That's just it though, it's not more secure as Internet-connectivity now provides another vector of attack, and given the interoperability problems it's not really more convenient either, especially when one spends more time servicing the automation system than one would have spent doing things the old-fashioned way.
That makes it solely an aspect of a hobby, and that's great because hobbies add some entertainment to one's life, but don't pretend that it's making the world a better place.
I check my receipt myself, and I watch the register closely as my items are being rung-up. It's part of caveat emptor. One cannot rely on the kindness of others in this regard.
Even without such signs, courts have interpreted trespassing as being a threat to the rightful owners or occupants of private property and allowed for homicide against a trespasser to go without-charge or for acquittal.
A bank as a form of retail establishment doesn't quite fit the definition as banks welcome everyone in to do business. It's private property but it's also a public space.
So you're saying that the key to successfully stealing from retail stores that place security at the door is to assertively do everything in the store including leaving it?
It depends on what you mean by sexual behavior, in some senses. Nearly everyone is driven by sexual desires. How and where we express these desires becomes the question. How amorous should a couple be in public? Holding hands? Occasionally kissing? Cuddling? Canoodling? Heavy petting?
Some of that is situation-dependent. I don't think that it's sexual-orientation-dependent though. If it's inappropriate for a homosexual couple to kiss or cuddle in a given public space or situation then it's probably inappropriate for a heterosexual couple to do the same in the same environment.
I was specifically taught that using they, them, and their was wrong when referring to a single individual because those are all plural pronouns. This was taught during the eighties and nineties for what it's worth. It was stressed that the only singular gender-neutral pronoun was one, but in practice I find that to be difficult to use.
It's funny. The biggest offender is Fry's Electronics, despite the fact that they run all shoppers through a serpentine common-feeder line to a huge bank of registers, after which there's no more store merchandise. The 'gate' is the cash register. I have paid at the register and concluded my business with them. If their poor architectural choices mean that I have to walk through 400' of store to reach the door, then that's their problem, not mine.
It's not my responsibility to keep up with internal corporate policies for retailers. Frankly, I have no idea if they're going to want to see a receipt as I leave the store or not. Most of the time as I leave Best Buy they do not ask, but occasionally they do.
I don't say anything like that. If they attempt to stop me and say they want to see my receipt, I respond with, "no thank you." It's never been a problem.
And that points to an interesting issue, as some mannerisms are misinterpreted. Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, a member of the United States House of Representatives, is homosexual, but does not display common stereotypes. Director and actor Quentin Tarantino is heterosexual, but displays many stereotypes commonly associated with homosexuality, like his vocal patterns and the positions he holds his hands in. Given that Indiana's proposed law seems to allow the business to come to their own conclusions about someone, there are going to be examples when those assumptions are completely incorrect. That means that not even accounting for the poor moral implications of it, it's a bad law.
No, the point is that one does not have to do business with the klansman because being a member of the Klan is not a protected class. Being a member of the Klan is also a choice.
...to quote the character Penny from The Big Bang Theory, "or we could just have a life."
I'm sure there are those that disagree with me, but automation for its own sake does not achieve anything. There are lots of things that people fantasize about automating that simply cannot be automated with the current designs of the appliances themselves. The best that you're going to get for laundry will be a notification that it's time to move it from one machine to another for example, and that can be handled with a simple buzzer in the machine. Your refrigerator and pantry aren't going to be able to notify you about bulk goods or other fresh/raw ingredients when their inventories get low since those ingredients don't have means to affix RFID tags or other identifiers to them, even if such gets applied to prepackaged goods.
We're not really there yet for home automation. We've tried it before; I have a house built in the seventies with a whole-house intercom system; but such technology ends up abandoned even if it's still functional.
The white-hooded KKK Grand Wizard made a choice to show up in a white hood to publicly demonstrate his racism.
There are no requirements upon the dress or other outward behavior of someone indicating their sexual orientation, and there are few religious groups where manner of dress is dictated by the religion in the United States, and there are not all that many members of those groups either.
