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Time, because it's just damn brilliant. Private Eye because it's the best satire going. Linux User And Developer because they have full distros on their coverdiscs-last one I got was full SuSE 9.0 :)

1. Hopefully, the owner.
2. I don't know if this volvo has both characteristics but these days most of the more expensive cars have electric power steering which will draw on the battery if RPMs aren't up to keep the alternator pumping out enough power to run it, and they also have drive by wire - on my car which has ordinary sequential fuel injection the throttle drives a cable which opens the butterfly on the throttle body and a throttle position sensor tells the car how open it is so it can control fuel delivery. On drive by wire cars there is a potentiometer on the gas pedal, there's a servo on the butterfly, and both fuel and air delivery are controlled by the computer, hence the computer can more or less guarantee a range of RPMs.
3. I don't know how this system works, but see cool inventions 2003: Parking Space Invaders linked from comment #9570304.

cool inventions 2003: Parking Space Invaders

It tells me that the site is heavily biased (they even describe themselves as "opinionated", and that they "tell you what we really think and believe about what's happening in the world"), and therefore NOT "news". (Yes, by this standard, I would also probably discount FoxNews.) Do you have other sources, or is this the best you can come up with?

How about this interview with David Kay or this overview of his final report or CNN's coverage, or this detailed report that discusses some of the reasoning behind David Kay's findings. I would have gladly linked to Fox News as well, as these official findings are virtually "unspinnable", but I can't find any Fox News coverage of Kay's final report (it may exist, I'm just saying I couldn't find it with Google - please point it out if you come across it). If you'll recall, Kay's initial, interim report also found no evidence of the type of WMD stockpiles or activities that Bush and Powell claimed we would certainly find in Iraq. However, Kay expressed great optimism that the alleged WMD would indeed be found (this was well covered and emphasized on Fox News) and attributed his lack of evidence to, in essence, timing, as there was still much work ahead at that point. Kay later stated that his initial optimism was based on the same erroneous, disproven "intelligence" that was eventually presented as justification for the invasion of Iraq. David Kay was not the only weapons inspector to carry out the task of finding Iraqi WMD. Remember Hans Blix? I've heard quite a bit of typical, hateful, conservative vitriol spewed in his direction, but I have yet to hear a factual criticism of his professional credentials or a substantive accusation of bias against him. Here is a summary of his findings within the rather enlightening context of current events. There are also the findings of Scott Ritter to consider. Even more despised than Hans Blix, the factual content of his work in Iraq and, again, his professional credentials, have not been effectively challenged. Here is an article he wrote in which he mentions his findings on Iraqi WMD among other topics and an interview in Time magazine in which they ask him some of the "tough" questions (i.e. weak and unsupported personal attacks, as is the Republican habit) his critics have raised. If you want more detailed sources on the findings of any of these weapons inspectors, Google is your friend. I challenge - no, I *defy* you to produce even one credible source (judging from your comment about Fox News, I think we more or less agree on the meaning of "credible") that contradicts the findings of these weapons inspectors. If you can't produce such a counterpoint, you are left with no rational conclusion but to accept that the Bush administration either incompetently or willfully misled the American people and the entire world by claiming that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the United States when, in fact, he literally had no capability to attack us.

Where shall I begin? How about allowing his sons to torture Iraqi citizens? How about re-routing rivers, to punish villages that spawned political enemies? How about using chemical weapons on Kurdish people in the north? If you think for a moment that allowing such actions to go on unchecked is none of our business, then you're more of an animal than the worst Bush-basher thinks of Bush and the rest of his administration. There are, of course, other reasons involved, but if you need me to tell you what they are, then you haven't bo

I'm not sure how healthy the French economy is these days. France (and Germany) have been exceeding the EU's limit of deficit spending which is 3% of GDP. France is at risk of getting sanctions from the EU. In addition, it doesn't look like Europe's education system is fairing too well either, and it's generally agreed that education is required for a healthy economy. This Time article talks about overcrowded classrooms, underfunding, etc, etc.

1. Arms for Hostages: wasn't this the deal that let American hostages be released?
2. The Contras were no worse than the Sandinistas. And, as far as '[pyschotics] that rape women and children, mutilate men, women, and children, and just generally turn the country into a bloodbath,' interestingly it's people like you who supported Saddam Hussein, who was every one of those things.
3. Reagan didn't ignore AIDS. Reagan didn't hate gays.
4. Deficits are sometimes necessary. When you buy a house, you go into massive debt--that's not a bad thing.

