In fact, the Carbon released by the industrial revolution has been tagged.
The ratio of C14 and c13 isotopes compared to c12 is much less in carbon from coal and oil than it is in the biosphere. Hopefully you are aware that this isotope shift is also what makes carbon dating possible. Oil and Coal are very old, and therefore have much less of those isotopes.
A shift in the isotope ratios in atmospheric carbon over time would be a strong indicator that we have released the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel sources. Of course I suppose you think its just a coincidence that the large jump in carbon dioxide over the last 200 years has happened at the same time as the industrial revolution over the last 200 years.
Do some research, Im sure someone must have looked into the isotope ratio question. If I could think of it, then no doubt many scientists have already tested it.
Now for your water vapour ignorance:
Has water vapour been increasing or decreasing? We know carbon dioxide has been increasing and that it is a strong greenhouse gas. We know other greenhouse gases such as methane have been increasing tremendously due to agriculture. I suspect water vapour has also been increasing... the sooty particulates we've added to the atmosphere from burning all that coal / oil / gas make great nuclei for the formation of water droplets in the atmosphere.
Whether it is directly from our carbon dioxide emissions is irrelevant, it may just be another side affect of how we've placed back into the environment a large part of the carbon that was sequestered away a billion years ago. If we've caused an increase in water vapour than it only makes it more our fault for global warming. Carbon dioxide is not the only problem, just an easy one to track.
Now to correct your ignorant math:
900 grams carbon dioxide per person is 5.4million tons per day (not billion), or 1971million tons per year (about 2billion tons per year, not the 1971billion you've stated).
How can you compare 2billion tons per year of human exhaled carbon dioxide with 9.3billion tons per year of oil? It's Apples and oranges! You need to find out how much carbon dioxide is produced by burning 9.3billion tons of oil per year.
Assuming that oil consists of 50% carbon (a wild guess on my part, by weight the percentage is probably much higher)... then burning the 4.65billion tons of carbon that are in that 9.3billion tons of oil gives you about:
18.6BILLION TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE! TEN TIMES WHAT HUMANS EXHALE.
And of course that doesnt account for all the coal and natural gas the world burns, which could easily double my carbon dioxide estimate as many poor countries burn far more coal than the US does.
And now about the rest of your ignorance:
Dr. Alfred Bartlett may have been speaking of the SOLAR energy consumed by a growing plant, you have not distinguished the energy input from the environment from the fuels burned by the farmer.
Starvation is caused by government corruption and greed. There has been an excess of food in the world for decades... making the west fat. Why don't you share a little of it? Scared to feed hungry muslims? Scared to feed the blacks of Africa? Are you trying to keep them repressed so that you can live fat? Think about it.
'wealth redistribution scheme'. Indeed, spreading the wealth around so that all people can live at a respectable level is evil! Let them starve while we grow fat in contradiction to your previous paragraph!
go back to school DUMBASS, preferable one where the curriculum has not been set by George Bush or by Religion. The real problem with global warming is how you've let yourself be mislead.
PostgreSQL - PostGIS spatial database extention, 300+ functions plus indices. MySQL - wimpy generic spatial text format, very limited functions
PostgreSQL can use the PostGIS extention to hold spatial data and give you full spatial database capabilities.... with all the tasty spatial analysis functions you'd expect - intersections, crosses, buffers, overlays,... over 300 spatial functions with spatial indices.
And in the last year or so, PostgreSQL has been available using an windows installer, with PostGIS as an option, making all its power available to those who are not so hot with linux or similar OS's, and dont want to spend 2 weeks figuring out how to compile said software with all features working correctly thanks to the instructions that bare no resemblance to reality.
MySQL, like many other 'enterprise' databases can hold spatial data in WKT / WKB formats that can be fed to programs that can use it, but it has very limited spatial functions and I dont think it can generate spatial indices. Someone can fill us in on this point, I understand that a spatial extention may be in the works.
The HUGE benefit of PostgreSQL with PostGIS is that it gives you a full powered spatial database engine which works with OSS GIS softwares and web mapping programs such as MapServer, Grass, QGIS, JumP, etc... FREE.
If on the other hand you chose to use the name brand software since MySQL can't do the job,... ESRI, with ArcSDE installed on Oracle which is their preferred way of doing things, you are looking at a cost of $50,000 in software, plus $18,000 per year in license maintenance fees. These are canadian numbers, which I priced out in January 2005.
I'd rather spend that money developing a system, instead of just buying the damn software.
PostgreSQL - PostGIS spatial database extention, 300+ functions plus indices. MySQL - wimpy generic spatial text format, no functions
PostgreSQL can use the PostGIS extention to hold spatial data and give you full spatial database capabilities.... with all the tasty spatial analysis functions you'd expect - intersections, crosses, buffers, overlays,... over 300 spatial functions with spatial indices.
And in the last year or so, PostgreSQL has been available using an windows installer, with PostGIS as an option, making all its power available to those who are not so hot with linux or similar OS's, and dont want to spend 2 weeks figuring out how to compile said software with all features working correctly thanks to the instructions that bare no resemblance to reality.
