Those wacky Koreans!
Aug. 31st, 2005 01:59 am
Aug. 31st, 2005
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Aug. 31st, 2005 10:20 amPop quiz from the cowtown people:
1. It is August 28. A Category 5 hurricane is heading towards New Orleans, setting the stage for what reports since the nineties and possibly before have said could be the worst natural disaster this country could ever see. You are the president. Do you:
A) Stage troops already in Texas and North Carolina to be ready to deploy the second it is safe to help with rescue and clean up operations.
B) Coordinate with state and local officials to ensure that as many people as possible are evacuated and command, control, and assessment teams are already in place to oversee the first few critical hours of damage control and rescue operations.
C) Leave four states full of people that voted overwhelmingly for you hanging in the wind with nothing more than local police and fire forces who are about to lose most of thier equipment to rely on while you continue your vacation on your Texas ranch
2. It is august 29th and one of the worst storms on record is battering the gulf coast, a densely populated area key to your countries domestic energy production. Do you:
A) Stage troops already in Texas and North Carolina to be ready to deploy the second it is safe to help with rescue and clean up operations.
B) Be on the phone with FEMA making sure supplies of food, potable water, portable shelter, and rescue equipment are being staged for immediate dispersal.
C) Head to the opposite side of the country to make a speach and pose with your guitar for a photo op
3. It is August 30th. A major US city and several major regional population centers are under water. Across wide areas, there is no electricity, no running water, and dwindling food and fuel supplies. Hundreds, if nt thousands of people are trapped in rapidly flooding areas. There is heavy infrastructre damage, and communications are spotty. There is massive human suffering on a grand scale. Do you:
A) Send in the troops, much like the 25,000 your father sent in for Hurricane Andrew.
B) Activate emergency disaster plans you put into place over the previous days to alleviate the worst of the human cost.
C) Ignore a slowly worsening situation that may have been lessened given your timely intervention and decide you will do something about it tomorrow.
Choose carefully. Here's a hint about the correct answer:
Remember: Bad things only happen to you if you DESERVE them.
1. It is August 28. A Category 5 hurricane is heading towards New Orleans, setting the stage for what reports since the nineties and possibly before have said could be the worst natural disaster this country could ever see. You are the president. Do you:
A) Stage troops already in Texas and North Carolina to be ready to deploy the second it is safe to help with rescue and clean up operations.
B) Coordinate with state and local officials to ensure that as many people as possible are evacuated and command, control, and assessment teams are already in place to oversee the first few critical hours of damage control and rescue operations.
C) Leave four states full of people that voted overwhelmingly for you hanging in the wind with nothing more than local police and fire forces who are about to lose most of thier equipment to rely on while you continue your vacation on your Texas ranch
2. It is august 29th and one of the worst storms on record is battering the gulf coast, a densely populated area key to your countries domestic energy production. Do you:
A) Stage troops already in Texas and North Carolina to be ready to deploy the second it is safe to help with rescue and clean up operations.
B) Be on the phone with FEMA making sure supplies of food, potable water, portable shelter, and rescue equipment are being staged for immediate dispersal.
C) Head to the opposite side of the country to make a speach and pose with your guitar for a photo op
3. It is August 30th. A major US city and several major regional population centers are under water. Across wide areas, there is no electricity, no running water, and dwindling food and fuel supplies. Hundreds, if nt thousands of people are trapped in rapidly flooding areas. There is heavy infrastructre damage, and communications are spotty. There is massive human suffering on a grand scale. Do you:
A) Send in the troops, much like the 25,000 your father sent in for Hurricane Andrew.
B) Activate emergency disaster plans you put into place over the previous days to alleviate the worst of the human cost.
C) Ignore a slowly worsening situation that may have been lessened given your timely intervention and decide you will do something about it tomorrow.
Choose carefully. Here's a hint about the correct answer:
Remember: Bad things only happen to you if you DESERVE them.
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Aug. 31st, 2005 10:35 amNASA has the most amazing stuff.
This particular link is history and details on Hurricane Katrina.
This, for example, is satellite images of clouds overlayed on a map of the Carribean showing ocean surface temperature over time.
This particular link is history and details on Hurricane Katrina.
This, for example, is satellite images of clouds overlayed on a map of the Carribean showing ocean surface temperature over time.
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Aug. 31st, 2005 10:45 amComparisons Of Un-Great Literature: "Star Struck" by Pamela Anderson versus "Those Who Trespass" by Bill O'Reilly
Mayor of Berlin under fire by Christians because he doesn't want gays to wear a pink triangle and be locked up in camps.
Joining MS's "How to Ask A Question", here's the US State Department's "How to identify misinformation." It's focused on people other than the US lying about Iraq, but the advice *is* good. It's too bad they can't get their own media to apply it to the State Department's own statements.
Finally, an image.
That image as an icon:
Mayor of Berlin under fire by Christians because he doesn't want gays to wear a pink triangle and be locked up in camps.
Joining MS's "How to Ask A Question", here's the US State Department's "How to identify misinformation." It's focused on people other than the US lying about Iraq, but the advice *is* good. It's too bad they can't get their own media to apply it to the State Department's own statements.
Finally, an image.
That image as an icon:
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Aug. 31st, 2005 11:43 am
versus
White people "find". Black people "loot".
Edit: Found the other ones I saw earlier but didn't have handy.
