OK the only way this makes sense is to drill small holes and drive wedges. And also use air powered tools.....
It does not make sense to use explosives short of a large rock fall, cave in situation where the break is not toward a living person.
Storage of any type of explosive today is expensive. When you have no funding then BBQ for the group funded by the group seems to be the only bit that works in my mind.
Explosives are not gentle or safe in the proximity of living people. It is true that rock and tunnels let you get close but close behind a conveyor belt mat is too darn close by my standards. I could perhaps have my mind changed... but....
100% agreed. Most professionals agree that you should need a license to handle anything above 110V.
Except that some folk believe 220VAC is safer than 120VAC.
They say higher voltage is more likely to cause muscles to violently twitch causing you to be thrown away before your internal temperature reaches 125F (for you silly fish).
As others might chime in it is not the voltage it is the voltage combined with current that kills. Two pads soaked in a conductive salt and a modest number of car batteries in series will cook you and hardly cause a twitch. It is no longer allowed to do the classic frog leg tricks in Biology class but it does demonstrate the issue. And once the legs are separated from the brain after the frog has been quickly dispatched it is hard to make a case that the frog can feel the shock to their dismembered bits.
What is that TV exercise gimmick that uses electric charges to tense and relax the abdominal muscles to give you a lean tight six pack at the same time you pour a six pack of beer down the throat? I for get but the reality is they do not hurt, you just twitch.
Our main (UK, north) cave rescue team routinely practice cutting boulders in the 1-2m size range apart in order to retrieve a casualty (sometimes human, mostly mannequin), from where they're "trapped". It's not difficult. You use an 8mm diameter, long masonry drill, and 6mm (1/4 in) "Primacord", also known as "det cord", "shock cord", or "washing line", with random clay to hold the cord in place. Lots of little holes, lots of little lengths of high brisance "bang", a main line to transmit the det to each length of "working charge" (which is what det cord is designed for anyway), and tough fabric (i.e. conveyor belt material) to protect the casualty from flying debris.
It is as impressive as fuck. It still takes some balls to volunteer as the casualty though. Just because Hollywood celebrates people whose only answer is "you're going to need a bigger bang", doesn't mean that there aren't some real artistes with explosives out there.
Have you ever heard of using explosives in manufacturing precision components?
Yes, I have heard of this...and what you outlined is darn close to what I have seen or done myself.
Yes, a practiced and well schooled blaster can do astounding work.
Using a living volunteer to practice this stuff on or around is fracking foolish. Better drag down a side of pig, lamb or beef that still has the hide attached.... Have a pit roast BBQ the next day.
As for precision components I am sure none in Switzerland use explosives in the making of time pieces. Tell me more....
Obvious yes... Given the generations of hardware many would do well to load Ubuntu or another Linux distro...
selling patches... heck patches would quickly show up on bit torrent sites... with no verification....
Cut it down to monthly or bi monthly and make a big RED download screen... You can get them but you must work equally hard as a Publisher Clearing house sweepstakes entry to get there from here.
Doesn't sound like anything a bit of dynamite couldn't handle.
You need to have something on top of the dynamite to direct the explosive forces into the boulder (presumed) [on this side of the Pond we call it "tamping the charge" ; probably the same word root as "tampon"]. Which you could achieve in various ways, but you need to get your big expensive machinery out of harms way first. By that point, you can probably do the job with a large construction drill, a 30mm drill bit, and a half-stick of "bang". If the first half-stick doesn't work, use your drill in the remainder of the drilled hole as a starter and repeat the performance.
Almost... What ever this is is BIG.
It would take a lot of holes. If you drive along a lot of road cuts you might notice nice linear drill holes 18"-24" apart nicely split into half.
In this case with no face to break to a three by three starter might be needed with each hole 3" to 5" inches apart. Then opposite sides shot to break toward the middle and clean out an opening (face) that additional shots can break into. If it is a boulder then knowing where the outer ring is to break is a challenge. If you could turn it to gravel in an instant there would be nothing holding the hole open and you might have another type of failure.
Another possible solution might present itself if this is a big spinning boulder. By drilling some holes through the block grout could be pumped to the far side and cement the block in place for the big machine to polish off. Cement does not help in mud but in mud it could be replaced with super chilled coolant to freeze solid a largish surrounding area and supporting collar to work on the block.
