So - the EU is telling Ireland it's not authorized to set it's own tax rates as it sees fit? And that the EU can impose Ex Post Facto tax rates? Enforced by whom?

Somebody explain that "sovereignty" thing to me again, please.

Indeed. A bit like the Egyptian Pharaohs censoring the names of those they opposed by trying to obliterate their names on monuments. How long before he becomes a "Non-person" if not already?

Since when is everybody entitled to a 4 lane highway to your front door? Yes, most everybody and their dog wants fast, faster, fastest internet, the provider has to pay the bill according to customer receipts and good standing with the banks to get money for more gear and laying cable. Once upon a time, telephone systems used party lines to get their customers wired, and they gradually migrated up to individual POTS as the systems and business environment improved. To have the government wave a legal wand proclaiming all or nothing most often results in nothing. Case in point -- a school that wanted to issue Tablet Computers for it's students, but DOE shot them down because they weren't usable by the blind. So much for reasonable accommodation -- why can't they still use what they were using before the tablets. Be very careful when demanding government solutions to market problems.

I don't recall ever hearing about a pipeline colliding with another pipeline. Pump failures, punctures, and such maybe.

Anybody have statistics on ton-miles transported per accident rate for petroleum pipelines vs railroad tank cars?

Hmm... Explain to me how you are going to charge a 60KwH battery (Tesla, 200 mile range) with a 200 W/m2 solar panel on a 100m2 roof (20KwH) overnight?

Duh - forgot to log in. Above comment mine.

As if EULA on software wasn't bad enough...

Point taken. The main idea is airframe cost vs total development and delivery cost. The 747 and subsequent models have had R&D split among the several thousand airframes built. The B-2 had only 21 build, so while the airframe cost is low, the overall cost is huge, split among very few airframes.

By comparison, a unit cost for a Boeing 747-8 is around $330 Million, vs the around $1,000 Million for a full production run B-2. Just remember the 747 cost does not include the R&D costs of the decade it took to develop the design and build the factory, etc, whereas the full R&D cost is part of the B-2 cost. If you strip out the development costs, a B-2 airframe runs around $600 M, roughly twice the 747 costs for an aircraft with much, much more, very specialized capability. Overall, not a bad price for what it can do - haul 20+ tons of weapons 8,000+ miles unrefuled, invisibly, and hit a 3 foot circle. Many of them.

As a retired weather guy with over 25 years working with and training weathermen, this is one of the best tools I've seen. Applause!

Understanding fluid flow and visualizing it is not easy, but it crucial to meteorology because that dynamic drives and reveals the mechanisms that create the weather systems we track, such as fronts, storms, and so on. Given the tools seen are usually something like this (from ADDS) or this (from CoolWx), the WindMap does a much more intuitive job of showing the strength and patterns in merging flow.

So, well done! The only improvement I can think of for better use operationally would be an hourly looper of, say, the past six hours with a 3-4 second pause for each hour. This would let you track specific features as the day goes on.

Cue the Big Brother - thoughcrimes comments.

So, really -- what's the point of this? PC enforcement? Social modeling? Productivity improvement? Lawsuit prevention?

If it isn't about productivity, it is probably a drag on the organization.

Even a crap job is tolerable if the people are decent and the money is fair. Loyalty is due where loyalty is repaid. Granted, employment contracts and Non-Compete clauses always limit and grate, but is where you are now giving/getting you what you want? Will the green grass over the fence do better for you in the long run? Do you accept the burdens of those changes in the short run?

It can be pretty cheesy to attempt to "measure" your friendship, much less deliberately test it, but if you feel you're part of something larger (and a good part at that), then you don't even need to ask the question.

It's the old 4-panel plan problem. Take a sheet of paper, fold it in four, and mark them 6, 12, 5, 100. Then list things you want to do in the next 6 weeks, 12 months, 5 years, and 100 years. Review it carefully. The 6/12/5 items should lead somehow to the 100 year items. Climb a mountain? Sure! Learn mountain climbing? Yeah, I can do that in 5 years easy. Ah -- get fit first. Yep, can start that this year. Six weeks to find a good trainer -- can do!

So -- where are you going, and and is where you are (or wish you were) part of getting there?

Harvesting wheat? Don't you want the 20 foot head with the 20' turning radius?

Yes.. CLEP and DANTES tests if you can get them. Based on work experience, I was able to max the 2 year stuff with just those tests. I then submitted for an AA Business degree that needed only 2 residency courses for business related topics. The AA then covered all the Gen-ED stuff for my 4 year degree, again except for 3 residency courses on English and Geography (elective minor related to my work). The rest was all directly related to my focus.

Shop around and see what you can stack to speed up your path.

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If somebody told me I was about to encounter several hundred armed opposition, I would take that as a warning. Advice, at least.