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Comment Re:Apple devices are difficult to steal (Score 1) 147

Everywhere I've lived, cops are generally utterly disinterested in property crime unless the victim is connected, the loss is huge or the media gets interested.

Less than 10% are cleared in California now, and yes, they used to be better at it.

This is why we of the dark side value the Second Amendment and keep iy holy.

Comment Re:Navy plants don't count (Score 1) 122

Your favorite country happens to be whole hog for nuclear and is running prototypes of several different new reactor designs at its nuclear test site. Our nuclear test site (I've been there) is a museum of Cold War weapons designs. Its one commercial initiative, Yucca Mountain, was shut down by the Democrats. Now that Harry Reid is rotting in hell, that may change.

Comment Re:There's nothing audacious about it (Score 1) 122

I do not understand why old nerds are so freaking obsessed with nuclear power.

Because its best clean-energy alternative, hydro, is fully exploited. To get any more, we would have to wait around a few million years for more orogeny.

And yes, there isn't a lot of potential in refurbishing old reactors. The future belongs to those who ago bold and develop a reactor design taht can be factory-built, like aircraft, rather than being laboriously site-built over years and years, like airports.

Comment Re: It seems (Score 2) 159

2. Plane suffered dual engine failure (most likely due to external factors like birds, because the GE GenX engines have so far been bulletproof).

One seasoned Air India pilot has already opined that it was a birdstrike. Same scenario as Captain Sullenberger's flight at JFK, but this time there was no river.

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