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They are talking about the Watts Bar Unit 2

They started building it back in 1973 then took a short lunch break in 1988 resumed work in 2007 and finished in 2015.

Since it was 80% done in 1988 that means at least 80% of the reactor unit is at least 27 years old now.

http://thebulletin.org/watts-b...

http://www.latimes.com/busines...

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

Still nice to see another plant online shame took 42 years to finish it especially since it was only given a 40 year operating licence.

Hillary the soon to be indicted felon? Mishandling classified information is no laughing matter. Ordering underlings to strip classification markings to send information via unsecure email is even more serious.

(note that the third sentence is completely made up, probably by yourself)

Nope.

Senator: Newly released Clinton email 'disturbing'

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee released a scathing statement Friday, calling on Hillary Clinton to "come clean" after the State Department released an email in which she asked an aide to send information on a non-secure system after attempts to send the document securely failed.

Sen. Chuck Grassley said the email, released at about 1:30 am Friday morning along with about 3,000 other emails from Clinton's State Department tenure, is "disturbing," and "appears to show the former Secretary of State instructing a subordinate to remove the headings from a classified document and send it to her in an unsecure manner."

And now a special request . . .

The year was 1993 and the Clintons were in the White House, and there we got a glimpse into the character of Hillary Clinton. . .

Travelgate Inquiry Suggests Signs of Lies by First Lady
How Hillary Clinton sicced the FBI on the White House travel office

Even if the sea level doesn't rise, it doesn't mean that there isn't climate change or that the earth isn't getting warmer. There was already a discrepancy between expected and actual rates of sea level rise that scientists believe is due to continents absorbing more water. We don't fully know what will happen as temperatures continue to rise because we don't have a complete understanding of how the whole system works.

Just because there are glaciers in the world remaining does not mean that many glaciers in the world have already been lost.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/01/local/la-me-glaciers-20131002

True.

10,000 years ago New York was under a glacier.

What's your point?

Just because there are glaciers in the world remaining does not mean that many glaciers in the world have already been lost.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/01/local/la-me-glaciers-20131002

Citations for the AC:
NYPD switched to them in ~1998. - ''It is the standard around the world in law enforcement to use hollow points,'' he said.
LAPD switched ~1990 -" Nonetheless, the report found that in 1987, when only solid-nosed bullets were used, a slightly higher percentage of people died after being shot by police officers than in 1989, when hollow-point bullets were tested."

That's unnecessarily vague. You might as well say it wouldn't happen without people, when in fact it's only certain types of people: muslims.

Deadliest mas shooting rampages:
http://timelines.latimes.com/d...

Humm, if we got rid of all the Muslims, I guess those other non-muslum killers would have stayed home?

Right... absolutely one sees that the Islam plays a big role in mass shootings in the US.... (And yes, i believe that if it would be states how many of the shooters read Christian radical propaganda, the picture would be even clearer)

http://timelines.latimes.com/d...

Before this, they dumped a paraplegic patient on skid row.

You may poo poo religion, but you overlook the essential role it played in aiding the ability of humans to expand communities beyond a local tribe of less than 50 individuals.

I would suggest that even today, among normal people, the belief in an all knowing supreme being and the concept of Hell helps to maintain order in society because it provides a re-enforcement of the concept of Good and Evil.

You don't have to believe. But to ridicule people who do is pointless, a waste of time and just a bit of a jackass thing to do.

Except the Christian extremist do tend to get their way in places like Uganda, with encouragement from American evangelicals. Exporting hate is a growth industry.

Here in the desert, water is a BIG issue.

Not really. If it was, they'd stop the farmers growing Alfalfa in the California deserts, then exporting it to China. The "BIG issue" is an utterly broken antiquated system of pre-1914 water rights.

I just spent 2 weeks in the Imperial Valley in Fall 2015, and 2 more weeks in the last month. You can drive through there but you can't really appreciate how damaging that style of industrial farming is to the environment until you actually go there. They are basically farming in a dust bowl by using open canal irrigation. The pesticides and fertilizer drain into the Salton Sea, an accidentally-created manmade body of water, which is drying up. As it dries up, a lot of the salts and chemicals in the water turn into a very fine dust. I drove out to the Salton Sea itself on a windy day and it looked like something straight out of Fallout 3. I could see no difference between the landscape there now and a nuclear wasteland. It's an ecological disaster. I've been to industrial farm towns all over the USA and I've never seen industrial farming like that before. The fact that it is allowed to continue to exist in California, of all states, just boggles my mind. And I work in coal power plants.

