The EPA testing found Nokomis 3-AA and Dispersit SPC 1000 to have toxicity problems but not Nokomis 3-F4, ZI-400, SAFRON Gold, Sea Brat #4, Corexit 9500 A and JD 2000.
so it would sink
Some, possibly, but the aim was to disperse it, increasing its surface area for degredation.
So they traded the beach for the sea floor
cite? Surely if there were sea floor covered with oil somebody would have found it by now? TFA says:
a sea-floor survey conducted within weeks of the spill reveals. Although 10 more distant sites examined during the survey did not show any ill effects, future studies will be needed to confirm that they did not suffer long-term detriment from any exposure to oil, scientists say. The researchers also used previously collected sonar data to identify a possibly rocky patch of sea floor where corals could thrive about 11 kilometers southwest of the well site. At that 1370-meter-deep site, which hadn't been visited before but had been right in the path of a submerged 100-meter-thick oil plume from the spill
So, we're talking about the non-dispersed oil being the problem to these coral.
But what is ANY American saying about that right now?
Most of those plants have nuclear "waste" onsite which is really valuable fuel. The NRC, if it had to take ownership, could sell that waste to power plants that could use it and use the revenues to disassemble the obsolete plants.
That would assume they'd let anybody build modern nuclear reactors, which is crazy talk, but if you want a funding model it's there.
The most important person who cares what style he prefers is him. Really, that's all that matters.
It's a silly reason to drive people away from your language. I'm sure a smart preprocessor could deal with many indent styles just fine, but what's scary is when the language developers say, "here is how you will use our language." Because other people always find more clever things to do with flexible languages than the designers intended. That's just being humble.
I was going to say that the technology to make "2160" screens at that size has been done for ages, but then I thought about how expensive the replacement active shutter glasses must be, and sure enough I see them selling for $100 or so, with a 3rd-party unit going for over $50.
"OK, so I'm connecting to a server that I don't admin using SSH, and I don't already have the public key stored. So how do I know there's not a MITM attack going on?"
Own the most patents, and charge the highest licensing fees, and you win!
I have a suggested modification to the rules, since patents still exist in 2012: nobody plays until one of the players initiates litigation. At that point all the other players cooperate and nuke him from orbit. Play again ceases until somebody decides to litigate. Repeat until the game ceases to exist.
Besides, she is ethnically Russian and probably has no particular feeling for both fake or real anthem, or any other ridiculous cargo cult attributes of Kazakhstan.
She still managed not to crack up, which shows pretty good sportsmanship.
I'm not sure which label he represents or co-opted, but what bothers me is how many people hear what he says - and like it. Whatever he is, he isn't alone.
Oh, quite right, and those kind of people were the type the US Founders were afraid of.
Included in the examples of flash projects that Adobe distributes with their Flash developer kit is the source for creating an h.264 player written in Action script. It is freeware and already written / debugged by Adobe
Yeah, but even if that code can be distributed by Mozilla, the problem is taking raw h.264 objects that exist out on the Internet and getting the Flashplayer plugin to play them. Browser plumbing required, I imagine.
At the time they believed the open source community would not allow themselves to have fallen this far behind on video playback for the web. They were wrong in their assessment of the future.
They also had little to offer. When h.264 silicon was being developed, all the free community had was a standard that was almost as good but required a floating-point unit to implement. If WebM were available in 2005, I bet things might have turned out differently.
the Catholic Church's view of the eating of the literal body and blood of the Christ is just disturbing.
Eating the God is a fairly common meme thoughtout the world's religious history.
Early Catholicism was a mashup of lots of religious tendencies, layerd on the Jesus story, with politicial and power rationales added for the sake of a mixed church/state government.
Why not, where do you think this is coming from? Read this [forbes.com]:
The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum's campaign
Rick Santorum isn't a conservative, by a long shot. He's a nasty breed of misunderstanding of Catholicism in particular and Christianity in general with a big authoritarian stream and a bit of insane theocratic assholery to go with it.
He said the other day he's proud the Republians aren't the party of small government anymore, and that people who think that way should vote for Ron Paul.
Now, some dumb voters say he's "The Conservative" but there's nothing to indicate that being true.
Right, so because they're worried about this, their real goal must be to remove every last excuse people have for owning Flash video servers.
I imagine it's possible to make a flash wrapper around h.264 video on the fly and feed that into FlashPlayer on XP.
