A couple of crooks in Italy get busted and suddenly everyones doing it... If you think the yellow has been tampered with, Call your traffic dpt or take it upon yourself to get out your stopwatch and gather proof and call the newspaper!

It's a fair argument, though, I'd hesitate to make it in front of the mothers who've had their children killed by fools running red lights.

Well, I guess everyone is entitled to their OPINION.

%100 correct!

Again, you only get ticketed if you ENTER the intersection on a red. The proof is in MULTIPLE photos.

The only unfair part of the photo process is that the camera can't tell who is behind the wheel of the car. But that can be useful too. When that envelope shows up in the mail you get to ask how your 16yo kid, who borrowed your car to see a movie, got a ticket on the other side of the city!

Where I come from, Canada, the red light cameras only snap if you ENTER on red. They prove it by taking more than one picture. The first showing you outside the intersection and the light is red. The second, after you have entered the intersection. The pictures also show a large chunk of the intersection. If there is an extraordinary occurrence, it's in the picture and you can show it to the judge.

Frankly, I think it's a great idea to have cities generate money from automated tickets. Cities need funding and what better place to get it than from aggressive drivers? I've driven around photo radar and redlight cameras all my life and, you know what: TICKET FREE! If you can't obey the rules, you shouldn't be driving!

Of course, if municipalities want to ban the devices then more power to them. I wouldn't agree with it where I live, but that's what the political process if for.

How do you handle train tracks then?

You only get a ticket if you ENTER the intersection on a red.

It certainly is sobering. Although, when one thinks about it, folks who THINK they know what they're doing are often way more dangerous than than the guy who doesn't have a clue (especially when you got a bunch of them on your hands!) and this is not just true with computers: Imagine all the people who thought they knew what they were doing when they took out that 40y, pay-what-you-want, no-downpayment-necessary mortgage on that 7 bed 7 bath mansion!
...Or the broker that thought he knew what he was doing when he convinced that guy the mortgage was a good idea.
...Or the bank that knew what it was doing when it authorized that loan.
...Or the insurance corporation that knew what it was doing when it insured that mortgage...
...Or the ratings company that felt these mortgages bundled together comprised a sound financial asset.
...Or, well, this could go on for a while and you get the idea!

Ya, I voted strategically for Colbert. I wouldn't have bothered if he was competing against 'Serenity', however, there is no way in hell I want Xenu on the ISS.

Many countries have had no choice but to attempt the nuclear route and would rather go another way. Many countries still face massive cost overruns building Nuclear plants. Additionally, where's the accounting for the expense of keeping the growing piles of waste potentially for a million years? Where's the accounting of the CO2 and other environmental damage from the mining and enrichment phase?

If you say so.

the threat of Human error/stupidity/wilful sabotage is alway there. FYI, there are accidents of varying degrees of severity all the time. Besides, the longer we go without a Chernobyl type event the more lulled everybody becomes. Already Alberta is floating the idea of 12 never-built-before reactors to supply the energy to extract Oil from the Tar sands without the sarcophagus because these new plants theoretically can't melt down and darn it if building all those pesky safety features takes time and money.

Wind, Solar, Solar Thermal, Geothermal ect. are also ready to go now. Nuclear still carries great risks whether you want to admit it or not.

Geothermal. Solar Thermal.

Well about 15 years ago there was this one crazy dude from my riding. Somehow he grabbed a whole box of cast ballots, ran outside screaming about aliens or his underwear or some such nonsense and proceeded to throw the works into the river. Still, someone fished them out and they got counted!

I know that this isn't really applicable to your post, I just thought it was kind of funny.

Freeloading? Don't get too crazy now. As Microsoft and Google know, even if they don't make money from you using their service, there IS value to having all the users use your product/service!

Of course not, fusion still displays all the promise it did forty years ago. However, we should keep in mind that its problems are obviously not as solvable as previously claimed. We should be mindful of not devoting too many resources that may be better invested elsewhere. Like the promise of the Hydrogen Economy, Fusion is still a 'magic bullet' for our current ills. Unfortunately our problems are growing more urgent as the days float, by so how much longer can we afford to wait when we have a whole series of proven renewables that would benefit massively from even a fraction of the fusion/fission commitment.

Really the biggest danger is that we uphold the status quo by default. We take our eyes off the prize and allow the promise of a shiny, sexy, futuristic technology to delay us taking real action today!

HEMP??? For the love of God, WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! ;)

...If you get the marketing right, who cares? ;)

Truthfully, if this technology became reality as it is described, my opposition to nuclear power would drastically diminish. The waste is the single largest issue surrounding these plants. Quite simply, it's immoral to leave future generations the obligation to take care of a problem, both physically and financially, that we generate today.

Having said that, my concern is that this is yet another distraction that will never actually bear out.

As for the reprocessing issue: My understanding is that the US does not reprocess waste for political reasons. Basically, it was a condition of some of the disarmament treaties designed to pacify some Russian concerns. Therefore, in order to begin reprocessing spent fuel, it would involve the re-negotiation of old, hard-won treaties. This would be a process which I can't really see being too high on Washington's to-do list for a long time to come.