The guy did not go to the police. He did not go to the DA. He took some documents and gave them to a newspaper. That is where he broke the law.
Oh, and you idiot ex-neighbor learned why you don't call the cops when you have broken the law. Is he also one of those aspiring Darwin Award winners who get robbed or cheated during a drug deal and then call the cops and complain?
There is a difference between age and maturity. You seem to forget that civilization arose first in the Tigris river valley.
A mature society does not support sectarian violence and terrorism. A mature society does not believe that the minority has the right to subjugate the majority through violence and murder.
A mature society tries to provide liberty and personal freedom to it's citizens. A mature society accepts that the world does not exsist to be ruled by said society.
Sadly, my country is becoming more and more immature. Soon, I will not trust it to have nuclear weapons or nuclear power. Damned fundimentalist christians.
"engery cost for manufacturing" != total cost of manufacturing, installation, and maintenance.
What do you propose Iran should use for energy since you agree that letting them have nuclear reactors isn't a good idea?... Yes I think Iran wants nukes, it also wants a reliable affordable energy source. An alternative is needed and really its going to be the west to show its viable
What should Iran do? If windfarms, sterling engines, tidal generators, and solar are such good ideas, let Iran use those. Or don't you believe in your own words?
A short high-level dose is not comparable to a long term low-level dose. Just like a one-time dose of of say 50 grams of aspirin will kill an adult. Ten 5 gram doses of asprin over 5 days will not.
I don't doubt that its possible to operate a reactor safely and store the waste safely in some parts of the world. Other parts well lets say an alternative is required.
What do you actually know about operating a nuclear reactor? I know a lot because I have trained to be a reactor operator. I also have learned quite a bit about nuclear waste disposal. I get my knowledge from good science. Where did you get yours?
Do you think the united states should depend entirely on nuclear energy and for how long 100 years a 1000, 2000?
I don't think any country should rely solely on one form of energy. I would love to see science develop table-top fusion systems. But, until it happens nuclear is STILL the BEST OPTION AT THIS TIME.
Problem is you can't use nuclear to solve the worlds energy crisis. best you can hope for is to become fortress usa and live as free as your government see's fit. Since your always going to be the target of terrorist attacks.
Maybe we can't solve the worlds energy crisis with nuclear power, but we can put a dent in the U.S. energy crisis. As for needing to become "Fortress USA", that statement alone says you don't know much about nuclear power plants. AS it is, we may still need to become a fortress simply because of the large number of extremist groups that like to blame the U.S. for all their problems.
There is a simple answer to the disposal of nuclear waste. In the Pacific Ocean, there is an area called the Abyssal Plains. It is the most geologically stable area on the planet. It is covered with about 3 meters of silt, if I remember correctly and it is slowly sliding under the North American plate.
Nuclear waste could be encased in graphite matrix, wrapped lead and encased in a heavy duty plastic. With current oil well drilling technology, we could drill holes into the Abyssal plains that are a thousand meters deep, drop the encased waste into the holes along with radiation resistant concrete, back fill the last say 30 meters with 20 meters of concrete and 10 meters of sand and earth. We could even back fill that last 100 meters and still not have a problem.
Better get rid of those 2.4 ghz cordless phones, cell phones, microwaves, LCDs, and every other source of stray EMF while we are at it. Oh, wait, I forgot police radar guns. And smoke detectors, they have radioactive material in them. And those nasty florecent lights that contain mercury.
I know, let's return to the good old days of yore, circa 1830. Then we will be safe!
First, please go back to school and learn the proper use of English, including the difference between "then" and "than", as well as capitalization, punctuation. Also, learn proper spacing.
There is a problem with nuclear reactors and that is radio active materials and governments that are prepared to use radioactive materials for weapons. radioactive materials can be used to poison and cause slow death from cancer in lowish doses. Fancy a dirty bomb in your city?
Nuclear reactors run on radioactive material. Nuclear reactors also generate radioactive material. Radioactive material used for the production of atomic and nuclear devices generally come from a special type of nuclear reactor, called a breeder reactor. Radioactive material can contaminate things, but it does not "cause slow death from cancer in lowish doses". If that were the case, everyone who ever received an X-ray would get cancer, as would people who fly a lot. People are exposed to "lowish doses" of radioactivity every day. A "dirty bomb" can be made with naturally occuring radioactive material. Want some fun? Get a good bit of iodine and cobalt, set it in a natural uranium outcropping for a year or so. Then, go get it and analyze them. Then, read up on the effects of the isotopes that were created.
nuclear is big boys toys, if you want to solve your countrys energy problems with nuclear than you have to accept the rest of the world wanting and doing the same. who here is comfortable about irans nuclear program. Do you trust them? you can't just allow certain countrys to develop nuclear energy and then try to deny this energy source to the rest of the world no matter how unstable you view them. Do you honestly think your nuclear nirvana isn't going to be viewed with hatred from the eyes of citizens of other nations who have been kept out the nuclear club.
