The data isn't all in yet on Chernobyl. Certainly not on Fukushima. If it turns out that living next to one of these radiation release sites is or isn't harmful in the long term, we'll find out eventually. If you want a better feel for long term radiation effects, you'll have to look at how slowly life has returned to two of the largest radiation release incidents in populated areas further in the past.
How many thousands of years will we have to wait for life to return to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
People disappear in big cities, and unknown bodies are discovered.
And thus they are reported. They might not be solved, but a dead body discovered goes into the database 100% of the time. It might turn out to be a death due to natural causes, but nobody allows corpses to lie around stinking without telling someone.
I'd venture a guess that the most under reported crimes (particularly in light of your Canadian study) are failed assault/robbery attempts. Where the victim drives the attacker off, possibly with a weapon. The victim might end up in more trouble for possessing a knife (or, God forbid, a gun) and it's just not worth the trouble to call it in.
But we will have to build those ponds somewhere. Lots of subsistence farmers aren't doing much with their land besides eating everything they grow. We could move them to favelas and build the ponds on that land.
The basics of chemical storage of energy means that no battery can ever be as energy dense as gasoline.
Well, there's diesel. And we can just move indigenous people aside and grow the palm oil or other crops we need to produce 'green diesel'. As long as we can keep poor people from eating our motor fuel.
So yeah. Renewable power sources in 20 years. We can do it!
Lots of companies do this. Keep track of disgruntled ex-employees or those who make threats against the company or its personnel. And if the threat begins to look credible, they turn that information over to law enforcement authorities to act on it.
It's possible that this can be abused. If you have a paranoid member of management or one that uses the system to carry out personal retribution. Usually law enforcement is smart enough to figure out if the threats are groundless or malicious. Problems arise when the "security professionals" who are handed this information are empowered as mini police forces by themselves. There are companies that employ armed personnel who step beyond protection and conduct further investigations or other actions posing as police or FBI agents. Conducting "sneak and peak" searches when they have no legal warrants nor the authority to act on them.
I know people who think nothing of jumping on a plane to Paris to do some shopping over a weekend.
And then there's high level business execs who believe in showing up in person to make deals. Warren Buffet famously resisted owning a business jet, preferring to fly commercial. Until time and business pressure forced him to buy one (which he originally named "The Indefensible", having criticized other's private jets).
No business spends the money
Quite often, its the owners of businesses that make the decision to charter a flight. Or own their own aircraft.
The A380, frankly, is designed for a time when airline reservations were still handled with punch cards.
And a good part of your trip schedule wasn't taken up by standing in TSA lines.
Same reason the Concorde will never be re-borne (in anything like its present configuration). Pay big bucks to shave a couple hours off a flight. And then spend them getting strip-searched. And it's not always about getting there faster. It's about getting there NOW. Which is more important to the wealthy and business people most likely to foot the bill for the expensive ticket. One flight per day just isn't going to cut it. If I have a need to get to Paris this afternoon, the supersonic flight that left an hour ago and won't fly again until tomorrow is of no use to me. Neither is a plane that is scheduled to queue up the next 800 people for an economical flight.
The next successful SST will have the capacity of a business jet. The economics might suck for any potential economy class. But they can just fly with the other cattle on a wide body. First class supersonic for $20K or even $40K per ticket is possible for a small piece of the market.
"The Jackel" where the antagonist cuts up a chopping block to make a nylon zip gun
I missed that one. I've seen Day of the Jackal and The Jackal. Neither of which involved a zip gun. In The Line of Fire (Eastwood/Malkovich) featured a non-metallic, custom made double barreled derringer.
CALPERS is a branch of the California State Government. Same with most public employee pensions. So if it's bad, you only have your own state voters to blame.
Private companies may have good or bad pension managers. But just saying "They're bad. So lets just go ahead and steal the money now" isn't any more ethical. You sound like a hungry bum, trying to justify the fact that you are about to thump someone over the head for their wallet.
but the big money is from ALL the people around the whole world.
Like CALPERS? Think about this when you try to take profits away from all those 'wealthy' shareholders. The largest class of equity owners are pension funds. You are stealing from the teachers, policemen, firefighters, etc.
