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peak debt posted:
 James Brady, former Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan, was seriously injured in the assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981. The incident prompted Reagan to back a bill named after Brady that would institute background checks on prospective gun owners. Naturally, the NRA opposed this measure, and sued up to the Supreme Court to try to block it.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Nuclear power's image problem stems from two linked things: lingering Cold War fear of nuclear annihilation, and hysteria (both justified and not) stemming from the few real-world nuclear accidents that have occurred. I'm pretty sure that this man:  is the reason that many people distrust nuclear power.
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thathonkey posted:Two things still used in a medical setting today. Well heroin no, but morphine (or one of the many synthetic derivatives which is just as strong if not stronger), very much yes... Very much so, but only in very specific surgeries. 
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I'm a huge fan of nuclear power, but I love the film The China Syndrome. For one thing, it's just a loving awesome movie. For another, it actually does highlight what's wrong with the American civilian nuclear program, which is that corruption made the design of the plants really relatively unsafe. If you're interested in the whole story, I really suggest the documentary "A Is for Atom" from the Adam Curtis series Pandora's Box. Actually, every episode of that series is well done and amazing, as are all of his documentaries. In any case, it's about how the nuclear business grew up in the US as opposed to the one in the USSR, and what that meant for reactor design. It also has a dictophone recording of the Three Mile Island operators talking to someone at the NRC, if I'm remembering right, which is a truly terrifying conversation. (If you aren't familiar with the situation, they accidentally, due to a malfunctioning valve, exposed the core and actually did cause a core melt, but they had no way of knowing what they were doing, because the plant design was so complex.) Unfortunately, it seems like most Americans will continue to think of this:  Instead of this:  When they hear the word "nuclear."
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BUSH 2112 posted:I'm a huge fan of nuclear power, but I love the film The China Syndrome. For one thing, it's just a loving awesome movie. For another, it actually does highlight what's wrong with the American civilian nuclear program, which is that corruption made the design of the plants really relatively unsafe.  USSR/Russia has had the worst accidents, though, so far, although Japan has been making a run at their title recently.
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Oh yeah. They had much more dangerous reactor designs. If I remember correctly, the RBMK style reactor didn't have any kind of containment besides the Upper Biological Shield, along with a bunch of other terrible design ideas that made it a disaster waiting to happen. But, the US power plant design was basically just a huge version of the nuclear reactor used in submarines, which was never meant to be operated on the scale they operate on. I mean, poo poo, I live like 30 miles from this power plant, and it's kind of scary to imagine what would happen if a meltdown occurred.  If we really want to have safe, clean energy, the US needs to heavily invest in science education and research into new reactor designs. (Never gonna happen.)
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BUSH 2112 posted:If we really want to have safe, clean energy, the US needs to heavily invest in science education and research into new reactor designs. (Never gonna happen.) 
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Terror Sweat posted:I'm pretty sure that this man: He played a huge part. When I was in 2nd grade some public relations people from Palo Verde Nuclear Plant came into our classroom and played a video and told us "that there maybe people at their plant that look like Homer Simpson, there's no one that acts like Homer Simpson."  Of course none of us had any idea why that was important and we basically cheered over any mentioning of the Simpsons (my school banned all Simpsons merchandise/t-shirts)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_Christian_Comicsquote:Spire Christian Comics was a line of comic books published by Fleming H. Revell starting in 1972. In 1981 Hugh Revell Barbour started his own company, Book Bargains, which soon became Barbour & Company. Barbour acquired the rights to republish many of the titles in the Spire Christian Comics line under the NEW Barbour Christian Comics imprint, keeping the comics in print until 1988.    And last but not least... 
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Nessus posted:I thought there were actually several new reactor designs, like pebble beds and such, we just haven't built any of them because NO NUKES. I'm not sure if they've actually been built in like China or India or whatever, though. Pretty much this, the only thing the Environmentalist movement has done with regards to nuclear is make it so that it's next to impossible to decommission old plants to build newer, safer ones. This was a large factor in the Fukushima disaster. 
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Moist von Lipwig posted:France has incredibly low CO2 thanks to their nuclear program (65th in the world, below Iceland!).  Moist von Lipwig posted:EDIT: Just going to clarify that the Rainbow Warrior bombing was basically an act of terrorism and the DGSE can go choke on their own guns as far as I'm concerned. It was fun, reminded me of when I was trolling the Greenpeace forums.
