You misread the article. It says no level of lead in the *bloodstream* is unsafe. Just because lead is detected in something does not mean it is bio-available for absorption. Lead paint, for instance, does not absorb easily into the blood stream from the digestive tract. Kids who had high levels of lead in their blood from old houses with lead paint were getting most of it from breathing in paint dust, not eating it as many believe.
The OP is correct - the level makes a huge difference. If it's very low, like 1PPM, even assuming perfect absorption, you'd have to eat hundreds of gallons of the stuff for it to build up to harmful levels in the bloodstream.
The larger the size, the higher initial upfront cost. But the larger the size the higher efficiency the unit will be with shorter run times and lower utility bills. The shorter the run time of the unit the longer it will last
Dude you got ripped off. For the 10 ton unit to work your whole HVAC system has to be able to push enough air through your house to take advantage of it. Unless you added a whole bunch of ductwork, the 10 ton unit is going to burn out faster, because you aren't moving enough hot air over the A coil to push enough heat into the exterior coils for them to work properly.
Read up on it in an HVAC manual, there is an equation you use to figure out the appropriate size compressor depending on how many cubic feet of air you can move through the A coil.
I hope you got the extended warranty on that thing.
Be brave, bring back those billions, pay some tax and create jobs.
*Some* tax? Apple would pay a tax on moving money out of the country where it came from. They would then pay a tax on bringing money INTO the USA. Then they would pay corporate tax on the profit registered. Sometimes those taxes are on the principal, not the net - so if you are bringing in $1,000,000, you pay all the taxes on the full $1,000,000, not on the post-excise tax amount.
The problem is everyone wants their cut. The foreign government wants their cut, the US government wants their cut, and the state government wants their cut. If the foreign government is going to make it cheaper to keep Apple's money there, then that's what Apple is going to do. If the US government wants that money to come back here, they are going to have to make it cheaper to do so.
I would say, in terms of R&D money and effort spent, Sony probably got their money out of the Beta format. In that sense, I wouldn't exactly call it a failure. The consumer push was a write-off, but re-purposing the hardware for professional use paid off.
Betamax was only a failure in the consumer market. The professional version, Betacam, was one of the most widely used videotape formats for professionals. So, eh, kinda sorta a failure, I guess.
I don't pay attention to them, nor news stories about them. Didn't pay any attention to Obama's tweets, either. I also don't pay attention to rumors, hearsay, and "sources report" stories, which seem to be roughly 75% of reports about Trump.
I do pay attention to policy matters, and laws being enacted. A lot of it is bad. Some of it is good.
Here's the thing - we don't know what data archeologists, or anthropologists, are going to find interesting or useful in a few hundred years' time. They threw away the kinescope films of the first NFL Superbowl, which is clearly of historical interest. Ditto many of the original Playhouse 90 broadcasts, where many of the initial TV screenwriters, and quite a few big name movie directors, got their start. The DuMont network, one of the original national TV networks, basically lost all of its programming other than a few series that the actors themselves had copies of, The Honeymooners being one of them. I would think recordings of the very first TV broadcasts would be pretty important from an anthropological standpoint, but when Paramount bought them they scrapped DuMont's entire film library to reclaim the silver nitrate.
Think of it this way - imagine how incredible it would be to have film of what life was like in the 1400's. Even if it was just film of one of their plays, or some chamber music. How did people talk? What did they wear? What were they interested in? If they produced a play about ancient Rome, what did THEY think ancient Rome looked like?
True but what he was convicted of is sufficient. The other stuff just speaks of his character. He's not some libertarian hero, rather he's an asshole scumbag ready to murder people disrupting his business.
I don't think the question is whether or not he's some sort hero. The question is if indirectly helping to distribute drugs, "computer hacking" and money laundering are worth a life sentence. According to Wikipedia, they brought up evidence of the murder conspiracy at the sentencing phase, which I completely don't understand - he hasn't been convicted of that yet.
If he's found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder or whatever, then yep - he should probably go away forever. As it is, he's going away for a longer stretch then some people get for actually murdering someone.
