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Steve,
Get used to GOP Tea Party America. Rather obviously the transients who did the car jacking in Auburn had no connection to this area.
Transients are not a temporary minor aberration. They are the new face of America, unless we can do something to change our economy, and drastically. I have no illusions that 40 mini-hutches is going to solve anything by themselves, except for the 40 individuals who will now have a vastly improved night's sleep.
What these do do, is to put a face on the problem, which is the positioning of the bulk of the USA populous in precarious financial positions, such that a $200 house is all they can afford, UNLESS WE RECOGNIZE the problem in advance and do a lot of thinking and then acting.
Currently, it seems the top of the power structure is basically saying, "So go away already, die if necessary, and the sooner the better." We are speaking out and putting a real FACE on the issue.
You do not reduce the financially disenfranchised by declaring them non-existent, or existing only in "other people's backyards," which seems to be the mode many are trying to embrace.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Monday, May 09, 2011
Short sighted Tea Party Repubbys Torn up by Tornado.
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U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) spent the better part of two days last week touring areas of his state devastated by killer tornadoes. Bachus was in Tuscaloosa when President Obama toured perhaps the hardest hit area in Alabama. And Bachus issued a somber statement, calling on citizens to come together to help comfort those affected by the storms.
Bachus, however, apparently neglected to mention that he and other Republicans in Alabama's Congressional delegation voted against funding for satellites that are critical for accurate storm forecasting. The Web site climateprogress.org reports that Bachus and his fellow Alabama Republicans--Martha Roby, Mo Brooks, Robert Aderholt, Mike Rogers, and Jo Bonner--voted against a bill that would replace aging satellites that are the heart of America's weather-forecasting system.
The ability of those satellites to provide accurate weather information probably saved hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives last week in Alabama. But the satellites need to be replaced, and Alabama Republicans decided that was not necessary--just days before their state was hit with one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history.
U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) spent the better part of two days last week touring areas of his state devastated by killer tornadoes. Bachus was in Tuscaloosa when President Obama toured perhaps the hardest hit area in Alabama. And Bachus issued a somber statement, calling on citizens to come together to help comfort those affected by the storms.
Bachus, however, apparently neglected to mention that he and other Republicans in Alabama's Congressional delegation voted against funding for satellites that are critical for accurate storm forecasting. The Web site climateprogress.org reports that Bachus and his fellow Alabama Republicans--Martha Roby, Mo Brooks, Robert Aderholt, Mike Rogers, and Jo Bonner--voted against a bill that would replace aging satellites that are the heart of America's weather-forecasting system.
The ability of those satellites to provide accurate weather information probably saved hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives last week in Alabama. But the satellites need to be replaced, and Alabama Republicans decided that was not necessary--just days before their state was hit with one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history.
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Why Osama wasn't Taken Alive, and Justifiably So.
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Osama said he would never be taken alive. Given his history, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the compound might be completely rigged with enough explosives to insure a good martyrdoom for Osama.
In short, the SEALS knew that at any second the whole place might go up. In fact, it might have even been rigged to go off if Osama died.
My guess would be that they got to Osama in less than three minutes, and the rest of the time was spent photographic the place and gathering every piece of electronic storage media they could find. Going into this mission, they must have realized that an Osama Doomsday device could wipe them all out.
Thus, a 1:30 am attack, hoping that Osama would not be able to wake up and arm such a device.
Osama said he would never be taken alive. Given his history, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the compound might be completely rigged with enough explosives to insure a good martyrdoom for Osama.
In short, the SEALS knew that at any second the whole place might go up. In fact, it might have even been rigged to go off if Osama died.
My guess would be that they got to Osama in less than three minutes, and the rest of the time was spent photographic the place and gathering every piece of electronic storage media they could find. Going into this mission, they must have realized that an Osama Doomsday device could wipe them all out.
Thus, a 1:30 am attack, hoping that Osama would not be able to wake up and arm such a device.
Monday, May 02, 2011
Did Trump Play a Role?
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By ending the myth of Osama's invulnerability, recruiting new blood will be more difficult. My guess would be that Obama, being the chess player that he is, didn't charge right in. No internet or phones ? no, not physically there, but I'm sure Osama stayed connected, at least for inbound traffic, using cables snaking out from the compound to other locations nearby. Obama's Intelligence Operations would have found those nearby sites, and milked those for everything he could, and then released his birth certificate probably within the same hour he gave the go ahead to Special Forces/Navy SEALS. The information gleaned between August 2010 and now may result in a whole series of additional precision hits.
Trump actually played a small but important part. By stirring up the birther activity, and seemingly provoking Obama into releasing his, the Play's the thing!
Osama thought Obama was hopelessly tied up in trivia, and was probably a little lax around the compound.
It's wildly possible Obama and Trump worked together on this, wouldn't that be The Great American Sting!
