Why is it suddenly racist to want to secure our borders
Who said that? Some of Trumps rhetoric has been a bit racist, but not the wall concept. Yes walls exist, and you can google how well they work. Its just stupid because somebody in his position should know that it will be expensive and ineffective. But all he cares about now is how his comments affect the polls.
You seem to think everyone uses the word that way. I'm not sure that applies everywhere, and its worth being pedantic sometimes, especially where life and death are concerned. When you see a sign saying "Danger of Electrocution" , it does not mean you might get a zap.
Trump says he will build a wall on our southern border and enforce our immigration laws.
The problem is that a wall would be insanely expensive, and ineffective. He should have checked this before announcing it as policy. Prosecuting companies who hire illegal immigrants would be more sane.
Trump says he will halt immigration of Islamists until we can be sure they are not radicalized.
He actually said he would stop all Muslims entering the country. Of course he would not and could not actually do it, it just the sort of stupid thing he says.
Trump says he will renegotiate trade pacts that do not favor the United States.
I guess, if you're a spineless twat who thinks anyone to the right of lenin is some kind of fascist.
Its not about left vs right. Trump is one of the more ideologically moderate Republican candidates, despite his sudden conversion to anti-abortion and anti-gun-control views. Its just that he says any crazy thing that comes into his head, and we are really worried about the damage he might do.
I'm seeing in "You may like to read:" a story "10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College". And find myself wondering, is that ten or two? All part of the light-hearted fun of April Fools.
Can someone please explain this for us dumb foreigners? I never could make any sense of the US telephone system. Its crazy with being charged for *incoming* calls, and roaming charges when you have not even left the country.
Why would the network care if you change handsets? Can't you just buy a new phone from the local tech-shop and swap the SIM over?
Maybe because we are sick of hearing about Arabs blowing things up and oppressing women, and its nice to have a good-news story (even if its an obituary) about an Arab woman building things. (Explains it for the Guardian, anyway.)
If the government can force Apple to write a whole new operating system
Its not a new OS, just a small code change. What Apple has that FBI lacks is the digital signature needed to install the modified firmware. At least the FBI is not demanding that, though few would be surprised if the NSA already has it.
Can someone explain to me why/. doesn't ban URL shorteners?... calling out site domains between [brackets], to be strict in this regard.
It would be nice to show the dereferenced link domain for url-shorterners, but in this particular case it would not help you. It would be [youtube.com], which is safe as youtube blocks porn etc quite quickly. Poster could have used a youtu.be url too.
Maybe/. could somehow block links to unlisted youtube videos, which are more likely to offend, but... you know.. its just harmless G-rated boobies, not goatse.
You must be in the US. DO they still make breastfeeding mothers go hide in a special room at your work?
Not sure how this is relevant though. I think TFA talking about social media posting that might embarrass the *child* in future. Not the mother (should she emigrate to a more conservative culture.)
And Wales is well over a thousand miles away from Chernobyl; and yet it was very affected by it.
Bollocks it was. All that was affected was the needles on very sensitive instruments. But Wales *is* very affected by climate change from global warming due to fossil fuels from all over the planet.
Imagine trying to evacuate Tokyo or Paris; that's the kind of thing that could happen.
Don't be obtuse. Nearest reactor is 120km away from Paris. The city of Fukushima is half that distance from the failed plant, but still well outside the evacuation zone. You do realise Fukushima was not evacuated? Not even close? Why would they build a major power plant within 30km of Paris?
Your brain is too small.
And there we have a fine example of the standard of argument of nuclear-phobes.
Agreed we are talking decades. I used "rapidly" in the context of some idiot talking "20,000 generations":-) Also, rapidly compared to the centuries needed for decay of caesium with a 30 year half-life.
This year, there was a HUGE spike in the radioactivity found in reindeer from Chernobyl;
That is a very specific and unusual example. It is interesting because the animals are so far from Chernobyl. The reindeer eat moss, which concentrates caesium exceptionally well. Note the reindeer are still perfectly healthy, and while the meat is well above EU limits for radiation, there is no evidence it is harmful. We just don't know enough about the risks of low levels of radiation.
that's like 30 years later, and levels aren't remotely down to levels where the meat is safe.
30 years is just one half-life. And you are taking a very specific problem. 99.99% of meat in Norway is perfectly safe.
And Chernobyl probably wasn't even the worse case meltdown; it's just the worst we've had so far.
