It's an elite private boarding school full of old-money snobs, "daunting and unpleasant" wouldn't begin to describe that environment. If I had been sent there I would have found pretty much any excuse possible to be sent home (or anywhere else). Reform school would probably be preferable. Fortunately my dad worked in an iron foundry so this wasn't a concern.
Not any more, the Alternet Forums are long gone. One of the regular posters there owned a petroleum distributorship in Pennsylvania. They drove a truck of diesel down with the intent of donating it to one of the hospitals, but were turned back. They were specifically told that only trucks contracted by Halliburton or KBR (can't remember which) were being allowed in. The only links I can find at the moment are for the Walmart trucks full of water being refused entry, and qualified first responders being made to wait for a week or more and never being allowed entry, and the Coast Guard vessel that wanted to offload 1000 gallons of diesel to trucks supplied by one of the parish governments and not being allowed to.
The school buses didn't belong to the school district, much less the city. These free-market idiots who believe in privatizing everything to make it more expensive and less efficient had ensured that there were no school buses available to move people. Nagin was an idiot, but that was one failure that can't be laid at his feet.
More disturbing to me was that Cuba had sent a ship full of doctors and Venezuela had sent a tanker full of fuel for hospital generators, and both were turned back by the Navy. Most of the hospitals stayed staffed by nurses and candy stripers (the doctors could afford to evacuate) until the All Clear, and the generators ran out of fuel until Halliburton trucks could get to them (even domestic trucks of donated fuel were turned back because only authorized vendors selling at elevated prices were allowed in).
The poor couldn't leave, because free/cheap transportation wasn't available except in a few situations (church buses and the like). ( And if you're poor in Louisiana you're about as poor as you can get in the US.) Even many of the nursing homes weren't evacuated unless they were able to afford to arrange specialty transportation.
Yeah, it would have been nice if more people had evacuated, but after a series of free market fanatics running the state government there just wasn't the capacity.
building a home that can handle the winds from a Category 1 storm isn't that hard.
It is when the primary criteria is "build it as cheaply as we can get away with and not have to bribe the building inspector". It's embarrassing the crap being slapped together today, especially to a former remodeler. When you step into a multi-million dollar house and notice that the counter tops aren't even level, the floor trim and cove molding rely on caulk and plastic wood to come together, and the ceiling is so wavy that the chandelier base plate doesn't even touch in places you know damn well that there aren't hurricane braces on the roof joists and the wall framing isn't anchored to the floor joists.
Ah, there's the problem. My dad was a high-end remodeler for many years. He never got a set of plans from an architect that was actually buildable as received. Generally he could sketch something on a note pad that would be far more practical and functional.
That must be why it is the most installed server OS on the planet, running 65% of all Enterprise servers, 79% of servers in companies with 100-999 employees, and 85% of companies with Stupid troll is stupid.
This was 2001. It was still mostly batch processing, and a 56k frame relay was considered a high speed connection. Replication was primitive at best, mostly consisting of log files swapped back and forth. The database world of today doesn't even vaguely resemble that of 14 years ago.
There were almost no hot disaster recovery sites then, the expense and complexity made them unmanageable. Most DR sites were designed to be brought up by loading backup tapes carried there by hand, because it was faster to fly across country than transferring a multi-gigabyte database by wire. (And the data transfer would probably fail half-way through anyway.)
The American Express data center was also in the basement of WTC7, which saw an anomalous amount of credit card processing that morning. The company estimated $100 million in credit transactions at the time, heavier than the traffic on Black Friday. In spite of spending a huge amount of money trying to recover data from the hard drives that were dug out of the rubble very little of any use was actually able to be reconstructed.
Two or three years later a building of the same type of construction and approximately the same age in Caracas burned for over 24 hours. Three floors collapsed but the rest of the building was still intact. It was expected to be renovated and reopened as it was inspected and still found to be structurally sound.
I seriously doubt the height. 200 feet is pretty close to the height of a 20 story building, I don't care if the thing was hovering, there's no way in hell that the homeowner could have brought it down with birdshot. By the time it got that high the shot would have the penetrating power of a grain of rice.
I have seen arguments that it is ok to have CO2 measurement station on top of vulcano, because CO2 mixes so well
If you're referring to Mauna Loa weather observatory, the reason you can get accurate CO2 measurements on top of that volcano is that the active vents are all 20+ miles south, and the trade winds come from the west. There hasn't been an active caldera on top of the mountains since some time during the last ice age. If you read the summary a little more thoroughly you might have noticed that they're also measuring a number of other chemicals besides just carbon dioxide.
A sensor mounted on a building gives a sample of one location. Mounted on a car taking one sample per minute gives 480 geo-located samples that can be correlated to photos of the surroundings at that exact point in time in an 8 hour day. A map with one data point is pretty useless unless you happen to work or live in that building.
No, not actually (although your installer probably claimed they did). It can be done, but it's expensive, a pain in the ass to set up and false alarms are frequent. For the most part if you have a decent set of security tools you can get into the reader (although not the controller) and do what you want with it. As long as the cover stays the same and the functionality doesn't change (LED colors are right, flashing or not, door opens when it's supposed to) the main risk would be getting noticed playing with the reader.
there is reason to believe that the 'estimated' response for traditional media advertising has been vastly over-estimated.
