Hell, my last birthday I found a $100 bill I had tucked into a small pocket of my wallet and must have completly forgotten about, a nice surprise present to myself.
Your donations are reimbursing the responders to the disaster for the expenses of the current event.
An orginization like the Red Cross (logically, I don't have detailed/inside info) is prepared for disaster to strike, with shipping containers of non-pershable food, blankets, medical supplies, etc.
Those supplies are sent to, and distributed in the affected areas; but now they have a bunch of empty containers to fill for the next disaster... that's what money donated now is for.
If they waited for money to be donated after the disaster, they wouldn't have a very quick response; plus, right now their people are busy in the actual response; all the officework related to funding/supply aquistion should be lower in priority to getting their current stock of supplies to the site, and distributed to the needy.
I'm wondering if they hadn't automatically scramed, could they have survived the inital quake/wave well enough to have been powering their own pumps and avoid most of this mess?, or did the event cause enough direct damage that power generation would have shut down anyway?
"Hello students, this is your principle seaking, I'd like to remind you that bullying will not be tolerated, in particular, calling Josh Smith a 'whiny little faggot' or 'a little bitch' because he complained about being bullied to school staff is not acceptable. Anyone seen beating him up after school behind the gym, which is out of line of sight from any teacher office, will be disciplined."
"The Dam was designed to survive a 1-in-1,000-year flood (300 mm of rainfall per day). In August 1975, however, a 1-in-2,000 year flood occurred."
"According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province,[5] in the province, approximately 26,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected."
This one incident completly overwhelms all nuclear power accidents ever; it's on the scale of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings.
"On March 11, 2011, the dam failed due to the 2011 Sendai earthquake. The resulting flood washed away five houses while damaging others, disabled a bridge and blocked roads with debris. Eight people were missing and four bodies were discovered by the next morning.[1][2][3] Reportedly, some locals had attempted to repair leaks in the dam before it completely failed."
So far, in the current disaster, more people have been killed by dams than reactors. (I do realize that radiation death usually occur several days after exposure, so time will tell.)
But only if those Corporations, and their officers in criminal cases, are actually able to be held accountable; not 'too big to fail'... But in the case of an incident, the politicials would be glad to have a scapegoat. Nuclear energy can be safer, cleaner, and all around better than other sources... But then I think about them being run by humans.... Both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl were caused, or at least made much worse by human operator/manager error. The longer a human controlled system runs the greater the odds that someone, somewhere will be fatigued, complacent, or just make an error. In the current case, humans have to be put in harms ways from secondary explosions, aftershocks, tsunamis, etc. in order to properly shut down the reactors. The newest designs (from what I've read) can safely cool down without human intervention or outside power/coolant, and are much more resistant to operator (or even computer) error; so it's essential we start building some of those so that we can take some of the more hazardous (both coal and older atomic) plants offline.
And don't forget those who just don't think that a couple degrees/feet of seawater is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD.
I'd double the rate of climate change to end a few wars, cure some major diseases, eliminate some truly toxic pollution, improve education or save other resources (like cash)..
So I buy more power efficent goods, to save on the power bill, and maybe to reduce power plant emissions. Get a more efficent car and drive a little less, so we don't have to go to war for oil, plus saves on gas money, and maybe reduce emissions. Eat less beef, to save a little money, be healthier, and maybe reduce (heh) emissions.
Most of the things the global warming fanatics want done should be done anyway. But with an unhealthy, overemotional focus on one particular aspect of the enviroment, you end up with schemes like 'cap and trade'. People like that in the last century are why we don't have clean and efficent nuclear power plants, but are still burning coal and oil.
With or without 'climate change', fossil fuels are getting harder and harder to aquire, and grazing cattle is not an efficent way to provide protein to billions of people, so change in human behavior is inevitable anyway; even if noone ever noticed 'boy, it does seem warmer this year than it was last year.'
Yet some people appear to have trouble beliving that other people just don't care all that much about global warming; like Bush jr. 'With us, or Against us"; it's impossible for some people to believe that it's not the most important issue to everybody.
So why would I even bother to reply if I don't care? Because Zealotry needs to be called out before it cripples society.
Because as a younger-middleage man I really don't need tampon ads on websites, what I think would be much more useful is something like an X-Demographics header.
X-Demographic-Age: 35 X-Demographic-Location: Seattle, WA (for local ads) X-Demographic-Interests: Programming, Games (Freeform text, for generic tet searches) X-Demographic-Sex: Male (Optionally 'Yes' if you want porn site ads)
You give out the information you're willing to give out. People can lie, not use the fields or put garbage in; but they would be blocking ads or such anyway, so no real loss. With the freqent legal requirement to not store info on children, X-Demographic-Age: 10 should block tracking on sites that would obey a do-not-track header as well.
