Slaughter and EAT them. Chimps are cannibals if the opportunity presents itself. They are also known to have troop members that can only be described as very malicious to the point that human observers report them as being evil. Google "Frodo the Chimpanzee".
I think we are in the interesting part of Climate change right now. Energy levels (not temperature) have increased dramatically in a rather short time and the climate is trying to find a place for all that extra energy now. So the oceans are cycling rapidly (Nina/Nino phases), precipitation levels etc are changing. In essence we're cycling rapidly between extremes. Anecdotally in Utah, last year we had the largest snows on record, and this year is probably the driest on record. For my entire childhood (I'm nearly 40) these cycles were nearly a decade long now they are a cycling in a year.
This will probably continue for a decade or three as the system tries to stabilize the energy levels and sink some of the temperature increase into the oceans, etc. The models aren't perfect and the deniers point to that, but the reality is we simply don't know how the climate will stabilize these energy levels, we can only make predictions based on previous climates we have rudimentary knowledge of. I'll likely be dead long before the worst of climate change hits (major shifts in breadbasket areas), but I know I'm going to live during the most erratic climate change this world's ever seen.
The scariest part to me is how to plan for the future because there is one thing the models do predict and that's the bad weather (the kind that kills people) is going to increase dramatically. I was hoping the SW would get wetter as the models predict but it appears, at least during my lifetime, things are just going to get more erratic making it very difficult to predict and manage scarce water resources.
The funniest part about Climate Change and the Deniers is that the government is planning for it. The military and defense planners and many others are planning for summers where the Arctic passage that's never existed becomes a reality. And before people say this is because of Obama I'll point out this planning started under GW Bush. Those in the know and with power and influence are causing our government to react like Climate change is not only a reality but something that's very important strategically including how to get to all that oil that's in the arctic that no one ever thought would be accessible. This includes a certain pair of brothers that are highly invested in carbon based energy and fund much if not all of the deniers making plans to drill and tap that oil when the ice melts permanently.
It's sad but I don't think the US will change course on climate change until it's far to late to matter. I'd like to see the construction of 1000 nuclear reactors in the US and a shutdown of most of the coal power plants along with increased gas prices that drive the adoption of electric vehicles. The gas will likely happen on it's own anyway but coal won't stop without outside forces because the US has so much of it.
The wrong way to do it is ObamaCare though. The right way to do it is universal health insurance, ie. Medicare for all. Medicare works and people like it because it is ONLY a health insurance. We need to do two thing, make Medicare Universal and we need to increase the individual tax to cover it (and preferably ax the business portion).
Personally I'd tolerate some of Ron Paul's less than smart ideas (do away with the Fed in particular) to get a strong president on several key issues. 1. Hawkish foreign policy that refocuses the Military on protecting the US instead of policing the world. 2. End the War on Drugs and tax them like alcohol, yearly revenue could exceed 12 billion dollars AND lower street prices sufficiently to reduce crime plus make most of the production US based, thus creating jobs in the pharmaceutical industry while at the same time reducing incidence of overdose while reducing prison populations. 3. Balance the Federal Budget (cause I know it's not possible to balance it the way he wants, he'll have to compromise to achieve the goal).
These three are essential if the USA is to survive the decade.
The vast majority of US nuclear weapons left Europe a LONG time ago (most of the western European countries demanded their removal in the 80's). The START and SALT treaties removed the vast majority of weapons that could be used for first strike as well.
The Russian concern that I haven't seen posted yet is that even if the US ABM system is a piece of shit now, in 10 years it could advance to the point that it was capable of shooting down Russian Nukes during boost (the only time they are moving slow enough to hit). As others have pointed out (and the principle reason for the ABM treaty) is that ABM can eliminate MAD and make someone think they can initiate first strike without fear of retaliation.
It's no coincidence that the Chinese have also spoken out about ABM, and it's also the reason we had a treaty baring it, it creates an unstable situation where first strike could become an option. And lets make one thing clear, the offers of appeasement each side have made came with conditions that have not been revealed. Was the Russian offer of Radar access and Monitors conditional on them having veto rights on use of the system? Was the US offer of Russian participation contingent on no technology transfer and only observer status (IMO an observer is pretty worthless). The key here is we as the public have no idea what conditions each side is proposing that is making the other refuse, none of the details are public and frankly it's very possible that both sides are being assholes.
IMO ABM shouldn't be undertaken without Russian AND Chinese participation. This should be a worldwide system that can shoot down rogue state Nukes given the reality of proliferation. I understand US fears about tech transfer but we can't build this damn thing on our own or the other guys are going to be afraid it's a first strike weapon or will become one in time. Everyone's being a fucktard on this.
