In farming, a rising tide tanks the commodities market and all the boats sink at the same time.
Take a look at the price of corn over the past couple of years. First there was a drought through much of the midwest... so yields were low for corn and hay. This drove the price of feed through the roof. I saw hay going for $7 to $10 a bail... the highest I've ever seen. It was so expensive that it cost more to feed animals through the winter than the animals were worth. Farmers slaughtered their herds en-mass. That drove the price of beef through the floor, making breeders cut back on their investments. Which lead to this year, no one wanted beef cattle because the price was so low... there were already tiny herds due to the price of feed and the mass slaughter last fall... then we got record rainfall this year. As a result there's way way way too much grain this year. The price of corn is at an all time low. So low that most of the corn around here is still in the field. Farmers aren't harvesting it because the diesel to do so costs more than the corns worth.
Lol, again with the monopoly talk... There is no such thing in the united states.
Telcos have franchise agreements for POTS (plain old telephone service) Cable companies have them for Telvision over coax.
If you're not using coax, and you're not delivering phone service over twisted pair, there is nothing a local phone or cable company can do to stop you unless you're the actual municipality itself. It's usually in the agreements that local government cannot compete with these sorts of services at all. Hence the municiple fiber kerfuffle. These municipalities are more than welcome to not include that in the franchise agreements, but good luck finding a telco willing to sign that.
But it sounds inferior in many respects. Lasers require line of sight, which is obviously a problem. We really ought to be investing in quality infrastructure.
Are you going to pay for it? Laying fiber is insanely expensive. Not because of the trench or even the fiber... it's the home owners that are the problem.
Imagine I show up at your house and tell you I'm going to dig an 8' deep trench across your yard for Fiber. What are you going to do? And your neighbor? And his neighbor?... and the other thousand people whos yards get trenched? Lawsuits... and that doesn't even cover all the roads, driveways and sidewalks you have to dig up.
45+ years ago when I was a kid and before cellphone towers dotted the landscape there were these funnel shaped microwave repeating towers everywhere that carried long distance phone traffic across the country without wires.
I've worked for just about every phone company... We still have them... everywhere. Fibers replaced microwave in most residential areas... but in areas where you can't dig a trench, we use microwave. Communities on islands, on mountain sides... etc... there are a LOT of microwave dishes along the grand canyon for example. Even in sky rises, a lot of companies will setup microwave dishes in an extra conference room and beam a trunk to another building across the way.
The problem with microwave is that it doesn't work well in humidity. Fog, snow and rain make it cut in and out. Basically, imagine your DishNetwork/DirectTv signal... it's got pretty much the same problem.
Testing during an interview is not fair to the candidate. Rarely do the tests reflect the reality of the job and for some insane reason it's seen as cheating to use the Internet to solve the problem when, in the real world, that's exactly how they should be solving it. The knowledge they have in their head is useless and can be wrong. Doing research before proceeding is always preferred. The real skill is knowing what to search for and what information to trust.
To be honest, if an employer asks me to take a test, I usually just say "No thanks" because it suggests the employer is fearful of hiring the wrong person... usually because the business has policies that make it hard to terminate bad employees. If that's the case, it's doubtful the test actually did much good and I'll end up working with a bunch of people my boss wishes he could fire and I'm likely to soon agree with him.
Have you ever noticed if this effect gets better depending on the shape? I use transformers in audio amps I build, and often there's a marked difference if I use R-core over EI or Toroid. But this is signal noise and not physical noise. If the transformer is making physical noise, I'd never be able to hear it over my guitar solo:-p
When I had a salt water tank, I found these magnets to be awesome. The only real issue was that you had to have one for each pane. It would be kind of clever if they made one magnet slightly larger than the other so you could get the inside one to scrub slightly behind the outside trim piece.
If you're clever you can get it to hop from pane to pane. I Could do it ever time. It works for very basic cleaning. But algae will definitely build up despite it and you have to go in with a real scrubber.
Lets see... who's the most responsible for bombing the largest number of innocent civilians in Britain? Parliament of course. So get clicking folks. We need to stop the government from spreading it's propaganda and continuing it's 300 year terror campaign.
Europe wouldn't allow research and dev on such nuclear tech. (they asked this question in a Google hangout today)
Basically the leftists version of the rights stem cell research insanity. Remember: No matter what your political beliefs are, you can always use them to be stupid.
I'm not exactly against them catching criminals, but how often has someone receive shitty cell service and 'drops' because of these fake towers?
