Had a friend who grew up in South Chicago. He said that when Hoffa disappeared everyone in his neighborhood stopped buying sausage for a couple of weeks.
Bertha is well below the water table, so they have to pressurize the area in front of the cutter head to several atmospheres. When they get near the destination they'll be above the water table and will be able to open the inspection hatches at will.
If it were something heavy (like the locomotive some are speculating about) it wouldn't be necessary to dig a hole. That's old mud flats, the water table is very high, and there is a LOT of underground water movement. Something heavy enough would gradually sink through the muck until it hit a denser strata.
The ship that was buried out there (forget the name) was wooden, which Bertha wouldn't even notice as it chewed through. There's actually speculation that it might be a locomotive with a burst boiler, although that was supposed to have been dumped quite a way further north.
I was surprised the last PC that I bought. It had Symantec Anti-virus pre-installed, and I expected to have to go back and delete the services, the folders, and the registry entries that it always left behind. It was surprisingly good about not leaving detritus behind like all the previous versions. Now that they actually have an uninstaller that works maybe they'll work on improving their product next.
My wife's family is in Peru, and her nieces and nephews send her emails and such from the Internet cafes. MES has caught everything but one ever since it was first introduced, and that one was only because she accidentally clicked 'OK'. Even then the MES bootable CD cleaned it.
Sometimes there is also deliberate and/or malicious destruction to take into account as well, like the Bush mAdministration ordering the destruction of the Mariner and Pioneer data.
That's what I have encountered throughout most of my career. Those that actually do have a "Test Lab" want it used exclusively to test configurations before implementation in Prod. You're not to be poking around or causing break/fix situations.
Until recently I've had my own home lab made up of some cast off servers and the like, but I've gotten lazy the last few years. I still have equipment, including security cameras and the like, but never seem to get around to playing with it like I used to.
Also that the single macho dude who is a technological ignoramus and who operates by feelings alone rather than by logic will save the day and get the girl by doing something so random that it violates probability and most of the laws of physics.
'Armageddon' also taught us to not to had off the science checking to the intern that no one listens to unless you have a marketing budget rivaling the Superbowl.
Although 'Deep Impact' taught us that even if the science is right a lack of marketing budget is difficult to overcome.
Yugoslavia wasn't a part of the Soviet orbit really, either. Both were often lumped in with the Warsaw Pact countries because they were communist, though.
For some reason my other sentence got eaten, which was: First World - US, Canada, NATO countries + France, Japan and sometimes Israel.
Oh, you're right, 1903 is just exactly the same as 2013./sarcasm
Not even a confirmed lunatic like Ronnie Raygun or an utter moron like Shrubbie dared invade a Latin American country, the Joint Chiefs may be greedy and corrupt but they're not stupid enough to go along with a plan like that. The most that they can safely get away with is funding mercenary/drug cartel groups such as the Contras and the Colombian militias, or trying to bribe military officers like in Venezuela. Invade and suddenly the generals are going to have to worry whether their Bolivian gardener is going to plant a bomb in their car or if their Guatemalan maid is going to poison them. They don't become generals by bravely leading the charge, they get there sitting behind the lines sending other people's kids to die.
A US invasion of any Latin American country larger than Costa Rica would make our current decade-long fiasco in Afghanistan look like a walk in the park. The US could invade all right, but hold on to that territory? Much less make a profit off the project? No, not hardly, and the Fifth Column that would appear overnight among the US Latino population would terrify even the Pentagon brass.
You don't get to invent your own definitions just to satisfy your own ignorance. The phrase has a very clear definition and has for over half a century, arising out of the Cold War.
Second World - Soviet Union, eastern European countries they dominated, Yugoslavia, sometimes China
That's very much a common position among Libertarians, that industries should be allowed to self-regulate because government doesn't do a perfect job of it. The problem is that this theory has been tried repeatedly, in multiple countries, in multiple industries, in multiple cultures, and it always fails. Every time, everywhere. I have yet to see any industry that has managed to protect consumers/end users at the expense of reduced profits unless forced to do so by an outside agency (pretty much always government). I don't see surety bonds as a magic bullet, and I'm fairly sure the idea has been tried before. The "government is useless/outdated/unnecessary" idea is also very much a common Libertarian position, I don't recall having seen it much otherwise so that's why I assumed you were one.
