It's a once-in-1000-years event, which in engineering is a rather acceptable risk to take.
Um... I used to work in a civil engineering office (before I moved to Mozambique, Africa) and I can absolutely tell you that a "once-in-1000-years event" is NOT an acceptable risk to take, especially with something so monumentally important as a nuclear power plant. We even had terms surprisingly similar to the one you used. The 50-year event, the 100-year event, the 500-year event, and the 1000-year event. ALL of these events were designed for. We used to joke that if Phoenix, Arizona (where I worked) ever got hit with a tsunami all the buildings may be wiped out but our bridges would still be there!
I'm guessing you've already read the rest of the comments and have already figured out how wrong you are but in case you haven't and you're waiting for the email notification to tell you someone replied to your rediculous ignorance...
The kids posted that their teacher was a pedophile/rapist. That is libelous and CLEARLY grounds for harsh punishment. These kids deserve to be expelled and much much more for the damage they can do to a teacher's career over claims like that from his students.
I'll preface this comment with the admission that your questions aren't really that wacky and your thoughts are valid. I notice though that you say
You mentioned his travel. If he travelled frequently, always to locations that are considered hotbeds of terrorism, at times that were suspiciously coincidental with some known terrorists, also visiting those locations, that's a pretty good indicator to probe further.
In my opinion (and I would guess it is shared by many/.ers) I seriously doubt the validity of any claims of "hotbeds of terrorism" that the FBI would be watching (meaning in the USA, not in Iran/Israel/Afghanistan/etc.). IF these hotbeds existed and there were all these "known terrorists" about we'd honestly have SO many more terrorist attacks in the USA than we have. Someone linked to a reddit post above that may or may not be posted by this guy about how EASY it would be to bomb a mall. If you really wanted to be a terrorist it's DAMN simple to be one in the USA. Any mildly competent terrorist would have a stupidly easy time of making a bomb, walking into a busy shopping mall/post office/airline security line/ANY GATHERING OF PEOPLE and set the stupid thing off. The fact is this is NOT happening and so claims of "terrorism hotbeds" are highly suspect. This is why so many people here doubt the validity of the FBI's reasons for tracking this guy.
the LSE put the highly-publicised December outage of the system - which already runs on its Turquoise anonymous trading venue - down to “human error”. It declined to give more details.
They started off with the "suspicious circumstances" line but police glanced at it, smirked and said "You guys screwed up."
Why TFA even talks about Linux is, as most posters have pointed out, a mystery. In Leo King's bio (the author of TFA) it says he studied Spanish and French in college. I'm gonna go with the "don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" approach and just assume that this Spanish/French speaking "journalist" has no idea what he's talking about and just threw as many tech words into his article as possible (especially the headline) to troll people into reading. Heck, he got his article on/. so it looks like it worked.
I ran a small IT department for a mid size company once and had proudly written on my office wall "To err is human. To blame it on a computer, even more so."
Not just in japan. I submitted a story about Malaysia rolling this out over a year and a half ago. Heck, In 2007 Wells Fargo started testing a pay-by-phone in the USA. This has been happening in Asia for a long time and coming in the USA for a long time.
I had a friend whose professor allowed this too. He said pretty much what yours did, that "You can put whatever you want on it, front or back." My friend was in an advanced logic class so he brought an empty 8-12x11" sheet of paper and a postgrad philosophy major who stood on the piece of paper and gave my friend all the answers. Because it was a logic class the professor allowed it. A professor who can admit that he's been outsmarted by a student is a pretty good teacher if you ask me.
I absolutely agree (and acknowledged in my previous post) that there are abuses in the christian church, including the christian church in Africa. The ones you linked to are great examples. None of them, however, are the kind of abuse that the TFA is about and that is my point. It is generally not a widespread problem (in Africa at least) for someone to leave the christian church or be critical of it. People do it often and there are no repercussions, ESPECIALLY government ones, despite prominent government leaders claiming to be christians. There are innumerable other problems in the African christian church but this does not tend to be one of them. It seems islam is unique in this issue. That's all I was trying to say.
