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Within North America, we don't use country codes, even when calling internationally.
Good trick if you can manage it. What do you use - owls?
We use area codes, and within NANP territory, these are country-agnostic. This is convenient in some ways, but also disastrous in others because someone can give me a number in the Bahamas where I'll get charged $2.00 a minute for the call, and it won't look any different from a call to another state or even within the same state. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to area code assignments *except* for the Caribbean, where they were generated based on three-letter country codes, and some very old assignments where they were given low digits and a 1 in the middle to minimize dialing time on rotary phones (like 212 for NYC and 213 for Los Angeles) -- but that doesn't make them look any different. A call to Sint Maarten and a call to Seattle and a call to Toronto are handled identically.
It may be unique to North America, but our numbering plan spans multiple countries as if they were a single entity. Thus it is not ingrained that calling across a border always means the use of international calling procedures.
+1 and 1 are not the same, just as +52 and 52 are not. We don't write +1-xxx-xxx-xxxx because that would mean actually dialing 011-1-xxx-xxx-xxxx. +52 really means 011-52. 1 was always billed as "the long distance flag" so to speak, until area codes became mandatory for local dialing as well due to overlays.
Within North America, we don't use country codes, even when calling internationally. Calls to Canada or the Caribbean are just direct-dialed exactly as if they were in the U.S. Therefore, we don't think about country codes, even if we do transact cross-border business. I couldn't even tell you what the country code for the U.S. is, or if there is just one code for all NANP territories or if there are separate codes per territory. When we do call outside the NANP area, we have to prefix 011 to indicate this, though in writing this is commonly represented simply as + (and people are just expected to know 011 is the replacement).
As for the country of a postal address, you can usually pick that up by the code at the end. In the U.S. we have a ZIP code of five digits or five-plus-four, such as 01234 or 01234-5678. (Yes they can start with zero.) In Canada, they use a six-character code, which I believe always alternates letter and number, like A1A1A1. These come after the state or province.
No, he got out and started crying, because he was on his way to visit someone in a hospital who he thought was dying, and he was stuck in non-moving traffic. I gave the car a bit of an inspection, decided he hadn't done anything more severe than crack the new paint on the bumper (I had had the car painted a few months prior), and told him to get back in his car and screw his head on straight. Although there was damage, it was purely cosmetic and I knew I wasn't going to fix it, so why bother making an issue out of it?
I've been sitting in stopped traffic and had the car behind me just decide to roll into the back of me even though nobody has moved for several minutes. Nobody hit him, he just lapsed in attention and let the car creep forward. I'd say that's 100% unavoidable on my part. Similarly, I've had the situation where I'm properly stopped for a red light (with traffic in front of me) and had someone plow right into the back of me. Another time, I was crossing a crowded intersection on a green light, and someone turned in front of me, which meant I suddenly no longer had room to clear the intersection. Despite this, someone in my own lane still managed to hit me from behind, and hard. I don't see how I could avoid any of these except by not driving.
The only time being hit from behind while stopped at a light is the least bit avoidable is when there is only the one car in that lane and they could possibly jump the light and get out of the way. Even then, it may not be worth the risk of getting T-boned.
Leave it to an ex-cop to seek powers for law enforcement at the cost of individuals. I am disappoint. Not the least bit surprised, but disappoint. If this passes, I would be completely in favor of both Apple and Google saying "screw you guys, we're picking a new home".
I've already shot down my own hypothesis simply by showing such an object would have to be nearly 2 AU in size to account for recent observations, even neglecting data gleaned from plates going back centuries.
Fair enough, I'll sanity-check my figures and report accordingly -- whether they support my position or refute it.
The distance to the star is 1480 ly. The distance to the Oort cloud is 1.5-2 ly. Let's use the maximum since I'm trying to establish the minimum possible size of such an object. This is 0.14% of the way there, which would have very little effect on the required size of the object. It would have to be essentially two AU in size.
Two AU -- and that's the minimum necessary to explain the observations *right now*. This completely ignores the photographic evidence going back 200 years. 300 million km. That's a big fucking clump.
So while I'm not prepared to say it's impossible, I would agree it's pretty improbable.
What if what we're seeing is not inherent dimming of the star from its own internal processes or by its own orbital objects and cloud, but by objects closer to home? In particular, is it possible that a particularly dense portion of the Oort cloud has slipped between the star and us? We're only starting to get a handle on Kuiper belt objects. We really have no idea what's in the Oort cloud or how it's distributed.
I find that while it lasts longer and is far more tear-resistant than standard "duct tape", Gorilla Tape leaves an even nastier adhesive mess in the circumstances where it does fail. Of course, you may not be that concerned, since you are the greatest living philostopher known to mankind, and have observed that the aeons are closing. The Gorilla tape may last just long enough.
Gaffer tape, when left on for extended periods of time (like years) also leaves a mess with its adhesive, but it's a dry mess. The failure mode rather sucks though, as the adhesive dries out and the entire cloth backing separates from it.
As of yet, there are no elements named after Japan, or any part of it, and there are many, many elements named after places, so this would be fitting.
