What person truly believes that Black Panther (or even Mad Max: Fury Road) are in the top 5 movies of all time???
What person really thinks that those ratings are for "all time" rather than "right now"? Aging of such scoring is an interesting topic. The long tail of scoring probably works for sleepers and average movies. Not sure how it will affect the popular movies of the times as they age. Personally, I think Fury Road will age better than Beyond Thunderdome.
... feel obliged to maintain these parasitic, slow, inefficient, error prone, redundant, and worst and most importantly expensive sales monkeys in the middle of a process that practically never benefits from their presence. The number of times that the sales droid knows his own company's products well enough to offer a correction to a possible mistaken order is so slim that it's not worth having them in the way of all the many many times they gum up the works, screw up the order themselves, and cost far far too much. Their sole purpose seems to be to obfuscate prices in some misguided attempt to maximize profits by haggling over every fucking sale. It's borderline dishonest and it's definitely obnoxious.
Trump is a lucky guy, he's had all these criminals around him and didn't even know it! It's fortunate that the authorities have found them out before any of these scoundrels had a chance to take advantage of him.
If you were in a conspiracy to take advantage of him, would you tell Trump? Probably not. One, you're trying to take advantage of him. Two, if you have half a brain, you'd figure out that Trump can't keep a secret and would spill the beans.
They don't have to reach us to be detected. There's this thing called "radio" - kind of a low-frequency starlight - which spreads out just like it and is very easy to notice (if not always to decode correctly).
I think that they've actually figured out with data coming back from the Voyagers, that no, it's not easy to detect. Our broadcast radio and TV signals are too low power and basically hit the heliophere and become noise at any interstellar distance. Radar however seems to be a good candidate, especially at the powers and frequencies needed to do radar astronomy with it. Even the combined use of aviation radar across the globe is probably detectable at 50 ly currently with our own tech (if we'd build a detector).
Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but I don't think company resources should be used to undermine that company. Why should a company be forced to let employees use company infrastructure against itself? I also think it is stupid for an employee to use company resources for these activities. The company can monitor those resources and find out who in the company needs to get assigned the tasks that no one else would want to do. The whole thing seems a bit silly, although I am a simple minded fool so...
To begin with, there is some line where an employer does not have say over what one does at work. There are employee and even human rights protected by law and just because they are the employer, they can't just dictate all behavior. Being able to communicate with fellow coworkers probably comes into that even about non-work items. This particular case seems to be about a work issue, and thus banning it could be banning any discussion of workplace issues not pre-authorized by management. Next, it's not really about using the resources. IT is not coming going to manangement complaining that the email system is being taxed by this. Next, realistically, it's not about even using company resources. If people moved to off campus and organized via personal emails, those peopel doing the work would then be punished or laid off for some reason and the company would just go to the next issue they can push to stop it. Probably not finally, the base cause of most such actions comes down to bad management and workers reaction to bad management. Efforts to stop it without looking at the root causes is just another way of doing the entire "beating will continue till morale improves" routine. Management rarely looks towards themselves as the problem. A company will deal with a department with unusually high turn over of workers being fired for "insubordination" or other causes rather than replace one bad manager who is the one causing the issues and perhaps even violating company policies or employee rights laws.
Well no, I don't think it would take unlimited funds. In fact, in this scenario of doing it by 2020, I think the bottleneck is time, not funds. I don't think that things can be designed, have supply chains arranged, built the tools, manufacture the ships, test them, and then launch and get them there in that timetable. Musk thinks 10 years. He also thinks 20-200 Billion dollars to do a manned mission to Mars and even he thinks that it will be towards the higher end of those costs. Now, I think we can say that Musk's timelines and outlooks are usually very optimistic and almost always go over on times, not sure about money.
Could we get to Mars on 20 billion a year over the next decade? I still don't think so. It took us a decade to get to the moon and going to Mars is much more complicated. There is simply too much tech that needs to be designed, built, tested, and revised before the final manned landing could realistically happen.Apollo 4 didn't land men on the moon, block one of the Falcon rocket wasn't the reusable version, and Mars Mission 1 won't land men on Mars. It's going to require several launches to test deep space habitats, large scale powered landing on Mars, creating fuel on Mars, refueling on Mars, and launching on Mars before we'd risk humans. I suspect we'll do a deep space habitat and probably a fly by of the moon. Then a manned fly by of Mars that could conduct operations with ships already landed on mars for refueling robotically to show that it can happen. Then there will be a manned mission to Mars' surface. I think we could probably do that in 20 years with adequate funding if all testing looked good and there were no unforseen issues.
