This is definitely a context where Volvo's obsession with safety and their reputation for it will pay off in spades, both with regulators and the marketplace.
When I was in elementary school in MN, I remember it being not uncommon for the high schoolers to bring (cased) shotguns on the bus, because there was some class where they did shooting.
It was no big deal, and not one single shooting (of a person) or massacre transpired.
Aside from the incomprehensibility of "...it turns out Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late leader.." anyone else find it curious that we suddenly see a deal between HP and Apple (that allowed a downward-trending computer mfg company to tie itself to the "big up and comer") spun as "Jobs OUTFOXED Fiorina"?
Or, more simply, the EPA is lying in order to get more $.
"If we'd only had more funding, we'd have caught it" As you point out, it was pretty clearly something "new" and I'll bet $1000 that there were MANY people from other competing car manufacturers saying "none of us can do that, you need to check it" but they willfully didn't.
My guess is that it's an effort to avoid the looming backlash as Congress (who barely even perceives the internet yet) starts to get waves of angry mail from constituents complaining that they've "lost our life savings on this Kick-Starter-thing and now they claim they're not responsible"....
I KNOW they're basically just an aggregator. I KNOW "caveat emptor" and agree with it. But when congress starts to see that $millions$ have vanished chasing projects* they're going to start looking for someone to hang, and since KS doesn't have the lobbying weight of Wall Street, they're going to look like an awfully-choice "example" that Congress can use to prove they're "doing something". 2016 is an election year, as you may remember.
Personally, I believe their next big move would be to ensure that members of Goldman-Sachs are sitting on their board. That seems to do wonders to ensure that they avoid government culpability or scrutiny...
*that probably should have never been born in the first place.
"When Schools Overlook Introverts"...introverts are far, far happier?
Fuck all of you and your compulsive social bullshit. I'd *rather* be left alone, and as I come to know the world better and better, this impulse has only grown.
"it's like teaching them to change a flat tire, check their oil, jumpstart a car,"
Except that nobody - nobody - has to edit code. Ever. I'm not saying that understanding how scripts and such work (ie learning any formal logic-based language) isn't useful, but it's NOT universally needed.
The fact is that our kids are doing shittily in so many other subjects like basic reading and math, the opportunity costs of "teaching every kid to code" is too high, imo.
An amusing 'what if' but in reality, nonsense. There WAS ample intelligence about German defenses and armor in the area (anathema for lightly-armed airborne troops who have little way to fight tanks), Montgomery and his asinine coterie-of-arrogance ignored it. From wiki:
"...On 16 September ULTRA decrypts revealed the movement of 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions to Nijmegen and Arnhem, creating enough concern for Eisenhower to send his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, to raise the issue with Montgomery on 10 September; however, Montgomery dismissed Smith's concerns and refused to alter the plans for the landing of 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem.[93] Further information about the location of the German Panzer Divisions at Arnhem was revealed by aerial photographs of Arnhem taken by a photo-reconnaissance Spitfire XI from RAF's No. 16 Squadron,[94] as well as information from members of the Dutch resistance.[95] Fearing that 1st Airborne Division might be in grave danger if it landed at Arnhem the chief intelligence officer of the division, Major Brian Urquhart, arranged a meeting with Browning and informed him of the armour present at Arnhem. Browning dismissed his claims and ordered the division's senior medical officer to send Urquhart on sick leave on account of 'nervous strain and exhaustion.'[96]"
So engineers are somehow inherently more moral than anyone else? That's ridiculous.
It's *just* as likely that some amoral engineer said to an amoral suit "hey, you know, we could detect when these tests are running, and kick in the pollution controls only when they're being tested" and the suit said "ok cool, do it".
By that same logic, I'm sure you'd agree then that it shouldn't be called Obamacare, the president cannot claim credit for "Getting Bin Laden" or even signing the Iran deal? Nor, then, should Reagan be blamed for Iran/Contra or the massive deficit spending of his administration?
Did Reagan conceive or build the ISS? Clearly not. But there's a thing called the "head of government" that (at least used to) means "the buck stops here" giving them credit for programs they championed and disasters that happened on their watch as well.
I live in a 100+ year old farmhouse; it's not any surprise to me that bad voltage can propagate through the network in funny ways. I go through routers and switches with some depressing regularity...unless everyone else has home-grade switches die every 12-18 months and router maybe every 18m-2yrs?
