Where I am the city turned a driving lane into a bike lane. It's quite nice and feels safe. You neither have to worry about getting doored nor about cars coming too close. The only issue is that they remove the lane at major intersections.
I'm going to have to disagree with the comment about rain. I had a wireless ISP with the base station a few miles from my house and there was no density of rain that change the speed at all. This included an ex-hurricane and several rain fall events that caused flooding in lower areas. I do have to admit I was at 4 Mbps.
One nice thing about low, constant, levels of ionizing radiation is that they actually slightly REDUCE the incidence of cancer and the like. (This is part of why Denver residents don't have horrible cancer rates compared to those living nearer sea level.) Apparently the ionizing radiation provokes the production of inducible enzymes that repair DNA and scavenge free radicals - preventing more damage from both radiation and free radicals from the cell's own energy production than the radiation causes. Up to the saturation of the induciblity it's a slight net gain. Unfortunately, the neutrino flux from fusion reactors would be too low to confer this benefit.
How's that kool-aid you're drinking? I think there isn't a strong conclusion on really low doses but that doesn't mean that they are safe.
There is evidence that pre-exposure can help with an exposure, but the pre-exposure still causes health effects. There is also in interesting NBER paper showing health effects that are higher than an LNT model would predict.
They say this money is to display the suit. Though they then go on to say that it will be better maintained through documentation of its current state and research into its history if you fund it.
cute, but there is this thing called the tragedy of the commons and it would prevent you're idea from working. It's also pretty inefficient for me to have to consider each part of the federal budget and give it a thumbs up or down.
Good idea. The IRS traditionally doesn't go after the rich for their full taxes because they hire good lawyers and it takes about 10 years to get a settlement. But I'd throw in money to go after billionaires tax cheats.
I might also mention that while I have a camera in my smart phones, I prefer my point and shoot or DSLR.
While the current gen of phones do take pictures perhaps even better than the point and shoots of old they aren't really up to snuff relative to the current gen of point and shoots, the GoPro. Also, neither can touch the DSLR for image quality. But the DSLR is really heavy and expensive enough that you have to think about theft whenever you have it outside of the house, so it's a real pain.
I think it's really interesting how I'm moderated for this. 50% interesting 30% overrated and 20% troll. There is a lot of passion here about me being wrong.
Or perhaps it's the/. revulsion to having Windows take over. Pretty bad, in my mind, but the only thing worse would be Andriod with its total lack of privacy controls.
Supply management is an interesting application. But is it even close to happening? I'd say RFID might make it possible but I don't think you can check multiple RFIDs at once.
The Internet of Things is something Bill Gates wrote about 20 years ago and it's about as close to reality as it was then. The real issue is that we need an embeddable computer that runs Windows (don't laugh, it's what people know) and costs about $0.05, maybe $0.25 is good enough, but I doubt it. Then We'll start to see the Internet of Things take off.
I have literally zero things that are not internet enabled that I wish were internet enabled. If someone offered me an enabled and non-enabled device I'd take the non-enabled device every time. It's one fewer thing to break and my device is that much less likely to get hacked and broken.
So, basically, it will have to get to the point where everything is enabled for me to buy these things. That will happen when a computer costs basically nothing $0.05 is basically nothing.
It certainly is your option to not have a federal job. I've had three employers over the last decade and all three have lost my PII, not sure how different it is.
1) When you come back to enter more data and expect the fields to be populated (the form takes a day or two to fill out the first time). 2) When you need access to something and the manager of that element has to look at your file to approve it. 3) When you get a new security manager and they have to approve it.
Your basically taking us back to the paper office days. In that time it was really easy to not put two and two together because cross referencing information was really hard.
You have the wrong ISP. Here are how my recent calls to my ISP have gone:
Me: Hi, I can't get online. Them: Your area is up, can we stop by in 10 minutes and check out your equipment. (when they arrive they have one of everything in the car and will replace anything I ask them to replace even if they disagree with my diagnosis.)
OR
Me: I don't seem to be getting the stated speed on this line. Them: Sorry about that. Can you run the speed test again and tell me the results? Me: Yeah, it's a little over now. Them: Anything else I can help you with today?
It's a local ISP that serves a very limited geographic area and it's great.
Am I confused, is this the bug tracker for google maps?
Nevertheless...
google maps doesn't get me where I'm going. It takes me the wrong way on one ways, gives me directions to use roads that either don't exist or are not labeled with the name google is feeding me. In the online version, once I've entered google maps page, anything that requires a click requires quite a bit of thought and searching for how to do it.
Google is really good at search and keeps getting better.
