The article only notes that teenagers are driving much less. Total miles driven has only declined very slightly in the last few years (starting with the recession), and was steadily climbing for decades prior to that.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra.
OK, that doesn't quite fit this situation, but you are only putting one variable into your equation - more roads. There's also:
- More population. A lot more - the use population has grown something like 25% in the part 30-40 years.
- More population in suburbs, and other changes to density.
- And as a consequence of the previous item, more miles driven per capita, especially in some areas. Just because teens aren't driving doesn't mean nobody is.
I haven't seen anything that lists any Apple funding, although some articles mention Rackspace.
The primary political tension I was referring to was the continual battle between the county government and the city government here. The city has a very large (and pretty good) library system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Public_Library); they could have taken on this site as well. But it was probably easier to go bookless by not being part of the SAPL system (and Nelson Wolff, a county guy, couldn't get any credit if SA did it).
Turns out, this library is well within the city - it just happens to be funded by the county government (which isn't unheard of, although it was probably done for political reasons here).
I would argue that wi-fi and e-readers are not a complete replacement for a physical library location. Among other things, the building has useful services like desktop computers, meeting spaces, computer classes, and a place to pick up and learn about those e-readers.
The $2.3 million spent on this library could have bought e-readers for a large percentage of the populace, easily one per household, and put free wifi on every major street corner.
how do they get the really large ship i.e. tankers etc that far up the beach. Do they just sail flat out towards the coast and then let the ship plough on until it comes to rest?
We hear that Lenz, based in New York, would always take pictures of people talking on company-wide conference calls so that he could post them on Patch's internal news site.
Are you sure the damage is just limited to the configuration changes you made? The attorneys in my organization believed that the language could be extended to anything that runs on the same set of servers, and anything that interacted with the same database.
And it's even worse for libraries (e.g. iText) - there, the thought was that it could require sharing every bit of code used to run the web site. Not surprisingly, we're not using or contributing to anything licensed under the AGPL.
In the case of AES-128, there is no known attack which is faster than the 2^128 complexity of exhaustive search. However, AES-192 and AES-256 were recently shown to be breakable by attacks which require 2^176 and 2^119 time, respectively.
It used to be that cost and resources would severely constrain the number of 'targeted killings'.
Those constraints made for a type of check and balance; only targets that reached a very high threshold were attacked. Now that it's much cheaper and easier to launch an attack, that threshold is much lower.
In short, as is true of many systems, a change *is* quantity is a change in quality.
"It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money."
"T. S. Eliot," ex-P. F. C. Wintergreen said in his mail-sorting cubicle at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters and slammed down the telephone without identifying himself.
...
General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile. His expression was shrewd and sophisticated. His eyes gleamed maliciously. "Have someone get me General Dreedle," he requested Colonel Cargill. "Don't let him know who's calling." Colonel Cargill handed him the phone.
"T. S. Eliot," General Peckem said, and hung up.
Today, someone would ponder why Wintergreen would slam down the phone, since that would break the screen.
> When you study a system, especially a complex system, it defies imagination that you can tweak a single variable and control the entire system.
So, to continue with the example of the day: we'll reduce the amount of oxygen available to a human, and see if that has any effect. It's just a single variable, after all; surely it can't control the entire system.
There's an argument to be made about percentages, and whether CO2 in the atmosphere is more like oxygen to a human, or maybe more like nitrogen, but that's not the argument you presented.
"Equally science fiction" is overstating it just a bit. We have observed that a human consciousness can exist - there are several billion examples around at the moment (minus a few politicians). There are no observations of wormholes or faster-than-light communications.
So, a consciousness in another medium has a better chance of being built than an ansible. Of course, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it.
He said he was once a voracious reader, but his schedule got in the way. While Cryptonomicon is an excellent work, it requires attention, and probably doesn't work as well when read in small chunks. So the problem could have been time, not "he doesn't like to read" (that's a massive oversimplification of his point, BTW).
