"The time of detonation was 1300 hrs Pacific Time. The test was carried out without incident, and radiation effects were negligible. The device yielded 30 kilotons. Only three personnel received doses of over 0.5 rems."
"WIGWAM resulted in three sources of radiological contamination: airborne activity, residual fallout and water contamination. During the first three seconds after the detonation, the radioactive debris was primarily contained within an initial bubble formed by the interaction of thermal energy with the water. Then, beginning at approximately H + 10 seconds (ten seconds after the detonation) these gaseous products began to reach the water surface, forming spikes and plumes reaching maximum heights of 900 to 1,450 feet and emerging from an area roughly 3,100 feet in diameter. As the plumes fell back into the water, a large cloud of mist was formed. This was the base surge, which at H + 90 seconds had a radius of 4,600 feet and a maximum height of 1,900 feet. The visible surge persisted to H + 4 minutes. At H + 13 minutes, a foam ring appeared with a 10,400 foot diameter. The area within this ring probably approximated the extent of the contaminated water. While the surface water initially showed significant contamination levels, the water dispersed and radiation decayed rapidly, so that by May 18 the maximum radiation reading found over an 80 square mile area was on the order of one milliroentgen per hour (mR/hr) at 3 feet above the surface."
OPEC isn't a corporate cartel, its a national organization.
From your link - "The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, pronounced/opk/ OH-pek) is a cartel of twelve countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela."
BP, like all the Supermajors, are not based in OPEC nations
ExxonMobil (United States) (XOM) Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands/United Kingdom)(RDS) BP (United Kingdom) (BP) Chevron Corporation (United States) (CVX) ConocoPhillips (United States) (COP) Total S.A. (France) (TOT)
Some of the OPEC countries allow foreign energy companies in, others have national oil companies and still others have a fusion of national oil and foreign investment.
The grain for my bread consumption is grown in the United States, which had nothing to do with the destruction of third world agriculture, the majority of my beer is North American and the majority of the spirits I drink are from sugar.
So, just curious, as a former South Dakota wheat farmer, list the species that went extinct because of pesticides, species that were native to South Dakota.
Good news, the US is home to the best oil well capping and oil fire companies in the world and many of them are based in Texas and Louisiana.
No, torpedos won't work, they have small warheads and won't go that deep. It might take hundreds of them to do what you are talking about. Research submarines can go that deep, but almost all that work is done by ROVs, at least six ROVs are on station there now.
No, Enron didn't cause it, the California regulators, environmental regulation changes, energy prices and Enron caused it.
If California hadn't deregulated, Enron wouldn't have had a position to tweak the markets, then by capping prices the energy companies didn't expand to meet demand, which by the time the needed to expand there were environmental regulations in place that made expansion impossible and before you knew it, the Terminator was govenator and Enron was selling it's big E on ebay.
I don't know about Switzerland as I've never been there, but in Israel, at least since the end of the 1973 War, the Reserves are less effectual and easier to opt out of. I'm in favor of a 2-4 year national service in the United States. Peace Corps, Americorps, military service (national guard, reserves, regular military), Indian Health Service, some sort of CCC. Colleges and Universities shouldn't be looking to accept students until they are at least 20.
Faith-based training and service like the Mormon Missionaries, working inner-cities, etc that should count toward the national service too.
Yes, the US won the Pacific, Mediterranean and European Theaters of Operation in the Second World War. However many of the peacetime "professional" officers were tradition bound and ineffectual. Training and replacement programs were atrocious, one quote that I recall but don't have a citation for right now was along the lines of "The German High Command couldn't have designed a worse replacement program for the United States Army". Casualties in Italy for example were around 25% higher than assaults in the Pacific under the Marine Corps in early 1944, mostly because of inefficiencies caused by inexperienced or traditionalist commanders.
The United States isn't becoming a Sparta because of a professional army, US leadership largely does not have a military background, which is what is keeping the US from becoming a Sparta or late Republican Rome. Based on pay and how poor of medical service the vets get, I don't think the convenience of the military is the most important thing going on right now.