You can say the timing was bad. You can claim it was unfair. But anyone who has ever chased a dream knows, you have to have your elevator speech ready. You never know who you bump into to make it happen. Instead of being snarky at Trump, you should save your Ire for the fucking NASA admin who was not prepared. He was asked, and he was not ready. Pathetic.
Nope. When it comes down to it, he was prepared and explained why it would be impossible. The unlimited funding scenario has already been run through, and I bet it was in some dossier that Trump refused to read also. When it comes down to it, given unlimited funding, we are 20 years from landing a man on Mars from the start of the funding. Possibly 30. Arguably, SpaceX has already started that process with the development of the BFR, but not with unlimited funding and their timetable doesn't really have it at the level needed by the end of Trump's first term. Then comes the Realpolitik that if NASA was given unlimited funding, they would be told how to spend it by the Senate and it would disappear into pork projects like the SLS and seriously miss any sort of optimistic timetable such as 20-30 years.
The shielding needed for a deep space habitat will need to be a composite due to the different types of radiation and the weight limits that could be allocated to shielding. There is EM radiation such as x-rays, charged particles coming from the sun, and cosmic rays in high energy neutrons coming from deep space which are all blocked in different amounts by different materials. It's going to require different materials together to provide the lightest form of shielding. This will hopefully be able to include the storage of water, fuel, and other materials in order to save weight and space. How much of the craft they'll need to shield will depend on how much space the crew will generally need, which might mean some areas where less time is spent might have less or no shielding. All of this is going to require testing which will also be dependent on things such as the food and water reclaimation systems which have also not been built yet to be as efficient and reliable as needed for a two year mission.
My favorite is Lunar Rescue. I still have an old Mac Plus I pull out and play it on once every five years. While I'm at it, I usually play the first real time strategy game, The Ancient Art of War a time or two.
Direct election of senators was a horrible idea. It made the senate not a voice of the states, but a shitty house of representatives with a horrible representation of the population. The senate needs to go back to being accountable to the states and not the people.
Things that were changed were usually changed for a reason. I've always wondered what the causes of the 17th Amendment was, so I just looked up some history. Seems it works fine till you have partisan governments, then you have issues with Senators not getting elected. Instead of a vote, you have to deal with state politics. Imagine some state official using procedure to prevent voting on a Senator because it would result in one not of his party, as he considered it better for the state to be down a senator rather than have one of the wrong party. (See our current senate behavior for examples.) That was a fairly common thing in the 19th century. So was bribery and other political maneuvers to get the their own man elected as a senator by the state officials. It's was easier to rig the state system than all the state voters. By time the 17th amendment was drafted, there was already a move by the individual states towards general elections of senators. Without a lot more work and safeguards, it seems that all the problems we had with state election of senators would probably just show back up, also in sufficient amounts to return to general election of senators.
Ariane 6 will have a reusable 1st stage at smaller performance penalty than Falcon 9.
Perhaps, in theory, in another decade. It's only been the last few months that Roussel has made rumblings about reusability whereas Alain Charmeau was very open about Ariane 6 being a jobs program (much like the American SLS) and that reusability did not figure anywhere into that. Current plans for any sort of reusability of the Prometheus engine are not on the table till 2030 AFAIK.
> Millenials however see jobs as more transitory in my experience. They are less career oriented. I don't know how that's going to work out for them. Maybe great.
I'm not sure they have a choice. Companies don't train any more.
From the Millennials I know, its much more complicated than that. They are generally being realistic about the current state of affairs. There are places that train, or at least will hire people with no or little experience. They join these, but these are not really careers. They can expect to either leave, burn out, or be fired in a couple of years at most. The idea is to jump from job to job, padding the resume with each step, vacationing between them, building up to the pay grade that they think they can be happy with, and then look for a career which will usually mean a boring job for some boring but established company that has a more long term outlook. Here is when things like location, vacations, lack of stress, family time, raising a kid, etc come into play now that they have the required experience to either trade pay for these things or demand them.
