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[khallow:] Moist != wet

But if you read the article (on page 2), you would see that this is a problem:

"Problems have plagued Yucca since the beginning. In Senate debate, proponents stressed how dry it is. Yucca is, in fact, located in what is now a desert. But it turns out that the ground is moist. Even the 19 or so centimeters of rain the mountain gets each year is a major problem. Over time, moisture can corrode even the best alloys known to man. Corrosion would mean that rainwater percolating through the ground could carry radioactive materials with it and convey them to irrigation systems and drinking-water wells in the region, delivering substantial doses of radiation to unsuspecting people generations hence."

Please re-read what I posted before:

about a year ago (or two?), they found water leaking through the tunnels.

Let me rephrase that:

THEY FOUND WATER LEAKING THROUGH THE TUNNELS.

Moreover

THEY FOUND WATER LEAKING THROUGH THE TUNNELS.

Why do I keep repeating this? Because this was a problem that was unseen beforehand, a "trivial" problem with a "trivial" solution, yet it still happened, and the darn thing isn't even open fer bidness yet. The speaks volumes about cracks in the structural integrity of the project, and makes one wonder about the invisible problems hidden in other areas. Look at the Big Dig in Massachusetts. They're having the same kinds of unforseen problems, despite the billions of dollars spent.

Consider earthquakes (Las Vegas Review Journal, June 15, 2002, available at http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jun-15 -Sat-2002/news/18979079.html) :

A small earthquake Friday that shook an area 12 miles southeast of the planned Yucca Mountain repository stirred a big reaction from Nevada leaders who claimed, again, the place is not safe for storing nuclear waste.

Authorities reported no damage or injuries from the magnitude 4.4 earthquake that the Nevada Seismological Laboratory recorded on its statewide network at 5:40 a.m.

It struck about seven miles beneath Little Skull Mountain at the Nevada Test Site, slightly west of where a moderate, magnitude 5.6 temblor rumbled through the sparsely populated area 10 years ago this month. That quake damaged a field operations building for the Yucca Mountain Project, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

"Today we saw more proof that the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear dump site is not safe," Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement.

Reid said though there also are risks with possible transportation accidents "from 100,000 truckloads and 20,000 trainloads of deadly waste through 43 states ... we cannot forget that there's another danger that after the waste arrives at Yucca Mountain, it will still not be safe."

Ideas look great on paper, but The Devil's in the Details, actions speak louder than words, assumptions are contradicted by facts, and Murphy's Law is the only law guaranteed to be enforced throughout the lifetime of the project. (To reiterate: THEY FOUND WATER LEAKING THROUGH THE TUNNELS!)

[khallow:]

we're not talking about significant transport speeds here

Based only on assumptions, which are based on incomplete data. I imagine that you're not talking about biological transport mechanisms, which are unpredictable (the insect larvae that get eaten by the roaches which get eaten by scoprions whose decaying bodies get absorbed into plants which get eaten by desert tortises whose remains get eaten by...etc,etc, etc).

Don't forget also that the nuclear waste material needs t

One of the tapes, found in Madrid, showed possible al-Qaida European operatives casing Las Vegas casinos in 1997 and engaging in casual conversation that included a possible reference to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The tape, which included footage of the MGM Grand, Excalibur and New York-New York casinos, was sent to al-Qaida's leadership to help in the selection of targets, documents obtained by the AP indicated.

Another video, seized from the apartment of a Detroit terror cell, was used as evidence in the first major terrorism trial following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It shows footage of the same three casinos and Disneyland. Prosecutors presented the footage to jurors as terrorists' surveillance of targets they wanted to raze.

Prosecutors won two terror conspiracy convictions in the case, which included evidence that one defendant referred to Las Vegas as the "city of Satan" and spoke about Islamic extremist "brothers" destroying it.

SEATTLE -- National Guard Spec. Ryan Anderson, 27, was sentenced to life in prison after his conviction on charges he tried to aid al Qaeda by detailing ways to destroy U.S. weapons and kill soldiers to undercover agents, the Army said. Anderson, a convert to Islam, was convicted of passing on diagrams of tanks and their vulnerabilities to undercover agents posing as al Qaeda operatives.

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always
be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is
tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any
country." -Hermann Goering, Nuremburg, 1947

You've been brainwashed, krimka. Brainwashed. Nobody wants terrorism here. Neither do we want our Constitutionally-mandated civil rights abrogated.

