Certain oceans are a lot more prone to rogue waves than others. What bothers me is that the US Navy surely had a lot of information concerning
rogue waves and that information was not shared with commercial shipping or with yachtsmen around the world. One rogue wave actually ripped the end of
the flight deck off of an aircraft carrier and those decks are quite far above the waters surface.
So just why was the world kept in the dark over these waves? Apparently a few of these things actually reach 150 feet in height.
Police actions depend upon pain compliance when handling subjects who are dangerous or resistant to arrest. The question is whether more
harm would be done if the cops had no tazers. In addition to the injuries and deaths to subjects who are tazed the next consideration is how many
cops would sustain injury if tazers were not used.
There is another type of tazer which the public rarely hears about. It is a belt that is securely attached to people being led around the
jails and court houses. When an inmate or suspect starts to act out a simple remote control button stops them cold by activating the tazer in the
belt.
So far my general opinion is that tazers save suspects and cops from injury. Yet there will always be a few suspects whose systems are full
of drugs or who have strange medical issues which cause death when they are tazed. Yet a night stick would surely cause more injury and more deaths.
Keep in mind that failure to obey a cop is a very good reason for physical action. In the U.S. we have far too many people who feel that rather
than making their point before a judge that they should argue with cops and impede them in their duties. Frankly the cops probably should use those tazers a lot more often than they do.
I suspect that Ubuntu- Kubuntu etc. will be getting all kinds of articles simply because we have a seriously fabulous Linux OS at hand. It is good looking and more stable than the rocks used for the pyramids of Egypt. My only concern is that other worthy Linux OSs drown under the effect of Ubuntu gathering some much momentum. The folks over at Slackware, Puppy Linux and Mepis also have done great works as have others yet Ubuntu just might sweep up the dance floor.
Own, and be willing to carry and use a decent pistol! The next time a bad guy demands that you reach for your wallet you can come up with a sudden solution to the issue. And pleas don't leave them flopping around and costing the public money. A second or third shot will help assure the situation is resolved. If you are a liberal simply try to view it as death therapy.
South Florida also would ruin most families with a 60K annual income. They would be cheating or stealing or cutting costs in desperate ways trying to stay above water. Things like car insurance, medical insurance or annual checkups tend to go first. A large part of the crime issue relates to one simple fact. Many minority types or people who have some problem with appearance or function have no way out other than crime. Selling dope and the like are normal consequences of people who live under too much economic pressure.
I can tell you that colleges in the early 1960s were quick to vividly point out that education was not for people who wanted to earn more money. The expectation was that a college student should love learning for learnings sake. As a proof of concept poetry and astronomy were mentioned. Poets tend to starve until they rot. Job openings in astronomy are almost non-existent and are usually low paying. The only thing likely with a Ph.D. in astronomy is that one will teach others to be astronomers. Often the pay scales in universities reflect these realities. A doctorate in chemistry may earn you a good salary in the university but a doctorate in astronomy may enable far lower wages in the same school. And if you are teaching poetry you sure as heck better have published so well known works or you salary in a university may keep you eating bread crumbs.
There is a reason that pay for public employees must be published. It aids in the ability of any member of the public to audit, to act as a watchdog, to perform a public service. That ability to audit would vanish if the number of dependents, the sums withheld etc., were deleted from the pay stubs. As a great and living example I propose that you audit the District Maintenance Department of the Broward County School system in Florida. Every employee must punch in on a time card. As various trucks arrive at schools they are required to sign in and out of each school. In fact they rarely do. They are required to report the time spent at each school for billing purposes. Those records are routinely falsified. They are required to keep mileage and location records in those trucks which are again both falsified and destroyed by management.At the end of the day the mileage logs, sign in sheets, and time cards should provide a firm, provable path of work performed by every trades and maintenance employee. By failing to keep the required paperwork in correct order vast corruption is accomplished. For example people who have not been at work for years have received full pay. Worse yet any incident involving a missing or molested child is made harder to solve simply because these employees can not actually account for their time or where-abouts. Yet this school board refuses to comply with its own required procedures. It is my belief that the state put these methods in place to protect the public as well as the children yet nothing is done to correct the issue.
It would seem to me that any business that went forward with such a stupid series of law suits is no fit to remain in business. It is one thing to blunder but to blunder over and over again with mistakes larger than most planets is just too much for the public to endure. I don't think I would hire SCO to clean a toilet. Somehow they would mess up the job.