Ideally, with better targetted ads, they would need as many, or be as intrusive to get the same clickthrough rate.
http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/15C50.txt -CITE- 15 USC Sec. 2302 02/01/2010 -EXPCITE- TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 50 - CONSUMER PRODUCT WARRANTIES -HEAD- Sec. 2302. Rules governing contents of warranties (...) No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name;
I suspect that the situation with Iraq was that the US had successfully destabalized Saddam's government, and it was ready to collapse; however the problem was the Taliban/Al Queda members being driven out of Afghanistan (who were no friends of Saddam) would have been the mostly likely people to do so barring US intervention. They may have setup a new, Islamic extremist government, which would be difficult for the US to displace; and they would appeal to the UN/etc. to get the sanctions lifted, as "we are not Saddam!, we are a new government!".
My belief is that the reason the US invaded Iraq at that time was to prevent that scenario. However, they could never publicly announce 'We are doing this to prevent the formation of an Islamic state', as that would probabaly be... frowned upon... by many muslims. So we got the non-sensical 'WMD' excuse. So, while Saddam had zero to do with 9/11, he was taken out and Iraq put under US control to prevent an undiserable coup.
I was disqualified from a competition run by FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) when I was in high school because I scored so well I must have cheated.
It was multiple choice on 'Computer Concepts' I scored 98/100, second highest was 76/100.
That was pretty bad... but worse was the next year, I tried again... and was disqualified because I 'won' the previous year.
I ended up dropping out of school and getting a GED later because of the stress of it.
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Hell, my last birthday I found a $100 bill I had tucked into a small pocket of my wallet and must have completly forgotten about, a nice surprise present to myself.
At least it'll keep pirates from wasting tech support time as much.
Source on the Wii being Linux based? I don't believe that is correct.
One obvious problem with that plan is the concrete generates heat when mixed with water; and heat is the main problem they are trying to deal with...
I dunno if it's a signifigent amount compared to the reactor itself; but I don't see it helping.
No, He should just use the hardware he has, AND stick to Mac OS; he should, however, get a new spouse.
(Him being a Mac user, I hesitate to make assumptions on the gender indentity of his future partner.)
Barbra Streisand is sueing anyone who uses the term "Streisand Effect".
Your donations are reimbursing the responders to the disaster for the expenses of the current event.
An orginization like the Red Cross (logically, I don't have detailed/inside info) is prepared for disaster to strike, with shipping containers of non-pershable food, blankets, medical supplies, etc.
Those supplies are sent to, and distributed in the affected areas; but now they have a bunch of empty containers to fill for the next disaster... that's what money donated now is for.
If they waited for money to be donated after the disaster, they wouldn't have a very quick response; plus, right now their people are busy in the actual response; all the officework related to funding/supply aquistion should be lower in priority to getting their current stock of supplies to the site, and distributed to the needy.
I think you just described Microsoft's C#/.net
I'm wondering if they hadn't automatically scramed, could they have survived the inital quake/wave well enough to have been powering their own pumps and avoid most of this mess?, or did the event cause enough direct damage that power generation would have shut down anyway?
"I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything."
"Hello students, this is your principle seaking, I'd like to remind you that bullying will not be tolerated, in particular, calling Josh Smith a 'whiny little faggot' or 'a little bitch' because he complained about being bullied to school staff is not acceptable. Anyone seen beating him up after school behind the gym, which is out of line of sight from any teacher office, will be disciplined."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
"The Dam was designed to survive a 1-in-1,000-year flood (300 mm of rainfall per day). In August 1975, however, a 1-in-2,000 year flood occurred."
"According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province,[5] in the province, approximately 26,000 people died from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected."
This one incident completly overwhelms all nuclear power accidents ever; it's on the scale of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujinuma_Dam
"On March 11, 2011, the dam failed due to the 2011 Sendai earthquake. The resulting flood washed away five houses while damaging others, disabled a bridge and blocked roads with debris. Eight people were missing and four bodies were discovered by the next morning.[1][2][3] Reportedly, some locals had attempted to repair leaks in the dam before it completely failed."
So far, in the current disaster, more people have been killed by dams than reactors. (I do realize that radiation death usually occur several days after exposure, so time will tell.)
But only if those Corporations, and their officers in criminal cases, are actually able to be held accountable; not 'too big to fail'... But in the case of an incident, the politicials would be glad to have a scapegoat.
Nuclear energy can be safer, cleaner, and all around better than other sources... But then I think about them being run by humans....