MySQL, like many other 'enterprise' databases can hold spatial data in WKT / WKB formats that can be fed to programs that can use it, but it is not a true spatial database and has ZERO spatial functions and I dont think it can generate spatial indices. Someone can fill us in on this point, I understand that a spatial extention may be in the works.
The HUGE benefit of PostgreSQL with PostGIS is that it gives you a full powered spatial database engine which works with OSS GIS softwares and web mapping programs such as MapServer, Grass, QGIS, JumP, etc... FREE.
If on the other hand you chose to use the name brand software... ESRI, with ArcSDE - their spatial database engine, installed on Oracle which is their preferred way of doing things, you are looking at a cost of $50,000 in software, plus $18,000 per year in license maintenance fees. These are canadian numbers, which I priced out in January 2005.
I'd rather spend that money developing a system, instead of just buying the damn software.
Fucking ignorant asshole. Just have to pretend you are right instead of admitting the US government chose to throw away the lives of the victims by not taking obvious and easy preparation years ago. No doubt you'd be one of the armed looters shooting at the rescue teams if you were at ground zero right now.
1. The pumps dont need a supply big enough to drain the city to have been a help, even keeping the water level down for longer would have allowed more of the stubborn bastards who didnt leave before the storm to get out after, the water level would have peaked much later. By being in kasons, the pumps would be usable right now simply by getting fuel to them. But no, right now all the pumps are effectively destroyed, requiring a full overhaul to do any pumping even if they could be pulled above the water level. You have NOTHING to drain the city with right now because of bad planning.
2. Cat 5 hurricanes are NOT rare, they have been happening more and more often in the last 15 years. Regardless it has been known for a century that New Orleans would one day be hit. 100 Years is plenty of time for a Cat 5 to occur on them, there is no excuse for not being prepared. Call your local city office, you will find that local flood control measures generally take into account 200 to 400 year flood events, not 100 year events. THE LEVEES WERE ONLY DESIGNED FOR A CAT 3 HURRICANE ANYWAYS!
3. You are living in the fantasy world. The flood was absolutely enevitable and an absolutely known and understood risk on a scale that scientists have screamed about for decades. Most everywhere else in the developed world you can not build in areas of such risk... but in Louisiana the people happily stare at dynamite with a lit fuse believing it will never blow.
4. Welcome to the Blatantly Obvious Club!... exept that you still chose to ignore the fact that the flood was absolutely known to be enevitable, and they absolutely knew they were not prepared... and chose to stay unprepared. I hope the fools in New Orleans don't move to San Francisco, I'd hate to see all the earthquake building codes repealed because 'the big one' may not happen for a few years.
Where was the planning?
The US federal government ONLY JUST NOW is trying to locate any empty government facilities and community buildings that can house the victims. They new the flood of this scale was going to hit one day, but they didnt keep a catalogue of facilities. Neither did the states, neither did the counties.
A federal official had proposed that now they should try to locate school busses to be brought in to help evacuate people... NO PLANS had been made before hand to deal with the logistics of bringing in not only the school busses, but every available bus of every type from surrounding states. Damn! Here in Vancouver BC, we had full logistics settled and garaunteed by the bus companies for the 100,000's of visitors for the 2010 olympics TWO YEARS before we even knew we would host the olympics!
It's been well over a decade since New Orleans realized that their levees were not strong enough and not tall enough.
There's been more planning put into political spin and photo-shoots for Bush than anything else.
Canada keeps a 'rainy day' fund in case of natural disasters, many of the provinces do as well... yet the US government has had to rush a spending bill through to free up some money to help, wasting 2 days so far.
Our Prime Minister has called Bush, telling him to ask for anything and we will send it... troops, food, medicine, water, clothes... and Bush said 'No, I'd like to wait and see how it goes'. Canada was allowed to send a unique core of search and rescue troops from Vancouver BC, designed specifically for large disasters like this, but only because they are unique, something even the US doesn't have. We have been prepared to help even though your country keeps s
those decades you speak of would be the time period where they knew more had to be done, but spent the money elsewhere, like on killing 100,000+ innocent civillians in Iraq that didnt want any american 'liberation'.
What kind of fool builds a pumping system where all the pumps run on the same power grid with no independant back-up... where the pumps themselves can easily be flooded!!! Each flooded pump makes the job more desparate for the rest.
I'm no engineer but I know damn well that they could easily have built cement Kasons with walls higher than the levees, to house the pumps with back up generators with a large fuel supply, allowing them to be at the right elevation, independantly powered, and be immune to flooding.
Dubyafucker said on TV yesturday that 'no one could have anticipated a disaster like this'
no one... ya, i'm in Canada, never been to New Orleans and I've been aware of the inevitability of the flood for years.
That century you speak of is the time period where they could have built the damn city elsewhere! In fact I find it hard to have any sympathy for the victims, they've simply repeated the actions of millions of others througout history that knew their destruction was waiting around the corner and chose to ignore it.