Compulsory national service, at least in the history of the United States, leads to poor services and terrible morale.
Having a tiny professional service that is bolstered by a draft isn't a good way to respond quickly either, look at World War 1 and 2, the small US professional services that were then bolstered by conscripts were slow to react, often poorly trained and often ineffectual.
The US declared war on the Central Powers in the spring of 1917, yet large formations were not available until the summer and fall of 1918. US build up for the Second World War began in the spring of 1940 and large units weren't available for Europe until the fall of 1942.
Large conscript armies, like the Cold War era US military from 1946-1975 were morale pits and many were combat ineffective when sent into combat in Korea and Vietnam.
The idea that it is harder to start a war if everyone has served is ridiculous, the Soviets were more than happy to sent young men into combat from Hungary, Czechoslovakia ad Afghanistan while the Americans, Israelis, British and French all had World War Two experienced leadership yet began adventures abroad.
The Founders of the United States could envision a nation without a standing army, they had a sea to protect them. Today a bomber can destroy Boston after a flight of 10 hours from Murmansk.
More like, why are you endangering patient privacy by connecting your personal machine to the hospital network?
How sharp of a knife is the submitter when they are complaining about not being able to connect their personal machine without securing it to a secured network?
Alaska where replacing a technology position can take over a year, even in this economy. And I'm not talking about out in the Bush or a hub community like Nome, this is Anchorage, you know a city of over 300,000 people.
WoW and Starcraft are getting there, you see more and more actors and athletes saying they play WoW as a pastime. One of the top NFL draft picks listed WoW as his hobby outside the game.
I don't know when a game will strike Humanity the same way Star Wars or Star Trek did. It might take a while, after all cinema from the advent of the art took, what 40-50 years to really go international and the first things that did were Disney animated films. So maybe Mario is the Disney of video games.
I don't hate them, as I said "I'm a big fan of the brand and PAX, but I really have a hard time finding anything enjoyable about their writing."
I didn't bitch about them, I've supported them by buying merchandize and going to PAX, just stating I'm not a fan of their writing style most of the time.
I'm a big fan of the brand and PAX, but I really have a hard time finding anything enjoyable about their writing.
Perhaps 1 out of 10 comics are interesting and most often the writing drones on like I'm reading Moby Dick
"I scrolled up and down my Steam library yesterday, listlessly, without so much as a remembered thrill; all I wanted to do was play Blur for some reason, something I hadn't picked up in weeks but whose thirsting fronds were reaching up through some mental fissure. After a few rounds to loosen up, quite organically I found myself in a Party discussing the events of the day. The conviviality and natural flow of the conversation began to disintegrate as the race progressed, slowing and then ceasing altogether, like the dwindling reports from a bag of microwave popcorn."
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A few miles? Try 50 miles off shore, and a tactical nuclear weapon at that range and depth will have minimal effects.
Check out Operation Wigwam, was supposed to be Crossroads Charlie, but was postponed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wigwam
"The time of detonation was 1300 hrs Pacific Time. The test was carried out without incident, and radiation effects were negligible. The device yielded 30 kilotons. Only three personnel received doses of over 0.5 rems."
http://www.dtra.mil/documents/ntpr/factsheets/Wigwam.pdf
"WIGWAM resulted in three sources of radiological contamination: airborne activity, residual fallout and water contamination. During the first three seconds after the detonation, the radioactive debris was primarily contained within an initial bubble formed by the interaction of thermal energy with the water. Then, beginning at approximately H + 10 seconds (ten seconds after the detonation) these gaseous products began to reach the water surface, forming spikes and plumes reaching maximum heights of 900 to 1,450 feet and emerging from an area roughly 3,100 feet in diameter. As the plumes fell back into the water, a large cloud of mist was formed. This was the base surge, which at H + 90 seconds had a radius of 4,600 feet and a maximum height of 1,900 feet. The visible surge persisted to H + 4 minutes. At H + 13 minutes, a foam ring appeared with a 10,400 foot diameter. The area within this ring probably approximated the extent of the contaminated water.
