What we have right now are a handful of typically small streams that have transformed into Colorado River sized flows, all dumping into the same drainage system, the South Platte River.
There's a stream at the bottom of the gulch here that is normally so small that "high" means it's a big long step over it. I can hear it from a 1/2 mile away right now. As I said in another post, we're basically at the top here, so this is just one of who knows how many hundreds, or thousands, of little high-country streams feed into the creeks further down-canyon...
Longmont resident here, too, but on the south side. I've read that due to the St Vrain to our north and Left Hand Creek to the south, we're essentially cut off from the rest of Colorado for the moment. It's actually sunny right now, but I've also read that dams in the mountains will be doing controlled releases to reduce the risk of catastrophic failure, so river levels on the flats will remain high for a while. In the meantime, my wife's offices in Boulder are shut down, but she can VPN in from home without issue today. Yesterday the access was more spotty - electricity didn't appear to be very reliable.
I'm in Coal Creek Canyon, up at the top, on the lip of a gulch. So in terms of the flooding I'm comfortably "above it all", but we're all trapped up here. Hwy 72 east and west, Gross Dam Road, and Gap Road are all washed out, severely. I'm really curious to see how long it takes before there is any way to get out of here. As long as we have power, we're fine for a good long while...
Oh, and I forgot, Lyons completely cut off so badly that the National Guard had trouble getting in to evacuate residents... Jamestown & Eldorado Springs evacuated. And so on.
The nice thing is a lot of the work can be done from home, and most of the guys I worked with live outside of boulder since housing is so expensive.
Well, all 5 canyons to west of Boulder are closed because of washed-out roads. There's flooding in Lafayette, Louisville, Broomfield, Erie, & Longmont to the east. Hell, even Aurora is flooded. I-25 closed to the Wyoming border. Parts of I-70 closed off and on. 93 closed from 64th to 128th...
Commoditize is the right word. When people hire professionals to provide services, they want to hire an expert. They want someone they can trust. Dell has always been about selling the lowest quality crap they can get away with and then not honoring their warranties.
For consumers, small businesses, even medium businesses, yes, absolutely. I have my own share of horror stories, with Dell support outright lying to my face about warranties.
But if you're a big enough business to deal with their enterprise support, it's a whole other world. Call up support about a broken part, no questions asked, the replacement is in your hands 2 hours later!
And I vaguely recall that the feds retain the right to basically say "you have no standing to sue because we said so".
The general principle, inherited from common law, is called "sovereign immunity", and it means exactly what it sounds like--one could only sue the king if he agreed that one could do so.
As the centuries creep by, the general trend in the U.S. has been toward a weakening of sovereign immunity. But it's a slow process, and in my opinion the concept should have been mostly discarded 100 years ago. (I say "mostly" because governments are big fat targets for lunatics, so I don't object to, say, an independent panel of citizens who would review claims in order to toss the obvious bullshit before allowing it to clog up courts and waste taxpayer dollars.)
Childish unprofessional and incompetent ones perhaps, but otherwise no. Just no.
Bull. Fucking Shit.
Whether or not one is "grumpy", and whether or not one calls out ignorance and stupidity directly and efficiently, instead of beating around the bush for a day about it, has no relationship whatsoever to whether or not one is a competent programmer--you ignorant asshole;-)
So no warming in the last 18 years is causing pine beetles to go to warmer areas that are not warmer?
In this case, it's not average temps that matter. It's the lack of any sustained period of very low temps. The lowest lows are nowhere near historic norms in the past decade. Now why this is, I'm not going to debate here.
Breaking to get back behind when you almost past it would take longer...
Uhm, no. At highway speeds you can slow 20MPH (or 10, or 30) many times faster than you can accelerate 20MPH. Also, slowing increases time to intercept oncoming cars, accelerating decreases it.
So, in order to protect against a rise in sea level of no more than 1 foot in the absolute worst case, they need to build a system of dams, locks and pumps greater than 600 feet high???
I was under the impression that using airbags without seatbelts would actually cause injuries, mainly due to passengers being bounced around uncontrollably.
