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The splitting maul is interesting but it may take some getting used to and many not catch on... However, from the video I see that he uses an old tire to hold the round and this keeps the pieces from flying all over the place. This is actually a great idea!
This is all a tempest in a teapot. The FDA is proposing rules for complying with a 2011 law passed by congress to ensure food safety. Brewers had been exempt from the rule because they were able to buy off congresscritters in the past. Now they will have to keep records and conduct training to make sure that they aren't shipping contaminated waste grain to feed cows. People who love to eat cows should welcome the fact that they can be assured that their cows haven't been fed contaminated feed. All of the hysteria about driving brewers out of business is just hyperbole. Before these rules, brewers could ship contaminated, spoiled grain to feed cows without any accountability. Now they will be accountable to make sure that they don't feed cows garbage... seems reasonable. You can read the FDA regulation (and avoid the hysterical hype) here: http://www.fda.gov/Food/Guidan...
I still use a LaserJet 4L at home for light printing work. This is now over 20 years old. It was used heavily in business for about 5 years then light use at home. I just buy a new cartridge about once a year (recycled ones cost about $15). This thing never jams, always feeds properly and the print quality is as crisp and sharp as the day it was new.
I don't think there is much of a taboo on discussing climate engineering. It's just that all of the proposals I have heard about are just stupid / won't work / would screw up things more, etc. Then there is the "what could possibly go wrong" factor. It's fine to discuss climate engineering but they'll have to come up with something much better than anything now out there.
I have never "tweeted" but I do follow a few blogs, individuals, events, etc. The twitter feed itself doesn't provide much information but the links are usually valuable.
They don't seem to have any problem finding customers at that price. I personally am not interested. I just don't see myself walking around wearing this thing. Not sure what I would do with it. It seems really nerdy and creepy. However, if I had a specific application in mind... something like recording surgery, automobile repair (or service and repair in many industries) then I could see it. I do have a Google Chromecast which is really a beta device and has been a disappointment due to very limited functionality. They are slowly adding applications but still very much a walled garden. Hopefully it will be more useful some day. I only spent $35 on it so not much risk there.
Google (and many other companies) do this with their beta products... you know... because they are "beta" and they want to limit the number of users to something they can handle. For instance, Gmail was limited access at first and you had to be invited to join. I see that you are using a gmail account.
That is true. However, a complication is that people do move about in the short time before they become incapacitated. Plus, we really don't understand well how it is transmitted and where the natural reservoirs exist so it's hard to find the source and eradicate it.
Walmart and Amazon honorable? AFAIK both of these companies abuse and underpay their employees. No honor in working there. No honor in buying stuff there.
It's hard to find out exactly what he said since all I can find are news stories, many which repeat the headline. It would be nice to have a transcript. I'm sure what he said was more nuanced than what is being reported. The "Can't teach a coalminer to code" looks like it will live forever... at least in the Twitterverse. Anyone have a link to an actual transcript?
I don't think the elite would approve of investing that much money in the education of coal miners. They are just viewed as "dumb labor" and it would be dangerous to educate them.
Sure, coding is not for everyone but it just shows the arrogance of this capitalist pig Bloomberg when he assumes that coal miners are stupid and can't be retrained. Coal miners as a group are probably just as smart as the entitled 1% who had education opportunities. So yes, you can train coal miners for other jobs (including coding). It's just elitist to assume otherwise.
As we all know, the folks here at/. all know much more about everything than anyone else so they are eminently qualified to opine on any subject. In the current case, I am sure that the engineers at Tesla will read every comment carefully to see where they have gone wrong and try to correct their mistakes even though they cannot equal the brain power and engineering prowess of the collective "Slashdot hive mind". Let the flame wars begin!
Not sure what the High Speed rail bond issue has to do with the definition of "political campaign" since that term is not anywhere in the article you referenced. It does talk about politics and campaigns but those two word are separated by a lot of other words. Just a few tips on using Google for the naive: If you are looking for a term consisting of more than one word, put the term in quotes and you'll get better results. You can also use the Google "define": To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word “define” then a space, then the word(s) you want defined.
I guess you couldn't comprehend the sentence where I said I looked up the definition(s) of "political campaign" and all of them referred to people. Your definitions for "politics" are interesting but they are not definitions for "political campaign". Try a course in "reading comprehension". It's the next step where you put "words" together to convey "ideas".
Nit-picking here: All of the definitions of a political campaign I could find (OK, I spent 5 minutes on Google) define a political campaign as a campaign for a candidate to get elected. They say nothing about ballot initiatives such as Proposition 8 which is a referendum on state law. Not sure how California law defines it but in my book, politics is people and corporations, organizations, laws and policies are not people.
