>The anti Yucca plan was based on ignoring science.

???

Did you really write that?

The anti-Yucca in Nevada is *not* anti-nuclear; it's not even NIMBY.

The law to choose a dump specified that every site on the list was to be evaluated, and that the dump *shall* be built at the safest site on the list.

Not built if a site is safe, but at the *safest* of the sites to be considered.

Guess how many sites were on the list. (if you guess 2 or more, you have no idea what you're talking about.

So after being told that the site was coming here whether it was safe or not, some people got upset.

I have no problem with a long term nuclear storage facility that close to me. I *do* have a problem with the gang of idiots running that site running anything with chemicals more dangerous than bubble soap.

Over a million dollars of damage in an earthquake . . . to their on-site building studying earthquake safety.

And how does the 100 year water level compare to the proposed location of the material? (known for 20 or 30 years).

A site there is welcome. A site run by those morons under Senator Bennet's rules is another matter.

hawk

Star Wars was never science fiction by genre.

It's Space Opera. Which in turn was descended from Western Opera.

Space opera and science fiction have some overlap, but they're different creatures.

hawk

Yes, Lord Vader.

So?

The entire Yucca Mountain plan was based on ignoring science. Why not ignore Cartography, too? :)

hawk

There are lots of reasons, ranging from education requited, ease of rentry/exit, flexibility, working conditions, schedule, and many more.

But when you actually control for choices made by worker, experience, education and specialization, and so forth, something like 99% of the difference is explained.

But that makes for boring press releases . . .

hawk, economics professor

Speaking as an economic professor . . .

It's not hard to explain why Amazon or any other employer would pay women (or greens, or redheads, or . . ) less. Of course they want to pay less.

What we cannot explain is why on earth they would pay white males more than a purple woman with green hair . . .

doc hawk

I'm certainly not going to go read a Barbie book (I've had enough after four daughters!).

But it's easy to make a tilted description to feed a story like this.

I once saw a listing for the Wizard of Oz as something to the effect of "A white girl goes to a foreign land, kills the first person she meets, and sets off to kill again." . . .

hawk

No, they didn't.

Bankamericard didn't change its name to Visa until 1975, when you would have turned 12 or so.

hawk, who remembers the old commercials set to Beethoven

You must be new here . . .

hawk

>People quickly grasped how to make a picture or
>button show up on every card or just one. Now, if
>you google "livecode background layers," you're
>likely to get instructions to add a background to a
>single card.

You open the group inspector, and click the "backgroundBehavior" box.

That's it. Done.

hawk

Uhm, how is this different since any other microsoft product since MBASIC 5???

hawk

yeah, the "slashdot.org" is a dead giveaway . . . :)

hawk

Hey, I drive a convertible, you insensitive clod!

hawk

>What really bothers me though is the removal of old
>SMB support (I don't know if it was Mavericks or ML)

That happened because Samba went to gpl3--and Apple holds patents.

Apple would have to fork Samba to keep gpl2.

(yes, I know that the High Church of EMACS insists that there is no risk, but that's for another thread).

hawk

Saddam thought he had a nuclear weapons program, and paid to support it. The scientists were mostly just bilking him (thus the stuff in the garden, and the refrigerator, and . . . ).

Also, we had a source in his inner circle relaying everything on this. The reason we thought he had a nuclear program is that we knew what he knew, and he thought he had one . . .

I'm waiting for the new slogan of "'Bush Lied People Died' People Lied, People Died" :)

hawk