But the bots can't get it right. They can only sort into "think it's okay" and "needs human inspection".
So the humans get to see the scum all day, and none of the material the bot passed.
The system we need is one where we track the offensive material back to the mental deficient who uploaded it, and take a microplane grater to his grill. And make a prime-time television show of the process.
1. You didn't watch enough Firefly. That's why it died. Don't bitch that we have too much Trek when you won't support new skiffy. (I'm looking at you, America).
2. Every movie is about "Teenage boy discovers he has an Inherent Magical Power which gives him a Destiny to Do Great Things" -- check that: every story. Since like The Odyssey. Clue: what all these stories are telling you is your magical power is growing up and not waiting for someone else to do things for you that you can do yourself.
3. The problem with creating "new skiffy" is that there aren't many ideas left to skiffize. You're going to end up with space ships, time warps, phasers, and a plethora of bizarre alien foes no matter where you take your trope.
4. We need to resurrect the Lensmen. I want to see entire planets inerting into battlespace at near-lightspeed local velocity and crashing into Eddorians. In 3-D.
I can guarantee my life experience is the opposite of nil as regards both antidepressants and alcohol. I speak with authority because I have first-hand knowledge of the side effects of both. Alcohol has to be ingested in far greater than reasonable doses and over long periods of brain-damaging time to create psychotic breaks. Antidepressants do it at "normal" doses, and the side effects typically appear shortly after treatment is begun.
And there's a reason for that Fluoxetine thing. Think about it.
So go bury your wtf in a shoe box and listen next time.
How will a piece of hardware solve a software problem?
It is a software problem. Steve Jobs said it was. It was all about how the bars were being reported. Yes it was. Yes it was. You can look it up on the internet.
Look, I'm done arguing with you if you're not going to listen.
The GOP is a bunch of liars; their lies are designed to garner a political bloc of voters; that those voters are being duped by claptrap and falsehoods does not matter to the GOP, because their goal is not governance, it is directing the revenues of the government to the wealthy.
That is true of the GOP. Your belief that it is also true of the DNC flies in the face of fact, and is partly or wholly ingrained in you by the propaganda machine being run by the GOP. You're a dupe. Wake the fuck up.
The difference is in intent. Not what you protest was your intent, but your actual intent.
If you know that a situation is statistically deadly, and you know that placing enough people into that dangerous situation enough times leads to a statistical likelihood of their death, and you know you are increasing the danger through your own policies and actions, then your intent is not to keep those people alive, it is to kill them to improve your profit.
More likely, Britain will get no blame, BP will get all of the blame and share it with TransOcean and Halliburton. They're already suing each other over it.
The government will likely have to sue to get the several $billion it has spent on manpower and material to deal with the problem. Many people along the gulf coast directly affected by the problem will likely have to sue as well, since BP has turned over administration of the claims process to a company whose marching orders are to minimize the cost to BP (not "minimize costs due to fraud" but "minimize cost, period").
Oil drilling will likely resume, but this time it will be under regulations more like the ones used to maintain air safety, and under regulators whose goal is enforcing the regulations, not getting onto private planes with oil men and their teams of hookers.
What politicians do in their manipulation of public opinion is predictable in scope and unpredictable in magnitude. That's why we have to get new ones ever couple of years.
1. they capped it. 2. they closed the cap 2a. if the pressure suddenly drops, they know the pipe is ruptured below and they are forcing oil into the sea floor, where it will seep up into the sea, meaning the cap is not preventing a leak, just shifting it to the rupture. they will open the cap immediately and work to start pumping oil to the surface. 2b. if the pressure is high and holding, they will monitor for up to 48 hours it to determine if it is dropping slowly. 2b(1). if it is, then there is likely a leak below and they will work to start pumping oil to the surface, to keep the pressure in the pipe low while they wait for the relief well to be completed. 2b(2). if it is not, then the pipe is stable and intact 2b(2)(i). they may keep the cap in place and wait for the relief well to be completed 2b(2)(ii). they may work to start pumping oil to the surface while they wait for the relief well to be completed. 3. when the relief well is completed, they will open the cap, or remove the pumps, and pump concrete into the pipe to cap this wellhead permanently. the relief well will in any case be the production wellhead for this shaft.
what's really shocking about the whole deal isn't that they had a faulty blowout preventer, it's that they always knew that the pipe and the rock surrounding it were at points not strong enough to contain the pressure in the well. they knew this either before they started drilling or shortly after, and still they drilled all the way to the oil. they knew that there was no way ever to completely cap this well. as soon as they hit the oil, they would have to allow it to flow to keep the pressure low, or it would eventually rupture the pipe and vent the entire oilfield into the seafloor and then to the sea. and, for some reason, they foresaw no reasonable circumstance under which that plan might fail. they believed it not possible that they wouldn't be able to complete the well and pump it continuously, without a problem, without ever having to stop the flow. and they apparently suppressed knowledge of the entire consideration, because anyone looking at the concept would immediately say they were not only courting disaster, but raising it to a high probability of occurring.
frankly, i think it makes the deaths of those 11 men nothing short of murder.
