Well, the point I'm making is that the actions of Texas, or the actions of it's citizens can cause anti-US sentiment, just as the actions of Greece might cause anti-European sentiment, or the actions of Scotland might cause anti-British sentiment, or more confusingly anti-EU:). Nationalism by its very nature is all about stereotypes, xenophobia and irrationality, and it hardly stops to check which part of hierarchy is to blame, otherwise it would stop at the individuals who made the decision.
BP released the full version of the image they admit was shopped for style. Some claim this image is not of the 'HIVE' response center either and was taken in 2001. This version of the image shows indications on the monitors photographs that it was taken on 16/07/10. (See middle screen above white screen).
Title: HIVE at Houston Command Center 16 July 2010
Authors: Marc Morrison
Date Taken: 06/03/2001 3:16 p.m.
Program Name: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
OMG Fake? No... it also shows it was taken with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III... now this 20 megapixel camera wasn't out until 2008, and certainly wasn't around in 2001.
What is unexplained in this the large monitors in this shot are the window titles showing 'Microsoft Excel' but perhaps these are some custom Excel based application that BP uses to display the ROV video feeds.
So frankly I find this whole event uninteresting. Someone didn't set the date stamp in a camera or a system somewhere along the way.
This is not a isolated incident however, so why is BP photoshopping so many images and doing such a amateurish job of it? (Ok maybe that latter part needs no explanation).
So the real question is: why does someone with such questionable photography and photoshopping skills get to use such an awesome camera? Life isn't fair.
Chromium is also open source, so there is plenty of oversight into what is going on under the hood, just as with FF (funded mostly by Google anyway). Honestly I don't care for the silly debate, it makes no difference what browser you use, so long as its up to date, and not Internet Explorer.
Your life experience must be close to nil if you seriously believe that alcohol has a less "pronounced" effect than antidepressants, and evidently you have never heard of Alcohol Psychosis, nor the fact that the most commonly prescribed antideppresant; Fluoxetine, is almost indistinguishable from a placebo in clinical trials.
DNA fingerprints are not as random as many think. The markers used were not designed for a nation wide database situation. Hence collisions could be a big problem. That is two people with the same fingerprint (at least at the very small parts of DNA we look at) can in fact be very likely with a database this size.
The collision is a problem only if both are plausible suspects:
The Korean War vet in a California hospice is almost certainly not the serial rapist and killer who has been stalking women in New Jersey the past six months.
Yes, but unless they put everyone's DNA in the database, they couldn't guess at pluasability of all the collisions.
those who go hungry do so because of poor distribution, not because there isn't enough.
Or because they can't afford to buy imported food. Many economies are still primarily agrarian, so if there's no crops there's no money. Perhaps "world food shortage" was the wrong term, maybe I should have said, "worldwide localised food shortages".
And in theory a date problem 'could' cause a chain reaction that would blow up a power plant.
If critical infrastructure software were that fragile, we would have had serious issues way before "Y2K". However we know for certain that food supplies are fragile, and it is the unpredictability of the changes that climate change will bring that we are justifiably apprehensive about.
The perception of New York being flooded may be fanciful, but the effects on agriculture could be anything but. We could be talking real problems like droughts leading to world food shortages and in turn famine, perhaps that doesn't have the impact in peoples mind of a "Waterworld" type scenario, but the effects could be just as devastating.
I've been judicious and used the word "could' liberally, because no one knows for certain what changes will occur, or what those changes will entail for humanity, but they're definitely more serious than a few undelivered welfare checks.
Again, this requires a black-and-white view of the issue: is it murder or is it a woman's body part?
I submit that abortion can be a distasteful thing, though not necessarily on the same level as murder. Forcing a woman to bear a child which is the result of rape could easily be more disgusting than the act of abortion itself, depending on a person's moral compass.
I also find that people find abortions to be more distasteful the later that they are performed - another very fuzzy metric with no clear line.
