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Comment Re:Why not buy another one? (Score 1) 101

Assemble a new one and cut through the old one then. It seems strange that a 7000 ton machine that cost $45 mil gets taken out of action by a pipe. It would seem to me that they'd make it a bit more repairable than this. Oh well, more money, more delays.

Comment Why not buy another one? (Score 1) 101

Most of these TBMs are left in place in an isolation tunnel to rust away once they've finished a job. Why not just get another TBM and scrap this one? It seems like they're going through a lot of work when the TBM is probably only worth 20 to 40 million to fix it.

Comment This should be a good one (Score 1) 181

On one side, we have UNESCO which is charted by a shadow government with designating and protecting what are considered world cultural sites. On the other we have the dark empire of Disney, another shadow that influences government in terms of Copyright and other legislation that it deems necessary to keep the Mouse protected. Any takers on which side will win this battle? I'm betting on the Mouse.

Comment Re:Bad summary of two separate issues (Score 1) 200

uhm, you forget all of these agencies report to the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Harry Truman had a sign on his desk saying "The Buck Stops Here." All of the corruption and mismanagement in the government, including disregarding the laws and the constitution all stop at that address. It's time for the population of this country to become engaged and actually elect leaders who will fix this mess by disbanding those agencies and restoring the rule of law in this country. Or what the fuck we'll just elect somebody from Party A or B and just do that living with the consequences; like we've done for over 200 years.

Comment Huh (Score 0) 166

First, drugs are increasingly being tested on homeless, destitute and mentally ill people.

Name another group of the population willing to be guinea pigs for experimental medication? Prison inmates also comes to mind but not much else.

Second, it turns out many human trials are being run by doctors who have had their licenses revoked for drug addiction, malpractice and worse.

It's the American Dream to have made mistakes but to venture out into new avenues. Is one condemned for life not to at least use some of the talents acquired through years of school and experience just because they fell down! If not we're condemning people to a life of servitude at Walmart or 7-11 when they could be serving a useful purpose like pushing through drug test results.

Comment Regardless of client or application (Score 1) 348

A zoned security architecture is always best and implementing intra-zonal firewalls is likewise a best practice however there's always pragmatic considerations because of cost or risk of the information being protected. If any of the servers are Internet facing or face an internal desktop network, that should be firewalled off at a minimum.

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