which roads and bridges can support which vehicle types (good to know when invading a country, so the road you drive on doesn't suddenly collapse under the load).
This leads me to suspect that the weight limits posted on bridges, even allowing for some safety margin, are probably much lower than true capacity. By this, I mean that a small bridge marked "Weight limit 15,000 kg" might be able to support a 48,000 kg -14 .
Maybe we will see teams of structural engineers armed with angle grinders weakening bridges by random amounts over the next couple of years, so that Putin won't be able to make quite so much use out of his newly acquired data.
Except that for the past few decades, the medical establishment has been shouting "factory workers die of heart attacks because they fry their food in lard and the cholesterol blocks their arteries".
Now that medical research is starting to show that vegetarian office workers are suffering from heart problems, the focus is shifting.
What I have suspected for a long time (I grew up in a working class environment, many neighbours and family members were shift workers in steel and manufacturing industries) is now being confirmed.
Stress (poverty, uncertainty about the future, circadian rhythms disrupted by shift work, danger of accidents, macho culture and violence) exacerbated by the self-destructive "coping strategy" of over-consumption of alcohol ("getting a skinful on Friday and Saturday nights") damages the heart muscles, among other things. Over-consumption of refined carbohydrates (white flour and white sugar especially) play havoc with our metabolism, too.
Salt, dietary cholesterol and animal fats are not the causes that they were claimed to be, and this truth is finally coming out.
Gary Taubes has done a great job in bringing these truths to the public, but there is still much work to be done.
I'm putting my money where my mouth is here. I won't buy a phone that doesn't have a MicroSd slot and user-replaceable battery.
Me too. Every phone I have ever bought (for myself or for my kids) has had a user-replaceable battery.
Same for my media players and sat-nav.
I never paid as much as $800 for any of those things, either; the most expensive must have been a $200 phone and it currently has a 64GB SD card in it.
The Register reported in 2015 that "Britain's new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers will be Windows XP-free zones".
Later in the article,
The MoD can confirm that Windows XP will not be used by any onboard system when the ship becomes operational,” the spokesman added. “This also applies to HMS Prince of Wales.
My android phone, made by Foxconn, reboots itself every day or two, sometimes it will reboot three or four times in a single day. And that is without updates.
In addition to that, I have to reboot it deliberately every now and again, or Android refuses to update apps; like a 27MB download refuses to install. "Out of memory", when the filemanager tells me "225MB free".
I think it's also important to consider that satisfaction surveys tend to suffer from a sort of selection bias. You're only getting feedback from people who feel compelled to give feedback.
I worked for a big, big global company for a number of years. IT was run from call centres around the world, so that anybody working anywhere would always find somebody in a convenient timezone to work on the problem for at least a few hours, even if the ticket was submitted at the end of the business day for the person with the problem.
And if the IT people fixed the problem quickly, there was always a request to complete a satisfaction survey.
Curiously, if they didn't fix the problem quickly, there was no such request.
This kind of situation is not limited to customer surveys, it applies to all manner of Key Performance Metrics and other measurements.
Where I live right now, there is a straight section of road through a residential area.
There were complaints to the town police about cars being driven at excessive speeds, and requests for traffic calming measures. The town opposed the expenditure.
To prove that the measures were not necessary, a few police officers were given the task of measuring average speeds along the road. Of course, being deployed along a public road they had be be safe, so they wore high-visibility jackets at they pointed radar speed-detection guns at oncoming vehicles. And guess what? Not a single vehicle exceeded the limit during the operation. Ergo, no need to install expensive traffic calming measures.
