Who the fuck plugs in a laptop to an ethernet port that isn't using a docking station? That's the whole idea of a laptop that runs 10 hours on a charge - you don't have to plug it in!
How many corporations and, especially organizations, have moved to the Gmail hosted mail servers? My university moved to it 3-5 years ago. Most of the non-profits I run into are running it. For many it's worth the cost.
You know, I've heard rumors of that. As an owner of a shiny new Surface, Cortana does Bing searches by default. I can say this with no reservation: Google searches, from within my Google account (I have my personal and business domain email managed in Apps accounts)*, is hands-down superior to Bing without the associated metadata. No amount of "this is the default" search engine is going to make me use an untrained/inferior search long enough to get 10 years of searching optimized.
*If Google isn't customizing my searches, then it's just hands down better for the stuff I'm looking for, but I'm willing to give Bing the benefit of the doubt that it sucks simply because it doesn't know my history.
So, are these people prosecuted, or just given a waggled finger and a box to store their firearm safely to take home?
I ask because:
"9 U.S. Code 46505 - Carrying a weapon or explosive on an aircraft (b)General Criminal Penalty.—An individual shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both, if the individual— (1) when on, or attempting to get on, an aircraft in, or intended for operation in, air transportation or intrastate air transportation, has on or about the individual or the property of the individual a concealed dangerous weapon that is or would be accessible to the individual in flight;"
Since only embarking passengers are allowed through security now, going through the TSA station might constitute an "attempt to get on..." This is, afaict, a felony. With the exception of the (somewhat controversial, and funded/unfunded times for reviews) BATFE Relief program, those convicted of a federal felony are barred from purchase or possession of firearms.
And when a terrorist comes on board with a legal CC weapon? How about when 4-6 of them do, as with the 9-11 hijackers? Two dozen people (4 terrorists and 20 armed citizens) in a firefight in an airplane at 30,000 feet is very likely to result in the same number of deaths (i.e. everyone in the plane) whether the terrorists take over the plane or not.
Remember - someone who intends to blow up or otherwise crash a plane to incite fear in the population is already a dead man who has already made peace with his God over dying that day. Threatening to shoot him (or her) to try and stop a takeover is not a viable deterrent.
How many people were intentionally or accidentally killed with a bottle of water last year? How may with guns.
There's the justification for the difference in the severity of the penalty.
By the way - if you get caught with a bottle of anything over 3 ounces, you must forfeit the bottle and it is destroyed (thrown away or dumped out). I suspect that was not the case with the firearms in question.
Really? What kind of special rock do you live under that you are concerned enough about your personal security to carry a weapon, but are unaware that it's been illegal to carry a loaded weapon on a plane for the last four(?) decades? It significantly pre-dates the existence of the TSA.
But so forgetful that you leave it in your carry-on accidentally?
It's not like they changed the rule about firearms on planes recently. That kind of irresponsibility should get you on some ATF no-buy list. If you can't be bothered to be cognizant of carrying a weapon, you shouldn't carry one.
It's a content delivery option for those who wish to support What's App by leveraging their assets to ensure reliable delivery to the subset of mobile-savvy users which may provide reciprocal interaction to the content initiator.
If you're interested, you can contact them to discuss the operational synergies available and plan a one-time or ongoing messaging strategy.
That's why it costs $200/hr for video, not because of the commercial value of the film. We presume that someone has to reasearch the location of the files, pull the, edit the files to the length requested, and package them. That may take 5 hours or 50 hours - it depends on how many clips there are.
Except that that's only the very first step. Next, someone has to review them for privacy laws (accused and bystanders) and limitations on any ongoing investigations. That means, probably ~285 hours of snoop time (1.5x the duration of the clips) to mark any places with concerns. Then each of those areas has to be either approved for release, redacted/blurred, or removed entirely - that decision gets made by a lawyer in the department. We'll call that 40-50 hours for the lawyer and the same time for the editor/workstation jockey - assuming that only about 5-10% of the video actually has any actionable items. It could be 1000 hours of time if every hour of video needs work.