The winter games in 2002 in SLC had unprecedented military participation. There were radar and missile emplacements all over the foothills and there were troops all over the place including Apache helicopters and F-16's patrolling the skies during the days major events. The SLC international airport was off limits entirely to unscheduled flights and the military was authorized to shoot down any plane violating SLC airspace.
We see a lot of air traffic being that Hill Airforce base is close and Fort Williams is where the Apaches train but I've never seen so many military air craft all over the place.
Sorta in reverse order. The boneyard is just that, bones. All that's stored there is the airframe. They are stripped off everything else (ie no motors, no seals, no nothing but the aluminum airframe. Second, the boneyard costs almost nothing (security costs) for a benefit that admittedly is likely to never be used but if it was ever needed its benefits would be infinite. Third it's not just F4's and huey's, it's cargo aircraft, air command and dozens of other roles.
I think you overestimate how many aircraft the US has. I used to think like you did then I found out how many actual jets we had and I was SHOCKED. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft). If you add up the fixed wing fighter/bombers you'll end up with a number around 2500. Do you have any idea how incredibly small that is? US military prowess is highly dependent on air superiority.
I'm not going to disagree that a major war with a world power is highly unlikely, especially in todays economic climate BUT a proxy war can be FAR more involving and aggressive than you let on. The boneyard is a small piece of very cheap insurance, if front line jets are being used and destroyed at the least we can use the old airframes for training and behind the front lines support. The only costs are security on the yard and that's about it.
Imagine a new total war like WWII where the US military inventory is slowly eroded away in total war. We can't build the new ones quick enough and we need back lines aircraft to keep the war moving. That's the point of the boneyard. Drag out the old airframe and refurb them quicker than you can build new ones and keep inventory in place.
Initial calculations after the '67 day war with Israel using western aircraft and Arabs using Russian missile systems was that in a war with the Russians the US airforce would have been decimated within the first 20 minutes. That led to the creation of the bone yard.
Everyone is familiar with driving, does that make you qualified to design and submit plans for roadway construction?
State licensing boards exist for very good reasons, these often involved severe harm to people decades ago when the laws were passed. The example in the article header is manicures, but did you know if that if you don't know what you are doing with a manicure that you could give someone an infection that could require that their fingers be amputated because you made a very stupid but easily avoided mistake because you weren't licensed? Are you aware that there are people out there right now without hands because they got a manicure from an unlicensed practitioner?
There is a reason for this licensing, diabete's is a very serious disease that if not managed will kill the person. Don't get me wrong, there is a boundary here where the guy should be able to talk about his experiences, but when he starts advocating and offering paid advice he's branched very far into the realm of licensed work and he better be damn careful because that licensing board might have the legal ability to put him in jail.
You know, Israel deserves some upbraiding. 20 years ago I would have argued that Israel was interested in peace. They actually tried to make peace and were spurned and that have been fighting for their survival since against hostile parties in the Arab states. And I get that now 60 years later the Arabs are finally making offers now that they (Arabs) realized they can't accomplish by force so they are trying to work the other side and that the hypocrisy of doing so while funding and supporting terrorism works against Israeli desires for peace. But that interest in peace has LONG since faded for other reasons entirely.
Between seizing Palestinian land without payment, and I'm not even talking about the illegal land seizures of refugees that fled the fighting (yes I know the Arab governments encouraged it so they could wage indiscriminate war against the Israeli's) but you can't ignore the fact that there is a natural human desire to flee fighting to keep your families alive. No what I'm talking about is the Israeli government not only condoning but supporting the terrorist actions of the militant settlers direct seizure of Palestinian lands, which I might add is against Israeli law yet they still bring in soldiers to protect the enclaves and provide power and water and other modern needs and even help them build the structures. These enclaves rob the livelihoods of the Palestinian land owners, for no other reason than to stake a claim to land they don't even own.
But the best part is that these same militant settlers will enact a "price tag" when any little thing doesn't go exactly the way they want, this includes burning down homes, destroying property, beating up innocent Palestinians (including old people and children) and torching Christian churches all while defended by the IDF so they don't have to worry about someone punching the bully back. Does anything happen to them? No, the government does nothing about the terrorism and in fact condones the actions by further supporting additional seizures and defending new enclaves. For example, one of the most recent where the Israeli government had the gall to claim the brand new settlement was a suburb when in fact it was more than a mile away, on a hilltop across a valley (with a Palestinian city in the valley).
