Do you really think Arizona is particularly more bigoted than any other state? I mean, really? Do you have evidence for this, or are you just saying it because you don't like red states?
Why yes, I do have succinct and definitive evidence that Arizona is more bigoted than other states.
These people who are "targeted" are only targeted if they broke the law. Is the immigration law broke and in need of fixing? Hell yes. Does that make it "right" to just hop the border and do as you please? No. If you think it does, try to illegally immigrate to Mexico and see how that goes.
But the problem is, they're targeting all non-whites (admittedly, primarily Latinos), using SB 1070 as a shield, under the name of fixing the "illegals" problem -- which is a fancy, modern, more socially acceptable version of a racial slur against Latinos. Believe the previous one was "wetback?" Maybe "beaner?" I'm not hip with bigot lingo, unfortunately.
When you're stopped at a traffic stop because you happen to have brown skin, that's targeting. It's racial profiling, and it's wrong. SB 1070 just attempts to give them some form of legal cover for what is disgusting behavior.
And that's the long and the short of it. For all the outcry about "illegals taking our jobs" (that would be the jobs they're finding in Georgia that they can't fill without illegals), for all the rage and fury that people who didn't have the good sense to be born the white decedents of previous immigrants, this law, and the culture behind it, is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Worse still, it's a smokescreen, a scapegoat to try and pawn problems off on a socially soft target. A shell game for morally inadequate politicians, drunk on power and desperate to stay relevant.
If these people were really interested in actually fixing the problem, they'd join with the Democratic Party and work on the real immigration reform they've been trying to get hammered out. They're not. It's too useful as a wedge issue to get the ignorant masses out and voting, and pawn serious problems off on an easy scapegoat.
I suppose we should just be glad they're not talking about labor camps for illegals and the unemployed yet.
Where i live, both are. If you get caught employing illegals, you get fined and the illegals are sent back home.
I used to work in Apple Warehouses in Yakima Washington.
One day I noticed a few trucks from the warehouse down the road filled to the brim with Latino workers. They were driving out towards the orchards, away from the other warehouse, which looked absolutely deserted.
I asked my father, who still works as a forklift foreman at the warehouse, what that was about.
"Oh, Evans is getting a surprise inpsection, so they're moving all the illegals out to the field for the rest of the week. They'll have the legals work at the warehouse until the inspectors leave."
"Wait, but isn't it a surprise inspection?"
"Yeah, but they warn them a day or two ahead of time so they don't get caught."
You do realize the US has a high unemployment rate and a LOT of Americans would actually be happy to get any job at all?
You do ALSO realize those people you claim we "depend" on don't pay taxes to do those cheap jobs?
In fact, your taxes go to most of them who go on welfare and other government benefits, but they don't contribute shit.
Would they be willing to work for the less than minimum wage, under the table money that the illegals at the Apple Warehouses and Orchards back in my old stomping grounds (Yakima, Washington) worked for?
No?
How about 60-100 hour work weeks in 105 degree sun, bending over and picking fruit and veggies without a break?
No?
How about in blatantly unsafe, illegal working conditions that are only kept up because our society literally places the value of a cheap glass of orange juice over the value of a human life?
No?
Well, how bout that.
And as for taxes and welfare, I'm much more concerned with how the top 10% don't pay any taxes at all, and how Bush and his cronies got us into two unending wars, the cost of which was absolutely DWARFED by the obscene tax cut he gave said top 10%.
How about instead of going after these illegals, we go after the companies that keep hiring them and making bank paying what amounts to slave labor? Oh, sorry, that's Unamerican, I forgot -- most of those companies are owned by White people, after all.
Bingo. People that support illegal immigration just cant seem to grasp that they are supporting a system that exploits people that have no protection under the law. Also..dont give me that 'jobs you wont do' crap. I will happily pay more for fruit if the worker that picked it was making at least minimum wage and I know a ton of people without jobs that will take *anything* at this point.
So if we don't support racial profiling, we support illegal immigration?
Black doesn't equal not White, Geekforhire. Some of us support the Dem's comprehensive immigration reform, a bill that the Republicans won't let pass because letting bigoted southerners get riled up is too useful for votes in Election years.
