The Chinese have to build it within 6 years or they lose the concession. The route they are using is the same as the original route that the US was going to use way back when, before the French decided they had lost too many workers to malaria in Panama and the US started funding Panamanian rebels.
Considering the amount of sulfur that is being generated by oil production these days (http://folc.ca/sulphur_storage/waste_sulphur.htm) this could be a very good thing....but of course, ultimately, the sulfur needs to go somewhere.
Agreed. In some ways you can see this happening today - what if 30 years ago a presidential candidate admitted pot smoking? What if a presidential candidate today claimed NEVER to have done it? Would you believe them?
Same is true here. The enlightened employers will get the energetic, creative young people who were willing to get out there and enjoy their lives, not the ones who wear tin-foil hats and button up their sweaters before going out for the day.
Mod parent up. While I completely agree that the punishment here is beyond stupid, this is no more a science experiment than many of the stunts that we all pulled as teenagers. Does it teach something about chemistry? Sure, but this is more a case of "hey, I heard that when you put this, this and this in a bottle and screw the cap on, you better run like hell!"
Trip to the principal's office and maybe a couple days of suspension, or, a more creative principal would require the student to write a 5 page essay on the chemistry involved in what she did.
Yeah, this definitely feels like a case of "When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
WiFi meshes like crap. Your first responders will spend valuable time just trying to get their devices to work. While your volunteer situation is well understood, and your budget is probably pretty low, don't ask people to depend on consumer stuff for this sort of thing. A trunk radio system (and one that is not too highly loaded) or something similar is highly recommended.
Where I come from, the word "trickle" is defined: trickle (trkl) v. trickled, trickling, trickles v.intr. 1. To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream. 2. To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in. v.tr. To cause to trickle. n. 1. The act or condition of trickling. 2. A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently.
So, yeah, what the wealthy are getting in waves, the rest of the economy is getting in drops. Boy, that'll stimulate things!
You'll be comforted to know that a good deal of the worlds oil production in is done by thousands people who are contracted to work 12 hour days, 6.5 days per week, for 4 to 6 weeks per hitch. This is usually after killer jet lag, since the majority of them fly 8-20 hours to get to work. I know, I did it for a couple of years.
All that explosive, environmentally dangerous stuff managed by people who are impaired due to continuous overtime and lack of sleep? How could that be a problem?
I agree, corruption and greed (internal and external) has been one of Africa's biggest problems. I'm sure that folks who are into anthropology and ethics have a great deal to study when they think about many African countries. Who's to blame? I'm sure there have been more than a few doctoral thesis written on that subject.
The idea that external influences should be taken away is a little like the the people in the US demanding that some national parks be returned to their natural state: what they don't seem to comprehend is that the "natural state" for these areas included regular burning of brush and culling of animal herds by Native Americans. External influences will always be a part of Africa.
I've lived, worked and even occasionally traveled there for fun. It seems like everyplace you go, any efforts, by anyone, to move the civilization forward are stymied by a history of internal conflict and corruption. Did European influence help or hurt? Impossible to tell, but it is what it is. In Angola, for example, the nationals decry (and so they should) the terrible oppression of Portuguese - it was a terrible time for them and Portugal should be ashamed of how they treated fellow human beings. But, but, Angolans will also tell you that the day the Portuguese left the infrastructure started to crumble, and hasn't been the same since. The capital city of Luanda looks almost frozen in time (if you don't look too closely at the crumbling brickwork and potholes in the street).
Should the invasion of Africa by Europeans never have happened? Perhaps, but you can't change that now. Saying that external influences are raping the continent is just stupid - the smart countries are taking advantage of their natural resources as they have a right to do. In the case of oil, without exception the national oil company of that country is (actually has to be) a partner in the production, and tax rates are at least 50% on everything that is taken out of the countries. I fail to see how that is disadvantaging anyone.
I have an Acer Iconia Tab (It was side by side with the Transformer at Best Buy, but the $100 gift card sold me on the Acer). Same processor as the Transformer. I love it - lots of ports, fast, and as another poster said, apps from my android phone automagically appear on the Iconia.
I find it interesting talking to people about it. Their first words are, "Oh, you have an iPad?" Then the description of Android begins. Generally I get two responses: they either glaze over, or they say, "So it's an iPad knock off, then?".
The other night, coming back from a bar carrying my Acer, I slipped stepping on a friends boat. I went down, one foot in the water, the other on my knee (torn ligaments and a cast now). Where was the Iconia? Sometime during my fall, I managed to carefully lay it on the deck. I don't even remember doing it. Body broken, tablet fine. Even subconsciously I love this tablet.