Getting that out of the way does open up some cognative room for talking about multiple in-browser standards. Mozilla should have done this in 2008 when Apple started pushing hard for h.264, and even that was years after guys like Cringely called the inevitable convergence on h.264.
H.264 - that's the only thing iToys will play, and millions of people own and use them
Right, and at this point pretty much every mobile device has h.264 decode in silicon and that saves lots of energy (battery life), so that's why mobile is driving the change.
But, hey, Mozilla should be happy that Adobe lost its bid to control Internet video. Unsurprisingly, the conclusion Mozilla has come to after much hand-wringing has been the concensus view on Slashdot for quite a while now. I wish they'd realize the "great visionary" thing they're trying to do doesn't work.
I'm glad to see "book burning" is alive and well in America. I guess that's what the conservatives mean by restoring America. Now we just need to find some really cheap labor.
Mindless tribalism makes everything worse. You can do better.
Thorium only solves the 'we need energy' problem, and at a questionable scale.
Compare with the Integral Fast Reactor or the GE or MIT follow-ups to that which also consume all the nuclear waste that's been produced to date, trading 300,000 year waste for 300-year waste. We know how to construct buildings that will last 300 years.
Estimates are that the existing waste is sufficient to supply the world's energy needs for about a century.
And we can actually get 'greens' interested in cleaning up nuclear waste. This *is* the solution for Yucca Mountain problem (and terrorist threats to existing plant storage).
The two existing problems are Anti-Nuke political lobbyists who can't tell a LWR from a neutron and the politicians who they buy off.
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Dump toxic chemicals on top of the oil slick
The EPA testing found Nokomis 3-AA and Dispersit SPC 1000 to have toxicity problems but not Nokomis 3-F4, ZI-400, SAFRON Gold, Sea Brat #4, Corexit 9500 A and JD 2000.
so it would sink
Some, possibly, but the aim was to disperse it, increasing its surface area for degredation.
So they traded the beach for the sea floor
cite? Surely if there were sea floor covered with oil somebody would have found it by now? TFA says:
So, we're talking about the non-dispersed oil being the problem to these coral.
The CO2 levels that exist today have done lasting damage to the planet. We can't keep emitting CO2 and expect Earth to remaian habitable for humans.
Planet seems fine. Humans - possibly. Look into the CO2 levels during the Jurassic and the relative biomass.
Watching the Americans in action routinely fills me with a sense of "WTF?!"
Rich people use the corrupt government to transfer money from the middle class to themselves. Does that help?
Great reasoning! So for my grandpa who managed to exist for 97 years, there is a pretty low likelihood to die tomorrow?
If your Grandpa isn't showing any signs of health problems, then yes, he will likely be alive tomorrow.
If he's been deteriorating for a while, well, maybe not, but we'd have noticed.
But what is ANY American saying about that right now?
Most of those plants have nuclear "waste" onsite which is really valuable fuel. The NRC, if it had to take ownership, could sell that waste to power plants that could use it and use the revenues to disassemble the obsolete plants.
That would assume they'd let anybody build modern nuclear reactors, which is crazy talk, but if you want a funding model it's there.
Really... *nobody* cares what style *you* prefer.
The most important person who cares what style he prefers is him. Really, that's all that matters.
It's a silly reason to drive people away from your language. I'm sure a smart preprocessor could deal with many indent styles just fine, but what's scary is when the language developers say, "here is how you will use our language." Because other people always find more clever things to do with flexible languages than the designers intended. That's just being humble.
Ah, thanks.
I was going to say that the technology to make "2160" screens at that size has been done for ages, but then I thought about how expensive the replacement active shutter glasses must be, and sure enough I see them selling for $100 or so, with a 3rd-party unit going for over $50.
Are you assuming angular resolution is the only important factor? How about color spaces, quantization noise, and blocking artifacts?
3D is just a high refresh rate and an IR transmitter sync'd to vsync to flip which image each eye sees.
The unit on display at WalMart uses cheap plastic glasses. Polarized I assume ... I didn't think to rotate two pairs to find out.
Maybe Oracle should sue the inventors of the D Language, and the C
They don't have databse technologies Oracle wants cross-licensing on.
How did "of the people, by the people, for the people" turn into "of the inept, by the litigious, for the corrupt"?
Romantic propaganda conflicts with observed reality.
what makes you think that lawmakers have our interests at heart or care about fairness?
I was told so in government school.
