You're also forgetting that US workers put in 50-60 hour work weeks while the guys overseas are doing 80. And we used to do 30-40 until we were forced to work harder to compete. Sure, they burn out, but there's literally a billion of them.
My experience is the US workers do 50-60 hour work weeks while the overseas guys work less hours and at a slower pace. I currently have a team in Poland, they actually have laws limiting work hours:
MS revenues for 2018 will be about $110 Billion. $10 Billion divided over 10 years won't float their boat much. It is more about metastasizing in the U.S. military even further than the crapware they already afflicting DoD with.
I think $10B would be a big contract to any vendor. I agree with your other point though. From personal experience I can tell you the up front price on a government contract is a teaser. The bigger bucks come afterwards.
Government contracts are big business, and the US government spends billions annually on IT hardware, software, and services.
Management has a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. They would need a damn good reason to justify walking away from a $10B DoD contract for cloud services. Some politically correct bullshit rationale isn't going to cut it.
Limiting to "original specifications" is a major loophole and could be used to block performance improvements (in both vehicles and electronics) or ability to work with new formats of content or peripherals (the latter also applies to vehicles [I'm thinking of attachments to tractors, but it applies more generally as well] as well as electronics).
I think the intent is to prevent unlocking features that require an additional charge to the vendor.
I suppose it could also apply to something like an engine ECU re-flash that alters performance. That one is thorny because those changes can increase emissions too, which could be illegal. Poorly done ECU tuning can also damage the engine.
Kids will be running for the bus, crossing streets in front of it, etc. .
Part of the school bus driver's job is to keep kids safe both inside and outside the bus. This takes experience and awareness. I have no doubt the self driving bus can drive from point A to B. I have no confidence in it's ability to anticipate all the dumb things kids do.
So realistically few people will be wearing out their batteries, and for them the most economical and green option will be to get a used pack from a written off car.
Reusing a battery from a car that was in an accident may present safety issues. Certainly they can be recycled though.
Ummm, no, it doesn't. The case was not thrown out with prejudice.
okay. Go with that. She lost round 1.
Washington post says Judge throws out Stormy Daniels’s defamation lawsuit against Trump
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from adult-film actress Stormy Daniels that claimed President Trump defamed her when he suggested she had lied about being threatened to keep quiet about their alleged relationship.
U.S. District Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles ruled that Trump’s speech was protected by the First Amendment as the kind of “rhetorical hyperbole” normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States.” He ordered Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, to pay Trump’s legal fees.
Trump attorney Charles Harder cheered Otero’s decision.
“No amount of spin or commentary by Stormy Daniels or her lawyer, Mr. Avenatti, can truthfully characterize today’s ruling in any way other than total victory for President Trump and total defeat for Stormy Daniels,” Harder said in an emailed statement.
I've tried aftermarket cartridges a few times. They seem to be o.k. for a while but inevitably they clog the print head.
Cleaning the head is usually an endless cycle of "clean print head/check print head" attempts that just consume ink like crazy. I have tried removing the head and cleaning it with no success. Once clogged the printer is history.
Who said I want to destroy them? There's a difference between tearing statues down and denying them a place of honor. Germany got it right after WW2 - they didn't bulldoze the concentration camps. They turned them into museums that were clearly designed to avoid a repeat of past atrocities. They get a lot of credit in my book for facing their demons directly. The confederate statue-defenders want no such thing. They don't want to face the truth - they want to blindly honor their view of history. Sorry. No. That place and time simply doesn't deserve the honor.
You don't speak for the people who DO want them destroyed, and you also don't speak for the people who feel strongly about preserving their history.
Who do you think is defending those old slave-era statues? You pretty much repeated Trump's defense of the neo-nazi wing of the GOP. "Some good people there". It would be a joke if it wasn't so serious. Those are really, really bad apples. They've been vocally defended by the guy in the Oval office, by most of the GOP, and now by you. You degrade yourself defending those people.
Proceed to tear down any statue that offends you or anyone else. Then burn history books, works of art, buildings, bridges, and anything else that you think must be purged. Just remember, it always ends badly.
Not condoning angry leftie behavior, but I'll take a screaming lefty over the guy with the swastika tattoo that runs his car into a group of protesters. Any day. All day. This is the kind of right-wing affiliated group that Trump defended as "decent people" and the rest of the GOP fell in behind with. I'm not a fan of angry lefties, but they're more "annoying loud" a lot less "we murder people we don't like".
People keep repeating that crap.
This was a demonstration about keeping historical statues. Some people who want them gone showed up to protest against the people who wanted them to stay. There are "decent people" on both sides of that debate.
If some wackos on either side showed up they are not representative of the group, even if it is convenient for you to pretend otherwise.
This is pretty silly, jd. Where did you get such a crazy number?
Perhaps it's an estimated cost to clean up the pollution from coal power. However, that cost is actually infinite, since coal plants are distributing radioactive isotopes and soot across the planet and we physically can't clean that up. Therefore, coal is effectively receiving $INFINITY in subsidies.