By ending the myth of Osama's invulnerability, recruiting new blood will be more difficult. My guess would be that Obama, being the chess player that he is, didn't charge right in. No internet or phones ? no, not physically there, but I'm sure Osama stayed connected, at least for inbound traffic, using cables snaking out from the compound to other locations nearby. Obama's Intelligence Operations would have found those nearby sites, and milked those for everything he could, and then released his birth certificate probably within the same hour he gave the go ahead to Special Forces/Navy SEALS. The information gleaned between August 2010 and now may result in a whole series of additional precision hits.
Trump actually played a small but important part. By stirring up the birther activity, and seemingly provoking Obama into releasing his, the Play's the thing!
Osama thought Obama was hopelessly tied up in trivia, and was probably a little lax around the compound.
It's wildly possible Obama and Trump worked together on this, wouldn't that be The Great American Sting!
Sunday, May 01, 2011
If the Right Wing President doesn't Get You, then the Left One Will !
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If the Right Wing President doesn't Get You, then the Left One Will
by Douglas Keachie on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 11:30pm
Obama made it a top priority, but didn’t announce the fact, which was the smart thing to do. Rather Jewish of him.
I am reminded however, that while he made it a top priority, the men and women of the Intelligence units, and of course the Special Forces who carried out the operation, are those who, “got’er done.”
I am also reminded of “16 Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford. was he thinking of Presidents when he sang?
If the right’n don’t get you, then the left one will.”
GO USA!
OBAMA 2012!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Where, at Work, Will I Charge My Electric Car?
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One can charge an electric vehicle while at work from the panels on the roof of your workplace, paying for that electricity with the electricity your home's panels are delivering to your neighbor's air conditioner.
It's the old long spoons and soup bowls story.
The Teeper Creatures are in hell, they can't figure out how to use the long spoons to feed themselves from the bowl right in front of them.
The Liberal Leprechauns however, are busily sharing and feeding one another, having gone green intelligently. Their IS gold in the pot at the end of the Liberal Leprechaun Rainbow!
One can charge an electric vehicle while at work from the panels on the roof of your workplace, paying for that electricity with the electricity your home's panels are delivering to your neighbor's air conditioner.
It's the old long spoons and soup bowls story.
The Teeper Creatures are in hell, they can't figure out how to use the long spoons to feed themselves from the bowl right in front of them.
The Liberal Leprechauns however, are busily sharing and feeding one another, having gone green intelligently. Their IS gold in the pot at the end of the Liberal Leprechaun Rainbow!
"What Have They Done, to the Rain?"
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The plant should have been dumped on with nuclear kitty litter instantly, but as I pointed out before, it is possible that they are worried about accidentally jamming so much of this somewhat lower than a nuke bomb material into to one place, that they would get what is known in the trade as a “fizzle.” A nuke explosion that blows the material apart so quickly that it is not a real nuclear explosion as we think of one.
Instead, it would be like the first North Korean explosion, or even a little less.
Sounds harmless?
No, it would be like dumping several container loads of TNT into the middle of tons of radioactive material, sending it skywards like a massive explosion in an open pit mine.
The problem we have now is that the monitoring seems to just be reading geiger counters, instead of attempting to gather the actual particles, which would tell us with much more precision, how much air do we have to breathe before we inhale a particle of what size?
That’s the coldly withheld information, that prevents total panic and pitchforks at every nuke plant producer we have and the White House and Congress.
The plant should have been dumped on with nuclear kitty litter instantly, but as I pointed out before, it is possible that they are worried about accidentally jamming so much of this somewhat lower than a nuke bomb material into to one place, that they would get what is known in the trade as a “fizzle.” A nuke explosion that blows the material apart so quickly that it is not a real nuclear explosion as we think of one.
Instead, it would be like the first North Korean explosion, or even a little less.
Sounds harmless?
No, it would be like dumping several container loads of TNT into the middle of tons of radioactive material, sending it skywards like a massive explosion in an open pit mine.
The problem we have now is that the monitoring seems to just be reading geiger counters, instead of attempting to gather the actual particles, which would tell us with much more precision, how much air do we have to breathe before we inhale a particle of what size?
That’s the coldly withheld information, that prevents total panic and pitchforks at every nuke plant producer we have and the White House and Congress.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Tax Them Bicyclists!
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We should certainly tax bicyclists the same way we do motorists. Motorists are taxed on the amount of fuel they use. Bicyclists should be taxed the same way, and at the same rates.
A calorie is the unit of energy is takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water, one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
And, there are different kinds of calories. The calories that are in food are actually kilocalories 1,000 calories = 1 kilocalorie. The calories that are in food are actually kilocalories. So, if that sliver of carrot cake you are eyeing is 200 calories, it's actually 200,000 calories.
Stop! Don't touch it! It will take light years to burn it off. Actually, 'burn; is key here, as you will have to jog or move or run or something to capture those units of energy before they morph into a substance that keeps the zipper on your Levi's from reaching the top.
Oh, there are about 31 million calories in a gallon of gasoline.
We should certainly tax bicyclists the same way we do motorists. Motorists are taxed on the amount of fuel they use. Bicyclists should be taxed the same way, and at the same rates.
