Bomb squad is an army function, not a police function. At least, in Britain it is (the police have almost no need to handle weapons, after all).
I haven't checked the local paper recently, but I'd be surprised if it was more than a month since a fishing boat found a bomb, mine or just plain suspect device in their nets, and the blue-flashing light Land Rover went screaming off to one of the smaller harbours.
Seems like the police are taking the incompetent ("not my problem") way out. Perhaps they should weekly or monthly print out a map of geocaches in their area of responsibility.
... and by implication, inspect the new ones?
Or if they're not going to inspect them, and check that they really aren't bombs in a geocache, drug stashes, or kiddy porn swap shops... then what was the purpose of wasting that printer paper.
Say you've got 10 new caches in your area. You're sending an officer to inspect them. Actually, it'd have to be two officers, who can corroborate each other's evidence. That's about 2 man-days/month ; 24 man-days/year. About £5000/year.
Now, is that going to be paid by either the general population, or the members of geocaching clubs?
This is why the police like team sports that attract people to set locations at set times - there is someone they can bill.
But hey, what do I know. Being responsible and intelligent these days seems to have long fallen out of fashion.
Certainly with this particular geocacher. I'm sure the "rules" of geocaching do require people to avoid causing disturbance, avoid causing alarm, etc. But this particular guy didn't engage his brain before acting.
They didn't call the police out of humanity. They did it because the disruption you can get out of one bomb and ten bomb warnings is much, much higher, and served their political aims better than encouraging a "blitz" response which mass casualties would have produced. Whatever you think of their morality, the IRA were controlled by effective PR people. (This is possibly less true of the RIRA and CIRA, which make them individually more dangerous, but by reducing their support it neuters them politically.)
One of the tactics that have been used several times by several IRAs is to plant a bomb at one location, then call in bomb warnings relating to other nearby locations. The police then evacuate the areas around the threatened locations, which displaces people towards the true location of the bomb.
This is an effective strategy for killing people ; it is not a politically effective strategy. (See above comments comparing *IRA and which ones are politically effective.)
Since the IRA have been effectively shut down (it should be said by political action, not police or military action), British streets are slowly regaining their rubbish bins etc. I didn't realise how bare British streets of the 1980s were until I went abroad.
However, unfortunately some idiots are abusing it [geocaching] for more nefarious means. We are not jsut talkign about terrorists only here, but anyone like drug dealers, etc.
The local drug dealers round here were certainly burying caches in bushes on the local golf course back in the mid-90s, and I'd be pretty surprised if the idea hadn't occurred to them back in the 1970s. The element of using GPS devices is utterly unnecessary.
If I went out onto the golf course now and found a smack dealer burying a package (or digging one up), I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised (nor would the police ; they've got longer memories than the local smack heads). If one of them was using £100 worth of gadgetry to record it's location - or indeed had the intelligence to use one - I'd be much more surprised.
It's a racing certainty that all of the *IRA are getting some degree of funding from American individual fuckwits. And from individual Irish fuckwits. And probably some from Australian fuckwits. Fuckwits are such a readily-available resource in all parts of the world.
The right has been drooling over abolishing the minimum wage for decades, then we can see what real poverty looks like.
Adults brain-damaged by kwashiorkor in their youth ; mothers selling one child to get money to feed their other children ; annual cholera epidemics. A real return to "Victorian values".
The Right are also attacking public health, sanitation, and the legality of contraception too. You need to get rid of those too, to keep the masses properly in their place.
1.9 Inject selected bomb delivery person with AIDs, hepatitis of various sorts and any other nasty incurables you can find (SIV?). Do this shortly (hours only) before going to the airport to avoid the bomb delivery person developing symptoms. Oh go on - give him an hour with a houri who's got a severe dose of clap too, why not?
2. Just blowing up and splatting guts all over will drive everybody ape-shit.
And the bat-shit craziness as the injured and uninjured start realising that they're all infected from the mist of blood, guts and bits of bomber they breathed in.
