Sealed bids is still haggling, you just only get to make the one offer instead of constantly going back an forth.
In the case of London real estate you're still negotiating, you're just on the other side where you need to offer better terms to out compete other offers. In markets that are slower people will very often take less than the asking price because they are under various pressures to sell. A house is a very large and unweildy asset, typically when people are selling a house they are still making mortgage payments on it, so the faster they can sell it the less money they lose to mortgage interest. If the house is unoccupied the risk of it being vandalized goes up considerably, which will end up devaluing the property as well as adding costs to repair it. Houses are definitely one of the purchases that you should negotiate.
Some of the indigenous people of South America did a remarkable job of building structures out of stone which are very earthquake safe. Not that it's a very cost effective method of construction. Although, with modern technology perhaps we could produce generic blocks with enough precision cheaply.
Bullying is really just dressed up harrassment. And the states have all had their own various definitions for that for a very long time. Like much of the body of law they all depend heavily on what a jury of your peers or a judge might find to be reasonable. So far as harrassment and bullying goes I haven't seen much concern regarding whether or not it's constitutional. Revenge porn is treading a pretty fine line in regards to whether or not it is harrassment. Building a business around it is a pretty foolhardy thing to do, though I suppose if you came out on top legally it could make you pretty wealthy.
My understanding was that cargo vessels have very small crews these days and they spend most of their time doing maintenance type stuff. The ocean is a pretty hostile environment for things made of steel. I imagine we will eventually replace those crews with robots, but for now it's cheaper to pay people to do it.
True but not worth crying about. Most people are selfish to some extent and of course that will play into everything they do and even more so when it comes to big purchases like a car.
The solution is to continue improving the state of the art until you get to the point that the electric car is priced similarly to an ICE car. Or until the feature difference is so large that consumers will pay for it regardless, just look at the success of smart phones as a good exmple.
Luckily that seems to be just what Tesla is working towards. They started at the high end making sports cars and luxury sedans. Next is an SUV, and after that hopefully we'll be getting a family sedan. Although I'd love to buy a Model S as my family sedan for now it's more important to build my retirement savings.
When you say "3000 charge/discharge cycles before being degraded to 80% capacity" what kind of cycle is that? Does partially draining the battery and then recharging it count as a full cycle? My understanding was that for lithium based batteries discharging them fully was more harmful than multiple partial discharges and recharges.
If we can get more than half a million miles out of a Tesla battery pack and still have 80% capacity that would be awesome!
Another question though, and this is showing my ignorance. I'm assuming that the Tesla's use Lithium cells. And I thought that Lithium based batteries degraded over time even if they weren't being used. If that is still correct what kind of loses would we expect.
I had much the same thought about the size of the toxic lake. That said the city doesn't really look like it'd support the quoted 2.7 million workers either. I wonder if google is displaying older images or something.
It is also a lot easier and cheaper to recycle the batteries for an electric car than mine for all new materials. Those worn out battery packs are far from a complete loss. And while an electric motor may wear out it's likely that the rare earth parts can be re-used as the just don't wear out.
That is currently the largest privately owned system. DHS is obviously unhappy with the hodge podge of such systems, and their relatively small size. It wants one big system it can own and not have to ask to access.
It's also fun to fill such profiles with obviously false or inaccurate information. I'm always amused by the birthday wishes I get on New Years day, when I'm supposedly turning 114 or some such.
As someone else pointed out far above, there is actually a variety of legal uses for flamethrowers. I've seen them used by landowners to conduct controlled burns to keep underbrush down and help prevent wild brush fires.
The vast majority of people who have accounts get hacked aren't getting physical visits from the attacker. Hell keeping your pass phrase on a sticky note under your keyboard isn't that dangerous either unless you are specifically protecting against an insider threat.
I miss the old Microsoft Intellimouse also. I used one at work for six years straight with no issues or problems ever. The first time I thought about buying one for home use they were available super cheap on line and I bought one anticipating using it when my current mouse broke. In the mean time my wife's mouse broke and so she started using it, it lasted maybe 3 months because she was constantly dropping it off the side of her desk. Since then the only ones I've been able to find online were at scalper prices on ebay.
The OP is talking about using fiber instead of rebar. Steel rebar is a problem because it eventually will rust which damages the integrity of the wall.
Did those hits actually result in a vehicle being stopped and possibly recovered? I seem to remember seeing several cases where police departments were collecting all this data but only ever using it for pet cases and ignoring plenty of low hanging fruit. The one that sticks out in my memory at the moment was were a wanted person's vehicle, drove past the same camera's everyday on the same schedule but they never checked to see if the wanted person was driving it.