That would explain the massive amount of junk mail still being sent out. I don't know anyone who opens the big thick envelope of ads that we get every Tuesday, or who has ever even leafed through the ten page advertising flyer that comes on Tuesday and Friday. The local bird-cage-liner newspaper claims a circulation of 40,000, but most of those never make it any further into the house than the recycle bin.
I guess I shouldn't complain though, the junk mail helps subsidize the USPS.
Of course as an AC it wouldn't be possible to actually hold you to any sort of accountability so why not just volunteer to contribute a gazillion dollars? The last couple of years the number of Anonymous Cowards posting in every thread has exploded, while the average quality of their posts has deteriorated to only slightly better than what is found on Free Republic. I hope the buyer finds some way to get the AC plague under control. Something Awful got fed up enough they got rid of the Anon option entirely, and they never looked back.
So you are assuming that radio astronomy will just stop advancing from today onward, or what? When Voyager was launched the ability to pick up the signal strength we're currently monitoring didn't exist. IIRC, to monitor the signal from Voyager is the equivalent of viewing a 60 watt light bulb in the orbit of Jupiter. In the next decade or so we'll have radio telescopes in orbit with baselines of tens of thousands of kilometers. Already Earth sends out more radiation than the Sun at several interesting wavelengths, we should be totally detectable within a sphere of 100 light years.
I think that, rather than a technical problem, detection of a civilization by monitoring the radio band is an issue of timing. After barely a century we're already moving away from high power radio broadcasts towards lower-powered directed communications, I don't see why another civilization wouldn't follow a similar path.
The density of the planet would refer to the average of the entire planet. Water won't be any denser just because the planet has more metal and less silicon, there just won't be much if any ground water because it won't be able to percolate very deep. Now if the gravity were five times greater the water would be denser (because it's effectively being compressed), and the gradient would be much steeper than comparable depths here on Earth.
Interesting. At least one type of Andean highland chicken, the 'chachara', carries the Chinese "frizzle" gene and may have been introduced by Chinese explorers in the 15th century. I hadn't realized there was evidence for the earlier presence of chickens. Thanks.
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There are hundreds (if not thousands) of GPs in the US that will swear on a bible that the bible itself will cure cancer.
It's an elite private boarding school full of old-money snobs, "daunting and unpleasant" wouldn't begin to describe that environment. If I had been sent there I would have found pretty much any excuse possible to be sent home (or anywhere else). Reform school would probably be preferable. Fortunately my dad worked in an iron foundry so this wasn't a concern.
Not any more, the Alternet Forums are long gone. One of the regular posters there owned a petroleum distributorship in Pennsylvania. They drove a truck of diesel down with the intent of donating it to one of the hospitals, but were turned back. They were specifically told that only trucks contracted by Halliburton or KBR (can't remember which) were being allowed in. The only links I can find at the moment are for the Walmart trucks full of water being refused entry, and qualified first responders being made to wait for a week or more and never being allowed entry, and the Coast Guard vessel that wanted to offload 1000 gallons of diesel to trucks supplied by one of the parish governments and not being allowed to.
The school buses didn't belong to the school district, much less the city. These free-market idiots who believe in privatizing everything to make it more expensive and less efficient had ensured that there were no school buses available to move people. Nagin was an idiot, but that was one failure that can't be laid at his feet.
More disturbing to me was that Cuba had sent a ship full of doctors and Venezuela had sent a tanker full of fuel for hospital generators, and both were turned back by the Navy. Most of the hospitals stayed staffed by nurses and candy stripers (the doctors could afford to evacuate) until the All Clear, and the generators ran out of fuel until Halliburton trucks could get to them (even domestic trucks of donated fuel were turned back because only authorized vendors selling at elevated prices were allowed in).
The poor couldn't leave, because free/cheap transportation wasn't available except in a few situations (church buses and the like). ( And if you're poor in Louisiana you're about as poor as you can get in the US.) Even many of the nursing homes weren't evacuated unless they were able to afford to arrange specialty transportation.
Yeah, it would have been nice if more people had evacuated, but after a series of free market fanatics running the state government there just wasn't the capacity.
building a home that can handle the winds from a Category 1 storm isn't that hard.
It is when the primary criteria is "build it as cheaply as we can get away with and not have to bribe the building inspector". It's embarrassing the crap being slapped together today, especially to a former remodeler. When you step into a multi-million dollar house and notice that the counter tops aren't even level, the floor trim and cove molding rely on caulk and plastic wood to come together, and the ceiling is so wavy that the chandelier base plate doesn't even touch in places you know damn well that there aren't hurricane braces on the roof joists and the wall framing isn't anchored to the floor joists.
The architects also recommend
Ah, there's the problem. My dad was a high-end remodeler for many years. He never got a set of plans from an architect that was actually buildable as received. Generally he could sketch something on a note pad that would be far more practical and functional.
then you have a really shitty product
Well, it is Oracle . . .
market share for Windows servers was pretty small
That must be why it is the most installed server OS on the planet, running 65% of all Enterprise servers, 79% of servers in companies with 100-999 employees, and 85% of companies with
Stupid troll is stupid.
