Supercarriers tend to have crews of about 20 people. The actual travel is the easy part, its the ongoing day-to-day that is important. For example, a containership can have around 15,000 containers. Some contain hazardous material, some contain frozen or temperature sensitive goods. A single hazardous or refrigerated container (reefer) can take out a whole ship if not controlled or monitored, so some of these guys are tasked with a job called 'reefer monitoring' where you check temps regularly. These reefers are plugged in or run on something called 'gensets' which run on fuel, so power/fuel has to be monitored. The engines in these ships exeed a combined 100,000 horsepower, so there is constant monitoring and maintenance of those behemoths. Then you have the supervisor and a few other odd jobs.
To summarize, having a few people available to handle routine maintenance and emergency response far outweigh the cost of a single accident or emergency and are able to fix problems quickly rather than causing days of downtime. They get paid pretty well too, there are schools that train people specifically for that type of job.
I honestly don't think we'll see full transportation automation until 2060ish, with highway automation becoming mainstream in 20 years. The job loss wont be as quick as the summary expects.
That would be the case...if it were stationary. The object on earth is stationary and then gets a lot of velocity imparted as it launches from earth...problem is earth orbits the sun at 67,000 mph. So to hit the sun, you have to neutralize a lot of velocity relative to the sun. The object put into space from the earth doesnt fall toward the sun, it is falling around the sun. The orbit wouldnt 'spiral in' by a small change in velocity, it jsut makes it elliptical like a comet.
I think what people get concerned with - and this is a real problem - is not that you like what you bought, but that many people like it because they bought it. There is a rationalization/bargaining internal dilemma in purchasing. A simple experiment selling or taste testing the same exact cake for three times the price gets better reviews for the more expensive cake. It may not be you, but there really are a chunk of apple fans that end up in that trap, and they tend to be the most vocal and by far the most annoying in defending their zealotry. I think its why many people see 'the cult of Apple' because the behavior of those few is very cult-like.
Not saying its you at all, just saying that that's where the distrust and skepticism of Apple user's opinions come from.
Generally, when applying for state IDs, you list officer personal information. States can, and will, go after officers for company debts unpaid. I've seen it happen.
Every set of parents thinks their generation of music is the best, and that all kids should have to listen to all of it because they don't appreciate true good music. That was the same situation in the 30's, the 50's, the 70's, the 90's, and now. I'm 30 and love my 90's music like my parents loved their 70's music.
The only thing I dislike about music today is this push that you have to be part of the 'culture' of the music to appreciate it. I love fast, heavy music that my brain has trouble keeping up with. Unfortunately, this means I can't go to a concert without feeling like an outcast unless I cover myself in piercings and tatoos, and get ridiculed for my passive listening style. It also means I get ridiculed for hating the unbearable growls that have infiltrated various sub-genres of metal. The further these sub-genres go is also the more likely that you'll be ostracized for liking any other type of music, and I listen to a good variety.
There's a good satire song that kind of describes how I feel about a lot of music 'culture' - Rock n Roll Lifestyle by Cake.
Fortunately, hes playing the right position if he wants the least head trauma possible. Of all the positions, lineman have to deal with the smallest velocity vectors of any (well, besides kickers). Concussions are far more common among 'skill positions' where players are frequently moving at high speeds and a target/are targeting for tackling. Offensive Lineman just push players or prevent players from advancing...kinda like a Sumo wrestler.
Legalese is surprisingly similar to a programming language. The purpose of legalese is to turn ambiguous english into concrete lines. While this can be used for nefarious purposes, like intentionally ambiguous laws, its not that hard to parse once you start looking at it like a procedure.
Glad I could help. It is very common among programmers, even native english speakers, to use copious amounts of parenthesis. I suspect this is due to their use in programming language. Also, many of us math-minded folk had a disdain for humanities and language courses.
I was taught grammar in a way that reminded me of math - I was given sentences, asked to identify the parts, and asked to reorganize them in many different ways. It reminded me of algebra, reorganizing formulas while learning order of operations. While I'm not the best communicator, I owe a lot of my ability to that class.
There comes a point where this get old. I went through my phase in my late teens with this, and realized I hated being in any kind of relationship like that. I don't find enjoyment in getting laid if there's no emotion in it.
