After Chernobyl, there was a ton of concern as to where the fuel had ended up, raising concerns that the deterioration of the structure could result in further "events". After much heroic and life threatening investigation, it was discovered that the core in melting through the base of the containment vessel had breached a thick layer of sand placed there as shielding. The sand melted into a glass, completely entombing the fuel and then solidifying into various flow patterns in the basement. This was completely unexpected, and was a huge relief to those involved.

If they had had proper modeling and testing of the containment vessel, they would have been much more sure that the fuel was unlikely to further react, and would not have had to risk the team's lives entering hard radiation areas.

There was an excellent Nova episode on this in the early 90's, but unfortunately due to some licencing issue it is unavailable from PBS. Snagged a ratty VHS copy of it a few years ago though- do wish there were some HQ versions of it kicking around.

Not to mention that they're far far better in any location that gets any appreciable amount of snow...

So you don't trust plate readers, as the government can track you, but you believe that a GPS system will be used to ONLY measure "distance traveled, not locations or other data."

Do you have any basic understanding on how GPS type systems work?

They invented a wonderful device for people like you, it's called a HORN. You wait 1-2 seconds for them to move, then you utilize your HORN ACTIVATION circuit in your automobile, and it emits a "tootling" noise to alert the person in front of you to direct their attention to the petroleum distillate input foot lever, which in turn will allow their automobile to resume it's joyful progress.

A whole light cycle, really? >.>

Where I live (Alberta) you are considered "operating" your vehicle if you are in it and you have your keys on your person.

That's right, you can be in the back seat, asleep, and you can be ticketed for DUI or whatever else they decide to stick you with. When our distracted driving law came in about 18 months ago, they specifically highlighted that pulling over to the side of the road and parking was NOT sufficient.

The funny part was when someone mentioned that the cops had put up, not 6 months before, signs saying that if you see a drunk driver, you should call them and trail them while the 911 operator coordinates a cop to nab the drunk. So they specifically made an exception for calling to report a drunk driver on a non-handsfree phone.... So I guess being distracted while following a drunk is for the greater good, or something....

So they have 5-10 second greens in your town? I cannot imagine your scenario could take much longer than that.

Hyperbole, look up the definition.

"And now Kobo is HUGE in Canada."

You sound like my boss. Full disclosure, I work at the largest independent publisher in Canada (if you cook in Canada, you probably have one of our titles)- and we went with Kobo exclusively for our ePubs. As a six million dollar paper publisher we sold... ... $15k in ePubs last year via Kobo, "the #2 ebookstore in the world, with 48% of the market!!"

I've also noticed that when I travel, or talk to people about ePubs, eBooks, etc, I see iPhones/iPads (quite possibly running iBooks, Kindle App, or Kobo apps), Kindles, Nooks, etc.... I have seen exactly ONE Kobo actually owned by an end-user. I know that anecdotes are not data, but....

I take offence to this! It is an outrage! /froth

How the hell does changing the clock help more in Northern locales? I'm over 54 degrees north, and I can tell you DST simply is moving the goalposts. In the winter I go to work in the dark, I go home in the dark. 1h of oscillation in the clock does nothing* to help that. In the summer, the sun is up at 4 am, and goes down at about 10:30pm (right when I really* want more light, just when I'm trying to sleep).

DST is moronic, and gives absolutely no benefit except for a very narrow band of locations and a very few people whose schedules happen to match the changes. But the rest of us get to come along for the stupid pretend time changes. In an earlier post in this thread, someone mentioned that DST doubles* the time that many of us spend driving directly into the setting/rising sun, and I know that is my #1 problem with the stupid time dance every year.

Nonsense, I finally* got a call from Shaw after my second month of using 1Tb of my 200Gb cap, and they basically said, 'hey, quittit.' No threats, no charges. I have never* received any* copyright warnings either...

Refreshing to see the courts stand up for the citizenry, as opposed to the police. Makes me glad that whole "let's move to the states" plan my wife had fizzled....

No, it's not- you're works are copyrighted regardless of registration or not. I feel you're deliberately misleading us.

My workplace is smack in the (south) center of the city (of over a million people), but due to it being in an "industrial" area, there is absolutely NO high speed available. We're stuck with a $1200/month 5/5 wireless solution.

The local telcos and cable providers will gladly service us for about $50/month, after we spend $60,000-$80,000 to trench to the area (after which everyone else* in the neighbourhood will get to piggyback). Oddly enough, we're not jumping at this...

If this were the case, they would have simply looked at what her ratio was set at (most people have it at about 2, if I recall correctly). Therefore Jamie should be on the hook for 48 tracks, worth approximately $50. Instead, the RIAA folks want to punish her for every* illicit download of those tracks, making her an example. I would argue that this is still unconstitutionally excessive.