No the Israeli's don't want peace anymore, they get everything they want now by treating Palestinians worse than livestock. If there was a genuine Palestinian state the Israelis wouldn't be able to just bully, abuse and intimidate the Palestinian people, they would have to deal with a Sovereign nation state with genuine rights and protections enshrined in international law. They wouldn't be able to steal the land and water of the Palestinians and take their livelihoods and rob them of their human rights. Israel gave up on peace before Sharon was elected. So the Israelis talk about the hypocrisy and killing of Israelis by the Palestinians and how the Palestinians don't want an Israeli state, but at the same time ignore that they most certainly don't want a Palestinian sovereign state. Just like the Arabs use the conflict to placate their own people the Israelis are doing the same damn thing.
The worst thing to do in this world would be to give Israel a free hand to continue to commit the crimes they have been allowing to happen. I don't think the Palestinians hands are clean nor do I think the Genie is going back in the bottle and Israel is going to be removed or that the Arab population sh/would be allowed back in. But the Israelis have long since stopped being a solution to the problem and are major part of the problem now. Either they need to just decide they aren't ever going to make peace, seize all the Palestinian lands and commit the holocaust they've been slowly working up to or they need to make the decision to go for peace and return to reasonable historic borders.
But either way, the complicit action of the US government in supporting the Israeli terrorism while condemning the reverse side needs to stop, if for no other
Successful use of dividend stocks will provide more long term gains to a stock short of being a very lucky day trader. This is the great myth the part time shareholder has brought to the system, that dividend stocks are worthless, they actually provide higher returns on average than every other non-dividend stock.
The problem isn't dividend stocks, the problem is a management system that provides higher returns to CEO's than for long term growth. The problem was created by GE and there long term 20% growth that entailed the destruction of many many companies. Now every CEO tries to mimic it and is destroying the american economy in the process.
Unless you have figures that prove otherwise, as a private company with 57% ownership, after the floating of public shares his portion will be well below 50%, I'd wager closer to the 25% range (a typical public offering will set aside anywhere from 25-50% of the company for public sale). After all, that's what happens when you go public, you hand over a significant percentage of ownership to the public for wads of cash. Zuckbergs ownership share will decrease dramatically as part of going public.
Once Facebook goes public, Zuckerberg is going to be in for a RUDE awakening. He won't be able to treat it like his little piggybank, he will have to consult the board (his bosses after it goes public) for anything he does and the board can fire him.
The vast majority of tech companies that have gone public in the last 15 years have ended up firing the founding CEO after a period of mismanagement shortly after the companies go Public. The exceptions to this rule are rare and I doubt Zuckerberg is going to be one of them. This is the type of stuff they do and after the company is public and the founders ownership is GREATLY diluted they end up getting fired by the board of directors. Usually it's from not seeking maximum shareholder value, but in other cases it's for outright in ability to grow the company.
Personally, I don't think Zuckerberg is going to survive more than 5 years as CEO of the public Facebook. But the VC's and investment banks will have gotten their pound of flesh and moved on.
The SR-71's leaked fuel until they were at speed. This was because they had to leave gaps in the metal for the thermal expansion that occurred at their typical multi-mach running speed. IIRC the SR-71 used a full tank of gas just getting air-borne because of the leakage, then it was re-air fueled before starting it's mission.
I know no one read the story or the other articles with more details but here's the facts:
The FCC found that Google's actions weren't illegal, nor were they intentional.
The FCC found that after Google became aware of the problem they took extensive measures to not only notify about the breach, but to protect the information.
The FCC found that as a result Google did nothing illegal and there was no case to be brought to the courts.
The FCC obtained NO court order or subpoena's for the information they asked Google for.
Google refused to provide information which they didn't feel was relevant to the investigation. This information included the names of the employees involved and what would have essentially amounted to the entire email server for Google.
As this was NOT a subpoena they were under NO obligation to voluntarily supply information.
The FCC is creating a charge of impeding the investigation when they found NO evidence of illegal behavior. This is no different than being charged for resisting arrest and that being the ONLY charge.
This is one of the biggest problems we have with government right now. The FCC is FAR beyond their authority here. Not only that, they can't charge someone for impeding the investigation for refusing to comply with a voluntary request. Had they needed the information they could have gone to court and got a subpoena, that they didn't is prima facia evidence that they didn't think they could get the subpoena in the first place. We're at a place where people are being fined for exercising their rights and thats WRONG.
