Watching the trials would be entertaining. But what they really need to do is shoot them up for a survivability test which the A-10 is known for among other things.
At least the administration hasn't yet taken over more millions of acres and banned all access to evil, disgusting, polluting, scourge-on-the-face-of-the-earth humans. Oh, dang...now I gave them an idea. My bad.
One word: trees. Plus, the only thing you're going to get from GIS is a building foot print. There's no data on the slope of the roof. You need to stop thinking urban because contrary to popular belief, most people don't live in an urban area. I can show you two different Google satellite images of my house, one taken in June and one taken in January. The shadows case by the trees are dramatically different. My point is that you can't get an accurate assessment of available sunlight throughout the day on just a computer model alone. Here in Arizona, there are a lot of lawsuits brewing against outfits like SolarCity because they convinced people to lease systems saying the lessee would be making money by selling the excess electricity. That turned out to not just be false but it's actually costing people more than before because of all the hidden fees involved.
As an engineer, my first thought is: Hey, cool, I can cut my electric bill to the bone. I've got a huge roof with southern exposure. That roof shows up great on Google imagery. But then I actually look at it throughout the day and the pine trees cast long shadows that sweep over the whole thing. It's worse in the winter when the sun is lower. My neighbor, on the other hand, just had a system installed. 18 panels. But his house is totally unobstructed because he's on the top of a hill with full southern exposure. Ultimately, solar will never be this magic talisman that makes everybody's energy problems go away. Right now, I'd compare it to the dotcom era where people are willing to believe everything and the equipment providers are looking for any way to market the product because they're making money of the subsidies. Eventually, people will realize that it's not all that and a bag o' chips.
Contrast that with some people who want to turn NASA into a community outreach program. The problem with Trumps view is that there are ALWAYS going to be "earthly concerns" that can never be fixed which will soak up available funding. Of all people, he should know that a major space program creates a whole lot of ancillary business.
Um, I have a question: WTF does NOAA have to do with this? They can't get a weather prediction for next week right so why do they have anything whatsoever to do with this? Bitch and moan all you want about mistreatment of whales but the bigger issue is too many chiefs and no indians.
I agree. However, there are far too many people who are taking the shaming approach to solving it. Personally, I'm an advocate of the H. Pylori hypothesis. For years, everybody "knew" that ulcers were a result of poor diet. That turned out to be wrong. Even the researchers who discovered the pathogen were dismissed to the point where one of them infected himself to prove it.
The obsession with the belief that there are ideal environmental conditions is a Sisyphean task. And I'm convinced that the people behind it want it that way because it keeps the masses from rising above their current station in life. Case in point: why aren't the people opposed to the use of Golden Rice being called racists eight ways to Sunday?
My point is that labeling it an epidemic somehow gives some people absolution over treating people in that group like sh*t. How ironic that once AIDS reached epidemic status it was no longer okay to treat such people as second-class citizens.
Using the word "epidemic" is just a B.S. excuse. People have been doing this for decades. Long before the word obese became commonly used by laypeople.
By universally-tolerated I mean overtly by the media and people who get easily offended at everything else. Some big shot makes a fat joke and nobody screams bloody murder calling for their resignation or for a public apology or for criminal charges be brought against them.
But to your point, a number of years ago, there was a piece on 20/20, IIRC, where Diane Sawyer did a "study" about short men. They set up this police lineup style room and had women judge the men in the lineup. None of them picked the short guy as someone worth dating. Then they would start telling the women details about the people they picked, fake details but increasingly disparaging e.g. that guy has a criminal record, that guy never went to college, etc. The women still didn't pick the short guy. Then they starting telling details about him e.g. he's a neurosurgeon or CEO of a major company, etc. They pretty much had to make the short guy a god before the women would go out with him. So busted. Short men are just dismissed without comment.
Seriously, all CG calculations aside (which happen automatically in large aircraft), have you noticed that treating overweight people like sh*t is now the only remaining universally tolerated form of social abuse?
One could argue that Tesla is really interested in making electric cars but rather taking advantage of economic fascism i.e. the government mandates that the "fleet" meet unrealistic fuel economy and emissions standards but the cars that people really want to buy can't meet those goals so Tesla accrues carbon credits or emission credits or economy credits or some other phony currency which they then sell to the normal car companies. They don't care if their cars work or sell. Given that Elon Musk is also into the solar leasing industry which takes advantage of the tax credits, this might be true.