FACT: PATRIOT Act has been abused. More than once. More than twice.

If you could say that PATRIOT Act could and would ONLY be used to investigate terrorists, that would be a different story. But you can't say that: firstly, because we've already seen that it isn't true; secondly, because the more power you give to law enforcement personnel, the more those individual persons will abuse it - it's just too easy to say, "uh, yeah, it's a terrorism investigation, sure"; and thirdly, because you won't know that they're terrorists until AFTER you've violated their constitutional rights.

The fact that a group of assholes have committed horrible crimes against Americans, in the name of Islam or whatever, does not justify the abrogation of the Constitutional rights of Americans, and *I* resent your implicit belittling of the sacrifices of those thousands (millions?) of Americans who have *knowingly* and *willingly* fought and died to protect those rights.

So, you're saying that the intent will always match the usage? It never will be (and never has been) used for purposes other than combating terrorism? You're new on this world, aren't you?

Ever heard of a guy named J. Edgar Hoover? Richard Nixon? You think if you come home someday and find a bug on your phone you're going to be able to say into it, "Whoa, dude, I'm a musician, not a terrorist!" and they'll immediately come remove the bug?

Only terrorism, huh? How about this? How about this? Or this?

Dude, face facts. It doesn't matter what the people who voted for the PATRIOT act intended, what matters is how it's used - or, in reality, abused. Fact is, it's being used EXACTLY the way Ashcroft and cronies intended - for non-terror-related investigations.

Despite the fact we have groups tearing up voter registration forms, the actual voting system is the best in the nation. It records your vote in three ways. First, electronically, second it prints who you vote for in plain english on a piece of paper viewed by the voter, and once the voter reviews this paper and accepts the choices, the votes are encoded into a 2D barcode printed after the list of votes, this barcode contains the list of votes for which offices.

Despite the fact we have groups tearing up voter registration forms, the actual voting system is the best in the nation. It records your vote in three ways. First, electronically, second it prints who you vote for in plain english on a piece of paper viewed by the voter, and once the voter reviews this paper and accepts the choices, the votes are encoded into a 2D barcode printed after the list of votes, this barcode contains the list of votes for which offices.

You're lying. What Burdish is doing is NOT affiliated with the Republican Party. From the actual story: Republican Party spokesman Chris Carr said his party is not tied to the challenge.

Further, there is nothing remotely illegal about what Burdish is doing. He is challenging registrations in court. He sure seems like a slimeball, but if there is no merit to the challenges, then the courts won't do anything. Frankly, I think his challenge has Constitutional merit, though it is apparently in opposition to state law; that being the case, I can't see any court changing state law this close to the election, thereby disenfranchising thousands of voters. Further, even if the courts DID do something, it surely would not throw out only the registrations Burdish selected, but it would have to throw out all of them statewide, of all parties, that fall into the same category.

So, being that this is NOT financed by the GOP, and being that it has no chance of success, this is really a non-story, except as an item of humor or legal interest.

And as to "1.0", I find this a bit baffling:

It was exposed that this group hired and trained employees to solely register Republican voters and walk away from anyone who considered registering Democrat.

So what? How is this interesting? Groups have the right to register whomever they want. They can't actively discourage people from registering, but they can refuse to accept registrations. If they did destroy registrations, then that is a crime, but as we all know, there's no evidence that shows they did this, because it just as likely from the evidence that Russell himself did it to frame the company.

It certainly should be investigated, as it is being investigated. If they come up with more evidence that actually does point to the company, or Russell, then we will find out more.

Well... actually... The Stratosphere has the world's real "highest" ride. Of course what Great Adventure will have is the greatest height differential. Of course this is not the Stratosphere's fault.

The propellant mixture in each SRB motor consists of an ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer, 69.6 percent by weight), aluminum (fuel, 16 percent), iron oxide (a catalyst, 0.4 percent), a polymer (a binder that holds the mixture together, 12.04 percent), and an epoxy curing agent (1.96 percent).

We have wireless tasers that use a laser to ionise the air then an electric current jumps towards the victim from a battery.

I guess this is one of those in action.

But I'm not jumping in joy until we have portable tesla coils. Mwahaha! :-)

Just imagine all the uses...

Not sure, but here's a reference and here's some more information from the same source that looks to be useful.

This column from 2000 contains further information but I'm not sure how accurate it is in more recent, more tightened-bodice security years.

