Land lines have a number of advantages over cell phones. For one, I can have one land line that anybody in the house can answer from any of about a half dozen extensions that I have in the house. With a cell phone, you have to lug it with you in order to answer it, but with a land line, there is an extension in most every room that I am likely to answer a phone in. I don't know about other people, but when I get home, the cell phone comes off the belt clip (in fact, the belt usually comes off and I put on some shorts), and I usually ignore the cell phone until the next morning.
Another advantage with land lines is that if you are trying to reach someone at home, you can just ring the number. You don't have to try to guess which one of your family members might be home and then call their cell phone.
Another advantage of a land line is that cell phones are unnecessarily expensive. For the cost of one cell phone, I could have two land lines.Yet I have 7 people in my household. I could get 1 landline for the cost of 1/14th of the amount of cell phones required to meet the need.
Another advantage of the land line is that the batteries don't die.
Another advantage is that nobody can text you on a landline.
Another advantage is that when people illegally call your phone number which is also on the do-not-call list, on your landline it only costs you your patience and not actual minutes of use like it does when they illegally call you cell phone number.
So when's the lottery going to start this scam? "Oh sorry, I know we read your winning numbers but you really didn't win"
Happened to me once. I had a ticket from Florida that was a winner (something like 6 bucks, wow). I followed their instructions for redeeming the ticket. Several weeks later I got back a letter from the lottery commission telling me that my ticket was determined not to be a winner. Always make copies.
I heard recently about an issue at a convenience store where someone brought in a ticket and said they thought they had a winner. The clerk replied that they did not and kept the ticket. Later the patron thought he should check the rules online and found out that the ticket had indeed been a winner.
Then there is another case where the government passed a lottery at the people's behest and claimed it would benefit the schools to the tune of millions of dollars a year, but then the government said "Sorry, schools, you really didn't win the jackpot, you only won a couple of hundred grand."
Yeah, that's what happened to me last time I was pulled over. No, wait what actually happened was that I was very rude to the cop, due to it being very late and I was in a bad part of town searching desperately for a way out, and when I passed the poorly marked entrance ramp to the highway, I chose to back up about 10 feet on the deserted road in order to avoid driving around in the bad neighborhood for another 10 minutes. The cop apparently thought I had seen him at the upcoming stoplight and was trying to run away from him.
Anyway, even though I was rude to him, he did none of those things you mentioned, and also did not give me a ticket.
Reminds me of a scam were crooks were fake sending invoices to small companies for printer/copier toner cartridges that were never sent and demand payment. The scam worked because it was cheaper to pay the invoice(s) than paying a lawyer to go after them.
I had a company actually send me some supplies unsolicited and then demand payment. We had just gotten a new credit card machine at our business, and I guess this fly-by-night company bought a list of people who had bought the credit card machine, and they called our business and talked to our receptionist. They asked if we had such-and-such model credit card machine, and she said yes. They said they were going to send out some supplies. Since we had just bought it, she assumed that it was the company we bought it from giving us some freebies. They did not mention any cost. The box showed up, and then an invoice for about 4 times the market cost of the supplies. I called them up and they said our receptionist "OKed" it. I told them that I was sending it back at their expense since I didn't want to deal with crooked companies. I sent it back using their account number, but Fedex didn't reverse the shipping, so the box just came right back to us. By then, I decided that I had put enough effort in and just used the supplies. I never paid the invoice, and we had a four year supply of ink and printer that we didn't have to go buy.
That said, a number of questionable companies will happily tell you something is a one time deal and then go ahead and send more stuff and demand payment. I have had Amex stop payment on Richard Simmons and Home Shopping Network for just such reasons.
Unless you are flying a 1958 Piper cub that has never had it's gear upgraded, you dont have a problem.
And if you are flying a 1958 Piper Cub that has never had its gear upgraded, then you are running steam gauges and still don't have a problem. Worst case, it interferes a little with the radio.
