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Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste
Leon Stringer writes "The Guardian is reporting that the Womens' Institute is being asked for their views on the disposal of nuclear waste while senior scientists resign in protest of being ignored. What members of the public would you like to design nuclear waste storage facilities?"
Why do they always leave the sweeping up to the women?
The Garbage Men, of course.
I suspect there may be a number of Garbage Women, too, and their input is more than welcome in the design of the nuclear waste disposal facility restrooms.
We should hire the guys who hid the WMD in Iraq. They know how to make stuff completely disappear!
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
What members of the public would you like to design nuclear waste storage facilities?
As a senior member of the Lufthansa-pudding party, I advocate putting all matters regarding nuclear waste in the hands of mustachioed women.
I believe this issue is too complex to be knowable and any solution that does arise should be attributed to an, as yet unnamed, Creator.
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
Liberalism must be preserved in the forum!!
The "scientists" in question are probably Intelligent Design GOONs.
Stop Bush now! Support a Womans Right to Choose nuclear waste disposal...
They are much more capable than men at it. While you're at it women's institute... can you clean my toilet?
joke, really
"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people." --Muhammad Ali
Hey slashdotters, don't act all surprised...
Its a womens right to choose issue here. Women have a RIGHT to choose, and these rights are hard-fought against conservative bigots.
Are you going to now oppose a womans right to choose? That is about the most regressive thing I've ever heard. Where is the social justice?
Ask Slashdot: Where would YOU put the UK's store of lethal radioactive waste?
Yucca Mountain
Loch Ness
Orbit
The basement of The Women's Institute
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Breasts!
CowboyNeal's Breasts!
Sure there is, it's called the pub.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Martha Stewart!
I am sure she could design a delightful nuclear waste storage facility, complete with floral pattern suits and a cheerful centerpiece to go with the drums. Plus she could count the work towards her community service.
It's their right to change their minds.....
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
The article author should point out that this is in Great Britain (United Kingdom) and is an effort by the government (The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management) to get a broad range of opinion
Some days the +5 Funny comments just write themselves.
"What members of the public would you like to design nuclear waste storage facilities?"
The bastard who designed the shrink wrap on CD-Rs. You know the one, where you pull the little tape that splits the plastic coating except it snaps so you run your nail along it except it's so bloody flexible that it won't tear. Then you have to get a really sharp knife and cut it scoring the jewel case. I mean for f***s sake, if getting a CD out of a wrapper can be made such a pain in the arse by a thin bit of plastic just think the container he/she could make if given enough steel, lead and time.....
And another thing.. F***king blister packs that need a friggin scalpel to open... NNNNNNNRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH,.,..... World turning red..... can't think...... I think I'm lapsing into unconciou
Hmmmmmm..... Deep fried and look like Squirrel.
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I would like to see gangsters consulted on this. They are good at making things disappear and seem to have a knack at avoiding governmental red tape. Of course, pirates are a close second.
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
Congress? Or, in the UK, Parliament?
That is all.
1.8026175 × 10^12 furlongs per fortnight
Shouldn't that be 1.8026139 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight? Or are your furlongs slightly shorter than mine, or your fortnights longer? Or are you referring to something that is slightly faster than light in a vacuum?
Also, why bother with the scientific notation? I prefer:
1,802,613,894,550 furlongs per fortnight
That's not exact, of course.
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"The public is the LAST group you want involved with decisions like this."
Damn right! The public is the absolute worst group to rely upon for such a long term (epochal) issue as high level radioactive storage. All you get from them is NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard).
A far better group to rely upon: a religious fundamentalist organization that has an innate faith in a higher being that will come to their rescue when things go badly, and several millenia of longevity since plutonium has a half-life of 20,000 years. The solution -- get the Roman Catholic Church to found a new religious order (the Order of Nuclear Environmental Engineers) that will be required to keep tabs on that radioactive waste until the Second Coming...
Obviously, here on slashdot we want to see the RIAA, MPAA and SCO (and MS as security consultants) design the waste disposal facilities.
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