Fukushima is crawling with technicians with proper radiation monitoring gear: geiger counters and sampling kits.
These machines had no monitoring whatsoever. Not only are the TSA people not issued dosimeters, they are discouraged from getting their own.
And, to make it worse, we're talking about machines that combine X rays and software. Do you know how often a bug in these machines might cause an overdose? Nobody knows what dosage they got. That is what is so scary.
No, it is not a matter of definition. It's an important matter of international law. Aggression is a war crime. Being the first to go to war is a crime.
It is also a matter of historical truth. That is, anti--Israel commentators continually try to portray the war as an example of Israeli aggression. And the truth, the simple truth, which you can ascertain from reading the papers at the time, was that Egypt had announced a blockade of Israel, thereby ending the ceasefire of 1956, and returning to a state of war.
Israel decided to fight the war on terms other than Nasser's. That does not mean Israel began the war.
"You are in fact incorrect. In the 1967 War Israel is considered to have struck first."
The blockade was 6 weeks before things got hot. A blockade is an act of war. Ergo, there was a war on. Egypt was preparing slowly for a low intensity war. Israel prepared rapidly for a high intensity war. But the war was already on, and Egypt began it with a blockade.
Israel is "considered to have struck first" only by the ignorant and the haters.
At the same time Palestinian refugees were gathering in camps on one side of the front lines of the 1948 war, a comparable number of so-called "Arab Jews" were gathering in the reverse direction, cleansed out of Arab countries and into Israel. Israel is an enclave for a minority that the Muslim community has treated like crap for 1400 years.
However, the camps for Jewish refugees did not stay camps for long. The hellish camps, where disease and misery ran rampant, became towns, and are now prosperous towns. For some reason, the Arab countries did not do the same for their refugees.
That was rumored to happen in the middle of 1973's war, when Israel was on the verge of being annihilated. If that's the kind of provocation required to get Israel to even talk about nukes, then there is little from that end. Compare to Iran, which needs no provocation at all.
Uh, no. They "critize the Israeli the government", they send missiles into Israel from Lebanon, they bomb Jewish targets in places like Argentina, and they declared war in 1980.
You do realize that PressTV is a bunch of lying sons of bitches? In 2009 they went so far as to "interview" an Iranian dissident in a room made to look like a studio, that was in fact a cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
"Not to pick bones, but "Her inception" to all the other countries there, basically meant that someone came and took the land away from them! Of course they are annoyed and angry about it"
Not to pick too many bones, but those other countries responded to Israel's inception by drivng their Jewish minorities INTO Israel, thereby losing all bitching rights about it.
The hull of the Titanic is made of pre-1945 steel. The bessemer process for making steel makes it absorb radioactive isotopes from the air, and so steel that was put throught the process before the first open air atom bomb tests is valuable for uses such as Geiger counters.
Oklahoma's law seems a very good clarification of this issue, and it provides companies like Facebook with a good way to authenticate notifications of a customer's death.
But I don't live there, so I have some Python scripts waiting for that day.
That's to make sure that my Facebook friends get notified that "Apuleius may be attending Apuleius's funeral."
Well, if Israel has nukes, it's been true since the late 1960s. That means 50 years of having nukes and not using them.
Iran, OTOH, is run by people who are far more likely to resort to nukes (just ask the governments of Saudi, Qhatar, Bahrain, the Emirates, or any of the ethnoreligious minorities of Iran).
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Fukushima is crawling with technicians with proper radiation monitoring gear: geiger counters and sampling kits.
These machines had no monitoring whatsoever. Not only are the TSA people not issued dosimeters, they are discouraged from getting their own.
And, to make it worse, we're talking about machines that combine X rays and software. Do you know how often a bug in these machines might cause an overdose? Nobody knows what dosage they got. That is what is so scary.
No, it is not a matter of definition. It's an important matter of international law. Aggression is a war crime.
Being the first to go to war is a crime.
It is also a matter of historical truth. That is, anti--Israel commentators continually try to portray the war as an example of Israeli aggression. And the truth, the simple truth, which you can ascertain from reading the papers at the time, was that Egypt had announced a blockade of Israel, thereby ending the ceasefire of 1956, and returning to a state of war.
Israel decided to fight the war on terms other than Nasser's. That does not mean Israel began the war.
"You are in fact incorrect. In the 1967 War Israel is considered to have struck first."