You don't understand. You're a criminal. We all are. It's impossible to get through a day in this country without breaking federal law. You've probably done it multiple times this morning and aren't even aware of it. The perp they're after is you.
Given that the NSA already violates federal law and the constitution daily, I don't think this will do much. It's already being reported that the NSA is holding patents on some of their work and selling them to industry, so they're already poking holes in the only true power congress has over them... their budget. The only person that has any control over them at all is the president, and we've had two in a row now that seem to think an Orwellian state is a great idea, so I'm not hopeful.
The Tea Party are not Libertarians. Stop confusing the two. They are "more" Libertarian than regular republicans, but that's not saying much. I thin that, if we could get a Libertarian leaning wing of the democrats to... then we'd really be on to something.
You don't keep mice out of your house with mousetraps. You keep them out by sweeping up all the crumbs on your floor so they have no reason to come in anyway.
I, as well... and I don't pay for websites. But I do pay for Pandora. But I don't think of it like I'm paying for the music... I think of it as Paying for what Pandora does, which is sort and find music related to my tastes. I've been introduced to artists I'd have no other way of finding through Pandora. Sometimes it's very, very, wrong... but other times I'm really amazed that I missed an artist for years.
What's Youtube going to offer? It sounds like just some more youtube... no thanks.
People that say things like this have never been to Africa. These farmers don't have debt. There's no one on earth that'd give them a loan. The likelihood of them dieing in the next 12 months is higher than them defaulting on a loan. Yes, there are countries where farmers have big enough farms that they end out taking out loans for seeds and going into debt. If we could actually get Africa to that point? We'd have already worked a miracle and can start worrying about the debt problems.
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That's done daily by farmers everywhere. Where do you think mules come from?
I'm glad you're wealthy enough that you can get prissy about what the thing you're eating, ate prior to you eating it.
But that's not really relevent since grass fed herds were slaughtered as well. The drought affected all silage, not just corn.
I don't understand... what would be unethical about this?
Yea no...
In farming, a rising tide tanks the commodities market and all the boats sink at the same time.
Take a look at the price of corn over the past couple of years. First there was a drought through much of the midwest... so yields were low for corn and hay. This drove the price of feed through the roof. I saw hay going for $7 to $10 a bail... the highest I've ever seen. It was so expensive that it cost more to feed animals through the winter than the animals were worth. Farmers slaughtered their herds en-mass. That drove the price of beef through the floor, making breeders cut back on their investments. Which lead to this year, no one wanted beef cattle because the price was so low... there were already tiny herds due to the price of feed and the mass slaughter last fall... then we got record rainfall this year. As a result there's way way way too much grain this year. The price of corn is at an all time low. So low that most of the corn around here is still in the field. Farmers aren't harvesting it because the diesel to do so costs more than the corns worth.
Lol, again with the monopoly talk... There is no such thing in the united states.
Telcos have franchise agreements for POTS (plain old telephone service)
Cable companies have them for Telvision over coax.
If you're not using coax, and you're not delivering phone service over twisted pair, there is nothing a local phone or cable company can do to stop you unless you're the actual municipality itself. It's usually in the agreements that local government cannot compete with these sorts of services at all. Hence the municiple fiber kerfuffle. These municipalities are more than welcome to not include that in the franchise agreements, but good luck finding a telco willing to sign that.
But it sounds inferior in many respects. Lasers require line of sight, which is obviously a problem. We really ought to be investing in quality infrastructure.
Are you going to pay for it? Laying fiber is insanely expensive. Not because of the trench or even the fiber... it's the home owners that are the problem.
Imagine I show up at your house and tell you I'm going to dig an 8' deep trench across your yard for Fiber. What are you going to do? And your neighbor? And his neighbor? ... and the other thousand people whos yards get trenched? Lawsuits... and that doesn't even cover all the roads, driveways and sidewalks you have to dig up.
45+ years ago when I was a kid and before cellphone towers dotted the landscape there were these funnel shaped microwave repeating towers everywhere that carried long distance phone traffic across the country without wires.
I've worked for just about every phone company... We still have them... everywhere. Fibers replaced microwave in most residential areas... but in areas where you can't dig a trench, we use microwave. Communities on islands, on mountain sides... etc... there are a LOT of microwave dishes along the grand canyon for example. Even in sky rises, a lot of companies will setup microwave dishes in an extra conference room and beam a trunk to another building across the way.
