using public defenders (don’t like a bad law? Use it against real people.) When S&P informed the White House they were going to downgrade, the White House could have quietly let them know what the consequences would be.""7.) This is another manufactured crisis, on top of the original manufactured debt ceiling crisis. The oligarchy wants the opportunity to buy federal assets at dimes on the dollar. They believe they don’t need the poor or middle class anymore, so they are good with getting rid of SS and Medicare. And Obama is, as he always has been, onside with this."Japanese usurpation is the most hopeful view I can see.It may be a case of "Owing the banks a thousand bucks and not being able to pay: You have a problem. Owing the bank a hundred billion and not being able to pay: The bank has a problem."Destroying S&P would be worse than an unsupported downgrade.We will see what breaks.
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TimesPeople recommended a user:Aug 5, 2011LAGilman
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Clarence Clemons, E Street Band Saxophonist, Dies at 69
“....and the house band is no more. *mourns* Clarence Clemons, E Street Band Saxophonist, Dies at 69 - http://nyti.ms/micoGu”“I felt like I was supposed to be there. It was a magical moment. He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love. And that’s still there.” Yes.
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A British Admirer of America Finds His Voice
Childhood education really sticks.
Ed Miliband got a big dose of Fifties.He has not had the battering I have received since.The changes in U.S. law are mostly since he lived here.He has lived a very interesting intellectual trajectory.Rupert Murdoch is pervasive. -
Broadcasting Hama Ruins, Syria Says It Has Ended Revolt
I wish the population every kind of good luck.
Keeping the army out is not part of passive resistance doctrine.Syria probably will do a lot of dying. Protesters Yearn for an Israel That Does More to Help Its People
The details of Israeli politics are beyond me.I do not read the language. I am not a member of the club.Reading this article and thinking about it and the model that Ias a New Yorker am required to have I can say a few things.
The movement is real and Israeli, thus Hebrew.The movement is on the left but not in any way Marxist. Socialism predates Marx.The movement favours a steeply graduated income tax, no state support for orthodoxy and no new citizenship for Palestinians.There is endless noise beyond that.Russian communism is dead and will not rise again at least for several generations.Liberalism is alive in the west again.
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tjkelly
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What Does Newt Gingrich Know?
“"To avert disaster, Gingrich had no choice but to present many numbered lists." http://nyti.ms/kV5BTz”
I can't distinguish between the lists.David Drake is a Vietnam vet with P.T.S.D.He writes a good stick as a self treatment.I have enjoyed his tales.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake
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