Back in the Viet Nam era, the army 2 1/2 ton 6X6 truck had a multi-fuel engine that would run on anything from No. 4 bunker fuel to 104 AV gas. Running on gasoline was really hard on the fuel pumps and injectors but was useful in emergencies; the Army is all Diesel or JP8 now so this capability is unnecessary.
John STEVENSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TRW INC., Defendant-Appellant. No. 91-7142. United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
TRW Inc. is a credit-reporting firm that appeals a judgment against it for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. ÂÂ 1681-1681t). Following a bench trial, the district court awarded John M. Stevenson actual damages of $30,000 for mental anguish, punitive damages of $100,000, and attorney's fees of $20,700 for TRW Inc.'s negligent and willful violations of the Act. After carefully reviewing the record, we affirm the district court's findings of negligence and the award of actual damages and attorney's fees, but we reverse the finding of willfulness and vacate the award of punitive damages. 987 F2d 288 Stevenson v. Trw Inc
Saying you owe something you don't is defamation of character, the credit bureaus know that a SSN isn't an unique identifier, there are 304,059,724 people in the US and approximately 18 million people use a SSN assigned to someone else. Even with almost 809 million possible SSNs, because the first three digits are an Area number collisions are very likely and sooner or later will be unavoidable.
But if you have to move everyday, it can take a while for the heavy equipment to catch up to you. My son is on his 4th tour in Iraq, the first tour conditions were quite "rustic" more recent tours more more civilized, in the tour before last he had wired in the area with ethernet and set up a satellite transceiver that everyone chipped in for so they'd all have internet, but is still YMMV.
if memory serves me correctly the patents main feature was storing all of the XML in a single file, Open office seems to do this as well. The difference is OO uses several files that are compressed into a single archive. You can take a OO file and run gnuzip on it and all the file uncompress; Microsoft could do the same and simple add a converter to open the old format, split it into seperate files internally and store it as a single archive.
Salt pills are counter-productive, Military stopped giving them out at least 20 years ago, there enough salt in your food. The only problem is keeping your appetite up. Don't forget they are wearing helmets and body armor, lugging around weapons and ammo, not to mention that fighting is a hell of a lot of work.
The truly evil usually aren't directly involved the activity that is thought of as evil for example which would be considered more evil, 1. Selecting a woman at random and murdering her for no apparent reason, or 2. Falsely convincing a loving husband that his wife has a terminal disease and will die a horrifically painful death so he kills her?
Take people in the spot light they tend to be more moral then most average people. The higher up to go the higher their morality grows with it. If you take away all the shadows for someone to hide their secret desires and actions they tend to stop them. (or hide them much better).
My experience is the most people who are in the "spot-light" are there because "they're special" and frequently think the normal rules of society don't apply to them and only follow the rules in their public facing lives. Eventually their "Special-ness" gets so exaggerated they even get lazy about appearing to follow the rules; look at Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton for an examples.
Portland cement and concrete made with it also absorbs atmospheric CO2, water and it's dissolved be acids like acid rain; concrete isn't that permanent. Try getting out of your car and actually look at that 50 year old bridge, you might start taking another route!
Finally, the telco ring signal is a nominal 90VDC square wave,
Square waves are inherently noisy, the require theoretically infinite bandwidth, and they tell us to keep cat5e cable 3 feet from a florescent light due to noise and to cross power lines at right angles.
It's more often the lighter portions of the fuel evaporate out which makes the engine more difficult to start, less often the oxygen in the air oxidizes the fuel and it forms a varnish. Fuels with ethanol can also absorb water and form acids. You can add a product called Stabil to your fuel if your engine will be sitting unused which solve most of the problems.
The Detroit Free Press reports that a new wind farm in the Thumb that will be the fifth-largest in the country with 180 turbines when completed in 2008. Because of its relatively flat, unobstructed farm vistas, Michigan ranks 14th among the 50 states in potential for development of wind power, a ranking that could go up even further if turbines could be built on the Great Lakes.
The wind farm going up in the Thumb is owned by Noble Environmental Power, a project of J.P. Morgan partners. By June, managers expect to have 32 wind turbines on line in Huron County, near Bad Axe, creating about 48 megawatts of electricity annually, or enough to supply 16,000 average homes. New Wind Farm in Thumb will be Nation's 5th Largest
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that a national wind energy energy developer hopes to build 50 to 60 massive windmills on about 8,000 acres of farmland in Centerville Township and sell green electrical power to utilities in the region. Each wind turbine is nearly 400 feet tall and takes up about three-eights of an acre. Noble Environmental Power is also developing a wind farm in Michigan's Thumb. Managing Director Peter Mastic said "Our goal is not to change the underlying use of the land. We want to preserve farmland. However, farmers will also be able to farm wind over the top of their land, and earn money for it."
Centerville Township farmer Jerry Kelenske said "My guess is that we'll hear from some part-time residents or tourists concerned about changing the landscape or the view, but for farmers, it's a good deal. Talk of Massive Leelanau Wind Farm
Michigan thumb weather isn't significantly different from Ohio weather, rumor has it that some guy named T Boone Pickens ordered 667 windmills and doesn't have anyplace to put them up and they are too big to fit in is garage. Maybe Ohio could cut a deal with him and even manage to put Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station out of it's misery before they manage to have 3 of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since 1979.
