Comment Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Score 0, Troll) 150
Business as usual.
Comment Re:Quality doesn't matter when it's disposable any (Score 1) 291
No, they're just continuously improving on it.
Comment Re:Jabba... (Score 1) 257
So, survival of the fittest?
Comment Re:SCOTUS overturns 9th Circuit a lot (Score 3, Informative) 53
THE 9th is the most often overturned appeals court of any, so maybe there is hope for a Supreme Court overrule.
They are 3rd on the list of most frequently overturned decisions, not first. Please do a little fact checking before you post.
Comment Re:Print quality has gone downhill (Score 1) 82
I'm curious, who do you consider to be way better these days? I'm certainly willing to try somebody else.
Comment Re:Safari has books now? (Score 1) 82
They had the name first.
Web Browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Online Books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:Non-Compete Deal should be full pay and full be (Score 1) 76
I already tired of the winning.
Comment Re:Is Comey going to jail? (Score 1) 559
Its the NSA chiefs jobs to talk to foreign leaders and representatives and normal during the transition.
The National Security Advisor does not lead the NSA.
Comment Re:Twitter is a PRIVATE company. (Score 2) 390
ABC is a private company. Does that mean that opposing party response to presidential speeches is no longer required?
Comment Re:No (Score 5, Informative) 390
Except that the White House just said that those are official statements.
YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videos (rollingstone.com) 265
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Rolling Stone: Verizon, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and other major companies have pulled advertisements from YouTube after learning they were paired with videos promoting extremism, terrorism and other offensive topics, The New York Times reports. Among the other companies involved are pharmaceutical giant GSK, HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland and L'Oreal, amounting to a potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Google-owned company. The boycott began last week after a Times of London investigation spurred many major European companies to pull their ads from YouTube. American companies swiftly followed, even after Google promised Tuesday to work harder to block ads on "hateful, offensive and derogatory" videos. Like AT&T, most companies are only pulling their ads from YouTube and will continue to place ads on Google's search platforms, which remain the biggest source of revenue for Google's parent company, Alphabet. Still, the tech giant offered up a slew of promises to assuage marketers and ensure them that they were fixing the problems on YouTube. Due to the massive number of videos on YouTube -- about 400 hours of video is posted each minute -- the site primarily uses an automated system to place ads. While there are some failsafes in place to keep advertisements from appearing alongside offensive content, Google's Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler wrote in a blog post that the company would hire "significant numbers" of employees to review YouTube videos and mark them as inappropriate for ads. He also said Google's latest advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning will help the company review and flag large swaths of videos.
Comment Re:how far down does land ownership go? (Score 1) 226
Why do they loose them down the sinkholes? Is this an effort to fill them?
Comment Re:I question the list (Score 1) 243
There's no reason a recently completed bridge can't be Structurally Deficient. It shouldn't be, but poor construction could lead to it being classified as such.
Comment Re:Structurally Deficient (Score 1) 243
Structurally Deficient in the context of the National Bridge Inventory (NBI), which this report is based on, is well-defined federally, not by states. It means that the bridge is rated 4 or less for its Deck, Superstructure, or Substructure (or if a culvert, Culvert rating is 4 or less) or if its Structural Evaluation or Waterway Adequacy is 2 or less. The structural evaluation is generally just the lower of the Deck, Superstructure and Substructure ratings (or culvert rating), with some guidance involving average daily traffic and Inventory Rating.
TLDR: Feds define criteria for SD, not states.
Comment Re:propaganda headline (Score 1) 243
Actually, I'm fairly familiar with the data here. Structurally Deficient in essence means a bridge that is in poor condition in either it's deck, superstructure or substructure. Bridges that do not meet current standards (e.g., not being wide enough for the number of lanes they carry) are called Functionally Obsolete. The National Bridge Inventory (NBI) system allows states only 3 categories: 1) Structurally Deficient, 2) Functionally Obsolete or 0) Neither. Bridges that are both Functionally Obsolete and Structurally Deficient are coded as 1) Structurally Deficient.
I'm not sure why the group decided to confound SD and FO bridges when there really wasn't any reason too, unless they were ignorant of or confused by FHWA's system or they were trying to make the problem seem worse than it actually is. Advocate groups will advocate, after all.
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