While the surface water initially showed significant contamination levels, the water dispersed and radiation decayed rapidly, so that by May 18 the maximum radiation reading found over an 80 square mile area was on the order of one milliroentgen per hour (mR/hr) at 3 feet above the surface."
Exxon Valdez was 10.8 million U.S. gallons (about 40 million litres, or 250,000 barrels).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
There are your biggest oil spills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill#Largest_oil_spills
OPEC isn't a corporate cartel, its a national organization.
From your link - "The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, pronounced /opk/ OH-pek) is a cartel of twelve countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela."
BP, like all the Supermajors, are not based in OPEC nations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajor
ExxonMobil (United States) (XOM)
Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands/United Kingdom)(RDS)
BP (United Kingdom) (BP)
Chevron Corporation (United States) (CVX)
ConocoPhillips (United States) (COP)
Total S.A. (France) (TOT)
Some of the OPEC countries allow foreign energy companies in, others have national oil companies and still others have a fusion of national oil and foreign investment.
It's already climbing, from just over two dollars a pound to five and a half on the gulf coast.
My opiates (Fentanyl for two years straight) were all synthetic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Legal_production
The grain for my bread consumption is grown in the United States, which had nothing to do with the destruction of third world agriculture, the majority of my beer is North American and the majority of the spirits I drink are from sugar.
So, just curious, as a former South Dakota wheat farmer, list the species that went extinct because of pesticides, species that were native to South Dakota.
Good news, the US is home to the best oil well capping and oil fire companies in the world and many of them are based in Texas and Louisiana.
No, torpedos won't work, they have small warheads and won't go that deep. It might take hundreds of them to do what you are talking about. Research submarines can go that deep, but almost all that work is done by ROVs, at least six ROVs are on station there now.
Here is information on a similar leak last year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montara_oil_spill
And the EU Commission of the European Communities doesn't go after European companies, just like the FTC can be too soft on American companies.
Now if the NHTSA had been able to fine Toyota 13 billion dollars, wouldn't that have started something?
No, Enron didn't cause it, the California regulators, environmental regulation changes, energy prices and Enron caused it.
If California hadn't deregulated, Enron wouldn't have had a position to tweak the markets, then by capping prices the energy companies didn't expand to meet demand, which by the time the needed to expand there were environmental regulations in place that made expansion impossible and before you knew it, the Terminator was govenator and Enron was selling it's big E on ebay.
I don't know about Switzerland as I've never been there, but in Israel, at least since the end of the 1973 War, the Reserves are less effectual and easier to opt out of. I'm in favor of a 2-4 year national service in the United States. Peace Corps, Americorps, military service (national guard, reserves, regular military), Indian Health Service, some sort of CCC. Colleges and Universities shouldn't be looking to accept students until they are at least 20.
Faith-based training and service like the Mormon Missionaries, working inner-cities, etc that should count toward the national service too.
Yes, the US won the Pacific, Mediterranean and European Theaters of Operation in the Second World War. However many of the peacetime "professional" officers were tradition bound and ineffectual. Training and replacement programs were atrocious, one quote that I recall but don't have a citation for right now was along the lines of "The German High Command couldn't have designed a worse replacement program for the United States Army". Casualties in Italy for example were around 25% higher than assaults in the Pacific under the Marine Corps in early 1944, mostly because of inefficiencies caused by inexperienced or traditionalist commanders.
The United States isn't becoming a Sparta because of a professional army, US leadership largely does not have a military background, which is what is keeping the US from becoming a Sparta or late Republican Rome. Based on pay and how poor of medical service the vets get, I don't think the convenience of the military is the most important thing going on right now.
Compulsory national service, at least in the history of the United States, leads to poor services and terrible morale.
