If they are common carriers they are not able to deny service based on a political view.
It is not clear if FedEx or UPS are common carriers. This website Fundamental Legal Differences within UPS and FedEx indicates that members of each of those groups holds "common motor carrier" status, but not the groups in its entirety. So it is quite possible that they have the right to refuse service.
And he's not doing anything that you're not allowed to do in your own garage.
This is what I don't get.
There is nothing illegal about what he is doing, and as far as I know no-one is touting new laws that will stop it. Yes there are some private companies that are refusing to do business with him, but as far I as I can see is their choice. Yet here he is making noise all over the place as if he is trying to attract attention like a 15 year old drama queen poking a stick at a wild animal. If he keeps doing this I can't see it ending well for someone, but I don't know if it will be Cody himself , or in fact collateral damage somewhere else.
The first, ummm, say two-third's of David Brin's Existence is a mix of short stories (altered a bit since their publication) and a new framework that ties it all together. It works pretty well.
The last third takes place many years after the intrigues of the first part, using a subset of the initial large cast. It is threaded around an updated version of a very old story, "Lungfish," which is arguably the keystone.
For me Existence started out OK, delved into "where is this going?", followed by a "is there any point to this story?" but then pissed me off with that hacked version of Lungfish slotted in at the end. While in general I thought it was a weak book, I thought that the hacking of Lungfish was a travesty that he committed against his own work and in the process lost a lot of what made the original Lungfish so good.
And I say this as a fan of Brin's work, and recognize his ability to write a great story with great characters.
They are turning into series that are mega-novels.
I lament the falling of the ability of an author to construct and present a complete story in a single novel. To me, the preponderance of multi-book series highlights the loss of ability.
There were studies done years ago showing how optical media degrades over time. And they ere done when the idea of optical media was new. Now imagine extrapolating that 100 years.
Digital only works if you are proactively transferring it from one generation of storage to another. Once you have skipped 2 or 3 generations of storage then it becomes (exponentially) harder to find hardware/software that will read your data. Extend that over 100 years of media evolution and you will be screwed in the future trying to read todays standards.
(And if you say "keep it on the cloud", then that only works as longs someone is paying the bills and the company stays in business)
As an example, look at how much harder it would be today to read a 5" DS floppy disk today, vs picking up a Tintype photo from the US civil war era and instantly seeing what it is.
I will be very disappointed if Clinton opponents don't use some version of an ad that highlights this.
And following that, the Democrats will put up the exact same ad, but featuring Jeb Bush.
There have been a bunch of Republicans who have admitted to using their own (non-governmental) email systems, two of which were also former secretaries of state:
Condoleezza Rice Colin Powell Jeb Bush Bobby Jindal Rick Perry Sarah Palin
And that' most likely not all of them. But don't take this as GOP bashing, I'm pretty sure that this sort of thing is rampant on both sides of the aisle. But once one side lifts the veil on it, the other side will respond in kind.
They want everything, but when someone who has everything applies, they don't want to up the ante with high pay.
This. I was speaking the owner of a company last week. He loved my capabilities and experience, kept going on about the pivotal role I could play in his company and then said to my face that he was not going to pay market rates (but not in those words) - and no, he didn't mean he'd pay above market rates, he wanted to pay about 15% to 20% below market rates, and he was not offering anything in return of that.
OK, Try listening to some television recorded in the 1970s or 1980s and then listen to today's equivalent.
That was one of the amusing side effects of the 40th anniversary of SNL, where they played selected shows from way back when. One at least one occasion they prefaced the show with a message basically stating that this was a show from another era, and that's how they were back then (in addition to the messages stating that the shows originally payed at a later time slot)
farmers work on the sun, not the clock, and if every store closes an hour earlier, it is more difficult for them to get there after the farm work is done but before they close.
By that same token, if the store shuts 1 hours earlier, they are then losing their customers who are farmers. So it would behoove them to stay open an hour later and make the money the would otherwise lose.
Careless manufacturing and reckless use of nano particle anything could be trouble in the future. But don't worry nothing will happen for 10 or more years
Conservative estimates for a Mediterranean beach reveal that tourism activities during a summer day may release on the order of 4 kg of TiO2 nanoparticles to the water and produce an increment in the concentration of H2O2 of 270 nM/day. Our results, together with the data provided by tourism records in the Mediterranean, point to TiO2 nanoparticles as the major oxidizing agent entering coastal waters, with direct ecological consequences on the ecosystem.
