As far as I know Amazon charges sales taxes on goods shipped to any state having a sales tax. Here in Colorado I don't believe Amazon has a presence yet though they charge sales tax. So do other mail order companies. Amazon has announced the building of a distribution center here so that will be moot soon.
Very far from an expert here, but does the proof of the usefulness of the F-35 depend on how it will fare against other offensive or defensive aircraft? There are other methods of combating advanced aircraft that may show its limitations such as Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) perhaps combined with radio interference technology or other methods we don't know about. After all, these new planes are full of computers and fly-by-wire control systems making use of computers and radios. It's also possible the weakest component in the plane is the pilot and I'm not sure what external forces can put that individual out of commission excluding rockets or bullets. If an opponent could hack the control system to cause the pilot ejection system to fire that would do the job.
Some time ago I saw a picture in a news post where one of these Wi-Fi kiosks was being installed in front of a Starbucks entry door. Hmmm... Seems like you could just go inside the Starbucks and activate the Wi-Fi there for free without buying anything. You could also sit down while doing your web surfing. Better, too, during inclement weather. Not sure about NYC, but in my medium size city there's a Starbucks within walking distance of every other Starbucks.
Woody plays his clarinet on Monday evenings in the Woody Allen & the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band in New York City. I'm pretty sure he's not a millennial nor does he need the extra cash.
My wife has a male second cousin who married two years ago right out of college to a women also just out of college. They now live in a large metro area of ~3 million and both have responsible jobs in secure industries. They have little or no college loans to pay off and were able to buy a nice, 2 BR condo in a good part of town. They do not subscribe to pay tv but are very computer - Internet savvy. Never the less he occasionally drives for Uber on weekends and she has been selling on eBay some kind of do-dads she makes. In meeting them I get the feeling they are just go getters. I know he's a smart investor and right now is looking around to buy a condo to rent out in town where there is a real shortage of housing. He may turn into a real estate baron, but hopefully not like the one that's been in the news lately.
You're right about emissions regulation. The problem is two fold: improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. In the US this has been done using gasoline engines as mentioned in my post where in Europe it was tried with Diesel. Except Diesel produced improve fleet fuel efficiency but not reduced emissions, so VW lied about the latter and got caught. The solutions are tough because often improved efficiency causes increased emissions of nitrogen oxides because engines work at higher temperatures and catalytic converters can increase NOx. Cars made for the US using gasoline seem to be doing OK but not Diesels.
My guess is VW will stop making Diesel engines for cars if the haven't already. My understanding is that Europe and particularly the UK, decided to go Diesel to improve fleet fuel mileage rather than the US which has increased fleet gasoline mileage through improvements in engine performance using physical design and computers and the use of hybrid technologies. I recently read the VW is now working on hybrid and electric vehicle tech. I'm not sure if that means gasoline-hybrid or Diesel-hybrid.
The test equipment for mobile operation is probably pretty expensive and if you wanted to test many cars it would need to be moved from car to car to get a representative sample.
I haven't seen how the system actually knows the car is being tested on a dynamometer. Does the system know the rear wheels aren't turning? That might be easy for a 4-wheel drive car but I'm guessing the VWs are front wheel drive only. Using GPS would also be unreliable. Anybody know?
I meant to add that it looks like the big banks are looking to move to Paris, at least that's what I read today. Think about it: Lloyds of London, an ancient British establishment, moving to Paris! And HSBC, Barclays, etc.! Wow.
I recently read somewhere that the heads of the EU countries' delegations in Brussels told the UK person that the UK can't have any of the benefits of being in the EU without being in the EU. The UK can't pick and choose what they like about the EU and forgo those that the UK doesn't like. I think any negotiations with the EU or individual EU countries will be incredibly difficult and might involve the use of the middle fingers of EU negotiators to the UK. Or is it two fingers in the reverse of the V for Victory sign? Using both hands and maybe toes!
Your suggestion about the appointment of Johnson as Foreign Secretary then neutering him for life is interesting. I didn't think May could be that devious or smart. It may just be an unintended consequence she didn't understand but will come to realize what a smart move it was.
