Roads are as much yours as they are mine. I think it is not too much to ask to be able to cross a street as a pedestrian (I know, REAL men don't walk, REAL mean drive a CAR) on a pedestrian crossing without being hit by a car with a stupid driver like you thinking he is the best driver on earth and that it must be someone else's fault for hitting me with his car.
Yes, it DID happen to me 2 years ago. I got a broken foot and I couldn't walk or drive for two months (and I consider myself lucky). But of course, you don't care because you are a REAL man who only drives a 5000-lbs pickup, so you are not at risk.
And BTW, why are you so obsessed by the Prius? Is it because its main advantage is fuel efficiency, and thus your manhood is threatened?
I don't really value a statement from a player of an industry that wasn't able to produce a decent electric car in 3 decades, but an outsider (Tesla) did it in a few years.
I think you don't realize that watches have had sapphire glasses for decades. A sapphire glass may cost 30 bucks for a 5" screen, but it is probably much cheaper for a watch-sized screen.
And I can assure you that sapphire will stay perfect for a long time. The Tissot watch I am currently wearing is more than 5 years old and the glass is still _perfect_. The metal case however is quite badly scratched.
I would even extend that to sugar and fat. Too much of them just hides the flavors of the food. Or maybe they are used in excess to cover up the fact that fast food has actually no taste.
I don't want to ruin your illusions, but if fish sauce or soy sauce taste salty, it's because there is a LOT of sodium chloride in them, so there is no benefit for health to use them instead of plain salt.
Take a look at what's in soy sauce...
However, some ingredients can be used as a replacement to salt and derivative to increase the taste of food, for instance lemon juice.
Bad idea! So called "Swiss cheese" here in the US has nothing Swiss but its name and is usually a disgusting, tasteless byproduct of milk. Try Swiss made cheeses, like Gruyère or Emmental, which are pretty good.
It's funny because the link you provided gives a completely different story, and incriminates neither the company, nor the in-flight entertainment system:
Aircraft certification standards for material flammability were inadequate in that they allowed the use of materials that could be ignited and sustain or propagate fire. Consequently, flammable material propagated a fire that started above the ceiling on the right side of the cockpit near the cockpit rear wall. The fire spread and intensified rapidly to the extent that it degraded aircraft systems and the cockpit environment, and ultimately led to the loss of control of the aircraft.
You cannot just finger point something and say it's communism and thus evil, just because it was financed by the government, it's not that simple. I am not saying that bank bailouts were good or bad. I'm just trying to make the point that ideology alone is not sufficient to make political decisions.
Would you say that Interstate Highways are communist? Maybe they are, but they are essential to the competitiveness of the US economy. Some people have never been on a highway in their entire life, but their taxes were still used to build these highways.
Similarly, banks are very important to the US economy. Not because of their direct contribution to the GDP, but because they provide an essential service to the economy. Had the banking system collapsed in 2008, it would have had very significant consequences. A few examples: how do you cash your paycheck when your bank is shut down? How do you pay for your groceries when the bank that emitted your credit card is shut down? How does your company get paid for the goods and services it provides, when its bank is shut down? How will you retire when your lifetime savings disappear when your bank goes bankrupt?
Again, I'm not saying that bailing out banks was good or bad. I'm saying that it wasn't an easy decision to take, and that it was done for a reason. Saying it's communism does not help much in the debate.
Actually, it has been a long time since banking secrecy in Switzerland does not hold when crime is involved. When any Swiss bank suspects funds originate from criminal activities (e.g. drug or weapon trafficking, etc), it has the legal obligation to report it to Swiss financial market authority. From there, an investigation will be open. More information here.
However, tax evasion is not considered as a crime in Switzerland. This means that until recently, Swiss banks or the government would not disclose any information to foreign governments when only tax evasion was suspected. In the past few years though, international pressure on the Swiss government obliged it to ease the banking secrecy to the point where there is no secrecy anymore, except for permanent Swiss residents.
You can overlay the cycling information for maps, but it doesn't seem to do the route planning for cycling; the only options there remain "per car" and "on foot". So for the time being, for actual cycling route planning in Germany, Komoot seems to remain the only good option for now.
In Switzerland, cycling directions are available (in addition to car, foot and public transport).
I haven't tried WP7 so I cannot speak for it, but I don't share your view on Android, especially on ICS. Android is now far from the early days when it was more for geeks (which I am) than average users.
I just exchanged my faulty HTC Desire (Froyo) for a Galaxy Nexus (the SIII was too expensive in my opinion), and I was amazed by how smooth and polished it is. Very simple setup for both my private GMail (including Calendar, Contacts and Drive) account and my company Exchange account. Several missing features in were finally added (e.g. better contact search and sort capabilities) and the overall experience is really good. No need to tweak obscure settings or install half a dozen apps to palliate for missing features. I'm just a bit disappointed by the battery life (about one day for an moderate-intensive usage pattern).
