hmmm. . . I seem to remember that when Hostess when out of business, their CEO's asked for bonuses that they were promised. . . .
I also seem to remember that when BP Amoco was fined BILLIONS of dollars for spiling oil into the gulf of mexico - gross incompetence, their managers still found money in the budget for RECORD BONUSES.
And when Halliburton was receiving massive government contracts without bidding in competition - for Iraq war work, and their former CEO was the VP of the US, in charge of basically setting up the war in the first place, he received deferred bonuses (even though the law required him to be paid in BLIND TRUSTS - he was still to be compensated in deferred Halliburton bonuses; which were exempt from taxes that applied to the era in which he earned them, oh yes, he got to pay BUSH ERA TAX CUT RATES on his deferred Halliburton bonuses, AS VICE PRESIDENT). - - - and when the speaker of the house called him on this obvious ethical conflict-of-interest, you know what Statesman Richard Cheney replied? He said "Go Fuck Yourself" on the floor of the US Congress.
Do not stand between the thug, and the money that he believes to be his.
Now - on the other hand, people who work their asses off for their money, and who are promised their money? Not so much.
yeah; Step 1: project growth of stock market at x%. Step 2: cut workers' pay, and mass-layoffs so they can't invest, or put money into 401k's, or even make their house payments. Step 3: cry about how the stock market it dropping.
ha ha - yeah, except his idea is like 15 years old! yawn! I think it's been in failure-mode long enough to prove that humans basically don't really want real freedom. They want their fucking bread and circuses.
A few of us are a little more than that. And it's to our detriment. We should just fucking lobotomize ourselves.
my experience with Windows 8 was okay as well. As soon as I figured out how to dismiss the Metro screen. (heh), I actually really like the new copy dialog. (you know, when you're bulk-copying files from your other machine to the new one) - it actually shows you what the hell is going on. For the first time in Microsoft history, (and I'm talking about being a user since the DOS 2.0 days!) you can actually tell when a copy job is slowing down, what rate data's transferring, etc. It's nice. If I could transfer JUST this feature to Windows 7, there would be absolutely NO reason to upgrade AT ALL.
I generally don't like User Interfaces that require BOTH the use of Keyboard and Mouse (ie. you must switch back and forth - as in, you enter data via keyboard, and can't continue to navigate with the keyboard).
I fear that adding touchscreens will further exacerbate LAZY UI design, and we're going to be forced to not only have computers that MUST have all three input methods (and drivers), but we'll be forced to USE them for everything.
This is going to be worse than gorilla-arm-syndrome. I guarantee it.
I have a doctor friend, in his surgical specialty, he does a type of flouroscopy imaging, to allow him to see, in great detail, the bone structure of his patient, as he moves his laproscopic instruments. He takes a great deal of precaution to limit exposure as much as possible, but he's exposed much more than say, your average radiologist. A few years ago, he developed a rare form of leukemia. (now in remission, after bone marrow transplant, and treatment). Nobody can conclude that it was his professional exposure to x-ray radiation. But he believes there's a strong likelihood. There's a correlation among doctors who use his tools and methods, and a higher instance of cancers, but no scientific study was ever done. It's mostly anecdotal, from his professional association.
In the end, it could have been a single photon, mutating a single, critical DNA strand somewhere, that began the chain of events that started the disease.
But his lifelong, high exposure increased the probability that that one photon was going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The purpose of torture is not to elicit false confessions.
It is to justify a fascist police state, by feeding the xenophobia of the masses. When the state tortures, the people feel safer, because they feel that the most brutal means possible, are being used to "protect them". (the masses do not, and can not, and WILL NOT, rationally understand that torture is not effective at protecting them.) Torture simply makes people feel better.
It also terrorizes the opposition. (but this is not particularly deterrent, since innocent people obviously get caught and tortured).
This is why; even when the practice is highly classified, and performed in secret locations, the knowledge that torture IS occurring, must be disseminated, often through political channels. If they REALLY wanted it kept secret, it would be treated like an anonymous battlefield death. The victim would be interrogated, and he would disappear, forever. But the fact is, the torturers talk about it. The victims are released, so that they can talk about it. The politicians who order it, talk about it, so they can score their political points. THIS is the true purpose of torture.
Oxygen is highly toxic to probably 90% of species that ever lived on earth. Which is why they aren't around anymore. But Earth didn't always have all this oxygen either. Nowadays, species have either evolved mechanisms to deal with oxygen, or they live in places where it ain't.