Now the video is re-encoded, labeled, and checked a second time for anything that might have been missed. There's a 7-8 figure lawsuit if you missed something. Call it 120 hours to watch at 2x speed and a little time to double check any missed spots. Now it gets transferred to the storage medium, packaged for delivery, and sent via courier or certified mail service.
That's a shitload of work. I'm not surprised at all that it's $36k.
You've not actually hired specialty laborers lately, have you? It's not uncommon to have a burdened labor rate of $60-70/hr, and a minimum crew of three. Add to that the charge for the equipment (go price the daily rental of large hardware at a rental center), plus the dumping and proper disposal fees. Don't forget to add the cost of the crew to wait for a local building, sewer, or health official to check the repair and sign off on the work. Shit gets expensive quickly.
And, to be honest, you wouldn't get me to clean out a commercial grease trap for $1500. That shit is nasty.
12 for your HOUSE? I have 11 on my deck alone, and 16 in just my kitchen if you don't count the under counter. And I have a small house.
You sound like my parents - they'll turn on two 60W eq. lamps to light a 600SF room, then wonder why they struggle to read a book or can't find *insert lost object sitting on the coffee table* at night.
They don't "look" right, and if you have more than one batch in a room you end up with this weird pastel disco lighting - pinks, greens, blues, yellows. I paid a good bit extra for 95CRI lamps for my kitchen and they are nearly indistinguishable from the 50W PARs they replaced t full power (dimmed is another story). I wouldn't mind CFLs so much but their CRI is generally 82 for the best, and in the 70s or lower for most economy brands.
You know that they make dimmer, right? I have them in the kitchen, in the bathrooms, and on the nightstands. We never worry about such silliness. Heck, if I want to stay up late, my wife just leaves the bathroom and my bedside table light on at the lowest setting - just enough to see to get back to the room.
If you get the good dimmers, you can press-and-hold and get a variable time-to-off so you can leave the room and the light will turn off after you make it to your destination.
We're not on the gold standard anymore. Making a penny adds 1c to the total currency in circulation. They "sell" those bags of pennies to the banks and that money is counted as revenue by the government. Except that it costs more to make them than they return. Quarters, on the other hand; well, this is from the WaPo from a while back:
"The quarter program has been a breakthrough for numismatists, or coin collectors, and a boon for the U.S. Treasury. A federal study estimates that 139 million Americans are collecting the quarters, producing a windfall of $6 billion to $8 billion as currency is in effect purchased from the government and taken out of circulation.
Before the first new quarters rolled out in January 1999, the U.S. Mint manufactured 1.5 billion to 2 billion quarters a year. Since 1999, the government has produced 4.4 billion, 6.5 billion and 4.8 billion each year. It costs only about a nickel to produce each quarter, so the program is basically minting 20 cents of profit for the treasury with every quarter."
1) Pennies are no longer made of copper; they're now copper plated zinc.
2) The US Mint does not have it's own recycling forges and processing equipment; they purchase materials on the open market like everyone else.
3) Yes, Japan still has yen, made of Aluminum. Everyone there hates them, too.
There's no good reason to go to two decimal places on physical prices anymore. Make a new 50c piece (because the current one is to large/expensive to produce to be practical), stop producing pennies, nickels, and quarters. About the only people that would piss off would be the parking meter folks, and I'm very much in favor of pissing those people off.
Does the department which does the autopsy even handle OPRA requests, or is it automatically forwarded to the legal council section first? My guess is it hit the desk of first line support, it said medical, and they stamped it "Denied" as a matter of course. There's no sense in having an entire department of OPRA service at every single executive division, and having $16/hr drones check the paperwork for obvious issues at a central office is easier and cheaper than having actual lawyers review everything.
Besides, if they screw up and somebody really wants the information, they can submit a new form (perhaps with a new fee) for re-consideration, or they can sue and a real lawyer will look at it. Government is really no different than a large corporation. Have you ever tried to get information from, say, Microsoft or GE?
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...it should be patched by early February. In the year 2245.
Well, unless you have your G3 on Verizon, then you might just need to leave a note for Buck Rogers so that he can apply the patch. when it comes out.
Who the fuck plugs in a laptop to an ethernet port that isn't using a docking station? That's the whole idea of a laptop that runs 10 hours on a charge - you don't have to plug it in!
