We flew into Munich, traveled by Train to Austria and returned to the US via Munich. We had no issues other than US Customs wanted to review the food items we were importing and declared. We knew that when we bought the Austrian chocolate and it took maybe an extra 5 minutes to go through the Agriculture lane for customs.
I did burn a DVD of my pictures as a backup, more in case the laptop was stollen than if US Customs wanted to retain the laptop.
We need standardized testing for candidates followed by day long situational tasks: give each candidate 8 hrs to review the same 10 proposals as if were a cabinet meeting. The candidate would have to prioritize and respond to each and the voter could get insight to their decision making process.
Evaluating a president on the ability to come up with 1-2 minute responses using a set catalog of themes prepared during debate prep does little to help an undecided voter.
We have a better process for college entrance exams and job interviews.
And now the Democrat Secretary of State is redefining election law to say that registration and then absentee voting up to 5 days before the election is legal because by the time the paper ballots are recorded the voter would have been registered for the legislated 30 days.
Why stop there, why not let 17 yr olds that would turn 18 by the time the ballots are counted vote too?
What if in 30 days you plan to be a resident of the state?
Combine a lack of domain knowledge with the way the public gathers candidate "information" via 30 second ads of "don't vote for him, only our guy can create jobs" ensures mediocrity at best. Even worse is that each candidate then approves of this message.
How does this work in regulated industries like insurance where changes affecting pricing and eligibility require filing updates to the manual with each state's Department of Insurance?
Current General Aviation is partially funded by the AVGas tax on the fuel used. So will it have dual tanks or will the owner have to pay AVGas prices to drive on the road?
Who is going to insure the vehicle on the road?
Are the owners likely to do a pre-flight inspection, or are they going to "ye-haw, let's go fly'n in my car"? I imagine the wing surfaces will encounter more harsh contitions on the road and these may require more frequent inspections than the normal 100 hr / annual.
If each robot was assigned to a single xbox live account it would be much easier to manage the ethics.
The subscription would help subsidize the costs of creating the robot infrastructure and you would have humans making the kill/no kill decisions.
Eventually we could give up on actually producing the weapons and blowing up tangable resources... parties that declare war would have to deposit XBL points. This allows for various victory formats: "winner take all" or portioned victory based upon % of map / remaining resources.
I worked in the same division as Jerry years ago. At the time he was silo'd (not his choice) in a $40 million failed attempt to replace the cobol-assembler payroll system with an "off the shelf" Dunn & Bradstreet mainframe product. The project was called HRMS. It went on for something like 18 years. Each year the folks several positions above Jerry kept pushing for more funding to get it completed. For 15 years they were "just a few more months" away from completion. Along came Y2K and in mid 1998, the external auditors finally got the message above to the cabinet that come 2000 the payroll system would cease to function. Due to HRMS always being 6 months from completion, any budget that was tied to maintenance of the cobol system got sucked away into the HRMS void. Jerry would often just smile to our questions about the status of the HRMS, he wanted to say what wasn't right about it, but kept quiet to keep his job.
So, in 1998 with backs up against the wall and through some heroic effort on the part of Bob Cruse's staff, the cobol system was given enough resources including myself to remediate the system.
You would think that in 2000 they would have pulled the plug; nope, and that's a reason I left. Instead it was 2001 or 2002 that they finally called HRMS suck cost. Jerry had fewer options being a state life'r; to get his pension he needed to stay for 30 yrs.
Immediately following the disolution of HRMS, they took the same architects involved in HRMS and tossed in additional incompitent pointy hairs and created the OAKS project.
My former boss was added to the group and one of his backup strategies was to take our network backs home on tape. Sound familiar? We secretly revolted and instead sent them to another state office.
That is what I know about Jerry and now I'm going to guess and say this went above Jerry and he's taking the fall.
What insurance company will cover these roadable planes?
Aircraft insurers are not going to want to cover the plane while on the road, and car insurers will not want the liability in the air.
Even if they can keep the weight of the aircraft down under the "Light Sport" limit, I don't think the target audience of this will be diligent in following the FAR's, pre-flight inspections, or scheduled maintenance. Most people consider an oil change for their car a suggested interval; for aircraft scheduled service intervals can make it un-airworthy and void your insurance if you fly it regardless.
People are used to getting in their cars and being able to try to drive through snow, thunderstorms and this thing is going to put more pilots in the position of flying into marginal conditions because "it's just a car that flies".
As an aircraft owner I would not want to subject my control surfaces to road debris and I would not want to run up hours on my engine just driving it to an airport.
If the footprint of Acrobat and Flash are indicators of what an Adobe Office product would consume, it will make MS Office look efficient. (Acrobat needs 31 mb of ram to show a 100k PDF, Outlook uses 21mb and I have a 60mb mail store with 800mb in a local pst)
You are not considering the opportunity cost. Every hour in the classroom/lab with students is time not spent working on grants.