Here's an interesting fact: the 3.7 meter Falcon 9 cores are the largest size boosters that SpaceX could get away designing to be transported on roads without making it entirely uneconomical. Here we're talking about nine meter tankage. I can't see that getting from LA to Texas in any other way than through Panama...which is both expensive and inconvenient. And slow.
I dream of the day when once a rocket is finished, its moved out to the launchpad with empty upper stages. Re-usuability will be so everyday, that this rocket will just launch, to land at any other launch pad in the world as needed for the correct orbit and payload for its next launch.
He had two years with house republicans to get that wall. But now that the Democrats have the house, NOW it's suddenly THEIR fault? Did the Democrats shut down the government? No, Trump did. Period. End of Story. The Democrats are not holding 800k lives in the balance. Trump is. Period. End of Story. Trump is basically acting like a terrorist, and the democrats are doing exactly what they should be doing and refusing to negotiate under duress.
Here now, Trump isn't the only one to blame here. Others share a great deal of this blame,...like Mitch McConnell.
Bullshit it deviated from an orbit shaped by gravity. There is no evidence of this. And outgassing requires it be made of a material that would outgas. Rocks generally don't do much of that, nor do hunks of metal. It doesn't behave like a comet because it is not a comet. Duh...
Here, you seem to be just flat our wrong. This paper states "`Oumuamua showed deviations from a Keplerian orbit at a high statistical significance." Most of all this is only be talked about because it did deviate from motion described by gravity. Most likely, it's just outgassing. However, as you said, it's not a comet and we haven't found any sort of gas. Could also be some sort of radiation pressure from the sun, but once again, they haven't detected what could be the reflective surface. It's an odd duck and some people are getting papers published with odd ideas, however most of this is just because we never got a good look at it to begin with and probably never will.
Exactly Musk (and he is smart enough to know better) is conflating intelligence with access to information. They two are not the same.
Although you are correct, it's more difficult to draw the line than you'd think.
True, and I can tell you that if I had the chance to essentially make everything an open book test with the "book" being any information I can find, I'd take it. That being said, I have taken plenty of open book tests where the professor would let you bring anything you wanted (except for another person) as an aid, because if you didn't understand the subject ahead of time, all the raw knowledge in the world wouldn't help you.
Yes, but tan as an attractive trait is relatively new, really only coming to be in the mid 1900's.
In most of the world, lighter skin is more fashionable.
It's pretty much ingrained in the genetic beauty ideals of the human race. Skin darkens with age. Lighter skin is indicative of youth. Being turned on by a young woman gives the prospect of a mate that will live longer and bear you more young. Almost all of traits that we typically consider attractive relate to either youth, health, or fertility for the same reasons.
Fox isnt on the list of fake news sites that they considered. Also missing is MSNBC and CNN, and these are clearly the top 3 fake news outlets.
Those aren't fake news. They may misrepresent, are biased, ignore items, try and produce fake outrage, but they aren't what is termed fake news. There is plenty of fake news that is completely made up fiction. These have no sources, have no representation in the real news, because often the people and events that happen in them never existed.
One case was when my father was furiously upset because he read a "news story" forwarded to him by a friend about how Obama refused to have a Christmas Tree in the white house. Let's ignore the part about how the only thing I've ever previously heard my father say about Christianity or any religion was that "It's fine for women and old men." It didn't seem right to me so I did some searches and it took three minutes to find a picture and news story of the White House Christmas tree being delivered and set up. I spent and extra two minutes find the exact same picture and story on Fox News. I spent some more time looking for any evidence Obama refused a Christmas tree in the White House or any sort of controversy without any success. Despite being faced with all that, my father still insisted that Obama refused to have a Christmas Tree in the white house. There are many more similar cases of such things forwarded to him by friends, and for a while I countered him on them but it never really has any effect.
I doubt that Apple is all that loyal. Let's see what happens when AMD closes up the single core performance gap.
It's not about performance. It's about ability to guarantee production. Apple puts out a line of computers and needs a sure source for so many millions chips. AMD won't guarantee they can supply that many in a year, and Intel will.
Vinyl and film I can understand, but magnetic medium just doesn't hold up. I don't understand why anybody would want a cassette tape.
