Thats... amazing. If I'm not getting overly personal, what are you doing with thousands of texts per month? Or if that's not gonna fly what are "people in general" doing with thousands of texts per month? I don't know anyone personally with those kind of stats, so I obviously can't find out any other way than asking here.
My previous carrier parasite was virgin mobile and all I remember was on a pay as you go plan with per minute billing each text message cost more than 2 minutes of voice but less than 3 minutes of voice. In other words a phone call was 10 cents/min billed by minute and a text was 25 cents flat rate tx or rx. Obviously these rates have changed a lot but this was "recently" accurate at one moment. Its unlikely a single text could contain more information than a 2.5 minute phone call.
Thats where I get my "texts are more expensive than a phone call". It would be interesting to know if they're still more expensive.
Being rude, however, is absolutely never appropriate. Even if you think the person is the next 'medical device bomber' being professional and polite should always be required.
The sole purpose of the TSA is to intimidate the general population. I'm not seeing "being polite" as helping with that mission.
11 grams output into the air is 11 grams into the air no matter how you split it up.
...It's a net wash...Net carbon is created in the production of food... People will seek out foods that have a smaller carbon footprint because they'll be cheaper.
A net wash would be 11 grams out, 11 from corn. What we have is 11 grams out, 10 from crude and natgas, 1 from corn.
Net carbon only created if the food is preserved and buried in a mine. Otherwise its released either from eating or rotting.
The footprint only matters if the govt subsidy is smaller than the carbon cost. Usually, it isn't. That would only work in a free market which we do not have.
Can't you replace all of that with a very small shell script?
I mean dpkg and its conflict detection code wasn't even all that cutting edge back in '93, I'm not seeing it as being a big challenge now. I guess what I'm asking is when was the first line of error detection code written that had an "and" clause and output an error message? The 50s I'd think?
for corporate drug pushers (aka "drug companies") and their shareholders.
Its the other way around. Now instead of getting insurance to pay $500/month or whatever for prescription blood pressure pills, you'll have to try to get $500/month from the end user directly... good luck with that.
This is why its going to happen. Anything to make the middle class more miserable is always implemented. Doesn't matter if it makes sense or not. If it'll cost more and make people miserable, it's a go.
Isn't some of that stuff super expensive? I think one big problem is having to pay list price for blood pressure medication, you'll have future darwin award winners thinking... hmm doc says I need to take this $175/month OTC pill thats no longer covered by insurance for my blood pressure or I'll have a heart attack... but this advertisement says aspirin helps with heart attacks and a three month supply is like $3/month.
Certain infections makes me worry about massive over-non-prescription issues. I can see the "womens magazines" headlines already: Kids got sniffles? Here's the secret answers for the pharmacist so you can give your kid zithromax every time they get a virus...
It strikes me as about as unintelligent as removing preventative care like immunizations from coverage... in other words that guarantees we're going to be stuck with it.
Not many/no people have discussed the scale of this xbox hardware cost vs other expenses:
So I've got my $100, err, $300, err, whatever xbox and I'll plug it into my $600 TV. Who cares what the xbox costs, almost all of the cost is in the TV.
Then I'll buy 10 games at $80 each for a mere $800... oh wait the only cost that matters is the games, apparently.
The most important cost is my $150K house to put it in or my urban living apartment at $2000/mo or whatever. The next most important cost is my car to drive out there and buy the thing which is about $25K plus $200/mo for gas, insurance, maint, whatever The next most important cost is the cost of games at $800 for ten games at $80 each. Probably more over time. Then comes the TV at $600 carefully value engineered to require replacement every couple years. Then comes the xbox itself at $300 to $100, with extreme agony and debate over the $300 or $100 version as if it matters much. Finally comes subscription at whatever it is ($50/yr?) Waaaay at the bottom I'll pay an extra $10/year for increased electricity use, increased wear and tear on my $750 couch, whatever.
BTW why exactly am I paying a subscription fee? I already paid for the hardware and the software. Its like trying to convince me to pay a subscription for my dinner, when I already bought the oven and I already bought the pizza. I look forward to the stockholm syndrome explanations for this extreme weirdness.
The nationality of the platform and helicopter and hospital could all be different. This is old stuff. The FAA does not run a credit check on you when you file a flightplan. It is important to note the profound difference in maritime and aviation regulations WRT to normal daily operations vs declared medical emergencies. Generally in emergencies you have to do less/no paperwork before hand and about three times as much afterward.