I support sensible regulation and I don't think the FCC has enough regulatory power in some areas but this is the type of stuff that makes me want to see the government's powers gutted. Maybe that's what we need at this point, gut the system and start over. At a minimum at this point I'd like to see investigative powers greatly restricted, and most importantly of all, that certain charges (resisting arrest, impeding the investigation, etc) aren't valid if there is no other charge.
It's most certainly a conspiracy, and given their size, interstate status and other factors it probably qualifies for RICO as well. They knew the devices were stolen, they involved themselves in a conspiracy of theft and I'm willing to bet that at a minimum 1 time a stolen phone was taken across state lines which brings in RICO.
I wish there were more prosecutors like those in NY that went after companies like ATT for stuff like this. A couple RICO charges against the company and making an example out of them would do wonders for consumer rights. Suddenly all the major corporations would be stepping all over themselves to stop stuff like this for fear of a RICO charge themselves. If we don't enforce the law large corporations will continue to flaunt it.
Ah who cares about Google. The HUGE pile of money IBM is going to ask for SQL (if they ask for money) is what is going to matter to Oracle at that point. IBM could effectively shut Oracles primary business down, literally in denying them the ability to use it. Oracle was VERY foolish to argue this point because their own arguments could be used against them in court.
This isn't "fixing" anything. It's a temporary thing and as other have pointed out if it's not stolen its likely to be destroyed by water or birds or chemical contamination or any number of things. A "real" cheap temporary fix is cold mix asphalt applied to the pothole until hotmix asphalt is available. Cold mix is durable and reliable, lasts long enough to get you through a winter hot plant shutdown and has no value to thieves nor is it any different chemically from the regular hot mix asphalt other than the petroleum product it's cut with.
If you want your city or state to fix the roads petition to get the gas tax raised so they have the funds to actually fix the roads.
Maybe I'm just a silly American but I don't think government funded organizations should be patenting anything. Can you imagine a world where the US government patented everything they caused to be invented? That's why you'll see so much anger from the American side, because government shouldn't be patenting or allowing patents on anything that's funded with taxpayer dollars. I can't stand the idea of government taking someones money under threat of force, using that money to invent something, then patenting it and charging those same citizens to use what they paid to invent.
Don't be silly. Fracture the crust? Are you insane? We can't drill that deep. The Crust is 50 MILES thick. We've NEVER directly sampled the mantle because it's not possible to drill that deep with current technology. We can't even drill 1/4 of the crust thickness. Maximum drilling depth is on the order of 5 miles or 1/10 the approximate crust thickness.
These are minor quakes, they are settlement and movement of sediment layers, not fault shifts. They happen anytime you drill at depth and push or pull material from the drill hole. They aren't anything to worry about, they've been happening for as long as we've been drilling (more than 100 years). I swear you east coasters feel a little shake and freak out.
Under the heading for "CHEMICAL DAMAGE" you read about how under VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES water (it would need to be acid filled water) can leech some of the calcium in concrete and transfer it to the water. Now how MUCH calcium it could leech, or whether it could even transfer it out of the water or anything else about it is completely beyond your limited intelligence. YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. Get it? This is not a subject you have any knowledge of, you are making shit up based on technical information you don't understand. Yes Concrete can leech calcium in very small amounts if it's exposed to acidic water. There has NEVER been a case of calcium contamination of soil from concrete where the soil wasn't already chemically contaminated with concrete attacking compounds (specific acids). EVER.
Next time stick to something you know and stop making shit up and spreading FUD about things YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. Get it? Stupid fucking idiot.
The only way a large mass of concrete could harm a farm field production would be if it was COVERING the entire field.
Leech from concrete? Are you fucking stupid? Jesus, I've read stupid things in my time and the conspiracy theories are usually at the top but the presence of concrete contaminating soil? That's got to the be the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and that's not an exaggeration. It's too bad they don't give awards for the stupidest things ever said because you'd win!
Big dogs are the most intimidating especially if they jump up and down in the windows. But you wanna scare them good without a lot of noise you want a German Shepard or a mix breed with Shepard in them. The Shepard have really loud aggressive barks even if they are a pile of marshmallow. They also look very intimidating. And the best feature is that they are one of the smartest dog breeds (number 3 on the list) the closer they are to pure breed they better they train and you can't beat the bark for intimidation factor, even when they are happy and wagging the tail they still look aggressive. Our mix breed wouldn't hurt a fly but her bark sounds just like a police dog about to attack.
