There have been several studies that have shown accident and reaction time slowing worse than drinking for operating a mobile phone while driving.
I know in particular of one doctoral thesis that showed operating a mobile phone and driving caused 3x more accidents than drunk driving (including accident severities that were several magnitudes worse than alcohol induced crashes).
Drunk driving slows reaction times, but only at the absolutely highest blood alcohol levels do you see the complete elimination of reaction (near pass out levels). Phones related accidents frequently involve a complete lack of reaction because the driver isn't even looking at the road at the time. Reactionless crashes are very very dangerous because no effort is made to prevent the accident and the other party often never even sees it coming because they don't expect people to run stop lights at 50 MPH 10 seconds after it's been red and there is cross traffic in the intersection. Texting and cell phones have created situations where you essentially have a driverless car for 10+ seconds at a time. I expect at some point in the future we're going to treat it just like Drunk Driving (a highly avoidable and dangerous form of bad judgement that can result in vehicular homicide).
Sol: Exodus, Evochron Mercenary, X3 all fall into this category and are reasonable games. Evochron is a game with a serious learning curve. Sol: Exodus is a very simple keyboard control game but good looking and has all the Wing Commander like missions (it's also quite hard), though the story line isn't as good.
The nostalgia is that all the big game studios are all producing garbage that's shiny. All the good games are almost without exception are being produced by independent studios that are using the same devotee developer that produced the great games of the 90s. The 00's were a dearth of good games where all the studios turned their focus to consoles and big dollar "pretty" games with little content/story. What I've noticed is that about 2010 (in part due to Steam) the independent studios are finally getting exposure and rekindling the same environment and development that produced the best games of the 90's. Some of the best games of the 4X genre are being developed by small single digit developer companies who are devoted to their games. Some are even turning to kickstarter to get their initial funding to produce the game.
IMO we have Steam to thank for making it possible for these independent studios to be available to masses. Development houses are no longer tied to the big publishers with MBA CEO's that only care about "shiny", product tie ins and downloadable content and not game play. This is why the big publishers are trying to turn away from Steam, they are losing control of the marketplace to a new brand of nimble game developer.
You're missing the tax dodge. MS sells the building to a foreign subsidiary, all revenue is recognized off shore and US tax free (they claim expenses to make sure the subsisiary looses money) then the extra costs from the vendor decrease MS revenue and reduces their profit, which decreases the taxes in the US. The subsidiary is in a tax haven and pays no taxes. The end result is MS offshores what they are charging for cubes and ultimately pays no taxes (due to this and other scams).
Any time you see a stiuation like this where someone is charging money that is essentially billed right back and appears to make no sense it's almost guaranteed to be a tax dodge.
Unless I'm mistaken current theory says that before matter condensed the governing mechanics of the universe were not stable. Under that situation you wouldn't be able to argue that light even existed as the mechanics that govern electromagnetic waves likely wouldn't have stabilized. There was certainly a lot of energy but what form that energy took is another question that's likely unanswerable. You are taking a big stretch arguing that the mechanics of the universe applied when mater and space itself were still yet to condense.
This expansion of federal authority started under the Bush administration and has continued under the Obama administration. Like all Federal power expansions no future administration will argue they don't need the power as this is an issue that is without party bounds. Both parties seek expansion of federal powers and any argument that one party doesn't is window dressing to convince rubes.
Democrat or Republican, it matters not as both parties want more power and more control over the populace. Too many people spend far too much time in either parties echo chamber to understand that.
Your right it's easy to start at the first two books, but why even open the book? Look at the history of the Bible. 99.999999% of Christians have no idea how the Bible came to exist.
The Bible was created by a committee of Bishops of the Catholic church in 300AD, roughly about the time Constantine had his dream and adopted Christianity and used his military might to purge the empire of all the other Christian sects but the one he had chosen. The committee was tasked with compiling the prevailing doctrine of the various sects into a single uniform book. The committee VOTED which books of over 1500 publications, letters and verbal myths would be included. These books were often author less, and where two similar books had equal weight with the Bishops they were often combined or attributed with non-existent authors. This is where you see the attributes of Genesis with two creation myths. And the first 4 books of the new testament where they have multiple authors and no such people with those 4 names ever existed. Of the more than 1500 books considered 73 books were selected and included in the Bible. But now the Protestants argue that there are only 66 books in the bible. That's because when Luther translated the greek bible it didn't include the "deuterocanonical" books found in the Catholic version (referred to as the Alexandrian Cannon).
The Bible is a committee created book. It's a creation of Man and it suffers all the aspects of creations of men including inconsistencies, errors, omissions and fantasy. There is no need to examine the contents when the history is so well documented. People claiming the Bible is literally true are arguing that a book created by committee which was tasked with narrowing the existing doctrine to a manageable tome and purging non-approved theology is the work of god.
