And, still, jury trials are considered risky for defendants, never know what might come out the other end, and many juries don't seem inclined to listen to instructions, evidence, or anything besides the prejudices they bring with them into the courtroom, even though the paneling process is supposed to reduce these problems.
If you're facing 2 years in a minimum security country club with a plea bargain, or potentially 20 years of hard time with a jury trial, what kind of odds are you willing to play in that scenario? Remember that the jury trial itself might take an unpleasant and expensive year to complete.
These are all factors in the decision - eczema probably a very small factor, but autism (or a tendency towards autistic behaviors of any kind) is something the judge might, or might not, want to consider when deciding if he is going to break with extradition tradition and set a precedent of protecting UK citizens the way that the US protects US citizens.
So, I read this as a sort of Pachinko machine, where the computation flows through a series of gates and those gates aren't reused (as quickly)... with advances in shrinking transistor size, and the reduction in operating frequency this would bring, it might be an interesting twist on parallel computing. Instead of having 80 processors split up a problem and bring it back together, spread out a processor, make it 80x larger and recycle through the gates 80x slower, or maybe only 20x slower and net a 4x speedup.
When I lived out there it was pesticide warehouses catching fire (with multiple safety violations leading to the accidents). We left just about as quickly as we could.
Especially when you have massive tracts of stable, uninhabited mountain ranges in which to stash the radioactive waste. I often wonder why the quality of life surveys in places like Finland are so high - I think it correlates with the weather, if quality of life weren't high the weather would certainly drive population to zero.
Agreed that normal operational thorium+uranium+radon->polonium emissions from coal plants are insignificant. Which is quite telling since they are even greater than radioactive emissions from nuclear power plants.
Not agreed that scrubbers make everything safe. Scrubbers aren't run 100% of the time, and they aren't 100% effective, and the waste from scrubbers and fly ash is nearly as problematic as the stuff they want to stash in Yucca Mountain.
Sure, thorium is completely safe, not biologically active at all - let's give you a thorium seed injection so we can track some stuff in a scanner, won't hurt a bit...
We bought a house once (well, more than once) but this particular time, the ex-mayor of the town was now a real-estate agent and she took us around town to look at a few houses - senile old bat who couldn't even drive a car without knocking over garbage cans - she was quite certain that "our power plant has the latest scrubber technology, it's completely safe," as she took us to look at a house less than a mile from the stacks...
Yeah, with assurances from a source like that, who would ever worry?
Yes, but "Friends of Coal" are getting money from the continued exploitation of this time honored resource. Potential "Friends of Coal" I can think of:
- Medical professionals treating various diseases caused from coal particulate and heavy metal pollution of the communities downwind from coal burning facilities
- Those who benefit from acid rain
- Those who benefit from the ban on eating fish caught in freshwater streams and lakes
- Those who benefit from strip-mining operations
- Those who think they can't possibly retrain to work in another industry
Really, given this wonderful company, who wouldn't want to be a "Friend of Coal"?
I'm sure they can handle basic ISS operations, and fancy stuff like spacewalks for planned maintenance can be deferred for the occasional (once per 10 years or so) major storm event.
However, for the occasional, hard to predict, shit just hit the fan in the station event, it's nice to have the A-Team available on standby to direct the cleanup.
First time I flew with a crackberry (2004) I used it to access the internet and find some info I needed - took over an hour to painfully load the pages and click through to the info. Same thing from conventional terminals took less than a minute.
I know that some knowledge gets stuck between two particular ears, but for the most part, there should be a minimum of 6 trained operators for every station working 3 shifts. Cunding futbacks be damned, if it's mission critical, you can't have the whole house come down just because some guy gets shot by a crazy ex-girlfriend or something.
It is a long long way from Mission Control to where the flooding from Harvey isn't serious - might as well transfer to Huntsville, or Round Rock, or Canberra for that matter - personally, I'd rather have my car parked at Bush International (high in a garage - not on the roof), during a heavy water storm event instead of spitting distance to Clear Lake.
I lived very near mission control during Hurricane Rita, I prepped the house for the storm - and that was a colossal mistake, instead of putting up (inadequate) shutters, I should have just loaded the family up and started the evacuation that much earlier. My insurance coverage was the same whether we storm prepped the house or not, and the prep probably didn't make a big difference in potential damage, zero difference for damage from rising water.
