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in my opinion, no order to deploy nuclear weapons can ever possible come from a sane commander. any such order should be refused.

optimise for maintainability, reusability, composibility

or parallax ... I always confuse the two.

I don't think it's possible. We live in a finite world. All my wealth comes from someone else's poverty.

so? good for him. I think it's an inescapable reality of the human condition: we suffer an irresolvable emptiness. we make different choices about how to fill the unfillable hole. …

here in australia, decades of research and policy development have hit upon a world-class solution to the nuclear waste challenge. We're building a road in a semi-arid remote locat…

recommendations?

unlike tobacco: hence its (legitimate?) status.

... or a healthy sense of humour. we didn't hear how much he drinks other months.

that's a problem with the law, not the substance.

Why Murdoch wants Rudd to lose the coming federal election is not merely political, it is commercial. News Corp hates the government's National Broadband Network (NBN). The company…

I call BS. for rich developed nations, gas is an unnecessary and dangerous distraction from the genuine renewable and sustainable energy alternatives which are already taking shape…

most of the planet's uranium is in very low concentrations in the sea. We certainly don't have enough commercially viable uranium (ie, that can be extracted and enriched with less …

thats it. if all the nuclear promises come true, its still just offering to delay the inevitable

yes, I'm worried about waste. No, I don't accept assurances that it's all over in a few hundred years. yes I'm worried about weapons - U233 from the thorium cycle has been weaponis…

radioactive tracers do constitute radioactive material. Stupd semantics. Ypu can choose to have a CT scan, and good for you: the scandal here is that experiments were performed wit…

Plato's Cave.

also important because 'foiling terror plots' may well not be the focus of these programs. demonstrating lack of efficacy on the stated objectives could help expose a wider agenda.…

I haven't seen much from CD on PRISM: got any links?

the CAAT appeal was stunning. Alhough admitting that Pine Gap was used to target strikes on Iraq, defence insisited that it is not a war base - which made the facility ineligible f…

nonsense. even ignoring the undeniable nexus between weapons and civilian power programs, where I live, nuclear power would be more expensive and much slower to roll out.

maybe more significant.

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