Arizona is replacing its 4-way stops and light-use intersections with "modern roundabouts" that do not use any more land than is already dedicated. THis saves energy and keeps residential neighborhoods quieter.
As with carbon emissions, if we step up and lead, others will tend to follow.
Would the scene be from one of those flyspeck African countries that refuses our food aid because someone from Greenpeace has told them that GMO wheat is bad for them? If so, then that country's plastic pollution will quickly take care of itself.
"That word is usually associated with bombing and deaths."
The flat-earth lobby will associate any other term with bombing and death also. Because years ago it decided to come out against the whole upper region of the periodic table, any use of nuclear against AGW will have to take place over their dead bodies. Time to warm up the legal steamroller now.
A further check shows that there is not much about our plastics manufacture that has to change: http://www.dotmar.com.au/densi... The bad guys are polyethylene and polypropylene.
"Some scholars believe, however, that Muhammad did not receive the Quran from heaven, as he claimed during his lifetime, but instead collected texts and scripts that fit his political agenda."
Despite all the jokes they make about the place (think of it as their New Jersey), the British are going to miss Birmingham.
This thread is not about Bitcoin, but about the blockchain concept. From the beginning of commerce until comparatively recently, people have traded in cash. A blockchain makes a string of cash transactions traceable, no matter what currency is being used.
The problem was that the prophet Steve (peace be upon him) hated the business market for some obscure personal reason and did everything he could to keep the company out of it. Now that Apple has fallen into secular hands, a revival of interest in the enterprise market may be in the works.
"I suggest banning the sale of lumber products taken from natural forests, Or of farm or other products created on formerly forested land without paying a heft fee per hectare of land."
I would take this farther. Let's stop using anything "wild caught" and favor that which is farmed, be it trees or seafood. Most especially, we want to absolutely ban the use of "wild caught" on labels as though hunting and gathering were somehow more "environmental" or "organic" than farming. If you care about sustainability, it's actually the other way around.
The availability of a huge range of movies for a $9/month DVD subscription is what keeps consumers from torrenting. If they take that away, we'll just go back to our old torrenting ways.
Here in the distant rural reaches of northern Arizona, I'm getting 80M down/8M up, and there are three competing providers. Anybody who would run a software development operation in the Seattle suburbs would have to be crazy.
Because that gives me access on Netflix to every movie ever made, plus a substantial number of TV series both domestic and foreign. Netflix seems to have invested heavily in the "everybody's gonna stream" meme, a dream which crashed into ISP user caps and Hollywood footdragging. That's why the streaming servers offer a stunted collection of movies that "expire" after a year or so. So now that Netflix is set up for large-scale streaming, developing its own content to deliver is a logical next step.
Mention of C# brings back nostalgic memories of maniacal pizza-driven overnighters to finish projects in the latter days of "Windows," an operating system written by Washington-state software developer Microsoft, which you will probably remember for its office applications. It enjoyed a period of popularity ranging into the first decade of our new century and is still in use by some of my rural IT customers.
In TFA, it is explained that this design eliminates zero/oh, 5/S and 6/G confusion, especially at smaller sizes when you're trying to get as much code context as you can onto your development screen.
My rural area does not have subdivisions, though there are some local concentrations of population. It happens that I have a Centurylink switch right next door, and for a few years they were my provider. Because of my living next to the switch, I got 10MHz, the fastest that DSL is capable of, but two to five miles away, the speed drops into the acoustic modem range. Beyond that, no Centurylink at all, even though everyone has its phone company wiring.
Now that a cable provider has come to town, the Centurylink customer base has flocked over to its clean 80MHz service. You have to be on the cable run, but this still a much larger number of customers than can get Centurylink at all.
Sort of a corollary to this: if we're going to subsidize a broadband provider, why are we subsidizing the slowest provider, one that is locked in to an obsolete technology? It is as though Franklin Roosevelt had funded the Rural Oil Lamp Administration.
Uwingu has the right idea, but it still has no official status, as your article explains. It's just another star registry like the ones in the back of magazines. We need the IAU itself, or some organization(s) it deputizes, to issue and manage the official names. Because IAU has traditionally named the important objects and features, it has to coordinate with whoever would be issuing the auctioned names.
One indicator of a need for auctioned names is that the IAU naming committee is that with today's proliferation of objects, they're running out of ideas. We're getting Inca gods so obscure that nobody has ever heard of them, so who is being honored, exactly? I would feel better knowing that Suge Knight had dropped significant coin to have the next KBO named after himself. And what in hell is "Sedna"? Are we down to Arizona Map Typos now?
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"I'd think, as a pedestrian, you'd prefer to have self-walking shoes."
Ask, and ye shall receive:
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Arizona is replacing its 4-way stops and light-use intersections with "modern roundabouts" that do not use any more land than is already dedicated. THis saves energy and keeps residential neighborhoods quieter.
As with carbon emissions, if we step up and lead, others will tend to follow.
