We've known of these risks for, well, ever, and the oil companies, like you, have pretended they are not significant enough to stop us from taking the risk.
You, and they, are wrong. Until they prove they can reliably follow the safety rules put on them, and until they accept more stringent safety measures, there should be zero attempts to do this risky thing.
You? You'd just blow it on hookers and credit-default swaps.
This is a good use of the money. It puts an RFID tracking equipment company in business, and it reduces the effort needed to run a state school. Win-win.
The only people who don't "win" are whiny little school brats who want to cut class without their parents or the taxpayers knowing they're wasting their money.
If that causes them actually to attend their classes, then the state's money underwriting their education is better invested. That's another win for the stimulus.
And, given where this is happening, anything that improves the education of people in the state has got to be an eventual win for democracy and the Union.
>a professionally produced version could be not that much more expensive and far more durable
Looked at the prices of newly-developed medical equipment lately?
The key to healthcare reform was to cap profits for suppliers to the healthcare industry. None of the dance around insurers was necessary, and none of it did anything to stop the real cost driver.
>they mentioned that the engines in the shuttle wouldn't have to be torn down and rebuilt between flights if the electronics were built onto the engine such the engines could be tested without removing them.
Getting into space is about as extreme an environment as any mechanism is likely to face.
As long as teams in the NHRA have to dissassemble and reassemble their engines bewteen races, NASA will likely have to do the same.
SSTO is kind of a dumb idea, because in all configurations it involves dragging heavy, spent boost motors around with you while you maneuver in space on limited fuel.
But invent a booster that is 100% fuel and consumes its structure as it burns and you might have something.
The diff here is, dickless or not, what he did is against policy, may be illegal, and is certainly disrespectful of the entire state that is paying for his time and has to live under the decisions he participates in making.
Doesn't matter whether it was b00bies or reruns of Curb Your Enthusiasm. When a State Senator breaks the rules it's as if he thinks the law means nothing, and that is the picture next to the entry for Hypocrisy in the dictionary.
There were 6 safety systems that all had to fail for this to happen
Which is a pretty good indication that there was only one that had to fail to happen: we had to let Conservatives talk us into trusting an oil company to install 6 layers of safety.
1. No telling if a nuke in that neighborhood is a worse disaster than the oil.
2. No nuke was ever designed to be exploded under a mile of water, even if it was designed to operate after piercing several floors of a concrete bunker.
3. If we don't know how to stop the leak reliably, we sure as hell don't know how reliable nuking it will be.
This crap about the Earth being self-regulating is bunk. The earth, quite without our help, has "corrected" itself into everything from a giant snowball to a giant ball of volcanic rifts.
We, meanwhile, depend on those waters for a number of economic benefits, and this situation will cause thousands if not millions of people a lot of grief.
And it was almost certainly preventable at any number of levels.
As of last Friday, they'd laid out about 30 miles of boom; enough to surround a 5 mile radius. With calm seas and no current, that should be plenty to contain even the gushing oil where you can suck it up with skimmers.
But seas are rarely calm for long, and the gulf has continuous currents, and booms aren't foolproof.
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It's hardly knee-jerk.
We've known of these risks for, well, ever, and the oil companies, like you, have pretended they are not significant enough to stop us from taking the risk.
You, and they, are wrong. Until they prove they can reliably follow the safety rules put on them, and until they accept more stringent safety measures, there should be zero attempts to do this risky thing.
You can buy a bicycle and wear a sweater.
Jeebus, Arnie. If banning offshore drilling is going to make you this cranky, just go ahead and drill.
My Oracle is full of Ellisons.
Simple. You left it open.
No problem.
I'll just tape my ID to my tape recorder.
Each of those 1,400 people will be issued a photo-ID with biometric data and an RFID tag to ensure they are attending group tweetups.
Why would he do that? He's already sniffed their credit-card numbers off the campus Wi-fi.
Odd...everyone else's worked. Get a new card before the next class, mmkay?
"Can't" should have been "Shouldn't."
If I'm paying the bills, or putting my credit rating on the line, I get to see the grades.
If not, then I didn't have a reason to ask.
You? You'd just blow it on hookers and credit-default swaps.
This is a good use of the money. It puts an RFID tracking equipment company in business, and it reduces the effort needed to run a state school. Win-win.
The only people who don't "win" are whiny little school brats who want to cut class without their parents or the taxpayers knowing they're wasting their money.
If that causes them actually to attend their classes, then the state's money underwriting their education is better invested. That's another win for the stimulus.
And, given where this is happening, anything that improves the education of people in the state has got to be an eventual win for democracy and the Union.
>a professionally produced version could be not that much more expensive and far more durable
Looked at the prices of newly-developed medical equipment lately?
The key to healthcare reform was to cap profits for suppliers to the healthcare industry. None of the dance around insurers was necessary, and none of it did anything to stop the real cost driver.
String $1
Tie a bunch of test-tubes onto a piece of string and whirl it around.
Same effect, same energy input, and for 1/75th the cost you get enough to last you several years.
Are you sure that really happened?
Check your credit statements.
Potable?
Dude. 4/20 day was like a week ago. Snap out of it.
Explains their tendency to abduct hillbillies.
>they mentioned that the engines in the shuttle wouldn't have to be torn down and rebuilt between flights if the electronics were built onto the engine such the engines could be tested without removing them.
Getting into space is about as extreme an environment as any mechanism is likely to face.
As long as teams in the NHRA have to dissassemble and reassemble their engines bewteen races, NASA will likely have to do the same.
SSTO is kind of a dumb idea, because in all configurations it involves dragging heavy, spent boost motors around with you while you maneuver in space on limited fuel.
But invent a booster that is 100% fuel and consumes its structure as it burns and you might have something.
FarScape.
Have/are, what's the diff?
The diff here is, dickless or not, what he did is against policy, may be illegal, and is certainly disrespectful of the entire state that is paying for his time and has to live under the decisions he participates in making.
Doesn't matter whether it was b00bies or reruns of Curb Your Enthusiasm. When a State Senator breaks the rules it's as if he thinks the law means nothing, and that is the picture next to the entry for Hypocrisy in the dictionary.
1. Who's whining, pilgrim?
2. "We" can vote out the chuckleheads who told us that oil companies can be trusted to drill in our back yard without causing a disaster.
3. You're welcome.
There were 6 safety systems that all had to fail for this to happen
Which is a pretty good indication that there was only one that had to fail to happen: we had to let Conservatives talk us into trusting an oil company to install 6 layers of safety.
Three problems with that:
1. No telling if a nuke in that neighborhood is a worse disaster than the oil.
2. No nuke was ever designed to be exploded under a mile of water, even if it was designed to operate after piercing several floors of a concrete bunker.
3. If we don't know how to stop the leak reliably, we sure as hell don't know how reliable nuking it will be.
This crap about the Earth being self-regulating is bunk. The earth, quite without our help, has "corrected" itself into everything from a giant snowball to a giant ball of volcanic rifts.
We, meanwhile, depend on those waters for a number of economic benefits, and this situation will cause thousands if not millions of people a lot of grief.
And it was almost certainly preventable at any number of levels.
We should look into whether there's any additional penalty for negligence in installing safety devices that clearly weren't tested.
We should also look into raising taxes on drillers, and rescinding the cap on liability.
Because why the fuck would they deserve a break after this?
As of last Friday, they'd laid out about 30 miles of boom; enough to surround a 5 mile radius. With calm seas and no current, that should be plenty to contain even the gushing oil where you can suck it up with skimmers.
But seas are rarely calm for long, and the gulf has continuous currents, and booms aren't foolproof.