I'm not going to comment on how FEMA specifically may or may not have reacted immediately after Katrina; I don't have enough information. Seems like everybody dropped the ball to some degree. But I will say that the volunteer camp they were running next to the river (by the battlefield) was extremely well-run. We were down there in March, and the whole operation was moving very smoothly. A lot of progress was made on cleaning out houses, the whole camp and work process was very well-organized, and even the food was good:)
Man-traps are generally (unfortunately?) illegal. And in some countries, even putting up barbed wire after experiencing break-ins is illegal--cause the poor innocent thieves might get hurt trying to cross it.
That said, my non-computer-person's suggestion for a really secure laptop: - deep encryption of data - non-standard hardware (so it can't be sold easily) - lock system like in TFA - dead-man switch that physically destroys HD and RAM if not reset in a certain period of time, or if unauthorized access is attempted, using corrosives, deliberate shorts, etc.
I'm not sold on the technology thing, either. it's good to have computer labs for the students to use; they need to learn basic computer skills and all that. But for almost everything taught before at least middle school, you don't need computers. Math, reading, science, history, etc. were all taught fine for decades without computers. Go back to "old math" and actually teach them something, instead of coddling them with "emotionally sensitive" material.
There's this thing called "return on investment". I'm a manager at a very large engineering company, and anyone at our outfit who proposed spending millions of dollars to send stuff with our logo on it to Mars would get laughed out of the room. I doubt our company is alone in this.
That's because you're an engineering company. An outfit like Nike, Underarmour, Apple, etc. that makes consumer products, and spends lots of money on advertising, might go for it.
I think you're mixing things up. Tungsten is far too expensive to be using for practice ammunition in small arms. But it's been suggested as a substitute for depleted uranium in armor-piercing rounds for tanks and aircraft due to toxicity concerns with DU.
Standard small arms ammunition consists of a lead core mostly or completely covered (jacketed softpoint and "ball" or full metal jacket, respectively) with a copper shell. The copper helps hold the bullet together and gives the rifling in the barrel something to grip, and the lead provides mass and terminal expansion effects.
Armor-piercing small arms ammunition will have a dense core (steel or tungsten) surrounded by lead and a jacket, which keeps the barrel from getting torn up by the harder material. I believe this is also standard for some Russian ammunition (which also often uses steel for the case in place of brass). Doing this might be cheaper than an all-lead bullet, but it will affect the ballistics of the round.
My understanding (and I could be wrong) was that a chav would be more comparable to a "juvenile delinquent". You know, those kids that have dropped (or are about to drop) out of school, who run around in baggy jeans and sweatshirts, and who get their rocks off with graffiti, vandalism, beating up homeless guys, and mugging grannies.
Your "southern people bad, rich west-coast liberals good" speech just reeks of smugness, and I think you'd find that the vast majority of people in this country don't fit in your nice little "either-or" categories.
A lot of people are unable to discern a difference between opportunity and outcome. This is true in all areas--education, sports, business, economics, etc.
Sorry, I meant Google maps. But I did click the link, and what I'm trying to tell you is that the "same image wrapping around" thing isn't them being lazy and using one small image. That is a map of the entire planet, wrapping around and stitched together. Google maps does the same thing if you zoom all the way out.
I mean... what difference does it make that mars once had liquid water? It doesn't now. Sure... discovery of liquid water _still_ being on mars would be a big deal because it would drastically simplify the process of human beings staying there for extended periods in possible future missions, but if Mars was once covered in water, and isn't anymore, what difference could this possibly make to us?... If somebody can explain to me how knowledge about Mars once having water in the distant past would change the way that we perform some possible future Mars expedition, for example, I'd like to hear it.
Well, if it once had liquid water, but now does not, where did it all go? Many theories suggest it's locked away in the polar icecaps and underground (permafrost, frozen underground lakes, etc). Knowing the planet once held water, and figuring out where it went, can help us figure out where it is now. And once we know where it is, getting to it is just engineering.
That's because it wraps around, just like their Earth and Moon maps do. That "same image" seems (to me) to be a mercator projection of the entire surface.
I tried some during a field trip to MSFC in 1994 or so. Tasted fine.
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To be honest, Ender's Game was the only one of the series I liked. And really, most of the people I know that read it liked it primarily because of the Battle School--the concept of zero-G laser tag just kicks ass.
Never heard anything about Card's politics before; I'll stay out of that discussion.
I second the co-op program... hadn't heard that it dropped to three rotations, though (it was four when I went through). The co-op office will even help you sign up for interviews and all. The office is right over on Cherry St.