The refrain I heard often was "we grow xx% (double digit number) of the nation's fresh fruits and vegetables!". I am not going to dispute the figures. It isn't hard to gain a huge chunk of the market if you have free/cheap water, 350 days of sun, and an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor, however. That is a rare set of circumstances, and there isn't a farmer anywhere in the US that can compete against that.

Here in the desert, water is a BIG issue.

Not really. If it was, they'd stop the farmers growing Alfalfa in the California deserts, then exporting it to China. The "BIG issue" is an utterly broken antiquated system of pre-1914 water rights.

Myth: The predictions/models are always wrong.

Reality: Global surface temperature measurements fall within the range of IPCC projections. Models successfully reproduce temperatures since 1900 globally, by land, in the air and the ocean.

You seem to lack understanding of the relativeness or kinds of wrong.

IE, you seem to equate "wrong" with anything less than 100% accuracy and precision.
That's not how science works, particularly data driven science. A key concept here is the meanings of Precision and Accuracy, which are not the same thing:
http://withfriendship.com/imag...

You can be completely wrong (or 'not even wrong'): "gravity is from unicorn farts!"
You can be partly wrong but still on the right track: "we predicted of rise of 0.5, but found only 0.4"
You can be right, but for the wrong reason: "we predicted a rise of 0.5 because unicorn farts, but it turned out to be from CO2"
You can be totally right and have the perfect outcome.

You appear to only recognize last possibility, and demand that anything else be discarded out of hand.
But that isn't reality or proper scientific understanding.

Posts such as yours are not insightful, nor does it show any actual understanding of what takes place, let alone is it all reflective of reality and what the scientists have actually been doing.

I guess in summary what I mean is: you're an idiot.

https://www.skepticalscience.c...
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
http://www.latimes.com/science...
http://climatenexus.org/debunk...

Sure thing! Here you go.

Trademarks are rife with abuses and are often extended beyond a reasonable context. The word 'olympic' is one such example featured on Slashdot many times before. Here's an example: 'Olympic' trademark leaves businesses in a bind

No, I do not believe the Free Market is the ideal, nor do I believe one can realistically exist any more than a pure democracy or communism.

Prey tell, what do you consider a better ideal than a Free Market based on **voluntary** (and thus, moral) exchange for perceived win-win ? You prefer involuntary (and thus, immoral) win-lose exchanges, such as the system called 'socialism' ?

And there are any number of reasons this country is going to hell but regulation probably is near the bottom of the list.

An alleged independent businessman as yourself wants *more* regulation? ROFL! you are too funny, and rather transparent. But please enlighten us all how your country is not hampered by regulation and how removing regulation would harm the country? I cannot wait to hear this.

I think your claim is pure hyperbole.

http://www.lemonadefreedom.com...
Yeah, you really need *more* regulation in the US.
http://www.foodrenegade.com/do...
http://articles.latimes.com/20...
http://www.naturalnews.com/043...
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
This level of INSANITY is only possible due to assh0les like you, who cheerlead for it. "Land of the Free" ROFL !

Feel free to identify this wonderful land so that we may all feel inferior to your paradise - unless, of course, you feel that we might not agree with you.

I've a better idea. Name an index and I'll tell you whether my country is better or worse than yours. On pretty-much everything except purchasing power parity and military power we're vastly better than the USA. Lower corruption, greater social cohesion, happier populace, lower inequality, debt to GDP, gun crime, broadband availability and speeds, etc. The USA is indeed a very great country, but the smartest and richest people from the USA have been buying up massive estates in my country because once you have made your money in the USA life is MUCH better here.

Let me also add that this country isn't "going to hell" any more than most of the rest of them are - so it would be appreciated if we could keep this discussion inside the bounds of reality.

Yes, when you say "most" this is true. My country is one of the few NOT going to hell - because it follows the policies I'm talking about, and not the ones you are talking about. You are so certain that what you strongly believe in now is the only possible course of action - you are delusional in your ignorance and your bad temper and arrogance is keeping you blind.

No, it's not regulations and even the fact that you would say that shows you have no idea what you're talking about.

Compliance costs money. A LOT of money. This is what makes straightforward things *unnecessarily* expensive - reducing coverage.

