What we have to worry about is ice storms. Winter/snow tires will not help you on ice, so we(just as The Mighty Buzzard suggested), just slow the fuck down until the roads are clear.
True, but OK is pretty much as flat as it gets (well, west TX is as flat as it gets, but anyway...) and driving slow works. I've delivered pizzas in 6 inches of snow while in college in OK. Not sure what Atlanta is like, but add any sort of hills into the equation and things change drastically.
Nope, just the regular ones. Oklahoma doesn't get enough snow to make snow tires worth it, just enough that we're not all total noobs when some happens to fall.
Pretty much true, although my dad has snow tires, there's never enough need to put them on. I myself have driven in my little car while delivering pizzas to put myself through college (shout out to Pizza Shuttle in Norman) in many inches of snow. However, Oklahoma is pretty much flat and so long as you can get some traction, you can go slow and make it near anywhere. One ice storm however, I did find myself at the top of one of the few hills and managed to slide sideways down the street and ended up with the car stuck in somebodies driveway for the night.
How difficult is it to create an artificial magnetic field for the purposes of deflecting/channeling radiation (I ask this pseudo-rhetorically since it's likely very difficult)? Could it be done with inductor coils or ferrous magnets? Could it be on a separate spacecraft which could act as a blocker (such that spacecraft electronics don't get distorted)?
Creating an artificial magnetic field would be easy. Creating one that is large and powerful enough to deflect the radiation would not be. It would be like trying to use electric fans to deflect bullets.
Unfortunately, this fails to address worst-case scenarios. An explosion at a coal mining facility is tragic. An explosion at a nuclear plant is a disaster that extends far beyond the facility itself, with long-term costs and potential health problems. Also, no one gets too upset if a lump of coal goes missing.
Even then, the evacuations and other issues with bad nuclear accidents are there to prevent deaths that we are already seeing with coal.
Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him
What is it about headlines that makes people unwilling to use the word "and"? I can understand it in ye olde days of printe when you might need to claw baxk whatever space you could (did it then just become a convention?), but it's not like you'll break teh internets with a few extra characters.
The Democratic Party should be the one imploding, not the GOP-- but the offer of free handouts is a tough one to campaign against. It's amazing how most failing cities have been under de facto on-party rule for decades, yet that party has managed to blame the other one for all its ills.
I think you're confused in that the GOP doesn't offer free hand outs. It does, but just not to the people, but to corporations and the rich. Spending by the GOP still is much more than the Democrats, just less of it goes to help America or her people.
Funny how businesses that attract competent talent don't require union protections to keep their employees around.
The head of a then non-union airline said in the early 1980s "any company that gets a union deserves one." Treat your workers fairly and they will have no need for a union. Fuck them over and watch them organize.
As an IT group that tried to unionize after the state said we could, I'd have to agree. The other people at my work, including the managers, who experienced their change to a union agree.. Friends of mine that work for unions agree. The sole cause of unions is bad management. We tried to unionize because we were getting dicked over by our director. Even the managers who were the bad managers at the time admit now that things work better with a common set of rules and not having the power they used to have. People don't normally unionize to get better wages. We were looking a percentage cut to our wages in union dues and willing to do that so we could stop having to jump just because somebody said jump and then getting our leave canceled because somebody upstream didn't read all the warnings and reports on a project and freaks out.
Imaging units don't have a radioactive component. The only radioactive isotopes I think you'll normally find in a radiology department will be in nuclear medicine. In these cases it is injected as a drug and in many cases, because of the time limit on the drug's radioactivity, the cost, and supply chain changes, the drug isn't even ordered from the outside supplier until the day of the exam or sometimes till the patient has arrived.
Or in this case, the second one, which follows herein forthwith.
Maybe black holes distort gravity severely but end up distorting space so badly they twist it right 'round where it was, essentially making the black holes invisible but appearing to have mass. Hey! I discovered what all the Dark Matter is! (waits for Nobel Committee to call...)
Show us the math. Theory without the math is just philosophy, and I have a feeling that your philosophy won't excite any philosophers either.
Actually, you'll find that most teenagers are using other services and bailing from FB because it's what "the adults around them use." And no teenager wants mom, dad, grandparents, aunts and uncles looking over their shoulder.
