If this number includes the manufacturer ramping up the design and all the engineers needed to fully test and QA the thing, I could understand.
But if they have one completed and running and all this cost is just communicating information to the feds (generating paper work) then it is indeed infuckingsane.
(D) the information is retrieved for the purpose of determining the need for, or facilitating, emergency medical response in response to a motor vehicle crash.
Calling Bullshit. The only information necessary for this is the G forces to which the passengers were subjected.
I'm fairly Right Wing and just uttering those words makes me feel queasy.
But I have to say that when it comes to U.S. chartered companies outsourcing the majority of their employees and work over seas, I have a problem.
Despite Globalization, I believe there is still something to be said for "dancing with the one who brung ya". At the very least, these companies have benefited from the U.S Legal and industrial infrastructure. I'm not saying that the Feds made IBM possible, but it was a symbiotic relationship that grew over time. The U.S. (Feds, state and private) is a BIG customer and As such, I think a reasonable person can say that IBM and other large U.S. companies "owe" something to the U.S. and its workers.
The problem is how to you persuade them to honor that debt without completely stomping all over the existing Business environment?
I knew a guy who was a Music Education major at a university well known for its music program. After finals, he and his friends were partying it up and he mooned some people from his second story window.
Well a mom and her kids were also down there. He was convicted of indecency and because kids were "involved" he was considered a sex offender and had to register. I don't know what he's doing now, but it ain't teaching music to kids in a public school.
The fact is that the Left and Obama in particular have used Bush as an excuse for everything. They do so to excess, to the point of it being a Saturday Night Live parody.
As for going back 8 years, things were going as well as could be expected after 9/11 until about 2007, when the Dems got a hold of the check book again.
I, for one, do look back with fondness on the dollar something a gallon gas and the 4 something percent unemployment rate.
Poor little leftist thinks Obama is being unfairly attacked.
They fact is that your guy took credit for the raid. He made it seem as if HE put into place the mechanisms to find him, HE made some difficult decision to go ahead and then lauded himself for making it.
If you can't see that, all I can say is that the Kool Aid has blurred your vision.
Be that as it may, if they had just let the fire burn, the rig may not have sank, which busted the pipe and caused the massive spill. They could have worked the unit on the sea floor while most of the oil was burned off topside.
I do remember some newsbabe saying that the EPA insisted they try to douse the flames due to the "pollution" it was causing.
An distinguished British airline pilot in his sixties had just landed at Berlin Tegel Airport airport, which is notorious for having miles and miles of taxiways. Ground control instructed the pilot to turn left at the next intersection, but as some intersection had six taxiways, he took he "wrong" left.
Irate, Berlin Ground Control berated the pilot and sarcastically ask if he had ever been to Berlin before. The pilot responded in a very aristocratic British accent, "Yes, but it was a long time ago, at night. And I didn't land."
I had an uncle who was a navigator in B-17s during the war. But I suppose unless I provide copies of commissions, orders, crew manifests, you won't believe me either?
Seriously, he was making a point about how pilots should Fly the Plane first and foremost.
If all the energy: political, intellectual and capital were put toward modernizing and implementing nuclear power, we would be well on the way towards rendering all of this crap moot.
We could tell the Mideast to fuck off, we wouldn't have to be drilling in deep waters, we probably could get away without fracking, energy prices would stabilize and probably go down, etc. etc.
Instead, one side is essentially advocating we live in caves and eat nuts and twigs and the other side is telling them to fuck off and die.
One the one hand you are just being disingenuous now. Because for the sake of a Slashdot discussion, "sea level" is more than an adequate suggestion of 1 atmosphere.
But on the other hand, you prove the point that the AGW hypothesis has no boiling pot experiment. So you deny anyone the opportunity to falsify it.
And as I pointed out, simply because no one has falsified it, does not mean that it is true. You have to have your boiling pot.
And making another assertion (that blue fairies causes GW for instance) and proving it does not necessarily speak to your assertion.
What you have here is the AGW people who claim that it's getting hotter and it's our fault. Others question their data, their methods and logic and in fact have found real problems with all of it. But the AGW people don't say, here is our proof, our experiment, try it yourself, they say, come up with a better explanation, and, BTW, get your own data.
Last I heard, Science is not saying that something makes the most sense, it is saying that something has been proven in a experiment that can be replicated by others, using the same data and methods...the boiling pot.
And as I also mentioned, the theory of relativity does have many boiling pots...bending light around a star and time differences after one synchronized clock experiences high velocities, just to name two high school examples.
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$100m is cheap.
This, is why we are 15 trillion dollars in debt.
If this number includes the manufacturer ramping up the design and all the engineers needed to fully test and QA the thing, I could understand.
But if they have one completed and running and all this cost is just communicating information to the feds (generating paper work) then it is indeed infuckingsane.
"Ameren said the application process could cost $80 million to $100 million and take four years."
You get into an injury accident, they always send the Calvary: Ambulance, Fire and Police.
(D) the information is retrieved for the purpose of determining the need for, or facilitating, emergency medical response in response to a motor vehicle crash.
Calling Bullshit. The only information necessary for this is the G forces to which the passengers were subjected.
