Provided that the power this system relies on is electricity then there is no mandate that the electricity come form burning fossil fuels. For now most of the worlds power generation comes from sources that aren't carbon neutral, but that balance is slowly changing and at some point will hopefully tip the other way.
Does this method really require fresh water? The water is being cracked for its hydrogen not drinking or mixing in with something else. Besides if we ever get to the point that we can generate power without releasing so much carbon then we can run more desalination plants.
The article I read yesterday indicated that they were actually already producing fuel from their captured carbon, and reacting it with the hydrogen to produce about a barrel of hydrocarbons a day. Besides using the carbon for making new fuel though there are other commercial uses for it. Greenhouse growers like to feed their plants extra CO2 for better growth. There is a company called Carbon Cure that has developed a concrete product/process that involves injecting CO2 into the mix which results in a stronger product. Currently they appear to use carbon captured at power plants, but there probably isn't any reason they couldn't use carbon captured from this system.
Doing all that will require a lot more time and expertise than an officer simply plugging in a usb cable. By raising the amount of effort required to break the security the authorities are forced to prioritize which phones they can crack. Overall this should result in fewer people having their phones compromised.
Those are completely different situations though. When someone signs up for Cable TV in reality they only want a few of those channels but get the rest because there isn't an ala carte option. On Youtube you specifically opt in to each channel that you subscribe to. I've probably got 40 subscriptions on Youtube and the only ones that I don't watch 90%+ of their content are ridiculously prolific, like multiple half hour videos a day.
2% viewership from the subscriber base seems crazy to me. I can't see why someone would subscribe, or stay subbed, to a channel if only 1 in 50 videos appealed enough to them to watch it.
I would think as a creator that if viewership was that bad it might be worth trying to figure out why 98% of your subs aren't watching something.
I don't know about the law in Kansas but in some states if you commit a crime and that crime ends up precipitating another you can be found guilty of the second crime as well. Which is why getaway drivers for armed robberies can wind up being charged with murder and assault when those crimes are committed as part of the robbery. In this case several people conspired to commit a crime, making a false report to the police. That false report resulted in a death, for which they now share responsibility.
For the record I think the officer should also be facing charges, though of a reduced nature.
I trained to be a police officer for a few years before I ended up pursuing a different career. So I can't really say I ever knew what most police officers believed or felt. I can however say that the way "use of force" was taught it very much followed what you suggest. In that Officers should only respond with the minimum amount of force necessary. My teacher was a retired Sheriffs Deputy who had 30+ years of experience as a cop on the streets and leading the patrol division. Not only was he all about not shooting first, he also felt rehabilitation was more important than punishment.
We did training exercises that helped emphasize that you always had to be hyper vigilant when dealing with the public. Stuff like having the fattest guy in the class close a 21 foot gap from a standing start before another person could point their finger and say bang. So we trained to handle physical confrontations without the use of weapons. And in most cases it wasn't okay to say well I'll just draw my gun before a confrontation can start because doing so jumps you from the bottom of the use of force spectrum to the absolute top.
There is actually a lot about our government processes that aren't very secure at all. Getting an ID like a drivers license actually issued to you by the state, under another persons name, is really just a matter of filing the right paperwork. First you file a request for a new copy of the birth certificate, depending on where you get it from they might want a photo copy of a state ID card, which anyone can fake using ms paint. Similarly fake a DD-214, and a W2 with accompanying previous year tax return paperwork. Then take your documents down to the DMV and get your Drivers License. For extra credit you can use your shiny new license to get a new SSN card direct from the SSA.
I wonder if there is any money to be made in creating a tactile control board for cars like this. Build a board with all the standard controls you'd expect, give it a mounting system of some sort, and a usb cable or something so it can plug into the car.
And just think, if we went to a 14+14 term authors like GRR Martin might actually find the motivation to finish their stories before the first part of it expires.
I agree, I'm just pointing out how incredibly hot and hence fast the method is for getting the entire surface of the steak seared.