The Trinity Test site is open to visitors twice a year. It's a very surreal experience. You can still find tiny bits of trinitite on the ground there.
I also find it fascinating how many people today are debating whether or not dropping the bomb was necessary. What is the point of such a debate? You can't change what happened. Nobody has the cajones to use one now. It's all bloviating.
If it ain't broke.... It wasn't broken. Businesses aren't going to take the costs up the bum. Someone ALWAYS pays for stuff like this. Netflix employs 2450 people. The average salary is $55k. If 100 of them take off for a year, that's $5.5 million. And that doesn't count the anticipated revenue an average employee brings in which has to be more than their salary or they're not worth keeping. The costs will be passed on either to the customers in the form of higher fees, to the employees in the form of lower base pay, or to the stockholders in the form of lower dividends and/or lower valuation. The last of these three can't easily be done because the stockholders are holding the purse strings. Now, Netflix is a pretty big company with a net income of $266 million in 2014. So they're committing a several percent of their income to this. At a current profit margin of 3.15%, this might not work out too well. Lots of businesses operate on a razor's edge. Forcing companies to do this is a bad idea. Companies should decide if doing this is in their best interest. If a key employee does no work for a year, that could mean that the company folds or falls far behind its competitors because they can't get product to market. I, myself, ran into such a problem. I was planning to acquire a product from a small company. The one person at that company who understood the product and could make necessary changes for me went on paternity leave for 6 months. I had to go elsewhere because I couldn't wait 6 months to get it. You may think this is all immoral but that's how the real world works.
Maybe they should look at how things are going at Gravity Payments. IMHO, this is B.S. Nobody EVER took paternity leave until a few years ago and the world didn't end and kids grew up plenty well-adjusted.
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Somebody esplain to me why the FCC doesn't mandate symmetric broadband speeds. I'd rather have that then gigabit.
Watching the trials would be entertaining. But what they really need to do is shoot them up for a survivability test which the A-10 is known for among other things.
At least the administration hasn't yet taken over more millions of acres and banned all access to evil, disgusting, polluting, scourge-on-the-face-of-the-earth humans.
Oh, dang...now I gave them an idea. My bad.
One word: trees. Plus, the only thing you're going to get from GIS is a building foot print. There's no data on the slope of the roof. You need to stop thinking urban because contrary to popular belief, most people don't live in an urban area. I can show you two different Google satellite images of my house, one taken in June and one taken in January. The shadows case by the trees are dramatically different. My point is that you can't get an accurate assessment of available sunlight throughout the day on just a computer model alone. Here in Arizona, there are a lot of lawsuits brewing against outfits like SolarCity because they convinced people to lease systems saying the lessee would be making money by selling the excess electricity. That turned out to not just be false but it's actually costing people more than before because of all the hidden fees involved.
As an engineer, my first thought is: Hey, cool, I can cut my electric bill to the bone. I've got a huge roof with southern exposure. That roof shows up great on Google imagery. But then I actually look at it throughout the day and the pine trees cast long shadows that sweep over the whole thing. It's worse in the winter when the sun is lower. My neighbor, on the other hand, just had a system installed. 18 panels. But his house is totally unobstructed because he's on the top of a hill with full southern exposure. Ultimately, solar will never be this magic talisman that makes everybody's energy problems go away. Right now, I'd compare it to the dotcom era where people are willing to believe everything and the equipment providers are looking for any way to market the product because they're making money of the subsidies. Eventually, people will realize that it's not all that and a bag o' chips.
The only way that this would be accurate is if it looked at the satellite imagery throughout the day and all year long because shadows.
Contrast that with some people who want to turn NASA into a community outreach program.
The problem with Trumps view is that there are ALWAYS going to be "earthly concerns" that can never be fixed which will soak up available funding. Of all people, he should know that a major space program creates a whole lot of ancillary business.
This might appear 10 years sooner if the FCC would get the hell out of the way. Profit motive, you know.
Um, I have a question: WTF does NOAA have to do with this? They can't get a weather prediction for next week right so why do they have anything whatsoever to do with this? Bitch and moan all you want about mistreatment of whales but the bigger issue is too many chiefs and no indians.
What's a few million microbes between friends?
