Gay rights activists go too far. It's one thing to demand a right to do what seams right to you, its another thing to lash out against those who express any kind of disapproval. For some time now, the gay lobby has been trampling on everyone else's first amendment rights. Even going so far as to take on pastors for reading those parts of the bible which explicitly forbid homosexuality and filling legal action against parents who remove their children from the class of a gay teacher.
Not quite.
It costs more to buy a 4 year old Corolla in Jamaica than to buy a brand new Prado in NJ.
It costs twice as much per gallon of gas, and around 5 times as much per Kilowatt Hour of Electricity 9but at least we don't heat our homes at any point).
I could go on, but the basic point is that most basic things cost more here. Cellular Phone service, Internet, medical care and fresh fruit are among the glaring exceptions, and only the last two have an obvius cause.
I havn't tried lately but I remember being too uncomfortable in a to even drive. Which is just a step above the fiasco with the Alto. When I folded myself into an Alto, I couldn't even close the door.
I don't know. I remember driving from Philadelphia to Long Island to Atlantic City and then Back to Philadelphia in a Rented Corolla. It felt just fine on the highway.
But I may be biased, I left my old Corolla at the Airport in Kingston when I made that trip.
This is 1/2 true. Poverty is a lot deeper and more widespread here. Most salaries are a lot lower than in America. I make between a 1/2 and 1/3 what I would in the states doing the same kind of work in the same type of company with the same work hours.
I started researching this when a Linux Startup I won't name offered me $90K years ago without even looking at a CV. My forum posts were all it took.
The downside is that this doesn't extend to all expenses. Electricity, Water, Fuel and basic food costs a lot more.
America has larger Cities. However the terrain is a bitch to work with. I.e. Our largest phone company had to install over 1000 towers to cover the island. and we had to use helicopters to run some of our electricity lines.
Yes. I have and I can't even figure out why. It's not like the small cars lack leg room as they did a decade ago. I was quite comfortable in a subcompact on my last trip, and I'm only short by NBA standards. (6'3")
Americans simply don't understand how bad they have it. Right now, I pay $22 per month for 2MB DSL in Jamaica. I can get 16MB Cable for $30 but decided I need the extra bandwidth less than I need the $8. Either way, it's free modem and 3 month or shorter initial contract. This is in Jamaica, a "3rd World country".
Meanwhile I am shopping for internet in Southern NJ and haven't been able to find anything close to that price range. Sure I can get 30MB access for $65, but that's like buying a 40 seat bus to carry your family of 4. More than you need is great if you don't have to pay for the extra.
And for those who are wondering why an old Slashdoter would ever think he doesn't need more than 2MB. I work at an ISP, I have a pretty good idea about internet usage patterns and I know that my own pattern is such that I stop using the extra speed once I get past 768K. There was a time when I needed more. Not now.
That doesn't mean you should trumpet this fact.
If it gets around far enough, then geek programs will disapear from Network TV or Basic Cable.
Adds are great for a TV show.
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I couldn't believe how many ads appeared during this thing.
Unlike Taco, I would be very happy to see ridiculous numbers of adds during every episode of SGU. The reason is quite simple. Adds pay for TV. The shows exist as a way to get people to watch adds.
This means that a show on Network TV or "Basic Cable" will survive as long as it attracts enough adds to cover the cost of production and give the station a tidy profit. So I want adds on all the shows I love. Lots and lots of adds.
PS: This is true, even if I don't actually watch those adds.
Pointy noses are pretty common. Most people don't know how you can be alive without a pulse. History has shown that misinformed stupid people are the most dangerous force on earth. Volcanoes pale in comparison.
That doesn't work when senior Engineers from BOTH major cellphone companies gather in the lobby to cuss a blue streak and make demands during intermission.
This did not happen in the US but in Jamaica. Our rules are somewhat different. I.e. One of our maximum security prisons also installed a Jammer. It created problems for people living close to the prison and for people passing on the highway in front of the prison.
They were compelled to turn it off ontil they could contain the signal. within the walls. This fancy paint might actualy help them. I realy don't know how the open "play area" between the outer walls and the cell block will affect this. (That area is rather large and includes a Cricket Field.)
The joke of it is that those people who stoped going because of the signal block are also the ones who set the phone to vibrate, then when called, mumble and listen or run outside to talk.
