Perhaps if they measured the temperature outdoors instead of in the full-of-hot-air opinion factories they derive their "data" from, they would see that the warming and cooling trends are normal, that humans have nothing to do with it, just as humans have nothing to do with the shrinking/expanding ice caps on Mars.
Nothing to see here. Just the usual Chicken Little Climate Change propaganda that's been ongoing since the late 1800s
This would only work if the pay was increased to compensate for the 2 hours not worked. People who live paycheck to paycheck rely on those two hours of work to pay the electricity bill, or car insurance, or groceries. Some people really cannot afford to lose 2 hours of pay a day.
"Missing (arbitrary) climate goals could cost greedy governments trying to squeeze more money from its citizens 20 trillion in new revenues to avoid collapsing into debt."
This has never been about science, it has, as it has always been, about money.
Senator Inhofe tells the truth about this fabricated issue: https://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/speech/hot-and-cold-media-spin-cycle-a-challenge-to
Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes
overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media pedaled a coming ice age.
Humans causing the climate to change is bunkum. It is false, and by the mighty hand of Trump and the great Scott Pruitt, this Chicken Little nonsense garbage will be once and for all be tossed away where it should be.
The fact that is mainly liberals and democrats who support this crap should tell you all you need to know: they are full of crap (as usual).
Just one of the many things that confound scientists. It "just so" happens matter and antimatter coexist. It "just so" happened that a single cell reproducing asexually "just so" developed the ability for sexual reproduction and it "jiust so" happened both male and female came about at the same time. It "just so " happens hydrogen formed itself into a sun, "just so" happened water formed on the planet, "just so" happened an atmosphere appeared to protect the planet from being blasted by radiation, and life "just so" happened to arise on the planet.
How many "just so" incidents does it take before one becomes overwhelmed by the evidence and therefore must logically conclude that indeed, "In the beginning, God created..."?
The scientists in this article came very close to admitting the truth: the evidence points away from happenstance and random events and towards purposeful design.
It is like these scientists found a vehicle made of Lego (tm) bricks and conclude "these blocks just assemnbled themselves over trillions of years by some unknown force stacking them together! This ought not to even be here!" It never enters their minds that for Legos to be assemnbled into anything there must have been an assembler to do so, just as for a spider to have been programmed to spin a web there must have been a programmer to do so.
And so these scientists take another hit on the bong or pour another drink snatching away the brief moment of clarity they had.
I do not think it is a coincidence that Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, and his theory, arose at the same time an opium epidemic was going on. Yes, I believe Darwin was an opium or codeine addict, fow how else could he come to such addled conclusions that he did? Darwin, bless his little heart, made his journey on the Beagle so as to smoke his opium without being bothered by the police, or nagged by relatives for being stoned all the time. And what do you, all the other university drug addicts, in their impaired state of mind, believed Darwin's tale of species origins to be true. It takes a mind altered by drugs to be able to look at the evidence of purposeful design and come to some other conclusion.
In 1939, https://aviaryrecoverycenter.com/timeline-heroin-epidemic
1830 – British dependence on opium reaches an all time high, with 22,000 pounds of opium imported from Turkey and India. 1832 – Codeine is extracted from opium. 1839 – Opium accounts for more deaths than any other substance.
You said: "Consider that childless homosexuals, not being burdened by the task of having to care for children of their own, will likely therefore have extra time and resources available to help protect and care for the children of child-bearing couples in their family or community..."
No, this rarely happens. All of the heterosexual couples I know with children, which includes myself, would never allow a homosexual unsupervised access to children. Normal, sane, not drug-addled parents do not want their children to become homosexual any more than they want their children to become schizophrenic, or become a prostitute, or a drug addict, and they certainly do not want their children emulating such behavior or develop some abhorrent idea that homosexuality is normal and acceptable behavior (it is not). Furthermore, many homosexuals are substance abusers and suffer from depression (because they know they are "doing life wrong" but continue along anyway) so are therefore unfit to watch over children.