As of September 2016, two EpiPens cost around $100 in France and around $200 in Germany.[40]
As of September 2016, two Jext autoinjectors cost about £8.5 in Britain, and the National Health Service pays around £48 (US$73.33) in order to make them available; that price was about 17 percent less than 2013.[40]
US
In October 2016 the CEO of Mylan testified to Congress that Pfizer/King charged Mylan about $34.50 for one EpiPen.[29] The devices deliver about $1 worth of drug.[27] In September 2016, a Silicon Valley engineering consultancy performed a teardown analysis of the EpiPen and estimated the manufacturing and packaging costs at about $10 for a two-pack.[82]
The EpiPen, manufactured by King, a subsidiary of Pfizer, and marketed by Mylan, has dominated the market.[54] In 2007 when Mylan acquired the rights to market the product, annual sales of all epinephrine autoinjectors were about $200M and EpiPen had around 90% of the market; in 2015 the market size was around $1.5B and Mylan still had about 90% of the market.[28][54] Mylan raised the price from around $100 for a package of two EpiPens in 2007 to around $600 in 2016.[75] In the United Kingdom, an EpiPen costs £26.45 as of 2015.[83] In Canada they are about 120 CAD each.[84]
So, making them available at $50 each, CVS is not cutting any corners, just charging a similar price to what commercial suppliers in Europe are charging, and if those suppliers in Europe were not making an acceptable profit, they would abandon the business.
If Mylan is paying about $34.50 to its suppliers, it can charge $50 and be making $16 a piece on them. Let's say Mylan sold them at $60 a pop, that's $24, or almost a 70% mark-up, and still much less than the current price.
I seem to remember from a while back (maybe a couple of years) some research that addressed this.
Researchers in Australia looked at ethnically Chinese kids in Australia and in Singapore, so genetically almost identical populations. The kids in Singapore spent much more time indoors, whereas the kids in Australia spent at least two (IIRR) hours per day at school outdoors.
It seems that exposure to natural light, most likely to UV spectrum, signals to the eye when to stop growing. In the absence of this signal, a kid's eyes continue to grow after the skull has stopped growing. The result is that the eye bulges, increasing the distance between the lens and the retina, giving rise to myopia.
The eyes of the kids in Australia were getting enough light to stop growing, the eyes of the kids in Singapore were not getting enough light and continue to grow.
If you really cannot find a pattern in your problem's data, then reframe the problem until you can find a pattern. And write your program in such a way that data falling outside the pattern is handled elegantly.
Pavement is the material itself, such as asphalt, concrete, etc. The word "pave" means to cover a surface.
Sidewalk, road, driveway, and such refer to the use of the paved area.
You don't typically call your house "bricks" or "wood" or whatever it may be constructed from, so why call a sidewalk "pavement".
In British English, the terms "pavement" and "paved" also tend to have a strong sense of a surface being covered with "paving stones" as opposed to being covered by a continuously poured material such as tarmac, asphalt or concrete, a process known as "metalling". So the pavements are paved, and the roadway is metalled.
We adopted metalling for the roadway long before using it on the pavements, and it is still very common to find pavements that are flagged (i.e., covered with big flagstones) .
But we also use "footpath" and sometimes "causeway" (pronounced kz.i in some areas) for the bit reserved for pedestrians.
To look at the car example, it would be like saying that we are going to take cars away from everybody except those who do hit and runs. We'll let them keep their cars and give them more targets when people start walking in the road since nobody else has cars, so they don't expect to be hit. Oh, and we'll also remove all stoplights and speed limits. See how well it works out for society.
No...
The idea that you take the [cars|guns] away from reasonable people and expressly allow the unreasonable people to keep their [cars|guns], and to furthermore remove all restrictions on the use of those [cars|guns] is just ridiculous, and not at all what understood from errandum's post.
You already have gun control, and have the legal mechanisms:
- for removing guns from those who should not possess them,
- for preventing those who should not possess them from obtaining them.
This is just like the mechanisms that you have in place to try to prevent people from driving cars when should not do so
- because they have not demonstrated competence (i.e., not passed a driving test),
- because they have demonstrated disregard for the safety of others (i.e., been caught too often drunk at the wheel, speeding, driving without insurance etc.).
But your legal system does not have the practical means to enforce the legal mechanisms.
Fix your gun control system first: take the guns out of the hands of the unreasonable people.
Not only that, but I find that using those programs is really useful for planning.
