And everything you claim to have learned on was outdated when I was a fucking teenager. I have a really hard time believing that this "old school" computing world is what you grew up with.
You just sound like a computer "hipster" to me. Come crack open a PBR with me and relax.. you don't have to try this hard to be different. As someone who has done production in many industries, please let me reassure you that we wouldn't have adopted today's tools if they weren't better than yesterdays.
Your mashup of what would also be considered old (social networking) and new (Win 8).. oh fuck I just convinced myself this was a troll submission, fuck off.
I will say that I am about your age and I did actually use pine professionally. When I was 17 I was writing backend tools to empower Tier 1 tech support to do some of the things that the Tier 2 and 3 guys normally had to take care of. Since I spent all day on a BSD box (via telnet), that also happened to host my mailbox, I used pine quite a bit. And I actually had a boss who, still to this day, asks people if they know how to use VI in an interview (and does not want to hire them if they do not know it). The VI thing always irritated me though. Anyone can learn VI. I want a good programmer who knows his stuff. If he doesn't know the tools, a good programmer will learn to use them in no time.
You have a strange definition of "free". Publicly funded is better wording.
According to government numbers the NHS takes just over 18% of the income taxes, or about £1500-2000 or so per year depending on your income. It is also paid by other specific taxes (such as tobacco tax) and through general funds.
Thanks to the NHS guidelines, your wait time in the queue is to be no more than 18 weeks. Usually.
America pays more, but they can also generally see a specialist for any field within a matter of days or sometimes hours for non-emergency care.
And for emergency care.... Many American hospitals are putting their emergency room wait times up in phone apps so you can compare wait times. I have heard it is common to see 5-10 minutes between entering the hospital and being treated for urgent situations. In contrast, I sat in a hospital with my daughter, her hand oozing blood after being crushed and having two broken bones and severe lacerations and soft tissue injuries, for nearly THREE HOURS before being treated. Watching her quietly cry the whole time I would have gladly written an American-sized cheque for £1000 to have her treated immediately.
Emergency care isn't always roses here in the US, either. I had my jaw dislocated playing sports. It was stuck open. I went to the emergency room right at the same time the hospital got a trauma call for a serious road accident. I sat in the waiting room for over an hour and went through an entire roll of paper towels (you drool uncontrollably with your mouth wide open) before they finally put me in a treatment room. When I got there, they handed me the suction tool and I sat there with the tool in my wide open mouth for the next 3 hours. I was thirsty as hell by then but could not drink on account of being unable to swallow.
Now, obviously those accident victims were in much more dire need of medical attention than I was, but it still took forever. I went into the hospital around 10pm and left around 6am. I would have probably gotten out earlier but I passed out when they gave me strong pain medicine to help me relax before the doctor reset my jaw.
Of course, one benefit of POTS was that, in a power failure, your landline phone would frequently still work because of the giant piles of batteries at the CO. So, you could still dial 911 if, say, your aged relative's breathing assist machine needed power, or if there was some other medical emergency in the midst of what ever caused the power failure. Kind of ironic that, as a result of a disaster, they'll be somewhat more vulnerable to disasters.
This would probably be more reliable than POTS. Every household would have a backup battery. Even the POTS interfaces from the cable company come with a battery installed. Remember when cell phones were just phones and the battery lasted for days? Now imagine a bigger battery.
Also in a disaster they could easily setup mobile towers to replace towers that have been damaged or to add additional capacity. You can't just run new POTS lines in an emergency. The old system could have been down for weeks if your lines went down. Now maybe only hours or days if it even goes down. There is a lot more redundancy now too since you are not relying on a single copper connection to your house. In theory you would have the ability to connect to multiple towers, so it one fails the other will be a backup.
So it is not at all more vulnerable to disasters.
I had one of these cellular home phones when I lived in a South American country. After the president of said country was temporarily ousted by the military, I carried around said phone for days in the event that the US Embassy needed to get a hold of me. The battery did indeed last for days. In fact it had to, power went out on a regular basis and no one would have phone service without a battery. It was quite handy, I will say. Thankfully they never had to get a hold of me.
What exactly makes a cellphone (or any digital device) different than any other personal posession? Why did it take a special court ruling (and probably millions of dollars) to "clarify" this "issue"? Does the law (and the constitution) not already state that a person cannot be searched without due process?
