Maybe Sen. Hatch should watch the tech companies that are using techs to train their replacments so they can send the jobs overseas if he wants to protect American innovation and economic growth.
In a statement, Hatch declared that the panel would have an "aggressive agenda" and highlighted the issue of patent reform, saying, "We need strong patent protection to give incentives for innovation and economic growth."
Senator Hatch Introduces Bill to Burn People's Eyes Out
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced legislation authorizing the use of high-powered microwave lasers to burn out the eyes of non-paying viewers of copyrighted material. "If we could develop technology which just burned out the parts of their brains where the illegal memories are stored, that'd be fine with me--but we can burn their eyes out right now!" said Hatch, while introducing the Hatch/Hollywood Eyeball Evisceration Act.
Bookburning on the Internet
If you say "If you must smoke marijuana, filter the smoke with a water pipe and don't even think of driving afterwards." or "...don't use dirty needles. Clean them with bleach or find a syringe exchange program."
I think these statements are good advice. But if U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch and Dianne Feinstein have their way, it will soon be a felony to publish these statements in any book, newspaper, magazine, web site, or even to utter them or link to a web site containing them. The Hatch/Feinstein Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999 makes these statements illegal because they "pertain" to an act that violates federal controlled-substance laws
Orrin Hatch's Glass House Has Bin Laden's Name on It
Indeed, to this day, those involved in the decision to give the Afghan rebels access to a fortune in covert funding and top-level combat weaponry continue to defend that move in the context of the Cold War. Sen. Orrin Hatch told Robert Windrem that he would make the same call again today even knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. It was worth it, he said.
Collections of Information Antipiracy Act This bill makes it legal to get the goods on you.
American database providers render an invaluable service by collecting, organizing, and disseminating billions of bits of information from myriad sources of every possible sector of our economy.
I could do a bit more research on the good Senator, but then I'd be post 387 and no one would ever read this.
As long as there is no real competition between providers in the United States there will be higher broadband costs to us.
I can get dsl from my isp for $50 or $80, he gets no break from bell south which will give me the same speeds for $35 and $55.
My city gave exclusive cable rights to the cable company. And they don't share. I can get a faster rate for a bit more money than from my baby bell.
But the baby bells were forced to share thier bandwidth with anyone that wanted a stake. For years they didn't even consider the internet worth the investment so they gave out better rates for the mom n pop isps.
Until the cable companies are forced to do the same, or the telephone companies put in cable, the rates just won't be coming down.
It's all about the money and the cable guys all seem to have the upper hand right now. There are solutions? I wish I knew.
I metamoderate on a regular basis and have moderated a couple times. It's not an easy thing to do, ever. Sometimes the things modded as interesting are actually funny or something else. Sometimes those little one line obvious ideas get modded to 5 for reasons unfanthonable to me. Often the moderations show that an agenda is in operation.
On this topic that is very obvious. Both sides of the debate obviously have been getting thier fair share of moderators.
Those that start by saying they are flamebait I have noticed here are not that at all. They are the followers of what I consider to be bad science. Maybe the term junk science would be better.
Maybe they read one of Rush Limbaughs books written ten years ago or listen to his agenda. But he's not a scientist, or even a geek. He's just another addicted pundit preaching junk science.
I propose that Slashdot add a new term for moderators that could possibly clear up these problems listed above.
Obfuscate said, "Models need real data to work right (which we don't have)"
The Article stated,
In the study, Dr Barnett's team examined more than seven million observations of temperature, salinity and other variables in the world's oceans, collected by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and compared the patterns with those that are predicted by computer models of various potential causes of climate change.
Exactly how much info does he think necessary?
Again Obfuscate said,
"I remember one NOAA model that came out a few years ago showing a sudden upturn in temperatures just about to happen. CALAMITY! WOE! This was supposed to be the latest and most accurate model. Proof beyond all doubt that we were ruining the planet!
It didn't happen."
Actually, look at the robins in Alaska, Eskimos have no word for them. Look at he Snows of Kilaminjaro, if you look fast enough, they'll be gone soon. Look anywhere in the world at the disappearing galciers. Look at the disappearing coastline of Louisiana, they loose 30 square miles of land a year. Look at the chunks of Antartica the size of the state of Rhode Island breaking off and floating away.
