If you got a number that's for the same central office and you're getting charged long distance rates then my guess is that you got that number by using a cell phone or a trunk number. I imagine that local for a prison means calls to land lines within limited set of central offices based on proximity and I would expect a trunk number to only work if it's dialing over to a number that is within the "local" list.
The study was only looking at cancer risks so drawing conclusions that vaping is just as bad as smoking from this article is ill informed. As you allude to there are other respiratory illnesses, like COPD, where the tar from smoking is a major factor. If vaping has equivalent odds of causing cancer as smoking but reduces risk of other illnesses it seems rather obvious that we should encourage people to move from smoking to vaping in order to reduce the amount of respiratory illness. Getting them off smoking/vaping entirely would be the best but addictions are what they are.
Six kerbals currently on mission on space station in LKO.
Seven kerbals currently on solar system escape trajectory with no fuel. Reevaluation of mission supplies resulted in cyanide capsules as part of standard supply kit.
Two kerbals stranded on the Munn due to improper fuel rationing. These kerbals were reprimanded for conducting unnecessary flybys of the Munn.
Two kerbals stranded on the Munn due to failed rescue mission. Further rescue missions suspended until engineering defects can be addressed.
Three kerbals in individual orbits around the sun between Moho and Eve. Odds of rescue astronomically low. Mission notes indicate that cyanide capsules have not yet been included in the standard kerbal supply kit.
Seven hundred fifty eight kerbals dead from accidents. Death count unacceptable. Three more deaths required in order to return to a prime number.
we conclude that the scenario most consistent with the data in hand is the passage of a family of exocomet or planetesimal fragments, all of which are associated with a single previous break-up event, possibly caused by tidal disruption or thermal processing.
Firing the FBI director less than four years into a ten year appointment when he is not your appointment is going to generate bad optics. Yes, this particular timing is probably worse optics than what would have happened if Comey was fired day one but to suggest that it wouldn't generate bad optics means that you really don't understand the purpose of the ten year appointment term for the FBI director is to create an apolitical appointment. A President firing a director on his first day is going to almost certainly be seen as a politically oriented move and would almost certainly be reported as such by a media that is hostile to him and pretty much with certainly be framed as such by an opposition party.
It's only odd if you assume that Comey's firing was based on a single recent event rather than a series of events that occurred while under Comey's watch which include Hazan at Ft Hood, the Boston Marathon bomber, and the Orlando nightclub shooter. In all of those cases the FBI had information that should have incited a closer look at the culprits but that information was not acted upon.
Lest we on Slashdot not forget, Comey was also one of the few people pushing for Apple to unlock the phone and create a method for the FBI to do so during the Bernadino shooters despite other figures in the intelligence communities speaking out against it.
The FBI had also been investigating Americans in violation of the 4th amendment as early as 2013.
There's also that unusual deal during the Clinton email investigation where aides were allowed to destroy their laptops and received immunity.
There is a long series of events that show that the FBI under Comey was making questionable decisions on how to act regarding things. He's ultimately responsible for everything his agency does or doesn't do, even if he's not involved directly in the situation. Comey's firing is, while unusual in how it was done, not unwarranted. My guess it that Obama should have probably requested Comey's resignation well before the election but the optics of that situation would have been really bad as it could look as though his was trying to dump in a FBI director with a fresh term on top of Trump.
There really was no way for Trump to get rid of Comey without bad optics. It doesn't matter whether Trump requested Comey's resignation or fired him. It would still be spun the exact way it currently is. The only way for Comey to be gone without people blasting Trump would have been if he had done something to come under investigation or hit the end of his appointment term.
New technologies of the past created relatively low-skilled new jobs when it replaced others. That may not be the case this time. People may need serious skill upgrades to get the "bot-era" jobs.
Technologies of the past automated and addressed narrow scope problems. They were process based improvements and while there were some displacement of workers it was only a small number at once. This lead to small pain and more importantly, there still remained similar low skilled jobs. Someone who had previously worked moving object A from point D to E can be rather easily trained to move object J from point M to N. What we're seeing now is automatic technology that has a far wider scope and applies across numerous vocations rather than being narrowly targeted at specific processes. In order to retain the worker the worker must be capable of performing a task like.... move object A from point B to C if J is true else move object A from point B to D if J is false. We're increasing the baseline competence that an employee needs to be able to exhibit in order to be employable as the general automatic is getting to a point where it's going to be able to replace all jobs that are just move Object A from point D to E.
