Diesel requires high compression to combust. There has been instances where a spill of fuel oil or diesel has extinguished a household fire.
Gas-turbine powered vehicles (like the M1 Abrams) can burn gasoline, kerosene or diesel. All other combat vehicles use diesel. During WW2, when there were shortages of just about everything, gasoline engines were placed in halftracks and tanks, with disaterous results.
With regard to the Hindenburg, it is generally accepted that the initial fire was not a hydrogen burn, since spectators reported extemely bright and colorful flame. (Hydrogen flame is not very colorful) The outer shell of the Hindenburg caught fire, probally due to static discharge, which eventually led to a hydrogen leak and bigger fire.
You'll find that many fire disasters are causes by various sealants. That big circus fire in the 50's killed hundreds of people because a mixture of kerosene and paraffin wax was used to waterproof the tent.
The Hindenburg disaster was caused by the highly combustible material coating the outer skin of the airship. The material used to seal the cellulose shell was very similar to what is used today as solid rocket fuel.
While hydrogen is inflammable, gasoline, the current fuel of choice is hardly fireproof. There is a good reason why military vehicles are diesel.
2> We're not talking about a courtroom, and matters of international legality are determined by whomever has the biggest guns and most money.
Have you heard about the town where villagers looted an Iraqi army facility and are now dying of radiation sickness? Why do you suppose highly radioactive material was in that facility?
The publishing industry is deeply rooted in the corrupt educational beuracracy and is gaining ground, if anything.
You'll notice in college classes today that large freshman English and Literature classes use something called the "Mercury Reader" which is a customized collection of stories that costs about $40. The publishers encourage instructors to swap out stories every year. (Killing the used book market)
I taught a English 101 class a couple of years ago and was forced to use it. My students went and spent $40 for works that are in the public domain! They could have easily purchased four or five Dover Thrift Editions for $8-10, or bought used books for less.
The only problem with taking part in a fad like tatooing is that you need to live with it forever. Ten years from now, you are not likely to be with a crowd that still finds tatoos to be a "cool" thing.
Even if you never grow up mentally, time and gravity will take it's toll, and your tatoo will turn into a black and blue smear. Tatoo removal people will be rich when all the girls putting giant butterflies on their backs and ass turn 40.
Why don't you "express" yourself by coloring your hair purple or something. At least dye washes out eventually.
Imposing a tariff says: "You are not meeting the environmental, labor and other standards that we are interested in, so we will raise the price as if you did."
The real losers are the poor bastards who have the misfortune of living in civilized countries and working for a company who outsources everything to third-world sewers.
The "cost savings" that we are supposedly seeing come from industries ability to avoid meeting the environmental, health, labor and quality standards that industry needs to meet in a Western nation.
That is why you can manufacture something in a Chinese sweatshop, ship it potentially 6 or 7 times (to the port, across the pacific, from over rail to the east coast, etc...) and still make a killing.
The EU nations for the most part fund such things with VAT and opressive income taxes. Companies do not bear the ultimate burden of such expenses.
The EU, which started as the European Steel & Coal community, has a long track record of providing bailouts to inefficient and bloated steel companies.
I do not think it is a good thing for US manufacturers to ship labor overseas. I'm also not in favor of free trade.
What do you rebuild with? Steel is needed for just about everything.
And regarding the attack scenario -- I never said anything about Al Qaeda. Fifty years from now, anybody could potentially have the capability to attack the United States. Once you destroy an industry, it's difficult to bring it back, ever.
If you cannot see the value in attacking a port, you need to put on your thinking cap.
Baseline magazine profiled US Steel a few months ago. Thanks to robotics and other automation, it takes 2 workers to produce a quanity of steel that 35 Koreans produce. They also make the steel for at 1/5 of the cost of the Koreans.
So why has US Steel been near bankruptcy for years? Pension & Healthcare costs (many government mandated), which consume nearly 80% of revenues.
