Lawyers have filed a lawsuit (i.e. are certain who is blame) while the investigation has barely started and is still collecting evidence, and is probably a year away from reaching a conclusion.
Indeed. FTFA "until the National Transportation Safety Board issues an official finding". Surely the claimants are putting their case at risk in that if the finding is something other than "a crew was post-tensioning bars", a shit design for example or crappy concrete, then won't they have to drop their case (or give their money back if they have already been awarded damages).
If I were the judge, I would simply defer the case until the official findings have been issued.
The US prison system systematically violates basic human rights. There was even a prison that was on total lock-down for 23 years. The US justice system is rigged and based on extensive intimidation and plea bargains. [etc etc]
Then this guy should have thought twice about doing something that risked extradition there. An analogy is "I should not be punished for murdering someone because - you know - the punishment for murder is really really stiff"
No, a “conservative” 6.3 billion. Meaning they would have liked to put the figure much higher, but didn’t quite dare to.
That's right. The 6.3 billion is the only the value of what I downloaded myself. Now multiply that by the number of people in the world, greedy shits like me each keeping their 6.3 billions rotting in their bank accounts instead of going to starving media company execs. He's lucky to get only 10 years - should have got 100 billion years by my calcs, and even that is conservative.
engineering-wise. SPMTs have been around since the 1970s, and have moved much heavier loads
Depends what you call a SPTM. Bridges have been prefabricated and moved into place since pre-historic times, starting with carved tree trunks. It does not matter how the bridge gets put there, what matters is its strength and that of its supports. Here is a much more ambitious construction, overseen by Robert Stephenson and Brunel no less, over dangerous water too, 150 years ago:- Britannia Bridge, Menai Strait
Interesting idea in theory,... However the car is broadcasting data to the public.
In the UK it is illegal to display unofficial road signs, including painting them on the road, even if they are "true". For example many people have tried putting up their own speed limit signs where roads pass through their village, and I have been told am not allowed to put up road works signs when I cut my hedge which is on a country road. These projected signs would seem to fall into the same category; at best they are a distraction to other motorists. What's wrong with a heads-up display, or have the marketing droids already milked that one to death?
Then we change our business model and start artificially crippling products and charging for things by the month.
This. Adobe are going the rental way with Photoshop, Microsoft with Office, and Microsoft are heading that way with Windows 10. A steady predictable income is a company accountant's wet dream, and the roller-coaster ride of the Win95/98/ME period is his nightmare. Not only does it give a software maker a steady income, they do not need to do much more development either - only security patches and the occasional cosmetic make-over to make the users feel they are paying for something.
When you buy new stuff it's more energy efficient.
Not necessarily. Many modern safety requirements have made stuff less efficient.
Nothing older than 2006 really should be on the road unless it's a collector car. If it's a truck, that moves up to 2010.
What BS. You talk just like a politician in the pay of the motor industry. It depends on how the car has been used; I look after my cars and they are mostly used for long distance steady cruising (wife's car does the shopping trips). My present car is 10 years old and I bought it 2 years ago it having done only 30,000 miles; previous owner seemed not to have used it for several years. My car before that reached 275,000 miles at 20 years old; at 150,000 I took the engine to pieces (I am an ex-mechanic BTW) as I thought something was sure to need renewing but in fact it was all pristine.
In the UK cars must pass an emmisions test every year. That sorts out the oil burners, and my cars have always passed with flying colours. It's not an age criterion.
Looks like I am joint leading with Bob Munck here.
As part of the engineering course at Cambridge, we each had to write a small excercise program in Autocode for the Titan computer there. I can't remember what it was for, something like find the largest in a list of numbers. We never saw the computer, and only wrote on coding sheets and got the answer back (or a failure message) three days later on LP paper. Since then I have programmed a lot, including for an analog computer and a Cray, but for engineering projects and not as as a full time programmer; and also as a hobby. I'm currently programming an Arduino in C.
All of their island is literally a sediment. For it is a dead coral reef.
Coral reef is not sediment. FWIW my house is built on sediment. It is 600 feet aboove present day sea level in hills of red sandstone, sandstone being sand compressed and re-crystalised until it has become rock. Sandstone, limestone, chalk and slate are all sedimentary rocks.
Many modern book, TV series, movies, and video games tell people how to commit murder, i.e. "Point gun, pull trigger!"
Historically, that is why the puritans c1600 were opposed to theatres, even ones putting on "serious" plays, like Shakespeare's. Bernard Cornwell describes the situation well in his book "Fools and Mortals".