When I mentioned parents of small kids, I'm talking about people who leave the kids at home and can't bare to have the babysitter unable to call in an emergency (Where do I put use diapers again?)
The paint could also provide some much-needed relief during nights out at the cinema.
Our largest local movie theater installed an electronic cellphone signal blocker some years ago. It worked very well and almost put them out of business.
You see people on call (like Sysadmins, Doctors etc...) and people who feel a need to be reached on short notice for personal reasons (parents of small children), no longer saw that theater as an option for dates. This might not be a problem in some places but because of the lower pay scales (and hence higher relative cost of movie tickets) here, those affected were a major proportion of the theater's customer base.
In short they had to turn off the signal blocker and announce to disgruntled customers that it's ok to come back.
I am trying to imagine the dilemma if they had used this Aluminum Oxide paint instead, how much would it cost them to scrape it all off?
Same here, and the worst part is, my dad was a CAR SALESMAN for 25 years (both new and used). You'd think he could recognize the smell of bullshit.
Don't you realize how our senses work? For the most part they pick out contrasts. This is why camouflage works. It's also why you can walk into the kitchen on a cool day, and know where the stove is, just by the radiated heat. If however, the room was on fire, that trick wouldn't work.
In other words. A used car salesman's BS detector is so saturated with internally generated noise that he has little chance of ever detecting BS around him.
Sometimes people do irrational things in DATA center. I.e. Where I live/work the Electricity company is notoriously unreliable. We had a 5 minute outage this morning for no apparent reason, We had 3 last week of varied durations. This in the heart of the business district where power is most reliable.
Because of this our Data center has redundant UPS and Redundant Generators. All but the least critical servers have dual power supplys, plugged into independent circuits.
We have multiple ACs but they are not strictly set up to be redundant. When one breaks down we have to haul standing fans to the area to keep the machines cool enough while the AC is repaired.
The stupid thing though is that most of the smaller switches have a single power supply and most machines are plugged into a single switch. So our last UPS failure resulted in two whole racks of servers being inaccessible for 15 minutes, while I ran over there, figured out what the problem was and plugged the switch into a neighboring RACK.
How many of them are within the 5 miles of the center of a capital city with populations in the thousands per square mile?
We have remote sparsely populated areas too. I apologize for not making it clear that I wasn't talking about those places. Some of the places with no broadband are within walking distance of the #1 and #2 universities in the country. (UWI and UTech)
Disclaimer: I work for the cellphone company that's currently rolling out WiMax i Jamaica.
We are doing it so we can deliver broadband Internet to those people who simply never had it before in any shape or form. Hard as the concept is for 1st world geeks to grasp, there are places where it's likely, you don't have a phone line running by the house and where if you do it's most likely beyond the effective range of ADSL.
3G can do the same thing too. Except the technology is so expensive (compared to WiMax) that it's only worthwhile s a premium service, bundled with expensive phones and high end call rate packages. I.e. Outside the price range of 2 million of our current customers.
You may have to wait ontil about 23 weeks after never.
The only reason for using these exotic materials is that steel is just too heavy. Otherwise we could build body armour that looks like what was worn in Medieval Europe, but is around 3/4 of an inch thick. The problem is not many people can walk in a 400 Lb vest or a 150 Lb Helmet
That light weight which makes them superior for mobile armor (Fixed bunkers are still mostly just Iron blends and rock) makes them less effective as projectiles If you want to see how this work get a gulf ball and a table tennis (ping pong) ball. Stand 20 feet from the cheapest pane of glass you can find and throw each one as hard as you can, then compare the results.
Hint: try to hit it with the ping pong ball before throwing the gulf ball.
I'll bet U$ against J$ that this has to do with some kid who had a heart incident during gym class.
His parents sued and now the school is trying to cover it's assets. Just like hospitals which insist that discharged patients leave in a wheelchair.
If you want to prevent excesses like this, just stop filing frivolous lawsuits. If you sit on a jury deciding on a civil case use common sense and think carefully.
Correct. And then as now, if the Corporation owned just the one ship then it's loss meant the Corporation was Bankrupt. Even if the owners were largely untouched.
