Yeah, but this is the usual political speech where you count savings over ten years to make them sound more impressive. Doing a reform of US government computer systems absolutely correctly might save a hundred billion a year, for all I know.
To be honest, something like this does have the potential to save large amounts of money, possibly $100G/year. It would be risky under the best of conditions, considering the size and complexity of the systems, and I have less than absolutely zero faith that Trump can pull it off.
Trump says that hiring American is part of MAGA, but watch who he hires and where he gets stuff produced. He has a lot of business interests in Russia. This isn't bad by itself, but he gets awfully secretive about them.
Depends on the employee, employer, and insurance plan, I guess. The yoga might be cheaper than the deductible for physical therapy, for example.
I also have to go through medical channels for physical therapy. I can sign up for a yoga class at a place three blocks from my home without justifying anything and without paying all that much.
I started taking a meditation class at a place that teaches yoga, and I found that it made me a lot better at noticing things. It wasn't a physical change, but it reminded me of when I was younger and I'd need a new prescription and how the world looked when I got my new glasses. I'm also feeling a little calmer when things aren't going the way I want. So far, disregarding all philosophy, it's well worth my time and money.
I think cyber-vandal was referring to weight training, which is dangerous if you don't do it right. (That's why I preferred the exercise machines in the gym to the free weights: it was a lot easier to use the machines properly, even if all they were doing was getting me to lift weights with various muscles).
Fraud is normally defined as deliberate deceit. If you believe in something, and teach it, you're not a fraud. You may be very seriously wrong, and your teachings may be doing great harm, but you're not a fraud.
The few teachers I know personally believe what they say, although they acknowledge that some of it sounds dubious to your average Westerner. Unless you've actually investigated their claims, or at least can find negative results from serious investigation, you're calling them frauds for saying things they believe in and which you haven't bothered to falsify.
That doesn't make you a liar, but it does make you an asshole not worth listening to.
The carbon in the atmosphere is in the form of CO2 primarily (there's some CH4, CO, etc., but mostly CO2). In order to make carbon out of it, we have to remove the oxygen atoms. The energy we get from coal is from turning C and O2 into CO2, and in order to turn CO2 into C and O2 we have to provide that much energy. Effectively, we'd be running coal plants in reverse, except less efficiently.
If we've got the power, we can better use it by not burning coal in the first place. If we get a surplus of power not from fossil fuels, we might consider some sort of carbon-liberating mechanism like you suggest, but we're a long ways away from that.
There was a reason that boiling and freezing were selected as measuring points,
And, in the SI, they aren't. The triple point of water is defined as 273.16 kelvins, and absolute zero at zero kelvins. The 273.16 is a relic of using boiling and freezing points.
0F is a temperature I can sensibly live at for weeks, and presumably longer. It's annoying, and I do need the right clothes, but it works. If you're talking about temperatures you can live at without decent cold-weather clothing and some way to heat shelter, you're not going to survive at a lot higher temperatures than 0F. 40F is actually a fairly dangerous temperature, because it's not cold enough to be immediately dangerous, and it's cold enough to easily die of hypothermia.
I live in Minnesota. The range of temperatures relevant to me for several months out of the year includes a lot of minus signs in Celsius. Fahrenheit is somewhat better in that regard, particularly since global warming made most of our winters milder.
Actually, as part of the left, I think everyone should have the opportunity for a good life including enough free time to raise a child. I don't know where you get the idea that the left disapproves of childraising.
If you're going to have children, it's not particularly intelligent to wait until there's likely to be fertility and birth defect problems. If society pushes people that way, then society is stupid.
Mentioning Minnesota, do you mean the Somalis? They congregated in the Twin Cities area not because they were settled by decree, or because the climate was familiar, but because they liked the people here. I'm taking that as a compliment. They took a lot of the lower-level jobs. We had some difficulties with so many Somali cab drivers when some of them refused to carry people with alcoholic beverages, but that got smoothed out. The ones I've had interactions with have always been good people, and I think they're a good addition to the metro area. The kids seem to be learning English just fine, although of course some of the adults never will, and I haven't seen any problems from them.
I swear I did nothing to push my son into computers. He had a really good series of engineering courses in high school, and wanted to be a mechanical or electric engineer. He took an introduction to programming for engineers, changed to Computer Science, and never looked back. He resembles me in so many ways (although he's got the high-functioning ASD but no the depression, fortunately).
the car knew the driver didn't have his hands on the wheel for 37 minutes.
Nope. The guy had his hands off the wheel for 37 minutes total, not 37 minutes straight. I've heard that, if it had hands off for long enough without a steering wheel touch, it will slow down with emergency flashers on.
I believe the autopilot will slow down if you have your hands off the wheel for too long. It can't pull over to the side of the road safely.
What apparently happened is that the car warned the driver, and the driver put his hands on the wheel without actually paying attention. That sort of thing is difficult to detect.
As far as the car not seeing the truck, these things aren't perfect. That's why humans need to pay attention until autonomous vehicles get a lot better.
My nice new Forester has adaptive cruise control, which stays a certain distance to the car in front but will not exceed my set speed. It has something like lane-following software, which I tested once with my fingers a centimeter from the wheel. It doesn't do it smoothly.
When allowing my son to practice driving in it (it's the safest vehicle we've got), I told him, "This car has advanced safety features. Do not rely on them."
I once read that automatic takeoff is possible but unwanted, as airlines don't want a plane taking off if there's no pilot on board who can manage a good takeoff.
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I've heard about stepped-up deportation of illegal immigrants. That Obama guy put a lot of resources into it.
Yeah, but this is the usual political speech where you count savings over ten years to make them sound more impressive. Doing a reform of US government computer systems absolutely correctly might save a hundred billion a year, for all I know.
