It's of no benefit to the bees, but the $100/hive that the beekeepers get to truck the hives around the country often forms a large portion of their income. The California almond industry is the biggest user if migratory hives and that won't change any time soon. The San Joaquin valley is is heavily loaded with almond trees that any resident bees would starve after the blooms drop. There's nothing else for miles around.
Not to lend credence to anything that one might read on about.com, but it's not just "bee researchers" that are starting to look at migratory beekeeping with a jaundiced eye. Inspectors are looking more carefully at the truckloads as they cross state lines as well. Trucking them all over the country not only spreads pathogens, but exposes the colony to a witches brew of agricultural chemicals and pesticides. CCD-affected hives tend to exhibit symptoms of any number of bee diseases and parasites, but also residue of dozens of pesticides.
A buddy of mine is a desktop admin at Telus in Toronto (the strike is in Alberta and BC). That's a hell of a message to send to the rest of your employees: "We 'support' your right to strike, but we don't want your message to get out to the world."
And he thought he hated his job before the strike. Yow.
Perhaps Taco should read check his submissions a little more closely before approving them: Melvill lost attitude control "end of the rocket engine's firing time of about 70 seconds, just as Melvill reached space". That would be in the ascent phase.
Stop! My Sides! You're killing me! Both you and the other moron are letting your ignorance show. You have quite succinctly demonstrated exactly what it is that I and a very large portion of the world do not like about what, unfortunately, passes for representative Americans. Bravo
It's quite sad, really: any disagreement with you automatically means that I don't like Americans and any and all arguments can and will result in violence, in this case coupled with a strange assortment of insults, what I can only guess is a swipe at my sexuality, and a comment that shows your profound misunderstanding of geography. I must, however, point out that your message, such as it is, is getting garbled by your obvious mastery of grammar and spelling.
Interesting. Based on the investigation into the 1998 SwissAir 111 crash off Nova Scotia, the airline industry (And the US Navy it turns out) was prohibited from using Kapton-insulted wire in aircraft.
I would have thought NASA would want something that doesn't easily burst into flame to shield the probe from the Sun. Oh well, not my tax dollars.
This is news? Cripes, I remember getting shareware from a vending machine at my local Jumbo Video almost ten years ago.
But, it was on diskette and I am as old as the dinosaurs.
Whether or not the government thinks it's a good thing is more or less irrelevant. Extradition cases are decided in court much the same as any other criminal case. The govt can argue for the extradition, but it's still up to the judge.
It's amazing how people make assumptions about things, isn't it: SARS did not "just jumped the species barrier". All of the credible research thus far has it being a mutation of the corona virus. The common cold on a rampage.
Now, if you've been listening to the reports that are still being given daily up here, you'd know that the progression isn't anaything approaching geometric and it is slowing down.
At the risk of repeating myself ad nauseaum, the vast majority of deaths (something in the 80% range) have occured among the elderly and those under treatment for other infections.
No, this is not a "highly contagious disease". It's a virus. Best information sofar points to it being a mutation of the corona virus, similar to that which causes the common cold.
Perhaps you missed the part about 80% of the deaths so far being elderly and others with weakened immune systems.
Yes, it's contagious and requires some sort of management, but the reaction this is way out of line. It requires close contact to be spread. You're not going to catch it walking down the street or riding a bus with an infected person! It's spread through droplet transmission. This literally requires someone spitting on you to pass it on.
Holy cow, people. This has got to stop. The panic that's being spread here in Canada and the rest of the world is ore than a little ridiculous.
Are we trying to make up for the world's lack of response to AIDS and other epidemics? Think about this: the virus has been known for a couple of months and it's killed 100 people. Not 100,000, not 100,000,000, but 100. Worldwide. The vast majority of these people have had weakened immune systems or were otherwise already sick.
100,000 people die each and every year in the US alone from pneumonia. 10,000 or so from influenza. Yet, the entire freaking world is panicking over a mutant cold virus that has kill 100 people in a couple of months. PLEASE, can we all calm down now?
My god, feed me beans for a couple of months and I could kill 100 people.
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It's of no benefit to the bees, but the $100/hive that the beekeepers get to truck the hives around the country often forms a large portion of their income. The California almond industry is the biggest user if migratory hives and that won't change any time soon. The San Joaquin valley is is heavily loaded with almond trees that any resident bees would starve after the blooms drop. There's nothing else for miles around.
