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you mean skywhale.

http://starstera.tumblr.com/po...

not to be confused with...

http://article.wn.com/view/201...

I was trying to figure out what the OP thought referees had to do with the price of eggs, until I realised they were talking about the appearance of refs in their local game of handegg...

These grey areas have a potential for a lot of bigger problems than just sports competitions.

See the sad case of Indian female athlete being accused & arrested for rape and actually being manhandled and mistreated by male police officers for 25 days till court granted her bail.

As far as other open source solutions BSD kernels generally do not have such good support for hard real time applications.

Well, CERN makes extensive use of Force10 network appliances, and they are all NetBSD-based.

Without a reliable, high speed/low latency network, I bet there wouldn't be anything to compute or analyse.

What's the point of TFA anyway? Nowadays, everything is used as an excuse to put Linux to the front, while its role is not more important than the other technological pieces used (compilers, C++, userland apps and infrastructure, ...). *sigh*

How about this.

http://article.wn.com/view/2012/05/16/Businessman_faces_prison_term_for_scheme_to_illegally_export_6/

Here is a Clue : It's Grail's first video, not anything like the first video.

Never mind Luna 3 in 1959 (which was stills). Never mind Lunar Orbiter (stills) and Apollo (movies). Never mind that Clementine mapped the whole of the Far Side over a decade ago. What about Selene ? It had an HD camera, and sent back video of far side, including cool shots like this one, of Malapert Mt and Shackleton Crater, at the Lunar South Pole, or this video of Tsiolkovsky Crater, deep into the Far Side. These videos are cool, and worth spending some time with.

http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/chernob_report2011webippnw.pdf

http://wn.com/Victims_of_Chernobyl_disaster

you can find many other sources that paint a precise picture. you will also find many researches (mainly by anglo-american think thanks) downplaying, even nullifying chernobyl.

the truth can only be seen locally, if you have friends, neighbors in the areas affected.

http://www.google.com/search?q=youth+cancer+rate+around+black+sea+chernobyl&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

your hint about steam goes against what tepco says.

http://article.wn.com/view/2011/03/14/Radioactive_releases_following_Japan_tsunami_can_last_for_mo/

I believe it would likely get used for a hoax, similar to what Czech hackers did to a public broadcaster.

EMERGENCY TEXT: NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS IN ALL MAJOR CITIES - DUCK AND COVER

I Was in the army, the article was done in full on michael moore mode. The disgruntled officer in question is an IO officer and not a MISO/PSYOP officer. http://wn.com/Kabul's_Bala_Hissar_Narrated_by_Lt_Col_Mike_Holmes He identifies himself as such. According FM 3-0 His job was "The inform line of effort provides information to domestic and foreign audiences with accurately described operations . . . Informing does not force or make a decision for the actors but provides them with facts. Providing factual and accurate information counters false information (misinformation or disinformation) disseminated by others." They were just asking him to do his fucking job. Also His civilian job is running a strategic communications firm. I'd say that someone found out he was a real-world marketing guy and decided to use that. RS Is just trying to continue to make money off their McChrystal article Additionally He was National Guard, and The National Guard does not have PSYOP units

I guess my point was to tackle the things that we had the technology for and the capability today,

Where is this nuclear technology?

France successfully powers the country on Nuclear power very economically

"How do France (and India, China and Russia) build cost-effective nuclear power plants? They don't. Governmental officials in those countries, not private investors, decide what is built. Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors."

though their reactors are generally much more modern designs that waste far less fuel

Citation needed. Here's some of my own:

Finland's Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, designed and being built by the French Government owned AREVA was supposed to be compleated last year, 2009, but is not scheduled to be done before 2012 3 years behind schedule. And because of cost overruns "there is a real risk now that the utility will default". In Finland, Nuclear Renaissance Runs Into Trouble.

"Cost overruns and delays have jeopardized the fate of nuclear plants around the world." Study warns of steep cost overruns at new reactors. Is it time to press reset on nuclear?: "Cost overruns, delays in building reactors are sapping a nuclear revival".

"Boiling The Frog: Nuclear Optimism Hides True Costs Till It's Too Late".

And those are just some of the links I have in my bookmarks.

What I think people fail to realize is that we don't have to solve all our problems in a day

But isn't that exactly what proponents of nuclear power are advocating today? "Build more nuclear power plants, we'll fix the problems later." It's either that or they ignore the problems and say they don't exist.

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These generous people are funding eugenics.

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Anybody find the image confusing-- modern building tools / structures with primitives in the foreground?

Well, that's in keeping with the anachronism-style of story telling present in the Bible. Y'know, like camel trains (Gen. 37:25) earlier than the domestication of camels, and walled cities (Jos. 6:20) in a period when communities lived in simple pastoral enclaves.

