It would help if any of the climate models demonstrated some degree of predictive ability. The difference between model projections and reality have grown to ridiculous proportions.
The impression I've been getting is the group opposing the telescope are more interested in being oppositional/defiant, and are using the sacred site angle to facilitate that.
Don't worry patents only last for 20 years, and hydrogen fusion has been 30 years away for the last 50! Now I'm off to download the designs for one of those 200MPG carburetors that the oil companies bought up 20 years ago.
Comcast has the security measures because their customer service is terrible enough to inspire violence in regular everyday people (there have been incidents).
Nah it's OSHA required due to potential work-place violence, they don't care about a few service 'droids, but an OSHA fine involves money.
Get 120 psi racing slicks, they cut through the snow like it was hot butter, I loved riding past cars buried up to the axles in snow! Now ice tends to get exciting.
Actually it's a pretty common problem, sometimes the utility has to build a substation it's a rather large capital expense. A local paper plant has their own electrical generation plant and they pay the local utility as much in lease payments on their substation to maintain backup power as they would to buy the electricity, they save on waste ligin disposal fees and get a tax credit for being powered by a renewable power source (they burn a ligin/diesel mixture) to make it worthwhile.
but the majority of the AC is firmly in Groupthink mode anyway. If karma really got kicked in the dirt for bucking the groupthink then mine would be lower than whale shit; not have your moderations overturned in meta seems to count way more than comment moderations in karma.
Back in the day, an AC post was almost unused unless someone had inside information that an employer or government would have found uncomfortable and would be likely to retaliate against the poster for divulging; Now it's just a "I'm too lazy to register an account" thing. It really undermines the user moderation system and makes the comment notices ineffective, basically gutting what makes/./. Maybe if we made posting anonymously without having logged in from a registered account watch do an advertiser's activity like on pandora or watch a youtube style ad, it would cut down these Drive-by Anonymous Cowards, additionally if you post AC from an account, any moderation should count for or against you.
I wonder how many of the houses are worth less than the cost of lead pipe removal? Factor in the municipal plumbing and it's probably not worth it to keep the city alive. With northern towns that are no longer viable, the few people left are paid to leave.
That's easy, just leave the doors unlocked for a couple of days and all of the copper pipes and wires will be gone for free. A fair amount of the properties aren't worth the cost of demolishing the buildings that are on them, a person can pick up properties in Flint and Detroit for basically nothing, just pay off the back taxes, throw in some chump-change and do the renovations.
The fact that there is an "insurance cost" and a "self pay costs" tells us all we need to know about medical bills.
So if your going to sell your house do you expect to get the asking price? You might want to say "Hey Doc. if I pay cash, what kind of a courtesy can you give me?", He should give 20% without to much haggling since care credit and lending club hit him with around 10-15% discount anyway. Of course you can always do care credit and lending club and get 2 years interest free.
The people of Flint are poisoned because they habitually elect corrupt city officials, just like the people of Detroit.
In 1963, Flint moved to build a pipeline from Lake Huron to Flint, but a profiteering scandal derailed that pipeline. This led the city to sign a contract to purchase water for 30 years from the Detroit Water Department on June 6, 1964... March 2010, former pipeline supporter and former Genesee County Drain Commissioner Ken Hardin came out against the project, based on the City of Flint's poor financial condition. Instead, he recommended that the county seek a seat on a regional water board with Detroit. Karegnondi Water Authority
everything was fine when they were getting their water from DWSD
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department is a sprawling network covering 1,079 square-miles,[1][2] servicing more than 40 percent of the U.S. state of Michigan's population,[1] and employing over 3,000 people.[3] DWSD is one of the most extensive and largest water and sewage systems in the United States.[1] Along with serving the entire city of Detroit, it also serves the counties of Genesee, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Wayne, St. Clair, Lapeer and Monroe.[1] In 2000, The network comprised 11,000 miles of water mains and a storage capacity of 363 million gallons.[4] Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
but
In March 2013, the Flint city council voted to switch their water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) to the new $233 million Lake Huron-sourced Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA).[7] The switch was approved by the Flint emergency manager.... State Treasurer Andy Dillon approved Flint joining KWA but gave DWSD the opportunity to make a final offer to convince Flint to stay on Detroit water.[11] Flint declined the final DWSD offer. Immediately after Flint declined the offer, DWSD gave Flint notice that their long-standing water agreement would terminate in twelve months.[12] This meant that Flint's water agreement with Detroit would end in April 2014 but construction of KWA was not expected to be completed until the end of 2016. Therefore, in April 2014 (when the water agreement terminated), Flint switched their water supply from DWSD to Flint's backup supply, the Flint River. The Flint river was expected to supply potable water until KWA construction was completed in 2016. Flint water crisis
So the set up was two cities in bankruptcy were fighting over money and turf. The coup de grâce was the idiots at the Flint water treatment plant who did add the extra phosphates to protect the lead pipes from the extra salt in the Flint River as required by law and the idiots at DEQ who didn't follow protocols when high lead levels were detected.
The only way to really fix the problem is to rip out the lead pipes, under the streets in the entire city of Flint, all of the household plumbing with lead based soldered joints and replace them. I also doubt the Karegnondi pipeline is going to be finished this year, they are barely working on the first pumping station by the lake inlet and the electrical substation hasn't got any equipment installed.
No, the unemployment rates are good, but the employment participation rate sucks about the same as in the 1950's when virtually only men worked. Only 48% of the population pays any taxes, that's not sustainable, It's going to have to be fixed and that is going to hurt.
I experience with rural is HughesNet or 4Glte, we can't even get DSL and the 4Glte tends to drop out. Even the cell phone go "911 only" or nothing at times.