It might be awkward or expensive... you might find a coastie or air force aircraft escorting you, there are in some cases fines and penalties to be paid.
But, face it, for some lines of work, emergencies are business as usual... This stuff has all been figured out decades ago and you're not going to be captain of a boat or PIC of a helo, or on the other side, a coastie or air traffic controller, without knowing what to do in an emergency situation. Its all procedural and forms to fill out and stuff. Its a known and predictable expense.
Actually we still have the largest manufacturing sector in the entire world by quite a bit. We have completely and almost totally destroyed our consumer products manufacturing, true. The only thing I've bought in 20 years made in the USA is/was some plastic trash cans and oddly enough a gasket-less aluminum pressure cooker made in Wisconsin.
The whole world depends on the USA either exclusively or as a majority provider for aerospace, mining equipment, heavy stuff like that. To a much lesser extent we still make cranes too. And chemical process equipment although like cranes we're trying to give that away to China as fast as we can. You can almost draw a graph of "unit weight" on the x-axis and percent imported on the y-axis and you'll see damn near a straight line where we import 99% of our kitchenware but we manufacture 99% of the world's production of 100 kiloton and up mining dragline equipment (you know, the things that strip entire mountaintops off?) and practically all mining trucks larger than 100 tons.
Let me summarize an entire articles worth of weird and ignorant/.er opinions:
1) this is the first boat that is not US flagged to ever sail either in or nearby the USA, and if it docks for repairs it'll be the first time a foreign vessel has ever entered a US port, so no one will have any idea what to do.
2) there exists a single line in the sandy sea bottom, on one side its complete and total utter US control and the other side is all pirates.
3) magically, because this platform has servers instead of oil drilling equipment, decades of regulation and case law from the oil biz could not possibly apply to this biz, just because it makes for a nice sounding argument.
4) no one has ever lived on a boat for an extended length of time, nor is it even theoretically possible, much less comfortable.
5) the relationship must be binary, either a ship and its flag nation must be US lapdogs and hard core statists, or it must be a libertarian paradise, and only one of those possibilities is unrealistic therefore it Must be the other far extreme possibility (laughably goes for both sides arguments)
6) Foreigners and foreign sailors have never been present on a ship entering a us port, so no one will have any idea what to do.
7) Closely tied to #5, There are only binary governments, the hard core statist fascist western govts like the us and our european lapdogs, and pure capitalist anarchy, therefore since its probably going to be flagged out of panama or something, and panama isn't quite the usa, therefore slavery and polygamy will rule the ship. Uh, no. I don't think very many flag nations allow that on their ships. As a wild guess, I've been on cruise ships that are panama registered, if this tub's panama registered it'll be about as wild as a cruise ship... probably a nude tanning deck, a casino to gamble in, no secret police checking to see if couples in bed together are married (to each other) and are of the correct gender, and generally anyone looking "old enough" gets to drink alcohol and smoke tobacco although technically you have to be 18 in Panama (I think). That's probably about as wild as Panama is going to let it get.
8) A crime has never before happened on board a ship, therefore no one will have any idea how to handle a criminal activity if one happens.
When the nearest hospital is over 200 miles away, you'd better have helicopters ready to make the jump. And you'd better have them cleared for permission to enter US air space with no notice (like that's going to happen).
You've just described the situation of an oil platform in the GoM. I'm completely unimpressed. This kind of stuff was figured out 40 or so years ago.
In order to be in international waters, the ship would be what, 200 miles out from shore?
I've looked into cruising and the myriad of laws. First of all you just described the EEZ limit which controls "traditional money making activities and environmental laws" but expressly does not include loitering. So its a fuzzy zone. The coast guard can order you to not discharge your blackwater tanks, cannot tell you not to just sit/anchor there, can tell you not to fish there, and running an office is somewhat vague.
The contiguous zone is 24 miles and you must follow customs laws presumably including visas. This is a recent "American Empire" turn of the century thing and the whole world used to (still does?) respect only 12 miles. In the REALLY olden days before the previous turn of the century it was defined as a cannon shots length, or so I'm told, like a mile or two.
This is very important to cruisers... more than 200 miles away you can technically tell all authorities other than your flag nation to F-off, but you need to stay at least 24 miles away or else have to go thru customs, and in that range from 24 to 200 miles you sorta have to listen to them. Customs is not necessarily the end of the world, but its nice to not even have to think about it. For example, say you were sailing from California to Alaska, it would be extremely advisable to stay at least 24 miles away from the Canadian shore.
