Keeping guns locked up is a good idea, and not having guns in a house with people with known mental instabilities is an even better idea. I'm just not sure we need to spend legislative effort on creating laws. We should enforce the current ones, although getting rid of the gun show loophole is a good idea.
Maybe keeping homicidal people with mental instabilities locked up is a better idea, hmmmmmm?
Otherwise, put yourself in the shoes of a 28-year-old with an advanced degree that is fluent in English and that has to use an "illegal" VPN to exercise your curiosity of the outside world--would contribute to society by risking everything to join a violent rebellion or by trying to get out and establish a career and citizenship in the West?
The answer to that question depends on your level of national pride and self-sacrifice. Most will choose what benefits the individual, however it only takes a few of the right people to destabilize a regime.
You need a critical mass of patriots with courage, vision, education, and capability to pull it off though.
This is sabre ratteling and nothing more. The US still has the mutualy assured destruction plan to prevent the use of nukes. An attack whould be the end of N Korea and they know it as destruction is assured. This is what kept the US and Russia from trading barbs for a long time during the cold war and eventualy led to peace. We watched each other carefully, then figured each other was worried someone would do something stupid. It never happened.
It would be unfortunate if N Korea did something stupid and triggered the assured destruction portion of the plan.
The US is not going to drop nukes first. A pre-emptive strike won't prevent a return due ot the run silent run deep capibility.
My recommendation would be to spend some time looking at what jobs are available to PhD graduates in your field. Then look at the salaries. Make sure that you are happy doing the job and making that salary.
If you aren't, it's not too late to switch to chemistry or bio-chem or whatever you want to be doing when you graduate.
I cannot stress how important it is that you think hard about it now, because this will be your last chance to change fields without a massive hit to your resume or your personal life, if at all.
Also, if you are thinking about taking the summer to get your ya-yas out before graduate school starts, you're still thinking like an undergrad and may not be ready to go to graduate school. Your peers (and future competitors) are probably pursuing research positions for the summer before they ship out. Jobs are tight right now and bio grad-students are plentiful and cheap. Work hard to set yourself apart from your peers or don't bother with the grind.
GOOD!! If the program needs to maintain or increase then our representatives need to actively decide to increase funding. Funding should NOT be automatic.
Every time I watch one of those travel shows on TV where someone goes to Iran, I have to laugh a little.
I think if people saw that they would be completely uncomfortable with the idea of bombing the place. Their leadership are obviously a bunch of nutters and scumbags, but those are normal, modern people living in what looks like a reasonably modern city.
Same thing goes for surgeons, but a robot has two qualities that your run of the mill surgeon doesn't: It is consistent in its results (you can end up in the hands of a drunken surgeon, someone who just lost a familiar, or it just happens to have a bad day), and it is cheaper (in the long run).
If the "surgeon" just lost their familiar, they're probably a witch or a warlock. So you've got bigger problems on your hands than their emotional state!
I think that you've drunk way too much of the kool-aid. Obama is a decent guy, but he isn't a mini-god. Many of his progressive ideas are not being realized due to his inability or his opponents unwillingness to bring about compromise.
It strikes me that if you just let this man run the country for the remainder of his term without obstruction America could be the country that most people in the world have been told it is.
A socialist empire who takes care of its citizenry? Sorry, that's Europe.
If you look at history and world opinion, America is generally thought of as being a defiant, controlling bully in international space. There are both economic (oil) and historical (WWII, national security) reasons for that.
Internally, America was built on the foundation of freedom from British oppression and taxation. So it is only natural that many US citizens will oppose government efforts to both increase taxation and oppress what are currently viewed as freedoms.
And the whole world would be a better place.
That's purely your opinion. Obama has done some good (health care), but has also had a lot of bad things continue to happen under his watch: 1. The US is still involved in Afganistan. 2. North Korea and Iran are still defiantly working towards nuclear programs and torturing their citizens. 3. Russia has become significantly more aggressive towards the US. 4. China continues to destroy the US though cyberattacks and economic undercutting. 5. The US economy collapsed and kicked off an international collapse. 6. The Israelis and Palestinians are still at each other throats. 7. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia are in a state of political upheaval and are at risk of being taken over by religiously oppressive regimes. 8. Syrian people are being killed with no international assistance. 9. The US supplied Mexican drug cartels with US weapons. 10. Shooting rampages appear to have increased. 11. Gitmo is still Gitmo. 12. Like previous presidents, Obama also has acknowledged the need to maintain a kill list. What is particularly special is that his list also can include US citizens. 13. The US deficit continues to go the wrong direction. 14. The US congress partisanship is still stifling any change.