Looters hit a drug store in the French Quarter district of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, following Hurricane Katrina. Fresh floods, fires and looting rode in the destructive wake of Hurricane Katrina, deepening a humanitarian crisis that left hundreds feared dead and sections of New Orleans submerged to the rooftops.(AFP/James Nielsen)
As one person looks through their shopping bag, left, another jumps through a broken window, while leaving a convenience store on the I-10 service road south, in Metairie, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This photo was taken during a helicopter tour of the area that included the governor of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Bill Feig, Pool)
Note that this isn't a case of all AP photos being "looters" and all AFP photos being "finders" - there's one of each from each service, and in both cases, Yahoo called the blacks "looters" and the whites "finders" or unmentioned.
CNN's captions for the same photos did not make this distinction.
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Aug. 31st, 2005 12:48 pmParasitic worms grown in grasshoppers but need water to breed - and so they force their host to commit suicide
Batshit insane Christians sue the University of California for refusing to accredit courses that teach Creationism as science, Christian teachings as the foundation of US government, or that use textbooks that claim the evolution does not occur.
On why FEMA can't do their job.
Batshit insane Christians sue the University of California for refusing to accredit courses that teach Creationism as science, Christian teachings as the foundation of US government, or that use textbooks that claim the evolution does not occur.
On why FEMA can't do their job.
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wicked_wish explains looting, disaster unpreparedness, and all the reasons people *couldn't* get out of New Orleans. READ THIS ONE. Link it. Pass it on.
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Aug. 31st, 2005 01:56 pmIn the US Military, the batshit insane Christians think "chaplain" means "Hey, I have a captive audience for conversion! Let's tell all the catholics, muslims, and jews that they're going straight to hell! And it's religious discrimination to ask that I do the fucking job I was hired for!"
Hugo Chavez and the government of Venezuela will be pursuing legal action against Pat Robertson in the USA.
A Florida appeals court overturned a DUI-Manslaughter conviction on the groups that the cops didn't tell the driver they were going to loko at his medical records.
Ah, yes. "We need to keep occupying Iraq so the terr'ists don't get the oil!"
Hugo Chavez and the government of Venezuela will be pursuing legal action against Pat Robertson in the USA.
A Florida appeals court overturned a DUI-Manslaughter conviction on the groups that the cops didn't tell the driver they were going to loko at his medical records.
Ah, yes. "We need to keep occupying Iraq so the terr'ists don't get the oil!"
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Aug. 31st, 2005 02:36 pmExecutives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to "organize the world's information," announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index. "Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. "Soon, it will be."
The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps, which catalogs the entire surface of the Earth using high-resolution satellites. As a part of Purge's first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google.
"A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest," John Battelle wrote in his widely read "Searchblog." "Thanks to Google Purge, you'll never have to worry that your search has missed some obscure book, because that book will no longer exist. And the same goes for movies, art, and music."
As a part of Phase One operations, Google executives will permanently erase the hard drive of any computer that is not already indexed by the Google Desktop Search. "We believe that Google Desktop Search is the best way to unlock the information hidden on your hard drive," Schmidt said. "If you haven't given it a try, now's the time. In one week, the deleting begins."
Although Google executives are keeping many details about Google Purge under wraps, some analysts speculate that the categories of information Google will eventually index or destroy include handwritten correspondence, buried fossils, and private thoughts and feelings.
The company's new directive may explain its recent acquisition of Celera Genomics, the company that mapped the human genome, and its buildup of a vast army of laser-equipped robots.
The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps, which catalogs the entire surface of the Earth using high-resolution satellites. As a part of Purge's first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google.
"A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest," John Battelle wrote in his widely read "Searchblog." "Thanks to Google Purge, you'll never have to worry that your search has missed some obscure book, because that book will no longer exist. And the same goes for movies, art, and music."
As a part of Phase One operations, Google executives will permanently erase the hard drive of any computer that is not already indexed by the Google Desktop Search. "We believe that Google Desktop Search is the best way to unlock the information hidden on your hard drive," Schmidt said. "If you haven't given it a try, now's the time. In one week, the deleting begins."
Although Google executives are keeping many details about Google Purge under wraps, some analysts speculate that the categories of information Google will eventually index or destroy include handwritten correspondence, buried fossils, and private thoughts and feelings.
The company's new directive may explain its recent acquisition of Celera Genomics, the company that mapped the human genome, and its buildup of a vast army of laser-equipped robots.
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Aug. 31st, 2005 04:26 pm"Pay your phone bill or we'll double it - pay THAT, or we'll break your legs"
German tourist repairs a Turkish airplane. In midair. With tape.
And, the new Iraqi Constitution:
Article (1): The Republic of Iraq is an independent, sovereign nation, and the system of rule in it is a democratic, federal, representative (parliamentary) republic.
Article (2):
1st -- Islam is the official religion of the state and is a basic source of legislation:
(a) No law can be passed that contradicts the undisputed rules of Islam.
(b) No law can be passed that contradicts the principles of democracy.
(c) No law can be passed that contradicts the rights and basic freedoms outlined in this constitution.
2nd -- This constitution guarantees the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and the full religious rights for all individuals and the freedom of creed and religious practices like (Christians, Yazidis, Sabaean Mandeans.)
German tourist repairs a Turkish airplane. In midair. With tape.
And, the new Iraqi Constitution:
Article (1): The Republic of Iraq is an independent, sovereign nation, and the system of rule in it is a democratic, federal, representative (parliamentary) republic.
Article (2):
1st -- Islam is the official religion of the state and is a basic source of legislation:
(a) No law can be passed that contradicts the undisputed rules of Islam.
(b) No law can be passed that contradicts the principles of democracy.
(c) No law can be passed that contradicts the rights and basic freedoms outlined in this constitution.
2nd -- This constitution guarantees the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and the full religious rights for all individuals and the freedom of creed and religious practices like (Christians, Yazidis, Sabaean Mandeans.)