er... this is /.'s report on these reports - you're going to have to read the dupes too!

We need more Chris Morris on the telly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwylBRucU7w

Luckily I browse my favourite sites like /. using http so I'm not affected by this.

Its confusing, but from the report it actually sounds like theres 300 tonnes total of the 'stand near a puddle for an hour to get your annual dose' stuff and 300 tonnes per day leaking of the less radioactive waste water they're using to keep the ponds of spent reactor rods cool.

And we Brits want our Turing Machines back!

In soviet mozilla slashdot phones you?

My kids think I'm way cool when I say 'Groovy', (you insensitive clod). Laters.

Being a (scumbag) contractor, my performance reviews are very simple and binary - a) all ok, please carry on/do new project b) not ok, goodbye!

Now to convert to units we all understand!

http://www.loc.gov/about/facts.html claims 745 miles of bookshelves in the Library of Congress Assuming they're 1' deep by 2' high we get 1 LOC = 0.000053 cubic miles (puny library!) therefore the oceans occupy 5,987,307,382,550.34 Libraries of Congress.

> Psychiatry is evil.

Would you like to talk about it?

Thanks NewYorkCountryLawyer for your posts and followups. I for one greatly enjoy reading them.

Indeed. Once we create something as intelligent as we are, it'll have the capability to be as self determined and as lazy as we are too.

"Hey Robot! Can you fix me some coffee"

"How about no, puny human. I'm busy looking at the pictures on ebuyer!"

Think twice? They won't even think once.