The deficit? You can hardly blame that ALL on Bush. I thought he spent too much. I think Obama is spending way more.
There are graphs (over on zfacts.com if they're still around) showing that republican presidents grow the debt and democrats shrink it, as a pct of GDP. But Republicans ignore Republican debt growth entirely, and point to Democrat growth while ignoring the absolute-vs-relative distinction.
Also, look at what they're spending on. Bush and Cheney blew $Trillions on explosions that, if anything, have made terrorism worse, not better (because they should have stuck to Afghanistan, on which the world saw us as righteously justified, instead of starting an illegal war over lies in Iraq). Obama is building infrastructure, investing in kickstarting technologies, and keeping unemployed people from becoming homeless people.
Anyone that continually blames bad handling of the current situation on the past administration because the problem started with them is trying to blame-shift.
Wrong. Anyone who blames the results of Bush's policies on Obama is the one doing the blame-shifting.
this was an inherited problem from the previous administration.
The regulatory system in place for the oil industry is the result of 8 years of direct action on the part of Bush and Cheney.
They set up the rules that allowed lax safety and backup systems, set the liability levels that induced the company to ignore safety and backups, packed the civil service component of the department with oil-company cronies who ignored the mounting pile of known safety violations (which no doubt were only a fraction of the regulated vulnerabilities and a small fraction of the factual vulnerabilities), and made oil men their best friends (well, more oil men; oil men have always been Bush and Cheney's best friends, right next to defense contractors).
Obama trusted the regulatory structure of this department because he hadn't had it audited for integrity and was too busy with several active fires Bush and Cheney had left behind to deal with something that merely hadn't blown up yet. He even believed their assurances enough that he approved drilling off the East Coast just a few weeks before this well blew up. So clearly they were not informing him of the corruption of their office or the decrepitude of the industry.
So now you don't have to wait any more. You just have to ask yourself why you didn't know these facts existed, and whether you should ever again trust the people who led you to believe these facts didn't exist.
He was well-loved by Grover Norquist, the architect of most GOP policy in the '90s, who famously said he wanted a smaller government, one small enough you could drown it in a bathtub.
Bush, remember, pretty much doubled the size of the government.
The GOP is a bunch of liars; their lies are designed to garner a political bloc of voters; that those voters are being duped by claptrap and falsehoods does not matter to the GOP, because their goal is not governance, it is directing the revenues of the government to the wealthy.
The industry still don't have a plan in case of BOP failure.
I don't know why everyone's saying they didn't have a plan.
Of course they had a plan.
But the rational expenditure on it stopped at the expected value of the probability of a failure times $75 million in total liability. Basically, about $500k at current failure rates. Beyond that, they planned to point at the law saying liability was capped at $75 million, and shrug their shoulders about the $10 billion mess they made.
it wasn't until their daddy (President Obama) got home and informed them the rules made by their mommy (President Cheney) were not the rules of the house, and they would be 100% responsible for cleaning up the mess, that they kicked the dirt and got out the mop.
I'm sure that no one wanted to stop this well leak more than BP.
I'm more sure that you are wrong.
Everyone but BP wanted it stopped dead the second it happened, and didn't care if BP ceased to exist or its executives were crushed in an imploded bathyscaphe trying to screw a stelvin closure on it.
BP was okay with not letting anyone else try to stop it, so BP would get to claim credit for stopping it, and keep ownership of the well and its eventual output, and continue to be traded on the stock exchange. And if that meant it would spew longer, so be it.
Other people wanted to save the planet. BP wanted to save a few billion dollars, give or take, and let the "give or take" part rule their timetable.
Slashdot Mirror
Any nation capable of launching satellites is trivially close to shooting them down.
Please stop taking the bait.
Focus on keeping Congress from being handed over to the corporations in November.
Not a problem.
We now have a laser that can zap the junk out of space.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10682693
But I still say what we really need is this guy:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3025049600/tt0077066
If you rtfa, you learn that Youtube has bots.
But the bots can't get it right. They can only sort into "think it's okay" and "needs human inspection".
So the humans get to see the scum all day, and none of the material the bot passed.
The system we need is one where we track the offensive material back to the mental deficient who uploaded it, and take a microplane grater to his grill. And make a prime-time television show of the process.
