Comments on: Don’t Worry, BP Can Handle It…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:31:12 +0000

They arrived at that moment tonight, as BP is taking 5,000 barrels/day out of the leak, and the video shows no effect.

The shark wasn’t even aware they were in area.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:50:07 +0000

Obama is setting himself up for a "Heckuva job, Brownie" moment the way he's going. I wonder if it's the nature of the Washington bubble to divorce these people from reality this way? .-= last blog ..All your power are belong to us =-.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:40:58 +0000

It’s time to call in the lawyers, because trial evidence is always the reason behind this kind of thing. BP doesn’t want anyone to know how bad this spill is and the Obama administration assumes they will handle the problem, and have the right to do that as the “responsible party”.

You don’t ask an arsonist to put out the fire.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:37:37 +0000

U.S. Government(tm). A subsidiary of British Petroleum.

Siiiiiiiiiigh!

– Badtux the Outrage-meter-broken Penguin
(Hey, I survived the Bush years, okay? Pretty much busted it then.)
.-= last blog ..All your power are belong to us =-.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:15:20 +0000

"... always a joy in languages where the default is global." If BP develops in VB, they shouldn't have that problem. After all, we know from news reports that they already have their own Private Sub ...

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:05:50 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates.

Ah, yes, the joy of team programming when no one is actively tracking the names and status of variables, always a joy in languages where the default is global.

Yes, Harris is on the same plateau as Gary Larson – people who work is worth seeking out.

As we learn more and refine our research, we will discover more of the constants that define this universe.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:01:36 +0000

All bad news aside for a moment, S. Harris is a genius. I just revisited his cartoon of Moses coming down the mountain carrying a stone tablet, on which are inscribed the ten Constants: the speed of light, the gravitational constant, the charge on the electron, etc. That one has always cracked me up, but Leonard Susskind's recent book The Cosmic Landscape suggests that by now there are more than 100 constants in the cosmology literature, constants that are not further reducible and with values which, if changed, would make the universe simply not work. Sounds like some s/w projects I've worked on, and not the ones I'd single out for praise... .-= last blog ..Too Many Ironies In The Foyer =-.