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halloffame32 (5)Fast, Angry, Ahead of its time...necroscope86 (4)An impressive debut marred by a string of flaws common among much of the nu-metal movement...phallacious (3)a tumor of cathartic nostalgia...Jakob (4.5)A solid debut from a solid band....
Fallout (4)If you are one of those people who wrote off Slipknot because of their somewhat bizarre an...Robert Garland CONTRIBUTOR (4)Iowa's nine piece metal out-fit bring a thick, raw and crunchy sound to the metal masses...34657 (4)This album gets a lot of hate, and I really do think it's undeserved. Yes, it could lazily...Jeremy Bentham (5)love them or hate them, this still remains one of the most pissed off albums ever recorded...
Kenneth E. Rathburn (3)Masks and jumpsuits and nu metal, oh my!...theclown (3)Slipknot's self tittled album....Giovanni Del Pi (4)...Pedro B. (4.5)...
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Album Rating: 3.0I've literally been working on this review all day, I even proofreaded in a sense. Hope you like it.
wow! you even proofread it!!!!!
Album Rating: 3.0^In a sense. Score one for Word. Oh and was that sarcasm? I don't catch sarcasm too well, forgive me.This Message Edited On 12.16.07
How could that possibly be sarcasm?
Album Rating: 3.5Your stepping your reviews up quite well. I enjoy this album once in a while, but I have to say its still one of the better nu-metal bands out there. no existent bass none* Sometimes letting someone else proofread can help. You don't always pick up mistake that you've read a million times over. Digging: Wold - Screech Owl
no existent bass
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Album Rating: 3.0Oh NON existent bass, gotcha.This Message Edited On 12.16.07
Album Rating: 3.5hahahahahah wow, I even fucked up my own constructive criticism. I better put down this beer.............
Album Rating: 3.0Lol. Like you said, having someone else proofread helps sometimes :P
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Album Rating: 3.0Holy shit, I'm a contributor now!
So, yeah... You're last review was mostly decent, but you just turned right back around with this one. I think your main problem with reviewing is that you don't seem to understand the difference between a band and an album. Every review you write seems to revolve around what each member plays. This would be alright if you used that as a tool to analyze the album, but instead, you just make very simple observations. Your review can pretty much be summed up like this: [quote=First sentence of the last paragraph]However, Slipknot really doesn't try utilizing different playing styles. They just stick to one certain method: non existent bass, down tuned guitars, fast paced drumming and percussive assaulting, spine chilling samples, groovy turntables, and screaming with some melody at random instances.[/quote] That's pretty much the abridged version of your entire review, and it's just a general statement about the band, and not a description of the album. You don't even seem to take any particular stance on the album. There are some other things wrong with this review as well. First, your comparisons are usually always strange, especially in this review. Using Korn as some sort of Tool to measure Slipknot is a bit awkward, seeing as how the bands don't really sound alike. I mean, I can see you're linking the two bands using the genre of nu-metal, but the comparison really isn't great. Try to only make comparisons to other bands if you absolutely find it necessary to describe the band's sound. Second, your diction and word choice is sometimes very strange. It's not so bad in this review, but some of your previous reviews (especially your Korn's Greatest Hits review) are incredibly difficult to read. A good way to work on this is just what the_wizard said: letting someone else read it before will help. It's nice that you've been putting more effort into your reviews and you're proofreading them before you submit them, but word isn't really enough.
I'm confused fascist, are you following this guys reviews? Because you've posted criticism on every one of them, and you have not managed to sound like a nice person in any of them. There's constructive criticism, then there's repeated annoying criticism.
He is a fascist why are you surprised?
I've literally been working on this review all day, I even proofreaded in a sense. Hope you like it. I don't think you proofreaded that sentence. And Jacktiger, were you around when a user named Tribestros was around? He's a legendary character who wrote like 60 reviews and never took anyone's advice on getting better and was eventually sent into the oblivion we know as IGN. I think superfascist is trying to help stop this user from suffering the same fate. This Message Edited On 12.17.07Digging: Rufus Wainwright - Want One
I've literally been working on this review all day, I even proofreaded in a sense. Hope you like it.
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oh witty ec nice pun
Using Korn as some sort of Tool to measure Slipknot is a bit awkward, seeing as how the bands don't really sound alike. The capitalization in that sentence is a bit awkward. There's constructive criticism, then there's repeated annoying criticism. I see nothing wrong with it especially when it seems like Ashtray is not even listening to anything superfascist is trying to tell him.This Message Edited On 12.17.07
Using Korn as some sort of Tool to measure Slipknot is a bit awkward, seeing as how the bands don't really sound alike.
There's constructive criticism, then there's repeated annoying criticism.
Tool is a band. It's a pun.
Actually I heard tribestros was sent into oblivion for negging the same person over and over. I also heard that the mods don't like that being talked about
[quote=Altmer]Tool is a band. It's a pun.[/quote] Yeah... That's what I was going for, totally. >_>This Message Edited On 12.17.07
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Sadly, I have to agree with you about D3, extremely disappointing. I've been playing for a little over a month, six weeks maybe, and I see very little chance that I will be playing a month from now. From a game design standpoint it emphasizes everything that I like least in games. The genius of D2 was that it had such a broad appeal, no matter what you liked in a game, D2 made that option available to you. If you liked to collect items or work to get all the uberest items, you could do it, MF till your eyes bled. But you could also play the game perfectly well with pedestrian gear, or even with NO gear, like my naked Guardian. If you wanted to strive for L99 you could do that, with countless Cow/Baal runs. But the game had enough variety that once you made Guardian with one build, you could leave that toon behind and start up a new character that was completely different from the last (my preference). When the internet was slow or flaky, or if the servers were down, you could always play SP. But not now. D2 was wide open, if you wanted to try it, you were accommodated by Blizzard. But D3 is very limiting.