I often see people say things like this... they don't visit "risky" web sites or open unknown attachments. I guess there is some value in this but there really is no way to protect yourself since you don't know what is infected and where. Today the NYTimes had an article about security which told about a company which was infected by a hacker who planted malware on the server of a Chinese restaurant which was popular for lunch takeout.... How do you protect against that? Windows 7 and 8 may be better than XP but there are still thousands of ways malware can get into the machines. I just think that anyone who is really concerned about security wouldn't use Windows. I know that OSX and Linux are also theoretically vulnerable but the real world numbers for infections are much lower (several orders of magnitude) than Windows. Clearly the people still using XP have accepted the risks or are stuck with it for some reason (some old proprietary software which they just can't get rid of). "Safe computing" is impossible.
There was plenty of generating capacity. The crisis was created by market manipulation by Enron and others. They were able to manipulate the market because it was DE-regulated. Now that we have better regulations in place, the market is working better. From Wikipedia: California had an installed generating capacity of 45GW. At the time of the blackouts, demand was 28GW. A demand supply gap was created by energy companies, mainly Enron, to create an artificial shortage. Energy traders took power plants offline for maintenance in days of peak demand to increase the price.[9][10] Traders were thus able to sell power at premium prices, sometimes up to a factor of 20 times its normal value. Because the state government had a cap on retail electricity charges, this market manipulation squeezed the industry's revenue margins, causing the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and near bankruptcy of Southern California Edison in early 2001.[11] The financial crisis was possible because of partial deregulation legislation instituted in 1996 by the California Legislature (AB 1890) and Governor Pete Wilson. Enron took advantage of this deregulation and was involved in economic withholding and inflated price bidding in California's spot markets.[12] The crisis cost between $40 to $45 billion.[13]
Lots of options: http://www.ipfire.org/ ufw can be installed from apt-get (no gui) ddwrt runs on many routers and has lots of features... don't need a full PC.
TFA is quoting about $500,000 a day for the HMAS Twoowoomba (and also the HMAS Success). I doubt much of that cost is for fuel. Most of it is bloated military "overhead".
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The splitting maul is interesting but it may take some getting used to and many not catch on...
However, from the video I see that he uses an old tire to hold the round and this keeps the pieces from flying all over the place. This is actually a great idea!
I remember Alta Vista... the best search engine in its day... now it just redirects to Yahoo :(
This is all a tempest in a teapot. The FDA is proposing rules for complying with a 2011 law passed by congress to ensure food safety. Brewers had been exempt from the rule because they were able to buy off congresscritters in the past. Now they will have to keep records and conduct training to make sure that they aren't shipping contaminated waste grain to feed cows. People who love to eat cows should welcome the fact that they can be assured that their cows haven't been fed contaminated feed.
All of the hysteria about driving brewers out of business is just hyperbole. Before these rules, brewers could ship contaminated, spoiled grain to feed cows without any accountability. Now they will be accountable to make sure that they don't feed cows garbage... seems reasonable.
You can read the FDA regulation (and avoid the hysterical hype) here:
http://www.fda.gov/Food/Guidan...
I still use a LaserJet 4L at home for light printing work. This is now over 20 years old. It was used heavily in business for about 5 years then light use at home. I just buy a new cartridge about once a year (recycled ones cost about $15).
This thing never jams, always feeds properly and the print quality is as crisp and sharp as the day it was new.
I don't think there is much of a taboo on discussing climate engineering. It's just that all of the proposals I have heard about are just stupid / won't work / would screw up things more, etc. Then there is the "what could possibly go wrong" factor.
It's fine to discuss climate engineering but they'll have to come up with something much better than anything now out there.
I have never "tweeted" but I do follow a few blogs, individuals, events, etc.
The twitter feed itself doesn't provide much information but the links are usually valuable.
They don't seem to have any problem finding customers at that price.
I personally am not interested. I just don't see myself walking around wearing this thing. Not sure what I would do with it. It seems really nerdy and creepy. However, if I had a specific application in mind... something like recording surgery, automobile repair (or service and repair in many industries) then I could see it.
I do have a Google Chromecast which is really a beta device and has been a disappointment due to very limited functionality. They are slowly adding applications but still very much a walled garden. Hopefully it will be more useful some day. I only spent $35 on it so not much risk there.
Google (and many other companies) do this with their beta products... you know... because they are "beta" and they want to limit the number of users to something they can handle.
For instance, Gmail was limited access at first and you had to be invited to join. I see that you are using a gmail account.
That is true.
However, a complication is that people do move about in the short time before they become incapacitated.
Plus, we really don't understand well how it is transmitted and where the natural reservoirs exist so it's hard to find the source and eradicate it.