Anti-illegal immigrant indeed and I have no problems with that.
you do realize the US is dependent upon illegal immigration to fill low paying jobs like picking fruit, landscaping, and general cheap day labour?
Nah, what you can do instead is hire violent ex cons to fill in the gap. Because I really love finding razor blades in my apples, don't you?
(The violent ex cons thing is a direct result of a SB 1070-alike passed in Georgia. Whoops!)
Not that the cons are willing to do the work more than a day or two before quitting. There's a reason these jobs are taken by people with actual work ethic. They're shit work for shit pay in shit conditions and no one wants to do them, but everyone wants cheap fruit and veggies.
A state mirroring federal law, is anti-immigrant. I mean seriously here. You have the feds who refuse to enforce the law, you have a state creating a law that mirrors it, and they're anti-immigrant? Hardly. Anti-illegal immigrant indeed and I have no problems with that.
Close! Actually, The Obama Administration has reduced the number of illegals for the first time in 20 years. Contrast to the Bush Regime, which was openly attacked by members of the rabid right for not being hatemongery enough.
Oh, and the Dems re-introduced comprehensive immigration reform, but don't worry, the Republicans will kill it again, under the "No, we'll need that wedge issue in 2016" theory of government.
The requirements for carrying identification/immigration paperwork are exactly the same as the federal laws.
Except that this law, and the bigoted environment in Arizona, codify anti-latino racial profiling and harassment. You don't see Canadians or Koreans being stopped citing SB 1070. Because that's not what this law is about.
Amusingly (in the darkly tragic sort of way), the law was actually written by a known white supremacist (Kris Kobach, a member of FAIR, a known hate group). He literally handed it off to Brewer's administration to push through. Which she did, because it was an Election year and she needed the bigot vote to keep her job.
Read the damn law. They can not be stopped randomly and checked for immigration status. Only after they are detained for some other reason can they ask for immigration status.
(snip)
Anyway how is this any different than anyone else getting stopped by the police and being asked for identification such as a drivers license?
Except that Sheriff Bubba-Joe has a history of having his officers stop every brown person they see, under the troll logic that "Non-Whites commit more crimes." Usually under the guise of wanting to see their drivers licence. And then, with this new law, they have to PROVE that they're not illegals, or the cop can arrest them on the spot for the crime of "possibly being illegal."
What tool mod'd this down to -1? This is precisely the problem with the law - you can't tell the difference between a legal and illegal immigrant just by looking at them, but that's exactly what the law requires.
Not exactly. The law requires you treat all Mexicans as Illegal Immigrants unless proven otherwise.
In addition, the giant "screw you, liberty" the rabid far right snuck in was the ability for private organizations (read: white supremacists) to sue the police if they don't feel they're harassing Latinos enough.
It's anti-illegal-immigrant. There's a difference.
Except Sheriff Bubba-Joe is on record as being a bigoted racial profiling asshole. There's a difference.
5 minutes of research (outside of the Fake News / Tea Party bubble) will show that SB2010 did nothing for immigration save to codify the already existing "fuck wetbacks" mentality down there.
This section shows the availability of Wi-Fi connectivity in Ben NanoNote. Up to now, Ben NanoNote is able to use Wi-Fi devices based on the KS7010 Wi-Fi chip from KeyStream. KeyStream was a small Japanese startup (about 30 people) focusing on mobile Wi-Fi chips, their first and only main product being the KS3021 RF chip and the KS7010 Wi-Fi baseband chip. They were acquired by Renesas in April 2009, and are now continuing as the KeyStream brand inside Renesas. The technology will probably appear in other Renesas chips in the future. Known users of these chips are: Microsoft Zune 30, and probably other Zune models as well Spectec SDW-821 full-size SD (SDIO) Wi-Fi card Spectec SDW-823 microSD (SDIO) Wi-Fi card (note that all other Spectec Wi-Fi cards use MTK Wi-Fi chips without Linux drivers!)
Looks like the Spectec SDW-823 goes for about $30-40 on Amazon.com. And the drivers are all GPLed, so...
