Equipment is available throughout the US, and as "far away" as an order to load an airlifter, fly it to an airport, then load it on whatever you wish to transport to site.
Yup. FEMA did a bang up job in New Orleans. Granted, there might be a chance, that the current administration isn't going to be sitting on their hands, but sadly they're still politicians, so I wouldn't put it past them.
Yes. But unless we're talking tiny towns with easy ways to evacuate, that doesn't play that much of a role.
Evacuating 11,647 people from a 0.52 km^2 area (the smallest population on the list is Bunpur, India) isn't going to be easy. You'd need 2,912 cars, 195 buses (assuming 60 passengers/bus) or 146 train cars (assuming 200 passengers/car).
And depending on the lead-up time, this is going to result in people dying.
Have a look at that particular proper. Sure, there are only 11,000 people in that area, but you go ahead and tell us how you would evacuate it safely in a hurry - let's say 12 hours warning..
I mean, judging by the way you're scoffing at that particular list, this should be a piece of cake, right?
And keep in mind, that an evacuation doesn't mean to the edge of the town proper. As such, you have to keep in mind that Bunpur is right next to Asansol. Asansol is a tiny city with a population of 1.2 million people, but a relatively sparsely populated one compared to New York City (4,434/km^2 vs 10,518/km^2).
Go on - I'll wait.
Oh, and by the way - only 9 cities in the US "even crack 1M". Not sure what your point was in complaining about that, though. For instance, even though Los Angeles has a population almost 4 times the size of San Francisco (3.8 vs 0.8 million), I think most people would agree, that it'd be easier to evacuate Lost Angeles, simply because there's much more room (3,124/km^2 vs 6,633/km^2).
No, most atheists on the Internet are NOT insulting towards religious people.
MOST atheists (most ANYTHING) on the Internet do not comment on anything at all. They are passive readers and consumers.
Now, it may be true, that most atheists, who comment on the Internet, are insulting towards religion, but how do you know that for a fact?
Is there a secret atheist bit, just like the evil bit embedded in the TCP/IP protocol?
At most you can say, that most of the selfidentified atheists, who comment on the websites that you happen to frequent, are insulting towards religion.
And I say that as a selfidentified atheist, who considers anyone, who truly believe that there is a righteous and intervening god, to be as silly asany adult who believe Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth a fairy to be real.
Are you seriously bitching that people get RETIREMENT savings as part of their jobs?
I suppose my surprise comes from me growing up in the ultra liberal and communist haven of socialism known as The Socialist Scandinavian "Democratic" Dictatorship of Denmark.
Teaching critical thinking and how to embrace failure from the first grade.
You can't really learn how to do something, without failing at it in the process. Walking, talking, reading, writing, science - all of it is learned through the process of embracing failure and critical thinking.
Well, if it's done correctly, that would be flagged extremely quickly - a dozen kids constantly going through the same doors at the exact same time is a bit suspicious.
It'd be better if, instead of limiting the ceiling like that, they set a minimum requirement on efficiency. Numbers pulled from my ass:
GPUs: Minimum of 10 GFLOP/watt CPUs: Minimum of 750 MFLOP/watt
Then you can slowly increase the requirements over time as technology matures.
This way you don't have to limit legislation to desktop computers or similar - it can easily be applied to portables and mobile devices.
Want to use a 1W CPU in your tablet? It has to deliver at least 750 MFLOP/s. Include maximum power draw at idle if needed.
Provide a free to use benchmark for this, and require that the results are listed with the product, just like you see with cars (city and highway mileage).
Now you suddenly don't have to figure out which is better for your power usage - an i3-3225 or an A10-5800K? You can look at the legally required performance numbers and judge for yourself.
If one user gets it wrong - sure, that's a dumb user. Ten? Yeah. 100? Probably still that, considering how many users FaceBook has.
But they should really take a clue from Coursera - in Daphne Koller's TED talk on Coursera she touches on something very similar, namely students having misconceptions on a subject, and how they instead sort of blame the course material, and help correct the students' misconceptions.
This, by the way, is something we see entirely too little of in many types of development.
Not just software - the Stockholm Metro system has automatic gates that open and close to let you through, if you have a valid electronic ticket. And people get hit by those gates and in some cases hurt or stuck.
The company's response? Educate the users on how to use a fucking automatic door!
Honestly, when I read that, I felt like hitting the spokes person in the face and telling him that he obviously needs to be educated in the use of my fist.
Compared to what? I'm using two 20 inch Schwalbe Marathon and one 26" Schwalbe Marathon.
And like I said - I'm being really generous with the tire footprint.
Even if my bike magically weighed 0 kg, those three tires would each have to have something like 10 cm^2 of rubber touching the road - that's an INSANE amount of contact.
Seriously - go do a mock up of a 10 cm^2 area, and imagine a bicycle tire with that big of a surface contact.
And again, this is on my trike. On a regular bike, you're looking at 15 cm^2 - with a magically weightless bike.
No offence, but I don't think you can compare the Netherlands to Finland when it comes to snowy roads.