Perhaps you're saying what I've been saying for a long time: I can't think what modern manufactured product the UK makes that's the best of something in the world. Maybe Rolls Royce cars, but, though individually they cost a great deal, not many can afford them and even those who can will buy a car that gets them where they need to go and invest the cost difference elsewhere. The stuff produced by their intellectual property is made overseas. I didn't say the US was much better in that regard. At least Intel designs it chips in the US and most are made in the US.
I wonder if the inner sanctum of Number 10 has lots of doors because it looks like a Marx Brothers movie, particularly Duck Soup. May is Margaret Dumont, ,
Johnson is Groucho, Chico could be Hammond, and Harpo could be Truss. We need more Marx Brothers for the rest of the bozos. No wonder Cameron hummed with a smile while entering Number 10 to clean out his stuff.
What's the expected lifetime and warranty of the inverter? The cost of inverters seem to be about $0.40 per watt so for a 3,000 watt system it would cost ~$1,200. There surely are It looks like they are warranted for 5 years but one would hope they would last longer than that. And I'm sure there are service contracts with guaranteed replacement. How many would be needed over 35 years? Hopefully not too many.
Data such as age distribution, education, previous work experience, and other factors are probably well known. If many of the unemployed just graduated from secondary school or college with art history, English literature or psychology majors, or a large percentage of the unemployed are near retirement age and were manual laborers, all this might explain the unemployment rate. And or course what skills are in demand? The original post suggests the problem is associated with skill needs not matching the expertise of the unemployed and the lack of opportunities for training the unemployed. It's also possible the unemployed cannot be trained because of native ability. Not everyone can learn computer programming skills or the math necessary to work in the financial industry or architectural design.
I've expected that once the "free" upgrade program to Windows 10 ends on July 29, 2016, those who have installed the update will get a notice that the software will require a subscription to continue using your Windows 10 computer. Unless you pay $20 per month beginning August 30, 2016, your computer will be bricked. But Wait! We have a special deal: you can also continue to use your computer with Windows 10 for only $199 for 12 months. Prices are expected to increase yearly.
Here's the quote from the linked article: "Ross v. Apple, Inc. was filed with the Florida Southern District Court on June 27. The case number is 0:2016cv61471."
The world Federal doesn't appear so I took it as a state court. My bad! Anyway, we're in agreement that this will likely be laughed out of court. No lawyers for Ross? Apple's lawyers could be $650 per hour, if not more, plus travel and hotel, etc., if necessary, and they should go after reimbursement.
I presume this is a State of Florida court not a US Federal court. It would seem the Florida court has no jurisdiction over patent stuff so I expect a pretty quick dismissal and suggestion of using a Federal court. Filing in the federal circuit court appropriate to Florida probably would get a pretty quick dismissal as well. Now, going to East Texas probably would would result in a huge judgement in the Ross's favor. and even more money for his lawyers if they're not on contingency. Last step to a Federal Appeals court with judicial laughter heard all the way to Cupertino.
What will "coding" replace in the currently expected education of students coming out of high school? Thirty percent of them admitted to college are unprepared for college courses and end up taking remedial work or flunk out. It could get worse with added course work. I could name any number of studies that probably would get short shrift but readers could figure them out. It's my understanding that in some states like where I live there are a minimum number contact hours required per year in school so if there are weather closures the hours must be made up. In another state I know that if the school bus delivers students to school and they turn around and immediately get back on the bus for a trip home that counts as one of the minimum required attendance school days. Are we going to add hours or school days for coding class?
Norway will abandon gas-powered cars, probably in favor of electric cars. Of course, the electricity will come from fossil fuels burned in power plants, from a country that's one of the leading oil producers in the world. The decision makes the environmentalists happy without accomplishing anything of value.
Read my post above: 95% of Norway's electricity is hydroelectric. Putting up some windmills, photo voltaic infrastructure and maybe another dam will provide the necessary electricity for transportation.
Or is this one of those "diesel and CNG don't count as gas" sort of deals that lets them play propaganda games?