I'm 45 and considering the closing my account for the same reasons.
But the private companies did not go there because of pure capitalism but because of government spending and social will. Therefore, the "job creators" were not the ones actually doing that advancing but were instead the actual workers, not the ones who held the capital. It's a fine example of socialism. Other idealogies do not put people second to the state any more than democracy (pure majority rule). They are all just ideals that are used by people for their own purposes which vary from person to person. I will give you that I think the US Constitution was put together by a group that was generally idealistic and enlightened, as so much that the individual couldn't get as good of a deal if it were rewritten in the current day.
Yeah, sure, OK, but that's why the time to start all this lengthy work was like 4 years ago, right?
Correct. And that's when they started the process most likely. First you have to find out when your vendor supplied apps will run on the new OS and if they are healthcare, you're waiting for FDA testing as part of that. That can take years and vendors can plan on upgrading every other OS as it takes too long to do every OS. Those changes will only come with a new version that includes an upgrade to the servers, so there you have millions of dollars in an upgrade project that has to be fit into the capital budget. Then you have all the departmental apps and servers to deal with. Then you can start worrying about the actual OS on the desktops which will require a refresh of the hardware too. Unless you get funding for another capital project (not likely in the past economic times) the desktop support guys are going to be limited to just upgrading computers as they fail which is probably about all they can handle as they always lack resources. All this in a business climate that doesn't want to spend money on something that isn't broken. Add in that MS is quite willing to continue with security patches as part of the site licensing deal that the business has already for years to come, and the immediacy of the issue recedes even further. It's not that they didn't start on it years ago, but rather that the upgrade process is continuous and based on other things and takes more years than that to carry out.
I'm amazed at how consistently/.ers assume that a LED would not be hardwired to the component it monitors. Its like a form of brain damage.
It could very well be hardwired to the component it monitors, but then if that component has firmware or driver that gets hacked, it might not do you much good.
So if "going rate" is 60k and I offer someone 50k, that's discriminatory? That happens All. The. Time.
And that is legal. It's like right to work states. It's legal to fire a person for no reason what so ever, but it's not legal to fire somebody for a reason that is illegal. Usually, it takes a serious fuck up to catch somebody on it, or a long history of suspicious behavior. This is a case of being a serious fuck up. The hiring manager asked for more money, they should have said "No, that's all we'll offer." but instead they said "No, we illegally discriminate." He complained that they were operating illegally and got fired for it. That itself is probably illegal. From what I read here, not only is it illegal to discriminate due to race, but it is illegal to us visas to save money on salary. Again, if they had said "That's all we have the budget for" they probably would have been fine, but instead said "No, we want to break the law." So it all comes down to some corporate manager blatently admitting they are breaking the law, which happens a lot as the type of person that breaks the law often doesn't care because they feel self entitled to be able to break the law.
MS shouldn't create any new versions of Windows O/S. It should take Windows 7 and make it a subscription-based product. Pay $50/year and MS will maintain it in its current form forever.
If you're an enterprise customer with site licensing, they have it already and it's called Windows XP. My company is already ironing out the contract and will be paying for the updates after the end of support date.
One basic problem about Windows Me is that its timing was wrong.
THE basic problem about Windows Me is that every computer I saw with it installed on invariably became completely fucked and required a rebuild within a year. I'd replace it with Win2k and the computer would function for years.
I have yet to hear of a hospital that offshored their medical staff or lobbied for H1-Bs.
I have never heard of any medical establishment saying, "There are no qualified Americans."
A little different as most such medical professions must be trained and licensed in the US to do that. The thing is that there is no shortage of doctors and other staff coming over here to go to school to begin with. Probably a third of the residents each year at the hospital I work with are foreign (mostly from India). For nurses, apparently the Phillipines has a transferable process because Philipinos working in hospitals is a thing across the country. As for outsourcing, talk to Radiology about sending their X-Rays out to be read elsewhere.
I was referring to the multiverse part. You are not going to find a test about the existence of something which definition is that it cannot be observed.
