Using the parent's logic, some terrorist organization manages to detonate a nuclear bomb inside America. So you decide that you want to retaliate with a nuclear bomb of your own. Where do you drop it?
Given that the only terrorists stupid enough to try something are of the radical Islamic variety, why not drop it on the beating heart of the radical Islamic movement and take out Mecca? It'll send a pretty clear message that we are not to be fucked with.
Part of why liberal became a term for social democrats in the USA is because most social democrats see the government as a tool to ensure personal liberty.
Bullshit. They took the term liberal and raped its meaning because they had ruined the term progressive so completely that it was simply unacceptable to be called progressive anymore.
Droughts are normal, but they're not the issue. The issue is that targeting "high risk" areas while letting the rest build up fuel year after year just causes massive fires that don't care if something is high risk or not, because they're going to burn everything. The best thing for Victoria to do is nothing. Stop fighting the fires, stop back burning, and stop blaming the mess they created on a drought.
I was referring to wildfires in general.I know perfectly well what chaparral is. However, in places like the Pacific Northwest, California once you get inland, and the rest of the Western US, there are plenty of trees and plenty of wildfires.
The ever increasing severity of wildfires in Australia, North America, and elsewhere have nothing to do with any hypothetical climate change. It has everything to do with honest to Cowboy Neal human intervention.
Every year, dry areas with lots of vegetation catch fire. This is natural. Every year, humans that are stupid enough to build flammable houses in fire prone areas fight the fires and put them out. This is not natural. If the fire was let to burn out on its own, the thick and highly flammable undergrowth would turn into fertilizer for the larger, healthier, and more fire resistant plants that have historically survived such wildfires. Unfortunately, because society likes to coddle the retards that build in fire prone areas, the undergrowth survives year after year and becomes thicker and thicker. Then when the conditions are especially ripe, like during a drought and wind storm, the brush that had been saved for all those years suddenly goes up and creates a massive fire with the fury of all the years that human intervention prevented nature from taking care of the problem. Lo and behold, the massive super fire is much more destructive than the natural fires would have been. Good job.
Flood prone areas with human settlement have the same problem. Levees prevent the natural yearly floods and deprive the land of the silt deposits that would have normally been left after the flood plains have lived up to their name. This causes the land to over time sink and become less fertile, and then when the levees fail OH MY GOD BUILD AN ARK THIS IS THE WORST FLOOD EVAR!!!1
tl;dr climate isn't the problem, retards fighting nature is
The return on the investment is in cutting traffic congestion (thereby reducing commute time for those still driving, reducing road wear, and reducing emissions) and reducing the need for parking at the airport. Are you going to get your friend to drive you to the airport and take an hour or more out of their day when you can just get onto the city mass transit system and take the maglev to the airport in half the time?
As for stops on a long distance line like a Houston-Dallas run, I can't really see why you'd need them. They'd really just make the trip take longer for little to no benefit. Naturally in more densely populated areas it would be a good idea to have an express train that doesn't stop and a local train that stops at the smaller stations.
DC is a terrible example though, as the entire place is so corrupt and ass backwards that the only solution is to get the British to come and burn it down again.
Since the comparison was between the Shanghai maglev and the NYC subway system, I'll use the 55mph max speed of the subway trains and guess maybe half an hour give or take five minutes.
Because it covers the 18mi between the airport and city subway system in seven minutes.
How about being able to go from Houston to Dallas in about 45 minutes? Or for those of you in the NE, that's a bit longer than the distance between Washington and New York or New York and Boston. Seattle to Portland or Vancouver, BC could be done in half an hour. Los Angeles to San Diego would take about twenty minutes.
Yea, well, when I see Linux or some other general purpose non-microsoft OS, in the retail outlets on name-brand systems, I'll reconsider my views.
Apple would like to have a word with you.
And more importantly, what does it matter to you if HP wants to stick with Windows? If you're posting on Slashdot I highly doubt that you're buying pre-built PCs that aren't notebooks. Microsoft doesn't force you to grab a copy of Vista at gunpoint when you go to Fry's to buy parts.
You say that as though there aren't countless problems that can't be solved without anger and violence.
Would you rather a nation of people that are liable to kick your ass when you do something wrong, or a nation that just sits on their hands and watches as someone else does something wrong?
The problem is that they don't care. There are so many bugs in the game that have been complained about for years and not fixed that it's no wonder that such an obvious exploit managed to survive for four years. Frankly, CCP makes SOE seem competent.
Alternatively, a better solution would be to simply allow everyone to be armed, thus ensuring that a would be killer isn't being presented with classroom after classroom full of helpless victims.
It you're creating enough errors while typing that correcting them becomes a chore, you're a shitty typist AND a shitty speller, and all the pens and paper in the world won't change that.
