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# Russia, the Nuclear Wasteland. The govt wants Russia to become the Lady
Liberty of toxic rubbish. The cash-strapped nation is loosening laws to
host the world's discarded radioactive materials. Have a hot time tonite.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21660.html
: Do you generate much nuclear waste? Where would you like to put it? Won't
the Reptoids take it off your hands? Do they dump on you too? Do you glow?
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@ Top 10 reasons why you should not date an engineer:
10. T-Shirt and jeans are formal dress.
9. Considers "Posting to the Internet" a social life.
8. Flames like a monster, speaks like a pussy cat.
7. Works from 6:30am to 7:30pm daily. No morning kisses. No Evening walks.
6. No matter how hard you cry and how loud you yell, just sits there
calmly discussing your emotion in terms of mathematical logic.
5. Listens to everything from Bach to Prince, hates classic rock.
4. Twinkie and a Jolt 6-Pack Is a Seven Course Meal.
3. Talks in acronyms (TIA).
2. Can't leave that damn pencil off ear for one minute.
1. Will file for divorce if you call in the middle of debugging session.
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# A step closer to fusion power. (BBC) A new design of experimental fusion
reactor, which combines the best attributes of existing technologies, has
gone online at a university in the US. HSX Plasma Machine move to research
mode: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_442000/442870.stm
@ Links: U.S. Fusion Program: http://wwwofe.er.doe.gov/
@ JET: European Fusion Research: http://www.jet.uk/
# And - The Oxford sunseekers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_338000/338191.stm
# Big payout for fusion workers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_404000/404249.stm
# Should the cold fusion dream die?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_301000/301893.stm
: Have you achieved fusion lately? Do you prefer your fusion hot or cold? Is
hot fusion better on cold, lonely nights? Have aliens helped you fuse? How?
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@ WEIRD SCIENCE. My first thought on hearing that the Kansas state education
board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead!
Be like that! Handicap y'r kids for life. Let "secular humanists" have all
the good colleges and get all the good jobs. I know this was an unworthy
thought - Darwin's demotion was a political ploy by Christian conservative
politicos, not a grassroots effort by Kansas parents, much less their un-
fortunate kids - but there you are. As a rootless cosmopolitan, I'm tired
of being expected to pay homage to "the heartland" as the moral center of
the universe. http://www.thenation.com/issue/990920/0920pollitt.shtml
: Do cretinists deserve to be left behind by a rapidly-evolving technosocial
order? Are you a cretinist? Do you have a future in the fast-food industry?
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# China seeks to wipe out Falun Gong entirely. BEIJING. The banned sect
Falun Gong has started to go underground and must be completely stopped by
punishing its remaining leaders, an officialChinese newspaper said Friday.
http://www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,91476-144895-1015232-0,00.html
: Can/will/should your sect be wiped out? Will your sect wipe out your govt
oppressors? Do you meditate subversively? Do you subvert meditatively? How?
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# Jamaican Jews celebrate Rosh Hashana. KINGSTON. The well-tended synagogue,
with its triangular wood roof, cement turrets & Hebrew inscriptions, seems
as misplaced among the crumbling blocks of decaying Kingston as the dwind-
ling community it serves. By the dozen, they'll come here Friday for Rosh
Hashana (New Year), a reaffirmation that the 500-year-old Jewish community
of Jamaica, almost invisible in an overwhelmingly black & Christian land,
goes on. "We've probably got a generation or 2 before it becomes a crisis"
said Ernest de Souza, 52, who assumed the mantle of spiritual leader since
the last ordained rabbi left in 1978. He may be optimistic. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561090692-0a5
: What's your favorite religious holiday? Does your belief system have many
holidays? Is your community dwindling? Are you being harvested by aliens??
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@ Two concepts of social structure... trouble in hierarchies: the Snafu
Principle. People tend to say what they think the boss wants to hear,
especially if they have noticed that the practice of "shooting the
messenger" is common. This means that the information passed up the
pyramid is distorted at each level. Thus, each higher layer of managers
tends to have less and less contact with reality, and near the top they
are often completely out of touch. http://nmt.edu/~shipman/org/hier.html
: Are you hierarchical? Are you in touch? With who? Do you exercise control?
Does control exercise you? Are you subordinate, insubordinate, ordinary??
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Skeptilinks:
# Danforth vows thorough Waco inquiry - pursuing the "dark questions":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561090877-384
# Also: A glance at the Waco controversy, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561090864-7fe
# GENOCIDE IN E.TIMOR: http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/southeast/9909/10/e.timor.01/
# US Complicit In E.Timor: http://thenation.com/issue/990927/0927nairn.shtml
# MOSCOW TERROR BLAST: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9909/10/Russia-explosion/
# Beyond The Drug War: http://thenation.com/issue/990920/0920massing.shtml
# U.S. State Dept. studies religious persecution:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561085003-b8b
# Also: Highlights of persecution report, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561085875-02d
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