Computer related trades are getting close to the issues that musicians have faced since the microphone was invented. You can still make it in music but you had better be a thriller. If you program you need to have a portfolio of brilliant programs to attract a decent living.
I don't trust any agency to forecast what will happen in any trade. What I believe will happen is that computers will become more and more vital in every human activity. They are going to be everywhere. They are also going to be appliance like and made as a commodity, Go to the store. Plunk down a few bucks and you'll have a better computer than anything you could have purchased a short time ago. And if we reach that tipping point where PCs start to write programs with little or no human intervention the idea of a human writing a program might become a historic joke fit for a Flintstones cartoon. I can foresee a time when people simply ask a computer to write a certain program for them. This might also extend into things like network controls and other areas as well. A very accelerated history in computer development may be at hand. The human mind is probably the weak link slowing down progress at this time.
His right to protest in England is rather limited compared to the US. They have laws similar to slander laws that can turn about and endanger him. He needs a good lawyer with a blood lust. I hope he sues them into oblivion. I also hope they are not related to the American company by the same name.
This guy is heading in the wrong direction. He will spend a huge sum of money without cause. Computers allow people to tap in to the major telescopes of the world and he can see, find or study more, at a way higher quality level than he can hope to accomplish at home with a small scope. Astronomy suffers from the same issues that amateur radio confronts. It is far better to connect to a central tower owned by a large club and use the net as well as the airwaves to accomplish what used to be done on home built rigs.
It might be smarter to take up mineral or semi precious gem stone hunting where direct effort tends to yield better results. I liked under water metal detecting myself. Heavy gold rings are a real hoot to find under water.
Capitalism is a disease in itself. Maximum profits are elevated to a god like status while issues such as safety, quality or even honesty are left in a dung heap. And don't think these cooling towers are only an issue with power plants. Schools frequently use cooling towers as part of their air conditioning systems. Asbestos is a frequent component in these towers. Asbestos baffles are common as are cements containing asbestos in the structural members. These forms of asbestos do leech into the air as well as into water spillage and mists yet are not measured as "out of doors measurements of asbestos levels are not sampled.". The supposed reason for not considering outdoor exposure to asbestos in school children is that the asbestos might be coming from brake shoes or anywhere else and therefore doesn't count. I blew a very loud whistle on this issue in public schools in 1990. They still try to bury this issue. The Ft. Lauderdale area even trucked asbestos secretly into public landfills without precautions in that same era. The culprits still work within the school system.
English is a lofty goal in and of itself. Sadly very few students will ever have a clue as to the power or beauty of English no matter what you do. Going from a natural language to push them toward the formal languages, mathematics, chemistry and physics would actually degrade your purpose. There will be other teachers for those language arts.
I had an professor who placed great emphasis on the crucifiction of the A type of students. You would be astounded at the effect of just out of the blue asking "Mr. Jones please compare and contrast Hungarian literature of the Lake Period to the literatures of Poland and Germany of the same period.". His point was that it is truly rare for two literate men to be alive at the same moment. I think he helps awaken students to have some rather lofty expectations of their efforts in your classes.
Too generalized!!! People are about as diverse as weeds in a garden. No two people share all that much in the way of motivations or motives. Some people really dedicate themselves to helping others while others are looking for bushes to hide their latest kill under. There is even one type of yo-yo that could care less about what the world knows about him as long as his family doesn't know. This mud we call the world is so perverse that some people are even conservative republicans.
Puppy Linux with StumbleUpon added to Firefox would fit the bill nicely. Also one can save files using Puppy without altering the boot CD. As a bonus Puppy boots rather quickly and can even be run from a USB stick on most PCs.
There is a distro called Scientific Linux that is pretty darned smooth. The lads over at CERN have cooked it up. Its descent is from Red Hat and it is all about math and science. Any classroom should be thrilled with this free software and every student could have a copy for their own computer as well.
I'm not a lawyer. But I will say that states vary on the ID question. In Florida all persons are required to carry an ID at all times and failure to identify oneself to a cop will frequently result in arrest. Assuming that Ohio is not very similar in their laws the next question is whether the police department is shielded by state sovereignty laws. If they are almost any suit will die before it starts. As far as the store is concerned I doubt that they are liable either. They called the cops and the cops did whatever they did independently of the store. Anyone generally has the right to complain to the police even when the complaint is incorrect. Forgetting the should and should not rhetoric the guy might want to go home and lick his wounds over this incident as I don't feel a pay day coming out of these events. And before anyone goes all bleeding heart for the guy please keep in mind that there are some people who use slight of hand to bait, to create apparent situations, in order to profit. Perhaps there is store film available that could settle what actually occurred.