Defense or prosecution?
Because evidence processing for the prosecution has become a hero job.
1. You didn't watch enough Firefly. That's why it died. Don't bitch that we have too much Trek when you won't support new skiffy. (I'm looking at you, America).
2. Every movie is about "Teenage boy discovers he has an Inherent Magical Power which gives him a Destiny to Do Great Things" -- check that: every story. Since like The Odyssey. Clue: what all these stories are telling you is your magical power is growing up and not waiting for someone else to do things for you that you can do yourself.
3. The problem with creating "new skiffy" is that there aren't many ideas left to skiffize. You're going to end up with space ships, time warps, phasers, and a plethora of bizarre alien foes no matter where you take your trope.
4. We need to resurrect the Lensmen. I want to see entire planets inerting into battlespace at near-lightspeed local velocity and crashing into Eddorians. In 3-D.
He could do a twin act with Conan O'Brien. Ask Adam Sandler if shitty comedy pays.
If an American show had the ratings and market share that Dr. Who does in blighty, the lead actor would be getting £1,000,000 an episode.
You'd think that people in the entertainment biz would catch wise and start suing such tabloids for theft of publicity.
Attack of the Google Men.
Did he? I have a bag in my desk drawer. Would you like one?
(This is absolutely true.)
Clarke said that, not Asimov.
Clarke was paraphrasing the monolith.
I can guarantee my life experience is the opposite of nil as regards both antidepressants and alcohol. I speak with authority because I have first-hand knowledge of the side effects of both. Alcohol has to be ingested in far greater than reasonable doses and over long periods of brain-damaging time to create psychotic breaks. Antidepressants do it at "normal" doses, and the side effects typically appear shortly after treatment is begun.
And there's a reason for that Fluoxetine thing. Think about it.
So go bury your wtf in a shoe box and listen next time.
I don't get it.
How will a piece of hardware solve a software problem?
It is a software problem. Steve Jobs said it was. It was all about how the bars were being reported. Yes it was. Yes it was. You can look it up on the internet.
Look, I'm done arguing with you if you're not going to listen.
No, you haven't, and no, I'm not.
The GOP is a bunch of liars; their lies are designed to garner a political bloc of voters; that those voters are being duped by claptrap and falsehoods does not matter to the GOP, because their goal is not governance, it is directing the revenues of the government to the wealthy.
That is true of the GOP. Your belief that it is also true of the DNC flies in the face of fact, and is partly or wholly ingrained in you by the propaganda machine being run by the GOP. You're a dupe. Wake the fuck up.
The difference is in intent. Not what you protest was your intent, but your actual intent.
If you know that a situation is statistically deadly, and you know that placing enough people into that dangerous situation enough times leads to a statistical likelihood of their death, and you know you are increasing the danger through your own policies and actions, then your intent is not to keep those people alive, it is to kill them to improve your profit.
Not negligence; intent. Not manslaughter, murder.
You're an extremist.
More likely, Britain will get no blame, BP will get all of the blame and share it with TransOcean and Halliburton. They're already suing each other over it.
The government will likely have to sue to get the several $billion it has spent on manpower and material to deal with the problem. Many people along the gulf coast directly affected by the problem will likely have to sue as well, since BP has turned over administration of the claims process to a company whose marching orders are to minimize the cost to BP (not "minimize costs due to fraud" but "minimize cost, period").
Oil drilling will likely resume, but this time it will be under regulations more like the ones used to maintain air safety, and under regulators whose goal is enforcing the regulations, not getting onto private planes with oil men and their teams of hookers.
What politicians do in their manipulation of public opinion is predictable in scope and unpredictable in magnitude. That's why we have to get new ones ever couple of years.
here's what I heard:
1. they capped it.
2. they closed the cap
2a. if the pressure suddenly drops, they know the pipe is ruptured below and they are forcing oil into the sea floor, where it will seep up into the sea, meaning the cap is not preventing a leak, just shifting it to the rupture. they will open the cap immediately and work to start pumping oil to the surface.
2b. if the pressure is high and holding, they will monitor for up to 48 hours it to determine if it is dropping slowly.
2b(1). if it is, then there is likely a leak below and they will work to start pumping oil to the surface, to keep the pressure in the pipe low while they wait for the relief well to be completed.
2b(2). if it is not, then the pipe is stable and intact
2b(2)(i). they may keep the cap in place and wait for the relief well to be completed
2b(2)(ii). they may work to start pumping oil to the surface while they wait for the relief well to be completed.