If you want the trappings of a civilized society, (things like disability insurance, healthcare, pensions) there is a cost associated with that.
Steel is a very important commodity. Do you suppose that it might be a bad thing to put the entire US steel industry out of business, forcing us to import everything across the Pacific ocean?
A few striking longshoreman shut down imports of 75% of US consumer imports last year for a month. What do you suppose would happen if someday an enemy or natural disaster took the ports at Long Beach, San Diego and Bremerton or the Rocky Mountain railroad passes out?
Iraq used nerve gas against the Kurds as late as 1993.
If you google around a bit, you'll find that chemical weapons are pretty hard to destroy and require very large incinerators that would easily be spotted by satelliete.
Nobody, not the French or Hans Blix or anyone else has any kind of coherent evidence that indicates that these weapons were destroyed.
If you are so retarded as to think that it is impossible to hide a bomb in a country the size of Iraq... you have other issues.
Good -- have you ever considered the negative aspects of free trade on our economy?
Just in case you haven't noticed, virtually all manufacturing operations have moved to Mexico or China. Now computer geeks are in trouble, as most big software makers are exporting technical jobs to India and China.
Bush is doing the right thing. Drop the price of the dollar to give struggling US industries a chance to export something and impose tariffs to raise revenue and level the playing field.
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Diesel requires high compression to combust. There has been instances where a spill of fuel oil or diesel has extinguished a household fire.
Gas-turbine powered vehicles (like the M1 Abrams) can burn gasoline, kerosene or diesel. All other combat vehicles use diesel. During WW2, when there were shortages of just about everything, gasoline engines were placed in halftracks and tanks, with disaterous results.
With regard to the Hindenburg, it is generally accepted that the initial fire was not a hydrogen burn, since spectators reported extemely bright and colorful flame. (Hydrogen flame is not very colorful) The outer shell of the Hindenburg caught fire, probally due to static discharge, which eventually led to a hydrogen leak and bigger fire.
You'll find that many fire disasters are causes by various sealants. That big circus fire in the 50's killed hundreds of people because a mixture of kerosene and paraffin wax was used to waterproof the tent.
The Hindenburg disaster was caused by the highly combustible material coating the outer skin of the airship. The material used to seal the cellulose shell was very similar to what is used today as solid rocket fuel.
While hydrogen is inflammable, gasoline, the current fuel of choice is hardly fireproof. There is a good reason why military vehicles are diesel.
1> The United States, France and Soviet Union.
2> We're not talking about a courtroom, and matters of international legality are determined by whomever has the biggest guns and most money.
Have you heard about the town where villagers looted an Iraqi army facility and are now dying of radiation sickness? Why do you suppose highly radioactive material was in that facility?
OQO reminds me of SCO!
The publishing industry is deeply rooted in the corrupt educational beuracracy and is gaining ground, if anything.
You'll notice in college classes today that large freshman English and Literature classes use something called the "Mercury Reader" which is a customized collection of stories that costs about $40. The publishers encourage instructors to swap out stories every year. (Killing the used book market)
I taught a English 101 class a couple of years ago and was forced to use it. My students went and spent $40 for works that are in the public domain! They could have easily purchased four or five Dover Thrift Editions for $8-10, or bought used books for less.
The only problem with taking part in a fad like tatooing is that you need to live with it forever. Ten years from now, you are not likely to be with a crowd that still finds tatoos to be a "cool" thing.
Even if you never grow up mentally, time and gravity will take it's toll, and your tatoo will turn into a black and blue smear. Tatoo removal people will be rich when all the girls putting giant butterflies on their backs and ass turn 40.
Why don't you "express" yourself by coloring your hair purple or something. At least dye washes out eventually.
The huge tariffs level the field.
Imposing a tariff says: "You are not meeting the environmental, labor and other standards that we are interested in, so we will raise the price as if you did."
The real losers are the poor bastards who have the misfortune of living in civilized countries and working for a company who outsources everything to third-world sewers.