Finally, the few homosexuals I know have no interest in being bothered with babysitting children but instead want to party or spend all their time for themselves.
When I saw a male dog try to hump someone's leg, I used that as a teaching moment for my children: dogs, and most other mammals do not know to breed unless their mating instinct is triggered. God created all the animals to mate with their own kind and produce offspring. Homosexuals are confused and disoriented like that dog over there and there is a problem with that person that needs to be fixed. Do not be confused like the homosexual person, it is perversion, and also, an abomination in the eyes of God.
unusable niche ones like Slackware, Devuan and even Gentoo
Unusable? I've been using Gentoo for years. And with Gentoo you have the option of using or not using systemd as you choose. Gentoo might be unusable for you maybe, but not for me.
no wonder so many people are moving away from Linux
Not so. Look at RHT share price: it keeps going up and up as more companies start using it. My real-world experience tells me that what you are saying "just ain't so".
It appears you took your own experience and extrapolated and exaggerated it from a small manure pile to produce a proportion of dung as high as Mt. Everest.
Just as blowfly maggots are a symptom of diseased and rotting meat, so is the acceptance of homosexuality a symptomof a diseased and rotting nation.
Exterminating the maggots will not stop the meat from rotting, neither will exterminating homosexuals stop a nation from rotting either. Such rot is caused by a moral, spiritual, and character deficiency amongst its people. To stop meat from rotting the application of a preservative must be applied --salt, and so too must a preservative be applied to a nation to stop its descent into depravity. That preservative is the salt of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, Jesus, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
The light of truth is blinding, and the clarion bells of righteousness sounding hateful speech to the wicked who walk in the darkness of evil thoughts and deeds.
I pity the nation of Ireland whose people are so foolish and confused they do not understand the truth that in the beginning God created all life, including humans, and he made them male and female one for the other that they may produce offspring. Only someone utterly evil, depraved, or mentally ill cannot see the self-evident truth that male and female were created and designed one for the other.
The people of Northern Ireland are probably quite thankful they are a separate entity from Ireland.
Is there any possibility to make OpenBSD more commercially viable (similar to what Red Hat Linux has done) so that in the upcoming years OpenBSD can avoid extinction or at least be more widely utilized?
Is Bobby Jindal some other dude that you don't like and hope will be molded by those around him into the magical fairy president that you want?
I like Bobby Jindal. He does not need to be molded into a candidate with core conservative values because he already has them. There will never be a president who 100% espouses what I want because a political candidate must forge an alliance among diverse individuals into a common cause to get elected. Politics is taking many different people with different viewpoints and throw them enough bones so that they vote for you. Romney threw me more bones (albeit very few) than Obama so I voted for Romney. My preferred party, The Constitution Party, is too small to affect an election just as the Green Party. So, you vote for the one who can at least in some way implement your vision for America.
I will auto-vote for Jindal for the following:
Jindal signed a law that permits teachers at public schools to supplement standard evolutionary curricula with analysis and critiques that may include intelligent design
"The Theory of Evlolution" otherwise known as "An Opinion on Human Origins as pronounced by 'scientificly minded' chest beaters and hand wavers" is ridiculous and should not be taught as fact. I am all for a candidate who will trounce this.
Jindal opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage.
The redefinition of marriage is anathema and must be discouraged and squashed at every opportunity. Just as I do not uphold prostitutes, schizophrenics, and drug addicts as people to be admired and emluated, so I do not uphold homosexuals as anyone to be proud of. They are sick people who need help and counseling, not encouragement in their wrong ways.
Homosexuality is a mental illness. Activist sociologists and psychiatrists declaring it otherwise is abhorrent and untruthful.
Jindal has stated his support of the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. He has opposed efforts to restrict gun rights and has received an endorsement from the National Rifle Association
Boo-RAAA. He gets my vote.
