Actually more people will die from the diseases in the months ahead if clean water is not provided.
Which is one of the reasons that the US Navy just mobilized 2 full carrier battle groups and their hospital ships, marine units, search and rescue resources and supply ships.
In addition to the 12 C-130's that landed there yesterday with med supplies, food and other aid plus the P3 Orion search planes that are circling the place.
Water and shelter will probably not turn into a problem as there are enough pre-packaged insta-shelters sitting in Dubai and Kuwait to house a small country plus the water filtration units that are being shipped into the area by the Army.
I have to say that this is one of the few times in the last 5 years that I can honestly feel proud of what the US Defense forces are doing.
All that radioactive stuff is waste. It must be stored carefully, for long periods of time. And noone has a solution that works both politically, geologically, and medically
Actually one of the programs that the DOE and the NRC is working is using depleted uranium mixed with lead and concrete to encase hazardous nuclear waste.
Depleted uranium, while still being slightly toxic, is far more dense than the current lead linings that we use (on the order of no noticable radiation other than the minute levels in the dpu escaping). Plus with a number of years of testing (on the order of 5 to 10 {while not alot, functional to give an estimate of breakdown}) they are finding no leakage from the test "plugs".
The idea is to encase a standard radioactive waste container in this dpu/lead/concrete mixture to form a cube, then stacking them 3-4 high, row after row. Once the facility (like Yucca mountain) is full, use the same mixture to seal the entrance, mark it as possibly hazardous/radioactive and then basically forgetting about it for 5-10 thousand years.
With little or no leakage, the only thing you'd actually have to worry about is erosion.
Your other option would be bean bag rounds. They don't penetrate skin, normally don't kill (unless you aim for the throat. Gurgle, Gurgle, can't breath) and a perfect court defense is that they are the "Preferred 'Non-Lethal' round" used by most American Police Agencies (if you happen to be in the US).
I personally prefer dove loads as they tend to have decent (2-6 inches at 15-25 feet {standard home defense ranges}) groupings.
My backup would be a.303 british enfield with soft-point rounds. Good mushroom, huge exit wound. and if you happen to miss, you can beat the hell out of them with the brass butt-plate (and/or the bayonet if you have one)
I have to disagree. The terrorists aren't winning, they've won.
They've forced the US to make such dramatic charges in what could be considered our basic way of life that the freedoms upon which we have based our lives are quickly being eroded.
We've unfortunately brought it upon ourselves by allowing those think that our culture and form of government is the only proper one and that other countries who are not follwing our every command are our enemies.
IIRC, it's "One NATION under God", not "One WORLD under U.S.". We need to worry about our own people before we stick our nose into other peoples business.
If and when a country/group of persons/organization becomes a threat to the US, then and only then should we act to protect our people. We should NOT be sending our troops half way across the world because somebody's daddy couldn't finish a war. Not to mention the fact that we either trained (Afghanistan) or supplied munitions (Iraq & Afghanistan) to those countries that we are now invading.
What makes what we are doing in Iraq now any different than what Hussein did to Kuwait before the first Gulf War? We've invaded a country that couldn't defend itself soley for the purpose of gaining control of their oil reserves (and because Bush Jr. has to avenge his fathers failure to finish the job the first time)
You want to see where this whole Homeland Security/TSA/ protect the people BS is going to end up, go rent "The Siege" and watch it closely. If you change the country it takes place in, you can see the DoD / HSD's battle plan. It's just a matter of time before the country that it takes place in will match the movie.
Register with your local temp or employment agencies and take whatever they have.
Once you're in the door start looking around for positions inside the company you're working at.
You're in, you can prove that you have the ability and not just the shiny new piece of paper that says you sat through 4 years of classes which probably taught you nothing that you didn't already know, and then you can see about moving up in the world.
At least it wasn't in California, where education is crap as it is
Perhaps you'd like to re-examine the educational system in Arizona. It blows. An extremely high percentage of our students leave school without the ability to even read/write or speak passable English, let alone any other skills.
The FBI chose one of the 4 highest mean-income school districts in the Phoenix-metro area. The 4 being Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, Deer Valley and Gilbert/Chandler.
