Medical x-rays are safer, but they don't come anywhere near penetrating a steel truck at that power. The kinds of x-ray machines needed to scan a whole truck are more like 5-10 MeV.
How is charging market rates for a scarce commodity a "war"? The price that results in the spaces being almost full but not quite full is exactly the price they should charge! That's rationing via the market, the efficient way to ration: otherwise you ration the communist/NYC way, where you ration by first-come-first-serve and queues (in this case circling cars).
Do you think everything that isn't government-subsidized equals a war being waged?
The website isn't that usable. Really slow Google-Maps overlay (at least in Chrome on OSX), and doesn't give enough detail to actually see where the spots are unless an area is all-vacant or all-occupied. Except, the big things like garages are useful.
It's a thing, and yes, what it sounds like: they have a radioactive source that gives off gamma rays, which pass through a truck, and then gamma ray detectors that look at what passed through. Sort of like a heavy-duty xray machine, except at these sizes/energies, the gamma-ray machines are actually safer than getting blasted with xrays.
Unfortunately we have a bit of a backlog, and the year of the semantic web is current queued just behind the year of the linux desktop, so there may be a short delay.
You don't generally need to be an administrator to edit the scripts, with the exception of a few scripts that are used on so many pages that they're vandalism magnets. And even for those, you can propose changes on the talk page, which are usually made if they're reasonable. There is not really a whole lot of politicking around the content of scripts, although admittedly that's partly because the home-rolled language sucks so much that very few people care to figure out how to edit pages that look more like line-noise than classic Perl did.
There's sometimes politicking about whether a particular one should exist or be used at all; some people find the proliferation of infoboxes, footer boxes, succession boxes, portal boxes, etc. too much clutter and not very useful. But the internals, afaik, aren't one of the hotbeds of debate.
This seems to be at least partial evidence that that's not really the case: it was discussed for a while, a decision was made, and implementation rather than further discussion is now happening.
Yes, some people are better at some things than other people are, so in a sense "elites" always exist. But they can be organized quite differently, in particular when it comes to openness and boundaries, or what you might call a welcoming versus elitist mentality.
For example, the Homebrew Computer Club was an elite in a sense, but an elite that was: 1) open in a literal sense to anyone who in good faith wanted to come and participate; and 2) open in a cultural sense to educating people and spreading knowledge. It wasn't an elite in the elitist sense, of a closed club that wouldn't let you in if they didn't deem you worthy. If anything, they represented the opposite type of hacker, the hacker evangelist who actively wants to spread the good word, knowledge, passion, and skills.
There are some modern organizations that operate similarly, aiming for high quality of community and discourse (so part of the "tech elite"), but without the exclusionary/attitude sort of aspects (so not "elitist"), like Noisebridge, the Hacker Dojo, and the SuperHappyDevHouse hackathon/parties.
Given rampant celebrity corpse theft, you can't really be too cautious when investigating a tweet about a plot to steal Marilyn Monroe's remains. Kudos for defending our dead actors, DHS!
Not only is traditional sci-fi and fantasy entertainment in books and movies far more political than the average game, even children's animated films are more political than the average game
That's definitely noticeable, that even sci-fi videogames seem more about the sci-fi setting than any of the deeper ideas that characterize good sci-fi. I wonder how much of it is just the pervasive focus on "fun" in games. A successful game is a fun game, whereas calling a novel a "fun read" is a much more ambiguous statement, even a bit backhanded as a compliment. A good sci-fi novel is somehow a deeper idea than a fun or entertaining novel.
Yes, if a broadcast network accepts advertising, they're required to sell slots to federal candidates at the lowest rate they offer to any other advertiser, and screen then based only on across-the-board neutral conditions (things like volume of the ad, presence of skimpy clothing, etc., if they apply the same rules to all ads).
Based on what his post actually said, my read was that his main interest in Paul is Paul's commitment to ending the foreign wars, reducing military spending, rolling back the TSA, and reducing discrimination against gays. On those issues, a Democrat is probably better than a non-Paul Republican as a second choice.