If you know which particular constellation you want to show the class, you can find out when it will be visible,
If you know that you have a particular time slot, you can find out which constellations will be over the horizon (and tree/building line) and whereabouts to look for them.
What you really don't want, when showing constellations to kids, is to spend ages looking around for something interesting in the sky. A few in the class might have the patience for it, but not the rest. And if you can'tshow them the Plough, Cassiopeia and Orion quickly enough, they'll start shouting to see Uranus.
If anyone's interested, here's the text of the law she's charged under:
...
(c) The owner or lessee of a facility where a motion picture is being exhibited, the authorized agent or employee of that owner or lessee, or the licensor of the motion picture being exhibited or his or her agent or employee, who alerts law enforcement authorities of an alleged violation of this Section is not liable in any civil action arising out of measures taken by that owner, lessee, licensor, agent, or employee in the course of subsequently detaining a person that the owner, lessee, licensor, agent, or employee, in good faith believed to have violated this Section while awaiting the arrival of law enforcement authorities, unless the plaintiff in such an action shows by clear and convincing evidence that such measures were manifestly unreasonable or the period of detention was unreasonably long.
Not only does the law appear applicable to this case, but the theater management is immune from any resulting civil action. That's a really bad law.
I read section (c) as protecting, from civil suit, that particular employee who called the cops. I did not read that as protecting the owner of the cinema, who has instructed the employees to take those measures.
I am not a lawyer, and not a US citizen... I'm English, and in English law we have a thing known as "vicarious liability" which, unless I'm mistaken (and I may well be) means that an employee following a company policy is not held personally liable for the errors in that policy.
Rather, the law would hold responsible the employer who requires the employee to enforce unreasonable policies including, but not limited to, calling the cops if anybody sings "Happy Birthday" or so much as takes a photograph which may include a small portion of a copyrighted work.
"Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas."
Eh, what'll it matter. It'll only be in effect for a few months.
Oh great...
I'm sure it's easier to bribe officials or otherwise get around the inspections in somewhere like Namibia, Pakistan or the Philipines, rather than at the US port.
You make very good points, but fail to address the fact that the vast majority of people are not concerned with the long term effects, certainly not in the future.
Most of us are thinking about our own lives and futures, about those of our immediate family and of our direct offspring.
It is little comfort to somebody in a dead end job that "CEOs will see that racial hiring practises are detrimental to productivity".
To say "your great-great grandchildren will live in a more just society" butters no parsnips.
You get one shot at this life, that's it. Gone are the days (if they ever really existed) when you could say to the poor "be virtuous, you shall have treasure in heaven".
Everybody is playing a short term game, now.
My short term game involves doing my job, keeping my head above water and keeping my kids on the path to independence in both mind and body (i.e., intellectually curious and able to bring home the bacon). I'm on a 20-year programme.
The average politician is looking to prolong his trip on the gravy train beyond the next election. He's on a three-year programme.
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This leads me to suspect that the weight limits posted on bridges, even allowing for some safety margin, are probably much lower than true capacity. By this, I mean that a small bridge marked "Weight limit 15,000 kg" might be able to support a 48,000 kg -14 .
Maybe we will see teams of structural engineers armed with angle grinders weakening bridges by random amounts over the next couple of years, so that Putin won't be able to make quite so much use out of his newly acquired data.
"We'd rather build than maintain. We'd rather maintain than document."
Trying to create an account there:
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What a helpful message! ;-)
Except that for the past few decades, the medical establishment has been shouting "factory workers die of heart attacks because they fry their food in lard and the cholesterol blocks their arteries".
Now that medical research is starting to show that vegetarian office workers are suffering from heart problems, the focus is shifting.
What I have suspected for a long time (I grew up in a working class environment, many neighbours and family members were shift workers in steel and manufacturing industries) is now being confirmed.
Stress (poverty, uncertainty about the future, circadian rhythms disrupted by shift work, danger of accidents, macho culture and violence) exacerbated by the self-destructive "coping strategy" of over-consumption of alcohol ("getting a skinful on Friday and Saturday nights") damages the heart muscles, among other things. Over-consumption of refined carbohydrates (white flour and white sugar especially) play havoc with our metabolism, too.
