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Comment From Al Jazerra - Actual Fucking News (Score 0, Troll) 334

Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown. The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster. Why have alarms not been sounded about radiation exposure in the US? Nuclear operator Exelon Corporation has been among Barack Obama's biggest campaign donors, and is one of the largest employers in Illinois where Obama was senator. Exelon has donated more than $269,000 to his political campaigns, thus far. Obama also appointed Exelon CEO John Rowe to his Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

Submission + - Weiner Mystery Solved (wordpress.com)

Timtimes writes: Turns out the entire charade was just another rightwing dirty trick campaign. Whocouldanode?
Enjoy.

Comment The Real Cause for Concern (Score 1) 413

Not only do we not have the flying car we were all promised would be ubiquitous by now, we also lack a retail environment where we can purchase the parts to build one ourselves. You're going to wish you'd taken a more active role in personal manufacturing when it becomes necessary to drill your own oil well in order to be able to afford the non-flying (SUCKAGE) car you're stuck with now. Enjoy.

Comment Re:I know it's popular to dis the Radio Shack... (Score 1) 413

But... At 8pm on a Saturday night they had a component I could use to repair the power supply in my friend's projector. The "good" place for this stuff closes at noon on Saturdays (I'm rarely ready to buy electronics before noon on Saturday), and while Radio Shack didn't have exactly what I was looking for (an individual diode), they *DID* have a full bridge rectifier, which I was able to use in place of the discrete diodes to repair it. So, put down Radio Shack all you want, but damn it I still respect them.

I have a better parts assortment just lying around the house in the form of broken electronics. It's a sad statement that I have a better parts selection to choose from in a couple of graveyard electronics items than Radio Shack has in their entire store these days. That said, I too have purchased what is likely that very same full bridge rectifier from them not that long ago. I used it to convert a section of 12 volt A/C low voltage outdoor lighting into DC for some LED stuff I wanted to mix in with my low watt AC incandescent system. That in no way alleviates the disgust I feel that they haven't been in the forefront of innovation DIY offerings. I don't think it would be an overstatement to say there's more technology available in LEGO Technic toys than the entirety of the Radio Shack domain. Maybe they sell those toys there now since they've about one third a Toys'R'Us these days anyway? At a minimum, they need to hit this Arduino thing hard. Sensors, motors, switches, breadboarding and prototyping tools, etc. And price things fairly FOR A CHANGE.

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