Two things:
One: the only problem with forcing people to Press 1 is that some people might be driving. You're asking them to pay attention to something unexpected. First time callers might try to navigate the situation and that could be dangerous. Repeat callers might know you and say to themselves, "Ah well, I'll call later when I'm not driving because I don't want to deal with that '1' thing"... and then forget to call. It actually may impact people calling you!
Two: Isn't the 110 deprecated?
If the ring is growing in thickness because coral is being dredged from outside the ring and then deposited on the inside of the ring by more frequent king tides that wash right over the ring, then perhaps those living right on the ring don't care about the size so much. They may care more about their thin soil being lost, salinated, and replaced by coral beach. Yes, having more surface area allows for more mitigation measures to be tried, but it is still a hard battle being fought because of sea level rise.
I looked into this when crafting a living will. I want my body to go to science and have a use. This is one.
What happens to my body after it is donated?
Once we receive a body, we assign an identifying number and we place it at the Anthropology Research Facility (ARF), our outdoor laboratory. The body may be used in a decomposition project or not. Regardless, all of donations go to the ARF and are allowed to decompose naturally. Once the body is skeletonized, we recover the skeletal remains and clean them further. The cleaned bones are accessioned into the Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and are labeled with the identifying number. At this step, the remains are inventoried, measured and other data are collected. Once in the collection, all skeletal remains are utilized by researchers from varying academic and medico-legal institutions.
I like and use Thunderbird. At work, it lets me clearly separate work from personal email - they are in entirely different clients (work is Outlook). I like that on an SSD I get very satisfactory and fast search results on a mail store that goes back nearly two decades - and Google hasn't indexed me with that knowledge. And my client's speed and snappiness aren't compromised by how many tabs I have open. Sometimes I use a laptop that is offline. Oh look! My mail is still accessible! And should I want to have a local archival backup, I can (and do). There's much to like.
Were you replying to me? I'm confused by your assertions, but I'll remake mine in hopes that things will be a bit more clear.
The police and school CANNOT release the records to THE PUBLIC. That's you and I. I am implying that the President of the United States, who has direct access to information from all kinds of law enforcement officials, may have some knowledge of the records or is advised by someone who has authority to review them. I could be wrong, but it certainly seems plausible. Assuming he has some level of access to them, would he assert something contradictory to them? That seems unlikely. That is all I intended to say.
That sounds wonderfully plausible, except for one thing: the police and school don't have to release the records to the public. But law enforcement certainly can see them. I wonder if the President knows anyone in law enforcement to ask before critiquing the school or police without all the facts?
I have a 6 year old Kinesis Freestyle (original) that I love. It is the best keyboard I've ever owned, and I've tried many. I have a nice-ish Microsoft ergo style thing at home, but the keys are just yuck compared to the Kinesis. I do technical support, so I type quite a lot and don't need a numeric keypad. Other keyboards made my hands hurt. This one has not. It's logged several hours of WolfET. I like it's smaller footprint. It also fits on my keyboard tray leaving me room for a nice old Logitech G5 on a Razer eXactMat to my right, and a Clearly Superior Technologies trackball to my left (all on my up-n-down GeekDesk - I have name-dropped enough ergonomic brands, yet? I mention them all as someone who has battled the ergo demon for many years and this setup has helped recover my hands and back).
I tried the Alphagrips iGrip once - I can't recommend it.
How about, "Never let any one person stay in a management position for too long, so you never have to pay that position too much?" The reason could be Just Business (TM).
I was being flippant for effect, but it was the first television thing to pop to mind with a mutable cast and multiple story arcs spanning millennia. I think it can be made to work.
Sadly, I have never seen Black Adder.
Yup. Perhaps I should have added "in the lab." Even just a timing firmware rollout in a major city would be non-trivial and the testing needs to be very robust. But weighing the cost of the previous solution (timers) against a new solution that will presumably have a similar roll-out cost, perhaps the development cost of deploying timing firmware is cheaper than deploying stamped sheet metal hoods. Maybe not. I remind you of this salient point: armchair engineer. My off-the-cuff statements are probably either totally refuted or definitively proven by traffic safety data I don't have at my fingertips.
One more thought - I've been in places (Europe?) where the lights turned Red/Yellow just before turning green. Presumably accidents were reduced by this method. Another method I saw in Germany had very long stop lights, so long that you were prompted by a lighted sign to turn off your engine to reduce pollution. These had countdowns on them so you could restart your engine. Other countries seem to be able to make this work.
