Much more cost effective and much better coverage would be obtained by a fleet of microsatellites with cameras and special software to identify and photograph such events.
This view bleeds over from how the government uses the radio spectrum. On the channels they use, they have priority access and all other must wait for them because it's (theoretically) public safety. But the same doesn't hold true for any and all data storage. Cloud data storage is a convenience, not for critical data. They need to be reeducated if they think they can use the cloud for mission critical data they need immediate access to.
It snoops the data on your device including contacts and unspecified other data and transmits it to whomever will pay for it. Basically it's spyware. I don't care whether it works or not if that's the price.
If I make now 10 clones, I have in 2 - 3 years 10 exact copies of my "parent" horse.
Cloning doesn't work like that. You have 10 genetic copies of the original horse, every one almost as different from the original horse as if you had bred the same stud to 10 different well-bred mares. There's a lot of random variation in gene expression in clones.
But you get to use ordinary mares to gestate them, which is a saving and maybe worth it if one of those 10 clones turns out to be a good racer.
It's probably less than any other horse. Clones tend to have more physiological problems than animals produced the old-fashioned way. And what are breeders for if not to improve the stock beyond what is available in past generations?
And it's not all genetics either. There are a thousand variations of development in an animal as complex and intelligent as a horse that will affect how and even whether it can race.
Cloned animals won't all have the same temperament as their progenitor, and that is a very important thing in a racehorse. A horse might be a perfect physical specimen and yet because of some slight variation in temperament (brain development?), he doesn't have the will to win a race. Or an animal that seems physically ordinary (for a racehorse) may turn out to have more energy reserves left in the last quarter mile and pass the field. You just can't tell how a horse is going to race until you've raced him or her a few times. Cloning won't change that.
And how much of winning is the match between a great horse and a jockey who knows her and how she needs to be ridden?
In girls Olympic gymnastics -- not WOMENS' gymnastics because the competitors are all girls, not women, the trouble that women face is that they grow out of size for what they are expected to do. Once their bodies approach the size of normal women, it becomes physically impossible to do as many rotations in the air, jump their full height in the air off the spring floor or land a back flip ten thousand times in practice on the balance beam without breaking an ankle or worse. Taller women and those whose center of balance has shifted due to normal female development just can't do what little girls can do. They shouldn't have to. A new slate of skills needs to be devised that can be done by full-size (and I don't mean fat, but average-height or taller) women if we are ever to see women do gymnastics at the top level.
This would be possible: look at what male gymnasts do. Men's gymnastics are all coordination and strength. Size is not nearly as much of an issue and you never see anybody with a boy's body (though often with a boy's face) in top competitions.
Unlike most other sports, "women" gymnasts who compete well often look ungraceful or unpolished. That's also a consequence of their being so young. They haven't had time to learn how to move gracefully when they're still kids and have barely had time to learn their tricks at all.
The tarmac in Dallas never really gets very cold. It's mixed to be reasonably hard at 100F plus, but because of that it gets darned brittle in the cold. Washington DC has a climate that's several degrees cooler so they use a softer mix there so it doesn't crack as much in the winter. But then when you get Dallas-like conditions in Washington, the asphalt doesn't work so well.
That black tarry stuff is called tar. It's used to fill cracks because it prevents water penetration that will eventually cause much more serious damage to the roadway, especially if you live in country where frost is possible.
It's not just the sitting there that's a problem for asphalt. Stopping the bus at the same place repeatedly puts a stress on the asphalt and eventually makes it buckle. Concrete pads in contrast have a lot of sheer strength.
More often left-wing protestors are labeled "anarchist" by third parties more interested in discrediting the protest than in accurately describing the protestors. Left-wing protestors aren't anarchists. They want a government, but they want it to act differently than it does, on their principles rather than the rightist principles and policies they are protesting.
But there are often anarchists present at any kind of protest (left or right). Since there are very few actual anarchists they have few opportunities to get noticed at all unless they either tag along with bigger movements or commit crimes meriting media attention.
Not so much. YouTube was established and still deals mostly in uploads shared by their creators. Their defense against charges of copyright infringement has been to remove infringing material as it is pointed out to them. Megaupload's response has been open defiance and taunting.
Those stages presuppose that the grief is over something beyond your control... terminal illness of a loved one for instance. Microsoft's development budget and business practices are under Microsoft's control. So somewhere between 2 and 3 there's an opportunity to take a completely different direction.
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Much more cost effective and much better coverage would be obtained by a fleet of microsatellites with cameras and special software to identify and photograph such events.
This view bleeds over from how the government uses the radio spectrum. On the channels they use, they have priority access and all other must wait for them because it's (theoretically) public safety. But the same doesn't hold true for any and all data storage. Cloud data storage is a convenience, not for critical data. They need to be reeducated if they think they can use the cloud for mission critical data they need immediate access to.
subject sez it all.
Interpretation will be up to whatever prophet digs them up.