Voting for someone that you don't like in the hopes that he will change after starting the job is asinine.
My first choice for the Republican nomination was Herman Cain but he did not make it so I was stuck with the choice of not voting, voting Constitution Party, or not voting at all. I certainly would not ever, under any circumstance, have voted for Obama so I was forced to vote as best I could.
I agree with you. Although I voted for Romney it was without any enthusiasm. Voting for Romney was as exciting as voting for a spreadsheet.
Truth is, Obama has more charisma than Romney and a more engaging personality, at least it appears that way. When I would watch Romney his smile seemed forced much of the time and he had an exasperated look in his eyes which caused me to think he might not be able to handle the pressures of being president.
I voted for him anyway, mainly in the hopes his blank-slate personality could be written on by the Tea Party conservatives who could mold him into a more conservative entity, guided by Ryan. I had the same mindset when I voted for McCain, hoping Palin's conservatism would steer the doddering McCain into a more conservative approach.
Anyway, it is over. I am not bitter my candidate lost. Romney lost because he was a lame politician who never articulated any clear position only babbling platitudes. His voice sounded like some hack stubbing out cigarettes telling me whatever it is I wanted to hear. Romney did not seem all that genuine to me, just a moderate, wishy-washy Democrat wannabe. As someone who passed health care legislation in Massachoositz, few if any conservatives believed him when he said he would retract/modify Obamacare.
So many of my Republican brethren stayed home and let Obama, like a vile case of diarrhea, run its course.
My pick for pres. in 2016: Bobby Jindal. I think he can do it.
And the LORD spake unto the king of Microsoft saying, Because thou hast followed after the ways of Gomorrah, yeah,
thou dost wallow in the her abominations, thy sin riseth unto heaven and stinketh before me and choketh mine angels who gaggeth and moan. Because of thy sin I shall surely smite thee: thy kingdom shall be despoiled by the kings of Linux, and thy
shareholders shall writhe in anguish cursing thee for thine iniquity. Thine Office products and Windows shall be remembered no more.
Thus sayeth the Lord.
Notice I prefixed my post with "perhaps". I did so to indicate that I cannot prove the failure was due to skimping on maintenance so money could be used elsewhere. It is quite possible this occurred, especially given what we've seen concerning New Orleans and recently, the bridge in Minnesota (or was it Wisconsin? --somehwere up there)
and stating the fact (backed up by credible sources) that money was indeed diverted from transportation. This fact lends credence to my assertion which I freely admit could be false.
You are correct the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) handles maintenance of the Bay bridges:
BATA oversees the administration of toll collection and maintenance activities for the seven state-owned bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area
about BATA
However, funding for this maintenance comes in part from tolls collected, part from the state of California, and part from the federal government. These funds are overseen by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC):
MTC devotes considerable energy to advocacy efforts in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C., to ensure an adequate flow of funding for the maintenance and expansion of the Bay Area's transportation network
about MTC
On page 24 of the MTC Annual Report 2008 , I see that BATA took in about $492 million dollars in toll operations revenue. BATA also received $126 million in grants from Caltran and other agencies.
However, on the same financial statement I see $807 million was given to Caltrans and another $27 million given to the MTC. This proves my point that money flows in and out of both agencies. Caltrans, MTC, and BATA are intertwined.
What I cannot prove from the financial statement is whether maintenance was neglected so money could be diverted elsewhere. It is possible that even with 100% funding for maintenance & inspections, no amount of inspection would have prevented the bridge failure. My point in posting what I did was to show that California is diverting funds from transportation which may be the cause of bridge failure.
I live on the East Coast so my West Coast knowledge does not come from personal experience. I think from my research I've learned quite all I want to know concerning Bay Area bridges.
Perhaps if the state of California hadn't diverted transportation funds and had actually used
the money to maintain its infrastructure (similar to New Orleans not using its allocated money to maintain the levee system) this probably would not have happened.
