And talking about "evidence of damage" as if present damage is all that matters and the future need not be considered is retarded.
My point is that there have been predictions of immediate massive catastrophe for two weeks now. Hasn't happened. In the mean time the slick has actually started DECREASING in size due to various remediation actions.
Do you understand that the gulf coast is an important breeding area for the pelican?
Important for Brown Pelicans living in that area. The world-wide population of the Brown Pelican is around 650,000 and it is distributed throughout coastal areas of both North and South America. It is not endangered or at risk as a species by this oil spill. The article you linked is very much missing a lot of information. In fact this bird disappeared completely from Louisiana once before and came back.
The fact that it's globs and not a continuous stream, and that despite 2,000 barrels a day being leaked there are not oil slicks visible by satellite, puts the lie to the idea that the natural seepage and this disaster are in any way comparable.
Here is a study of a natural seep in California that totally refutes your statement.
YET. Calling the matter closed when the vast majority of the oil spill has yet to reach shore is vastly too premature.
There is no particular evidence that the oil spill is inexorably destined to reach land. The spill size is currently shrinking due to various containment efforts. And likewise calling it a world changing environmental catastrophe is vastly premature when the evidence of damage is slight indeed.
The Brown Pelican, which only just recently was taken off the endangered species list, does not.
Oh poppycock. This does not endanger the Brown Pelican - a bird whose range covers the east, gulf and west coasts of the US, and extends all the way south to Chile.
And over the entire gulf. And filtered through ground sediments, not pumped up at high pressure through a bore hole. Really, people keep bringing up natural seepage, but it really just shows the contrast between nature and off shore oil rigs.
Filtered through sediments? Nonsense. You can see globs of it rising to the surface in seepage areas.
The ecosystem, as in the particular ecosystem that exists there today, may not. Nature has recovered from the annihilation of over 50% of all species in a (geologically) brief period of time, but plenty of ecosystems were lost in the process.
Nature and ecosystems are not static; they are in constant flux and have a high degree of resiliency and adaptability. The only real danger is that man's population growth extends to a point where it strips the planet of its biosphere to the point where recovery in not possible.
OK, so now we have this oil well accident that some want to call an ecological disaster of unimaginable proprotions. That this accident illustrates how incredibly stupid it is to drill for oil, and even worse to do so in some ecologically sensitive area.
Yes we have some people making these claims. These people are irrational or have an agenda. The fact of the matter is that all that the actual damage we have documentation of so far (despite all the journalists looking for disaster evidence) are one dead jellyfish and two birds that needed to be cleaned of oil contamination. Otherwise no significant oil contamination in ANY sensitive marshes or wetlands.
The fact is that oil is itself a product of natural biological processes, and nature does have mechanisms for dealing with it over time. The Gulf itself is naturally and continuously contaminated by seepage from oil deposits, to the tune of an estimated 2,000 barrels a day. Every day. Over a history of millions of years. The ecology there has adapted to deal with oil, although not the large quantities from a point source like this incident without some damage.
The fact is that once this spill is contained the ecosystem will recover. It might seem to take forever if you are a fisherman working those waters, but to call it an ecological disaster is just silly.
The only true ecological disasters this planet faces is the accumulated biosphere pressure of human overpopulation and the occasional asteroid strikes.
You missed the Loop Current Creep. The concept here is that the spill will get pulled out of the Gulf by the Loop Current and contaminate the East Coast of the US. I saw one diagram that had it all the way up to New Jersey.
Sorbitol esters. Basically modified sugar alcohols. An example of this class of compounds is the Polysorbate 80 that is used to emulsify mild fats in ice cream.
Extremely biodegradable and pretty unlikely to cause any environmental damage.
Was it really that outlandish to expect an oil leak to come from this?
Yeah actually. It is very unusual for the blow out protector to fail. In fact I think I read somewhere that this is only the 2nd time this has happened.
She is NOT an Arizona resident. She does travel, sometimes through Arizona.
Why the hell should she have to get an ID from Arizona because she is Hispanic who sometimes travels in this retarded state? Since when do US citizens have to carry ID? THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE HALFWIT LAW.
Looking further into it, the NSF Office of the Inspector General is doing (not 'has done', is doing) a meta-investigation of this (which is in and of itself unusual.
Uh no it is not at all unusual. In fact it is required by law (45 C.F.R. part 689). The NSF IG MUST evaluate any investigation of this type for thoroughness and completeness.
Since the data is a matter of open record it is VERY unlikely that there is any instance of research misconduct here that has not been discovered in other reviews. The aforementioned CFR citation provides information why this is true.
Mod parent up. The efficiency and liquidity of world wide stock markets increases their usefulness to all involved. My ability as an individual investor to buy and sell at will is a huge factor in my willingness to participate.
My father used to pay $100 to get a simple trade executed, and it would take hours to get it done. I can do the same trade for $5.00 and get it executed in a second or less.
So what if some financial institution is making a profit on this. It is a win-win situation.
