You would think she would be protected under a whistleblower protection law, but as the wiki states -"Whistleblowing is complex patchwork of contradictory laws within the US." (see wiki here), but they can always find another reason to get rid of her.
On the other hand some of us understand NIMBY. While I too doubt the possibility for health problems for people miles/kilometers from one, or even directly under one for that matter, they will certainly lower property values. And if you are too close they can be noisy and a lot of the same hippies agitating for alternative energy find them an eyesore, again lowering property values.
Welcome to the real world. You end up having to stuff them in god awful places where almost nobody lives then lose too much current to wire losses and increased expenses to send people out to work on them. Then as soon as the government subsidies stop you lock the thing down because the unsubsidized operating costs often exceed the value of the electricity produced. But it looked so good on the glossy brocure to the stockholders and government regulating agencies handing out those sacks of cash.
I'm curious, are you talking about a (coal/gas/nuclear) plant, or a wind turbine?
Anyone that read Lucifer's Hammer knows that asterioids and comets bounce around in their orbit too much to make anything other than a reasonable guess till they are too close to do anything other than hide The Way Things Work in your septic tank.
For those unaware - it's written by Larry Niven and David Pournelle
Seriously? Criticizing someone for stating an opinion is what you call immature? If someone cares enough to state an opinion in a public forum then they had better be aware of the chance of it being criticized. Chance, in this case, likely being 100%.
This line:
...The old Google was a great place to work. The new one? -1
plus the fact that he left his utopian playground for Microsoft only supports the claim that he is just a big, whiny, baby. As I said before, it was great being a kid, playing at recess, trying to see if I could get 864 on one ball in Breakout, and having Mommy wash my clothes and make my bed for me each day.
I liked middle school too. Nothing better than playing outside during recess.
Quite possibly the most immature thing I have read from a supposedly mature person. Outside of posts on Twitter from drunks at a Guns 'n' Roses concert.
I really think it's more a "this is our home and where we want to be" mentality. The same mentality that made people move back to Galveston after 1900, New Orleans after Katrina, and every damn trailer park in the midwest after every damn tornado.
People are just uncomfortable with change. Well, stupid people are at least.
after all this decades enemy has sustained life for thousands of years in an environment most of our citizens would be smart enough to move the hell out of, in a matter of hours... "
This should be easy to resolve, they just need a little table with translations:
US English -------- British English
Bathroom ------------ Loo
TV----------------------- Telly
Awesome dude! --- Jolly good old chap!
Greetings, sir ------ ‘Ello Guvna
Cigarette ------------- Fag
Horse-faced --------- Female
Toothbrush ---------- N/A
Now they should release the evaluations of the elected officials as well.
But first let's get the politicians rated. Not sure on what, exactly. Number of bills passed in relation to number proposed? Number of times they actually voted for what their constituents wanted, as opposed to what the lobbying groups wanted. Things like that. Then we can base their pay on some arbitrary rating of all these factors.
What, bills didn't pass because the other pols were too dense to understand their value? Too bad, that's a negative mark on the record.
Oh, you voted against the people's whims because, well, sometimes people are stupid? Too bad, that's a negative.
This could be fun!
Since you'd have a better chance of seeing some foreign object on a chick with a slim body. Fat chicks might have layers that hide the contraband, so they may as well scan the hot ones and increase their chances of catching something.
Plus you have to figure it's more likely that a slim, hot chick is a drug mule than a fat chick, because if the fat chick was a cokehead she wouldn't be fat.
Damn, I have been underestimating the TSA guys all along, they got it all figured out!
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'According to some researchers, that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of genes after all.'"
Apparently, those researchers don't have that gene.
You would think she would be protected under a whistleblower protection law, but as the wiki states -"Whistleblowing is complex patchwork of contradictory laws within the US." (see wiki here), but they can always find another reason to get rid of her.
But I didn't know the U.S.S.R. had giant four-legged robot death-machines.
No, they stopped at 3-legged female weightlifters.
On the other hand some of us understand NIMBY. While I too doubt the possibility for health problems for people miles/kilometers from one, or even directly under one for that matter, they will certainly lower property values. And if you are too close they can be noisy and a lot of the same hippies agitating for alternative energy find them an eyesore, again lowering property values.
