Stopping without due course on a Controlled-access highway (seems to be the none local term for a motorway/freeway) is in most jurisdictions illegal. There was a recent case where a lorry/truck/HGV (take your pick) who did that on a motorway in the UK is now serving a very long sentence in prison.
Maybe where you live you contract away your legal rights all the time. However in most sensible legal jurisdictions you simply can't. That is you might sign a contract saying that you do, but the contract is null and void. More specifically the parts saying you have contracted away some legal right are null and void and the rest of the contract stands.
This is like legal 101 pretty much anywhere in the western world.
Except the high speed air flow from a Dyson blasts the germs off ones hands and into the air which them circulates around the room ready for you to breath in. There was a Slashdot story about a study on this a couple of years ago now. High speed air hand dries of *ANY* description are basically perfect germ spreaders. Normal air hand dryers are better by a cpuple of orders of magnitude, and disposable paper towels the best by another order of magnitude. I am keep looking for an advert for the Dyson hand dryers so I can complain tk the ASA here in the UK that they are not the most hygienic dryers but jn fact the most hygienic in existence and force Dyson to remove the false claim.
Sure but even if Tesla where churning out 10k Model 3's a month then they don't need tooling that lasts for millions especially if there is a possibility of a part redesign in the interim.
The entirely rational thing might be to go with cheap tooling that only lasts for 10k (which would have been good for at least six months up till now) and you are sure it's not going to be changed before buying the expensive tooling that lasts for millions.
You don't think a couple hundred years of extensive fishing has not exerted a evolutionary selective pressure on them then?
The only thing I can think of would be to head deep in to a forest somewhere like Alaska or Sibera and pick some wild mushrooms. However these are not available in your local supermarket.
That's no better. You are still claiming that the part of the universe that we inhabit is magically devoid of the main source of matter in the Universe that also happens to magically be invisible. That IMHO is an epic Occam's razor failure. It's in the realms of junk science.
It might help if rather than throwing our hands up and inventing magic matter when we model galactic rotation using Newtonian dynamics which we know to be an incomplete theory of gravity, that astronomers got off their lazy backsides and redid the models using General Relativity. Of course they don't because that is fricking hard and most of them would not be able to manage it but that is no excuse for not doing it.
What makes it even more kludgy is that this dark matter is supposed to make up a significant percentage of the universe. Except there is *NONE* in our solar system or it's immediate vicinity. If there was any dark matter locally then General Relativity would not explain the planets orbits around the Sun with such precision because it's does so using only visible matter.
This is a huge problem for dark matter because it presumes that our solar system is somehow very special, which is frankly too fantastical.
Within it's tested limits the standard model is highly accurate. However given that this has been achieved by doing lots of experiments and using them to find some 20 odd constants, so that the model fits the experimental data then that's hardly surprising.
However step outside the tested limits and it's anyone's guess as to whether it's correct or not. Then add in that gravity is absent from the model and clearly at best it is incomplete and incomplete is also "flawed".
Are you sure. No supporter of the Trump but he does seem to know what Taiwan is. It's not two weeks since he signed the US-Taiwan travel bill. Then there is the whole Trump-Tsai call and random threats to recognize Taiwan as a separate entity.
That's because there is no easy way to fall back hundreds of devices. Ideally I need a way to say that devices on network X.X.X.X/Y should be allowed to use any crap old TLS and even SSL version because the fricking vendors have stopped doing firmware updates even though the hardware is still under maintenance. However any other network what the hell only known secure protocols allowed.
All current nuclear power plants are "actively safe". That is someone has to be constantly doing something to make sure they don't have a problem.
All three major nuclear power plant accidents (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima) occurred due to failures in the active safety systems.
The proposal for Generation IV nuclear reactors is to make them passively safe. That is unless someone is actively doing something the reactor will safely shutdown without any intervention from humans. A general consequence of this is that if you try and skimp on things your reactor just shuts down a lot, which turns out to rather costly to the bottom line.