The rough equivalent would be a freshly-licensed teenager driving a new Accord off the lot in the middle of a thunderstorm, losing control, and crashing... then saying that it's Honda's fault because they didn't teach him to drive in bad weather.
I disagree. He's at leased licensed to drive a car. It's more like a freshly-licensed teenager driving a new Peterbilt with a 48 foot trailer and crashing that, and then suing Peterbilt because they didn't teach him to drive a fully loaded semi truck.
You also are doing the inspection on VFR days, so if VOR gets screwed up it's not that big of a deal.
How about if you have a fancy new glass cockpit and your MFD goes out due to interference?
The truth of the matter is, there is very little possibility of interference in most any modern gadget, and much more possibility that if there was an accident, the gadget would become a projectile. But they don't exactly want to go declaring that fact at the beginning of every flight, now do they?
Imagine trying to match a child's dirty fingerprint to a database.
In the real world of forensics, a print does not lead you to a single person, but brings up a list of possible matches for a human to look at and evaluate. The same is true in a biometric reader. This is why every biometric meter I have come into contact with also requires you to enter a pin number or other information in order to verify your identity. The biometric data is useless by itself, but once the PIN is entered, it is able to verify that the PIN is associated with a group of possible matches that include your fingerprint.
Now, they would either have to employ a forensics specialist to look at all the possible matches from the kids fingerprint, or they could just have the librarian ask the kid their name.
Reading the story, they are already doing the latter in addition to the scanning, so the biometric system is only there to verify if the name given really is a possible match for the fingerprint given.
Your fingerprint, like most biometrics data, is not what I would call "Private information".
I still say it is private. I may choose to or not to leave it all over the place, as it suits me. However, that does not give anyone the right to ask me to provide it to them. The same for my face. People can view it in public, if I choose to, or not, if I choose so. However, people should not be able to just come up and take a photograph of me without my bidding.
You try to get a six year old to remember a pin number or library card.
I don't see why six year olds in U.K. have more trouble remembering a PIN then they do here in the U.S. My kids have a 5 digit number they have to remember. In the cafeteria, not the library, but the concept is the same.
Put a data center in Oklahoma, and you'll find some nice cheap IT workers, who have very little idea what they are doing.
I think you will find that there are plenty of well-educated, intelligent IT workers in Oklahoma who choose to be here because they are willing to trade off 25% lower salaries for being able to buy a home for less than 1/4 what it costs in larger markets. Plus Oklahoma City was voted by Forbes as the most recession proof city.
I enjoy living in Oklahoma. Relatively balmy winters, a little hot in the summer, but not unbearably so, and I live in a 15 year old 3 story 5,000 square foot house on an acre of land within 7 miles of the center of Oklahoma City. I purchased it for only $255,000. Oh, and the economy is not tanking here. My house is worth over 50% more than when I bought it 8 years ago.
There are several thriving data centers here in Oklahoma City. Our company was entertaining data centers in the LA area and Atlanta, and we actually had one in Dallas, but it turned out to be much better for our pocketbook, uptime and customer support to have it in Oklahoma City.
How far from the predicted epicenter lived the guys who believed in the 2012 thing?
That's a trick question. Most of the people who believed in that 2012 thing are still living. I have seen no proof that the Mayans actually believed the world would end in 2012.
Yes, it annoys me too, but whenever someone says it is as high as an X story building, they need to also mention "provided that the X story building has exactly 10 foot floors", as that is what the inevitably use for the floor height. At least in the U.S.
is whether they calculated the mean depth by assuming the oceans are flat with varying depth, or assuming it is spherical.
Assume spherical oceans of uniform density.
I wonder if you need to correct for the oil if you use the Gulf of Mexico units. Or perhaps it just counts for that date.
Yes, and a trucker needs to correct for the weight of the smashed insects on the window when he puts his truck on the scales.