The same is likely true for perchlorates on Mars.
The same sort of things can be said for high-salt concentrations in water, on Earth, and there are places where that is a big problem, (The Dead Sea, Mono Lake, Badwater Basin), and there is specialized life that has adapted - and there are places where it's not as bad a problem (like the ocean) and there are places where water isn't so saline at all (lakes and rivers). So maybe perchlorates only exist in certain areas on Mars. It's fairly diverse.
This is roughly the equivalent of the spokesman for Brawndo complaining about the smarty pants who's telling us not to water our crops with the stuff. After all, it's got what plants crave!
The federal money that's pumped into Brownsville is staggering. Yet the crime is off the charts.
These two factors may not be inversely related, but instead, may be directly related.
The Bush family has a home in the wealthy section of the subdivision so I suspect this has something to do with it.
I concur.
A few miles down the road duffel bags with human heads were found. National news never once said a word.
Not a word like "Iran-Contra" or "CIA" or "drug-smuggling". None of those words, I am certain. How this relates to ballistic missile launches and interplanetary travel, I have NO idea!
No - the WORST part about this is: she's probably extensively (and expensively) trained in ethics on how to spot and report problems, and she probably observed these issues and her conscience was bothering her for months. She had a choice of looking the other way like everyone else, or speaking up and risking getting fired. This is the uniquely American dilemma. Ever see the movie, Catch-22?
See - if we made the AIRLINES financially responsible for disasters like 9/11. . . (yep. I said that. I actually said that on 9/11).
Then - there would be REAL security. Their checkpoints would be FAST, and EFFICIENT, and work AWESOMELY. And it would cost $10,000 to fly economy class from Chicago to Cleveland. (I still don't "get" why people who don't fly, have to subsidize the TSA, to prevent terrorist-laden airplanes from falling out of the sky - ). We probably wouldn't have an unemployment problem either, because every building over 10 stories would have a dude sitting on top of it with an antiaircraft gun, 24x7, getting paid $5/hr to shoot down anything that gets within 500 yards. Private problem. Private solution. Don't you just love your Libertarian Paradise?
How about, 10% of TARP, which was magically produced overnight, with nary a quibble, on the supposition that if we didn't do it, a few very wealthy bank CEO's would wet their pants with fear, and debt-ratings companies would be outed for the frauds that they so obviously were.
Seriously. $1 Trillion? For free-energy? Forever? Sounds like a deal to me. Where do I sign?
Well; think about it. Assume we build a nice bunch of fusion reactors, and enjoy all the wonderful benefits of "free fusion power" and a nice fusion powered civilization. What do you think the first thing's going to happen after that? Someone else is going to come along and want to live right next to our shiny new fusion power plants. And we will need to defend them. So I think defense is still going to be an "external cost". Unfortunately.
Fortunately - a fuckload cheaper than going over to other countries and killing people to steal their oil and uranium and deposit our waste on their land.
April 26th, 1992, there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you? You were sittin' home watchin' your TV, while I was paticipatin' in some anarchy.
First spot we hit it was my liqour store. I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford. With red lights flashin' time to retire, And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire.
Next stop we hit it was the music shop, It only took one brick to make that window drop. Finally we got our own p.a. Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today? Hey!
When we returned to the pad to unload everything, It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings. So once again we filled the van until it was full, since that day my livin' room's been more comfortable.
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here, It's getting harder and harder and harder each and every year.
Some kids went in a store with thier mother, I saw her when she came out she was gettin some pampers.
They said it was for the black man, they said it was for the mexican, and not for the white man.
But if you look at the streets it wasn't about Rodney King, It's bout this fucked up situation and these fucked up police. It's about coming up and staying on top and screamin' 187 on a mother fuckin' cop. It's not written on the paper it's on the wall. National guard??! Smoke from all around,
(as long as I'm alive, I'mma live illegal)
Let it burn, wanna let it burn, wanna let it burn, wanna wanna let it burn
(I'm feelin' Sad and Blue)
Riots on the streets of Miami, oh, Riots on the streets of Chicago, oh, on the streets of Long Beach, mmm, and San Francisco (Boise Idaho), Riots on the streets of Kansas City (Salt Lake, Hunnington Beach, CA), Tuscaloosa Alabama (Arcada Clarkston Michigan), Cleveland Ohio, Fountain Valley (Texas, Barstow - Let's do this every year), Bear Mountain, Vista View (Twice a Year), Eugene OR, Eureka CA (Let it burn, let it burn), Hesperia (Oh, ya let it burn, wont'cha wont'cha let it burn), Santa Barbara,Cuyamca, Nevada, (let it burn) Phoenix Arizona, San Diego, Lakewood Florida, (let it burn) fuckin...Dreadnaught punks!(wontcha let it burn)
No; the newer (post-2007-ish?) TDI has a particulate trap, so particulate emissions are low. NOx is lower, SOx lower with ULSD fuel. Newer diesels are very clean. Unfortunately, Biodiesel voids the VW warranty. Which you WILL need, by the way.
