The Upper Big Branch mine was a non-union mine. In union mines, workers have the power to stop the types of unsafe working practices that contributed to the UBB fatalities.
Bah. While there's no doubt that, at one point, unions served a vital purpose in protecting workers from abuse, nowadays, they're merely another expensive middle-man cost.
It's called "pleading to a non-moving violation" and around here (the midwest) it's what you do when you get a speeding ticket, unless you don't know any better.
Again, that's dependent on the jurisdiction. In MA, once you are cited for a moving violation, the prosecutor can't plead you down to a non-moving violation. They can reduce the severity of the citation (if you got ticketed for 85 in a 65 than can plead that down to 70 in a 65) but once you get a speeding ticket, it stays a speeding ticket with the accompanying increase in insurance rates (unless you fight it and win).
That's less true at Harvard (and to a lesser extent MIT) than it has been in the past, if you're accepted they make a real effort to get you in at a cost you can afford and with minimal (or in Harvard's case, no) loans
From the page I linked:
family income under$60,000: $0 contribution
family income $60,000 to $180,000: 0 to 10% contribution on a sliding scale.
Home equity not considered an asset
I'm sure there are a handful of people who will have financial problems, but for the vast majority of students, the only impediment to attending Harvard is their academic performance.
I see that you have never been to Boston either. Only a relatively small percentage of Bostonians drop their Rs. And not many of those people can afford to go to Harvard.
Yes, it is. First, the "amateurs" who wrote the Wikipedia article are almost certainly people trained in its field, in the same way that the physics and computer articles are generally edited by physicists and computer people.
Going by my experience, I'm doubtful this is the case - I've tried to edit blatantly wrong or misleading articles in my field using my WP account only to have the changes reverted or removed in short order. After a half-dozen times of that happening, I have up. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in other fields as well.
I don't see anything wrong with that but it obviously means the environment is not as important to him as Bush, who also has staff but a much smaller home that is far more efficient.
Bush just bought an 8500 sqft Dallas mansion within a two hour drive from the Crawford ranch. Methinks he has plenty of room now.
I love the "mitigating factors" such as "the gore home is four times the size of an average home." As if... To be greener, we should all get bigger homes? Brilliant!
How about quoting the rest of that sentence: "it's about four times larger than the average new American home built in 2006, and it essentially functions as both a residence and a business office since both Al and Tipper work out of their home." And by business office, that means an office with staff. They could get a smaller home and outside office spaces, but that would use more energy (plus the energy required to get to/from work).
According to the article they picked up 5,800 tons of recyclables last year. Assuming that's the average for the recycling to pay off the new bins it's going to take 16 years.
As you said, that's assuming that 5,800 tons of recyclables is the average collected - but that average may be low relative to the amount of material that could be recycled but is instead dumped into the trash by people too lazy to sort the material. Also remember that the city pays to dispose of the trash in landfills.
If this project reduces the amount of material the city to dump into a landfill (which the city pays for), and increases the amount of material sold to recyclers (which the city gets paid for), the expense for the bins may have a much shorter payoff period.
In my city, yes you can opt out of city trash collection although you'll need to provide evidence that you've contracted with another waste disposal service.
All the posts talking about rail (hsr/intercity/commuter/LRT/RRT) vs other modes of transportation have got it wrong. It's not about supplanting one of the current modes with trains (although that may happen), it's about providing regional (and local) transportation options where it makes sense to. A HSR system linking a village in Wyoming with another village in Wyoming probably doesn't make much sense. A HSR system linking major metro areas in regional spots like CA, the midwest, the Pacific NW, New England, etc makes perfect sense given that those are spots with the density to support rail and who's highway and air infrastructure are overburdened.
Is it economically feasible? It's gonna be expensive, no doubt. However expanding our current roadway/air infrastructure will also be expensive. The other issue is that the longer we wait, the more expensive it will become. If you feel that our current transportation system is adequate for our current and future needs, then fine; if you don't than you have to accept that "pricey" rail is also going to be part of the mix.
If you are someone who loves your car, you should be backing rail wholeheartedly for one reason: every rail passenger means one less driver on the road, which will make driving easier for you. It only takes a couple percent reduction in traffic to go from level-of-service F (stop-and-go traffic) to LOS D (traffic slow but moving)
(ftr I'm someone who does consulting for the rail industry and I'm also a member of a rail advocacy group)
Gripping the Naked iPhone 4 certainly had a strong negative effect on the data rates, both upload and download.
The effect of the grips on the iPhone 3G is much smaller. But, the Full-Grip still reduces the data rate on upload.