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Thank you for this comment. When I read it yesterday it helped me realize what I have known for a while now, but didn't want to admit to myself. D3 is ALL about items, and unless you're willing to chase that greased pig, you're going to have a very tough time in this game. I lost my Barb last night, my second highest character, only L38, but a lot of work for me. Like all HC deaths, it was all my fault. And the lesson I learned was that I had ignored the armor stat. My life and my damage were higher than what was shown in the 'Benchmark thread' and I had been doing fine up until then. But at L38, the majority of my items were L20-23, I just hadn't found any stuff with better armor numbers that had equivalent bonuses. I thought that I was OK, but I was wrong. Going forward, I now have to spend even MORE time on the AH, and not playing. I have to bid on some items today and hope that I get them tomorrow, rechecking the bids as often as possible, and upping my bids when necessary. I'm new, and poor, so I really can't afford to overpay for stuff, so I have to work the AH smartly. But it's boring as hell. I quit playing DDO for just this reason, chasing items and working their AH to keep my toons playable was more work than the game was fun.
Dictionary.com defines 'grind' as to work laboriously. I think I can spend my free time in a more enjoyable way. Blizzard use to make great games, but Blizzard North is gone. And what they put out now is but a shadow of the past. I've gotten about as much out of D3 as I did Starcraft 2, a month or so. And just like S2, I was expecting a LOT more. Oh well.
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In normal, nightmare and acts 1 and 2 of hell, basically up to level 54 or so do not under estimate the value of the blacksmith. He can make you some decent stuff for fairly cheap. Only really starts to get expensive when crafting level 60 items. This way you will not necessarily be level 38 with level 25 weapon or helm or boots or whatever. You can craft a decent axe at level 35 and sword at level 29 and so on. Just keep this in mind for the leveling part.


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Does this picture remind anyone else of the KIN TWO?
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I had that phone and I loved how it had wifi without a data plan. I wish Microsoft had refined that product line..
But it's a nostalgic design for me and I love it. - 12-02-2012, 07:36 AM #2
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Yeah, I think the 822 has a much better design than the boxy 810. And I also owned a Kin TWOm. :D
"Engineering is more than just the number of megapixels." - Stephen Elop - 12-02-2012, 08:33 AM #4
The 822 rests in your hand comfortably..
Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express - 12-02-2012, 01:36 PM #5
While there is a superficial resemblance for those who want to see one, I would be hard pressed to see how the word "inspired" applies. The only things Kin inspired were two years worth of poor Microsoft/Verizon relations and unnecessary negativity towards WP7 out of the box. Any similarity of form is purely coincidental.
That keyboard on the Kin TWO looks sweet.
For someone with large hands, the spaced out keys were great. It took some getting used to because it was so different, but it was awesome..
And while it might not be inspired, like you said stephen, it's a superficial resemblance that causes me to like the 822 better (because I have good memories from the TWOm) - 12-03-2012, 04:02 PM #10
Man, do NOT let Microsoft executives see this thread... they will push Nokia to stop production like IMMEDIATELY!! I never even seen a KIN in real life. Kinda like the Bald Eagle- know they are out there, just haven't seen them in flight.
I need to get to a Verizon store to play with a 822. I like the basic design. The AT&T shop I went to only had a 920 and an inactive 8X. So far, no 820 to compare either. Will be fun to get to see them all."Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."- Ben Franklin. - 12-04-2012, 02:45 AM #12
I had a kin two :D
awesome camera and i love the little Cloud features and online album thing...microsoft should bring that back and integrate into Skydrive. - 12-06-2012, 09:54 AM #13
My daughter had the Kin TwoM - twice. She loved the phone, but the hardware was shoddy. very temperamental and pls don't drop them. Otherwise, it was a good cross of a phone with Zune music capability. Don't see the design match other than a rounded back and being gray though. The only issue I have for the design of the 822 is the back. I find that the edges seem a little rough, but I will take the tradeoff for a replaceable battery and a SD card. BTW, she got my Trophy when I got the 822. Now what will VZW have in February when my next contract comes up for replacement?????
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They plan to make uranium fuel rods, export these to other countries, then re-import the intensely radioactive waste from those countries encased in the fuel rods, and melt them down in concentrated nitric acid. This is called reprocessing. From that witches' cauldron of radioactive liquids is removed plutonium 239, which has a half life of 24,000 years and is a fuel for nuclear weapons.
These fast reactors are cooled with liquid sodium, an extraordinarily dangerous material. If there's a crack in the pipe, liquid sodium exposed to air either burns or explodes. You lose your coolant. Ten pounds of plutonium is critical mass. There would be a massive meltdown, but not just that a huge, huge nuclear explosion, scattering 10 to 15 tons of plutonium to the four winds. It's worse than any science fiction book ever written, because hypothetically 1 or 2 pounds evenly distributed throughout the world could kill most people on Earth with lung cancer.
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Some people have accused you of alarmism or inflating the dangers.
Caldicott: I would say that I can't speak enough to inflate the dangers. In fact, I under-inflate the dangers. I spoke recently to my alma mater at Harvard Medical School to the best pediatricians in the world, and they were absolutely astonished and alarmed. There is no debate about the medical consequences.
The people who would call me alarmist are nuclear engineers, physicists or businessmen who know nothing about medicine. Once you know about biology and genetics and medicine, there's absolutely no debate. Our job as doctors is to teach those people and the general public what those dangers are, as we taught them in the past.
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Join the conversation! Add your comment- I do not know the science.
- However I see nations what are nuclear dependent like France and Japan still around intact. Japan even has one of the longest lifespan despite its not insignificant nuclear mishaps where radiation was not kept in place.
It does sound alarmist of her. When there is only a small minority keep protesting about something prevalent, they are unusually not correct, not to say that they are never right. But it is up to them to prove it very convincingly. - Like Reply Link Flag
- You're right. You don't know the science.
