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Comment Re:What about Ron Paul? (Score 1) 375

I'm going to go ahead and surrender to Godwin's Law here.
Giving a whole lot of political parties an equal voice is exactly what happened in 1930's Germany. There were so many parties running with candidates, the leading candidate for Chancellor only needed a small minority of the population to vote him in. The result was that an extremist radical was elected, despite only a (relatively) small number of people voted for him. The more parties you have, the less people need to agree with you in order to be voted in.
So, a two party system may not seem like the best way, but it at least weeds out all the radicals and keeps us somewhere near the middle of the political spectrum.

Comment What TFS Leaves Out (Score 1) 429

The reactor casing has corroded down to 3/8 of an inch, but was not continuing to corrode. That 3/8 of an inch corresponds to the stainless steel layer within the casing, and thus is resistant to the boric acid corrosion. Now, stainless steel WILL corrode over time, but at a much slower rate. TFS makes it seem like if the corrosion continued, we were only 3/8 of an inch away from a meltdown. Actually, the reactor would have continued fine until that steel casing failed somehow, which would have to be due to some other cause.

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