Drilling derricks can be visible from far away too. Once the derrick is done, the well pumps dot the landscape too, they aren't tall, but every well will get a pump. It seems like their second core objection is that windmills will reduce the market value of the fossil fuels they own. I really don't think that argument has merit. For one, oil is not used for grid power generation. Natural gas is used for power generation, but such an argument from one group to deny another group's ability to compete like that is just silly.
I really don't get the cultural objection to seeing windmills, I don't get why it's such an effective blocking force. Cities might not have skyscrapers if landowners from miles away can block them from being built, in the same way this argument is used to stop windmills from being built.
Killed a lot fewer people. 12 million killed in death camps vs. a couple hundred thousand by the two bombs. But then, nobody seems to cry about the fire bombing of Japanese cities, which killed far more people, mostly civilians.
Besides, with the atomic bombs, it's not so simple. I think the deciding factor was that only 1.2% of soldiers at Iwo Jima surrendered, the rest fought to their deaths in a bitter battle, in the name of their emperor. If it came to that on the Japanese islands, the country and people of Japan probably wouldn't exist as we know it today if an invasion was required to secure an end to the war.
That's interesting, I guess, but that sort of thing is trivial to reverse engineer if you wanted to change the design. If I'm going to make a or alter flashlight, the only reason I would do so is if there isn't one close to what I needed, and I'd make my own design because it's not complicated to start from scratch here.
I think it's odd you mention bringing people across state lines. I don't think anyone is advocating total free trade of anything and anyone to the point of trafficking people. I think for most people, they consider the "right" to trade people is inferior to a more basic ideal of human freedom.
There has to be better ways to prove the hack. Why not find ways to get and post source code and assets for a game? That doesn't hurt any user accounts or their privacy.
I think ReadyDrive has failed mostly because it was left to the drive controller to handle the caching.
I recall it being promoted, but I don't remember exactly what happened. Was there a particular problem with that method? Was it a cost problem? Or did it not work well? Drives have already been doing caching for as long as I remember, so I think it's understandable to assume that it would work.
I think this is exactly it. There is a point of diminishing returns, once you're past that, you should be looking at other considerations, such as size, weight, useful features, etc. Recharging once a week is about a sweet spot for me. More often is annoying, any longer, and I might lose the charging cable.
Installing crapware on my device without my permission is one thing.. Installing crapware on my device that uses battery life that I cannot uninstall is total shit.
Just installing crapware uses battery life because it has to operate the radio out of standby for the long download.
There is a line where capitalism isn't beneficial for all involved. It looks like Sprint and Verizon stepped over that. With all of three wireless carriers now, I see a less pleasant future in telecom.
Why do they feel the need to portray the molestation of them in video games, their poorly-drawn comics and cartoons, and even at their comic book conventions?
Basically every other modern culture has realized that there are some things that you just don't do to or with children.
In all fairness, it's works of fiction. Just because it acceptable to portray it in fiction doesn't mean we actually find it acceptable to do in real life. A drawing of abuse has no equivalence to actual abuse.
Those prices are a lot higher than I've seen, maybe RS Canada was getting too big for their own good. In my area, it was $1 USD for a 5pk of resistors. A lot, but not nearly as bad as your example. It's good in a pinch, but eventually gets hard to justify when I could get 100pcs. for $1.
Radio Shacks have been hit or miss. One thing you can do is check the RS web site, do a search and it can usually tell you whether any of the local stores stock something you can use. That way, you're leveraging their local inventory with the internet, you go to the store that has it and get it locally much sooner.
While Radio Shack will never really compete with online warehouses, it does seem like they could do better. I think part of the problem is being a retailer of limited space competing against "long tail" internet sellers. The increasingly high cost of retail frontage isn't helping either, every peg and every tray needs to turn over a certain amount of money per year. $20 cell phone holsters and chargers probably do a better job of that for them than odd $1 electronic components. It does look pretty sad to see a drawer tray with components in old style and, yellowing packages. I find that the local stores are unlikely to have what I need. In some ways, I felt like I was ending up like my own small parts retailer, whenever I order, I'd often buy extras and variations so I'd have them on hand in case I ever needed them.
NYSE? Were they a trading platform for credit default swaps? I get that many active participants on the floor are partly responsible, but I haven't heard anything about the stock exchanges being culpable.
There is a difference between being held accountable for a wrong statement, and being held for manslaughter. I'd much rather have no charges than levy a manslaughter charge.
I'm not sure if they should be held accountable at all. While they should have worded it better, everyone was safe as far as they could tell. If they had stated the risk properly, it wouldn't have mattered, I really doubt it would have saved lives to properly state the risks.
All I really see is a possible chilling effect which will have the opposite of the desired effect, you'll see students enter other fields than risk a charge that doesn't fit the actual error.
I understand that side, but bad-mouthers are a fact of life. An onerous contract isn't going to solve that. It's only will be perceived as a way to intimidate patients. I'm not sure how they would be able to prosecute violators, it's trivial to post hate reviews under pseudonyms. I don't even see how it would help the physician have the negative reviews taken down.
I haven't seen a compelling reason to use them yet.
