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Indeed. About half the posts since page 5 are about this issue, but as long as no data can confirm anything, everyone's speculating out of their asses. Good point, Sander. Maybe I should correct it to "transitional dictatorship". But then again, that is very difficult to maintain in...

Dictatorship isn't inherently bad or evil. Don't make the classic assumption that democracy > all That's not a reason to not present numbers. In fact, it's a logical fallacy.

Indeed. I believe most Cubans are quite content with their lives, if it wasn't for the blockade-induced poverty.

To end all meaningless speculation about illegals being a major load on the healthcare system, could anyone link to actual scientific data proving this? Or at least estimations of the total cost to the current system?

So people are risking their lives crossing the border for an ungodly sum of money, often being shot by landowners or killed by heat stroke/thirst and then eaten by coyotes, with those getting in being continuously hunted by the police, just for a tax cut? I think I understand now. :roll:

Not to mention biological.

Actually, cleanup is possible. They don't spread that much radiation. Except at maybe the centre (where people would be wiped out by the explosion anyway), radiation levels are barely lethal. It's not a neutron bomb. It would be pretty expensive and the terror effect high, but it won't turn the...

I think the funniest part about all this is that we're headed your way in Sweden, with a two party system with marginal political differences and privatized healthcare/insurance. Then again, we've always looked up to the US like crackwhores wanting crack, so no surprise there. If you actually...

Very small quantities for labwork. Order sufficiently to build a decent dirty bomb and you'll have the FBI knocking ar your door. Also, dirty bombs aren't much deadlier than conventional bombs. They're just... Well, annoying.

Maybe you confused it with the volume of a football (soccer) stadium. Either way, it's not really relevant to the topic. You only have a set quantity of useful fissionable material on Earth, and if it isn't consumed by small-scale reactors it'll eventually be consumed by current reactors...

The volume of a plane? Right. The waste is usually a mixed bag of metals, with different densities. But I don't really see the relevance of density unless you have a given mass.

How did you reply to anything in my post?

I really liked the new Dawn of the Dead, from 2004.

That's my point. It's nearly impossible for a civilian to build a fissionable weapon, not to mention they'd have to use depleted uranium, which doesn't even really serve that purpose (you can use it to build a fusion bomb, but that's a level of complexity unreachable even for most states)...

Also, I'm guessing it's a bad idea to have depleted uranium being freely traded in public, considering one of its alternative uses.

Isn't a reason for high unemployment that countries on the other side of the Pacific offers a cheap workforce, attracting industry? If you already have that cheap workforce available, why not use it?

Don't most of them have jobs already? And why would they work for less if they're citizens? If the goal is to go more towards a Western European-type society then maybe you need to define that workforce. A universal healthcare system doesn't really work if not everyone is included.

So, uh, no-one replied to my question on the first page. I think it's relevant to the subject, so I'll post it again. As I wrote, what's standing in the way of legalizing more immigrants, maybe even making some of them citizens? If you make them pay taxes they won't be such an apparent...

Wind and solar power at a household level is very doable, actually, and is improving. Hydro, however, isn't really realistic on a small scale, but very good at a national level. Fusion is nearly as bad as fission, and it's definitely not possible (at least not for maybe a century) on such...

Fixed. Seriously though, isn't this a joke article? It reminds me of the happy '50s when they wanted to put nuclear reactors in everything from bikes to airplanes. And why the fuck is Bill Gates involved in this? Does being the richest man alive qualify you for expertise in nuclear...