If they want to depict the ocean transport of a multitude of livestock without depicting the animals as dead, rotting, carcasses -- they really should equip their 'Ark' to the standard of livestock-carrier MV Becrux:
  http://wn.com/Livestock_Transport_Take_a_ship_tour_onboard_MV_Becrux
  . . with its automatic feeding system, 84 turbo-ventilators, and desalination plant capable of producing 600,00 litres of drinking water-per-day.

Because he like you a lot!

Sort of not a work safe link.

So, the Psyop Worked.

  Propaganda 101.

There are a lot of big messes going on right now, people. Any one of them would be the most notable thing to happen in a presidency - and we're getting all of them at once. He inherits two wars, a historic recession, and now possibly the worst ecological disaster in US history.

He didn't inherit anything. He applied for the job. Now he's got it. He promised no offshore drilling. He didn't deliver. Now look at the mess. He promised:

He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.

Wow, what a huge failure he turned out to be. Now people like you are defending this incompetence to rationalize the fact that YOU voted for him. And don't try to turn this into some sort of red state/blue state bullshit. Get your ass waist deep in that oil and then tell me about what a great fucking job he's doing.

This bill will

• ... Fundamentally transform how health care insurance is managed in the United States
• ... Probably result in lower standards of health care service, as businesses are forced into tightening their budgets. We already see that Walgreens has decided to drop Medicaid patients because the government is reimbursing them a fraction of wholesale.
• ... Allows the federal government to provide funds for abortions. This is the political sticking point that is fracturing the Democrat party at the moment.
• ... Allows the Republicans to sit on the sidelines and nit-pick, since the House is Democrat controlled, and Senate is 59/100 (but their bill passed already).
• ... Piss off the American public. 53% of the polled public oppose the bill as written.

The bill will probably pass. There is an indication that many Democrats will vote Yes in a "scorched earth" fashion, as many are already polling to lose their positions in November. The Republicans will probably sweep in the fall elections, akin to 1994, stalling Obama's progressive run of the last year and a half. Since his administration has shown no inkling of actually being "bi-partisan", unless he fundamentally changes his approach to politics, Obama will probably be remembered as Jimmy Carter II.

Googling "somali pirates fought back" yields quite a few articles about N Korean, S Korean, Egyptian, and Spanish ships that fought back successfully. These are untrained men with improvised weapons - not trained men with rifles.

These pirates aren't "multiple decade battle hardened militants". Most have NO organized military training whatsoever. The process of recruiting for Armies in Somali wars consists of driving around in pickup trucks yanking young men off the street. Somali "veterans" are veterans of little more than the usual random violence that plagues the country.

No, I'm quite certain that the other posters are right. It's the entry rules to various ports that keep ships from arming themselves. In many cases where crew has had some means to fight back and has tried, the pirates have cut and run. They are after easy money - not a prolonged fight. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_attacked_by_Somali_pirates)

And dont be so droll as to think that cops are going to be pinning crimes on John Q Innocent because he matches 80%...they are going to investigate just as they would any other crime.

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Drollin down the rivah

Personally, I am for a national ID system - and a national ID card. Verify social security numbers and biometric data (and even DNA) - and unless govt screws the pooch - identity theft is a thing of the past. Mistaken identity is a thing of the past. Illegal aliens using false ID is a thing of the past.

That's the same kind of thing people say all the time about new, unimplemented technologies - but real life never works out that way. At the very best, all that will be accomplished is that most peope who circumvent the current system will figure out a way to circumvent the new system.

Think of the logistics of what you are proposing and all of the places in the chain where it can be compromised - at the point of scanning you to put into the database, at the point of scanning you to compare to the database, etc. You have seen GATTACA right? Even their system wasn't fool-proof and it was uber-big-brother - if this country ever gets to that level of big-brother, national-id or not, we are all kinds of screwed - so you can count on any such system being even more flawed than the one in GATTACA.

Pitot tubes were invented in the 1700s by the French Engineer Henry Pitot and later modified for airspeed measurements. They are also used to measure aerodynamic speed in Formula racing cars too among other uses. Here is a comprehensive article following the crash investigation that is informative with photographs and the timeline of theories.

I read both the articles posted. They do not qualify as the best investigation reports. They seem to be building "What if" scenarios from all data that is available. Other A330 failures (no recent crashes reported) and Other places where ice in Pitot tubes led to failure (The Wikipedia article has a lot of information on this and planes which had problems notably, the X31.) The investigators are clearly under pressure to say what they have found and they are unable to report "nothing" to the press. With no luck in recovering the Black Box, the investigators (like they talk about Pilots not good at flying aircraft without the aid of in-flight safety systems) have to do it the old forensic way (reminds me of Crichton's Airframe). That is going to take time and the press, the Aircraft companies using A330s are impatient to know why.

