It is never appropriate to short circuit due process in legal matters. If you crack the door open, it will open a little wider each day, until the floodgates are wide. There is never an excuse for not waiting for an investigation or arrests, "just for this one kind of offense."
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Nonsense, it's completely representative of normal use. That's exactly the point. Until data loss occurs, or there are no more free blocks to use, the flash memory is objectively perfectly good.
Yes there are so called socially responsible mutual funds. One man's socially responsible is another man's irresponsible, or even pandering, but that's not the point.
The point is that with a 401K, you are limited to the firm your employer offers you, and the mutual funds that firm offers; and to a lesser extent IRAs are effectively limited too. I am more in tune with your feelings than you might imagine, but this rhetoric is so over the top as to be nonproductive or even counterproductive. Murder? How did we get from an oil well accident to murder?
I understand it is pointless to debate a fanatic, but I will just add this for the benefit of people who have an operating sense of proportion.
A guy with a 401K or an IRA is very unlikely to hold stock in BP directly. He holds XYZ mutual fund, which in turn is invested in BP and in dozens or hundreds of other corporations. The guy has better things to do with his time than investigate every one of these corporations in depth and find out which ones some fanatic regards as murderers, and then try to find a new mutual fund which his investment plan allows him access to which includes none of those. You should not be surprised at this.
There's a word for people who think a corporation is some kind of bottomless pit from which you can plunder as much wealth as you want. I can't think what it is right now... no, really...
If you fine (or tax) a corporation, it just means the customers and stockholders get shafted. The corporation just passes the cost on. If it is a bad enough hit, or if they can't pass it on, they go bankrupt. That'll really help the situation... NOT. And if you think stockholders mean a bunch of greedy billionaires, think again. There are countless little guys with 401K and IRA funds in that stock.
You can find individual corporate officers guilty of criminal negligence, however. This won't help all that much with paying for the damages, but will make a lot of us feel better.
But yes, the corruptocracy which is a collusion between government, bureaucracy, and megacorporations is sickening.
Both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombs were detonated 2000 feet above the surface in a calculated decision to trade off a smaller area of utter destruction for a larger area of very severe destruction. That's why stronger structures were not completely destroyed. From underground tests we know you get a big vaporized hole. Rock, concrete, steel, anything in the immediate area would be REMOVED. That should take out the buried pipe completely for some distance. Whether the underground hole would seal effectively is an entirely different question. I don't think it would work to a high degree of confidence, but not for the reason you give.
It is naive to think that any of the components of the corruptocracy (government, bureacracy, megacorporations, and crime) has the other components on a string. That is what makes it so dangerous. It is a synergy and it is in runaway mode with nobody at the controls.
You are not the only one. As you hint, the police state is fueled by a corruptocracy composed of a vast, all encompassing collusion between government, bureaucracy, and megacorporate interests. And it is impossible to say which of these components is in charge because none of them is. That is why it is more dangerous than communism. The synergy has gone wild. The corruptocracy has gone viral and the entire body of society is riddled with the disease. Since corruption is at the root, organized crime has been subsumed into the monster, and the even larger mass of disorganized crime has been harnessed as well to serve the system.
The nearest thing in history has been fascism, but the corruptocracy has been perfected far beyond their wildest dreams, and they now have the benefit of harnessing undreamed of technology which is exploding exponentially.
Green power may be a small percentage in the US, but in a country which has its act together like France, nuclear is 78% of the total electrical production source.
I agree that CO2 is no pollutant, but unfortunately the established regulatory powers disagree with both of us.
I recognize that electric cars merely relocate the energy conversion process away from the vehicle. I could split a hair and say it in fact is not the mechanism of the electric car which produces the CO2, but merely necessitates its production by another agency. However, I agree that this would be beside the point. However, we must both realize that a portion of the energy consumed by electric cars comes from nuclear, wind, and photovoltaic electric power plants, none of which themselves produce CO2. In principle (if not today yet practical), ALL of the energy needed by electric cars could come from such sources. In fact in France some 80% of all electric power, and therefore energy consumed by electric cars, is produced from nuclear energy. I daresay as a result electric cars driven in France ARE less greenhouse generative than hybrids.
Actually it would make more sense to use base units when expressing such large quantities in SI units, and to normalize the numeric scientific notation.
Actually you are not allowed any CO2 from a ZEV either. Zero CO2, CO, HC, particulates, and CO2. At least that is the common use of the term. This allows plugin hybrids WHEN IN ELECTRIC ONLY MODE, mostly straight electrics, and at least in theory, hydrogen (only) fuel cells. The whole point of the recent CO2 regulatory rulings is that CO2 _IS_ now to be regarded as a pollutant.
A PZEV on the other hand is so watered down that it can just be a clean conventional vehicle with an extra good emissions warranty. PZEV is basically horse shit. What the hell is "partial zero," anyway? However, the term is at least well defined.