In pavement sensors? You know how hard those are to build? How easily damaged they are? In pavement sensors have huge negatives and costs associated with them. In fact almost all states are moving away from in pavement traffic detectors at intersections and moving entirely to radar and video detection. The only sensor I know of that's still installed in pavement is a weather and temperature sensor that is used to detect freezing conditions that facilitate black ice.
Back in the early days of ITS (Intelligent transportation systems, early being the 90's) when discussion started of self driving cars and such it was expected that we'd need magnets implanted in the pavement at the lane lines to make such a system work (video was unreliable in real time). The only problem is no one could figure out how to get the magnets into the pavement during construction in a way that would ensure they were where the painted stripe was. Cutting a one off pavement sensor in is relatively easy, but you have guaranteed evidence of the installation with the cuts. Installing a sensor while the pavement is being placed is an entirely different game. Asphalt is about 200 degrees when it's placed, and it's rolled out and compacted by a 20 ton steel drum. Concrete is easier but the concrete must go through a vibrating screed to level and set the concrete because zero slump cement is used in paving. After the concrete sets and before the shrink cracks start the pavement is sawed in a specific joint pattern that is going to be oblivious to any sensor placement. The concrete then continues to shrink as it hardens and would probably rip any sensor to pieces during the hardening process. That is if the sensor wasn't destroyed by the screed or placed upside down on the bottom of the grade.
It's easy to be scared of this stuff, but you probably need to come up with a better way to build it if you want in pavement sensors.
So you hire more women cause you pay them less salary for the same work?
If a man and women are doing the same job at the same skill level (and by your own admission the woman does it better) and you are paying the women less only because of her genitals then you meet the very definition of sexism.
The drug war ship sailed a long time ago and 80% of Americans were out there cheering their loss of freedom. Cash reporting, private property seizure by suing the property, drug dogs, highway checkpoints, etc are all casualties of the war on drugs and almost no one in America was ever concerned about it.
You want to stop the insanity? Become an activist for total legalization and a rollback of all drug war inspired legislation.
IMO she deserved it. This was a matter for reprimands by the conference and if needed by their employers, NOT but the public at large. She breached the two mens privacy in a serious way and if I was her employer I'd be worried about blow back from what she did now and what she'll do in the future.
IMO it's never OK to "twitter shame" someone, it's the pinnacle of passive-aggressive behavior where you take a complaint public and ask for mob justice. What happens next time where she calls for the pitchforks and torches and someone actually is harmed by some mentally ill person that got fired up by her?
As others have pointed out there is so much wrong with what you posted it's not even funny. Gasoline will ignite in a diesel engine before the compression stroke is even finished (it's what ruins the diesel engine when you put gasoline in it in fact depending on the engine it might run hot enough to ignite the gasoline as it's injected even without the compression). Gas is far more flammable (and explosive) and responsive to compression than diesel is. In fact it only takes about half the standard diesel compression on gasoline to cause premature ignition (knocking) in a gasoline car. Roughly speaking the octane of the fuel is equal to the compression ratio used. Gasoline is typically sold at around 87 octane and most commercial grade automobiles use a compression ratio of about 8.5 - 9.0. Some cars in particular require premium (92 octane or higher) because they run higher compression ratio's that are closer to 9-10. To put gasoline into a diesel and not get preignition you'd need gasoline with an octane near 180-200.
Gasoline cars cannot take diesel and if you do put it in one you can kiss the engine goodbye (it will need to be taken apart and every part hand cleaned). First the fuel pump will struggle to even pump that viscosity of fuel. Second it will water down the oil (and the car won't be able to remove it like it can gasoline/water). Third the fuel injectors will likely be unable to inject even half the required fuel. Fourth the fuel that does get injected will never actually ignite because diesel fuel doesn't burn explosively like gas. At best you'll get a small amount of fuel burned before the stroke finishes and the fuel air mixture is kicked out the exhaust. Fifth, when that partial diesel/air mixture gets kicked out the exhaust pipe you can kiss your catalytic converter goodbye as it's not designed to take unburned diesel fuel.
No fuel, diesel, gas, kerosene or any other product from crude oil requires more or less processing in a refinery (as long as it's not running a splitting or coking process). All a refinery does is seperate the individual carbon chains out of the crude oil by process of evaporation and condensation. The crude oil is boiled in a big vat, and the stack on the chamber has condensation setup at different levels in the stack. The larger the carbon chain the quicker the fuel condenses out of the gasified crude oil. Depending on the refinery there could be more than a dozen fuels coming out of the crude, from Keronsene and Diesel to gasoline to butanol and propane.
