"The fact remains that a permanent storage facility is desperately needed - and we've only ourselves to blame (or more specifically, our decision-makers) for our lack of foresight into the long term storage needs of our nuclear industry."
One of the major reasons this has been put off so long is the fear mongering tatics of anti-nuclear groups. They have constantly opposed any permanant storage facility, AND used the lack of permanant storage as a reason to go "Nuke Free".
Given the PLO's history of attacking important "military" targets like Olympic Atheletes, kids eating Pizza, Civilian Air liners, and families having a holiday dinner, they are not only Terrorists, but they are beyond a doubt the stupidest terrorists on the face of the Earth. Every time Isreal does something dumb that helps the Palestinian cause you can count on the PLO pulling some barbaric act that replaces any feelings of sympathy for their cause with revulsion.
If Palestine had a Ghandi they would have an independant country. Instead they follow a murderous thug like Arafat who destroys any chance of acheving an independant country
Golda Meir summed them up correctly over 30 years ago. They never miss a opertunity to miss a opertunity.
There are a lot of homes that use fuel oil for heat, it's just not all homes. Find a cheap sub for Fuel oil and the Oil Companies will expand the service.
The Oil Companies have the infrastructure to deliver a fuel to automobles and homes. They are allready in postion to deliver an alternative fuel. They lost control over their supplies to OPEC a long time ago. They would LOVE to distrubite an alternative fuel if it ment they could deal with a suplier that was more stable than OPEC, both politically and the price they are charged.
Find a the cheap new energy source and the oil companies will become your happy customers.
You are omitting the international conspircy, the charge of formenting war for profit and the control of the media.
The reason I selected the Jews is most people realize that anti-semantic propaganda is hateful, yet the Left is saying many of the same things, so why isn't it classed as hate spaech?
"The _________ are conspiring to rule the world." Why is it hate speach If I insert "Jews" into the blank, but isn't if I insert "Rich"?
" I believe the original qutoe from which you are taking your sig is "Nuke a gay whale for Christ!"
No the sig is the original, from late 1970's bumper stickers and T-shirts. "No Nukes", "Gay Rights", and "Save the Whales" were the trendy political slogans of the day. The Christian Right had not started to flex it's muscles yet, so they weren't part of the anti-slogan slogan. (Yes I'm that old)
One thing I've noticed about the leftwingers who scream "hate speach" the loudest. Look at one of their rants about "the Wealthy". Most of the accusations are exactly the same as the worst anti-semite's steerotype of Jews. Substitute the word "Jews" for "Rich" or "Wealthy" in a leftwingers speach and you'll have one that looks like it was delivered by a Nazi Party member. Most of the "hate speach" on campuses is comming from the left, not the right. Basing hatred on economic status is just as vile as basing it on race or religion.
Moding a post down based on it's political content is an abuse of the system. IF you disagree with a post just because of it's political content, and resort to the use of Mod points in an attempt to make the post less likely to be read then you are engaging in Censorship rather than modaration. This is equally wrong if the post is modded down for failing to comply with a Liberal, a Conservative, or any other label you care to name's viewpoint.
Regardless of someone's political views, if they reply to a post based on it's political content by modding it down rather than replying to it, they are a coward.
Oh, so all you have to do is make a claim and if anyone asks for proof that is "bunk"?
Some people claim that the UFO's are alien spacecraft. Is reqiuring proof before constructing a defense against alien invaders "bunk"?
Some people claim that the Illumaniti are involved in a conspircy to dominate the worlds governments. Is requiring proof before arresting the agents of the Illumanati "bunk"?
King Canute ordered the tide not to come in. His orders were futile against a natural phenomina. The Kings order did little more than make him look foolish. Trying to stop a natural global warming cycle will be equally futile, but rather than just make the proponants of the theory look foolish as King Canute it will disrupt the global economy affecting the lives of millions of people.
Maybe you don't give a damn about all those people, but I do. It sure as hell is NOT "bunk" to ask for proof before starting a project that will have strong negative effects on millions of people and which may prove to be a futile and expensive waste of time and money.
150 years ago the best source of artifical light was Oil Lamps that used Whale oil. At that time the argument could have been made that there is a limited number of Whales (true), that the number of Whales was declining (true), therefore at some date in the not too distant future everyone would be sitting in the dark because of a Whale shortage.
We aren't sitting in the dark. Alternative sources of light were developed. The distillation of Kerosene from Petroleum turned worthless black goo into a valued resource. The development of Coal gas created a new source of lighting, gas lights that were better than the oil lamps and used a resource that was far more plentiful than Whales. Natural Gas replaced Coal gas, turning a hazzardous substance that was found while looking for oil into a resource. The electric light turned waterfalls into a resource that could be used for lighting.