It is happening now.
It's time to take your head out of a book Rush (the Addict) Linbaugh wrote 10 years ago and addressed this report that came out last Thursday.
Nokia has the technology to launch a new style of game that hasn't been mentioned here or anywhere else as far as I can tell.
If Nokia added a geo positioning mech to it's hend held units something like the real world DnD could be developed. If the software were modifiable almost anything would become possible.
I live in New Orleans and know there are enough great places to let the game become partly online and partly reality based. In the French Quarter costumes wouldn't stick out. And the possibilities are endless. Spy v Spy v Spy, Tag, Capture the flag, Treasure Hunts, whatever.
And while I know costuming in New Orleans is somewhat di regur(sp) any city or area would do. Plus the local fans would be necessary for the implementation of the games to ensure a good mix. I already have a small secenario designed for the French Quarter that's part puzzle, part bar hop and part scavenger hunt.
Maybe it's time to thing outside the box...er, I mean screen on this one.
It was back in maybe 1965/66? Dark night with no moon, playing an away game of jv football in Albemarle? NC.
That sucker arced across 20% of the sky with a really orange red tail and exploded. Almost looked like dawn was coming, I waited for sound, started counting off seconds to range it's distance, but no sound ever came.
Just for a moment I thought it was the Russians, but that's another story.
Something I will never forget.
And some asteroids come even closer, entering the atmosphere. Most never reach the ground because they break apart under the stress of entry. One study of data collected by U.S. military satellites logged 300 in-air asteroid explosions.
Appearantly the Yesmen sent someone to the BBC saying they represented DOW chemical and they were going to give a ton of money to fix the situation in Bhopal, which isnt a hoax.
The World Bank insisted that India use the newly developed superseeds owned by the agricongloms, to feed it's huddled masses. But the superseeds use the soil up in a season or two and require massive amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, which UCC was glad to produce. Things got out of hand and today babies are born without eyeballs.
It's all in the link to the Bhopal page I made in my sig if you want to wade through 200 links, try the timelines or the chemical papers and briefs section...
1980 to 1984: The work crew of the MIC unit was halved from 12 to six workers, the maintenance crew from six to two workers. On December 26, 1981 a plant operator was killed by a phosgene gas leak. Another phosgene leak in January 1982 severely injured 28 workers and in October the same year MIC escaped from a broken valve and four workers were exposed to the chemical. The senior officials of the Union Carbide, privy to a "business confidential" safety audit in May 1982, were well aware of 61 hazards, 30 of them major and 11 in the dangerous phosgene/MIC units. Remedial measures were then taken at Union Carbide's identical MIC plant in West Virginia, USA, but not in Bhopal.
December 2-3, 1984: Poisonous gas leak from Union Carbides pesticides factory. In three days around 8,000 people die. On the night of the disaster, water (that was being used for washing the lines) entered the tank containing MIC through leaking valves. The refrigeration unit, which should have kept the MIC close to zero degrees centigrade, had been shut off by the company officials to save on electricity bills. The entrance of water in the tank, full of MIC at ambient temperature triggered off an exothermic runaway reaction an consequently the release of the lethal gas mixture. The safety systems, which in any case were not designed for such a runaway situation, were non-functioning and under repair. Lest the neighbourhood community be "unduly alarmed", the siren in the factory had been switched off. Poison clouds from the Union Carbide factory enveloped an arc of over 20 square kilometres before the residents could run away from its deadly hold.
1980 to 1984: The work crew of the MIC unit was halved from 12 to six workers, the maintenance crew from six to two workers. On December 26, 1981 a plant operator was killed by a phosgene gas leak. Another phosgene leak in January 1982 severely injured 28 workers and in October the same year MIC escaped from a broken valve and four workers were exposed to the chemical. The senior officials of the Union Carbide, privy to a "business confidential" safety audit in May 1982, were well aware of 61 hazards, 30 of them major and 11 in the dangerous phosgene/MIC units. Remedial measures were then taken at Union Carbide's identical MIC plant in West Virginia, USA, but not in Bhopal.
