To what gain? The cost in labor and fuel to harvest it would likely significantly out weigh any benefit the algae could offer as a raw material.
Nah, it's best to fight the cause, and expend minimal resources on the symptoms in this case. Limit the spread, attempt harvests in the places where recovery is more likely, and promote native growth.
Yes, but we can grow more efficient hydrocarbon eating algae in isolated raceway ponds in the desert where they will have no effect on other organisms. The type of algae being produced in these dead zones is no where near as efficient in the bio diesel production loop.
In addition, using these highly specialized algae as an emissions filter for coal fed power plants can have a huge effect on existing power production emissions with out running the risks or costs associated with converting to a different source of centralized power.
I would venture a guess that a decent number of/. users are in a position where they could, using their own funding, purchase a new PC for personal use through contacts/contracts available to them only because of their business relationships.
As for meeting the requirements for dealing with "business customers", on the dell website, that requirement is limited to being able to click on the 'business' link instead of the 'personal' link.
Some AC's actually post worth while things to read, but if you're going to post a copy&paste of an AC's post, at least have the decency to quote it and say "I agree!"
I have a pair of el-cheapo Linksys routers, and the only time they get rebooted is if I flash them, or if the modem drops and I need to force them to renew DHCP. And even then, it's only because it is easier for me to reach over and reboot them, then it is to pull up the web config system, remember the password, and tell them to/renew.
Same type of stuff at work. Of all the routers in the server room, only 1 that I know of has been bounced, and that's because we were having connectivity issues and we were rulling it out before dealing with the ISP.
You ever see the move PCU (Politically Correct University)? There's a scene in it where they are tossing huge chunks of meat off of the top of some school building onto a vegetarian protest. Absolutely hilarious.
On Good item 1) Take it to the courts. Let the legality of the loopholes be challenged in court. If they are legal, move for an ammendment to the existing laws to change those loop holes.
On Bad item 2) Again, take it to the courts. If the law was broken it is the duty of the Department of Justice and Judicial Branch to see to it that the crime is investigated, judged, and any convictions be served a punishment.
On Bad item 1) Whoops, we've just tied the courts hands, Judicial Branch now has no power over the investigation of these crimes.
On Good item 2) Wow, now all of the things the Bush administration had been doing illegally, are now legal. They go from violating a 3 day warrent-less window, to enjoying a 4 month warrent-less window. Nice.
Glad to see the Democrats are really sticking up for the law, the Constitution, and the American people./sarcasm/spit.
Actually, the current law is just fine. The problem is that the Bush Administration was breaking the existing law and they have created enough of a politicization of the Justice Department that they have no fear of being prosecuted for it while in office.
The bill, while creating another law that states that violating the old law is in-fact illegal (duh) also guts the old law and greatly expands the governments domestic spying powers. On top of that the Telecomm immunity prevents any further investigation of the acts that were taken that we know to be illegal.
Obama's aid said it best when they said:
the President's illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over. It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance - making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law
If it was illegal in the first place, it should be investigated and the criminals responsible should be punished.
Making more laws doesn't make honest men of criminals, it just makes them break more laws.
The entirety of the damage to New York's GDP represents about 0.26% of the GDP for the country in 2001.
While it was definitely a measurable blip, the immediate effects of the attacks had no long-term effect on the country's economy as a whole. Reaction to the incident how ever, has been significant. And while I'm not a fan of the TSA, nor do I think of them as an especially effective anti-terror force, their creation and budget does work effectively the same as any public works program. Except, instead of a damn, interstate highways, or new levies, we get a whole lot of barely qualified security jockeys hanging around airports making us feel "safe".
Have you ever read of a case "them putting rounds over the fence while my kid is playing in the yard"?
There was one just last week (or two weeks ago now) that made national headlines. Two officers were at a residence about a snake in the back yard. The two cops had the bright idea of shooting the snake. The took a look around but didn't see anyone, so they popped a few rounds off at the snake.
One of those rounds killed a todler on the other side of a fence.
Idiots with guns kill people every day. Even smart and well trained people with guns make bad decisions.
My neighbor on the other hand, it a complete idiot, has guns, and hasn't taught his son to respect them. Last summer while mowing my yard I almost ran over a paid of unspent shotgun shells. Because some dumb kid with no respect for fire arms and access to ammo thought it would be cool to see a lawnmower hit them.
I am for the right to bear arms by the people. I just wish we could filter out the idiots and require training courses for a purchasing license.