A calorie is the unit of energy is takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water, one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
And, there are different kinds of calories. The calories that are in food are actually kilocalories 1,000 calories = 1 kilocalorie. The calories that are in food are actually kilocalories. So, if that sliver of carrot cake you are eyeing is 200 calories, it's actually 200,000 calories.
Stop! Don't touch it! It will take light years to burn it off. Actually, 'burn; is key here, as you will have to jog or move or run or something to capture those units of energy before they morph into a substance that keeps the zipper on your Levi's from reaching the top.
Oh, there are about 31 million calories in a gallon of gasoline.
On Bike Paths
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Motorists are merely pedestrians who have transformerized themselves in massive, blind dinosaurs that run amuck on our common right-a-ways, bullying and terrorizing everyone in sight.
Way to go, Henry Ford!
The trees could stay and the bike/pedestrian path could go around them, with the state paying for and maintaining attractive fences to the private properties involved, and also paying the owners for the eminent domain exercise.
Way back when, when cars first started using the common right-a-ways, and motorists then said they would pay to pave them, some far sighted folks saw what was coming, the complete thievery of the right-a-ways for motorists only. Well, they were right! Motorists should have been forced to pony up for their own roads, and not just for paving the commons. So now, it is time for the motorists to pay to replace those right-a-ways with bike and horse paths everywhere.
Motorists are merely pedestrians who have transformerized themselves in massive, blind dinosaurs that run amuck on our common right-a-ways, bullying and terrorizing everyone in sight.
Way to go, Henry Ford!
The trees could stay and the bike/pedestrian path could go around them, with the state paying for and maintaining attractive fences to the private properties involved, and also paying the owners for the eminent domain exercise.
Way back when, when cars first started using the common right-a-ways, and motorists then said they would pay to pave them, some far sighted folks saw what was coming, the complete thievery of the right-a-ways for motorists only. Well, they were right! Motorists should have been forced to pony up for their own roads, and not just for paving the commons. So now, it is time for the motorists to pay to replace those right-a-ways with bike and horse paths everywhere.
Government & Media Misleading About Radiation, More Lies
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More stupidity, from professionals who should know better.
Everyone knows that the amounts of radioactivity released by the stuff in the air is bare minimal above background radiation.
What you are not being told is that when one small clump of radioactive molecules of I-131 lands in your lungs and makes its way to your thyroid, which wants Iodine, radioactive or not, that clump stays there, in one place.
Background radiation shoots particles totally at random, as far as your body is concerned.
That small clump of I-131 will be taking potshots, shotgun blasts, machine gun Kelly style, at the same cells over and over again.
They will experience changes in their DNA and RNA, and will die, cease to function correctly, or turn cancerous. It won't happen to everyone, it won't happen all at once, but if it happens to YOU, what do you care if chances are statistically few?
Half life of 8 days? Yup, but the remaining one half keeps on shooting. 8 days later, same thing, for YEARS.
More stupidity, from professionals who should know better.
Everyone knows that the amounts of radioactivity released by the stuff in the air is bare minimal above background radiation.
What you are not being told is that when one small clump of radioactive molecules of I-131 lands in your lungs and makes its way to your thyroid, which wants Iodine, radioactive or not, that clump stays there, in one place.
Background radiation shoots particles totally at random, as far as your body is concerned.
That small clump of I-131 will be taking potshots, shotgun blasts, machine gun Kelly style, at the same cells over and over again.
They will experience changes in their DNA and RNA, and will die, cease to function correctly, or turn cancerous. It won't happen to everyone, it won't happen all at once, but if it happens to YOU, what do you care if chances are statistically few?
Half life of 8 days? Yup, but the remaining one half keeps on shooting. 8 days later, same thing, for YEARS.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Radiation, Best Links to Understand It
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http://www.kallus.com/er/resident/julycourse/handouts/radiation.pdf
This is a complete quicky course for medical residents, and pulls no punches with the actual photos of radiation damage to the human body photos, towards the end of the Powerpoint presentation. Explains the terms for radiation dosages, and forms of damage to the body, well.
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http://io9.com/#!5782367/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do
This is more of a physicist's/engineer's view of the stuff, but also covers medical issues.
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http://www.landauer.com/japan_crisis_update.aspx?gclid=CJ_OkMPP96cCFRlPgwoda31rrQ
A commercial site fir dose meters, has yet more links.
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http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/ucbairsampling
Air and water samplings from UC Berkeley's nuke Science Dept.
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http://health.phys.iit.edu/archives/2010-November/029858.html
Shows no connection between increased background radiation and cancer.
http://www.kallus.com/er/resident/julycourse/handouts/radiation.pdf
This is a complete quicky course for medical residents, and pulls no punches with the actual photos of radiation damage to the human body photos, towards the end of the Powerpoint presentation. Explains the terms for radiation dosages, and forms of damage to the body, well.
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http://io9.com/#!5782367/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do
This is more of a physicist's/engineer's view of the stuff, but also covers medical issues.
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http://www.landauer.com/japan_crisis_update.aspx?gclid=CJ_OkMPP96cCFRlPgwoda31rrQ
A commercial site fir dose meters, has yet more links.
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http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/ucbairsampling
Air and water samplings from UC Berkeley's nuke Science Dept.
