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Facts?
These articles don't say anything about the Forest Service being prevented from doing controlled burns.

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The U.S. Forest Service was sued when it tried to create a six-mile fuel break and eventually dropped the project. The opposition from environmental organizations was out of concerns that they would affect “sensitive habitat.” The Santa Barbara County fire chief is now calling for the creation of a network of fuel breaks to provide a frontline defense against future major fires, but these efforts also face pushback.

Read more here: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/...

Being a lying sack of shit work well for you ?

Specific
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/...

lots more
https://www.google.com/search?...

Don't let facts get in the way of your faith.

"It's unlikely that a high school student would come away with any other conclusion than the police are a fearful group to be avoided at all costs," says Eugene O'Donnell, a former police office

That's the current state of affairs, so it would seem they are teaching exactly what they should be.

On the bright side breaking the law is a good way to have contact with the police and hence one of those costs is to not break the law.

On the less bright side, that means not making contact with the police to report crimes and wanted people, since it isn't worth the risk of contact with police: http://www.kgw.com/story/news/...

And if someone needs medical attention, 911 is not the way to do so, especially if they they might have seizures or anything the police might interprete as not obeying their god like commands: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/l..., http://www.nhregister.com/gene..., http://fox59.com/2013/02/05/ep..., http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/l..., http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2...

So hopefully you have the number of a medical service rather than the generic let's send the police anyway 911 call.

And yes people lie, and some of those are probably people lying, but there have been enough cases to end in court with the one claiming they were having a seizure or similar winning.

A horde of jellyfish-like animals has forced the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in California.
The gelatinous creatures, 2 to 3 inches long, are called sea salp.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/24/2041453/diablo-canyon-nuclear-reactor.html

Sea salp can reproduce sexually and asexually, and "you can have millions in a couple of days," e
http://www.newser.com/story/144935/jellyfish-like-creatures-shut-down-nuclear-plant.html

Actually jelly fish took down a California reactor many years ago but 1912 (the above links) is all the shows.

A few people might even go for an app to control / patrol U.S. borders. It'd be an unusual way to avoid paying some salaries. Best not to give them missiles though!

Who knows, maybe even the Incredible Hulk would go for that. I was a little surprised when I saw that he (the actor) signed up as a reserve deputy on the central California coast. The article noted he was also one in Santa Monica near Los Angeles. Then a peek at the wikipedia showed this:

"In November 2010, Ferrigno was sworn in as a member of a Maricopa County, Arizona volunteer sheriff posse, which also includes actors Steven Seagal and Peter Lupus, in order to help control illegal immigration in the Phoenix Valley area."

California has had The Terminator as governor, so nothing would be too surprising.
(Reagan, also a former actor was once governor of CA too, instantly created large numbers of homeless by emptying the mental hospitals, including many Vietnam vets - sounds like a plot for a zombie game app)

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/06/15/2106806/lou-ferrigno-hulk-sheriffs-deputy.html#storylink=omni_popular

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Ferrigno

The local tv station ought to bring back some reruns of the Hulk.

If the beef industry wasn't using corn as a shortcut to fatten the cattle, there wouldn't be as much need for giving them antibiotics.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/9.17.98/cattle_feeding.html

The industry doesn't seem to want students (their future workers/managers) taught about changing to more carbon-friendly and food-safe practices. Through the influence of funding, they've altered what is being taught.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/01/09/983620/meat-firms-multiple-beefs-with.html

If they're considering the possibility of the Auroch being used for food (I guess it was before if it was hunted so much), it's fair to ask what advantages it might have over modern cattle.
Specifically I'm wondering about the carbon footprint per pound of meat, milk etc.

Can industry be trusted to act responsibly? I was shocked to learn how far a large cattle operation in California went to alter what was being taught (or wasn't) at a University well know for Agriculture.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/983620.html

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/bus iness/technology/12772386.htm

When you're on federal land, the local and state governments can't tax the property or your buildings and you get to ignore their pesky building codes, etc.

Whatever happened to "do no evil"?

Are you denying that nuclear waste is stored in pools of water? Sure, it can be done other ways, but the nuclear industry and W say it's too expensive. If you're going to store it in your house, a pool is the most cost-effective solution.

The only thing that stood between him and serious prison time (not to mention probably losing all of his friends, family and destroying his career and reputation) was that the criminal who was responsible came forward.

Uh, that and an actual trial and conviction, then. Yes.

You're assuming here that the guy would have been found guilty. Which you would think is a big assumption, given that he in fact was innocent.

Innocent people are put trial every day. It's not a pleasant thing, but it's the only way the system can work, unless we somehow attain police and procecutors who never make mistakes.

But it's not just the procecutors. Courts make mistakes too, which is why you have the right to appeal. Depite all that, innocent people sometimes do get convicted. And that's the real tragedy, although it seems it more often has to do with incompetent defense lawyers (It'd be nice if the state provided people who could stay awake).

But as I said, this was nowhere near a close call.

• Auto Deaths for 2003
• Cars: 14.9 per 100,000
• SUVs: 16.4 per 100,000
• Pickup trucks: 15.2 per 100,000
• Vans: 11.2 per 100,000

(BTW, I'm in Mountain View.)

What I got from among the many news reports I read was that, indeed, she got the maximum jail sentence. Her community service, the exact number of hours I forget, was of unusually large duration because of her apparent lack of remorse.

The most damning thing of all was that, after hitting the girls and arriving at school, she asked her boyfriend if he noticed anything amiss with her car. She knew perfectly well what she had done.

Some links: here, and here.

Amusingly the reference is wrong itself at one point.

"In English units, a kilogram equals roughly 2.2 pounds"

No - that should read Imperial units, because here in England our legal unit of measurement of mass is the kilogram. Although not everyone agrees

You sure seem like a happy-go-lucky kind of fella!

You may not have noticed I wrote "at least it was originally"? The link some AC provided confirms this. Quote: "It was first conceived of as the mass of a cubic decimeter of water at 4 degrees Celsius."

Not that it matters in the slightest either way in the context of approximately how much water is used in manufacturing.

Also, I post at +2, so only 1 moderator is needed to put me at +3.

That could put your post at "-2 Wrong", if anyone was counting.

For those not used to standard units it may be worth pointing out that 1 kg of water is 1 liter. That is the definition of kg. Or at least it was originally.

Not quite. Water will change in volume depending on it's conditions.

The standard for the kilogram is a cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Paris. A duplicate at the National Bureau of Standards serves as the mass standard for the United States.

The kilogram is the only base unit still defined by an arbitrary physical object. This is a problem, since the official kilogram is losing weight.