But the lake was breached because Herr Bushenführer diverted funds from necessary levee and dyke work in those states to the war in Iraq. Well, that is what several news sources are stating, and it seems to be correct.
It's a problem that has been in the making since the 1960's. Nice try, and nice troll, but just because "several news sources" say so doesn't make it so. The problem that has been at the heart of the levee system is that it was designed for a slow moving category 2 or a fast category 3 storm. It wasn't made for anything stronger because it was judged to be too expensive. The only levee work that's been going on for the past 35 years has been maintenance.
What I don't understand is why we aren't mobilizing Guard units from other states...
They're mobilizing the guard from the affected states, mobilizing the Coast Guard Reserve and sending active duty troops, marines and sailors. One of the problem is that there must be a place to put all of the troops that are called in - in addition to all of the other emergency workers.
If their counsel really did their homework, they would have documented each and every infraction on his site...
Not that I support this particular lawsuit, but why should the plantiff's attorney do the work for the defendant? It sounds like the plantiff's attorney is pretty savvy - be intentionally vague and you might end up with more than you expected. Don't provide details unless you have to.
The defendant's attorney's job is to get that specific info. Like I said, why would you expect the plaintiff's attorney to do the defense's work?
Actually, this is not global warming showing its face. We've gone through several decades of below normal hurricane seasons (in terms of strength and quantity) and now we've had a few seasons above normal - for the gulf region. Worldwide, although ocean temperatures have risen, the overall number and strength of cyclones have not. There are plenty of other reasons for a more active hurricane season, but, at least at this point, global warming is not one of them.
There's been quite a bit of discussion on this subject in the news outlets. On the one hand, it seems like the global warming hand wringing is being done by, to put it nicely, non-scientists, while the oceanographers, geographers and meteorologists have pointed to the fairly meticulous statistics that don't show a causal link to hurricanes and global warming - yet.
Also, the whole oil refinery issue could have been avoided if not for the NIMBY problem. Don't want an oil refinery in your area? Suffer the consequences.
I agree - when I became surface warfare qualified in the US Navy, I received my "water wings" - the insignia is crossed cutlasses behind the bow of a battleship. Cutlasses??? And, for that matter, a battleship???
Oh, and they sold for so cheap because that's what the taxpayers of the county asked the school district to do.
That's irrelevant. The school board is elected to manage the accounts and keep the schools running. I'd love it if I could simply ask my local school board to give me things for free (or "really cheap"), but they're not doing their jobs if they agree.
Bear in mind that the sale was restricted to residents of the county who had, in effect, already paid for the computers once.
Besides, government's number one job is to be responsive to the desires of its constituents. Here's a case where they were (although the constituents behaved, well, poorly).
I guess that government can't win on/. - it gets castigated for ignoring the governed and it gets castigated when it listens.
Without getting into the reasons why a lot of what you suggested won't work, consider that these are four year old notebooks that have been through the hellish life of being "owned" by a high school student. Don't think for a minute that they're in the kind of shape that you'd keep your computer in.
Oh, and they sold for so cheap because that's what the taxpayers of the county asked the school district to do. The local paper's web site has quite a bit of coverage of the whole thing.
No, I'm pretty sure that it's just a relatively slow processor - the machine has 2GB of RAM. But it's old tech - a 500MHz CPU, PC133 memory, you get the picture. Thanks though!
I'm still less than enthralled with Gentoo. After a few attempts to install it on my SunBlade 100, I finally gave up. Somehow I think that the last thing that I want to do is compile every damn thing from scratch on a 500MHz UltraSPARC IIe processor. The machine sat there for several days just compiling X and KDE.
Fedora (Aurora) isn't any better - it's a torturous installation process that is fraught with opportunities for error.
So somebody tell me - what do I have to do to get Gentoo and KDE running on my Blade 100? I really don't like Solaris!
The only type of batteries I will accept in a digicam are standard AA or AAA, so I can use relatively cheap rechargeables and, in a pinch, can buy non-rechargeable stand-ins just about everywhere.
Of course, but try to find such a thing. I haven't seen one. (Only looked at consumer-end offerings)
It's hard to find them...if you don't look. Let's see - Canon, Fuji, Kodak and Nikon. And I only looked at the consumer-end offerings in my two minute search of Best Buy's web site.
My DSL service is through Qwest, but not the MSN service. Qwest is the ISP and the carrier. 1.5Mb down, 768Kb up, no hassles about servers of any kind. Blocks of 5 static IPs are $15 a month extra if you want 'em. I pay $65 a month. Tech support is excellent, the call center appears to be 24/7 in Phoenix, AZ. I've called a few times, never had any hassles about running Linux or Solaris, no problem that one of the machines is a Sun Blade 1000, no trouble about the network.
I was customer number 5 in the Boise area when they rolled DSL out in 1998. The level of customer service has been constant and the price has gone down while the speed has gone up. Since DSL competes very aggressively with cable here, this is probably a non-issue for me.
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But the lake was breached because Herr Bushenführer diverted funds from necessary levee and dyke work in those states to the war in Iraq. Well, that is what several news sources are stating, and it seems to be correct.
It's a problem that has been in the making since the 1960's. Nice try, and nice troll, but just because "several news sources" say so doesn't make it so. The problem that has been at the heart of the levee system is that it was designed for a slow moving category 2 or a fast category 3 storm. It wasn't made for anything stronger because it was judged to be too expensive. The only levee work that's been going on for the past 35 years has been maintenance.
