We have laws against distracted driving and some fairly harsh fines. Some people still can't seem to break the habit of texting while driving. A local driver got stopped and ticketed twice in 6 minutes by two different cops and dinged with a total of $1800 in fines and license penalties.
There was a local woman who claimed to be sensitive to her neighbor's wifi. Said it caused her migraines. Her neighbor turned it off when he left for work, as soon as he got home and turned it on she would be on the phone complaining again. Eventually he agreed to not use wifi and she was happy. Later I got the whole story from a friend. At first buddy was almost convinced the woman actually was sensitive to wifi. Then he got smart and turned off the SSID broadcast and she couldn't "sense" the wifi any more.
I was university back in the late 70s. Kids would program their calculators with the formulas. Teaching assistants would walk around and reset i.e. wipe the memory on everybody's calculator before the exam started. Most professors allowed students to bring a single 8 1/2 x 11 cheat sheet to the exams. The point of the exam wasn't to find out if you could memorize the formulas, it was to find out if you knew how to apply them.
Credit Card security in the US sucks. Last time I visited there half the stores didn't have chip and PIN. I went to a restaurant, and instead of bringing me the wireless terminal the waitress walked off with my card. Came back with my card and a piece of paper for me to sign. Like there was any security at all in a signature. Who the fuck knows what she did with my card while she was gone.
You don't actually know anything about trains, and talking based on intuition isn't working. Big freight trains have ridiculously long stopping distances. A 20k ton ore train will need damn near 2 miles to stop from 55 mph on level ground. The notion that a train driver could see something on the tracks and stop or even slow down enough to make a difference is entirely incorrect. A stuck brake (spelling matters) is not going to make vibrations that a driver can feel. A broken coupling will cause the train to separate, followed immediately by the train (air brake) line separating, followed thereafter by the train stopping as the pressure in the brake line drops to zero and all the brakes come on. Engines and also generator/alternators and traction motors are already instrumented and alarmed, and an automated system can be programmed to handle most faults.
Two at a time standing maybe makes sense if there are enough people at the bottom of the escalator to saturate it - i.e. a big enough crowd at the bottom that there are always two more people to step on each step as it appears.That is logically the maximum throughput, if you assume that people walking up leave spaces between them. If you had a pool of fit people who all wanted to get up the escalator as fast as possible, then they could all walk, or, god forbid, run up the escalator and the increased velocity would likely offset the effect of the spaces and you would achieve even greater throughput.
Around here the transit stations are busy, but seldom at saturation levels. People stand on the right and walk on the left. Seems to work well enough. Most people walk up, the ones who stand are usually pulling a suitcase, or elderly, or obese, or heads down reading a book or a screen.
"not everyone is like you" - I'll borrow that as a counterargument. What portion of our adult population do you think is unable to exercise? Not unwilling, not unmotivated,but physically, structurally, medically unable?
We should be Canadian about this - "So sorry for arresting you. We're putting you an a plane for Beijing in an hour. No hard feelings eh. Here, have some maple syrup and smoked salmon. Oh wait, here's some BC bud too."
There is a company called General Fusion http://generalfusion.com/ that is attempting to use liquid metal fusion containment. Sounds very cool, in an almost steampunk sort of way. Being a physics noob, I'm wondering if anybody who actually knows this stuff can comment on whether or not their idea makes any sense?
I wish. My summer jobs involved things like sliding sheets of plywood into a dryer. One every 7 seconds, for 8 hours a day. (Not saying I ain't a sick bastard, every now and then).
If you have stuff on your computer you don't want to share with the repair guys, then encrypt it or delete it, because there is nothing else going to stop them from seeing it.
One of my university buddies worked at a repair job; not Geek Squad, but the local mega-computer-store equivalent. He worked a lot of nights and weekends and often had the repair shop to himself. Any time a machine came in for repair he would run a boot CD with a script to hoover up any and all.jpg and video files and copy them to an external hard drive. In two summers and a year of weekends, he amassed the most amazing amateur porn collection you could imagine. He said about every 3rd machine had a secret stash of porn, mostly boring stuff from the net, which he didn't bother with, but about 1 in 10 had homemade pics or videos which he kept.
"but has no access to social media of any type" - Wow, really? She has no phone, no computer, no computers at school and none of her friends have phones or computers?
Does anybody know why? Why is the USA having such a hard time getting chip and PIN working? It seems very odd to me that the US is so far behind the rest of the world.
We have had chip and PIN here for about 8 or 10 years. I think I saw my first American portable chip terminal last summer at the Minneapolis airport. Up till then the servers still walked away with your card (how sketchy is that!), and then brought a piece of paper for you to write your name on.
If I want to know how to replace a taillight bulb on my car, a video is perfect. If I want the registry entry to let me open 50 files at once in windows 10, half a page of text will do. They each have their place. The problem is when somebody makes a 7 minute video instead of typing that half page of text.
Words have meanings. Around here a layoff is when you have too many workers and you let some go to adjust the size of your workforce. A layoff means that if the company is going to add staff, they will call the laid off workers first and offer them the jobs. If they want you gone and they don't ever want you back they use the word fired. Seems to fit.
