It is possible some buildings have some such systems, however most buildings do not have doors systems that allow them to open or close them, except for handicap use.
I am almost 100% certain there is no automatic shut clauses in any building codes concerning fire safety.
Fire Safety concerning doors, has one main goal, allowing people to leave the building.
And most do not monitor a latch status, however, brand new (as in installed within the last year) systems in brand spanking new hotels are starting to have some of these features.
I dont see why Sofitel hotel would have these, but maybe they do...
There is always a cost to these. In a hotel like the Sofitel (398 rooms), equipping the doors with a key system can range from $200 000 to $600 000.
As I mentioned a little higher up, the management of hotel doors and standard commercial access control doors is completely different. There is no monitoring on hotel room doors usually.
Fire security is a whole other ball game too. And I very very very much doubt that they shut doors on a fire alarm. Almost ALL building codes in America and Canada require all electronically locked doors (especially those locked by Mag-locks) to UNLOCK on a fire alarm and/or at the very least be free to egress without delay or presenting any kind of credentials.
Commercial access control systems like those used in your building (i.e. Softwarehouse, Kantech, Lenel, Winpak Pro) are completely different from Hotel management systems.
You have door strkes, readers, contacts, request to exit devices on standard access control, and those are all connected to a Controler, that manages access and events and sends all history to a server system. Every person has an access card that can be activated or revoked remotely.
Hotel systems have standalone readers, with no door contacts. Without a contact, you cant tell the door status or record it. When someone rents a room, the clerk programs a new card. When the card is presented at the room door, the lock recognises the key and algorythm, deletes the old key and switches to the new key the card told it to use. There is no central monitoring or managing of each reader.
The cost of wiring for each room lock in hotels would be crazy. Imagine having to wire each door at the Ceasars palace in Vegas. The cost would be phenomenal. (then again, they do wire all 6000+ cameras and record all video for a long time:) )
I fail to see what point you are trying to make here.
Finland has a mandatory national public health insurance system. Not a mandatory national PRIVATE health insurance system.
There is a very big distinction. I honestly think you do no know what you are talking about.
The only difference with Finlands system and something like the UK is that in the UK the systems funding comes from extra taxes, however in Finland its a bill that comes in every month (or something of the sort) which is mandatory. Potatos, PotAtos. But end result is, everyone pay's into the public national health care system, NOT a private insurance system.
Have the govt. declare ISP's as utilities. Regulate them accordingly. Charge a reasonable connect fee per month : 5 to 10$ Then charge a reasonable markup from cost per GB: Say 5 cents ( which would make the markup anywhere form 50 to 200%) if not more.
Then we are in business. Thats what it should be. No more complaining. We pay for what we use.
1Tb would = approx. 55$ to 60$ a month.
Slightly increase the connect fee for different service speeds.
Anything else, is highway robbery, like it is right now.
Umm.... that was profit margin on direct production COSTS.
You still have to factor in R&D, Tech support, building / real-estate costs, transportation, warehousing / distribution, executive salaries, administration, Marketing, IT, and the list goes ON and ON.
Now, I'm sure you thought you where being very smart with your remark, but it seems you didn't really think it through.
I used to work for a Tyco company in the security sector. We had multiple products R&D'd in Canada/USA and manufactured around the world. One example was a controller board which we sold at about $600, went for $900-1000 MSRP and cost us about $95 to manufacture. Still, the company had a high EBIT but wasnt rolling in billions of dollars either due to OTHER costs.
The doubt surrounds carbon dioxide as the culprit.
Reducing it has an impact. Cutting on "currently cheap" energy for "not so cheap" energy has a very serious impact on economic growth.
You know not what you are suggesting.
It has not been proven that CO2 is the actual problem. It has not been proven that reducing CO2 will solve the increase in global temperatures. It has NOT been established that a 0.7C increase over the last 100 years is actually a problem. (it has been massively speculated, but not proven)
How about we stop spending all the money on scaremongering. Put it towards developping nuclear energy (its the only real viable solution for base load demands) and in the mean time plan for a transition to nuclear and other solutions.
