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Unified reporting and drilling down to team-level priorities was one of the benefits Skype’s leadership also saw with the move to Scrum.
So that means drilling for oil in the deepest water, including the icy Arctic seas, where a clean-up may simply be impossible.
My point is that this is not oil drilling.
And the catheters they shoved into me without proper medication made me scream out the way the Earth cries out from the drilling.
It was the greed and recklessness that led to the drilling explosion.
No drilling technology in the industry is capable of getting through rock that hard and that deep fast enough to save their lives.
If we made all of our autos this way, it would save oil equivalent to finding one and a half Saudi Arabias, or half an OPEC, by drilling in the Detroit formation, a very prospective play.
I should also note that the [discretionary] spending, which is about 19 percent of the budget, that is Democratic and Republican issues, so you do have welfare, food stamps, other programs that tend to be popular among Democrats, but you also have the farm bill and all sorts of Department of Interior inducements for oil drilling and other things, which tend to be popular among Republicans.
I was trying to explain to a friend of mine what exactly I was spending my time doing, and I said, "It's like when you're drilling through a wall to hang something in your apartment.
So this is the moment when I started thinking, okay, cranial drilling, laparoscopic surgery, why not other areas of medicine?
And if we take just three of them — laparoscopic surgery, epidurals, and cranial drilling — these procedures account for over 30,000 complications every year in this country alone.
Let's go back to drilling through a wall.
And because this device is designed to address the physics of puncture and not the specifics of cranial drilling or laparoscopic surgery, or another procedure, it's applicable across these different medical disciplines and across different length scales.
And if pain continued, a medical practitioner would perform the best-known remedy— drilling a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood.
No, we spend the next couple of decades exploring, mapping out the territory, sifting through the sand with a fine instrument, peeking under every stone, drilling under the surface.
Success would look like every state stops all new fossil fuel expansion, because if they keep drilling and fracking and mining, the problem will just get worse, so that no matter what we do with windmills and solar collectors and so forth, we'll never be able to catch up.
I don't actually know if we're going to be drilling hundreds or thousands of microscopic holes in our heads in 30 years.
Then, I started drilling down, thinking about the computations I might want to do, trying to figure out what primitives they could be built up from and how they could be automated as much as possible.
We've been through this before with other ways of offshore drilling.
Because you've got to include the man who grew the coffee, which was brewed for the man who was on the oil rig, who was drilling for oil, which was going to be made into the plastic, etc.
And here, scientists are drilling into the past of our planet to find clues to the future of climate change.
And so what we did was, actually, we made moratoriums on the east and west coasts on drilling.
We stopped drilling in ANWR, but we didn't actually reduce the amount of oil that we consumed.
It's a scientific drilling vessel.
So that trip just ended, and I can't show you too many results from that right now, but we'll go back one more year, to another drilling expedition I've been involved in.
This is a crazy thing, this big drill rig wrapped in a blanket to keep everybody warm, drilling at temperatures of minus 40.
And what we found after drilling back in time two to 400 years was that these were unique events.
Drilling that eighth well was a risk.
On one hand, the Reynolds oil company has basically offered him employment and financial compensation (basically a bribe) to use his public influence to encourage the town to allow the company to begin drilling in their town (compromising his standing with the community and the community itself).
On the other hand, he is faced with being dead broke, but on the side of his community, protesting the drilling.
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