Apparently you're also too lazy to educate yourself on Christianity in Africa as well. I live in Mozambique, have lived in Botswana, Angola, Namibia and South Africa and traveled extensively to all of their neighbors. I can tell you that nowhere in (at least southern and east) Africa is there Christian oppression like this. There are many many people who are critical of Christianity in all of those southern African countries and there are no consequences like this in the least. Sure all of these countries have their problems but nothing in this vein.
Honestly, the only time you'll run into religious oppression like this is from muslim communities. Mozambique has a large muslim population (especially the north of the country) and there are many people who are oppressed because of their decisions to leave islam there.
I think islam has specific tendencies that lead to specific abuses. I think christianity has specific tendencies that lead to specific abuses. They often overlap but in this area they don't. At the core of each religion, neither promotes these tendencies or abuses. Yet because people get corrupt and are power-hungry you get wild derivations from central ideas in a religion. For example, for some reason, christian leaders who get large followings, often end up taking advantage financially of their followers who come looking for a blessing of some kind (healing, personal financial blessing, etc.) and I've never seen that in islam. Islam, by contrast, when embraced at a government level tends to overbear followers and suppress voluntary belief or non-belief. Neither religion teaches these things in their basics yet men (usually not women) who end up in religious leadership often abuse those they lead.
Ok... what the heck is an endangered lake? Aren't all lakes different and therefore "the last just like it", therefore endangered? If there's only one left of any species of animal that animal would be endangered, so wouldn't you say that every lake is endangered simply because it's the last and only of it's kind? Am I missing something?
That's exactly the point of the fee. If there wasn't a fee the resources wouldn't be there.
Cabo Verde is TINY (1500 sq miles make up the entire country) and is relatively easy to offer fire services to.
Angola offers firefighting in Luanda and, because of the intense corruption in Angola, (rated in the absolute bottom rank by Transparency International) it would almost certainly not be "free". Having lived there I can say no one would expect a firefighter to show up at your flaming house and put it out for free.
Complain all you want about the USA but don't hold up developing countries as some sort of utopias that are getting it all right.
mmmkay... I live in one (3rd world African country). Mozambique does NOT offer free fire protection to people in the boonies like this guy. I've actually lived in 3 "3rd world African countries" in the past 2 years (Botswana, Angola and Mozambique) and NONE of them offer free fire protection to people outside main cities. Botswana doesn't even offer it to their 3rd largest city/village (Maun, where I lived). It was a bunch of private citizens (I was one of them) that did it on a volunteer basis. I can't speak with complete authority on most African's opinions though I think I can speculate that most sub-Saharan Africans would be pretty happy if someone showed up to fight a fire in their home even if they lived in the capitol of their country.
I agree with you and think this isn't that big of a deal.
I've tried to look into the details of this and this is what I've come up with.
A woman named "Romano" is suing Steelcase Inc for some kind of personal injury and is seeking damages to pay her for "loss of enjoyment of life". The judge granted Steelcase Inc the ability to look into Romano's personal files to show that she's not telling the truth in her claims of injury "especially her claims for loss of enjoyment of life". Here's the court order.
The present application was brought on by Order to Show Cause. The Court has reviewed the submissions both in favor of and in opposition to the relief sought, as well as the applicable federal statutory law, specifically the Stored [*2]Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. 2701 et seq., which prohibits an entity, such as Facebook and MySpace from disclosing such information without the consent of the owner of the account (see, 18 U.S.C. 2702(b)(3); Flagg v City of Detroit, 252 FRD 352 [ED Mich 2008]).
In the "Stored Communications Act 18 U.S.C section 2701 subsection (a) article (1) basically says you can't go snooping around in other people's facebook/myspace/emails but subsection (c) article (3) says section 2703 shows some exceptions.
Here's 2701.
Hop over to section 2703 and in subsection (b) article (1) subsection (B) subsection (ii) says you can get a court order as long as you follow article 2703 subsection (d) which give the rules for a court order. Basically if the plaintiff “specific and articulable facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the contents of a wire or electronic communication, or the records or other information sought, are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation” then they can go for it.
