they will chuck a bunch of fuel rods down in a cave. they will be covered in layers of concrete and metal casings and so forth and so on. there will be monitoring systems. and etc.
and then some day, someone will want to save some money. they will take short cuts. things will leak. employees will be too afraid of retaliation to say anything about it. PR companies will be hired to lie about it.
it has happened over, and over, and over, and over again in the nuclear industry, and every other industry.
the problem with nuclear is that the problem doesnt 'go away' with time. at least time on a human scale.
they took raffinate from the processing of Uranium Hexfluoride and sprayed it on the local cattle fields. that way, they could call it fertilizer instead of toxic waste. saved them a bunch of money.
of course the cows kept dying, but they solved that by mass burial. some "environmental activists", i guess the people you are denigrating, took photos of this and exposed it.
if there is one thing deep mines do, it is flood. where does all the water go? oh, "somewhere else"? Great, now its laced with plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to mankind.
im sure that nuclear waste can be stored safely, somewhere, some how. but the current nuclear industry is so obsessed with lying, disinformation, and corruption, that i wouldn't trust it to clean the dishes at a restaurant let alone run something like the Fukushima plant.
(which, of course, we were told was 100% safe and not a shitty old design like Chernobyl, and that thered never be another meltdown).
these folks do not seem to understand the basic difference between right and wrong. if you want people to support you, stop lying to them. this plan seems to be exactly the opposite: a PR stunt to make people accept something they dont want to accept.
i.e. instead of reorganizing the entire industry to be based on honesty, and education, and transparency, they are instead reorganizing a gigantic PR campaign to make their opponents 'shut the fuck up', some kind of bizarre Rahm Emanuel strategy.
when the next US disaster happens, it will cause yet another backlash, and we will be back where we were after three mile island. the problem is not about 'nuclear power', it is about incompetent managers and politicians who cannot seem to grasp the concept that they exist to serve the people and to do it honestly, responsibly, and transparently.
and breathing pseudo air that doesnt cause pseudo cancer and pseudo pulmonary disease.
the pseudo environmental movement are the only pseudo people who seem to pseudo care if pseudo industry pours pseudo mercury and pseudo lead into the pseudo environment where it is pseudo absorbed by pseudo children.
and you have to eat and buy clothes , so if someone pays you for lost wages, whats the problem?
thomas drake blew the whistle - he lost everything he owned, except his house. he went from 150k/year to an hourly apple store worker - what do they make, 20k a year? 30k?
what is the problem with some organization paying him for what he did?
have studied goldman sachs, there are actually several books out now that specifically focus on GS, and several other books that mention its place in the crisis.
there is a great book that just came out, The Asylum, by Leah McGrath Goodman , which explains how the potato market became a cluster fuck of manipulation and greedy assholes absolutely stealing from the ordinary person.
it also explains why certain industries were banned from trading this shit. why? because you cant operate a society where the price of basic commodities fluctuates by several hundred percent a year just so that a handful of a few dozen traders can make massive amounts of money through manipulating the market.
we all understand what 'arbitrage' is. when the synthetic CDO market calls their deals 'arbitrage' we all know its fucking bullshit.
when the sales guys in the brochures talked about the 'AAA' ratings on these pieces of 'arbitrage', it was all bullshit.
when Lloyd Blankfein calls it 'hedging, not betting', its fucking bullshit. ]
there is absolutely nothing, whatsoever, 'valuable' behind a credit default swap. it is a bet. that is a fact, and its not rocket science, and its not a conspiracy theory, and its not "the ignorant and alarmist" decrying some nefarious boogey man. its the basic fucking fact of what fucking happened.
I beg of you. stop lying. nobody believes you anymore. this is like the scene in Shattered Glass when Peter Saarsgard has to finally explain to Hayden Christiansen that the whole charade has ended.
the financial industry has no clothes. we all know it. there is no point in pretending.
He wrote hundreds of pages 'exposing' the 'truth' behind 'power'.
It was called 'the protocols of the elders of zion'. of course, the whole thing was bullshit. made up by some anonymous author, possibly the Russian Tsar's secret police, to support yet another pogrom.
