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you're using Bush's guard service as an example??? absolute hilarious!!!!
sad... I hope she eventually found herself
when you throw the first punch, you are the aggressor
you no fault example is n/a
you didn't answer the question:
did you look at hte video of BUsh saying Iraq had nothing to do with 911?
if you did, is he wrong or are you wrong?
did you listen to BUSH saying Iraq had nothing to do with 911?????
first of all... I'm a dudette.
and listen to the words coming straight from your fearless leader:
press question: what did Iraq have to do with the attack on the WTC?
bush: NOTHING
see video at link in the following post:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=12924796
ah... you are one of those who still doesn't get that Iraq had nothing to do with 911...
what a waste of time
good one
and it's so cool to be a drunk until you are 40, pre-emptively strike a country that had nothing to do with 911 and continue an endless war that kills US soldiers and tens of thousands of innocent civilians because you won't fire your incompetant secretary of state...
yeah, tens of thousands killed and maimed unjustly vs parking tickets...
and you've told us that after you heard about this, you "would focus on other ways to resolve the conflict and protect myself...", I almost felt ill.
don't overreact... obviously I meant myself and my child because as I said "I would do everything I could to protect my child"
and yes you are correct about mores. I didn't type my post as carefully as I should have.
and back to the core question. I believe it's wrong to kill someone because they threaten you. I believe you have every right to defend yourself, your loved ones and fellow countrymen, but being the aggressor isn't morally justified.
read Black Box Voting and get back to me on that
no, I don't think everyone should be self employed. it's not for everyone. what I think is that those people who are in positions of power, such as employers, have a morale responsibility to treat their employees fairly and equitably.
It's the temptation of greed and power to convinced oneself that you are more deserving than others and have the right to take as much of the fruits of labor as you can get away with. Might as well go back to a tyranny and have a royal class if you believe that.
it's documented reality.
I once had a title of "Vice President"... at one point I reported directly to the President of a company... do I qualify then?
I still think that's BS.
Sooo... the big question... have you ever been an executive? so must you ban yourself from this discussion?
good post.
if they can't win, it may be because the ballots aren't being counted accurately
I think that's garbage. everyone has a right to talk about the wages they get, what kind of treatment they get with their employer and about the tax burder and how it's spread out. maybe you don't believe that people truly should have equal opportunity and equal representation?
making incorrect assumptions? LOL
Well then start your own company and manage it the way you want.
Have my own company and am doing that. Have any idea how many people see what's going on in corporate america and do just that? and how many more just put their head down, stay where they are and put up with it.
Did you ever work for a company you liked?
yes.
you aren't addressing waste issues, safety issues when transporting the waste, storing the waster, reprocessing, etc. seems like you didn't read my whole post.
I thought the idea behind global warming was to cut the CO emissions?
yes
Nuclear reactors do this.
but at what price??? I'm not completely against nuclear power plants... as long as they aren't in my back yard! kind of a joke, but not really. the concern is safety and until those concerns have been addressed adequately, I cannot support charging ahead.
I doubt Solar and Wind will generate enough to cover all the needs.
I visited a friend of mine this weekend who gets all her power from solar in the summer and hydro in the winter. It's very doable.
I also have confidence that if inventive minds were funded and supported, more solutions could be found.
It seems a pretty base way of responding to serious problems.
good way of putting it
Let's get hypothetical here. If someone, for whatever reason, became so enraged against a group of people, and your child was part of that group, that the enraged people decided to "take out" that entire group. Wouldn't you blow the guy away before he killed your child?
as a mother of 5, my answer is NO. I would do everything I could to protect my child, but NOT pre-emptively attack anyone because that's contrary to my more values and integrity. I would focus on other ways to resolve the conflict and protect myself... encouraging use of brain power rather than brawn.
and there are some women in the US who still haven't
interesting idea, could be useful
most of my programming these days is in PHP or javascript. I wouldn't mind see a nice IDE for that.
my observation in companies that I worked for is that it's much like there as well. they try to fool you by omitting bonuses, benefits, etc., but the compenstation of execs far exceeds the average worker.
need another story about the boss (who was pres of co) from hell?
I also observed it when I worked at GTE and someone from HR faxed out a list of exec compenstation to expose the fraud of how they said that everyone needed to tighten their belt but behind the scenes the upper few were getting bigger and better raises and bonuses.
I have zero sympathy for those who feel they deserve an obscene amount more than others... it's just greed.
you mean you tried to change the subject to that from inept federal government discussion...
#msg-12961739
yup, more reason to feel real sorry for those tax paying execs... they just get the short end of everything
HURRICANE EXPERT THREATENED FOR PRE-KATRINA WARNINGS
He had taken the warning about the levees all the way to George Bush's doorstep. "I myself briefed senior officials including somebody from the White House." The response: the university's trustees threatened his job.
A Greg Palast special investigation for Democracy Now!