But living in Mythical Land, you also are astute enough to understand that if you don't build out a sustainable business model, your competitor will immediately open up and take those more profitable locations. Of course, this gives him the competitive advantage seeing as he is making more per customer (ARPU) and since he is far more profitable than you, he is now capable of building out faster than you are while also controlling the more profitable locat

Cryptome has an interesting list https://cryptome.org/2013-info...
Note the backgrounds to Daniel Ellsberg, Sibel Edmonds, John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe, William Binney, Edward Snowden.

As to the ".. rendering such Byzantine cover-ups far more likely to fail."
What has failed for the CIA?
United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States in the mid 1970's went fine even after the MKUltra news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Doctors and medics get to stay in their professions
CIA medics monitored brutal interrogation tactics (December 12, 2014)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
The public will even take in a policy of "Hacked federal files couldn't be encrypted because government computers are too old" (2015/06/16)
http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

As far as passible the US seems able to close ranks around its medical, nuclear, chemical, biological contractors and workers but seems to allow issues about signals intelligence, digital files and the policy of torture to exist in the wider press.
Or the results of Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the US Byzantine cover-ups works. The US press only seems to find a few people every generation on a limited set of topics.

This is the campaign to which Eich contributed. It's proper to note that his two donations of $500 each came on Oct. 25 and 28, days before the Nov. 4 vote and well after the style of the TV campaign was established.

Last century GM and friends bought then shut down public transport in Los Angeles forcing people had to buys cars instead. They were convicted and fined, but the massive profits they covered the cost of the fine. Apologists say GM did it because public transport was losing cash. So what does that mean? GM is a publicly spirited liquidator of unprofitable companies? OLRY?

Uber and Driverless cards if they really takes off could bite the car industry. Are we seeing a repeat? http://www.straightdope.com/co... http://www.latimes.com/me-2003... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Actually, the program to see if the U.S. Navy could use biofuels began in 2003. It was successful enough that the Navy mandated that in 2005 all non-tactical vehicles use a blend of 20% biodiesel., which made the Navy the biggest user of biodiesel in the world. But it's nice to hear you think Bush was so forward-thinking.

Oil is less than $30 a barrel, yet the Navy is paying $26 a gallon for "green" fuel.

The next time any of you SJW/Environmentalists bitch about the cost of the Armed Forces, please go fuck yourself.

Hell, almost every story I've heard about people joining IS is virtually the same: they met with a person at their mosque who saw them as an impressionable target and convinced them over a long period of time that they are being oppressed by the west and need to fight back.

If that is all you've heard then it would appear you've never bothered to actually try to find out what is really going on, and don't pay attention to the news. To miss the internet as a recruiting tool in the age of the internet is stunning, almost unbelievable.

Internet making it easier to become a terrorist

"The new militancy is driven by the Web," agreed Fawaz A. Gerges, a terrorism expert at the London School of Economics. "The terror training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan are being replaced by virtual camps on the Web."

From their side, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are scrambling to monitor the Internet and penetrate radical websites to track suspects, set up sting operations or unravel plots before they are carried out.

The FBI arrested LaRose in October after she had spent months using e-mail, YouTube, MySpace and electronic message boards to recruit radicals in Europe and South Asia to "wage violent jihad," according to a federal indictment unsealed this week.

That put the strawberry-haired Pennsylvania resident in league with many of the 12 domestic terrorism cases involving Muslims that the FBI disclosed last year, the most in any year since 2001. The Internet was cited as a recruiting or radicalizing tool in nearly every case.

"Basically, Al Qaeda isn't coming to them," Gerges said. "They are using the Web to go to Al Qaeda."

In December, for example, five young men from northern Virginia were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of seeking to join anti-American militants in Afghanistan.

A Taliban recruiter made contact with the group after one of the five, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, posted comments on YouTube praising videos of attacks on U.S. troops, officials said. To avoid detection, they communicated by leaving draft e-mail messages at a shared Yahoo e-mail address.