I doubt there is enough ventilation in place to permit a cutting lance but heat and cold could improve the result from smaller explosives. Because of the expensive equipment I expect high brisance (expensive perhaps dangerous) compounds and lots of small holes and timed detonations to limit then allow the gasses to vent enough to not damage the big drill.
For comparison the delay of a like tunneling project took seven months to resolve and the entire project was stalled, very large support crew laid off, new city managers.
This is a problem... news at 11 perhaps May 30, 2014.
Underground mining often does something like this. I recall working in a zinc mine in PA where the ground water problem was so bad that they never advanced the face without drilling ahead through a valve cemented in place. On once occasion the lore in the mine was that the water flow when the exploration hole punched into a water filled void was so large that the workers were up to their waist+ while the drilling string was pulled out and then the valve closed.
I never worked on such a large monster rig but on a much smaller scale I have seen a cobble line up and act like a spinning bearing for a longish time. Eventually it would wear out and normal drilling would continue in my case through unconsolidated desert fan gravels over copper ore.
These BIG rigs are not designed to go in reverse. This is a big deal for the site engineers because there is no support or access to the critical front area.
If I recall there was another monster boring machine that encountered a cutting head problem. It took a lot of clever work to sort it out. In the process there was a lot written and a lot of information on how these monsters work and some of the troubles repairing them.
I hope that they can quickly install a cement plug (if needed) and ensure a solid repair
If you try to criticize......., you may be a right winger!
Sigh.... politics is not a binary world.
Right and Left does not tell anything valuable about a candidate or elected officials ability to make sound decisions.
Right and Left is too darn close to the context of a soccer field ore baseball game where folk cheer for the home team. Team loyalty and political party loyalty are two interesting views of something that to many looks the same.
So a lead-lined NBC suit wouldn't offer any protection? Piles of dead people, killed invisibly with no identifiable cause? That'd cause lots of terror.
An NBC suit does not protect from a flood of gamma radiation but it does protect the wearer from inhaling bits and dust. It also protects others because once removed it is sealed in a bag and disposed of. Any surface contamination on the suit would be disposed as controlled waste. The most lethal isotopes are alpha emitters that when inhaled become a serious health risk. So the suit protects the wearer from inhalation and others from cross contamination and dispersion.
By removing the shielding to make it dangerous to others you start a 30 second clock on yourself.
A 30-second clock to receiving the LD50, not a 30-second clock to actual death. Radiation poisoning doesn't kill immediately, and even the symptoms (burns, etc.) don't show up that quickly. It would likely take several dozen hours before an individual actually died from such exposure, plenty of time to get off the train and go find a quick way to die.
Yes it is true you do not go poof in 30 seconds but after thirty seconds your fate would be cast.
Thirty seconds is a rather short length of time about the length of time to walk 175 feet.
I do not know how long it takes to be debilitated but in terms of getting anything done the clock is not your friend. WP hints... "absorbed doses of 6–30 Gy (600–3000 rad).[1] Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain are usually seen within two hours."
From the images the mass of the container is substantial and beyond the capacity of a common auto.
I think this is a very nasty business and do not think it is productive to think too hard about how to do it on a public forum.
A source like this is easy and inexpensive to detect short of it being encased in serious mass perhaps a ton of steel concrete or lead. That in turn is not stealthy or easy to hide...
Alpha emitters on the other hand are quite easy to shield by way of comparison.
Those charged with public safety cannot ignore this but we seem to tolerate 38,000 deaths with automobiles so this risk almost seems manageable.
Cut open the hand holds on a NYC subway and put it in there, then seal it back up. 1 a day would be hundreds. They'd track it down to a specific car within a day or two, and you could probably get it out that night. So kill hundreds in a subway, shutting down the system for a while, then take it back and do your dirty bomb the next day.
Nice try Jose... This is a dangerous chunk of Co.
By removing the shielding to make it dangerous to others you start a 30 second clock on yourself. I cannot believe anyone could get from a parking lot and hand carry the plug to a bench, hand hold or whatever.
Some transport options come to mind but I would not want to play with them.
Also for the most part this is a solid block of cobalt and not easy to disperse. Any bits are easy to detect at the end of a 10 foot pole and the small bits could be picked up with a lot of remote and safe tricks.
This is not even a good suicide device. People will see you die in pain and in near isolation.