You'd have to figure out what's considered a blog, then - for instance, /. and Drudge Report are considered blogs, but I think both these sites would argue that they are 'news sites'.

The idea hinges on carefully mimicking background lighting conditions to help render an object invisible, similar to how a chameleon blends in with its surroundings. The rear and front surfaces of an object are covered with a material containing an array of photodetectors and light emitters respectively.
The photodetectors on the rear surface are used to record the intensity and color of a source of illumination behind the object. The light emitters on the front surface then generate light beams that exactly mimic the same measured intensity, color and trajectory. The result is that an observer looking at the front of the object appears to see straight through it.

Hang on to your hats, the article links to slashdot... we're gonna get TIME'd! Save the logs!

RP

You do not need to be aware of any information sources not sanctioned by Big Media

Really? Who? I've never heard that one before.

Philo T. Farnsworth

You're obviously unaware that it was named "Ginger" during development. See here.

The problem is, we've been listening to this "personal responsibility" mantra of dieting for the last thirty years, and we just keep getting fatter and fatter. Is America's ever-expanding waistline prima facie evidence that we are simply making more and more irresponsible choices? It can be debated both ways, but I think there is a lot to be said for the idea that it is getting slowly harder to eat responsibly.

This month's Time magazine has an excellent series of articles on obesity (subscription required). Some of the factors making it difficult to choose healthy lifestyles include:

* Suburban sprawl leading to a lack of walkable communities.
* Wide swaths of urban areas without convenient grocery stores, but with plenty of takeout.
* High crime rates make it easier and safer to let kids veg out in front of the TV insead of sending them out to play.
* Restaurants serving ever-larger portions.
* A genetic predisposition, won through millions of years of evolution, to prefer high-fat and high-sugar foods.
* The tendency by the fast food industry to take advantage of this genetic predisposition by increasing the fat and sugar content of their offerings.
* Our country's overproduction of corn, leading to cheaper, fatter meat, and the use of high-fructose corn syrup in just about everything.
* TV advertising targeting children. Personally, I consider it downright immoral to advertise anything to an eight year old who doesn't even understand that the point of advertising is to get him to want to buy something.
* The relative ease and convenience of pre-packaged foods.

I'm not denying that we need a strong boost in the personal responsibility department. But it's a complex problem, and repeating this mantra as a cure-all seems to be taking us in the wrong direction.

Yeah, Europeans never do that, you jackass. Took all of 3 seconds of using Google (an superior American company).

There are a lot of easy ways to save energy.

Only "easy" in the same way that it's easy for an obese American to lose weight- she simply eats less. But yet... although they claim to wish to be thinner, they can't seem to do it.

Mandating even half-assed fuel efficiency standards could improve air quality, reduce your reliance on foreign fuels and help your balance of trade.

All courses like that, though, are forms of "governmental interference in free markets / personal freedom", and thus will be difficult to popularize. That's always the case when internalizing external costs.

Fuel efficiency, for example, means sacrificing your own near-term personal safety (or travel speed) to improve conditions for yet-unborne strangers around the world. And it's just hard to convince someone to favor another's welfare over her own.

Typical US-centric, head-in-the-sand bullshit.

There couldn't possibly be another reason to prevent the UN weapons inspectors from having carte blanche access to secure facilities in Iraq, right? I mean, those guys are all about the inspections and are completely trustworthy right? They would NEVER abuse that level of access to go "beyond scope" of their charter would they?

OF COURSE THEY WOULD:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq02 23.htm
http://www.fair.org/activism/unscom-history.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,351 165,00.html

As for punishing "violations of UN resolutions" shouldn't the UN be responsible for that? Just exactly whose resolutions are these anyway? As if the Bush league has any interest in enforcing UN resolutions against other countries that are routinely broken on a daily basis anyhow.

Many true conservatives are publicly expressing doubts about the way how the current administration is handling the economy and international affairs.

The debacle in Iraq is getting worse day by day. Average Americans are appalled by the stream of bodybags coming back to the US. There are rumbles within the ranks of the military accusing the White House of completely misjudging the force requirements and the exit strategy. Now it looks like the White House is about to run around on the same rock that sunk Nixon: not the lies but attempts to cover things up.