Take my advice: DO NOT PURCHASE A VW MANUFACTURED IN MEXICO. There is a sticker inside the door-panel that declares the country of origin. VW sourced their parts differently, and Mexican VW's fall the fuck apart. (NOTHING against Mexican workers!) - And their US dealer service network is full of complete fucking incompetent morons who have no fucking clue what they're doing. Their approach to solving problems is to throw parts at it until it's fixed. (maybe they can't read the German service manuals, I don't know. The manual I have in my garage is in English, and is just fine. I don't trust my car to those fuckers anymore.)
And also, my diesel has a range of 450 miles. 46 mpg. 0-60 in 6.2 sec. If 450 miles is not as far as I need to drive today, refueling takes approximately 180 seconds if a diesel station is available; and they're mostly readily available along most inter-city routes.
Why is this so hard for the pro-electric crowd to understand?
I fully agree that electric is the future, and that the human race is not going to sustain a transportation infrastructure based on petroleum for many more decades. Perhaps 2. 3 at the most. But we need FAR better batteries than we have now.
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hmmm. . . I seem to remember that when Hostess when out of business, their CEO's asked for bonuses that they were promised. . . .
I also seem to remember that when BP Amoco was fined BILLIONS of dollars for spiling oil into the gulf of mexico - gross incompetence, their managers still found money in the budget for RECORD BONUSES.
And when Halliburton was receiving massive government contracts without bidding in competition - for Iraq war work, and their former CEO was the VP of the US, in charge of basically setting up the war in the first place, he received deferred bonuses (even though the law required him to be paid in BLIND TRUSTS - he was still to be compensated in deferred Halliburton bonuses; which were exempt from taxes that applied to the era in which he earned them, oh yes, he got to pay BUSH ERA TAX CUT RATES on his deferred Halliburton bonuses, AS VICE PRESIDENT). - - - and when the speaker of the house called him on this obvious ethical conflict-of-interest, you know what Statesman Richard Cheney replied? He said "Go Fuck Yourself" on the floor of the US Congress.
Do not stand between the thug, and the money that he believes to be his.
Now - on the other hand, people who work their asses off for their money, and who are promised their money? Not so much.
yeah;
Step 1: project growth of stock market at x%.
Step 2: cut workers' pay, and mass-layoffs so they can't invest, or put money into 401k's, or even make their house payments.
Step 3: cry about how the stock market it dropping.
ha ha - yeah, except his idea is like 15 years old! yawn!
I think it's been in failure-mode long enough to prove that humans basically don't really want real freedom. They want their fucking bread and circuses.
A few of us are a little more than that. And it's to our detriment. We should just fucking lobotomize ourselves.
my experience with Windows 8 was okay as well.
As soon as I figured out how to dismiss the Metro screen. (heh), I actually really like the new copy dialog. (you know, when you're bulk-copying files from your other machine to the new one) - it actually shows you what the hell is going on. For the first time in Microsoft history, (and I'm talking about being a user since the DOS 2.0 days!) you can actually tell when a copy job is slowing down, what rate data's transferring, etc. It's nice. If I could transfer JUST this feature to Windows 7, there would be absolutely NO reason to upgrade AT ALL.
Personally - this idea terrifies me.
I generally don't like User Interfaces that require BOTH the use of Keyboard and Mouse (ie. you must switch back and forth - as in, you enter data via keyboard, and can't continue to navigate with the keyboard).
I fear that adding touchscreens will further exacerbate LAZY UI design, and we're going to be forced to not only have computers that MUST have all three input methods (and drivers), but we'll be forced to USE them for everything.
This is going to be worse than gorilla-arm-syndrome. I guarantee it.
