Ah, spoken like a RWNJ. It is amazing to see right-wingers constantly label people who work grueling hours -- probably much tougher work conditions than they have ever endured -- as "lazy".
Here is a hint buttercup:
The [two] most common reasons [people] get fired are not hitting rate, and attendance
It is tough to go out looking for another job when any time away from work is liable to get you fired from your present one. This is not infrequently a deliberate strategy of the employer.
The 27 MW San Fermin solar plant in Puerto Rico came through Maria just fine. Ditto the recently built 1100 MW Santa Isabel Wind Farm. Gusts up to 118 MPH were recorded on some parts of the island, but San Fermin was built to withstand 155 MPH, and Santa Isabel Wind Farm was similarly properly engineered for the site.
Solar and wind are how Puerto Rico should be largely powered in the future, with some peaking plants to cover when the output of low.
Do you realize that there is no racial classification "brown"? Of course the vast majority of Latinos from Puerto Rico going to say "white" as virtually none of them are "asian" leaving "black" and "amerindian" as the only other options. Most who are not "white" will self-identify as "black" due to significant African ancestry, a small number may self-identify as "amerindian".
This is one of weirder bits on nonsense I have seen from the right lately - declaring that ethnic discrimination against Latinos cannot exist because they are "white".
Northern European Americans have had no problem being prejudiced against Latinos for centuries. Consider Trump attacking U.S. citizen Judge Gonzalo Curiel as a "Mexican". Clearly Curiel being a native-born U.S. citizen who was - as you say - "white" was not good enough he was still a "Mexican" (i.e. despised brown person).
To Northern European American racists Latinos are not "white enough", or perhaps not the "right kind of white".
Physics begs to differ. Using a combination of a starshade external coronagraph, a large aperture telescope, and interferometry it will be possible to image the closer Earth-like planets at least.
But it won't be for time. An initial starshade mission will need to be funded and launched, probably with a dedicated 4 meter telescope. 20 years perhaps,
While the RPi is an amazing little device, it's not really an analogue to the idea of OLPC. OLPC wan't really about teaching how computers work / programming, it was about giving kids a portal to information. It was a teaching computer in the sense that it gave access to information, not that it taught about computers.
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Having actually owned I one I must disagree. Learning about computer hardware and Python program was the only thing the OLPC could be used for. It was so primitive in its software and OS that it could not be used to get useful access to information. Yes, it had a browser with it - but one that was severely hobbled and barely up to minimal web standards out of the box.
It has been years now since the fairly brief period when I tried to wring some use out of the thing, so I can no longer quote chapter-and-verse, but it was a terrible exercise in frustration trying to use it at all.
Part of the give-one-get-one program, so I made a charitable contribution in the process (total cost $400). My daughter was a pre-teen at the time.
The fundamental problem with the OLPC is that it did not have any software that a child, or anyone not into systems hacking perhaps, could or would want to use. Sure there was Python on it, and everything was written in Python and if you wanted just to learn Python it might have a use case. But that was it.
It was more like a hardware demo prototype, than something was useful for anything.
My daughter never used it.
At the same time I bought an EEEPC with Linux on it. $375, roughly the same size. But it was about a million times more useful. My daughter loved it.
And the article has exactly that information in it:
A review of a CFPB database obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information request shows that the bureau issued an average of two to four enforcement actions a month under former Director Richard Cordray, President Obama’s appointee. But the database shows zero enforcement actions have been taken since Nov. 21, 2017, three days before Cordray resigned.
Yeah, curse the news a bullshit when you didn't bother to even take a single peek at it.
...Similarly, a small change in negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles could have prevented WWII, which changed the entire world....
If someone had told Franz Ferdinand's driver the new route to take after leaving City Hall in Sarajevo, instead driving back down the same street where the rest of assassins were still hanging out, then WWI could have been avoided.