I have oral herpes, and have since childhood. I've found that when I first feel a sore developing inside my mouth if I take a multivitamin and then take another the next day it will go away. If I don't it will erupt and be a nuisance for a week or more. Purely anecdotal, but it works for the rest of my family as well. Haven't gone to the trouble of tracking down what portion of the thing actually helps.
I think it helps to ward off hangovers as well, but that might just be the extra glass of water that I'm drinking to wash it down.
Shopping is condensed misery in a huge box with doors on it. The only people that I see shopping that I might actually want to spend time talking to tend to look as desperate to escape as I am. If there were actual public markets here like in Europe and South America I could enjoy, or at least not loathe, shopping but by all the gods above and below please deliver me from the horror of American big-box shopping. Since we can afford it I sometimes can get away with going to Uwajimaya or some other small local grocery store, but they don't have all the things we want so most of the time I end up amidst the thundering herds in the big stores.
How long does it take to go to McDonald's (I assume it's not across the street) and stand in line? My brother's ex- claimed she was saving all this time by taking the kids to eat at Burger King instead of cooking. (Not like she did anything else the whole day, but she seemed pretty proud of this accomplishment for some reason.) 10-15 minutes to get the kids ready, 10-15 minutes to drive there, 3-5 minutes in line, 10-15 to drive back, 5 to get them back inside. He was visiting us and Rosa cooked a wonderful meal in 45 minutes with more nutrition than the kids probably normally got in a week, with enough leftovers that we had them for lunch the next day.
My wife and I spend about $80/week for groceries, and we only go out to eat about once or twice a month. We eat VERY well (she's Peruvian). It would probably be $10-12 cheaper if she didn't like meat so much.
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Had a friend who grew up in South Chicago. He said that when Hoffa disappeared everyone in his neighborhood stopped buying sausage for a couple of weeks.
Bertha is well below the water table, so they have to pressurize the area in front of the cutter head to several atmospheres. When they get near the destination they'll be above the water table and will be able to open the inspection hatches at will.
Bertha would chew through a building without hesitating, it's just a loosely bound pile of rocks. Instead it has hit something large and fairly solid.
They're not that far north yet, they're still under low-rise buildings and warehouses.
If it were something heavy (like the locomotive some are speculating about) it wouldn't be necessary to dig a hole. That's old mud flats, the water table is very high, and there is a LOT of underground water movement. Something heavy enough would gradually sink through the muck until it hit a denser strata.
The ship that was buried out there (forget the name) was wooden, which Bertha wouldn't even notice as it chewed through. There's actually speculation that it might be a locomotive with a burst boiler, although that was supposed to have been dumped quite a way further north.
I was surprised the last PC that I bought. It had Symantec Anti-virus pre-installed, and I expected to have to go back and delete the services, the folders, and the registry entries that it always left behind. It was surprisingly good about not leaving detritus behind like all the previous versions. Now that they actually have an uninstaller that works maybe they'll work on improving their product next.
My wife's family is in Peru, and her nieces and nephews send her emails and such from the Internet cafes. MES has caught everything but one ever since it was first introduced, and that one was only because she accidentally clicked 'OK'. Even then the MES bootable CD cleaned it.
Sometimes there is also deliberate and/or malicious destruction to take into account as well, like the Bush mAdministration ordering the destruction of the Mariner and Pioneer data.
That's what I have encountered throughout most of my career. Those that actually do have a "Test Lab" want it used exclusively to test configurations before implementation in Prod. You're not to be poking around or causing break/fix situations.
Until recently I've had my own home lab made up of some cast off servers and the like, but I've gotten lazy the last few years. I still have equipment, including security cameras and the like, but never seem to get around to playing with it like I used to.
Also that the single macho dude who is a technological ignoramus and who operates by feelings alone rather than by logic will save the day and get the girl by doing something so random that it violates probability and most of the laws of physics.
'Armageddon' also taught us to not to had off the science checking to the intern that no one listens to unless you have a marketing budget rivaling the Superbowl.
Although 'Deep Impact' taught us that even if the science is right a lack of marketing budget is difficult to overcome.