Isn't this trivially solvable (he says as armchair traffic engineer in a rural state) by timers and/or sensors? If you don't turn the other direction's light GREEN the *instant* you turn the previous direction's RED, would that reduce accidents? Or if you had a sensor that detected someone racing at the intersection during a yellow, hold the other direction's green for a moment? Yes, people may learn to game these systems, but they may increase safety for some drivers (especially those that are inattentive enough to enter an intersection on a green light while other traffic is still moving (against the laws of man, but not the laws of physics)). You can argue the legalities all you want, but if your goal is safety, there may be other measures to employ. One of the safest things I've seen is an intersection with a left turn lane and simple inductive sensors. You simply can't know the light's patterns by heart, and you can't see at least 2 other direction's signals, so you are more careful with those kinds of intersections.
I agree with most of what you suggest, but I thought the conventional wisdom was to *not* go for identification until asked. If you are rummaging around in the glove box, the police officer has no idea if you are going for a gun. Granted they have no idea anyway in that moment, but the correct steps are everything else you suggested - interior light, hands on wheel, etc., then wait. They can see your hands as they approach from the rear and have less cause to suspect you are arming yourself. Then when they ask for your papers, they can track your hands the whole times and are thus less surprised at any moment.
I've worked with police officers several times and have a great deal of respect for what they have to endure, but a reasonable traffic stop attitude works for all parties.
The summary you linked to makes no such claims about taking *all* economic impacts into consideration. Both studies cited purely compared "health costs" and made no mention of societal economic contribution. Your claim that retired people are a net economic drain on society. Care to cite anything? I didn't find anything compelling in a few minutes searching, and in fact saw lots of references to the opposite story. "If you're taxing people for life-long health care cost, you should be SUBSIDIZING smoking" is an incredibly narrow method of human cost accounting as the only vector you're considering is "life-long health care cost."
I understand your defined, but narrow, argument, and looking at the costs is certainly *one* slim avenue to consider. But the last 2 paragraphs in your link tell the story much more completely for me. I'm not attacking you, just voicing my own inability to see past the narrowness of the idea.
Terrible location for the keyhole. Drinks get spilled into it all the time. I knew people that owned older Saabs. Terrible to start in the dead of winter. Water in the keyhole could freeze and break it. Soda in the keyhole made it a sticky gooey mess. I'll pass on that one.
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How will you get the waste to the subduction zone? Asking for a friend.
Two things: One: the only problem with forcing people to Press 1 is that some people might be driving. You're asking them to pay attention to something unexpected. First time callers might try to navigate the situation and that could be dangerous. Repeat callers might know you and say to themselves, "Ah well, I'll call later when I'm not driving because I don't want to deal with that '1' thing" ... and then forget to call. It actually may impact people calling you!
Two: Isn't the 110 deprecated?
If the ring is growing in thickness because coral is being dredged from outside the ring and then deposited on the inside of the ring by more frequent king tides that wash right over the ring, then perhaps those living right on the ring don't care about the size so much. They may care more about their thin soil being lost, salinated, and replaced by coral beach. Yes, having more surface area allows for more mitigation measures to be tried, but it is still a hard battle being fought because of sea level rise.
My cat drools.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
I looked into this when crafting a living will. I want my body to go to science and have a use. This is one.
What happens to my body after it is donated?
Once we receive a body, we assign an identifying number and we place it at the Anthropology Research Facility (ARF), our outdoor laboratory. The body may be used in a decomposition project or not. Regardless, all of donations go to the ARF and are allowed to decompose naturally. Once the body is skeletonized, we recover the skeletal remains and clean them further. The cleaned bones are accessioned into the Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and are labeled with the identifying number. At this step, the remains are inventoried, measured and other data are collected. Once in the collection, all skeletal remains are utilized by researchers from varying academic and medico-legal institutions.
I like and use Thunderbird. At work, it lets me clearly separate work from personal email - they are in entirely different clients (work is Outlook). I like that on an SSD I get very satisfactory and fast search results on a mail store that goes back nearly two decades - and Google hasn't indexed me with that knowledge. And my client's speed and snappiness aren't compromised by how many tabs I have open. Sometimes I use a laptop that is offline. Oh look! My mail is still accessible! And should I want to have a local archival backup, I can (and do). There's much to like.
Were you replying to me? I'm confused by your assertions, but I'll remake mine in hopes that things will be a bit more clear. The police and school CANNOT release the records to THE PUBLIC. That's you and I. I am implying that the President of the United States, who has direct access to information from all kinds of law enforcement officials, may have some knowledge of the records or is advised by someone who has authority to review them. I could be wrong, but it certainly seems plausible. Assuming he has some level of access to them, would he assert something contradictory to them? That seems unlikely. That is all I intended to say.
That sounds wonderfully plausible, except for one thing: the police and school don't have to release the records to the public. But law enforcement certainly can see them. I wonder if the President knows anyone in law enforcement to ask before critiquing the school or police without all the facts?
