Astonishingly, and I'm afraid I've lost the citation, the furthest you can get from a road (not necessarily metalled) in the lower 48 is 35 miles. It's a point in Yellowstone NP. No idea outside of NPs what the furthest you can stumble without hitting 'civilization', assume it's much lower.
Bah ha ha ha! Yeah, that'll happen! Seriously, what dimension did you just slide in from?
I think we all understand the realpolitik, but people-power is perhaps the most practical solution to the never-ending ramping-up of fear. Would love to hear other suggestions.
The dimension I dwell in is called, with unintentional irony, 'Hope'.
From this side of the pond, it seems that DHS is now the problem. Apologies for the slightly glib comparison, but tens of thousands of people's lives have cumulatively been wasted in the queues that are there* to stop people's lives being wasted.
But like reducing sentences for criminals, politicians fear the pointy-finger of blame from the media if anything happened on their watch after the DHS was scaled down. It would be up to the populace to stand up and say "It's a risk we'll take."
Apologies, offtopic too. Wholeheartedly agree- with one caveat. I love the NHS and have had almost uniformly excellent treatment, thankfully have never experienced much like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010mrzt which was a real eye-opener. This is when our fear of the right-wing free-market (usually fully justified) allows astonishingly poor practices to arise. The purveyors of ideological fear-mongering are part of the reason this is allowed to fly under the radar.
I was in a pub in central London one autumn Saturday afternoon in 1992. Police hassled us to leave quickly, i.e. "freaking out", and I remember thinking, "Hey, what's the fuss?" The next week, a bomb left in the same pub killed one (barman) and injured 4 others. Also what's changed is that coded warnings and the expectation of a reductions in casualties are now not expected.
Totally agreed however, that most security theatre is useless and serves mainly as a way for the ruling classes to completely isolate themselves from the rest of us (literally) poor buggers. But don't hide things under litter bins then expect people to have short memories.
This is not an over-reaction. Here in the UK, terrorism on such a scale used to happen pretty regularly- for example, see the children killed in the second attack here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks. Political agreement in Northern Ireland mostly halted the war, but one positive thing that came out of September 11th was the extinguishing of monies and good-will from the US for any sort of terrorism.
Always amazed that so few people haven't been taught that you can see polarisation. It's so clear that it's visible in the large white space on this submission screen. AFAIK, we don't credit this further sense with any value. No surprise that little credence is given to any subtle magnetic influence.
I know no-one who has paid for private treatment on serious conditions. The NHS is by no means perfect, but the idea that using it fills someone with horror says MUCH more about them than the service they fear was provided.
My wife had a nasty fall last summer, the X-ray of her left wrist was like a comedy cartoon zig-zag. After swelling went down, she saw the consultant on Fri, operated on Sat evening, home Sunday, absolutely first class result.
Oh, and about the USA and costs. My brother sells generic heart drugs by the million. The NHS buys a packet of six for 27p (about 40c). In the USA he gets £5.70 ($9.12) for the same pack.
Tolkien spent his war on the Somme, in the summer of 1916. In case anyone is unaware, this is the British by-word for slaughter. The French have Verdun, the Russians Stalingrad, Australian and Kiwis Gallipoli. Tolkien would have been an intimate part of the emerging mechanised slaughter of WWI at its peak.
Yeah, right. The dog owner's mantra- "He/she won't bite you", followed by "Sorry, he/she never does that normally", then "You must have scared him/her".
Yeah, I know, I read the wikipedia entry too- wasn't expecting it to pre-date the lost pyramids.
Still, it's 14 years old and still makes Google's front page. That says a lot about either the high-value of the site's contents or how low are the prospects for new discoveries in space archaeology.
Do you know why I write 'non-partisan'? I find that most left-leaning communities are tolerant, not just of minority views but of all but the most extreme hatred. Voltaire, defending rights and all that. I also find the Right to be angry all the time, yet the left has far, far more to be angry about.
Slashdot is international. I have an old friend who works in Madison and am very, very well aware of the Gov Walker and the Wisconsin legislature's shenanigans and have been actively following the story since early January. I have no influence there, nor would ever try, but it is a reminder to us all that changing the rules of engagement is the way to bring about a revolution. I've seen the analysis of Walker's pre-election promises, he mentions nothing about these plans. This is the most important part- the pact in a democracy is endangered: you may not achieve all you promise in elections, but you don't go off and do things that are way-out left-field. Surely a more representative democracy is an aim of both sides? Unfortunately the Right may have just learned from the UK, where the previous left-leaning administration were ham-strung as they kept to their promises whilst the current right-wing govt. simply lied about key pledges, even to their coalition partners.
