That's really awful. But... Aren't these guys supposed to be clipped in when they're working up there?
Metric clips vs Imperial clips?
Seriously though, I've worn a climbing harness to do light telco wiring (admittedly decades ago) and one annoying failure mode was the thing you clip on breaking. In that situation you are very firmly and securely attached to something falling right next to you.... I always felt weird cliping onto the basket right where they did the repair welding... I would not be surprised if whatever he clipped onto, landed on top of him.
they are financed and directed by international criminal syndicates
This is the part I don't understand, or maybe its a troll indicator.
So.... I've seen all the movies. You wanna buy $100K worth of coke in Columbia to sell in the USA for $500K. But you don't have $100K. So you get a very special loan, with some very special terms, etc, from some dude in Columbia. Thats financing by an international criminal syndicate.
How exactly does an international criminal syndicate finance hacking? How much money has to be fronted to get a.torrent of visual basic or whatever, on a $300 emachines desktop, in moms basement, hopping on your neighbors wifi?
Psst, hey "Don VLM", I gotta business transaction for youse, Barry the Enforcer needs a new mouse from officemax for that special job, you know, for that guy that we was talking about? Yeah well that mouse costs money, like two dollars and ninety nine cents. I was wondering if you coulds front me the dough till next week, when we get our protection money from that kids lemonade stand. Yeah yeah, the usual 100% interest per week plus a cut of the action OK OK, "Don VLM". I know I gotta get you yourse three bucks next week or I'll end up waking up in bed next to a one of them decapitated "headless" servers. Yeah Yeah Capishe?
Only one company makes and sells BWRs, that being GE. You'll never guess but their first model was the BWR-1. The second was the BWR-2. And so on. The newer the reactor the safer the design and the higher the power output. After awhile, like tech companies, they selected cooler names like the ABWR (advanced) and SBWR and friends. The S stood for something else, but everyone calls it the "safe BWR" instead. The "ESBWR" supposedly stands for "economical (whatever) BWR" but I kid you not people call it the "extra safe BWR" instead. Probably because safe cannot be trademarked.
If google and wikipedia are too complicated, go back to CNN and "oh shiny" and "oh scared" coverage.
These reactors don't have concrete containment shields.
Not so, not even close. BWR model 3 (example is unit 1 at this site) had a mark1 concrete containment system and BWR model 4 (examples are units 2 and 3 at this site) could have been built with mark1 or mark2 containment systems.
A gross simplification is mark1 is a big concrete building with a little concrete building inside it and a steel shield inside that little building. In all the pics you can see the big building popped pretty much as designed and the little building inside it is still claimed to be undamaged. Mark1 designs look a lot like really tough office buildings; they look like a telco central office or a modern data center, sorta.
Mark2 is about the same but for a variety of boring engineering reasons looks like some really giant soda cans (or like a grain elevator). I don't see anything like that on site. I'm guessing either I haven't seen the right pic, or the ancient BWR-4s onsite have a mark1 containment system.
The newer stuff like the Mark3 look a lot like a swimming pool. I don't know if the undamaged reactor #6 is new enough to have a Mark3.
Nuclear power has just a too high risk (probability of accident times damage cost) (even if rare) that any insurance consortium is willing to accept covering the full cost.
The problem is, what to replace it with? Coal has an even higher death and pollution rate, the worlds running out of natgas so forget that. That leaves, uh, going all "Pol Pot" on the population, I guess? Maybe some feel-good measures?
Sort of like a political ad, their side's crooks are terrible, we should replace their side's crooks with our side's crooks, to make it all better?
Those reactors are already destroyed. They will never be operational gain (it says that in the article I linked to).
Careful, reactors 1 / 2 / 3 were online hot and currently self destructing due to decay heat. On the other hand, 4 / 5 / 6 were off for maintenance and as far as I know are cold shutdown. They will be restarted in the future assuming they didn't take too much tsunami damage and/or explosion damage from 1/2/3 popping. You will not be too surprised to learn that 1 / 2 / 3 are the oldest reactors, some 40 year old clunkers. The newer design 4 and 5 are not too bad and 6 is actually pretty decent. And they're planning on building some new ABWRs 7 and 8 onsite. One new ABWR generates almost as much power as 1, 2, and 3 put together.
So the idea is to minimize contamination and damage to reactors 4 / 5 / 6. Remember only one of Chernobyls reactors melted down, the other continued generating power for a decade or something like that.