I think I made in the neighborhood of $14-16/hr (we got raises each time we went back), but the company also paid for our housing and utilities. That was nice:)
Seriously, like others said, find a program that will put you to work. Nobody wants to be the coffee bitch, and it'll be useless to you long-term if you aren't working. I was fortunate to get an employer that treated us basically as full engineers (though with a little more oversight). You might even get a chance to do things as a co-op or intern that you wouldn't later, like working in a machine shop and messing with tools. There's something satisfying about getting so dirty at work (from welding, cutting metal, messing with hydraulics) you have to go home and take a shower over lunch.
Castle Rock vs. Gonzales, 2005 - "the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation." (NY Times) A woman sued the police because her husband violated his restraining order, kidnapped their daughters, and killed them, but the police did not respond to repeated calls for help.
Warren vs. District of Columbia, 1981 - "... a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen..." (sorry, this one was DC court of appeals, not USSC). Women sued because the police failed to respond to repeated calls for help after a man broke into their apartment and raped/assaulted/did other things to them.
Well, besides the USSC ruling that the police are not obligated to protect/defend you, or come to your aid, it's one of those "basic human decency" things. I don't know if I'd use the word "responsibility," but a decent person probably wouldn't say "meh, not my problem" and walk away.
I've never understood the "you can't defend yourself or stop a crime in progress, that's the police's job" mentality. I mean, are we supposed to sit there and be dependent on daddy government for every single thing? Yes, if the police are there and doing something about it, stay out of their way unless they ask for your help. But if they haven't gotten there yet, do something about it!
How about "here is your base pay; if you don't have anywhere to live we will supply your choice of barracks/dorm/apartment housing to you for a reasonable direct paycheck deduction"?
Other ideas: For every X days worked, Y days of job training. Free after-hours education up to GED level for those in the program.
I fullly agree with the sentiments expressed in this sub-thread. Unskilled labor can't do everything, but there's a lot they can do to help fix the infrastructure.
but what is with the recent spate of "_____story" tags? Why is the word "story" being added to the ends of tags now? Seems kinda redundant and/or useless.
Ooops, forgot... when I blame Clinton, it's for eliminating SAC and starting the ball rolling the latest incidents (live warheads flown on bombers without knowledge, missile crews asleep, etc.). Obviously he's not responsible for this particular incident, either.
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Merde de taureau, maybe?
I have great difficulty taking seriously any system that regards continuous growth as a given state of affairs.
I wish I had mod points for this...
I'm not going to comment on how FEMA specifically may or may not have reacted immediately after Katrina; I don't have enough information. Seems like everybody dropped the ball to some degree. But I will say that the volunteer camp they were running next to the river (by the battlefield) was extremely well-run. We were down there in March, and the whole operation was moving very smoothly. A lot of progress was made on cleaning out houses, the whole camp and work process was very well-organized, and even the food was good :)
Man-traps are generally (unfortunately?) illegal. And in some countries, even putting up barbed wire after experiencing break-ins is illegal--cause the poor innocent thieves might get hurt trying to cross it.
That said, my non-computer-person's suggestion for a really secure laptop:
- deep encryption of data
- non-standard hardware (so it can't be sold easily)
- lock system like in TFA
- dead-man switch that physically destroys HD and RAM if not reset in a certain period of time, or if unauthorized access is attempted, using corrosives, deliberate shorts, etc.
I'd suspect those towns were there long before the highway was ever thought about.
Parts of the southeast US are in a drought, but it's still plenty muggy enough here...
I'm not sold on the technology thing, either. it's good to have computer labs for the students to use; they need to learn basic computer skills and all that. But for almost everything taught before at least middle school, you don't need computers. Math, reading, science, history, etc. were all taught fine for decades without computers. Go back to "old math" and actually teach them something, instead of coddling them with "emotionally sensitive" material.
And get off my lawn!
There's this thing called "return on investment". I'm a manager at a very large engineering company, and anyone at our outfit who proposed spending millions of dollars to send stuff with our logo on it to Mars would get laughed out of the room. I doubt our company is alone in this.
That's because you're an engineering company. An outfit like Nike, Underarmour, Apple, etc. that makes consumer products, and spends lots of money on advertising, might go for it.
I think you're mixing things up. Tungsten is far too expensive to be using for practice ammunition in small arms. But it's been suggested as a substitute for depleted uranium in armor-piercing rounds for tanks and aircraft due to toxicity concerns with DU.
Standard small arms ammunition consists of a lead core mostly or completely covered (jacketed softpoint and "ball" or full metal jacket, respectively) with a copper shell. The copper helps hold the bullet together and gives the rifling in the barrel something to grip, and the lead provides mass and terminal expansion effects.
Armor-piercing small arms ammunition will have a dense core (steel or tungsten) surrounded by lead and a jacket, which keeps the barrel from getting torn up by the harder material. I believe this is also standard for some Russian ammunition (which also often uses steel for the case in place of brass). Doing this might be cheaper than an all-lead bullet, but it will affect the ballistics of the round.
you may have more problems than only financial ones
Indeed. One of those problems is that we had this capability decades ago, and we were good at it, too. But then we pissed it all away.