Phoenix metro is very much a case of the "haves" and the "have nots". In this case, the FBI went after the "Haves", probably with the intention of going after the students and parents next. Most of the other Districts have a high number of students that fall at or below the poverty-line, barely understand the concept of American laws and/or are the sons/daughters of illegals immigrants. The FBI chose one of the districts where a high portion of the student body is upper-middle to upper-upper class, relatively well versed in the concepts of american law and have parents and family that can't just be deported, thus alleviating much of the flight risk.
Why doesn't the FBI do something useful, like investigate the Neo-Nazi organizations that plague the Gilbert/Chandler Schools? Perhaps because that would mean that the sons and daughters of many white, upper-class corporate executives would be going to jail.
So what if you drank Gatorade (or another well made sports drink), which has an electolyte balance designed to match the body's?
I would think that after consuming a large amount of Gatorade (not even going to begin to speculate on actual amounts here) the excessive concentration of glucose in the blood would get to the point where the body cant produce enough insulin fast enough to conteract it. At that point you would basically go into diabetic shock and without proper medical intervention (a couple of hundred units of insulin injected either into a muscle or through a vein), you die.
There is a blood glucose test used on children (at least they used it on me) that involves a 16oz high sugar (think flavored sugar water, nasty stuff) drank every hour for 8 hours with no other food or drink. A blood sample is taken prior to each dosage and the glucose level is measured. Normally this is used to diagnose juvenile diabetes.
I would assume that it may be possible to consume enough sugar to out-run the body, but have not found (or even looked) for statistical proof.
But picture turning the top floor of the launch silo into a solarium. Remove the blast door and replace it with glass (it would probably have to be bulletproof to withstand the downward force from the snow in the winter). A little bit of remodeling and you have a perfect place to lie back and watch the sky).
If it's far enough away from civilization, you could also use the solarium for a decent telescope.
Point taken, but I'd prefer he got into RPG's before he finds CCG's.
I was and am a DM also. I use it currently to blow off steam from a hard work week. Seems to be a much better outlet than allowing stress to build up and cause physical damage.
Sounds like SCO is whining because someone dropped their old, obsolescent Unix. So if I trade in a Chevy for a Ford, GM can sue me if I still have payments left on my loan?
Actually, if you still have payments on your loan and your loan is with GMAC, then yes, GM can sue you.
A better example would have been if you traded your old beat-up 70's Chevy for a new Ford, GM can sue you.
Your statement is indeed true, but picture for a moment that you short 20,000 shares of SCOX at $15.75 per share. In the short run, you gain $315,000 (minus commissions and taxes).
Now, what happens if SCO wins the lawsuit? More than likely the stock price will begin to climb. If the stock price climbs above 15.75 you're screwed. If it skyrockets (very unlikely with a company like SCO, but possible), you're really screwed.
The shares you shorted were not your own and you now have to "Buy to Cover" your short. If you shorted at 15.75 and sco is now at 40 you're just a little more than screwed. You've now got a purchase price of $800,000, leaving you $485,000 in the hole.
During the tech bubble, there were a number of persons that shorted stock only to see it rocket from the teens to the hundreds in a day. What if that happens with sco? Lets put sco at $150.00 per. now you're out $2,685,000.00
Shorting can be extremely dangerous, which is why most reputable brokerage firms have very specific criteria that one must meet to be approved for shorting and option trading.
(and yes, I am a stockbroker.)
(nothing in this statement constitues an offer to sell or buy anything. What you do with this information is up to you.)
Gotta admit, you're right.
In looking at Edgar and Yahoo, it appears that Mr. McBride doesn't even hold an Insider-level of shares in SCOX...
Most of the funds listed are either index or value-growth funds,
which (at least for the value-growth funds) implies a short-term strategy with regards to SCO shares.
The major institutionals don't actually hold enough to be profitable in a P&D scheme.
The risks just don't appear to out-weigh the gains.
I 'd like to see a break-down of institutional investors (other than the holding company that owns more than 50%) vs. private investors & what the institutional investors are using SCOX for.
