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It is funny how the superior Europeans ignore reality. Demand in Europe for fur is very high: https://www.theguardian.com/fa...

You know what also is going up in Europe? Emissions rose in both 2017: https://planetsave.com/2018/05... and will again in 2018: https://www.thedailystar.net/w...

Emissions going up now that Europe is letting all the immigrants in. Populations are rising, consuming increases.

Emissions are rising in EU. In 2017: https://planetsave.com/2018/05... and will again in 2018: https://www.thedailystar.net/w...

Europe talks a good game, but has very little action. They do like to sign fancy "accords" and have meetings about it though.

Yeah, reality doesn't matter since they're all still signed on to the Paris Accord.

Emissions are rising in EU. In 2017: https://planetsave.com/2018/05... and will again in 2018: https://www.thedailystar.net/w...

Europe talks a good game, but has very little action. They do like to sign fancy "accords" and have meetings about it though.

It is funny how the superior Europeans ignore reality. Demand in Europe for fur is very high: https://www.theguardian.com/fa...

You know what also is going up in Europe? Emissions rose in both 2017: https://planetsave.com/2018/05... and will again in 2018: https://www.thedailystar.net/w...

Nuclear energy is not safe and is not inexpensive when humans are involved.

It's safe...
https://ourworldindata.org/wha...
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/...

It's inexpensive...
https://www.eia.gov/electricit...
https://insideclimatenews.org/...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

Decommissioning costs are running two orders of magnitude more expensive than proponents said they would be.
* This means that nuclear is actually much more expensive than it's stated cost and that means the next generatiosn subsidizes nuclear power used by the prior generations.

That's just a lie. The Forbes article above explicitly point out that decommissioning costs are included in the price. They also point out that past cost overruns in nuclear power were often the result of poor money management, not any flaws in the technology or construction.

Securing the nuclear waste costs millions of dollars per site per year for the foreseeable future.
* This cost increases over time. What cost $6 million 10 years ago, costs $8 million a couple years ago.

Prove it.

Private insurance will not cover the risk. That's evidence right there that the risks are unknowable or larger than proponents say.
* This means citizens are on the hook for unlimited losses. Corporations and executives get the profits up front and dump the costs on citizens.

The risks are large. That's what happens with any large project. A multi-billion dollar anything will be more than any private insurance company is willing or able to cover. This is a financial risk, which again is often a problem of poor money management and not any flaw with nuclear power itself.

It has benefits for CO2 but we sail thru the 2 degree celcius increase about 2024. Nuclear plants wouldn't be done for 20 years.

Mean construction time for a nuclear power plant is about 7.5 years, though many have been completed in 3 years. Just because the TVA took 42 years to complete a reactor at Watts Barr does not mean all reactor projects are doomed to take as long.

The public hate them.

That's changing.
https://www.statista.com/stati...
https://www.thedailystar.net/o...

I've seen people flip on their stance on nuclear power right before my eyes when I point out that Fukushima was older than Chernobyl. We don't build nuclear reactors like Fukushima and Chernobyl any more. People understand this. You can complain about nuclear being unsafe, too expensive, and so on, but that's technology from 1980 if you are lucky. I can make wind and solar look bad too if I'm taking state of the art from 1978 and compare that to modern nuclear. Should I base my car purchases from what I learned by reading Unsafe At Any Speed?

I could see using Nuclear only in extreme lattitudes where alternative energy is less practical.

Then you need your vision checked.

Of course DPRK wants to publicly endorse Trump to discredit him.

We hear this whenever someone awful endorses Trump. From the KKK to neo-Nazis to Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.thedailystar.net/wo...

National sovereignty? What's that? For those of us in non-USA English-speaking countries, the situation is strange. We're not American citizens, we have no vote for the US president or Joint Chief of Staffs, yet our leaders take their orders from your leaders.

Completely agree with the parent. A few days ago, out of nowhere, an intrusive "anti-terrorism" law has been passed by the parliament in Bangladesh. Every civil liberty group within the country has been completely surprised by this mysterious act by the government. I do believe this is related to recent Snowden incident.

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National sovereignty? What's that? For those of us in non-USA English-speaking countries, the situation is strange. We're not American citizens, we have no vote for the US president or Joint Chief of Staffs, yet our leaders take their orders from your leaders.

