In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps.
After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops.
I just plotted out the same route in google maps and it told me 4 hours and 22 minutes. So either the story is wrong or google has been fixing things.
But it makes me wonder* about people estimating times. Its a 380km journey and at 100km/hr that puts it at the 4 hour mark. I can't explain where 7 or 11 hours comes from,
*Cue Stairways to Heaven
To be fair to Google, with locals experienced in navigating and driving in the Outback it might be 4 hours. To a tourist in a rental car who has never been to the area before, may not be accustomed to road conditions (while I am sure there are some paved roads in the Outback I would assume there are also quite a few unpaved roads as well), and may take several stops out of an abundance of caution it might be a 6-7 hour drive. Personally I've heard enough stories that breaking down/running out of gas would be a concern to me in that area, especially if it is sparsely traveled.
Disney doesn't appeal to everyone, but they appeal plenty to their target age group. They don't care if the young and childless don't subscribe as long as they get the toddlers to tweens market. Next to sports they're pretty much ideal for a targeted subscription...
Launching without a BR mode for a multiplayer based game today is suicide.
For crappy, arcadey, mass-produced bullet sponge shooters, maybe. But hardcore, tactical shooters seem to be doing just fine without them. Only problem (if you can call it that) with that game is that everything barring cosmetics are unlocked from the get go so there are almost too many weapons/attachments/loadouts to figure out and get comfortable with at first.
Functional computer maybe. Not sure I would call it a laptop.
To me it would have made more sense to have the guts of the computer in the mouse, but with a separate foldable keyboard/screen that folds up into something the size of a phone. With the guts in the mouse itself the keyboard/screen could be extremely thin and lightweight but everything would be usable at the same time, and you would actually be able to see what's on the screen.
The GP is incorrect to assert that the presence of women on the battlefield is a joke, but we should also not misrepresent it as anything other than rare, which the media tends to do. The French resistance, for example, saw abnormally high participation by women... at about 15%, compared to media representations of this fraction as about 50%.
Overall it was definitely rare, and people are correct to point out that even with the Red Army is was more a simple question of numbers: they needed everyone they could get. But history has shown that women, when properly trained and/or motivated (Red Army and VC female cadres would probably fall more into the latter) just have just as much combat effectiveness as men, especially when used on the defensive.
Yes, and its a shame they aren't included in the game. Instead we get a one armed woman in some kind of commando group featuring someone with a cricket bat and another with a katana.
Those weren't in the game in the game either. They were in one trailer that was quickly rolled back on after backlash. They don't even have lootboxes in this one.
Sad thing is, if games like that were historically accurate a lot less people would play them and quite a few wouldn't even get through ratings boards. I remember playing CoD:WaW and playing as the Red Army fighting their way through Berlin. If it had been historically accurate you would have been shooting 14 year old boys and 60 year old men using substandard weapons and at best a week of training. No way that would get a rating. BF1 just annoyed me because there were way too many people using shotguns and automatic weapons when probably 90% of infantry used bolt-action rifles in WWI.
My Grandma walked through Second World War with Soviet Army, as medical personnel.
She told me many stories about THE war, yet not one was about female soldier.
I've read monographs and firsthand accounts from Wehrmacht soldiers(if you are interested in the subject Eastern Inferno by Hans Roth is incredible about the Eastern Front that specifically mention female combatants multiple times. One particular one that stood out is about a tank with a husband/wife crew where the wife, after the husband was killed, continued to fight on with her tank. Another was Red Army medics defending a bunker with hand grenades and female soldiers found dead next to anti-air emplacements. Then there are the mobilized workers at places like Stalingrad, a female foreman leading her workers into battle was explicitly mentioned. Sounds like your Grandmother was a nurse and most likely served behind the front lines and later in the war when Germany was on the retreat. I am sure she went through a lot and had some incredible stories, but women fighting on the frontlines is an established fact.
Do people just pepper hyphens at random into their sentences? If you're going to hyphenate full-production and go-ahead, why not hyphenate longest-aircraft too?
No, it would be longest air-craft. What, don't you know the Queen's-English?
Prosthetics COULD allow someone to go into battle with a rifle with only one arm and it is NOT a cybernetic enhancement.
The Luftwaffe's top Stuka pilot, Rudel, flew with a prosthetic leg after he was shot down late in the war. Douglas Bader flew for the RAF as a double amputee (both legs). I want to say there was a Marine aviator in WW2 as well who flew with a prosthetic leg but the name escapes me and google is failing me at the moment. I believe it was mentioned in Robert Leckie's book.
