On the west side of the Oregon State Capitol there is a feature called The Walk of Flags where the flags of all 50 states are displayed. Part of the Missouri flag includes a piece of the Confederate Battle Flag. Note: this is the current flag that now the official flag the State of Missouri. Because people like you have gotten a burr up their asses, there is now a call for the State of Oregon to remove the official Missouri flag. So I ask you, how is this going to promote racial equality?
Shall we remove all confederate items from museums? Shall we rewrite the history books so the civil war never happened? If we remove the confederate flag from everywhere, will that mean slavery never happened? The civil war happened. Slavery happened. Racism happened, and it is still happening. Removing some flags will not advance the goal of eliminating racism.
Instead of quibbling about a flag that some people find offensive, why don't we work to fight actual racism. Lets stop looking the other way when whites are treated differently than other races. Fighting so hard over symbols while we are mostly ignoring the reality of racism in the US seems counterproductive.
OK, I do see the point of removing the flag from statehouses, but historical displays and museums...give me a break. And, yes this is happening, as crazy as this seems.
Maybe it is "social problems", but that doesn't make it any less real. Fukishima, Three Mile Island, Chernoble, and Fermi accidents have all created a widespread mistrust of the nuclear industry's assurances that nuclear power is safe. Realistically, this "social issue" isn't going away just because some engineers wish it would. The nuclear overlords have screwed up big time in the risk management of these facilities, and there likely have been other screw-ups that didn't turn out so badly. It may be mostly a social issue, but it is a problem that isn't going away soon.
Wasn't Carter a nuculer engineer? Why would he outlaw it? I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, since the President doesn't make laws, congress does.
Laws can be changed. Why hasn't the nuclear industry sought a reversal? You would think it would be at the top of the industry's wish list, since reprocessing is probably the biggest barrier to nuclear power.
I'm not sure what you mean here. "can process nuclear waste"? To the best of my knowledge nearly all of the waste of commercial power reactors is sitting on site in vast pools of water. It hasn't been processed, and I'm not aware of imminent plans to process it. So, really, it seems that there are some problems that are preventing the processing. Maybe in theory we can process it, but in reality it isn't happening. This is still a big barrier to widespread construction of new nuclear plants.
Hypochondriacs buy a lot of homeopathic cures, because it works well on their imaginary ailments. On the plus side, it probably doesn't hurt them either. Unfortunately, even hypochondriacs sometimes get real health problems and fail to get proper health care that could actually help them.
I have a friend who has a serious problem, but refuses to see a practitioner of allopathic medicine. She is trying one quack treatment after another and is not getting better. No amount of facts seem to interfere with her beliefs.
The reason we can't (easily) solve this is really simple. There isn't enough water. If southern California wants to look afar for water they have to look at the Columbia River, which is the nearest river that seems to have abundant water. Believe me, Oregon will put up a big fight if SoCal tries to ram through the kind of infrastructure to move water through Oregon.
All the other water in most of the west is already spoken for. SoCal really has two choices. One, desalinate. Two, get along with the limited water that is available. There aren't any decent other choices.
It isn't partisan bullshit. It is a really big problem with no good choices. SoCal can't just steal water from other users. In the western US water gets used by somebody, and somebody owns just about all the water rights.
It might be real science, but real energy production is still a really long way out. They boast a tenfold improvement in the time that the reaction is contained, but the reality is there has to be another hundredfold improvement to reach the break even point. Then you have to go beyond that to get a surplus. Then you have to scale it all up to get enough energy to bother with.
Really it is just a small step on a long journey that will take many decades, unless they discover some real problems that might take longer.
I am opposed to the death penalty for exactly the reasons you give. In this case, I'm pretty much OK with it though. The only reservation I have is the high cost of execution when lifetime incarceration is cheaper. Maybe we should put him in a cell with Charles Manson instead.
I'm not too sure that having the latest OS is the consumer's highest priority. For me it is getting a phone without bloatware. I want a phone that doesn't have dozens of apps that I can't delete and I'm not even sure what they do. If I want a Blockbuster app, I'll download it myself. Seriously, my last phone had a Blockbuster app that couldn't be deleted, despite Blockbuster being long dead. I now have an Amazon Cloud app that can't be deleted, and uses some of my data everyday despite the fact that I have never used the app.
Ask you carrier about bloatware and they will say that they are sorry, but they can't fix it.
