ummm... you mean you translated "uhhh uhhhh ahhhh!" into various Eastern European languages ?? You are a cunning linguist, my friend !

"In other words, this sort of thing has been operating safely for about 50 years now."

Sure, unless you count: K-19, K-11, K-27, K-140, K-429, K-222, K-123, K-314, K-431, K-192, K-8, K-386, TK-208, K-279, K-447, K-508, K-208, K-210, K-216, K-316, K-462, K-38, K-37, K-371, and K-367.

Those are submarines which experienced nuclear accidents from just the Northern Fleet of the former Soviet Union and Russia. Too lazy to look for the Pacific fleet accidents..

The Russian Northern Fleet Nuclear submarine accidents

"how advisable it is to pursue a PhD in this topic?" What is your tolerance level for torches and pitchforks ?

Earth First ! (We'll mine the other planets later...) --poster seen at a mining operation

You're mixing up 'yer virii. HSV vice HPV.

He pulled it out of his a$$. Actually, since this story refers to Israel, let's use their numbers. With a population of 7.2 million, of which 75.6% are Jewish (i.e. targets of terrorism), and 3123 deaths by terrorism since 1947, there is a roughly .05% chance of death by terrorism. Still only about 1/10th the chance of death by homicide in the U.S.

I think the worst case ( yet still in the running ) is Hilary Rosen. She's been a big Obama supporter and arguably has copyright 'experience'. Change you *will* believe in !

Oh come on. The major market is going to be for anthropomorphic anatomically correct robots. Most will want that Stepford Wife to exhibit certain faux emotion, now won't they ?

That's because the term Fascist has become utterly misused in the United States. It pretty much has devolved to mean "bully", rather than a political-economic system.

East Yemen ? Is that anywhere near the former "South Yemen", aka People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ? Before reunification with North Yemen (formerly Arab Yemen Republic ) it was in fact, a Marxist dictatorship. There is no "East Yemen".