If we can't revoke their ability to operate directly, we should make sure they bare the full brunt of the economic and legal consequence their negligence brought. If you dumped barrels of oil into the ocean and one of them some how burst into flames killing 11 of your buddies and your only defense is "I didn't think it'd actually blowup" then I'd think you'd probably be going to jail and be facing massive fines. Just because BP is a corporation should not excuse them from this reality.
1. BP should experience high punitive damages for the deaths of the workers on the rig. 2. BP executives who made the decisions to cut corners, leading to the deaths of 11 works should all be charged with manslaughter. 3. BP should be held responsible for all clean-up costs. 4. BP should not be allowed to operate any new ventures in the USA and they should essentially be given a "get out of town" notice. Though that may not be needed as they might have to sell off all their assets & liquidate to pay for 1, 2 & 3.
What I do fear is that if criminal charges are brought forth, then those upper level executives are going to be playing a big game of "pine the tail on the scape-goat" and perhaps some of them will slip through, but at least it'll be good for some of them to be in the hot seat and some of them to get to spend time with Bubba.
I have a most profounded offer to you today! My brother who is a prince of high royalty has been imprisoned today due to unjustice in our country. Before he was unjustifiably taken away he left me a map of the deepest and largest oil reserves of this country. Seeing your current situation in the united states, I offer to you this map in a gesture of gratitude if you will help me free my brother who has the map in his cell hidden.
To bribe a guard we will need $10000 American USA dollars, please send me your account # so we may transfer this out, or if you prefer I may send you a money order that may be cashed and returned to me, so as you do not lose money.
They can't go on to a third-world country if we sue them out of existence & charge their executives with negligence. Some time in prison would serve as a good warning for their idiocy. I doubt it'll happen to that effect, but the notion that we need BP to fuck-up our Gulf Coast because no one else can or that we need them to fuck-up our coastline so as to protect other nations, is retarded. If we really want to do something, then the executives responsible need to be punished & the company needs to be dismantled.
What about Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage movement or Gay rights right now? Women's place in marriage in the past was usually repressive & before Women's Suffrage they didn't even have many basic rights. Religion can create community & it can destroy it. Do something "wrong" in the eyes of the religious and the entire community will hold a grudge. Social clubs usually had a racist & sexist bent to them: no women, no blacks. Families still exist, it's just Betty Crocker was a lie. Your fear of homosexuals has nothing to do with families as many of them are trying to get the rights to marriage to maintain family lifestyle like heterosexuals.
It sounds like you long for "the good ol' days", where white straight males were dominant & "life was good". My Grandma grew-up during the Great Depression, my mom grew up through the late 50s & 60s. Both lives were hard. Life was not squeaky clean back then. It was only squeaky clean for the privileged: white males who made a decent wage - forget being poor, colored, a strong female or gay.
The current situation isn't perfect, but don't act like "the good ol' days" were either.
I had one controllable lucid dream in my life and it was very short lived. I had seen the movie "Waking Life" a few weeks earlier and it had some of the tips on lucid dreaming in it, such as the light switch tip or trying to read. So it's a few weeks after watching it and I am walking down the street in my dream and something happens to make me realize it's a dream, not sure what it was but I figured out I was in a dream. So I started prancing around down the street going "I am in a dream, I am in a dream, I can do whatever I want...", with quite a few people looking at me funny. Probably what a lot of people do is fly, so I tried flying and I did indeed fly up above the city I lived in. It looked a lot like Google Maps aerial view, though Google Maps didn't exist at that time. Then logic started ruining it for me. I wondered how my brain new all this data about what the city looked like from an aerial view & why I wasn't cold & if I'd have enough oxygen up here or what would happen if I fell. I felt myself regaining consciousness, so I tried spinning myself in circles(which was a tip from Waking Life or somewhere else, which is suppose to make you stay asleep), but I felt my dream world fading and then I remember opening my eyes and saying "Crap...".
I've never had another experience like it, but it was pretty cool.
