Most are today as well. My yacht, Shady Lady, cost $30,000, and has a range determined by stocks of food and water, not fuel. When I replace its crappy diesel motor--only used for maneuvering in port-- with an electric one with two banks of Li batteries (one house, one motor), add some more solar and regenerative hydro power to generate when we are under sail, we'll be completely free of fossil fuels.
In every other situation, incredibly bad manners on your part, and, the assumption your time is worth so much more than theirs will eventually destroy friendships and poison family relationships.
No. People who telephone constantly are the ones who have incredibly bad manners. A phone call is saying, "Drop whatever you are doing and pay attention to me immediately, and I don't care that you may not find it convenient, or that you might have something more important to do with your time."
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Inmarsat do. If you're prepared to pay $7 / MB.
So bad it went off the scale and ended up on the good side.
Don't get taken in by the buffoon act; this guy is nobody's fool. Read some of his columns--he has an intellect far exceeding Trump's, although that is faint praise indeed....
I'm not sure what the point of banning e-cigs is if they don't ban regular cigarettes. People will just go back to smoking regular cigs which are worse for you than e-cigs!
Exactly. This is an absurdly stupid decision that will cost lives.
First, using satellites for internet isn't that great an idea as it may look.
How else am I going to get broadband on my yacht?
A phenomenon called free surface effect. When carrying an actual liquid cargo as in a tanker the tanks are 'pressed up,' i.e. the cargo is filled to the very top of the tank, which prevents it from moving from side to side with the motion of the ship. Solid cargoes are not loaded in this way, so if they liquefy they move from side to side with the rolling of the ship. This can result in catastrophic instability, and the ship can capsize. Remember the Spirit of Free Enterprise that capsized in Zeebrugge harbour when the OOD forgot to close the stern doors and the car deck flooded? Wikipedia has a short article on the free surface effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_surface_effect) that explains it better.
Those two anecdotes are stories of people hoping to magically get rich quick. The outcome is unsurprising.
Exactly. There is a difference between 'investing' and 'gambling.' Those who don't know the difference get burned. Shame.
As for your computer... It's not really yours, you know.
Flightgear runs fine on Linux, and is as accurate as far as I can tell on the Cessna 172.
So soes X-plane.
I think the story is quite likely an early April Fool's joke. (The problem with that theory is why pick Microsoft? A cunning selection of the highly improbable target of the joke to make it seem credible?)
No, the problem with that theory is that it isn't April Fools' Day.
The people who get promoted to bosshood are the ones who spend their days wandering around the office like wet dreams gossiping and yapping like those irritating little white dogs that can't shut the fuck up for more than 30 consecutive seconds. They are not the ones who do the work. Then they promote others who are like them, so on and on it goes.
Nicotine is addictive? Stop the presses! Hold the front page! FFS, is stating the bleeding obvious the new fashion?
Here's the thing: vaping is almost certainly healthier than smoking. Many people--myself included--have successfully stopped smoking by switching to vaping. I can't think of any reason why someone who vapes should switch to smoking. It simply doesn't make sense.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
