They ARE exempt from the EPA clean air and clean water acts.
No, they actually aren't.
As a matter of fact, Dick Cheney and his hand-picked cronies made damn sure that they are indeedexempt.
"However, in the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which arose out of Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force, Congress amended the definition of "underground injection" under the SDWA to specifically exclude "the underground injection of fluids or propping agents (other than diesel fuels) pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities."
Margo T. Oge, who oversaw the creation of the ethanol credit program at the E.P.A., says..."The last thing we wanted in implementing this program is to get price increases for the consumerâ.
For those who wonder what exactly Tokolosh is getting at, here are the US corn prices 2001-2012:
US Calendar Year Average Corn Price Received for the 2001 - 2013 Calendar Year(s) Year Corn ( $/bushel ) 2001 1.89 2002 2.13 2003 2.27 2004 2.47 2005 1.96 2006 2.28 2007 3.39 2008 4.78 2009 3.75 2010 3.83 2011 6.01 2012 6.67
You won't be ticketed for driving the speed limit, but for being in the wrong lane based on your speed. The law in most places is "slower traffic keep right", a semi official wink-wink, nod-nod to speeding.
In the US "Slower traffic keep right" laws are for safety, to prevent the passing vehicle from going through the blind spot of the vehicle being passed. History has shown that to be dangerous. That's why it's also against the law in every state to pass a vehicle on the right.
I suspect the tickets for "being in the wrong lane" you're thinking of are really tickets for failing to yield to faster traffic. Since a police car is traffic just like anybody else, if you fail to move to the right to let a police car pass they can and will ticket you.
The Indian Air Force embarrassed the USAF in Cope India 2004 and again at Red Flag in 2008. The first time was against USAF F-15Cs and the second time, against the F-22.
The F-22 has never participated in Cope India. A little googling got me some guys speculating about how it would stack up, but that's it. My guess would be the F-22 will never be at Cope India since the USAF already has plenty of data on how it stacks up against the F-15 (that is, very very well), and the USAF is simply not willing to risk revealing too much.
Nope, unless by "years" you mean "months". Actually it wasn't even a full 2 months.
The Democrats only had a supermajority in Congress between July 7, 2009 when Al Franken was seated in the Senate, and August 25, 2009 when Ted Kennedy died of a brain tumor.
Ted Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the Senate, so when he died the then-governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, appointed a Republican to replace Kennedy and the Democrats lost their supermajority.
Kennedy had been suffering with a brain tumor for more than a year, and towards the end during that period of supermajority he was not well enough to attend most Senate sessions and only voted a few times.
The Discovery writer got confused and thought the replacement pump check for leaks post-swap was referring to the original leaking pump pre-swap. No doubt they'll fix it any second now....
I'm not an expert on Islam by any means, but I'm fairly sure that if you are born to a Muslim father, then Islam considers you to be a Muslim by birth. Assuming that that is correct, Barack Obama, Sr. was Muslim by birth, as is President Obama.
In the United States of America we have this thing called Freedom of Religion, which means Mr. Obama can be whatever religion he chooses to be. Nobody gets to choose it for him.
The vitamin supplement market is unregulated so I'm sure there will be "GDF-11" supplements on the market in less than a year. This is just too good to pass up.
You could, though, throw a piece of plastic packaging material out the airlock. I can think of no more appropriate way to declare 'humans are here, this is our planet now.'
Wait a minute, is there something I've been missing out on here? Should you take atmospheric tests for CO2 from just one spot, a volcanic spot?
Weather patterns combined with the jet stream keep the atmosphere well-mixed and fairly homogeneous, especially at high altitude. That's why the recording station is on Mauna Loa:
Mauna Loa was originally chosen as a monitoring site because, located far from any continent, the air sampled is a good average for the central Pacific. Being high, it is above the inversion layer where most of the local effects are present.
Volcanoes don't emit just CO2, they also emit other detectable gasses which can then be used to determine if the volcano is contaminating the measurements:
The contamination from local volcanic sources is sometimes detected at the observatory, and is then removed from the background data.
... Van Riper actually rigged the exercise himself, by materializing forces out of thin air to make attacks, then claimed he was being unfairly bashed by the higher ups because he hadnt followed the script.
