The law does not apply to the lowly masses, except when it is useful to suppress them or steal from them!

This is not TV Tropes, and you cannot turn the law against the ones who created it!

The Copenhagen Wheel is a much better concept, and cheaper, too.

It goes farther, runs longer, weighs less, uses regenerative braking to charge on the go, and best of all, you can remove it easily for security purposes.

...and several meters deep, with radiators, chemical condensers and heat exchangers.

Back in 2002 or so, when people were really starting to rally against the PATRIOT act, the usual faces were all over the media, calling detractors "terrorist sympathizers" and worse. More than a few openly called for such people to be labeled traitors.

Manifestly, there is no civil-liberties crisis in this country. Consequently, people who claim there is must have a different goal in mind. What else can you say of such people but that they are traitors? (source)

And here's Paul Krugman with regards to Rush Limbaugh back in 2002...

As far back as 2002, Rush Limbaugh, in words very close to those used by The Wall Street Journal last week, accused Tom Daschle, then the Senate majority leader, of a partisan "attempt to sabotage the war on terrorism." (source.)

I can't remember where it happened, or who exactly said it, but someone confronted Rush Limbaugh about his words and said, "Imagine if Hillary Clinton were to become president, and she has the power that you want to give President Bush."

Well.

It would appear that has a very good chance of happening. And what was laughed off back in 2002, is now staining underwear in 2014.

There was a fascinating website dedicated to high-energy weapons and experiments, called svbxlabs.com

It was run by a young man who'd been born in the US to Ukranian immigrants, which is actually important to keep in mind. He was brilliant, at least in my eyes, putting together the most incredible devices. HERF cannons, railguns, Tesla coils; you name it. He was the first to explain what the OptiCom traffic Light Changer was, and how it worked.

In short, he was doing a lot of work on things a LOT of people would much rather he didn't. Things were zipping along nicely, and his college professor was very excited to see what he came up with next.

Then 9/11 happened. Within four months, the site was gone. And Slava Person vanished from the Internet not long after that. Other people took up the mantle of his work, such as powerlabs.org, but it's not as good as Mr. Slava's work had been.

But if you put svbxlabs.com into WBM/A.O, you can find most of what he did. Also, one of the problems of WBM/A.O is that you can't just click on the links. Sometimes you have to copy them, then enter them into the WBM window, otherwise your browser tries to go to the direct link. Which no longer exists.

I've also used it to find all kinds of fan fiction, role-playing games, artwork and more.

I approve of this.

Which banks, please? Can we please have a list of which banks fail basic programming???

Once Kim Dotcom gets that whole mess worked out with the US DOJ, he can make his own cryptocurrency.

And depending on how he ties it to his services, I bet people will use it and/or find it valuable.

Technically, you're correct. The researchers only had a few days in which to do it in a plastic bucket. Not exactly safe, either.

According to records, garum was also made in large, clay jugs, just ilke the Asian sauce. The very best sauce was allowed to age for as long as 8 months, sometimes longer.

The neat thing, is you got lots of stuff out of a single jar. The stuff off the very top was light a fine, rich amber, and commanded the highest prices. Further down, it was darker and got a good price. The glop at the bottom would be strained to get the next best liquid, and then returned to the jar and salt water added for another soaking to get yet more sauce out of the glop. Finally, the glop was sold to the lower classes to mix with their porridge and chick peas.

Garum liquamen is still in the stores today, still doing the same things it did for the ancient Greeks and Romans. We know it as "fish sauce", with one of the most well-known names being Viet Huong 3 Crabs Fish Sauce.

The last time I used a CLI in my workplace, I was almost accused of hacking.

99% of the human race that has any knowledge of computers have no idea about the c-prompt, let alone a single blinking underscore.

DOH! "It's not illegal" = "It's NOW illegal"

Ohio: It's not illegal to sell your cars here.

Tesla: Fuck you. *sells cars*

Ohio: You can't do that! Stop it!

Tesla: Fuck you. No.

Ohio: We'll arrest you!

Tesla: On a civil matter? *snort* Good luck. And fuck you.

Ohio: We'll arrest your customers!

Elon Musk: I'll bail them out, provide them with 10 lawyers and unlimited funds for the lawsuit. Fuck you.

Ohio: You're being arrested for contempt of court!

Tesla: *lawyer power-up* (Tesla has evolved!) *supreme court power-up* (Tesla has evolved!) *social media campaign* (Tesla has evolved!) *political contributions power-up* (Tesla has evolved! Maximum evolution achieved!)

Tesla uses Intergalactic Level Supreme Court Bitchslap! Ohio is destroyed!

Elon Musk: Fuck you.

Hang on a moment, unused rods are non-radiating. They're *ready* to start working, but they won't start radiating until they're brought together in a core. That's called "criticality", or "going critical", which is a self-sustaining reaction.

Prior to core insertion, unused rods are handled in open air, without any shielding, and can even be touched without a problem. You definitely don't want to bring them close to another fuel bundle, nor do you want them anywhere near a neutron reflector.

That would be a Bad Thing.

The only way this would be a threat, is if any of the debris in the storage pool damages the fuel bundles. Such as bending them and bringing the rods within criticality range of each other. Or if some stray metal got down inside the storage slots, acting as a neutron reflector and creating a hot-spot.

Outside of that, unless I'm wrong about unused fuel not being hot, then this is just a scare story.

The problem with your list, is that without exception, every one of them has a well-established and documented reputation for hunting down and killing those who target them for assassination.

So please! By all means, go for it. I'd ask you to tell us how it went, but somehow, I don't think we'll need you to tell us?

We'll find what's left of you on the 6-o-clock news.

I wonder if this isn't an operation to sour the public on Bitcoin? I mean, not that it needs much to sour the folks here on Slashdot, but the common Joe/Jane on the street might need some Emmanuel Goldsteins to scream at for two minutes.

And with all the revelations of Snowden and Wikileaks, calling someone a "tinfoil hatter" has lost most of it's sting.