The trouble with Bush Derangement Syndrome is that it makes its victims incoherent. I hated Bush too, but I had coherent reasons: mostly because he was too limp dealing with the rabid ultra anti American elements in our midst, and because he was way too feeble in his rhetoric and actions dealing with the forces of 9/11 and their acolytes and apologists.
Sure, he started the ball rolling (only in his eighth year) in bankrupting the nation with the bailout and stimulus crap, but Obama has gone so far beyond in exponentially expanding Bush's wrong headed response to the economic problems that surfaced in that last year, that Obama completely OWNS this train wreck. And this is going to get rammed down the throat of all the Obamazoids. Those coming decades you speak of are going to be the worst nightmare of the Obamazoids.
It pleases me to imagine a new data protocol, one with an encrypted data channel riding on a "plain text" channel. Imagine a stream of HTML with images and attachments, the encrypted data being impressed like steganography on the images and attachments. Sure, it's very low efficiency, but it would be highly difficult and unprofitable to try to discriminate the encrypted data channel. The scheme even carries a pleasing level of schadenfreude in that you are screwing The Man with lots of frivolous plain text and by making it super hard to detect and counter.
Governments running monopolies SUCK. Megacorporations running monopolies SUCK. That's because MONOPOLIES SUCK, period. Government corruption or megacorporate greed: neither is any better than the other.
But you know what sucks with an unholy vengeance? A corruptocracy composed of government, bureacracy, and megacorporations all COLLUDING TOGETHER. And it can't ever be broken except by revolution. Let's just hope we have a comparatively peaceful revolution like the breakup of the USSR. Oh wait... the new Russia and the other states from that breakup are now emulating our own corruptocracy.
Rather than Communism, a more descriptive term would be a Corruptocracy formed by an alliance between politicians, bureaucrats, and megacorporations, but it doesn't matter what it's called. You're right. It has become a self perpetuating, self serving, anti-human abomination. And it is EVIL. Pretty funny that the people who took on King George's power have now gradually saddled themselves with an opression at least as great.
The thing that says.....B R I G H T N E S S.....C O N T R O L..... Use it! Sheesh. Ever tried to watch a CRT with the brightness turned all the way up?
Blurring and tearing - can't help you there, since I agree completely.
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Why was parent moded a troll? Can't take the truth, libertarians?
It is never appropriate to short circuit due process in legal matters. If you crack the door open, it will open a little wider each day, until the floodgates are wide. There is never an excuse for not waiting for an investigation or arrests, "just for this one kind of offense."
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-- Pastor Martin Niemöller, 1946
Nonsense, it's completely representative of normal use. That's exactly the point. Until data loss occurs, or there are no more free blocks to use, the flash memory is objectively perfectly good.
KDE jumped the rails the day they wasted time hatching the stupid SC and other naming crap.
KDE is KDE. Stop farting around.
Yes there are so called socially responsible mutual funds. One man's socially responsible is another man's irresponsible, or even pandering, but that's not the point.
The point is that with a 401K, you are limited to the firm your employer offers you, and the mutual funds that firm offers; and to a lesser extent IRAs are effectively limited too. I am more in tune with your feelings than you might imagine, but this rhetoric is so over the top as to be nonproductive or even counterproductive. Murder? How did we get from an oil well accident to murder?
I understand it is pointless to debate a fanatic, but I will just add this for the benefit of people who have an operating sense of proportion.
A guy with a 401K or an IRA is very unlikely to hold stock in BP directly. He holds XYZ mutual fund, which in turn is invested in BP and in dozens or hundreds of other corporations. The guy has better things to do with his time than investigate every one of these corporations in depth and find out which ones some fanatic regards as murderers, and then try to find a new mutual fund which his investment plan allows him access to which includes none of those. You should not be surprised at this.
There's a word for people who think a corporation is some kind of bottomless pit from which you can plunder as much wealth as you want. I can't think what it is right now ... no, really ...
If you fine (or tax) a corporation, it just means the customers and stockholders get shafted. The corporation just passes the cost on. If it is a bad enough hit, or if they can't pass it on, they go bankrupt. That'll really help the situation ... NOT. And if you think stockholders mean a bunch of greedy billionaires, think again. There are countless little guys with 401K and IRA funds in that stock.
You can find individual corporate officers guilty of criminal negligence, however. This won't help all that much with paying for the damages, but will make a lot of us feel better.
But yes, the corruptocracy which is a collusion between government, bureaucracy, and megacorporations is sickening.
Both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombs were detonated 2000 feet above the surface in a calculated decision to trade off a smaller area of utter destruction for a larger area of very severe destruction. That's why stronger structures were not completely destroyed. From underground tests we know you get a big vaporized hole. Rock, concrete, steel, anything in the immediate area would be REMOVED. That should take out the buried pipe completely for some distance. Whether the underground hole would seal effectively is an entirely different question. I don't think it would work to a high degree of confidence, but not for the reason you give.
It is naive to think that any of the components of the corruptocracy (government, bureacracy, megacorporations, and crime) has the other components on a string. That is what makes it so dangerous. It is a synergy and it is in runaway mode with nobody at the controls.