Libertarian philosophy is simply an affectation of youth. It is rather like a college sophomore smoking a pipe. Therefore it seems that libertarianism is popular among the young. In truth libertarian philosophy is an invitation to be a strangled, murdered, cooked duck. If a nation can be conquered it soon will be conquered. Firm, effective government and institutions prevent conquest. History has often proven that the worst leaderships can prosper for quite some time when they have obedience from their populations.But a population without the rule of an iron hand is easily crushed.
I often fear that Linux might get forked to death. We have talented people that branch out and create an ever ending assortment of distros. I don't have a clue on how to balance that against the Linux communities need to advance as a unit. People have different needs and the Linux community is filling quite a few needs in quite a few directions. And we are seeing some apparent fallout from the process. For example Kanotix and Knoppix have been too quiet for quite some time now and they both helped get Linux over that certain toggle point of popularity. Just maybe the various distros could concentrate on making sure that some sort of run on any platform programs like programs written in Java are sure to run as is without any assistance across the board on Linux platforms.But I fear that run on any platform programs would be aimed mostly at the windows market and as such be all commercial offerings.
America can only control Americans.Open Source is world wide and will continue without regard to anything Washington can dream up. And as far as messing with Americans most people in the Linux community know how to shield their transmissions from would be intruders anyway. And the underside of the issue is that we might actually receive better code than we write from foreign sources. Who is to say where the next remote control genius pops up. The best code may not always be written in Kansas. It might come from Austria, Poland or even a hut in Iran.
Instead of just messing with employees over health criteria why not deduct from investors' stock earnings as well? After all, health is important at every level, not just for the working folk.
First the numbers are nonsense. How many Windows uninstalls exist? As for Linux being free I love it. I would trash can my PCs if I had to run Windows.
I have speculated in the past that no government can truly tolerate the free flow of information. We are stuck in a paradox. All forms and instances of government are inherently evil yet progress and civilization require the presence of some form of government. That makes for quite a few citizens who scurry about trying never to be noticed. Perhaps a new statement can be made. "Government makes cowards of us all".
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Certain oceans are a lot more prone to rogue waves than others. What bothers me is that the US Navy surely had a lot of information concerning
rogue waves and that information was not shared with commercial shipping or with yachtsmen around the world. One rogue wave actually ripped the end of
the flight deck off of an aircraft carrier and those decks are quite far above the waters surface.
So just why was the world kept in the dark over these waves? Apparently a few of these things actually reach 150 feet in height.
Police actions depend upon pain compliance when handling subjects who are dangerous or resistant to arrest. The question is whether more
harm would be done if the cops had no tazers. In addition to the injuries and deaths to subjects who are tazed the next consideration is how many
cops would sustain injury if tazers were not used.
There is another type of tazer which the public rarely hears about. It is a belt that is securely attached to people being led around the
jails and court houses. When an inmate or suspect starts to act out a simple remote control button stops them cold by activating the tazer in the
belt.
So far my general opinion is that tazers save suspects and cops from injury. Yet there will always be a few suspects whose systems are full
of drugs or who have strange medical issues which cause death when they are tazed. Yet a night stick would surely cause more injury and more deaths.
Keep in mind that failure to obey a cop is a very good reason for physical action. In the U.S. we have far too many people who feel that rather
than making their point before a judge that they should argue with cops and impede them in their duties. Frankly the cops probably should use those tazers a lot more often than they do.
I suspect that Ubuntu- Kubuntu etc. will be getting all kinds of articles simply because we have a seriously fabulous Linux OS at hand. It is good looking and more stable than the rocks used for the pyramids of Egypt. My only concern is that other worthy Linux OSs drown under the effect of Ubuntu gathering some much momentum. The folks over at Slackware, Puppy Linux and Mepis also have done great works as have others yet Ubuntu just might sweep up the dance floor.
Own, and be willing to carry and use a decent pistol! The next time a bad guy demands that you reach for your wallet you can come up with a sudden solution to the issue. And pleas don't leave them flopping around and costing the public money. A second or third shot will help assure the situation is resolved. If you are a liberal simply try to view it as death therapy.
South Florida also would ruin most families with a 60K annual income. They would be cheating or stealing or cutting costs in desperate ways trying to stay above water. Things like car insurance, medical insurance or annual checkups tend to go first. A large part of the crime issue relates to one simple fact. Many minority types or people who have some problem with appearance or function have no way out other than crime. Selling dope and the like are normal consequences of people who live under too much economic pressure.
