@#2

Yeah, I can imagine.

From the cited article...

...It is unclear how long the tiny capsule, which contains Caesium-137, a radioactive isotope that emits radiation equal to 10 x-rays per hour, has been missing....

"We recognise this is clearly very concerning and are sorry for the alarm it has caused in the Western Australian community," Simon Trott, Rio Tinto's iron ore division chief, said in a statement on Monday....

OK, I gotta say, to hear a paragraph, like the second paragraph I quoted above, stated by a major corporation in the industry... well, it is not a soothing comment.

This is not good.

@#219

Wow.

Troll much?

@#9 ...I don't remember the last time that annoying noise made me do anything other than shut the TV off.

Yup, and that is the problem the FCC needs to solve.

That "noise" as your comment admits, made you want to do something.

But was "shutting your TV off" the desired action?

My guess would be "no."

With that in mind, is the path to assuring the gravity of that "annoying noise" using it for the commercial benefit of hyping a sporting events?

Or is the path to assuring the gravity of that "annoying noise" using it for its intended purpose?

More from the article...

...San Francisco transportation officials want Waymo and Cruise to slow the expansion of their robotaxi services in the city due to safety concerns, as reported earlier by NBC News. In two letters written to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the officials on San Francisco County's Transportation Authority say the expansion of either service "is unreasonable," citing recent incidents involving stopped driverless vehicles blocking traffic and obstructing emergency responders....

In July, a group of driverless Cruise vehicles blocked traffic for hours after the cars inexplicably stopped working, and a similar incident occurred in September. Meanwhile, a driverless Waymo vehicle created a traffic jam in San Francisco after it stopped in the middle of an intersection earlier this month. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Cruise last December over concerns about the vehicles blocking traffic and causing rear-end collisions with hard braking....

@#14 ... Kind of weird that you would be allowed to continue to post here,...

Oddly, that was my thought regarding the comments your current alias has posted. Project much?

So let me ask you directly, does your current alias have anything to contribute besides trolling?

Yer up...

@#13 ... And #10 is simply a right wingers who wants to murder gay people pretending to be a left winger. ...

Yeah, your trolling needs to up its game.

Do try harder.

@#12 ... don't know what a single word of that means, #9 ...

So, you seem to be saying that your current alias does not have a clue about what your current alias posts?

Is your alias at all cognizant?

Jus' askin'

@#4 ...Just make sure you help as many gay people onto the cars as you can.

Whisper soothing words to them.

Let them know it'll be ok. ...

Yeah, now your current alias appears to be making up things.

Similar to prior aliases, bellringer, et al.

So, is that the group of aliases your current wants to be associated with?

@#10 ... Yer up....

Yeah, it is not surprising that the sports fans shrivel away from trying to justify the corporate welfare given to ESPN and corporate sports in general.

They seem to love the corporate welfare thrown in their direction, and try to trivialize the welfare aspect of it.

From the link in #14...

...Gun Deaths per Capita by State

The following ten states have the highest gun deaths per capita (per 100,000): Alaska (24.4), Mississippi (24.2), Wyoming (22.3), New Mexico (22.3), Alabama (22.2), Louisiana (22.1), Missouri (20.6), South Carolina (19.9), Arkansas (19.3), and Montana (19.3). The states with the highest gun deaths per capita have some of the country's highest gun ownership rates. Montana has the highest with 66.3%, followed by Wyoming with 66.2%, and Alaska with 64.5%.

Conversely, the states with the lowest gun deaths per capita are Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Rhode Island, all of which have fewer than five gun deaths per 100,000 people. ...

@#11 .... The funny thing about blue states....most of them are less than 10% Black. I wonder why that is? Speaking of White Privelege...... ...

Two questions about your comment...

1) why does 10% seem to be an important percentage to you?

2) why do you think what you have observed about blue states is funny?

... The arrest of a high-level FBI agent on Russia-tied corruption charges raises stunning new questions about how Trump really won in 2016. ...

Well, yeah.

Oh so many questions.

The full headline of the NYTimes op-ed...

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

Kudos, for starters, to the NYTimes to publishing such a self-criticizing op-ed.

But then, now let's get to the gist of the op-ed...

...It was arguably the most consequential "October Surprise" in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters' ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed a budding scandal around her GOP rival.

Except the "October Surprise" was no surprise to one key player: Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-New York mayor and Trump insider who later became the 45th president's attorney. Late that month, Giuliani told Fox News that the trailing Republican nominee had "a surprise or two that you're going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I'm talking about some pretty big surprises."

