Because you do not name the SUV I do not believe you.
On average, car-based SUVs (which are usually classed as "CUVs") get almost car-efficiency, but truck-based SUVs, the only ones worth owning as true sport utility vehicles, still lag behind cars.
I think that the exemptions for SUVs and trucks need to be eliminated entirely when under a certain GVWR, and that basically "half ton" trucks in the form of Class 1 light trucks sold as lifestyle trucks need to meet this standard. "three quarter ton" trucks sold as Class 2 trucks need to meet a fairly stringent standard too.
In this case, the concern, which I think is fairly small but I can't deny that weirder things have happened, is that what's considered a normal, "meets expectations," level of productivity could be based on results obtained through the use of these grey-market or black-market drugs. This takes an already high-strung workforce and puts unreasonable expectations on them, such that more people may abuse these drugs and suffer the negative ramifications of them, who wouldn't otherwise be inclined to try them in the first place.
I struggle enough with caffeine and the negative effects of trying to keep intake manageable that I can't imagine how bad an addictive substance with much worse withdrawal symptoms would be.
I really, really wanted to buy a Nexus 6, but between the lack of modular battery and the lack of SD slot, I don't think that it's the right phone for me. Shame really, I want the right LTE bands and all of the other stuff that it has, but I also want the ability to have modular storage.
When the officer comes to your window with exasperated claims about the speeds he had to reach to catch up to you, and then asks you why he pulled you over instead of telling you why he pulled you over, then the tone of the traffic stop is set by officer.
Up until that point I had operated under the assumption that the police would treat me fairly. That stop combined with the two court appearances to get the citation dismissed completely dispelled any belief in the Joe-Friday cop.
It'll never happen, but given that it may be hard to convince a jury that the DoJ's claim is true due to the technical nature of the 'crime', I don't see how it's going to improve when commodities and stock traders can manipulate the markets simply through the act of offering to buy and sell.
Officers can find ways to bring criminal complaints if they want. I was once pulled over for supposedly squealing tires and was issued a misdemeanor citation rather than a civil traffic citation because the officer had a bug up his ass. Even the prosecutor felt it was a waste of his time, so it got dismissed. Thankfully it resulted in citation with a requirement to appear rather than arrest, but either way the officer had a choice in how he handled the situation and he chose to be a dick.
Or when a lack of mobile version actually matters?
I've been using small devices to get to the Internet since the days of my Palm T3. There have been lots and lots of sites with mobile versions that were or are utter crap, and using the 'desktop' version on the mobile device is preferred or even necessary to use the site well. I don't see necessarily having a mobile site as being good.
The thing is, in a real wiretap, they're only tapping the one call. In this thing's case they're intercepting all calls for everyone in the area whose phones end up using it, not just the one call. That's why I think they need to go through the carrier, so the carrier can tape the one line or the series of lines that they have a legitimate claim through the courts to gain access to.
I don't think that regular rank-and-file police should be in the business of intercepting cell phone traffic in the first place. They should have to submit warrants to the carriers and those carriers should present them with only the data that the warrant calls for.
The closest I've ever heard where such mismatches caused non-function in normal cars has been when PCMs and BCMs get swapped, and even in those cases, I'm not sure if it was a lockout condition, or simply some kind of incompatible mismatch.
...because Mr. Gates, a good friend of Mr. Jobs, personally chose to continue releasing versions of Microsoft Office for Apple's products to help Apple remain a viable platform for Microsoft's customers.
Please tell me how an anecdote from a couple of years ago is news...
You know, I would be willing to take an online test to demonstrate my technical acumen, if the results of that test would guarantee that i could skip tier-1 agents and get right to people that actually know how to handle technical descriptions and advanced problems. After all, by the time I've called tech support I've already power-cycled the equipment, removed NAT devices from the equation, and tried with multiple devices.
...they be denied the right to merge until they've satisfied all lack-of-service complaints within their respective monopolistic areas, fixed their customer service so that it's not abusive, and stop charging exorbitant amounts of money to customers for equipment that they've already depreciated for tax purposes?
San Diego is quite nice, and there's a lot of cool stuff to do in and around San Francisco too. The Los Angeles area is far too well represented by the SNL skit, "The Californians," though.