Where in the world did this confusion come from?
Cell phones are carried about on your person. Historically, when you are arrested, the police review and inventory items on your possession. They are able to do so because they are arresting you. Any evidence found on your person is admissible in court. However, the modern day cell phone often extends above and beyond the things that a normal person might carry on their person. You might have thousands of messages, emails, your bank statements, and other personal and confidential information you do not make a habit of carrying with you. If the police need access to that information, and have probable cause, then they should have to get a warrant to do so. Just as they would need a warrant to review my call logs, my bank statement, or to search through my house.
That's not true. Not true at all. Why a few weeks ago I was at Gettysburg and I saw a group of tourists on Segways re-enacting a cavalry charge on the contraptions. It was brilliant, I dare say. And they looked like the coolest people in the entire battlefield!
Hi Jittles,
In my submission, I left out the word *paid* maternity, *paid* paternity leave. You're dead on regarding FMLA's 12 week requirement, but it does not require it be paid.
Ah. Yes paid is a big difference. I knew FMLA did not require paid leave. I didn't realize that Yahoo was paying. That does seem to be a bit discriminatory. But then I worked for a company that allowed salaried employees 4 weeks of paid medical leave per year and did not provide any for hourly employees and that probably wasn't very fair either.
Actually in California fathers are granted the 12 weeks required under the FMLA at the federal level. So while it may be legal to give mom's 16 weeks (though I am not sure it is), dads are required by law to get at least 12 weeks.
VAT is paid by the Final Customer,... at the point of purchase, which in Amazon's case is an offshore subsidiary with lower tax. So basically they get to sell goods nearly tax free to UK residents where as local retailers have to pay full tax.
They pull the same trick in the US with sales tax too and it looks like congress are finally fed up enough (i.e. other retailers have lobbied enough) to close that loophole.
Amazon actually wants to start forcing sales tax to be charged to online purchases. They're a huge corporation now, which can easily handle keeping a database of tax rates for all cities, states, and counties. Online sales tax hurts the small companies, not the large ones. It will force more small companies to switch to Amazon marketplace, or to pay Amazon and other large corporations for sales tax information. It does not hurt Amazon in any way, shape or form. Remember that you pay the sales tax, not Amazon.
I spent some time in the security room of an Indian casino and I've seen the book with my own eyes. The Indian casinos and Vegas casinos all share this information willingly. You end up in the book in Vegas and you can bet that every legal casino in the country is going to get your information in no time.
Sometimes you need to get off your ass and walk around once in awhile. Focus your eyes on something that doesn't involve pixels or a desk. Lunchtime is perfect for that. Gives you a chance to get out, walk around, notice things, talk to folks in a groups, and in a setting where you're not all eyeballing a PowerPoint presentation.
I get the leave-earlier paradigm, but honestly? 8-10 straight hours in front a screen makes Johnny a very unhappy soul. Break that shit up.
I like to eat lunch while I work. But I also like to go for a walk outside after I am done eating. I might do a 10-15 minute walk on average and 30 minutes if its an exceptionally nice day. But I also walk before and after I work, as well.
Basic rule in naming species and diseases with geographical names: Good? Use American. Bad? Use Asian/African
Examples: California Candor, Dwarf Alberta Spruce, American Redwood, Canadian Maple
African killer bees, African land snails, West Nile virus, Madras eye, Burmese python
Actually, they call Killer Bees Africanized bees. And the African bees had traits that were desirable in the native honey bees, which is why they cross-bread them. What was not expected was the resultant aggressiveness.
I've always wondered why they say that Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries don't have a memory effect, when even laptop batteries based on those technologies die after several years, and NOT because of charge cycles. I'm talking about the ones that stay plugged in most of their lives, charging. Maybe its the lack of charge cycles that kills them? But to say Lithium batteries have no memory effect has always been ludicrous to me.
Actually overcharging your Li-Ions and Li-Pos is bad news. It shortens the life of your battery. You can't trickle charge them, so as you use the device plugged in, the battery discharges to some threshold, where the battery controller starts charging it again. So even if you leave it plugged in 24x7, if the battery is plugged in, it will discharge and then recharge at some frequency.