Women served as tankers, artillery crew, fighter pilots, and even frontline infantry for the Red Army in WWII. Quite a few became highly decorated. And of course women also played significant roles as partisans on the Eastern Front and the various resistances in Western Europe.
If I left my front door open with a sign that said 'come take my stuff' I expect the insurance company would fight me too.
Especially if you did it twice since, according to the alt source, Mondelez got hit by NotPetya several times. As they say in Texas: "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, not....not gonna fool me again." Or something. I hope Zurich wins so that companies actually start seeing a financial incentive towards basic system security.
Print and TV lied about so many things like the Gulf Of Tonkin attack that it's hard to believe anything. New York Times weapons of mass destruction and a lot more.
It's not so much that they lied about things like that during the Vietnam War. It's just that their sources, who had up until that point fed them relatively truthful information, stopped doing so, but the media continued to assume that what they were hearing was the truth, and reported it as such. However, as more and more reports from the ground came out and contradicted the official line, things began to change. The country started trusting it's government less and less. A perfect example is the battle of Hue in 1968. Johnson and Westmoreland kept insisting that the city was still in ARVN hands and there were only a handful of VC/NVA in the city, and it was reported as such when in fact the city was almost completely overrun and took weeks to pacify.
Monasteries and convents didnt have "serving girls". And the artists probably mixed their own ingredients, especially something as expensive as lapis lazuli. They would most likely make just as much as they needed at the time to avoid wastage.
Does free speech give me the right to go into private meetings? How about a politician's home? They are not being blocked from expressing themselves, but being blocked from expressing themselves in a specific place. The question is are the online accounts private or public places. If the answer is online is a public place, then there is little privacy online.
If the page is being used as an extension of her office, or to encourage public participation or engagement, or is open for view or comment to the general public, then it is a public space. As such, as an elected official, she has no right to remove someone from that space as long as they are not causing a disturbance or acting in a disruptive manner, no matter what the message is (as long as it is germane to the topic being discussed or her position as an elected official). If you are holding a public meeting and I am given the floor and politely and professionally say something you don't like you have no right or recourse to remove me, just as she doesn't with her Facebook page.
The very first class you take in Economics in school will explain, very simply, that increasing the price will reduce demand.
If they are trying to fight against cord cutters, then surely the correct way is to increase demand on their own services. This can be done in a number of ways, one of which is REDUCING the price. The other is to pump some money into improving the product at the current price (i.e. give people what they want, not what you want to give them).
They are basically just slitting their own throats here, and will cause more people to cord cut. Those people who can't or won't (probably the elderly) are left to suffer with crippling rates that they struggle to pay.
I suppose, however, this sort of behaviour will just lead to the company ultimately failing and going bankrupt. And for some of these companies, that can only be a good thing...
I looked at cord cutting last year. Did a price/value comparison between Sling and Hulu. Ended up sticking with Comcast because the wife wanted certain channels, but we only barely hit our monthly payment target, and only through buying a wireless gateway, using a roku instead of a cable box for one TV-roku has the comcast streaming app, and not springing for DVR. Saved about $25-30 a month between those 3 things. If prices go up again when the contract is up, I'll probably be able to talk the wife into cutting the cord this time.
Opposition to the government is what made USA. Founding fathers, revolutionaries, did not like British king and associated governance.
That's not hating the government, that's hating a government. specifically one where they felt they were no longer represented. The colonies, and the founding fathers, would have been perfectly content simply having representation in the UK government(the US would still eventually have gotten independence, just as every other British colony did). It was only when every available recourse failed that revolution became an option.
So, the US was built on trying to go to every length possible to try and preserve government. To use reason, civil discourse, and legal means to redress grievances and maintain peace. For as the Declaration of Independence says, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
For home use, sure! But there are those of us who travel frequently and would like to knock out an hour or two gaming after work or in-flight. I would rather not fly with a pelican case for my desktop and monitor.
Working on the ramp of a major airport in college those Pelican cases were a godsend. Made for a perfect chair if you were in the bin of a 320/757 stacking bags. Some guys would sit on regular bags too, but I never did that. So just fyi, if you fly with a pelican case, some random guy has most likely used your case as a chair.
Why don't people who can't trust packages left on their doorstep just use Amazon lockers? They are free and literally on every street corner. Just get your package on your way home from work.
I've seen 1 Amazon locker facility. Downtown, across a major interstate (actually 2 interstates merged together)from a major university. Haven't seen one anywhere else.
