This is how America votes. Even the main election is for a bunch of people who then may or may not vote on your behalf....as if the citizens are too dumb to cast a direct vote. Even worse is the two party system that is a guarantee for political stalemate. And then you got places like Miami-Dade who had severe irregularities in all elections during the past decade.
It is not Facebook's fault. It is that the majority of Americans are trigger happy gun huggers who do not wan the 2nd Amendment repealed or enforced. Never understood how any Dick and Jane with a dozen rifles constitute a well-regulated militia.
A box costs about 60$. Do the math. It is an incredible revenue stream for a service that essentially costs nothing to deliver after an upfront cost.
The real kicker are all the bogus fees like local sports network fee....which is for that SD sports channel that once a month shows a high school basketball game.
As if the president has a say in this matter. The FCC figure heads might be appointed, but in the end all power rests with Congress. The problem we face is that since the Reps with their tea baggers won the majority absolutely nothing got accomplished because they have no plan and only one answer: "No!". Not saying that the dem dominated Congress did any more work. I'm all for cutting the number of House seats in half. I am sure 220 chair warmers can be as dysfunctional, but it will cost us less.
Satellite should operate like it is in Europe. The broadcaster pays all access fees, the consumer buys the equipment, done! The Eutelsat and Astra satellites are positioned close enough together that a "googly-eyed" dish with to LNBs grabs both without issue. If you still want local OTA add a simple antenna. They sell dishes and receiver bundles for 100€, the quality is dismal of the cheap stuff, but on par with the garbage that Dish or DirecTV staple into your front yard. I used to install satellite systems when I lived in Germany and they all still work fine....20 years later. I used only top of the line Kathrein or if not available Fuba. Add a decent switch and splitter and access to thousands of digital TV and radio channels is at your fingertips. I only used the Grundig receivers, but that company went belly up (rather sad). Still proud on my work from back then, but I spent enough time on roof tops. I'm done!
DVR is one reason, also downloads for the program listings and other services. That could still be done better. Have a timer in the box that turns it on at 3 in the morning, downloads that stuff, then turns itself off again. Same for DVR usage. Then again, most of the HD boxes cost around 60$. Something gotta give.
Then gallon is a unit of volume, not a unit of weight. I do agree that liter is the much better unit for volume, but it will still be that a liter of water weighs more than a liter of air at atmospheric pressure.
If anything is broken then it is the senseless clinging of the US to the English unit system that even the English no longer use.
The US cannot even effectively build and use rail for both long and short distance. That would not only save tons of energy, it would also increase productivity. It would also not be that difficult to do as we once used to have a very dense and well connected rail network of which many lines were converted into bike trails and rarely overbuilt because the long and narrow stretches of land are not suitable for much. Instead, mind boggling amounts are wasted on an unsustainable Interstate system that would require even more funding to overcome the problems of crumbling infrastructure.
In any case, string the power lines along the Interstate highways as much as possible. Those stretches are already damaged by sealed surfaces and pollution of various kinds.
First of all, the unit referred to in regards to food is mislabeled. The amounts given are in kilocalorie...but since Americans are challenged by the metric system they do not notice that they constantly make an error by a factor of 1000. And kilocalorie is way more accurate than British Thermal Unit. I bet we can squeeze a footpound in there somehow to make it totally unusable. Energy content is measure in kilojoule these days anyway...and yes, units are never pluralized.
....or change jobs. It is somewhat of a defeat to throw the towel in, but if management is intent to set you up to failure you need to move when they do not move.
I am sure you find a contractor to do the work on premise if the price is right. Still will need an NDA and good corporate legal.
Sad, but true, and management never learns that lesson. It will come back to bite you really hard, at the most inconvenient time and leaving you no choice. Ignoring these little things in favor of new stuff is really a bad way to do business. It is not sustainable and does a disservice to everyone involved.
Why are we still discussing the misdoings of VW? The long haul tractor trailer based industry has barely any emissions restrictions to deal with. With thousands over thousands of trucks carrying goods across the country the question to discuss is how to drastically reduce this insanity by moving more freight to rail and putting clean engines into the trucks that are still needed. The few dirty Golfs are almost negligible compared to the poison and sud spewing out of the pipes of trucks every single minute.
I guess it is much easier to keep beating up an easy target rather than start with something that would have real impact!
