I hope you're not serious (I fear that you are, however.) What has one got to do with the other??
If I allow you that "argument", I suppose you'll then allow me the argument that the EU burueaucracy would do ~40 times worse at managing the Internet because its member states allowed about 40,000 Europeans to bake to death in the summer of 2003?
Surely there's enough biodiesel (and other flammable liquids) in that useless windbag Ted Kennedy's carcass to power an inner-city bus for several years. And as an added bonus, onen could keep Robert F. Jr. in the trunk as an "auxiliary fuel tank", as it were.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.
In a telephone interview with reporters, corps officials said that although portions of the flood-protection levees remain incomplete, the levees near Lake Pontchartrain that gave way--inundating much of the city--were completed and in good condition before the hurricane.
However, they noted that the levees were designed for a Category 3 hurricane and couldn't handle the ferocious winds and raging waters from Hurricane Katrina, which was a Category 4 storm when it hit the coastline. The decision to build levees for a Category 3 hurricane was made decades ago based on a cost-benefit analysis.
"I don't see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case," said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, chief of engineers for the corps. "Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of the business district and the French Quarter would have still taken place."
Strock also denied that escalating costs from the war in Iraq contributed to reductions in funding for hurricane projects in Louisiana, as some critics have suggested. Records show that corps funding for the Louisiana projects has generally decreased in recent years.
A predictable backhanded attempt to put blame where it doesn't belong, so let's get some facts straight:
1. 25-35% (I've seen different estimates) of Louisiana's National Guard is supporting operations in Iraq. Do the math, joey. What percentage does that leave for state missions? 2. In domestic situations like this, the State National Guard is traditionally mobilized by the Governor. So when did the Governor actually mobilize them, joey?
The sad reality is that among the many bad decisions made by state and local (and to a lesser extent, federal) government, Governor Kathleen Blanco neither mobilized her National Guard nor ordered a mandatory evacuation soon enough. You know, actually get things moving before everything flooded, looting began, bridges were washed out, etc. Thankfully, the Louisiana Guard was eventually mobilized (along with National Guard from many other states) and are now doing a fantastic job.
demachina said: It doesn't help that Iraq's oil production is now in a shambles thanks to George W.
It's sad how an otherwise intelligent crowd lets emotions toward a US President obscure the facts.
Iraq's oil production in the years before the war peaked at around 2.5 million barrels per day (some sources put it at only 2.4 million bbl/day.) Production is now estimated to be about 2.25 million bbl/day (some internal Iraq estimates say 2.4 million bbl/day), which is at most a decrease of 10%. Hardly a "shambles", particularly when one realizes that 0.25 million bbl/day represents 0.4% of total world oil production and that the big OPEC players like Saudi Arabia usually have enough excess capacity to pick up that amount of slack.
Crappy infrastructure that's been under-maintained for 25 years is the biggest direct cause of the decrease in Iraq's oil production. Did you know that Iraq's oil production peaked in 1979 at 3.7 million bbl/day?
You're forgetting one thing: This would never happen in China! The Chinese would likely just shoot the rioters, as in dead, with real bullets, end of story.
Meanwhile, there'd be nary a peep out of the international media because they'd be too busy getting the vapors over some captured terrorist whose dinner (honey-glazed chicken with rice pilaf) wasn't properly halal, or who is being forced to use 1-ply toilet paper instead of 2-ply (the humanity!), or who is being forced to read Slashdot against their will (shoot me, please!)
Come on... We're talking about the workers' paradise that's going to give the eeeevil and hegemonious United States its comeuppance in the new millenium. Have faith, my brother. Better days are ahead!
This just in:
Dear Patriotic Comrade,
We are pleased to announce that as of 2015, you may no longer be among the hundreds of millions of emaciated subsistence farmers in the glorious People's Republic of China under the wise leadership of the Communist party.
Should you be one of the lucky few whose shack is not submerged under the hydroelectric power project coming soon to a valley near you, you will be the proud citizen of a shiny new Sustainable Hydro-powered Industrial Town with a Holistically-Oriented Living Environment (SHITHOLE).