When I lived in Denmark, I thought 5 cm was a lot of snow. Then I moved to the middle of Sweden, and I've seen something like 20 to 30 cm of snowfall - overnight.
That was a fairly small town, and they really only cared about clearing the roads unless it was a business area, to the extent that the side walks were covered in something like 1.5 to 2 meters of snow.
Then you're left with only riding and walking on the road with regular traffic. And in hilly areas (again, to an extent Denmark and I suspect Holland doesn't have), the cars will end up creating extremely slippery patches of road, that will make you crash if you aren't 1) using studded tires or 2) riding absolutely straight ahead when you hit it.
And don't get me started on trying to drive up a hill with a 5% incline in those conditions - annoying as hell.
The problem with recumbent cyclists riding in traffic is they're invisible
You're doing it wrong.
I own and ride one, and I even ride it in the middle of the capital city from time to time.
I've been waiting at red lights and had drivers roll down their windows and tell me, that they were extremely surprised how easy it was to spot me.
Part of it is obviously because I have a flag on my bike (bright orange), and that I wear a bright green cycling jersey, but just as much of it is that there's something VERY unusual in their field of view - and that's people going in my direction.
People going the opposite direction have commented that it's easy to spot because of the flag, the bike VERY unusual, the legs being in front makes it look somewhat menacing, and it's low like some kind of attacking predator.
I'm pretty sure I could find at least a hundred people, who will agree with me that public displays of religion is grossly offensive.
Maybe even thousands.
Which raises the question - would the UK police ever arrest a clergy member simply for public displayed religion, or is freedom of religion more important than freedom of speech?
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Yup. FEMA did a bang up job in New Orleans. Granted, there might be a chance, that the current administration isn't going to be sitting on their hands, but sadly they're still politicians, so I wouldn't put it past them.
Yes. But unless we're talking tiny towns with easy ways to evacuate, that doesn't play that much of a role.
Evacuating 11,647 people from a 0.52 km^2 area (the smallest population on the list is Bunpur, India) isn't going to be easy. You'd need 2,912 cars, 195 buses (assuming 60 passengers/bus) or 146 train cars (assuming 200 passengers/car).
And depending on the lead-up time, this is going to result in people dying.
Have a look at that particular proper. Sure, there are only 11,000 people in that area, but you go ahead and tell us how you would evacuate it safely in a hurry - let's say 12 hours warning..
I mean, judging by the way you're scoffing at that particular list, this should be a piece of cake, right?
And keep in mind, that an evacuation doesn't mean to the edge of the town proper. As such, you have to keep in mind that Bunpur is right next to Asansol. Asansol is a tiny city with a population of 1.2 million people, but a relatively sparsely populated one compared to New York City (4,434/km^2 vs 10,518/km^2).
Go on - I'll wait.
Oh, and by the way - only 9 cities in the US "even crack 1M". Not sure what your point was in complaining about that, though. For instance, even though Los Angeles has a population almost 4 times the size of San Francisco (3.8 vs 0.8 million), I think most people would agree, that it'd be easier to evacuate Lost Angeles, simply because there's much more room (3,124/km^2 vs 6,633/km^2).
Well, I did figure it was a typo of sorts. It's not exactly ground breaking maths to derive a percentage decrease :D
No, that equation reduces to 1 - 49.I am pretty sure you meant 1 - (118/167), which is ~0.2934.
I realise your name is bored_engineer, but that's no excuse for sloppy maths ;)
How many of those are in the direct path? And how many of them store their coal supplies outdoors?
How much coal can be expected to be scattered across massive areas in the path?
No, most atheists on the Internet are NOT insulting towards religious people.
MOST atheists (most ANYTHING) on the Internet do not comment on anything at all. They are passive readers and consumers.
Now, it may be true, that most atheists, who comment on the Internet, are insulting towards religion, but how do you know that for a fact?
Is there a secret atheist bit, just like the evil bit embedded in the TCP/IP protocol?
At most you can say, that most of the selfidentified atheists, who comment on the websites that you happen to frequent, are insulting towards religion.
And I say that as a selfidentified atheist, who considers anyone, who truly believe that there is a righteous and intervening god, to be as silly asany adult who believe Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth a fairy to be real.
Are you seriously bitching that people get RETIREMENT savings as part of their jobs?
I suppose my surprise comes from me growing up in the ultra liberal and communist haven of socialism known as The Socialist Scandinavian "Democratic" Dictatorship of Denmark.
Well, to a certain extent there is this idea that doctors should bat 1,000.
Brian Goldman has an excellent TED talk about this
You should check it out - it's very informative and it tries to put this problem into context as well as explain why the culture behind it is broken.
"Retina display" isn't copyrighted by Apple. In fact it's not even a trademark.
"Retina" is the trademark.
Copyright and trademark are not the same thing.
Teaching critical thinking and how to embrace failure from the first grade.
You can't really learn how to do something, without failing at it in the process. Walking, talking, reading, writing, science - all of it is learned through the process of embracing failure and critical thinking.
Well, if it's done correctly, that would be flagged extremely quickly - a dozen kids constantly going through the same doors at the exact same time is a bit suspicious.