Why not put a deposit on them just like cans and bottles. Say 50 cents per cigarette. Refundable at any place that sell cigarettes. People would pick them up just as soon as they hit the ground.
From TFA it sounds like about 2 - 3% of the total workforce was fired. The firings were all ranks in the company including managers and engineers, not just the factory laborers.So it may have been nothing more than a pruning of the very lowest performers.
In case of Sonic Attack on your district, follow these rules:
If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously. Do not waste time blocking your ears. Do not waste time seeking a "sound proofed" shelter. Try to get as far away from the sonic source as possible Do not panic Do not panic
Use your wheels. It is what they are for. Small babies may be placed inside the special cocoons and should be left, if possible, in shelters. Do not attempt to use your own limbs. If no wheels are available - metal - not organic - limbs should be employed whenever practical.
Remember: In the case of sonic attack survival means "Every man for himself" Statistically more people survive if they think only of themselves Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, loved ones You have only a few seconds to escape Use those seconds sensibly or you will inevitably die Think only of yourself Think only of yourself Do not panic Think only of yourself Think only of yourself
These are the first signs of sonic attack: You will notice small objects - such as ornaments - oscillating You will notice vibrations in your diaphragm You will hear a distand hissing in your ears You will feel the need to vomit You will feel dizzy You will have difficulty focussing You will need to breathe more rapidly There will be bleeding from orifices There will be an ache in the pelvic region You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting or even laughter
These are all sign of imminent sonic destruction Your only protection is flight If you are less than ten years old Remain in your shelter and use your cocoon Remember - you can help no one else You can help no one else You can help no one else Do not panic Think only of yourself Think only of yourself Think only of yourself
When the anti-vaccine hysteria was peaking about 15 years ago, the consensus was that it would last until a bunch of children all died from a preventable disease. 35 dead in the current outbreak - we get mandatory vaccines.It's sucks to be right sometimes.
I thought I was seeing the mobile site by mistake. The new layout is from Satan who is the Devil. Information density is down by about 70%. All I see is white space (Gray space?) with a single column of news articles down the center. The old layout was far more usable for me.
You should have seen the Alumni at my old University flip out when the new Director of Athletics cut funding for Football and Baseball and put the money into Ultimate and Soccer because that's what the kids were actually playing.
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We have laws against distracted driving and some fairly harsh fines. Some people still can't seem to break the habit of texting while driving. A local driver got stopped and ticketed twice in 6 minutes by two different cops and dinged with a total of $1800 in fines and license penalties.
There was a local woman who claimed to be sensitive to her neighbor's wifi. Said it caused her migraines. Her neighbor turned it off when he left for work, as soon as he got home and turned it on she would be on the phone complaining again. Eventually he agreed to not use wifi and she was happy. Later I got the whole story from a friend. At first buddy was almost convinced the woman actually was sensitive to wifi. Then he got smart and turned off the SSID broadcast and she couldn't "sense" the wifi any more.
_Late_ 70s. I had a TI-59, they came out in 1977. The HP-41C came out about 2 years later.
I was university back in the late 70s. Kids would program their calculators with the formulas. Teaching assistants would walk around and reset i.e. wipe the memory on everybody's calculator before the exam started. Most professors allowed students to bring a single 8 1/2 x 11 cheat sheet to the exams. The point of the exam wasn't to find out if you could memorize the formulas, it was to find out if you knew how to apply them.
Credit Card security in the US sucks. Last time I visited there half the stores didn't have chip and PIN. I went to a restaurant, and instead of bringing me the wireless terminal the waitress walked off with my card. Came back with my card and a piece of paper for me to sign. Like there was any security at all in a signature. Who the fuck knows what she did with my card while she was gone.
What is the point of the identical twins (other than adding click-bait value)? Why not submit two samples from the same person under different names?
You don't actually know anything about trains, and talking based on intuition isn't working. Big freight trains have ridiculously long stopping distances. A 20k ton ore train will need damn near 2 miles to stop from 55 mph on level ground. The notion that a train driver could see something on the tracks and stop or even slow down enough to make a difference is entirely incorrect. A stuck brake (spelling matters) is not going to make vibrations that a driver can feel. A broken coupling will cause the train to separate, followed immediately by the train (air brake) line separating, followed thereafter by the train stopping as the pressure in the brake line drops to zero and all the brakes come on. Engines and also generator/alternators and traction motors are already instrumented and alarmed, and an automated system can be programmed to handle most faults.
Two at a time standing maybe makes sense if there are enough people at the bottom of the escalator to saturate it - i.e. a big enough crowd at the bottom that there are always two more people to step on each step as it appears.That is logically the maximum throughput, if you assume that people walking up leave spaces between them. If you had a pool of fit people who all wanted to get up the escalator as fast as possible, then they could all walk, or, god forbid, run up the escalator and the increased velocity would likely offset the effect of the spaces and you would achieve even greater throughput.