This was 2001. It was still mostly batch processing, and a 56k frame relay was considered a high speed connection. Replication was primitive at best, mostly consisting of log files swapped back and forth. The database world of today doesn't even vaguely resemble that of 14 years ago.
There were almost no hot disaster recovery sites then, the expense and complexity made them unmanageable. Most DR sites were designed to be brought up by loading backup tapes carried there by hand, because it was faster to fly across country than transferring a multi-gigabyte database by wire. (And the data transfer would probably fail half-way through anyway.)
The American Express data center was also in the basement of WTC7, which saw an anomalous amount of credit card processing that morning. The company estimated $100 million in credit transactions at the time, heavier than the traffic on Black Friday. In spite of spending a huge amount of money trying to recover data from the hard drives that were dug out of the rubble very little of any use was actually able to be reconstructed.
Two or three years later a building of the same type of construction and approximately the same age in Caracas burned for over 24 hours. Three floors collapsed but the rest of the building was still intact. It was expected to be renovated and reopened as it was inspected and still found to be structurally sound.
I seriously doubt the height. 200 feet is pretty close to the height of a 20 story building, I don't care if the thing was hovering, there's no way in hell that the homeowner could have brought it down with birdshot. By the time it got that high the shot would have the penetrating power of a grain of rice.
I have seen arguments that it is ok to have CO2 measurement station on top of vulcano, because CO2 mixes so well
If you're referring to Mauna Loa weather observatory, the reason you can get accurate CO2 measurements on top of that volcano is that the active vents are all 20+ miles south, and the trade winds come from the west. There hasn't been an active caldera on top of the mountains since some time during the last ice age. If you read the summary a little more thoroughly you might have noticed that they're also measuring a number of other chemicals besides just carbon dioxide.
A sensor mounted on a building gives a sample of one location. Mounted on a car taking one sample per minute gives 480 geo-located samples that can be correlated to photos of the surroundings at that exact point in time in an 8 hour day. A map with one data point is pretty useless unless you happen to work or live in that building.
ALL have tripwire to detect if they are opened
No, not actually (although your installer probably claimed they did). It can be done, but it's expensive, a pain in the ass to set up and false alarms are frequent. For the most part if you have a decent set of security tools you can get into the reader (although not the controller) and do what you want with it. As long as the cover stays the same and the functionality doesn't change (LED colors are right, flashing or not, door opens when it's supposed to) the main risk would be getting noticed playing with the reader.
I try not to think of MySpace at all . . .
there is reason to believe that the 'estimated' response for traditional media advertising has been vastly over-estimated.
That would explain the massive amount of junk mail still being sent out. I don't know anyone who opens the big thick envelope of ads that we get every Tuesday, or who has ever even leafed through the ten page advertising flyer that comes on Tuesday and Friday. The local bird-cage-liner newspaper claims a circulation of 40,000, but most of those never make it any further into the house than the recycle bin.
I guess I shouldn't complain though, the junk mail helps subsidize the USPS.
what should DICE have done to add value to the site
Eliminate the Anonymous Cowards.
Of course as an AC it wouldn't be possible to actually hold you to any sort of accountability so why not just volunteer to contribute a gazillion dollars? The last couple of years the number of Anonymous Cowards posting in every thread has exploded, while the average quality of their posts has deteriorated to only slightly better than what is found on Free Republic. I hope the buyer finds some way to get the AC plague under control. Something Awful got fed up enough they got rid of the Anon option entirely, and they never looked back.
Hopefully they'll spin off SourcForge as well. Dice was the absolutely worst thing to ever happen to them.
and methane fires.
Wonder how long people have been lighting farts . . .
Sorry, brain droppings.
So you are assuming that radio astronomy will just stop advancing from today onward, or what? When Voyager was launched the ability to pick up the signal strength we're currently monitoring didn't exist. IIRC, to monitor the signal from Voyager is the equivalent of viewing a 60 watt light bulb in the orbit of Jupiter. In the next decade or so we'll have radio telescopes in orbit with baselines of tens of thousands of kilometers. Already Earth sends out more radiation than the Sun at several interesting wavelengths, we should be totally detectable within a sphere of 100 light years.
I think that, rather than a technical problem, detection of a civilization by monitoring the radio band is an issue of timing. After barely a century we're already moving away from high power radio broadcasts towards lower-powered directed communications, I don't see why another civilization wouldn't follow a similar path.
The density of the planet would refer to the average of the entire planet. Water won't be any denser just because the planet has more metal and less silicon, there just won't be much if any ground water because it won't be able to percolate very deep. Now if the gravity were five times greater the water would be denser (because it's effectively being compressed), and the gradient would be much steeper than comparable depths here on Earth.
Interesting. At least one type of Andean highland chicken, the 'chachara', carries the Chinese "frizzle" gene and may have been introduced by Chinese explorers in the 15th century. I hadn't realized there was evidence for the earlier presence of chickens. Thanks.