So reviewing history as it currently stands gives me the impression that it's been more "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and less "hope and change."
Alternatively you can obstruct him at every turn and show that you are hypocrites that talk democracy and freedom, but are nothing more than corporate shrills doing the bidding of lobbyists, none of which are working for the American people, let alone the world.
Bullshit. All good qualities aside, Obama is a politician to the core. He wants to do what he perceives as good things for the country. But above all else, he wants to be in power. To do this, he has had to cater to lobbyists and special interest groups just like every other politician in power.
And if you won't, for fuck sake let him run another country. Australia would love to have Obama as the leader.
Many in the US would buy him a first class plane ticket out of the country.
People of his mien come once a generation FFS.
I like your association to Hitler. (That was unintentional, right?)
Jokes and media brain washing apart. The guy lives so much more humbly that its hard to think if he is as crazy as western media shows him or is there more going on. The country is making progress in spite of all the sanctions. Not sure if its the Iranian media spin but the guy sits and eats simple foods on a mat on the floor, sleeps on the floor.
I don't know which one is propaganda, this video or if the western media, or if there is a Jackal and Hyde going on here.
I never understood the appeal of those TI-8X calculators. It was always more instructive to learn to plot curves with a pencil and paper by taking limits and simultaneously solving equations... especially since you didn't always have a calculator in your pocket.
Nowdays, we have Mathematica, Matlab and Maple on our computers. Matlab Mobile is available for iOS and a mobile Mathematica version is in development as well.
Why would you buy an overly complex calculator that is trying to be a computer when you probably have a phone in your pocket with more processing power?
What, pray tell, is the legitimate use of high capacity magazines? Other than pure laziness and convenience they serve no legitimate purpose.
You can't hunt with them, as most (if not all) States place limits on the number of rounds in hunting weapons.
If you can't hit what you're shooting it with the first couple of rounds, you need to go back to the range and practice until you can.
It's the same reason that your car can hold 350 gallons of gas even though (1) you usually pass a gas station every 5 miles and (2) you could haul extra gas around in gas cans in your trunk.
A columnist at the CBC has a good article on how many Canadians feel about the USA's attitude towards guns and these horrible tragedies.
That sensationalist article had exactly the type of tone that you'd expect to come out of a socialist state like Canada: The government will decide what rights you can be granted.
The thing is, do you really want someone telling you what gun is appropriate for you to own? If so, where do you draw the line? How much alcohol can you own? Can we decide what kind if car you have to buy? (No SUV's for you!) How about how much electricity or bandwidth you can use?
Mercury contamination (from burning coal for electricity), SUVs, and alcohol kill far more people every day than guns, yet most people don't think twice about utilizing those resources to excess.
Bollocks, been smoking the stuff for 35yrs, I'm currently puffing on a joint while sitting in my $0.5M+ beach house.
Dude. You lost me with that sentence. Is your beach house an outhouse for the contractors renovating on someone's mansion? Otherwise, I am going to assume that it is located in Siberia or Antarctica for the price.
As an Australian I cannot begin to fathom what it must be like to live in that shit hole over there - you work for nothing, with no rights, 90% of people are fucking broke, half your country is retarded and refuses to allow public healthcare so all those poor people stay sick and poor and while all this happens you allow your country to spend TRILLIONS on defence - while people die from basic medical conditions that would cost a small percentage of your defence budget!?!?
Do you even get how fucking mentally handicapped your entire country seems? AND IT'S PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR NOT DOING ANYTHING.
You're just jealous that your country doesn't have the bomb.
Pretty much, yeah. When you're one of the big guys in the prez' coterie, you get what you want, and Reid (D, NV) got what he wanted....of course, we still have to figure out where to put all the $#@%^! nuclear waste, but you know, at least Reid got what he wanted.
I propose we bury it in LA County, specifically Hollywood - earthquakes be damned.
I propose that we bury it in Washington DC, right under the White House and Congress.