No photo opportunities, no flames, no smoke, dispersed ambulance trips to an ER... Nothing to gain fame and followers... just enemies.
Scary for sure but manageable yes in that I think other things are worse.
Dude - the head of the Portland school district pulls in wages and benefits that would put most CEOs to shame (around $200k/year, IIRC).
So a $300m website isn't really much to blink at, especially when you consider that a huge percentage of the money came in as federal pork.
BUT IT IS ENOUGH TO BLINK AT.
What I am finding is that these grants are cookie cutter grants. This is not one grant this is one of 50+ In some states this is invisible behind less than transparent bureaucracies to the point that if you find one there are MANY more.
So when I typed 50+ I had a brain fart and wondered if there was more rocks beyond D.C. to look under... Aha... What about Puerto Rico and sure enought google found multiple hits...one banner headline reads.
"Obamacare Pushing Puerto Rico Further Into Social Welfare State,"
LOL! The author obviously knows nothing about Oregon. Oregon is not a Democratic state. Portland is a city with a high population density of lefties surrounded by a sparsely populated state of Teabaggers.
Stinky poo.... was news for nerds.
If a state government trolled out a web site for c.40 people to the tune of 300 million dollars something is astoundingly wrong. Do the math against the population of Oregon in 2013, approximately 3,899,353.
Some that read News for Nerds recall the bubble where Dot/Bomb companies left an economic wasteland behind them. I cannot convince myself that these funds were spent in Oregon and I cannot convince myself that Oregon has not been assaulted by financial thugs...
Another question. Can't the judge summarily rule against the government since they wouldn't allow the person to testify? Essentially they've denied a fair trial and he could just drop the hammer.
It is a good thing I am not a member of the bar...
I think you are wondering if he can dismiss the case....
Yes he can. I am wondering if he can dismiss the case with prejudice so it cannot be refiled.
I hope he can.
I am wondering if he can incarcerate the entire prosecution team for contempt of court.
I hope he does if it is clear that they tampered with witnesses.
It is a federal crime to tamper with witnesses and conspiracy amplifies the reach of the crime.
The recent revelation of a false conviction based on withheld evidence by the prosecution makes me want to see 4x penalty. The man spent 25 some years in jail. Those that knew should be locked up for 100 years and have their lives turned inside out. Abuse of power is difficult to tolerate.
I live in a small town in the western US. I used to get four channels over the air on a good day with analog. Now, I get one. Not saying you're wrong, but I think people in more rural areas suffer more when the analog signal is cut.
Tell us more about your antenna.
I wonder if your "old" antenna is tuned for channel bands that are not the bands used for digital.
There are some darn fine antenna designs on the internet that can be made with Cu wire and a tape measure. The first step is knowing the frequency bands you wish to watch.
A well tuned antenna is the first band pass filter to select the signal for the receiver to dig data from.
They are not alone but pyrolysis using these H2S rich poison gas feeds could just burn the stuff up.
A strong draft up a tall stack maintained by a natural gas burner could keep any dis-assembly location in a negative pressure condition and burn up almost any toxic gas. Many toxic gas weapons have a minimum bursting charge and may simply be detonated on a sand pit in a largish coffin , think reactor containment vessel.
Sulfuric acid recovered could be used to detoxify the pit. Fuse up the weapon.... roll it down a ramp.... a min later thump and the fumes are pulled up the stack.
Sure stuff could go wrong but the risks seem to be the lesser of evils.
Yes time is an issue, building something like this might take a lot of time say 3-5 years but there is no EPA in Syria so perhaps 14 months.
Given that PHP and Python are both horribly slow, how does that show Ruby is now scalable for big apps?
Look again.... features and functions that are slow and get in the way of big applications can be coded in C or C++. Parallel is just understanding what can be done on different nodes without interfering with each other.
Ruby is a darn fine modern language. Slightly better than Python.
JavaScript has legs because it is the incumbent not because it is better. Dart may improve the fate of JavaScript. I just noticed some Node.js recast as Dart and found it easy to read....
I am a big fan of these interpreted prototyping languages. Getting programmers to write correct code is hard as heck. Most programs that are run multiple times can simply be run on multiple machines. Remember good machines today are less expensive and a lot easier to find than quality programmers.
Those that care about speed should read J Bentley - 1999 Programming Pearls.