In 2014, in Norway, 95% of its electricity was hydroelectric which may mean they may not need fossil fuels for cars. By building another dam or add other renewable electricity sources Norway can provide the additional needs of transportation. Besides, the North Sea is being depleted of fossil fuels and eventually it will be all gone. One estimate I've seen is that as of 2010, Norway had about 24 years of North Sea oil production time left and their production has fallen to half of it's 2000 volume and continues to fall. Sounds to me like Norway is in an excellent position to convert to electric cars.
The dream was that there was a class action suit filed against Microsoft for the class that owned one or more computers that MS said qualified to be upgraded to Windows 10. The suit asked for $1,000 for each computer that the Windows 10 update nagging software appeared. The total cost to MS would be in the neighborhood of at least $100 billion if not more. In addition, MS would be required to send out techs to fix all computers damaged by the update, retrieve lost data or replace it if possible and/or replace broken computers with one of equivalent quality. All this fixing would probably cost more than the original $100 billion. MS countered by positing this would bankrupt the company. The supreme court said, "So what? Do it anyway." Too bad this was just a dream.
That something might be the cost of making other fitness monitoring devices likely made in China. Of course, the executives and advertisers for US branded products are likely making much more money than their peers in China. I wonder what the profit is on Apple's $10,000 watch.
On Dell's web site it is recommended that my XPS 15 L502x not be upgraded to Win 10. Looking around the Internet I find lots of complaints from folks who have upgraded having trouble with various hardware features not working on their machines. Somewhere I read that these laptops used a particular model of the Intel chip that has a problem with Win 10 and a driver update won't fix it - the problem is built into the chip. This device was a top of the line PC when sold and if I remember correctly I spent something like $1,500 on it. We're not talking a cheap $400 throwaway device. To say the least I'm very upset with the situation and would hope Dell would make some kind of trade in offer on an up to date device that's appealing. At least I'm not getting nagging popups from Microsoft to update to Win 10.
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As far as I know Amazon charges sales taxes on goods shipped to any state having a sales tax. Here in Colorado I don't believe Amazon has a presence yet though they charge sales tax. So do other mail order companies. Amazon has announced the building of a distribution center here so that will be moot soon.
Very far from an expert here, but does the proof of the usefulness of the F-35 depend on how it will fare against other offensive or defensive aircraft? There are other methods of combating advanced aircraft that may show its limitations such as Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) perhaps combined with radio interference technology or other methods we don't know about. After all, these new planes are full of computers and fly-by-wire control systems making use of computers and radios. It's also possible the weakest component in the plane is the pilot and I'm not sure what external forces can put that individual out of commission excluding rockets or bullets. If an opponent could hack the control system to cause the pilot ejection system to fire that would do the job.
Some time ago I saw a picture in a news post where one of these Wi-Fi kiosks was being installed in front of a Starbucks entry door. Hmmm... Seems like you could just go inside the Starbucks and activate the Wi-Fi there for free without buying anything. You could also sit down while doing your web surfing. Better, too, during inclement weather. Not sure about NYC, but in my medium size city there's a Starbucks within walking distance of every other Starbucks.
Woody plays his clarinet on Monday evenings in the Woody Allen & the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band in New York City. I'm pretty sure he's not a millennial nor does he need the extra cash.
My wife has a male second cousin who married two years ago right out of college to a women also just out of college. They now live in a large metro area of ~3 million and both have responsible jobs in secure industries. They have little or no college loans to pay off and were able to buy a nice, 2 BR condo in a good part of town. They do not subscribe to pay tv but are very computer - Internet savvy. Never the less he occasionally drives for Uber on weekends and she has been selling on eBay some kind of do-dads she makes. In meeting them I get the feeling they are just go getters. I know he's a smart investor and right now is looking around to buy a condo to rent out in town where there is a real shortage of housing. He may turn into a real estate baron, but hopefully not like the one that's been in the news lately.
You're right about emissions regulation. The problem is two fold: improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. In the US this has been done using gasoline engines as mentioned in my post where in Europe it was tried with Diesel. Except Diesel produced improve fleet fuel efficiency but not reduced emissions, so VW lied about the latter and got caught. The solutions are tough because often improved efficiency causes increased emissions of nitrogen oxides because engines work at higher temperatures and catalytic converters can increase NOx. Cars made for the US using gasoline seem to be doing OK but not Diesels.