Growth, core, etc...
I'm thinking that the majority of them are looking for a quick growth with no long term hold.
I't wouldn't move the market either way. There are not enough shares of SCOX in circulation to allow any one investor (other than the current holding company) to truely move the share price any noticible amount in either direction.
Now, if the reader of slashdot were to buy the shares of another unnamed company with a 3 letter name and with the voting power amassed there choose to force the purchase of SCO, well, that has the possiblity of working.
ie. buy sco, fire Darl (not layoff, fire for gross negligence) and using that reason, deny him his golden parachute.
Good point, however with the recent happenings in the US markets and retirement/pension plans + mutual funds, I'm thinking that the SEC will use SCO as another example of exactly how much power they really have.
"Don't not annoy securities regulators as they are fickle and quick to delist"
If SCO loses it's lawsuit (which as far as I can tell is almost a sure thing), their stock price is going to go straight into the crapper, at which time NASDAQ will delist them.
{yes, I am aware that the SEC and NASDAQ are two different entities. The SEC interprets the rules and NASDAQ & the other markets, boards enforce them} and IAASB.
Sorry for the flame, but after the Los Angeles Unified School district tried to make Ebonics a valid foreign language, I'm kind of fed up with "New" dialects of any language.
Plus, they now have children in the U.K turning in homework written in leet...
Congrats to the both of you for being part of the problem and not of the solution.
leet and the various "hacker-speak" dialects are doing nothing but pushing our ability to communicate with each other closer and closer to extinction.
Perhaps instead of making a joke of the current state of affairs, you'd be better off mentoring a child that has problems reading and writing, such as a dyslexic.
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Which is one of the reasons that the US Navy just mobilized 2 full carrier battle groups and their hospital ships, marine units, search and rescue resources and supply ships.
In addition to the 12 C-130's that landed there yesterday with med supplies, food and other aid plus the P3 Orion search planes that are circling the place.
Water and shelter will probably not turn into a problem as there are enough pre-packaged insta-shelters sitting in Dubai and Kuwait to house a small country plus the water filtration units that are being shipped into the area by the Army.
I have to say that this is one of the few times in the last 5 years that I can honestly feel proud of what the US Defense forces are doing.
Actually one of the programs that the DOE and the NRC is working is using depleted uranium mixed with lead and concrete to encase hazardous nuclear waste.
Depleted uranium, while still being slightly toxic, is far more dense than the current lead linings that we use (on the order of no noticable radiation other than the minute levels in the dpu escaping). Plus with a number of years of testing (on the order of 5 to 10 {while not alot, functional to give an estimate of breakdown}) they are finding no leakage from the test "plugs".
The idea is to encase a standard radioactive waste container in this dpu/lead/concrete mixture to form a cube, then stacking them 3-4 high, row after row. Once the facility (like Yucca mountain) is full, use the same mixture to seal the entrance, mark it as possibly hazardous/radioactive and then basically forgetting about it for 5-10 thousand years.
With little or no leakage, the only thing you'd actually have to worry about is erosion.
For more info see Ducrete
Your other option would be bean bag rounds. They don't penetrate skin, normally don't kill (unless you aim for the throat. Gurgle, Gurgle, can't breath) and a perfect court defense is that they are the "Preferred 'Non-Lethal' round" used by most American Police Agencies (if you happen to be in the US).
.303 british enfield with soft-point rounds. Good mushroom, huge exit wound.
I personally prefer dove loads as they tend to have decent (2-6 inches at 15-25 feet {standard home defense ranges}) groupings.
My backup would be a
and if you happen to miss, you can beat the hell out of them with the brass butt-plate (and/or the bayonet if you have one)
They've forced the US to make such dramatic charges in what could be considered our basic way of life that the freedoms upon which we have based our lives are quickly being eroded.
We've unfortunately brought it upon ourselves by allowing those think that our culture and form of government is the only proper one and that other countries who are not follwing our every command are our enemies.
IIRC, it's "One NATION under God", not "One WORLD under U.S.".
We need to worry about our own people before we stick our nose into other peoples business.
