You're under the mistaken impression that a "ton" is a large unit. When it comes to oil, 2 tons is nothing. 2 tons, as stated above, is about a cubic meter of sand. 2 tons is about a quarter of a cubic meter of steel. 2 tons is...jeez, I can't even think of an example. 2 tons is just insignificant.
This is a common discussion, but fortunately in the oil industry it won't happen for a long time.
The oil industry is notoriously slow-moving. The executives do not like new tech. New tech is untested, unproven. That means risky, and risky means both lawsuits and lost production time. Then, once the executives finally sign off on it and it gets built, the roughnecks simply don't use it, especially with automatic systems. Why automate something they've been doing well enough for decades, they say. I've watched a worker switch off a million-dollar heave compensator (adjusts crane speed based on ocean wave motion, so a bobbing ship can smoothly lay a load onto the still seafloor) because "the computer don't know what it's doin'."
Other professions might lose out to automation. But the oil industry roughnecks will be working for a long time yet.
Nobody's using a ballistic missile to shoot anything down. Ballistic missiles are used to deliver (sometimes nuclear) warheads to a land-based target, and are the things that interceptor missiles are designed to try to shoot down. GP's point is that if an interceptor missile can shoot down a ballistic missile and/or a satellite, then it can shoot down an SR-72. Whether the SR-72 is more maneuverable than an interceptor missile is unknown, but doubtful.
Meetings? Check. Texting/modern devices in the workplace? Check. "Get Off My Lawn"-type generalization? Check. This article's author included practically every white-collar-environment cause of rage. And judging by the butthurt-ness of most of the comments so far, the troll was eminently successful. The only thing that could have improved it would have been to specify American 20-somethings, to get cross-ocean flaming as well.
Halloween is a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening", the night before "All Hallows' Day"/"All Saints Day" on November 1. "Evening" is often shortened to "e'en" in Gaelic dialects. Both Halloween and Hallowe'en are acceptable spellings.
MoND has problems, too. The most prominent is the Bullet cluster. It's a group of colliding galaxies where the center of gravitational lensing and the center of observed mass don't line up, something that can't be explained by MoND but can be explained by dark matter: the collision "separated" the galaxies from their dark matter halos, causing the difference in CoG locations. Of course, this is also hotly debated, and IANAP.
According to this thing I just Googled, "math" actually predates "maths". Before that, it was "math.", with a period to note that it was an abbreviation.
Personally, I find the "ths" sound difficult to wrap my tongue around.
I don't care about Apple one way or the other. But stories like this keep me informed that I should continue hitting "Not Now" when my iPad bugs me to upgrade to iOS7, and that matters to me. So no, not bored.
a) I doubt anyone outside of classified weapons research actually knows whether offense or defense currently has the advantage.
b) The Zumwalt is a guided missile destroyer, which means that it will be the thing launching said anti-ship missiles at the other side's ships. It doesn't matter how deadly the enemy is, if you take them out before they take you out.
Hell, a lot of places still need checks because they won't take plastic!
What part of the US are you visiting? Even traveling food trucks take plastic nowadays, unless you're out in the middle of the Carolina High Desert or the Kentucky Jungles or someplace.
I have a cyber-meeting every Wednesday morning with folks across the pond. Attendance is 4-12 people. There is no lack of idle chitchat or constructive feedback, or any of the other problems mentioned here.
TFA takes a forum, conference, seminar, or something like that, calls it a "meeting" when it's clearly not, and tries to shoehorn all cyber-meetings into having the same problems that the conference did. Overall, just shitty reporting trying to make a point that doesn't mesh with reality.
Who cares about showing it off? Most of the features being advertised are legitimate problems I've had with smoke detectors for years. The night-light feature seems like a little much, but I guess somebody might want that.
If it has an option to disconnect/switch off the wi-fi I'll buy this in a second.
'The latest incident is another reminder of the precarious state of the Fukushima plant...'
So something unexpected occurred, but automatic backups stepped in and prevented any negative consequences. While the plant may or may not be in a precarious state, this is hardly the example to be using for a FUD article. Hell, change the spin around and it could be used in a TEPCO press release showing how far they've come in stabilizing the situation.
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You're forgetting the Game Boy Pocket, though.
I'm not a car enthusiast, so I may be misinformed. But 60 to 100 in only five seconds is very impressive, is it not?
That...was kinda my point, if you didn't realize.
You're under the mistaken impression that a "ton" is a large unit. When it comes to oil, 2 tons is nothing. 2 tons, as stated above, is about a cubic meter of sand. 2 tons is about a quarter of a cubic meter of steel. 2 tons is...jeez, I can't even think of an example. 2 tons is just insignificant.
