Gotta love living in one of the only area's in North America where the temperature goes from one extreme to the next. -45C(-49F) winter, +45C(113F) summer.
Centers of continents w/o any large bodies of water nearby will be like that.
Saskatchewan: there is lots to see, just nothing to block the view!
There's got to be a market for this. 'Freedom Fighter' - play as Lenin, Collins, Mao, de Gaulle, Guevara, Khomeini! Overthrow the corrupt puppet government of the oppressors! Establish liberty and justice for the common people!
It's too bad that none of those people ever established liberty and justice for the common people except for Collins and de Gaulle. The others became the oppressors and ratcheted up the injustice and violence from their predecessors. Talk about "out of the frying pan, into the fire" situations.
I had some relatives that worked for Chrysler and they had similar warnings. They said to only buy cars that were made on Tuesday or Wednesday. Thursday & Friday people are usually thinking about the weekend and not focused on their job and Monday most people were dealing with hangovers. Hopefully it wasn't put together in the afternoon by people who got stoned during the lunch break. Relatives in the railroad industry talk about all the derailments that don't make the news or how bored workers try to drag race company trucks across the rail yard - and the supervisors wonder why 6 month old trucks are falling apart....
The scientists that I've worked with spend more time begging for money (ie writing grant proposals) than they do real work (mainly done by low level staff/interns - me), so they're more like politicians. They will chase anything that promises funding, which is why the head of the facility I worked at told everyone in 1989 to find a way to link their projects to global climate change whether the projects had anything to with it or not. I respect some individuals, but IMHO, as a group they are just as tainted as politicians or business leaders.
Another big "what if" you could throw into the mix would be "what if Hitler listened to his generals?". The Germans would have then made tactical retreats and grouped to launch other Eastern Front offensives instead of staying and being slaughtered.
Ousting Mossaddeq (who was appointed PM by the Shah) and putting the Shah back in power after he fled Iran was about keeping the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company from being nationalized. This was after the 50/50 revenue sharing plan was rejected.
Hopefully our politicians are as forward thinking as you.
It must have hurt falling off that turnip wagon...especially when you land on your head. But today's your lucky day. I happen to own some of this coastal property and I'll sell it to ya cheap so you'll have more money to spend on those windmills.
I'm wondering how they are defining "have access to broadband Internet". I'm guessing they are defining it as broadband service in the neighborhood AND having a computer to use it. Since there are significant numbers of people who don't give a shit about computers or the internet, the telecoms will continue to use these low-ball numbers in order to get governments to subsidize equipment upgrades.
If you want to learn something that banks use, that would be COBOL, not FORTRAN. FORTRAN is used primarily in scientific applications while COBOL is used for business related apps.
All it will take is one poor geek spending a 12 hour day in the data center for this to be deemed a horrible idea. (Like that never happens)
These 'data centers' are going to be nothing but specialized shipping containers. I saw a Microsoft presentation a week or so ago about their 4th Gen datacenters. They will just be a bunch of shipping containers packed with blade servers & drives, some HVAC & power hardware, and parked in a lot with a security wall around them (no roof or HVAC for the site). When a predetermined number of servers and/or drives fail in the container, a truck will be dispatched to the site to plug in a new container and pick up the defective one. With that model of operation, the only time a geek is going to be messing around with the machines is when the container is back at the 'build facility' or by logging in remotely. I imagine Rackspace is planning on doing something similar.
They certainly could have. Other sites have pointed out that publishing PDFs containing scanned versions of the hardcopy of the legislation is more about giving the appearance of being "open" while frustrating those who want to do text searches on the legislation. Those who want to do that have to take the extra step of running the images through an OCR process, which may introduce errors. The legislation had to be typed in somewhere, so they should be publishing the text version instead of scanned images.
Don't forget the motels. There's nothing I hate worse than having to stop at a motel because I'm too tired to continue the rest of the drive. I like being able to comfortably drive 1000 miles a day.
Urban areas also have the advantage of having more people around to report the accident to authorities soon after it happens, distance to trauma center, etc. Time is critical and the faster the people involved in the crash are receiving medical treatment, the better.
For goodness sakes, they released a passenger car hybrid that costs about the same as a prius, but gets about the same gas mileage as a minivan.
I'm guessing you're referring to the Malibu Hybrid? What minivan gets 26mpg city/34mpg highway? I can't find any on fueleconomy.gov, but that would be a nice thing to have. The best on there is the Mazda 5 at 22city/28highway.
Not to mention that coal fired power plants in the US spew more radioactive materials into the environment than what is used for fuel by all the nuclear power plants in the US.