All the generators in all of Japan? washed away? I am still here and there are generators around for festivals and the likes, so no. There must be a reason they could not use alternative power sources to power their pumps, and I am curious as to why that is.
Compare the power level required to flash some light bulbs vs the power level required to inject 50000L/min at a couple hundred PSI...
One requires a portable honda generator, the other requires a large diesel electric locomotive, or a string of them. Even here, it would be a PITA. There, on the coast, where the tsunami washed away the tracks, and they mostly use electric rather than diesel electric locos...
To the best of my knowledge they can't even use ship power because either you need a very long megawatt grade power cord, or the ship coolant water intakes will clog.
Sorry to dampen you optimism, but these reactors are going to be totally useless after this. The reactor vessel will almost certainly be beyond repair and it is central to the entire plant. Economically it would be easier to just build a newer design of plant.
They were planning to build two new reactors onsite, # 7 and #8. They'll probably end up with new ABWRs to replace the old clunkers. Note that a single ABWR outputs as much power as three BWR-3s or two BWR-4s so yanking three 40 year old dinosaurs does not necessarily mean they need to build three new ABWRs to take their place... My guess is they'll get one.
I'm hardly on their board of directors but most likely instead of adding 2 new ABWRs they'll probably simultaneously build the currently planned two, decon the old units 1 / 2 / 3 and build a nice new ABWR on top of the old site of 1 / 2 / 3.
Its is possible, that after this excitement, they'll yank all the old BWR-4s and the one decent BWR-5 and replace the whole works with ESBWRs. A pity GE gave up on the SBWR... That design would have been pretty much inherently safe in this situation. Of course I'm a little fuzzy on dates, I think the SBWR design was done a decade or two after the BWR-3 and BWR-4 were built at Fukushima and I don't remember why GE gave up on the SBWR design anyway (maybe the navy or other govt considered it too "sensitive", despite the navy's fondness for PWRs?)
Hows the dual drive support on the sheeva plug? Looks like the pogo also uses usb as its "drive interface"
Something like a soekris board / case than handles two SATA drives in a RAID mirror would be nice.
The best bet for the original poster is to ask the mythtv guys for low power / fanless options, and stuff it all into a 1U case (assuming rackmount is mandatory)
Compasses do not work in airplanes? Maps do not work at altitude?
Take a small plane up and find out. Pretty much, the answer is "no". Occasionally, in smooth air, when you're flying straight and level for awhile, you'll get a snapshot fix of where you're probably pointed, within 10, maybe even 5 degrees. Its not quite like on a large boat where it mostly just works.
You *NEED* a backup in case GPS fails (and dead reckoning has a good chance of leaving you just that -- dead).
As you aviation guys probably know, the most likely failure mode is not the GPS satellites being shot down or jammed, but the single GPS antenna getting iced over and cracking or the single feedline falling off or the single GPS "engine" overheating or the DC power to the GPS shorting out or open circuit, or
Only via a seance. LORAN is dead. Omega too. Omega was cool. Still have WWVB and WWV out in Colorado.
There is no particular reason why you couldn't re implement GPS using ground mounted atomic clocks and a bunch of towers. Conveniently, we have an infrastructure of cellphone towers neatly mapping with civilization, also providing coverage to big cities.
Without GPS, there's no way to precisely sync up timeslots in TDMA backhaul.
That sounds a little pessimistic. You mean at this moment there are no deployed time sources that will work.
To keep our morse code circuits aligned (just kidding) we had Cesium clocks, Rb clocks, etc. Cough up the dough and you can have very accurate time.
I'd have to look at the specs, but a really good ovenized xtal might be good enough for TDMA. By really good I don't mean the cheapest dip oscillator money can buy from the cheapest vendor. Think more like the "frequency west bricks" of ye olden days.
So what? What use is there in bringing back satellites? That's an utterly stupid requirement
You have to realize it was a cold war requirement to F with the soviets low altitude photorecon satellites. Back then they launched with actual photographic film, you know, like light sensitive celluloid or whatever. So the threat that we could scoop them up:
1) Made them launch higher, thus lower res, less payload = less film.
2) Made them threaten to put a little self destruct mechanism in the satellites, making them waste payload mass (and volume, I suppose)
Another idea was we'd deploy military sats, and if they didn't work, rather than leaving them up there for the soviets to mess with, or even worse, having them land on soviet territory, we'd just pick em up and take em home.