Who does the Government usually contract out to? Private Enterprise. They're in bed together. Corruption is the problem, not capitalism vs socialism or big vs small government.
That's a BS excuse. How many barrels is a catastrophic oil disaster? How many days does it have to leak? What if it's a single day with 5,000 barrels released? That's a hell of a lot less than 25,000 barrels over 30 days. Getting proper measurements would definitely aid in calculating how far the oil is going to travel, what areas might be affected & how much improvement BP has made in plugging the leak. Getting that data is pretty damn important.
The fact that the Coast Guard and Obama are impotent to BP is just plan retarded. Obama should be filleting some BP ass right about now and getting shit done. Instead we have all this pussy-footing going on under the table which is really infuriating...
Even lower-end chips are coming out with VM tech. I am running a Celeron E3200 @ 3.8ghz w/ VTd. Though my old Pentium-Dual Core E2160 did not support VTd. There is old hardware out there that virtualization is used on such as P4s and earlier Core/Core2 CPUs.
The whole wifi-snarfing things is overblown. You're broadcasting on public airwaves, anyone can collect your encrypted or unencrypted data. Also streets are public, anyone can walk down them and take a picture. People are concerned over the massive scale that Google does it on. Never the less, it's public data and who know how this public data might be useful on a massive scale. It's not as though Google is barging into your home to street map it, nor does it appear they were running massively parallel crack attempts to get into your wireless network.
I say this know, but I'll probably change my tune once Google maps me walking down the street in my underwear and snarfs me on 4chan...
"Despite the extensive cleanup attempts, less than ten percent of the oil was recovered [14] and a study conducted by NOAA determined that as of early 2007 more than 26 thousand U.S. gallons (22,000 imp gal; 98,000 L) of oil remain in the sandy soil of the contaminated shoreline, declining at a rate of less than 4% per year.[15]" "Almost 20 years after the spill, a team of scientists at the University of North Carolina found that the effects are lasting far longer than expected.[19] The team estimates some shoreline Arctic habitats may take up to 30 years to recover.[5]"
If the worst estimates are correct of 1.1 million US gallons per day for the Deepwater Horizon spill, then that is 1 Exxon Valdez spill every 10 days. So far this has been going on for almost 23 days. We're already at 2.3 Exxon Valdez spills, will we hit 3 or 4 times as much before they can stop the leak? While the Gulf being quite a bit larger than the Prince William Sound will help dilute the oil, it will also make clean-up more difficult. You will have thousands of miles of coast line to clean-up & multiple states & countries that will need to be involved. The Gulf also has very sensitive marshlands which I can see just gulping up the oil and having a hard time releasing it. These marshlands aren't always accessible to humans. I don't think we're going to see too many people getting their tooth brushes out to go clean off the alligators or the poisonous snakes like they did with the otters and seabirds.
It's rather complicated it looks like, DUP may have lost seats & UCUNF didn't get any more seats? I am in the USA, so know very little on the politics in Northern Ireland.
Do you like women with prickly or hairy legs? What about armpits or facial whiskers or unibrows? Are women weird because some of them don't like a man with a beard? Does a man having no facial hair make him look like a prepubescent boy and all the women attracted to said man must have underlying pedo-fantasies? What about men who shave their head, does that mean they secretly want to be babies again? What about make-up, clothing or hygiene or anything else people do that alters "the way nature made it"?
What defines a person as an adult is their age & frame of mind, not their pubic hair...
I think where people need to direct their anger to is "corruption" & "incompetence", there is both in the government, health care & insurance industry. While you seem to use your experience to direct anti-government sentiment, there are many here in the USA who have a lot of anger over how they are treated by the insurance companies. It's one thing to get a doctor telling you no, but it's another thing to have to doctor tell you yes, but your insurance won't cover it, that procedure will cost $25,000 or that drug is $500/mn and you don't have a job or insurance since you're sick.
It's not really the government or insurance companies at fault, but the corruption, incompetence and greed within them.
