"Prior to enactment of the Act, the [State Water Control Resources Board] required all would-be appropriators to apply for and obtain a permit to appropriate water from any source, including water falling in the form of precipitation. Under the Act, however, the use of rainwater - defined as "precipitation on any public or private parcel that has not entered an offsite storm drain system or channel, a flood channel, or any other stream channel, and has not been previously been put to beneficial use" - is not subject to the California Water Code's SWRCB permit requirement [California Water Code 1200 et seq.] Relief from the permit requirement enables residents, private businesses, and public agencies to create new on-site water supplies to meet landscaping needs, thus decreasing the use of potable water to meet those needs."
nah. here's your breakdown. * "1/3" goes back into the groundwater." [citation needed]. I don't think it's self evident that just cuz some water soaks into crops and isn't used by the plants it goes back to the groundwater. * "1/3 goes into rain and falls on the foothills." or it falls in Arizona, or Kansas, or the pacific ocean. There's no reason to think that evaporation stays in-state. * "1/3 goes into my belly". Or into your belly, or Chinese belly, or shucked and thrown away. We're exporting water out of the state.
I will "minimize my toilet flushing" when the state enacts commonsense crop rationing methods that emphasize water-efficient crops over water-wasting crops.
doesn't conservation of matter pretty much guarantee everything is just recycled?
* internet advises people to drink 2-3 L of fluids per day. * 365 days per year, 70 year lifespan -> 70k liters -> 70 m^3 over lifetime. * 7b ppl alive today. Everybody alive today will drink 500 m^3 of fluids. * the handwavey estimate is that half of the people who have ever lived are alive today. if this is true, then the entire human species has drunk 1000 m^3 of water. * the volume of the ocean is 1.3 10^9 km^3 -> 1.3 10^18 m^3.
so even if no water has been recycled, there are a billion trillion liters of water in the oceans that have never been drunk by humans.
I would only drink rainwater, but in norcal it's illegal to capture the rain that falls on your property due to water rights regulations that go back 150 years. essentially, the rainwater that falls on your property doesn't belong to you. in socal I can't capture rain cuz it doesn't rain.
here's the problem with targeting the 70+% users. did you know that only 20% of water in CA goes to residential, commercial and industrial sources? 80% of water is used by agriculture, who has powerful lobbies and locks on several state senators and assemblymen. Did you know that in CA some farmers grow rice? Some grow parsley, which is almost as water intensive as rice and is bundled up as hay and sent off to china to feed Chinese cows? And despite this, farmers are a third rail of water politics, and instead people are putting flyers on MY door encouraging me to "minimize toilet flushing" and now to drink pee water. No thanks.
you know, you're right, but I think it's for the best. Spotify's current approach is unsustainable, not only for themselves but also for musicians, labels, and the music industry. we all shake our fists at music labels, but I for one want a thriving industry where musicians and labels make money so they're incentivized to make more music.
there will likely never be a jailbreak of 8.3. 8.4 is coming out in a month or so, and 9 will be coming out in the fall, so 8.3 will likely remain unbeatable. it looks like apple plugged existing holes that enabled past jailbreaks, so the hacker community is starting from scratch. and the cat and mouse game continues...
8.2 was jailbreaked by a Chinese hacker group. why would anybody want to install software on their phone from a Chinese hacker group? makes no sense.
I've been wearing one for a week, and I've really been enjoying it. Some points: * I was really surprised at how battery life wasn't a problem at all. The first week I was reaching the end of day with 50% charge left. Definitely requires overnight charging, but other than that no battery problems. I even took the battery indicator off the homescreen cuz it wasnt an issue. * I'm of two minds on the notifications. Good in theory. But the "wrist tap" is a little subtle for me and I often miss it. also, I wish the notification was available for longer on the screen. * the killer killer app for me, the thing that once I tried it once became indespensible, is seeing my next appointment on my watch face. holy cow it just blows me away how handy this it. it requires a bit of work to keep your calendar up to date and consise (the entry names should be less than 16 characters), but once that's in place it's super handy. * I like the ability to change watch faces, but it's not a big deal. I have a workday info-packed face, a weekend relaxed face and an evening chill face. no big deal, but it's nice. * the thing is really small and light. I can easily wear it all day and not notice. * the apps are mostly a pain in the ass. jury is out on that one. * an exception is the watch's remote app, which among other things can control my apple tv. it's surprisingly handy! good thing, too, because I lost my apple remote about a week ago and don't know where it went!