Before these developments Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Waterfalls were NOT resources. The first two were natural hazzards that decreased the value of land that they were found on, and the last decreased the value of rivers as transportation sources.
This is nothing new. In the Stone age Flint was the prefered material to make tools out of. Copper Ore was a worthless rock that didn't have the properity of flaking evenly that was needed to make tools. The discovery of smelting turned those worthless greenish rocks into a resource and averted a tool shortage caused by flint being a finate resource.
Today having a full landfill on your properity is NOT viewed as a resource. It's a nucance that decreases the value of the land. That landfill may be like having oil on your land in 1850. New technology may transform that worthless land full of garbage into a new resource.
The Earth's history shows many periods of warming and cooling. In the middle ages the Vikings had a thriving colony in Greenland. Historic records show Wine being produced in areas of England where grape cultivation is impossible today. European records show crops being harvested at altitudes where they won't grow today. It was WARMER 750 years ago than it is today, WARMER despite the fact that CO2 emissions were far lower than they are today.
Then the little ice age, a period of global cooling begain. The viking colony died out. The shorter growing season coupled with the poor transportation system of the 1300's resulted in local cases of famine. Glacers started to advance placing villages in their path in danger.
This period of cooling was a natural phenomia that continued well into the 1600s. Then the cooling era ended and a warming era begain. This is the present warming peroid. It started BEFORE the industrial revoulation.
Now the Eco movement has selected a random tempature from a peroid when the Earth hadn't recovered from the effects of the little ice age and declared that the "normal" tempature, and any variation from their self serving "normal" tempature to be the work of us "evil" humans.
Sorry it's pure junk scince based an arbitrary selection of a tempature as "normal". There is no normal tempature, just natural cycles of warming and cooling eras.
Now it is possible that the greenhouse emissions MAY be accelrating the rate of warming during an otherwise natural warming era, but an old concept of real scince comes into play. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The backers of the global warming scare refuse to even accept the natural warming cycle, let alone provide any proof that humans are affecting it.
Sorry the idea of disrupting the Global economy in an effort to reverse a natural warming cycle is absurd and the effort is futile. Disrupting the economy because himans MIGHT be affecting the natural cycle without a shread of proof is as absurd as disrupting the economy to construct an elaborate defense system because of the equaly unproven claim that visits from alien spacecraft are occuring.
"Good luck getting a proposal to drill in the gulf through congress without the environmentalists flipping out."
So we have a case of enviromentalist policy creating a desired shortage which will be an excuse for more political power for those "protecting our declining resources".
This artifical shortage will have dire economic consequances, but it seems that throwing thousands out of work and into poverity isn't important to the eco movement. NOTHING matters to them except their quest for power.
Ah the expected response from a coward liberal with mod points. Anything that dosen't agree with their PC viewpoint is a flame. They are less open to views crictical of their view than Stalin and Hitler.
Funny thing is the people in the third world aren't Whinning for concessions. It's the first world social planners that are doing that. The main complaint I heard when I was in Asia and Africia is that we just import raw materials instead of investing in factories so they can have jobs. They don't want to drag us down to their lifestyle, they want to advance to ours.
80 years ago the Social planners were fond of claiming absurdities like "One factory could produce enough shoes for the worlds population if the greedy owners weren't so selfish" The Modern Eco movement started when it became apparent that Socalism was incapable of providing proserity for everyone. Rather than castigating the Rich for not producing enough shoes for everyone they blame them for wasting resources by producing any shoes at all, and proclaim the "moral superority" of those who go barefoot.
80 years ago the "poor" was the excuse to destroy the wealthy. Now the enviroment is the excuse. The excuse has changed, the goal (destruction of the Rich) and the real reason (Envy) remain the same.
So, The National Enquirer is right every once in a while with their psychic predictions for the New Year, but that dosen't make them reliable. Of course they probelly have a higher accuracy rate than the tree huggers.
"For every 3 bits of FUD you post about Microsoft, you must either
A) Find something good to say about them and post it to the front page WITHOUT SARCASM
B) Post an anti-linux, anti-free software article."
Why?
Slashdot dosen't PRETEND to be an unbiased news source, they put their Bias right up front where everyone is aware of it and can take that into account when reading it.
If you want a news source that pretend to be unbiased while spewing out drivel that is little more than a rehash of Microsoft's latest PR release I suggest that you try ZDnet for your "news".
What do you expect from companies with a history of spying on people? They have been known to read the odometer to spy on how many miles you drove the car, and even sink as low as doing an inspection to spy on people that had accidents or left the car trashed!
