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I have no problem identifying these perps.
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I have no problem identifying these perps.
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1500 Tesla's were sold in the Netherlands last year out of 400k in total, or around 0.4% [link]. However, in total electric+hybrid cars were about 4.3% of total [link]. So, while they are obviously not the majority, they are certainly not rare either. Amsterdam has almost 500 public charge locations [link] and in the center (where parking space is scarce) there are designated parking spaces for electric cars where they can charge, see e.g. this street view of what would be the closest parking spot to my house if I had an electric car. There are two taxi companies that use electric vehicles exclusively, which is good news since taxis have disproportionate impact on air pollution, one drives Nissan Leaf and the other Tesla. As far as I know they are not directly subsidized apart from general subsidies on electric cars, so they must be commercially viable.

All in all, electric cars are not some sort of pipe dream, they are out there and have small but growing market share, and infrastructure is growing with it. For each consumer a different tradeoff will be in order (e.g. I use my car a couple times every month so got a small gasoline car instead, while a friend commutes 50km every day so he got a Tesla). It still uses some government subsidy, but honestly, so do oil and traditional car makers.

Sorry that link was eaten by slashdot. Here is a shortened one: http://goo.gl/VsOSS7

Big, no huge, LIMS LIS market out there. Many products, 500+ and growing, A fist full of FOSS, say 20. Many from academic background, and in even faster growing Bioinformatics and Biobanking. Because of those odds, forgive me the punt: please read http://www.bikalims.org/, and lend us your weight among the suits at the LIMS Circus, http://goo.gl/nK6xqv. Appreciated

I know some gorillas can stand up, but I don't think they're going to start using the internet any time soon, at least not soon enough that we have to start planning a municipal network for them.

Google Maps show Rightscorp's address as Santa Monica Airport: https://goo.gl/maps/IFgj5

At first I thought this was a mistake. However, upon further consideration, this may also be an obvious choice location for any fly-by-night operation.

It's UC-fucking-LA. It's not in the middle of a freeway, and I doubt she lives on a freeway either.

http://goo.gl/maps/J9UQq

Looks pretty walkable to me. It may be a windy route, but in that case, bikes can ride anywhere cars can, except for highways, and even though it's near a mountain, I don't see anywhere that's 100% cut off from the outside world except for freeways. Zoom in anywhere and there are little roads there.

Hell, if I lived there and were faced with that option, I'd ride my bike on the freeway every day until I got a ticket for doing so.

I've always heard that peak usage occurs during the day, when businesses are operating at full tilt. Yes, when people are at home they use energy, but when compared to business use, it's not as great. Southern California Edison in fact has a program that gives use credits called "Save Power Days" where they encourage you to reduce usage from 14:00-18:00. Here is the link: http://goo.gl/TT0q7a Additionally, during peak periods there are rotating outages... these happen during the day, not after 17:00... that said, seems to me it's more better to send that extra power to the grid during the day rather than after 17:00...

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The fact that you are saying this is a testament to the success of the Russian propaganda campaign. Russia's Chechen, Ossetian, and Russian mercenaries shell civilian populations on a regular basis, under the belief that the locals will blame the Ukrainian army (most of them watch Russian state-owned TV channels, which promote the notion that Ukraine is responsible for the shelling). For example, Russia's forces just shelled the town of Debaltseve: http://goo.gl/rsgmF2

Ukrainian media are, well, meh. NYT, however, is a more reputable source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10...

It's not that there are three specific federal laws that are broken by everyone daily. It's that there are so many federal laws that in the course of a normal day you're bound to have broken some of them.

Here is a website with some real world felonies people were convicted of that were completely innocent seeming: http://goo.gl/29G7ff

Example 1: A woman purchases imported lobster in clear plastic bags, a violation of HONDURAN laws. That's a felony.

Example 2: A snowmobiler gets lost in a snowstorm and blunders onto federal land. That's a felony.

Example 3: You find your kids' stash of drugs, destroy them and confront your kid. That's a felony.

Here ya go: http://goo.gl/wlhOMI FBI Homicide stats for 2011. Knives or cutting instruments: 1,694. Rifles: 323. That's 5x+ more killings by knives. Thanks for the gratuitous insults though. That really contributed to the conversation.

That's not anything like a Mies van der Rohe building. Rohe was a form-follows-function glass box architect. He did some of the best glass boxes of the 20th century, notably the IIT campus in Chicago. His work is very rectangular.

Wright did more unusual forms. In his later years, he designed the Marin Civic Center which Lucas, being from Marin, would have seen. It's been called the Martian Embassy. It's so alien it's been used in several science fiction movies. Like most Wright buildings, it's nicely integrated with the terrain.

