How about: "Joe buys a gun that has a faulty safety trigger. Gun discharges randomly and kills a little innocent baby child. Gun manufacturer is not liable". And yes, that's actually what would happen.

Yes. And that's why building codes are being updated to reduce number of dangerous stairs, mandate friction strips on stairs and so on.

What are we doing about rampant gun violence? Ah yes, we're passing laws freeing gun manufacturers from ANY responsibility.

I really doubt that it's possible to 'reprogram' cancerous cells. They usually have so many mutations (including seriously weird ones, like chromosome fusion or duplication) that it's a wonder they can still fission.

Not true. There are lots of inter-city tram lines in other countries, they are not that expensive and if you couple them with small battery storage for small problematic stretches of roads (like intersections and on/off ramps) then you have a winner.

There were several attempts at nuclear-powered cargo ships. They failed because it turned out to be too expensive, mostly due to complicated regulations and the general mistrust on nuclear power. So the only remaining civilian nuclear-powered ships are Russian icebreakers :(

"Hail Ukraine! Hail Heroes" (sometimes translated as "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!") sounds for Russian-speaking people _exactly_ as "Sieg Hail!" would sound to American citizens. That was a sign and a countersign in the UPA which was allied with Hitler's Germany and committed such crimes as Volyn' Massacre.

I'm not going to discuss Chechnya here, the crimes or lack thereof of Russia does nothing for the Ukrainian situation.

And also artillery pieces. I guess they only shoot humanitarian aid.

Lots of Jewish people in Ukraine condemn results of the elections. So?

A great idea! I've heard that Obama is going to sign it into law tomorrow. And this law also has a nice provision that all racist Anonymous Cowards are going to be fed to endangered species. Alive.

I'm curious, has CNN or BBC or perhaps New York Times shown you this: http://s3.postimg.org/p7r4c4yu... ? It's a Ukrainian military column masquerading as a medical convoy - a clear violation of Geneva treaties.

Or perhaps told you that teaching Russian is now outlawed in all schools in Slovyansk (with German and English replacing it)? Yeah, surely there is no fascism in Ukraine.

Hail Hit...uhm... Ukraine!

Grammar nazi mode on. "Rhinoceros" is a Greek word, not Latin. So for plural you should either stick to English "rhinoceroses" or use the correct Greek plural "rhinoceros".

Oh, don't flatter yourself. I can read Spanish and Latin American media is neutral. Chinese media is mildly pro-Russian. I don't know about Indian or Arabic media (and frankly I don't even care).

But the narrative of "bold Ukrainian heroes standing against an onrushing Russian invasion" is purely a Western story. How did it happen? Simple. Internal censorship (this video was removed in minutes from the official BBC site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - starting from the 2:00), lack of independent sources and no knowledge of local context.

The usual clustersuck, in other words. That's why US media had no clue at all that once Gadaffi is kicked away, all the country would disintegrate into warring factions.

Yes, in this case RT is the only English-speaking TV outlet that tells the other side of the story. And it's more compelling than what the Western media parrots. Russian media actually has reporters on the ground and they are working in the midst of the fighting and just in recent weeks, several reporters were wounded or killed.

And even Fox News gets their facts right sometimes. However, other news companies are starting to get a clue: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/...

Oh, sorry. Exactly 5 pictures from NATO.

Yes, we have exactly one picture from NATO, without any other corroboration. Meanwhile, Polish soldiers were captured by the rebels. So do we have Poland invading Ukraine?

Except that they aren't safe. Even though they are subcritical, they'll still contain plenty of fuel. So there'll be more than enough decay products remaining to cause a meltdown in case of the coolant loss accident.

Nuking it until it glows. First you separate your waste into constituent elements (their oxides, whatever) then you irradiate it with neutrons until most of the medium-level waste transmutes into something with a short enough half-life. You can optimize it a bit by playing with neutron energy to maximize the capture by most problematic isotopes. The size of neutron capture cross-section is not an issue, since you don't need those neutrons to support a chain reaction.

The concept is pretty old, but requires a shitload of neutrons (since you typically need to capture multiple neutrons to transmute a single waste atom). The only practical way to get that much is to use a fast neutron reactor. And even then it's marginal. In future, when we get fusion reactors, fusion neutrons could be used much more economically for that.