But what can you expect. The victims have decided that its more important to shoot each other and steal items without even having a home to put them in rather try to help the injured.
sounds like yet more reasons why that DUMBASS bush should have balanced the american budget instead of blowing 100's of Billions to fight a war over nonexistant WMD's.
Instead of a half TRILLION dollar deficit every year... and MANY TRILLIONS of DEBT that your childred can never hope to pay off... plus thousands dead in a war that has just made you more enemies... perhaps you would have had money available to deal with the New Orlean's problem before the inevitable happened.
It IS in fact cheating, if the EULA of the poker website explicitly states that you can not run bots or other artificial ways of ensuring that you play an optimal perfect game.
Just like how you may not use computers etc in vegas.
you may also want to read up on the high energy particle radiation that comes off the sun all the time in the form of the solar wind and coronal mass ejections, cosmic rays and gamma ray bursts from outside the solar system, and your more mundane x-rays and ultraviolet rays... all that tasty stuff that the earth's magnetic field and ozone layer protect you from.
heat is easy, but with present technology if you travelled to Mars, you very likely would die from cancer or radiation poisoning from the exposure along the way.
It is not legal to threaten the safety of other people. The Union was doing so by advertising the identities of the workers that crossed the line.
Too bad you can't understand what legal means. Too bad you think your own selfish need for 'news' is more important than the safety of others.
You have absolutely no right to have your point of view... unless you cross the line yourself and work for Telus, risking your own safety... and accept freely that you may get 'vandalized' the way the other Telus workers have been vandalizing our phone lines during the strike.
Did you hear the news? The union is now trying to get the public to cancel all the extra options they have on their phone accounts!... They want Telus to make less money!... They cant even understand that if Telus makes less money, they will have to get rid of MORE union bastards!
And in other news, there's now been over 40 incidents of phone lines being vandalized, in several cases a major bundle of phone lines was DRILLED rather than cut to make it much harder for Telus to find the location of the damage!
HEY!
CHECK OUT THE UNION WEBPAGE!
Their OWN DAMN WEBSITE requires that in order for you to be allowed to post messages in their forum, you agree not to post anything that may INVADE THE PRIVACY OF OTHERS!
Heck! Telus was merely enforcing the union's own rules!
Sure there are different points of view, but it doesnt mean they are right.
If your immune system has been weakened / destroyed by the HIV virus, you become much more susceptible to various forms of pneumonia (and many other diseases that are otherwise very uncommon). Some forms of pneumonia occur pretty much only in people with immune systems destroyed by HIV.
Did the pneumonia kill them, or was it the fact that HIV destroyed their immune system allowing other diseases to jump in?
HIV embeds its genetic information directly into your genome. You can be 'virtually' virus free thanks to antiviral drugs... and then be full of virus after stopping the drugs... simply because you have cells with embedded HIV DNA that sit there manufacturing new virus.
Remember, HIV destroys immune system cells that are critical for orchestrating your immune responses. HIV / AIDS doesn't necessarily finish you off, some other opportunist disease does it... so you absolutely can be at the terminal stage with virtually no HIV virus detectable.
Just like in your ignorance, you can hold a totally dumbass point of view... except that for you it may not be terminal.
At the site you may find many tools for characterizing your personality type and how it relates to the alternate reality of the games. As well as analysis of how MMORPG's have affected people en masse.
So now, when MS releases patches (a GOOOD thing), they are hated because of the assholes that take the patches and make exploits.
And so we see the cycle of/. life, where the assholes that cause the problems are revered, and the company that is trying to fix its problems continues to be hated.
I suppose you'd prefer MS to NOT patch any problems? So you can keep hating them for doing nothing?
A friendly reminder - Obscurity is not security. Let the patches come!
You've come to realize that Telus in fact broke no laws! That in fact they did the right thing by protecting the endangered workers! I'm so proud! You've seen how there are in fact justifiable limits to Freedom of Speech, and that Telus in fact had no need to 'make up' their own laws.
As for your court order... if such a situation were to occur, your order would be meaningless. Now that you've been branded a little boy loving pedophile, you'll always be known as such. Many innocent people have had their lives ruined by such accusations, the media just loves to do the dirty work and screw people like you over you little boy loving pedophile!... just like how the innocent Telus workers were having their safety endagered by the bastard union shitheads.
By the time the order were to come through, everyone would already have made up their minds about you, and you'd be dodging those ignorant bat wielding neighbours.
Sue all you want, sue for a gazillion dollars! you can't get from me something I don't have... and here in Canada before you sue for the gazillion dollars you first have to sue to get your court fees covered IF i were to loose. Either way you'll be out your lawyer fees.
I really did enjoy how you completely ignored the true story of the 9 innocent miners murdered by the psychotic union bastard Roger Warren who took action when Buzz Hargrove told him to.... you know, the real story that shows how the union at Telus was endangering the legal workers who crossed the line, hoping that a new Roger Warren would step forward to do their dirty work again.