That said a mixture of solar, wind and geothermal with storage can cover everything for less money. Heck around 30 years ago I read that the USGS had concluded that there was enough extractable thermal energy 1.5km below the surface of the continental USA to provide enough power for at least 1000 years. Drilling technology has improved enormously in the interim, so the cost is like to be much lower.
But this is the USA, where the state of Hawaii which sits on top of active volcanoes and is dam sunny imports oil to generate electricity. I mean it's so incredibly deranged that you head would explode if you tried to work out what the hell is going on.
That's easy you slap a pollution tax on imports. Basically you pollute more than me expect an import pollution tax that takes out your price differential that you get from polluting the commons. It helps to use CO2 in that but of course Trump won't bite on that. OF course China can get out the pollution tax by improving their enviromental standards. Of course by the time they do that they won't be so cheap any more.
No space elevators require "unobtanium" just to fricking work. Now in theory carbon carbon bonds are sufficiently strong that a carbon nanotube would work as the cord. Anything else and the cord snaps under it's own weight.
Small snag is that nobody has created a carbon nanotube that is several hundred km long yet. As such they still require unobtanium aka. carbon nanotubes that are a few hundred km long.
Except looking at the Wikipedia page shows that in 1989 right before comunisim collapsed the Aral Sea was mostly intact but by 2014 it had mostly dried up.
So while Soviet era policies are the problem it didn't actually dry up during the existence of the USSR. In addition the Wikipedia page says it has been shrinking since at *LEAST* 1850
Though further reading of the article reveals that the irrigation channels leak like the buggery wasting anywhere between 30% and 75% of the water being used for irrigation. So perhaps all that is needed is to bring the irrigation channels up to scratch and the irrigation can continue and the sea will refill at least partially.
Reading a bit further shrinkage in the 1990's was basically all down to the Uzbek leader. Fortunately that particular despot died 18 months ago, and things tentatively look to be improving.
Finally the Soviets expected the sea to disappear.
Well to be fair if you have an memcached server that is in need of patching and you are getting your cache flushed on a regular basis as a result of your server participating in a DDOS then frankly fix your server and STFU in the meantime.
Sure but neutron captured materials have much much shorter half lives that you get from fission waste. So instead of having to look after it for hundreds of thousands of years, it would be low level waste in 50 years, and after another 100 years even that would pass. By 500 years it would be no different from coal ash.
Buy the CD's from somewhere (Amazon) or there are available on Audible, though one feels that the quality offered by Audible won't remotely do them justice. Personally I did at one point have a recording from Radio 4 FM onto a compact cassette tape, but I threw those in the bin years ago when I purchased the CD's. Though my copy of the stuff after the secondary phase is a capture via Freeview of Radio 4. Last night's which I felt had far too much explaining going on is a get_iplayer download:-)
Laser etching, dye sublimation or best of all double shot moulding are the technologies of choice for a quality keyboard and have been for decades now. Sounds like you have only used cheap junk when it comes to a keyboard.
Yeah thats unlikely to happen. Mind you have a bunch of floppy disks that need sanitizing before disposal? Stick then in the autoclave works a treat. Never tried it with tapes but I imagine it would work. Fifteen minutes at 120 Celsius steam knackers just about any electronics going.
Nope you plug it into a special ethernet port that will netboot anything on it into a program that will wipe every storage device attached. Booting from USB is not something you should be doing on a routine basis if you are remotely competent.
There are also IP67 rated keyboards that can go in a dishwasher for cleaning purposes. Sure they are expensive, but a patient getting MRSA infection is a lot more expensive. Just have extra ones and go around swapping them out ince a week to go for a clean.
The stupid thing is there are no real trade barriers to USA made cars being sold in the EU. At least no more than EU cars being sold in the US that is. There is a bit of import duty both ways. Then there is the fact that if a USA made car is to be sold in the EU it has to comply with EU regulations for safety etc. Similarly EU made cars have to comply with USA regulations, whoopdy do. Now it may be that EU regulations are tougher, but there is *NOTHING* stopping USA manufactures complying with them and the idea that we would in the EU lower the standards that our cars have to comply with is utter lunacy.
