Self serve checkouts don't eliminate a job, they eliminate the cost of getting the job done. When I'm asked by a manager if I wouldn't like to get out of line and use a self serve checkout terminal, I tell them I'll gladly do it, but only for some sort of a discount. I've had this conversation several times, and they all got perplexed in a "we never looked at it that way before" look on their face. Sure you didn't...
Thousands of nuts, bolts, gloves and other debris from space missions form an orbiting garbage dump around Earth, presenting a hazard to spacecraft. Some of the bits and pieces scream along at 17,500 mph.
A 1999 study estimated there are some 4 million pounds of space junk in low-Earth orbit, just one part of a celestial sea of roughly 110,000 objects larger than 1 centimeter -- each big enough to damage a satellite or space-based telescope. (excerpted from http://tinyurl.com/56tzo )
Here's where it gets interesting. Anticipating just such an offensive capability from china, many military satelites are hardened against laser and EMP damage. Which leaves kinetic attack as the simplest, most effective mode of disabling a satellite.
The problem is, it creates enough floating crap in orbit that any real attempt to disable US orbital capabilities will effectively eliminate huge swaths of orbital real estate for hundreds and thousands of years.
For this reason, many have been trying to phase out Kinetic Energy ASAT programs. With the chinese regard for the environment well evidenced on the ground, its not likely they'll be shying from the simplest means of retiring another nation's offending satellites.
I up and download lots of lossless music. All of it legal, I might add, using a residential cable modem account.
I have a flow meter that logs my traffic:
(Month) Download Upload Combined
May 2003 51.04 GB 39.25 GB 90.29 GB June 2003 109.75 GB 45.54 GB 155.29 GB July 2003 96.43 GB 84.11 GB 180.54 GB August 2003 102.83 GB 73.89 GB 176.72 GB September 2003 122.58 GB 95.67 GB 218.25 GB October 2003 103.40 GB 72.15 GB 175.55 GB November 2003 88.99 GB 53.82 GB 142.81 GB December 2003 47.01 GB 37.77 GB 84.79 GB
No cap, no menacing emails. I really can't decide if they are clueless or just alright about it. Of all the ISPs, you'd thing they'd be the ones at the forefront of interventions.
Anyone else have this kind of lax policy with Time Warner? (Please excuse the lame formatting)
Yeah yeah yeah. I can't remember a presidential election in which one side wasn't cryin' they were burned by the Electoral College. Outrage builds for about 15 minutes and then life goes on and everyone forgets about it until right after the next Prez Election. . .
Lately I've come to really resent the incessant and usually biased polling that the newsmedia are forever trumpeting about.
I propose the limitation of any and all public polling. If it were up to me, I would allow a few straw polls on designated dates within the long electoral season. Maybe one in March, one in July and then the real deal in November.
Could this be accomplished by legislative action? Probably not. But a grass roots "just say $#^^-off! to Pollsters" might do the trick.
Is there a downside to no polling? I can't think of one...
But I can think of lots of reasons why they suck...
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I don't work for free. Would you?
Self serve checkouts don't eliminate a job, they eliminate the cost of getting the job done.
When I'm asked by a manager if I wouldn't like to get out of line and use a self serve checkout terminal, I tell them I'll gladly do it, but only for some sort of a discount. I've had this conversation several times, and they all got perplexed in a "we never looked at it that way before" look on their face.
Sure you didn't...
This will save them thousands of dollars. Not that they've got anything to be bitter about.
Divide by zero
Your logic and $250k in legal fees will probably prevail.
Thousands of nuts, bolts, gloves and other debris from space missions form an orbiting garbage dump around Earth, presenting a hazard to spacecraft. Some of the bits and pieces scream along at 17,500 mph.
A 1999 study estimated there are some 4 million pounds of space junk in low-Earth orbit, just one part of a celestial sea of roughly 110,000 objects larger than 1 centimeter -- each big enough to damage a satellite or space-based telescope. (excerpted from http://tinyurl.com/56tzo )
Here's where it gets interesting. Anticipating just such an offensive capability from china, many military satelites are hardened against laser and EMP damage. Which leaves kinetic attack as the simplest, most effective mode of disabling a satellite.
The problem is, it creates enough floating crap in orbit that any real attempt to disable US orbital capabilities will effectively eliminate huge swaths of orbital real estate for hundreds and thousands of years.
For this reason, many have been trying to phase out Kinetic Energy ASAT programs. With the chinese regard for the environment well evidenced on the ground, its not likely they'll be shying from the simplest means of retiring another nation's offending satellites.
I up and download lots of lossless music. All of it legal, I might add, using a residential cable modem account.
I have a flow meter that logs my traffic:
(Month) Download Upload Combined
May 2003 51.04 GB 39.25 GB 90.29 GB
June 2003 109.75 GB 45.54 GB 155.29 GB
July 2003 96.43 GB 84.11 GB 180.54 GB
August 2003 102.83 GB 73.89 GB 176.72 GB
September 2003 122.58 GB 95.67 GB 218.25 GB
October 2003 103.40 GB 72.15 GB 175.55 GB
November 2003 88.99 GB 53.82 GB 142.81 GB
December 2003 47.01 GB 37.77 GB 84.79 GB
No cap, no menacing emails. I really can't decide if they are clueless or just alright about it. Of all the ISPs, you'd thing they'd be the ones at the forefront of interventions.
Anyone else have this kind of lax policy with Time Warner? (Please excuse the lame formatting)
Yeah yeah yeah. I can't remember a presidential election in which one side wasn't cryin' they were burned by the Electoral College. Outrage builds for about 15 minutes and then life goes on and everyone forgets about it until right after the next Prez Election. . .
Lately I've come to really resent the incessant and usually biased polling that the newsmedia are forever trumpeting about. I propose the limitation of any and all public polling. If it were up to me, I would allow a few straw polls on designated dates within the long electoral season. Maybe one in March, one in July and then the real deal in November. Could this be accomplished by legislative action? Probably not. But a grass roots "just say $#^^-off! to Pollsters" might do the trick. Is there a downside to no polling? I can't think of one... But I can think of lots of reasons why they suck...