The point of diversity-blind requirements is to keep many things beyond the control of the individual from being used against the individual. Gender, race, sexual orientation, and according to some, religion, usually fall into those protected classes. Manner of dress and provocative behavior generally do not; one can deny service to the KKK member promenading himself around in costume just as legally as one can deny service to someone not wearing a shirt.
How much of the rest of Borders did Barnes and Noble buy? If they bought a significant portion of Borders' business then it's not quite so egregious. If all they bought was the customer data then that's pretty bad.
I really liked it when they branded themselves as a direct parody of Fastcompany, logo and everything.
It's very simple as to why they'd sell hardware with data on they drives- if they had to spend the effort/money to wipe the drives then they'd recuperate less in liquidation. It's a selfish motive and completely understandable, even if completely disagreeable.
Don't bother to make up a number. Say no, or tell them that it's unlisted. Retailers will either put in the store number, gobbledygook, or have a means to bypass that.
I don't give out personal information for no benefit to myself. I don't show my receipt at the door unless it's at a membership store where I could lose my account if I fail to do so (like Costco). I'm there to exchange cash for goods. I don't care about their attempts to do more.
As long as other powers have nukes or have developed them and could develop them again then we'll have nukes. And as long as we have nukes then other countries will continue to have them as a deterrent against us.
It doesn't matter how crude or sophisticated the device is- the two nukes that were used in conflict were just about as crude as one could get and they still each destroyed a city in one stroke.
Science always progresses faster than poltiical thought. It's not usually science that uses the developments for ill intead of for benefit though, that's firmly in the realm of politics. That we've only used nuclear weapons in anger twice, effectively in one drawn-out moment in history, and have not used them cavalierly subsequently is hopefully proof that we're maturing, however slowly.
This is just a guess as I'm not a programmer but am acquainted with computer architecture...
If they're writing the string to disk and not really reading it back constantly then the act of writing could be being handed to the disk controller in chunks and effectively offloaded, which would reduce CPU time used for those sequential writes compared to the CPU handling all of the work in memory as the process goes then handing it to the disk controller only once to write it.
I don't think this would hold up if they're having to read from the disk versus read from RAM or cache, which is how I expect most real-world applications to work. Their comparison reminds me of putting an old van with an inline 6 cylinder engine on a dyno roller with almost no resistance and spinning the wheels up to 140mph, then claiming that the van is as fast as a muscle car.
Yep. The Wankel Rotary Engine looks awesome on paper, but good luck trying to seal between what passes for a piston and what passes for a cylinder wall. It looks far better in two dimensions on the page than it turns out in real life. You're also completely locked in to a single design for the rotor and the combustion chamber shape, as all edges of the piston/rotor have to meet the edges of the combustion chamber perfectly otherwise it loses compression.
Typical otto-cycle piston engines are popular because they're extremely easy to build and maintain, and once automakers got over the hump of the late seventies and eighties where performance fell, they've managed to get both good fuel economy and gobs of power. I don't think that anything else will replace them until we're using all-electric.
You're tied to one place though, as they don't appear to be designed to be moved by the occupant. Contrast that to someone's car, which also acts as a shelter if the body and glass are intact, and has the advantage of being capable of being moved under its own power.
Hell, the best shelter-in-place unit is probably the minivan. Small enough that it can be parked just about anywhere that the terrain isn't too rough, generally decent fuel economy so moving it around doesn't take much precious gasoline if availability is poor, and with a smaller engine if it has to idle to provide temporary power, the engine is not consuming as much fuel as a larger van with larger engine either. Plus many minivans were designed to be slept-in on roadtrips with fold-flat bench seats or seats that stow completely into the floor.
Even non-running, a minivan can still be flat-towed by another vehicle or towed by a common vehicle in the form of a tow-truck.
they're comfortable enough otherwise that people may not make enough effort to move on from them
Indeed. That's pretty hard to argue with. Many people will tolerate almost any indignity they don't have to work for.
Sometimes I wonder if that contributed to any actual designs at FEMA to make the trailers somewhat shoddy. Use trailers that would be fine for shorter-term occupancy, but simply don't hold-up to long-term habitation. That doesn't explain the formaldehyde directly, but it does explain the use of really low-end materials, materials so cheap that the processes involving formaldehyde were not done correctly in order to keep the costs down.