But Hitler took this and ran with it. Over and over this document, and many others, including his book Mein Kampf, were given out by the tens of thousands. People were happy to 'forward' these 'revelations' to others, often tweaking details here and there, or changing the attribution of the author(s).
And what happened in the end? Trillions of children were killed. I'm a student of history too. I have over 5 billion books published. On the internet. You can look it up.
strangers on slashdot. god forbid anyone cross the 'thin pasty line' and point out that their bosses and colleagues are committing financial fraud on a massive scale (meanwhile, teenagers who steal candybars are put in jail alongside rapists and murderers)
nah. close your eyes. pretend your only duty is to your 'bros', and go watch another copy of 'goodfellas' or whatever fucked up world view you use to justify your own corrupt, soulless existence.
if someone at NASA and Thiokol had 'snitched' on their management to the media, then the Challenger would never have gone up in cold weather, the o-rings wouldn't have failed, the gas wouldn't have erupted into the main tank, the tank wouldn't have ruptured, and 7 people would be alive.
but hey. i guess 'not snitching' is more important than the lives of seven people.
if we had more snitchers in industry, especially in the IT and math crowd in the world of finance and insurance, then we would not be in the Great Recession right now.
we would not be facing 9 percent unemployment (real unemployment rate is an untold amount higher), we would not be facing a european debt crisis that threatens to destroy the Euro, the United States debt crisis which is threatening the notion of what "full faith and credit" of the US government means for the first time since the civil war, and on and on and on.
We wouldnt have hundreds of thousands of vacant homes, we wouldn't have had teachers and firefighters pension funds ripped off, we probably wouldn't have had the 2008 food crisis and subsequent starvation and riots, etc etc etc.
If we had had more snitchers, none of this would have happened. AIG would have been shut down circa 2006, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have been reigned in and eliminated years before 2008, Bear Stearns, Lehman, etc, would have been wound down in an orderly fashion instead of at the last minute, breaking the buck of the money market funds and causing the world wide shit storm that Lehman did, and on and on and on.
But no. Some people believe that 'snitching is wrong'. Even when the people above you are committing horrific crimes every day, crimes that hurt people, crimes that emperil the entire world economy. But no. 'snitching would be wrong'.
people who make $100,000 / year and refuse to pay a $7,000 autocad license are not 'suffering'. they are arrogant thieves.
if you took any other trade, say, a machinist who took a $7000 lathe from a hardware store without asking, they would be in prison for years and years and years. if a welder took a welder from home depot, theyd be in jail for a long time.
why does this upset me so? because if these people would fund free software, and bother to learn how to use free software, instead of ripping off Autocad because 'its what i learned in school', then we probably wouldnt need autocad.
wives back home. while they are deployed to afghanistan. at least according to Bamford's "Shadow Factory" (citing Adrienne Kinney, a former intelligence worker who was at an NSA in Georgia)
an unnamed project called by Bush after it was revealed the "terrorist surveillance program" (not its real name)
the NSA also uses pieces of the earlier Thinthread project, but with their privacy and anonmyization guts ripped out
the newest IT system (and/or "transformation system") they have is 'Turbulence', which includes offensive capabilities according to James Bamford's "Shadow Factory"
technically, that's what you are doing. compared to some inertial reference frame, you are decelerating.
an easy frame would be to consider the earth, and consider that you drive from west to east. relative to its own axis, earth is spinning east to west. so, yeah. if you drive from los angeles to new york, what you are really doing is trying to 'decelerate' yourself for a couple of days in a row in order that new york can 'catch up with you'.