Disclaimer, I've done hundreds of hours of sailing on little craft, mostly inland, but never across an ocean.
30 miles in a 150 knot helicopter for the VCs to visit you is what, 12 minutes of flight? I'm not seeing this as a serious issue. Also I can see a pleasure cruise on a well appointed yacht when making visits rather than flying, if they're in the mood for some fun.
I get the impression that sending a text is way more expensive in the US than elsewhere so hasn't really taken off the way it has elsewhere?
Its much more expensive and slower than making a voice call and harder to use than email because of the length limit. It only makes sense if you're in a no-talking but cellphone-ok environment (student in a lecture hall, etc) or if you're multi-tasking about ten conversations at the same time (teenage girl stereotype).
I find 5000 to be an unlikely exaggeration. Assuming 30 days per month and 8 hrs/day of sleep/shower/otherwise disconnected time per day, that's a constant load of one text message every six minutes. I do not believe your stereotypical median American can read that fast. 500/month, that is excessive yet believable, something like one per hour. I am basing this on theory, my experience is zero per hour because I don't text. I do a lot of email and web stuff, but not text.
Incidentally, I've heard that the late Mr. Bin Laden was a big enthusiast of the right to keep and bear arms...
LOL I've heard it the other way that the RKBA for ALL citizens is not technically Koran compatible, although the RKBA is just barely Koran compatible if it only applies to Muslims (rephrased non Muslim citizen in a Islamic state = civilian gun ownership is technically questionable).
I have no evidence either way, but I do assume its very much like the bible, in that it can be twisted hard enough to claim absolutely anything.
And you don't exhale fossil-sourced CO2. At least I don't.
I find that incredibly unlikely. You can argue the numbers but very roughly speaking a pound of "food" requires a pound of crude oil. The range of rational argument for the ratio is from 1/10 to 10 depending on the food, fertilizer, herbicide/insecticide, watering technique and source, shipment of all component parts, energy costs of refrigerated storage, capital investments in the transportation infrastructure (think of the giant blacktop parking lot full of SUVs in front of my local organic store).
You can play enron accountant that if you exhale 1 gram CO2, that gram did technically come from atmospheric sources so it doesn't matter than 10 grams of CO2 was emitted to make it possible for you to eat the food. But thats enron accounting... 11 grams output into the air is 11 grams into the air no matter how you split it up.
Every year? Like there is a UN coordinator on a budget? Really bad claims like that are what makes the scientists a target of cranks. Even someone with no knowledge of the topic can laugh, which leads to the public following the crank's political philosophy. Which isn't necessarily bad, in that scientists should be doing science, not supporting anyone's political philosophy, and certainly not whining about it.
How much CO2 would the famous yellowstone super volcano emit if it blew in a single shot? If its a large number of magnitudes more than annual human emissions, that has huge political implications.
Every one of the people that do not buy all (or part of) the whole AGW religion have been labelled "deniers" for 10 years now.
BS. I call bogus, especially the "part of". Scientific discussion has always been tolerated. The only way to get the "denier" label is to oppose whatever socialist fascist corporate-kleptocracy solution that has been proposed as the only or final solution to the problem.
"Your paper on changes in non-rural airflow patterns seems to have ignored the recent changing surface albedo due to stylistic changes in suburban mcmansion development" "Yes Dr VLM good point and with further grant money I'd also like to research changing albedo trends WRT deindustrialization of the environmentally regulated US and industrialization without any environmental regulation in China" and they have a beer together at the bar to talk and debate it and eventually become best friends.
"I'm not so sure that going Pol Pot on the worlds population, especially the 3rd worlds population, is the most ethical and moral solution to a sea level change that is pretty minor in the grand scheme of past geological evidence, especially from a guy whos not willing to put his own families head on the chopping block with the rest of the world." "Denier! Evil! Burn him at the stake! Dissent is forbidden! All that is not compulsory is forbidden and all that is not forbidden is compulsory! I sentence you to the two minutes hate!" and they, uh, don't exactly turn into best friends.