Without that information there would be no reason for "heading to the exits"
Workers can often tell when a company is in trouble. That might still be considered inside information. But gut feelings are a lot less likely to attract SEC attention than actual internal documents.
free to panic-sell with the rest of the market
The rest of the market includes a lot of people who can afford portfolio managers who can act on a press release within minutes. I can't get off the assembly line to a phone until break time. I'd be selling into the bottom of the market.
then later converting this on Alexa's servers via text-to-speech.
That won't work so well.
Background: I like to listen to shortwave radio. Unfortunately, most of it has been taken over by preachers. When I tune across a band, looking for new sources, I turn on the BFO (beat frequency oscillator) so I hear the whistle of a nearby carrier. On-frequency, that makes the voice unintelligible, like Donald Duck. But I have developed an ear for listening to the cadence and other speech patterns still evident. And I can easily spot the difference between a Christian station and others.
I asked a psychologist friend of mine about this and she says that the speech style (just a dash of 'nuts') is as important to hold like-minded listeners as the material being read. Sort of like how stoners can spot each other by the subtle deviations in their vocal patterns. If Alexa is going to use text-to-speech with a 'standard' voice, it won't keep the audience. Unless they have support for <crazy></crazy>.
I worked for a seedy outfit that repeatedly manipulates it's share prices. One day, the boss called everyone into a mandatory, absolutely must attend staff meeting. So, we go in and listen to a bunch of the usual b.s. Then he plops a market share comparison of our outfit and our major competitor based in Toulouse. It looked pretty bad (for us). He then informed us that the chart he had shown us was considered 'material non-public information' and we were now prohibited from selling any of our company stock for a defined period. No surprise, our company stock tanked.
We didn't need to see this chart to do our daily jobs. It was just a maneuver to keep employees from heading to the exits with the rest of the market watching.
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The data isn't all in yet on Chernobyl. Certainly not on Fukushima. If it turns out that living next to one of these radiation release sites is or isn't harmful in the long term, we'll find out eventually. If you want a better feel for long term radiation effects, you'll have to look at how slowly life has returned to two of the largest radiation release incidents in populated areas further in the past.
How many thousands of years will we have to wait for life to return to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
People disappear in big cities, and unknown bodies are discovered.
And thus they are reported. They might not be solved, but a dead body discovered goes into the database 100% of the time. It might turn out to be a death due to natural causes, but nobody allows corpses to lie around stinking without telling someone.
I'd venture a guess that the most under reported crimes (particularly in light of your Canadian study) are failed assault/robbery attempts. Where the victim drives the attacker off, possibly with a weapon. The victim might end up in more trouble for possessing a knife (or, God forbid, a gun) and it's just not worth the trouble to call it in.
But we will have to build those ponds somewhere. Lots of subsistence farmers aren't doing much with their land besides eating everything they grow. We could move them to favelas and build the ponds on that land.
It's an herbicide. So maybe not without some effect. But it's primary effect is not as an insecticide.
Doesn't sound too great
Well, that's today's science literacy for you. Evil sounding chemical name is evil.
Bitcoin is the answer!
What was the question again?
The basics of chemical storage of energy means that no battery can ever be as energy dense as gasoline.
Well, there's diesel. And we can just move indigenous people aside and grow the palm oil or other crops we need to produce 'green diesel'. As long as we can keep poor people from eating our motor fuel.
So yeah. Renewable power sources in 20 years. We can do it!
but banks and investors will stop financing oil projects
Well, there goes all the feedstock for the fertilizer you need to grow your soy products.
And I have the sticker to prove it.
FB however is sneaking and peeking all the time.
I wonder if they are actually entering subjects residences as if they were real live cops executing search warrants. This has been done by others.
LPs or 45s?
That hacker could have saved some storage space by stealing cassette tapes instead.
Lots of companies do this. Keep track of disgruntled ex-employees or those who make threats against the company or its personnel. And if the threat begins to look credible, they turn that information over to law enforcement authorities to act on it.
It's possible that this can be abused. If you have a paranoid member of management or one that uses the system to carry out personal retribution. Usually law enforcement is smart enough to figure out if the threats are groundless or malicious. Problems arise when the "security professionals" who are handed this information are empowered as mini police forces by themselves. There are companies that employ armed personnel who step beyond protection and conduct further investigations or other actions posing as police or FBI agents. Conducting "sneak and peak" searches when they have no legal warrants nor the authority to act on them.
You wanna get somewhere now? Then teleconference.