At which point it becomes better to have few to no actual casualties on the plane itself. The terror comes from the months of stories of death and disease. So set the bomb off once the plane has loaded : the confined space is better for making sure the infection spreads comprehensively. So... set the bomb off on the train going to the airport.
Everyone in a public place of any sort will be absolutely petrified.
Result !
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The eco-terrorists could use this too, and wouldn't even need to kill anyone while developing the terror they desire (if not the support). All they'd need would be some moderately radioactive material - say some Fukushima cooling water - and a delivery device like a commercial firework. Take firework to a large plaza in the middle of a large city; launch and contaminate the entire city; walk away. The economic damage would be in the billions of whatever currency ; thousands would be killed in the rush to evacuate.
But the task presented was to "install and use" another OS. While Knoppix does have an install option, I wonder if it's really relevant to answering the purposes of the task.
Does the tutor want the pupils to get their fingers dirty with swapping hard drives, and in the process become more familiar with machines? I don't know (we're not told), but it's possible.
Does the tutor want people to get to understand (better) the meaning of partitions versus file systems? Possible.
Does the tutor want pupils to learn to differentiate between OS and application layer, leading them to realise that their GUI (Windows 7, MacOS, or X in various flavours) is but an application layer running on top of their actual OS? Without reading the course prospectus, I couldn't rule it out.
If it's a full appreciation of the implications of partitioning, choice of applications, distinction between OS and applications and (optional) GUI... hmmm, modern OSs do a pretty good job of hiding that from the user. I cut my Linux teeth making SlackWare boot floppies and using Yggdrasil, but I suspect that you'd run into hardware issues these days (OS to mo.bo. : "You've got 4GB of real memory? Pull the other one, it's got 64kb memory chips on it! Segfault.")
In the unlikely event that I were in the class when an assignment like this were handed out, I'd ask for more information about the marking scheme.
I'll be heretical : there's a PC-hardware version of Solaris. It's probably a total bitch to install because it'll do pretty much everything differently, and will assume the installer to be a battle-scarred admin.
One of my sisters borrowed the other sister's car for moving female sex goods to a site where she was having a sales party one evening.
Next morning, the other sister was taking her children to school, and didn't notice that they'd found a box of "ice breaker" chocolate penises in the back seat.
The children took the box of chocolates into school and shared them around their friends at break.
One of the teachers was given a chocolate by one of the children.
The cart (or horse) has just changed colour, from being "international trade deals" to "international free trade deals".
Most of the states that went up to make the original United States (and Canada too) were set up precisely for the purposes of accommodating malcontents and providing commodity goods (tobacco, and hopefully valuable minerals) to their various colonial owners. So transoceanic (if not necessarily "international", in the sense of between sovereign nations) trade was one of the main driving forces in their initial establishment.
The figure in TFS is wildly at odds with the figures in TFA. $20billion according to TFS ; up to "hundreds of millions of dollars" according to TFA. And frankly, TFA sounds more credible ; billions of dollars of gold, or jewels, or artefacts would swamp and suppress the market prices if they were released, which would in turn decrease the value of the hoard.
The temple's website is saying that the hoard's value is around "Rs 90000 Crore", which is 90,000 * 10^7 rupees, or 9*10^11 R, which I make to be about â14,151 million. Which is actually within reasonable range of the original $20billion quoted.
It still sounds like a laughing price to me. Put out a ridiculous estimate so that when the serious estimate comes in, people go "Pffft, it's not 1/20th of what we expected. It's not worth taxing!"
So why wasn't this same great logic [of inter-state minimum wage regulations] used when we started international trade deals?
Because the occurrence of international trade deals (and associated legislation) predates the US minimum wage regulations. The existence of international trade deals actually pre-date the US government by a considerable margin. Centuries of margin.
Cart, horse, rearrange.
I actually suspect that I'd be in agreement with you on the economic/ political ideas, if I thought that there would be any benefit from studying them. But since human greed will win, what's the point?
You want the US to ally again with yet more dictators that torture their own people?
