It's all the Iranians fault, rattling that nuclear saber, and yet their time zone is a half-hour off of the standard one-hour timezone boundaries. So does their clock read 11:23pm, or 12:23am? And do they care?
Check out Coinflation... they've been tracking this stuff for quite awhile now. You'll notice that the figures cited on the front page don't match what everyone has been cutting and pasting on here... that reflects the difference between replacement cost for the Mint, and raw melt value of the metal in the coin.
sigh. Whatever. At least we have the MTV spaceman on the Ohio quarter.
Rickenbacker, as a foreign trade zone, and a bigass flat open space besides, has financial and public support advantages in attracting travel facilities (never mind that several regional airlines have tried and failed while based there). I'm doubtful, however, that this idea will (shoot down this pun if you care to) get off the ground. Main Reason: the weather. Can a suborbital rocket ignore the usual NASA precautions and launch through our 200+ days of cloud cover?
Well, anyway, it doesn't surprise me that here in the hard-working, harder-spending state of Ohio, the Statehouse goons would find a way to grub up some fresh cash. Haven't read the article, but I can say that this won't be uncommon when other jurisdictions get a whiff of the money coming in.
I had one of these in my household as late as, hmm... about 1988. An indestructable Bellcore throwback from college that my roommates and I would throw footballs and other objects at, trying to break it... everything ELSE in the place broke but that damn phone. It survived through my first apartment after school, when the GF said, we need one with an answering machine. Sheesh.
But then I also grew up with 8 tracks and the previously-joked about Pinto.
A cell phone from an old rotary? Give it two pluses: the sound should be BETTER than the modern handset (assuming enough driver signal for an old-style handset speaker), and it will be indestructable. And unpocketable... mount it in your car like the Batphone or something.
Sounds like the Dilbert principle there... promote the guy to a position where he won't be near the Big Red Button.
Seems like a LOT of people have these stories; I've had mine for awhile; after moving our organization's computer room (could hardly call it a data center at the time), and thankfully still during the buildout phase, the phone guy (one of Ameritech's geniuses, fwiw) pressed the button, thinking it was the handicap-open-the-door button. We put a transparent plastic cover over it after that.
I am reminded of the movie Death Becomes Her, in which the vanity aspects of eternal life turn ugly real fast. Fall down the stairs, break your neck? No problem! But that humpback won't look so good in an evening dress.
Re: #1, in many cases an advanced degree will be met at interview time with a response of "you're overqualified and/or overeducated for the position". i.e. they won't want to pay for an MS when they can get a Assoc. degree holder for the same job. This applies to the US, don't know offhand if that would be true elsewhere.
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And yet many of the Chicken Littles that said the sky was going to fall pointed to embedded controllers as the greatest threat ("they have time counters, they must be vulnerable!"). Aside from the odd book that stressed preparedness (Time Bomb 2000?), most of the media fuss over Y2K was hype.
I worked a shift on New Years 2000, everybody on our team had to cover for a part of the day, in case our servers (HPUX based) went haywire. Aside from one app with a minor display bug, Nothing Happened. The only things I ever ran into were: old BB software which displays the year as 101, credit card authorization machines, and... well, that's it. BFD.
Actually, I avoid it all by not flying anymore (out of disgust with the big airlines), but your point about avoiding hubs is well-taken, especially in the case of larger airports with divided terminals. Short layovers at divided airports make changing planes an aerobic workout I'd prefer to avoid.
If and when I absolutely need to fly somewhere, I most likely will pay extra, for the non-stop and possibly for the first class/business section, or just chuck it all and book a flight on a charter airline instead. I hate the commercial airline 'experience' just that much.
Potential trolls aside, Comair is a regional air carrier, based at the Greater Cinci airport, that was bought up by Delta, and turned into their secondary route provider. They handle both short and medium-range non-stop flights (i.e. Ohio to Atlanta or Orlando). So it's more closely-related than the code-sharing arrangement that some carriers have.
Now my question would be, since they're owned by Delta, why wouldn't Comair flights be handled within Delta's own reservation/flight tracking system?
p.s. I've traveled through CVG, on Delta, during the holidays. Not anymore... One weather-delayed flight and the whole system falls apart.
They'll claim that the damage is flood-related, and since many people in low-lying areas don't carry adequate flood coverage, the insurance co's will blow them off. Then there's that good old 'force majeure' clause which sometimes gives them a loophole out of the bigger claims.
The only thing that'd make insurance companies sweat would be if they had to manually carry fat piles of cash up a flight of stairs.
Ask whoever's in charge of the US military presence at Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory). It's south of the Maldives, yet according to the few news items that made any mention of it, there was 'no damage sustained'. This despite the big wave traveling past there and trashing fishing boats in Somalia.