It's not simple trespass, it's breaking and entering in most states. The way the breaking and entering (or equivalent) statue is enacted in most states does not require both actions. Simply entering an unlocked property is breaking and entering as defined by most states in the US.
What the researcher did was illegal under the terms of CFAA, any unauthorized access to a computer system is punishable under CFAA. The law was enacted at a time that the only ones with remote accessible computers were large government or corporations. As such the law is written such that even accidental access is illegal.
Their research basically is a written admission of guilt, all they need is a single complainant to step forward and the "researchers" could all end up in jail or facing financial ruin.
Given Berkshire's net worth that would be one hell of an earthquake. At current value that would mean about 250 billion + 5 billion for the insurance liability. So a total of 255 billion in damage to private property (public infrastructure is backed by the government). Hurricane Sandy did a tremendous amount of damage at about $70 billion (I think that includes public infrastructure). So you would need the equivalent of about 3.5 times the damage of Sandy only to buildings and personal property (land value isn't insured). Probably the total destruction of the entire LA valley to achieve that level of damage.
I don't think it's very likely an earthquake could generate that level of damage that it would ever exceed that figure just because it's such a large number. I mean seriously could you conceive an earthquake that destroyed every single human made structure within the entire area between Mission Viejo to Bakersfield? God knows I can't, especially considering Northridge (a 7.1 quake) did about 25 billion in damage (where more than half that cost was public infrastructure that failed). You'd need a 9.5 at more than 5 minutes long to even get close to that kind of damage in earthquake insured private property and I don't think the san andreas can generate that kind of motion. (Keep in mind not everyone has earthquake insurance)
You believe yourself to be a geologist? You don't even understand the basics. What follows is rough descriptions intended for lay people.
Aquifers are often shallow at anywhere from 50-400 feet down (much more than that and they aren't very functional as far as pumping the water). To even be an aquifer and trap the water they need to be sealed between impervious (water proof) layers, usually clays. The shale formations are solid rock, surrounded by other geological layers, sometimes clay, sometimes granite or sandstone or pretty much any other layer and frequently MUCH deeper (some are more than a mile). Shale is composed of compressed hardened silt and clay (depending on the shale may soften in contact with water or remain impervious). Depending on the formation it could be highly fractured or fairly solid.
Shale generally forms from mud beds or flats that are overtime covered with other sediments and buried where the mud is compressed to form shale rock, the gas containing shales had organic life in them when they were covered and converted to stone, as the life decayed gas became embedded in the stone, the gas is released when the stone is fractured, the higher the fracture the better the gas release. Fracking is injecting sand and water under high pressure (sand blasting) to fracture an area of the shale and release the trapped gas. Generally the only exit for the gas is the hole drilled into the shale to inject the fracking solution. Steel piping caries the gas from the shale void to the surface.
To get to the shale they may need to drill through an aquifer, they use drilling mud while actively drilling, this mud is usually a heavy weight clay or silt based mud and is generally impervious to water transmission, as they drill through the aquifer the mud provides a seal and after drilling is complete and the drill extracted the well head is held open by steel piping inserted into the drill hole to hold it open, this pipe is welded (or screwed together) into a continuous pipe to the well head. I believe the processes requires inserting the piping be inserted before fracking to provide a pressure sealed pipe to convey the highly pressurized liquid sand mixture.
I don't know how common it is to have an aquifer above a shale formation but I'd bet where possible the wells are drilled outside the aquifer because of the complication drilling through the aquifer provides (the aquifer water is sometimes under pressure and complicates drilling) But depending on the aquifer, it might not even be an issue.
At the depths they are generally drilling at for these shales there are billions of pounds of rock trying to close any fractures or holes. Water, gas and oil don't generally wander around at those kind of pressures and depths. Geology is complicated, I suggest you study it before you start assuming your day to day experience gives you the knowledge to understand millions of years of sedimentation and the effects of miles of depth.
If fracking was dangerous any type of drilling would be. This is an art that has been under continuous and active improvement for almost 100 years. Drilling is well understood, if they can drill an oil/gas well 5 miles deep (through an aquifer too) and not spill a drop of oil/gas they can certainly extract gas from rock without losing billions of pounds of gas to an aquifer. We have an over active fear or new things (partly due to big screwups) but most of the hype about fracking dangers has been proved to be propaganda (the gasland tap water gas has been proven to be fake, in that the gas was present long before fracking). Methane isn't nearly as dangerous as oil, it's non-toxic and the only risk involves the rather obvious fire and explosion (and suffocation if it replaces all the air).
All that said, I'm concerned about what they do with these fracking fluids after use. Some of the chemicals involved are not something you want dumped into your streams and rivers. And I'd like better regulation and inspection (but not the bat shit crazy opposition).
The basic mechanism of frakking guarantees that there will be broad contamination of any aquifers near the frakking site.
