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at least the hysterical can plead ignorance. what's your excuse asshole?

That physics does not follow hysteria. The situation is serious, but the media are blowing it way out of proportion.

And as someone said, detectable means nothing. The detection systems are so precise they can identify the natural background.

I'm sorry... but how exactly does one blow the worst
nuclear accident in the history of mankind... out of
proportion?

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=126888

Oh, also... car analogy time... You have a detector
that measures things falling from the sky. Ok... things
are ALWAYS falling from the sky.

Now, how about if today, full sized vehicles are dropping
from the sky.

So... if you "detect" full sized vehicles dropping from
the sky, the data might be relevant, to anyone without
a cement dome for a helmet.

-AI

Links follow:

• BBC
• Novinite
• Maxwell Institute, Birmingham Young University

Finding useful information on this book is... hard. You're right, Wikipedia doesn't even mention it. Anywhere.

It's not like anything bad's ever happened when critical systems are rolled-out untested, unprepared, or irresposibly.

I mean it's not like someone's life is ever put in jeaopardy by minor software glitches, especially in hospitals. ...on a side note, Googling "IT disasters" leads to some very interesting results.

-Matt

He also looked much, much smaller now than then (when he was playing)

Look at Maradona these days. He's obviously taking steroids now instead of when he was playing, because he's much bigger now than then.

The sheer volume of European holiday travelers is now pushing the Euro as second national currency in all popular tourist destinations, pushing US$ to third rank.

Mixing this reality with the US foreign politics as seen from abroad, it's no wonder that some countries switch away from US currency: Cuba switches to Euro on 8 Nov 2004.

A European born and living in the Netherlands.

Details here

Now I'm confused: on Slashdot does this make him a bad guy or a good guy?

Try to keep a sense of perspective when reading about "friendly fire".

How many troops in the field in the "coalition" forces? How many of those are American? How many British?

According to this link the U.S. has some 110,000 troops in Iraq, followed by Britain with 8,700. Overall there are only 22,000 soldiers of nationalities other than American total.

Now why were you surprised that most of the news of accidents and goof-ups seem to involve Americans?


It's actually kind of surprising that there are so many accidents involving soldiers of other nationalities than the U.S. in the news. And yes, quite a few of them involve the British.

Many of them without U.S. involvement, need I add.


Doo doo occurs. Accidents happen to the best of us and whining about "trigger-happy Americans" is insulting and shows a willful disregard of perspective in the matter, if not a lack of simple percentages. Regardless of your feelings of U.S. foreign policy remember that the soldiers whose performance you're so cavalierly insulting are not the ones making the decisions. They're just trying to serve their country and do a difficult job under some very nasty conditions.