Didn't we see this basic topic covered a few months ago? Yup, thought so.

For those who don't want to read the link:
Hoompini-Ting writes "Some accuse area 51, but in any case many folks were stranded when keyless locks failed or their car computers malfunctioned. No technical explanation but I'm sure slashdotters have theories. Similar to the failure in Seattle 3 years ago. See the Las Vegas Review-Journal for more details."

And just to compare, the link in this thread is the same.

Usually, double-posts on Slashdot are a few days apart ... things must be improving if it takes a few months to re-post the same article.

Didn't we see this basic topic covered a few months ago? Yup, thought so.

For those who don't want to read the link:
Hoompini-Ting writes "Some accuse area 51, but in any case many folks were stranded when keyless locks failed or their car computers malfunctioned. No technical explanation but I'm sure slashdotters have theories. Similar to the failure in Seattle 3 years ago. See the Las Vegas Review-Journal for more details."

And just to compare, the link in this thread is the same.

Usually, double-posts on Slashdot are a few days apart ... things must be improving if it takes a few months to re-post the same article.

One Las Vegas drug testing lab was searched based on search warrants regarding steroid use..

"If we can't do this anymore, what can we do? We are doomed!"

I remind you: it all makes sense in hindsight, and it wasnt obvious in the past that there would be an IT boom. Just like right now, you can't accurately predict the next thing people will move to. In fact: if you could, then the market would already be 80% of the way to being saturated already.

Don't complain you can't see the next big thing... because you never can. If you can see it, well... then it isnt the next big thing.

You are quite correct. This is the reason I don't advocate economists telling us what "the next big thing" is -- it's a prediction of the future. And we all know how accurate predictions of the future turn out to be... :) (in fact, in that email to my econ. prof, I mentioned this, and he agreed wholeheartedly)

That is also the reason why I think Lou Dobbs is asking that question in vain and, quite possibly, to mislead people...

Free market economys are meant to be challenging. Its never easy. There is no easy street. Stop looking for that street, because you are just going to get frustrated.

That is certainly true. But that is also the standard capitalism advocate's cop-out. I know, because I've said the same thing before, and I still say them. I want to move beyond mere rhetoric and understand free markets better than that -- and I believe most of the people whose jobs have been offshored want that as well, being that they tend to be reasonably-intelligent college-educated people.

That's why you need to be careful how you wave the banner of "free markets." The United States is not, and has never been a true free market. The closest we've ever been to the free-market ideal was during the 1800s, when regulations were few and innovation was widespread. But even then, we had very steep tariffs in order to protect the emerging industries we were growing domestically. Economics debate is a subject which must be kept in a historical context (e.g. largely-socialist and communist nations are proven failures - look at China, Russia, and N. Korea, whereas free-market capitalism has invariably been the long-run health of the nation -- look at Chile, the U.S., and Hong Kong, and to a lesser-degree, the mixed-economy European nations)...

Today, we have a market-oriented mixed economy. Milton Friedman himself says we have a 50% socialist economy because of how much we pay in taxes (we pay approximately 50% of our incomes in taxes, and because socialism is defined as state ownership of a nation's output, and because in economics the output of a nation = the income of the nation, Friedman is, as usual, dead-on).

Regulations utterly ABOUND in the U.S.. Ever look at the banking industry? They are among the most-heavily regulated industries in the U.S., but they are by no means the only ones. Consider government safety regulations on automobiles. Consider OSHA laws. Consider laws against drugs, which lead to our long-failed War on Drugs. Consider the FDA, which prevents new drugs from getting to market as quickly as they otherwise could, and which also prevents the importation of drugs from Canada and other nations. Consider President Bush's steel tariffs. Consider Social(ist) Security, for which "The Greatest Generation" is going to rob my generation (generation X/Y) blind. Consider Medicare. And don't forget about that massive military beast we keep feeding. And so on...

You're probably a Bush II Republican, so you believe we have a free-market economy, like most Republicans. Compared to almost every other nation on Earth (Singapore and Hong Kong being the best contenders, though with China's influence, HK's free-market status is slowly declining), you are right, we do.

But don't kid yourself -- the United States is nowhere *near* the ideals of a "free mar

The reason these great bands aren't popular? Their members are ugly. Donald Fagen (half of Steely Dan) has been described as looking like a a techno vampire. He's not marketable, but he's brilliant.

I thought this was familiar. There was a previous article I remember reading on /. that had similar events.