- When there is a small minority of knowledgeable people
disagreeing with the majority, the minority is usually correct. It
was a small minority that said the earth was round in 1492, a
small minority that said man could fly in 1903, and a small
minority that believed in wireless transmiissions (radio) in the
early 20th century.
Even if you still don't want to believe what she's saying about the
dangers, the fact is that nuclear power isn't cost efficient, which
is why even today it can't survive without government subsidies. - Like Link Flag
- Nuclear power today
- You are correct. France generates 76% of its electricity using nuclear power and is a major electricity explorer to its neighboring countries. The remainder of electricity in France is mostly generated by hydroelectric.
The article is ridden with fallacies and half-truths. I shall discuss here some of these:
If you take the whole fuel chain as one piece, nuclear power produces large quantities of global warming gases because millions of tons of rock and ore need to be mined to get the uranium out of the ground. And it has to be crushed, using more fossil fuels.
Coal also must be mined. Coal has less energy per ton than Uranium. It is less energy efficient to mine coal than Uranium. The major reason why coal is used rather than nuclear is not the fuel cost: it is because a nuclear power plant is much more expensive to build than a coal power plant, even if it ends up being a wash at plant end of life.
It is also perfectly possible to crush rocks using electric engines, powered by nuclear power. For someone who claims to drive a Prius hybrid electric, she seems remarkably forgetful of this fact. Solar panels, windmills, these all need raw minerals to manufacture as well. Fact is nothing is 100% clean. Nuclear is just better than the alternative: coal.
At the moment, uranium is enriched at Paducah, Ky., where they have two 1,500-megawatt filthy, old, coal-fired plants to produce the electricity to enrich the uranium.
Here she presents half the facts again. Yes, gas diffusion plants such as these require electricity to power them. The electricity may come from coal, nuclear or whatever. In France, they use nuclear electricity to enrich the uranium. Another fact, more recent gas centrifuge technology requires 50 times less energy to enrich the same fuel than such plants. This gas centrifuge technology is so complex, countries like Pakistan and Brazil are using it. The USA still uses its 1970s technology gas diffusion plant and is in the process of transitioning to the newer technology.
The...reactors they're planning...one (is) the AP-1000 by Westinghouse, which is essentially the same as the light water reactors that operate today, but cheaper to build because it has less concrete and steel. It's been nicknamed the eggshell reactor and, as such, it's very dangerous and could incur a major accident or meltdown.
Ask a Japanese auto manufacturer: less parts mean less possible causes for failure, easier inspections, less manufacturing expenses. These reactors do precisely that. They are meant to be manufactured in series production, rather than being crafts works like the old reactors. Simulations show them to be more reliable than the old reactors. In fact, one of the reasons Three Mile Island happened, was the plant was so complex to inspect, they couldn't figure out which widget was malfunctioning. Since then the industry has tried to simplify and make clearer the instrumentation and operator diagnostics in a nuclear power plant.
These people come from the past, they are not seeing the present picture. We are addicted to oil, coal and gas, to break the addiction will take a tremendous effort.
We need everything: nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, etc. None alone will do it with present technology. Each has its own limitations. Nuclear has great potential for replacing coal, the renewables have great potential for replacing the gas fired peaker plants. To break the oil addiction will be the greatest problem of them all: try doing the math on replacing 50% of USA fuel consumption with biofuels. I give you a quote from Wikipedia as an appetizer: It would require twice the land area of the US to be devoted to soybean production, or two-thirds to be devoted to rapeseed production, to meet current US heating and transportation needs.
It is not that there are not other options, just that it is not expected we will be able to develop them in time to minimize misery and pain. - Like Link Flag
- Al Gore! HA!
- This lady is beating a horse that has been dead for years. It's dumbasses like her that stunt the growth of science. Our current nuclear power facilities are aging. Wouldn't a new generation be more efficient and a lot safer than the previous?
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- From my understanding her science is wrong
- PBR Reactors use Helium because it cannot pick up radiation. Or at least every scientific explanation of them I have ever read makes this claim.
Gasoline was considered a dangerous by-product of petroleum distillation for the first 50 years, and it was burned off or dumped in streams. Now we use it. The same thing will happen with nuclear waste.
Coal plants have released more radiation into the environment than all the nuclear accidents combined and then SOME. - Like Reply Link Flag
- Deadly statement
- There is no garuntee that the spent fuel can or will ever be re-used. And unlike your gasoline example if it cant be re-used then the consequences are long lasting.
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- Good point
- For a gas to be radioactive, it would have to become radioactive itself by changing molecular makeup and becoming a radioactive isotope. Helium does have four radioactive isotopes, but according to Encyclopedia Britannica, "The four other isotopes are all radioactive, decaying very rapidly into other substances." These other substances are stable, non-radioactive Helium isotopes, and stable, non-radioactive Lithium isotopes.
Dr. Caldicott is fearmongering. - Like Link Flag
- What science??
- Helen Caldicott states that we should not listen to engineers and physicists; it is apparent she took her own advice some time ago.
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- Idiots like her
- Unless we kill off 3/4 of the world population and move the rest into small wooden huts, humans are going to have an impact on the planet.
Nuclear power is the cleanest and best source of power, when used correctly. Japan and France are examples.
Pick which hysteria you want to cater to:
1) global warming (if this choose nukes)
2) nuclear power (if this, don't complain about global warming) - Like Reply Link Flag
- Find a dead horse...
- ... and let the beatings begin! Who knows, you may just get a Nobel Prize for such an accomplishment.
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- Shame this wasn't, oh, Journalism
- Do we *challenge* people's outrageous assertions anymore? Require them to justify them, perhaps?
> The people who would call me alarmist are nuclear engineers, physicists or businessmen who know nothing about medicine.
Probably not actually that accurate... but their understanding of medicine *has* to be deeper than hers of nuclear power engineering, of which she has none.