The supply-demand issue applies to the article: as demand increases for the skills; students are seeking the education to meet that demand. Universities respond to compeeting resources and increased demand (with limited ability to scale) by increasing price to the consumer.
To those claiming this prevents lower income students from attending, it should result in the opposite. At an artifically low tuition price the university is forced into a least-cost solution and has little flexibility to respond to consumers that need grants. At higher price points that have a larger margin over expenses, the university is in a better position to provide grants/loans/scholarships to lower income students.
Our LLC received a notice that our EIN was on that tape. The letter referred us to a site of what to do when the data was used and how to prevent identity theft. No offer to monitor usage was extended to us as individual partners in the LLC. I guess Gov. Ted Strickland is ok with businesses being impersonated.
Organic farming is not for everyone and will not feed the world. I operate an 80 acre organic grain (soybeans, wheat, corn) farm. Its about the worst use of resources I can imagine, but because public perception is that it is healthier, it often works out as an economic advantage vs. modern agriculture. I make 11 trips across the field due to organic standards that prevent the use of chemical means of destroying weeds. Weather often is a factor. Often I'll get the soil conditioned for planting only to have enough rain that it takes a week to dry out. By then the field needs re-worked.
With modern agriculture (non-organic) you can produce a crop that yields 2-3 times more per acre with 4 passes. It saves a lot of fuel, but the price of organic grain is 2-3 times the conventional grain prices.
Small poultry production like this back yard variety is ripe for Avian Influenza due to the bird being exposed to external factors and interaction with wild population. Because its not popular to regulate "family farms" there is not a strict EPA or USDA inspection of these chicken coups or their waste products.
There is years of research in optimal use of resources to obtain the best weight gain, meat, egg, grain, whatever; in my experience organic farming (where inputs are limited to certified grain or table scraps) does not result in a better product.
This is why my day job is in IT. My suggestion is to become a corporate pilot.
[Harry enters Godric Hallow where Lord Voldemort awaits and casts an unforgivable curse]
Voldemort: "Crucio"
Voldemort: "Good heavens... are you still trying to win? You've got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance. It's going to get you into trouble someday."
[curse missed harry]
Harry: "My name is Harry Potter, you killed my, father prepare to die"
Voldemort: "Stop saying that"
Harry: "My name is Harry Potter, you killed my, father prepare to die. Avadacadavera"
[Voldemort dies]
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We flew into Munich, traveled by Train to Austria and returned to the US via Munich. We had no issues other than US Customs wanted to review the food items we were importing and declared. We knew that when we bought the Austrian chocolate and it took maybe an extra 5 minutes to go through the Agriculture lane for customs.
I did burn a DVD of my pictures as a backup, more in case the laptop was stollen than if US Customs wanted to retain the laptop.
Get over the paranoia and go see the world.
We need standardized testing for candidates followed by day long situational tasks: give each candidate 8 hrs to review the same 10 proposals as if were a cabinet meeting. The candidate would have to prioritize and respond to each and the voter could get insight to their decision making process.
Evaluating a president on the ability to come up with 1-2 minute responses using a set catalog of themes prepared during debate prep does little to help an undecided voter.
We have a better process for college entrance exams and job interviews.
And now the Democrat Secretary of State is redefining election law to say that registration and then absentee voting up to 5 days before the election is legal because by the time the paper ballots are recorded the voter would have been registered for the legislated 30 days.
Why stop there, why not let 17 yr olds that would turn 18 by the time the ballots are counted vote too?
What if in 30 days you plan to be a resident of the state?
Combine a lack of domain knowledge with the way the public gathers candidate "information" via 30 second ads of "don't vote for him, only our guy can create jobs" ensures mediocrity at best. Even worse is that each candidate then approves of this message.
Let us not forget Microsoft's relationship to NBC.
Anything marginally related to Microsoft is fair game for rants.
How does this work in regulated industries like insurance where changes affecting pricing and eligibility require filing updates to the manual with each state's Department of Insurance?
Current General Aviation is partially funded by the AVGas tax on the fuel used. So will it have dual tanks or will the owner have to pay AVGas prices to drive on the road?
Who is going to insure the vehicle on the road?
Are the owners likely to do a pre-flight inspection, or are they going to "ye-haw, let's go fly'n in my car"? I imagine the wing surfaces will encounter more harsh contitions on the road and these may require more frequent inspections than the normal 100 hr / annual.
I'm sure China is capable of certifying and delivering these new designs at a lower cost.
If each robot was assigned to a single xbox live account it would be much easier to manage the ethics.
... parties that declare war would have to deposit XBL points. This allows for various victory formats: "winner take all" or portioned victory based upon % of map / remaining resources.
The subscription would help subsidize the costs of creating the robot infrastructure and you would have humans making the kill/no kill decisions.
