buying his twelfth McMansion, or the Oil Exec dropping half a billion dollars on a yacht
Actually, those actions are both positive ones because they employ craftsmen in the first world at usually significantly better than average wages and create durable goods, the Walmart buyer who insists on buying useless throwaway crap at prices that only slave labor and environmental destruction can supply does much more harm.
Yes, for a contract to be enforceable it has to be a meeting of the minds, a contract signed under threat of imprisonment wouldn't generally be valid under English common law. Now Montreal is in Quebec and so governed under Napoleonic code instead of English common law and so I'm not sure that that assumption still holds since I don't live in Quebec or Louisiana.
Well, I guess my thinking was along the lines of your second point, having a failure is bad, having a failure that results in an almost un-extinguishable fire in unacceptable. If it's a manufacturing defect leading to leaking electrolyte you'd hope their QA process would catch it, especially after the fire during testing.
I wonder why they didn't go with LiFePO4 batteries, much less likely to combust and the ~20% lower volume density wouldn't have been that big a deal (and of course the price difference is a non-issue on something the cost of an airliner)
Both statements are incorrect, unless you vehicle is pre-1990's by law the components have to be able to handle at least 10% ethanol, and the current ethanol production chains range from 1.5:1 to 3:1 efficiency.
But modern common rail injectors will foul on pure biodiesel (I know the Volkswagen group specifically allows only a certain percentage for EU warranty coverage and excludes any biodiesel for US spec vehicles)
I was listening to NPR on the way home today and the article mentioned that if we took all the biomass from all of the farmland both producing and fallow and were able to convert it all directly to ethanol that it would STILL only account for 14% of the US energy budget. So if we all stopped eating, and stopped exporting food, we'd still only scratch the surface of the energy we use. Converting crops/crop waste is a dead end track, it's simply not in the right order of magnitude to solve our problem, we need to focus on increased efficiency on the consumption end of thing if we want to get a handle on the problem and then we can start looking at non-plant solutions like solar, wind, and possibly large scale algae farming (much higher production per acre and it doesn't have to compete with food production)
I noticed that you didn't address the specific fact based information I provided but rather rambled on about how it was everyone's fault but the fraudulent lenders who systematically falsified information on loan applications and paid the ratings agencies to AAA rate their toxic mortgage backed securities so that they could offload loans to Freddie and Fannie through the backdoor that they never could have unloaded through normal channels. It wasn't properly vetted loans to low income people that blew up the housing market, it was crooks who found every way they could to get around the properly regulated normal mortgage practices.
Primary school is only an education if you're a pre-industrial farmer, secondary education is the bare minimum to really participate in the international economy and do better than living paycheck to paycheck. In much of Europe the lower class are locked out of effective secondary education at a young age, the US may do so de facto but the European model does it de jure, I think the US model has more chance of eventually fixing the problem than the European model.
Wrong, conforming FHA and CRA loans had similar and lower default rates than conventional prime loans in the same neighborhoods, it was mostly fraudulent loans (so called liar loans) that defaulted leading to implosion of improperly rated mortgage backed securities. In fact even non-conforming loans at most traditional lending institutions had only slightly higher default rates than during previous recessions, it was mostly the fraudsters, enabled by the large brokerage houses, that caused the runup and subsequent implosion.
Not really, socioeconomic mobility in the US is largely a myth we tell people to keep them working hard.
At least five large studies in recent years have found the United States to be less mobile than comparable nations. A project led by Markus Jantti, an economist at a Swedish university, found that 42 percent of American men raised in the bottom fifth of incomes stay there as adults. That shows a level of persistent disadvantage much higher than in Denmark (25 percent) and Britain (30 percent) — a country famous for its class constraints.[13] Meanwhile, just 8 percent of American men at the bottom rose to the top fifth. That compares with 12 percent of the British and 14 percent of the Danes. Despite frequent references to the United States as a classless society, about 62 percent of Americans (male and female) raised in the top fifth of incomes stay in the top two-fifths, according to research by the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Similarly, 65 percent born in the bottom fifth stay in the bottom two-fifths.link
Not really, for example in Germany they have a rigidly tiered system where kids are divided by potential between the 4th and 6th year of primary school. Children of lower socioeconomic status are almost always excluded from the college prep track due to a host of issues, but dominated by a lack of free time on the part of the parents in the preschool years (the same is true in the US which is one of the things the headstart program was aimed at remedying).
