The only account of a pipeline explosion of that magnetude in the Soviet era was here. It's basically FOAF, take it for what it's worth, but basically the explosion was caused by a leak. Instead of turning the pipeline off and finding the leak, the operators did a typical Soviet era solution to the problem: increase the gas flow to compensate for the drop in pressure.
The explosion itself was set off by a passing passenger train. Killing 190, injuring 700.
Sorry folks. Nothing to see but a bunch of soviet-era screw ups. The pipe technicians noticed a drop in pressure. Instead of going out and looking for the leak, they increased the gas flow.
The explosion was set off by 2 passing passenger trains, killing about 1200 people.
The only other account I can find of this explosion says it was caused by gas leak. The operators upped the pressure on instead of going to look for the cause.
The only reference I can find to this story is here[nobombs.net]
It blames human error on allowing natural gas to leak into the atmosphere. The lake of explosives was set off by 2 passing trains, killing 1200 people. The explosion was seen 60 miles away.
Yeah, except verifiable sources. Note this was in the opinion section of the Times. I haven't been able to find a shred about this event anywhere. (Though I'm still looking.)
I suppose you have never visited Rural Pennsylvania or West-Virginia. Last I checked throughout the 19th century coal-miners outnumbered coal-mine operators by 1000:1.
Sure it you limit yourself to people living in cities, people are on average well off. But when you start looking at actual population figures we have always had the filthy rich, the middle class, and the working stiffs.
Hmmm. Remote surgery. It's been done less often than man has visited the moon. It also requires months of preperation. While that's ok for elective surgery. Items like an appendectimy, stroke treatment, corinaries, all are surguries where minutes count. And that's not including other off the wall medical procedure like treating burns, gunshots, broken legs, and head injuries.
Emergency treatment is an art. It will be until they figure out how to manufacture humans to tighter specs.
Tenet... right. They just closed a bunch of hospitals in my city. Next time you are stack 40 deep at the ER, know why. They could lay off every employee, and sell off every building, and they STILL would be trying to cut costs.
As far as phlebotomists, they are not cheap. It's a skilled profession that nets more than the attending physician. Why do you think they have ONE per office? BTW, nurses are also scarce and rather highly paid.
Family practice is about the only scale in which it pays to send lab work out. Anything on a hospital-scale is generally done on an emergency basis, and last I checked they quickest flight to Bangladore is about 36 hours. With a direct flight, you might cut that down to 18 hours.
I will grant you that if my infant has an earache and a fever in the middle of the night, there is a phone number we call. But when it's an emergency, we still need to have somewhere to GO FOR TREATMENT.
Explain how someone is going to administer a needle or take a blood sample from 6000 miles away.
There are also issues of LIABILITY, and if you think people are adamant about a langauge barrier with tech support, there will be pitchforks and torches if someone dies as a result of a mis-diagnosis because the Physician didn't understand the person's explaination over the phone.
Space is still going to need it's share of medical professionals. How many shuttle and space station missions are centered around life science? Just about any that don't involve growing crystals or getting ants to sort tiny screws.
I would also like to point out that there are several HOWTO's designed to assist you set up a directory service. You have your choice of LDAP, NIS, or MySQL.
Personally, I use MySQL. It handles our web-based intranet, email accounts, NT domain accounts, and a bunch of in-house databases. Most open-source security tools have plug-ins for the major directory service systems. Between them, google, and the Gentoo and LinuxUser web forums I crafted a working system.
I do have to disclose that in the process I did do a lot of toolsmithing in TCL. Then again, this is a 200 person network serving between 1000-3000 emails a day. It's not a huge operation, but if things don't work, it can get ugly fast.
Our department migrated a VR project to Linux because there were too many un-reproducable problems under NT. Identical hardware using identical setups would behave differently under identical conditions. After migrating to Linux, development time shrank because not only did the particular hardware issue disappear (oddly enough on the same hardware) when strange things did happen we could pour through the core dumps.
When I took control of the network, I insisted we use Linux for all of our mission critical applications. It took a bit of convincing, but we went ahead and setup up our basic network facilities using Linux. About the same time the Samba group developed the means to operate a Domain controller under Linux, and we set up a brand new domain and slowly moved everyones little fief domain to the main system.
In all that time our biggest outages have been power failures, hardware failures, and good old fashion human error. I can't say any of our mission critical boxes have been down for more than 4 or 5 hours at a time over the course of 6 years. Major events are about 6 months apart.
I've had 4 intrusions to our servers. One was a cracker who rooted a DNS server back in 1999. One was a Linux worm that snuck onto our email server 2002. The remaining 2 are to a Win2K server that runs a MSSql database. One time someone busted through a share and filled the hard drive with French-Language DIVX movies. They other was one of those nasty worms that infects through the RPC port.
For hosting a million hit/day website on our network for a.edu that's not doing bad.
Um, last I checked at the end of the day you still had to know what the hell you were doing, regardless of the interface.