Exactly, by legislation of illegal weapons I actually meant the legislation for distribution and auditing of manufacturing and legal distribution systems. Illegal weapons start out in a factory some where. How is it that so many get from that factory into the hands of people with out licenses?
I'd also like to see mandatory training classes. We require training and licensing for driving a car, but we can't require people to get any amount of formal training before registering a riffle or pistol?
Actually, 2 of them were well trained Marines. 1, a bored gate guard playing the hammer game. And another that was getting out of a deployment by having another Marine shoot him in the leg.
Not saying that those guys were the brightest of the bunch. But they at least had the advantage of a significant amount of weapons training. Most civilians will never spend anywhere close to the same amount time in training, and given the number of idiots in the world... The last thing that I want to have happen is for some bored guy on the Metro to accidentally put 3 rounds into the crowd because he was dicking around with his pistol.
Like I said, I'm torn on the issue. I'm against gun control as they are the best tool for the final option (Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo, the 4 boxes of civilian control of a government). But at the same point, I know there are a good number of idiots who live in my home town, and I don't want to deal with the high likelihood of them putting rounds over the fence while my kid is playing in the yard.
I've seen too many idiots with guns shoot their toes off to think that more guns is an acceptable answer;)
But I would much rather see more resources and legislation spent on targeting illegal and unregistered weapons than more limitations on law abiding citizens.
Ehh, it's a toughie IMO. I'm torn on the issue myself, less guns = safer public, more guns = weaker government. But they took the 2nd amendment which has an unclear intention and made it much more definitive, at the cost of state's rights.
Which I guess I'm more accepting of the SCOTUS doing so than the EPA, but how many more rights can states lose before the State itself becomes defunct and there is only a Federal government to answer to?
Okay, I like Obama's stance on a lot of the issues, but this is just retarded.
"Under this compromise legislation, an important tool in the fight against terrorism will continue, but the President's illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over. It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance - making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law and disregard the civil liberties of the American people." So Bush's wire taps were illegal, meaning they were/are in violation of existing laws. So we're going to make a NEW law that makes it illegal for Bush to break the existing law?
He already broke the law, why would he care about breaking the law that would prevent him from breaking the law?!!?
Laws are designed to govern people that follow them. People who place themselves beyond the law will not be effected no matter how many laws are created. More laws will not make them change their behavior.
Punishment is the answer. Even if the punishment can not change their behavior it can limit their ability to affect others.
We've already determined that Bush's wiretaps were illegal. He broke the law. The answer isn't to create more laws, the answer is to enforce the laws that we already have!
Step 1) Duplicate highly successful web site, rip off all content, images, layouts, etc... Step 2) Secure Advertising Step 3) Submit story on/. and Digg about rampant abuse of IP Step 4) Profit!
How exactly is reading another employee's email, or monitoring all of a user's web traffic (with out instruction to do so) going to help you in maintaining your domain?
Is being able to flip through the HR database and seeing everyone's pay rate going to make your network more secure?
And if your users learn of your snooping, is it going to be a boon to your company when either you are fired, or employees leave rather than be snooped on?
If you are snooping and you are looking at anything more than purely technical information, you are likely going over the bounds of ethical behavior if you don't have managerial backing.
I've got a couple of similarly formated emails that also contain poor grammar and a difficult to follow warning or offering. They are from Nigeria instead of Austria though. Should I dedicate company resources to validating the threats and gifts offered in each of those emails as well?
As I've said a number of times in this thread. They should have had the GPL code available from the start and avoided the whole mess. Most likely, due to a lack of knowledge and general incompotence, they didn't. Mr Vang, who likely wouldn't know the GPL from any other TLA isn't going to give a rats ass about some random email he can barely comprehend. It's not about him being right in his actions, it's about what will realistically happen in this situation, and given the nature of the email responces, I don't think Mr Vang's actions were all that far from normal.
Want to test it? Write up an IP violation complaint as if you were writing ESL. Email it out to the general info email of a few mid-size/large (500+ employees) organizations. See what kind of responses you get back.
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Glad to know that I wasn't the only one left scratching my head about that one.
-Rick
To what gain? The cost in labor and fuel to harvest it would likely significantly out weigh any benefit the algae could offer as a raw material.
Nah, it's best to fight the cause, and expend minimal resources on the symptoms in this case. Limit the spread, attempt harvests in the places where recovery is more likely, and promote native growth.
-Rick
Yes, but we can grow more efficient hydrocarbon eating algae in isolated raceway ponds in the desert where they will have no effect on other organisms. The type of algae being produced in these dead zones is no where near as efficient in the bio diesel production loop.