My local wisconsin tech school where I got my 2-year 20 years ago charged about $1300 for 12 credits, today its only $1400 but with almost uncountable bogus extra fees ('technology" "activity" and the latest, I kid you not, is mandatory liability insurance) its $1600. If you attend 2 semesters a year, that's $60/week out of your takehome pay. My takehome pay was about $200/week (about $7/hr full time, I got almost all the rest back in the income tax return). That would have only left me $560/month to pay rent and live on (at that time a single bedroom apartment was about $425, almost doable, now its more like $600). So if thats all you have, as a minimum wage drone, you need a roommate. I had also done the army reserves thing so I had a signup bonus high enough to pay for my entire degree plus monthly pay plus full GI bill after AIT completed which meant I was taking home more like $1200/month. Needless to say I had no health insurance because at that time it was running about $175/month and I was judgment proof (no assets) so why even bother. The latest Kaiser plan I've seen for a single guy was $450/month so obviously that has gotten much worse. You'll definitely be living without medical insurance. I did for a couple years and it turned out OK. If it doesn't then you need to scrape up the cash to declare bankruptcy (its actually quite expensive) I had a girlfriend who had to do that.
You only have to do this lifestyle for 2 years, then you have the almost, but not quite, worthless 2 year degree. Then you get a job at the 1 in 100 place that considers a 2 year degree more than a piece of toilet paper, which has tuition assistance and then transfer credits to the bachelors part time program. I also got medical and dental, which was cool since I hadn't been to a dentist in a little over 2 years. My local private college charges 25 grand tuition plus tons of fees for 12 or more credits per semester (full time), yikes. Since I'm working I only took two classes at a time 8 credits. At the time I went the cost per credit for part timers was only in the 100s but because of govt backed loans its now $325/credit as of this year. Note that 12 credits at part time rates is $3900 of tuition, but 12 credits = full time tuition at $25000. So each credit adds $325 to your bill, except the jump from 11 to 12 credits which adds a mere $21100 to your bill. Fascinating... I can't handle the workload of three simultaneous classes... two is one during the week and one marathon on Saturday morning. Also I can trivially afford 2 classes per semester but could never afford 3. So in summary tuition and books would be $3K per semester or $6K/yr. This is peanuts to a entry level sysadmin making $50K/yr and still living in the student apartment and receiving $5K/yr of tuition reimbursement from the job. If you're making $50K/yr and can't scrape up $1K/yr to finish the bachelors degree then you're obviously totally doing it wrong or addicted to something expensive. That's only about $20/week over and above the expenses of a non-college attending coworker.
I escaped with no loans, but there is a cost... "everyone knows" that in general programmers over 40 are utterly unemployable and will not be hired. Yes I know 1 in 1000 will be hired, but the odds are really bad. I took probably 4 years longer to graduate with my BS than just going for a straight 4 yr degree. So on the back end I'm only going to have 14 years of employability before "hello walmart" whereas a guy who took out $125K in loans at the college and graduated at 22 will have 18 years of employability before "hello walmart". Perhaps I can be one of the 1 in 1000 who advances into mismanagement, or consults. At least the corrupt banks made no money off me, which is some minor consolation. Another way of looking at is a CS degree at age 40 is no more worthless than a art history degree at age 22, and those people seem to survive "somehow" and so will I...
But these days, we're talking about 60% or more of Americans who willfully and voluntarily reject a useful education. That's a recipe for disaster.
BS. The world is full of ditches to dig, shelves to stock, papers to shuffle, rote memorized medical procedures to perform, TPS report headers to be modified...
I would guess that at least 95% of jobs are "trained" jobs with no educational requirement. Post secondary training, sure. But education, no. Jobs where independent thought and/or thinking outside the box is strongly discouraged by management. Apparently at least 35% of those employees are over-educated/under-employed/frustrated.
You need a dentist? Train a guy to make holes in teeth and fill them. If instead you educate him by also sending him to philosophy class or maybe english lit or ceramic sculpting class or theater class, he's just going to end up miserable later in life at his assembly line of drilling holes in teeth and filling them. It'll have no positive correlation with his skills at drilling holes in teeth.
I honestly would take a smart non-corrupted judge over a jury any day.
May want to research this further. The verdict was based on the judge ordering the jury to consider APIs as copyrightable.
Right now I'm thinking fast, have I ever written anything since 1981 that reimplements or interoperates or is compatible with any API, and if so, what country can I escape to that will not extradite me...
This reminds me of parity and ECC memory battles of decades past. OK, so it detects an error... Then what? Shut off the power? Not really sure what you'll be gaining. The sole example where it works is when you have the policy and budget to replace anything that takes an error. Useless for this situation.
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Thats... amazing. If I'm not getting overly personal, what are you doing with thousands of texts per month? Or if that's not gonna fly what are "people in general" doing with thousands of texts per month? I don't know anyone personally with those kind of stats, so I obviously can't find out any other way than asking here.