For each gallon of oil spilled in the ocean, there are more than 600 billion gallons of water.
The answer to all of your questions is the same. They are just spouting theoretical numbers based on hoped for future breakthroughs in engine design and composite strength. It's just like the space elevator. They already know that they want to use mahogany handrails, and it should be painted white, and they know what music and which celebrities will be at the unveiling. In fact, just about everything is set to go except for the actual material hasn't been invented yet.
If sex is nothing special, easily available, and entirely approved, how long would it take to get rather bored of it?
I don't know, but if someone gets an NSF grant to study this, I am willing to be a participant.
I find it ironic and more than a little insulting when certain hotels (ones that typically charge high room rates) try to gouge an insane amount of money for wifi from travellers when free wifi is all but the nearest coffee shop away.
Its not just Wifi.
If you would pay more attention, you would find that the same Hotels which charge more for rooms also have fewer complementary amenities. The cheaper brand hotels will often have free Wifi, free local phone calls, free continental breakfast, free cookies at the front desk, and other complementary services. While the hotels that are already gouging you on room rates, also tend to be the ones that charge additional fees for Wifi, phone calls, breakfast, and everything else.
If we put them a little farther out, then they will be over the horizon and out of sight. At 25 miles out, a 400 foot structure would be hidden by the curvature of the Earth. Then it is just a question of power distribution, which is not much more complicated at 25 miles than at 10 miles. The continental shelf extends for well over 25 miles, so the water is less than 500 feet deep even at that distance.
Maybe we could put it on a rocket and shoot it into space? Everything up there is constantly bathed in cosmic radiation anyway.
Or maybe we could put it back where it came from in the first place. Surely now that it has expended enough energy to generate all kinds of electricity, it must be less dangerous now that it was before?
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Land lines have a number of advantages over cell phones. For one, I can have one land line that anybody in the house can answer from any of about a half dozen extensions that I have in the house. With a cell phone, you have to lug it with you in order to answer it, but with a land line, there is an extension in most every room that I am likely to answer a phone in. I don't know about other people, but when I get home, the cell phone comes off the belt clip (in fact, the belt usually comes off and I put on some shorts), and I usually ignore the cell phone until the next morning.
Another advantage with land lines is that if you are trying to reach someone at home, you can just ring the number. You don't have to try to guess which one of your family members might be home and then call their cell phone.
Another advantage of a land line is that cell phones are unnecessarily expensive. For the cost of one cell phone, I could have two land lines.Yet I have 7 people in my household. I could get 1 landline for the cost of 1/14th of the amount of cell phones required to meet the need.
Another advantage of the land line is that the batteries don't die.
Another advantage is that nobody can text you on a landline.
Another advantage is that when people illegally call your phone number which is also on the do-not-call list, on your landline it only costs you your patience and not actual minutes of use like it does when they illegally call you cell phone number.
So when's the lottery going to start this scam? "Oh sorry, I know we read your winning numbers but you really didn't win"
Happened to me once. I had a ticket from Florida that was a winner (something like 6 bucks, wow). I followed their instructions for redeeming the ticket. Several weeks later I got back a letter from the lottery commission telling me that my ticket was determined not to be a winner. Always make copies.
I heard recently about an issue at a convenience store where someone brought in a ticket and said they thought they had a winner. The clerk replied that they did not and kept the ticket. Later the patron thought he should check the rules online and found out that the ticket had indeed been a winner.
Then there is another case where the government passed a lottery at the people's behest and claimed it would benefit the schools to the tune of millions of dollars a year, but then the government said "Sorry, schools, you really didn't win the jackpot, you only won a couple of hundred grand."
Yeah, that's what happened to me last time I was pulled over. No, wait what actually happened was that I was very rude to the cop, due to it being very late and I was in a bad part of town searching desperately for a way out, and when I passed the poorly marked entrance ramp to the highway, I chose to back up about 10 feet on the deserted road in order to avoid driving around in the bad neighborhood for another 10 minutes. The cop apparently thought I had seen him at the upcoming stoplight and was trying to run away from him.