While the hack they posted above is really neat, if you want it to "just work" then WiFi is available.
I'm pretty sure most people already have a small, handheld device in their pocket which can do all of those things, and more, and which has a better screen, better connectivity, more storage, and far better support.
Do they have them for $100?
Seriously, I could think of a few things to do with this, and I'm not all that creative.
Wikipedia in a hand-sized device (although there was that other Wikipedia handheld thing), basic word processing, email and webmail, Telnet / SSH access... Hell, it's running linux, so you could have all kinds of useful utilities on the silly thing as a sysadmin.
Yes, most First World Geeks (and some Second World Geeks) have PDAs and Smartphones, but for underprivileged geeks? Young hackers (in the correct sense of the word) interested in learning basic computer/electrical engineering and code modification? I couldn't afford an iPhone when I was a kid (still can't, really) but this? I could have swung this and had an absolute ball mucking about with it.
Yes, it's not a Smartphone. But it's nothing to just scoff at.
Not a network guy, but if they're repeating these hacks so quickly and with such regularity I imagine their backdoor is still up.
Nope, you're giving Sony too much credit. This is a basic SQL Injection Hack, one that every one of Sony's servers are vulnerable to and that they still haven't patched.
I've never understood why not, when a computer can generate millions of spam ads for viagra, that another computer cannot generate millions of (fake) orders for the viagra.
Because one is legal, the other is not.
We worship Capitalism in the west, as much if not more so than freedom. While distasteful, spam is pure Capitalism -- people do it cause it works. Intentionally flooding the system with fake orders goes against the holy tenants of Capitalism, ergo, it would not only be illegal, it would be actually investigated. Rule #1 of America, you never get in the way of someone making money.
(Rule #1.1 is "Unless someone making more money objects," of course.)
I wonder, if the cooling was the biggest problem and lack of power is what prevented the cooling, why they didn't just roll up in a nuclear-powered Navy vessel and run some jumper cables onto the coast. I seem to recall Ray Nagin running half of New Orleans off an aircraft carrier's generator for a bit. Also, why water? Is there some nuclear chemistry reason why liquid nitrogen couldn't be used?
Actually, they did -- the first part of the disaster plan that they had in place for this very event is:
1. Power is lost at the plant - External Generators kick in to keep cooling systems going. 2. External Generators die (this should NEVER happen, but just in case) -- Emergency battery power kicks in, giving them 8 hours to fix it. 3. So they can't fix it in 8 hours (this should NEVER happen, but just in case) -- Plug in external mobile generators. 4. External power doesn't work (this should NEVER happen, but just in case) -- Pour water in to cool system manually
#1 and #2 were understandable considering the magnitude of the disaster -- which was several orders of severity greater than what they were expecting.
The first real failure of the system was #3 -- the mobile generators were incompatible with the systems. I'm certain there will be a post-mortem about this later on, but that's the first honest human screwup in this disaster. Everything else has went EXACTLY as part of the failure plan. Even the core catcher (the big cement thing that caught the core before it got away) worked flawlessly. This has been a testament to the safety of modern nuclear engineering -- even at it's worst, the amount of radiation leaked into the environment wasn't much more than what you'd get on a cross country flight or in a doctor's office.
It's also been a testament to the worst flaws of our media. They've been hovering like buzzards praying for a mushroom cloud out of a Michael Bay movie. Someday their yellow journalism is going to make a genuinely bad situation very, very worse, and then, only then, will we start looking back on things and hopefully fix the problem with the fourth estate.
Bury the whole damn thing in concrete, and be done with it. This crisis would have been resolved two weeks ago if TEPCO wasn't more interested in repairing and reusing the reactor than the public safety.
Except two weeks ago the plants in question were doing fine, except the cooling systems had been offline. Destroying several power plants that supply a majority of Japan's electricity because of minor problems after getting hit with an Earthquake and Tsunami that was multiple levels of magnitude tougher than the plant was designed for would be absolutely asinine.