What was that plugin that would randomly wander the net looking for odd, obscure, nice and nasty stuff to pollute any web browsing history and obfuscate true online habits?
This seems to be the only way to confound these fools.
Thus... At the time of the bad review I cannot believe the contract was in effect especially if there was communication with customer service to correct the problem.
The Contract specifies a penalty so four times that penalty plus legal fees.
Good thing I am not an attorney.
Defamation of character and anything else that results from them contacting credit companies and attempting to attach you banking.
Speeding is also considered, because even though it does not automatically lead to an accident it does increase the chances of one. Sorry if you think you handle it, but the simple statistical fact is that people who habitually exceed the speed limit by a considerable margin do have more accidents.
Almost... they care about liability. If you are speeding they have a liability. All things being equal if we swap paint and you are speeding and I am not your insurance company pays. It does not mater that I did something lame to create the situation all that maters is your violation. A tattle tale in my car proves I was not speeding. A tattle tale in your car proves you were speeding.....
Yes those that speed have greater statistical risks historically but note well these devices move the industry from a statistical pool to an individual rate.
This move to individual risks makes policing and regulating insurance companies much harder.
.....snip..... They'll catch her slamming on the breaks frequently because she wasn't paying attention, etc.....chomp...
picking on women I see... naughty.... naughty.
breaking and braking are almost always the result of the other driver. I was taught to follow at a safe distance but today if you leave a gap large enough for a car some fool will fill it. Often filling it as the line of cars visible to me in my lane light up their braking lights. I see the lights and slow, the fool fills in the gap and now I have to emergency brake to avoid breaking my front bumper.
Then there are the two foot drivers one on the accelerator one on the decelerator. Decelerator tail lights lit up and they pull away.
Hmmm do drive by wire cars have a crossed foot dash signal to remind you that you are a two peddle fool.
> They say that the future of car insurance is not just being able to monitor individual drivers to give them lower prices
So look, I've got this bridge I've been trying to sell...
Then there will be the Affordabel CarCare Insurance plan!
In other threads it was noted that health insurance has moved from pool based statistics to individual risk analysis. The net result is that you are no longer being insured (statistical pool risk). They are selling payment plans.
To allow an insurance company apparent full visibility opens a long list of issues that are not well understood but can be used to justify increased premiums. Example a highway between hither and yon posted at 45mph. It is wide but twisty and well banked enough to permit cornering at 85 mph.
The driver that drives at 45 is likely a serious hazard because the other drivers will commonly drive closer to 85 than 45. A little white box can be used by all the players (i.e. insurance companies and law enforcement) to justify any liability. Consider that it is legal to drive at 35 on a 45 posted road... and yes even stop for a moose. These little boxes do not see traffic. They can only record acceleration, deceleration, time of travel, miles traveled... they cannot be situation aware. Someday a 6400 mils panorama light field camera perhaps.
But an external camera does not see the auto makers blind spots. I noted a car next to me just the other day where there was little or no peripheral visibility because of strong roof posts, head rests and a short driver. From that drivers 2:30 to 5:45 I could not see eyes even in mirrors. For an expensive SUV this was astounding.
"Matthew Wald reports in the NYT the the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed reducing the amount of ethanol that is required to be mixed with the gasoline supply, the first time it has taken steps to slow down the drive to replace fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy.
Backing off ethanol and slowing down the drive to replace fossil fuels are not clearly related. At best it is an acknowledgement that ethanol as we now use it is a poor path to renewable fuel.
Any "energy" posting must/ should address the ugly truth that we waste an astounding amount of energy where simple insulation alone could reduce the loss by half or more. Heat capacity structures and heat management could make homes and offices much more comfortable if and only if we design for it.
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Volunteer, payment of zero....
OK the only way this makes sense is to drill small holes
and drive wedges. And also use air powered tools.....
It does not make sense to use explosives short of a large rock fall,
cave in situation where the break is not toward a living person.
Storage of any type of explosive today is expensive.
When you have no funding then BBQ for the group funded by the
group seems to be the only bit that works in my mind.
Explosives are not gentle or safe in the proximity of living people.
It is true that rock and tunnels let you get close but close
behind a conveyor belt mat is too darn close by my standards.
I could perhaps have my mind changed... but....
100% agreed. Most professionals agree that you should need a license to handle anything above 110V.
Except that some folk believe 220VAC is safer than 120VAC.