My family and I spent 3 months holidaying in the US in 2009. Assuming you are a citizen of the US (it's not the default on the internet anymore), your people are warm, generous, charming and made us ashamed to be British with your wonderful hospitality. I then wonder what goes wrong when you act as a whole country; it can't all be the fault of Manifest Destiny. There's always some other middle-man, some unexpected intervention. The sum of the whole is very different from the parts.
Hope you have a good Monday, wherever you are in the world.
Slashdot is on the radar of the opinion-formers, and why shouldn't it be? Even after the redesign, it provides the most non-partisan debates over the widest range of topics of anywhere I can find on the net. That's why we're here in such numbers. Also I'd guess from reading the various poll answers that about half of the readership is not North American, mostly to the left of the Democratic Party. Dominant right-wing politics is unlikely here, dependent on the front page w.r.t. time-zones.
Being from the UK and of a left-wing bent it's hard to gauge what is a real ground-swell and what is the work of the AstroT boys and girls. However, press the correct buttons on here and out they come. They were first noticeable a few years back when oil company profits ramped up- "...just rewarding their investment and hard work" was the party line. They stuck out; who the hell wants to spend time, and mod points, defending our second taxman? Think they were there through the health-care debates (man, you are so wrong over that so my opinion may be a little... skewed), and boy! do they come out when someone says nucu-lar power. I dare not mention the climate change 'debate'.
The Guardian were stunned last month to be mentioned on Fox News, basically as where the lefties all go and read their news. If Fox publically care about them, then Big Business certainly spend some modest monies slanting opinions here. As the OP points out, it's one forum though where the newbies (when did that go into abeyance as a term of abuse?) are visible. Call them out.
Mod up indeed. People as cynical as The Register should do more than just report the MS press-release. Someone stated above that hotmail was still the No. 1 mail service. That list of countries just happen to have https choices suspended isn't organised in any programming order. If it was Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland and Syria, then one would feel more inclined to believe them.
The Richter scale records the amount of energy released and is obviously useful when comparing Mag 4 with Mag 8. But what it doesn't say is how it is released- long and rumbling (4 1/2 mins IIRC for this one) or shorted in a large, powerful, greater displacement.
Had this driven home in Picton, New Zealand when a Mag 4.5 gave myself and my son a headache, like a punch, but only set the lights swinging, loosening dust, in the library where we were sitting.
Travelled around CA, NV, UT, AZ, MA and NH for 3 months. Whilst street and road signs are better displayed in the US, the level of local knowledge is just as assumed. My favourites were freeway on-ramps, which can be tucked away with just a little black and white sign to indicate the entrance to a major road network (they're not always near the freeways). It reminded me that the US were building these things in numbers 20 years before the UK, and we (usually) learned the hard lessons from your experiences. Also LA for car-driving visitor without a GPS; intolerable. Other bugbear- same bloody street names in neighbouring conurbations, so you end up somewhere down by the docks rather than at Disneyland. Shouldn't navigate without both background maps and GPS.
Which reminds me of a trip to Yosemite in 1993. We stopped in Jamestown and were trying to cut across country the next morning via some small town. Asked a local for directions and she had never heard of it. The only maps we could buy in the UK (which were from a German company) didn't include the two-decade old reservoir that flooded the valley we were trying to cross.
The other problem to get your head around in the UK is the almost complete lack of a road-grid system. We loved that coming back here, it makes a tremendous difference to the milieu of town. Something to be celebrated.
Just to expand the above Vandenburg/polar info, it was a crucial decision in the Shuttle design. If there was a problem a single orbit after a launch from Florida, the Earth has turned and it could land in the continental US. Vandenberg and polar meant it was out in the Pacific and needed to glide. This meant wings, not something envisaged for the lifting-body designs. These totally changed the design ethos; wings are weighty and a structural weakpoint. They turned the spacebus into an armoured car.
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Astonishingly, and I'm afraid I've lost the citation, the furthest you can get from a road (not necessarily metalled) in the lower 48 is 35 miles. It's a point in Yellowstone NP. No idea outside of NPs what the furthest you can stumble without hitting 'civilization', assume it's much lower.