I can tell you that colleges in the early 1960s were quick to vividly point out that education was not for people who wanted to earn more money. The expectation was that a college student should love learning for learnings sake. As a proof of concept poetry and astronomy were mentioned. Poets tend to starve until they rot. Job openings in astronomy are almost non-existent and are usually low paying. The only thing likely with a Ph.D. in astronomy is that one will teach others to be astronomers. Often the pay scales in universities reflect these realities. A doctorate in chemistry may earn you a good salary in the university but a doctorate in astronomy may enable far lower wages in the same school. And if you are teaching poetry you sure as heck better have published so well known works or you salary in a university may keep you eating bread crumbs.
There is a reason that pay for public employees must be published. It aids in the ability of any member of the public to audit, to act as a watchdog, to perform a public service. That ability to audit would vanish if the number of dependents, the sums withheld etc., were deleted from the pay stubs. As a great and living example I propose that you audit the District Maintenance Department of the Broward County School system in Florida. Every employee must punch in on a time card. As various trucks arrive at schools they are required to sign in and out of each school. In fact they rarely do. They are required to report the time spent at each school for billing purposes. Those records are routinely falsified. They are required to keep mileage and location records in those trucks which are again both falsified and destroyed by management.At the end of the day the mileage logs, sign in sheets, and time cards should provide a firm, provable path of work performed by every trades and maintenance employee. By failing to keep the required paperwork in correct order vast corruption is accomplished. For example people who have not been at work for years have received full pay. Worse yet any incident involving a missing or molested child is made harder to solve simply because these employees can not actually account for their time or where-abouts. Yet this school board refuses to comply with its own required procedures. It is my belief that the state put these methods in place to protect the public as well as the children yet nothing is done to correct the issue.
It would seem to me that any business that went forward with such a stupid series of law suits is no fit to remain in business. It is one thing to blunder but to blunder over and over again with mistakes larger than most planets is just too much for the public to endure. I don't think I would hire SCO to clean a toilet. Somehow they would mess up the job.
I'm sure the strings are made from old rubber bands. Case closed!
Computer related trades are getting close to the issues that musicians have faced since the microphone was invented. You can still make it in music but you had better be a thriller. If you program you need to have a portfolio of brilliant programs to attract a decent living.
I don't trust any agency to forecast what will happen in any trade. What I believe will happen is that computers will become more and more vital in every human activity. They are going to be everywhere. They are also going to be appliance like and made as a commodity, Go to the store. Plunk down a few bucks and you'll have a better computer than anything you could have purchased a short time ago. And if we reach that tipping point where PCs start to write programs with little or no human intervention the idea of a human writing a program might become a historic joke fit for a Flintstones cartoon. I can foresee a time when people simply ask a computer to write a certain program for them. This might also extend into things like network controls and other areas as well. A very accelerated history in computer development may be at hand. The human mind is probably the weak link slowing down progress at this time.
His right to protest in England is rather limited compared to the US. They have laws similar to slander laws that can turn about and endanger him. He needs a good lawyer with a blood lust. I hope he sues them into oblivion. I also hope they are not related to the American company by the same name.
This guy is heading in the wrong direction. He will spend a huge sum of money without cause. Computers allow people to tap in to the major telescopes of the world and he can see, find or study more, at a way higher quality level than he can hope to accomplish at home with a small scope. Astronomy suffers from the same issues that amateur radio confronts. It is far better to connect to a central tower owned by a large club and use the net as well as the airwaves to accomplish what used to be done on home built rigs.
It might be smarter to take up mineral or semi precious gem stone hunting where direct effort tends to yield better results. I liked under water metal detecting myself. Heavy gold rings are a real hoot to find under water.
Capitalism is a disease in itself. Maximum profits are elevated to a god like status while issues such as safety, quality or even honesty are left in a dung heap. And don't think these cooling towers are only an issue with power plants. Schools frequently use cooling towers as part of their air conditioning systems. Asbestos is a frequent component in these towers. Asbestos baffles are common as are cements containing asbestos in the structural members. These forms of asbestos do leech into the air as well as into water spillage and mists yet are not measured as "out of doors measurements of asbestos levels are not sampled.". The supposed reason for not considering outdoor exposure to asbestos in school children is that the asbestos might be coming from brake shoes or anywhere else and therefore doesn't count. I blew a very loud whistle on this issue in public schools in 1990. They still try to bury this issue. The Ft. Lauderdale area even trucked asbestos secretly into public landfills without precautions in that same era. The culprits still work within the school system.