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http://health.phys.iit.edu/archives/2010-November/029858.html
Shows no connection between increased background radiation and cancer.
Maxiumum Efficency Solar + Jobs & Shelter 4 Homeless
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Solar panels work best when carefully re-aimed at the sun all day long. Making electro-mechanical systems to do this, and keeping them operating, is expensive.
If the panels are built with simple hand cranked adjustments, and the area under them is tall enough to stand in, and is provided with good tarps to run rain off of a substantial portion, then homeless people could do the cranking, and have a relatively warm and dry space to stay on.
They could also be trained to occasionally clean the panels. Each bank could have a wireless monitoring device to display power output, and the homeless person who maintains the highest power output for each hour would get a bonus. Everyone would get paid something, and there could be community showers (solar heated) and toilets and washing machines, common internet terminals and sat dish tv, plus public transit to nearby areas of employment.
You can laugh about this now, but if the economy continues to produce unemployment at current rates, this may be important, as the concentration of wealth in the USA continues, unabated.
Solar panels work best when carefully re-aimed at the sun all day long. Making electro-mechanical systems to do this, and keeping them operating, is expensive.
If the panels are built with simple hand cranked adjustments, and the area under them is tall enough to stand in, and is provided with good tarps to run rain off of a substantial portion, then homeless people could do the cranking, and have a relatively warm and dry space to stay on.
They could also be trained to occasionally clean the panels. Each bank could have a wireless monitoring device to display power output, and the homeless person who maintains the highest power output for each hour would get a bonus. Everyone would get paid something, and there could be community showers (solar heated) and toilets and washing machines, common internet terminals and sat dish tv, plus public transit to nearby areas of employment.
You can laugh about this now, but if the economy continues to produce unemployment at current rates, this may be important, as the concentration of wealth in the USA continues, unabated.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Who's Afraid of the BIG BAD teeny weeny Radioactive Particle?
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Did you know that the amount of force in Muhammad Ali's punch is far less than what is applied to your body as you take off in a jet aircraft?
Did you know that the amount of radiation in a tiny airborn particle is far less that what you get with one transAtlantic flight.
In both cases, the delivery of the former has far graver results, and the whole damn media world seems to be willing to jump on the group lie and ride it for all it's worth, in the second instance.
Whose afraid of the Big Bad teeny weeny microscopic radioactive particle.
well, I am, for one.
Did you know that the amount of force in Muhammad Ali's punch is far less than what is applied to your body as you take off in a jet aircraft?
Did you know that the amount of radiation in a tiny airborn particle is far less that what you get with one transAtlantic flight.
In both cases, the delivery of the former has far graver results, and the whole damn media world seems to be willing to jump on the group lie and ride it for all it's worth, in the second instance.
Whose afraid of the Big Bad teeny weeny microscopic radioactive particle.
well, I am, for one.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
George Rebane Wants to Shut Down All Nuke Plants Now!
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I double dog dare you to leave this link up:
http://io9.com/#!5782367/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do
Would you deny the possibility that seawater dumped on the Japanese reactors has already created tons of particles which are now traveling around the globe, looking for one special spot in your body to lodge? And that one tiny particle of radioactive material, sitting in one spot in your body, can cause cancers in the nearby cells, because they are hit repeatedly?
Why did the Carrier Ronald Reagan, stationed 100 miles away from the reactors, up and move further away, several days back? Is her skipper in a better position than the average bear to know what is going on there? How come US counselor personnel and their families are being evacuated AHEAD of regular US citizens? Come on, George, admit it, this is way out of control, and no we don't need to shut down all nukes everywhere over night, that's silly, and not worthy of the mind I thought you had.
Posted at his site, doubt that it will last.
I double dog dare you to leave this link up:
http://io9.com/#!5782367/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do
Would you deny the possibility that seawater dumped on the Japanese reactors has already created tons of particles which are now traveling around the globe, looking for one special spot in your body to lodge? And that one tiny particle of radioactive material, sitting in one spot in your body, can cause cancers in the nearby cells, because they are hit repeatedly?
Why did the Carrier Ronald Reagan, stationed 100 miles away from the reactors, up and move further away, several days back? Is her skipper in a better position than the average bear to know what is going on there? How come US counselor personnel and their families are being evacuated AHEAD of regular US citizens? Come on, George, admit it, this is way out of control, and no we don't need to shut down all nukes everywhere over night, that's silly, and not worthy of the mind I thought you had.
Posted at his site, doubt that it will last.
US Counselor Personnel Are Leaving First ??? How Insulting!
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Not enough proof for you that everybody upstairs is lying to us "little people?"
Then how come the FIRST to leave Japan will be all the US Counselor folks, who ought to be the last, if we are not to insult Japan even further.
Insult? Well, it is true the Japanese engineers had 40 years to contemplate the placement of the backup systems, but so did the GE engineers WHO SOLD THE SYSTEM to Japan. Does Japan have a case in the World Court against certainly GE? Does Japan desperately need our help right now to fix things? There must be incredible smoldering resentment going on over there, hidden by the need for help.
