The source was NPR, which is about the most trusted news source I know.
I am merely responding to your obnoxious comment. I have NO desire for this to be a huge disaster--but it already is. There has never before been a spill like this where the oil is sloshing around in the Gulf of Mexico at the bottom--doing God knows what. This will turn out to be the worst disaster in history. Only time will tell.
Today it was confirmed that not 5,000 but 70,000 barrels a day are leaking, and have been leaking, for the past month into the Gulf of Mexico, where it is filling not just the surface but lower down. When it is finally clear, sir, that I was spot on in my original comment, I will expect an apology from you.
Please. I think we can safely assume that enough oil has gushed into the Gulf to ensure great, tragic and pervasive environmental damage. Just because the bodies have yet to wash ashore, we know for a fact that petroleum like this is enough to create great havoc. I find it ridiculous that you are discounting the obvious damage that has already been caused by this disaster.
I don't know about you but I am just beyond angry about this oil well pumping into the Atlantic Ocean, killing everything in it almost immediately, because I know this is the most catastrophe that has ever befallen the earth. This is armageddon. I'm not smiling when I say this.
Oil will continue to flood into the Atlantic Ocean, poisoning the entire world's oceans in one year of having this oil pump into this mile deep oil well that is flowing unchecked, gushing oil at this very second into the Atlantic, and then Pacific Ocean, turning both into an oily puddle--forever! For the rest of our lives, we just killed the ocean. They will never re-cap that oil well, or do anything whatsoever to cap it or decrease its flow into the oceans. It will pump oil into the oceans for years and within one year all the oceans on this earth will be dead! Too late! It's done. Go immediately to the ocean and breath in that fresh air, because soon it will smell like gasoline all over the earth, in a one-micron tall layer of petroleum that will oil every single drop of the ocean.
This is the dumbest thing that anyone in all humanity has done. This is the worst thing that will ever happen. Everything in the ocean will die. Think about it.
As anyone who has read about Bob Lazar and the "Sport Model" UFO knows, it's Element 115 that is the prize. That is the element that allegedly powers UFOs. Can't wait for that one. Laugh all you want but that's supposedly the actual fuel source for the gravity warp drive
You went off the rails there, dude. In 14 years in the industry, I have yet to meet an architect who did not know code or who had not worked their way up as a developer. I defy you to point to one person who has become an "architect" without first being a code-hacking developer first.
Those hypocrites in the Republican Party! This is nothing more than a jobs bill for Houston and the Southern states who all own most of the various NASA installations [Texas, Alabama, Florida] and so they will stand to lose when the admirable-but-currently-unaffordable NASA Launch Business is set to retire.
I'm sure this Republican from Texas, who is basically proposing the opposite of what President Obama has proposed, is all against government waste--except when it comes to things that benefit his district.
I love the space program. I admire most of what NASA has done. I agree with President Obama that NASA should delegate the conventional launch business to the private sector. NASA should focus on developing the technologies of the future, not ones that were invented by Goddard back in the twenties.
Though it would be cool and exciting to see the huge Ares V rocket blast off, we cannot afford it right now. Why is that so hard for people to understand? We can afford to do research on the next generation but we should not be in the Space Truck business. Let's throw a few bones to the private sector. Let them build it cheaply and we will buy seats for our people and stuff.
Earth's vegetation evolved to fit the current weather pattern. We are causing a temperature change in 200 years that used to take 1 Million years. This is not a trivial thing like it getting slightly warmer. This is a catastrophe. You are the most stupid person I have encountered in years. You are a total and absolute fool. This climate change is the worst calamity that could have happened. If even 1% of the scientific problems that are expected actually happen, it will not be possible for us to live in any way shapeor form like we do now. This climate change thing includes catastrophic floods in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Houston to name just the American cities. Every plant will be screwed up and will die. Permafrost that has gathered CO2 and methane will melt, as is just now being seen in the Arctic as methane bubbles up.
And head in the sand morons will stand back quietly, not drawing to everyone's attention that they were against pouring water on the fire, having counseled to let that fire just "burn itself out."
Business just wants to profit a little longer by being free to continue polluting.
I agree that we need to get rid of all the crappy cars. We need to get rid of this dirty shit called petroleum. We ALSO need to get rid of the damned McMansions. People need to learn that they don't need so much stuff. Recall on "Star Trek The Next Generation" that people had much less crap around them? It was futurist because the idea of not defining yourself by your geothermal, indefensibly-sized uber-house is what the future is all about.
Define yourself by the size of your brain pan not the square feet of the cage you inhabit.
