Looks like contempt of cop. The cop was obviosly offended and felt he had to get the guy so he waited to arrest him till 8pm for what at best is misdemeaner theft the guy is going to at worst get a small fine or couple hours community service. Likely that unless the cop is friends with the prosecuter or Judge he'll probably get a warning. But as you said, the cop knew all that but wanted to punish the guy so he arrested him at 8pm to make sure he spends a night in jail.
It's illegal for the airlines to disclose if someone is on the no fly list, let alone why. And depending on the airline DHS might not even tell them why they are denying them. That's the biggest injustice of the whole thing. You can't know if you are on it, you can't challenge being on it and no one in the airline industry is allowed to assist you in any way.
The judge likely doesn't believe it because he's not aware of how unjust the no-fly lists are and like most American's he's naive enough to believe that the government wouldn't create an unaccountable list of names with no way to challenge inclusion in the list.
The high number of eastern front casualties had more to do with the ruskies refusal to take prisoners than size or scale of commitments. The first encirclement at Stalingrad resulted in the surrender of 250K German soldiers. Not one survived to return to Germany. On the western front prisoners were taken and were returned to Germany after the war. This also made the eastern front far more bloody because later on the Germans fought to the last man because surrender meant death.
You might think that is a good thing. Consider that once achieved no new home will ever need to be built (in the US the construction industry composes 10% of the workforce). In fact in full negative growth you actually have increasing vacancy.
No company with saturated sales will ever grow profit. This dries up investment income and moves it to countries where growth is occurring. Jobs stagnate, the younger people can't get jobs. This has occurred in Europe where much of the countries are also experiencing negative growth. 25% youth unemployment is not uncommon and countries in recession like Greece have nearly 70% youth unemployment. That means 70% of the people under 30 don't have a job and likely never have. This means they don't start families and they generally create massive unrest. This compounds the pension issue. Not only are the pension roles going up but the very people that could help fund them are in fact unemployed and have been for years.
Negative growth is a very bad thing economic wise.
I personally reject the assertion that math scores predict future success (there might be a small relationship in certain nations, but not worldwide), I also reject that cultural bias is being neglected.
I've met plenty of engineers from cultures where questioning and innovation are highly discouraged and they couldn't innovate their way out of a paper bag. Great at the book learning and can duplicate the solution to any problem they've seen but handling real world problems where the constraints don't match the book? They don't even reach the level of western high school students even when compared against PHD's. There is a real cultural bias, and ultimately that bias is going to handicap the advancement of every culture it infects.
I've always thought the "millions of separate tax districts" argument was interesting. It's a valid argument if you do everything by hand. It's not a valid argument when you have software that can calculate the tax automatically, the software even makes it trivial to submit it to the taxing authority. IMO the "millions of separate tax districts" died with software, and it's completely meaningless when dealing with huge internet retailers like Amazon. They have the resources, they have the software, they choose not to because it's a price advantage to them.
It's called the Jack Welch model of business management. You buy assets, strip everything down that's not generating 20% and offshore anything you can. Eventually the house of cards comes crashing down and the company will have to reorg or go bankrupt because the Chinese company they outsourced their manufacturing to is now selling the same product for 40% less and took the companies entire customer base. But make no mistake, the management walks away with their millions.
The ironic thing is that if this keeps up, all those millions the "executives" have robed from the companies will be worthless because the dollar will crash. Once the economic disparity between the top and bottom gets too high the dollar will lose all it's value because there's nothing being produced anymore but middle management.
That was Hoover's FBI. Hoover kept files on everyone in congress so he could make sure he had the info to blackmail anyone that tried to cut the budget of the FBI or remove him from office.
Most of the people defending life saving measures have no concept of how long modern medicine can keep you alive. They can pump your blood and breathe for you without the brain function to do those.
They can literally keep a dead body breathing and heart pumping to the point that cellular death never stops even though without the machines you'd be a corpse. My wife is an ICU nurse and see a LOT of needless suffering. I've had to console her numerous times because of the sheer amount of needless suffering she sees. And by needless I mean people that would be dead without life saving measures who's lives are prolonged against their wills.
One other point, in most states the closest living relative can override a living will. So whoever you designate with a medical power of attorney MUST be someone you trust to obey your wishes and shares your views on life saving measures.
