Your'e forgetting something: in most cases, managing operations is exactly what's required to continue "making product." Those that forget this are doomed to failure. Momentum may keep you going for a while, but eventually you'll hit the wall.
Great, so not only are you paying for a 24x7 staff to watch your ops, you're also paying someone else's overhead and profit margin. In the long run, it's still cheaper to bring things in-house once you're big enough.
3) Cut the cord, Great Firewall of America. We stop routing traffic to and from unfriendly parts of the world. For this work we have be willing to cast a broad net. You can't say lets cut off Afghanistan and Syria but let Pakistan and Iraq stay connected. After all the boarders weak and ISIS/Taliban/What have you will use the coffee shot the next town over if that is what they have to do. We would need to consider cutting off 'allies' (I use the term loosely) like Turkey and Saudi Arabia in regions know to be terror hot beds as well unless they are prepared to police things somewhat like option (2) although that is more practical in their societies.
Actually, it's pretty easy to do. The blocks are assigned out of a resource group, and you can simply black-hole (null-route) traffic sourced or destined to those
And every Western nation that has banned firearms has seen a massive increase in every facet of crime that's not murder. Go ahead, look it up. UK Home Office of National Statistics. The UK has, by my last count, 800% higher violent crime per capita than the US, and nearly 2000% the property crime as the US. Either Americans are just way better behaved (unlikely) or guns act as a really great deterrent.
Then there's the slow creep of government overreach, but I won't delve into tinfoil hat territory just yet. Just remember that the first thing totalitarian dictators do is disarm their people.
Famous for wasting money, time, and energy. Fusing any element larger than iron is energy-negative.
It's pretty telling that should a Telstra user (who's experiencing slow performance) activate a VPN, suddenly they have no issues whatsoever downloading from the various Apple services. The only way this could be the case is if Telstra is intentionally throttling (by way of some QoS method) traffic destined for Apple's address ranges. Their claims of a cable cut are bald-faced lies, nothing more. That they've "fixed" it shows the degree to which they've been caught, and relented their behavior. While the motives for this remain to a certain degree unclear, it' appears to be yet another case of a big, unregulated "communications" company (I place quotes due to the obvious nature of their desire to bleed their customers for all they're worth) pushing around their users as though they were a commodity to be monetized. Hey Apple, you want to not look bad? Pay up or else!
I wonder how far off the OSX requirements will be. Typically OSX users pay a higher price for the kernel's greater abstraction between layers, although I've not really dug into the internals terribly deep for a few major revisions. Is that still the case or have the graphics APIs come along at a similar pace to DirectX? What's Apple calling it now? Metal? IIRC this is an IOS-only bit of tech, but it would help whole bunches for it to get ported to the main OS.
You're also ignoring the UK's monstrous rates of property crimes and violent crimes excepting murder. Seriously, it's a major problem they've not got a handle on.
Uh, no. The UK has 2000% and 800% higher property and violent crime than the US, respectively. The only thing they have the US beat on is murder, which is a bit of a special case as usually the victim and perpetrator know each other.
Exactly since when have auto manufacturers standardized on anything? Go to AutoZone. Look at the oil filters. There are literally dozens, and that's a pretty common part. Hell, there's not even such a thing as a standard oil. Manufacturers have _never_ created a standard part, everything is unique by brand and model, and I just don't see this being any different. Exactly how large a battery are we talking here? Maybe, if the range was 5000km, it might be useful, because that's about the range of a severe-duty oil change interval, but I guarantee that it won't be as cheap as an oil change.
At 3000km, that's shorter than even a severe-duty oil change interval. One long trip and it's done. Seriously, say I wanted to drive from Dallas to Las Vegas; the battery lasts just long enough to get me there in one shot. Sure, the rechargable pack lasts long enough for the short drives once I'm there, but the return trip is going to suck with the repeated stops for recharging, especially with the lack of SuperCharger stations along the way. So by the end of 2015 I'll be able to make it, according to Tesla, but what do I do until then? I suppose if I can afford a Model S I'm probably affluent enough to pick up a plane ticket instead?
This "battery swap" is going to be nowhere near cheap, and we're talking about adding 220lbs to an already relatively porky sedan. I think I like my chances with next-gen rechargables better than this.
Anyone notice that he "hidden" or blanked out addresses were still listed in clear text just below the erased entries, albeit in slightly smaller text? Best part is they still let you see the protocol types the sites responded to. Telnet for the win, are they serious?
You should never, ever, EVER do this with factory tires, or any tires that have a tread pattern on them. The burnout box is for drag slicks _only_. The tread on your tires will do nothing other than pick up that water and deposit it into the launch area, creating a dangerous situation for not only you but the other racers. In most tracks, you will be instructed to drive around the burnout box if you're sporting anything other than an honest-to-god race car, and kicked out should you do otherwise.
DO NOT DO THIS
Pretty hot to see this bump for the old Alma Mater:
check the fine print at the bottom:
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2010/10/28-6621_Computer-Scientists-Make-Progress-on-Math-Puzzle_article.html
You've got to be joking. To see a rise in sea levels, you have to melt land-based ice, of which the only significant volume is on Antarctica. Even the IPCC admits that to see appreciable rise would take over 10,000 years. This is a cruel joke, with us as the punchline.
It's another way to strip people of power sources that enable modern standards of living in the here and now.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