Misdiagnoses happens all the time everywhere in the world. If you have a complex or chronic disorder in the USA you're lucky if the doctor takes you seriously and doesn't just tell you "it's in your head" or "stress, find a new job", or I've also heard "so what do you want me to do about it?". They will promptly bill your insurance $250 for their 15 minutes of non-help though... If you have insurance...
How do you know your stock clocked CPU isn't failing on you? It's happened before where you get a faulty CPU out of the box that doesn't boot, what about phantom errors in stock clocked CPUs that don't fail to boot.
Overclocking/unlocking is probably not a good idea in a production environment where stability is key, but for enthusiasts who know what they're doing and have been doing this for decades than it should be fine, so long as you stress test.
You seem to have the notion that you're risking data loss by overclocking/unlocking. You're risking data loss by not backing-up your data. Even stock clocked CPUs overheat or hard drives fail. Also I don't think I've ever had data loss occur from overclocking, only stability issues where the system crashes out. It's unlikely you'll lose data on your hard drive due to an overclocked CPU.
So basically it sounds like someone bending the word of "God" to really just be a way of telling other people what to do/not to do and that the divine word isn't really divine after all.
Well it's kind of a pain when you have 87 updates to do and descriptions are something along the lines of "Security Update for libglrp, libxmzldd, libbml2 - fixes buffer overflows at vectors 04ff0fff", well great, what does that mean? What programs are dependent on these libraries, probably a nifty command line I could run that has commands similar to sounds animals make "grep moo | awk -grUnT", that's not very user friendly though. Ultimately, you really don't know if it's going to mess up things until after you install it. Grandma probably wouldn't know what a libxml was anyways.
Plus I've had the update manager tell me to restart after updating, so I don't get the idea that I'd never have to reboot Ubuntu after doing updates, that's just not true.
I am not a fan of HardOCP, once they were posting eBay auctions on their front page from one of their sponsors as being a "Hot Deal", specifically advertising the starting bid price as though it were the actual price of the product being sold. Misleading big time, this was cross posted into their Hot Deals forum as well. I posted a message on their forum asking when did eBay auctions suddenly get allowed into the Hot Deals forum(the rule previously was that eBay auctions were not allowed at all). I got banned for "thread crapping in a sponsors thread". Glad they value their sponsors misleading advertisements over their readers.
If there is an error in favor of the individual, if it's significant, the IRS may bring on an audit. If you catch the mistake after you file, your amended return gets more scrutiny and you have a higher chance of audit. I wouldn't sleep soundly if I knew there was an error and just let it slide because it gave me a couple extra bucks. Basically, if there is an error it needs to be fixed, you don't just want to sleep on it and go "well at least this worked out in my favor".
As far as people being duped into what they owe. There could be a very simple summary provided, along with the pre-filled forms. "You made X, so you are in this tax bracket, so we need this much money and you paid this much money, so this is how much you get back or you owe". If the values don't jive, then people can review the actual forms or take it to a professional to review. Even professional tax preparers mess up & the individual may not know it at all, so I don't see much danger with a pre-filled tax form.
Frankly Intuit & the like make too much money on what basically amounts to a couple data entry boxes & a macro that pre-fills forms w/ simple mathematics. That'll be $49.95 please, let's not get started on the B&M places that like to charge $100+ so you can have a human go to the website for you.
Recently Comcast's SportsNet took over my Portland Trail Blazers local NBA broadcasting, they've basically held the channel hostage and have failed to negotiate a deal with other providers to carry the channel. Most of the quibble is over cost. There are a ton of people who don't want to deal with Comcast or don't even have Comcast in their area who are blacked out.
Communication & content companies need to remain separate. One should not control the other. Comcast should be split into Comcast Communications & Comcast Content if this is the road they want to head down.
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If we can't revoke their ability to operate directly, we should make sure they bare the full brunt of the economic and legal consequence their negligence brought. If you dumped barrels of oil into the ocean and one of them some how burst into flames killing 11 of your buddies and your only defense is "I didn't think it'd actually blowup" then I'd think you'd probably be going to jail and be facing massive fines. Just because BP is a corporation should not excuse them from this reality.
