The whole central valley of California was under several feet of water during floods in 1862. If you take a 1000 year period anywhere in the world there's bound to have been at least one flood that covered the entire extent of the known world as the world was known in ancient times. Add on the tendency of storytellers to exaggerate about how much snow there was uphill both ways to school in their youth and it'd be amazing if any culture didn't have a world-drowning flood myth.
The average Joe still gets paid nothing. It's the inexplicable celebrities-for-no-talent-or-reason, people who are basically famous for being famous, who get paid for endorsements.
Advertiser safe? It sounds like the channel is nothing more or less than 100% toy advertisement videos. The trick is they found a ton of people will seek out and watch ads if they star a cute kid who's too naive to realize it's an ad.
Thieves would much rather interact with humans than with a gazillion security cameras following every move and phone tracking. Humans are easy to trick and have bad memories.
There is a legitimate concern with using solar panels somewhere that has 2 week long nights. But you're correct that they're combining nuclear with solar to address that, having the lander power down and not do any work at night with the nuclear being just enough to keep it warm:
"The rover and the lander feature solar panels for daytime power and operation, along with nuclear plutonium-238 heaters to keep their electronic components warm during the two-week-long lunar night." (source)
Apparently solar is enough cheaper or longer lasting than other options that it's worth being limited to half time operation.
The problem with IE/Trident was that it was closed source -- and worse, Windows-only. Blink is easily forked if Google does anything bad with it, as proved by KTML being forked into Webkit being forked into Blink.
The great thing about Microsoft switching Edge to Chromium is that web developers no longer need to keep a copy of Windows around to check.
Bear spray is meant to be used outdoors where it wouldn't require a mask... but if the bear is in your living room, your hospital stay for using the bear spray will be shorter than one for being mauled by a bear.
If the tabloids want to hear about the industrial accident, there are likely many employee witnesses who can sell them the story under condition of anonymity. Seems more practical than ambulance-chasing reporters anyway.
Seems like they could've simply flagged the porn-containing accounts to make them not visible from the app with a note of explanation about Apple's terms.
A bit of trivia... did you know that there is no constitutional requirement for states to let citizens even vote for president of USA?
Actually, the constitution's 14th amendment says: "When the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."
A state that doesn't allow voting for president is not to be counted as part of the election.
Remind me how many far away lands with no historical Chinese identity China has laid claim to, compared to say the USA or UK. China has shown little interest in being even a global military power, their interests are simply the South China Sea and Taiwan and other small islands they've long laid claim to but not had the power to assert the claim before.
If there were a reason to militarize space, you can bet the USA as the world's arms dealer would've done it already. The reason there's no military installation in space is that it makes no tactical sense. It makes your weapons more visible than they are on the ground, and it takes a hell of a lot longer for the weapon to hit the Earth target if you launch it from the moon than if you launch an ICBM from your home country.
Amazon made $1,600,000,000 profit in the first quarter of this year, $2,500,000,000 profit in the second quarter, $2,800,000,000 profit in the third quarter. I'd hardly call that almost zero retained profit.
In many neighborhoods, all someone has to do to intercept mail is go over and take the mail out of the unlocked mailbox. I hardly think worrying about mail thieves painting rooftops is a productive use of time, it would be much more conspicuous and easy to prosecute.
That's like arguing that an internet kiosk in a department store that only allows accessing a store's own website to search products is a violation of net neutrality. Starbucks is not an ISP, they're a coffee company that happens to offer customers some internet service under certain conditions.
Yeah, it's terrible how that liberal judge canceled the tunnel to save the earthworm!
Oh, wait, that only happened in your hyper-partisan imagination. Back in reality, anybody can file lawsuits regardless of merit -- lawsuits are America's national pastime, not just California's -- and impact reports don't mean that nothing is allowed to be done if it has an impact.
Are environmental impact reports a favorite tool of NIMBYs? Yes, all the more so in my deeply conservative but anti-growth part of California. People who'd just as soon strip mine the mountainside pretend to care about the environment if they can use that to stop unwanted development. And some action is warranted to limit such NIMBYism. But eliminating environmental impact reports that you don't even know what's being destroyed is a recipe for turning your state into West Virginia.
It's probably not an issue with wildlife, but an issue with digging under people's property.