If you want to protest you protest by not consuming their shit.
Doesn't work. Ignoring things is never noticed by those responsible for the things. What might have more effect is to watch the shit and then say it's shit in a review on IMDB - not a huge effect from your one review, but collectively it would hurt them. Of course you might have other things to do with your time.
The problem is Hollywood. They make shit movies, and charge way too much for pure f-ing shit.
Nobody is making you watch them. If they are such shit, stop watching, problem solved?
How would you know they are shit unless you watched them? Sounds like the GP did stop watching some. Trouble is that movies are launched with such hype that you think they must be worth watching, so you give it a try.
Listening to Bill Gates drone on about whatever is one small step better than sitting in a coach seat next to Andy Dick on a 16-hour trip to Australia.
Whart country are you in? It would have helped to have said.
Since essentially every police force in the free world can look up your drivers license on their in-car computer, it's hard for them to argue that not physically holding it is so terrible anyway.
In the UK it has never been a requirement to carry your physical driving licence when driving, although many people don't realise this. I don't - my driving licence is too valuable to have it knocking about in a pocket when I'm out. From the gov.uk website:-
If you’re stopped, the police can ask to see your:
driving licence
insurance certificate
MOT certificate If you don’t have these documents with you, you have 7 days to take them to a police station.
Adobe has forced me into a subscription model where I'm paying 50$ a month to use their software
Sounds like you already had a perpetual copy of something from Adobe - Photoshop I guess. So what was wrong with just continuing with it? Have they invented some new colours or something?
Will Microsoft have Windows on a subscription model soon?
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Lawyers have filed a lawsuit (i.e. are certain who is blame) while the investigation has barely started and is still collecting evidence, and is probably a year away from reaching a conclusion.
Indeed. FTFA "until the National Transportation Safety Board issues an official finding". Surely the claimants are putting their case at risk in that if the finding is something other than "a crew was post-tensioning bars", a shit design for example or crappy concrete, then won't they have to drop their case (or give their money back if they have already been awarded damages).
If I were the judge, I would simply defer the case until the official findings have been issued.
The US prison system systematically violates basic human rights. There was even a prison that was on total lock-down for 23 years. The US justice system is rigged and based on extensive intimidation and plea bargains. [etc etc]
Then this guy should have thought twice about doing something that risked extradition there. An analogy is "I should not be punished for murdering someone because - you know - the punishment for murder is really really stiff"
No, a “conservative” 6.3 billion. Meaning they would have liked to put the figure much higher, but didn’t quite dare to.
That's right. The 6.3 billion is the only the value of what I downloaded myself. Now multiply that by the number of people in the world, greedy shits like me each keeping their 6.3 billions rotting in their bank accounts instead of going to starving media company execs. He's lucky to get only 10 years - should have got 100 billion years by my calcs, and even that is conservative.
Is there any huge advantage to making something out of concrete/rebar when it's designed to handle only foot traffic?
I think this could be a case of style over substance.
engineering-wise. SPMTs have been around since the 1970s, and have moved much heavier loads
Depends what you call a SPTM. Bridges have been prefabricated and moved into place since pre-historic times, starting with carved tree trunks. It does not matter how the bridge gets put there, what matters is its strength and that of its supports. Here is a much more ambitious construction, overseen by Robert Stephenson and Brunel no less, over dangerous water too, 150 years ago :- Britannia Bridge, Menai Strait
Do those electric prices do anything to help maintain the roadways they use?
No
There's no reason for a drone to land on your front porch when there's an entire backyard it could drop your packages in.
That's good, I'd forgotten that it never rains in my back yard even when it is raining out front.
Interesting idea in theory, ... However the car is broadcasting data to the public.
In the UK it is illegal to display unofficial road signs, including painting them on the road, even if they are "true". For example many people have tried putting up their own speed limit signs where roads pass through their village, and I have been told am not allowed to put up road works signs when I cut my hedge which is on a country road. These projected signs would seem to fall into the same category; at best they are a distraction to other motorists. What's wrong with a heads-up display, or have the marketing droids already milked that one to death?
I have come fairly-directly close to topping myself with the frustration of installing Windows before now.
Perhaps that was the NRA's intention. We can hope.
high-rise architecture made of wood and covered with greenery "making over cities as forests."
LoL Is Japan so urbanised that its inhabitants can imagine that buildings* covered in greenery can seem like a forest?
