I especially liked the tear-jerker about the poor kid who started getting nosebleeds.
Mind you, I'm not really sure why the author thinks that the nosebleeds are in any way related to thyroid cancer (the girl in question was not mentioned as one of the 137).
I was also amused by the PhD who said "this isn't screening, it's real!". How the hell does he know? Did he actually go over there and examine patients or anything? And if he did, why wasn't that mentioned in TFA? Seems more likely he had a good sound-bite, so they ran with it in spite of him knowing nothing specific about the subject.
In the rest of the world, children do not routinely get several ultrasounds per year to check for thyroid cancer. Is it really suprising that we'd find much more of something we're looking Really Hard to Find?
So, I guess my real question is: Where's the control population that gets the same checks as the Fukushima population? And what's their rate of thyroid cancer?
Ever hear someone say, "the don't make stuff to last anymore"?
Well now you know why (in part at least) stuff doesn't last as long as they used to.
When I was a kid, a brand new car, straight from the manufacturer was expected to last, oh, five years. Then you traded it in on a replacement.
Nowadays, I own three vehicles, none of which are younger than 12 years old. One of them could really use some new upholstery, but otherwise, I don't see a reason to replace any of them this decade. We'll see.
I paid a premium for an electric car (fully EV, not a hybrid) and put up with the slight limitations it comes with in terms of range and recharge time. So yeah, I went zero emissions even though I was not legally obliged to.
SO, you bought yourself an expensive toy and consider that to be "going beyond legal requirements"? Interesting.
So, would the power companies over there you dislike be "going beyond the legal requirements" if they bought electric cars for all their executives? For that matter, would *I* be "going beyond the legal requirements" if I treated myself to a very expensive new pistol? It's not legally required, after all.
As to the weed killer...you're not required to keep the sidewalks in front of your house clear of weeds? Didn't know that. Neighborhood covenants pretty much require that wherever I've lived....
The big energy suppliers do the minimum possible to meet their legal obligations
I'm curious - do you, personally, do more than the minimum possible to meet your legal obligations? Send a little extra to the government at tax time, that sort of thing?
It operated drones without an Airworthiness Certificate. Note quite the same thing as (not airworthy).
Note that very few, if any, of the RC model aircraft that have been flying since before most of you were born had Airworthiness Certificates, and yet there was no screaming, wailing, and tearing of clothes.
Problem seems to be that EVVVVIIIIILLLL!!!! word "drone", not the actual physical object in question....
Hmm, 1M digital subscribers...New York's population in north of 8M. So maybe 12.5% of New York's population has signed up. At most. Assuming every digital subscriber is in NYC.
Now, assuming that every one of those digital subscribers is an out-of-towner who had never subscribed before, they've probably added a good 20% to their subscriber base in, oh, 20 years or so. Hardly an example of massive success....
Fucking hipster douchebag; I bet you're next going to tell us how you don't watch TV.
Baseball games and Football games. And occasionally the wife convinces me to watch an episode of Arrow or Flash. Otherwise haven't watched TV since the 80's....
But when did it become Hipster to avoid FB? I just do it because I like my privacy too much to broadcast every fart to the known world....
Just so. The solution you propose has been the one I've used since Facebook's start. Works fine, really it does.
What's that you say? How will friends and family keep up with my doings? Well, here's my little trick - if I want them to know about something, I email/phone them and tell them about it. Works really well, and I get to talk to them at the same time....
From the earliest post-Chernobyl studies, things have been showing a healthier ecosystem in the area, with the primary change being fewer humans.
Alas for the anti-nuke hysterics, the main thing all that EVIL!!! radiation (properly radioactivity) has done has been...next to nothing. What really makes the place special is the laws forbidding humans from living in the area.
Note also that humans STILL live in the area illegally. And there's no real sign of meaningful biological effects among those humans either....
We are to believe that patch could hold the difference between basically full vacuum and one Earth atmosphere air pressure.
Note that a standard bicycle tire is inflated to 2+ atmosphere net pressure. As high as nine atmospheres for racing tires. A one atmosphere pressure differential isn't really all that big in the Real World (tm).