How about a non-isotropic universe? There is some evidence that the universe has a net angular momentum. For the entire universe to be spinning, wouldn't there have to be something the universe is spinning relative to?
Profits fall because digital starts a major takeover once it reaches 3 megapixel resolution, which is about the minimum you need for a 4x6 or 5x7, and they aren't ready with good products in the consumer space.
I would disagree with this part here. Not that profits fail or that they were not ready with good products, but rather the reason digital really entered into consumer space. I don't think it had anything to do with image size or printing those images. I was an early adopter of digital photography and paid $500 for a scratched display model of an Olympus 1.2 MP point and shoot in 2000. The pictures were fine and even then most people were sharing on the internet anyway. I've made and sold prints from that camera at 4x6 without any noticable artifacts and have even had some put into printed publications. (Which is not to say it was sufficient all the time. Cropping was right out as was blowing up too large.) Rather it was around 2003 or 2004 that point and shoot cameras dropped in price to the point that consumers would think about buying them. Most people seemed fine for paying the $10 per disposable camera when they needed one because they'd probably never think they'd need 50 rolls of film shot. Once it dropped to ten or twenty rolls (and people had computers), the price made a difference for them to buy the camera and then they started using it the way I had been using that Olympus since 2000. One of the reasons people want the photos I took back in the early 2000's is because I had hundreds of photos of various events because I could take that many for nothing (after initial costs of camera and computer). Most other people only had a few if they took any photos at all.
No. To be *accurate*, the scientists said there was insufficient evidence to suggest than an earthquake was imminent. The politicians said there would be no earthquake. Then, when there *was* an earthquake, the scientists were convicted because of what the politicians said, and the politicians got off scot-free because they "just said what the scientists told them".
No, that's how they started out their presentation, but people kept asking them if there would be an earthquake and instead of sticking to their guns and saying "We don't know" which was the correct answer, they ended the conference by telling people not to worry about it and to "go home and have a glass of wine" with smiles and chuckles all around. Add in that this wasn't the proper procedure for having such a press release, they weren't the people who should have been making it, and they were basically only there to discredit a former employee/kook who was saying there would be an earthquake and they start looking less innocent. If they had followed procedure, they would have ignored the kook, said nothing as everything they were intending to say had been said already, and later, while looking stupid to the public in regards to a kook who was correct, would not have been accountable for anything.
For a cloud of particles moving in arbitrary directions around a common center of mass to become a disk rotating with the net angular momentum of the system, something inelastic must happen. If there are no collisions, or perfectly elastic collisions, you'll continue to have a cloud of particles moving in arbitrary directions forever - the system isn't going to spontaneously self-organize.
I haven't done the math, but I suspect that the mutual occillation between the particles will figure out to some sort of dampening action, at least until the particles are in a nice perfectly occillating wave form. Particles in a could will eventually be pulled to a ring determined by net angular momentum whose radius is determined by that angular momentum. Larger peaks will act on smaller troughs to equal out.
The only thing we really know about dark matter is: it doesn't do that. "Flat" galaxies are flat only for normal matter, but still have a spherical distribution of dark matter. That's how we knew early on that there wasn't just more normal matter than expected in these galaxies - the distribution would be wrong for the observed rotation.
Actually, everything I hear about dark matter is about halo rings around galaxies. That's why there is the gravitational lensing that can be seen. If the dark matter was still in equally dispersed clouds, we wouldn't be seeing that lensing.
No, not someone's meal. Someone's amusing. Or do you really think giraffe was a significant part of Rome feeding?
I think you will find that the meat of all the animals killed in the arenas were sold or given away for food. This is usually the case and still the case for bull fights in Mexico and vacation hunting trips in South America by rich Americans. You'll also find that most animal sacrifices throughout history were also eaten. Once dedicated to the god, they were then eaten with small amount, usually inedible things anyway, being burnt at the altar. Any possible food was usually too precious to waste.
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What we have to worry about is ice storms. Winter/snow tires will not help you on ice, so we(just as The Mighty Buzzard suggested), just slow the fuck down until the roads are clear.
True, but OK is pretty much as flat as it gets (well, west TX is as flat as it gets, but anyway...) and driving slow works. I've delivered pizzas in 6 inches of snow while in college in OK. Not sure what Atlanta is like, but add any sort of hills into the equation and things change drastically.