He is terrific as Khruschev in The Death of Stalin which is an amazing movie. It is a black comedy, but it is also - ironically - one of the most accurate historical movies I have seen. Satire does not get in the way of truthfulness.
I am partial to that grand-daddy of hot pepper cuisines - the Tabasco pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum frutescens. Most hot peppers are a different species, Capsicum annuum. The Tabasco pepper, like Tabasco Sauce (the first hot sauce ever marketed), has a nice sharp clean bite, then a quick fade - no lingering burning.
If a movie needs a large amount of written material to get a clue about, it's something of a failure.
Good that you used "if". I saw the movie in the theater when I was 11 years old. I had not yet read the Clarke novel. I had no difficulty with appreciating and understanding the film.
And smartphones are really tricorders. It is odd that in the 23rd Century Apple abandoned almost three centuries of its C-suite directed industrial design focusing on thinness and decided to go with a bulky approach for the ST:TOS.
If you liked 2001, you'll definitely love the "moon landings". The production values were much higher (some say impossible, but nothing is impossible for the world's greatest director).
There is much truth to this, if you throw out the fake irony and conspiracy underpinnings. The real moon landings were wonderfully suspenseful, and great drama, though they were also - like 2001 - very slow most of the time, and featured people who were highly trained professionals, and did not emote excessively.
To this very day 2001 still has the most realistic portrayal of space travel ever show in a film, with people acting like real astronauts, space craft acting physically like space craft, and no sounds in space. Sorry if you find that 'boring'.
The DIscovery depended on HAL though for the mission to succeed. It ran the spacecraft. Wanting to immediately shut down the entire system, tantamount to aborting the entire mission, and endangering the sleeping crew, without even discussing it with the only other active crew member means that you should not be a crew member on such a mission.
Package volume (shippers like Amazon) is increasing year after year. That "email" hit arrived many years ago. Do you still think it is new technology just being adopted? You might want to update your talking points to reflect the fact that is 2018. USPS annual revenue has actually been fairly stable since the Great Recession, it is not in any sort of downward spiral - as much as you might wish it to be.
You have a weird vindictive hatred of people who earn pensions - make the USPS pay for pensions for workers who have not even been hired - it then take it all away.
As many, many people point out here - and has been pointed out to you specifically in the past (I have a long memory on this) - the government does not subsidize the USPS at all. Zero dollars in subsidy. No charity.
You aren't misinformed, as you have been corrected on this befire. You are intentionally lying. Why is that?
The USPS was cut loose from government funding during the Nixon administration exactly for to meet those "run it like a business" conservative demands. The only problem is that Congress gets to pass rules about how the USPS runs - what days it delivers on, how often, how much it can charge, and especially the monumentally stupid pension pre-funding mandate, for postal workers yet unborn, that no private business - or government entity - anywhere else in the world does.
The 61-year-old limo driver converted a mobile home into a ramp and modified it to launch from a vertical angle so he wouldn't fall back to the ground on public land. For months he's been working on overhauling his rocket in his garage.
People arguing that this guy is just better at milking publicity have it right, from the self-dubbed "Mad Mike" monicker, to the stupid flat Earth angle. People have been doing this kind of stuff much better for nearly half a century, at least.
Neither crazy nor awesome. Similar stunts have been done before - including just 18 months ago. That guy (Eddie Braun) reached 4,728 feet, 2.5 times higher.
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are people that lazy to find another job?
Ah, spoken like a RWNJ. It is amazing to see right-wingers constantly label people who work grueling hours -- probably much tougher work conditions than they have ever endured -- as "lazy".
Here is a hint buttercup:
The [two] most common reasons [people] get fired are not hitting rate, and attendance
It is tough to go out looking for another job when any time away from work is liable to get you fired from your present one. This is not infrequently a deliberate strategy of the employer.
Solar is a complete loss.