Please unplug the fox news feed from your cerebral cortex, often its the women that want segregation. I know, I know, you can't fathom why the women would ever want to have a social life of their own without god's gift to women, i.e. men.
On the contrary, I think we all can fully understand why Middle East Women would like to keep Middle East Men away from them.
To say there are "members" and a "hierarchy" or even an actual group called "Anonymous" in any normal sense of the word reveals a lack of understanding of the phenomena. Yes well, here on earth we call that "indoctrination". Help is available!
Actually, we call it a "Flash mob". Which also means that outside of arresting the occasional person and trying to make an example out of them (something that, to be honest, will only piss them off or amuse them immensely), they can't really do much about it. What are they going to do, make anonymous internet discussion boards illegal?
You have a army of a few thousand (at least) bored computer professionals of questionable ethics and high integrity, alongside a vastly higher number of 13 year olds antagonizing them into doing the things that prior to Anonymous, they would have just sat around the water cooler saying "man, wouldn't it be cool if..."
Perhaps a better course of action for the powers that be would be to stop attempting to criminalize embarrassing journalism like Wikileaks, and start actually investigating murderous pyramid schemes acting like religions, and maybe you won't have the Internet version of mobs wielding pitchforks and torches running around.
So if one of my employees writes somewhere that he thinks I'm a moron or he insults my wife or spreads nasty rumors about my sex life I just have to keep happily giving him my money?
That's crazy.
Yes, that's exactly what this states. Because his private conversations in a private place, or even his public conversations in a public place, on his or her own time, are absolutely none of your business.
From a professional standpoint.
Just like if one of your employees went to a bar after work and was ranting about you. You would have no justification in firing them for their behavior off the clock like that.
You are paying for your employee's time, knowledge, and skills. You have to earn their loyalty and respect.
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Do you really think Arizona is particularly more bigoted than any other state? I mean, really? Do you have evidence for this, or are you just saying it because you don't like red states?
Why yes, I do have succinct and definitive evidence that Arizona is more bigoted than other states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070
Perhaps not all of them, but quite a few.
These people who are "targeted" are only targeted if they broke the law. Is the immigration law broke and in need of fixing? Hell yes. Does that make it "right" to just hop the border and do as you please? No. If you think it does, try to illegally immigrate to Mexico and see how that goes.
But the problem is, they're targeting all non-whites (admittedly, primarily Latinos), using SB 1070 as a shield, under the name of fixing the "illegals" problem -- which is a fancy, modern, more socially acceptable version of a racial slur against Latinos. Believe the previous one was "wetback?" Maybe "beaner?" I'm not hip with bigot lingo, unfortunately.
When you're stopped at a traffic stop because you happen to have brown skin, that's targeting. It's racial profiling, and it's wrong. SB 1070 just attempts to give them some form of legal cover for what is disgusting behavior.
And that's the long and the short of it. For all the outcry about "illegals taking our jobs" (that would be the jobs they're finding in Georgia that they can't fill without illegals), for all the rage and fury that people who didn't have the good sense to be born the white decedents of previous immigrants, this law, and the culture behind it, is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Ethically, morally, intellectually. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Worse still, it's a smokescreen, a scapegoat to try and pawn problems off on a socially soft target. A shell game for morally inadequate politicians, drunk on power and desperate to stay relevant.
If these people were really interested in actually fixing the problem, they'd join with the Democratic Party and work on the real immigration reform they've been trying to get hammered out. They're not. It's too useful as a wedge issue to get the ignorant masses out and voting, and pawn serious problems off on an easy scapegoat.
I suppose we should just be glad they're not talking about labor camps for illegals and the unemployed yet.
Where i live, both are. If you get caught employing illegals, you get fined and the illegals are sent back home.
I used to work in Apple Warehouses in Yakima Washington.
One day I noticed a few trucks from the warehouse down the road filled to the brim with Latino workers. They were driving out towards the orchards, away from the other warehouse, which looked absolutely deserted.
I asked my father, who still works as a forklift foreman at the warehouse, what that was about.
"Oh, Evans is getting a surprise inpsection, so they're moving all the illegals out to the field for the rest of the week. They'll have the legals work at the warehouse until the inspectors leave."
