This is why the average is a terrible metric to quote in this case. A couple pets having major surgical procedures done will skew it very high. The median would be a better statistic for this.
Kids go in to see the pediatrician about 4 or 5 times in their first year for routine check-ups, vaccinations, boosters, and more.
The key words you are missing are "if healthy". All of those things you mentioned are absolutely not needed for a kid to live if there's nothing wrong with them. Vaccinations should be done, but many people have been skipping that lately.
Learning to drive on ice and snow doesn't take a lot of experience. It's really common sense. Don't drive too fast for conditions. What does that mean? Go really slow if you are unsure of the road surface.It's a lot easier to speed up if you're driving too slow than it is to slow down after you're already in a ditch. Leave a lot of space to stop as well. And finally, I'm not suggesting you spend a lot of money preparing your vehicle for rare weather, but at least have tires that aren't bald.
... as soon as everyone up north learns to handle tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquake proofing just as well as we're supposed to handle driving in snow.
Are you implying that the risk of earthquakes is higher in the South than in the North? That one's really a West coast rest of the country thing.
Besides, the main problem that the storm caused in Atlanta was gridlock. Which is the opposite of driving too fast.
I thought gridlock was just a weekday in Atlanta. And a lot of the gridlock is caused by driving too fast. Maybe not physically being too fast, but impatient driving not willing to wait another second to move. People start blocking intersections because they don't want to wait for another green light then people get mad and run red lights because they had to sit at a green light because the intersection was blocked, and it grows from there.
Are you seriously suggesting that every road in the state of Minnesota should be plowed/salted/graveled within hours of a snowfall? I imagine Minneapolis would be quick to respond, but there're probably countless smaller roads, rural roads, etc. that sit for quite a while before any treatment is done.
At least you guys get salt trucks. Where I'm at in Anchorage they send out dirt trucks to throw gravel all over. No salt used. I think it had something to do with massive rust issues on older cars.
Just stop this excuse for the inability of Atlanta drivers to handle the conditions. They are not used to it, they don't necessarily have vehicles with a lot of winter features either. Those are valid reasons for the situation. Trying to say that the precipitation that fell in Atlanta is somehow magical and unlike any other weather condition seen further north is asinine.
... 4 wheel drive does nothing to help you stop any faster which is really what the problem is 99% of the time, not needing more traction to get going.
I am shocked every time I find someone that thinks a 4x4 can stop better than 2-wheel drive. I try to tell them that both types of cars have 4 wheel braking. Sure there is a minor weight difference and different drivetrain loses that can effect the stopping distance, but for all real purposes a 4x4 and 2x4 stop in about the same distance (assuming the same make and model vehicle)
Atlanta traffic is some of the worst crap I've ever had the pleasure of being stuck in. Cars completely blocking intersections so no one can get through on a green light. Generally terrible driving that only gets worse on any snow or ice.
There's a great deal of difference between a light snow somewhere north like Chicago and somewhere down south like Atlanta because our temps during a snow are typically close to the freezing mark, resulting in a wet snow and a cycle of melting and refreezing as ice.
A lot of people keep saying things like this, but it doesn't make sense. You are saying that storms that occur at around the freezing mark cause a lot of ice issues. That I can agree with. You say these conditions don't occur in northern places. That is wrong. Sure there are times of the year in northern places where the temperature is generally well below freezing, there are also times in the Fall and Spring where temperatures are right around the freezing mark and they would see the exact same sort of ice issues. It has been all around the freezing mark in Anchorage for the past week or so in the middle of January. That's plenty of melting and refreezing to deal with. This argument just sounds like a defensive attitude because people in Atlanta can't drive very well.
Winter tires are nice to have, but by no means necessary. Where I'm at, in Anchorage, plenty of people drive around with all season tires in the winter. They just need to drive slower and be more cautious.
If you mash on the gas and the tires spin, don't continue to stomp on the gas pedal. I went to school in Atlanta, they don't know how to drive on anything other than clear asphalt. Once you get a few terrible drivers like that abandoning their cars on the road, how are the people that can drive supposed to get around them?
Oh damn! Someone just got told! Now we know that not only is his exaggeration not true, it's not even possible. Keep up the good work poking holes in obviously false exaggerated statements AC.
You're saying that for an entire year every spare moment of his time was spent fucking his wife? He could have at least tried to copy a couple photos of a camera sooner.
