Did you skip the part where he hadn't actually commited a crime? The mail fraud charge is totally bogus, why is this totally obvious to everyone except you?
I live in a mining boom town, only until very recently the boom didn't include me. lots of people are in the same situation.
my rent in the same apartment went from $180 a week to $300 in the space of 18 months. That alone FAR outstrips inflation, let alone everthing else going through the roof with it. If i hadn't gotten lucky i simply wouldn't have had the money to live
maybe it's just an australian thing and not applicable to this survey.
economists didn't see the sub prime morgage bust coming either, so excuse me for taking anything such experts say with a grain of salt.
you can talk about figures all you want, it makes no difference at the end of the day when my pay check is all gone and i have nothing extra to show for it.
not true. i'm only slightly better off. the real reason is rent has gone from $80/week to over $350. on top of that power is up $200 per quarter, phone is up $50 a month, petrol is up 60c a litre, car rego and insurance is up $300/year.....
i challenge ANYONE to survive all that on inflation alone.
So what if they outpace the offical inflation rates? typically i've found inflation rates never reflect the true increase in the cost of living for most people.
When i first commenced full time work i was making $300aud/week and i was able to live off that.
I now make $1200+ a week, and it's barely enough a reasonable cost of living, yet offical inflation is only a few %.
The other blindingly obvious problem with IT is it's a thankless job.
"Simply coming into compliance now is not sufficient to settle the matter, because that would mean anyone can violate the license until caught, because the only punishment would be to come into compliance."
how the fuck can they make this claim, yet when SCO filed it's complaint, the open source community's response was "all we have to do is fix the infringment" - the very same claim now being denied.
you junkies all miss the point - it's about stamping out ILLEGAL DRUGS. you know stuff cooked up in a backyard shed with fuck knows what mixed in for effect. it doesn't even compare to commercial drugs.
what woz is really saying, is that apple fanboys are so fucking stupid they could have gouged them for a longer and still had them kissing job's ass.
over priced, under featured hunk of junk is all an iphone is. Yet some people lapped that shit up like it was choclate milk. just take a look at all the posts defending apple no matter what and you get the picture.
"The Grid" is highly subsidized. If people had to pay the full capitol costs of bringing the Grid to their property up front they would find many situations where solar arrays on the house was the cheaper option."
nonsense. lets take the example of a new urban subdivision. when you buy that land, your paying for that connection or a share in the extra load it is estimated to add to the system.
only in a very rural situation would that cost exceed a decent solar setup. I know it cost my parents $5000 to have power connected to their semi rural lot, and the guy next door had to pay $30,000 15 years before that. not fair i know.
Unlike most of the pie in the sky people here who harp on about solar, i HAVE actually planned and installed decent sized solar installations for remote huts and communications facilities.
For those specific purposes, solar is a winner because in our situation money is no object.
Using solar to power our society though? load of crap. unless some mega break through happens and solar cells reach 90%, they are just an expensive novelty.
it's too much of a limited resource now, and too valueable as a tourist draw card. not only that but most timber comes from plantations now anyway.
granted the site i am reffering to after 8 years of rehab is in the middle of the desert, there's not a whole lot of vegitation to begin with.
I just find it hopelessly retarded that people consider using natural resources "evil". tree's grow back ffs people. It's possible to keep a decent chunk of forest and still make use of it.
I'll trust my own industry experience over your stupid wiki link, thank you very much. You are holding up a single method of mining as representitive of the entire industry.
mining a site is not the end of the area as you people like to make out. significant effort and money goes into making those area's useable once mining has finished.
as it says in your own link, mountain top's that are cleared are reclaimed later as more valuable flat land.
like i said earlier, if your so outraged cut the power to your house and return all your shiny things.
hah, you think CFC's are gone? so navie.... there is SHITLOADS of cfc out there just leaking out of old aircon gear and fridges. not to mention most of the world continues to use CFC's, especially poorer nations and china.
damn straight we have large reserves of uranium. not to mention something like 100 years of stuff just stockpiled.
yellow cake which is the dirt that gets refined into uranium, occurs at just 80 meters below the ground in some places. so it's pretty easy to get at as well.
Wrong. pressure and temperature are what effect it. even if you doubled the c02 ppm, that won't cause extra to be absorbed since the C02 isn't anymore more soluble.
I will not however discount localised increases in acidity. it's totally possible that human activity could do such a thing through waste water pollution etc.
And i don't think for a second climate scientists have forgotten anything - i believe they are pressured to twist their findings.
I've seen a similar group claim that global warming is on the verge of going out of control due to the oceans releasing their c02 (the oceans are one of the biggest c02 stores on the planet) due to increases in temperature. you can't have it both ways.
"The mining techniques we use are reprehensible, and the long term environmental damage incalculable
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You don't know what your talking about.
I work at a mine site (not coal atm). We carefully layer top soil and waste in seperate stockpiles, then backfill once a pit is complete. We have a dedicated rehabilitation officer who monitors the regrowth over the site, ensuring native plants and animals are able to return. this is standard practise across the industry. I've personally seen sites 8 years out from rehab that you wouldn't know were mined.
your lack of any kind of understanding and willingness to bash without thought is incredible. If it's all so terrible, i demand you turn off your damn computer and live in a cave.
your argument is that shading the desert and altering the ecosystem is bad, and we should do it to prevent altering the eco system when burning coal..... seems a bit like robbing peter to pay paul.
oh thats right we didn't, it's the lack of production that has caused the spike in price, due to fucking tree huggers screaming hysterically about the radioactive boogey man eating their babies.
uranium is plentiful and produces many times more power then coal with only one easily contained by product. burning coal actually released a lot of radiation and toxic chemicals in comparision.