My previous carrier parasite was virgin mobile and all I remember was on a pay as you go plan with per minute billing each text message cost more than 2 minutes of voice but less than 3 minutes of voice. In other words a phone call was 10 cents/min billed by minute and a text was 25 cents flat rate tx or rx. Obviously these rates have changed a lot but this was "recently" accurate at one moment. Its unlikely a single text could contain more information than a 2.5 minute phone call.
Thats where I get my "texts are more expensive than a phone call". It would be interesting to know if they're still more expensive.
Being rude, however, is absolutely never appropriate. Even if you think the person is the next 'medical device bomber' being professional and polite should always be required.
The sole purpose of the TSA is to intimidate the general population. I'm not seeing "being polite" as helping with that mission.
11 grams output into the air is 11 grams into the air no matter how you split it up.
...It's a net wash...Net carbon is created in the production of food ... People will seek out foods that have a smaller carbon footprint because they'll be cheaper.
A net wash would be 11 grams out, 11 from corn. What we have is 11 grams out, 10 from crude and natgas, 1 from corn.
Net carbon only created if the food is preserved and buried in a mine. Otherwise its released either from eating or rotting.
The footprint only matters if the govt subsidy is smaller than the carbon cost. Usually, it isn't. That would only work in a free market which we do not have.
Same here. Supposedly they're the slowest and cheapest option.
Can't you replace all of that with a very small shell script?
I mean dpkg and its conflict detection code wasn't even all that cutting edge back in '93, I'm not seeing it as being a big challenge now. I guess what I'm asking is when was the first line of error detection code written that had an "and" clause and output an error message? The 50s I'd think?
for corporate drug pushers (aka "drug companies") and their shareholders.
Its the other way around. Now instead of getting insurance to pay $500/month or whatever for prescription blood pressure pills, you'll have to try to get $500/month from the end user directly... good luck with that.
From one of the articles:
Move would increase patients’ out-of-pocket costs
This is why its going to happen. Anything to make the middle class more miserable is always implemented. Doesn't matter if it makes sense or not. If it'll cost more and make people miserable, it's a go.
Isn't some of that stuff super expensive? I think one big problem is having to pay list price for blood pressure medication, you'll have future darwin award winners thinking... hmm doc says I need to take this $175/month OTC pill thats no longer covered by insurance for my blood pressure or I'll have a heart attack... but this advertisement says aspirin helps with heart attacks and a three month supply is like $3/month.
Certain infections makes me worry about massive over-non-prescription issues. I can see the "womens magazines" headlines already: Kids got sniffles? Here's the secret answers for the pharmacist so you can give your kid zithromax every time they get a virus...
It strikes me as about as unintelligent as removing preventative care like immunizations from coverage... in other words that guarantees we're going to be stuck with it.
Everyone forgets the price of the TV and games.
Not many/no people have discussed the scale of this xbox hardware cost vs other expenses:
So I've got my $100, err, $300, err, whatever xbox and I'll plug it into my $600 TV. Who cares what the xbox costs, almost all of the cost is in the TV.
Then I'll buy 10 games at $80 each for a mere $800... oh wait the only cost that matters is the games, apparently.
The most important cost is my $150K house to put it in or my urban living apartment at $2000/mo or whatever.
The next most important cost is my car to drive out there and buy the thing which is about $25K plus $200/mo for gas, insurance, maint, whatever
The next most important cost is the cost of games at $800 for ten games at $80 each. Probably more over time.
Then comes the TV at $600 carefully value engineered to require replacement every couple years.
Then comes the xbox itself at $300 to $100, with extreme agony and debate over the $300 or $100 version as if it matters much.
Finally comes subscription at whatever it is ($50/yr?)
Waaaay at the bottom I'll pay an extra $10/year for increased electricity use, increased wear and tear on my $750 couch, whatever.
BTW why exactly am I paying a subscription fee? I already paid for the hardware and the software. Its like trying to convince me to pay a subscription for my dinner, when I already bought the oven and I already bought the pizza. I look forward to the stockholm syndrome explanations for this extreme weirdness.
The nationality of the platform and helicopter and hospital could all be different. This is old stuff.
The FAA does not run a credit check on you when you file a flightplan.
It is important to note the profound difference in maritime and aviation regulations WRT to normal daily operations vs declared medical emergencies. Generally in emergencies you have to do less/no paperwork before hand and about three times as much afterward.
