Does it come with a Fallout Boy?

Wrong and wrong. Did you read it? The first part is about magnetism in general which is later used to define the partition function of a paramagnet and calculate thermodynamic properties it, i.e. heat capacity or entropy.

You forgot the 0st law...
Anyway, the laws of thermodynamics only account for the macroscopic features of an ensemble. They define relations between these properties independently of the microscopic nature of the ensemble. But to use this on any real system the microscopic interaction has to be described to derive the first set of macroscopic properties. And this has to include the magnetic or electric forces if present.

Then they should forbid them completely. You can take any amount of liquid in the regular baggage, and in your hand-baggage small quantities up to 100 ml (that's for UK anyway) per package if you put those in a plastic bag. That doesn't make me buy any new stuff.

Yeah, it really makes sense that I cannot take my shampoo or toothpaste with me because they want me to buy drinks on the plane. Not everything is about money.

Most of the time you'll have total darkness on the screen as well...

I beg to differ. We do have quite some evidence. The human evolution can be traced back to about 3 million years where the Australopithecine lived. Only after that the Homo genus appeared and its remains could be found. There might still be some links missing and you could give or take a million years due to undiscovered specimens for the first appearance of the Homo genus. But the overall picture is consistent and to assume there have been human ancestors 65 millions back in time together with the dinosaurs is just absurd.

We have a consistent picture of human evolution which starts 60 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct. Of course you might doubt the extinction but for that we have quite some good arguments, too. On the one hand how likely would it be that you find all kinds of skeletons only up to the point of extinction but not afterwards? Unless all remainung dinosaurs gathered together in a yet undiscovered spot on earth this cannot be explained plausibly. But that's not real evidence, granted. At the same time the dinosaurs stopped to exist we also see that remains of many species stopped to appear afterwards, leading to the assumption of global mass extinction. And last but not least an impact crater of a meteor dating back to the very time the assumed extinction took place has been found. All in all this picture is pretty consistent, too.

There, fixed that for you.

Do you? Try googling the next time... some random examples:
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~gary/SM3_7.pdf
http://www.ifw-dresden.de/institutes/iff/research/TMO/Magnetism

Classically thermodynamics was all about heat and temperature and as been developed to accurately describe steam engines. Since then this has evolved and been applied to many other situations. Thermodynamics is about describing macroscopic properties of a large ensemble of particles (this includes photons and such) by their microscopic behaviour. This is not limited to simple mechanical effects like gas molecules bouncing off of each other.

No, that's not true. Coal only contains minor radioactive components that are all around us anyway. In nuclear reactors additional highly active material is produced and other components get activated. But it is completely contained and therefore you can control it much better. In that we agree.

From the abstract I guess we talk about different things. Transuranic components are not the waste I talked about. They surely can be used for another fission cycle. But the resulting lighter elements thereafter can not be fissioned in a proper chain reaction for energy production and are thus waste.

Ok, first we do agree that coal plants are worse than nuclear. For the time beeing nuclear is IMHO the only real option of energy production. But that doesn't mean it's an optimal solution. There might not have been accidents for a long time but these things are not completely safe. And the worst case scenario of a nuclear plant accident is way worse than of any other power plant. The only good longterm energy source I see is fusion. Inherently safe and only short-lived radioactive waste.
Second, the nowadays so popular terrorist scare tactics might work well in the US, but not where I live.

Well, according to http://www.world-nuclear.org/ only 4 breeders are operational at the moment, in contrast to >300 non-breeders. The weapon-making-issue is not what I had in mind. Breeders have a way lower power / volume ratio than other types of reactors, making them economically less interesting. This might change however when the Uranium resources deplete. Plus you have in some types liquid sodium as coolant which has to be handled safely, again increasing the costs. Quite sad that higher costs seems to be a stronger argument than a superior technology...

Most coal plants nowadays use filters which get almost anything out except the CO2. Some of the stuff like sulphur oxides can even be turned into useful stuff like plaster. Extracting the CO2 is currently work-in-progess. The costs for both types of energy are almost the same. Give or take a cent, varies from country to country.

Yes, the radioactivity near coal plants is higher than near nuclear plants due to the radioactive isotopes of carbon as well as differrent contaminations in the coal. Although this is almost negligible in comparison to the dose you get from medical examinations for example.

Most nuclear waste is _not_ usable in other reactors, i.e. the fission products are itself radioactive, yes, but not fissile. For a powerplant you can't just throw in any radioactive material, only few are able to sustain a chain reaction.
Breeding reactors do not use the fission products. The pellets contain non-fissile material like U238 which is transformed by the neutrons into fissile material. If this is fissioned you have to replace it, too. Anyway, breeders are not really used today due to other potential security issues (e.g. liquid sodium), about a handful worldwide.

Even modern reactor types can go critical, there is no absolute safety if you rely on a chain reaction. You can only design the core such that a meltdown is highly improbable. Therefore most reactors have a ceramic basin underneath the core which is especially built to catch it in case it melts.

Sure. We're nowhere near a usable fusion reactor in the near future. Just wanted to point out something that is mostly looked over.

No. Most fusion reactors use Deuterium + Tritium which is not present in the nuclear waste of fission reactors.

The material is the waste AFTER reprocessing. You just breed a lot of nasty stuff you cannot use for anything.

I'd say building a laser capable of firing with this frequency is the smaller problem. They're already designing the next generation of lasers which can do this (see HiPER). IMHO the targets pose a way larger problem. Right now they are all hand-crafted and hand-picked. Target laboratories produce maybe a few dozen per day but a full blown reactor needs about half a million per day! And since they are cryogenic you have too cool them until the very last moment before the laser hits them. The latest system to do this takes ~ 3 hours to bring a single target in place. Even if you fire them with a some kind of gun into the target chamber you have to ensure they are aligned on a micron scale in a chamber with about 10m diameter (NIF).

So far this was of big deal as laser experiments have always been single shot experiments. Current big lasers can shoot only once in a few hours, plenty of time to prepare each shot and align the target. High reprate lasers (with high energy) only start to emerge and people begin to focus on high reprate target production.