Except this is not at all specific to New England.
It covers PJM, which is Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, NE, and New York as well.
Basically it is the entire north eastern quadrant of the United States.
We are flaring off immense amounts of natural gas because the infrastructure to collect it isn't done yet, and many natural gas companies have closed in wells because of recent low prices.
Really there isn't a lot of concern here except the fact we are experiencing some unusual weather. Such events are generally short term.
Still I'd like to see more R&D on nuclear. Once the gas is gone we are going to want it.
You have already said these kids don't have a lot of technology available at home.
Well, turning this library into a tech haven will make it inaccessible to kids with weak tech skills. That's a disaster.
What you want is the library to be a place where kids get the basics. An introduction to technology that they will meet as they grow up should be part of it. But at the same time they should be able to interact with the library using the skills they have.
I betcha a lot of that will be good old fashioned books.
Not too worried about Target and Neiman Marcus. But having several others who haven't owned up to being victims of this is really annoying. And the status being up in the air, coverups being ATTEMPTED etc.
I am not doing the P.O.S. thing for a while. Sticking with cash.
Seriously. California is a basket case economically. They are located in an area that drives their costs up almost beyond comprehension. They are starting to get pushback from the surrounding communities for what reason? Being successful.
Longer term that area is going to go bouncy bounce in a very unpleasant way. Being located there will NOT be fun.
It's not nice, and getting worse. In the long term they are guaranteed things will get REALLY FUCKED BAD.
I hadn't really thought of it before, I'm so used to just Americans as the inhabitants of the USA, but you are right - there are also Canadian Americans, Mexican Americans, Costa Rican Americans, Panamanian Americans, Bolivian Americans etc as well all living in their respective countries.
Java gets you entry into mobile app writing and a lot of server side stuff for the web at the same time. Plus the amount of Java out there is immense. It's the Cobol of the 21st century.
HTML gets you into the presentation and UI.
Later add in Javascript. You can even pick it up on the fly, it isn't particularly hard.
Good Java and C expertise is a pretty sweet combination.
IBM used to sell office equipment, including various typewriters.
One model of electronic typewriter had internal storage for boilerplate text passages that you could use to put together form letters. Very handy.
They also sold an upgrade for $700 that allowed 'unlimited storage'.
What this upgrade consisted of was a plastic door that you installed in the front of the typewriter. Once the door was installed you could swap out the floppy disk.
I remember a very pissed off purchasing agent when he saw what the upgrade consisted of.
It's not hard to imagine that any new large site has significant security holes. How you avoid that is quite a question.
On the other hand the chief player in this testimony, David Kennedy has a rather checkered past. He was chief security officer at Diebold, famous for highly insecure voting machines.
Al Gore bought some waterfront property. In CA. On a hill. It's very unlikely the sea level will rise some 80' during his lifetime considering the expected rate is less than 1" per year.
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But Vermont is a pissant state. 35% of not much isn't that big a deal. .65 GW in a grid (the ISO-NE RTO) has 32 GW capacity isn't that big a deal.
Except this is not at all specific to New England.
It covers PJM, which is Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, NE, and New York as well.
Basically it is the entire north eastern quadrant of the United States.
We are flaring off immense amounts of natural gas because the infrastructure to collect it isn't done yet, and many natural gas companies have closed in wells because of recent low prices.
Really there isn't a lot of concern here except the fact we are experiencing some unusual weather. Such events are generally short term.
Still I'd like to see more R&D on nuclear. Once the gas is gone we are going to want it.
Cool.
On a slightly more optimistic note is Asimov's "The Last Question", another computer as God story.
http://www.thrivenotes.com/the...
This is not a mid->upper class high school library.
It's an elementary school library catering to mostly low income students. These are NOT teens.
The fact is 20% of Americans don't have access to the internet in their homes. How are they going to use what you propose?
Your idea is a disaster.
Yes, because that's really working out well for Abercrombie & Fitch.
Blech.
It's hard to imagine the CAFC screwing up anything just one time.
Don't, just don't.
You have already said these kids don't have a lot of technology available at home.
Well, turning this library into a tech haven will make it inaccessible to kids with weak tech skills. That's a disaster.
What you want is the library to be a place where kids get the basics. An introduction to technology that they will meet as they grow up should be part of it. But at the same time they should be able to interact with the library using the skills they have.
I betcha a lot of that will be good old fashioned books.
Not too worried about Target and Neiman Marcus. But having several others who haven't owned up to being victims of this is really annoying. And the status being up in the air, coverups being ATTEMPTED etc.
I am not doing the P.O.S. thing for a while. Sticking with cash.
Seriously. California is a basket case economically. They are located in an area that drives their costs up almost beyond comprehension. They are starting to get pushback from the surrounding communities for what reason? Being successful.
Longer term that area is going to go bouncy bounce in a very unpleasant way. Being located there will NOT be fun.
It's not nice, and getting worse. In the long term they are guaranteed things will get REALLY FUCKED BAD.
Time to start working on an exit strategy.
Don't forget the Cuyahoga river.
> U.S. Americans
I hadn't really thought of it before, I'm so used to just Americans as the inhabitants of the USA, but you are right - there are also Canadian Americans, Mexican Americans, Costa Rican Americans, Panamanian Americans, Bolivian Americans etc as well all living in their respective countries.
Then do your duty to humanity and don't give them a pony.
> US copyright lobby is really pissing us off
Us too.
Would be Java and HTML.
Java gets you entry into mobile app writing and a lot of server side stuff for the web at the same time. Plus the amount of Java out there is immense. It's the Cobol of the 21st century.
HTML gets you into the presentation and UI.
Later add in Javascript. You can even pick it up on the fly, it isn't particularly hard.
Good Java and C expertise is a pretty sweet combination.
Most community banks and credit unions have true free checking accounts.
http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog...
Commercial banks, not so much.
The problem is at least as much with bank location as it is the availability of free checking.
To paraphrase Willie Sutton, banks go where the money is.
IBM used to sell office equipment, including various typewriters.
One model of electronic typewriter had internal storage for boilerplate text passages that you could use to put together form letters. Very handy.
They also sold an upgrade for $700 that allowed 'unlimited storage'.
What this upgrade consisted of was a plastic door that you installed in the front of the typewriter. Once the door was installed you could swap out the floppy disk.
I remember a very pissed off purchasing agent when he saw what the upgrade consisted of.
It's not hard to imagine that any new large site has significant security holes. How you avoid that is quite a question.
On the other hand the chief player in this testimony, David Kennedy has a rather checkered past. He was chief security officer at Diebold, famous for highly insecure voting machines.
Yes, but this was neither.
and if you need reference help of course you are screwed because there is no librarian.
It's extremism of the same sort the Islamic Fundamentalists practice.
Next up is no education for girls and religious instead of secular law.
The new algorithm should be able to determine that I want the alternative to the inflatable rubber ones.
Yes, because I'm retired now. Used to be 15K miles per year, now it's 4K.
However that doesn't mean I use less fuel. Nowadays I fly to Hawaii and Europe at least once each per year.
Another denialist myth, misquoted.
Al Gore bought some waterfront property. In CA. On a hill. It's very unlikely the sea level will rise some 80' during his lifetime considering the expected rate is less than 1" per year.
Taxes are relatively low in the US right now.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=205
And none of my software will run.
Thanks for a really knuckle head idea. I could get exactly the same effect by loading linux and not have to buy new hardware.