More importantly, it would start generations of stoners on the habit of telling each other "let's go do some element 113", thinking they're being clever when in fact they're being about as transparent as if they'd shouted "420".
And a number of those deserters will join the "other" side, possibly with military equipment...
Which is why you won't see the heavy hardware come out until those who are on the fence have made up their minds. In the end, it will be 10% of the population toting 90% of the hardware, and 90% of the population starving or kept close to it. Once they're out of ammo, then what?
Construction began in 2015 when they started assembling kiosks. It's not like they do all the assembly and testing on location. Thus, even if they had not yet installed one by January 1, they still could have begun construction in 2015.
The point is that birds are not going away and they dwarf the threat to aircraft posed by drones. If you have a whole system in place which can accommodate birds, that same system can handle drones. Drones as a threat to aviation only exists in the imagination, or in a tiny number on a risk assessment spreadsheet.
We cannot (as yet) teach birds to target aircraft, thus it is unlikely to get multiple bird strikes in a short span of time. It does happen though, and the result is planes landing in the Hudson river. Despite their smaller numbers, drones can be directed to target aircraft. The absolute numbers don't matter.
I'm not saying this ban is justified, merely saying that the almost-not-a-problem of bird strikes does not automatically imply that drones are likewise almost-not-a-problem.
Oh I understand the practical downside of having archaic measurements. I'm just not all that sympathetic to those on either side of the divide that can't deal with relatively simple conversions that can be done in the head, on the fly. Now if you're talking Celsius and Fahrenheit, that's a mess.
"Worst environmental accident since the BP spill" isn't catastrophic? Thousands of people forced from their homes with no hope of remediation for months isn't catastrophic? Certainly it could get worse (if someone goes in and starts a fire that can't be extinguished), but how can the mere fact that "it's still pumping" make it non-catastrophic?
I'm well aware of the seismicity of the area. I live in Los Angeles County. However, nobody has claimed that this happened due to ground movement. It's being blamed on porous pipes never intended to be used this way. How is that not their responsibility?
I didn't expect that all possible failure modes could be tested this way, but we've now had one that has been proven to be a catastrophic failure, and it should now be on the list of things to check for before an underground vault is used. If you've got a better way to do that, fire away.
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Within North America, we don't use country codes, even when calling internationally.
Good trick if you can manage it. What do you use - owls?
We use area codes, and within NANP territory, these are country-agnostic. This is convenient in some ways, but also disastrous in others because someone can give me a number in the Bahamas where I'll get charged $2.00 a minute for the call, and it won't look any different from a call to another state or even within the same state. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to area code assignments *except* for the Caribbean, where they were generated based on three-letter country codes, and some very old assignments where they were given low digits and a 1 in the middle to minimize dialing time on rotary phones (like 212 for NYC and 213 for Los Angeles) -- but that doesn't make them look any different. A call to Sint Maarten and a call to Seattle and a call to Toronto are handled identically.
It may be unique to North America, but our numbering plan spans multiple countries as if they were a single entity. Thus it is not ingrained that calling across a border always means the use of international calling procedures.
+1 and 1 are not the same, just as +52 and 52 are not. We don't write +1-xxx-xxx-xxxx because that would mean actually dialing 011-1-xxx-xxx-xxxx. +52 really means 011-52. 1 was always billed as "the long distance flag" so to speak, until area codes became mandatory for local dialing as well due to overlays.
Within North America, we don't use country codes, even when calling internationally. Calls to Canada or the Caribbean are just direct-dialed exactly as if they were in the U.S. Therefore, we don't think about country codes, even if we do transact cross-border business. I couldn't even tell you what the country code for the U.S. is, or if there is just one code for all NANP territories or if there are separate codes per territory. When we do call outside the NANP area, we have to prefix 011 to indicate this, though in writing this is commonly represented simply as + (and people are just expected to know 011 is the replacement).
As for the country of a postal address, you can usually pick that up by the code at the end. In the U.S. we have a ZIP code of five digits or five-plus-four, such as 01234 or 01234-5678. (Yes they can start with zero.) In Canada, they use a six-character code, which I believe always alternates letter and number, like A1A1A1. These come after the state or province.
Dangle an LM7805 linear regulator off the PoE. Done.
No, he got out and started crying, because he was on his way to visit someone in a hospital who he thought was dying, and he was stuck in non-moving traffic. I gave the car a bit of an inspection, decided he hadn't done anything more severe than crack the new paint on the bumper (I had had the car painted a few months prior), and told him to get back in his car and screw his head on straight. Although there was damage, it was purely cosmetic and I knew I wasn't going to fix it, so why bother making an issue out of it?
I've been sitting in stopped traffic and had the car behind me just decide to roll into the back of me even though nobody has moved for several minutes. Nobody hit him, he just lapsed in attention and let the car creep forward. I'd say that's 100% unavoidable on my part. Similarly, I've had the situation where I'm properly stopped for a red light (with traffic in front of me) and had someone plow right into the back of me. Another time, I was crossing a crowded intersection on a green light, and someone turned in front of me, which meant I suddenly no longer had room to clear the intersection. Despite this, someone in my own lane still managed to hit me from behind, and hard. I don't see how I could avoid any of these except by not driving.
