CUs I had bad experiences with were, one in South Dakota in the early 90s, one in Colorado in the mid 90s, and two in Oregon from 99-2004. Colorado and Oregon experiences are my three bad ones.
I quit going to credit unions because I got the worst service at the three I've tried. Terrible customer service, even with medium sized accounts (20-60k), terrible people working there, few ATMs, etc.
I find I get way better service at big banks like Wells Fargo or US Bank.
Soulless Federal Bureaucrats in drap grey buildings in the suburbs of metro DC managed by technocrats with Oracle certificates just wasting the days away until they get a pay bump.
No, chemotherapy and radiation, I'll talk about cancer because its what I've had, are not used to "cure".
The poisons are used to poison the tumor, cancer producing area in specific ways and if you live, well good for you.
I took - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincristine - that stops cell reproduction, aimed at cancer cells, but it stops everything. That was a fun drug. I took the Anti-metabolite mercaptopurine - that stops DNA production And I took Asparaginase, that screws with amino acid asparagine intake
All of these drugs have the potential to kill the patient. They aren't given in "small amounts" and aren't diluted poisons, they are chemicals focused on a specific task, and like all chemicals they may have a side effect.
Asparaginase had my favorite side effect listed - "sudden death"
MANPADS and unguided weapons can shoot down helicopters, but the incidence of those kills in comparison to how many sorties are flown don't make the attack helicopter obsolete. The US Army is still buying new scout and utility copters (scout copters get into the fight), the USMC is upgrading the Cobra while other countries buy new attack helicopters.
Hey, I don't like it either. I'd like the US to adopt the systems similar to the Swiss or Japanese.
I'm American, and yea, a Republican, but I saw how well socialized medicine works when I spent a year in Israel in the Kibbutz system.
I was wounded in a terror attack back in the 90s, spent a day at the hospital in Kiryat Shmona, it wasn't sexy, but it did the job and I made it out alright. For free.
I like my medical care to be a bit better than Northern Israel's, but I'd like stable medical coverage since I can't get private insurance unless I have a full time job due to pre-exsisting conditions.
Yes, but Oswego State was never a Oswego State University.
The State University of New York at Oswego, also known as SUNY Oswego, Oswego State, Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School and New York State Teachers College at Oswego.
So Oregon State still holds the "Oldest OSU" title.
For missing nukes, I think everyone agrees that the Soviets and successor states have lost the most or have the most "missing".
From looking at the lists again, I'd reckon there are a handful of American devices that are in the wind. They might have been recovered, they might be lost in the sea or wilds that I didn't list.
The Soviets, well there are 16 SLBMs from K-219, that Russians who dove on it said there were forced open missile hatches and missing missiles.
The Soviets lost a good number of nuclear fueled satellites, including one in the NWT of Canada.
Most of the American accidents were from bombers going down, usually along the coasts, I wonder how many Soviet bombers crashed in the USSR and lost a device.
I'm more interested in if the Pakistanis have lost a device, I think with the Chinese/French/British/Israeli/Indian arsenals being small, inventory control will be easier.
Biofuels cause food shortages because a farmer in the Third World will make more of a profit growing and selling fuel crops than food crops. This leads to the price of food climbing for the locals and for aid agencies whose food supply costs spike.
Its not about thinking it could cause a shortage, its causing price spikes and shortages. For something really scary, look into whats happening with tequila prices and the long term viability of tequila as farmers stop planting agave.
There are details about depth in the wiki article, the main point is that those are the American devices that are still missing. So eight American nukes are out there, two on land and the others in the ocean.
Like - SSN-589 -Located on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean in 3,000 m (9,800 ft) of water, 740 km (400 nmi) southwest of the Azores
Airplanes that were lost they recovered, and because they didn't want the Soviets getting them, they put alot of effort into getting lost devices.