Would the scene be from one of those flyspeck African countries that refuses our food aid because someone from Greenpeace has told them that GMO wheat is bad for them? If so, then that country's plastic pollution will quickly take care of itself.
Energy from burning strawmen would at least be carbon neutral.
"That word is usually associated with bombing and deaths."
The flat-earth lobby will associate any other term with bombing and death also. Because years ago it decided to come out against the whole upper region of the periodic table, any use of nuclear against AGW will have to take place over their dead bodies. Time to warm up the legal steamroller now.
A further check shows that there is not much about our plastics manufacture that has to change:
http://www.dotmar.com.au/densi...
The bad guys are polyethylene and polypropylene.
"Some scholars believe, however, that Muhammad did not receive the Quran from heaven, as he claimed during his lifetime, but instead collected texts and scripts that fit his political agenda."
Despite all the jokes they make about the place (think of it as their New Jersey), the British are going to miss Birmingham.
This thread is not about Bitcoin, but about the blockchain concept. From the beginning of commerce until comparatively recently, people have traded in cash. A blockchain makes a string of cash transactions traceable, no matter what currency is being used.
Yes, there needs to be a small adder for the higher density of seawater, so hat the actual standard would be 1.1 . But you get the idea.
The problem was that the prophet Steve (peace be upon him) hated the business market for some obscure personal reason and did everything he could to keep the company out of it. Now that Apple has fallen into secular hands, a revival of interest in the enterprise market may be in the works.
I can see a major use being patrol searches for possible Earth-colliding objects. Think of it as a follow-on to LONEOS.
Require that the specific gravity of every form of plastic be greater than 1. End of problem.
"I suggest banning the sale of lumber products taken from natural forests, Or of farm or other products created on formerly forested land without paying a heft fee per hectare of land."
I would take this farther. Let's stop using anything "wild caught" and favor that which is farmed, be it trees or seafood. Most especially, we want to absolutely ban the use of "wild caught" on labels as though hunting and gathering were somehow more "environmental" or "organic" than farming. If you care about sustainability, it's actually the other way around.
The availability of a huge range of movies for a $9/month DVD subscription is what keeps consumers from torrenting. If they take that away, we'll just go back to our old torrenting ways.
Here in the distant rural reaches of northern Arizona, I'm getting 80M down/8M up, and there are three competing providers. Anybody who would run a software development operation in the Seattle suburbs would have to be crazy.
Because that gives me access on Netflix to every movie ever made, plus a substantial number of TV series both domestic and foreign. Netflix seems to have invested heavily in the "everybody's gonna stream" meme, a dream which crashed into ISP user caps and Hollywood footdragging. That's why the streaming servers offer a stunted collection of movies that "expire" after a year or so. So now that Netflix is set up for large-scale streaming, developing its own content to deliver is a logical next step.
Mention of C# brings back nostalgic memories of maniacal pizza-driven overnighters to finish projects in the latter days of "Windows," an operating system written by Washington-state software developer Microsoft, which you will probably remember for its office applications. It enjoyed a period of popularity ranging into the first decade of our new century and is still in use by some of my rural IT customers.
"Leave the Internet and cell signals back home though, sure."
If you don't want to have your phone keep ringing when you're in the woods, sign up for AT & T. It's the peace and quiet provider.
In TFA, it is explained that this design eliminates zero/oh, 5/S and 6/G confusion, especially at smaller sizes when you're trying to get as much code context as you can onto your development screen.
My rural area does not have subdivisions, though there are some local concentrations of population. It happens that I have a Centurylink switch right next door, and for a few years they were my provider. Because of my living next to the switch, I got 10MHz, the fastest that DSL is capable of, but two to five miles away, the speed drops into the acoustic modem range. Beyond that, no Centurylink at all, even though everyone has its phone company wiring.
Now that a cable provider has come to town, the Centurylink customer base has flocked over to its clean 80MHz service. You have to be on the cable run, but this still a much larger number of customers than can get Centurylink at all.
Sort of a corollary to this: if we're going to subsidize a broadband provider, why are we subsidizing the slowest provider, one that is locked in to an obsolete technology? It is as though Franklin Roosevelt had funded the Rural Oil Lamp Administration.
"...making mountains out of mole hills"
In this case, it was making a mountain into a speed bump.
We already moved - away from you, to the suburbs.
The technical term for jailbroken, insecure versions of iOS is "Android."
Uwingu has the right idea, but it still has no official status, as your article explains. It's just another star registry like the ones in the back of magazines. We need the IAU itself, or some organization(s) it deputizes, to issue and manage the official names. Because IAU has traditionally named the important objects and features, it has to coordinate with whoever would be issuing the auctioned names.
One indicator of a need for auctioned names is that the IAU naming committee is that with today's proliferation of objects, they're running out of ideas. We're getting Inca gods so obscure that nobody has ever heard of them, so who is being honored, exactly? I would feel better knowing that Suge Knight had dropped significant coin to have the next KBO named after himself. And what in hell is "Sedna"? Are we down to Arizona Map Typos now?