its not that the magical fairy green power stations don't work, its just that fairy mortality rate is still too high and theres no long term plan to store their little radioactive corpses.

AMD and Intel are truly amazing innovators.
Each time they shrink the process on those chips requires feats of engineering that are staggering. 28 nm, 20 nm soon. Thats nanometers. How cool is that?
The computer hardware companies have done incredible things to personal computing power. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, IBM. Awesome.

Get off my lawn.

US money was not offered to Europe as bribes, it was offered as humanitarian aid because Europe bombed itself into the stone age.

If it looks like bribes now its because Europe no longer needs the money. Instead of wishing poverty on the US, why don't you lobby your government to stop taking US money.

If you don't like the policies the US (urges/requires) when it gives out aid to the poverty stricken countries around the world, why don't you lobby your government to provide the aid?

Neutral experts, or a neutral judge and competing experts, don't come cheap.

The current system is to have a low standard at an outset and then a high standard if it turns out there is actually disagreement.

You could put the high or a higher standard first, but you would have to fund it and its not clear that it would reduce the overall expense or justness of the patent system.

Take off your tinfoil hat.
This is how we feel about Free Speech in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

What I find worrisome is people who are more afraid of a vast US conspiracy than the very real possibility that he raped two women. I thought Western Europe was about on par with the USA as far as womens rights go, am I mistaken?

My 10/1 Mbs Cable in Maine is consistently above 8 Mbps even at peak times. The upload does leave something to be desired, maybe somewhere around 512k.

1) It is easier to build a bomb with weapons grade fuel than pu-239.
2) It is easier to fuel a reactor with weapons grade fuel than pu-239.

The value of spent fuel is less than the value of raw ore.
The value of weapons grade fuel is far greater than the value of raw ore.

Which do you think people are going to try harder to steal?

Your comparison is missing a key point.
They moved 13 tons of _enriched_, near weapons grade fuel.

You are talking about 70,000 tons of _spent_ fuel.

Very different logistical concerns.

If the cost of failing to secure the material is measured in trillions, you don't squabble over millions, you spend them on even more security.

Also the cost of containing the radiation is likely very high.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.