In your glorious new SHITHOLE, you will live a life of self-sustainable ease. You will produce various low-quality products in the local factory, grow your own crops on the collective farm, cook with animal dung, weave your own fabric, build your shelters, travel hundreds of miles for basic medical care, and if you're one of the lucky first 1000 residents you will receive a brand spanking new donkey* courtesy of MSN China. MSN China--they put the party back in Communist Party.
Welcome to the 21st century, Comrade!
Sincerely,
Proud Bureaucrat
* free donkey offer not valid in Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunan or Zhejiang provinces.
Of course it was intentional, but IMHO not in the way you're thinking. It follows a pattern that we've seen these Islamofascist vermin use elsewhere, like Israel:
1. Hit your primary target 2. Wait until emergency personnel start resonding to the primary target and meanwhile, commuters start routing around the initial damage 3. Have another bomb waiting to hit the alternate commuter route (in this case, I believe the buses had picked up lots of extra traffic since the damaged tube stations were out of commission) or hit the primary target again, which by is now full of new targets in the form of police and paramedics. 4. never mind...obligatory Slashdot joke not appropriate at this time
This seems plausible based on the timeline, which shows almost an hour elapsing between the first explosion and the bus bomb:
0751GMT - Explosion on underground train around 100 metres from Liverpool Street station 0756GMT - Explosion hits train on the Piccadilly line between King's Cross station and Russell Square 0817GMT - Explosion on circle line train going into Edgware Road underground station 0847GMT - Explosion on No. 30 double-decker bus near Tavistock Place
Ah yes, the same old completely worthless Lancet study that's been flogged in the media since the November 2004 US elections... Note that if you actually read the thing, it says (in very small letters, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard"):
"We estimate there were 98000 extra deaths (95% CI 8000-194000) during the post-war period."
Here's a layman's translation of that bolded bit:
We, the esteemed authors of this study, are 95% confident that the number of extra deaths during the post-war period fell somewhere in the range of 8,000 to 194,000. In other words, our sample and methodology both suck so hard that we really have no clue. However, for the sake of drama we'll choose a number about halfway between those upper and lower bounds and go with that as our estimate.
And we all had such a laugh when we heard that Sandy Berger had been caught stealing classified documents. I mean, if you know the guy it's just so Sandy and he's completely innocuous and it was done in jest and his desk was always a mess and these aren't the droids you're looking for... Move along.
Please... During election season Chad Clanton and Terry McAuliffe were two of the primary sources of liberal foot-in-mouth disease inevitably followed up by attempted Jedi mind tricks. I saw the original quote live and it was dead serious--he only backpedaled when Linda Vester asked him point-blank if his statement implied that a Kerry administration FCC would deny Sinclair stations a renewal license.
2) The Kerry spokesman's statement was made in jest, if you've actually seen the clip. I was watching Fox News when that aired and have been amazed by how frequently it has been quoted, since it was really an inocuous comment.
Yeah, it seems like they (I think it was Damark?) had ads in every single issue of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics in the 70's and 80's and as a kid I always wanted one! You can't help but wonder how many failed gadgets of the 70's would be selling like hotcakes now in the era of QVC and informercials...
..and got sustained rates of over 250KB/sec. My P2P Bitborrent download (started at the same time) is still going and chugging along at a whopping 20KB/sec. I think I'll stick with Microsoft's servers.
Nah, just a very satisfied Sveasoft customer who for $20 turned a cheapo router into one that does the work of something many times its purchase price.
You'd be surprised how nice it is to actually put enough thought into your posts that it isn't necessary to cower in the shadows as an AC. Try it sometime!
Actually, it's even simpler than that: if you think the fee is unreasonable, don't order the source. Simple!
By the way, didn't I see you at the gas station the other day arguing with some poor chap wearing a shirt with his name on it about how his company's extraction, refining, transportation and delivery costs couldn't possibly be more than $1.75 a gallon for their $2.25 premium unleaded?
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If Bob's my uncle, and Jack's my doughnut, and my balogna has a first name, then what do I get when I multiply 6 times 9?
