If you change the conditions under which the oil is stored, you change the way it ages. If you take a 1/2L Coke and pour it into an empty 2L bottle , then for 3 weeks keep adding another 1/2L each week the result is going to be quite different than an unopened 2L Coke will have. Oil a complex mixture of gasses like methane, butane and propane, disolved solids like your parafins and asphalts and liquids like gasoline, kerosene, diesel and mineral oils; if you let the gasses boil off, the solublity of the whole decreases and the solids precipitate out and the bottom becomes a layer of sludge and lost. Normally the solids are refined and used as is or cracked into more valuable things like diesel or gasolene. The temperature, pressure and premeability of the containing cavern all affect what stays disolved and what diffuses away.
Where I grew up, we had both an oil-seep and enough methane in the water for it to fizz like soda-pop! Sometimes a gas bubble in the water lines would knock the water glass right out of your hand, glass glasses didn't live long.
A well casing for an oil well is built to withstand 18,000 PSI of pressure, 7 million lbs of vertical load and 2 million lbs of side load and accidents can rip them to shreads and twist them into pretzels; I don't think we know how to put it back in the same way it came out.
A scary amount of Canadian Oil is transported by rail, making an Obama croonie much wealthier, and in a demonstrabley unsafe manner. The Keystone XL would probably make a Bush croonie somewhat wealthier in amnner with a pretty solid saftey record. All things being equal doesn't it make more sense to transport oil via a means that is not only cheaper, but doesn't roll off unattended destroying whole towns full of sleeping people?
Why do you assume that any of the Hague conventions, especially any protocols that the US is party to applies to white phosphorus?
The 1980 Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons deals specifically with the Use of Incendiary Weapons, and their use against civilians. The United States is not a party to this Protocol.... Paragraph 1 of Article 2 states that the civilian population as such and individual civilians or civilian objects may not be made the object of attack with incendiary weapons -- a principle that applies to all weapons under customary international law. Paragraph 2 prohibits making of any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons, such as napalm. This paragraph does not restrict the use of other types of incendiary weapons, such as White Phosphorus delivered by artillery. Paragraph 3 prohibits uses of incendiaries against military objectives located within concentrations of civilians, except when the target is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken to limit the incendiary effects to the targe and minimize civilian casualties. Legal Status of Incendiary Weapons
As far as Viet Nam goes the only chemical weapon we used there was good old tear gas, CS, the same stuff we use as a riot control agent all over the world. CS is kind of like eating hot peppers, once you've been exposed a couple times it hardy bothers you any more, I used to setup the gas chamber bare-faced for our mask confidence drills.
Sarin is a fair bit easier to make than Meth, but it's not easy to achieve a lethal concentration under open real-world conditions for any length of time. That's why Fatalites are disporportionatly the young or the elderly, sub-fatal casualties require intense care to survive the acute phase and when I got out of school there were indications of long-term nerve damage due to exposure. Chemical agents have no real military purpose and people who use them deserve a special place in the deepest pits of Hell.
They're also willing to tangle-ass with the big-boys over some philosophical point that makes no or little bussiness sense, like "We're not Evil(tm), see we're bringing fiber to the unserved masses".
Depends on the traget and what your shooting at it, trying to detonate a 50 Kt MIRV within 300 m of a reinforced missile silo at 12,000MPH is pretty tough, an 81mm mortar round within 35 m of a crowd in a park is pretty easy.
That will not help them Obama-care counts Full-time Employees and Full-time Equivalent Employees. Full-time Equivalent Employees are the number of hours worked by part-time employees divided by 30, so by my understanding a full-time 40 hour employees counts as 1 and 2 part-time working 20 hours count as 1.5! So if an employer mis-calculates and goes over the magic number of 50 by 1 he can be hit with penalties.
Not really it was more about raising the debt ceiling, which is effectiviely spending your grand-chirldren's money. If the debt ceiling isn't raised, then the federal government can only spend what it can raise through taxes and fees, so basically the government is saying on the first day of it's fiscal year, this year's money is alread spent and they need to refinance their mortgage to buy food.
Carbon tax only works if most everyone implements it, otherwise business goes where it isn't as it is cheaper.