December 2-3, 1984: Poisonous gas leak from Union Carbides pesticides factory. In three days around 8,000 people die. On the night of the disaster, water (that was being used for washing the lines) entered the tank containing MIC through leaking valves. The refrigeration unit, which should have kept the MIC close to zero degrees centigrade, had been shut off by the company officials to save on electricity bills. The entrance of water in the tank, full of MIC at ambient temperature triggered off an exothermic runaway reaction an consequently the release of the lethal gas mixture. The safety systems, which in any case were not designed for such a runaway situation, were non-functioning and under repair. Lest the neighbourhood community be "unduly alarmed", the siren in the factory had been switched off. Poison clouds from the Union Carbide factory enveloped an arc of over 20 square kilometres before the residents could run away from its deadly hold.
Here's a list of technical I put together on Bhopal at my site, listed in my sig. These are very deadly chemicals with effects that linger on and on and on and on...you know Union Carbide became the EverReady before Dow bought them...
New Bhopal Papers V. Ramana Dhara at Emory University is a nice cource of technical papers including health effects, epidemiology, toxicology and respiratory effects.
More than half a million people were exposed to the deadly
MIC
gases on the night of the accident, 120,000 so badly that they've been left with
permanent and debilitating health effects.
Blindness, extreme difficulty in breathing, and cancer are common after effects of exposure, and gynecological problems are also rampant. Some women are still waiting for their first period at the age of twenty, while others have as many as four or five per month.
Brain damage and birth defects
are also common. The after effects of gas exposure have extended to the second and third generations, and few of the victims have access to adequate medical treatment.
The people of Bhopal have endured unimaginable
pain and suffering,
and will continue to do so until the site is cleaned up
(Union Carbide simply packed up and left the site as it was)
and is now after 20 years, the chemicals are
contaminating local water supplies.Students and
other organizations are joining together in the struggle for Bhopal, one of the most beautiful areas of India.
I have collected over 200 links to information on the Bhopal tragedy including local actions on the 20th anniversary, humor, Dow/Union Carbide statements, activist groups, news, book reviews, petitions, timelines, photos and videos, case studies and technical papers.
Imagine the chemicl mix this new wonder food would provide.
When you take a the predator that has been eating top predators all their lives and turn it into a food source the resulting toxic buildup woud only produce remarkable offspring.
Sometimes I cut them into triangles and put them on a cosmic ray piece or throw them in the microwave to get them soft and mold them into shapes. Don't forgt your ove gloves.
I could use some help on my webpage, it's an old one at the original geocities and I cannot figure out how to get anyone at YaHoo to let me back into fix the many broken links. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reach someone there. I have tried everything I could and never get an answer. I miss 92/3 when you could email them new pages you had found and they would email you back thanks,
While dialup goes down and down again. Most people I know are waiting for prices to come down on high speeds aswell. They are expecting and waiting for this to happen.
I'm still with my local dialup that I've had for 9 years (started with AOL) and they can't give me a deal, because the baby Bells refuse to give them any deals, and the local cable, Cox, isn't competitive unless I go with cable, phone and high speed. Until the small isps can give a price break, I don't see where the baby bells or the cable providers are going to compete.
What I don't understand is why the copper wire providers which were forced to share, don't get the same break using fiberoptics. If that were to happen then the prices would come down.
Until then I run a couple windows at a time on my browser and let one load while I check the action on the other. But I'm waiting for $25 -30 price range before I change.
Sorry, I missed were you asked where I got the figure of 100 hours.
When You figure in the overtime you add.5 hrs for each hour of overtime to get the figure per hour pay.
Pardon my cynicsm, but overtime is when you get paid time and a half for every hour over 40 hours. Now if they got paid 60,000 for a fourty hour workweek it would comeout something like this for 80 hour work week at 52 weeks
$2596.15 a week or $135,000 a year.
Somebody is laughing all the way to the bank and they want $49.95 for a game.
Per hour comes to$25.96 per hour.
Again I would like to add it is amazing how people with a calculator can juggle figures to meet their needs.
