or the ease by which Truman chose to drop not one but two weapons of mass destruction on the Japanese.
Truman was trying to end the war between Japan and the U.S. before it could become a long, drawn out ground war costing millions more lives. AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public. Japan did not immediately surrender after the first A-Bomb attack, and that's when the 2nd bomb was used, and only then did Japan surrender. Thank God that Japan did not know that Truman was bluffing his poker hand, or the war could have gone on far longer.
Correction: That'd take 5000 years to happen, according to NatGeo, not hundreds. Some good news is that the world's forests are holding rather steady...
Below is a link to National Geographic's interactive map page of what the world would be like hundreds of years from now if all the ice in the world actually melted.
Musk framed the choice to Supercharge or swap as one between "free or fast." While Supercharging costs a Model S driver nothing, getting a new, fully charged battery pack will cost around the same as about 15 gallons of gas (so, let's say around $60). Later, you can get your old pack back (again, fully charged and for another $60 fee) or you can pay an undetermined fee and keep the pack. Forbes says there will be a warranty available on the replacement pack, depending on its condition.
Since hybrids have been in existence, I'd read then that electric motors are far more efficient than combustion engines going from a dead stop up to about 40mph After 40+ mph then gas engines are 'better'. So with a fixed gear ratio, it makes sense to me that any speeds higher than 40mph or so has to drain the battery faster. Maybe later generation electric cars can be equipped with low/high gearing.
Still, for an all electric vehicle, 132mph (with no worries about blowing up your engine) is a damn impressive speed to me.
In 2011 Drake was awarded the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling and was co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. Accepting the SAAII award he said, with references to an 1857 speech of Frederick Douglass:
"Power and those in control concede nothing... without a demand. They never have and they never will....each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and must speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there can be no peace."
Drake has become an activist against the surveillance state, frequently giving interviews and speaking at events such as Restore the Fourth. One of the themes of his speeches and interviews is a "privacy exercise" as follows "Put your entire life in a box, your documents, bank accounts, your passwords, everything -- and give it to a complete stranger -- a fellow American for safekeeping. Would you do it?" he states that he has yet to encounter a "yes."
Drake reportedly inspired Edward Snowden to leak information on the NSA spying program PRISM in June 2013.
In a September 2013 interview Drake re-affirmed his belief that the problems of the NSA are so chronic and systemic that the only solution would be to completely dismantle and subsequently rebuild the entire organization.
I think the question is how much are we paying them?
On top of the 600 million dollars taxpayers have already spent for a non-working website. Where's all the money going to? Does the U.S. get a refund from the original developers?
You never see the one that gets you. While we'll be feeling safe and secure and oh so smart that we saved ourselves from the scary space rocks... BLAM!!! A big one comes out from behind the Sun and smashes into us. Game over.
At least we'll have some time to try and divert asteroids coming from where we can see them. It's the ones we don't see that keep me awake at night.
If I turn the key off the way you suggest, won't the steering wheel will lock in place? I'd advise turning the key only one notch to 'off', you won't have power assist steering anymore but you'll still, with effort, be able to steer.
I can only speak to what I witnessed locally in L.I., and on the local cable news reporting. In the towns of Mastic Beach/Shirley, I saw guys selling 5 gallon cans of gas for $100 a couple days after the storm, with buyers who felt they needed the gas (They must not have known that there were unaffected towns north of the area where stations were open.), Some gas stations in L.I. and N.Y.C. were found and prosecuted afterward for price gouging. Then there was a local cable News12 story of one gas station owner in Deer Park who had his employees use a handpump to sell gas to his customers, not ever thinking of raising the price. So, some people panicked when they realized their normal routine was upset, most others realized that life would eventually resume normally.
And the storm did seem to pick and choose areas to damage. In the beaches closer to NYC/NJ area there was devastation, while in L.I.'s more eastern town of Southampton, the storm actually improved Coopers Beach, adding sand and widening the beach area. (Coopers Beach was voted the best beach in the NY area for summer 2013 on websites that determine yearly beach quality, since beaches in NJ and NYC took such a beating from Sandy.)