The games take everything I value out of a relationship, so I decided I'm unwilling to play them. Regrettably, this means my relationships are fewer, but the one that recently ended was more meaningful to me than the previous five combined.
Since you mentioned your english in your signature, I just thought I'd share some wisdom imparted on my by one of my english teachers, because I used to have a similar problem with my formatting. He said parenthesis can almost always be eliminated by re-arranging your text, and while it may make it a bit longer, it makes it far more readable. Parenthesis are structure shortcut and should be used sparingly, no more than twice a paragraph if possible. Generally, people try to use parenthesis to indicate conversation pauses or excerpts from the general flow. This can be reformatted with commas, and then once you have the commas part down, you can reduce the number of commas by changing sentence structures.
For example - not perfect and I left one detail out, but you get the picture:
Well, George Haikalis, a Greek-American civil engineer / transportation planner, is apparently influenced by the ideas of Constantinos Doxiadis [wikipedia.org], a now famous architect and city planner most recently noted as master planner of Pakistani city Islamabad. Constantinos proposed closing our old Airport in Athens for decades and relocating further from the city center, and when it finally happened before the 2004 Olympics, with an additional express metro rail link, the result was much more efficient and contributed to our tourism-heavy economy. Many Athenians, if not most, were against the new airport and closing the old one, but now everyone agrees that it was the right thing. Due to its good location, the old airport's area inside Athens is now the biggest free zone for city development in Europe and looks to hopefully contribute a few billion billion Euros, something Greece desparately needs right now! The key was the express metro rail link between the airport and Athens center, something George Haikalis surely used many times - if Athens can do it right, NY can do it better.
The keurig 2.0 pissed so many people off, that standard store clerks know about the keurig 2.0 and warn people away from it. I warned my stepmother about it before she went out to buy one as a present for someone, and then she got reminded again at the store. I was happy to know that they're actively pushing people away from an inferior product.
Also of note, I found something funny in one of their third party k-cup purchases at my parent's house. It came with something called a 'freedom clip.' It goes over the sensor and does something to the 2.0 machine, preventing all the tomfoolery.
A lot of people seem to think trucks house 3000hp engines and have the same level of acceleration as cars. Well..they're close to cars...when empty. Of course, a truck can weigh six to ten times heavier depending on its cargo, and the way you drive is singificantly different in these situations. Since a normal driver can't see the weight of the truck's cargo and truck signals give no indication of acceleration/stopping distance, this leads people to treat empty and full trucks the same way. I'm more observant of it because I work for a shipping company, but most people pay no mind.
My ex was from Canada, the waits are not a myth. It took 10 months to get an appointment for an gastroscopy and 8 months after that to have surgery on her esophagus. It took 3 different doctors and several months just to get the referral required for a gastroscopy because the doctors didn't give a damn and told her to 'deal with it.' She told me she had a far better experience here even paying full price at minute clinics, and that a lot of Canadians flock to US border states to get care because of the insane wait times
Honestly...probably not. We have the capability to put drop a tiny payload on Mars. Now figure out how to drop a payload with almost the size of the original launcher on mars in a controlled descent. It also has to land perfectly within close range of the rover, be able to re-launch, and probably have to retreive/compartmentalize the rover in order to not damage it during landing. Might as well just do a manned mission to Mars.
OSS communities, by nature, don't lend themselves well to large top-down designs. Unfortunately, that's the most common way humans have been able to successfully organize authority, showing itself in government and business alike. The result resembles feudalism - a bunch of small OSS lords ruling their small fiefdoms with a tribal mentality for anything against their cause. It is a very caustic environment, and in my opinion, the number one reason Free Software remains marginal. Decisions around OSS are made on politics and ideals, not on pragmatism. Its hard to attract mindshare in that kind of environment.
Based on the name, this is a sugar alcohol? (-itol suffix like Maltitol). Sugar alcohols cause extremely negative intestinal and stomach reactions from many people. A lot of the protein meal replacement bars use sugar alcohols and a significant percentage of consumers can't eat them for that reason. See also sugar free life savers, which have been giving people fits for ages.
You're making it way too complicated. The power-line company can buy power from whoever is providing, and sell power to whoever is consuming. Just like they do now with home solar power. They can make whatever agreements they like with generating companies as to who gets what share of demand, what response times are required, etc. Add some grid-scale power buffers, even just a few minutes worth, and things get even simpler.