If and when a country/group of persons/organization becomes a threat to the US, then and only then should we act to protect our people. We should NOT be sending our troops half way across the world because somebody's daddy couldn't finish a war. Not to mention the fact that we either trained (Afghanistan) or supplied munitions (Iraq & Afghanistan) to those countries that we are now invading.
What makes what we are doing in Iraq now any different than what Hussein did to Kuwait before the first Gulf War? We've invaded a country that couldn't defend itself soley for the purpose of gaining control of their oil reserves (and because Bush Jr. has to avenge his fathers failure to finish the job the first time)
You want to see where this whole Homeland Security/TSA/ protect the people BS is going to end up, go rent "The Siege" and watch it closely. If you change the country it takes place in, you can see the DoD / HSD's battle plan. It's just a matter of time before the country that it takes place in will match the movie.
Register with your local temp or employment agencies and take whatever they have.
Once you're in the door start looking around for positions inside the company you're working at.
You're in, you can prove that you have the ability and not just the shiny new piece of paper that says you sat through 4 years of classes which probably taught you nothing that you didn't already know, and then you can see about moving up in the world.
At least it wasn't in California, where education is crap as it is
Perhaps you'd like to re-examine the educational system in Arizona. It blows. An extremely high percentage of our students leave school without the ability to even read/write or speak passable English, let alone any other skills.
The FBI chose one of the 4 highest mean-income school districts in the Phoenix-metro area. The 4 being Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, Deer Valley and Gilbert/Chandler.
Phoenix metro is very much a case of the "haves" and the "have nots". In this case, the FBI went after the "Haves", probably with the intention of going after the students and parents next.
Most of the other Districts have a high number of students that fall at or below the poverty-line, barely understand the concept of American laws and/or are the sons/daughters of illegals immigrants.
The FBI chose one of the districts where a high portion of the student body is upper-middle to upper-upper class, relatively well versed in the concepts of american law and have parents and family that can't just be deported, thus alleviating much of the flight risk.
Why doesn't the FBI do something useful, like investigate the Neo-Nazi organizations that plague the Gilbert/Chandler Schools?
Perhaps because that would mean that the sons and daughters of many white, upper-class corporate executives would be going to jail.
With the current job market in the US, suck it up and take whatever they'll give you.
I started at $12 an hour and supplement my "job" with side consulting at $50-$75 / hour (depending on how well I know the client).
So what if you drank Gatorade (or another well made sports drink), which has an electolyte balance designed to match the body's?
I would think that after consuming a large amount of Gatorade (not even going to begin to speculate on actual amounts here) the excessive concentration of glucose in the blood would get to the point where the body cant produce enough insulin fast enough to conteract it.
At that point you would basically go into diabetic shock and without proper medical intervention (a couple of hundred units of insulin injected either into a muscle or through a vein), you die.
There is a blood glucose test used on children (at least they used it on me) that involves a 16oz high sugar (think flavored sugar water, nasty stuff) drank every hour for 8 hours with no other food or drink. A blood sample is taken prior to each dosage and the glucose level is measured. Normally this is used to diagnose juvenile diabetes.
I would assume that it may be possible to consume enough sugar to out-run the body, but have not found (or even looked) for statistical proof.
But picture turning the top floor of the launch silo into a solarium. Remove the blast door and replace it with glass (it would probably have to be bulletproof to withstand the downward force from the snow in the winter). A little bit of remodeling and you have a perfect place to lie back and watch the sky).
If it's far enough away from civilization, you could also use the solarium for a decent telescope.
Point taken, but I'd prefer he got into RPG's before he finds CCG's.
I was and am a DM also. I use it currently to blow off steam from a hard work week. Seems to be a much better outlet than allowing stress to build up and cause physical damage.
Nope, wifes on BC. Don't want kids at this point in life.
If I cant support them I wont make them. More couples should seriously follow that rule.
You were obviously playing the wrong game.
It's a Role-playing game not a Roll-playing game.
Games that are based more on the acting and roleplaying are how the game is supposed to be played.
Didn't give me any problems, been married for 10 years.
This did wonders for my social skills.