Isn't that the point? Aren't carbon taxes a thinly disguised wealth redistribution plan? Make the developed nations adopt counter-productive measures and drive production to the under-developed nations. If that's not the case wouldn't we apply the measures to everyone?
The sooner to be released AR5 is essentially saying that because ecs, equilibrium climate sensitivity value was over estimated, all the models are wrong, garbage in/garbage out.
Cap and Trade for CO2 hasn't worked at all, the only people who were even in the market to begin with was tax evaders, money launders and con men, SO2 was a whole other ballgame, it was a regonal problem basically North of the Ohio River and East of the Mississippi River and effective SO2 emmission abatement technology was becoming available as the trading market was implimented. This region was is highly sophisticaled economically, technologically and the political entities have a long history of inter-governmental co-operation; pretty much the opposite of the CO2 cap and trade environment.
>This is the same reason why Christian fundamentalists can't stand Islamic fundamentalists, despite the fact that they are ideologically indistinguishable to an outside viewer.
Only if the outside viewer doesn't bother to actually learn the ideologies. One big difference: Yahweh is generally presumed to take an active (if subtle) hand in shaping the world, whereas Allah is generally presumed to have stepped back and left the world to us, restricting his influence to the actions of his followers and judgement in the afterlife.
No Allah and Yahweh are the same God, to some Christian Fundementalists , a Muslim is a Jew that hasn't been circumsized and beleives that Mohamed is a prophet of God, a few consider Muslims Jews in thrall to Satan.
One of our advanatages is that I'm sure the Russians don't want NSA backdoors in Linux, and the NSA doesn't want Russian backdoors in Linux and neither want Chinese Backdoors and simalarly the Chinese want neither NSA or Russian backdoors. After all of this "Spy vs. Spy" Linux is unlikely to have backdoors. If your requirements are great enough that unlikely isn't good enough your probably shit outa luck because nothing will be good enough for you.
Kent State was a situation where professional provacatuers, hiding behind a human shield of real protesters, worn down the under-trained National Guardsmen by continuously attacking then with rocks and bottles.
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If you change the conditions under which the oil is stored, you change the way it ages. If you take a 1/2L Coke and pour it into an empty 2L bottle , then for 3 weeks keep adding another 1/2L each week the result is going to be quite different than an unopened 2L Coke will have. Oil a complex mixture of gasses like methane, butane and propane, disolved solids like your parafins and asphalts and liquids like gasoline, kerosene, diesel and mineral oils; if you let the gasses boil off, the solublity of the whole decreases and the solids precipitate out and the bottom becomes a layer of sludge and lost. Normally the solids are refined and used as is or cracked into more valuable things like diesel or gasolene. The temperature, pressure and premeability of the containing cavern all affect what stays disolved and what diffuses away.
I've got some nice wind turbins in Tehachapi Gorge that are a good investment opertunity for you and a few of your best freinds ....
Where I grew up, we had both an oil-seep and enough methane in the water for it to fizz like soda-pop! Sometimes a gas bubble in the water lines would knock the water glass right out of your hand, glass glasses didn't live long.
I guess you missed the memo, global warming stopped 17 years ago, you won; now please move on to the next apocoplyse.
A well casing for an oil well is built to withstand 18,000 PSI of pressure, 7 million lbs of vertical load and 2 million lbs of side load and accidents can rip them to shreads and twist them into pretzels; I don't think we know how to put it back in the same way it came out.
A scary amount of Canadian Oil is transported by rail, making an Obama croonie much wealthier, and in a demonstrabley unsafe manner. The Keystone XL would probably make a Bush croonie somewhat wealthier in amnner with a pretty solid saftey record. All things being equal doesn't it make more sense to transport oil via a means that is not only cheaper, but doesn't roll off unattended destroying whole towns full of sleeping people?
Why do you assume that any of the Hague conventions, especially any protocols that the US is party to applies to white phosphorus?
As far as Viet Nam goes the only chemical weapon we used there was good old tear gas, CS, the same stuff we use as a riot control agent all over the world. CS is kind of like eating hot peppers, once you've been exposed a couple times it hardy bothers you any more, I used to setup the gas chamber bare-faced for our mask confidence drills.