Actually the article said some of the workers were going at 84 or 88 hours a week and I didn't take out for tazes...Let's try that, ok? Being in the workforce for 36 years I assure you sick pay and vacations usually start after a year on the job.
So you get $60,000
Go in by let's say 50 weeks yields $1200
Go in by 112 hours based on 88hr workweek and 24 hr of overtime gives us...
$10.714 per hour
Let's see that with taxes, just feds forget state, local or sales tax..I will offer $7000 in deductions gives us a tax of $10,066
Gives us $49,934
by 50 and 112 yields
$8.91 takehome which proves you can juggle numbers any way you want to...
Time to Consider a Union maybe?
on
NYT on EA Games
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· Score: 1
Maybe game coders should consider joining the AFL-CIO or the...
I read the new story at 22 posts, did this bit of research, made a post about free range chicken, $11.53 an hour, browsed a most of these posts which seem to be mostly rehash of arguements/comments from earlier this week and now find this post may be number 308. But this post is mouthful.
Communications Workers IU560 Who We Are We are members of the Industrial Workers of the World who work in the electronic communications industry. Our organization is open to All workers engaged in telephone, telegraph, radio, television, satellite communication, and computer operation, including programming, and networking.
IWW Join a union with branches in India, Bulgaria, Poland, and England? One that is calling for the 4 hour work week and the 4 hour work day?
IWW US Locations California has locals in Los Angeles GMB, Sacramento, San Diego. San Francisco Bay Area GMB & IU 670, San Jose, Santa Barbara GMB, Sonoma County or Start Your Own IWW Branch.
This section also includes information on how to recruit new members, how to hold and run successful meetings, and how to deal with sensitive issues, such as diversity and burnout.
Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, Communications Workers of America, Local 37083, AFL-CIOarticles at A Voice for the Digital Workforc include Microsoft to double size of India facilities, Unions begin to struggle in Europe, Outsourcing to Arkansas, Job Numbers Mask Continuing Deindustrialization, Slowdown Forces Many to Wander for Work, Students Fight Copyright Hoarders, Welcome to the risk economy and An Industry in India Cheers Bush's Victory.
Well,
they have found a good owner, That gives the chicken enough range to sort of stand on tiptoe and streach out it's wings. And not much more, sort of like a cube only 34 inches high, but with a lot of other chickens.
Now,
if you add organic or certified organic or natural your normal chickens get more freedom, but the free range you describe was like that at my grandmas farm in Chesnee, South Carolina back in the 50's and 60's.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe Sen. Hatch should watch the tech companies that are using techs to train their replacments so they can send the jobs overseas if he wants to protect American innovation and economic growth.
In a statement, Hatch declared that the panel would have an "aggressive agenda" and highlighted the issue of patent reform, saying, "We need strong patent protection to give incentives for innovation and economic growth."
Senator Hatch Introduces Bill to Burn People's Eyes Out Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced legislation authorizing the use of high-powered microwave lasers to burn out the eyes of non-paying viewers of copyrighted material. "If we could develop technology which just burned out the parts of their brains where the illegal memories are stored, that'd be fine with me--but we can burn their eyes out right now!" said Hatch, while introducing the Hatch/Hollywood Eyeball Evisceration Act.
Bookburning on the Internet If you say "If you must smoke marijuana, filter the smoke with a water pipe and don't even think of driving afterwards." or "...don't use dirty needles. Clean them with bleach or find a syringe exchange program."
I think these statements are good advice. But if U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch and Dianne Feinstein have their way, it will soon be a felony to publish these statements in any book, newspaper, magazine, web site, or even to utter them or link to a web site containing them. The Hatch/Feinstein Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999 makes these statements illegal because they "pertain" to an act that violates federal controlled-substance laws
Nobel Laureates Denounce Hatch's Patent Bill
Orrin Hatch's Glass House Has Bin Laden's Name on It Indeed, to this day, those involved in the decision to give the Afghan rebels access to a fortune in covert funding and top-level combat weaponry continue to defend that move in the context of the Cold War. Sen. Orrin Hatch told Robert Windrem that he would make the same call again today even knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. It was worth it, he said.
Hatch support for converting our interstate highways into toll roads.