To be honest, something like this does have the potential to save large amounts of money, possibly $100G/year. It would be risky under the best of conditions, considering the size and complexity of the systems, and I have less than absolutely zero faith that Trump can pull it off.
Trump says that hiring American is part of MAGA, but watch who he hires and where he gets stuff produced. He has a lot of business interests in Russia. This isn't bad by itself, but he gets awfully secretive about them.
Depends on the employee, employer, and insurance plan, I guess. The yoga might be cheaper than the deductible for physical therapy, for example.
I also have to go through medical channels for physical therapy. I can sign up for a yoga class at a place three blocks from my home without justifying anything and without paying all that much.
I started taking a meditation class at a place that teaches yoga, and I found that it made me a lot better at noticing things. It wasn't a physical change, but it reminded me of when I was younger and I'd need a new prescription and how the world looked when I got my new glasses. I'm also feeling a little calmer when things aren't going the way I want. So far, disregarding all philosophy, it's well worth my time and money.
I think cyber-vandal was referring to weight training, which is dangerous if you don't do it right. (That's why I preferred the exercise machines in the gym to the free weights: it was a lot easier to use the machines properly, even if all they were doing was getting me to lift weights with various muscles).
Fraud is normally defined as deliberate deceit. If you believe in something, and teach it, you're not a fraud. You may be very seriously wrong, and your teachings may be doing great harm, but you're not a fraud.
The few teachers I know personally believe what they say, although they acknowledge that some of it sounds dubious to your average Westerner. Unless you've actually investigated their claims, or at least can find negative results from serious investigation, you're calling them frauds for saying things they believe in and which you haven't bothered to falsify.
That doesn't make you a liar, but it does make you an asshole not worth listening to.
I treat everyone who calls for bans of rival religions as nutcases. It's simpler that way, and I haven't noticed a loss of usefulness in my judgment.
The carbon in the atmosphere is in the form of CO2 primarily (there's some CH4, CO, etc., but mostly CO2). In order to make carbon out of it, we have to remove the oxygen atoms. The energy we get from coal is from turning C and O2 into CO2, and in order to turn CO2 into C and O2 we have to provide that much energy. Effectively, we'd be running coal plants in reverse, except less efficiently.
If we've got the power, we can better use it by not burning coal in the first place. If we get a surplus of power not from fossil fuels, we might consider some sort of carbon-liberating mechanism like you suggest, but we're a long ways away from that.
And, in the SI, they aren't. The triple point of water is defined as 273.16 kelvins, and absolute zero at zero kelvins. The 273.16 is a relic of using boiling and freezing points.
And the scalability really doesn't work all the time in practice. I hear people talking about two thousand kilometers, not two megameters.
0F is a temperature I can sensibly live at for weeks, and presumably longer. It's annoying, and I do need the right clothes, but it works. If you're talking about temperatures you can live at without decent cold-weather clothing and some way to heat shelter, you're not going to survive at a lot higher temperatures than 0F. 40F is actually a fairly dangerous temperature, because it's not cold enough to be immediately dangerous, and it's cold enough to easily die of hypothermia.
I live in Minnesota. The range of temperatures relevant to me for several months out of the year includes a lot of minus signs in Celsius. Fahrenheit is somewhat better in that regard, particularly since global warming made most of our winters milder.
Actually, as part of the left, I think everyone should have the opportunity for a good life including enough free time to raise a child. I don't know where you get the idea that the left disapproves of childraising.
In that case, you have to control for birth order. There's lots of things affected by birth order.
If you're going to have children, it's not particularly intelligent to wait until there's likely to be fertility and birth defect problems. If society pushes people that way, then society is stupid.
Mentioning Minnesota, do you mean the Somalis? They congregated in the Twin Cities area not because they were settled by decree, or because the climate was familiar, but because they liked the people here. I'm taking that as a compliment. They took a lot of the lower-level jobs. We had some difficulties with so many Somali cab drivers when some of them refused to carry people with alcoholic beverages, but that got smoothed out. The ones I've had interactions with have always been good people, and I think they're a good addition to the metro area. The kids seem to be learning English just fine, although of course some of the adults never will, and I haven't seen any problems from them.
I swear I did nothing to push my son into computers. He had a really good series of engineering courses in high school, and wanted to be a mechanical or electric engineer. He took an introduction to programming for engineers, changed to Computer Science, and never looked back. He resembles me in so many ways (although he's got the high-functioning ASD but no the depression, fortunately).
Nope. The guy had his hands off the wheel for 37 minutes total, not 37 minutes straight. I've heard that, if it had hands off for long enough without a steering wheel touch, it will slow down with emergency flashers on.
I'm told that railroads found that an engineer can perform a periodic task like stepping down on a pedal in his or her sleep.
Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people. The gun is only there to get the bullet up to speed and pointed in the right direction.
I believe the autopilot will slow down if you have your hands off the wheel for too long. It can't pull over to the side of the road safely.
What apparently happened is that the car warned the driver, and the driver put his hands on the wheel without actually paying attention. That sort of thing is difficult to detect.
As far as the car not seeing the truck, these things aren't perfect. That's why humans need to pay attention until autonomous vehicles get a lot better.
My nice new Forester has adaptive cruise control, which stays a certain distance to the car in front but will not exceed my set speed. It has something like lane-following software, which I tested once with my fingers a centimeter from the wheel. It doesn't do it smoothly.
When allowing my son to practice driving in it (it's the safest vehicle we've got), I told him, "This car has advanced safety features. Do not rely on them."
I once read that automatic takeoff is possible but unwanted, as airlines don't want a plane taking off if there's no pilot on board who can manage a good takeoff.