Also what I understand from reading some more level headed articles on the matter, in many ways the exercise wasnt even meant to be a real simulation of war. Instead it was a series of experiments each designed to test a specific new concept or tactic of combination thereof. In some cases tests were being conducted for the purpose of creating better simulations in future exercises. Two forces didnt simple stand up and slug it out, so declaring a winner and loser isnt even relevant.
There was also this post:
Anybody can "achieve success" in an exercise by arbitrarily creating forces that were not on the original manifest, simply refusing to accept that assets had been destroyed and continuing to use them and by reading through the scenario rules and manifests and saying "aha It doesn't say I can't do thus and so".
It's rather like playing a chess game in which one player ignores any of his pieces taken by his opponent, assumes all of his own pieces are queens and then adds extra pieces every time he feels like it. Then stands up, beats his chest and claims loudly that's he's won.
The problem is that doing all that means the exercise is worthless, nobody learns anything of value from it and the time and resources invested in that exercise are wasted. The only thing Van Riper's actions achieved was to boost his own ego and already excessive self-esteem. In terms of military planning and threat analysis, his contributions were worth far less than nothing.
There appears to be a lot less there than you think.
So when 2016 rolls around with no significant change to the ice caps can we cut this stupid "ice caps r gunna melt" meme?
No? I didn't think so.
You must be trolling because It's hard for a rational person to look at this chart and think there will be "no change" when 2016 rolls around. (Hit "download attachment" to see the chart).
In 1979 the minimum was over 16,000 cubic kilometers of Arctic ice. In 2005 the minimum was 9,000 cubic kilometers. Last year it was just above 3,000. The best curve fit of the data (seen on the chart) shows the Arctic will probably be ice-free by 2016.
Later during the interview, when asked what happens if you get Strike 7, 8 or 9, Lesser said, "Once they've been mitigated, they've received several alerts, we're just not going to send them any more alerts. Because they are not the kind of customer that we're going to reach with this program."
I think "riding it out" as recommended in the blog is a Bad Idea. To me, the "with this program" caveat implies they have other plans for people who ignore them, probably involving the courts. By time you rack up six strikes they will have lots of evidence of infringement, and plenty of evidence that you ignored their warnings. Defending yourself in court against that kind of evidence is hard (read expensive).
And that is the case in climate studies, thermometers are frequently placed in locations that introduce errors, so the data has to be adjusted; the locations are not spatially uniform so the data has gridded; and on top of all that, the thermometers recorded Tmin and Tmax so historically the data point, Tave was the midpoint between Tmin and Tmax. The reality is any real direct measurements is very remote to climatology.
argument denying anthropogenic global warming. You are wrong. Here is why you are wrong.
(X) Your post contains one or more logical errors (X) Logical fallacy (X) Your post contains one or more factual errors ( ) Online searching has failed to find scientific support for the posted theory(s) ( ) Your source or reference is not from the field of climate science ( ) Your source actually never said that (X) Citation please ( ) An idea is not responsible for the people who support it ( ) The mothership is not coming to save us ( ) Please use a keyboard that you know
Boss: Let's see, 10c * 1,000,000 production run = $100,000 to replace a web interface that costs us nothing because we can sell customers usage patterns to advertisers?
If they can turn a profit on selling Falcon 9 launches anywhere near the price points they claim to be able to achieve, then it will change the universe.
Indeed, the Walmart of space. People like the GP like to sneer at the lowest-cost vendor but lowering the cost of access to space into a whole new range like SpaceX is doing is damn hard, and the payoff is going to be incredible.
Can you say Telecom explosion? Clinton prospered because our ability communicate went supernova.
I don't buy that argument at all. While Clinton did a LOT better than Bush (both 41 and 43), GDP growth in the 50's and 60's beats the pants off Clinton's numbers. And they did it while paying off the debt from WWII and rebuilding Europe with the Marshall plan and building the interstate system and fighting the commies in Korea and Vietnam and going to the moon.
And most importantly, they did it without a "telecom explosion". They also did it without artificially low interest rates and easy credit fueling a housing bubble. Telecommunications is certainly a significant part of the economy but it just doesn't hold a candle to housing, and housing is where Clinton got a lot of his pop.
