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I do disagree. Corporations will try to price their products and services to make the most profit. If passing on the extra costs to consumers causes them to lose too many sales to their competitors, they will not pass the costs on. As long as they are still making a reasonable profit, they will stay in the business.

Right, that's my point -- if the plant cost 3 times more to build and they had to charge 3 times higher for electricity the plant wouldn't have gotten built at all until scarcity drove the price of power up to where the plant became profitable. So Consumers would pay higher prices either way -- they pay more if the plant has superior safety measures, and they pay more if those safety measures are so expensive that the plant doesn't get built at all.

I do. Pipes expand and contract all the time due to stress and temperature changes. It's not unusual for pipes to experience changes in length on the order of 0.1% to 0.5%. Copper going from freezing (0C) to boiling (100C) would be around 0.17%. For a 2kM pipe, that's about 3.3 meters, or about 11 feet. Steel pipe would expand and contract somewhat less, plastic piping much more.

I'm no structural engineer, but it seems like a localized shear force is a lot different than heat expansion along a 2km pipe.

Anyway, the pipe wouldn't have gone over the fault line in this case, so one section of the pipe would not have moved 8 feet relative to another.

What do you mean "in this case" - this was a made-up case by me, and now I say that in this case the earthquake caused a mudslide down the hillside where my coolant water pipe was located. something like this:

        http://www.life.com/image/51554665

(note that this picture is not from the current quake, it was caused by a previous quake a few years ago)

What I'm saying is that no matter where you locate the plant there are risks -- put it too close to the water and you risk Tsunami, put it too far away and you risk not having emergency cooling water when you need it most.

I don't know if they're there all the time, but people (I don't know if they're SWAT teams or not) with M4 assault rifles regularly just stand around in some places in New York - I saw them in front of the NYSE on a few different occasions that I've been there on weekdays. It's a little fuzzy but I think I may have seen some in Washington as well.

Here's a photo of a cute girl posing with a police officer in SWAT gear in front of the NYSE, here's a photo from LIFE showing a patrol of police officers with M-14s literally just walking around on the street, and an image search along the lines of "police at new york stock exchange" will yield you plenty more.

Pretty much. There always an "ist" of some sort to battle against. There were fascists, that went away. Then came communists, that got old.

You seem to be confusing militant, aggressive, ideological nation states like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with women's fashions. They didn't just "go away" or "get old". Nazi Germany was defeated by a hideously expensive war* that ultimately resulted in its invasion, military defeat, and dismemberment into 4 occupied zones and 2 countries (East & West Germany). The West contended with Communism's greatest power block (the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact) in Eastern Europe at great expense through the Cold War. It was by no means clear that the West and the values of democracy and free enterprise would win against them. And the struggle against Communism isn't really over yet, is it? At least the Chinese are reforming themselves a bit. Good thing too, since Communism killed about 100,000,000 people.

Now it's terrorist. You have to tell people who the bad guys are or else they start looking at what you've been up to.

Really? You have to be told? Just a little help? Well, things can get a little confusing for some, I guess.

*That was the 2nd World War - maybe you've heard of it? All the other wars are jealous about its death toll and cost.

Slinky down from space!

We kinda already tried something like that.

Too high profile to assassinate? Oh come now. A man is an enemy of Agency X; a man is found dead or dying. Who is ever to connect the two facts with an assassination authoritatively? It's one thing to have suspicion, but it's completely another thing to have proof. The guilty party for the assassination of Georgi Markov in 1969 was never held to account. There is no antidote for ricin, and the stuff is damn near impossible to detect in the body because of the phenomenally small amount necessary to kill. The KGB was never proved to have been responsible.

See here and here.

I seem to recall an intact (maybe not every flying, just a sample/trial) buran got shipped to a museum in germany a couple years back.

link

Don't suppose you could get them to give it up though.

Where were you in the summer of 2005?

See it here: The Expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif (Gaza)

Palestinian police getting ready to take over after the Jews are expelled

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the expulsion of thousands of Jewish residents from their homes in Gaza. This was against the will of the people. He denied the country a chance at a referendum on the issue when he saw the polls going against him.

Here's what happened: IDF troops clad in ominous black uniforms, some mounted on horses (as if to purposefully evoke associations with Medieval inquisitions), literally dragged Jewish families, with wailing women and children, out of their homes. Jewish Gazans were bloodied during the destruction, including Member of Knesset Aryeh Eldad, whose head was gashed when he was trampled by a horse-mounted soldier. Entire communities were demolished. A beautiful synagogue was buried under sand. Graves were dug up and relocated. All so that the Palestinian Authority could set up its terror state in the Gaza Strip, aka now Hamastan.

During the 1930s, Jew haters in Europe used to tell Jews to "Go back to Palestine (Israel)!" What could they say in 2005? The Jews were in Israel!!

Here is the web site created by Israelis of the former Jewish communities in Gaza.

It's no coincidence that the expulsion was originally (accidentally?) scheduled for the 9th of Av, then delayed an extra day when the red-faced authorities realized their mistake. It's also not a coincidence that Ariel Sharon very soon afterward fell into a coma, which he is still in today. It's also not a coincidence that the last name of George W. Bush, who had been pushing the Saudi-devised Two-State Solution and then congratulated Sharon on the expulsion, means "to be ashamed" in Hebrew.

Yeah, that's probably true.

-Eric

The building codes are mature, and they are of great reference for those that are not bound by the laws. Yahoo has a verry patriotic story in support of America. Alas, many people ignore building codes and thus may lead to degredation of the property. Still, nothing warrants a nimble attitude as a building inspector outside his or her jurisdiction in forcing you to be compliant with codes you are not bound by; codes are not law, last I heard.

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I have friends that are homosexual and they, obviously as geeks, can't find anyone they like. I read a better-than-slashdot's-article at Life Magazine's website that covered both "spectrums" of geek dating.

As per the article, homosexual geeks may go peruse here.

I was over at Life magazine's webpage and found information on geek dating and it even covered both "spectrums" of the geek dating scene.

As per the article, homosexual geeks may go peruse here.

...wait, there's more space dust...

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Life magazine had a better review of The Simpsons. Can someone re-post Life's article? Thanks for all that help/remembered.

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I believe Life Magazine has covered an even better, and much more humorous and LIVEly article.

The Article is here.

And a more retro article, of the past LIFE magazine review, is available here

Not logging in, somewhat fearful of oppressive moderation...

I believe Life Magazine has covered an even better, and much more humorous and LIVEly article.

The Article is here.

And a more retro article, of the past LIFE magazine review, is available here

With existing IRBM hardware we could put a man into orbit in a year. But don't ask me how we'd get him back. If a man would be ready to sacrifice his life by being fired into orbit it would answer some of the questions about space flight, but even if one volunteered we probably couldn't find anybody willing to shoot him up there.