You still stand up high on your pedastal. It's a shame you still can't put yourself in the shoes of the legal workers who must cross the line each day.
-- Your hairy ass can choose which laws it wants to obey, the police wont care when they come for you when you choose poorly, The law is the law, shave your ass or braid the hair it makes no difference.
Your grandstanding about the risk from those evil, evil unionists (my god, round them all up and throw away the key!) is also unacceptable bullshit.
-- You know damn well the union was trying to publicize the identities of the workers that are legally crossing the picket line, for no reason other than to make them feel unsafe. For you to find this to be acceptable either shows that you are a socialist union bastard... or just freaking ignorant. Its bad enough that members of the union have been cutting phone lines during the strike and flooding Telus' service request lines to prevent legitimate work orders from getting through, You'd rather have it elevate to attacks on people?
AFAIK, Telus as an ISP does not inappropriately apply blacklists to prevent DDOS/spam, rendering another facet of your "argument" irrelevent.
-- re-read my post, i never claimed Telus applies said blacklists. I said you would be better off focusing your anger on the ISP's that do trample on freedom of speech by blocking innocent websites by the improper use of blacklists.
In short, IMO Telus remains wholly in the wrong, has behaved absolutely inexcuseably, and I'll be the first in line if there is any lawsuit or other effort to bitchslap them into next Sunday.
-- Telus is the devil, we agree here, but you still fail to see things from the point of view of the workers who are legally crossing the line, and that are in fact obliged to cross the line.
Canada has plenty of examples of violence produced by dumbass strikers, often with the unionized police standing by ignoring it, the legal workers deserve protection... the best example of union violence I can think of is that of the 9 miners murdered at the Giant Mine, a gold mine near Yellowknife by an explosion set off by the psychotic miner Roger Warren who couldnt stand to see people crossing the picket line each day.
The bastard leader of that union, who encouraged the picketers to do anything to stop the legal workers - Buzz Hargrove, didnt go to jail, instead he now runs that union at a national level.
Telus must not be allowed to operate as judge and jury of the web. In all cases it is absolutely unacceptable for them to prevent users from accessing any information that is on the web, and especially so when that information is legal.
EXCEPT WHEN BY NOT ACTING, THEY ARE PUTTING THEIR OWN WORKERS LIVES AT RISK.
How about I post a picture of you on the web, and tell the world about how much you love playing in the pants of little boys, and how you are prowling your neighbourhood looking for more little boys because we all know you just love those little boys?
You know damn well your neighbours would be chasing you down with bats and crowbars.
... but you'd have to take your beatings with a smile, happy that Telus kept the page viewable.
In Canada it is legally acceptable to cause some slight limitations on freedom of speech if it is done to prevent the endangerment of innocent people.
those 700 (out of what 8billion?) websites was a slight limitation quickly enacted to protect the legal workers.
How would you like to be one of those workers, whose safety is at risk due to union terrorists? Do you want your kids to worry about whether you'll be coming home from work today when you do a perfectly legal job?
You really need to focus your attack where it is more useful... such as on the thousands of legal websites that are inadvertantly blocked by many ISP's through the improper use of black lists that try to stop spammers and DDOS zombies.
you havent owned a windows machine in 10 years and when you finally use one you have a hard time with it. It's not so bad... just like a newb trying to do ANYTHING with linux its bad because you were ignorant.
now do tell us how you downloaded that software before connecting to the internet.
Freedom of speech does not include the right to endager the safety of others.
For example, you will rightfully be arrested if you yell 'Fire' in a movie theatre, causing a stampede.
Sure, it looks like Telus was blocking the propaganda of the bastard union... but it was also protecting the identities of the non-union management staff who are legally allowed to cross the picket line (and required to do so to keep the phone lines running... like 911 for example).
The union bastards posted the pictures and identities simply to make targets of the people... so that perhaps some really perveted union supporter might take action against those people in a manner similar to how they damaged phone lines in several communities.
Telus did the right thing by protecting the identities of their non-unionized workers.
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First your carbon ignorance:
... the sooty particulates we've added to the atmosphere from burning all that coal / oil / gas make great nuclei for the formation of water droplets in the atmosphere.
... then burning the 4.65billion tons of carbon that are in that 9.3billion tons of oil gives you about:
... making the west fat. Why don't you share a little of it? Scared to feed hungry muslims? Scared to feed the blacks of Africa? Are you trying to keep them repressed so that you can live fat? Think about it.
In fact, the Carbon released by the industrial revolution has been tagged.
The ratio of C14 and c13 isotopes compared to c12 is much less in carbon from coal and oil than it is in the biosphere. Hopefully you are aware that this isotope shift is also what makes carbon dating possible. Oil and Coal are very old, and therefore have much less of those isotopes.
A shift in the isotope ratios in atmospheric carbon over time would be a strong indicator that we have released the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel sources. Of course I suppose you think its just a coincidence that the large jump in carbon dioxide over the last 200 years has happened at the same time as the industrial revolution over the last 200 years.
