Just because the cop said he faces charges that could result in prison time doesn't mean he's going to prison.
If (as you seem to think) he is a poor misguided child who displayed bad judgement on this one occasion, he will certainly be given counseling and probation.
On the other hand, if he's a thug who has already been arrested several times and has shown no indication of improved behavior after the usual help provided to first and second offenders, there isn't much else that can be done besides keep him away from the rest of society
Chicago and LA are bad examples because those are popular destinations.
An regional airport about an hour from where I live only gets four flights in and out a day, and the planes are usually 3/4 empty. The only reason the airport is open is because the government requires the airlines provide service to it; tickets on those flights are heavily subsidized - I read an estimate that each ticket sold represents a loss of about $600. I can get a ticket to fly into a major hub airport about 2 hours away or a ticket to the regional airport for a bit less because of that subsidy. The airline doesn't want to sell you or me the cheaper ticket, but they're required to offer them.
I don't blame the airline for trying to stop people from using that subsidy to get a cheaper flight into the hub.
Through a self-perpetuating ecosystem of developers, the banks will continue to gather high-value data from customers through third party integration.
I read the article but don't really understand what a "self-perpetuating ecosystem of developers" would do for me. It sounds like they're planning to breed.
Vote fraud happens. They threw out that particular election but I don't think any of the people who committed fraud were ever charged. And dozens of precincts in Philadelphia haven't had a single vote for a Republican presidential candidate in decades.
Stinson's absentee ballot campaign led to hundreds of improper votes, mostly in the district's Latino and African American neighborhoods. Those improper votes included forgeries and instances in which workers either marked ballots for voters, told them how to vote, or never showed them the ballot that was cast in their names.
But Democrats will tell you there has never been any significant voter fraud (although you might want to look up a guy named Landslide Lyndon) and that there is no need for voters to present an id card.
I'd say it's neither inflation nor deflation since it's only tied to the exchange rate.
It would usually be called devaluation of a currency. But any valuation of bitcoin against a currency backed by a government is pure speculation anyway, so what you're seeing is the bursting of a speculation bubble
British parliamentary democracy has many problems, but voter corruption has never been identified as one of them
"Never identified" because there was no way to identify i maybe?
Kind of like voting precincts here in the US that had 100% of the vote go to Obama. No fraud was identified there. Or the people who complained that they registered to vote but when they went to the polls they learned that they had already filed an absentee ballot - thoughtfully filled out by the person who had visited their house to register them. No fraud identified there either.
They didn't find any life, just some really salty water. And I really doubt that any life they find there would be especially alien. Quite a leap to go from there to Mars.
That doesn't change the fact that on the power grid itself, there is no storage
That's not true, there are many examples of storage. Reservoirs, piles of coal, even some pumped hydro and batteries (although those are not usually cost effective).
The problem is that the utility companies which own and manage the grid have designed it to operate a certain way; they want to balance generation with demand. But now politicians are trying to force it to be operated a different way; generate as much as you can and figure out some way to deal with the fact that the generated power might be too much or not enough for the demand.
Some people seem to think that a bunch of really big batteries is a good solution. Actually it's just an expensive hack to try and cover up the problem that the politicians created by allowing people to back feed a highly variable and not easily controlled amount of power onto the grid.
The generating station at Niagara Falls is a better example. But pumped water requires a big reservoir and lots of excess generation capacity to be worthwhile. It doesn't make sense on a small scale.
a new program that, without any targeted outreach, achieved 50 percent female enrollment in just one academic year
A PhD minor "achieved 50% female enrollment"? When someone tosses out a meaningless statistic like that it triggers my BS detector. How many people are in the program? How many stayed with it? What is their major field of study? How many qualified men applied but were not selected for *cough* some reason *cough*?
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Lots of people have rich and well connected parents. There's only one Microsoft.
Just because the cop said he faces charges that could result in prison time doesn't mean he's going to prison.
If (as you seem to think) he is a poor misguided child who displayed bad judgement on this one occasion, he will certainly be given counseling and probation.
On the other hand, if he's a thug who has already been arrested several times and has shown no indication of improved behavior after the usual help provided to first and second offenders, there isn't much else that can be done besides keep him away from the rest of society
These fairs are cheaper with layovers are games the airlines play with fairs to maximize revenue
The airline is essentially paying you to fly on an unprofitable route in order to meet regulations that they provide service on that route.
Chicago and LA are bad examples because those are popular destinations.