Any decent VPN software at a security focused company will not allow split tunneling for exactly the reason you state, someone controlling the workstation could ride the corporate VPN in.
There's a pretty significant subset of the Android API that's not supported, but if you're app doesn't use any of those then it should be as simple as clicking compile. Frankly I'm surprised they got so many taker, Amazon has an app store that literally only requires a re-upload of the file you sent to the Google Play Store and yet it has a tiny fraction of the apps, I figured a recompile would be too much work (and for the majority of apps it probably will be in the long run).
Has there ever been a case of malware jailbreaking a phone? I ask because the process usually involves multiple reboots and a connection to a PC IME so it's not really something malware could do.
That crossing point is still a LONG way off, you can get a 3TB drive for about $150, 5% of the cost/GB of this drive. In fact without something like the re-anneal in place tech talked about here on slashdot recently it'll never happen, this drive is already rated by the manufacture for 72 write cycles, what do you think the life will be after a few more process shrinks?
That lower resolution also allows you to use a cheaper and lower power GPU and CPU. I love the fact that my HTPC is all but silent yet it can play most modern games at fullscreen and with full effects.
Difficult to focus would actually be an advantage for most LED lighting applications (as opposed to LED lasers) since one of the biggest disadvantages of LED's versus other bulb sources is that they are too unidirectional and so dump a large amount of light into a small area and so they create a relatively large lux value without necessarily creating a high lumen value.
The H1B program is great, bring smart people from around the world here to work and expand our economy and tax base. If you don't let the companies bring the workers here they'll just move the jobs to where those workers are and the US will lose out on monetary velocity and tax base. But please, keep up the good fight against those damn foreigners, it makes you look so smart.
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Quebec does for civil (contract) matters you complete imbecile.
Thanks, I would have assumed there was such a law but not being familiar with Napoleonic law I didn't want to speak out of ignorance.
buying his twelfth McMansion, or the Oil Exec dropping half a billion dollars on a yacht
Actually, those actions are both positive ones because they employ craftsmen in the first world at usually significantly better than average wages and create durable goods, the Walmart buyer who insists on buying useless throwaway crap at prices that only slave labor and environmental destruction can supply does much more harm.
Yes, for a contract to be enforceable it has to be a meeting of the minds, a contract signed under threat of imprisonment wouldn't generally be valid under English common law. Now Montreal is in Quebec and so governed under Napoleonic code instead of English common law and so I'm not sure that that assumption still holds since I don't live in Quebec or Louisiana.
Well, I guess my thinking was along the lines of your second point, having a failure is bad, having a failure that results in an almost un-extinguishable fire in unacceptable. If it's a manufacturing defect leading to leaking electrolyte you'd hope their QA process would catch it, especially after the fire during testing.
I wonder why they didn't go with LiFePO4 batteries, much less likely to combust and the ~20% lower volume density wouldn't have been that big a deal (and of course the price difference is a non-issue on something the cost of an airliner)
Both statements are incorrect, unless you vehicle is pre-1990's by law the components have to be able to handle at least 10% ethanol, and the current ethanol production chains range from 1.5:1 to 3:1 efficiency.
But modern common rail injectors will foul on pure biodiesel (I know the Volkswagen group specifically allows only a certain percentage for EU warranty coverage and excludes any biodiesel for US spec vehicles)
I was listening to NPR on the way home today and the article mentioned that if we took all the biomass from all of the farmland both producing and fallow and were able to convert it all directly to ethanol that it would STILL only account for 14% of the US energy budget. So if we all stopped eating, and stopped exporting food, we'd still only scratch the surface of the energy we use. Converting crops/crop waste is a dead end track, it's simply not in the right order of magnitude to solve our problem, we need to focus on increased efficiency on the consumption end of thing if we want to get a handle on the problem and then we can start looking at non-plant solutions like solar, wind, and possibly large scale algae farming (much higher production per acre and it doesn't have to compete with food production)
I noticed that you didn't address the specific fact based information I provided but rather rambled on about how it was everyone's fault but the fraudulent lenders who systematically falsified information on loan applications and paid the ratings agencies to AAA rate their toxic mortgage backed securities so that they could offload loans to Freddie and Fannie through the backdoor that they never could have unloaded through normal channels. It wasn't properly vetted loans to low income people that blew up the housing market, it was crooks who found every way they could to get around the properly regulated normal mortgage practices.