I use a very old digital watch when I go hiking on the mountains (my phone is usually in airplane more or switched off). I put the watch in a closed pocket or strap it on the backpack (it's has a velcro strap) because I can't tolerate anything around a wrist anymore: I just lost the habit some 20 years ago. There are almost no other use cases for a watch for me, certainly not for a smart one that I won't wear.
That said, I'm sure smart watches will sell and maybe I'll make some money writing software for them if some customer pays me to do it.
I lived in South America for a brief spell of my life. When I was down there, I looped my belt through the wrist band on my watch and basically attached it to my waist in front of me. I could quite quickly and easily check the watch without having it be another place for me to become unbearably hot and sweaty with the tropical weather. It too was a velcro strap. You might want to give that a try if you find you have to use your watch frequently while hiking. It's very convenient.
The aol would do it for me. We used to call AOL the American Organization of Lamers. Coming into an IRC channel with AOL as your ISP was sure to get you kick banned.
Hmmm we always called them an "Army of Lamers" but I suppose you did this in non-US Centric IRC channels?
That is exactly my point!! The GP said that Google's cars are amazing because they've gone 400k miles without an accident. Big deal. How many cars do they have on the road? For all we know, they are just lucky. There is no statistical significance to Google's car's safety record at all.
I shouldn't say giant casinos, more like mini casinos. But since there really aren't but a handful of Indian casinos in Florida, it is as close as you get.
Actually, greyhound racing is probably a lot bigger, even in the North. Jai-alai was supposed to be a betting sport, but I don't know if it still is. Never saw it north of Daytona.
In fact, I would not be surprised to find smudgy fingerprints from the racetracks all over the design of this and similar bills.
My understanding is that this all exploded over the Veterans "charity" scandal in Jacksonville. Either way, race tracks and poker rooms are already legalized in the state of FL, and have been since the 1920's. They're supposedly highly regulated and taxed industries but I don't know.
I shouldn't say giant casinos, more like mini casinos. But since there really aren't but a handful of Indian casinos in Florida, it is as close as you get.
The law does not forbid offering internet service, even at a cost. The law forbids operating internet based gambling for a price. Basically these places were literally giant casinos that labeled themselves as internet cafes. The law specifically forbids the types of games that were being played at these facilities, and does not, in any way, affect internet access for anyone.
Well the story assumes that Apple hasn't already secured their supply. This story from 2005 reports how Apple made 5-year deals with 5 different manufacturers to secure their supply. The deals have since run out but it doesn't take a grand strategist to guess that Apple may have negotiated new deals. Remember Apple is very secretive so that may not announced to the world all their plans. Also, Apple has been known to front money to their suppliers in exchange for guaranteed supplies. Today they are sitting on billions in cash.
I doubt such a deal could remain secret due to SEC filings from Apple. Not to mention the fact that the suppliers will want to say "Look at us! We just got a billion dollars!" so that they may boost their stock prices. If we haven't heard about Apple making such a deal, then it probably hasn't happened. And it may not happen easily. Everyone is using flash storage now, and there is likely to be a lot of concern over supply. The big players may not want to make a deal with Apple to guarantee a supply so that they do not artificially limit the supply for their own products. Of course with a few extra billion, you could possibly increase your production significantly.
400,000 miles? That's nothing. As a retired commercial driver, I averaged 120,000 miles a year and that's just a single truck. With all the commercial rigs (18 wheelers) on the road with a combined avg miles in excess of 1billion a year, with less then 1 accident per 250,000 miles avg (google for current stats), that simply doesn't impress me.
Now if you were talking 100,000 cars averaging 400,000 miles a year w/o accident, then I'd be willing to listen but when you mix in idiots like Joe and Tina Sixpack who's either drinking, fixing their god damn hair, reading a fucking book, talking on the cell phone and a whole rash of other stupid activities, you aint going to match the accident rate that commercial drivers have until you take Joe & Tina Sixpack's licenses away.
That's exactly my point. He's pointing out a handful of Google operated automated cars. I'm Joe Sixpack, more or less, and I have gone 400k or more in my lifetime. My point is that commercial drivers do amazingly well and that his example just isn't statistically relevant.
400,000 real-world miles repeated hundreds of times regression-tested against their software. Trust me, Google isn't leaving this one to chance. It's already orders of magnitude better than a human being.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9Ij0INX0
Until you have hundreds of thousands of these cars on the road, you're just talking statistical anomalies. I've probably driven close to 400,000 miles myself without ever getting into an accident (maybe even more). I also know a professional driver who has millions of miles and has never been in an accident.