Collections of Information Antipiracy Act This bill makes it legal to get the goods on you.
American database providers render an invaluable service by collecting, organizing, and disseminating billions of bits of information from myriad sources of every possible sector of our economy.
I could do a bit more research on the good Senator, but then I'd be post 387 and no one would ever read this.
Maybe you should have invested in a local prison or not bought a location so close to a Walmart?
As long as there is no real competition between providers in the United States there will be higher broadband costs to us.
I can get dsl from my isp for $50 or $80, he gets no break from bell south which will give me the same speeds for $35 and $55.
My city gave exclusive cable rights to the cable company. And they don't share. I can get a faster rate for a bit more money than from my baby bell.
But the baby bells were forced to share thier bandwidth with anyone that wanted a stake. For years they didn't even consider the internet worth the investment so they gave out better rates for the mom n pop isps.
Until the cable companies are forced to do the same, or the telephone companies put in cable, the rates just won't be coming down.
It's all about the money and the cable guys all seem to have the upper hand right now. There are solutions? I wish I knew.
I metamoderate on a regular basis and have moderated a couple times. It's not an easy thing to do, ever. Sometimes the things modded as interesting are actually funny or something else. Sometimes those little one line obvious ideas get modded to 5 for reasons unfanthonable to me. Often the moderations show that an agenda is in operation.
On this topic that is very obvious. Both sides of the debate obviously have been getting thier fair share of moderators.
Those that start by saying they are flamebait I have noticed here are not that at all. They are the followers of what I consider to be bad science. Maybe the term junk science would be better.
Maybe they read one of Rush Limbaughs books written ten years ago or listen to his agenda. But he's not a scientist, or even a geek. He's just another addicted pundit preaching junk science.
I propose that Slashdot add a new term for moderators that could possibly clear up these problems listed above.
Junk Science
Obfuscate said, "Models need real data to work right (which we don't have)"
The Article stated,
In the study, Dr Barnett's team examined more than seven million observations of temperature, salinity and other variables in the world's oceans, collected by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and compared the patterns with those that are predicted by computer models of various potential causes of climate change.
Exactly how much info does he think necessary?
Again Obfuscate said, "I remember one NOAA model that came out a few years ago showing a sudden upturn in temperatures just about to happen. CALAMITY! WOE! This was supposed to be the latest and most accurate model. Proof beyond all doubt that we were ruining the planet!
It didn't happen."
Actually, look at the robins in Alaska, Eskimos have no word for them. Look at he Snows of Kilaminjaro, if you look fast enough, they'll be gone soon. Look anywhere in the world at the disappearing galciers. Look at the disappearing coastline of Louisiana, they loose 30 square miles of land a year. Look at the chunks of Antartica the size of the state of Rhode Island breaking off and floating away.
It is happening now.
It's time to take your head out of a book Rush (the Addict) Linbaugh wrote 10 years ago and addressed this report that came out last Thursday.
Nokia has the technology to launch a new style of game that hasn't been mentioned here or anywhere else as far as I can tell.
If Nokia added a geo positioning mech to it's hend held units something like the real world DnD could be developed. If the software were modifiable almost anything would become possible.
I live in New Orleans and know there are enough great places to let the game become partly online and partly reality based. In the French Quarter costumes wouldn't stick out. And the possibilities are endless. Spy v Spy v Spy, Tag, Capture the flag, Treasure Hunts, whatever.
And while I know costuming in New Orleans is somewhat di regur(sp) any city or area would do. Plus the local fans would be necessary for the implementation of the games to ensure a good mix. I already have a small secenario designed for the French Quarter that's part puzzle, part bar hop and part scavenger hunt.
Maybe it's time to thing outside the box ...er, I mean screen on this one.
I've meta moderated enough here to know when a subject line is out and out flamebait. This whole damn topic is flamebait from the start.
It was back in maybe 1965/66? Dark night with no moon, playing an away game of jv football in Albemarle? NC.
That sucker arced across 20% of the sky with a really orange red tail and exploded. Almost looked like dawn was coming, I waited for sound, started counting off seconds to range it's distance, but no sound ever came.
Just for a moment I thought it was the Russians, but that's another story.