Here's the park that must be destroyed to build to satisify Lucas' ego.

Is a formal promise more legally binding than a non-formal promise? It sounds good in principle, but is it really legally binding in any sense?

All corporations are bound by their bylaws and articles of incorporation, and are subject to shareholder suits if they deviate from them. In that sense, it is a binding promise, though it is binding to the shareholders, not customers. Customers generally will not have standing to challenge corporate decisions in court, except in cases of criminal behavior, negligence, or other torts where the customer can prove a direct, material harm.

Is it transferable and binding to someone who subsequently buys Ello?

Under California law [1] at least, public benefit status is not binding on a subsequent purchaser of the corporation. However, the shareholders must approve any purchase, and if the corporation then converts to a standard business entity, the corporation can be forced to buy out the dissenting shares at fair market value.

A public benefit corporation can also be converted back to a standard corporation by amending its articles of incorporation, subject to shareholder approval. [2] I don't know where Ello incorporated, and I haven't looked at other states, but the law is likely similar across states that have public benefit corporations.

[1] Cal. Corp. Code 14604(d)
[2] Cal. Corp. Code 14604(a)

Is a formal promise more legally binding than a non-formal promise? It sounds good in principle, but is it really legally binding in any sense?

All corporations are bound by their bylaws and articles of incorporation, and are subject to shareholder suits if they deviate from them. In that sense, it is a binding promise, though it is binding to the shareholders, not customers. Customers generally will not have standing to challenge corporate decisions in court, except in cases of criminal behavior, negligence, or other torts where the customer can prove a direct, material harm.

Is it transferable and binding to someone who subsequently buys Ello?

Under California law [1] at least, public benefit status is not binding on a subsequent purchaser of the corporation. However, the shareholders must approve any purchase, and if the corporation then converts to a standard business entity, the corporation can be forced to buy out the dissenting shares at fair market value.

A public benefit corporation can also be converted back to a standard corporation by amending its articles of incorporation, subject to shareholder approval. [2] I don't know where Ello incorporated, and I haven't looked at other states, but the law is likely similar across states that have public benefit corporations.

[1] Cal. Corp. Code 14604(d)
[2] Cal. Corp. Code 14604(a)

The sins of Obama's IRS? Meh. Obama himself had a direct hand in a bunch of shit far worse than any of the IRS crap he's pulled. I'll deal with the IRS thing if time allows.

Gamregate is, and always has been, a hate group.
http://goo.gl/MKIfXX

"...and those of us that know better ..."
I see you 'know better' and know the correct way to use a device.

Aren't you special. This should be familiar to you:
http://goo.gl/YwYdZG

Wow. Really sensational article with pointless useful content. This is a long known issue. Never been a secret. For example see: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/28/14/29/PDF/floating-point-article.pdf

ok, so intel fixed their documentation now. move along, nothing to see here.

Sweden is a bit larger than California. If you compare with the east coast, you take all of New England, all of New York(the state), all of Pennsylvania, and add a few thousand extra square kilometers, and you match Sweden's size.

Population is a bit over 9M

Thing is, you can get 100/100 in places in Sweden where US people would be stuck with ADSL or satellite at best. Such as in Karesuando for example. Little village almost as far north as you can get in Sweden, 300 inhabitants. Municipal fibre available. IIRC, 8 different commercial ISP's compete over that municipal network. https://goo.gl/maps/1gHta

find a way to get game consoles into military bases... Oh, wait. Never mind. http://goo.gl/vXyxO

It would look a t little like this:
http://goo.gl/CNd2mT

a black dot with energy around it.
Picture as an example of the point.

I'm the Google site admin for my elementary school where I teach 4th grade. That makes me responsible for maintaining my class's passwords, as well as the passwords of five other classes - that's nearly 200 4th and 5th grade kids with a fairly transient population. The Google username scheme is non-negotiable because of security issues and committee decision making and consists of the first three letters (if there are three) of the first name, the first three (if there are three) letters of the last name, and the first three digits of their numerical student ID (which they do not know). The password scheme I came up with has the kids choosing two words from a table of common four-letter words. They put those words together with the last digit of their year of birth. They must use this username and password to even get into the Chromebook for most purposes (anything that involves document editing). The classroom app that Google unveiled this Fall is awesome. It's simple and perfect for what it does. I have the kids write their username and passwords down on a post-it. Secure enough. 90% of them have no problem remembering it, but some of them come with their shoes on the wrong feet, so I've been satisfied. I just set the other kids passwords manually after making them write it neatly on a post-it note and usually finding their error. The only third-party thing I use is Scratch, and I make my kids manage their own credentials (I offer a post-it). Scratch is amazing and my kids are motivated to manage it themselves. Scratch, by the way, could be the best thing to happen to math in 200 years of education if people would stop teaching math and start doing math. [Brag warning] Check these out, and tell me you wouldn't have died to build them in 4th grade: http://goo.gl/pHF6Hd We do one every week now.