Eventually we could give up on actually producing the weapons and blowing up tangable resources
I worked in the same division as Jerry years ago. At the time he was silo'd (not his choice) in a $40 million failed attempt to replace the cobol-assembler payroll system with an "off the shelf" Dunn & Bradstreet mainframe product. The project was called HRMS. It went on for something like 18 years. Each year the folks several positions above Jerry kept pushing for more funding to get it completed. For 15 years they were "just a few more months" away from completion. Along came Y2K and in mid 1998, the external auditors finally got the message above to the cabinet that come 2000 the payroll system would cease to function. Due to HRMS always being 6 months from completion, any budget that was tied to maintenance of the cobol system got sucked away into the HRMS void. Jerry would often just smile to our questions about the status of the HRMS, he wanted to say what wasn't right about it, but kept quiet to keep his job.
So, in 1998 with backs up against the wall and through some heroic effort on the part of Bob Cruse's staff, the cobol system was given enough resources including myself to remediate the system.
You would think that in 2000 they would have pulled the plug; nope, and that's a reason I left. Instead it was 2001 or 2002 that they finally called HRMS suck cost. Jerry had fewer options being a state life'r; to get his pension he needed to stay for 30 yrs.
Immediately following the disolution of HRMS, they took the same architects involved in HRMS and tossed in additional incompitent pointy hairs and created the OAKS project.
My former boss was added to the group and one of his backup strategies was to take our network backs home on tape. Sound familiar? We secretly revolted and instead sent them to another state office.
That is what I know about Jerry and now I'm going to guess and say this went above Jerry and he's taking the fall.
What insurance company will cover these roadable planes?
Aircraft insurers are not going to want to cover the plane while on the road, and car insurers will not want the liability in the air.
Even if they can keep the weight of the aircraft down under the "Light Sport" limit, I don't think the target audience of this will be diligent in following the FAR's, pre-flight inspections, or scheduled maintenance. Most people consider an oil change for their car a suggested interval; for aircraft scheduled service intervals can make it un-airworthy and void your insurance if you fly it regardless.
People are used to getting in their cars and being able to try to drive through snow, thunderstorms and this thing is going to put more pilots in the position of flying into marginal conditions because "it's just a car that flies".
As an aircraft owner I would not want to subject my control surfaces to road debris and I would not want to run up hours on my engine just driving it to an airport.
If the footprint of Acrobat and Flash are indicators of what an Adobe Office product would consume, it will make MS Office look efficient. (Acrobat needs 31 mb of ram to show a 100k PDF, Outlook uses 21mb and I have a 60mb mail store with 800mb in a local pst)
You are not considering the opportunity cost. Every hour in the classroom/lab with students is time not spent working on grants.
The supply-demand issue applies to the article: as demand increases for the skills; students are seeking the education to meet that demand. Universities respond to compeeting resources and increased demand (with limited ability to scale) by increasing price to the consumer.
To those claiming this prevents lower income students from attending, it should result in the opposite. At an artifically low tuition price the university is forced into a least-cost solution and has little flexibility to respond to consumers that need grants. At higher price points that have a larger margin over expenses, the university is in a better position to provide grants/loans/scholarships to lower income students.
Unless you are a business.
Our LLC received a notice that our EIN was on that tape. The letter referred us to a site of what to do when the data was used and how to prevent identity theft. No offer to monitor usage was extended to us as individual partners in the LLC. I guess Gov. Ted Strickland is ok with businesses being impersonated.
I am a Private Pilot LTA Free Balloon, but as a career I'd look at operating a taxi service in a VLJ.
Organic farming is not for everyone and will not feed the world. I operate an 80 acre organic grain (soybeans, wheat, corn) farm. Its about the worst use of resources I can imagine, but because public perception is that it is healthier, it often works out as an economic advantage vs. modern agriculture. I make 11 trips across the field due to organic standards that prevent the use of chemical means of destroying weeds. Weather often is a factor. Often I'll get the soil conditioned for planting only to have enough rain that it takes a week to dry out. By then the field needs re-worked.
With modern agriculture (non-organic) you can produce a crop that yields 2-3 times more per acre with 4 passes. It saves a lot of fuel, but the price of organic grain is 2-3 times the conventional grain prices.
Small poultry production like this back yard variety is ripe for Avian Influenza due to the bird being exposed to external factors and interaction with wild population. Because its not popular to regulate "family farms" there is not a strict EPA or USDA inspection of these chicken coups or their waste products.
There is years of research in optimal use of resources to obtain the best weight gain, meat, egg, grain, whatever; in my experience organic farming (where inputs are limited to certified grain or table scraps) does not result in a better product.
This is why my day job is in IT. My suggestion is to become a corporate pilot.[Harry enters Godric Hallow where Lord Voldemort awaits and casts an unforgivable curse] ... are you still trying to win? You've got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance. It's going to get you into trouble someday."
Voldemort: "Crucio"
Voldemort: "Good heavens
[curse missed harry]
Harry: "My name is Harry Potter, you killed my, father prepare to die"
Voldemort: "Stop saying that"
Harry: "My name is Harry Potter, you killed my, father prepare to die. Avadacadavera"
[Voldemort dies]