Berkeley Library RFP Asks For Nuclear Free Vendor

beefsprocket writes "RFID tags are not new to libraries. Neither is 3M as one of the larger providers of the Checkpoint circulation and self-checkout system. What is new is a library discarding their current working system used for over 500,000 items because the vendor refuses to submit a required Nuclear Free Disclosure Form (PDF). The specific form is required for anyone wishing to do business with the City of Berkeley per the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act of 1986. This reverses a 2008 exemption that the Library applied for to be able to work with 3M."

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Re:This is just as bad...

[Nutria]

When did peace activists (aka "useful idiots") ever protest in front of the Soviet Embassy?

And then there's this: Dietzel told Kliem he was a physicist working for an international research company committed to world peace.

I suspect you think that New Zealanders are "jealous of our freedom" too don't you.

The freedom to not have enough doctors and hospital beds?

Last year, NZ (which doesn't pay it's own doctors enough to stay in NZ) paid My Cousin The Newly-minted Doctor to work there for 6 months. It hardened her, a relative free spirit who lives in the New Orleans French Quarter, against socialized medicine.

And this: Women who get pregnant while in New Zealand on temporary residency permits are being told to leave the country to have their babies because of a shortage of maternity services.

I guess Nevada hates America too because they don't want Yucca Mountain.

Nah, that's just NIMBY.

Re:This is just as bad...

[Nutria]

t's not that we won't let any US navy ships make port calls, just the nuclear armed or powered ones. It's not our fault if the USians won't say which of their ships carry nukes.

It's god damned obvious to anyone with more than a third of a pea brain why a Navy doesn't want to announce all of it's capabilities.

But I guess I must: even though NZ is friendly, anyone at the Soviet Embassy simply drives down to the wharf, and then wires back to Moscow, "the USS Foobar does not carry nukes."