http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 20 May 2013 03:07:49 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:07:49 This appears to be a "leak" without attribution -- [i]"a U.S. national security official told Reuters".[/i]

You can be certain that military doctrine was being adhered to in the operation, and I have my doubts that it mandated anyone's death via extrajudicial killing.

There's just too little... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8103 Mon, 02 May 2011 15:34:51 Hence, /bin/laden

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8102 Mon, 02 May 2011 15:08:25 No matter what happens, some (that is, most) people now reflexively try to gain altitude by copping an attitude: [i]"I'm morally above wanting to see OBL dead, I'm too cynical to be deceived, and everybody else is a 'sheeple' except me, since I have the inside track on the ways of this wicked, wicke... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8101 Mon, 02 May 2011 11:14:06 And for years, I thought it was from the biological, physiological need of being an obligate omnivore.

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8100 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:05:23 [i]"You better believe I am deadly serious that some people will fight for the devil, for the death principle, which is what radiation is."

"Learn" more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031823_Japan_radiation.html#ixzz1HXXlp2O7[/i]

Notice the pseudo-psychoanalytic diagnosis of people who have the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8099 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:09:47 http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l580/Dogmudgeon/coaloilnuclear.jpg
[i]Seth Godin, [link:http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html|The triumph of coal marketing].[/i]

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8098 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:38:35 We're all about Science until someone questions our own tribal totems.

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8097 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:51:26 We can detect nearly ANY change in background radiation.

Of course, such a small portion of our population has any accurate information on how it's measured and what its effects are (scientifically-described, not the product of pop cynicism) that the mere WORD "radiation" can cause severe mental... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8096 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:43:36 A Richter 9.0 with a large-area lateral movement of 18 feet.

PLUS a tsunami as high as 90 feet.

And here I thought it was a MAJOR DEADLY NUCLEAR DISASTER THAT WILL KILL US ALL!

That's what the news and 20000 hypercynical bloggers said, anyway.

Huffington Post and CNN even showed pict... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8095 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:35:37 [link:http://www.snopes.com/quotes/seattle.asp|Here is the article on Snopes with an earlier version of the speech.]

It looks like it's been changing, too, like most ULs.

However, I like this one a hell of a lot more than [i]The Bill Of No Rights[/i].

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8094 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:29:08 I glanced at the Huffington Post headlines a few days ago and it said there was a Nuclear Catastrophe and over 5000 dead. Then a little later I heard on TV that there had also been a major earthquake and tsunami.

Maybe I'll crawl back into bed for another month or two ...

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8093 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:49:46 Some supermoon!

That's quite a cool picture, though.

--d!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8092 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:40:48 But they do make the commission of violence much easier and more casual.

On the other hand, it is never a bad time to promote solutions to violence and hostility. The recent Presidential initiative against bullying, for example. Liberal RKBAers could unite behind conflict-reduction efforts and g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8091 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:37:55 This is a bad situation. It is far from "ok".

I'm what you condescendingly call a "nuker". (You can ask Bananas.)

So there you have it.

By the way, please don't use the word "nuker" anymore. It isn't just a minced call-out, it sounds a lot like the word racists call the black folks.

-... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8090 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:28:19 The information is available from Wikipedia, the NRC, the Department of Energy, and nearly every undergrad nuclear science course's website.

[b][i]Easily[/i][/b] available. [b][i]Every word of it.[/i][/b] And Reuters has a fairly rumor-free collection of what they know at this point.

If you ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8089 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:23:14 There has been a TON of rumor-based "facts". The Press has had a field day with this, and when it's all over, a lot of people are going to have to explain why they hyped the fear and shorted the science.

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8088 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:48:53 Here on DU, it's all about "Teh Nukezz", but outside on the Intertubes, there's also a lot of talk about HAARP, the Supermoon, and UFOs being seen.

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8087 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:45:10 It's a bad situation over there. But the "China Syndrome" just doesn't happen the way we once thought it did.

Over 100 tons of molten uranium metal "corium" was left at Chernobyl #4 after the explosion (which scattered between 15 and 60 tons more of it). It partially melted through a floor and p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8086 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:42:08 ZERO.

We found that out last year with the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

In spite of a few promises to enact such legislation, nothing was done. I guess Nader's story had its effect, that an indemnity requirement is really a huge subsidy.

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8085 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:04:48 From what I've read, it sounds like it was actually an old map of the predicted fallout pattern after a multiple-warhead attack on Japan.

750 "rads", for example, is about 1000 times as much radiation as was actually measured just outside the control building (it was 700 mSv, or 0.7 rads in old-... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8084 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:42:43 [b][link:http://www.earthfiles.com/index.php|Headlines][/b] (Check bottom of web page)

• 03/12/2011 — Meltdown Threat At Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1.
• 03/10/2011 — Part 9: Private Detective's Encounters with Non-Humans
• 03/04/2011 — 8,500 More UFO Pages Released Today by ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8083 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:36:38 Sadly, it's popular among the older, No Nukes crowd.

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8082 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:50:43 Nobody knows anything for sure, yet lots of people are using this to make their political points.

It's mainly the anti-nukes now. If it turns out there's less damage than the news ginned up, the pro-nukes will. Keep in mind that when the first reports of Chernobyl came in, we were hearing things ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8081 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:03:57 It has long since cooled and solidified, and is encased in the structure's "sarcophagus".

It's "cool" enough for periodic inspections without putting the inspection teams at undue risk -- but make no mistake, it's still hot enough to require that those teams use protective garments, radiation co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8080 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:57:28 It's a second-stage cooling system.

It means that there were enough problems with the primary systems so that there will be extensive investigations -- but that the safety systems worked well enough to keep the core isolated and (after a lot of masonry being excreted by the reactor workers and r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pigwidgeon/8079 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:36:07