But lets not just jump ship, run scared, make rash decisions and follow politicians blindly into transferring our wealth to bankers by way of ridiculous carbon credits.
Its actually 0.7 degrees warmer over the last century. Not 1 degree.
I have heard the scaremongering about sea level rising. And the numbers are all over the place.
I have no contention with the fact that things change and we will have to adapt, but I do have a problem with fearmongering and unsubstantiated predictions of gloom and doom.
Millions, billions how about gazzillionssss. sheesh.
Roughly 3% of the population in the West are veggies.
Most veggies in the rest of the world are so by necessity not by choice. Put meat in front of them and they will gobble it up in a heart beat.
About your crime justification bullshit, I can say the same of you and how you misstreat plants and kill them by the ba-gazillions. Its GENOCIDE I tells ya.
I dont understand why such a short base period is used and for what reason we would compare a current trend to an arbitrary chunk of 30 years picked in the middle of a data pool that spans 130 years.
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5ghz wont do you any good if you have lots of walls, as it just bounces off them.
I tried, it doesnt work unless you are trying to saturate a large open area.
It is possible some buildings have some such systems, however most buildings do not have doors systems that allow them to open or close them, except for handicap use.
I am almost 100% certain there is no automatic shut clauses in any building codes concerning fire safety.
Fire Safety concerning doors, has one main goal, allowing people to leave the building.
Some have history, some do not.
And most do not monitor a latch status, however, brand new (as in installed within the last year) systems in brand spanking new hotels are starting to have some of these features.
I dont see why Sofitel hotel would have these, but maybe they do...
There is always a cost to these. In a hotel like the Sofitel (398 rooms), equipping the doors with a key system can range from $200 000 to $600 000.
At 5000$, Id expect someone to manually delete all footage of my presence in the hotel. :)
There is a price to privacy
Hotel key systems and office access control are completely different beasts.
As I mentioned a little higher up, the management of hotel doors and standard commercial access control doors is completely different. There is no monitoring on hotel room doors usually.
Fire security is a whole other ball game too. And I very very very much doubt that they shut doors on a fire alarm. Almost ALL building codes in America and Canada require all electronically locked doors (especially those locked by Mag-locks) to UNLOCK on a fire alarm and/or at the very least be free to egress without delay or presenting any kind of credentials.
Else people would just be BBQ'ed.
Commercial access control systems like those used in your building (i.e. Softwarehouse, Kantech, Lenel, Winpak Pro) are completely different from Hotel management systems.
You have door strkes, readers, contacts, request to exit devices on standard access control, and those are all connected to a Controler, that manages access and events and sends all history to a server system. Every person has an access card that can be activated or revoked remotely.
Hotel systems have standalone readers, with no door contacts. Without a contact, you cant tell the door status or record it. When someone rents a room, the clerk programs a new card. When the card is presented at the room door, the lock recognises the key and algorythm, deletes the old key and switches to the new key the card told it to use. There is no central monitoring or managing of each reader.
The cost of wiring for each room lock in hotels would be crazy. Imagine having to wire each door at the Ceasars palace in Vegas. The cost would be phenomenal. (then again, they do wire all 6000+ cameras and record all video for a long time :) )
They pay taxes, but not in the USA and as you stated, sales taxes and payroll taxes do not count as Exxon paying taxes in my book.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1004/gallery.top_5_tax_bills/2.html
So we do this, they come close to loosing their shirts and then... they get a bailout.
How does it help?
Actually, correction. 35kWh is just about the average daily use per american household.
Also, its completely destroy's your point.
Why would anyone be aghast that it takes 35kWh to move 3500 to 4000 lbs of steel for 100 miles?
Seriously?
What is that supposed to even mean?
I fail to see what point you are trying to make here.
Finland has a mandatory national public health insurance system. Not a mandatory national PRIVATE health insurance system.
There is a very big distinction. I honestly think you do no know what you are talking about.
The only difference with Finlands system and something like the UK is that in the UK the systems funding comes from extra taxes, however in Finland its a bill that comes in every month (or something of the sort) which is mandatory. Potatos, PotAtos. But end result is, everyone pay's into the public national health care system, NOT a private insurance system.
