Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster

GoneGaryT writes "Say chaps, this might be old hat, but there's a fab site for conspiracy theory aficionados at portchicago.org ; it's a pdf book expounding the theory of Peter Vogel's that the Port Chicago magazine explosion (1944) was a nuclear weapons test. It's actually pretty thorough, like 20 years of research thorough. Would the US really blow up their own people for the sake of global military supremacy? Naaaah..." Chapter 9 of the book has a factual account of the disaster (which I'd never heard of before); if you're not interested in the rest of the theory, at least reading the historical account is informative and will give you an appreciation of the explosive power of several million pounds of military ordnance.

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Ggrrrr PDF!

[Lord Bitman]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! I mean it! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

Re:Ggrrrr PDF!

[Lord Bitman]

The existence of a PDF reader does not negate my dislike for reading PDF files. I'm sitting here reading on a web browser, which for some inexplicable reason is done a hundred times better than any PDF reader I've ever used. Is there a PDF plugin for a linux based browser? I dont mean sticking a seperate viewer inside the browser, I mean using the browser to render the page
I have never seen a good PDF viewer, okay? That's why "Grrrrr, pdf!", I really dont know why such a thing has become so standard for use on the internet. If it's on a web page, why not link instead to (OMFG!!!) a web page!?
I'm not all for Free Software, and thinking adobe is evil or some shit. I have something probably unheard of by most people here- Legally purchased copies of adobe products.

My problem with PDF is that the required use of a seperate viewer, which as I have stated is consistently crappy, makes me opt instead for Not Reading it.
Now for people who would here say "Well then dont read it, nobody's forcing you to!", you are what we humans call the most fucking moronic kind of idiot it is possible to concieve of. You, I suppose, would rather never eat toast than have to sit in a fire while holding a peice of bread. Well, see there's this other option where you use a toaster.
I want toast, and I dont want to use any of the horrible PDF viewers availible (Yes, the official adobe one is shitty too)
I have always seen them as slow, needlessly difficult to scroll through, and in general no where near as good for reading as say, a web browser. Why might this be? BECAUSE PDF IS FOR PRINTING, YOU JACKHOLES. Sure, it can be and often is used for other things, but in every instance that other thing turns out very crappy.
And if you're of a differing opinion, any comment you post in responce is wrong. This is because I have here stated my opinion, and personal experience. So trying to combat this with your opinion or personal experience is.. see above for comment about you being a moron.