Also, consider the fact that the minute is only the point they could prove what he did, if he was willing to aid in DDOS attacks who knows how many other people he helped attack in the past?
No, don't consider this at all. That's not how the system works. "Well, he probably did some other bad stuff" is explicitly protected against as a prosecution.
Taken on its own, it does make sense. LTS needs to be usable (technically, inb4 "unity") on the widest practical range of hardware and be supported for 3 years. If Mir needs to be delayed so X applications can run on 14.04, so be it.
I see it this way too. It's not, necessarily, an indictment of Mir. It might just be that, unlike some major OS vendors, canonical is taking a more measured approach than to push features that don't work into software they're going to have to support long term.
1 in 4 adults is stuck in rush hour traffic. Seriously, I don't see the harm in checking facebook while going 5mph or lower on a gridlocked freeway. Nothing is happening fast enough that I'm going to miss.
The pressures that they use to fracture rock are in the THOUSANDS of pounds, the pressures they're injecting CO2 at are in the HUNDREDS.
The CO2 isn't fracturing the rock.
Depends on how the rocks are sited and where the CO2 is injected. A pressure of "hundreds of pounds" doesn't guarantee that no rock crushing forces are generated. Bad luck could result in rocks being configured in such a way that when you injected the CO2, it pushed them together in such a way that unexpected movement occured.
If you inject 100psi of well contained CO2 under a large 50ft by 50ft slab of rock it's going to generate about 36 million pounds force on that slab. In comparison, a 50ft cube of granite weighs around 21 million pounds
you're assuming, though, that the concrete isn't porous, and that all of the force would be applied on the face of that slab as opposed to pushing the CO2 through that slab. We're talking about a rock that required thousands of pounds of pressure on a liquid (less likely to flow through pores) to fracture in the first place, we crammed sand INTO the fractures to increase flow (and keep them open), and now we're only putting hundreds of pounds of CO2 pressure into these fractures.
I'll still hold, the CO2 isn't fracturing the rock.
megacorps never listen.everything from cigarettes to global warming and fracking have all seemed to have this pattern:
1. new technology or idea proposed with limited research. it gets pushed hard by megacorps who want cash.
2. problems arise such as seismic disturbance, gas in the water supply, etc.
3. industry reacts immediately and violently to the concerns of regular citizens. everything classified as an 'isolated event' and media is threatened with advertising boycott if they report too much about it.
4. mounting evidence suggests new technology is dangerous and has negative consequences.
5. industry responds insisting everything is OK.
6. more evidence mounts, legislation gets proposed to curtail the technology and enact regulation
7. industry pushes back with FUD and insists the effects are 'controversial' and 'unknown' with relation to the technology but that regulation is not the answer because jobs..
8. deaths, major accidents, and environmental impacts are being seen.
9. Industry starts gladhanding senators and congressmen to ensure interests are seen to. senators, as usual, are familiar with ignoring constituents with less than a million dollars.
10. industry no longer formally responds to complaints. evidence consists solely of legislation they crafted and enacted to support their industry.
11. industry pulls out after investment potential is exhausted or litigation expenses become annoying. pack up, move out, and assign a 'vacant trust' to the property to ensure superfund only kicks taxpayers in the beanbag.
Except for the part where frac'ing isn't new technology. The oilfield has been frac'ing wells since before cigarettes were unsafe. Hell, we've been injecting CO2 almost that long.
Until you figure out why CO2 injection causes problems at one oilfield, and not its neighbors, even though all of them have had similar amounts of CO2 injected, it seems rather more likely than not that the CO2 injection had nothing to do with the tremors.
Or that rocks will break and fracture in ways that aren't necessarily predictable.
It can be the cause in one well, and still not have caused the same problem in another well just simply by the local rocks and what's already happened to them.
I don't think anybody is suggesting "inject CO2, cause earthquake"... but that the rocks might fracture (or whatever) in ways you don't really have a way to predict very well.
If it was pumping in the high pressure stuff that lead to unexpected mechanical failure of rock structures, you're never going to get a 100% result on something like that.
But I do think it highly likely there's more complexity going on than they're capable of knowing or controlling.
The pressures that they use to fracture rock are in the THOUSANDS of pounds, the pressures they're injecting CO2 at are in the HUNDREDS.