Ruling on a case started in 2007 by the California Transit Association, the California Appeals Court found that the gimmicks used to reroute public transit funding to other programs were not consistent with voters' intent for the funds to be spent on public transportation
I don't have a vendetta against advertising. It is a legitimate and effective means to inform people about a product. What I detest is advertising that in any way interferes, inconveniences, or obstructs what I am trying to do. I am one of those people who browses with images disabled, with javascript and activeX disabled most of the time.
The Oxford-based consultancy's in-depth usability tests amongst a range of web users found that pop-up advertising was the single biggest turn-off amongst users, with every subject expressing irritation and frustration when pop-ups appeared.
More alarmingly, 60% of those tested said that pop-ups even led to mistrust for both the brand being advertised and the host site where the pop-up appeared.
I had nothing against Geocities. I had a dial-up connection at the time and all those ads loading slowed my browser to a crawl. I was also using Yahoo as my search engine so I did see a bunch of irrelevance. (Later I switched to Google).
The main reason I did not like Geocities is that its pages took too much time to load on a dial-up connection. There were times when I snapped my fingers saying, "aw, that looked to be interesting but...it's Geocities" when a search result appeared that I liked.
There was no vendetta, just someone who wanted to pop online, get some information as quick as I could, then pop offline. All those ads made that difficult.
Failing to turn any significant profit from all of those pop-ups and banner ads (in fact, there's questions about whether GeoCities was ever cash-flow positive), the purchase -- or perhaps Yahoo's inaction once GeoCities was acquired -- turned out to be one of the company's most costly mistakes.
Yahoo is encouraging the relatively few remaining users to transition their accounts to the company's $5-per-month Web hosting service.
All of those pop-ups and banner ads is the reason why I steered clear of Geocities. I made certain to exclude Geocities from all internet searches. If you pop an ad up in my face I will make a personal note never to buy, promote, or recommend the advertised item.
I've used Fedora extensively and had few problems with it. I can attest that sshfs worked flawlessly for me which was my primary purpose at the time: remote web site administration. I found Fedora to be a solid distro.
The only negative I can really say about it is that the software updater would often crash my Belkin wireless router requiring a factory reboot and reload of configuration file.
putting together a team that can work together for 18 months
I guess that pretty much eliminates most of the incarcerated population. They aren't known for teamwork in a positive, productive direction.
It was wishful thinking on my part to accelerate human space exploration via a population with little to offer society, such as those with a life sentence or on death row.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps if they measured the temperature outdoors instead of in the full-of-hot-air opinion factories they derive their "data" from, they would see that the warming and cooling trends are normal, that humans have nothing to do with it, just as humans have nothing to do with the shrinking/expanding ice caps on Mars.
Nothing to see here. Just the usual Chicken Little Climate Change propaganda that's been ongoing since the late 1800s
https://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/speech/climate-change-update
Indeed. I use Gentoo Linux with systemD but Gentoo has the option to use OpenRC.
Maybe we could genetically engineer the Monarch butterfly to feed on marijuana plants instead of milkweed.
So it was VW and Daimler who hacked the US 2016 Election. It was the Germans, not the Russians, all along!
This would only work if the pay was increased to compensate for the 2 hours not worked. People who live paycheck to paycheck rely on those two hours of work to pay the electricity bill, or car insurance, or groceries. Some people really cannot afford to lose 2 hours of pay a day.
Not everyone lives in Silicon Valley.
Here is what the headline really means:
"Missing (arbitrary) climate goals could cost greedy governments trying to squeeze more money from its citizens 20 trillion in new revenues to avoid collapsing into debt."
This has never been about science, it has, as it has always been, about money.
Senator Inhofe tells the truth about this fabricated issue: https://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/speech/hot-and-cold-media-spin-cycle-a-challenge-to
Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes
overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media pedaled a coming ice age.