Use of the Apple "Bumpers" has a very positive effect on performance. It mitigates much of the effect of the grips at our signal strength level.
The iPhone 4 data rates still beat the iPhone 3G data rates under all grip conditions.
There was a large spread in the data during the Full-Grip, in both upload and download. This highlights the sensitivity of the antenna design to direct contact by the hand.
That's why all cell phone can experience signal loss depending on how you hold them, and why Apple can make those videos. But that's not a reasonable test. The CR test is what you need to do: you need to firmly fix the phone in space, and then just touch the case in different places. The iPhone signal strength drops, the signal strength on other phones remains essentially unaffected.
I can't see how the CR test is relevant, since I generally don't use the phone by touching it in different places* - I hold the phone in my hand, and when I hold my E71 a certain way in a low signal area, my call drops. I suspect this would be similar to holding an iPhone 4 and touching the bad spot. The end effect is the same: with either phone I have to hold it a certain way in low signal areas to prevent the call from dropping. Until that doesn't happen with a Nokia phone, they have nothing to crow about.
* or I use a headset to talk on the phone and don't hold it, but in that case this whole thing is moot.
Individual through a third party makes a call to the generic Apple support line inquiring about prototypes. Vaguely asks if there are any rewards for missing prototypes.
Level 1 tech support guy who has no knowledge of prototypes brushes guy off.
This was Gizmodo's story, and later contradicted. Via Wired:
Hogan didn’t know what he had until he removed a fake cover from the device and realized it must be a prototype of Apple’s upcoming next-generation iPhone, according to Gizmodo’s account of the find.
A friend of Hogan’s then offered to call Apple Care on Hogan’s behalf, according to Hogan’s lawyer. That apparently was the extent of Hogan’s efforts to return the phone.
After the friend’s purported efforts to return the phone failed, several journalists were offered a look at the device. Wired.com received an e-mail March 28 — not from Hogan — offering access to the iPhone, but did not follow up on the exchange after the tipster made a thinly veiled request for money. Gizmodo then paid $5,000 in cash for it.
I'm simply a more distinguishing user. Try the google search below. Note: I develop OSX kernel extensions and I'm writing this from the WWDC right now - Apple broke the API's all of the "fix" programs you will find below use to try and fix the acceleration curve.
The first 10 links for the Google search are all about comparing the Mac's acceleration curve with Windows' curve (which we know are different). Can you give a direct link to demonstrate your point?
The iPhone 4 is quad band, so it theoretically can be used on T-Mobile (locks notwithstanding)
tethering,
iPhone 4 + AT&T have that. Actually iPhone 3GS has it right now, but AT&T doesn't allow it (but carriers in other countries do).
and flash.
IMO, that's a good thing (which I say as a Nokia E71 owner with Flash Lite). It's great if you like Flash overlay ads, but I can live without it on a mobile phone.
All of this made in a suicide ridden factory...
Dollars to donuts that the device you used to compose that post has components made at the same "suicide ridden factory"
Thats a myth. There can only be one leader in a team
Not true at all - teams often have multiple team captains, and individual team units often have their own leaders. Take football for example: you may have the offensive team leader (with the quarterback being the most visible) but there are typically leaders among the subgroups like offensive backs, defensive backs, O linemen, D linemen, receivers and linebackers.
When I was at school there was nothing worse than having some teacher take the sports too seriously as it just spoiled the fun.
This is all too often true, but that's not a failure of sports, but rather a failure of the school leadership.
Apple is on a yearly release cycle (For both the major SDK and hardware) - while Android has new devices released every month, hell even more than that - and a SDK that is constantly evolving (Good or bad)
I've heard commentary on Apple's recent iPhone yearly and Mac OS X yearly+ release cycle and I just find it amusing that not too long ago, people were screaming about Apple releasing updates to quickly that it was heard for customers and businesses to keep up. Now that the software had matured a bit and the release cycle has slowed down, people are seeing the lengthened cycle as a liability.
Go out, buy nothing but an iPad and tell me how good your computing experience is 12 months from now.
Me? Wouldn't work at all (which is why I don't own one). For my mother, older sister, an elderly couple who's network I manage and about twenty other people I can think of? It would be perfect (and make my life much easier).
"Proven" to be? Several reconstructions based on different data sets have all demonstrated the hockey-stick effect. Where's the proof that it's a hoax?
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The Upper Big Branch mine was a non-union mine. In union mines, workers have the power to stop the types of unsafe working practices that contributed to the UBB fatalities.