UBB only makes sens if the ISP's are actually treated like a utility.
Base monthly connection fee, somewhere between 5 to 10$ max a month. .03 to .10 $ / GB per month.
Then pay per GB at a faire markup, somewhere between
Anything else and its gouging, because the actual cost per gigabytes is less than a penny and getting smaller every year.
WHY?
I like metered billing.
Have the govt. declare ISP's as utilities. Regulate them accordingly.
Charge a reasonable connect fee per month : 5 to 10$
Then charge a reasonable markup from cost per GB: Say 5 cents ( which would make the markup anywhere form 50 to 200%) if not more.
Then we are in business. Thats what it should be.
No more complaining. We pay for what we use.
1Tb would = approx. 55$ to 60$ a month.
Slightly increase the connect fee for different service speeds.
Anything else, is highway robbery, like it is right now.
Umm.... that was profit margin on direct production COSTS.
You still have to factor in R&D, Tech support, building / real-estate costs, transportation, warehousing / distribution, executive salaries, administration, Marketing, IT, and the list goes ON and ON.
Now, I'm sure you thought you where being very smart with your remark, but it seems you didn't really think it through.
I used to work for a Tyco company in the security sector. We had multiple products R&D'd in Canada/USA and manufactured around the world.
One example was a controller board which we sold at about $600, went for $900-1000 MSRP and cost us about $95 to manufacture. Still, the company had a high EBIT but wasnt rolling in billions of dollars either due to OTHER costs.
Actually a $499 electronics product most likely costs less than $100 if not less then $50 to manufacture.
Electronics manufacturing is cheap. With high markup, especially in the market Apple plays.
I would be very very very surprised if the 16GB iPad cost anywhere near $250 to manufacture.
The doubt surrounds carbon dioxide as the culprit.
Reducing it has an impact. Cutting on "currently cheap" energy for "not so cheap" energy has a very serious impact on economic growth.
You know not what you are suggesting.
It has not been proven that CO2 is the actual problem.
It has not been proven that reducing CO2 will solve the increase in global temperatures.
It has NOT been established that a 0.7C increase over the last 100 years is actually a problem. (it has been massively speculated, but not proven)
How about we stop spending all the money on scaremongering. Put it towards developping nuclear energy (its the only real viable solution for base load demands) and in the mean time plan for a transition to nuclear and other solutions.
But lets not just jump ship, run scared, make rash decisions and follow politicians blindly into transferring our wealth to bankers by way of ridiculous carbon credits.
Its actually 0.7 degrees warmer over the last century. Not 1 degree.
I have heard the scaremongering about sea level rising. And the numbers are all over the place.
I have no contention with the fact that things change and we will have to adapt, but I do have a problem with fearmongering and unsubstantiated predictions of gloom and doom.
How much warmer exactly?
I beg to differ.
I live in a 5 room appartement, and with 5ghz I can barely get any signal 30 feet way through 2 rooms.
Ask teh animal? OMG what a nutjob.
Millions, billions how about gazzillionssss. sheesh.
Roughly 3% of the population in the West are veggies.
Most veggies in the rest of the world are so by necessity not by choice. Put meat in front of them and they will gobble it up in a heart beat.
About your crime justification bullshit, I can say the same of you and how you misstreat plants and kill them by the ba-gazillions. Its GENOCIDE I tells ya.
I think you misunderstood my point.
There is nothing weird about this seasons weather so far. Its pretty much par for the course in Quebec.
Warmth of the sun?? Thats your scientific observations?
-1c is nothing new for the holidays in Quebec. Its actually quite in line with what we usually see.
Also there is still quite allot of snow out there. No need to fear it is still there to stay.
And 2 days of warm weather in a row... omg its a trend.
Basically your whole post is useless.
Why is 1951 - 1980 used as a base period?
Why not 1880 - 2009 ?
Serious question.
I dont understand why such a short base period is used and for what reason we would compare a current trend to an arbitrary chunk of 30 years picked in the middle of a data pool that spans 130 years.
There must be something I dont understand.