Americans With Disabilities Act and ADA Amendments Act of 2008 says you are wrong.
The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. Disability is defined by the ADA as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity."
I work in educational support for the rural disabled in Alaska.
"The protection in FOIA against disclosure of law enforcement information on the ground that it would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy does not extend to corporations. We trust that AT&T will not take it personally."- Chief Justice Roberts
Show me where George W. Bush was on the 2008 ballot. Thats right, he wasn't on it.
In the US a President can only serve two terms, thats why Clinton didn't run in 2000 and why Bush didn't run in 2008, nothing about being "kicked out."
You are forgetting the thousands of dead, ruined infrastructure, oh and the exploding nuclear reactor buildings.
Right now we are at two reactors at one site, there are five or six other sites which were taken off line by this, one lost a turbine room, and all the others are on backup emergency water pumps too.
The day after Katrina the US military was out, but not in Louisiana because the Governor of that state didn't sign the papers the Pentagon and White House faxed to her. Without permission from a state's Governor the US military can't roll in and the DoD can't federalize the state Nation Guard.
The United States was hit by a disaster of this magnitude, actually a higher magnitude, in 1964, the position of fault lines makes all the difference.
So, keep quiet and let the echo chamber spread FUD? Lets watch some reruns of the China Syndrome while we are at it.
Thats exactly what set nuclear power back after Three Mile Island, throw science and reality out, let the anti-nuclear folks politicize it and throw logic out the window.
Do you live within 50 miles of a coal fired power plant? -.03 mRem/year Do you live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant? -.009 mRem/year
Coal releases Uranium, Thorium, Radium, Radon, and Polonium into the atmosphere, how are those less radioactive than what a nuclear powerplant generally doesn't release?
Nothing is ever safe, but people have to realize that all forms of power generation are going to lead to side effects.
And I am sympathetic to the cancer dangers, I've had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and had alot of radiation therapy that actually caused a second cancer 10 years after my first radiation regime.
Hurricanes hit nuclear power plants in the US. No problems.
The single event that caused human deaths was a Soviet reactor without containment structures and a response that was bungled at the local and regional levels.
This Japanese reactor, unlike those in the US, Canada, France, UK, Germany and just about everywhere else also lacks a containment dome.
Biggest Japanese earthquake in 1400 years just happened too, its not like nuclear reactors are running around killing people yearly.
Because the fire departments are dealing with scores or hundreds of other fires and the nuclear coolant is a closed loop of radioactive water, you can't just hook a hose up to it.
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Americans With Disabilities Act and ADA Amendments Act of 2008 says you are wrong.
The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. Disability is defined by the ADA as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity."
I work in educational support for the rural disabled in Alaska.
These guys have been around since 1940, so I don't think they are an astroturf group.
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Who_We_Are.asp?SnID=96896245
US Supreme Court started taking that away from the Corps just a few weeks ago.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1279.pdf
http://www.slate.com/id/2281715/
"The protection in FOIA against disclosure of law enforcement information on the ground that it would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy does not extend to corporations. We trust that AT&T will not take it personally."- Chief Justice Roberts
So online privacy but also invasive searches "just in case" you are doing something bad?
I'd hope he believes in privacy but is being pushed for the new copyright law by his (and other Democrat) donors.
This or White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown?
The photons and electrons in the cables have "substance", while a photon has no mass it has measurable properties and electrons have mass.
5 digit slashdot UID is a resume builder now?
So the police can tell the Narco Gangs where you are to make kidnapping easier?
Better than bad is good is a time honored rationalization.
From the Log Song of Season One Ren and Stimpy.
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~fatwa/ren/songs.html
The three cameras are pointed straight up and out in the middle of fields.
Per the article
http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/whats-hitting-earth.jpg
So once again - If it's pointing up and is a fixed camera who is it going to be spying on?
"This looks interesting" is not a good reason to fund something in this economy.
If it's pointing up and is a fixed camera who is it going to be spying on?
Show me where George W. Bush was on the 2008 ballot. Thats right, he wasn't on it.
