Agreed on almost all your points. I did forget about the dead zone issues when I was posting that which would certainly extend the time line to normality. Still depending on how quickly the bacteria eat the oil that phase of the problem could be over.
Not quite. His point is the length of time. BP needs to cover the damages, at least in the short term, but can only pay for so long. A few months is certainly not enough but 20 years is very much on the long side of reasonable.
We don't know how this is going to play out, there is very little in common with the Exxon spill other than there was oil involved. The environment, bacteria, location of spill, and effected species are all very different. We've discovered new bacteria that operate at those colder depths that seem to be metaolizing the oil at the rapid rate, and being atomized likely makes it easier for them.
We won't know the full scope of the disaster for 5 or 10 years, it could realistically be a non-issue from a ecological point of view by the end of next summer.
The additional upfront cost is not made up for by gas savings over 5 years for most people. (http://www.bcaa.com/downloads/BCAA_Hybrid_Cost_Analysis_2010.pdf) I suspect that since taxi's likely drive more than 20,000 km per year they might actually pay back costs. Especially when they operate in optimal contidions for getting the greatest difference in conventional vs. hybrid mileage.
For most people they don't make sense from a money point of view. There are green house gas savings and toxic chemical costs as well that need to be considered. Most people buy hybrids for reasons other than cost savings though.
My only requirement when buying an Android phone was a reasonable expectation I'd be able to get root and load whatever android flavor I wanted. I have a low end phone (Eris) that still makes me happy almost a year on. Sure there are faster, prettier, and more expensive phones. Mine is still quite fast thanks to 2.2 (which actually extends the useable life of old phones, likely why many companies aren't upgrading to it) and does the job significantly better today than it did when I bought the phone. I can't ask for more.
Your concern about the providers going nuts seems to be more an issue with who you pay for your service. There are many smaller companies that treat you well. T-Mobile does a pretty decent job of not screwing your phone up. Even Verizon hasn't done me or the other android users wrong (amazingly enough). Heck it's the handset makers that are locking down phones and putting all the bloat on them not the provider.
Use fiber optics to transmit the light. There are some sky scrapers that do this (and use it to grow plants too) to help decrease power consumption. The only ones I know of are in Japan but it may be worth looking into.
Actually the solution to this is training your enlisted troops how to handle this. I was in Iraq when this went down, as a network admin for a grunt unit. The problem went away when we burned 10 CD's with AV that cleaned it (the most recent definitions from Symantec did NOT do this until almost 4 months later, making government computers completely open) and training 2 Marines per company on how to help their users. Within a week we had controlled the issue.
To be fair this incident happened two years ago. Which means they should be getting around to resolving the Bradley Manning issue and review some time in 2012...
It used to be that we would only buy American. Then American came to mean assembled in America and it became moot. I would LOVE to see companies that do business with the federal governments and especially the defense and civil protection branches be forced to produce the products on American soil from bottom to top. It may cost more but it would be justified by the improved security and availability. Aditionally it would encourage them to produce more here to reduce costs, etc...
Amen, I'm military, a grad student, and I've taken public speaking classes. Power Point is a great presentation tool, however it is so easy to abuse that most people don't know how to use it. The rule of thumb we were given in my speaking class was you should have no more than 1 slide per minute of presentation. It should be used as a summary of your talking points and for posting facts so accurate notes can be taken.
I actually use it quite extensively for click by click how-to's teaching said officers how to open outlook and reply to emails...
I wasn't exactly talking just or unjust here. Lincoln didn't like the war either but it turned out pretty well for us. I was just trying to point out the ignorance of his post.
Was it Pheonix by any chance? That sounds right up their alley.
However I made my point poorly. You can get a degree from many respectable brick and mortar schools online. Schools like Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, and Carnegie Mellon are just a few of the major schools that have online programs. In fact the vast majority of major colleges offer online education now.
He said nothing about what school you went to or how you got your degree. I can get a BS in many things from respectable online schools that are just as legit as actually being on campus. The only things that are sometimes hard to do are practical application but many programs offer ways to do that too. The Vet Tech school my wife is looking at lets her do her practicals at many local or at least relatively local practicing vets.
But they got passed over because they obvious either are unqualified or they obviously do not have the self drive to get that "meaningless" piece of paper that is worth so much money (poor decision making skills). And before you play the affordability game, it is very easy to work your way through school if you are willing to go to a local community college and then a state school.
