I'd say the stoner branch of the libertarians are probably pretty straightforward. The rest though are the guys who want to gut the power of government so they can make trillions of dollars without worrying about petty things like safety regulations, but when their company kills someone they want to hide behind the government-granted corporate veil or in the worst case scenario declare government-created bankruptcy to eliminate their debts.
The following is not public," reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Emergency Response document dated April 28. "Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought."
Asked Friday to comment on the document, NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen said that the additional leaks described were reported to the public late Wednesday night. Regarding the possibility of the spill becoming an order of magnitude larger, Smullen said, "I'm letting the document you have speak for itself."
11 MILLION gallons, at 50k barrels a day it will take ~ two months
Putting million in all caps doesn't make it a larger number. At 42 gallons to the barrel, 11 MILLION gallons is 261 THOUSAND barrels, or just over 5 days at 50k barrels/day.
how you would be on the hook for royalties covering more than one recording
Because companies think they are entitled to a cut of any revenue they "helped" you make, whether they are ISPs thinking they deserve a cut of Google's cash because they deigned to grant their subscribers access to Google's website, musicians thinking they deserve a cut of a cafe's cash because a radio was playing in the back, or video encoders who think they deserve a cut of a movie's revenue.
I wonder how many of these people who feel they deserve this entitlement also think that guy who invented the CD laser diode and sued his company for a share of the cash was also entitled to it.
you have to provide a DRIVER'S LICENCE. You know this? RIGHT??
A driver's license isn't a proof of legal status. States give them out to foreigners all the time, and since it was issued their visa or whatever might have expired or been revoked. YOU KNOW THIS RIGHT?????
All a cop has to do is decide you might be a foreigner. If you aren't carrying around proof of your legal status, you're at least going to be detained until your family can bring in a birth certificate... and then
a detainee in Warziniack's situation often has to wait weeks for results, even if he or she gets a copy of a U.S. birth certificate.
I'm not going to cry for the illegal immigrants that get thrown out of the country. I am going to fight tooth and nail against a system that will imprison and/or throw Americans into exile for not carrying their papers.
If a police office see you walking down the street, he has no "lawful encounter"
Well, he could just write you up for "resisting arrest". Doesn't even have to explain what he was supposedly arresting you for.
Every book/CD/DVD/etc offered for sale in the US must have a chain of authority tracable to the author
OK, sure!
and only through US connections
Wait, what?
BTW, this goes beyond just bootlegs ("You can't go to some third world pesthole, print up a bunch of books and then import them into the US."), there's also stuff like the British editions of Harry Potter novels and such floating around out there that any reasonably sane person would expect to be "legal" yet were obviously not sourced "only through US connections".
I don't hear you complaining about the "liars" who lied on their loan docs.
That's funny, what about the mortgage "flippers"... sorry, I meant brokers... who were just getting outsmarted when they were paid thousands and thousands of dollars to create mortgages. Who'da thunk that the homeless bum might be lying when he says he's got a million dollar salary?
Who do you think invented the NINJA Loan? Why, it was HCL Finance, Inc. a "finance company" (not a bank, not subject to CRA) that openly named their "finance product" after the fact that they're giving money away to people without income, job, or assets. (No wonder they imploded... and all without the government forcing them to do a thing!)
As for the CRA, banks accounted for half the subprime loans. The other half were unregulated institutions like ditech.com (better known as "GMAC"), "investment banks" and mortgage brokers. Yes, Clinton ordered Fannie and Freddie to buy shitty loans which sucked for us since the government didn't have the balls to cut them loose, but in case you haven't noticed so was everyone else. The government didn't force Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers to do jack.
If you absolutely must have one single point who MUST be the sole carrier of fault, the single institution that could have put the brakes on everything are the bond rating organizations, who were paid to rate this shit AAA:
It shows that 91% of the AAA subprime RMBS securities issued in 2007, and 93% of those issued in 2006, have since been downgraded to junk status. The numbers for Option ARM mortgages are even worse. Option ARMs, which we examined at our first hearing on Washington Mutual Bank, allow borrowers to pick from several types of payments each month, including a “minimum payment” that results in a growing, rather than declining, loan balance. The chart shows that 97% of the Option ARM securities issued in 2006 and 2007 are now in junk status.
an S&P analyst commented: “Version 6.0 [of the ratings model] could've been released months ago and resources assigned elsewhere if we didn't have to massage the sub-prime and Alt-A numbers to preserve market share.”
Had these securities been rated as the junk they were from the start rather than the AAA rating that the pushers paid for, most of the institutional funds would have stayed the hell away. Most of the banks would have demanded higher quality mortgages, cutting off the flow of money to brokers who looked the other way when filing "ninja" loan paperwork. It would have also stabbed Goldman's "synthetic" CDOs in the back, since they were designed to fail and thus rate less than junk, if that were possible. Fannie and Freddie would still have to be bailed out from Clinton's mistakes, but that would have been the end of it.