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Gay rights activists go too far. It's one thing to demand a right to do what seams right to you, its another thing to lash out against those who express any kind of disapproval. For some time now, the gay lobby has been trampling on everyone else's first amendment rights. Even going so far as to take on pastors for reading those parts of the bible which explicitly forbid homosexuality and filling legal action against parents who remove their children from the class of a gay teacher.
This is just another step down that path.
Not quite.
It costs more to buy a 4 year old Corolla in Jamaica than to buy a brand new Prado in NJ.
It costs twice as much per gallon of gas, and around 5 times as much per Kilowatt Hour of Electricity 9but at least we don't heat our homes at any point).
I could go on, but the basic point is that most basic things cost more here. Cellular Phone service, Internet, medical care and fresh fruit are among the glaring exceptions, and only the last two have an obvius cause.
I havn't tried lately but I remember being too uncomfortable in a to even drive. Which is just a step above the fiasco with the Alto. When I folded myself into an Alto, I couldn't even close the door.
I don't know. I remember driving from Philadelphia to Long Island to Atlantic City and then Back to Philadelphia in a Rented Corolla. It felt just fine on the highway.
But I may be biased, I left my old Corolla at the Airport in Kingston when I made that trip.
This is 1/2 true. Poverty is a lot deeper and more widespread here. Most salaries are a lot lower than in America. I make between a 1/2 and 1/3 what I would in the states doing the same kind of work in the same type of company with the same work hours.
I started researching this when a Linux Startup I won't name offered me $90K years ago without even looking at a CV. My forum posts were all it took.
The downside is that this doesn't extend to all expenses. Electricity, Water, Fuel and basic food costs a lot more.
We have 2,825,928 people, 10,991 sq km
America has larger Cities. However the terrain is a bitch to work with. I.e. Our largest phone company had to install over 1000 towers to cover the island. and we had to use helicopters to run some of our electricity lines.
Yes. I have and I can't even figure out why. It's not like the small cars lack leg room as they did a decade ago. I was quite comfortable in a subcompact on my last trip, and I'm only short by NBA standards. (6'3")
Americans simply don't understand how bad they have it. Right now, I pay $22 per month for 2MB DSL in Jamaica. I can get 16MB Cable for $30 but decided I need the extra bandwidth less than I need the $8. Either way, it's free modem and 3 month or shorter initial contract. This is in Jamaica, a "3rd World country".
Meanwhile I am shopping for internet in Southern NJ and haven't been able to find anything close to that price range. Sure I can get 30MB access for $65, but that's like buying a 40 seat bus to carry your family of 4. More than you need is great if you don't have to pay for the extra.
And for those who are wondering why an old Slashdoter would ever think he doesn't need more than 2MB. I work at an ISP, I have a pretty good idea about internet usage patterns and I know that my own pattern is such that I stop using the extra speed once I get past 768K. There was a time when I needed more. Not now.
That doesn't mean you should trumpet this fact. If it gets around far enough, then geek programs will disapear from Network TV or Basic Cable.
I couldn't believe how many ads appeared during this thing.
Unlike Taco, I would be very happy to see ridiculous numbers of adds during every episode of SGU. The reason is quite simple. Adds pay for TV. The shows exist as a way to get people to watch adds.
This means that a show on Network TV or "Basic Cable" will survive as long as it attracts enough adds to cover the cost of production and give the station a tidy profit. So I want adds on all the shows I love. Lots and lots of adds.
PS: This is true, even if I don't actually watch those adds.
Pointy noses are pretty common. Most people don't know how you can be alive without a pulse. History has shown that misinformed stupid people are the most dangerous force on earth. Volcanoes pale in comparison.
That doesn't work when senior Engineers from BOTH major cellphone companies gather in the lobby to cuss a blue streak and make demands during intermission.
This did not happen in the US but in Jamaica. Our rules are somewhat different. I.e. One of our maximum security prisons also installed a Jammer. It created problems for people living close to the prison and for people passing on the highway in front of the prison.
They were compelled to turn it off ontil they could contain the signal. within the walls. This fancy paint might actualy help them. I realy don't know how the open "play area" between the outer walls and the cell block will affect this. (That area is rather large and includes a Cricket Field.)
The joke of it is that those people who stoped going because of the signal block are also the ones who set the phone to vibrate, then when called, mumble and listen or run outside to talk.
When I mentioned parents of small kids, I'm talking about people who leave the kids at home and can't bare to have the babysitter unable to call in an emergency (Where do I put use diapers again?)