Maybe Lumber Liquidators will get into the travel trailer business...
FEMA trailers often lack off-grid utilites too, they need to be connected to a sanitary sewer and need to get their fresh water from water mains, but that said, they offer advantages in being portable without special equipment (ie, can be towed by a pickup truck or large car with a simple trailer hitch and draw bar) and there's a secondary market for them after their primary emergency use is done, often to the very people that used them during the emergency. FEMA trailers are either returned to FEMA and auctioned, or those who used them are given the option to purchase them for an almost ridiculously low price compared to the cost of a new or lightly used travel trailer.
I hope to never need to use FEMA-provided emergency or long-term shelter, as that means that I've suffered through a disaster of some sort and cannot live in my home, but having a travel trailer that would function basically as a shoddy studio apartment that can be moved by me if it's inadvertently placed somewhere unsafe or unsuitable beats out living in a small hostel or barracks without any other facilities.
I do get it though, that some areas are not well suited to the FEMA trailer, especially higher-density cities. I don't think that the presented solutions would work well in those areas either though, as they're still one-storey and there wouldn't be enough empty real-estate to place that many people. It would make more sense to design some kind of shipping container-based solution with some kind of central forced-air heating and cooling, with the ability to stack units two or three stories high before a specially-built gangway is bolted to one side, like those older-style motels or even *gasp* like prisons. Don't pack 'em in so tight that they're horrible, group nine, twelve, or fifteen units together in three stories and leave gaps between groupings. If a disaster struck New York City, it would be possible to deploy this kind of temporary infrastructure in Central Park or in other open spaces to house people until more permanent accommodations can be made.
In short, make it so the occupant can be self-sufficient (ie, FEMA trailer) or use infrastructure that makes deployment and management of the units practical (ie, stackable modules like shipping containers).
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I thought it was actually eau de toilette...
That's just it though, it's not more secure as Internet-connectivity now provides another vector of attack, and given the interoperability problems it's not really more convenient either, especially when one spends more time servicing the automation system than one would have spent doing things the old-fashioned way.
That makes it solely an aspect of a hobby, and that's great because hobbies add some entertainment to one's life, but don't pretend that it's making the world a better place.
I check my receipt myself, and I watch the register closely as my items are being rung-up. It's part of caveat emptor. One cannot rely on the kindness of others in this regard.
Even without such signs, courts have interpreted trespassing as being a threat to the rightful owners or occupants of private property and allowed for homicide against a trespasser to go without-charge or for acquittal.
A bank as a form of retail establishment doesn't quite fit the definition as banks welcome everyone in to do business. It's private property but it's also a public space.
So you're saying that the key to successfully stealing from retail stores that place security at the door is to assertively do everything in the store including leaving it?
It depends on what you mean by sexual behavior, in some senses. Nearly everyone is driven by sexual desires. How and where we express these desires becomes the question. How amorous should a couple be in public? Holding hands? Occasionally kissing? Cuddling? Canoodling? Heavy petting?
Some of that is situation-dependent. I don't think that it's sexual-orientation-dependent though. If it's inappropriate for a homosexual couple to kiss or cuddle in a given public space or situation then it's probably inappropriate for a heterosexual couple to do the same in the same environment.
I was specifically taught that using they, them, and their was wrong when referring to a single individual because those are all plural pronouns. This was taught during the eighties and nineties for what it's worth. It was stressed that the only singular gender-neutral pronoun was one, but in practice I find that to be difficult to use.
It's funny. The biggest offender is Fry's Electronics, despite the fact that they run all shoppers through a serpentine common-feeder line to a huge bank of registers, after which there's no more store merchandise. The 'gate' is the cash register. I have paid at the register and concluded my business with them. If their poor architectural choices mean that I have to walk through 400' of store to reach the door, then that's their problem, not mine.
It's not my responsibility to keep up with internal corporate policies for retailers. Frankly, I have no idea if they're going to want to see a receipt as I leave the store or not. Most of the time as I leave Best Buy they do not ask, but occasionally they do.