First off, respect to all the airmen. Second; I can't help but be a bit puzzled by the arteries in the legs. Why would radiation damage stop at the knees? (I assume the lower legs were exposed the most).
They replaced the major arteries up the entire leg. And all I can tell you is what my uncle related to me. I can't say whether there is any factual or scientific basis for what he says. I can attest to the folllowing: 1) He did drop nuclear weapons 2) He did have major arteries replaced in his legs. I cannot attest to the fact that 1) Supposedly every pilot in his unit had to have this done and 2) that the damage was due to nuclear weapons testing and not, perhaps, due to the way they sat in the airplane for hours on end.
No worries. Thank you for your anecdote and clarification, and sorry to hear about your uncle. From what I understand, military personnel are seldom warned about potential health risks (e.g., ionizing radiation, Agent Orange, depleted uranium), and are then often provided with inadequate treatment for the conditions that arise therefrom. Although I oppose the MIC, I am further opposed to the poor treatment of human beings, regardless of their employer — I wish your uncle the best, and hope the VA meets his needs.
He was doing this literally right after WWII. At the time, my dad was living in the same area and the whole town of Las Vegas would turn out to watch the bomb drops. I don't think anyone understood the long term health implications of the nuclear testing that was going on at the time. My uncle has had a long and happy life. He's a fighter and still is able to do most of the things he loves. I've never heard him complain about what happened to him as a result of the bomb testing he did. He is in his 80's now.
Sorry. Was in a hurry when I wrote that. They have had all the major arteries in their legs replaced with synthetic ones, supposedly. I know he has had it done, I just don't know about the rest of the men in his unit. But supposedly the regular exposure to radiation from the bomb blasts (which hit his legs first, coming from below) damaged the vascular tissue in his legs very badly. Either way, he has way more health problems than anyone else in the family.
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And everything you claim to have learned on was outdated when I was a fucking teenager. I have a really hard time believing that this "old school" computing world is what you grew up with. You just sound like a computer "hipster" to me. Come crack open a PBR with me and relax .. you don't have to try this hard to be different. As someone who has done production in many industries, please let me reassure you that we wouldn't have adopted today's tools if they weren't better than yesterdays.
Your mashup of what would also be considered old (social networking) and new (Win 8) .. oh fuck I just convinced myself this was a troll submission, fuck off.
I will say that I am about your age and I did actually use pine professionally. When I was 17 I was writing backend tools to empower Tier 1 tech support to do some of the things that the Tier 2 and 3 guys normally had to take care of. Since I spent all day on a BSD box (via telnet), that also happened to host my mailbox, I used pine quite a bit. And I actually had a boss who, still to this day, asks people if they know how to use VI in an interview (and does not want to hire them if they do not know it). The VI thing always irritated me though. Anyone can learn VI. I want a good programmer who knows his stuff. If he doesn't know the tools, a good programmer will learn to use them in no time.
You have a strange definition of "free". Publicly funded is better wording.
According to government numbers the NHS takes just over 18% of the income taxes, or about £1500-2000 or so per year depending on your income. It is also paid by other specific taxes (such as tobacco tax) and through general funds.
Thanks to the NHS guidelines, your wait time in the queue is to be no more than 18 weeks. Usually.
America pays more, but they can also generally see a specialist for any field within a matter of days or sometimes hours for non-emergency care.
And for emergency care. ... Many American hospitals are putting their emergency room wait times up in phone apps so you can compare wait times. I have heard it is common to see 5-10 minutes between entering the hospital and being treated for urgent situations. In contrast, I sat in a hospital with my daughter, her hand oozing blood after being crushed and having two broken bones and severe lacerations and soft tissue injuries, for nearly THREE HOURS before being treated. Watching her quietly cry the whole time I would have gladly written an American-sized cheque for £1000 to have her treated immediately.
Emergency care isn't always roses here in the US, either. I had my jaw dislocated playing sports. It was stuck open. I went to the emergency room right at the same time the hospital got a trauma call for a serious road accident. I sat in the waiting room for over an hour and went through an entire roll of paper towels (you drool uncontrollably with your mouth wide open) before they finally put me in a treatment room. When I got there, they handed me the suction tool and I sat there with the tool in my wide open mouth for the next 3 hours. I was thirsty as hell by then but could not drink on account of being unable to swallow.