No it doesn't. This is an area that requires independent reviews by people experienced in the field (like geologists). I'm not surprised you think this, as most people have no idea how geology works. But take a minute to think about it, if geology worked like you think why isn't there oil in every aquifer where a well has been drilled? (most of the US BTW) The simple answer is it doesn't work like you think and this stuff can be done easily and without contamination as long as the proper geological investigations are done.
The companies putting in these wells don't want to contaminate ground water and they don't want to lose their hydrocarbons into the aquifer either because both of those scenarios cost them money. I'm skeptical of Fracking, but I fully believe with the proper controls and experience it can be done with little to no risk and the benefits are quite amazing (we've reduced coal consumption significantly).
Assuming we do as you ask the company in question never sets up subsidiary, they hire Ivan who creates a corporation, collects the money, bankrupts the corporation and runs back to Russia with the money.
Your solutions isn't tenable. It's no coincidence that organized crime was involved in a significant number of bogus waste disposal business in the 80's that turned into superfund sites.
The only solution is the one we have, regulate the production and disposal of hazardous waste from inception to remediation. Fracking fluids should not be put into public waste treatment streams, it should be handled by specialty processors and treatment companies running specialized processes and it should cost a lot of money to treat. Then and only then they will find ways to reduce, reuse or eliminate the toxicity of the fluids.
And what Partisan would that be? You forgot the label you think applies. I've found the biggest "partisans" are the ones running around calling others out.
Scalia is a big believer in totalitarian control by government/business, he didn't used to be, but the last 10 years or so he hasn't seen government or corporate power he doesn't like. Why do you think he's the only "Conservative" justice siding with the courts two biggest liberals?
Scalia has been a Troll for the past decade. He probably spent too much time with Cheney.
They called it Superfund. You know, when the government was forced to spend upwards (they stopped counting in 2003) of $8.5 billion dollars of taxpayer money remediating contaminated ground from companies and owners who no longer existed or were destitute.
Warren Buffet backstops earthquake insurance in the state of California. He takes in millions every year in free money to provide reinsurance to California insurance companies.
What this means is that if there is ever an earthquake in California that exceeds more than $5 Billion in insurance payments, Berkshire Hathaway is on the hook for any payments exceeding that amount. AFAIK he has no upper ceiling on his liability. If the big one hit southern California it's conceivable that his entire company would go bankrupt backstopping the insurance market.
Does Buffet worry about it? No. His reason boils down to the odds of that earthquake ever happening. He gets millions of dollars of free money to invest every year by taking this risk. In fact almost his entire empire has been built leveraging insurance money of one form or another. He's so important in the insurance industry that when he refused to insure losses due to terrorist attacks that policy was then adopted by nearly every insurance company in America.
DRM's main purpose has always been the elimination of the used game market. They couldn't actively be talking about shutting down Gamestop so they instead talk about shutting down piracy when the goal is to actually get rid of Gamestop. They see used games as a lost sale, a real lost sale where the person would really spend money. They know with certainty there is nothing they can ever do about Pirates, so they go after the low hanging fruit. Why do you think the DRM usually come with install limits? DLC, in particular included DLC are one of the other methods.
Go through any DRM and look at each condition and you'll see most of them are designed to hamper the sale of used games, not piracy.
I new Scalia was one of the dissenters. Any chance he gets to fuck the little guy. I'm going to have to read it so I can understand what justification the Troll (Scalia) used to justify fucking the little guy.
Anecdotal video's are not science. Go count the number of birds killed by cars, cats or even running into windows or buildings. Windmills aren't even in the top 20.
And that's the point, the big windmills kill just about as many birds as buildings in the same area. So unless you are going to suggest banning the construction of anything taller than about 6 inches you need just accept the fact that windmills aren't killing birds at any higher rate than any other stationary object.
99% of bird/bat kills by windmills are from the old fast spinning variety that hasn't been built in 20 years. In fact almost every citation can be traced back to two studies of two windfarms in california, the first on I-10 just east of palm springs, the second on an island off the coast near san dieago. Both wind farms use 1970 era fast spinning blades, and the island farm is built in migratory bird path and the palm springs farm is in an area with lots of rapirian birds. They don't build "fast'' winmills anymore and they don't build them in migratory bird paths anymore. Cars kill more birds than modern 100' blade slow spinning wind mills.
Also the bird kill studies are suspect because the researchers were basiclly paid to find that conclusion IMO. The methodology of determining kills and method of death did not rely on observed kills. I wish people would stop saying windmills kill birds.
There used to be laws baring the sharing of that data. For some reason the neither party (or the Republicrats) has any desire to prevent the very kind of abuses this government has suffered through in the past, all in the name of national security.
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There have been several studies that have shown accident and reaction time slowing worse than drinking for operating a mobile phone while driving.