Ask any teenager how their smart phone works. To them it's indistinguishable from magic.
Oh, you did say "more primitive", didn't you? Never mind.
Yugoslavia wasn't a part of the Soviet orbit really, either. Both were often lumped in with the Warsaw Pact countries because they were communist, though.
For some reason my other sentence got eaten, which was: First World - US, Canada, NATO countries + France, Japan and sometimes Israel.
bitcoin is that bitcoin has the potential of destroying the US government.
And here I thought that coldfjiord had a monopoly on the 'Theatre of the Absurd' postings.
Oh, you're right, 1903 is just exactly the same as 2013. /sarcasm
Not even a confirmed lunatic like Ronnie Raygun or an utter moron like Shrubbie dared invade a Latin American country, the Joint Chiefs may be greedy and corrupt but they're not stupid enough to go along with a plan like that. The most that they can safely get away with is funding mercenary/drug cartel groups such as the Contras and the Colombian militias, or trying to bribe military officers like in Venezuela. Invade and suddenly the generals are going to have to worry whether their Bolivian gardener is going to plant a bomb in their car or if their Guatemalan maid is going to poison them. They don't become generals by bravely leading the charge, they get there sitting behind the lines sending other people's kids to die.
A US invasion of any Latin American country larger than Costa Rica would make our current decade-long fiasco in Afghanistan look like a walk in the park. The US could invade all right, but hold on to that territory? Much less make a profit off the project? No, not hardly, and the Fifth Column that would appear overnight among the US Latino population would terrify even the Pentagon brass.
You don't get to invent your own definitions just to satisfy your own ignorance. The phrase has a very clear definition and has for over half a century, arising out of the Cold War.
Second World - Soviet Union, eastern European countries they dominated, Yugoslavia, sometimes China
Third World - Everyone Else
That's very much a common position among Libertarians, that industries should be allowed to self-regulate because government doesn't do a perfect job of it. The problem is that this theory has been tried repeatedly, in multiple countries, in multiple industries, in multiple cultures, and it always fails. Every time, everywhere. I have yet to see any industry that has managed to protect consumers/end users at the expense of reduced profits unless forced to do so by an outside agency (pretty much always government). I don't see surety bonds as a magic bullet, and I'm fairly sure the idea has been tried before. The "government is useless/outdated/unnecessary" idea is also very much a common Libertarian position, I don't recall having seen it much otherwise so that's why I assumed you were one.
Or a hawk.
I have oral herpes, and have since childhood. I've found that when I first feel a sore developing inside my mouth if I take a multivitamin and then take another the next day it will go away. If I don't it will erupt and be a nuisance for a week or more. Purely anecdotal, but it works for the rest of my family as well. Haven't gone to the trouble of tracking down what portion of the thing actually helps.
I think it helps to ward off hangovers as well, but that might just be the extra glass of water that I'm drinking to wash it down.
Shopping is condensed misery in a huge box with doors on it. The only people that I see shopping that I might actually want to spend time talking to tend to look as desperate to escape as I am. If there were actual public markets here like in Europe and South America I could enjoy, or at least not loathe, shopping but by all the gods above and below please deliver me from the horror of American big-box shopping. Since we can afford it I sometimes can get away with going to Uwajimaya or some other small local grocery store, but they don't have all the things we want so most of the time I end up amidst the thundering herds in the big stores.
The poster may be living in Michigan, in which case Hormel is gourmet food.
How long does it take to go to McDonald's (I assume it's not across the street) and stand in line? My brother's ex- claimed she was saving all this time by taking the kids to eat at Burger King instead of cooking. (Not like she did anything else the whole day, but she seemed pretty proud of this accomplishment for some reason.) 10-15 minutes to get the kids ready, 10-15 minutes to drive there, 3-5 minutes in line, 10-15 to drive back, 5 to get them back inside. He was visiting us and Rosa cooked a wonderful meal in 45 minutes with more nutrition than the kids probably normally got in a week, with enough leftovers that we had them for lunch the next day.
My wife and I spend about $80/week for groceries, and we only go out to eat about once or twice a month. We eat VERY well (she's Peruvian). It would probably be $10-12 cheaper if she didn't like meat so much.