Sad day because he was the driving force in the only truly fair compensation program for American Indians/Alaska Natives in the history of the United States. 44 million acres and 15 billion dollars.
And he pushed the Alaska Pipeline, Denali Commission, Magnuson-Stevens Act, voted against the impeachment of President Clinton.
Or they were just going fishing because they were friends with the CEO of GCI.
GCI doesn't have the clout to lobby as a "telecom" on the national scale, but perhaps they were going to push for that cable around Alaska to get high speed data to the Bush.
But using Stevens to lobby against a Democratic majority right now seems ill timed.
Ted was pretty influential in getting the Eisenhower Administration to go along with Alaska Statehood, oh and Ted astroturfed Ike's press conferences with questions about Alaska's statehood too.
A barrel of Light Sweet Crude (55 gallons) will get you about 40-47 gallons of gasoline if thats what you are refining it for. A barrel of Light Sweet Crude closed today at 81.41 for a September delivery.
The price of gasoline today for a US average is 2.78, so the gasoline alone from that barrel is worth 116 dollars.
Other countries heavily subsidize fuel, Saudi Arabia is selling gas at $.45 a gallon right now.
There are no CIA, DoD or law enforcement agencies with drones operating in public areas of the United States imaging civilians.
There are drones over the US borders, but that's not the same as having small drones in urban areas.
As for Google not doing bad stuff for money, exactly how has Google been "better" than Microsoft or HP? This is a company whose CEO says time after time that Google is an enemy to privacy .
If this was the CIA, DoD, a major law enforcement agency, or hell a small one, this wouldn't even be up for debate. It would be Bad.
If it were Microsoft, HP, Halliburton or Blackwater/Xe, it would be Terrible.
If this was a Bush administration plan, it would be the End Times for Civil Liberties.
Google should not get the benefit of the doubt about it's intentions and uses for surveillance drones, it should be raked over the coals and everyone and their cousin should be hitting up the regulatory agencies managing the permits and licences of these aircraft.
I grew up on a Wheat farm in South Dakota, pickups were called trucks or pickups, six-wheeled farm trucks were called trucks, or since our farm was all GM and the farm trucks were all Fords, we called the six-wheeled farm trucks "Fords".
We had a number of pickups (Chevy or GM full ton with 427s or 454s) converted to utility vehicles, which we called trucks
After I posed that, I went over to wiki and read the definition for an auto trunk, I never ever heard of anything other than the traditional "trunk" called a trunk.
Everyone with SUVs or vans I've known called it, well the "back", or the cargo area. I guess I can expand my mind around the thought of the back of an SUV/van being a "trunk", maybe.
So does a Chevy Avalanche or Honda Pilot's "trunk" expand to the entire cargo area when the divider opens up? If I put a hard or soft cover on my Silverado's bed does that become a "trunk"?
"He was the senior executive in charge of engineering for the iPhone 4..."
And yet "and thus responsible in some unknown fashion for 'antennagate.'"
Umm, he was the senior executive in charge of engineering for the iPhone 4, that means it was his goddamned responsibility to ship something that worked and if it didn't*, its his ass.
That is the way it used to be in companies and at work, but for some reason when the "senior executive in charge of X" isn't responsible in the minds of many these days.
Look at Deepwater Horizon, no one at Halliburton, BP or Transocean was publicly canned for that mess. The CEO of BP was demoted and sent off the Russia, but that wasn't a firing or a forced resignation.
* - I'm not convinced antennagate is that big of an issue, I know six people with iPhone 4s and they are all happy with them, good PR nightmare and generates alot of pageviews though.
I know exactly what latitude Greenland is. Before the recent ice ages, from modeling and geological samples, there isn't much proof of wide spread glaciers beyond about 10-25 degrees of the poles.
I'm in Anchorage, 29 degrees south of the pole and we have glaciers close by. Heck I can drive to 5-6 within an hour of my house.
