I used to fly a lot when I worked for Boeing (commercial, not gov't contract). We had an entire travel department that arranged trips and accomodtions. And they prided themselves on finding the cheapest (crappiest, that is) deals that they could. One time, when I had to fly from Seatle to New York, I just called travel and said, "You find me the flight that meets your cost requirements. I'll upgrade to first class out of my own pocket." They practicaly shit themselves. It wasn't about the cost, it was about the perception of being tight with a dollar. While actualy wasting buckets of money*.
One time when a group of us had to spend a week in Cincinnati, Boeing travel booked rooms at a flea-bag airport motel which was about 30 miles from the vendor we were working with. I fought that one and found a cheaper (and much nicer) extended stay motel a few miles from the vendor. From that point on, I was on the travel department's shit list.
*I suspect that certain members of the travel department get some frequent flyer miles in their own accounts for steering business toward certain airlines and hotel chains. And for missing the actual lowest cost deals when planning company trips.
Wider seats in first class. Sometimes business class is a rip-off (same seats, better snacks). But on long trips, first class seating is much more comfortable.
I could care less about leg room (I'm only 4' 18" tall). But I'm built like a tank and my arms hang into the aisle or across the shared armrest in economy class seating.
Better that taxes cause a little pain. It reminds me once a year how screwed up our tax system is. If they make it too eay, people wil forget about how much is beng skimmed off their paychecks.
We have automatic witholding as well. And the system could be made simpler. But I like the fact that once a year, I'm getting pissed off at a seriously broken system.
IRS Motto: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
We already have retroreflective paints. Road markings and signs illuminated by headlights are clearly visible. On the other hand, some things (like animals and pedestrians) require some means of illumination at night. Streetlights are OK, but headlights are better. An animal or other obstruction will only appear as a shadow against a glowing roadway.
This. And large windmills are already required to be equipped with anti-collision lights and, if large enough, be included on air navigation charts, NOTAMS, etc.
Your drone has to navigate within the constraints of existing marking and mapping regulations and right-of-way rules.
Could be an internal change that people on the line would never notice. A stiffer spring perhaps.
Part numbering is a complex issue. GM might probably has an engineering policy in place for identifying part modifications. Not necessarily the part number, but a revision code. [Part numbers usually denote form, fit and function. If one of these changes, so does the part number. If two parts are interchangeable, they often get the same part number but a unique revision code.] Circumventing company policy usually warrants disciplinary action, including termination, at most companies.
The other side of this is checks put in place to maintain configuration control and data integrity. Either more than just these two individuals were involved or the GM processes have some serious flaws. Checking revised documents into any decent document management system would include listing changes, new part numbers, revisions made, etc. If GM doesn't have adequate controls in place and these people are in a position to talk about that, the embarrassment factor might be enough to earn them comfortable retirement for their silence.
But wait â" the CHP 11-99 Foundation also gives out membership cards to big donors. 'Unless you have the I.D. in hand when (not if) I stop you,' says one cop, 'no love will be shown.'"
On the other hand, if you have a US DoJ ID and the cop says, "No 11-99 ID, no leniency", he goes to Club Fed and the rest of the department goes under investigation for corruption.
I'm amazed anyone from the CHP was stupid enough to make the above statement.
$15 million in damage, but who lost power and for how long?
Well designed systems have redundancies. Go ahead. Shoot out a couple of transformers. We'll just switch sources. The interesting thing will be if this reward gets someone caught. That might be the best economic solution. There's only so much security you can build in to a system. But if it becomes known that you will be caught, and possibly based on evidence provided by your co-conspirators, people will think twice before pulling this crap.
As to the loss of 911 service, Century Link just did that to us in Western Washington. Who gets the reward for turning them in?
You can bet your hairy ass that Exxon is working on alternative sources of energy income for the time when oil runs out.
I'll bet my hairy ass that Exxon will sit back and wait to buy up whichever startup and technology wins in the race to develop new energy sources. Sure, they have their own solar and geothermal R&D groups. But that's just noise on their balance sheet. They aren't in a 'produce or die' mode when it comes to this stuff. So I'd put my money in firms that are pure plays on these technologies.
We'll be charging our cars at their service stations in the future.
I'd bet against that. The economics of charging stations is such that they are relatively cheap to install in any garage that is wired for power. And people need to spend more time on a car charger than in a service station. So absent a 5 minute charge technology, service stations won't be picking up much of this business.