Yes I'm a US Citizen who's old enough to have seen the Left start calling for the destruction of NASA the moment it achived the goal their idol JFK set, landing a man on the Moon in the 1960's. The greatest Technological team ever assemblied was cast aside so the money could be squandered on vote buying scams. When the Eagle was sitting on the Moon few would have beleaved that at the dawn of the 21st Century NASA would be a hollow shell compared to what it used to be, barely able to maintain aging 1970's era launch vecicles, struggling to build a Space station and having no plans to go to Mars, which many viewed as the next step after the Moon landing.
In 1968 the movie 2001 was released. The Mission to Jupiter was considered far fetched, but the large Space station and the Moon base were things that many expected NASA to have achived by the 21st century. Instead of a Moon base and a Space Station we got Food Stamps and Public housing projects, thanks to the vote buying scams of the Left.
"I hate large multinational corporations, their executives, and the people who own those corporations (the majority of stock and bonds are held by a tiny rich elite [federalreserve.gov] of heirs"
An Intresting admission of bigotry, of hatred based on a person belonging to a group rather than judging a person by their actions as an indiviual. Intresting reaction too, a desire to destroy the holdings of the persons he is biggoted against and to hell with the effects it may have on others. The recent collapse of Enron and World Com showed the devistating effect that destruction of the stock value of a company can have on 401k retirement accounts and employee stock accounts and the effects this has on a far more people than the "tiny rich elite" the poster hates so much. The small investors lose a large percentage of their personal wealth, while the group he hates loses more it's not a major percentage of their wealth which is more diversified. The small investors who depend on their investments to avoid poverity after retirement are going to be hurt far more than the target of the bigot's hatred.
The Foes of Space exploration haven't made it a habit of whinning "We are shooting all that Money into space while rich people do without". The converse can' be said. The Left has a long history of wanting to strip the space budget to buy votes from the poor. Wellfare payments to both the Rich and the poor need to be halted. This dosen't include tax cuts however. The Left also has a habit of calling a tax cut a "give a way to the rich". There is a big differance between NOT taking something away from a person who has allready earned it, and giving something to someone who hasn't earned it (unless you consider voting for the "correct" canidate earning money.) Of course many on the left have the same mentality towards the citizens as slave owners had, that every thing the slave produced belonged to the Master (The State) and any of the Master's "earnings" that were returned to the slave were some kind of gift.
"I was thinking that a moderation system would work, if it's implemented correctly. For instance, once a person has been sharing X GB of files for, say, 2 weeks, they start getting moderation points....they can use these points to flag a file as being a dummy. (or just a shitty rip) If a user gets too many files modded down, he becomes unable to gain moderation points for a certain period. The sharing requirements will make it undesirable for RIAA droids to pollute the moderation system, since they'll have to be sharing material of their own. (and any dummy files they have will hopefully be moderated down...and if they ARE sharing valid material, well, cool, they're contributing to their own demise)"
So? The RIAA has LOTS of shitty songs that nobody will want to download that they can make into perfect MP3s giving them tons of Mod points to use against the songs they want to target.
Up to now a lot of care has gone into decontaminating Martian probes. Humans on the other hand harbor many more microbes than the small number that might surrive our decontamination procedures and durring the flight will contaminate everything in the spacecraft including the outside of the space suits they will wear on the surface. Don't get me wrong, I strongly favor the concept of Martian exploration, it's just a matter of making damn sure that we don't blow the chance to discover life on a nearby planet. While we wait for the results from the unmanned probes we can develop the technology needed for a manned outpost by working on a Moon Base that would be manned for the same time periods as would be required for the time periods that the Astronauts/Cosmonauts would be on the Martian surface.
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One of the major reasons this has been put off so long is the fear mongering tatics of anti-nuclear groups. They have constantly opposed any permanant storage facility, AND used the lack of permanant storage as a reason to go "Nuke Free".
If Palestine had a Ghandi they would have an independant country. Instead they follow a murderous thug like Arafat who destroys any chance of acheving an independant country
Golda Meir summed them up correctly over 30 years ago. They never miss a opertunity to miss a opertunity.
There are a lot of homes that use fuel oil for heat, it's just not all homes. Find a cheap sub for Fuel oil and the Oil Companies will expand the service.
Find a the cheap new energy source and the oil companies will become your happy customers.
The reason I selected the Jews is most people realize that anti-semantic propaganda is hateful, yet the Left is saying many of the same things, so why isn't it classed as hate spaech?
"The _________ are conspiring to rule the world." Why is it hate speach If I insert "Jews" into the blank, but isn't if I insert "Rich"?
