I don't think Kathleen Blanco sponsored a bill that asked for a hurricane to hit Louisiana, while Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act.
He asked for it.
The Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act is discussed here. I like the following section on the safety of offshore drilling.
Myth: Drilling poses great risks of oil spills. The last major offshore oil spill in America occurred off of Santa Barbara in 1969. Critics of offshore drilling still refer to this incident, but much has changed in the interim. Drilling technology has greatly advanced in recent decades, and any new drilling will have to comply with strict safeguards that did not exist then.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, "[I]mproved production technology and safety training of personnel have dramatically reduced both blowouts and daily operational spills." Currently, only 1 percent of oil in North American waters came from offshore oil wells, far less than that attributable to natural seepage from the sea floor. Hurricane Katrina provided another reminder that fears of oil spills are overblown and anachronistic: Despite 170-mile-per-hour winds and massive waves striking many platforms, there was not a single significant offshore oil spill.
That should generate entertainment in the form of PETA ravings.
PETA has on occasion used nude attractive women in the propaganda videos. It'd be amusing if they produced a video of a women with large 'udders' walking on a treadmill as a statement against dairy cows on treadmills.
Asian religions in general lack the fixed rules found in western moral systems. The ancient "Art of War" text is pretty much about using manipulation and deceit to win wars without even doing battle. This kind of cunning is prized in Chinese culture. It also results in less physical conflict.
So, should someone from China point to Machiavelli's "The Prince" as an example of the kind of cunning prized in western culture? Or maybe the "The Prince", like the "Art of War", is a product of a particular place and time and doesn't say much about contemporary culture in either the east or west.
We shouldn't want the FCC regulating our internet. That's not why it exists, and it shouldn't be allowed to expand its purpose just because it wants to.
Telling ISPs that they have to treat all internet traffic equally is not micro managing. Calling that micro managing is like saying that requiring all gas stations to use a standard, calibrated unit of measurement is micro managing. Enforcing general principals of how the public should be treated is not micromanaging.
robots.txt isn't legal document, it's an accepted industry standard way for web sites to limit what web spiders and other web robots can search for. Facebook's robot.txt file basically welcomes everyone to come on in and search their site. Complaining that someone used the data that you gave them permission to access is like realtors complaining that someone is visiting open houses they sponsor and then publishing an analysis of houses for sale based on data gathered during those visits. If Facebook doesn't like that others can aggregate data on their site they should get the industry to agree to a new standard tag that permits crawling but forbids aggregation.
If you've got a boss that nefarious then paper isn't going to save you. Admin would have to be in on the plot, and if that's the case you've got no proof, paper or no paper. How can you prove the paper came from an email instead of it being something that you created to get the boss in trouble. The best policy is that when your boss tells you to do something shady you say no.
Good luck with getting your own essay recognized by the wikipedia admins as a "credible source" for a wikipedia article you're writing...
Why would the essay need to be cited in the Wikipedia article? If the original essay cited sources those same citations could be included in the Wikipedia article.
I don't recall the who it was, but I once heard an interview where a musician mentioned being sued by the company that bought the rights to their past songs for their new songs being too close in style to their old material. I think musician said he won the suit.
socialism = government owned/controlled. if the federal government requires everyone to have healthcare that's socialized healthcare. not as hardcore as them running it, but some bad effects are still there.
All restaurants in most(maybe all) states are required to involuntarily adhere to health regulations. Is the restaurant industry in the US socialist? The list of economic/social activities in which all participants are required to operate under government regulation in the US is extensive. Based on your definition of socialist, broad swaths of the US economy are socialist. From your perspective are child labor laws socialist?
Universal care != socialism. There are a number of different models for achieving universal care across Europe. Everything from Britain's NHS to the system in place in Switzerland.
Maybe things vary around the country, but around here everyone I know (5 people) that has tried to negotiate a price with a hospital or doctor has found the price to be substantially more than what the insurance company pays for the same service. My friends' and family's experience has been that when you say you can't afford the price the doctor sends you down to their finance office and they give you a little brochure from a company that will loan you the money for the procedure. I've always thought the doctor must be getting some sort of kick back from the finance company. My neighbor requires back surgery, and the only neurosurgery group in the area is not in plan for his insurance company. He's talked to them, and they will not negotiate a price. They charge what they charge, and that's that. When my daughter was six years old there was the possibility that she would require eye surgery. I checked with two local eye surgeons, and they both charged the same price for the procedure, and neither would negotiate. And none of the local hospitals would discuss price.
