Senator Kerry has asked his Los Angeles staff and MoveOn.org to help with the relief efforts.
Posted on 08/22/2004 1:59:29 PM PDT by sissyjane
No, where is TOTO????????
Uh ... isn't today 8-22? That warning is dated 8-21. I'm sitting in my home in Orange County and it's a beautiful balmy day. Nothing on local TV about any weather problems.
Rice does show up on an xray, only if it is raining or very humid, which will cause the rice to plump.
Is Hillary around to drop a house on?
Connecticut gets about 10 a year
Senator Kerry has asked his Los Angeles staff and MoveOn.org to help with the relief efforts.
At the Weather site it says there are no current warnings.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/Oxnard/afd.pl?LAXTORLOX
Los Angeles Tornado Warning
WFUS56 KLOX 211558 CCA
TORLOX
CAC037-211615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
839 AM PDT SAT AUG 21 2004
PLEASE DISREGARD THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING. NO TORNADO EXISTS.
$$
WOFFORD
I am saying he must have some email service that sent an automatic message...you can sign up for those...and it came to him 30 hours late.
I can rest assure tell you there is no tornado in Glendale, it is about 78 degrees with a light breeze right now.
There have been several Navy helicopters flying around since Friday however.
Al Gore blames The President.
P2P War Takes Bad Turn for Hollywood
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August 20, 2004
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see k=link for the rest of the story! P2P War Takes Bad Turn for Hollywood
By Roy Mark
Since peer-to-peer (P2P) exploded on the scene in the late 1990's, the entertainment industry has waged legal war against the distributive technology that sparked the greatest raid on copyrighted music in history.
Hollywood drove the first Napter out of business and flooded other P2P companies with expensive litigation. The industry threatened lawsuits against corporations that permitted employees to install the file-swapping software. Last year, the media moguls began suing individuals who download copyrighted material through P2P networks.
Thursday, though, the legal war took a calamitous turn for Hollywood.
Upholding a lower court decision issued in April of 2003, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled P2P technology is legal even if the software itself is used for illegal purposes.
"The technology has numerous other uses, significantly reducing the distribution costs of public domain and permissively shared art and speech, as well as reducing the centralized control of that distribution," Judge Sidney R. Thomas wrote in a unanimous opinion.
The three-judge panel acknowledged that copyright violations do occur on the decentralized P2P networks, but the companies owning and distributing the enabling software cannot be held liable for the infringements.
"We live in a quicksilver technological environment with courts ill-suited to fix the flow of Internet innovation," Thomas wrote. "The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well-established distribution mechanisms."
As legal precedent, the court cited the landmark Sony Betamax case video recorder case of 20 years ago, in which Hollywood studios tried to make Sony responsible for the copyright infringements of Betamax owners who videotaped programming off their televisions. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court said the use of new technology to infringe copyrights did not justify an outright ban on that technology.
A significant key to the decision was the court's distinction between Napster's original service and the P2P software now offered by Grokster and Morpheus, the principal defendants in the case.
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See the link for the rest of the story.,
Hey, wait a minute...I live in Hollywood!
I asked Admin Moderator to change title to false alarm, but hasn't happened yet.
http://www.edis.ca.gov/bulletins/index.html
this is a good link to save for stuff like this...if you hear sirens in Northern California, or didnt read the EAS scroll on your TV screen, you can check this link. Save it in your bookmarks.
Perhaps.
North CA (bay area) doesn't even get thunderstorms often.
According to NOAA, your impression is correct:
TornadoesSevere and damaging tornadoes are mainly a U. S. phenomena. The U. S. is the “Tornado Capital of the World” and has more tornadoes annually than any country on the globe. Two notable outbreaks include: “Super Tornado Outbreak of 1974” (315 deaths) and the “Tri State Tornado of 1925” (695 deaths).
However, they certainly do occur in Europe. Here is a web page I found with occurrences over the centuries. Here is their section (at the very bottom of that page) on what they claim to be the largest outbreak recorded:
Largest Tornado OutbreakThe largest tornado outbreak in Britain is also the largest tornado outbreak known anywhere in Europe. On November 21, 1981, 105 tornadoes were spawned by a cold front in the space of 5.25 hours. Excepting Derbyshire, every county in a triangular area from Gwynedd to Humberside to Essex was hit by at least one tornado, while Norfolk was hit by at least 13. Very fortunately most tornadoes were short-lived and also weak (the strongest was around T5 on the TORRO Tornado Scale) and no deaths occurred.
You know, I used to really torque off my mom by running the house with a funnel on my head. Pre foil days I guess. I also used to bring the neighbor kids in to inspect my pop's playboys.
...just not Common, One did hit, Britain, a couple years ago. :/
there were several tornados spotted north of Edmonton a couple weeks ago
People,
THIS HAPPENS EVERY SUNDAY.
It's called, "Goosing your radio show audience for ratings".
Send Kerry to save the hamsters!
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