I've never seen a "knot free guarantee" ever in my life. I'm obviously going to the wrong stores. If there really are places like this, then obviously its unfair for me to judge timber based on my experience.
I'm thinking of calling my dad and asking him if he's ever heard of such a thing, because he's been complaining about lousy wood for far longer than I have.
Have you tried to buy a nice piece of wood lately? The answer to your question is "yes" but it has nothing to do with environmentalists, it's because the timber industry replaces the good forests they cut down with crappy fast-growing trees that produce knotty lumber because it's cheaper and faster that way.
I'm saying those laws are completely harmless and pointless, because they can't be effectively enforced.
They're not there to be effectively enforced, they're there to be selectively enforced. Piss someone important off and you'll see how effective they can be.
If, at the level of ashes they had over most Europe, it was so dangerous, how were all the test flights (conducted over Sunday through Tuesday after the eruption, I think) successfully conducted
Here's a question for you: did they know that it was safe prior to the test flights? If the answer is no, then no matter how long you had to sleep in a chair at the airport, the government DID NOT OVERREACT.
Whose fault is it for not spending the last few decades setting off volcanoes and flying jets through their ash clouds to test and find the highest safe concentration?
Clearly this is Boeing's fault for not setting off dozens of volcanoes and flying around each one until a maximum safe ash concentration could be determined.
What is the likelihood you will be hurt or killed using an automobile to get to work each day, what about hurting or killing someone else? I bet you do it though; the rewards of work opportunity afforded to you by the mobility the car provides justify the risk for you
I'm also fairly sure that I'm human, and I think that going to jail for vehicular manslaugter is sufficient reason to not answer my cellphone while driving or driving while wasted or drive faster than I can control the vehicle in a given situation.
The outrage against Ford was that they did nothing to mitigate the risks of using their product.
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but at least they are honest about it.
I'd say the stoner branch of the libertarians are probably pretty straightforward. The rest though are the guys who want to gut the power of government so they can make trillions of dollars without worrying about petty things like safety regulations, but when their company kills someone they want to hide behind the government-granted corporate veil or in the worst case scenario declare government-created bankruptcy to eliminate their debts.
They're hypocrites too.
Only if you're logged in.
Or if you're posting from the IP that you modded from. It tracks both your account and your IP.
I can't sign this as your newest buddy because I've already modded.
Protip: Posting AC in a story you've modded wipes your mods without warning.
Dumb question, why was Halliburton cementing this rig shut in preparation for abandonment by Horizon?
"Cementing" a well isn't to shut it, it's to create a layer of cement around it to keep the hole from collapsing and/or springing leaks.
RTFA:
Or is NOAA not credible enough?
The Valdez was inside the Prince William Sound, so most of the oil was contained.
11 MILLION gallons, at 50k barrels a day it will take ~ two months
Putting million in all caps doesn't make it a larger number. At 42 gallons to the barrel, 11 MILLION gallons is 261 THOUSAND barrels, or just over 5 days at 50k barrels/day.
How does Hulu know your nationality?
GeoIP.
how you would be on the hook for royalties covering more than one recording
Because companies think they are entitled to a cut of any revenue they "helped" you make, whether they are ISPs thinking they deserve a cut of Google's cash because they deigned to grant their subscribers access to Google's website, musicians thinking they deserve a cut of a cafe's cash because a radio was playing in the back, or video encoders who think they deserve a cut of a movie's revenue.
I wonder how many of these people who feel they deserve this entitlement also think that guy who invented the CD laser diode and sued his company for a share of the cash was also entitled to it.
I think the only regret I've had since I quit watching TV is that I have no idea what's going on in Lost anymore.
you have to provide a DRIVER'S LICENCE. You know this? RIGHT??
A driver's license isn't a proof of legal status. States give them out to foreigners all the time, and since it was issued their visa or whatever might have expired or been revoked. YOU KNOW THIS RIGHT?????
All a cop has to do is decide you might be a foreigner. If you aren't carrying around proof of your legal status, you're at least going to be detained until your family can bring in a birth certificate... and then
(Regarding profiling: dude was a white guy with a southern accent, the government fucks up on an equal opportunity basis)
I'm not going to cry for the illegal immigrants that get thrown out of the country. I am going to fight tooth and nail against a system that will imprison and/or throw Americans into exile for not carrying their papers.
If a police office see you walking down the street, he has no "lawful encounter"
Well, he could just write you up for "resisting arrest". Doesn't even have to explain what he was supposedly arresting you for.
And they have every right to detain you until provided if they have reasonable suspicion, and that's all you get.