If you read the first sentence of the summary, it says the tunnel in question was planned to run under the 405 freeway. There are no houses on the freeway.
It was likely either a cynical attempt to slow the project down and get bribes for stepping aside, or some uneducated people imagining that their houses will be shaking constantly from nearby tunneling. The EIR wouldn't turn up anything, but it'd still require time and lawyers to write the nothing.
Back in reality, it was a test tunnel. They decided the Dodger Stadium one can serve the same purpose with more utility. It changes nothing about their plans.
You always had the option to turn off annotations. To each his own is so last decade. Now it's to everybody the most oversimplified phone-optimized interface.
0.001%? Electric cars are 39% of new car sales in Norway, 8% in California, and around 5% in China. If you live in a backwater that can't even keep up with China, maybe it's not relevant to your area yet.
Antarctica has a summer population of around 1,000 and winter population of around 200. On a purely scientific basis, I can imagine getting similar numbers on Mars -- 1000 temporary residents, 200 permanent.
But humans are not purely scientific. They love to do apparently incredibly stupid things like climb Mt Everest without oxygen or free-climb El Capitan. Like those, Mars captures the imagination of many people who love to suffer and tempt fate. If Musk makes the economics of it possible for the wealthy, then those type of people will build a Mars colony not because it is easy but because it is hard.
And compared to sea voyages in the age of discovery where 90% of the crew could expect to die before getting home and they were cramped onto a small ship surrounded by the ocean developing scurvy from their poor supplies, it'll be practically a pleasure jaunt.
Many people have enjoyed exploring Antarctica, even when it's mostly just sitting around in ugly research bases through the winter and occasionally looking at a bleak white landscape. It's not for me, but I'm sure there are people who will enjoy Mars.
In other words it's like cash. Semi-anonymous, but the shops you spend it in can be regulated.
Actually, cash makes tax evasion a lot easier than this system. That's why some businesses like cash.
Personally, not being a criminal, I'm with Stallman: privacy to prevent companies from building and selling profiles of customers is good, but privacy for tax evasion is bad and I'm happy for the government to have the ability to round up those bastards. Technically illegal purchases are private under this system, but fortunately when the police raid the criminal merchant they're likely to discover the customers through other means.
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The whole central valley of California was under several feet of water during floods in 1862. If you take a 1000 year period anywhere in the world there's bound to have been at least one flood that covered the entire extent of the known world as the world was known in ancient times. Add on the tendency of storytellers to exaggerate about how much snow there was uphill both ways to school in their youth and it'd be amazing if any culture didn't have a world-drowning flood myth.
Japan has a giant border moat. Their border wall will be for coping with sea level rise.
The average Joe still gets paid nothing. It's the inexplicable celebrities-for-no-talent-or-reason, people who are basically famous for being famous, who get paid for endorsements.
Advertiser safe? It sounds like the channel is nothing more or less than 100% toy advertisement videos. The trick is they found a ton of people will seek out and watch ads if they star a cute kid who's too naive to realize it's an ad.
Thieves would much rather interact with humans than with a gazillion security cameras following every move and phone tracking. Humans are easy to trick and have bad memories.
There is a legitimate concern with using solar panels somewhere that has 2 week long nights. But you're correct that they're combining nuclear with solar to address that, having the lander power down and not do any work at night with the nuclear being just enough to keep it warm:
"The rover and the lander feature solar panels for daytime power and operation, along with nuclear plutonium-238 heaters to keep their electronic components warm during the two-week-long lunar night." (source)
Apparently solar is enough cheaper or longer lasting than other options that it's worth being limited to half time operation.
The problem with IE/Trident was that it was closed source -- and worse, Windows-only. Blink is easily forked if Google does anything bad with it, as proved by KTML being forked into Webkit being forked into Blink.
The great thing about Microsoft switching Edge to Chromium is that web developers no longer need to keep a copy of Windows around to check.
Bear spray is meant to be used outdoors where it wouldn't require a mask... but if the bear is in your living room, your hospital stay for using the bear spray will be shorter than one for being mauled by a bear.
If the tabloids want to hear about the industrial accident, there are likely many employee witnesses who can sell them the story under condition of anonymity. Seems more practical than ambulance-chasing reporters anyway.
Seems like they could've simply flagged the porn-containing accounts to make them not visible from the app with a note of explanation about Apple's terms.