See, that's the mistake supervillains make... You need to start small. Start with a wealthy but small place, like Martha's Vineyard, so that the powerful know that this is coming for them, so that they can put pressure on their private government officials to make it happen. Then move on to bigger and bigger wealthy suburbs and cities until you get to Washington.
After all, if you destroy DC, you destroy the people that are authorized to pay you in the first place.
I want a search engine to identify when someone is attempting to manipulate it and to counter that. I don't want Google Bombs like "miserable failure" regardless of how I feel about the actual politics, to make the results useless. I'm not so childish as to expect an echo-chamber everywhere I look.
This means no more companies whose entire existence is to try to improve someone's search rankings.
As to data being collected, I'm actually okay with the top 80% of searches in a given day being used for advertising revenue, assuming no geographic data beyond nation, and no personally-identifiable data is collected. That's how a search engine would make money, by selling ads based on what people want to know about. If Ford has a press-release about the new Focus, and people search for that, I'm okay with ads related to the Focus or to Fords coming up. I just don't want more than "this term is being asked for this many times on this day" to be reported.
Call this a guess, but I expect that if the other gender isn't present, the reduction in social problems resulting from a sexual difference compared to the majority would probably be greater than the social problems of homosexual students being around only their heterosexual peers of the same gender.
Or in short, homosexual adolescents are attracted to their same-sex peers and cannot express that attraction will occur in either situation, but a lack of the opposite gender being present might make it less obvious since there's no opportunity to perceive that they're ignoring the opposite sex.
Yup. I've had to deal with contractors in the physical realm (cabling and other physical infrastructure) and in the logical realm (switch and router programming) and with the cabling if we weren't constantly inspecting them we got absolute crap. Punched the wrong color pattern (sorry we're T568A, but deal with it), leaving out drops, leaving out service loops, leaving out cabling supports, attempting to pass-off PVC in a plenum airspace, attempting to use lesser jacks (we called for Leviton for a reason dammit!), and lazy, lazy bastards that couldn't comprehend no zip ties.
On the switch side, they're getting $1200 per switch to program and rack them. We started calling it $300 a screw but that suddenly became not-funny after we found them using 10-32 screws in 12-24 racks, or leaving half of the screws out altogether, and that's before dealing with the crappy programming that I've had to go back and fix. It's so much fun when they never test the user VLAN, but the management VLAN trunks through, so the switch MUST work, right?
Anyway, Contractors are lazy bastards that will do as little as possible to satisfy the contract, and when called on their mistakes will try to weasel out of them. A NOAA satellite fell over at the manufacturer's assembly building because the morons forgot to check all of the bolts in the assembly hoist, and they got away with simply 'making no profit', when they should have paid the entire cost of the SNAFU. Perkin Elmer, who ground the Hubble mirror wrong, should have had to pay for the cost to repair it IN SPACE or should have suffered the corporate death penalty, had their charter revoked.
Looks like we've hit peak 3d printer, at least as far as the near-term is concerned.
I'm wondering if this will be analagous to the daisy-wheel printer. For certain applications it's the best choice, but those are very few and far between, and are entirely based on fixed fonts and software made to do a standard set of rows and columns with fixed-width characters. They work great for printing multi-part forms and for where one wants text that's more readable than dot-matrix, but that's about it.
These first generation consumer-grade 3d printers are like that, but worse, because there's not much in the way of a business market compared to those paper printers. They were bought by businesses that specifically needed rapid prototyping, or they were bought by hobbyists that got into it as the latest craze. There's only so much of either, so once that small market is saturated there's less need for companies supplying whole printers.
I've actually made a similar argument before. When boys are socially ostracized they've tended to turn to technology. Turning to technology gives them peers, and as a group they tend to delve deeper into the nuts and bolts at a young age. When those kids become adults they tend to gravitate toward technical subjects, especially computers, because they've developed a ken with the machines from such a young age.
It makes me wonder, if all of the people that came into tech in this fashion were discounted from the numbers, would those numbers be closer to parity?
The causes of the gender divide begin in childhood, and become integral with society to where genders are expected to be certain ways. I suspect that this girls' school will probably drain girls from other schools that were already interested before it establishes new interest.
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Because you do not name the SUV I do not believe you.
On average, car-based SUVs (which are usually classed as "CUVs") get almost car-efficiency, but truck-based SUVs, the only ones worth owning as true sport utility vehicles, still lag behind cars.