The perfect method would be to sous vida the steaks first to 130, and then sear and serve. I don't have a setup for doing that though so I usually let them warm up on the counter top while I get everything else going. Then when the chimney is ready we sear the steaks and put them in the oven to finish.
I like to do mine on top of a charcoal chimney before finishing in the oven to preference. It's slower than the Cast Iron Pan method for a single steak, but if you're doing more than that the chimney is faster. The chimney can fully sear an ice cold steak in 60 seconds or less, and be ready to do a dozen more. With the Pan you can really only do one or two at a time and you gotta clean the pan up a bit between steaks as well as get it back up to temperature after the oven cycle.
Be that as it may, it is still a huge amount of information that isn't currently being gathered. As the fine article also points out that is information that relates directly to weather. Having more information and of higher quality than is currently available would make for much better weather predicting capabilities. Better weather predictive abilities can translate directly into better and more timely responses to things like hurricanes.
Saying that Saildrone isn't worth pursuing is like saying that you shouldn't be concerned with testing that potential melanoma growth because your endoscopy came back clean.
I think the raw chicken is being over priced although possibly not that extremely. I say that because part of the pricing for things is based on the churn rate, and I'm pretty sure they sell a lot less whole chickens than trays of the various parts. They probably take any raw chicken that is nearing it's sell by date and cook it in the rotisserie oven. So they're converting something from nearly being a loss to a new product that probably sells a lot better.
Argo floats spend the vast majority of their time far under the surface of the ocean. They also passively float with the currents. The Saildrones monitor surface conditions of both the ocean and the atmosphere as well as use sonar to possibly monitor wildlife. The drones can be directed to sail to and monitor anywhere that is deep enough for them to not run aground.
Revenue isn't really a good measure of a companies profitability without showing their profit margins. According to a google search Amazons profit margin is about 3.8%, which is honestly pretty bad for a business. For us as consumers or users of Amazons services it is good, but from a business perspective they'd get better return on investment by investing in market index funds.
Even when I lived in San Jose traffic never got as bad as Atlanta does multiple times a day.
I've never lived in Seattle but it sounds much better than Atlanta for climate. You can always put on a jacket or use an umbrella, but they don't make practical air conditioned clothing just yet.
I agree in principal that if the expense of doing business in Seattle gets too high Amazon will move. That said this head tax seems like an extremely light bit of straw for them to be shrieking about. Amazon would likely lose more money just breaking lease agreements than paying the head tax for years. I suppose they could move gradually but even then it's not like moving offices is an expense free endeavor. You have to pay for moving and assembling all the equipment. Some stuff will get broken as a part of the move. And of course there is the lost productivity that comes with large scale disruption of your workforce.
I suppose it might vary by state, but I know this was already the case when I was a kid where I lived. I worked in a grocery store and everything was already labeled in the checkout system as being either eligible for payment with food stamps, or not. Soda, gum, and prepared foods from the deli were all prohibited if memory serves. The checkout system would show the total price, at which point the customer would pay first with their food stamps and then whatever balance was left, that wasn't eligible for that method of payment, would be settled via some other form of payment. My state also taxed what they considered luxury groceries, stuff like gum, bottled and canned beverages, and prepared food from the deli. But you could still buy microwavable TV dinners, candy, and koolaid with foodstamps and no taxes.
I like getting one of those whole rotisserie chickens at the grocery store, they cost pennies more than a raw whole chicken. When I get it home I take five minutes to carve it up into 8 pieces and strip off all the extra bits of meat. Whatever pieces we aren't eating immediately goes in the fridge for another meal. The scraps I stripped from the carcass and usually the leftover breast meat gets cut up and used to fancy up a couple bowls of Ramen for my lunches throughout the week.