so there you go, first impressions on apple watch.
well they were not an organized group. I think of a militia as being an organized group, like a club or something. this was ad-hoc at best. I think they were just citizens, and more importantly, passengers who took action.
I think "militia" is a strong word for flight 93. Also I don't think they had govt orders to stay on their seats. But flight 93 was "stopped" by the passengers (stopped as in didn't reached its intended target of the White House. Still crashed which is awful). Also, passengers stopped shoe bomber and underwear bomber. So yeah, the new mantra is "say something, do something".
ok, here we go, now my brain is getting sharper! [rubs hands together]
The fatal flaw in your approach is that you're assuming the probability of surviving year n and year n+1 are independent. Actually, they are quite tightly bound. If you don't survive year n, you're definitely not gonna survive year n+1!
In statistics, the equation P(X and Y) = P(X) * P(Y) only holds if P(X) and P(Y) are independent.
something about this doesn't seem right... you can only get killed once. if you get killed then you lifespan ends. you're basically asking the question, how many times will I die from terrorism over the course of my 75 year life?
0.001%? That's insanely high. The real rate is a couple orders of magnitude lower.
I don't know, am I way off? Why do you think it's lower?
It's surprisingly hard (that is, not available on the first page of google results) to find out how many people in America die each year. But if there are 300m americans, and average life expectancy is ~75, and the population growth rate is ~0 (population is growing slowly over decades, but not much change year to year) then there must be ~4m births and 4m deaths each year.
Let's do a worst case analysis. In 2001, 3,000 people died in 9/11, according to Wikipedia. So if you died in 2001, there was an 0.075% chance that you died from terrorism.
Obviously, in the best case, there are zero deaths from terrorism in a year, so if you died that year there would be a 0% chance that you died from terrorism.
9/11 is surely an outlier, but not by too much. If you scan the news headlines it seems that it's not rare for a terrorist attack to claim 100 lives. crash a plane, blow up a subway, shoot up a mall, all sorts of things. So while 9/11 is definitely an outlier it is only a 10x outlier. It's not like a nuclear bomb attack, which would be a 10000x outlier.
So, given these facts, what's a justifiable number to use in the statement "there is an X% chance I'll die from terrorism"? I'm not trying to be facetious, I would appreciate your input here.
Just like any government official, the patriots of the NSA have qualified immunity if they believed what they were doing was legal. The data collection program was re authorized every 90 days by a federal judge in the fisa court. This issue needs a blanket ruling on constitutionality. Like brown v. Board of education.
No, not authorized is a lighter ruling. It means tomorrow congress can pass a law explicitly allowing it, and there would be no problem cuz it wasn't ruled unconstitutional.
When that next truck bomb detonates at a sporting event or mall, or when that next muslim fan goes on an indiscriminate killing spree through a church, know in your heart that you have allowed that to happen.
I'll enjoy my freedom, thankyouverymuch, even if it does come with an 0.001% chance of dying by terrorist.
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ok, take it down a notch maybe. doing more research, it was illegal a couple years ago when I lived in SF, but they changed the law in 2012.
http://www.jdsupra.com/legalne...