No the really issue is that the vast majority of USA made cars are not attractive to EU buyers. Firstly they have awful and by EU standards truly awful fuel economy. With a much higher fuel price in the EU you have to be very well off, stupid or both to want to buy the vast majority of USA made cars. Secondly USA made cars are generally significantly larger than their EU counterparts which with the smaller road sizes in the EU makes them very unattractive to EU buyers. Finally USA cars have a reputation of having appalling handling; namely they don't take corners very well, which with roads being less straight in the EU than the USA makes USA made cars less attractive.
It's like the whole chlorine washed chicken being sold in the EU. There is nothing stopping USA chicken being sold in the EU, you just have to use decent hygiene practices in your abattoirs and then you wont have to wash them with chlorinated water and they will be suitable for sale in the EU. Similarly for beef, want to sell your beef in the EU, thats fine you just have to not inject them with growth hormones and it will be just fine. Heck you can still inject the stuff that is going to the USA market with growth hormones if you want, just the stuff you wish to export to the EU needs to be free of that shit.
We have higher standards in the EU than the USA, why should we drop them so you can export to us? Perhaps that makes it easier for EU companies to export to the USA because due to the higher standards in the EU their products are automatically compliant with USA standards, but that's the USA's problem for having such lack standards in the first place.
Well in the EU that's quite clear. If you are sitting there logged into the app waiting for a fare that counts as working and counts towards minimum wage. There are plenty of precedents that cover this now and it has been appealed to the ECJ several times with several variants now and every time the result has been the same, it counts.
Basically if you are "on call" or similar those hours count as hours worked. Heck if you are based from home the time spent getting to your first job of the day counts as working hours too.
Slashdot Mirror
Stopping without due course on a Controlled-access highway (seems to be the none local term for a motorway/freeway) is in most jurisdictions illegal. There was a recent case where a lorry/truck/HGV (take your pick) who did that on a motorway in the UK is now serving a very long sentence in prison.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
From memory Lord of the Rings is 54CD's and that is not including either the Hobbit or the Silmarillion.
Game of Thrones needs an editor to cut out hour and hours of irrelevant crap from and reduce it to something sensible in length.
Maybe where you live you contract away your legal rights all the time. However in most sensible legal jurisdictions you simply can't. That is you might sign a contract saying that you do, but the contract is null and void. More specifically the parts saying you have contracted away some legal right are null and void and the rest of the contract stands.
This is like legal 101 pretty much anywhere in the western world.
Except the high speed air flow from a Dyson blasts the germs off ones hands and into the air which them circulates around the room ready for you to breath in. There was a Slashdot story about a study on this a couple of years ago now. High speed air hand dries of *ANY* description are basically perfect germ spreaders. Normal air hand dryers are better by a cpuple of orders of magnitude, and disposable paper towels the best by another order of magnitude. I am keep looking for an advert for the Dyson hand dryers so I can complain tk the ASA here in the UK that they are not the most hygienic dryers but jn fact the most hygienic in existence and force Dyson to remove the false claim.
Sure but even if Tesla where churning out 10k Model 3's a month then they don't need tooling that lasts for millions especially if there is a possibility of a part redesign in the interim.
The entirely rational thing might be to go with cheap tooling that only lasts for 10k (which would have been good for at least six months up till now) and you are sure it's not going to be changed before buying the expensive tooling that lasts for millions.
You don't think a couple hundred years of extensive fishing has not exerted a evolutionary selective pressure on them then?
The only thing I can think of would be to head deep in to a forest somewhere like Alaska or Sibera and pick some wild mushrooms. However these are not available in your local supermarket.
That's no better. You are still claiming that the part of the universe that we inhabit is magically devoid of the main source of matter in the Universe that also happens to magically be invisible. That IMHO is an epic Occam's razor failure. It's in the realms of junk science.