In addition, using these highly specialized algae as an emissions filter for coal fed power plants can have a huge effect on existing power production emissions with out running the risks or costs associated with converting to a different source of centralized power.
-Rick
I would venture a guess that a decent number of /. users are in a position where they could, using their own funding, purchase a new PC for personal use through contacts/contracts available to them only because of their business relationships.
As for meeting the requirements for dealing with "business customers", on the dell website, that requirement is limited to being able to click on the 'business' link instead of the 'personal' link.
-Rick
Some AC's actually post worth while things to read, but if you're going to post a copy&paste of an AC's post, at least have the decency to quote it and say "I agree!"
-Rick
Silent Majority IMO.
I have a pair of el-cheapo Linksys routers, and the only time they get rebooted is if I flash them, or if the modem drops and I need to force them to renew DHCP. And even then, it's only because it is easier for me to reach over and reboot them, then it is to pull up the web config system, remember the password, and tell them to /renew.
Same type of stuff at work. Of all the routers in the server room, only 1 that I know of has been bounced, and that's because we were having connectivity issues and we were rulling it out before dealing with the ISP.
-Rick
meat a deadline
You ever see the move PCU (Politically Correct University)? There's a scene in it where they are tossing huge chunks of meat off of the top of some school building onto a vegetarian protest. Absolutely hilarious.
-Rick
Not being the physics geek I once was, I was slightly confused by your use of the word 'doublet'.
Thank Google for Just In Time Comprehension.
-Rick
On Good item 1) Take it to the courts. Let the legality of the loopholes be challenged in court. If they are legal, move for an ammendment to the existing laws to change those loop holes.
On Bad item 2) Again, take it to the courts. If the law was broken it is the duty of the Department of Justice and Judicial Branch to see to it that the crime is investigated, judged, and any convictions be served a punishment.
On Bad item 1) Whoops, we've just tied the courts hands, Judicial Branch now has no power over the investigation of these crimes.
On Good item 2) Wow, now all of the things the Bush administration had been doing illegally, are now legal. They go from violating a 3 day warrent-less window, to enjoying a 4 month warrent-less window. Nice.
Glad to see the Democrats are really sticking up for the law, the Constitution, and the American people. /sarcasm /spit.
-Rick
Actually, the current law is just fine. The problem is that the Bush Administration was breaking the existing law and they have created enough of a politicization of the Justice Department that they have no fear of being prosecuted for it while in office.
The bill, while creating another law that states that violating the old law is in-fact illegal (duh) also guts the old law and greatly expands the governments domestic spying powers. On top of that the Telecomm immunity prevents any further investigation of the acts that were taken that we know to be illegal.
Obama's aid said it best when they said:
the President's illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over. It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance - making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law
If it was illegal in the first place, it should be investigated and the criminals responsible should be punished.
Making more laws doesn't make honest men of criminals, it just makes them break more laws.
-Rick
Make sure you keep your facts in scope.
The entirety of the damage to New York's GDP represents about 0.26% of the GDP for the country in 2001.
While it was definitely a measurable blip, the immediate effects of the attacks had no long-term effect on the country's economy as a whole. Reaction to the incident how ever, has been significant. And while I'm not a fan of the TSA, nor do I think of them as an especially effective anti-terror force, their creation and budget does work effectively the same as any public works program. Except, instead of a damn, interstate highways, or new levies, we get a whole lot of barely qualified security jockeys hanging around airports making us feel "safe".
Personally, I would have rather had a new bridge.
-Rick
Worked for the Colonialists.
-Rick
Have you ever read of a case "them putting rounds over the fence while my kid is playing in the yard"?
There was one just last week (or two weeks ago now) that made national headlines. Two officers were at a residence about a snake in the back yard. The two cops had the bright idea of shooting the snake. The took a look around but didn't see anyone, so they popped a few rounds off at the snake.
One of those rounds killed a todler on the other side of a fence.
Idiots with guns kill people every day. Even smart and well trained people with guns make bad decisions.
My neighbor on the other hand, it a complete idiot, has guns, and hasn't taught his son to respect them. Last summer while mowing my yard I almost ran over a paid of unspent shotgun shells. Because some dumb kid with no respect for fire arms and access to ammo thought it would be cool to see a lawnmower hit them.
I am for the right to bear arms by the people. I just wish we could filter out the idiots and require training courses for a purchasing license.