And consider a one inch (2.5cm) diameter hole. Slap ducttape onto it and try to push your finger through the hole (from the side with the tape to the side without. One atmosphere net pressure implies, by the by, about 11 pounds of actual force across the total area of the hole. Think the ducttape will push through if you do a ten pound push? Or even a 15# push? Guess again....
Would the ducttape provide an airtight seal? Doubt it, but not completely impossible. Is it strong enough to handle a one atmosphere differential? For a small hole, easily.
You are wrong, Monsanto does use methods of questionable safety, such as mutating plants with radiation and using the deformed plants DNA for a desired characteristic. Any normal person seeing the mutant plants would be horrified.
So, ugly plants are unsafe? Interesting theory you have there. Any, you know, actual evidence that this is so?
Because otherwise, it sounds like you're, what's that phrase, "shilling in ignorance" as well....
but they don't consider the political and social aspects of our species that means vital funding of safety mechanisms and maintenance of absolutely crucial technology *will* be broken. it's simply a matter of when, not if
Or perhaps we understand that quite well. And decide that it's not that big a problem.
Civilian nuclear power deaths in the USA, to date: zero.
Military nuclear power deaths in the USA, to date: four? Basically the people in the room with the test reactor (that fit in a bathtub) when someone pulled the control rod (yes, there was only one) out by hand.
Hmm, 70 years of nuclear power in the USA, with so few casualties. I could wish the highways were that safe. Or Airline travel. Or trains. Or COAL MINING. Or Oil drilling. Or even hydropower dams.
Hell, more people have died just this year installing solar cells than have died in nuclear power accidents in the USA in all of history.....
On the other hand, the ideal fighter pilot isn't actually very big, since cockpits are crowded, and smaller entities can handle g-forces better than large, muscle-bound types.
It's the fact that rather than bombing Daesh, they're bombing groups opposed to Daesh
As opposed to the USA, which is fighting ISIS (one of Assad's enemies) as well as Assad (one of ISIS' enemies). So we're on BOTH sides of a civil war in Syria.
Note, by the by, that helping Assad against ISIS allows Assad to use more of his own troops against, say, the Kurds, who are our nominal allies in the region.
So, we're helping Assad fight some of his enemies, while helping some of his enemies fight Assad....
If I didn't miscount, since 1990, there have been 288 deaths in "school shootings" (note that that number includes at least one case of an adult shot by another adult in a school parking lot).
With 330 million or so people, and 35 years, that puts the annual per capita death rate from "school shootings" at 0.000000016.
Terrorist attacks in the same 25 year period. Hmm, let's use 9/11 and call it good. 2753 from the direct attack. So, 0.00000033.
Yep, looks like you're right.
Even with a very strict definition of "terrorist acts" (essentially reducing it to "there's been ONE terrorist act"), and a loose enough definition of "school shooting" to include adults unrelated to the school in any way shooting each other in the parking lot, we have about ten times as many terrorist deaths as school shooting deaths in a generation.
The US also had amendment 18. The constitution is not immutable.
Quite so. Feel free to propose an Amendment eliminating the Second.
And if it doesn't pass (and it won't, since the requirements are high enough that the States with no gun problems are more than sufficient to make the proposal ignorable), then shut up about it already!
The military has undoubtedly determined that arming everyone would cause more gun deaths than not arming them.
No, the military has determined that the investigation into a missing rifle/pistol/tank/howitzer (not to mention the paperwork required to deal with a missing rifle/pistol/howitzer) is FAR, FAR more trouble than just keeping the (government property) firearms in the arms room.
Note, by the by, that I grew up on military bases. Yes, my family kept firearms in base housing. No, the military had no real issues with that (yes, there was paperwork associated with them, but not terribly onerous). Hell, there were even ranges dedicated to personal firearms (skeet, 50ft rifle/pistol, long range rifle/pistol)....
the second amendment references a *well-regulated* militia. in today's language, that means well trained
If you live in the USA, are 18+ (and male, though that latter requirement is probably void due to more recent law), you are a member of the Militia. As are your children, siblings, etc.
So, why don't you own an M4 variant, which would technically be required for a proper militia weapon (though I'm personally fond of a.30-06 bolt action - much better range)? Plus a Unit of Ammo (God knows what that is these days, but I'd guess 300-400 rounds of 5.56), of course.
