Again, I was responding to "USA is as culturally diverse as all of Europe.".

I think you vastly underestimated the importance of institutions and how Americanised immigrants have become (aside from Hispanics). You are comparing a zoo to the actual jungle.

Plus, I forget that "diversity" has become a politicised buzzword in the US, and that is the sense you were using? Sure the US has Polish people, and Polish community centres. But they are still integrated in US culture and institutions. They go to schools and workplaces which are thoroughly American.

Compare Norway to Albania - you will not find any two states in the US with the tiniest fraction of that difference.

Sure. But that is very different from diversity within a continent. You might even say it is the antithesis. Mix all the people up, and you get bland uniformity. (Not entirely a bad thing, see Yugoslavia.)

So they are not isolated. What you describe is homogenisation; a loss of cultural diversity. Every town is becoming the same.

Me? Bad assumption there.

You seem to be confusing local racial mix (the US political euphemistic sense) with continent wide diversity. If every town has a mix of all the people, that means all towns are the same. It is the polar opposite of diversity - bland uniformity.

The page was probably coded by a woman.

:-) You decided this after vacationing at Euro-Disney?

I disagree. Possession of a second X chromosome tends to be a big advantage.

They have "school of the air" for youngsters (didn't you ever watch Skippy?) and send the kids to boarding school for high-school.

But good question! Somebody please explain this "home schooling" oddity - I thought it was just for extreme religious nutters (so extreme they can't find a religious school). Apparently not.

Most, but not all.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Like Nokia, Microsoft style?

http://vimeo.com/70498601

Rational politicians do not state rational opinions or policies in public, if they want to get re-elected.

It has been explained, so don't be an idiot. Look at the half-lives: billions of years vs 1600 years.

The kid is a serial offender. Previously disciplined for referring to another kid as "black", and for bringing a book to school depicting pregnancy.
If they don't do something, what next? He might bring in a book on evolution.

Big companies have byzantine internal politics. Maybe the RT guys won't hand over the "secure boot" private keys for Surface? Or they just lost it.

They really should have called it the Rho.

He means no direct impact. No radiation poisoning or excess cancers observed. The biggest health effect are psychological, e.g. people displaced from their homes.
In the context of 20,000 dead from the tsunami, and zero from radiation poisoning (there were 29 at Chernobyl) , the media is making way too much fuss about the radiation, don't you think?
    Two worker deaths from heart attack have been blamed on overheating while wearing radiation suits.
A big fear was thyroid cancer from iodine, but that has not materialised. Some models still predict a small increase in cases in future.

Its not the immediate decay, but the whole decay chain that is the issue.
Radium becomes Radon and then some radon gets inhaled, and decays into solids that stay and decay further.