Clearly no recent theory has come close to deducing the true reason for the crash. As I remember the first news item that appeared on the AF447 was that the plane "vanished" from Radar and was sought for by the Brazilian Air Force before the crash site was positively identified. The last exchanges between the Pilot and the Aircraft tower followed by an automated message from the aircraft remain the main clues apart from the debris in this horrific accident.

Have the pirates been killing anyone? Not to my knowledge ....

Sadly, this is incorrect:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21842522-1702,00.html
http://article.wn.com/view/2008/10/23/Pirates_to_kill_crew_on_arms_ship_if_NATO_ships_attack/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1572236/Somali-pirates-threaten-to-kill-tanker-crew.html

They can and do kill people. And if this is allowed to continue, more and more people are going to die. On both sides.

I'm merely saddened your plan doesn't involve fixing any of Somalia's real problems. Just killing offenders.

My plan only addresses the short term issue: The piracy. That has to be dealt with immediately. Unchecked piracy will only result in the loss of more lives and cause economic problems on a world-wide scale.

Dealing with the political issues in Somalia is a more complex issue that lacks an immediate solution. I wish I could venture a good plan, but I do not understand the dynamics of the situation well enough to produce one. It's not like Somalia hasn't been receiving foreign aid:

By some
reckonings, no other country save Israel has
received such high levels of military and
economic aid per capita; certainly no country
has less to show for it. Even before its collapse
into protracted civil war and anarchy in 1990,
Somalia had earned a reputation as a graveyard
of foreign aid, a land where aid projects were
notoriously unsuccessful, and where high levels
of foreign assistance helped to create an
entirely unsustainable, corrupt and repressive
state.

What do they do with our foreign aid workers? Why, they kidnap and kill them:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/world/africa/06briefs-6FOREIGNAIDW_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105/wl_afp/somaliaunrestreliefkidnap_081105183945
http://www.patronusanalytical.com/files/Somali%20Aid%20Worker%20Murdered.php
http://www.pr-inside.com/somali-aid-worker-killed-witnesses-say-r904499.htm

What would you have us do? I'm all for finding a peaceful solution if one can be arrived at. But as of this moment, there is an immediate problem people are dying or being threatened with death.

Food for thought: Isn't it interesting how the pirates can't afford food, but can always afford assault rifles? Perhaps there is more to their Robin Hood image than meets the eye.

The Arctic is a very fragile ecosystem that is already feeling the effects of toxic chemicals used elsewhere in the world - I'd have serious concerns that it would be safe to extract gas and oil in that sort of environment. The Russians have had other catastrophic technological that significantly reduces my faith in their ability to do this properly.

They also drink far too much to be in charge of such an important project. Which brings me to my point - as nice as the Russians may be, we already have Quebec - one dissatisfied non-English speaking nation at a time, please.

In the past, Steven Rose has promoted the view that there is more to evolutionary explanations of human behaviour than mere science. His co-authored book, Not in Our Genes,52 presented an explicitly Marxist critique of evolutionary biology; and his 1997 book, Lifelines, begins with the warning that "[t]he rise of the present enthusiasms for biologically determinist accounts of the human condition date back to the 1960s. They were not initiated by any specific advance in biological science, or powerful new theory, but harked back instead to an earlier tradition of eugenic thinking which . . . had been eclipsed and driven into intellectual and political disrepute in the aftermath of the war against Nazi Germany and its racially inspired Holocaust."53

Alas, Poor Darwin marks a complete reversal from this earlier position. Hilary Rose now concedes that evolutionary psychology eschews any notion of race, and that it is compatible with a wide variety of political viewpoints, such as Peter Singer's Darwinian Left, Matt Ridley's free marketeering, Helena Cronin's feminism, Francis Fukuyama's call for state intervention to tackle unemployment, and Darwin@LSE's collaborations with the left-leaning think-tank Demos.54 (She could have added also that John Maynard Smith FRS was a communist, and Robert Trivers was a member of the Black Panther Party.) Each of these researchers illustrate the point that facts and values can be kept separate; that one's political goals do not dictate one's science (or vice versa), but that once you've settled on your political or social objectives, science can help you achieve them.

Now, there's a distinction without a difference. Scientists shouldn't let politics guide science, but should first determine their politics and then use their science to support their political views? Be politically motivated at all times except while you're performing your experiments so you can more convincingly feign moral outrage when someone accuses your politics of guiding your science? Too many of us seem to buy into Curry's fantasy of the leftist scientist who can turn off her political motives where science is concerned. If you want to get into science, kids, be prepared to ditch political biases altogether, or no one except people with radical political viewpoints will

If you're good you could replace it with someone else's living room.

The possibilities are endless! Replace the background with:

• An image of the inside of a real police station,
• A fake police station,
• Some desolate wasteland,
• An image from a fake war,
• An image from a real war, or
• A picture of another planet's landscape!