The engine in the volt should be much smaller than that, the car still uses battery power for acceleration and climbing hills in it's extended range mode, 1 -1.5L wouldn't surprise me.
it's not outrageous to imagine EVs feeding into the grid during periods of critical demand sooner or later they'll be networked for road taxes, so why not negotiate with a smart grid to buy or sell power while plugged in at work and half full of cheap off-peak electricity and only needing a 1/4 for the commute home.
Those blackouts are mostly due to NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) attitudes for power plants and transmission lines, now with EVs saving the world from CO2 and global warming, anybody against them will be considered an eco-terrorist and they will need to look over their shoulder for Cpt. Planet coming to give them their comeuppance. Anyways even if the forces of political correctness can't sway the NINBYs like a nay sayer at a health care town hall meeting with Conyers, most cars will be charged well into off peak hours when there is plenty of base load to spare.
But if the project took "months" (let's say 4) and was a week late, that means your original estimate was 8 months. At the very least, I'd fire a Project Manager who quoted me 8 months on a 4 month project.
What you don't know is what resources were committed to the original estimate vs. what had to be thrown at the project to meet the new deadline example,
5 people working 40 hrs/week spending 80% of their time on the priority project and 20% on scheduled maintenance gives 160 man hours per week * 16 weeks = 2560 man hours 5 people working 60 hrs/week spending 95% of their time on the priority project and 5% on scheduled maintenance gives 285 man hours per week * 9 weeks = 2565 man hours; the only real difference is after the VP fires the burned out programming team half the server farm crashes and burns because scheduled maintenance was sacrificed to meat the draconian deadline.
[citation needed] is a phrase frequently used by the wikipedia-nazi's to stifle content they feel is politically incorrect, without the benefit of actual debate on the content's validity; my use of it was meant to be sarcastic, which seems to have whooshed over your paperweight.
because today it's cool to be green, those soccer mom's go out of their way to buy green products; they may not give up their high ground clearence SUVs untill junior is out of the car seat so they don't have to bend their fat butts over to buckle him in, but everything else is green. Stick a "green" on your product and get Oprah to mention you and your golden.
This just doesn't make sense to me... How can they be rival groups if they clearly have the same goal? My naive self didn't think Corporate America's greed had made its way to environmental groups...
My you are naive, if there is money or power or prestige, greed will follow.
BTW, Microsoft seems to think it's entitled to a 100% sales tax exemption [seattlepi.com].
Actually it's not that outrageous, A manufacturer gets a sales tax exemption on goods and materials used in an industrial process, Micro$oft's "industrial process" is holding, moving and processing data, seems not too distant an analogy. There is still plenty for property and income taxes. If it were for a development center then, then no sale tax exemptions should apply; a newspaper pays sales tax on office paper, doesn't on newsprint paper.
I've aways thought that corporate income tax rates are less than individual income tax rates; effectively a corporation paying taxes reduces the individual stockholders income taxes! Corporates income taxes are much more flat than individual and so more regressive, one would think that Liberals would be against corporate income taxes.
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Back in the Viet Nam era, the army 2 1/2 ton 6X6 truck had a multi-fuel engine that would run on anything from No. 4 bunker fuel to 104 AV gas. Running on gasoline was really hard on the fuel pumps and injectors but was useful in emergencies; the Army is all Diesel or JP8 now so this capability is unnecessary.
Saying you owe something you don't is defamation of character, the credit bureaus know that a SSN isn't an unique identifier, there are 304,059,724 people in the US and approximately 18 million people use a SSN assigned to someone else. Even with almost 809 million possible SSNs, because the first three digits are an Area number collisions are very likely and sooner or later will be unavoidable.
But if you have to move everyday, it can take a while for the heavy equipment to catch up to you. My son is on his 4th tour in Iraq, the first tour conditions were quite "rustic" more recent tours more more civilized, in the tour before last he had wired in the area with ethernet and set up a satellite transceiver that everyone chipped in for so they'd all have internet, but is still YMMV.
if memory serves me correctly the patents main feature was storing all of the XML in a single file, Open office seems to do this as well. The difference is OO uses several files that are compressed into a single archive. You can take a OO file and run gnuzip on it and all the file uncompress; Microsoft could do the same and simple add a converter to open the old format, split it into seperate files internally and store it as a single archive.
Salt pills are counter-productive, Military stopped giving them out at least 20 years ago, there enough salt in your food. The only problem is keeping your appetite up. Don't forget they are wearing helmets and body armor, lugging around weapons and ammo, not to mention that fighting is a hell of a lot of work.
Nope it's not torture, in fact it's business as usual for some of the soldiers stationed in Iraq.
I'm wondering. What if there's incriminating evidence in those e-mail exchanges the Sheriff needs and wants to protect from tampering?
Then some people in the county government are going to regret thinking encryption is too difficult!