The last idea was, of course, being all things to all people all the time, some doofus promised we'd have 100 launches per year, so if we're up there on a.mil mission anyway every 3 days or whatever, why not stick to high res chemical photography for our own sats? Kind of like a mini-orbital unmanned space station.
So there were very solid cold war reasons to bring back sats.
You have to realize, all the design work was done in the early 70s, forty years ago. Very few electronic products have forty year runs.
I have to give credit to NASA. Their HD real-time stream was great! I was able to put it full screen on my 23" monitor, sit back, and enjoy the whole thing!
Note that the first orbital shuttle flight was right about the time my father brought home our first computer, a TRS-80 model III. What I do with computers has changed a bit, but the enjoyment level is about the same (maybe a little lower now). Want to see something really weird? Wikipedia classifies the -3 as a business system. I guess I should just be thankful it hasn't been deleted (yet).
>Problem with this (and yoru homeowners example) is that it's never black or white. Most people don't really fit in a category, and the question is always where do you draw the line ?
Lack of binary is a feature not a bug. Lack of a line in the sand is a feature not a bug.
How does one decide your neighbour is a lunatic (if he really was then he would be in a mental institution)
Sounds like you're not from the US. Here the psycopaths and lunatics are the leaders, not institutionalized. Seriously, we don't institutionalize people until after the tragedy occurs. If the cops haven't (yet) found a body, they're pretty much out free.
Not very soon, but I'm placing my bet on the assumption that once the children of the digital age (mostly Gen-Y and some younger Gen-Xers) become the majority, people will care less about... because there will be less to hide or be ashamed of, hopefully because at that point, a majority of people....
"They" said the same things about my parent's generation and smoking weed. By the time I become an adult they'll be selling it in vending machines right next to the Marlboros. Didn't quite turn out that way, did it?
You'd have to prove you're the one using the phone, or even worse, think of the fun if your phone was "borrowed" and you didn't notice. Her side would be all about the tired old "computers never lie" while opening a copy of "paint" to edit the screen capture.
Technological solutions to social problems never really work. Might help a little, maybe, maybe not.
Its a fad. Remember "that guy" whom wanted all kinds of firewall monitoring to let you know if there is a weird nonconformist packet seen by the firewall? We need reports. We need graphs. We need you to be paged for every individual packet. Because that TCP SYN SSH packet from China (while we're blocking APNIC space anyway, in fact only permitting ssh port IP space from our fellow admins home ISP ranges, and disabled typed in ssh logins going solely pub/priv key auth only) scares me and should scare you and we should all be scared and aware together so we can all watch TV while we're scared and buy lots of stuff from the commercial ads. WTF?
Eventually you gotta ask, so what are you going to do about it? Whats the end result you're looking for? Fly out to China and beat the guy whom owns the zombied windows PC? Open a ticket with the ISP in China? Call the CIA? Shine the batman emergency light on the clouds? Pray?
The next (last) step in the fad is to ignore it. Who cares. I got a ssh syn packet this morning from Korea. So what?
Privacy hand wringing is the same type of fad. So general mills has tracked your changing tastes in breakfast cereal since birth by careful analysis of facebook posts correlated with grocery store loyalty cards. Eventually, after being asked one time, a hundred times, a million times, "What are you gonna do about it?" you'll realize its simply irrelevant, and move on to something new to be scared of.
Maybe a terrorist behind every tree stump so we gotta give up all our freedoms because they hate our freedoms (oh wait been there done that). From what I read, in the UK the media has them in an absolute frenzy about neighborhood child molesters, maybe we can terrify americans the same way. Or we'll get terrified of space aliens. Or the flu, again. Who knows. Who cares.
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I thought one of the post-Columbia safety protocols was always have a stack ready to go in case a rescue mission is necessary. Waiver?
That's really awful. But... Aren't these guys supposed to be clipped in when they're working up there?
Metric clips vs Imperial clips?
Seriously though, I've worn a climbing harness to do light telco wiring (admittedly decades ago) and one annoying failure mode was the thing you clip on breaking. In that situation you are very firmly and securely attached to something falling right next to you.... I always felt weird cliping onto the basket right where they did the repair welding... I would not be surprised if whatever he clipped onto, landed on top of him.