While it sounds good in theory, power plants and grids take years to expand, and the information needed to project power plant demand would be in the hands of the grid owners. It would be much harder to scale power generation smoothly with demand, and potentially increase the number of power company crashes due to the potential boom/bust introduction. This would allow the line owners to control the winners and losers in the power generation industry, and create a scenario similar to the way content producers like Netflix interact with Comcast.
While the potential for competition would be nice, the potential for boom/bust crashes of power generating companies could create instability and brownouts, something many deem unacceptable. In this case, I think industry stability > industry growth.
Modders move quite slow due to the frustrating architecture. 1.6 required a major overhaul to most mods, and 1.8 is being avoided like the plague for the same reason. There's also little incentive to upgrade, since the amount of content in the mods is orders of magnitude higher than vanilla, no ones going to switch off 60 mods in a modpack to get some horses and a biome.
Argentina is in a bad place not because of the US or EU, but because of destruction from within by politics. It is a very dangerous place to do business in because the politics are volatile enough to turn a multi-year investment into a puff of smoke. As a result, ROI has to be really high to be worth the risk, and it creates a feedback loop that hurts Argentina in the long run.
Good post. When I read the summary, I thought it would have been snarky but somewhat truthful to revise the summary to reflect the true situation:
The European Commission has highlighted five main areas of concern in its investigation: potential bias in Google’s search results, scraping content from rival websites, agreements with advertisers that may exclude rival search-advertising services, being a US company, and contracts that limit marketers from using other platforms."
The EU selectively targets these large fines only at non-EU based companies, which I don't think is coincidence. I agree it was smart to investigate, but they haven't really produced much in terms of evidence to substantiate a $6bn fine. This isn't nearly as egregious as what MS pulled in the past, but its being treated as such.
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Supercarriers tend to have crews of about 20 people. The actual travel is the easy part, its the ongoing day-to-day that is important. For example, a containership can have around 15,000 containers. Some contain hazardous material, some contain frozen or temperature sensitive goods. A single hazardous or refrigerated container (reefer) can take out a whole ship if not controlled or monitored, so some of these guys are tasked with a job called 'reefer monitoring' where you check temps regularly. These reefers are plugged in or run on something called 'gensets' which run on fuel, so power/fuel has to be monitored. The engines in these ships exeed a combined 100,000 horsepower, so there is constant monitoring and maintenance of those behemoths. Then you have the supervisor and a few other odd jobs.
To summarize, having a few people available to handle routine maintenance and emergency response far outweigh the cost of a single accident or emergency and are able to fix problems quickly rather than causing days of downtime. They get paid pretty well too, there are schools that train people specifically for that type of job.
I honestly don't think we'll see full transportation automation until 2060ish, with highway automation becoming mainstream in 20 years. The job loss wont be as quick as the summary expects.
That would be the case...if it were stationary. The object on earth is stationary and then gets a lot of velocity imparted as it launches from earth...problem is earth orbits the sun at 67,000 mph. So to hit the sun, you have to neutralize a lot of velocity relative to the sun. The object put into space from the earth doesnt fall toward the sun, it is falling around the sun. The orbit wouldnt 'spiral in' by a small change in velocity, it jsut makes it elliptical like a comet.
I think what people get concerned with - and this is a real problem - is not that you like what you bought, but that many people like it because they bought it. There is a rationalization/bargaining internal dilemma in purchasing. A simple experiment selling or taste testing the same exact cake for three times the price gets better reviews for the more expensive cake. It may not be you, but there really are a chunk of apple fans that end up in that trap, and they tend to be the most vocal and by far the most annoying in defending their zealotry. I think its why many people see 'the cult of Apple' because the behavior of those few is very cult-like.
Not saying its you at all, just saying that that's where the distrust and skepticism of Apple user's opinions come from.
Generally, when applying for state IDs, you list officer personal information. States can, and will, go after officers for company debts unpaid. I've seen it happen.
Every set of parents thinks their generation of music is the best, and that all kids should have to listen to all of it because they don't appreciate true good music. That was the same situation in the 30's, the 50's, the 70's, the 90's, and now. I'm 30 and love my 90's music like my parents loved their 70's music.
