It depends on what the actual flow rate is. If it is in the range of 20,000 barrels per day and they manage to close the thing off in the next few weeks, the gulf will probably shake the oil off fairly quickly (especially with various mitigation strategies eliminating thousands of those barrels).
If it is at 70 or 100 thousand barrels per day, then probably not.
So why didn't you make that clear in your initial comment?
That's really a fairly nuanced position, ignoring the actions of the minority who apparently hold the political power and ascribing an opposing view to the impotent majority.
I mean, the Republican congress and Republican president were really sticking their fingers in the eyes of real Republicans with all those actions they took.
Because the whole idea of a cartel is control. 6 or 8 years ago, Bernanke didn't have any power, now he is probably the most powerful banker on the planet. Handing power over to some guy isn't a great way to maintain control.
It's a good thing GWB didn't massively increase aid to Africa, otherwise you might look like some jackass trying to make a factually insubstantial emotional argument.
The reason is that our bodies are incredibly hostile environments for pathogens.
You cite HIV as the 'obvious' example, yet one of the reasons it is so hard to deal with medically is that it mutates at a very high rate, so it would be very difficult to tie it together with a clockwork timebomb. Influenza has also proved difficult to treat, and it mutates so fast that ~80% of each generation is unable to infect the host that it was made in.
Let's say your nefarious person invents a machine that turns 1/2 of the earth into antimatter. What would we do then?
Yes, I'm saying your magic bug is magic, it doesn't just get to hide in the body for 20 years, it has to hide in the body for 20 years while avoiding the host immune system and competing for resources with other stuff living on the body, and then it has to be 100% effective.
I wasn't making a stab at anything. A small business can likely viably compete with Google in internet advertising. A small business could not compete against Microsoft in (general purpose) computer operating systems.
Airplanes generally don't experience more than 1 or 2 gs of stress, orbital vehicles go a little past that, and 'landing' is sort of less available as an emergency option when you are traveling around a planet at a few km/s.
It isn't all that inconsistent. An advertising network with a few dozen advertisers and a few dozen content providers is probably viable. A consumer operating system with a few thousand users is probably a joke.
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It depends on what the actual flow rate is. If it is in the range of 20,000 barrels per day and they manage to close the thing off in the next few weeks, the gulf will probably shake the oil off fairly quickly (especially with various mitigation strategies eliminating thousands of those barrels).
If it is at 70 or 100 thousand barrels per day, then probably not.
So why didn't you make that clear in your initial comment?
That's really a fairly nuanced position, ignoring the actions of the minority who apparently hold the political power and ascribing an opposing view to the impotent majority.
So you give criticism more credence than actions?
I mean, the Republican congress and Republican president were really sticking their fingers in the eyes of real Republicans with all those actions they took.
Because the whole idea of a cartel is control. 6 or 8 years ago, Bernanke didn't have any power, now he is probably the most powerful banker on the planet. Handing power over to some guy isn't a great way to maintain control.
It's a good thing GWB didn't massively increase aid to Africa, otherwise you might look like some jackass trying to make a factually insubstantial emotional argument.
If it allows the largely anonymous son of a pharmacist to rise to the most powerful position in the world, it isn't much of a cartel.
The reason is that our bodies are incredibly hostile environments for pathogens.
You cite HIV as the 'obvious' example, yet one of the reasons it is so hard to deal with medically is that it mutates at a very high rate, so it would be very difficult to tie it together with a clockwork timebomb. Influenza has also proved difficult to treat, and it mutates so fast that ~80% of each generation is unable to infect the host that it was made in.
Name the one that is closest to staying non-virulent for 20 years and then being lethal.
So is Bernanke merely a figurehead, or is the cabal-that-rules-the-world fond of academic descendants of middle-class (vaguely) Ukrainian Jews?
Let's say your nefarious person invents a machine that turns 1/2 of the earth into antimatter. What would we do then?
Yes, I'm saying your magic bug is magic, it doesn't just get to hide in the body for 20 years, it has to hide in the body for 20 years while avoiding the host immune system and competing for resources with other stuff living on the body, and then it has to be 100% effective.
Well, there are rules about confidentiality, but I would hardly call something that is registered with the government and your employer 'private'.
Knowing my name, address, and SSN should not be enough to get credit in my name.
Those are interesting items to bring up in this discussion, none of them can reasonably be considered private information.
I imagine they will set it on fire.
I wasn't making a stab at anything. A small business can likely viably compete with Google in internet advertising. A small business could not compete against Microsoft in (general purpose) computer operating systems.
What I was getting at is that it isn't so clear that Google can actually raise the bar for new competitors.
What does complicated mean?
Airplanes generally don't experience more than 1 or 2 gs of stress, orbital vehicles go a little past that, and 'landing' is sort of less available as an emergency option when you are traveling around a planet at a few km/s.
It isn't all that inconsistent. An advertising network with a few dozen advertisers and a few dozen content providers is probably viable. A consumer operating system with a few thousand users is probably a joke.
It uses ~5% on this modest CPU. That's about 1 watt (give or take).
So playing that game uses far less energy than reading with a very efficient light bulb.
Your perspective is not realistic.
My mistake.
So how do you reconcile such nuttery with the fact that drm-free mp3s and programs like VLC work just fine on Vista?
It is a feature of idle.
Idle seems to be a marketing initiative that the editors resent, but they seem to be required to post to it.
So how do reconcile such nuttery with the fact that drm-free mp3s and programs like VLC work just fine on Windows 7?
It doesn't seem all that draconian.
Sure, I've heard analogies. When one side of them is patently untrue they work even less well than usual.
I just want you to say fossil fuels when that is what you mean.
It would probably be more effective to just burn the horses.
Coal isn't petroleum.