I was in Tiananmen Square 6 months after the army rolled in on the Pro-Democracy protestors. The steps surrounding the monument were crushed in spots, presumably by tanks or some other heavy vehicle, and I remember seeing bullet holes in the monument itself. I went back around the anniversary, and they wouldn't let anyone into the square at all. A year later I went back a third time and everything was repaired.
If those weren't bullet holes, what were they?
The defendant was a woman. It was her attorney's son who looked it up. I would imagine the reason was that the defense was looking for something to try to get a mistrial.
I would interview her about her life. When your daughters are older, it could very well be a comfort to them to get a glimpse of knowing their mom as an adult. And it might be cathartic for your wife.
Somebody did this in their spare time? I say pretty impressive, even if it is silly. The comments would probably be more favorable if it was Jedi Baby, or Star Trek Baby.
Ken Stone has an article on prepping your video for uploading to YouTube to take advantage of the High Quality option. It's basically H.264 video at 640 x 480. Looks pretty damned presentable in HQ mode.
Yes the inspection process worked. And the plant was closed down because it was structurally unsound, which is much more serious considering the implications of a nuclear accident as opposed to an accident at a coal-fired plant.
It's apples and oranges. The problem in Hinkley was from the run-off generated by the plant (if I'm not mistaken), which would be a better analogy for the nuclear waste issue.
As for reprocessing, my understanding of that is that there is not currently a way to render the reprocessed nuclear fuel viable for power plants, but not viable for weapons? And if that is so, the less weapons grade nuclear material around, the better, in my opinion.
Look how long it has taken for any state to accept the toxic nuclear waste. How long before we have to start looking for more dumping grounds for these new active power plants?
One of our biggest poblems, particularly in the US, is the lack of long-range planning when it comes to energy policy. Our entire society has been built on the presumption that oil is and will always be cheap, which considering Hubbert's peak oil predictions in the 50's is remarkably foolish and short-sighted. We really need to look at the long-term implications of nuclear or any other energy source, and start planning now instead of waiting for another crisis to develop.
2. Where there's vast amounts of money, there is fraud.
Near my home in the 1980's a nuclear plant began construction, and it turned out that the contractor was skimming money off the top and not building the plant to spec. When the state finally inspected it, the walls were honeycombed because the contractor was skimping on the concrete! Imagine if that plant had gone online.
It's not so much the technology I'm worried about - it's the greedy motherfuckers who are willing to cut corners for a profit that concern me. I have no interest in helping some CEO finally get that island in the Pacific while my state turns into a Chernobyl site.
Is it really the least profitable when vaccines are mandated by law, at least in the US? My insurance company pays about $150 for the chickenpox vaccine (which is in itself a completely useless vaccine as it only is effective for 5 years or so, then requires boosters). In ten years, the drug company gets paid $450 for my kid alone.
Not everybody is going to have heartburn pills prescribed, but everyone has to have the chickenpox vaccine. According to the CDC, there were 4,019,280 births in the United States in 2002. So if everyone got their kid the chickenpox vaccine, that means in 2003 the pharmaceuticals potentially earned $602,892,000 on one vaccine. So they don't have to spend anything on marketing because it's required. Sounds pretty damned profitable to me.
I had an applicant once for a web developer position give me a handful of URLs to look at, one of which was her personal site. The site was wildly inconsistent in design and poorly executed, in my opinion. The kicker was an article she had written and linked to from her site entitled "How To F*ck Like A Porn Star". The article was a discussion about the taboos of female ejaculation, and an encouragement for ladies to step up to the challenge of fulfilling themselves physically during sex.
The article didn't bother me. None of it really bothered me. It was funny in an absurd way that someone would use this as an example of their work in order to get a job. But having recently been unemployed myself, and looking for someone to give me a shot, I felt an obligation to contact her and tell her what I thought. So I called her at 11 AM and woke her up (a bad sign for someone who is looking for gainful employment), and basically told her that she needed to work on her consistency, her html formatting and be mindful that that particular article on her site could potentially scuttle any hopes she has for getting a job, outside the adult entertainment industry, because some people really take offense to that kind of thing.
So, yeah, I think you should tell them as a courtesy and couch it in terms of what they should work on, rather than on how badly they suck.
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Should have or should've. Should of makes no sense.
I suppose everyone who should know better sometimes makes mistakes.
Vacation Trip Rules apply in this scenario.
"I get the window seat! I called it!"
Generally, the nations of the world fall back on these rules when Intergalactic Law falls short.
Isn't that called Public Domain? Isn't the argument here a more political one, that of rejecting any need for copyright laws at all?
