To be fair that page is a blog post of the announcement of Greater Big Bend earning their endorsement and has a date published of April 2nd, 2022. The new site received certification on March 11th, 2024.

As an advocacy group they can't force places to apply, and in fact they state that they work on nominations to decide which places to work on. The idea being that if a community cares enough about preserving the night sky that they will be more committed to make any necessary changes to receive the designation.

There's a lot of requirements of the core area and the surrounding areas to do outreach and to preserve the dark sky. Every stakeholder needs to be committed. This includes changing of local ordinances, especially ones for outdoor lighting. Of course, the preserve would be useless if there was no public access allowed.

Hopefully the RAC find value in this and decide to put Jasper up for designation on top of their own. Just because a site has not been designated does not mean that it does not meet its requirements. Dark Sky International isn't saying that Jasper is not a dark sky preserve by not having them designated, it's likely as simple as no one has bothered to apply yet, or if they have applied, the process has not yet completed. Another possibility is they have applied, but were unable or unwilling to make the changes necessary to meet the requirements set out by Dark Sky International.

From a brief reading of their process https://darksky.org/what-we-do... it seems that they take it quit seriously that the proper stake holders are involved, that they meet the standards. Seems to typically require 80% of land owners to participate. They also must show that it is legally protected. This is MUCH different than designating an area simply by how dark they sky is, it is designating that the area is LEGALLY protected to preserve the dark sky.

Not knowing more about Jasper, or the RAC's requirements, and whether or not they have sought designation from Dark Sky International or not, it is hard to say.

At the very least they should make it similar to what they have been doing with subscription services. Make it as easy to end a subscription as it is to start a subscription. If I can consent to forced arbitration from their damn popup window I should also be able to opt out from the same damn popup.

I've turned off autocorrect on my phone. Sure, I have to go back and correct a couple misspelled words, usually due to proximity of letters on the keyboard or accidentally hitting a suggested next word above the keyboard, but have so far found it less frustrating than autocorrect.

That was an amazing book and really enjoyed the perspective. I highly recommend reading it.

This. They are the organizers, they need to take responsibility for failing to oversee those they contracted to do THEIR job. Did they not have the contractors submit their results and have them reviewed? With something as critical as the distance. There are stories of people getting disqualified from races due to a qualifying race having a distance error. This has happened in 5k, 10k, half marathon, and marathon races.

They can certainly point out that the contractor did it wrong, but they need to take responsibility for failure to oversee, and change their internal process to avoid this mishap again in the future. That's much better than trying to say you have no responsibility in this.

Exactly this. Sufficient isn't starting from 0 knowledge and teaching everything required to make a repair. Sufficient is that someone trained in the field should be able to pick it up, take the parts, the documentation, and figure it out. For a car analogy, it's the technical manuals for mechanics vs the part by part tear down manuals that others make for enthusiasts. iFixit is to phone repair as hayden was to car repair. They want enough released to make their job easier, but not so much as to make them irrelevant.

The sufficient documentation likely is vague on purpose. It only needs to be sufficient for someone trained laterally to be able to make the repair possible with careful study, it doesn't need to teach you everything from proper grounding and safety practices, to computation theory. It's more like the mechanics technical manual than the part by part tear down and rebuild that enthusiasts make. With the technical manuals then someone else can make the enthusiast instructions.

One huge problem is it being nearly context free. Such as, a site discussing something that has areas, districts, regions, and zones. These could all be translated to the same term, one isn't inherently larger or inclusive of the other. Maybe it gets consistency on a single page, but across the entire site? Would it matter if in one spot I rearranged the order, would this change the mapping of these words to their foreign counterparts?

Couldn't you take a taxi from the train station? Not not quite following your argument here.

My last fiber provider was awesome! $60/mo, exactly. No added on fees, just $60/mo. That got me 1Gb symmetrical. No contract, and, iirc, lifetime pricing.

The GS1 proposal already takes into account backwards compatibility. Scanners that can read the new 2D format will be able to transpose the data into the old format for POS systems so they don't need to be updated if they aren't making use of the additional information.

2D barcodes have the added feature of error correction, which 1D barcodes do not have, at most they have a checksum to ensure it was read correctly but checksums don't correct errors. This should make it easier to read codes, including damaged codes.

If the bus is not equipped with rear view cameras for backing up then it isn't stupid to require a second person be available to help. Buses generally don't go in reverse while in service. That backup cameras have been a requirement on personal vehicles for some time now but not required on buses is another issue that is likely weighed with them rarely being driven in reverse, so making it mandatory to add the system adds expense. Should they be required to have them? Probably, along with blind spot cameras, this would seem to make sense as the blind spot cameras would be used during regular service, and the addition of a backup camera in addition to these would be small since the monitor to view them would be necessary for the blind spot cameras to begin with.

Found the Mormon here. Part of a group that did a huge campaign on "I'm a Mormon" only to perform a 180 on it when management changed. Only Mormon's pretend its offensive and insist on the full name of the church in every instance.

Funny how the amount who voted Republican in Salt Lake County tracked with the amount that are very active, or somewhat active (38% + 4%).

Finally someone who understands the problem at hand. We aren't talking 1099 contractors who set their own salary and negotiate terms with the client. This is concerning staffing agencies that contract you out for as much as they can squeeze and make their money by trying to squeeze your salary as low as possible. Some of the big tech companies de facto only hire this type of contractor.

Because there are two types of contractors. The ones who don't seem to understand the issue are actual independent contractors that make a deal directly with the company and get a 1099.

At big tech companies there aren't many of this type of contractor. Some even have policies against this type of contractor.

The more common type at the big tech companies are staff augmentation workers from staffing agencies. You "work" for the staffing agency as a W-2, but are assigned to the tech company as a contract worker. The staffing agency handles the contract, gives you minimal benefits, pays for your minimal vacation and sick days, might even have a 401k with no match.

Companies like them as they give them flexibility in the number of staff they have, and doesn't effect their unemployment rates. But staffing agencies drop you as soon as you don't have an active contract. They'll try to find you comparable work again, but it can be months between work, and your salary will change based on the new client the agency gets.

A third type is a company that has a specialized workforce and contracts with companies to get specific jobs done. They maintain their own staff with salaries independent of the clients they have, and pay you for bench time (time without clients).

I've worked for all three, and much prefer the last one. I've worked in a variety of fields from railway, to parts manufacturing, and chemical analysis. Typical jobs are about 3-6mo in length, they'll hire 1-3 of my co-workers.

It's that second one where you feel like complete garbage, you are treated as a second tier citizen while being expected to do the work of at least 1.3x your salary as that's what the company sees as its expense. I've worked at a company through one of these and their team building events were laughable when 2/3 of the team can't attend because they are "contractors". Think about the kitchen staff, and the cleaning, these are contracted out to third parties in a similar manner, but the company they contract with has a bit more involvement in the staff and their day to day assignments.

The staffing agency only cares as long as you have a client, and they don't care about what client or how much of a fit you are for it. When my client closed down the division I worked in the staffing agency tried to get me to take a $14/hr job at another clients event fair to keep me on the books.