I deal with this on my phone even if I don't touch it. Ear-grease. Yep. I'm a human being alright.
exactly true.
I have a doctor friend, in his surgical specialty, he does a type of flouroscopy imaging, to allow him to see, in great detail, the bone structure of his patient, as he moves his laproscopic instruments. He takes a great deal of precaution to limit exposure as much as possible, but he's exposed much more than say, your average radiologist. A few years ago, he developed a rare form of leukemia. (now in remission, after bone marrow transplant, and treatment). Nobody can conclude that it was his professional exposure to x-ray radiation. But he believes there's a strong likelihood. There's a correlation among doctors who use his tools and methods, and a higher instance of cancers, but no scientific study was ever done. It's mostly anecdotal, from his professional association.
In the end, it could have been a single photon, mutating a single, critical DNA strand somewhere, that began the chain of events that started the disease.
But his lifelong, high exposure increased the probability that that one photon was going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The purpose of torture is not to elicit false confessions.
It is to justify a fascist police state, by feeding the xenophobia of the masses. When the state tortures, the people feel safer, because they feel that the most brutal means possible, are being used to "protect them". (the masses do not, and can not, and WILL NOT, rationally understand that torture is not effective at protecting them.) Torture simply makes people feel better.
It also terrorizes the opposition. (but this is not particularly deterrent, since innocent people obviously get caught and tortured).
This is why; even when the practice is highly classified, and performed in secret locations, the knowledge that torture IS occurring, must be disseminated, often through political channels. If they REALLY wanted it kept secret, it would be treated like an anonymous battlefield death. The victim would be interrogated, and he would disappear, forever.
But the fact is, the torturers talk about it. The victims are released, so that they can talk about it. The politicians who order it, talk about it, so they can score their political points. THIS is the true purpose of torture.
Oxygen is highly toxic to probably 90% of species that ever lived on earth. Which is why they aren't around anymore. But Earth didn't always have all this oxygen either. Nowadays, species have either evolved mechanisms to deal with oxygen, or they live in places where it ain't.
The same is likely true for perchlorates on Mars.
The same sort of things can be said for high-salt concentrations in water, on Earth, and there are places where that is a big problem, (The Dead Sea, Mono Lake, Badwater Basin), and there is specialized life that has adapted - and there are places where it's not as bad a problem (like the ocean) and there are places where water isn't so saline at all (lakes and rivers). So maybe perchlorates only exist in certain areas on Mars. It's fairly diverse.
So, the alternative, is waiting until they get nukes, and then REALLY being forced to deal with them. Sounds like a great plan.
Really, this is a great argument AGAINST funding the political spectacle of manned spaceflight.
This is roughly the equivalent of the spokesman for Brawndo complaining about the smarty pants who's telling us not to water our crops with the stuff. After all, it's got what plants crave!
The federal money that's pumped into Brownsville is staggering. Yet the crime is off the charts.
These two factors may not be inversely related, but instead, may be directly related.
The Bush family has a home in the wealthy section of the subdivision so I suspect this has something to do with it.
I concur.
A few miles down the road duffel bags with human heads were found. National news never once said a word.
Not a word like "Iran-Contra" or "CIA" or "drug-smuggling". None of those words, I am certain. How this relates to ballistic missile launches and interplanetary travel, I have NO idea!
No - the WORST part about this is: she's probably extensively (and expensively) trained in ethics on how to spot and report problems, and she probably observed these issues and her conscience was bothering her for months. She had a choice of looking the other way like everyone else, or speaking up and risking getting fired. This is the uniquely American dilemma. Ever see the movie, Catch-22?
See - if we made the AIRLINES financially responsible for disasters like 9/11. . .
(yep. I said that. I actually said that on 9/11).
Then - there would be REAL security. Their checkpoints would be FAST, and EFFICIENT, and work AWESOMELY. And it would cost $10,000 to fly economy class from Chicago to Cleveland. (I still don't "get" why people who don't fly, have to subsidize the TSA, to prevent terrorist-laden airplanes from falling out of the sky - ). We probably wouldn't have an unemployment problem either, because every building over 10 stories would have a dude sitting on top of it with an antiaircraft gun, 24x7, getting paid $5/hr to shoot down anything that gets within 500 yards. Private problem. Private solution. Don't you just love your Libertarian Paradise?