I don't say anything like that. If they attempt to stop me and say they want to see my receipt, I respond with, "no thank you." It's never been a problem.
And that points to an interesting issue, as some mannerisms are misinterpreted. Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, a member of the United States House of Representatives, is homosexual, but does not display common stereotypes. Director and actor Quentin Tarantino is heterosexual, but displays many stereotypes commonly associated with homosexuality, like his vocal patterns and the positions he holds his hands in. Given that Indiana's proposed law seems to allow the business to come to their own conclusions about someone, there are going to be examples when those assumptions are completely incorrect. That means that not even accounting for the poor moral implications of it, it's a bad law.
According to grammar rules, in English, when the gender is unknown or unspecified, it is appropriate to use the masculine.
No, the point is that one does not have to do business with the klansman because being a member of the Klan is not a protected class. Being a member of the Klan is also a choice.
...to quote the character Penny from The Big Bang Theory, "or we could just have a life."
I'm sure there are those that disagree with me, but automation for its own sake does not achieve anything. There are lots of things that people fantasize about automating that simply cannot be automated with the current designs of the appliances themselves. The best that you're going to get for laundry will be a notification that it's time to move it from one machine to another for example, and that can be handled with a simple buzzer in the machine. Your refrigerator and pantry aren't going to be able to notify you about bulk goods or other fresh/raw ingredients when their inventories get low since those ingredients don't have means to affix RFID tags or other identifiers to them, even if such gets applied to prepackaged goods.
We're not really there yet for home automation. We've tried it before; I have a house built in the seventies with a whole-house intercom system; but such technology ends up abandoned even if it's still functional.
The white-hooded KKK Grand Wizard made a choice to show up in a white hood to publicly demonstrate his racism.
There are no requirements upon the dress or other outward behavior of someone indicating their sexual orientation, and there are few religious groups where manner of dress is dictated by the religion in the United States, and there are not all that many members of those groups either.
The point of diversity-blind requirements is to keep many things beyond the control of the individual from being used against the individual. Gender, race, sexual orientation, and according to some, religion, usually fall into those protected classes. Manner of dress and provocative behavior generally do not; one can deny service to the KKK member promenading himself around in costume just as legally as one can deny service to someone not wearing a shirt.
How much of the rest of Borders did Barnes and Noble buy? If they bought a significant portion of Borders' business then it's not quite so egregious. If all they bought was the customer data then that's pretty bad.
I really liked it when they branded themselves as a direct parody of Fastcompany, logo and everything.
It's very simple as to why they'd sell hardware with data on they drives- if they had to spend the effort/money to wipe the drives then they'd recuperate less in liquidation. It's a selfish motive and completely understandable, even if completely disagreeable.
Don't bother to make up a number. Say no, or tell them that it's unlisted. Retailers will either put in the store number, gobbledygook, or have a means to bypass that.
I don't give out personal information for no benefit to myself. I don't show my receipt at the door unless it's at a membership store where I could lose my account if I fail to do so (like Costco). I'm there to exchange cash for goods. I don't care about their attempts to do more.
As long as other powers have nukes or have developed them and could develop them again then we'll have nukes. And as long as we have nukes then other countries will continue to have them as a deterrent against us.
It doesn't matter how crude or sophisticated the device is- the two nukes that were used in conflict were just about as crude as one could get and they still each destroyed a city in one stroke.
Science always progresses faster than poltiical thought. It's not usually science that uses the developments for ill intead of for benefit though, that's firmly in the realm of politics. That we've only used nuclear weapons in anger twice, effectively in one drawn-out moment in history, and have not used them cavalierly subsequently is hopefully proof that we're maturing, however slowly.
This is just a guess as I'm not a programmer but am acquainted with computer architecture...
If they're writing the string to disk and not really reading it back constantly then the act of writing could be being handed to the disk controller in chunks and effectively offloaded, which would reduce CPU time used for those sequential writes compared to the CPU handling all of the work in memory as the process goes then handing it to the disk controller only once to write it.
