Besides increasing the performance of the reservoir, in some locations injection wells can also be important to prevent land subsidence problems. For instance look at the oil history of Long Beach (http://www.longbeach.gov/oil/subsidence/story.asp)
I don't follow - who's having their rights violated?
Certainly not a Swedish passenger traveling to the United States. Where is it written that a foreign national entering the US has the right to not be fingerprinted? Cite your source.
I'm seriously confused - what's the big deal? A country can set their own entry requirements. If the US wants to start fingerprinting everyone, that is (and should be) our right. However if Sweden wants to fingerprint me upon entry, I really don't have a problem with that. Their country, their rules.
Sometimes it seems like/. readers just don't seem to understand the concept that the world is broken up into seperate, sovereign countries with their own laws...
A similar thing happened to me, though it wasn't a tobacco plant.
I was changing my car's fuel filter. The fuel line was REALLY stuck on it, and when I finally got the hose popped off, a little bit of gasoline dripped got onto the wart on my thumb.
The wart turned a blackish-gray color at first, and then a few days later, it was gone!
Ok guys, here's what you do when you can't get to a manager. If you can, get the name, dept, and so on from the person you've been talking to.
If the drones on the 800# aren't doing anything to help, go look up a company profile for the company you're dealing with. Most finance and stock sites will have the 'official' info for a company. In that document there is a phone number - this probably isn't an 800# and it will typically go to the company's HQ switchboard.
Call that number. When the receptionist picks up, tell him/her to transfer you to the executive offices. You'll get to another receptionist. Tell him/her your problem. You'll probably have to leave a message, but you will almost certainly get a phone call back within a day or two, from someone higher up on the corporate food chain than the 800# goons.
I've done this several times and each time impossible problems seem to be solved this way. Seriously.
Whoa there! Presidential proclamation? You mean the Emancipation Proclamation?!?
*sigh* Looks like another/. reader was skipping history class.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states that were considered to be REBELLIOUS. This means southern states during the Civil War that were not under US control. Legally the Emancipation Proclamation did absolutely nothing to free slaves in the northern states, though there was certainly some PR appeal in making such a public proclamation.
Lincoln's proclamation was all well and good, but the southern states no longer reconginzed the authority of the United States or of President Lincoln so in effect the Emancipation Proclamation did nothing to help 'free the slaves'.
I'm not sure what the anti-slavery wording in the Constitution that you're refering to is, but slavery was not abolished in the United States until the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865.
Well google is your friend for things like this, but I'll give a brief rundown.
A DEM is a Digital Elevation Model. In a nutshell it's a raster file format for elevation data released by the USGS.
TIN is triangulated irregular network. Another form of showing surface elevation changes and stuff though it's a vector format rather than raster (I think - I've never actually dealt with one myself).
A Topo Quad is a just a topographic map. You know, a piece paper with elevation contour lines on it.
ArcGIS - well if you want to do anything with a map on a computer, that's what you use. Look it up. There's way more to be said about it than I can possibly say here.
Cool - I'm finally able to make use of the GIS class I've been taking;)
No comment on the pros and cons of CDMA or GSM, but if you have a GSM phone in the states, you should have the SIM card. At least all the Cingular GSM phones I've seen have them...
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You know what? To all the people who are screaming about how it's racist to complain about a professor's accent, try taking a class in calculus from someone who can barely speak english.
Unfortunately some of us are not blessed to be able to understand math easily. It's bad enough even if I CAN understand what the professor is saying. But if I have to spend most of my time trying to decipher what the hell the professor is saying, well that makes it infinitely worse. And don't get me started on handwriting. If there's a problem written out on the board, it would be nice to be able to read it.
Universities are businesses. I'm paying a lot of money to go to one. Whether I choose to learn or not is my own business, but if the school is providing a professor that the class cannot understand, they are not living up to their part of the deal.
Honestly I don't care where the prof is from or what ethnicity s/he is or is not. Maybe I'll get modded down for this, but I just don't see why it's wrong or unreasonable to expect to be able to understand the professor.