So, while some areas near to the ocean sustained major flood damage (NYC had major basement and subway flooding in lower Manhattan, subway tube 'plugs' and a costly levee system for lower Manhattan are being evaluated now), for the majority of the area it was like most hurricanes here, basically another windy rain, and some longer than normal power outages. Very little loss of life because of Sandy. If your home was affected, it's a costly and a difficult process to rebuild, an inherant risk to living near an ocean.
With Sandy it wasn't so much the rain and wind that the New York/New Jersey area wasn't prepared for, it was the flooding, and power outages that devasted the area. 8-12 foot storm surge knocking buildings off foundations was commonplace. Some homeowners near the ocean are now rebuilding with 15 foot high foundations. Gas stations had gas, but no power for the pumps (no generator backup). Power was mostly back after 2 weeks time, though I saw near fighting over spots on gas lines as people in SUVs waited hoping a tanker truck would arrive soon.
For this area it was an overdue storm (1938 was the last bad flood event here), and for decades people lived as if the area would never have high flooding again. The question is, will we be prepared next time, or will people forget the past?
This morning I saw a British politician claiming that without the ability to tap into all devices, then the public is never going to be able to be safe from terrorism. This argument fails when inevitably, knowing human nature (absolute power corrupts absolutely), the only end result must be a police state.
Are you shitting us? I know people have a compulsion to link-in with everyone, but a corporate mandate?
A few years ago I 'tried' to apply for a job for a local company. Sent my resume to them in a plain text email, which wasn't good enough, they replied, I need send it through LinkedIn. "WTF is LinkedIn?", I thought. Got part of the way through the signup process before realizing that this site wants an awful lot of personal information from me, and I canceled out before sending any info. Called the company saying that I live nearby and could just drop off my printed resume to them, still wasn't acceptable, they needed any applications to be done only via LinkedIn, that ended that job search. Knowing more and moew about LinkedIn today makes me grateful I don't have an account with them.
A decade or more ago the internet was so full of promise for "Better living through technology", nowadays it seems so damn invasive in so many ways I'm wondering whether using todays tech is worth the price. I'm starting to see why more and more people are "pulling the technology plug" out and living a simpler, no tech life. I'm seriously considering doing just that myself one day. It's gotten less and less attractive to me.
And a time-traveling Doctor who has visited the future and knows all about future-technology. Why would such a being have anything more than mild bemusement over our current day tech, when his sonic-screwdriver likely holds all of the universes technology in one compact device?
Yes, you are correct. There are a lot of man children out there.
I think 'play' is very important in order to balance out work. I threw $300 away recently just to get an XBox 360, the latest "Tomb Raider" game and a decently fun enough driving game to fulfill my need for 'play'. And it's worked for me. This comes from a man who hopes he'll never completely lose the inner child that's in him.
And when I'm done playing a video game, I don't throw them out or sell them off. I always seem to end up giving them away to another, younger 'kid'. I once, on a whim, walked into the children's wing of a local hospital and donated my handheld Nintendo and extra games for the kids stuck in there to have something to play with.
There are plenty of BlackBerry fanboys around, especially here in Canada. I believe it's far more likely that some idiot script-kiddie fanboys are behind this than actually BlackBerry employees... Or, if it IS BlackBerry employees, it's people acting alone who are afraid for their careers.
They're stupid either way, because of course it just makes BlackBerry look ridiculous (not that they need any more help with that nowadays).
Conversely, any of Blackberry's competion might be responsible for this obviously poorly executed commenting. Perhaps this was done to purposely embarrass BB? Just speculating...
Lots of people have expensive watches (some of them very expensive) and most of them seem to have no problem keeping them intact. (However, in your case, maybe a watch is not a good idea.)
My life and professions have been probably more 'active' than others. Once cellphones became realistic to own was the last time I ever wore a watch. One less thing to think about/care for. No, I've learned 'wearables' are not for me.
Sometimes lately I'll go days before checking my phone for messages, as I've been able to re-learn how it feels again to not feel the need to be always 'connected'. It's rather freeing.