Something I will never forget.
And some asteroids come even closer, entering the atmosphere. Most never reach the ground because they break apart under the stress of entry. One study of data collected by U.S. military satellites logged 300 in-air asteroid explosions.
Appearantly the Yesmen sent someone to the BBC saying they represented DOW chemical and they were going to give a ton of money to fix the situation in Bhopal, which isnt a hoax.
Or was that an attempt at humor?
It's all in the link to the Bhopal page I made in my sig if you want to wade through 200 links, try the timelines or the chemical papers and briefs section...
See #2 on this list for correct ownership of Bhopal plant
My Bhopal site has over 200 links if you want more info. Link is in the sig...
1980 to 1984: The work crew of the MIC unit was halved from 12 to six workers, the maintenance crew from six to two workers. On December 26, 1981 a plant operator was killed by a phosgene gas leak. Another phosgene leak in January 1982 severely injured 28 workers and in October the same year MIC escaped from a broken valve and four workers were exposed to the chemical. The senior officials of the Union Carbide, privy to a "business confidential" safety audit in May 1982, were well aware of 61 hazards, 30 of them major and 11 in the dangerous phosgene/MIC units. Remedial measures were then taken at Union Carbide's identical MIC plant in West Virginia, USA, but not in Bhopal.
December 2-3, 1984: Poisonous gas leak from Union Carbides pesticides factory. In three days around 8,000 people die. On the night of the disaster, water (that was being used for washing the lines) entered the tank containing MIC through leaking valves. The refrigeration unit, which should have kept the MIC close to zero degrees centigrade, had been shut off by the company officials to save on electricity bills. The entrance of water in the tank, full of MIC at ambient temperature triggered off an exothermic runaway reaction an consequently the release of the lethal gas mixture. The safety systems, which in any case were not designed for such a runaway situation, were non-functioning and under repair. Lest the neighbourhood community be "unduly alarmed", the siren in the factory had been switched off. Poison clouds from the Union Carbide factory enveloped an arc of over 20 square kilometres before the residents could run away from its deadly hold.
Bhopal timeline
A William Stavropoulos 'Wanted' poster
My Bhopal site has over 200 links if you want more info. Link is in the sig...
Three Timelines
My Bhopal site has over 200 links if you want more info. Link is in the sig...
1980 to 1984: The work crew of the MIC unit was halved from 12 to six workers, the maintenance crew from six to two workers. On December 26, 1981 a plant operator was killed by a phosgene gas leak. Another phosgene leak in January 1982 severely injured 28 workers and in October the same year MIC escaped from a broken valve and four workers were exposed to the chemical. The senior officials of the Union Carbide, privy to a "business confidential" safety audit in May 1982, were well aware of 61 hazards, 30 of them major and 11 in the dangerous phosgene/MIC units. Remedial measures were then taken at Union Carbide's identical MIC plant in West Virginia, USA, but not in Bhopal.
December 2-3, 1984: Poisonous gas leak from Union Carbides pesticides factory. In three days around 8,000 people die. On the night of the disaster, water (that was being used for washing the lines) entered the tank containing MIC through leaking valves. The refrigeration unit, which should have kept the MIC close to zero degrees centigrade, had been shut off by the company officials to save on electricity bills. The entrance of water in the tank, full of MIC at ambient temperature triggered off an exothermic runaway reaction an consequently the release of the lethal gas mixture. The safety systems, which in any case were not designed for such a runaway situation, were non-functioning and under repair. Lest the neighbourhood community be "unduly alarmed", the siren in the factory had been switched off. Poison clouds from the Union Carbide factory enveloped an arc of over 20 square kilometres before the residents could run away from its deadly hold.
Bhopal timeline
A William Stavropoulos 'Wanted' poster
My Bhopal site has over 200 links if you want more info. Link is in the sig...
Here's a list of technical I put together on Bhopal at my site, listed in my sig. These are very deadly chemicals with effects that linger on and on and on and on...you know Union Carbide became the EverReady before Dow bought them...
New Exportation of Risk: The Case of Bhopal
Friday Dec.3rd marks the 20th anniversary of the tragedy in Bhopal, India. Unfortunately, the Bhopal disaster has never ended. It remains one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes of the century.