Upper Big Branch is (was) a non-union mine. The owner of the mine had a reputation for screwing workers and trying to buy his way out of trouble.
Bah. While there's no doubt that, at one point, unions served a vital purpose in protecting workers from abuse, nowadays, they're merely another expensive middle-man cost.
Tell that to the workers of the Upper Big Branch Mine.
It's called "pleading to a non-moving violation" and around here (the midwest) it's what you do when you get a speeding ticket, unless you don't know any better.
Again, that's dependent on the jurisdiction. In MA, once you are cited for a moving violation, the prosecutor can't plead you down to a non-moving violation. They can reduce the severity of the citation (if you got ticketed for 85 in a 65 than can plead that down to 70 in a 65) but once you get a speeding ticket, it stays a speeding ticket with the accompanying increase in insurance rates (unless you fight it and win).
That's less true at Harvard (and to a lesser extent MIT) than it has been in the past, if you're accepted they make a real effort to get you in at a cost you can afford and with minimal (or in Harvard's case, no) loans
From the page I linked:
I'm sure there are a handful of people who will have financial problems, but for the vast majority of students, the only impediment to attending Harvard is their academic performance.
I see that you have never been to Boston either. Only a relatively small percentage of Bostonians drop their Rs. And not many of those people can afford to go to Harvard.
I guess KingAlanI isn't the only one to have outmoded ideas of Boston area institutions.
Yes, it is. First, the "amateurs" who wrote the Wikipedia article are almost certainly people trained in its field, in the same way that the physics and computer articles are generally edited by physicists and computer people.
Going by my experience, I'm doubtful this is the case - I've tried to edit blatantly wrong or misleading articles in my field using my WP account only to have the changes reverted or removed in short order. After a half-dozen times of that happening, I have up. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in other fields as well.
I don't see anything wrong with that but it obviously means the environment is not as important to him as Bush, who also has staff but a much smaller home that is far more efficient.
Bush just bought an 8500 sqft Dallas mansion within a two hour drive from the Crawford ranch. Methinks he has plenty of room now.
I love the "mitigating factors" such as "the gore home is four times the size of an average home." As if... To be greener, we should all get bigger homes? Brilliant!
How about quoting the rest of that sentence: "it's about four times larger than the average new American home built in 2006, and it essentially functions as both a residence and a business office since both Al and Tipper work out of their home." And by business office, that means an office with staff. They could get a smaller home and outside office spaces, but that would use more energy (plus the energy required to get to/from work).
According to the article they picked up 5,800 tons of recyclables last year. Assuming that's the average for the recycling to pay off the new bins it's going to take 16 years.
As you said, that's assuming that 5,800 tons of recyclables is the average collected - but that average may be low relative to the amount of material that could be recycled but is instead dumped into the trash by people too lazy to sort the material. Also remember that the city pays to dispose of the trash in landfills.
If this project reduces the amount of material the city to dump into a landfill (which the city pays for), and increases the amount of material sold to recyclers (which the city gets paid for), the expense for the bins may have a much shorter payoff period.
In my city, yes you can opt out of city trash collection although you'll need to provide evidence that you've contracted with another waste disposal service.
All the posts talking about rail (hsr/intercity/commuter/LRT/RRT) vs other modes of transportation have got it wrong. It's not about supplanting one of the current modes with trains (although that may happen), it's about providing regional (and local) transportation options where it makes sense to. A HSR system linking a village in Wyoming with another village in Wyoming probably doesn't make much sense. A HSR system linking major metro areas in regional spots like CA, the midwest, the Pacific NW, New England, etc makes perfect sense given that those are spots with the density to support rail and who's highway and air infrastructure are overburdened.
Is it economically feasible? It's gonna be expensive, no doubt. However expanding our current roadway/air infrastructure will also be expensive. The other issue is that the longer we wait, the more expensive it will become. If you feel that our current transportation system is adequate for our current and future needs, then fine; if you don't than you have to accept that "pricey" rail is also going to be part of the mix.
If you are someone who loves your car, you should be backing rail wholeheartedly for one reason: every rail passenger means one less driver on the road, which will make driving easier for you. It only takes a couple percent reduction in traffic to go from level-of-service F (stop-and-go traffic) to LOS D (traffic slow but moving)
(ftr I'm someone who does consulting for the rail industry and I'm also a member of a rail advocacy group)
Also for HATS testing (in fact Apple had advertised positions that required HATS-testing experience).
