Perfect example of why at least some testing needs to be done before releasing new varieties on to the market....
BTW the Lenape was a hybrid bred with old school techniques. No GMO.... So I guess we need a label saying Warning Hybridized Bred Product on anything that contains something that is a hybrid. Of course that means effectively 100% of all food (other than wild fish.)
Just to be clear here.... 30,000+ people get killed every year by cars.
But some small (possibly, probably, theoretical based on statistical modelling) number of extra deaths due to "cheating", certainly at the worst far less than a 1/10th of a % increase and more likely non-existent and the whole world comes to an end?
Every single person who uses a car or truck or bus or relies on anything delivered by a car or truck or bus bears as more responsibility for killing people with automobiles than VW does for some possible increase.
VW obviously violated a law. But put in perspective, simply using any motorized vehicle (including electrics) kills far more people.
Simply put, atolls with no people on them manage to stay level with sea level even though sea level has been rising for millennia.
Atolls with people have problems. Blaming CO2 levels for recent problems with erosion when there has been no increase in the rate of sea level rise probably is pointing the finger at the wrong cause. It does allow them to ignore the real cause (too many people) and try and extort money from the first world to help cope.
The popularity of the Gros Michel was due to its ability to travel well. It had a thick and resilient peel. So it could be shipped.
With the demise of the Gros Michel the Cavendish was looked at as a replacement and shipping in boxes allowed the more fragile fruit to survive shipping.
So you live in the 20% of the 80:20 rule. We'll solve for the 80% for great benefit. And let the 20% hang out to flap in the wind. It simply doesn't matter that we can't drive there. We probably don't want to drive there. And you can be like the Amish driving around in their horse drawn carriages.
People who own parking garages own them so that people can park in them. It follows that if any substantial portion of the potential market for your parking structure cannot use it because of X (in this case because the mapping company for the auto-car industry has not mapped your garage) then you will solve for X (in this case get the mapping company in.)
In other words... there will be new businesses that are created to solve these problems. You need to repaint the lines in your parking lot because the municipality says you need to change things... most likely the paint company will also have a contact at the mapping company and arrange to have them come out and remap it before the paint dries.
If you have used Google Maps / Waze / Apple Maps recently you will have noticed that they do a pretty good job of showing congestion for your route in real time.
For any obstruction on the highway, the FIRST car may have to figure something out, the SECOND car will simply have an updated "map" saying that there is an obstruction use the left lane and pay attention for a flagger.
And the equivalent of 10 keystones have been built in the US since the Keystone was applied for in 2010.
The net effect of saying no was therefore slightly less than a 10% reduction in build and the equivalent increase in rail.
The net benefits will 100% accrue to the rail companies. The increased transportation costs will be borne by oil producers. There will be no reduction in oil output from oil sands.
Just a note that the oil that was shipped east and caused deaths at Lac-Megantic was US Oil from the Bakken formation not from the Oil Sands in Alberta.
As noted in the title, the panic caused by the mass evacuations etc (e.g. moving people from hospitals) may have caused 1500 deaths.
Of course there are few (I think there may be a couple if I recall from workers in cleanup?) from radiation.
And of course 15,893 (wikipedia) deaths from the tsunami and earthquake.
Moral of the story is that even poorly designed and implemented power plants are less dangerous to your health than poorly sited and implemented housing. Spend the money on where and how people live to protect them from tsunamis and earthquakes. Then, maybe, spend money upgrading your nuclear facilities.
I'm also waiting to see how long it takes for somebody to do a good mod_GA for Apache that uses Googles Measurement Protocol (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/?hl=en) so that sites don't loose Google Analytics for people that block it.
In theory it should be possible for Apache to collect as much interesting data as is required and forward that to Google Analytics without the end users web browser being involved at all. And more efficiently done as the web server can do bulk submission.
So don't believe the BS that we'll loose our analytics as well.
The ads pay for *their* (the publishers) infrastructure.
The ads do NOT pay for the consumers infrastructure. I get a bill from my CableCo and WirelessCo every month that convinces me that I'm the one paying the full tariff for EVERY downloaded bit/byte of data.
I could care less if the publishers can or can't pay for theirs. Find a business model that works. Forcing me to subsidize my local CableCo and WirelessCo is not the way. If I seriously want your content then I'll find a way to help fund it. Mostly sending me scholcky ads is not working.
The problem is that publishers don't see the cost of delivery of their advertising. Like email spam there is little to no cost to throw in a few more lines of JavaScript to pull another ad from another ad delivery service.