A miscalculation caused a slip.
Another metric vs english measurement unit malfunction for NASA?
they are financed and directed by international criminal syndicates
This is the part I don't understand, or maybe its a troll indicator.
So.... I've seen all the movies. You wanna buy $100K worth of coke in Columbia to sell in the USA for $500K. But you don't have $100K. So you get a very special loan, with some very special terms, etc, from some dude in Columbia. Thats financing by an international criminal syndicate.
How exactly does an international criminal syndicate finance hacking? How much money has to be fronted to get a .torrent of visual basic or whatever, on a $300 emachines desktop, in moms basement, hopping on your neighbors wifi?
Psst, hey "Don VLM", I gotta business transaction for youse, Barry the Enforcer needs a new mouse from officemax for that special job, you know, for that guy that we was talking about? Yeah well that mouse costs money, like two dollars and ninety nine cents. I was wondering if you coulds front me the dough till next week, when we get our protection money from that kids lemonade stand. Yeah yeah, the usual 100% interest per week plus a cut of the action OK OK, "Don VLM". I know I gotta get you yourse three bucks next week or I'll end up waking up in bed next to a one of them decapitated "headless" servers. Yeah Yeah Capishe?
Only one company makes and sells BWRs, that being GE. You'll never guess but their first model was the BWR-1. The second was the BWR-2. And so on. The newer the reactor the safer the design and the higher the power output. After awhile, like tech companies, they selected cooler names like the ABWR (advanced) and SBWR and friends. The S stood for something else, but everyone calls it the "safe BWR" instead. The "ESBWR" supposedly stands for "economical (whatever) BWR" but I kid you not people call it the "extra safe BWR" instead. Probably because safe cannot be trademarked.
If google and wikipedia are too complicated, go back to CNN and "oh shiny" and "oh scared" coverage.
These reactors don't have concrete containment shields.
Not so, not even close. BWR model 3 (example is unit 1 at this site) had a mark1 concrete containment system and BWR model 4 (examples are units 2 and 3 at this site) could have been built with mark1 or mark2 containment systems.
A gross simplification is mark1 is a big concrete building with a little concrete building inside it and a steel shield inside that little building. In all the pics you can see the big building popped pretty much as designed and the little building inside it is still claimed to be undamaged. Mark1 designs look a lot like really tough office buildings; they look like a telco central office or a modern data center, sorta.
Mark2 is about the same but for a variety of boring engineering reasons looks like some really giant soda cans (or like a grain elevator). I don't see anything like that on site. I'm guessing either I haven't seen the right pic, or the ancient BWR-4s onsite have a mark1 containment system.
The newer stuff like the Mark3 look a lot like a swimming pool. I don't know if the undamaged reactor #6 is new enough to have a Mark3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Water_Reactor_Safety_Systems#Containment_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor#First_series_of_production_BWRs_.28BWR.2F1.E2.80.93BWR.2F6.29
Nuclear power has just a too high risk (probability of accident times damage cost) (even if rare) that any insurance consortium is willing to accept covering the full cost.
The problem is, what to replace it with? Coal has an even higher death and pollution rate, the worlds running out of natgas so forget that. That leaves, uh, going all "Pol Pot" on the population, I guess? Maybe some feel-good measures?
Sort of like a political ad, their side's crooks are terrible, we should replace their side's crooks with our side's crooks, to make it all better?
Those reactors are already destroyed. They will never be operational gain (it says that in the article I linked to).
Careful, reactors 1 / 2 / 3 were online hot and currently self destructing due to decay heat. On the other hand, 4 / 5 / 6 were off for maintenance and as far as I know are cold shutdown. They will be restarted in the future assuming they didn't take too much tsunami damage and/or explosion damage from 1/2/3 popping. You will not be too surprised to learn that 1 / 2 / 3 are the oldest reactors, some 40 year old clunkers. The newer design 4 and 5 are not too bad and 6 is actually pretty decent. And they're planning on building some new ABWRs 7 and 8 onsite. One new ABWR generates almost as much power as 1, 2, and 3 put together.
So the idea is to minimize contamination and damage to reactors 4 / 5 / 6. Remember only one of Chernobyls reactors melted down, the other continued generating power for a decade or something like that.
All the generators in all of Japan? washed away? I am still here and there are generators around for festivals and the likes, so no. There must be a reason they could not use alternative power sources to power their pumps, and I am curious as to why that is.