Sarin is a fair bit easier to make than Meth, but it's not easy to achieve a lethal concentration under open real-world conditions for any length of time. That's why Fatalites are disporportionatly the young or the elderly, sub-fatal casualties require intense care to survive the acute phase and when I got out of school there were indications of long-term nerve damage due to exposure. Chemical agents have no real military purpose and people who use them deserve a special place in the deepest pits of Hell.
And distracting the people from the government shutdown is a pretty good secondary benefit.
They're also willing to tangle-ass with the big-boys over some philosophical point that makes no or little bussiness sense, like "We're not Evil(tm), see we're bringing fiber to the unserved masses".
Depends on the traget and what your shooting at it, trying to detonate a 50 Kt MIRV within 300 m of a reinforced missile silo at 12,000MPH is pretty tough, an 81mm mortar round within 35 m of a crowd in a park is pretty easy.
The keys would have to be stored in the firmware somewhere, just a matter of finding and recognising them.
I over-simplified to spare the innocent migrains from the Vogan poetry the USG publishes as law, but Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Questions and Answers: Determining FTEs and Average Annual Wages is a good place to start without getting nausious.
Except most of them are salaried, so unless the shutdown goes over a month, they see no difference in their paychecks
That will not help them Obama-care counts Full-time Employees and Full-time Equivalent Employees. Full-time Equivalent Employees are the number of hours worked by part-time employees divided by 30, so by my understanding a full-time 40 hour employees counts as 1 and 2 part-time working 20 hours count as 1.5! So if an employer mis-calculates and goes over the magic number of 50 by 1 he can be hit with penalties.
Not really it was more about raising the debt ceiling, which is effectiviely spending your grand-chirldren's money. If the debt ceiling isn't raised, then the federal government can only spend what it can raise through taxes and fees, so basically the government is saying on the first day of it's fiscal year, this year's money is alread spent and they need to refinance their mortgage to buy food.
Carbon tax only works if most everyone implements it, otherwise business goes where it isn't as it is cheaper.
Isn't that the point? Aren't carbon taxes a thinly disguised wealth redistribution plan? Make the developed nations adopt counter-productive measures and drive production to the under-developed nations. If that's not the case wouldn't we apply the measures to everyone?
The problem with that is the source of this new brouhaha is the soon to be released IPCC AR5
Carbon tax like the one the Australians are about to pitch into the trash bin?
The sooner to be released AR5 is essentially saying that because ecs, equilibrium climate sensitivity value was over estimated, all the models are wrong, garbage in/garbage out.
Cap and Trade for CO2 hasn't worked at all, the only people who were even in the market to begin with was tax evaders, money launders and con men, SO2 was a whole other ballgame, it was a regonal problem basically North of the Ohio River and East of the Mississippi River and effective SO2 emmission abatement technology was becoming available as the trading market was implimented. This region was is highly sophisticaled economically, technologically and the political entities have a long history of inter-governmental co-operation; pretty much the opposite of the CO2 cap and trade environment.
>This is the same reason why Christian fundamentalists can't stand Islamic fundamentalists, despite the fact that they are ideologically indistinguishable to an outside viewer.
Only if the outside viewer doesn't bother to actually learn the ideologies. One big difference: Yahweh is generally presumed to take an active (if subtle) hand in shaping the world, whereas Allah is generally presumed to have stepped back and left the world to us, restricting his influence to the actions of his followers and judgement in the afterlife.
No Allah and Yahweh are the same God, to some Christian Fundementalists , a Muslim is a Jew that hasn't been circumsized and beleives that Mohamed is a prophet of God, a few consider Muslims Jews in thrall to Satan.
If your going to troll as an AC, don't Preveiw under your UID then post Anonymously, because your sig is inserted into the post,
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One of our advanatages is that I'm sure the Russians don't want NSA backdoors in Linux, and the NSA doesn't want Russian backdoors in Linux and neither want Chinese Backdoors and simalarly the Chinese want neither NSA or Russian backdoors. After all of this "Spy vs. Spy" Linux is unlikely to have backdoors. If your requirements are great enough that unlikely isn't good enough your probably shit outa luck because nothing will be good enough for you.
Kent State was a situation where professional provacatuers, hiding behind a human shield of real protesters, worn down the under-trained National Guardsmen by continuously attacking then with rocks and bottles.