Rule 1 of doing anything for the government: get that shit in writing. Their verbal promises are expressly voided by the fine print in the contract you didn't sign.
The Constitution changed that by writing the 4th and 5th Amendments. Somehow the courts missed the point.
And before you go saying "so we should just let anyone bring just anything into the country" I say "yes, in the way we just let anyone from one state bring just anything into another state, or take it from 6th street to 8th street."
Drawing a magical line in the sand doesn't make the right to be free of capricious government harassment go away.
So is this story. These are citizens having their personal effects seized and searched. Clear violation of the Constitution.
Which is aside from the fact that I believe the Constitution frequently describes fundamental human rights that everyone has, and can not limit such rights to citizens, and the courts get it wrong.
I'm pretty sure that doesn't work, or just deleting a cookie would work. I may give it a try later. But he did say he'd moderated it more than once. Unless he was just lying.
But that's not alpha radiation from an external source. It's ingesting a large atom that becomes an alpha emitter. Radioactive iodine and cesium, for instance, which are the elements being discussed in these reactor accidents. That of course is a very bad thing, and a known vector for directly putting alpha particles into your lungs.
Wind may not be. Those towers are high, the blades are gargantuan, the machinery is cramped against the accesses, and it all happens in extremely windy places. Lots of OSHA sphincter-clenchers up there. The real problem with wind power is that there's a limited range of places that have the winds to make them feasible.
Solar works anywhere there's sun, but takes up a lot of real estate for the output.
Nuke should be economical, but we hire self-serving profiteers to do the designs, and end up with cascading failure modes like at Fukushima Daiichi. Anyone not thinking of immediate dollars would make them almost infinitely safe with a few configuration changes. E.g., assume when your pumping system gets bollixed that you're screwed; don't wait for the explosions to exacerbate it; build it to vent anything that comes out and install enough sealant and water over the reactor to dump automatically at that point. But they think in terms of trying to restart broken reactors instead of killing them safely, so you end up with this morass.
If they're government contractors they are required to shop around. If they don't they can go to jail (yes, jail, just for buying the more expensive of two acceptable parts). They're not required to buy garbage, though. And really, if I was paying a purchasing department and they weren't continually improving my cost basis, I'd be pissed off. So if there's anyone not shopping around it's because management isn't doing its job.
9/11 was a shared affair, with roots going back to Reagan, and nobody could have stopped it the way it was conducted (In fact current TSA procedures can't stop that either; but locking the cockpit doors means it can't succeed, so now the TSA is just focussing on underwear bombs, like a bunch of idiots).
Afghanistan was righteous retaliation, and was actually making us look good in the mideast because we were standing up for ourselves in a forthright manner. We were going to end al Quaeda and make friends of our old enemies.
At least, until W decided he wanted to torture some people.
Then the PNAC bastards got the notion that since Afghanistan wasn't a sexy war, we should attack Iraq, the way they'd been planning to since the day W got elected. So they made up reasons, recycled old, debunked evidence, and refused to wait for a yes-or-no vote from the U.N. The result may be a permanent state of war against an unending flow of terrorists.
Starting a war for lies will kill your street cred every time.
We can't blame 9/11 on W, but we can blame literally everything since then on him, and unless another mental midget starts irrationally bullying his personal enemies with America's hardware, we can blame all future Islamic terrorist activity on him, too.
I wonder if anyone's taken a look at that massively deep trench a hundred km off the Japanese coast that's slowly but blatantly folding in on itself, and thought of planting it all down there to be reabsorbed by the planet.
There are probably issues with currents and whatnot, but it's an idea.
Slashdot Mirror
So is Sarah Palin's brain, and she can see it from her house, even in those goofy glasses.
I guess the mods will never understand.
But how can you be sure that the person asking for your underwear over the Internet is really a fed?
The moon is made of rocket fuel.
Look it up.
Now you understand why GW Bush fanned terrorism by attacking Iraq.
If he worked for the government he'd have a paper trail. Check deposits, orders, emails, etc.
He'd keep the evidence.
If he has no evidence, it never happened, or might as well have never happened.
If he just let someone else convince him he was working for the Secret Service, then it's a hilarious example of social engineering.
Bravo to whoever crocked a l33t h4xx0r like that.
"Entrapment" would be a legal defense.