They have already automated trash trucks to be rid of all but the driver and sometimes one attendant. Here is an example: http://www.gosanangelo.com/new....
Um, you do know that this sort of technology has been around for at least 20 years?
Therefore, you either keep the abstraction simplified and require the pilot to do a bit more work, or re-instate the flight engineer.
Last year I worked on a Stacker/Reclaimer (EG the big wheely bucket loaders that either scoop up huge piles of coal, or stack coal into piles), and has an operator out in a cabin doing the driving. The same system was being sold to two different customers. The first customer wanted an automatic mode that would guide the machine around the piles of coal and scoop/deliver in order to get an optimal materiel field while the operator sat back and basically watched.
The second customer basically said "I don't want no damn stinkin' automatic mode, because if I'm payin' for an operator to sit out there, he better be working"
I wonder if that's the same guy who worked under a fictitious name, for cash, to set up the private e-mail server and domain that Hillary Clinton used for HER back-channel communications
It could be, but from what I heard Sarah Palin recommended that guy to Hillary.
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If they are common carriers they are not able to deny service based on a political view.
It is not clear if FedEx or UPS are common carriers. This website Fundamental Legal Differences within UPS and FedEx indicates that members of each of those groups holds "common motor carrier" status, but not the groups in its entirety. So it is quite possible that they have the right to refuse service.
However IANAL
And he's not doing anything that you're not allowed to do in your own garage.
This is what I don't get.
There is nothing illegal about what he is doing, and as far as I know no-one is touting new laws that will stop it. Yes there are some private companies that are refusing to do business with him, but as far I as I can see is their choice. Yet here he is making noise all over the place as if he is trying to attract attention like a 15 year old drama queen poking a stick at a wild animal. If he keeps doing this I can't see it ending well for someone, but I don't know if it will be Cody himself , or in fact collateral damage somewhere else.
[lamenting missed opportunities]
The title of your post should have been
Keep Them! away from my house
The first, ummm, say two-third's of David Brin's Existence is a mix of short stories (altered a bit since their publication) and a new framework that ties it all together. It works pretty well.
The last third takes place many years after the intrigues of the first part, using a subset of the initial large cast. It is threaded around an updated version of a very old story, "Lungfish," which is arguably the keystone.
For me Existence started out OK, delved into "where is this going?", followed by a "is there any point to this story?" but then pissed me off with that hacked version of Lungfish slotted in at the end. While in general I thought it was a weak book, I thought that the hacking of Lungfish was a travesty that he committed against his own work and in the process lost a lot of what made the original Lungfish so good.
And I say this as a fan of Brin's work, and recognize his ability to write a great story with great characters.
The actual quote is by Newton.
That's relatively true.
They are turning into series that are mega-novels.
I lament the falling of the ability of an author to construct and present a complete story in a single novel. To me, the preponderance of multi-book series highlights the loss of ability.
Put the video on a blue-ray disc, a DVD, and a CD
There were studies done years ago showing how optical media degrades over time. And they ere done when the idea of optical media was new. Now imagine extrapolating that 100 years.
Digital only works if you are proactively transferring it from one generation of storage to another. Once you have skipped 2 or 3 generations of storage then it becomes (exponentially) harder to find hardware/software that will read your data. Extend that over 100 years of media evolution and you will be screwed in the future trying to read todays standards.
(And if you say "keep it on the cloud", then that only works as longs someone is paying the bills and the company stays in business)
As an example, look at how much harder it would be today to read a 5" DS floppy disk today, vs picking up a Tintype photo from the US civil war era and instantly seeing what it is.
I will be very disappointed if Clinton opponents don't use some version of an ad that highlights this.
And following that, the Democrats will put up the exact same ad, but featuring Jeb Bush.
There have been a bunch of Republicans who have admitted to using their own (non-governmental) email systems, two of which were also former secretaries of state:
Condoleezza Rice
Colin Powell
Jeb Bush
Bobby Jindal
Rick Perry
Sarah Palin
And that' most likely not all of them. But don't take this as GOP bashing, I'm pretty sure that this sort of thing is rampant on both sides of the aisle. But once one side lifts the veil on it, the other side will respond in kind.