Unless your elevated heart rate is sustained for considerably longer than 40 minutes, the same thing would have happened in a great many US emergency departments. I suffer from atrial fibrillation that results in a very elevated heart rate at intermittent times. When I first noticed the problem my own primary physician didn't consider it something that needed looked at right away, it took me several weeks to see a cardiologist. I eventually required a cardiac ablation, which is a procedure where a catheter with a little RF generator is threaded up to the heart to burn off bad tissue. $20,000 later I'm still going into atrial fib and experiencing elevated heart rates. Anyhow, since coming down with this condition I've talked to a lot of other people who experience elevated heart rates from heart conditions, and unless you present with something more than an elevated heart rate most emergency departments are going to prioritize you pretty low. You might want to consider wearing a holter monitor to monitor your heart rate over an extended period of time. You might be experiencing atrial fibrillation and not be aware of it. Did you schedule a follow up with your primary care physician?
Java has been open sourced, so you can learn from the people who wrote it. I've found this to be a worthwhile use of time. Knowing what's under the covers, and seeing how professional Java developers implement things can be a valuable learning experience.
In the footer of the Misa digital guita it says "Copyright 2010 Misa Digital. Patent pending." I wonder what's being patented. There is plenty of prior art in this area if you do much digging. A good example is this from the 1980s. I wouldn't be surprised that if this goes to production that the company finds itself on the receiving end of a patent infringement lawsuit.
If an ebike can increase a person's average speed by enough, it can be the difference between using a car and not using a car. I ride bike a lot recreationally (3 to 4 thousand miles/year) and I've considered getting an ebike. I live 15 miles from work in a largely rural area. I occasionally ride to work, but there are some large hills (500 to 600 feet vertical and 5% to 8% grade) on the way that cause my average speed to fall below 15 mph. This means the commute takes over an hour each way by bike. If a significant part of a ride consists of climbing, those climbs will drastically influence the average time of the ride. The fast downhill times don't influence the overall average nearly so much as the really slow uphills. If an ebike can significantly reduce my times uphill it could make riding into work a lot more practical. The commute is over some very bike friendly roads, it's just that it takes too much time to do regularly.
You seem to be assuming that everyone in the pairs who noticed the event mentioned it to their companion. Maybe not everyone in the pair of people who noticed the unicycling clown mentioned it to their walking companion. If the same proportion of people in pairs initially notice the unicycler, 51%, and only about half of those people mentioned it to their walking companion, then the 71% figure doesn't seem unusual.
Edmund Scientifics offers a tremendous assortment of science tools, kits and toys suitable for kids of all ages. From the time I was in elementary school until high school, most of my wish list came out of their catalog. They will likely have something that will satisfy your budding geeks.
In my area (central NY state) lots of nurses have two year degrees. My wife, an RN with over 30 years experience, is of the opinion that the local community college's nursing graduates come out of school better prepared than any of the area universities granting BS degrees in nursing. What really matters is whether a nurse has passed the board exam to become a Registered Nurse. At that point it doesn't matter whether a nurse has a two or four year degree, they're all RNs and they all get paid the same. Where the BS degree matters is if a person wants to go into the management side of nursing. Hospitals are increasingly requiring a masters degree to enter the management side of nursing. Since a BSN is generally required to get an MSN, if you think you are interested in management go the BSN route.
And I don't know what it's like in the rest of the country, but around here a nurse with at least one year of experience has no problem getting a decent paying job. I suspect it's true in many other areas too, judging by the amount of nurse recruitment junk mail my wife regularly receives.
Nursing is not for everyone, though. Aside from all the shit, vomit, blood and other bodily fluids, I would not do well at the people side of nursing. Lots and lots of people problems to deal with. I don't think I could put up with it.
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Oh, come on, that's what chainsaws are for.
I don't think Kathleen Blanco sponsored a bill that asked for a hurricane to hit Louisiana, while Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act. He asked for it.
The Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act is discussed here. I like the following section on the safety of offshore drilling.