Compare the power level required to flash some light bulbs vs the power level required to inject 50000L/min at a couple hundred PSI...
One requires a portable honda generator, the other requires a large diesel electric locomotive, or a string of them. Even here, it would be a PITA. There, on the coast, where the tsunami washed away the tracks, and they mostly use electric rather than diesel electric locos...
To the best of my knowledge they can't even use ship power because either you need a very long megawatt grade power cord, or the ship coolant water intakes will clog.
Sorry to dampen you optimism, but these reactors are going to be totally useless after this. The reactor vessel will almost certainly be beyond repair and it is central to the entire plant. Economically it would be easier to just build a newer design of plant.
They were planning to build two new reactors onsite, # 7 and #8. They'll probably end up with new ABWRs to replace the old clunkers. Note that a single ABWR outputs as much power as three BWR-3s or two BWR-4s so yanking three 40 year old dinosaurs does not necessarily mean they need to build three new ABWRs to take their place... My guess is they'll get one.
I'm hardly on their board of directors but most likely instead of adding 2 new ABWRs they'll probably simultaneously build the currently planned two, decon the old units 1 / 2 / 3 and build a nice new ABWR on top of the old site of 1 / 2 / 3.
Its is possible, that after this excitement, they'll yank all the old BWR-4s and the one decent BWR-5 and replace the whole works with ESBWRs. A pity GE gave up on the SBWR... That design would have been pretty much inherently safe in this situation. Of course I'm a little fuzzy on dates, I think the SBWR design was done a decade or two after the BWR-3 and BWR-4 were built at Fukushima and I don't remember why GE gave up on the SBWR design anyway (maybe the navy or other govt considered it too "sensitive", despite the navy's fondness for PWRs?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#Reactors
Hows the dual drive support on the sheeva plug? Looks like the pogo also uses usb as its "drive interface"
Something like a soekris board / case than handles two SATA drives in a RAID mirror would be nice.
The best bet for the original poster is to ask the mythtv guys for low power / fanless options, and stuff it all into a 1U case (assuming rackmount is mandatory)
Compasses do not work in airplanes? Maps do not work at altitude?
Take a small plane up and find out. Pretty much, the answer is "no". Occasionally, in smooth air, when you're flying straight and level for awhile, you'll get a snapshot fix of where you're probably pointed, within 10, maybe even 5 degrees. Its not quite like on a large boat where it mostly just works.
You *NEED* a backup in case GPS fails (and dead reckoning has a good chance of leaving you just that -- dead).
As you aviation guys probably know, the most likely failure mode is not the GPS satellites being shot down or jammed, but the single GPS antenna getting iced over and cracking or the single feedline falling off or the single GPS "engine" overheating or the DC power to the GPS shorting out or open circuit, or
while LORAN might help
Only via a seance. LORAN is dead. Omega too. Omega was cool. Still have WWVB and WWV out in Colorado.
There is no particular reason why you couldn't re implement GPS using ground mounted atomic clocks and a bunch of towers. Conveniently, we have an infrastructure of cellphone towers neatly mapping with civilization, also providing coverage to big cities.
Without GPS, there's no way to precisely sync up timeslots in TDMA backhaul.
That sounds a little pessimistic. You mean at this moment there are no deployed time sources that will work.
To keep our morse code circuits aligned (just kidding) we had Cesium clocks, Rb clocks, etc. Cough up the dough and you can have very accurate time.
I'd have to look at the specs, but a really good ovenized xtal might be good enough for TDMA. By really good I don't mean the cheapest dip oscillator money can buy from the cheapest vendor. Think more like the "frequency west bricks" of ye olden days.
we wonder how long consoles will be the target platform for development of blockbuster games
As long as "blockbuster games" are defined as first person shooters and nothing else, probably forever.
You define gaming as playing FPS, and FPS only, buy a console.
You define gaming as FPS in addition to everything that isn't a FPS, buy a PC.
Its that simple.
So the only reason the shuttle remained was to get to the station, and the only reason the station remained was to have a place for the shuttle to go.
Almost everything else got cut for budget reasons, etc.
So, now that the shuttle is all done, that means the station is all done and will be deorbited rather soon, correct?