Bah ha ha ha! Yeah, that'll happen! Seriously, what dimension did you just slide in from?
I think we all understand the realpolitik, but people-power is perhaps the most practical solution to the never-ending ramping-up of fear. Would love to hear other suggestions.
The dimension I dwell in is called, with unintentional irony, 'Hope'.
From this side of the pond, it seems that DHS is now the problem. Apologies for the slightly glib comparison, but tens of thousands of people's lives have cumulatively been wasted in the queues that are there* to stop people's lives being wasted.
But like reducing sentences for criminals, politicians fear the pointy-finger of blame from the media if anything happened on their watch after the DHS was scaled down. It would be up to the populace to stand up and say "It's a risk we'll take."
*queues have to be part of security theatre.
Apologies, offtopic too. Wholeheartedly agree- with one caveat. I love the NHS and have had almost uniformly excellent treatment, thankfully have never experienced much like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010mrzt which was a real eye-opener. This is when our fear of the right-wing free-market (usually fully justified) allows astonishingly poor practices to arise. The purveyors of ideological fear-mongering are part of the reason this is allowed to fly under the radar.
I was in a pub in central London one autumn Saturday afternoon in 1992. Police hassled us to leave quickly, i.e. "freaking out", and I remember thinking, "Hey, what's the fuss?" The next week, a bomb left in the same pub killed one (barman) and injured 4 others. Also what's changed is that coded warnings and the expectation of a reductions in casualties are now not expected.
Totally agreed however, that most security theatre is useless and serves mainly as a way for the ruling classes to completely isolate themselves from the rest of us (literally) poor buggers. But don't hide things under litter bins then expect people to have short memories.
This is not an over-reaction. Here in the UK, terrorism on such a scale used to happen pretty regularly- for example, see the children killed in the second attack here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks. Political agreement in Northern Ireland mostly halted the war, but one positive thing that came out of September 11th was the extinguishing of monies and good-will from the US for any sort of terrorism.
Always amazed that so few people haven't been taught that you can see polarisation. It's so clear that it's visible in the large white space on this submission screen. AFAIK, we don't credit this further sense with any value. No surprise that little credence is given to any subtle magnetic influence.
I know no-one who has paid for private treatment on serious conditions. The NHS is by no means perfect, but the idea that using it fills someone with horror says MUCH more about them than the service they fear was provided.
My wife had a nasty fall last summer, the X-ray of her left wrist was like a comedy cartoon zig-zag. After swelling went down, she saw the consultant on Fri, operated on Sat evening, home Sunday, absolutely first class result.
Oh, and about the USA and costs. My brother sells generic heart drugs by the million. The NHS buys a packet of six for 27p (about 40c). In the USA he gets £5.70 ($9.12) for the same pack.
Some strange modding in this tonight. Perfectly reasonable reply above, modded down. Wonder how that multiple account software is proceeding?
Tolkien spent his war on the Somme, in the summer of 1916. In case anyone is unaware, this is the British by-word for slaughter. The French have Verdun, the Russians Stalingrad, Australian and Kiwis Gallipoli. Tolkien would have been an intimate part of the emerging mechanised slaughter of WWI at its peak.
Yeah, right. The dog owner's mantra- "He/she won't bite you", followed by "Sorry, he/she never does that normally", then "You must have scared him/her".
Yeah, I know, I read the wikipedia entry too- wasn't expecting it to pre-date the lost pyramids.
Still, it's 14 years old and still makes Google's front page. That says a lot about either the high-value of the site's contents or how low are the prospects for new discoveries in space archaeology.
Talk about old and buried- NASA Archeological Remote Sensing. Adobe PageMill 2.0!
Very horrorshow.
Beautiful indeed, elicited a tear from this middle-aged man.
... and it makes taking 1/3 of your life away little more bearable.
Like the joke, though I feel it works better with a millionaire gambler and race horses.
Do you know why I write 'non-partisan'? I find that most left-leaning communities are tolerant, not just of minority views but of all but the most extreme hatred. Voltaire, defending rights and all that. I also find the Right to be angry all the time, yet the left has far, far more to be angry about.