Now the only thing that I can see that can derail this is if this isn’t a criminal investigation. Otherwise this isn’t a revolutionary ruling and it’s completely within the bounds of the letter of the law. Here's 2703.
If you’re going to sue someone for personal injury don’t post things online that contradict what you’re claiming in court. Not that hard to figure that out.
I RTFA too and I think they are actually doing something different. It looks like they consider closing off the marine area to fishing a conservation effort in and of itself and that they are protecting the wellbeing of the planet by doing so.
Over the past two years, President Tong has brought together 16 Pacific Ocean nations to develop the initiative, which seeks to maintain ocean health by improving management of fisheries, protecting and conserving biodiversity, furthering scientific understanding of the marine ecosystem, and reducing the negative impacts of human activities.
Whether you agree that closing this fishing area is good for the planet or not it looks like they are doing this because they want to do their part in keeping earth healthy and they consider this to be it, not to generate awareness or bring in tourists.
I appreciate your semi-defense and benefit of the doubt as to what I do. I'm not going to feel bad for what I do just because some anonymous internet troll doesn't like the idea of a missionary but I figured I'd go ahead and give a brief overview of what I do here.
I live in Maputo, the capitol of Mozambique. It's at the extreme south of the country and it's a big country. The roads here are so bad up to the north that it takes days to travel from anything more than 500 kilometers away from the capitol. Because the health care system here is nationalized, there is only one place to receive cancer treatment in the country, the Maputo Central Hospital. The cost of travel to Maputo from the northern areas of Mozambique is very expensive to the average Mozambican. All of this adds up to people who have very advanced cases of cancer (i.e volleyball size tumors growing out of their eyes, knees, chest, etc) who travel the 5 or more days of travel alone and arrive in a city hospital that resembles exactly what the stereotypical westerner thinks of African hospitals (standing filthy water in the single toilet bathroom that serves 50-75 men, women and children, horrendously dirty bed sheets, sweltering in the summer, freezing in the winter, and on and on).
I simply go and visit those who have no one to visit them. There are people who simply live in the hospital for years... waiting to die alone. I visit them, ask them to tell me their story, tell them mine and try to be the friend or family member that they don't have in these last, very uncomfortable moments of their lives. I offer a cool cup of water to the man who may have only a few hours to live and simply wants a cold drink to feel a bit more comfortable. I offer a smile to someone who sees the scowl of uncaring nurses, doctors and hospital staff all day every day. I offer love and hope to people who left those two concepts in shattered dreams a long time ago.
A few weeks ago I held a 12 year-old boy as he died. When he arrived at the hospital he had a marble sized tumor under his right eye. Because the hospital ran out of chemo his tumor grew to stretch his face and eventually kill him. But he didn't die from the cancer... no... he died because the tumor (that started at his eye) grew so large it cut off his airway. He suffocated. I was privileged to hold him close as he died and whisper love and hope to a boy who had none. Maybe you don't share my faith, maybe you think that his suffering is meaningless, maybe you would rather I not be a "missionary". That's fine. I don't make my life decisions based on what you think. For now, I put more weight in the smile of Tomé, the little boy who lives in the hospital, calls me "Uncle" and has lived without a father for so long all he wants is me to hug him and help him feel like he's worth somebodies time. Yeah, I talk about my faith. No, I don't shove it down anyone's throats. Yes I think I'm spending my time doing something worthwhile. If you disagree... I'd encourage you to come help and see if you still think I'm some sort of evil influence on the world. I am absolutely promoting religious tenets. Love one another. I wish more people promoted it.
Wow... thanks for posting that. I had no idea that region locking existed in SC2 before you posted that. I live in Mozambique, Africa as a missionary and wanted to buy it and play with my 3 brothers who live in the States. Looks like I won't be wasting my money on THAT.