Actually, the constitution's 14th amendment says: "When the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."
A state that doesn't allow voting for president is not to be counted as part of the election.
Remind me how many far away lands with no historical Chinese identity China has laid claim to, compared to say the USA or UK. China has shown little interest in being even a global military power, their interests are simply the South China Sea and Taiwan and other small islands they've long laid claim to but not had the power to assert the claim before.
If there were a reason to militarize space, you can bet the USA as the world's arms dealer would've done it already. The reason there's no military installation in space is that it makes no tactical sense. It makes your weapons more visible than they are on the ground, and it takes a hell of a lot longer for the weapon to hit the Earth target if you launch it from the moon than if you launch an ICBM from your home country.
Amazon made $1,600,000,000 profit in the first quarter of this year, $2,500,000,000 profit in the second quarter, $2,800,000,000 profit in the third quarter. I'd hardly call that almost zero retained profit.
How about you read the summary and see that's almost exactly what he has planned. "Branson says he will be the first passenger."
In many neighborhoods, all someone has to do to intercept mail is go over and take the mail out of the unlocked mailbox. I hardly think worrying about mail thieves painting rooftops is a productive use of time, it would be much more conspicuous and easy to prosecute.
That's like arguing that an internet kiosk in a department store that only allows accessing a store's own website to search products is a violation of net neutrality. Starbucks is not an ISP, they're a coffee company that happens to offer customers some internet service under certain conditions.
More than likely it was a joke. Combination joke and marketing stunt.
Yeah, it's terrible how that liberal judge canceled the tunnel to save the earthworm!
Oh, wait, that only happened in your hyper-partisan imagination. Back in reality, anybody can file lawsuits regardless of merit -- lawsuits are America's national pastime, not just California's -- and impact reports don't mean that nothing is allowed to be done if it has an impact.
Are environmental impact reports a favorite tool of NIMBYs? Yes, all the more so in my deeply conservative but anti-growth part of California. People who'd just as soon strip mine the mountainside pretend to care about the environment if they can use that to stop unwanted development. And some action is warranted to limit such NIMBYism. But eliminating environmental impact reports that you don't even know what's being destroyed is a recipe for turning your state into West Virginia.
If you read the first sentence of the summary, it says the tunnel in question was planned to run under the 405 freeway. There are no houses on the freeway.
It was likely either a cynical attempt to slow the project down and get bribes for stepping aside, or some uneducated people imagining that their houses will be shaking constantly from nearby tunneling. The EIR wouldn't turn up anything, but it'd still require time and lawyers to write the nothing.
Back in reality, it was a test tunnel. They decided the Dodger Stadium one can serve the same purpose with more utility. It changes nothing about their plans.
You always had the option to turn off annotations. To each his own is so last decade. Now it's to everybody the most oversimplified phone-optimized interface.
0.001%? Electric cars are 39% of new car sales in Norway, 8% in California, and around 5% in China. If you live in a backwater that can't even keep up with China, maybe it's not relevant to your area yet.
Antarctica has a summer population of around 1,000 and winter population of around 200. On a purely scientific basis, I can imagine getting similar numbers on Mars -- 1000 temporary residents, 200 permanent.
But humans are not purely scientific. They love to do apparently incredibly stupid things like climb Mt Everest without oxygen or free-climb El Capitan. Like those, Mars captures the imagination of many people who love to suffer and tempt fate. If Musk makes the economics of it possible for the wealthy, then those type of people will build a Mars colony not because it is easy but because it is hard.
And compared to sea voyages in the age of discovery where 90% of the crew could expect to die before getting home and they were cramped onto a small ship surrounded by the ocean developing scurvy from their poor supplies, it'll be practically a pleasure jaunt.
Many people have enjoyed exploring Antarctica, even when it's mostly just sitting around in ugly research bases through the winter and occasionally looking at a bleak white landscape. It's not for me, but I'm sure there are people who will enjoy Mars.
Actually, cash makes tax evasion a lot easier than this system. That's why some businesses like cash.
Personally, not being a criminal, I'm with Stallman: privacy to prevent companies from building and selling profiles of customers is good, but privacy for tax evasion is bad and I'm happy for the government to have the ability to round up those bastards. Technically illegal purchases are private under this system, but fortunately when the police raid the criminal merchant they're likely to discover the customers through other means.