Always the same story. Join the Air Force, they said. It's an attack helicopter's life
Not to nitpick...okay, to nitpick, but attack copters are Army, not Air Force. The Key West accords didn't include helicopters, so the Army runs them. Though they have had to fight off efforts by the Air Force to take over helicopters in the past....
What's going to be really interesting is the question of choosing the new quotas. Most companies elect a Board of Directors, with votes cast by stockholders in proportion to their number of shares.
So what happens if the election doesn't pick any women? Is CA prepared to bring charges against the stockholders if they don't pick the right genitalia for their BoD? If they do, will they charge the stockholders in general, or just the stockholders who voted for a guy?
Be interesting if I found myself being hauled off to CA for a court appearance because I happen to own some Intel stock....
You are right, but prepare to be punished for not towing the biological essentialism line.
Toeing. The line, in that phrase, does not refer to pulling things, but to standing at the right place in a formation (with your toes on the line drawn on the ground)....
MIllion dollar question: how much does this cost compared to normal concrete?
It lasts longer, so you can justify a higher cost on that basis alone. Plus it's stronger, which may mean you need thinner sheets of concrete made this way for a given strength.
But three times the lifespan times twice the strength (numbers pulled out of my ass) means it'll sell if it costs no more than six times as much as conventional concrete.
So, does this stuff meet the test of being more economically efficient? If so, I foresee a bright future for the stuff. Otherwise, it'll be yet another minor factor in building a variety of special-purpose stuff....
...just what spending on capital equipment has to do with "making sure noone else can compete".
Have we actually reached the point of thinking buying machine tools is anti-competition? And if so, does that mean that when a small company buys machine tools, they are also "making sure no one else can compete"?
When I saw the headline, I assumed that "make sure no one else can compete" meant they'd spent the $80B in Washington buying legislation. Because it never occurred to me that buying the machinery required to make your product could be seen as anti-competitive. By anyone
No, biologically and by the standards of the past few thousand or so years of human society, a 16 year old is an adult. Treating them like a child is an extremely recent cultural development due to the increased length of education typically required to get a job rather than any actual biological or physiological reason.
One of my grandmothers was 16 when she married. Exactly half the age of her husband. As I understand it, when various of her relatives had rude things to say about her being half her husband-to-be's age, her response was something to the effect of "next year, I'll be 17 and he'll be 33. So I won't be just half his age for more than another six months..."
Note that they stayed married till his death of old age, producing several children along the way....
Netherland has no school buses; all schools start between 8:15 and 8:45, and kids go to school on their own bike. Young kids are brought by their parents. Especially in a city like Boston, I would expect the distance to school to be too short to justify buses.
Well, and this just goes to show that the Netherlands has never had to deal with "forced bussing".
Once upon a time, it was determined that black kids got worse educations at their local schools than white kids at their local schools. The obvious solution? Bus some of the white kids to the black schools, and some of the black kids to the white schools. Net result? Most kids don't go to the close-to-home schools, they go across town, no matter where they live (the exception, of course, is the children of the upper class, who could (and did) afford to go to private schools).
Anyways, for the last 50 years, major cities didn't allow for the option of "go to the school just down the street"....
I agree. What do I need an Apple Watch for? Hell, what do I need ANY watch for, since my phone (even a fairly stupid phone) does time, alarms, that sort of thing....
Hmm, I get up in the 4AM to 5AM range most mornings. No, it's not torture, since I don't bother with an alarm (actually, I have a 6AM alarm, because there are a couple things that absolutely must be done before 7, but I've only been awakened by that alarm twice this month)....
No, humans aren't hardwired to any particular wake-up time (other than dawn), nor to any particular sleep time (other than sunset).
Now, are modern parents/children wired to particular times for waking and sleeping? Well, I guess that depends on what TV shows are on at any particular hour....
I think they would just settle for fewer mass shootings
For what it's worth, this was NOT a mass shooting. The current definition requires four deaths (including the shooter, if applicable). This one had only one death (the shooter)....
No, that wasn't like the Rural Electrification Act. That bit of law was intended to create more competition among various service providers, NOT to guarantee the provision of such services to everyone and their brother....
Back in the '30's, electricity wasn't to be had out in the sticks. Part of FDR's New Deal basically had the Feds pay for the wires to fix that.
It could be done again, if we wanted to spend a metric fuckton of money doing so.
Note, for those who want to blame a political Party for the failure to do so, it hasn't been done under Trump (R), nor was it done under Obama (D), nor Bush (R), nor Clinton (D). This has been a bipartisan "Yuck Foo" to the people who live out in the boonies (probably mostly because there aren't enough of them to matter come election time)....
Luckily the 8 year old kid successfully uses that thought experiment to correctly conclude that God is just an imaginary concept, and a self-inconsistent one at that.
You left out the word "omnipotent". An omnipotent god is an imaginary concept. Which doesn't imply that an non-omnipotent god is an imaginary concept.
Unless, of course, your definition of "god" includes omnipotence. Note that throughout most of human existence, "omnipotence" has NOT been part of the definition of "god"....
Has anyone considered a possible ulterior motive? Imagine if the jihadis got ahold of self-driving vehicles.
"electric car" is NOT synonymous with "self-driving car". Yes, you can have a self-driving gasoline-engine car. Yes, the jihadis could use one of those, too....
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Not to nitpick...okay, to nitpick, but attack copters are Army, not Air Force. The Key West accords didn't include helicopters, so the Army runs them. Though they have had to fight off efforts by the Air Force to take over helicopters in the past....
What's going to be really interesting is the question of choosing the new quotas. Most companies elect a Board of Directors, with votes cast by stockholders in proportion to their number of shares.
So what happens if the election doesn't pick any women? Is CA prepared to bring charges against the stockholders if they don't pick the right genitalia for their BoD? If they do, will they charge the stockholders in general, or just the stockholders who voted for a guy?