Anyway, even though I was rude to him, he did none of those things you mentioned, and also did not give me a ticket.
Reminds me of a scam were crooks were fake sending invoices to small companies for printer/copier toner cartridges that were never sent and demand payment. The scam worked because it was cheaper to pay the invoice(s) than paying a lawyer to go after them.
I had a company actually send me some supplies unsolicited and then demand payment. We had just gotten a new credit card machine at our business, and I guess this fly-by-night company bought a list of people who had bought the credit card machine, and they called our business and talked to our receptionist. They asked if we had such-and-such model credit card machine, and she said yes. They said they were going to send out some supplies. Since we had just bought it, she assumed that it was the company we bought it from giving us some freebies. They did not mention any cost. The box showed up, and then an invoice for about 4 times the market cost of the supplies. I called them up and they said our receptionist "OKed" it. I told them that I was sending it back at their expense since I didn't want to deal with crooked companies. I sent it back using their account number, but Fedex didn't reverse the shipping, so the box just came right back to us. By then, I decided that I had put enough effort in and just used the supplies. I never paid the invoice, and we had a four year supply of ink and printer that we didn't have to go buy.
That said, a number of questionable companies will happily tell you something is a one time deal and then go ahead and send more stuff and demand payment. I have had Amex stop payment on Richard Simmons and Home Shopping Network for just such reasons.
Unless you are flying a 1958 Piper cub that has never had it's gear upgraded, you dont have a problem.
And if you are flying a 1958 Piper Cub that has never had its gear upgraded, then you are running steam gauges and still don't have a problem. Worst case, it interferes a little with the radio.
The rough equivalent would be a freshly-licensed teenager driving a new Accord off the lot in the middle of a thunderstorm, losing control, and crashing... then saying that it's Honda's fault because they didn't teach him to drive in bad weather.
I disagree. He's at leased licensed to drive a car. It's more like a freshly-licensed teenager driving a new Peterbilt with a 48 foot trailer and crashing that, and then suing Peterbilt because they didn't teach him to drive a fully loaded semi truck.
You also are doing the inspection on VFR days, so if VOR gets screwed up it's not that big of a deal.
How about if you have a fancy new glass cockpit and your MFD goes out due to interference?
The truth of the matter is, there is very little possibility of interference in most any modern gadget, and much more possibility that if there was an accident, the gadget would become a projectile. But they don't exactly want to go declaring that fact at the beginning of every flight, now do they?
Imagine trying to match a child's dirty fingerprint to a database.
In the real world of forensics, a print does not lead you to a single person, but brings up a list of possible matches for a human to look at and evaluate. The same is true in a biometric reader. This is why every biometric meter I have come into contact with also requires you to enter a pin number or other information in order to verify your identity. The biometric data is useless by itself, but once the PIN is entered, it is able to verify that the PIN is associated with a group of possible matches that include your fingerprint.
Now, they would either have to employ a forensics specialist to look at all the possible matches from the kids fingerprint, or they could just have the librarian ask the kid their name.
Reading the story, they are already doing the latter in addition to the scanning, so the biometric system is only there to verify if the name given really is a possible match for the fingerprint given.
Your fingerprint, like most biometrics data, is not what I would call "Private information".
I still say it is private. I may choose to or not to leave it all over the place, as it suits me. However, that does not give anyone the right to ask me to provide it to them. The same for my face. People can view it in public, if I choose to, or not, if I choose so. However, people should not be able to just come up and take a photograph of me without my bidding.
Does this mathematical template have a name? Like CCITT Group IV TIFF or something clever like that?
You try to get a six year old to remember a pin number or library card.
I don't see why six year olds in U.K. have more trouble remembering a PIN then they do here in the U.S. My kids have a 5 digit number they have to remember. In the cafeteria, not the library, but the concept is the same.
