This should have been the neighborhood where the robot landed. It's near UPenn and has an Apple store, but it also hosts a significant population of Linux Orthodox. Either group would have given him shelter, fresh downloaded updates and a pint of RustOleum for the road. Instead he ended up in the Windows part of town. Had he looked around and seen the graffitoed blue screen stop codes all over the walls, he could still have taken a bus to safety with his remaining Bitcoin. Situational awareness, people!
Why in hell are we keeping China out of the ISS, anyway? We should be welcoming them instead. They would probably double its size and boost it into an orbit that doesn't have to be continually refreshed due to atmospheric drag.
I'm not suggesting that Hillary subsidize hydro, just that environmentalists be honest about accounting for it as a renewable source. They always include it when they say "30% of Rurethenia's power comes from renewables." because it sounds so much more noble than "2% of the country's power comes from wind, 1% from solar and 27% from Bigfukken Dam."
Like everyone else, I'm getting an increasing number of spam calls on my business cell. I can't whitelist (block all calls not in my Contacts) because some unknown numbers represent new customers. But if Siri can be programmed to recognize spammers and send them packing with a stream of choice expletives, this would be a godsend. To being with, spam calls usually begin with a short delay. Then there are the speech patterns advertisers and political wheedlers commonly use. Siri could even feed you through a "translucent" piece of the caller's spiel overlaid by its own "Shall I take this call?"
Since not every house is in the sunbelt and hot every dwelling is single-family with a large roof area, what she's talking about is having enough total renewables nationwide to supply all dwellings through the grid. That would mean implementing Smart Grid, the extensions to the current baseload grid to integrate small renewables (daytime excess from every house fed back into the grid) and medium renewables (wind and solar fields). The first step in implementing Smart Grid would be to install smart meters, which electronically report many times a day on each user's power flowing in either direction, so that a future Smart Grid can keep adjusting the fluctuating output of renewables to the fluctuating load.
In my sun-drenched community, a few wealthy Republican early adopters have rooftop solar installations that supply all their needs. What do you think our Democrats are doing - waiting for subsidies to come through so they can install solar for themselves? No, they're out in the streets and packing public meetings, protesting against the smart meters because they believe that they emit "radiation" (the Democrat equivalent to "sin") of some kind. They even want Arizona Public Service to implement a special procedure to exempt them - the very people who are supposed to be supporting renewables - from the smart meter installation cycle.
Hillary, you're going to have to find a way of getting through these meter-thick skulls before you can nave your nationwide renewable power generation.
And was set upon by a gang of cheap Windows Vista laptops that had been lounging around glomming the free WiFi. It was found face down behind the diner, stripped of all data, with its USB port full of viruses.
Bison once roamed over vast stretches of the country now occupied by farms and cities. Make up your mind, people: is man killing off all the large animals or promoting too many animals?
"You start with fighting human stupidity and ignorance."
The whole idea that cow burps could produce enough carbon to destroy the planet is why so many people deny even the possibility that emitting industrial quantities of carbon can change the climate. It just makes the whole issue sound ridiculous. Methane may be 20 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2, but because of its reactivity it does not persist in the atmosphere in the same way.
"No, Fourth Silicon Valley, which is rife with Hipsters and social rejects, will not mine asteroids. But I think that the Fifth Silicon Valley very well could!"
Yes, if Andrew Carnegie were alive today, he would live in Mountain View and call his company "Smeltly" rather than US Steel. But the ingathering of brainpower in the area will bring us new projects Let's allow them to bring an end to California's drought with cheap desalination.
Japan being a high-tech nation with a much smaller land area, they're going to genetically engineer a bioconcentrator that will mop up the cesium in their exclusion zone long before the 25 years is up.
All states, so far as I know, have the option of posting a bond instead of getting mandatory auto insurance. If self-driving cars are going to be mostly owned by manufacturers and leasing companies, they might find the bonding option a savings over insurance because the risk is being spread over a big fleet of cars. Since that's all that insurance companies do, the reasoning will be, "Let's post our own bonds, pocketing the profit that would ordinarily go to some insurance company."
One surprisingly bike-friendly city is Phoenix, which offers several hundred miles of off-road bike paths. And there may be only one train line, but it does go to the airport.
Something tells me that even if there were snow removal on the bikeways, they're going to be deserted in the winter. And when it rains. Not exactly my idea of a commuter traffic reliever.
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Because that would require applying science, and we don't do that any more.
"As if private corporations do not require expense reports. "
I have to file expense reports too, and it's my company. Buchhaltern über alles
This should have been the neighborhood where the robot landed. It's near UPenn and has an Apple store, but it also hosts a significant population of Linux Orthodox. Either group would have given him shelter, fresh downloaded updates and a pint of RustOleum for the road. Instead he ended up in the Windows part of town. Had he looked around and seen the graffitoed blue screen stop codes all over the walls, he could still have taken a bus to safety with his remaining Bitcoin. Situational awareness, people!