They say higher voltage is more likely to cause muscles to violently twitch
causing you to be thrown away before your internal temperature reaches
125F (for you silly fish).
As others might chime in it is not the voltage it is the voltage combined with current that kills.
Two pads soaked in a conductive salt and a modest number of car batteries in series
will cook you and hardly cause a twitch. It is no longer allowed to do the classic frog
leg tricks in Biology class but it does demonstrate the issue. And once the legs are
separated from the brain after the frog has been quickly dispatched it is hard to make
a case that the frog can feel the shock to their dismembered bits.
What is that TV exercise gimmick that uses electric charges to tense and relax the
abdominal muscles to give you a lean tight six pack at the same time you pour a six
pack of beer down the throat? I for get but the reality is they do not hurt, you just twitch.
How is it that folk have no memory longer than yesterday.
Weather does cause delays.
Volume causes delays.
How does that sign go?:
"Your procrastination does not justify an emergency for me."
In a nutshell this is what is wrong with the way so many people think today.
Our main (UK, north) cave rescue team routinely practice cutting boulders in the 1-2m size range apart in order to retrieve a casualty (sometimes human, mostly mannequin), from where they're "trapped". It's not difficult. You use an 8mm diameter, long masonry drill, and 6mm (1/4 in) "Primacord", also known as "det cord", "shock cord", or "washing line", with random clay to hold the cord in place. Lots of little holes, lots of little lengths of high brisance "bang", a main line to transmit the det to each length of "working charge" (which is what det cord is designed for anyway), and tough fabric (i.e. conveyor belt material) to protect the casualty from flying debris.
It is as impressive as fuck. It still takes some balls to volunteer as the casualty though. Just because Hollywood celebrates people whose only answer is "you're going to need a bigger bang", doesn't mean that there aren't some real artistes with explosives out there.
Have you ever heard of using explosives in manufacturing precision components?
Yes, I have heard of this...and what you outlined is darn close to what I have seen or done myself.
Yes, a practiced and well schooled blaster can do astounding work.
Using a living volunteer to practice this stuff on or around is fracking foolish.
Better drag down a side of pig, lamb or beef that still has the hide
attached.... Have a pit roast BBQ the next day.
As for precision components I am sure none in Switzerland use explosives in
the making of time pieces. Tell me more....
Obvious yes...
Given the generations of hardware many would do well
to load Ubuntu or another Linux distro...
selling patches... heck patches would quickly show up
on bit torrent sites... with no verification....
Cut it down to monthly or bi monthly and make a
big RED download screen... You can get them
but you must work equally hard as a Publisher Clearing
house sweepstakes entry to get there from here.
You need to have something on top of the dynamite to direct the explosive forces into the boulder (presumed) [on this side of the Pond we call it "tamping the charge" ; probably the same word root as "tampon"]. Which you could achieve in various ways, but you need to get your big expensive machinery out of harms way first. By that point, you can probably do the job with a large construction drill, a 30mm drill bit, and a half-stick of "bang". If the first half-stick doesn't work, use your drill in the remainder of the drilled hole as a starter and repeat the performance.
Almost... What ever this is is BIG.
It would take a lot of holes. If you drive along a lot of road cuts you
might notice nice linear drill holes 18"-24" apart nicely split into half.
In this case with no face to break to a three by three starter might be needed
with each hole 3" to 5" inches apart. Then opposite sides shot to break toward the middle
and clean out an opening (face) that additional shots can break into. If it is a boulder
then knowing where the outer ring is to break is a challenge. If you could turn it to
gravel in an instant there would be nothing holding the hole open and you might have
another type of failure.
Another possible solution might present itself if this is a big spinning boulder. By drilling some
holes through the block grout could be pumped to the far side and cement the block in place
for the big machine to polish off. Cement does not help in mud but in mud it could be replaced
with super chilled coolant to freeze solid a largish surrounding area and supporting collar to work
on the block.
I doubt there is enough ventilation in place to permit a cutting lance but heat and cold could
improve the result from smaller explosives. Because of the expensive equipment I expect
high brisance (expensive perhaps dangerous) compounds and lots of small holes and timed detonations
to limit then allow the gasses to vent enough to not damage the big drill.
For comparison the delay of a like tunneling project took seven months to resolve and the entire
project was stalled, very large support crew laid off, new city managers.