Myth: Drilling poses great risks of oil spills. The last major offshore oil spill in America occurred off of Santa Barbara in 1969. Critics of offshore drilling still refer to this incident, but much has changed in the interim. Drilling technology has greatly advanced in recent decades, and any new drilling will have to comply with strict safeguards that did not exist then.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, "[I]mproved production technology and safety training of personnel have dramatically reduced both blowouts and daily operational spills." Currently, only 1 percent of oil in North American waters came from offshore oil wells, far less than that attributable to natural seepage from the sea floor. Hurricane Katrina provided another reminder that fears of oil spills are overblown and anachronistic: Despite 170-mile-per-hour winds and massive waves striking many platforms, there was not a single significant offshore oil spill.
That should generate entertainment in the form of PETA ravings.
PETA has on occasion used nude attractive women in the propaganda videos. It'd be amusing if they produced a video of a women with large 'udders' walking on a treadmill as a statement against dairy cows on treadmills.
Asian religions in general lack the fixed rules found in western moral systems. The ancient "Art of War" text is pretty much about using manipulation and deceit to win wars without even doing battle. This kind of cunning is prized in Chinese culture. It also results in less physical conflict.
So, should someone from China point to Machiavelli's "The Prince" as an example of the kind of cunning prized in western culture? Or maybe the "The Prince", like the "Art of War", is a product of a particular place and time and doesn't say much about contemporary culture in either the east or west.
WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING?
Better dope than most of us can afford.
We shouldn't want the FCC regulating our internet. That's not why it exists, and it shouldn't be allowed to expand its purpose just because it wants to.
Telling ISPs that they have to treat all internet traffic equally is not micro managing. Calling that micro managing is like saying that requiring all gas stations to use a standard, calibrated unit of measurement is micro managing. Enforcing general principals of how the public should be treated is not micromanaging.
robots.txt isn't legal document, it's an accepted industry standard way for web sites to limit what web spiders and other web robots can search for. Facebook's robot.txt file basically welcomes everyone to come on in and search their site. Complaining that someone used the data that you gave them permission to access is like realtors complaining that someone is visiting open houses they sponsor and then publishing an analysis of houses for sale based on data gathered during those visits. If Facebook doesn't like that others can aggregate data on their site they should get the industry to agree to a new standard tag that permits crawling but forbids aggregation.
If you've got a boss that nefarious then paper isn't going to save you. Admin would have to be in on the plot, and if that's the case you've got no proof, paper or no paper. How can you prove the paper came from an email instead of it being something that you created to get the boss in trouble. The best policy is that when your boss tells you to do something shady you say no.
Plus Xi'an subsidized 1/4 of the research lab
Considering China's trade surplus with the US, it's more like US consumers subsidized 1/4 of the research lab.
Good luck with getting your own essay recognized by the wikipedia admins as a "credible source" for a wikipedia article you're writing...
Why would the essay need to be cited in the Wikipedia article? If the original essay cited sources those same citations could be included in the Wikipedia article.
I don't recall the who it was, but I once heard an interview where a musician mentioned being sued by the company that bought the rights to their past songs for their new songs being too close in style to their old material. I think musician said he won the suit.
socialism = government owned/controlled. if the federal government requires everyone to have healthcare that's socialized healthcare. not as hardcore as them running it, but some bad effects are still there.
All restaurants in most(maybe all) states are required to involuntarily adhere to health regulations. Is the restaurant industry in the US socialist? The list of economic/social activities in which all participants are required to operate under government regulation in the US is extensive. Based on your definition of socialist, broad swaths of the US economy are socialist. From your perspective are child labor laws socialist?
Universal care != socialism. There are a number of different models for achieving universal care across Europe. Everything from Britain's NHS to the system in place in Switzerland.
Maybe things vary around the country, but around here everyone I know (5 people) that has tried to negotiate a price with a hospital or doctor has found the price to be substantially more than what the insurance company pays for the same service. My friends' and family's experience has been that when you say you can't afford the price the doctor sends you down to their finance office and they give you a little brochure from a company that will loan you the money for the procedure. I've always thought the doctor must be getting some sort of kick back from the finance company. My neighbor requires back surgery, and the only neurosurgery group in the area is not in plan for his insurance company. He's talked to them, and they will not negotiate a price. They charge what they charge, and that's that. When my daughter was six years old there was the possibility that she would require eye surgery. I checked with two local eye surgeons, and they both charged the same price for the procedure, and neither would negotiate. And none of the local hospitals would discuss price.
