Isn't the publicly traded aspect of Google actually less than 50% of issued shareholdings? So it doesn't matter what the stockholders think, they still can't control the direction of the business because they are still a minority holding...
Because the NTSB is involved, there will be less scope for a company initiated cover up, findings being withheld and important information not being passed to everyone in the industry.
Look at the de Havilland Comet pressurisation issues in the early 1950s - no one knew what was going on, it took a full test with a new fuselage immersed in water and then run through hundreds of pressurisation cycles to determine that metal fatigue was to blame. The findings from that investigation was made available to everyone in the aviation industry in the 1950s, not just to the internal de Havilland design team, so Boeing, Douglas, Hawker, Lockheed et al didn't have to go through their own investigations of their own crashes to come to the same conclusions.
It also opened up a whole new area of science in metals.
Open investigations make sense, because they produce open results, which benefits you and I as the people who may one day travel on a craft which might have potentially been susceptible to the same issues.
Similar things was a big problem with a lot of aircraft the same age as the A300 design - Boeing 737s from that period had issues with rudder reversals for instance.
The thing you keep missing is that the artist (or record company, or estate or whatever) DOES NOT deserve to get paid for every single copy of their song, forever and ever.
That's an opinion, not a fact that can be "missed". And its your opinion - don't assume anyone else holds the same opinion.
There already exists a means by which the complete rights to a work can be bought, eliminating re-occurring sales in the process - but typically that puts the work well outside the purchase ability of a normal person.
The Pacific is a large place, did any conflicts actually happen within reasonable distance of where this piece was found? If not, its reasonable to rule out that it came from anything involved in WW2.
More likely its "this work doesn't need to be done, won't affect anything if its not done, lets spend actual resources and money on something more important - but hey, if you want to chip in feel free!"
No ones going to bitch about timescales and missed deadlines when this isn't done in 10 years...
Actually they do exist - what you suggests exist actually is illegal (closed shops, where companies agree not to hire non-union employees, banned in ). In the US, under the National Labour Relations Act a union can require all employees of a company covered under the mandate of the union to pay dues, either as an active member or as a passive member. And the union can force the employer to fire an employee that has not paid union dues.
Well, firstly I'm not an American, I'm British and I work in Britain - and I've never had a problem negotiating my own benefits package. And I've worked in plenty of places which had union presence, without forced membership. Funny how it works over here...
Secondly, I couldn't care less if I benefit from a union "forcing" my employer to pay me more even though I'm not a member - that's the unions problem, not mine. If the union cannot entice me to voluntarily sign up, and instead have to rely on forced membership, then its not worth signing up.
Its not like your tax analogy at all, because unions are not government entities and cannot levy taxes - I don't want the union to work for me, and I don't want to be a member of that union. They shouldn't be able to force me to pay them any money at all - if they want to be "compensated" for any work they "do" for non-union members, that's between them, their members and the employer, but it should certainly not be between me and an entity I don't want to do business with.
In the UK, the only utility actually blocked from competition is water - both the gas and electric delivery networks are handled by companies independent to the generation or supply (Transco for gas, UK Power and the National Grid for electricity). Phone companies have regulated access to BTs network (although not Virgin Medias network - something that peeves me, as they have a cable monopoly in the UK) so phone and internet can be had independently of BT (literally they can grab the last mile off of BT, host equipment in a BT exchange and connect to their own central network).
In your situation, what happens when the conduit is full? Fibre might be small, but the lines they actually run are a good couple of inches in bundles, so filling up conduits with several competing fibre lines wouldn't work.
Probably something to do with yields and availability - buying 480,000 CPUs in one go is going to cause consternation, regardless of who your supplier is:) Getting 480,000 E5s in half the time it would take to get 480,000 E7s means you have less liability on the books for the duration (you have to hold delivered stock and down payments as liabilities), and a better cash flow.
Why waste time dusting for prints when you are not going to follow up?
Probably because the suspect is involved in another, bigger investigation - is he a known gang member whose gang is being investigated for human trafficking or drug distribution? Why pick up the known gang member when he can lead to them other members and on up the chain?
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Isn't the publicly traded aspect of Google actually less than 50% of issued shareholdings? So it doesn't matter what the stockholders think, they still can't control the direction of the business because they are still a minority holding...
Plenty of packaged goods have "average contents X" written on them...
It depends on where you come from - its natural here in the UK to use "are" for the collection, eg "Microsoft are..." rather than "Microsoft is..."
We dont even use pens, we use pencils here in the UK - big, thick, chunky pencils.
GPS isn't a substitute for actually thinking about stuff as you do it.
Or the shooting down of airliners by Americans...