Especially when it's the single occupancy toilet.
Would you consider maintaining 25 km/h on a flat road in a car as it "idling"? I certainly wouldn't.
It'd be better if, instead of limiting the ceiling like that, they set a minimum requirement on efficiency. Numbers pulled from my ass:
GPUs: Minimum of 10 GFLOP/watt
CPUs: Minimum of 750 MFLOP/watt
Then you can slowly increase the requirements over time as technology matures.
This way you don't have to limit legislation to desktop computers or similar - it can easily be applied to portables and mobile devices.
Want to use a 1W CPU in your tablet? It has to deliver at least 750 MFLOP/s. Include maximum power draw at idle if needed.
Provide a free to use benchmark for this, and require that the results are listed with the product, just like you see with cars (city and highway mileage).
Now you suddenly don't have to figure out which is better for your power usage - an i3-3225 or an A10-5800K? You can look at the legally required performance numbers and judge for yourself.
How often is your graphics card really idle?
In my case it's only when the display is turned off.
2D isn't idle. Sure, it's not 300W, but it's not idle either.
Are there any non-paedophile priests?
Are there any good teachers?
Is anything found on the internet true?
If one user gets it wrong - sure, that's a dumb user.
Ten? Yeah.
100? Probably still that, considering how many users FaceBook has.
But they should really take a clue from Coursera - in Daphne Koller's TED talk on Coursera she touches on something very similar, namely students having misconceptions on a subject, and how they instead sort of blame the course material, and help correct the students' misconceptions.
This, by the way, is something we see entirely too little of in many types of development.
Not just software - the Stockholm Metro system has automatic gates that open and close to let you through, if you have a valid electronic ticket. And people get hit by those gates and in some cases hurt or stuck.
The company's response? Educate the users on how to use a fucking automatic door!
Honestly, when I read that, I felt like hitting the spokes person in the face and telling him that he obviously needs to be educated in the use of my fist.
Well, I gave you kg/cm^2 and you're giving me
Why not do the math? I can't do it, because I don't know what kind of contact surface on that tire.
Compared to what? I'm using two 20 inch Schwalbe Marathon and one 26" Schwalbe Marathon.
And like I said - I'm being really generous with the tire footprint.
Even if my bike magically weighed 0 kg, those three tires would each have to have something like 10 cm^2 of rubber touching the road - that's an INSANE amount of contact.
Seriously - go do a mock up of a 10 cm^2 area, and imagine a bicycle tire with that big of a surface contact.
And again, this is on my trike. On a regular bike, you're looking at 15 cm^2 - with a magically weightless bike.
Ah, fair enough - I thought you were a biker thinking recumbents are invisible.
Seems more like it's the bikers who are doing it wrong - just like the ones riding at night, in dark clothes, no reflective gear and no lights.
For it to be an official record, doesn't he need to do it twice, once in each direction?
Hogwash!
I ride a bike (recumbent trike), and there's absolutely no WAY, that the ground pressure when I'm on my bike is the same as when I'm walking.
If I'm being extremely generous, each my tires have something like 4 cm^2 (2x2 cm) touching the road at any one time.
I'm 110 kg, my bike is 25, so that's 135 kg/4 cm^2 = 33.75 kg/cm^2.
On foot, the worst case scenario is the front of one shoe on the road, and that's about 30 cm^2 and thus about 4 kg/cm^2.
No offence, but I don't think you can compare the Netherlands to Finland when it comes to snowy roads.
When I lived in Denmark, I thought 5 cm was a lot of snow. Then I moved to the middle of Sweden, and I've seen something like 20 to 30 cm of snowfall - overnight.
That was a fairly small town, and they really only cared about clearing the roads unless it was a business area, to the extent that the side walks were covered in something like 1.5 to 2 meters of snow.
Then you're left with only riding and walking on the road with regular traffic. And in hilly areas (again, to an extent Denmark and I suspect Holland doesn't have), the cars will end up creating extremely slippery patches of road, that will make you crash if you aren't 1) using studded tires or 2) riding absolutely straight ahead when you hit it.
And don't get me started on trying to drive up a hill with a 5% incline in those conditions - annoying as hell.
You're doing it wrong.
I own and ride one, and I even ride it in the middle of the capital city from time to time.
I've been waiting at red lights and had drivers roll down their windows and tell me, that they were extremely surprised how easy it was to spot me.
Part of it is obviously because I have a flag on my bike (bright orange), and that I wear a bright green cycling jersey, but just as much of it is that there's something VERY unusual in their field of view - and that's people going in my direction.
People going the opposite direction have commented that it's easy to spot because of the flag, the bike VERY unusual, the legs being in front makes it look somewhat menacing, and it's low like some kind of attacking predator.
I'm pretty sure I could find at least a hundred people, who will agree with me that public displays of religion is grossly offensive.
Maybe even thousands.
Which raises the question - would the UK police ever arrest a clergy member simply for public displayed religion, or is freedom of religion more important than freedom of speech?
How do you play a rocket propelled grenade? I can sort of imagine playing the launcher as a didgeridoo, but not the grenade itself ...