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US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation
DesScorp writes "Recalling the famous Rosenberg nuclear spy case of the '50s, the US Justice Department has arrested a couple working at a 'leading nuclear research facility' for giving nuclear secrets to Venezuela. Pedro and Marjorie Mascheroni 'have been indicted on charges of communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person they believed to be a Venezuelan government official and conspiring to participate in the development of an atomic weapon for Venezuela,' the department said in a statement. If convicted, the couple would receive life in prison."
the more nukes around the more chance for something bad to happen
yes, that the usa has nukes, but venezuela doesn't can be seen as hypocritical if you want
so, if you honestly believe the world is a better place with equanimity, you should be working very hard for the usa to get rid of its nuclear arsenal. and you should be happy venezuela was denied, and not in any way do you think the world is a better place if both countries have nukes
right? right?
(rolls eyes)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Pedro and Marjorie Mascheroni
I am a such a racist.
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
Information wants to be free! There should be no laws against transmitting knowledge! You can't steal information - you're only making a copy of it! [/sarcasm]
Which is why the world superpowers need to get together and wipe the Arab states(and Israel) off the face of the map, then split the profits from the resources.
Do you get misty envisioning at least 50 more years of driving comfortable climate-controlled SUV's with DVD players in 'em to distract your 5 kids during the grueling 1/4-mile trip to Whole Foods(tm)?
Do you get misty envisioning the Arab women in your countries finally empowering themselves and flinging the rags off their faces to share their beauty and companionship with cultured, large-dicked white men who bathe on a regular basis and know how to treat women with the respect they deserve?
Those damn shin-kickers have been toying with us and trolling us for too long. It's high time we bring in the Orkin men to take those vermin out.
You did some damn fine engineering while keeping secret the things that needed to remain secret.
You know, a funny thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of people in the US who think that *everyone* should have a gun. But when you pressure them a little, it turns out that they don't think that *really* everyone should have a gun. Those damn illegal Mexicans, for example, they shouldn't be allowed guns. Or those Muslims, no guns for them. So really what they want is for only the people they think are the right sort of people to be able to have guns.
Now, consider that a nuclear weapon is really just another kind of gun...
the two biggest countries in category A .. already have nuclear weapons in abundance ..
there is only two countries that has for sure used and continues to use nuclear weapons in the form of depleted uranium weapons .. and that is america and israel .. and in all cases they have been used against civilian population .. with the us having the largest stockpile and israel the third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons ..
and if you think you need to worry about other countries aspirations .. the greatest nuclear threat that the world has ever known .. will be the next american president .. an apocalyptic messianic gun-toting zionist psychopath by the name of shara palin ..
Shara
How do you feel about legal Mexicans having guns?
Or legal Muslim Somalians and Yemenites?
Or people arrested and convicted for non-violent charges?
"You did some damn fine engineering while keeping secret the things that needed to remain secret."
That is one of the most deceptive, vacuous, rhetoric-laden sentences (and posts) I've read. On the surface, you're praising 'good stuff', i.e. people who work in national security out of true patriotism, world peace, etc. But....
-"Damn fine engineering." Really? Engineering what? Nuclear weapons, or something related to them? What if the engineering was good, but the product was bad? The way you phrase this negates any discussion of to what extent these damn fine engineered things (that we don't know what they are, or how exactly they were engineered that they were so damn fine) should exist, and the ethical/political issues that are inherent in their construction.
-"Keeping secret the things that needed to remain secret." This is a virtuous tautology. Of course, since these secret things need to remain secret there's no way to know if they should be secret at all. Which is definitely NOT an argument on my part for publicizing elements of nuclear bomb construction which ARE currently secret, but a criticism of this rhetoric which is laced with a sense of continuous, underlying threat (you don't say WHY these things need to be secret), and the implication that the keeping of ANY secret (since these secrets are so secret there must be secrets kept about what quality of secret is being kept secret) is virtuous.
That sentence is entirely information-free except for a) Something was engineered 'damn fine' and b) People kept secret things that other people decided needed to be secret.
Your whole post is like that - there's nothing to back it up, and it strikes a self-justifying, superior tone (I mean really, who on Slashdot doesn't know that NASA was integral to the Cold War arms race?).
^^^ideologically blinded moron
That's why you don't give political power to psychopaths. The preferred cure is prevention. If they somehow achieve power and show signs of being psychopaths, and nuclear weapons might be involved, then the people of Venezuela should understand that sometimes a rabid dog needs to be put down.
Don't underestimate the power of fanatical leftism / nacionalism, it's as powerful as religious fanatism.
By the way, Nacionalism + Socialism, Nationalsocialism, in German it's sozialism, or to make shorter, Na(so)Zi
how long until