Thats nice, where fracking is nowhere near the water table or close enough to aquifers. France bans it outright.
France does a lot of things; some good, some bad.
But honestly, there is a lot of fracking where it should not be...
How much do you know about how holes are drilled? I guess not much. Each one ends up lined with steel pipe, drilling "mud" seals the drill head from the surface. "Fracking" (should be "fraccing", after fracturing) pumps high pressure gas or fluids to the point that the drill hole ends. High pressure drilling mud holds that down there.
This is under up to a couple of klicks of sedimentary rock, stuff that petroleum has spent millions of years trying to find a way to rise up through. Not much of it's porous. Shale is seriously non-porous.
There are ways to pick test days and samples that are atypical, and knowing test labs that round down (else they get no more business).
Yes, and I'm sure there are people who work that way, but I've never met them.
The goons on the Board of Directors may be jerks doing !@#$, but the geologists and geophysicists I've worked with were professional, scientific, and honourable. not psychotic.
Background: I was in well testing, and have been to many a fracked well during/before/after the frac was performed.
I was in geophysics.
We'll start with a well that is drilled, cased (casing is a solid-steel pipe all or some of the depth of the well, used to keep "stuff from coming in, or stuff from coming out"), and perforated (holes shot through the casing with explosives).
Where? That's the question that's been screaming at me all through this.
Ottawa, Canada's basically on the sheild. In Manitoba, you're lucky to see 300 milliseconds of stratigraphy. Saskatchewan, 500 ms. On the East side of the Rockies, up to 5 seconds of data.
Consequently, if you're drilling a deep play in Alberta, you're very unlikely to be affecting the water table in any significant way by fracking. In Eastern Ontario, you'll be lucky to find stratigraphic geology.
If you're against fracking, I hope you've studied some geology. Otherwise, I'm going to ignore you. No, I've no sticks in this fire. I got out of that and into IT ca. '93.
When Andrei Sakharov and friends were passing Samizdat around to all their friends, the Soviets saw that as vandalism. It was one of the most powerful factors dragging down the Soviet Union. It was as powerful as the Internet in those days.
Note, I'm not equating these GhostShell jerks with the likes of Sakharov et al. Going after individual service members is damned sick I think. Their masters are the ones they ought to be screwing over if anyone deserves it. Leon Panetta sounds like an idiot (but I think I still would love to work for him; maybe I could help him fix his !@#$).
The problem is, mutt doesn't display our reply in thread. We have to open outbox to see our reply.
"s" to save it to another folder (this encourages you to file things where they can be found again), then "c" to change to that folder. Find that email and now reply. Define "save_hook" entries to tell mutt where you want it to save different stuff. After some text file configuring, mutt'll know what to do, and it'll do it consistently, even if you've now forgotten what you told it to do. The "s" command will be pre-populated with the value you told it to use for that sender so you just hit Enter and it does it.
Mutt isn't easy to use though. It takes a while to learn how to use it compared to (Al)Pine.
BS, not true. For simple things, it's drop dead easy. For things not often done regularly, it demands a bit of thought or research. For stuff that happens all the time (handling attachments transparently or using encryption), tell it how once and it'll do it again automatically until the end of time.
There is no better MUA than mutt. It's brilliant software. I wish everything was designed and implemented as well as mutt.
[I tried to include my ~/mutt/mailcap here, but/. objected. Fine. Be that way.]
If more people would use mutt, we'd be much further along the road to everyone using encryption by default, because mutt folds gnupg in so transparently and makes it so easy to use. Web browsers & GUI MUAs have wasted more than a decade NOT coming up with equivalent functionality.
We used to joke about GUI Usenet clients which never managed to implement killfile functionality. Same old, same old,...
mutt rocks and is so damned easy to use, it's ridiculous. It's software that's designed to be trained to do what you want it to do the way you want to do it, and it's not difficult to configure even for mere mortals.
I think not a lot, but I suppose it's relative. I'd rather walk or use a bicycle. Both are far more peaceful, both are good exercise, both can be done on a bike path devoid of CO fumes, & etc.