This is a problem... news at 11 perhaps May 30, 2014.
This is the most sensible post on this.
Underground mining often does something like this. I recall working
in a zinc mine in PA where the ground water problem was so bad that they
never advanced the face without drilling ahead through a valve cemented
in place. On once occasion the lore in the mine was that the water flow
when the exploration hole punched into a water filled void was so large
that the workers were up to their waist+ while the drilling string was pulled
out and then the valve closed.
I never worked on such a large monster rig but on a much smaller scale I have
seen a cobble line up and act like a spinning bearing for a longish time.
Eventually it would wear out and normal drilling would continue in my
case through unconsolidated desert fan gravels over copper ore.
These BIG rigs are not designed to go in reverse. This is a big deal for
the site engineers because there is no support or access to the critical
front area.
If I recall there was another monster boring machine that encountered a
cutting head problem. It took a lot of clever work to sort it out. In the
process there was a lot written and a lot of information on how these
monsters work and some of the troubles repairing them.
I hope that they can quickly install a cement plug (if needed) and ensure a solid repair
If you try to criticize ......., you may be a right winger!
Sigh.... politics is not a binary world.
Right and Left does not tell anything valuable about a candidate or
elected officials ability to make sound decisions.
Right and Left is too darn close to the context of a soccer field ore baseball game where
folk cheer for the home team. Team loyalty and political party loyalty are two interesting
views of something that to many looks the same.
So a lead-lined NBC suit wouldn't offer any protection? Piles of dead people, killed invisibly with no identifiable cause? That'd cause lots of terror.
An NBC suit does not protect from a flood of gamma radiation but it does protect
the wearer from inhaling bits and dust. It also protects others because once removed
it is sealed in a bag and disposed of. Any surface contamination on the suit would be disposed
as controlled waste. The most lethal isotopes are alpha emitters that when inhaled become
a serious health risk. So the suit protects the wearer from inhalation and others from cross contamination
and dispersion.
By removing the shielding to make it dangerous to others you start
a 30 second clock on yourself.
A 30-second clock to receiving the LD50, not a 30-second clock to actual death. Radiation poisoning doesn't kill immediately, and even the symptoms (burns, etc.) don't show up that quickly. It would likely take several dozen hours before an individual actually died from such exposure, plenty of time to get off the train and go find a quick way to die.
Yes it is true you do not go poof in 30 seconds but after thirty seconds your fate would be cast.
Thirty seconds is a rather short length of time about the length of time to walk 175 feet.
I do not know how long it takes to be debilitated but in terms of getting anything done
the clock is not your friend. WP hints... "absorbed doses of 6–30 Gy (600–3000 rad).[1]
Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain are usually seen within two hours."
From the images the mass of the container is substantial and beyond the capacity of
a common auto.
I think this is a very nasty business and do not think it is productive to think too hard
about how to do it on a public forum.
A source like this is easy and inexpensive to detect short of it being encased in serious
mass perhaps a ton of steel concrete or lead. That in turn is not stealthy or easy to hide...
Alpha emitters on the other hand are quite easy to shield by way of comparison.
Those charged with public safety cannot ignore this but we seem to tolerate 38,000 deaths
with automobiles so this risk almost seems manageable.
Cut open the hand holds on a NYC subway and put it in there, then seal it back up. 1 a day would be hundreds. They'd track it down to a specific car within a day or two, and you could probably get it out that night. So kill hundreds in a subway, shutting down the system for a while, then take it back and do your dirty bomb the next day.
Nice try Jose... This is a dangerous chunk of Co.
By removing the shielding to make it dangerous to others you start
a 30 second clock on yourself. I cannot believe anyone could
get from a parking lot and hand carry the plug to a bench,
hand hold or whatever.
Some transport options come to mind but I would not want to play
with them.
Also for the most part this is a solid block of cobalt and not easy to
disperse. Any bits are easy to detect at the end of a 10 foot pole
and the small bits could be picked up with a lot of remote and safe tricks.
This is not even a good suicide device. People will see
you die in pain and in near isolation.
No photo opportunities, no flames, no smoke, dispersed ambulance
trips to an ER... Nothing to gain fame and followers... just enemies.
Scary for sure but manageable yes in that I think other things are worse.
Dude - the head of the Portland school district pulls in wages and benefits that would put most CEOs to shame (around $200k/year, IIRC).