Salt, dietary cholesterol and animal fats are not the causes that they were claimed to be, and this truth is finally coming out.
Gary Taubes has done a great job in bringing these truths to the public, but there is still much work to be done.
Do they?
It's quite possible that they do, but you'd have to post a link to a paper (not hidden behind a paywall) supporting that affirmation.
I'm putting my money where my mouth is here. I won't buy a phone that doesn't have a MicroSd slot and user-replaceable battery.
Me too. Every phone I have ever bought (for myself or for my kids) has had a user-replaceable battery. Same for my media players and sat-nav. I never paid as much as $800 for any of those things, either; the most expensive must have been a $200 phone and it currently has a 64GB SD card in it.
Article is here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
We don't refer to it as "global warming" any more, but as "climate change".
My android phone, made by Foxconn, reboots itself every day or two, sometimes it will reboot three or four times in a single day. And that is without updates.
In addition to that, I have to reboot it deliberately every now and again, or Android refuses to update apps; like a 27MB download refuses to install. "Out of memory", when the filemanager tells me "225MB free".
You might find this appropriate https://xkcd.com/937/
I think it's also important to consider that satisfaction surveys tend to suffer from a sort of selection bias. You're only getting feedback from people who feel compelled to give feedback.
I worked for a big, big global company for a number of years. IT was run from call centres around the world, so that anybody working anywhere would always find somebody in a convenient timezone to work on the problem for at least a few hours, even if the ticket was submitted at the end of the business day for the person with the problem.
And if the IT people fixed the problem quickly, there was always a request to complete a satisfaction survey.
Curiously, if they didn't fix the problem quickly, there was no such request.
This kind of situation is not limited to customer surveys, it applies to all manner of Key Performance Metrics and other measurements.
Where I live right now, there is a straight section of road through a residential area.
There were complaints to the town police about cars being driven at excessive speeds, and requests for traffic calming measures. The town opposed the expenditure.
To prove that the measures were not necessary, a few police officers were given the task of measuring average speeds along the road. Of course, being deployed along a public road they had be be safe, so they wore high-visibility jackets at they pointed radar speed-detection guns at oncoming vehicles. And guess what? Not a single vehicle exceeded the limit during the operation. Ergo, no need to install expensive traffic calming measures.
It should not be called autopilot
"Rapid and Accurate Super Image Resolution" should give RASIR.
Which illiterate philistine came up with "RAISR"?
So, making them available at $50 each, CVS is not cutting any corners, just charging a similar price to what commercial suppliers in Europe are charging, and if those suppliers in Europe were not making an acceptable profit, they would abandon the business.
If Mylan is paying about $34.50 to its suppliers, it can charge $50 and be making $16 a piece on them. Let's say Mylan sold them at $60 a pop, that's $24, or almost a 70% mark-up, and still much less than the current price.
I seem to remember from a while back (maybe a couple of years) some research that addressed this.
Researchers in Australia looked at ethnically Chinese kids in Australia and in Singapore, so genetically almost identical populations. The kids in Singapore spent much more time indoors, whereas the kids in Australia spent at least two (IIRR) hours per day at school outdoors.
It seems that exposure to natural light, most likely to UV spectrum, signals to the eye when to stop growing. In the absence of this signal, a kid's eyes continue to grow after the skull has stopped growing. The result is that the eye bulges, increasing the distance between the lens and the retina, giving rise to myopia.
The eyes of the kids in Australia were getting enough light to stop growing, the eyes of the kids in Singapore were not getting enough light and continue to grow.
But doesn't the exchange simply reverse the trades once it is discovered that there was some manipulation like this?
There's little point in trying to push a stock into a nose dive like that. The billions you make will last for seconds before they evaporate.
On the other hand, I see little point to "Syrian Electronic Barmy Army Woz 'Ere" type graffiti
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=know+thy+data
If you really cannot find a pattern in your problem's data, then reframe the problem until you can find a pattern. And write your program in such a way that data falling outside the pattern is handled elegantly.