FTFY
And to answer the question, no I don't want the US to ally itself with yet more murderous dictators, but I do expect that the US will ally itself with more murderous dictators. The principle constraint would be a shortage of murderous dictators with something that the US wants who the US are not already allied with.
And I'd expect my government to behave no differently to the US government. After all, they're both composed of politicians and lawyers.
"Heh" yourself. But I *am* a grumpy bastard (not quite sure what "douchebag" means in your language ; the way you use it, it sounds perjorative, but there's nothing particularly perjorative about a bag that you take into the shower. Whatever. Your language, not mine) in private and in public, and I feel no shame about it.
So, I assume that you have no concerns about being considered a fool in public?
Roundabouts (or rotaries, or traffic circles, as they're known in parts of the U.S.) induce confusion and fear in many drivers,
Correct. And that is their purpose. By making drivers uncomfortable and unsure and afraid, they help slow down drivers, which reduces the impact (literally) of collisions, reduces their frequency, and reduces the severity of resulting injuries.
Making drivers comfortable is not part of the consideration.
Having said that, here in Britain where they're very popular, they have almost lost their sting. Understanding their use is part of almost every driving examination (some of the outer islands may not have any roundabouts to practise on, but they'd still be in the written exams), so most people know how to handle them. Having said that, it's only a few weeks since I last saw someone driving the wrong way around a busy roundabout.
Plus, some places make a rotary out of a 5-way intersection which can be incredibly confusing. It's a tradeoff, I guess, but overall I'd rather drive in a straight line:)
That's a good reason to make it impossible for you to drive in a straight line.
Assuming that you're actually interested in the answer, look in the Nature GeoScience abstract linked from TFA. Without giving the full methodology (that $18), they would appear to have done a lab study of archived seabed sediment samples from previous oceanographic sampling expeditions, and found significant but variable amounts of REE+Yttrium. Obviously you'd look to mine in the highest yield areas, which according to the abstract graphics are around the East Pacific Rise.
Which suggests a lot (to me) about how these deposits are being formed.
Nearest coasts - a toss-up between New Zealand, Chile/ Peru/ Ecuador, and possibly some of the French bomb sites.
and don't impact the biosphere like surface plankton,
You have some evidence to back up this assertion?
who gives a shit?
Here is some evidence to to consider in your attempting to answer this question : until you've demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that your above assertions are actually true, I give a shit. More about the second assertion than the first, but I do give a shit.
Then again, I was one of the people cheering when Shell abandoned their attempts to dump the Brent Spar - and I was actually at lunch on a Shell oil installation, talking to a Shell OWE(*) when the news broke. He was cheering too, despite being a Shellie.
(*) - Offshore Well Engineer ; "Company Man" in most companies, but Shell Do It Differently.
Random items of knowledge #3479542 : Napoleon had a dinner service made of aluminium. It was worth far more than it's weight in gold. Literally. Very literally.
Most people don't appreciate just how much of a stunning advance the cryolite process was.
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I haven't checked the local paper recently, but I'd be surprised if it was more than a month since a fishing boat found a bomb, mine or just plain suspect device in their nets, and the blue-flashing light Land Rover went screaming off to one of the smaller harbours.
Or if they're not going to inspect them, and check that they really aren't bombs in a geocache, drug stashes, or kiddy porn swap shops ... then what was the purpose of wasting that printer paper.
Say you've got 10 new caches in your area. You're sending an officer to inspect them. Actually, it'd have to be two officers, who can corroborate each other's evidence. That's about 2 man-days/month ; 24 man-days/year. About £5000/year.
Now, is that going to be paid by either the general population, or the members of geocaching clubs?
This is why the police like team sports that attract people to set locations at set times - there is someone they can bill.
Certainly with this particular geocacher. I'm sure the "rules" of geocaching do require people to avoid causing disturbance, avoid causing alarm, etc. But this particular guy didn't engage his brain before acting.
(This is possibly less true of the RIRA and CIRA, which make them individually more dangerous, but by reducing their support it neuters them politically.)