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Slaughter and EAT them. Chimps are cannibals if the opportunity presents itself. They are also known to have troop members that can only be described as very malicious to the point that human observers report them as being evil. Google "Frodo the Chimpanzee".
I think we are in the interesting part of Climate change right now. Energy levels (not temperature) have increased dramatically in a rather short time and the climate is trying to find a place for all that extra energy now. So the oceans are cycling rapidly (Nina/Nino phases), precipitation levels etc are changing. In essence we're cycling rapidly between extremes. Anecdotally in Utah, last year we had the largest snows on record, and this year is probably the driest on record. For my entire childhood (I'm nearly 40) these cycles were nearly a decade long now they are a cycling in a year.
This will probably continue for a decade or three as the system tries to stabilize the energy levels and sink some of the temperature increase into the oceans, etc. The models aren't perfect and the deniers point to that, but the reality is we simply don't know how the climate will stabilize these energy levels, we can only make predictions based on previous climates we have rudimentary knowledge of. I'll likely be dead long before the worst of climate change hits (major shifts in breadbasket areas), but I know I'm going to live during the most erratic climate change this world's ever seen.
The scariest part to me is how to plan for the future because there is one thing the models do predict and that's the bad weather (the kind that kills people) is going to increase dramatically. I was hoping the SW would get wetter as the models predict but it appears, at least during my lifetime, things are just going to get more erratic making it very difficult to predict and manage scarce water resources.
The funniest part about Climate Change and the Deniers is that the government is planning for it. The military and defense planners and many others are planning for summers where the Arctic passage that's never existed becomes a reality. And before people say this is because of Obama I'll point out this planning started under GW Bush. Those in the know and with power and influence are causing our government to react like Climate change is not only a reality but something that's very important strategically including how to get to all that oil that's in the arctic that no one ever thought would be accessible. This includes a certain pair of brothers that are highly invested in carbon based energy and fund much if not all of the deniers making plans to drill and tap that oil when the ice melts permanently.
It's sad but I don't think the US will change course on climate change until it's far to late to matter. I'd like to see the construction of 1000 nuclear reactors in the US and a shutdown of most of the coal power plants along with increased gas prices that drive the adoption of electric vehicles. The gas will likely happen on it's own anyway but coal won't stop without outside forces because the US has so much of it.
The wrong way to do it is ObamaCare though. The right way to do it is universal health insurance, ie. Medicare for all. Medicare works and people like it because it is ONLY a health insurance. We need to do two thing, make Medicare Universal and we need to increase the individual tax to cover it (and preferably ax the business portion).
Personally I'd tolerate some of Ron Paul's less than smart ideas (do away with the Fed in particular) to get a strong president on several key issues.
1. Hawkish foreign policy that refocuses the Military on protecting the US instead of policing the world.
2. End the War on Drugs and tax them like alcohol, yearly revenue could exceed 12 billion dollars AND lower street prices sufficiently to reduce crime plus make most of the production US based, thus creating jobs in the pharmaceutical industry while at the same time reducing incidence of overdose while reducing prison populations.
3. Balance the Federal Budget (cause I know it's not possible to balance it the way he wants, he'll have to compromise to achieve the goal).
These three are essential if the USA is to survive the decade.
The vast majority of US nuclear weapons left Europe a LONG time ago (most of the western European countries demanded their removal in the 80's). The START and SALT treaties removed the vast majority of weapons that could be used for first strike as well.
The Russian concern that I haven't seen posted yet is that even if the US ABM system is a piece of shit now, in 10 years it could advance to the point that it was capable of shooting down Russian Nukes during boost (the only time they are moving slow enough to hit). As others have pointed out (and the principle reason for the ABM treaty) is that ABM can eliminate MAD and make someone think they can initiate first strike without fear of retaliation.
It's no coincidence that the Chinese have also spoken out about ABM, and it's also the reason we had a treaty baring it, it creates an unstable situation where first strike could become an option. And lets make one thing clear, the offers of appeasement each side have made came with conditions that have not been revealed. Was the Russian offer of Radar access and Monitors conditional on them having veto rights on use of the system? Was the US offer of Russian participation contingent on no technology transfer and only observer status (IMO an observer is pretty worthless). The key here is we as the public have no idea what conditions each side is proposing that is making the other refuse, none of the details are public and frankly it's very possible that both sides are being assholes.
IMO ABM shouldn't be undertaken without Russian AND Chinese participation. This should be a worldwide system that can shoot down rogue state Nukes given the reality of proliferation. I understand US fears about tech transfer but we can't build this damn thing on our own or the other guys are going to be afraid it's a first strike weapon or will become one in time. Everyone's being a fucktard on this.
