And on that day, a narcissist named Richard Nixon fired a scientist named Alvin Weinberg to prevent any adoption of Molten Salt Reactors, which threatened thousands of jobs in his native California because they may have delayed construction of his California reactors and thousands of jobs. Hey. did you know a fast fission reactor like an MSR with onsite reprocessing leaves literally the same amount of long term radioactive material as Fusion? Probably not. Did you know fusion has radioactive byproducts, mainly tritium and deuterium? Obviously not. Really, both give us a 100 year problem (until they decay to background radiation).

I have nothing against fusion, but fission is a viable option, just not what we have. I think pebble bed is the next step in fission. I think the MIT super magnet fusion project will overtake the failed Tokamak projects.

I understand the myopic that makes this happen. Amazon gets a marquee event, and supposedly boosts its stature and hopefully drives viewership. Everything a corporate vice president wants. The Emmy organization gets the most money, that they use for⦠whatever. Win-win right?

Well, no. Viewership will drop because now people have to get an Amazon prime subscription as opposed to simply having basic cable, or (gasp!) an antenna. They wonâ(TM)t even know when it happens because they wonâ(TM)t see the ads for it on a competing network. And so what used to be yearly appointment viewing cultural touchstone dies.

See also: Apple and the Charlie Brown specials.

If they want to use it, they kind of have to. AGPL infects all of your products source code for every project that uses it. You either need to relicense it under a more restrictive license or basically release all of your source code for every product you own. Siemens is a for profit company, they will do that vs what Stalin... er, I mean Stallman wants.

I really have no skin in this game right now, but I've seen what highly infectious licenses can do when you're putting in thousands of hours coding a commercial product on top (basically, the GPL2 rebranded GPL3 DLL code all had to be removed). Yeah, if it was all paid for by someone, great, but it wasn't. The FOSS model is actually built on top of OS companies footing the bill for software products to be built on top of them, not what people think, which is people developing software in their free time. I do the latter, for FOSS, but it doesn't pay my bills.

Let me be perfectly clear about this: I am insulting you. I am calling you out as either being such a plonk that you keep old copies of People magazine around just in case ... or you are such a plonk that you google and select the answer you want.

Either way, you are a plonk. Your memory is reliable and truthful, mine is full of lies.

Yah, right, like I keep sources of everything I remember from 30 years ago. Uh huh. You of course, being perfect, do keep such sources, instead of just googling and reporting the results which confirm your own bias.

What else is new? Stupid humans relying on error prone satellite early launch detection systems already almost started WW3 on September 26, 1983. A Soviet Lieutenant identified it as a false alarm because no other system reported it and the "retalitory" nuke launch was aborted.

Lots of inventions were unasked-for until they were invented.

No we have not. That's another cherry picked date comparison. Corals have been bleaching and repopulating themselves for several hundred million years.

That's not how it was reported at the time, and I have no reason to trust People magazine.

If you were an anti-alarmist, you'd be crowing this shows sea levels dropping.

For another indication of how sloppy sea level rise claims are, the alarmists published a list of sea level changes along the US Atlantic coast, and funny thing, they differed considerably, as if the ocean were rising more in some places than others. The alternative explanation of sinking land levels was pooh poohed as climate denialism. But another funny thing: California's central valley was once reported as having sunk 22 feet since the gold rush days 150 years earlier, due to pumping out so much underground water. Gosh, could the same thing be happening along the Atlantic coast?

They made those loans because the government promised to bail them out if the loans soured, and the government said there would be consequences for not making enough subprime loans.

Oh yes it did, starting back in the Clinton era. I forget what they called it, other than subprime lending. Banks were specifically told the government (taxpayers) would back their risky loans, and if they did not cooperate, there would be consequences.

The claims were "extinction" and "disappearance" by now, not "lower from some cherry picked date". People don't resort to shenanigans like that when they have truth on their side. You, sir, act as if you do not have truth on your side.

There was a world record high temperature reported in Algeria a few years back. Turns out the weather station was situated at an airport, on or close to the tarmac where jet airplanes shot their hot exhaust at the area.

There are standards for weather stations, such as fresh white paint, size and shape of the containing box, louvers, situated with grass around it, no artificial heat sources nearby, etc etc etc. Something like 90-95% of Britain's weather stations violate those standards, some so badly that they are rated as only being within 5 degrees of correct. Britain was also reporting record high temperatures for weather stations that haven't existed for decades; they average other weather stations within 50 miles to create fake weather station data.

These same patterns show up in the US and other countries. The reported "record high temperatures" are nothing of the sort.

Again: people don't lie like this when they have truth on their side. They not only don't need to, they know that lies ruin their reputations. These alarmists don't seem to mind being caught in such egregious lies. Apparently they don't mind having shit reputations.

Your statistics are meaningless without providing dates. Anyone can cherry pick any starting date they want to show any trend they want. Al Gore and other alarmists specifically claimed "extinct" and "disappear", not "trending". Your strawman is another sign of a liar who doesn't believe his own propaganda.

Your stats on coastal flooding are not backed up by reality. An awful lot of people are moving to Florida. Obama still has that sea level mansion.

Perhaps you don't understand that "move heaven and earth" means not accepting the status quo on taking 30 years to build nuclear power, when it didn't used to take so long. Perhaps you don't understand the alarmists' claim of a tipping point and existential risk

Kindles and the Kindle app also allow changing font size, a real benefit as my eyes age. I bought a 1200 page book recently. The main font was just readable with a bright light. The 200 pages of footnotes were illegible. I bought the eBook version and breezed through it. Kindles might be able to change fonts, I don't know and never had reason to try before. I do miss flipping pages for something I read 10 pages back, but search more than makes up for that.