In the US a President can only serve two terms, thats why Clinton didn't run in 2000 and why Bush didn't run in 2008, nothing about being "kicked out."
And when Cuba has a disaster they refuse help from the US.
You are forgetting the thousands of dead, ruined infrastructure, oh and the exploding nuclear reactor buildings.
Right now we are at two reactors at one site, there are five or six other sites which were taken off line by this, one lost a turbine room, and all the others are on backup emergency water pumps too.
Katrina killed 1,836, they just found another 2,000 bodies in Japan - http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77575.html
The day after Katrina the US military was out, but not in Louisiana because the Governor of that state didn't sign the papers the Pentagon and White House faxed to her. Without permission from a state's Governor the US military can't roll in and the DoD can't federalize the state Nation Guard.
The United States was hit by a disaster of this magnitude, actually a higher magnitude, in 1964, the position of fault lines makes all the difference.
1/10 - Too Randian
It might have gotten more play and attention on DU or Daily Kos.
The majority of US weapons from 1980 to the present are sub-megaton range, small and accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W80_(nuclear_warhead)
It ranges from 5 to 150 kiloton yield, depending on application.
W87 - an ICBM warhead is a 300-500 kt yield device
W88 is 100 to 475 kt
W78 is 335-350 kt
W76 is 100 kt
B61 goes from sub kt to 340 kt and the US has about 1200
B83 is the highest yield nuclear weapon the US deploys, its variable yield from sub kt to 1.2 MT, the US has 650
You do know humans have radioactive isotopes in us without nuclear power or coal plants right?
Naturally, there are about 4000 beta particles a second produced in a human from Potassium 40 and 1200 beta particles a second from Carbon 14.
Radioactive decay has been occurring in humans since the first one was born in Africa.
Tens of thousands of humans die a year from natural Radon while deaths from nuclear accidents number in the single digits a year.
So, keep quiet and let the echo chamber spread FUD? Lets watch some reruns of the China Syndrome while we are at it.
Thats exactly what set nuclear power back after Three Mile Island, throw science and reality out, let the anti-nuclear folks politicize it and throw logic out the window.
The US estimates 320 radiation caused deaths world wide from coal electrical generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation#Human-caused_background_radiation
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/202/4372/1045.abstract
Nuclear power puts out 1% of the radiation that coal does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_nuclear_power#Risk_of_cancer
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/calculate.html
Do you live within 50 miles of a coal fired power plant? - .03 mRem/year .009 mRem/year
Do you live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant? -
Coal releases Uranium, Thorium, Radium, Radon, and Polonium into the atmosphere, how are those less radioactive than what a nuclear powerplant generally doesn't release?
Even Chernobyl has killed fewer people since 1986 than died from coal mining in the same period.
Lets say Fukushima causes as many deaths as Chernobyl which has been 4-5000 in 25 years. In China 150,000 coal miners died in the same period.
Taking out nuclear power is going to lead to more natural gas and coal which are going to lead to higher prices and more CO2 emissions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country - 14% of the planet's electricity is being generated with very few accidents or deaths.
Nothing is ever safe, but people have to realize that all forms of power generation are going to lead to side effects.
And I am sympathetic to the cancer dangers, I've had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and had alot of radiation therapy that actually caused a second cancer 10 years after my first radiation regime.
Hurricanes hit nuclear power plants in the US. No problems.
The single event that caused human deaths was a Soviet reactor without containment structures and a response that was bungled at the local and regional levels.
This Japanese reactor, unlike those in the US, Canada, France, UK, Germany and just about everywhere else also lacks a containment dome.
Biggest Japanese earthquake in 1400 years just happened too, its not like nuclear reactors are running around killing people yearly.
And how many people have died from commercial nuclear power in the West? None.
You know that coal puts out more radiation than nuclear power right?
Do Fukushima I or II have containment domes? The LA Times makes it sound like it doesn't.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-japan-quake-nuclear-20110312,0,2627198.story
Because the fire departments are dealing with scores or hundreds of other fires and the nuclear coolant is a closed loop of radioactive water, you can't just hook a hose up to it.