Those buildings were really not designed to protect against that level of failure.
And there's some agreement that the very open plan of the floors might have contributed to the failure as there were no internal supports for the floors save for the center column which mostly contained the elevators.
I understand that the same sort of thing exists in the UK, the so-called 'yob culture'.
I'm not sure that sort of thing is as tolerated in other european countries, though, where there is less reverence for freedom. There seems to be a segment of the USA and UK that believe "freedom" means the freedom to fark over others and their property and to raise hell without restraint.
It's too bad. Such people are one day going to destroy the tradition of freedom in those countries.
Sorry, but BeOS is in an entirely different class than is TOS.
Atari's TOS was quick and responsive because it was simple, lacking many features we take for granted today like preemptive multitasking and multi processor support.
BeOS was responsive because it was a complex, full featured OS that was also well thought out and well designed.
The problem is that many devices require ridiculously high minimum threshold voltages just to work.
TI, for example, sells a remote control IR encoder that requires a supply voltage of 2.7V. That means two AA batteries in series run down to below 1.35V apiece will not run a device with that IR encoder.
A typical AA battery will deliver only about 0.40 AH before it runs down to 1.35V. That 0.40 AH is of a 2.1 AH total. That's a huge waste.
No matter how the sites were examined, there was no measurable difference in road noise. All differences at the more distant measurement locations were due simply to the distance effect rather than to any additional mitigating effects of trees, whether measured by planting density, age, height, or average tree diameter.
Those industrious few that were repairing and reusing equipment should have been free to start their own enterprises and invent and produce new things. Instead they had to struggle under communism and miss the opportunity to become the next Steve Jobs of Eastern Europe.
Of course by holding them back all were kept equally poor (except party insiders) and so the pride and ego of even the most incapable person was spared any uncomfortable comparison.
Often the local franchise authority (set up by the city or state or county) sets prices for services.
If the price is set too low, then the cable company can't legally charge enough to pay for the infrastructure to reach certain customers, even if those customers are willing to pay more to get service.
This isn't about studying different cultures. It's about the connection between the construction of a language and the effects of that construction on the mind.
Different languages with their different constructions appear to alter and guide certain aspects of thought.
Fortunately, for that purpose, we have Pol Pot, Staline, Mao, Leopold II of Belgium, Ismail Enver, Kim Il Sung and few others. It is about time racism cease, Germans are not the only one who have perform massive killings in the 20th century.
Introducing other names doesn't help much IMO because it ignores the source of their power: great numbers of people looking for some kind of messiah to step in and solve all their problems -- the 'total' in 'totalitarianism' as Hitchens pointed out.
Hitler with his silly hair cut and ridiculous mustache would have died in obscurity if there hadn't been millions of followers willing to give up their individuality and put their faith in a national savior.
Yes, the 1935 law absolutely blocked innovative package delivery services such as UPS and FedEx from even getting start..... Er, wait a minute!
Actually regulation did hold back FedEx. You're just looking at the wrong law. You need to reference instead the Civil Aeronautics Authority Act of 1938 that created the Civil Aeronautics Board.
I blame a democracy that believes politicians should be responsible for the economy.
Politicians don't care if kids' teeth fall out as long as they can go on about how many sugar jobs they created to get re-elected.
And the first Iraq war might not have happened if the public didn't expect Bush Sr to do something about a recession created by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
We actually killed people in an effort to reduce the unemployment rate and stabilize oil markets, all because the public thought the president was responsible for the recession and was responsible for fixing it.
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No again.
The problem is that too many believe they know what's best for everyone, nationwide.
And there's some agreement that the very open plan of the floors might have contributed to the failure as there were no internal supports for the floors save for the center column which mostly contained the elevators.
I understand that the same sort of thing exists in the UK, the so-called 'yob culture'.
I'm not sure that sort of thing is as tolerated in other european countries, though, where there is less reverence for freedom. There seems to be a segment of the USA and UK that believe "freedom" means the freedom to fark over others and their property and to raise hell without restraint.
It's too bad. Such people are one day going to destroy the tradition of freedom in those countries.
And politicians enjoy the power to write regulation enabling law so as to extort campaign contributions from companies.
Of course Hillary has no response to Bernie Sanders' honesty.
Whether one agrees with Bernie Sanders' ideology or not, you can trust Sanders to be honest.
