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What's more fun is when someone links to something like this, and within days, everyone you know is sending you the link to it too.

I guess I'm back.  Why did you all change your names?!

Honestly, we did this specifically to confuse you upon your inevitable return.

It's been in the planning for years now

I enjoy how this thread went from hate, to mockery, to inside jokes, before finally settling down and answering the OP's questions.   

Looks like they have a lot to say.  Fairly organized too, it seems.

It's pretty cool, but I'd still make sure it was firewalled off from the rest of my network

It always seems that the most horrible part of any job is the bit that during the interview they say, 'oh, and by the way, you will need to do <something that sounds minor>'.

I took a job at one point where the guy asked me if I knew how to mop... I ended up having to double sweep and mop 5000 square foot every morning.  Gah.

Doesn't matter. You're fucked anyhow.

Yeah, well.. it happens.  At least I was honest about my post

Dok Howl, fair enough. I was mostly asking for the sake of my own memory, anyhow

Having now reviewed the pages, I didn't see anything mentioned about pebble bed reactors or fast breeder reactors.

A lot of the 'waste' that we are burying now could be re-used again and again as fuel in a breeder:  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last

"Second, fuel-recycling fast-breeder reactors, which generate more fuel than they consume, would use less than 1 percent of the uranium needed for current LWRs. Breeder reactors could match today's nuclear output for 30,000 years using only the NEA-estimated supplies."

The USA has huge deposits of uranium so it's a good thing build more plants here anyway.

Most of the reason we don't see more nuclear reactors is political rather than technical.  Couple that with the public perception that only uranium can give off radiation and that you are guaranteed to glow green if you get near a plant, and well...  Modern designs make sure that the failsafe in case of an incident is indeed to 'fail safe'.

I do think we'll see an uptick in the number of nuclear plants as future generations become more divorced from past really bad incidents in poorly designed facilities.

Having skipped all the replies to add my viewpoint, I just would like to say that we'd have no worries about running out of fuel in any reasonable amount of time if we could build breeder reactors that could re-process the waste.

But noooo you can make weapons grade shit with that, so they are banned, so instead we have to use the isotope of uranium that we have the least amount of.  Gah!

Besides, modern pebble bed reactors are about as safe as it gets.  Unlike coal, you are not spewing radiation into the air (really, coal has a lot of radioactive elements in it), you are containing it in one place.

It's good that you skipped all the replies, as it's a fairly safe assumption that no matter what it is you have to say, no one else has already thought of it over the course of the last four pages.

Did somebody already mention this? Serious question cause it was new to me, but I could have missed it. I'm pretty sure I think I read all four page, if you don't mind me not going to read four pages just to check if I indeed read everything in those four pages

Who cares?  She was nicer than I was going to be.  Cavehamster has a habit of constantly making sure everyone knows how little he cares about their opinions, debating points, etc.  He's a complete shit, and I can't think of anything that would make me come to his defense.  I would not piss down his neck if his heart was on fire.

Fuck him.  Fuck him in his ear.

I like your style, well done!

Having skipped all the replies to add my viewpoint, I just would like to say that we'd have no worries about running out of fuel in any reasonable amount of time if we could build breeder reactors that could re-process the waste.

But noooo you can make weapons grade shit with that, so they are banned, so instead we have to use the isotope of uranium that we have the least amount of.  Gah!

Besides, modern pebble bed reactors are about as safe as it gets.  Unlike coal, you are not spewing radiation into the air (really, coal has a lot of radioactive elements in it), you are containing it in one place.

Not to completely defend his actions, but speaking as someone once self employed and trying to deal with taxes... holy shit.  The whole system is designed to screw you over unless you have enough money to hire a squad of people to find the loopholes for you.

I think most the public doesn't realize just how much they pay in taxes because most folks only see the gov't take out half out of their checks (the other half is paid by your employer), and even at that, most folks see it as a 'bonus' when the gov't gives you back some of your money every year.  Wish more people knew the whole story, there would be riots.

I don't think flying your plane into a building was a good idea, because you will be remembered as that nutjob... but I'm sure he felt way backed into a corner with no outs.

A couple of weeks ago, I happened to be holding the cat when the GF fired up the shredder in the background.  Said cat lost his shit and clawed the crap out of my hand, leaving a bloody line up my wrist to almost my thumb.

I washed it and stopped the bleeding, sprayed it with some stuff that made me yell a little... and then quietly thought, 'this is going be be fun for the next few weeks when it scabs over'.

So, yeah, I'm glad I am not the only weirdo.

You ever scratch your head and discover one hidden in your hair you didn't know about?  Why is that so fun to pick out?

Do "view page source" on one of his pages 

I saw that, I wonder how many people yanked their modem out of the wall?   

I read that, and thought... 'anonymous fail'

If you re going to do something borderline illegal, at least bounce it around a bit, ya know?

What the hell?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/ipad_worship/

Adam Weishaupt?

I'm not sure if less beer would make this make less, or more, sense.