The proper mindset is, if these kids have time and the desire to throw snowballs at moving vehicles, their community is lacking for activities to keep them out of trouble.
I know! No wholesome community should have kids running around outside playing in the snow. They ought to be safe inside consuming approved media.
It's remarkable that automobiles do not already have such buttons or switches. Virtually every piece of heavy machinery in the modern world has some kind of very visible emergency off switch.
Every modern motorcycle already has a fairly standard and universal ignition-off switch that will kill the engine. It is a big red switch, and always on the right handlebar. Virtually all of these motorcycles (that have electric starters) also happen to be push-button started.
Seriously though, I would normally agree with you if in weren't for the fact that governments are only stepping in this area because private telcos refuse to provide the service. Or at least provide the service at reasonable rates... they'd rather kill competition and force as many customers as possible into their highly profitable 'triple play' packages (That offer *you* the customer so much savings!).
Not to mention there are numerous examples of certain government projects being run exceptionally well, particularly at the municipal level. And if what you're going up against is private telcos, the bar is already set pretty low.
So long as 3G providers continue to charge $50/month on top of already overpriced voice plans and cap data usage at 5 GB/month, wired internet connections won't be going anywhere.
TFA is referring not to de-facto ubiquitous coverage by multiple independent access points, but by a single, centrally run mesh of access points owned and operated (at least partially) by the municipal government.
At least in the USA, this has largely been quashed by the telcos in the courts, claiming that such networks are unfair competition to their price gouging mobile data plans.
He talks about the burglars being "savvy enough to wear masks" and being able to distracting an unarmed security guard. Last time I checked, these sorts of tactics qualified as being "not retarded," but not quite "criminal mastermind."
So what is it when it's made from artillery shells?
I'll bet there's an army manual somewhere which says so. Probably if the artillery shells are used as artillery shells, they're not considered IEDs, but if they're rigged as a claymore, they are. Sort of like if you somehow hooked a billiard ball to your mouse to make a trackball, you'd have an IPD -- improvised pointing device.
If the artillery shell is rigged as a booby trap or roadside bomb, i.e. used in any fashion other than its original intended design, it is considered an IED (Because there is some degree of improvisation necessary, get it?). If the artillery shell was fired from a cannon and happened to land on the ground without exploding, it would be considered "Unexploded Ordinance," or a UXO.
At least you can pay with a card, which you can't to at a regular parking meter. I generally don't carry cash, and if I do, I rarely have change before I arrive at my destination. Walking half a block (Which, btw, isn't that far if you're not a total lardass) to pay for parking is a lot more convenient than walking 4 blocks to an ATM, making a withdrawal, finding a vendor to make change, and returning to the meter only to discover you already have a parking ticket.
Perhaps they could put card swipes directly on the parking meters, but traditional coin-op parking meters suck in their own ways.
Among all the other flaws with this study, I'm surprised nobody else has pointed out that this study was performed with rats who have a vastly different diet than humans. Freshly hunted meat certainly is not a primary portion of a rat's diet, whereas historically speaking, it is for humans.
Be interesting to see what a Wolf would be like as they tend to have a larger brain to body mass ratio.
Compared to what breed? Certainly you can't make this blanket statement in reference to all dogs, as the domestic dog and the grey wolf are now considered by many to be the exact same species.
Ad revenue may not be good, but it's better than nothing. And nothing is just about what they'll get with a pay-only model.
There is quite a bit of online content that's actually worth paying for, certain things you can't (legally) get for free elsewhere. News sites are not one of them.
I've never met a single person who would be willing to pay even $2 a month for access to a news site.
But cops don't wear Level IV body armor. Level IV body armor is usually a heavy metal/ceramic "impact plate" that covers only the most vital organs in the center of mass. It is generally only found on military infantry, or occasionally on very few SWAT teams. Level IV impact plates are really heavy, bulky, and uncomfortable. They are completely impractical for a patrol officer, and even rarely found in SWAT/Entry teams.
Level III or IIIA soft vests, which is what 99% of cops actually have, is only effective in defending against handgun calibers and shotguns. This is usually 'good enough' for cops since handgun calibers compose the majority of their threat. But don't think cops are trotting around in level IV impact plates, because they're not. The worlds best IIIA vest can't even hold up to 'small' centerfire rifle calibers like 5.56 NATO, 7.62x39mm. And even Level IV impact plates can only take a couple shots from big game calibers like.30-06 or.300 Win Mag before failing.
My first thought was "Oh neat, color electronic paper." Then I thought, "But if it needs to get hot (and stay hot for that matter), it would not be very useful for a portable device like an e-book reader."
Perhaps with some chemical tweaking they could develop dyes that work at much lower temps?
And really, organic food has never been about health. It's more about sustainable practices and all that jazz. Organic food is more an environmental concept than a health concept.