"maybe we don't know everything there is to know about geoengineering"
That is the understatement of the year. More like, we know almost nothing about geo-engineering. The reason we know almost nothing is that we have only studied a few dozen accidental effects on the climate from human activities. We have these accidental effects, and we have computer models. While I concede that the computer models have gotten quite good lately, I certainly would not bet the planet's future on their ability to accurately predict unintended consequences. So, that leaves what? Are you proposing that we try some trial and error experiments? If you are to get much data from this it would have to be huge. It has taken a century of burning fossil fuels as fast as we can get it out of the ground to get us into this mess. What kind of trial do you suggest?
I wish I had some mod points for you. This is exactly the issue. Our climate system is incredibly complex, and new complexities are always being added to climate models as we discover them. The geo-engineering solutions might look good in one dimension, but have virtually infinite potential forks that lead to unintended consequences. The real question is, Are we willing to try a geo-engineering solution that is certain to have unimaginable unintended consequences? Unfortunately, the answer is probably yes. There are many stories about various schemes that have been implemented and produced profound unintended consequences, so it is obvious that that won't stop folks from trying it.
Actually, it is close to certain that this chamber will erupt eventually. Eventually, on the geologic time scale, could be a really long time from now, on a human time scale. The Snake River Plains were formed by an eruption from this very system about 11 million years ago. That was long before our ancestors became human, so it really was a long time ago. When it does erupt again, the humans might be long gone. Or, maybe not.
I put Avast on my Windows PC and it seems to work fine. Avast prompted me to put it on my android phone as well, which I did. Since I am using Republic Wireless which is kind of persnickety about roaming data, I was not thrilled to see Avast use one Mb of roaming data the first time I left the house. I can't spare the data if it is going to do this regularly. I deleted the app.
I'm pretty good at managing my roaming data, but I can't have Avast using roaming data any damn time it wants to. This is especially odd since I was solidly within a Sprint area, which should not have been roaming at all.
The body is way more than a skin around everything else. The body IS the structure of the car. They don't have frames anymore. The body provides the stiffness for everything. Drive train components anchor to it. The body provides crash protection as the structure crumples to absorb energy.
I'm not saying it is impossible, but the body is a way more complicated structure than most folks think. A car body isn't just a style statement. Many of the shapes we see over and over in cars are there for rigidity and crash protection, not just for looks. Switching from steel to printed plastic panels means a shitload of engineering issues to solve. Steel is a pretty well understood material. Printed plastic panels are a totally new ballgame.
Republic and Black Wireless to name a couple more. I switched from Verizon to Republic three months ago because I got tired of Verizon's bloatware phones and their high prices. Today I pay $25 per month and get service that is plenty good enough for me. My phone has a minimum of bloatware and works better than any Verizon phone I ever had.
Anything that offers alternatives to AT&T and Verizon with decent coverage is a good thing. Go get em Google.
I'm sure a stooge for Quelab called in the UFO report to get the publicity. It is a time tested strategy for getting attention. UFOs always make the news. Some guys fooling around with plastic bags might not.
Busy signal. Between answering machines and call waiting you almost never hear a busy signal. Any you never hear the trunk-line rapid busy signal at all anymore.
I figured it might be, but I am constantly amazed at the people that think the game involves all luck and no skill. I have been playing hold-em for many decades and still consider myself to be a slightly above average player. Your tongue in cheek advice is actually a good plan for beginners. Only play good hands and fold when a flop misses you. You will lose, but not as badly as you would if you tried to be creative. Hopefully playing this strategy would let you learn as cheaply as possible.
Not that simple. A good player will win with the worst hand at times. A good player will also sometimes fold with the best hand due to uncertainty and risk management. Good players sometimes fold to a bluff for perfectly good reasons. They also sometimes bluff and lose. But, the good player will learn from these decisions so that they make better decisions next time. You never know what your opponent holds, but you try to understand their strategy over time to exploit their play.
Try actually playing the game, preferably against a highly skilled player. You might just discover that it is a lot more complicated than you think it is. Sharing cards is one of the things that allows skilled players to excel. BTW, there are no wild cards in hold'em.
Seriously, play the game and see for yourself. I would love to have such a clueless opponent.
Don't get maximum strength unless you want to work with your nose really close to the screen. Figure out what distance you would like to be from the screen if you could see well at that distance then go to a place that sells reading glasses. Try different strengths at that distance until you find the strength that lets you see well.
I use the maximum strength for hobby work when I need to see small details up really close, like a few inches. These glasses would be worthless for reading a computer screen since my screen is usually at 16-18 inches from my eyes.