Slashdot is international. I have an old friend who works in Madison and am very, very well aware of the Gov Walker and the Wisconsin legislature's shenanigans and have been actively following the story since early January. I have no influence there, nor would ever try, but it is a reminder to us all that changing the rules of engagement is the way to bring about a revolution. I've seen the analysis of Walker's pre-election promises, he mentions nothing about these plans. This is the most important part- the pact in a democracy is endangered: you may not achieve all you promise in elections, but you don't go off and do things that are way-out left-field. Surely a more representative democracy is an aim of both sides? Unfortunately the Right may have just learned from the UK, where the previous left-leaning administration were ham-strung as they kept to their promises whilst the current right-wing govt. simply lied about key pledges, even to their coalition partners.
My family and I spent 3 months holidaying in the US in 2009. Assuming you are a citizen of the US (it's not the default on the internet anymore), your people are warm, generous, charming and made us ashamed to be British with your wonderful hospitality. I then wonder what goes wrong when you act as a whole country; it can't all be the fault of Manifest Destiny. There's always some other middle-man, some unexpected intervention. The sum of the whole is very different from the parts.
Hope you have a good Monday, wherever you are in the world.
Slashdot is on the radar of the opinion-formers, and why shouldn't it be? Even after the redesign, it provides the most non-partisan debates over the widest range of topics of anywhere I can find on the net. That's why we're here in such numbers. Also I'd guess from reading the various poll answers that about half of the readership is not North American, mostly to the left of the Democratic Party. Dominant right-wing politics is unlikely here, dependent on the front page w.r.t. time-zones.
Being from the UK and of a left-wing bent it's hard to gauge what is a real ground-swell and what is the work of the AstroT boys and girls. However, press the correct buttons on here and out they come. They were first noticeable a few years back when oil company profits ramped up- "...just rewarding their investment and hard work" was the party line. They stuck out; who the hell wants to spend time, and mod points, defending our second taxman? Think they were there through the health-care debates (man, you are so wrong over that so my opinion may be a little... skewed), and boy! do they come out when someone says nucu-lar power. I dare not mention the climate change 'debate'.
The Guardian were stunned last month to be mentioned on Fox News, basically as where the lefties all go and read their news. If Fox publically care about them, then Big Business certainly spend some modest monies slanting opinions here. As the OP points out, it's one forum though where the newbies (when did that go into abeyance as a term of abuse?) are visible. Call them out.
Mod up indeed. People as cynical as The Register should do more than just report the MS press-release. Someone stated above that hotmail was still the No. 1 mail service. That list of countries just happen to have https choices suspended isn't organised in any programming order. If it was Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland and Syria, then one would feel more inclined to believe them.
C'mon, the answer is simply 'half of all phones are lost/found or stolen'. That's why the 'owners' don't care.
Indeed. "You've got a friend in me."
The Richter scale records the amount of energy released and is obviously useful when comparing Mag 4 with Mag 8. But what it doesn't say is how it is released- long and rumbling (4 1/2 mins IIRC for this one) or shorted in a large, powerful, greater displacement.
Had this driven home in Picton, New Zealand when a Mag 4.5 gave myself and my son a headache, like a punch, but only set the lights swinging, loosening dust, in the library where we were sitting.
Travelled around CA, NV, UT, AZ, MA and NH for 3 months. Whilst street and road signs are better displayed in the US, the level of local knowledge is just as assumed. My favourites were freeway on-ramps, which can be tucked away with just a little black and white sign to indicate the entrance to a major road network (they're not always near the freeways). It reminded me that the US were building these things in numbers 20 years before the UK, and we (usually) learned the hard lessons from your experiences. Also LA for car-driving visitor without a GPS; intolerable. Other bugbear- same bloody street names in neighbouring conurbations, so you end up somewhere down by the docks rather than at Disneyland. Shouldn't navigate without both background maps and GPS.
Which reminds me of a trip to Yosemite in 1993. We stopped in Jamestown and were trying to cut across country the next morning via some small town. Asked a local for directions and she had never heard of it. The only maps we could buy in the UK (which were from a German company) didn't include the two-decade old reservoir that flooded the valley we were trying to cross.
The other problem to get your head around in the UK is the almost complete lack of a road-grid system. We loved that coming back here, it makes a tremendous difference to the milieu of town. Something to be celebrated.
Just to expand the above Vandenburg/polar info, it was a crucial decision in the Shuttle design. If there was a problem a single orbit after a launch from Florida, the Earth has turned and it could land in the continental US. Vandenberg and polar meant it was out in the Pacific and needed to glide. This meant wings, not something envisaged for the lifting-body designs. These totally changed the design ethos; wings are weighty and a structural weakpoint. They turned the spacebus into an armoured car.