Maybe, but that's not the only place.

Says my Note 10 2014 isn't supported yet. Like @dbrueck stated, it does work on my Note 2 as well.

BUT, I did get it working on my Note 10 Tablet.

I copied both the Amazon Store apk and the video player apk files from my Note 2 over and side loaded them on to my Note 10 tablet. I loaded up the store and went to the videos and it worked. I didn't buy or rent but the movie trailers play which didn't before. Movie trailer playback was smooth on both devices.

Make sure you're using the NON-TABLET version of the Amazon Store app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mShop.android)

Also my Note 10 tablet is NOT rooted. Just my Note 2.

The APK files.
Amazon Store (non-tablet version): http://goo.gl/EYRZxX (com.amazon.mShop.android-1.apk version 5.0.0 (500000))
Amazon Instant Video Player: http://goo.gl/qvjJCN (com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient-1.apk version 1.0 (1))

Says my Note 10 2014 isn't supported yet. Like @dbrueck stated, it does work on my Note 2 as well.

BUT, I did get it working on my Note 10 Tablet.

I copied both the Amazon Store apk and the video player apk files from my Note 2 over and side loaded them on to my Note 10 tablet. I loaded up the store and went to the videos and it worked. I didn't buy or rent but the movie trailers play which didn't before. Movie trailer playback was smooth on both devices.

Make sure you're using the NON-TABLET version of the Amazon Store app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mShop.android)

Also my Note 10 tablet is NOT rooted. Just my Note 2.

The APK files.
Amazon Store (non-tablet version): http://goo.gl/EYRZxX (com.amazon.mShop.android-1.apk version 5.0.0 (500000))
Amazon Instant Video Player: http://goo.gl/qvjJCN (com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient-1.apk version 1.0 (1))

To add a bit to this:

Sweden alone is slightly larger than California, and less than a third of the population of California. Or, to compare with the US east coast: Take all of New England, and New York(the state), and Pennsylvania, then add roughly 4k km2 from another state, and you have Sweden. You have a large portion of people in some major metropolitan areas... And then there's a lot of people spread just about everywhere.

But Sweden has done a heavy investment into municipal and some nationwide infrastructure that companies can rent into to provide service, to the point that you can get fiber connections in places where no US ISP would even think about it.

Such as this place: http://goo.gl/maps/XYkNZ
In that little village almost as far north as you can go in Sweden, with a population of around 300, you can get 100Mb/s symmetrical at a fairly decent price, even by Swedish standards.

http://goo.gl/JlX692 Link to the standard vex kit.

Also, there are endless projects with arduino, but it's naturally a bit more technical. So I guess it depends a lot on skill level with electronics programming.

So I'd probably say Lego for the truly basic beginner, Vex for some prior knowledge but wanting a bit more robust system. And then for the well experienced arduino.

Fukushima put quite a kink in any new construction in China, as there was a construction approval halt for near-sea reactors from April to at least October in 2011 (and Taishan is what you might call close to the sea) - half a year delay can easily get you some delay in onlining. You also need to keep in mind that 46 months was the planned construction time, not when it enters commercial service. With first concrete being poured in October 2009, construction should have been complete in about autumn 2013, but adding the half- to one-year delay due to Fukushima, we'd expect it to complete construction some time in 2014. And according to the WNN article I linked, startup should indeed happen this year and commissioning into commercial service, next year (you need to train people, run safety drills, test out all the maintenance and refueling equipment and failsafes, etc. - that takes some time after construction).
So if you consider the ripple that Fukushima sent into the world of nuclear reactor construction projects, Taishan is indeed roughly on schedule. I guess if you wanted to split hairs and talk about plus or minus a few months, sure, but I don't see it as much of a problem, especially when you compare it to the monumental management disaster that is Olkiluoto 3.

Microns / femptofortnight is a speed. Or, if time is interpreted as a dimension, a dimensionless value like a dozen or a mole.
2.76E-6 i

Of course since it's dimensionless, then that means it isn't a dimension, therefore the line is 2D.

Batman is nearby in Turkey maybe he can help out.

https://goo.gl/maps/J651g

Camden and a couple other black cities

This image shows it to be a mix of greens, whites, browns, blacks, and a few other colors.

I don't see what the the color of the buildings and pavement/concrete has to do with the city's literacy rate though. Please enlighten me.

