Sorry, but a Time magazine reporter who suddenly learned about Milankovich Cycles and proceeded to butcher a couple of interviews was the source for that whole foolishness. Actual climatologists (there were very few at the time) were still talking about warming, but no one was listening because "five degrees hotter over the course of the next century" doesn't sell as well as "the glaciers are coming".
They had already developed attack-avoidance systems for the by the end of the Reagan bAdministration, I'd be shocked if the software hasn't advanced since then.
Uh, yeah. Tell that to the Iraqis and Afghans. The US even had our puppet governments declared that no "civilian contractor" (aka "mercenary") could be prosecuted for a crime.
Von Braun joined the Nazi party for the simple reason that anyone who expected to get funding for research had to join. In the 1950s and '60s anyone who wanted funding to do atomic research had to work for the Pentagon or the Kremlin.
Schneider Electric are specialists in the "high speed pipes, power and cooling", and apparently they see enough of an opportunity here to make it worthwhile to be partners in this enterprise. They already own the property, so that's not a concern. Key is going to be who they partner with to manage the data centers.
Worked as a service writer for a while, and quite a few people would come in for an oil change at our shop even though we were almost twice the price of the quick-lube place down the road. The selling point was "Our mechanics weren't flipping burgers or cutting lawns last week."
Ten years ago? Sure. Today? It would take two or three programming groups, continually competing for resources, six project managers arguing over budgets, four executives dithering over whether to promote or sabotage the project, and six to eight months. Then it would crash or lock up the Skype client because no one dared hire enough testers to accommodate anything but default configurations.
Like it or not, you're part of the community of 21st Century North Americans. The overwhelming majority of people in that group do not want to see starving widows and orphans in the street, a sight which was common before the introduction of Social Security. They want clean water and breathable air and uncontaminated food. They want their shit to disappear down the drain when they flush rather than have to crap behind the bushes, they want their garbage to be taken away rather than pile up in the street, they want bridges over the rivers, they want their streets to be lighted at night, and they want to know that the medicine they're prescribed is pure and has some likelihood of helping them. By and large, they want civilization. Civilization costs money. Money needs to be raised through taxes.
There are still plenty of places where people can go live the heroic go-it-alone mountain man existence. For the rest of us the values of community and the desire to provide a better life for ourselves, our progeny, and others in our community override the greed and self-centered myopia of the few. That's civilization, love it or leave it.
Not likely that politicians will even come close enough to touch that leash, they're well aware that the intel agencies have pretty much unlimited access to any mercenary group they want in exchange for some minor favor. "Wink, wink, nudge, nudge" and your kid disappears for a week and comes back a heroin junkie.
It's probably the difference between a $0.47 heat sink and one that cost $0.49. Shit like that is the reason that the US car companies no longer dominate the world market.
The first minor violation is a mulligan in every jurisdiction I've ever worked, with every carrier I've ever represented.
Not in Washington State, and I think the insurance carriers here are informed when a violation happens. I had an insurer mention a speeding ticket before I had even paid the damn thing (2 weeks). I was driving a lot in my previous job and tended to get a ticket about once every three years, or just before the last one was going to get removed.
The thing is, I **DO** have the balls to say it to his face. By staying anonymous he's ensured that can't possibly happen, making him the coward. BTW, haven't you ever drank a cup of coffee in a park, at the bus stop, or any other neutral location? Starbucks isn't the only place to drink coffee.
My wife works in a large retailer, and she hears this frequently from customers. A dress on this rack is a size 10 and fits perfectly, a similar dress on that rack is a size 13 and too small. Even within the same brand, when the design is done by one company it can be a dramatic difference in size than if it were done by a different company (none of them design their own stuff).
The big retailers that are in trouble mostly seem to be victims of the dreaded MBA Disease. When upper management was made up of people who had come up through the ranks and knew the business of retail, knew the effects of policy changes on staff, and had actually dealt with customers at some point in their career then intelligent decisions could be made that can keep a business afloat even in the worst of times. Now that management consists of people who came directly out of college with no real-world experience, and upper management is populated by job-hoppers who are unable to comprehend that there is a difference in how a car company or an airline or a retail chain should be managed ("We provide leadership!") then they're doomed.
Actually, even if humans disappeared tomorrow and stopped emitting all CO2 entirely the planet will still continue warming for most of a century, as that is how long it would take Earth to process out the current excess of the gas. The best that we can hope to do is to slow the rate at which it warms, and considering that the ocean may be near its saturation point I think it's doubtful that we can even do that.
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BB gun != air rifle
My BB gun doesn't even injure pigeons, just scares the crap out of them. We go hunting for pigeons with my brother-in-law's air rifle.
Sorry, but a Time magazine reporter who suddenly learned about Milankovich Cycles and proceeded to butcher a couple of interviews was the source for that whole foolishness. Actual climatologists (there were very few at the time) were still talking about warming, but no one was listening because "five degrees hotter over the course of the next century" doesn't sell as well as "the glaciers are coming".
