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Comment Re: It's all so confusing (Score 0) 56

since the 1960s military has of course run other models and evaluated prototypes, and even some large cities law enforcement were having demos and doing evaluations though as far as I know there was no official purchases and use by any cops before 2002. But what were three letter agencies like CIA doing with them, there could be classified programs.

Comment Re:All in on what? (Score 0) 112

No, we pro-fission people use facts. There are no SMR in the west, only China and Russia have those. You can't talk of costs for something that only exists as fanciful designs and marketing spew and investor bait.

And someone here had misconception navy reactors were SMR. No, those things loaded with 93-97 percent enriched fuel are different animals having nothing to do with civilian designs using civilian fuel to generate electricity

Comment Re:uranium (Score 0) 112

Maybe same places USA buys it.
Canada, Kazakhstan, Australia, Russia, and Uzbekistan....yeah until of last year USA was buying nuclear fuel from Russia, funding their war machines with billions of dollars. See the problem there?

Right now over 75% is bought from the other three of those countries, and there are exceptions that still alllow buying from Russia but I don't have current data on 2025 yet, just from last year.

Comment AC creates $200 strawman; let's burn it (Score -1) 192

funny you pick expensive "premium" version when the $50 version will do everything I mentioned. As it is, I've switched over to the competitor H&R for a few years, $24 for basic that does everything I mentioned: education credits, capital gains short and long, dividends, interests, itemizing or not, retirement account disbursements while still working.... it's cheap! cheap I tell you!

I just saved you $150 or $176 dollars, basic not premium! You're welcome.

Comment Re:Shut the F up (Score -1) 107

fascinating stuff but from that study:

  Of the 3055 sets of responses to 25 msec tones, 2431 (gray points) could not be assessed for significance at the p 0.01 level, 254 (red points) were not significantly binary, and 370 were significantly binary (black points) (see Materials and Methods).

So.... sometimes the rat's auditory cortex neurons were binary-ish, except when they definitely weren't, and often they were neither.

To me neurons are sort of like a processing element of Schmitt triggers combined with gates, maybe in the decades since I learned of such things as a curiosity they have names for that stuff?

Comment Re:Hubub? (Score 0, Informative) 192

whether goverment 'automatically' withholds depends on what type of income you have. that amount turns out to be very close to what you'll owe if you have one job. And it seems most people would probably be in trouble spending what would be needed to pay for taxes at end of year. If you have uneven income or investment income you have to calculate and send in yourself to avoid interest on underpayment. You don't have to have a job where there is withholding but then you have to be on top of things.

Just remember the congress critters we elected made that system. A different system would be mean changing them out.

I don't see the fuss about paid tax software, it's very cheap unless you squish burgers. That free IRS system has a lot of limitations and restrictions, great for lower and simpler income situations, but I can't use it as old family man getting very near retirement who saved and invested a little bit over the years instead of being in debt and buying too many toys.

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