President Bush and his appointed Secretary of the Interior attempted to get rid of the USGS National Water Quality Assessment program (NAWQA). The NAWQA program was set up to judge the overall quality of water in our country and is the primary means of judging the effectiveness of the Clean Water Act. It's not a quick fix, it's been around for decades. If Congress would have let them get rid of it, Bush could have deregulated industries that cause pollution and no one would have been checking to see if our waters were getting any worse. Bush isn't running away from environmental issues, he's trying to make it impossible to show that things are getting worse. He's undermining our science.
Yes, 9/11 showed we had airport security problems. I hope we've fixed them. As it is, focusing on airport security is a case of refighting the last war (as they say in military circles). The next big terror attack in the USA will be 3 Liquified Natural Gas Tankers exploding, or bombs on subways, or something such as that.
Unfortunately(?) it also makes people who designed and utilize the system look hopelessly incompetent (perhaps they are...)
To me, the proper phrasing is that it exposes that the people who designed and utilize the system are incompetent, or at least are making mistakes. They aren't being misrepresented.
It would help fight kidnapping and the slave trade, that's for sure. It'd help find runaways as well. Not that it's a good idea and I sure wouldn't want it, but it would help in those areas.
You're right. "One small step for man" will be remembered, just like "Beam me up, Scotty", and "Play it again, Sam".
That's like "Air raid Pearl Harbor. This is not drill," and a geographical feature near Normandy known in France as Point du Hoe.
If aliens ever invade Earth, I should be immediately incorporated into the organization set up to resist them. I've been training for this fight for over a decade. I can contribute both as a scientist and as a trooper. If they don't hire me immediately, I'll sue under the EEO laws.
It's not just women. I have an office mate who hates his ex-wife, and he openly encourages men to file false claims against their wives during divorce just to make their lives hell.
I do remote environmental monitoring for my day job (15 years exp). We collect temperature data as an incidental line along with the data we care about. I don't think you want racks of computers in your warehouse, you need dataloggers to read temperature sensors. I'd use something like a Campbell Scientific CR10 datalogger to run strings of thermistors. The system interfaces with computers easily and you don't need to worry about adapting rack-mounted equipment to a hostile environment. These dataloggers (and their many competitors) are designed for outdoor use year round. You stick them in a NEMA-4 box along with some dessicant and a power supply and they work fine. We've had them at -34C with no problems caused by cold. If you want an LCD display you can get one, and it works in the cold.
When I find something in my results I can't explain , I usually go, "Well that's odd" and start collecting more data and trying to find out if it happens again. It's kind of like finishing a level or a side quest in a game; now you get the bonus round that has a new challenge in it. It's fun.
I'm currently a hydrologist with the USGS and I can't say things have changed. I and my coworkers have been interviewed several times and it still gets garbled. Sometimes you get a reporter who can't accept anything short of scientific support for panic so they can say, "Run for the hills!"
They seem to have problems with statements that involve uncertainty. They want a cut-and-dried one-sentence answer. You have to work to get them to understand that you don't have all the answers, or that the answers depend on things that no one controls. I did succeed once in getting a reporter to understand that no one knows if the flood is going to get worse until they know how much it's going to rain tomorrow.
When I see a news report about a geologic or hydrologic event, I go into it expecting the details to be inconsistent. I just look for the basic fact of an eruption, an earthquake, a flood, or a dam break. Anything beyond that seems to end up contradicting itself most of the time.
Actually, sometimes we get stuff like a pronouncement of Elephant Safety Week or a two-page memo telling us to cooperate with the investigators when they come to pick up records for an investigation of the Secretary of the Interior. They write the memo, print it, sign it, then scan it and send it to us as an image file. argh!
Yeah, I've got a bunch of randomizer chits from AH and Simulations Publications, Inc. They usually never made it into the tray; they got tossed into the pile of excess counters.
I recall the TSR product Ragnarok. It came in a clear plastic case, and as you say the book (and folded map) was about 3.5" by 7". I didn't have the copy of it but a friend did. This was the same size as "They've Invaded Pleasantville." I can't get to my copy of Pleasantville, otherwise I'd check for a catalog number.
Yeah, I bought the blue box set, too, at Walden Books. Mine came with a set of the wonderful TSR low-impact dice.
It seems to me that the useful thing to do would be to assemble a database of the times and locations of known whale beachings and a database of times and locations of naval sonar exercises. Make the databases public so anyone can check the work. Look for a correlation between the events.
"Use of the library terminals for viewing or disseminating illegal images is not permitted." It's the third bullet under the section that begins "In addition...".
I suspect they're going to make the claim that he got the child porn via the library computer.
