I guess since they allow people to get up close & personal with that area, the background radiation must be at a somewhat reduced level than it was 70 years ago?

We continuously have discussion on "big oil", big pharma" big (insert name) of anything that is capitalistic, but how come we never have a discussion about "big academia". College sports coaches making 6 or 7 figures, professors that do nothing but write papers, books and attend lectures. The cost of a traditional 4 year college is astronomical, compared to the outcome of its students, who are then saddled with 40-100 thousand dollars or more in student loan debt. As judge Smails said on caddyshack..."well, the world needs ditch diggers too". I've seen these person on the street interviews where the person would be lucky to cross the street & chew gum without being run over. Can't answer the most basic math or history questions, but, buy golly they can tell you the latest (c)rap song, or which hollyWEIRD nut is banging another hollyWEIRD nut. Most liberal arts indoctrination centers are just that. Instructing kids on how to sit down, shut up and OBEY your master, the government.

"could" it could meet between three and five times what California currently uses for electricity.

Because I don't drink, but anything LEGAL for sale? None of my business as long as you don't get behind the wheel of a car. That being said, you just know, one of the first things some people will do, is to snort this and see what happens.

You want to kill yourself, just DO IT! Do not let the government, or a "tribunal" make that decision. Once government of any kind gets their grubby little hands on end of life situations, there will nothing to stop them from making it mandatory.

Now, on tv we'll have those.... If you or a loved one have had your car hacked, you may be entitled to compensation. Call the law firm of bla bla & bla bla.

Cue the sky is falling crowd again. 10-50-100 years of climate data is worthless. The earth is how many millions of years old? Plus, I remember as a school age teenager in the early 70's, how everyone was talking about we were entering a new ice age, due to pollution, dumping crap in the water, smog, etc....now after getting rid of lead in gasoline, using energy saving appliances, lights, houses etc...it's warming up? If that is the case, then maybe we should go back to pollution and wasting energy, just to cool us down a little?

The government gets you to install a CCTV to help "you" solve crimes....then they will pass a law mandating that the government have 24/7 access to the footage, or just hack it and get the information "for your own safety". One who give up liberty, in the name of security, deserves NEITHER!

Well because.... We must pass it, before we can see whats in there...

crap, and you'll find MORE automation in any business. What's so hard for people to figure out? A business is in business, to MAKE A PROFIT. If wages are forced up on people with little to no skills, the prices of the goods sold has to go up, in order to maintain a profitable business. If people no longer buy your products, or go to a competitor, then what good is a "living wage" going to do if the business closes its door? Low/no skilled workers are just that, they have NO SKILLS....but...but...but....I'm in my 30's/40's/50's and that is the only job I am qualified to do. That's my fault? Perhaps you need to look in the mirror, past your tattoos, piercings, forked tongue, purple hair and evaluate your life as to why, you are an adult, and have absolutely NO JOB skills. Life is hard, you make out of it what you put into it. If your youth was spent playing video games, smoking dope & partying all the time, then don't come crying to me about not having a job other than "burger flipper". The world needs ditch diggers to you know. The sooner the youth, and some adults figure out the big bad world doesn't OWE you a d*mn thing, the better off we all will be.

Google wants more licenses on devices. Carriers, device makers want to sell more devices. So, google doesn't patch an older OS, the carriers & phone makers say the update won't work on their devices, freaking out people and making it easier to sell them a new device...Google, the carriers, the manufacturers win.

For the last 60 years, the government has been planning and tweaking this plan. All they need is a massive disaster, war, civil unrest to "allow" the government to implement this. Take away our bill of rights, cancel habeas corpus, and put (illegal according to the constitution) federal police who answer to NO ONE but the government. Local police will be subjugated and if they don't comply, they will be locked up also. Anyone that has been on a watch list, written "subversive" things about the government, all gun owners (why do you think they want EVERY firearm registered) will be rounded up and sent to a (education) camp. The internet as we know it, will go away, all newspapers, radio, television will be strictly regulated, all "news" will be released only after a government censor approves it.

"Bush did it too" people to speak up. Yeah he did, and so did pretty much every president for the last 50 years or more.

BUT, investigators use all sorts of psy-ops on people to get them to confess to something. BEFORE any questioning, they must read you your rights (at least in the USA)... The part of "you have the right to remain silent", DO IT! Never answer any questioning until you get an attorney, EVEN if you are 100% innocent. Once your rights are read, and you say something, it is possible for them to build a case. Remember...those people sitting on a jury are the ones that couldn't figure out how to get out of jury duty. Do you want THEM to decide your fate?

We had way more privacy, before the advent of computers. Hey, I started with electronics as a hobby in the very early 70's as a kid, worked on televisions as a teenager, graduated from college with a degree in electronics, spent some time at TI in Houston, built all of my own computers, ham radio operator, so I LOVE technology & gadgets, but, with the advancement of said technology, we've seen a more than proportional drop in our privacy. With governments (at least in the USA, I have no idea about other countries), it is so much easier to ILLEGALLY collect data, but just scooping up EVERYTHING, and running it through server farms (like the huge one out west that takes so much water to keep cool, something the west doesn't have a lot of anyway), and then something pops out, and they will use THAT as a basic to get a warrant to "legally" spy on someone. In the USA, it's to the point that you are guilty, until proven innocent, and you have to exhaust all of your money & time to prove otherwise. Considering the unlimited resources the government has, that is a very hard task. And in some cases, WE are partially to blame. Fire up pretty much any app on a mobile device, because you want to find something, an address, an item, and we willfully "allow app to know your location". This is saved in a database, "for your convenience", so they can push things of interest to you. Oh how nice! All the while, you know good and well, the government is somewhere saving all of this, and using it for whatever means "they" find necessary. I know it would wreck civilization, but sometimes I wonder if the human race would be partially better off if an EMP due to the sun popped over us.