Yes, nuclear power is "big boys toys" and just as a one would not give a child a loaded gun, one does not give and tries to prevent immature, aggressively violent regimes from acquiring dangerous technology. They may view our "nuclear nirvana" with hatred, but they already view us with hatred because we will not bend to their will and follow their religion.
If iran was developing huge arrays of stirling engines would the world be worried, I doubt it. Harnessing energy sources like wind tidal solar energy farming bio fuels. to create an energy solution safe for the whole world to have is what this planet needs. As for costs I think you might find its not as expensive as we are led to believe.
Shows a number of wind farm projects. national geographoic ran a documentary a few weeks back and in it they stated the time to recover the energy put into making one of the danish offshore wind turbines was 3 months. If the first world cannot balance it's energy demands without needing nuclear power then it's not going to be possible for the rest of the world either. So if we want our civilisation to be viable long term we have to develop an energy policy and technology that is sustainable and can be shared with the rest of the world.
If "huge arrays of sterling engines" are a viable, safer, and cheaper means of energy production, why isn't Iran building them? And, why isn't Iran building massive wind and solar farms and tidal generation facilities? They could, they have the ability, the money, and would actually get help from everyone, including the U.S. Could it be that they specificly want nuclear power to get the material to build nuclear weapons?
Did that National Geographic show say how much power was generated by that wind farm and what percentage of the local power was generated by it? Or how long it took, or will take to recoup the costs of putting up that wind farm? How about the costs of maintenance for a large number of metal struc
PWRs generate more power than pebble-bed reactors.
Oh, and the show you watched was full of half-truths and lies. Pretty much every show of it's kind was biased against nuclear power. PWRs are not as dangerous as everyone claims, especially when run right. I would know. I have trained to be a reactor operator in the U.S. Navy.
Just what everyone needs. A power cord running across the living room. Nice little trip hazzard, fire hazzard, and lets not forget the fact that all modern OS's don't like it when one doesn't power them down properly.
No, I think this will tank when people see that lovely cable running across the room.
Interestingly, many inventions and inovation have come about because someone didn't know what he was attemping was "impossible". In that instance, ignorance of common knowledge was a strength.
But, I do understand your point.
What if amusing about this whole debate is the fact that government officials routinely have material classified that would be embarassing or even career-ending if available to the public.
The only problem is, this will put the oil companies out of business
Actually, no they won't. They will stay in business, providing petroleum based products for military, commercial, and business uses. This would include jet fuel, diesel, solvents, plastics, etc. I can even see them continuing to make gasoline for a long time for old car buffs.
It won't put them out of business, but may keep them in business for a much longer time.
You have got to be kidding me. They are game. They have been games, and will continue to be games.
Way back in the mid 1980s, my computer had a good stragety game, a vocabulary game for kids, and a ASCII art strip poker game.
The only difference between games then and games today is that the games are prettier, people take them more seriously, spend more money on them, and one can make money off one's prowess.
But, even if there are professional game players, so what? Football has a professional side and it is still called a game.
It was a good computer for it's time. I upgraded the memory in it and I upgraded the two floppies. It was a fun machine. It was sort of a lunchbox computer. You could stow away the keyboard under the monitor and put a cap on the front, flip it monitor down and it had a handle in the back. You just picked it up and walk off with it. I took it to school and to friend's houses.
Actually, the paper says it rejected the cartoons because the cartoons were crappy. The cartoonist did a poor job and they rejected the cartoons. Nothing new there, happens all the time.
Maybe you should consider the source of the information: the cartoonist who drew the cartoons and sent them to the J-P unsolicited, and had them rejected.
While the Islamic religion considers it a blasemphy to publish an image of Muhammed, the depicting of the Prophet in manner that disrespectful is the worse of the two items.
Had the Prophet not been depicted as engaging in bestiality, pedophilia, and terrorism, then there would probably been no protests at all.