It might be awkward or expensive... you might find a coastie or air force aircraft escorting you, there are in some cases fines and penalties to be paid.
But, face it, for some lines of work, emergencies are business as usual... This stuff has all been figured out decades ago and you're not going to be captain of a boat or PIC of a helo, or on the other side, a coastie or air traffic controller, without knowing what to do in an emergency situation. Its all procedural and forms to fill out and stuff. Its a known and predictable expense.
Actually we still have the largest manufacturing sector in the entire world by quite a bit.
We have completely and almost totally destroyed our consumer products manufacturing, true. The only thing I've bought in 20 years made in the USA is/was some plastic trash cans and oddly enough a gasket-less aluminum pressure cooker made in Wisconsin.
The whole world depends on the USA either exclusively or as a majority provider for aerospace, mining equipment, heavy stuff like that. To a much lesser extent we still make cranes too. And chemical process equipment although like cranes we're trying to give that away to China as fast as we can. You can almost draw a graph of "unit weight" on the x-axis and percent imported on the y-axis and you'll see damn near a straight line where we import 99% of our kitchenware but we manufacture 99% of the world's production of 100 kiloton and up mining dragline equipment (you know, the things that strip entire mountaintops off?) and practically all mining trucks larger than 100 tons.
Let me summarize an entire articles worth of weird and ignorant /.er opinions:
1) this is the first boat that is not US flagged to ever sail either in or nearby the USA, and if it docks for repairs it'll be the first time a foreign vessel has ever entered a US port, so no one will have any idea what to do.
2) there exists a single line in the sandy sea bottom, on one side its complete and total utter US control and the other side is all pirates.
3) magically, because this platform has servers instead of oil drilling equipment, decades of regulation and case law from the oil biz could not possibly apply to this biz, just because it makes for a nice sounding argument.
4) no one has ever lived on a boat for an extended length of time, nor is it even theoretically possible, much less comfortable.
5) the relationship must be binary, either a ship and its flag nation must be US lapdogs and hard core statists, or it must be a libertarian paradise, and only one of those possibilities is unrealistic therefore it Must be the other far extreme possibility (laughably goes for both sides arguments)
6) Foreigners and foreign sailors have never been present on a ship entering a us port, so no one will have any idea what to do.
7) Closely tied to #5, There are only binary governments, the hard core statist fascist western govts like the us and our european lapdogs, and pure capitalist anarchy, therefore since its probably going to be flagged out of panama or something, and panama isn't quite the usa, therefore slavery and polygamy will rule the ship. Uh, no. I don't think very many flag nations allow that on their ships. As a wild guess, I've been on cruise ships that are panama registered, if this tub's panama registered it'll be about as wild as a cruise ship... probably a nude tanning deck, a casino to gamble in, no secret police checking to see if couples in bed together are married (to each other) and are of the correct gender, and generally anyone looking "old enough" gets to drink alcohol and smoke tobacco although technically you have to be 18 in Panama (I think). That's probably about as wild as Panama is going to let it get.
8) A crime has never before happened on board a ship, therefore no one will have any idea how to handle a criminal activity if one happens.
When the nearest hospital is over 200 miles away, you'd better have helicopters ready to make the jump. And you'd better have them cleared for permission to enter US air space with no notice (like that's going to happen).
You've just described the situation of an oil platform in the GoM. I'm completely unimpressed. This kind of stuff was figured out 40 or so years ago.
In order to be in international waters, the ship would be what, 200 miles out from shore?
I've looked into cruising and the myriad of laws. First of all you just described the EEZ limit which controls "traditional money making activities and environmental laws" but expressly does not include loitering. So its a fuzzy zone. The coast guard can order you to not discharge your blackwater tanks, cannot tell you not to just sit/anchor there, can tell you not to fish there, and running an office is somewhat vague.
The contiguous zone is 24 miles and you must follow customs laws presumably including visas. This is a recent "American Empire" turn of the century thing and the whole world used to (still does?) respect only 12 miles. In the REALLY olden days before the previous turn of the century it was defined as a cannon shots length, or so I'm told, like a mile or two.
This is very important to cruisers... more than 200 miles away you can technically tell all authorities other than your flag nation to F-off, but you need to stay at least 24 miles away or else have to go thru customs, and in that range from 24 to 200 miles you sorta have to listen to them. Customs is not necessarily the end of the world, but its nice to not even have to think about it. For example, say you were sailing from California to Alaska, it would be extremely advisable to stay at least 24 miles away from the Canadian shore.