Humans causing the climate to change is bunkum. It is false, and by the mighty hand of Trump and the great Scott Pruitt, this Chicken Little nonsense garbage will be once and for all be tossed away where it should be.
The fact that is mainly liberals and democrats who support this crap should tell you all you need to know: they are full of crap (as usual).
Just one of the many things that confound scientists. It "just so" happens matter and antimatter coexist. It "just so" happened that a single cell reproducing asexually "just so" developed the ability for sexual reproduction and it "jiust so" happened both male and female came about at the same time. It "just so " happens hydrogen formed itself into a sun, "just so" happened water formed on the planet, "just so" happened an atmosphere appeared to protect the planet from being blasted by radiation, and life "just so" happened to arise on the planet.
How many "just so" incidents does it take before one becomes overwhelmed by the evidence and therefore must logically conclude that indeed, "In the beginning, God created..."?
The scientists in this article came very close to admitting the truth: the evidence points away from happenstance and random events and towards purposeful design.
It is like these scientists found a vehicle made of Lego (tm) bricks and conclude "these blocks just assemnbled themselves over trillions of years by some unknown force stacking them together! This ought not to even be here!" It never enters their minds that for Legos to be assemnbled into anything there must have been an assembler to do so, just as for a spider to have been programmed to spin a web there must have been a programmer to do so.
And so these scientists take another hit on the bong or pour another drink snatching away the brief moment of clarity they had.
I do not think it is a coincidence that Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, and his theory, arose at the same time an opium epidemic was going on. Yes, I believe Darwin was an opium or codeine addict, fow how else could he come to such addled conclusions that he did?
Darwin, bless his little heart, made his journey on the Beagle so as to smoke his opium without being bothered by the police, or nagged by relatives for being stoned all the time. And what do you, all the other university drug addicts, in their impaired state of mind, believed Darwin's tale of species origins to be true. It takes a mind altered by drugs to be able to look at the evidence of purposeful design and come to some other conclusion.
In 1939,
https://aviaryrecoverycenter.com/timeline-heroin-epidemic
1830 – British dependence on opium reaches an all time high, with 22,000 pounds of opium imported from Turkey and India.
1832 – Codeine is extracted from opium.
1839 – Opium accounts for more deaths than any other substance.
You said: "Consider that childless homosexuals, not being burdened by the task of having to care for children of their own, will likely therefore have extra time and resources available to help protect and care for the children of child-bearing couples in their family or community..."
No, this rarely happens. All of the heterosexual couples I know with children, which includes myself, would never allow a homosexual unsupervised access to children. Normal, sane, not drug-addled parents do not want their children to become homosexual any more than they want their children to become schizophrenic, or become a prostitute, or a drug addict, and they certainly do not want their children emulating such behavior or develop some abhorrent idea that homosexuality is normal and acceptable behavior (it is not). Furthermore, many homosexuals are substance abusers and suffer from depression (because they know they are "doing life wrong" but continue along anyway) so are therefore unfit to watch over children.
Finally, the few homosexuals I know have no interest in being bothered with babysitting children but instead want to party or spend all their time for themselves.
When I saw a male dog try to hump someone's leg, I used that as a teaching moment for my children: dogs, and most other mammals do not know to breed unless their mating instinct is triggered. God created all the animals to mate with their own kind and produce offspring. Homosexuals are confused and disoriented like that dog over there and there is a problem with that person that needs to be fixed. Do not be confused like the homosexual person, it is perversion, and also, an abomination in the eyes of God.
unusable niche ones like Slackware, Devuan and even Gentoo
Unusable? I've been using Gentoo for years. And with Gentoo you have the option of using or not using systemd as you choose. Gentoo might be unusable for you maybe, but not for me.
no wonder so many people are moving away from Linux
Not so. Look at RHT share price: it keeps going up and up as more companies start using it. My real-world experience tells me that what you are saying "just ain't so". It appears you took your own experience and extrapolated and exaggerated it from a small manure pile to produce a proportion of dung as high as Mt. Everest.