You're right. A lot of what they do with the clearance background checks is see how trustworthy you are. Sure they go and make sure you're not too much of a risk, but if you smoked a bowl in college, it's not going to be a big problem if you're honest about it. For the most part they don't care as long as you weren't a habitual user, and as long as you're clean now. And that makes sense - people under the influence have the nasty habit of saying things that maybe shouldn't be said. And putting drug use itself aside - one of the big problems with drugs is that it is still illegal, and users tend to end up associated with...well...people you wouldn't want to be associated with.
But in any case, if you try to cover anything up - and you get caught at it, you're screwed. Lying on the app is far worse, and is certainly going to disqualify you.
Maybe someone can clue me in, but why would the average person want one of these?
Simply put people want to see who they're talking to, but they don't want to be seen themselves.
I've never heard anyone asking for this technology, and others have tried before and nobody was impressed.
The only time I've used these things is in meetings. Ok, maybe there's some use for them there (and a few other specialized areas). But I don't see these taking off as a consumer product anytime soon.
Exactly. The corporate types and PHBs need to feel safe with Linux. If RedHat can help them do that, great. How can having a corporate-friendly Linux hurt?
There are still plenty of other distros for the rest of us, and there always will be.
I can tell you why they're popular, at least in the corporate sector - support.
Where I work we're gradually moving some of our systems to Linux. Mostly just clients at this point, but some backend servers are being ported too.
But we need someone to point a finger at if something breaks. I've never actually used RedHat support, but at least they have some! There also needs to be some sort of indication that the company won't die tomorrow. And RedHat's doing better than most other Linux companies out there.
As for personal systems...I dunno. It's easy to install for newbies, and it's still customizable like any other distro. I've run pretty much every distro at one point or another, though at the moment I'm running RH, just because it's what I use at work.
And now that I have it set up the way I want, I don't want to change it. I'm lazy like that:)
MS has money. MS has marketshare. MS is an established name. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft, how can anyone POSSIBLY relate RedHat and Microsoft this way?
Quite simply RedHat just doesn't have the power to be a Microsoft-like company. They don't have the money, they don't have the resources, and they sure as hell don't have the marketshare. Maybe they're the leader of the commercial Linux pack, but so what? Don't get me wrong - I like Linux. I use Linux. But don't expect me to believe that RedHat is going to be able to force computer companies to bundle Linux with them. Last I heard, the PC companies we're cutting back on bundled Linux!
Maybe RedHat is adding some proprietary stuff, or plans to in the future for whatever reason (clusters etc - I don't know). Well all I can say about that is 'DUH!' News flash folks - their business model revolves around a free OS, they've got to pay the bills somehow. And I don't know about you, but I certainly don't work for free.
But anyway if RedHat is able to become successful, then more power to them. And if you don't like it, give your money to someone else.
From CA Business and Professions Code 6980.42: "Within seven days after commencing employment, any employee of a locksmith who is not currently registered with the bureau and who is performing the services of a locksmith shall submit to the bureau a completed application for registration, two classifiable fingerprint cards, one set of which shall be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for purposes of a background check, and the appropriate registration fee."
More complete info at http://www.dca.ca.gov/bsis/locksmith.htm
Well as for the whole speeding thing, having a national ID won't change anything.
When the cop pulls you over they can run your license through the computer regardless of what state issued it. When they run an out-of-state query, it gets forwarded to NLETS (that's National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System) in Phoenix which then routes the query to the relevant state database. So when you're pulled over for speeding in Maryland they can get your info from the California DMV (assuming you have a CA license of course:)
Also, they already do warrant checks through other databases (NCIC and whatnot) so in practice I really don't see how this changes anything, except NLETS is state run and the new system is run by the feds. Whoop-de-do. Honestly I don't see how a state run database and a federal database is any different if it does the same thing...
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Besides increasing the performance of the reservoir, in some locations injection wells can also be important to prevent land subsidence problems. For instance look at the oil history of Long Beach (http://www.longbeach.gov/oil/subsidence/story.asp)
I don't follow - who's having their rights violated?
/. readers just don't seem to understand the concept that the world is broken up into seperate, sovereign countries with their own laws...