Around here the transit stations are busy, but seldom at saturation levels. People stand on the right and walk on the left. Seems to work well enough. Most people walk up, the ones who stand are usually pulling a suitcase, or elderly, or obese, or heads down reading a book or a screen.
"not everyone is like you" - I'll borrow that as a counterargument. What portion of our adult population do you think is unable to exercise? Not unwilling, not unmotivated,but physically, structurally, medically unable?
We should be Canadian about this - "So sorry for arresting you. We're putting you an a plane for Beijing in an hour. No hard feelings eh. Here, have some maple syrup and smoked salmon. Oh wait, here's some BC bud too."
There is a company called General Fusion http://generalfusion.com/ that is attempting to use liquid metal fusion containment. Sounds very cool, in an almost steampunk sort of way. Being a physics noob, I'm wondering if anybody who actually knows this stuff can comment on whether or not their idea makes any sense?
You mean NMR? - oh, wait.
I wish. My summer jobs involved things like sliding sheets of plywood into a dryer. One every 7 seconds, for 8 hours a day. (Not saying I ain't a sick bastard, every now and then).
If you have stuff on your computer you don't want to share with the repair guys, then encrypt it or delete it, because there is nothing else going to stop them from seeing it.
.jpg and video files and copy them to an external hard drive. In two summers and a year of weekends, he amassed the most amazing amateur porn collection you could imagine. He said about every 3rd machine had a secret stash of porn, mostly boring stuff from the net, which he didn't bother with, but about 1 in 10 had homemade pics or videos which he kept.
One of my university buddies worked at a repair job; not Geek Squad, but the local mega-computer-store equivalent. He worked a lot of nights and weekends and often had the repair shop to himself. Any time a machine came in for repair he would run a boot CD with a script to hoover up any and all
"but has no access to social media of any type" - Wow, really? She has no phone, no computer, no computers at school and none of her friends have phones or computers?
Does anybody know why? Why is the USA having such a hard time getting chip and PIN working? It seems very odd to me that the US is so far behind the rest of the world.
We have had chip and PIN here for about 8 or 10 years. I think I saw my first American portable chip terminal last summer at the Minneapolis airport. Up till then the servers still walked away with your card (how sketchy is that!), and then brought a piece of paper for you to write your name on.
If I want to know how to replace a taillight bulb on my car, a video is perfect. If I want the registry entry to let me open 50 files at once in windows 10, half a page of text will do. They each have their place. The problem is when somebody makes a 7 minute video instead of typing that half page of text.
Words have meanings. Around here a layoff is when you have too many workers and you let some go to adjust the size of your workforce. A layoff means that if the company is going to add staff, they will call the laid off workers first and offer them the jobs. If they want you gone and they don't ever want you back they use the word fired. Seems to fit.
Why not put a deposit on them just like cans and bottles. Say 50 cents per cigarette. Refundable at any place that sell cigarettes. People would pick them up just as soon as they hit the ground.
From TFA it sounds like about 2 - 3% of the total workforce was fired. The firings were all ranks in the company including managers and engineers, not just the factory laborers.So it may have been nothing more than a pruning of the very lowest performers.
In case of Sonic Attack on your district, follow these rules:
If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.
Do not waste time blocking your ears.
Do not waste time seeking a "sound proofed" shelter.
Try to get as far away from the sonic source as possible
Do not panic
Do not panic
Use your wheels. It is what they are for.
Small babies may be placed inside the special cocoons
and should be left, if possible, in shelters.
Do not attempt to use your own limbs.
If no wheels are available - metal - not organic -
limbs should be employed whenever practical.
Remember:
In the case of sonic attack survival means
"Every man for himself"
Statistically more people survive if they think
only of themselves
Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, loved ones
You have only a few seconds to escape
Use those seconds sensibly or you will inevitably die
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
Do not panic
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
These are the first signs of sonic attack:
You will notice small objects - such as ornaments - oscillating
You will notice vibrations in your diaphragm
You will hear a distand hissing in your ears
You will feel the need to vomit
You will feel dizzy
You will have difficulty focussing
You will need to breathe more rapidly
There will be bleeding from orifices
There will be an ache in the pelvic region
You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting or even laughter
These are all sign of imminent sonic destruction
Your only protection is flight
If you are less than ten years old
Remain in your shelter and use your cocoon
Remember - you can help no one else
You can help no one else
You can help no one else
Do not panic
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
Think only of yourself
When the anti-vaccine hysteria was peaking about 15 years ago, the consensus was that it would last until a bunch of children all died from a preventable disease. 35 dead in the current outbreak - we get mandatory vaccines.It's sucks to be right sometimes.
I thought I was seeing the mobile site by mistake. The new layout is from Satan who is the Devil. Information density is down by about 70%. All I see is white space (Gray space?) with a single column of news articles down the center. The old layout was far more usable for me.
Preferably all three at once.
You should have seen the Alumni at my old University flip out when the new Director of Athletics cut funding for Football and Baseball and put the money into Ultimate and Soccer because that's what the kids were actually playing.