I think you underestimate how many houses you're talking about clearing. These aren't little villages of 100 houses. There are 28,000,000 people in Afghanistan, Kabul, the capitol has only 10% of that. Can you fathom how many houses you have to clear to root out all the bad guys? While you are searching impossibly tight clusters of houses the "bad guys" just go around you to the houses you already searched. Or do you have 15 million troops to guard all the houses that you already searched? It's just ridiculous to think you can do that. Afghanistan is huge and has a lot of people. Your "tiles of victory" would have to be negligibly small in light of how many people and provinces are there. Your tactic would maybe work in Rhode Island but there are still 1 million people there and that's A LOT OF PEOPLE!
You've played Star Craft and think that tactics that you used there apply to real war and controlling an entire country? You're pathetically naive or, in your own words, a stupid cunt.
You know, I was going to lament the waste that it seems it will be to pump the relief well and seal off this oil well because of the vastness of the reserve and how much oil and natural gas they could get from it since they can collect it now with the cap on it.
Before I did that though, I did a little digging to find out how many other projects BP has in the Gulf of Mexico just to see if maybe they have a high percentage rate of success and this is just one of hundreds or something,
It turns out BP has only 9 (admittedly huge) projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Source (count the number of projects in the ride hand column)
I had to find that in the way back machine because BP took down the page listing their Gulf of Mexico projects. They even still link to it (again, look at the column on the right "Gulf of Mexico Facilities) but they broke the link. It's funny, when I peruse that page (via the way back machine) BP brags about their "new and untested" tech that they use to go to "unprecedented depths". It looks like their a little ashamed of it now.
Anyway, after seeing that they only have 9 facilities in the Gulf maybe this well is better sealed off. I went looking for a reason to trust BP with reopening this well and getting the oil and gas they went there for but a 1 in 9 failure rate is not impressive. Seal that sucker off.
I'd love to see a Tech version of this. I may be completely ignorant and it may already exist but it seems like, since we now know the science of how to see magnetic fields, we could develop an artificial "eye" so to speak, that could do this. It would be neat to look at power lines or just browse the city and see the magnetic fields cast off by different infrastructure.
Thanks for the good explanation. That makes a lot more sense to me. That is cool now that it's been explained.
...search for, among other things, sings of life.
I too am excited about finding sings of life. It's too bad this technology wasn't around back before Elvis left. We might have been able to see the sings.
Ok, IANAA (*not an astronomer) but what's amazing about the planet on one side of the star and then the other several years later? Don't most planets orbit stars at varying rates ("years" to us earthlings)? I'm confused by the fact that it's amazing for a large planet to be orbiting its star.
The journals literally end mid-sentence with the author describing how it's "suddenly warm", after having lost animals, the city, his family and finally his life, in a process taking years.
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It's a once-in-1000-years event, which in engineering is a rather acceptable risk to take.
Um... I used to work in a civil engineering office (before I moved to Mozambique, Africa) and I can absolutely tell you that a "once-in-1000-years event" is NOT an acceptable risk to take, especially with something so monumentally important as a nuclear power plant. We even had terms surprisingly similar to the one you used. The 50-year event, the 100-year event, the 500-year event, and the 1000-year event. ALL of these events were designed for. We used to joke that if Phoenix, Arizona (where I worked) ever got hit with a tsunami all the buildings may be wiped out but our bridges would still be there!
The kids posted that their teacher was a pedophile/rapist. That is libelous and CLEARLY grounds for harsh punishment. These kids deserve to be expelled and much much more for the damage they can do to a teacher's career over claims like that from his students.
You mentioned his travel. If he travelled frequently, always to locations that are considered hotbeds of terrorism, at times that were suspiciously coincidental with some known terrorists, also visiting those locations, that's a pretty good indicator to probe further.
In my opinion (and I would guess it is shared by many /.ers) I seriously doubt the validity of any claims of "hotbeds of terrorism" that the FBI would be watching (meaning in the USA, not in Iran/Israel/Afghanistan/etc.). IF these hotbeds existed and there were all these "known terrorists" about we'd honestly have SO many more terrorist attacks in the USA than we have. Someone linked to a reddit post above that may or may not be posted by this guy about how EASY it would be to bomb a mall. If you really wanted to be a terrorist it's DAMN simple to be one in the USA. Any mildly competent terrorist would have a stupidly easy time of making a bomb, walking into a busy shopping mall/post office/airline security line/ANY GATHERING OF PEOPLE and set the stupid thing off. The fact is this is NOT happening and so claims of "terrorism hotbeds" are highly suspect. This is why so many people here doubt the validity of the FBI's reasons for tracking this guy.
the LSE put the highly-publicised December outage of the system - which already runs on its Turquoise anonymous trading venue - down to “human error”. It declined to give more details.