"Wait, but isn't it a surprise inspection?"
"Yeah, but they warn them a day or two ahead of time so they don't get caught."
You do realize the US has a high unemployment rate and a LOT of Americans would actually be happy to get any job at all?
You do ALSO realize those people you claim we "depend" on don't pay taxes to do those cheap jobs?
In fact, your taxes go to most of them who go on welfare and other government benefits, but they don't contribute shit.
Would they be willing to work for the less than minimum wage, under the table money that the illegals at the Apple Warehouses and Orchards back in my old stomping grounds (Yakima, Washington) worked for?
No?
How about 60-100 hour work weeks in 105 degree sun, bending over and picking fruit and veggies without a break?
No?
How about in blatantly unsafe, illegal working conditions that are only kept up because our society literally places the value of a cheap glass of orange juice over the value of a human life?
No?
Well, how bout that.
And as for taxes and welfare, I'm much more concerned with how the top 10% don't pay any taxes at all, and how Bush and his cronies got us into two unending wars, the cost of which was absolutely DWARFED by the obscene tax cut he gave said top 10%.
How about instead of going after these illegals, we go after the companies that keep hiring them and making bank paying what amounts to slave labor? Oh, sorry, that's Unamerican, I forgot -- most of those companies are owned by White people, after all.
Bingo. People that support illegal immigration just cant seem to grasp that they are supporting a system that exploits people that have no protection under the law. Also..dont give me that 'jobs you wont do' crap. I will happily pay more for fruit if the worker that picked it was making at least minimum wage and I know a ton of people without jobs that will take *anything* at this point.
So if we don't support racial profiling, we support illegal immigration?
Black doesn't equal not White, Geekforhire. Some of us support the Dem's comprehensive immigration reform, a bill that the Republicans won't let pass because letting bigoted southerners get riled up is too useful for votes in Election years.
Anti-illegal immigrant indeed and I have no problems with that.
you do realize the US is dependent upon illegal immigration to fill low paying jobs like picking fruit, landscaping, and general cheap day labour?
Nah, what you can do instead is hire violent ex cons to fill in the gap. Because I really love finding razor blades in my apples, don't you?
(The violent ex cons thing is a direct result of a SB 1070-alike passed in Georgia. Whoops!)
Not that the cons are willing to do the work more than a day or two before quitting. There's a reason these jobs are taken by people with actual work ethic. They're shit work for shit pay in shit conditions and no one wants to do them, but everyone wants cheap fruit and veggies.
*shrug*
A state mirroring federal law, is anti-immigrant. I mean seriously here. You have the feds who refuse to enforce the law, you have a state creating a law that mirrors it, and they're anti-immigrant? Hardly. Anti-illegal immigrant indeed and I have no problems with that.
Close! Actually, The Obama Administration has reduced the number of illegals for the first time in 20 years. Contrast to the Bush Regime, which was openly attacked by members of the rabid right for not being hatemongery enough.
Oh, and the Dems re-introduced comprehensive immigration reform, but don't worry, the Republicans will kill it again, under the "No, we'll need that wedge issue in 2016" theory of government.
The requirements for carrying identification/immigration paperwork are exactly the same as the federal laws.
Except that this law, and the bigoted environment in Arizona, codify anti-latino racial profiling and harassment. You don't see Canadians or Koreans being stopped citing SB 1070. Because that's not what this law is about.
Amusingly (in the darkly tragic sort of way), the law was actually written by a known white supremacist (Kris Kobach, a member of FAIR, a known hate group). He literally handed it off to Brewer's administration to push through. Which she did, because it was an Election year and she needed the bigot vote to keep her job.
Don't forget that part of that $1 a day would go towards rent, food/board, clothes, etc. A pound of flesh and all that.
Read the damn law. They can not be stopped randomly and checked for immigration status. Only after they are detained for some other reason can they ask for immigration status.
(snip)
Anyway how is this any different than anyone else getting stopped by the police and being asked for identification such as a drivers license?