There doesn't seem to be great outrage at the possiblity of default, which could have catastrophic effects on the US economy if it resulted in the US Dollar's reserve currency status being downgraded -- if a significant proportion of those dollars currently held by other countries were sold, it would be dire. Any impact on the economy from the ACA would pale into insignificance in comparison to compromise of reserve currency status.
So where is the outrage at the small number of Republicans who are threatening this?
So we should all more shit to get piled on our collective plates of shit because of the possibility of an even larger pile of shit being dumped on us if we don't.
THAT'S your play?
How about fuck you, I'll take my ball and go home, instead?
Within an hour, it had jumped more than $1, from $110.40 to $111.50.
it jumped 1%. that's hardly significant. in fact, that's just pretty regular. this is a stupid article. who the hell approves this crap?
We're not allowed to make fun of wall street assholes getting caught being assholes because they amount doesn't meet some unmentioned asshole percentage?
But occasionally they DO actually go to bad for the right causes.
This would be one of them.
Considering Obamacare says we CAN'T opt out of insurance over medical care, we really can't opt out of medical care either thus making the DEA's response pure crap.
If the CO2 gets into the ground water (which is where your pumping it), it will turn the water acidic.
Do you really want acidic water running through our limestone deposits?
No, that's not where you're pumping it. Generall speaking the ground water is shallower than 500ft. Five Hundred. The depths that they're frac'ing are generally greater than 5000. Five THOUSAND.
Co2 in water forms a mild acid. It could be rather dramatic in its effects on water quality and also if limestone is present or several other kinds of rock the reaction might be rather violent over time. Try growing your house plants on carbonated water and you will rapidly see the problem. Maybe we could pump enough Coke syrup down with the CO2 so that the Earth could spew an interesting beverage. Let's rank the notion of down pumping CO2 as absurd.
Funnily enough, they're pumping metric shitloads (exact measurement) of CO2 into the ground in order to scrape the last little bits of oil off of the rock. Seems to work a treat...
We call this tertiary recovery or a "CO2 flood." Nothing violent seems to be happening over time.
. It is true that in many fields there is still a wage disparity between women and men doing the same job with the same skills and qualifications. That is a genuine wrong that must be fixed.
When you actually look deeper into the issue then the feminist boilerplate you note something interesting: There actually is no "gender-wage gap." How can this be you say!? Becuase what we ACTUALLY have is a gender-hour gap. Women simply spend less time in their seats than men do. Whether it's vacations or illness, they're just not around. In positions, such as tech, where seat time is roughly equivalent to output, why should women get the same pay for less output?
Biologically men and women are not the same, i agree, but i fail to follow your argument how that reflects the intellectual differences!!!
You're trying to equate a very narrow definition of intellect (good at programming) with a broader one. It doesn't work.
As a matter of fact, women are better developed than men till their 20's. As you said, it as biology.
So what's the implication?
Also, as a matter of fact, women have better imagination, a waaaay way better than men, but somehow they are also not accepted in all the architectural jobs for example.
So what's the implication? They can imagine better looking buildings? Well that's fine in drawings, it doesn't hold muster when you have to do the math to actually build the thing.
Another fact is that women are better suited for multitasking, waaaay better than men, who could manage only one task at the time, but for some strange reason they are again not suited for management positions!!
A falsehood quoted so frequently it has become "truth." Women are better at remembering their place in a list of tasks, but they're no more efficient at actually completing the whole list than men are in doing the same list in a more linear fashion.
Man....i could cite fact after fact proving that in many areas women are better then men, because of their biology, but i know, you would not be convinced, so why bother...
As someone who is involved with hiring developers, I agree there is a shortage of qualified developers currently looking for work. H1B (in my experience, in my area of the country) does very little if anything to help the situation. If there are highly qualified H1B carrying individuals, I'd love to meet them (and hire them).
My personal experience has shown that on the whole, H1B's are average to slightly below in terms of the overall talent pool, and that pool is pretty shallow right now. I've interviewed H1B's whose most complicated project they worked on in college amounted to "Hello World" and who can't even code FizzBuzz on a whiteboard. Granted, I've also interviewed American citizens who are equally un-qualified, but if the intent of H1B is to attract only the "best & brightest," I'd say it fails pretty badly.
