Anyone can work with metric, it takes a truly twisted mind to use the full range of length measurements in US imperial: 12 inches in a foot. 3 feet in a yard. 22 yards in a chain. 10 chains in a furlong. 8 furlongs in a mile.
Perhaps a remotely located "ID Checker" using a video camera and watching hundreds of these things. In NY we can self-checkout beer, the attendant watching the 6 or so self-checkouts checks ID and approves the particular register for 21+ items (or 18+ in the case of some medicines).
Absolutely. A good white collar union is needed for the tech industry. They don't even need to be that onerous, one of the white collar unions I worked in was virtually indistinguishable from any other job. Send in resume, 2-3 rounds of interviews, negotiate salary, hired. The best employees got better raises and could bypass people who had been working there longer. No timesheets other than a monthly declaration of the amount of vacation time used. Employee discipline was left entirely to management. Only difference was, there's a union to keep both sides honest, so no one tried any bullshit (on either side).
Without surge pricing, the first batch of people to get to the store buy up all the supplies, and then there's empty shelves and no one else gets anything. With surge pricing, if you really, really need that can of soup it will be there for you to purchase.
Similarly, when the women's march glorified cop-killer fugitive Joanne Chesimard, all references to the organization/movement should have been pulled from the internet.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an intelligent conservative who disagrees with climate change once presented the science. The real thing we argue about is whether it is in the best interest of any particular government to do anything about it. If country A agrees to do things in a more difficult way in order to try and stop climate change, but country B has no such agreement, country B has an advantage in global markets.
The longer he stays in the media, the more likely Google will cut him a settlement check to make this go away as quickly as possible.
In the court of public opinion they were wrong to fire him, and there's a good chance they violated some laws by doing so as well. Google will want to make this go away, fast. I expect this story will vanish like a fart in the wind and the guy will buy a new private island somewhere.
The problem is getting the green card in the first place, that is where quotas and queues come into play. A few Indian co-workers here on H1Bs are more likely to be sponsored by their children when they become of age to become citizens, than to get a green card based on continuous stay. Meanwhile a co-worker from a European country got his green card after staying five years.
The skill requirement makes it practically a carbon copy of Australia and Canada: your ability to enter is a function of your knowledge of the local language (English, or in Canada's case English or French), skills, education level, and ability to get a job. They want people who are useful to the country and can fit in.
The difference is the path to legal citizenship in those commonwealth countries is once you've lived/worked there for 5 years or so, citizenship opportunity. No country of origin quotas or green card queues which encourage queue-jumping, visa overstays and under-the-table work. This second part should be copied as well.
Even better, red counties in blue states. Unfortunately our governor (NY) is extremely anti-nuclear and is making deals with Canada to send electrons to NYC in order to accelerate the closing of our Indian Point plant.
The "good" news is the liberal NYC-ers will be hurt most by this change which they themselves are responsible for. The rest of us can reduce our grid charges by putting solar panels on our roofs, subletting our land for wind turbines, or installing our own generators.
The Soviet Union had similar open borders and was farther down the rabbit hole of merging than the EU of today - looking now at this point we'd sooner see an open US/Canadian border before any two FSRs do.
Nexus is actually only $50 and gives you Global Entry and PreCheck. The downside is you have to give all your personal info to both the US *and* Canadian governments, and have a quick meeting on the US-Canadian border with an agent of each country, so if you have to make a special trip to get to that meeting, it becomes more expensive than Global Entry.
That said, the special driving lane to/from Canada is worth it. Stated metric of getting you across in 15 minutes (to the point where they actually open more booths if the Nexus line gets too long).
I don't mean heating/winter since that isn't really a problem (if there's enough sun for a solar panel the interior is warm enough). For summer, simply running the fans would keep the interior the same temperature as the exterior, and would move cooler air over surfaces that are heating up with the sun. It doesn't need to be 72 degrees when you get inside, just keep it down to 1-2 degrees warmer than the outside temperature. This would also stop hot car deaths.
2) Other than Russia, China, & Japan, most other nations do not have the Diesel rail volume & revenues to justify this retrofit. Note India isn't doing this to their electrical nor AC compartments. They are doing this for their low cost metal boxes on wheels.