That is exactly how it happened and not a lie. Jews were excluded from craftsmen unions and were relegated to what centuries ago were unspectacular professions: trade and banking. That those rose to utmost importance throughout history is only testament to how ridiculous the restrictions on people based on religion are. By now there are plenty of Christians charging immoral interest on loans, I bet more so than Jews.
I never got the point of a leaf blower. Isn't the intent to remove the leaves from the overmanicured lawn and walkways? In that case a leaf sucker is way better, ideally one that jam packs the leaves into the paper leave bags automatically without having them rip open. Even better advise: just leave the leaves where they are. It's nature, they are good for the soil, and just go with the idea that instead of a lawn you will have grass that is home to nice little flowers that bloom in all kinds of colors, grass that does not need artificial fertilizer, grass that grows on soil that isn't poisoned with endless masses of chemicals to kill off even the last strain of dandelion. Mow once a week the most and live a happy life!
As for walkways, plain old table salt every three months dumped onto the cracks is all that is needed. Works as well as the expensive stuff with the spray nozzle and the gazillion warning labels on it.
If there is an interest in cutting death toll, then why not attack the much bigger problem: guns. There are many more people shot each year in the US than killed in car accidents! In fact, the past four years more US residents died than in the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan together. It is time the US as a whole gets the priorities straight: repeal the 2nd Amendment!
....x86 cores with ARM cores and provide drivers for OS so that work load can be switched seamlessly from power saving ARM to high performance x86 as well as run both and use x86 and ARM based apps simultaneously. Now THAT would be interesting!
M C64 is over 30 years old now and still works fine as it did when I got it...and that after the processor and OS chips having been placed in the wrong way, a few falls, two moves to custom cases, and still very frequent use. Also, my old old old Pentium laptop still works fine running Linux. 18 years for a server that is designed to run stable 24x7 is really not that big of a deal. I also run eServers 235 and 325 that I bought used about 10 years ago without any issues and with plenty of RAM they are still quite speedy for servers.
I can do without the pesky pennies and dimes, but what is way more annoying is that all US Dollar bills are the same size and color. It is so ridiculously annoying.
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This is how America votes. Even the main election is for a bunch of people who then may or may not vote on your behalf....as if the citizens are too dumb to cast a direct vote. Even worse is the two party system that is a guarantee for political stalemate. And then you got places like Miami-Dade who had severe irregularities in all elections during the past decade.
It is not Facebook's fault. It is that the majority of Americans are trigger happy gun huggers who do not wan the 2nd Amendment repealed or enforced. Never understood how any Dick and Jane with a dozen rifles constitute a well-regulated militia.
I use my ClearQAM tuner in my TV and it works fine, but gets only the bottom quarter of channels.
A box costs about 60$. Do the math. It is an incredible revenue stream for a service that essentially costs nothing to deliver after an upfront cost. The real kicker are all the bogus fees like local sports network fee....which is for that SD sports channel that once a month shows a high school basketball game.
The rates go up by that amount and even more with the current configuration.
As if the president has a say in this matter. The FCC figure heads might be appointed, but in the end all power rests with Congress. The problem we face is that since the Reps with their tea baggers won the majority absolutely nothing got accomplished because they have no plan and only one answer: "No!". Not saying that the dem dominated Congress did any more work. I'm all for cutting the number of House seats in half. I am sure 220 chair warmers can be as dysfunctional, but it will cost us less.
Good for you. How is that relevant to anyone else?
Satellite should operate like it is in Europe. The broadcaster pays all access fees, the consumer buys the equipment, done! The Eutelsat and Astra satellites are positioned close enough together that a "googly-eyed" dish with to LNBs grabs both without issue. If you still want local OTA add a simple antenna. They sell dishes and receiver bundles for 100€, the quality is dismal of the cheap stuff, but on par with the garbage that Dish or DirecTV staple into your front yard. I used to install satellite systems when I lived in Germany and they all still work fine....20 years later. I used only top of the line Kathrein or if not available Fuba. Add a decent switch and splitter and access to thousands of digital TV and radio channels is at your fingertips. I only used the Grundig receivers, but that company went belly up (rather sad). Still proud on my work from back then, but I spent enough time on roof tops. I'm done!
DVR is one reason, also downloads for the program listings and other services. That could still be done better. Have a timer in the box that turns it on at 3 in the morning, downloads that stuff, then turns itself off again. Same for DVR usage. Then again, most of the HD boxes cost around 60$. Something gotta give.
But with the boxes taking 10 minutes to boot up that power strip will stay on because waiting gets old really fast.
