The loophole is the "building" is catagorised as an upgrade despite being a new reactor, which is probably fair enough since new boilers in coal fired power plants are described in the same way.

As does the non-desert air in other places with cooling towers FFS.
What is your game? I state the equivalent of "water is wet" and you go off with something like "as a rabid fanboy of water sports I strongly object, water is more like a very tasty chocolate milkshake only crunchy". It's not even a criticism yet I get an ignorant fanboy kneejerk response with made up "facts".
Evaporative cooling to remove a lot of heat requires access to a lot of water that's a "real" fact as distinct from silly deliberate misinformation.
In reality it just means putting your reactors close enough to a whole lot of salty water that nobody is drinking if that's all you've got. No contraversy. Not a criticism of nukes at all. Why make up shit to deny it?

Instead of taking the word of a fanboy being ridiculous because someone suggested nuclear is not perfect in some way that nobody gives a shit about I suggest taking a look for yourself:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
That's from the article about the station he's writing about which is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Note the line "20 billion US gallons (76,000,000 m) of treated water are evaporated each year.

So yes, the Jordan plant is going to need a LOT of water but nobody said it has to be drinkable or even fresh water. It just means it has to be sited near the sea, a river or a lake (even a very salty lake) or have some other access to a lot of water.
It's not a disadvantage, just a constraint, and it's pathetic that somebody is enough of clueless fanboy to see it as an attack instead of just a statement about a choice of site.

The above poster is literally talking shit (as well as doubling the size of the plant - what's with that?)

The Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Arizona desert, and is the only large nuclear power plant in the world that is not located near a large body of water. The power plant evaporates the water from the treated sewage from several nearby cities and towns to provide the cooling of the steam that it produces.

Sorry kids - no magic to see here. Just a LOT of water from wherever you can get it, even sewage. You can reuse the water but you do need a LOT of water to start with.

Who said I was making excuses? I'm describing the problem.
There's some articles on the metadata bill at http://crikey.com.au/ that describe it far better.

If she has a clue about the topic represented by the booth then by definition she is not a "booth babe".

"Apology follows bikini backlash"

Nor a girl in a bikini getting her back lashed either!
We've been cruelly misled.

This weird taboo attitude towards sex confuses me.

Combining it with work is the problem, especially if it's siphoning off funds that could have gone elsewhere.

And I thought Enron was creepy. So the trading floor pricks getting laid has spread out into other industries like a rampant venerial disease?

The entire "booth babe" thing is rather pathetic - a step below being desperate enough to pay to see strippers that reveal less than you would see at the beach.
It's a cynical sales trick that shows a vendor is not taking the visitors seriously.
Yes, they may be cute, but if you are going there to see cute girls instead of elsewhere then something is screwed up.

Sounds like the increasingly common SSL compromise and MITM attack. Some workplaces do it deliberately to their employees (out of industrial espionage paranoia) and do not understand that they are only one incident away from being fucked over by the legal department of a major bank.

The xkcd cartoon example covers this. The number of combinations is very large due to the size of the dictionary.

I stopped using Groklaw back in the day because they started requiring excessively complex passwords.

People were being paid to disrupt Groklaw and even stalk and shame the founder. It's not paranoia when serious cash is being splashed to deface your website and a fucking insane horror writer (who pretends murdering ghosts are real) is parked across from your house watching your front door.
It's a special case.

The word is "reactionary" and they want to go back to the ways of the "good old days" of England that inspired America to revolt. The sort of stuff Dickens complained about is their template.

Good point Mr Buttle, or is that Tuttle?
When the objective is to catch someone and hold them responsible it's gone beyond the point where it matters if you've got the right person.