Minor nitpick; almost all passenger rail travel in the US & Canada is diesel, except for some of the northeast US, a small portion of Chicago's commuter lines, and one Montreal commuter line. There is volume. Revenue is another story...
4) Many countries have a cheaper and more reliable electrical grid that makes panels nothing more than a PR stunt. For these, it makes more sense to co-locate the panels and provide energy directly to the rail system; rather than run around on the cars (ie: US, Japan, & EU).
This is the better way to solve the problem; it doesn't matter what generated the power and you can use it to move the train as well (bigger savings).
What I'm wondering is why automobiles don't have solar panel roofs to keep some rudimentary climate control running while the car is sitting in the parking lot.
Good guess. The "hotel power" (lights and whatnot) on a train comes from what's called a HEP generator. Not all engines (at least in the US) have one built in, so they are sometimes installed in one or more coaches on the train. Turning off the HEP directly saves fuel.
That rule is too broad and is often applied to things like unmanaged switches to meet a real need of lack of live ports for a given area.
Someone here on/. once posted a story about how the IT at their company made their network so secure and locked down, and were such pricks about devices/updates/scanning tools that bog machines down to unusable speeds, that everything important was stored on the employees' Google docs. All of the real work was done completely outside the company network on personal devices. If I were that company's CEO and found that out, I'd immediately dissolve the end user services section of IT and just get the local ISP's business class connection for the office - it clearly wasn't adding anything of value.
That is because you are looking at secular. About 25% of the students at the catholic schools I went to were not Catholic. They basically got a gym period while we were in church. They still had to go to religion class but it wasn't indoctrination (no school that could be called "good" would do that, and they all want to be called good). Grade school was $400/month, I walked, "after school" was hang out with friends or walk home, use my key and watch TV until someone got home. Later on I was allowed to wander down to the public library and read. High school gave us a free 3 rides+3 transfers/weekday Metrocard. A lot of these expenses people put themselves through are because they apply suburban rules to city living - city kids simply do not need to be watched all day.
Really, Troll+Flamebait? More like uncomfortable truth. Here's a good writeup from a liberal source no less: Clinton has now made Democrats the anti-Russia party, and that was 30 seconds of Google searching. Anyone who actually watched her speeches would tell you the same. Judging by an AC comment shortly after a downmod you're one of the Hillary shills trying their hand at revisionist history. It is a relevant comment because the main parties barfed up two terrible choices. Hillary's anti-Russia rhetoric combined with the fact that she is competent made her a much more dangerous choice than Trump. If Hillary set her mind on something truly dangerous she could pull it off. Trump wouldn't get past first base (proof: so far on most of his initiatives, he's been striking out more often than not).
For the record I voted third party. We had a 75% chance of intentional war and a 50/50 chance of stumbling into one, neither looked good. Both third parties would have had no chance of getting us into a war.
Hillary practically declared war on Russia while campaigning. North Korea is a pipsqueak by comparison - I'll take increased tension with NK over the 2nd most powerful military on the planet any day of the week (and twice on Sunday).
To be fair, that is part of why they are rich. If I lived as frugally now as I did when fresh out of college (and invested all the saved money), I'd have about $1 million in the bank.
In fact, I think that the federal income tax should be abolished entirely and that states should be funding the federal governments out of their tax revenues.
I wouldn't go that far, but a cap of something like 2% on the federal income tax would definitely help. States would be free to increase their taxes to the level the federal one was, and fund whatever programs they find important. Vermont, California, Massachusetts and NY can have universal healthcare. Midwestern states can save for their own tornado reconstruction funds. Florida and New Orleans can have universal flood insurance. The farm states will lose their subsidies but in exchange their tax burden would be practically nonexistent. Food might cost more but the non-farm states could give every resident a "raise" to pay for it by keeping their tax rates low.
It will be worse. They will have been collecting the income tax for 10 years and will need to pay it back. The administrative overhead of tracking down everyone they collected it from and cutting them checks will be more than they ever got in the first place.
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To be fair, Lync was a cool name. They should have kept it.