Buying a new car to save money on fuel usually isn't a good idea because unless fuel is very high, the number of miles that must be driven to reach the break even point is usually high enough that it won't be reached for several years. Of course, if they were going to buy a new vehicle anyway, then getting one that is efficient will help cut down on operating costs. I prefer to get a used vehicle that still gets decent mileage and drive it until it's not worth fixing.
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Centers of continents w/o any large bodies of water nearby will be like that.
Saskatchewan: there is lots to see, just nothing to block the view!
Pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. -- George Orwell, 1941
It's too bad that none of those people ever established liberty and justice for the common people except for Collins and de Gaulle. The others became the oppressors and ratcheted up the injustice and violence from their predecessors. Talk about "out of the frying pan, into the fire" situations.
What was wrong with the opening scene to Saving Private Ryan?
the Lego phone - it works great until you drop it and have to put it back together. :)
I had some relatives that worked for Chrysler and they had similar warnings. They said to only buy cars that were made on Tuesday or Wednesday. Thursday & Friday people are usually thinking about the weekend and not focused on their job and Monday most people were dealing with hangovers. Hopefully it wasn't put together in the afternoon by people who got stoned during the lunch break. Relatives in the railroad industry talk about all the derailments that don't make the news or how bored workers try to drag race company trucks across the rail yard - and the supervisors wonder why 6 month old trucks are falling apart....
The scientists that I've worked with spend more time begging for money (ie writing grant proposals) than they do real work (mainly done by low level staff/interns - me), so they're more like politicians. They will chase anything that promises funding, which is why the head of the facility I worked at told everyone in 1989 to find a way to link their projects to global climate change whether the projects had anything to with it or not. I respect some individuals, but IMHO, as a group they are just as tainted as politicians or business leaders.
What's a "good" auction site then?
Another big "what if" you could throw into the mix would be "what if Hitler listened to his generals?". The Germans would have then made tactical retreats and grouped to launch other Eastern Front offensives instead of staying and being slaughtered.
Ousting Mossaddeq (who was appointed PM by the Shah) and putting the Shah back in power after he fled Iran was about keeping the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company from being nationalized. This was after the 50/50 revenue sharing plan was rejected.
pointing out the truth is a troll?
and escaping from automobiles.
It must have hurt falling off that turnip wagon...especially when you land on your head. But today's your lucky day. I happen to own some of this coastal property and I'll sell it to ya cheap so you'll have more money to spend on those windmills.
His administration gave a lot of money to the Detroit automakers for R&D in producing fuel efficient vehicles too. Great ROIC on both projects, I see.
I'm wondering how they are defining "have access to broadband Internet". I'm guessing they are defining it as broadband service in the neighborhood AND having a computer to use it. Since there are significant numbers of people who don't give a shit about computers or the internet, the telecoms will continue to use these low-ball numbers in order to get governments to subsidize equipment upgrades.
If you want to learn something that banks use, that would be COBOL, not FORTRAN. FORTRAN is used primarily in scientific applications while COBOL is used for business related apps.
These 'data centers' are going to be nothing but specialized shipping containers. I saw a Microsoft presentation a week or so ago about their 4th Gen datacenters. They will just be a bunch of shipping containers packed with blade servers & drives, some HVAC & power hardware, and parked in a lot with a security wall around them (no roof or HVAC for the site). When a predetermined number of servers and/or drives fail in the container, a truck will be dispatched to the site to plug in a new container and pick up the defective one. With that model of operation, the only time a geek is going to be messing around with the machines is when the container is back at the 'build facility' or by logging in remotely. I imagine Rackspace is planning on doing something similar.
None of this really surprises me.
One fuel stop wouldn't be that bad. You would have to do that with most cars anyway.
Don't forget the motels. There's nothing I hate worse than having to stop at a motel because I'm too tired to continue the rest of the drive. I like being able to comfortably drive 1000 miles a day.
I have a Mitsubishi Precis like that. However, the vibrations stop after it gets above 90mph.
Urban areas also have the advantage of having more people around to report the accident to authorities soon after it happens, distance to trauma center, etc. Time is critical and the faster the people involved in the crash are receiving medical treatment, the better.
I'm guessing you're referring to the Malibu Hybrid? What minivan gets 26mpg city/34mpg highway? I can't find any on fueleconomy.gov, but that would be a nice thing to have. The best on there is the Mazda 5 at 22city/28highway.
Not to mention that coal fired power plants in the US spew more radioactive materials into the environment than what is used for fuel by all the nuclear power plants in the US.
Buying a new car to save money on fuel usually isn't a good idea because unless fuel is very high, the number of miles that must be driven to reach the break even point is usually high enough that it won't be reached for several years. Of course, if they were going to buy a new vehicle anyway, then getting one that is efficient will help cut down on operating costs. I prefer to get a used vehicle that still gets decent mileage and drive it until it's not worth fixing.