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On the west side of the Oregon State Capitol there is a feature called The Walk of Flags where the flags of all 50 states are displayed. Part of the Missouri flag includes a piece of the Confederate Battle Flag. Note: this is the current flag that now the official flag the State of Missouri. Because people like you have gotten a burr up their asses, there is now a call for the State of Oregon to remove the official Missouri flag. So I ask you, how is this going to promote racial equality?
Shall we remove all confederate items from museums? Shall we rewrite the history books so the civil war never happened? If we remove the confederate flag from everywhere, will that mean slavery never happened? The civil war happened. Slavery happened. Racism happened, and it is still happening. Removing some flags will not advance the goal of eliminating racism.
Instead of quibbling about a flag that some people find offensive, why don't we work to fight actual racism. Lets stop looking the other way when whites are treated differently than other races. Fighting so hard over symbols while we are mostly ignoring the reality of racism in the US seems counterproductive.
OK, I do see the point of removing the flag from statehouses, but historical displays and museums...give me a break. And, yes this is happening, as crazy as this seems.
Maybe it is "social problems", but that doesn't make it any less real. Fukishima, Three Mile Island, Chernoble, and Fermi accidents have all created a widespread mistrust of the nuclear industry's assurances that nuclear power is safe. Realistically, this "social issue" isn't going away just because some engineers wish it would. The nuclear overlords have screwed up big time in the risk management of these facilities, and there likely have been other screw-ups that didn't turn out so badly. It may be mostly a social issue, but it is a problem that isn't going away soon.
Wasn't Carter a nuculer engineer? Why would he outlaw it? I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, since the President doesn't make laws, congress does.
Laws can be changed. Why hasn't the nuclear industry sought a reversal? You would think it would be at the top of the industry's wish list, since reprocessing is probably the biggest barrier to nuclear power.
I'm not sure what you mean here. "can process nuclear waste"? To the best of my knowledge nearly all of the waste of commercial power reactors is sitting on site in vast pools of water. It hasn't been processed, and I'm not aware of imminent plans to process it. So, really, it seems that there are some problems that are preventing the processing. Maybe in theory we can process it, but in reality it isn't happening. This is still a big barrier to widespread construction of new nuclear plants.
Hypochondriacs buy a lot of homeopathic cures, because it works well on their imaginary ailments. On the plus side, it probably doesn't hurt them either. Unfortunately, even hypochondriacs sometimes get real health problems and fail to get proper health care that could actually help them.
I have a friend who has a serious problem, but refuses to see a practitioner of allopathic medicine. She is trying one quack treatment after another and is not getting better. No amount of facts seem to interfere with her beliefs.
Transport water from where? Seriously, where do you think SoCal can get the water? Please explain how this is simple.
The reason we can't (easily) solve this is really simple. There isn't enough water. If southern California wants to look afar for water they have to look at the Columbia River, which is the nearest river that seems to have abundant water. Believe me, Oregon will put up a big fight if SoCal tries to ram through the kind of infrastructure to move water through Oregon.
All the other water in most of the west is already spoken for. SoCal really has two choices. One, desalinate. Two, get along with the limited water that is available. There aren't any decent other choices.
It isn't partisan bullshit. It is a really big problem with no good choices. SoCal can't just steal water from other users. In the western US water gets used by somebody, and somebody owns just about all the water rights.
But then the Ask Toolbar tried to find a solution to the problem.
It might be real science, but real energy production is still a really long way out. They boast a tenfold improvement in the time that the reaction is contained, but the reality is there has to be another hundredfold improvement to reach the break even point. Then you have to go beyond that to get a surplus. Then you have to scale it all up to get enough energy to bother with.
Really it is just a small step on a long journey that will take many decades, unless they discover some real problems that might take longer.
I am opposed to the death penalty for exactly the reasons you give. In this case, I'm pretty much OK with it though. The only reservation I have is the high cost of execution when lifetime incarceration is cheaper. Maybe we should put him in a cell with Charles Manson instead.
I'm not too sure that having the latest OS is the consumer's highest priority. For me it is getting a phone without bloatware. I want a phone that doesn't have dozens of apps that I can't delete and I'm not even sure what they do. If I want a Blockbuster app, I'll download it myself. Seriously, my last phone had a Blockbuster app that couldn't be deleted, despite Blockbuster being long dead. I now have an Amazon Cloud app that can't be deleted, and uses some of my data everyday despite the fact that I have never used the app.
Ask you carrier about bloatware and they will say that they are sorry, but they can't fix it.
