I got rid of all of the buttons on my browser to save viewing space. For most sites, hitting the Backspace twice quickly will get you where you want, but in the case of the Kentucky site I had to hold it down to get past the redirections, so it seems while it's not unusual, it's a little more annoying than most.
I couldn't get the federal site to work long enough to get that far. Ended up Googling it and went directly to the NYS site. The cheapest insurance option offered was only $10/mo less than I have now and the whole thing was a huge pain in the ass if you're looking for anything remotely specific (hearing aid coverage in my case), but it's workable if you have patience.
On the bright side, I already had an ID and didn't need to re-register thanks to using the surprisingly decent NYS DMV website in the past.
New York did a damned poor job advertising its own exchange... this is the first I've heard of it. Most people in states with their own exchanges are still probably trying to get on the Federal site, which certainly won't help the current issues.
There was a time when mainframes were better, then there was a time when desktops were better, then there was a time when thin clients were better, then there was a time when BYOD was better... I'm not sure what you point is there other than "shit changes"
If you're walking under streetlights, obstacles create shadows (pockets of darkness). Your eyes are adjusted to the lights, so you can't see into these pockets, but muggers in the shadows sure can see you.
Even small cities can affect light pollution from dozens of miles outside of the city. I grew up about 20 miles from a city of 60,000 and it gave off enough light pollution to effectively blot out much of the southern sky near the horizon. I imagine NYC's light pollution reaches much further.
We have a few of these scattered around, but ours aren't LED. There's some kind of polarized filter that only makes the light visible within a certain angle. Annoying as all hell - fortunately, the ones I know of are all in real low-speed areas.
I did a quick Google to satisfy my curiosity and found a few things: - While high pressure sodium gives off more lumens per watt, LED has better effective illumination (in part due to how our eyes can detect different wavelengths) - LEDs are more directional, eliminating up to 40% of light loss due to reflectors - In the end, an LED might only need to give off 20 or 30% as much light to still illuminate the same area effectively
From the few astronomers I've talked to, streetlamp design affects light pollution as much or more than what kind of bulb it's using. Many streetlamps, especially older ones, shine in every direction including up. Lights with a hood to reflect all of the light towards the ground are better for both energy consumption and light pollution.
We have shrouds on many of our lights in upstate and western NY, although they're far from ubiquitous. I've never really noticed a big problem with snow sticking to traffic lights except in the rare blizzard that combines the right amount of gusty with large, wet snowflakes and relatively warm temperatures... it's a once every few years occurrence. It's far, far more common for traffic signals to lose power altogether.
I was talking about the execution itself, not the proceedings. Even after all of that is exhausted, we spend a ton of money with just the killing part.
The execution is only costly because we make a show out of trying to be humane about it. Killing a person is something that can, and often is, done for a few dollars on the streets. Most of the cost of a government execution is for show.
The man might have dementia and think he's playing "Are You Smarter Than A First Grader?" at the airport. I can see how the TSA would fuel that delusion.
He took the company truck without permission for non-company use. In most places, that's called "stealing a fucking truck." It costs the company gas and wear and tear, as well as being a huge liability issue. Returning what you stole doesn't really make it ok.
We use software purchased from UPS to track our drivers. Their company cell phone has the UPS app, which relays data back to the server (including GPS). Of course, being on a phone and not built into the vehicle, it's dependent on the driver taking the phone with him or leaving it in the truck. However, it still managed to catch a driver "borrowing" the truck in the middle of the night to visit his girlfriend on the other side of the city, and then returning it a few hours later. He was let go the following day. The funny part is that he was one of the drivers who would always forget to take the phone or keep it charged.
SciFi universes lacking some kind of universal translator usually have a common language. A middle ground that I haven't really seen mentioned anywhere is each language being spoken in a dialect that is more easily machine-translatable. In other words, the structure of natural languages would shift to be more easily understood by machine translators. You see this already with speech to text programs like Siri and Android have (or even with SEO) - people learn to talk in a way that the machine can more easily grasp. Over time, I could see that becoming the defacto way of writing for the web.
Speaking the same language isn't strictly necessary if automatic translation technology catches up. Of course, there will always be words and phrases that don't translate, but those will become avoided in order to better facilitate a "universal" Internet. The fact that I can *access* those pages is more important to facilitating a universal Internet than being able to *read* them.
A lot of times, it's because punishing them too severely would just hurt even more innocent people. It's the same reason that criminals with kids are sometimes given a somewhat lighter sentence or lesser fines so as to avoid putting the kids through even more undue hardship as a result of punishing the parent.
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I got rid of all of the buttons on my browser to save viewing space. For most sites, hitting the Backspace twice quickly will get you where you want, but in the case of the Kentucky site I had to hold it down to get past the redirections, so it seems while it's not unusual, it's a little more annoying than most.
"I don't have another fucking hand, asshole!"
Then just put it on your regular hand. Besides, don't most people wear it on their wrist?
