Those things all "contributed", but what caused the disaster was BP's and/or Transocean's decision to ignore the plain evidence that the pressure was too high, excuse me, way, way, too high, to permit the removal of the mud.
Why is this so freeking hard to comprehend? Sheesh! Really, the only question is not what, but who? Who made this decision? Everything else you hear or read is camofud!
I knew you were being sarcastic about BP not being to blame. The thing that I see people getting wrong again and again, though is that this was NO ACCIDENT. Unless you call crashing a car that you drove, even though you knew it had no brakes, an accident. Somebody at BP (and somebody at the the drilling ship company) should end up doing a nice long stretch in prison for this deliberate and gross negligence. It'll never happen.
>> After all, it was a fault in the design of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico that really caused the problem."
A reasonable gulf spill analogy, except for one glaring fault: While the extremely high pressure of the oil deposit (the "design of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico" you refer to) certainly played a part in the explosion and spill, the entire fault is BP's for completely ignoring the mountain of evidence that the well was a bad situation, and if the mud was pulled, it was nearly certain to explode. As, surprise, surprise, it did! Why is this so hard to understand - it's no secret and the chain of cause and effect is trivially easy to grasp. Are people really that brain dead, I mean, even slashdotters?
Economics is not snake oil. The problem is that powerful interests benefit from maintaining the status quo, so they make sure that no scientists are permitted to practice economics. Read about Clifford Hugh Douglas. Eliminate fractional reserve banking. It's not that difficult.
Look, I know you guys are *nix heads, cool indeed, uh huh. However, you would think that if one is not a Windows person, one would keep one's mouth shut on a Windows thread.
Now, here is the real: SP2 is all anyone needs. The so-called patches, and that POS SP3, are nothing but MS's feeble attempt to make Vista/7 not seem so slow. Install XPSP2 on a computer. Turn off Windows update. Use it for a while. All good - it runs just fine. Now, turn on windows update. About an hour and a half or more later, when all the dookie is done being loaded, try to use your computer. WTF? Who put the molasses in my computer?! You guys should know this!
None of the so-called security issues are real. Not real in the sense that they are not exploited. Ever by anyone. MS playing a sick game is all SP3 is.
Why haven't patches been made for all the major file systems so that they have am option to run "SSD mode"? In SSD mode the file system tells the SSD which blocks to erase. What is so diff?
So, rather than admit that your comment completely missed the point, which it did, by the way, you want to throw your "weight" around. Exactly what species of authority are you? How many people have you punched in the mouth simply because they said things that hurt your feelings?
More: you make and enforce rules. Such as? What rule have you made? Can you name one? How did this rule benefit anyone? In reference to the person who was harrased by police for doing nothing illegal, where were you? Shouldn't you have been enforcing the rules against police misconduct? Or do you only enforce the rules against 16-year-old, unarmed children? What a big, brave hero you are!
No, now it gets even better. You have so completely lost your dignity, if you ever had any, that you actually think that the police have the right to confiscate another citizen's personal property. Sure, there are laws on the books permitting such evil, but that does not make the action right. Those laws were made by very evil or stupid men. Did your father abuse you much?
Self-riteous prick! You can't even read, much less think. THE MAN SAID HE WAS POLITE. Hello? Earth to dumbass... You are not "nice". You are a plaugue. You are the porter at the station loading up for Auschwitz. If you were the slightest bit nice, then you would have some empathy. But clearly you don't. You have no capability to imagine what it was like to camp in Valley Forge in the winter. If you did, then you would never in a million years have the cavalier attitude you display towards the sacrifices our forefathers made to get us the right to say, "I don't choose to consent to a search." GP is a hero. You are a turdspeck.
My vote for True American of the Month! I mean that with all my heart. You sir are a hero. If more people were like you, the country's future would be safe. Oh well...
Why do people keep trotting out this horseshit? The question is not whether or not actions have consequences! The question, try to pay attention here you drooling moron, the question is, whether the consequences are JUST! Fucking Hello???? Oh, excuse me! I shouldn't talk that way to an "adult". You smug jackass! Oh, no, wait a minute! I get it. Mature people such as you are the ones who accept injustice. Who will compromise any principle to get along. Whose petty and trivial daily activities are so important that nothing, such as taking a stand against injustace, must interfere with your golf game or parental hovering. My bad.
We are working on a telomerase activator. The lungs are made from stem cells that have to replicate many times before the lungs are fully grown. If they can do their replications with active telomerase, then, when they are ready to be transplanted they are equivalent to baby lungs in the youthfulness of the tissue. Otherwise they are, despite being unused, like the lungs of an old person.