Anyone can work with metric, it takes a truly twisted mind to use the full range of length measurements in US imperial:
12 inches in a foot.
3 feet in a yard.
22 yards in a chain.
10 chains in a furlong.
8 furlongs in a mile.
Perhaps a remotely located "ID Checker" using a video camera and watching hundreds of these things. In NY we can self-checkout beer, the attendant watching the 6 or so self-checkouts checks ID and approves the particular register for 21+ items (or 18+ in the case of some medicines).
Christ, Unionize already.
Absolutely. A good white collar union is needed for the tech industry. They don't even need to be that onerous, one of the white collar unions I worked in was virtually indistinguishable from any other job. Send in resume, 2-3 rounds of interviews, negotiate salary, hired. The best employees got better raises and could bypass people who had been working there longer. No timesheets other than a monthly declaration of the amount of vacation time used. Employee discipline was left entirely to management. Only difference was, there's a union to keep both sides honest, so no one tried any bullshit (on either side).
Without surge pricing, the first batch of people to get to the store buy up all the supplies, and then there's empty shelves and no one else gets anything.
With surge pricing, if you really, really need that can of soup it will be there for you to purchase.
Similarly, when the women's march glorified cop-killer fugitive Joanne Chesimard, all references to the organization/movement should have been pulled from the internet.
See how that works?
You'd be hard-pressed to find an intelligent conservative who disagrees with climate change once presented the science. The real thing we argue about is whether it is in the best interest of any particular government to do anything about it. If country A agrees to do things in a more difficult way in order to try and stop climate change, but country B has no such agreement, country B has an advantage in global markets.
The longer he stays in the media, the more likely Google will cut him a settlement check to make this go away as quickly as possible.
In the court of public opinion they were wrong to fire him, and there's a good chance they violated some laws by doing so as well. Google will want to make this go away, fast. I expect this story will vanish like a fart in the wind and the guy will buy a new private island somewhere.
The problem is getting the green card in the first place, that is where quotas and queues come into play. A few Indian co-workers here on H1Bs are more likely to be sponsored by their children when they become of age to become citizens, than to get a green card based on continuous stay. Meanwhile a co-worker from a European country got his green card after staying five years.
The skill requirement makes it practically a carbon copy of Australia and Canada: your ability to enter is a function of your knowledge of the local language (English, or in Canada's case English or French), skills, education level, and ability to get a job. They want people who are useful to the country and can fit in.
The difference is the path to legal citizenship in those commonwealth countries is once you've lived/worked there for 5 years or so, citizenship opportunity. No country of origin quotas or green card queues which encourage queue-jumping, visa overstays and under-the-table work. This second part should be copied as well.
Even better, red counties in blue states. Unfortunately our governor (NY) is extremely anti-nuclear and is making deals with Canada to send electrons to NYC in order to accelerate the closing of our Indian Point plant.
The "good" news is the liberal NYC-ers will be hurt most by this change which they themselves are responsible for. The rest of us can reduce our grid charges by putting solar panels on our roofs, subletting our land for wind turbines, or installing our own generators.
The Soviet Union had similar open borders and was farther down the rabbit hole of merging than the EU of today - looking now at this point we'd sooner see an open US/Canadian border before any two FSRs do.
Nexus is actually only $50 and gives you Global Entry and PreCheck. The downside is you have to give all your personal info to both the US *and* Canadian governments, and have a quick meeting on the US-Canadian border with an agent of each country, so if you have to make a special trip to get to that meeting, it becomes more expensive than Global Entry.
That said, the special driving lane to/from Canada is worth it. Stated metric of getting you across in 15 minutes (to the point where they actually open more booths if the Nexus line gets too long).
Good luck coding around the attempts at mass archiving without any programmers...
I don't mean heating/winter since that isn't really a problem (if there's enough sun for a solar panel the interior is warm enough).
For summer, simply running the fans would keep the interior the same temperature as the exterior, and would move cooler air over surfaces that are heating up with the sun. It doesn't need to be 72 degrees when you get inside, just keep it down to 1-2 degrees warmer than the outside temperature. This would also stop hot car deaths.