I loved, particularly, the graphite moderator strawman, which she tosses in in the context of the AP-1000 (and pebble-bedded fuel; these being three completely unrelated subjects).
Nuclear power is indeed not necessarily all a bed of roses. But *informed* discussion is much more likely to be productive than alarmist ranting.
Why can't anyone talk calmly anymore?
Is it really just the influence of teh tubes? - Like Reply Link Flag
- Just Junk
- Wow, I haven't heard that much technical spin (as in spin out control) on nukes since the 80's.
Put this nut back in hibernation. - Like Reply Link Flag
- Unfortunatly, yes
- I think this woman is a nut.
Personally, I don't think Big Nuclear is the way to go (if only for economic reasons), but you have to win over people with facts, not distortions.
Rants like hers are among the reasons the green movement has had to struggle to be accepted. You cannot promote a cause through exaggeration and hype, and you Have to get the science right. Without that, she has done more harm than good to her cause. - Like Link Flag
- Sweden Account is Wrong
- The author?s inclusion of the Swedish incident is alarmist and contains a huge error. The reactor that she mentions was shut down after its power supply was found to be inadequate for proper cooling to be maintained.
The assessment came from Lars-Olov Höglund, who said, ?Since the electricity supply from the network didn?t work as it should have, it could have been a catastrophe.?
He said without power the temperature would have been too high after 30 minutes and the reactor would have been damaged. Within two hours there would have been a meltdown.
The plant operator shut down the plant to prevent damage. - Like Reply Link Flag
- I'm calling bullocks
- Thinner walls, but made of what? Do you even know what the current reactor shielding is made of?
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- CNet descends to Daily Kos/Huffpost level of discourse
- Alarmist loons who sound like Art Bell on LSD pass for news? This woman may be a doctor, but she needs medical help herself. She is scared of her own shadow. I honestly believe she has Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Panphobia.
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- Yellow journalism
- People who become journalists share one unfortunate feature.
They are almost all abysmally ignorant of science. Unlike
journalism, science requires something besides wide-eyed
enthusiasm and a yearning to be near the center of controversy.
So, reporters are mostly unable to distinguish between the
frantic idiocy of Helen Caldicott and the boring but informed
explanations of, say, bioradiation experts.
Remember, every moden mania depends on gullible and
manipulative reporters to whip up the requisite fear. It's much
more exciting than the hard work of unearthing and writing
simple facts. The reporter and editor who would publish the
hallucinations of Caldicott are ignorant and malicious
demagogues. The topic may be green, but the journalism is
yellow. - Like Reply Link Flag
- "Can you talk about your book"
- "No, I cant talk about the book. Thats not why I'm making noise.."
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- I Don't Trust Nuclear Energy
- There is no way I'm going to ever trust nuclear energy. The
dangers outlined in this article are reason enough. My vision is a
solar cell and/or wind power system so refined that each home
will be its own autonomous power plant.
Oh, but then you destroy the centralized big business we want
to control it all system. I WON'T MISS THAT ONE BIT!!!!
Caldicott: "Well, it's sort of like going from tobacco to crack. You
don't cure one evil by inserting another evil...The answers are all
there, and the people in Silicon Valley know that because they're
making millions of dollars. They call green energy green not
because it's green but because it makes lots of greenbacks."
I couldn't say it better than that.
Every part or process in creating Nuke power is dirty and
creating the energy has too many places where one error or
malfunction could lead to massive poisoning or some other
mega destructive calamity. Who wants waste that will be around
for thousands of years that you can't even tell with your own five
senses is killing you?
Get off the Nuke bandwagon please!!!!! - Like Reply Link Flag
- What about other energy sources
- Have you ever wondered how solar pannels were produced and what wastes that generated?
And unfortunately I live in a place where there is only 100 days of sunshine a year, so solar isn't enough.
We all should just stop saying nonsense, learn more about what we are talking before getting it written down. - Like Link Flag
- Nuke power not so clean or green
- Helen Caldicott is a green party media ***** that does not utilize good science in her work or articles. The benefits from nuclear science and nuclear power has saved more infants than she has in entire career as a doctor.
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- So many lies
- There are so many lies in her statements I do not have time to address them all so I'll just take the most extreme one.
"...because hypothetically 1 or 2 pounds evenly distributed throughout the world could kill most people on Earth with lung cancer."
Not even close to reality.
Reality is that there are several thousand pounds of plutonium in the atmosphere and settled onto the ground from all the open air testing. It's there. It has been for several decades. Not everyone had died from lung cancer.
Additionally, two pounds distributed evenly across the face of the Earth would not even be enough to be easily measurable: about a picogram (10^-12) per square meter. As a someone who researched the effects of extremely low levels of transuranic materials, I can say that it takes extremely sensitive equipment to measure a picogram of plutonium. And... the negative effects of a few picograms of plutonium is so minimal -- if it exists at all -- that it is not scientifically measurable. There is absolutely no way it would cause lung cancer in even 0.1% of the population let alone most of the people! - Like Reply Link Flag
- Subsidy
- The dairy industry is subsidized,the oil companies are subsidized, medical research is subsidized. Removing our dependancy on foregin oil seems like something worth paying for.
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- Everything is subsidized
- That is the entire problem in a nutshell. Except that I would add "Energy wastage is also subsidized" by (among other things): infrastructure building/maintenance (e.g., roads, water, sewer, electric) in far-flung suburbs and rural areas, military intervention in oil-rich areas, and virtually-unlimited home mortgage interest tax deductions (without regard to number of occupants). The true costs would be more clear if they were paid for from energy taxes and user fees rather than from income taxes.
If people want to live away from everyone else in huge empty mansions and drive long distances by themselves in gas-guzzlers, that is their prerogative, but they should have to foot the bill.
(If anyone actually reads all the posts, forgive this re-post. My reply to another comment fit perfectly here also.) - Like Link Flag
- Glass?