I wonder what the reasoning was for mounting the blast door that way. I would think you'd want it oriented such that a blast coming down the slide would push the door closed, instead of hold it open. Although I suppose that if the door isn't closed all the way by the time a blast reaches that far it might not matter.
I think it has less to do with how easy it is or isn't, and a lot more to do with their own stupidity and lack of motivated people. Just observe the extreme rarity of actual terrorist attacks from islamic extremists in the USA. Obtaining weapons and explosives is relatively simple here, and it is an incredibly target rich environment. Yet there is very little in the way of terrorist activity.
I've got news for you, even the governement doesn't really care to make their software secure. There is lots of noise made about it, and sometimes an unbelievable circus. But in the end no one wants to pay either in dollars, time, or inconvenience. There have been multiple attempts throughout the decades to standardize, and it never gets very far before making compromises for some pet project and before you know it the standard is null and void. No one in a position to do anything about it gives a crap about security until their ass is actually in the fire because they had a breach.
I'm pertty confident most people would be happier with static pages whether they know it or not. The only exception I can think of is video and audio, which could still be done easily enough without building massive pages of shitty java script. I have used noScript for years and it is amazing how improved most sites are when you block the scripts from their two dozen partner sites.
Millions of business owners do this already everyday when they insure their workers against doing something stupid. By choosing to own and operate a SDC you have to accept the minimal level of risk that it could be the cause of, or faulted in an accident. You pay the probably incredibly small liability insurance and move on. When most cars are SDC accident rates will likely fall drastically, and so in turn with the cost of insuring a vehicle. Even with the high accident numbers we have today many people pay for full coverage insurance, including clauses protecting them from uninsured drivers. I'm rather confident that insurance will be a non issue with SDC's.
I think it probably applies to any job. Myself I would never sign a non-compete unless the compensation would shortly free me from having to ever work again. My Father had signed such an agreement and I saw him suffer the consequences when he finally left that company. At the time he told me he could fight it in court that by the time the lawyers were done there wouldn't be anything left and he'd still be out the years of lost income. I didn't know then that moving to California could possibly have been a viable alternative, but he evidentally find it was.
1. I've never had that problem in 8, though it did happen with my work computer that is on 7.
2. I guess I'm not using any really old hardware. I was using a 3 year old graphics card though and never had any problems with using non-microsoft drivers.
3. The tiled start screen is dumb but I almost never see it. It was the first thing I saw when I booted the computer for the first time. But then I switched to the desktop view with the windows key and since then it has always gone straight to the desktop after reboots. Now the only time I see it is when I use the OS to search for something, no addons, mods, or cryptic settings required.
4. I've never used RDP on 8 as it's my home computer, but sounds like a plausible complaint. That said I'm not sure how that'd even come up as a problem, are you using RDP to play a video game on a remote server?
In my experience 8 is just as shitty as 7. Which makes sense as 8 is mainly 7 with some extra UI changes which you can mostly avoid anyways.
That is correct to an extent. There has always been organized crime. But during times of prohibition their ability to make money has drastically increased because the law has created a situation ripe for their exploitation with a huge market. Drugs is the current profit center for most of the worlds organized criminal organizations. Yes, if we legalized drugs they would continue to exist, but they would lose their primary funding stream. With less funding comes less influence and we'd see a reduction in their ability to continue operations.
I have my paperwhite set to show just titles and authors on the home screen, so I don't even see the cover art then.
Speaking of the "screen saver" pictures, I think some of them are nice. But I really wish they'd just let me turn them off and just save battery by not changing the screen state at all.
"The individuals "innocently" executed are, by ANY standard, the absolute dregs of society, causing harm, misery, and untold pain to the people around them in many cases for DECADES. For every crime that they have on their arm's length rap sheet, there are probably at least a dozen others for which they were never caught. So yes, I'm saying again, as rational* actors they've made that choice, and while they may have been innocent of that particular charge, I'm willing to accept that they were worthless scum that we can simply be better off rid of."
That is what I take issue with. It doesn't matter what else they may have done. Justice can only be about what it is provable that they have done in a court of law, as a minimum. Otherwise we're just hoping on a sled careening down a slippery slope. I would rather see us lose a few innocent people to murderers because we couldn't prove it than condone executing people who might have committed a capital offense, but probably deserved it anyways according to someone.
We have the ability to incarcerate people for indefinite periods of time to protect the rest of us. And as expensive as that is, it is still cheaper than the consequences and process of putting them to death. Additionally while they are incarcerated it is entirely possible they could be exonerated and or prove useful in the resolution of other unsolved crimes.