No the sig is the original, from late 1970's bumper stickers and T-shirts. "No Nukes", "Gay Rights", and "Save the Whales" were the trendy political slogans of the day. The Christian Right had not started to flex it's muscles yet, so they weren't part of the anti-slogan slogan. (Yes I'm that old)
One thing I've noticed about the leftwingers who scream "hate speach" the loudest. Look at one of their rants about "the Wealthy". Most of the accusations are exactly the same as the worst anti-semite's steerotype of Jews. Substitute the word "Jews" for "Rich" or "Wealthy" in a leftwingers speach and you'll have one that looks like it was delivered by a Nazi Party member. Most of the "hate speach" on campuses is comming from the left, not the right. Basing hatred on economic status is just as vile as basing it on race or religion.
Regardless of someone's political views, if they reply to a post based on it's political content by modding it down rather than replying to it, they are a coward.
Some people claim that the UFO's are alien spacecraft. Is reqiuring proof before constructing a defense against alien invaders "bunk"?
Some people claim that the Illumaniti are involved in a conspircy to dominate the worlds governments. Is requiring proof before arresting the agents of the Illumanati "bunk"?
King Canute ordered the tide not to come in. His orders were futile against a natural phenomina. The Kings order did little more than make him look foolish. Trying to stop a natural global warming cycle will be equally futile, but rather than just make the proponants of the theory look foolish as King Canute it will disrupt the global economy affecting the lives of millions of people.
Maybe you don't give a damn about all those people, but I do. It sure as hell is NOT "bunk" to ask for proof before starting a project that will have strong negative effects on millions of people and which may prove to be a futile and expensive waste of time and money.
We aren't sitting in the dark. Alternative sources of light were developed. The distillation of Kerosene from Petroleum turned worthless black goo into a valued resource. The development of Coal gas created a new source of lighting, gas lights that were better than the oil lamps and used a resource that was far more plentiful than Whales. Natural Gas replaced Coal gas, turning a hazzardous substance that was found while looking for oil into a resource. The electric light turned waterfalls into a resource that could be used for lighting.
Before these developments Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Waterfalls were NOT resources. The first two were natural hazzards that decreased the value of land that they were found on, and the last decreased the value of rivers as transportation sources.
This is nothing new. In the Stone age Flint was the prefered material to make tools out of. Copper Ore was a worthless rock that didn't have the properity of flaking evenly that was needed to make tools. The discovery of smelting turned those worthless greenish rocks into a resource and averted a tool shortage caused by flint being a finate resource.
Today having a full landfill on your properity is NOT viewed as a resource. It's a nucance that decreases the value of the land. That landfill may be like having oil on your land in 1850. New technology may transform that worthless land full of garbage into a new resource.
Then the little ice age, a period of global cooling begain. The viking colony died out. The shorter growing season coupled with the poor transportation system of the 1300's resulted in local cases of famine. Glacers started to advance placing villages in their path in danger.
This period of cooling was a natural phenomia that continued well into the 1600s. Then the cooling era ended and a warming era begain. This is the present warming peroid. It started BEFORE the industrial revoulation.
Now the Eco movement has selected a random tempature from a peroid when the Earth hadn't recovered from the effects of the little ice age and declared that the "normal" tempature, and any variation from their self serving "normal" tempature to be the work of us "evil" humans.
Sorry it's pure junk scince based an arbitrary selection of a tempature as "normal". There is no normal tempature, just natural cycles of warming and cooling eras.
Now it is possible that the greenhouse emissions MAY be accelrating the rate of warming during an otherwise natural warming era, but an old concept of real scince comes into play. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The backers of the global warming scare refuse to even accept the natural warming cycle, let alone provide any proof that humans are affecting it.
Sorry the idea of disrupting the Global economy in an effort to reverse a natural warming cycle is absurd and the effort is futile. Disrupting the economy because himans MIGHT be affecting the natural cycle without a shread of proof is as absurd as disrupting the economy to construct an elaborate defense system because of the equaly unproven claim that visits from alien spacecraft are occuring.
So we have a case of enviromentalist policy creating a desired shortage which will be an excuse for more political power for those "protecting our declining resources".
This artifical shortage will have dire economic consequances, but it seems that throwing thousands out of work and into poverity isn't important to the eco movement. NOTHING matters to them except their quest for power.
Ah the expected response from a coward liberal with mod points. Anything that dosen't agree with their PC viewpoint is a flame. They are less open to views crictical of their view than Stalin and Hitler.