The problems in the system are elsewhere - where people in the system are taking advantage of their position to trade based on information not available to everyone. Fortunately most of that is illegal.
The purpose of this degree of accuracy is to measure the performance of your system.
Here I am, team leader for Goldman Sacks Front-Runner IT services division and I'm trying to squeeze a couple of microseconds out of my trading network. Well I can't do that unless I can measure the performance of my distributed application very accurately.
This law is dead on arrival, not because of the 4th amendment, but because of the 5th amendment, the Supremacy Clause and Section 8 clause 1401 of the US Code, the 14th amendment, and Article 1 section 8.
The Arizona law lists ARIZONA licenses as proof of citizenship. Good luck if you are driving in Arizona with a NJ license. And of course many people don't have driver's licenses. I didn't have one until I was about 17. My wife, who is Hispanic didn't have one until she was 28.
This law is very poorly thought out and will get nowhere. There are so many issues with it I am sure it will get bounced very quickly.
Not a driver's license. The way this is worded it has to be an ARIZONA driver's license.
My wife, who is Hispanic US citizen does not possess a valid Arizona Driver's License nor any of the other forms of identification listed in this law. Under this law she would be subject to detainment at the discretion of any police officer who might happen to hear her her speaking Spanish.
There are numerous inaccuracies in your posting. The first is that US aircraft carriers are vulnerable to Sunburn antiship missiles. This seems quite unlikely given the rollout of the SeaRAM anti-missle system and the known effectiveness of Aegis systems.
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This is one of the fundamental problems with organic farming - it is vastly more labor intensive than modern methods.
There are other problems - lack of sufficient inputs to practice it on a large scale and lower yields than modern methods.
Abandoning the green revolution would consign billions to starvation.
What do you think people have been doing for the past 5000 years???
but it's predicted to hit land in the next 3 days as winds turn unfavorable.
There have been daily predictions of imminent landfall since the leak started. Here is one from back in April. Pardon me if projections 3 days out are taken with some degree of skepticism.
And talking about "evidence of damage" as if present damage is all that matters and the future need not be considered is retarded.
My point is that there have been predictions of immediate massive catastrophe for two weeks now. Hasn't happened. In the mean time the slick has actually started DECREASING in size due to various remediation actions.
Do you understand that the gulf coast is an important breeding area for the pelican?
Important for Brown Pelicans living in that area. The world-wide population of the Brown Pelican is around 650,000 and it is distributed throughout coastal areas of both North and South America. It is not endangered or at risk as a species by this oil spill. The article you linked is very much missing a lot of information. In fact this bird disappeared completely from Louisiana once before and came back.
The fact that it's globs and not a continuous stream, and that despite 2,000 barrels a day being leaked there are not oil slicks visible by satellite, puts the lie to the idea that the natural seepage and this disaster are in any way comparable.
Here is a study of a natural seep in California that totally refutes your statement.
http://www.physorg.com/news161440137.html
YET. Calling the matter closed when the vast majority of the oil spill has yet to reach shore is vastly too premature.
There is no particular evidence that the oil spill is inexorably destined to reach land. The spill size is currently shrinking due to various containment efforts. And likewise calling it a world changing environmental catastrophe is vastly premature when the evidence of damage is slight indeed.
The Brown Pelican, which only just recently was taken off the endangered species list, does not.
Oh poppycock. This does not endanger the Brown Pelican - a bird whose range covers the east, gulf and west coasts of the US, and extends all the way south to Chile.
And over the entire gulf. And filtered through ground sediments, not pumped up at high pressure through a bore hole. Really, people keep bringing up natural seepage, but it really just shows the contrast between nature and off shore oil rigs.
Filtered through sediments? Nonsense. You can see globs of it rising to the surface in seepage areas.
The ecosystem, as in the particular ecosystem that exists there today, may not. Nature has recovered from the annihilation of over 50% of all species in a (geologically) brief period of time, but plenty of ecosystems were lost in the process.
Nature and ecosystems are not static; they are in constant flux and have a high degree of resiliency and adaptability. The only real danger is that man's population growth extends to a point where it strips the planet of its biosphere to the point where recovery in not possible.
OK, so now we have this oil well accident that some want to call an ecological disaster of unimaginable proprotions. That this accident illustrates how incredibly stupid it is to drill for oil, and even worse to do so in some ecologically sensitive area.
Yes we have some people making these claims. These people are irrational or have an agenda. The fact of the matter is that all that the actual damage we have documentation of so far (despite all the journalists looking for disaster evidence) are one dead jellyfish and two birds that needed to be cleaned of oil contamination. Otherwise no significant oil contamination in ANY sensitive marshes or wetlands.
The fact is that oil is itself a product of natural biological processes, and nature does have mechanisms for dealing with it over time. The Gulf itself is naturally and continuously contaminated by seepage from oil deposits, to the tune of an estimated 2,000 barrels a day. Every day. Over a history of millions of years. The ecology there has adapted to deal with oil, although not the large quantities from a point source like this incident without some damage.