I know in particular of one doctoral thesis that showed operating a mobile phone and driving caused 3x more accidents than drunk driving (including accident severities that were several magnitudes worse than alcohol induced crashes).
Drunk driving slows reaction times, but only at the absolutely highest blood alcohol levels do you see the complete elimination of reaction (near pass out levels). Phones related accidents frequently involve a complete lack of reaction because the driver isn't even looking at the road at the time. Reactionless crashes are very very dangerous because no effort is made to prevent the accident and the other party often never even sees it coming because they don't expect people to run stop lights at 50 MPH 10 seconds after it's been red and there is cross traffic in the intersection. Texting and cell phones have created situations where you essentially have a driverless car for 10+ seconds at a time. I expect at some point in the future we're going to treat it just like Drunk Driving (a highly avoidable and dangerous form of bad judgement that can result in vehicular homicide).
Sol: Exodus, Evochron Mercenary, X3 all fall into this category and are reasonable games. Evochron is a game with a serious learning curve. Sol: Exodus is a very simple keyboard control game but good looking and has all the Wing Commander like missions (it's also quite hard), though the story line isn't as good.
The nostalgia is that all the big game studios are all producing garbage that's shiny. All the good games are almost without exception are being produced by independent studios that are using the same devotee developer that produced the great games of the 90s. The 00's were a dearth of good games where all the studios turned their focus to consoles and big dollar "pretty" games with little content/story. What I've noticed is that about 2010 (in part due to Steam) the independent studios are finally getting exposure and rekindling the same environment and development that produced the best games of the 90's. Some of the best games of the 4X genre are being developed by small single digit developer companies who are devoted to their games. Some are even turning to kickstarter to get their initial funding to produce the game.
IMO we have Steam to thank for making it possible for these independent studios to be available to masses. Development houses are no longer tied to the big publishers with MBA CEO's that only care about "shiny", product tie ins and downloadable content and not game play. This is why the big publishers are trying to turn away from Steam, they are losing control of the marketplace to a new brand of nimble game developer.
You're missing the tax dodge. MS sells the building to a foreign subsidiary, all revenue is recognized off shore and US tax free (they claim expenses to make sure the subsisiary looses money) then the extra costs from the vendor decrease MS revenue and reduces their profit, which decreases the taxes in the US. The subsidiary is in a tax haven and pays no taxes. The end result is MS offshores what they are charging for cubes and ultimately pays no taxes (due to this and other scams).
Any time you see a stiuation like this where someone is charging money that is essentially billed right back and appears to make no sense it's almost guaranteed to be a tax dodge.
Unless I'm mistaken current theory says that before matter condensed the governing mechanics of the universe were not stable. Under that situation you wouldn't be able to argue that light even existed as the mechanics that govern electromagnetic waves likely wouldn't have stabilized. There was certainly a lot of energy but what form that energy took is another question that's likely unanswerable. You are taking a big stretch arguing that the mechanics of the universe applied when mater and space itself were still yet to condense.
This expansion of federal authority started under the Bush administration and has continued under the Obama administration. Like all Federal power expansions no future administration will argue they don't need the power as this is an issue that is without party bounds. Both parties seek expansion of federal powers and any argument that one party doesn't is window dressing to convince rubes.
Democrat or Republican, it matters not as both parties want more power and more control over the populace. Too many people spend far too much time in either parties echo chamber to understand that.
Your right it's easy to start at the first two books, but why even open the book? Look at the history of the Bible. 99.999999% of Christians have no idea how the Bible came to exist.
The Bible was created by a committee of Bishops of the Catholic church in 300AD, roughly about the time Constantine had his dream and adopted Christianity and used his military might to purge the empire of all the other Christian sects but the one he had chosen. The committee was tasked with compiling the prevailing doctrine of the various sects into a single uniform book. The committee VOTED which books of over 1500 publications, letters and verbal myths would be included. These books were often author less, and where two similar books had equal weight with the Bishops they were often combined or attributed with non-existent authors. This is where you see the attributes of Genesis with two creation myths. And the first 4 books of the new testament where they have multiple authors and no such people with those 4 names ever existed. Of the more than 1500 books considered 73 books were selected and included in the Bible. But now the Protestants argue that there are only 66 books in the bible. That's because when Luther translated the greek bible it didn't include the "deuterocanonical" books found in the Catholic version (referred to as the Alexandrian Cannon).
The Bible is a committee created book. It's a creation of Man and it suffers all the aspects of creations of men including inconsistencies, errors, omissions and fantasy. There is no need to examine the contents when the history is so well documented. People claiming the Bible is literally true are arguing that a book created by committee which was tasked with narrowing the existing doctrine to a manageable tome and purging non-approved theology is the work of god.