Do some research, Im sure someone must have looked into the isotope ratio question. If I could think of it, then no doubt many scientists have already tested it.
Now for your water vapour ignorance:
Has water vapour been increasing or decreasing? We know carbon dioxide has been increasing and that it is a strong greenhouse gas. We know other greenhouse gases such as methane have been increasing tremendously due to agriculture. I suspect water vapour has also been increasing
Whether it is directly from our carbon dioxide emissions is irrelevant, it may just be another side affect of how we've placed back into the environment a large part of the carbon that was sequestered away a billion years ago. If we've caused an increase in water vapour than it only makes it more our fault for global warming. Carbon dioxide is not the only problem, just an easy one to track.
Now to correct your ignorant math:
900 grams carbon dioxide per person
is 5.4million tons per day (not billion), or 1971million tons per year (about 2billion tons per year, not the 1971billion you've stated).
How can you compare 2billion tons per year of human exhaled carbon dioxide with 9.3billion tons per year of oil? It's Apples and oranges! You need to find out how much carbon dioxide is produced by burning 9.3billion tons of oil per year.
Assuming that oil consists of 50% carbon (a wild guess on my part, by weight the percentage is probably much higher)
18.6BILLION TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE! TEN TIMES WHAT HUMANS EXHALE.
And of course that doesnt account for all the coal and natural gas the world burns, which could easily double my carbon dioxide estimate as many poor countries burn far more coal than the US does.
And now about the rest of your ignorance:
Dr. Alfred Bartlett may have been speaking of the SOLAR energy consumed by a growing plant, you have not distinguished the energy input from the environment from the fuels burned by the farmer.
Starvation is caused by government corruption and greed. There has been an excess of food in the world for decades
'wealth redistribution scheme'. Indeed, spreading the wealth around so that all people can live at a respectable level is evil! Let them starve while we grow fat in contradiction to your previous paragraph!
go back to school DUMBASS, preferable one where the curriculum has not been set by George Bush or by Religion. The real problem with global warming is how you've let yourself be mislead.
Yet another poor soul fails to comprehend obvious sarcasm in the written word.
Back to English 10 for you!
And on your way, re-read the post that I was replying to, maybe you'll start to understand.
yes, you're right,
Theres absolutely no chance that any company could ever face rough times and demanding investors and survive.
Just look at what rough times and demanding investors did to poor Amazon.
err.
ya.
well then again, its only a 500% return if you invested 4 years ago during the punishment.
Imagine if they had actually made a profit during more than 3 quarters of the 40+ quarters the company has been in business!
lets see how they handle things THEN
You are absolutely right.
I mean come on! Look what the IPO did to poor Google!
err.
ya.
PostgreSQL - PostGIS spatial database extention, 300+ functions plus indices.
.... with all the tasty spatial analysis functions you'd expect - intersections, crosses, buffers, overlays, ... over 300 spatial functions with spatial indices.
... FREE.
... ESRI, with ArcSDE installed on Oracle which is their preferred way of doing things, you are looking at a cost of $50,000 in software, plus $18,000 per year in license maintenance fees. These are canadian numbers, which I priced out in January 2005.
MySQL - wimpy generic spatial text format, very limited functions
PostgreSQL can use the PostGIS extention to hold spatial data and give you full spatial database capabilities
And in the last year or so, PostgreSQL has been available using an windows installer, with PostGIS as an option, making all its power available to those who are not so hot with linux or similar OS's, and dont want to spend 2 weeks figuring out how to compile said software with all features working correctly thanks to the instructions that bare no resemblance to reality.
MySQL, like many other 'enterprise' databases can hold spatial data in WKT / WKB formats that can be fed to programs that can use it, but it has very limited spatial functions and I dont think it can generate spatial indices. Someone can fill us in on this point, I understand that a spatial extention may be in the works.
The HUGE benefit of PostgreSQL with PostGIS is that it gives you a full powered spatial database engine which works with OSS GIS softwares and web mapping programs such as MapServer, Grass, QGIS, JumP, etc
If on the other hand you chose to use the name brand software since MySQL can't do the job,
I'd rather spend that money developing a system, instead of just buying the damn software.
Yes, dont bother to say it.
I attached this to the wrong article.
PostgreSQL - PostGIS spatial database extention, 300+ functions plus indices.
.... with all the tasty spatial analysis functions you'd expect - intersections, crosses, buffers, overlays, ... over 300 spatial functions with spatial indices.
... FREE.
... ESRI, with ArcSDE - their spatial database engine, installed on Oracle which is their preferred way of doing things, you are looking at a cost of $50,000 in software, plus $18,000 per year in license maintenance fees. These are canadian numbers, which I priced out in January 2005.
MySQL - wimpy generic spatial text format, no functions
PostgreSQL can use the PostGIS extention to hold spatial data and give you full spatial database capabilities
And in the last year or so, PostgreSQL has been available using an windows installer, with PostGIS as an option, making all its power available to those who are not so hot with linux or similar OS's, and dont want to spend 2 weeks figuring out how to compile said software with all features working correctly thanks to the instructions that bare no resemblance to reality.