Keyless Entries Fail In Las Vegas On Friday
and
Valley has keyless encounters of the weird kind

Which then leads me to a couple questions. Do you think that Bush's push for continued exploration and work in space ( and Mars ) is completely altruistic?
BS
IMHO this is a cover for additional monies for the current and continued work of the $8.5 billion budgeted for US military space programs.

And considering that much of the civilized world as well as the US has its back up against the wall considering terrorism it only makes sense that EMP type stuff has been "happening".

From another post... http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Nov-05 -Wed-2003/news/22521283.html

The Patriot Act is now being used for non terrorist cases.

Call him paranoid if you want... I'm putting on a tin foil hat (& giving up mod points, like I care today) to show you THIS FASCINATING ARTICLE about EMP stuff being developed in... Ta-da! Las Vegas. This was unturned by a quick Google check.

Quoteth:But almost none of the technology to protect against EMP that was developed through Defense Department nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site as late as 1992 was put to use in the private sector

Ah, thanks for smacking me with the cluestick. Although according to this part of the USC, most/all the casinos are still in violation, as most of them have started to buying tons of 42" plasma screens and hanging them up everywhere (ie more than 1 per room, and more than 4 total). See this article.

Honestly, I wonder what would happen if the Casinos said "F-U NFL" and showed the games on huge screens, what are the fines/other penalties for displaying the game on a 100' screen? A $10,000 fine might be trivial compared to the revenue it brings in.

"I'd like to see a bewolf cluster of...hims."

Your wish is my command.

The story hit earlier, when the FBI started asking for the records of everyone who went to vegas (plane records and hotel records) from Christmas to New Years...

The details are all over the net, but you can start by reading this, this, or this.

I'm planning to store all my company's records in good old Yucca Mountain in neighboring Nevada. If it's good enough for 77,000 tons of radioactive waste, then it's surely good enough for our old personnel records, customer information, and accounting files.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Dec-14 -Sun-2003/news/22615610.html

from ROKSO, Bill Wagggoner

The poster notes:

The Nevada Gaming Control Board audits everything about them, both physical and soft, for unintentional and intentional security holes.

And further:

A funny/sad sideline is that in Nevada, every year or two a programmer or engineer goes to jail for exploiting slot machines."

The sideline article notes that convicted slot-hacker Ron Harris was a gaming board official for several years, and that he provided "more than nine hours of videotaped statements concerning questionable activities in the control board and the gaming industry."

Maybe Harris is covering his tracks by spreading dirt. Then again, maybe the Gaming Control Board is dirty. In any case, comparing voting with gambling makes me fear for my country.

-kgj

The Constitution and its Amendments to not enumerate a right to mail letters to your elected representatives, or a right to sing the blues, or a right to earn a living, or a right to be free of prison sodomy, or a right to drink clean water and breathe clean air either.

As far as I am concerned, the 4th and 5th Amendments do constitute a basic right to privacy, although not spelled out in so many words. Granted, the FBI had a warrant. This being the case they should have planted a listening device instead of disabling a safety device. They would of course risk the bug being found, but thems the breaks.

If you would like to know a whole lot more about the investigation, intead of one out of context ruling, try this.

it's a double edged sword. I personally do not think the schools have any business moderating events that take place outside of school.

The reason Casino's have implemented tickets or magnetic swipe cards is so that they can actively track the
amount of cash going in and around the casino. This allows them to play with the odds and to watch for
cheaters. Before they had this tech, it was basically an educated guess as to how much money was in the
slots or at the tables. In return for giving up your privacy, you get comped. Its a trade off that mostly
benefits the casinos, but who doesn't like free drinks?

" No, that would be a run-of-the-mill advertisement. A FUI would be an offical looking "All Trucks Must Exit Here" sign leading to a truck-repair center. Or, maybe more realistically, a sign that says "Warning: next stop for blinker fluid in 200 miles""

A casino in Las Vegas got in trouble over its billboards that resembled traffic signs...it turns out that there are laws (in Nevada and California, at least) that "prohibit the placement of signs that imitate official highway signs."

I saw people camp in front of a Sears store on boxing day

:)

March 4, the NV state assemply voted unanimously for a bill that allows for up to $500 per offense as well. Here's a link. The article aslo states that the current law, which has a maximum of $10 in damages has never been enforced. If I can find out a way to capitalize on this, I'm going to send out emails to everyone telling them how to get rich.... Oh, wait.

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