The winter games in 2002 in SLC had unprecedented military participation. There were radar and missile emplacements all over the foothills and there were troops all over the place including Apache helicopters and F-16's patrolling the skies during the days major events. The SLC international airport was off limits entirely to unscheduled flights and the military was authorized to shoot down any plane violating SLC airspace.
We see a lot of air traffic being that Hill Airforce base is close and Fort Williams is where the Apaches train but I've never seen so many military air craft all over the place.
Sorta in reverse order. The boneyard is just that, bones. All that's stored there is the airframe. They are stripped off everything else (ie no motors, no seals, no nothing but the aluminum airframe. Second, the boneyard costs almost nothing (security costs) for a benefit that admittedly is likely to never be used but if it was ever needed its benefits would be infinite. Third it's not just F4's and huey's, it's cargo aircraft, air command and dozens of other roles.
I think you overestimate how many aircraft the US has. I used to think like you did then I found out how many actual jets we had and I was SHOCKED. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft). If you add up the fixed wing fighter/bombers you'll end up with a number around 2500. Do you have any idea how incredibly small that is? US military prowess is highly dependent on air superiority.
I'm not going to disagree that a major war with a world power is highly unlikely, especially in todays economic climate BUT a proxy war can be FAR more involving and aggressive than you let on. The boneyard is a small piece of very cheap insurance, if front line jets are being used and destroyed at the least we can use the old airframes for training and behind the front lines support. The only costs are security on the yard and that's about it.
Imagine a new total war like WWII where the US military inventory is slowly eroded away in total war. We can't build the new ones quick enough and we need back lines aircraft to keep the war moving. That's the point of the boneyard. Drag out the old airframe and refurb them quicker than you can build new ones and keep inventory in place.
Initial calculations after the '67 day war with Israel using western aircraft and Arabs using Russian missile systems was that in a war with the Russians the US airforce would have been decimated within the first 20 minutes. That led to the creation of the bone yard.
Everyone is familiar with driving, does that make you qualified to design and submit plans for roadway construction?
State licensing boards exist for very good reasons, these often involved severe harm to people decades ago when the laws were passed. The example in the article header is manicures, but did you know if that if you don't know what you are doing with a manicure that you could give someone an infection that could require that their fingers be amputated because you made a very stupid but easily avoided mistake because you weren't licensed? Are you aware that there are people out there right now without hands because they got a manicure from an unlicensed practitioner?
There is a reason for this licensing, diabete's is a very serious disease that if not managed will kill the person. Don't get me wrong, there is a boundary here where the guy should be able to talk about his experiences, but when he starts advocating and offering paid advice he's branched very far into the realm of licensed work and he better be damn careful because that licensing board might have the legal ability to put him in jail.
You know, Israel deserves some upbraiding. 20 years ago I would have argued that Israel was interested in peace. They actually tried to make peace and were spurned and that have been fighting for their survival since against hostile parties in the Arab states. And I get that now 60 years later the Arabs are finally making offers now that they (Arabs) realized they can't accomplish by force so they are trying to work the other side and that the hypocrisy of doing so while funding and supporting terrorism works against Israeli desires for peace. But that interest in peace has LONG since faded for other reasons entirely.
Between seizing Palestinian land without payment, and I'm not even talking about the illegal land seizures of refugees that fled the fighting (yes I know the Arab governments encouraged it so they could wage indiscriminate war against the Israeli's) but you can't ignore the fact that there is a natural human desire to flee fighting to keep your families alive. No what I'm talking about is the Israeli government not only condoning but supporting the terrorist actions of the militant settlers direct seizure of Palestinian lands, which I might add is against Israeli law yet they still bring in soldiers to protect the enclaves and provide power and water and other modern needs and even help them build the structures. These enclaves rob the livelihoods of the Palestinian land owners, for no other reason than to stake a claim to land they don't even own.
But the best part is that these same militant settlers will enact a "price tag" when any little thing doesn't go exactly the way they want, this includes burning down homes, destroying property, beating up innocent Palestinians (including old people and children) and torching Christian churches all while defended by the IDF so they don't have to worry about someone punching the bully back. Does anything happen to them? No, the government does nothing about the terrorism and in fact condones the actions by further supporting additional seizures and defending new enclaves. For example, one of the most recent where the Israeli government had the gall to claim the brand new settlement was a suburb when in fact it was more than a mile away, on a hilltop across a valley (with a Palestinian city in the valley).
