Why should anyone support people who want federal aid in order to continue living below sea level?
Gee, I don't know. Maybe they want to rebuild New Orleans because the Port of New Orleans is the fifth biggest in the nation and the nearby Port of South Louisiana, which also serves New Orleans, is the first? Humanitarian aid and history are nice, but simple economics are the driving need for New Orleans. Also, as mentioned above, other places got hit by Katrina too, and they weren't under sea level, they were just on the coast - in the actual path of the hurricane.
It was a while ago and I was using EMule at the time, so disregarding the fact that I probably deserved to get caught for using that, it could have easily been for seeding it shortly after I finished. If I remember correctly, they do spread files to catch people on that network, but the movie played fine, so who knows.
GP is not completely off base. My ISP got a letter from the RIAA regarding a pirated movie I'd downloaded. I assume they can do it for the copyrighted music in the movie.
Clearly American Southerners are to blame for where the French chose to place a city almost 60 years before the Revolutionary War. Anyway, it's not like we really needed that major port at the mouth of the largest river in the nation, which happens to run through the Midwest, where the major products all have low price-to-volume ratios requiring bulk transportation preferably on a barge.
As for your first point, New Orleans has seen enough near misses to be somewhat inured to evacuation warnings. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can't afford to just leave town for a week, especially if you expect to have a job when you return, on the possibility of a hurricane.
Just show up at one of the Red Cross shelters - Reliant Park or George R Brown. It's like a 5 minute orientation you only have to sit through once, then a bit of a wait while they figure out where to put you, though this may have gone down recently. It's been since Sunday that I've been over there./looks ashamed/ I'm going back tomorrow I think.
Ignoring the poor state of most closed public buildings, the warehouses at least would be no better than the arenas most of the evacuees are being housed in now. I spent quite a bit of my weekend volunteering at the Astrodome, which is the biggest single shelter in Houston, if not the nation, and the lack of privacy in such a place is appalling. Having everyone sleeping in one big room on cots mere feet from one another in every direction has to be a last resort. Ask any college student how quickly disease spreads in close quarters. These are much closer quarters with probably worse diseases to spread.
Re your mention of crime, I know several of my classmates have given up apartments in that area of town because the crime rate has gone up, but from my experience dealing with most of these people I would venture a guess the crime is in large part locals who see an opportunity in the confusion and entrance of a large group of suspect individuals.
Umm, might I point out that the hurricane didn't even make landfall in Louisiana. Coastal Mississippi (what's left of it) is definately in the zone which needed the real effort. Check out Waveland, MS. Just because it doesn't make the news doesn't mean there isn't real effort needed elsewhere.
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/089I30C_KATRINA.HT M
Try this one. The eye came ashore here. Several small artsy communities here pretty much don't exist any more. My aunt lived about a quarter of a mile from the water and all she found once it was over was a few pieces of Waterford crystal she'd wrapped in bubble wrap and stuffed under the couch cushions. No sign of the couch though. I think she found that like half a mile away. Turns out a 22 ft storm surge does quite a bit of damage.
Java's not in the default repositories, but all you have to do is go in and enable the other repositories in the list, same as flash. (Not that I figured this out until after I had downloaded it from Sun already) Besides, there's step-by-step instructions with commands you can cut and paste for everything basic you might want to add in the Wiki anyway.
Yes, sending people to the Superdome was not a good option, but the intended group of people to be housed there was the locals who didn't have access to a car or other method of leaving the city. What do you suggest those people should have done? You can't walk very far in the 36 hours they had after the evacuation notice. Ok, so maybe you take the city buses and evacuate people in them. Where to? There is no good solution. Now if you want to talk about the hotels telling tourists, "Sure, go ahead and stay. Nothing to worry about," then you'd have a point.
If I'm remembering my Psychology class right, and it has been a few years, there have been a number of studies put out showing a higher percentage of males at the upper ranges of the IQ scale. However, what this study fails to address is their results from the bottom end of the scale. The studies my teacher referenced also showed a higher percentage of males at the lowest ranges of the scales, indicating not that males are smarter, but that the male population has a higher standard deviation and is simply more spread out along the graph.
I guess my high school was in the minority here, but our problem was always the music programs stealing money the sports teams and boosters had raised, which brings up another point. Booster parents and the PTA are often far more willing to donate to a school's sports programs than their music ones. As our sports teams and music programs all had separate budgets, how is it fair to forcibly equalize the funding? The parents who thought they contributed to their children's new sports equipment will love hearing "Oh, sorry. We've decided that your money is going towards the band's Disneyworld trip instead." (Yes, our band went to a competition at Disneyworld for like a week every other year and paid for it through a half-hearted fruit sale and leeching money raised by the football team's raffle, the cross-country team's car wash, etc. My personal favorite, though, is the concession stand that every sports team had to contribute parent volunteers for that the marching band parents not only didn't staff, they set up their own competing store for their kids while still expecting a share of the profits from the official one, of course)
OK, that came out rather bitterly. You can't tell I'm one of those sports kids(cross-country and both track seasons) that got gypped, can you? I'm just glad I'm out of there.