I think that the exemptions for SUVs and trucks need to be eliminated entirely when under a certain GVWR, and that basically "half ton" trucks in the form of Class 1 light trucks sold as lifestyle trucks need to meet this standard. "three quarter ton" trucks sold as Class 2 trucks need to meet a fairly stringent standard too.
In this case, the concern, which I think is fairly small but I can't deny that weirder things have happened, is that what's considered a normal, "meets expectations," level of productivity could be based on results obtained through the use of these grey-market or black-market drugs. This takes an already high-strung workforce and puts unreasonable expectations on them, such that more people may abuse these drugs and suffer the negative ramifications of them, who wouldn't otherwise be inclined to try them in the first place.
I struggle enough with caffeine and the negative effects of trying to keep intake manageable that I can't imagine how bad an addictive substance with much worse withdrawal symptoms would be.
I really, really wanted to buy a Nexus 6, but between the lack of modular battery and the lack of SD slot, I don't think that it's the right phone for me. Shame really, I want the right LTE bands and all of the other stuff that it has, but I also want the ability to have modular storage.
When the officer comes to your window with exasperated claims about the speeds he had to reach to catch up to you, and then asks you why he pulled you over instead of telling you why he pulled you over, then the tone of the traffic stop is set by officer.
Up until that point I had operated under the assumption that the police would treat me fairly. That stop combined with the two court appearances to get the citation dismissed completely dispelled any belief in the Joe-Friday cop.
...make people, not computers, buy and sell.
It'll never happen, but given that it may be hard to convince a jury that the DoJ's claim is true due to the technical nature of the 'crime', I don't see how it's going to improve when commodities and stock traders can manipulate the markets simply through the act of offering to buy and sell.
Officers can find ways to bring criminal complaints if they want. I was once pulled over for supposedly squealing tires and was issued a misdemeanor citation rather than a civil traffic citation because the officer had a bug up his ass. Even the prosecutor felt it was a waste of his time, so it got dismissed. Thankfully it resulted in citation with a requirement to appear rather than arrest, but either way the officer had a choice in how he handled the situation and he chose to be a dick.
Or when a lack of mobile version actually matters?
I've been using small devices to get to the Internet since the days of my Palm T3. There have been lots and lots of sites with mobile versions that were or are utter crap, and using the 'desktop' version on the mobile device is preferred or even necessary to use the site well. I don't see necessarily having a mobile site as being good.
The thing is, in a real wiretap, they're only tapping the one call. In this thing's case they're intercepting all calls for everyone in the area whose phones end up using it, not just the one call. That's why I think they need to go through the carrier, so the carrier can tape the one line or the series of lines that they have a legitimate claim through the courts to gain access to.
I don't think that regular rank-and-file police should be in the business of intercepting cell phone traffic in the first place. They should have to submit warrants to the carriers and those carriers should present them with only the data that the warrant calls for.
A pipe dream, I know, but what the hey.
The closest I've ever heard where such mismatches caused non-function in normal cars has been when PCMs and BCMs get swapped, and even in those cases, I'm not sure if it was a lockout condition, or simply some kind of incompatible mismatch.
...because Mr. Gates, a good friend of Mr. Jobs, personally chose to continue releasing versions of Microsoft Office for Apple's products to help Apple remain a viable platform for Microsoft's customers.
Please tell me how an anecdote from a couple of years ago is news...
Hence the technical exam. If you don't pass it, you don't get to speak with tier-2 CSRs unless a tier-1 CSR escalates the call.
An apology doesn't really mean anything in this case, does it?
You know, I would be willing to take an online test to demonstrate my technical acumen, if the results of that test would guarantee that i could skip tier-1 agents and get right to people that actually know how to handle technical descriptions and advanced problems. After all, by the time I've called tech support I've already power-cycled the equipment, removed NAT devices from the equation, and tried with multiple devices.
...they be denied the right to merge until they've satisfied all lack-of-service complaints within their respective monopolistic areas, fixed their customer service so that it's not abusive, and stop charging exorbitant amounts of money to customers for equipment that they've already depreciated for tax purposes?
Oh, who am I kidding?
I'd rather a pipeline delivering a product essential to life be constructed, than a pipeline delivering a product essential to corporate profits...
San Diego is quite nice, and there's a lot of cool stuff to do in and around San Francisco too. The Los Angeles area is far too well represented by the SNL skit, "The Californians," though.