1. BP should experience high punitive damages for the deaths of the workers on the rig.
2. BP executives who made the decisions to cut corners, leading to the deaths of 11 works should all be charged with manslaughter.
3. BP should be held responsible for all clean-up costs.
4. BP should not be allowed to operate any new ventures in the USA and they should essentially be given a "get out of town" notice. Though that may not be needed as they might have to sell off all their assets & liquidate to pay for 1, 2 & 3.
What I do fear is that if criminal charges are brought forth, then those upper level executives are going to be playing a big game of "pine the tail on the scape-goat" and perhaps some of them will slip through, but at least it'll be good for some of them to be in the hot seat and some of them to get to spend time with Bubba.
DEAREST BP EXECUTIVE,
I have a most profounded offer to you today! My brother who is a prince of high royalty has been imprisoned today due to unjustice in our country. Before he was unjustifiably taken away he left me a map of the deepest and largest oil reserves of this country. Seeing your current situation in the united states, I offer to you this map in a gesture of gratitude if you will help me free my brother who has the map in his cell hidden.
To bribe a guard we will need $10000 American USA dollars, please send me your account # so we may transfer this out, or if you prefer I may send you a money order that may be cashed and returned to me, so as you do not lose money.
Sincely,
Brother of Nigerian Prince
They can't go on to a third-world country if we sue them out of existence & charge their executives with negligence. Some time in prison would serve as a good warning for their idiocy. I doubt it'll happen to that effect, but the notion that we need BP to fuck-up our Gulf Coast because no one else can or that we need them to fuck-up our coastline so as to protect other nations, is retarded. If we really want to do something, then the executives responsible need to be punished & the company needs to be dismantled.
What about Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage movement or Gay rights right now? Women's place in marriage in the past was usually repressive & before Women's Suffrage they didn't even have many basic rights. Religion can create community & it can destroy it. Do something "wrong" in the eyes of the religious and the entire community will hold a grudge. Social clubs usually had a racist & sexist bent to them: no women, no blacks. Families still exist, it's just Betty Crocker was a lie. Your fear of homosexuals has nothing to do with families as many of them are trying to get the rights to marriage to maintain family lifestyle like heterosexuals.
It sounds like you long for "the good ol' days", where white straight males were dominant & "life was good". My Grandma grew-up during the Great Depression, my mom grew up through the late 50s & 60s. Both lives were hard. Life was not squeaky clean back then. It was only squeaky clean for the privileged: white males who made a decent wage - forget being poor, colored, a strong female or gay.
The current situation isn't perfect, but don't act like "the good ol' days" were either.
I had one controllable lucid dream in my life and it was very short lived. I had seen the movie "Waking Life" a few weeks earlier and it had some of the tips on lucid dreaming in it, such as the light switch tip or trying to read. So it's a few weeks after watching it and I am walking down the street in my dream and something happens to make me realize it's a dream, not sure what it was but I figured out I was in a dream. So I started prancing around down the street going "I am in a dream, I am in a dream, I can do whatever I want...", with quite a few people looking at me funny. Probably what a lot of people do is fly, so I tried flying and I did indeed fly up above the city I lived in. It looked a lot like Google Maps aerial view, though Google Maps didn't exist at that time. Then logic started ruining it for me. I wondered how my brain new all this data about what the city looked like from an aerial view & why I wasn't cold & if I'd have enough oxygen up here or what would happen if I fell. I felt myself regaining consciousness, so I tried spinning myself in circles(which was a tip from Waking Life or somewhere else, which is suppose to make you stay asleep), but I felt my dream world fading and then I remember opening my eyes and saying "Crap...".
I've never had another experience like it, but it was pretty cool.
Who does the Government usually contract out to? Private Enterprise. They're in bed together. Corruption is the problem, not capitalism vs socialism or big vs small government.