It should help reform the term limits for elected officials.
1. Manufacturing in the USA, with manufacturing using robots, creating low thousands of well-paid jobs for Americans.
2. Manufacturing in China using hundreds of thousands of low-paid Chinese jobs.
3. Manufacturing in the USA without robots, but with hundreds of thousands of minimum-wage part-time jobs--and all Apple products increase in price by 30%.
Apple is currently doing #2 and transitioning to #1. Are you really upset that they didn't pick #3?
Your choices all have the same outcome. It is not the number of american jobs that is important to the economy, it is the number of american jobs that provide a livable wage.
In a robotic plant, most of the workers are the ones who box things up at the end of the process. Usually the minimum qualifications are a high school diploma, if that. How is that a well paying job?
Unless Apple intends to pay a livable wage to its employees at these plant(s), which would mean either a significant price hike in products or a reduction in profits, all they are doing is pandering to the populus notion of buy American.
Why should you get a well-paying job simply for (1) having a high school diploma and (2) putting things in boxes?
The problem is that, since these positions require no qualifications or skills, there are too many workers for the number of these positions available. This drives the price down in our capitalist economy. It also highlights why it is essential for workers to develop a specialized skill in order to achieve higher pay and job security.
If you are really worried about American jobs, you should be lobbying the government to stop letting in non-citizens (legal and "overlooked" illegal) work in the US at these basic jobs. The current excuse is that "Americans won't take those jobs because the work is hard and the pay is too low." Well, if companies can't fill the jobs at the current payrate, they'll have to increase it, go out of business, or move out of the US. The Republicans will complain that by forcing companies to only hire Americans would ruin the economy by raising prices and the Democrats will be afraid to lose the Hispanic vote. The amusing thing is that currently both of those parties are implicitly screwing over the unskilled American worker, who constitutes many more votes than the company owners and (non-voting) immigrants who benefit from this policy.
I mean, a simple tone generator, and some variable impedence circuits attached to some high power tansducers with a waveguide cup, and you are there.
All you have to do, is ensure that the tones emitted by the transducers are offset a small fraction of a wavelength of the tone frequency, such that a reinforcement peak forms and "rolls" around the inside of the cavity. Basically an ultrasonic motor, but with just the stators.
Would also work wonders for busting up rust on a rusty bolt.
But it would also loosen all of the other bolts that were in the vicinity of the bolt you were trying to tighten!
And nothing currently existing beats a screwdriver for torquing the bolt that last bit so that it elastically deforms and stays tight.
I'm not really sure why I'm explaining all this as this is naught but common sense.
No, it's more like naught but bullshit. The proper way to store bread in the freezer is in a freezer bag that retains the moisture. Ice crystals form inside the back--that's moisture that's leaving the bread. You bring the bread out of the freezer and allow it to sit at room temperature in the bag until the crystals have disappeared, re-absorbing the water. Then you place it in a 350F degree oven for about 15 minutes to re-distribute the water.
Taken from an 80 year old man who has baked over six thousand different styles of bread and routinely freezes whole loaves, even if they're to be served in just a few days.
Thanks for the tip.
Do you wrap the bread in anything when you heat it in the oven?
No, the boron in the control rod stops the reaction when inserted. If the control rod comes out then you would have a critical mass. I assume that thermal expansion of the core gives this a negative coefficient reactivity which probably makes it safe. This still seems somehow more problematic than launching an RTG with a sub critical mass of Pu.
Removing the control rod starts the reaction, but it is a sub-critical mass so there is no explosion.
Just because it is enriched Uranium doesn't mean that it is enriched to weapons grade.
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He's the only one not running or looking a bit disturbed by the blast in that picture too.
Keeping guns locked up is a good idea, and not having guns in a house with people with known mental instabilities is an even better idea. I'm just not sure we need to spend legislative effort on creating laws. We should enforce the current ones, although getting rid of the gun show loophole is a good idea.
Maybe keeping homicidal people with mental instabilities locked up is a better idea, hmmmmmm?
Otherwise, put yourself in the shoes of a 28-year-old with an advanced degree that is fluent in English and that has to use an "illegal" VPN to exercise your curiosity of the outside world--would contribute to society by risking everything to join a violent rebellion or by trying to get out and establish a career and citizenship in the West?
