Actually, 99.9% is an exaggeration. I have no evidence that even one person asked anything else regarding air safety that day. So the number 100% is the valid number.
And on 9/11 you were lucky if you didn't wish immediate vaporization on all people of brownish tint. Within weeks we had the entire USAPATRIOT act passed. Martial law was a possibility, and in fact we sort of got it.
People seem to forget just how fucked-up public opinion becomes when the public is panicked. That's the sort of thing the DHS is working to prevent. They're just saddled with the ultra-low-IQ staff of the TSA to implement it, is all.
Is it really necessary to quote every single sentence in order to refute it?
Only in an academic sense. Generally one picks out the most egregious portions and refutes those. Then one gets accused of hiding from the facts by taking quotes out of context. Then one slings mud, then one ducks mud slung.
If you shutdown enough tracks, you've parallelized the entire economy at worst.
Fruedian, that.
The trains used to be indispensible. But now we have a parallel system.
In case of a total vaporization of the rails, freight would be shifted to trucks on the interstates. If necessary, non-essential traffic (that crap you bought from Harry and David, for instance) would be left behind to free up trucks and trailers.
The economy would take a hit, and UPS would make a mint, but we wouldn't be completely paralyzed.
"massive 4th Amendment violations that the TSA is currently up to it's blue-gloved wrists in."
Flying is regulated by the government, it's not owned by it. You agreed to submit to those practices when you contracted to take a commercial flight. So who violated your rights, again?
Reeves said Hopper once lived in a cave in Nevada for three months, had walked through Death Valley and had made a Northern California forest his home for an entire year. "When we found him," Reeves said, "he was naked and fishing in a stream... He's been living off the land for at least 20 years."
"A little bit embarassed" wouldn't even begin to cover the humiliation of having to be rescued after a few days if I was this dude.
So it's easy to maintain, and if it isn't it's because the people making you maintain it don't know how to do that. And they're the bulk of the people to distribute stuff. As opposed to Windoze, where 99.9% of installs are click-download-click-install-click-options, or easier.
Really? Yesterday I tried to get a piece of software for my desktop linux machine. Instead of a click-download-click-install, I got directed to a page that gave me step-by-step directions to manually download and unpackage the files, but I couldn't do it with that version because I had a different distro, so I had to go to another version that first gave me a long (100+) list of package dependencies that I would have had to validate, again manually, and I would have had to install any of them that were lacking, probably following the same trail of tears for each one, and then I would have had to download the package I originally wanted to install, and compile and install it myself.
Linux is only easy to maintain in those places where it's been made easy to maintain and only for those people using the versions that were made easy to maintain for those few places where they've been made easy to maintain. Other than that subset of a subset, maintaining Linux requires a deep experience with the sort of hackish mayhem that is proffered as ease-of-use by the hundreds of people who have different ideas of "ease" and way different ideas of how much ease they know how to implement before releasing their product.
Android is pretty good, and somewhere under there is a Linux kernel. But I have to break my warranty to "maintain" any of it by hand. So it's not really the open model you were thinking of.
It could be that these ships are the only thing keeping the well-established, historically exhorbitant levels of carbon emissions from creating the sort of runaway global warming that everyone is asking about.
And it could be that any increase in sulfur emissions will be the tipping point.
So it should be that someone should figure out how closely we need to control the emissions of sulfur from each ship in order to balance the emissions from all sources of carbon, at least until the oil runs out and cars stop being a problem. Then we'll have to do something about the ships and all the coal they'll be blowing out their stacks.
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If you're criticizing someone, do proper fair-use excerpting.
Then, if they make the original document go away, criticize them for that.
But don't give them legal ammo by stealing their work and wrapping it in nominal "criticism" just to pretend it's fair use.
"everything's already on your system in Linux, and kept up to date through automatic updates"
You're thinking of a particular distro and version, not "Linux" in general.
No, it isn't, which is why you can be both impolite and breaking copyright law at the same time.
Reinforced cockpit doors, remember?
Underwear full of PETN, remember?
The dude who had that sat in his seat, burning for several minutes while one of those non-negotiating passengers called for a stew.
You have to wonder what his four accomplices* were thinking.
* - no, he didn't have any, but he could have, and the next one might.
Actually, 99.9% is an exaggeration. I have no evidence that even one person asked anything else regarding air safety that day. So the number 100% is the valid number.
And on 9/11 you were lucky if you didn't wish immediate vaporization on all people of brownish tint. Within weeks we had the entire USAPATRIOT act passed. Martial law was a possibility, and in fact we sort of got it.
People seem to forget just how fucked-up public opinion becomes when the public is panicked. That's the sort of thing the DHS is working to prevent. They're just saddled with the ultra-low-IQ staff of the TSA to implement it, is all.
That's the problem. The solution is to write your own article, or to maintain your links.
Is it really necessary to quote every single sentence in order to refute it?
Only in an academic sense. Generally one picks out the most egregious portions and refutes those. Then one gets accused of hiding from the facts by taking quotes out of context. Then one slings mud, then one ducks mud slung.