Other hint that the Big Boys are hiding the truth?
The canary in my own coal mine was when the mightiest aircraft carrier we’ve got, one full of radiation detection gear, and the planes to fly over the reactors, the Ronald Reagan, then 100 miles offshore a couple of days ago, moved further away.
Jerry Brown should be holding very open and clear hearings about the placement of backup systems in our California reactors. It was news to me to learn that “spent fuel” actually needs cooling as much as the active reactor, and that the rods are stored at the sites, for years.
I have no doubt that somewhere, both Japanese and American engineers who foresaw these dangers, and who were ignored, are shaking their heads and wondering what further they could have done. No shame for them, the could see the possibilities, and did their best to warn, and were ignored.
Best site yet that explains the differences between ways of getting killed by radiation. http://io9.com/#!5782367/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do
We will never be affected by the ionizing radiation at the plant, which can literally cook your body on the spot, but we can be affected by particles of radioactive debris, knocked loose from the fuel rods, or created when the sea water (every element known to man in seawater) was sprayed on them. Tiny, tiny, tiny, and easily capable of going airborne, just one of these particles inhaled or absorbed through the skin, can kill you over time, time much shorter than your allotted time, and in a very painful way.
Lodged at one point in your body, this radioactive particle will not show as anything more powerful than background radiation does, BUT
Because it does not move around, and randomly zap different cells in different parts of your body, but instead concentrates on just the cells next to it, the damage is cumulative.
The cells next to the radioactive particle have their DNA and RNA shot to hell, and those cells eventually stop functioning, or worse yet, mutate to cancerous cells, and you die.
Seems to me we need to melt down and incase the waste in the nearest subsea continental subduction zone, and add that cost to the "cost of nuclear power." dumping the spent rods into the nearest volcano just won't work. Jerry Brown can add additional research into the old Farallones radioactive dumping grounds to his list of things to be concerned about.
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Not enough proof for you that everybody upstairs is lying to us "little people?"
Then how come the FIRST to leave Japan will be all the US Counselor folks, who ought to be the last, if we are not to insult Japan even further.
Insult? Well, it is true the Japanese engineers had 40 years to contemplate the placement of the backup systems, but so did the GE engineers WHO SOLD THE SYSTEM to Japan. Does Japan have a case in the World Court against certainly GE? Does Japan desperately need our help right now to fix things? There must be incredible smoldering resentment going on over there, hidden by the need for help.
Other hint that the Big Boys are hiding the truth?
The canary in my own coal mine was when the mightiest aircraft carrier we’ve got, one full of radiation detection gear, and the planes to fly over the reactors, the Ronald Reagan, then 100 miles offshore a couple of days ago, moved further away.
Jerry Brown should be holding very open and clear hearings about the placement of backup systems in our California reactors. It was news to me to learn that “spent fuel” actually needs cooling as much as the active reactor, and that the rods are stored at the sites, for years.
I have no doubt that somewhere, both Japanese and American engineers who foresaw these dangers, and who were ignored, are shaking their heads and wondering what further they could have done. No shame for them, the could see the possibilities, and did their best to warn, and were ignored.
Best site yet that explains the differences between ways of getting killed by radiation. http://io9.com/#!5782367/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do
We will never be affected by the ionizing radiation at the plant, which can literally cook your body on the spot, but we can be affected by particles of radioactive debris, knocked loose from the fuel rods, or created when the sea water (every element known to man in seawater) was sprayed on them. Tiny, tiny, tiny, and easily capable of going airborne, just one of these particles inhaled or absorbed through the skin, can kill you over time, time much shorter than your allotted time, and in a very painful way.
Lodged at one point in your body, this radioactive particle will not show as anything more powerful than background radiation does, BUT
Because it does not move around, and randomly zap different cells in different parts of your body, but instead concentrates on just the cells next to it, the damage is cumulative.
The cells next to the radioactive particle have their DNA and RNA shot to hell, and those cells eventually stop functioning, or worse yet, mutate to cancerous cells, and you die.
Seems to me we need to melt down and incase the waste in the nearest subsea continental subduction zone, and add that cost to the "cost of nuclear power." dumping the spent rods into the nearest volcano just won't work. Jerry Brown can add additional research into the old Farallones radioactive dumping grounds to his list of things to be concerned about.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Geiger Counter Readings are Worthless for Internal Body Particles
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Took care of potassium iodine three days ago, Centrum has a 100% dose. Steven Chu, Nobel prize winning Energy Secretary was up to 2:30 am as well. I was ordering face masks.
The idiots on CNN are discussing why radiation is "not so bad."
They totally miss the difference between background radiation, and the radiation from one small particle, lodged at one spot in your lungs. A few random hits hither and yon, no problem from backkground radiation. Millions of hits on a few cells next to a particle directly affects their DNA and RNA and causes mutations, AKA cancers.
Background radiation and that particle may have the exact same readings on a Geiger counter, but the particle can kill you, because it keeps working away on the cells right next to it.
Took care of potassium iodine three days ago, Centrum has a 100% dose. Steven Chu, Nobel prize winning Energy Secretary was up to 2:30 am as well. I was ordering face masks.