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You could just change the government there and allow people more freedoms, including religion. Being fascist dickwads certainly isn't helping things. I'm not an advocate for religious practice however peoples' beliefs can force them to do something awful just to draw attention to their plight. Instead of stabbing people randomly, people being repressed in China could be like Shen Yun and put on a show about it. No? Well okay carry on then creating something that'll put more people in jail or bring back the labor camps.

It had more then one director.
http://goo.gl/SmqcDs

Here you go.

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And perhaps, instead of waking up every day wondering if today is the day the Yellowstone super volcano or a planet killer comet wipes us all out, we should just dance (and code) while the sun shines and not worry so much about the future.

FTFY

So, what you're saying in effect is that you might put in a large investment on the tool (nailgun=$, framework=$time) from which you're hoping to get a long useful life, and perhaps buying those tools from a reputable company (nailgun=Dewalt,Craftsman, framework=Google,Adobe) with the expectation that the tool won't be discontinued/EOL'd and parts/repo's will remain available. The reality is that the nailgun/shiny IDE might not last as long as the older simpler stuff (hammers are older than neaderthals/VI is >30yrs old, Eclipse is 10, Webstorm is 2? 3?). And company reputation is no guarantor of longevity.

However, if the Dewalt Model XJ-9 nailgun lasts 5yrs you can finish a helluva lot more roofs in that time than you could with a hammer. Perhaps then we should look at Angular, PhoneGap, nodeJS as specific models of nailguns from which we should extract as much 'juice' as we can in the 2-5yrs they might be useful and presume that we'll be using something else after that.

Unfortunately, the roof/nailgun analogy completely falls apart when you realize that if some of the shingles fall off after the XJ-9 has been discontinued you can still use a regular hammer to fix it; whereas if Angular 3 is EOL'd in 2017 then your PhoneGap app built on it might be left with some vulnerability (all geolocation requests are hacked to only report your current location as the nearest strip club) that Google is not going to fix (having sold off their money-losing software biz in 2016 to focus on crowd pacification robots).

And perhaps, instead of waking up every day wondering if today is the day the Yosemite super volcano or a planet killer comet wipes us all out, we should just dance (and code) while the sun shines and not worry so much about the future.

Not having five highways intersecting at one point would also solve the problem.

Check out Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham, UK for a nightmare of a road design if you're not a local, and that's two "highways" (motorways) and two major roads (A-road). I can't imagine what your five highway junction looks like.

http://goo.gl/1GY2fq .. Very quick, very dirty, and I like mine with jusssst a twist of lemon.

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Crime continues to rise and you think America is getting better? Why not address the violence culture instead of their tools? Oh, that's right... It's because you feel it infringes on your rights to live in a culture who makes sport and entertainment of violence.

FBI Statistical data disagrees with you (FBI Violent Crime Table). I realize the mainstream media has brainwashed a large number of people out there to believe the sky is falling on this issue, but it's really not.

Maybe you should actually read some studies of miltary history, and not just LOL.

I'm not sure about the sword-swinging era, but it seems pretty well established that most Western soldiers wouldn't fire guns at the other guys until their militaries went all out to create killers after WWII.

No. One author does not "pretty well established" make — see http://goo.gl/sxNtDA. Maybe you should actually read more than one study of military history. :-)

First off, the incident took place prior to 2007 when the Army was supplying the many of aircraft for the DEA to use in the operations there. Prior to 2007 the DEA only had 3 Jayhawks and 1 other helicopter for it's OPBAT operations, everything else was supplied by the Army.

This is the helicopter I saw: http://www.forthoodsentinel.co... - in this configuration. Armaments were not equipped though. It's rather hard to mistake the thin/relatively small profile of an Apache compared to the Blackhawks.

As to the nature of the mission, I cannot say exactly what they were doing that day, all I know is that they were flying below the tree line directly over the beach, facing in-land and strafing north. For all I know they were cruising for boobs. I suspect though, knowing the local geography/topography, that because of the density of the forest/jungle they were trying to see under the canopy as much as possible to identify grow ops that were not visible via satellite. This would be particularly effective in Eleuthera because the island is one long strip for the most part with very little change in elevation. Between the density of the bush and the number of poison wood trees, grows would likely need to be near a road - in the area where I was when I saw it there is only 1 road, right near the beach for about a 30km stretch http://goo.gl/maps/FSM9G

Here's a starting point if you want to make one. Help me make better party games.

Phillip Drulliet too. His pieces were pretty trippy and heavily detailed sci-fi inspired work. Think Adam Warlock meets Aliens.

Here is a google image search - http://goo.gl/zlw7bl