Having a tiny professional service that is bolstered by a draft isn't a good way to respond quickly either, look at World War 1 and 2, the small US professional services that were then bolstered by conscripts were slow to react, often poorly trained and often ineffectual.
The US declared war on the Central Powers in the spring of 1917, yet large formations were not available until the summer and fall of 1918. US build up for the Second World War began in the spring of 1940 and large units weren't available for Europe until the fall of 1942.
Large conscript armies, like the Cold War era US military from 1946-1975 were morale pits and many were combat ineffective when sent into combat in Korea and Vietnam.
The idea that it is harder to start a war if everyone has served is ridiculous, the Soviets were more than happy to sent young men into combat from Hungary, Czechoslovakia ad Afghanistan while the Americans, Israelis, British and French all had World War Two experienced leadership yet began adventures abroad.
The Founders of the United States could envision a nation without a standing army, they had a sea to protect them. Today a bomber can destroy Boston after a flight of 10 hours from Murmansk.
That would rock!
Just Cause 2 is pretty unstructured.
Yep. Felony conviction, put him on the street with time served.
You can kill a guy and never go to jail, like Laura Bush, or a woman and never go to jail like Ted Kennedy.
Its the Open-Apple key, but I will allow Apple-Key.
"Shift-Apple-3 to take a screen shot"
I'm a Republican and I agree, it has gotten stupid.
It was stupid when the liberals were going after Bush following his reelection, but this is extra stupid.
More like, why are you endangering patient privacy by connecting your personal machine to the hospital network?
How sharp of a knife is the submitter when they are complaining about not being able to connect their personal machine without securing it to a secured network?
Not where I live.
Alaska where replacing a technology position can take over a year, even in this economy. And I'm not talking about out in the Bush or a hub community like Nome, this is Anchorage, you know a city of over 300,000 people.
Mario as a brand is the closest we've come.
WoW and Starcraft are getting there, you see more and more actors and athletes saying they play WoW as a pastime. One of the top NFL draft picks listed WoW as his hobby outside the game.
I don't know when a game will strike Humanity the same way Star Wars or Star Trek did. It might take a while, after all cinema from the advent of the art took, what 40-50 years to really go international and the first things that did were Disney animated films. So maybe Mario is the Disney of video games.
Yea, I bet by 2015 they'll have parity in the US, or near parity, unless ticket prices keep going up.
Of course when the next gen systems come out (replacement for PS3 and 360) game prices will probably hit 80 dollars a game too.
Sorry, I missed the AC. Cool.
No, the video game industry is not bigger than the film industry.
Film Industry in the US employs 361,000
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs038.htm
All software publishing in the US employs 263,700
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs051.htm
Globally video games are worth 40 billion
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/VideoGameSalesOvertakingMusic.aspx
US film revenue is 42 billion, total box office gross is 10-11 billion, but that's only a piece of the US film industry.
http://www.allbusiness.com/media-telecommunications/movies-sound-recording/10512814-1.html
I don't hate them, as I said "I'm a big fan of the brand and PAX, but I really have a hard time finding anything enjoyable about their writing."
I didn't bitch about them, I've supported them by buying merchandize and going to PAX, just stating I'm not a fan of their writing style most of the time.
I'm a big fan of the brand and PAX, but I really have a hard time finding anything enjoyable about their writing.
Perhaps 1 out of 10 comics are interesting and most often the writing drones on like I'm reading Moby Dick
"I scrolled up and down my Steam library yesterday, listlessly, without so much as a remembered thrill; all I wanted to do was play Blur for some reason, something I hadn't picked up in weeks but whose thirsting fronds were reaching up through some mental fissure. After a few rounds to loosen up, quite organically I found myself in a Party discussing the events of the day. The conviviality and natural flow of the conversation began to disintegrate as the race progressed, slowing and then ceasing altogether, like the dwindling reports from a bag of microwave popcorn."