Nope, just the regular ones. Oklahoma doesn't get enough snow to make snow tires worth it, just enough that we're not all total noobs when some happens to fall.
Pretty much true, although my dad has snow tires, there's never enough need to put them on. I myself have driven in my little car while delivering pizzas to put myself through college (shout out to Pizza Shuttle in Norman) in many inches of snow. However, Oklahoma is pretty much flat and so long as you can get some traction, you can go slow and make it near anywhere. One ice storm however, I did find myself at the top of one of the few hills and managed to slide sideways down the street and ended up with the car stuck in somebodies driveway for the night.
How difficult is it to create an artificial magnetic field for the purposes of deflecting/channeling radiation (I ask this pseudo-rhetorically since it's likely very difficult)? Could it be done with inductor coils or ferrous magnets? Could it be on a separate spacecraft which could act as a blocker (such that spacecraft electronics don't get distorted)?
Creating an artificial magnetic field would be easy. Creating one that is large and powerful enough to deflect the radiation would not be. It would be like trying to use electric fans to deflect bullets.
Unfortunately, this fails to address worst-case scenarios. An explosion at a coal mining facility is tragic. An explosion at a nuclear plant is a disaster that extends far beyond the facility itself, with long-term costs and potential health problems. Also, no one gets too upset if a lump of coal goes missing.
Even then, the evacuations and other issues with bad nuclear accidents are there to prevent deaths that we are already seeing with coal.
Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him
What is it about headlines that makes people unwilling to use the word "and"? I can understand it in ye olde days of printe when you might need to claw baxk whatever space you could (did it then just become a convention?), but it's not like you'll break teh internets with a few extra characters.
Or at least use a semi-colon instead of a comma.
The Democratic Party should be the one imploding, not the GOP-- but the offer of free handouts is a tough one to campaign against. It's amazing how most failing cities have been under de facto on-party rule for decades, yet that party has managed to blame the other one for all its ills.
I think you're confused in that the GOP doesn't offer free hand outs. It does, but just not to the people, but to corporations and the rich. Spending by the GOP still is much more than the Democrats, just less of it goes to help America or her people.
Funny how businesses that attract competent talent don't require union protections to keep their employees around.
The head of a then non-union airline said in the early 1980s "any company that gets a union deserves one." Treat your workers fairly and they will have no need for a union. Fuck them over and watch them organize.
As an IT group that tried to unionize after the state said we could, I'd have to agree. The other people at my work, including the managers, who experienced their change to a union agree.. Friends of mine that work for unions agree. The sole cause of unions is bad management. We tried to unionize because we were getting dicked over by our director. Even the managers who were the bad managers at the time admit now that things work better with a common set of rules and not having the power they used to have. People don't normally unionize to get better wages. We were looking a percentage cut to our wages in union dues and willing to do that so we could stop having to jump just because somebody said jump and then getting our leave canceled because somebody upstream didn't read all the warnings and reports on a project and freaks out.
Imaging units don't have a radioactive component. The only radioactive isotopes I think you'll normally find in a radiology department will be in nuclear medicine. In these cases it is injected as a drug and in many cases, because of the time limit on the drug's radioactivity, the cost, and supply chain changes, the drug isn't even ordered from the outside supplier until the day of the exam or sometimes till the patient has arrived.
I'd rather have Italian cooks in heaven...
The french are also better known for being good lovers than the Italians.
I've had several friends inform me due to their misfortune that this is just good PR on the side of the French and not anything more.
Or in this case, the second one, which follows herein forthwith.
Maybe black holes distort gravity severely but end up distorting space so badly they twist it right 'round where it was, essentially making the black holes invisible but appearing to have mass. Hey! I discovered what all the Dark Matter is! (waits for Nobel Committee to call...)
Show us the math. Theory without the math is just philosophy, and I have a feeling that your philosophy won't excite any philosophers either.
Actually, you'll find that most teenagers are using other services and bailing from FB because it's what "the adults around them use." And no teenager wants mom, dad, grandparents, aunts and uncles looking over their shoulder.
