I'd say the problem is more that international media conglomerates are asserting jurisdiction over a US defense network. Sort of like how the time that private corporation tried to assert jurisdiction over US Air Force Space Command GPS spectrum. Oh wait, they're still doing that. Anyway, DARPA never seized anyone's domain, and USAF generals risked their careers to stop LightSquared from breaking your GPS.

If your buds at the MPAA and RIAA didn't get what they wanted here in the colonies for a foreign domain, they'd just get it in that country. Nowhere is safe.

I actually live in one of the cities there's a route through, and the other day when driving near the interstate my Polimaster PM1703 scintillation counter (gamma radiation only) went nuts. I figured it was a radiotherapy patient or moly cow delivery or something, but wasn't aware of this. I know uranium hexaflouride can be pretty hot in terms of gamma radiation, but is the gamma from a warhead something you can measure at any distance with a scintillation counter?

Ultimately, its all just a series of tubes but yes, it can adapt to understand semantics and "learn", though its target actions are something entirely different from language processing.

... and by "minor app developer" you mean a Stanford Research Institute spinoff, where it was created from over 10 years of AI research by DARPA on the CALO/PAL projects, which were in fact the largest AI projects in history?

You might remember DARPA from some of their other projects. Like ARPANET amongst others.

If you expect to equal 10 years of DARPA AI research and development in a 3-week coding project, well good luck with that.

Don't worry, you'll find politicians as a general rule are a complete sellout in any country. Even with the US poking things, you'd still have corruption.

Look in Australia's past how rich white colonizing ranchers subjugated and murdered the aboriginal population and drove unique endangered species into extinction. No one ever faced justice over that. To this day, look at what they do to dingos. What kind of sick fuck massmurders dogs and displays their corpses Vlad-style along a fence?

And if media law is so great in Australia, why did morphine get renamed to "Med-X" in even the US version of Fallout 3? Doesn't that make us your bitch?

The Supreme Court justices don't always vote how you'd expect. Just because they're left-wing doesn't mean they'll support an anti-gun position. If anything, the Supreme Court justices often do the exact opposite of what everyone was expecting.

Dems in Congress aren't going for it no matter what. Not all of them are anti-gun to begin with. And those that are, are terrified of the wrath of gun owners at the voting booth. After the AWB in '96 they were summarily routed out of congress.

For a politician that will whore themselves out and do anything to remain in power, you can rest assured that will always be more important than ideology. They are *terrified* as a whole to pass new gun control legislation, because the people who vote will choose to end their career.

... and that's not the only one. Here's another example of thieves merrily plasma torching their way through radiation warning signs and tungsten / lead shielding to get a source to sell to the disreputable scrap metal industry. Did I mention the GIANT RADIATION WARNING SIGNS?

There are many such noted incidents, but there are many that go unnoticed. A worker at a French nuclear plant bought a watch using steel pins mixed with a Co-60 source one of these idiots stole, and this was only found when he wore it to work where radiation monitoring is required. No one knows who was exposed or killed earlier in the supply chain.

As far as the poster blaming Brazil below, this happens here in the good ol' USA as well.

And this will keep happening, as long as laws are not enforced and thieves continue to have such a willing market in disreputable scrap metal dealers

More than the guilty parties have been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in every single one of these incidents. Scrap metal thieves literally kill people.

EMPs are a greatly overstated risk, and science does not back Hollywood. There's a video of an actual upper atmospheric detonation of a nuclear weapon, that shows some LLNL physicists on a beach eating hot dogs and steaks. The nuke detonates and temporarily interrupts the transistor radio that's playing, and then it starts working again a few seconds later. No vacuum tubes required.

The only "EMP weapons" that have done anything require direct conductivity (think Tazer). It's a non-issue.

Void coefficients aren't everything. Non-RMBK reactors can fail catastrophically, and RMBK reactors can be run very cautiously without incident. In the case of Chernobyl, it took a lot of human error and many safety systems being disabled to cause the incident.

And why did that happen? Because Chernobyl was testing a new backup power system, for cooling the reactor when main power was lost. The idea was to use the energy already present in the system before having to rely on backup generators.

But I guess if you have a better void coefficient you don't have to worry about things like backup generators failing. Perfectly safe unlike those Russians, nothing similar could happen, amirite?

Make sure to insist to anyone in your family who ever gets cancer that they can't use radiotherapy or diagnostic imaging / isotopes because that's supporting those evil nuclear reactors, and they should just suck it up and die for the good of humanity.

After all, you wouldn't want to be a hypocrite, would you?

Yes, a 9.0 earthquake and giant tsunami tend to break things and people, whether nuclear power is involved or not. Our freeways fall apart to a lowly 6.8 quake.

Ironically, the very WIkipedia article you link to disputes your claim.

It is physically impossible for you to have developed symptoms of acute radiation sickness in France due to Chernobyl. I also find that 600 mSv exposure figure to be extremely suspicious -- the highest regional I-131 dose equivalent in infants in the US from all of our nuclear testing was 160 mSv and that was far more I-131 than Chernobyl.

I'm not sure where the data in that image you are citing comes from, but please link to the original peer reviewed journal article if there was one.

That is utterly ridiculous. Of course there is radiation in France. There is no place in the universe without radiation. Only around the reactor itself could you be exposed to enough radiation to develop acute radiation sickness. The nosebleeds etc you talk about happen at like 2 Sv+ of exposure. That's crazy amounts of special nuclear materials. France has an extensive national radioactivity monitoring network and the data is publicly accessible. Hundreds of thousands did not develop symptoms, there have been numerous studies on this.

Don't worry, we don't bomb countries with abundant piles of nuclear weapons.

Also, we can't understand why anyone would want nuclear weapons.