So a $300m website isn't really much to blink at, especially when you consider that a huge percentage of the money came in as federal pork.
BUT IT IS ENOUGH TO BLINK AT.
What I am finding is that these grants are cookie cutter grants.
This is not one grant this is one of 50+
In some states this is invisible behind less than transparent bureaucracies
to the point that if you find one there are MANY more.
So when I typed 50+ I had a brain fart and wondered if there was more
rocks beyond D.C. to look under... Aha... What about Puerto Rico
and sure enought google found multiple hits...one banner headline reads.
"Obamacare Pushing Puerto Rico Further Into Social Welfare State,"
...Oregon is a Democratic state...
LOL! The author obviously knows nothing about Oregon. Oregon is not a Democratic state. Portland is a city with a high population density of lefties surrounded by a sparsely populated state of Teabaggers.
Stinky poo.... was news for nerds.
If a state government trolled out a web site for c.40 people to the
tune of 300 million dollars something is astoundingly wrong.
Do the math against the population of Oregon in 2013, approximately 3,899,353.
Some that read News for Nerds recall the bubble where Dot/Bomb companies
left an economic wasteland behind them. I cannot convince myself that these funds
were spent in Oregon and I cannot convince myself that Oregon has not been
assaulted by financial thugs...
Another question. Can't the judge summarily rule against the government since they wouldn't allow the person to testify? Essentially they've denied a fair trial and he could just drop the hammer.
It is a good thing I am not a member of the bar...
I think you are wondering if he can dismiss the case....
Yes he can.
I am wondering if he can dismiss the case with prejudice so it cannot be refiled.
I hope he can.
I am wondering if he can incarcerate the entire prosecution team
for contempt of court.
I hope he does if it is clear that they tampered with witnesses.
It is a federal crime to tamper with witnesses and conspiracy amplifies
the reach of the crime.
The recent revelation of a false conviction based on withheld evidence
by the prosecution makes me want to see 4x penalty. The man spent
25 some years in jail. Those that knew should be locked up for 100 years
and have their lives turned inside out. Abuse of power is difficult
to tolerate.
I live in a small town in the western US. I used to get four channels over the air on a good day with analog. Now, I get one. Not saying you're wrong, but I think people in more rural areas suffer more when the analog signal is cut.
Tell us more about your antenna.
I wonder if your "old" antenna is tuned for channel bands that are
not the bands used for digital.
There are some darn fine antenna designs on the internet
that can be made with Cu wire and a tape measure. The
first step is knowing the frequency bands you wish to watch.
A well tuned antenna is the first band pass filter to select the
signal for the receiver to dig data from.
Iran has some nasty toxic natural gas wells.
They are not alone but pyrolysis using these H2S rich poison gas feeds
could just burn the stuff up.
A strong draft up a tall stack maintained by a natural gas burner could
keep any dis-assembly location in a negative pressure condition and
burn up almost any toxic gas. Many toxic gas weapons have a minimum
bursting charge and may simply be detonated on a sand pit in a largish
coffin , think reactor containment vessel.
Sulfuric acid recovered could be used to detoxify the pit. Fuse up the
weapon.... roll it down a ramp.... a min later thump and the fumes are
pulled up the stack.
Sure stuff could go wrong but the risks seem to be the lesser of evils.
Yes time is an issue, building something like this might take a lot of time
say 3-5 years but there is no EPA in Syria so perhaps 14 months.
The market could vanish shortly after someone got it right.
Imagine a world where on line dating found you an ideal match
quick as that...
No divorces, no repeat customers, no endless one night stands swapping ... just a big happy ever after world.
body fluids and diseases.
Utopia...
Given that PHP and Python are both horribly slow, how does that show Ruby is now scalable for big apps?
Look again.... features and functions that are slow and get in the way of big applications can be coded in C or C++.
Parallel is just understanding what can be done on different nodes without interfering with each other.
Ruby is a darn fine modern language. Slightly better than Python.
JavaScript has legs because it is the incumbent not because it is better.
Dart may improve the fate of JavaScript. I just noticed some Node.js recast
as Dart and found it easy to read....
I am a big fan of these interpreted prototyping languages. Getting programmers to
write correct code is hard as heck. Most programs that are run multiple times
can simply be run on multiple machines. Remember good machines today are less expensive
and a lot easier to find than quality programmers.
