A lot of people are getting excited about the new VW EVs because there are rumours that they will be extremely cheap. Like 20k Euro cheap, with a 200+ mile range. Personally I'm quite sceptical of that, I don't think they can get the battery cost down far enough, but we shall see. Maybe they can save money by making the cars extremely basic in other ways.
They got the battery cost down by using standard AAs. The first 200 miles if free, after that it's $1000 for your next set of batteries for another couple hundred miles. For an extra $30,000 you can upgrade to rechargeable batteries.
In a DMCA notice, you state "I am the copyright holder and I believe you are using my copyrighted item illegally". The "I am the copyright holder" part must be true under threat of perjury. The rest not.
In the present case, they're not the copyright holder. There's nothing there that they could claim to hold a copyright on.
Aren't these notices sworn under penalty of perjury? I know it's more fun to prosecute black kids for loitering or whatever, but it'd be so nice, just once, to see a prosecutor give a damn about this sort of stuff. And it'd only take one to make it stop.
no, health insurance costs did not rise after the ACA. some 'budget' plans which were basically scams were dropped, and health provider costs _continued_ to rise as they had been for years before ACA.
You always post this looney left talking point, and it's not even remotely true. They weren't junk plans. I know plenty of people who lost good insurance and had trouble replacing it. Mary Katherine Hamm wrote extensively about the issues she had with health insurance, and I'd suggest you read her factual story to see what really happened.
"The train was traveling 78 miles (126 kilometers) an hour when it hit a curve near DuPont, Washington, where the speed limit was 30 miles an hour."
My first thought was "why in 2018 do engineers still drive trains?" Seriously. Why is there a human involved in constantly changing the speed of the train - which is literally a complete job description. Set the speed. That's it.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be a human, and I think it's silly to remove humans from the equation simply because they're such a tiny cost and worth it.
Airplane manufacturers figured this out decades ago with autopilot. You have a pilot who does the hard stuff like taking off and landing, but for normal flying around at cruising altitude the plane flies itself. If the plane hits a rough patch or whatever the pilot will take over.
Driving a train in one dimension is much, much, (imagine about a thousand more "much"s) easier than flying a plane in three dimensions. Especially with GPS. It should be the case that a human drives the train one time on the route, his speed adjustments are noted 10 times a second or whatever, and then the computer simply does the same thing every time, setting the instantaneous speed based on location. Then, the human sits there and takes over if there's a person on the tracks or whatever.
Here's what I'm getting to. I'm literally baffled that this isn't normal. Seriously. How can someone even hit a cure at two and a half times the safe speed? This problem can be solved with hundred year old technology.
"NTSB investigators have said that an automated braking system known as Positive Train Control, which is required on railroads by the end of this year but wasn’t yet working on that section of track, would have prevented the accident."
Wow, you guys got right on that.
So, yeah, sorry to say I'm not real impressed with whatever China's doing there with "driverless train".
I pay $3 a month for millions of songs off Spotify. Anything else I can pirate. I don't give a shit about my "posterity" since I know my children won't give a fuck about about my "old music" as much as i don't give a fuck about my dad's "old records".
About 90% of the music my kids listen to is "old music". They'd rather listen to Led Zeppelin than Justin Bieber. I still have around 500 CDs and they have that music on their phones. Actually, my older son has been going through that entire collection song by song and curating playlists with his favs.
They definitely get free medical care at emergency rooms. I have a friend who works at the local public hospital, and she says most of the emergency room traffic and many admitted patients are illegals.
Also, Nashville schools give all students free lunch, and many are illegals. I know kids who are illegal- born in Mexico but raised here from a young age.
I bought a new microwave from amazon once. I needed a specific model to replace the one I had so I wouldnâ(TM)t have to mess around with installing it. It came, and the box was in bad shape. Opened it, styrofoam was in pieces, some missing, microwave was damaged, really bad. I noticed the box had multiple shipping label packets.
Someone had bought it on Wayfair and then returned it. I know who and when because her information was all there, including the return label. Someone then bought it and tried to pass it off as new on Amazon.
They got a one-star review and I got a new microwave. An actual âoenewâ one.
Watching miss universe a couple of nights ago, they had three commentators, including a very effeminate man who was probably some fashion guy. He got excited near the start and said âoethis is like the World Series of fashion; of course I shouldnâ(TM)t use a football analogy.â
Yeah, probably not. Especially when nerds are laughing at you.
It also doesn't make sense to recycle plastic simply because it's cheaper to make new plastic. The best thing you can do with used plastic is mentioned in this article:
"News" without an editor is a social problem that existed far less before the Internet became available because it was too expensive to distribute fake news.
Concrete is made with cement and aggregate. Cement is not the same as concrete. The two are not interchangeable.
"Cement" is also a generic term. What we're actually talking about here is "Portland Cement". Roads are typically made with "asphalt cement" and aggregate, for example, which is totally unrelated.