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Sealed bids is still haggling, you just only get to make the one offer instead of constantly going back an forth.
In the case of London real estate you're still negotiating, you're just on the other side where you need to offer better terms to out compete other offers. In markets that are slower people will very often take less than the asking price because they are under various pressures to sell. A house is a very large and unweildy asset, typically when people are selling a house they are still making mortgage payments on it, so the faster they can sell it the less money they lose to mortgage interest. If the house is unoccupied the risk of it being vandalized goes up considerably, which will end up devaluing the property as well as adding costs to repair it. Houses are definitely one of the purchases that you should negotiate.
Some of the indigenous people of South America did a remarkable job of building structures out of stone which are very earthquake safe. Not that it's a very cost effective method of construction. Although, with modern technology perhaps we could produce generic blocks with enough precision cheaply.
Bullying is really just dressed up harrassment. And the states have all had their own various definitions for that for a very long time. Like much of the body of law they all depend heavily on what a jury of your peers or a judge might find to be reasonable. So far as harrassment and bullying goes I haven't seen much concern regarding whether or not it's constitutional. Revenge porn is treading a pretty fine line in regards to whether or not it is harrassment. Building a business around it is a pretty foolhardy thing to do, though I suppose if you came out on top legally it could make you pretty wealthy.
My understanding was that cargo vessels have very small crews these days and they spend most of their time doing maintenance type stuff. The ocean is a pretty hostile environment for things made of steel. I imagine we will eventually replace those crews with robots, but for now it's cheaper to pay people to do it.
True but not worth crying about. Most people are selfish to some extent and of course that will play into everything they do and even more so when it comes to big purchases like a car.
The solution is to continue improving the state of the art until you get to the point that the electric car is priced similarly to an ICE car. Or until the feature difference is so large that consumers will pay for it regardless, just look at the success of smart phones as a good exmple.
Luckily that seems to be just what Tesla is working towards. They started at the high end making sports cars and luxury sedans. Next is an SUV, and after that hopefully we'll be getting a family sedan. Although I'd love to buy a Model S as my family sedan for now it's more important to build my retirement savings.
When you say "3000 charge/discharge cycles before being degraded to 80% capacity" what kind of cycle is that? Does partially draining the battery and then recharging it count as a full cycle? My understanding was that for lithium based batteries discharging them fully was more harmful than multiple partial discharges and recharges.
If we can get more than half a million miles out of a Tesla battery pack and still have 80% capacity that would be awesome!
Another question though, and this is showing my ignorance. I'm assuming that the Tesla's use Lithium cells. And I thought that Lithium based batteries degraded over time even if they weren't being used. If that is still correct what kind of loses would we expect.
I had much the same thought about the size of the toxic lake. That said the city doesn't really look like it'd support the quoted 2.7 million workers either. I wonder if google is displaying older images or something.
It is also a lot easier and cheaper to recycle the batteries for an electric car than mine for all new materials. Those worn out battery packs are far from a complete loss. And while an electric motor may wear out it's likely that the rare earth parts can be re-used as the just don't wear out.
That is currently the largest privately owned system. DHS is obviously unhappy with the hodge podge of such systems, and their relatively small size. It wants one big system it can own and not have to ask to access.
It's also fun to fill such profiles with obviously false or inaccurate information. I'm always amused by the birthday wishes I get on New Years day, when I'm supposedly turning 114 or some such.
As someone else pointed out far above, there is actually a variety of legal uses for flamethrowers. I've seen them used by landowners to conduct controlled burns to keep underbrush down and help prevent wild brush fires.
The vast majority of people who have accounts get hacked aren't getting physical visits from the attacker. Hell keeping your pass phrase on a sticky note under your keyboard isn't that dangerous either unless you are specifically protecting against an insider threat.
I miss the old Microsoft Intellimouse also. I used one at work for six years straight with no issues or problems ever. The first time I thought about buying one for home use they were available super cheap on line and I bought one anticipating using it when my current mouse broke. In the mean time my wife's mouse broke and so she started using it, it lasted maybe 3 months because she was constantly dropping it off the side of her desk. Since then the only ones I've been able to find online were at scalper prices on ebay.
The OP is talking about using fiber instead of rebar. Steel rebar is a problem because it eventually will rust which damages the integrity of the wall.
Did those hits actually result in a vehicle being stopped and possibly recovered? I seem to remember seeing several cases where police departments were collecting all this data but only ever using it for pet cases and ignoring plenty of low hanging fruit. The one that sticks out in my memory at the moment was were a wanted person's vehicle, drove past the same camera's everyday on the same schedule but they never checked to see if the wanted person was driving it.