How about, 10% of TARP, which was magically produced overnight, with nary a quibble, on the supposition that if we didn't do it, a few very wealthy bank CEO's would wet their pants with fear, and debt-ratings companies would be outed for the frauds that they so obviously were.
Seriously. $1 Trillion? For free-energy? Forever? Sounds like a deal to me. Where do I sign?
Missed it by THAT much!
Well; think about it.
Assume we build a nice bunch of fusion reactors, and enjoy all the wonderful benefits of "free fusion power" and a nice fusion powered civilization.
What do you think the first thing's going to happen after that? Someone else is going to come along and want to live right next to our shiny new fusion power plants. And we will need to defend them. So I think defense is still going to be an "external cost". Unfortunately.
Fortunately - a fuckload cheaper than going over to other countries and killing people to steal their oil and uranium and deposit our waste on their land.
Speaking from the point of view of a 4-digit uid; I concur.
"Squeal-like-a-pig-Tennesee"
That controversial enough for ya?
. . . and has anything changed?
April 26th, 1992,
there was a riot on the streets,
tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV,
while I was paticipatin' in some anarchy.
First spot we hit it was my liqour store.
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford.
With red lights flashin' time to retire,
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire.
Next stop we hit it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make that window drop.
Finally we got our own p.a.
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?
Hey!
When we returned to the pad to unload everything,
It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings.
So once again we filled the van until it was full,
since that day my livin' room's been more comfortable.
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here,
It's getting harder and harder and harder each and every year.
Some kids went in a store with thier mother,
I saw her when she came out she was gettin some pampers.
They said it was for the black man,
they said it was for the mexican,
and not for the white man.
But if you look at the streets it wasn't about Rodney King,
It's bout this fucked up situation and these fucked up police.
It's about coming up and staying on top
and screamin' 187 on a mother fuckin' cop.
It's not written on the paper it's on the wall.
National guard??!
Smoke from all around,
(as long as I'm alive, I'mma live illegal)
Let it burn, wanna let it burn,
wanna let it burn, wanna wanna let it burn
(I'm feelin' Sad and Blue)
Riots on the streets of Miami,
oh, Riots on the streets of Chicago,
oh, on the streets of Long Beach,
mmm, and San Francisco (Boise Idaho),
Riots on the streets of Kansas City
(Salt Lake, Hunnington Beach, CA),
Tuscaloosa Alabama (Arcada Clarkston Michigan),
Cleveland Ohio,
Fountain Valley (Texas, Barstow - Let's do this every year),
Bear Mountain, Vista View (Twice a Year),
Eugene OR, Eureka CA (Let it burn, let it burn),
Hesperia (Oh, ya let it burn, wont'cha wont'cha let it burn),
Santa Barbara,Cuyamca, Nevada, (let it burn)
Phoenix Arizona,
San Diego, Lakewood Florida, (let it burn)
fuckin...Dreadnaught punks!(wontcha let it burn)
Sometimes, your kids figure this stuff out on their own. y'know?
Sure: nobody will buy a $40,000 Golf, but it will make a GREAT fleet-car for businessmen.
No; the newer (post-2007-ish?) TDI has a particulate trap, so particulate emissions are low. NOx is lower, SOx lower with ULSD fuel. Newer diesels are very clean. Unfortunately, Biodiesel voids the VW warranty. Which you WILL need, by the way.
Take my advice: DO NOT PURCHASE A VW MANUFACTURED IN MEXICO. There is a sticker inside the door-panel that declares the country of origin. VW sourced their parts differently, and Mexican VW's fall the fuck apart. (NOTHING against Mexican workers!) - And their US dealer service network is full of complete fucking incompetent morons who have no fucking clue what they're doing. Their approach to solving problems is to throw parts at it until it's fixed. (maybe they can't read the German service manuals, I don't know. The manual I have in my garage is in English, and is just fine. I don't trust my car to those fuckers anymore.)
Other than that, they're great fucking cars. :)
Ten Trillion times THIS.
And also, my diesel has a range of 450 miles. 46 mpg. 0-60 in 6.2 sec.
If 450 miles is not as far as I need to drive today, refueling takes approximately 180 seconds if a diesel station is available; and they're mostly readily available along most inter-city routes.
Why is this so hard for the pro-electric crowd to understand?
I fully agree that electric is the future, and that the human race is not going to sustain a transportation infrastructure based on petroleum for many more decades. Perhaps 2. 3 at the most. But we need FAR better batteries than we have now.