That said, when and if I buy organic foods, it's usually fruits, vegetables, or nuts; and I do so because they are of noticably better quality than standard supermarket faire. For me, it has nothing to do with health OR environmentalism... Organic produce simply tends to be better quality from a culinary standpoint.
Some degree of automation would be immensely useful in certain parts of military bureacracy would be a fantastic idea.
Take a look at personnelists. 80% or more of their job (at least in the Air Force) consists of nothing more than reading from conditional decision charts, and then taking the appropriate action in whatever database or system is appropriate. They exist as a middleman between the troop and the system they actually need to interact with.
Only bureacratic inertia prevents these human drones being replaced with some kind of automated solution.
What business do P2P file sharing apps have one government and contractor computers? While I'm sure many will rightfully point out the security through obscurity is rarely effective, and this information could have been leaked through any number of less sexy protocols like FTP, P2P file sharing has no business on government and contractor networks (BTW, when I say contractor networks, I'm referring to those that may contain sensitive or classified information). P2P apps are certainly the most common and available means of inadvertently turning a client node into a wide-open file server.
These are not commercial ISPs or home PCs we're talking about here. These are tax-payer financed networks. What business do these users have using tax-payer owned resources for downloading music/movies/etc. whether they are copyrighted or not? If you're not going to control the software installed on these workstations, at the very least the network traffic rules should not allow for this kind of outgoing traffic on client nodes.
I agree. After all, the CDC is headquartered about five miles from downtown Atlanta. Not in the middle of tornado alley, but the area is not impervious to severe weather. And the CDC is home to some really nasty pathogens like smallpox and Ebola.
So long as the building is sufficiently hardened, I don't see the problem. We can build containment buildings for nuclear facilities that can withstand direct impacts by commercial jets; surely this proposed facility can be hardened to mitigate the risk presented by weather in the area.
Just don't put the pathogen labs in mobile homes, and we should probably be ok.
While I realize you're making a joke, the support tower of a relatively smallish 600 kW wind turbine (Most of the large land-based turbine are about 2.5 MW) is about 10'. When laid parallel to the ground on a truck bed that is 3 to 4 feet off the ground, you're looking at something that is approaching the upper limits of typical trucking payloads.
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The proper mindset is, if these kids have time and the desire to throw snowballs at moving vehicles, their community is lacking for activities to keep them out of trouble.
I know! No wholesome community should have kids running around outside playing in the snow. They ought to be safe inside consuming approved media.
It's remarkable that automobiles do not already have such buttons or switches. Virtually every piece of heavy machinery in the modern world has some kind of very visible emergency off switch.
Every modern motorcycle already has a fairly standard and universal ignition-off switch that will kill the engine. It is a big red switch, and always on the right handlebar. Virtually all of these motorcycles (that have electric starters) also happen to be push-button started.
How many times do you think the pirates will attack this particular ship before they figure out that it is well-armed and carries no cargo?
I'd say once. Maybe twice if they are very stupid pirates.
Just line it with Mylar or embossed foil (Think those really shiny golf ball boxes).
Glenn Beck, is that you?
Seriously though, I would normally agree with you if in weren't for the fact that governments are only stepping in this area because private telcos refuse to provide the service. Or at least provide the service at reasonable rates... they'd rather kill competition and force as many customers as possible into their highly profitable 'triple play' packages (That offer *you* the customer so much savings!).
Not to mention there are numerous examples of certain government projects being run exceptionally well, particularly at the municipal level. And if what you're going up against is private telcos, the bar is already set pretty low.
So long as 3G providers continue to charge $50/month on top of already overpriced voice plans and cap data usage at 5 GB/month, wired internet connections won't be going anywhere.
3G is no substitute for a proper data pipe.
TFA is referring not to de-facto ubiquitous coverage by multiple independent access points, but by a single, centrally run mesh of access points owned and operated (at least partially) by the municipal government.
At least in the USA, this has largely been quashed by the telcos in the courts, claiming that such networks are unfair competition to their price gouging mobile data plans.
He talks about the burglars being "savvy enough to wear masks" and being able to distracting an unarmed security guard. Last time I checked, these sorts of tactics qualified as being "not retarded," but not quite "criminal mastermind."
I'll bet there's an army manual somewhere which says so. Probably if the artillery shells are used as artillery shells, they're not considered IEDs, but if they're rigged as a claymore, they are. Sort of like if you somehow hooked a billiard ball to your mouse to make a trackball, you'd have an IPD -- improvised pointing device.
If the artillery shell is rigged as a booby trap or roadside bomb, i.e. used in any fashion other than its original intended design, it is considered an IED (Because there is some degree of improvisation necessary, get it?). If the artillery shell was fired from a cannon and happened to land on the ground without exploding, it would be considered "Unexploded Ordinance," or a UXO.