Unless your elevated heart rate is sustained for considerably longer than 40 minutes, the same thing would have happened in a great many US emergency departments. I suffer from atrial fibrillation that results in a very elevated heart rate at intermittent times. When I first noticed the problem my own primary physician didn't consider it something that needed looked at right away, it took me several weeks to see a cardiologist. I eventually required a cardiac ablation, which is a procedure where a catheter with a little RF generator is threaded up to the heart to burn off bad tissue. $20,000 later I'm still going into atrial fib and experiencing elevated heart rates. Anyhow, since coming down with this condition I've talked to a lot of other people who experience elevated heart rates from heart conditions, and unless you present with something more than an elevated heart rate most emergency departments are going to prioritize you pretty low. You might want to consider wearing a holter monitor to monitor your heart rate over an extended period of time. You might be experiencing atrial fibrillation and not be aware of it. Did you schedule a follow up with your primary care physician?
Java has been open sourced, so you can learn from the people who wrote it. I've found this to be a worthwhile use of time. Knowing what's under the covers, and seeing how professional Java developers implement things can be a valuable learning experience.
You can. Yeah, I know this can't be taken too seriously as a critique of libertarianism, but it is funny.
In the footer of the Misa digital guita it says "Copyright 2010 Misa Digital. Patent pending." I wonder what's being patented. There is plenty of prior art in this area if you do much digging. A good example is this from the 1980s. I wouldn't be surprised that if this goes to production that the company finds itself on the receiving end of a patent infringement lawsuit.
Made me think of the drumitar used by Futureman in The Flecktones.
See local currencies and list of community currencies in the United States in Wikipedia.
If an ebike can increase a person's average speed by enough, it can be the difference between using a car and not using a car. I ride bike a lot recreationally (3 to 4 thousand miles/year) and I've considered getting an ebike. I live 15 miles from work in a largely rural area. I occasionally ride to work, but there are some large hills (500 to 600 feet vertical and 5% to 8% grade) on the way that cause my average speed to fall below 15 mph. This means the commute takes over an hour each way by bike. If a significant part of a ride consists of climbing, those climbs will drastically influence the average time of the ride. The fast downhill times don't influence the overall average nearly so much as the really slow uphills. If an ebike can significantly reduce my times uphill it could make riding into work a lot more practical. The commute is over some very bike friendly roads, it's just that it takes too much time to do regularly.
You seem to be assuming that everyone in the pairs who noticed the event mentioned it to their companion. Maybe not everyone in the pair of people who noticed the unicycling clown mentioned it to their walking companion. If the same proportion of people in pairs initially notice the unicycler, 51%, and only about half of those people mentioned it to their walking companion, then the 71% figure doesn't seem unusual.
Will we have Milla Jovovich waiting for us when we wake up?
Edmund Scientifics offers a tremendous assortment of science tools, kits and toys suitable for kids of all ages. From the time I was in elementary school until high school, most of my wish list came out of their catalog. They will likely have something that will satisfy your budding geeks.
In my area (central NY state) lots of nurses have two year degrees. My wife, an RN with over 30 years experience, is of the opinion that the local community college's nursing graduates come out of school better prepared than any of the area universities granting BS degrees in nursing. What really matters is whether a nurse has passed the board exam to become a Registered Nurse. At that point it doesn't matter whether a nurse has a two or four year degree, they're all RNs and they all get paid the same. Where the BS degree matters is if a person wants to go into the management side of nursing. Hospitals are increasingly requiring a masters degree to enter the management side of nursing. Since a BSN is generally required to get an MSN, if you think you are interested in management go the BSN route. And I don't know what it's like in the rest of the country, but around here a nurse with at least one year of experience has no problem getting a decent paying job. I suspect it's true in many other areas too, judging by the amount of nurse recruitment junk mail my wife regularly receives. Nursing is not for everyone, though. Aside from all the shit, vomit, blood and other bodily fluids, I would not do well at the people side of nursing. Lots and lots of people problems to deal with. I don't think I could put up with it.