So, not saying that "drugs are bad" or anything, but also having well adjusted ground control crew who can function well without pharmaceuticals is a good option.
Stretching a 9 hour shift to 12 isn't bad at all, especially with the excitement of the storm, the pajama party at work, and the not being able to go anywhere because the roads are flooded. I do wonder how "at risk" the staff's personal cars were during the storm. Mission Control isn't far at all from the Clear Lake / Mud Lake corner, even if the building can take rising water, a parking lot at double normal capacity might not all be up above flood. I suppose the usual admin people were probably mostly absent, so there's probably not a parking overflow situation.
What is finite is the number of employers willing to pay to have those jobs done - especially at a rate that workers are willing to do the jobs at.
I'd willingly pay $100 to fix the A/C in my old car, but nobody is willing to do the job for that, even though the required materials only cost about $50... what's up with that? Where's the magical free market competition that will lower cost of labor to whatever the employers are willing to pay?
If you want to explore the dark side, rioting is a dangerous activity - rioting workers may well be killed while rioting, directly reducing the unemployment problems...
T-shirts are already >100% markup from production costs - dropping their production cost to 0 won't do much of anything to the retail price - but it will increase profits for the producers, after they pay off the massive capital investment in the robot.
Where it will probably make a big difference is in factory capacity - one robot plus one human handler should take far less floor space, break room space, bathroom capacity, transit system capacity, etc. than 17 humans and their current sewing equipment. So, at a macro scale, you can expect factories to condense and vacate lots of space as they continue to scale up output.
For example, the first edition of the Palm Pre was a Sprint exclusive. The second release, the Palm Pre 2, was a Verizon exclusive. That's a huge "screw you" to people who want to upgrade since they have to switch providers too.
No worse than making your phone an AT&T exclusive for years - some people enjoy abuse.
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This doesn't seem to be the defendant deciding, it seems to be the courts of his home country.
Extradition treaties shouldn't be a one way gate, which is the current situation with US-UK.
And, still, jury trials are considered risky for defendants, never know what might come out the other end, and many juries don't seem inclined to listen to instructions, evidence, or anything besides the prejudices they bring with them into the courtroom, even though the paneling process is supposed to reduce these problems.
If you're facing 2 years in a minimum security country club with a plea bargain, or potentially 20 years of hard time with a jury trial, what kind of odds are you willing to play in that scenario? Remember that the jury trial itself might take an unpleasant and expensive year to complete.
These are all factors in the decision - eczema probably a very small factor, but autism (or a tendency towards autistic behaviors of any kind) is something the judge might, or might not, want to consider when deciding if he is going to break with extradition tradition and set a precedent of protecting UK citizens the way that the US protects US citizens.
Will it blend?
University of Florida has very advanced studies in grant writing.
So, I read this as a sort of Pachinko machine, where the computation flows through a series of gates and those gates aren't reused (as quickly)... with advances in shrinking transistor size, and the reduction in operating frequency this would bring, it might be an interesting twist on parallel computing. Instead of having 80 processors split up a problem and bring it back together, spread out a processor, make it 80x larger and recycle through the gates 80x slower, or maybe only 20x slower and net a 4x speedup.
And, for some of us in 1991, "Happy Music" can be Nine Inch Nails' Head like a Hole.
Somewhere in the 1990s (really really late in the 1990s) only 13% of Americans surveyed thought the Internet would be anything of interest to them.
When I lived out there it was pesticide warehouses catching fire (with multiple safety violations leading to the accidents). We left just about as quickly as we could.
Especially when you have massive tracts of stable, uninhabited mountain ranges in which to stash the radioactive waste. I often wonder why the quality of life surveys in places like Finland are so high - I think it correlates with the weather, if quality of life weren't high the weather would certainly drive population to zero.
Agreed that normal operational thorium+uranium+radon->polonium emissions from coal plants are insignificant. Which is quite telling since they are even greater than radioactive emissions from nuclear power plants.
Not agreed that scrubbers make everything safe. Scrubbers aren't run 100% of the time, and they aren't 100% effective, and the waste from scrubbers and fly ash is nearly as problematic as the stuff they want to stash in Yucca Mountain.
Plus: mercury.
Sure, thorium is completely safe, not biologically active at all - let's give you a thorium seed injection so we can track some stuff in a scanner, won't hurt a bit...
