Musk's idea is much simpler - he just wants to offload his excessive battery cell inventory from the low Tesla sales to the stupid fans, not save the world.
Stupid fans? I thought those were a Dyson invention, not Tesla?
How much jail time did Photobucket executives get for allowing such lax security in their app in the first place? Must be at least twice the 5 years that these two are getting. Maybe more. Right?
Devil's advocate:
One reason they demand proof of commercial insurance is an obvious one. What happens if they decide to help move, and some glitch on their part strapping down a motorcycle causes it to fall over, then smack the sides of the truck, destroying the other stuff inside?
With most trucking places, you file a claim, call it done. Without insurance, you have to go to court, and may not even get a chance at scoring damages.
There are also commercial licenses in Texas for truck driving. Using a service that doesn't use CDLs may be cheaper... but it is against the law.
The last time I moved, the insurance included with my move was 60 cents per pound - for any coverage beyond that, I had to purchase supplemental coverage. So if they drop your 50 pound $1000 TV, they'll pay you $30.
As a member of the younger generation, I feel that the younger generation is whinier and lazier. I feel like half the man that both of my grandfathers were, one who fought in a war I see in movies, was an amazing cook, a skilled gardener, and worked two job back breaking jobs to raise his kids while the other paid his way through university while still finding time to play university football and did his stint in the military. When they wanted to work, they'd knock down doors to get employed while kids these days drop off a resume and consider that job hunting. I could go on and on about how the current day generation pales in comparison to the generations before us but I'm sure it will fall on deaf ears.
I'll agree with you there -- my great grandfather started working in a coal mine when he was 17, fought in a war, smoked every day of his life since he was 16 (with hand rolled cigarettes), maintained a 4 acre yard and large garden, raised (and slaughtered) his own chickens. He spent the last 20 years of his life living alone (his wife died "young" at 60). Up until the last year of his life he maintained he house and yard on his own, reroofed his garage on his own when he was 70 - didn't even tell family he was going to do it, no one knew about it until he was done, he shoveled the coal into his coal fired furnace every winter, he eventually stopped raising chickens after one time when the wolves or coyotes got into the coop and he got tired of patching it. He lived to be 82 years old. He never could get accustomed to those new-fangled remote controls for the TV (back when state of the art was an audio based remote) and walked up to the set to turn it on and off. He still managed to keep ice cream and cookies ready for the grand kids when they visited
Me? I'm too lazy to even cut the grass so I bought a condo with no yard, and the grocery delivers my groceries so I don't even go to the store, let alone slaughter my own meat.
How do these waves affect the moon given that they are subsurface waves and don't affect the surface?
Generally when talking about water, the definition of a wave specifies it is on the surface:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wave"a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell."
If you are using another definition of the word wave (such as that used by physics to refer to light, sound, etc.) when talking about water, you really should specify what you mean.
Given that their paper was published in Nature, they used the correct term for the phenomena.
Internal gravity waves, the subsurface analogue of the familiar surface gravity waves that break on beaches, are ubiquitous in the ocean. Because of their strong vertical and horizontal currents, and the turbulent mixing caused by their breaking....
Thank god this is something they seem to realize is NOT the case in TX, and fortunately TX has the space to spare. I, for one, can't f- STAND living all packed in close together like that. I perceive it as some kind of mental illness.
Just don't complain when gas goes up again and all of that space to spare means that you have a 60 mile round trip commute so you're spending $10+/day in gas to get to work.
I live in a dense area (not quite urban, not quite suburban). When I lived 20 miles from the office, I took the train, now I live 3 miles from the office and ride my bike -- I couldn't tell you how much it cost to fill up my car because it was over a month ago.
It could be fixed by simply changing the zoning such that only single-family houses were allowed
This is exactly the sort of crap that leads to urban sprawl, and all the wasted hours on commutes, pollution, oil consumption, etc. We have the same problems in the Bay Area, where SF rejected more than 95% of building permits last year, and 90 minute commutes are routine. If you don't want the sprawl, the only alternative is dense housing in the core city. We need to stand up to the NIMBYs, or even worse, the BANANAs.
A friend inherited a house in SF (Sunset district) that was in pretty poor shape - he looked at the cost and time to get a permit to tear it down and replace it with a 2 unit duplex that would have fit almost within the same footprint of the existing house. He quickly gave on up that due to the cost and no assurance of ever getting his plan approved -- anyone nearby could tie up the planning process nearly indefinitely and he can't really afford to sit on an unoccupied house for a year or more while waiting for planning approval.
Instead he opted to do a nearly down to studs remodel back into a single family house. Everyone in SF complains about the cost of housing, but no one seems to want higher density.
I don't get it, what is the big tech challenge to overcome here? Seems like the biggest issues are legal (exemptions from the FAA already made though) or logistical.
I don't get it either, it sounds like both of the tech challenges mentioned in the article (1000 ft altitude and 90 second space) could be resolved through the use of an altimeter and a stopwatch. As interesting as this may be to airplane buffs, I don't see the relevance to Slashdot unless the planes are piloted by robots... or at least have frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
I will never buy a DRM coffee machine...
Unless you're a prostitute, don't fuck your customer.
Or Apple -- you lock in your customers all you want if you're Apple.
If it ever happened on a plane, then it means that the maintenance was intentionally skipped. If they reach 248 days of continuous operation then a number of significant maintenance cycles have been skipped (some 23-25 inspection / maintenance cycles that generally require shutting down the electrical system). The generators in question are attached to the engines. The engines have a overhaul schedule that is shorter than 248 days of continuous operation. If they managed to reach this point, then the major maintenance cycles have been skipped and the engines are long overdue for a tear down inspection and overhaul. Any plane which could reach this point, 248 days of continuous operation missing all of the required maintenance; this is not a plane (or an airline for that matter) which anyone should be flying on.
You would think that if this situation was unlikely to ever happen in practice that the FAA wouldn't have deemed it necessary to issue an AD requiring that the GCUs be power cycled at intervals no longer than 120 days. You'd think they'd already be aware of required maintenance intervals that require powercycling the GCUs, and they waived the usual comment period before issuing the AD due to the perceived imminent danger.
A commercial plane will most probably undergo through several maintenance events and checks during that sort of time frame, where cycling the power is part of the procedure.
It's very reassuring to know that it probably won't happen.
The government does give them our money. Kerosene is taxfree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
As of 2007, jet fuel (called "kerosene for aviation" by the IRS) is taxed at 21.9c/gal unless it is used for commercial aviation (airlines such as American Airlines and United Airlines and small chartered commercial jets). Because such commercial operations are subject to the federal transportation tax, they are subject to a reduced fuel tax of 4.4c/gal.
I've never understood why they won't transfer me to an otherwise empty seat on an earlier flight when I happen to be early for a connection. It would seem to be in their best interest to fill up the planes and push the "empty seat" to a later flight when they have a chance of selling it, but they never do offer me a free change, they always want to charge me an extra $50, so I just get a soda and wait it out.
They used to do that, I used have no problem fly standby on an earlier flight when I got there early. But then I guess they found out that it's convenient for passengers so it's something that they need to charge for because no one should get anything for free when flying.
How does this work with checked luggage? Presumably your stuff won't be pulled from baggage if you aren't expected to get off in Chicago, but instead in LA.
Obviously, if you only have carry on luggage, that works fine.
I think that's implied -- if you check your bags to the destination on the ticket when you don't intend to travel to that city, then you deserve to lose your bags.
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