You know. It's like the Internet.
But you can do that. You're not reprinting their work, you're transforming it.
For some "non-profits", that could be a considerable sum.
For example, if the use of the article is non-commercial and does not hurt the commercial value of the original, that's basically fair use.
Handing out paper copies on the street in front of the charity HQ is probably that.
But posting it to the Internet where it can be retrieved by anyone instead of going to the copyright owner's site? That is not fair use.
Actually, they do, because the airlines have to license their business from the government.
Airspace is not a right-of-way. It's a violation of the property rights of every plot you fly over.
Without dispensation from the FAA, the airlines would be able to go exactly nowhere.
If everyone were to refuse to submit to these intrusions, they would be gone in a matter of days.
Who's with me?
The terrorists.
They were the only two that had any likelihood of succeeding. In a plural democracy, #3 is noise.
On 9/11, 19 people killed about three thousand...so each person killed 150, although that was partially absurd luck on their part.
Um, did you see what they did to the WTC?
The absurd luck was that they didn't hit it lower, causing it to come crashing down before anyone could get out of the building or out of the area.
Next time it could be 2 guys who kill 10,000.
If you shutdown enough tracks, you've parallelized the entire economy at worst.
Fruedian, that.
The trains used to be indispensible. But now we have a parallel system.
In case of a total vaporization of the rails, freight would be shifted to trucks on the interstates. If necessary, non-essential traffic (that crap you bought from Harry and David, for instance) would be left behind to free up trucks and trailers.
The economy would take a hit, and UPS would make a mint, but we wouldn't be completely paralyzed.
"massive 4th Amendment violations that the TSA is currently up to it's blue-gloved wrists in."
Flying is regulated by the government, it's not owned by it. You agreed to submit to those practices when you contracted to take a commercial flight. So who violated your rights, again?
We accepted reasonable levels of risk while travelling on 9/10/2001.
The next day, 99.9% of us were asking why nobody stopped those guys.
The DHS is looking at that statistic, not the one you're thinking of, if you're even thinking of one.
You can have the government snooping into your life when you fly, or you can have the airlines doing it.
Out in the wilderness arming everyone is prudent. In the city it's an invitation to a catastrophic panic.
Gun nuts don't care about such distinctions. Their paranoid delusion is that the city is a wilderness. That's a them problem, not an us problem.
Sure. Because a sidearm is an effective defense against a "pregnant woman" toting 20 lbs of RDX.
You are a moron.
From the article:
Reeves said Hopper once lived in a cave in Nevada for three months, had walked through Death Valley and had made a Northern California forest his home for an entire year. "When we found him," Reeves said, "he was naked and fishing in a stream ... He's been living off the land for at least 20 years."
"A little bit embarassed" wouldn't even begin to cover the humiliation of having to be rescued after a few days if I was this dude.
So it's easy to maintain, and if it isn't it's because the people making you maintain it don't know how to do that. And they're the bulk of the people to distribute stuff. As opposed to Windoze, where 99.9% of installs are click-download-click-install-click-options, or easier.
For comparison, INTC's split-adjusted IPO-day closing price in July 1986 is $0.37, and it trades at $21.33, an IRR of 33%.
MSFT's in March 1986 is (25.45/0.08)^(1/14.7) - 1 = 48%.
That would have been a good year to bet the farm and the mortgage on it.
Really? Yesterday I tried to get a piece of software for my desktop linux machine. Instead of a click-download-click-install, I got directed to a page that gave me step-by-step directions to manually download and unpackage the files, but I couldn't do it with that version because I had a different distro, so I had to go to another version that first gave me a long (100+) list of package dependencies that I would have had to validate, again manually, and I would have had to install any of them that were lacking, probably following the same trail of tears for each one, and then I would have had to download the package I originally wanted to install, and compile and install it myself.
Linux is only easy to maintain in those places where it's been made easy to maintain and only for those people using the versions that were made easy to maintain for those few places where they've been made easy to maintain. Other than that subset of a subset, maintaining Linux requires a deep experience with the sort of hackish mayhem that is proffered as ease-of-use by the hundreds of people who have different ideas of "ease" and way different ideas of how much ease they know how to implement before releasing their product.
Android is pretty good, and somewhere under there is a Linux kernel. But I have to break my warranty to "maintain" any of it by hand. So it's not really the open model you were thinking of.
Sulfur's effect on global warming varies depending on how much is emitted: http://www.tetontectonics.org/Climate/Ward2009SulfurDioxide.pdf
It could be that these ships are the only thing keeping the well-established, historically exhorbitant levels of carbon emissions from creating the sort of runaway global warming that everyone is asking about.
And it could be that any increase in sulfur emissions will be the tipping point.
So it should be that someone should figure out how closely we need to control the emissions of sulfur from each ship in order to balance the emissions from all sources of carbon, at least until the oil runs out and cars stop being a problem. Then we'll have to do something about the ships and all the coal they'll be blowing out their stacks.