Better than some coal power plants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill

The funny part is that China does not register its inventions in China, instead they just get US Patents office patents. So it is the US IP law that they are using to cut off competition from US ;)

That is why the continuous reprocessing design was created - the fuel is reprocessed all the time at a small rate with a fully automatic system without leaving the piping system or even exiting the facility.

If you build one nuclear power plant a decade per continent - sure. If you make one design and build a couple of dozen reactors in sequence, with the same tools and the same team, then the costs will plummet.

Actually, considering that CO2 emmisions are doing harm to people (in the long term), it would make sense to have people be the source of carbon credits - We the 100k people have a right to produce X tons of carbon emissions per year (in addition to inalienable bodily emission quota), and we are willing to sell that right to that steel mill for a summ of Y USD per year. And considering that someone needs to get that money from that steel mill and make sure it is either distributed to us or spent on something that brings good to all of us, lets make a company that will do that. Lets decide by voting among us who we trust to administer that money. Let's call that 'government', and let's call the whole system 'taxation'.

It is easier to force/guilt/... China and India into carbon trading if the Western world is already doing it. In my view Cap-and-trade is faulty, because it allows a default level of free pollution. If EVERYONE was fairly and equally taxed for their CO2 (and other greenhouse gas or pollutant) emissions and then the revenue from these taxes would be spent exclusively on cleaning up that pollution (most likely by purchasing carbon credits from carbon-negative businesses), then it would be fair. The pointis that a coal power plant does not pay for the pollution it causes, the harm that it causes to the whole population. If this harm is converted into actual finansial cost, then we will clearly see whether coal is really that cheap and we will see free market dump all they can into clean energy, because the dirt of the dirty energy would be taxed and make it not so profitable as it is now.

Oil, coeal and gas is only a cheap energy source to the consumer because part of the cost is hidden - the enviromental cost, as in, they don't pay for the clean air that they steal from all of them. Steal just a little bit from everyone and you have a nice profit. Government taxation and regulation is there to prevent exactly such abuses of the common good.

It is perfectly reasonable to require a person to pass a two-month long gun training, gun skill test with a theoretical exam and a psychiatric examination to be able to buy a gun. It would also be perfectly reasonable to require a person to belong to a gun club with regular dues, training and re-testing schedules in order to buy ammo. And it is also perfectly reasonable not to sell to civilians extended capacity clips, fully automatic weapons, sniper rifles and high power weapons or armor piercing or anti-personnel munition.

USA second amendment talks about 'a well regulated millitia', so it is perfectly reasonable to assume that every person with a gun is or must be a member of millitia and that the constitution demands of the government to regulate him, including striping him of this status, if he proves to be unregulatable (as in unstable, insane or just a lousy shot).

Well, you cann't 'force' people to by healthcare, but it is perfectly legal to make a new tax of 5k$ per year and then exempt everyone with a valid health insurance policy from that tax.

So, can anyone explain to me why do the carriers actually sell these devices without signing a contract with the person? That would full eliminate this situation - sure, you can buy a thousand cheap phones, unlock them and sell them on, but you will still have to pay monthly fees on the thousand 2 year contracts or pay the ETF.

Actually it is not illegal to distribute classified information if you are a media organization. Only the person that actually had the access and who did the distribution to the journalists can be considered as doing illegal actions. And even then such claim must first be proven in court.

Hey, Amazon! You front page is offensive to me and all other people in the world who hate Christmass shopping season. Take it down, now!

So, if USA growls loudly at BBC, it will also 'become a political faction' and can be cut off from the Internet by all USA ISPs?

Also see http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/the-nobel-peace-prize-for-2011.html

Sure, you can do that if you have 5-10 commits per day. However, Linus merges on *average* around 100 change sets to the Linux kernel trunk every day and has been doing that for a long time now. You can not expect to keep both that speed and also keep the trunk 100% stable all the time.

Creating feature trunks from known-to-be-stable points is a much easier approach for everyone involved.

You just need government regulation that forces anyone that has a cable laid to your house to lease full access to that cable to any company that you hire for a low fixed cost that is barely above the maintenance cost for that cable.

But, naturally, republicans would block all such 'government takeovers of the Internet' and 60% of the sheeple will follow them.