I have a 6 year old Kinesis Freestyle (original) that I love. It is the best keyboard I've ever owned, and I've tried many. I have a nice-ish Microsoft ergo style thing at home, but the keys are just yuck compared to the Kinesis. I do technical support, so I type quite a lot and don't need a numeric keypad. Other keyboards made my hands hurt. This one has not. It's logged several hours of WolfET. I like it's smaller footprint. It also fits on my keyboard tray leaving me room for a nice old Logitech G5 on a Razer eXactMat to my right, and a Clearly Superior Technologies trackball to my left (all on my up-n-down GeekDesk - I have name-dropped enough ergonomic brands, yet? I mention them all as someone who has battled the ergo demon for many years and this setup has helped recover my hands and back). I tried the Alphagrips iGrip once - I can't recommend it.
You meant chips. :-P
For the young or humor-impaired, the string of epithets simply reminded me of a great Kevin Kline scene in a super funny movie, A Fish Called Wanda.
Otto: You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant-twerp, scumbag, fuck-face, dickhead asshole!
Archie: How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?
Otto: You're the vulgarian, you fuck!
"Bennett" irks me just as much as the next guy, but this was a late-80's joke set-up, not a troll. It's a good movie. You should see it.
(ooooh! geek reference fail!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?
How about, "Never let any one person stay in a management position for too long, so you never have to pay that position too much?" The reason could be Just Business (TM).
I was being flippant for effect, but it was the first television thing to pop to mind with a mutable cast and multiple story arcs spanning millennia. I think it can be made to work. Sadly, I have never seen Black Adder.
Yeah! Just like Dr. Who! Oh, wait ...
But only if you pee on them first. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01... but not really http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
No one will ever have to get a concussion in gym again! But the school nurse will need to be a chiropractor.
Yup. Perhaps I should have added "in the lab." Even just a timing firmware rollout in a major city would be non-trivial and the testing needs to be very robust. But weighing the cost of the previous solution (timers) against a new solution that will presumably have a similar roll-out cost, perhaps the development cost of deploying timing firmware is cheaper than deploying stamped sheet metal hoods. Maybe not. I remind you of this salient point: armchair engineer. My off-the-cuff statements are probably either totally refuted or definitively proven by traffic safety data I don't have at my fingertips.
One more thought - I've been in places (Europe?) where the lights turned Red/Yellow just before turning green. Presumably accidents were reduced by this method. Another method I saw in Germany had very long stop lights, so long that you were prompted by a lighted sign to turn off your engine to reduce pollution. These had countdowns on them so you could restart your engine. Other countries seem to be able to make this work.
Isn't this trivially solvable (he says as armchair traffic engineer in a rural state) by timers and/or sensors? If you don't turn the other direction's light GREEN the *instant* you turn the previous direction's RED, would that reduce accidents? Or if you had a sensor that detected someone racing at the intersection during a yellow, hold the other direction's green for a moment? Yes, people may learn to game these systems, but they may increase safety for some drivers (especially those that are inattentive enough to enter an intersection on a green light while other traffic is still moving (against the laws of man, but not the laws of physics)). You can argue the legalities all you want, but if your goal is safety, there may be other measures to employ. One of the safest things I've seen is an intersection with a left turn lane and simple inductive sensors. You simply can't know the light's patterns by heart, and you can't see at least 2 other direction's signals, so you are more careful with those kinds of intersections.
I agree with most of what you suggest, but I thought the conventional wisdom was to *not* go for identification until asked. If you are rummaging around in the glove box, the police officer has no idea if you are going for a gun. Granted they have no idea anyway in that moment, but the correct steps are everything else you suggested - interior light, hands on wheel, etc., then wait. They can see your hands as they approach from the rear and have less cause to suspect you are arming yourself. Then when they ask for your papers, they can track your hands the whole times and are thus less surprised at any moment.
I've worked with police officers several times and have a great deal of respect for what they have to endure, but a reasonable traffic stop attitude works for all parties.
The summary you linked to makes no such claims about taking *all* economic impacts into consideration. Both studies cited purely compared "health costs" and made no mention of societal economic contribution. Your claim that retired people are a net economic drain on society. Care to cite anything? I didn't find anything compelling in a few minutes searching, and in fact saw lots of references to the opposite story. "If you're taxing people for life-long health care cost, you should be SUBSIDIZING smoking" is an incredibly narrow method of human cost accounting as the only vector you're considering is "life-long health care cost." I understand your defined, but narrow, argument, and looking at the costs is certainly *one* slim avenue to consider. But the last 2 paragraphs in your link tell the story much more completely for me. I'm not attacking you, just voicing my own inability to see past the narrowness of the idea.
Terrible location for the keyhole. Drinks get spilled into it all the time. I knew people that owned older Saabs. Terrible to start in the dead of winter. Water in the keyhole could freeze and break it. Soda in the keyhole made it a sticky gooey mess. I'll pass on that one.