You're thinking to close to 2000.
How many corporations and, especially organizations, have moved to the Gmail hosted mail servers? My university moved to it 3-5 years ago. Most of the non-profits I run into are running it. For many it's worth the cost.
"would suck" was the edit to make it sound better. And, relatively speaking, it's an improvement from a legal standpoint, imho.
That was the epitome of geeky and awesome when I was in 5th grade.
https://youtu.be/umDCQNTkSCk
You know, I've heard rumors of that. As an owner of a shiny new Surface, Cortana does Bing searches by default. I can say this with no reservation: Google searches, from within my Google account (I have my personal and business domain email managed in Apps accounts)*, is hands-down superior to Bing without the associated metadata. No amount of "this is the default" search engine is going to make me use an untrained/inferior search long enough to get 10 years of searching optimized.
*If Google isn't customizing my searches, then it's just hands down better for the stuff I'm looking for, but I'm willing to give Bing the benefit of the doubt that it sucks simply because it doesn't know my history.
So, are these people prosecuted, or just given a waggled finger and a box to store their firearm safely to take home?
I ask because:
"9 U.S. Code 46505 - Carrying a weapon or explosive on an aircraft
(b)General Criminal Penalty.—An individual shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both, if the individual—
(1) when on, or attempting to get on, an aircraft in, or intended for operation in, air transportation or intrastate air transportation, has on or about the individual or the property of the individual a concealed dangerous weapon that is or would be accessible to the individual in flight;"
Since only embarking passengers are allowed through security now, going through the TSA station might constitute an "attempt to get on..." This is, afaict, a felony. With the exception of the (somewhat controversial, and funded/unfunded times for reviews) BATFE Relief program, those convicted of a federal felony are barred from purchase or possession of firearms.
Was this pursued on any of the 2000 cases?
And when a terrorist comes on board with a legal CC weapon? How about when 4-6 of them do, as with the 9-11 hijackers? Two dozen people (4 terrorists and 20 armed citizens) in a firefight in an airplane at 30,000 feet is very likely to result in the same number of deaths (i.e. everyone in the plane) whether the terrorists take over the plane or not.
Remember - someone who intends to blow up or otherwise crash a plane to incite fear in the population is already a dead man who has already made peace with his God over dying that day. Threatening to shoot him (or her) to try and stop a takeover is not a viable deterrent.
How many people were intentionally or accidentally killed with a bottle of water last year? How may with guns.
There's the justification for the difference in the severity of the penalty.
By the way - if you get caught with a bottle of anything over 3 ounces, you must forfeit the bottle and it is destroyed (thrown away or dumped out). I suspect that was not the case with the firearms in question.
Really? What kind of special rock do you live under that you are concerned enough about your personal security to carry a weapon, but are unaware that it's been illegal to carry a loaded weapon on a plane for the last four(?) decades? It significantly pre-dates the existence of the TSA.
But so forgetful that you leave it in your carry-on accidentally?
It's not like they changed the rule about firearms on planes recently. That kind of irresponsibility should get you on some ATF no-buy list. If you can't be bothered to be cognizant of carrying a weapon, you shouldn't carry one.
It's a content delivery option for those who wish to support What's App by leveraging their assets to ensure reliable delivery to the subset of mobile-savvy users which may provide reciprocal interaction to the content initiator.
If you're interested, you can contact them to discuss the operational synergies available and plan a one-time or ongoing messaging strategy.
"What if something got out that shouldn’t have"
That's why it costs $200/hr for video, not because of the commercial value of the film. We presume that someone has to reasearch the location of the files, pull the, edit the files to the length requested, and package them. That may take 5 hours or 50 hours - it depends on how many clips there are.
Except that that's only the very first step. Next, someone has to review them for privacy laws (accused and bystanders) and limitations on any ongoing investigations. That means, probably ~285 hours of snoop time (1.5x the duration of the clips) to mark any places with concerns. Then each of those areas has to be either approved for release, redacted/blurred, or removed entirely - that decision gets made by a lawyer in the department. We'll call that 40-50 hours for the lawyer and the same time for the editor/workstation jockey - assuming that only about 5-10% of the video actually has any actionable items. It could be 1000 hours of time if every hour of video needs work.