More than half a million people were exposed to the deadly MIC gases on the night of the accident, 120,000 so badly that they've been left with permanent and debilitating health effects. Blindness, extreme difficulty in breathing, and cancer are common after effects of exposure, and gynecological problems are also rampant. Some women are still waiting for their first period at the age of twenty, while others have as many as four or five per month. Brain damage and birth defects are also common. The after effects of gas exposure have extended to the second and third generations, and few of the victims have access to adequate medical treatment.
The people of Bhopal have endured unimaginable pain and suffering, and will continue to do so until the site is cleaned up (Union Carbide simply packed up and left the site as it was) and is now after 20 years, the chemicals are contaminating local water supplies. Students and other organizations are joining together in the struggle for Bhopal, one of the most beautiful areas of India. I have collected over 200 links to information on the Bhopal tragedy including local actions on the 20th anniversary, humor, Dow/Union Carbide statements, activist groups, news, book reviews, petitions, timelines, photos and videos, case studies and technical papers.
Please visit my site at...
20th Anniversary of Bhopal, India tragedy on December 2/3. 1984
Thanks for your time,
also aswell
Here's a previous slashdot story the Yesmen vs. Dow, Dow vs. Parody.
PS this post was rejected two days ago
Interesting point? But the top predator is human beings. And Soylant Green is human beans.
When you take a the predator that has been eating top predators all their lives and turn it into a food source the resulting toxic buildup woud only produce remarkable offspring.
The Cosmic Ray Deflection Society of North America, Inc. krudzna ink
I could use some help on my webpage, it's an old one at the original geocities and I cannot figure out how to get anyone at YaHoo to let me back into fix the many broken links. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reach someone there. I have tried everything I could and never get an answer. I miss 92/3 when you could email them new pages you had found and they would email you back thanks,
I'm still with my local dialup that I've had for 9 years (started with AOL) and they can't give me a deal, because the baby Bells refuse to give them any deals, and the local cable, Cox, isn't competitive unless I go with cable, phone and high speed. Until the small isps can give a price break, I don't see where the baby bells or the cable providers are going to compete.
What I don't understand is why the copper wire providers which were forced to share, don't get the same break using fiberoptics. If that were to happen then the prices would come down.
Until then I run a couple windows at a time on my browser and let one load while I check the action on the other. But I'm waiting for $25 -30 price range before I change.
When You figure in the overtime you add .5 hrs for each hour of overtime to get the figure per hour pay.
Pardon my cynicsm, but overtime is when you get paid time and a half for every hour over 40 hours. Now if they got paid 60,000 for a fourty hour workweek it would comeout something like this for 80 hour work week at 52 weeks
$2596.15 a week or $135,000 a year. Somebody is laughing all the way to the bank and they want $49.95 for a game.
Per hour comes to$25.96 per hour.
Again I would like to add it is amazing how people with a calculator can juggle figures to meet their needs.
So you get $60,000
Go in by let's say 50 weeks yields $1200
Go in by 112 hours based on 88hr workweek and 24 hr of overtime gives us...
$10.714 per hour
Let's see that with taxes, just feds forget state, local or sales tax..I will offer $7000 in deductions gives us a tax of $10,066
Gives us $49,934
by 50 and 112 yields
$8.91 takehome which proves you can juggle numbers any way you want to...
I read the new story at 22 posts, did this bit of research, made a post about free range chicken, $11.53 an hour, browsed a most of these posts which seem to be mostly rehash of arguements/comments from earlier this week and now find this post may be number 308. But this post is mouthful.
AFL-CIO
$60,000 a year by 52 weeks...
by 100 hours [includes 20 hours for overtime?]...
=$11.53
Well,
they have found a good owner, That gives the chicken enough range to sort of stand on tiptoe and streach out it's wings. And not much more, sort of like a cube only 34 inches high, but with a lot of other chickens.
Now,
if you add organic or certified organic or natural your normal chickens get more freedom, but the free range you describe was like that at my grandmas farm in Chesnee, South Carolina back in the 50's and 60's.