Those that care about speed should read J Bentley - 1999 Programming Pearls.
OK I need to read the original article but the classic current loop
and its ~56K bandwidth (remember your modem) I think is what
is being questioned.
DSL is hobbled because of POTS limitations... AT&T can drive a
lot more bits if the last leg of copper is not POTS limited.
I know that there is a push to eliminate P2P digital links but
if the regulators looks at phones that is that there is at
least in the local offices.
What was that plugin that would randomly wander the net
looking for odd, obscure, nice and nasty stuff to pollute
any web browsing history and obfuscate true online habits?
This seems to be the only way to confound these fools.
Failure to deliver is breach of contract.
Thus... At the time of the bad review I cannot believe
the contract was in effect especially if there was
communication with customer service to correct
the problem.
The Contract specifies a penalty so four times
that penalty plus legal fees.
Good thing I am not an attorney.
Defamation of character and anything else that
results from them contacting credit companies
and attempting to attach you banking.
They are not that dumb.....snip...
Speeding is also considered, because even though it does not automatically lead to an accident it does increase the chances of one. Sorry if you think you handle it, but the simple statistical fact is that people who habitually exceed the speed limit by a considerable margin do have more accidents.
Almost... they care about liability. If you are speeding
they have a liability. All things being equal if we swap paint
and you are speeding and I am not your insurance company
pays. It does not mater that I did something lame to create
the situation all that maters is your violation. A tattle tale
in my car proves I was not speeding. A tattle tale in your
car proves you were speeding.....
Yes those that speed have greater statistical risks historically
but note well these devices move the industry from a statistical
pool to an individual rate.
This move to individual risks makes policing and regulating insurance companies
much harder.
.....snip..... ....chomp...
They'll catch her slamming on the breaks frequently because she wasn't paying attention, etc.
picking on women I see... naughty.... naughty.
breaking and braking are almost always the result of
the other driver. I was taught to follow at a safe distance
but today if you leave a gap large enough for a car some
fool will fill it. Often filling it as the line of cars visible to
me in my lane light up their braking lights. I see the lights
and slow, the fool fills in the gap and now I have to emergency
brake to avoid breaking my front bumper.
Then there are the two foot drivers one on the accelerator one on
the decelerator. Decelerator tail lights lit up and they pull away.
Hmmm do drive by wire cars have a crossed foot dash signal
to remind you that you are a two peddle fool.
> They say that the future of car insurance is not just being able to monitor individual drivers to give them lower prices
So look, I've got this bridge I've been trying to sell...
Then there will be the Affordabel CarCare Insurance plan!
In other threads it was noted that health insurance has moved from
pool based statistics to individual risk analysis. The net result
is that you are no longer being insured (statistical pool risk).
They are selling payment plans.
To allow an insurance company apparent full visibility opens a long list of
issues that are not well understood but can be used to justify
increased premiums. Example a highway between hither and
yon posted at 45mph. It is wide but twisty and well banked enough
to permit cornering at 85 mph.
The driver that drives at 45 is likely a serious hazard because the
other drivers will commonly drive closer to 85 than 45. A little
white box can be used by all the players (i.e. insurance companies
and law enforcement) to justify any liability. Consider that it is
legal to drive at 35 on a 45 posted road... and yes even stop for a moose.
These little boxes do not see traffic. They can only record acceleration,
deceleration, time of travel, miles traveled... they cannot be situation
aware. Someday a 6400 mils panorama light field camera perhaps.
But an external camera does not see the auto makers blind spots.
I noted a car next to me just the other day where there was little
or no peripheral visibility because of strong roof posts, head rests
and a short driver. From that drivers 2:30 to 5:45 I could not see eyes
even in mirrors. For an expensive SUV this was astounding.
"Matthew Wald reports in the NYT the the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed
reducing the amount of ethanol that is required to be mixed with the gasoline supply, the
first time it has taken steps to slow down the drive to replace fossil fuels with renewable
forms of energy.
Backing off ethanol and slowing down the drive to replace fossil fuels are not
clearly related. At best it is an acknowledgement that ethanol as we now use
it is a poor path to renewable fuel.
Any "energy" posting must/ should address the ugly truth that
we waste an astounding amount of energy where simple insulation
alone could reduce the loss by half or more. Heat capacity structures
and heat management could make homes and offices much more
comfortable if and only if we design for it.