They do not show any info on how they make their way back. What information are you using to determine that they will just wander back to the gulf?
At the very least this will give a great study on the 'homing' tendencies of turtles. Do they reurn to where they were hatched (learned behavior) or do they return to where their genetic forebearers lived (genetic imprinting)?
What advantage do you see to allowing them to die? Is it simply less work for humans? And if those people were not already actively invovled in fixing the well or cleaning up sludge, what negative effect could it have on those efforts?
That the 'experts' are worrying about, but really... what are the other options?
What are the potential outcomes of letting the hatchlings make their way into the polluted water?
Turtles die of exposure to oil
Turtles survive because all the predators have already died from the oil
Most turtles die, except for a few that have a natural ability to survive on oil
Surviving turtles attack remaining oil reservoirs and consume them
Seriously, I think that the people who have committed themselves to preventing a straight up die off of an entire generation of gulf-coast turtles should be commended as heros.
fwiw, I hope that the 70K extra turtle on the Atlantic coast overwhelm the natural predators and allow more hatchlings to reach adulthood. Is there a chance that the introduced population could displace the natives? Possibly.
What have been the results of other navigating species (salmon, birds, monarch butterflies...) who are relocated?
SO... when Fox News is redressed for the inaccuracy of their 'reporting', they run and hide by claiming that their shows are 'opinion', and that there should be no expectation of accuracy
I do not see any other News program using that same excuse, so NO I am not a partisan shill and yes the other NEWS networks are many scintillas better
It seems the people get so accustomed to the lies that Fox spreads, that they are unable to accept the truth when they are exposed to it. If that is not damaging America, then I do not know what would
But FUCK RUPERT MURDOCH with the rotting corpses of every single one of the Fox News talking heads that he is using to turn the US populace into brain damaged morons
Not so much, there are entire ranks of Foleys who work under union rules to deliver most movie sound effects (although they probably have impressive Sound Engineer titles now).
This is much more likely aimed at environments like video games and battle-ground simulations, where any number of events can occur and the presence of a tightly aligned sound track is needed to produce a more realistic effect.
The sequences of events in movies are pretty tightly controlled, so I see this as having less use there
The Nuclear Navy is not what it used to be. Most nuclear vessels that are not submarines or aircraft carriers have been decommissioned.
That is not to say that they were unsafe, just that the Navy (or Congress) felt that the benefit of being able to stay at sea indefinately did not outweigh the additional cost of construction.
Aside from that all modern nuclear power generators used by the US Navy emply a system where constant power is required to keep the neutron absorbers out of the fuel. If there is any disruption of normal operations, then the dampening rods are forced back into place (usually a spring action that may operate at any angle the ship may be in) stalling the reaction.
This is all in a completely contained unaccessible area. I watched some Bond movie that involved stealing the fuel from a naval reactor, and the former training petty officer (from a nuclear Cruiser) sitting next to me got so pissed off that he almost walked out of the movie.
It is unfortunate that our society generates so much BS about nuclear generation, but if you want to be as safe as possible, then let the Navy run all of our power generation, since "The U.S. Navy has accumulated over 5,400 "reactor years of accident-free experience, and operates more than 80 nuclear-powered ships" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_navy#The_United_States_Navy
So, you immediately overlay the actual events and problems with a petroleum based energy system with IMAGINED events of a nuclear based energy system????
Aside from the need for proper regulation, your response reeks of a person who cannot (or will not) process facts that are given to them, but who would rather hang on to their preconceived notions.
I find it hard to find adequate comparisons for nuclear power safety (in the Western world) to your 'deep horizons' scenario
I think that most of the cases that you are referring to arise from long delays in site selection and construction due to NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) lawsuits. Subtle changes in the economy (value of a dollar, interest rates, bond rating of the company building the reactor) can all add up to significant increases in cost when added to the 50 year pay back schedule for long term capital equipment.
And, of course, that is the intent of the lawsuits in the first place. To simply make it easier for the reactor to be constructed somewhere else.
Never mind that the FEAR of a catastrophic event totally ignors the costs of 'other' forms of energy generation. Whether it is mercury, arsenic and lead poisoning (coal generation); CO2 pollution (coal and hyrodcarbon); competition for food markets ('green' ethanol); groundwater pollution (any semiconductor like solar panels).
About all that people seem to understand is that 'it must be ok the way things are, any change must make things worse'. And the fear mongering and outright lies from the environmentalists and competing energy companies (do you REALLY think that coal generators want competition from nuclear?), will do nothing to help the situation.
