<naive innocence> Surely this isn't being done just so there is a nice precedent for when the US finally gets its hands on Julian Assange... </naive innocence>
I've never had a road test, I'm licensed in Missouri (previously in Kansas) to operate passenger cars, trucks up to 12000# (more if a farm vehicle), and motorcycles.
To get the motorcycle qualification, I did need to actually get on a motorcycle and ride a pattern marked out on a parking lot. That is the closest I've ever been to a "road test".
Yes, the abysmal driving in both states mentioned is a result of how easy it is to get a license. In Kansas the driver's exam is even OPEN BOOK, about all you have to be able to do is read and pass a vision screening...
Kansas City (Kansas and Missouri) is built over and around a number of existing salt mines. Due to the stable nature of the salt mines (few earthquakes, water table is significantly deeper than the mines, etc) many of the no longer active mines have been converted to office space and/or climate-controlled commercial and public storage, etc.
These don't go nearly as deep as the proposed building in the article, though.
I'm guessing you meant 5,000 miles, or 7,500 miles, which is what most cars/trucks recommend for service intervals here in the US (all of my car/truck owner's manuals have 7,500mile service intervals)... I've never seen one that recommended 3,000 miles, unless used in taxi service or police usage (with extended idling and frequent short trips).
The only recommendation I see for regular cars to be serviced on a 3,000 mile basis is by the people that, gasp, provide the service!
Icebergs, floating chunks of ice, like all floating objects, displace the exact same mass of water as the object. Sea levels would neither rise nor fall due to a change in the amount of icebergs.
Glaciers, which sit primarily on land, are not displacing any sea water. If there is a change in "glaciation", or "land-shelf-ice", that would change the sea level. Note, though, that the oceans are freakin' huge in terms of surface area compared to the surface area covered by glaciers/shelf-ice, with the only real exception being Antartica... this means it takes a pretty large change in glaciation to have a noticeable effect on sea level... also, note, that sadly there is a LOT of inhabited land area that is at, roughly, sea level, so a small change would have a large impact on some very rich and diverse eco-systems (river deltas, etc).
So your claim is that a rounded rectangle is now an Apple logo? Thats a stretch by even Jobsian standards. And if its true that Apple owns the rounded rectangle despite it being a standard form factor, what exactly do you suggest other hardware makers do?
Well, there is always the Pear Phone and it's larger sibling, the Pear Pad.
I find this interesting as I subscribe to the exact opposite thought process. I am an extremely confident individual who has almost no feeling of need to justify myself to others. I could care less about what people that I don't care about think of me and I don't really care to be close to people who don't like me (though I do try to be likeable as I don't want to intentionally upset people). I could care less what people know about me and have no issue with info about me being public information. I'd rather the information be out there for people who want to find it than not have it available for people who need to find it. I don't obsess over posting every detail of my life, but I also see no reason to conceal details of my life that I do feel like commenting on.
Are they spending a lot of money for a fancy computer system that will tell them to watch out for crime in the crime ridden part of town?
Yes, they are.
And, if the computer algorithms are any good, it will also show that shoplifting from grocery stores is on the rise in the week prior to Thankgiving and packages burgled from automobiles in retail store parking lots is very high between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Spending money to research the blatantly obvious is an American tradition.
As i was told in mid 90 by my electromagnetism teacher, the problem is not the miriad of (then) walkmans and cd player used in the plane. Those are more or less certified for electromagnetic compatibility. The problem are the crappy chinese electronics that don't pass any test and the one in a million "certified" hardware that is faulty. So, do you prefer listen your music and risk your life in an emergency situation or forbid them all just in case?
And speaking of statistics, in this case "anecdotal evidence" can cause the death of 200+ people...
It's interesting and reasonable, I suppose.
Statistically speaking, though.
And speaking statistically, it seems the vast preponderance of hijackings have occurred by hijackers who were passengers on the plane. The safe way to avoid hijacked planes, then, would obviously be to not allow any passengers on board, or at least be sure they were "powered down". Having a flight marshal terminate all passengers before take-off would be an intermediate solution to the problem.
Apparently he hit at least 7 ATMs on a US holiday (July 4th, senior staff not monitoring security cameras, in all likelihood). That would be about $30,000 per machine...
Part of the problem is the insurance companies... if a doctor doesn't become a member of the plan, then they lose a potential patient base. But if they do become a member of the plan, then the insurance company dictates how many patients per day the doctor should be seeing and which treatments they should be providing, etc.
Doesn't the term "gone gold" refer back to silver, gold, and platinum records? A gold record is one that has sold 1 million copies. How has DNF done this before it's even been released?