The article also says some teens viewed porn, so they'll probably qualify those as illegal images. The policy does say that parents and guardians are responsible for behavior of their children, though, so that's kind of weak, too.
Quote: The people detained at Gitmo are in fact not US citizens nor were they detained on US soil and thus do not enjoy the protections of the Consitution of the United States. Moreso by the strictures of the Geneva Conventions these people are unlawful combatants and can be summarily executed.
Question 1: Under what lawful authority have we detained these people? Or is it simply armed kidnapping?
Question 2: How do you know they aren't US citizens? Do you have a list of their names and nationalities, or has one been made public? Or is this list a state secret of which you have no knowledge?
Questions 3: How is it that they are not protected by the Geneva Conventions? The stated reason for holding them is that they are part of an organization that is engaged in combat with the USA. If they are part of an organization, they are protected by Geneva. If they aren't part of an organization and are merely unruly individual civilians who have taken shots at our forces, why are we holding them? Our Government says they have intelligence information about organizations and future attacks. If they've taken up arms and engaged in organized attacks against forces occupying their countries (that would be the USA), then they are protected by Geneva.
Pick one, either their part of an organization or they aren't. If they're part of an organization, they have Geneva protections. If they aren't part of an organization, then interrogations are pretty pointless, aren't they? If interrogations are pointless, why move them to Gitmo?
Web cam has been having network problems since March 5, they updated the image at 08:33 PST March 8 along with a message saying the netwrok problem was 30 miles from the camera and that it was being worked on. Of course, with the new activity, I suspect such work may be halted.
Sorry, you work at a Nuclear Power Plant? Check your frelling AOL/Yahoo/Hotmail e-mail on your own damn computer, on your own damn time.
I'll agree that they can check their personal email on their own time and that reactor operations computers should not be connected to the outside world.
However, some nuclear plant operations staff are required by their license to be aware of outside data such as wind speed and direction (in case of leaks) and how much water is flowing in the river next to the plant. Some plants can't operate if the water in the river gets too low, even if it's only their emergency heatsink. Also, some staff at the plant may be exchanging emails with local Emergency Services/Disaster Assistance personnel, local politicians, or employees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commision. Some (but not all) plant computers need to be connected to the outside world.
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President Bush and his appointed Secretary of the Interior attempted to get rid of the USGS National Water Quality Assessment program (NAWQA). The NAWQA program was set up to judge the overall quality of water in our country and is the primary means of judging the effectiveness of the Clean Water Act. It's not a quick fix, it's been around for decades. If Congress would have let them get rid of it, Bush could have deregulated industries that cause pollution and no one would have been checking to see if our waters were getting any worse. Bush isn't running away from environmental issues, he's trying to make it impossible to show that things are getting worse. He's undermining our science.
Yes, 9/11 showed we had airport security problems. I hope we've fixed them. As it is, focusing on airport security is a case of refighting the last war (as they say in military circles). The next big terror attack in the USA will be 3 Liquified Natural Gas Tankers exploding, or bombs on subways, or something such as that.
Unfortunately(?) it also makes people who designed and utilize the system look hopelessly incompetent (perhaps they are...)
To me, the proper phrasing is that it exposes that the people who designed and utilize the system are incompetent, or at least are making mistakes. They aren't being misrepresented.
It would help fight kidnapping and the slave trade, that's for sure. It'd help find runaways as well. Not that it's a good idea and I sure wouldn't want it, but it would help in those areas.
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You're right. "One small step for man" will be remembered, just like "Beam me up, Scotty", and "Play it again, Sam".
That's like "Air raid Pearl Harbor. This is not drill," and a geographical feature near Normandy known in France as Point du Hoe.
If aliens ever invade Earth, I should be immediately incorporated into the organization set up to resist them. I've been training for this fight for over a decade. I can contribute both as a scientist and as a trooper. If they don't hire me immediately, I'll sue under the EEO laws.
turns out the father had beat the child for not cleaning animal stalls "fast enough".
Minor correction: Ranch foreman slapped child, not father
It's not just women. I have an office mate who hates his ex-wife, and he openly encourages men to file false claims against their wives during divorce just to make their lives hell.
I do remote environmental monitoring for my day job (15 years exp). We collect temperature data as an incidental line along with the data we care about. I don't think you want racks of computers in your warehouse, you need dataloggers to read temperature sensors. I'd use something like a Campbell Scientific CR10 datalogger to run strings of thermistors. The system interfaces with computers easily and you don't need to worry about adapting rack-mounted equipment to a hostile environment. These dataloggers (and their many competitors) are designed for outdoor use year round. You stick them in a NEMA-4 box along with some dessicant and a power supply and they work fine. We've had them at -34C with no problems caused by cold. If you want an LCD display you can get one, and it works in the cold.