March 10, 1956 – Over the Mediterranean Sea – nuclear weapons lost - 2 lost July 28, 1957 – Atlantic Ocean – Two weapons jettisoned and not recovered - 2 lost February 5, 1958 – Savannah, Georgia, USA – Nuclear bomb lost - 1 lost January 24, 1961 – Goldsboro B-52 crash – Physical destruction of a nuclear bomb, loss of nuclear materials - 1 lost December 5, 1965 – coast of Japan – Loss of a nuclear bomb - 1 lost January 21, 1968 – 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, Greenland – Loss and partial recovery of nuclear bombs - 1 lost May 22, 1968 – 740 km (400 nmi) southwest of the Azores – Loss of nuclear reactor and two W34 nuclear warheads - The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) - 2 lost
Those would be - Pinnacle - Broken Arrow or Pinnacle - Emergency Disablement events
The problem is storage. So lets legislate how much storage a computer can have.
Say, 4GB per CPU/core of RAM and 20GB of hard disk. Oh and big bandwidth is a problem too, so lets legislate how much I/O a computer can have and the speed of the network connectivity. 256KB/s should be the legal max. Oh and bring back IPX and Token Ring.
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CUs I had bad experiences with were, one in South Dakota in the early 90s, one in Colorado in the mid 90s, and two in Oregon from 99-2004. Colorado and Oregon experiences are my three bad ones.
I quit going to credit unions because I got the worst service at the three I've tried. Terrible customer service, even with medium sized accounts (20-60k), terrible people working there, few ATMs, etc.
I find I get way better service at big banks like Wells Fargo or US Bank.
Soulless Federal Bureaucrats in drap grey buildings in the suburbs of metro DC managed by technocrats with Oracle certificates just wasting the days away until they get a pay bump.
The poster talked about a "grudge match" whenever there'd be a conference in the US.
Well, sorry but anytime theres a "grudge match" against Law Enforcement, LE wins.
Guns and handcuffs don't.
Yes, because the "geeks of the world" are going to do well against Tazers, watchlists and Federal charges.
No, chemotherapy and radiation, I'll talk about cancer because its what I've had, are not used to "cure".
The poisons are used to poison the tumor, cancer producing area in specific ways and if you live, well good for you.
I took - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincristine - that stops cell reproduction, aimed at cancer cells, but it stops everything. That was a fun drug.
I took the Anti-metabolite mercaptopurine - that stops DNA production
And I took Asparaginase, that screws with amino acid asparagine intake
All of these drugs have the potential to kill the patient. They aren't given in "small amounts" and aren't diluted poisons, they are chemicals focused on a specific task, and like all chemicals they may have a side effect.
Asparaginase had my favorite side effect listed - "sudden death"
No, but you can go after the power plants with bombs and the substations with TLAMs.
Helicopters relegated to support roles?
MANPADS and unguided weapons can shoot down helicopters, but the incidence of those kills in comparison to how many sorties are flown don't make the attack helicopter obsolete. The US Army is still buying new scout and utility copters (scout copters get into the fight), the USMC is upgrading the Cobra while other countries buy new attack helicopters.
Some models that are still in production
TAI/AgustaWestland T-129
AH-1Z Viper
Eurocopter Tiger
Kamov Ka-50
Mil Mi-28N
AH-64 Apache
Personally, yea, I trust corporations more than the government.
Corporations generally are more interested in money than stripping rights. Governments strip rights and want money.
Corporations want you to have money so you can spend it.
American example would be guns.
1. Government doesn't want people to have guns in general
2. Corporations make guns, sell guns, sell bits for guns.
Hey, I don't like it either. I'd like the US to adopt the systems similar to the Swiss or Japanese.
I'm American, and yea, a Republican, but I saw how well socialized medicine works when I spent a year in Israel in the Kibbutz system.
I was wounded in a terror attack back in the 90s, spent a day at the hospital in Kiryat Shmona, it wasn't sexy, but it did the job and I made it out alright. For free.
I like my medical care to be a bit better than Northern Israel's, but I'd like stable medical coverage since I can't get private insurance unless I have a full time job due to pre-exsisting conditions.
Generally people in the US think "communist" or "socialist" is evil because they don't trust the government.