From the music podcasts I listen to dealing with people 20 years younger than myself, it is pretty much just a way to support the artists. They get a physical object for their money which comes with a digital download key that they use. The cassette tape goes on a shelf, never listened to.
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Today is the first time I've heard of the term "Professional Engineer" or even PE. I've never heard of a "Government board certified professional engineer"
If your/. user ID was a little lower you probably would have. It gets brought up fairly often when people who play with code call themselves "engineers" and ruffle the people with certs. Of course, then the guy in the back of the room dressed in stripped overalls that used to drive a train coughs, and the conversation sort of dies out.
Just curious, why did you prefer 7 o 10? I don't do most of my computing in Windows, but find 10 to be pretty good..
I can answer for myself, and that is totally the UI. They changed how everything is interacted with. That is a learning curve, but even after you learn it, I have compared and most things take more clicks to get to in Win10 than Win7. Then that is only for things you can get to by navigating with a mouse. Most of their time, their solution is to "Just type whatever you are looking for into the search field and it will find it". Well, to do that I have to take my hand off my mouse, move to a typing positiong with both hands on the keyboard and actually type, hope I remember the exact name, and pray it doesn't decide I want to do a web search instead of finding the thing I'm looking for. Overall, it really kills productivity and usefullness.
As an outsider (living in Sweden, Europe) I am a bit curious, but mostly alarmed how the US have got such a seemingly malfunctioning health care system. Most other 1:st world countries (in Europe, Japan, South Korea...) have some variation on a single-payer system, where hospital visits and drugs are in most part paid by everyone via taxes, without what seems like the bureaucracy of private or employer-paid insurance.
It came about because during WW2, before Europe had many of those programs, the US put a wartime stop of pay raises as part of the wartime economy. Companies still needed to attract and retain workers, especially with the manpower drain due to a growing military. They couldn't offer more money, so they offered health care. By time the war stopped, Europe started adopting single payer plans while in the US, enough of the (well to do) population had health care that it wasn't too much a demand and then came medicare and medicaid to try and patch the holes. Add is that the pricing (being discussed by the article) is all wonky because insurance companies (and Medicare/Medicaid) pay a percentage of the hospital's Master Charge Record or the listed price (as talked about by the article) because of the leverage they have. This percentage of actual money the hospital gets is usually about 33-66% of the listed price as determined by the quality of the insurance, although most of the total cost gets written off, depending on the plan's agreement with those covered. Meaning those that do not have coverage end up with bills around two times what it actually costs the hospital, which they must be charged because that's what the insurance demands due to agreements about the MCR. To make matters worse, the insurance companies are now making deals with clinics and the like for a set amount per certain procedure, a deal the hospitals would like to get in on also, but can't, again, because insurance companies won't give it to them. This is throwing the US healthcare into a tizzy because many hospitals charged less for diagnosis and made up the costs on procedures, but then the insurance companies started gaming the system to get the lowest prices all around. Add in issues such as people saying they just want cheaper prices and not brand new doctor's waiting rooms when it's not true and they'll pick the doctors with the newer waiting rooms, and the entire healthcare system is in a flurry of trying to restructure costs over at least the last decade that I could continue to go on about if you really cared.
Yeah, Dollar Tree is good. AA batteries are 8 for $1. You can get stuff like soap and other misc household items. You pay 2x as much for the same stuff at the grocery store.
This article is ridiculous.
Haven't read this article but the others I have read are complaining where it plays out that now that you are buying your household items at Dollar , the Grocery store can't stay in business. Now your town has less jobs and everybody has to travel to the next town over to buy groceries. Where the profits of the local store may have stayed in the community, Dollar Store's goes out of the community. It's basically Was-Mart for towns too small to have a Way-Mart.
failing to grow as the community recovers, it stalls and kills the local economy.
This is asserted in TFA without evidence. How does filling an obvious need in a affordable way, "kill" the economy?
There are other articles that have been going around for a while. Basically, it's the wanna-be Wal-Mart. Most of the communities they move into have a local grocery store. They're too small for a Wal-mart, but Dollar General moves in, sell enough of the higher margin shelf stable items at cheaper prices that the local grocery store cannot survive. Now, the community only has the Dollar General which employees less people for less wages and sells less items making people need to travel to a real grocery store farther away to actually suit all their needs even after shopping at the Dollar General.
