Really, working in the screwy imperial system just isn't a big deal to normal people. You don't do anything that needs inter-unit conversion which is where metric shines.
Yes, but normal generally aren't trying to land probes on Mars.
Yeah, I thought he was talking about the way TOR works too. It took me several reads to realise he was making a joke. Then a nother couple to convince myself that anyone would make a joke that bad.
You could find a way to word it. Someone could think of a legitimate way to end up with a truckload of the stuff. At some point you have to stop trying to legislate numbers and just let common sense take over.
Still good for +4 Informative though. There's at least a contingent around here who love they're correct grammar.
Further more, that seems to be the only comment on this story that's been upmodded. Wtf people? Do you have nothing to talk about other than apostrophe use?
There were emergency evacuation plans in place. These were put in place because people had sat down in a calm setting and worked out the best ways to get everyone safely off the platform. There are temporary refuges on (most) platforms. These are designed to keep you safe from the fires/explosions for at least an hour. When it looks like the fires are serious enough that you have to get right off the platform there are more plans that will get everyone off safely - everyone jumping off the side usually leads to most people breaking their necks when they hit the water, and the rest dying from the cold.
Jumping into a tiny escape boat is not something people want to do in most situations, so they were waiting in the refuge to see what was going to happen. 'Authority' is probably not the best word to use here, it refers to the people with the experience to know what's going to happen, and full knowledge of the situation at hand.
The only people who survived Piper Alpha were the ones who ignored the plan. A lot of these people were seriously injured when they hit the water, and a lot of them did not survive. This makes it fairly clear that the plan wasn't good enough.
The lessons we've learned from that event have changed the way we write our evacuation plans. There are still people in charge with the authority to direct the evacuation, but everyone now knows the procedures. If no-one has told you to get off the platform but you've been sitting in the refuge for an hour you know should know how to get off the platform safely.
In the past, when the climate was varying on it's own increases in temperature preceded increases in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere because something else started us heating up, which caused CO2 to be released from the oceans, which caused the temperature to continue to increase. Classic feedback loop.
In the cycle we are currently experiencing, we can see that CO2 levels began increasing in the 1800s, but the temperature did not begin increasing until the 1900s. This indicates that there was no other factor involved, and we've kicked off the feedback loop in the middle using CO2.
It makes it a little more complex at least. Everyone streaming Netflix at 7pm when they get home from work stresses the network. A few guys torrenting Linux isos overnight doesn't put anywhere near that level of strain on the network.
You'd have to do something like off-peak plans that a lot of electric companies provide. You want it at the same time as everyone else, then it costs you $x, but if you wait until midnight then you can get it for $x/2.
Didn't Capt. Jack have a sonic blaster or something? It's possible to stab someone with a normal screwdriver, so you could probably find a way to hurt someone with a sonic screwdriver.
If people had decency they wouldn't need the GPS in the first place, this story wouldn't have been written and you wouldn't have made that comment! Does that count as a paradox?
If he wanted to get them removed before the trial started I'd go along with you on that point, but he just wants to cover them up so the jury can't see them. He's not dealing with everyday life inside prison any more.
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Wow. That was epic. You win the internet.
Really, working in the screwy imperial system just isn't a big deal to normal people. You don't do anything that needs inter-unit conversion which is where metric shines.
Yes, but normal generally aren't trying to land probes on Mars.
Straight Dope was good this morning wasn't it?
Yeah, I thought he was talking about the way TOR works too. It took me several reads to realise he was making a joke. Then a nother couple to convince myself that anyone would make a joke that bad.
You could find a way to word it. Someone could think of a legitimate way to end up with a truckload of the stuff. At some point you have to stop trying to legislate numbers and just let common sense take over.
Yeah, but people also rate these joke comments, so it is often quite hard to find the signal amongst the noise.
Still good for +4 Informative though. There's at least a contingent around here who love they're correct grammar.
Further more, that seems to be the only comment on this story that's been upmodded. Wtf people? Do you have nothing to talk about other than apostrophe use?
There were emergency evacuation plans in place. These were put in place because people had sat down in a calm setting and worked out the best ways to get everyone safely off the platform. There are temporary refuges on (most) platforms. These are designed to keep you safe from the fires/explosions for at least an hour. When it looks like the fires are serious enough that you have to get right off the platform there are more plans that will get everyone off safely - everyone jumping off the side usually leads to most people breaking their necks when they hit the water, and the rest dying from the cold.
Jumping into a tiny escape boat is not something people want to do in most situations, so they were waiting in the refuge to see what was going to happen. 'Authority' is probably not the best word to use here, it refers to the people with the experience to know what's going to happen, and full knowledge of the situation at hand.
The only people who survived Piper Alpha were the ones who ignored the plan. A lot of these people were seriously injured when they hit the water, and a lot of them did not survive. This makes it fairly clear that the plan wasn't good enough.
The lessons we've learned from that event have changed the way we write our evacuation plans. There are still people in charge with the authority to direct the evacuation, but everyone now knows the procedures. If no-one has told you to get off the platform but you've been sitting in the refuge for an hour you know should know how to get off the platform safely.
Yes, I am a safety engineer.
In the past, when the climate was varying on it's own increases in temperature preceded increases in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere because something else started us heating up, which caused CO2 to be released from the oceans, which caused the temperature to continue to increase. Classic feedback loop.
In the cycle we are currently experiencing, we can see that CO2 levels began increasing in the 1800s, but the temperature did not begin increasing until the 1900s. This indicates that there was no other factor involved, and we've kicked off the feedback loop in the middle using CO2.
"You can no more win a war than win an earthquake."
I forget who said that. I think it might have been Mother Teresa.
Pearl Harbour was Japan, yet the US were there on the Beaches of Normandy. Are you suggesting that they're just really bad a geography?
It makes it a little more complex at least. Everyone streaming Netflix at 7pm when they get home from work stresses the network. A few guys torrenting Linux isos overnight doesn't put anywhere near that level of strain on the network.
You'd have to do something like off-peak plans that a lot of electric companies provide. You want it at the same time as everyone else, then it costs you $x, but if you wait until midnight then you can get it for $x/2.
I can, but it's more like a Japanese cartoon than a Mythbusters episode.
Didn't Capt. Jack have a sonic blaster or something? It's possible to stab someone with a normal screwdriver, so you could probably find a way to hurt someone with a sonic screwdriver.
I was impressed. It looked just like Arnie in his younger days. When it's used well CG these days is awesome!
Kind of like this:
http://nukees.com/d/20020916.html
Quite often yes.
Sometimes I use my computer for tasks other than posting to /.
OMG, that's the devil's number two and two third times, with a one in front of it! It's a sign! That solar blast was the beginning of the apocalypse!
If people had decency they wouldn't need the GPS in the first place, this story wouldn't have been written and you wouldn't have made that comment! Does that count as a paradox?
But won't the free market sort it out?
If he wanted to get them removed before the trial started I'd go along with you on that point, but he just wants to cover them up so the jury can't see them. He's not dealing with everyday life inside prison any more.
Thanks for changing the topic, the other one was a bit long and taking up too much of the screen to be able to read it easily.
So it's the whole 200-line that's dedicated to 'your mum' posts?
Not a 'your mum' comment, so you switched out the account. You could have just said, 'yes.'
But you still gave your hard earned money to people who won't even let you play a computer game in return.