If there was a way of screening H1B applicants for qualifications before granting the visa, it might make more sense. Perhaps require that they have a job offer waiting from someone who wants to hire them first. As the program stands now, all it seems to do is dilute the talent pool and waste interview time on dead wood.
As far as off-shoring goes, as we've also tried that as an option, we found you get what you pay for. The time differences, language barrier, and out of reach nature of off shore programmers led to barely adequate code quality, and required significant oversight & double-checking by some of our more talented team members to ensure what the off short contracts were delivering was secure, performant, and actually did what it was supposed to do. We found that at any scale, the amount of highly talented supervision required on-shore off set any gains by having programmers off-shore. Hiring better people locally & paying them a bit more is a better ROI.
This smacks of entire industries who have no interest in creating talent, only acquiring it. There's a problem there, and the """cheap""" solution is to, once again instead of create it, to import it.
Obviously your post hints at a question of whether or not what you're importing is actual talent, so I circle back to the idea of creating it locally instead.
To paraphrase a famous body builder:
Errybody want 5 year experience
ain't nobody want to train
This is what happens when you have 3.5 Billion years of hacks. Legacy code, no overall architecture and absolute chaos.
Let's start over and redesign humans from the ground up.
The early programmers attempted to select the most fit patches (based on what they were able to observe as rank novice coders) to incorporate into the next version of the software. However, with programming techniques such as "fat acceptance," "gender nonconformity," and "child-bearing as a right" the most recent patches have absolutely ZERO quality control.
Now what do these geniuses propose to do about people with that biomarker?
Recent studies suggest "gender symmetry" in domestic violence. So is it really the Y chromosome that's a marker for violence? Or is that just a social phenomenon couched in men's ability to cause more destruction through superior physical strength?
oh, poor George got punched! The real fact is that if there were no guns at the scene, GZ would've gotten a beating and both men would still be alive.
The age of taking a beating and chalking it up to experience died half a century ago. Now, we have a sociery where you can HAND someone a beating...and then sue them for making your fists hurt.
This is really about porn and video games... these two things can by themselves provide the brain with enough entertainment, reward, and pleasure to make the real world unnecessary.
First, there is a trauma: he fails to live up to parents expectations regarding education or career, has a heartbreak, loses his job, or whatever. Then he consoles himself with porn and video games. They feel good and he doesn't have to worry about his problems for a little while. If this goes on for long enough and he doesn't receive the right kind of social support, he may become addicted to both and lose the drive to do anything else.
What really happens is he becomes trapped by the dopamine pathways (reward system) in his brain. He is incapacitated by fear and social anxiety when dealing with others because his brain's reward system has been overpowered by the artificial stimulation of porn and video games. The dopamine normally produced by his brain during social interactions doesn't have nature's intended positive reinforcement effects for him because his dopamine tolerance is so high thanks to his addictions.
He becomes further and further withdrawn and does the only thing he knows how to do to feel "normal:" feed his addiction.
This has become a serious issue for young men in other parts of the world as well. It is ultimately made possible by technology, in particular the Internet.
What if, instead of it being an "addiction" involving "dopamine pathways" its something far simpler: a logic choice that society sucks ass, offers nothing to them, and isn't worth participating in. This dovetails quite nicely with another japanese problem quaintly called shoshoku danshi (herbivores): A group of men who managed to make it out of their parent's houses but choose to live in inexpensive apartments, not succeed financially, and don't bother to date. They just simply "graze."
All the same symptoms, none of the mental disorder boogeyman.
This is *exactly* why switching away from 100LL is problematic. There are plenty of other ways to increase octane, but not to prevent valve seat wear in these older engines.
Somebody else here mentioned that engines need to be overhauled every 1000 hours. What gets overhauled? Would installing new exhaust valves and seats be out of the question?
Most of those "plenty of other ways" involve liquids that have issues with staying liquids at the altitudes an aircraft sees.
The bike I ride is water cooled and uses CV carbs. A one-in-four gal mix seemed to increase torque somewhat dramatically. Were the carbs clean? Yes. Valves adjusted? Yes. Compression fine? Yes.
Hilly country rides became immensely pleasurable, although yes, the engine temp increased two notches in ten. Unfortunately, that doesn't translate to degrees on the bike's thermometer. Nonetheless, it was wahhhhhoooo time.
