I have a hard time believing crude in tank cars is measured by volume and not weight. By the very nature of the components of crude, with things liken propane, hydrogen, kerosene, etc, weight would make much more sense.
They should become the 21st century hardware DIY shop where I can walk in and get a 3D printer, feed stock, a couple of resistors, an Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Also sell Ham radios or just scanners and such things. All the niche market stuff tech DIY people want. Put it all in once place.
As it is now in our tiny city I can't get any electronic components of any kind on the weekend without going to The Shack. Fry's is 70+ miles away and our local "real" electronics shop is only open 8-5 weekdays.
I suspect the market just isn't there to cater to the couple of dozen of us in town that would benefit from the kind of shop I'd like to see. The local electronics component shop really only sells to businesses, they tried to open 8-12 Saturdays but not enough people came in to pay the light bill much less the tiny hourly rate they pay the counter people. I love the options online but it's just not convenient.
How is it that the home country of the author of 1984 just doesn't get it?
Plenty of us get it. Please remember that at no point did the general population of the UK ask for, support or condone this kind of behaviour, nor most of the other dubious things we've been hearing about lately that have supposedly been done in our name or for our protection.
Unfortunately most of you/us did vote for the "political class", unless you just didn't vote and that's worse. Way too many people think their large political party of choice is going to "give them their fair share", or will make things "more equal" for this or that class. The "political class" of your major party will always make it "more equal" for the pigs, so stop perpetuating the party that want's to make things "more fair".
How is it that the home country of the author of 1984 just doesn't get it? How is it they are letting this kind of thing go on? It's truly amazing and sad!
How do you actually ban something that isn't run by any one entity? I guess you can make it illegal to use crypto currency for any exchange by the government controlled entities but that doesn't actually ban Bitcoin or anything else.
Solar in the US will typically pay for itself in 5 years regardless of system size,...
In my 1000 square foot house I spend $1000 a year on electricity. How exactly would I pay for $15K - $20K worth of solar cells in 5 years? I spend about $620 a year on natural gas to heat and cook. I guess I could go all electric, which would cost me another $5 in appliances. At that point I might break even in 15 years, about the time I would need to replace the solar cells. By then they should be cheeper and more efficient. So yea by about 2030 solar would probably take care of my needs. Till then I'm holding out with my dead dino (plankton) power.
Can't the editors write a headline that meets the basic rules of grammar? How about "In the game of Pentago the first player can always win", or "Pentago is strongly solved".
No cause with out those grammar mistakes their would be 30 pricent fuer com-mints on/.
Is this surprising? It appears that any game of connecting a row of pieces on a flat plane is a first player wins game. Connect 4 and tic tac toe all have the first player winning.
This is a very good example of people who like to call them selves "Liberal" not being very liberal. Technology will advance and apparently some people don't like it in the same way some other people don't like gay marriage or pot smoking.
Of course your Mac doesn't have a parallel port. It was an example and your 5 year old Linux/UNIX box does have one which is typically what runs a lot of lab equipment. And yes there are Windows 98 systems still in use because of these issues.
I'm woking in a large university where you find a larger percentage of Mac and Linux systems. It's hell keeping all operating systems updated properly. Researchers get grants to do something then spend $2million on the custom systems build on a particular version of an OS. Now it's 5 years later are still using the old OS because it would cost another $1million to upgrade the custom code and get new equipment that doesn't use parallel ports for data transfers.
More hippy FUD.
"....according to the National Cancer Institute and other health agencies, there's no sound scientific evidence that any of the artificial sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. cause cancer or other serious health problems." http://www.mayoclinic.org/artificial-sweeteners/art-20046936
Apparently these "climate scientists", their families and friends on this tour of Mawson’s camp site can't tell the difference between weather and climate. It appears they so believed in declining Antarctic ice they forgot to look at the weather and recent trends. There's an unprecedented amount of ice down there and these fools ignored that and went ahead and tried to complete their tour of a historic site. Exactly who are the idiots here?
"BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transactions,"
This is a rather bold two faced statement from a guy who has his protagonists doing exactly that. Did he forget he wrote "Accelerando"? WTF man!