I'm gonna have to agree with the parent here, but touch on a different aspect.
In Korea there is a big thing about "I must have something better than that guy." I say this because I'm Korean (South, this may not apply to North) (note- not all Koreans will necessarily agree with me, but most that I've spoken with have). I personally believe that this and the population density had a major part in making Korea the most broadband connected country in the world (too lazy for links). Other factors played a role (like government money), but again I think the main thing is that "Hey my neighbor has broadband? Well I should get some better broadband!"

This carries over directly to gaming. First off, they can use the broadband for gaming. Second, they must become better than the guy who just beat them. If you look at Lineage gamers, they'll even murder each other over events in game. I got a link for that.
The society plays a huge role in how gaming has risen in Korea. Moreso than you may think.

Oldest trick in the book: stir up controversy by being jerks just to get free publicity.

The description for `Destroy All Humans!' wherein it is explained that the player gets "to probe farmers, slaughter cows, and do all the awesome little things that aliens [or depraved japanese soldiers] do" seems at first like it would be more fitting for the description of the whacked-out japanese pinball game, when one considers the more modern "art of Japanese warfare," which (circa 1930-45 mind you) consists of such artistic elements as recruiting women of foreign countries by the 1,000's to act as sex slaves for japanese troops, using civilian women and children as bayonet practice (while alive), and then completely erasing it from their modern teachings/history books.

There is also the case of Abu Zubayr, an officer in Saddam's secret police who was also the ringleader of an al Qaeda cell in Morocco. He attended the September 5, 2001 meeting in Spain with other al Qaeda operatives, including Ramzi Bin-al-Shibh, the 9/11 financial chief. Abu Zubayr was apprehended in May, 2002, while putting together a plot to mount suicide attacks on U.S. ships passing through the straits of Gibraltar. He has allegedly since stated that Iraq trained and supplied chemical weapons to al Qaeda. In the fall of 2001 al Qaeda refugees from Afghanistan took refuge in northern Iraq until they were driven out by Coalition forces, and Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, an al Qaeda terrorist active in Europe and North Africa, fled from Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has reportedly been sent back to Iraq to coordinate al Qaeda activities there.

Take note of Al-Zarqawi. You can read some of what he has to say about the war in Iraq in my next response.

Iraq also sheltered Abu Nidal, one of the most notorious terrorists of the 70s and 80s who appears to have links to 9/11. Oddly enough, Nidal committed "suicide" by shooting himself multiple times, in the head IIRC, not long before the war.

and now we're handing it over to Al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda doesn't feel that way. Here is what their leader in Iraq, Al-Zarqawi, has to saw about their fighters and efforts there only a few months ago:

1. Most of them have little expertise or experience, especially in organized collective work. Doubtlessly, they are the result of a repressive regime that militarized the country, spread dismay, propagated fear and dread, and destroyed confidence among the people. For this reason, most of the groups are working in isolation, with no political horizon, farsightedness, or preparation to inherit the land. Yes, the idea has begun to ripen, and a light whisper has arisen to become noisy talk about the need to band together and unite under one banner. But matters are still in their initial stages. With God?s praise, we are trying to ripen them quickly.

2. Jihad here unfortunately [takes the form

Bummer for him, seeing as MS stock is where it was in late 98'. Time , 5-10-04

Could this be a sign of where Apple stands in the stem-cell debate?

Personally I think Bush is an idiot, and it's know he twists science to support his moronic points of views, and no one else's. He probably believes in the creationists. Join the to fight to bring back USA's status as the leading nation in science, and vote against Bush!

You, my friend, have clearly have not been watching the news lately.

How is it not insightful? The horrifying thing is that what they're showing on the news is real. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot that they aren't showing.

You, my friend, have clearly have not been watching the news lately.

How is it not insightful? The horrifying thing is that what they're showing on the news is real. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot that they aren't showing.

According to Wikipedia, Farnsworth did invent the TV. It is also in Time magazine. Philo's the TV man, indeed. Perhaps you have him confused with Thomas Crapper, "inventer of the toilet" who really did not invent it. Lookup Farnsworth on snopes: his role in history is so secure that there is not even an urban legend about him.