Just two days later, then-FBI director James Comey revealed the bureau had reopened its probe into Clinton's emails, based on the possible discovery of new communications on a laptop belonging to disgraced New York politico Anthony Weiner. The news jolted the campaign with a particularly strong boost from the New York Times, which devoted two-thirds of its front page to the story " and the notion it was a major blow to Clinton's prospects.

It was later reported that Comey was motivated to make the unusual announcement about the laptop because he feared leaks from the FBI's New York field office, which, according to Reuters, had "a faction of investigators based in the office known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton." Indeed, Giuliani bragged immediately after that he had sources in the FBI, including current agents....

Wow, this might get interesting...

I wish I could add something to this discussion besides...oh, this ain't good.

But I cannot.

But really, this ain't good.

From the cited article...

...t is unclear how long the tiny capsule, which contains Caesium-137, a radioactive isotope that emits radiation equal to 10 x-rays per hour, has been missing.

The capsule left the site on January 12, and the contractor hired by Rio Tinto told the company it was missing on January 25. The public was alerted two days later.

Rio Tinto said it was taking the disappearance very seriously.

"We recognise this is clearly very concerning and are sorry for the alarm it has caused in the Western Australian community," Simon Trott, Rio Tinto's iron ore division chief, said in a statement on Monday....

Health officials have warned the capsule could cause radiation burns or sickness if handled.

"The concern is someone will pick it up not knowing what they are dealing with," said Dr Andrew Robertson, chief health officer for Western Australia....

Yeah, this is not a good situation.

@#9 ... News flash trolls: your country has violent contact Sports as well don't pretend like you don't...

For starters, I object to the "trolls" appellation of your comment. It seems to be little more than an attempt to side step the discussion raised.

And that discussion is... why should I have to pay $10 per month on my cable bill to support the corporate sports welfare?

Yer up.

@#213 ... I was joking about the stolen election. It does give me a chuckle when folks on the left bring up election fraud claims ...

Two comments (and I thank you for hanging in there in this discussion)...

1) OK, I didn't see the joke of your comment, so I may have taken it more seriously than I should have.

2) (more important) "It does give me a chuckle when folks on the left bring up election fraud claims " --- I was not bringing up election fraud claims. I was mentioning the state of Florida tilting the election playing field. Tere is a difference, a significant difference.

Election fraud is usually a person voting improperly.

But what I cited in the comment you are responding to seems to e an election official in the state of Florida adjusting, yeah let's say adjusting, the voter rolls towards the GOP.

Surely, you can see that difference.

@#7 ... Jim Henson ...

Please, do not bring the Muppets into your argument.

Really.

Some things are sacred.

(yeah, I know...)

:)

@#34 ... But before you determine how much a government needs to "run," you need to define what "run" is. ...

100%, back at ya. :)

@#35 ... don't think so. Maybe they do ...

Yeah, that's been the actions I've seen over the years (decades).

And the tax burden over the years seems to confirm that opinion.

@#29 ... It really is about time that turkey acts like it's part of Europe and helps drive out the invaders. ...

I do not disagree, but with an election on the horizon, Turkiye may have different goals for its current Head of State seeking reelection.

How better to show the power of the current Head of State than to pick a fight with NATO?

Is this the reason why I have to pay $10 a month on my cable bill for ESPN, when I have little concern about BOLD HEADLINES about sports?

Jus' askin'

Really, why do I have to subsidize the sports-corporation welfare?

There is so much commentary on this most august site about welfare, but little of that conversation seems to be about the forced corporate welfare of corporate sports.

Why?

&nbs

A fun tune the just happened to pop up on a playlist here. Apropos of nothing in this thread, but fun...

@#4 ... How often does a thief get stabbed by the statue he's trying to steal? ...

How often does a specific person win the Mega-Millions lottery?

It is rare, but it does happen.

Trying to ascribe rare-occurring events to religious merely diminishes the credibility of what religion espouses.

Seems apropos for this thread, for a couple of posters specifically...

@#187 ... Wait, what, are you one of those "The Election was Stolen" truthers? ...

Throughout this evening I have engaged in a conversation with you, a conversation that has helped me to understand some things.

Yet now you seem to throw the "election was stolen" appellation at me for no reason other than I have asked about the GOP registering more than 100 Florida voters as Republicans without their consent.

Why have you become so defensive regarding a reported issue?

@#28 ... I think you may run into a tax reciept problem at those rates. ...

Yeah, that was my concern as well.

I'd prefer the rates be determines by "how much does the government need to run?" and then, how do we apportion that required income across the income levels.

The second phrase there is the one that causes issues. Republicans seem to want to place the tax burden on the lower- and middle-classes. Democrats seems to want to place the tax burden upon the upper-classes.

And so, the debate begins.

:)