Welcome to the real world. You end up having to stuff them in god awful places where almost nobody lives then lose too much current to wire losses and increased expenses to send people out to work on them. Then as soon as the government subsidies stop you lock the thing down because the unsubsidized operating costs often exceed the value of the electricity produced. But it looked so good on the glossy brocure to the stockholders and government regulating agencies handing out those sacks of cash.
I'm curious, are you talking about a (coal/gas/nuclear) plant, or a wind turbine?
Nuclear kills fewer people per kWh than any of those. People are just more afraid of invisible radiation than they are of falling off of rooftops.
Yeah, but if I fall off my roof it's not like no one else can ever go up on my roof for the next 100 years.
Just sayin...
Oops on the typo, and thx for the heads up on Kingsbury. I just wanted to justify why I keep throwing stuff in my septic tank.
Anyone that read Lucifer's Hammer knows that asterioids and comets bounce around in their orbit too much to make anything other than a reasonable guess till they are too close to do anything other than hide The Way Things Work in your septic tank. For those unaware - it's written by Larry Niven and David Pournelle
Principle's office? Well, only if you have any interest in this.
No, satellites.
But they are ill-tempered.
If you think the word 'compile' is not that smelly bunch of trash in the neighbor's yard you are automatically over-qualified for any job.
'I've lived all my life in caves, and I can't imagine anything different.'"
That's because you've lived all your life in caves.
The computer would definitely struggle with that one because you spelled 'Center' incorrectly. :)
This line:
...The old Google was a great place to work. The new one? -1
plus the fact that he left his utopian playground for Microsoft only supports the claim that he is just a big, whiny, baby. As I said before, it was great being a kid, playing at recess, trying to see if I could get 864 on one ball in Breakout, and having Mommy wash my clothes and make my bed for me each day.
Too easy to blame some country or entity for attacks these days. What proof do they have that it was Iran?
I think they analyzed the packets from the DDoS and each header said either "SILENCE!" or "I KEEEL YOU!"
Yes, we did. More often then not we played cream the carrier/smear the queer/kill the man with the ball (insert local reference here...)
I liked middle school too. Nothing better than playing outside during recess.
Quite possibly the most immature thing I have read from a supposedly mature person. Outside of posts on Twitter from drunks at a Guns 'n' Roses concert.
Hey, my ass is not fat. And the TV is a plasma. Shows how much you know, mister smarty-pants!
I really think it's more a "this is our home and where we want to be" mentality. The same mentality that made people move back to Galveston after 1900, New Orleans after Katrina, and every damn trailer park in the midwest after every damn tornado.
People are just uncomfortable with change. Well, stupid people are at least.
Sorry I don't have any mod points for this. Well written and documented, thanks.
after all this decades enemy has sustained life for thousands of years in an environment most of our citizens would be smart enough to move the hell out of, in a matter of hours... "
FTFY
This should be easy to resolve, they just need a little table with translations:
US English -------- British English
Bathroom ------------ Loo
TV----------------------- Telly
Awesome dude! --- Jolly good old chap!
Greetings, sir ------ ‘Ello Guvna
Cigarette ------------- Fag
Horse-faced --------- Female
Toothbrush ---------- N/A
Now they should release the evaluations of the elected officials as well.
But first let's get the politicians rated. Not sure on what, exactly. Number of bills passed in relation to number proposed? Number of times they actually voted for what their constituents wanted, as opposed to what the lobbying groups wanted. Things like that. Then we can base their pay on some arbitrary rating of all these factors.
What, bills didn't pass because the other pols were too dense to understand their value? Too bad, that's a negative mark on the record.
Oh, you voted against the people's whims because, well, sometimes people are stupid? Too bad, that's a negative.
This could be fun!
But with the 5-4 majority it's just a foregone conclusion that they will rule on the gov't side. Fifth amendment only works on tv.
The vast majority if store clerks wouldn't be able to round up or down to the nearest nickel.
Since you'd have a better chance of seeing some foreign object on a chick with a slim body. Fat chicks might have layers that hide the contraband, so they may as well scan the hot ones and increase their chances of catching something.
Plus you have to figure it's more likely that a slim, hot chick is a drug mule than a fat chick, because if the fat chick was a cokehead she wouldn't be fat.
Damn, I have been underestimating the TSA guys all along, they got it all figured out!