I'd be interested too to see the impact of severe illness; some of the diarrheal illnesses can clear the gut of bacteria, I suspect some high-fever sicknesses could materially influence this cloud as well.
I believe the question is mass. If you build something, you have to build it out of stuff. And that stuff has to come from somewhere. Coming up the gravity well from earth means insane costs per-kg for simply lifting your raw materials. By building a base on a planetoid (I think the moon is a far better choice than Mars, first) we only have to lift minimal digging and sealing materials, and can burrow into the crust using the bulk of the planetoid as our "structure". All you really need to provide at that point is sealing against microleaks and some structural shoring. (As well, a not-insignificant problem that most people disregard is radiation; the best defense against that if you don't have a Van Allen belt is simple mass/bulk between you and the radiation; again, digging tunnels in the moon would be a simple solution.)
Once you have a moon base, with its ample access to minerals and much shallower gravity well, pushing material up to orbit to build anything else is much much cheaper energywise.
Now, some might say that we could hollow-out an asteroid and get the best of both worlds. Theoretically, true, but I think it's more problematic mainly because we know so little about the physical structures of asteroids generally, making the fundamental safety/security of such tunneling much more dubious...and so if you have to build every tunnel as if it's going to blow out at any moment, you might as well build a space station again (although you'd still get the rad shielding benefit).
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This is definitely a context where Volvo's obsession with safety and their reputation for it will pay off in spades, both with regulators and the marketplace.
"decimated nearly half the population in the Mediterranean"
So unless it really killed 1/10 of half the population of the Med basin, you don't know what 'decimated' means?
It's ok, it's not like this stuff is edited.
With the slashdot editors, are we really sure it's malice and not incompetence?
They're pretty bad as editors.
When I was in elementary school in MN, I remember it being not uncommon for the high schoolers to bring (cased) shotguns on the bus, because there was some class where they did shooting.
It was no big deal, and not one single shooting (of a person) or massacre transpired.
It's not the guns in school that are the problem.
I think it's just another example of the military trying to keep women out.
Poe's Law disclaimer: I'm not serious.
Crazy that a company would want to offer a best-in-class bargain reader that would encourage sales of its other services. Oh the HUMANITY.
Next, you're going to tell me that shaver companies give away the handle but FORCE YOU to use their blades?
Aside from the incomprehensibility of "...it turns out Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late leader.." anyone else find it curious that we suddenly see a deal between HP and Apple (that allowed a downward-trending computer mfg company to tie itself to the "big up and comer") spun as "Jobs OUTFOXED Fiorina"?
Or, more simply, the EPA is lying in order to get more $.
"If we'd only had more funding, we'd have caught it"
As you point out, it was pretty clearly something "new" and I'll bet $1000 that there were MANY people from other competing car manufacturers saying "none of us can do that, you need to check it" but they willfully didn't.
It's a pretty obvious move on their part.
It seems ALL workers are alleging discrimination of some sort.
Aren't we all victims somehow, if only we look hard enough?
I went to the Tmobile site and what happened?
I got a popup saying "T-Mobile wants to know your location"
How fucking ironic.
It doesn't have to be a conflict for ANYBODY.
Don't buy into the lie that Dawkins, et al are selling that science and faith are ideologically opposite and utterly incompatible.
In fact, we could use more people questioning why it's so important that these two things be narratively placed in opposition.
My guess is that it's an effort to avoid the looming backlash as Congress (who barely even perceives the internet yet) starts to get waves of angry mail from constituents complaining that they've "lost our life savings on this Kick-Starter-thing and now they claim they're not responsible"....
I KNOW they're basically just an aggregator.
I KNOW "caveat emptor" and agree with it.
But when congress starts to see that $millions$ have vanished chasing projects* they're going to start looking for someone to hang, and since KS doesn't have the lobbying weight of Wall Street, they're going to look like an awfully-choice "example" that Congress can use to prove they're "doing something".
2016 is an election year, as you may remember.
Personally, I believe their next big move would be to ensure that members of Goldman-Sachs are sitting on their board. That seems to do wonders to ensure that they avoid government culpability or scrutiny...
*that probably should have never been born in the first place.
"When Schools Overlook Introverts" ...introverts are far, far happier?
Fuck all of you and your compulsive social bullshit. I'd *rather* be left alone, and as I come to know the world better and better, this impulse has only grown.
