If the windspeed is right and the there's enough fuel, wildfires spreading that rapidly is not out of the question. Stray embers get caught up in the wind and are pushed far downwind before landing and ignite a whole new area. It's not always possible to isolate the two burn areas and the two fires become one. Repeat multiple times and yes it's possible for fire to spread that rapidly. Source: conversations with a US Forest Service Ranger who handles wildland firefighting coordination and response every year during wildfire season in Arizona.
US Army Kiowa pilots have rifle-out-the-door and sidearm-out-the-door qualifications as part of their gunnery table. I'm not saying firefighters need M4s, but higher-caliber pistol would probably do the trick nicely.
I look forward to seeing Ant-Man pop up in sequels or cameos, if for no other reason than to show-case what an experienced Ant-Man could do with the suit. Some of the fight scenes gave brief flashes of how effective the suit could be, but the movie didn't explore it as well as I think it could have.
The movie sacrificed something in pursuit of a punchline or a gag every five-to-ten minutes. It's like the movie was trying so hard to be tongue-in-cheek that it almost approached self-importance from the other end.
Overall I agree that it was fun and entertaining, but it's definitely one of the weaker films in the Marvel franchise.
Marvel was putting out decent movies before Disney bought them. Are we now supposed to shun Marvel in service to some higher ideology because we don't like Disney's approach to copyright?
I'm not following your train of thought here. Are you saying the labelling standards in place for "GMO" (from state to state) are fuzzy and inconsistent? Or are you saying it's such a nebulous term (like "organic") that it doesn't tell you anything at all?
There's been evidence.. but you can't find it now, because the independent labs that did the research were bought out by Monsanto, closed down, and the evidence buried. I'd imagine that now they proactively buy out anyone who has anything negative to show the world, and shuts them down before they can even tell anyone what they're finding.
Do you have evidence of this or are you just spouting paranoid theory? And don't tell me "just Google it" or any other similar smart-ass comments. You're making the claim, you provide the evidence.
First, what numbers are you using to get $4 trillion for state budgets? Some of that is overlap from the Federal budget which sends some of the tax money back to states for administration of federal programs. When that money is cut, state budgets drop as a result. That happened this year in Arizona when federal subsidies to certain AZ state programs were cut and AZ had to raise the amount it collected from cities and counties to meet the shortfall. Source: currently living in Arizona.
Where would you start cutting waste from? Personnel? Maintenance and equipment? Welfare programs? Military budgets?* Wild-land fire-fighting efforts in rural America? FDA monitoring? The Education Department? The lovely sequestration game that BOTH major political parties brought down on us is already limiting what agencies can accomplish. Yeah, yeah, "do more with less", blah blah blah. There are only so many hours you can make people work in a day before they burn out. There's only so long you can run equipment on a shoe-string budget before something breaks.
For the record, I am NOT a Democrat and I do understand numbers when I put a dollar sign in front of them.
*Killing the F35 would have saved us a lot of money. Killing it now would still save us future expenses associated with making that bucket-o-bolts work worth a damn and the infrastructure upgrades to go along with it. Write your Congresscritters.
Unfortunately no one does this. Or at least not the two airlines I've flown recently. They board the first-class passengers first, then all their special clubs (Gold Members, Sapphire Members, etc), then they board by groups. I can't really identify what makes you a Group 1 vs a Group 4 member, but I don't think it's based on seat assignment. On the last four flights I was on, I spent five minutes standing in the aisle, trying to get to my seat at the back of the plane but blocked by a dozen people in various rows trying to put their luggage in the overhead bins. From the time the airline started boarding to the time they shut the cabin door was anywhere between 30-40 minutes each flight. Getting off the plane, by contrast, took about 15 minutes.
First-class passengers have their own segregated overhead storage bins, at least on US Airways and United.
On a side note, I flew first class once about three years ago when Southwest delayed me for five hours due to overbooking. I considered flying it again next time I had to travel but the prices were enough to talk me out of that.
Misuse of SWAT assets is a separate issue from militarization. The former is a procedural problem that city and state governments around the United States should be addressing. SWAT team members should be pushing back against being used for every stupid thing that comes to the mind of the police chief.
