Unfortunately, that's sort of like using a hand grenade to patch a leak in the roof.
Or not. Since a roof leak drips down only when it rains, not at a continuous 2K psi. And a roof is in the air, not 1 mile underwater. etc. etc. Maybe I'm missing it but this analogy seems to weak to support your argument.
While I agree BP will probably go to almost any lengths to preserve access to this field, the big problem with using explosives to attempt to cap this blowout is the roof of the chamber seems very brittle. Any explosion large enough to cap the well could fracture the roof of the chamber to the extent it would start leaking over a wide area of sea floor, which could then never be stopped, or a large section of the roof would collapse entirely, resulting in a catastrophic release of oil and gas.
I'd like to see a source for the "very brittle" comment, as well as data on how thick the chamber roof actually is as I just don't know. The wikipedia article on the spill states BP rejected conventional explosive use and that no one has ever considered a nuclear option, because of treaty issues and environmental impact (like there's none now). I think the whole "blow it up" meme has traction simply because of BP's inability to fix their mess and the US government's ineffectiveness in getting anything done about it.
I firmly support others right to believe they're "chosen" and their "supreme being" dictates how they should live.
They just don't get to have a say in any public policy decisions since they're unable to differentiate physical evidence from make-believe friends. In addition, their inability to reason out a sound argument disqualifies them from telling any else what to do or how to behave.
I.E., You're free to delude yourself to whatever extent you can tolerate but you don't get to tell me or my kids how to live.
I agree with you that the banks that need help are the deposit banks who didn't engage in poor behavior. So why are you advocating helping the investment banks who caused the mess? Because that's who's holding the junk Paulson's going to buy.
BTW, my 401K tanked just like everyone else's. We're going into a recession with or without a bailout plan. So why back a bailout that's not targeting the actual problem?
The tiered pricing of mortgage assets now in place and the bundling of multiple tiers into the derivatives packages sold has effectively made determining the actual value of each package practically impossible. Obfuscating the value of what you're selling is fraud, plain and simple. Banks stopped lending to each other because they can't estimate the value held (and hence solvency) by their peers.
Mark-to-market rules were put in place after the Enron scandal, I believe, to prevent future fraud and suspending this rule now will get us, guess what? More fraud. The investment banks mortgages aren't zero-valued, just so low they don't want to take the loss. And why should they when Congress is willing to buy their crap at book-value.
I agree that the added pork is a complete disgrace but it's far overshadowed by the concentration of financial power into the hands of one man with after-the-fact oversight. Watch as he lets a few more banks fail and then saves Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan who are heavily leveraged into this market.
I also agree with you that the rush to push this through is fear-mongering at its worst. The bailout itself is bad enough but I could easily justify voting out my congressional reps based on their lack of spine and letting themselves be bullied so easily. You'd think after Bush's long time lack of credibility the Dems would finally tell him to shove it and blame this whole mess on his 8 years. Not that the Dems are any less responsible, BTW.
There were plenty of alternatives proposed that were less intrusive, safer, and better targeted to unfreeze liquidity to buy us time to fix the real problem of reckless, unregulated trading in fraudulently valued housing derivatives.
All were all rounded rejected by Paulson and taken off the table without further debate. If you doubt this, do some research. The rush to pass this via fear-mongering is typical administration bullying at its worst.
The Paulson plan is a naked power grab. Stop trying to sugar-coat it. It's a last ditch effort to save investment bank cronies from getting crushed from the upcoming recession by buying their junk at prices way above market value.
I repeatedly emailed, faxed, and phoned both my House and Senate reps about my vehement opposition and that I'd vote them out if they supported the Paulson plan. Their staff dutifully took down my position and both of them approved the bailout, voting against the 100-to-1 opposition of their constituents to the plan.
They've both been notified that I'll be spending my time and money to remove them from office as soon as possible by any means necessary.
Vote them out of office. Every single Congressional member who supported this bailout bill should be voted out of office as soon as possible.
I'll jump in too for supporting Sony Ericsson phones as a simple phone development platform. They've an active and extensive developer site and it looks pretty easy to get simple apps written and installed.
I did reflash the firmware on my branded w580i back to factory and it's much easier to work with now without all the vendor crap on it.
Android may be the future but until then SE phones will satisfy my urge to tinker with simple phone apps.
I think it's more like admitting you made a mistake. In public. And not being afraid to own up to it. And taking the consequences. I think we need more of that.
I'm wondering why it's taken other lawyers so long to realize the RIAA is ripe for fleecing with their undefendable suits. Surely the lawyer vs. lawyer guys would have figured out by now that the RIAA, with so much $$$, is ripe for plucking...
I've let both my Senate and House reps know that 1) I vote, contribute $$$, and 2) This issue is important to me and 3) I have influence on my voting friends on technical issues and 4) I will be very unhappy if they fail to represent my interests. Yes, this includes paper, online petitions, email, and phone calls.