* Created by chopping down a forest. The guys in the Amazon Basin hacking down the last of the rain forest must be having wet dreams over this news.
Then we change our business model and start artificially crippling products and charging for things by the month.
This. Adobe are going the rental way with Photoshop, Microsoft with Office, and Microsoft are heading that way with Windows 10. A steady predictable income is a company accountant's wet dream, and the roller-coaster ride of the Win95/98/ME period is his nightmare. Not only does it give a software maker a steady income, they do not need to do much more development either - only security patches and the occasional cosmetic make-over to make the users feel they are paying for something.
So what.
When you buy new stuff it's more energy efficient.
Not necessarily. Many modern safety requirements have made stuff less efficient.
Nothing older than 2006 really should be on the road unless it's a collector car. If it's a truck, that moves up to 2010.
What BS. You talk just like a politician in the pay of the motor industry. It depends on how the car has been used; I look after my cars and they are mostly used for long distance steady cruising (wife's car does the shopping trips). My present car is 10 years old and I bought it 2 years ago it having done only 30,000 miles; previous owner seemed not to have used it for several years. My car before that reached 275,000 miles at 20 years old; at 150,000 I took the engine to pieces (I am an ex-mechanic BTW) as I thought something was sure to need renewing but in fact it was all pristine.
In the UK cars must pass an emmisions test every year. That sorts out the oil burners, and my cars have always passed with flying colours. It's not an age criterion.
So if you are not speeding or anything, what exactly do you do on sighting a cop that you were scanning for ?
Thinking about it, it must have been October or November 1965 that I first programmed, not September. So Bob Munck seems to be the leader after all.
Looks like I am joint leading with Bob Munck here.
As part of the engineering course at Cambridge, we each had to write a small excercise program in Autocode for the Titan computer there. I can't remember what it was for, something like find the largest in a list of numbers. We never saw the computer, and only wrote on coding sheets and got the answer back (or a failure message) three days later on LP paper. Since then I have programmed a lot, including for an analog computer and a Cray, but for engineering projects and not as as a full time programmer; and also as a hobby. I'm currently programming an Arduino in C.
All of their island is literally a sediment. For it is a dead coral reef.
Coral reef is not sediment. FWIW my house is built on sediment. It is 600 feet aboove present day sea level in hills of red sandstone, sandstone being sand compressed and re-crystalised until it has become rock. Sandstone, limestone, chalk and slate are all sedimentary rocks.
Many modern book, TV series, movies, and video games tell people how to commit murder, i.e. "Point gun, pull trigger!"
Historically, that is why the puritans c1600 were opposed to theatres, even ones putting on "serious" plays, like Shakespeare's. Bernard Cornwell describes the situation well in his book "Fools and Mortals".
Wow, I've just found popcorntime.sh ! Never heard of it before. Jailtime for msmash, she (he?) led me on.
If you want to protest you protest by not consuming their shit.
Doesn't work. Ignoring things is never noticed by those responsible for the things. What might have more effect is to watch the shit and then say it's shit in a review on IMDB - not a huge effect from your one review, but collectively it would hurt them. Of course you might have other things to do with your time.
Nobody is making you watch them. If they are such shit, stop watching, problem solved?
How would you know they are shit unless you watched them? Sounds like the GP did stop watching some. Trouble is that movies are launched with such hype that you think they must be worth watching, so you give it a try.
Perhaps they will show this one, a lesson on what you get for being a jerk :-
Listening to Bill Gates drone on about whatever is one small step better than sitting in a coach seat next to Andy Dick on a 16-hour trip to Australia.
No it isn't.
I've done this for ages and it works for me.
Whart country are you in? It would have helped to have said.
Since essentially every police force in the free world can look up your drivers license on their in-car computer, it's hard for them to argue that not physically holding it is so terrible anyway.
In the UK it has never been a requirement to carry your physical driving licence when driving, although many people don't realise this. I don't - my driving licence is too valuable to have it knocking about in a pocket when I'm out. From the gov.uk website :-
If you’re stopped, the police can ask to see your:
driving licence
insurance certificate
MOT certificate
If you don’t have these documents with you, you have 7 days to take them to a police station.
Adobe has forced me into a subscription model where I'm paying 50$ a month to use their software
Sounds like you already had a perpetual copy of something from Adobe - Photoshop I guess. So what was wrong with just continuing with it? Have they invented some new colours or something?
Will Microsoft have Windows on a subscription model soon?
Yes.