What a bunch of stupid humans we are. We're killing our planet and yet we have to fight these stupid, selfish, self-serving idiots who want to pollute a little longer, so they can buy that Hummer or McMansion. There is going to be hell to pay and all the Sen James Inhofe's of the world will suddenly disappear into the shadows.
How curious. Right here on Slashdot I said this exact thing--months ago--and I got flamed without mercy. My reasons? The unpredictable nature of the iPhone app acceptance and then Java.
Obviously, you have not listened to enough Mozart. Years ago my brother and I pooled our money and bought the Complete Mozart Collection, 90 CDs over 45 volumes.
I categorically disagree with you. Though you may have heard some of his music, you have not heard enough. Note for note, there is no better classical music composer who ever lived. You are wrong sir!
I am not comparing him to Chopin.
Anyone who can listen to Mozart and not love it is an idiot. Mozart is far and away the most talented and awesome composer there is. If these young kids end up hating classical music, then they should just hang a drool bucket under that kid's chin and send them off to the work farm to count beans. Listening to Mozart makes you smarter.
Writing software is about solving problems. If I were you, I would try to come up with some project that you can build. Coming up with an idea, refining it, and then going through the actual process of working out the inevitable kinks in any technology stack--that's the best thing you can do. Build something big, something where every component forces you to learn some new sub technology.
You are now in the Java business. Java is your hammer. Find some problem to solve.
I'm feeling like a broken record here. I don't think you could consciously code up an OS with more holes than Windows has. Why on earth is it so damned vulnerable that any tiny code change can topple it over?
Tell me again why people still use Microsoft products?
This is just highlighting a design flaw in the lights that incandescent lights had been masking. The obvious solution is to redesign the traffic signals so they don't accumulate snow. If you look at them now, they're buckets.
Obviously, dude, nobody is going to include J2EE and its more modern name of JEE.
Your faked comparison proves my point. Hope you're using your.NET/C-pound skills in your burger-flipping job...
On What planet do you live?
Java is clearly the standard when it comes to university computer science. I have heard of hundreds of CS programs that use Java and not one that uses.NET. More MS BS.
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What one man considers "alarmism" is better known as "experience" to another.
Add to the NPR source now the New York Times
The source was NPR, which is about the most trusted news source I know. I am merely responding to your obnoxious comment. I have NO desire for this to be a huge disaster--but it already is. There has never before been a spill like this where the oil is sloshing around in the Gulf of Mexico at the bottom--doing God knows what. This will turn out to be the worst disaster in history. Only time will tell.
... and you use the "head in the sand" technique. You, apparently, believe BP would never lie about this...
Today it was confirmed that not 5,000 but 70,000 barrels a day are leaking, and have been leaking, for the past month into the Gulf of Mexico, where it is filling not just the surface but lower down. When it is finally clear, sir, that I was spot on in my original comment, I will expect an apology from you.
Please. I think we can safely assume that enough oil has gushed into the Gulf to ensure great, tragic and pervasive environmental damage. Just because the bodies have yet to wash ashore, we know for a fact that petroleum like this is enough to create great havoc. I find it ridiculous that you are discounting the obvious damage that has already been caused by this disaster.
I don't know about you but I am just beyond angry about this oil well pumping into the Atlantic Ocean, killing everything in it almost immediately, because I know this is the most catastrophe that has ever befallen the earth. This is armageddon. I'm not smiling when I say this. Oil will continue to flood into the Atlantic Ocean, poisoning the entire world's oceans in one year of having this oil pump into this mile deep oil well that is flowing unchecked, gushing oil at this very second into the Atlantic, and then Pacific Ocean, turning both into an oily puddle--forever! For the rest of our lives, we just killed the ocean. They will never re-cap that oil well, or do anything whatsoever to cap it or decrease its flow into the oceans. It will pump oil into the oceans for years and within one year all the oceans on this earth will be dead! Too late! It's done. Go immediately to the ocean and breath in that fresh air, because soon it will smell like gasoline all over the earth, in a one-micron tall layer of petroleum that will oil every single drop of the ocean. This is the dumbest thing that anyone in all humanity has done. This is the worst thing that will ever happen. Everything in the ocean will die. Think about it.
As anyone who has read about Bob Lazar and the "Sport Model" UFO knows, it's Element 115 that is the prize. That is the element that allegedly powers UFOs. Can't wait for that one. Laugh all you want but that's supposedly the actual fuel source for the gravity warp drive
Okay, we'll start with you. Where exactly is it that you're staying? We'll send someone right on over to squash you like a blood-engorged tick.
You went off the rails there, dude. In 14 years in the industry, I have yet to meet an architect who did not know code or who had not worked their way up as a developer. I defy you to point to one person who has become an "architect" without first being a code-hacking developer first.