The idiots on CNN are discussing why radiation is "not so bad."
They totally miss the difference between background radiation, and the radiation from one small particle, lodged at one spot in your lungs. A few random hits hither and yon, no problem from backkground radiation. Millions of hits on a few cells next to a particle directly affects their DNA and RNA and causes mutations, AKA cancers.
Background radiation and that particle may have the exact same readings on a Geiger counter, but the particle can kill you, because it keeps working away on the cells right next to it.
Nukes, nukes, gotta have my nukes....
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My response to someone who wants to build nukes, regardless of the dangers, foreseen and unforeseen.
"So, asking for a power grid not to have the potential to contribute to world wide cancers and death via radiation poisoning is irresponsible?
You want to jump of a 100 story building and then claim it was inevitable as you go splat, that's your business. just don't expect me to jump with you. Go get your own darned planet, if you "gotta have nukes.' You some kind of drug addict or something?
"Nukes nukes, gotta have nukes! Where's my daily fix of nukes?"
My response to someone who wants to build nukes, regardless of the dangers, foreseen and unforeseen.
"So, asking for a power grid not to have the potential to contribute to world wide cancers and death via radiation poisoning is irresponsible?
You want to jump of a 100 story building and then claim it was inevitable as you go splat, that's your business. just don't expect me to jump with you. Go get your own darned planet, if you "gotta have nukes.' You some kind of drug addict or something?
"Nukes nukes, gotta have nukes! Where's my daily fix of nukes?"
Monday, March 14, 2011
Watt's Up, Doc?
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Watts Up, doc?
We had no problem building Liberty Ships and B-24s and taking the backboard scribbling forward to the first nuke bombs, what holding up the show now? Put people to work, at 1/2 minimum wage, and build the panels, giving one to each worker per day, and they get to sell them to the highest bidders. a really wild and interesting market, just like any other. Or, they can take them home. The government supplies the materials and the tools.
All the rest go to power all the governments, state and local. That will keep us busy and productive for quite a while.
Watts Up, doc?
We had no problem building Liberty Ships and B-24s and taking the backboard scribbling forward to the first nuke bombs, what holding up the show now? Put people to work, at 1/2 minimum wage, and build the panels, giving one to each worker per day, and they get to sell them to the highest bidders. a really wild and interesting market, just like any other. Or, they can take them home. The government supplies the materials and the tools.
All the rest go to power all the governments, state and local. That will keep us busy and productive for quite a while.
Background Radiation vs Small Radioactive Particle in your Body
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There is a huge difference between background radiation zinging through a random molecule at random places in your body, and a radioactive particle permanently lodged in one place in your body, repeatedly zapping away, over and over again, at nearby DNA and RNA chains, until they mutate into cancer cells.
But, they both give the same geigercounter readings, it's just that one relentlessly kills you as fast as it can, while the other, background radiation, is relatively harmless.
I haven't figured out the trick for smooth posting of links, so cut and paste this for a really good review of how the Japan plants we built and work.
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/west-coast-usa-danger-if-japan-nuclear-reactor-meltdown/
There is a huge difference between background radiation zinging through a random molecule at random places in your body, and a radioactive particle permanently lodged in one place in your body, repeatedly zapping away, over and over again, at nearby DNA and RNA chains, until they mutate into cancer cells.
But, they both give the same geigercounter readings, it's just that one relentlessly kills you as fast as it can, while the other, background radiation, is relatively harmless.
I haven't figured out the trick for smooth posting of links, so cut and paste this for a really good review of how the Japan plants we built and work.
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/west-coast-usa-danger-if-japan-nuclear-reactor-meltdown/
Please Prioritize Your Ducks Correctly, President Obama
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Nuke Decommissioning, Solar Panel Production, Japan, Wisconsin, Libya, THEN school bullying. You need to get your ducks properly prioritized. Too damn bad the trans-Atlantic ocean liner the SS United States hasn't been recommissioned as a roving ambassador/emergency hospital ship. She'd be steaming into Tokyo Bay today, crossing the Pacific from San Francisco in less than six days.
You can see more details at the Facebook groups:
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=438628365506
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=438628365506
Did you know the Japanese plant had been scheduled to be decommissioned in February of this year, but then they got a ten year extension? Somewhere inside of Tokyo Electric and the Japanese government, heads are rolling....
Nuke Decommissioning, Solar Panel Production, Japan, Wisconsin, Libya, THEN school bullying. You need to get your ducks properly prioritized. Too damn bad the trans-Atlantic ocean liner the SS United States hasn't been recommissioned as a roving ambassador/emergency hospital ship. She'd be steaming into Tokyo Bay today, crossing the Pacific from San Francisco in less than six days.
You can see more details at the Facebook groups:
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=438628365506
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=438628365506
Did you know the Japanese plant had been scheduled to be decommissioned in February of this year, but then they got a ten year extension? Somewhere inside of Tokyo Electric and the Japanese government, heads are rolling....
