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biccat wrote:

AustonT wrote:

biccat wrote:

Amaya wrote:I'm starting to think "Ah, America even your poor are fat" should be changed to even your pets are fat.

...not that there's anything wrong with that.

Please tell that's photoshop, because at first I was like, "FAKE!", and then I was like, "well..."

It's shopped. Those words were not in the original picture.

Foiled again

You have continued to obfuscate the truth you must be a lawyer. It just looks like her right hand is ghostly, and the cats paws too defined...the fat cat I'm not surprised by. When we went to the shelter they had like 4 overweight cats...they cant even clean themselves...what use is that kind of cat.

Al-Jazeera's front page, as far as style goes, makes me think of The Economist (if it was a Middle East Politics focused magazine).

As far as substance goes, I dunno how reliable its English page is, but it does at least seem to be more substance-oriented than the pointless drivel on fox, cnn, cbs, msnbc, etc.

mattyrm wrote:
I read an article about it in the Telegraph, it didn't sound like a big deal to me. They are allowing some to occur with increased safety measures, its common all over, who gives a gak?

Drinking water well owners. Farmers. People who like their buildings intact.

A 4.0 temblor might not sound like much, but it's hard to get much work done when the desk is dancing across the floor. And what is, per se, the safety precaution that prevents the shifting mass from causing an earthquake. The telegraph was vague on that point.

By the way, if you, or even your local government is, opposed to it, they can't, because it's illegal to zone against it. Also, expect your town meeting to be visited by former military psychological ops experts in an attempt to smooth things over and the corporations to be following the US Army counter insurgency manual. (And not just the nice parts about PR).

mattyrm wrote:
Everyone in London is dying of thirst and buildings full of poor people are collapsing everywhere?

Pretty likely, actually, considering that each well uses up to 100,000 gallons of the following:

Benzene (causes cancer, bone marrow failure), lead (damages the nervous system and causes brain disorders), ethylene glycol (antifreeze, causes death), methanol (highly toxic), boric acid (kidney damage, death), 2-butoxyethanol (causes hemolysis).

Drink up.

Oh, and if England's laws are anything like the US laws on it, relax, if you're dying of being poisoned by the chemicals they add to the groundwater, your physician will be forbidden by law from telling you what's killing you.

http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7323:fracking-pennsylvania-gags-physicians
http://greenglobaltravel.com/2012/03/27/eco-news-doctors-forbidden-from-sharing-info-with-patients-exposed-to-effects-of-fracking/
http://www.yourlawyer.com/blog/pennsylvania-doctors-forbidden-to-discuss-harmful-fracking-chemicals-with-patients/
http://mccumberdaniels.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/doctors-forbidden-from-sharing-information-learned-about-chemicals-used-in-fracking/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/for-pennsylvanias-doctors-a-gag-order-on-fracking-chemicals/255030/

For reference, this is what he's referring to.

AustonT wrote:

biccat wrote:

AustonT wrote:

biccat wrote:

Amaya wrote:I'm starting to think "Ah, America even your poor are fat" should be changed to even your pets are fat.

...not that there's anything wrong with that.

Please tell that's photoshop, because at first I was like, "FAKE!", and then I was like, "well..."

It's shopped. Those words were not in the original picture.

Foiled again

You have continued to obfuscate the truth you must be a lawyer. It just looks like her right hand is ghostly, and the cats paws too defined...the fat cat I'm not surprised by. When we went to the shelter they had like 4 overweight cats...they cant even clean themselves...what use is that kind of cat.

I do photoshop for a living and I loaded this up and zoomed in. I'm pretty split on it, the jpeg artifacting is consistent, but there are areas that look like they could of been clone stamped before recreating artifacts. The actual picture content doesn't look shopped and there's no inconsistent lighting or liquefy deformation in there. I kinda think it's real. That's also a specific species of wild cat, which it has in it's favor.

BaronIveagh wrote:
A 4.0 temblor might not sound like much, but it's hard to get much work done when the desk is dancing across the floor.

Of course, since the earthquakes in Blackpool were a 1.5, and a 2.3 respectively...

BaronIveagh wrote:
Pretty likely, actually, considering that each well uses up to 100,000 gallons of the following:

Benzene (causes cancer, bone marrow failure), lead (damages the nervous system and causes brain disorders), ethylene glycol (antifreeze, causes death), methanol (highly toxic), boric acid (kidney damage, death), 2-butoxyethanol (causes hemolysis).

Drink up.

So we're now talking about dying from chemical contamination. Interesting how that's not relevant to dying of thirst or building collapse.

AustonT wrote:It just looks like her right hand is ghostly

I believe that is her hand sinking into the combination fat and fluff of the kitteh.

AustonT wrote:and the cats paws too defined...

AustonT wrote:what use is that kind of cat.

My cat is nowhere near as overweight as these behemoths, but she's a hellion. I think a lazy cat might be a welcome change.

biccat wrote:

AustonT wrote:It just looks like her right hand is ghostly

I believe that is her hand sinking into the combination fat and fluff of the kitteh.

AustonT wrote:and the cats paws too defined...

AustonT wrote:what use is that kind of cat.

My cat is nowhere near as overweight as these behemoths, but she's a hellion. I think a lazy cat might be a welcome change.

Our cat is rather large, but he still has growing to do based on the length of his legs. Our last cat was very sedate and leisurely, this one sprints around the house for at least an hour every 4. In retrospect I'd rather have gotten a semi lazy mainecoon.

My wiener dogs have informed me that your cat plays with your stuff when you're not home and says bad things about you behind your back. They say there is hope however. If you get a large doberman or a pack of wiener dogs it will counteract the evil cat's influence. They say dogs love you unconditionally. Not like cats, who are evil.

Frazzled wrote:My wiener dogs have informed me that your cat plays with your stuff when you're not home and says bad things about you behind your back. They say there is hope however. If you get a large doberman or a pack of wiener dogs it will counteract the evil cat's influence. They say dogs love you unconditionally. Not like cats, who are evil.

My dog died last year :(. Linda and I are waiting on getting a new dog because I want a Dane and we want to be in a better place before bringing in a new animal.

Word.

Frazzled wrote:They say dogs love you unconditionally. Not like cats, who are evil.

I would also have to walk behind a dog and scoop up its crap by hand. It would also require me to train the dog not to crap in the house.

My cat, on the other hand, has crapped in her litterbox since she was a kitten.

biccat wrote:

Frazzled wrote:They say dogs love you unconditionally. Not like cats, who are evil.

I would also have to walk behind a dog and scoop up its crap by hand. It would also require me to train the dog not to crap in the house.

My cat, on the other hand, has crapped in her litterbox since she was a kitten.

I have been informed that you should check in your closet....

dogma wrote:
Of course, since the earthquakes in Blackpool were a 1.5, and a 2.3 respectively...

And the one that hit Youngstown, OH (not a location known for it's regular seismic activity) was a 4.0. There have been a few as high as five, but the four was the highest they could directly prove was caused by it.

dogma wrote:
So we're now talking about dying from chemical contamination. Interesting how that's not relevant to dying of thirst or building collapse.

Dogma, somehow, I doubt you'd pass a survival course, for some reason....

One, even a minor quake can cause significant structural damage. Maybe not an instant collapse, but enough the building has to be demoed.

Two: If all you have is bad water, yes, you will die of dehydration (or whatever is in the water). It you want an example of that, I recommend you cast your eyes on what happens when you are lost at sea.