Its not even remotely as bad as the worst hydroelectric disaster (Banqiao 1975). Hydro causes far greater areas of good land to be unfit for agriculture or habitation for longer. Many, many coal accident have each killed more people that Chernobyl did. Coal and hydro are too dangerous when you add the numbers. Just less scary to the layman.
. Caesium 137 concentrates up the food chain, it doesn't just dissolve down.
Same thing. Its all methods of dispersal. the caesium will be rapidly depleted from the topsoil. With food contamination, fortunately it is very easy to detect and measure. And very temporary. BTW, the animals are thriving around Chernobyl. Complete with the usual number of eyes and heads. Older people are allowed to live there permanently, and young people while working. Farms nearby will be growing non-food crops for a while.
The reason that people aren't so up in arms about it, is that the cancers that result are hard to distinguish from naturally occurring cancers. If you can't tell precisely who died from fallout, it must be all OK, yes???
There it is again - the memorised 25 word speech. Already answered.
good for the current two generations. For the next 20000
Thats kind of backward. The biggest hazard after Fukushima was iodine-131, which has all gone already. next, the caesium-134 with a 2-year half-life will soon be gone. Caesium-137 is most of what remains, and has a 30-year half-life. So the atoms will be around up to 10 or 20 generations, but it is highly water soluble, so...
All things leak, diffuse and mix with each other.
Yep, the small proportion of remaining caesium will be long washed away to become an insignificant part of the background before the "current two generations" are gone.
20,000 gen? Pure propaganda. Even now, the radiation from plutonium etc around Fukushima is miniscule.
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Why is it suddenly racist to want to secure our borders
Who said that? Some of Trumps rhetoric has been a bit racist, but not the wall concept. Yes walls exist, and you can google how well they work.
Its just stupid because somebody in his position should know that it will be expensive and ineffective.
But all he cares about now is how his comments affect the polls.
Slashdot - news for whiny SJWs, stuff to get outraged about.
More like "Click-bait for Nerds to get Outraged by whiny SJW article."
Actually, there is no article, just a pointless submission.
You seem to think everyone uses the word that way. I'm not sure that applies everywhere, and its worth being pedantic sometimes, especially where life and death are concerned.
When you see a sign saying "Danger of Electrocution" , it does not mean you might get a zap.
I work in the electronics industry and people use "electrocute" more or less interchangeably.
You are probably already all too aware of this, but you work with idiots.
Trump says he will build a wall on our southern border and enforce our immigration laws.
The problem is that a wall would be insanely expensive, and ineffective. He should have checked this before announcing it as policy. Prosecuting companies who hire illegal immigrants would be more sane.
Trump says he will halt immigration of Islamists until we can be sure they are not radicalized.
He actually said he would stop all Muslims entering the country. Of course he would not and could not actually do it, it just the sort of stupid thing he says.
Trump says he will renegotiate trade pacts that do not favor the United States.
We pray he does not alter it further.
If Trump actually gets elected (unikely),
Canada is going to need a Wall.
I guess, if you're a spineless twat who thinks anyone to the right of lenin is some kind of fascist.
Its not about left vs right. Trump is one of the more ideologically moderate Republican candidates, despite his sudden conversion to anti-abortion and anti-gun-control views.
Its just that he says any crazy thing that comes into his head, and we are really worried about the damage he might do.
I'm seeing in "You may like to read:" a story "10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College".
And find myself wondering, is that ten or two? All part of the light-hearted fun of April Fools.
Can someone please explain this for us dumb foreigners? I never could make any sense of the US telephone system.
Its crazy with being charged for *incoming* calls, and roaming charges when you have not even left the country.
Why would the network care if you change handsets? Can't you just buy a new phone from the local tech-shop and swap the SIM over?
A shame its now the 2nd in most of the world. Aren't they supposed to do those things AM local time?
Bigger stunt is the "Ads Disabled" tickbox, which seems to do nothing. Why do I still have "sponsored links" and "top deals" all over the page?
Maybe because we are sick of hearing about Arabs blowing things up and oppressing women, and its nice to have a good-news story (even if its an obituary) about an Arab woman building things. (Explains it for the Guardian, anyway.)
The tragedy of the wikimedia commons.
If I can watch TV while doing all of that, I'm going to book a room there for the rest of my life.
All with the mini-bar in reach!
If the government can force Apple to write a whole new operating system
Its not a new OS, just a small code change. What Apple has that FBI lacks is the digital signature needed to install the modified firmware.