The Internet and its Role in Terrorist Recruitment and Operational Planning

Al-Shabab Recruits in the United States and the Pakistan-Virginia Case

In November 2009, federal authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges against men they say were key actors in a recruitment drive that led young Somali-Americans to join al-Shabab, a Somali insurgent group and an al-Qa`ida affiliate. In total, authorities have implicated 14 people in the case. Perhaps the most notorious is Zakaria Maruf, an American-Somali who had left Minnesota for southern Somalia to link up with al-Shabab and subsequently recruited men from the United States through a variety of means, including the internet.[33]

This was the case of Mohamoud Hassan, a student at the Carlson School of Management, whose path toward extremism began through the internet with searches for jihadist videos and jihadist chat rooms. Like the Toronto 18, Hassan listened to the audio lectures of Anwar al-Awlaki.[34] Hassan then began to communicate frequently with Maruf who established contact through listservs, an antiquated form of sending e-mails, and conference calls arranged by an associate who distributed several hundred numbers and passwords so people could establish contact securely.[35]

In November 2008, Hassan turned his back on a university education and with two other students left for Somalia to join an al-Shabab training camp where he linked up with his internet recruiter Maruf.[36] In September 2009, Hassan’s grandmother received news from Somalia that her grandson was killed. It is unlikely that he will be the last S

It helps that we don't rely on Saudi oil as much as we used to. Fracking is kinda filthy, but for the first time in my lifetime we don't need to be muscled around by the Saudis to keep our nation moving. And they feel the hurt - to raise cash, they've announced they may offer shares of their state-owned oil company to the pubic. And that's not the worst... the whole region is literally heating up, to the point it may become uninhabitable in 80 or 90 years.

It may not hurt now to re-think who's side we have to be on in the weird cat-fight between the Saudis and Iran that serves to fuck up the entire region. The way it used to be, we'd bend-over backward for the Saudis, even in spite of their frequent violations of human rights (like this one)... all because we needed a friend in the region with oil. Now, maybe not so much. Hell, Iran is actually trying to make nice with us. Changing times, maybe.

Back in 2002 a giraffe dies at the National Zoo

... I'm actually more concerned that a pair of otherwise normal-seeming individuals who are fully vetted before entering the country ...

Fully vetted?!?!?!

BWAAA HAAA HAA!

Sorry about that. It's hilarious because it's so pathetic.

In Obama's DHS, we can't look at the social media postings of radical Islamic loons who want to come to the US.

Like the ones Tashfeen Malik posted to her Facebook account...

Fully vetted?

Obama's fooled you.

Give me a break people. This was an accident

No. An accident is when you're drunk and you think you have to fart but you end up crapping your drawers.

When a leak in your natural gas storage facility springs a leak so bad that it makes an entire California town uninhabitable and the residents seriously ill, has already dumped the greenhouse equivalent of a million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and you won't be able to stop the leak until at least March, 2016, it's a fucking crime. They should be frog-marching the CEO and Board of Directors of SoCal Gas in handcuffs right now. Let the hundreds of families that have had to leave their homes indefinitely throw rocks at their heads.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

Well first what are the alternatives, coal fired power plants? Here's the real skinny,

The gas company has already told state regulators that it would complete drilling of the primary relief well by Feb. 24, but representatives said in an interview last week that repairing the leak could take until the end of March SoCal Gas pinpoints the site of a leaking well near Porter Ranch

Notice that state regulators , how many rate increases to upgrade infrastructure has the state regulators turned down in the last decade? Regulated Utilities aren't like other businesses, there profits are limited to a percentage of revenues, so normally the more they spend on expenses, the more money they can't give to shareholders; unless the Regulators will not approve the rate increases.

I recalled a story about some John in the Detroit area getting busted in an anti-prostitution sting, driving his wife's car, and the police seizing the vehicle. This is purely unjust enrichment of those police departments.

Here's some more...
http://articles.latimes.com/20...

Actually the program was created in 2008/2009, while the Democrats controlled everything- the House, Senate, and White House. Additional funding was added later by the Democrat-controlled Senate while Republicans argued against it.
http://graphics.latimes.com/mi...

And electric doesn't actually help much because almost all diesel pollution is from heavy trucks which at present aren't really going to be made electric.

Pure electric big rigs won't be widespread anytime soon, but hybrid-electric trucks are a real thing.

First of all, there is nothing "dumbed down" about dictionary. It provides a definition. Looking at examples may help get a better feeling for the term, but the definition remains. Italian example, Spanish example, German example — what's relevant and what is not?

Hitler was a vegetarian — are vegetarians fascists? No. Mussolini was a journalist — are journalists all crypto-fascists? No.

Hitler, Mussolini, Franco all valued the State (the Collective, the Community) above the Individual — are all such Collectivists Fascists? Yes, actually — so long as they also favor forcible suppression of opposition and long for a dictatorial leader. Not because I hate them and use "fascist" as simply a dirty word, but by definition.