Theres alot of press about the glaciers at Glacier National Park fading, well they are also ice age remnants, they've been there as remnants for about 12-14,000 years.
The "changes" have been going on for 12-14,000 years, after over a million years of wide spread ice ages.
The geological record of the Older and Younger Dryas show that rapid change isn't unusual and doesn't mean man caused it.
Following the Younger Dryas humans were able to develop civilization, cities and everything else up to and including internet p0rn, so I reckon alot of "good things" happened.
The areas where the Norwegians settled were warmer than the rest of the area and forested.
"Interpretation of ice core and clam shell data suggests that between 800 and 1300 CE the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a relatively mild climate several degrees Celsius higher than usual in the North Atlantic, with trees and herbaceous plants growing and livestock being farmed. Barley was grown as a crop up to the 70th degree."
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They were going to a lodge GCI owns to go fishing.
Yes, he qualified to be a P-38 pilot, but the entire class was sent to cargo planes because someone booed the CO during the graduation ceremony.
He served on C-47 and C-46s flying the Hump and in China with 14th Air Force.
Which things? A little bribery and or gifts? Convictions that were overturned because the prosecution was lying as much as they charged Stevens with.
So some corruption is way worse than backing the rights of Alaska Natives and American Indians?
What doesn't it do that makes it just an "appliance"?
I get a definition of personal computer as - "a microcomputer designed for use by one person at a time."
Internet, games, applications, file sharing, what is keeping it an "appliance"?
Appliance - "a device or piece of equipment designed to perform a specific task,"
Sad day because he was the driving force in the only truly fair compensation program for American Indians/Alaska Natives in the history of the United States. 44 million acres and 15 billion dollars.
And he pushed the Alaska Pipeline, Denali Commission, Magnuson-Stevens Act, voted against the impeachment of President Clinton.
So why do you think death served him right?
Or they were just going fishing because they were friends with the CEO of GCI.
GCI doesn't have the clout to lobby as a "telecom" on the national scale, but perhaps they were going to push for that cable around Alaska to get high speed data to the Bush.
But using Stevens to lobby against a Democratic majority right now seems ill timed.
Because you don't know any Alaska history.
Ted was pretty influential in getting the Eisenhower Administration to go along with Alaska Statehood, oh and Ted astroturfed Ike's press conferences with questions about Alaska's statehood too.
8-12 dollars a gallon?
How the devil do you come up with that number?
A barrel of Light Sweet Crude (55 gallons) will get you about 40-47 gallons of gasoline if thats what you are refining it for. A barrel of Light Sweet Crude closed today at 81.41 for a September delivery.
The price of gasoline today for a US average is 2.78, so the gasoline alone from that barrel is worth 116 dollars.
Other countries heavily subsidize fuel, Saudi Arabia is selling gas at $.45 a gallon right now.
I was wrong, a couple PDs have gotten FAA certificates for drones, but it's unclear if they are even operating.
Learning isn't always the reason.
I've had traumatic brain injuries, chemo to the brain and radiation to the brain, all have changed my personality and behavior over the years.
There are no CIA, DoD or law enforcement agencies with drones operating in public areas of the United States imaging civilians.
There are drones over the US borders, but that's not the same as having small drones in urban areas.
As for Google not doing bad stuff for money, exactly how has Google been "better" than Microsoft or HP? This is a company whose CEO says time after time that Google is an enemy to privacy .
If this was the CIA, DoD, a major law enforcement agency, or hell a small one, this wouldn't even be up for debate. It would be Bad.
If it were Microsoft, HP, Halliburton or Blackwater/Xe, it would be Terrible.
If this was a Bush administration plan, it would be the End Times for Civil Liberties.
Google should not get the benefit of the doubt about it's intentions and uses for surveillance drones, it should be raked over the coals and everyone and their cousin should be hitting up the regulatory agencies managing the permits and licences of these aircraft.