Disclaimer, I've done hundreds of hours of sailing on little craft, mostly inland, but never across an ocean.
30 miles in a 150 knot helicopter for the VCs to visit you is what, 12 minutes of flight? I'm not seeing this as a serious issue. Also I can see a pleasure cruise on a well appointed yacht when making visits rather than flying, if they're in the mood for some fun.
I get the impression that sending a text is way more expensive in the US than elsewhere so hasn't really taken off the way it has elsewhere?
Its much more expensive and slower than making a voice call and harder to use than email because of the length limit. It only makes sense if you're in a no-talking but cellphone-ok environment (student in a lecture hall, etc) or if you're multi-tasking about ten conversations at the same time (teenage girl stereotype).
I find 5000 to be an unlikely exaggeration. Assuming 30 days per month and 8 hrs/day of sleep/shower/otherwise disconnected time per day, that's a constant load of one text message every six minutes. I do not believe your stereotypical median American can read that fast. 500/month, that is excessive yet believable, something like one per hour. I am basing this on theory, my experience is zero per hour because I don't text. I do a lot of email and web stuff, but not text.
Incidentally, I've heard that the late Mr. Bin Laden was a big enthusiast of the right to keep and bear arms...
LOL I've heard it the other way that the RKBA for ALL citizens is not technically Koran compatible, although the RKBA is just barely Koran compatible if it only applies to Muslims (rephrased non Muslim citizen in a Islamic state = civilian gun ownership is technically questionable).
I have no evidence either way, but I do assume its very much like the bible, in that it can be twisted hard enough to claim absolutely anything.
And you don't exhale fossil-sourced CO2. At least I don't.
I find that incredibly unlikely. You can argue the numbers but very roughly speaking a pound of "food" requires a pound of crude oil. The range of rational argument for the ratio is from 1/10 to 10 depending on the food, fertilizer, herbicide/insecticide, watering technique and source, shipment of all component parts, energy costs of refrigerated storage, capital investments in the transportation infrastructure (think of the giant blacktop parking lot full of SUVs in front of my local organic store).
You can play enron accountant that if you exhale 1 gram CO2, that gram did technically come from atmospheric sources so it doesn't matter than 10 grams of CO2 was emitted to make it possible for you to eat the food. But thats enron accounting... 11 grams output into the air is 11 grams into the air no matter how you split it up.
Volcanoes emit 300 million tons of CO2 per year
Every year? Like there is a UN coordinator on a budget? Really bad claims like that are what makes the scientists a target of cranks. Even someone with no knowledge of the topic can laugh, which leads to the public following the crank's political philosophy. Which isn't necessarily bad, in that scientists should be doing science, not supporting anyone's political philosophy, and certainly not whining about it.
How much CO2 would the famous yellowstone super volcano emit if it blew in a single shot? If its a large number of magnitudes more than annual human emissions, that has huge political implications.
Every one of the people that do not buy all (or part of) the whole AGW religion have been labelled "deniers" for 10 years now.
BS. I call bogus, especially the "part of". Scientific discussion has always been tolerated. The only way to get the "denier" label is to oppose whatever socialist fascist corporate-kleptocracy solution that has been proposed as the only or final solution to the problem.
"Your paper on changes in non-rural airflow patterns seems to have ignored the recent changing surface albedo due to stylistic changes in suburban mcmansion development" "Yes Dr VLM good point and with further grant money I'd also like to research changing albedo trends WRT deindustrialization of the environmentally regulated US and industrialization without any environmental regulation in China" and they have a beer together at the bar to talk and debate it and eventually become best friends.
"I'm not so sure that going Pol Pot on the worlds population, especially the 3rd worlds population, is the most ethical and moral solution to a sea level change that is pretty minor in the grand scheme of past geological evidence, especially from a guy whos not willing to put his own families head on the chopping block with the rest of the world." "Denier! Evil! Burn him at the stake! Dissent is forbidden! All that is not compulsory is forbidden and all that is not forbidden is compulsory! I sentence you to the two minutes hate!" and they, uh, don't exactly turn into best friends.
