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What the hell
This is an impressive feat to run the datacenters entirely off renewable energy.
What the hell
This is an impressive feat to run the datacenters entirely off renewable energy.
Shouldn't that be Collage for those that can pass the entrance exams and technological school for any who wants it? Lots of people like my brother where a collage education would have helped him less then the 2 years he spent learning how to be a glazier did. Plumbers, electricians, welders etc are usually in demand, especially for fixing the infrastructure, the trades pay decently and for some are a better career path then collage.
I completely agree with you. I'd mod you up if I had points. Not everyone needs to go to College to go into the various trades that pay very well.
Start imposing steep fines for false 911 calls after the first 10 per month ought to stop it.
Questionable whether the human was REALLY at the ready. They may have had surveillance fatigue, for example, because the autonomous vehicle is usually safe, and the speed with which a pedestrian made an illegal entry into the roadway did not allow enough reaction time for the human.
Was her entry onto the roadway actually "illegal"? Even if it was, how does it matter as generally pedestrians are common obstacles whom in most areas share the road?
As to the condition of the backup human driver, I agree. It is not reasonable to expect someone to be on instant full alert when placed in an otherwise boring and disengaged situation.
for trying to help people restore computers that they legally acquired and are entitled to use.
Seriously, no one has claimed he was fined and threatened with jail time for "trying to help people restore computers" - he tried to sell 28,000 restore CDs.
Microsoft has a program for selling licensed copies of Windows on refurbished computers.
Have you tried to restore a licensed version of Windows on an older PC? You can't just use a retail copy of Windows and enter the license key on the sticker. That won't work. You need the original OEM software from the vendor, which is nearly impossible to obtain. Perhaps your Vista PC's hard drive failed. You already have a valid license. How do you obtain the install media?
Of the possible failures that could have occurred, this seems like the best one. This was the newest part on the whole 'kit' so it wouldn't surprise me if it was an issue in calculations or some minor mechanical issue that resulted in this. In the end this was still an 80% success and were this a commercial launch, the buyer wouldn't have been overly disappointed since the payload made it into orbit. I have no doubt the next launch will be a complete success with all 3 rockets landing without problem
Don't skimp on the metrics! The mission was 100% success given it launched successfully and put the payload into high orbit. All buyers would be perfectly satisfied with the result. The landings of 2/3 boosters is extra, and the reignition of the second stage to achieve Mars trajectory was extra - although the angle was slightly off. I'd grant these an additional 50% bonus so 150% successful mission far beyond anyone's expectations. Even Musk said he'd be happy if it blew up far enough from the launch pad to not cause damage.
This isn't about "protecting consumers". It's about killing off the secondary phone market. After you upgrade, you're stuck with a brick you can't sell. All those people who buy used phones will be forced to purchase new - or rooted ones.
They are going back to the bad old days of locked phones requiring permission to use another carrier in violation of their agreement with the FCC. Of course the FCC chairman is a Verizon stooge, so nothing will come of it.
Verizon is taking an extra step to protect its phones.
These are not Verizon's phones.
And your examples make it abundantly clear that in law you should turn lists into actual lists not run-on sentences.
"The acitivites
a) canning
b) processing
c) preserving
d) freezing
e) drying
f) marketing
g) storing
h) packaging for shipment
i) distribution
of the product groups
a) agricultural produce
b) meat and fish products
c) perishable foods
are exempt."
What if the law intended to also include packaging for distribution as distinct activity separate from packaging for shipping? I'm thinking along the lines of packing a product and selling it at the place of manufacture without any shipping activity.
It is entirely possible that "packaging for shipment or distribution" is exactly what the law intended to exclude from overtime pay, and not the truck drivers at all.
It took less than five minutes to type this.
Nine specific activities are exempted from mandatory overtime pay for each of the following three items:
1) meat
2) fish products
and
3) perishable foods
The nine (9) activities are:
1) canning
2) processing
3) preserving
4) freezing
5) drying
6) marketing
7) storing
8) packing for shipment or distribution
Fixed it for you, as it is written in the law. Packing doesn't require it to be shipped. These items may be packed for distribution other than shipping.