As it is, there won't even be 21 million bitcoins in existence, what is the plan when that limit is reached? Hypothetically, if this gets widely accepted, you would have to deal with scientific notation in order to trade them, as one bitcoin could end up being worth thousands or even millions of dollars at present value, so a pack of potato chips might have to be traded as.99 x 10^-6.
A milliwatt here, a milliwatt there can add up, especially if everything you own now has some kind of network interface. There is already a lot of "phantom" energy consumption from devices that are turned off.
I'm of a mixed opinion on this. It's a beautiful machine and it's been in use for 60% of the history of the space program. The configuration isn't really that safe, it was kept alive to fulfill ISS commitments, with a drawdown of the program started in 2004 because of the safety issues. The main differentiation for the design is to be able to take satellites home, and I only recall that being done once, with the LDEF. It was helpful to fix Hubble, so you have 5 missions out of 134 that really used the capability that other platforms probably couldn't have had.
Shuttle was used for the ISS, but I think those segments could have been launched if they didn't have to deal with the cost of maintaining the shuttle, they could have had some other kind of heavy lift system. The orbiter weighs 172,000 lb without payload, max payload is 55,250. Aries V could have lofted 410,000 to low earth orbit, or 157,000 lb towards the moon, all using much of the same technology but without the weight of the orbiter holding it back.
In fact, the Apollo program was cut short to help fund the Shuttle program. Hubble may have been the tail wagging the dog, or the project to help justify shuttle. There have been several specialized orbiting telescope satellites launched since for about the cost of a shuttle service mission. The coming James Webb telescope is more ambitious than Hubble and isn't being lofted with the Shuttle.
Is the standard cable S-Video? S-Video signals have deficiencies that aren't apparent on most SD TVs. Once you have the extra resolution and extra screen size, it really sticks out.
Having had it a year or so ago, HughesNet sucks, you don't want to be using it for playing games if you can avoid it at all, you're out of luck if you want to do online multiplayer. I don't think HughesNet, WildBlue and similar services have enough gamers to carry the expense of physical media for very many games. Besides, when you have consoles with only 120GB or even 60GB or 20GB for first gen PS3s, you can't take (m)any 50GB games. Smaller, less expensive games seem to be gradually displacing the really big blockbusters.
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Drilling derricks can be visible from far away too. Once the derrick is done, the well pumps dot the landscape too, they aren't tall, but every well will get a pump. It seems like their second core objection is that windmills will reduce the market value of the fossil fuels they own. I really don't think that argument has merit. For one, oil is not used for grid power generation. Natural gas is used for power generation, but such an argument from one group to deny another group's ability to compete like that is just silly.
I really don't get the cultural objection to seeing windmills, I don't get why it's such an effective blocking force. Cities might not have skyscrapers if landowners from miles away can block them from being built, in the same way this argument is used to stop windmills from being built.
Killed a lot fewer people. 12 million killed in death camps vs. a couple hundred thousand by the two bombs. But then, nobody seems to cry about the fire bombing of Japanese cities, which killed far more people, mostly civilians.
Besides, with the atomic bombs, it's not so simple. I think the deciding factor was that only 1.2% of soldiers at Iwo Jima surrendered, the rest fought to their deaths in a bitter battle, in the name of their emperor. If it came to that on the Japanese islands, the country and people of Japan probably wouldn't exist as we know it today if an invasion was required to secure an end to the war.
I don't know if it's smart or dumb. However, I have seen enough stories on bitcoin, so I've now done what I can to block bitcoin stories from my feed.
+1 - Beautiful sarcasm.
That's interesting, I guess, but that sort of thing is trivial to reverse engineer if you wanted to change the design. If I'm going to make a or alter flashlight, the only reason I would do so is if there isn't one close to what I needed, and I'd make my own design because it's not complicated to start from scratch here.
Think about how long a million people would be allowed to camp outside the US capitol buildings, especially if they were harassing and looting.
It happened, recall the Bonus Army. *four* people died. Not hundreds (or possibly thousands, accounts vary) like in or around Tiananmen Square.
I think it's odd you mention bringing people across state lines. I don't think anyone is advocating total free trade of anything and anyone to the point of trafficking people. I think for most people, they consider the "right" to trade people is inferior to a more basic ideal of human freedom.
There has to be better ways to prove the hack. Why not find ways to get and post source code and assets for a game? That doesn't hurt any user accounts or their privacy.
I think ReadyDrive has failed mostly because it was left to the drive controller to handle the caching.
I recall it being promoted, but I don't remember exactly what happened. Was there a particular problem with that method? Was it a cost problem? Or did it not work well? Drives have already been doing caching for as long as I remember, so I think it's understandable to assume that it would work.
It sounds like this OCZ device is the same way.
I think this is exactly it. There is a point of diminishing returns, once you're past that, you should be looking at other considerations, such as size, weight, useful features, etc. Recharging once a week is about a sweet spot for me. More often is annoying, any longer, and I might lose the charging cable.
Installing crapware on my device without my permission is one thing.. Installing crapware on my device that uses battery life that I cannot uninstall is total shit.
Just installing crapware uses battery life because it has to operate the radio out of standby for the long download.