If you're going to "militarize" any part of the police force, the SWAT is the place to do it. Those teams exist specifically to deal with threats outside the normal tactical capabilities of law enforcement, which may include confrontations with well-armed gangs or home-grown crazies. In those instances, it make sense for the SWAT members (who are supposed to be trained to a level beyond your normal patrolman) to have a wider variety of options and hardware at there disposal.
Now, the militarization of the regular police force is something else entirely. Patrolman Krupke doesn't need an automatic rifle with gee-whiz optics and an up-armored assault vehicle just to patrol the neighborhood beat.
He used it to rapidly chill fruit and make a smoothy. I was once at one of his live shows and he used the same principle to make ice-cream in something like 30 seconds.
Getting on to most military bases in the US is fairly easy. Getting into the secured buildings where the interesting stuff goes on is much much harder.
To be fair, men are subject to similar stereotypes. "You're not married? Why aren't you out chasing tail?" "You're out chasing tail? Why haven't you settled down yet?" For better or worse, mating and its rituals are a pretty big part in any human society, no matter what your gender is.
Interviewer: Like I said, I am the mother of a 12-year-old girl, and she loves your music. Her friends love your music. You have a huge platform among a very vulnerable, impressionable set of the population. And I wonder if you think about turning your lens outward, turning it away from the diary page, and sending a broader message to girls who would be really receptive to hearing about big ideas and the big world that's outside.
Swift: Like what kind of messages?
Interviewer: Well, other characters. I don't mean to minimize the effect of a love song or a pop song. But do you ever think about writing about other experiences, things that might turn girls away from themselves in a different way?
Swift: There's nothing that's gonna turn girls away from themselves at age 12...I think the best thing I can do for them is continue to write songs that do make them think about themselves and analyze how they feel about something and then simplify how they feel. Because, at that age — really at any age, but mostly that age — what can be so overwhelming is that you're feeling so many things at the same time that it's hard to actually understand what those emotions are, so it can turn to anxiety very quickly.
I'm not a fan of Ms Swift's music (I'm not a 12-year-old girl) but I do have a healthy amount of respect for the way she conducts herself in public.
Unfortunately there's a notion that the right not to be offended supersedes my right to free-speech. There were a lot of editorials about from both the US and Europe on the subject in the wake of the Charlie Ebdo shootings. Most of them amounted to "Well, speech that offends people shouldn't be protected speech." It's hard to believe people don't understand that offensive speech is the speech that needs to be protected the most.
Why is the entire file necessary for the interview? A relevant excerpt, only what the applicant claims with respect to Joe, can be walked back across that air gap and sent to the regional office. The interview results then get walked past the air gap and merged/appended to the file. Naturally what really gets walked across is a large number of excerpts and data to merge/append.
Whether it's all of the file or part of the file is irrelevant, since the transmission time via USPS or UPS or FedEx is the same (per company obviously) whether you're sending a single page or a whole stack of pages. Your point about malware is well-taken though.
Depending on how sensitive it is, I could see it being useful in places like the Southwest US that are subject monsoons in the summer. Humidity builds during the day until a thunderstorm develops in the evening. The cycle starts all over again the next day.
In this instance OPMI is one institution you actually want collecting data, since they handle the background investigations for anyone applying for a security clearance.
The other point with data-entry is that each renewal for a security clearance, either due to the clearance expiring or to a periodic random review, requires a new and updated SF-86.
Concerning data transmission, the network is also much cheaper than flying a single investigator all around the country to interview folks in a timely manner. As it is, getting a security clearance takes anywhere from 3-6 months, longer if the investigator finds an irregularity. I'd estimate an air-gap would add at least another month or two to the process accounting for snail-mail transmission times.
As someone who's information was compromised, I absolutely agree the information should have been better protected. I'm just not sure an air-gap is the appropriate measure to take in this case.
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Folks tend to think (at least in my limited sampling) that any trial that doesn't give an outcome they agree with is rigged.
In this instance "neutralize" would be more appropriate. But nice try.
