I don't get the whole "distance" foolishness. In the last 30 years I have worked with perhaps half a dozen people who commuted more than 100 miles in a day, and with all the driving that I have done over the years I would guess that at least 98 percent of it was on trips of less than 250 miles round-trip.
This has been the job of USAID since it was founded, undermine governments that were not friendly to US economic powers and replace them with more cooperative ones. The CIA does this militarily, USAID does this economically and culturally. They also fund, through the Consulate system, English as a Second Language institutes that are supposed to promote US business and culture. I worked at one for a year in Peru.
I'll pretty much guarantee that managers will still have a full-blown laptop, no one wants to browse porn on a Chromebook, it's just powerless underlings that will have to learn a new OS and deal with cheap, shitty hardware. Their long-term cost savings will be negligible though. Place where I worked tried handing the field techs netbooks, within six months almost all of those that hadn't failed on their own were made to fail.
Keep in mind that the quake which devastated the libertarian Eden which is Haiti was a 7.0, so the 8.8 in Chile was 80 times more powerful. Over 300,000 dead in Haiti, less than a thousand in Chile.
The Atacama is a weird place. Other deserts have cacti and bugs and such. The Atacama has nothing. The only sign of life is an occasional mummified sea bird laying on the surface, with no indication whether it died a month ago or a century ago. Rock fragments that split and fall off lay in a corona around the parent because they never wash away in the rain. There is a slight crust on the top of the sand, like a snow crust, since the sand particles have lain together undisturbed for so long they've bonded together. I'm sure that if I were to cross the Paracas Peninsula today I would probably still see my tracks from 1987, partly filled in by dust but still visible.
It's very strange to be on a bus driving through this dead moonscape, and then drop into an irrigated river valley with rice paddies and shrimp farms. Then back up the other side of the valley, over the crest of the hill, and you're back on the moon.
My understanding is that is a contingency plan, but has never been implemented. A couple of the military bio-weapons labs had pre-installed demolitions charges that would implode the entire underground site into a hole covered by a clay hill, but again they were never set off.
Something that I've always found interesting is that several military-tied medical institutes, such as Battelle and Litton Bionetics, have "cancer research centers" in central Africa.
Check out the book 'Germs' by Judith Miller and others, written in the 1990s. The only book that I have ever read that gave me nightmares. A few years after it was published it was discovered that when Clinton ordered the military to stop all research into creating new bio-weapons the Pentagon ignored their Commander-In-Chief and simply changed the development program names and moved them to the Black Budget. Didn't even move the techs desks.
I've set up a BSL4 lab, the door strikes are supposed to be Fail Secure, so that when power to the strike fails the door stays locked. Power needs to be supplied to the strike to unlock it. They require a waiver from the local fire marshal before installation, since there is no escape in the case of a fire that causes a loss of power. You're thinking of Fail Safe doors that unlock when the power fails, they are required for most stairwells and exits.
The Soviets located their hottest bio-weapons lab on an island in the Aral Sea. Unfortunately now that the Aral Sea is drying up it's no longer an island . . .
I work in the security industry, and you would be absolutely shocked at some of the work being done out there. The residential and retail markets are absolutely the worst, since there's no money to be made there unless you're pumping out dozens of slipshod installations per week per installer. For most of those guys their level of technical expertise is that they can find porn and Facebook on the Internet.
a security DVR is required to be in the internet or accessible
Huh? Not just 'NO' but 'NO FUCKING WAY NO'. Even most of the iToys have a VPN client, there is absolutely no reason to put any security device on the Internet for any reason (except maybe as a honeypot).
And pretty much every single process running as root. On a lot of dedicated security DVRs, especially the cheap ones, root is the only user too. If you wanted to see a true clusterfuck of Linux programming just needed take one of the GE brand security DVRs out of the box. Now that they've sold their security products to United Technologies the situation has supposedly improved, but I have my doubts.
Like I said, I don't know what reports you're referring to, do you have any references to any omitted research that wasn't junk being excluded for political reasons?
I don't know for sure what "reports" you're referring to, but I have seen the energy industry shills complaining that the IPCC didn't include their input. The rather predictable reason was that their "input" turned out to be non-scientific opinion pieces or cherry-picked unrepresentative data. So yeah, they are excluding some things and there are perfectly valid reasons for doing so.
That magic pill? It's called 'The Pentagon', and can (and will) be used to grab whatever productive farmland exists and force the locals to export production back to the developed countries. Victorian England/Ireland is the model here, did you know that even during the worst of the Great Potato Famine the majority of the food produced in the country was exported to England? The British deliberately let the Irish starve to death because it was more profitable for the landlords to export the food than to distribute it locally.
Even if every human vanished off the Earth today and stopped spewing CO2 it would still take a century until the already existing excess was processed out, so no matter what we do we're seriously screwed. Arctic permafrost is starting to to melt and are releasing 100 centuries of methane, and clathrate deposits on the continental shelves appear to be destabilizing. I'm over fifty so I won't see the worst effects that are coming, but I feel for my nieces and nephews and their kids.
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I don't get the whole "distance" foolishness. In the last 30 years I have worked with perhaps half a dozen people who commuted more than 100 miles in a day, and with all the driving that I have done over the years I would guess that at least 98 percent of it was on trips of less than 250 miles round-trip.
Here in Seattle they just get in the carpool lane and pay the ticket when they're caught.