Just as blowfly maggots are a symptom of diseased and rotting meat, so is the acceptance of homosexuality a symptomof a diseased and rotting nation. Exterminating the maggots will not stop the meat from rotting, neither will exterminating homosexuals stop a nation from rotting either. Such rot is caused by a moral, spiritual, and character deficiency amongst its people. To stop meat from rotting the application of a preservative must be applied --salt, and so too must a preservative be applied to a nation to stop its descent into depravity. That preservative is the salt of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, Jesus, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. The light of truth is blinding, and the clarion bells of righteousness sounding hateful speech to the wicked who walk in the darkness of evil thoughts and deeds. I pity the nation of Ireland whose people are so foolish and confused they do not understand the truth that in the beginning God created all life, including humans, and he made them male and female one for the other that they may produce offspring. Only someone utterly evil, depraved, or mentally ill cannot see the self-evident truth that male and female were created and designed one for the other. The people of Northern Ireland are probably quite thankful they are a separate entity from Ireland.
Temperature goes up, goes down as it always has. It is normal. Now if they will just stop blaming humans for it. http://www.globalclimatescam.c...
Is there any possibility to make OpenBSD more commercially viable (similar to what Red Hat Linux has done) so that in the upcoming years OpenBSD can avoid extinction or at least be more widely utilized?
I like Bobby Jindal. He does not need to be molded into a candidate with core conservative values because he already has them. There will never be a president who 100% espouses what I want because a political candidate must forge an alliance among diverse individuals into a common cause to get elected. Politics is taking many different people with different viewpoints and throw them enough bones so that they vote for you. Romney threw me more bones (albeit very few) than Obama so I voted for Romney. My preferred party, The Constitution Party, is too small to affect an election just as the Green Party. So, you vote for the one who can at least in some way implement your vision for America.
I will auto-vote for Jindal for the following:
Jindal signed a law that permits teachers at public schools to supplement standard evolutionary curricula with analysis and critiques that may include intelligent design
"The Theory of Evlolution" otherwise known as "An Opinion on Human Origins as pronounced by 'scientificly minded' chest beaters and hand wavers" is ridiculous and should not be taught as fact. I am all for a candidate who will trounce this.
Jindal opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage.
The redefinition of marriage is anathema and must be discouraged and squashed at every opportunity. Just as I do not uphold prostitutes, schizophrenics, and drug addicts as people to be admired and emluated, so I do not uphold homosexuals as anyone to be proud of. They are sick people who need help and counseling, not encouragement in their wrong ways. Homosexuality is a mental illness. Activist sociologists and psychiatrists declaring it otherwise is abhorrent and untruthful.
Jindal has stated his support of the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. He has opposed efforts to restrict gun rights and has received an endorsement from the National Rifle Association
Boo-RAAA. He gets my vote.
My first choice for the Republican nomination was Herman Cain but he did not make it so I was stuck with the choice of not voting, voting Constitution Party, or not voting at all. I certainly would not ever, under any circumstance, have voted for Obama so I was forced to vote as best I could.
I agree with you. Although I voted for Romney it was without any enthusiasm. Voting for Romney was as exciting as voting for a spreadsheet.
Truth is, Obama has more charisma than Romney and a more engaging personality, at least it appears that way. When I would watch Romney his smile seemed forced much of the time and he had an exasperated look in his eyes which caused me to think he might not be able to handle the pressures of being president.
I voted for him anyway, mainly in the hopes his blank-slate personality could be written on by the Tea Party conservatives who could mold him into a more conservative entity, guided by Ryan. I had the same mindset when I voted for McCain, hoping Palin's conservatism would steer the doddering McCain into a more conservative approach. Anyway, it is over. I am not bitter my candidate lost. Romney lost because he was a lame politician who never articulated any clear position only babbling platitudes. His voice sounded like some hack stubbing out cigarettes telling me whatever it is I wanted to hear. Romney did not seem all that genuine to me, just a moderate, wishy-washy Democrat wannabe. As someone who passed health care legislation in Massachoositz, few if any conservatives believed him when he said he would retract/modify Obamacare.