If the windspeed is right and the there's enough fuel, wildfires spreading that rapidly is not out of the question. Stray embers get caught up in the wind and are pushed far downwind before landing and ignite a whole new area. It's not always possible to isolate the two burn areas and the two fires become one. Repeat multiple times and yes it's possible for fire to spread that rapidly. Source: conversations with a US Forest Service Ranger who handles wildland firefighting coordination and response every year during wildfire season in Arizona.
US Army Kiowa pilots have rifle-out-the-door and sidearm-out-the-door qualifications as part of their gunnery table. I'm not saying firefighters need M4s, but higher-caliber pistol would probably do the trick nicely.
I look forward to seeing Ant-Man pop up in sequels or cameos, if for no other reason than to show-case what an experienced Ant-Man could do with the suit. Some of the fight scenes gave brief flashes of how effective the suit could be, but the movie didn't explore it as well as I think it could have.
The movie sacrificed something in pursuit of a punchline or a gag every five-to-ten minutes. It's like the movie was trying so hard to be tongue-in-cheek that it almost approached self-importance from the other end.
Overall I agree that it was fun and entertaining, but it's definitely one of the weaker films in the Marvel franchise.
Marvel was putting out decent movies before Disney bought them. Are we now supposed to shun Marvel in service to some higher ideology because we don't like Disney's approach to copyright?
I'm not following your train of thought here. Are you saying the labelling standards in place for "GMO" (from state to state) are fuzzy and inconsistent? Or are you saying it's such a nebulous term (like "organic") that it doesn't tell you anything at all?
There's been evidence.. but you can't find it now, because the independent labs that did the research were bought out by Monsanto, closed down, and the evidence buried. I'd imagine that now they proactively buy out anyone who has anything negative to show the world, and shuts them down before they can even tell anyone what they're finding.
Do you have evidence of this or are you just spouting paranoid theory? And don't tell me "just Google it" or any other similar smart-ass comments. You're making the claim, you provide the evidence.
First, what numbers are you using to get $4 trillion for state budgets? Some of that is overlap from the Federal budget which sends some of the tax money back to states for administration of federal programs. When that money is cut, state budgets drop as a result. That happened this year in Arizona when federal subsidies to certain AZ state programs were cut and AZ had to raise the amount it collected from cities and counties to meet the shortfall. Source: currently living in Arizona.
Where would you start cutting waste from? Personnel? Maintenance and equipment? Welfare programs? Military budgets?* Wild-land fire-fighting efforts in rural America? FDA monitoring? The Education Department? The lovely sequestration game that BOTH major political parties brought down on us is already limiting what agencies can accomplish. Yeah, yeah, "do more with less", blah blah blah. There are only so many hours you can make people work in a day before they burn out. There's only so long you can run equipment on a shoe-string budget before something breaks.
For the record, I am NOT a Democrat and I do understand numbers when I put a dollar sign in front of them.
*Killing the F35 would have saved us a lot of money. Killing it now would still save us future expenses associated with making that bucket-o-bolts work worth a damn and the infrastructure upgrades to go along with it. Write your Congresscritters.
You're welcome. Go forth and do with it as you will.
Dial it back a notch there Tex. I'm not calling you out and I'm not insulting you. I just left you a link.
The only people calling white people evil are the people getting upset that anyone else values diversity. It's a straw man argument.
I recommend browsing this thread. There's whackjobs aplenty on both ends of the spectrum.
Unfortunately no one does this. Or at least not the two airlines I've flown recently. They board the first-class passengers first, then all their special clubs (Gold Members, Sapphire Members, etc), then they board by groups. I can't really identify what makes you a Group 1 vs a Group 4 member, but I don't think it's based on seat assignment. On the last four flights I was on, I spent five minutes standing in the aisle, trying to get to my seat at the back of the plane but blocked by a dozen people in various rows trying to put their luggage in the overhead bins. From the time the airline started boarding to the time they shut the cabin door was anywhere between 30-40 minutes each flight. Getting off the plane, by contrast, took about 15 minutes.
First-class passengers have their own segregated overhead storage bins, at least on US Airways and United.