While no single issue would cause me to actively campaign against an incumbent I like, I still want them to know that I'm watching what they do and will actively work against them if they don't consistently stand up for my interests. It's too bad we can't force a re-election on newly elected reps that don't deliver.
Corporations can't vote. Remind your reps of this.
Don't be an idiot. What people *say* isn't an appearance (except for politicians:^)) and it seems perfectly reasonable to draw conclusions about someone's intelligence based on their speech.
The parent is simply saying "When you choose an ambiguous swearing word like "f*ck", you are either outright dumb or too lazy to think of something more appropriate. Neither reflects well on you".
Newspaper ace reporters? Newspaper leaders? News Around the World?
wtf?
I never got it. I still don't
It's people's words on people's paper. There's a word for it now? It has reporters and editors? and these reporters say something and we're suddenly supposed to take their word for it, and treat it as something greater than ink on paper? All the while continually mocking the newsletter/church bulletin/whatever crowd, which is essentially amounts to the same thing, minus the fucking pretentious "ace news reporter" bullshit.
This is far beyond both naivety and ridiculousness. It needs to stop.
It's no wonder copyright has become a political issue -- copyrights have been extended (in the U.S. at least) everytime they're about to expire, effectively having infinite lifespans. How can you ignore something that's forever?
Solution: limited copyrights, like it was originally intended. Current law "reduces" the rate of new work since authors can ride the gravy train of one work forever. Infinite copyright also makes copyrights assets to be acquired, hoarded, and protected via lawsuits. Limited copyrights would make all that go away.
We'd certainly live in a different landscape with limited copyrights and I think I'd like to try it out for while. Wake me up when that happens (like never..).
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If prices actually got lower you'd be right. But the reality is that prices stay the same or go up, with the production savings from lower labor costs kept as profits.
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Unfortunately, that's sort of like using a hand grenade to patch a leak in the roof.
Or not. Since a roof leak drips down only when it rains, not at a continuous 2K psi. And a roof is in the air, not 1 mile underwater. etc. etc. Maybe I'm missing it but this analogy seems to weak to support your argument.
While I agree BP will probably go to almost any lengths to preserve access to this field, the big problem with using explosives to attempt to cap this blowout is the roof of the chamber seems very brittle. Any explosion large enough to cap the well could fracture the roof of the chamber to the extent it would start leaking over a wide area of sea floor, which could then never be stopped, or a large section of the roof would collapse entirely, resulting in a catastrophic release of oil and gas.
I'd like to see a source for the "very brittle" comment, as well as data on how thick the chamber roof actually is as I just don't know. The wikipedia article on the spill states BP rejected conventional explosive use and that no one has ever considered a nuclear option, because of treaty issues and environmental impact (like there's none now). I think the whole "blow it up" meme has traction simply because of BP's inability to fix their mess and the US government's ineffectiveness in getting anything done about it.
You mean hiring awesome staff to work on independent projects designed in advance breaks Brooks Law?
Genius! Pat yourself on the back some more. /sarcasm
So your problem is with the man and not his argument? Sorry, you lose, automatically.
Good news. He can rot in jail along with all the bankers the feds arrested for stealing hundreds of billions via fraud. Oh wait...
I firmly support others right to believe they're "chosen" and their "supreme being" dictates how they should live.
They just don't get to have a say in any public policy decisions since they're unable to differentiate physical evidence from make-believe friends. In addition, their inability to reason out a sound argument disqualifies them from telling any else what to do or how to behave.
I.E., You're free to delude yourself to whatever extent you can tolerate but you don't get to tell me or my kids how to live.
Amend to:
"They're saying their sister is loose but you're going to lose your head if you go there."
Is this OK?
"They're saying their sister is loose but you're going to lose if you go there."
I agree with you that the banks that need help are the deposit banks who didn't engage in poor behavior. So why are you advocating helping the investment banks who caused the mess? Because that's who's holding the junk Paulson's going to buy.
BTW, my 401K tanked just like everyone else's. We're going into a recession with or without a bailout plan. So why back a bailout that's not targeting the actual problem?
The tiered pricing of mortgage assets now in place and the bundling of multiple tiers into the derivatives packages sold has effectively made determining the actual value of each package practically impossible. Obfuscating the value of what you're selling is fraud, plain and simple. Banks stopped lending to each other because they can't estimate the value held (and hence solvency) by their peers.
Mark-to-market rules were put in place after the Enron scandal, I believe, to prevent future fraud and suspending this rule now will get us, guess what? More fraud. The investment banks mortgages aren't zero-valued, just so low they don't want to take the loss. And why should they when Congress is willing to buy their crap at book-value.
I agree that the added pork is a complete disgrace but it's far overshadowed by the concentration of financial power into the hands of one man with after-the-fact oversight. Watch as he lets a few more banks fail and then saves Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan who are heavily leveraged into this market.
