Splicing a buried underwater cable makes no practical sense if you can tap or "cooperate" at its landing points (finland and Germany, not the US' worst enemies). The construction of the cable makes it a huge risk and hard to stay undetected.
It doesn't matter The official figures might be perfect when every customer is driving in a suburban environment in fall near Luxembourg...
The rest of us will drive in Arizona's summer, Florida's summer, Alaska's winter, through Colorado passes, or more often, 1 mile at a time on a cold engine to ferry kids to school...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TYPICAL DRIVING across the US. So you get arbitrary number, which gives you a ballpark for comparison. Be happy that it's usually pretty close to the real thing.
You're supposed to factor in the money saved in traffic jams, road repairs, accidents, road plowing, pollution, stress, old-people-off-the-road, parking... The point is NEVER for the public transit system to "break even". It's a quality of life investment which as lots of hard-to-quantify returns.
Go three football fields, and wen you see the 150-olympic-swimming-pools lake, turn to port right behind the VW-bug size rock. There you will find that it's a typo and actually priced at 4 onces of gold.
Old engineering question:
- Why did you spend three days writing that PERL script?
- Because it saved me half an hour of copy-pasting.
Perfect example here. I calculated the frequencies using the math formula, and it was a lot simpler to translate every note (using search/replace on the score's text file) than to write a program to do it for me or even worry about the exact syntax to get the math done at runtime.
I remember writing down the frequencies of every note so that we could encode a song into an HP48. Then the resident Uber-geek added that to an unrelated piece of code that we gave to the idiot who had erased a couple of our calculators "for fun". Essentially started playing the song in the middle of class at full speed, then looping ever so slower, and nothing short of pulling the batteries or the physical reset button could stop it for about 2 or 3 loooong minutes. The teacher had to turn around so we wouldn't see him laugh, but when we could still hear it from the depths of the backpack, I saw him lose it.
Since you can't buy locks that will handle patient blow-torching, I guess you have to tell the cops to stop looking for terrorists through the cute neighbor's bathroom window. Or stop having doors in your walls.
In a nutshell, passwords are like house locks, not Fort Knox vaults. You deal with the consequences the same way: insurance (also known as offline backups).
> surveys with the younger generation that came to the conclusion that, according to Nissan, young people > "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."
It's kind of obvious, since these young people ARE IN THE BACK SEAT, texting and sharing with friends.
So the Netherlands, country which is build behind walls to repel unwanted waves, has built the biggest domestic wave generator to help improve the walls?
Well, that solves the US election puzzle... We just need a domestic illegal immigrant generator!
> Most garage doors are at least 7 foot tall, and 8 foot & taller are becoming far more common.
A good example of US-centric thinking on your part. While most people who can afford a Tesla probably have a decent garage (not even all, in historic centers), I've been in many Asian and European public parkings where headroom was severely limited.
Because kids, because bitter cold, because it's never fully clean and WILL drop some on the seats... Thinking about it, it's even a problem on rainstorm days.
Gullwing are one-piece doors which swing outwards, hitting nearby cars, poles, bikes and pedestrians. Parking requires planning. The Tesla version has two hinges, so it swings up more than out, reducing the risk of hitting anything.
Obviously, they were designed by someone who has unlimited garage headroom, and doesn't regularly find a foot of snow on top of his car...
When Toyota had the audacity of becoming number 1, their CEO got dragged in front of the US congress about some acceleration issues. VW just made the mistake of becoming number 1, and suddenly we discover they've been cheating at emissions. Expect a congress hearing and lots of demands for sanctions.
Was there a punishment when GM recently had a major oops?
Millions of dollars of business isn't running through the copper cable pictured in that second link either. A severed fiber cable picture isn't exactly hard to find, why don't "journalists" make a bit of effort?
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Splicing a buried underwater cable makes no practical sense if you can tap or "cooperate" at its landing points (finland and Germany, not the US' worst enemies). The construction of the cable makes it a huge risk and hard to stay undetected.
It means that T-Rex get shafted because their tiny hands can't provide the required back rub.
It doesn't matter
The official figures might be perfect when every customer is driving in a suburban environment in fall near Luxembourg...