My guess is VW will stop making Diesel engines for cars if the haven't already. My understanding is that Europe and particularly the UK, decided to go Diesel to improve fleet fuel mileage rather than the US which has increased fleet gasoline mileage through improvements in engine performance using physical design and computers and the use of hybrid technologies. I recently read the VW is now working on hybrid and electric vehicle tech. I'm not sure if that means gasoline-hybrid or Diesel-hybrid.
The test equipment for mobile operation is probably pretty expensive and if you wanted to test many cars it would need to be moved from car to car to get a representative sample.
I haven't seen how the system actually knows the car is being tested on a dynamometer. Does the system know the rear wheels aren't turning? That might be easy for a 4-wheel drive car but I'm guessing the VWs are front wheel drive only. Using GPS would also be unreliable. Anybody know?
I meant to add that it looks like the big banks are looking to move to Paris, at least that's what I read today. Think about it: Lloyds of London, an ancient British establishment, moving to Paris! And HSBC, Barclays, etc.! Wow.
I recently read somewhere that the heads of the EU countries' delegations in Brussels told the UK person that the UK can't have any of the benefits of being in the EU without being in the EU. The UK can't pick and choose what they like about the EU and forgo those that the UK doesn't like. I think any negotiations with the EU or individual EU countries will be incredibly difficult and might involve the use of the middle fingers of EU negotiators to the UK. Or is it two fingers in the reverse of the V for Victory sign? Using both hands and maybe toes!
Your suggestion about the appointment of Johnson as Foreign Secretary then neutering him for life is interesting. I didn't think May could be that devious or smart. It may just be an unintended consequence she didn't understand but will come to realize what a smart move it was.
Perhaps you're saying what I've been saying for a long time: I can't think what modern manufactured product the UK makes that's the best of something in the world. Maybe Rolls Royce cars, but, though individually they cost a great deal, not many can afford them and even those who can will buy a car that gets them where they need to go and invest the cost difference elsewhere. The stuff produced by their intellectual property is made overseas. I didn't say the US was much better in that regard. At least Intel designs it chips in the US and most are made in the US.
I wonder if the inner sanctum of Number 10 has lots of doors because it looks like a Marx Brothers movie, particularly Duck Soup. May is Margaret Dumont, , Johnson is Groucho, Chico could be Hammond, and Harpo could be Truss. We need more Marx Brothers for the rest of the bozos. No wonder Cameron hummed with a smile while entering Number 10 to clean out his stuff.
What's the expected lifetime and warranty of the inverter? The cost of inverters seem to be about $0.40 per watt so for a 3,000 watt system it would cost ~$1,200. There surely are It looks like they are warranted for 5 years but one would hope they would last longer than that. And I'm sure there are service contracts with guaranteed replacement. How many would be needed over 35 years? Hopefully not too many.
Um..., are we missing the sarcasm code pair?
If the going wage for a system administrator is $50 per hour, $20 won't do it for an experience person on an identical system.
Data such as age distribution, education, previous work experience, and other factors are probably well known. If many of the unemployed just graduated from secondary school or college with art history, English literature or psychology majors, or a large percentage of the unemployed are near retirement age and were manual laborers, all this might explain the unemployment rate. And or course what skills are in demand? The original post suggests the problem is associated with skill needs not matching the expertise of the unemployed and the lack of opportunities for training the unemployed. It's also possible the unemployed cannot be trained because of native ability. Not everyone can learn computer programming skills or the math necessary to work in the financial industry or architectural design.
I've expected that once the "free" upgrade program to Windows 10 ends on July 29, 2016, those who have installed the update will get a notice that the software will require a subscription to continue using your Windows 10 computer. Unless you pay $20 per month beginning August 30, 2016, your computer will be bricked. But Wait! We have a special deal: you can also continue to use your computer with Windows 10 for only $199 for 12 months. Prices are expected to increase yearly.
