Quote Originally Posted by Atmosfear View Post
Once again, you're just displaying ignorance. The Yucca Mountain facility is 1. secure to the point that unless its the end of the world anyways, it's utterly safe and 2. necessary only because or moronic, antiquated laws banning Uranium recycling that would allow nuclear facilities to recycle almost all of their waste to the point it has a negligible impact on the environment (less so than, say, clean coal.) Yucca Mountain is a solution to idiotic policies of the past.


How does that make it "fair"? It's just a slap in the face to straight couples and the religious right. And once again, how is that fair to same-sex (or even opposite-sex) roommates who aren't having sex? Is the act of sodomy all it takes for the state to bless the relationship? That's inane.


Socialist. Socialist. Socialist. Socialist. Socialist. Most Socialist. All of your examples are countries whose governments were built on the basis of egalitarian redistribution of wealth following monarchical control. Find that concept in the Federalist Papers, I defy you.


There is never a benefit to business if the government is requiring these controls. If there was a net benefit for pollution control in the free market, firms would be voluntarily putting them into place because they would make more money from it (probably due to social consciousness increasing demand for products of companies that enact these controls.)

Furthermore, stricter pollution controls increase the incentive for firms to move their operations from our country to those that have fewer controls. Just like minimum wage, stricter financial filing requirements, and other government-imposed costs.

I don't think you grasp the complexity of a national economy in any way shape or form.


The government is supposed to secure our right to life and liberty. A government that acts wantonly in the application of the will of 51% is likely to turn tyrant against 49%.

*cough*socialism*cough*


Did you hear that? That was the sound of the comment going entirely over your head. The point wasn't about foreign policy, it was about LBJ's social philosophy of casually passing legislation and expanding the government to fix any problem that anyone might face.
To lazy to answer these all directly. So fuck you (that's just simpler).

Quote Originally Posted by Mr. E View Post
They've figured out how to reprocess uranium to make it reusable hundreds of times before having to be disposed of, and the technology the plants used has improved to the point that one use of the uranium goes rather far, on top of the fact that it is reusable. I don't know the science behind it, I just know someone who is responsible for dealing with nuclear waste and he explained it to me. As far as dealing with the heat pollution, I'm not quite sure about that.
Someone who works for a facility. That sounds like something I could trust (seriously), because they would have a real perspective on it.
Quote Originally Posted by Atmosfear View Post
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...s/cfr/part020/

There's the government regulation on cooling. None of the cooling emissions of nuclear plants have any radiation. The major concern is thermal emissions.

Update: here is the non-science version http://men.style.com/gq/features/lan...d=content_6424
Oh look something useful.
Quote Originally Posted by paulyt View Post
Also the USA is the only industralised wealthy nation that does not provide Universal health care.
Because the USA doesn't care about those who are sick, poor, suffer from mental illness, or have pre-existing conditions (or so it would seem).