" A levee or dike shouldn't collapse if the water stands at it's top. It should flood over."
As I understand it, the floodwalls did flood over and then once there was water on both sides it washed out the floodwall foundations and that's why they gave way.
Are you kidding? Garner Ted never got straight to the point like that.
I used to catch him on car radio at night years ago. Even though it held my attention for the full half hour, at the end I had no idea what he had said.
"Why is it taking so long for everyone else to catch-up?!"
Because even now that represents a pretty fair chunk of change that others are probably spending on neccessities, investing for retirement, or using in the raising of their children?
Would that be the guy who, despite a previous career as a federal prosecutor, let the mob steal materials removed from one of the biggest and most important crime scenes and subjects of civil suits ever (not counting the Nazi death camps), materials that might have been evidence?
"As it stands today the company charges you more today, because the cost is higher to them today and when the cost to them goes down next week/month/year, you will expect an immediate decrease in the price."
Expect whatever you want to but prepare to be disappointed.
The chain that owns the station down the street from me sent people out in early August to replace parts on the overhead signs so that the dollar numeral could be flipped over to read "3" (and I fear they've got at least a "4" under there as well. Prices were headed up even before Katrina formed as a tropical depression, the word just hadn't gotten out to us peons yet.
Heard one of Bush's economic advisers on C-SPAN saying that after awhile gas prices would go back to normal. Ain't gonna happen. What we're seeing now *is* the new normal. And unless China suddenly discovers themselves sitting on another previously unknown underground supply as big as the Saudi's, then in a year or so we may be looking back with longing at gasoline for under $4 a gallon.
"For no obvious reason, he likes people to link redirects like mgno.com or massivewinners.com/mgno, instead of linking his LiveJournal direct."
If you'll go back and read his blog you'll see that he says something about someone else (perhaps anonymously) paying for LiveJournal for him, so apparently someone went into their own pocket to mirror him and conserve bandwidth at his (interdictor's) physical location. Maybe those other links are part of spreading out the bandwidth use as well, or are left over from before he got put on LJ.
"...those poor folks who ignored the week of warning and the free bus ride out of danger's way..."
A week before landfall the warning was basically "it'll probably cross Florida and then turn in a northerly direction towards somewhere on the Gulf coast." By the time they got a better handle on approximately where on the coast it would hit there was a lot less time left than a week. As for those free bus rides, got a link to any documentation for that?
"Although this does not directly help anyone in the disaster areas, the fact that there is a disaster there does not mean that there are no longer patients in need near you. Save a life, donate blood."
Blood, like oil, is semi-fungible. If you increase the local stock that's that much less that has to be shipped in and that much more that can be used elsewhere.
"All cell providers are literally moving mountains to get the towers back online.
Literally? I doubt it."
Hey, maybe those mountains are in the signal path. Of course what are considered mountains down there might be thought of as hills in other parts of the world.:-)
"The father gets no choice in the matter and still gets to pay some lovely child support for the next 18 years to the woman that "forgot" to take her pill. If she wants to be the final authority, let her take the full responsibility too."
If the man finds this situation unacceptable he should feel free to either keep it in his pants or have himself surgically altered *and* also use a condom. If the pregnancy is the result of her raping him I'm willing to concede that he has greater rights in the situation than might otherwise be the case.
"Is godspeed really fast (because He is omnipotent and can produce miracles in fractions of a second), or is it really slow (because He is ageless, has all the time in the universe, and doesn't need to be rushed)?"
Perhaps it really means "May you make good speed" in a sort of reverse of how "May God be with you" turned into "Goodbye", but I've always understood it to mean "May God speed you on your way (and watch over you and protect you throughout the journey)" (in the nice sense, not the "I hope God gets you out of here in a hurry" sense).
"20 years ago, I build my own monophonic synthesizer using (I think, it's been a while) 755 and 756 Voltage Controlled Oscillators..."
The 7555 is the low power CMOS version of the 555 timer chip (and the 556 is two of them on one chip-the 558 is a quad version), but perhaps you mean the 565 Phase-locked Loop and 566 Voltage controlled Function Generator (which were also used in conjunction with the 567 tone decoder in home brew Touch-Tone systems).