We bought a house once (well, more than once) but this particular time, the ex-mayor of the town was now a real-estate agent and she took us around town to look at a few houses - senile old bat who couldn't even drive a car without knocking over garbage cans - she was quite certain that "our power plant has the latest scrubber technology, it's completely safe," as she took us to look at a house less than a mile from the stacks...
Yeah, with assurances from a source like that, who would ever worry?
Yes, but "Friends of Coal" are getting money from the continued exploitation of this time honored resource. Potential "Friends of Coal" I can think of:
- Medical professionals treating various diseases caused from coal particulate and heavy metal pollution of the communities downwind from coal burning facilities
- Those who benefit from acid rain
- Those who benefit from the ban on eating fish caught in freshwater streams and lakes
- Those who benefit from strip-mining operations
- Those who think they can't possibly retrain to work in another industry
Really, given this wonderful company, who wouldn't want to be a "Friend of Coal"?
I think the ISS is exempt from drone permitting requirements, something about being insignificantly small (pieces) when it hits the ground.
I'm sure they can handle basic ISS operations, and fancy stuff like spacewalks for planned maintenance can be deferred for the occasional (once per 10 years or so) major storm event.
However, for the occasional, hard to predict, shit just hit the fan in the station event, it's nice to have the A-Team available on standby to direct the cleanup.
First time I flew with a crackberry (2004) I used it to access the internet and find some info I needed - took over an hour to painfully load the pages and click through to the info. Same thing from conventional terminals took less than a minute.
I know that some knowledge gets stuck between two particular ears, but for the most part, there should be a minimum of 6 trained operators for every station working 3 shifts. Cunding futbacks be damned, if it's mission critical, you can't have the whole house come down just because some guy gets shot by a crazy ex-girlfriend or something.
It is a long long way from Mission Control to where the flooding from Harvey isn't serious - might as well transfer to Huntsville, or Round Rock, or Canberra for that matter - personally, I'd rather have my car parked at Bush International (high in a garage - not on the roof), during a heavy water storm event instead of spitting distance to Clear Lake.
I lived very near mission control during Hurricane Rita, I prepped the house for the storm - and that was a colossal mistake, instead of putting up (inadequate) shutters, I should have just loaded the family up and started the evacuation that much earlier. My insurance coverage was the same whether we storm prepped the house or not, and the prep probably didn't make a big difference in potential damage, zero difference for damage from rising water.
So, not saying that "drugs are bad" or anything, but also having well adjusted ground control crew who can function well without pharmaceuticals is a good option.
Stretching a 9 hour shift to 12 isn't bad at all, especially with the excitement of the storm, the pajama party at work, and the not being able to go anywhere because the roads are flooded. I do wonder how "at risk" the staff's personal cars were during the storm. Mission Control isn't far at all from the Clear Lake / Mud Lake corner, even if the building can take rising water, a parking lot at double normal capacity might not all be up above flood. I suppose the usual admin people were probably mostly absent, so there's probably not a parking overflow situation.
There are an infinite number of jobs to do.
What is finite is the number of employers willing to pay to have those jobs done - especially at a rate that workers are willing to do the jobs at.
I'd willingly pay $100 to fix the A/C in my old car, but nobody is willing to do the job for that, even though the required materials only cost about $50... what's up with that? Where's the magical free market competition that will lower cost of labor to whatever the employers are willing to pay?
The civilization of the 1700s has been thoroughly destroyed, only distorted tokens of that culture remain today.
If you want to explore the dark side, rioting is a dangerous activity - rioting workers may well be killed while rioting, directly reducing the unemployment problems...
T-shirts are already >100% markup from production costs - dropping their production cost to 0 won't do much of anything to the retail price - but it will increase profits for the producers, after they pay off the massive capital investment in the robot.
Where it will probably make a big difference is in factory capacity - one robot plus one human handler should take far less floor space, break room space, bathroom capacity, transit system capacity, etc. than 17 humans and their current sewing equipment. So, at a macro scale, you can expect factories to condense and vacate lots of space as they continue to scale up output.
For example, the first edition of the Palm Pre was a Sprint exclusive. The second release, the Palm Pre 2, was a Verizon exclusive. That's a huge "screw you" to people who want to upgrade since they have to switch providers too.
No worse than making your phone an AT&T exclusive for years - some people enjoy abuse.