It did turn out extremely well in 1775, 1812, 1846, 1861, 1898, 1917 and 1942. Of course it actually went pretty well in plenty of other places too that were much smaller or out of the public mind... It even worked very well in Iraq once upon a time.
I think it is. The phone works, we won't find out how it holds up long term for a while yet but if previous versions are any indicator it should do just find in the long term operations.
The design flaw if very minor in that it is easily correctable by external intervention and is probably negligible for Apple to correct in the production stream.
Many Many phones out there both smart and dumb suffer from much larger faults from bad software to buttons or screens that fail in weeks and are essentially unusable even new out of the box.
You can still use the iPhone and negate the issue very easily. I still won't ever own an apple product until the company has a major corporate overhaul though.
When taken as a whole it's not underhanded or inconsistent or anything like that. Then you look at the calendar of events in regards to their statements and you realize they're a bunch of elitist pricks trying to take everyone for a ride.
First they said there was nothing wrong with it and you were holding it wrong and if you had a problem stfu and go buy a bumper. Then they said it was similar to other phones (it's not even close to the same but RDF Activate!) Then they said it was a software error. Then people started proving there was a problem and Apple had to have a press conference where Jobs lied his ass off or made completely misleading of fallacious comparisons and they said they would give people a free bumper. Then they fired this guy.
(Note: I think the way Apple handled this issue is a much much bigger problem than the actual antenna design, which is honestly pretty minor in the grand scope of phone problems.)
Not at all. An effective application filter based upon the explicit premissions that each app asks for is easy, fast, and automated. Hell it would be nice if the Android App store allowed you to filter programs to begin with...
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Or if you're going to use worthless units at least use Rankine...
Agreed on almost all your points. I did forget about the dead zone issues when I was posting that which would certainly extend the time line to normality. Still depending on how quickly the bacteria eat the oil that phase of the problem could be over.
So what you're saying is they're the size of a small NYC rat or a large NYC Crocodile.
Not quite. His point is the length of time. BP needs to cover the damages, at least in the short term, but can only pay for so long. A few months is certainly not enough but 20 years is very much on the long side of reasonable.
We don't know how this is going to play out, there is very little in common with the Exxon spill other than there was oil involved. The environment, bacteria, location of spill, and effected species are all very different. We've discovered new bacteria that operate at those colder depths that seem to be metaolizing the oil at the rapid rate, and being atomized likely makes it easier for them.
We won't know the full scope of the disaster for 5 or 10 years, it could realistically be a non-issue from a ecological point of view by the end of next summer.
Ahh first time I noticed. I'm obviously highly worked up about it :-p
The additional upfront cost is not made up for by gas savings over 5 years for most people. (http://www.bcaa.com/downloads/BCAA_Hybrid_Cost_Analysis_2010.pdf) I suspect that since taxi's likely drive more than 20,000 km per year they might actually pay back costs. Especially when they operate in optimal contidions for getting the greatest difference in conventional vs. hybrid mileage.
For most people they don't make sense from a money point of view. There are green house gas savings and toxic chemical costs as well that need to be considered. Most people buy hybrids for reasons other than cost savings though.
Point of note: Your quote is from Jed Babbin while he was on the show Hardball, not General Schwarzkopf
My only requirement when buying an Android phone was a reasonable expectation I'd be able to get root and load whatever android flavor I wanted. I have a low end phone (Eris) that still makes me happy almost a year on. Sure there are faster, prettier, and more expensive phones. Mine is still quite fast thanks to 2.2 (which actually extends the useable life of old phones, likely why many companies aren't upgrading to it) and does the job significantly better today than it did when I bought the phone. I can't ask for more.
Your concern about the providers going nuts seems to be more an issue with who you pay for your service. There are many smaller companies that treat you well. T-Mobile does a pretty decent job of not screwing your phone up. Even Verizon hasn't done me or the other android users wrong (amazingly enough). Heck it's the handset makers that are locking down phones and putting all the bloat on them not the provider.
Use fiber optics to transmit the light. There are some sky scrapers that do this (and use it to grow plants too) to help decrease power consumption. The only ones I know of are in Japan but it may be worth looking into.