Placebo effect entirely. In fact, the bike actually made LESS power on the 100 octane than it did on the lower octane fuel. In all scenarios, the best power is made on the lowest octane fuel that doesn't result in detonation.
caveat: assuming similar fuel composition. Therefore, if the pump gas in your area has 10% ethanol, the non-ethanol avgas will run slightly better. However, the increase in energy density from the lack of ethanol is offset by the inefficiency of combustion associated with the higher octane burning significantly slower...so we're back to the placebo again.
having an "intricate electronic folder structure" complete with "detailed personal information" is nefarious? Isn't that, essentially, every install of every desktop OS ever?
Hell, I think in my 13k file music collection sorted by album and artist there's EASILY 3k folders. And I think elsewhere on the same drive I have my tax returns...
It was, overall, a very uncomfortable experience for me. I was, at many of the places, subjected to comments along the lines of "I've worked with a female developer before, and it was really difficult because she didn't have a sense of humor/couldn't take a joke/made us feel like we had to be on our best behavior - would you be like that?" Seriously. I was repeatedly told that one concern was the rest of the team feeling like they might have to walk on eggshells around me.
Feminism applauds it's percieved-sexist whistleblowers, and since the HR review boards who investigate these types of things are comprised of mostly women...it's a scenario of guilty into proven innocent. You really can't blame men for their concern in this regard: they don't want to risk their careers to accomodate a woman who may or may not be a sexist whistleblower.
A lot of comments that seem to treat women as members of some kind of hive mind wherein certain behaviors are just expected.
Subject to the normal distribution, women most often value consensus and social inclusion higher than individualism and success. So in effect, women are a hive mind.
it would be as unfair as me treating all men like rapists just because some men are.
Feminists do just that.
Did you ask a girl in an elevator to have drinks in your hotel room? Rapist.
Did you think about having sex with her? Rapist.
Did you hit on her in a way she didn't like (if she liked it, its fine)? Rapist.
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Any state run by the GOP/TEA/KKK fringe already has the dictatorship.
Is this an attempt to say that a state run by democrats ISN'T? Cuz, no.
Also, consider the fact that the minute is only the point they could prove what he did, if he was willing to aid in DDOS attacks who knows how many other people he helped attack in the past?
No, don't consider this at all. That's not how the system works. "Well, he probably did some other bad stuff" is explicitly protected against as a prosecution.
Taken on its own, it does make sense. LTS needs to be usable (technically, inb4 "unity") on the widest practical range of hardware and be supported for 3 years. If Mir needs to be delayed so X applications can run on 14.04, so be it.
I see it this way too. It's not, necessarily, an indictment of Mir. It might just be that, unlike some major OS vendors, canonical is taking a more measured approach than to push features that don't work into software they're going to have to support long term.
1 in 4 adults is stuck in rush hour traffic. Seriously, I don't see the harm in checking facebook while going 5mph or lower on a gridlocked freeway. Nothing is happening fast enough that I'm going to miss.
The pressures that they use to fracture rock are in the THOUSANDS of pounds, the pressures they're injecting CO2 at are in the HUNDREDS.
The CO2 isn't fracturing the rock.
Depends on how the rocks are sited and where the CO2 is injected. A pressure of "hundreds of pounds" doesn't guarantee that no rock crushing forces are generated. Bad luck could result in rocks being configured in such a way that when you injected the CO2, it pushed them together in such a way that unexpected movement occured.
If you inject 100psi of well contained CO2 under a large 50ft by 50ft slab of rock it's going to generate about 36 million pounds force on that slab. In comparison, a 50ft cube of granite weighs around 21 million pounds
you're assuming, though, that the concrete isn't porous, and that all of the force would be applied on the face of that slab as opposed to pushing the CO2 through that slab. We're talking about a rock that required thousands of pounds of pressure on a liquid (less likely to flow through pores) to fracture in the first place, we crammed sand INTO the fractures to increase flow (and keep them open), and now we're only putting hundreds of pounds of CO2 pressure into these fractures.