The answer to that question depends on your level of national pride and self-sacrifice. Most will choose what benefits the individual, however it only takes a few of the right people to destabilize a regime.
You need a critical mass of patriots with courage, vision, education, and capability to pull it off though.
This is sabre ratteling and nothing more. The US still has the mutualy assured destruction plan to prevent the use of nukes. An attack whould be the end of N Korea and they know it as destruction is assured. This is what kept the US and Russia from trading barbs for a long time during the cold war and eventualy led to peace. We watched each other carefully, then figured each other was worried someone would do something stupid. It never happened.
It would be unfortunate if N Korea did something stupid and triggered the assured destruction portion of the plan.
The US is not going to drop nukes first. A pre-emptive strike won't prevent a return due ot the run silent run deep capibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
Do you really think that the US would retaliate to a North Korean nuclear attach with a nuclear China just next door?
It would be more likely that the US would absorb the hit and invade North Korea.
Also, do you really think that Obama would have the stones to retaliate with a nuclear option? I don't.
My recommendation would be to spend some time looking at what jobs are available to PhD graduates in your field. Then look at the salaries. Make sure that you are happy doing the job and making that salary.
If you aren't, it's not too late to switch to chemistry or bio-chem or whatever you want to be doing when you graduate.
I cannot stress how important it is that you think hard about it now, because this will be your last chance to change fields without a massive hit to your resume or your personal life, if at all.
Also, if you are thinking about taking the summer to get your ya-yas out before graduate school starts, you're still thinking like an undergrad and may not be ready to go to graduate school. Your peers (and future competitors) are probably pursuing research positions for the summer before they ship out. Jobs are tight right now and bio grad-students are plentiful and cheap. Work hard to set yourself apart from your peers or don't bother with the grind.
That's not a drone. That's an R/C model plane.
It's amusing that you think there's a difference between the two.
GOOD!! If the program needs to maintain or increase then our representatives need to actively decide to increase funding. Funding should NOT be automatic.
Neither should taxes.
Every time I watch one of those travel shows on TV where someone goes to Iran, I have to laugh a little.
I think if people saw that they would be completely uncomfortable with the idea of bombing the place. Their leadership are obviously a bunch of nutters and scumbags, but those are normal, modern people living in what looks like a reasonably modern city.
Sounds like Nazi Germany!
Same thing goes for surgeons, but a robot has two qualities that your run of the mill surgeon doesn't: It is consistent in its results (you can end up in the hands of a drunken surgeon, someone who just lost a familiar, or it just happens to have a bad day), and it is cheaper (in the long run).
If the "surgeon" just lost their familiar, they're probably a witch or a warlock. So you've got bigger problems on your hands than their emotional state!
Most places in the US have a small local honey industry. Support it.
Supporting local businesses is good if you want small business to remain alive.
But that's not going to stop a "local" merchant from buying Chinese fake honey, pouring it in smaller bottles, and then selling it at twice the price.
So buying local isn't really a fix for smuggling and fraud.
I think that you've drunk way too much of the kool-aid. Obama is a decent guy, but he isn't a mini-god. Many of his progressive ideas are not being realized due to his inability or his opponents unwillingness to bring about compromise.
It strikes me that if you just let this man run the country for the remainder of his term without obstruction America could be the country that most people in the world have been told it is.
A socialist empire who takes care of its citizenry? Sorry, that's Europe.
If you look at history and world opinion, America is generally thought of as being a defiant, controlling bully in international space. There are both economic (oil) and historical (WWII, national security) reasons for that.
Internally, America was built on the foundation of freedom from British oppression and taxation. So it is only natural that many US citizens will oppose government efforts to both increase taxation and oppress what are currently viewed as freedoms.
And the whole world would be a better place.
That's purely your opinion. Obama has done some good (health care), but has also had a lot of bad things continue to happen under his watch:
1. The US is still involved in Afganistan.
2. North Korea and Iran are still defiantly working towards nuclear programs and torturing their citizens.
3. Russia has become significantly more aggressive towards the US.
4. China continues to destroy the US though cyberattacks and economic undercutting.
5. The US economy collapsed and kicked off an international collapse.
6. The Israelis and Palestinians are still at each other throats.
7. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia are in a state of political upheaval and are at risk of being taken over by religiously oppressive regimes.