Pavement is the material itself, such as asphalt, concrete, etc. The word "pave" means to cover a surface. Sidewalk, road, driveway, and such refer to the use of the paved area. You don't typically call your house "bricks" or "wood" or whatever it may be constructed from, so why call a sidewalk "pavement".
In British English, the terms "pavement" and "paved" also tend to have a strong sense of a surface being covered with "paving stones" as opposed to being covered by a continuously poured material such as tarmac, asphalt or concrete, a process known as "metalling". So the pavements are paved, and the roadway is metalled.
We adopted metalling for the roadway long before using it on the pavements, and it is still very common to find pavements that are flagged (i.e., covered with big flagstones) .
But we also use "footpath" and sometimes "causeway" (pronounced kz.i in some areas) for the bit reserved for pedestrians.
K.
No...
The idea that you take the [cars|guns] away from reasonable people and expressly allow the unreasonable people to keep their [cars|guns], and to furthermore remove all restrictions on the use of those [cars|guns] is just ridiculous, and not at all what understood from errandum's post.
You already have gun control, and have the legal mechanisms:
This is just like the mechanisms that you have in place to try to prevent people from driving cars when should not do so
But your legal system does not have the practical means to enforce the legal mechanisms.
Fix your gun control system first: take the guns out of the hands of the unreasonable people.
K.
Not only that, but I find that using those programs is really useful for planning.
What you really don't want, when showing constellations to kids, is to spend ages looking around for something interesting in the sky. A few in the class might have the patience for it, but not the rest. And if you can'tshow them the Plough, Cassiopeia and Orion quickly enough, they'll start shouting to see Uranus.
K
If anyone's interested, here's the text of the law she's charged under:
Not only does the law appear applicable to this case, but the theater management is immune from any resulting civil action. That's a really bad law.
I read section (c) as protecting, from civil suit, that particular employee who called the cops. I did not read that as protecting the owner of the cinema, who has instructed the employees to take those measures.
I am not a lawyer, and not a US citizen... I'm English, and in English law we have a thing known as "vicarious liability" which, unless I'm mistaken (and I may well be) means that an employee following a company policy is not held personally liable for the errors in that policy.
Rather, the law would hold responsible the employer who requires the employee to enforce unreasonable policies including, but not limited to, calling the cops if anybody sings "Happy Birthday" or so much as takes a photograph which may include a small portion of a copyrighted work.
K.
"Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas."
Eh, what'll it matter. It'll only be in effect for a few months.
Oh great...
I'm sure it's easier to bribe officials or otherwise get around the inspections in somewhere like Namibia, Pakistan or the Philipines, rather than at the US port.
K.
Sounds like it... WHy don't you just go and pick up TSR editions of D&D and AD&D and get playing the real way, instead of the spoon-fed WotC way? L.
Good enough and affordable ALWAYS wins against excellent but unaffordable.
Also, never forget that in the USA and increasingly in the rest of the world, marketing trumps engineering.
Finally, the USA is the home of the "quantity beats quality" mantra.
'Nuff said.
K.
You make very good points, but fail to address the fact that the vast majority of people are not concerned with the long term effects, certainly not in the future.
Most of us are thinking about our own lives and futures, about those of our immediate family and of our direct offspring.
It is little comfort to somebody in a dead end job that "CEOs will see that racial hiring practises are detrimental to productivity".
To say "your great-great grandchildren will live in a more just society" butters no parsnips.
You get one shot at this life, that's it. Gone are the days (if they ever really existed) when you could say to the poor "be virtuous, you shall have treasure in heaven".
Everybody is playing a short term game, now.
My short term game involves doing my job, keeping my head above water and keeping my kids on the path to independence in both mind and body (i.e., intellectually curious and able to bring home the bacon). I'm on a 20-year programme.
The average politician is looking to prolong his trip on the gravy train beyond the next election. He's on a three-year programme.
What's your programme? K.