An hour ago when you posted Obama was behind but he's ahead now. The only states still counting votes are the ones that Obama is winning so he'll stay in front.
Which is too bad in the sense that if the electoral vote and popular vote were split maybe there would be some momentum to get rid of the electoral college.
Please, let's stop pretending that Bush started anything. His predecessors were hardly any better.
Yeah, Clinton with his 3.5% unemployment, 3 years of balanced budgets and 8 years averaging 3.7% GDP growth really sucked. I'm glad those days are gone.
How much rocket propellant would it take to put an astronaut into a good entry path and at a speed of maybe 1,000 mph?
Orbital velocity is 17,500 mph so you'd need enough delta-V to decelerate 16,500 mph. A capsule with a heatshield is lighter and easier to launch than the amount of fuel you would need to get that much delta-V.
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As a matter of fact, Dick Cheney and his hand-picked cronies made damn sure that they are indeed exempt.
For those who wonder what exactly Tokolosh is getting at, here are the US corn prices 2001-2012:
for the 2001 - 2013 Calendar Year(s)
Year Corn ( $/bushel )
2001 1.89
2002 2.13
2003 2.27
2004 2.47
2005 1.96
2006 2.28
2007 3.39
2008 4.78
2009 3.75
2010 3.83
2011 6.01
2012 6.67
Data from http://farmdoc.illinois.edu/manage/uspricehistory/USPrice.asp
In the US "Slower traffic keep right" laws are for safety, to prevent the passing vehicle from going through the blind spot of the vehicle being passed. History has shown that to be dangerous. That's why it's also against the law in every state to pass a vehicle on the right.
I suspect the tickets for "being in the wrong lane" you're thinking of are really tickets for failing to yield to faster traffic. Since a police car is traffic just like anybody else, if you fail to move to the right to let a police car pass they can and will ticket you.
The F-22 has never participated in Cope India. A little googling got me some guys speculating about how it would stack up, but that's it. My guess would be the F-22 will never be at Cope India since the USAF already has plenty of data on how it stacks up against the F-15 (that is, very very well), and the USAF is simply not willing to risk revealing too much.
The answer appears to be yes:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_pinegap.htm
I'm not Australian so it's the first I've heard of it.
That's because you negated your entire search string. Try "search -altavista". Works just fine, no altavista results.
Plausible deniability.
Nope, unless by "years" you mean "months". Actually it wasn't even a full 2 months.
The Democrats only had a supermajority in Congress between July 7, 2009 when Al Franken was seated in the Senate, and August 25, 2009 when Ted Kennedy died of a brain tumor.
Ted Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the Senate, so when he died the then-governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, appointed a Republican to replace Kennedy and the Democrats lost their supermajority.
Kennedy had been suffering with a brain tumor for more than a year, and towards the end during that period of supermajority he was not well enough to attend most Senate sessions and only voted a few times.
The Discovery writer got confused and thought the replacement pump check for leaks post-swap was referring to the original leaking pump pre-swap. No doubt they'll fix it any second now....
In the United States of America we have this thing called Freedom of Religion, which means Mr. Obama can be whatever religion he chooses to be. Nobody gets to choose it for him.
The vitamin supplement market is unregulated so I'm sure there will be "GDF-11" supplements on the market in less than a year. This is just too good to pass up.
Will it work? Your guess is as good as mine.
That's so 50 years ago.
From the link:
Weather patterns combined with the jet stream keep the atmosphere well-mixed and fairly homogeneous, especially at high altitude. That's why the recording station is on Mauna Loa:
Volcanoes don't emit just CO2, they also emit other detectable gasses which can then be used to determine if the volcano is contaminating the measurements:
From http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=289
There was also this post:
There appears to be a lot less there than you think.
You must be trolling because It's hard for a rational person to look at this chart and think there will be "no change" when 2016 rolls around. (Hit "download attachment" to see the chart).
In 1979 the minimum was over 16,000 cubic kilometers of Arctic ice. In 2005 the minimum was 9,000 cubic kilometers. Last year it was just above 3,000. The best curve fit of the data (seen on the chart) shows the Arctic will probably be ice-free by 2016.