This has been the job of USAID since it was founded, undermine governments that were not friendly to US economic powers and replace them with more cooperative ones. The CIA does this militarily, USAID does this economically and culturally. They also fund, through the Consulate system, English as a Second Language institutes that are supposed to promote US business and culture. I worked at one for a year in Peru.
That's the case in most of the world. The non-tourist areas are always poorer, friendlier and have much better food than the resort areas.
British politicians? They need control of their own machine so that no one sees the kiddie porn they're sharing.
R.E. your sig - I take it you've never been late on a loan payment
I'll pretty much guarantee that managers will still have a full-blown laptop, no one wants to browse porn on a Chromebook, it's just powerless underlings that will have to learn a new OS and deal with cheap, shitty hardware. Their long-term cost savings will be negligible though. Place where I worked tried handing the field techs netbooks, within six months almost all of those that hadn't failed on their own were made to fail.
A budget laptop seems to work fine for my neighbors.
Apple is doing what they do best
Marketing?
Wow, even worse reading skills than I thought. ** I ** did not make the original post.
Keep in mind that the quake which devastated the libertarian Eden which is Haiti was a 7.0, so the 8.8 in Chile was 80 times more powerful. Over 300,000 dead in Haiti, less than a thousand in Chile.
Perhaps you need to go study in Argentina for a while, your reading comprehension skills are abysmal.
The Atacama is a weird place. Other deserts have cacti and bugs and such. The Atacama has nothing. The only sign of life is an occasional mummified sea bird laying on the surface, with no indication whether it died a month ago or a century ago. Rock fragments that split and fall off lay in a corona around the parent because they never wash away in the rain. There is a slight crust on the top of the sand, like a snow crust, since the sand particles have lain together undisturbed for so long they've bonded together. I'm sure that if I were to cross the Paracas Peninsula today I would probably still see my tracks from 1987, partly filled in by dust but still visible.
It's very strange to be on a bus driving through this dead moonscape, and then drop into an irrigated river valley with rice paddies and shrimp farms. Then back up the other side of the valley, over the crest of the hill, and you're back on the moon.
My understanding is that is a contingency plan, but has never been implemented. A couple of the military bio-weapons labs had pre-installed demolitions charges that would implode the entire underground site into a hole covered by a clay hill, but again they were never set off.
Something that I've always found interesting is that several military-tied medical institutes, such as Battelle and Litton Bionetics, have "cancer research centers" in central Africa.
Keep in mind the earthquakes in the area, a couple of which exceeded 8 on the Richter scale in the last few years . . .
Check out the book 'Germs' by Judith Miller and others, written in the 1990s. The only book that I have ever read that gave me nightmares. A few years after it was published it was discovered that when Clinton ordered the military to stop all research into creating new bio-weapons the Pentagon ignored their Commander-In-Chief and simply changed the development program names and moved them to the Black Budget. Didn't even move the techs desks.
I've set up a BSL4 lab, the door strikes are supposed to be Fail Secure, so that when power to the strike fails the door stays locked. Power needs to be supplied to the strike to unlock it. They require a waiver from the local fire marshal before installation, since there is no escape in the case of a fire that causes a loss of power. You're thinking of Fail Safe doors that unlock when the power fails, they are required for most stairwells and exits.
The Soviets located their hottest bio-weapons lab on an island in the Aral Sea. Unfortunately now that the Aral Sea is drying up it's no longer an island . . .
Well, Dice Holdings has never been known for its sense of humor (just look at Beta).
I work in the security industry, and you would be absolutely shocked at some of the work being done out there. The residential and retail markets are absolutely the worst, since there's no money to be made there unless you're pumping out dozens of slipshod installations per week per installer. For most of those guys their level of technical expertise is that they can find porn and Facebook on the Internet.
a security DVR is required to be in the internet or accessible
Huh? Not just 'NO' but 'NO FUCKING WAY NO'. Even most of the iToys have a VPN client, there is absolutely no reason to put any security device on the Internet for any reason (except maybe as a honeypot).
And pretty much every single process running as root. On a lot of dedicated security DVRs, especially the cheap ones, root is the only user too. If you wanted to see a true clusterfuck of Linux programming just needed take one of the GE brand security DVRs out of the box. Now that they've sold their security products to United Technologies the situation has supposedly improved, but I have my doubts.
Like I said, I don't know what reports you're referring to, do you have any references to any omitted research that wasn't junk being excluded for political reasons?
I don't know for sure what "reports" you're referring to, but I have seen the energy industry shills complaining that the IPCC didn't include their input. The rather predictable reason was that their "input" turned out to be non-scientific opinion pieces or cherry-picked unrepresentative data. So yeah, they are excluding some things and there are perfectly valid reasons for doing so.
They are. The Bush Family Trust has purchased several million water-rich hectares in Paraguay, for example.
That magic pill? It's called 'The Pentagon', and can (and will) be used to grab whatever productive farmland exists and force the locals to export production back to the developed countries. Victorian England/Ireland is the model here, did you know that even during the worst of the Great Potato Famine the majority of the food produced in the country was exported to England? The British deliberately let the Irish starve to death because it was more profitable for the landlords to export the food than to distribute it locally.
Even if every human vanished off the Earth today and stopped spewing CO2 it would still take a century until the already existing excess was processed out, so no matter what we do we're seriously screwed. Arctic permafrost is starting to to melt and are releasing 100 centuries of methane, and clathrate deposits on the continental shelves appear to be destabilizing. I'm over fifty so I won't see the worst effects that are coming, but I feel for my nieces and nephews and their kids.