So either they're fibbing about the amount of damage they sustained, or they prepared adequately, and should use the same methods here in the US.
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It's all the Iranians fault, rattling that nuclear saber, and yet their time zone is a half-hour off of the standard one-hour timezone boundaries. So does their clock read 11:23pm, or 12:23am? And do they care?
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Check out Coinflation... they've been tracking this stuff for quite awhile now. You'll notice that the figures cited on the front page don't match what everyone has been cutting and pasting on here... that reflects the difference between replacement cost for the Mint, and raw melt value of the metal in the coin.
sigh. Whatever. At least we have the MTV spaceman on the Ohio quarter. Rickenbacker, as a foreign trade zone, and a bigass flat open space besides, has financial and public support advantages in attracting travel facilities (never mind that several regional airlines have tried and failed while based there). I'm doubtful, however, that this idea will (shoot down this pun if you care to) get off the ground. Main Reason: the weather. Can a suborbital rocket ignore the usual NASA precautions and launch through our 200+ days of cloud cover?
yeah, it couldn't be us anyway, we in Columbus (OH) have other plans this weekend...
Well, anyway, it doesn't surprise me that here in the hard-working, harder-spending state of Ohio, the Statehouse goons would find a way to grub up some fresh cash. Haven't read the article, but I can say that this won't be uncommon when other jurisdictions get a whiff of the money coming in.
They tried to hold off parenthood, but Padme's hotness and that dark-side mojo made Anakin "shoot first". Might be worth an outtake on the DVD.
And quite possibly downwind from Mt. St. Helens' next big blowoff. It's dome-building again, ya know...
"How do I know I won't come home to find you screwing the toaster?"
A loner sits
Alien sorts
A Tosser Nil
Its No Laser
Steals Iron (for those performance mavens)
Serial Snot
Latrines OS
And possibly a favorite: Realists, No.
But then I also grew up with 8 tracks and the previously-joked about Pinto.
A cell phone from an old rotary? Give it two pluses: the sound should be BETTER than the modern handset (assuming enough driver signal for an old-style handset speaker), and it will be indestructable. And unpocketable... mount it in your car like the Batphone or something.
Seems like a LOT of people have these stories; I've had mine for awhile; after moving our organization's computer room (could hardly call it a data center at the time), and thankfully still during the buildout phase, the phone guy (one of Ameritech's geniuses, fwiw) pressed the button, thinking it was the handicap-open-the-door button. We put a transparent plastic cover over it after that.
I am reminded of the movie Death Becomes Her, in which the vanity aspects of eternal life turn ugly real fast. Fall down the stairs, break your neck? No problem! But that humpback won't look so good in an evening dress.
Otherwise, they won't know how to take a proper dive...
Re: #1, in many cases an advanced degree will be met at interview time with a response of "you're overqualified and/or overeducated for the position". i.e. they won't want to pay for an MS when they can get a Assoc. degree holder for the same job. This applies to the US, don't know offhand if that would be true elsewhere.
And yet many of the Chicken Littles that said the sky was going to fall pointed to embedded controllers as the greatest threat ("they have time counters, they must be vulnerable!"). Aside from the odd book that stressed preparedness (Time Bomb 2000?), most of the media fuss over Y2K was hype.
I worked a shift on New Years 2000, everybody on our team had to cover for a part of the day, in case our servers (HPUX based) went haywire. Aside from one app with a minor display bug, Nothing Happened. The only things I ever ran into were: old BB software which displays the year as 101, credit card authorization machines, and ... well, that's it. BFD.
Because according to this Lapland tourism bureau page, Lapland is the place to be, not Norway.
If and when I absolutely need to fly somewhere, I most likely will pay extra, for the non-stop and possibly for the first class/business section, or just chuck it all and book a flight on a charter airline instead. I hate the commercial airline 'experience' just that much.
How's that superconducting supercollider coming along?
10 over what? Zero? Taking I-75 north from Atlanta on a Friday afternoon is like watching ice melt. Or watching one's car overheat.
Now my question would be, since they're owned by Delta, why wouldn't Comair flights be handled within Delta's own reservation/flight tracking system?
p.s. I've traveled through CVG, on Delta, during the holidays. Not anymore... One weather-delayed flight and the whole system falls apart.
So Diego Garcia has a substantially different substructure than the Maldives?
The only thing that'd make insurance companies sweat would be if they had to manually carry fat piles of cash up a flight of stairs.
So either they're fibbing about the amount of damage they sustained, or they prepared adequately, and should use the same methods here in the US.
If the East Coast moves to Ohio, I'm moving to Montana. After I sell the beachfront property ;)