It's not so much that you bounce around uncontrollably; it's that with the airbag in front of your upper body, and nothing around your waist, all your forward momentum results in your sliding under the airbag into the floor space in front of your seat, where by "sliding" I mean "in a high-speed crash, being crumpled and crushed":-(
Seriously, in the 15th-18th centuries, trans-oceanic travel was extremely expensive and dangerous. Care to explain to me how private enterprise was unable to establish enterprises around it???
It really is the perfect analogy: early exploration was funded by the richest governments of the day; as time passed, private enterprise pooled funds from large groups of investors; eventually costs were lowered, risks managed, and profits proven to an extent that smaller enterprises could play. But at no time was there a lack of willing travelers; there were always plenty of people not deterred by the unquantified dangers.
Not for the next 20 years, which is the current life of the reactor.
OK, I'll concede that's likely, though not certain.
If we lived in a rational world and nuclear power was the rational answer (I don’t want to get into a debate about current nuclear reactors verse future solar panels right now) the answer would still be to tear down the reactor today and replace it with a more modern one.
The problem is, we'll shut it down and replace it with coal--well, maybe gas in the best case. As for your proposed debate, yeah I wouldn't want to get into a debate about current nuclear vs future solar panels either;-)
LOL all you want, it won't change a simple fact: when one discusses web browsing "for the Mac" without further qualification, one is discussing Safari.
Force OEMs to hand out CoAs so that their customers can re-install the OS if need be, rather than using restore media.
You seem to be under the impression that the "restore media" garbage was the idea of the OEMs. It was not. It was Microsoft who forced the OEMs to stop providing real OS install disks.
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What we have right now are a handful of typically small streams that have transformed into Colorado River sized flows, all dumping into the same drainage system, the South Platte River.
There's a stream at the bottom of the gulch here that is normally so small that "high" means it's a big long step over it. I can hear it from a 1/2 mile away right now. As I said in another post, we're basically at the top here, so this is just one of who knows how many hundreds, or thousands, of little high-country streams feed into the creeks further down-canyon...
Longmont resident here, too, but on the south side. I've read that due to the St Vrain to our north and Left Hand Creek to the south, we're essentially cut off from the rest of Colorado for the moment. It's actually sunny right now, but I've also read that dams in the mountains will be doing controlled releases to reduce the risk of catastrophic failure, so river levels on the flats will remain high for a while. In the meantime, my wife's offices in Boulder are shut down, but she can VPN in from home without issue today. Yesterday the access was more spotty - electricity didn't appear to be very reliable.
I'm in Coal Creek Canyon, up at the top, on the lip of a gulch. So in terms of the flooding I'm comfortably "above it all", but we're all trapped up here. Hwy 72 east and west, Gross Dam Road, and Gap Road are all washed out, severely. I'm really curious to see how long it takes before there is any way to get out of here. As long as we have power, we're fine for a good long while...
Oh, and I forgot, Lyons completely cut off so badly that the National Guard had trouble getting in to evacuate residents... Jamestown & Eldorado Springs evacuated. And so on.
The nice thing is a lot of the work can be done from home, and most of the guys I worked with live outside of boulder since housing is so expensive.
Well, all 5 canyons to west of Boulder are closed because of washed-out roads. There's flooding in Lafayette, Louisville, Broomfield, Erie, & Longmont to the east. Hell, even Aurora is flooded. I-25 closed to the Wyoming border. Parts of I-70 closed off and on. 93 closed from 64th to 128th...
Commoditize is the right word. When people hire professionals to provide services, they want to hire an expert. They want someone they can trust. Dell has always been about selling the lowest quality crap they can get away with and then not honoring their warranties.
For consumers, small businesses, even medium businesses, yes, absolutely. I have my own share of horror stories, with Dell support outright lying to my face about warranties.
But if you're a big enough business to deal with their enterprise support, it's a whole other world. Call up support about a broken part, no questions asked, the replacement is in your hands 2 hours later!
So 12mb/s (max) of transfers will bog down your 100mb/s connection so badly that you just cannot do it??? Uhm, are you sure about that???
Well, OK then. Get another one.
And I vaguely recall that the feds retain the right to basically say "you have no standing to sue because we said so".
The general principle, inherited from common law, is called "sovereign immunity", and it means exactly what it sounds like--one could only sue the king if he agreed that one could do so.
