The totally off-topic thread

[RAM]

Today's been described as Back To The Future Day as this is the day that Marty McFly goes to i the second movie.

Where's my flying car & hoverboard?

There's various memes & posts online today about the day. Some of them (especially from our various police services) are quite well done.

The hover board exists! There are a number of youtube videos of them in action.

How the Most Promising Hoverboards Actually WorkWIRED‎ - 1 day ago

Everyone wants a hoverboard. Here are three real hoverboards that exist right now.

 

[medhead]

Fantastic state finances. Next, they'll be randomly replacing hospital medication temporarily with placebos...

There is a fair bit of research that shows placebos are vastly more effective in the USA than anywhere else in the world. The placebo effect is so great that it's getting to the point that research in the USA is unable to demonstrate a significant benefit of the treatment being tested.

 

[medhead]

The market value of a 1974 HQ Holden Kingswood in good condition would be $2150.

The market value of a 1978 VB Holden Commodore in good condition would be $1300.

The market value of 1983 VH Holden Commodore in good condition would be $1950.

Go figure.

How hard is it to figure about Commodore being a problem.

Meanwhile, XB falcons are worth heaps. Even better yet the price for Ford cobras are pretty darn good as well.

 

[medhead]

Powerful talk at this conference from a resident from a village near Fukushima. The community went out and proved to themselves that they were safe. That being inside the 30km exclusion zone was not an issue.

Not sure if it was here or other social media that I saw the claim that the Fukushima reactors were being restarted. Quick chat to a colleague from Japan confirmed they are not being restarted.

Great talk about the radiation monitoring Air France do for crew. Average radiation exposure of 5 microSeivert per hour flying time. A bit lower for domestic flights. Food for thought if you think the 0.002 microseivert* from an airport scan (not in Australia) before jumping on your 15 hour international flight is a significant radiation dose.

* I made up this number from my vague recollection of the dose involved. In reality the dose from a scan is probably much smaller than this amount.

 

[drron]

It is the Sendai nuclear reactor that is the first to be restarted.It is not far from Fukushima.However it survived unscathed from the tsunami which caused havoc at Sendai airport a distance inland from the reactor.
Of course there are some people who don't believe the science when it comes to nuclear energy.Hence the rumours.

 

[incumbent]

It is the Sendai nuclear reactor that is the first to be restarted.It is not far from Fukushima.However it survived unscathed from the tsunami which caused havoc at Sendai airport a distance inland from the reactor.

I guess you have the wrong Sendai. It's a long long way from Fukushima, down on Kyushu.

 

[medhead]

It is the Sendai nuclear reactor that is the first to be restarted.It is not far from Fukushima.However it survived unscathed from the tsunami which caused havoc at Sendai airport a distance inland from the reactor.
Of course there are some people who don't believe the science when it comes to nuclear energy.Hence the rumours.

What they said, wrong island. Unless Sendai has moved.

I guess you have the wrong Sendai. It's a long long way from Fukushima, down on Kyushu.

 

[anat0l]

What they said, wrong island. Unless Sendai has moved.

Just to clear things up for others, there's a bit of confusion here. Sendai is a city which is on the main island of Honshu, north of Tokyo on the coastline.

There is also a city called Satsumasendai which is located in Kyuushu. The city was formed from merging a number of towns in 2004, one of those towns which was named, confusingly, Sendai.

The nuclear power plant close to Satsumasendai is still called "Sendai Nuclear Power Plant". Apparently, this plant was only just recently switched on again (11 August 2015) after all nuclear facilities in Japan were turned off after the Fukushima incident.

 

[erkpod]

Someone went to a lot of effort here.

 

[drron]

What they said, wrong island. Unless Sendai has moved.

Sorry but I have actually visited the City of Sendai north of Tokyo and have cruised past it's nuclear reactor.
The fukashima reactor is 255 KM north of Tokyo and 108 km south of Sendai.
And here is the video of te tsunami hiting Sendai Airport on the island of Honshu-
[video=youtube_share;0DJR4A76chU]https://youtu.be/0DJR4A76chU[/video]

By the way in 4 days I once again will be in Sendai by taking the Shinkansen north from Tokyo.

 

[straitman]

Not happy.

A couple of weeks ago, over a 7 day period our main MC got hacked for approx 3 X 290 UK Pound ($625 each time) with a 4th one pending. Claim submitted to CBA and Cards cancelled. New cards issued which we got yesterday. Seems the 4th transaction had been processed on the new card so that one is now cancelled also :!:

We are now waiting for new/new cards. :shock:

No problem with CBA just major inconvenience factor.

 

[Mal]

Not happy.

A couple of weeks ago, over a 7 day period our main MC got hacked for approx 3 X 290 UK Pound ($625 each time) with a 4th one pending. Claim submitted to CBA and Cards cancelled. New cards issued which we got yesterday. Seems the 4th transaction had been processed on the new card so that one is now cancelled also :!:

We are now waiting for new/new cards. :shock:

No problem with CBA just major inconvenience factor.

Thanks for the bottles of Krug - they were very nice!

Not sure why the 2nd cards were cancelled. If a dodgy transaction was incorrectly moved over to the new card, the fraudsters shouldn't have had access to those details and it would be a bank error. Just cancelling that transaction should have been enough.

