Unlike Wally-world, Amazon is not fucking over its employees at every opportunity. Amazon employees make enough that they don't qualify for food stamps, much less need them to survive. Amazon employees have actual benefits. Amazon employees have actual insurance. Amazon doesn't take out 'dead peasant' life insurance policies on its employees either. Even the much-pitied fulfillment center temps are treated better than the best WalMart employee.
I don't doubt that **YOU** can provide the equivalent of x, y and z, but very few SMBs have that talent available. Is it worthwhile for a (for example) physicians' clinic to pay AWS, or cough up the money for staff/contractors to manage their cloud infrastructure? Hard call, and how many doctors can adequately judge whether the people that they're paying are competent?
I've noticed that one thing that they are NOT skimping on is security, either physical or network. No one gets anywhere in any facility worldwide without controls, even Chinese and US government officials. I'm actually quite impressed with their degree of organization and adherence to (generally well thought-out) policies.
All the astronauts combined managed to cover an area smaller than Manhattan Island. For anyone to declare that we know all about the moon is absurd, but that won't stop the anti-space nutters. They're convinced that we'll never get off this planet because there is absolutely nothing else in the entire Universe that could possible be of interest. I suspect that my ancestors' neighbors said something similar when they left the farm in Cornwall for the wilds of the Vermont frontier.
I was enormously disappointed when Mir was deorbited. I always thought that it should have been boosted into a higher orbit and left as a museum, but I suspect that the Kremlin had more say in its ultimate fate than Baikonur did.
The morons in Congress almost didn't let the Russians be part of the project, even though they were the only country in the world that actually had experience building and maintaining a space station.
putting 100% of our efforts into robotics and AI so that radiation-hardened machines can do whatever it is that's still worthwhile to do in space.
Robots can't colonize an asteroid or moon, and that's one of the truly worthwhile things to do in space. They can prepare the site to a certain extent, but it's not really a colony until Earth life is resident. You're right that sending people to LEO is pretty much worthless, but that's NOT where we should be limiting ourselves to. To our knowledge, the universe is ours for the taking, and only the shortsightness of politicians and businessmen is keeping it from us.
They don't need a Saturn 5 equivalent for a moon base, and in fact it would probably be counterproductive to build one for that mission. Multiple smaller launches should be staged and assembled in LEO, then boosted onto the Lunar trajectory. That was actually one of the configurations contemplated for the Apollo missions, but was rejected early on because the docking techniques had not yet been developed. If the "end of the decade" deadline had not been looming NASA would probably have gone that route and ended up with a much better mission profile.
Actually they're sold the cheap stuff by contractors, since by and large they don't have the real-world experience to know the difference.
Of course you could always go the "large company CEO's office" route, which frequently is a steel-cored door weighing several hundred pounds, coupled with Kevlar between the drywall and the wall studs.
Depending on how deep in the Earth's shadow the effect can be more or less pronounced. I saw one eclipse where the moon was pretty close to black several years ago, apparently this one will be deeper in the Earth's shadow so will be lit up better.
I suspect the reason that this one is getting so much publicity (it's not an uncommon event) is because there are several moderately popular books out about supposed biblical prophecies with that title. There's also a detective novel, a vampire novel and a werewolf novel with that name, and some others. Something about the name drew a lot of attention on Farcebook too.
I'm sorry, but I'm unclear on why this is supposed to be innovative. Unless I'm really misunderstanding what you wrote, that's the way Windows and Linux have functioned for years. On the first multi-monitor machine I set up back in 2000 the menus followed the application. Multiple desktops have been available as either a free download or as part of the Resource Kit since at least NT 4.0, and have been loaded by default into both KDE and Gnome for probably as long.
Lightning strike is a point event, a local area disrupted temporarily. Remember the big blackout in the northeast a few years ago? Most of the physical damage was repaired or re-routed around in a day, the reason that it took a week for power to be fully restored is because it takes that long to recreate and rebalance all the energy flow. It's almost all manual, very little automation in the process, and entailed overtime by all the available specialists in the field throughout the entire region, bringing them in from outside the region, and even calling in some retirees. Now imagine doing that over a region 20+ time that size, assuming that there are even spares immediately available for all the destroyed equipment.
No, we don't put kids in body armor, but we don't let them carry rapiers any more, either.
Hundreds? How many people do you think it takes to fire a hunting rifle? Or did you not know that A Score = 20?