The Fire "marketplace" is a pathetic second to just about any other marketplace. I'm sure their phone marketplace will be the same.
FreedomPop.com
Free to use... but limited.
Walmart and Amazon honorable?
AFAIK both of these companies abuse and underpay their employees. No honor in working there. No honor in buying stuff there.
Unless you are on a military "cost+" contract. Then you have a license to print money.
It's hard to find out exactly what he said since all I can find are news stories, many which repeat the headline. It would be nice to have a transcript. I'm sure what he said was more nuanced than what is being reported. The "Can't teach a coalminer to code" looks like it will live forever... at least in the Twitterverse.
Anyone have a link to an actual transcript?
I don't think the elite would approve of investing that much money in the education of coal miners. They are just viewed as "dumb labor" and it would be dangerous to educate them.
Sure, coding is not for everyone but it just shows the arrogance of this capitalist pig Bloomberg when he assumes that coal miners are stupid and can't be retrained.
Coal miners as a group are probably just as smart as the entitled 1% who had education opportunities. So yes, you can train coal miners for other jobs (including coding). It's just elitist to assume otherwise.
As we all know, the folks here at /. all know much more about everything than anyone else so they are eminently qualified to opine on any subject. In the current case, I am sure that the engineers at Tesla will read every comment carefully to see where they have gone wrong and try to correct their mistakes even though they cannot equal the brain power and engineering prowess of the collective "Slashdot hive mind".
Let the flame wars begin!
Not sure what the High Speed rail bond issue has to do with the definition of "political campaign" since that term is not anywhere in the article you referenced. It does talk about politics and campaigns but those two word are separated by a lot of other words.
Just a few tips on using Google for the naive: If you are looking for a term consisting of more than one word, put the term in quotes and you'll get better results. You can also use the Google "define": To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word “define” then a space, then the word(s) you want defined.
I guess you couldn't comprehend the sentence where I said I looked up the definition(s) of "political campaign" and all of them referred to people.
Your definitions for "politics" are interesting but they are not definitions for "political campaign".
Try a course in "reading comprehension". It's the next step where you put "words" together to convey "ideas".
Nit-picking here: All of the definitions of a political campaign I could find (OK, I spent 5 minutes on Google) define a political campaign as a campaign for a candidate to get elected. They say nothing about ballot initiatives such as Proposition 8 which is a referendum on state law. Not sure how California law defines it but in my book, politics is people and corporations, organizations, laws and policies are not people.
I often see people say things like this... they don't visit "risky" web sites or open unknown attachments.
I guess there is some value in this but there really is no way to protect yourself since you don't know what is infected and where. Today the NYTimes had an article about security which told about a company which was infected by a hacker who planted malware on the server of a Chinese restaurant which was popular for lunch takeout.... How do you protect against that?
Windows 7 and 8 may be better than XP but there are still thousands of ways malware can get into the machines.
I just think that anyone who is really concerned about security wouldn't use Windows. I know that OSX and Linux are also theoretically vulnerable but the real world numbers for infections are much lower (several orders of magnitude) than Windows.
Clearly the people still using XP have accepted the risks or are stuck with it for some reason (some old proprietary software which they just can't get rid of).
"Safe computing" is impossible.
I should trust you?
The Wikipedia article has 36 references.
Where are your references for your theory?
There was plenty of generating capacity.
The crisis was created by market manipulation by Enron and others. They were able to manipulate the market because it was DE-regulated.
Now that we have better regulations in place, the market is working better.
From Wikipedia:
California had an installed generating capacity of 45GW. At the time of the blackouts, demand was 28GW. A demand supply gap was created by energy companies, mainly Enron, to create an artificial shortage. Energy traders took power plants offline for maintenance in days of peak demand to increase the price.[9][10] Traders were thus able to sell power at premium prices, sometimes up to a factor of 20 times its normal value. Because the state government had a cap on retail electricity charges, this market manipulation squeezed the industry's revenue margins, causing the bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and near bankruptcy of Southern California Edison in early 2001.[11]
The financial crisis was possible because of partial deregulation legislation instituted in 1996 by the California Legislature (AB 1890) and Governor Pete Wilson. Enron took advantage of this deregulation and was involved in economic withholding and inflated price bidding in California's spot markets.[12]
The crisis cost between $40 to $45 billion.[13]
Lots of options:
http://www.ipfire.org/
ufw can be installed from apt-get (no gui)
ddwrt runs on many routers and has lots of features... don't need a full PC.
TFA is quoting about $500,000 a day for the HMAS Twoowoomba (and also the HMAS Success). I doubt much of that cost is for fuel. Most of it is bloated military "overhead".