Look it up and you can see why. Google is your friend.

No, they're not hard to get these days.

The books I referred to were from the '50s when the old tube a kid might get his hands on would be a B&W tube from the old TV.

However, the [point was that they are similar. The possibility to use a CRT as an X-ray tube (even if not a very good one) does tend to support that.

You were the kid in kindergarten that got out the protractor and protested that NONE of the shapes were the same because their corners were off by just a bit, weren't you?

The glass in modern (well, sorta modern) CRTs is leaded specifically to screen out the X-rays. Yes, they are softer than you'd get from a purpose built tube. You can jack that up somewhat by upping the supply voltage to the tube if you want an X-ray generator. Older CRTs were easily re-purposed as X-ray tubes suitable for home experimentation. You could even find instructions for it in science books for older kids and teens.

If it's like Walmart, that's reason enough to give it the heave ho!

Microseconds don't matter at all to human trading (and we do not yet grant machines the right to own property). They only matter if you are hoping to skim a penny or two before the real traders come to terms and keep it for themselves.

The only proper cost to trading is the cost to maintain the clearinghouse, which is much less expensive if microseconds are rendered irrelevant and crapflooding from HFT is gone.

They both generate X-rays...

If you hate 1st world problems so much, *PLEASE* , feel free to go live in the 3rd world. I'm sure you'll be much happier hearing your neighbors complain of 3rd world problems.

Your failure to doublethink is doubleplussungood.

So what happened to the epidemic of foot cancer?

While it was probably not a great idea in retrospect, it seems to have done remarkably little harm.

So how were the terrorists planning to get their targets to put their foot in the machine?

It's more than a bit difficult to columnate X-rays, so they would lose a lot of power with distance.

You mean the heavily armed paramilitary style LEO who was clearly identified by lettering on his back where the Davidians couldn't see it?

The very day of the 9/11 attack, I commented that our best course of action was to round up those responsible (if we could find any alive) and move on. I also predicted that instead we'd spend a few years jumping at shadows, snipe hunting, generally trashing everything good in society and trying to relate everything to 9/11.

Sadly, I was correct.

No, it makes him a crazy person. Otherwise, that bolt of lightning that struck close to my house and tracked in through the cable connection was a terrorist.

If they knew how to be successful human beings, they wouldn't need to boost their fragile ego by blaming other races for their failures.