Plasma != LED.
...but you will pay for your insolence.
I was in Tiananmen Square 6 months after the army rolled in on the Pro-Democracy protestors. The steps surrounding the monument were crushed in spots, presumably by tanks or some other heavy vehicle, and I remember seeing bullet holes in the monument itself. I went back around the anniversary, and they wouldn't let anyone into the square at all. A year later I went back a third time and everything was repaired. If those weren't bullet holes, what were they?
The defendant was a woman. It was her attorney's son who looked it up. I would imagine the reason was that the defense was looking for something to try to get a mistrial.
I would interview her about her life. When your daughters are older, it could very well be a comfort to them to get a glimpse of knowing their mom as an adult. And it might be cathartic for your wife.
Somebody did this in their spare time? I say pretty impressive, even if it is silly. The comments would probably be more favorable if it was Jedi Baby, or Star Trek Baby.
I've read that with HDD's there is a URE rate of one in 6 Tb. What is the URE rate with SSD's?
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/you_tube_redux_gary.html
Yes the inspection process worked. And the plant was closed down because it was structurally unsound, which is much more serious considering the implications of a nuclear accident as opposed to an accident at a coal-fired plant.
It's apples and oranges. The problem in Hinkley was from the run-off generated by the plant (if I'm not mistaken), which would be a better analogy for the nuclear waste issue.
As for reprocessing, my understanding of that is that there is not currently a way to render the reprocessed nuclear fuel viable for power plants, but not viable for weapons? And if that is so, the less weapons grade nuclear material around, the better, in my opinion.Look how long it has taken for any state to accept the toxic nuclear waste. How long before we have to start looking for more dumping grounds for these new active power plants?
One of our biggest poblems, particularly in the US, is the lack of long-range planning when it comes to energy policy. Our entire society has been built on the presumption that oil is and will always be cheap, which considering Hubbert's peak oil predictions in the 50's is remarkably foolish and short-sighted. We really need to look at the long-term implications of nuclear or any other energy source, and start planning now instead of waiting for another crisis to develop.
2. Where there's vast amounts of money, there is fraud.
Near my home in the 1980's a nuclear plant began construction, and it turned out that the contractor was skimming money off the top and not building the plant to spec. When the state finally inspected it, the walls were honeycombed because the contractor was skimping on the concrete! Imagine if that plant had gone online.
It's not so much the technology I'm worried about - it's the greedy motherfuckers who are willing to cut corners for a profit that concern me. I have no interest in helping some CEO finally get that island in the Pacific while my state turns into a Chernobyl site.
Is it really the least profitable when vaccines are mandated by law, at least in the US? My insurance company pays about $150 for the chickenpox vaccine (which is in itself a completely useless vaccine as it only is effective for 5 years or so, then requires boosters). In ten years, the drug company gets paid $450 for my kid alone. Not everybody is going to have heartburn pills prescribed, but everyone has to have the chickenpox vaccine. According to the CDC, there were 4,019,280 births in the United States in 2002. So if everyone got their kid the chickenpox vaccine, that means in 2003 the pharmaceuticals potentially earned $602,892,000 on one vaccine. So they don't have to spend anything on marketing because it's required. Sounds pretty damned profitable to me.
I had an applicant once for a web developer position give me a handful of URLs to look at, one of which was her personal site. The site was wildly inconsistent in design and poorly executed, in my opinion. The kicker was an article she had written and linked to from her site entitled "How To F*ck Like A Porn Star". The article was a discussion about the taboos of female ejaculation, and an encouragement for ladies to step up to the challenge of fulfilling themselves physically during sex.
The article didn't bother me. None of it really bothered me. It was funny in an absurd way that someone would use this as an example of their work in order to get a job. But having recently been unemployed myself, and looking for someone to give me a shot, I felt an obligation to contact her and tell her what I thought. So I called her at 11 AM and woke her up (a bad sign for someone who is looking for gainful employment), and basically told her that she needed to work on her consistency, her html formatting and be mindful that that particular article on her site could potentially scuttle any hopes she has for getting a job, outside the adult entertainment industry, because some people really take offense to that kind of thing.
So, yeah, I think you should tell them as a courtesy and couch it in terms of what they should work on, rather than on how badly they suck.
A more apt (or Avid) comparison would be why go back to a Yugo when you already own a Honda?
For the price, FCP can't be beat IMHO. But it ain't an Avid.
The irony of it is that the best way to combat terror, apparently, is to stay afraid. Very afraid.
And thank God, because we're all safer now than before 9/11 when we weren't afraid.
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither"
- Ben Franklin
Then the terrorists win.