That's a good idea, but that incurs overhead, which is what UBI is supposed to eliminate. Doesn't take a lot of administrators to have a machine cut checks to people.
For sports, at least, it's licensed by *market* - to watch local sports teams costs more for a carrier. You can get a major league baseball streaming package that lets you watch any game in the country *except* for the team nearest you. To watch your home game you have to subscribe to whichever cable channel holds the broadcast rights, usually Fox Sports or ESPN.
Yes it has and it's also resulted in suppressed wages in the US and thus moving the middle class in the US closer to poverty. My point is that if we keep going on at this pace that it will make us all equally poor.
It's been going "at this pace" for decades, centuries in some markets. You're assuming a zero sum game, if they have something then we can't have it, too. The truth is that the more people are involved in a market, the more wealth is created.
Also, nothing is stopping you from "buying American." You can buy made in the US shoes from Alden for $300, made in the US shirts from Brooks Brothers for $100, made in the US khakis from Bills for $100, made in the US jeans from Earnest Sewn for $200.
If you don't like paying that much, then you can't complain that much about globalism.
They will continue using the Dirty Harry (mean, angry, takes no crap, there to kill the bad guy) stereotype rather than the Columbo stereotype (self effacing, polite, there to ask questions)
I don't think people actually saw the Dirty Harry films. He was completely polite, if not curt, with law-abiding citizens. He even dresses down other officers whom are less than polite to victims. Violent criminals, on the other hand, he indifferently mows down.
You might be thinking more along the lines of the Bad Lieutenant.
Sure, coding this up should be pretty quick, since I just need to plug A into B using X..NET does W, Y and Z, so it should do X.
Me: Wait, where is X? Microsoft: X has been deprecated in 64-bit. Me: Wait, why? W, Y, and Z all work, why not X? Microsoft: Nobody uses it. Me: It's listed as a feature in your docs! It's the recommended method! If people are doing W, Y and Z, they are definitely doing X! Microsoft: Whoops, wait a sec... There now they say NOT to use X as it's deprecated. Me: Fine I'll write a 32-bit shim Microsoft:.NET won't allow you to do that with X for security purposes Me: Holy cow I need to write a friggin' service and pipe crap to it just to get X to work? Microsoft: Or write your own implementation Me: The whole point of X is it's a pain in the neck to implement properly and I'd rather be spending time on user-facing stuff, rather than become an expert on X, which I'll only be using for this one particular feature. Fine I'm re-implementing, my original estimate has now increased 10x.
Six Months Later: Microsoft: Good news, X has now been implemented in 64-bit! Download it here...
So... how would you handle pregnancies where parents say "we want the kid, thought we cannot afford one"? (do you force abortions? do you deny healthcare or food-money for the kid?).
If it's a child after the cap, then the parent's are going to have to figure out how to financially support that child.
There are no good solutions... and any basic income system will see huge numbers of people having kids just to get more money.
Absolutely, however, dis-incentivizing having a lot of children is a step in the right direction.
A better way to handle it might be to divide the funding so that some of it is general use, but some can only be used for shelter and basic utilities.
Most economists agree that basic minimum income should be no strings attached, as the various costs of living can vary greatly from area to area, even within the same city. In some areas food costs less, in some areas housing costs less, in some areas transportation is very expensive, etc...
I agree with subsidizing children, but there should be a cap. If you don't have any means of supporting yourself, we shouldn't be subsidizing you having a half dozen more people you can't support, either.
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Make that - no level of lead in the bloodstream is considered *safe*
You misread the article. It says no level of lead in the *bloodstream* is unsafe. Just because lead is detected in something does not mean it is bio-available for absorption. Lead paint, for instance, does not absorb easily into the blood stream from the digestive tract. Kids who had high levels of lead in their blood from old houses with lead paint were getting most of it from breathing in paint dust, not eating it as many believe.
The OP is correct - the level makes a huge difference. If it's very low, like 1PPM, even assuming perfect absorption, you'd have to eat hundreds of gallons of the stuff for it to build up to harmful levels in the bloodstream.
