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Comment Uber in Montreal (Score 1) 460

by Boutch42 on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:29PM (#51262907) Attached to: Uber In Retreat Across Europe

Here in Montréal, Canada, there is a class action suit getting organised following outrageous fees being charged to customers on New Year's Eve (300$ for 20 min ride). They are also in trouble with municipal and provincial authorities because they are operating against the law, taxis are regulated and require permits in Québec. A taxi licence cost upwards of 200K$, so you can guess that taxi drivers are not to keen on Uber...

40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb 470

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @09:07AM from the chrome-dome-down dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "A BBC investigation has found that in 1968 the US abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland after a nuclear-armed B52 crashed on the ice a few miles from Thule Air Base. The Stratofortress disintegrated on impact with the sea ice and parts of it began to melt through to the fjord below. The high explosives surrounding the four nuclear weapons on board detonated without setting off the nuclear devices, which had not been armed by the crew. The Pentagon maintained that all four weapons had been 'destroyed' and while technically true, investigators piecing together fragments from the crash could only account for three of the weapons. Investigators found that 'something melted through ice such as burning primary or secondary.' A subsequent search by a US submarine was beset by technical problems and, as winter encroached and the ice began to freeze over, the search was abandoned. 'There was disappointment in what you might call a failure to return all of the components,' said a former nuclear weapons designer at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory. 'It would be very difficult for anyone else to recover classified pieces if we couldn't find them.'"

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