Already, as the storm moved across the island from southeast to northwest, 10 people were killed, Cuban President Fidel Castro told his countrymen in a television address. Some 600,000 people in coastal areas had evacuated to shelters and high ground.
I'm sure uncle google can provide you with more if you have a look.
From the same article, which you didn't read evidentally:
In Cuba, more than 600,000 residents were moved from their homes to government shelters or other locations in anticipation of Dennis. [4] In Haiti, officials evacuated residents along the coastline, but noted that many were not obliging
and also from the same article
In Cuba, Hurricane Dennis left 16 people dead and $1.4 billion in damages when it roared through the island, flattening houses and downing trees and powerlines. Relayed reports from Cuban meteorologists stated that a gust up to 149 mph (239 km/h) was detected at Cienfuegos, 85% of the power lines were down and extensive damage to the communications infrastructure had occurred. Dennis was the worst hurricane to strike Cuba since Flora in 1963.
The US government has failed its people with catastrophic consequences. Any attempt to deny that is an insult to the dead, and the suffering, and quite frankly is just utterly preposterous.
Most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection -- or at least amelioration -- against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.
Many researchers have been able to replicate the Pons/Fleischmann experiment, and apparently SRI, have had some success... yet all we hear about is hot fusion, which appears to be a dead end.
Perhaps if the resources which get diverted to hot fusion, had been invested in low-energy fusion, we would have a workable technology in production now. Shame it was unfairly demonised...
The EROEI of oil shale is around 3:1, whereas that of conventional oil is 35:1 - oil shale can not replace conventional oil. Nothing can unfortunately.
Not all of the refinery capacity will be recovered - several of the refineries have sustained a lot of damage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/09/04/AR2005090400999.html
It might be months before some of them are back online. This coupled with the loss of around 30 rigs in the gulf (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti cle/2005/09/04/AR2005090400999.html) may well have long term implications for the US. There are indications that demand is very nearly exceeding supply, and things will become very challening once we pass that point.
Not at all. Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, has a keynote speech scheduled, during which some new information about the Revolution will most likely be revealed.
The following is from the IGNcube mailbag:
Nintendo will not be showing anything at the Tokyo Game Show 2005. This is not really surprising because the company rarely exhibits at the event, considered by many to be the Japanese equivalent of the Electronics Entertainment Expo. That being true, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata opened TGS 2003 with a keynote speech and he's set to do the same at this year's event. The subject of his speech has not yet been revealed, but it's scheduled to take place on September 16 before the show officially kicks off. In 2003, Iwata spoke vaguely about the videogame industry and the future of game consoles. In two weeks, we expect him to talk about Revolution, possibly unveiling the top-secret controller. So although the Big N won't be on the show floor with games, it should be an exciting TGS for Nintendo fans all the same. Stay tuned for more, obviously.
Can you explain why a bump map, which is monochromatic, would ever be larger than than the corresponding color map? That doesn't make much sense to me.
or you could wait for the Nintendo Revolution, which will probably be priced reasonably - announcements about this console (possibly a release date) should be made shortly at the Tokyo Games Show.
The EROEI of conventional oil is around 30:1, while the process is around 3:1 - a significant difference.
Nothing will replace oil, and all indications are that we are fast approaching peak production, if we haven't already reached it. What technologies like this may do is ease the transition to a post-carbon society.. but they aren't going to prevent it.
They didn't make the effort because that 25% are black and poor.
I'm utterly disgusted by all of this.. there is NO excuse for losing this many people - in what is supposedly a developed country (not to mention the wealthiest).
The people of Ache were fucked - there wasn't really much anyone could have done to have saved them. The loss of life on this scale in NOLA could have been prevented.
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Does this mean less "PLAY POKER ONLINE NOW!" trackback spam on my weblog?
I provided one (The CNN item), after realising that I probably misinterpreted what you were saying . No need to be unpleasant.
You really want to put this in perspective?
In July, Cuba, which is by no means a world superpower, evacuated 650,000 people in anticipation of the category 4 hurricane Denis.
16 people died.
The US government has failed its people with catastrophic consequences. Any attempt to deny that is an insult to the dead, and the suffering, and quite frankly is just utterly preposterous.
http://media.putfile.com/OlbermannSwings
From the opinion piece:
This is worth reading too: http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/04/26/C oldFusionDogma.html
RTFA.
Bloop Scwahump Wah Wah WEEEEEEEE
Many researchers have been able to replicate the Pons/Fleischmann experiment, and apparently SRI, have had some success... yet all we hear about is hot fusion, which appears to be a dead end.
Perhaps if the resources which get diverted to hot fusion, had been invested in low-energy fusion, we would have a workable technology in production now. Shame it was unfairly demonised...
bugger - I've lost the link dual obviously, having violated the cardinal rule of never posting the same link twice! I meant to post this (regarding lost rigs): http://ogj.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cf m?Section=ONART&C=GenIn&ARTICLE_ID=235816&p=7
The EROEI of oil shale is around 3:1, whereas that of conventional oil is 35:1 - oil shale can not replace conventional oil. Nothing can unfortunately. Not all of the refinery capacity will be recovered - several of the refineries have sustained a lot of damage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2005/09/04/AR2005090400999.html
It might be months before some of them are back online. This coupled with the loss of around 30 rigs in the gulf (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti cle/2005/09/04/AR2005090400999.html) may well have long term implications for the US. There are indications that demand is very nearly exceeding supply, and things will become very challening once we pass that point.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8CCA 1H80.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db
I don't expect that to last very long. If we've hit global peak production of petroleum, expect that recession to fast become a depression.. Katrina may be a trigger factor.
The OP didn't make any mention of normal mapping, only bump mapping.
hey, works for emacs....
yes, I bought it second hand about 6 months ago.. it was rather cheap :)
You said tripple the size. As I said, can you explain how bump maps could be larger?
Can you explain why a bump map, which is monochromatic, would ever be larger than than the corresponding color map? That doesn't make much sense to me.
I really wish I had some mod-points at the moment :)
or you could wait for the Nintendo Revolution, which will probably be priced reasonably - announcements about this console (possibly a release date) should be made shortly at the Tokyo Games Show.
Do Sony really expect a lot of people to be able to afford these? Given the depressed state of the US economy, I can't see people snapping these up.
I suspect the Nintendo revolution will be reasonably priced, and I'll most likely buy one of those instead.
I own a ps2, but really can't justify spending that much on a console.
On a more serious note, the Chinese Dinosaur exhibit (curently in Australia) website, has some artists renderings of feathered dinos.
The EROEI of conventional oil is around 30:1, while the process is around 3:1 - a significant difference.
Nothing will replace oil, and all indications are that we are fast approaching peak production, if we haven't already reached it. What technologies like this may do is ease the transition to a post-carbon society.. but they aren't going to prevent it.
They didn't make the effort because that 25% are black and poor.
I'm utterly disgusted by all of this.. there is NO excuse for losing this many people - in what is supposedly a developed country (not to mention the wealthiest).
The people of Ache were fucked - there wasn't really much anyone could have done to have saved them. The loss of life on this scale in NOLA could have been prevented.