Put a data center in Oklahoma, and you'll find some nice cheap IT workers, who have very little idea what they are doing.
I think you will find that there are plenty of well-educated, intelligent IT workers in Oklahoma who choose to be here because they are willing to trade off 25% lower salaries for being able to buy a home for less than 1/4 what it costs in larger markets. Plus Oklahoma City was voted by Forbes as the most recession proof city.
I enjoy living in Oklahoma. Relatively balmy winters, a little hot in the summer, but not unbearably so, and I live in a 15 year old 3 story 5,000 square foot house on an acre of land within 7 miles of the center of Oklahoma City. I purchased it for only $255,000. Oh, and the economy is not tanking here. My house is worth over 50% more than when I bought it 8 years ago.
There are several thriving data centers here in Oklahoma City. Our company was entertaining data centers in the LA area and Atlanta, and we actually had one in Dallas, but it turned out to be much better for our pocketbook, uptime and customer support to have it in Oklahoma City.
How far from the predicted epicenter lived the guys who believed in the 2012 thing?
That's a trick question. Most of the people who believed in that 2012 thing are still living. I have seen no proof that the Mayans actually believed the world would end in 2012.
It's like calling these things that are called SUVs an SUV when they are neither sporty nor utility.
Yes, it annoys me too, but whenever someone says it is as high as an X story building, they need to also mention "provided that the X story building has exactly 10 foot floors", as that is what the inevitably use for the floor height. At least in the U.S.
There's easily 3.2 billion people in the world who have no idea what a mile or a kilometre is.
is whether they calculated the mean depth by assuming the oceans are flat with varying depth, or assuming it is spherical.
Assume spherical oceans of uniform density.
I wonder if you need to correct for the oil if you use the Gulf of Mexico units. Or perhaps it just counts for that date.
Yes, and a trucker needs to correct for the weight of the smashed insects on the window when he puts his truck on the scales.
For each gallon of oil spilled in the ocean, there are more than 600 billion gallons of water.
Lucky for you, although half that number also have no idea what a kilometre is, they also have no idea about this news story.
The answer to all of your questions is the same. They are just spouting theoretical numbers based on hoped for future breakthroughs in engine design and composite strength. It's just like the space elevator. They already know that they want to use mahogany handrails, and it should be painted white, and they know what music and which celebrities will be at the unveiling. In fact, just about everything is set to go except for the actual material hasn't been invented yet.
He also mentioned the wind, which is ultimately an effect of the sun heating different sections of the Earth to different degrees.
If sex is nothing special, easily available, and entirely approved, how long would it take to get rather bored of it?
I don't know, but if someone gets an NSF grant to study this, I am willing to be a participant.
I find it ironic and more than a little insulting when certain hotels (ones that typically charge high room rates) try to gouge an insane amount of money for wifi from travellers when free wifi is all but the nearest coffee shop away.
Its not just Wifi.
If you would pay more attention, you would find that the same Hotels which charge more for rooms also have fewer complementary amenities. The cheaper brand hotels will often have free Wifi, free local phone calls, free continental breakfast, free cookies at the front desk, and other complementary services. While the hotels that are already gouging you on room rates, also tend to be the ones that charge additional fees for Wifi, phone calls, breakfast, and everything else.
If we put them a little farther out, then they will be over the horizon and out of sight. At 25 miles out, a 400 foot structure would be hidden by the curvature of the Earth. Then it is just a question of power distribution, which is not much more complicated at 25 miles than at 10 miles. The continental shelf extends for well over 25 miles, so the water is less than 500 feet deep even at that distance.
Maybe we could put it on a rocket and shoot it into space? Everything up there is constantly bathed in cosmic radiation anyway.
Or maybe we could put it back where it came from in the first place. Surely now that it has expended enough energy to generate all kinds of electricity, it must be less dangerous now that it was before?