Ive got a joke about Pi, but it goes on too long.
That one's been making the rounds lately
The Martians have obviously caught up with him.
When I find something in my results I can't explain , I usually go, "Well that's odd" and start collecting more data and trying to find out if it happens again. It's kind of like finishing a level or a side quest in a game; now you get the bonus round that has a new challenge in it. It's fun.
I'm currently a hydrologist with the USGS and I can't say things have changed. I and my coworkers have been interviewed several times and it still gets garbled. Sometimes you get a reporter who can't accept anything short of scientific support for panic so they can say, "Run for the hills!"
They seem to have problems with statements that involve uncertainty. They want a cut-and-dried one-sentence answer. You have to work to get them to understand that you don't have all the answers, or that the answers depend on things that no one controls. I did succeed once in getting a reporter to understand that no one knows if the flood is going to get worse until they know how much it's going to rain tomorrow.
When I see a news report about a geologic or hydrologic event, I go into it expecting the details to be inconsistent. I just look for the basic fact of an eruption, an earthquake, a flood, or a dam break. Anything beyond that seems to end up contradicting itself most of the time.
Actually, sometimes we get stuff like a pronouncement of Elephant Safety Week or a two-page memo telling us to cooperate with the investigators when they come to pick up records for an investigation of the Secretary of the Interior. They write the memo, print it, sign it, then scan it and send it to us as an image file. argh!
It's a class 4 felony in Illinois to provide pornography to a minor.
Yeah, I've got a bunch of randomizer chits from AH and Simulations Publications, Inc. They usually never made it into the tray; they got tossed into the pile of excess counters.
I recall the TSR product Ragnarok. It came in a clear plastic case, and as you say the book (and folded map) was about 3.5" by 7". I didn't have the copy of it but a friend did. This was the same size as "They've Invaded Pleasantville." I can't get to my copy of Pleasantville, otherwise I'd check for a catalog number. Yeah, I bought the blue box set, too, at Walden Books. Mine came with a set of the wonderful TSR low-impact dice.
That's actually pretty old news. See "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058230/
It seems to me that the useful thing to do would be to assemble a database of the times and locations of known whale beachings and a database of times and locations of naval sonar exercises. Make the databases public so anyone can check the work. Look for a correlation between the events.
"Use of the library terminals for viewing or disseminating illegal images is not permitted." It's the third bullet under the section that begins "In addition...".
I suspect they're going to make the claim that he got the child porn via the library computer.
The article also says some teens viewed porn, so they'll probably qualify those as illegal images. The policy does say that parents and guardians are responsible for behavior of their children, though, so that's kind of weak, too.
Quote: The people detained at Gitmo are in fact not US citizens nor were they detained on US soil and thus do not enjoy the protections of the Consitution of the United States. Moreso by the strictures of the Geneva Conventions these people are unlawful combatants and can be summarily executed.
Question 1: Under what lawful authority have we detained these people? Or is it simply armed kidnapping?
Question 2: How do you know they aren't US citizens? Do you have a list of their names and nationalities, or has one been made public? Or is this list a state secret of which you have no knowledge?
Questions 3: How is it that they are not protected by the Geneva Conventions? The stated reason for holding them is that they are part of an organization that is engaged in combat with the USA. If they are part of an organization, they are protected by Geneva. If they aren't part of an organization and are merely unruly individual civilians who have taken shots at our forces, why are we holding them? Our Government says they have intelligence information about organizations and future attacks. If they've taken up arms and engaged in organized attacks against forces occupying their countries (that would be the USA), then they are protected by Geneva.
Pick one, either their part of an organization or they aren't. If they're part of an organization, they have Geneva protections. If they aren't part of an organization, then interrogations are pretty pointless, aren't they? If interrogations are pointless, why move them to Gitmo?
Web cam has been having network problems since March 5, they updated the image at 08:33 PST March 8 along with a message saying the netwrok problem was 30 miles from the camera and that it was being worked on. Of course, with the new activity, I suspect such work may be halted.
I'll agree that they can check their personal email on their own time and that reactor operations computers should not be connected to the outside world.
However, some nuclear plant operations staff are required by their license to be aware of outside data such as wind speed and direction (in case of leaks) and how much water is flowing in the river next to the plant. Some plants can't operate if the water in the river gets too low, even if it's only their emergency heatsink. Also, some staff at the plant may be exchanging emails with local Emergency Services/Disaster Assistance personnel, local politicians, or employees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commision. Some (but not all) plant computers need to be connected to the outside world.
Well, how about coal and oil?
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