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What I don't understand is why we aren't mobilizing Guard units from other states...
They're mobilizing the guard from the affected states, mobilizing the Coast Guard Reserve and sending active duty troops, marines and sailors. One of the problem is that there must be a place to put all of the troops that are called in - in addition to all of the other emergency workers.
-h-
If their counsel really did their homework, they would have documented each and every infraction on his site...
Not that I support this particular lawsuit, but why should the plantiff's attorney do the work for the defendant? It sounds like the plantiff's attorney is pretty savvy - be intentionally vague and you might end up with more than you expected. Don't provide details unless you have to.
The defendant's attorney's job is to get that specific info. Like I said, why would you expect the plaintiff's attorney to do the defense's work?
-h-
Actually, this is not global warming showing its face. We've gone through several decades of below normal hurricane seasons (in terms of strength and quantity) and now we've had a few seasons above normal - for the gulf region. Worldwide, although ocean temperatures have risen, the overall number and strength of cyclones have not. There are plenty of other reasons for a more active hurricane season, but, at least at this point, global warming is not one of them.
There's been quite a bit of discussion on this subject in the news outlets. On the one hand, it seems like the global warming hand wringing is being done by, to put it nicely, non-scientists, while the oceanographers, geographers and meteorologists have pointed to the fairly meticulous statistics that don't show a causal link to hurricanes and global warming - yet.
Also, the whole oil refinery issue could have been avoided if not for the NIMBY problem. Don't want an oil refinery in your area? Suffer the consequences.
-h-
I agree - when I became surface warfare qualified in the US Navy, I received my "water wings" - the insignia is crossed cutlasses behind the bow of a battleship. Cutlasses??? And, for that matter, a battleship???
It's all symbolism.
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square root of 2 ~ 1.414
Now that's just irrational.
Oh, and they sold for so cheap because that's what the taxpayers of the county asked the school district to do.
/. - it gets castigated for ignoring the governed and it gets castigated when it listens.
That's irrelevant. The school board is elected to manage the accounts and keep the schools running. I'd love it if I could simply ask my local school board to give me things for free (or "really cheap"), but they're not doing their jobs if they agree.
Bear in mind that the sale was restricted to residents of the county who had, in effect, already paid for the computers once.
Besides, government's number one job is to be responsive to the desires of its constituents. Here's a case where they were (although the constituents behaved, well, poorly).
I guess that government can't win on
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Without getting into the reasons why a lot of what you suggested won't work, consider that these are four year old notebooks that have been through the hellish life of being "owned" by a high school student. Don't think for a minute that they're in the kind of shape that you'd keep your computer in.
Oh, and they sold for so cheap because that's what the taxpayers of the county asked the school district to do. The local paper's web site has quite a bit of coverage of the whole thing.
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And here is the true irony of the whole fiasco!
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...only on /.
Heheh, you should try opening a history book one of these days.
You'd be wong - but that's why you posted AC, right?
Weird - our IT department pushed the patches automatically last week. I guess they have better things to do with their time on a Sunday.
Well, the one mentioned in the article has been around since 2003 - at least, that's the last time that /. ran a story about it.
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Huh?
What happens if they install NetBSD on the kitchen sink?
No, I'm pretty sure that it's just a relatively slow processor - the machine has 2GB of RAM. But it's old tech - a 500MHz CPU, PC133 memory, you get the picture. Thanks though!
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I'm still less than enthralled with Gentoo. After a few attempts to install it on my SunBlade 100, I finally gave up. Somehow I think that the last thing that I want to do is compile every damn thing from scratch on a 500MHz UltraSPARC IIe processor. The machine sat there for several days just compiling X and KDE.
Fedora (Aurora) isn't any better - it's a torturous installation process that is fraught with opportunities for error.
So somebody tell me - what do I have to do to get Gentoo and KDE running on my Blade 100? I really don't like Solaris!
-h-
The only type of batteries I will accept in a digicam are standard AA or AAA, so I can use relatively cheap rechargeables and, in a pinch, can buy non-rechargeable stand-ins just about everywhere.
Of course, but try to find such a thing. I haven't seen one. (Only looked at consumer-end offerings)
It's hard to find them...if you don't look. Let's see - Canon, Fuji, Kodak and Nikon. And I only looked at the consumer-end offerings in my two minute search of Best Buy's web site.
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Well, thanks for letting your opinion be heard. Uh oh - nobody cares.
Or at least a big blowout.
Moore's a windbag who should be put in a cage match with Rush Limbaugh.
I'd watch that on pay per view!
So I was right. How 'bout that!
racketeering
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
My DSL service is through Qwest, but not the MSN service. Qwest is the ISP and the carrier. 1.5Mb down, 768Kb up, no hassles about servers of any kind. Blocks of 5 static IPs are $15 a month extra if you want 'em. I pay $65 a month. Tech support is excellent, the call center appears to be 24/7 in Phoenix, AZ. I've called a few times, never had any hassles about running Linux or Solaris, no problem that one of the machines is a Sun Blade 1000, no trouble about the network.
I was customer number 5 in the Boise area when they rolled DSL out in 1998. The level of customer service has been constant and the price has gone down while the speed has gone up. Since DSL competes very aggressively with cable here, this is probably a non-issue for me.
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