Wrong. Gamma rays are also electromagnetic waves, but with a higher frequency than X rays. It is true, however, that alpha and beta rays are made of electrons/protons, which is different.
From what we know today, the only thing that matters for cancer risk is whether the radiation is ionizing or not. If it is (X rays, gamma rays, alpha and beta particles, ultraviolet rays), it CAN cause cancer. If it isn't (microwave, visible light, infrared, everything below), it CANNOT cause cancer (as far as we know). This is why it is unlikely that mobile phones can cause cancer (they use microwaves).
Or use Synergy. I've been using it for about 2 years not and it works great. The best part is the ability to use copy-paste from one computer to the other.
I do care, not because I am a stockholder, but because I don't see my well being only but also the well being of society in general. Living in a capitalist world is not an excuse for acting like an asshole.
But is distribution of wealth important? Isn't standard of living more important? Could our imbalance have different causes than Uganda? You point to a CEO salary being 400 times larger than the workers - but now they run huge global companies. Take McDonalds. They operate in almost every country in the world. Compared to a chain that only operates domestically, they are going to have a lot more revenue. Why shouldn't the CEO be paid accordingly?
Their huge remunerations could be tolerable if they bear the responsibility of their actions, including the bad ones. Currently, they will be paid huge bonuses when quarterly profits are high. When these same profits are low or the company makes a loss, the CEO will leave with a huge golden parachute.
High remuneration of CEOs may be ok when there is a high risk, but today, where is the risk?
Actually, most integrated circuits don't work well when exposed to radiations. They provoke single-event upsets, which can, for instance, turn a 0 into a 1 in a register or a SRAM. ECC or parity check can help mitigating the risk, but they will not suffice. That's why the semiconductor industry proposes "space-grade" components which are radiation hardened. Unfortunately, these components are about 10x more expensive than their commercial-grade versions and only a tiny fraction of what's available in commercial grade is also available in space grade.
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Roads are as much yours as they are mine. I think it is not too much to ask to be able to cross a street as a pedestrian (I know, REAL men don't walk, REAL mean drive a CAR) on a pedestrian crossing without being hit by a car with a stupid driver like you thinking he is the best driver on earth and that it must be someone else's fault for hitting me with his car.
Yes, it DID happen to me 2 years ago. I got a broken foot and I couldn't walk or drive for two months (and I consider myself lucky). But of course, you don't care because you are a REAL man who only drives a 5000-lbs pickup, so you are not at risk.
And BTW, why are you so obsessed by the Prius? Is it because its main advantage is fuel efficiency, and thus your manhood is threatened?
I don't really value a statement from a player of an industry that wasn't able to produce a decent electric car in 3 decades, but an outsider (Tesla) did it in a few years.
I think you don't realize that watches have had sapphire glasses for decades. A sapphire glass may cost 30 bucks for a 5" screen, but it is probably much cheaper for a watch-sized screen.
And I can assure you that sapphire will stay perfect for a long time. The Tissot watch I am currently wearing is more than 5 years old and the glass is still _perfect_. The metal case however is quite badly scratched.
They would very likely use sapphire glass to make it scratch resistant, like any other (decent) watch.
The transaction fee is more like 4 percent.
I couldn't agree more.
I would even extend that to sugar and fat. Too much of them just hides the flavors of the food. Or maybe they are used in excess to cover up the fact that fast food has actually no taste.
I don't want to ruin your illusions, but if fish sauce or soy sauce taste salty, it's because there is a LOT of sodium chloride in them, so there is no benefit for health to use them instead of plain salt.
Take a look at what's in soy sauce...
However, some ingredients can be used as a replacement to salt and derivative to increase the taste of food, for instance lemon juice.
Bad idea! So called "Swiss cheese" here in the US has nothing Swiss but its name and is usually a disgusting, tasteless byproduct of milk. Try Swiss made cheeses, like Gruyère or Emmental, which are pretty good.
Aircraft certification standards for material flammability were inadequate in that they allowed the use of materials that could be ignited and sustain or propagate fire. Consequently, flammable material propagated a fire that started above the ceiling on the right side of the cockpit near the cockpit rear wall. The fire spread and intensified rapidly to the extent that it degraded aircraft systems and the cockpit environment, and ultimately led to the loss of control of the aircraft.
I think you are referring to McDonnell Douglas, not Boeing, regarding the cargo door of the DC-10.
American Airlines Flight 96
Turkish Airlines Flight 981
Not exactly. You can have 1080p24, 1080p25, 1080p50 and 1080p60, each corresponding to a certain frame rate.
You cannot just finger point something and say it's communism and thus evil, just because it was financed by the government, it's not that simple. I am not saying that bank bailouts were good or bad. I'm just trying to make the point that ideology alone is not sufficient to make political decisions.