MySQL, like many other 'enterprise' databases can hold spatial data in WKT / WKB formats that can be fed to programs that can use it, but it is not a true spatial database and has ZERO spatial functions and I dont think it can generate spatial indices. Someone can fill us in on this point, I understand that a spatial extention may be in the works.
The HUGE benefit of PostgreSQL with PostGIS is that it gives you a full powered spatial database engine which works with OSS GIS softwares and web mapping programs such as MapServer, Grass, QGIS, JumP, etc
If on the other hand you chose to use the name brand software
I'd rather spend that money developing a system, instead of just buying the damn software.
Fucking ignorant asshole. Just have to pretend you are right instead of admitting the US government chose to throw away the lives of the victims by not taking obvious and easy preparation years ago. No doubt you'd be one of the armed looters shooting at the rescue teams if you were at ground zero right now.
... but in Louisiana the people happily stare at dynamite with a lit fuse believing it will never blow.
... exept that you still chose to ignore the fact that the flood was absolutely known to be enevitable, and they absolutely knew they were not prepared ... and chose to stay unprepared. I hope the fools in New Orleans don't move to San Francisco, I'd hate to see all the earthquake building codes repealed because 'the big one' may not happen for a few years.
... NO PLANS had been made before hand to deal with the logistics of bringing in not only the school busses, but every available bus of every type from surrounding states. Damn! Here in Vancouver BC, we had full logistics settled and garaunteed by the bus companies for the 100,000's of visitors for the 2010 olympics TWO YEARS before we even knew we would host the olympics!
... yet the US government has had to rush a spending bill through to free up some money to help, wasting 2 days so far.
... troops, food, medicine, water, clothes ... and Bush said 'No, I'd like to wait and see how it goes'. Canada was allowed to send a unique core of search and rescue troops from Vancouver BC, designed specifically for large disasters like this, but only because they are unique, something even the US doesn't have. We have been prepared to help even though your country keeps s
1. The pumps dont need a supply big enough to drain the city to have been a help, even keeping the water level down for longer would have allowed more of the stubborn bastards who didnt leave before the storm to get out after, the water level would have peaked much later. By being in kasons, the pumps would be usable right now simply by getting fuel to them. But no, right now all the pumps are effectively destroyed, requiring a full overhaul to do any pumping even if they could be pulled above the water level. You have NOTHING to drain the city with right now because of bad planning.
2. Cat 5 hurricanes are NOT rare, they have been happening more and more often in the last 15 years. Regardless it has been known for a century that New Orleans would one day be hit. 100 Years is plenty of time for a Cat 5 to occur on them, there is no excuse for not being prepared. Call your local city office, you will find that local flood control measures generally take into account 200 to 400 year flood events, not 100 year events. THE LEVEES WERE ONLY DESIGNED FOR A CAT 3 HURRICANE ANYWAYS!
3. You are living in the fantasy world. The flood was absolutely enevitable and an absolutely known and understood risk on a scale that scientists have screamed about for decades. Most everywhere else in the developed world you can not build in areas of such risk
4. Welcome to the Blatantly Obvious Club!
Where was the planning?
The US federal government ONLY JUST NOW is trying to locate any empty government facilities and community buildings that can house the victims. They new the flood of this scale was going to hit one day, but they didnt keep a catalogue of facilities. Neither did the states, neither did the counties.
A federal official had proposed that now they should try to locate school busses to be brought in to help evacuate people
It's been well over a decade since New Orleans realized that their levees were not strong enough and not tall enough.
There's been more planning put into political spin and photo-shoots for Bush than anything else.
Canada keeps a 'rainy day' fund in case of natural disasters, many of the provinces do as well
Our Prime Minister has called Bush, telling him to ask for anything and we will send it
you want facts?
... where the pumps themselves can easily be flooded!!! Each flooded pump makes the job more desparate for the rest.
... ya, i'm in Canada, never been to New Orleans and I've been aware of the inevitability of the flood for years.
those decades you speak of would be the time period where they knew more had to be done, but spent the money elsewhere, like on killing 100,000+ innocent civillians in Iraq that didnt want any american 'liberation'.
What kind of fool builds a pumping system where all the pumps run on the same power grid with no independant back-up
I'm no engineer but I know damn well that they could easily have built cement Kasons with walls higher than the levees, to house the pumps with back up generators with a large fuel supply, allowing them to be at the right elevation, independantly powered, and be immune to flooding.
Dubyafucker said on TV yesturday that 'no one could have anticipated a disaster like this'
no one
That century you speak of is the time period where they could have built the damn city elsewhere! In fact I find it hard to have any sympathy for the victims, they've simply repeated the actions of millions of others througout history that knew their destruction was waiting around the corner and chose to ignore it.