The paint could also provide some much-needed relief during nights out at the cinema.
Our largest local movie theater installed an electronic cellphone signal blocker some years ago. It worked very well and almost put them out of business.
You see people on call (like Sysadmins, Doctors etc...) and people who feel a need to be reached on short notice for personal reasons (parents of small children), no longer saw that theater as an option for dates. This might not be a problem in some places but because of the lower pay scales (and hence higher relative cost of movie tickets) here, those affected were a major proportion of the theater's customer base.
In short they had to turn off the signal blocker and announce to disgruntled customers that it's ok to come back.
I am trying to imagine the dilemma if they had used this Aluminum Oxide paint instead, how much would it cost them to scrape it all off?
This was the 1st concern to hit me. I.e. Walking around with no pulse, it's a short leap to mistake you for a Vampire.
Same here, and the worst part is, my dad was a CAR SALESMAN for 25 years (both new and used). You'd think he could recognize the smell of bullshit.
Don't you realize how our senses work? For the most part they pick out contrasts. This is why camouflage works. It's also why you can walk into the kitchen on a cool day, and know where the stove is, just by the radiated heat. If however, the room was on fire, that trick wouldn't work.
In other words. A used car salesman's BS detector is so saturated with internally generated noise that he has little chance of ever detecting BS around him.
Sometimes people do irrational things in DATA center. I.e. Where I live/work the Electricity company is notoriously unreliable. We had a 5 minute outage this morning for no apparent reason, We had 3 last week of varied durations. This in the heart of the business district where power is most reliable.
Because of this our Data center has redundant UPS and Redundant Generators. All but the least critical servers have dual power supplys, plugged into independent circuits.
We have multiple ACs but they are not strictly set up to be redundant. When one breaks down we have to haul standing fans to the area to keep the machines cool enough while the AC is repaired.
The stupid thing though is that most of the smaller switches have a single power supply and most machines are plugged into a single switch. So our last UPS failure resulted in two whole racks of servers being inaccessible for 15 minutes, while I ran over there, figured out what the problem was and plugged the switch into a neighboring RACK.
How many of them are within the 5 miles of the center of a capital city with populations in the thousands per square mile?
We have remote sparsely populated areas too. I apologize for not making it clear that I wasn't talking about those places. Some of the places with no broadband are within walking distance of the #1 and #2 universities in the country. (UWI and UTech)
Disclaimer: I work for the cellphone company that's currently rolling out WiMax i Jamaica.
We are doing it so we can deliver broadband Internet to those people who simply never had it before in any shape or form. Hard as the concept is for 1st world geeks to grasp, there are places where it's likely, you don't have a phone line running by the house and where if you do it's most likely beyond the effective range of ADSL.
3G can do the same thing too. Except the technology is so expensive (compared to WiMax) that it's only worthwhile s a premium service, bundled with expensive phones and high end call rate packages. I.e. Outside the price range of 2 million of our current customers.
The cheapest pane of glass I can find is someone elses.
But only if you outrun them.
You may have to wait ontil about 23 weeks after never.
The only reason for using these exotic materials is that steel is just too heavy. Otherwise we could build body armour that looks like what was worn in Medieval Europe, but is around 3/4 of an inch thick. The problem is not many people can walk in a 400 Lb vest or a 150 Lb Helmet
That light weight which makes them superior for mobile armor (Fixed bunkers are still mostly just Iron blends and rock) makes them less effective as projectiles If you want to see how this work get a gulf ball and a table tennis (ping pong) ball. Stand 20 feet from the cheapest pane of glass you can find and throw each one as hard as you can, then compare the results.
Hint: try to hit it with the ping pong ball before throwing the gulf ball.
I'll bet U$ against J$ that this has to do with some kid who had a heart incident during gym class.
His parents sued and now the school is trying to cover it's assets. Just like hospitals which insist that discharged patients leave in a wheelchair.
If you want to prevent excesses like this, just stop filing frivolous lawsuits. If you sit on a jury deciding on a civil case use common sense and think carefully.
Correct. And then as now, if the Corporation owned just the one ship then it's loss meant the Corporation was Bankrupt. Even if the owners were largely untouched.
Constructive Criticism == good. :)
Maybe if construction costs went down significantly they would build more?