The only thing I dislike about music today is this push that you have to be part of the 'culture' of the music to appreciate it. I love fast, heavy music that my brain has trouble keeping up with. Unfortunately, this means I can't go to a concert without feeling like an outcast unless I cover myself in piercings and tatoos, and get ridiculed for my passive listening style. It also means I get ridiculed for hating the unbearable growls that have infiltrated various sub-genres of metal. The further these sub-genres go is also the more likely that you'll be ostracized for liking any other type of music, and I listen to a good variety.
There's a good satire song that kind of describes how I feel about a lot of music 'culture' - Rock n Roll Lifestyle by Cake.
Fortunately, hes playing the right position if he wants the least head trauma possible. Of all the positions, lineman have to deal with the smallest velocity vectors of any (well, besides kickers). Concussions are far more common among 'skill positions' where players are frequently moving at high speeds and a target/are targeting for tackling. Offensive Lineman just push players or prevent players from advancing...kinda like a Sumo wrestler.
Legalese is surprisingly similar to a programming language. The purpose of legalese is to turn ambiguous english into concrete lines. While this can be used for nefarious purposes, like intentionally ambiguous laws, its not that hard to parse once you start looking at it like a procedure.
Glad I could help. It is very common among programmers, even native english speakers, to use copious amounts of parenthesis. I suspect this is due to their use in programming language. Also, many of us math-minded folk had a disdain for humanities and language courses.
I was taught grammar in a way that reminded me of math - I was given sentences, asked to identify the parts, and asked to reorganize them in many different ways. It reminded me of algebra, reorganizing formulas while learning order of operations. While I'm not the best communicator, I owe a lot of my ability to that class.
There comes a point where this get old. I went through my phase in my late teens with this, and realized I hated being in any kind of relationship like that. I don't find enjoyment in getting laid if there's no emotion in it.
The games take everything I value out of a relationship, so I decided I'm unwilling to play them. Regrettably, this means my relationships are fewer, but the one that recently ended was more meaningful to me than the previous five combined.
Since you mentioned your english in your signature, I just thought I'd share some wisdom imparted on my by one of my english teachers, because I used to have a similar problem with my formatting. He said parenthesis can almost always be eliminated by re-arranging your text, and while it may make it a bit longer, it makes it far more readable. Parenthesis are structure shortcut and should be used sparingly, no more than twice a paragraph if possible. Generally, people try to use parenthesis to indicate conversation pauses or excerpts from the general flow. This can be reformatted with commas, and then once you have the commas part down, you can reduce the number of commas by changing sentence structures.
For example - not perfect and I left one detail out, but you get the picture:
Well, George Haikalis, a Greek-American civil engineer / transportation planner, is apparently influenced by the ideas of Constantinos Doxiadis [wikipedia.org], a now famous architect and city planner most recently noted as master planner of Pakistani city Islamabad. Constantinos proposed closing our old Airport in Athens for decades and relocating further from the city center, and when it finally happened before the 2004 Olympics, with an additional express metro rail link, the result was much more efficient and contributed to our tourism-heavy economy. Many Athenians, if not most, were against the new airport and closing the old one, but now everyone agrees that it was the right thing. Due to its good location, the old airport's area inside Athens is now the biggest free zone for city development in Europe and looks to hopefully contribute a few billion billion Euros, something Greece desparately needs right now! The key was the express metro rail link between the airport and Athens center, something George Haikalis surely used many times - if Athens can do it right, NY can do it better.
Apparently you've never asked friends to move a week ahead of time. Here's a rephrasing of the quote:
A friend is someone who will help you move a body. A real friend is someone who will help you move.
The keurig 2.0 pissed so many people off, that standard store clerks know about the keurig 2.0 and warn people away from it. I warned my stepmother about it before she went out to buy one as a present for someone, and then she got reminded again at the store. I was happy to know that they're actively pushing people away from an inferior product.
Also of note, I found something funny in one of their third party k-cup purchases at my parent's house. It came with something called a 'freedom clip.' It goes over the sensor and does something to the 2.0 machine, preventing all the tomfoolery.
While I find it funny too, apparently the Dota 2 yearly championship aired on either ESPN2 or ESPN3. Not bad for competitive gaming.
As people below have pointed out, its already happening. It also happens on some shipping terminals, a new one just opening up in Rotterdam this year.
