A coffeemaker doesn't brew 8 different cups of coffee. It brews the same cup 8 times. A Keurig can brew a french roast, a decaf, a blonde roast, French vanilla, and so on.
25 years ago, this WAS considered an adequate cleanup. This may shock Slashdot, but we're come very far since then. That's why the Deepwater Horizon spill cleanup was so effective.
Perhaps it would help if I quoted the part of the article that WASN'T in the summary:
Researchers aren't sure how much oil remains ensconced under these bouldersâ€"that would require a different kind of study. "We think it's low levels," says Irvine. "Quite frankly, I didn't think [oil] would be there because it's been so long."
Nonetheless, the oil is thereâ€"and is leaking out. Irvine and colleagues collected and tested mussels near these boulder fields and found low levels of Exxon Valdez oil in their tissues.
Irvine says the levels are so low that it probably isn't a cause for concern for the animals. She says the main takeaway from the study is the fact that surprisingly fresh oil can linger in certain environments long after a spill has been cleaned up.
The oil levels are basically only interesting and not threatening.
Are you serious? You think because you have some natural bowling ability that becoming "roboticly perfect" should be common? Did you ever notice that human bodies aren't perfect? That wooden lanes aren't perfect? That the oiling of the lane isn't perfectly distributed? That the pins aren't perfect in weight and shape? Too many variables.
My dad used a composite signal booster in between the two VCRs. Crank it up as high as you can without causing the recording VCR to wash out, and it doesn't give the AGC circuit much headroom to work with.
Not to mention that the ever-proliferating toll roads (remember how the states BOUGHT those roads from the private owners to REMOVE the tolls?) charge more for the extra axle. So now your fuel savings go into greatly increased tolls.
Tesla has yet to produce a mass-market automobile. What you've said is like saying the latest 7-series BMW is pushing Hyundai to include anti-dazzle LED headlights and a self-leveling suspension.
They're the folks the so-called Tea Party has been warning you about. Naturally, you shoot the messenger, and call these closet progressives "moderates" and say the Republican party has to "move to the middle". The "middle" is where these anti-democratic, anti-free-market neocons LIVE.
Solyndra wasn't the only one to fail. It was just the biggest, and the money we lost through it was over 8% of the 6 billion "invested" through the ARRA. But wait! We lost $279 million through A123! So our "success" rate is down to 87%. That's assuming the other companies don't fail soon, and the big one to watch is First Solar. They laid off 2,000 employees and shut down three production facilities since 2012. The net result is that their production has only dropped since 2011, and we have nearly 1.5 billion in them.
I'm pretty sure that if someone gave me $1.5 billion, I could make a profit selling ice to Arctic Circle indigenous peoples.
Indeed. If we can blame nuclear power for any deaths (currently 0) caused by radiation, we can certainly blame, say, the building of cities within a few miles of the coastline for the tsunami deaths. After all, if they hadn't been allowed to live so close to the ocean, they wouldn't have died.
You forgot to mention that one of the problems of eliminating coal is that the cost for such will fall on the backs of the (former) middle class, permanently eliminating it. Of course, this is what our overlords want.
Who's paying for that, again? And I'm wondering where you get your numbers. Are you sure 8 trillion is enough? After all, our entire budget for one year is only 3 trillion.
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The only difference is at work, I'm not allowed to kill the orcs.
A coffeemaker doesn't brew 8 different cups of coffee. It brews the same cup 8 times. A Keurig can brew a french roast, a decaf, a blonde roast, French vanilla, and so on.
Maybe we'll just stop using your coffee maker.
The free market's a bitch. Enjoy your bankruptcy.
Yes, like how the Apollo Alliance wrote the stimulus bill.
I think the number comes from interest and penalties, and was for two tax years.
Um, he filed his microprocessor patent in 1970, if not earlier. That one took forever to be accepted as well.
25 years ago, this WAS considered an adequate cleanup. This may shock Slashdot, but we're come very far since then. That's why the Deepwater Horizon spill cleanup was so effective.
Perhaps it would help if I quoted the part of the article that WASN'T in the summary:
The oil levels are basically only interesting and not threatening.
Yeah, that would have fantastic consequences on the rest of the industry that DIDN'T spill oil.
You're a government worker, I see.
The US government would finish spending your $700 million in one hour and 43 minutes.
Darn off-by-one errors.
Anyway, during which ice age did the Earth's tilt change, or eccentricity increase?
Are you serious? You think because you have some natural bowling ability that becoming "roboticly perfect" should be common? Did you ever notice that human bodies aren't perfect? That wooden lanes aren't perfect? That the oiling of the lane isn't perfectly distributed? That the pins aren't perfect in weight and shape? Too many variables.
No. All proposed initiatives have been backed by increased governance, resulting in the destruction of the middle class and most human rights.
My dad used a composite signal booster in between the two VCRs. Crank it up as high as you can without causing the recording VCR to wash out, and it doesn't give the AGC circuit much headroom to work with.
Not to mention that the ever-proliferating toll roads (remember how the states BOUGHT those roads from the private owners to REMOVE the tolls?) charge more for the extra axle. So now your fuel savings go into greatly increased tolls.
I wonder what they'll do with the HOV lanes once everyone has electric cars. Government employees only? Two legs better...
Yeah, because having the government pump money into failing banks is exactly what happens in the free market.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
Tesla has yet to produce a mass-market automobile. What you've said is like saying the latest 7-series BMW is pushing Hyundai to include anti-dazzle LED headlights and a self-leveling suspension.
A neocon is an ex-leftist.
They're the folks the so-called Tea Party has been warning you about. Naturally, you shoot the messenger, and call these closet progressives "moderates" and say the Republican party has to "move to the middle". The "middle" is where these anti-democratic, anti-free-market neocons LIVE.
Solyndra wasn't the only one to fail. It was just the biggest, and the money we lost through it was over 8% of the 6 billion "invested" through the ARRA. But wait! We lost $279 million through A123! So our "success" rate is down to 87%. That's assuming the other companies don't fail soon, and the big one to watch is First Solar. They laid off 2,000 employees and shut down three production facilities since 2012. The net result is that their production has only dropped since 2011, and we have nearly 1.5 billion in them.
I'm pretty sure that if someone gave me $1.5 billion, I could make a profit selling ice to Arctic Circle indigenous peoples.
Indeed. If we can blame nuclear power for any deaths (currently 0) caused by radiation, we can certainly blame, say, the building of cities within a few miles of the coastline for the tsunami deaths. After all, if they hadn't been allowed to live so close to the ocean, they wouldn't have died.
You forgot to mention that one of the problems of eliminating coal is that the cost for such will fall on the backs of the (former) middle class, permanently eliminating it. Of course, this is what our overlords want.
Who's paying for that, again? And I'm wondering where you get your numbers. Are you sure 8 trillion is enough? After all, our entire budget for one year is only 3 trillion.
People generally ignore those unless you have their SSN and can put it on their credit report.
You expect people to be 100% in agreement about everything?