Oh boy, so my boss can tell if I'm leaning or cleaning.
I anticipate a spike in workplace injuries and stress related ailments and a general decline in the quality of the work of all manual laborers on whom this technology is used, unless and until managers learn how NOT to use it.
Good thing so many states have at-will employment and so few such workers have unions or health insurance, or this could cost a FORTUNE when it hits the US.
Hmm...imagine that, a smaller participant in a more competitive market offered better service than the large uncompetitive oligopolist that bought them out. Shocking.
Funny how the right wing love to talk about leftists being for overbearing government that controls everything you do, but it's the conservative strongholds that have laws like that.
There are low-lying, wide-spreading shrubs that do not require watering in even drier climates than theirs that could easily be arranged to cover 40% of that yard. They can stick with their approach and still give the finger to their city of assholes.
My dad's front yard has some...not sure what they're called but the cats love them (probably because the lizards love them).
Why would energy use for melting the snow be an issue? The heating element doesn't need to be on all the time. It could be activated by a photocell (obviously there would have to be some sort of provision for night time in that), or remotely by radio control, or periodically when the temperature drops below freezing, or only during certain months. Over the life of the light (the thing wouldn't even come on at all 2/3 of the year in most places), the energy cost should be negligible. Incorporating it into the design of future lights might cost what...10, 20 bucks? That barely eats into the savings of going with LEDs at all.
The problem is, the powers that be over there decided to arbitrarily apply their "noteworthy" filter on everything, and so they've collapsed the infinite array of human knowledge down into a decidedly finite set of "relevant" human knowledge. Of course, they alone are the arbiters of what is and isn't relevant, and wield the delete hammer often.
That would be just FINE if it wasn't for the fact that there are different groups of admins writing different contradictory rules, and that they're applied differently by different admins from article to article and day to day.
There should be ONE page for all general rules. It should link to any and all category-specific rules (yes, that list could be long...so what?). Keep it shallow and there will be no excuse for conflicts or confusion. Nothing in discussion pages or anything not linked to directly from the main rules page should not be takeen to be a rule, or even a recommendation that editors should follow. Rules specifically for admins should be similarly colocated.
As for the personal capriciousness of admins, maybe they need some formalized meta-moderation. Last I checked it worked pretty well here.
I used to go through mythology articles and remove or pare down lists of "in popular culture" references that ended up being 100 anime titles and video games. In many cases the text of the article was shorter than the lists of animes.
I had other users and some people with some sort of official status with Wikipedia complaining about my unilateral editing (which was totally within the rules...except for rules that contradict the rules I was looking at), and I started (in accord with some discussion of the subject I'd seen elsewhere) making dedicated articles for that crap and linking them to the main articles. Then they started getting deleted with messages like "why does this article exist."
There was also some article about sports cars, where the "owner" was deleting items he didn't like, but never having defined what should be in there. I cant recall what exactly I did to that one, but IIRC the guy was an admin or something...don't fuck with an admin's bullshit article. (I may be conflating two incidents here...it was a while ago)
I don't edit Wikipedia much anymore, and when I do, I do so anonymously. It is unwieldy, with contradictary rules and capricious admins who will threaten users when their personal authority over their territory is threatened.
Car engines have not changed in any fundamental way apart from going to fuel injection and electronic ignition. Now things are more like computers in the sense that they usually either work or they don't. They aren't really any more complicated in terms of serviceability. (Carbs do everything fuel injection does, just not as precisely.)
Depending how far back you're comparing to, they might actually be simpler now than what you're thinking of. (20 years ago, vacuum lines were worse.)
The problems are small engine bays, front wheel drive (puts the trans and diff in the engine bay, where on old cars they weren't), and V-engines, particularly transversely mounted ones. Also every accessory (AC, cruise, power steering) that used to be an option is now pretty much standard.
But the engines themselves are fine. Don't be afraid.
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Oh boy, so my boss can tell if I'm leaning or cleaning. I anticipate a spike in workplace injuries and stress related ailments and a general decline in the quality of the work of all manual laborers on whom this technology is used, unless and until managers learn how NOT to use it. Good thing so many states have at-will employment and so few such workers have unions or health insurance, or this could cost a FORTUNE when it hits the US.