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What person truly believes that Black Panther (or even Mad Max: Fury Road) are in the top 5 movies of all time???
What person really thinks that those ratings are for "all time" rather than "right now"? Aging of such scoring is an interesting topic. The long tail of scoring probably works for sleepers and average movies. Not sure how it will affect the popular movies of the times as they age. Personally, I think Fury Road will age better than Beyond Thunderdome.
... feel obliged to maintain these parasitic, slow, inefficient, error prone, redundant, and worst and most importantly expensive sales monkeys in the middle of a process that practically never benefits from their presence. The number of times that the sales droid knows his own company's products well enough to offer a correction to a possible mistaken order is so slim that it's not worth having them in the way of all the many many times they gum up the works, screw up the order themselves, and cost far far too much. Their sole purpose seems to be to obfuscate prices in some misguided attempt to maximize profits by haggling over every fucking sale. It's borderline dishonest and it's definitely obnoxious.
Reminds me of buying a car.
Trump is a lucky guy, he's had all these criminals around him and didn't even know it! It's fortunate that the authorities have found them out before any of these scoundrels had a chance to take advantage of him.
If you were in a conspiracy to take advantage of him, would you tell Trump? Probably not. One, you're trying to take advantage of him. Two, if you have half a brain, you'd figure out that Trump can't keep a secret and would spill the beans.
They don't have to reach us to be detected. There's this thing called "radio" - kind of a low-frequency starlight - which spreads out just like it and is very easy to notice (if not always to decode correctly).
I think that they've actually figured out with data coming back from the Voyagers, that no, it's not easy to detect. Our broadcast radio and TV signals are too low power and basically hit the heliophere and become noise at any interstellar distance. Radar however seems to be a good candidate, especially at the powers and frequencies needed to do radar astronomy with it. Even the combined use of aviation radar across the globe is probably detectable at 50 ly currently with our own tech (if we'd build a detector).
Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but I don't think company resources should be used to undermine that company. Why should a company be forced to let employees use company infrastructure against itself? I also think it is stupid for an employee to use company resources for these activities. The company can monitor those resources and find out who in the company needs to get assigned the tasks that no one else would want to do. The whole thing seems a bit silly, although I am a simple minded fool so...
To begin with, there is some line where an employer does not have say over what one does at work. There are employee and even human rights protected by law and just because they are the employer, they can't just dictate all behavior. Being able to communicate with fellow coworkers probably comes into that even about non-work items. This particular case seems to be about a work issue, and thus banning it could be banning any discussion of workplace issues not pre-authorized by management. Next, it's not really about using the resources. IT is not coming going to manangement complaining that the email system is being taxed by this. Next, realistically, it's not about even using company resources. If people moved to off campus and organized via personal emails, those peopel doing the work would then be punished or laid off for some reason and the company would just go to the next issue they can push to stop it. Probably not finally, the base cause of most such actions comes down to bad management and workers reaction to bad management. Efforts to stop it without looking at the root causes is just another way of doing the entire "beating will continue till morale improves" routine. Management rarely looks towards themselves as the problem. A company will deal with a department with unusually high turn over of workers being fired for "insubordination" or other causes rather than replace one bad manager who is the one causing the issues and perhaps even violating company policies or employee rights laws.
Well no, I don't think it would take unlimited funds. In fact, in this scenario of doing it by 2020, I think the bottleneck is time, not funds. I don't think that things can be designed, have supply chains arranged, built the tools, manufacture the ships, test them, and then launch and get them there in that timetable. Musk thinks 10 years. He also thinks 20-200 Billion dollars to do a manned mission to Mars and even he thinks that it will be towards the higher end of those costs. Now, I think we can say that Musk's timelines and outlooks are usually very optimistic and almost always go over on times, not sure about money.
Could we get to Mars on 20 billion a year over the next decade? I still don't think so. It took us a decade to get to the moon and going to Mars is much more complicated. There is simply too much tech that needs to be designed, built, tested, and revised before the final manned landing could realistically happen.Apollo 4 didn't land men on the moon, block one of the Falcon rocket wasn't the reusable version, and Mars Mission 1 won't land men on Mars. It's going to require several launches to test deep space habitats, large scale powered landing on Mars, creating fuel on Mars, refueling on Mars, and launching on Mars before we'd risk humans. I suspect we'll do a deep space habitat and probably a fly by of the moon. Then a manned fly by of Mars that could conduct operations with ships already landed on mars for refueling robotically to show that it can happen. Then there will be a manned mission to Mars' surface. I think we could probably do that in 20 years with adequate funding if all testing looked good and there were no unforseen issues.