^ Weasel words, either the foetus has rights, and consequentially the right to live, or it doesn't, the rape is irrelevant. Everyone finds murder distasteful, some find rugby "distasteful", but which of these infringes another persons rights? That's the question that should be asked.
I would say that the "rape" example is just a political tool used by the pro-choice movement to grab some fence sitters, just like the graphic images used to shock people towards the pro-life movement. Both of these are sophistry.
Yawn, perhaps it's because it's fucking boring hearing the position of an intellectual coward, someone who is motivated less by being "correct" and more about being in the "middle" of two contradictory philosophically conclusions. Perhaps it's because placing yourself between competing ideologies isn't an ideology at all. I'll give you a good example: Is it more interesting to compare the competing views of Keynes, Marx and Friedman or to just scrawl down the nice ineffectual "Democratic" opinions of Kevin Rudd ?
> Or, to put it differently, what part of "neutral" don't you understand?
Lemme toss a grenade into this subject and ask a better question.....
What the hell is wrong with you people? Who WANTS to be 'neutral' on the Taliban? If everyone here can't agree they are evil then there ain't no hope for our civilization. They executed a seven year old child. I don't give a rat's rear end why they did it. If they actually thought he was spying they are insane and if they did it to 'send a message' (more likely) then they are utterly, irredeemably wicked. And a society that can't bring itself to say that is doomed.
So tell me, exactly what use is it to mince words and make a point of ensuring the Taliban gets a NPV article like they are 'just another point of view, equal to every other?"
Um, because it's objective?, obviously civilisation has no hope if people can't describe facts without using emotive language.
Same goes for other "opportunistic" renewables. You might not be able to get 100% of your energy from hydro, but if you've got a good spot for a dam, you might as well dam it and reap the rewards.
I know this is just an example, but the construction of a hydro dam is probably a worse environmental disaster than Chernobyl, here in NZ people seem to think of it as "clean green" energy, but flooding acres upon acres of native bush is anything but.
To spell it out more directly; the harmful externalities I mentioned being an erosion in the quality and selection of medicine.
What you suggested earlier basically amounted to self policing; which of course is a feedback loop; industry shills disapproving medicines from competing countries or businesses, and approving their own poorly tested and dangerous medicines.
just like highly socialist governments, by theory, don't equal dictatorships. However, history seems to show otherwise.
Sorry, but you have too small of a sample size to say that, after all how many non-Leninist inspired socialist governments have there been? Trotskyism might give liberal democracy a run for its money, you don't know until you try it;).
On the other hand, I believe reducing economic liberty is unlikely to lead to greater social liberty. I think a good example that is that the increased cost to public health system is the main argument touted against ending "the war on drugs"; and actually a public health system is a good argument for not allowing people to take any risks whatsoever. Of course some "left libertarians", which I consider myself to be somewhat, would argue that the decreased policing costs would offset the increased health costs, or that there would be no increased health costs, but that feels to much like mental gymnastics. My solution is to give people some funds to go out and buy themselves private healthcare, or just buy some meth, if they must. The idea of a basic income seems to have support from both sides of the political spectrum.
You seem to be of the opinion that corporations, or companies, are generally useless. If that is your opinion, you are completely naive, and should go take an economics class and learn something.
This makes you seem like arrogant wanker, it is you who is being naive, capitalism is a highly efficient system of resource distribution, but if harmful externalities are given away for free, prepare to see them ignored.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, the point I'm making is that the actions of Texas, or the actions of it's citizens can cause anti-US sentiment, just as the actions of Greece might cause anti-European sentiment, or the actions of Scotland might cause anti-British sentiment, or more confusingly anti-EU :). Nationalism by its very nature is all about stereotypes, xenophobia and irrationality, and it hardly stops to check which part of hierarchy is to blame, otherwise it would stop at the individuals who made the decision.