3. when the relief well is completed, they will open the cap, or remove the pumps, and pump concrete into the pipe to cap this wellhead permanently. the relief well will in any case be the production wellhead for this shaft.
what's really shocking about the whole deal isn't that they had a faulty blowout preventer, it's that they always knew that the pipe and the rock surrounding it were at points not strong enough to contain the pressure in the well. they knew this either before they started drilling or shortly after, and still they drilled all the way to the oil. they knew that there was no way ever to completely cap this well. as soon as they hit the oil, they would have to allow it to flow to keep the pressure low, or it would eventually rupture the pipe and vent the entire oilfield into the seafloor and then to the sea. and, for some reason, they foresaw no reasonable circumstance under which that plan might fail. they believed it not possible that they wouldn't be able to complete the well and pump it continuously, without a problem, without ever having to stop the flow. and they apparently suppressed knowledge of the entire consideration, because anyone looking at the concept would immediately say they were not only courting disaster, but raising it to a high probability of occurring.
frankly, i think it makes the deaths of those 11 men nothing short of murder.
The deficit? You can hardly blame that ALL on Bush. I thought he spent too much. I think Obama is spending way more.
There are graphs (over on zfacts.com if they're still around) showing that republican presidents grow the debt and democrats shrink it, as a pct of GDP. But Republicans ignore Republican debt growth entirely, and point to Democrat growth while ignoring the absolute-vs-relative distinction.
Also, look at what they're spending on. Bush and Cheney blew $Trillions on explosions that, if anything, have made terrorism worse, not better (because they should have stuck to Afghanistan, on which the world saw us as righteously justified, instead of starting an illegal war over lies in Iraq). Obama is building infrastructure, investing in kickstarting technologies, and keeping unemployed people from becoming homeless people.
Anyone that continually blames bad handling of the current situation on the past administration because the problem started with them is trying to blame-shift.
Wrong. Anyone who blames the results of Bush's policies on Obama is the one doing the blame-shifting.
this was an inherited problem from the previous administration.
The regulatory system in place for the oil industry is the result of 8 years of direct action on the part of Bush and Cheney.
They set up the rules that allowed lax safety and backup systems, set the liability levels that induced the company to ignore safety and backups, packed the civil service component of the department with oil-company cronies who ignored the mounting pile of known safety violations (which no doubt were only a fraction of the regulated vulnerabilities and a small fraction of the factual vulnerabilities), and made oil men their best friends (well, more oil men; oil men have always been Bush and Cheney's best friends, right next to defense contractors).
Obama trusted the regulatory structure of this department because he hadn't had it audited for integrity and was too busy with several active fires Bush and Cheney had left behind to deal with something that merely hadn't blown up yet. He even believed their assurances enough that he approved drilling off the East Coast just a few weeks before this well blew up. So clearly they were not informing him of the corruption of their office or the decrepitude of the industry.
So now you don't have to wait any more. You just have to ask yourself why you didn't know these facts existed, and whether you should ever again trust the people who led you to believe these facts didn't exist.
He was well-loved by Grover Norquist, the architect of most GOP policy in the '90s, who famously said he wanted a smaller government, one small enough you could drown it in a bathtub.
Bush, remember, pretty much doubled the size of the government.
The GOP is a bunch of liars; their lies are designed to garner a political bloc of voters; that those voters are being duped by claptrap and falsehoods does not matter to the GOP, because their goal is not governance, it is directing the revenues of the government to the wealthy.
They'd be wealthy if they just worked harder.
The industry still don't have a plan in case of BOP failure.
I don't know why everyone's saying they didn't have a plan.
Of course they had a plan.
But the rational expenditure on it stopped at the expected value of the probability of a failure times $75 million in total liability. Basically, about $500k at current failure rates. Beyond that, they planned to point at the law saying liability was capped at $75 million, and shrug their shoulders about the $10 billion mess they made.
it wasn't until their daddy (President Obama) got home and informed them the rules made by their mommy (President Cheney) were not the rules of the house, and they would be 100% responsible for cleaning up the mess, that they kicked the dirt and got out the mop.
THAT.
You don't become the head of a huge corporation by having human emotions.
Not about people, at least.
Money and expensive toys, on the other hand, make these fuckers cry.
I'm sure that no one wanted to stop this well leak more than BP.
I'm more sure that you are wrong.
Everyone but BP wanted it stopped dead the second it happened, and didn't care if BP ceased to exist or its executives were crushed in an imploded bathyscaphe trying to screw a stelvin closure on it.
BP was okay with not letting anyone else try to stop it, so BP would get to claim credit for stopping it, and keep ownership of the well and its eventual output, and continue to be traded on the stock exchange. And if that meant it would spew longer, so be it.
Other people wanted to save the planet. BP wanted to save a few billion dollars, give or take, and let the "give or take" part rule their timetable.