The larger the size, the higher initial upfront cost. But the larger the size the higher efficiency the unit will be with shorter run times and lower utility bills. The shorter the run time of the unit the longer it will last
Dude you got ripped off. For the 10 ton unit to work your whole HVAC system has to be able to push enough air through your house to take advantage of it. Unless you added a whole bunch of ductwork, the 10 ton unit is going to burn out faster, because you aren't moving enough hot air over the A coil to push enough heat into the exterior coils for them to work properly.
Read up on it in an HVAC manual, there is an equation you use to figure out the appropriate size compressor depending on how many cubic feet of air you can move through the A coil.
I hope you got the extended warranty on that thing.
And California would like to have a word with TotC and T.P.D.
Be brave, bring back those billions, pay some tax and create jobs.
*Some* tax? Apple would pay a tax on moving money out of the country where it came from. They would then pay a tax on bringing money INTO the USA. Then they would pay corporate tax on the profit registered. Sometimes those taxes are on the principal, not the net - so if you are bringing in $1,000,000, you pay all the taxes on the full $1,000,000, not on the post-excise tax amount.
The problem is everyone wants their cut. The foreign government wants their cut, the US government wants their cut, and the state government wants their cut. If the foreign government is going to make it cheaper to keep Apple's money there, then that's what Apple is going to do. If the US government wants that money to come back here, they are going to have to make it cheaper to do so.
Someone could then CASH THAT BOND and Apple would have to pay them the face value of the bond plus any accrued interest.
.... after it matures.
I would say, in terms of R&D money and effort spent, Sony probably got their money out of the Beta format. In that sense, I wouldn't exactly call it a failure. The consumer push was a write-off, but re-purposing the hardware for professional use paid off.
Betamax was only a failure in the consumer market. The professional version, Betacam, was one of the most widely used videotape formats for professionals. So, eh, kinda sorta a failure, I guess.
I would think this would be a near no-brainer for cargo flights. Probably less so for passenger flights.
I would consider flying a robo-flight if they installed an authentic HAL 9000 eye on the cockpit door, if for no other reason just to see it.
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I don't pay attention to them, nor news stories about them. Didn't pay any attention to Obama's tweets, either. I also don't pay attention to rumors, hearsay, and "sources report" stories, which seem to be roughly 75% of reports about Trump.
I do pay attention to policy matters, and laws being enacted. A lot of it is bad. Some of it is good.
And so it goes.
Here's the thing - we don't know what data archeologists, or anthropologists, are going to find interesting or useful in a few hundred years' time. They threw away the kinescope films of the first NFL Superbowl, which is clearly of historical interest. Ditto many of the original Playhouse 90 broadcasts, where many of the initial TV screenwriters, and quite a few big name movie directors, got their start. The DuMont network, one of the original national TV networks, basically lost all of its programming other than a few series that the actors themselves had copies of, The Honeymooners being one of them. I would think recordings of the very first TV broadcasts would be pretty important from an anthropological standpoint, but when Paramount bought them they scrapped DuMont's entire film library to reclaim the silver nitrate.
Think of it this way - imagine how incredible it would be to have film of what life was like in the 1400's. Even if it was just film of one of their plays, or some chamber music. How did people talk? What did they wear? What were they interested in? If they produced a play about ancient Rome, what did THEY think ancient Rome looked like?
True but what he was convicted of is sufficient. The other stuff just speaks of his character. He's not some libertarian hero, rather he's an asshole scumbag ready to murder people disrupting his business.
I don't think the question is whether or not he's some sort hero. The question is if indirectly helping to distribute drugs, "computer hacking" and money laundering are worth a life sentence. According to Wikipedia, they brought up evidence of the murder conspiracy at the sentencing phase, which I completely don't understand - he hasn't been convicted of that yet.
If he's found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder or whatever, then yep - he should probably go away forever. As it is, he's going away for a longer stretch then some people get for actually murdering someone.
That wasn't what he was convicted of, though. There is one pending trial for solicitation for murder or something like that.