Simple. Until you dig it up you don't know what's underground. Engineers can design only for what they know about.
Almost all civil engineering cost overruns can be traced to four categories, unknown conditions (typically soils which don't provide the strengths assumed by the designers), errors during construction (such as failing to tie rebar together), errors or omissions by the engineers or client directed changes.
You will find a LOT of government overruns are caused by the government changing it's mind during the design. These changes are often significant and require a large amount of rework. Anyone that's ever contracted with government can tell you that.
You can change your seat on the Bus and you don't typically ride the bus for 4 hours.
There are two VERY big reasons. I don't want to sit next to a guy discussing his hemorrhoid problem with his wife (or having a shouting argument with her) when I can't get away from him.
Google doesn't write a check to Firefox out of kindness. They get a cut of ad impressions from search referrals, just like any site that links their search to Google.
It's a big check because every time you search Google with Firefox then click an ad that results in a sale Mozilla gets a referral credit. The higher ad rates are the more money they get for click through. This is why Mozilla's Firefox revenue continues to grow, ad revenue (due to ad prices increasing) is going up and the part Google shares with referrals is a fixed percentage of that increasing price. When internet ad prices fell Mozilla's revenue from referrals went down, when they go up the amount goes up.
Because they are getting the money from the referral program there is no direct money and little to no influence. You could get the same referral money if you could write software that people used to search Google with. If anything Google is more beholden to Mozilla because of the amount of traffic Mozilla kicks towards Google. For example, if Mozilla were to switch the default search in Firefox to Bing Google would lose a significant number of searches and ad impressions. This is one of the reasons Google built the Chrome browser, they didn't want to be so dependent on Mozilla and every user using Chrome means a smaller Cut to Mozilla and more money Google retains.
Yes, Mozilla needs the money, but changing the default to Bing would harm Google more than Mozilla and ultimately keeping that default setting on Google is far more important to Google which basically limits or even eliminates Google's influence over Mozilla.
For the record, the US has never turned off civillian GPS channels. In fact, about 10 years ago they disabled selective availability and promissed never to turn it on again.
The entire official claimed reason for galileo is better accuracy in europe. The system will never have reliable or even usable coverage outside the EU unless they massively increased the planned size. You need about 50 birds for global coverage and the galileo system is planned for 6 birds.
Hate to break it to you but there are lots of nomadic hunter gather populations that engage in war, rape and absolutely slavery. In fact the European and american slave trade was initially started by the nomadic berbers who basically ran the slave trade in north africa. Slavery always makes sense, there is always tedios or dangerous work that warrants slaves regardless of how primative. If you think nomadic people dont engage in slavery you clearly don't know anything about nomadic people, past or present.
That plane was full of hero's. They knew they were dead, they called family and said goodbye. They were determined that they would not be used to kill thousands.
As others have said, the TSA hasn't stopped anything. There have been two major incidents since 9/11 where terrorists boarded planes with bombs. Those terrorists weren't stopped by billion dollar security measures, they were stopped by other passengers beating the shit out of them. Between the air marshals and the other passengers I don't believe terrorists could take another plane unless they controlled more than 50% of the seats.
Disband the TSA. It's a terrible waste of money and a downright infringement of rights.
I have yet to see real battery benchmarks but Google is claiming 17 hours of talk time and 300 hours of standby. If the phone gets even half that it's going to have better battery life than any device released in the last 7 years.
I've personally frantically tried to waive down an interstate driver that had 10' flames running along the bottom of his car (he had no idea he was on fire because gas fires in the early stage are nearly smokeless). That driver barely survived, the car was almost fully engulfed before he could even stop. IIRC he has first degree burns to his legs. The car was a smouldering ember that was 95% burned out before the fire department even got there.
If you haven't seen a gas car burn you are either ignorant of what's going on around you, live in a small town or just got your license.
It's like shark attacks, they happen all the time, but infrequently enough (per vehicle) that they aren't something to even worry about. That is until the news starts running around talking about all the shark attacks. Tesla's have a lower car fire rate than gas cars yet the media is pushing each fire like it's happening to every driver.