Not when publishing software... I know we used it internally at my company back in the software-on-a-CD days as we would burn a CD-R (which were all gold in color then) that was the master, then send that off to be have mass-produced normal silver CD-ROMs burned from the "gold master".
I'm pretty sure the tern pre-dates that by quite a few years, though.
In five years time, I'd expect people to go back to the way things ran in the 80's, only far nicer and more graphical.
Use my own computer, at home, connect to the office network, get the equivalent of a virtual desktop of a virtual "work computer"... do work.
Why the heck would I, as a developer, database administrator, whatever, need to be in the physical office? It's 2011, right now I wonder why I go to my office in KC, when I'm either working on web apps being deployed to our hosting facility in California or am troubleshooting accounting issues on our Citrix farm somewhere on the east coast... I don't even know what state the farm is housed in, I don't need to, it's a computer on the net, why would I even care?
I think the only reason I go to the office now is because the baby boomer bosses like to walk around the halls once a week and see people at their desks...
I've never "renewed my pates" in my life. They send me a bill, I send them money, they send me a sticker to put on my plate. If we have to add in an odometer reading, who's going to be authorized to record that information? Am I going to have to go to the DMV every year? That place is already a clusterfuck. Am I going to have to do it when I get my car smogged? That happens every 2 years. Well, it will after the first 5 years or so. Am I going to have to make quarterly estimates or something until that happens?
I agree with you, 100%.
Plus, I have two motorcycles and a small SUV. I would need to make THREE trips to the DMV instead of ZERO if the DMV needed to check odometer readings.
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Surely this isn't being done just so there is a nice precedent for when the US finally gets its hands on Julian Assange
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I've never had a road test, I'm licensed in Missouri (previously in Kansas) to operate passenger cars, trucks up to 12000# (more if a farm vehicle), and motorcycles.
To get the motorcycle qualification, I did need to actually get on a motorcycle and ride a pattern marked out on a parking lot. That is the closest I've ever been to a "road test".
Yes, the abysmal driving in both states mentioned is a result of how easy it is to get a license. In Kansas the driver's exam is even OPEN BOOK, about all you have to be able to do is read and pass a vision screening ...
Kansas City (Kansas and Missouri) is built over and around a number of existing salt mines. Due to the stable nature of the salt mines (few earthquakes, water table is significantly deeper than the mines, etc) many of the no longer active mines have been converted to office space and/or climate-controlled commercial and public storage, etc.
These don't go nearly as deep as the proposed building in the article, though.
There were plenty of cover-ups in those documents that needed to be exposed.
Here's one: http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/wikileaks_cables_and_the_iraq_war/singleton/
Agreed. It works for nearly any non-hardened military target ...
"Kill it with fire!"
der On-Der-Walls force?
Why use a flying car? I would just catch a pig and use it a flying mount.
Cars have trunks, pigs not so much.
So, flying elephants should be just fine?
I know you are a 7 digit...
Would someone with a 5 digit UID please show up and tell this guy he's fucking stupid? By his own logic he'd have to agree.
I'll have to see if I can find someone young enough to have a 5-digit ...
but in any case, yeah, UID does not equate to much!
Time zones are not necessary in today's world.
And while we're at it, let's switch to metric clocks.
Sure, no problem. What is the current .beat?
Anybody old enough to remember Swatch Internet Time?
I'm guessing you meant 5,000 miles, or 7,500 miles, which is what most cars/trucks recommend for service intervals here in the US (all of my car/truck owner's manuals have 7,500mile service intervals) ... I've never seen one that recommended 3,000 miles, unless used in taxi service or police usage (with extended idling and frequent short trips).
The only recommendation I see for regular cars to be serviced on a 3,000 mile basis is by the people that, gasp, provide the service!
Icebergs, floating chunks of ice, like all floating objects, displace the exact same mass of water as the object. Sea levels would neither rise nor fall due to a change in the amount of icebergs.
Glaciers, which sit primarily on land, are not displacing any sea water. If there is a change in "glaciation", or "land-shelf-ice", that would change the sea level. Note, though, that the oceans are freakin' huge in terms of surface area compared to the surface area covered by glaciers/shelf-ice, with the only real exception being Antartica ... this means it takes a pretty large change in glaciation to have a noticeable effect on sea level ... also, note, that sadly there is a LOT of inhabited land area that is at, roughly, sea level, so a small change would have a large impact on some very rich and diverse eco-systems (river deltas, etc).
So your claim is that a rounded rectangle is now an Apple logo? Thats a stretch by even Jobsian standards. And if its true that Apple owns the rounded rectangle despite it being a standard form factor, what exactly do you suggest other hardware makers do?
Well, there is always the Pear Phone and it's larger sibling, the Pear Pad.