Her fingers twitch, and his ears flush red; but she doesn't follow up the double entendre. "You don't feel any responsibility, do you? Not to your country, not to me. That's what this is about: None of your relationships count, all this nonsense about giving intellectual property away notwithstanding. You're actively harming people you know. That twelve mil isn't just some figure I pulled out of a hat, Manfred; they don't actually expect you to pay it. But it's almost exactly how much you'd owe in income tax if you'd only come home, start up a corporation, and be a self-made ?"
I've managed to make about 90% of my Christmas gift purchases using 0.7 Bitcoin. I managed to trade most of that at the $1100 value, lucky me. That trade payed for my Bitcoin mining. As more people use this option for taking payment it will only help to stabilize the value. Right now there are several online retailers taking them directly and there's a number of gift cards you can get using them. Gift cards are an easy way to trade coins into real products until more retailers start taking them directly.
It's about time. This thing has been an absolute environmental disaster. I've got family in Nebraska that talk but land being plowed up that's not seen a plow since the dustbowl, and because of the dustbowl. My environmentalist sister-in-law working up around Chicago talks about how terrible the extra planting has been for the Mississippi and Gulf. Too many nutrients getting into the water causing problems.
Just stop with the subsidies for this and it will work out fine.
You might want to take a look at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation http://www.pire.org/index.asp . They appear to be an advocacy group against the use of any kind of drugs or alcohol. Their own literature notes that they want to promote "...expansion of laws and programs that will result in a substantial reduction in alcohol and drug related traffic fatalities." That's a fine goal but way too often these kinds of things come at a huge cost to civil liberties (TSA, NSA, etc). In any case it's hard to believe such a group would have real objectivism with their research and are probably fine with drivers being sent off to jail for the least bit of alcohol these road blocks might uncover.
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I have a hard time believing crude in tank cars is measured by volume and not weight. By the very nature of the components of crude, with things liken propane, hydrogen, kerosene, etc, weight would make much more sense.
It's all a Jimmy Fallon prank on Leah McGrath Goodman. He's been setting it up for months.
F^@$ I just said that, I'm doing the old angry guy thing, I've become one of them :(
As it is now in our tiny city I can't get any electronic components of any kind on the weekend without going to The Shack. Fry's is 70+ miles away and our local "real" electronics shop is only open 8-5 weekdays.
I suspect the market just isn't there to cater to the couple of dozen of us in town that would benefit from the kind of shop I'd like to see. The local electronics component shop really only sells to businesses, they tried to open 8-12 Saturdays but not enough people came in to pay the light bill much less the tiny hourly rate they pay the counter people. I love the options online but it's just not convenient.
How is it that the home country of the author of 1984 just doesn't get it?
Plenty of us get it. Please remember that at no point did the general population of the UK ask for, support or condone this kind of behaviour, nor most of the other dubious things we've been hearing about lately that have supposedly been done in our name or for our protection.
Unfortunately most of you/us did vote for the "political class", unless you just didn't vote and that's worse. Way too many people think their large political party of choice is going to "give them their fair share", or will make things "more equal" for this or that class. The "political class" of your major party will always make it "more equal" for the pigs, so stop perpetuating the party that want's to make things "more fair".
And, in fairness, you can ask how the home country of The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution could also be going down the same road.
This isn't limited to the Brits.
ABSOLUTELY!
How is it that the home country of the author of 1984 just doesn't get it? How is it they are letting this kind of thing go on? It's truly amazing and sad!
How do you actually ban something that isn't run by any one entity? I guess you can make it illegal to use crypto currency for any exchange by the government controlled entities but that doesn't actually ban Bitcoin or anything else.
Solar in the US will typically pay for itself in 5 years regardless of system size,...
In my 1000 square foot house I spend $1000 a year on electricity. How exactly would I pay for $15K - $20K worth of solar cells in 5 years? I spend about $620 a year on natural gas to heat and cook. I guess I could go all electric, which would cost me another $5 in appliances. At that point I might break even in 15 years, about the time I would need to replace the solar cells. By then they should be cheeper and more efficient. So yea by about 2030 solar would probably take care of my needs. Till then I'm holding out with my dead dino (plankton) power.