They are so photogenic because they aren't dangerous. Regular car fire with gasoline and everyone is standing 200' away because of how dangerous car fires are (they frequently explode when enough fuel has vaporized from the temps). With the Tesla you can probably stand 20' away and take nice pretty pictures without fear of having a piece of car embedded into your forehead.
You are missing the fanboi logic. Unless presented in the most favorable light possible the review is WRONG. It doesn't matter that the VAST majority of gamers are going to have cases with shitty sound profiles, it just means they aren't important and shouldn't be considered.
Remember, it's all about fanboi logic, or the lack thereof.
George, you do realize that it's possible when you opened a foreign PDF from an unknown source you likely exposed your computer? PDF is a very common vector for targeted hacking, it's how Google's systems were compromised by the Chinese.
You should never ever open a PDF from an unknown source unless you are doing so with a dumb PDF reader that can't handle java-script, preferably a Linux or BSD based system. I would consider your system compromised unless you can confirm otherwise, and proving a negative is damn hard.
What a waste of money AND a silly idea. The maintenance costs are fixed regardless of energy use. It doesn't cost the company any more to have the line unused than it does to have it pumping power in either direction.
It's a fixed cost, it could easily be divided up into a monthly rate, separated from the power portion (like some of the other fees) and then charged independent of power flow. If you are hooked to the grid you pay $X amount per month regardless of power flow. This plan also doesn't require the expenditure of a billion dollars to replace perfectly viable electricity meters.
As I noted the Utilities oppose this because they would have to first diverge the actual costs and these numbers might run counter to what they've told the utility commission for the last 70 years when setting rates. It would also be a step in the direction of separating the grid from power production like California did that allows the public to buy power from anyone they want and treats the grid as common infrastructure.
It's being backed by people who have bet their fortune on a market that is dependent on fossil fuels who stand to lose big when solar becomes viable competition (which it might already have happened).
Correction, I was wrong about the pacific stockpiles, apparently the incineration facility was constructed and all pacific stockpiles eliminated before Tooele completed. They built the incinerator on Johnson Atoll rather than Guam.
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Looks like contempt of cop. The cop was obviosly offended and felt he had to get the guy so he waited to arrest him till 8pm for what at best is misdemeaner theft the guy is going to at worst get a small fine or couple hours community service. Likely that unless the cop is friends with the prosecuter or Judge he'll probably get a warning. But as you said, the cop knew all that but wanted to punish the guy so he arrested him at 8pm to make sure he spends a night in jail.
It's illegal for the airlines to disclose if someone is on the no fly list, let alone why. And depending on the airline DHS might not even tell them why they are denying them. That's the biggest injustice of the whole thing. You can't know if you are on it, you can't challenge being on it and no one in the airline industry is allowed to assist you in any way.
The judge likely doesn't believe it because he's not aware of how unjust the no-fly lists are and like most American's he's naive enough to believe that the government wouldn't create an unaccountable list of names with no way to challenge inclusion in the list.
The high number of eastern front casualties had more to do with the ruskies refusal to take prisoners than size or scale of commitments. The first encirclement at Stalingrad resulted in the surrender of 250K German soldiers. Not one survived to return to Germany. On the western front prisoners were taken and were returned to Germany after the war. This also made the eastern front far more bloody because later on the Germans fought to the last man because surrender meant death.
Negative population growth ends all growth.
You might think that is a good thing. Consider that once achieved no new home will ever need to be built (in the US the construction industry composes 10% of the workforce). In fact in full negative growth you actually have increasing vacancy.
No company with saturated sales will ever grow profit. This dries up investment income and moves it to countries where growth is occurring. Jobs stagnate, the younger people can't get jobs. This has occurred in Europe where much of the countries are also experiencing negative growth. 25% youth unemployment is not uncommon and countries in recession like Greece have nearly 70% youth unemployment. That means 70% of the people under 30 don't have a job and likely never have. This means they don't start families and they generally create massive unrest. This compounds the pension issue. Not only are the pension roles going up but the very people that could help fund them are in fact unemployed and have been for years.
Negative growth is a very bad thing economic wise.
I personally reject the assertion that math scores predict future success (there might be a small relationship in certain nations, but not worldwide), I also reject that cultural bias is being neglected.