But everything else they do is just awful. Maps, broken and their too stubborn to fix it to what it used to be; android is a mess, my moto G is about 1/2 as fast AT BEST for the MLB app relative to my iPhone, most apps crash every few days, and only one app makes any intuitive sense to me (the google app, love it) whereas about 80% of my iPhone apps make sense right away, plus privacy is just a list of demands and no most of my apps can turn on the camera without asking or even telling me since the "simplified" the permissions interface; google+, 'nuf said; google docs is OK for scheduling when you don't share calendar software, but that comes up only every once in awhile.
Anyways, many tech firms are really just one idea that, once played out, is just done.
The oil and tires are variable costs because you pay them per mile. If you call your insurance you can make your insurance a variable cost in a variety of ways. Even the car itself is a variable cost because you're causing it to depreciate (and increases the frequency of other breakdown) by adding the miles.
The notion that it's just gas is a fiction caused by bad budgeting.
Since the median age of a car in the U.S. is 9, really it's the miles that kill cars now, not the age. For the Hondas I drive it seems like they are priced as if they might make it to 200k, so you're talking about 0.002 of the life of the car. If it's a $20k car, that's another $40 (averaged over the life of the car).
the first two are entirely encapsulated systems and really can't be the problem.
Medicare is paid for by a 2.9 percent tax on income. Fixing it's budget problem of changes in demographics can't be that hard.
Similarly, social security is basically a pay as you go system that is dealing with a demographic shift. You just change to change the tax or benefit replacement rate (fraction of tax paid out per year) and it's fixed.
Defense on the other hand is a problem. I think that if the US spent less on defense our allies would be forced to spend more and we'd also become more competitive for exports. When the U.S. attacked Libya, we had wars going in two theaters and were still able to provide overwhelming force. Meanwhile, several European countries contributions were assets like 2 F-15s 3 weeks into the conflict. This is because that's what their defense plan calls for, for them to have 2 F-15s ready for combat within a month.
Basically, the U.S. is sponsoring all the European socialism via our defense spending because these countries simply don't have to spend money on defense.
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Where I am the city turned a driving lane into a bike lane. It's quite nice and feels safe. You neither have to worry about getting doored nor about cars coming too close. The only issue is that they remove the lane at major intersections.
I'm going to have to disagree with the comment about rain. I had a wireless ISP with the base station a few miles from my house and there was no density of rain that change the speed at all. This included an ex-hurricane and several rain fall events that caused flooding in lower areas. I do have to admit I was at 4 Mbps.
One nice thing about low, constant, levels of ionizing radiation is that they actually slightly REDUCE the incidence of cancer and the like. (This is part of why Denver residents don't have horrible cancer rates compared to those living nearer sea level.) Apparently the ionizing radiation provokes the production of inducible enzymes that repair DNA and scavenge free radicals - preventing more damage from both radiation and free radicals from the cell's own energy production than the radiation causes. Up to the saturation of the induciblity it's a slight net gain. Unfortunately, the neutrino flux from fusion reactors would be too low to confer this benefit.
How's that kool-aid you're drinking? I think there isn't a strong conclusion on really low doses but that doesn't mean that they are safe.
There is evidence that pre-exposure can help with an exposure, but the pre-exposure still causes health effects. There is also in interesting NBER paper showing health effects that are higher than an LNT model would predict.
They say this money is to display the suit. Though they then go on to say that it will be better maintained through documentation of its current state and research into its history if you fund it.
cute, but there is this thing called the tragedy of the commons and it would prevent you're idea from working. It's also pretty inefficient for me to have to consider each part of the federal budget and give it a thumbs up or down.
Good idea. The IRS traditionally doesn't go after the rich for their full taxes because they hire good lawyers and it takes about 10 years to get a settlement. But I'd throw in money to go after billionaires tax cheats.
Most likely? I've got some beach front property I'd like to sell you.
To date, the courts have not been kind when someone actually stood up and challenged bullshit DMCA requests.
That's disappointing. Can you share some examples?
are you sure you know what sui generis means?
This may surprise you, but Gruber does not get a pen at markup and his intentions are not legislative intentions.
It's not walled gardens, Apple actually lets you control the privacy settings on your device.
I might also mention that while I have a camera in my smart phones, I prefer my point and shoot or DSLR.
While the current gen of phones do take pictures perhaps even better than the point and shoots of old they aren't really up to snuff relative to the current gen of point and shoots, the GoPro. Also, neither can touch the DSLR for image quality. But the DSLR is really heavy and expensive enough that you have to think about theft whenever you have it outside of the house, so it's a real pain.
