Bring India in as an example. They royally screwed over their poorer citizens when they 'retired' their old cash and didn't have enough new bank notes ready to replace it.
It would be interesting to see a graph of household debt vs adoption of cashless payment methods. An anecdotal point: Germany has pretty low household debt and relies primarily on cash for personal transactions. The idea being; if you don't have the money in your pocket, you don't buy it. Cashless transactions are a good way to either get people to run up debt in the form of a line of credit or overdraft fees. I smell more income for banks here.
They don't always know, or understand, how everything works.
Actually, the kid was smart enough to figure out the unlocking thing and then ask Siri for help. I'm just surprised that dialing 999 (or 911) is beyond him.
We've been sitting on a bunch of data from the employees of the DoD, CIA, NSA, FBI and others. And our business partners in Russia and North Korea are eager to get a copy of it. This could be a "gold mine" for us.
A single parabolic dish can. But a bunch of them "swivelled to concentrate light on a single spot" in no way emulates solar radiation at the earth's surface.
I'm assuming that, as TFS says "The aim of the experiment is to come up with the optimal setup for concentrating natural sunlight". Well, a bunch of small parabolic dishes aimed at a single point is nothing like the typical reflector setup of a solar power tower. They are usually a bunch of flat mirrors that approximate a single parabola only over a large scale.. At the optical power densities they are using, the variation in radiation power density vs incident angle could be significant in collector design.
But it's not. Sunlight is for all intents and purposes collimated due to the extreme distance of its source. While these lamps can be "swivelled (sp?) to concentrate light on a single spot", that will tell you little about the setup applicable for use with sunlight.
There are large areas of the country served by overhead power and telephone lines. Bringing fiber to these areas would be cheap compared to those with underground utilities. The poles are there. It's just a matter of hanging the fiber from them and paying a (regulated) per pole rental fee. And yet we don't see fiber going up in these areas any faster than in neighborhoods served by underground utilities.
Overhead fiber can be so cheap that a few power companies have gone ahead and put it up whenever they have a maintenance and/or upgrade project in the neighborhood. But often, due to non-compete agreements with telcos/cable companies, or restrictions on municipal broadband systems, this fiber is relegated to the power companies internal use for SCADA and metering systems.
When the government can get to the root of the economics that broadband providers use not to compete with each other, perhaps the installation of fiber will start to take off in this country. But that will also see some execs off to prison for antitrust violations, so don't hold your breath.
Phone numbers are the new SSN. Particularly since telcos have been given immunity for handing your metadata over to every TLA and creditor that asks for it. Just try doing business with anyone and, when they ask for your phone number, just tell them you don't have one. Watch them shit themselves.
If the security in the named countries is so bad, what's to stop people from just sneaking their laptop in their carry on luggage? What's the US going to do at arrivals? Confiscate what turned out to be a harmless laptop? I mean if it made it all the way here from Jordan without blowing up, what's the point?
Sure, she's made some serious missteps along the way
Politics. Assume that someone is out to get you and act accordingly. Her missteps are either a sign of sheer stupidity or a sense of royal entitlement. Neither of which make her presidential material to many voters.
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Bring India in as an example. They royally screwed over their poorer citizens when they 'retired' their old cash and didn't have enough new bank notes ready to replace it.
It would be interesting to see a graph of household debt vs adoption of cashless payment methods. An anecdotal point: Germany has pretty low household debt and relies primarily on cash for personal transactions. The idea being; if you don't have the money in your pocket, you don't buy it. Cashless transactions are a good way to either get people to run up debt in the form of a line of credit or overdraft fees. I smell more income for banks here.
Experimental Bomber number 1?
In Washington state we have dank clouds.
Well, they DID say "Most of the Time".
and having writ, blinks on.
Once you get over the reproductive hill most people start to tend toward frugal living.
Not in my town. They buy Cadillacs. And then bend them, buy another one, etc., etc. ....
They even have their own special tax courts,
But in Amazon's case, the IRS lost in one of those tax courts.
IRS Motto: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
Thing sure have changed since I was four.
They don't always know, or understand, how everything works.
Actually, the kid was smart enough to figure out the unlocking thing and then ask Siri for help. I'm just surprised that dialing 999 (or 911) is beyond him.
We've been sitting on a bunch of data from the employees of the DoD, CIA, NSA, FBI and others. And our business partners in Russia and North Korea are eager to get a copy of it. This could be a "gold mine" for us.
You have to unlock a phone to place an emergency call?
A parabolic reflective dish
A single parabolic dish can. But a bunch of them "swivelled to concentrate light on a single spot" in no way emulates solar radiation at the earth's surface.
I'm assuming that, as TFS says "The aim of the experiment is to come up with the optimal setup for concentrating natural sunlight". Well, a bunch of small parabolic dishes aimed at a single point is nothing like the typical reflector setup of a solar power tower. They are usually a bunch of flat mirrors that approximate a single parabola only over a large scale.. At the optical power densities they are using, the variation in radiation power density vs incident angle could be significant in collector design.
optimal setup for concentrating natural sunlight
But it's not. Sunlight is for all intents and purposes collimated due to the extreme distance of its source. While these lamps can be "swivelled (sp?) to concentrate light on a single spot", that will tell you little about the setup applicable for use with sunlight.
job creators
We have agreements to carve up territories and discourage competition. What jobs are being created?
There are large areas of the country served by overhead power and telephone lines. Bringing fiber to these areas would be cheap compared to those with underground utilities. The poles are there. It's just a matter of hanging the fiber from them and paying a (regulated) per pole rental fee. And yet we don't see fiber going up in these areas any faster than in neighborhoods served by underground utilities.
Overhead fiber can be so cheap that a few power companies have gone ahead and put it up whenever they have a maintenance and/or upgrade project in the neighborhood. But often, due to non-compete agreements with telcos/cable companies, or restrictions on municipal broadband systems, this fiber is relegated to the power companies internal use for SCADA and metering systems.
When the government can get to the root of the economics that broadband providers use not to compete with each other, perhaps the installation of fiber will start to take off in this country. But that will also see some execs off to prison for antitrust violations, so don't hold your breath.
Phone numbers are the new SSN. Particularly since telcos have been given immunity for handing your metadata over to every TLA and creditor that asks for it. Just try doing business with anyone and, when they ask for your phone number, just tell them you don't have one. Watch them shit themselves.
I like their description on that web page: "No computers".
The UK and US seem to be the most frequent targets.
Have you forgotten France? Spain?
If the security in the named countries is so bad, what's to stop people from just sneaking their laptop in their carry on luggage? What's the US going to do at arrivals? Confiscate what turned out to be a harmless laptop? I mean if it made it all the way here from Jordan without blowing up, what's the point?
As if 376,890 voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
In my state I was required to submit a list of existing 'IP' I was working on,
I wonder how this would work for classified projects. "Go ask the DoD."
Where's my car?
Sure, she's made some serious missteps along the way
Politics. Assume that someone is out to get you and act accordingly. Her missteps are either a sign of sheer stupidity or a sense of royal entitlement. Neither of which make her presidential material to many voters.