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As I understand it, the floodwalls did flood over and then once there was water on both sides it washed out the floodwall foundations and that's why they gave way.
Are you kidding? Garner Ted never got straight to the point like that.
I used to catch him on car radio at night years ago. Even though it held my attention for the full half hour, at the end I had no idea what he had said.
...who was a Republican until just before the mayoral election.
Didn't you say you had a tuner card in every machine? What kind and how much did they cost? Is that P3 the greatest or the least of those machines?
Because even now that represents a pretty fair chunk of change that others are probably spending on neccessities, investing for retirement, or using in the raising of their children?
And you know this to be an absolute fact how, exactly?
Would that be the guy who, despite a previous career as a federal prosecutor, let the mob steal materials removed from one of the biggest and most important crime scenes and subjects of civil suits ever (not counting the Nazi death camps), materials that might have been evidence?
How droll that his last name translates (*very* roughly) to Le Moyne "of good city".
Hey, as one of the first familes of New Orleans maybe he has rich descendants that we can sue for his mistake! :-)
The lower classes are looting, the upper classes are "commandeering" necessary supplies. :-)
Expect whatever you want to but prepare to be disappointed.
The chain that owns the station down the street from me sent people out in early August to replace parts on the overhead signs so that the dollar numeral could be flipped over to read "3" (and I fear they've got at least a "4" under there as well. Prices were headed up even before Katrina formed as a tropical depression, the word just hadn't gotten out to us peons yet.
Heard one of Bush's economic advisers on C-SPAN saying that after awhile gas prices would go back to normal. Ain't gonna happen. What we're seeing now *is* the new normal. And unless China suddenly discovers themselves sitting on another previously unknown underground supply as big as the Saudi's, then in a year or so we may be looking back with longing at gasoline for under $4 a gallon.
Well how can you expect him to have any sympathy for people who are committing the unpardonable sin of being poor? :-)
Well, at least they remembered to include the humor icon (the Monty Python foot).
Is this Zonk guy someone fairly new, or did people just start complaining about him recently?
If you'll go back and read his blog you'll see that he says something about someone else (perhaps anonymously) paying for LiveJournal for him, so apparently someone went into their own pocket to mirror him and conserve bandwidth at his (interdictor's) physical location. Maybe those other links are part of spreading out the bandwidth use as well, or are left over from before he got put on LJ.
How do you feel about "tolerance"?
A week before landfall the warning was basically "it'll probably cross Florida and then turn in a northerly direction towards somewhere on the Gulf coast." By the time they got a better handle on approximately where on the coast it would hit there was a lot less time left than a week. As for those free bus rides, got a link to any documentation for that?
Perhaps the AC is sufficiently well read to be referring to Governor Earl Long and the stripper Blaze Starr.
Yeah, but it's the state capital so it's flooded with another kind of toxic sludge, politicians. :-)
Blood, like oil, is semi-fungible. If you increase the local stock that's that much less that has to be shipped in and that much more that can be used elsewhere.
Literally? I doubt it."
Hey, maybe those mountains are in the signal path. Of course what are considered mountains down there might be thought of as hills in other parts of the world. :-)
If the man finds this situation unacceptable he should feel free to either keep it in his pants or have himself surgically altered *and* also use a condom. If the pregnancy is the result of her raping him I'm willing to concede that he has greater rights in the situation than might otherwise be the case.
Now that's just blasphemy.
I would like to see how she'd look as a brunette, though.
It was actually possible to run Windows 3.1 on a 286 with 2Mb of ram.
Wouldn't happen to have a link to a schematic (even simplified), would you?
Perhaps it really means "May you make good speed" in a sort of reverse of how "May God be with you" turned into "Goodbye", but I've always understood it to mean "May God speed you on your way (and watch over you and protect you throughout the journey)" (in the nice sense, not the "I hope God gets you out of here in a hurry" sense).
The 7555 is the low power CMOS version of the 555 timer chip (and the 556 is two of them on one chip-the 558 is a quad version), but perhaps you mean the 565 Phase-locked Loop and 566 Voltage controlled Function Generator (which were also used in conjunction with the 567 tone decoder in home brew Touch-Tone systems).