At least you can pay with a card, which you can't to at a regular parking meter. I generally don't carry cash, and if I do, I rarely have change before I arrive at my destination. Walking half a block (Which, btw, isn't that far if you're not a total lardass) to pay for parking is a lot more convenient than walking 4 blocks to an ATM, making a withdrawal, finding a vendor to make change, and returning to the meter only to discover you already have a parking ticket.
Perhaps they could put card swipes directly on the parking meters, but traditional coin-op parking meters suck in their own ways.
Among all the other flaws with this study, I'm surprised nobody else has pointed out that this study was performed with rats who have a vastly different diet than humans. Freshly hunted meat certainly is not a primary portion of a rat's diet, whereas historically speaking, it is for humans.
as a consultant that has such CAC card (no, it's not repetitive)
Yes, it is.
You mean other support roles like seeing and hearing dogs, herding dogs, mobility assistance dogs, or search dogs?
Be interesting to see what a Wolf would be like as they tend to have a larger brain to body mass ratio.
Compared to what breed? Certainly you can't make this blanket statement in reference to all dogs, as the domestic dog and the grey wolf are now considered by many to be the exact same species.
Ad revenue may not be good, but it's better than nothing. And nothing is just about what they'll get with a pay-only model.
There is quite a bit of online content that's actually worth paying for, certain things you can't (legally) get for free elsewhere. News sites are not one of them.
I've never met a single person who would be willing to pay even $2 a month for access to a news site.
But cops don't wear Level IV body armor. Level IV body armor is usually a heavy metal/ceramic "impact plate" that covers only the most vital organs in the center of mass. It is generally only found on military infantry, or occasionally on very few SWAT teams. Level IV impact plates are really heavy, bulky, and uncomfortable. They are completely impractical for a patrol officer, and even rarely found in SWAT/Entry teams.
Level III or IIIA soft vests, which is what 99% of cops actually have, is only effective in defending against handgun calibers and shotguns. This is usually 'good enough' for cops since handgun calibers compose the majority of their threat. But don't think cops are trotting around in level IV impact plates, because they're not. The worlds best IIIA vest can't even hold up to 'small' centerfire rifle calibers like 5.56 NATO, 7.62x39mm. And even Level IV impact plates can only take a couple shots from big game calibers like .30-06 or .300 Win Mag before failing.
My first thought was "Oh neat, color electronic paper." Then I thought, "But if it needs to get hot (and stay hot for that matter), it would not be very useful for a portable device like an e-book reader."
Perhaps with some chemical tweaking they could develop dyes that work at much lower temps?
So the health and legal systems are intelligent? Whaaaaaa?
*head explodes*
And really, organic food has never been about health. It's more about sustainable practices and all that jazz. Organic food is more an environmental concept than a health concept.
That said, when and if I buy organic foods, it's usually fruits, vegetables, or nuts; and I do so because they are of noticably better quality than standard supermarket faire. For me, it has nothing to do with health OR environmentalism... Organic produce simply tends to be better quality from a culinary standpoint.
Some degree of automation would be immensely useful in certain parts of military bureacracy would be a fantastic idea.
Take a look at personnelists. 80% or more of their job (at least in the Air Force) consists of nothing more than reading from conditional decision charts, and then taking the appropriate action in whatever database or system is appropriate. They exist as a middleman between the troop and the system they actually need to interact with.
Only bureacratic inertia prevents these human drones being replaced with some kind of automated solution.
| WoW patches its clients via P2P. And it's a serious business for 10M people.
Yeah, and WoW is appropriate official business appropriate for use on tax-payer funded government networks. </sarcasm>
These are not commercial ISPs or home PCs we're talking about here. These are tax-payer financed networks. What business do these users have using tax-payer owned resources for downloading music/movies/etc. whether they are copyrighted or not? If you're not going to control the software installed on these workstations, at the very least the network traffic rules should not allow for this kind of outgoing traffic on client nodes.
I agree. After all, the CDC is headquartered about five miles from downtown Atlanta. Not in the middle of tornado alley, but the area is not impervious to severe weather. And the CDC is home to some really nasty pathogens like smallpox and Ebola. So long as the building is sufficiently hardened, I don't see the problem. We can build containment buildings for nuclear facilities that can withstand direct impacts by commercial jets; surely this proposed facility can be hardened to mitigate the risk presented by weather in the area. Just don't put the pathogen labs in mobile homes, and we should probably be ok.
While I realize you're making a joke, the support tower of a relatively smallish 600 kW wind turbine (Most of the large land-based turbine are about 2.5 MW) is about 10'. When laid parallel to the ground on a truck bed that is 3 to 4 feet off the ground, you're looking at something that is approaching the upper limits of typical trucking payloads.