The 27 MW San Fermin solar plant in Puerto Rico came through Maria just fine. Ditto the recently built 1100 MW Santa Isabel Wind Farm. Gusts up to 118 MPH were recorded on some parts of the island, but San Fermin was built to withstand 155 MPH, and Santa Isabel Wind Farm was similarly properly engineered for the site.
Solar and wind are how Puerto Rico should be largely powered in the future, with some peaking plants to cover when the output of low.
Do you remember there was a hurricane, and since then, well, the president tossed a roll of paper towels around before going back to his golf game.
Ah, you forgot how he graded himself on his effort to aid Puerto Rico 10 out of 10.
Do you realize that there is no racial classification "brown"? Of course the vast majority of Latinos from Puerto Rico going to say "white" as virtually none of them are "asian" leaving "black" and "amerindian" as the only other options. Most who are not "white" will self-identify as "black" due to significant African ancestry, a small number may self-identify as "amerindian".
This is one of weirder bits on nonsense I have seen from the right lately - declaring that ethnic discrimination against Latinos cannot exist because they are "white".
Northern European Americans have had no problem being prejudiced against Latinos for centuries. Consider Trump attacking U.S. citizen Judge Gonzalo Curiel as a "Mexican". Clearly Curiel being a native-born U.S. citizen who was - as you say - "white" was not good enough he was still a "Mexican" (i.e. despised brown person).
To Northern European American racists Latinos are not "white enough", or perhaps not the "right kind of white".
Physics begs to differ. Using a combination of a starshade external coronagraph, a large aperture telescope, and interferometry it will be possible to image the closer Earth-like planets at least.
But it won't be for time. An initial starshade mission will need to be funded and launched, probably with a dedicated 4 meter telescope. 20 years perhaps,
...
While the RPi is an amazing little device, it's not really an analogue to the idea of OLPC. OLPC wan't really about teaching how computers work / programming, it was about giving kids a portal to information. It was a teaching computer in the sense that it gave access to information, not that it taught about computers.
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Having actually owned I one I must disagree. Learning about computer hardware and Python program was the only thing the OLPC could be used for. It was so primitive in its software and OS that it could not be used to get useful access to information. Yes, it had a browser with it - but one that was severely hobbled and barely up to minimal web standards out of the box.
It has been years now since the fairly brief period when I tried to wring some use out of the thing, so I can no longer quote chapter-and-verse, but it was a terrible exercise in frustration trying to use it at all.
Part of the give-one-get-one program, so I made a charitable contribution in the process (total cost $400). My daughter was a pre-teen at the time.
The fundamental problem with the OLPC is that it did not have any software that a child, or anyone not into systems hacking perhaps, could or would want to use. Sure there was Python on it, and everything was written in Python and if you wanted just to learn Python it might have a use case. But that was it.
It was more like a hardware demo prototype, than something was useful for anything.
My daughter never used it.
At the same time I bought an EEEPC with Linux on it. $375, roughly the same size. But it was about a million times more useful. My daughter loved it.
And the article has exactly that information in it:
A review of a CFPB database obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information request shows that the bureau issued an average of two to four enforcement actions a month under former Director Richard Cordray, President Obama’s appointee. But the database shows zero enforcement actions have been taken since Nov. 21, 2017, three days before Cordray resigned.
Yeah, curse the news a bullshit when you didn't bother to even take a single peek at it.
...Similarly, a small change in negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles could have prevented WWII, which changed the entire world....
If someone had told Franz Ferdinand's driver the new route to take after leaving City Hall in Sarajevo, instead driving back down the same street where the rest of assassins were still hanging out, then WWI could have been avoided.
He is terrific as Khruschev in The Death of Stalin which is an amazing movie. It is a black comedy, but it is also - ironically - one of the most accurate historical movies I have seen. Satire does not get in the way of truthfulness.
I am partial to that grand-daddy of hot pepper cuisines - the Tabasco pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum frutescens. Most hot peppers are a different species, Capsicum annuum. The Tabasco pepper, like Tabasco Sauce (the first hot sauce ever marketed), has a nice sharp clean bite, then a quick fade - no lingering burning.