Actually the solution to this is training your enlisted troops how to handle this. I was in Iraq when this went down, as a network admin for a grunt unit. The problem went away when we burned 10 CD's with AV that cleaned it (the most recent definitions from Symantec did NOT do this until almost 4 months later, making government computers completely open) and training 2 Marines per company on how to help their users. Within a week we had controlled the issue.
To be fair this incident happened two years ago. Which means they should be getting around to resolving the Bradley Manning issue and review some time in 2012...
As a bit of correlary if your point isn't worth writing down should you even be talking about it?
It used to be that we would only buy American. Then American came to mean assembled in America and it became moot. I would LOVE to see companies that do business with the federal governments and especially the defense and civil protection branches be forced to produce the products on American soil from bottom to top. It may cost more but it would be justified by the improved security and availability. Aditionally it would encourage them to produce more here to reduce costs, etc...
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Amen, I'm military, a grad student, and I've taken public speaking classes. Power Point is a great presentation tool, however it is so easy to abuse that most people don't know how to use it. The rule of thumb we were given in my speaking class was you should have no more than 1 slide per minute of presentation. It should be used as a summary of your talking points and for posting facts so accurate notes can be taken.
I actually use it quite extensively for click by click how-to's teaching said officers how to open outlook and reply to emails...
Web browser extensions not applications. But your point about noticing the charge stands.
Unless we arrest him overseas or he's extradited here that's pretty unlikely. Plenty of people have survived for a long time avoiding US Soil...
I wasn't exactly talking just or unjust here. Lincoln didn't like the war either but it turned out pretty well for us. I was just trying to point out the ignorance of his post.
Was it Pheonix by any chance? That sounds right up their alley.
However I made my point poorly. You can get a degree from many respectable brick and mortar schools online. Schools like Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, and Carnegie Mellon are just a few of the major schools that have online programs. In fact the vast majority of major colleges offer online education now.
He said nothing about what school you went to or how you got your degree. I can get a BS in many things from respectable online schools that are just as legit as actually being on campus. The only things that are sometimes hard to do are practical application but many programs offer ways to do that too. The Vet Tech school my wife is looking at lets her do her practicals at many local or at least relatively local practicing vets.
But they got passed over because they obvious either are unqualified or they obviously do not have the self drive to get that "meaningless" piece of paper that is worth so much money (poor decision making skills). And before you play the affordability game, it is very easy to work your way through school if you are willing to go to a local community college and then a state school.
Point of note on your war comment:
It did turn out extremely well in 1775, 1812, 1846, 1861, 1898, 1917 and 1942. Of course it actually went pretty well in plenty of other places too that were much smaller or out of the public mind... It even worked very well in Iraq once upon a time.
I think it is. The phone works, we won't find out how it holds up long term for a while yet but if previous versions are any indicator it should do just find in the long term operations.
The design flaw if very minor in that it is easily correctable by external intervention and is probably negligible for Apple to correct in the production stream.
Many Many phones out there both smart and dumb suffer from much larger faults from bad software to buttons or screens that fail in weeks and are essentially unusable even new out of the box.
You can still use the iPhone and negate the issue very easily. I still won't ever own an apple product until the company has a major corporate overhaul though.
When taken as a whole it's not underhanded or inconsistent or anything like that. Then you look at the calendar of events in regards to their statements and you realize they're a bunch of elitist pricks trying to take everyone for a ride.
First they said there was nothing wrong with it and you were holding it wrong and if you had a problem stfu and go buy a bumper.
Then they said it was similar to other phones (it's not even close to the same but RDF Activate!)
Then they said it was a software error.
Then people started proving there was a problem and Apple had to have a press conference where Jobs lied his ass off or made completely misleading of fallacious comparisons and they said they would give people a free bumper.
Then they fired this guy.
(Note: I think the way Apple handled this issue is a much much bigger problem than the actual antenna design, which is honestly pretty minor in the grand scope of phone problems.)
EZ Bake oven is the ultimate in easy quick snack goodness!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml
I agree completely with yourself and the GP. I love my rooted Eris and this is a great way for app makers to try to get paid for their work.
Not at all. An effective application filter based upon the explicit premissions that each app asks for is easy, fast, and automated. Hell it would be nice if the Android App store allowed you to filter programs to begin with...