Be interesting if I found myself being hauled off to CA for a court appearance because I happen to own some Intel stock....
Hmm...
So, ~$20K per kiosk. And, from TFS, each kiosk handles about two calls per day (500,000 phone calls a month, 10,000 kiosks).
I'm sure there's a point to spending that much to handle that small a number of calls, but I don't see it from here....
Yeah, things are so bad that our average lifespan is only 150% of what it was back in 1918.
Hell, most of us won't even reach 100. Well, except for the people who are kids now. They'll probably reach 100....
Hmm, based on timestamps, it only took eleven minutes to bring guns into a completely unrelated discussion.
Not sure it's a record, but it's close....
I trust the law defines "reasonable" in this context.
Otherwise, we're going to see endless court cases quibbling over whether whatever is "reasonable" or not.
Or manufacturers being unwilling to risk being found "not reasonable", and therefore not selling in CA.
Got to admit I'm curious as to how buying something on eBay will work under this law. Or buying something in Oregon....
In a word, yes. But I think that of pretty much all politicians, so it's not like I think the ones in the Netherlands are stupider....
Or they'll have a special exception for MP's. That being the normal way politicians deal with laws that would inconvenience themselves....
Umm, no. Rocket fuel is dirt cheap.
LOX costs considerably less than gasoline. Kerosene or Methane is comparable to gasoline prices.
Now, getting enough rocket fuel into orbit for interplanetary work is expensive....
Toeing. The line, in that phrase, does not refer to pulling things, but to standing at the right place in a formation (with your toes on the line drawn on the ground)....
Luckily for them, they didn't reach 1.21 jiggawatts. Who knows when they'd have ended up if they had....
It lasts longer, so you can justify a higher cost on that basis alone. Plus it's stronger, which may mean you need thinner sheets of concrete made this way for a given strength.
But three times the lifespan times twice the strength (numbers pulled out of my ass) means it'll sell if it costs no more than six times as much as conventional concrete.
So, does this stuff meet the test of being more economically efficient? If so, I foresee a bright future for the stuff. Otherwise, it'll be yet another minor factor in building a variety of special-purpose stuff....
Did not get the joke, I see....
...just what spending on capital equipment has to do with "making sure noone else can compete".
Have we actually reached the point of thinking buying machine tools is anti-competition? And if so, does that mean that when a small company buys machine tools, they are also "making sure no one else can compete"?
When I saw the headline, I assumed that "make sure no one else can compete" meant they'd spent the $80B in Washington buying legislation. Because it never occurred to me that buying the machinery required to make your product could be seen as anti-competitive. By anyone
What? Alcohol causes more deaths than firearms?!
Well, there's one way to fix that - ban alcohol! Make it illegal, and alcohol-related deaths should pretty much stop happening.
What could possibly go wrong?
One of my grandmothers was 16 when she married. Exactly half the age of her husband. As I understand it, when various of her relatives had rude things to say about her being half her husband-to-be's age, her response was something to the effect of "next year, I'll be 17 and he'll be 33. So I won't be just half his age for more than another six months..."
Note that they stayed married till his death of old age, producing several children along the way....
Well, and this just goes to show that the Netherlands has never had to deal with "forced bussing".
Once upon a time, it was determined that black kids got worse educations at their local schools than white kids at their local schools. The obvious solution? Bus some of the white kids to the black schools, and some of the black kids to the white schools. Net result? Most kids don't go to the close-to-home schools, they go across town, no matter where they live (the exception, of course, is the children of the upper class, who could (and did) afford to go to private schools).
Anyways, for the last 50 years, major cities didn't allow for the option of "go to the school just down the street"....
I agree. What do I need an Apple Watch for? Hell, what do I need ANY watch for, since my phone (even a fairly stupid phone) does time, alarms, that sort of thing....
Hmm, I get up in the 4AM to 5AM range most mornings. No, it's not torture, since I don't bother with an alarm (actually, I have a 6AM alarm, because there are a couple things that absolutely must be done before 7, but I've only been awakened by that alarm twice this month)....
No, humans aren't hardwired to any particular wake-up time (other than dawn), nor to any particular sleep time (other than sunset).
Now, are modern parents/children wired to particular times for waking and sleeping? Well, I guess that depends on what TV shows are on at any particular hour....
Bad joke! Bad! No cookie for you!
For what it's worth, this was NOT a mass shooting. The current definition requires four deaths (including the shooter, if applicable). This one had only one death (the shooter)....
The Telecommunications Act of 1996?
No, that wasn't like the Rural Electrification Act. That bit of law was intended to create more competition among various service providers, NOT to guarantee the provision of such services to everyone and their brother....
Back in the '30's, electricity wasn't to be had out in the sticks. Part of FDR's New Deal basically had the Feds pay for the wires to fix that.
It could be done again, if we wanted to spend a metric fuckton of money doing so.
Note, for those who want to blame a political Party for the failure to do so, it hasn't been done under Trump (R), nor was it done under Obama (D), nor Bush (R), nor Clinton (D). This has been a bipartisan "Yuck Foo" to the people who live out in the boonies (probably mostly because there aren't enough of them to matter come election time)....
You left out the word "omnipotent". An omnipotent god is an imaginary concept. Which doesn't imply that an non-omnipotent god is an imaginary concept.
Unless, of course, your definition of "god" includes omnipotence. Note that throughout most of human existence, "omnipotence" has NOT been part of the definition of "god"....
Which makes me wonder...does the mayor of this town have a special permit?
IOW, does the "no cars" rule only apply to the peons?
"electric car" is NOT synonymous with "self-driving car". Yes, you can have a self-driving gasoline-engine car. Yes, the jihadis could use one of those, too....