I live in Vancouver, Canada. I certainly don't mind going to an Amazon.ca "pickup point" to get my packages, but the way it's arranged is a disorganized mess as you can only pick up purchases fulfilled by Amazon. As Amazon doesn't want to discourage you from buying from third parties (more profit for them) they make it difficult to filter those options out of their search results, so it's hard to exclude them. Just make it possible to get anything I buy from Amazon.ca retrievable from a pickup point and the problem is solved - At least for me, anyway.
FedEx does this. You have to sing up for their manager service(free),but you can have them adjust the delivery option en route to a location that will hold it for you. I had them do it when I ordered a new PC that was going to be delivered around Christmas: didn't want a $1300 pc sitting in a big box on my porch for hours waiting for me to get home. So I diverted it to a Walgreens near my house and picked it up on my way home.
Problem is, no one will use it. I've had it for a month, and no delivery person has put a package in it. I've put the security code in Amazon, UPS, USPS, and FedEx delivery instructions so everyone has access to it. But none of those services provide 'parcel locker' as an option.
Last week, I taped a 'Put packages in this and close the lid' label on it. But of course, I haven't gotten any packages big enough to be delivered to the house yet.
Of course not. That would mean they actually have to walk up to the door and place the package in the box, as opposed to just tossing it on your porch from 20 feet away. Especially the Amazon delivery people who have to deliver an insane amount of packages an hour to make any money off it.
Why would anyone play games on laptop with poor cooling on 15,6" display?
For the same price you can have 24" display, more HDD, more RAM, better GPU and open architecture for upgrades and extensions.
Not mentioning much better experience.
I did in college so that I could have a semi-decent gaming rig and still have a computer I could lug around to class/back and forth from school to home. This was before tablets w/keyboard case were a legitimate option, otherwise I probably would have had a tower plus tablet. Of course, my laptop was a 17" one with a full keyboard.
Obama shuts down government: He's a stern negotiator who won't take any republican shit.
Trump shuts down government: Orange man bad!
Obama didn't say he would be happy to shut down the government, or say that it could be shut down for months or years until he gets what he wants or refuse to entertain any sort of compromise.
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In TFA it states
In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps. After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops.
I just plotted out the same route in google maps and it told me 4 hours and 22 minutes. So either the story is wrong or google has been fixing things.
But it makes me wonder* about people estimating times. Its a 380km journey and at 100km/hr that puts it at the 4 hour mark. I can't explain where 7 or 11 hours comes from,
*Cue Stairways to Heaven
To be fair to Google, with locals experienced in navigating and driving in the Outback it might be 4 hours. To a tourist in a rental car who has never been to the area before, may not be accustomed to road conditions (while I am sure there are some paved roads in the Outback I would assume there are also quite a few unpaved roads as well), and may take several stops out of an abundance of caution it might be a 6-7 hour drive. Personally I've heard enough stories that breaking down/running out of gas would be a concern to me in that area, especially if it is sparsely traveled.
He should have named it the American Data Security Act, otherwise known as the ADS Act.
There is a narrow window where a small but significant number of idiots will pay silly prices to have the first flexible phone.
Too bad they are already late to the party. Apple came out with a flexible phone in 2014.
Disney doesn't appeal to everyone, but they appeal plenty to their target age group. They don't care if the young and childless don't subscribe as long as they get the toddlers to tweens market. Next to sports they're pretty much ideal for a targeted subscription...
They'll have sports too. ESPN is owned by Disney.
Launching without a BR mode for a multiplayer based game today is suicide.
For crappy, arcadey, mass-produced bullet sponge shooters, maybe. But hardcore, tactical shooters seem to be doing just fine without them. Only problem (if you can call it that) with that game is that everything barring cosmetics are unlocked from the get go so there are almost too many weapons/attachments/loadouts to figure out and get comfortable with at first.
Functional computer maybe. Not sure I would call it a laptop.
To me it would have made more sense to have the guts of the computer in the mouse, but with a separate foldable keyboard/screen that folds up into something the size of a phone. With the guts in the mouse itself the keyboard/screen could be extremely thin and lightweight but everything would be usable at the same time, and you would actually be able to see what's on the screen.
Also tanks in these games form out of thin air. Does that upset you?
Just pretend they are this
The GP is incorrect to assert that the presence of women on the battlefield is a joke, but we should also not misrepresent it as anything other than rare, which the media tends to do. The French resistance, for example, saw abnormally high participation by women ... at about 15%, compared to media representations of this fraction as about 50%.