And I'm supposed to just use my psychic powers to levitate my birth certificate from the county I was born to the jail cell they're holding me in?
What we wanted was a law that said that ISPs couldn't kneecap my packets if I didn't pay their protection fees.
What we'll get is a huge fuckup.
It's pretty much "Mommy! Make Timmy give me the toy, so I can hit Susie with it!"
Appearing reasonably white is no protection.
Every book/CD/DVD/etc offered for sale in the US must have a chain of authority tracable to the author
OK, sure!
and only through US connections
Wait, what?
BTW, this goes beyond just bootlegs ("You can't go to some third world pesthole, print up a bunch of books and then import them into the US."), there's also stuff like the British editions of Harry Potter novels and such floating around out there that any reasonably sane person would expect to be "legal" yet were obviously not sourced "only through US connections".
I don't hear you complaining about the "liars" who lied on their loan docs.
That's funny, what about the mortgage "flippers" ... sorry, I meant brokers ... who were just getting outsmarted when they were paid thousands and thousands of dollars to create mortgages. Who'da thunk that the homeless bum might be lying when he says he's got a million dollar salary?
Who do you think invented the NINJA Loan? Why, it was HCL Finance, Inc. a "finance company" (not a bank, not subject to CRA) that openly named their "finance product" after the fact that they're giving money away to people without income, job, or assets. (No wonder they imploded... and all without the government forcing them to do a thing!)
As for the CRA, banks accounted for half the subprime loans. The other half were unregulated institutions like ditech.com (better known as "GMAC"), "investment banks" and mortgage brokers. Yes, Clinton ordered Fannie and Freddie to buy shitty loans which sucked for us since the government didn't have the balls to cut them loose, but in case you haven't noticed so was everyone else. The government didn't force Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers to do jack.
If you absolutely must have one single point who MUST be the sole carrier of fault, the single institution that could have put the brakes on everything are the bond rating organizations, who were paid to rate this shit AAA:
At least the Senate is good for something. Man, such a shame that S&P had to delay their release so that they could make sure to keep their paying clients happy.
Had these securities been rated as the junk they were from the start rather than the AAA rating that the pushers paid for, most of the institutional funds would have stayed the hell away. Most of the banks would have demanded higher quality mortgages, cutting off the flow of money to brokers who looked the other way when filing "ninja" loan paperwork. It would have also stabbed Goldman's "synthetic" CDOs in the back, since they were designed to fail and thus rate less than junk, if that were possible. Fannie and Freddie would still have to be bailed out from Clinton's mistakes, but that would have been the end of it.
how many of "Weird" Al's songs would you actually consider a parody
But gangsters are totally like nerds and the Amish!
I've never seen a "knot free guarantee" ever in my life. I'm obviously going to the wrong stores. If there really are places like this, then obviously its unfair for me to judge timber based on my experience.
I'm thinking of calling my dad and asking him if he's ever heard of such a thing, because he's been complaining about lousy wood for far longer than I have.
Wouldn't you expect them to go on a feast and remove it all?
They would, but unfortunately someone keeps cutting down the jungle growing downtown.
Have we lost the ability to grow trees?
Have you tried to buy a nice piece of wood lately? The answer to your question is "yes" but it has nothing to do with environmentalists, it's because the timber industry replaces the good forests they cut down with crappy fast-growing trees that produce knotty lumber because it's cheaper and faster that way.
I'm saying those laws are completely harmless and pointless, because they can't be effectively enforced.
They're not there to be effectively enforced, they're there to be selectively enforced. Piss someone important off and you'll see how effective they can be.
A full game? Nope, sorry, hasn't been done
Cube?
If, at the level of ashes they had over most Europe, it was so dangerous, how were all the test flights (conducted over Sunday through Tuesday after the eruption, I think) successfully conducted
Here's a question for you: did they know that it was safe prior to the test flights? If the answer is no, then no matter how long you had to sleep in a chair at the airport, the government DID NOT OVERREACT.
Whose fault is it for not spending the last few decades setting off volcanoes and flying jets through their ash clouds to test and find the highest safe concentration?
Clearly this is Boeing's fault for not setting off dozens of volcanoes and flying around each one until a maximum safe ash concentration could be determined.
This is how humans think
Ford (the car company) isn't human.
What is the likelihood you will be hurt or killed using an automobile to get to work each day, what about hurting or killing someone else? I bet you do it though; the rewards of work opportunity afforded to you by the mobility the car provides justify the risk for you
I'm also fairly sure that I'm human, and I think that going to jail for vehicular manslaugter is sufficient reason to not answer my cellphone while driving or driving while wasted or drive faster than I can control the vehicle in a given situation.
The outrage against Ford was that they did nothing to mitigate the risks of using their product.