Now, obviously those accident victims were in much more dire need of medical attention than I was, but it still took forever. I went into the hospital around 10pm and left around 6am. I would have probably gotten out earlier but I passed out when they gave me strong pain medicine to help me relax before the doctor reset my jaw.
What if you, say, forget a gear, or mismatch the pressure release valve?
I'm pretty sure there is content on the internet that is specifically geared towards pressure release valves that go both ways...
Of course, one benefit of POTS was that, in a power failure, your landline phone would frequently still work because of the giant piles of batteries at the CO. So, you could still dial 911 if, say, your aged relative's breathing assist machine needed power, or if there was some other medical emergency in the midst of what ever caused the power failure. Kind of ironic that, as a result of a disaster, they'll be somewhat more vulnerable to disasters.
This would probably be more reliable than POTS. Every household would have a backup battery. Even the POTS interfaces from the cable company come with a battery installed. Remember when cell phones were just phones and the battery lasted for days? Now imagine a bigger battery.
Also in a disaster they could easily setup mobile towers to replace towers that have been damaged or to add additional capacity. You can't just run new POTS lines in an emergency. The old system could have been down for weeks if your lines went down. Now maybe only hours or days if it even goes down. There is a lot more redundancy now too since you are not relying on a single copper connection to your house. In theory you would have the ability to connect to multiple towers, so it one fails the other will be a backup.
So it is not at all more vulnerable to disasters.
I had one of these cellular home phones when I lived in a South American country. After the president of said country was temporarily ousted by the military, I carried around said phone for days in the event that the US Embassy needed to get a hold of me. The battery did indeed last for days. In fact it had to, power went out on a regular basis and no one would have phone service without a battery. It was quite handy, I will say. Thankfully they never had to get a hold of me.
What exactly makes a cellphone (or any digital device) different than any other personal posession? Why did it take a special court ruling (and probably millions of dollars) to "clarify" this "issue"? Does the law (and the constitution) not already state that a person cannot be searched without due process?
Where in the world did this confusion come from?
Cell phones are carried about on your person. Historically, when you are arrested, the police review and inventory items on your possession. They are able to do so because they are arresting you. Any evidence found on your person is admissible in court. However, the modern day cell phone often extends above and beyond the things that a normal person might carry on their person. You might have thousands of messages, emails, your bank statements, and other personal and confidential information you do not make a habit of carrying with you. If the police need access to that information, and have probable cause, then they should have to get a warrant to do so. Just as they would need a warrant to review my call logs, my bank statement, or to search through my house.
Ugh yeah, I wish people would stop using Segway as an example of useful innovation. The technology behind them is interesting, but as a whole they failed to actually improve transportation in any fashion.
That's not true. Not true at all. Why a few weeks ago I was at Gettysburg and I saw a group of tourists on Segways re-enacting a cavalry charge on the contraptions. It was brilliant, I dare say. And they looked like the coolest people in the entire battlefield!
Hi Jittles, In my submission, I left out the word *paid* maternity, *paid* paternity leave. You're dead on regarding FMLA's 12 week requirement, but it does not require it be paid.
Ah. Yes paid is a big difference. I knew FMLA did not require paid leave. I didn't realize that Yahoo was paying. That does seem to be a bit discriminatory. But then I worked for a company that allowed salaried employees 4 weeks of paid medical leave per year and did not provide any for hourly employees and that probably wasn't very fair either.
Actually in California fathers are granted the 12 weeks required under the FMLA at the federal level. So while it may be legal to give mom's 16 weeks (though I am not sure it is), dads are required by law to get at least 12 weeks.
VAT is paid by the Final Customer, ... at the point of purchase, which in Amazon's case is an offshore subsidiary with lower tax. So basically they get to sell goods nearly tax free to UK residents where as local retailers have to pay full tax.
They pull the same trick in the US with sales tax too and it looks like congress are finally fed up enough (i.e. other retailers have lobbied enough) to close that loophole.