Overall it was definitely rare, and people are correct to point out that even with the Red Army is was more a simple question of numbers: they needed everyone they could get. But history has shown that women, when properly trained and/or motivated (Red Army and VC female cadres would probably fall more into the latter) just have just as much combat effectiveness as men, especially when used on the defensive.
Yes, and its a shame they aren't included in the game. Instead we get a one armed woman in some kind of commando group featuring someone with a cricket bat and another with a katana.
Those weren't in the game in the game either. They were in one trailer that was quickly rolled back on after backlash. They don't even have lootboxes in this one.
Sad thing is, if games like that were historically accurate a lot less people would play them and quite a few wouldn't even get through ratings boards. I remember playing CoD:WaW and playing as the Red Army fighting their way through Berlin. If it had been historically accurate you would have been shooting 14 year old boys and 60 year old men using substandard weapons and at best a week of training. No way that would get a rating. BF1 just annoyed me because there were way too many people using shotguns and automatic weapons when probably 90% of infantry used bolt-action rifles in WWI.
Which is nowhere same as regular army.
My Grandma walked through Second World War with Soviet Army, as medical personnel. She told me many stories about THE war, yet not one was about female soldier.
I've read monographs and firsthand accounts from Wehrmacht soldiers(if you are interested in the subject Eastern Inferno by Hans Roth is incredible about the Eastern Front that specifically mention female combatants multiple times. One particular one that stood out is about a tank with a husband/wife crew where the wife, after the husband was killed, continued to fight on with her tank. Another was Red Army medics defending a bunker with hand grenades and female soldiers found dead next to anti-air emplacements. Then there are the mobilized workers at places like Stalingrad, a female foreman leading her workers into battle was explicitly mentioned. Sounds like your Grandmother was a nurse and most likely served behind the front lines and later in the war when Germany was on the retreat. I am sure she went through a lot and had some incredible stories, but women fighting on the frontlines is an established fact.
Do people just pepper hyphens at random into their sentences? If you're going to hyphenate full-production and go-ahead, why not hyphenate longest-aircraft too?
No, it would be longest air-craft. What, don't you know the Queen's-English?
Prosthetics COULD allow someone to go into battle with a rifle with only one arm and it is NOT a cybernetic enhancement.
The Luftwaffe's top Stuka pilot, Rudel, flew with a prosthetic leg after he was shot down late in the war. Douglas Bader flew for the RAF as a double amputee (both legs). I want to say there was a Marine aviator in WW2 as well who flew with a prosthetic leg but the name escapes me and google is failing me at the moment. I believe it was mentioned in Robert Leckie's book.
Women served as tankers, artillery crew, fighter pilots, and even frontline infantry for the Red Army in WWII. Quite a few became highly decorated. And of course women also played significant roles as partisans on the Eastern Front and the various resistances in Western Europe.
If I left my front door open with a sign that said 'come take my stuff' I expect the insurance company would fight me too.
Especially if you did it twice since, according to the alt source, Mondelez got hit by NotPetya several times. As they say in Texas: "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, not....not gonna fool me again." Or something. I hope Zurich wins so that companies actually start seeing a financial incentive towards basic system security.
Print and TV lied about so many things like the Gulf Of Tonkin attack that it's hard to believe anything. New York Times weapons of mass destruction and a lot more.
It's not so much that they lied about things like that during the Vietnam War. It's just that their sources, who had up until that point fed them relatively truthful information, stopped doing so, but the media continued to assume that what they were hearing was the truth, and reported it as such. However, as more and more reports from the ground came out and contradicted the official line, things began to change. The country started trusting it's government less and less. A perfect example is the battle of Hue in 1968. Johnson and Westmoreland kept insisting that the city was still in ARVN hands and there were only a handful of VC/NVA in the city, and it was reported as such when in fact the city was almost completely overrun and took weeks to pacify.
Monasteries and convents didnt have "serving girls". And the artists probably mixed their own ingredients, especially something as expensive as lapis lazuli. They would most likely make just as much as they needed at the time to avoid wastage.
Does free speech give me the right to go into private meetings? How about a politician's home? They are not being blocked from expressing themselves, but being blocked from expressing themselves in a specific place. The question is are the online accounts private or public places. If the answer is online is a public place, then there is little privacy online.
If the page is being used as an extension of her office, or to encourage public participation or engagement, or is open for view or comment to the general public, then it is a public space. As such, as an elected official, she has no right to remove someone from that space as long as they are not causing a disturbance or acting in a disruptive manner, no matter what the message is (as long as it is germane to the topic being discussed or her position as an elected official). If you are holding a public meeting and I am given the floor and politely and professionally say something you don't like you have no right or recourse to remove me, just as she doesn't with her Facebook page.
