peterpathname

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by peterpathname 13y ago
in my opinion, no order to deploy nuclear weapons can ever possible come from a sane commander. any such order should be refused.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
optimise for maintainability, reusability, composibility
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by peterpathname 13y ago
or parallax ... I always confuse the two.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
I don't think it's possible. We live in a finite world. All my wealth comes from someone else's poverty.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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. I think his choice to fill his by spreading hard-won wi
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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 location, on the traditional lands of a small, disemowered,
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by peterpathname 13y ago
recommendations?
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by peterpathname 13y ago
unlike tobacco: hence its (legitimate?) status.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
... or a healthy sense of humour. we didn't hear how much he drinks other months.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
that's a problem with the law, not the substance.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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 has formed a view that it poses a threat to the busine
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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 around us. there is an argument about using gas in the deve
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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 energy inputs than they might produce) to maintai
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by peterpathname 13y ago
thats it. if all the nuclear promises come true, its still just offering to delay the inevitable
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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 weaponised before. as with real nuclear reactors
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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 without the children or their parents having an opportunity to
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by peterpathname 13y ago
Plato's Cave.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
I haven't seen much from CD on PRISM: got any links?
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Rap News #19 - Whistleblower: feat. NSA, Snowden, Greenwald(thejuicemedia.com)
2 points by peterpathname 13y ago|0 comments
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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 for the protections from judicial scrutiny afforded under &qu
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by peterpathname 13y ago
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.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
maybe more significant.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
" ... it has been alleged that foreign-owned data hosted by US Internet companies has lesser protection than data belonging to US citizens.”
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NSA spy scandal: Turnbull, Ludlam demand answers(delimiter.com.au)
1 points by peterpathname 13y ago|1 comments
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by peterpathname 13y ago
and, whats the bet the industry's supporters will be offering that same unhelpful rationalisation, come the next reactor failure. I don't accept that the significant disqualifications you raise are all 'solved problems'.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
sure. whats to bet tho that the next reactor disaster uses the same unhelpful rationalisation, that better designs are just around the corner.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
they don't care? so you may say, my experience is that the industry includes some players who duck and weave to try to evade application of existing regulatory radiation limits. and again the coal/nukes false dichotomy. the fact t
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by peterpathname 13y ago
fair call re status of the hormesis theory. what I get from this is that the LNT theory holds more sway; regulators choose precautionary adherance to ALARA. Let's not ignore the obvious fact that there is a powerful industry tugging in the
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by peterpathname 13y ago
... which suggests to me that facebook's sustained block of the legitimate news source westpapuamedia.info - despite ongoing attempts by the publishers and their readers to have it reviewed - is precisely what supporters of the site claim

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