You are not the only one. As you hint, the police state is fueled by a corruptocracy composed of a vast, all encompassing collusion between government, bureaucracy, and megacorporate interests. And it is impossible to say which of these components is in charge because none of them is. That is why it is more dangerous than communism. The synergy has gone wild. The corruptocracy has gone viral and the entire body of society is riddled with the disease. Since corruption is at the root, organized crime has been subsumed into the monster, and the even larger mass of disorganized crime has been harnessed as well to serve the system.
The nearest thing in history has been fascism, but the corruptocracy has been perfected far beyond their wildest dreams, and they now have the benefit of harnessing undreamed of technology which is exploding exponentially.
Green power may be a small percentage in the US, but in a country which has its act together like France, nuclear is 78% of the total electrical production source.
A hallucinogen is sprayed lightly in the air of the Capitol building and congressional office buildings 24x7.
I'll fix that. +1000, damn straight.
I agree that CO2 is no pollutant, but unfortunately the established regulatory powers disagree with both of us.
I recognize that electric cars merely relocate the energy conversion process away from the vehicle. I could split a hair and say it in fact is not the mechanism of the electric car which produces the CO2, but merely necessitates its production by another agency. However, I agree that this would be beside the point. However, we must both realize that a portion of the energy consumed by electric cars comes from nuclear, wind, and photovoltaic electric power plants, none of which themselves produce CO2. In principle (if not today yet practical), ALL of the energy needed by electric cars could come from such sources. In fact in France some 80% of all electric power, and therefore energy consumed by electric cars, is produced from nuclear energy. I daresay as a result electric cars driven in France ARE less greenhouse generative than hybrids.
+1, insightful. Poster has demonstrated the use of base units, not derived units, and normalizing the scientific notation.
Actually it would make more sense to use base units when expressing such large quantities in SI units, and to normalize the numeric scientific notation.
1.334 x 10^18 m^3
Actually you are not allowed any CO2 from a ZEV either. Zero CO2, CO, HC, particulates, and CO2. At least that is the common use of the term. This allows plugin hybrids WHEN IN ELECTRIC ONLY MODE, mostly straight electrics, and at least in theory, hydrogen (only) fuel cells. The whole point of the recent CO2 regulatory rulings is that CO2 _IS_ now to be regarded as a pollutant.
A PZEV on the other hand is so watered down that it can just be a clean conventional vehicle with an extra good emissions warranty. PZEV is basically horse shit. What the hell is "partial zero," anyway? However, the term is at least well defined.
Updated The Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation - Frequently Asked Questions - warning PDF
EPA Sets Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements
Your God, the Big Zero? Of course that's not permitted.
The trouble with Bush Derangement Syndrome is that it makes its victims incoherent. I hated Bush too, but I had coherent reasons: mostly because he was too limp dealing with the rabid ultra anti American elements in our midst, and because he was way too feeble in his rhetoric and actions dealing with the forces of 9/11 and their acolytes and apologists.
Sure, he started the ball rolling (only in his eighth year) in bankrupting the nation with the bailout and stimulus crap, but Obama has gone so far beyond in exponentially expanding Bush's wrong headed response to the economic problems that surfaced in that last year, that Obama completely OWNS this train wreck. And this is going to get rammed down the throat of all the Obamazoids. Those coming decades you speak of are going to be the worst nightmare of the Obamazoids.
Yeesh. That's not just third world like crap, it's like 13th world. And I thought the US was bad. Congrats on finding a decent ISP.
It pleases me to imagine a new data protocol, one with an encrypted data channel riding on a "plain text" channel. Imagine a stream of HTML with images and attachments, the encrypted data being impressed like steganography on the images and attachments. Sure, it's very low efficiency, but it would be highly difficult and unprofitable to try to discriminate the encrypted data channel. The scheme even carries a pleasing level of schadenfreude in that you are screwing The Man with lots of frivolous plain text and by making it super hard to detect and counter.
Governments running monopolies SUCK. Megacorporations running monopolies SUCK. That's because MONOPOLIES SUCK, period. Government corruption or megacorporate greed: neither is any better than the other.
But you know what sucks with an unholy vengeance? A corruptocracy composed of government, bureacracy, and megacorporations all COLLUDING TOGETHER. And it can't ever be broken except by revolution. Let's just hope we have a comparatively peaceful revolution like the breakup of the USSR. Oh wait ... the new Russia and the other states from that breakup are now emulating our own corruptocracy.
Rather than Communism, a more descriptive term would be a Corruptocracy formed by an alliance between politicians, bureaucrats, and megacorporations, but it doesn't matter what it's called. You're right. It has become a self perpetuating, self serving, anti-human abomination. And it is EVIL. Pretty funny that the people who took on King George's power have now gradually saddled themselves with an opression at least as great.
The thing that says .....B R I G H T N E S S.....C O N T R O L..... Use it! Sheesh. Ever tried to watch a CRT with the brightness turned all the way up?
Blurring and tearing - can't help you there, since I agree completely.
It's a lame imitation of file system snapshots for losers.