You can say the timing was bad. You can claim it was unfair. But anyone who has ever chased a dream knows, you have to have your elevator speech ready. You never know who you bump into to make it happen. Instead of being snarky at Trump, you should save your Ire for the fucking NASA admin who was not prepared. He was asked, and he was not ready. Pathetic.
Nope. When it comes down to it, he was prepared and explained why it would be impossible. The unlimited funding scenario has already been run through, and I bet it was in some dossier that Trump refused to read also. When it comes down to it, given unlimited funding, we are 20 years from landing a man on Mars from the start of the funding. Possibly 30. Arguably, SpaceX has already started that process with the development of the BFR, but not with unlimited funding and their timetable doesn't really have it at the level needed by the end of Trump's first term. Then comes the Realpolitik that if NASA was given unlimited funding, they would be told how to spend it by the Senate and it would disappear into pork projects like the SLS and seriously miss any sort of optimistic timetable such as 20-30 years.
The shielding needed for a deep space habitat will need to be a composite due to the different types of radiation and the weight limits that could be allocated to shielding. There is EM radiation such as x-rays, charged particles coming from the sun, and cosmic rays in high energy neutrons coming from deep space which are all blocked in different amounts by different materials. It's going to require different materials together to provide the lightest form of shielding. This will hopefully be able to include the storage of water, fuel, and other materials in order to save weight and space. How much of the craft they'll need to shield will depend on how much space the crew will generally need, which might mean some areas where less time is spent might have less or no shielding. All of this is going to require testing which will also be dependent on things such as the food and water reclaimation systems which have also not been built yet to be as efficient and reliable as needed for a two year mission.
My favorite is Lunar Rescue. I still have an old Mac Plus I pull out and play it on once every five years. While I'm at it, I usually play the first real time strategy game, The Ancient Art of War a time or two.
Direct election of senators was a horrible idea. It made the senate not a voice of the states, but a shitty house of representatives with a horrible representation of the population. The senate needs to go back to being accountable to the states and not the people.
Things that were changed were usually changed for a reason. I've always wondered what the causes of the 17th Amendment was, so I just looked up some history. Seems it works fine till you have partisan governments, then you have issues with Senators not getting elected. Instead of a vote, you have to deal with state politics. Imagine some state official using procedure to prevent voting on a Senator because it would result in one not of his party, as he considered it better for the state to be down a senator rather than have one of the wrong party. (See our current senate behavior for examples.) That was a fairly common thing in the 19th century. So was bribery and other political maneuvers to get the their own man elected as a senator by the state officials. It's was easier to rig the state system than all the state voters. By time the 17th amendment was drafted, there was already a move by the individual states towards general elections of senators. Without a lot more work and safeguards, it seems that all the problems we had with state election of senators would probably just show back up, also in sufficient amounts to return to general election of senators.
Ariane 6 will have a reusable 1st stage at smaller performance penalty than Falcon 9.
Perhaps, in theory, in another decade. It's only been the last few months that Roussel has made rumblings about reusability whereas Alain Charmeau was very open about Ariane 6 being a jobs program (much like the American SLS) and that reusability did not figure anywhere into that. Current plans for any sort of reusability of the Prometheus engine are not on the table till 2030 AFAIK.
> Millenials however see jobs as more transitory in my experience. They are less career oriented. I don't know how that's going to work out for them. Maybe great.
I'm not sure they have a choice. Companies don't train any more.
From the Millennials I know, its much more complicated than that. They are generally being realistic about the current state of affairs. There are places that train, or at least will hire people with no or little experience. They join these, but these are not really careers. They can expect to either leave, burn out, or be fired in a couple of years at most. The idea is to jump from job to job, padding the resume with each step, vacationing between them, building up to the pay grade that they think they can be happy with, and then look for a career which will usually mean a boring job for some boring but established company that has a more long term outlook. Here is when things like location, vacations, lack of stress, family time, raising a kid, etc come into play now that they have the required experience to either trade pay for these things or demand them.