There is a line where capitalism isn't beneficial for all involved. It looks like Sprint and Verizon stepped over that. With all of three wireless carriers now, I see a less pleasant future in telecom.
Which is making an accusation without proof. Cute. What happened that caused her to take this kind of position.
Why do they feel the need to portray the molestation of them in video games, their poorly-drawn comics and cartoons, and even at their comic book conventions?
Basically every other modern culture has realized that there are some things that you just don't do to or with children.
In all fairness, it's works of fiction. Just because it acceptable to portray it in fiction doesn't mean we actually find it acceptable to do in real life. A drawing of abuse has no equivalence to actual abuse.
I think someone like him would be needed. Whoever it is would probably need to be video and YouTube savvy and become the "DIY guy" for electronics.
Those prices are a lot higher than I've seen, maybe RS Canada was getting too big for their own good. In my area, it was $1 USD for a 5pk of resistors. A lot, but not nearly as bad as your example. It's good in a pinch, but eventually gets hard to justify when I could get 100pcs. for $1.
Radio Shacks have been hit or miss. One thing you can do is check the RS web site, do a search and it can usually tell you whether any of the local stores stock something you can use. That way, you're leveraging their local inventory with the internet, you go to the store that has it and get it locally much sooner.
While Radio Shack will never really compete with online warehouses, it does seem like they could do better. I think part of the problem is being a retailer of limited space competing against "long tail" internet sellers. The increasingly high cost of retail frontage isn't helping either, every peg and every tray needs to turn over a certain amount of money per year. $20 cell phone holsters and chargers probably do a better job of that for them than odd $1 electronic components. It does look pretty sad to see a drawer tray with components in old style and, yellowing packages. I find that the local stores are unlikely to have what I need. In some ways, I felt like I was ending up like my own small parts retailer, whenever I order, I'd often buy extras and variations so I'd have them on hand in case I ever needed them.
NYSE? Were they a trading platform for credit default swaps? I get that many active participants on the floor are partly responsible, but I haven't heard anything about the stock exchanges being culpable.
There is a difference between being held accountable for a wrong statement, and being held for manslaughter. I'd much rather have no charges than levy a manslaughter charge.
I'm not sure if they should be held accountable at all. While they should have worded it better, everyone was safe as far as they could tell. If they had stated the risk properly, it wouldn't have mattered, I really doubt it would have saved lives to properly state the risks.
All I really see is a possible chilling effect which will have the opposite of the desired effect, you'll see students enter other fields than risk a charge that doesn't fit the actual error.
I understand that side, but bad-mouthers are a fact of life. An onerous contract isn't going to solve that. It's only will be perceived as a way to intimidate patients. I'm not sure how they would be able to prosecute violators, it's trivial to post hate reviews under pseudonyms. I don't even see how it would help the physician have the negative reviews taken down.
I haven't seen a compelling reason to use them yet.
As it is, there won't even be 21 million bitcoins in existence, what is the plan when that limit is reached? Hypothetically, if this gets widely accepted, you would have to deal with scientific notation in order to trade them, as one bitcoin could end up being worth thousands or even millions of dollars at present value, so a pack of potato chips might have to be traded as .99 x 10^-6.
Even the restitution is out of hand, what are the chances that he can ever repay that?
A milliwatt here, a milliwatt there can add up, especially if everything you own now has some kind of network interface. There is already a lot of "phantom" energy consumption from devices that are turned off.
I'm of a mixed opinion on this. It's a beautiful machine and it's been in use for 60% of the history of the space program. The configuration isn't really that safe, it was kept alive to fulfill ISS commitments, with a drawdown of the program started in 2004 because of the safety issues. The main differentiation for the design is to be able to take satellites home, and I only recall that being done once, with the LDEF. It was helpful to fix Hubble, so you have 5 missions out of 134 that really used the capability that other platforms probably couldn't have had.
Shuttle was used for the ISS, but I think those segments could have been launched if they didn't have to deal with the cost of maintaining the shuttle, they could have had some other kind of heavy lift system. The orbiter weighs 172,000 lb without payload, max payload is 55,250. Aries V could have lofted 410,000 to low earth orbit, or 157,000 lb towards the moon, all using much of the same technology but without the weight of the orbiter holding it back.
In fact, the Apollo program was cut short to help fund the Shuttle program. Hubble may have been the tail wagging the dog, or the project to help justify shuttle. There have been several specialized orbiting telescope satellites launched since for about the cost of a shuttle service mission. The coming James Webb telescope is more ambitious than Hubble and isn't being lofted with the Shuttle.
Is the standard cable S-Video? S-Video signals have deficiencies that aren't apparent on most SD TVs. Once you have the extra resolution and extra screen size, it really sticks out.
Having had it a year or so ago, HughesNet sucks, you don't want to be using it for playing games if you can avoid it at all, you're out of luck if you want to do online multiplayer. I don't think HughesNet, WildBlue and similar services have enough gamers to carry the expense of physical media for very many games. Besides, when you have consoles with only 120GB or even 60GB or 20GB for first gen PS3s, you can't take (m)any 50GB games. Smaller, less expensive games seem to be gradually displacing the really big blockbusters.