In pavement sensors? You know how hard those are to build? How easily damaged they are? In pavement sensors have huge negatives and costs associated with them. In fact almost all states are moving away from in pavement traffic detectors at intersections and moving entirely to radar and video detection. The only sensor I know of that's still installed in pavement is a weather and temperature sensor that is used to detect freezing conditions that facilitate black ice.
Back in the early days of ITS (Intelligent transportation systems, early being the 90's) when discussion started of self driving cars and such it was expected that we'd need magnets implanted in the pavement at the lane lines to make such a system work (video was unreliable in real time). The only problem is no one could figure out how to get the magnets into the pavement during construction in a way that would ensure they were where the painted stripe was. Cutting a one off pavement sensor in is relatively easy, but you have guaranteed evidence of the installation with the cuts. Installing a sensor while the pavement is being placed is an entirely different game. Asphalt is about 200 degrees when it's placed, and it's rolled out and compacted by a 20 ton steel drum. Concrete is easier but the concrete must go through a vibrating screed to level and set the concrete because zero slump cement is used in paving. After the concrete sets and before the shrink cracks start the pavement is sawed in a specific joint pattern that is going to be oblivious to any sensor placement. The concrete then continues to shrink as it hardens and would probably rip any sensor to pieces during the hardening process. That is if the sensor wasn't destroyed by the screed or placed upside down on the bottom of the grade.
It's easy to be scared of this stuff, but you probably need to come up with a better way to build it if you want in pavement sensors.
So you hire more women cause you pay them less salary for the same work?
If a man and women are doing the same job at the same skill level (and by your own admission the woman does it better) and you are paying the women less only because of her genitals then you meet the very definition of sexism.
Are you a fool or just trying to make a point?
The drug war ship sailed a long time ago and 80% of Americans were out there cheering their loss of freedom. Cash reporting, private property seizure by suing the property, drug dogs, highway checkpoints, etc are all casualties of the war on drugs and almost no one in America was ever concerned about it.
You want to stop the insanity? Become an activist for total legalization and a rollback of all drug war inspired legislation.
IMO she deserved it. This was a matter for reprimands by the conference and if needed by their employers, NOT but the public at large. She breached the two mens privacy in a serious way and if I was her employer I'd be worried about blow back from what she did now and what she'll do in the future.
IMO it's never OK to "twitter shame" someone, it's the pinnacle of passive-aggressive behavior where you take a complaint public and ask for mob justice. What happens next time where she calls for the pitchforks and torches and someone actually is harmed by some mentally ill person that got fired up by her?
As others have pointed out there is so much wrong with what you posted it's not even funny. Gasoline will ignite in a diesel engine before the compression stroke is even finished (it's what ruins the diesel engine when you put gasoline in it in fact depending on the engine it might run hot enough to ignite the gasoline as it's injected even without the compression). Gas is far more flammable (and explosive) and responsive to compression than diesel is. In fact it only takes about half the standard diesel compression on gasoline to cause premature ignition (knocking) in a gasoline car. Roughly speaking the octane of the fuel is equal to the compression ratio used. Gasoline is typically sold at around 87 octane and most commercial grade automobiles use a compression ratio of about 8.5 - 9.0. Some cars in particular require premium (92 octane or higher) because they run higher compression ratio's that are closer to 9-10. To put gasoline into a diesel and not get preignition you'd need gasoline with an octane near 180-200.
Gasoline cars cannot take diesel and if you do put it in one you can kiss the engine goodbye (it will need to be taken apart and every part hand cleaned). First the fuel pump will struggle to even pump that viscosity of fuel. Second it will water down the oil (and the car won't be able to remove it like it can gasoline/water). Third the fuel injectors will likely be unable to inject even half the required fuel. Fourth the fuel that does get injected will never actually ignite because diesel fuel doesn't burn explosively like gas. At best you'll get a small amount of fuel burned before the stroke finishes and the fuel air mixture is kicked out the exhaust. Fifth, when that partial diesel/air mixture gets kicked out the exhaust pipe you can kiss your catalytic converter goodbye as it's not designed to take unburned diesel fuel.
No fuel, diesel, gas, kerosene or any other product from crude oil requires more or less processing in a refinery (as long as it's not running a splitting or coking process). All a refinery does is seperate the individual carbon chains out of the crude oil by process of evaporation and condensation. The crude oil is boiled in a big vat, and the stack on the chamber has condensation setup at different levels in the stack. The larger the carbon chain the quicker the fuel condenses out of the gasified crude oil. Depending on the refinery there could be more than a dozen fuels coming out of the crude, from Keronsene and Diesel to gasoline to butanol and propane.