A GUI can't design a network topology. A wizard can't devise a security policy. A paperclip can't design a firewall that works for your particular setup. Can they candy-coat the configuration process? Sure. But if you don't know the concepts and limitations of GRE versus IPSEC while working on a network with at NAT firewall across a hostile network that blocks most of the VPN ports you are shit out of luck.
Yes, the Linux interface isn't pretty. But it gets the job done.
I would like to point out that Unix way, text files and command lines, while more difficult to learn is far superior in repeatability.
I've been a network engineer for 5 years, and a hard-core computer junkie since I was 7. Every time Microsoft comes up with a new GUI I have to play hide-and-go-seek to find the one dialog box that contains the checkmark I want to pick. That infuriates me, and makes trying to document procedures all but impossible. In unix I simply tell them to go into this file end edit this line. Even better, I can usually write a script to do it for them.
Microsoft would do us all a favor if on the next version of their OS they go back to good old fashioned INI files. Having to break out a registry editor tool every time I discover they forgot to write in a hook for a setting I need is ifuriating.
Oh, Microsoft gets a lot of advertising that money can't buy. The same sort of adverstising that someone who habitually rips people off at the used car lot gets. Everyone who has done business with them will continue to bad mouth them and anyone associated with them for as long as they draw breath.
What, are you trying to compare the Goatse boy with Linux zealots? I'm pretty sure Goatse boy would be quite offended as being branded a pain in the ass.
Hey, if I'm too good at spelling they'll think I'm one of those educated aristocratic types. Didn't you study the French Revolution? The intellectuals were up against the wall right after the nobility.
Einstien was so disturbed by the implications of quantum mechanics he exclaimed: God does not play dice!
Darwin is on record as stating that while evolution explains the mechanism by which living things develop, there is some guiding force directing it all in the background.
Adam Smith's theories on markets rely on an unseen hand holding everthing together.
Is there and afterlife? There may or may not be, who knows. Does it make me feel better to think there is: yes. Can I know what it will be like? No more than you could explain furnature or paper to a tree.
Well if you can't compete against that while living, have you considered the tax advantages of being dead?
The overall jist that I've gotten from corporations is that as a living being I'm either a consumer of their good or service, or a hinderance to their existance.
Strangely, I believe Louis the XVI and Czar Nicholas II held very similar views.
I asked my mom after the stock market crash of 1986, where does the money go when the stock market tanks?
That innocent question in my 12 year old mind triggered a life of realizing that we live in a world of bubble-gum cards. Things have no value save what someone is willing to spend.
In a pure sense, money in an economy comes from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. They print currency, and pull currency from circulation. But that's only half the equation. What makes a dollar worth, well, a dollar is what someone is willing to exchange for it. People exchange labor for dollars, then exchange dollars for goods.
So, money comes from the collective desire to exchange goods and services. In a healthy economy there is an equal exchange. What businesses have been trying to do is exploit in imbalance between what Americans are willing to spend on goods versus what Cambodians are willing to recieve for labor. The difference is being pocketed by corporations and those that profit from shipping lines, trucking companies, fuel companies, and so on.
It will all come to and end once Americans spending slows to a trickle and all these circuitous supply lines become unprofitable. Unfortunately, the last time this happened was in the late 20's through to the 40's, aka the Great Depression.
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The explosion itself was set off by a passing passenger train. Killing 190, injuring 700.
Correction: Killed 190, and blue crossed 700.
Sorry folks. Nothing to see but a bunch of soviet-era screw ups. The pipe technicians noticed a drop in pressure. Instead of going out and looking for the leak, they increased the gas flow.
The explosion was set off by 2 passing passenger trains, killing about 1200 people.
The only other account I can find of this explosion says it was caused by gas leak. The operators upped the pressure on instead of going to look for the cause.
It blames human error on allowing natural gas to leak into the atmosphere. The lake of explosives was set off by 2 passing trains, killing 1200 people. The explosion was seen 60 miles away.
Yeah, except verifiable sources. Note this was in the opinion section of the Times. I haven't been able to find a shred about this event anywhere. (Though I'm still looking.)
SCO pissed off most of the free world.
Their wiffle score is so low that automatic doors would stop working for them in the Bitchen Society.
Sure it you limit yourself to people living in cities, people are on average well off. But when you start looking at actual population figures we have always had the filthy rich, the middle class, and the working stiffs.
Emergency treatment is an art. It will be until they figure out how to manufacture humans to tighter specs.
Tenet... right. They just closed a bunch of hospitals in my city. Next time you are stack 40 deep at the ER, know why. They could lay off every employee, and sell off every building, and they STILL would be trying to cut costs.
As far as phlebotomists, they are not cheap. It's a skilled profession that nets more than the attending physician. Why do you think they have ONE per office? BTW, nurses are also scarce and rather highly paid.
Family practice is about the only scale in which it pays to send lab work out. Anything on a hospital-scale is generally done on an emergency basis, and last I checked they quickest flight to Bangladore is about 36 hours. With a direct flight, you might cut that down to 18 hours.
I will grant you that if my infant has an earache and a fever in the middle of the night, there is a phone number we call. But when it's an emergency, we still need to have somewhere to GO FOR TREATMENT.