- Isn't there a way to turn the waste into "harmless" glass onsite now? (requiring the onsite facility to do so of course)
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- Vitrification
- Vitrification is the word you are looking for. It can't be done on site very easily and most likely would occur at central locations and not at each power plant. Basically you mix radiactive material with glass. This doesn't make the radiactive material harmless but if for some crazy reason the container breaks it would keep the radiactive material from leeching into our water and contaiminating our soil. It is an extra safety measure on top of the many many other safety measured used to keep us safe from spent nuclear fuel. Here is a quick article on it I found by googling it
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/eternity/vitri1.html
Mark - Like Link Flag
- yellow cake production
- Everything mentioned here aside. I understand that yellow cake
mining, the material they extract uranium from, is decreasing---as
in, we've mined all of the easy to find ore already. If this is in fact a
true statement of uranium ore deposits, what's the point of
building more nuclear reactors if we're just going to run out of a
way of fueling them in 80-100 years? Sounds like the same dead
end oil problem we will face in roughly the same period. - Like Reply Link Flag
- Plenty of fuel
- No there is plenty of easy uranium ore (yellowcake is concentrated uranium from uranium ore) for well over a century and if recycling occurs (Like Japan) we would have fuel for far beyond that. Most likely alternative sources would arrise long before uranium was an issue.
Mark - Like Link Flag
- A Nuclear Engineer's Comments
- I'm a nuclear engineer and have a few comments on this story. First of all, I'm not claiming to be all knowning but some of her statements are just silly.
Uranium Mining:
I don't know the exact amount of CO2 produced by Uranium mining. But lets put a few things into perspective. A nuclear reactor only re-fuels every 18 months. Uranium has so much energy in it that reactors need very very little fuel compared to other power plants. A coal or gas plant uses more fuel in a week than a nuclear reactor does in a year in a half (comparing mass). That is why there are only a handful of Uranium mines in the entire world. Compare that with coal, nickel, copper, iron ore mines, and etc. Uranium mines wouldn't even be 1%. All those other mines release the same radon gas she talks about and require power to run. Uranium mining is much much better for the enviroment than those other practices.
How many people die in coal mines every year. It is in the hundreds and yet nobody blinks an eye. How many people die in Uranium mining, none! This isn't people getting sick, these are people that die every year. And yes coal mining introduces way more radioactive material into the atmosphere than nuclear ever will. Nuclear power isn't perfect but it is so so much better than many alternatives. And it is realistic, the idea of running the entire country off of hydro-electric or solar power is simple unrealistic at the moment.
And the very program she rips on (GNEP) also recycles the nuclear fuel so new mining doesn't occur. Nuclear fuel has so much energy it can be recycled many times before it is retired.
I about fell off my chair laughing when she mentioned the idea of a nuclear power plant blowing up like a nuclear bomb. North Korea has had a nuclear reactor with plutonium for decades and they tried to create a nuclear bomb a few months ago and failed. If it is so easy why hasn't North Korea been able to do it? Lets just say I'm 100% confident than no matter how a terrorist attempts to blow up a nuclear power plant it will never ever blow up like a nuclear bomb. (And yes I know about nuclear weapon designs).
Now about the new generation of nuclear power plant designs. It is true that one of the benefits of the new reactors is cost and decreases the amount of concrete use. But they didn't do it by decreasing the reactor shield. They didn't by intelligent design. With computers they have been able to cut down the amount of piping, (There is a lot of pipes around a nuclear reactor), equipment and etc in the new nuclear designs. This means smaller buildings and less chance of something failing. The new designs are much safer and the reactor housing is stronger not weaker.
This is the basis of all her arguments, she points out some weakness that in fact is not a weakness at all, throw some technical terms in there and then scares people with consequences that are completely unrealistic. She is definitely an alarmist.
As a nuclear engineer I will say that nuclear power is not the answer to the worlds power problems. All our polution problems won't be solved by it. It is a great realistic alternative to fossil fuel power plants and has a very tiny impact on the enviroment. I hope one day we can throw away nuclear reactors for something even better, but until then nuclear power is (yes I'm going to say it) greener for the world we live in today.
Mark - Like Reply Link Flag
- Thank you.
- I thought her comments sounded alarmist to the point of absurdity,
but it's nice to see some facts backing up my intuition.
D - Like Link Flag
- thank you
- You didn't quite convince me that your perspective is totally correct but you did convince me that Dr. Caldicott's argument has some holes. I still tend to agree with her that nuclear waste is even worse than greenhouse gases. I appreciate your relatively balanced tone (considering the rest of the comments online).
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- Well said!
- Good intelligent comments Striker!
I'll add a few extra bits on to this:
When talking about deaths in coal mining, China reported 4,746 during 2006. Most analysts suspect that this number is actually lower than the real total of coal mining deaths in China. Fortunately most other countries are much better and the total deaths for the rest of the world in coal mining accidents is "only" about a thousand people per year. Definitely one of the world's most dangerous industries!
Also you mention pollution from mining operations. I don't have the numbers for the US, but in Canada you can get a ranking of the worst single-source polluters from www.pollutionwatch.org. #1 is a copper and zinc mine and processing center, #2 is a copper mine and processing center and #3 is a nickel mine and processing center. The rest of the top 10 polluters include an aluminium manufacturer, an oil sands upgrading facility and five coal fired power stations! These are NOT clean industries and while nuclear power may have some issues with waste it is by no means the only one!
Personally I'm all for wind and solar panel where they make sense. However wind tends not to blow very consistently and absolutely can not be increased or decreased at will to match changes in power demand. As such it's going to struggle badly to exceed 10% of any given areas electrical power unless there is some sort of back-up power (which kills the economics of it, even with large government subsidies). Solar is in even worse shape.