Otherwise, you'd have seen that Dell provides the following disclaimer for this PC:
"Note: Dell does not support non-Dell installed operating systems."
I hope you're not serious (I fear that you are, however.) What has one got to do with the other??
If I allow you that "argument", I suppose you'll then allow me the argument that the EU burueaucracy would do ~40 times worse at managing the Internet because its member states allowed about 40,000 Europeans to bake to death in the summer of 2003?
C- for reading comprehension. Emphasis on "...founded on..." above.
Shockingly bad analogy, dude. Please try your argument again later. This is a recording.
Surely there's enough biodiesel (and other flammable liquids) in that useless windbag Ted Kennedy's carcass to power an inner-city bus for several years. And as an added bonus, onen could keep Robert F. Jr. in the trunk as an "auxiliary fuel tank", as it were.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0509
A predictable backhanded attempt to put blame where it doesn't belong, so let's get some facts straight:
1. 25-35% (I've seen different estimates) of Louisiana's National Guard is supporting operations in Iraq. Do the math, joey. What percentage does that leave for state missions?
2. In domestic situations like this, the State National Guard is traditionally mobilized by the Governor. So when did the Governor actually mobilize them, joey?
The sad reality is that among the many bad decisions made by state and local (and to a lesser extent, federal) government, Governor Kathleen Blanco neither mobilized her National Guard nor ordered a mandatory evacuation soon enough. You know, actually get things moving before everything flooded, looting began, bridges were washed out, etc. Thankfully, the Louisiana Guard was eventually mobilized (along with National Guard from many other states) and are now doing a fantastic job.
demachina said:
It doesn't help that Iraq's oil production is now in a shambles thanks to George W.
It's sad how an otherwise intelligent crowd lets emotions toward a US President obscure the facts.
Iraq's oil production in the years before the war peaked at around 2.5 million barrels per day (some sources put it at only 2.4 million bbl/day.) Production is now estimated to be about 2.25 million bbl/day (some internal Iraq estimates say 2.4 million bbl/day), which is at most a decrease of 10%. Hardly a "shambles", particularly when one realizes that 0.25 million bbl/day represents 0.4% of total world oil production and that the big OPEC players like Saudi Arabia usually have enough excess capacity to pick up that amount of slack.
Crappy infrastructure that's been under-maintained for 25 years is the biggest direct cause of the decrease in Iraq's oil production. Did you know that Iraq's oil production peaked in 1979 at 3.7 million bbl/day?
That's Glenn Frey, and IIRC the song got a lot of extra play thanks to its use in an episode of Miami Vice.
Tubbs, you idiot! You flash-cooked my alligator with your damned riot control ray-gun!
You're forgetting one thing: This would never happen in China! The Chinese would likely just shoot the rioters, as in dead, with real bullets, end of story.
Meanwhile, there'd be nary a peep out of the international media because they'd be too busy getting the vapors over some captured terrorist whose dinner (honey-glazed chicken with rice pilaf) wasn't properly halal, or who is being forced to use 1-ply toilet paper instead of 2-ply (the humanity!), or who is being forced to read Slashdot against their will (shoot me, please!)
Come on... We're talking about the workers' paradise that's going to give the eeeevil and hegemonious United States its comeuppance in the new millenium. Have faith, my brother. Better days are ahead!
This just in:
Dear Patriotic Comrade,
We are pleased to announce that as of 2015, you may no longer be among the hundreds of millions of emaciated subsistence farmers in the glorious People's Republic of China under the wise leadership of the Communist party.
Should you be one of the lucky few whose shack is not submerged under the hydroelectric power project coming soon to a valley near you, you will be the proud citizen of a shiny new Sustainable Hydro-powered Industrial Town with a Holistically-Oriented Living Environment (SHITHOLE).
In your glorious new SHITHOLE, you will live a life of self-sustainable ease. You will produce various low-quality products in the local factory, grow your own crops on the collective farm, cook with animal dung, weave your own fabric, build your shelters, travel hundreds of miles for basic medical care, and if you're one of the lucky first 1000 residents you will receive a brand spanking new donkey* courtesy of MSN China. MSN China--they put the party back in Communist Party.