I had a look and it's literally impossible to report problematic hashtags on Instagram. Apparently unless you are major media organization giving them bad press then they don't care.
I actually stumbled across that while looking for "feeder". I was familiar with that term from something I'd seen about the disorder before. It was a couple who were into that, and the "goal" was for the woman to become immobilized by obesity and rely on the boyfriend for both the feeding and - not to put too fine a point on it - cleaning the bed pan.
The "feeder" tag has some other stuff in it, but "feedee" and "feedeegirl" came up there as hashtags alongside "feeder". Obviously there are no other meaning for "feedeegirl".
This is as dangerous as anorexia or bulimia, but I doubt it's on their radar.
One other thing, if I have wide database output or whatever, at standard font size I can get up to 635 columns and/or 134 rows on this screen. I also edit documents in full-page mode.
I too have been using 4k TVs as monitors for years now and definitely wont go back, but...
The laptop's a few years old so I only get 30Hz, but I can handle that.
My god man, there's probably a ton of input lag too. Invest in yourself, spend a few hundred dollars, and get something that can do 4k 4:4:4 at 60Hz.
There's no real input lag as both have a "game mode" that's low latency. The issue is that laptop, not the TVs. I could get an adaptor for the Mac that would do 60, but it just doesn't matter.
Agreed. People ask me "how big are your browser windows?" and the answer is "same size as on your screen, I just can have 6 of them with no overlapping. I'm not looking for the great resolution, I'm looking at real estate. My Macbook's screen is much higher DPI than my TV, and it's beautiful. But doesn't help with programming.
I mentioned the 256x192 screen because I knew it would set off a small avalanche of oneupmanship. I have not been let down:) Actually, I appreciate both stories. It's great to see how far we've come.
I've been using UHD TVs as my main desktop for a couple of years now, so I have a little experience in this field. The colors aren't perfect but they're so far on this side of "good enough" that it doesn't matter. If I need color perfection I can just use the laptop's screen.
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That was great. I probably should have been a writer there.
Most - if not all - states have a FOIA equivalent at the state level. In Tennessee, it's 10-7-503, for instance:
https://law.justia.com/codes/t...
A lot of people are getting excited about the new VW EVs because there are rumours that they will be extremely cheap. Like 20k Euro cheap, with a 200+ mile range. Personally I'm quite sceptical of that, I don't think they can get the battery cost down far enough, but we shall see. Maybe they can save money by making the cars extremely basic in other ways.
They got the battery cost down by using standard AAs. The first 200 miles if free, after that it's $1000 for your next set of batteries for another couple hundred miles. For an extra $30,000 you can upgrade to rechargeable batteries.
In a DMCA notice, you state "I am the copyright holder and I believe you are using my copyrighted item illegally". The "I am the copyright holder" part must be true under threat of perjury. The rest not.
In the present case, they're not the copyright holder. There's nothing there that they could claim to hold a copyright on.
Aren't these notices sworn under penalty of perjury? I know it's more fun to prosecute black kids for loitering or whatever, but it'd be so nice, just once, to see a prosecutor give a damn about this sort of stuff. And it'd only take one to make it stop.
The Senate is *supposed* to represent the interest of the *states*.
no, health insurance costs did not rise after the ACA. some 'budget' plans which were basically scams were dropped, and health provider costs _continued_ to rise as they had been for years before ACA.
You always post this looney left talking point, and it's not even remotely true. They weren't junk plans. I know plenty of people who lost good insurance and had trouble replacing it. Mary Katherine Hamm wrote extensively about the issues she had with health insurance, and I'd suggest you read her factual story to see what really happened.
How does âoeturn of the millenniumâ sound?
I remember a year ago when this happened:
https://www.insurancejournal.c...
"The train was traveling 78 miles (126 kilometers) an hour when it hit a curve near DuPont, Washington, where the speed limit was 30 miles an hour."
My first thought was "why in 2018 do engineers still drive trains?" Seriously. Why is there a human involved in constantly changing the speed of the train - which is literally a complete job description. Set the speed. That's it.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be a human, and I think it's silly to remove humans from the equation simply because they're such a tiny cost and worth it.
Airplane manufacturers figured this out decades ago with autopilot. You have a pilot who does the hard stuff like taking off and landing, but for normal flying around at cruising altitude the plane flies itself. If the plane hits a rough patch or whatever the pilot will take over.
Driving a train in one dimension is much, much, (imagine about a thousand more "much"s) easier than flying a plane in three dimensions. Especially with GPS. It should be the case that a human drives the train one time on the route, his speed adjustments are noted 10 times a second or whatever, and then the computer simply does the same thing every time, setting the instantaneous speed based on location. Then, the human sits there and takes over if there's a person on the tracks or whatever.
Here's what I'm getting to. I'm literally baffled that this isn't normal. Seriously. How can someone even hit a cure at two and a half times the safe speed? This problem can be solved with hundred year old technology.