BP released the full version of the image they admit was shopped for style. Some claim this image is not of the 'HIVE' response center either and was taken in 2001. This version of the image shows indications on the monitors photographs that it was taken on 16/07/10. (See middle screen above white screen).
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/images/HIVE_houston01.jpg
The clues are in the image metadata:
Title: HIVE at Houston Command Center 16 July 2010
Authors: Marc Morrison
Date Taken: 06/03/2001 3:16 p.m.
Program Name: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
OMG Fake? No... it also shows it was taken with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III ... now this 20 megapixel camera wasn't out until 2008, and certainly wasn't around in 2001.
What is unexplained in this the large monitors in this shot are the window titles showing 'Microsoft Excel' but perhaps these are some custom Excel based application that BP uses to display the ROV video feeds.
So frankly I find this whole event uninteresting. Someone didn't set the date stamp in a camera or a system somewhere along the way.
This is not a isolated incident however, so why is BP photoshopping so many images and doing such a amateurish job of it? (Ok maybe that latter part needs no explanation).
So the real question is: why does someone with such questionable photography and photoshopping skills get to use such an awesome camera? Life isn't fair.
Scotland is part of Britain.....
Chromium is also open source, so there is plenty of oversight into what is going on under the hood, just as with FF (funded mostly by Google anyway). Honestly I don't care for the silly debate, it makes no difference what browser you use, so long as its up to date, and not Internet Explorer.
Actually its: cmd /C start /affinity 1
prepend start /affinity 1 to your shortcut target, AFIK
W.T.F.
Your life experience must be close to nil if you seriously believe that alcohol has a less "pronounced" effect than antidepressants, and evidently you have never heard of Alcohol Psychosis, nor the fact that the most commonly prescribed antideppresant; Fluoxetine, is almost indistinguishable from a placebo in clinical trials.
DNA fingerprints are not as random as many think. The markers used were not designed for a nation wide database situation. Hence collisions could be a big problem. That is two people with the same fingerprint (at least at the very small parts of DNA we look at) can in fact be very likely with a database this size.
The collision is a problem only if both are plausible suspects:
The Korean War vet in a California hospice is almost certainly not the serial rapist and killer who has been stalking women in New Jersey the past six months.
Yes, but unless they put everyone's DNA in the database, they couldn't guess at pluasability of all the collisions.
? Last I heard there was no one starving to death in New Zealand. I was talking about places where people starve to death.
True, but I was talking about places that would be severely impacted by a destabilisation of climate, because their economy relies on agriculture.
Here in New Zealand, we have a primarily (~2/3) agrarian economy, and it has nothing to do with "poor governance".
those who go hungry do so because of poor distribution, not because there isn't enough.
Or because they can't afford to buy imported food. Many economies are still primarily agrarian, so if there's no crops there's no money. Perhaps "world food shortage" was the wrong term, maybe I should have said, "worldwide localised food shortages".
And in theory a date problem 'could' cause a chain reaction that would blow up a power plant.
If critical infrastructure software were that fragile, we would have had serious issues way before "Y2K". However we know for certain that food supplies are fragile, and it is the unpredictability of the changes that climate change will bring that we are justifiably apprehensive about.
The perception of New York being flooded may be fanciful, but the effects on agriculture could be anything but. We could be talking real problems like droughts leading to world food shortages and in turn famine, perhaps that doesn't have the impact in peoples mind of a "Waterworld" type scenario, but the effects could be just as devastating.
I've been judicious and used the word "could' liberally, because no one knows for certain what changes will occur, or what those changes will entail for humanity, but they're definitely more serious than a few undelivered welfare checks.
Something like Kaltura seems the best choice for now, it falls back on flash or Java playback in shitty browsers.
There are also ferrari tractors, unrelated to the sports car manufacturer though.
Assuming they're legal in your jurisdiction, why not use E-cigarettes?
Again, this requires a black-and-white view of the issue: is it murder or is it a woman's body part?