I grew up on a Wheat farm in South Dakota, pickups were called trucks or pickups, six-wheeled farm trucks were called trucks, or since our farm was all GM and the farm trucks were all Fords, we called the six-wheeled farm trucks "Fords".
We had a number of pickups (Chevy or GM full ton with 427s or 454s) converted to utility vehicles, which we called trucks
Businesses are about leveraging the workers so that more money ends up in the CEO, board and shareholder's pockets.
Education is about learning.
After I posed that, I went over to wiki and read the definition for an auto trunk, I never ever heard of anything other than the traditional "trunk" called a trunk.
Everyone with SUVs or vans I've known called it, well the "back", or the cargo area. I guess I can expand my mind around the thought of the back of an SUV/van being a "trunk", maybe.
So does a Chevy Avalanche or Honda Pilot's "trunk" expand to the entire cargo area when the divider opens up? If I put a hard or soft cover on my Silverado's bed does that become a "trunk"?
An SUV doesn't have a trunk.
The Younger Dryas was severe in Central and Western Europe and the Eastern, Central and Western parts of North America.
So as someone who lives in the Western parts of North America, I'm surprised to hear it's on the tail end of the Gulf Stream.
Oh, don't forget the Huelmo/Mascardi Cold Reversal in the Southern Hemisphere started slightly before the Younger Dryas and ended at the same time.
"He was the senior executive in charge of engineering for the iPhone 4..."
And yet "and thus responsible in some unknown fashion for 'antennagate.'"
Umm, he was the senior executive in charge of engineering for the iPhone 4, that means it was his goddamned responsibility to ship something that worked and if it didn't*, its his ass.
That is the way it used to be in companies and at work, but for some reason when the "senior executive in charge of X" isn't responsible in the minds of many these days.
Look at Deepwater Horizon, no one at Halliburton, BP or Transocean was publicly canned for that mess. The CEO of BP was demoted and sent off the Russia, but that wasn't a firing or a forced resignation.
* - I'm not convinced antennagate is that big of an issue, I know six people with iPhone 4s and they are all happy with them, good PR nightmare and generates alot of pageviews though.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge has been a successful bridge since 1950 and I drove over it 10 days ago.
Or do you mean the Tacoma Narrows Bridge that failed in November 1940?
I know exactly what latitude Greenland is. Before the recent ice ages, from modeling and geological samples, there isn't much proof of wide spread glaciers beyond about 10-25 degrees of the poles.
I'm in Anchorage, 29 degrees south of the pole and we have glaciers close by. Heck I can drive to 5-6 within an hour of my house.
Theres alot of press about the glaciers at Glacier National Park fading, well they are also ice age remnants, they've been there as remnants for about 12-14,000 years.
The "changes" have been going on for 12-14,000 years, after over a million years of wide spread ice ages.
The geological record of the Older and Younger Dryas show that rapid change isn't unusual and doesn't mean man caused it.
Following the Younger Dryas humans were able to develop civilization, cities and everything else up to and including internet p0rn, so I reckon alot of "good things" happened.
I didn't say a damned thing about humans having 1000 year life expectancies or rationalizing anything about future species proliferation.
All I commented on was the the glaciers of Greenland, and other places, are ice age remnants from the Last glacial period.
Explain to me how glaciers in low latitudes are not ice age remnants.
During the Younger Dryas periods we may have seen 10-15C shifts, warmer and colder, in 20-30 years
Wrong!
The areas where the Norwegians settled were warmer than the rest of the area and forested.
"Interpretation of ice core and clam shell data suggests that between 800 and 1300 CE the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a relatively mild climate several degrees Celsius higher than usual in the North Atlantic, with trees and herbaceous plants growing and livestock being farmed. Barley was grown as a crop up to the 70th degree."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Norse_settlement
Well, we had this thing called an Ice Age and it put a ton of ice in places where historically there wasn't a ton of ice.
Over the last 12-14,000 some of that ice has been melting, then growing back, but generally melting.