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Through this program, the U.S. nuclear power industry has roughly $12 billion in liability insurance protection to compensate the public in the event of a nuclear accident.

As a point of reference the Fukushima cleanup is, at the moment, estimated to require nearly $200 billion, and that is NOT counting the economic loss of an entire uninhabitable region for decades or more

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/milwaukee-segregation-wealthy-black-families.html

Ask me how I know your white?
FYI, I'm not; or not fully, which other whites have told me is the same thing.

Didn't you hear the news, man?

Republican trannies are cool, now.

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Not forgetting the Bruce, sorry, Caitlyn.

Baa Baa as in the sound sheep (since I don't know what sound lemmings make).

Me neither, but nuke shills go "Booo hoooo hooo! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!' when anybody other than them gets their precious, precious subsidies.

What a lot of whinging, grizzling crybabies. Nukes can't compete in the marketplace because taxpayers hate nukes and love solar, so suddenly democracy and free markets are the worst thing ever, they want a Trumptacular dictatorship that overrides the will of the people "for their own good".

People want solar and don't want nukes. Deal with it. If nuke shills don't really want the dictatorship they seem to be asking for, they need to stop crying and acknowledge the will of the people.

It is a little different - Chicago is the most corrupt city in the US by corruption convictions. Houston is getting up there, but Chicago is worse - and it's probably an underestimate since that's just the ranking by convictions.

Oddly, why didn't you suggest a story on how Taxi drives are on strike right now at this very moment over Uber, which you mysteriously, inexplicably failed to mention! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84e1... https://www.bostonglobe.com/bu... http://algarvedailynews.com/ne... http://www.chicagobusiness.com... http://www.cbsnews.com/picture... http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://www.theguardian.com/tec... https://euobserver.com/connect... http://www.wftv.com/videos/new... http://in-cyprus.com/nicosia-t...

Wrong. They moved to Chicago for the free money giveaways: http://articles.chicagotribune...

And http://www.chicagobusiness.com...

http://www.chicagobusiness.com...

And the regulations already exist. Uber is completely illegal.

I believe what the GP is referring to is abuses such those outlined in this article. $600 to have a booth vacuumed, having to pay a union electrician to plug into an electrical outlet, etc.

US sales tax which doesn't exceed 10% anywhere.

almost

Only 15 of the 50 largest cities charge a higher tax on meals than other goods, and only three others charge a combined tax of 10 percent or more: Virginia Beach, Va. (10.5 percent); Seattle (10 percent); and Washington (10 percent).

On top of the 9.5 percent state and local sales tax in Chicago, the city imposes a 0.25 percent restaurant tax and downtown restaurants must levy an additional 1 percent tax for the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which runs Navy Pier and McCormick Place.

Among cities that do impose a separate tax on meals, the rate ranges from 0.05 percent in Milwaukee to 5.5 percent in Virginia Beach.

The suit, originally brought forth by five software engineers in 2011, alleges that the anti-poaching agreements served to lessen their employment opportunities, thereby weakening their negotiating power and ultimately affecting the salaries they were able to command.

Wait, what?

I've been told for years that the only way employees can ever fight their employer is if a union represents them and does all the negotiations. Now you mean to tell me that even non-union employees have rights, too?

That depends. If you are able to sell a unique skill - yourself - you can do that well. If you are more of a commodity, you'll be nickel and dimed. Often with a salary so low you need public support on top of it, and also forego healthcare. These could really need a union.

That said, where I live I think unions are too strong. But they are a needed balance.

Here are the top cities by amount of VC dollars:
SF, Boston, NYC, San Diego, LA, Seatle, Austin, D.C.

So yeah, SF is way in the lead. However NYC is currently #3, and I'd bet money NYC we will be crushing Boston in 3 years. Wall Street desperately wants to play, and the barriers of trust are slowly breaking down.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130119/ISSUE01/301199985/which-metro-areas-got-the-most-venture-capital-in-2012

Lots of people around big cities want to work for Wal-Mart. Earlier this year Wal-Mart opened a new store in suburban Chicago and had 25,000 applications for 325 positions. Last year they had 11,000 applications for about the same number of jobs in Oakland, California.

This has to be one of the *dumbest* arguments I have ever heard.

First off, the medical and aviation industries are doing quite well, thank you. So process-level regulation is not the impending doom you make it out to be. Moreover, the example you give of piston-driven aircraft still using mechanical injection is ridiculous. My bicycle is still pedal powered... surely you don't believe that federal process-regulation of bicycle construction is the cause. Mechanical injection is reliable, cheap to build, and cheap to repair (compared to electrical systems). Just because something isn't cutting edge doesn't mean that it's worthless.

Second, the reason we have process-based regulation for aircraft and medical devices is because the consequences of a failure are *very* high. If the drug is contaminated, it can kill you or leave you with painful, chronic organ failure. If a composite is improperly made, portions of the fuselage could shear off in high-crosswinds (bird-impact rated windshields aren't, etc.), leaving those aboard in bad shape. By regulating the process, we can catch more of these failures *before* people are killed.

Third, to catch the inevitable retort from those who take libertarian precepts a bit too far, the market will not adequately resolve this. Catching these failures afterwards is *not* good enough. As much as the legal system uses tort damages to capture the value of a human life, it still sucks for those who are killed. Take into account statutory caps on legal damages in many states, and the threat of a lawsuit is less likely to present the necessary force. Now, if you go and build yourself a plane with homemade composites, then you're likely the Darwin Award winning exception. If you kill yourself, there's no one to sue. But in most cases, that's not the case.

I'm certain that the mayor only wants what is best for our city. Like a casino. And besides, what our mayor wants, our mayor gets. Although, usually in the middle of the night when no one else can stop him.

If deafened, just call 911 on a Nextel phone.

(I'm trying to find a good article explaining it, though I swear I read it here. Essentially, a bug in Nextel phones caused them to lock up whenever the GPS was turned on. Dialing 911 was one way to ensure this happened, so, effectively, it was impossible to call 911.)

Oh.

TV is dead for me as well. The fight over the broadcast spectrum is going to be moot, when technology allows infinite channels.

The bulk of money to make programs comes from advertisers. The production costs are going down, way down, but the shows still need money to be made. Excpect to see more product placement.

Personally I prefer plays, but product placements are cropping up there, too.

Funny, I thought he was being tried in Norway...

At the behest of American firms and an American Media Cartel, backed by the full might (and arm twisting) of the American government.

The fact that the court system of a weak vassal state, oops, I mean, "ally" is incidental. It is our fellow Americans who are persuing this beyond all reason, and frankly, the rest of the world is correct to look at us as a nation of the Rich and blinded by power ... this sort of thing makes it profoundly obvious not only to those informed of world (and local) events, but to those who normally couldn't be bothered.

Tribune Co. announced last Thursday that their sales grew by 2% in July of this year. What I found interesting, though, was the fact that their "Sales were lifted by a hefty gain in Web site advertising revenues, which grew 46% to $7.1 million, up from $4.9 million last year."

While the dollar amount is still basically 'petty cash' to most big media companies, the fact that it grew by almost 50% is a really good sign, especially with so many people foolishly talking of late about charging for web content in the near future.

The other interesting tidbit was that their "Classified advertising dropped 8%, dragged down by a 25% decrease in help wanted ad sales."