The only time being hit from behind while stopped at a light is the least bit avoidable is when there is only the one car in that lane and they could possibly jump the light and get out of the way. Even then, it may not be worth the risk of getting T-boned.
They won't... if they sell off their California assets and move out of state.
Leave it to an ex-cop to seek powers for law enforcement at the cost of individuals. I am disappoint. Not the least bit surprised, but disappoint. If this passes, I would be completely in favor of both Apple and Google saying "screw you guys, we're picking a new home".
I've already shot down my own hypothesis simply by showing such an object would have to be nearly 2 AU in size to account for recent observations, even neglecting data gleaned from plates going back centuries.
How dare you oppress trans-Neptunian celestial bodies, you cis-Neptunian shitlord! /s
Fair enough, I'll sanity-check my figures and report accordingly -- whether they support my position or refute it.
The distance to the star is 1480 ly. The distance to the Oort cloud is 1.5-2 ly. Let's use the maximum since I'm trying to establish the minimum possible size of such an object. This is 0.14% of the way there, which would have very little effect on the required size of the object. It would have to be essentially two AU in size.
Two AU -- and that's the minimum necessary to explain the observations *right now*. This completely ignores the photographic evidence going back 200 years. 300 million km. That's a big fucking clump.
So while I'm not prepared to say it's impossible, I would agree it's pretty improbable.
Exampe: my friend crashed his bike and had retrograde amnesia for a few hours. What caused the crash is unknowable.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but...
What if what we're seeing is not inherent dimming of the star from its own internal processes or by its own orbital objects and cloud, but by objects closer to home? In particular, is it possible that a particularly dense portion of the Oort cloud has slipped between the star and us? We're only starting to get a handle on Kuiper belt objects. We really have no idea what's in the Oort cloud or how it's distributed.
I find that while it lasts longer and is far more tear-resistant than standard "duct tape", Gorilla Tape leaves an even nastier adhesive mess in the circumstances where it does fail. Of course, you may not be that concerned, since you are the greatest living philostopher known to mankind, and have observed that the aeons are closing. The Gorilla tape may last just long enough.
Gaffer tape, when left on for extended periods of time (like years) also leaves a mess with its adhesive, but it's a dry mess. The failure mode rather sucks though, as the adhesive dries out and the entire cloth backing separates from it.
But I feel that all those lyrics were not contained in those 2 lines of Polish, right?
Of course they were. In Polish, the Bible is 95 pages long. /s
As of yet, there are no elements named after Japan, or any part of it, and there are many, many elements named after places, so this would be fitting.
More importantly, it would start generations of stoners on the habit of telling each other "let's go do some element 113", thinking they're being clever when in fact they're being about as transparent as if they'd shouted "420".
We use percent, not permille, so 0.4% is 4.0 permille.
This is exactly why those with military bases on which they can do the maintenance will have this equipment, and the rest will not.
And a number of those deserters will join the "other" side, possibly with military equipment...
Which is why you won't see the heavy hardware come out until those who are on the fence have made up their minds. In the end, it will be 10% of the population toting 90% of the hardware, and 90% of the population starving or kept close to it. Once they're out of ammo, then what?
Construction began in 2015 when they started assembling kiosks. It's not like they do all the assembly and testing on location. Thus, even if they had not yet installed one by January 1, they still could have begun construction in 2015.
The point is that birds are not going away and they dwarf the threat to aircraft posed by drones. If you have a whole system in place which can accommodate birds, that same system can handle drones. Drones as a threat to aviation only exists in the imagination, or in a tiny number on a risk assessment spreadsheet.
We cannot (as yet) teach birds to target aircraft, thus it is unlikely to get multiple bird strikes in a short span of time. It does happen though, and the result is planes landing in the Hudson river. Despite their smaller numbers, drones can be directed to target aircraft. The absolute numbers don't matter.
I'm not saying this ban is justified, merely saying that the almost-not-a-problem of bird strikes does not automatically imply that drones are likewise almost-not-a-problem.
Oh I understand the practical downside of having archaic measurements. I'm just not all that sympathetic to those on either side of the divide that can't deal with relatively simple conversions that can be done in the head, on the fly. Now if you're talking Celsius and Fahrenheit, that's a mess.
"Worst environmental accident since the BP spill" isn't catastrophic? Thousands of people forced from their homes with no hope of remediation for months isn't catastrophic? Certainly it could get worse (if someone goes in and starts a fire that can't be extinguished), but how can the mere fact that "it's still pumping" make it non-catastrophic?
I'm well aware of the seismicity of the area. I live in Los Angeles County. However, nobody has claimed that this happened due to ground movement. It's being blamed on porous pipes never intended to be used this way. How is that not their responsibility?
I didn't expect that all possible failure modes could be tested this way, but we've now had one that has been proven to be a catastrophic failure, and it should now be on the list of things to check for before an underground vault is used. If you've got a better way to do that, fire away.