(yes i may have mixed east with west here... im too lazy to analyze it. just flip them if im wrong)
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they will chuck a bunch of fuel rods down in a cave.
they will be covered in layers of concrete and metal casings and so forth and so on. there will be monitoring systems. and etc.
and then some day, someone will want to save some money. they will take short cuts. things will leak. employees will be too afraid of retaliation to say anything about it. PR companies will be hired to lie about it.
it has happened over, and over, and over, and over again in the nuclear industry, and every other industry.
the problem with nuclear is that the problem doesnt 'go away' with time. at least time on a human scale.
they took raffinate from the processing of Uranium Hexfluoride and sprayed it on the local cattle fields.
that way, they could call it fertilizer instead of toxic waste. saved them a bunch of money.
of course the cows kept dying, but they solved that by mass burial. some "environmental activists", i guess the people you are denigrating, took photos of this and exposed it.
if there is one thing deep mines do, it is flood. where does all the water go? oh, "somewhere else"? Great, now its laced with plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to mankind.
im sure that nuclear waste can be stored safely, somewhere, some how. but the current nuclear industry is so obsessed with lying, disinformation, and corruption, that i wouldn't trust it to clean the dishes at a restaurant let alone run something like the Fukushima plant.
(which, of course, we were told was 100% safe and not a shitty old design like Chernobyl, and that thered never be another meltdown).
these folks do not seem to understand the basic difference between right and wrong. if you want people to support you, stop lying to them. this plan seems to be exactly the opposite: a PR stunt to make people accept something they dont want to accept.
i.e. instead of reorganizing the entire industry to be based on honesty, and education, and transparency, they are instead reorganizing a gigantic PR campaign to make their opponents 'shut the fuck up', some kind of bizarre Rahm Emanuel strategy.
when the next US disaster happens, it will cause yet another backlash, and we will be back where we were after three mile island. the problem is not about 'nuclear power', it is about incompetent managers and politicians who cannot seem to grasp the concept that they exist to serve the people and to do it honestly, responsibly, and transparently.
and breathing pseudo air that doesnt cause pseudo cancer and pseudo pulmonary disease.
the pseudo environmental movement are the only pseudo people who seem to pseudo care if pseudo industry pours pseudo mercury and pseudo lead into the pseudo environment where it is pseudo absorbed by pseudo children.
and you have to eat and buy clothes , so if someone pays you for lost wages, whats the problem?
thomas drake blew the whistle - he lost everything he owned, except his house. he went from 150k/year to an hourly apple store worker - what do they make, 20k a year? 30k?
what is the problem with some organization paying him for what he did?
between whistle blowing and between ratting someone out for a profit.
which is perfectly exemplified by the vitriolic diatribe of verbal abuse poured out by the above poster responding to the original poster.
to filter out irrelevant results using the quote marks feature, the plus and minus signs, and so forth and so on.
http://www.bestmadeco.com/collections/axes
have studied goldman sachs, there are actually several books out now that specifically focus on GS, and several other books that mention its place in the crisis.
and how many prostitutes do they kill, on average, per year?
there is a great book that just came out, The Asylum, by Leah McGrath Goodman , which explains how the potato market became a cluster fuck of manipulation and greedy assholes absolutely stealing from the ordinary person.
it also explains why certain industries were banned from trading this shit. why? because you cant operate a society where the price of basic commodities fluctuates by several hundred percent a year just so that a handful of a few dozen traders can make massive amounts of money through manipulating the market.
we all understand what 'arbitrage' is. when the synthetic CDO market calls their deals 'arbitrage' we all know its fucking bullshit.
when the sales guys in the brochures talked about the 'AAA' ratings on these pieces of 'arbitrage', it was all bullshit.
when Lloyd Blankfein calls it 'hedging, not betting', its fucking bullshit. ]
there is absolutely nothing, whatsoever, 'valuable' behind a credit default swap. it is a bet. that is a fact, and its not rocket science, and its not a conspiracy theory, and its not "the ignorant and alarmist" decrying some nefarious boogey man. its the basic fucking fact of what fucking happened.
I beg of you. stop lying. nobody believes you anymore. this is like the scene in Shattered Glass when Peter Saarsgard has to finally explain to Hayden Christiansen that the whole charade has ended.
the financial industry has no clothes. we all know it. there is no point in pretending.
on internet forums?
that's right. Adolph Hitler.
He wrote hundreds of pages 'exposing' the 'truth' behind 'power'.