Until Exxon teams up with Oregon state and convinces lawmakers that it just isn't 'safe' to charge cars anywhere except at a station with an attendant.
... against fellow passengers. Survivor collects life preserver and makes it to emergency exit. All you have to do is make it past the 400 lb ogre the cabin crew inevitably seats next to the over wing exit plug door before he gets stuck in it.
Why stop child killing, pedos traveling internationally to lands that don't care, recording their deeds and bringing the recordings home for later enjoyment.
Because possession of that material in this jurisdiction is illegal.
Do you actually know of any countries where this sort of activity is legal?
An alternative issue is what if it is only 'legal' due to the illegal activities of the company involved. See a number of large corporates stoking civil wars to get law changes through with a change of government.
As long as the civil war is won, the corporations activities are legal, or are pardoned by the new government. But how is this different than contributing to the GOP to help them regain control of both legislative houses and then getting laws changed and current programs canceled?
... at the French work culture. But they are scooping up a number of respected local engineering firms. And running circles around the remaining American run firms.
There's something to be said for the productivity of going to your job, working hard and then relaxing once you are back at home. French law appears to step in where managers fail to think long term about their staff's productivity.
If its not illegal in the country the act was committed in, why should we bother with it? Or maybe Russia and Mexico should start inditing companies for participating in our corrupt patent system.
There are two requirements driving the need for monitoring systems. One is to catch the occasional 'bad cop'. True, most officers are contentious and try to behave ethically. But this is the major drive behind most of these systems. The other requirement is evidence collection. In spite of whatever our law enforcement and judiciary systems claim, police officers make mistakes. Or they are in a hurry or pumped up on adrenalin and their observational powers are hindered. Having a camera/mic running provides an objective view of incidents and in some cases, exonerates the actions of officers.
The second case isn't emphasized to the same degree as the first. It is difficult to make an argument that a person with whom you work regularly (think judges and cops) is as fallible as the average citizen. It isn't that cops always intend to do evil. It has been demonstrated that eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable, whether they are 'trained' or not.
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It's not being cheap, it's being smart.
I used to fly a lot when I worked for Boeing (commercial, not gov't contract). We had an entire travel department that arranged trips and accomodtions. And they prided themselves on finding the cheapest (crappiest, that is) deals that they could. One time, when I had to fly from Seatle to New York, I just called travel and said, "You find me the flight that meets your cost requirements. I'll upgrade to first class out of my own pocket." They practicaly shit themselves. It wasn't about the cost, it was about the perception of being tight with a dollar. While actualy wasting buckets of money*.
One time when a group of us had to spend a week in Cincinnati, Boeing travel booked rooms at a flea-bag airport motel which was about 30 miles from the vendor we were working with. I fought that one and found a cheaper (and much nicer) extended stay motel a few miles from the vendor. From that point on, I was on the travel department's shit list.
*I suspect that certain members of the travel department get some frequent flyer miles in their own accounts for steering business toward certain airlines and hotel chains. And for missing the actual lowest cost deals when planning company trips.
Wider seats in first class. Sometimes business class is a rip-off (same seats, better snacks). But on long trips, first class seating is much more comfortable.
I could care less about leg room (I'm only 4' 18" tall). But I'm built like a tank and my arms hang into the aisle or across the shared armrest in economy class seating.
Yeh, but duct tape?
Better that taxes cause a little pain. It reminds me once a year how screwed up our tax system is. If they make it too eay, people wil forget about how much is beng skimmed off their paychecks.
We have automatic witholding as well. And the system could be made simpler. But I like the fact that once a year, I'm getting pissed off at a seriously broken system.
IRS Motto: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
Ah yes. The two line tax form.
1. How much did you earn las year? _________
2. Send it to us.
We already have retroreflective paints. Road markings and signs illuminated by headlights are clearly visible. On the other hand, some things (like animals and pedestrians) require some means of illumination at night. Streetlights are OK, but headlights are better. An animal or other obstruction will only appear as a shadow against a glowing roadway.
This. And large windmills are already required to be equipped with anti-collision lights and, if large enough, be included on air navigation charts, NOTAMS, etc.
Your drone has to navigate within the constraints of existing marking and mapping regulations and right-of-way rules.
The difference being that every time someone uses Metro, Ballmer gets the banana.
Could be an internal change that people on the line would never notice. A stiffer spring perhaps.
