Comment "Visible from space" (Score 3, Interesting) 274
I've seen Google Maps. My car is "visible from space."
I've seen Google Maps. My car is "visible from space."
She still has her job.
Senate Republicans refuse to allow any Obama appointments to move forward as it is, none of them are as high-profile a target as HHS Secretary right now.
It's either Sebelius or leaving the job vacant until 2017.
Hey, give Anonymous some credit here! At least they're going after Canberra this time and not Vienna!
A computer-generated, ten year-old goldfish would get thousands of propositioning messages.
RAF? They come from the land that invented plaid.
Except in a study in Indiana after they became the 48th state to adopt DST in 2006 (where all the population is at least as far north as San Francisco and most are near the northern border of CA in latitude) that showed springing forward immediately increased energy consumption by 1%.
And there is no state in the Union as schizophrenic about time as Indiana. Good luck trying to argue that any change there, better or worse, is independent of all other factors.
If someone isn't in already you can usually find something else to do in the mean time.
Like taking your business elsewhere.
Flex time or no, no business exists in a vacuum. You have customers whose money you want, and you have suppliers whose product you want. And if you can't be bothered to coordinate with both, they will find someone else who can and will.
This is why we have clocks to begin with.
Thus, if we standardized on one time, you would set your alarm clock earlier in the summer in order to arise earlier in the day. In other words, EXACTLY the same thing you do now, except without the inconvenience of changing clocks twice a year.
Aside from the fact that you're again/still advocating for a return to sundials, why would my employer, my customers, and my suppliers be inclined to synchronize to such gradual and constant shifts along with me?
Why aren't you doing it now yourself?
We know what works in education, but we apparently are unable or unwilling to do it. Take a look at some of the tests from a hundred years ago and try your luck at passing them
We're talking about mathematics, more specifically arithmetic, and you're trying to compare standards from before and after transistorization. Arithmetic "education" in 1900 at that level was drills, drills, and more drills, in an effort to develop not creative thinking but speed and accuracy through the use of arcane tricks and shortcuts. But nobody short of a mentat can compete with a 99 four-function calculator in multiplying multi-digit numbers, let alone something as iterative as calculating a square root. It literally takes more time to fiddle with logarithm tables to find an approximation of a square root than it does to find a potentially exact answer with a calculator.
About the only people today who would have practical use for most of what arithmetic education focused on in 1900 are people who are looking to optimize a compiler.
What does it matter if we happen to live somewhere where the clocks say 7pm when the sun rises?
OK, you first. Evangelize the genius simplicity of your plan by communicating all times exclusively in UTC.
Heck we could even schedule things with the sun like people that work for themselves (farmers, construction etc) already can.
Because these industries are completely isolated from all other economic activities and have no need to communicate times outside their domains?
Besides, everyone has been using mechanical clocks for so long that nobody besides astronomers and navigators remembers just how lousy a timekeeper the sun is.
I live near Toronto sunrise in the winter is ~8am and sunset around 5
It's not about the 2145Z sunsets but the 0930Z sunrises that DST is meant to compensate for. Since you note sunlight is so critical, you should realize the benefits of making sure those hours of daylight (when available) are during waking hours.
so you can literally commute to work in the dark and it is dark by the time you live the office seeing the sun for 0 hrs a day isn't a good thing
Another "you first" opportunity: explain to your employer the benefits of having a 2+ hour lunch, particularly when all of your customers and suppliers don't.
We need to get in the habit of planning work enough that we can wait a couple days for a reply
I note you wrote this less than 90 minutes after this story was posted. Why not (again) lead by example and send your missive off to the editors of a weekly or monthly magazine instead?
Except the population distribution in California is biased towards the lower latitudes, and the savings make themselves more apparent in higher latitudes.
Dell staff state that the palm rest will be replaced by Dell at no cost, but only if the unit is still under warranty.
And what if the warranty expired before Dell decided to acknowledge that this defect was, in fact, a defect?
And if it's something in the manufacturing process, then the ultrabook was defective since day one, the entire time that Dell warrants it was "free of defects." So how is refusing to fix it if the clock has run out not breaching Dell's obligations under the warranty?
This is not exactly instilling confidence in Dell's products and their warranties. Sounds more like something HP would do...
And what argument is that, exactly? This all started with my "stopped clock" metaphor, alluding that even the most untrustworthy sources of information can occasionally turn up something factual/useful. That doesn't change the fact that Vladimir Putin's personal fanzine is only marginally more reliable and/or less biased than Newsmax.
And unlike the RT links provided, at least the National Enquirer actually broke the story on John Edwards. Putting Russia Today on equal footing with that is actually giving it the benefit of the doubt.
Or is it a dodge to deflect the criticism until the public forgets and moves on and all can return to status quo ante?
Nah, she's got five long years ahead of her to get around to that.
I think it may be an inconvenient truth to point out that both of them are factually correct...
I guess it may finally be time to take Russia Today as seriously as the National Enquirer.
Dynamically binding, you realize the magic. Statically binding, you see only the hierarchy.