When tech catches up to the point where everything is incorporated into one sole device, that won't have need for constant attention from the user, perhaps I'll adopt in. I'll check back in a few years...
My phone has the time, it does all of the messaging already, better than a 'wearable' on my wrist, phone is stowed safely in my pocket. I can count at least 10 watches in my life that got scratched faces, damaged from shocks, or got hooked on something and had the strap break, bye-bye watch!
So now, I'm expected to do the consumer thing again by buying an over-priced, extremely fragile and unperfected new piece of tech. Thanks anyway, I'll pass on this 'magic'.
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or the ease by which Truman chose to drop not one but two weapons of mass destruction on the Japanese.
Truman was trying to end the war between Japan and the U.S. before it could become a long, drawn out ground war costing millions more lives. AFAIK, the U.S. only had enough material for the 2 bombs (after testing), which of course was not made public. Japan did not immediately surrender after the first A-Bomb attack, and that's when the 2nd bomb was used, and only then did Japan surrender. Thank God that Japan did not know that Truman was bluffing his poker hand, or the war could have gone on far longer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24934790
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map
And some think that the NatGeo's prediction may be too low...
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/11/map-sea-level-rise-probably-wrong-its-too-optimistic/71246/
And it was delicious!
http://green.autoblog.com/2013/06/21/tesla-model-s-battery-swap-takes-just-90-seconds/
Musk framed the choice to Supercharge or swap as one between "free or fast." While Supercharging costs a Model S driver nothing, getting a new, fully charged battery pack will cost around the same as about 15 gallons of gas (so, let's say around $60). Later, you can get your old pack back (again, fully charged and for another $60 fee) or you can pay an undetermined fee and keep the pack. Forbes says there will be a warranty available on the replacement pack, depending on its condition.
Still, for an all electric vehicle, 132mph (with no worries about blowing up your engine) is a damn impressive speed to me.
They do have a 5 year warranty.
In 2011 Drake was awarded the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling and was co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. Accepting the SAAII award he said, with references to an 1857 speech of Frederick Douglass:
"Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. They never have and they never will. ...each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and must speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there can be no peace."
Drake has become an activist against the surveillance state, frequently giving interviews and speaking at events such as Restore the Fourth. One of the themes of his speeches and interviews is a "privacy exercise" as follows "Put your entire life in a box, your documents, bank accounts, your passwords, everything -- and give it to a complete stranger -- a fellow American for safekeeping. Would you do it?" he states that he has yet to encounter a "yes."
Drake reportedly inspired Edward Snowden to leak information on the NSA spying program PRISM in June 2013.
In a September 2013 interview Drake re-affirmed his belief that the problems of the NSA are so chronic and systemic that the only solution would be to completely dismantle and subsequently rebuild the entire organization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake
Thanks for that link, a lot of screwy numbers floating about. So, currently around $170 million, with an "upwards potential of $300 million."
I think the question is how much are we paying them?
On top of the 600 million dollars taxpayers have already spent for a non-working website. Where's all the money going to? Does the U.S. get a refund from the original developers?
At least we'll have some time to try and divert asteroids coming from where we can see them. It's the ones we don't see that keep me awake at night.
If I turn the key off the way you suggest, won't the steering wheel will lock in place? I'd advise turning the key only one notch to 'off', you won't have power assist steering anymore but you'll still, with effort, be able to steer.
And the storm did seem to pick and choose areas to damage. In the beaches closer to NYC/NJ area there was devastation, while in L.I.'s more eastern town of Southampton, the storm actually improved Coopers Beach, adding sand and widening the beach area. (Coopers Beach was voted the best beach in the NY area for summer 2013 on websites that determine yearly beach quality, since beaches in NJ and NYC took such a beating from Sandy.)
So, while some areas near to the ocean sustained major flood damage (NYC had major basement and subway flooding in lower Manhattan, subway tube 'plugs' and a costly levee system for lower Manhattan are being evaluated now), for the majority of the area it was like most hurricanes here, basically another windy rain, and some longer than normal power outages. Very little loss of life because of Sandy. If your home was affected, it's a costly and a difficult process to rebuild, an inherant risk to living near an ocean.