They started off with the "suspicious circumstances" line but police glanced at it, smirked and said "You guys screwed up."
Why TFA even talks about Linux is, as most posters have pointed out, a mystery. In Leo King's bio (the author of TFA) it says he studied Spanish and French in college. I'm gonna go with the "don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" approach and just assume that this Spanish/French speaking "journalist" has no idea what he's talking about and just threw as many tech words into his article as possible (especially the headline) to troll people into reading. Heck, he got his article on /. so it looks like it worked.
I ran a small IT department for a mid size company once and had proudly written on my office wall "To err is human. To blame it on a computer, even more so."
What is "The Hill"? Can someone link to the source or are we just to take Hugh Pickens on faith that this actually happened?
Not just in japan. I submitted a story about Malaysia rolling this out over a year and a half ago. Heck, In 2007 Wells Fargo started testing a pay-by-phone in the USA. This has been happening in Asia for a long time and coming in the USA for a long time.
I had a friend whose professor allowed this too. He said pretty much what yours did, that "You can put whatever you want on it, front or back." My friend was in an advanced logic class so he brought an empty 8-12x11" sheet of paper and a postgrad philosophy major who stood on the piece of paper and gave my friend all the answers. Because it was a logic class the professor allowed it. A professor who can admit that he's been outsmarted by a student is a pretty good teacher if you ask me.
I absolutely agree (and acknowledged in my previous post) that there are abuses in the christian church, including the christian church in Africa. The ones you linked to are great examples. None of them, however, are the kind of abuse that the TFA is about and that is my point. It is generally not a widespread problem (in Africa at least) for someone to leave the christian church or be critical of it. People do it often and there are no repercussions, ESPECIALLY government ones, despite prominent government leaders claiming to be christians. There are innumerable other problems in the African christian church but this does not tend to be one of them. It seems islam is unique in this issue. That's all I was trying to say.
I am Spartacus!
...other people need to knock that off
Apparently you're also too lazy to educate yourself on Christianity in Africa as well. I live in Mozambique, have lived in Botswana, Angola, Namibia and South Africa and traveled extensively to all of their neighbors. I can tell you that nowhere in (at least southern and east) Africa is there Christian oppression like this. There are many many people who are critical of Christianity in all of those southern African countries and there are no consequences like this in the least. Sure all of these countries have their problems but nothing in this vein.
Honestly, the only time you'll run into religious oppression like this is from muslim communities. Mozambique has a large muslim population (especially the north of the country) and there are many people who are oppressed because of their decisions to leave islam there.
I think islam has specific tendencies that lead to specific abuses. I think christianity has specific tendencies that lead to specific abuses. They often overlap but in this area they don't. At the core of each religion, neither promotes these tendencies or abuses. Yet because people get corrupt and are power-hungry you get wild derivations from central ideas in a religion. For example, for some reason, christian leaders who get large followings, often end up taking advantage financially of their followers who come looking for a blessing of some kind (healing, personal financial blessing, etc.) and I've never seen that in islam. Islam, by contrast, when embraced at a government level tends to overbear followers and suppress voluntary belief or non-belief. Neither religion teaches these things in their basics yet men (usually not women) who end up in religious leadership often abuse those they lead.
1 Corinthians 6:7
Lawsuits among Christians are a no-no in the Bible.
Ok... what the heck is an endangered lake? Aren't all lakes different and therefore "the last just like it", therefore endangered? If there's only one left of any species of animal that animal would be endangered, so wouldn't you say that every lake is endangered simply because it's the last and only of it's kind? Am I missing something?
Cabo Verde is TINY (1500 sq miles make up the entire country) and is relatively easy to offer fire services to.