Eh, I think it'll work as long as the initial investors are well-heeled.
I find this interesting as I subscribe to the exact opposite thought process. I am an extremely confident individual who has almost no feeling of need to justify myself to others. I could care less about what people that I don't care about think of me and I don't really care to be close to people who don't like me (though I do try to be likeable as I don't want to intentionally upset people). I could care less what people know about me and have no issue with info about me being public information. I'd rather the information be out there for people who want to find it than not have it available for people who need to find it. I don't obsess over posting every detail of my life, but I also see no reason to conceal details of my life that I do feel like commenting on.
You seem to talk about yourself a lot.
Are they spending a lot of money for a fancy computer system that will tell them to watch out for crime in the crime ridden part of town?
Yes, they are.
And, if the computer algorithms are any good, it will also show that shoplifting from grocery stores is on the rise in the week prior to Thankgiving and packages burgled from automobiles in retail store parking lots is very high between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Spending money to research the blatantly obvious is an American tradition.
As i was told in mid 90 by my electromagnetism teacher, the problem is not the miriad of (then) walkmans and cd player used in the plane. Those are more or less certified for electromagnetic compatibility. The problem are the crappy chinese electronics that don't pass any test and the one in a million "certified" hardware that is faulty. So, do you prefer listen your music and risk your life in an emergency situation or forbid them all just in case?
And speaking of statistics, in this case "anecdotal evidence" can cause the death of 200+ people...
It's interesting and reasonable, I suppose.
Statistically speaking, though.
And speaking statistically, it seems the vast preponderance of hijackings have occurred by hijackers who were passengers on the plane. The safe way to avoid hijacked planes, then, would obviously be to not allow any passengers on board, or at least be sure they were "powered down". Having a flight marshal terminate all passengers before take-off would be an intermediate solution to the problem.
Apparently he hit at least 7 ATMs on a US holiday (July 4th, senior staff not monitoring security cameras, in all likelihood). ...
That would be about $30,000 per machine
It gives us geeks somebody to point at and say "duh, stupid!"
We get to feel all superior, in this case, with real justification.
Geez, he has $200,000 in cash and can't make bail? He should have asked the arresting officer to stop by an ATM on his way to jail ...
If your father is made entirely of electrons I'd be shocked to meet him.
So much negativity in the forums these days.
Part of the problem is the insurance companies ... if a doctor doesn't become a member of the plan, then they lose a potential patient base. But if they do become a member of the plan, then the insurance company dictates how many patients per day the doctor should be seeing and which treatments they should be providing, etc.
Doesn't the term "gone gold" refer back to silver, gold, and platinum records? A gold record is one that has sold 1 million copies. How has DNF done this before it's even been released?
Not when publishing software ... I know we used it internally at my company back in the software-on-a-CD days as we would burn a CD-R (which were all gold in color then) that was the master, then send that off to be have mass-produced normal silver CD-ROMs burned from the "gold master".
I'm pretty sure the tern pre-dates that by quite a few years, though.
In five years time, I'd expect people to go back to the way things ran in the 80's, only far nicer and more graphical.
Use my own computer, at home, connect to the office network, get the equivalent of a virtual desktop of a virtual "work computer" ... do work.
Why the heck would I, as a developer, database administrator, whatever, need to be in the physical office? It's 2011, right now I wonder why I go to my office in KC, when I'm either working on web apps being deployed to our hosting facility in California or am troubleshooting accounting issues on our Citrix farm somewhere on the east coast ... I don't even know what state the farm is housed in, I don't need to, it's a computer on the net, why would I even care?
I think the only reason I go to the office now is because the baby boomer bosses like to walk around the halls once a week and see people at their desks ...
Everyone on LinkedIn isn't a professional ... they're salespeople, selling themselves ...
Whether actually a salesman, attorney, real estate agent, consultant, or whatever ... it's just an advertisement for that person and their services.
Would you want to buy a list of people that are willing to publicly sell themselves?
There are terms for that, I think "Streetwalker" is one of the more polite ones.
Wait, I can buy a list of streetwalker's names, numbers, and services ... holy crap, you're right, it's a gold mine!
I've never "renewed my pates" in my life. They send me a bill, I send them money, they send me a sticker to put on my plate. If we have to add in an odometer reading, who's going to be authorized to record that information? Am I going to have to go to the DMV every year? That place is already a clusterfuck. Am I going to have to do it when I get my car smogged? That happens every 2 years. Well, it will after the first 5 years or so. Am I going to have to make quarterly estimates or something until that happens?
I agree with you, 100%.
Plus, I have two motorcycles and a small SUV. I would need to make THREE trips to the DMV instead of ZERO if the DMV needed to check odometer readings.