This is so misleading! New York may be "wasteful" among megacity peers (I don't know), but "New York is the greenest city in the United States" (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/18/green-manhattan). This article totally changed my views about thinking about environmental issues:
"Most Americans think of New York City as an ecological nightmare, but in comparison with the rest of America, it is a model of environmental responsibility New York is one of the greenest cities in the world 82% of Manhattan residents travel to work by public transit. If New York City were granted statehood, it would rank fifty-first in per-capita energy use The key to new York’s environmental benignity is its extreme compactness Tells about moving to a small town in rural Connecticut. Our move was an ecological catastropheNew York City’s extraordinary energy efficiency arises from the characteristics that make it surreally synthetic Dense cities are scalable, while sprawling suburbs are not. Discusses the historical and geographic accidents that produced New York’s remarkable population density. Compares Los Angeles and Washington D.C. to New York. Tells about the way that Washington’s parks and wide boulevards reduce urban vitality by preventing people from moving freely. Mentions Jane Jacobs’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Writer contacts a representative of the Sierra Club’s Challenge to Sprawl initiative and says that Manhattan meets many of their anti-sprawl suggestions. The representative agrees, but says that emulating New York is not appealing to the people the Sierra Club is trying to persuade Environmentalists tend to treat New York as an exception rather than an example. Compares New York to Phoenix. Phoenix, whose population is a little more than twice that of Manhattan, covers more than two hundred times as much land. Discusses the idea that New York’s traffic congestion urges drivers to take public transportation. Tells about the blackout of 2003 Much of the blame was placed on New York, but people who live in New York use less than half as much electricity as people who don’t. Tells about the high property taxes paid by Con Ed Discusses energy-efficient building architecture, comparing 4 Times Square (The Conde Nast Building), where The New Yorker’s offices are located, to the Rocky Mountain Institute’s headquarters in Colorado. If you divided the Conde Nast Building into forty-eight one-story suburban office buildings, added parking and green space, you’d end up consuming at least a hundred and fifty acres of land. The R.M.I.’s famous headquarters is sprawl Discusses the minimal ecological benefits of recycling Tells about the environmental damage caused by cars. Mentions David Goodstein’s “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.”
Mmmm. If you look at this graph, you can see that Lollipop is off to a faster start (steeper adoption curve) than any release since Froyo! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Law-enforcement officials also don't want to reveal information that would give new ammunition to defense lawyers in prosecutions where warrants weren't used
It's called discovery! And it's required under the law. You can't hide evidence or its provenance from the defense!!!
Below are the California earthquakes of equal or greater magnitude (i.e., not much to speak of) this year... The point is, a 4.0 earthquale is NOT NEWS! Sorry
5/3 4.01 in Concord 4/24 2 quakes at 5.5 off the coast near Eureka 4/10 4 quakes: 4.5, 4.5, 4.85, & 4.8 off the coast near Eureka 3/30 4.02 in Baker 3/27 4.2 near Fresno 2/14 4.49 near Death Valley 1/29 4.26 near Eureka 1/28 2 quakes: 5.14 & 5.6 near Eureka 1/20 2 quakes: 4.71 & 4.9 near Monterey 1/14 4.06 near Eureka 1/4 4.5 near Santa Clarita 1/1 5.3 off the coast near Eureka
I looked out the window today in Seattle and saw what looked like water falling from the sky. It was collecting on the ground in puddle and making cars wet. I just consulted the NOAA website and confirmed that there was indeed "precipitation" in the Seattle area. Stay tuned for updates.
Although I had Firefox on my computer for many years as an alternate browser, I considered myself a pretty late holdout since I kept using IE as my default for a pretty long time after it seemed most people had opted to move on. But I finally caved when so many websites just stopped working properly with it. I can't remember now what version that was on. So I just had the impression I guess that it was a pretty sucky experience.