The closest thing to "RUSSIANS hacked US power grid" that the WAPO appears to have ever tweeted is this: https://twitter.com/washington...
Breaking: Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont
Which is true. Where is this inaccurate tweet you speak of?
I'm not interested in supporting WAPO here, I'm just suspicious when people frequently claim that tweets and articles exist but don't bother linking to them.
This is a FALSE statement that should be deleted by WaPo. Come on, do some research at least. Snopes says Mostly False and an article here http://fortune.com/2017/01/06/vermont-utility-burlington-electric-manager/ which says the electric grid was not penetrated and WaPo posted the story without even contacting the utility first.
False news is not limited to the right.
There's one more burn, I believe, in several hours.
This was an amazing accomplishment and it makes me excited for the next few years!
I found this link from the ISS showing the launch. Fast forward to 47 minutes. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/112609768
I was waiting to see a stream of the third burn and I didn't see anything posted All I found is a tweet from Musk that it was successful. I haven't yet found any video of the event or any actual news reporting it.
If I were to have any complaint about the event is that a camera feed was not made available continually from pre-launch to final burn when the craft left Earth orbit several hours later.
That's actually a really good point... and one that I was going to mention myself. Does anybody know what the upper cap is on frequencies that can be produced by modern audio equipment?
This depends on many factors. Home equipment can certainly produce a frequency above 20kHz. For example the Marantz PM5005 is specified to achieve a frequency response up to 50kHz. Most high quality tweeters are capable of going well above 20kHz. Of course, not everyone has good equipment or speakers and there will be rolloff. In addition all of the signal processing and compression of the transmission likely has digital filters knocking out much of the out-of-band data. Practically I'd expect somewhere around 22-24kHz as a realistic maximum.
I'm betting that if they can even produce inaudible frequencies at all, it's not liable to be much higher than the maximum human hearing frequency, and that would still be well within the hearing range of many household pets, so I think we'd need to investigate that carefully before filling people's homes with it.
The signal doesn't have to be loud.
Nope. Obama failing to hold out for single payer and settling for Romneycare is what cost you. Countries with actual single payer systems spend half or less per capita with better outcomes for all.
I find this argument hilarious given Democrats had both Congress and the Presidency and when it was passed nobody said anything about keeping costs down. The entire selling point was to make more people buy insurance and add layers of complexity. Costs were going to go up, no matter what.
We all know that prices are essentially secret. Do you know that "billing" now accounts for 25% of all hospital spending? Hospital administration costs are 1.43% of the GDP. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literature/2014/sep/hospital-administrative-costs
There is a tremendous amount of meat that can be trimmed from the bone and if anyone can do it, I'm hopeful this union of aggressive corporations will do a far better job than our government.
However my main point is the news shoving people with big scary numbers, to really prove a point, but while there is still a problem, the real numbers are not as obvious as the article is lead to believe, as this is over 10 years. Not one big shipment.
You are right. Without any comparison with other areas' usage it is impossible to draw any legitimate conclusion. If this rural area has the same drug usage as NYC that would mean one thing, however if all rural areas have statistically similar usage that means quite another.
The whole insurance principle is based on not knowing. It's gambling. You gamble that you will have an accident, and the insurance company gambles that you won't.
A bookmaker will never charge you more for a bet than the next man just because you have a higher chance of winning. He adjusts the odds for everyone, not individually.
Insurance companies need to do the unintuitive thing of treating people more equally, or customers will flee, and the low-premium low-risk customers that stay won't pay enough to finance the business overhead.
The flaw in your argument is that in your example the bookmaker and you generally bet on a third party.
To provide a more accurate car analogy, you and a bookmaker may place a bet that *you* specifically will crash *your* car tomorrow. The next person to walk in makes the next bet with the bookmaker whether *they* will crash *their* car tomorrow. Since you are known for having a hotmail account, plus you have a history of speeding violations, your odds are not the same as the next person. The bookmaker knows and tracks 600 different things about you that are statistically relevant to determining your odds. These can and will include actuarial tables on every detail they can collect about you, unless deemed illegal to use in your locale.
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