Completely agree with the parent. A few days ago, out of nowhere, an intrusive "anti-terrorism" law has been passed by the parliament in Bangladesh. Every civil liberty group within the country has been completely surprised by this mysterious act by the government. I do believe this is related to recent Snowden incident.

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[ Posting AC because I'm usually a slashdot lurker and too lazy to log in. A minor complain: Why does slashdot crowd always wants to label it as an 'American Tech News Site'. Does being 'international' strips it off it's glories? Or is it because it's foundations are in USA? Every 'international' website needs to have it's roots somewhere, right? ]

National sovereignty? What's that? For those of us in non-USA English-speaking countries, the situation is strange. We're not American citizens, we have no vote for the US president or Joint Chief of Staffs, yet our leaders take their orders from your leaders.

Completely agree with the parent. A few days ago, out of nowhere, an intrusive "anti-terrorism" law has been passed by the parliament in Bangladesh. Every civil liberty group within the country has been completely surprised by this mysterious act by the government. I do believe this is related to recent Snowden incident.

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[ Posting AC because I'm usually a slashdot lurker and too lazy to log in. A minor complain: Why does slashdot crowd always wants to label it as an 'American Tech News Site'. Does being 'international' strips it off it's glories? Or is it because it's foundations are in USA? Every 'international' website needs to have it's roots somewhere, right? ]

• Why was there a heated dispute? Because the island was at the mouth of the river which forms the border between the two countries.
• When did this dispute start? When the island appeared in 1970 after a hurricane.
• What kind of island was it? Sand and silt. It's a sandbar. Or it was, until it was washed away.

It is the start of a pandemic: the actual lethality percentages are still clouded by a lot of statistical noise. Let's see a much more recent point of view, dating from the end of last month:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=103052

"Swine virus 100 times lethal than seasonal flu". Of course, it could still be statistical noise. But it seems trends are starting to emerge - there are targets who are not at risk from seasonal flu, but are more vulnerable to swine flu: namely pregnant people, obese people, and teenagers.

Yes obviously we can't expect them to know everything about every subject, but they could at least do some research:

"Licensing is one of the problems the Ekush team is expecting to face. As the project is not based in the US, Ekush OS will not be able to obtain the license banner of General Public License (GPL), the US-based licensing company."

(Link taken from here btw.)

This guy is probably a shithead. In an interview with a local newspaper (http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/10/20/d410201601 109.htm) he said most of the contributors are from. If you find them, please sue them to their death, they deserve it so much.

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The U.S. government has killed at least 3,000,000 people since the end of the 2nd World War. (There are credible estimates of 6,000,000.) None of those people were threatening the United States. There are very serious problems in the United States. However, most people don't want to educate themselves about the problems. They want the government to lie to them.

If you truly love your country, you will not just enjoy the advantages, you will be there for your country when there are problems.

The view of many people in the U.S. is becoming dangerously different then the view of the rest of the world. George W. Bush is easily recognized for what he is in the rest of the world. Here people want to believe the lies.

Here's an example from The Daily Star, in Bangladesh: Ohio has failed the world.

Here's a quote from the article: "How can America be so ignorant? How can half of the most prominent nation on earth vote for an outright liar like George W Bush?"

If you don't know George W. Bush is a chronic liar, you just don't understand U.S. politics, and you don't understand people.

You have been listening to Howard Dean too much. I liked Sen Lieberman's comment on Dean- if Dean can't see why the capture of Saddam makes us safer, then maybe Dean shouldn't be in charge of our national security.

We are better off because a crazed dictator who is sworn enemy of the United States with terrorist connections and an arsenal of weapons is no longer in power. We are better off because a free and democratic Iraq will transform the entire region into a more stable and less hostile place. We are better off because other crazy dictators have seen the results of Saddam's actions, and they are reacting to it (and at the same time they are proving that the Bush Doctrine works).

It appears that he didn't have any WMDs, so he couldn't have been going to supply those to terrorists. So I'm no safer for his having been deposed.

There are lots of weapons that are not accounted for. Are you really ok just waiting for them to be used before we anything about it?