Amazon actually wants to start forcing sales tax to be charged to online purchases. They're a huge corporation now, which can easily handle keeping a database of tax rates for all cities, states, and counties. Online sales tax hurts the small companies, not the large ones. It will force more small companies to switch to Amazon marketplace, or to pay Amazon and other large corporations for sales tax information. It does not hurt Amazon in any way, shape or form. Remember that you pay the sales tax, not Amazon.
I spent some time in the security room of an Indian casino and I've seen the book with my own eyes. The Indian casinos and Vegas casinos all share this information willingly. You end up in the book in Vegas and you can bet that every legal casino in the country is going to get your information in no time.
Yes and no.
Sometimes you need to get off your ass and walk around once in awhile. Focus your eyes on something that doesn't involve pixels or a desk. Lunchtime is perfect for that. Gives you a chance to get out, walk around, notice things, talk to folks in a groups, and in a setting where you're not all eyeballing a PowerPoint presentation.
I get the leave-earlier paradigm, but honestly? 8-10 straight hours in front a screen makes Johnny a very unhappy soul. Break that shit up.
I like to eat lunch while I work. But I also like to go for a walk outside after I am done eating. I might do a 10-15 minute walk on average and 30 minutes if its an exceptionally nice day. But I also walk before and after I work, as well.
Basic rule in naming species and diseases with geographical names: Good? Use American. Bad? Use Asian/African
Examples: California Candor, Dwarf Alberta Spruce, American Redwood, Canadian Maple
African killer bees, African land snails, West Nile virus, Madras eye, Burmese python
Actually, they call Killer Bees Africanized bees. And the African bees had traits that were desirable in the native honey bees, which is why they cross-bread them. What was not expected was the resultant aggressiveness.
I've always wondered why they say that Lithium Ion and Lithium Polymer batteries don't have a memory effect, when even laptop batteries based on those technologies die after several years, and NOT because of charge cycles. I'm talking about the ones that stay plugged in most of their lives, charging. Maybe its the lack of charge cycles that kills them? But to say Lithium batteries have no memory effect has always been ludicrous to me.
Actually overcharging your Li-Ions and Li-Pos is bad news. It shortens the life of your battery. You can't trickle charge them, so as you use the device plugged in, the battery discharges to some threshold, where the battery controller starts charging it again. So even if you leave it plugged in 24x7, if the battery is plugged in, it will discharge and then recharge at some frequency.
I use a very old digital watch when I go hiking on the mountains (my phone is usually in airplane more or switched off). I put the watch in a closed pocket or strap it on the backpack (it's has a velcro strap) because I can't tolerate anything around a wrist anymore: I just lost the habit some 20 years ago. There are almost no other use cases for a watch for me, certainly not for a smart one that I won't wear.
That said, I'm sure smart watches will sell and maybe I'll make some money writing software for them if some customer pays me to do it.
I lived in South America for a brief spell of my life. When I was down there, I looped my belt through the wrist band on my watch and basically attached it to my waist in front of me. I could quite quickly and easily check the watch without having it be another place for me to become unbearably hot and sweaty with the tropical weather. It too was a velcro strap. You might want to give that a try if you find you have to use your watch frequently while hiking. It's very convenient.
The aol would do it for me. We used to call AOL the American Organization of Lamers. Coming into an IRC channel with AOL as your ISP was sure to get you kick banned.
Hmmm we always called them an "Army of Lamers" but I suppose you did this in non-US Centric IRC channels?
That is exactly my point!! The GP said that Google's cars are amazing because they've gone 400k miles without an accident. Big deal. How many cars do they have on the road? For all we know, they are just lucky. There is no statistical significance to Google's car's safety record at all.
I shouldn't say giant casinos, more like mini casinos. But since there really aren't but a handful of Indian casinos in Florida, it is as close as you get.
Actually, greyhound racing is probably a lot bigger, even in the North. Jai-alai was supposed to be a betting sport, but I don't know if it still is. Never saw it north of Daytona.
In fact, I would not be surprised to find smudgy fingerprints from the racetracks all over the design of this and similar bills.
My understanding is that this all exploded over the Veterans "charity" scandal in Jacksonville. Either way, race tracks and poker rooms are already legalized in the state of FL, and have been since the 1920's. They're supposedly highly regulated and taxed industries but I don't know.
I shouldn't say giant casinos, more like mini casinos. But since there really aren't but a handful of Indian casinos in Florida, it is as close as you get.