Your forgot the sarcasm code pair.
Here's the quote from the linked article: "Ross v. Apple, Inc. was filed with the Florida Southern District Court on June 27. The case number is 0:2016cv61471." The world Federal doesn't appear so I took it as a state court. My bad! Anyway, we're in agreement that this will likely be laughed out of court. No lawyers for Ross? Apple's lawyers could be $650 per hour, if not more, plus travel and hotel, etc., if necessary, and they should go after reimbursement.
I presume this is a State of Florida court not a US Federal court. It would seem the Florida court has no jurisdiction over patent stuff so I expect a pretty quick dismissal and suggestion of using a Federal court. Filing in the federal circuit court appropriate to Florida probably would get a pretty quick dismissal as well. Now, going to East Texas probably would would result in a huge judgement in the Ross's favor. and even more money for his lawyers if they're not on contingency. Last step to a Federal Appeals court with judicial laughter heard all the way to Cupertino.
What will "coding" replace in the currently expected education of students coming out of high school? Thirty percent of them admitted to college are unprepared for college courses and end up taking remedial work or flunk out. It could get worse with added course work. I could name any number of studies that probably would get short shrift but readers could figure them out. It's my understanding that in some states like where I live there are a minimum number contact hours required per year in school so if there are weather closures the hours must be made up. In another state I know that if the school bus delivers students to school and they turn around and immediately get back on the bus for a trip home that counts as one of the minimum required attendance school days. Are we going to add hours or school days for coding class?
IIRC, Mr. Ed's owner, Wilbur, played by the late Alan Young, had an office in a barn with a talking horse as company. To each his or her own.
Norway will abandon gas-powered cars, probably in favor of electric cars. Of course, the electricity will come from fossil fuels burned in power plants, from a country that's one of the leading oil producers in the world. The decision makes the environmentalists happy without accomplishing anything of value.
Read my post above: 95% of Norway's electricity is hydroelectric. Putting up some windmills, photo voltaic infrastructure and maybe another dam will provide the necessary electricity for transportation.
Or is this one of those "diesel and CNG don't count as gas" sort of deals that lets them play propaganda games?
In 2014, in Norway, 95% of its electricity was hydroelectric which may mean they may not need fossil fuels for cars. By building another dam or add other renewable electricity sources Norway can provide the additional needs of transportation. Besides, the North Sea is being depleted of fossil fuels and eventually it will be all gone. One estimate I've seen is that as of 2010, Norway had about 24 years of North Sea oil production time left and their production has fallen to half of it's 2000 volume and continues to fall. Sounds to me like Norway is in an excellent position to convert to electric cars.
The dream was that there was a class action suit filed against Microsoft for the class that owned one or more computers that MS said qualified to be upgraded to Windows 10. The suit asked for $1,000 for each computer that the Windows 10 update nagging software appeared. The total cost to MS would be in the neighborhood of at least $100 billion if not more. In addition, MS would be required to send out techs to fix all computers damaged by the update, retrieve lost data or replace it if possible and/or replace broken computers with one of equivalent quality. All this fixing would probably cost more than the original $100 billion. MS countered by positing this would bankrupt the company. The supreme court said, "So what? Do it anyway." Too bad this was just a dream.
That something might be the cost of making other fitness monitoring devices likely made in China. Of course, the executives and advertisers for US branded products are likely making much more money than their peers in China. I wonder what the profit is on Apple's $10,000 watch.
On Dell's web site it is recommended that my XPS 15 L502x not be upgraded to Win 10. Looking around the Internet I find lots of complaints from folks who have upgraded having trouble with various hardware features not working on their machines. Somewhere I read that these laptops used a particular model of the Intel chip that has a problem with Win 10 and a driver update won't fix it - the problem is built into the chip. This device was a top of the line PC when sold and if I remember correctly I spent something like $1,500 on it. We're not talking a cheap $400 throwaway device. To say the least I'm very upset with the situation and would hope Dell would make some kind of trade in offer on an up to date device that's appealing. At least I'm not getting nagging popups from Microsoft to update to Win 10.