2) Other than Russia, China, & Japan, most other nations do not have the Diesel rail volume & revenues to justify this retrofit. Note India isn't doing this to their electrical nor AC compartments. They are doing this for their low cost metal boxes on wheels.
Minor nitpick; almost all passenger rail travel in the US & Canada is diesel, except for some of the northeast US, a small portion of Chicago's commuter lines, and one Montreal commuter line. There is volume. Revenue is another story...
4) Many countries have a cheaper and more reliable electrical grid that makes panels nothing more than a PR stunt. For these, it makes more sense to co-locate the panels and provide energy directly to the rail system; rather than run around on the cars (ie: US, Japan, & EU).
This is the better way to solve the problem; it doesn't matter what generated the power and you can use it to move the train as well (bigger savings).
What I'm wondering is why automobiles don't have solar panel roofs to keep some rudimentary climate control running while the car is sitting in the parking lot.
Good guess. The "hotel power" (lights and whatnot) on a train comes from what's called a HEP generator. Not all engines (at least in the US) have one built in, so they are sometimes installed in one or more coaches on the train. Turning off the HEP directly saves fuel.
That rule is too broad and is often applied to things like unmanaged switches to meet a real need of lack of live ports for a given area.
Someone here on /. once posted a story about how the IT at their company made their network so secure and locked down, and were such pricks about devices/updates/scanning tools that bog machines down to unusable speeds, that everything important was stored on the employees' Google docs. All of the real work was done completely outside the company network on personal devices. If I were that company's CEO and found that out, I'd immediately dissolve the end user services section of IT and just get the local ISP's business class connection for the office - it clearly wasn't adding anything of value.
That is because you are looking at secular. About 25% of the students at the catholic schools I went to were not Catholic. They basically got a gym period while we were in church. They still had to go to religion class but it wasn't indoctrination (no school that could be called "good" would do that, and they all want to be called good). Grade school was $400/month, I walked, "after school" was hang out with friends or walk home, use my key and watch TV until someone got home. Later on I was allowed to wander down to the public library and read. High school gave us a free 3 rides+3 transfers/weekday Metrocard. A lot of these expenses people put themselves through are because they apply suburban rules to city living - city kids simply do not need to be watched all day.
Really, Troll+Flamebait? More like uncomfortable truth. Here's a good writeup from a liberal source no less: Clinton has now made Democrats the anti-Russia party, and that was 30 seconds of Google searching. Anyone who actually watched her speeches would tell you the same. Judging by an AC comment shortly after a downmod you're one of the Hillary shills trying their hand at revisionist history. It is a relevant comment because the main parties barfed up two terrible choices. Hillary's anti-Russia rhetoric combined with the fact that she is competent made her a much more dangerous choice than Trump. If Hillary set her mind on something truly dangerous she could pull it off. Trump wouldn't get past first base (proof: so far on most of his initiatives, he's been striking out more often than not).
For the record I voted third party. We had a 75% chance of intentional war and a 50/50 chance of stumbling into one, neither looked good. Both third parties would have had no chance of getting us into a war.
Hillary practically declared war on Russia while campaigning. North Korea is a pipsqueak by comparison - I'll take increased tension with NK over the 2nd most powerful military on the planet any day of the week (and twice on Sunday).
To be fair, that is part of why they are rich. If I lived as frugally now as I did when fresh out of college (and invested all the saved money), I'd have about $1 million in the bank.
In fact, I think that the federal income tax should be abolished entirely and that states should be funding the federal governments out of their tax revenues.
I wouldn't go that far, but a cap of something like 2% on the federal income tax would definitely help. States would be free to increase their taxes to the level the federal one was, and fund whatever programs they find important. Vermont, California, Massachusetts and NY can have universal healthcare. Midwestern states can save for their own tornado reconstruction funds. Florida and New Orleans can have universal flood insurance. The farm states will lose their subsidies but in exchange their tax burden would be practically nonexistent. Food might cost more but the non-farm states could give every resident a "raise" to pay for it by keeping their tax rates low.
It will be worse. They will have been collecting the income tax for 10 years and will need to pay it back. The administrative overhead of tracking down everyone they collected it from and cutting them checks will be more than they ever got in the first place.