No the Israeli's don't want peace anymore, they get everything they want now by treating Palestinians worse than livestock. If there was a genuine Palestinian state the Israelis wouldn't be able to just bully, abuse and intimidate the Palestinian people, they would have to deal with a Sovereign nation state with genuine rights and protections enshrined in international law. They wouldn't be able to steal the land and water of the Palestinians and take their livelihoods and rob them of their human rights. Israel gave up on peace before Sharon was elected. So the Israelis talk about the hypocrisy and killing of Israelis by the Palestinians and how the Palestinians don't want an Israeli state, but at the same time ignore that they most certainly don't want a Palestinian sovereign state. Just like the Arabs use the conflict to placate their own people the Israelis are doing the same damn thing.
The worst thing to do in this world would be to give Israel a free hand to continue to commit the crimes they have been allowing to happen. I don't think the Palestinians hands are clean nor do I think the Genie is going back in the bottle and Israel is going to be removed or that the Arab population sh/would be allowed back in. But the Israelis have long since stopped being a solution to the problem and are major part of the problem now. Either they need to just decide they aren't ever going to make peace, seize all the Palestinian lands and commit the holocaust they've been slowly working up to or they need to make the decision to go for peace and return to reasonable historic borders.
But either way, the complicit action of the US government in supporting the Israeli terrorism while condemning the reverse side needs to stop, if for no other
Successful use of dividend stocks will provide more long term gains to a stock short of being a very lucky day trader. This is the great myth the part time shareholder has brought to the system, that dividend stocks are worthless, they actually provide higher returns on average than every other non-dividend stock.
The problem isn't dividend stocks, the problem is a management system that provides higher returns to CEO's than for long term growth. The problem was created by GE and there long term 20% growth that entailed the destruction of many many companies. Now every CEO tries to mimic it and is destroying the american economy in the process.
Unless you have figures that prove otherwise, as a private company with 57% ownership, after the floating of public shares his portion will be well below 50%, I'd wager closer to the 25% range (a typical public offering will set aside anywhere from 25-50% of the company for public sale). After all, that's what happens when you go public, you hand over a significant percentage of ownership to the public for wads of cash. Zuckbergs ownership share will decrease dramatically as part of going public.
Once Facebook goes public, Zuckerberg is going to be in for a RUDE awakening. He won't be able to treat it like his little piggybank, he will have to consult the board (his bosses after it goes public) for anything he does and the board can fire him.
The vast majority of tech companies that have gone public in the last 15 years have ended up firing the founding CEO after a period of mismanagement shortly after the companies go Public. The exceptions to this rule are rare and I doubt Zuckerberg is going to be one of them. This is the type of stuff they do and after the company is public and the founders ownership is GREATLY diluted they end up getting fired by the board of directors. Usually it's from not seeking maximum shareholder value, but in other cases it's for outright in ability to grow the company.
Personally, I don't think Zuckerberg is going to survive more than 5 years as CEO of the public Facebook. But the VC's and investment banks will have gotten their pound of flesh and moved on.
The SR-71's leaked fuel until they were at speed. This was because they had to leave gaps in the metal for the thermal expansion that occurred at their typical multi-mach running speed. IIRC the SR-71 used a full tank of gas just getting air-borne because of the leakage, then it was re-air fueled before starting it's mission.
I know no one read the story or the other articles with more details but here's the facts:
The FCC found that Google's actions weren't illegal, nor were they intentional.
The FCC found that after Google became aware of the problem they took extensive measures to not only notify about the breach, but to protect the information.
The FCC found that as a result Google did nothing illegal and there was no case to be brought to the courts.
The FCC obtained NO court order or subpoena's for the information they asked Google for.
Google refused to provide information which they didn't feel was relevant to the investigation. This information included the names of the employees involved and what would have essentially amounted to the entire email server for Google.
As this was NOT a subpoena they were under NO obligation to voluntarily supply information.
The FCC is creating a charge of impeding the investigation when they found NO evidence of illegal behavior. This is no different than being charged for resisting arrest and that being the ONLY charge.
This is one of the biggest problems we have with government right now. The FCC is FAR beyond their authority here. Not only that, they can't charge someone for impeding the investigation for refusing to comply with a voluntary request. Had they needed the information they could have gone to court and got a subpoena, that they didn't is prima facia evidence that they didn't think they could get the subpoena in the first place. We're at a place where people are being fined for exercising their rights and thats WRONG.