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Minimalist Shelters for the Homeless/Displaced by Disasters
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We need minimal shelter from rain and wind, using Japanese mini hotel bee hexagon model, made from sturdy plastics, tin roof top over a whole bank of them, stacked two high, multiple access levels.
The hexagon would be roughly 8 feet long, two feet on each side. The material would be extruded recycled plastic, probably about 1/4 inch thick. I am not a materials engineer, but I suspect that this would work. Using a framework of wood to support these off the ground and separating each layer, you could easily go up four to six layers, with access at every two layers. A solid tin roof, 20 by 20, could cover, at six hexagons deep, 3×4, 3×4, 3×4, times entry from both sides for 2nd bank, 21 on a side, 42 sleeping spaces. Simple vinal curtains, recycled sign material from convention signage, would keep the rain out of the openings to the hexapods.
Cost, probably well under $20,000 per structure. It’s not a house, but it does prevent people from freezing to death. Body heat would probably raise interior temps a few degrees. Being dry, you can take a lot more cold. During the day, hexapods can be pressure washed if needed.
To avoid the NIMBY problem, you could put a single bank of these on a semitrailer, and move it from place to place, with portypotty in tow. Daytime airports have lots of flat spaces at night. Having separate trailer banks for men and for women and children would be good. Pets would be possible.
thank-you, Bucky Fuller!
Douglas Keachie
We need minimal shelter from rain and wind, using Japanese mini hotel bee hexagon model, made from sturdy plastics, tin roof top over a whole bank of them, stacked two high, multiple access levels.
The hexagon would be roughly 8 feet long, two feet on each side. The material would be extruded recycled plastic, probably about 1/4 inch thick. I am not a materials engineer, but I suspect that this would work. Using a framework of wood to support these off the ground and separating each layer, you could easily go up four to six layers, with access at every two layers. A solid tin roof, 20 by 20, could cover, at six hexagons deep, 3×4, 3×4, 3×4, times entry from both sides for 2nd bank, 21 on a side, 42 sleeping spaces. Simple vinal curtains, recycled sign material from convention signage, would keep the rain out of the openings to the hexapods.
Cost, probably well under $20,000 per structure. It’s not a house, but it does prevent people from freezing to death. Body heat would probably raise interior temps a few degrees. Being dry, you can take a lot more cold. During the day, hexapods can be pressure washed if needed.
To avoid the NIMBY problem, you could put a single bank of these on a semitrailer, and move it from place to place, with portypotty in tow. Daytime airports have lots of flat spaces at night. Having separate trailer banks for men and for women and children would be good. Pets would be possible.
thank-you, Bucky Fuller!
Douglas Keachie
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Fixing Grass Valley Parking Woes with GPS'd Bicycles
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Grass valley contemplates $350,000 worth of parking meters.
If you are going to spend that kind of money, you could buy a fleet of bicycles, paint them distinctively, put in GPS units that would go off, much noise and a phone home with current location, should they be taken elsewhere. Turn most of the parking outside of Mill and Main Streets into loading areas and handicapped only, passenger cars OK for ten minutes, to pick up goods bought while roaming on bikes.
Hire high schoolers to bring bikes to businesses that seem shy of them, whole lot of them findable via their GPS's at any given time, to prevent buildups of bikes in a given area.
Douglas Keachie
Grass valley contemplates $350,000 worth of parking meters.
If you are going to spend that kind of money, you could buy a fleet of bicycles, paint them distinctively, put in GPS units that would go off, much noise and a phone home with current location, should they be taken elsewhere. Turn most of the parking outside of Mill and Main Streets into loading areas and handicapped only, passenger cars OK for ten minutes, to pick up goods bought while roaming on bikes.
Hire high schoolers to bring bikes to businesses that seem shy of them, whole lot of them findable via their GPS's at any given time, to prevent buildups of bikes in a given area.
Douglas Keachie
Monday, February 14, 2011
Stopping Illegal Prison Cell Phone Use
Locate four cell towers, 200 yards out from the boundaries of the prison, staking out the roughly four corners. Have all four listen for transmissions. By measuring the slight delay between towers against internal atomic clocks, triangulate and locate the offending phones.
You are not listening to the conversation, no privacy laws broken, you are merely tracking down the location of the illegal phones, which a special squad, not local to the prison, would then search for, via video or in person. These towers could be portables, moved from prison to prison, to save money.
You are not listening to the conversation, no privacy laws broken, you are merely tracking down the location of the illegal phones, which a special squad, not local to the prison, would then search for, via video or in person. These towers could be portables, moved from prison to prison, to save money.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
How Toshiba Intel Does Business, Improved!
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In this case, they called back, and the squeeky wheel, (me), gets to keep the backpack for my troubles.
About 4 weeks ago I made the plunge for a new laptop from Toshiba, after waiting for technology to catch up with the needs for doing simple video editing on a laptop. I ordered as a bundle, complete with super warranty, and a nice backpack. I got the shiny red machine, went to Clientworks next to the NC SPD Market, to have it carefully set up with a Linux partition for internetting, as well as getting Norton off the drive, for fast efficient and safe computing.