On a side note, I flew first class once about three years ago when Southwest delayed me for five hours due to overbooking. I considered flying it again next time I had to travel but the prices were enough to talk me out of that.
Misuse of SWAT assets is a separate issue from militarization. The former is a procedural problem that city and state governments around the United States should be addressing. SWAT team members should be pushing back against being used for every stupid thing that comes to the mind of the police chief.
If you're going to "militarize" any part of the police force, the SWAT is the place to do it. Those teams exist specifically to deal with threats outside the normal tactical capabilities of law enforcement, which may include confrontations with well-armed gangs or home-grown crazies. In those instances, it make sense for the SWAT members (who are supposed to be trained to a level beyond your normal patrolman) to have a wider variety of options and hardware at there disposal.
Now, the militarization of the regular police force is something else entirely. Patrolman Krupke doesn't need an automatic rifle with gee-whiz optics and an up-armored assault vehicle just to patrol the neighborhood beat.
Harrison Bergeron was supposed to be a cautionary tale, dammit!
He used it to rapidly chill fruit and make a smoothy. I was once at one of his live shows and he used the same principle to make ice-cream in something like 30 seconds.
Getting on to most military bases in the US is fairly easy. Getting into the secured buildings where the interesting stuff goes on is much much harder.
From an NPR interview with Ms Swift:
Interviewer: Like I said, I am the mother of a 12-year-old girl, and she loves your music. Her friends love your music. You have a huge platform among a very vulnerable, impressionable set of the population. And I wonder if you think about turning your lens outward, turning it away from the diary page, and sending a broader message to girls who would be really receptive to hearing about big ideas and the big world that's outside.
Swift: Like what kind of messages?
Interviewer: Well, other characters. I don't mean to minimize the effect of a love song or a pop song. But do you ever think about writing about other experiences, things that might turn girls away from themselves in a different way?
Swift: There's nothing that's gonna turn girls away from themselves at age 12...I think the best thing I can do for them is continue to write songs that do make them think about themselves and analyze how they feel about something and then simplify how they feel. Because, at that age — really at any age, but mostly that age — what can be so overwhelming is that you're feeling so many things at the same time that it's hard to actually understand what those emotions are, so it can turn to anxiety very quickly.
I'm not a fan of Ms Swift's music (I'm not a 12-year-old girl) but I do have a healthy amount of respect for the way she conducts herself in public.
Unfortunately there's a notion that the right not to be offended supersedes my right to free-speech. There were a lot of editorials about from both the US and Europe on the subject in the wake of the Charlie Ebdo shootings. Most of them amounted to "Well, speech that offends people shouldn't be protected speech." It's hard to believe people don't understand that offensive speech is the speech that needs to be protected the most.
Why is the entire file necessary for the interview? A relevant excerpt, only what the applicant claims with respect to Joe, can be walked back across that air gap and sent to the regional office. The interview results then get walked past the air gap and merged/appended to the file. Naturally what really gets walked across is a large number of excerpts and data to merge/append.
Whether it's all of the file or part of the file is irrelevant, since the transmission time via USPS or UPS or FedEx is the same (per company obviously) whether you're sending a single page or a whole stack of pages. Your point about malware is well-taken though.
Depending on how sensitive it is, I could see it being useful in places like the Southwest US that are subject monsoons in the summer. Humidity builds during the day until a thunderstorm develops in the evening. The cycle starts all over again the next day.
In this instance OPMI is one institution you actually want collecting data, since they handle the background investigations for anyone applying for a security clearance.
Dammit, I hit submit instead of "continue edit."
The other point with data-entry is that each renewal for a security clearance, either due to the clearance expiring or to a periodic random review, requires a new and updated SF-86.
Concerning data transmission, the network is also much cheaper than flying a single investigator all around the country to interview folks in a timely manner. As it is, getting a security clearance takes anywhere from 3-6 months, longer if the investigator finds an irregularity. I'd estimate an air-gap would add at least another month or two to the process accounting for snail-mail transmission times.
As someone who's information was compromised, I absolutely agree the information should have been better protected. I'm just not sure an air-gap is the appropriate measure to take in this case.
Again, I'm not a network security expert.