Certainly not a Swedish passenger traveling to the United States. Where is it written that a foreign national entering the US has the right to not be fingerprinted? Cite your source.
I'm seriously confused - what's the big deal? A country can set their own entry requirements. If the US wants to start fingerprinting everyone, that is (and should be) our right. However if Sweden wants to fingerprint me upon entry, I really don't have a problem with that. Their country, their rules.
Sometimes it seems like
5. Monitors
Store clerk (enthusiastically): You can't buy a monior with a higher dot pitch!
*sigh*
A similar thing happened to me, though it wasn't a tobacco plant.
I was changing my car's fuel filter. The fuel line was REALLY stuck on it, and when I finally got the hose popped off, a little bit of gasoline dripped got onto the wart on my thumb.
The wart turned a blackish-gray color at first, and then a few days later, it was gone!
Ok guys, here's what you do when you can't get to a manager. If you can, get the name, dept, and so on from the person you've been talking to.
If the drones on the 800# aren't doing anything to help, go look up a company profile for the company you're dealing with. Most finance and stock sites will have the 'official' info for a company. In that document there is a phone number - this probably isn't an 800# and it will typically go to the company's HQ switchboard.
Call that number. When the receptionist picks up, tell him/her to transfer you to the executive offices. You'll get to another receptionist. Tell him/her your problem. You'll probably have to leave a message, but you will almost certainly get a phone call back within a day or two, from someone higher up on the corporate food chain than the 800# goons.
I've done this several times and each time impossible problems seem to be solved this way. Seriously.
Ah yes the Aztecs. Not only did they have enormous numbers of slaves, many of them had the added bonus of being used as human sacrifices...
Whoa there! Presidential proclamation? You mean the Emancipation Proclamation?!?
/. reader was skipping history class.
*sigh* Looks like another
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states that were considered to be REBELLIOUS. This means southern states during the Civil War that were not under US control. Legally the Emancipation Proclamation did absolutely nothing to free slaves in the northern states, though there was certainly some PR appeal in making such a public proclamation.
Lincoln's proclamation was all well and good, but the southern states no longer reconginzed the authority of the United States or of President Lincoln so in effect the Emancipation Proclamation did nothing to help 'free the slaves'.
I'm not sure what the anti-slavery wording in the Constitution that you're refering to is, but slavery was not abolished in the United States until the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865.
Well google is your friend for things like this, but I'll give a brief rundown.
;)
A DEM is a Digital Elevation Model. In a nutshell it's a raster file format for elevation data released by the USGS.
TIN is triangulated irregular network. Another form of showing surface elevation changes and stuff though it's a vector format rather than raster (I think - I've never actually dealt with one myself).
A Topo Quad is a just a topographic map. You know, a piece paper with elevation contour lines on it.
ArcGIS - well if you want to do anything with a map on a computer, that's what you use. Look it up. There's way more to be said about it than I can possibly say here.
Cool - I'm finally able to make use of the GIS class I've been taking
No comment on the pros and cons of CDMA or GSM, but if you have a GSM phone in the states, you should have the SIM card. At least all the Cingular GSM phones I've seen have them...
You know what? To all the people who are screaming about how it's racist to complain about a professor's accent, try taking a class in calculus from someone who can barely speak english.
Unfortunately some of us are not blessed to be able to understand math easily. It's bad enough even if I CAN understand what the professor is saying. But if I have to spend most of my time trying to decipher what the hell the professor is saying, well that makes it infinitely worse. And don't get me started on handwriting. If there's a problem written out on the board, it would be nice to be able to read it.
Universities are businesses. I'm paying a lot of money to go to one. Whether I choose to learn or not is my own business, but if the school is providing a professor that the class cannot understand, they are not living up to their part of the deal.
Honestly I don't care where the prof is from or what ethnicity s/he is or is not. Maybe I'll get modded down for this, but I just don't see why it's wrong or unreasonable to expect to be able to understand the professor.
Uh...they ask these same questions about drug use when you get a security clearance.
The form clearly says that anything you report regarding drug use will not be used in any criminal proceedings.
I suspect the same is true for the FBI apps as well.