Driving is not an addiction, it's a quality of life issue
You keep telling yourself that. Perhaps you'll eventually convince yourself.
BTW, I despise public transit, fwiw. It doesn't work for me AT ALL, so we have that in common.
The companies/shareholders should go after their former employees (board members) for having done things that the companies are now rightly being penalized for.
Perhaps I wasn't stating it clearly. Yes, these companies broke the rules and profited by screwing over their customers, and these companies should pay for having done so. The rules are the rules, whether we like them or not.
The companies/shareholders should go after their former employees (board members) for having done things that the companies/shareholders are now rightly being penalized for. They should have known about and followed the rules. That's what they were hired for; to guide the company's actions in doing business within the existing legal framework.
I despise inept and corrupt managers, and even more despise it when they're allowed to get away with their crimes or ineptitude. When these people are pulling down multi-million dollar performance bonuses, I don't think it's a lot to ask that they actually perform. DO. YOUR. JOB! They expect it of us (employees, contractors, hired help,...) all the time. What's the difference?
Yes, the governments should enforce their laws. The companies should protect their investors and shareholders from psychopathic board member behaviour, and HR should be made to pay for allowing it to happen. Spread the love around evenly.:-) Perhaps this would eventually ensure this !@#$ stops happening.
Just posting to rub this in the face of all the "but government can save us from all our woes" idiots on this website.
Uh huh. Let us know when you finish that atomic bomb you're trying to build. When the Mongol Horde or Roman Centurians or Einsatzgruppen start coming over the hill towards you, your measly pea shooter isn't going to make a lot of noise for long. Governments can be useful for some things. Fires can warm you and burn your house down.
The Government is not at fault it is made up of people and the people are at fault.
"The Government" is made up of policies and procedures, and rules and regulations. Those are implemented by people. If the former are wrong, no amount of effort or good will on the part of the latter is going to make any difference in the end.
If something like this screws up in any way, management's to blame for allowing it to happen, or to let it continue to happen. Good management ensures mistakes can't be allowed to stand and are corrected when they do happen.
For most of humanity's 5,000 years of civilization, personal/individual freedom and liberty as we've known it for only roughly the past 200 years has not existed.... Maybe it will take another few millennia of being serfs to remind them of what they valued so little and gave away so freely in exchange for TV soundbites, government programs, and party mottos, while greeting each loss of freedom, every encroachment of government authority & control, with thunderous applause.
Even when it did exist, it's been flawed. Over two millenia ago:
"... the Athenian statesman Themistocles used his political skills and influence to persuade the Athenian assembly to start the construction of 200 triremes..."Wikipedia
to successfully counter Xerxes. Soon after, some Athenians decided Themistocles had gotten too big for his britches, so pushed to get rid of him. At that time, Athenian democracy allowed for a vote to banish someone from the city, and the subsequent vote did exactly that; Themistocles was banished from Athens for ten years.
It's recently been determined that that vote was rigged. Many of the potsherds used to cast the vote were written by the same hand.
Freedom's too good for most humans. Most of us cannot be bothered to value it, and the vast majority of us consider history unutterably boring.
So what you're saying is we should live with assholes who say things like "I've paid my tax so I can park wherever the fuck I want!"?
that is exactly what I'm saying, they paid their taxes, as long as they don't be an actual ass by parking illegally then your point is moot.
You assume all people are exactly like you and all do everything you do as you do. Shallow as a pane of glass; shame on you. I prefer those who use a system to bear the cost of the system. I don't drive[*], and would resent having to subsidize your addiction. Please, get stuffed.
[*] Sharing the road with dangerous morons texting while driving, exhorbitant fuel prices, pollution, wasting life away in rush hour freeway parking lots, malicious driving conditions (red light cameras, abysmal signage,...)...
On a more serious note, when are you guys going to wake up and see that this is just an old fashioned ponzi scam...
Do you have a drop dead simple explanation that would prove that fact to all comers? Does anyone?