The very first class you take in Economics in school will explain, very simply, that increasing the price will reduce demand.
If they are trying to fight against cord cutters, then surely the correct way is to increase demand on their own services. This can be done in a number of ways, one of which is REDUCING the price. The other is to pump some money into improving the product at the current price (i.e. give people what they want, not what you want to give them).
They are basically just slitting their own throats here, and will cause more people to cord cut. Those people who can't or won't (probably the elderly) are left to suffer with crippling rates that they struggle to pay.
I suppose, however, this sort of behaviour will just lead to the company ultimately failing and going bankrupt. And for some of these companies, that can only be a good thing...
I looked at cord cutting last year. Did a price/value comparison between Sling and Hulu. Ended up sticking with Comcast because the wife wanted certain channels, but we only barely hit our monthly payment target, and only through buying a wireless gateway, using a roku instead of a cable box for one TV-roku has the comcast streaming app, and not springing for DVR. Saved about $25-30 a month between those 3 things. If prices go up again when the contract is up, I'll probably be able to talk the wife into cutting the cord this time.
Opposition to the government is what made USA. Founding fathers, revolutionaries, did not like British king and associated governance.
That's not hating the government, that's hating a government. specifically one where they felt they were no longer represented. The colonies, and the founding fathers, would have been perfectly content simply having representation in the UK government(the US would still eventually have gotten independence, just as every other British colony did). It was only when every available recourse failed that revolution became an option.
So, the US was built on trying to go to every length possible to try and preserve government. To use reason, civil discourse, and legal means to redress grievances and maintain peace. For as the Declaration of Independence says, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
For home use, sure! But there are those of us who travel frequently and would like to knock out an hour or two gaming after work or in-flight. I would rather not fly with a pelican case for my desktop and monitor.
Working on the ramp of a major airport in college those Pelican cases were a godsend. Made for a perfect chair if you were in the bin of a 320/757 stacking bags. Some guys would sit on regular bags too, but I never did that. So just fyi, if you fly with a pelican case, some random guy has most likely used your case as a chair.
Why don't people who can't trust packages left on their doorstep just use Amazon lockers? They are free and literally on every street corner. Just get your package on your way home from work.
I've seen 1 Amazon locker facility. Downtown, across a major interstate (actually 2 interstates merged together)from a major university. Haven't seen one anywhere else.
I live in Vancouver, Canada. I certainly don't mind going to an Amazon.ca "pickup point" to get my packages, but the way it's arranged is a disorganized mess as you can only pick up purchases fulfilled by Amazon. As Amazon doesn't want to discourage you from buying from third parties (more profit for them) they make it difficult to filter those options out of their search results, so it's hard to exclude them. Just make it possible to get anything I buy from Amazon.ca retrievable from a pickup point and the problem is solved - At least for me, anyway.
FedEx does this. You have to sing up for their manager service(free),but you can have them adjust the delivery option en route to a location that will hold it for you. I had them do it when I ordered a new PC that was going to be delivered around Christmas: didn't want a $1300 pc sitting in a big box on my porch for hours waiting for me to get home. So I diverted it to a Walgreens near my house and picked it up on my way home.
Problem is, no one will use it. I've had it for a month, and no delivery person has put a package in it. I've put the security code in Amazon, UPS, USPS, and FedEx delivery instructions so everyone has access to it. But none of those services provide 'parcel locker' as an option.
Last week, I taped a 'Put packages in this and close the lid' label on it. But of course, I haven't gotten any packages big enough to be delivered to the house yet.
Of course not. That would mean they actually have to walk up to the door and place the package in the box, as opposed to just tossing it on your porch from 20 feet away. Especially the Amazon delivery people who have to deliver an insane amount of packages an hour to make any money off it.
Why would anyone play games on laptop with poor cooling on 15,6" display?
For the same price you can have 24" display, more HDD, more RAM, better GPU and open architecture for upgrades and extensions. Not mentioning much better experience.
I did in college so that I could have a semi-decent gaming rig and still have a computer I could lug around to class/back and forth from school to home. This was before tablets w/keyboard case were a legitimate option, otherwise I probably would have had a tower plus tablet. Of course, my laptop was a 17" one with a full keyboard.
Obama shuts down government: He's a stern negotiator who won't take any republican shit. Trump shuts down government: Orange man bad!
Obama didn't say he would be happy to shut down the government, or say that it could be shut down for months or years until he gets what he wants or refuse to entertain any sort of compromise.