It's worth noting that Apple Records has sued Apple Computers several times over their trademark (or alleged breach of contract related to settlements of previous trademark suits).
I'm all for importing as many smart talented people as we can, but not as indentured servants, which is what H-1B is. Give them green cards and a path to citizenship and the freedom to change jobs.
Perhaps Python and JavaScript are not as valuable skill set as you think (they're not, try Java or (shudder).Net) or perhaps you live somewhere crappy. But I am 42 and get to pick from multiple job offers in Denver.
I didn't say "line break", I said "link break", i.e. then closed the link tag, which is then followed by "(PDF)" which is then followed by "for over the next decade". The "(PDF)" separator makes it easy to miss what follows if you are scanning quickly. And since "over the next decade" is part of the fact that they are siting from that article, it is not logical to break the link there.
Accenture already did the California implementation. And they've already had time to work out the problem. Hopefully they wrote that code so it could easily be reused for the federal site (since it is Accenture, that may be a slim hope).
I'm kinda pissed they dropped PowerPC emulation, and I can't imagine it was that expensive to maintain. I have an old piece of specialty hardware that requires an old piece of software, so I'm kinda screwed that way.
Not to mention that people who have been using self-driving cars all their life will have 99% less driving experience. They will basically all be student drivers, but without a teacher in the car when something goes wrong.
I don't think you will get nearly enough energy from dead bodies. Maybe from dead trees but those will have already burned in the initial cataclysm. We can burn a lot more fossil fuels, or we can build a bunch of crappy nuclear power plants (built very fast and cheap with no regulation). And trying to manufacture enough greenhouses and lights to grow enough food for the world would take a long time too, plus the time for the first crops to mature, I doubt we have enough food stored up for very many people to survive. I'm sure the human race will survive but it will be very ugly.
It would cost a lot more than the Apollo project to get a permanent self-sufficient base on the moon or mars, probably hundreds of times more, maybe thousands, especially is it has to be truly self-sufficient (no external supplies ever, no margin for error).
And a super-volcano is not going to wipe out the human race. Maybe 99% (mostly via starvation) but that still leaves millions. Same for a comet/asteroid strike, nuclear war, etc. (a super-virus might do it). As far as knowledge preservation, a lot could be done regarding that on Earth.
Dark matter is nothing but unexplained data. There is unambiguous experimental data that indicates there is something we don't understand about the universe, but not what that something is. "Dark matter" is the current popular hypothesis, but nothing more than that.
The first world generally has negative population growth, not counting immigration. So yes, it is the third world that needs population control, and there is nothing racist about that statement. I suppose you could debate whether the first world should be putting pressure on them or just let them figure that out themselves, but the pressure is applied via strings attached to foreign aid: are you suggesting we should stop giving them aid and just let them starve?
There is not much I deliberately submit to the government that they can really use against me. I of course worry about all the stuff they are collecting without my consent but not about the stuff I a submitting to them. So if the survey is asking about that I might answer in the same way. Big corporations are going to use my data to annoy me, and fringe sites might sell it to every spammer in the world, but the government won't do either. Of course the other question is how competent is the IT/security department - will they get hacked? There is so much incompetence in both the government and corporations that it is hard to know which is worse.
I agree the carport idea is ridiculous, but I generally like this idea. I drive my car only a few miles each day, and leave it parked in the sun all day while I am at work, so I could probably get most of my power from solar. We use my wife's car for long trips anyways.
This is just a variant of the plug-in hybrid they already sell. Still plugs in. Still has a gas engine for range. Only has the battery capacity for 21 electric-only miles, which is the weakest point I see.
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It's worth noting that Apple Records has sued Apple Computers several times over their trademark (or alleged breach of contract related to settlements of previous trademark suits).
And by "bosses" you mean Ronald Reagan. His State of the Union address was schedule that night, and the multiple delays didn't look good.
The article says the first hop is 8 miles. I find that hard to believe, but that is the claim.
I'm all for importing as many smart talented people as we can, but not as indentured servants, which is what H-1B is. Give them green cards and a path to citizenship and the freedom to change jobs.