An regional airport about an hour from where I live only gets four flights in and out a day, and the planes are usually 3/4 empty. The only reason the airport is open is because the government requires the airlines provide service to it; tickets on those flights are heavily subsidized - I read an estimate that each ticket sold represents a loss of about $600. I can get a ticket to fly into a major hub airport about 2 hours away or a ticket to the regional airport for a bit less because of that subsidy. The airline doesn't want to sell you or me the cheaper ticket, but they're required to offer them.
I don't blame the airline for trying to stop people from using that subsidy to get a cheaper flight into the hub.
LinkedIn's business model is collecting resumes for headhunters to spam. I deleted my account and still get emails from them.
They offer a service at a price.
Their offer is to fly you to LA at one price, or to Chicago at another price. But not to fly you to Chicago at the LA price.
If you don't like their offer? Fuck off.
Through a self-perpetuating ecosystem of developers, the banks will continue to gather high-value data from customers through third party integration.
I read the article but don't really understand what a "self-perpetuating ecosystem of developers" would do for me. It sounds like they're planning to breed.
Mary Ann was the hottest, although some liked Ginger.
Maybe the reason they're so rare is because Sperm Whales find them tasty
Agreed. Kids spend all day in school showing each other how to use the device. Seniors sitting alone at home? No chance.
I believe the Peter Principal also ensures that the person who should make that decision is at their own level of incompetence.
Vote fraud happens. They threw out that particular election but I don't think any of the people who committed fraud were ever charged. And dozens of precincts in Philadelphia haven't had a single vote for a Republican presidential candidate in decades.
Stinson's absentee ballot campaign led to hundreds of improper votes, mostly in the district's Latino and African American neighborhoods. Those improper votes included forgeries and instances in which workers either marked ballots for voters, told them how to vote, or never showed them the ballot that was cast in their names.
But Democrats will tell you there has never been any significant voter fraud (although you might want to look up a guy named Landslide Lyndon) and that there is no need for voters to present an id card.
I'd say it's neither inflation nor deflation since it's only tied to the exchange rate.
It would usually be called devaluation of a currency. But any valuation of bitcoin against a currency backed by a government is pure speculation anyway, so what you're seeing is the bursting of a speculation bubble
British parliamentary democracy has many problems, but voter corruption has never been identified as one of them
"Never identified" because there was no way to identify i maybe?
Kind of like voting precincts here in the US that had 100% of the vote go to Obama. No fraud was identified there. Or the people who complained that they registered to vote but when they went to the polls they learned that they had already filed an absentee ballot - thoughtfully filled out by the person who had visited their house to register them. No fraud identified there either.
practically no one uses oil to produce electricity
But practically everyone uses natural gas and/or coal. so the point is well taken.
Of course if it is a windy night the coal plants might just give up and shut down overnight
You can't "just shutdown" a coal fired generation plant. What you can do is dump the excess power to ground.
Are you serious or just trolling?
The US Department of Education is part of the executive branch of the Federal government with a very big budget.
They didn't find any life, just some really salty water. And I really doubt that any life they find there would be especially alien. Quite a leap to go from there to Mars.
Call it 600f. Furlongs, no confusion.
That doesn't change the fact that on the power grid itself, there is no storage
That's not true, there are many examples of storage. Reservoirs, piles of coal, even some pumped hydro and batteries (although those are not usually cost effective).
The problem is that the utility companies which own and manage the grid have designed it to operate a certain way; they want to balance generation with demand. But now politicians are trying to force it to be operated a different way; generate as much as you can and figure out some way to deal with the fact that the generated power might be too much or not enough for the demand.
Some people seem to think that a bunch of really big batteries is a good solution. Actually it's just an expensive hack to try and cover up the problem that the politicians created by allowing people to back feed a highly variable and not easily controlled amount of power onto the grid.
1) People are getting tired of being told that there's a problem which needs to be solved.
2) This sounds like making up a program that's not Engineering and calling it "Engineering" in order to make a quota
The generating station at Niagara Falls is a better example. But pumped water requires a big reservoir and lots of excess generation capacity to be worthwhile. It doesn't make sense on a small scale.
There are studies on both sides by groups with agendas. Pick the one you want to believe, but take them all with a big grain of salt.
a new program that, without any targeted outreach, achieved 50 percent female enrollment in just one academic year
A PhD minor "achieved 50% female enrollment"? When someone tosses out a meaningless statistic like that it triggers my BS detector. How many people are in the program? How many stayed with it? What is their major field of study? How many qualified men applied but were not selected for *cough* some reason *cough*?
Is it more efficient if the battery weighs 500 lbs and means I don't have any trunk space?
Is it more efficient if it takes two hours to recharge?
Is it more efficient if the battery costs $10,000 more than a fuel tank?
My car's current headlights already do this
Only if the road is straight. As soon as the road curves a bit your lights are shining somewhere else.