I agree. However, there are far too many people who are taking the shaming approach to solving it. Personally, I'm an advocate of the H. Pylori hypothesis. For years, everybody "knew" that ulcers were a result of poor diet. That turned out to be wrong. Even the researchers who discovered the pathogen were dismissed to the point where one of them infected himself to prove it.
The obsession with the belief that there are ideal environmental conditions is a Sisyphean task. And I'm convinced that the people behind it want it that way because it keeps the masses from rising above their current station in life. Case in point: why aren't the people opposed to the use of Golden Rice being called racists eight ways to Sunday?
My point is that labeling it an epidemic somehow gives some people absolution over treating people in that group like sh*t. How ironic that once AIDS reached epidemic status it was no longer okay to treat such people as second-class citizens.
Using the word "epidemic" is just a B.S. excuse. People have been doing this for decades. Long before the word obese became commonly used by laypeople.
By universally-tolerated I mean overtly by the media and people who get easily offended at everything else. Some big shot makes a fat joke and nobody screams bloody murder calling for their resignation or for a public apology or for criminal charges be brought against them.
But to your point, a number of years ago, there was a piece on 20/20, IIRC, where Diane Sawyer did a "study" about short men. They set up this police lineup style room and had women judge the men in the lineup. None of them picked the short guy as someone worth dating. Then they would start telling the women details about the people they picked, fake details but increasingly disparaging e.g. that guy has a criminal record, that guy never went to college, etc. The women still didn't pick the short guy. Then they starting telling details about him e.g. he's a neurosurgeon or CEO of a major company, etc. They pretty much had to make the short guy a god before the women would go out with him. So busted. Short men are just dismissed without comment.
Seriously, all CG calculations aside (which happen automatically in large aircraft), have you noticed that treating overweight people like sh*t is now the only remaining universally tolerated form of social abuse?
Bolas, 007.
One could argue that Tesla is really interested in making electric cars but rather taking advantage of economic fascism i.e. the government mandates that the "fleet" meet unrealistic fuel economy and emissions standards but the cars that people really want to buy can't meet those goals so Tesla accrues carbon credits or emission credits or economy credits or some other phony currency which they then sell to the normal car companies. They don't care if their cars work or sell.
Given that Elon Musk is also into the solar leasing industry which takes advantage of the tax credits, this might be true.
Seriously, somebody should put up a lawsuit on Kickstarter or Gofundme or something.
Silly me.
Looks like somebody still believes that the number one company operates on something other than merit-based employment and compensation.
The Trinity Test site is open to visitors twice a year. It's a very surreal experience. You can still find tiny bits of trinitite on the ground there.
I also find it fascinating how many people today are debating whether or not dropping the bomb was necessary. What is the point of such a debate? You can't change what happened. Nobody has the cajones to use one now. It's all bloviating.
Yeesh.
If it ain't broke.... It wasn't broken. Businesses aren't going to take the costs up the bum. Someone ALWAYS pays for stuff like this. Netflix employs 2450 people. The average salary is $55k. If 100 of them take off for a year, that's $5.5 million. And that doesn't count the anticipated revenue an average employee brings in which has to be more than their salary or they're not worth keeping. The costs will be passed on either to the customers in the form of higher fees, to the employees in the form of lower base pay, or to the stockholders in the form of lower dividends and/or lower valuation. The last of these three can't easily be done because the stockholders are holding the purse strings. Now, Netflix is a pretty big company with a net income of $266 million in 2014. So they're committing a several percent of their income to this. At a current profit margin of 3.15%, this might not work out too well. Lots of businesses operate on a razor's edge. Forcing companies to do this is a bad idea. Companies should decide if doing this is in their best interest. If a key employee does no work for a year, that could mean that the company folds or falls far behind its competitors because they can't get product to market. I, myself, ran into such a problem. I was planning to acquire a product from a small company. The one person at that company who understood the product and could make necessary changes for me went on paternity leave for 6 months. I had to go elsewhere because I couldn't wait 6 months to get it. You may think this is all immoral but that's how the real world works.
Maybe they should look at how things are going at Gravity Payments.
IMHO, this is B.S. Nobody EVER took paternity leave until a few years ago and the world didn't end and kids grew up plenty well-adjusted.
Apparently, SOME people are learning from history...and not in a good way.