The blockade was 6 weeks before things got hot. A blockade is an act of war.
Ergo, there was a war on. Egypt was preparing slowly for a low intensity war.
Israel prepared rapidly for a high intensity war. But the war was already on, and Egypt began it with a blockade.
Israel is "considered to have struck first" only by the ignorant and the haters.
At the same time Palestinian refugees were gathering in camps on one side of the front lines of the 1948 war, a comparable number of so-called "Arab Jews" were gathering in the reverse direction, cleansed out of Arab countries and into Israel. Israel is an enclave for a minority that the Muslim community has treated like crap for 1400 years.
However, the camps for Jewish refugees did not stay camps for long. The hellish camps, where disease and misery ran rampant, became towns, and are now prosperous towns. For some reason, the Arab countries did not do the same for their refugees.
Iran has invaded Iraq and Afghanistan well within recent memory.
That was rumored to happen in the middle of 1973's war, when Israel was on the verge of being annihilated. If that's the kind of provocation required to get Israel to even talk about nukes, then there is little from that end. Compare to Iran, which needs no provocation at all.
"Actually in one war Israel could see Egyptian preparations and launched a pre-emptive strike on the Egyptian airbases."
WRONG. The state of war was already on at the time because Egypt had launched a naval blockade against Israel.
Egypt wanted a simmering war. Israel gave a boiling war. You can negotiate the terms of a peace, but
you can't negotiate the terms of a war.
" The US did not like this and did not supply ammo."
WRONG again. Israel was relying on French armaments at the time.
Or they could make peace with Israel. Seems a lot cheaper.
Uh, no. They "critize the Israeli the government", they send missiles into Israel from Lebanon, they bomb Jewish targets in places like Argentina, and they declared war in 1980.
It would, except Argentina doesn't give a damn about a few dozen dead Argentine Jews. Argentine Jews are Jews, not Argentines.
This is a nonstory
Iran blew up a Jewish community center in Argentina, in 1994, killing dozens. That puts Israel's actions well within the purvieew of self-defense.
You do realize that PressTV is a bunch of lying sons of bitches? In 2009 they went so far as to "interview" an Iranian dissident in a room made to look like a studio, that was in fact a cell in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
Iran has not only targeted military infrastructure, it has gone so far as to target the Jewish Community Center of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
So, yes, ruining their uranium centrifuges is A-OK.
I don't have to wonder. The people of Gaza wanted war. They voted for a party that offered war on its platform. And they got war.
"Not to pick bones, but "Her inception" to all the other countries there, basically meant that someone came and took the land away from them! Of course they are annoyed and angry about it"
Not to pick too many bones, but those other countries responded to Israel's inception by drivng their Jewish minorities INTO Israel, thereby losing all bitching rights about it.
Iran and Israel are in a state of war.
Committing an act of war against a country with which you are, in fact, in a state of war, is not a crime, nor anything to be embarassed about.
True enough. But if you can move uphill without having to learn German, it's wise to do so.
The hull of the Titanic is made of pre-1945 steel. The bessemer process for making steel makes it absorb radioactive isotopes from the air, and so steel that was put throught the process before the first open air atom bomb tests is valuable for uses such as Geiger counters.
IIRC, one of the Internet's most important routing hubs is in a building in Oklahoma.
A friend of mine died 5 years ago. I still get suggestions to link to him as a friend on some social networking sites. Creeps me the hell out.
Oklahoma's law seems a very good clarification of this issue, and it provides companies like Facebook with a good way to authenticate notifications of a customer's death.
But I don't live there, so I have some Python scripts waiting for that day.
That's to make sure that my Facebook friends get notified that "Apuleius may be attending Apuleius's funeral."
Hamas's headquarters are the basement of Gaza's main hospital. What mroe do you want?
You do realize to for the palestina people to be kicked out of Jeruzalem was the start of the conflict?
Tell that to the Jewish community of Jerusalem's Old City. Massacred by Arabs in 1892, 1920, 1921, 1936,
and driven out completely in 1948.
In this conflict there is only one party really guilty.
Right.
Well, if Israel has nukes, it's been true since the late 1960s. That means 50 years of having nukes and not using them.
Iran, OTOH, is run by people who are far more likely to resort to nukes (just ask the governments of Saudi, Qhatar, Bahrain, the Emirates, or any of the ethnoreligious minorities of Iran).