There certainly was an AT&T error there. When he called about the 1st month, the rep couldn't figure out what was going on even though he should have easily seen it was all to one number and that the number was AOL. Further, he promised to send a tech out to investigate and failed to do so. That failure accounts for half of the bill.
That's true. After he called, his liability should have at least stopped there.
At any rate, AT&T should have been aware that his bill was suddenly higher than normal, and should have notified him, and helped solve the problem long before his bill got anywhere close to 10x normal!
I agree with that. It seems reasonable they should have noticed suspicious activity.
So, there was no billing error here. The guy actually had his modem making long-distance calls for inordinate amounts of time. Doesn't seem like an AT&T error. Though it definitely sucks for the old man/woman!
What I don't get though is what the heck kind of plan he has. Even if he was online 24 hours a day for 30 days, to get to $15,687, that would mean a per-minute rate of $0.363!!!
Well, we agree on that. The earth will do just fine with or without us. Sometimes people forget this.;-) Though I do think it's a heavy moral burden we'll take with us as we wipe out myriad other species.
I know of only one desert on earth that is entirely life free
Life free isn't the threshold required for starvation, however. Turn California and the Midwest into the Gobi or Sahara and the USA is facing apocalyptic famine.
I'm so pleased on multiple counts... First of all, that legislators would be smart enough to understand what a stupid idea this is and not just believe it la-di-da, public safety, terrorism, the FBI says we have to do it or we'll all die. Second, I'm pleased to see there is something that Congress can agree on bipartisanly.
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This is so misleading!
New York may be "wasteful" among megacity peers (I don't know), but "New York is the greenest city in the United States" (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/18/green-manhattan). This article totally changed my views about thinking about environmental issues:
"Most Americans think of New York City as an ecological nightmare, but in comparison with the rest of America, it is a model of environmental responsibility New York is one of the greenest cities in the world 82% of Manhattan residents travel to work by public transit. If New York City were granted statehood, it would rank fifty-first in per-capita energy use The key to new York’s environmental benignity is its extreme compactness Tells about moving to a small town in rural Connecticut. Our move was an ecological catastropheNew York City’s extraordinary energy efficiency arises from the characteristics that make it surreally synthetic Dense cities are scalable, while sprawling suburbs are not. Discusses the historical and geographic accidents that produced New York’s remarkable population density. Compares Los Angeles and Washington D.C. to New York. Tells about the way that Washington’s parks and wide boulevards reduce urban vitality by preventing people from moving freely. Mentions Jane Jacobs’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Writer contacts a representative of the Sierra Club’s Challenge to Sprawl initiative and says that Manhattan meets many of their anti-sprawl suggestions. The representative agrees, but says that emulating New York is not appealing to the people the Sierra Club is trying to persuade Environmentalists tend to treat New York as an exception rather than an example. Compares New York to Phoenix. Phoenix, whose population is a little more than twice that of Manhattan, covers more than two hundred times as much land. Discusses the idea that New York’s traffic congestion urges drivers to take public transportation. Tells about the blackout of 2003 Much of the blame was placed on New York, but people who live in New York use less than half as much electricity as people who don’t. Tells about the high property taxes paid by Con Ed Discusses energy-efficient building architecture, comparing 4 Times Square (The Conde Nast Building), where The New Yorker’s offices are located, to the Rocky Mountain Institute’s headquarters in Colorado. If you divided the Conde Nast Building into forty-eight one-story suburban office buildings, added parking and green space, you’d end up consuming at least a hundred and fifty acres of land. The R.M.I.’s famous headquarters is sprawl Discusses the minimal ecological benefits of recycling Tells about the environmental damage caused by cars. Mentions David Goodstein’s “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil.”
Because they both use electricity.
Mmmm. If you look at this graph, you can see that Lollipop is off to a faster start (steeper adoption curve) than any release since Froyo!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But no Windows support?
WTF does "went sci-fi" even mean in this context?
I wondered the same thing.
Anyway, should I be feeling guilty about my schadenfreude in this case?