The problem with microwave is that it doesn't work well in humidity. Fog, snow and rain make it cut in and out. Basically, imagine your DishNetwork/DirectTv signal... it's got pretty much the same problem.
Oh, and I do agree with you. MS certs are completely worthless.
Testing during an interview is not fair to the candidate. Rarely do the tests reflect the reality of the job and for some insane reason it's seen as cheating to use the Internet to solve the problem when, in the real world, that's exactly how they should be solving it. The knowledge they have in their head is useless and can be wrong. Doing research before proceeding is always preferred. The real skill is knowing what to search for and what information to trust.
To be honest, if an employer asks me to take a test, I usually just say "No thanks" because it suggests the employer is fearful of hiring the wrong person... usually because the business has policies that make it hard to terminate bad employees. If that's the case, it's doubtful the test actually did much good and I'll end up working with a bunch of people my boss wishes he could fire and I'm likely to soon agree with him.
Have you ever noticed if this effect gets better depending on the shape? I use transformers in audio amps I build, and often there's a marked difference if I use R-core over EI or Toroid. But this is signal noise and not physical noise. If the transformer is making physical noise, I'd never be able to hear it over my guitar solo :-p
When I had a salt water tank, I found these magnets to be awesome. The only real issue was that you had to have one for each pane. It would be kind of clever if they made one magnet slightly larger than the other so you could get the inside one to scrub slightly behind the outside trim piece.
If you're clever you can get it to hop from pane to pane. I Could do it ever time. It works for very basic cleaning. But algae will definitely build up despite it and you have to go in with a real scrubber.
Lets see... who's the most responsible for bombing the largest number of innocent civilians in Britain?
Parliament of course.
So get clicking folks. We need to stop the government from spreading it's propaganda and continuing it's 300 year terror campaign.
Having several fishtanks myself. I can attest to the fact that those magnet cleaners suck.
Patrick McGeehan has apparently never seen a windshield wiper.
Apparently he's never heard of youtube either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Seriously people, don't make declarative statements in your professional life without at least doing a google search first.
Europe wouldn't allow research and dev on such nuclear tech. (they asked this question in a Google hangout today)
Basically the leftists version of the rights stem cell research insanity.
Remember: No matter what your political beliefs are, you can always use them to be stupid.
I'm not exactly against them catching criminals, but how often has someone receive shitty cell service and 'drops' because of these fake towers?
You don't understand. You're a criminal. We all are. It's impossible to get through a day in this country without breaking federal law. You've probably done it multiple times this morning and aren't even aware of it. The perp they're after is you.
Given that the NSA already violates federal law and the constitution daily, I don't think this will do much. It's already being reported that the NSA is holding patents on some of their work and selling them to industry, so they're already poking holes in the only true power congress has over them... their budget. The only person that has any control over them at all is the president, and we've had two in a row now that seem to think an Orwellian state is a great idea, so I'm not hopeful.
The Tea Party are not Libertarians. Stop confusing the two. They are "more" Libertarian than regular republicans, but that's not saying much. I thin that, if we could get a Libertarian leaning wing of the democrats to... then we'd really be on to something.
You don't keep mice out of your house with mousetraps. You keep them out by sweeping up all the crumbs on your floor so they have no reason to come in anyway.
A lot of that information seems reasonable if you want to know who is crossing into and out of your border. But why credit cards?
I suspect to cover situations like Osama Bin Laden flying in his Nephew to do the bombing for him since he can't get in.
I'm not saying that makes any sense if you actually think about in for a few seconds, but I bet that's their reasoning.
It's redefining music as in: Thank you for your subscription fee! Here's a cat video. No refunds!
I, as well... and I don't pay for websites. But I do pay for Pandora. But I don't think of it like I'm paying for the music... I think of it as Paying for what Pandora does, which is sort and find music related to my tastes. I've been introduced to artists I'd have no other way of finding through Pandora. Sometimes it's very, very, wrong... but other times I'm really amazed that I missed an artist for years.
What's Youtube going to offer? It sounds like just some more youtube... no thanks.
Right, I'm not a security guy so that's not my problem though :-p
My general response though is: The database shouldn't be doing the security.
People that say things like this have never been to Africa. These farmers don't have debt. There's no one on earth that'd give them a loan. The likelihood of them dieing in the next 12 months is higher than them defaulting on a loan. Yes, there are countries where farmers have big enough farms that they end out taking out loans for seeds and going into debt. If we could actually get Africa to that point? We'd have already worked a miracle and can start worrying about the debt problems.