Or the Ukrainians - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
SS2 is a craft designed to carry passengers, paying passengers - that puts it under the purview of the NTSB front and centre.
When Americas Cup boats start carrying passengers rather than crew, then they fall under the same purview.
Because the NTSB is involved, there will be less scope for a company initiated cover up, findings being withheld and important information not being passed to everyone in the industry.
Look at the de Havilland Comet pressurisation issues in the early 1950s - no one knew what was going on, it took a full test with a new fuselage immersed in water and then run through hundreds of pressurisation cycles to determine that metal fatigue was to blame. The findings from that investigation was made available to everyone in the aviation industry in the 1950s, not just to the internal de Havilland design team, so Boeing, Douglas, Hawker, Lockheed et al didn't have to go through their own investigations of their own crashes to come to the same conclusions.
It also opened up a whole new area of science in metals.
Open investigations make sense, because they produce open results, which benefits you and I as the people who may one day travel on a craft which might have potentially been susceptible to the same issues.
Similar things was a big problem with a lot of aircraft the same age as the A300 design - Boeing 737s from that period had issues with rudder reversals for instance.
The thing you keep missing is that the artist (or record company, or estate or whatever) DOES NOT deserve to get paid for every single copy of their song, forever and ever.
That's an opinion, not a fact that can be "missed". And its your opinion - don't assume anyone else holds the same opinion.
There already exists a means by which the complete rights to a work can be bought, eliminating re-occurring sales in the process - but typically that puts the work well outside the purchase ability of a normal person.
Great, a 30 minute flight with a high probability of throwing up each and every trip...
Free quality education, free quality medical care and free child care would help more.
Really, got a link to the charges to back that up?
Unfortunately, this sort of thing can't really be classed as space exploration :\
The Pacific is a large place, did any conflicts actually happen within reasonable distance of where this piece was found? If not, its reasonable to rule out that it came from anything involved in WW2.
That's not an alternative - wanting to watch Team A is not the same as watching Team B, or Team Z. Or Sport C.
More likely its "this work doesn't need to be done, won't affect anything if its not done, lets spend actual resources and money on something more important - but hey, if you want to chip in feel free!"
No ones going to bitch about timescales and missed deadlines when this isn't done in 10 years...
Actually they do exist - what you suggests exist actually is illegal (closed shops, where companies agree not to hire non-union employees, banned in ). In the US, under the National Labour Relations Act a union can require all employees of a company covered under the mandate of the union to pay dues, either as an active member or as a passive member. And the union can force the employer to fire an employee that has not paid union dues.
So, mandatory membership. Fuck that.
Well, firstly I'm not an American, I'm British and I work in Britain - and I've never had a problem negotiating my own benefits package. And I've worked in plenty of places which had union presence, without forced membership. Funny how it works over here...
Secondly, I couldn't care less if I benefit from a union "forcing" my employer to pay me more even though I'm not a member - that's the unions problem, not mine. If the union cannot entice me to voluntarily sign up, and instead have to rely on forced membership, then its not worth signing up.
Its not like your tax analogy at all, because unions are not government entities and cannot levy taxes - I don't want the union to work for me, and I don't want to be a member of that union. They shouldn't be able to force me to pay them any money at all - if they want to be "compensated" for any work they "do" for non-union members, that's between them, their members and the employer, but it should certainly not be between me and an entity I don't want to do business with.
In the UK, the only utility actually blocked from competition is water - both the gas and electric delivery networks are handled by companies independent to the generation or supply (Transco for gas, UK Power and the National Grid for electricity). Phone companies have regulated access to BTs network (although not Virgin Medias network - something that peeves me, as they have a cable monopoly in the UK) so phone and internet can be had independently of BT (literally they can grab the last mile off of BT, host equipment in a BT exchange and connect to their own central network).
In your situation, what happens when the conduit is full? Fibre might be small, but the lines they actually run are a good couple of inches in bundles, so filling up conduits with several competing fibre lines wouldn't work.
Unions should never have mandatory membership :/
The hardware is the cheap part - coming up with better algorithms is akin to mathematical breakthroughs these days...
Interesting that they're using E5s and not E7s
Probably something to do with yields and availability - buying 480,000 CPUs in one go is going to cause consternation, regardless of who your supplier is :) Getting 480,000 E5s in half the time it would take to get 480,000 E7s means you have less liability on the books for the duration (you have to hold delivered stock and down payments as liabilities), and a better cash flow.
Lets not forget where XmlHttpRequest came from...
Why waste time dusting for prints when you are not going to follow up?
Probably because the suspect is involved in another, bigger investigation - is he a known gang member whose gang is being investigated for human trafficking or drug distribution? Why pick up the known gang member when he can lead to them other members and on up the chain?