There are a LOT of people who dislike the US at this point, including Mexican drug cartels, survivors of US military massacres in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russian mafiosos, and a number of governments, and we're not making any more friends either. Of course there's also the possibility, no, the certainty of another Carrington Event. For that matter, currency and futures speculators could make a (quite literal) killing, and have never shown any hesitation to destroy the lives of millions for their own gain. Not revising the grid to make it more resilient pretty much assures that it will happen.
The morons of the Survivalist or Militia movements could take down the entire US electrical grid tomorrow were they able to stop fighting amongst themselves long enough. A score of more-or-less simultaneous strikes like this spread at random across the country would crash the grid, hard. You don't need inside information, deep understanding of the power distribution system, electrical engineering training, financing, or high tech weaponry, nothing more than a watch, a deer rifle and a vehicle to get you there. Electrical engineers have been complaining about this for well over two decades, but since making the grid more resilient will cost money the suits don't want to listen. If Al Qaeda were really what the gov't has tried to convince us they were you'd be without power several days a week.
I really think the so-called 'graffiti artists' really should be considered muralists, whether they had permission to paint their mural or not. It's a constructive act, meant to create something attractive or at least meaningful. Graffiti and tagging are destructive acts, only slightly better than tossing a rock through a window.
Murals are not the same as graffiti, even if they were done without permission. At least that's my opinion, YMMV. I used to know a muralist, and there's a lot to it. I've known a couple of taggers, and truthfully, if a crackhead can do it then I have trouble considering it 'art'.
The thing is, people really DID act that way, slaughtering entire cities, dashing the heads of the children of conquered people against walls, salting fields so that it cannot be farmed for generations, burning peasants alive in their homes, and the like. The 20th century was the first in which the opportunity to rape and plunder with impunity throughout the occupied territory was not used as an incentive to sign up for the military.
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Unlike Wally-world, Amazon is not fucking over its employees at every opportunity. Amazon employees make enough that they don't qualify for food stamps, much less need them to survive. Amazon employees have actual benefits. Amazon employees have actual insurance. Amazon doesn't take out 'dead peasant' life insurance policies on its employees either. Even the much-pitied fulfillment center temps are treated better than the best WalMart employee.
I don't doubt that **YOU** can provide the equivalent of x, y and z, but very few SMBs have that talent available. Is it worthwhile for a (for example) physicians' clinic to pay AWS, or cough up the money for staff/contractors to manage their cloud infrastructure? Hard call, and how many doctors can adequately judge whether the people that they're paying are competent?
I've noticed that one thing that they are NOT skimping on is security, either physical or network. No one gets anywhere in any facility worldwide without controls, even Chinese and US government officials. I'm actually quite impressed with their degree of organization and adherence to (generally well thought-out) policies.
All the astronauts combined managed to cover an area smaller than Manhattan Island. For anyone to declare that we know all about the moon is absurd, but that won't stop the anti-space nutters. They're convinced that we'll never get off this planet because there is absolutely nothing else in the entire Universe that could possible be of interest. I suspect that my ancestors' neighbors said something similar when they left the farm in Cornwall for the wilds of the Vermont frontier.
I was enormously disappointed when Mir was deorbited. I always thought that it should have been boosted into a higher orbit and left as a museum, but I suspect that the Kremlin had more say in its ultimate fate than Baikonur did.
The morons in Congress almost didn't let the Russians be part of the project, even though they were the only country in the world that actually had experience building and maintaining a space station.
putting 100% of our efforts into robotics and AI so that radiation-hardened machines can do whatever it is that's still worthwhile to do in space.
Robots can't colonize an asteroid or moon, and that's one of the truly worthwhile things to do in space. They can prepare the site to a certain extent, but it's not really a colony until Earth life is resident. You're right that sending people to LEO is pretty much worthless, but that's NOT where we should be limiting ourselves to. To our knowledge, the universe is ours for the taking, and only the shortsightness of politicians and businessmen is keeping it from us.
And people try their best to ignore the two most probable extinction scenarios, a nuclear exchange or an escaped/launched bioweapon.
They don't need a Saturn 5 equivalent for a moon base, and in fact it would probably be counterproductive to build one for that mission. Multiple smaller launches should be staged and assembled in LEO, then boosted onto the Lunar trajectory. That was actually one of the configurations contemplated for the Apollo missions, but was rejected early on because the docking techniques had not yet been developed. If the "end of the decade" deadline had not been looming NASA would probably have gone that route and ended up with a much better mission profile.