I'm 45 and considering the closing my account for the same reasons.
But the private companies did not go there because of pure capitalism but because of government spending and social will. Therefore, the "job creators" were not the ones actually doing that advancing but were instead the actual workers, not the ones who held the capital. It's a fine example of socialism. Other idealogies do not put people second to the state any more than democracy (pure majority rule). They are all just ideals that are used by people for their own purposes which vary from person to person. I will give you that I think the US Constitution was put together by a group that was generally idealistic and enlightened, as so much that the individual couldn't get as good of a deal if it were rewritten in the current day.
we have very good public transportation that you americans can't even begin to comprehend
Not in the UK, our public transport is shit. So are our roads. Our petrol is pretty expensive too. Bugger.
If you have public transit at all, then it is probably something most Americans can't comprehend.
Yeah, sure, OK, but that's why the time to start all this lengthy work was like 4 years ago, right?
Correct. And that's when they started the process most likely. First you have to find out when your vendor supplied apps will run on the new OS and if they are healthcare, you're waiting for FDA testing as part of that. That can take years and vendors can plan on upgrading every other OS as it takes too long to do every OS. Those changes will only come with a new version that includes an upgrade to the servers, so there you have millions of dollars in an upgrade project that has to be fit into the capital budget. Then you have all the departmental apps and servers to deal with. Then you can start worrying about the actual OS on the desktops which will require a refresh of the hardware too. Unless you get funding for another capital project (not likely in the past economic times) the desktop support guys are going to be limited to just upgrading computers as they fail which is probably about all they can handle as they always lack resources. All this in a business climate that doesn't want to spend money on something that isn't broken. Add in that MS is quite willing to continue with security patches as part of the site licensing deal that the business has already for years to come, and the immediacy of the issue recedes even further. It's not that they didn't start on it years ago, but rather that the upgrade process is continuous and based on other things and takes more years than that to carry out.
I'm amazed at how consistently /.ers assume that a LED would not be hardwired to the component it monitors. Its like a form of brain damage.
It could very well be hardwired to the component it monitors, but then if that component has firmware or driver that gets hacked, it might not do you much good.
So if "going rate" is 60k and I offer someone 50k, that's discriminatory? That happens All. The. Time.
And that is legal. It's like right to work states. It's legal to fire a person for no reason what so ever, but it's not legal to fire somebody for a reason that is illegal. Usually, it takes a serious fuck up to catch somebody on it, or a long history of suspicious behavior. This is a case of being a serious fuck up. The hiring manager asked for more money, they should have said "No, that's all we'll offer." but instead they said "No, we illegally discriminate." He complained that they were operating illegally and got fired for it. That itself is probably illegal. From what I read here, not only is it illegal to discriminate due to race, but it is illegal to us visas to save money on salary. Again, if they had said "That's all we have the budget for" they probably would have been fine, but instead said "No, we want to break the law." So it all comes down to some corporate manager blatently admitting they are breaking the law, which happens a lot as the type of person that breaks the law often doesn't care because they feel self entitled to be able to break the law.
MS shouldn't create any new versions of Windows O/S. It should take Windows 7 and make it a subscription-based product. Pay $50/year and MS will maintain it in its current form forever.
If you're an enterprise customer with site licensing, they have it already and it's called Windows XP. My company is already ironing out the contract and will be paying for the updates after the end of support date.
One basic problem about Windows Me is that its timing was wrong.
THE basic problem about Windows Me is that every computer I saw with it installed on invariably became completely fucked and required a rebuild within a year. I'd replace it with Win2k and the computer would function for years.
I have yet to hear of a hospital that offshored their medical staff or lobbied for H1-Bs.
I have never heard of any medical establishment saying, "There are no qualified Americans."
A little different as most such medical professions must be trained and licensed in the US to do that. The thing is that there is no shortage of doctors and other staff coming over here to go to school to begin with. Probably a third of the residents each year at the hospital I work with are foreign (mostly from India). For nurses, apparently the Phillipines has a transferable process because Philipinos working in hospitals is a thing across the country. As for outsourcing, talk to Radiology about sending their X-Rays out to be read elsewhere.