Why in hell are we keeping China out of the ISS, anyway? We should be welcoming them instead. They would probably double its size and boost it into an orbit that doesn't have to be continually refreshed due to atmospheric drag.
I wish I could locate that Onion article claiming that Walmart had eight nuclear bombs.
Humbug. Europe has coal towns that historically were so run-down that anthracite was considered a gemstone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm not suggesting that Hillary subsidize hydro, just that environmentalists be honest about accounting for it as a renewable source. They always include it when they say "30% of Rurethenia's power comes from renewables." because it sounds so much more noble than "2% of the country's power comes from wind, 1% from solar and 27% from Bigfukken Dam."
I even know people who have done IT in Massachusetts.
"A 1-bit rand function..."
No, by now that would at least rand(6).
Obviously, the vegans it's made from. This is revenge of the best kind - environmentally sensitive vengeance.
Soylent , I would suggest following this up with a solid, sweetened product, in a variety of flavors, called Just Desserts
Like everyone else, I'm getting an increasing number of spam calls on my business cell. I can't whitelist (block all calls not in my Contacts) because some unknown numbers represent new customers. But if Siri can be programmed to recognize spammers and send them packing with a stream of choice expletives, this would be a godsend. To being with, spam calls usually begin with a short delay. Then there are the speech patterns advertisers and political wheedlers commonly use. Siri could even feed you through a "translucent" piece of the caller's spiel overlaid by its own "Shall I take this call?"
Since not every house is in the sunbelt and hot every dwelling is single-family with a large roof area, what she's talking about is having enough total renewables nationwide to supply all dwellings through the grid. That would mean implementing Smart Grid, the extensions to the current baseload grid to integrate small renewables (daytime excess from every house fed back into the grid) and medium renewables (wind and solar fields). The first step in implementing Smart Grid would be to install smart meters, which electronically report many times a day on each user's power flowing in either direction, so that a future Smart Grid can keep adjusting the fluctuating output of renewables to the fluctuating load.
In my sun-drenched community, a few wealthy Republican early adopters have rooftop solar installations that supply all their needs. What do you think our Democrats are doing - waiting for subsidies to come through so they can install solar for themselves? No, they're out in the streets and packing public meetings, protesting against the smart meters because they believe that they emit "radiation" (the Democrat equivalent to "sin") of some kind. They even want Arizona Public Service to implement a special procedure to exempt them - the very people who are supposed to be supporting renewables - from the smart meter installation cycle.
Hillary, you're going to have to find a way of getting through these meter-thick skulls before you can nave your nationwide renewable power generation.
"naturally replenishing on a scale that is non-depletable in any practical sense at the present time"?
But not counting hydro, even though it totally overwhelms all the other renewables, because it's Evil and Corporate.
And was set upon by a gang of cheap Windows Vista laptops that had been lounging around glomming the free WiFi. It was found face down behind the diner, stripped of all data, with its USB port full of viruses.
Bison once roamed over vast stretches of the country now occupied by farms and cities. Make up your mind, people: is man killing off all the large animals or promoting too many animals?
"You start with fighting human stupidity and ignorance."
The whole idea that cow burps could produce enough carbon to destroy the planet is why so many people deny even the possibility that emitting industrial quantities of carbon can change the climate. It just makes the whole issue sound ridiculous. Methane may be 20 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2, but because of its reactivity it does not persist in the atmosphere in the same way.
"No, Fourth Silicon Valley, which is rife with Hipsters and social rejects, will not mine asteroids. But I think that the Fifth Silicon Valley very well could!"
Yes, if Andrew Carnegie were alive today, he would live in Mountain View and call his company "Smeltly" rather than US Steel. But the ingathering of brainpower in the area will bring us new projects Let's allow them to bring an end to California's drought with cheap desalination.
Question: Are you one and the same as the GayWad guy and the Moo Cow guy?
Now I'll be able to reach my monthly bandwidth cap in minutes, not hours.
Japan being a high-tech nation with a much smaller land area, they're going to genetically engineer a bioconcentrator that will mop up the cesium in their exclusion zone long before the 25 years is up.
Nature points the way: http://pelagiaresearchlibrary....
"Multiple exclamation marks is one of the most grievous grammatical gaffes generated these days."
It's considered such bad form today that even the UK Daily Mail has stopped doing it.
All states, so far as I know, have the option of posting a bond instead of getting mandatory auto insurance. If self-driving cars are going to be mostly owned by manufacturers and leasing companies, they might find the bonding option a savings over insurance because the risk is being spread over a big fleet of cars. Since that's all that insurance companies do, the reasoning will be, "Let's post our own bonds, pocketing the profit that would ordinarily go to some insurance company."
One surprisingly bike-friendly city is Phoenix, which offers several hundred miles of off-road bike paths. And there may be only one train line, but it does go to the airport.
Something tells me that even if there were snow removal on the bikeways, they're going to be deserted in the winter. And when it rains. Not exactly my idea of a commuter traffic reliever.
"If a Scotsman commits rape in France, he may be tried in England."
No true Scotsman would commit rape in France.