Actually they're sold the cheap stuff by contractors, since by and large they don't have the real-world experience to know the difference.
Of course you could always go the "large company CEO's office" route, which frequently is a steel-cored door weighing several hundred pounds, coupled with Kevlar between the drywall and the wall studs.
Depending on how deep in the Earth's shadow the effect can be more or less pronounced. I saw one eclipse where the moon was pretty close to black several years ago, apparently this one will be deeper in the Earth's shadow so will be lit up better.
I suspect the reason that this one is getting so much publicity (it's not an uncommon event) is because there are several moderately popular books out about supposed biblical prophecies with that title. There's also a detective novel, a vampire novel and a werewolf novel with that name, and some others. Something about the name drew a lot of attention on Farcebook too.
So does Michigan.
Actually the death rate from measles is 0.1% (US) to 10% (undernourished populations). The risk of complications is much higher than those figures.
I'm sorry, but I'm unclear on why this is supposed to be innovative. Unless I'm really misunderstanding what you wrote, that's the way Windows and Linux have functioned for years. On the first multi-monitor machine I set up back in 2000 the menus followed the application. Multiple desktops have been available as either a free download or as part of the Resource Kit since at least NT 4.0, and have been loaded by default into both KDE and Gnome for probably as long.
Spaghetti Code was already an old phrase when I learned Quick Basic on DOS 4.
Lightning strike is a point event, a local area disrupted temporarily. Remember the big blackout in the northeast a few years ago? Most of the physical damage was repaired or re-routed around in a day, the reason that it took a week for power to be fully restored is because it takes that long to recreate and rebalance all the energy flow. It's almost all manual, very little automation in the process, and entailed overtime by all the available specialists in the field throughout the entire region, bringing them in from outside the region, and even calling in some retirees. Now imagine doing that over a region 20+ time that size, assuming that there are even spares immediately available for all the destroyed equipment.
No, we don't put kids in body armor, but we don't let them carry rapiers any more, either.
Yes, but the 20th century was the first time that was the exception, rather than the rule. You're right, I didn't phrase it very well.
Hundreds? How many people do you think it takes to fire a hunting rifle? Or did you not know that A Score = 20?
There are a LOT of people who dislike the US at this point, including Mexican drug cartels, survivors of US military massacres in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russian mafiosos, and a number of governments, and we're not making any more friends either. Of course there's also the possibility, no, the certainty of another Carrington Event. For that matter, currency and futures speculators could make a (quite literal) killing, and have never shown any hesitation to destroy the lives of millions for their own gain. Not revising the grid to make it more resilient pretty much assures that it will happen.
The morons of the Survivalist or Militia movements could take down the entire US electrical grid tomorrow were they able to stop fighting amongst themselves long enough. A score of more-or-less simultaneous strikes like this spread at random across the country would crash the grid, hard. You don't need inside information, deep understanding of the power distribution system, electrical engineering training, financing, or high tech weaponry, nothing more than a watch, a deer rifle and a vehicle to get you there. Electrical engineers have been complaining about this for well over two decades, but since making the grid more resilient will cost money the suits don't want to listen. If Al Qaeda were really what the gov't has tried to convince us they were you'd be without power several days a week.
From TFS, I really don't get why that applies only to Unix admins. That describes the years I've spent as a Windows admin as well.
I really think the so-called 'graffiti artists' really should be considered muralists, whether they had permission to paint their mural or not. It's a constructive act, meant to create something attractive or at least meaningful. Graffiti and tagging are destructive acts, only slightly better than tossing a rock through a window.
Murals are not the same as graffiti, even if they were done without permission. At least that's my opinion, YMMV. I used to know a muralist, and there's a lot to it. I've known a couple of taggers, and truthfully, if a crackhead can do it then I have trouble considering it 'art'.
The thing is, people really DID act that way, slaughtering entire cities, dashing the heads of the children of conquered people against walls, salting fields so that it cannot be farmed for generations, burning peasants alive in their homes, and the like. The 20th century was the first in which the opportunity to rape and plunder with impunity throughout the occupied territory was not used as an incentive to sign up for the military.
Well, that would explain Leviticus, god had a sore throat and Dragon garbled everything he said that day.