That's why this is still going on. Lots of people (not me) are out there playing with this stuff trying to determine if there's any "there" there. I enjoy the show, and think it would be a good thing if it pans out, but the jury's still out. Ponzi Scheme is a fairly definitively defined concept. What's your proof that Bitcoin == Ponzi Scheme, and what exactly is it that proves to you that all those dabbling in it are fools?
Absent of that, you're just laughter from the peanut gallery.
I think you forgot a few steps, this being USA healthcare:
i) ambulance chaser lawyers will be there at every step of the process looking for anything that breathes worth suing.
ii) deep pocketed insurance companies will force everyone involved to go to extremes (where one cat scan would do, only one would not do) to avoid "i)".
'At a time when we should be organizing the world toward abolishing nuclear weapons before they abolish us, we are instead indulging in admiration at our cleverness as a species,' says Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich.
That's the sort of thing that you people elect to represent you. Wow.
It is blatantly clear both were manipulated via corporate interests through the Vice Presidents office and at the instructions of psychopathic corporate executives a company was destroyed so they could be made a public example. In the great fishing expedition it was expected that evidence would be uncovered to justify the destruction as prior to the destruction the evidence was not there. However us the case unfolds with evidence lacking, the only real investigation that needs to be conducted is one of corruption of the US legal system by US corporations.
Most of these companies have already been implicared of price fixing in LCD panels, optical disk drives, and in the case of Sammy DRAM price fixing.
I consider it heartening to learn that the LEOs appear to have improved their game in this respect. They're just getting to convicting on CRT price fixing, but they've already convicted on those you mention. Cool.
Perhaps we can soon expect that boardroom crime is a thing of the past? I look forward to seeing that.
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Thats nice, where fracking is nowhere near the water table or close enough to aquifers. France bans it outright.
France does a lot of things; some good, some bad.
But honestly, there is a lot of fracking where it should not be ...
How much do you know about how holes are drilled? I guess not much. Each one ends up lined with steel pipe, drilling "mud" seals the drill head from the surface. "Fracking" (should be "fraccing", after fracturing) pumps high pressure gas or fluids to the point that the drill hole ends. High pressure drilling mud holds that down there.
This is under up to a couple of klicks of sedimentary rock, stuff that petroleum has spent millions of years trying to find a way to rise up through. Not much of it's porous. Shale is seriously non-porous.
There are ways to pick test days and samples that are atypical, and knowing test labs that round down (else they get no more business).
Yes, and I'm sure there are people who work that way, but I've never met them.
The goons on the Board of Directors may be jerks doing !@#$, but the geologists and geophysicists I've worked with were professional, scientific, and honourable. not psychotic.
Background: I was in well testing, and have been to many a fracked well during/before/after the frac was performed.
I was in geophysics.
We'll start with a well that is drilled, cased (casing is a solid-steel pipe all or some of the depth of the well, used to keep "stuff from coming in, or stuff from coming out"), and perforated (holes shot through the casing with explosives).
Where? That's the question that's been screaming at me all through this.
Ottawa, Canada's basically on the sheild. In Manitoba, you're lucky to see 300 milliseconds of stratigraphy. Saskatchewan, 500 ms. On the East side of the Rockies, up to 5 seconds of data.
Consequently, if you're drilling a deep play in Alberta, you're very unlikely to be affecting the water table in any significant way by fracking. In Eastern Ontario, you'll be lucky to find stratigraphic geology.
If you're against fracking, I hope you've studied some geology. Otherwise, I'm going to ignore you. No, I've no sticks in this fire. I got out of that and into IT ca. '93.
... watching your posts on slashdot for clues and tips
We wish.
Have you seen the stories on ProPublica about the US military losing battlefield operations data, going back to WWII?
sql injection attacks is not hacking ...
It only seems that way now, now that everybody knows about it.
Those whose data was stolen don't appear to know about it.
Vandalism works even worse than appeasement.
When Andrei Sakharov and friends were passing Samizdat around to all their friends, the Soviets saw that as vandalism. It was one of the most powerful factors dragging down the Soviet Union. It was as powerful as the Internet in those days.
