I am actually interested in what percentage of concrete is wasted. I wonder how they plan ahead for such things. Do they just make an expected percentage that need to make that they will not need?
We purchase non GMO all organic shade mined concrete and always recycle what when we can.
Hard to do when other countries (looking at you NATO) don't hold up to their own defense commitments. Unless you believe we shouldn't help defend our allies, then it just doesn't matter.
Yes, there's plenty that could be trimmed, and managed better. And I'm saying that as a 37 yr defense contractor.
Oh, and go figure...the CBO has revised it's estimates upwards. From their site... GDP Is Projected to Be Greater Than CBO Previously Estimated
CBO’s current economic projections differ from those that the agency made in June 2017 in a number of ways. The most significant is that potential and actual real GDP are projected to grow more quickly over the next few years. As a result, the levels of those measures are 1.6 percent higher than CBO previously estimated for 2027 (the last year in the previous projection period). Projected output is greater because of recently enacted legislation, data that became available after CBO’s previous economic projections were completed, and improvements in the agency’s analytical methods. Also, because inflation is now anticipated to be higher, the level of nominal GDP is projected to be 2.4 percent higher in 2027 than previously estimated
Headset would work just fine for your office space. But yes, I certainly agree that there's nothing wrong with a keyboard, and it's usually faster than most anything else. But terrible idea...no, it depends on your situation.
Anecdote... On a project I worked on a couple decades ago, we created specialized HCIs for our customer's operators. They worked fine for people who were inexperienced, but experienced operators hated them because they could type the commands faster than they could find the HCI, open it and execute the command. Eventually, we fixed it so that they had the option to do it either way.
This is the ridiculous argument that corporate America got shoved down the throat of SCOTUS so that they could continue to unduly influence (bribe) our politicians. I say this as a life long conservative...it's one of the worst decisions SCOTUS ever made. A corporation will always be able to afford much more than the same number of individual humans, and thus has a far disproportionate influence. A corporation is made of of people, but it's only the leadership of it that gets that voice. It doesn't speak for it's employees.
"The people who administer a corporation are just as vulnerable to such things as any other person is."
Do you think they (the corporation) give two shits about that?
Agree 100% on it staying in our homes...just like I'd love to have an Alexa that didn't send anything back to the mother ship. I was an X10 user way back in the 80s as well. FWIW, I'm less concerned about NSA tracking anything than I am about our personal data in the hands of businesses that are constantly selling or losing or having it stolen.
You've clearly never... "Clap On" "Clap Off"... but then neither have I.
Honestly though, if I'm sitting on my couch watching TV and want the lights on/off and the switch is on the other side of the room, isn't it simpler to just say "lights off"?
As for the kids example, voice recognition software will improve to the point that it will bio metrically recognize who's talking, We've come a long way in the twenty years you mention, and we'll be a lot further over the next twenty.
I'm honestly surprised that every car doesn't come with a HUD now. I had my first one in a 1985 Vette and loved it...you rarely needed to look down for anything. Here we are 33 years later and the only other one I've seen was in my 98 Grand Prix. I think we're more likely to not be driving at all due to AVs before HUDs become commonplace.
I'm not so sure that the real geeks will still be here. The site has turned away from it's roots, and become much more about Trump, Climate Change, etc. It's certainly not why I signed up.
So, if Waymo is like a person, and the vehicle like a limb, then you're saying that my own car is like my limb? I think you need a better non-car analogy.
You're not required to have a gun license to own one in most places. I've personally never had a gun license (other than an occasional hunting license), own four guns, and have lived in six states.
"Because laws restrict freedom there are constitutional safeguards against "tyranny of the majority" in our republic..."
There is no tyranny in restricting corporations. You might like the argument that corporations are people two, but they can't get killed on the highway.
Public roads weren't put in place for companies to test gadgets. Prove your tech first, then bring it forward. Many of us aren't ready to put our lives in the hands of unproven software.
The part about it being illegal is preventing it. The way it's done w/o term limits by Congress and regulators is the revolving door, where they get paid big bucks when they exit government. If you don't exit, the only way to get paid is a flat out bribe. I'm not saying it never happens, but I think it's MUCH less likely with lifetime appointments.
I kinda like the way Best Buy marks things as "Open Box", and discounts them appropriately. When you buy Open Box, you don't know if it's really been used or if the person did as I'd suggested earlier, and with that you know there's a risk that there's some wear and tear.
FWIW, and this is just my own $.02, used means that someone took it out of the box and did more than just an inspection of the goods. Here in the US, you have a legal right to inspect goods as part of the sale/purchase process. I used that once when returning a two day old car that blew it's engine (coolant in two cylinders) the first time on the highway...they wanted to fix it, I insisted on a whole new vehicle. When a company purchases a bunch of stuff, it normally arrives in a shipping area and goes through that inspection. Stuff gets sent back all the time...often because it was just the wrong stuff, but it had to be removed from the box for inspection.
You correctly pick on Fox, however it's the same with pretty much all of the media. Those statements you mentioned are there to keep them from being sued if they're wrong, which is not the same as your suggested parody.
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"When the pH drops too much near the steel, it begins quickly rusting, expands nearly tenfold..."
Huh...expands tenfold???
I am actually interested in what percentage of concrete is wasted. I wonder how they plan ahead for such things. Do they just make an expected percentage that need to make that they will not need?
We purchase non GMO all organic shade mined concrete and always recycle what when we can.
But is it free range organic?
Hard to do when other countries (looking at you NATO) don't hold up to their own defense commitments. Unless you believe we shouldn't help defend our allies, then it just doesn't matter.