I've met plenty of engineers from cultures where questioning and innovation are highly discouraged and they couldn't innovate their way out of a paper bag. Great at the book learning and can duplicate the solution to any problem they've seen but handling real world problems where the constraints don't match the book? They don't even reach the level of western high school students even when compared against PHD's. There is a real cultural bias, and ultimately that bias is going to handicap the advancement of every culture it infects.
I've always thought the "millions of separate tax districts" argument was interesting. It's a valid argument if you do everything by hand. It's not a valid argument when you have software that can calculate the tax automatically, the software even makes it trivial to submit it to the taxing authority. IMO the "millions of separate tax districts" died with software, and it's completely meaningless when dealing with huge internet retailers like Amazon. They have the resources, they have the software, they choose not to because it's a price advantage to them.
And those people are rich and well connected.
You want to stop illegal immigration, start putting business owners in jail for hiring them. No labor market, no illegal immigration.
It's called the Jack Welch model of business management. You buy assets, strip everything down that's not generating 20% and offshore anything you can. Eventually the house of cards comes crashing down and the company will have to reorg or go bankrupt because the Chinese company they outsourced their manufacturing to is now selling the same product for 40% less and took the companies entire customer base. But make no mistake, the management walks away with their millions.
The ironic thing is that if this keeps up, all those millions the "executives" have robed from the companies will be worthless because the dollar will crash. Once the economic disparity between the top and bottom gets too high the dollar will lose all it's value because there's nothing being produced anymore but middle management.
That was Hoover's FBI. Hoover kept files on everyone in congress so he could make sure he had the info to blackmail anyone that tried to cut the budget of the FBI or remove him from office.
Most of the people defending life saving measures have no concept of how long modern medicine can keep you alive. They can pump your blood and breathe for you without the brain function to do those.
They can literally keep a dead body breathing and heart pumping to the point that cellular death never stops even though without the machines you'd be a corpse. My wife is an ICU nurse and see a LOT of needless suffering. I've had to console her numerous times because of the sheer amount of needless suffering she sees. And by needless I mean people that would be dead without life saving measures who's lives are prolonged against their wills.
One other point, in most states the closest living relative can override a living will. So whoever you designate with a medical power of attorney MUST be someone you trust to obey your wishes and shares your views on life saving measures.
Simple. Until you dig it up you don't know what's underground. Engineers can design only for what they know about.
Almost all civil engineering cost overruns can be traced to four categories, unknown conditions (typically soils which don't provide the strengths assumed by the designers), errors during construction (such as failing to tie rebar together), errors or omissions by the engineers or client directed changes.
You will find a LOT of government overruns are caused by the government changing it's mind during the design. These changes are often significant and require a large amount of rework. Anyone that's ever contracted with government can tell you that.
You can change your seat on the Bus and you don't typically ride the bus for 4 hours.
There are two VERY big reasons. I don't want to sit next to a guy discussing his hemorrhoid problem with his wife (or having a shouting argument with her) when I can't get away from him.
Google doesn't write a check to Firefox out of kindness. They get a cut of ad impressions from search referrals, just like any site that links their search to Google.
It's a big check because every time you search Google with Firefox then click an ad that results in a sale Mozilla gets a referral credit. The higher ad rates are the more money they get for click through. This is why Mozilla's Firefox revenue continues to grow, ad revenue (due to ad prices increasing) is going up and the part Google shares with referrals is a fixed percentage of that increasing price. When internet ad prices fell Mozilla's revenue from referrals went down, when they go up the amount goes up.
Because they are getting the money from the referral program there is no direct money and little to no influence. You could get the same referral money if you could write software that people used to search Google with. If anything Google is more beholden to Mozilla because of the amount of traffic Mozilla kicks towards Google. For example, if Mozilla were to switch the default search in Firefox to Bing Google would lose a significant number of searches and ad impressions. This is one of the reasons Google built the Chrome browser, they didn't want to be so dependent on Mozilla and every user using Chrome means a smaller Cut to Mozilla and more money Google retains.
Yes, Mozilla needs the money, but changing the default to Bing would harm Google more than Mozilla and ultimately keeping that default setting on Google is far more important to Google which basically limits or even eliminates Google's influence over Mozilla.
For the record, the US has never turned off civillian GPS channels. In fact, about 10 years ago they disabled selective availability and promissed never to turn it on again.