Part numbering is a complex issue. GM might probably has an engineering policy in place for identifying part modifications. Not necessarily the part number, but a revision code. [Part numbers usually denote form, fit and function. If one of these changes, so does the part number. If two parts are interchangeable, they often get the same part number but a unique revision code.] Circumventing company policy usually warrants disciplinary action, including termination, at most companies.
The other side of this is checks put in place to maintain configuration control and data integrity. Either more than just these two individuals were involved or the GM processes have some serious flaws. Checking revised documents into any decent document management system would include listing changes, new part numbers, revisions made, etc. If GM doesn't have adequate controls in place and these people are in a position to talk about that, the embarrassment factor might be enough to earn them comfortable retirement for their silence.
But wait â" the CHP 11-99 Foundation also gives out membership cards to big donors. 'Unless you have the I.D. in hand when (not if) I stop you,' says one cop, 'no love will be shown.'"
On the other hand, if you have a US DoJ ID and the cop says, "No 11-99 ID, no leniency", he goes to Club Fed and the rest of the department goes under investigation for corruption.
I'm amazed anyone from the CHP was stupid enough to make the above statement.
$15 million in damage, but who lost power and for how long?
Well designed systems have redundancies. Go ahead. Shoot out a couple of transformers. We'll just switch sources. The interesting thing will be if this reward gets someone caught. That might be the best economic solution. There's only so much security you can build in to a system. But if it becomes known that you will be caught, and possibly based on evidence provided by your co-conspirators, people will think twice before pulling this crap.
As to the loss of 911 service, Century Link just did that to us in Western Washington. Who gets the reward for turning them in?
They always go to starboard in the bottom half of the hour.
"Too close for missiles, switching to guns!"
I have a large monitor and I sit 2 arms lengths away,
Evidently, Microsoft's UI was designed for users with longer arms. The ones that drag on the ground when they walk.
OK, gotta go now. [Ducking and running]
You can bet your hairy ass that Exxon is working on alternative sources of energy income for the time when oil runs out.
I'll bet my hairy ass that Exxon will sit back and wait to buy up whichever startup and technology wins in the race to develop new energy sources. Sure, they have their own solar and geothermal R&D groups. But that's just noise on their balance sheet. They aren't in a 'produce or die' mode when it comes to this stuff. So I'd put my money in firms that are pure plays on these technologies.
We'll be charging our cars at their service stations in the future.
I'd bet against that. The economics of charging stations is such that they are relatively cheap to install in any garage that is wired for power. And people need to spend more time on a car charger than in a service station. So absent a 5 minute charge technology, service stations won't be picking up much of this business.
Until Exxon teams up with Oregon state and convinces lawmakers that it just isn't 'safe' to charge cars anywhere except at a station with an attendant.
Yeah. I'm going to enjoy this game.
Also known as "rat cam".
Why stop child killing, pedos traveling internationally to lands that don't care, recording their deeds and bringing the recordings home for later enjoyment.
Because possession of that material in this jurisdiction is illegal.
Do you actually know of any countries where this sort of activity is legal?
An alternative issue is what if it is only 'legal' due to the illegal activities of the company involved. See a number of large corporates stoking civil wars to get law changes through with a change of government.
As long as the civil war is won, the corporations activities are legal, or are pardoned by the new government. But how is this different than contributing to the GOP to help them regain control of both legislative houses and then getting laws changed and current programs canceled?
We'll just use JavaScript and generate all the heat on the client's systems.
Transformer oil? Not a good idea.
There's something to be said for the productivity of going to your job, working hard and then relaxing once you are back at home. French law appears to step in where managers fail to think long term about their staff's productivity.
I tried the whole 'frame of reference' argument to get out of a speeding ticket once. It didn't work.
This.
If its not illegal in the country the act was committed in, why should we bother with it? Or maybe Russia and Mexico should start inditing companies for participating in our corrupt patent system.
Its called courrier electronique.
There are two requirements driving the need for monitoring systems. One is to catch the occasional 'bad cop'. True, most officers are contentious and try to behave ethically. But this is the major drive behind most of these systems. The other requirement is evidence collection. In spite of whatever our law enforcement and judiciary systems claim, police officers make mistakes. Or they are in a hurry or pumped up on adrenalin and their observational powers are hindered. Having a camera/mic running provides an objective view of incidents and in some cases, exonerates the actions of officers.
The second case isn't emphasized to the same degree as the first. It is difficult to make an argument that a person with whom you work regularly (think judges and cops) is as fallible as the average citizen. It isn't that cops always intend to do evil. It has been demonstrated that eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable, whether they are 'trained' or not.