How come the article doesn't explain what 4/16 is? I have no idea still!
Law-enforcement officials also don't want to reveal information that would give new ammunition to defense lawyers in prosecutions where warrants weren't used
It's called discovery! And it's required under the law. You can't hide evidence or its provenance from the defense!!!
Species that are unable to adapt have been going extinct without mankind's help for 9/10ths of the planet's history.
That people also die of disease and car accidents does not make murder less immoral.
Below are the California earthquakes of equal or greater magnitude (i.e., not much to speak of) this year...
The point is, a 4.0 earthquale is NOT NEWS! Sorry
5/3 4.01 in Concord
4/24 2 quakes at 5.5 off the coast near Eureka
4/10 4 quakes: 4.5, 4.5, 4.85, & 4.8 off the coast near Eureka
3/30 4.02 in Baker
3/27 4.2 near Fresno
2/14 4.49 near Death Valley
1/29 4.26 near Eureka
1/28 2 quakes: 5.14 & 5.6 near Eureka
1/20 2 quakes: 4.71 & 4.9 near Monterey
1/14 4.06 near Eureka
1/4 4.5 near Santa Clarita
1/1 5.3 off the coast near Eureka
I looked out the window today in Seattle and saw what looked like water falling from the sky. It was collecting on the ground in puddle and making cars wet. I just consulted the NOAA website and confirmed that there was indeed "precipitation" in the Seattle area. Stay tuned for updates.
Can you describe what the resize bug does?
Although I had Firefox on my computer for many years as an alternate browser, I considered myself a pretty late holdout since I kept using IE as my default for a pretty long time after it seemed most people had opted to move on. But I finally caved when so many websites just stopped working properly with it. I can't remember now what version that was on. So I just had the impression I guess that it was a pretty sucky experience.
I am very surprised to see that IE is still up at 56% while Chrome is at 26%. Seriously, that many people still use IE?!
I just went to check it out, and actually the site also requires the last 4 digits of your social security number as well as name and date of birth.
PETM?
Yeah, I wonder how common are unlimited liability services in telcom?
AWS is unlimited liability, but they let you set alert triggers.
There certainly was an AT&T error there. When he called about the 1st month, the rep couldn't figure out what was going on even though he should have easily seen it was all to one number and that the number was AOL. Further, he promised to send a tech out to investigate and failed to do so. That failure accounts for half of the bill.
That's true. After he called, his liability should have at least stopped there.
One of the older viruses/malware would redirect dial up just to collect termination fees.
Interesting. I don't remember that
At any rate, AT&T should have been aware that his bill was suddenly higher than normal, and should have notified him, and helped solve the problem long before his bill got anywhere close to 10x normal!
I agree with that. It seems reasonable they should have noticed suspicious activity.
but my handiman almost got arrested when the police showed up and found a guy on a ladder drilling a hole through a wall.
That's awesome. =)
So, there was no billing error here. The guy actually had his modem making long-distance calls for inordinate amounts of time. Doesn't seem like an AT&T error. Though it definitely sucks for the old man/woman!
What I don't get though is what the heck kind of plan he has. Even if he was online 24 hours a day for 30 days, to get to $15,687, that would mean a per-minute rate of $0.363!!!
Well, we agree on that. The earth will do just fine with or without us. Sometimes people forget this. ;-)
Though I do think it's a heavy moral burden we'll take with us as we wipe out myriad other species.
I know of only one desert on earth that is entirely life free
Life free isn't the threshold required for starvation, however. Turn California and the Midwest into the Gobi or Sahara and the USA is facing apocalyptic famine.
That would work if you could eat dust. Changing crops could work to a certain extent, but not when you're talking about devastating drought.
I'm so pleased on multiple counts... First of all, that legislators would be smart enough to understand what a stupid idea this is and not just believe it la-di-da, public safety, terrorism, the FBI says we have to do it or we'll all die. Second, I'm pleased to see there is something that Congress can agree on bipartisanly.