Not to lend credence to anything that one might read on about.com, but it's not just "bee researchers" that are starting to look at migratory beekeeping with a jaundiced eye. Inspectors are looking more carefully at the truckloads as they cross state lines as well. Trucking them all over the country not only spreads pathogens, but exposes the colony to a witches brew of agricultural chemicals and pesticides. CCD-affected hives tend to exhibit symptoms of any number of bee diseases and parasites, but also residue of dozens of pesticides.
Changed his name, did he?
A buddy of mine is a desktop admin at Telus in Toronto (the strike is in Alberta and BC). That's a hell of a message to send to the rest of your employees: "We 'support' your right to strike, but we don't want your message to get out to the world."
And he thought he hated his job before the strike. Yow.
Perhaps Taco should read check his submissions a little more closely before approving them: Melvill lost attitude control "end of the rocket engine's firing time of about 70 seconds, just as Melvill reached space". That would be in the ascent phase.
It's quite sad, really: any disagreement with you automatically means that I don't like Americans and any and all arguments can and will result in violence, in this case coupled with a strange assortment of insults, what I can only guess is a swipe at my sexuality, and a comment that shows your profound misunderstanding of geography. I must, however, point out that your message, such as it is, is getting garbled by your obvious mastery of grammar and spelling.
That's about the calibre of response I expected from an American. Thank you for winning the bet for me.
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"Fun" is generally shared by all parties involved and shouldn't come at the expense of others. But, then, my innate Canuckness is showing.
Well, that's disappointing. I just registered specifically because your Feds want the logs. :-)
Interesting. Based on the investigation into the 1998 SwissAir 111 crash off Nova Scotia, the airline industry (And the US Navy it turns out) was prohibited from using Kapton-insulted wire in aircraft.
I would have thought NASA would want something that doesn't easily burst into flame to shield the probe from the Sun. Oh well, not my tax dollars.
This is news? Cripes, I remember getting shareware from a vending machine at my local Jumbo Video almost ten years ago. But, it was on diskette and I am as old as the dinosaurs.
Interesting idea and probably one that many, many people will take advantage of.
Now, what about the RFID jamming watch that RSA is working on? I want one of those.
Interesting to note that Forbes.com is run on a FreeBSD box. Silly capitalists.
Whether or not the government thinks it's a good thing is more or less irrelevant. Extradition cases are decided in court much the same as any other criminal case. The govt can argue for the extradition, but it's still up to the judge.
Not when the same crime doesn't exist in Canada.
Of course you did ...
It's amazing how people make assumptions about things, isn't it: SARS did not "just jumped the species barrier". All of the credible research thus far has it being a mutation of the corona virus. The common cold on a rampage.
Now, if you've been listening to the reports that are still being given daily up here, you'd know that the progression isn't anaything approaching geometric and it is slowing down.
At the risk of repeating myself ad nauseaum, the vast majority of deaths (something in the 80% range) have occured among the elderly and those under treatment for other infections.
No, this is not a "highly contagious disease". It's a virus. Best information sofar points to it being a mutation of the corona virus, similar to that which causes the common cold.
Perhaps you missed the part about 80% of the deaths so far being elderly and others with weakened immune systems.
Yes, it's contagious and requires some sort of management, but the reaction this is way out of line. It requires close contact to be spread. You're not going to catch it walking down the street or riding a bus with an infected person! It's spread through droplet transmission. This literally requires someone spitting on you to pass it on.
Again, Jeez.
Holy cow, people. This has got to stop. The panic that's being spread here in Canada and the rest of the world is ore than a little ridiculous. Are we trying to make up for the world's lack of response to AIDS and other epidemics? Think about this: the virus has been known for a couple of months and it's killed 100 people. Not 100,000, not 100,000,000, but 100. Worldwide. The vast majority of these people have had weakened immune systems or were otherwise already sick. 100,000 people die each and every year in the US alone from pneumonia. 10,000 or so from influenza. Yet, the entire freaking world is panicking over a mutant cold virus that has kill 100 people in a couple of months. PLEASE, can we all calm down now? My god, feed me beans for a couple of months and I could kill 100 people.
Actually, you're both wrong. The Trash Heap's name was Marjorie. The Trash Heap has spoken!