My local wisconsin tech school where I got my 2-year 20 years ago charged about $1300 for 12 credits, today its only $1400 but with almost uncountable bogus extra fees ('technology" "activity" and the latest, I kid you not, is mandatory liability insurance) its $1600. If you attend 2 semesters a year, that's $60/week out of your takehome pay. My takehome pay was about $200/week (about $7/hr full time, I got almost all the rest back in the income tax return). That would have only left me $560/month to pay rent and live on (at that time a single bedroom apartment was about $425, almost doable, now its more like $600). So if thats all you have, as a minimum wage drone, you need a roommate. I had also done the army reserves thing so I had a signup bonus high enough to pay for my entire degree plus monthly pay plus full GI bill after AIT completed which meant I was taking home more like $1200/month. Needless to say I had no health insurance because at that time it was running about $175/month and I was judgment proof (no assets) so why even bother. The latest Kaiser plan I've seen for a single guy was $450/month so obviously that has gotten much worse. You'll definitely be living without medical insurance. I did for a couple years and it turned out OK. If it doesn't then you need to scrape up the cash to declare bankruptcy (its actually quite expensive) I had a girlfriend who had to do that.
You only have to do this lifestyle for 2 years, then you have the almost, but not quite, worthless 2 year degree. Then you get a job at the 1 in 100 place that considers a 2 year degree more than a piece of toilet paper, which has tuition assistance and then transfer credits to the bachelors part time program. I also got medical and dental, which was cool since I hadn't been to a dentist in a little over 2 years. My local private college charges 25 grand tuition plus tons of fees for 12 or more credits per semester (full time), yikes. Since I'm working I only took two classes at a time 8 credits. At the time I went the cost per credit for part timers was only in the 100s but because of govt backed loans its now $325/credit as of this year. Note that 12 credits at part time rates is $3900 of tuition, but 12 credits = full time tuition at $25000. So each credit adds $325 to your bill, except the jump from 11 to 12 credits which adds a mere $21100 to your bill. Fascinating... I can't handle the workload of three simultaneous classes... two is one during the week and one marathon on Saturday morning. Also I can trivially afford 2 classes per semester but could never afford 3. So in summary tuition and books would be $3K per semester or $6K/yr. This is peanuts to a entry level sysadmin making $50K/yr and still living in the student apartment and receiving $5K/yr of tuition reimbursement from the job. If you're making $50K/yr and can't scrape up $1K/yr to finish the bachelors degree then you're obviously totally doing it wrong or addicted to something expensive. That's only about $20/week over and above the expenses of a non-college attending coworker.
I escaped with no loans, but there is a cost... "everyone knows" that in general programmers over 40 are utterly unemployable and will not be hired. Yes I know 1 in 1000 will be hired, but the odds are really bad. I took probably 4 years longer to graduate with my BS than just going for a straight 4 yr degree. So on the back end I'm only going to have 14 years of employability before "hello walmart" whereas a guy who took out $125K in loans at the college and graduated at 22 will have 18 years of employability before "hello walmart". Perhaps I can be one of the 1 in 1000 who advances into mismanagement, or consults. At least the corrupt banks made no money off me, which is some minor consolation. Another way of looking at is a CS degree at age 40 is no more worthless than a art history degree at age 22, and those people seem to survive "somehow" and so will I...
But these days, we're talking about 60% or more of Americans who willfully and voluntarily reject a useful education. That's a recipe for disaster.
BS. The world is full of ditches to dig, shelves to stock, papers to shuffle, rote memorized medical procedures to perform, TPS report headers to be modified ...
I would guess that at least 95% of jobs are "trained" jobs with no educational requirement. Post secondary training, sure. But education, no. Jobs where independent thought and/or thinking outside the box is strongly discouraged by management. Apparently at least 35% of those employees are over-educated/under-employed/frustrated.
You need a dentist? Train a guy to make holes in teeth and fill them. If instead you educate him by also sending him to philosophy class or maybe english lit or ceramic sculpting class or theater class, he's just going to end up miserable later in life at his assembly line of drilling holes in teeth and filling them. It'll have no positive correlation with his skills at drilling holes in teeth.
Most end users don't have that policy. Is it running right now? Well wait until it breaks completely and is no longer usable in any form.
Are there any bulb rental services? I want to buy the same make and model of bulbs that bulb rental services buy.
I honestly would take a smart non-corrupted judge over a jury any day.
May want to research this further. The verdict was based on the judge ordering the jury to consider APIs as copyrightable.
Right now I'm thinking fast, have I ever written anything since 1981 that reimplements or interoperates or is compatible with any API, and if so, what country can I escape to that will not extradite me...
This reminds me of parity and ECC memory battles of decades past. OK, so it detects an error... Then what? Shut off the power? Not really sure what you'll be gaining. The sole example where it works is when you have the policy and budget to replace anything that takes an error. Useless for this situation.