Primary school is only an education if you're a pre-industrial farmer, secondary education is the bare minimum to really participate in the international economy and do better than living paycheck to paycheck. In much of Europe the lower class are locked out of effective secondary education at a young age, the US may do so de facto but the European model does it de jure, I think the US model has more chance of eventually fixing the problem than the European model.
Wrong, conforming FHA and CRA loans had similar and lower default rates than conventional prime loans in the same neighborhoods, it was mostly fraudulent loans (so called liar loans) that defaulted leading to implosion of improperly rated mortgage backed securities. In fact even non-conforming loans at most traditional lending institutions had only slightly higher default rates than during previous recessions, it was mostly the fraudsters, enabled by the large brokerage houses, that caused the runup and subsequent implosion.
Not really, socioeconomic mobility in the US is largely a myth we tell people to keep them working hard.
At least five large studies in recent years have found the United States to be less mobile than comparable nations. A project led by Markus Jantti, an economist at a Swedish university, found that 42 percent of American men raised in the bottom fifth of incomes stay there as adults. That shows a level of persistent disadvantage much higher than in Denmark (25 percent) and Britain (30 percent) — a country famous for its class constraints.[13] Meanwhile, just 8 percent of American men at the bottom rose to the top fifth. That compares with 12 percent of the British and 14 percent of the Danes. Despite frequent references to the United States as a classless society, about 62 percent of Americans (male and female) raised in the top fifth of incomes stay in the top two-fifths, according to research by the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Similarly, 65 percent born in the bottom fifth stay in the bottom two-fifths. link
Not really, for example in Germany they have a rigidly tiered system where kids are divided by potential between the 4th and 6th year of primary school. Children of lower socioeconomic status are almost always excluded from the college prep track due to a host of issues, but dominated by a lack of free time on the part of the parents in the preschool years (the same is true in the US which is one of the things the headstart program was aimed at remedying).
Any decent VPN software at a security focused company will not allow split tunneling for exactly the reason you state, someone controlling the workstation could ride the corporate VPN in.
There's a pretty significant subset of the Android API that's not supported, but if you're app doesn't use any of those then it should be as simple as clicking compile. Frankly I'm surprised they got so many taker, Amazon has an app store that literally only requires a re-upload of the file you sent to the Google Play Store and yet it has a tiny fraction of the apps, I figured a recompile would be too much work (and for the majority of apps it probably will be in the long run).
Has there ever been a case of malware jailbreaking a phone? I ask because the process usually involves multiple reboots and a connection to a PC IME so it's not really something malware could do.
Ditto, I like having control of my hardware, TYVM.
Sure, why not? What other industry do we allow free reign to cause known harm to their employees?
4WD actually has nothing to do with safety and has to do with grip.
Such pure BS, the only two accidents I've had were due to lack of grip (hydroplaning), grip is control and control is necessary for safety.
That crossing point is still a LONG way off, you can get a 3TB drive for about $150, 5% of the cost/GB of this drive. In fact without something like the re-anneal in place tech talked about here on slashdot recently it'll never happen, this drive is already rated by the manufacture for 72 write cycles, what do you think the life will be after a few more process shrinks?
That lower resolution also allows you to use a cheaper and lower power GPU and CPU. I love the fact that my HTPC is all but silent yet it can play most modern games at fullscreen and with full effects.
Difficult to focus would actually be an advantage for most LED lighting applications (as opposed to LED lasers) since one of the biggest disadvantages of LED's versus other bulb sources is that they are too unidirectional and so dump a large amount of light into a small area and so they create a relatively large lux value without necessarily creating a high lumen value.
OLPC provided solar, hand crank, and gang charged battery (ie centralized charging) options for the XO-1.
The H1B program is great, bring smart people from around the world here to work and expand our economy and tax base. If you don't let the companies bring the workers here they'll just move the jobs to where those workers are and the US will lose out on monetary velocity and tax base. But please, keep up the good fight against those damn foreigners, it makes you look so smart.