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Thunder Chicken said:
Actually just 10, at three stations in Russia (Leningrad, Smolensk, and Kursk). All RBMK-1000s.
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Oh, I had read 18 or 19 somewhere. Had some of them been closed lately? The other RMBK at Chernobyl had been operating for a while after the accident as well.

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MaverickSawyer said:
All of them in Russia, if memory serves. Everyone else shuttered them as soon as other, safer options presented themselves.
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Well, Ignalina was operating for a while and even survived its successor. They closed it finally in 2009, the first block here had to be closed for joining the EU.
 
Sometimes, debugging feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Sometimes it feels like searching for a needle in a haystack, but you're not sure if you've got the right stack.
And right now, it feels like doing the above while also wearing a blindfold and thick mittens. Damn!
 
jedidia said:
Sometimes, debugging feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Sometimes it feels like searching for a needle in a haystack, but you're not sure if you've got the right stack.
And right now, it feels like doing the above while also wearing a blindfold and thick mittens. Damn!
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Still better than finding a timing bug in the interaction of three servers. This used to be an exorzism. With an atheist demon.
 
For everybody who thought that it makes no difference wether if you go to election or not: In the "state election" of Thüringen (Germany) it could be possible that one vote makes the difference if the FDP moves into the state parlament or not. That's very curious to me. However, the official final result will follow, but at the moment it seems that they have 55 422 votes and thats one vote over the required 5%...

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...ch-mit-einer-stimme-im-landtag-a-1294249.html (German)
 
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"Bundesland" is translated to "state".

Our country elections are between the two major parties of "Boss Hoss" and "Truck Stop".

(And the reporting about the election results also shows great the difference between BBC and Telegraph. At the BBC, they know that he is more like Goebbels)
 
Jupp Heynckes is completely offline and its absolutely impossible to get him on the phone today.
 
Misadventures in procedural plot generation, part 2:

The crown negotiated a favourable arms deal with the king, at a local store.

At least, "the crown" in this case is in the meaning of "the government", not the object, but the King happens to be its only member, so the whole thing is still weird enough.

Fortunately, this one is just due to insufficiently narrow parameters and not due to a logic failure, but I guess there's going to be a lot of that as this little experiment continues.
 
jedidia said:
Misadventures in procedural plot generation, part 2:

The crown negotiated a favourable arms deal with the king, at a local store.

At least, "the crown" in this case is in the meaning of "the government", not the object, but the King happens to be its only member, so the whole thing is still weird enough.

Fortunately, this one is just due to insufficiently narrow parameters and not due to a logic failure, but I guess there's going to be a lot of that as this little experiment continues.
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You mean the crown as defined by Terry Pratchett in his novel "Nation"? :lol:







Mr. Black straightened up. 'As you wish. We are known as the Gentlemen of Last Resort. We serve the Crown. Does that help you?'
'But I thought the king was-' The captain stopped, not wanting to say the dreadful word.
'He is dead, Captain Samson. But the Crown itself is not.'


...


'Ah, you've got it right at last, Mother, ' said the king. 'I'm me, not us. I am I, not we. One pair of buttocks on the throne, one head in the crown.'
 
We had a major heist in Germany last night, with some invaluable pieces of the state treasure of Saxony being stolen from the Green Vault in Dresden. The burglars stole at least three sets of jewelry, altogether estimated in value up to one billion Euro. They stole three out of ten sets in the collection made of diamonds.

They had been noticed by security, but managed to escape with the jewelry before the police arrived. The security workers had been unarmed and did not try to arrest the invaders themselves. The burglars possibly also set fire to a power supply station near the vault, the fire fighters had been called to it and it at least turned off the street lighting. The possible escape car of them was found burnt later today.

Trying to sell the jewelry should be impossible to extremely hard, but even destroying the jewelry to sell individual gems could be worth it. Which would be a major loss, since most pieces in that state treasure are not just unique, but also often of an exceptional artistic quality. All pieces of the collection are known in the world and thus very hard to sell without getting caught.

The most valuable piece of the collection is on display in New York right now, with a rare 41 karat green diamond (green diamonds are already rare themselves).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50545003
 
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On the news here, looks like they are more concerned about its history than its value. Sort of an odd threat that if anyone is convicted and the jewels are destroyed they get 10 times the usual sentence?
Not sure if that is legal or even a threat.

Better off trying a reward, not sure the cops would like that.
 
Missed it by a month, but always worth a reminder...

 
Notebook said:
On the news here, looks like they are more concerned about its history than its value. Sort of an odd threat that if anyone is convicted and the jewels are destroyed they get 10 times the usual sentence?
Not sure if that is legal or even a threat.
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Actually, that could make sense.


First of all, they will be punished for "heavy burglary (§245 StGB)" in any case, just for reaching into a building they had no entrance to after using violence to open it. Thats already up to 5 years in prison, unless they would have stolen something really worthless.


Next, it would be a especially heavy case of theft (§243 StGB), punished from 3 months to up to ten years for stealing an important historic artifact from a public exhibition.


Next, §244a would apply, since they did it as a team. Could mean another 1 - 10 years.



Would they destroy the artifacts, §304 would apply... another 3 years.


Now, the German system is quite complex to calculate the final full punishment. Essentially, you take the most severe punishment and add a fraction of each other punishment, until you reach 10 years. No summed up punishment is permitted to reach the realms of lifelong punishment.

Just returning the artifacts intact could mean just a few months in prison, which would likely be turned into a long probation period, if its the first such crime of the criminals.

Not returning them and destroying the artifacts, including the arson, and they could even face something along 7-8 years in prison.
 
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