I'll still hold, the CO2 isn't fracturing the rock.
megacorps never listen.everything from cigarettes to global warming and fracking have all seemed to have this pattern: 1. new technology or idea proposed with limited research. it gets pushed hard by megacorps who want cash. 2. problems arise such as seismic disturbance, gas in the water supply, etc. 3. industry reacts immediately and violently to the concerns of regular citizens. everything classified as an 'isolated event' and media is threatened with advertising boycott if they report too much about it. 4. mounting evidence suggests new technology is dangerous and has negative consequences. 5. industry responds insisting everything is OK. 6. more evidence mounts, legislation gets proposed to curtail the technology and enact regulation 7. industry pushes back with FUD and insists the effects are 'controversial' and 'unknown' with relation to the technology but that regulation is not the answer because jobs.. 8. deaths, major accidents, and environmental impacts are being seen. 9. Industry starts gladhanding senators and congressmen to ensure interests are seen to. senators, as usual, are familiar with ignoring constituents with less than a million dollars. 10. industry no longer formally responds to complaints. evidence consists solely of legislation they crafted and enacted to support their industry. 11. industry pulls out after investment potential is exhausted or litigation expenses become annoying. pack up, move out, and assign a 'vacant trust' to the property to ensure superfund only kicks taxpayers in the beanbag.
Except for the part where frac'ing isn't new technology. The oilfield has been frac'ing wells since before cigarettes were unsafe. Hell, we've been injecting CO2 almost that long.
Or that rocks will break and fracture in ways that aren't necessarily predictable.
It can be the cause in one well, and still not have caused the same problem in another well just simply by the local rocks and what's already happened to them.
I don't think anybody is suggesting "inject CO2, cause earthquake" ... but that the rocks might fracture (or whatever) in ways you don't really have a way to predict very well.
If it was pumping in the high pressure stuff that lead to unexpected mechanical failure of rock structures, you're never going to get a 100% result on something like that.
But I do think it highly likely there's more complexity going on than they're capable of knowing or controlling.
The pressures that they use to fracture rock are in the THOUSANDS of pounds, the pressures they're injecting CO2 at are in the HUNDREDS.
The CO2 isn't fracturing the rock.
There doesn't seem to be great outrage at the possiblity of default, which could have catastrophic effects on the US economy if it resulted in the US Dollar's reserve currency status being downgraded -- if a significant proportion of those dollars currently held by other countries were sold, it would be dire. Any impact on the economy from the ACA would pale into insignificance in comparison to compromise of reserve currency status. So where is the outrage at the small number of Republicans who are threatening this?
So we should all more shit to get piled on our collective plates of shit because of the possibility of an even larger pile of shit being dumped on us if we don't.
THAT'S your play?
How about fuck you, I'll take my ball and go home, instead?
Within an hour, it had jumped more than $1, from $110.40 to $111.50.
it jumped 1%. that's hardly significant. in fact, that's just pretty regular. this is a stupid article. who the hell approves this crap?
We're not allowed to make fun of wall street assholes getting caught being assholes because they amount doesn't meet some unmentioned asshole percentage?
But occasionally they DO actually go to bad for the right causes. This would be one of them. Considering Obamacare says we CAN'T opt out of insurance over medical care, we really can't opt out of medical care either thus making the DEA's response pure crap.
Carbon Dioxide isn't flammable.
Instead what you'll get is the gas pressure rupturing the well casing at the water table line and we'll all have fizzy water. And then asphyxiate.
You do realize that, in addition to casing, there's several inches of concrete isolating the ground water from the wellbore, right?
If the CO2 gets into the ground water (which is where your pumping it), it will turn the water acidic. Do you really want acidic water running through our limestone deposits?
No, that's not where you're pumping it. Generall speaking the ground water is shallower than 500ft. Five Hundred. The depths that they're frac'ing are generally greater than 5000. Five THOUSAND.
Co2 in water forms a mild acid. It could be rather dramatic in its effects on water quality and also if limestone is present or several other kinds of rock the reaction might be rather violent over time. Try growing your house plants on carbonated water and you will rapidly see the problem. Maybe we could pump enough Coke syrup down with the CO2 so that the Earth could spew an interesting beverage. Let's rank the notion of down pumping CO2 as absurd.
Funnily enough, they're pumping metric shitloads (exact measurement) of CO2 into the ground in order to scrape the last little bits of oil off of the rock. Seems to work a treat... We call this tertiary recovery or a "CO2 flood." Nothing violent seems to be happening over time.
. It is true that in many fields there is still a wage disparity between women and men doing the same job with the same skills and qualifications. That is a genuine wrong that must be fixed.