Hmm...imagine that, a smaller participant in a more competitive market offered better service than the large uncompetitive oligopolist that bought them out. Shocking.
Funny how the right wing love to talk about leftists being for overbearing government that controls everything you do, but it's the conservative strongholds that have laws like that.
There are low-lying, wide-spreading shrubs that do not require watering in even drier climates than theirs that could easily be arranged to cover 40% of that yard. They can stick with their approach and still give the finger to their city of assholes. My dad's front yard has some...not sure what they're called but the cats love them (probably because the lizards love them).
Lawns are an abomination (at least if you don't have enough rainfall to support one), and Southern California is a hellhole.
Why are so many Christian fundamentalists who claim to be scientists actually engineers? I don't think this is wholly coincidence.
Why would energy use for melting the snow be an issue? The heating element doesn't need to be on all the time. It could be activated by a photocell (obviously there would have to be some sort of provision for night time in that), or remotely by radio control, or periodically when the temperature drops below freezing, or only during certain months. Over the life of the light (the thing wouldn't even come on at all 2/3 of the year in most places), the energy cost should be negligible. Incorporating it into the design of future lights might cost what...10, 20 bucks? That barely eats into the savings of going with LEDs at all.
The problem is, the powers that be over there decided to arbitrarily apply their "noteworthy" filter on everything, and so they've collapsed the infinite array of human knowledge down into a decidedly finite set of "relevant" human knowledge. Of course, they alone are the arbiters of what is and isn't relevant, and wield the delete hammer often.
That would be just FINE if it wasn't for the fact that there are different groups of admins writing different contradictory rules, and that they're applied differently by different admins from article to article and day to day.
There should be ONE page for all general rules. It should link to any and all category-specific rules (yes, that list could be long...so what?). Keep it shallow and there will be no excuse for conflicts or confusion. Nothing in discussion pages or anything not linked to directly from the main rules page should not be takeen to be a rule, or even a recommendation that editors should follow. Rules specifically for admins should be similarly colocated.
As for the personal capriciousness of admins, maybe they need some formalized meta-moderation. Last I checked it worked pretty well here.
I used to go through mythology articles and remove or pare down lists of "in popular culture" references that ended up being 100 anime titles and video games. In many cases the text of the article was shorter than the lists of animes. I had other users and some people with some sort of official status with Wikipedia complaining about my unilateral editing (which was totally within the rules...except for rules that contradict the rules I was looking at), and I started (in accord with some discussion of the subject I'd seen elsewhere) making dedicated articles for that crap and linking them to the main articles. Then they started getting deleted with messages like "why does this article exist." There was also some article about sports cars, where the "owner" was deleting items he didn't like, but never having defined what should be in there. I cant recall what exactly I did to that one, but IIRC the guy was an admin or something...don't fuck with an admin's bullshit article. (I may be conflating two incidents here...it was a while ago) I don't edit Wikipedia much anymore, and when I do, I do so anonymously. It is unwieldy, with contradictary rules and capricious admins who will threaten users when their personal authority over their territory is threatened.
Burning wood for heat produces a LOT of particulate emissions.
That's...ahem...sweat! alternately They're androids.
The blow part is the worrisome one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_WgCGOWae4
Car engines have not changed in any fundamental way apart from going to fuel injection and electronic ignition. Now things are more like computers in the sense that they usually either work or they don't. They aren't really any more complicated in terms of serviceability. (Carbs do everything fuel injection does, just not as precisely.) Depending how far back you're comparing to, they might actually be simpler now than what you're thinking of. (20 years ago, vacuum lines were worse.) The problems are small engine bays, front wheel drive (puts the trans and diff in the engine bay, where on old cars they weren't), and V-engines, particularly transversely mounted ones. Also every accessory (AC, cruise, power steering) that used to be an option is now pretty much standard. But the engines themselves are fine. Don't be afraid.
This is the worst episode of Battlestar Galactica ever.
Do not throw rocks at wasps' nests.
Sounds like they'd be a good fit for Creative Labs.