One of the tactics that have been used several times by several IRAs is to plant a bomb at one location, then call in bomb warnings relating to other nearby locations. The police then evacuate the areas around the threatened locations, which displaces people towards the true location of the bomb.
This is an effective strategy for killing people ; it is not a politically effective strategy. (See above comments comparing *IRA and which ones are politically effective.)
Since the IRA have been effectively shut down (it should be said by political action, not police or military action), British streets are slowly regaining their rubbish bins etc. I didn't realise how bare British streets of the 1980s were until I went abroad.
The local drug dealers round here were certainly burying caches in bushes on the local golf course back in the mid-90s, and I'd be pretty surprised if the idea hadn't occurred to them back in the 1970s. The element of using GPS devices is utterly unnecessary.
If I went out onto the golf course now and found a smack dealer burying a package (or digging one up), I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised (nor would the police ; they've got longer memories than the local smack heads). If one of them was using £100 worth of gadgetry to record it's location - or indeed had the intelligence to use one - I'd be much more surprised.
It's a racing certainty that all of the *IRA are getting some degree of funding from American individual fuckwits. And from individual Irish fuckwits. And probably some from Australian fuckwits. Fuckwits are such a readily-available resource in all parts of the world.
Adults brain-damaged by kwashiorkor in their youth ; mothers selling one child to get money to feed their other children ; annual cholera epidemics.
A real return to "Victorian values".
The Right are also attacking public health, sanitation, and the legality of contraception too. You need to get rid of those too, to keep the masses properly in their place.
It worked for Tsar Nicholas, didn't it?
And the bat-shit craziness as the injured and uninjured start realising that they're all infected from the mist of blood, guts and bits of bomber they breathed in.
At which point it becomes better to have few to no actual casualties on the plane itself. The terror comes from the months of stories of death and disease. So set the bomb off once the plane has loaded : the confined space is better for making sure the infection spreads comprehensively. So ... set the bomb off on the train going to the airport.
Everyone in a public place of any sort will be absolutely petrified.
Result !
.
.
.
The eco-terrorists could use this too, and wouldn't even need to kill anyone while developing the terror they desire (if not the support). All they'd need would be some moderately radioactive material - say some Fukushima cooling water - and a delivery device like a commercial firework. Take firework to a large plaza in the middle of a large city; launch and contaminate the entire city; walk away. The economic damage would be in the billions of whatever currency ; thousands would be killed in the rush to evacuate.
Total terror.
Very high benefit:cost ratio.
But the task presented was to "install and use" another OS. While Knoppix does have an install option, I wonder if it's really relevant to answering the purposes of the task.
If it's a full appreciation of the implications of partitioning, choice of applications, distinction between OS and applications and (optional) GUI ... hmmm, modern OSs do a pretty good job of hiding that from the user. I cut my Linux teeth making SlackWare boot floppies and using Yggdrasil, but I suspect that you'd run into hardware issues these days (OS to mo.bo. : "You've got 4GB of real memory? Pull the other one, it's got 64kb memory chips on it! Segfault.")
In the unlikely event that I were in the class when an assignment like this were handed out, I'd ask for more information about the marking scheme.
I'll be heretical : there's a PC-hardware version of Solaris. It's probably a total bitch to install because it'll do pretty much everything differently, and will assume the installer to be a battle-scarred admin.
Or one of the *BSD, for similar reasons.
Well, if I was marking, that would be my approach.
[in the voice of the moustachio-ed MythBuster]
"If in doubt, use more C4"
One of my sisters borrowed the other sister's car for moving female sex goods to a site where she was having a sales party one evening.
Next morning, the other sister was taking her children to school, and didn't notice that they'd found a box of "ice breaker" chocolate penises in the back seat.
The children took the box of chocolates into school and shared them around their friends at break.
One of the teachers was given a chocolate by one of the children.
"Fun and games" ensued.