English is a lofty goal in and of itself. Sadly very few students will ever have a clue as to the power or beauty of English no matter what you do. Going from a natural language to push them toward the formal languages, mathematics, chemistry and physics would actually degrade your purpose. There will be other teachers for those language arts.
I had an professor who placed great emphasis on the crucifiction of the A type of students. You would be astounded at the effect of just out of the blue asking "Mr. Jones please compare and contrast Hungarian literature of the Lake Period to the literatures of Poland and Germany of the same period.". His point was that it is truly rare for two literate men to be alive at the same moment. I think he helps awaken students to have some rather lofty expectations of their efforts in your classes.
It's time to get together and Jap slap these jerks so far out of the ball park that they are bankrupted.
Too generalized!!! People are about as diverse as weeds in a garden. No two people share all that much in the way of motivations or motives. Some people really dedicate themselves to helping others while others are looking for bushes to hide their latest kill under. There is even one type of yo-yo that could care less about what the world knows about him as long as his family doesn't know. This mud we call the world is so perverse that some people are even conservative republicans.
Puppy Linux with StumbleUpon added to Firefox would fit the bill nicely. Also one can save files using Puppy without altering the boot CD. As a bonus Puppy boots rather quickly and can even be run from a USB stick on most PCs.
There is a distro called Scientific Linux that is pretty darned smooth. The lads over at CERN have cooked it up. Its descent is from Red Hat and it is all about math and science. Any classroom should be thrilled with this free software and every student could have a copy for their own computer as well.
I'm not a lawyer. But I will say that states vary on the ID question. In Florida all persons are required to carry an ID at all times and failure to identify oneself to a cop will frequently result in arrest. Assuming that Ohio is not very similar in their laws the next question is whether the police department is shielded by state sovereignty laws. If they are almost any suit will die before it starts. As far as the store is concerned I doubt that they are liable either. They called the cops and the cops did whatever they did independently of the store. Anyone generally has the right to complain to the police even when the complaint is incorrect. Forgetting the should and should not rhetoric the guy might want to go home and lick his wounds over this incident as I don't feel a pay day coming out of these events. And before anyone goes all bleeding heart for the guy please keep in mind that there are some people who use slight of hand to bait, to create apparent situations, in order to profit. Perhaps there is store film available that could settle what actually occurred.
Libertarian philosophy is simply an affectation of youth. It is rather like a college sophomore smoking a pipe. Therefore it seems that libertarianism is popular among the young. In truth libertarian philosophy is an invitation to be a strangled, murdered, cooked duck. If a nation can be conquered it soon will be conquered. Firm, effective government and institutions prevent conquest. History has often proven that the worst leaderships can prosper for quite some time when they have obedience from their populations.But a population without the rule of an iron hand is easily crushed.
I often fear that Linux might get forked to death. We have talented people that branch out and create an ever ending assortment of distros. I don't have a clue on how to balance that against the Linux communities need to advance as a unit. People have different needs and the Linux community is filling quite a few needs in quite a few directions. And we are seeing some apparent fallout from the process. For example Kanotix and Knoppix have been too quiet for quite some time now and they both helped get Linux over that certain toggle point of popularity. Just maybe the various distros could concentrate on making sure that some sort of run on any platform programs like programs written in Java are sure to run as is without any assistance across the board on Linux platforms.But I fear that run on any platform programs would be aimed mostly at the windows market and as such be all commercial offerings.
America can only control Americans.Open Source is world wide and will continue without regard to anything Washington can dream up. And as far as messing with Americans most people in the Linux community know how to shield their transmissions from would be intruders anyway. And the underside of the issue is that we might actually receive better code than we write from foreign sources. Who is to say where the next remote control genius pops up. The best code may not always be written in Kansas. It might come from Austria, Poland or even a hut in Iran.
Instead of just messing with employees over health criteria why not deduct from investors' stock earnings as well? After all, health is important at every level, not just for the working folk.
First the numbers are nonsense. How many Windows uninstalls exist? As for Linux being free I love it. I would trash can my PCs if I had to run Windows.
I have speculated in the past that no government can truly tolerate the free flow of information. We are stuck in a paradox. All forms and instances of government are inherently evil yet progress and civilization require the presence of some form of government. That makes for quite a few citizens who scurry about trying never to be noticed. Perhaps a new statement can be made. "Government makes cowards of us all".