Angola offers firefighting in Luanda and, because of the intense corruption in Angola, (rated in the absolute bottom rank by Transparency International) it would almost certainly not be "free". Having lived there I can say no one would expect a firefighter to show up at your flaming house and put it out for free.
Complain all you want about the USA but don't hold up developing countries as some sort of utopias that are getting it all right.
mmmkay... I live in one (3rd world African country). Mozambique does NOT offer free fire protection to people in the boonies like this guy. I've actually lived in 3 "3rd world African countries" in the past 2 years (Botswana, Angola and Mozambique) and NONE of them offer free fire protection to people outside main cities. Botswana doesn't even offer it to their 3rd largest city/village (Maun, where I lived). It was a bunch of private citizens (I was one of them) that did it on a volunteer basis. I can't speak with complete authority on most African's opinions though I think I can speculate that most sub-Saharan Africans would be pretty happy if someone showed up to fight a fire in their home even if they lived in the capitol of their country.
I've tried to look into the details of this and this is what I've come up with.
A woman named "Romano" is suing Steelcase Inc for some kind of personal injury and is seeking damages to pay her for "loss of enjoyment of life". The judge granted Steelcase Inc the ability to look into Romano's personal files to show that she's not telling the truth in her claims of injury "especially her claims for loss of enjoyment of life". Here's the court order.
The present application was brought on by Order to Show Cause. The Court has reviewed the submissions both in favor of and in opposition to the relief sought, as well as the applicable federal statutory law, specifically the Stored [*2]Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. 2701 et seq., which prohibits an entity, such as Facebook and MySpace from disclosing such information without the consent of the owner of the account (see, 18 U.S.C. 2702(b)(3); Flagg v City of Detroit, 252 FRD 352 [ED Mich 2008]).
In the "Stored Communications Act 18 U.S.C section 2701 subsection (a) article (1) basically says you can't go snooping around in other people's facebook/myspace/emails but subsection (c) article (3) says section 2703 shows some exceptions. Here's 2701.
Hop over to section 2703 and in subsection (b) article (1) subsection (B) subsection (ii) says you can get a court order as long as you follow article 2703 subsection (d) which give the rules for a court order. Basically if the plaintiff “specific and articulable facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the contents of a wire or electronic communication, or the records or other information sought, are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation” then they can go for it.
Now the only thing that I can see that can derail this is if this isn’t a criminal investigation. Otherwise this isn’t a revolutionary ruling and it’s completely within the bounds of the letter of the law.
Here's 2703.
If you’re going to sue someone for personal injury don’t post things online that contradict what you’re claiming in court. Not that hard to figure that out.
Over the past two years, President Tong has brought together 16 Pacific Ocean nations to develop the initiative, which seeks to maintain ocean health by improving management of fisheries, protecting and conserving biodiversity, furthering scientific understanding of the marine ecosystem, and reducing the negative impacts of human activities.
Whether you agree that closing this fishing area is good for the planet or not it looks like they are doing this because they want to do their part in keeping earth healthy and they consider this to be it, not to generate awareness or bring in tourists.
I live in Maputo, the capitol of Mozambique. It's at the extreme south of the country and it's a big country. The roads here are so bad up to the north that it takes days to travel from anything more than 500 kilometers away from the capitol. Because the health care system here is nationalized, there is only one place to receive cancer treatment in the country, the Maputo Central Hospital. The cost of travel to Maputo from the northern areas of Mozambique is very expensive to the average Mozambican. All of this adds up to people who have very advanced cases of cancer (i.e volleyball size tumors growing out of their eyes, knees, chest, etc) who travel the 5 or more days of travel alone and arrive in a city hospital that resembles exactly what the stereotypical westerner thinks of African hospitals (standing filthy water in the single toilet bathroom that serves 50-75 men, women and children, horrendously dirty bed sheets, sweltering in the summer, freezing in the winter, and on and on).