Nature designed sex for procreation and without a male and female you don't have that.
Nature designed your hands for holding a club (to beat large animals on the head with) or, alternately, to swing from tree to tree, depending on how far back you want to go, not for typing.
So, why are you using your hands in an unnatural way in order to post this nonsense on/.?
No, if they added 23% to their market cap, then gave that to the government, the government would own 18.7% of the company (23%/123% of the old market cap).
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I especially liked the tear-jerker about the poor kid who started getting nosebleeds.
Mind you, I'm not really sure why the author thinks that the nosebleeds are in any way related to thyroid cancer (the girl in question was not mentioned as one of the 137).
I was also amused by the PhD who said "this isn't screening, it's real!". How the hell does he know? Did he actually go over there and examine patients or anything? And if he did, why wasn't that mentioned in TFA? Seems more likely he had a good sound-bite, so they ran with it in spite of him knowing nothing specific about the subject.
Just so.
In the rest of the world, children do not routinely get several ultrasounds per year to check for thyroid cancer. Is it really suprising that we'd find much more of something we're looking Really Hard to Find?
So, I guess my real question is: Where's the control population that gets the same checks as the Fukushima population? And what's their rate of thyroid cancer?
When I was a kid, a brand new car, straight from the manufacturer was expected to last, oh, five years. Then you traded it in on a replacement.
Nowadays, I own three vehicles, none of which are younger than 12 years old. One of them could really use some new upholstery, but otherwise, I don't see a reason to replace any of them this decade. We'll see.
SO, you bought yourself an expensive toy and consider that to be "going beyond legal requirements"? Interesting.
So, would the power companies over there you dislike be "going beyond the legal requirements" if they bought electric cars for all their executives? For that matter, would *I* be "going beyond the legal requirements" if I treated myself to a very expensive new pistol? It's not legally required, after all.
As to the weed killer...you're not required to keep the sidewalks in front of your house clear of weeds? Didn't know that. Neighborhood covenants pretty much require that wherever I've lived....
I'm curious - do you, personally, do more than the minimum possible to meet your legal obligations? Send a little extra to the government at tax time, that sort of thing?
It operated drones without an Airworthiness Certificate. Note quite the same thing as (not airworthy).
Note that very few, if any, of the RC model aircraft that have been flying since before most of you were born had Airworthiness Certificates, and yet there was no screaming, wailing, and tearing of clothes.
Problem seems to be that EVVVVIIIIILLLL!!!! word "drone", not the actual physical object in question....
Around here, if I put in a solar system, the rest of you lot pay 80% of the cost through tax credits.
Which might go far toward explaining "30 million homes *right now*"
Hmm, 1M digital subscribers...New York's population in north of 8M. So maybe 12.5% of New York's population has signed up. At most. Assuming every digital subscriber is in NYC.
Now, assuming that every one of those digital subscribers is an out-of-towner who had never subscribed before, they've probably added a good 20% to their subscriber base in, oh, 20 years or so. Hardly an example of massive success....
Baseball games and Football games. And occasionally the wife convinces me to watch an episode of Arrow or Flash. Otherwise haven't watched TV since the 80's....
But when did it become Hipster to avoid FB? I just do it because I like my privacy too much to broadcast every fart to the known world....
Just so. The solution you propose has been the one I've used since Facebook's start. Works fine, really it does.
What's that you say? How will friends and family keep up with my doings? Well, here's my little trick - if I want them to know about something, I email/phone them and tell them about it. Works really well, and I get to talk to them at the same time....
From the earliest post-Chernobyl studies, things have been showing a healthier ecosystem in the area, with the primary change being fewer humans.
Alas for the anti-nuke hysterics, the main thing all that EVIL!!! radiation (properly radioactivity) has done has been...next to nothing. What really makes the place special is the laws forbidding humans from living in the area.
Note also that humans STILL live in the area illegally. And there's no real sign of meaningful biological effects among those humans either....
Note that a standard bicycle tire is inflated to 2+ atmosphere net pressure. As high as nine atmospheres for racing tires. A one atmosphere pressure differential isn't really all that big in the Real World (tm).