My reaction too. Can they define "strategy" without using any form of the word in the definition?
Who cares. Look into the summary and you'll see how fleeting this metric is. Obama never cracked 3% economic growth over all his terms.
I guess this is true if you leave out 2010 (3.8%), 2011 (3.7%), 2012 (4.1%), 2013 (3.1%), 2014 (4.4%), 2015 (4.9%), and 2017 (4.1%).
It is a good thing that "Anonymous Coward" is a well respected source of reliable information! Take that GlassDoor!
If a movie needs a large amount of written material to get a clue about, it's something of a failure.
Good that you used "if". I saw the movie in the theater when I was 11 years old. I had not yet read the Clarke novel. I had no difficulty with appreciating and understanding the film.
And smartphones are really tricorders. It is odd that in the 23rd Century Apple abandoned almost three centuries of its C-suite directed industrial design focusing on thinness and decided to go with a bulky approach for the ST:TOS.
If you liked 2001, you'll definitely love the "moon landings". The production values were much higher (some say impossible, but nothing is impossible for the world's greatest director).
There is much truth to this, if you throw out the fake irony and conspiracy underpinnings. The real moon landings were wonderfully suspenseful, and great drama, though they were also - like 2001 - very slow most of the time, and featured people who were highly trained professionals, and did not emote excessively.
To this very day 2001 still has the most realistic portrayal of space travel ever show in a film, with people acting like real astronauts, space craft acting physically like space craft, and no sounds in space. Sorry if you find that 'boring'.
The DIscovery depended on HAL though for the mission to succeed. It ran the spacecraft. Wanting to immediately shut down the entire system, tantamount to aborting the entire mission, and endangering the sleeping crew, without even discussing it with the only other active crew member means that you should not be a crew member on such a mission.
Whereas, Zuckerberg needs help, that kid is just not well.
He will say whatever he thinks he needs to say to justify his being a multibillionaire.
"Aligned with the truth" means I lie, but I think I am clever enough that it won't seem like a lie.
Package volume (shippers like Amazon) is increasing year after year. That "email" hit arrived many years ago. Do you still think it is new technology just being adopted? You might want to update your talking points to reflect the fact that is 2018. USPS annual revenue has actually been fairly stable since the Great Recession, it is not in any sort of downward spiral - as much as you might wish it to be.
You have a weird vindictive hatred of people who earn pensions - make the USPS pay for pensions for workers who have not even been hired - it then take it all away.
As many, many people point out here - and has been pointed out to you specifically in the past (I have a long memory on this) - the government does not subsidize the USPS at all. Zero dollars in subsidy. No charity.
You aren't misinformed, as you have been corrected on this befire. You are intentionally lying. Why is that?
The USPS was cut loose from government funding during the Nixon administration exactly for to meet those "run it like a business" conservative demands. The only problem is that Congress gets to pass rules about how the USPS runs - what days it delivers on, how often, how much it can charge, and especially the monumentally stupid pension pre-funding mandate, for postal workers yet unborn, that no private business - or government entity - anywhere else in the world does.
Need I point out that you're saying this in a post about him announcing his invention of the brick.
A fancy brick.
A "default opt-in" is known as an "opt-out" to everyone but shills (or marketing, more or less the same thing).
This dude is a fucking inspiration.
"Mad" Mike Hughes, I salute you.
Why is he a more of a "fucking inspiration" than Eddie Braun who went 2.5 times higher (4,728 feet) just 18 months ago?
People arguing that this guy is just better at milking publicity have it right, from the self-dubbed "Mad Mike" monicker, to the stupid flat Earth angle. People have been doing this kind of stuff much better for nearly half a century, at least.
Neither crazy nor awesome. Similar stunts have been done before - including just 18 months ago. That guy (Eddie Braun) reached 4,728 feet, 2.5 times higher.