Monday, August 28. From New Orleans.
DON'T blame the Lady. Katrina killed no one in this town. In fact, Katrina missed the city completely, going wide to the east.
It wasn't the hurricane that drowned, suffocated, de-hydrated and starved 1,500 people that week. The killing was done by a deadly duo: a failed emergency evacuation plan combined with faulty levees. Behind these twin failures lies a tale of cronyism, profiteering and willful incompetence that takes us right to the steps of the White House.
Here's the story you haven't been told. And the man who revealed it to me, Dr. Ivor van Heerden, is putting his job on the line to tell it.
Van Heerden isn't the typical whistleblower I usually deal with. This is no minor player. He's the Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center. He's the top banana in the field -- no one knew more about how to save New Orleans from a hurricane's devastation. And no one was a bigger target of an official and corporate campaign to bury the information.
Here's what happened. Right after Katrina swamped the city, I called Washington to get a copy of the evacuation plan.
Funny thing about the murderously failed plan for the evacuation of New Orleans: no one can find it. That's right. It's missing. Maybe it got wet and sank in the flood. Whatever: no one can find it.
That's real bad. Here's the key thing about a successful emergency evacuation plan: you have to have copies of it. Lots of copies -- in fire houses and in hospitals and in the hands of every first responder. Secret evacuation plans don't work.
I know, I worked on the hurricane evacuation plan for Long Island New York, an elaborate multi-volume dossier.
Specifically, I'm talking about the plan that was written, or supposed to have been written two years ago by a company called, "Innovative Emergency Management."
Weird thing about IEM, their founder Madhu Beriwal, had no known experience in hurricane evacuations. She did, however, have a lot of experience in donating to Republicans.
IEM and FEMA did begin a draft of a plan. The plan was that, when a hurricane hit, everyone in the Crescent City would simply get the hell out in their cars. Apparently, the IEM/FEMA crew didn't know that 127,000 people in the city didn't have cars. But Dr. van Heerden knew that. It was his calculation. LSU knew where these no-car people were -- they mapped it -- and how to get them out.
Dr. van Heerden offered this life-saving info to FEMA. They wouldn't touch it. Then, a state official told him to shut up, back off or there would be consequences for van Heerden's position. This official now works for IEM.
So I asked him what happened as a result of making no plans for those without wheels, a lot of them elderly and most of them poor.
"Fifteen-hundred of them drowned. That's the bottom line." The professor, who'd been talking to me in technicalities, changed to a somber tone. "They're still finding corpses."
Van Heerden is supposed to keep his mouth shut. He won't. The deaths weigh on him. "I wasn't going to listen to those sort of threats, to let them shut me down."
Van Heerden had other disturbing news. The Hurricane Center's computer models showed the federal government had built the levees around the city a foot-and-a-half too short.
After Katrina, the Hurricane Center analyzed the flooding and found that, had the levees had just that extra 18 inches, they would have been "overtopped" for only an hour and a half, not four hours. In that case, the levees would have held, and the city would have been saved.
He had taken the warning about the levees all the way to George Bush's doorstep. "I myself briefed senior officials including somebody from the White House." The response: the university's trustees threatened his job.
While in Baton Rouge, I dropped in on the headquarters of IEM, the evacuation contractors. The assistant to the CEO insisted they had "a lot of experience with evacuation" -- but couldn't name a single city they'd planned for when they got the Big Easy contract. And still, they couldn't produce the plan.
An IEM press release in June 2004 boasted legendary expert James Lee Witt as a member of their team. That was impressive. It was also a lie. In fact, Witt had nothing to do with it. When I asked IEM point blank if Witt's name was used as a fraudulent hook to get the contract, their spokeswoman said, weirdly, "We'll get back to you on that."
Back at LSU, van Heerden astonished me with the most serious charge of all. While showing me huge maps of the flooding, he told me the White House had withheld the information that, in fact, the levees were about to burst and by Tuesday at dawn the city, and more than a thousand people, would drown.
Van Heerden said, "FEMA knew on Monday at 11 o'clock that the levees had breached… They took video. By midnight on Monday the White House knew. But none of us knew ...I was at the State Emergency Operations Center." Because the hurricane had missed the city that Monday night, evacuation effectively stopped, assuming the city had survived.
It's been a full year now, and 73,000 New Orleanians remain in FEMA trailers and another 200,000, more than half the city's former residents, remain in temporary refuges. "The City That Care Forgot" -- that's their official slogan -- lost a higher percentage of homes than Berlin lost in World War II. It would be more accurate to call it, "The City That Bush Forgot."
Should they come home? Rebuild? Is it safe? Team Bush assures them there's nothing to worry about: FEMA won't respond to van Heerden's revelations. However, the Bush Administration has hired a consulting firm to fix the failed evacuation plan. The contractor? A Baton Rouge company named "Innovative Emergency Management." IEM.
