"we aren't building any more clean environmentally friendly nuclear power plants..."
I guess you haven't heard about radioactive waste and depleted uranium. Theres nothing clean about nuclear energy.
With 2.4 Billion years to the half-life nuclear waste, and no possible treatment for exposure, mercury doesn't seem so bad any more.
Just the idea that these people waited hours in line, trampled, and beat each other implies that they would not be able to afford them otherwise. Nobody who could afford to pay 699$ for new a laptop would pee themselves to get a chance at a 50$ one.
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"we aren't building any more clean environmentally friendly nuclear power plants..." I guess you haven't heard about radioactive waste and depleted uranium. Theres nothing clean about nuclear energy. With 2.4 Billion years to the half-life nuclear waste, and no possible treatment for exposure, mercury doesn't seem so bad any more.
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Just the idea that these people waited hours in line, trampled, and beat each other implies that they would not be able to afford them otherwise. Nobody who could afford to pay 699$ for new a laptop would pee themselves to get a chance at a 50$ one.