There are way too many to list in a Slashdot post so you can start with these:
http://foxnewslies.net/
http://www.politicususa.com/fox-news-hosts-speak-words-written-laughing.html
http://aattp.org/category/fox-news-lies-2/
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=8583
In fact, Fox has admitted to lying in Federal Appellate Court:
http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/
From http://blogs.computerworld.com/internet/21817/six-ways-pirates-can-get-around-coming-six-strikes
(my emphasis):
I think "riding it out" as recommended in the blog is a Bad Idea. To me, the "with this program" caveat implies they have other plans for people who ignore them, probably involving the courts. By time you rack up six strikes they will have lots of evidence of infringement, and plenty of evidence that you ignored their warnings. Defending yourself in court against that kind of evidence is hard (read expensive).
Your post makes a
( ) theoretical (X) specious ( ) crackpot ( ) incoherent
argument denying anthropogenic global warming. You are wrong. Here is why you are wrong.
(X) Your post contains one or more logical errors
(X) Logical fallacy
(X) Your post contains one or more factual errors
( ) Online searching has failed to find scientific support for the posted theory(s)
( ) Your source or reference is not from the field of climate science
( ) Your source actually never said that
(X) Citation please
( ) An idea is not responsible for the people who support it
( ) The mothership is not coming to save us
( ) Please use a keyboard that you know
Specifically, you fail to understand that
( ) Global warming is a long-term global trend
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate
( ) Local trends have little to do with long-term global trends
( ) Short-term trends have little to do with long-term global trends
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_uncertainty_analysis
( ) Peak temperatures only happen every once in a while
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png
( ) The Earth is warming up
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nasa-giss_1880-2009_global_temperature.svg
(X) Surface temperature measurements are valid and meaningful
(X) http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/02/temperature-record-reliability-attack.php
( ) Other planets are not warming up
( ) http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/02/theres-global-warming-on-mars-too.php
( ) The sun is not warming up
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar-cycle-data.png
( ) CO2 levels have increased 35% in 150 years due to human activity
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide-en.svg
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_Dioxide_400kyr.png
( ) Factors other than CO2 also affect climate
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
( ) The absorption of infrared radiation by greenhouse gases is well understood
( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect
( ) Water vapor is fully represented in all climate models
( ) http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/02/climate-scientists-hide-water-vapor.php
( ) Scientists did not predict an ice age in the 70s
( ) http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/
( ) CO2 fertilization effects are far too weak to offset current rates of increase
( )
See here for more on this:
http://opengeodata.org/google-ip-vandalizing-openstreetmap
Boss: Let's see, 10c * 1,000,000 production run = $100,000 to replace a web interface that costs us nothing because we can sell customers usage patterns to advertisers?
Boss: You're fired.
Indeed, the Walmart of space. People like the GP like to sneer at the lowest-cost vendor but lowering the cost of access to space into a whole new range like SpaceX is doing is damn hard, and the payoff is going to be incredible.
I don't buy that argument at all. While Clinton did a LOT better than Bush (both 41 and 43), GDP growth in the 50's and 60's beats the pants off Clinton's numbers. And they did it while paying off the debt from WWII and rebuilding Europe with the Marshall plan and building the interstate system and fighting the commies in Korea and Vietnam and going to the moon.
And most importantly, they did it without a "telecom explosion". They also did it without artificially low interest rates and easy credit fueling a housing bubble. Telecommunications is certainly a significant part of the economy but it just doesn't hold a candle to housing, and housing is where Clinton got a lot of his pop.
Nope, Obama got the popular vote too:
http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president?hpt=elec_racenav
An hour ago when you posted Obama was behind but he's ahead now. The only states still counting votes are the ones that Obama is winning so he'll stay in front.
Which is too bad in the sense that if the electoral vote and popular vote were split maybe there would be some momentum to get rid of the electoral college.
Yeah, Clinton with his 3.5% unemployment, 3 years of balanced budgets and 8 years averaging 3.7% GDP growth really sucked. I'm glad those days are gone.
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Orbital velocity is 17,500 mph so you'd need enough delta-V to decelerate 16,500 mph. A capsule with a heatshield is lighter and easier to launch than the amount of fuel you would need to get that much delta-V.