This is a common discussion, but fortunately in the oil industry it won't happen for a long time.
The oil industry is notoriously slow-moving. The executives do not like new tech. New tech is untested, unproven. That means risky, and risky means both lawsuits and lost production time. Then, once the executives finally sign off on it and it gets built, the roughnecks simply don't use it, especially with automatic systems. Why automate something they've been doing well enough for decades, they say. I've watched a worker switch off a million-dollar heave compensator (adjusts crane speed based on ocean wave motion, so a bobbing ship can smoothly lay a load onto the still seafloor) because "the computer don't know what it's doin'."
Other professions might lose out to automation. But the oil industry roughnecks will be working for a long time yet.
I thought it was banned because it was made out of people?
People might care more about contraception when their children aren't dying of hunger before age 5.
Nobody's using a ballistic missile to shoot anything down. Ballistic missiles are used to deliver (sometimes nuclear) warheads to a land-based target, and are the things that interceptor missiles are designed to try to shoot down. GP's point is that if an interceptor missile can shoot down a ballistic missile and/or a satellite, then it can shoot down an SR-72. Whether the SR-72 is more maneuverable than an interceptor missile is unknown, but doubtful.
TFA won't load. But how "affordable" are we talking, here? Manhattan Project levels of affordable, or F-35 levels of "affordable"?
Meetings? Check. Texting/modern devices in the workplace? Check. "Get Off My Lawn"-type generalization? Check. This article's author included practically every white-collar-environment cause of rage. And judging by the butthurt-ness of most of the comments so far, the troll was eminently successful. The only thing that could have improved it would have been to specify American 20-somethings, to get cross-ocean flaming as well.
Halloween is a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening", the night before "All Hallows' Day"/"All Saints Day" on November 1. "Evening" is often shortened to "e'en" in Gaelic dialects. Both Halloween and Hallowe'en are acceptable spellings.
I think he just misunderstood when she didn't want to go down on him.
MoND has problems, too. The most prominent is the Bullet cluster. It's a group of colliding galaxies where the center of gravitational lensing and the center of observed mass don't line up, something that can't be explained by MoND but can be explained by dark matter: the collision "separated" the galaxies from their dark matter halos, causing the difference in CoG locations. Of course, this is also hotly debated, and IANAP.
Do British people abbreviate "linguistics" as "lings", or "aerodynamics" as "aeros"? Honest question.
According to this thing I just Googled, "math" actually predates "maths". Before that, it was "math.", with a period to note that it was an abbreviation.
Personally, I find the "ths" sound difficult to wrap my tongue around.
I don't care about Apple one way or the other. But stories like this keep me informed that I should continue hitting "Not Now" when my iPad bugs me to upgrade to iOS7, and that matters to me. So no, not bored.
Do you often encrypt your handwritten notes?
for i in $SILO; ; launch $i
"Dangit, I think a cat got into the silo again!"
a) I doubt anyone outside of classified weapons research actually knows whether offense or defense currently has the advantage.
b) The Zumwalt is a guided missile destroyer, which means that it will be the thing launching said anti-ship missiles at the other side's ships. It doesn't matter how deadly the enemy is, if you take them out before they take you out.
For others like me who had to look this up, link.
Hell, a lot of places still need checks because they won't take plastic!
What part of the US are you visiting? Even traveling food trucks take plastic nowadays, unless you're out in the middle of the Carolina High Desert or the Kentucky Jungles or someplace.
Came here to post exactly this.
I have a cyber-meeting every Wednesday morning with folks across the pond. Attendance is 4-12 people. There is no lack of idle chitchat or constructive feedback, or any of the other problems mentioned here.
TFA takes a forum, conference, seminar, or something like that, calls it a "meeting" when it's clearly not, and tries to shoehorn all cyber-meetings into having the same problems that the conference did. Overall, just shitty reporting trying to make a point that doesn't mesh with reality.
Nobody. The summary is wrong; Glenn is the last.
Who cares about showing it off? Most of the features being advertised are legitimate problems I've had with smoke detectors for years. The night-light feature seems like a little much, but I guess somebody might want that.
If it has an option to disconnect/switch off the wi-fi I'll buy this in a second.
'The latest incident is another reminder of the precarious state of the Fukushima plant...'
So something unexpected occurred, but automatic backups stepped in and prevented any negative consequences. While the plant may or may not be in a precarious state, this is hardly the example to be using for a FUD article. Hell, change the spin around and it could be used in a TEPCO press release showing how far they've come in stabilizing the situation.