Estimated total cost isn't the same thing as annual subsidies. Welfare costs ~$1T annually. The cost until the end of time is $INFINITY.
No. Tesla lives and dies off its fundamentals. And those fundamentals are the 4th highest selling car in the US by volume, highest by revenue, highest selling car (by volume and revenue) by a US manufacture
None of this makes any sense. Where did you get this nonsense from?
I've been involved with R/C for over 30 years. Always go out of town or a very open field with NO people to fly my stuff. Now all these lDIOTS that take their quads out of a box, charge them, turn them on and suddenly... I'm a pilot! They have no idea the danger those spinning blade have, how to operate them, no respect for safety or anything.
Friend of mine took his new DJI drone out at a local park. In seconds it was so high and distant I couldn't spot it in the sky, and at some point couldn't hear it either. Passing park rangers notified us that drone usage in a state park was illegal. Turns out there are few places in the state where it is legal to fly them
I was amazed at the flight capability. From your experience would you say these new devices are flown much higher and farther than what a traditional RC enthusiast was doing? Given the proximity to a local airfield it seemed pretty hazardous to me.
This is an NHTSA study to weigh the costs and benefits of automobile fuel efficiency standards.
A more fuel efficient car may be trading passenger lives for higher miles per gallon. It makes sense to determine what the benefits are.
In this case the preliminary study is saying the beneficial impact on warming may be insignificant. You can argue about those conclusions, but arguing about climate change as a whole is irrelevant to the point of the study.
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San Fran to LAX is a heavily traveled route using aircraft like the A320.
I don't know if 12 and 50 passenger flights can compete on price.
You're also forgetting that US workers put in 50-60 hour work weeks while the guys overseas are doing 80. And we used to do 30-40 until we were forced to work harder to compete. Sure, they burn out, but there's literally a billion of them.
My experience is the US workers do 50-60 hour work weeks while the overseas guys work less hours and at a slower pace. I currently have a team in Poland, they actually have laws limiting work hours:
https://www.careersinpoland.co...
MS revenues for 2018 will be about $110 Billion. $10 Billion divided over 10 years won't float their boat much. It is more about metastasizing in the U.S. military even further than the crapware they already afflicting DoD with.
I think $10B would be a big contract to any vendor. I agree with your other point though. From personal experience I can tell you the up front price on a government contract is a teaser. The bigger bucks come afterwards.
Government contracts are big business, and the US government spends billions annually on IT hardware, software, and services.
Management has a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. They would need a damn good reason to justify walking away from a $10B DoD contract for cloud services. Some politically correct bullshit rationale isn't going to cut it.
Limiting to "original specifications" is a major loophole and could be used to block performance improvements (in both vehicles and electronics) or ability to work with new formats of content or peripherals (the latter also applies to vehicles [I'm thinking of attachments to tractors, but it applies more generally as well] as well as electronics).
I think the intent is to prevent unlocking features that require an additional charge to the vendor.
I suppose it could also apply to something like an engine ECU re-flash that alters performance. That one is thorny because those changes can increase emissions too, which could be illegal. Poorly done ECU tuning can also damage the engine.
Kids will be running for the bus, crossing streets in front of it, etc. .
Part of the school bus driver's job is to keep kids safe both inside and outside the bus. This takes experience and awareness. I have no doubt the self driving bus can drive from point A to B. I have no confidence in it's ability to anticipate all the dumb things kids do.
They can go pound sand
So realistically few people will be wearing out their batteries, and for them the most economical and green option will be to get a used pack from a written off car.
Reusing a battery from a car that was in an accident may present safety issues.
Certainly they can be recycled though.
Ummm, no, it doesn't. The case was not thrown out with prejudice.
okay. Go with that. She lost round 1.
Washington post says
Judge throws out Stormy Daniels’s defamation lawsuit against Trump
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from adult-film actress Stormy Daniels that claimed President Trump defamed her when he suggested she had lied about being threatened to keep quiet about their alleged relationship.
U.S. District Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles ruled that Trump’s speech was protected by the First Amendment as the kind of “rhetorical hyperbole” normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States.” He ordered Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, to pay Trump’s legal fees.
Trump attorney Charles Harder cheered Otero’s decision.
“No amount of spin or commentary by Stormy Daniels or her lawyer, Mr. Avenatti, can truthfully characterize today’s ruling in any way other than total victory for President Trump and total defeat for Stormy Daniels,” Harder said in an emailed statement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The judge ruled there was no case to answer, which is not the same as losing
Being ordered to pay Trumps legal fees means she lost.
I've tried aftermarket cartridges a few times. They seem to be o.k. for a while but inevitably they clog the print head.
Cleaning the head is usually an endless cycle of "clean print head/check print head" attempts that just consume ink like crazy. I have tried removing the head and cleaning it with no success. Once clogged the printer is history.
Yes, never criticize those above you. Great credo for those who yearn to live in a dictatorship.
Criticism is "His tax policies led to a large increase in the deficit."