I quit smoking years ago, but I could sure use a set. However this time I want a set that has been "augmented". Higher capacity, better throughput, the works! Just make a few mods to the DNA before you start growing them. Not enough cause rejection, though. This is so cool.
Are you retarded? They quite reliably knew that what they were about to do was going to be a catastrophe. They knew, but for some still unexplained reason, went ahead and pulled the trigger of the loaded gun pointed at their head. Sure, there is no reliable way to put the brains back in the skull, but that just means that you don't pull the trigger when you know the gun is pointed at your head, and this, they damn sure knew. Hello?
Serfdom? Yeah verily. However the key to the lock can be written down: End the practice of Fractional Reserve Banking. Now you know. Now you may escape your serfdom, if you choose to do so.
People don't go to the doctor because, at least in substatial part, because they don't want to get embroiled in the payment system. Even if you have insurance, it is such a beauracratic nightmare that people would rather take chances.
Anyone who would deny a human the right to make whatever choices he or she wants to about what goes in his or her body is a slaver. Last I recall, slavers could be executed when and where apprehended.
It's easy to huff and puff with righteous indignation at poster's not getting it re web app development. However, I can easily imagine a scenario in which users are told: Install Google Chrome v.X.X. Use it to access this site: http://xxxxx./ Do not use it for anything else. Do not update it. If my users were a captive audience, as might easily be the case, I see no reason to spend big bucks debugging 10 browsers. Just tell them what to do. Make it simple and unambiguous. Problem solved. In other words it all depends on which is the tail and which is the dog.
This is exactly how it works. I am proud to be a citizen of the state of Nevada, but as far as I am concerned, the Federal Government of the USA is responsible for the majority of evil shit that has gone down worldwide over the last 50 years.
You're right! NOBODY FUCKS WITH THE BIZ!!! What business is that, you might ask? Why none other than the heroin business grasshopper. The Taliban had almost eliminated it. You know what happens then: Bada Bing! Every time you read about one of "our" drones blowing up a house and killing members of the Taliban, think Tony Soprano in a basement icing some punk. That is exactly what it is. Aren't you proud now?
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Those things all "contributed", but what caused the disaster was BP's and/or Transocean's decision to ignore the plain evidence that the pressure was too high, excuse me, way, way, too high, to permit the removal of the mud.
Why is this so freeking hard to comprehend? Sheesh! Really, the only question is not what, but who? Who made this decision? Everything else you hear or read is camofud!
I knew you were being sarcastic about BP not being to blame. The thing that I see people getting wrong again and again, though is that this was NO ACCIDENT. Unless you call crashing a car that you drove, even though you knew it had no brakes, an accident. Somebody at BP (and somebody at the the drilling ship company) should end up doing a nice long stretch in prison for this deliberate and gross negligence. It'll never happen.
>> After all, it was a fault in the design of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico that really caused the problem."
A reasonable gulf spill analogy, except for one glaring fault: While the extremely high pressure of the oil deposit (the "design of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico" you refer to) certainly played a part in the explosion and spill, the entire fault is BP's for completely ignoring the mountain of evidence that the well was a bad situation, and if the mud was pulled, it was nearly certain to explode. As, surprise, surprise, it did! Why is this so hard to understand - it's no secret and the chain of cause and effect is trivially easy to grasp. Are people really that brain dead, I mean, even slashdotters?
Why hasn't anyone asked him WTF he was thinking about when he doomed us to be buried in nuclear waste?
Economics is not snake oil. The problem is that powerful interests benefit from maintaining the status quo, so they make sure that no scientists are permitted to practice economics. Read about Clifford Hugh Douglas. Eliminate fractional reserve banking. It's not that difficult.
Look, I know you guys are *nix heads, cool indeed, uh huh. However, you would think that if one is not a Windows person, one would keep one's mouth shut on a Windows thread.
Now, here is the real: SP2 is all anyone needs. The so-called patches, and that POS SP3, are nothing but MS's feeble attempt to make Vista/7 not seem so slow. Install XPSP2 on a computer. Turn off Windows update. Use it for a while. All good - it runs just fine. Now, turn on windows update. About an hour and a half or more later, when all the dookie is done being loaded, try to use your computer. WTF? Who put the molasses in my computer?! You guys should know this!
None of the so-called security issues are real. Not real in the sense that they are not exploited. Ever by anyone. MS playing a sick game is all SP3 is.
Audi ur S4/S6
Why haven't patches been made for all the major file systems so that they have am option to run "SSD mode"? In SSD mode the file system tells the SSD which blocks to erase. What is so diff?