"maybe we don't know everything there is to know about geoengineering"
That is the understatement of the year. More like, we know almost nothing about geo-engineering. The reason we know almost nothing is that we have only studied a few dozen accidental effects on the climate from human activities. We have these accidental effects, and we have computer models. While I concede that the computer models have gotten quite good lately, I certainly would not bet the planet's future on their ability to accurately predict unintended consequences. So, that leaves what? Are you proposing that we try some trial and error experiments? If you are to get much data from this it would have to be huge. It has taken a century of burning fossil fuels as fast as we can get it out of the ground to get us into this mess. What kind of trial do you suggest?
I wish I had some mod points for you. This is exactly the issue. Our climate system is incredibly complex, and new complexities are always being added to climate models as we discover them. The geo-engineering solutions might look good in one dimension, but have virtually infinite potential forks that lead to unintended consequences. The real question is, Are we willing to try a geo-engineering solution that is certain to have unimaginable unintended consequences? Unfortunately, the answer is probably yes. There are many stories about various schemes that have been implemented and produced profound unintended consequences, so it is obvious that that won't stop folks from trying it.
Actually, it is close to certain that this chamber will erupt eventually. Eventually, on the geologic time scale, could be a really long time from now, on a human time scale. The Snake River Plains were formed by an eruption from this very system about 11 million years ago. That was long before our ancestors became human, so it really was a long time ago. When it does erupt again, the humans might be long gone. Or, maybe not.
I put Avast on my Windows PC and it seems to work fine. Avast prompted me to put it on my android phone as well, which I did. Since I am using Republic Wireless which is kind of persnickety about roaming data, I was not thrilled to see Avast use one Mb of roaming data the first time I left the house. I can't spare the data if it is going to do this regularly. I deleted the app.
I'm pretty good at managing my roaming data, but I can't have Avast using roaming data any damn time it wants to. This is especially odd since I was solidly within a Sprint area, which should not have been roaming at all.
The body is way more than a skin around everything else. The body IS the structure of the car. They don't have frames anymore. The body provides the stiffness for everything. Drive train components anchor to it. The body provides crash protection as the structure crumples to absorb energy.
I'm not saying it is impossible, but the body is a way more complicated structure than most folks think. A car body isn't just a style statement. Many of the shapes we see over and over in cars are there for rigidity and crash protection, not just for looks. Switching from steel to printed plastic panels means a shitload of engineering issues to solve. Steel is a pretty well understood material. Printed plastic panels are a totally new ballgame.
Republic and Black Wireless to name a couple more. I switched from Verizon to Republic three months ago because I got tired of Verizon's bloatware phones and their high prices. Today I pay $25 per month and get service that is plenty good enough for me. My phone has a minimum of bloatware and works better than any Verizon phone I ever had.
Anything that offers alternatives to AT&T and Verizon with decent coverage is a good thing. Go get em Google.
I'm sure a stooge for Quelab called in the UFO report to get the publicity. It is a time tested strategy for getting attention. UFOs always make the news. Some guys fooling around with plastic bags might not.
I need to get out more.
Busy signal. Between answering machines and call waiting you almost never hear a busy signal. Any you never hear the trunk-line rapid busy signal at all anymore.
I figured it might be, but I am constantly amazed at the people that think the game involves all luck and no skill. I have been playing hold-em for many decades and still consider myself to be a slightly above average player. Your tongue in cheek advice is actually a good plan for beginners. Only play good hands and fold when a flop misses you. You will lose, but not as badly as you would if you tried to be creative. Hopefully playing this strategy would let you learn as cheaply as possible.
Not that simple. A good player will win with the worst hand at times. A good player will also sometimes fold with the best hand due to uncertainty and risk management. Good players sometimes fold to a bluff for perfectly good reasons. They also sometimes bluff and lose. But, the good player will learn from these decisions so that they make better decisions next time. You never know what your opponent holds, but you try to understand their strategy over time to exploit their play.
Try actually playing the game, preferably against a highly skilled player. You might just discover that it is a lot more complicated than you think it is. Sharing cards is one of the things that allows skilled players to excel. BTW, there are no wild cards in hold'em.
Seriously, play the game and see for yourself. I would love to have such a clueless opponent.
Don't get maximum strength unless you want to work with your nose really close to the screen. Figure out what distance you would like to be from the screen if you could see well at that distance then go to a place that sells reading glasses. Try different strengths at that distance until you find the strength that lets you see well.
I use the maximum strength for hobby work when I need to see small details up really close, like a few inches. These glasses would be worthless for reading a computer screen since my screen is usually at 16-18 inches from my eyes.