The law does not forbid offering internet service, even at a cost. The law forbids operating internet based gambling for a price. Basically these places were literally giant casinos that labeled themselves as internet cafes. The law specifically forbids the types of games that were being played at these facilities, and does not, in any way, affect internet access for anyone.
Well the story assumes that Apple hasn't already secured their supply. This story from 2005 reports how Apple made 5-year deals with 5 different manufacturers to secure their supply. The deals have since run out but it doesn't take a grand strategist to guess that Apple may have negotiated new deals. Remember Apple is very secretive so that may not announced to the world all their plans. Also, Apple has been known to front money to their suppliers in exchange for guaranteed supplies. Today they are sitting on billions in cash.
I doubt such a deal could remain secret due to SEC filings from Apple. Not to mention the fact that the suppliers will want to say "Look at us! We just got a billion dollars!" so that they may boost their stock prices. If we haven't heard about Apple making such a deal, then it probably hasn't happened. And it may not happen easily. Everyone is using flash storage now, and there is likely to be a lot of concern over supply. The big players may not want to make a deal with Apple to guarantee a supply so that they do not artificially limit the supply for their own products. Of course with a few extra billion, you could possibly increase your production significantly.
400,000 miles? That's nothing. As a retired commercial driver, I averaged 120,000 miles a year and that's just a single truck. With all the commercial rigs (18 wheelers) on the road with a combined avg miles in excess of 1billion a year, with less then 1 accident per 250,000 miles avg (google for current stats), that simply doesn't impress me.
Now if you were talking 100,000 cars averaging 400,000 miles a year w/o accident, then I'd be willing to listen but when you mix in idiots like Joe and Tina Sixpack who's either drinking, fixing their god damn hair, reading a fucking book, talking on the cell phone and a whole rash of other stupid activities, you aint going to match the accident rate that commercial drivers have until you take Joe & Tina Sixpack's licenses away.
That's exactly my point. He's pointing out a handful of Google operated automated cars. I'm Joe Sixpack, more or less, and I have gone 400k or more in my lifetime. My point is that commercial drivers do amazingly well and that his example just isn't statistically relevant.
400,000 real-world miles repeated hundreds of times regression-tested against their software. Trust me, Google isn't leaving this one to chance. It's already orders of magnitude better than a human being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9Ij0INX0
Until you have hundreds of thousands of these cars on the road, you're just talking statistical anomalies. I've probably driven close to 400,000 miles myself without ever getting into an accident (maybe even more). I also know a professional driver who has millions of miles and has never been in an accident.
First off, respect to all the airmen. Second; I can't help but be a bit puzzled by the arteries in the legs. Why would radiation damage stop at the knees? (I assume the lower legs were exposed the most).
They replaced the major arteries up the entire leg. And all I can tell you is what my uncle related to me. I can't say whether there is any factual or scientific basis for what he says. I can attest to the folllowing: 1) He did drop nuclear weapons 2) He did have major arteries replaced in his legs. I cannot attest to the fact that 1) Supposedly every pilot in his unit had to have this done and 2) that the damage was due to nuclear weapons testing and not, perhaps, due to the way they sat in the airplane for hours on end.
No worries. Thank you for your anecdote and clarification, and sorry to hear about your uncle. From what I understand, military personnel are seldom warned about potential health risks (e.g., ionizing radiation, Agent Orange, depleted uranium), and are then often provided with inadequate treatment for the conditions that arise therefrom. Although I oppose the MIC, I am further opposed to the poor treatment of human beings, regardless of their employer — I wish your uncle the best, and hope the VA meets his needs.
He was doing this literally right after WWII. At the time, my dad was living in the same area and the whole town of Las Vegas would turn out to watch the bomb drops. I don't think anyone understood the long term health implications of the nuclear testing that was going on at the time. My uncle has had a long and happy life. He's a fighter and still is able to do most of the things he loves. I've never heard him complain about what happened to him as a result of the bomb testing he did. He is in his 80's now.
Sorry. Was in a hurry when I wrote that. They have had all the major arteries in their legs replaced with synthetic ones, supposedly. I know he has had it done, I just don't know about the rest of the men in his unit. But supposedly the regular exposure to radiation from the bomb blasts (which hit his legs first, coming from below) damaged the vascular tissue in his legs very badly. Either way, he has way more health problems than anyone else in the family.