I submit that abortion can be a distasteful thing, though not necessarily on the same level as murder. Forcing a woman to bear a child which is the result of rape could easily be more disgusting than the act of abortion itself, depending on a person's moral compass.
I also find that people find abortions to be more distasteful the later that they are performed - another very fuzzy metric with no clear line.
^
Weasel words, either the foetus has rights, and consequentially the right to live, or it doesn't, the rape is irrelevant. Everyone finds murder distasteful, some find rugby "distasteful", but which of these infringes another persons rights?
That's the question that should be asked.
I would say that the "rape" example is just a political tool used by the pro-choice movement to grab some fence sitters, just like the graphic images used to shock people towards the pro-life movement. Both of these are sophistry.
Yawn, perhaps it's because it's fucking boring hearing the position of an intellectual coward, someone who is motivated less by being "correct" and more about being in the "middle" of two contradictory philosophically conclusions. Perhaps it's because placing yourself between competing ideologies isn't an ideology at all. I'll give you a good example: Is it more interesting to compare the competing views of Keynes, Marx and Friedman or to just scrawl down the nice ineffectual "Democratic" opinions of Kevin Rudd ?
> Or, to put it differently, what part of "neutral" don't you understand?
Lemme toss a grenade into this subject and ask a better question.....
What the hell is wrong with you people? Who WANTS to be 'neutral' on the Taliban? If everyone here can't agree they are evil then there ain't no hope for our civilization. They executed a seven year old child. I don't give a rat's rear end why they did it. If they actually thought he was spying they are insane and if they did it to 'send a message' (more likely) then they are utterly, irredeemably wicked. And a society that can't bring itself to say that is doomed.
So tell me, exactly what use is it to mince words and make a point of ensuring the Taliban gets a NPV article like they are 'just another point of view, equal to every other?"
Um, because it's objective?, obviously civilisation has no hope if people can't describe facts without using emotive language.
Same goes for other "opportunistic" renewables. You might not be able to get 100% of your energy from hydro, but if you've got a good spot for a dam, you might as well dam it and reap the rewards.
I know this is just an example, but the construction of a hydro dam is probably a worse environmental disaster than Chernobyl, here in NZ people seem to think of it as "clean green" energy, but flooding acres upon acres of native bush is anything but.
To spell it out more directly; the harmful externalities I mentioned being an erosion in the quality and selection of medicine.
What you suggested earlier basically amounted to self policing; which of course is a feedback loop; industry shills disapproving medicines from competing countries or businesses, and approving their own poorly tested and dangerous medicines.
just like highly socialist governments, by theory, don't equal dictatorships. However, history seems to show otherwise.
Sorry, but you have too small of a sample size to say that, after all how many non-Leninist inspired socialist governments have there been? Trotskyism might give liberal democracy a run for its money, you don't know until you try it ;).
On the other hand, I believe reducing economic liberty is unlikely to lead to greater social liberty. I think a good example that is that the increased cost to public health system is the main argument touted against ending "the war on drugs"; and actually a public health system is a good argument for not allowing people to take any risks whatsoever. Of course some "left libertarians", which I consider myself to be somewhat, would argue that the decreased policing costs would offset the increased health costs, or that there would be no increased health costs, but that feels to much like mental gymnastics. My solution is to give people some funds to go out and buy themselves private healthcare, or just buy some meth, if they must. The idea of a basic income seems to have support from both sides of the political spectrum.
You seem to be of the opinion that corporations, or companies, are generally useless. If that is your opinion, you are completely naive, and should go take an economics class and learn something.
This makes you seem like arrogant wanker, it is you who is being naive, capitalism is a highly efficient system of resource distribution, but if harmful externalities are given away for free, prepare to see them ignored.
You're just another sucker for mass-media folk devils. PCP does not alter your strength, just your pain tolerance.
Alcohol or even your Fight-or-flight response will also do this.
From Wikipedia:
The instantaneous speed v is defined as the magnitude of the instantaneous velocity v, that is the derivative of the position r with respect to time