And it has a bit of content. Anyone have rights to any of it? Take-down notices, anyone?

lamarsmith.house.gov

...don't you mean it tastes a little... meteor?

>Do you have any.... *.exe files?

>Go Fish.

Parent translated into French using "you know who's" translator:

Lyonnaise de Garantie est le problème ici, pas le gouvernement français. Bien sûr, cela est une décision mal, mais ça arrive tout le temps dans les systèmes judiciaires. Bref, ils tentent de plaider l'écart l'opinion de quelqu'un d'entre eux. Je trouve ce genre de comportement doit être la forme la plus base de l'intimidation, et je me sens obligée de contribuer à l'effet Streisand" ...

À mon avis, la Lyonnaise de Garantie entreprise française à un homme, sont pires que des escrocs. Ils sont le limon le plus épouvantable et dégénère avilir, de l'ordre le plus bas. Les baiser, elles sont la variole sur le monde et un gaspillage de l'air. Pour appeler un paquet de cons sans valeur apporterait la honte au packs itinérant des cons sans valeur. Jean-Luc Berho, le vice-président de l'entreprise ne peut se résoudre à l'orgasme, sans moins qu'il s'étouffe un chien à mort. Jean-Jacques Olivié, président de ce pack slithering des reptiliens, ne peut faire confiance pour ne pas s'étouffer s'est accidentellement à la mort s'il est laissé sans surveillance avec un fade croissants. Peut-il attraper la syphilis par une mule ivre arménien. Fraudes à l'assurance pourrait apprendre quelque chose de ces voleurs, comme on pouvait la lamproie et autres vermines tubulaires sucer le sang.

Mais, hé, je peux me tromper. Après tout, c'est juste une opinion.

If you are being detained, the proper way to solve this problem is say "AM I UNDER ARREST?" The smarter officer will say "not yet..." but the response "I want to know if I am under arrest so I can retain a lawyer" will sink their battleship. Now it's time to Mirandize you. They now either arrest you or let you go.

Why don't you close down those "datacenters" in the phone company closets, too.

Well yes, that and global warming will take care of all that pesky snow.

"Name of the Wind" series, first book is excellent, second book is good. Very well written fantasy.

He was also a CCNA, you can't leave that out. That's like gold if he ever wanted to branch out into network management.

I think that long term surveillance is a good thing for prosperity and for our great nation! The government is doing the right thing. Our leaders know what they're doing!

This is my true opinion... anyone who posted an opinion with this name otherwise has been stealing my accounts... probably a malicious evil hacker!

Quick, someone look up Kevin Bacon's credit score!

Although I respect the civility of your answer, it does sound a bit like the company koolaid. Could you discuss how often you personally (not some dude in a truck with a clipboard) revisited the well sites, and what tests were run to assess environmental impact? I don't mean that to spike you; I just want to make the point that your perspective is skewed, because you guys are run hard. You go to a job, knock it out, and move to the next one. You won't be asked to knock on doors 5 years later and ask if anyone has any problems... you'll be off fracking another well that day.

Also, although I know the literature implies that fractures will travel linearly through the formation, doesn't that run counter to almost all rock stress data in geology? If you're an engineer you may have taken structural geology at some point; remember Mohr's circle? I make this point because if the fractures travel upwards through formations, it creates a path for the chemicals *and* oil and gas to travel outside the formation. I'm not familiar with concrete research (man, this would be expensive) that tests continuity between producing and non-producing water-saturated layers in the area of a well. Simulations are out there, sure... I play a simulation where I'm an elf druid that kills orcs, and just because you have a lot of unknowns about my life, you can't say it provides an approximation of my life.

I think a lot of the concerns expressed here follow a similar vein: we are seeing problems with the water supply in areas where hydraulic well fracturing is predominant. Although that does not create causation, it leaves a lot of room for doubt. Evidence either way will build up over time, but people are concerned *now* if something will hurt them or their family in 10 years.

A little science from a former Petroleum Engineer:

Fracking occur in 2 stages. In the First Stage, a series of pumping trucks are lined up and push a goopy gel into the ground, who's whole purpose is to carry grains of sand deep into the fractures created by the overpressure. The exact composition of this snot-like mixture is considered a trade secret, because of its ability to perform in stage two.

In the Second Stage, a "breaker fluid" is pumped into the well, which is supposed to instantly liquify the goop and allow it to flow out, leaving the sand grains to prop open the cracks. Opinions vary on how well this process works; I worked on the oil company side, so I can tell you, it doesn't always work. Sometimes your well is gummed up with snot, especially if they don't pump the breaker long enough.

Both the propellant and the breaker are trade secret compositions, but both probably have some interesting chemical comps.

The irony here is that an old friend of mine said that after a frack job ruined a very lucrative well, he started insisting that water and sand be the only fluids used in his frack jobs. He said the pumping companies pitched a fit, but he got some of the best, most improved fractures of his career using sand and water.

If this was being flown by the military it better not have had any weapons on it. Otherwise they just flew a drone over the Rubicon.

Maybe the Chinese can go get us some? (It saddens me that I can say this and it's not a troll.)