People, including my wife, like to tear down Ramen but if you take a couple minutes extra you can make it much better. I like to add a raw egg once the water comes down from the boil. You can use chopped up chicken like I do, or use some other meat, for more protein, flavor, and texture. Some raw or steamed vegetables are a good addition as well carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, snow peas, and even baby spinach all come to mind.
I don't remember who thought it up but that is actually one of the safest possible ways to dispose of a lot of nuclear waste. The plan was to mix the waste in with glass, temper and mold it into a big torpedo looking thing and drop it from a surface ship into the ocean sediment at a subduction zone. Such an object would bury its self deep in the sediments which should prevent it from posing a radiation risk to anything alive in the vicinity. Over the eons it would end up encased in sedimentary rock, and then eventually melted into the mantle. By the time it might resurface it should be so diluted and decayed as to pose no discernible risk to any people that might be left around. We don't do it apparently because of international treaties which generally ban disposing of nuclear waste in the oceans.
1. Register your new business account with a name that shares the same initials. Although this only works with checks that people are silly enough to fill out using only the initials, rather than the real name.
2. Show up in a nice suit when creating the new account and bluff your way through setting up an account for your new UPS branch. At worst you're left with trying to outwit a bank manager who wants your business.
I've no idea how it happened but I can imagine it relatively easily. Get a fake ID using your photo and a real persons name and SSN. Use said fake id to request a copy of that persons Birth Certificate and SSN card. Take your new documents to a bank and use them to open an account. From there you can just start cashing checks you intercepted for that person. If the checks are for a business you just have an extra step or two where you open a business account. The only real risk of getting caught in any of this is if the victim notices the credit checks being run on them from the bank when you open the accounts.
I haven't had to forward mail in a long time, but if it still works the way it did 15 years ago the scheme wouldn't work. Each time a piece of mail needs to be forwarded they put a bright yellow label on it indicating it was being forwarded. Circular routing would quickly become apparent as the envelope would end up covered in stickers with the two addresses printed on them.
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Provided that the power this system relies on is electricity then there is no mandate that the electricity come form burning fossil fuels. For now most of the worlds power generation comes from sources that aren't carbon neutral, but that balance is slowly changing and at some point will hopefully tip the other way.
Does this method really require fresh water? The water is being cracked for its hydrogen not drinking or mixing in with something else. Besides if we ever get to the point that we can generate power without releasing so much carbon then we can run more desalination plants.
The article I read yesterday indicated that they were actually already producing fuel from their captured carbon, and reacting it with the hydrogen to produce about a barrel of hydrocarbons a day. Besides using the carbon for making new fuel though there are other commercial uses for it. Greenhouse growers like to feed their plants extra CO2 for better growth. There is a company called Carbon Cure that has developed a concrete product/process that involves injecting CO2 into the mix which results in a stronger product. Currently they appear to use carbon captured at power plants, but there probably isn't any reason they couldn't use carbon captured from this system.
Doing all that will require a lot more time and expertise than an officer simply plugging in a usb cable. By raising the amount of effort required to break the security the authorities are forced to prioritize which phones they can crack. Overall this should result in fewer people having their phones compromised.
Those are completely different situations though. When someone signs up for Cable TV in reality they only want a few of those channels but get the rest because there isn't an ala carte option. On Youtube you specifically opt in to each channel that you subscribe to. I've probably got 40 subscriptions on Youtube and the only ones that I don't watch 90%+ of their content are ridiculously prolific, like multiple half hour videos a day.
2% viewership from the subscriber base seems crazy to me. I can't see why someone would subscribe, or stay subbed, to a channel if only 1 in 50 videos appealed enough to them to watch it.
I would think as a creator that if viewership was that bad it might be worth trying to figure out why 98% of your subs aren't watching something.
I don't know about the law in Kansas but in some states if you commit a crime and that crime ends up precipitating another you can be found guilty of the second crime as well. Which is why getaway drivers for armed robberies can wind up being charged with murder and assault when those crimes are committed as part of the robbery. In this case several people conspired to commit a crime, making a false report to the police. That false report resulted in a death, for which they now share responsibility.