The problem could also have been that he didn't like some topic in the book. I had a friend return a copy he'd borrowed because he didn't want to read through the "gay agenda" involving Alan Turing in the first few chapters.
Your problem, on the other hand, is a bit tougher to diagnose. What led you to post such a pointless, vapid comment? Are you really that bored?
But I thought Cryptonomicon was a fascinating and enjoyable work of genius. I stayed up late reading it, even when I shouldn't have. It got to the point where my work probably suffered during that time. There haven't been many books that have affected me that much; Catch-22 is the only one that comes to mind at the moment.
Of course, when I reached the end of Cryptonomicon, I wanted more. So when The Baroque Cycle was released, there was 'more'. Well, be careful what you wish for - sometimes more becomes 'too much'.
Anyway, if you're ever able to make more time in your schedule for reading, you might want to give Cryptonomicon another chance. Or not - it's not like there's a shortage of good books out there.
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The article only notes that teenagers are driving much less. Total miles driven has only declined very slightly in the last few years (starting with the recession), and was steadily climbing for decades prior to that.
Here's a chart: http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/DOT-Miles-Driven.php
What 'busy traffic' used to look like: http://blueicehouse.com/n5ssi/i35_riverside_may_1957.jpg
(part of this wonderful collection: http://gmlongroof.4umer.com/t7911-great-old-pics-austin-texas)
More recent photos: http://www.texasfreeway.com/austin/photos/i35/i35.shtml
Basically, our definitions of traffic density have changed.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra.
OK, that doesn't quite fit this situation, but you are only putting one variable into your equation - more roads. There's also:
Another factor - most driving is no longer 'fun' - It's fighting traffic. it's a job.
The only place you don't see traffic these days is car commercials.
I haven't seen anything that lists any Apple funding, although some articles mention Rackspace.
The primary political tension I was referring to was the continual battle between the county government and the city government here. The city has a very large (and pretty good) library system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Public_Library); they could have taken on this site as well. But it was probably easier to go bookless by not being part of the SAPL system (and Nelson Wolff, a county guy, couldn't get any credit if SA did it).
Turns out, this library is well within the city - it just happens to be funded by the county government (which isn't unheard of, although it was probably done for political reasons here).
I would argue that wi-fi and e-readers are not a complete replacement for a physical library location. Among other things, the building has useful services like desktop computers, meeting spaces, computer classes, and a place to pick up and learn about those e-readers.
The $2.3 million spent on this library could have
bought e-readers for a large percentage of the populace, easily one per household, and put free wifi on every major street corner.
Doubt it. Bexar County has 1.7 million people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bexar_County,_Texas
Why do you think the Israeli method is cheaper? They spend about 10 times as much per passenger as we do:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/07/would_you_pay_25_for_71_seconds_of_scrutiny_in_an_airport
how do they get the really large ship i.e. tankers etc that far up the beach. Do they just sail flat out towards the coast and then let the ship plough on until it comes to rest?
Yes: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ship+breaking+beaching
Collisions are an obvious hazard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTDV2BqfOVg
From http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-audio-listen-to-aol-ceo-tim-armstrong-fire-a-patch-employee-snapping-a-photo-2013-8 :
We hear that Lenz, based in New York, would always take pictures of people talking on company-wide conference calls so that he could post them on Patch's internal news site.
I don't think you have much of a future as an insurance actuary.
Are you sure the damage is just limited to the configuration changes you made? The attorneys in my organization believed that the language could be extended to anything that runs on the same set of servers, and anything that interacted with the same database.
And it's even worse for libraries (e.g. iText) - there, the thought was that it could require sharing every bit of code used to run the web site. Not surprisingly, we're not using or contributing to anything licensed under the AGPL.
Bruce Schneier agrees with you:
Why do otherwise rational people think it's a good idea to profile at airports?