"A senile actor who consulted astrologers" is just a personal attack. It's in no way a fair summary of the life of a person who among other things was
An actor
Head of the screen actors guild
Governor of California for 8 years
President of the United States for 8 years
You may differ on his politics and policies, but you can't take away his accomplishments.
Sorry, was I not politically correct enough for you, you snowflake?
You don't know what "Political Correctness" means, you asshole.
Who said I want to destroy them? There's a difference between tearing statues down and denying them a place of honor. Germany got it right after WW2 - they didn't bulldoze the concentration camps. They turned them into museums that were clearly designed to avoid a repeat of past atrocities. They get a lot of credit in my book for facing their demons directly. The confederate statue-defenders want no such thing. They don't want to face the truth - they want to blindly honor their view of history. Sorry. No. That place and time simply doesn't deserve the honor.
You don't speak for the people who DO want them destroyed, and you also don't speak for the people who feel strongly about preserving their history.
What's your position on this one? Lots of people find it offensive.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/...
How about the protests to remove Thomas Jefferson statues?
Trust me, this will just continue. Eventually they will get to something you care about.
Who do you think is defending those old slave-era statues? You pretty much repeated Trump's defense of the neo-nazi wing of the GOP. "Some good people there". It would be a joke if it wasn't so serious. Those are really, really bad apples. They've been vocally defended by the guy in the Oval office, by most of the GOP, and now by you. You degrade yourself defending those people.
Proceed to tear down any statue that offends you or anyone else.
Then burn history books, works of art, buildings, bridges, and anything else that you think must be purged.
Just remember, it always ends badly.
Shame the Republican party now worships a senile actor who consulted astrologers.
Shame the Evil Atheist for summarizing in this manner the life of someone far more accomplished than he will ever be.
Not condoning angry leftie behavior, but I'll take a screaming lefty over the guy with the swastika tattoo that runs his car into a group of protesters. Any day. All day. This is the kind of right-wing affiliated group that Trump defended as "decent people" and the rest of the GOP fell in behind with. I'm not a fan of angry lefties, but they're more "annoying loud" a lot less "we murder people we don't like".
People keep repeating that crap.
This was a demonstration about keeping historical statues. Some people who want them gone showed up to protest against the people who wanted them to stay. There are "decent people" on both sides of that debate.
If some wackos on either side showed up they are not representative of the group, even if it is convenient for you to pretend otherwise.
This is pretty silly, jd. Where did you get such a crazy number?
Perhaps it's an estimated cost to clean up the pollution from coal power. However, that cost is actually infinite, since coal plants are distributing radioactive isotopes and soot across the planet and we physically can't clean that up. Therefore, coal is effectively receiving $INFINITY in subsidies.
Estimated total cost isn't the same thing as annual subsidies.
Welfare costs ~$1T annually. The cost until the end of time is $INFINITY.
Coal is expensive, requiring hundreds of trillions in subsidies each year to be economic.
This is pretty silly, jd. Where did you get such a crazy number?
Look up the global GDP and you will realize why it makes no sense.
No. Tesla lives and dies off its fundamentals. And those fundamentals are the 4th highest selling car in the US by volume, highest by revenue, highest selling car (by volume and revenue) by a US manufacture
None of this makes any sense. Where did you get this nonsense from?
I've been involved with R/C for over 30 years. Always go out of town or a very open field with NO people to
fly my stuff. Now all these lDIOTS that take their quads out of a box, charge them, turn them on and suddenly...
I'm a pilot! They have no idea the danger those spinning blade have, how to operate them, no respect for safety
or anything.
Friend of mine took his new DJI drone out at a local park. In seconds it was so high and distant I couldn't spot it in the sky, and at some point couldn't hear it either. Passing park rangers notified us that drone usage in a state park was illegal. Turns out there are few places in the state where it is legal to fly them
I was amazed at the flight capability. From your experience would you say these new devices are flown much higher and farther than what a traditional RC enthusiast was doing? Given the proximity to a local airfield it seemed pretty hazardous to me.
The same software can be used for many different applications. Do you stop working on Kafka because some spy agencies use it in their big data stack?
That's easy. Society will move away from fossil fuels when there is a better option.
I wouldn't be so sure. Switching will take huge investments, not just in money but also in energy.
A better option takes migration issues into account. Few would buy LED light bulbs if they required new fixtures.
To a consumer electricity from a nuclear plant is identical to electricity from a coal plant.
But if other options cost twice as much and performed worse they wouldn't be 'Better'.
Not doing anything is not a long term option, because the fossil fuels will run out, or become too expensive to exploit.
The question is not if we should move away from fossil fuels, but when.
That's easy. Society will move away from fossil fuels when there is a better option.
"Better" means cheaper, more efficient, readily available, suitable for purpose, etc.
This is an NHTSA study to weigh the costs and benefits of automobile fuel efficiency standards.
A more fuel efficient car may be trading passenger lives for higher miles per gallon. It makes sense to determine what the benefits are.
In this case the preliminary study is saying the beneficial impact on warming may be insignificant. You can argue about those conclusions, but arguing about climate change as a whole is irrelevant to the point of the study.