Both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl were caused, or at least made much worse by human operator/manager error. The longer a human controlled system runs the greater the odds that someone, somewhere will be fatigued, complacent, or just make an error.
In the current case, humans have to be put in harms ways from secondary explosions, aftershocks, tsunamis, etc. in order to properly shut down the reactors.
The newest designs (from what I've read) can safely cool down without human intervention or outside power/coolant, and are much more resistant to operator (or even computer) error; so it's essential we start building some of those so that we can take some of the more hazardous (both coal and older atomic) plants offline.
...and now it's the banks backyard.
I met my elementry school bully as an adult once; the last thing I said to him was "No", when he asked if I wanted fries with that. (true story)
And don't forget those who just don't think that a couple degrees/feet of seawater is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD.
I'd double the rate of climate change to end a few wars, cure some major diseases, eliminate some truly toxic pollution, improve education or save other resources (like cash)..
So I buy more power efficent goods, to save on the power bill, and maybe to reduce power plant emissions.
Get a more efficent car and drive a little less, so we don't have to go to war for oil, plus saves on gas money, and maybe reduce emissions.
Eat less beef, to save a little money, be healthier, and maybe reduce (heh) emissions.
Most of the things the global warming fanatics want done should be done anyway. But with an unhealthy, overemotional focus on one particular aspect of the enviroment, you end up with schemes like 'cap and trade'. People like that in the last century are why we don't have clean and efficent nuclear power plants, but are still burning coal and oil.
With or without 'climate change', fossil fuels are getting harder and harder to aquire, and grazing cattle is not an efficent way to provide protein to billions of people, so change in human behavior is inevitable anyway; even if noone ever noticed 'boy, it does seem warmer this year than it was last year.'
Yet some people appear to have trouble beliving that other people just don't care all that much about global warming; like Bush jr. 'With us, or Against us"; it's impossible for some people to believe that it's not the most important issue to everybody.
So why would I even bother to reply if I don't care? Because Zealotry needs to be called out before it cripples society.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Because as a younger-middleage man I really don't need tampon ads on websites, what I think would be much more useful is something like an X-Demographics header.
X-Demographic-Age: 35
X-Demographic-Location: Seattle, WA (for local ads)
X-Demographic-Interests: Programming, Games (Freeform text, for generic tet searches)
X-Demographic-Sex: Male (Optionally 'Yes' if you want porn site ads)
You give out the information you're willing to give out. People can lie, not use the fields or put garbage in; but they would be blocking ads or such anyway, so no real loss.
With the freqent legal requirement to not store info on children, X-Demographic-Age: 10 should block tracking on sites that would obey a do-not-track header as well.
Ideally, with better targetted ads, they would need as many, or be as intrusive to get the same clickthrough rate.
http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/15C50.txt
-CITE- 15 USC Sec. 2302 02/01/2010
-EXPCITE- TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 50 - CONSUMER PRODUCT WARRANTIES
-HEAD- Sec. 2302. Rules governing contents of warranties
(...)
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name;
(some exceptions, etc...)
Body part in a blender?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sex.stories/msg/60ba3928c40efec4?hl=en
I suspect that the situation with Iraq was that the US had successfully destabalized Saddam's government, and it was ready to collapse; however the problem was the Taliban/Al Queda members being driven out of Afghanistan (who were no friends of Saddam) would have been the mostly likely people to do so barring US intervention. They may have setup a new, Islamic extremist government, which would be difficult for the US to displace; and they would appeal to the UN/etc. to get the sanctions lifted, as "we are not Saddam!, we are a new government!".
My belief is that the reason the US invaded Iraq at that time was to prevent that scenario. However, they could never publicly announce 'We are doing this to prevent the formation of an Islamic state', as that would probabaly be... frowned upon... by many muslims. So we got the non-sensical 'WMD' excuse. So, while Saddam had zero to do with 9/11, he was taken out and Iraq put under US control to prevent an undiserable coup.
It's flamebait in the way that saying Space 1999 was a muich better show than Star Trek, it's obviously true, but not relevant to the topic at hand.
OK, how about this leap: Mandatory Medical + Medicinal Marijuana = (aside from 4000) Mandatory Marijuana! Finally the liberal agenda is revealed!
I was disqualified from a competition run by FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) when I was in high school because I scored so well I must have cheated.
It was multiple choice on 'Computer Concepts' I scored 98/100, second highest was 76/100.
That was pretty bad... but worse was the next year, I tried again... and was disqualified because I 'won' the previous year.
I ended up dropping out of school and getting a GED later because of the stress of it.
Hopefully this method is better
Two halves of a coconut being clopped together.