I think Facebook (The topic of this article) can afford some tape drives and servers. The scale of their data is such that drive costs are not much of a factor, media cost per GB and energy consumption would be bigger issues.
It's also important to factor in the number of miles driven by each model of car. For example, if the data said car A broke down twice as much as car B, you would think car B is better. If car A was actually driven a combined mileage that was 10x car B's mileage, car A would have less break downs per mile driven.
No, the real strength from carbon fiber is not from the length of the fibers, but from their small diameter. The carbon-carbon bonds are so strong that the failure point of bulk fiber is from a defect in the material. A nick, scratch, notch, etc. in a material serves as a starting point for crack propagation. The smaller you get the strands of fiber, the smaller and fewer the defects in that fiber. A load bearing section of fiber with little to no defects has a far higher tensile strength than a section of the same material with large defects in it.
Long fibers may be stronger than chopped fibers in practice, but I think that would be more likely due to fiber/matrix delamination issues. The continuos fibers can delaminate from the epoxy and still have enough contact with the epoxy to carry load. A chopped strand that delaminates will effectively stop carrying any load.
You're so close to being 100% factual, but I'll chalk it up to the pain of the loss. That game was in the playoffs. The Chiefs did make the playoffs this year.
Your point about the emissions is noted, but technically this engine already has a compressor attached to the exhaust. That is what a turbocharger is. Although it is driven by the exhaust to compress the intake air and not compressing the exhaust into a storage tank.
Why would you go to jail? The only thing I can think of is failure to pay taxes on whatever false story you've concocted as the source of the funds. If you come up with a valid story as to the source of your bitcoins and pay the taxes you should be fine. They will most likely be watching everything you do going forward, so you need to stop your activities immediately.
On the contrary, if all the confederates wanted to leave and go to Europe, that would not have been a problem. It was the idea of them taking US property with them that was frowned upon. That property being the land all the confederate states were on.
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This is why the average is a terrible metric to quote in this case. A couple pets having major surgical procedures done will skew it very high. The median would be a better statistic for this.
Kids go in to see the pediatrician about 4 or 5 times in their first year for routine check-ups, vaccinations, boosters, and more.
The key words you are missing are "if healthy". All of those things you mentioned are absolutely not needed for a kid to live if there's nothing wrong with them. Vaccinations should be done, but many people have been skipping that lately.
A city near me had a 100 year old sanitary sewer main break which flooded several houses with raw sewage. The houses had to be torn down.
This doesn't sound right. Everyone knows that 100 year old sewers are the pinnacle of technology and would never just fail.
Most states no longer allow snow tires with spikes, which was the only tool that worked on ice.
These tires also leave nice ruts in the road where the vehicle tires wear down the pavement. The work fantastic on ice though.
Learning to drive on ice and snow doesn't take a lot of experience. It's really common sense. Don't drive too fast for conditions. What does that mean? Go really slow if you are unsure of the road surface.It's a lot easier to speed up if you're driving too slow than it is to slow down after you're already in a ditch. Leave a lot of space to stop as well. And finally, I'm not suggesting you spend a lot of money preparing your vehicle for rare weather, but at least have tires that aren't bald.
... as soon as everyone up north learns to handle tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquake proofing just as well as we're supposed to handle driving in snow.
Are you implying that the risk of earthquakes is higher in the South than in the North? That one's really a West coast rest of the country thing.
Besides, the main problem that the storm caused in Atlanta was gridlock. Which is the opposite of driving too fast.
I thought gridlock was just a weekday in Atlanta. And a lot of the gridlock is caused by driving too fast. Maybe not physically being too fast, but impatient driving not willing to wait another second to move. People start blocking intersections because they don't want to wait for another green light then people get mad and run red lights because they had to sit at a green light because the intersection was blocked, and it grows from there.
Are you seriously suggesting that every road in the state of Minnesota should be plowed/salted/graveled within hours of a snowfall? I imagine Minneapolis would be quick to respond, but there're probably countless smaller roads, rural roads, etc. that sit for quite a while before any treatment is done.
At least you guys get salt trucks. Where I'm at in Anchorage they send out dirt trucks to throw gravel all over. No salt used. I think it had something to do with massive rust issues on older cars.
Just stop this excuse for the inability of Atlanta drivers to handle the conditions. They are not used to it, they don't necessarily have vehicles with a lot of winter features either. Those are valid reasons for the situation. Trying to say that the precipitation that fell in Atlanta is somehow magical and unlike any other weather condition seen further north is asinine.