For the record I think the officer should also be facing charges, though of a reduced nature.
I trained to be a police officer for a few years before I ended up pursuing a different career. So I can't really say I ever knew what most police officers believed or felt. I can however say that the way "use of force" was taught it very much followed what you suggest. In that Officers should only respond with the minimum amount of force necessary. My teacher was a retired Sheriffs Deputy who had 30+ years of experience as a cop on the streets and leading the patrol division. Not only was he all about not shooting first, he also felt rehabilitation was more important than punishment.
We did training exercises that helped emphasize that you always had to be hyper vigilant when dealing with the public. Stuff like having the fattest guy in the class close a 21 foot gap from a standing start before another person could point their finger and say bang. So we trained to handle physical confrontations without the use of weapons. And in most cases it wasn't okay to say well I'll just draw my gun before a confrontation can start because doing so jumps you from the bottom of the use of force spectrum to the absolute top.
There is actually a lot about our government processes that aren't very secure at all. Getting an ID like a drivers license actually issued to you by the state, under another persons name, is really just a matter of filing the right paperwork. First you file a request for a new copy of the birth certificate, depending on where you get it from they might want a photo copy of a state ID card, which anyone can fake using ms paint. Similarly fake a DD-214, and a W2 with accompanying previous year tax return paperwork. Then take your documents down to the DMV and get your Drivers License. For extra credit you can use your shiny new license to get a new SSN card direct from the SSA.
I wonder if there is any money to be made in creating a tactile control board for cars like this. Build a board with all the standard controls you'd expect, give it a mounting system of some sort, and a usb cable or something so it can plug into the car.
And don't forget that those liberal communist scum out in Hollywood are likely behind this!
We need to fit illegal immigration into this somehow...
And just think, if we went to a 14+14 term authors like GRR Martin might actually find the motivation to finish their stories before the first part of it expires.
I agree, I'm just pointing out how incredibly hot and hence fast the method is for getting the entire surface of the steak seared.
The perfect method would be to sous vida the steaks first to 130, and then sear and serve. I don't have a setup for doing that though so I usually let them warm up on the counter top while I get everything else going. Then when the chimney is ready we sear the steaks and put them in the oven to finish.
The most amusing thing I've seen about this was actually a picture of some loose cursive text that could be read as either Yanny or Laurel.
I like to do mine on top of a charcoal chimney before finishing in the oven to preference. It's slower than the Cast Iron Pan method for a single steak, but if you're doing more than that the chimney is faster. The chimney can fully sear an ice cold steak in 60 seconds or less, and be ready to do a dozen more. With the Pan you can really only do one or two at a time and you gotta clean the pan up a bit between steaks as well as get it back up to temperature after the oven cycle.
Be that as it may, it is still a huge amount of information that isn't currently being gathered. As the fine article also points out that is information that relates directly to weather. Having more information and of higher quality than is currently available would make for much better weather predicting capabilities. Better weather predictive abilities can translate directly into better and more timely responses to things like hurricanes.
Saying that Saildrone isn't worth pursuing is like saying that you shouldn't be concerned with testing that potential melanoma growth because your endoscopy came back clean.
I think the raw chicken is being over priced although possibly not that extremely. I say that because part of the pricing for things is based on the churn rate, and I'm pretty sure they sell a lot less whole chickens than trays of the various parts. They probably take any raw chicken that is nearing it's sell by date and cook it in the rotisserie oven. So they're converting something from nearly being a loss to a new product that probably sells a lot better.
Argo floats spend the vast majority of their time far under the surface of the ocean. They also passively float with the currents. The Saildrones monitor surface conditions of both the ocean and the atmosphere as well as use sonar to possibly monitor wildlife. The drones can be directed to sail to and monitor anywhere that is deep enough for them to not run aground.