So many of my Republican brethren stayed home and let Obama, like a vile case of diarrhea, run its course.
My pick for pres. in 2016: Bobby Jindal. I think he can do it.
I'll be pressing the de-elect button hard this November.
It is called an HOA, or Homeowner's Association
And the LORD spake unto the king of Microsoft saying, Because thou hast followed after the ways of Gomorrah, yeah, thou dost wallow in the her abominations, thy sin riseth unto heaven and stinketh before me and choketh mine angels who gaggeth and moan. Because of thy sin I shall surely smite thee: thy kingdom shall be despoiled by the kings of Linux, and thy shareholders shall writhe in anguish cursing thee for thine iniquity. Thine Office products and Windows shall be remembered no more. Thus sayeth the Lord.
Doesn't anyone realize that spacejunk is our only hope of deflecting the killer asteroid when it comes? Think of the children!
You are correct the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) handles maintenance of the Bay bridges:
However, funding for this maintenance comes in part from tolls collected, part from the state of California, and part from the federal government. These funds are overseen by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC):
On page 24 of the MTC Annual Report 2008 , I see that BATA took in about $492 million dollars in toll operations revenue. BATA also received $126 million in grants from Caltran and other agencies.
However, on the same financial statement I see $807 million was given to Caltrans and another $27 million given to the MTC. This proves my point that money flows in and out of both agencies. Caltrans, MTC, and BATA are intertwined.
What I cannot prove from the financial statement is whether maintenance was neglected so money could be diverted elsewhere. It is possible that even with 100% funding for maintenance & inspections, no amount of inspection would have prevented the bridge failure. My point in posting what I did was to show that California is diverting funds from transportation which may be the cause of bridge failure.
I live on the East Coast so my West Coast knowledge does not come from personal experience. I think from my research I've learned quite all I want to know concerning Bay Area bridges.
Raids of Public Transportation Funds
nearly $2.5 billion was diverted away from transportation programs
I don't have a vendetta against advertising. It is a legitimate and effective means to inform people about a product. What I detest is advertising that in any way interferes, inconveniences, or obstructs what I am trying to do. I am one of those people who browses with images disabled, with javascript and activeX disabled most of the time.
It appears I'm not "one of the only people" who have a negative reaction to in-your-face ads: (Usability tests show pop-ups are brand suicide )
I had nothing against Geocities. I had a dial-up connection at the time and all those ads loading slowed my browser to a crawl. I was also using Yahoo as my search engine so I did see a bunch of irrelevance. (Later I switched to Google).
The main reason I did not like Geocities is that its pages took too much time to load on a dial-up connection. There were times when I snapped my fingers saying, "aw, that looked to be interesting but...it's Geocities" when a search result appeared that I liked. There was no vendetta, just someone who wanted to pop online, get some information as quick as I could, then pop offline. All those ads made that difficult.
All of those pop-ups and banner ads is the reason why I steered clear of Geocities. I made certain to exclude Geocities from all internet searches. If you pop an ad up in my face I will make a personal note never to buy, promote, or recommend the advertised item.
Hey, thanks for that information.
I've used Fedora extensively and had few problems with it. I can attest that sshfs worked flawlessly for me which was my primary purpose at the time: remote web site administration. I found Fedora to be a solid distro.
The only negative I can really say about it is that the software updater would often crash my Belkin wireless router requiring a factory reboot and reload of configuration file.
I was thinking of just myself. I couldn't do it.
I guess that pretty much eliminates most of the incarcerated population. They aren't known for teamwork in a positive, productive direction.
It was wishful thinking on my part to accelerate human space exploration via a population with little to offer society, such as those with a life sentence or on death row.