At least the FBI is not demanding that, though few would be surprised if the NSA already has it.
Now I'm glad I stuck with Symbian.
Can someone explain to me why /. doesn't ban URL shorteners? ... calling out site domains between [brackets], to be strict in this regard.
It would be nice to show the dereferenced link domain for url-shorterners, but in this particular case it would not help you. It would be [youtube.com], which is safe as youtube blocks porn etc quite quickly. Poster could have used a youtu.be url too. /. could somehow block links to unlisted youtube videos, which are more likely to offend, but ... you know .. its just harmless G-rated boobies, not goatse.
Maybe
> glad I didn't have that open up at work.
You must be in the US. DO they still make breastfeeding mothers go hide in a special room at your work?
Not sure how this is relevant though. I think TFA talking about social media posting that might embarrass the *child* in future. Not the mother (should she emigrate to a more conservative culture.)
And Wales is well over a thousand miles away from Chernobyl; and yet it was very affected by it.
Bollocks it was. All that was affected was the needles on very sensitive instruments. But Wales *is* very affected by climate change from global warming due to fossil fuels from all over the planet.
Imagine trying to evacuate Tokyo or Paris; that's the kind of thing that could happen.
Don't be obtuse. Nearest reactor is 120km away from Paris. The city of Fukushima is half that distance from the failed plant, but still well outside the evacuation zone. You do realise Fukushima was not evacuated? Not even close? Why would they build a major power plant within 30km of Paris?
Your brain is too small.
And there we have a fine example of the standard of argument of nuclear-phobes.
"Rapidly"
In Wales it took 20 years to get down
Agreed we are talking decades. I used "rapidly" in the context of some idiot talking "20,000 generations" :-)
Also, rapidly compared to the centuries needed for decay of caesium with a 30 year half-life.
This year, there was a HUGE spike in the radioactivity found in reindeer from Chernobyl;
That is a very specific and unusual example. It is interesting because the animals are so far from Chernobyl. The reindeer eat moss, which concentrates caesium exceptionally well. Note the reindeer are still perfectly healthy, and while the meat is well above EU limits for radiation, there is no evidence it is harmful. We just don't know enough about the risks of low levels of radiation.
that's like 30 years later, and levels aren't remotely down to levels where the meat is safe.
30 years is just one half-life. And you are taking a very specific problem. 99.99% of meat in Norway is perfectly safe.
And Chernobyl probably wasn't even the worse case meltdown; it's just the worst we've had so far.
Its not even remotely as bad as the worst hydroelectric disaster (Banqiao 1975). Hydro causes far greater areas of good land to be unfit for agriculture or habitation for longer. Many, many coal accident have each killed more people that Chernobyl did. Coal and hydro are too dangerous when you add the numbers. Just less scary to the layman.
Who is Nino? Is this another example of slashdot lacking Unicode so cannot say El Niño?
. Caesium 137 concentrates up the food chain, it doesn't just dissolve down.
Same thing. Its all methods of dispersal. the caesium will be rapidly depleted from the topsoil.
With food contamination, fortunately it is very easy to detect and measure. And very temporary.
BTW, the animals are thriving around Chernobyl. Complete with the usual number of eyes and heads. Older people are allowed to live there permanently, and young people while working. Farms nearby will be growing non-food crops for a while.
The reason that people aren't so up in arms about it, is that the cancers that result are hard to distinguish from naturally occurring cancers. If you can't tell precisely who died from fallout, it must be all OK, yes???
There it is again - the memorised 25 word speech. Already answered.
good for the current two generations. For the next 20000
Thats kind of backward. The biggest hazard after Fukushima was iodine-131, which has all gone already. next, the caesium-134 with a 2-year half-life will soon be gone. Caesium-137 is most of what remains, and has a 30-year half-life. So the atoms will be around up to 10 or 20 generations, but it is highly water soluble, so ...
All things leak, diffuse and mix with each other.
Yep, the small proportion of remaining caesium will be long washed away to become an insignificant part of the background before the "current two generations" are gone.
20,000 gen? Pure propaganda. Even now, the radiation from plutonium etc around Fukushima is miniscule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
New data has traced the trajectory of the meteor, and it originated from the Klendathu region.
They were probably aiming for Buenos Aires.
This is year 7 of the Obama train wreck
A couple of years form now, you may be looking back on the train wreck with fond memories.
Ignore the troll. Smart people with no college education is a very small demographic, even in the US, since WW2.
Good Will Hunting was just a movie.