Mean while Comcast is pumping 1 GHz of signal through a 750MHz CoAx cable and kind of sort of getting away with it. If they had built-out with future expansion in mind, they'd be in a much better position today. A while back I had to connect several Wyse 60 terminals to a 25 MHz Pentium Zenix server over RS235, I used Cat5e cable instead of Cat 3 and my life is still much simpler today, and now that those 30 year old cables are getting brittle and flakey, when they are replaced with Cat6a, i'll probably pull a fiber with it just in case they need it after I retire.
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It would help if any of the climate models demonstrated some degree of predictive ability. The difference between model projections and reality have grown to ridiculous proportions.
The impression I've been getting is the group opposing the telescope are more interested in being oppositional/defiant, and are using the sacred site angle to facilitate that.
Don't worry patents only last for 20 years, and hydrogen fusion has been 30 years away for the last 50! Now I'm off to download the designs for one of those 200MPG carburetors that the oil companies bought up 20 years ago.
Just spray the dish down with silicone lube in the fall and the snow slides off; might have to re-sray once a winter.
Comcast has the security measures because their customer service is terrible enough to inspire violence in regular everyday people (there have been incidents).
Nah it's OSHA required due to potential work-place violence, they don't care about a few service 'droids, but an OSHA fine involves money.
You have a local Comcast office?
Get 120 psi racing slicks, they cut through the snow like it was hot butter, I loved riding past cars buried up to the axles in snow! Now ice tends to get exciting.
Actually it's a pretty common problem, sometimes the utility has to build a substation it's a rather large capital expense. A local paper plant has their own electrical generation plant and they pay the local utility as much in lease payments on their substation to maintain backup power as they would to buy the electricity, they save on waste ligin disposal fees and get a tax credit for being powered by a renewable power source (they burn a ligin/diesel mixture) to make it worthwhile.
Cool, I just couldn't rap my head around 250KW/ft^2, that would be like getting hit by a continuous bolt of lightning.
But HFT have to be located where electricity is quite pricey, and the cost of provisioning even pricier.
Depends on the terms, a history of closed head injury might make a difference too.
She's too narcissistic to worry, she's special, worry is for common people.
One would expect that to happen once in 64 series of 6 tosses.
but the majority of the AC is firmly in Groupthink mode anyway. If karma really got kicked in the dirt for bucking the groupthink then mine would be lower than whale shit; not have your moderations overturned in meta seems to count way more than comment moderations in karma.
Clueless and Groupthink maybe?
Back in the day, an AC post was almost unused unless someone had inside information that an employer or government would have found uncomfortable and would be likely to retaliate against the poster for divulging; Now it's just a "I'm too lazy to register an account" thing. It really undermines the user moderation system and makes the comment notices ineffective, basically gutting what makes /. /. Maybe if we made posting anonymously without having logged in from a registered account watch do an advertiser's activity like on pandora or watch a youtube style ad, it would cut down these Drive-by Anonymous Cowards, additionally if you post AC from an account, any moderation should count for or against you.
I wonder how many of the houses are worth less than the cost of lead pipe removal? Factor in the municipal plumbing and it's probably not worth it to keep the city alive. With northern towns that are no longer viable, the few people left are paid to leave.
That's easy, just leave the doors unlocked for a couple of days and all of the copper pipes and wires will be gone for free. A fair amount of the properties aren't worth the cost of demolishing the buildings that are on them, a person can pick up properties in Flint and Detroit for basically nothing, just pay off the back taxes, throw in some chump-change and do the renovations.
The fact that there is an "insurance cost" and a "self pay costs" tells us all we need to know about medical bills.
So if your going to sell your house do you expect to get the asking price? You might want to say "Hey Doc. if I pay cash, what kind of a courtesy can you give me?", He should give 20% without to much haggling since care credit and lending club hit him with around 10-15% discount anyway. Of course you can always do care credit and lending club and get 2 years interest free.
They're withholding 15% from our paychecks now to cover the cost after age 65, cradle to grave would cost how much?
The people of Flint are poisoned because they habitually elect corrupt city officials, just like the people of Detroit.
everything was fine when they were getting their water from DWSD
but
So the set up was two cities in bankruptcy were fighting over money and turf. The coup de grâce was the idiots at the Flint water treatment plant who did add the extra phosphates to protect the lead pipes from the extra salt in the Flint River as required by law and the idiots at DEQ who didn't follow protocols when high lead levels were detected.
The only way to really fix the problem is to rip out the lead pipes, under the streets in the entire city of Flint, all of the household plumbing with lead based soldered joints and replace them. I also doubt the Karegnondi pipeline is going to be finished this year, they are barely working on the first pumping station by the lake inlet and the electrical substation hasn't got any equipment installed.
How about asking for $150 HR + court costs.
You forgot a zero, maybe two, $150.00/hr might have worked in 1953.
When you submitted for the grant, did remember to add a dedicated computer, software and administrator's wages to it ?
No, the unemployment rates are good, but the employment participation rate sucks about the same as in the 1950's when virtually only men worked. Only 48% of the population pays any taxes, that's not sustainable, It's going to have to be fixed and that is going to hurt.
I experience with rural is HughesNet or 4Glte, we can't even get DSL and the 4Glte tends to drop out. Even the cell phone go "911 only" or nothing at times.
Mean while Comcast is pumping 1 GHz of signal through a 750MHz CoAx cable and kind of sort of getting away with it. If they had built-out with future expansion in mind, they'd be in a much better position today. A while back I had to connect several Wyse 60 terminals to a 25 MHz Pentium Zenix server over RS235, I used Cat5e cable instead of Cat 3 and my life is still much simpler today, and now that those 30 year old cables are getting brittle and flakey, when they are replaced with Cat6a, i'll probably pull a fiber with it just in case they need it after I retire.