 

[incumbent]

Sorry but I have actually visited the City of Sendai north of Tokyo and have cruised past it's nuclear reactor.

Dude, when you're wrong, you're wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_Nuclear_Power_Plant

The Sendai Nuclear Power Plant (川内原子力発電所 Sendai genshiryokuhatsudensho?, Sendai NPP) is a nuclear power plant located in the city of Satsumasendai in the Kagoshima Prefecture.

...was restarted on the 11th of August 2015, and is providing power to the nearby towns again. Sendai is the first of Japan's nuclear power plants to be restarted.

Characters for the reactor are 川内, the city up in the vicinity of Fukushima is 仙台.

 

[docjames]

Powerful talk at this conference from a resident from a village near Fukushima. The community went out and proved to themselves that they were safe. That being inside the 30km exclusion zone was not an issue.

Not sure if it was here or other social media that I saw the claim that the Fukushima reactors were being restarted. Quick chat to a colleague from Japan confirmed they are not being restarted.

Great talk about the radiation monitoring Air France do for crew. Average radiation exposure of 5 microSeivert per hour flying time. A bit lower for domestic flights. Food for thought if you think the 0.002 microseivert* from an airport scan (not in Australia) before jumping on your 15 hour international flight is a significant radiation dose.

* I made up this number from my vague recollection of the dose involved. In reality the dose from a scan is probably much smaller than this amount.

The number historically quoted for a chest x-ray was "equivalent radiation exposure as a long haul flight to London (from Aus)".

Is this still accurate?

 

[incumbent]

Mileage Monkey has HND-SDJ as 189 miles, so let's allow for geometry and call it 1,200km or so from Sendai Airport to the Sendai reactors.

Japan restarts second nuclear reactor despite public opposition | World news | The Guardian

Japan on Thursday restarted a second nuclear reactor after a shutdown triggered by the 2011 Fukushima crisis, as the government pushes to return to a cheaper energy source despite widespread public opposition.

Utility Kyushu Electric Power said it restarted the number-two reactor at Sendai, about 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 10.30am (0130 GMT).
The same power plant’s number-one reactor was restarted in August, ending a two-year nuclear power hiatus.

 

[drron]

Dude, when you're wrong, you're wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_Nuclear_Power_Plant

The Sendai Nuclear Power Plant (川内原子力発電所 Sendai genshiryokuhatsudensho?, Sendai NPP) is a nuclear power plant located in the city of Satsumasendai in the Kagoshima Prefecture.

...was restarted on the 11th of August 2015, and is providing power to the nearby towns again. Sendai is the first of Japan's nuclear power plants to be restarted.

Characters for the reactor are 川内, the city up in the vicinity of Fukushima is 仙台.

There is also a nuclear reactor on the seaside near Sendai on Honshu.I actually have a photo of it.But here's one that was previously prepared.
Japanese nuclear plant survived tsunami, offers clues on safety | Reuters

I am sorry that I just assumed it was the Sendai reactor but the fact remains it survived the tsunami.Not only that it provided relief accommodation for those made homeless by the earthquake and tsunami.Also when last in Sendai there was discussion of restarting their local reactor.
So I await your apology on your wrongful criticism of my knowledge of Japanese geography.

 

[incumbent]

There is also a nuclear reactor on the seaside near Sendai on Honshu

Has it been restarted? No. End of story.

 

[drron]

I guess you have the wrong Sendai. It's a long long way from Fukushima, down on Kyushu.

No dude when you are wrong you are wrong.
End of story.

That is the Sendai Power station is nowhere near a city called Sendai.

 

[anat0l]

There is also a nuclear reactor on the seaside near Sendai on Honshu.I actually have a photo of it.But here's one that was previously prepared.
Japanese nuclear plant survived tsunami, offers clues on safety | Reuters

I am sorry that I just assumed it was the Sendai reactor but the fact remains it survived the tsunami.Not only that it provided relief accommodation for those made homeless by the earthquake and tsunami.Also when last in Sendai there was discussion of restarting their local reactor.
So I await your apology on your wrongful criticism of my knowledge of Japanese geography.

That reactor you are referring to is the Onagawa nuclear plant, in the small town of Onagawa which is in the same prefecture (Miyagi) as Sendai. It is not referred to as (a) "Sendai nuclear power plant", though.

So you got the geographically close to the reactor you were talking about, but identified it incorrectly (though unwittingly). Also, it is not the first reactor to restart in Japan after the national shutdown. The nuclear reactor at Oi was the first to start up in 2012, but it was shut down again in 2013. After this, the only other restart and only currently operating nuclear reactor is at Satsumasendai, Kyushu (the "Sendai nuclear power plant").

The Onagawa reactor did indeed stand up to the tsunami and a request was made in 2013 to restart a unit of the plant. It hasn't done so yet, and according to this article, it may not be until April 2016 that the restart may happen.

 

[Bindibuys]

Face palm moment - We have been waiting on a delivery from Boss Air suspension. Picked it up from Post office.
Sent text to my boss - " I have Boss box" his reply - "lucky you"
Gotta love working for people with a sense of humour.