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Four problems in 50 years? Wiki lists at least 56 Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States which caused at least one death or $50,000 in damage. Of course we've had articles on Slashdot about what happened at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, as well as guards being caught sleeping on the job.

is actually a POSITIVE thing

Ah, I agree it's good there hasn't been more accidents.

Also, modern designs wouldn't have these problems. Modern designs remove 90% of the criticisms that you, and other, lay at their feet.

But those designs don't solve one important problem, nuclear power is still Hooked on Subsidies. Without government subsidies Wall Street, no matter how evil people think it is, will not pay for nuclear power plants to be built.

Falcon

http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=8218
http://www.deltamakinaltd.com/tr/imagessTR/vermont-yankee-transformer-57_4.jpg

That small grey thing at the far lower left corner under the transformer is a bucket, to get an idea of the size of the thing.

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Considering that news reports are saying that "moral values" were the deciding factor in the Presidential Election:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A222 21-2004Nov3.html

It might bear considering why that is.

Economic policy between the Democrats and Republicans is largely the same. Sure, Kerry wanted to change a few tax code loopholes, but it wasn't as if he wanted to repeal NAFTA ( which was signed by Clinton, FYI ).

Military / Foriegn policy is about the same between the two parties as well. Kerry voted for the Iraq war, and would not have immediately pulled troops if he would have won.

That leaves social issues to define the diferences between the two parties. On that front, the Republicans have been going to great lengths to court religious / social conservatives:

http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=o id:86467

Looks like it worked.

It's not that a majority of people don't understand the Democratic message, it's that they disagree with it at least on the high profile social issues.

I'm not the first to "charge" North with involvement with sabotaging Desert Claw. Who denies that North and Hakim were running the support operation that failed, killing 8 marines and kicking Carter in the crisis?

Let's say that VP Dick Cheney showed Saudi Ambassador Bandar our plans for war with Iraq (marked "NOFOR", no foreigners allowed access) before the invasion, before even Sect'y of State Powell was shown the plans. Let's say that Bandar approved the plans, assuring Cheney that he'd get the Saudis to lower gas prices in the US in Fall 2004 to help ensure Bush's reelection. We weren't at war yet - would you call that treason?

Most wars prosecuted by the United States have been covert, and undeclared, for generations. If we're going to lower the bar and merely enforce "national security" with troops and intelligence, we've got to include crimes by Americans against national security as treason. Or come up with another word, and control it as severely.

They believed it because they were lied to.

I live near Hampshire College and there are several of these cars driving around with the www.greasecar.com printed on the body. Volkswagens... Rabbits and a Bus I have seen. Our local rag did a srory on these pioneers. I am thinking about buying my neighbor's diesel Rabbit for $250.00 just so I can try the kit out.

I distinctly remember watching a show on Discovery Channel (I believe it was Invention) from several years ago about a guy in the US who drives to various fast food outlets to get used vegetable oil for his car. He said the only problem was that his car always smells like french fries. Here are a couple links to related stories that are more recent. July 2001 and October 2001

Apparently, since many of the restaurants they got their fat from had to pay to have their fry grease removed, they were more than happy to give it away for free. The article sez they drove clear across the U.S.

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So, here lies the commercialization of Slashdot. We are marketing guinea pigs now?

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