But what can you expect. The victims have decided that its more important to shoot each other and steal items without even having a home to put them in rather try to help the injured.
hmmmmm
... and MANY TRILLIONS of DEBT that your childred can never hope to pay off ... plus thousands dead in a war that has just made you more enemies ... perhaps you would have had money available to deal with the New Orlean's problem before the inevitable happened.
sounds like yet more reasons why that DUMBASS bush should have balanced the american budget instead of blowing 100's of Billions to fight a war over nonexistant WMD's.
Instead of a half TRILLION dollar deficit every year
It IS in fact cheating, if the EULA of the poker website explicitly states that you can not run bots or other artificial ways of ensuring that you play an optimal perfect game.
Just like how you may not use computers etc in vegas.
How about you make the hull out of something else, and use the poly for a radiation shield
... the way the article describes!
you know
go back to your physics 101 class.
... all that tasty stuff that the earth's magnetic field and ozone layer protect you from.
heat is a type of radiation.
you may also want to read up on the high energy particle radiation that comes off the sun all the time in the form of the solar wind and coronal mass ejections, cosmic rays and gamma ray bursts from outside the solar system, and your more mundane x-rays and ultraviolet rays
heat is easy, but with present technology if you travelled to Mars, you very likely would die from cancer or radiation poisoning from the exposure along the way.
HOly Crap!
I found it!
I bet you didnt know this!
Before Telus unblocked the union website, the courts forced the union bastards to remove all the hatred inciting / identity exposing pages!
hahahahahheheh!
The Freedom of Speech of Canada was fully protected in exactly the manner I have been telling you in all my previous posts in the last week or two!
Of course the media didnt bother to mention this.
You may now kiss my ass.
It is not legal to threaten the safety of other people. The Union was doing so by advertising the identities of the workers that crossed the line.
... unless you cross the line yourself and work for Telus, risking your own safety ... and accept freely that you may get 'vandalized' the way the other Telus workers have been vandalizing our phone lines during the strike.
... They want Telus to make less money! ... They cant even understand that if Telus makes less money, they will have to get rid of MORE union bastards!
Too bad you can't understand what legal means. Too bad you think your own selfish need for 'news' is more important than the safety of others.
You have absolutely no right to have your point of view
Did you hear the news? The union is now trying to get the public to cancel all the extra options they have on their phone accounts!
And in other news, there's now been over 40 incidents of phone lines being vandalized, in several cases a major bundle of phone lines was DRILLED rather than cut to make it much harder for Telus to find the location of the damage!
HEY!
CHECK OUT THE UNION WEBPAGE!
Their OWN DAMN WEBSITE requires that in order for you to be allowed to post messages in their forum, you agree not to post anything that may INVADE THE PRIVACY OF OTHERS!
Heck! Telus was merely enforcing the union's own rules!
Funny how the media missed that one.
Hey LardButtish,
... and then be full of virus after stopping the drugs ... simply because you have cells with embedded HIV DNA that sit there manufacturing new virus.
... so you absolutely can be at the terminal stage with virtually no HIV virus detectable.
... except that for you it may not be terminal.
Sure there are different points of view, but it doesnt mean they are right.
If your immune system has been weakened / destroyed by the HIV virus, you become much more susceptible to various forms of pneumonia (and many other diseases that are otherwise very uncommon). Some forms of pneumonia occur pretty much only in people with immune systems destroyed by HIV.
Did the pneumonia kill them, or was it the fact that HIV destroyed their immune system allowing other diseases to jump in?
HIV embeds its genetic information directly into your genome. You can be 'virtually' virus free thanks to antiviral drugs
Remember, HIV destroys immune system cells that are critical for orchestrating your immune responses. HIV / AIDS doesn't necessarily finish you off, some other opportunist disease does it
Just like in your ignorance, you can hold a totally dumbass point of view
Ugh, Lord British speaks out again.
I guess where it Rainz, it poors.
Here's a link to a phsychologist who's making his living on studying people who play MMORPG's.
http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/
I've filled out his surveys for 4 or 5 years.
At the site you may find many tools for characterizing your personality type and how it relates to the alternate reality of the games. As well as analysis of how MMORPG's have affected people en masse.
I get even better mileage in my plug-in hybrid!
I force mine to run purely on battery until the batteries run down, then switch to the regular gas/hybrid system.
I only drive it a couple miles per day, never running down the batteries!
I get INFINITE MPG!
The only draw back is having to drain out the stale gas once per year or so.
So now, when MS releases patches (a GOOOD thing), they are hated because of the assholes that take the patches and make exploits.
/. life, where the assholes that cause the problems are revered, and the company that is trying to fix its problems continues to be hated.
And so we see the cycle of
I suppose you'd prefer MS to NOT patch any problems? So you can keep hating them for doing nothing?
A friendly reminder - Obscurity is not security. Let the patches come!
Awesome!
... if such a situation were to occur, your order would be meaningless. Now that you've been branded a little boy loving pedophile, you'll always be known as such. Many innocent people have had their lives ruined by such accusations, the media just loves to do the dirty work and screw people like you over you little boy loving pedophile! ... just like how the innocent Telus workers were having their safety endagered by the bastard union shitheads.
