I completely agree. It's whoever Apple hired to designed who are at fault for this.

Probably not the city engineers. It's not their job to catch usability issues, only safety issues, as related to applicable codes. But Apple did NOT design the building themselves. They hired a consulting engineering firm to do it for them. Those guys should have paid attention to it.

I love to pick on Apple as much as the next guy, but this is really an oversight from the civil engineering firm they hired to design it for them. The owner can have as much input as they want, and tell the architect what they'd like, but ultimately, the engineers are supposed to do a feasibility analysis that takes into account foreseeable conditions. They definitely have to design for snow loads for one, and if you have funny shapes, you should be aware that snow will accumulate differently than on a flat surface, and you should be doing some numerical modelling to try to predict this. It's time consuming, and expensive, but that's part of the reason fancy buildings cost more than cookie-cutter ones.

That's it. I'm Boycotting all Disney products. I hope people wake up and start doing this before they completely destroy the entertainment industry. I was feeling uneasy about them for a while, but this is the last straw. They need to be made to divest of a large part of their recent acquisitions. This kind of monopoly is good for no one.

I don't understand sarcasm.

How is it being elitist complaining that the measurement used is that which only a tiny fraction of temperature unit users everywhere use? If anything, I would say it's the opposite.

I will definitely not be wasting money on it. After the total mess Jar Jar Abrams did with episode 7. Until Ep. 7, I never thought I'd be so disgusted with Start Wars that I wouldn't even want to see any more of it. They should have given it to someone who gives a damned about the Start Wars universe, and not trust that bozo. If we learned anything from the prequels is that Jar Jar can't be trusted with anything.

Plus, the headline makes it look like Einstein didn't believe stars could bend light of other stars, when what he doubted was our ability to observe it.

What? And here I thought Steve as an atmospheric phenomenon. I never knew it was an hermaphrodite entrepreneur. It's so confusing.

I'm not that excited. Call me when they launch the Sundiver Project.

In other news, they seem to imply that nothing can currently be done against this very specific threat... however, if you set the numerical password entry to be with randomized number location, it seems to me that the gyro is not very useful, as it will provide random data. This feature has been around for a while, and is good against the good ol' eyeball mark 1 infiltration app too (unless the observer is so far over your shoulder that they can directly observe the numbers, obviously).

Shouldn't the government have an obligation to limit the market price of such drugs? I'm sure the rapacious companies charging exuberant amounts for the drugs would yell "free market" to excuse their prices, but the truth is that a drug under anti-competitive patent protection does not exist in a free market. Since the government provides the protection against competition to the manufacturer, shouldn't the same government, whose primary obligation is towards its flesh and blood citizens, and not its corporate citizens, have the obligation to regulate the price of drugs used for the treatment of illness? To lose the price restriction, a company should be obligated to lose the protection against competition. That only seems fair, and a proper use of the patent system. Right now it seems to be broken and abused by the industry.

That's different, the mechanic gets money from you directly (the physician analogy is not relevant in many countries). The people writing these reports are NOT getting a direct benefit from th reports. It's a lazy statement of someone unaware of their function. Most likely it's a group of people from academia, public works and yes industry that make the point. While the guys from the industry may have some monetary interest, it doesn't affect the other groups.

Actually, if you bother reading those reports, you'll find out that what they advocate is not waiting until things are about to crumble to make the investment because the work is so close to being a rebuild that it's much more expensive over any given period of time to do so than quickly making a little patchwork early on. The reports actually advocate spending less money on repairs... by doing them in a timely manner. So the entire analogy is flawed.

You don't even need to be a civil engineer to understand it either. If you've ever lived in a house whose owner decided to not spend the money to fix a little leak in pipes, or in the roof only to have to dish out an order of magnitude larger amount of money to fix the damages resulting from the neglect, then you have a healthy appreciation for the soundness of the advice.

But Infrastructure spending is not sexy, as John Oliver would no doubt agree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How is "No problem" less polite than "You are welcome"? To me, you are welcome has a connotation that I was expecting thanks from you (which is really kind of impolite), while "no problem" or "don't mention it" imply that you are really diminishing the effort that it caused you so that the thanker should not feel in too much of a debt. I think either of those two are actually more polite than "you are welcome".

This is likely nothing to worry about... if as hypothesized it is related to the magnetic flip. As the summary states this happens "on average" every 300000 years, and that's way more frequent than the return period of mass extinctions. Of course, this hypothesis could be wrong...