When you get right down to it, we've got basically 3 sources of energy to choose from for 80%+ of our electricity needs, fossil fuels (mainly coal since all others are or will soon be too expensive), hydroelectric and nuclear. Hydroelectric is nice where available, but you need the water in the first place, plus it releases greenhouse gases from decaying vegetation and leeches heavy metals into you water and food stream. Fossil fuels are terrible from an air pollution standpoint, especially coal which is one of the largest causes of respiratory illness in many countries, not to mention releasing radioactive waste and heavy metals. So that leaves us with nuclear, which has the best safety record of any of the three, the lowest level of pollution and it's pretty much the only industry that very actively deals with it's waste and sets aside (as per government regulations) a portion of it's costs for long term waste management, transportation and disposal. - Like Link Flag
- Right on
- Caldicott seems to be a parrot repeating whatever information she is fed by her special-interest-supported group. She has no credibility or experience and I doubt she could correctly explain how a nuclear power plant operates. Let's hear articles written by experts please. Thanks to Mark for putting her bull into perspective.
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- "I hope one day we can throw away nuclear reactors"
- You defend nuclear power, but then, you add "I hope one day we can throw away nuclear reactors", so what does it mean ?
You are perfectly aware that your accusations are at least as skewed as her arguments.
When she talks about sabotage / consequence of a war, she never implied the plant would explode. Chernobyl did not need to explode ...
If you really are a nuke engineer, then think about what YOU would do if your mission was to sabotage a nuke plant with the goal of releasing as much radioactive particles in the atmosphere as possible.
no matter how good are the new reactors, people still are people and a mistake will happen sooner or later. - Like Link Flag
- diverse energy strategy, including nukes
- Thanks for your clear comments. I worked in a coal-fired power plant (newer one with latest pollution controls) and can tell you that the energy required to mine, process, burn, and handle the waste ash is staggering. This without taking into account the replacement cost of filters, refractories, etc... Additionally coal combustion is a large CO2 emmitter as well as being one of the largest cause of mercury pollution. Thus, when everything is considered in whole, nukes certainly has a place in meeting present insatially need for power. All the rhetoric about "clean power" is not going to solve the near-term demand and ones proclaiming 100% renewables got their heads in the sand. YES, most of us, if not all, would love to see all power demands met by clean renewables but one cannot change things overnight. what can be changed immediately without much pain is the wasteful American life habits. 5 or even 10% reduction in energy consumption is immediately possible. No one needs +300 hp SUVs. Almost no one needs to run ACs 24 hours a day. Instead of opposing certain forms of power generation, we should be expanding our energy opposing destructive, wasteful, lifestyles first.
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- A retread from the nuclear freeze movement
- Caldicott had been terrified of nuclear anything, regardless of technology improvements. She was a proponent of the nuclear freeze, which called for the West to lose its spine and surrender to the Soviets. A true member of "if we ignore them, they will just go away" school. Her appeasement and alarmism belongs on the Democratic Underground website, not CNET
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- Exactly...
- I thought I had heard of her before...she's written a few expose fiction novels, I guess she needs any publicity she can get for her current book. Definitely you're right about her past, she got her start in the Pacific nations nuclear-free movement.
This is why pediatricians shouldn't be in charge engineering policy. Her entry on wikipedia documents her various lies...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Caldicott - Like Link Flag
- Hyperbole
- Nuclear waste causing cancer for millions of years?
Radioactive material is dangerous because it is actively decaying. That means a short half life, so it becomes harmless quickly.
The less radioactive material has a much longer half life, and is less dangerous because it is NOT decaying. The decay is what produces the danger.
Cancer for millions of years? Pure hogwash. - Like Reply Link Flag
- Sick Of Greenies
- I am so sick of all of these greenies and their doom and gloom. This is a cult meant to guilt Americans. We all need to take a minute and look back at history to realize that the earth has gone through heat and cold cycles long before the internal combustion engine was invented. Bad hurricanes really did occur long before the white man laid foot in America. Northern Europe made excellent wine centuries ago. This particular activist seems to be doing to the environment what Jesse Jackson has done to race relations. Notably, nothing.
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- Solar Power will be the answer but not the current Solar Energy Program!
- Solar power is what created all that fossil fuel in the first place. Research the amount of energy that hits the planet every day from the sun! We wont be able to wait millions of years for the low solar efficiency of plants and animals to decay. We must capture the most direct energy from the sun with the least amount of material cost and GHG expenditure to create this solar net. Don?t rush out and put solar panels on your roof. That would be a mistake that could cost the planet in the long run. The million solar roofs program is not the answer. SolarTransfer is the answer but only when done the right way.
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- just look at comanche peak in Texas
- When COmanche Peak power plant was built it was festooned with sensors everywhere. WHen the day cam eto test those sensors the engineers couldn't get them to stop going off continually. Interestingly enough there wasn't a single grain of radioactive fuel at the plant yet! This baffled the engineers to no end for a while. Finally someone got smart and realized that the COAL PLANT UPWIND was releasing enough radioactive material to exceed the federal safety limits placed on all nuclear reactors in the USA!!!!
The lesson? Coal is far nastier radioactive material release wise than a nuclear plant.
Yes nuclear plants produce radioactive polution, but it's recycleable.
Yes nuclear plants are dangerous, but there's been only a couple accidents so far, caused by gross incompetance. 3 mile island released LESS radioactive material than coal plants do in a single day.
solar, wind, tide, etc.... unfeasible until we improve the technology cost wise compared to nuclear plants.
Am I saying just drop these "green" sources? No! Build them as fast as we can! Use Nuclear plants as a stop gap measure to eliminate fossil fules for now so that we have to time to build the truly renewable energy sources over time. - Like Reply Link Flag
- Caldicott is no expert.
