I said it was a "reasonable argument" for why they weren't hosting it. It's not a reasonable argument to justify only distributing the emails in a paper copy.
27,000 pages. Even assuming an extremely favorable half cent per page cost you could still make about 500 DVDs with the emails on it for the same cost of printing just one copy. And even going at DVD printing shops which may charge you $3 per copy, that's still a LOT better than printing the damn thing.
There's some reasonableness to their statement. The article points out that Juneau has limited bandwidth. If they make a digital release available for download from the Internet they're going to impede their IT services that Alaskan citizens may or may not use.
On the other hand, there's no reason why they have to distribute the emails in paper. They could have written the emails to CD or DVD and mailed that to anyone that requested it.
30% of the price of products would be shunted to Apple. This would trigger either a sufficient increase in the price of software to account for the Apple tax or the software no longer being available for that platform. Software would probably jump $50 for every $100 that it used to cost just for being on the iOS platform.
Using the left hand I can hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete with my ring, middle, and index fingers. Ring hits R. Alt. Index hits R. Ctrl. Middle hits Delete. Using the right hand I can hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete with my thumb, pinky, and ring fingers. Thumb hits R. Alt. Pinky hits R. Ctrl. Ring hits Delete.
On a somewhat-unrelated note, it still blows my mind when enterprise level IT still has users with full admin rights over the local workstation, as those machines constantly and continually get infected and reinfected through the ignorance of the users. Sure, it means that a user can add a local device more complicate than a printer without calling the helpdesk, but it also means that any piece of unauthorized software, whether the user intended to install it or not, or whether it's benign or malicious, gets on to the computer. When the IT department sets up the computers and privileges properly, and if the OS doesn't have local root exploits so large one can drive a Mack truck through, the user can do a lot less damage.
It's not entirely unsurprising. Telling the company owner that "We need to change the level of permissions everyone has on their machines, which means they won't be able to do this, this, and this." after the company owner and the entire user base is accustomed to having that level of permission doesn't typically get a go ahead flag from the company owner.
I'm a bit murky. I last read an Einstein biography about 8 months ago...
Was it that Einstein believes the universe wasn't expanding or that he capitulated to the common held belief that the universe wasn't expanding? In one case you had Einstein believing wrong and the other had Einstein kowtowing to the status quo.
You don't shit in the morning. You take your shit at approximately 4:46pm every day after getting home for work. You spend 20 minutes shitting while reading your latest Kindle novel. You flush twice. Once at about 4:51pm and the other after the 20 minutes has passed. Your toilet's flush isn't full optimized suggesting that there may be a leak with your plumbing. We have sent a plumber to fix the problem. Enjoy his ass crack.
A meltdown is any instance where a fuel rod is not in its rod state. So if one out of 30 fuel rods in a reactor had five inches of rod that had melted, it would still be considered a meltdown.
If they're suspecting some meltdown occurred, then the "melted" portions of the rods is either sitting at the bottom of the reactor or it has solidified further down the fuel rod possibly forming a solid link between fuel rods. Probably a combination of both with some portion of the 5ft that they're claiming melted down at the bottom of the reactor and another portion that has solidified back with the rods.
I'm not saying they didn't have sea walls. I'm saying that the protections constructed didn't match the site conditions or historic record of tsunami's. They ignored those stone monuments all over the hillsides that were 600 years old because obviously what does someone from 600 years ago know. I'll point out that those monuments were significantly higher than this tsunami, indicating that an even larger tsunami hit the location previously. There are dozens of these monuments all over the island. The Japanese at the time built these 6' tall stone monuments to warn future generations not to build homes to close to the sea.
Have you considered the possibility that because they're monuments the builders wanted them to be seen and thus a higher elevation would have been appropriate?
Syfy is irredeemably blackened by its association with WWE and made-for-TV movies that were so shitty that they made Roger Corman spin in his grave. I gave up cable TV when I moved out of my parents' attic. Syfy as a paid channel, even if cable moved to a la carte pricing, isn't reason enough to get cable again. For the good of science fiction and fantasy as art forms, Syfy must die.
At this point, Uwe Boll films are better to watch than the crap made-for-tv movies they keep churning on SyFy.
I might actually tolerate the channel if they turned themselves in a MST3K channel where all they do is show bad films. Top the line up with Uwe Boll and Troma pictures.
It's not as if SciFi doesn't have a history of buying shows from other networks and making them successful. Farscape and Stargate SG-1 both come to mind as shows that did not originate on SciFi. Farscape season one was shot and aired on an Australian channel. The first five seasons of SG-1 were aired on Showtime.
The new BSG is the only show that I can think of that has been hugely popular that was started on the SciFi channel. They've had some pretty good mini-series (Tinman), but their shows have been lacking for the most part.
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How many sharks with frikkin laser jokes will we get on this story?
I think it has jumped the shark
This story has jumped the shark and ran straight into a fridge to get nuked.
I said it was a "reasonable argument" for why they weren't hosting it. It's not a reasonable argument to justify only distributing the emails in a paper copy.
27,000 pages. Even assuming an extremely favorable half cent per page cost you could still make about 500 DVDs with the emails on it for the same cost of printing just one copy. And even going at DVD printing shops which may charge you $3 per copy, that's still a LOT better than printing the damn thing.
There's some reasonableness to their statement. The article points out that Juneau has limited bandwidth. If they make a digital release available for download from the Internet they're going to impede their IT services that Alaskan citizens may or may not use.