... and here in Canada before you sue for the gazillion dollars you first have to sue to get your court fees covered IF i were to loose. Either way you'll be out your lawyer fees.
... you know, the real story that shows how the union at Telus was endangering the legal workers who crossed the line, hoping that a new Roger Warren would step forward to do their dirty work again.
Your eyes have opened!
You've come to realize that Telus in fact broke no laws! That in fact they did the right thing by protecting the endangered workers! I'm so proud! You've seen how there are in fact justifiable limits to Freedom of Speech, and that Telus in fact had no need to 'make up' their own laws.
As for your court order
By the time the order were to come through, everyone would already have made up their minds about you, and you'd be dodging those ignorant bat wielding neighbours.
Sue all you want, sue for a gazillion dollars! you can't get from me something I don't have
I really did enjoy how you completely ignored the true story of the 9 innocent miners murdered by the psychotic union bastard Roger Warren who took action when Buzz Hargrove told him to.
You still stand up high on your pedastal. It's a shame you still can't put yourself in the shoes of the legal workers who must cross the line each day.
Legally acceptable my hairy ass.
... or just freaking ignorant. Its bad enough that members of the union have been cutting phone lines during the strike and flooding Telus' service request lines to prevent legitimate work orders from getting through, You'd rather have it elevate to attacks on people?
... the best example of union violence I can think of is that of the 9 miners murdered at the Giant Mine, a gold mine near Yellowknife by an explosion set off by the psychotic miner Roger Warren who couldnt stand to see people crossing the picket line each day.
... but you'd have to take your beatings with a smile, happy that Telus kept the page viewable.
-- Your hairy ass can choose which laws it wants to obey, the police wont care when they come for you when you choose poorly, The law is the law, shave your ass or braid the hair it makes no difference.
Your grandstanding about the risk from those evil, evil unionists (my god, round them all up and throw away the key!) is also unacceptable bullshit.
-- You know damn well the union was trying to publicize the identities of the workers that are legally crossing the picket line, for no reason other than to make them feel unsafe. For you to find this to be acceptable either shows that you are a socialist union bastard
AFAIK, Telus as an ISP does not inappropriately apply blacklists to prevent DDOS/spam, rendering another facet of your "argument" irrelevent.
-- re-read my post, i never claimed Telus applies said blacklists. I said you would be better off focusing your anger on the ISP's that do trample on freedom of speech by blocking innocent websites by the improper use of blacklists.
In short, IMO Telus remains wholly in the wrong, has behaved absolutely inexcuseably, and I'll be the first in line if there is any lawsuit or other effort to bitchslap them into next Sunday.
-- Telus is the devil, we agree here, but you still fail to see things from the point of view of the workers who are legally crossing the line, and that are in fact obliged to cross the line.
Canada has plenty of examples of violence produced by dumbass strikers, often with the unionized police standing by ignoring it, the legal workers deserve protection
The bastard leader of that union, who encouraged the picketers to do anything to stop the legal workers - Buzz Hargrove, didnt go to jail, instead he now runs that union at a national level.
Telus must not be allowed to operate as judge and jury of the web. In all cases it is absolutely unacceptable for them to prevent users from accessing any information that is on the web, and especially so when that information is legal.
EXCEPT WHEN BY NOT ACTING, THEY ARE PUTTING THEIR OWN WORKERS LIVES AT RISK.
How about I post a picture of you on the web, and tell the world about how much you love playing in the pants of little boys, and how you are prowling your neighbourhood looking for more little boys because we all know you just love those little boys?
You know damn well your neighbours would be chasing you down with bats and crowbars.
Again you are missing the point.
... such as on the thousands of legal websites that are inadvertantly blocked by many ISP's through the improper use of black lists that try to stop spammers and DDOS zombies.
In Canada it is legally acceptable to cause some slight limitations on freedom of speech if it is done to prevent the endangerment of innocent people.
those 700 (out of what 8billion?) websites was a slight limitation quickly enacted to protect the legal workers.
How would you like to be one of those workers, whose safety is at risk due to union terrorists? Do you want your kids to worry about whether you'll be coming home from work today when you do a perfectly legal job?
You really need to focus your attack where it is more useful
surprise!
... just like a newb trying to do ANYTHING with linux its bad because you were ignorant.
you havent owned a windows machine in 10 years and when you finally use one you have a hard time with it. It's not so bad
now do tell us how you downloaded that software before connecting to the internet.
Freedom of speech does not include the right to endager the safety of others.
... but it was also protecting the identities of the non-union management staff who are legally allowed to cross the picket line (and required to do so to keep the phone lines running ... like 911 for example).
... so that perhaps some really perveted union supporter might take action against those people in a manner similar to how they damaged phone lines in several communities.
For example, you will rightfully be arrested if you yell 'Fire' in a movie theatre, causing a stampede.
Sure, it looks like Telus was blocking the propaganda of the bastard union
The union bastards posted the pictures and identities simply to make targets of the people
Telus did the right thing by protecting the identities of their non-unionized workers.