See, that's the mistake supervillains make... You need to start small. Start with a wealthy but small place, like Martha's Vineyard, so that the powerful know that this is coming for them, so that they can put pressure on their private government officials to make it happen. Then move on to bigger and bigger wealthy suburbs and cities until you get to Washington.
After all, if you destroy DC, you destroy the people that are authorized to pay you in the first place.
Yep. I have a whole bunch of things that I can do. Playing video games is only one among them.
It has gotten a lot worse, hasn't it?
I want a search engine to identify when someone is attempting to manipulate it and to counter that. I don't want Google Bombs like "miserable failure" regardless of how I feel about the actual politics, to make the results useless. I'm not so childish as to expect an echo-chamber everywhere I look.
This means no more companies whose entire existence is to try to improve someone's search rankings.
As to data being collected, I'm actually okay with the top 80% of searches in a given day being used for advertising revenue, assuming no geographic data beyond nation, and no personally-identifiable data is collected. That's how a search engine would make money, by selling ads based on what people want to know about. If Ford has a press-release about the new Focus, and people search for that, I'm okay with ads related to the Focus or to Fords coming up. I just don't want more than "this term is being asked for this many times on this day" to be reported.
Call this a guess, but I expect that if the other gender isn't present, the reduction in social problems resulting from a sexual difference compared to the majority would probably be greater than the social problems of homosexual students being around only their heterosexual peers of the same gender.
Or in short, homosexual adolescents are attracted to their same-sex peers and cannot express that attraction will occur in either situation, but a lack of the opposite gender being present might make it less obvious since there's no opportunity to perceive that they're ignoring the opposite sex.
Yup. I've had to deal with contractors in the physical realm (cabling and other physical infrastructure) and in the logical realm (switch and router programming) and with the cabling if we weren't constantly inspecting them we got absolute crap. Punched the wrong color pattern (sorry we're T568A, but deal with it), leaving out drops, leaving out service loops, leaving out cabling supports, attempting to pass-off PVC in a plenum airspace, attempting to use lesser jacks (we called for Leviton for a reason dammit!), and lazy, lazy bastards that couldn't comprehend no zip ties.
On the switch side, they're getting $1200 per switch to program and rack them. We started calling it $300 a screw but that suddenly became not-funny after we found them using 10-32 screws in 12-24 racks, or leaving half of the screws out altogether, and that's before dealing with the crappy programming that I've had to go back and fix. It's so much fun when they never test the user VLAN, but the management VLAN trunks through, so the switch MUST work, right?
Anyway, Contractors are lazy bastards that will do as little as possible to satisfy the contract, and when called on their mistakes will try to weasel out of them. A NOAA satellite fell over at the manufacturer's assembly building because the morons forgot to check all of the bolts in the assembly hoist, and they got away with simply 'making no profit', when they should have paid the entire cost of the SNAFU. Perkin Elmer, who ground the Hubble mirror wrong, should have had to pay for the cost to repair it IN SPACE or should have suffered the corporate death penalty, had their charter revoked.
Screw contractors. They'll screw you.
Looks like we've hit peak 3d printer, at least as far as the near-term is concerned.
I'm wondering if this will be analagous to the daisy-wheel printer. For certain applications it's the best choice, but those are very few and far between, and are entirely based on fixed fonts and software made to do a standard set of rows and columns with fixed-width characters. They work great for printing multi-part forms and for where one wants text that's more readable than dot-matrix, but that's about it.
These first generation consumer-grade 3d printers are like that, but worse, because there's not much in the way of a business market compared to those paper printers. They were bought by businesses that specifically needed rapid prototyping, or they were bought by hobbyists that got into it as the latest craze. There's only so much of either, so once that small market is saturated there's less need for companies supplying whole printers.
I've actually made a similar argument before. When boys are socially ostracized they've tended to turn to technology. Turning to technology gives them peers, and as a group they tend to delve deeper into the nuts and bolts at a young age. When those kids become adults they tend to gravitate toward technical subjects, especially computers, because they've developed a ken with the machines from such a young age.
It makes me wonder, if all of the people that came into tech in this fashion were discounted from the numbers, would those numbers be closer to parity?
The causes of the gender divide begin in childhood, and become integral with society to where genders are expected to be certain ways. I suspect that this girls' school will probably drain girls from other schools that were already interested before it establishes new interest.