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Comment Re:Hmmm - I have questions (Score 1) 58

Your are 100% wrong. When it comes down to meltdown level event it's always the government that is responsible to pick up the pieces and pay the cost. Except for things like slip and fall or industrial workplace accidents nuclear facilities are uninsurable. So claiming that the "business is responsible" is a completely false statement.

As far as I know no commercial nuclear power station in the US has ever caused a utility to go bankrupt. There is always a bailout and the people in charge never are held personally responsible. As in the vast majority of large scale business fuckups, the execs at top get golden parachutes and live in luxurious retirement. Can you say Boeing? It's so common there is a name for it: moral hazard.

Comment Re:Montana is fuuuuuuuucked (Score 3, Interesting) 284

It's not just Montana, Indiana may go bankrupt Red states rely on undocumented work.

Nebraska’s agricultural industry faces one of the most severe labor shortages in the United States, with recent data showing only 39 workers available for every 100 jobs in the state. This labor gap has made the state critically dependent on immigrant workers, including a significant percentage of undocumented laborers.

In the postelection period amid threats of mass deportations from the Trump administration, Nebraska’s undocumented workers seemingly left the state. Nebraska farmers and ranchers have become increasingly vocal about their reliance on immigrant labor.

Mass deportations in either Nebraska’s agricultural sector or the Southern meatpacking industry would create economic disruptions extending far beyond the immediate industries.

So the economic peril is much greater then just tourism, it threatens the food supply as well. So while your savings turn to trash, food prices will go through and there may be be food shortages.

The question is whether the dumbass Trump supporters will ever understand that they screwed themselves, or will they find some other minority to blame? And even if they suddenly "wake up", to coin a phrase, is it already too late? Unfortunately for those of us who saw Trump as the fascist dictator he is, everyone is going to get kicked in the crotch no matter how your voted.

Fuck around and find out.

Comment Re:Why come to America? (Score 1) 284

You have the mindset of a budding 14 year old rapist. Your misogyny, which you somehow think is humorous, shows that your mental acuity severely lacking.

By the way, I'm not going to define misogyny for you, you'll have to look it up yourself. I have serious doubts you know what it means.

(The previous statement was a way of calling you dumb. I'm not sure that you could understand that if I didn't spell it out.)

Comment Re:So given that basically everything is owned (Score 1) 99

Nothing has really changed,it's just that invisible hand is becoming the visible hand.

The illusion of equality under the law is no longer necessary. The goverment used to ensure that some minimal basic rights, say free speech, applied much of the time but those days are now gone. The oligarchs have been let loose, and the rest of us now have the status of medieval peasants at best.

Submission + - Surprisingly, some Dyson spheres and ringworlds can be stable (phys.org) 1

Required Snark writes: In the realm of science fiction, Dyson spheres and ringworlds have been staples for decades. But it is well known that the simplest designs are unstable against gravitational forces and would thus be torn apart. Now a scientist from Scotland UK, Dr. Colin McInnes, has shown that certain configurations of these objects near a two-mass system can be stable against such fractures.

For the restricted ring, McInnes found that there are seven equilibrium points in the orbital plane of the dual masses, on which, if the ring's center were placed, it would stay and not experience stresses, akin to the three stable Lagrange points where a small mass can reside permanently for the two-body problem.

McInnes restricted this research to a planar ring (in the plane of the circularly orbiting masses) but says it can be shown that a vertical ring, normal to the plane, can also generate equilibria. For example, one such point is a vertical ring with its center at the midpoint between the two masses.

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