On the contrary, if he is causing traffic to back up and people to pass him when it is not safe, he can be ticketed. I forget what the exact charge is, but the idea is that by causing people to pass him when it is not safe he is creating a dangerous situation. My grandfather got pulled over for this a couple years ago. Cops would rather you drive with the flow of traffic.
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Why should anyone support people who want federal aid in order to continue living below sea level?
Gee, I don't know. Maybe they want to rebuild New Orleans because the Port of New Orleans is the fifth biggest in the nation and the nearby Port of South Louisiana, which also serves New Orleans, is the first? Humanitarian aid and history are nice, but simple economics are the driving need for New Orleans. Also, as mentioned above, other places got hit by Katrina too, and they weren't under sea level, they were just on the coast - in the actual path of the hurricane.
It was a while ago and I was using EMule at the time, so disregarding the fact that I probably deserved to get caught for using that, it could have easily been for seeding it shortly after I finished. If I remember correctly, they do spread files to catch people on that network, but the movie played fine, so who knows.
If the track of my Lucent stock over the past 6 or 8 years is to be believed, they do a lot without a profit incentive.
GP is not completely off base. My ISP got a letter from the RIAA regarding a pirated movie I'd downloaded. I assume they can do it for the copyrighted music in the movie.
Clearly American Southerners are to blame for where the French chose to place a city almost 60 years before the Revolutionary War. Anyway, it's not like we really needed that major port at the mouth of the largest river in the nation, which happens to run through the Midwest, where the major products all have low price-to-volume ratios requiring bulk transportation preferably on a barge.
As for your first point, New Orleans has seen enough near misses to be somewhat inured to evacuation warnings. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can't afford to just leave town for a week, especially if you expect to have a job when you return, on the possibility of a hurricane.
Just show up at one of the Red Cross shelters - Reliant Park or George R Brown. It's like a 5 minute orientation you only have to sit through once, then a bit of a wait while they figure out where to put you, though this may have gone down recently. It's been since Sunday that I've been over there. /looks ashamed/ I'm going back tomorrow I think.
Ignoring the poor state of most closed public buildings, the warehouses at least would be no better than the arenas most of the evacuees are being housed in now. I spent quite a bit of my weekend volunteering at the Astrodome, which is the biggest single shelter in Houston, if not the nation, and the lack of privacy in such a place is appalling. Having everyone sleeping in one big room on cots mere feet from one another in every direction has to be a last resort. Ask any college student how quickly disease spreads in close quarters. These are much closer quarters with probably worse diseases to spread.
Re your mention of crime, I know several of my classmates have given up apartments in that area of town because the crime rate has gone up, but from my experience dealing with most of these people I would venture a guess the crime is in large part locals who see an opportunity in the confusion and entrance of a large group of suspect individuals.
Umm, might I point out that the hurricane didn't even make landfall in Louisiana. Coastal Mississippi (what's left of it) is definately in the zone which needed the real effort. Check out Waveland, MS. Just because it doesn't make the news doesn't mean there isn't real effort needed elsewhere.
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/089I30C_KATRINA.HT M
Try this one. The eye came ashore here. Several small artsy communities here pretty much don't exist any more. My aunt lived about a quarter of a mile from the water and all she found once it was over was a few pieces of Waterford crystal she'd wrapped in bubble wrap and stuffed under the couch cushions. No sign of the couch though. I think she found that like half a mile away. Turns out a 22 ft storm surge does quite a bit of damage.
Java's not in the default repositories, but all you have to do is go in and enable the other repositories in the list, same as flash. (Not that I figured this out until after I had downloaded it from Sun already) Besides, there's step-by-step instructions with commands you can cut and paste for everything basic you might want to add in the Wiki anyway.
Yes, sending people to the Superdome was not a good option, but the intended group of people to be housed there was the locals who didn't have access to a car or other method of leaving the city. What do you suggest those people should have done? You can't walk very far in the 36 hours they had after the evacuation notice. Ok, so maybe you take the city buses and evacuate people in them. Where to? There is no good solution. Now if you want to talk about the hotels telling tourists, "Sure, go ahead and stay. Nothing to worry about," then you'd have a point.
If I'm remembering my Psychology class right, and it has been a few years, there have been a number of studies put out showing a higher percentage of males at the upper ranges of the IQ scale. However, what this study fails to address is their results from the bottom end of the scale. The studies my teacher referenced also showed a higher percentage of males at the lowest ranges of the scales, indicating not that males are smarter, but that the male population has a higher standard deviation and is simply more spread out along the graph.
My Camry can go 150? Since when? Sure felt like I'd almost maxed it out at 108.
Fuck no. I'd start failing on purpose. Well, if I just dork-fail and get B's and C's, could I wear regular clothes?
OK, that came out rather bitterly. You can't tell I'm one of those sports kids(cross-country and both track seasons) that got gypped, can you? I'm just glad I'm out of there.
On the contrary, if he is causing traffic to back up and people to pass him when it is not safe, he can be ticketed. I forget what the exact charge is, but the idea is that by causing people to pass him when it is not safe he is creating a dangerous situation. My grandfather got pulled over for this a couple years ago. Cops would rather you drive with the flow of traffic.