Yes, there's plenty that could be trimmed, and managed better. And I'm saying that as a 37 yr defense contractor.
You've taken no account for a growing economy.
https://www.investors.com/poli...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/n...
Oh, and go figure...the CBO has revised it's estimates upwards. From their site...
GDP Is Projected to Be Greater Than CBO Previously Estimated
CBO’s current economic projections differ from those that the agency made in June 2017 in a number of ways. The most significant is that potential and actual real GDP are projected to grow more quickly over the next few years. As a result, the levels of those measures are 1.6 percent higher than CBO previously estimated for 2027 (the last year in the previous projection period). Projected output is greater because of recently enacted legislation, data that became available after CBO’s previous economic projections were completed, and improvements in the agency’s analytical methods. Also, because inflation is now anticipated to be higher, the level of nominal GDP is projected to be 2.4 percent higher in 2027 than previously estimated
Somehow it's affecting BeauHD, so it must be important to us, right?
@BeauHD Do you read this stuff before you post it? Let me help you...
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~...
Headset would work just fine for your office space. But yes, I certainly agree that there's nothing wrong with a keyboard, and it's usually faster than most anything else. But terrible idea...no, it depends on your situation.
Anecdote... On a project I worked on a couple decades ago, we created specialized HCIs for our customer's operators. They worked fine for people who were inexperienced, but experienced operators hated them because they could type the commands faster than they could find the HCI, open it and execute the command. Eventually, we fixed it so that they had the option to do it either way.
This is the ridiculous argument that corporate America got shoved down the throat of SCOTUS so that they could continue to unduly influence (bribe) our politicians. I say this as a life long conservative...it's one of the worst decisions SCOTUS ever made. A corporation will always be able to afford much more than the same number of individual humans, and thus has a far disproportionate influence. A corporation is made of of people, but it's only the leadership of it that gets that voice. It doesn't speak for it's employees.
"The people who administer a corporation are just as vulnerable to such things as any other person is."
Do you think they (the corporation) give two shits about that?
Had to replace one on the Grand Prix. Not a mint, but just under double the cost of a normal one.
Agree 100% on it staying in our homes...just like I'd love to have an Alexa that didn't send anything back to the mother ship. I was an X10 user way back in the 80s as well. FWIW, I'm less concerned about NSA tracking anything than I am about our personal data in the hands of businesses that are constantly selling or losing or having it stolen.
With 24 grit?
You've clearly never... "Clap On" "Clap Off" ... but then neither have I.
Honestly though, if I'm sitting on my couch watching TV and want the lights on/off and the switch is on the other side of the room, isn't it simpler to just say "lights off"?
As for the kids example, voice recognition software will improve to the point that it will bio metrically recognize who's talking, We've come a long way in the twenty years you mention, and we'll be a lot further over the next twenty.
I'm honestly surprised that every car doesn't come with a HUD now. I had my first one in a 1985 Vette and loved it...you rarely needed to look down for anything. Here we are 33 years later and the only other one I've seen was in my 98 Grand Prix. I think we're more likely to not be driving at all due to AVs before HUDs become commonplace.
I'm not so sure that the real geeks will still be here. The site has turned away from it's roots, and become much more about Trump, Climate Change, etc. It's certainly not why I signed up.
Interesting that you and the morons who modded you up are all conspiracy theorists.
So, if Waymo is like a person, and the vehicle like a limb, then you're saying that my own car is like my limb? I think you need a better non-car analogy.
"... in all of them we are required to register our ownership of automatic weapons"
Automatic weapons actually do require a federal license.
"Does a guy lose his gun license for that,.."
You're not required to have a gun license to own one in most places. I've personally never had a gun license (other than an occasional hunting license), own four guns, and have lived in six states.
"Because laws restrict freedom there are constitutional safeguards against "tyranny of the majority" in our republic..."
There is no tyranny in restricting corporations. You might like the argument that corporations are people two, but they can't get killed on the highway.
Public roads weren't put in place for companies to test gadgets. Prove your tech first, then bring it forward. Many of us aren't ready to put our lives in the hands of unproven software.
The part about it being illegal is preventing it. The way it's done w/o term limits by Congress and regulators is the revolving door, where they get paid big bucks when they exit government. If you don't exit, the only way to get paid is a flat out bribe. I'm not saying it never happens, but I think it's MUCH less likely with lifetime appointments.
I kinda like the way Best Buy marks things as "Open Box", and discounts them appropriately. When you buy Open Box, you don't know if it's really been used or if the person did as I'd suggested earlier, and with that you know there's a risk that there's some wear and tear.
FWIW, and this is just my own $.02, used means that someone took it out of the box and did more than just an inspection of the goods. Here in the US, you have a legal right to inspect goods as part of the sale/purchase process. I used that once when returning a two day old car that blew it's engine (coolant in two cylinders) the first time on the highway...they wanted to fix it, I insisted on a whole new vehicle. When a company purchases a bunch of stuff, it normally arrives in a shipping area and goes through that inspection. Stuff gets sent back all the time...often because it was just the wrong stuff, but it had to be removed from the box for inspection.
As a conservative, let me just state for the record that your number 2 is full of number 2.
I have a redneck cousin who's an extreme conservative and posts multiple times a day, stuff that makes me cringe. FB does nada to block that shit.
Exactly. If you're getting your "news" from social media, you're not only doing it wrong, you're a moron.
You correctly pick on Fox, however it's the same with pretty much all of the media. Those statements you mentioned are there to keep them from being sued if they're wrong, which is not the same as your suggested parody.