Remember there have been other depictions of the Muhammed that have not led to protests. Some published here in the US. None were disrepectful of him.
If you think it is not religion, but government that is at the root of the problem you are sorely mistaken. After all, when sermons call for butchering non-muslims, you can hardly thing otherwise.
The Islamic religion is embedded in the government of these countries. The governments policies and national culture are shaped by the religion. Often the religious leaders have their own police forces and armies, excuse me "militias", to enforce the "proper behavior" as defined by the religious leaders.
Islamic terrorism has been going on for more than 25 years and only after the governments start striking back with military force do the leaders of Islam start to decry terrorism.
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A whistle-blower reports criminal acts to the proper authorities. This guy went to a newspaper.
To me he looks more like a glory-seeker than a whistle-blower.
Perhaps you should RTFA.
The guy did not go to the police. He did not go to the DA. He took some documents and gave them to a newspaper. That is where he broke the law.
Oh, and you idiot ex-neighbor learned why you don't call the cops when you have broken the law. Is he also one of those aspiring Darwin Award winners who get robbed or cheated during a drug deal and then call the cops and complain?
Maybe he should have gone to the proper government office first. Oh, wait, then he wouldn't be charged with a crime.
Looks like people should start reporting crimes to the police instead of the media.
There is a difference between age and maturity. You seem to forget that civilization arose first in the Tigris river valley.
A mature society does not support sectarian violence and terrorism. A mature society does not believe that the minority has the right to subjugate the majority through violence and murder.
A mature society tries to provide liberty and personal freedom to it's citizens.
A mature society accepts that the world does not exsist to be ruled by said society.
Sadly, my country is becoming more and more immature. Soon, I will not trust it to have nuclear weapons or nuclear power. Damned fundimentalist christians.
What should Iran do? If windfarms, sterling engines, tidal generators, and solar are such good ideas, let Iran use those. Or don't you believe in your own words?
A short high-level dose is not comparable to a long term low-level dose. Just like a one-time dose of of say 50 grams of aspirin will kill an adult. Ten 5 gram doses of asprin over 5 days will not.
No, that is not possible. However, read my post in reply to someones concerns about nuclear waste.
There is a simple answer to the disposal of nuclear waste. In the Pacific Ocean, there is an area called the Abyssal Plains. It is the most geologically stable area on the planet. It is covered with about 3 meters of silt, if I remember correctly and it is slowly sliding under the North American plate.
Nuclear waste could be encased in graphite matrix, wrapped lead and encased in a heavy duty plastic. With current oil well drilling technology, we could drill holes into the Abyssal plains that are a thousand meters deep, drop the encased waste into the holes along with radiation resistant concrete, back fill the last say 30 meters with 20 meters of concrete and 10 meters of sand and earth. We could even back fill that last 100 meters and still not have a problem.
Better get rid of those 2.4 ghz cordless phones, cell phones, microwaves, LCDs, and every other source of stray EMF while we are at it. Oh, wait, I forgot police radar guns. And smoke detectors, they have radioactive material in them. And those nasty florecent lights that contain mercury.
I know, let's return to the good old days of yore, circa 1830. Then we will be safe!
Nuclear reactors run on radioactive material. Nuclear reactors also generate radioactive material. Radioactive material used for the production of atomic and nuclear devices generally come from a special type of nuclear reactor, called a breeder reactor. Radioactive material can contaminate things, but it does not "cause slow death from cancer in lowish doses". If that were the case, everyone who ever received an X-ray would get cancer, as would people who fly a lot. People are exposed to "lowish doses" of radioactivity every day. A "dirty bomb" can be made with naturally occuring radioactive material. Want some fun? Get a good bit of iodine and cobalt, set it in a natural uranium outcropping for a year or so. Then, go get it and analyze them. Then, read up on the effects of the isotopes that were created.
Yes, nuclear power is "big boys toys" and just as a one would not give a child a loaded gun, one does not give and tries to prevent immature, aggressively violent regimes from acquiring dangerous technology. They may view our "nuclear nirvana" with hatred, but they already view us with hatred because we will not bend to their will and follow their religion.
If "huge arrays of sterling engines" are a viable, safer, and cheaper means of energy production, why isn't Iran building them? And, why isn't Iran building massive wind and solar farms and tidal generation facilities? They could, they have the ability, the money, and would actually get help from everyone, including the U.S. Could it be that they specificly want nuclear power to get the material to build nuclear weapons?