Except that Sheriff Bubba-Joe has a history of having his officers stop every brown person they see, under the troll logic that "Non-Whites commit more crimes." Usually under the guise of wanting to see their drivers licence. And then, with this new law, they have to PROVE that they're not illegals, or the cop can arrest them on the spot for the crime of "possibly being illegal."
What tool mod'd this down to -1? This is precisely the problem with the law - you can't tell the difference between a legal and illegal immigrant just by looking at them, but that's exactly what the law requires.
Not exactly. The law requires you treat all Mexicans as Illegal Immigrants unless proven otherwise.
In addition, the giant "screw you, liberty" the rabid far right snuck in was the ability for private organizations (read: white supremacists) to sue the police if they don't feel they're harassing Latinos enough.
It's anti-illegal-immigrant. There's a difference.
Except Sheriff Bubba-Joe is on record as being a bigoted racial profiling asshole. There's a difference.
5 minutes of research (outside of the Fake News / Tea Party bubble) will show that SB2010 did nothing for immigration save to codify the already existing "fuck wetbacks" mentality down there.
yea i see the home page, and some news links, a couple of videos but where do you buy it?????
Right here. They're $99. Wifi will cost you about $30-40 (but isn't copyleft).
(Got that link from the provided link in the article above.)
From their wiki: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_in_Nanonote
This section shows the availability of Wi-Fi connectivity in Ben NanoNote.
Up to now, Ben NanoNote is able to use Wi-Fi devices based on the KS7010 Wi-Fi chip from KeyStream.
KeyStream was a small Japanese startup (about 30 people) focusing on mobile Wi-Fi chips, their first and only main product being the KS3021 RF chip and the KS7010 Wi-Fi baseband chip. They were acquired by Renesas in April 2009, and are now continuing as the KeyStream brand inside Renesas. The technology will probably appear in other Renesas chips in the future.
Known users of these chips are:
Microsoft Zune 30, and probably other Zune models as well
Spectec SDW-821 full-size SD (SDIO) Wi-Fi card
Spectec SDW-823 microSD (SDIO) Wi-Fi card
(note that all other Spectec Wi-Fi cards use MTK Wi-Fi chips without Linux drivers!)
Looks like the Spectec SDW-823 goes for about $30-40 on Amazon.com. And the drivers are all GPLed, so...
While the hack they posted above is really neat, if you want it to "just work" then WiFi is available.
I'm pretty sure most people already have a small, handheld device in their pocket which can do all of those things, and more, and which has a better screen, better connectivity, more storage, and far better support.
Do they have them for $100?
Seriously, I could think of a few things to do with this, and I'm not all that creative.
Wikipedia in a hand-sized device (although there was that other Wikipedia handheld thing), basic word processing, email and webmail, Telnet / SSH access... Hell, it's running linux, so you could have all kinds of useful utilities on the silly thing as a sysadmin.
Yes, most First World Geeks (and some Second World Geeks) have PDAs and Smartphones, but for underprivileged geeks? Young hackers (in the correct sense of the word) interested in learning basic computer/electrical engineering and code modification? I couldn't afford an iPhone when I was a kid (still can't, really) but this? I could have swung this and had an absolute ball mucking about with it.
Yes, it's not a Smartphone. But it's nothing to just scoff at.
Not a network guy, but if they're repeating these hacks so quickly and with such regularity I imagine their backdoor is still up.
Nope, you're giving Sony too much credit. This is a basic SQL Injection Hack, one that every one of Sony's servers are vulnerable to and that they still haven't patched.
What makes you think that placing fraudulent advertisements is legal? At best they are inducing their customers to commit crimes.
"Let the buyer beware."
I've never understood why not, when a computer can generate millions of spam ads for viagra, that another computer cannot generate millions of (fake) orders for the viagra.
Because one is legal, the other is not.
We worship Capitalism in the west, as much if not more so than freedom. While distasteful, spam is pure Capitalism -- people do it cause it works. Intentionally flooding the system with fake orders goes against the holy tenants of Capitalism, ergo, it would not only be illegal, it would be actually investigated. Rule #1 of America, you never get in the way of someone making money.