I had a minor epiphany the other day when an iPhone user was looking over my shoulder at my Android tablet. First words: "You probably can't get very many apps for it, can you?". Holy shit - Apple is pulling a Microsoft on the market. They've so fully saturated the market's hearts and minds that people see non-Apple portable devices as "less than".
While I agree with everything in TFA, I think just doing a little more advertising is probably not going to do it.
The scientist Ben Franklin (No, it wasn't Albert Einstein) said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
We had 8 years of a science-and-fact-loving conservative government, after which we had a doubled national debt, two wars, an economic crisis second only to the Great Depression, the demonizing of evolution, and oh yeah, a new attitude in the country that climate change was questionable and that it was probably the scientists that were to blame. Please excuse me if I remain skeptical that a single former representative is going to change much.
There is a reason why Mr. Inglis is a "former" Representative - his commie ideas about actually believing the scientists were clearly not well received by his former constituency.
Your point is taken, but at the risk of taking an analogy too far, let's look at the PE's web of responsibility: The PE signs off the design. He might not have been 100% the creator of the design (it was most likely a design team), but he is the one who takes the ultimate responsibility and risks liability issues if he doesn't examine every detail and is confident the design will work and will be safe. He has numerous tools available to him to ensure that design is good, and he is responsible for ensuring those tools are up to the task. He also specs the steel for the girders, the concrete for the bridge and the depth of the pilings to support the building. He might have a civil engineer or or structural engineer participate, and sign off, on design and construction of those elements. If those people don't construct to his spec, he holds them accountable, but once he signs off on the final construction, it's his neck.
I see this as empowerment and a change of status software developers. The guy who has to sign off can choose the right language, compilers, testing methodology, and whatever else might be necessary to ensure his neck stays out of the noose. Otherwise he doesn't sign off. What's more empowering than that?
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The Chinese have to build it within 6 years or they lose the concession. The route they are using is the same as the original route that the US was going to use way back when, before the French decided they had lost too many workers to malaria in Panama and the US started funding Panamanian rebels.
Considering the amount of sulfur that is being generated by oil production these days (http://folc.ca/sulphur_storage/waste_sulphur.htm) this could be a very good thing. ...but of course, ultimately, the sulfur needs to go somewhere.
It's Honey Badgers that don't give a shit.
British badgers just aren't terribly bothered.
Agreed. In some ways you can see this happening today - what if 30 years ago a presidential candidate admitted pot smoking? What if a presidential candidate today claimed NEVER to have done it? Would you believe them?
Same is true here. The enlightened employers will get the energetic, creative young people who were willing to get out there and enjoy their lives, not the ones who wear tin-foil hats and button up their sweaters before going out for the day.
Goes down but not up? I call that batting 500!
Sigh. 1999, 2001, 2010... all passed.
WHERE'S MY FREAKING HOVER CAR?????
Mod parent up. While I completely agree that the punishment here is beyond stupid, this is no more a science experiment than many of the stunts that we all pulled as teenagers. Does it teach something about chemistry? Sure, but this is more a case of "hey, I heard that when you put this, this and this in a bottle and screw the cap on, you better run like hell!"
Trip to the principal's office and maybe a couple days of suspension, or, a more creative principal would require the student to write a 5 page essay on the chemistry involved in what she did.
I've always wondered how to first guy to drink milk from a cow was able to get the second guy to do it.
Yeah, this definitely feels like a case of "When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
WiFi meshes like crap. Your first responders will spend valuable time just trying to get their devices to work. While your volunteer situation is well understood, and your budget is probably pretty low, don't ask people to depend on consumer stuff for this sort of thing. A trunk radio system (and one that is not too highly loaded) or something similar is highly recommended.
Where I come from, the word "trickle" is defined:
trickle (trkl)
v. trickled, trickling, trickles
v.intr.
1. To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream.
2. To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in.
v.tr.
To cause to trickle.
n.
1. The act or condition of trickling.
2. A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently.
So, yeah, what the wealthy are getting in waves, the rest of the economy is getting in drops. Boy, that'll stimulate things!
and I thought "Damn, that must be a pretty short program.
Dr. Mann has had this sort of thing happen to him his entire professional career. Here's one from 2002
http://it.slashdot.org/story/02/03/14/2051228/airport-security-vs-cyborg-steve-mann
Unobtainium
Methinks if you find you need a replacement rotor, finding an Autozone will be the least of your problems.
You'll be comforted to know that a good deal of the worlds oil production in is done by thousands people who are contracted to work 12 hour days, 6.5 days per week, for 4 to 6 weeks per hitch. This is usually after killer jet lag, since the majority of them fly 8-20 hours to get to work. I know, I did it for a couple of years.