I support sensible regulation and I don't think the FCC has enough regulatory power in some areas but this is the type of stuff that makes me want to see the government's powers gutted. Maybe that's what we need at this point, gut the system and start over. At a minimum at this point I'd like to see investigative powers greatly restricted, and most importantly of all, that certain charges (resisting arrest, impeding the investigation, etc) aren't valid if there is no other charge.
It's most certainly a conspiracy, and given their size, interstate status and other factors it probably qualifies for RICO as well. They knew the devices were stolen, they involved themselves in a conspiracy of theft and I'm willing to bet that at a minimum 1 time a stolen phone was taken across state lines which brings in RICO.
I wish there were more prosecutors like those in NY that went after companies like ATT for stuff like this. A couple RICO charges against the company and making an example out of them would do wonders for consumer rights. Suddenly all the major corporations would be stepping all over themselves to stop stuff like this for fear of a RICO charge themselves. If we don't enforce the law large corporations will continue to flaunt it.
Ah who cares about Google. The HUGE pile of money IBM is going to ask for SQL (if they ask for money) is what is going to matter to Oracle at that point. IBM could effectively shut Oracles primary business down, literally in denying them the ability to use it. Oracle was VERY foolish to argue this point because their own arguments could be used against them in court.
Apparently CHP officers get paid very well. Or you could imply the other option...
Intel did all the design. Apple paid Intel for a 1 year exclusivity on the port.
This isn't "fixing" anything. It's a temporary thing and as other have pointed out if it's not stolen its likely to be destroyed by water or birds or chemical contamination or any number of things. A "real" cheap temporary fix is cold mix asphalt applied to the pothole until hotmix asphalt is available. Cold mix is durable and reliable, lasts long enough to get you through a winter hot plant shutdown and has no value to thieves nor is it any different chemically from the regular hot mix asphalt other than the petroleum product it's cut with.
If you want your city or state to fix the roads petition to get the gas tax raised so they have the funds to actually fix the roads.
Maybe I'm just a silly American but I don't think government funded organizations should be patenting anything. Can you imagine a world where the US government patented everything they caused to be invented? That's why you'll see so much anger from the American side, because government shouldn't be patenting or allowing patents on anything that's funded with taxpayer dollars. I can't stand the idea of government taking someones money under threat of force, using that money to invent something, then patenting it and charging those same citizens to use what they paid to invent.
Don't be silly. Fracture the crust? Are you insane? We can't drill that deep. The Crust is 50 MILES thick. We've NEVER directly sampled the mantle because it's not possible to drill that deep with current technology. We can't even drill 1/4 of the crust thickness. Maximum drilling depth is on the order of 5 miles or 1/10 the approximate crust thickness.
These are minor quakes, they are settlement and movement of sediment layers, not fault shifts. They happen anytime you drill at depth and push or pull material from the drill hole. They aren't anything to worry about, they've been happening for as long as we've been drilling (more than 100 years). I swear you east coasters feel a little shake and freak out.
Under the heading for "CHEMICAL DAMAGE" you read about how under VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES water (it would need to be acid filled water) can leech some of the calcium in concrete and transfer it to the water. Now how MUCH calcium it could leech, or whether it could even transfer it out of the water or anything else about it is completely beyond your limited intelligence. YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. Get it? This is not a subject you have any knowledge of, you are making shit up based on technical information you don't understand. Yes Concrete can leech calcium in very small amounts if it's exposed to acidic water. There has NEVER been a case of calcium contamination of soil from concrete where the soil wasn't already chemically contaminated with concrete attacking compounds (specific acids). EVER.
Next time stick to something you know and stop making shit up and spreading FUD about things YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. Get it? Stupid fucking idiot.
The only way a large mass of concrete could harm a farm field production would be if it was COVERING the entire field.
Leech from concrete? Are you fucking stupid? Jesus, I've read stupid things in my time and the conspiracy theories are usually at the top but the presence of concrete contaminating soil? That's got to the be the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and that's not an exaggeration. It's too bad they don't give awards for the stupidest things ever said because you'd win!
Big dogs are the most intimidating especially if they jump up and down in the windows. But you wanna scare them good without a lot of noise you want a German Shepard or a mix breed with Shepard in them. The Shepard have really loud aggressive barks even if they are a pile of marshmallow. They also look very intimidating. And the best feature is that they are one of the smartest dog breeds (number 3 on the list) the closer they are to pure breed they better they train and you can't beat the bark for intimidation factor, even when they are happy and wagging the tail they still look aggressive. Our mix breed wouldn't hurt a fly but her bark sounds just like a police dog about to attack.