We really don't trust anyone in office and yes most are leery about the government having more say in things.
You've read the book then as well. Yes it does look at the subject from a couple perspectives, the book is mostly from a psychology angle.
They tried the paperless office, its not efficient.
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Paperless-Office-Abigail-Sellen/dp/0262194643
Photoshop 3.0, I got it off the USENET in the spring of '96. 68k version for my Performa 575 w/ 12MB ram.
Yes, but Oswego State was never a Oswego State University.
The State University of New York at Oswego, also known as SUNY Oswego, Oswego State, Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School and New York State Teachers College at Oswego.
So Oregon State still holds the "Oldest OSU" title.
Besides. Oregon State University is the oldest of the three.
For missing nukes, I think everyone agrees that the Soviets and successor states have lost the most or have the most "missing".
From looking at the lists again, I'd reckon there are a handful of American devices that are in the wind. They might have been recovered, they might be lost in the sea or wilds that I didn't list.
The Soviets, well there are 16 SLBMs from K-219, that Russians who dove on it said there were forced open missile hatches and missing missiles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-219
The Soviets lost a good number of nuclear fueled satellites, including one in the NWT of Canada.
Most of the American accidents were from bombers going down, usually along the coasts, I wonder how many Soviet bombers crashed in the USSR and lost a device.
I'm more interested in if the Pakistanis have lost a device, I think with the Chinese/French/British/Israeli/Indian arsenals being small, inventory control will be easier.
Country A's leadership knows it can get votes/make money/stay in power by pushing party loyalists into growing/selling biofuel crops.
See Zimbabwe for a real world application of this.
And who gets to do that? The UN? OPEC has a hell of a time keeping its production controlled and thats a handful of countries with a common goal.
Biofuels cause food shortages because a farmer in the Third World will make more of a profit growing and selling fuel crops than food crops. This leads to the price of food climbing for the locals and for aid agencies whose food supply costs spike.
Its not about thinking it could cause a shortage, its causing price spikes and shortages. For something really scary, look into whats happening with tequila prices and the long term viability of tequila as farmers stop planting agave.
http://vivirlatino.com/2007/05/30/ethanol-to-lead-to-tequila-shortage.php
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2008/08/17/20080817tequila0817.html
There are details about depth in the wiki article, the main point is that those are the American devices that are still missing. So eight American nukes are out there, two on land and the others in the ocean.
Like - SSN-589 -Located on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean in 3,000 m (9,800 ft) of water, 740 km (400 nmi) southwest of the Azores
We (the US) has a really good idea of how many nukes they've lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents
Airplanes that were lost they recovered, and because they didn't want the Soviets getting them, they put alot of effort into getting lost devices.
March 10, 1956 – Over the Mediterranean Sea – nuclear weapons lost - 2 lost
July 28, 1957 – Atlantic Ocean – Two weapons jettisoned and not recovered - 2 lost
February 5, 1958 – Savannah, Georgia, USA – Nuclear bomb lost - 1 lost
January 24, 1961 – Goldsboro B-52 crash – Physical destruction of a nuclear bomb, loss of nuclear materials - 1 lost
December 5, 1965 – coast of Japan – Loss of a nuclear bomb - 1 lost
January 21, 1968 – 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, Greenland – Loss and partial recovery of nuclear bombs - 1 lost
May 22, 1968 – 740 km (400 nmi) southwest of the Azores – Loss of nuclear reactor and two W34 nuclear warheads - The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) - 2 lost
Those would be - Pinnacle - Broken Arrow or Pinnacle - Emergency Disablement events
The problem is storage. So lets legislate how much storage a computer can have.
Say, 4GB per CPU/core of RAM and 20GB of hard disk. Oh and big bandwidth is a problem too, so lets legislate how much I/O a computer can have and the speed of the network connectivity. 256KB/s should be the legal max. Oh and bring back IPX and Token Ring.
No, if you are gay and Jewish chances are better that a Muslim will find out where you live.