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Given that the only terrorists stupid enough to try something are of the radical Islamic variety, why not drop it on the beating heart of the radical Islamic movement and take out Mecca? It'll send a pretty clear message that we are not to be fucked with.
Bullshit. They took the term liberal and raped its meaning because they had ruined the term progressive so completely that it was simply unacceptable to be called progressive anymore.
Droughts are normal, but they're not the issue. The issue is that targeting "high risk" areas while letting the rest build up fuel year after year just causes massive fires that don't care if something is high risk or not, because they're going to burn everything. The best thing for Victoria to do is nothing. Stop fighting the fires, stop back burning, and stop blaming the mess they created on a drought.
I was referring to wildfires in general.I know perfectly well what chaparral is. However, in places like the Pacific Northwest, California once you get inland, and the rest of the Western US, there are plenty of trees and plenty of wildfires.
The ever increasing severity of wildfires in Australia, North America, and elsewhere have nothing to do with any hypothetical climate change. It has everything to do with honest to Cowboy Neal human intervention.
Every year, dry areas with lots of vegetation catch fire. This is natural. Every year, humans that are stupid enough to build flammable houses in fire prone areas fight the fires and put them out. This is not natural. If the fire was let to burn out on its own, the thick and highly flammable undergrowth would turn into fertilizer for the larger, healthier, and more fire resistant plants that have historically survived such wildfires. Unfortunately, because society likes to coddle the retards that build in fire prone areas, the undergrowth survives year after year and becomes thicker and thicker. Then when the conditions are especially ripe, like during a drought and wind storm, the brush that had been saved for all those years suddenly goes up and creates a massive fire with the fury of all the years that human intervention prevented nature from taking care of the problem. Lo and behold, the massive super fire is much more destructive than the natural fires would have been. Good job.
Flood prone areas with human settlement have the same problem. Levees prevent the natural yearly floods and deprive the land of the silt deposits that would have normally been left after the flood plains have lived up to their name. This causes the land to over time sink and become less fertile, and then when the levees fail OH MY GOD BUILD AN ARK THIS IS THE WORST FLOOD EVAR!!!1
tl;dr climate isn't the problem, retards fighting nature is
Nobody ever said that you could.
The return on the investment is in cutting traffic congestion (thereby reducing commute time for those still driving, reducing road wear, and reducing emissions) and reducing the need for parking at the airport. Are you going to get your friend to drive you to the airport and take an hour or more out of their day when you can just get onto the city mass transit system and take the maglev to the airport in half the time?
As for stops on a long distance line like a Houston-Dallas run, I can't really see why you'd need them. They'd really just make the trip take longer for little to no benefit. Naturally in more densely populated areas it would be a good idea to have an express train that doesn't stop and a local train that stops at the smaller stations.
DC is a terrible example though, as the entire place is so corrupt and ass backwards that the only solution is to get the British to come and burn it down again.
Wouldn't it be easier to just obey parking laws?
Since the comparison was between the Shanghai maglev and the NYC subway system, I'll use the 55mph max speed of the subway trains and guess maybe half an hour give or take five minutes.
Because it covers the 18mi between the airport and city subway system in seven minutes.
How about being able to go from Houston to Dallas in about 45 minutes? Or for those of you in the NE, that's a bit longer than the distance between Washington and New York or New York and Boston. Seattle to Portland or Vancouver, BC could be done in half an hour. Los Angeles to San Diego would take about twenty minutes.
Apple would like to have a word with you.
And more importantly, what does it matter to you if HP wants to stick with Windows? If you're posting on Slashdot I highly doubt that you're buying pre-built PCs that aren't notebooks. Microsoft doesn't force you to grab a copy of Vista at gunpoint when you go to Fry's to buy parts.
Mr. Rearden would like to have a word with you.
You say that as though there aren't countless problems that can't be solved without anger and violence.
Would you rather a nation of people that are liable to kick your ass when you do something wrong, or a nation that just sits on their hands and watches as someone else does something wrong?
That's not funny. My brother died that way.
The problem is that they don't care. There are so many bugs in the game that have been complained about for years and not fixed that it's no wonder that such an obvious exploit managed to survive for four years. Frankly, CCP makes SOE seem competent.
Just remember to push R or Z twice.
The "indians" aren't any more native to North and South America than the Europeans are. They just caught the early boat over.
Of course, according to homesteading rules, it was never their land in the first place.
Probably the few people that actually have any business accessing the servers directly, while conveniently keeping the lusers out.
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4811 So, uh, fuck your theory eh?
A cat is fine too. :3
Alternatively, a better solution would be to simply allow everyone to be armed, thus ensuring that a would be killer isn't being presented with classroom after classroom full of helpless victims.
Yes. The keyboard is fine, l2type.
It you're creating enough errors while typing that correcting them becomes a chore, you're a shitty typist AND a shitty speller, and all the pens and paper in the world won't change that.
Lecture notes have no bearing on the fact that someone is a shitty typist.