Did that National Geographic show say how much power was generated by that wind farm and what percentage of the local power was generated by it? Or how long it took, or will take to recoup the costs of putting up that wind farm? How about the costs of maintenance for a large number of metal struc
PWRs generate more power than pebble-bed reactors.
Oh, and the show you watched was full of half-truths and lies. Pretty much every show of it's kind was biased against nuclear power. PWRs are not as dangerous as everyone claims, especially when run right. I would know. I have trained to be a reactor operator in the U.S. Navy.
Just what everyone needs. A power cord running across the living room. Nice little trip hazzard, fire hazzard, and lets not forget the fact that all modern OS's don't like it when one doesn't power them down properly.
No, I think this will tank when people see that lovely cable running across the room.
Interestingly, many inventions and inovation have come about because someone didn't know what he was attemping was "impossible". In that instance, ignorance of common knowledge was a strength.
But, I do understand your point.
What if amusing about this whole debate is the fact that government officials routinely have material classified that would be embarassing or even career-ending if available to the public.
Actually, no they won't. They will stay in business, providing petroleum based products for military, commercial, and business uses. This would include jet fuel, diesel, solvents, plastics, etc. I can even see them continuing to make gasoline for a long time for old car buffs.
It won't put them out of business, but may keep them in business for a much longer time.
Do you think geeks will really give up their best chance to get laid?
Personally, I say quit with the double standard and legalize it.
Well, my guess would be having lots of sex for money.
I understand business is good with the geek set.
I want this thing in color!
RGB baby.
Oh, and yes I know it is more complicated than that.
TV Exec: Hey, Bub! Youse is muscling in our turf. Youse guys gotta stop that, see, or something bad is gonna happen
ISP Exec: Oh yeah?
TV Exec: YEAH!
ISP Exec: What youse gonna do about it?
TV Exec: You'll see...
( TV Exec heads off to make up story about computer addiction )
TV Exec: That will show them for trying to muscle in and take OUR addicts!
Where be the ships and swabbies, the cannnons and cutlass, the parrots and wenches? Where be the sea chests full of plundered gold??
Arrr, what a poor excuse for piracy this be!
May ye be touched by his noodlely apendage
This article assumes that this is not a witchhunt. To me, this sounds a lot like corporate ass-covering.
I would not be surprised if the people at the top of this fiasco covered through their underlings to the lions to save their own asses.
You have got to be kidding me. They are game. They have been games, and will continue to be games.
Way back in the mid 1980s, my computer had a good stragety game, a vocabulary game for kids, and a ASCII art strip poker game.
The only difference between games then and games today is that the games are prettier, people take them more seriously, spend more money on them, and one can make money off one's prowess.
But, even if there are professional game players, so what? Football has a professional side and it is still called a game.
They are games.
It was a good computer for it's time. I upgraded the memory in it and I upgraded the two floppies. It was a fun machine. It was sort of a lunchbox computer. You could stow away the keyboard under the monitor and put a cap on the front, flip it monitor down and it had a handle in the back. You just picked it up and walk off with it. I took it to school and to friend's houses.
Oh, and Taipan ruled.
I was gonna point out the obvious flaws in the article, but everyone took all the good points.
But did anyone else notice that the word "Crackpots" is in the URLs?
Actually, the paper says it rejected the cartoons because the cartoons were crappy. The cartoonist did a poor job and they rejected the cartoons. Nothing new there, happens all the time.
Maybe you should consider the source of the information: the cartoonist who drew the cartoons and sent them to the J-P unsolicited, and had them rejected.
Sounds like a bit of payback to me.
While the Islamic religion considers it a blasemphy to publish an image of Muhammed, the depicting of the Prophet in manner that disrespectful is the worse of the two items.
Had the Prophet not been depicted as engaging in bestiality, pedophilia, and terrorism, then there would probably been no protests at all.
Remember there have been other depictions of the Muhammed that have not led to protests. Some published here in the US. None were disrepectful of him.
If you think it is not religion, but government that is at the root of the problem you are sorely mistaken. After all, when sermons call for butchering non-muslims, you can hardly thing otherwise.
The Islamic religion is embedded in the government of these countries. The governments policies and national culture are shaped by the religion. Often the religious leaders have their own police forces and armies, excuse me "militias", to enforce the "proper behavior" as defined by the religious leaders.
Islamic terrorism has been going on for more than 25 years and only after the governments start striking back with military force do the leaders of Islam start to decry terrorism.