When you actually look deeper into the issue then the feminist boilerplate you note something interesting: There actually is no "gender-wage gap." How can this be you say!? Becuase what we ACTUALLY have is a gender-hour gap. Women simply spend less time in their seats than men do. Whether it's vacations or illness, they're just not around. In positions, such as tech, where seat time is roughly equivalent to output, why should women get the same pay for less output?
Biologically men and women are not the same, i agree, but i fail to follow your argument how that reflects the intellectual differences!!!
You're trying to equate a very narrow definition of intellect (good at programming) with a broader one. It doesn't work.
As a matter of fact, women are better developed than men till their 20's. As you said, it as biology.
So what's the implication?
Also, as a matter of fact, women have better imagination, a waaaay way better than men, but somehow they are also not accepted in all the architectural jobs for example.
So what's the implication? They can imagine better looking buildings? Well that's fine in drawings, it doesn't hold muster when you have to do the math to actually build the thing.
Another fact is that women are better suited for multitasking, waaaay better than men, who could manage only one task at the time, but for some strange reason they are again not suited for management positions!!
A falsehood quoted so frequently it has become "truth." Women are better at remembering their place in a list of tasks, but they're no more efficient at actually completing the whole list than men are in doing the same list in a more linear fashion.
Man....i could cite fact after fact proving that in many areas women are better then men, because of their biology, but i know, you would not be convinced, so why bother...
Oh, you plan to cite facts? I'll wait...
As someone who is involved with hiring developers, I agree there is a shortage of qualified developers currently looking for work. H1B (in my experience, in my area of the country) does very little if anything to help the situation. If there are highly qualified H1B carrying individuals, I'd love to meet them (and hire them).
My personal experience has shown that on the whole, H1B's are average to slightly below in terms of the overall talent pool, and that pool is pretty shallow right now. I've interviewed H1B's whose most complicated project they worked on in college amounted to "Hello World" and who can't even code FizzBuzz on a whiteboard. Granted, I've also interviewed American citizens who are equally un-qualified, but if the intent of H1B is to attract only the "best & brightest," I'd say it fails pretty badly.
If there was a way of screening H1B applicants for qualifications before granting the visa, it might make more sense. Perhaps require that they have a job offer waiting from someone who wants to hire them first. As the program stands now, all it seems to do is dilute the talent pool and waste interview time on dead wood.
As far as off-shoring goes, as we've also tried that as an option, we found you get what you pay for. The time differences, language barrier, and out of reach nature of off shore programmers led to barely adequate code quality, and required significant oversight & double-checking by some of our more talented team members to ensure what the off short contracts were delivering was secure, performant, and actually did what it was supposed to do. We found that at any scale, the amount of highly talented supervision required on-shore off set any gains by having programmers off-shore. Hiring better people locally & paying them a bit more is a better ROI.
This smacks of entire industries who have no interest in creating talent, only acquiring it. There's a problem there, and the """cheap""" solution is to, once again instead of create it, to import it. Obviously your post hints at a question of whether or not what you're importing is actual talent, so I circle back to the idea of creating it locally instead. To paraphrase a famous body builder: Errybody want 5 year experience ain't nobody want to train
This is what happens when you have 3.5 Billion years of hacks. Legacy code, no overall architecture and absolute chaos.
Let's start over and redesign humans from the ground up.
The early programmers attempted to select the most fit patches (based on what they were able to observe as rank novice coders) to incorporate into the next version of the software. However, with programming techniques such as "fat acceptance," "gender nonconformity," and "child-bearing as a right" the most recent patches have absolutely ZERO quality control.
...it's called the "Y" chromosome.
Now what do these geniuses propose to do about people with that biomarker?
Recent studies suggest "gender symmetry" in domestic violence. So is it really the Y chromosome that's a marker for violence? Or is that just a social phenomenon couched in men's ability to cause more destruction through superior physical strength?
oh, poor George got punched! The real fact is that if there were no guns at the scene, GZ would've gotten a beating and both men would still be alive.
The age of taking a beating and chalking it up to experience died half a century ago. Now, we have a sociery where you can HAND someone a beating...and then sue them for making your fists hurt.
Right, which is ultimately a good thing, because having somebody acquitted on those grounds would just bolster the law.
The law itself is bullshit because it doesn't have any particular requirements other than the ability to claim that you feared for your life.