The rest of us will drive in Arizona's summer, Florida's summer, Alaska's winter, through Colorado passes, or more often, 1 mile at a time on a cold engine to ferry kids to school...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TYPICAL DRIVING across the US. So you get arbitrary number, which gives you a ballpark for comparison.
Be happy that it's usually pretty close to the real thing.
You're supposed to factor in the money saved in traffic jams, road repairs, accidents, road plowing, pollution, stress, old-people-off-the-road, parking...
The point is NEVER for the public transit system to "break even". It's a quality of life investment which as lots of hard-to-quantify returns.
Go three football fields, and wen you see the 150-olympic-swimming-pools lake, turn to port right behind the VW-bug size rock. There you will find that it's a typo and actually priced at 4 onces of gold.
Old engineering question:
- Why did you spend three days writing that PERL script?
- Because it saved me half an hour of copy-pasting.
Perfect example here. I calculated the frequencies using the math formula, and it was a lot simpler to translate every note (using search/replace on the score's text file) than to write a program to do it for me or even worry about the exact syntax to get the math done at runtime.
I remember writing down the frequencies of every note so that we could encode a song into an HP48.
Then the resident Uber-geek added that to an unrelated piece of code that we gave to the idiot who had erased a couple of our calculators "for fun". Essentially started playing the song in the middle of class at full speed, then looping ever so slower, and nothing short of pulling the batteries or the physical reset button could stop it for about 2 or 3 loooong minutes.
The teacher had to turn around so we wouldn't see him laugh, but when we could still hear it from the depths of the backpack, I saw him lose it.
It covers the whole spectrum. Some girls could be highly-paid actresses, and many are for ... other tastes than mine.
Since you can't buy locks that will handle patient blow-torching, I guess you have to tell the cops to stop looking for terrorists through the cute neighbor's bathroom window. Or stop having doors in your walls.
In a nutshell, passwords are like house locks, not Fort Knox vaults.
You deal with the consequences the same way: insurance (also known as offline backups).
> surveys with the younger generation that came to the conclusion that, according to Nissan, young people
> "feel that time spent in a car should be time for connecting and sharing experiences with friends."
It's kind of obvious, since these young people ARE IN THE BACK SEAT, texting and sharing with friends.
Does it install tights on the system?
As long as the lawsuit was filed in the eastern district, it's a pretty good sign that the patent isn't rock-solid.
So the Netherlands, country which is build behind walls to repel unwanted waves, has built the biggest domestic wave generator to help improve the walls?
Well, that solves the US election puzzle... We just need a domestic illegal immigrant generator!
> Most garage doors are at least 7 foot tall, and 8 foot & taller are becoming far more common.
A good example of US-centric thinking on your part.
While most people who can afford a Tesla probably have a decent garage (not even all, in historic centers), I've been in many Asian and European public parkings where headroom was severely limited.
Because kids, because bitter cold, because it's never fully clean and WILL drop some on the seats...
Thinking about it, it's even a problem on rainstorm days.
Gullwing are one-piece doors which swing outwards, hitting nearby cars, poles, bikes and pedestrians. Parking requires planning.
The Tesla version has two hinges, so it swings up more than out, reducing the risk of hitting anything.
Obviously, they were designed by someone who has unlimited garage headroom, and doesn't regularly find a foot of snow on top of his car...
I need removable battery less than I need a physical keyboard.
Can't wait...
Gotta call Poe's Law on this one...
When Toyota had the audacity of becoming number 1, their CEO got dragged in front of the US congress about some acceleration issues.
VW just made the mistake of becoming number 1, and suddenly we discover they've been cheating at emissions. Expect a congress hearing and lots of demands for sanctions.
Was there a punishment when GM recently had a major oops?
They need to upgrade their fiber link.
News! Breaking News! The Chinese PLA has plans drawn up describing how to nuke major US cities!
The "always look at the thing in your hand" generation is completely screwed...
Excuse me while I go buy stock in glasses retailers and Lasik providers.
Millions of dollars of business isn't running through the copper cable pictured in that second link either.
A severed fiber cable picture isn't exactly hard to find, why don't "journalists" make a bit of effort?
They'll build a drone around a gun so they can use the second amendment.