Revenue isn't really a good measure of a companies profitability without showing their profit margins. According to a google search Amazons profit margin is about 3.8%, which is honestly pretty bad for a business. For us as consumers or users of Amazons services it is good, but from a business perspective they'd get better return on investment by investing in market index funds.
Even when I lived in San Jose traffic never got as bad as Atlanta does multiple times a day.
I've never lived in Seattle but it sounds much better than Atlanta for climate. You can always put on a jacket or use an umbrella, but they don't make practical air conditioned clothing just yet.
I agree in principal that if the expense of doing business in Seattle gets too high Amazon will move. That said this head tax seems like an extremely light bit of straw for them to be shrieking about. Amazon would likely lose more money just breaking lease agreements than paying the head tax for years. I suppose they could move gradually but even then it's not like moving offices is an expense free endeavor. You have to pay for moving and assembling all the equipment. Some stuff will get broken as a part of the move. And of course there is the lost productivity that comes with large scale disruption of your workforce.
I suppose it might vary by state, but I know this was already the case when I was a kid where I lived. I worked in a grocery store and everything was already labeled in the checkout system as being either eligible for payment with food stamps, or not. Soda, gum, and prepared foods from the deli were all prohibited if memory serves. The checkout system would show the total price, at which point the customer would pay first with their food stamps and then whatever balance was left, that wasn't eligible for that method of payment, would be settled via some other form of payment. My state also taxed what they considered luxury groceries, stuff like gum, bottled and canned beverages, and prepared food from the deli. But you could still buy microwavable TV dinners, candy, and koolaid with foodstamps and no taxes.
I like getting one of those whole rotisserie chickens at the grocery store, they cost pennies more than a raw whole chicken. When I get it home I take five minutes to carve it up into 8 pieces and strip off all the extra bits of meat. Whatever pieces we aren't eating immediately goes in the fridge for another meal. The scraps I stripped from the carcass and usually the leftover breast meat gets cut up and used to fancy up a couple bowls of Ramen for my lunches throughout the week.
People, including my wife, like to tear down Ramen but if you take a couple minutes extra you can make it much better. I like to add a raw egg once the water comes down from the boil. You can use chopped up chicken like I do, or use some other meat, for more protein, flavor, and texture. Some raw or steamed vegetables are a good addition as well carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, snow peas, and even baby spinach all come to mind.
I don't remember who thought it up but that is actually one of the safest possible ways to dispose of a lot of nuclear waste. The plan was to mix the waste in with glass, temper and mold it into a big torpedo looking thing and drop it from a surface ship into the ocean sediment at a subduction zone. Such an object would bury its self deep in the sediments which should prevent it from posing a radiation risk to anything alive in the vicinity. Over the eons it would end up encased in sedimentary rock, and then eventually melted into the mantle. By the time it might resurface it should be so diluted and decayed as to pose no discernible risk to any people that might be left around. We don't do it apparently because of international treaties which generally ban disposing of nuclear waste in the oceans.
Two easy options I can think of.
1. Register your new business account with a name that shares the same initials. Although this only works with checks that people are silly enough to fill out using only the initials, rather than the real name.
2. Show up in a nice suit when creating the new account and bluff your way through setting up an account for your new UPS branch. At worst you're left with trying to outwit a bank manager who wants your business.
I've no idea how it happened but I can imagine it relatively easily. Get a fake ID using your photo and a real persons name and SSN. Use said fake id to request a copy of that persons Birth Certificate and SSN card. Take your new documents to a bank and use them to open an account. From there you can just start cashing checks you intercepted for that person. If the checks are for a business you just have an extra step or two where you open a business account. The only real risk of getting caught in any of this is if the victim notices the credit checks being run on them from the bank when you open the accounts.
I haven't had to forward mail in a long time, but if it still works the way it did 15 years ago the scheme wouldn't work. Each time a piece of mail needs to be forwarded they put a bright yellow label on it indicating it was being forwarded. Circular routing would quickly become apparent as the envelope would end up covered in stickers with the two addresses printed on them.