I'm fairly Right Wing and just uttering those words makes me feel queasy.
But I have to say that when it comes to U.S. chartered companies outsourcing the majority of their employees and work over seas, I have a problem.
Despite Globalization, I believe there is still something to be said for "dancing with the one who brung ya". At the very least, these companies have benefited from the U.S Legal and industrial infrastructure. I'm not saying that the Feds made IBM possible, but it was a symbiotic relationship that grew over time. The U.S. (Feds, state and private) is a BIG customer and As such, I think a reasonable person can say that IBM and other large U.S. companies "owe" something to the U.S. and its workers.
The problem is how to you persuade them to honor that debt without completely stomping all over the existing Business environment?
Hannibal? Is that you?
I knew a guy who was a Music Education major at a university well known for its music program. After finals, he and his friends were partying it up and he mooned some people from his second story window.
Well a mom and her kids were also down there. He was convicted of indecency and because kids were "involved" he was considered a sex offender and had to register. I don't know what he's doing now, but it ain't teaching music to kids in a public school.
This was about 1985 or so in CA.
...who really gives a shit about what Greenpeace thinks?
Now, that's a narrative I've yet to hear.
The fact is that the Left and Obama in particular have used Bush as an excuse for everything. They do so to excess, to the point of it being a Saturday Night Live parody.
As for going back 8 years, things were going as well as could be expected after 9/11 until about 2007, when the Dems got a hold of the check book again.
I, for one, do look back with fondness on the dollar something a gallon gas and the 4 something percent unemployment rate.
Poor little leftist thinks Obama is being unfairly attacked.
They fact is that your guy took credit for the raid. He made it seem as if HE put into place the mechanisms to find him, HE made some difficult decision to go ahead and then lauded himself for making it.
If you can't see that, all I can say is that the Kool Aid has blurred your vision.
Be that as it may, if they had just let the fire burn, the rig may not have sank, which busted the pipe and caused the massive spill. They could have worked the unit on the sea floor while most of the oil was burned off topside.
I do remember some newsbabe saying that the EPA insisted they try to douse the flames due to the "pollution" it was causing.
Ironic.
There also has to be consequences for you actions, like stealing from your customers.
I remember that announcement....
"I...I...I...I...My...I...My...I....I...I..." etc.
So in this analogy Bush is Hitler?
It would seem that many fervently believe this in general. And they invoke Bush in the same manner as they do Hitler.
earning a 'D' rating for its failure to enact any meaningful legislation in response to the disaster.
Because anytime anything goes wrong, Congress should pass yet another law to cover it.
I seem to recall that the reason the rig sank in the first place, which jacked up the pipe at the well head, was firefighting efforts swamped it
Here they are
An distinguished British airline pilot in his sixties had just landed at Berlin Tegel Airport airport, which is notorious for having miles and miles of taxiways. Ground control instructed the pilot to turn left at the next intersection, but as some intersection had six taxiways, he took he "wrong" left.
Irate, Berlin Ground Control berated the pilot and sarcastically ask if he had ever been to Berlin before. The pilot responded in a very aristocratic British accent, "Yes, but it was a long time ago, at night. And I didn't land."
You want him to "support the claim"?
I had an uncle who was a navigator in B-17s during the war. But I suppose unless I provide copies of commissions, orders, crew manifests, you won't believe me either?
Seriously, he was making a point about how pilots should Fly the Plane first and foremost.
"support the claim"....what BS.
Oh God, here come the Vegans.
Everything he knows about nuclear energy he learned from Jane Fonda in the China Syndrome.
This AC and those who think like him and openly advocate for these positions are the reason that the AGW crowd is losing the debate.
If all the energy: political, intellectual and capital were put toward modernizing and implementing nuclear power, we would be well on the way towards rendering all of this crap moot.
We could tell the Mideast to fuck off, we wouldn't have to be drilling in deep waters, we probably could get away without fracking, energy prices would stabilize and probably go down, etc. etc.
Instead, one side is essentially advocating we live in caves and eat nuts and twigs and the other side is telling them to fuck off and die.
Stupid, useless waste of time.
One the one hand you are just being disingenuous now. Because for the sake of a Slashdot discussion, "sea level" is more than an adequate suggestion of 1 atmosphere.
But on the other hand, you prove the point that the AGW hypothesis has no boiling pot experiment. So you deny anyone the opportunity to falsify it.
And as I pointed out, simply because no one has falsified it, does not mean that it is true. You have to have your boiling pot.
And making another assertion (that blue fairies causes GW for instance) and proving it does not necessarily speak to your assertion.
What you have here is the AGW people who claim that it's getting hotter and it's our fault. Others question their data, their methods and logic and in fact have found real problems with all of it. But the AGW people don't say, here is our proof, our experiment, try it yourself, they say, come up with a better explanation, and, BTW, get your own data.
Last I heard, Science is not saying that something makes the most sense, it is saying that something has been proven in a experiment that can be replicated by others, using the same data and methods...the boiling pot.
And as I also mentioned, the theory of relativity does have many boiling pots...bending light around a star and time differences after one synchronized clock experiences high velocities, just to name two high school examples.
And BTW, the theory of relativity is replete with boiling pot experiment opportunities.