I know people who think nothing of jumping on a plane to Paris to do some shopping over a weekend.
And then there's high level business execs who believe in showing up in person to make deals. Warren Buffet famously resisted owning a business jet, preferring to fly commercial. Until time and business pressure forced him to buy one (which he originally named "The Indefensible", having criticized other's private jets).
No business spends the money
Quite often, its the owners of businesses that make the decision to charter a flight. Or own their own aircraft.
"It was a dark and stormy night."
So Boeing guessed correctly
Boeing by and large designs the market. And convinces airline execs and airport operators of what it is that they want.
The A380, frankly, is designed for a time when airline reservations were still handled with punch cards.
And a good part of your trip schedule wasn't taken up by standing in TSA lines.
Same reason the Concorde will never be re-borne (in anything like its present configuration). Pay big bucks to shave a couple hours off a flight. And then spend them getting strip-searched. And it's not always about getting there faster. It's about getting there NOW. Which is more important to the wealthy and business people most likely to foot the bill for the expensive ticket. One flight per day just isn't going to cut it. If I have a need to get to Paris this afternoon, the supersonic flight that left an hour ago and won't fly again until tomorrow is of no use to me. Neither is a plane that is scheduled to queue up the next 800 people for an economical flight.
The next successful SST will have the capacity of a business jet. The economics might suck for any potential economy class. But they can just fly with the other cattle on a wide body. First class supersonic for $20K or even $40K per ticket is possible for a small piece of the market.
"The Jackel" where the antagonist cuts up a chopping block to make a nylon zip gun
I missed that one. I've seen Day of the Jackal and The Jackal. Neither of which involved a zip gun. In The Line of Fire (Eastwood/Malkovich) featured a non-metallic, custom made double barreled derringer.
Pension companies
CALPERS is a branch of the California State Government. Same with most public employee pensions. So if it's bad, you only have your own state voters to blame.
Private companies may have good or bad pension managers. But just saying "They're bad. So lets just go ahead and steal the money now" isn't any more ethical. You sound like a hungry bum, trying to justify the fact that you are about to thump someone over the head for their wallet.
but the big money is from ALL the people around the whole world.
Like CALPERS? Think about this when you try to take profits away from all those 'wealthy' shareholders. The largest class of equity owners are pension funds. You are stealing from the teachers, policemen, firefighters, etc.
Without that information there would be no reason for "heading to the exits"
Workers can often tell when a company is in trouble. That might still be considered inside information. But gut feelings are a lot less likely to attract SEC attention than actual internal documents.
free to panic-sell with the rest of the market
The rest of the market includes a lot of people who can afford portfolio managers who can act on a press release within minutes. I can't get off the assembly line to a phone until break time. I'd be selling into the bottom of the market.
then how do you know the market share of your competitor
Industrial espionage.
then later converting this on Alexa's servers via text-to-speech.
That won't work so well.
Background: I like to listen to shortwave radio. Unfortunately, most of it has been taken over by preachers. When I tune across a band, looking for new sources, I turn on the BFO (beat frequency oscillator) so I hear the whistle of a nearby carrier. On-frequency, that makes the voice unintelligible, like Donald Duck. But I have developed an ear for listening to the cadence and other speech patterns still evident. And I can easily spot the difference between a Christian station and others.
I asked a psychologist friend of mine about this and she says that the speech style (just a dash of 'nuts') is as important to hold like-minded listeners as the material being read. Sort of like how stoners can spot each other by the subtle deviations in their vocal patterns. If Alexa is going to use text-to-speech with a 'standard' voice, it won't keep the audience. Unless they have support for <crazy></crazy>.
I worked for a seedy outfit that repeatedly manipulates it's share prices. One day, the boss called everyone into a mandatory, absolutely must attend staff meeting. So, we go in and listen to a bunch of the usual b.s. Then he plops a market share comparison of our outfit and our major competitor based in Toulouse. It looked pretty bad (for us). He then informed us that the chart he had shown us was considered 'material non-public information' and we were now prohibited from selling any of our company stock for a defined period. No surprise, our company stock tanked.
We didn't need to see this chart to do our daily jobs. It was just a maneuver to keep employees from heading to the exits with the rest of the market watching.
If I manage to get up there, can I claim Opportunity as a derelict, bring it back and part it out?
Pining for the fjords.
I have a round CRT!