8. Syrian people are being killed with no international assistance.
9. The US supplied Mexican drug cartels with US weapons.
10. Shooting rampages appear to have increased.
11. Gitmo is still Gitmo.
12. Like previous presidents, Obama also has acknowledged the need to maintain a kill list. What is particularly special is that his list also can include US citizens.
13. The US deficit continues to go the wrong direction.
14. The US congress partisanship is still stifling any change.
So reviewing history as it currently stands gives me the impression that it's been more "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and less "hope and change."
Alternatively you can obstruct him at every turn and show that you are hypocrites that talk democracy and freedom, but are nothing more than corporate shrills doing the bidding of lobbyists, none of which are working for the American people, let alone the world.
Bullshit. All good qualities aside, Obama is a politician to the core. He wants to do what he perceives as good things for the country. But above all else, he wants to be in power. To do this, he has had to cater to lobbyists and special interest groups just like every other politician in power.
And if you won't, for fuck sake let him run another country. Australia would love to have Obama as the leader.
Many in the US would buy him a first class plane ticket out of the country.
People of his mien come once a generation FFS.
I like your association to Hitler. (That was unintentional, right?)
...because sometimes I see things that I don't want to remember!
Jokes and media brain washing apart. The guy lives so much more humbly that its hard to think if he is as crazy as western media shows him or is there more going on. The country is making progress in spite of all the sanctions. Not sure if its the Iranian media spin but the guy sits and eats simple foods on a mat on the floor, sleeps on the floor.
I don't know which one is propaganda, this video or if the western media, or if there is a Jackal and Hyde going on here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyWul35JnjY
How he eats and sleeps isn't really an issue. The general public tends to think that someone is insane when they advocate genocide (towards the Jews).
I never understood the appeal of those TI-8X calculators. It was always more instructive to learn to plot curves with a pencil and paper by taking limits and simultaneously solving equations... especially since you didn't always have a calculator in your pocket.
Nowdays, we have Mathematica, Matlab and Maple on our computers. Matlab Mobile is available for iOS and a mobile Mathematica version is in development as well.
Why would you buy an overly complex calculator that is trying to be a computer when you probably have a phone in your pocket with more processing power?
What, pray tell, is the legitimate use of high capacity magazines? Other than pure laziness and convenience they serve no legitimate purpose.
You can't hunt with them, as most (if not all) States place limits on the number of rounds in hunting weapons.
If you can't hit what you're shooting it with the first couple of rounds, you need to go back to the range and practice until you can.
It's the same reason that your car can hold 350 gallons of gas even though (1) you usually pass a gas station every 5 miles and (2) you could haul extra gas around in gas cans in your trunk.
A columnist at the CBC has a good article on how many Canadians feel about the USA's attitude towards guns and these horrible tragedies.
That sensationalist article had exactly the type of tone that you'd expect to come out of a socialist state like Canada: The government will decide what rights you can be granted.
The thing is, do you really want someone telling you what gun is appropriate for you to own? If so, where do you draw the line? How much alcohol can you own? Can we decide what kind if car you have to buy? (No SUV's for you!) How about how much electricity or bandwidth you can use?
Mercury contamination (from burning coal for electricity), SUVs, and alcohol kill far more people every day than guns, yet most people don't think twice about utilizing those resources to excess.
Bollocks, been smoking the stuff for 35yrs, I'm currently puffing on a joint while sitting in my $0.5M+ beach house.
Dude. You lost me with that sentence. Is your beach house an outhouse for the contractors renovating on someone's mansion? Otherwise, I am going to assume that it is located in Siberia or Antarctica for the price.
As an Australian I cannot begin to fathom what it must be like to live in that shit hole over there - you work for nothing, with no rights, 90% of people are fucking broke, half your country is retarded and refuses to allow public healthcare so all those poor people stay sick and poor and while all this happens you allow your country to spend TRILLIONS on defence - while people die from basic medical conditions that would cost a small percentage of your defence budget!?!?
Do you even get how fucking mentally handicapped your entire country seems? AND IT'S PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR NOT DOING ANYTHING.
You're just jealous that your country doesn't have the bomb.
Of course, this wasn't in America.
Of course it wasn't.
Are you implying that only Americans have sufficient constitution and coordination to actually type an email from bed?.