It is 2016 and the cloud is still broken.
Do you mean exorcize?
Then gallon is a unit of volume, not a unit of weight. I do agree that liter is the much better unit for volume, but it will still be that a liter of water weighs more than a liter of air at atmospheric pressure. If anything is broken then it is the senseless clinging of the US to the English unit system that even the English no longer use.
The US cannot even effectively build and use rail for both long and short distance. That would not only save tons of energy, it would also increase productivity. It would also not be that difficult to do as we once used to have a very dense and well connected rail network of which many lines were converted into bike trails and rarely overbuilt because the long and narrow stretches of land are not suitable for much. Instead, mind boggling amounts are wasted on an unsustainable Interstate system that would require even more funding to overcome the problems of crumbling infrastructure. In any case, string the power lines along the Interstate highways as much as possible. Those stretches are already damaged by sealed surfaces and pollution of various kinds.
First of all, the unit referred to in regards to food is mislabeled. The amounts given are in kilocalorie...but since Americans are challenged by the metric system they do not notice that they constantly make an error by a factor of 1000. And kilocalorie is way more accurate than British Thermal Unit. I bet we can squeeze a footpound in there somehow to make it totally unusable. Energy content is measure in kilojoule these days anyway...and yes, units are never pluralized.
....or change jobs. It is somewhat of a defeat to throw the towel in, but if management is intent to set you up to failure you need to move when they do not move. I am sure you find a contractor to do the work on premise if the price is right. Still will need an NDA and good corporate legal.
Sad, but true, and management never learns that lesson. It will come back to bite you really hard, at the most inconvenient time and leaving you no choice. Ignoring these little things in favor of new stuff is really a bad way to do business. It is not sustainable and does a disservice to everyone involved.
Why are we still discussing the misdoings of VW? The long haul tractor trailer based industry has barely any emissions restrictions to deal with. With thousands over thousands of trucks carrying goods across the country the question to discuss is how to drastically reduce this insanity by moving more freight to rail and putting clean engines into the trucks that are still needed. The few dirty Golfs are almost negligible compared to the poison and sud spewing out of the pipes of trucks every single minute. I guess it is much easier to keep beating up an easy target rather than start with something that would have real impact!
That is exactly how it happened and not a lie. Jews were excluded from craftsmen unions and were relegated to what centuries ago were unspectacular professions: trade and banking. That those rose to utmost importance throughout history is only testament to how ridiculous the restrictions on people based on religion are. By now there are plenty of Christians charging immoral interest on loans, I bet more so than Jews.
I never got the point of a leaf blower. Isn't the intent to remove the leaves from the overmanicured lawn and walkways? In that case a leaf sucker is way better, ideally one that jam packs the leaves into the paper leave bags automatically without having them rip open. Even better advise: just leave the leaves where they are. It's nature, they are good for the soil, and just go with the idea that instead of a lawn you will have grass that is home to nice little flowers that bloom in all kinds of colors, grass that does not need artificial fertilizer, grass that grows on soil that isn't poisoned with endless masses of chemicals to kill off even the last strain of dandelion. Mow once a week the most and live a happy life! As for walkways, plain old table salt every three months dumped onto the cracks is all that is needed. Works as well as the expensive stuff with the spray nozzle and the gazillion warning labels on it.
If there is an interest in cutting death toll, then why not attack the much bigger problem: guns. There are many more people shot each year in the US than killed in car accidents! In fact, the past four years more US residents died than in the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan together. It is time the US as a whole gets the priorities straight: repeal the 2nd Amendment!
....x86 cores with ARM cores and provide drivers for OS so that work load can be switched seamlessly from power saving ARM to high performance x86 as well as run both and use x86 and ARM based apps simultaneously. Now THAT would be interesting!
Keep in mind that their x86 offerings are half the price compared to the equal Intel offerings, something gotta give.
M C64 is over 30 years old now and still works fine as it did when I got it...and that after the processor and OS chips having been placed in the wrong way, a few falls, two moves to custom cases, and still very frequent use. Also, my old old old Pentium laptop still works fine running Linux. 18 years for a server that is designed to run stable 24x7 is really not that big of a deal. I also run eServers 235 and 325 that I bought used about 10 years ago without any issues and with plenty of RAM they are still quite speedy for servers.
I can do without the pesky pennies and dimes, but what is way more annoying is that all US Dollar bills are the same size and color. It is so ridiculously annoying.