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One advantage that the Pebble has over rumored watches from big names like Google and Apple is existing.
Apple has rarely entered a market first. iPod, iPhone, iPad, Air, etc. Hasn't stopped them from being successful, and in some cases reshaping or redefining the market.
Do you want to be the first to jump into the water, or see what happens to the other person when they jump in the water?
This is incompatible with an infrastructure that is so hostile towards public transportation (outside of some lucky big cities). I live in some backwater suburb in FL and I can't get to a pub to have a couple of drink with a buddy without incurring an extra 20$ in cab fare?
So you knew that "going out drinking" was something you like to do, and you chose to live in an area that is incompatible with that? The problem isn't that you live in the wrong area. The problem is that you ignored that you were living in the wrong area and felt entitled to engage in dangerous and/or illegal behavior as "compensation" for a decision you made.
Step one: find some drinking buddies.
Step two: rotate designated driver duty.
Or, alternatively: get off your ass and WALK. Watch out for the drunk drivers.
Look this is not ideal for folks who want to go out and have a large drink with dinner.
Look, being maimed or killed by a drunk driver is not ideal for the tens of thousands of people it happens to.
Your right to consume an "ideal" quantity of alcohol in a restaurant and then drive home....does not supersede my right to travel without being injured, maimed, or killed.
Have someone else drive. Get a taxi. Have the alcohol at home. Drink less alcohol at dinner. Stay at the restaurant longer. Go for a walk after dinner.
Correlation is not causation, son. Also, the US stands in stark contrast. Increase in gun restrictions, and rape has been the fastest declining category of violent crime. Violent crime overall has fallen something like 80% in the last 20-30 years.
'There is no quick fix. Patching one hole in a boat that leaks everywhere is not going to keep it from sinking.'"
Hello, nirvana fallacy.
For those who aren't familiar, the basic explanation of the nirvana fallacy is rejecting a solution because it isn't perfect/ideal. In this case: rejecting a ban on the pesticide because there are other additional causes of colony collapse disorder that wouldn't be affected by such a ban.
Idiotic, and amazing that a scientist could utter it.
Thirty years ago, my high school chemistry teacher taught our (A.P.) class how to make some explosives. What better way to effectively demonstrate exothermic reactions?
And my teacher demonstrated lithium+water reactions, nitrogen triiodine crystals, hydrogen vs. hydrogen+oxygen mixture ignition, etc. With an abundance of safety talk and equipment so that we understood how dangerous some of the demos were.
If I'd dropped a chunk of lithium in a bucket of water on school property, I would fully have expected to be hauled before the principal. She had no business conducting unsupervised chemistry on school property - I refuse to use the term "experiment", because I think that's absolute bullshit. She was constructing a draino bomb as a prank, pure and simple, and was caught.
I bought my SolarWorld 230W panels in 2010 for $2.30 a watt. Today I can buy 270W versions for $1 a watt. I can get Chinese A-brands, like Trina, for about $0.75.
US$? Because I'm seeing $2/W prices on Trina modules.
The asinine thing is that Safeway *already* does not use the frequency marketing card data to datamine it and say to themselves "Hmmmm... this card never buys anything containing peanuts, and hasn't for 10 years; let's flag them so that if they accidentally get something that has peanuts in it, they get an 'are you sure?' at the checkout".
They don't do it because if people came to rely on the system and an item wasn't marked as having peanuts, or their datamining algorithm didn't detect that you never buy peanut products, or the system broke in some way, or the cashier didn't notice the warning...and someone died, they'd be liable.
Seriously, if you're allergic to peanuts, you can damn well check labels and/or ask.
Just a reminder that OSHA and EPA fines, when they happen even under the most egregious circumstances, typically result in fines that barely break four digits.
Look st the post-explosion photos and you'll see that the anhydrous ammonia tanks are all intact. They're hard to miss - they're virtually the only thing left standing. BLEVE explosions obliterate the tanks they occur in and throw massive amounts of shrapnel.
Sorry, chief. It was an ammonium nitrate explosion. It was not a BLEVE (note the correct spelling.)
Usually I don't support "send a message" type of prosecutions (Aaron Swartz, as just one example) but these guys need to be smacked down, hard.
Interesting moral flexibility.
Fines are insufficient; anything short of significant jail time won't do a damn thing to the MAFIAA sociopathic execs who honestly believe they are above the law.
Aaron Swartz thought he was above the law as well. Repeatedly.
You'd think if you were buying some devices claiming to detect something-or-other, you would try out a specimen and see if it works. Did all of these countries he sold them to fail to do any testing on whether they worked?
The inventor is being accused of bribery as well, paying "millions" of pounds to Iraqi politicians/leaders.
Set up a simple demo which "shows" the detector finding something so that they have plausible deniability or actually believe the "test", and then hand them a fat wad of cash so they don't care one way or the other.
I'm sure the demos consisted of someone walking up to a defused-but-otherwise-real "bomb" and the thing going "beep" either because it was basic metal detector, or because someone was pushing a button or twiddling a knob. I'd be amazed if they felt the need to demonstrate it *not* finding something.
"Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound!" -- Daniel Hinojosa (hinojosa@hp-sdd)