Note, I'm not equating these GhostShell jerks with the likes of Sakharov et al. Going after individual service members is damned sick I think. Their masters are the ones they ought to be screwing over if anyone deserves it. Leon Panetta sounds like an idiot (but I think I still would love to work for him; maybe I could help him fix his !@#$).
Soles are imaginary anyway, so who cares?
The bottoms of my feet are not imaginary.
The problem is, mutt doesn't display our reply in thread. We have to open outbox to see our reply.
"s" to save it to another folder (this encourages you to file things where they can be found again), then "c" to change to that folder. Find that email and now reply. Define "save_hook" entries to tell mutt where you want it to save different stuff. After some text file configuring, mutt'll know what to do, and it'll do it consistently, even if you've now forgotten what you told it to do. The "s" command will be pre-populated with the value you told it to use for that sender so you just hit Enter and it does it.
Erectile dysfunction?
Mutt isn't easy to use though. It takes a while to learn how to use it compared to (Al)Pine.
BS, not true. For simple things, it's drop dead easy. For things not often done regularly, it demands a bit of thought or research. For stuff that happens all the time (handling attachments transparently or using encryption), tell it how once and it'll do it again automatically until the end of time.
There is no better MUA than mutt. It's brilliant software. I wish everything was designed and implemented as well as mutt.
[I tried to include my ~/mutt/mailcap here, but /. objected. Fine. Be that way.]
If more people would use mutt, we'd be much further along the road to everyone using encryption by default, because mutt folds gnupg in so transparently and makes it so easy to use. Web browsers & GUI MUAs have wasted more than a decade NOT coming up with equivalent functionality.
We used to joke about GUI Usenet clients which never managed to implement killfile functionality. Same old, same old, ...
mutt rocks and is so damned easy to use, it's ridiculous. It's software that's designed to be trained to do what you want it to do the way you want to do it, and it's not difficult to configure even for mere mortals.
Kaplah!
How much do you sacrifice by not driving?
I think not a lot, but I suppose it's relative. I'd rather walk or use a bicycle. Both are far more peaceful, both are good exercise, both can be done on a bike path devoid of CO fumes, & etc.
Driving is not an addiction, it's a quality of life issue
You keep telling yourself that. Perhaps you'll eventually convince yourself.
BTW, I despise public transit, fwiw. It doesn't work for me AT ALL, so we have that in common.
Don't be an idiot, KISS. Use mutt.
Grr ...
The companies/shareholders should go after their former employees (board members) for having done things that the companies are now rightly being penalized for.
Sorry shareholders. My bad.
Perhaps I wasn't stating it clearly. Yes, these companies broke the rules and profited by screwing over their customers, and these companies should pay for having done so. The rules are the rules, whether we like them or not.
The companies/shareholders should go after their former employees (board members) for having done things that the companies/shareholders are now rightly being penalized for. They should have known about and followed the rules. That's what they were hired for; to guide the company's actions in doing business within the existing legal framework.
I despise inept and corrupt managers, and even more despise it when they're allowed to get away with their crimes or ineptitude. When these people are pulling down multi-million dollar performance bonuses, I don't think it's a lot to ask that they actually perform. DO. YOUR. JOB! They expect it of us (employees, contractors, hired help, ...) all the time. What's the difference?
Yes, the governments should enforce their laws. The companies should protect their investors and shareholders from psychopathic board member behaviour, and HR should be made to pay for allowing it to happen. Spread the love around evenly. :-) Perhaps this would eventually ensure this !@#$ stops happening.
I can dream ...
Just posting to rub this in the face of all the "but government can save us from all our woes" idiots on this website.
Uh huh. Let us know when you finish that atomic bomb you're trying to build. When the Mongol Horde or Roman Centurians or Einsatzgruppen start coming over the hill towards you, your measly pea shooter isn't going to make a lot of noise for long. Governments can be useful for some things. Fires can warm you and burn your house down.
The Government is not at fault it is made up of people and the people are at fault.
"The Government" is made up of policies and procedures, and rules and regulations. Those are implemented by people. If the former are wrong, no amount of effort or good will on the part of the latter is going to make any difference in the end.