I simply go and visit those who have no one to visit them. There are people who simply live in the hospital for years... waiting to die alone. I visit them, ask them to tell me their story, tell them mine and try to be the friend or family member that they don't have in these last, very uncomfortable moments of their lives. I offer a cool cup of water to the man who may have only a few hours to live and simply wants a cold drink to feel a bit more comfortable. I offer a smile to someone who sees the scowl of uncaring nurses, doctors and hospital staff all day every day. I offer love and hope to people who left those two concepts in shattered dreams a long time ago.
A few weeks ago I held a 12 year-old boy as he died. When he arrived at the hospital he had a marble sized tumor under his right eye. Because the hospital ran out of chemo his tumor grew to stretch his face and eventually kill him. But he didn't die from the cancer... no... he died because the tumor (that started at his eye) grew so large it cut off his airway. He suffocated. I was privileged to hold him close as he died and whisper love and hope to a boy who had none. Maybe you don't share my faith, maybe you think that his suffering is meaningless, maybe you would rather I not be a "missionary". That's fine. I don't make my life decisions based on what you think. For now, I put more weight in the smile of Tomé, the little boy who lives in the hospital, calls me "Uncle" and has lived without a father for so long all he wants is me to hug him and help him feel like he's worth somebodies time. Yeah, I talk about my faith. No, I don't shove it down anyone's throats. Yes I think I'm spending my time doing something worthwhile. If you disagree... I'd encourage you to come help and see if you still think I'm some sort of evil influence on the world. I am absolutely promoting religious tenets. Love one another. I wish more people promoted it.
Wow... thanks for posting that. I had no idea that region locking existed in SC2 before you posted that. I live in Mozambique, Africa as a missionary and wanted to buy it and play with my 3 brothers who live in the States. Looks like I won't be wasting my money on THAT.
I think you underestimate how many houses you're talking about clearing. These aren't little villages of 100 houses. There are 28,000,000 people in Afghanistan, Kabul, the capitol has only 10% of that. Can you fathom how many houses you have to clear to root out all the bad guys? While you are searching impossibly tight clusters of houses the "bad guys" just go around you to the houses you already searched. Or do you have 15 million troops to guard all the houses that you already searched? It's just ridiculous to think you can do that. Afghanistan is huge and has a lot of people. Your "tiles of victory" would have to be negligibly small in light of how many people and provinces are there. Your tactic would maybe work in Rhode Island but there are still 1 million people there and that's A LOT OF PEOPLE!
You've played Star Craft and think that tactics that you used there apply to real war and controlling an entire country? You're pathetically naive or, in your own words, a stupid cunt.
Before I did that though, I did a little digging to find out how many other projects BP has in the Gulf of Mexico just to see if maybe they have a high percentage rate of success and this is just one of hundreds or something,
It turns out BP has only 9 (admittedly huge) projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Source
(count the number of projects in the ride hand column)
I had to find that in the way back machine because BP took down the page listing their Gulf of Mexico projects. They even still link
to it (again, look at the column on the right "Gulf of Mexico Facilities) but they broke the link. It's funny, when I peruse that page (via the way back machine) BP brags about their "new and untested" tech that they use to go to "unprecedented depths". It looks like their a little ashamed of it now.
Anyway, after seeing that they only have 9 facilities in the Gulf maybe this well is better sealed off. I went looking for a reason to trust BP with reopening this well and getting the oil and gas they went there for but a 1 in 9 failure rate is not impressive. Seal that sucker off.
I'd love to see a Tech version of this. I may be completely ignorant and it may already exist but it seems like, since we now know the science of how to see magnetic fields, we could develop an artificial "eye" so to speak, that could do this. It would be neat to look at power lines or just browse the city and see the magnetic fields cast off by different infrastructure.
...search for, among other things, sings of life.
I too am excited about finding sings of life. It's too bad this technology wasn't around back before Elvis left. We might have been able to see the sings.
Ok, IANAA (*not an astronomer) but what's amazing about the planet on one side of the star and then the other several years later? Don't most planets orbit stars at varying rates ("years" to us earthlings)? I'm confused by the fact that it's amazing for a large planet to be orbiting its star.
The journals literally end mid-sentence with the author describing how it's "suddenly warm", after having lost animals, the city, his family and finally his life, in a process taking years.
Sheesh how slow did this guy write?