I find it amusing that you pin your hopes on solar and fusion. solar because it has such a limited potential that to think it could produce even 1/2 our requirments is a joke. fusion because it hasn't even reached the break even mark inspite of constant claims "it's just around the corner".
you see when you actually have to plan for peoples needs, and make things work in the real world, this kind of pipe dream crap is not good enough.
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Gee i sure am glad they are on to that. forget those real terrorists, focus on nailing this guy for mail fraud!
Did you skip the part where he hadn't actually commited a crime? The mail fraud charge is totally bogus, why is this totally obvious to everyone except you?
What was in the package and what was claimed to have been in the package are identical... that's not fraud.
it's the universal equaliser. forget your over complicated dating setup, just buy a fucking keg people.
I live in a mining boom town, only until very recently the boom didn't include me. lots of people are in the same situation.
my rent in the same apartment went from $180 a week to $300 in the space of 18 months. That alone FAR outstrips inflation, let alone everthing else going through the roof with it. If i hadn't gotten lucky i simply wouldn't have had the money to live
maybe it's just an australian thing and not applicable to this survey.
you can talk about figures all you want, it makes no difference at the end of the day when my pay check is all gone and i have nothing extra to show for it.
i challenge ANYONE to survive all that on inflation alone.
When i first commenced full time work i was making $300aud/week and i was able to live off that.
I now make $1200+ a week, and it's barely enough a reasonable cost of living, yet offical inflation is only a few %.
The other blindingly obvious problem with IT is it's a thankless job.
how the fuck can they make this claim, yet when SCO filed it's complaint, the open source community's response was "all we have to do is fix the infringment" - the very same claim now being denied.
you can't have it all your own way.
it's a huge deal, your just slow.
there's no way facebook is worth 10billion. they dont' produce anything.
well, it could very well lead to massive fuckups if anyone happens to make a decision based on the flawed result.
you junkies all miss the point - it's about stamping out ILLEGAL DRUGS. you know stuff cooked up in a backyard shed with fuck knows what mixed in for effect. it doesn't even compare to commercial drugs.
what woz is really saying, is that apple fanboys are so fucking stupid they could have gouged them for a longer and still had them kissing job's ass.
over priced, under featured hunk of junk is all an iphone is. Yet some people lapped that shit up like it was choclate milk. just take a look at all the posts defending apple no matter what and you get the picture.
nonsense. lets take the example of a new urban subdivision. when you buy that land, your paying for that connection or a share in the extra load it is estimated to add to the system. only in a very rural situation would that cost exceed a decent solar setup. I know it cost my parents $5000 to have power connected to their semi rural lot, and the guy next door had to pay $30,000 15 years before that. not fair i know.
For those specific purposes, solar is a winner because in our situation money is no object.
Using solar to power our society though? load of crap. unless some mega break through happens and solar cells reach 90%, they are just an expensive novelty.
it's too much of a limited resource now, and too valueable as a tourist draw card. not only that but most timber comes from plantations now anyway.
granted the site i am reffering to after 8 years of rehab is in the middle of the desert, there's not a whole lot of vegitation to begin with.
I just find it hopelessly retarded that people consider using natural resources "evil". tree's grow back ffs people. It's possible to keep a decent chunk of forest and still make use of it.
as it says in your own link, mountain top's that are cleared are reclaimed later as more valuable flat land. like i said earlier, if your so outraged cut the power to your house and return all your shiny things.
yellow cake is the common name used in the industry dimwit. talk about splitting hairs....
the token CFC ban did nothing.
yellow cake which is the dirt that gets refined into uranium, occurs at just 80 meters below the ground in some places. so it's pretty easy to get at as well.
I will not however discount localised increases in acidity. it's totally possible that human activity could do such a thing through waste water pollution etc. And i don't think for a second climate scientists have forgotten anything - i believe they are pressured to twist their findings. I've seen a similar group claim that global warming is on the verge of going out of control due to the oceans releasing their c02 (the oceans are one of the biggest c02 stores on the planet) due to increases in temperature. you can't have it both ways.
You don't know what your talking about.
I work at a mine site (not coal atm). We carefully layer top soil and waste in seperate stockpiles, then backfill once a pit is complete. We have a dedicated rehabilitation officer who monitors the regrowth over the site, ensuring native plants and animals are able to return. this is standard practise across the industry. I've personally seen sites 8 years out from rehab that you wouldn't know were mined.
your lack of any kind of understanding and willingness to bash without thought is incredible. If it's all so terrible, i demand you turn off your damn computer and live in a cave.
your argument is that shading the desert and altering the ecosystem is bad, and we should do it to prevent altering the eco system when burning coal..... seems a bit like robbing peter to pay paul.
oh thats right we didn't, it's the lack of production that has caused the spike in price, due to fucking tree huggers screaming hysterically about the radioactive boogey man eating their babies.
uranium is plentiful and produces many times more power then coal with only one easily contained by product. burning coal actually released a lot of radiation and toxic chemicals in comparision.
I find it amusing that you pin your hopes on solar and fusion. solar because it has such a limited potential that to think it could produce even 1/2 our requirments is a joke. fusion because it hasn't even reached the break even mark inspite of constant claims "it's just around the corner".
you see when you actually have to plan for peoples needs, and make things work in the real world, this kind of pipe dream crap is not good enough.