Past automation was process oriented and it targeted specific problems within specific scopes. The automation created lessons learned but the technology developed had a narrow scope that it impacted and the people that were displaced were easily moved into other jobs as the further training required was mostly in line with, "Yesterday you moved A from X to Y. Today you will be moving B from J to K." Today's automation is more in line with generic problems with self driving cars being a prime example. It's a technology that will have direct applications in freight (Old Dominion), delivery (UPS, FedEx), and people transportation (Greyhound).
I don't think that automation will make human labor obsolete. What I do think is that automation will progressively raise the required intelligence to hold a job and as a consequence we will begin to accrue a larger and larger population that is incapable of holding a job.
Mario Kart 64. Released 1996 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Released 2017
I know, I know, tons of the stuff on the N64 was suffixed with " 64" but it's created amusement but it does lead to an interesting question. What happens when they release the 64th iteration of the Mario Kart series?
Donald Trump is blowing up $300 million missles in the middle of fucking no where.
Can you please tell me which missile costs $300 million that Trump blew up?
It would take 167 tomahawks to spend $300 but also a tomahawk doesn't cost $300 million as the OP is implying. The OP is probably referencing MOAB, which has a unit cost of $16 million and the program to develop it was a little north of $300 million. The Minuteman III ICBM has a $7 million unit cost and the Trident SLBM has a unit cost of $37 million. The retired Peacekeeper MIRV ICBM did have a $400 million unit cost.
The US doesn't have any missiles that have a unit cost of $300+ million, let alone Trump blowing one up.
Even assuming 4,000 single households at 17,000 a year that means 68,000,000 for a single year. Even if that 50,000,000 is per year rather than total they're still a minimum of 18,000,000 short if they were targeting single households.
Because StarCraft was more accessible. It was fun to watch others play and you could played matches in a shorter amount of time, the latter of which is immensely important.
It's the same reasons why Supreme Commander failed to make headway into that space and the attempts to move Supreme Commander 2 into that space caused it to fail miserably.
You appear to be confused regarding the chain of command. The Joint Chiefs, branch commanders, and unified command commanders all report to the Secretary of Defense who reports to the President although the Joint Chiefs do directly advise the President. The current secretary of defense is an ex-military civilian but the position of Secretary of Defense has no requirement for previous military service and is very much a civilian position.
The Navy is only banning vaping on shippings and I can see the reasoning for it. While vaping may be better for your health long term the situation on board a ship is a bit different. First of all, you're on a ship. You don't have access to expert medical facilities so while vape devices have thus far only caused 77 days worth of injuries, they've been minor enough that they could be handled by the ship's medbay. There's likely a concern here regarding a more severe injury and the isolation from higher quality medical services where something that shouldn't be life-threatening if you were stateside or on a base suddenly becomes life threatening.
While vaping may be healthier compared to cigarettes you're talking long term chronic health. There's no question that when we're talking about short-term and immediate health that cigarettes are safer than vaping and I can't believe I just typed that phrase.
The answer is pretty simple. It's overtime and these individuals consider the overtime hours as normal pay because the business normally operates on 50 hour weeks and drops to 40 hour weeks when work slows.
Let's say you work 4 weeks at 50 hours (effective 55 for pay) and 4 weeks for 40 hours (effective 40 for pay). Your average pay is going to be equivalent to 47.5 hours of pay. The month you work over time you're at 115% of average.
The financial insecurity comes from families budgeting around the "normal" 50hr work week instead of the 40hr work week or even just the average hours per week.
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If you got a number that's for the same central office and you're getting charged long distance rates then my guess is that you got that number by using a cell phone or a trunk number. I imagine that local for a prison means calls to land lines within limited set of central offices based on proximity and I would expect a trunk number to only work if it's dialing over to a number that is within the "local" list.
The study was only looking at cancer risks so drawing conclusions that vaping is just as bad as smoking from this article is ill informed. As you allude to there are other respiratory illnesses, like COPD, where the tar from smoking is a major factor. If vaping has equivalent odds of causing cancer as smoking but reduces risk of other illnesses it seems rather obvious that we should encourage people to move from smoking to vaping in order to reduce the amount of respiratory illness. Getting them off smoking/vaping entirely would be the best but addictions are what they are.
the question who shits where is the really big issue in the country.