If something like this screws up in any way, management's to blame for allowing it to happen, or to let it continue to happen. Good management ensures mistakes can't be allowed to stand and are corrected when they do happen.
For most of humanity's 5,000 years of civilization, personal/individual freedom and liberty as we've known it for only roughly the past 200 years has not existed. ...
Maybe it will take another few millennia of being serfs to remind them of what they valued so little and gave away so freely in exchange for TV soundbites, government programs, and party mottos, while greeting each loss of freedom, every encroachment of government authority & control, with thunderous applause.
Even when it did exist, it's been flawed. Over two millenia ago:
"... the Athenian statesman Themistocles used his political skills and influence to persuade the Athenian assembly to start the construction of 200 triremes ..."Wikipedia
to successfully counter Xerxes. Soon after, some Athenians decided Themistocles had gotten too big for his britches, so pushed to get rid of him. At that time, Athenian democracy allowed for a vote to banish someone from the city, and the subsequent vote did exactly that; Themistocles was banished from Athens for ten years.
It's recently been determined that that vote was rigged. Many of the potsherds used to cast the vote were written by the same hand.
Freedom's too good for most humans. Most of us cannot be bothered to value it, and the vast majority of us consider history unutterably boring.
So what you're saying is we should live with assholes who say things like "I've paid my tax so I can park wherever the fuck I want!"?
that is exactly what I'm saying, they paid their taxes, as long as they don't be an actual ass by parking illegally then your point is moot.
You assume all people are exactly like you and all do everything you do as you do. Shallow as a pane of glass; shame on you. I prefer those who use a system to bear the cost of the system. I don't drive[*], and would resent having to subsidize your addiction. Please, get stuffed.
[*] Sharing the road with dangerous morons texting while driving, exhorbitant fuel prices, pollution, wasting life away in rush hour freeway parking lots, malicious driving conditions (red light cameras, abysmal signage, ...) ...
On a more serious note, when are you guys going to wake up and see that this is just an old fashioned ponzi scam ...
Do you have a drop dead simple explanation that would prove that fact to all comers? Does anyone?
That's why this is still going on. Lots of people (not me) are out there playing with this stuff trying to determine if there's any "there" there. I enjoy the show, and think it would be a good thing if it pans out, but the jury's still out. Ponzi Scheme is a fairly definitively defined concept. What's your proof that Bitcoin == Ponzi Scheme, and what exactly is it that proves to you that all those dabbling in it are fools?
Absent of that, you're just laughter from the peanut gallery.
Nobody !@#$%^& cares what your captcha was. Get a life.
I think you forgot a few steps, this being USA healthcare:
i) ambulance chaser lawyers will be there at every step of the process looking for anything that breathes worth suing.
ii) deep pocketed insurance companies will force everyone involved to go to extremes (where one cat scan would do, only one would not do) to avoid "i)".
This firing suggests they have no intention whatsoever to "get it" ...
FTFY. When the quest for campaign financing outweighs their obligation to the electorate, this is what you get.
'At a time when we should be organizing the world toward abolishing nuclear weapons before they abolish us, we are instead indulging in admiration at our cleverness as a species,' says Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich.
That's the sort of thing that you people elect to represent you. Wow.
It is blatantly clear both were manipulated via corporate interests through the Vice Presidents office and at the instructions of psychopathic corporate executives a company was destroyed so they could be made a public example. In the great fishing expedition it was expected that evidence would be uncovered to justify the destruction as prior to the destruction the evidence was not there. However us the case unfolds with evidence lacking, the only real investigation that needs to be conducted is one of corruption of the US legal system by US corporations.
The Biden Effect?
Most of these companies have already been implicared of price fixing in LCD panels, optical disk drives, and in the case of Sammy DRAM price fixing.
I consider it heartening to learn that the LEOs appear to have improved their game in this respect. They're just getting to convicting on CRT price fixing, but they've already convicted on those you mention. Cool.
Perhaps we can soon expect that boardroom crime is a thing of the past? I look forward to seeing that.