I'm commenting on how The Intercept is using language to portray the company in a certain light.
If you are trying to portray a company as "shadowy" when it has a fairly robust online presence, you aren't doing journalism, you're doing propaganda.
That's a good idea, but that incurs overhead, which is what UBI is supposed to eliminate. Doesn't take a lot of administrators to have a machine cut checks to people.
All hush-hush top secret shadow organizations have a web site.
http://www.tigerswan.com/
And twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/TigerSwan
For sports, at least, it's licensed by *market* - to watch local sports teams costs more for a carrier. You can get a major league baseball streaming package that lets you watch any game in the country *except* for the team nearest you. To watch your home game you have to subscribe to whichever cable channel holds the broadcast rights, usually Fox Sports or ESPN.
Yes it has and it's also resulted in suppressed wages in the US and thus moving the middle class in the US closer to poverty. My point is that if we keep going on at this pace that it will make us all equally poor.
It's been going "at this pace" for decades, centuries in some markets. You're assuming a zero sum game, if they have something then we can't have it, too. The truth is that the more people are involved in a market, the more wealth is created.
Also, nothing is stopping you from "buying American." You can buy made in the US shoes from Alden for $300, made in the US shirts from Brooks Brothers for $100, made in the US khakis from Bills for $100, made in the US jeans from Earnest Sewn for $200.
If you don't like paying that much, then you can't complain that much about globalism.
They will continue using the Dirty Harry (mean, angry, takes no crap, there to kill the bad guy) stereotype rather than the Columbo stereotype (self effacing, polite, there to ask questions)
I don't think people actually saw the Dirty Harry films. He was completely polite, if not curt, with law-abiding citizens. He even dresses down other officers whom are less than polite to victims. Violent criminals, on the other hand, he indifferently mows down.
You might be thinking more along the lines of the Bad Lieutenant.
I taught myself to program on a Commodore VIC-20 reading magazines. No internet. No BBSes. I slept through my CS101 class and aced it.
In this day and age, if you need to cheat in Intro to CS, you probably shouldn't be in CS.
Sure, coding this up should be pretty quick, since I just need to plug A into B using X. .NET does W, Y and Z, so it should do X.
Me: Wait, where is X? .NET won't allow you to do that with X for security purposes
Microsoft: X has been deprecated in 64-bit.
Me: Wait, why? W, Y, and Z all work, why not X?
Microsoft: Nobody uses it.
Me: It's listed as a feature in your docs! It's the recommended method! If people are doing W, Y and Z, they are definitely doing X!
Microsoft: Whoops, wait a sec... There now they say NOT to use X as it's deprecated.
Me: Fine I'll write a 32-bit shim
Microsoft:
Me: Holy cow I need to write a friggin' service and pipe crap to it just to get X to work?
Microsoft: Or write your own implementation
Me: The whole point of X is it's a pain in the neck to implement properly and I'd rather be spending time on user-facing stuff, rather than become an expert on X, which I'll only be using for this one particular feature. Fine I'm re-implementing, my original estimate has now increased 10x.
Six Months Later:
Microsoft: Good news, X has now been implemented in 64-bit! Download it here...
So... how would you handle pregnancies where parents say "we want the kid, thought we cannot afford one"? (do you force abortions? do you deny healthcare or food-money for the kid?).
If it's a child after the cap, then the parent's are going to have to figure out how to financially support that child.
There are no good solutions... and any basic income system will see huge numbers of people having kids just to get more money.
Absolutely, however, dis-incentivizing having a lot of children is a step in the right direction.
A better way to handle it might be to divide the funding so that some of it is general use, but some can only be used for shelter and basic utilities.
Most economists agree that basic minimum income should be no strings attached, as the various costs of living can vary greatly from area to area, even within the same city. In some areas food costs less, in some areas housing costs less, in some areas transportation is very expensive, etc...
I agree with subsidizing children, but there should be a cap. If you don't have any means of supporting yourself, we shouldn't be subsidizing you having a half dozen more people you can't support, either.