Get him into dungeons and dragons. Find a group at a local shop or a campus club that will allow him to join as a newbie.
Most experienced DM's enjoy seeing new players grown and mature while learning and playing the game.
Sounds like SCO is whining because someone dropped their old, obsolescent Unix. So if I trade in a Chevy for a Ford, GM can sue me if I still have payments left on my loan?
Actually, if you still have payments on your loan and your loan is with GMAC, then yes, GM can sue you.
A better example would have been if you traded your old beat-up 70's Chevy for a new Ford, GM can sue you.
In following with McBrides incredible
ability to shoot his dumb a$$ in the foot,
I'd almost expect it to be Transmeta.
Or one of the markets (NYSE / NASDAQ)...
Your statement is indeed true, but picture for a moment that you short 20,000 shares of SCOX at $15.75 per share. In the short run, you gain $315,000 (minus commissions and taxes).
Now, what happens if SCO wins the lawsuit?
More than likely the stock price will begin to climb. If the stock price climbs above 15.75 you're screwed.
If it skyrockets (very unlikely with a company like SCO, but possible), you're really screwed.
The shares you shorted were not your own and you now have to "Buy to Cover" your short. If you shorted at 15.75 and sco is now at 40 you're just a little more than screwed. You've now got a purchase price of $800,000, leaving you $485,000 in the hole.
During the tech bubble, there were a number of persons that shorted stock only to see it rocket from the teens to the hundreds in a day. What if that happens with sco? Lets put sco at $150.00 per. now you're out $2,685,000.00
Shorting can be extremely dangerous, which is why most reputable brokerage firms have very specific criteria that one must meet to be approved for shorting and option trading.
(and yes, I am a stockbroker.)
(nothing in this statement constitues an offer to sell or buy anything. What you do with this information is up to you.)
Gotta admit, you're right.
In looking at Edgar and Yahoo, it appears that Mr. McBride doesn't even
hold an Insider-level of shares in SCOX...
Most of the funds listed are either index or value-growth funds,
which (at least for the value-growth funds) implies a short-term strategy with regards to SCO shares.
The major institutionals don't actually hold enough to be profitable in a P&D scheme.
The risks just don't appear to out-weigh the gains.
This is too true.
I 'd like to see a break-down of institutional investors (other than the holding company that owns more than 50%) vs. private investors & what the institutional investors are using SCOX for.
Growth, core, etc...
I'm thinking that the majority of them are looking for a quick growth with no long term hold.
funny...
IAASB = "I am a StockBroker"
or was, currently looking for work.
I't wouldn't move the market either way.
There are not enough shares of SCOX in circulation to allow any one investor (other than the current holding company) to truely move the share price any noticible amount in either direction.
Now, if the reader of slashdot were to buy the shares of another unnamed company with a 3 letter name and with the voting power amassed there choose to force the purchase of SCO, well, that has the possiblity of working.
ie. buy sco, fire Darl (not layoff, fire for gross negligence) and using that reason, deny him his golden parachute.
Good point, however with the recent happenings in the US markets and retirement/pension plans + mutual funds, I'm thinking that the SEC will use SCO as another example of exactly how much power they really have.
"Don't not annoy securities regulators as they are fickle and quick to delist"
If SCO loses it's lawsuit (which as far as I can tell is almost a sure thing), their stock price is going to go straight into the crapper, at which time NASDAQ will delist them.
{yes, I am aware that the SEC and NASDAQ are two different entities. The SEC interprets the rules and NASDAQ & the other markets, boards enforce them}
and IAASB.
Sorry for the flame, but after the Los Angeles Unified School district tried to make Ebonics a valid foreign language, I'm kind of fed up with "New" dialects of any language.
Plus, they now have children in the U.K turning in homework written in leet...
Congrats to the both of you for being part of the problem and not of the solution.
leet and the various "hacker-speak" dialects are doing nothing but pushing our ability to communicate with each other closer and closer to extinction.
Perhaps instead of making a joke of the current state of affairs, you'd be better off mentoring a child that has problems reading and writing, such as a dyslexic.
caught it, tossed it back to the barbarian in the corner.....