Would you say that Interstate Highways are communist? Maybe they are, but they are essential to the competitiveness of the US economy. Some people have never been on a highway in their entire life, but their taxes were still used to build these highways.
Similarly, banks are very important to the US economy. Not because of their direct contribution to the GDP, but because they provide an essential service to the economy. Had the banking system collapsed in 2008, it would have had very significant consequences. A few examples: how do you cash your paycheck when your bank is shut down? How do you pay for your groceries when the bank that emitted your credit card is shut down? How does your company get paid for the goods and services it provides, when its bank is shut down? How will you retire when your lifetime savings disappear when your bank goes bankrupt?
Again, I'm not saying that bailing out banks was good or bad. I'm saying that it wasn't an easy decision to take, and that it was done for a reason. Saying it's communism does not help much in the debate.
Actually, it has been a long time since banking secrecy in Switzerland does not hold when crime is involved. When any Swiss bank suspects funds originate from criminal activities (e.g. drug or weapon trafficking, etc), it has the legal obligation to report it to Swiss financial market authority. From there, an investigation will be open. More information here.
However, tax evasion is not considered as a crime in Switzerland. This means that until recently, Swiss banks or the government would not disclose any information to foreign governments when only tax evasion was suspected. In the past few years though, international pressure on the Swiss government obliged it to ease the banking secrecy to the point where there is no secrecy anymore, except for permanent Swiss residents.
Maybe this will convince you ?
You can overlay the cycling information for maps, but it doesn't seem to do the route planning for cycling; the only options there remain "per car" and "on foot". So for the time being, for actual cycling route planning in Germany, Komoot seems to remain the only good option for now.
In Switzerland, cycling directions are available (in addition to car, foot and public transport).
No, Chuck Norris is!
I haven't tried WP7 so I cannot speak for it, but I don't share your view on Android, especially on ICS. Android is now far from the early days when it was more for geeks (which I am) than average users. I just exchanged my faulty HTC Desire (Froyo) for a Galaxy Nexus (the SIII was too expensive in my opinion), and I was amazed by how smooth and polished it is. Very simple setup for both my private GMail (including Calendar, Contacts and Drive) account and my company Exchange account. Several missing features in were finally added (e.g. better contact search and sort capabilities) and the overall experience is really good. No need to tweak obscure settings or install half a dozen apps to palliate for missing features. I'm just a bit disappointed by the battery life (about one day for an moderate-intensive usage pattern).
The mere fact that a book written by someone nearly 70 years ago is still under copyright is ridiculous...
It's even worse than that: the copyright expires 70 years after the author's death. Mein Kampf was written 87 years ago, in 1925...
Wrong. Gamma rays are also electromagnetic waves, but with a higher frequency than X rays. It is true, however, that alpha and beta rays are made of electrons/protons, which is different.
From what we know today, the only thing that matters for cancer risk is whether the radiation is ionizing or not. If it is (X rays, gamma rays, alpha and beta particles, ultraviolet rays), it CAN cause cancer. If it isn't (microwave, visible light, infrared, everything below), it CANNOT cause cancer (as far as we know). This is why it is unlikely that mobile phones can cause cancer (they use microwaves).
Or use Synergy. I've been using it for about 2 years not and it works great. The best part is the ability to use copy-paste from one computer to the other.
RTFS again.
I do care, not because I am a stockholder, but because I don't see my well being only but also the well being of society in general. Living in a capitalist world is not an excuse for acting like an asshole.
But is distribution of wealth important? Isn't standard of living more important? Could our imbalance have different causes than Uganda? You point to a CEO salary being 400 times larger than the workers - but now they run huge global companies. Take McDonalds. They operate in almost every country in the world. Compared to a chain that only operates domestically, they are going to have a lot more revenue. Why shouldn't the CEO be paid accordingly?
Their huge remunerations could be tolerable if they bear the responsibility of their actions, including the bad ones. Currently, they will be paid huge bonuses when quarterly profits are high. When these same profits are low or the company makes a loss, the CEO will leave with a huge golden parachute.
High remuneration of CEOs may be ok when there is a high risk, but today, where is the risk?
Actually, most integrated circuits don't work well when exposed to radiations. They provoke single-event upsets, which can, for instance, turn a 0 into a 1 in a register or a SRAM. ECC or parity check can help mitigating the risk, but they will not suffice. That's why the semiconductor industry proposes "space-grade" components which are radiation hardened. Unfortunately, these components are about 10x more expensive than their commercial-grade versions and only a tiny fraction of what's available in commercial grade is also available in space grade.
All you need to do eat, drink, keep your body at around 98.6 degrees, get rid of the waste, make sure it doesn't rip open, or get infections.
Reproduction is also thought to be a vital need for most species ... but maybe not for Slashdotters, though...