Here's an interesting fact: the 3.7 meter Falcon 9 cores are the largest size boosters that SpaceX could get away designing to be transported on roads without making it entirely uneconomical. Here we're talking about nine meter tankage. I can't see that getting from LA to Texas in any other way than through Panama...which is both expensive and inconvenient. And slow.
I dream of the day when once a rocket is finished, its moved out to the launchpad with empty upper stages. Re-usuability will be so everyday, that this rocket will just launch, to land at any other launch pad in the world as needed for the correct orbit and payload for its next launch.
He had two years with house republicans to get that wall. But now that the Democrats have the house, NOW it's suddenly THEIR fault? Did the Democrats shut down the government? No, Trump did. Period. End of Story. The Democrats are not holding 800k lives in the balance. Trump is. Period. End of Story. Trump is basically acting like a terrorist, and the democrats are doing exactly what they should be doing and refusing to negotiate under duress.
Here now, Trump isn't the only one to blame here. Others share a great deal of this blame, ...like Mitch McConnell.
Bullshit it deviated from an orbit shaped by gravity. There is no evidence of this. And outgassing requires it be made of a material that would outgas. Rocks generally don't do much of that, nor do hunks of metal. It doesn't behave like a comet because it is not a comet. Duh...
Here, you seem to be just flat our wrong. This paper states "`Oumuamua showed deviations from a Keplerian orbit at a high statistical significance." Most of all this is only be talked about because it did deviate from motion described by gravity. Most likely, it's just outgassing. However, as you said, it's not a comet and we haven't found any sort of gas. Could also be some sort of radiation pressure from the sun, but once again, they haven't detected what could be the reflective surface. It's an odd duck and some people are getting papers published with odd ideas, however most of this is just because we never got a good look at it to begin with and probably never will.
Exactly Musk (and he is smart enough to know better) is conflating intelligence with access to information. They two are not the same.
Although you are correct, it's more difficult to draw the line than you'd think.
True, and I can tell you that if I had the chance to essentially make everything an open book test with the "book" being any information I can find, I'd take it. That being said, I have taken plenty of open book tests where the professor would let you bring anything you wanted (except for another person) as an aid, because if you didn't understand the subject ahead of time, all the raw knowledge in the world wouldn't help you.
Yes, but tan as an attractive trait is relatively new, really only coming to be in the mid 1900's.
In most of the world, lighter skin is more fashionable.
It's pretty much ingrained in the genetic beauty ideals of the human race. Skin darkens with age. Lighter skin is indicative of youth. Being turned on by a young woman gives the prospect of a mate that will live longer and bear you more young. Almost all of traits that we typically consider attractive relate to either youth, health, or fertility for the same reasons.
Fox isnt on the list of fake news sites that they considered. Also missing is MSNBC and CNN, and these are clearly the top 3 fake news outlets.
Those aren't fake news. They may misrepresent, are biased, ignore items, try and produce fake outrage, but they aren't what is termed fake news. There is plenty of fake news that is completely made up fiction. These have no sources, have no representation in the real news, because often the people and events that happen in them never existed.
One case was when my father was furiously upset because he read a "news story" forwarded to him by a friend about how Obama refused to have a Christmas Tree in the white house. Let's ignore the part about how the only thing I've ever previously heard my father say about Christianity or any religion was that "It's fine for women and old men." It didn't seem right to me so I did some searches and it took three minutes to find a picture and news story of the White House Christmas tree being delivered and set up. I spent and extra two minutes find the exact same picture and story on Fox News. I spent some more time looking for any evidence Obama refused a Christmas tree in the White House or any sort of controversy without any success. Despite being faced with all that, my father still insisted that Obama refused to have a Christmas Tree in the white house. There are many more similar cases of such things forwarded to him by friends, and for a while I countered him on them but it never really has any effect.
I doubt that Apple is all that loyal. Let's see what happens when AMD closes up the single core performance gap.
It's not about performance. It's about ability to guarantee production. Apple puts out a line of computers and needs a sure source for so many millions chips. AMD won't guarantee they can supply that many in a year, and Intel will.
Vinyl and film I can understand, but magnetic medium just doesn't hold up. I don't understand why anybody would want a cassette tape.