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What the gently caress ever. Have you ever asked yourself why environmentalists have literally no power or clout to accomplish anything they want, including blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, winning disclosures of fracking fluid ingredients, properly holding BP/TransOcean accountable for the Gulf disaster, etc., and aren't represented politically by anyone within the Overton window, and yet those drat green hippie fucks can somehow single-handedly stop construction of new nuclear power plants? The public is misinformed about nuclear power; that has more to do with images coming out of Hiroshima and Chernobyl than it does anything "environmentalists" have done. Nuke plants are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and expensive to operate, and this is a country that doesn't believe global warming is real so we don't need to factor that externality into the operating cost of natgas/coal plants.  The real enemies, if you're SilentD
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Got the "Quotations from Chairman Mao" for christmas and/or Stalin's "official" birthday, and with Mao himself having his 119th anniversary next wednesday:
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The translator makes him sound more smug than he probably did in Russian. 
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Fluoride Jones posted:The translator makes him sound more smug than he probably did in Russian. Yeah, he was going about it in a very matter-of-fact tone. Also fairly accurate! 
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Legit? I knew that we'd made a buncha stupid whiny poo poo at the Kyoto thang to get exceptions "Because we're so small~" by our whiny neo-liberal government but it's that bad? Goddamn. Have a dam: That's per capita, obviously France emits a lot more carbon dioxide than Iceland overall. That said, the data available on Wikipedia shows that France produces roughly half as much carbon dioxide as Germany, when their respective populations are 65 and 81 millions. 
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The other side of the coin seems more convincing. 
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Santa Claus got arrested at the Texas state capitol for chalk-drawing on the driveway. http://www.austinchronicle.com/occupy-austin/2012-12-21/1/   
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Lake of Methane posted:Santa Claus got arrested at the Texas state capitol for chalk-drawing on the driveway. Of course it happens in Texas. 
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  The Daily News reminds me, in case you didn't know, at the same time LaPierre was giving his "blame everything including video games, Obama and hurricanes, except guns" speech, a man went on shooting spree in Pennsylvania, killing 4 and wounding several others, including 3 cops. Apparently the cops didn't have easy enough access to guns.
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Merry Christmas soon!       
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Exclamation Marx posted:It'll be interesting to see how Fox et al deal with Murdoch's anti-gun views (by not talking about gun control at all?). You seem to imagine Murdoch is principled and that this has some effect on coverage. You are mistaken. Fox News will quite happily tout guns and other Murdoch-owned properties will attack them. 
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ekuNNN posted:Merry Christmas soon! And a Happy New Year (С Новым Годом!)  My Russian is admittedly pretty poor, but I think this says something like "To children all over the planet--the world!" edit: vvv Oh right I knew that. "Peace to children all over the planet" makes way more sense. Thanks! VikingofRock fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Dec 23, 2012 |
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VikingofRock posted:
Russian uses the same word for world and peace. 
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Smokey Mountain is an enormous garbage dump in the Philippines. I have been there from when I worked with an NGO that was concerned with the urban poor. It is basically the world's largest non-stop garbage fire. You would be tempted to say that the fires are from the population of nearly 30,000 itinerant people who live there, but no. Smokey Mountain catches fire because there is so much organic garbage there composting that it generates so much heat that it habitually catches on fire. People die there from inhaling toxic gases from burned off garbage constantly. They live by picking garbage and selling anything remotely profitable. They also live by picking 'food' off the dump. Seeing it, seeing how people live on it, illustrated to me that the world makes no sense. Literally no sense at all. It is a bizarre place. Never have I been some where that garbage consists of the entire environment, the horizon, everything. From the center of the dump there is nothing you can see that is not the dump, and the toxic choking smoke of plastic bags burning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Mountain  Imagine being this kid. You have grown up, and are surrounded by things that other people have thrown away. Your entire reason for existance is to crab through other people's garbage. You are among the 1%; the bottom 1%. This is a documentary about Smokey Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctdSki1iX9I
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Here's some weird Italian fascist art:   
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 also, random other pictures:        Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valery Bykovsky, Andriyan Nikolayev and Gherman Titov at a TV studio (1963)  Battle of Cable Street, 1936  Russians Reaching the Reichstag, 1945 
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Pictures from the christmas truce where Germans and British decided to celebrate christmas together during WWI:     
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ekuNNN posted:Battle of Cable Street, 1936 Former Labour MP Sir Oswald Mosley 
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These two are from the protests against the Notre Dame des Landes airport near Nantes. Some more from that protest, which is ongoing: Big pile of tear gas canisters after the last time they kicked the protestors off of the airport's proposed site   Cops being dicks with firehoses at a protest in downtown Nantes 
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