A lot of people seem to think trucks house 3000hp engines and have the same level of acceleration as cars. Well..they're close to cars...when empty. Of course, a truck can weigh six to ten times heavier depending on its cargo, and the way you drive is singificantly different in these situations. Since a normal driver can't see the weight of the truck's cargo and truck signals give no indication of acceleration/stopping distance, this leads people to treat empty and full trucks the same way. I'm more observant of it because I work for a shipping company, but most people pay no mind.
My ex was from Canada, the waits are not a myth. It took 10 months to get an appointment for an gastroscopy and 8 months after that to have surgery on her esophagus. It took 3 different doctors and several months just to get the referral required for a gastroscopy because the doctors didn't give a damn and told her to 'deal with it.' She told me she had a far better experience here even paying full price at minute clinics, and that a lot of Canadians flock to US border states to get care because of the insane wait times
Honestly...probably not. We have the capability to put drop a tiny payload on Mars. Now figure out how to drop a payload with almost the size of the original launcher on mars in a controlled descent. It also has to land perfectly within close range of the rover, be able to re-launch, and probably have to retreive/compartmentalize the rover in order to not damage it during landing. Might as well just do a manned mission to Mars.
What an excellent description of faith. I'd mod you up if I could. I don't think I've ever seen it described more succintly.
OSS communities, by nature, don't lend themselves well to large top-down designs. Unfortunately, that's the most common way humans have been able to successfully organize authority, showing itself in government and business alike. The result resembles feudalism - a bunch of small OSS lords ruling their small fiefdoms with a tribal mentality for anything against their cause. It is a very caustic environment, and in my opinion, the number one reason Free Software remains marginal. Decisions around OSS are made on politics and ideals, not on pragmatism. Its hard to attract mindshare in that kind of environment.
Based on the name, this is a sugar alcohol? (-itol suffix like Maltitol). Sugar alcohols cause extremely negative intestinal and stomach reactions from many people. A lot of the protein meal replacement bars use sugar alcohols and a significant percentage of consumers can't eat them for that reason. See also sugar free life savers, which have been giving people fits for ages.
You're making it way too complicated. The power-line company can buy power from whoever is providing, and sell power to whoever is consuming. Just like they do now with home solar power. They can make whatever agreements they like with generating companies as to who gets what share of demand, what response times are required, etc. Add some grid-scale power buffers, even just a few minutes worth, and things get even simpler.
While it sounds good in theory, power plants and grids take years to expand, and the information needed to project power plant demand would be in the hands of the grid owners. It would be much harder to scale power generation smoothly with demand, and potentially increase the number of power company crashes due to the potential boom/bust introduction. This would allow the line owners to control the winners and losers in the power generation industry, and create a scenario similar to the way content producers like Netflix interact with Comcast.
While the potential for competition would be nice, the potential for boom/bust crashes of power generating companies could create instability and brownouts, something many deem unacceptable. In this case, I think industry stability > industry growth.
He was also the big push behind the neti pot fad. Some people died from it from contaminated water, if I recall.
Modders move quite slow due to the frustrating architecture. 1.6 required a major overhaul to most mods, and 1.8 is being avoided like the plague for the same reason. There's also little incentive to upgrade, since the amount of content in the mods is orders of magnitude higher than vanilla, no ones going to switch off 60 mods in a modpack to get some horses and a biome.
Argentina is in a bad place not because of the US or EU, but because of destruction from within by politics. It is a very dangerous place to do business in because the politics are volatile enough to turn a multi-year investment into a puff of smoke. As a result, ROI has to be really high to be worth the risk, and it creates a feedback loop that hurts Argentina in the long run.
Good post. When I read the summary, I thought it would have been snarky but somewhat truthful to revise the summary to reflect the true situation:
The European Commission has highlighted five main areas of concern in its investigation: potential bias in Google’s search results, scraping content from rival websites, agreements with advertisers that may exclude rival search-advertising services, being a US company, and contracts that limit marketers from using other platforms."
The EU selectively targets these large fines only at non-EU based companies, which I don't think is coincidence. I agree it was smart to investigate, but they haven't really produced much in terms of evidence to substantiate a $6bn fine. This isn't nearly as egregious as what MS pulled in the past, but its being treated as such.