I wonder what the reasoning was for mounting the blast door that way. I would think you'd want it oriented such that a blast coming down the slide would push the door closed, instead of hold it open. Although I suppose that if the door isn't closed all the way by the time a blast reaches that far it might not matter.
I think it has less to do with how easy it is or isn't, and a lot more to do with their own stupidity and lack of motivated people. Just observe the extreme rarity of actual terrorist attacks from islamic extremists in the USA. Obtaining weapons and explosives is relatively simple here, and it is an incredibly target rich environment. Yet there is very little in the way of terrorist activity.
I've got news for you, even the governement doesn't really care to make their software secure. There is lots of noise made about it, and sometimes an unbelievable circus. But in the end no one wants to pay either in dollars, time, or inconvenience. There have been multiple attempts throughout the decades to standardize, and it never gets very far before making compromises for some pet project and before you know it the standard is null and void. No one in a position to do anything about it gives a crap about security until their ass is actually in the fire because they had a breach.
I'm pertty confident most people would be happier with static pages whether they know it or not. The only exception I can think of is video and audio, which could still be done easily enough without building massive pages of shitty java script. I have used noScript for years and it is amazing how improved most sites are when you block the scripts from their two dozen partner sites.
Millions of business owners do this already everyday when they insure their workers against doing something stupid. By choosing to own and operate a SDC you have to accept the minimal level of risk that it could be the cause of, or faulted in an accident. You pay the probably incredibly small liability insurance and move on. When most cars are SDC accident rates will likely fall drastically, and so in turn with the cost of insuring a vehicle. Even with the high accident numbers we have today many people pay for full coverage insurance, including clauses protecting them from uninsured drivers. I'm rather confident that insurance will be a non issue with SDC's.
I think it probably applies to any job. Myself I would never sign a non-compete unless the compensation would shortly free me from having to ever work again. My Father had signed such an agreement and I saw him suffer the consequences when he finally left that company. At the time he told me he could fight it in court that by the time the lawyers were done there wouldn't be anything left and he'd still be out the years of lost income. I didn't know then that moving to California could possibly have been a viable alternative, but he evidentally find it was.
1. I've never had that problem in 8, though it did happen with my work computer that is on 7.
2. I guess I'm not using any really old hardware. I was using a 3 year old graphics card though and never had any problems with using non-microsoft drivers.
3. The tiled start screen is dumb but I almost never see it. It was the first thing I saw when I booted the computer for the first time. But then I switched to the desktop view with the windows key and since then it has always gone straight to the desktop after reboots. Now the only time I see it is when I use the OS to search for something, no addons, mods, or cryptic settings required.
4. I've never used RDP on 8 as it's my home computer, but sounds like a plausible complaint. That said I'm not sure how that'd even come up as a problem, are you using RDP to play a video game on a remote server?
In my experience 8 is just as shitty as 7. Which makes sense as 8 is mainly 7 with some extra UI changes which you can mostly avoid anyways.
That is correct to an extent. There has always been organized crime. But during times of prohibition their ability to make money has drastically increased because the law has created a situation ripe for their exploitation with a huge market. Drugs is the current profit center for most of the worlds organized criminal organizations. Yes, if we legalized drugs they would continue to exist, but they would lose their primary funding stream. With less funding comes less influence and we'd see a reduction in their ability to continue operations.
I have my paperwhite set to show just titles and authors on the home screen, so I don't even see the cover art then.
Speaking of the "screen saver" pictures, I think some of them are nice. But I really wish they'd just let me turn them off and just save battery by not changing the screen state at all.
"The individuals "innocently" executed are, by ANY standard, the absolute dregs of society, causing harm, misery, and untold pain to the people around them in many cases for DECADES. For every crime that they have on their arm's length rap sheet, there are probably at least a dozen others for which they were never caught. So yes, I'm saying again, as rational* actors they've made that choice, and while they may have been innocent of that particular charge, I'm willing to accept that they were worthless scum that we can simply be better off rid of."
That is what I take issue with. It doesn't matter what else they may have done. Justice can only be about what it is provable that they have done in a court of law, as a minimum. Otherwise we're just hoping on a sled careening down a slippery slope. I would rather see us lose a few innocent people to murderers because we couldn't prove it than condone executing people who might have committed a capital offense, but probably deserved it anyways according to someone.
We have the ability to incarcerate people for indefinite periods of time to protect the rest of us. And as expensive as that is, it is still cheaper than the consequences and process of putting them to death. Additionally while they are incarcerated it is entirely possible they could be exonerated and or prove useful in the resolution of other unsolved crimes.