That's why all cell phone can experience signal loss depending on how you hold them, and why Apple can make those videos. But that's not a reasonable test. The CR test is what you need to do: you need to firmly fix the phone in space, and then just touch the case in different places. The iPhone signal strength drops, the signal strength on other phones remains essentially unaffected.
I can't see how the CR test is relevant, since I generally don't use the phone by touching it in different places* - I hold the phone in my hand, and when I hold my E71 a certain way in a low signal area, my call drops. I suspect this would be similar to holding an iPhone 4 and touching the bad spot. The end effect is the same: with either phone I have to hold it a certain way in low signal areas to prevent the call from dropping. Until that doesn't happen with a Nokia phone, they have nothing to crow about.
* or I use a headset to talk on the phone and don't hold it, but in that case this whole thing is moot.
A Nokia E71 user posted this a month ago. And this is with a microcell nearby.
Get your own house in order before complaining about Apple airing your dirty laundry.
(FTR, I'm an E71 owner)
Individual through a third party makes a call to the generic Apple support line inquiring about prototypes. Vaguely asks if there are any rewards for missing prototypes.
Level 1 tech support guy who has no knowledge of prototypes brushes guy off.
This was Gizmodo's story, and later contradicted. Via Wired:
Hogan didn’t know what he had until he removed a fake cover from the device and realized it must be a prototype of Apple’s upcoming next-generation iPhone, according to Gizmodo’s account of the find.
A friend of Hogan’s then offered to call Apple Care on Hogan’s behalf, according to Hogan’s lawyer. That apparently was the extent of Hogan’s efforts to return the phone.
After the friend’s purported efforts to return the phone failed, several journalists were offered a look at the device. Wired.com received an e-mail March 28 — not from Hogan — offering access to the iPhone, but did not follow up on the exchange after the tipster made a thinly veiled request for money. Gizmodo then paid $5,000 in cash for it.
I'm simply a more distinguishing user. Try the google search below. Note: I develop OSX kernel extensions and I'm writing this from the WWDC right now - Apple broke the API's all of the "fix" programs you will find below use to try and fix the acceleration curve.
http://www.google.com/#q=mac+mouse+acceleration+fix
The first 10 links for the Google search are all about comparing the Mac's acceleration curve with Windows' curve (which we know are different). Can you give a direct link to demonstrate your point?
Also, it's still missing a good carrier
The iPhone 4 is quad band, so it theoretically can be used on T-Mobile (locks notwithstanding)
tethering,
iPhone 4 + AT&T have that. Actually iPhone 3GS has it right now, but AT&T doesn't allow it (but carriers in other countries do).
and flash.
IMO, that's a good thing (which I say as a Nokia E71 owner with Flash Lite). It's great if you like Flash overlay ads, but I can live without it on a mobile phone.
All of this made in a suicide ridden factory...
Dollars to donuts that the device you used to compose that post has components made at the same "suicide ridden factory"
I've never played American Football, but would you really have all that stuff for a children's sports lesson?
I'm not referring to PE classes, I'm talking about extracurricular sports.
Thats a myth. There can only be one leader in a team
Not true at all - teams often have multiple team captains, and individual team units often have their own leaders. Take football for example: you may have the offensive team leader (with the quarterback being the most visible) but there are typically leaders among the subgroups like offensive backs, defensive backs, O linemen, D linemen, receivers and linebackers.
When I was at school there was nothing worse than having some teacher take the sports too seriously as it just spoiled the fun.
This is all too often true, but that's not a failure of sports, but rather a failure of the school leadership.
Apple is on a yearly release cycle (For both the major SDK and hardware) - while Android has new devices released every month, hell even more than that - and a SDK that is constantly evolving (Good or bad)
I've heard commentary on Apple's recent iPhone yearly and Mac OS X yearly+ release cycle and I just find it amusing that not too long ago, people were screaming about Apple releasing updates to quickly that it was heard for customers and businesses to keep up. Now that the software had matured a bit and the release cycle has slowed down, people are seeing the lengthened cycle as a liability.
Damned if you do...
Go out, buy nothing but an iPad and tell me how good your computing experience is 12 months from now.
Me? Wouldn't work at all (which is why I don't own one). For my mother, older sister, an elderly couple who's network I manage and about twenty other people I can think of? It would be perfect (and make my life much easier).
Ansd what's up with this: "I therefor pray that a search warrant be issued so the items..."
Pray?
It's a term of art in the legal field.
"Proven" to be? Several reconstructions based on different data sets have all demonstrated the hockey-stick effect. Where's the proof that it's a hoax?