"The equation of time? what are you babbling about?"
The time between successive local noon varies throughout the year. (In addition, local sunrise and sunset hit their extremes out of phase, i.e. the latest sunrise is not the same day as the earliest sunset.) The daylight portion of a full day shifts back and forth. This excursion is the equation of time. It is the correction you need to add to a sundial reading to get clock time, or vice versa.
The spread of this excursion is depend on on axial tilt, not on latitude of observation. However, the spread for the Earth is only 30m39s, not a full hour.
"I tell them when something is happening Zulu... and they tell me when things are happening Zulu"
Exactly, you still need to know when business hours are with respect to Zulu time... which is exactly the same information as time zone UTC offsets. There is no new information, but now people have to convert for their local time as well as the remote time.
And if you take different offsets in different seasons then this is the same things as DST. There is no new information yet once again you have added an additional conversion for local time and prevented people fomr just looking at their clocks to find out what time it is right here right now.
"apparently a lot of concern behind the scenes with the new fuel"
And with no context this tells us *absolutely nothing* about whether the fuel change was a good idea or a bad idea.
How does this compare to other cases where a fuel change has occurred? I would *expect* a lot of concern in every case even if the change were an improvement along every axis.
What kind of concerns were raised? People who worried about miniature demons escaping from the fuel might not have a credible argument.;-)
Were the concerns borne out? If people were worried about some else happening, then anything done further to address thsoe concerns would not have prevented this accident and soe someone else would have come out and said "I had concerns but they fixed something completely different instead."
Now your cafeteria is in competition for yet another worker skill and that against your engineering department, and it is hard to substitute a different employee if an abacus expert is out sick.
Compare that to a modern fast food restaurant, where running the cash register may not even require literacy so it's a buyers market for labor.
Once the regular traffic has reduced enough, airlines will will cancel the scheduled flights and reallocate the aircraft where where they can make some money. Medical traffic will have to find planes to charter just for themselves *and some way to pay for those flights* since they no longer have a full passenger load over which to amortize the costs
The first is always to identify the problem. Where and how are they currently not legal? You would think that an article about making automated cars legal would say that they are prohibited in state X because of A and in state Y because of B. However, the article is *completely silent* on current laws that prohibit automated cars.
You have mistaken OP's comment as a specific request for information about Tumbleweed and Factory when it is in fact a general request for BETTER SUMMARIES.
"You can see the assumption everywhere here: those displaced workers will just find another job! Well no, at some point they won't. "
While this is not impossible, it is important to that that this has never happened in economic history ever. So it is not unreasonable to ask that those claiming that "this time it is different" show their work.
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"The equation of time? what are you babbling about?"
The time between successive local noon varies throughout the year. (In addition, local sunrise and sunset hit their extremes out of phase, i.e. the latest sunrise is not the same day as the earliest sunset.) The daylight portion of a full day shifts back and forth. This excursion is the equation of time. It is the correction you need to add to a sundial reading to get clock time, or vice versa.
The spread of this excursion is depend on on axial tilt, not on latitude of observation. However, the spread for the Earth is only 30m39s, not a full hour.
"I tell them when something is happening Zulu... and they tell me when things are happening Zulu"
Exactly, you still need to know when business hours are with respect to Zulu time... which is exactly the same information as time zone UTC offsets. There is no new information, but now people have to convert for their local time as well as the remote time.
And if you take different offsets in different seasons then this is the same things as DST. There is no new information yet once again you have added an additional conversion for local time and prevented people fomr just looking at their clocks to find out what time it is right here right now.
Because only the US has winter.
"We are getting into (the northern hemisphere) winter. "
So is the rest of the northern hemisphere. How is it that anywhere else people can still cope?
If you are ranting against DST but never address the equation of time, then you haven't even figured out what the problem is let alone have solved it.
You have eliminated the equation of time? You should tell everyone how. It would be quite impressive.
"Or heck, legislate a shift in work hours. It's hardly more oppressive than legislating capricious changes in the freakin' clock"
Why do you think there a difference between the two?
I was trying to make a joke, badly, and you got my point backwards, so now we both look like idiots. Thanks, Obama!
"one day a trip into a sub orbital space will be just as safe"
Thus far there have been 0 space-tourist injuries or fatalities.
I can't find anything in that article about the change in fuel.
For the tourists, it is less dangerous than cruises.
"apparently a lot of concern behind the scenes with the new fuel"
And with no context this tells us *absolutely nothing* about whether the fuel change was a good idea or a bad idea.
How does this compare to other cases where a fuel change has occurred? I would *expect* a lot of concern in every case even if the change were an improvement along every axis.
What kind of concerns were raised? People who worried about miniature demons escaping from the fuel might not have a credible argument. ;-)
Were the concerns borne out? If people were worried about some else happening, then anything done further to address thsoe concerns would not have prevented this accident and soe someone else would have come out and said "I had concerns but they fixed something completely different instead."
"experienced abacus (or slide rule) user"
Now your cafeteria is in competition for yet another worker skill and that against your engineering department, and it is hard to substitute a different employee if an abacus expert is out sick.
Compare that to a modern fast food restaurant, where running the cash register may not even require literacy so it's a buyers market for labor.
" no direct evidence for"
Where do you think that chain of properties comes from?
Once the regular traffic has reduced enough, airlines will will cancel the scheduled flights and reallocate the aircraft where where they can make some money. Medical traffic will have to find planes to charter just for themselves *and some way to pay for those flights* since they no longer have a full passenger load over which to amortize the costs
If you can maintain access for a year and a day, you get to be vice-president.
...and Slashdot commenters talking about politicians.
It would be if you had included a woman's home address.
Intel already emulates the x86 ISA. How much worse could emulating the ARM ISA be?
The first is always to identify the problem. Where and how are they currently not legal? You would think that an article about making automated cars legal would say that they are prohibited in state X because of A and in state Y because of B. However, the article is *completely silent* on current laws that prohibit automated cars.
The ocean is a liberal conspiracy!
You have mistaken OP's comment as a specific request for information about Tumbleweed and Factory when it is in fact a general request for BETTER SUMMARIES.
Google is not CurrentC
Apple and Google are on the same side in this one, in opposition to CurrentC.
Why should be take an economic argument seriously from someone who can't keep the difference between costs and prices straight?
" But virtually nobody does. "
But *actually* somebody does, since there is a plaintiff for the case.
"You can see the assumption everywhere here: those displaced workers will just find another job! Well no, at some point they won't. "
While this is not impossible, it is important to that that this has never happened in economic history ever. So it is not unreasonable to ask that those claiming that "this time it is different" show their work.