It might help if rather than throwing our hands up and inventing magic matter when we model galactic rotation using Newtonian dynamics which we know to be an incomplete theory of gravity, that astronomers got off their lazy backsides and redid the models using General Relativity. Of course they don't because that is fricking hard and most of them would not be able to manage it but that is no excuse for not doing it.
What makes it even more kludgy is that this dark matter is supposed to make up a significant percentage of the universe. Except there is *NONE* in our solar system or it's immediate vicinity. If there was any dark matter locally then General Relativity would not explain the planets orbits around the Sun with such precision because it's does so using only visible matter.
This is a huge problem for dark matter because it presumes that our solar system is somehow very special, which is frankly too fantastical.
Within it's tested limits the standard model is highly accurate. However given that this has been achieved by doing lots of experiments and using them to find some 20 odd constants, so that the model fits the experimental data then that's hardly surprising.
However step outside the tested limits and it's anyone's guess as to whether it's correct or not. Then add in that gravity is absent from the model and clearly at best it is incomplete and incomplete is also "flawed".
Are you sure. No supporter of the Trump but he does seem to know what Taiwan is. It's not two weeks since he signed the US-Taiwan travel bill. Then there is the whole Trump-Tsai call and random threats to recognize Taiwan as a separate entity.
That's because there is no easy way to fall back hundreds of devices. Ideally I need a way to say that devices on network X.X.X.X/Y should be allowed to use any crap old TLS and even SSL version because the fricking vendors have stopped doing firmware updates even though the hardware is still under maintenance. However any other network what the hell only known secure protocols allowed.
All current nuclear power plants are "actively safe". That is someone has to be constantly doing something to make sure they don't have a problem.
All three major nuclear power plant accidents (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima) occurred due to failures in the active safety systems.
The proposal for Generation IV nuclear reactors is to make them passively safe. That is unless someone is actively doing something the reactor will safely shutdown without any intervention from humans. A general consequence of this is that if you try and skimp on things your reactor just shuts down a lot, which turns out to rather costly to the bottom line.
That said a mixture of solar, wind and geothermal with storage can cover everything for less money. Heck around 30 years ago I read that the USGS had concluded that there was enough extractable thermal energy 1.5km below the surface of the continental USA to provide enough power for at least 1000 years. Drilling technology has improved enormously in the interim, so the cost is like to be much lower.
But this is the USA, where the state of Hawaii which sits on top of active volcanoes and is dam sunny imports oil to generate electricity. I mean it's so incredibly deranged that you head would explode if you tried to work out what the hell is going on.
That's easy you slap a pollution tax on imports. Basically you pollute more than me expect an import pollution tax that takes out your price differential that you get from polluting the commons. It helps to use CO2 in that but of course Trump won't bite on that. OF course China can get out the pollution tax by improving their enviromental standards. Of course by the time they do that they won't be so cheap any more.
No space elevators require "unobtanium" just to fricking work. Now in theory carbon carbon bonds are sufficiently strong that a carbon nanotube would work as the cord. Anything else and the cord snaps under it's own weight.
Small snag is that nobody has created a carbon nanotube that is several hundred km long yet. As such they still require unobtanium aka. carbon nanotubes that are a few hundred km long.
Except looking at the Wikipedia page shows that in 1989 right before comunisim collapsed the Aral Sea was mostly intact but by 2014 it had mostly dried up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So while Soviet era policies are the problem it didn't actually dry up during the existence of the USSR. In addition the Wikipedia page says it has been shrinking since at *LEAST* 1850
Though further reading of the article reveals that the irrigation channels leak like the buggery wasting anywhere between 30% and 75% of the water being used for irrigation. So perhaps all that is needed is to bring the irrigation channels up to scratch and the irrigation can continue and the sea will refill at least partially.
Reading a bit further shrinkage in the 1990's was basically all down to the Uzbek leader. Fortunately that particular despot died 18 months ago, and things tentatively look to be improving.