- Helen Caldicott has dedicated her life to attacking all nuclear technology. In my opinion she would twist any issue and exaggerate any risk to accomplish her purpose. But she has no training in and only very limited knowledge of radiobiology, radiation safety, nuclear physics, radiochemistry, or environmental biology. She seems to think that radiation risk is a medical issue and she can speak about it because she has a medical degree. She will go to any extreme, make any scary claim, and pretend knowledge to accomplish her purpose. I do not believe that she is a reliable source of information about radiation risks or the comparative effects of energy sources on the environment. CNET News did a disservice by publishing this melange of mis-information.
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- She thinks she ENDED the COLD WAR!!!
- Referring to Ronald Reagan ...."And I think retrospectively I did influence him. He started to say nuclear war must never be fought and can never be won. And he did then work cooperatively with Gorbachev to end the Cold War."
This lady really is nuts. - Like Reply Link Flag
- There are so many
- people that try to either take credit for or deny credit to Ronald Reagan for the cold war ending that I lost count many years ago. This is just another history revisionist that hates to except reality. Reagan had the opportunity and the will. He did what no one else could or would.
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William Proxmire
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Preceded by | Joseph McCarthy |
Succeeded by | Herb Kohl |
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Born | Edward William Proxmire November 11, 1915 Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | December 15, 2005 Sykesville, Maryland, U.S. |
(aged 90)
Nationality | American |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Elsie Proxmire (divorced) Ellen Proxmire |
Religion | United Church of Christ |
Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989.
Personal life[edit]
Proxmire graduated from The Hill School (in Pottstown, Pennsylvania) in 1933,[1] Yale University in 1938, Harvard Business School in 1940, and Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration in 1948.
During World War II he served as a member of the Military Intelligence Service. After getting his second master's degree, Proxmire moved to Wisconsin to be a reporter for The Capital Times in Madison and to stake out a political career in a favorable state. "They fired me after I'd been there seven months, for labor activities and impertinence," he once said.[1]
In 1946, he married Elsie Rockefeller, a great-granddaughter of William Rockefeller, brother and partner of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. They had two children, Theodore, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Elsie Proxmire Zwerner, of Scottsdale, Arizona. Elsie Proxmire received an uncontested divorce in 1955. She later married Miles J. McMillin, who had worked with Proxmire as the editor and publisher of The Capital Times. McMillin shot Elsie Rockefeller to death in December 1982.[2]
In 1956, Proxmire married Ellen Hodges Sawall, who brought two children of her own to the marriage, Mary Ellen Poulos, now of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Jan Licht, now of Naperville, Illinois. Together, the couple had two sons, William, who died in infancy, and Douglas, who lives in McLean, Virginia. Nine grandchildren survive Proxmire.
He was known for his devotion to personal fitness, which included jogging and push-ups, so earning him the moniker "Push Up". In 1973, he published a book about staying in shape, entitled You Can Do It: Senator Proxmire's Exercise, Diet and Relaxation Plan. After leaving Congress, Proxmire had an office in the Library of Congress.
After a battle with Alzheimer's disease,[3] Proxmire died in a nursing home, where he had lived for more than four years, in Sykesville, Maryland, on December 15, 2005, aged 90.[1]
Legislative career[edit]
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Proxmire served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1951 to 1952,[4] and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1952, 1954 and 1956. Proxmire was elected, in a special election on August 28, 1957, to fill the remainder of the term vacated due to the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy, on May 2, 1957.[5] He paid no homage to his predecessor in the Senate, stating that McCarthy was a "disgrace to Wisconsin, to the Senate, and to America".[6] Proxmire was reelected in 1958, 1964, 1970, 1976 and 1982. His re-elections were always achieved by wide margins, including 71% of the vote in 1970, 73% in 1976 and 65% in 1982, when he ran for a fifth six-year term.
Proxmire holds the U.S. Senate record for consecutive roll call votes cast: 10,252 between April 20, 1966 and October 18, 1988. The previous record of 2,941 was held by Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.
Proxmire served as the Chair of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs from 1975 to 1981 and again from 1987 to 1989.
He was an early, outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. He frequently criticized Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon for their conduct of the war and foreign policy decisions. He used his seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee to spotlight wasteful military spending and was instrumental in stopping frequent military pork barrel projects. His Golden Fleece Award was created to focus media attention on projects he felt were self-serving and wasted taxpayer dollars. He was also head of the campaign to cancel the American supersonic transport. Despite his support of budgetary restraint in other areas, he normally sided with dairy interests and was a proponent of dairy price supports.[7][8]
As Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Proxmire was instrumental in devising the financial plan that saved New York City from bankruptcy in 1976–77.
In his last two Senate campaigns of 1976 and 1982, Proxmire refused to take any campaign contributions, and on each spent less than $200 out of his own pocket — to cover the expenses related to filing for re-election and return postage for unsolicited contributions. He was an early advocate of campaign finance reform.
Proxmire was famous for issuing his Golden Fleece Award, which identified what he considered wasteful government spending, between 1975 and 1988. The first was awarded in 1975 to the National Science Foundation, for funding an $84,000 study on why people fall in love. Other Golden Fleece awards over the years were "awarded" to the Justice Department for conducting a study on why prisoners wanted to get out of jail, the National Institute of Mental Health to study a Peruvian brothel ("The researchers said they made repeated visits in the interests of accuracy," reported the New York Times), and the Federal Aviation Administration, for studying "the physical measurements of 432 airline stewardesses, paying special attention to the 'length of the buttocks.'"[1] Proxmire stopped numerous science and academic projects which were, in his opinion, of dubious value.
Proxmire's critics claimed that some of his awards went to basic science projects that led to important breakthroughs, such as the Aspen Movie Map (though the Aspen Movie Map project did not receive the award). For example, Proxmire was criticized in 1987 for the Aspen Movie Map incident by author Stewart Brand,[9] who accused Proxmire of recklessly attacking legitimate research for the crass purpose of furthering his own political career, with gross indifference as to whether his assertions were true or false as well as the long-term effects on American science and technology policy. Proxmire later apologized for several of those, including SETI.