It was called 'the protocols of the elders of zion'. of course, the whole thing was bullshit. made up by some anonymous author, possibly the Russian Tsar's secret police, to support yet another pogrom.
But Hitler took this and ran with it. Over and over this document, and many others, including his book Mein Kampf, were given out by the tens of thousands. People were happy to 'forward' these 'revelations' to others, often tweaking details here and there, or changing the attribution of the author(s).
And what happened in the end? Trillions of children were killed. I'm a student of history too. I have over 5 billion books published. On the internet. You can look it up.
strangers on slashdot. god forbid anyone cross the 'thin pasty line' and point out that their bosses and colleagues are committing financial fraud on a massive scale (meanwhile, teenagers who steal candybars are put in jail alongside rapists and murderers)
nah. close your eyes. pretend your only duty is to your 'bros', and go watch another copy of 'goodfellas' or whatever fucked up world view you use to justify your own corrupt, soulless existence.
if someone at NASA and Thiokol had 'snitched' on their management to the media, then the Challenger would never have gone up in cold weather, the o-rings wouldn't have failed, the gas wouldn't have erupted into the main tank, the tank wouldn't have ruptured, and 7 people would be alive.
but hey. i guess 'not snitching' is more important than the lives of seven people.
glad you have your principles in the right place.
if we had more snitchers in industry, especially in the IT and math crowd in the world of finance and insurance, then we would not be in the Great Recession right now.
we would not be facing 9 percent unemployment (real unemployment rate is an untold amount higher), we would not be facing a european debt crisis that threatens to destroy the Euro, the United States debt crisis which is threatening the notion of what "full faith and credit" of the US government means for the first time since the civil war, and on and on and on.
We wouldnt have hundreds of thousands of vacant homes, we wouldn't have had teachers and firefighters pension funds ripped off, we probably wouldn't have had the 2008 food crisis and subsequent starvation and riots, etc etc etc.
If we had had more snitchers, none of this would have happened. AIG would have been shut down circa 2006, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have been reigned in and eliminated years before 2008, Bear Stearns, Lehman, etc, would have been wound down in an orderly fashion instead of at the last minute, breaking the buck of the money market funds and causing the world wide shit storm that Lehman did, and on and on and on.
But no. Some people believe that 'snitching is wrong'. Even when the people above you are committing horrific crimes every day, crimes that hurt people, crimes that emperil the entire world economy. But no. 'snitching would be wrong'.
people who make $100,000 / year and refuse to pay a $7,000 autocad license are not 'suffering'. they are arrogant thieves.
if you took any other trade, say, a machinist who took a $7000 lathe from a hardware store without asking, they would be in prison for years and years and years. if a welder took a welder from home depot, theyd be in jail for a long time.
why does this upset me so? because if these people would fund free software, and bother to learn how to use free software, instead of ripping off Autocad because 'its what i learned in school', then we probably wouldnt need autocad.
this is incredibly confusing... do you have a blog or a web page or something where you break all this down?
how many great artists and scientists have been at some time or another, drunk and/or homeless?
if only more insiders were willing to speak out...
wives back home. while they are deployed to afghanistan. at least according to Bamford's "Shadow Factory" (citing Adrienne Kinney, a former intelligence worker who was at an NSA in Georgia)
an unnamed project called by Bush after it was revealed the "terrorist surveillance program" (not its real name)
the NSA also uses pieces of the earlier Thinthread project, but with their privacy and anonmyization guts ripped out
the newest IT system (and/or "transformation system") they have is 'Turbulence', which includes offensive capabilities according to James Bamford's "Shadow Factory"
and how do i become one?
technically, that's what you are doing. compared to some inertial reference frame, you are decelerating.
an easy frame would be to consider the earth, and consider that you drive from west to east. relative to its own axis, earth is spinning east to west. so, yeah. if you drive from los angeles to new york, what you are really doing is trying to 'decelerate' yourself for a couple of days in a row in order that new york can 'catch up with you'.
(yes i may have mixed east with west here... im too lazy to analyze it. just flip them if im wrong)
by the congress.