Emergency rooms are required to treat people, but not to do it for free. If you end up in the emergency room, you'll have a $10,000-$100,000 bill waiting for you when you get home, which will quickly turn your life into an interesting motley crew of collection agencies, wage garnishment, and perhaps eventually a bankruptcy filing.
This reads, unfortunately, like a WSJ op-ed, with lots of polemic, and relatively little science. Have the 16 scientists in question written up a more sober whitepaper that I could read? I'd actually be interested in reading their analysis, if there were a version with more data and less rhetoric about "those promoting alarm", drumbeats, and CO2 being colorless.
Any idea how frequent? I know they aren't unprecedented, but I'm having trouble finding any numbers. Does an X-class flare happen a few times a year? A few times a decade?
A group of employers representing a large portion of a sector seems to me more like the old-school industry-wide unions, which would coordinate labor action across multiple companies, and go on strike in an entire sector if demands weren't met (e.g. a simultaneous strike of all auto-workers at all companies). That's also banned since 1947, and now unions are required to individually negotiate with each employer in good faith, rather than coordinating labor action across a sector. So it seems pretty fair to ask employers to also individually negotiate, rather than attempt to set up industry-wide collusion.
It's not actually legal for unions to do it; the "closed shop", where new hires can only come from the labor union's membership pool, is illegal in the U.S. since 1947.
Even worse, parts of the allegations verge on blackballing: it's alleged that when an employer from company A applied to a job at company B, where A & B were part of the "no-poaching" collusion agreement, company B would not only refuse to hire them to avoid poaching, but actually rat the employee out to company A, telling them that this employee tried to apply for a job.
They use a pretty conveniently screwed up variant of Pac-Man for their proof, not the actual Pac-Man, where there's free choice and arbitrarily fast transitions between the different ghost modes, so it's even further from true here than for Tetris.
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Medical x-rays are safer, but they don't come anywhere near penetrating a steel truck at that power. The kinds of x-ray machines needed to scan a whole truck are more like 5-10 MeV.
How is charging market rates for a scarce commodity a "war"? The price that results in the spaces being almost full but not quite full is exactly the price they should charge! That's rationing via the market, the efficient way to ration: otherwise you ration the communist/NYC way, where you ration by first-come-first-serve and queues (in this case circling cars).
Do you think everything that isn't government-subsidized equals a war being waged?
Oh, and since the summary inexplicably didn't link it, SFpark is here.
The website isn't that usable. Really slow Google-Maps overlay (at least in Chrome on OSX), and doesn't give enough detail to actually see where the spots are unless an area is all-vacant or all-occupied. Except, the big things like garages are useful.
The mobile app might well be better.
It's a thing, and yes, what it sounds like: they have a radioactive source that gives off gamma rays, which pass through a truck, and then gamma ray detectors that look at what passed through. Sort of like a heavy-duty xray machine, except at these sizes/energies, the gamma-ray machines are actually safer than getting blasted with xrays.
A large-scale version of that is sometimes proposed...
Unfortunately we have a bit of a backlog, and the year of the semantic web is current queued just behind the year of the linux desktop, so there may be a short delay.
You don't generally need to be an administrator to edit the scripts, with the exception of a few scripts that are used on so many pages that they're vandalism magnets. And even for those, you can propose changes on the talk page, which are usually made if they're reasonable. There is not really a whole lot of politicking around the content of scripts, although admittedly that's partly because the home-rolled language sucks so much that very few people care to figure out how to edit pages that look more like line-noise than classic Perl did.
There's sometimes politicking about whether a particular one should exist or be used at all; some people find the proliferation of infoboxes, footer boxes, succession boxes, portal boxes, etc. too much clutter and not very useful. But the internals, afaik, aren't one of the hotbeds of debate.
This seems to be at least partial evidence that that's not really the case: it was discussed for a while, a decision was made, and implementation rather than further discussion is now happening.
Yes, some people are better at some things than other people are, so in a sense "elites" always exist. But they can be organized quite differently, in particular when it comes to openness and boundaries, or what you might call a welcoming versus elitist mentality.