... 4 wheel drive does nothing to help you stop any faster which is really what the problem is 99% of the time, not needing more traction to get going.
I am shocked every time I find someone that thinks a 4x4 can stop better than 2-wheel drive. I try to tell them that both types of cars have 4 wheel braking. Sure there is a minor weight difference and different drivetrain loses that can effect the stopping distance, but for all real purposes a 4x4 and 2x4 stop in about the same distance (assuming the same make and model vehicle)
Atlanta traffic is some of the worst crap I've ever had the pleasure of being stuck in. Cars completely blocking intersections so no one can get through on a green light. Generally terrible driving that only gets worse on any snow or ice.
There's a great deal of difference between a light snow somewhere north like Chicago and somewhere down south like Atlanta because our temps during a snow are typically close to the freezing mark, resulting in a wet snow and a cycle of melting and refreezing as ice.
A lot of people keep saying things like this, but it doesn't make sense. You are saying that storms that occur at around the freezing mark cause a lot of ice issues. That I can agree with. You say these conditions don't occur in northern places. That is wrong. Sure there are times of the year in northern places where the temperature is generally well below freezing, there are also times in the Fall and Spring where temperatures are right around the freezing mark and they would see the exact same sort of ice issues. It has been all around the freezing mark in Anchorage for the past week or so in the middle of January. That's plenty of melting and refreezing to deal with. This argument just sounds like a defensive attitude because people in Atlanta can't drive very well.
Winter tires are nice to have, but by no means necessary. Where I'm at, in Anchorage, plenty of people drive around with all season tires in the winter. They just need to drive slower and be more cautious.
If you mash on the gas and the tires spin, don't continue to stomp on the gas pedal. I went to school in Atlanta, they don't know how to drive on anything other than clear asphalt. Once you get a few terrible drivers like that abandoning their cars on the road, how are the people that can drive supposed to get around them?
Crack is however something totally different ...
Oh crack cocaine, you make people do the darndest things.
Oh damn! Someone just got told! Now we know that not only is his exaggeration not true, it's not even possible. Keep up the good work poking holes in obviously false exaggerated statements AC.
I was under the assumption that posters on /. understood the concept of a variable. My mistake.
You're saying that for an entire year every spare moment of his time was spent fucking his wife? He could have at least tried to copy a couple photos of a camera sooner.
I think Facebook (The topic of this article) can afford some tape drives and servers. The scale of their data is such that drive costs are not much of a factor, media cost per GB and energy consumption would be bigger issues.
It's also important to factor in the number of miles driven by each model of car. For example, if the data said car A broke down twice as much as car B, you would think car B is better. If car A was actually driven a combined mileage that was 10x car B's mileage, car A would have less break downs per mile driven.
No, the real strength from carbon fiber is not from the length of the fibers, but from their small diameter. The carbon-carbon bonds are so strong that the failure point of bulk fiber is from a defect in the material. A nick, scratch, notch, etc. in a material serves as a starting point for crack propagation. The smaller you get the strands of fiber, the smaller and fewer the defects in that fiber. A load bearing section of fiber with little to no defects has a far higher tensile strength than a section of the same material with large defects in it.
Long fibers may be stronger than chopped fibers in practice, but I think that would be more likely due to fiber/matrix delamination issues. The continuos fibers can delaminate from the epoxy and still have enough contact with the epoxy to carry load. A chopped strand that delaminates will effectively stop carrying any load.
There must be another CNC than the one I'm familiar with: "CNC machining, an expensive and difficult process that requires laying pieces by hand"
You're so close to being 100% factual, but I'll chalk it up to the pain of the loss. That game was in the playoffs. The Chiefs did make the playoffs this year.
Your point about the emissions is noted, but technically this engine already has a compressor attached to the exhaust. That is what a turbocharger is. Although it is driven by the exhaust to compress the intake air and not compressing the exhaust into a storage tank.
Why would you go to jail? The only thing I can think of is failure to pay taxes on whatever false story you've concocted as the source of the funds. If you come up with a valid story as to the source of your bitcoins and pay the taxes you should be fine. They will most likely be watching everything you do going forward, so you need to stop your activities immediately.
On the contrary, if all the confederates wanted to leave and go to Europe, that would not have been a problem. It was the idea of them taking US property with them that was frowned upon. That property being the land all the confederate states were on.