It's not simple trespass, it's breaking and entering in most states. The way the breaking and entering (or equivalent) statue is enacted in most states does not require both actions. Simply entering an unlocked property is breaking and entering as defined by most states in the US.
What the researcher did was illegal under the terms of CFAA, any unauthorized access to a computer system is punishable under CFAA. The law was enacted at a time that the only ones with remote accessible computers were large government or corporations. As such the law is written such that even accidental access is illegal.
Their research basically is a written admission of guilt, all they need is a single complainant to step forward and the "researchers" could all end up in jail or facing financial ruin.
Given Berkshire's net worth that would be one hell of an earthquake. At current value that would mean about 250 billion + 5 billion for the insurance liability. So a total of 255 billion in damage to private property (public infrastructure is backed by the government). Hurricane Sandy did a tremendous amount of damage at about $70 billion (I think that includes public infrastructure). So you would need the equivalent of about 3.5 times the damage of Sandy only to buildings and personal property (land value isn't insured). Probably the total destruction of the entire LA valley to achieve that level of damage.
I don't think it's very likely an earthquake could generate that level of damage that it would ever exceed that figure just because it's such a large number. I mean seriously could you conceive an earthquake that destroyed every single human made structure within the entire area between Mission Viejo to Bakersfield? God knows I can't, especially considering Northridge (a 7.1 quake) did about 25 billion in damage (where more than half that cost was public infrastructure that failed). You'd need a 9.5 at more than 5 minutes long to even get close to that kind of damage in earthquake insured private property and I don't think the san andreas can generate that kind of motion. (Keep in mind not everyone has earthquake insurance)
You believe yourself to be a geologist? You don't even understand the basics. What follows is rough descriptions intended for lay people.
Aquifers are often shallow at anywhere from 50-400 feet down (much more than that and they aren't very functional as far as pumping the water). To even be an aquifer and trap the water they need to be sealed between impervious (water proof) layers, usually clays. The shale formations are solid rock, surrounded by other geological layers, sometimes clay, sometimes granite or sandstone or pretty much any other layer and frequently MUCH deeper (some are more than a mile). Shale is composed of compressed hardened silt and clay (depending on the shale may soften in contact with water or remain impervious). Depending on the formation it could be highly fractured or fairly solid.
Shale generally forms from mud beds or flats that are overtime covered with other sediments and buried where the mud is compressed to form shale rock, the gas containing shales had organic life in them when they were covered and converted to stone, as the life decayed gas became embedded in the stone, the gas is released when the stone is fractured, the higher the fracture the better the gas release. Fracking is injecting sand and water under high pressure (sand blasting) to fracture an area of the shale and release the trapped gas. Generally the only exit for the gas is the hole drilled into the shale to inject the fracking solution. Steel piping caries the gas from the shale void to the surface.
To get to the shale they may need to drill through an aquifer, they use drilling mud while actively drilling, this mud is usually a heavy weight clay or silt based mud and is generally impervious to water transmission, as they drill through the aquifer the mud provides a seal and after drilling is complete and the drill extracted the well head is held open by steel piping inserted into the drill hole to hold it open, this pipe is welded (or screwed together) into a continuous pipe to the well head. I believe the processes requires inserting the piping be inserted before fracking to provide a pressure sealed pipe to convey the highly pressurized liquid sand mixture.
I don't know how common it is to have an aquifer above a shale formation but I'd bet where possible the wells are drilled outside the aquifer because of the complication drilling through the aquifer provides (the aquifer water is sometimes under pressure and complicates drilling) But depending on the aquifer, it might not even be an issue.
At the depths they are generally drilling at for these shales there are billions of pounds of rock trying to close any fractures or holes. Water, gas and oil don't generally wander around at those kind of pressures and depths. Geology is complicated, I suggest you study it before you start assuming your day to day experience gives you the knowledge to understand millions of years of sedimentation and the effects of miles of depth.
If fracking was dangerous any type of drilling would be. This is an art that has been under continuous and active improvement for almost 100 years. Drilling is well understood, if they can drill an oil/gas well 5 miles deep (through an aquifer too) and not spill a drop of oil/gas they can certainly extract gas from rock without losing billions of pounds of gas to an aquifer. We have an over active fear or new things (partly due to big screwups) but most of the hype about fracking dangers has been proved to be propaganda (the gasland tap water gas has been proven to be fake, in that the gas was present long before fracking). Methane isn't nearly as dangerous as oil, it's non-toxic and the only risk involves the rather obvious fire and explosion (and suffocation if it replaces all the air).
All that said, I'm concerned about what they do with these fracking fluids after use. Some of the chemicals involved are not something you want dumped into your streams and rivers. And I'd like better regulation and inspection (but not the bat shit crazy opposition).