My understanding (and I could be wrong) was that a chav would be more comparable to a "juvenile delinquent". You know, those kids that have dropped (or are about to drop) out of school, who run around in baggy jeans and sweatshirts, and who get their rocks off with graffiti, vandalism, beating up homeless guys, and mugging grannies.
Your "southern people bad, rich west-coast liberals good" speech just reeks of smugness, and I think you'd find that the vast majority of people in this country don't fit in your nice little "either-or" categories.
A lot of people are unable to discern a difference between opportunity and outcome. This is true in all areas--education, sports, business, economics, etc.
Sorry, I meant Google maps. But I did click the link, and what I'm trying to tell you is that the "same image wrapping around" thing isn't them being lazy and using one small image. That is a map of the entire planet, wrapping around and stitched together. Google maps does the same thing if you zoom all the way out.
I mean... what difference does it make that mars once had liquid water? It doesn't now. Sure... discovery of liquid water _still_ being on mars would be a big deal because it would drastically simplify the process of human beings staying there for extended periods in possible future missions, but if Mars was once covered in water, and isn't anymore, what difference could this possibly make to us? ...
If somebody can explain to me how knowledge about Mars once having water in the distant past would change the way that we perform some possible future Mars expedition, for example, I'd like to hear it.
Well, if it once had liquid water, but now does not, where did it all go? Many theories suggest it's locked away in the polar icecaps and underground (permafrost, frozen underground lakes, etc). Knowing the planet once held water, and figuring out where it went, can help us figure out where it is now. And once we know where it is, getting to it is just engineering.
That's because it wraps around, just like their Earth and Moon maps do. That "same image" seems (to me) to be a mercator projection of the entire surface.
I tried some during a field trip to MSFC in 1994 or so. Tasted fine.
To be honest, Ender's Game was the only one of the series I liked. And really, most of the people I know that read it liked it primarily because of the Battle School--the concept of zero-G laser tag just kicks ass.
Never heard anything about Card's politics before; I'll stay out of that discussion.
I second the co-op program... hadn't heard that it dropped to three rotations, though (it was four when I went through). The co-op office will even help you sign up for interviews and all. The office is right over on Cherry St.
I think I made in the neighborhood of $14-16/hr (we got raises each time we went back), but the company also paid for our housing and utilities. That was nice :)
Seriously, like others said, find a program that will put you to work. Nobody wants to be the coffee bitch, and it'll be useless to you long-term if you aren't working. I was fortunate to get an employer that treated us basically as full engineers (though with a little more oversight). You might even get a chance to do things as a co-op or intern that you wouldn't later, like working in a machine shop and messing with tools. There's something satisfying about getting so dirty at work (from welding, cutting metal, messing with hydraulics) you have to go home and take a shower over lunch.
Castle Rock vs. Gonzales, 2005 - "the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation." (NY Times) A woman sued the police because her husband violated his restraining order, kidnapped their daughters, and killed them, but the police did not respond to repeated calls for help.
Warren vs. District of Columbia, 1981 - "... a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen..." (sorry, this one was DC court of appeals, not USSC). Women sued because the police failed to respond to repeated calls for help after a man broke into their apartment and raped/assaulted/did other things to them.
the closer to the source (the sun) you are in the food chain, the more efficient.
Therefore, I support genetic engineering of humans to incorporate chloroplasts and allow us to partially sustain ourselves by photosynthesis.
Instead of an enclosed garage, some houses just have a covered area under which the car is parked.
Well, besides the USSC ruling that the police are not obligated to protect/defend you, or come to your aid, it's one of those "basic human decency" things. I don't know if I'd use the word "responsibility," but a decent person probably wouldn't say "meh, not my problem" and walk away.
I've never understood the "you can't defend yourself or stop a crime in progress, that's the police's job" mentality. I mean, are we supposed to sit there and be dependent on daddy government for every single thing? Yes, if the police are there and doing something about it, stay out of their way unless they ask for your help. But if they haven't gotten there yet, do something about it!
How about "here is your base pay; if you don't have anywhere to live we will supply your choice of barracks/dorm/apartment housing to you for a reasonable direct paycheck deduction"?
Other ideas:
For every X days worked, Y days of job training.
Free after-hours education up to GED level for those in the program.
I fullly agree with the sentiments expressed in this sub-thread. Unskilled labor can't do everything, but there's a lot they can do to help fix the infrastructure.
but what is with the recent spate of "_____story" tags? Why is the word "story" being added to the ends of tags now? Seems kinda redundant and/or useless.
Ooops, forgot... when I blame Clinton, it's for eliminating SAC and starting the ball rolling the latest incidents (live warheads flown on bombers without knowledge, missile crews asleep, etc.). Obviously he's not responsible for this particular incident, either.