But this is like telling you: "Since a lot of parents fail to account for the true cost of raising their future children, you have ten years to come up with every penny you'll spend for the first 18 years of their lives, their college tuition and their retirement. Anyway, congratulations on graduating high school!"
Every business should be required to actually fund their pension plans instead of whining to the government for bailouts later. See countless examples of companies going bankrupt over union demands and the unions whining about their pensions they're "owed"
By forcing the USPS to actually be accountable for it's promises to the unions, they can deal with the problem now rather than later.
I have absolutely zero problem with forcing institutions to pre-fund their pension plans.
But Congress gave the USPS entirely unreasonable demands in an entirely unreasonable timeframe. Even 40 or 50 years in 10 would be far too much.
But all of this is beside the point and not the real issue here, as the whole purpose of the stipulation is to trigger the financial collapse of the USPS.
Because unlike every other business on the planet Dubya passed a law that says the USPS has to have the ENTIRE retirement plan, to the very last penny for every single employee, funded for something like 40 years?
It's worse than that. The law gives the USPS 10 years to come up with 100% of the money needed to fund all of its pension requirements for the next 75 years.
It's designed to destroy the USPS so Republican lawmakers can bemoan how government has once again failed to deliver. Except that they're the ones who have failed us.
Have you ever tried getting young people interested in older media? "This is what I watched when I was your age" is not a selling point.
I assume this is what's behind going back and re-grading older films into teal and orange.
"Look, kids! It's just like that terrible blockbuster you saw in theaters three times!"
As a kid in Canada, I thought "Paki" was an accepted term for Indian people. That didn't go over well when I moved to a more ethnic city.
I didn't realize it was a euro slang and not just a generic slang term.
In New England, it's shorthand for "package store" aka "liquor store". The spelling is different, though.
i.e: "I'm gonna head down to the packie before the cookout."
Since moving away, I've had to mentally restrain myself from ever letting it slip. Not that I was ever really a fan of the term "package store".
I'd prefer a battery fire than exploding engines a la A380.
Only the Rolls-Royce engines do that. The Engine Alliance (GE/Pratt-Whitney consortium) engines work just fine. Nice to know we still make something that works.
I know people who worked on the A380 program and they're more than happy to fly on one and have their families fly on one. It's a fundamentally sound aircraft.
...in 1971 the recently renamed Kelly Services ran a series of ads in The Office, a human resources journal, promoting the “Never-Never Girl,” who, the company claimed: “Never takes a vacation or holiday. Never asks for a raise. Never costs you a dime for slack time. (When the workload drops, you drop her.) Never has a cold, slipped disc or loose tooth. (Not on your time anyway!) Never costs you for unemployment taxes and Social Security payments. (None of the paperwork, either!) Never costs you for fringe benefits. (They add up to 30% of every payroll dollar.) Never fails to please. (If your Kelly Girl employee doesn’t work out, you don’t pay.)”
You're not a person. You're not an employee. You're not even worthy of respect.
I think warning systems are one of the best new technologies for dealing with earthquakes.
The technology is pretty straightforward. You network seismic sensors together and create a system that can detect oncoming (and usually unnoticed) P-waves which have a higher velocity than the destructive S-waves that follow anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds later.
The distributed nature of the system ensures that any result is the product of multiple sensors producing the same data.
30 to 90 seconds is a lot of time. You could deploy receivers set accept the existing SAME codes and automatically send building systems into "Earthquake Mode" via simple relays. Virtually everything that would need to happen is already part of the programming of each affected system. In a lot of cases, you wouldn't even need to modify them in any significant way as they already accept inputs from external relays.
Once the alert goes out:
- Emergency messages are sent to all cell phone users - This system exists and is used for other emergencies.
- Fire station doors roll-up. - Add a simple sounding device and momentary contact to the existing door-opening circuit and you're done.
- Earthquake alarms sound in homes and small businesses - Weather radios that accept SAME codes are already programmed to do this.
- Earthquake alarms sound in major buildings - Fire alarm systems with voice evac are already customized and can accept new initiating devices and announcements with a software update.
- Emergency generators and fire pumps spin-up. Smoke handling systems activate. Stairwells are pressurized. - See above.
- Elevators go into "Fire Mode". All cars go to their recall floor, hold the doors open and refuse input. - This programming exists in every elevator installed in the past few decades. Activating a building fire alarm system will trip this anyway.
- Gas main valves are closed. - This is cheap and simple tech.
- Halt surgery - Voice evac / weather radios that accept SAME codes.
- Shut down industrial processes - Some combination of the above.
Wait until someone puts some funny looking USB plug to slurp everything off of the USB charge port.. There was a story on
Yeah, this might (probably wil) turn into a huge problem. They should offer traditional plugs to prevent a PR diaster.
Audio-out cables are the only untrusted ones you should mess with (at least on iOS devices). Anything else that uses the dock connector is extremely risky.
Or they'd simply rather not spend time and money to solve someone else's problem?
Verizon's bandwidth is indeed Verizon's problem.
It's not like rack space is free, or electricity is free...
The backspace and electricity demands of an OpenConnect box are likely negligible in comparison to the overall strain placed on the network by Verizon customers using Netflix en masse.
...or ensuring that someone else's hardware isn't going to harm your network is free. If I were an ISP, Netflix would "get" to install hardware in my network over my dead body - simply because I DO NOT TRUST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE I HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
Good. You sound like a capable admin. Now, what's to say you cannot verify the box?
What about the people who AREN'T Netflix customers and DON'T want to pay for someone else's service? Why should my ISP fees be used to help someone else stream movies I can't access?!
By having an ISP you are splitting the cost of using the network among X number of people. Since the cost of an OpenConnect box is rackspace + electricity + verification / customer base, the cost to you alone is exceedingly low.
There's absolutely no reason I should be footing the bill for a service I have no intention of using.
This mentality is destroying the country.
If retrieving your posts is that important to you, get a court order, so Facebook must give you access to download them.
If the government's archiving all digital communications, who needs a court order? Just file a FOIA for your old stuff.
I wouldn't trust the government to provide the accurate number of "likes" the post received.
I've had this happen multiple times on very non-provocative posts. They usually come back after a while.
Where's My Perry? is the only licensed game I've been bothered to care about in as long as I can remember.
just like a geodesic dome, thats kind of interesting
Oh, cool, we can kill AIDS with zoning ordinances.
HIV is no match for an HOA!
White Privilege and Heterosexual Privilege
They sound immensely racist and misanthropic to me. Oh, you mean there are other countries besides the US filled with impoverished white people who have nothing to do with your politics?
Take a history class and get back to us.
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