I'm called the hit-and-run raper in anger
The knife-sharpened tippie-toe
Or just the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler
...
I'll go easy with your cold fanged anger
I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby
And it hurts!

Time Europe recently had a A article about European scientists emmigrating to the US because it was easier to do science there than in Europe (less bureaucracy in the US, though we're catching up).

Time magazine had an article in January claiming the exact opposite situation, that US laboratories and departments were the destination for thousands of European scientists. Here are two quotes:

"Some 400,000 European science and technology graduates now live in the U.S. and thousands more leave each year. A survey released in November by the European Commission found that only 13% of European science professionals working abroad currently intend to return home."

""In soccer, if you're great, another team can buy you." Science is the same, and the big buyer is the U.S.: in 2000, the U.S. spent 287 billion [euro] on research and development, 121 billion [euro] more than the E.U."

The full article is here

Back in 1950, one might note that the U.S. was responsible for half the world's GWP. In 1965, it was down to 25%? Was this a collapse in the American economy? No -- it was Europe and Japan having sucessfully rebuilt from bombed-out postwar husks into a restored industrialized powers. Sure, the U.S. "lost its industrial dominance" in that it was no longer so far ahead of everyone else, but the only way to keep it would have been to militarily force the Europeans and Japanese to stay backwards.

Similarly, in the last 20 years we've seen South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore emerge as modern economies, and India and China reduce the stultifying power of socialism on their economies. The resulting development has been met with an increase in the amount of science and engineering they produce. Sure, the U.S. "lost its scientific dominance" in that it is no longer so far ahead of everyone else, but the only way to keep it would have been to militarily force the Asians to stay backwards.

How can I claim we've stayed even? Well, when we compare ourselves scientifically to those who were fully developed countries in 1983, we're still ahead, as pointed out in Time Europe.

The U.S. science establishment is still healthy. It's just that the science establisments in Asia are no longer invalids.

Will unscrupulous tourists pick up irradiated rocks and plants just like they steal from Petrified Forest National Park?

Why should I waste my time disputing what you say?

You shouldn't. You should do some investigation of you own. The facts are the facts.

You haven't proved any of it. Your facts are occasionally wrong and definitely imcomplete and your insinuations are unprovable.

Which of these facts are wrong? Incomplete? Of course, you make no effort to prove your assertion.
What did I insinuate?

Did Bush f things up before 9/11? Yes.

Agreed.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that he and his administration systematically dismantled our investigations into terrorism, and specifically the terrorists who attacked on 9/11.

This link discusses
Bush's ambassador to Yemen's refusal to allow the head of the investigation into the USS Cole bombing back in to Yemen. The source is just the first I found in a search, so if you don't like it feel free to find your own. It is a fact, and it has been widely reported. Buried mostly, but reported nonetheless.

This link
reports that the FBI was ordered to "Back off" the Bin ladens and the Saudi royal family.

I don't suppose you remember who Coleen Rowley is? Ashcroft refused to allow a search of the laptop of the 20th terrorist.

Did everyone else? Yes.

As demonstrated above, not everyone else fucked up. Some people were doing quite well before they had their knees taken out.

Further, as I said, We were warned of the specific attacks in advance by the intelligence services of multiple countries. Perhaps this is what you were talking about when you called my facts incomplete? I forgot to mention that Russia and several other Arab countries warned us as well.

You're a contentious fool.
An ad hominem attack is the most base logical fallacy.

You have to prove the spirit of your attacks is true, or I'm not even going to be bothered responding.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The facts are what they are.

"The time he wasted could have prevented the second WTC plane from hitting." Of course it could have.

So you agree that he could have prevented the second plane from hitting the second tower by taking the simple action of responding to the threat by doing his job rather than joking that That's some bad pilot (aside: My father is a pilot, so I have some slight understanding of how horrified the poor man's wife must have felt to hear Bush ridicule her murdered husband and joke at the deaths of all the innocent passengers and crew of the plane and those immediately killed in the building.)

He then continued to react to the single worst terrorist attack on US soil by going into a classroom and reading a book to a bunch of second graders.

You're a partisan hack to imply that his inaction is somehow his intentional irresponsibility.

Another ad hominem, this time with a red herring thrown in.
You clearly learned your debating skills from some extremist right wing agitator. Refute facts and arguments with hatred. That lesson so many on the right have learned so well has poisoned public discourse in this country. Thanks for helping to propogate it.