Maybe not the country but based on other comments in other articles on Slashdot it sounds like it's a really big issue in San Francisco.
And of all companies that could have bought them - take2 is just about the worst possible one.
Activision, EA, Ubisoft.
Any of them are worse.
Instructions unclear.
Fifteen kerbals currently available for missions.
Six kerbals currently on mission on space station in LKO.
Seven kerbals currently on solar system escape trajectory with no fuel. Reevaluation of mission supplies resulted in cyanide capsules as part of standard supply kit.
Two kerbals stranded on the Munn due to improper fuel rationing. These kerbals were reprimanded for conducting unnecessary flybys of the Munn.
Two kerbals stranded on the Munn due to failed rescue mission. Further rescue missions suspended until engineering defects can be addressed.
Three kerbals in individual orbits around the sun between Moho and Eve. Odds of rescue astronomically low. Mission notes indicate that cyanide capsules have not yet been included in the standard kerbal supply kit.
Seven hundred fifty eight kerbals dead from accidents. Death count unacceptable. Three more deaths required in order to return to a prime number.
Then the answer is simple. We need to accelerate earth so that it gets closer to the sun so that the probe can go in at night.
Probably something about sex.
Netflix has an hour long movie of an oscillating fan.
A more mundane explanation like the below.
we conclude that the scenario most consistent with the data in hand is the passage of a family of exocomet or planetesimal fragments, all of which are associated with a single previous break-up event, possibly caused by tidal disruption or thermal processing.
Which is in the link to the paper.
Probably, but I bet the explosions aren't the kind popularized by Michael Bay films.
Firing the FBI director less than four years into a ten year appointment when he is not your appointment is going to generate bad optics. Yes, this particular timing is probably worse optics than what would have happened if Comey was fired day one but to suggest that it wouldn't generate bad optics means that you really don't understand the purpose of the ten year appointment term for the FBI director is to create an apolitical appointment. A President firing a director on his first day is going to almost certainly be seen as a politically oriented move and would almost certainly be reported as such by a media that is hostile to him and pretty much with certainly be framed as such by an opposition party.
It's only odd if you assume that Comey's firing was based on a single recent event rather than a series of events that occurred while under Comey's watch which include Hazan at Ft Hood, the Boston Marathon bomber, and the Orlando nightclub shooter. In all of those cases the FBI had information that should have incited a closer look at the culprits but that information was not acted upon.
Lest we on Slashdot not forget, Comey was also one of the few people pushing for Apple to unlock the phone and create a method for the FBI to do so during the Bernadino shooters despite other figures in the intelligence communities speaking out against it.
The FBI had also been investigating Americans in violation of the 4th amendment as early as 2013.
There's also that unusual deal during the Clinton email investigation where aides were allowed to destroy their laptops and received immunity.
There is a long series of events that show that the FBI under Comey was making questionable decisions on how to act regarding things. He's ultimately responsible for everything his agency does or doesn't do, even if he's not involved directly in the situation. Comey's firing is, while unusual in how it was done, not unwarranted. My guess it that Obama should have probably requested Comey's resignation well before the election but the optics of that situation would have been really bad as it could look as though his was trying to dump in a FBI director with a fresh term on top of Trump.
There really was no way for Trump to get rid of Comey without bad optics. It doesn't matter whether Trump requested Comey's resignation or fired him. It would still be spun the exact way it currently is. The only way for Comey to be gone without people blasting Trump would have been if he had done something to come under investigation or hit the end of his appointment term.
New technologies of the past created relatively low-skilled new jobs when it replaced others. That may not be the case this time. People may need serious skill upgrades to get the "bot-era" jobs.
Technologies of the past automated and addressed narrow scope problems. They were process based improvements and while there were some displacement of workers it was only a small number at once. This lead to small pain and more importantly, there still remained similar low skilled jobs. Someone who had previously worked moving object A from point D to E can be rather easily trained to move object J from point M to N. What we're seeing now is automatic technology that has a far wider scope and applies across numerous vocations rather than being narrowly targeted at specific processes. In order to retain the worker the worker must be capable of performing a task like.... move object A from point B to C if J is true else move object A from point B to D if J is false. We're increasing the baseline competence that an employee needs to be able to exhibit in order to be employable as the general automatic is getting to a point where it's going to be able to replace all jobs that are just move Object A from point D to E.