I couldn't get the federal site to work long enough to get that far. Ended up Googling it and went directly to the NYS site. The cheapest insurance option offered was only $10/mo less than I have now and the whole thing was a huge pain in the ass if you're looking for anything remotely specific (hearing aid coverage in my case), but it's workable if you have patience.
On the bright side, I already had an ID and didn't need to re-register thanks to using the surprisingly decent NYS DMV website in the past.
Obviously you haven't seen the other ACA exchanges. I browsed through it and it's loads easier to figure out than the NY or federal sites.
New York did a damned poor job advertising its own exchange... this is the first I've heard of it. Most people in states with their own exchanges are still probably trying to get on the Federal site, which certainly won't help the current issues.
There was a time when mainframes were better, then there was a time when desktops were better, then there was a time when thin clients were better, then there was a time when BYOD was better... I'm not sure what you point is there other than "shit changes"
I never said it increased crime in general, I just said it provides an easier opportunity for crime in locations that don't have uniform lighting.
If you're walking under streetlights, obstacles create shadows (pockets of darkness). Your eyes are adjusted to the lights, so you can't see into these pockets, but muggers in the shadows sure can see you.
Even small cities can affect light pollution from dozens of miles outside of the city. I grew up about 20 miles from a city of 60,000 and it gave off enough light pollution to effectively blot out much of the southern sky near the horizon. I imagine NYC's light pollution reaches much further.
We have a few of these scattered around, but ours aren't LED. There's some kind of polarized filter that only makes the light visible within a certain angle. Annoying as all hell - fortunately, the ones I know of are all in real low-speed areas.
I did a quick Google to satisfy my curiosity and found a few things:
- While high pressure sodium gives off more lumens per watt, LED has better effective illumination (in part due to how our eyes can detect different wavelengths)
- LEDs are more directional, eliminating up to 40% of light loss due to reflectors
- In the end, an LED might only need to give off 20 or 30% as much light to still illuminate the same area effectively
Source: http://www.al-e.com/led-vs-sodium-lamps
From the few astronomers I've talked to, streetlamp design affects light pollution as much or more than what kind of bulb it's using. Many streetlamps, especially older ones, shine in every direction including up. Lights with a hood to reflect all of the light towards the ground are better for both energy consumption and light pollution.
We have shrouds on many of our lights in upstate and western NY, although they're far from ubiquitous. I've never really noticed a big problem with snow sticking to traffic lights except in the rare blizzard that combines the right amount of gusty with large, wet snowflakes and relatively warm temperatures... it's a once every few years occurrence. It's far, far more common for traffic signals to lose power altogether.
I was talking about the execution itself, not the proceedings. Even after all of that is exhausted, we spend a ton of money with just the killing part.
The execution is only costly because we make a show out of trying to be humane about it. Killing a person is something that can, and often is, done for a few dollars on the streets. Most of the cost of a government execution is for show.
Until you get people willing to convict someone just for the chance to pull the trigger.
The man might have dementia and think he's playing "Are You Smarter Than A First Grader?" at the airport. I can see how the TSA would fuel that delusion.
Why is this comment here? It's not contributing, it's barely a comment at all - this isn't a comment, it doesn't matter, and it's not for people.
Why is this here?
Yeah, but then someone would point out that old people just don't give a shit. It's what makes them so endearing.
He took the company truck without permission for non-company use. In most places, that's called "stealing a fucking truck." It costs the company gas and wear and tear, as well as being a huge liability issue. Returning what you stole doesn't really make it ok.
We use software purchased from UPS to track our drivers. Their company cell phone has the UPS app, which relays data back to the server (including GPS). Of course, being on a phone and not built into the vehicle, it's dependent on the driver taking the phone with him or leaving it in the truck. However, it still managed to catch a driver "borrowing" the truck in the middle of the night to visit his girlfriend on the other side of the city, and then returning it a few hours later. He was let go the following day. The funny part is that he was one of the drivers who would always forget to take the phone or keep it charged.
I still have a PC with one of the affected processors. It hasn't been my primary desktop for quite a while though...
SciFi universes lacking some kind of universal translator usually have a common language. A middle ground that I haven't really seen mentioned anywhere is each language being spoken in a dialect that is more easily machine-translatable. In other words, the structure of natural languages would shift to be more easily understood by machine translators. You see this already with speech to text programs like Siri and Android have (or even with SEO) - people learn to talk in a way that the machine can more easily grasp. Over time, I could see that becoming the defacto way of writing for the web.
Speaking the same language isn't strictly necessary if automatic translation technology catches up. Of course, there will always be words and phrases that don't translate, but those will become avoided in order to better facilitate a "universal" Internet. The fact that I can *access* those pages is more important to facilitating a universal Internet than being able to *read* them.
A lot of times, it's because punishing them too severely would just hurt even more innocent people. It's the same reason that criminals with kids are sometimes given a somewhat lighter sentence or lesser fines so as to avoid putting the kids through even more undue hardship as a result of punishing the parent.