About two weeks ago I got a little note from Toshiba stating that Intel had detected a flaw in the i7 processor, that over time, might result in a degradation in speed. Sensing danger for of all the work I had already done with installations and data, I called Toshiba and ordered a duplicate drive, which has yet to arrive, but should be here soon.
This morning I got an email which said basically, "send the machine back, FED EX will email you a label, we will refund all your money." I called the number and found out that Intel has no ship date for a fixed processor, and so Toshiba had no plans for replacing the laptop, and that this was their solution.
I asked if there would be any discount or credit towards getting first in line for the first machine Toshiba came up with that was equivalent?
"No, there would not be."
I asked if I could at least keep the backpack, which is particularly well made, and pay for it?
"No, you must send everything back, you bought it as a bundle."
Seems as though Toshiba doesn't want me as a customer? At a minimum, they should have said,
"Of course, keep the pack, that's the least we can do for your inconvenience!"
So they'll wind up getting it back and throwing the pack in the landfills? This is not good marketing.
I also sorta wonder, if I had not bought that super extended covers all warranty, would they be trying to get it back at all?
Now to see if I can kick this into viral mode.
BTW, here is the rather curt letter, minus personal details:
Intel Chipset Design Issue
Effective January 31, 2011, Intel announced a design issue with the Intel 6 Series chipset. Intel has announced that in some cases the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives.
This Intel design issue affects a limited number of Toshiba laptops with the Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor, which includes the product you purchased. Our sales information indicates you purchased one of the following models from Toshiba Direct:
A660 Build to Order (BTO)
A6603DV12
X500Q930
X505Q8102
X505Q8104
Based on the information available at this time we are issuing a Return Authorization (RMA) for you to return the affected laptop for a full refund. Please repackage the laptop in its original carton and using the FedEx return label, which will be provided in a an email directly from FedEx, then return the product to Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. Returns Center, 9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine, CA 92618. Your Return Authorization number is: 80xxxxxx. Please make sure to clearly write your Return Authorization # on the outside of the box your return is shipped in.
Please backup up your data and remove any confidential, proprietary or personal information before returning the product.
In the event you purchased peripherals with the laptop, and you wish to return these items, please contact the Toshiba Direct Customer Service team at 800-618-4444 to request a Return Authorization and obtain a separate return shipping label for these items. .
Updated:
In this case, they called back, and the squeeky wheel, (me), gets to keep the backpack for my troubles.
About 4 weeks ago I made the plunge for a new laptop from Toshiba, after waiting for technology to catch up with the needs for doing simple video editing on a laptop. I ordered as a bundle, complete with super warranty, and a nice backpack. I got the shiny red machine, went to Clientworks next to the NC SPD Market, to have it carefully set up with a Linux partition for internetting, as well as getting Norton off the drive, for fast efficient and safe computing.
About two weeks ago I got a little note from Toshiba stating that Intel had detected a flaw in the i7 processor, that over time, might result in a degradation in speed. Sensing danger for of all the work I had already done with installations and data, I called Toshiba and ordered a duplicate drive, which has yet to arrive, but should be here soon.
This morning I got an email which said basically, "send the machine back, FED EX will email you a label, we will refund all your money." I called the number and found out that Intel has no ship date for a fixed processor, and so Toshiba had no plans for replacing the laptop, and that this was their solution.
I asked if there would be any discount or credit towards getting first in line for the first machine Toshiba came up with that was equivalent?
"No, there would not be."
I asked if I could at least keep the backpack, which is particularly well made, and pay for it?
"No, you must send everything back, you bought it as a bundle."
Seems as though Toshiba doesn't want me as a customer? At a minimum, they should have said,
"Of course, keep the pack, that's the least we can do for your inconvenience!"
So they'll wind up getting it back and throwing the pack in the landfills? This is not good marketing.
I also sorta wonder, if I had not bought that super extended covers all warranty, would they be trying to get it back at all?
Now to see if I can kick this into viral mode.
BTW, here is the rather curt letter, minus personal details:
Intel Chipset Design Issue
Effective January 31, 2011, Intel announced a design issue with the Intel 6 Series chipset. Intel has announced that in some cases the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives.
This Intel design issue affects a limited number of Toshiba laptops with the Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor, which includes the product you purchased. Our sales information indicates you purchased one of the following models from Toshiba Direct:
A660 Build to Order (BTO)
A6603DV12
X500Q930
X505Q8102
X505Q8104
Based on the information available at this time we are issuing a Return Authorization (RMA) for you to return the affected laptop for a full refund. Please repackage the laptop in its original carton and using the FedEx return label, which will be provided in a an email directly from FedEx, then return the product to Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. Returns Center, 9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine, CA 92618. Your Return Authorization number is: 80xxxxxx. Please make sure to clearly write your Return Authorization # on the outside of the box your return is shipped in.
Please backup up your data and remove any confidential, proprietary or personal information before returning the product.
In the event you purchased peripherals with the laptop, and you wish to return these items, please contact the Toshiba Direct Customer Service team at 800-618-4444 to request a Return Authorization and obtain a separate return shipping label for these items. .
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