For example, the Homebrew Computer Club was an elite in a sense, but an elite that was: 1) open in a literal sense to anyone who in good faith wanted to come and participate; and 2) open in a cultural sense to educating people and spreading knowledge. It wasn't an elite in the elitist sense, of a closed club that wouldn't let you in if they didn't deem you worthy. If anything, they represented the opposite type of hacker, the hacker evangelist who actively wants to spread the good word, knowledge, passion, and skills.
There are some modern organizations that operate similarly, aiming for high quality of community and discourse (so part of the "tech elite"), but without the exclusionary/attitude sort of aspects (so not "elitist"), like Noisebridge, the Hacker Dojo, and the SuperHappyDevHouse hackathon/parties.
Given rampant celebrity corpse theft, you can't really be too cautious when investigating a tweet about a plot to steal Marilyn Monroe's remains. Kudos for defending our dead actors, DHS!
That's definitely noticeable, that even sci-fi videogames seem more about the sci-fi setting than any of the deeper ideas that characterize good sci-fi. I wonder how much of it is just the pervasive focus on "fun" in games. A successful game is a fun game, whereas calling a novel a "fun read" is a much more ambiguous statement, even a bit backhanded as a compliment. A good sci-fi novel is somehow a deeper idea than a fun or entertaining novel.
Yes, if a broadcast network accepts advertising, they're required to sell slots to federal candidates at the lowest rate they offer to any other advertiser, and screen then based only on across-the-board neutral conditions (things like volume of the ad, presence of skimpy clothing, etc., if they apply the same rules to all ads).
At least some of that information should come out in the IPO filing. They generally have to file financial reports before they can list.
Based on what his post actually said, my read was that his main interest in Paul is Paul's commitment to ending the foreign wars, reducing military spending, rolling back the TSA, and reducing discrimination against gays. On those issues, a Democrat is probably better than a non-Paul Republican as a second choice.
Emergency rooms are required to treat people, but not to do it for free. If you end up in the emergency room, you'll have a $10,000-$100,000 bill waiting for you when you get home, which will quickly turn your life into an interesting motley crew of collection agencies, wage garnishment, and perhaps eventually a bankruptcy filing.
Also, Scandinavia (on both counts).
This reads, unfortunately, like a WSJ op-ed, with lots of polemic, and relatively little science. Have the 16 scientists in question written up a more sober whitepaper that I could read? I'd actually be interested in reading their analysis, if there were a version with more data and less rhetoric about "those promoting alarm", drumbeats, and CO2 being colorless.
Perhaps, for a fee, they could send you your very own custom frivolous takedown notice, so you can relive the old days.
Any idea how frequent? I know they aren't unprecedented, but I'm having trouble finding any numbers. Does an X-class flare happen a few times a year? A few times a decade?
So I got this copy of the "Anarchist Cookbook", is this terrorism?
A group of employers representing a large portion of a sector seems to me more like the old-school industry-wide unions, which would coordinate labor action across multiple companies, and go on strike in an entire sector if demands weren't met (e.g. a simultaneous strike of all auto-workers at all companies). That's also banned since 1947, and now unions are required to individually negotiate with each employer in good faith, rather than coordinating labor action across a sector. So it seems pretty fair to ask employers to also individually negotiate, rather than attempt to set up industry-wide collusion.
It's not actually legal for unions to do it; the "closed shop", where new hires can only come from the labor union's membership pool, is illegal in the U.S. since 1947.
Even worse, parts of the allegations verge on blackballing: it's alleged that when an employer from company A applied to a job at company B, where A & B were part of the "no-poaching" collusion agreement, company B would not only refuse to hire them to avoid poaching, but actually rat the employee out to company A, telling them that this employee tried to apply for a job.
They use a pretty conveniently screwed up variant of Pac-Man for their proof, not the actual Pac-Man, where there's free choice and arbitrarily fast transitions between the different ghost modes, so it's even further from true here than for Tetris.