I don't think this would hold up if they're having to read from the disk versus read from RAM or cache, which is how I expect most real-world applications to work. Their comparison reminds me of putting an old van with an inline 6 cylinder engine on a dyno roller with almost no resistance and spinning the wheels up to 140mph, then claiming that the van is as fast as a muscle car.
Yep. The Wankel Rotary Engine looks awesome on paper, but good luck trying to seal between what passes for a piston and what passes for a cylinder wall. It looks far better in two dimensions on the page than it turns out in real life. You're also completely locked in to a single design for the rotor and the combustion chamber shape, as all edges of the piston/rotor have to meet the edges of the combustion chamber perfectly otherwise it loses compression.
Typical otto-cycle piston engines are popular because they're extremely easy to build and maintain, and once automakers got over the hump of the late seventies and eighties where performance fell, they've managed to get both good fuel economy and gobs of power. I don't think that anything else will replace them until we're using all-electric.
You're tied to one place though, as they don't appear to be designed to be moved by the occupant. Contrast that to someone's car, which also acts as a shelter if the body and glass are intact, and has the advantage of being capable of being moved under its own power.
Hell, the best shelter-in-place unit is probably the minivan. Small enough that it can be parked just about anywhere that the terrain isn't too rough, generally decent fuel economy so moving it around doesn't take much precious gasoline if availability is poor, and with a smaller engine if it has to idle to provide temporary power, the engine is not consuming as much fuel as a larger van with larger engine either. Plus many minivans were designed to be slept-in on roadtrips with fold-flat bench seats or seats that stow completely into the floor.
Even non-running, a minivan can still be flat-towed by another vehicle or towed by a common vehicle in the form of a tow-truck.
they're comfortable enough otherwise that people may not make enough effort to move on from them
Indeed. That's pretty hard to argue with. Many people will tolerate almost any indignity they don't have to work for.
Sometimes I wonder if that contributed to any actual designs at FEMA to make the trailers somewhat shoddy. Use trailers that would be fine for shorter-term occupancy, but simply don't hold-up to long-term habitation. That doesn't explain the formaldehyde directly, but it does explain the use of really low-end materials, materials so cheap that the processes involving formaldehyde were not done correctly in order to keep the costs down.
Maybe Lumber Liquidators will get into the travel trailer business...
FEMA trailers often lack off-grid utilites too, they need to be connected to a sanitary sewer and need to get their fresh water from water mains, but that said, they offer advantages in being portable without special equipment (ie, can be towed by a pickup truck or large car with a simple trailer hitch and draw bar) and there's a secondary market for them after their primary emergency use is done, often to the very people that used them during the emergency. FEMA trailers are either returned to FEMA and auctioned, or those who used them are given the option to purchase them for an almost ridiculously low price compared to the cost of a new or lightly used travel trailer.
I hope to never need to use FEMA-provided emergency or long-term shelter, as that means that I've suffered through a disaster of some sort and cannot live in my home, but having a travel trailer that would function basically as a shoddy studio apartment that can be moved by me if it's inadvertently placed somewhere unsafe or unsuitable beats out living in a small hostel or barracks without any other facilities.
I do get it though, that some areas are not well suited to the FEMA trailer, especially higher-density cities. I don't think that the presented solutions would work well in those areas either though, as they're still one-storey and there wouldn't be enough empty real-estate to place that many people. It would make more sense to design some kind of shipping container-based solution with some kind of central forced-air heating and cooling, with the ability to stack units two or three stories high before a specially-built gangway is bolted to one side, like those older-style motels or even *gasp* like prisons. Don't pack 'em in so tight that they're horrible, group nine, twelve, or fifteen units together in three stories and leave gaps between groupings. If a disaster struck New York City, it would be possible to deploy this kind of temporary infrastructure in Central Park or in other open spaces to house people until more permanent accommodations can be made.
In short, make it so the occupant can be self-sufficient (ie, FEMA trailer) or use infrastructure that makes deployment and management of the units practical (ie, stackable modules like shipping containers).
Renee Russo and Jason Alexander, right?