That's a BS excuse. How many barrels is a catastrophic oil disaster? How many days does it have to leak? What if it's a single day with 5,000 barrels released? That's a hell of a lot less than 25,000 barrels over 30 days. Getting proper measurements would definitely aid in calculating how far the oil is going to travel, what areas might be affected & how much improvement BP has made in plugging the leak. Getting that data is pretty damn important.
The fact that the Coast Guard and Obama are impotent to BP is just plan retarded. Obama should be filleting some BP ass right about now and getting shit done. Instead we have all this pussy-footing going on under the table which is really infuriating...
Unfortunately the article was quantum encoded, reading a sentence changes it's statement.
Even lower-end chips are coming out with VM tech. I am running a Celeron E3200 @ 3.8ghz w/ VTd. Though my old Pentium-Dual Core E2160 did not support VTd. There is old hardware out there that virtualization is used on such as P4s and earlier Core/Core2 CPUs.
The whole wifi-snarfing things is overblown. You're broadcasting on public airwaves, anyone can collect your encrypted or unencrypted data. Also streets are public, anyone can walk down them and take a picture. People are concerned over the massive scale that Google does it on. Never the less, it's public data and who know how this public data might be useful on a massive scale. It's not as though Google is barging into your home to street map it, nor does it appear they were running massively parallel crack attempts to get into your wireless network.
I say this know, but I'll probably change my tune once Google maps me walking down the street in my underwear and snarfs me on 4chan...
Create a blackhole AND use it to stop an oil leak? That would require multitasking!
Pretty good info, the only thing I disagree with is that everything will rebound "in a few short years". See the Exxon Valdez spill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
"Despite the extensive cleanup attempts, less than ten percent of the oil was recovered [14] and a study conducted by NOAA determined that as of early 2007 more than 26 thousand U.S. gallons (22,000 imp gal; 98,000 L) of oil remain in the sandy soil of the contaminated shoreline, declining at a rate of less than 4% per year.[15]"
"Almost 20 years after the spill, a team of scientists at the University of North Carolina found that the effects are lasting far longer than expected.[19] The team estimates some shoreline Arctic habitats may take up to 30 years to recover.[5]"
If the worst estimates are correct of 1.1 million US gallons per day for the Deepwater Horizon spill, then that is 1 Exxon Valdez spill every 10 days. So far this has been going on for almost 23 days. We're already at 2.3 Exxon Valdez spills, will we hit 3 or 4 times as much before they can stop the leak? While the Gulf being quite a bit larger than the Prince William Sound will help dilute the oil, it will also make clean-up more difficult. You will have thousands of miles of coast line to clean-up & multiple states & countries that will need to be involved. The Gulf also has very sensitive marshlands which I can see just gulping up the oil and having a hard time releasing it. These marshlands aren't always accessible to humans. I don't think we're going to see too many people getting their tooth brushes out to go clean off the alligators or the poisonous snakes like they did with the otters and seabirds.
It's rather complicated it looks like, DUP may have lost seats & UCUNF didn't get any more seats? I am in the USA, so know very little on the politics in Northern Ireland.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1987776,00.html
Do you like women with prickly or hairy legs? What about armpits or facial whiskers or unibrows? Are women weird because some of them don't like a man with a beard? Does a man having no facial hair make him look like a prepubescent boy and all the women attracted to said man must have underlying pedo-fantasies? What about men who shave their head, does that mean they secretly want to be babies again? What about make-up, clothing or hygiene or anything else people do that alters "the way nature made it"?
What defines a person as an adult is their age & frame of mind, not their pubic hair...
MTV, VH1 & G4 all off the air at one time? Heaven could indeed be a place on earth once again...
I think where people need to direct their anger to is "corruption" & "incompetence", there is both in the government, health care & insurance industry. While you seem to use your experience to direct anti-government sentiment, there are many here in the USA who have a lot of anger over how they are treated by the insurance companies. It's one thing to get a doctor telling you no, but it's another thing to have to doctor tell you yes, but your insurance won't cover it, that procedure will cost $25,000 or that drug is $500/mn and you don't have a job or insurance since you're sick.