"it's like teaching them to change a flat tire, check their oil, jumpstart a car,"
Except that nobody - nobody - has to edit code. Ever.
I'm not saying that understanding how scripts and such work (ie learning any formal logic-based language) isn't useful, but it's NOT universally needed.
The fact is that our kids are doing shittily in so many other subjects like basic reading and math, the opportunity costs of "teaching every kid to code" is too high, imo.
Don't you mean "What difference, at this point, does it make?"
An amusing 'what if' but in reality, nonsense.
There WAS ample intelligence about German defenses and armor in the area (anathema for lightly-armed airborne troops who have little way to fight tanks), Montgomery and his asinine coterie-of-arrogance ignored it. From wiki:
"...On 16 September ULTRA decrypts revealed the movement of 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions to Nijmegen and Arnhem, creating enough concern for Eisenhower to send his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, to raise the issue with Montgomery on 10 September; however, Montgomery dismissed Smith's concerns and refused to alter the plans for the landing of 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem.[93] Further information about the location of the German Panzer Divisions at Arnhem was revealed by aerial photographs of Arnhem taken by a photo-reconnaissance Spitfire XI from RAF's No. 16 Squadron,[94] as well as information from members of the Dutch resistance.[95] Fearing that 1st Airborne Division might be in grave danger if it landed at Arnhem the chief intelligence officer of the division, Major Brian Urquhart, arranged a meeting with Browning and informed him of the armour present at Arnhem. Browning dismissed his claims and ordered the division's senior medical officer to send Urquhart on sick leave on account of 'nervous strain and exhaustion.'[96]"
I've got 2: 127.0.0.0 and 10.0.0.15, I guess I can give you guys the 127 one since I'm barely using it.
So engineers are somehow inherently more moral than anyone else? That's ridiculous.
It's *just* as likely that some amoral engineer said to an amoral suit "hey, you know, we could detect when these tests are running, and kick in the pollution controls only when they're being tested" and the suit said "ok cool, do it".
The penalties and lawsuits will quickly exceed VW's $126bn valuation.
Pedantry.
By that same logic, I'm sure you'd agree then that it shouldn't be called Obamacare, the president cannot claim credit for "Getting Bin Laden" or even signing the Iran deal? Nor, then, should Reagan be blamed for Iran/Contra or the massive deficit spending of his administration?
Did Reagan conceive or build the ISS? Clearly not.
But there's a thing called the "head of government" that (at least used to) means "the buck stops here" giving them credit for programs they championed and disasters that happened on their watch as well.
Germans as a group are pretty good at following orders, even when it might be unethical.
So I've heard.
I live in a 100+ year old farmhouse; it's not any surprise to me that bad voltage can propagate through the network in funny ways. I go through routers and switches with some depressing regularity...unless everyone else has home-grade switches die every 12-18 months and router maybe every 18m-2yrs?
I'd be interested too to see the impact of severe illness; some of the diarrheal illnesses can clear the gut of bacteria, I suspect some high-fever sicknesses could materially influence this cloud as well.
It'd be great if it came home with Chang'e 3 in it's jaws.
"Yes, we said we were sending it to the moon to retrieve raw materials, it decided on it's own that was the easiest/best source."
I believe the question is mass.
If you build something, you have to build it out of stuff. And that stuff has to come from somewhere.
Coming up the gravity well from earth means insane costs per-kg for simply lifting your raw materials.
By building a base on a planetoid (I think the moon is a far better choice than Mars, first) we only have to lift minimal digging and sealing materials, and can burrow into the crust using the bulk of the planetoid as our "structure". All you really need to provide at that point is sealing against microleaks and some structural shoring.
(As well, a not-insignificant problem that most people disregard is radiation; the best defense against that if you don't have a Van Allen belt is simple mass/bulk between you and the radiation; again, digging tunnels in the moon would be a simple solution.)
Once you have a moon base, with its ample access to minerals and much shallower gravity well, pushing material up to orbit to build anything else is much much cheaper energywise.
Now, some might say that we could hollow-out an asteroid and get the best of both worlds. Theoretically, true, but I think it's more problematic mainly because we know so little about the physical structures of asteroids generally, making the fundamental safety/security of such tunneling much more dubious...and so if you have to build every tunnel as if it's going to blow out at any moment, you might as well build a space station again (although you'd still get the rad shielding benefit).