I also agree with you that the rush to push this through is fear-mongering at its worst. The bailout itself is bad enough but I could easily justify voting out my congressional reps based on their lack of spine and letting themselves be bullied so easily. You'd think after Bush's long time lack of credibility the Dems would finally tell him to shove it and blame this whole mess on his 8 years. Not that the Dems are any less responsible, BTW.
Vote them all out I say.
There were plenty of alternatives proposed that were less intrusive, safer, and better targeted to unfreeze liquidity to buy us time to fix the real problem of reckless, unregulated trading in fraudulently valued housing derivatives.
All were all rounded rejected by Paulson and taken off the table without further debate. If you doubt this, do some research. The rush to pass this via fear-mongering is typical administration bullying at its worst.
The Paulson plan is a naked power grab. Stop trying to sugar-coat it. It's a last ditch effort to save investment bank cronies from getting crushed from the upcoming recession by buying their junk at prices way above market value.
The numbers I've seen say constituents who *did* notify their reps were anywhere from 5-to-1 against to as high as 100-to-1 against.
So most of us *did* notify them - and they ignored us.
Every single Congress critter supporting this naked money grab should be voted out of office, Obama and McCain included.
I repeatedly emailed, faxed, and phoned both my House and Senate reps about my vehement opposition and that I'd vote them out if they supported the Paulson plan. Their staff dutifully took down my position and both of them approved the bailout, voting against the 100-to-1 opposition of their constituents to the plan.
They've both been notified that I'll be spending my time and money to remove them from office as soon as possible by any means necessary.
Vote them out of office. Every single Congressional member who supported this bailout bill should be voted out of office as soon as possible.
I'll jump in too for supporting Sony Ericsson phones as a simple phone development platform. They've an active and extensive developer site and it looks pretty easy to get simple apps written and installed.
I did reflash the firmware on my branded w580i back to factory and it's much easier to work with now without all the vendor crap on it.
Android may be the future but until then SE phones will satisfy my urge to tinker with simple phone apps.
I think it's more like admitting you made a mistake. In public. And not being afraid to own up to it. And taking the consequences. I think we need more of that.
Oops... getting too serious...
I humbly apologize for my infantile l337 h4X0r behavior in a rash "Frist post" posting that contributes absolutely nothing to the topic.
We are all dumber having read it...
ever?
One data point. Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe w/ 1502 BIOS version and an AMD 64 X2 4600+ is OK so far.
I'm wondering why it's taken other lawyers so long to realize the RIAA is ripe for fleecing with their undefendable suits. Surely the lawyer vs. lawyer guys would have figured out by now that the RIAA, with so much $$$, is ripe for plucking...
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I'm actually ashamed of this, BTW
I've let both my Senate and House reps know that 1) I vote, contribute $$$, and 2) This issue is important to me and 3) I have influence on my voting friends on technical issues and 4) I will be very unhappy if they fail to represent my interests. Yes, this includes paper, online petitions, email, and phone calls.
While no single issue would cause me to actively campaign against an incumbent I like, I still want them to know that I'm watching what they do and will actively work against them if they don't consistently stand up for my interests. It's too bad we can't force a re-election on newly elected reps that don't deliver.
Corporations can't vote. Remind your reps of this.
Don't be an idiot. What people *say* isn't an appearance (except for politicians :^)) and it seems perfectly reasonable to draw conclusions about someone's intelligence based on their speech.
:)
The parent is simply saying "When you choose an ambiguous swearing word like "f*ck", you are either outright dumb or too lazy to think of something more appropriate. Neither reflects well on you".
OMFG
Newspaper ace reporters?
Newspaper leaders?
News Around the World?
wtf?
I never got it. I still don't
It's people's words on people's paper.
There's a word for it now? It has reporters and editors?
and these reporters say something and we're suddenly supposed to take their word for it, and treat it as something greater than ink on paper? All the while continually mocking the newsletter/church bulletin/whatever crowd, which is essentially amounts to the same thing, minus the fucking pretentious "ace news reporter" bullshit.
This is far beyond both naivety and ridiculousness. It needs to stop.
It's no wonder copyright has become a political issue -- copyrights have been extended (in the U.S. at least) everytime they're about to expire, effectively having infinite lifespans. How can you ignore something that's forever?
Solution: limited copyrights, like it was originally intended. Current law "reduces" the rate of new work since authors can ride the gravy train of one work forever. Infinite copyright also makes copyrights assets to be acquired, hoarded, and protected via lawsuits. Limited copyrights would make all that go away.
We'd certainly live in a different landscape with limited copyrights and I think I'd like to try it out for while. Wake me up when that happens (like never..).
Can you give specifics on your setup? What dish equipment/connections are you using? I'm wanting to upgrade my Dish setup and would love to pipe dish network output into my Myth box (dual DVB ATSC tuners). TIA.
If prices actually got lower you'd be right. But the reality is that prices stay the same or go up, with the production savings from lower labor costs kept as profits.
And after all the knowledge-based work is shipped overseas I suppose we can clean their houses, do their nails, and serve them fries.... :)