-Rick
Exactly, by legislation of illegal weapons I actually meant the legislation for distribution and auditing of manufacturing and legal distribution systems. Illegal weapons start out in a factory some where. How is it that so many get from that factory into the hands of people with out licenses?
I'd also like to see mandatory training classes. We require training and licensing for driving a car, but we can't require people to get any amount of formal training before registering a riffle or pistol?
-Rick
Actually, 2 of them were well trained Marines. 1, a bored gate guard playing the hammer game. And another that was getting out of a deployment by having another Marine shoot him in the leg.
Not saying that those guys were the brightest of the bunch. But they at least had the advantage of a significant amount of weapons training. Most civilians will never spend anywhere close to the same amount time in training, and given the number of idiots in the world... The last thing that I want to have happen is for some bored guy on the Metro to accidentally put 3 rounds into the crowd because he was dicking around with his pistol.
Like I said, I'm torn on the issue. I'm against gun control as they are the best tool for the final option (Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo, the 4 boxes of civilian control of a government). But at the same point, I know there are a good number of idiots who live in my home town, and I don't want to deal with the high likelihood of them putting rounds over the fence while my kid is playing in the yard.
-Rick
I've seen too many idiots with guns shoot their toes off to think that more guns is an acceptable answer ;)
But I would much rather see more resources and legislation spent on targeting illegal and unregistered weapons than more limitations on law abiding citizens.
-Rick
What about tomorrow?
-Rick
And all 4 of them were shot by guns that either they owned or were issued, were fully legal and registered.
-Rick
Ehh, it's a toughie IMO. I'm torn on the issue myself, less guns = safer public, more guns = weaker government. But they took the 2nd amendment which has an unclear intention and made it much more definitive, at the cost of state's rights.
Which I guess I'm more accepting of the SCOTUS doing so than the EPA, but how many more rights can states lose before the State itself becomes defunct and there is only a Federal government to answer to?
-Rick
Okay, I like Obama's stance on a lot of the issues, but this is just retarded.
"Under this compromise legislation, an important tool in the fight against terrorism will continue, but the President's illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over. It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance - making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law and disregard the civil liberties of the American people." So Bush's wire taps were illegal, meaning they were/are in violation of existing laws. So we're going to make a NEW law that makes it illegal for Bush to break the existing law?He already broke the law, why would he care about breaking the law that would prevent him from breaking the law?!!?
Laws are designed to govern people that follow them. People who place themselves beyond the law will not be effected no matter how many laws are created. More laws will not make them change their behavior.
Punishment is the answer. Even if the punishment can not change their behavior it can limit their ability to affect others.
We've already determined that Bush's wiretaps were illegal. He broke the law. The answer isn't to create more laws, the answer is to enforce the laws that we already have!
-Rick
Step 1) Duplicate highly successful web site, rip off all content, images, layouts, etc... /. and Digg about rampant abuse of IP
Step 2) Secure Advertising
Step 3) Submit story on
Step 4) Profit!
-Rick
How exactly is reading another employee's email, or monitoring all of a user's web traffic (with out instruction to do so) going to help you in maintaining your domain?
Is being able to flip through the HR database and seeing everyone's pay rate going to make your network more secure?
And if your users learn of your snooping, is it going to be a boon to your company when either you are fired, or employees leave rather than be snooped on?
If you are snooping and you are looking at anything more than purely technical information, you are likely going over the bounds of ethical behavior if you don't have managerial backing.
-Rick
I've got a couple of similarly formated emails that also contain poor grammar and a difficult to follow warning or offering. They are from Nigeria instead of Austria though. Should I dedicate company resources to validating the threats and gifts offered in each of those emails as well?
As I've said a number of times in this thread. They should have had the GPL code available from the start and avoided the whole mess. Most likely, due to a lack of knowledge and general incompotence, they didn't. Mr Vang, who likely wouldn't know the GPL from any other TLA isn't going to give a rats ass about some random email he can barely comprehend. It's not about him being right in his actions, it's about what will realistically happen in this situation, and given the nature of the email responces, I don't think Mr Vang's actions were all that far from normal.
Want to test it? Write up an IP violation complaint as if you were writing ESL. Email it out to the general info email of a few mid-size/large (500+ employees) organizations. See what kind of responses you get back.
-Rick
I may have to question Mr Reinfelt directly about the state of appreciation for Norwegean hotties in Sweeden.
;)
Other than this latest poor turn of events, and the clash with Norway, I'm rather fond of the place
-Rick
At least in MA you are not getting taxed with out representation...
-Rick