******
Watch this special investigative report about Katrina on Democracy Now! this morning or hear it on your local Pacifica or NPR station. You can also download it at DemocracyNow.org.
And catch the one-hour special report, "Who Drowned New Orleans?" on LinkTV, with Greg Palast in New Orleans plus an exclusive interview with Amy Goodman. (Get it on Direct TV channel 375 and Dish TV channel 9410. Or check your cable listing at LinkTV.com.)
And for more on IEM and Katrina, read Greg Palast's new NYT bestseller, "Armed Madhouse" (Penguin 2006).
<< from an email >>
accidential nuclear attack on SF? lol... yeah we're all just liberals anyway...
and how did liberal get twisted to be something bad?
1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
6. of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
9. characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts: a liberal donor.
10. given freely or abundantly; generous: a liberal donation.
11. not strict or rigorous; free; not literal: a liberal interpretation of a rule.
12. of, pertaining to, or based on the liberal arts.
13. of, pertaining to, or befitting a freeman.
–noun 14. a person of liberal principles or views, esp. in politics or religion.
15. (often initial capital letter) a member of a liberal party in politics, esp. of the Liberal party in Great Britain.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=liberal
What to do with the spent fuel rods is what causes most of the fuss concerning nuclear power.
<< best to read through this whole thing, but I cut out paragraphs that I wanted to point out about concerns >>
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html
<< and nobody wants the waste in their neighborhood... I certainly wouldn't >>
The U.S. plan is to store the waste in Nevada in the same area as has been used for underground nuclear tests. This plan is still tied up in long term indecision. A big step forward was taken in 2002 when the President signed a bill to over-rule the objections of the State of Nevada.
Q. Are nuclear power plants perfectly safe?
A. No. Nothing is perfectly safe, but they are safe enough to be relied upon as a source of energy.
<< consequences can be devasting and long term >>
Can a nuclear plant blow up to a lesser extent?
A. Yes, if it is sufficiently badly designed and operated. The Chernobyl plant reached 150 times its normal power level before its water turned to high pressure steam and blew the plant apart, thus extinguishing the nuclear reaction. This only took a few seconds.
Q. How much of a disaster was that?
A. In terms of immediate deaths it was a rather small disaster. 31 people died. Cave-ins in coal mines often kill hundreds.
However, about 20 square miles of land became uninhabitable for a long time. This isn't a lot.
Fall-out from the Chernobyl explosion will contribute an increase to the incidence of cancer all over Europe. How much of an increase is disputed. Since the increase will be very small in proportion to the amount of cancer, we probably won't know from experience.
The largest estimates are in the low thousands which would make Chernobyl a disaster comparable to the Bhopal chemical plant or the Texas City explosion of a shipload of ammonium nitrate or the Halifax disaster during World War I. On the other hand these large estimates are small compared to the number who have died in each of several recent large earthquakes in countries using stone or adobe or sod houses.
It is comparable to the number killed in coal mining accidents in the Soviet Union over the years Chernobyl was operating.
The large estimates depend on the linear hypothesis which is almost certainly wrong but which is used for regulatory purposes because it is so conservative. The estimates are probably too high by a substantial factor, maybe 10, maybe 100.
However, a recent survey indicates a greatly increased rate of thyroid cancer in children (including three deaths)j in Belarus since the accident. I don't know the total number of cases which would permit comparing Chernobyl with other accidents. Here is more on the Chernobyl accident including links to British, Ukrainian and Russian accounts of the accident and its effects.
your post didn't have a link... too lazy to provide one or don't know how?
You don't think Reactors are any safer now?
I don't know. I know that as human beings we are prone to error... error with nuclear reactors aren't just oops... they are disasterous! And I would worry about low level contamination plus disposal of radioactive waste.
Would you rather see us burning coal and Nat. Gas instead?
I would rather see solar power, hydro power, wind power and research into other alternatives PLUS big conservation programs. Also, autos need to have much higher standards for mpg. Nuclear power isn't the only alternative.
although programs like Word add formating codes, you can still use a simple text search for actual text within the documents because it's still there in tact, just surrounded by a bunch of other stuff that might look weird in raw form.
As for the programming that Bob and Dave write, it depends on their tools. But most programming tools have build in search features. Dreamweaver, which is my main tool for websites, has a pretty good find and/or find and replace feature.
And you can always use the windows explorer search on any file.
Is there something more specific you are trying to do that I might be able to help with?
you're right... you are obviously not only unconcerned about the quality of your posts, but also provding references, sources, links, etc... another example:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=12929827
three mile island... chernobyl...
ROFL!
I really like that one...
Texas again leading the way in the anti-environmental movement
wow, it's been so long I don't remember much. I think I finally through out my DOS reference books last year because I hadn't used them in so long.
I do remember you can get syntax help for dos commands by doing:
help find
or
help findstr
does that help?