From paper discussed here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html
In the case of AES-128, there is no known attack which is faster than the 2^128 complexity of exhaustive search. However, AES-192 and AES-256 were recently shown to be breakable by attacks which require 2^176 and 2^119 time, respectively.
... run wires in conduit at a uniform height in every wall ...
OK, I'm confused. Is the conduit running horizontally through the wall? And then you reach through the new hole in the wall to tee into the conduit?
I'm not aware of anything UL listed / permitted by code that works that way.
Protests in Chicago: http://rt.com/usa/chicago-school-protests-arrests-969/ They were protesting the closing of schools. How 'feral'.
How did something as vile as your post ever get modded up?
It used to be that cost and resources would severely constrain the number of 'targeted killings'.
Those constraints made for a type of check and balance; only targets that reached a very high threshold were attacked. Now that it's much cheaper and easier to launch an attack, that threshold is much lower.
In short, as is true of many systems, a change *is* quantity is a change in quality.
From Catch-22:
"It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money."
"T. S. Eliot," ex-P. F. C. Wintergreen said in his mail-sorting cubicle at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters and slammed down the telephone without identifying himself.
General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile. His expression was shrewd and sophisticated. His eyes gleamed maliciously. "Have someone get me General Dreedle," he requested Colonel Cargill. "Don't let him know who's calling." Colonel Cargill handed him the phone.
"T. S. Eliot," General Peckem said, and hung up.
Today, someone would ponder why Wintergreen would slam down the phone, since that would break the screen.
Shorter you: Mossedegh bad; Shah good. I'd love to hear your views on SAVAK: Great secret police, or greatest secret police?
You comment is unusually partisan - unusual, since there aren't that many people with a partisan view of Iranian history here on /.
> When you study a system, especially a complex system, it defies imagination that you can tweak a single variable and control the entire system.
So, to continue with the example of the day: we'll reduce the amount of oxygen available to a human, and see if that has any effect. It's just a single variable, after all; surely it can't control the entire system.
There's an argument to be made about percentages, and whether CO2 in the atmosphere is more like oxygen to a human, or maybe more like nitrogen, but that's not the argument you presented.
"Equally science fiction" is overstating it just a bit. We have observed that a human consciousness can exist - there are several billion examples around at the moment (minus a few politicians). There are no observations of wormholes or faster-than-light communications.
So, a consciousness in another medium has a better chance of being built than an ansible. Of course, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it.
He said he was once a voracious reader, but his schedule got in the way. While Cryptonomicon is an excellent work, it requires attention, and probably doesn't work as well when read in small chunks. So the problem could have been time, not "he doesn't like to read" (that's a massive oversimplification of his point, BTW).
The problem could also have been that he didn't like some topic in the book. I had a friend return a copy he'd borrowed because he didn't want to read through the "gay agenda" involving Alan Turing in the first few chapters.
Your problem, on the other hand, is a bit tougher to diagnose. What led you to post such a pointless, vapid comment? Are you really that bored?
Different strokes, YMMV, etc.
But I thought Cryptonomicon was a fascinating and enjoyable work of genius. I stayed up late reading it, even when I shouldn't have. It got to the point where my work probably suffered during that time. There haven't been many books that have affected me that much; Catch-22 is the only one that comes to mind at the moment.
Of course, when I reached the end of Cryptonomicon, I wanted more. So when The Baroque Cycle was released, there was 'more'. Well, be careful what you wish for - sometimes more becomes 'too much'.
Anyway, if you're ever able to make more time in your schedule for reading, you might want to give Cryptonomicon another chance. Or not - it's not like there's a shortage of good books out there.
There was an English translation of the press conference available.
It's now in this NYTimes article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/ecuador-to-let-assange-stay-in-its-embassy.html?pagewanted=all
Something that was in the press release, but that is not being widely reported:
Ecuador offered for Assange to go to Stockholm tomorrow if there was no extradition to the US.
Sweden refused.