80 years ago the Social planners were fond of claiming absurdities like "One factory could produce enough shoes for the worlds population if the greedy owners weren't so selfish" The Modern Eco movement started when it became apparent that Socalism was incapable of providing proserity for everyone. Rather than castigating the Rich for not producing enough shoes for everyone they blame them for wasting resources by producing any shoes at all, and proclaim the "moral superority" of those who go barefoot.
80 years ago the "poor" was the excuse to destroy the wealthy. Now the enviroment is the excuse. The excuse has changed, the goal (destruction of the Rich) and the real reason (Envy) remain the same.
WWF wrestling is more beleavable than the WWF Tree Huggers.
So, The National Enquirer is right every once in a while with their psychic predictions for the New Year, but that dosen't make them reliable. Of course they probelly have a higher accuracy rate than the tree huggers.
A) Find something good to say about them and post it to the front page WITHOUT SARCASM
B) Post an anti-linux, anti-free software article."
Why?
Slashdot dosen't PRETEND to be an unbiased news source, they put their Bias right up front where everyone is aware of it and can take that into account when reading it.
If you want a news source that pretend to be unbiased while spewing out drivel that is little more than a rehash of Microsoft's latest PR release I suggest that you try ZDnet for your "news".
What do you expect from companies with a history of spying on people? They have been known to read the odometer to spy on how many miles you drove the car, and even sink as low as doing an inspection to spy on people that had accidents or left the car trashed!
In 1968 the movie 2001 was released. The Mission to Jupiter was considered far fetched, but the large Space station and the Moon base were things that many expected NASA to have achived by the 21st century. Instead of a Moon base and a Space Station we got Food Stamps and Public housing projects, thanks to the vote buying scams of the Left.
An Intresting admission of bigotry, of hatred based on a person belonging to a group rather than judging a person by their actions as an indiviual. Intresting reaction too, a desire to destroy the holdings of the persons he is biggoted against and to hell with the effects it may have on others. The recent collapse of Enron and World Com showed the devistating effect that destruction of the stock value of a company can have on 401k retirement accounts and employee stock accounts and the effects this has on a far more people than the "tiny rich elite" the poster hates so much. The small investors lose a large percentage of their personal wealth, while the group he hates loses more it's not a major percentage of their wealth which is more diversified. The small investors who depend on their investments to avoid poverity after retirement are going to be hurt far more than the target of the bigot's hatred.
yeah right, Liberals love to modarate on political grounds, and hate being reminded of the nature of their political philosphy.
The Foes of Space exploration haven't made it a habit of whinning "We are shooting all that Money into space while rich people do without". The converse can' be said. The Left has a long history of wanting to strip the space budget to buy votes from the poor. Wellfare payments to both the Rich and the poor need to be halted. This dosen't include tax cuts however. The Left also has a habit of calling a tax cut a "give a way to the rich". There is a big differance between NOT taking something away from a person who has allready earned it, and giving something to someone who hasn't earned it (unless you consider voting for the "correct" canidate earning money.) Of course many on the left have the same mentality towards the citizens as slave owners had, that every thing the slave produced belonged to the Master (The State) and any of the Master's "earnings" that were returned to the slave were some kind of gift.
" Instead of using "20 GB shared" it should be "2GB uploaded"
So only files, that somebody wants are counted... i could share 20gb of shit, so i know, nobody will download them.
But if you count the traffic you get the more important data."
Then the RIAA stooges download shitty MP3s from each other and have mod points to use against targeted songs.
"I was thinking that a moderation system would work, if it's implemented correctly. For instance, once a person has been sharing X GB of files for, say, 2 weeks, they start getting moderation points....they can use these points to flag a file as being a dummy. (or just a shitty rip) If a user gets too many files modded down, he becomes unable to gain moderation points for a certain period. The sharing requirements will make it undesirable for RIAA droids to pollute the moderation system, since they'll have to be sharing material of their own. (and any dummy files they have will hopefully be moderated down...and if they ARE sharing valid material, well, cool, they're contributing to their own demise)"
So? The RIAA has LOTS of shitty songs that nobody will want to download that they can make into perfect MP3s giving them tons of Mod points to use against the songs they want to target.
Up to now a lot of care has gone into decontaminating Martian probes. Humans on the other hand harbor many more microbes than the small number that might surrive our decontamination procedures and durring the flight will contaminate everything in the spacecraft including the outside of the space suits they will wear on the surface. Don't get me wrong, I strongly favor the concept of Martian exploration, it's just a matter of making damn sure that we don't blow the chance to discover life on a nearby planet. While we wait for the results from the unmanned probes we can develop the technology needed for a manned outpost by working on a Moon Base that would be manned for the same time periods as would be required for the time periods that the Astronauts/Cosmonauts would be on the Martian surface.