"Prior to enactment of the Act, the [State Water Control Resources Board] required all would-be appropriators to apply for and obtain a permit to appropriate water from any source, including water falling in the form of precipitation. Under the Act, however, the use of rainwater - defined as "precipitation on any public or private parcel that has not entered an offsite storm drain system or channel, a flood channel, or any other stream channel, and has not been previously been put to beneficial use" - is not subject to the California Water Code's SWRCB permit requirement [California Water Code 1200 et seq.] Relief from the permit requirement enables residents, private businesses, and public agencies to create new on-site water supplies to meet landscaping needs, thus decreasing the use of potable water to meet those needs."
the vehicles will still crash, whether or not there are windows.
A dog with his head out the car windows is such an unbridled expression of glee+goofy it makes me smile just thinking of it.
this makes my morning, thanks.
a five gallon jug of water? or five almonds?
nah. here's your breakdown.
* "1/3" goes back into the groundwater." [citation needed]. I don't think it's self evident that just cuz some water soaks into crops and isn't used by the plants it goes back to the groundwater.
* "1/3 goes into rain and falls on the foothills." or it falls in Arizona, or Kansas, or the pacific ocean. There's no reason to think that evaporation stays in-state.
* "1/3 goes into my belly". Or into your belly, or Chinese belly, or shucked and thrown away. We're exporting water out of the state.
I will "minimize my toilet flushing" when the state enacts commonsense crop rationing methods that emphasize water-efficient crops over water-wasting crops.
doesn't conservation of matter pretty much guarantee everything is just recycled?
* internet advises people to drink 2-3 L of fluids per day.
* 365 days per year, 70 year lifespan -> 70k liters -> 70 m^3 over lifetime.
* 7b ppl alive today. Everybody alive today will drink 500 m^3 of fluids.
* the handwavey estimate is that half of the people who have ever lived are alive today. if this is true, then the entire human species has drunk 1000 m^3 of water.
* the volume of the ocean is 1.3 10^9 km^3 -> 1.3 10^18 m^3.
so even if no water has been recycled, there are a billion trillion liters of water in the oceans that have never been drunk by humans.
+100000. at the very least, give the poo water to the crops. nutrients.
I would only drink rainwater, but in norcal it's illegal to capture the rain that falls on your property due to water rights regulations that go back 150 years. essentially, the rainwater that falls on your property doesn't belong to you. in socal I can't capture rain cuz it doesn't rain.
here's the problem with targeting the 70+% users. did you know that only 20% of water in CA goes to residential, commercial and industrial sources? 80% of water is used by agriculture, who has powerful lobbies and locks on several state senators and assemblymen. Did you know that in CA some farmers grow rice? Some grow parsley, which is almost as water intensive as rice and is bundled up as hay and sent off to china to feed Chinese cows? And despite this, farmers are a third rail of water politics, and instead people are putting flyers on MY door encouraging me to "minimize toilet flushing" and now to drink pee water. No thanks.
Microsoft is going to deprecate C# in favor of blowing a mule. Spend all of your education on mule blowing and not C#.
I have to admit, i lol'd a bit on this one.
you know, you're right, but I think it's for the best. Spotify's current approach is unsustainable, not only for themselves but also for musicians, labels, and the music industry. we all shake our fists at music labels, but I for one want a thriving industry where musicians and labels make money so they're incentivized to make more music.
there will likely never be a jailbreak of 8.3. 8.4 is coming out in a month or so, and 9 will be coming out in the fall, so 8.3 will likely remain unbeatable. it looks like apple plugged existing holes that enabled past jailbreaks, so the hacker community is starting from scratch. and the cat and mouse game continues...
8.2 was jailbreaked by a Chinese hacker group. why would anybody want to install software on their phone from a Chinese hacker group? makes no sense.
I've been wearing one for a week, and I've really been enjoying it. Some points:
* I was really surprised at how battery life wasn't a problem at all. The first week I was reaching the end of day with 50% charge left. Definitely requires overnight charging, but other than that no battery problems. I even took the battery indicator off the homescreen cuz it wasnt an issue.
* I'm of two minds on the notifications. Good in theory. But the "wrist tap" is a little subtle for me and I often miss it. also, I wish the notification was available for longer on the screen.