The "cost savings" that we are supposedly seeing come from industries ability to avoid meeting the environmental, health, labor and quality standards that industry needs to meet in a Western nation.
That is why you can manufacture something in a Chinese sweatshop, ship it potentially 6 or 7 times (to the port, across the pacific, from over rail to the east coast, etc...) and still make a killing.
Since the EU, United States and other countries have come to the conclusion that Korea is in the wrong. Maybe everyone has a point and you are wrong.
The EU nations for the most part fund such things with VAT and opressive income taxes. Companies do not bear the ultimate burden of such expenses.
The EU, which started as the European Steel & Coal community, has a long track record of providing bailouts to inefficient and bloated steel companies.
I do not think it is a good thing for US manufacturers to ship labor overseas. I'm also not in favor of free trade.
What do you rebuild with? Steel is needed for just about everything.
And regarding the attack scenario -- I never said anything about Al Qaeda. Fifty years from now, anybody could potentially have the capability to attack the United States. Once you destroy an industry, it's difficult to bring it back, ever.
If you cannot see the value in attacking a port, you need to put on your thinking cap.
It's called self-interest.
If my countrymen prosper, their prosperity will rub off on me. When push comes to shove, I don't really give a damn about Mexico or China.
You clearly have absolutely no knowledge of the steel industry beyond some bleeting during a political campaign.
Why don't you do a little reading, then preach.
You didn't read the article, and now you look like the idiot you are.
The EU and other countries have already imposed tariffs on the Korean memory companies.
Get a clue.
Not really. Government investments in corporations generate economic activity, which in turn generates tax revenue.
Since the value of money is it's perceived value (money is not "backed" by commodities) the appearance of economic activity creates value.
That's pretty funny.
Baseline magazine profiled US Steel a few months ago. Thanks to robotics and other automation, it takes 2 workers to produce a quanity of steel that 35 Koreans produce. They also make the steel for at 1/5 of the cost of the Koreans.
So why has US Steel been near bankruptcy for years? Pension & Healthcare costs (many government mandated), which consume nearly 80% of revenues.
If you want the trappings of a civilized society, (things like disability insurance, healthcare, pensions) there is a cost associated with that.
Steel is a very important commodity. Do you suppose that it might be a bad thing to put the entire US steel industry out of business, forcing us to import everything across the Pacific ocean?
A few striking longshoreman shut down imports of 75% of US consumer imports last year for a month. What do you suppose would happen if someday an enemy or natural disaster took the ports at Long Beach, San Diego and Bremerton or the Rocky Mountain railroad passes out?
Iraq used nerve gas against the Kurds as late as 1993.
If you google around a bit, you'll find that chemical weapons are pretty hard to destroy and require very large incinerators that would easily be spotted by satelliete.
Nobody, not the French or Hans Blix or anyone else has any kind of coherent evidence that indicates that these weapons were destroyed.
If you are so retarded as to think that it is impossible to hide a bomb in a country the size of Iraq... you have other issues.
Good -- have you ever considered the negative aspects of free trade on our economy?
Just in case you haven't noticed, virtually all manufacturing operations have moved to Mexico or China. Now computer geeks are in trouble, as most big software makers are exporting technical jobs to India and China.
Bush is doing the right thing. Drop the price of the dollar to give struggling US industries a chance to export something and impose tariffs to raise revenue and level the playing field.
Too bad we've exported all industry overseas!
Better get used to curry and duck.
That isn't a Microsoft thing. Sun EULAs for java contain very similar language.
Are you on crack?
Would you put a mildly retarded fresh graduate in charge of anything? Most of those idiots have $100,000 in school debt!
I have no idea what you just said, but it sounds absolutely brilliant.
Keep in mind that other things like configuration utilities, guis and the like may be copyrighted by RedHat as well.
"The act of running the Program is not restricted,"
You can run any program you want... you just cannot install it, as the installation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is copyrighted and licensed.