Has Trump indicated a preference for any such Collectivism? Apparently, not — despite bombastic accusations, the actual quotes are yet to appear.

LAUSD used to be much better prepared for attacks http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

New York also received a threat but didn't deem it "credible" and therefore didn't act on it. My guess is that on any given day, any or all of New York, LA, and Chicago schools probably deal with some kind of threat.

So for LA to close the schools there is likely some other intelligence that they are acting on. Considering that authorities in that area are still getting information about recent terrorist activity in the area, I think the first knee jerk reaction to closing the schools should be "Hmm I wonder what they found out," not "Why are they overreacting?" (Of course, we should avoid knee-jerk reactions altogether, but then there would be nothing to talk about)

I cringed at the sentence "Receive tuning (if it can be called such) was achieved by the precisely cut antenna." which is actually how EVERY radio is tuned; the antenna is a component of the resonant circuit which forms the receiver.

I've read about the bugged seal for years, when I was a kid it was used as an example how how nasty Soviets could never be trusted. It's an interesting story - but honestly, the story of the US embassy built in Moscow in the early 1980s is much more interesting. I knew two people involved with the analysis of the building and it's a fascinating case of hubris. The US felt that they could detect any passive resonant cavity devices using the same techniques they used for "The Thing" and, more importantly, for active radios, they could detect them by a non-linear junction detector (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector) which finds the P-N junctions of diodes and transistors.

The Soviets, knowing this, simply dumped a bunch of diodes in the concrete used for the building meaning that everywhere in the building, the diodes would be found and could not be distinguished from any other electronic devices in the building making the search for bugging devices impossible.

My friends spent several months chipping at the concrete walls of the embassy and never found any listening devices, just diodes which were labouriously separated from the concrete. It's interesting to see articles of the day (http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-case-what-went-wrong.html?pagewanted=all & http://articles.latimes.com/19...) claiming that listening devices were found in the building but what I was told was that there were a few pieces of rebar which were not properly installed and about $500 worth of diodes mixed into the concrete. The claims of listening devices are most likely exaggerated to lessen the embarrassment that the Soviets had pulled over such a big coup over on the US for what amounts to petty cash.

The highest PM2.5 in Los Angeles is estimated (it wasn't measured back then) to have been about 100 ppm (from the LA times last year: http://www.latimes.com/world/a...). In recent times, the max was 79, and the daily average is 18 or so. That puts Beijing at 2.5x the worst LA has ever seen and about 15x worse than LA on any given day.

LA times

Claims the woman was in contact with two foreign terrorist groups.

Sorry to tell you, but neither a Muslim terrorist, nor an American gun nut will let his wife tell him what to do. So no matter what he was, it doesn't matter what his wife did.

LA times

Claims the woman was in contact with two foreign terrorist groups. Of course they immediately then say there was no outside influence (because politically that would be damaging to Obama). But yes, they were contacting outside, should have been picked by by NSA legally for contacting foreign known terrorists, should have been under watch, etc. etc. etc.

The NSA spying doesn't work, even when people contact known terrorists they are not looked at. If you are a journalist that is critical of the administration, say like John Rosen, you will be spyed on, your parents will be spyed on, your friends will be spyed on. It has become apparent that Obama does not consider foreign terrorists with weapons and intent to kill US citizens a threat or a problem worth dealing with. His real threat are US citizens that disagree with his policies, own guns, or who might vote for someone like Trump.

good guys with guns never, ever stop bad guys with guns.

I don't know about that. One thing I do know is that a good woman with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun: Guard saved untold lives, officials say

yes her complaints are fact, they are not doing what she wants. Thank fuck for that, people like her always believe they can do better but instead of actually doing better they whine about others that are actually making an effort.

You do realize that Bill Gates essentially stole his fortune, right? The DoJ found that Microsoft had illegally abused its monopoly position in pretty much every way we have a name for. Then Ashcroft (under Bush) announced that even though we had already spent all the money and done all the work to figure that out, there would be no penalties. Shortly thereafter, Gates turned his ill-gotten gains into a foundation, and now we're arguing about whether he's helping or hurting more people, which is what we've been doing for basically the entire time it's been a thing. How quickly you rubes forget that Bill Gates is a career criminal.

"They are acting liberal but not liberal ENOUGH! They don't subscribe to precisely my kind of politics, so I need to hate on what they do."