"OK, so I'm connecting to a server that I don't admin using SSH, and I don't already have the public key stored. So how do I know there's not a MITM attack going on?"
Pick up the phone and talk to the admin.
Own the most patents, and charge the highest licensing fees, and you win!
I have a suggested modification to the rules, since patents still exist in 2012: nobody plays until one of the players initiates litigation. At that point all the other players cooperate and nuke him from orbit. Play again ceases until somebody decides to litigate. Repeat until the game ceases to exist.
I just code and create logical solutions to problems that are presented.
commie.
Besides, she is ethnically Russian and probably has no particular feeling for both fake or real anthem, or any other ridiculous cargo cult attributes of Kazakhstan.
She still managed not to crack up, which shows pretty good sportsmanship.
I'm not sure which label he represents or co-opted, but what bothers me is how many people hear what he says - and like it. Whatever he is, he isn't alone.
Oh, quite right, and those kind of people were the type the US Founders were afraid of.
Included in the examples of flash projects that Adobe distributes with their Flash developer kit is the source for creating an h.264 player written in Action script. It is freeware and already written / debugged by Adobe
Yeah, but even if that code can be distributed by Mozilla, the problem is taking raw h.264 objects that exist out on the Internet and getting the Flashplayer plugin to play them. Browser plumbing required, I imagine.
At the time they believed the open source community would not allow themselves to have fallen this far behind on video playback for the web. They were wrong in their assessment of the future.
They also had little to offer. When h.264 silicon was being developed, all the free community had was a standard that was almost as good but required a floating-point unit to implement. If WebM were available in 2005, I bet things might have turned out differently.
Two liars lied. Big fucking deal.
You can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
the Catholic Church's view of the eating of the literal body and blood of the Christ is just disturbing.
Eating the God is a fairly common meme thoughtout the world's religious history.
Early Catholicism was a mashup of lots of religious tendencies, layerd on the Jesus story, with politicial and power rationales added for the sake of a mixed church/state government.
Why not, where do you think this is coming from? Read this [forbes.com]:
The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum's campaign
Rick Santorum isn't a conservative, by a long shot. He's a nasty breed of misunderstanding of Catholicism in particular and Christianity in general with a big authoritarian stream and a bit of insane theocratic assholery to go with it.
He said the other day he's proud the Republians aren't the party of small government anymore, and that people who think that way should vote for Ron Paul.
Now, some dumb voters say he's "The Conservative" but there's nothing to indicate that being true.
its one more thing that will keep Linux off institutional desktops
If that's really the concern, why not buy Linux from a vendor who offers multimedia codecs in their distro?
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY!
Right on, right on.
Or just having XP do the flash original?
Right, so because they're worried about this, their real goal must be to remove every last excuse people have for owning Flash video servers.
I imagine it's possible to make a flash wrapper around h.264 video on the fly and feed that into FlashPlayer on XP.
Getting that out of the way does open up some cognative room for talking about multiple in-browser standards. Mozilla should have done this in 2008 when Apple started pushing hard for h.264, and even that was years after guys like Cringely called the inevitable convergence on h.264.
H.264 - that's the only thing iToys will play, and millions of people own and use them
Right, and at this point pretty much every mobile device has h.264 decode in silicon and that saves lots of energy (battery life), so that's why mobile is driving the change.
But, hey, Mozilla should be happy that Adobe lost its bid to control Internet video. Unsurprisingly, the conclusion Mozilla has come to after much hand-wringing has been the concensus view on Slashdot for quite a while now. I wish they'd realize the "great visionary" thing they're trying to do doesn't work.
I'm glad to see "book burning" is alive and well in America. I guess that's what the conservatives mean by restoring America. Now we just need to find some really cheap labor.
Mindless tribalism makes everything worse. You can do better.
Thorium only solves the 'we need energy' problem, and at a questionable scale.
Compare with the Integral Fast Reactor or the GE or MIT follow-ups to that which also consume all the nuclear waste that's been produced to date, trading 300,000 year waste for 300-year waste. We know how to construct buildings that will last 300 years.
Estimates are that the existing waste is sufficient to supply the world's energy needs for about a century.
And we can actually get 'greens' interested in cleaning up nuclear waste. This *is* the solution for Yucca Mountain problem (and terrorist threats to existing plant storage).
The two existing problems are Anti-Nuke political lobbyists who can't tell a LWR from a neutron and the politicians who they buy off.