But the consumers do see the cost. Download costs (especially for mobile) for the extra data. Longer time to load. Harder to read with ad's cluttering the page. Etc etc.
At the very least if this pushes publishers to convert 2nd and 3rd party ads to first party by (minimally proxying or caching) the delivery through their own site it will provide them with a better idea of the cost.
Moving more content to first party delivery allows protocols like SPDY to shine and optimize delivery. Faster and less bits (through compression.) The message to publishers is take control of the data you want people to look at. Deliver it yourself.
The message to advertisers is to develop alternate mechanisms to ensure your ads are being delivered through first party sites. Ad blocking of crappy delivery mechanisms means that your choice is no ads or delivery as a first party ad.
So you are saying that because a small number of people might not be able to use these in snow for a short time each year, the rest of the continent shouldn't and we should just keep killing > 30,000 people per year.
Ignoring of course that what is being tested now is not what will be available 5-10 years from now.
You can tell how obsolete phones are after two years by checking what companies like Gazelle will pay you for one. My three year old iPhone 5 will still get me $105. I assume they think they can sell it for more than that.
For serious avid cyclists the correct number of bikes to own is N + 1, where N is the number of bikes you currently own.
You will also want a bundle of electronic goodies for them (power meter, gps cycling computer, rear facing and front facing video, electronic shifting...)
And monthly premium accounts from Strava and TrainingPeaks (which gets this post back to topic of monthly fees.)
I will look forward to one or more of the large bike manufacturers (are you listening Trek? Cervelo? Specialized?) to rent bikes to me yearly along with a similar XXXXCare plan.
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Apple could easily afford to simply move their operations outside of California. Now *that* would be an interesting threat.
Wonder what Oregon or Washington or Nevada would offer Apple to relocate?
So you are saying... if GMO food is labelled and is then proved safe then they could win a judgement for defamation.
Which effectively means you want be allowed to defame GMO foods without fear of retribution.
Did I get that wrong?
And then there is the Lenape potato. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perfect example of why at least some testing needs to be done before releasing new varieties on to the market....
BTW the Lenape was a hybrid bred with old school techniques. No GMO.... So I guess we need a label saying Warning Hybridized Bred Product on anything that contains something that is a hybrid. Of course that means effectively 100% of all food (other than wild fish.)
Just to be clear here.... 30,000+ people get killed every year by cars.
But some small (possibly, probably, theoretical based on statistical modelling) number of extra deaths due to "cheating", certainly at the worst far less than a 1/10th of a % increase and more likely non-existent and the whole world comes to an end?
Every single person who uses a car or truck or bus or relies on anything delivered by a car or truck or bus bears as more responsibility for killing people with automobiles than VW does for some possible increase.
VW obviously violated a law. But put in perspective, simply using any motorized vehicle (including electrics) kills far more people.
I was just thinking of switching from elm to pine. Mutt is also an alternative.
Nicely explained here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
Simply put, atolls with no people on them manage to stay level with sea level even though sea level has been rising for millennia.
Atolls with people have problems. Blaming CO2 levels for recent problems with erosion when there has been no increase in the rate of sea level rise probably is pointing the finger at the wrong cause. It does allow them to ignore the real cause (too many people) and try and extort money from the first world to help cope.
The popularity of the Gros Michel was due to its ability to travel well. It had a thick and resilient peel. So it could be shipped.
With the demise of the Gros Michel the Cavendish was looked at as a replacement and shipping in boxes allowed the more fragile fruit to survive shipping.
So you live in the 20% of the 80:20 rule. We'll solve for the 80% for great benefit. And let the 20% hang out to flap in the wind. It simply doesn't matter that we can't drive there. We probably don't want to drive there. And you can be like the Amish driving around in their horse drawn carriages.
People who own parking garages own them so that people can park in them. It follows that if any substantial portion of the potential market for your parking structure cannot use it because of X (in this case because the mapping company for the auto-car industry has not mapped your garage) then you will solve for X (in this case get the mapping company in.)
In other words... there will be new businesses that are created to solve these problems. You need to repaint the lines in your parking lot because the municipality says you need to change things... most likely the paint company will also have a contact at the mapping company and arrange to have them come out and remap it before the paint dries.
If you have used Google Maps / Waze / Apple Maps recently you will have noticed that they do a pretty good job of showing congestion for your route in real time.
For any obstruction on the highway, the FIRST car may have to figure something out, the SECOND car will simply have an updated "map" saying that there is an obstruction use the left lane and pay attention for a flagger.