According to this website the number could be as many as 450,000.
http://www.feedingamerica.org/...
On a completely unrelated note, what's that coppery taste in my mouth?
Blood, now get to brushing your teeth regularly so your gums don't bleed.
Past automation was process oriented and it targeted specific problems within specific scopes. The automation created lessons learned but the technology developed had a narrow scope that it impacted and the people that were displaced were easily moved into other jobs as the further training required was mostly in line with, "Yesterday you moved A from X to Y. Today you will be moving B from J to K." Today's automation is more in line with generic problems with self driving cars being a prime example. It's a technology that will have direct applications in freight (Old Dominion), delivery (UPS, FedEx), and people transportation (Greyhound).
I don't think that automation will make human labor obsolete. What I do think is that automation will progressively raise the required intelligence to hold a job and as a consequence we will begin to accrue a larger and larger population that is incapable of holding a job.
I have.... and fuck the assholes that stand still on them side by side preventing anyone passing them.
Mario Kart 64. Released 1996
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Released 2017
I know, I know, tons of the stuff on the N64 was suffixed with " 64" but it's created amusement but it does lead to an interesting question. What happens when they release the 64th iteration of the Mario Kart series?
Donald Trump is blowing up $300 million missles in the middle of fucking no where.
Can you please tell me which missile costs $300 million that Trump blew up?
It would take 167 tomahawks to spend $300 but also a tomahawk doesn't cost $300 million as the OP is implying. The OP is probably referencing MOAB, which has a unit cost of $16 million and the program to develop it was a little north of $300 million. The Minuteman III ICBM has a $7 million unit cost and the Trident SLBM has a unit cost of $37 million. The retired Peacekeeper MIRV ICBM did have a $400 million unit cost.
The US doesn't have any missiles that have a unit cost of $300+ million, let alone Trump blowing one up.
Please visit your nearest grocery store and you shall discover Pepsi and Coke in the same building. I know, scandalous.
The math for this doesn't work out.
Even assuming 4,000 single households at 17,000 a year that means 68,000,000 for a single year. Even if that 50,000,000 is per year rather than total they're still a minimum of 18,000,000 short if they were targeting single households.
Because StarCraft was more accessible. It was fun to watch others play and you could played matches in a shorter amount of time, the latter of which is immensely important.
It's the same reasons why Supreme Commander failed to make headway into that space and the attempts to move Supreme Commander 2 into that space caused it to fail miserably.
You appear to be confused regarding the chain of command. The Joint Chiefs, branch commanders, and unified command commanders all report to the Secretary of Defense who reports to the President although the Joint Chiefs do directly advise the President. The current secretary of defense is an ex-military civilian but the position of Secretary of Defense has no requirement for previous military service and is very much a civilian position.
The Navy is only banning vaping on shippings and I can see the reasoning for it. While vaping may be better for your health long term the situation on board a ship is a bit different. First of all, you're on a ship. You don't have access to expert medical facilities so while vape devices have thus far only caused 77 days worth of injuries, they've been minor enough that they could be handled by the ship's medbay. There's likely a concern here regarding a more severe injury and the isolation from higher quality medical services where something that shouldn't be life-threatening if you were stateside or on a base suddenly becomes life threatening.
While vaping may be healthier compared to cigarettes you're talking long term chronic health. There's no question that when we're talking about short-term and immediate health that cigarettes are safer than vaping and I can't believe I just typed that phrase.
The answer is pretty simple. It's overtime and these individuals consider the overtime hours as normal pay because the business normally operates on 50 hour weeks and drops to 40 hour weeks when work slows.
Let's say you work 4 weeks at 50 hours (effective 55 for pay) and 4 weeks for 40 hours (effective 40 for pay). Your average pay is going to be equivalent to 47.5 hours of pay. The month you work over time you're at 115% of average.
The financial insecurity comes from families budgeting around the "normal" 50hr work week instead of the 40hr work week or even just the average hours per week.