The fact is that once this spill is contained the ecosystem will recover. It might seem to take forever if you are a fisherman working those waters, but to call it an ecological disaster is just silly.
The only true ecological disasters this planet faces is the accumulated biosphere pressure of human overpopulation and the occasional asteroid strikes.
You missed the Loop Current Creep. The concept here is that the spill will get pulled out of the Gulf by the Loop Current and contaminate the East Coast of the US. I saw one diagram that had it all the way up to New Jersey.
Riiighhht. You are going to commit huge resources to preparation for an event that has happened ONCE in human history.
They do have skimmers. It's just more effective to use the other techniques.
Sorbitol esters. Basically modified sugar alcohols. An example of this class of compounds is the Polysorbate 80 that is used to emulsify mild fats in ice cream.
Extremely biodegradable and pretty unlikely to cause any environmental damage.
Was it really that outlandish to expect an oil leak to come from this?
Yeah actually. It is very unusual for the blow out protector to fail. In fact I think I read somewhere that this is only the 2nd time this has happened.
She is NOT an Arizona resident. She does travel, sometimes through Arizona.
Why the hell should she have to get an ID from Arizona because she is Hispanic who sometimes travels in this retarded state? Since when do US citizens have to carry ID? THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE HALFWIT LAW.
I would suggest anyone who believes the scientific community was focused on global cooling in the past watch this YouTube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg
Looking further into it, the NSF Office of the Inspector General is doing (not 'has done', is doing) a meta-investigation of this (which is in and of itself unusual.
Uh no it is not at all unusual. In fact it is required by law (45 C.F.R. part 689). The NSF IG MUST evaluate any investigation of this type for thoroughness and completeness.
Since the data is a matter of open record it is VERY unlikely that there is any instance of research misconduct here that has not been discovered in other reviews. The aforementioned CFR citation provides information why this is true.
This is a witch hunt.
Mod parent up. The efficiency and liquidity of world wide stock markets increases their usefulness to all involved. My ability as an individual investor to buy and sell at will is a huge factor in my willingness to participate.
My father used to pay $100 to get a simple trade executed, and it would take hours to get it done. I can do the same trade for $5.00 and get it executed in a second or less.
So what if some financial institution is making a profit on this. It is a win-win situation.
The problems in the system are elsewhere - where people in the system are taking advantage of their position to trade based on information not available to everyone. Fortunately most of that is illegal.
The clocks in orbit are either Rubidium or Cesium based. The US Primary Time Standard is a Cesium Fountain.
http://tf.nist.gov/cesium/fountain.htm
The GPS clocks are synchronized to the Master Clock.
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/clocks.html
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/mc_to.html
The purpose of this degree of accuracy is to measure the performance of your system.
Here I am, team leader for Goldman Sacks Front-Runner IT services division and I'm trying to squeeze a couple of microseconds out of my trading network. Well I can't do that unless I can measure the performance of my distributed application very accurately.
This law is dead on arrival, not because of the 4th amendment, but because of the 5th amendment, the Supremacy Clause and Section 8 clause 1401 of the US Code, the 14th amendment, and Article 1 section 8.
That's a very small number of people.
Everyone under the age of 16 is not a small number of people.
> What is the penalty for failure to produce my driver's license on that same "7-11 run"?
Suppose you are 16 and don't have a driver's license? What then?
The Arizona law lists ARIZONA licenses as proof of citizenship. Good luck if you are driving in Arizona with a NJ license. And of course many people don't have driver's licenses. I didn't have one until I was about 17. My wife, who is Hispanic didn't have one until she was 28.
This law is very poorly thought out and will get nowhere. There are so many issues with it I am sure it will get bounced very quickly.
FALSE. Only 24 states actually require that you identify yourself to police if asked. None that I know of require that you carry any form of ID.
Of course if you are driving a car you need a license but that is a different case.
It is all tied to the 5th amendment which provides protection against self incrimination.
Not a driver's license. The way this is worded it has to be an ARIZONA driver's license.
My wife, who is Hispanic US citizen does not possess a valid Arizona Driver's License nor any of the other forms of identification listed in this law. Under this law she would be subject to detainment at the discretion of any police officer who might happen to hear her her speaking Spanish.
This law is completely outrageous.
There are numerous inaccuracies in your posting. The first is that US aircraft carriers are vulnerable to Sunburn antiship missiles. This seems quite unlikely given the rollout of the SeaRAM anti-missle system and the known effectiveness of Aegis systems.
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-weaponry/30202-sea-ram-enables-improved-reach-out-touch-somebody-capability.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966345/posts
And that assumes that the carrier even gets in range before the potential ASM launch sites are annihilated.
WNDR3700 + dd-wrt should fit well once dd-wrt is out of alpha/beta.
1. Douchebaggery is not a crime.
2. He was arrested illegally and the police acted to cover up evidence of that fact.