Finally the Soviets expected the sea to disappear.
Well to be fair if you have an memcached server that is in need of patching and you are getting your cache flushed on a regular basis as a result of your server participating in a DDOS then frankly fix your server and STFU in the meantime.
Sure but neutron captured materials have much much shorter half lives that you get from fission waste. So instead of having to look after it for hundreds of thousands of years, it would be low level waste in 50 years, and after another 100 years even that would pass. By 500 years it would be no different from coal ash.
Buy the CD's from somewhere (Amazon) or there are available on Audible, though one feels that the quality offered by Audible won't remotely do them justice. Personally I did at one point have a recording from Radio 4 FM onto a compact cassette tape, but I threw those in the bin years ago when I purchased the CD's. Though my copy of the stuff after the secondary phase is a capture via Freeview of Radio 4. Last night's which I felt had far too much explaining going on is a get_iplayer download :-)
Laser etching, dye sublimation or best of all double shot moulding are the technologies of choice for a quality keyboard and have been for decades now. Sounds like you have only used cheap junk when it comes to a keyboard.
Yeah thats unlikely to happen. Mind you have a bunch of floppy disks that need sanitizing before disposal? Stick then in the autoclave works a treat. Never tried it with tapes but I imagine it would work. Fifteen minutes at 120 Celsius steam knackers just about any electronics going.
Nope you plug it into a special ethernet port that will netboot anything on it into a program that will wipe every storage device attached. Booting from USB is not something you should be doing on a routine basis if you are remotely competent.
There are also IP67 rated keyboards that can go in a dishwasher for cleaning purposes. Sure they are expensive, but a patient getting MRSA infection is a lot more expensive. Just have extra ones and go around swapping them out ince a week to go for a clean.
The stupid thing is there are no real trade barriers to USA made cars being sold in the EU. At least no more than EU cars being sold in the US that is. There is a bit of import duty both ways. Then there is the fact that if a USA made car is to be sold in the EU it has to comply with EU regulations for safety etc. Similarly EU made cars have to comply with USA regulations, whoopdy do. Now it may be that EU regulations are tougher, but there is *NOTHING* stopping USA manufactures complying with them and the idea that we would in the EU lower the standards that our cars have to comply with is utter lunacy.
No the really issue is that the vast majority of USA made cars are not attractive to EU buyers. Firstly they have awful and by EU standards truly awful fuel economy. With a much higher fuel price in the EU you have to be very well off, stupid or both to want to buy the vast majority of USA made cars. Secondly USA made cars are generally significantly larger than their EU counterparts which with the smaller road sizes in the EU makes them very unattractive to EU buyers. Finally USA cars have a reputation of having appalling handling; namely they don't take corners very well, which with roads being less straight in the EU than the USA makes USA made cars less attractive.
It's like the whole chlorine washed chicken being sold in the EU. There is nothing stopping USA chicken being sold in the EU, you just have to use decent hygiene practices in your abattoirs and then you wont have to wash them with chlorinated water and they will be suitable for sale in the EU. Similarly for beef, want to sell your beef in the EU, thats fine you just have to not inject them with growth hormones and it will be just fine. Heck you can still inject the stuff that is going to the USA market with growth hormones if you want, just the stuff you wish to export to the EU needs to be free of that shit.
We have higher standards in the EU than the USA, why should we drop them so you can export to us? Perhaps that makes it easier for EU companies to export to the USA because due to the higher standards in the EU their products are automatically compliant with USA standards, but that's the USA's problem for having such lack standards in the first place.
Except Europe is a 230V AC system at 50Hz
Well in the EU that's quite clear. If you are sitting there logged into the app waiting for a fare that counts as working and counts towards minimum wage. There are plenty of precedents that cover this now and it has been appealed to the ECJ several times with several variants now and every time the result has been the same, it counts.
Basically if you are "on call" or similar those hours count as hours worked. Heck if you are based from home the time spent getting to your first job of the day counts as working hours too.