Yes, idiot, you have performed your role. Now go drown yourself in a 5-gallon bucket.
Those hypocrites in the Republican Party! This is nothing more than a jobs bill for Houston and the Southern states who all own most of the various NASA installations [Texas, Alabama, Florida] and so they will stand to lose when the admirable-but-currently-unaffordable NASA Launch Business is set to retire.
I'm sure this Republican from Texas, who is basically proposing the opposite of what President Obama has proposed, is all against government waste--except when it comes to things that benefit his district.
I love the space program. I admire most of what NASA has done. I agree with President Obama that NASA should delegate the conventional launch business to the private sector. NASA should focus on developing the technologies of the future, not ones that were invented by Goddard back in the twenties.
Though it would be cool and exciting to see the huge Ares V rocket blast off, we cannot afford it right now. Why is that so hard for people to understand? We can afford to do research on the next generation but we should not be in the Space Truck business. Let's throw a few bones to the private sector. Let them build it cheaply and we will buy seats for our people and stuff.
You idiot.
Earth's vegetation evolved to fit the current weather pattern. We are causing a temperature change in 200 years that used to take 1 Million years. This is not a trivial thing like it getting slightly warmer. This is a catastrophe. You are the most stupid person I have encountered in years. You are a total and absolute fool. This climate change is the worst calamity that could have happened. If even 1% of the scientific problems that are expected actually happen, it will not be possible for us to live in any way shapeor form like we do now. This climate change thing includes catastrophic floods in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Houston to name just the American cities. Every plant will be screwed up and will die. Permafrost that has gathered CO2 and methane will melt, as is just now being seen in the Arctic as methane bubbles up.
And head in the sand morons will stand back quietly, not drawing to everyone's attention that they were against pouring water on the fire, having counseled to let that fire just "burn itself out."
Business just wants to profit a little longer by being free to continue polluting.
I agree that we need to get rid of all the crappy cars. We need to get rid of this dirty shit called petroleum. We ALSO need to get rid of the damned McMansions. People need to learn that they don't need so much stuff. Recall on "Star Trek The Next Generation" that people had much less crap around them? It was futurist because the idea of not defining yourself by your geothermal, indefensibly-sized uber-house is what the future is all about.
Define yourself by the size of your brain pan not the square feet of the cage you inhabit.
YouTube is full of Mozart. Go to YouTube and search on Mozart. Here's an awesome one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37I4ddUKVc
What a bunch of stupid humans we are. We're killing our planet and yet we have to fight these stupid, selfish, self-serving idiots who want to pollute a little longer, so they can buy that Hummer or McMansion. There is going to be hell to pay and all the Sen James Inhofe's of the world will suddenly disappear into the shadows.
How curious. Right here on Slashdot I said this exact thing--months ago--and I got flamed without mercy. My reasons? The unpredictable nature of the iPhone app acceptance and then Java.
Obviously, you have not listened to enough Mozart. Years ago my brother and I pooled our money and bought the Complete Mozart Collection, 90 CDs over 45 volumes. I categorically disagree with you. Though you may have heard some of his music, you have not heard enough. Note for note, there is no better classical music composer who ever lived. You are wrong sir! I am not comparing him to Chopin.
Anyone who can listen to Mozart and not love it is an idiot. Mozart is far and away the most talented and awesome composer there is. If these young kids end up hating classical music, then they should just hang a drool bucket under that kid's chin and send them off to the work farm to count beans. Listening to Mozart makes you smarter.
Writing software is about solving problems. If I were you, I would try to come up with some project that you can build. Coming up with an idea, refining it, and then going through the actual process of working out the inevitable kinks in any technology stack--that's the best thing you can do. Build something big, something where every component forces you to learn some new sub technology. You are now in the Java business. Java is your hammer. Find some problem to solve.
I'm feeling like a broken record here. I don't think you could consciously code up an OS with more holes than Windows has. Why on earth is it so damned vulnerable that any tiny code change can topple it over? Tell me again why people still use Microsoft products?
This is just highlighting a design flaw in the lights that incandescent lights had been masking. The obvious solution is to redesign the traffic signals so they don't accumulate snow. If you look at them now, they're buckets.
Okay, Mr. Literal: Search on Java OR J2EE OR JEE
Obviously, dude, nobody is going to include J2EE and its more modern name of JEE. Your faked comparison proves my point. Hope you're using your .NET/C-pound skills in your burger-flipping job...
On What planet do you live? Java is clearly the standard when it comes to university computer science. I have heard of hundreds of CS programs that use Java and not one that uses .NET. More MS BS.