Perhaps Python and JavaScript are not as valuable skill set as you think (they're not, try Java or (shudder) .Net) or perhaps you live somewhere crappy. But I am 42 and get to pick from multiple job offers in Denver.
Your ad hominem attack has totally convinced me.
I didn't say "line break", I said "link break", i.e. then closed the link tag, which is then followed by "(PDF)" which is then followed by "for over the next decade". The "(PDF)" separator makes it easy to miss what follows if you are scanning quickly. And since "over the next decade" is part of the fact that they are siting from that article, it is not logical to break the link there.
And can I say that the way the editors set the link break in the summary made it very easy to miss the "over the next decade" part or that sentence.
Accenture already did the California implementation. And they've already had time to work out the problem. Hopefully they wrote that code so it could easily be reused for the federal site (since it is Accenture, that may be a slim hope).
I'm kinda pissed they dropped PowerPC emulation, and I can't imagine it was that expensive to maintain. I have an old piece of specialty hardware that requires an old piece of software, so I'm kinda screwed that way.
Shut up and take my employer's money.
Not to mention that people who have been using self-driving cars all their life will have 99% less driving experience. They will basically all be student drivers, but without a teacher in the car when something goes wrong.
All of which will make a WOOSH sound as they pass over your head.
Sounds like they are positioning themselves to be the next AOL.
I don't think you will get nearly enough energy from dead bodies. Maybe from dead trees but those will have already burned in the initial cataclysm. We can burn a lot more fossil fuels, or we can build a bunch of crappy nuclear power plants (built very fast and cheap with no regulation). And trying to manufacture enough greenhouses and lights to grow enough food for the world would take a long time too, plus the time for the first crops to mature, I doubt we have enough food stored up for very many people to survive. I'm sure the human race will survive but it will be very ugly.
It would cost a lot more than the Apollo project to get a permanent self-sufficient base on the moon or mars, probably hundreds of times more, maybe thousands, especially is it has to be truly self-sufficient (no external supplies ever, no margin for error).
And a super-volcano is not going to wipe out the human race. Maybe 99% (mostly via starvation) but that still leaves millions. Same for a comet/asteroid strike, nuclear war, etc. (a super-virus might do it). As far as knowledge preservation, a lot could be done regarding that on Earth.
Dark matter is nothing but unexplained data. There is unambiguous experimental data that indicates there is something we don't understand about the universe, but not what that something is. "Dark matter" is the current popular hypothesis, but nothing more than that.
You still haven't suggested an alternative.
The first world generally has negative population growth, not counting immigration. So yes, it is the third world that needs population control, and there is nothing racist about that statement. I suppose you could debate whether the first world should be putting pressure on them or just let them figure that out themselves, but the pressure is applied via strings attached to foreign aid: are you suggesting we should stop giving them aid and just let them starve?
There is not much I deliberately submit to the government that they can really use against me. I of course worry about all the stuff they are collecting without my consent but not about the stuff I a submitting to them. So if the survey is asking about that I might answer in the same way. Big corporations are going to use my data to annoy me, and fringe sites might sell it to every spammer in the world, but the government won't do either. Of course the other question is how competent is the IT/security department - will they get hacked? There is so much incompetence in both the government and corporations that it is hard to know which is worse.
In this analogy the corporations at least buy them dinner first.
No, if the market was "schizophrenic" it would have trouble concentrating and possibly hallucinate while being extremely paranoid
Sounds about right.
You were unadventurous? I think you mean "stayed".
Except no one ever checks the signature, while the 4 digit PIN is checked automatically.
I agree the carport idea is ridiculous, but I generally like this idea. I drive my car only a few miles each day, and leave it parked in the sun all day while I am at work, so I could probably get most of my power from solar. We use my wife's car for long trips anyways.
This is just a variant of the plug-in hybrid they already sell. Still plugs in. Still has a gas engine for range. Only has the battery capacity for 21 electric-only miles, which is the weakest point I see.