So, rather than admit that your comment completely missed the point, which it did, by the way, you want to throw your "weight" around. Exactly what species of authority are you? How many people have you punched in the mouth simply because they said things that hurt your feelings?
More: you make and enforce rules. Such as? What rule have you made? Can you name one? How did this rule benefit anyone? In reference to the person who was harrased by police for doing nothing illegal, where were you? Shouldn't you have been enforcing the rules against police misconduct? Or do you only enforce the rules against 16-year-old, unarmed children? What a big, brave hero you are!
I'm curious: did your father abuse you much?
No, now it gets even better. You have so completely lost your dignity, if you ever had any, that you actually think that the police have the right to confiscate another citizen's personal property. Sure, there are laws on the books permitting such evil, but that does not make the action right. Those laws were made by very evil or stupid men. Did your father abuse you much?
Self-riteous prick! You can't even read, much less think. THE MAN SAID HE WAS POLITE. Hello? Earth to dumbass... You are not "nice". You are a plaugue. You are the porter at the station loading up for Auschwitz. If you were the slightest bit nice, then you would have some empathy. But clearly you don't. You have no capability to imagine what it was like to camp in Valley Forge in the winter. If you did, then you would never in a million years have the cavalier attitude you display towards the sacrifices our forefathers made to get us the right to say, "I don't choose to consent to a search." GP is a hero. You are a turdspeck.
My vote for True American of the Month! I mean that with all my heart. You sir are a hero. If more people were like you, the country's future would be safe. Oh well...
Why do people keep trotting out this horseshit? The question is not whether or not actions have consequences! The question, try to pay attention here you drooling moron, the question is, whether the consequences are JUST! Fucking Hello???? Oh, excuse me! I shouldn't talk that way to an "adult". You smug jackass! Oh, no, wait a minute! I get it. Mature people such as you are the ones who accept injustice. Who will compromise any principle to get along. Whose petty and trivial daily activities are so important that nothing, such as taking a stand against injustace, must interfere with your golf game or parental hovering. My bad.
If you can hear it, you owe me - I patented it!!
prone to be manipulated
prone? I would call it more like "designed from the ground up for wholesale manipulation" Der.
We are working on a telomerase activator. The lungs are made from stem cells that have to replicate many times before the lungs are fully grown. If they can do their replications with active telomerase, then, when they are ready to be transplanted they are equivalent to baby lungs in the youthfulness of the tissue. Otherwise they are, despite being unused, like the lungs of an old person.
I quit smoking years ago, but I could sure use a set. However this time I want a set that has been "augmented". Higher capacity, better throughput, the works! Just make a few mods to the DNA before you start growing them. Not enough cause rejection, though. This is so cool.
I forgot to.
Are you retarded? They quite reliably knew that what they were about to do was going to be a catastrophe. They knew, but for some still unexplained reason, went ahead and pulled the trigger of the loaded gun pointed at their head. Sure, there is no reliable way to put the brains back in the skull, but that just means that you don't pull the trigger when you know the gun is pointed at your head, and this, they damn sure knew. Hello?
Serfdom? Yeah verily. However the key to the lock can be written down: End the practice of Fractional Reserve Banking. Now you know. Now you may escape your serfdom, if you choose to do so.
People don't go to the doctor because, at least in substatial part, because they don't want to get embroiled in the payment system. Even if you have insurance, it is such a beauracratic nightmare that people would rather take chances.
Where is the fucking pre-paid plan for my cellular modem??? Fuck!! Am I clueless or are there truly no pre-paid data plans in this shitbox country?
Anyone who would deny a human the right to make whatever choices he or she wants to about what goes in his or her body is a slaver. Last I recall, slavers could be executed when and where apprehended.
It's easy to huff and puff with righteous indignation at poster's not getting it re web app development. However, I can easily imagine a scenario in which users are told: Install Google Chrome v.X.X. Use it to access this site: http://xxxxx./ Do not use it for anything else. Do not update it. If my users were a captive audience, as might easily be the case, I see no reason to spend big bucks debugging 10 browsers. Just tell them what to do. Make it simple and unambiguous. Problem solved. In other words it all depends on which is the tail and which is the dog.
This is exactly how it works. I am proud to be a citizen of the state of Nevada, but as far as I am concerned, the Federal Government of the USA is responsible for the majority of evil shit that has gone down worldwide over the last 50 years.
You're right! NOBODY FUCKS WITH THE BIZ!!! What business is that, you might ask? Why none other than the heroin business grasshopper. The Taliban had almost eliminated it. You know what happens then: Bada Bing! Every time you read about one of "our" drones blowing up a house and killing members of the Taliban, think Tony Soprano in a basement icing some punk. That is exactly what it is. Aren't you proud now?