And if it means their distinctive culture and ethnicity originated there it includes everybody in the Americas today.
Or they were absorbed by interbreeding with a larger population of the dominant genetic stock.
On the contrary. It issue additional evidence that his linguistic theory may have some truth to it.
They're the cheapest way to ship goods over long distances, so it stands to reason they should also be a cheap way to ship people over long distances.
Users will be taking the Lord's name in vain within 5 minutes of turning it on.
Actually you can't show date much before about 2500 BP
It snoops the data on your device including contacts and unspecified other data and transmits it to whomever will pay for it. Basically it's spyware. I don't care whether it works or not if that's the price.
No it can't.
If I make now 10 clones, I have in 2 - 3 years 10 exact copies of my "parent" horse.
Cloning doesn't work like that. You have 10 genetic copies of the original horse, every one almost as different from the original horse as if you had bred the same stud to 10 different well-bred mares. There's a lot of random variation in gene expression in clones. But you get to use ordinary mares to gestate them, which is a saving and maybe worth it if one of those 10 clones turns out to be a good racer.
It's probably less than any other horse. Clones tend to have more physiological problems than animals produced the old-fashioned way. And what are breeders for if not to improve the stock beyond what is available in past generations?
And it's not all genetics either. There are a thousand variations of development in an animal as complex and intelligent as a horse that will affect how and even whether it can race.
Cloned animals won't all have the same temperament as their progenitor, and that is a very important thing in a racehorse. A horse might be a perfect physical specimen and yet because of some slight variation in temperament (brain development?), he doesn't have the will to win a race. Or an animal that seems physically ordinary (for a racehorse) may turn out to have more energy reserves left in the last quarter mile and pass the field. You just can't tell how a horse is going to race until you've raced him or her a few times. Cloning won't change that.
And how much of winning is the match between a great horse and a jockey who knows her and how she needs to be ridden?
In girls Olympic gymnastics -- not WOMENS' gymnastics because the competitors are all girls, not women, the trouble that women face is that they grow out of size for what they are expected to do. Once their bodies approach the size of normal women, it becomes physically impossible to do as many rotations in the air, jump their full height in the air off the spring floor or land a back flip ten thousand times in practice on the balance beam without breaking an ankle or worse. Taller women and those whose center of balance has shifted due to normal female development just can't do what little girls can do. They shouldn't have to. A new slate of skills needs to be devised that can be done by full-size (and I don't mean fat, but average-height or taller) women if we are ever to see women do gymnastics at the top level.
This would be possible: look at what male gymnasts do. Men's gymnastics are all coordination and strength. Size is not nearly as much of an issue and you never see anybody with a boy's body (though often with a boy's face) in top competitions.
Unlike most other sports, "women" gymnasts who compete well often look ungraceful or unpolished. That's also a consequence of their being so young. They haven't had time to learn how to move gracefully when they're still kids and have barely had time to learn their tricks at all.
Well the runways at DFW are almost three feet thick in some places and the tarmacs are all concrete or concrete block based as well, not asphalt.
Clearly you don't know what tarmac is.
Nevertheless there were heat-related rail failures this week.
No major airport uses asphalt runways. Runways are made of concrete.
The tarmac in Dallas never really gets very cold. It's mixed to be reasonably hard at 100F plus, but because of that it gets darned brittle in the cold. Washington DC has a climate that's several degrees cooler so they use a softer mix there so it doesn't crack as much in the winter. But then when you get Dallas-like conditions in Washington, the asphalt doesn't work so well.
That black tarry stuff is called tar. It's used to fill cracks because it prevents water penetration that will eventually cause much more serious damage to the roadway, especially if you live in country where frost is possible.
It's not just the sitting there that's a problem for asphalt. Stopping the bus at the same place repeatedly puts a stress on the asphalt and eventually makes it buckle. Concrete pads in contrast have a lot of sheer strength.
More often left-wing protestors are labeled "anarchist" by third parties more interested in discrediting the protest than in accurately describing the protestors. Left-wing protestors aren't anarchists. They want a government, but they want it to act differently than it does, on their principles rather than the rightist principles and policies they are protesting.
But there are often anarchists present at any kind of protest (left or right). Since there are very few actual anarchists they have few opportunities to get noticed at all unless they either tag along with bigger movements or commit crimes meriting media attention.
Not so much. YouTube was established and still deals mostly in uploads shared by their creators. Their defense against charges of copyright infringement has been to remove infringing material as it is pointed out to them. Megaupload's response has been open defiance and taunting.
Defendant offers prosecutor a deal? Somebody needs to explain to this fool that's not how these things work.
Those stages presuppose that the grief is over something beyond your control... terminal illness of a loved one for instance. Microsoft's development budget and business practices are under Microsoft's control. So somewhere between 2 and 3 there's an opportunity to take a completely different direction.
Apple is making money at it. There are plenty of players but nobody touches Apple's profitability.