I read that Woz uses LTE, as it's the best service for his area.
For this area it was an overdue storm (1938 was the last bad flood event here), and for decades people lived as if the area would never have high flooding again. The question is, will we be prepared next time, or will people forget the past?
This morning I saw a British politician claiming that without the ability to tap into all devices, then the public is never going to be able to be safe from terrorism. This argument fails when inevitably, knowing human nature (absolute power corrupts absolutely), the only end result must be a police state.
Pardon the typos. Inputting through an android phone with a 2 1/2" screen. :-(
Are you shitting us? I know people have a compulsion to link-in with everyone, but a corporate mandate?
A few years ago I 'tried' to apply for a job for a local company. Sent my resume to them in a plain text email, which wasn't good enough, they replied, I need send it through LinkedIn. "WTF is LinkedIn?", I thought. Got part of the way through the signup process before realizing that this site wants an awful lot of personal information from me, and I canceled out before sending any info. Called the company saying that I live nearby and could just drop off my printed resume to them, still wasn't acceptable, they needed any applications to be done only via LinkedIn, that ended that job search. Knowing more and moew about LinkedIn today makes me grateful I don't have an account with them.
A decade or more ago the internet was so full of promise for "Better living through technology", nowadays it seems so damn invasive in so many ways I'm wondering whether using todays tech is worth the price. I'm starting to see why more and more people are "pulling the technology plug" out and living a simpler, no tech life. I'm seriously considering doing just that myself one day. It's gotten less and less attractive to me.
Dammit, he's a Doctor, not an Engineer!
And a time-traveling Doctor who has visited the future and knows all about future-technology. Why would such a being have anything more than mild bemusement over our current day tech, when his sonic-screwdriver likely holds all of the universes technology in one compact device?
Yes, you are correct. There are a lot of man children out there.
I think 'play' is very important in order to balance out work. I threw $300 away recently just to get an XBox 360, the latest "Tomb Raider" game and a decently fun enough driving game to fulfill my need for 'play'. And it's worked for me. This comes from a man who hopes he'll never completely lose the inner child that's in him.
And when I'm done playing a video game, I don't throw them out or sell them off. I always seem to end up giving them away to another, younger 'kid'. I once, on a whim, walked into the children's wing of a local hospital and donated my handheld Nintendo and extra games for the kids stuck in there to have something to play with.
There are plenty of BlackBerry fanboys around, especially here in Canada. I believe it's far more likely that some idiot script-kiddie fanboys are behind this than actually BlackBerry employees... Or, if it IS BlackBerry employees, it's people acting alone who are afraid for their careers.
They're stupid either way, because of course it just makes BlackBerry look ridiculous (not that they need any more help with that nowadays).
Conversely, any of Blackberry's competion might be responsible for this obviously poorly executed commenting. Perhaps this was done to purposely embarrass BB? Just speculating...
Maybe they just made a good app that people like?
Over 50,000 Indonesian bots seem to agree with you!
I found this link ( http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers ) from the comments section of this ( http://www.howtogeek.com/174232/htg-explains-why-is-printer-ink-so-expensive/ ) article. Hope it helps.
Lots of people have expensive watches (some of them very expensive) and most of them seem to have no problem keeping them intact. (However, in your case, maybe a watch is not a good idea.)
My life and professions have been probably more 'active' than others. Once cellphones became realistic to own was the last time I ever wore a watch. One less thing to think about/care for. No, I've learned 'wearables' are not for me.
Sometimes lately I'll go days before checking my phone for messages, as I've been able to re-learn how it feels again to not feel the need to be always 'connected'. It's rather freeing.
When tech catches up to the point where everything is incorporated into one sole device, that won't have need for constant attention from the user, perhaps I'll adopt in. I'll check back in a few years...
So now, I'm expected to do the consumer thing again by buying an over-priced, extremely fragile and unperfected new piece of tech. Thanks anyway, I'll pass on this 'magic'.