The truly evil usually aren't directly involved the activity that is thought of as evil for example which would be considered more evil,
1. Selecting a woman at random and murdering her for no apparent reason, or
2. Falsely convincing a loving husband that his wife has a terminal disease and will die a horrifically painful death so he kills her?
Take people in the spot light they tend to be more moral then most average people. The higher up to go the higher their morality grows with it. If you take away all the shadows for someone to hide their secret desires and actions they tend to stop them. (or hide them much better).
My experience is the most people who are in the "spot-light" are there because "they're special" and frequently think the normal rules of society don't apply to them and only follow the rules in their public facing lives. Eventually their "Special-ness" gets so exaggerated they even get lazy about appearing to follow the rules; look at Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton for an examples.
Portland cement and concrete made with it also absorbs atmospheric CO2, water and it's dissolved be acids like acid rain; concrete isn't that permanent. Try getting out of your car and actually look at that 50 year old bridge, you might start taking another route!
Finally, the telco ring signal is a nominal 90VDC square wave,
Square waves are inherently noisy, the require theoretically infinite bandwidth, and they tell us to keep cat5e cable 3 feet from a florescent light due to noise and to cross power lines at right angles.
That's more nefarious than even I imagined, I guess the predatory Texas wildcatter syndrome is alive and well
It's more often the lighter portions of the fuel evaporate out which makes the engine more difficult to start, less often the oxygen in the air oxidizes the fuel and it forms a varnish. Fuels with ethanol can also absorb water and form acids. You can add a product called Stabil to your fuel if your engine will be sitting unused which solve most of the problems.
Michigan thumb weather isn't significantly different from Ohio weather, rumor has it that some guy named T Boone Pickens ordered 667 windmills and doesn't have anyplace to put them up and they are too big to fit in is garage. Maybe Ohio could cut a deal with him and even manage to put Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station out of it's misery before they manage to have 3 of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since 1979.
The engine in the volt should be much smaller than that, the car still uses battery power for acceleration and climbing hills in it's extended range mode, 1 -1.5L wouldn't surprise me.
it's not outrageous to imagine EVs feeding into the grid during periods of critical demand sooner or later they'll be networked for road taxes, so why not negotiate with a smart grid to buy or sell power while plugged in at work and half full of cheap off-peak electricity and only needing a 1/4 for the commute home.
Second, Simple economics say, that if this car will do this, the demand for gas will be less, therefore, gas prices go down... Economics 101
Giving room for increased fuel taxes without anyone really noticing ... Political Science 101
Those blackouts are mostly due to NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) attitudes for power plants and transmission lines, now with EVs saving the world from CO2 and global warming, anybody against them will be considered an eco-terrorist and they will need to look over their shoulder for Cpt. Planet coming to give them their comeuppance.
Anyways even if the forces of political correctness can't sway the NINBYs like a nay sayer at a health care town hall meeting with Conyers, most cars will be charged well into off peak hours when there is plenty of base load to spare.
But if the project took "months" (let's say 4) and was a week late, that means your original estimate was 8 months. At the very least, I'd fire a Project Manager who quoted me 8 months on a 4 month project.
What you don't know is what resources were committed to the original estimate vs. what had to be thrown at the project to meet the new deadline
example,
5 people working 40 hrs/week spending 80% of their time on the priority project and 20% on scheduled maintenance gives 160 man hours per week * 16 weeks = 2560 man hours
5 people working 60 hrs/week spending 95% of their time on the priority project and 5% on scheduled maintenance gives 285 man hours per week * 9 weeks = 2565 man hours;
the only real difference is after the VP fires the burned out programming team half the server farm crashes and burns because scheduled maintenance was sacrificed to meat the draconian deadline.
[citation needed] is a phrase frequently used by the wikipedia-nazi's to stifle content they feel is politically incorrect, without the benefit of actual debate on the content's validity; my use of it was meant to be sarcastic, which seems to have whooshed over your paperweight.
because today it's cool to be green, those soccer mom's go out of their way to buy green products; they may not give up their high ground clearence SUVs untill junior is out of the car seat so they don't have to bend their fat butts over to buckle him in, but everything else is green. Stick a "green" on your product and get Oprah to mention you and your golden.
Indeed. The potential for the .eco TLD to be run by the Green Thought Police is very high.
[citation needed]
This just doesn't make sense to me... How can they be rival groups if they clearly have the same goal?
My naive self didn't think Corporate America's greed had made its way to environmental groups...
My you are naive, if there is money or power or prestige, greed will follow.
BTW, Microsoft seems to think it's entitled to a 100% sales tax exemption [seattlepi.com].
Actually it's not that outrageous, A manufacturer gets a sales tax exemption on goods and materials used in an industrial process, Micro$oft's "industrial process" is holding, moving and processing data, seems not too distant an analogy. There is still plenty for property and income taxes. If it were for a development center then, then no sale tax exemptions should apply; a newspaper pays sales tax on office paper, doesn't on newsprint paper.
I've aways thought that corporate income tax rates are less than individual income tax rates; effectively a corporation paying taxes reduces the individual stockholders income taxes! Corporates income taxes are much more flat than individual and so more regressive, one would think that Liberals would be against corporate income taxes.