It only took 50 years to go from Eniac to mult-core processor with gigabytes of memory accessing data from around the entire planet on every desktop.
What kind of idiot wants an inexperienced virgin? Send me to 75 horny sluts and I might consider signing up.
They had already developed attack-avoidance systems for the by the end of the Reagan bAdministration, I'd be shocked if the software hasn't advanced since then.
would be a crime
Uh, yeah. Tell that to the Iraqis and Afghans. The US even had our puppet governments declared that no "civilian contractor" (aka "mercenary") could be prosecuted for a crime.
Von Braun joined the Nazi party for the simple reason that anyone who expected to get funding for research had to join. In the 1950s and '60s anyone who wanted funding to do atomic research had to work for the Pentagon or the Kremlin.
Schneider Electric are specialists in the "high speed pipes, power and cooling", and apparently they see enough of an opportunity here to make it worthwhile to be partners in this enterprise. They already own the property, so that's not a concern. Key is going to be who they partner with to manage the data centers.
Big changes the last few years, then. The phone systems have gone IP, the HR and time clock systems run from a server at the District office.
If they're pairing with Schneider Electric they'll at least have competence on the infrastructure and physical security side.
Worked as a service writer for a while, and quite a few people would come in for an oil change at our shop even though we were almost twice the price of the quick-lube place down the road. The selling point was "Our mechanics weren't flipping burgers or cutting lawns last week."
Ten years ago? Sure. Today? It would take two or three programming groups, continually competing for resources, six project managers arguing over budgets, four executives dithering over whether to promote or sabotage the project, and six to eight months. Then it would crash or lock up the Skype client because no one dared hire enough testers to accommodate anything but default configurations.
Like it or not, you're part of the community of 21st Century North Americans. The overwhelming majority of people in that group do not want to see starving widows and orphans in the street, a sight which was common before the introduction of Social Security. They want clean water and breathable air and uncontaminated food. They want their shit to disappear down the drain when they flush rather than have to crap behind the bushes, they want their garbage to be taken away rather than pile up in the street, they want bridges over the rivers, they want their streets to be lighted at night, and they want to know that the medicine they're prescribed is pure and has some likelihood of helping them. By and large, they want civilization. Civilization costs money. Money needs to be raised through taxes.
There are still plenty of places where people can go live the heroic go-it-alone mountain man existence. For the rest of us the values of community and the desire to provide a better life for ourselves, our progeny, and others in our community override the greed and self-centered myopia of the few. That's civilization, love it or leave it.
Not likely that politicians will even come close enough to touch that leash, they're well aware that the intel agencies have pretty much unlimited access to any mercenary group they want in exchange for some minor favor. "Wink, wink, nudge, nudge" and your kid disappears for a week and comes back a heroin junkie.
It's probably the difference between a $0.47 heat sink and one that cost $0.49. Shit like that is the reason that the US car companies no longer dominate the world market.
I think the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is first on the list already. They periodically attempt to secede from either the US or from Michigan.
Anyone who gives a shit about Lake Ontario. If the thing was lost after three hours of operation it still has most of its fuel load.
Some of the other groups are using tobacco mosaic virus, it's likely that Firethorn confused the projects.
The first minor violation is a mulligan in every jurisdiction I've ever worked, with every carrier I've ever represented.
Not in Washington State, and I think the insurance carriers here are informed when a violation happens. I had an insurer mention a speeding ticket before I had even paid the damn thing (2 weeks). I was driving a lot in my previous job and tended to get a ticket about once every three years, or just before the last one was going to get removed.
And spyware on the Kinect moves into a whole new dimension . . .
The thing is, I **DO** have the balls to say it to his face. By staying anonymous he's ensured that can't possibly happen, making him the coward. BTW, haven't you ever drank a cup of coffee in a park, at the bus stop, or any other neutral location? Starbucks isn't the only place to drink coffee.
I'm old enough to remember when people were complaining on SlashDot how Blockbuster was driving all the mom and pop video stores out of business.
My wife works in a large retailer, and she hears this frequently from customers. A dress on this rack is a size 10 and fits perfectly, a similar dress on that rack is a size 13 and too small. Even within the same brand, when the design is done by one company it can be a dramatic difference in size than if it were done by a different company (none of them design their own stuff).
The big retailers that are in trouble mostly seem to be victims of the dreaded MBA Disease. When upper management was made up of people who had come up through the ranks and knew the business of retail, knew the effects of policy changes on staff, and had actually dealt with customers at some point in their career then intelligent decisions could be made that can keep a business afloat even in the worst of times. Now that management consists of people who came directly out of college with no real-world experience, and upper management is populated by job-hoppers who are unable to comprehend that there is a difference in how a car company or an airline or a retail chain should be managed ("We provide leadership!") then they're doomed.
Actually, even if humans disappeared tomorrow and stopped emitting all CO2 entirely the planet will still continue warming for most of a century, as that is how long it would take Earth to process out the current excess of the gas. The best that we can hope to do is to slow the rate at which it warms, and considering that the ocean may be near its saturation point I think it's doubtful that we can even do that.