No, the argument is that they are acting conservatively. Conservatives will tell you all day that there's nothing liberal about charity, and arguably there's reason to agree; you can participate in charity due to enlightened self-interest. Gates has decided that he wants to live in a world with less infectious diseases, and sure I'm on his side in that. But the way he spends the money to "fix" the problem is a band-aid. The problems are caused by poverty, and if you don't fix that problem then there will just be new problems — some of them caused by the way in which the Gates foundation spends its money! If they spent the money to reduce income inequality, then they would make the world a better place persistently. But they spend the money on fighting symptoms, and resist actual change. That's why when the Gates Foundation was revealed to be making investments that kill people, the end result was nothing. The foundation put a press release up on their site claiming they would review their investments' ethical impact, then the next day they took it down and put one up saying that they would be doing no such thing because that would be hard. The simple truth is that neither Gates nor his foundation give one tenth of one fuck about people. They are just making the world a nicer place for Bill Gates, while protecting the money he made by illegal means from taxes. There's nothing liberal about that.

Jerry Brown's idea when facing a budget deficit was both to raise taxes and to cut higher ed, welfare, healthcare for the poor, services for the developmentally disabled, and state agency funding.

Show me a Democrat on the national level who will take on those targets and I might vote for them.

These companies don't publish sales numbers but I'm willing to bet he's taken at least 1/4 of their business by how quickly they are trying to respond to a market they all said was pointless two years ago

Yes, the companies do publish sales numbers. You just have to know where to look.

According to Elon Musk, Tesla sold a little over 33,000 cars by the end of Q3 this year. Cadillac sells more than that in less than two months. Lexus and Mercedes are at 249,956 and 249,890 respectively for the year through Q3.

1/4 of their business? Hardly.

The networks can only get away with double dipping while there's no real competition. They said "Hey, look! We can charge those suck... er... our valued customers boatloads of money (because we don't offer reasonable a la carte services) AND show them more and more advertisements! Win-win!" That resulted in this:

http://www.latimes.com/enterta...

Oops. How about that? Shitting on your customers mean they go elsewhere if there's any chance. No way I'm ever subscribing to cable or any ad-laden service again. I've experienced ad-free on-demand TV, and I'm not going back.

The moment a service starts annoying me with some sort of interactive ad crap, they're gone. At least for me. Maybe it'll work on people who just want a free service.

Do you know Arni gave Tesla tax breaks to build cars in Fremont vs New Mexico?

I can't find the article I originally read, but it posited that the company was being financed, and helmed by the Chinese. This LA Times article lays out pretty much the same information: http://www.latimes.com/busines...

Those guys get around.

It's not a lawsuit, it's criminal charges brought by the district attorney after journalists uncovered the evidence.

By publicly denying that fossil fuels cause global warming they have been making false claims about their primary product - fossil fuels. You are generally required to disclose to customers any potential (and definitely any guaranteed) risks or negative side effects that your product has so they can make an informed decision.

Here is a sampling of the news reports that followed the work of two different groups of journalists who both independently found proof of the cover-up, one from the left-end and one from the far-right end of the spectrum:
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/...

And here is a report on congress asking the DA to investigate the events and charge them if it's found to be criminal:
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

I'm less concerned about the threats from outer space than I am about the catastrophe we will cause ourselves.

http://graphics.latimes.com/ex...

maybe move inland and hope for good TV coverage of the drowning masses at the beach.

Al Gore, of all people, undercut this particular aspect of his own scare-mongering, when he bought an ocean-front villa for himself. A real nice one too, I hear...

But then, the "recovering politician" was never much about practicing, what he preaches.

They said it all along, you just weren't listening, or your chosen media outlets didn't find it news-worthy. Here's an article from March 2012, the year after the disaster;

"Yogi Berra supposedly said, "It's tough making predictions, especially about the future." He was right. However, there is an out for forecasters trying to predict long-term medical consequences of the Fukushima nuclear facility accident: The final reckoning will take about 50 years; they are unlikely to be around to be judged wrong."

50 years, got it? Also

"But there is also good news from Chernobyl. After intensive study of hundreds of thousands of people, there are no convincing data of increased leukemia or other cancers, even among the 500,000 cleanup workers who received the highest doses. It may be too soon for a final call, but so far the situation looks favorable."

Too soon for a final call on Chernobyl, even after all these years, much less Fukushima.

Don't talk about "the media" and "experts" as if they are some sort of homogeneous entities.

Good post.