Is this a geek thing, a Web thing, or our modern age that information is passed on in a scolding?

A post offers reprocessing as a solution to the reactor waste problem, and a proper counter to that argument is that reprocessing has a waste problem all its own. The total amount of long-lived waste may be reduced, but the "hot" shorter lived waste get spread around into corrosive liquid effluents?

Could a a person remind Slashdot readers of this tradeoff without suggesting that the original post was made by an untutored fool? Or is it important to label someone suggesting reprocessing as a foolish person, to offer a (mild) public scolding of their idea because reprocessing is a bad enough policy that shaming is merited?

in the Tenth century . . . (ba-doom boom!)

. . . orders you to "don't go there."

Never happened -- the guy with the textual analysis has it right.

I heard the Wisconsin Governor wants to procure pontoons from Oshkosh Truck in case the Michigan governor drops the Menominee river spans, but crossing Lake Superior northward poses a bigger challenge . . .

So I go to WalMart to purchase a box of shotgun shells for my single-shot break-down 20-gauge, and of course it is a Big Deal to get a clerk to the Sporting Goods counter to unlock the case. I guess it is a public safety measure that some maniac doesn't walk out with boxes of that ammo, but there are boxes and boxes of really powerful 30-cal rifle ammo just piled in the aisle free for the loading up your shopping basket.

The clerk finally shows up after numerous pages on the store loudspeaker, opens the case, and then there is a lot of pointing and pantomine as I try to explain, no, not the 16 gauge, I need 20 gauge, and no, not the 8-shot, I need the 6-shot, until we zero in on the right ammo. Out in the country, you can't let Mr. Romney's "varmints and critters" dig holes in your shingles and bust into the attic. Mr. Romney got a lot of flack from Real Men about not being a Real Gun Owner, but those of us who own property in the sticks know what he was talking about.

The clerk asks, "Um, how many boxes do you want?"

I say "just one", saying to myself, "How bad a shot do you think I am?"

You propose this method of calculating PI with a shotgun . . . and your brother-in-law thinks it is a great idea!

My original version was . . . Your brother-in-law suggests using a shotgun to remove tree branches beyond your ladder . . . and you think it is a great idea!

You missed your opening to get your wife to agree to a purchase of a Zero Turn riding mower (you know, the kind where you sit on top and you have those two "tank track" handles to make it go).

They tell me with one of those babies, you can cut the lawn in one quarter the time at get more of the Pre-Game Show.

Can someone weigh in on the vaccine schedule? I had heard that it is not just a parent "refusing vaccination" for their child but that "getting vaccinated" means being bombarded with shots like in an Army induction physical?

Couldn't there be some kind of Common Core -- for Public Health reasons, we want your kid to have the vaccines for Polio, Diptheria-Pertusis, Measles, Rubella, and Chicken Pox, or is the list much, much longer?

. . . and get back to work.

Maybe Land Rover could second-source this see-through-opaque-surfaces sensor system to Lockheed to solve the problems with the virtual reality helmet on the Lightning II aircraft (the F35 JSF)?

Should Ford be waived from issuing a recall on a 19-year-old car purchased in 1995 if a safety defect is revealed?

The thing about fire is that I don't see how a fire that incapacitated the crew could put itself out that it doesn't cause structural damage to the plane . . . within minutes.

Planes with depressurization have flown for hours until exhausting their fuel, but fire?

What could go wrong?

If I back the car down the drive and hit the garbage cans, that is not cause for neurological concern

If I hit the garbage cans and not know why this is a problem, it is time for one of these tests.