If it turns out that my video card isn't good enough for Valve, then I can upgrade it. I can't do that with a Mac.
I am sorry to read that you couldn't figure out how to change a Mac video card!
I've upgraded my Mac Pro's video card twice. Let me know if you need help figuring out how to do it!
Pretty much, yeah. When you're one of the big guys in the prez' coterie, you get what you want, and Reid (D, NV) got what he wanted. ...of course, we still have to figure out where to put all the $#@%^! nuclear waste, but you know, at least Reid got what he wanted.
I propose we bury it in LA County, specifically Hollywood - earthquakes be damned.
I propose that we bury it in Washington DC, right under the White House and Congress.
It should help reform the term limits for elected officials.
Here are your options:
1. Manufacturing in the USA, with manufacturing using robots, creating low thousands of well-paid jobs for Americans.
2. Manufacturing in China using hundreds of thousands of low-paid Chinese jobs.
3. Manufacturing in the USA without robots, but with hundreds of thousands of minimum-wage part-time jobs--and all Apple products increase in price by 30%.
Apple is currently doing #2 and transitioning to #1. Are you really upset that they didn't pick #3?
Your choices all have the same outcome. It is not the number of american jobs that is important to the economy, it is the number of american jobs that provide a livable wage.
In a robotic plant, most of the workers are the ones who box things up at the end of the process. Usually the minimum qualifications are a high school diploma, if that. How is that a well paying job?
Unless Apple intends to pay a livable wage to its employees at these plant(s), which would mean either a significant price hike in products or a reduction in profits, all they are doing is pandering to the populus notion of buy American.
Why should you get a well-paying job simply for (1) having a high school diploma and (2) putting things in boxes?
The problem is that, since these positions require no qualifications or skills, there are too many workers for the number of these positions available. This drives the price down in our capitalist economy. It also highlights why it is essential for workers to develop a specialized skill in order to achieve higher pay and job security.
If you are really worried about American jobs, you should be lobbying the government to stop letting in non-citizens (legal and "overlooked" illegal) work in the US at these basic jobs. The current excuse is that "Americans won't take those jobs because the work is hard and the pay is too low." Well, if companies can't fill the jobs at the current payrate, they'll have to increase it, go out of business, or move out of the US. The Republicans will complain that by forcing companies to only hire Americans would ruin the economy by raising prices and the Democrats will be afraid to lose the Hispanic vote. The amusing thing is that currently both of those parties are implicitly screwing over the unskilled American worker, who constitutes many more votes than the company owners and (non-voting) immigrants who benefit from this policy.
You could probably make one if you really wanted.
I mean, a simple tone generator, and some variable impedence circuits attached to some high power tansducers with a waveguide cup, and you are there.
All you have to do, is ensure that the tones emitted by the transducers are offset a small fraction of a wavelength of the tone frequency, such that a reinforcement peak forms and "rolls" around the inside of the cavity. Basically an ultrasonic motor, but with just the stators.
Would also work wonders for busting up rust on a rusty bolt.
But it would also loosen all of the other bolts that were in the vicinity of the bolt you were trying to tighten!
And nothing currently existing beats a screwdriver for torquing the bolt that last bit so that it elastically deforms and stays tight.
I'm not really sure why I'm explaining all this as this is naught but common sense.
No, it's more like naught but bullshit. The proper way to store bread in the freezer is in a freezer bag that retains the moisture. Ice crystals form inside the back--that's moisture that's leaving the bread. You bring the bread out of the freezer and allow it to sit at room temperature in the bag until the crystals have disappeared, re-absorbing the water. Then you place it in a 350F degree oven for about 15 minutes to re-distribute the water.
Taken from an 80 year old man who has baked over six thousand different styles of bread and routinely freezes whole loaves, even if they're to be served in just a few days.
Thanks for the tip.
Do you wrap the bread in anything when you heat it in the oven?
No, the boron in the control rod stops the reaction when inserted. If the control rod comes out then you would have a critical mass. I assume that thermal expansion of the core gives this a negative coefficient reactivity which probably makes it safe. This still seems somehow more problematic than launching an RTG with a sub critical mass of Pu.
Removing the control rod starts the reaction, but it is a sub-critical mass so there is no explosion.
Just because it is enriched Uranium doesn't mean that it is enriched to weapons grade.