And somehow, this administration finds these stories and situations to be perfectly fine; but "walling" someone (and leaving them alive) is somehow morally reprehensible.

I find both to be repugnant, but let's get serious: The Obama Justice Department finds killing innocents that happen to be in the same area as a suspected bad guy to be okay, but smacking around known assholes to get information on other known assholes to be a prosecutable offense.

The auction house has been wholesale deleted, and the loot system overhauled to not be a ridiculous farce. 90% of the items that drop have your current character's primary stat on them, and there is a facility to be able to reroll one stat on an item for a handful of junk items and some gold, so you can make that almost-perfect item into a perfect item with enough resources.

The loot system was the reason I stopped playing D3 about 2 weeks after it launched, and the new system is the reason I started remembering the game exists again.

The 2.x version of Diablo 3, even without the expansion, is the version they should have released in the beginning. They did away completely with the ill-advised auction house, and gave the loot system a bit of smarts as to how it rolls the stats in order to give a much better chance of finding useable items.

It's actually worth playing on a continuing basis now, where before it was "okay, I played the story through, now what?"

Cheap people demand free.

There are people out there that actually pay for things, when they find them to be of value.

So, just like Google then. Coincidence?

Then you are an idiot, a fool, a liar, or some combination of them. No amount of any of what you said results in multiple servers being reset to factory settings, data backup and replication being disabled, AND the cooling equipment sabotaged. One of those I could by, two would be VERY suspicious, but all three on the same day? No. that is deliberate.

Horse shit.

Ohio minimum wage: $7.95/hour

5x Ohio minimum wage: $39.75/hour

Annual gross salary (8 hour day, 5 days / week, 52 weeks): $82,680 / year

Median 3 bedroom house price for Cincinnati, OH: : $120,000

Yeah, you're full of shit unless your "many cities" remark is restricted to the coastal states, and even then you're pushing it.

My office is situated in a suburb where the median real estate pricing is above what I'm willing to spend. I'm not putting myself under a horrendous mortgage to buy a giant house I don't need (and don't want to pay to heat / cool / maintain) just to save myself 20 minutes of driving each day.

How's that for sustainable?

If only the government would get off their ass and approve a pipeline to ship that oil, then we wouldn't have rolling fuel-air bombs going through switching yards in major cities...

You do realize that we're talking about nuclear weapons production when we talk about Hanford, right?

The only waste from commercial power generation at Hanford is the actual reactor vessel from the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station that was barged there and buried when it was decommissioned.

Largely, spent fuel remains at the generating station that spent it, because Congress is filled with fuckwads that don't know how to actually progress with dealing with it.

Yes, there were reactors. Yes, the generated electricity. But, it was a byproduct of the primary reason for the reactors - creating plutonium. They used a short fuel cycle in the purpose-built reactors specifically tuned to create the most Pu-239 possible.

The facilities there were never intended to be efficient at commercial electrical generation. They were meant to create stuff to kill people. It just turns out that the people being killed by it is our own citizens because of the incredibly poor way they handled the gigantic mess they created.

If this crap was only uranium, it would have been dealt with decades ago. No, this is a concoction of the most toxic, caustic, and radioactive shit ever produced by mankind. In a liquid form. Underground, predominantly in single-walled tanks. Which are corroding because of the contents.

This crap has been transferred, pumped, and mixed so many times that they don't even know what is in half of these tanks, and in what concentrations. Just mixing up one of these tanks could cause a prompt criticality because they might disturb the settled metals in the bottom of the god-awful compounds floating on top, causing a concentration of daughter products.

It is the worst environmental disaster that humans are capable of creating - we're lucky it's still as contained as it is. And this is right here in the US where our State Department likes to get all high-and-mighty with environmental offenders elsewhere in the world.

Part of the reasoning for burying this crap in storage tanks at Hanford was because they knew the technology for dealing with this shit didn't exist, and wouldn't for some time. This crap is some of the most volatile and deadly shit ever created - it's a sludge / liquid mixture of caustic chemicals and aqueous transuranics that has been pumped around so many times that they don't even know what the mixture is any more. It is literally eating through the steel tanks it's been stored in. The only option for this crap is to vitrify it into ceramic bricks, and dump those into a Yucca Mountain-type repository, or a volcanic subduction vent somewhere.

Oh, and any of the equipment used to vitrify it will also need to be disposed of as nuclear waste, just from being in contact with this shit. And, once it's built and turned on, all maintenance and operation will need to be done remotely because entering the facility after it starts working will kill you.

This isn't your standard spent fuel rods here, this is the shit left over from decades of weapons production, where they only cared about the Pu-239 and nothing else. They didn't even care about the people living down-wind or down-river that they exposed to thousands of TBq of radiation from 1940s to the 1970s through the intentional airborne release of Iodine-131 and Xenon-133 and the release of cooling water back into the Columbia after a mere 6 hours of storage after cooling the site's reactors.

Hanford is probably the most toxic site on the planet. Even worse than Cleveland.