So what? What use is there in bringing back satellites? That's an utterly stupid requirement
You have to realize it was a cold war requirement to F with the soviets low altitude photorecon satellites. Back then they launched with actual photographic film, you know, like light sensitive celluloid or whatever. So the threat that we could scoop them up:
1) Made them launch higher, thus lower res, less payload = less film.
2) Made them threaten to put a little self destruct mechanism in the satellites, making them waste payload mass (and volume, I suppose)
Another idea was we'd deploy military sats, and if they didn't work, rather than leaving them up there for the soviets to mess with, or even worse, having them land on soviet territory, we'd just pick em up and take em home.
The last idea was, of course, being all things to all people all the time, some doofus promised we'd have 100 launches per year, so if we're up there on a .mil mission anyway every 3 days or whatever, why not stick to high res chemical photography for our own sats? Kind of like a mini-orbital unmanned space station.
So there were very solid cold war reasons to bring back sats.
You have to realize, all the design work was done in the early 70s, forty years ago. Very few electronic products have forty year runs.
I have to give credit to NASA. Their HD real-time stream was great! I was able to put it full screen on my 23" monitor, sit back, and enjoy the whole thing!
Note that the first orbital shuttle flight was right about the time my father brought home our first computer, a TRS-80 model III. What I do with computers has changed a bit, but the enjoyment level is about the same (maybe a little lower now). Want to see something really weird? Wikipedia classifies the -3 as a business system. I guess I should just be thankful it hasn't been deleted (yet).
When I was a kid they had the "under god" phrase in there, so that makes your list of "old testament" style activities OK.
>Problem with this (and yoru homeowners example) is that it's never black or white. Most people don't really fit in a category, and the question is always where do you draw the line ?
Lack of binary is a feature not a bug. Lack of a line in the sand is a feature not a bug.
How does one decide your neighbour is a lunatic (if he really was then he would be in a mental institution)
Sounds like you're not from the US. Here the psycopaths and lunatics are the leaders, not institutionalized. Seriously, we don't institutionalize people until after the tragedy occurs. If the cops haven't (yet) found a body, they're pretty much out free.
Not very soon, but I'm placing my bet on the assumption that once the children of the digital age (mostly Gen-Y and some younger Gen-Xers) become the majority, people will care less about ... because there will be less to hide or be ashamed of, hopefully because at that point, a majority of people....
"They" said the same things about my parent's generation and smoking weed. By the time I become an adult they'll be selling it in vending machines right next to the Marlboros. Didn't quite turn out that way, did it?
(of which they cannot find the address anyway)
Unless its a trick question and you're homeless, that seems a wee tiny bit optimistic.
You'd have to prove you're the one using the phone, or even worse, think of the fun if your phone was "borrowed" and you didn't notice.
Her side would be all about the tired old "computers never lie" while opening a copy of "paint" to edit the screen capture.
Technological solutions to social problems never really work. Might help a little, maybe, maybe not.
Its a fad. Remember "that guy" whom wanted all kinds of firewall monitoring to let you know if there is a weird nonconformist packet seen by the firewall? We need reports. We need graphs. We need you to be paged for every individual packet. Because that TCP SYN SSH packet from China (while we're blocking APNIC space anyway, in fact only permitting ssh port IP space from our fellow admins home ISP ranges, and disabled typed in ssh logins going solely pub/priv key auth only) scares me and should scare you and we should all be scared and aware together so we can all watch TV while we're scared and buy lots of stuff from the commercial ads. WTF?
Eventually you gotta ask, so what are you going to do about it? Whats the end result you're looking for? Fly out to China and beat the guy whom owns the zombied windows PC? Open a ticket with the ISP in China? Call the CIA? Shine the batman emergency light on the clouds? Pray?
The next (last) step in the fad is to ignore it. Who cares. I got a ssh syn packet this morning from Korea. So what?
Privacy hand wringing is the same type of fad. So general mills has tracked your changing tastes in breakfast cereal since birth by careful analysis of facebook posts correlated with grocery store loyalty cards. Eventually, after being asked one time, a hundred times, a million times, "What are you gonna do about it?" you'll realize its simply irrelevant, and move on to something new to be scared of.
Maybe a terrorist behind every tree stump so we gotta give up all our freedoms because they hate our freedoms (oh wait been there done that). From what I read, in the UK the media has them in an absolute frenzy about neighborhood child molesters, maybe we can terrify americans the same way. Or we'll get terrified of space aliens. Or the flu, again. Who knows. Who cares.