What the reasons for his inaction are are irrelevant to the point which you already admitted which was that he could have stopped all of the attacks after the first had he done his job.

Where the partisanship comes in with expecting the President of the United States to do his job rathe

Looks like the European Community has already put the wheels in motion for this:

In 2000 the European Parliament "approved a directive that shifts responsibility for the environmental impact of a vehicle over its entire life cycle--from design to disposal--squarely onto the manufacturers' shoulders. Some requirements--a near-ban on the use of toxic heavy metals, and mandated recycling rates of 80% and 85% for cars going on the market after 2006 and 2015, respectively--are far-reaching but feasible."

Another story about BMW's efforts. There are lots more.

Actually, I think the whole question of whether channels should be sold a la carte is secondary to the whether we'll need cable networks in the first place.

Someone brought up the CD analogy, which I think is apt, and we've all seen how well iTunes Music Store has done with single sales. But to get to that point with TV you'd be talking about selling individual episodes of individual shows. Which I think ultimately is the model that will prevail, either that or people subscribing to one season of a particular show.

This isn't some fantasy that needs Internet-video-stream-ready set-top boxes and complex electronic billing schemes. It's happening right now with TV shows on DVD, including HBO shows like the Sopranos and Six Feet under and cult shows that never would have found an audience otherwise.

When a better technical infrastructure does emerge, for selling shows through the set-top or aggregating them with commercials on DVRs, the role of cable networks is going to shift away from distributors and toll collectors and subsidizers and more toward branders of quality content and promoters, like a record company in the music business.

The effect will be to increase the market for paid TV programming by lowering the bar to consumer and vendor entry. How many people would start watching new episodes of the Sopranos if they didn't have to take all of HBO for $18/month, or check out Adult Swim or Stargate SGI if they didn't have to shell out $60/month for the whole digital cable package as we do in the SF Bay Area?

It was basically a fuss caused by an angry group of Reagan fans (obviously).

::Eyebrow quirk, GoogleGoogle::

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=354 15

"In a statement issued today [article date: November 4, 2003], the network insisted, however, its decision had nothing to do with the backlash from Reagan supporters."

"Martin Anderson, co-editor of a newly released book, "Reagan: A Life in Letters," said in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" he doesn't buy CBS' claim that producers of the series checked all kinds of sources for historical accuracy.

Anderson said he has been in touch with most of the people who were in Reagan's inner circle and none said they were contacted by the movie's producers.

That includes former Secretary of State George Schultz, former Attorney General Ed Meese and Reagan's chief of staff, Michael Deaver, said Anderson. He noted Reagan biographer Lou Cannon and presidential historian Michael Beschloss also told him they were not contacted."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,536 971,00.html

"You should know this story because it's something the producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron won't tell you. They have exhibited astounding carelessness and cruelty in their depiction of my father and my entire family. They never consulted any family member, nor did they speak to anyone who has known us throughout the years. In the New York Times on October 21st, one of the writers admitted that the line about AIDS victims was completely fabricated. In that same article, Jim Rutenberg reported that the producers claimed no major event was depicted without two confirming sources."

Doesn't look like they pulled it because of 'an angry group of Reagan fans'. Looks more like they pulled it for the right reasons, namely it was 'A shocking true story!' that wasn't necessarily true.

At the time when it was about to come out there was a furor on talk radio about it (yeah, it was conservative, but still)... and it just sorta felt to me like it was the same as the Enron TV movie. Lots of lies to make the subject look bad, attacking a person/entity with no ability to defend itself (in one case, a dead/dying company, in the other case, a 90+ year old man with Alzheimer's).

Which brings to mind another question, does freedom of speech cover lying? As in this example, where a movie was made based on no research of the subject and then touted as a true story? Personally I believe that free speech shouldn't protect that which is easily proven untrue. But that's just me.

The problem with Japanese companies is that you never know exactly who owns what. In this country they never go by their parent name. Ever heard of Matsushita? Well they own Panasonic. So I couldn't tell you if they had a monopoly in something or not. You'd be amazed how much of Japanese business comes down to just a few families - like the Moris.