And the equivalent of 10 keystones have been built in the US since the Keystone was applied for in 2010.
The net effect of saying no was therefore slightly less than a 10% reduction in build and the equivalent increase in rail.
The net benefits will 100% accrue to the rail companies. The increased transportation costs will be borne by oil producers. There will be no reduction in oil output from oil sands.
http://business.financialpost....
Just a note that the oil that was shipped east and caused deaths at Lac-Megantic was US Oil from the Bakken formation not from the Oil Sands in Alberta.
If you have a Chromebook, have a separate gmail account that looks active (subscribe to some innocuous mailing lists.)
Prior to border simply powerwash the Chromebook and login with the clean account. Nothing to see here officer. The password is 1234.
After you get home, login with your normal account.
Function calls are a form of GOTO.
Loops are a form of GOTO.
Conditionals are a form of GOTO.
They are not estimating 1500 deaths because of Fukishima.
https://www.inverse.com/articl...
As noted in the title, the panic caused by the mass evacuations etc (e.g. moving people from hospitals) may have caused 1500 deaths.
Of course there are few (I think there may be a couple if I recall from workers in cleanup?) from radiation.
And of course 15,893 (wikipedia) deaths from the tsunami and earthquake.
Moral of the story is that even poorly designed and implemented power plants are less dangerous to your health than poorly sited and implemented housing. Spend the money on where and how people live to protect them from tsunamis and earthquakes. Then, maybe, spend money upgrading your nuclear facilities.
On IOS 9 ad blocking should work for all applications that use the webkit api to render pages.
I'm also waiting to see how long it takes for somebody to do a good mod_GA for Apache that uses Googles Measurement Protocol (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/?hl=en) so that sites don't loose Google Analytics for people that block it.
In theory it should be possible for Apache to collect as much interesting data as is required and forward that to Google Analytics without the end users web browser being involved at all. And more efficiently done as the web server can do bulk submission.
So don't believe the BS that we'll loose our analytics as well.
The ads pay for *their* (the publishers) infrastructure.
The ads do NOT pay for the consumers infrastructure. I get a bill from my CableCo and WirelessCo every month that convinces me that I'm the one paying the full tariff for EVERY downloaded bit/byte of data.
I could care less if the publishers can or can't pay for theirs. Find a business model that works. Forcing me to subsidize my local CableCo and WirelessCo is not the way. If I seriously want your content then I'll find a way to help fund it. Mostly sending me scholcky ads is not working.
The problem is that publishers don't see the cost of delivery of their advertising. Like email spam there is little to no cost to throw in a few more lines of JavaScript to pull another ad from another ad delivery service.
But the consumers do see the cost. Download costs (especially for mobile) for the extra data. Longer time to load. Harder to read with ad's cluttering the page. Etc etc.
At the very least if this pushes publishers to convert 2nd and 3rd party ads to first party by (minimally proxying or caching) the delivery through their own site it will provide them with a better idea of the cost.
Moving more content to first party delivery allows protocols like SPDY to shine and optimize delivery. Faster and less bits (through compression.)
The message to publishers is take control of the data you want people to look at. Deliver it yourself.
The message to advertisers is to develop alternate mechanisms to ensure your ads are being delivered through first party sites. Ad blocking of crappy delivery mechanisms means that your choice is no ads or delivery as a first party ad.
Sounds similar to what happens now. Things get sorted out in court. Why would it be any different? Why do you think it will be a problem?
So you are saying that because a small number of people might not be able to use these in snow for a short time each year, the rest of the continent shouldn't and we should just keep killing > 30,000 people per year.
Ignoring of course that what is being tested now is not what will be available 5-10 years from now.
You can tell how obsolete phones are after two years by checking what companies like Gazelle will pay you for one. My three year old iPhone 5 will still get me $105. I assume they think they can sell it for more than that.
For serious avid cyclists the correct number of bikes to own is N + 1, where N is the number of bikes you currently own.
You will also want a bundle of electronic goodies for them (power meter, gps cycling computer, rear facing and front facing video, electronic shifting...)
And monthly premium accounts from Strava and TrainingPeaks (which gets this post back to topic of monthly fees.)
I will look forward to one or more of the large bike manufacturers (are you listening Trek? Cervelo? Specialized?) to rent bikes to me yearly along with a similar XXXXCare plan.
Complaints like that will just result in lower overall speed limits. Be careful what you complain about.
There is no such thing as a fast bike unless it has some built-in motor.
There are bikes that will go fast if the rider has the legs to make it go fast.