Hillary believes lying is just part of playing the game and she will do anything to win.
Sorry, but BeOS is in an entirely different class than is TOS.
Atari's TOS was quick and responsive because it was simple, lacking many features we take for granted today like preemptive multitasking and multi processor support.
BeOS was responsive because it was a complex, full featured OS that was also well thought out and well designed.
as people start to use steganographic methods.
The problem is that many devices require ridiculously high minimum threshold voltages just to work.
TI, for example, sells a remote control IR encoder that requires a supply voltage of 2.7V. That means two AA batteries in series run down to below 1.35V apiece will not run a device with that IR encoder.
A typical AA battery will deliver only about 0.40 AH before it runs down to 1.35V. That 0.40 AH is of a 2.1 AH total. That's a huge waste.
Who thinks that? People that have never studied noise abatement and think their cleverness is enough to allow them to intuit the science.
Trees and shrubs do very little. A thorough study from the state of Virginia showed
No matter how the sites were examined, there was no measurable difference in road noise. All differences at the more distant measurement locations were due simply to the distance effect rather than to any additional mitigating effects of trees, whether measured by planting density, age, height, or average tree diameter.
Saying Libertarians are "far-right" is like saying sqrt(-1) is more positive than zero.
And the computer here is a patsy called a calling station.
From the article: "but its basic approach to the game involves getting into every hand by calling bets".
You joke about gamma rays but there isn't much of difference between X rays and gamma rays from a biological perspective.
I'd be interested in what happens to those that have received several head CT scans. One head CT scan is about 20 years of background radiation.
I thought he had simply mis-spoken or was mis-quoted given that the commercials have already run for more than a year.
If the quote is accurate, then it must mean the new tax rules began in 2015.
Still, it's one year of hype leading to a launch that virtually no one showed up for.
Where did you get the idea that it had been running for just a quarter of a year?
The program was being developed in 2013 and by January 2014, they had already begun running ads.
That makes the program more than a year and a quarter old.
Those industrious few that were repairing and reusing equipment should have been free to start their own enterprises and invent and produce new things. Instead they had to struggle under communism and miss the opportunity to become the next Steve Jobs of Eastern Europe.
Of course by holding them back all were kept equally poor (except party insiders) and so the pride and ego of even the most incapable person was spared any uncomfortable comparison.
Whoa. I didn't say it was good or bad.
I was just replying to the suggestion that this was the fault of "liberals".
This is more likely an expression of Hawiian nationalism which has been on the rise in recent years.
In some cases it has crossed the line into race hatred as the Southern Poverty Law Center noted a few years back.
And there are several independence groups. China has even offered to arm them.
Are we going to call it English++ or English# ?
Another problem are price controls.
Often the local franchise authority (set up by the city or state or county) sets prices for services.
If the price is set too low, then the cable company can't legally charge enough to pay for the infrastructure to reach certain customers, even if those customers are willing to pay more to get service.
C12 is for 30Km from the surface, that's why.
The link I gave shows the temperature for the lowest part of the atmosphere.
Here's the RSS at 0.122K/decade:
RSS temperature time series
This isn't about studying different cultures. It's about the connection between the construction of a language and the effects of that construction on the mind.
Different languages with their different constructions appear to alter and guide certain aspects of thought.
Introducing other names doesn't help much IMO because it ignores the source of their power: great numbers of people looking for some kind of messiah to step in and solve all their problems -- the 'total' in 'totalitarianism' as Hitchens pointed out.
Hitler with his silly hair cut and ridiculous mustache would have died in obscurity if there hadn't been millions of followers willing to give up their individuality and put their faith in a national savior.
Actually regulation did hold back FedEx. You're just looking at the wrong law. You need to reference instead the Civil Aeronautics Authority Act of 1938 that created the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The board was essentially dissolved after the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978.
After deregulation, express air services spread across the country.
I blame a democracy that believes politicians should be responsible for the economy.
Politicians don't care if kids' teeth fall out as long as they can go on about how many sugar jobs they created to get re-elected.
And the first Iraq war might not have happened if the public didn't expect Bush Sr to do something about a recession created by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
We actually killed people in an effort to reduce the unemployment rate and stabilize oil markets, all because the public thought the president was responsible for the recession and was responsible for fixing it.