Now the video is re-encoded, labeled, and checked a second time for anything that might have been missed. There's a 7-8 figure lawsuit if you missed something. Call it 120 hours to watch at 2x speed and a little time to double check any missed spots. Now it gets transferred to the storage medium, packaged for delivery, and sent via courier or certified mail service.
That's a shitload of work. I'm not surprised at all that it's $36k.
Ugh, Why are you so old?
Because the Pacific ocean doesn't touch anywhere but Washinton State?
You've not actually hired specialty laborers lately, have you? It's not uncommon to have a burdened labor rate of $60-70/hr, and a minimum crew of three. Add to that the charge for the equipment (go price the daily rental of large hardware at a rental center), plus the dumping and proper disposal fees. Don't forget to add the cost of the crew to wait for a local building, sewer, or health official to check the repair and sign off on the work. Shit gets expensive quickly.
And, to be honest, you wouldn't get me to clean out a commercial grease trap for $1500. That shit is nasty.
12 for your HOUSE? I have 11 on my deck alone, and 16 in just my kitchen if you don't count the under counter. And I have a small house.
You sound like my parents - they'll turn on two 60W eq. lamps to light a 600SF room, then wonder why they struggle to read a book or can't find *insert lost object sitting on the coffee table* at night.
They don't "look" right, and if you have more than one batch in a room you end up with this weird pastel disco lighting - pinks, greens, blues, yellows. I paid a good bit extra for 95CRI lamps for my kitchen and they are nearly indistinguishable from the 50W PARs they replaced t full power (dimmed is another story). I wouldn't mind CFLs so much but their CRI is generally 82 for the best, and in the 70s or lower for most economy brands.
You know that they make dimmer, right? I have them in the kitchen, in the bathrooms, and on the nightstands. We never worry about such silliness. Heck, if I want to stay up late, my wife just leaves the bathroom and my bedside table light on at the lowest setting - just enough to see to get back to the room.
If you get the good dimmers, you can press-and-hold and get a variable time-to-off so you can leave the room and the light will turn off after you make it to your destination.
We're not on the gold standard anymore. Making a penny adds 1c to the total currency in circulation. They "sell" those bags of pennies to the banks and that money is counted as revenue by the government. Except that it costs more to make them than they return. Quarters, on the other hand; well, this is from the WaPo from a while back:
"The quarter program has been a breakthrough for numismatists, or coin collectors, and a boon for the U.S. Treasury. A federal study estimates that 139 million Americans are collecting the quarters, producing a windfall of $6 billion to $8 billion as currency is in effect purchased from the government and taken out of circulation.
Before the first new quarters rolled out in January 1999, the U.S. Mint manufactured 1.5 billion to 2 billion quarters a year. Since 1999, the government has produced 4.4 billion, 6.5 billion and 4.8 billion each year. It costs only about a nickel to produce each quarter, so the program is basically minting 20 cents of profit for the treasury with every quarter."
1) Pennies are no longer made of copper; they're now copper plated zinc.
2) The US Mint does not have it's own recycling forges and processing equipment; they purchase materials on the open market like everyone else.
3) Yes, Japan still has yen, made of Aluminum. Everyone there hates them, too.
There's no good reason to go to two decimal places on physical prices anymore. Make a new 50c piece (because the current one is to large/expensive to produce to be practical), stop producing pennies, nickels, and quarters. About the only people that would piss off would be the parking meter folks, and I'm very much in favor of pissing those people off.
Does the department which does the autopsy even handle OPRA requests, or is it automatically forwarded to the legal council section first? My guess is it hit the desk of first line support, it said medical, and they stamped it "Denied" as a matter of course. There's no sense in having an entire department of OPRA service at every single executive division, and having $16/hr drones check the paperwork for obvious issues at a central office is easier and cheaper than having actual lawyers review everything.
Besides, if they screw up and somebody really wants the information, they can submit a new form (perhaps with a new fee) for re-consideration, or they can sue and a real lawyer will look at it. Government is really no different than a large corporation. Have you ever tried to get information from, say, Microsoft or GE?
Yes, they do. They work perfectly well. You can't hear them, but they work just fine.
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