No it doesn't. This is an area that requires independent reviews by people experienced in the field (like geologists). I'm not surprised you think this, as most people have no idea how geology works. But take a minute to think about it, if geology worked like you think why isn't there oil in every aquifer where a well has been drilled? (most of the US BTW) The simple answer is it doesn't work like you think and this stuff can be done easily and without contamination as long as the proper geological investigations are done.
The companies putting in these wells don't want to contaminate ground water and they don't want to lose their hydrocarbons into the aquifer either because both of those scenarios cost them money. I'm skeptical of Fracking, but I fully believe with the proper controls and experience it can be done with little to no risk and the benefits are quite amazing (we've reduced coal consumption significantly).
Assuming we do as you ask the company in question never sets up subsidiary, they hire Ivan who creates a corporation, collects the money, bankrupts the corporation and runs back to Russia with the money.
Your solutions isn't tenable. It's no coincidence that organized crime was involved in a significant number of bogus waste disposal business in the 80's that turned into superfund sites.
The only solution is the one we have, regulate the production and disposal of hazardous waste from inception to remediation. Fracking fluids should not be put into public waste treatment streams, it should be handled by specialty processors and treatment companies running specialized processes and it should cost a lot of money to treat. Then and only then they will find ways to reduce, reuse or eliminate the toxicity of the fluids.
And what Partisan would that be? You forgot the label you think applies. I've found the biggest "partisans" are the ones running around calling others out.
Scalia is a big believer in totalitarian control by government/business, he didn't used to be, but the last 10 years or so he hasn't seen government or corporate power he doesn't like. Why do you think he's the only "Conservative" justice siding with the courts two biggest liberals?
Scalia has been a Troll for the past decade. He probably spent too much time with Cheney.
You screwed up the name.
They called it Superfund. You know, when the government was forced to spend upwards (they stopped counting in 2003) of $8.5 billion dollars of taxpayer money remediating contaminated ground from companies and owners who no longer existed or were destitute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
Warren Buffet backstops earthquake insurance in the state of California. He takes in millions every year in free money to provide reinsurance to California insurance companies.
What this means is that if there is ever an earthquake in California that exceeds more than $5 Billion in insurance payments, Berkshire Hathaway is on the hook for any payments exceeding that amount. AFAIK he has no upper ceiling on his liability. If the big one hit southern California it's conceivable that his entire company would go bankrupt backstopping the insurance market.
Does Buffet worry about it? No. His reason boils down to the odds of that earthquake ever happening. He gets millions of dollars of free money to invest every year by taking this risk. In fact almost his entire empire has been built leveraging insurance money of one form or another. He's so important in the insurance industry that when he refused to insure losses due to terrorist attacks that policy was then adopted by nearly every insurance company in America.
DRM's main purpose has always been the elimination of the used game market. They couldn't actively be talking about shutting down Gamestop so they instead talk about shutting down piracy when the goal is to actually get rid of Gamestop. They see used games as a lost sale, a real lost sale where the person would really spend money. They know with certainty there is nothing they can ever do about Pirates, so they go after the low hanging fruit. Why do you think the DRM usually come with install limits? DLC, in particular included DLC are one of the other methods.
Go through any DRM and look at each condition and you'll see most of them are designed to hamper the sale of used games, not piracy.
I new Scalia was one of the dissenters. Any chance he gets to fuck the little guy. I'm going to have to read it so I can understand what justification the Troll (Scalia) used to justify fucking the little guy.
Anecdotal video's are not science. Go count the number of birds killed by cars, cats or even running into windows or buildings. Windmills aren't even in the top 20.
And that's the point, the big windmills kill just about as many birds as buildings in the same area. So unless you are going to suggest banning the construction of anything taller than about 6 inches you need just accept the fact that windmills aren't killing birds at any higher rate than any other stationary object.
99% of bird/bat kills by windmills are from the old fast spinning variety that hasn't been built in 20 years. In fact almost every citation can be traced back to two studies of two windfarms in california, the first on I-10 just east of palm springs, the second on an island off the coast near san dieago. Both wind farms use 1970 era fast spinning blades, and the island farm is built in migratory bird path and the palm springs farm is in an area with lots of rapirian birds. They don't build "fast'' winmills anymore and they don't build them in migratory bird paths anymore. Cars kill more birds than modern 100' blade slow spinning wind mills.
Also the bird kill studies are suspect because the researchers were basiclly paid to find that conclusion IMO. The methodology of determining kills and method of death did not rely on observed kills. I wish people would stop saying windmills kill birds.
He's also the man that gutted McCarthyism and ruined McCarthy's political chances for the white house (the entire reason for the witch hunts).
Eisenhower was a good guy.
There used to be laws baring the sharing of that data. For some reason the neither party (or the Republicrats) has any desire to prevent the very kind of abuses this government has suffered through in the past, all in the name of national security.