Welcome to the 21st century, Comrade!
Sincerely,
Proud Bureaucrat
* free donkey offer not valid in Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunan or Zhejiang provinces.
Of course it was intentional, but IMHO not in the way you're thinking. It follows a pattern that we've seen these Islamofascist vermin use elsewhere, like Israel:
1. Hit your primary target
2. Wait until emergency personnel start resonding to the primary target and meanwhile, commuters start routing around the initial damage
3. Have another bomb waiting to hit the alternate commuter route (in this case, I believe the buses had picked up lots of extra traffic since the damaged tube stations were out of commission) or hit the primary target again, which by is now full of new targets in the form of police and paramedics.
4. never mind...obligatory Slashdot joke not appropriate at this time
This seems plausible based on the timeline, which shows almost an hour elapsing between the first explosion and the bus bomb:
0751GMT - Explosion on underground train around 100 metres from Liverpool Street station
0756GMT - Explosion hits train on the Piccadilly line between King's Cross station and Russell Square
0817GMT - Explosion on circle line train going into Edgware Road underground station
0847GMT - Explosion on No. 30 double-decker bus near Tavistock Place
Ah yes, the same old completely worthless Lancet study that's been flogged in the media since the November 2004 US elections... Note that if you actually read the thing, it says (in very small letters, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard"):
"We estimate there were 98000 extra deaths (95% CI 8000-194000) during the post-war period."
Here's a layman's translation of that bolded bit:
We, the esteemed authors of this study, are 95% confident that the number of extra deaths during the post-war period fell somewhere in the range of 8,000 to 194,000. In other words, our sample and methodology both suck so hard that we really have no clue. However, for the sake of drama we'll choose a number about halfway between those upper and lower bounds and go with that as our estimate.
Next!
So what's the basis of your statement that 100,000 people have died in Iraq?
I just sewed a button on my favorite Hawaiian shirt last week, and inshallah-malamadingdong I look forward to reaping a multitude of buttons!
Kind of like political correctness, eh?
Zing! Nice catch.
And we all had such a laugh when we heard that Sandy Berger had been caught stealing classified documents. I mean, if you know the guy it's just so Sandy and he's completely innocuous and it was done in jest and his desk was always a mess and these aren't the droids you're looking for... Move along.
Please... During election season Chad Clanton and Terry McAuliffe were two of the primary sources of liberal foot-in-mouth disease inevitably followed up by attempted Jedi mind tricks. I saw the original quote live and it was dead serious--he only backpedaled when Linda Vester asked him point-blank if his statement implied that a Kerry administration FCC would deny Sinclair stations a renewal license.
2) The Kerry spokesman's statement was made in jest, if you've actually seen the clip. I was watching Fox News when that aired and have been amazed by how frequently it has been quoted, since it was really an inocuous comment.
I've never been so ashamed that you're an American.
Yeah, it seems like they (I think it was Damark?) had ads in every single issue of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics in the 70's and 80's and as a kid I always wanted one! You can't help but wonder how many failed gadgets of the 70's would be selling like hotcakes now in the era of QVC and informercials...
..and got sustained rates of over 250KB/sec. My P2P Bitborrent download (started at the same time) is still going and chugging along at a whopping 20KB/sec. I think I'll stick with Microsoft's servers.
Looking on the bright side, at least he got the letters right and didn't say "walla".
Which scene? Now that you've mentioned this, I must see it, however brief it might be :-)
Nah, just a very satisfied Sveasoft customer who for $20 turned a cheapo router into one that does the work of something many times its purchase price.
You'd be surprised how nice it is to actually put enough thought into your posts that it isn't necessary to cower in the shadows as an AC. Try it sometime!
Actually, it's even simpler than that: if you think the fee is unreasonable, don't order the source. Simple!
By the way, didn't I see you at the gas station the other day arguing with some poor chap wearing a shirt with his name on it about how his company's extraction, refining, transportation and delivery costs couldn't possibly be more than $1.75 a gallon for their $2.25 premium unleaded?