From the music podcasts I listen to dealing with people 20 years younger than myself, it is pretty much just a way to support the artists. They get a physical object for their money which comes with a digital download key that they use. The cassette tape goes on a shelf, never listened to.
I Today is the first time I've heard of the term "Professional Engineer" or even PE. I've never heard of a "Government board certified professional engineer"
If your /. user ID was a little lower you probably would have. It gets brought up fairly often when people who play with code call themselves "engineers" and ruffle the people with certs. Of course, then the guy in the back of the room dressed in stripped overalls that used to drive a train coughs, and the conversation sort of dies out.
Just curious, why did you prefer 7 o 10? I don't do most of my computing in Windows, but find 10 to be pretty good..
I can answer for myself, and that is totally the UI. They changed how everything is interacted with. That is a learning curve, but even after you learn it, I have compared and most things take more clicks to get to in Win10 than Win7. Then that is only for things you can get to by navigating with a mouse. Most of their time, their solution is to "Just type whatever you are looking for into the search field and it will find it". Well, to do that I have to take my hand off my mouse, move to a typing positiong with both hands on the keyboard and actually type, hope I remember the exact name, and pray it doesn't decide I want to do a web search instead of finding the thing I'm looking for. Overall, it really kills productivity and usefullness.
As an outsider (living in Sweden, Europe) I am a bit curious, but mostly alarmed how the US have got such a seemingly malfunctioning health care system. Most other 1:st world countries (in Europe, Japan, South Korea ...) have some variation on a single-payer system, where hospital visits and drugs are in most part paid by everyone via taxes, without what seems like the bureaucracy of private or employer-paid insurance.
It came about because during WW2, before Europe had many of those programs, the US put a wartime stop of pay raises as part of the wartime economy. Companies still needed to attract and retain workers, especially with the manpower drain due to a growing military. They couldn't offer more money, so they offered health care. By time the war stopped, Europe started adopting single payer plans while in the US, enough of the (well to do) population had health care that it wasn't too much a demand and then came medicare and medicaid to try and patch the holes. Add is that the pricing (being discussed by the article) is all wonky because insurance companies (and Medicare/Medicaid) pay a percentage of the hospital's Master Charge Record or the listed price (as talked about by the article) because of the leverage they have. This percentage of actual money the hospital gets is usually about 33-66% of the listed price as determined by the quality of the insurance, although most of the total cost gets written off, depending on the plan's agreement with those covered. Meaning those that do not have coverage end up with bills around two times what it actually costs the hospital, which they must be charged because that's what the insurance demands due to agreements about the MCR. To make matters worse, the insurance companies are now making deals with clinics and the like for a set amount per certain procedure, a deal the hospitals would like to get in on also, but can't, again, because insurance companies won't give it to them. This is throwing the US healthcare into a tizzy because many hospitals charged less for diagnosis and made up the costs on procedures, but then the insurance companies started gaming the system to get the lowest prices all around. Add in issues such as people saying they just want cheaper prices and not brand new doctor's waiting rooms when it's not true and they'll pick the doctors with the newer waiting rooms, and the entire healthcare system is in a flurry of trying to restructure costs over at least the last decade that I could continue to go on about if you really cared.
Yeah, Dollar Tree is good. AA batteries are 8 for $1. You can get stuff like soap and other misc household items. You pay 2x as much for the same stuff at the grocery store.
This article is ridiculous.
Haven't read this article but the others I have read are complaining where it plays out that now that you are buying your household items at Dollar , the Grocery store can't stay in business. Now your town has less jobs and everybody has to travel to the next town over to buy groceries. Where the profits of the local store may have stayed in the community, Dollar Store's goes out of the community. It's basically Was-Mart for towns too small to have a Way-Mart.
failing to grow as the community recovers, it stalls and kills the local economy.
This is asserted in TFA without evidence. How does filling an obvious need in a affordable way, "kill" the economy?
There are other articles that have been going around for a while. Basically, it's the wanna-be Wal-Mart. Most of the communities they move into have a local grocery store. They're too small for a Wal-mart, but Dollar General moves in, sell enough of the higher margin shelf stable items at cheaper prices that the local grocery store cannot survive. Now, the community only has the Dollar General which employees less people for less wages and sells less items making people need to travel to a real grocery store farther away to actually suit all their needs even after shopping at the Dollar General.