The entire official claimed reason for galileo is better accuracy in europe. The system will never have reliable or even usable coverage outside the EU unless they massively increased the planned size. You need about 50 birds for global coverage and the galileo system is planned for 6 birds.
Hate to break it to you but there are lots of nomadic hunter gather populations that engage in war, rape and absolutely slavery. In fact the European and american slave trade was initially started by the nomadic berbers who basically ran the slave trade in north africa. Slavery always makes sense, there is always tedios or dangerous work that warrants slaves regardless of how primative. If you think nomadic people dont engage in slavery you clearly don't know anything about nomadic people, past or present.
That plane was full of hero's. They knew they were dead, they called family and said goodbye. They were determined that they would not be used to kill thousands.
As others have said, the TSA hasn't stopped anything. There have been two major incidents since 9/11 where terrorists boarded planes with bombs. Those terrorists weren't stopped by billion dollar security measures, they were stopped by other passengers beating the shit out of them. Between the air marshals and the other passengers I don't believe terrorists could take another plane unless they controlled more than 50% of the seats.
Disband the TSA. It's a terrible waste of money and a downright infringement of rights.
I have yet to see real battery benchmarks but Google is claiming 17 hours of talk time and 300 hours of standby. If the phone gets even half that it's going to have better battery life than any device released in the last 7 years.
I've personally frantically tried to waive down an interstate driver that had 10' flames running along the bottom of his car (he had no idea he was on fire because gas fires in the early stage are nearly smokeless). That driver barely survived, the car was almost fully engulfed before he could even stop. IIRC he has first degree burns to his legs. The car was a smouldering ember that was 95% burned out before the fire department even got there.
If you haven't seen a gas car burn you are either ignorant of what's going on around you, live in a small town or just got your license.
Heard of it? I've seen it.
It's like shark attacks, they happen all the time, but infrequently enough (per vehicle) that they aren't something to even worry about. That is until the news starts running around talking about all the shark attacks. Tesla's have a lower car fire rate than gas cars yet the media is pushing each fire like it's happening to every driver.
They are so photogenic because they aren't dangerous. Regular car fire with gasoline and everyone is standing 200' away because of how dangerous car fires are (they frequently explode when enough fuel has vaporized from the temps). With the Tesla you can probably stand 20' away and take nice pretty pictures without fear of having a piece of car embedded into your forehead.
You are missing the fanboi logic. Unless presented in the most favorable light possible the review is WRONG. It doesn't matter that the VAST majority of gamers are going to have cases with shitty sound profiles, it just means they aren't important and shouldn't be considered.
Remember, it's all about fanboi logic, or the lack thereof.
The head never moves, the disk spins under it. Putting a wing shape on the head wouldn't do anything.
George, you do realize that it's possible when you opened a foreign PDF from an unknown source you likely exposed your computer? PDF is a very common vector for targeted hacking, it's how Google's systems were compromised by the Chinese.
You should never ever open a PDF from an unknown source unless you are doing so with a dumb PDF reader that can't handle java-script, preferably a Linux or BSD based system. I would consider your system compromised unless you can confirm otherwise, and proving a negative is damn hard.
What a waste of money AND a silly idea. The maintenance costs are fixed regardless of energy use. It doesn't cost the company any more to have the line unused than it does to have it pumping power in either direction.
It's a fixed cost, it could easily be divided up into a monthly rate, separated from the power portion (like some of the other fees) and then charged independent of power flow. If you are hooked to the grid you pay $X amount per month regardless of power flow. This plan also doesn't require the expenditure of a billion dollars to replace perfectly viable electricity meters.
As I noted the Utilities oppose this because they would have to first diverge the actual costs and these numbers might run counter to what they've told the utility commission for the last 70 years when setting rates. It would also be a step in the direction of separating the grid from power production like California did that allows the public to buy power from anyone they want and treats the grid as common infrastructure.
It's being backed by people who have bet their fortune on a market that is dependent on fossil fuels who stand to lose big when solar becomes viable competition (which it might already have happened).
Correction, I was wrong about the pacific stockpiles, apparently the incineration facility was constructed and all pacific stockpiles eliminated before Tooele completed. They built the incinerator on Johnson Atoll rather than Guam.
See: http://leavitt.li.suu.edu/leavitt/?p=626