On the other hand, there's no reason why they have to distribute the emails in paper. They could have written the emails to CD or DVD and mailed that to anyone that requested it.
I don't entirely trust GeoIPs resolution.
If I did, I would believe that I travel 1800 miles to work every morning in 20 minutes and 1800 miles home every evening in 30 minutes.
30% of the price of products would be shunted to Apple. This would trigger either a sufficient increase in the price of software to account for the Apple tax or the software no longer being available for that platform. Software would probably jump $50 for every $100 that it used to cost just for being on the iOS platform.
Using the left hand I can hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete with my ring, middle, and index fingers. Ring hits R. Alt. Index hits R. Ctrl. Middle hits Delete.
Using the right hand I can hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete with my thumb, pinky, and ring fingers. Thumb hits R. Alt. Pinky hits R. Ctrl. Ring hits Delete.
Neither is particularly comfortable.
Robin Hood also didn't harm bystanders and innocents with his actions.
That's better than party escort bots.
The TSA threat was to shut down flights out of Texas. Not flights into Texas.
On a somewhat-unrelated note, it still blows my mind when enterprise level IT still has users with full admin rights over the local workstation, as those machines constantly and continually get infected and reinfected through the ignorance of the users. Sure, it means that a user can add a local device more complicate than a printer without calling the helpdesk, but it also means that any piece of unauthorized software, whether the user intended to install it or not, or whether it's benign or malicious, gets on to the computer. When the IT department sets up the computers and privileges properly, and if the OS doesn't have local root exploits so large one can drive a Mack truck through, the user can do a lot less damage.
It's not entirely unsurprising. Telling the company owner that "We need to change the level of permissions everyone has on their machines, which means they won't be able to do this, this, and this." after the company owner and the entire user base is accustomed to having that level of permission doesn't typically get a go ahead flag from the company owner.
You should be calling Jack O'Neill then....
Next are the Prothean ruins.
Are you sure he wasn't implying that he pirated the album off of bit torrent?
I'm a bit murky. I last read an Einstein biography about 8 months ago...
Was it that Einstein believes the universe wasn't expanding or that he capitulated to the common held belief that the universe wasn't expanding? In one case you had Einstein believing wrong and the other had Einstein kowtowing to the status quo.
You don't shit in the morning. You take your shit at approximately 4:46pm every day after getting home for work. You spend 20 minutes shitting while reading your latest Kindle novel. You flush twice. Once at about 4:51pm and the other after the 20 minutes has passed. Your toilet's flush isn't full optimized suggesting that there may be a leak with your plumbing. We have sent a plumber to fix the problem. Enjoy his ass crack.
Obscure also means something that is not widely known. Not just hidden.
OSX and Linux are obscure in the sense that they do not garner significant portions of the market share.
You could describe the protection Mac and Linux have enjoy as security through obscurity.
I didn't realize Federal income taxes were the same as State income taxes.
Can I crusher his neck now, master? Just a little? It's been a long time fantasy of mine...
If you will excuse me, master. I wish meditate on the face of my former meatbag master as he was electrocuted. I find it most soothing.
How are you holding up? Because I'm a potato.
A meltdown is any instance where a fuel rod is not in its rod state. So if one out of 30 fuel rods in a reactor had five inches of rod that had melted, it would still be considered a meltdown.
If they're suspecting some meltdown occurred, then the "melted" portions of the rods is either sitting at the bottom of the reactor or it has solidified further down the fuel rod possibly forming a solid link between fuel rods. Probably a combination of both with some portion of the 5ft that they're claiming melted down at the bottom of the reactor and another portion that has solidified back with the rods.
I'm not saying they didn't have sea walls. I'm saying that the protections constructed didn't match the site conditions or historic record of tsunami's. They ignored those stone monuments all over the hillsides that were 600 years old because obviously what does someone from 600 years ago know. I'll point out that those monuments were significantly higher than this tsunami, indicating that an even larger tsunami hit the location previously. There are dozens of these monuments all over the island. The Japanese at the time built these 6' tall stone monuments to warn future generations not to build homes to close to the sea.
Have you considered the possibility that because they're monuments the builders wanted them to be seen and thus a higher elevation would have been appropriate?
The people can revoke that when they repeal the laws that grant it. I still see the laws on the books so it appears the it hasn't been repealed.
Just because you unilaterally decide to revoke that monopoly does not mean that society has decided to do so.
Syfy is irredeemably blackened by its association with WWE and made-for-TV movies that were so shitty that they made Roger Corman spin in his grave. I gave up cable TV when I moved out of my parents' attic. Syfy as a paid channel, even if cable moved to a la carte pricing, isn't reason enough to get cable again. For the good of science fiction and fantasy as art forms, Syfy must die.
At this point, Uwe Boll films are better to watch than the crap made-for-tv movies they keep churning on SyFy.
I might actually tolerate the channel if they turned themselves in a MST3K channel where all they do is show bad films. Top the line up with Uwe Boll and Troma pictures.
It's not as if SciFi doesn't have a history of buying shows from other networks and making them successful. Farscape and Stargate SG-1 both come to mind as shows that did not originate on SciFi. Farscape season one was shot and aired on an Australian channel. The first five seasons of SG-1 were aired on Showtime.
The new BSG is the only show that I can think of that has been hugely popular that was started on the SciFi channel. They've had some pretty good mini-series (Tinman), but their shows have been lacking for the most part.