I think it's really interesting how I'm moderated for this. 50% interesting 30% overrated and 20% troll. There is a lot of passion here about me being wrong.
Or perhaps it's the /. revulsion to having Windows take over. Pretty bad, in my mind, but the only thing worse would be Andriod with its total lack of privacy controls.
Supply management is an interesting application. But is it even close to happening? I'd say RFID might make it possible but I don't think you can check multiple RFIDs at once.
The Internet of Things is something Bill Gates wrote about 20 years ago and it's about as close to reality as it was then. The real issue is that we need an embeddable computer that runs Windows (don't laugh, it's what people know) and costs about $0.05, maybe $0.25 is good enough, but I doubt it. Then We'll start to see the Internet of Things take off.
I have literally zero things that are not internet enabled that I wish were internet enabled. If someone offered me an enabled and non-enabled device I'd take the non-enabled device every time. It's one fewer thing to break and my device is that much less likely to get hacked and broken.
So, basically, it will have to get to the point where everything is enabled for me to buy these things. That will happen when a computer costs basically nothing $0.05 is basically nothing.
It certainly is your option to not have a federal job. I've had three employers over the last decade and all three have lost my PII, not sure how different it is.
There are several other problems.
1) When you come back to enter more data and expect the fields to be populated (the form takes a day or two to fill out the first time).
2) When you need access to something and the manager of that element has to look at your file to approve it.
3) When you get a new security manager and they have to approve it.
Your basically taking us back to the paper office days. In that time it was really easy to not put two and two together because cross referencing information was really hard.
When you go fill out the SF-86 they populate it with the information from the last time you filled it out. It makes the process faster.
The SF-86 is an online form. How are you going to airgap that?
You have the wrong ISP. Here are how my recent calls to my ISP have gone:
Me: Hi, I can't get online.
Them: Your area is up, can we stop by in 10 minutes and check out your equipment. (when they arrive they have one of everything in the car and will replace anything I ask them to replace even if they disagree with my diagnosis.)
OR
Me: I don't seem to be getting the stated speed on this line.
Them: Sorry about that. Can you run the speed test again and tell me the results?
Me: Yeah, it's a little over now.
Them: Anything else I can help you with today?
It's a local ISP that serves a very limited geographic area and it's great.
Am I confused, is this the bug tracker for google maps?
Nevertheless...
google maps doesn't get me where I'm going. It takes me the wrong way on one ways, gives me directions to use roads that either don't exist or are not labeled with the name google is feeding me. In the online version, once I've entered google maps page, anything that requires a click requires quite a bit of thought and searching for how to do it.
Google is really good at search and keeps getting better.
But everything else they do is just awful. Maps, broken and their too stubborn to fix it to what it used to be; android is a mess, my moto G is about 1/2 as fast AT BEST for the MLB app relative to my iPhone, most apps crash every few days, and only one app makes any intuitive sense to me (the google app, love it) whereas about 80% of my iPhone apps make sense right away, plus privacy is just a list of demands and no most of my apps can turn on the camera without asking or even telling me since the "simplified" the permissions interface; google+, 'nuf said; google docs is OK for scheduling when you don't share calendar software, but that comes up only every once in awhile.
Anyways, many tech firms are really just one idea that, once played out, is just done.
The oil and tires are variable costs because you pay them per mile. If you call your insurance you can make your insurance a variable cost in a variety of ways. Even the car itself is a variable cost because you're causing it to depreciate (and increases the frequency of other breakdown) by adding the miles.
The notion that it's just gas is a fiction caused by bad budgeting.
Since the median age of a car in the U.S. is 9, really it's the miles that kill cars now, not the age. For the Hondas I drive it seems like they are priced as if they might make it to 200k, so you're talking about 0.002 of the life of the car. If it's a $20k car, that's another $40 (averaged over the life of the car).
the first two are entirely encapsulated systems and really can't be the problem.
Medicare is paid for by a 2.9 percent tax on income. Fixing it's budget problem of changes in demographics can't be that hard.
Similarly, social security is basically a pay as you go system that is dealing with a demographic shift. You just change to change the tax or benefit replacement rate (fraction of tax paid out per year) and it's fixed.
Defense on the other hand is a problem. I think that if the US spent less on defense our allies would be forced to spend more and we'd also become more competitive for exports. When the U.S. attacked Libya, we had wars going in two theaters and were still able to provide overwhelming force. Meanwhile, several European countries contributions were assets like 2 F-15s 3 weeks into the conflict. This is because that's what their defense plan calls for, for them to have 2 F-15s ready for combat within a month.
Basically, the U.S. is sponsoring all the European socialism via our defense spending because these countries simply don't have to spend money on defense.