SO, then you would have to look up your local laws and what is needed to identify the person or block that the IP is assigned to. Next, you have to start "kicking down doors" (it might take a few) and recover your property in a stunning raid.
Probably not, get an encrypted hard drive on your next laptop so that it just becomes a brick for anybody that takes it
It is a free (to develop, deploy and distribute) database.
There are some limitations; "Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size host machine with any number of CPUs (one database per machine), but XE will store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one CPU on the host machine." http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html
IMHO, it is vastly superior to Access, and because I am familiar with pl/sql and DBA actions, it is much simpler to me than either MySQL or PostgresSQL
If you are really comfortable with Access's data modeling capability, you can also download (and 'evaluate') Oracle Designer, which can generate table create statements and appplications based on data you enter through BPM and ERD diagrams
I agree with the CASE Method ER book, Barker is the king of data modeling. In the book he walks through some real world scenarios (airline ticketing, manufacturing bill-of-materials) that are fundamental to relation databases.
You may find some implementation differences with SQLServer, like not using cursors (a common pl/sql construct in Oracle) and some limitation to using "join on" SQL syntax, but I used the book when I went from writing single user applications to enterprise apps.
Whatever book you get, expect it to be a tedious learning experience. I had been working with relational databases (Dbase IV, Infos) for about five years at the time and it took some serious re-ordering of my brain to really "get it"
Yeah, let's get some Cortana-Flood tentacle action going on... Maybe a Sailor-Moon/Bleach crossover and some fatass dressed as a Panda Bear just for fun
just redefined them. Or, as they say in business school, "it is the ethical duty of a business owner to return maximum profit to the shareholder, as reported in quarterly statements"
So, there you go... no duty to employees, community, or even customers. Just make certain that we turn a profit this quarter, and everything else if a-ok
of course there is desktop support (our IT, not dell) to remove and replace burned out bits, and we replace them all every two years.
In this case, cheaper is better.
I actually use a couple of older ones at home, they are pretty much peices of garbage that fail to work with common pci boards or third party video cards.
Can anybody remind my why somebody would pay for a dell to use at home?
This function is already performed by the drilling companies and the MMS when the RISK of the project is high enough.
Most of those 10,000 or so well that were drilled before the recent spate of deregulation did have proper risk assessments done, and in those cases, were designed to mediate the risk.
I am not going to fall for your ass-hat statement that proper regulation calls for the end of all risky endeavors, just that risk be assessed preoperly, and mediated, at the time the wells are initiated.
I honestly get sick of fuck-wits that present an all-or-nothing slippery slope argument when they are tasked with the need for regulatory compliance.
I wish to the FSM that some of you know it alls would quit watching Fox News and actually try and learn something.
As my good buddy wikipedia puts it: Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_law
So... NO, it is not necessary for Congress to act for something to be a "law"
And YES the President, via Administrative Law has the right to "enforce a regulatory agenda".
It seems to me that having an industry work in a demonstrably risky manner in order to maximize profits, while exposing large numbers of US citizens to toxins and loss of earnings, would stand as an instance where regulation would be required.
Stopping current drilling until the industry can demonstrate that they are performing in a safe manner seems to be one of the few ways (and republicans are demanding that something be done) that will make a company act responsibly.
Are you claiming that prior restraint of BP, in the form of administrative regulation, would have either been a bad thing or unconstitutional...
Of course it would have been neither, the administration has every right to regulate when it is in the public interest. Take your laissez faire free-market dreams and go play in a puddle of sludge
I expect EULAs to attempt to obfuscate and conceal their true intentions in verbage.
It is like being approached by a thug in a dark alley, I expect to start looking for ways out of the situation.
I do not expect a proponent of software development who publishes a great amount of work that is aimed at providing developers with the legal means to BOTH share and protect their work to place these tools in wording that is unreadable.
It is like approaching the Salvation Army dude ringing a bell and then getting shanghaid
So, IF RMS really wants to 'reach out' to the population of software developers, then I would suggest that HE make the material more readily digested
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This study shows how the east coast turtles make their way to the gulf stream using; visual cues, wave direction and (finally) magnetic direction:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/oceanweb/turtles/offshr.html
They do not show any info on how they make their way back.
What information are you using to determine that they will just wander back to the gulf?
At the very least this will give a great study on the 'homing' tendencies of turtles. Do they reurn to where they were hatched (learned behavior) or do they return to where their genetic forebearers lived (genetic imprinting)?
What advantage do you see to allowing them to die? Is it simply less work for humans? And if those people were not already actively invovled in fixing the well or cleaning up sludge, what negative effect could it have on those efforts?
