Comment Re:Er...all this does is "shutdown -r now" (Score 1) 288
That reboots the machine! use -h at least. geez
The site Sociological Images has data about the rate that cops kill and are killed in the USA. This article is a comparison between the use of guns in the USA vs the UK, but it does highlight the USA rates per civilian population per police population pretty well.
It isn't about making money, it is about a case load that they could not possibly handle if they had to take every one to court.
If there are more broken laws than there is money or capacity to adjudicate the cases of the alleged perpetrators... then maybe there are too many laws?
Why should justice hinge on the financial means of the alleged perpetrators or on court capacity? That scenario sounds ripe for the proliferation of injustice.
Break up solid rocks deep in the ground, suck out the oil, and then fill the hole with a water slurry. What could go wrong?
Harpoon did not fire
I understand that a Greenpeace boat got in the way...
It was probably a German made harpoon too, not Japanese or Norwegian
What the reporter states doesn't make sense.
... Saying it failed because they were going slower than the normal deployment speed just doesn't make sense.
I was first thinking along the same line also but the air density at 15km is much higher than at 100km. Even so I was under the impression that the feather is deployed at a slower speed near the apex of the flight.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