As the centuries creep by, the general trend in the U.S. has been toward a weakening of sovereign immunity. But it's a slow process, and in my opinion the concept should have been mostly discarded 100 years ago. (I say "mostly" because governments are big fat targets for lunatics, so I don't object to, say, an independent panel of citizens who would review claims in order to toss the obvious bullshit before allowing it to clog up courts and waste taxpayer dollars.)
He may well be doing the same thing now.
The same thing, maybe. But to Vladimir Putin, not Kofi Annan, so I would not expect the same result ;-)
"Veteran programmers are grumpy old bastards"
Childish unprofessional and incompetent ones perhaps, but otherwise no. Just no.
Bull. Fucking Shit.
Whether or not one is "grumpy", and whether or not one calls out ignorance and stupidity directly and efficiently, instead of beating around the bush for a day about it, has no relationship whatsoever to whether or not one is a competent programmer--you ignorant asshole ;-)
I was aware Cadillac was trying to shed their old-fogey image; I was not aware they had succeeded. (It took a long time...)
Seriously, considering the demographic that actually buys Cadillac cars, it's the obvious make which needs this first ;-)
So no warming in the last 18 years is causing pine beetles to go to warmer areas that are not warmer?
In this case, it's not average temps that matter. It's the lack of any sustained period of very low temps. The lowest lows are nowhere near historic norms in the past decade. Now why this is, I'm not going to debate here.
Breaking to get back behind when you almost past it would take longer...
Uhm, no. At highway speeds you can slow 20MPH (or 10, or 30) many times faster than you can accelerate 20MPH. Also, slowing increases time to intercept oncoming cars, accelerating decreases it.
So, in order to protect against a rise in sea level of no more than 1 foot in the absolute worst case, they need to build a system of dams, locks and pumps greater than 600 feet high???
...but hitting an airbag while bouncing around a cabin is still better than hitting something harder...
It is not better if you slide under it...
I was under the impression that using airbags without seatbelts would actually cause injuries, mainly due to passengers being bounced around uncontrollably.
It's not so much that you bounce around uncontrollably; it's that with the airbag in front of your upper body, and nothing around your waist, all your forward momentum results in your sliding under the airbag into the floor space in front of your seat, where by "sliding" I mean "in a high-speed crash, being crumpled and crushed" :-(
Seriously, in the 15th-18th centuries, trans-oceanic travel was extremely expensive and dangerous. Care to explain to me how private enterprise was unable to establish enterprises around it???
It really is the perfect analogy: early exploration was funded by the richest governments of the day; as time passed, private enterprise pooled funds from large groups of investors; eventually costs were lowered, risks managed, and profits proven to an extent that smaller enterprises could play. But at no time was there a lack of willing travelers; there were always plenty of people not deterred by the unquantified dangers.
Not for the next 20 years, which is the current life of the reactor.
OK, I'll concede that's likely, though not certain.
If we lived in a rational world and nuclear power was the rational answer (I don’t want to get into a debate about current nuclear reactors verse future solar panels right now) the answer would still be to tear down the reactor today and replace it with a more modern one.
The problem is, we'll shut it down and replace it with coal--well, maybe gas in the best case. As for your proposed debate, yeah I wouldn't want to get into a debate about current nuclear vs future solar panels either ;-)
No, they will always be cheap, as long as they are available.
And availability will decline, ultimately forcing prices up.
safari ... I lol'd ;)
LOL all you want, it won't change a simple fact: when one discusses web browsing "for the Mac" without further qualification, one is discussing Safari.
that only works in opera last time i checked (one of the gazillion of awesome features)
Then you must have checked years ago, because it has worked in Safari for multiple major versions now.
Sort of a ctrl-z for the internet... For Macs cmd-shift-t...
How about cmd-z. Yes, seriously. Close a tab, and the normal every day keyboard shortcut for undo, well, you know, undoes it.
Unless it's tethered to a battery in your pocket that is ;-) Because otherwise battery life is going to make this useless as a phone.
...nothing it does is new...
Ahem, it siphons additional funds from customers ;-)
Force OEMs to hand out CoAs so that their customers can re-install the OS if need be, rather than using restore media.
You seem to be under the impression that the "restore media" garbage was the idea of the OEMs. It was not. It was Microsoft who forced the OEMs to stop providing real OS install disks.