"Ian Sample at the Guardian UK does a really thorough write-up of what's going on with the Fukushima Clean-up.
From the article: 'Though delicate and painstaking, retrieving the fuel
rod assemblies from the pools is not the toughest job the workers face.
More challenging by far will be digging out the molten cores in the
reactors themselves. Some of the fuel burned through its primary
containment and is now mixed with cladding, steel and concrete. The
mixture will have to be broken up, sealed in steel containers and moved
to a nuclear waste storage site. That work will not start until some
time after 2020.'"
A ship with a hull longer than the Empire State Building is tall
has been floated out of dry dock in Geoje, South Korea. Measuring 488 m
(1,601 ft) long and 74 m (243 ft) wide, the hull belongs to Shell's
Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, which upon
completion will be the largest floating facility ever built."
"China says it wants Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP
because that will help in its fight to stop proliferation of pirated
Microsoft software. A state copyright official says the release of
Windows 8 means a substantial increase in the selling price of a Windows
operating system, especially in light of the upcoming end-of-life of
Windows XP, which is still used by a large percentage of Chinese. That
could drive users to buy pirated copies of a new operating system
because they are cheaper, he says."
"Remember when the ex-cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler
was appointed to the FCC chair back in May of 2013? Turns out he's
currently gunning for Internet Service Providers to be able to 'favor some traffic over other traffic.' It would set a dangerous precedent, considering the Open Internet Order in 2010 forbade such action if it fell under unreasonable discrimination. The bendy interpretation of the 2010 order is apparently aimed somewhat at Netflix,
as Wheeler stated: 'Netflix might say, "I'll pay in order to make sure
that my subscriber might receive the best possible transmission of this
movie."'"
We saw it coming.
Corporations are taking over Americas safeguards. BP got away with the gulf oil spill because the head of The Department of energy is an oil insider.
There is a San Francisco trial in which the U.S. government appears to be manipulating the no-fly list to its advantage.
The court case involves a Stanford Ph.D. student who was barred from
returning to the U.S. after visiting her native Malaysia. She's one of roughly 700,000 people on the no-fly list.
Here's the sketchy part: the woman's eldest daughter, who was born in
the U.S. and is a U.S. citizen, was called as a witness for the trial.
Unfortunately, she mysteriously found herself on the no-fly list as well,
and wasn't able to board a plane to come to the trial. Lawyers for the
Department of Justice told the court that she simply missed her plane,
but she was able to provide documents from the airline explaining that the Department of Homeland Security was not allowing her to fly.
You probably did this experiment as a kid, you just didn't go far enough.
The origins of the rubber chicken, it turns out, are mysterious. Getting
to the bottom of why (or if) it is actually funny is another matter all together.
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