One winner of the Golden Fleece Award, Ronald Hutchinson, was so outraged that he sued Proxmire for defamation in 1976. Proxmire claimed that his statements about Hutchinson's research were protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that that clause does not immunize members of Congress from liability for defamatory statements made outside of formal congressional proceedings (Hutchinson v. Proxmire, 443 U.S. 111 (1979)). The case was later settled out of court.[10]
Proxmire earned the unending enmity of space advocates and science fiction fandom for his opposition to space colonization, ultimately eliminating spending on said research from NASA's budget.[11] In response to a segment about space colonies run by the CBS program 60 Minutes, Proxmire stated that; "it's the best argument yet for chopping NASA's funding to the bone .... I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy".[12] Arthur C. Clarke and Larry Niven retaliated by writing the award-winning stories Death and the Senator, Fallen Angels, and The Return of William Proxmire. In a number of circles his name has become a verb, meaning to unfairly obstruct scientific research for political gain, as in "the project has been proxmired".
From 1967 until 1986, Proxmire gave daily speeches noting the necessity of ratifying The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. After giving this speech every day that the Senate was in session for 20 years, resulting in 3,211 speeches, the convention was ratified by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 83–11 on February 11, 1986.[1]
- William Proxmire, Your Joy Ride to Health. Proxmire Publishing Co. 1994. ISBN 0-9637988-2-0
- William Proxmire, The Fleecing of America. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. ISBN 0-395-29133-X
- William Proxmire, You Can Do It!: Senator Proxmire's Exercise, Diet and Relaxation Plan. Simon & Schuster, 1973. ISBN 0-671-21576-0
- William Proxmire, Can Congress Control Spending? American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington DC, 1973. ISBN 0-8447-2039-9
- William Proxmire, Uncle Sam — The Last of the Bigtime Spenders. Simon & Schuster, 1972. ISBN 0-671-21432-2
- William Proxmire & Paul H. Douglas, Report from Wasteland; America's Military-Industrial Complex. Praeger Publishing, 1970.
- William Proxmire, Can Small Business Survive? H. Regnery Co., 1964. ISBN 0-405-11477-X
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Severo, Richard. "William Proxmire, Maverick Democratic Senator From Wisconsin, Is Dead at 90", The New York Times, December 16, 2005. Accessed October 31, 2007. "The family was well-to-do, and he was sent to the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., and then to Yale, where he was an English major."
- ^ Wife of Former Editor Dies of Gunshot Wound The New York Times, December 24, 1982.
- ^ Alzheimer's Disease Strikes Ex-Senator The New York Times, March 16, 1998.
- ^ 'The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1952,' pg. 43, Biographical Sketch of William Proxmire, pg. 43
- ^ "WISCONSIN: Running Scared," Time Magazine, August 26, 1957
- ^ http://yomi.mobi/egate/Joseph_McCarthy/753/a
- ^ "Backward March", Time magazine, October 27, 1967.
- ^ Adam Bernstein quoted in Biography: William Proxmire, www.sparacus.schoonet.co.uk.
- ^ Stewart Brand, The Media Lab, Inventing the Future at MIT (New York: Viking, 1987), 141.
- ^ New York Times, August 28, 1987.
- ^ Proxmire, William (March 1978). "Letters to L-5" (PDF). L-5 News 3 (3): 5. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
- ^ Lovell, Robert (November 1977). "Letters to L-5" (PDF). L-5 News 2 (11): 1. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
"It's the best argument yet for chopping NASA's funding to the bone. As Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee responsible for NASA's appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy..."
External links[edit]
- William Proxmire at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- William Proxmire, Wisconsin Historical Society
- Severo, Richard (December 16, 2005). "William Proxmire, Maverick Democratic Senator From Wisconsin, Is Dead at 90". The New York Times.
- "As senator, a tenacious Proxmire had a good run"—The Boston Globe
- Taxpayers for Common Sense, a non-partisan budget watchdog, lists Sen. William Proxmire's top 10 Golden Fleece Awards from 1975 to 1988
- William Proxmire at Find a Grave
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Great LaptopPros: Great Screen, graphics, processor, almost everything. I actually like Windows 8, will take a little getting used to, but I like it. I'm not having a problem with all of the extra software installed. Cons: Fingerprint magnet? Just clean it off... Other Thoughts: For the price this had everything I needed... its a shame its listed as out of stock/discontinued. Did you find this review helpful? |
Great LaptopPros: Tons of bang for the buck! Cons: None really. I even like Windows 8. Might be the only man on Earth to say that. Other Thoughts: Granted there are better laptops to be had, but if you only have $700 to spend, this is a good one. If you're gamer, don't think twice. Buy it! Did you find this review helpful? |
I'll be keeping this laptop for awhilePros: Able to play a large amount of games thanks to the nice Graphics Card in it. Cons: Windows 8 (In my opinion one of the most horrid OS Microsoft could of made.) Other Thoughts: Overall I am extremely satisfied as a PC gamer that I can finally take a lot of my steam games on the go now that run with almost no flaws. The big killer for me is Windows 8 though as there's not much I can do about that for the time being but a passable solution is to use the Start8 program so I can at least SEE Windows 7 without looking at Windows 8. Did you find this review helpful? |
Pros: 2 gig dedicated video card + integrated card works great Cons: None besides the unfortunate mess that is Windows 8 Other Thoughts: After reading many reviews and comparing this to my friend's ultra-book of the similar price I decided to go with this beast of a rig and I'm very happy with my purchase. I plan on upgrading this as the years go on with an SSD and more ram and with a great video card already in it, should last quite some time. I mostly use it for League of Legends and a few other games and it handles them no problem - as expected. Don't understand why people are so picky on this site about everything in their reviews - it does what it's supposed to and the gloss adds a nice touch. Did you find this review helpful? |