"NTSB investigators have said that an automated braking system known as Positive Train Control, which is required on railroads by the end of this year but wasn’t yet working on that section of track, would have prevented the accident."
Wow, you guys got right on that.
So, yeah, sorry to say I'm not real impressed with whatever China's doing there with "driverless train".
I pay $3 a month for millions of songs off Spotify. Anything else I can pirate. I don't give a shit about my "posterity" since I know my children won't give a fuck about about my "old music" as much as i don't give a fuck about my dad's "old records".
About 90% of the music my kids listen to is "old music". They'd rather listen to Led Zeppelin than Justin Bieber. I still have around 500 CDs and they have that music on their phones. Actually, my older son has been going through that entire collection song by song and curating playlists with his favs.
As the Gulf Coast tends to see tropical systems of varying strength from time to time.
If they buffed up the wind turbines sufficiently they could power North America when a hurricane came through.
They definitely get free medical care at emergency rooms. I have a friend who works at the local public hospital, and she says most of the emergency room traffic and many admitted patients are illegals.
Also, Nashville schools give all students free lunch, and many are illegals. I know kids who are illegal- born in Mexico but raised here from a young age.
Yes, illegals get government benefits. Sorry.
I bought a new microwave from amazon once. I needed a specific model to replace the one I had so I wouldnâ(TM)t have to mess around with installing it. It came, and the box was in bad shape. Opened it, styrofoam was in pieces, some missing, microwave was damaged, really bad. I noticed the box had multiple shipping label packets.
Someone had bought it on Wayfair and then returned it. I know who and when because her information was all there, including the return label. Someone then bought it and tried to pass it off as new on Amazon.
They got a one-star review and I got a new microwave. An actual âoenewâ one.
Watching miss universe a couple of nights ago, they had three commentators, including a very effeminate man who was probably some fashion guy. He got excited near the start and said âoethis is like the World Series of fashion; of course I shouldnâ(TM)t use a football analogy.â
Yeah, probably not. Especially when nerds are laughing at you.
It also doesn't make sense to recycle plastic simply because it's cheaper to make new plastic. The best thing you can do with used plastic is mentioned in this article:
http://sciencenordic.com/why-s...
Spoiler: burn it for energy.
"News" without an editor is a social problem that existed far less before the Internet became available because it was too expensive to distribute fake news.
The laughter that you're hearing is Dan Rather...
Concrete is made with cement and aggregate. Cement is not the same as concrete. The two are not interchangeable.
"Cement" is also a generic term. What we're actually talking about here is "Portland Cement". Roads are typically made with "asphalt cement" and aggregate, for example, which is totally unrelated.
I'm all for this, but whaddya bet this will continue unabated:
https://www.instagram.com/expl...
Dude, a little warning would've been nice!
I had no warning, so you get to suffer alongside me.
I had a look and it's literally impossible to report problematic hashtags on Instagram. Apparently unless you are major media organization giving them bad press then they don't care.
I actually stumbled across that while looking for "feeder". I was familiar with that term from something I'd seen about the disorder before. It was a couple who were into that, and the "goal" was for the woman to become immobilized by obesity and rely on the boyfriend for both the feeding and - not to put too fine a point on it - cleaning the bed pan.
The "feeder" tag has some other stuff in it, but "feedee" and "feedeegirl" came up there as hashtags alongside "feeder". Obviously there are no other meaning for "feedeegirl".
This is as dangerous as anorexia or bulimia, but I doubt it's on their radar.
I'm all for this, but whaddya bet this will continue unabated:
https://www.instagram.com/expl...
One other thing, if I have wide database output or whatever, at standard font size I can get up to 635 columns and/or 134 rows on this screen. I also edit documents in full-page mode.
I too have been using 4k TVs as monitors for years now and definitely wont go back, but...
The laptop's a few years old so I only get 30Hz, but I can handle that.
My god man, there's probably a ton of input lag too. Invest in yourself, spend a few hundred dollars, and get something that can do 4k 4:4:4 at 60Hz.
There's no real input lag as both have a "game mode" that's low latency. The issue is that laptop, not the TVs. I could get an adaptor for the Mac that would do 60, but it just doesn't matter.
Agreed. People ask me "how big are your browser windows?" and the answer is "same size as on your screen, I just can have 6 of them with no overlapping. I'm not looking for the great resolution, I'm looking at real estate. My Macbook's screen is much higher DPI than my TV, and it's beautiful. But doesn't help with programming.
I mentioned the 256x192 screen because I knew it would set off a small avalanche of oneupmanship. I have not been let down :) Actually, I appreciate both stories. It's great to see how far we've come.
I've been using UHD TVs as my main desktop for a couple of years now, so I have a little experience in this field. The colors aren't perfect but they're so far on this side of "good enough" that it doesn't matter. If I need color perfection I can just use the laptop's screen.
Michael