Most of the states that went up to make the original United States (and Canada too) were set up precisely for the purposes of accommodating malcontents and providing commodity goods (tobacco, and hopefully valuable minerals) to their various colonial owners. So transoceanic (if not necessarily "international", in the sense of between sovereign nations) trade was one of the main driving forces in their initial establishment.
The temple's website is saying that the hoard's value is around "Rs 90000 Crore", which is 90,000 * 10^7 rupees, or 9*10^11 R, which I make to be about â14,151 million. Which is actually within reasonable range of the original $20billion quoted.
It still sounds like a laughing price to me. Put out a ridiculous estimate so that when the serious estimate comes in, people go "Pffft, it's not 1/20th of what we expected. It's not worth taxing!"
Because the occurrence of international trade deals (and associated legislation) predates the US minimum wage regulations. The existence of international trade deals actually pre-date the US government by a considerable margin. Centuries of margin.
Cart, horse, rearrange.
I actually suspect that I'd be in agreement with you on the economic/ political ideas, if I thought that there would be any benefit from studying them. But since human greed will win, what's the point?
FTFY
And to answer the question, no I don't want the US to ally itself with yet more murderous dictators, but I do expect that the US will ally itself with more murderous dictators. The principle constraint would be a shortage of murderous dictators with something that the US wants who the US are not already allied with.
And I'd expect my government to behave no differently to the US government. After all, they're both composed of politicians and lawyers.
So, I assume that you have no concerns about being considered a fool in public?
Correct. And that is their purpose. By making drivers uncomfortable and unsure and afraid, they help slow down drivers, which reduces the impact (literally) of collisions, reduces their frequency, and reduces the severity of resulting injuries.
Making drivers comfortable is not part of the consideration.
Having said that, here in Britain where they're very popular, they have almost lost their sting. Understanding their use is part of almost every driving examination (some of the outer islands may not have any roundabouts to practise on, but they'd still be in the written exams), so most people know how to handle them. Having said that, it's only a few weeks since I last saw someone driving the wrong way around a busy roundabout.
That's a good reason to make it impossible for you to drive in a straight line.
You'd love this one : the Magic Roundabout, and that is it's real name.
Errr, no. We're humans, so let's just strip mine the planet and shit in our own back yard.
Next question?
Assuming that you're actually interested in the answer, look in the Nature GeoScience abstract linked from TFA. Without giving the full methodology (that $18), they would appear to have done a lab study of archived seabed sediment samples from previous oceanographic sampling expeditions, and found significant but variable amounts of REE+Yttrium. Obviously you'd look to mine in the highest yield areas, which according to the abstract graphics are around the East Pacific Rise.
Which suggests a lot (to me) about how these deposits are being formed.
Nearest coasts - a toss-up between New Zealand, Chile/ Peru/ Ecuador, and possibly some of the French bomb sites.
I assume that you're trying to make some sort of joke. Of course, if you'd actually RTFA, you'd know what a fool you're making of yourself in public.
It's a big, deep water, DP drilling installation. That's be in the order of 150 to 200 k$ per day rental, if you want it.
Japan actually, but why let facts get in the way of mindless patriotic bigotry?
You have some evidence to back up this assertion?
You have some evidence to back up this assertion?
Here is some evidence to to consider in your attempting to answer this question : until you've demonstrated, to my satisfaction, that your above assertions are actually true, I give a shit. More about the second assertion than the first, but I do give a shit.
Then again, I was one of the people cheering when Shell abandoned their attempts to dump the Brent Spar - and I was actually at lunch on a Shell oil installation, talking to a Shell OWE(*) when the news broke. He was cheering too, despite being a Shellie.
(*) - Offshore Well Engineer ; "Company Man" in most companies, but Shell Do It Differently.
Most people don't appreciate just how much of a stunning advance the cryolite process was.
No one is. (As an offshore oil geologist, I'm likely a lot closer to being a deep sea miner than you are, and I certainly don't claim to be a DSM.)
Not quite : "ore" and "gangue".
As you say, one years gangue can become the next years ore, as prices fluctuate.