Rule 1 of doing anything for the government: get that shit in writing. Their verbal promises are expressly voided by the fine print in the contract you didn't sign.
Enjoy the spam, suckaz.
Interesting point.
Probably about 10^6 less than if he'd gone to them before releasing the codes.
You seem unsettlingly sure of that.
But I don't think they were serious. The tweet linked to a goatse URL.
They should just send up biplanes to write the current terror alert status in the sky.
It'd save a lot of bandwidth. And put already-paid-for biplanes into use.
The Constitution changed that by writing the 4th and 5th Amendments. Somehow the courts missed the point.
And before you go saying "so we should just let anyone bring just anything into the country" I say "yes, in the way we just let anyone from one state bring just anything into another state, or take it from 6th street to 8th street."
Drawing a magical line in the sand doesn't make the right to be free of capricious government harassment go away.
So is this story. These are citizens having their personal effects seized and searched. Clear violation of the Constitution.
Which is aside from the fact that I believe the Constitution frequently describes fundamental human rights that everyone has, and can not limit such rights to citizens, and the courts get it wrong.
Inertialess Drive
If it didn't already exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
And it doesn't already exist.
Magnetic boots, just like in space.
How does putting up 3 images repeatedly forestall repetition?
I'm pretty sure that doesn't work, or just deleting a cookie would work. I may give it a try later. But he did say he'd moderated it more than once. Unless he was just lying.
But that's not alpha radiation from an external source. It's ingesting a large atom that becomes an alpha emitter. Radioactive iodine and cesium, for instance, which are the elements being discussed in these reactor accidents. That of course is a very bad thing, and a known vector for directly putting alpha particles into your lungs.
Wind may not be. Those towers are high, the blades are gargantuan, the machinery is cramped against the accesses, and it all happens in extremely windy places. Lots of OSHA sphincter-clenchers up there. The real problem with wind power is that there's a limited range of places that have the winds to make them feasible.
Solar works anywhere there's sun, but takes up a lot of real estate for the output.
Nuke should be economical, but we hire self-serving profiteers to do the designs, and end up with cascading failure modes like at Fukushima Daiichi. Anyone not thinking of immediate dollars would make them almost infinitely safe with a few configuration changes. E.g., assume when your pumping system gets bollixed that you're screwed; don't wait for the explosions to exacerbate it; build it to vent anything that comes out and install enough sealant and water over the reactor to dump automatically at that point. But they think in terms of trying to restart broken reactors instead of killing them safely, so you end up with this morass.
If they're government contractors they are required to shop around. If they don't they can go to jail (yes, jail, just for buying the more expensive of two acceptable parts). They're not required to buy garbage, though. And really, if I was paying a purchasing department and they weren't continually improving my cost basis, I'd be pissed off. So if there's anyone not shopping around it's because management isn't doing its job.
9/11 was a shared affair, with roots going back to Reagan, and nobody could have stopped it the way it was conducted (In fact current TSA procedures can't stop that either; but locking the cockpit doors means it can't succeed, so now the TSA is just focussing on underwear bombs, like a bunch of idiots).
Afghanistan was righteous retaliation, and was actually making us look good in the mideast because we were standing up for ourselves in a forthright manner. We were going to end al Quaeda and make friends of our old enemies.
At least, until W decided he wanted to torture some people.
Then the PNAC bastards got the notion that since Afghanistan wasn't a sexy war, we should attack Iraq, the way they'd been planning to since the day W got elected. So they made up reasons, recycled old, debunked evidence, and refused to wait for a yes-or-no vote from the U.N. The result may be a permanent state of war against an unending flow of terrorists.
Starting a war for lies will kill your street cred every time.
We can't blame 9/11 on W, but we can blame literally everything since then on him, and unless another mental midget starts irrationally bullying his personal enemies with America's hardware, we can blame all future Islamic terrorist activity on him, too.
Coal kills 10,000 people a year.
Now tell me nuclear power isn't economical.
Did you get that hard drive from China? Mine holds 20 TB easy.
It's possible. We already do that sort of thing overland with nuclear waste.
England ships its waste to Ireland..
I wonder if anyone's taken a look at that massively deep trench a hundred km off the Japanese coast that's slowly but blatantly folding in on itself, and thought of planting it all down there to be reabsorbed by the planet.
There are probably issues with currents and whatnot, but it's an idea.