"Nuclear waste" is mostly unspent fuel that can be reprocessed and used again. The US just decided not to invest in the facilities to do so. The remainder of the reactor output is short-lived radiologicals useful for medicine and some other isotopes that can be used as fuel in a molten-salt reactor. Nuclear "waste" isn't a fundamentally difficult problem.
You're missing the entire point of the story of the woman caught in adultery. Lev 20:10 prescribes the death penalty for _both_ parties, man and woman. The scribes and Pharisees brought Jesus a woman, alone, saying she had been caught in adultery. The obvious question is "With whom?" and also, "How did these super-religious types know where to find an adulterous woman?" It's not unreasonable to suppose one, several, or all of them had slept with her and were under the death penalty as well. Else why would these men, hot on the idea of stoning, be stopped in their tracks?
with regard to cellphones - do you *like* living in a world where the only reasonable choices for a smartphone involve software wholly controlled by Google or by Apple? Firefox OS may not be able to replace those today, but it's a step in the right direction - a platform for mobile apps that aren't tied to a single vendor.
Yes. This is the inverse of NIH -- the "Invented Here" syndrome. I'm particularly frustrated by this because I very much prefer bzr to git, but the hype and community coalesced around git instead.
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Is there any evidence that nicotine is addictive? (This is different from cigarettes being addictive.)
You can volunteer for this now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
I have. My friends who grew up in the USSR agree that the USA is more oppressive in many respects.
When weren't comments here a cesspool? It's part of the charm.
Fuck /u/spez.
"Nuclear waste" is mostly unspent fuel that can be reprocessed and used again. The US just decided not to invest in the facilities to do so. The remainder of the reactor output is short-lived radiologicals useful for medicine and some other isotopes that can be used as fuel in a molten-salt reactor. Nuclear "waste" isn't a fundamentally difficult problem.
There's a lot of cute people around here. ;-)
Funny, I don't remember this kind of outcry when Bezos bought the Washington Post. Why is it any less worrying when billionaires own media outlets?
Pity this can't be upvoted to 6. Came here to post this -- truly a classic in the genre.
Ask Israel how they did it, and how well it works.
It's time for women to build their own open source culture and projects away from the harmful influence of men.
You don't think Elon Musk needs a billion dollars to build affordable electric cars and go to Mars?
I agree and think more attention should be paid to judicial systems such as Singapore's that have gotten rid of jury trial for exactly this reason.
Other languages target Javascript too. It's not as simple as you make it out to be.
Wow. You like Objective-C that much?
This is what is so horrible about The Hobbit.
The difference is that McCarthy was right about nearly everything.
You're missing the entire point of the story of the woman caught in adultery. Lev 20:10 prescribes the death penalty for _both_ parties, man and woman. The scribes and Pharisees brought Jesus a woman, alone, saying she had been caught in adultery. The obvious question is "With whom?" and also, "How did these super-religious types know where to find an adulterous woman?" It's not unreasonable to suppose one, several, or all of them had slept with her and were under the death penalty as well. Else why would these men, hot on the idea of stoning, be stopped in their tracks?
with regard to cellphones - do you *like* living in a world where the only reasonable choices for a smartphone involve software wholly controlled by Google or by Apple? Firefox OS may not be able to replace those today, but it's a step in the right direction - a platform for mobile apps that aren't tied to a single vendor.
This is called "Lewontin's fallacy" and has been debunked far and wide.
Come now, this isn't any worse than the Scientific Temperance Instruction required in American schools in the previous century. Perfectly normal.
So you think the platform for useful apps should be owned by Google instead of being open to everyone?
Yes. This is the inverse of NIH -- the "Invented Here" syndrome. I'm particularly frustrated by this because I very much prefer bzr to git, but the hype and community coalesced around git instead.
Ice-IX is less exciting than one might hope.
Probably there was. The Hugos seem to be given to a particular set of people as a matter of course.