(Rule #1.1 is "Unless someone making more money objects," of course.)
I wonder, if the cooling was the biggest problem and lack of power is what prevented the cooling, why they didn't just roll up in a nuclear-powered Navy vessel and run some jumper cables onto the coast. I seem to recall Ray Nagin running half of New Orleans off an aircraft carrier's generator for a bit. Also, why water? Is there some nuclear chemistry reason why liquid nitrogen couldn't be used?
Actually, they did -- the first part of the disaster plan that they had in place for this very event is:
1. Power is lost at the plant - External Generators kick in to keep cooling systems going.
2. External Generators die (this should NEVER happen, but just in case) -- Emergency battery power kicks in, giving them 8 hours to fix it.
3. So they can't fix it in 8 hours (this should NEVER happen, but just in case) -- Plug in external mobile generators.
4. External power doesn't work (this should NEVER happen, but just in case) -- Pour water in to cool system manually
#1 and #2 were understandable considering the magnitude of the disaster -- which was several orders of severity greater than what they were expecting.
The first real failure of the system was #3 -- the mobile generators were incompatible with the systems. I'm certain there will be a post-mortem about this later on, but that's the first honest human screwup in this disaster. Everything else has went EXACTLY as part of the failure plan. Even the core catcher (the big cement thing that caught the core before it got away) worked flawlessly. This has been a testament to the safety of modern nuclear engineering -- even at it's worst, the amount of radiation leaked into the environment wasn't much more than what you'd get on a cross country flight or in a doctor's office.
It's also been a testament to the worst flaws of our media. They've been hovering like buzzards praying for a mushroom cloud out of a Michael Bay movie. Someday their yellow journalism is going to make a genuinely bad situation very, very worse, and then, only then, will we start looking back on things and hopefully fix the problem with the fourth estate.
Bury the whole damn thing in concrete, and be done with it. This crisis would have been resolved two weeks ago if TEPCO wasn't more interested in repairing and reusing the reactor than the public safety.
Except two weeks ago the plants in question were doing fine, except the cooling systems had been offline. Destroying several power plants that supply a majority of Japan's electricity because of minor problems after getting hit with an Earthquake and Tsunami that was multiple levels of magnitude tougher than the plant was designed for would be absolutely asinine.
When two groups of retards attack each other, no one wins...
Wrong. Who wins? The audience.
You can unlock someone's cage, but if you force them out then you have taken their freedom.
True, but that doesn't make you a bad guy for kicking the shit out of the smartass walking up with a shiny new lock.
Please unplug the fox news feed from your cerebral cortex, often its the women that want segregation. I know, I know, you can't fathom why the women would ever want to have a social life of their own without god's gift to women, i.e. men.
On the contrary, I think we all can fully understand why Middle East Women would like to keep Middle East Men away from them.
Actually, we call it a "Flash mob". Which also means that outside of arresting the occasional person and trying to make an example out of them (something that, to be honest, will only piss them off or amuse them immensely), they can't really do much about it. What are they going to do, make anonymous internet discussion boards illegal?
Good luck with that, guys.
You have a army of a few thousand (at least) bored computer professionals of questionable ethics and high integrity, alongside a vastly higher number of 13 year olds antagonizing them into doing the things that prior to Anonymous, they would have just sat around the water cooler saying "man, wouldn't it be cool if..."
Perhaps a better course of action for the powers that be would be to stop attempting to criminalize embarrassing journalism like Wikileaks, and start actually investigating murderous pyramid schemes acting like religions, and maybe you won't have the Internet version of mobs wielding pitchforks and torches running around.
So if one of my employees writes somewhere that he thinks I'm a moron or he insults my wife or spreads nasty rumors about my sex life I just have to keep happily giving him my money?
That's crazy.
Yes, that's exactly what this states. Because his private conversations in a private place, or even his public conversations in a public place, on his or her own time, are absolutely none of your business.
From a professional standpoint.
Just like if one of your employees went to a bar after work and was ranting about you. You would have no justification in firing them for their behavior off the clock like that.
You are paying for your employee's time, knowledge, and skills. You have to earn their loyalty and respect.