It's not really the government or insurance companies at fault, but the corruption, incompetence and greed within them.
Misdiagnoses happens all the time everywhere in the world. If you have a complex or chronic disorder in the USA you're lucky if the doctor takes you seriously and doesn't just tell you "it's in your head" or "stress, find a new job", or I've also heard "so what do you want me to do about it?". They will promptly bill your insurance $250 for their 15 minutes of non-help though... If you have insurance...
How do you know your stock clocked CPU isn't failing on you? It's happened before where you get a faulty CPU out of the box that doesn't boot, what about phantom errors in stock clocked CPUs that don't fail to boot.
Overclocking/unlocking is probably not a good idea in a production environment where stability is key, but for enthusiasts who know what they're doing and have been doing this for decades than it should be fine, so long as you stress test.
You seem to have the notion that you're risking data loss by overclocking/unlocking. You're risking data loss by not backing-up your data. Even stock clocked CPUs overheat or hard drives fail. Also I don't think I've ever had data loss occur from overclocking, only stability issues where the system crashes out. It's unlikely you'll lose data on your hard drive due to an overclocked CPU.
Overall your post just reeks of fear-mongering.
So basically it sounds like someone bending the word of "God" to really just be a way of telling other people what to do/not to do and that the divine word isn't really divine after all.
Well it's kind of a pain when you have 87 updates to do and descriptions are something along the lines of "Security Update for libglrp, libxmzldd, libbml2 - fixes buffer overflows at vectors 04ff0fff", well great, what does that mean? What programs are dependent on these libraries, probably a nifty command line I could run that has commands similar to sounds animals make "grep moo | awk -grUnT", that's not very user friendly though. Ultimately, you really don't know if it's going to mess up things until after you install it. Grandma probably wouldn't know what a libxml was anyways.
Plus I've had the update manager tell me to restart after updating, so I don't get the idea that I'd never have to reboot Ubuntu after doing updates, that's just not true.
I still miss Crystal Pepsi :(
I am not a fan of HardOCP, once they were posting eBay auctions on their front page from one of their sponsors as being a "Hot Deal", specifically advertising the starting bid price as though it were the actual price of the product being sold. Misleading big time, this was cross posted into their Hot Deals forum as well. I posted a message on their forum asking when did eBay auctions suddenly get allowed into the Hot Deals forum(the rule previously was that eBay auctions were not allowed at all). I got banned for "thread crapping in a sponsors thread". Glad they value their sponsors misleading advertisements over their readers.
If there is an error in favor of the individual, if it's significant, the IRS may bring on an audit. If you catch the mistake after you file, your amended return gets more scrutiny and you have a higher chance of audit. I wouldn't sleep soundly if I knew there was an error and just let it slide because it gave me a couple extra bucks. Basically, if there is an error it needs to be fixed, you don't just want to sleep on it and go "well at least this worked out in my favor". As far as people being duped into what they owe. There could be a very simple summary provided, along with the pre-filled forms. "You made X, so you are in this tax bracket, so we need this much money and you paid this much money, so this is how much you get back or you owe". If the values don't jive, then people can review the actual forms or take it to a professional to review. Even professional tax preparers mess up & the individual may not know it at all, so I don't see much danger with a pre-filled tax form. Frankly Intuit & the like make too much money on what basically amounts to a couple data entry boxes & a macro that pre-fills forms w/ simple mathematics. That'll be $49.95 please, let's not get started on the B&M places that like to charge $100+ so you can have a human go to the website for you.
No one has every made a porno about two girls and they take this cup and then they... wait... what!?
Recently Comcast's SportsNet took over my Portland Trail Blazers local NBA broadcasting, they've basically held the channel hostage and have failed to negotiate a deal with other providers to carry the channel. Most of the quibble is over cost. There are a ton of people who don't want to deal with Comcast or don't even have Comcast in their area who are blacked out. Communication & content companies need to remain separate. One should not control the other. Comcast should be split into Comcast Communications & Comcast Content if this is the road they want to head down.