Being original isn't the damn point. The award wasn't for innovation, it's an entrepreneurial award for building a company on this idea (and improving people's lives by selling a well-made implementation of the product, what capitalism is actually about - in other words, to put it bluntly, this is an "award for learning to be a good capitalist", probably an unusual concept in (white male) American capitalism, but probably comparable to e.g. 'businesswoman of the year' type awards that still reward female capitalist success stories in developed countries).

Check this link: it's called the "THE ROLEX AWARDS FOR ENTERPRISE". Quote, "He has already sold 12,000".

The point is, and apparently it was novel enough an application to merit $75,000, is that this makes a dry cool space, a refrigerator, that can keep food cold, and has an enormous economic impact -- "Eggplants stay fresh for 27 days, instead of the usual three. Tomatoes and peppers last for up to three weeks" -- not just a pleasantly cool cup of water.

NB, this was reported in Time magazine in 2001.Slashdot is keeping its fine tradition of reporting "news" years late. Expect the dupe tomrrow.

this guy's done it for $1

If so then he's losing 60 cents on each one he sells: Availability: Now (in Nigeria), for 40 a set. But that's ok, he'll make up for it in volume.

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Time Magazine invention of the year for 2001

This same man (and invention) won an invention of the year award from time (as seen here) in 2001. I guess it's interesting that he also won this award, but why is Rolex handing out awards years after the fact? Maybe I'm just used to the break neck pace of computer advancement, but this seems a little.. late.

I guess this didn't happen

They are increasingly seeing themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese, and seem happy to be their own independent country.

pretty comprehensive resource

Free, Universal Healthcare,

Wait lists?

near-free higher education

If one can get in.

Sad, really. I thoroughly recommend a trip over to Europe to any American

Glad to hear it. I'm planning to travel to Europe again this summer, to visit family and friends. Wouldn't want to feel unwelcome this time.

Homelessness is rare

Are you sure?

Shut up and die, you stupid moron.

People like you are just to violent to live in society.

"whose pilot cost more than $8 million" - TIME

As much as I d onot think that ours is the government that it should be (see U.S. Constitution), I still think it beats any other form out there today.

What part of "design, training, and crew quality" did you not understand? What does "foolproof" have to do with it?

Don't lecture me about training. One of my best friends is a plant operator on a missile sub, and we've had many discussions about the training he receives. Some years ago I also knew a couple operators at the Prairie Island plant in Minnesota, and they were cool, dedicated customers who knew what they were doing. You're comparing apples and oranges here.
They are all *very* aware of what kinds of mistakes they could make.

As I've said, in the original post and the responses, I consider the training that the Chernobyl people had to be sub-par - not necessarily because they panicked, but because they allowed the situation to develop in the first place - which, in combination with the bad design, and other factors, caused the whole situation. You might want to read this where it says To prevent the automatic safety systems from interfering with the experiment, the technicians disconnected them, opening the way for a chain of fatal mishaps..

Well trained? So well trained that you disconnect *all* the safety systems to test the design parameters of the turbines?. Yeah, right. Also the very fact that the design of the plant allowed this to lead to the explosion is very well documented.

So tell me, where, in your 'experience', has this occurred in the US? 3MI? Not hardly. At 3MI the safety systems worked as they were designed to. THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHERNOBYL AND 3MI WAS THAT THE OPERATORS HADN'T DISCONNECTED THEM. At 3MI, the emergency cooling system was even disconnected, yet the other safety systems kept a major catastrophe from happening.

More modern reactor systems *are* failsafe by design. Yes, there are ways to build them so, that bypass operator error. You need to go do some research.

Ignorant asshole.

I'm done with this conversation.

SB

I gather from your Web site that you are from the U.S.

Do you think that the September 11 attacks are a joking matter? Those attacks killed thousands; the effects of Chernobyl may have killed 300,000 if one accepts an estimate from a U.K. charity. The radiation of Chernobyl spread across multiple countries. -- I remember news reports reporting radiation tracked all the way to northern Finland ; radiation was tracked to Central Europe and the Mediterranean .

I entered college 90 minutes' drive east of Three Mile Island in the Fall of 1979. The campus was still on edge because of the accident and uncertainty about its long-term effects -- because weather can go from west to east there....

Zeal.com search on Chernobyl

www.chernobyl.info English-language pages

Chernobyl Charities U.K. page on book Voices from Chernobyl