That the 'experts' are worrying about, but really... what are the other options?
What are the potential outcomes of letting the hatchlings make their way into the polluted water?
Turtles die of exposure to oil
Turtles survive because all the predators have already died from the oil
Most turtles die, except for a few that have a natural ability to survive on oil
Surviving turtles attack remaining oil reservoirs and consume them
Seriously, I think that the people who have committed themselves to preventing a straight up die off of an entire generation of gulf-coast turtles should be commended as heros.
fwiw, I hope that the 70K extra turtle on the Atlantic coast overwhelm the natural predators and allow more hatchlings to reach adulthood. Is there a chance that the introduced population could displace the natives? Possibly.
What have been the results of other navigating species (salmon, birds, monarch butterflies...) who are relocated?
SO... when Fox News is redressed for the inaccuracy of their 'reporting', they run and hide by claiming that their shows are 'opinion', and that there should be no expectation of accuracy
I do not see any other News program using that same excuse, so NO I am not a partisan shill and yes the other NEWS networks are many scintillas better
Maybe you missed this story yesterday:
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/07/14/1235220
It seems the people get so accustomed to the lies that Fox spreads, that they are unable to accept the truth when they are exposed to it. If that is not damaging America, then I do not know what would
Only fired off one Halo
But FUCK RUPERT MURDOCH with the rotting corpses of every single one of the Fox News talking heads that he is using to turn the US populace into brain damaged morons
Not so much, there are entire ranks of Foleys who work under union rules to deliver most movie sound effects (although they probably have impressive Sound Engineer titles now).
This is much more likely aimed at environments like video games and battle-ground simulations, where any number of events can occur and the presence of a tightly aligned sound track is needed to produce a more realistic effect.
The sequences of events in movies are pretty tightly controlled, so I see this as having less use there
The Nuclear Navy is not what it used to be. Most nuclear vessels that are not submarines or aircraft carriers have been decommissioned.
That is not to say that they were unsafe, just that the Navy (or Congress) felt that the benefit of being able to stay at sea indefinately did not outweigh the additional cost of construction.
Aside from that all modern nuclear power generators used by the US Navy emply a system where constant power is required to keep the neutron absorbers out of the fuel. If there is any disruption of normal operations, then the dampening rods are forced back into place (usually a spring action that may operate at any angle the ship may be in) stalling the reaction.
This is all in a completely contained unaccessible area. I watched some Bond movie that involved stealing the fuel from a naval reactor, and the former training petty officer (from a nuclear Cruiser) sitting next to me got so pissed off that he almost walked out of the movie.
It is unfortunate that our society generates so much BS about nuclear generation, but if you want to be as safe as possible, then let the Navy run all of our power generation, since "The U.S. Navy has accumulated over 5,400 "reactor years of accident-free experience, and operates more than 80 nuclear-powered ships" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_navy#The_United_States_Navy
So, you immediately overlay the actual events and problems with a petroleum based energy system with IMAGINED events of a nuclear based energy system????
Aside from the need for proper regulation, your response reeks of a person who cannot (or will not) process facts that are given to them, but who would rather hang on to their preconceived notions.
I find it hard to find adequate comparisons for nuclear power safety (in the Western world) to your 'deep horizons' scenario
I think that most of the cases that you are referring to arise from long delays in site selection and construction due to NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) lawsuits. Subtle changes in the economy (value of a dollar, interest rates, bond rating of the company building the reactor) can all add up to significant increases in cost when added to the 50 year pay back schedule for long term capital equipment.
And, of course, that is the intent of the lawsuits in the first place. To simply make it easier for the reactor to be constructed somewhere else.
Never mind that the FEAR of a catastrophic event totally ignors the costs of 'other' forms of energy generation. Whether it is mercury, arsenic and lead poisoning (coal generation); CO2 pollution (coal and hyrodcarbon); competition for food markets ('green' ethanol); groundwater pollution (any semiconductor like solar panels).
About all that people seem to understand is that 'it must be ok the way things are, any change must make things worse'. And the fear mongering and outright lies from the environmentalists and competing energy companies (do you REALLY think that coal generators want competition from nuclear?), will do nothing to help the situation.
the school cops may be more willing to help
This site claims to get it down to the ISP or provider:
http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/
SO, then you would have to look up your local laws and what is needed to identify the person or block that the IP is assigned to. Next, you have to start "kicking down doors" (it might take a few) and recover your property in a stunning raid.
