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byimikem
16 @10:42PM
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Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy?
So none of that sweet, sweet taxpayer money for nuclear? Great. How about all the other taxpayer money subsidizing every other source?
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byimikem
16 @02:05PM
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Attached to: Governments Don't Do Enough to Protect Nuclear Facilities From Cyberattacks
Yep. Pretty sure he jacks off to high res JPEGs of photoelectric cells.
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byimikem
2015 @08:11AM
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Attached to: How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand
Obviously, we should just speak English, ssslllloooooowwwwww and LOUD!!!!! Everyone understands that. Especially aliens, who are all just humans with weird coloration and skin conditions.
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byimikem
2015 @02:32PM
(#49089841)
Attached to: Human DNA Enlarges Mouse Brains
Just another harebrained scheme.
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byimikem
015 @11:46AM
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Attached to: Mars One: Final 100 Candidates Selected
So it's being filmed on location in LA? [Tri]color[e] me surprised.
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byimikem
014 @11:22AM
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Attached to: LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name
And in unrelated news, the makers of "Depends" announced record profits this week.
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byimikem
014 @12:42PM
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Attached to: Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows
Which problems would those be? Last I checked, number of dead people from nuclear didn't even register on the bar graphs comparing relative safety of power generation technologies. You can watch "Pandora's Promise" and see the EBIL RAY-DEE-AY-SHUN on the guy's dosimeter as he walks around Fukushima Daiichi. Note that the readings are lower than in the city of Denver. Oh Noes! We had better evacuate the capital of Colorado!!
Until we have stopped fossil fuel use, by which I mean SHUT THE LAST COMBUSTION POWER PLANT DOWN PERMANENTLY (combustion engines in transportation sector, and particularly aircraft could go on awhile longer), I believe it is irresponsible in the extreme to avoid nuclear power. The costs of the Fukushima disaster are nearly all political, and mainly incurred due to hysteria, fear-mongering and in all likelihood smart businessmen who see a way to profit enormously from said hysteria.
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byimikem
014 @12:27PM
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Attached to: Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows
"And no, none of that cost is due to NIMBYs or lawsuits. It's the build and operating cost of the plant that is the problem."
And that build and operating cost factors in NIMBYs and lawsuits via the absurd NRC [or $YOUR_REGULATORY_BODY which probably cribbed NRC's] regulations. Otherwise it just isn't very expensive to pour concrete and fab a reactor core.
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byimikem
2014 @01:20PM
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Attached to: US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria
I was worried that IS-IS was getting massively deprecated by the US government, after I spent time learning it.
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byimikem
2014 @12:21PM
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Attached to: US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria
It worked pretty well when directed against Germany and Japan in the 1940s.
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byimikem
2014 @01:43PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes?
That's it! Now we have a way to finance the Mars colonization, by backing up all those 1980s and 1990s cat videos we just migrated off VHS tape. I'll see about standing up the first off-planet data center later this week.
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byimikem
2014 @10:51AM
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Attached to: Universal Big Bang Lithium Deficit Confirmed
Only if she is naked. Hot grits optional.
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byimikem
2014 @10:43AM
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Attached to: Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads
Why would they want to sue themselves?
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byimikem
0, 2014 @06:48PM
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Attached to: China's Island Factory
Is there a difference here, or did you just feel the need to visit thesaurus.com today?
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byimikem
0, 2014 @06:47AM
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Attached to: China's Island Factory
It's highly arguable whether any of these hot spots currently involve vital interests of the US. Penis-measuring is, as you note, a rather expensive proposition at this level. The American public generally shrugs, or at most bitches a little at the cost in dollars, but a decade plus of body bags and young men with missing limbs have reduced appetites for being the world's cops. That would change quickly in the case of a threat to a close ally, let alone US possessions.
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