There are also issues of LIABILITY, and if you think people are adamant about a langauge barrier with tech support, there will be pitchforks and torches if someone dies as a result of a mis-diagnosis because the Physician didn't understand the person's explaination over the phone.
Space is still going to need it's share of medical professionals. How many shuttle and space station missions are centered around life science? Just about any that don't involve growing crystals or getting ants to sort tiny screws.
Personally, I use MySQL. It handles our web-based intranet, email accounts, NT domain accounts, and a bunch of in-house databases. Most open-source security tools have plug-ins for the major directory service systems. Between them, google, and the Gentoo and LinuxUser web forums I crafted a working system.
I do have to disclose that in the process I did do a lot of toolsmithing in TCL. Then again, this is a 200 person network serving between 1000-3000 emails a day. It's not a huge operation, but if things don't work, it can get ugly fast.
When I took control of the network, I insisted we use Linux for all of our mission critical applications. It took a bit of convincing, but we went ahead and setup up our basic network facilities using Linux. About the same time the Samba group developed the means to operate a Domain controller under Linux, and we set up a brand new domain and slowly moved everyones little fief domain to the main system.
In all that time our biggest outages have been power failures, hardware failures, and good old fashion human error. I can't say any of our mission critical boxes have been down for more than 4 or 5 hours at a time over the course of 6 years. Major events are about 6 months apart.
I've had 4 intrusions to our servers. One was a cracker who rooted a DNS server back in 1999. One was a Linux worm that snuck onto our email server 2002. The remaining 2 are to a Win2K server that runs a MSSql database. One time someone busted through a share and filled the hard drive with French-Language DIVX movies. They other was one of those nasty worms that infects through the RPC port.
For hosting a million hit/day website on our network for a .edu that's not doing bad.
A GUI can't design a network topology. A wizard can't devise a security policy. A paperclip can't design a firewall that works for your particular setup. Can they candy-coat the configuration process? Sure. But if you don't know the concepts and limitations of GRE versus IPSEC while working on a network with at NAT firewall across a hostile network that blocks most of the VPN ports you are shit out of luck.
Yes, the Linux interface isn't pretty. But it gets the job done.
I've been a network engineer for 5 years, and a hard-core computer junkie since I was 7. Every time Microsoft comes up with a new GUI I have to play hide-and-go-seek to find the one dialog box that contains the checkmark I want to pick. That infuriates me, and makes trying to document procedures all but impossible. In unix I simply tell them to go into this file end edit this line. Even better, I can usually write a script to do it for them.
Microsoft would do us all a favor if on the next version of their OS they go back to good old fashioned INI files. Having to break out a registry editor tool every time I discover they forgot to write in a hook for a setting I need is ifuriating.
Oh, Microsoft gets a lot of advertising that money can't buy. The same sort of adverstising that someone who habitually rips people off at the used car lot gets. Everyone who has done business with them will continue to bad mouth them and anyone associated with them for as long as they draw breath.
What, are you trying to compare the Goatse boy with Linux zealots? I'm pretty sure Goatse boy would be quite offended as being branded a pain in the ass.
Even if I'd pick one up at a bar, I'd run everything through a compadibilty layer to make sure I didn't catch a virus.
Hey, if I'm too good at spelling they'll think I'm one of those educated aristocratic types. Didn't you study the French Revolution? The intellectuals were up against the wall right after the nobility.
Link for anyone interested:
Darwin is on record as stating that while evolution explains the mechanism by which living things develop, there is some guiding force directing it all in the background.
Adam Smith's theories on markets rely on an unseen hand holding everthing together.
Is there and afterlife? There may or may not be, who knows. Does it make me feel better to think there is: yes. Can I know what it will be like? No more than you could explain furnature or paper to a tree.
Why bother deciding. Lay them all off and let the market sort it out.
Quiet. If we show up too early with the pitch forks and the Guiloteen they might suspect something and flee.
The overall jist that I've gotten from corporations is that as a living being I'm either a consumer of their good or service, or a hinderance to their existance.
Strangely, I believe Louis the XVI and Czar Nicholas II held very similar views.
That innocent question in my 12 year old mind triggered a life of realizing that we live in a world of bubble-gum cards. Things have no value save what someone is willing to spend.
In a pure sense, money in an economy comes from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. They print currency, and pull currency from circulation. But that's only half the equation. What makes a dollar worth, well, a dollar is what someone is willing to exchange for it. People exchange labor for dollars, then exchange dollars for goods.
So, money comes from the collective desire to exchange goods and services. In a healthy economy there is an equal exchange. What businesses have been trying to do is exploit in imbalance between what Americans are willing to spend on goods versus what Cambodians are willing to recieve for labor. The difference is being pocketed by corporations and those that profit from shipping lines, trucking companies, fuel companies, and so on.
It will all come to and end once Americans spending slows to a trickle and all these circuitous supply lines become unprofitable. Unfortunately, the last time this happened was in the late 20's through to the 40's, aka the Great Depression.