Probably not, get an encrypted hard drive on your next laptop so that it just becomes a brick for anybody that takes it
It is a free (to develop, deploy and distribute) database.
There are some limitations; "Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size host machine with any number of CPUs (one database per machine), but XE will store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one CPU on the host machine."
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html
IMHO, it is vastly superior to Access, and because I am familiar with pl/sql and DBA actions, it is much simpler to me than either MySQL or PostgresSQL
If you are really comfortable with Access's data modeling capability, you can also download (and 'evaluate') Oracle Designer, which can generate table create statements and appplications based on data you enter through BPM and ERD diagrams
I agree with the CASE Method ER book, Barker is the king of data modeling. In the book he walks through some real world scenarios (airline ticketing, manufacturing bill-of-materials) that are fundamental to relation databases.
You may find some implementation differences with SQLServer, like not using cursors (a common pl/sql construct in Oracle) and some limitation to using "join on" SQL syntax, but I used the book when I went from writing single user applications to enterprise apps.
Whatever book you get, expect it to be a tedious learning experience. I had been working with relational databases (Dbase IV, Infos) for about five years at the time and it took some serious re-ordering of my brain to really "get it"
Good Luck
Just set up a seperate corporation and operate it in a clandestine manner...
Nothing to see here folks, just 'ethical' modern business practices
Yeah, let's get some Cortana-Flood tentacle action going on... Maybe a Sailor-Moon/Bleach crossover and some fatass dressed as a Panda Bear just for fun
just redefined them. Or, as they say in business school, "it is the ethical duty of a business owner to return maximum profit to the shareholder, as reported in quarterly statements"
So, there you go... no duty to employees, community, or even customers. Just make certain that we turn a profit this quarter, and everything else if a-ok
of course there is desktop support (our IT, not dell) to remove and replace burned out bits, and we replace them all every two years.
In this case, cheaper is better.
I actually use a couple of older ones at home, they are pretty much peices of garbage that fail to work with common pci boards or third party video cards.
Can anybody remind my why somebody would pay for a dell to use at home?
This function is already performed by the drilling companies and the MMS when the RISK of the project is high enough.
Most of those 10,000 or so well that were drilled before the recent spate of deregulation did have proper risk assessments done, and in those cases, were designed to mediate the risk.
I am not going to fall for your ass-hat statement that proper regulation calls for the end of all risky endeavors, just that risk be assessed preoperly, and mediated, at the time the wells are initiated.
I honestly get sick of fuck-wits that present an all-or-nothing slippery slope argument when they are tasked with the need for regulatory compliance.
I wish to the FSM that some of you know it alls would quit watching Fox News and actually try and learn something.
As my good buddy wikipedia puts it:
Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_law
So... NO, it is not necessary for Congress to act for something to be a "law"
And YES the President, via Administrative Law has the right to "enforce a regulatory agenda".
It seems to me that having an industry work in a demonstrably risky manner in order to maximize profits, while exposing large numbers of US citizens to toxins and loss of earnings, would stand as an instance where regulation would be required.
Stopping current drilling until the industry can demonstrate that they are performing in a safe manner seems to be one of the few ways (and republicans are demanding that something be done) that will make a company act responsibly.
Are you claiming that prior restraint of BP, in the form of administrative regulation, would have either been a bad thing or unconstitutional...
Of course it would have been neither, the administration has every right to regulate when it is in the public interest. Take your laissez faire free-market dreams and go play in a puddle of sludge
Maybe he should get a nice BP logo tatooed on his lower back, so that his corporate master has something pretty to look at while buggering justice
google's response should be a steaming pile of search results for members of parliament
Intel bought the DEC patents to avoid a long drawn-out lawsuit, which they would lose.
Many people have credited the improvements to the Itanium II to these patents, hardly quashed
Ummmmm... right...
I expect EULAs to attempt to obfuscate and conceal their true intentions in verbage.
It is like being approached by a thug in a dark alley, I expect to start looking for ways out of the situation.
I do not expect a proponent of software development who publishes a great amount of work that is aimed at providing developers with the legal means to BOTH share and protect their work to place these tools in wording that is unreadable.
It is like approaching the Salvation Army dude ringing a bell and then getting shanghaid
So, IF RMS really wants to 'reach out' to the population of software developers, then I would suggest that HE make the material more readily digested
Honestly, I agree with RMS more than disagree.
However, vi is the superior editor
Didn't samsung end up as the last supplier licensed to use Alpha tech?
Since I choose to believe that Apple has resurrected Alpha, no reasoned argument can change my mind :)