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And yet the fact is, the per-terawatt-hour death rate from nuclear is lower than for any power source -- lower than wind, lower than rooftop solar, lower than hydroelectric, lower than biomass, lower than natural gas, lower than oil, and lower than coal.
First of all: that is not true.
Secondly: the metric is completely irrelevant.

You are counting people who died in coal mines?
Why don't you count the people who died in iron ore mines? Wow, because then you would need to think about "steel", and how much "steel" is used in a nuke.
And from there we have to count down every aspect in the industrial chain and craftsmen chain.
E.g. I doubt more than a hand full of idiots (who rejected safety regulations) died in Germany due to installing of roof top solar. But I'm pretty sure a few dozens died in traffic accident, by traveling to the place where they installed roof top solar. So: how many people die per year in the maintaining and fueling and mining for nuklear power plants? Easy answer: you have no idea!
So stop reiterating that bollocks claim.

If people were rationally concerned about safety,
Rationally concerned about what kind of safety? _My own safety_ is absolutely not touched by any accident in a mine, or on a rooftop or at a wind mill construction site! _My own safety_ is only marginally touched by coal plants as they have effective air scrubbing! _My own safety_ is touched much more by Diesel cars in my town, than by the next best coal plant, just outside of town!!!
And to top it _my own safety_ and that includes 50% - 80% of the German population: is massively touched by any old nuklear power plant around us. And that includes the French ones, but particularly the Belgium ones, and also the Swiss ones. You know: Germany has 80 million inhabitants. Here is a nice map with most active nuclear plants, no idea why some are missing (e.g. Neckar Westheim is missing): https://www1.wdr.de/wissen/tec...

If one of them goes boom, especially one of the Belgium ones, e.g. Tiange close to Aachen, then we have to evacuate up to 50million people!!! To where exactly? How exactly? Considering that Poland will have to evacuate, too. That likely parts of France, Netherlands, Switzerland, definitely 90% of Belgium have to be evacuated. To where? Hae? Any clue? No? Me neither!

What do you think what kind of impact that will have on the harvests in Europe? Basically every harvest east of the plant, in a 1000 - 2000 miles range, and most likely most of the cattle, will be lost. Do you have any idea what it means when _the world_ loses 10% - 25% of its harvests in one year?

No please call me irrational again, you stupid *******!

Seriously, do you even read news?

Renault thought to be cheating at emissions tests for 25 years. (use google translate, German article) https://www.auto-motor-und-spo...

Nissan, too: (use google translate, German article) https://www1.wdr.de/wissen/tec...

Ford accused of cheating: http://www.thedrive.com/sheetm...

Fiat/Chrysler accused of cheating: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Mercedes emissions cheating: (they already had recalls) https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

BMW emissions cheating: (they already have recalls for affected cars - those had Renault engines due to a cooperation, which makes the Renault claims above more valid) https://cleantechnica.com/2017...

You can find articles like this for pretty much EVERY car manufacturer, if you simply google. Funnily, in recent testing, VW Diesels had among the lowest emissions results. Seems they fixed their stuff on newer models after the scandal.

http://www.een.be/teletekst http://concorde.paratel.be/paratel/ttviewer/?channel=VTM&pagenbr=812 http://www1.wdr.de/themen/infokompakt/videotext/externvtx100.html I think I could go on a while.

Or stealing the wires from the railroad system as they do in Germany:
http://www.wdr.de/themen/panorama/kriminalitaet09/ kupferdiebstahl/index.jhtml
The copper-thieves are partly responsible for train-delays because it happens so often.
The german railroad-company lost 20 mio. Euros because of stolen wires.

Now that's a lot. Copper ain't cheap.

Here is a really funny story (german link):

http://www.wdr.de/themen/wirtschaft/oeffentliche_f inanzen/steuererklaerung/steuerbescheid_tippfehler .jhtml

A local tax bureau made a typo in entering the tax data for a 70 year old retired man. He had declared 11000 as income from stock and later found out it was really 17000. The lady from the tax bureau typed in 1100017000 which is one billion german mark. Accordingly, the man got a statement asking him to pay about 100 million euro taxes. He contacted the tax bureau and they recognized the error, but in the same time charged his bank account already 10 million euro. The man got a lawyer to write a nice letter to the office.

Since in germany, lawyer payments are calculated in terms of the amount which is disputed in the case, the lawyer's fee for writing this letter amounted to 2,3 million euro, which the office was to pay. They refused, but apparently they now had to pay the lawyer 500000 euro, lately.

We have this since about 1999 without any adverts, e.g. here:

http://www.wdr.de/themen/verkehr/verkehrslage/stre etmapDesign.php?karte=1&java=1&area=260&land=Nordr hein-Westfalen&map=Nordrhein-Westfalen&auswahl=&pa rtstartX=37&partstartY=93&partendX=108&partendY=15 7&status=zoomBox

A quick, truely unscientific check on WDR, which is part of ARD, reveals that they are streaming in Real.

I'm not sure that Ogg Theora is quite there yet, and the BBC format, which is supposed to be fully open is in development.

I totally agree though, that state run telly and radio oughta use open formats.

GEZ is "Gebuehren-Einzugs-Zentrale" (Fee collection agency)

The fee is a tax on receivers, to finance state television and radio broadcasters, which offer extensive internet content (ARD, ZDF, WDR, EinsLive, BR and many more)

The main counterargument is that the state broadcasters are paid to provide "Grundversorgung mit Information" (primary information service). It is argued that their internet presence is beyond that mandate, so it should not be paid for by the public. There's also the problem that every internet _capable_ PC is subject to the fee, not just those PCs which are used to access the internet, let alone the public broadcasters' websites.

WDR (Radio+Television), WDR, Heise Newsticker, Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf (Regional Government), Chaos Computer Club Duesseldorf (many more links), CCC's anti censorship tutorial (and more links)

There are protests, but the regional government has chosen its first targets wisely: Only nazi sites are to be blocked even though the law applies to a much wider range of content (The law doesn't really afford this censorship in my opinion, but if one thinks it can be used against nazi sites, then it could also be used against many other sites.) Since there is a broad consensus against nazis, protesters are easily discredited as nazi sympathizers.

WDR (Radio+Television), WDR, Heise Newsticker, Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf (Regional Government), Chaos Computer Club Duesseldorf (many more links), CCC's anti censorship tutorial (and more links)

There are protests, but the regional government has chosen its first targets wisely: Only nazi sites are to be blocked even though the law applies to a much wider range of content (The law doesn't really afford this censorship in my opinion, but if one thinks it can be used against nazi sites, then it could also be used against many other sites.) Since there is a broad consensus against nazis, protesters are easily discredited as nazi sympathizers.

Dinner For One

Anyone has a quicktime movie of it? Please post!

signed: a sad German immigrant.

Homepage of a TV-Show about environmental Topics with tons of information about conserving energy in houses

Im sorry that those links are for completly German pages, but just email the operators of those pages and they should be able to supply you with lots of english resources.

Bestseller im Dritten Reich: Die braune Vergangenheit von Bertelsmann

It's a link to a transcript from the german tv-magazine Monitor.
(Babel Fish is your friend)