Take things with a grain of salt. Many of these "high tech meth lab" cases are someone using a couple of soda bottles and plastic straws to make meth with ingredients they bought at Walmart.

It may have been a random building worker doing this. If it were one of the scientists, I'd be surprised they'd be using drain cleaner as the sodium hydroxide rather than just getting some out of the lab. It's one of the most common lab chemicals.

"They love to watch her strut!"

I suspect this isn't about anti-nuke so much, as their Dice bosses pushing it because the posts using Counterpunch and The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists get lots of replies.

Just wait till the Dice PHBs figure out that posting articles from Worldnet Daily get even more outraged replies.

But what about Alienware computers?

I'm not saying it's aliens, but...

So many more mistakes:

Tritium is indeed radioactive with a half life of about 12.5 years (That's why it's great for making glow in the dark dials that require no light recharging or electricity. Only a tiny amount is needed, but a 12.5 year half life is pretty darn "hot" in the vernacular, and if you have a lot of it, you get a lot of energy release. It emits beta rays (high energy electrons) which aren't as much of a problem as gamma, but do cause surface burning, etc.).

U238 is indeed radioactive. It's an alpha particle emitter with a half life of 4.5 billion years. (Agreed, it's not highly radioactive, but it certainly is radioactive. U235 is more highly radioactive.)

I'm hardly an alarmist about nuclear technology and am a strong supporter of nuclear power, but blatant mistakes in your post don't help the argument in favor of it.

"Not radioactive"

Not true.

It's an alpha emitter with a half life of 4.5 billion years.

The words "No shit, Sherlock." come to mind.

Maybe Dice Holdings should consider that when changing things about sites that have held up well for many years (Sourceforge, and yes, Slashdot)

"You should quite smoking. It's not good for you."

He probably has.

It's hard to smoke after you disintegrate. Though, I am impressed he still was able to post to Slashdot.

Obvious error. That should be Snowden not Assange.

I must need more coffee. (As if there wasn't a time when more coffee wasn't appropriate.)

They often change their policies on a turn of an election or public opinion.

In fact, less democratic forces often embolden their followers by saying that the democratic countries will lose interest or determination and give them a victory by default. They're often right.

Absent some sort of very strong constitutional guarantee, Assange would be one election (or one cabinet meeting) from being deported.

It's unlikely that the Russians will be making up with the US any time soon even if Putin died or was replaced, so he should stay there.

We are removing the di-hydrogen monoxide from our products and replacing it with water!

And the horse seems to be happily running free somewhere thousands of miles beyond the barn door.

If this works like many IT security efforts, we'll spend millions replacing the barn door with a bank vault door. And then leave the window next to it open

The beginning was:
"We Didn't Know the FBI Was Creating a Small Surveillance 'Air Force'"

But it continued:

"Those jerks told us it was going to be a big impressive air force! Not a bunch of Cessna's that were rejected from crop dusting!"

I met her at a space development conference in Chicago back in the 1980s. She's very much a fan of space exploration.

She's one wonderful lady. I wish her a speedy and complete recovery.

"but is an insult not because homosexuality is 'bad'"

Riiight.

So, you're telling me that if a presidential candidate called someone a cocksucker do you think they'd be able to weasel out of it being an implied slam on gays? Really? What planet are you on?

You need to do a better job of rationalization there, bub.