And consider a one inch (2.5cm) diameter hole. Slap ducttape onto it and try to push your finger through the hole (from the side with the tape to the side without. One atmosphere net pressure implies, by the by, about 11 pounds of actual force across the total area of the hole. Think the ducttape will push through if you do a ten pound push? Or even a 15# push? Guess again....
Would the ducttape provide an airtight seal? Doubt it, but not completely impossible. Is it strong enough to handle a one atmosphere differential? For a small hole, easily.
What, your life is much worse over the last several decades?
Interesting. Everyone else i know is better off than they were 30 years ago.
Which doesn't mean that cutting corporate taxes is a good thing, but it's hard to find evidence it's made everyone's lives worse....
So, ugly plants are unsafe? Interesting theory you have there. Any, you know, actual evidence that this is so?
Because otherwise, it sounds like you're, what's that phrase, "shilling in ignorance" as well....
Or perhaps we understand that quite well. And decide that it's not that big a problem.
Civilian nuclear power deaths in the USA, to date: zero.
Military nuclear power deaths in the USA, to date: four? Basically the people in the room with the test reactor (that fit in a bathtub) when someone pulled the control rod (yes, there was only one) out by hand.
Hmm, 70 years of nuclear power in the USA, with so few casualties. I could wish the highways were that safe. Or Airline travel. Or trains. Or COAL MINING. Or Oil drilling. Or even hydropower dams.
Hell, more people have died just this year installing solar cells than have died in nuclear power accidents in the USA in all of history.....
On the other hand, the ideal fighter pilot isn't actually very big, since cockpits are crowded, and smaller entities can handle g-forces better than large, muscle-bound types.
As opposed to the USA, which is fighting ISIS (one of Assad's enemies) as well as Assad (one of ISIS' enemies). So we're on BOTH sides of a civil war in Syria.
Note, by the by, that helping Assad against ISIS allows Assad to use more of his own troops against, say, the Kurds, who are our nominal allies in the region.
So, we're helping Assad fight some of his enemies, while helping some of his enemies fight Assad....
Always. Good try, though.
Hmm, a quick check...
If I didn't miscount, since 1990, there have been 288 deaths in "school shootings" (note that that number includes at least one case of an adult shot by another adult in a school parking lot).
With 330 million or so people, and 35 years, that puts the annual per capita death rate from "school shootings" at 0.000000016.
Terrorist attacks in the same 25 year period. Hmm, let's use 9/11 and call it good. 2753 from the direct attack. So, 0.00000033.
Yep, looks like you're right.
Even with a very strict definition of "terrorist acts" (essentially reducing it to "there's been ONE terrorist act"), and a loose enough definition of "school shooting" to include adults unrelated to the school in any way shooting each other in the parking lot, we have about ten times as many terrorist deaths as school shooting deaths in a generation.
Quite so. Feel free to propose an Amendment eliminating the Second.
And if it doesn't pass (and it won't, since the requirements are high enough that the States with no gun problems are more than sufficient to make the proposal ignorable), then shut up about it already!
No, the military has determined that the investigation into a missing rifle/pistol/tank/howitzer (not to mention the paperwork required to deal with a missing rifle/pistol/howitzer) is FAR, FAR more trouble than just keeping the (government property) firearms in the arms room.
Note, by the by, that I grew up on military bases. Yes, my family kept firearms in base housing. No, the military had no real issues with that (yes, there was paperwork associated with them, but not terribly onerous). Hell, there were even ranges dedicated to personal firearms (skeet, 50ft rifle/pistol, long range rifle/pistol)....
If you live in the USA, are 18+ (and male, though that latter requirement is probably void due to more recent law), you are a member of the Militia. As are your children, siblings, etc.
So, why don't you own an M4 variant, which would technically be required for a proper militia weapon (though I'm personally fond of a .30-06 bolt action - much better range)? Plus a Unit of Ammo (God knows what that is these days, but I'd guess 300-400 rounds of 5.56), of course.
Nature designed your hands for holding a club (to beat large animals on the head with) or, alternately, to swing from tree to tree, depending on how far back you want to go, not for typing.
So, why are you using your hands in an unnatural way in order to post this nonsense on /.?
Dropped 22% overnight, looks like.
No, if they added 23% to their market cap, then gave that to the government, the government would own 18.7% of the company (23%/123% of the old market cap).