He was fishing. I hope you didn't bite.
He was showing disrespect to me is what he was doing.
But his position on $$ was only one of several red flags that I spotted during my time with him.
They want everything, but when someone who has everything applies, they don't want to up the ante with high pay.
This. I was speaking the owner of a company last week. He loved my capabilities and experience, kept going on about the pivotal role I could play in his company and then said to my face that he was not going to pay market rates (but not in those words) - and no, he didn't mean he'd pay above market rates, he wanted to pay about 15% to 20% below market rates, and he was not offering anything in return of that.
OK, Try listening to some television recorded in the 1970s or 1980s and then listen to today's equivalent.
That was one of the amusing side effects of the 40th anniversary of SNL, where they played selected shows from way back when. One at least one occasion they prefaced the show with a message basically stating that this was a show from another era, and that's how they were back then (in addition to the messages stating that the shows originally payed at a later time slot)
This will be one video I will look forward to seeing!
farmers work on the sun, not the clock, and if every store closes an hour earlier, it is more difficult for them to get there after the farm work is done but before they close.
By that same token, if the store shuts 1 hours earlier, they are then losing their customers who are farmers. So it would behoove them to stay open an hour later and make the money the would otherwise lose.
Careless manufacturing and reckless use of nano particle anything could be trouble in the future. But don't worry nothing will happen for 10 or more years
All ready being noted. Not 10 years down the track. Sunscreens as a Source of Hydrogen Peroxide Production in Coastal Waters
Conservative estimates for a Mediterranean beach reveal that tourism activities during a summer day may release on the order of 4 kg of TiO2 nanoparticles to the water and produce an increment in the concentration of H2O2 of 270 nM/day. Our results, together with the data provided by tourism records in the Mediterranean, point to TiO2 nanoparticles as the major oxidizing agent entering coastal waters, with direct ecological consequences on the ecosystem.
They have already automated trash trucks to be rid of all but the driver and sometimes one attendant. Here is an example: http://www.gosanangelo.com/new....
Um, you do know that this sort of technology has been around for at least 20 years?
the ethanol must evaporate for 180 seconds
I can only wait for 179 seconds. This stuff is useless for me.
When I saw that link all I could think of was Pam's dolphin puppet
Unless things have changed, you cannot obtain American citizenship without renouncing your Australian one.
Heads up. Things have changed.
Hmmm ... apparently I am unversed in the realm of custom nipples, as I've never conceived of it before. Is this a thing I've been missing?
Why don't you find a breast cancer survivor who has had a mastectomy and ask her about the subject?
What do you want to power stuff with at night? There's a need for multiple sources of power.
Pumped water storage has been around for a long time. Just look at the Bath County Pumped Storage Station in Virginia which has a 3GW capacity.
It is a perfect match for renewable energy sources.
Therefore, you either keep the abstraction simplified and require the pilot to do a bit more work, or re-instate the flight engineer.
Last year I worked on a Stacker/Reclaimer (EG the big wheely bucket loaders that either scoop up huge piles of coal, or stack coal into piles), and has an operator out in a cabin doing the driving. The same system was being sold to two different customers. The first customer wanted an automatic mode that would guide the machine around the piles of coal and scoop/deliver in order to get an optimal materiel field while the operator sat back and basically watched.
The second customer basically said "I don't want no damn stinkin' automatic mode, because if I'm payin' for an operator to sit out there, he better be working"
Who actually cares, NZ has a population of about 4 million people. Scaaaaary.
It's not the people you have to worry about, it's the sheep.
On the other hand, having watched both Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles I wouldn't want to mess with a country that produced Peter Jackson.
Would you leave your cash with any random stranger in some Thai web cafe for safekeeping?
No I would not. But then again those Thai women in the bars who keep wanting to have a drink with me all seem on the up and up.
I wonder if that's the same guy who worked under a fictitious name, for cash, to set up the private e-mail server and domain that Hillary Clinton used for HER back-channel communications
It could be, but from what I heard Sarah Palin recommended that guy to Hillary.