The shop owners in places like Annapolis will show you how high flood waters have been...
Back when I visited Hawai'i in the '70s it wasn't at all unusual for there to be lines painted on the sides of buildings showing the high water marks for various tsunami. I'm surprised that the people in places like Annapolis haven't done the same thing, unless I've misunderstood what you posted.
That's true, as far as it goes, but there's something important that you're ignoring: in the first case, all of that money goes to China, and in the second, it stays in the US.
The boundaries are like that to follow national/state/provincial borders so that you don't have 90% of a country (or whatever) in one timezone and 10% in another. In fact, there are even a few places where the International Dateline jogs to avoid that kind of issues.
If you live in the Netherlands but visit Germany, leave your clock/watch the way it is, and correct mentally. If you have to spend several days at a time in Germany, get a watch that can display two time zones and switch back and forth at need. Problem solved.
Doesn't have to be registered, just certified. A registered letter is for when you're sending something of tangible value. Not only is it insured, it's kept in a locked drawer when not in transit and every time it's moved, it has to be logged. That takes extra time and it costs. A certified letter is for when you only have to be sure it's delivered and it's treated just like any other until then, when whoever accepts it has to sign for it and you get the receipt back. A resignation letter has no monetary value, so sending it certified is sufficient.
My understanding is that summer temperatures like this are quite common in Death Valley. The reason most people aren't aware of this is that the National Weather Service ignores Death Valley because otherwise, they'd have the highest temperature almost every day in summer, and most people want a little more variety in their news.
I don't want to start an OS war, but under Linux (and other *nix variants) you can put all of your sensitive data on a partition that isn't mounted at boot. Use an innocuous name for the mount point and actually have some appropriate files there, and unless your laptop is being examined by a Linux geek who looks through/etc/fstab and gets curious about why that partition's not normally mounted, nobody will ever know the difference.
Classics are mostly only classics because they were good when there was less competition.
No. Books become classics by outliving the era they were written for. Treasure Island, written in 1881, is still popular today. The Rover Boys Series, written between 1899 and 1926 is almost forgotten today because it was too much a product of its own time for today's boys to relate to. That doesn't mean that it's a bad series, just that today's boys would find it hard to relate to the characters or even understand their attitudes.
Nonpartisan primaries are not perfect, but are a big improvement on the status quo ante.
Really? You think that making it effectively impossible for any third-party candidate to get on the ballot for the General Election is a Good Thing? There are districts in California where both of the candidates in November are going to be Democrats. Is that how you think elections should be held?
It's not TW's responsibility to go looking for events and give them permission to proceed. If you want to hold a Harry Potter themed event, you have to start out by asking TW for permission to use their trademarked IP. It is, however, their responsibility to send out Cease and Desist letters to anybody holding such an event who hasn't received permission.
Egyptians had been using the 3-4-5 right angled triangles to demarcate land holdings after Nile floodings 1500 years before Pythagoras.
Yes indeed, and a number of other geometrical and numerical tricks as well. However, I don't think that it ever occurred to them to find out why they worked, or to generalize from them. They only cared about getting the job done and never worried about why their various tricks worked.
I'd expect that it would have to be purified before use. Just freezing it down to dry ice doesn't sound like enough, because I'm sure that at least some of the impurities you don't want will end up getting through. Possibly cooling the air and centrifuging it to get rid of the lighter components before freezing it would do the trick, but I've no idea if it would be economically feasible.
My understanding is that he made the decision based on the fact that he expected her to win and that nobody was going to be willing to press charges against the President Elect. My personal opinion is that that shouldn't have been his call. He should have passed the results of his investigation over to the proper people and let them decide. Then, if the decision was not to prosecute, his hands were clean. As it is, there are people who say that he closed the case for partisan reasons. Personally, I don't know his motives, but it does make me wonder.
Neither liberals nor conservatives approve of how Comey handled that investigation...
Really? Most of the liberals I know are thrilled with the investigation because it ended up with the results they wanted. Never mind the fact that the investigation was very badly mishandled and that he had no business deciding that nobody would be willing to prosecute, it ended up with Hillary safe, and that's all they care about.
Ha, ha. It is to laugh. Neither the VC nor the NVA ever beat the US in the field. Even the Easter Offensive, a massive invasion by the NVA in 1972, resulted in huge losses of men and material for them and gained them nothing but tiny finger-holds south of the border. They only "won" the war because the anti-war movement here persuaded the politicians (falsely) that the war was unwinnable. I realize that this isn't what your history books say, but trust me, because I was there on the Gun Line helping beat them back.
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The shop owners in places like Annapolis will show you how high flood waters have been...
Back when I visited Hawai'i in the '70s it wasn't at all unusual for there to be lines painted on the sides of buildings showing the high water marks for various tsunami. I'm surprised that the people in places like Annapolis haven't done the same thing, unless I've misunderstood what you posted.
That's true, as far as it goes, but there's something important that you're ignoring: in the first case, all of that money goes to China, and in the second, it stays in the US.
Why? Does your friend have an inflatable telepresence robot?