All that explosive, environmentally dangerous stuff managed by people who are impaired due to continuous overtime and lack of sleep? How could that be a problem?
Yeah, but you need to use it with another buzzword. How about "meta origami"?
I agree, corruption and greed (internal and external) has been one of Africa's biggest problems. I'm sure that folks who are into anthropology and ethics have a great deal to study when they think about many African countries. Who's to blame? I'm sure there have been more than a few doctoral thesis written on that subject.
The idea that external influences should be taken away is a little like the the people in the US demanding that some national parks be returned to their natural state: what they don't seem to comprehend is that the "natural state" for these areas included regular burning of brush and culling of animal herds by Native Americans. External influences will always be a part of Africa.
Fun fact or data point: Who do you think is providing some of the most help, labor and engineering to help Africans rebuild their infrastructure? China.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/06/chinas-economic-invasion-of-africa
I've lived, worked and even occasionally traveled there for fun. It seems like everyplace you go, any efforts, by anyone, to move the civilization forward are stymied by a history of internal conflict and corruption. Did European influence help or hurt? Impossible to tell, but it is what it is. In Angola, for example, the nationals decry (and so they should) the terrible oppression of Portuguese - it was a terrible time for them and Portugal should be ashamed of how they treated fellow human beings. But, but, Angolans will also tell you that the day the Portuguese left the infrastructure started to crumble, and hasn't been the same since. The capital city of Luanda looks almost frozen in time (if you don't look too closely at the crumbling brickwork and potholes in the street).
Should the invasion of Africa by Europeans never have happened? Perhaps, but you can't change that now. Saying that external influences are raping the continent is just stupid - the smart countries are taking advantage of their natural resources as they have a right to do. In the case of oil, without exception the national oil company of that country is (actually has to be) a partner in the production, and tax rates are at least 50% on everything that is taken out of the countries. I fail to see how that is disadvantaging anyone.
"Each demonstration should begin with the phrase "Stand back if you know what's good for ya" or "Hold my beer and watch this!""
I have an Acer Iconia Tab (It was side by side with the Transformer at Best Buy, but the $100 gift card sold me on the Acer). Same processor as the Transformer. I love it - lots of ports, fast, and as another poster said, apps from my android phone automagically appear on the Iconia.
I find it interesting talking to people about it. Their first words are, "Oh, you have an iPad?" Then the description of Android begins. Generally I get two responses: they either glaze over, or they say, "So it's an iPad knock off, then?".
The other night, coming back from a bar carrying my Acer, I slipped stepping on a friends boat. I went down, one foot in the water, the other on my knee (torn ligaments and a cast now). Where was the Iconia? Sometime during my fall, I managed to carefully lay it on the deck. I don't even remember doing it. Body broken, tablet fine. Even subconsciously I love this tablet.
South of Houston. You can even stop at the space-theme Fry's on the way down.
Learn how to do a mind map. Not only is it quick, it's easier to remember when your notes are organized graphically.
I had a minor epiphany the other day when an iPhone user was looking over my shoulder at my Android tablet. First words: "You probably can't get very many apps for it, can you?". Holy shit - Apple is pulling a Microsoft on the market. They've so fully saturated the market's hearts and minds that people see non-Apple portable devices as "less than".
While I agree with everything in TFA, I think just doing a little more advertising is probably not going to do it.
The scientist Ben Franklin (No, it wasn't Albert Einstein) said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
We had 8 years of a science-and-fact-loving conservative government, after which we had a doubled national debt, two wars, an economic crisis second only to the Great Depression, the demonizing of evolution, and oh yeah, a new attitude in the country that climate change was questionable and that it was probably the scientists that were to blame. Please excuse me if I remain skeptical that a single former representative is going to change much.
There is a reason why Mr. Inglis is a "former" Representative - his commie ideas about actually believing the scientists were clearly not well received by his former constituency.
Your point is taken, but at the risk of taking an analogy too far, let's look at the PE's web of responsibility:
The PE signs off the design. He might not have been 100% the creator of the design (it was most likely a design team), but he is the one who takes the ultimate responsibility and risks liability issues if he doesn't examine every detail and is confident the design will work and will be safe. He has numerous tools available to him to ensure that design is good, and he is responsible for ensuring those tools are up to the task. He also specs the steel for the girders, the concrete for the bridge and the depth of the pilings to support the building. He might have a civil engineer or or structural engineer participate, and sign off, on design and construction of those elements. If those people don't construct to his spec, he holds them accountable, but once he signs off on the final construction, it's his neck.
I see this as empowerment and a change of status software developers. The guy who has to sign off can choose the right language, compilers, testing methodology, and whatever else might be necessary to ensure his neck stays out of the noose. Otherwise he doesn't sign off. What's more empowering than that?