Can't the editors write a headline that meets the basic rules of grammar? How about "In the game of Pentago the first player can always win", or "Pentago is strongly solved".
No cause with out those grammar mistakes their would be 30 pricent fuer com-mints on /.
Is this surprising? It appears that any game of connecting a row of pieces on a flat plane is a first player wins game. Connect 4 and tic tac toe all have the first player winning.
It's just you, since I don't watch Downton Abbey. Make a reference to Doctor Who and I might get it, though.
The Open Office building is actually smaller on the inside.
This is a very good example of people who like to call them selves "Liberal" not being very liberal. Technology will advance and apparently some people don't like it in the same way some other people don't like gay marriage or pot smoking.
What do you say, lets start a campaign to get the standards and measures people to make human hair an actual measurement standard.
Firewall the microscope computer except for communication with the department file server.
Yes and we've also found a NAT works fairly well to reduce the glaring security issues when the existing firewall software is inadequate.
Of course your Mac doesn't have a parallel port. It was an example and your 5 year old Linux/UNIX box does have one which is typically what runs a lot of lab equipment. And yes there are Windows 98 systems still in use because of these issues.
I'm woking in a large university where you find a larger percentage of Mac and Linux systems. It's hell keeping all operating systems updated properly. Researchers get grants to do something then spend $2million on the custom systems build on a particular version of an OS. Now it's 5 years later are still using the old OS because it would cost another $1million to upgrade the custom code and get new equipment that doesn't use parallel ports for data transfers.
More hippy FUD. "....according to the National Cancer Institute and other health agencies, there's no sound scientific evidence that any of the artificial sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. cause cancer or other serious health problems." http://www.mayoclinic.org/artificial-sweeteners/art-20046936
Apparently these "climate scientists", their families and friends on this tour of Mawson’s camp site can't tell the difference between weather and climate. It appears they so believed in declining Antarctic ice they forgot to look at the weather and recent trends. There's an unprecedented amount of ice down there and these fools ignored that and went ahead and tried to complete their tour of a historic site. Exactly who are the idiots here?
"BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transactions,"
This is a rather bold two faced statement from a guy who has his protagonists doing exactly that. Did he forget he wrote "Accelerando"? WTF man!
Her fingers twitch, and his ears flush red; but she doesn't follow up the double entendre. "You don't feel any responsibility, do you? Not to your country, not to me. That's what this is about: None of your relationships count, all this nonsense about giving intellectual property away notwithstanding. You're actively harming people you know. That twelve mil isn't just some figure I pulled out of a hat, Manfred; they don't actually expect you to pay it. But it's almost exactly how much you'd owe in income tax if you'd only come home, start up a corporation, and be a self-made ?"
I've managed to make about 90% of my Christmas gift purchases using 0.7 Bitcoin. I managed to trade most of that at the $1100 value, lucky me. That trade payed for my Bitcoin mining. As more people use this option for taking payment it will only help to stabilize the value. Right now there are several online retailers taking them directly and there's a number of gift cards you can get using them. Gift cards are an easy way to trade coins into real products until more retailers start taking them directly.
It's about time. This thing has been an absolute environmental disaster. I've got family in Nebraska that talk but land being plowed up that's not seen a plow since the dustbowl, and because of the dustbowl. My environmentalist sister-in-law working up around Chicago talks about how terrible the extra planting has been for the Mississippi and Gulf. Too many nutrients getting into the water causing problems.
Just stop with the subsidies for this and it will work out fine.
So does anyone actually have insurance coverage that would pay for this kind of thing?
You might want to take a look at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation http://www.pire.org/index.asp . They appear to be an advocacy group against the use of any kind of drugs or alcohol. Their own literature notes that they want to promote "...expansion of laws and programs that will result in a substantial reduction in alcohol and drug related traffic fatalities." That's a fine goal but way too often these kinds of things come at a huge cost to civil liberties (TSA, NSA, etc). In any case it's hard to believe such a group would have real objectivism with their research and are probably fine with drivers being sent off to jail for the least bit of alcohol these road blocks might uncover.
By the time this kid is 16 she will likely have access to a self driving car. Hell it may even be required for 16 to 21 year olds by then.