Milk, cheese, and eggs are all animal products. Vegans wouldn't touch them.
Nor will they eat honey, as that is the exploitation of bees.
I was referring to the multiverse part. You are not going to find a test about the existence of something which definition is that it cannot be observed.
How about a non-isotropic universe? There is some evidence that the universe has a net angular momentum. For the entire universe to be spinning, wouldn't there have to be something the universe is spinning relative to?
Profits fall because digital starts a major takeover once it reaches 3 megapixel resolution, which is about the minimum you need for a 4x6 or 5x7, and they aren't ready with good products in the consumer space.
I would disagree with this part here. Not that profits fail or that they were not ready with good products, but rather the reason digital really entered into consumer space. I don't think it had anything to do with image size or printing those images. I was an early adopter of digital photography and paid $500 for a scratched display model of an Olympus 1.2 MP point and shoot in 2000. The pictures were fine and even then most people were sharing on the internet anyway. I've made and sold prints from that camera at 4x6 without any noticable artifacts and have even had some put into printed publications. (Which is not to say it was sufficient all the time. Cropping was right out as was blowing up too large.) Rather it was around 2003 or 2004 that point and shoot cameras dropped in price to the point that consumers would think about buying them. Most people seemed fine for paying the $10 per disposable camera when they needed one because they'd probably never think they'd need 50 rolls of film shot. Once it dropped to ten or twenty rolls (and people had computers), the price made a difference for them to buy the camera and then they started using it the way I had been using that Olympus since 2000. One of the reasons people want the photos I took back in the early 2000's is because I had hundreds of photos of various events because I could take that many for nothing (after initial costs of camera and computer). Most other people only had a few if they took any photos at all.
No. To be *accurate*, the scientists said there was insufficient evidence to suggest than an earthquake was imminent. The politicians said there would be no earthquake. Then, when there *was* an earthquake, the scientists were convicted because of what the politicians said, and the politicians got off scot-free because they "just said what the scientists told them".
No, that's how they started out their presentation, but people kept asking them if there would be an earthquake and instead of sticking to their guns and saying "We don't know" which was the correct answer, they ended the conference by telling people not to worry about it and to "go home and have a glass of wine" with smiles and chuckles all around. Add in that this wasn't the proper procedure for having such a press release, they weren't the people who should have been making it, and they were basically only there to discredit a former employee/kook who was saying there would be an earthquake and they start looking less innocent. If they had followed procedure, they would have ignored the kook, said nothing as everything they were intending to say had been said already, and later, while looking stupid to the public in regards to a kook who was correct, would not have been accountable for anything.
For a cloud of particles moving in arbitrary directions around a common center of mass to become a disk rotating with the net angular momentum of the system, something inelastic must happen. If there are no collisions, or perfectly elastic collisions, you'll continue to have a cloud of particles moving in arbitrary directions forever - the system isn't going to spontaneously self-organize.
I haven't done the math, but I suspect that the mutual occillation between the particles will figure out to some sort of dampening action, at least until the particles are in a nice perfectly occillating wave form. Particles in a could will eventually be pulled to a ring determined by net angular momentum whose radius is determined by that angular momentum. Larger peaks will act on smaller troughs to equal out.
The only thing we really know about dark matter is: it doesn't do that. "Flat" galaxies are flat only for normal matter, but still have a spherical distribution of dark matter. That's how we knew early on that there wasn't just more normal matter than expected in these galaxies - the distribution would be wrong for the observed rotation.
Actually, everything I hear about dark matter is about halo rings around galaxies. That's why there is the gravitational lensing that can be seen. If the dark matter was still in equally dispersed clouds, we wouldn't be seeing that lensing.
No, not someone's meal. Someone's amusing. Or do you really think giraffe was a significant part of Rome feeding?
I think you will find that the meat of all the animals killed in the arenas were sold or given away for food. This is usually the case and still the case for bull fights in Mexico and vacation hunting trips in South America by rich Americans. You'll also find that most animal sacrifices throughout history were also eaten. Once dedicated to the god, they were then eaten with small amount, usually inedible things anyway, being burnt at the altar. Any possible food was usually too precious to waste.