Yep. Torrents are for porn.

Usually the Navy (and others, I'm sure) mitigates contamination with pressure. The system of greater concern will operate at a higher pressure, so when there is a leak it goes in one direction.

Walmart does pay as little as possible. They've probably just found that to get what they need, they have to offer that level of compensation. Walmart is reasonably good at that sort of thing, though I have observed key areas where they definitely need to increase salaries.

If you discount everything a person says, why are you posting here?

I used the wrong word, meant claimant. It is not valid. I don't care who or where the claim comes from, it should be disputed in logic and reason.

The U.S. has $3 trillion in revenues and $500 billion in debt payments. We couldn't find room for that? Do you follow the logic of "we have to borrow money to be able to continue paying our deb"?

Then dispute it with logic and reason. Using a logical fallacy to attack a claim adds weight to the claim.

"good intelligence" is not spying on everyone. They had to have been selective about who they spied on, and eventually the records and full accounting of what they did became public. With the current surveillance state, the records are sealed permanently, and if they are to be revealed, they are first screened by those who have most to lose from revealing the full nature of what has been done. In the incredibly rare event that elected officials become involved, the bureaucrats are authorized to lie, keep secrets, and hold closed-door meetings. Additionally, with this level of data acquisition, it is reasonable to assume that some amount of blackmail and extortion will occur. This is not 'oversight'. At the very least, oversight should include an expiration date of sealed operations activities that is far enough into the future that it won't threaten the operations, but near enough that it will threaten those who are involved in the operations such that they will follow the publicly known guidelines.

"as transparent as it can be"
"with as much oversight and citizens' understanding as there can be"

Yes, I believe them. They never lied to me one single time in the Naval Nuclear Power Program. I worked on the plants. I know how the plants work. Kind of hard to tell me lies about things I'm going to work on and maintain. The amount of radiation leaking out is insignificant, and everything I've ever read states that the radiation actually measured is the same as background radiation, however, I'm skeptical of how they measure radiation at such depths. When we checked for contamination, we used handheld detectors to check every surface, which isn't possible at those depths, so I imagine the best they can do is measure radioactivity of the vicinity, which would make sense that they wouldn't find the minute traces of radioactive particles leaking and then dispersing.

lol... no, the other quote,

Does this make people psychopaths? After reading that article, apparently not. This word is thrown around so many times I can only think of the famous line spoken by the Inigo Montoya character in The Princess Bride.

My tool of preference was the magnifying glass.

Constitutional law professor. FTFY