* the killer killer app for me, the thing that once I tried it once became indespensible, is seeing my next appointment on my watch face. holy cow it just blows me away how handy this it. it requires a bit of work to keep your calendar up to date and consise (the entry names should be less than 16 characters), but once that's in place it's super handy.
* I like the ability to change watch faces, but it's not a big deal. I have a workday info-packed face, a weekend relaxed face and an evening chill face. no big deal, but it's nice.
* the thing is really small and light. I can easily wear it all day and not notice.
* the apps are mostly a pain in the ass. jury is out on that one.
* an exception is the watch's remote app, which among other things can control my apple tv. it's surprisingly handy! good thing, too, because I lost my apple remote about a week ago and don't know where it went!
so there you go, first impressions on apple watch.
Every Apple phone up to this point has been jailbroken and allowed to run third party stuff.
There are no tethered or untethered jailbreak options for the current OS 8.3.
well they were not an organized group. I think of a militia as being an organized group, like a club or something. this was ad-hoc at best. I think they were just citizens, and more importantly, passengers who took action.
I think "militia" is a strong word for flight 93. Also I don't think they had govt orders to stay on their seats. But flight 93 was "stopped" by the passengers (stopped as in didn't reached its intended target of the White House. Still crashed which is awful). Also, passengers stopped shoe bomber and underwear bomber. So yeah, the new mantra
is "say something, do something".
ok, here we go, now my brain is getting sharper! [rubs hands together]
The fatal flaw in your approach is that you're assuming the probability of surviving year n and year n+1 are independent. Actually, they are quite tightly bound. If you don't survive year n, you're definitely not gonna survive year n+1!
In statistics, the equation P(X and Y) = P(X) * P(Y) only holds if P(X) and P(Y) are independent.
BOOM! Pwned!
something about this doesn't seem right... you can only get killed once. if you get killed then you lifespan ends. you're basically asking the question, how many times will I die from terrorism over the course of my 75 year life?
thank you bob. how would you respond to this comment about realistically gauging the risk?
0.001%? That's insanely high. The real rate is a couple orders of magnitude lower.
I don't know, am I way off? Why do you think it's lower?
It's surprisingly hard (that is, not available on the first page of google results) to find out how many people in America die each year. But if there are 300m americans, and average life expectancy is ~75, and the population growth rate is ~0 (population is growing slowly over decades, but not much change year to year) then there must be ~4m births and 4m deaths each year.
Let's do a worst case analysis. In 2001, 3,000 people died in 9/11, according to Wikipedia. So if you died in 2001, there was an 0.075% chance that you died from terrorism.
Obviously, in the best case, there are zero deaths from terrorism in a year, so if you died that year there would be a 0% chance that you died from terrorism.
9/11 is surely an outlier, but not by too much. If you scan the news headlines it seems that it's not rare for a terrorist attack to claim 100 lives. crash a plane, blow up a subway, shoot up a mall, all sorts of things. So while 9/11 is definitely an outlier it is only a 10x outlier. It's not like a nuclear bomb attack, which would be a 10000x outlier.
So, given these facts, what's a justifiable number to use in the statement "there is an X% chance I'll die from terrorism"? I'm not trying to be facetious, I would appreciate your input here.
Just like any government official, the patriots of the NSA have qualified immunity if they believed what they were doing was legal. The data collection program was re authorized every 90 days by a federal judge in the fisa court. This issue needs a blanket ruling on constitutionality. Like brown v. Board of education.
No, not authorized is a lighter ruling. It means tomorrow congress can pass a law explicitly allowing it, and there would be no problem cuz it wasn't ruled unconstitutional.
When that next truck bomb detonates at a sporting event or mall, or when that next muslim fan goes on an indiscriminate killing spree through a church, know in your heart that you have allowed that to happen.
I'll enjoy my freedom, thankyouverymuch, even if it does come with an 0.001% chance of dying by terrorist.
So it should air on ESPN 8, the Ocho?
Used to be that you had to wind watches every night, I don't recall people complaining.