You're right. A lot of what they do with the clearance background checks is see how trustworthy you are. Sure they go and make sure you're not too much of a risk, but if you smoked a bowl in college, it's not going to be a big problem if you're honest about it. For the most part they don't care as long as you weren't a habitual user, and as long as you're clean now. And that makes sense - people under the influence have the nasty habit of saying things that maybe shouldn't be said. And putting drug use itself aside - one of the big problems with drugs is that it is still illegal, and users tend to end up associated with...well...people you wouldn't want to be associated with.
But in any case, if you try to cover anything up - and you get caught at it, you're screwed. Lying on the app is far worse, and is certainly going to disqualify you.
Maybe someone can clue me in, but why would the average person want one of these?
Simply put people want to see who they're talking to, but they don't want to be seen themselves.
I've never heard anyone asking for this technology, and others have tried before and nobody was impressed.
The only time I've used these things is in meetings. Ok, maybe there's some use for them there (and a few other specialized areas). But I don't see these taking off as a consumer product anytime soon.
Well then consider yourself lucky. Mine sure as hell doesn't let me do that. It says 'Operation prohibited by disc'.
Exactly. The corporate types and PHBs need to feel safe with Linux. If RedHat can help them do that, great. How can having a corporate-friendly Linux hurt?
There are still plenty of other distros for the rest of us, and there always will be.
I can tell you why they're popular, at least in the corporate sector - support.
:)
Where I work we're gradually moving some of our systems to Linux. Mostly just clients at this point, but some backend servers are being ported too.
But we need someone to point a finger at if something breaks. I've never actually used RedHat support, but at least they have some! There also needs to be some sort of indication that the company won't die tomorrow. And RedHat's doing better than most other Linux companies out there.
As for personal systems...I dunno. It's easy to install for newbies, and it's still customizable like any other distro. I've run pretty much every distro at one point or another, though at the moment I'm running RH, just because it's what I use at work.
And now that I have it set up the way I want, I don't want to change it. I'm lazy like that
*sigh*
MS has money. MS has marketshare. MS is an established name. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft, how can anyone POSSIBLY relate RedHat and Microsoft this way?
Quite simply RedHat just doesn't have the power to be a Microsoft-like company. They don't have the money, they don't have the resources, and they sure as hell don't have the marketshare. Maybe they're the leader of the commercial Linux pack, but so what? Don't get me wrong - I like Linux. I use Linux. But don't expect me to believe that RedHat is going to be able to force computer companies to bundle Linux with them. Last I heard, the PC companies we're cutting back on bundled Linux!
Maybe RedHat is adding some proprietary stuff, or plans to in the future for whatever reason (clusters etc - I don't know). Well all I can say about that is 'DUH!' News flash folks - their business model revolves around a free OS, they've got to pay the bills somehow. And I don't know about you, but I certainly don't work for free.
But anyway if RedHat is able to become successful, then more power to them. And if you don't like it, give your money to someone else.
er...California DOES have a licensing program.
From CA Business and Professions Code 6980.42:
"Within seven days after commencing employment, any
employee of a locksmith who is not currently registered with the
bureau and who is performing the services of a locksmith shall submit
to the bureau a completed application for registration, two
classifiable fingerprint cards, one set of which shall be forwarded
to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for purposes of a background
check, and the appropriate registration fee."
More complete info at http://www.dca.ca.gov/bsis/locksmith.htm
For the official version go to http://thomas.loc.gov and do a bill search for S2048.
That should also have info on the bill's status (for now it's sitting in the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee)
Well as for the whole speeding thing, having a national ID won't change anything.
:)
When the cop pulls you over they can run your license through the computer regardless of what state issued it. When they run an out-of-state query, it gets forwarded to NLETS (that's National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System) in Phoenix which then routes the query to the relevant state database. So when you're pulled over for speeding in Maryland they can get your info from the California DMV (assuming you have a CA license of course
Also, they already do warrant checks through other databases (NCIC and whatnot) so in practice I really don't see how this changes anything, except NLETS is state run and the new system is run by the feds. Whoop-de-do. Honestly I don't see how a state run database and a federal database is any different if it does the same thing...