Actually, I've done it when going from my home n California to visit a cousin in Colorado without bothering to change my watch.
So? If you have offices in LA and NY open 9-5, there's currently only five hours of overlap. Six would be an improvement.
The boundaries are like that to follow national/state/provincial borders so that you don't have 90% of a country (or whatever) in one timezone and 10% in another. In fact, there are even a few places where the International Dateline jogs to avoid that kind of issues.
If you live in the Netherlands but visit Germany, leave your clock/watch the way it is, and correct mentally. If you have to spend several days at a time in Germany, get a watch that can display two time zones and switch back and forth at need. Problem solved.
The EU commissioners are chosen by the elected governments of each State just like U.S Senators were before the 13th amendment.
That's the Seventeenth Amendment. The Thirteenth abolished slavery.
Doesn't have to be registered, just certified. A registered letter is for when you're sending something of tangible value. Not only is it insured, it's kept in a locked drawer when not in transit and every time it's moved, it has to be logged. That takes extra time and it costs. A certified letter is for when you only have to be sure it's delivered and it's treated just like any other until then, when whoever accepts it has to sign for it and you get the receipt back. A resignation letter has no monetary value, so sending it certified is sufficient.
My understanding is that summer temperatures like this are quite common in Death Valley. The reason most people aren't aware of this is that the National Weather Service ignores Death Valley because otherwise, they'd have the highest temperature almost every day in summer, and most people want a little more variety in their news.
Yes, but my suggestion doesn't leave an easily visible file sitting there that non-geeks can get curious about.
I don't want to start an OS war, but under Linux (and other *nix variants) you can put all of your sensitive data on a partition that isn't mounted at boot. Use an innocuous name for the mount point and actually have some appropriate files there, and unless your laptop is being examined by a Linux geek who looks through /etc/fstab and gets curious about why that partition's not normally mounted, nobody will ever know the difference.
Nothing fancy, just copy everything from the source which is newer than the target.
Just out of curiosity, how much did you charge for reinventing rsync?
Classics are mostly only classics because they were good when there was less competition.
No. Books become classics by outliving the era they were written for. Treasure Island, written in 1881, is still popular today. The Rover Boys Series, written between 1899 and 1926 is almost forgotten today because it was too much a product of its own time for today's boys to relate to. That doesn't mean that it's a bad series, just that today's boys would find it hard to relate to the characters or even understand their attitudes.
Nonpartisan primaries are not perfect, but are a big improvement on the status quo ante.
Really? You think that making it effectively impossible for any third-party candidate to get on the ballot for the General Election is a Good Thing? There are districts in California where both of the candidates in November are going to be Democrats. Is that how you think elections should be held?
They don't feel pity, or remorse...
Oh, it isn't very pretty what a fan without pity can do!
It's not TW's responsibility to go looking for events and give them permission to proceed. If you want to hold a Harry Potter themed event, you have to start out by asking TW for permission to use their trademarked IP. It is, however, their responsibility to send out Cease and Desist letters to anybody holding such an event who hasn't received permission.
Egyptians had been using the 3-4-5 right angled triangles to demarcate land holdings after Nile floodings 1500 years before Pythagoras.
Yes indeed, and a number of other geometrical and numerical tricks as well. However, I don't think that it ever occurred to them to find out why they worked, or to generalize from them. They only cared about getting the job done and never worried about why their various tricks worked.
I'd expect that it would have to be purified before use. Just freezing it down to dry ice doesn't sound like enough, because I'm sure that at least some of the impurities you don't want will end up getting through. Possibly cooling the air and centrifuging it to get rid of the lighter components before freezing it would do the trick, but I've no idea if it would be economically feasible.
My understanding is that he made the decision based on the fact that he expected her to win and that nobody was going to be willing to press charges against the President Elect. My personal opinion is that that shouldn't have been his call. He should have passed the results of his investigation over to the proper people and let them decide. Then, if the decision was not to prosecute, his hands were clean. As it is, there are people who say that he closed the case for partisan reasons. Personally, I don't know his motives, but it does make me wonder.
See what this comment tells me is that you don't actually know any liberals...
Well, they call themselves liberals, and who am I to argue with them about it?
Neither liberals nor conservatives approve of how Comey handled that investigation...
Really? Most of the liberals I know are thrilled with the investigation because it ended up with the results they wanted. Never mind the fact that the investigation was very badly mishandled and that he had no business deciding that nobody would be willing to prosecute, it ended up with Hillary safe, and that's all they care about.
...one that best the pants off the US.
Ha, ha. It is to laugh. Neither the VC nor the NVA ever beat the US in the field. Even the Easter Offensive, a massive invasion by the NVA in 1972, resulted in huge losses of men and material for them and gained them nothing but tiny finger-holds south of the border. They only "won" the war because the anti-war movement here persuaded the politicians (falsely) that the war was unwinnable. I realize that this isn't what your history books say, but trust me, because I was there on the Gun Line helping beat them back.
How do you know that there wasn't a bit of Divine Inspiration involved?
OK, in those states that do require proof of citizenship, what kind of proof do they require?