So the law is bullshit because it doesn't have any particular requirments except for the requirements you don't like. Got it.
This is really about porn and video games... these two things can by themselves provide the brain with enough entertainment, reward, and pleasure to make the real world unnecessary.
First, there is a trauma: he fails to live up to parents expectations regarding education or career, has a heartbreak, loses his job, or whatever. Then he consoles himself with porn and video games. They feel good and he doesn't have to worry about his problems for a little while. If this goes on for long enough and he doesn't receive the right kind of social support, he may become addicted to both and lose the drive to do anything else.
What really happens is he becomes trapped by the dopamine pathways (reward system) in his brain. He is incapacitated by fear and social anxiety when dealing with others because his brain's reward system has been overpowered by the artificial stimulation of porn and video games. The dopamine normally produced by his brain during social interactions doesn't have nature's intended positive reinforcement effects for him because his dopamine tolerance is so high thanks to his addictions.
He becomes further and further withdrawn and does the only thing he knows how to do to feel "normal:" feed his addiction.
This has become a serious issue for young men in other parts of the world as well. It is ultimately made possible by technology, in particular the Internet.
What if, instead of it being an "addiction" involving "dopamine pathways" its something far simpler: a logic choice that society sucks ass, offers nothing to them, and isn't worth participating in. This dovetails quite nicely with another japanese problem quaintly called shoshoku danshi (herbivores): A group of men who managed to make it out of their parent's houses but choose to live in inexpensive apartments, not succeed financially, and don't bother to date. They just simply "graze."
All the same symptoms, none of the mental disorder boogeyman.
This is *exactly* why switching away from 100LL is problematic. There are plenty of other ways to increase octane, but not to prevent valve seat wear in these older engines.
Somebody else here mentioned that engines need to be overhauled every 1000 hours. What gets overhauled? Would installing new exhaust valves and seats be out of the question?
Most of those "plenty of other ways" involve liquids that have issues with staying liquids at the altitudes an aircraft sees.
Sorry, I must disagree.
The bike I ride is water cooled and uses CV carbs. A one-in-four gal mix seemed to increase torque somewhat dramatically. Were the carbs clean? Yes. Valves adjusted? Yes. Compression fine? Yes.
Hilly country rides became immensely pleasurable, although yes, the engine temp increased two notches in ten. Unfortunately, that doesn't translate to degrees on the bike's thermometer. Nonetheless, it was wahhhhhoooo time.
Placebo effect entirely. In fact, the bike actually made LESS power on the 100 octane than it did on the lower octane fuel. In all scenarios, the best power is made on the lowest octane fuel that doesn't result in detonation.
caveat: assuming similar fuel composition. Therefore, if the pump gas in your area has 10% ethanol, the non-ethanol avgas will run slightly better. However, the increase in energy density from the lack of ethanol is offset by the inefficiency of combustion associated with the higher octane burning significantly slower...so we're back to the placebo again.
having an "intricate electronic folder structure" complete with "detailed personal information" is nefarious? Isn't that, essentially, every install of every desktop OS ever? Hell, I think in my 13k file music collection sorted by album and artist there's EASILY 3k folders. And I think elsewhere on the same drive I have my tax returns...
It was, overall, a very uncomfortable experience for me. I was, at many of the places, subjected to comments along the lines of "I've worked with a female developer before, and it was really difficult because she didn't have a sense of humor/couldn't take a joke/made us feel like we had to be on our best behavior - would you be like that?" Seriously. I was repeatedly told that one concern was the rest of the team feeling like they might have to walk on eggshells around me.
Feminism applauds it's percieved-sexist whistleblowers, and since the HR review boards who investigate these types of things are comprised of mostly women...it's a scenario of guilty into proven innocent. You really can't blame men for their concern in this regard: they don't want to risk their careers to accomodate a woman who may or may not be a sexist whistleblower.
A lot of comments that seem to treat women as members of some kind of hive mind wherein certain behaviors are just expected.
Subject to the normal distribution, women most often value consensus and social inclusion higher than individualism and success. So in effect, women are a hive mind.
it would be as unfair as me treating all men like rapists just because some men are.
Feminists do just that. Did you ask a girl in an elevator to have drinks in your hotel room? Rapist. Did you think about having sex with her? Rapist. Did you hit on her in a way she didn't like (if she liked it, its fine)? Rapist.