The first generation will be nice. Plush seats, video displays, maybe even an honor bar style vending machine. Then the companies running them will get tired of cleaning up vomit on Saturday morning, finding the soiled baby diapers, dog poo and other excrement, and trying to keep the graffiti and knife cuts in check. Then they'll get the city bus treatment. Hard plastic seats, no extra niceties. Just get in and deal with a miserable experience.

Unless you go with the "upgraded" service at 10X the cost of normal.

So there's a total of one doctor in the whole hospital? I get it that "his doctor" wasn't available when the test results came in, but a visit from an associate who's on duty would still be more personal. The video conference could have happened between the two doctors so they could get the story right.

That's has got to be one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen. But "whimsical" architecture is all the rage right now. I guess I'm becoming an old fart, but this style seems like something that won't be remembered 50 years from now, except by other architects. Many of whom will pontificate about the wonderful daring steps these pioneers took, only to ignore it when it comes to their own commissions.

But they told me to act like I own the company.

"Driving with Colorado license plates" is already probable cause in Kansas and Nebraska thanks to their anti-weed stance, now this. Selling your old phone on eBay? Better exclude sales in KS.

I did some account pruning at the end of last year, something that will probably become an annual tradition going forward. One of the accounts was the old Yahoo! account that hasnâ(TM)t been visited for about 5 years. I happened to remember that I also had a Flickr account that I used with my N95, so I grabbed a dump before deleting the account. Probably not enough to get purged, but fairly happy I did, some of those pictures werenâ(TM)t in any of my archives.

Old vehicles are highly recyclable.

Yep. But when you aged bulldog farts the house will stink for days.

Modern uranium mining has more in common with oil and gas drilling than traditional mining. It's called in-situ leaching and is far safer and less impactful on the local environment. Downside risk is that dissolved U might get into local aquifers but proper mapping and monitoring will help avoid that. Like everything that impacts the world, proper management and being responsible for your fellow man is key.

The insurance problem is because instead of allowing markets to form at their own pace, the US government wanted production of nuclear materials in a hurry. Bonus that it made for cheap electricity. So they intervened and created their own insurance company specifically for nuclear plant operators.

MSRs sound great, but the problems aren't trivial. Most of the salts are highly corrosive to materials that are good for pipes and other infrastructure, so materials selection becomes the biggest hurtle.

Not saying that's insurmountable, but we already know how to build AP-1000 reactors which are "passive safe" designs.

Actually the OP was slightly off. Spent fuel is only kept in ponds for a few months until it cools enough to be transferred to dry cask storage on site. You can see these locations on Google Earth if you know where to look. They're hard to track down because they don't take up much room at all, considering they store 4 decades of spent fuel. Compare that, for example, to a coal ash pile, or the tons of CO2 released by burning natural gas. Heck, compare it to the land mass needed for solar and wind projects.

The dry cask storage solution has been in place since the Carter administration. No incidents in that time. It's ready to be shipped to wherever. If I were in charge they'd be shipped to Idaho for recycling, but FUD keeps them on their "temporary" storage pads. But even in their present state, any potential problem would be highly local.

I guess the author really believes the old saying "One picture is worth 1000 words."

No photo gallery?

But using the state's punishment system as a deterrent seems rather drastic to me, especially when you see what the War On Drugs® has done to the United States. And by driving it underground it will promote a certain counterculture aesthetic that might make the activity even more seductive to someone who's already vulnerable.

The only reason for flying the drone was for the "epic" selfie he'd post to the soc-nets. Only reason the BBC mentioned the drone was so they could add a few paragraphs about the airport incident before Christmas.

It's like the media elites don't want the rest of us invading their airspace. They paid big bucks for those helicopters and here you come with your Mavic Pro. Better make them illegal so the 'beeb can go back to their monopoly on TV.