I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I don't have mod points today...
Insurance? You must have never worked in a public school system.
You obviously have not, or at least not in any capacity that had to do with administrative decision making, budget, or finance.
Entire buildings can burn down and they won't dare call the insurance company to collect on the policy. (don't know why they buy them, they never use them.)
You are simply wrong. Do you have any evidence for your silly assertion? Many school districts do belong to self-insurance pools rather than purchasing regular property insurance, but even those have a commercial reinsurance layer at the top end.
We had a flood do several thousand dollars in damage and no insurance claim was made, funny though i always here certain excuses of why some things can't be installed (like having a hole cut for a new A/C duct line) due the $1M insurance and warranty on the roof that they pay for because the warranty will be void and the deductible cost too much.
First, flood (and earthquake) are excluded from coverage in almost every policy or self-funding memorandum of coverage. If you want flood coverage, you have to buy National Flood from the feds. Second, "several thousand dollars in damage" is chump change on a large essentially commercial policy. Leaving aside that flood would be excluded anyway, your district's deductible is almost certainly several thousand dollars, perhaps more. Third, not cutting a hole in the roof for a new AC duct because it would void the warranty seems like a responsible decision. Fourth, I sincerely hope you are not a teacher, since your spelling, grammar, and composition skills need some major improvement.
They will buy insurance all day long but will never dare touch it or file a claim. They'll either ask the public for more money and build new and everything else falls under some disaster that the state/federal govt. will throw money at anyway.
INSURANCE! HAH! NEVER!
You sound like an unhappy person with an axe to grind over something about which you know nothing. Next time, post something specific that can be fact-checked.
I'll give you the Paris Air Show, but those are airplanes for goodness sake!
For many, the primary value of the Paris Air Show is to see if the Soviets/Russians will crash their latest Tupolev/Sukhoi/MiG. Can't be good for sales. To be fair, they haven't done it for a while at Paris.
Actually, the Canadian dollar is worth 3% more than the US dollar.
Nope. You're reading the table backwards. One dollar US buys you 1.03 Canadian today. So the CAD is worth 3% less than the USD. See Bloomberg for example.
The Canadian Air Force is the first line of defense in keeping that mad bitch Sarah Palin bottled up in Alaska until the Ruskis invade and do her in. Second, you don't get much sandier and oilier than the Athabascan tar sands. I'm sure you need to protect them from the Inuit Air Force or hordes of Laplanders coming over the pole or something. Anyway, hold them off long enough for us to steal all the oil, pump it south, and leave Alberta a stinking mudhole. Really, aside from Lake Louise, it kind of is anyway. Third, all those de Havilland Beavers are going to quit flying someday. You need a replacement. Fourth, the Canadian Dollar is still worth almost as much as a US Dollar. Buying a bunch of these jets will help return the CAD to its more natural $0.74 USD level.
T-Mobile USA makes money. It just doesn't make enough money for the corporate overlords at DT. They don't view the United States as a growth market without billions of dollars in capital investment they've thus far been unwilling to make. Absent that investment T-Mobile USA will remain what it has always been: an urban focused value carrier.
I live in an urban/suburban area and have great coverage. When I travel to a more rural area, which I do frequently, my T-Mobile phone roams on the AT&T network if T-Mo isn't available. The collapse of this deal will only help since not only does T-Mo get $3 billion cash, they get a transfer of radio spectrum to T-Mobile and a more favorable network-sharing agreement. DT valued the breakup package at as much as $7 billion.
I travel to Europe enough that I need a GSM phone. T-Mo provides great service at better rates that AT&T. They unlock your phones at no charge and with no fuss, and they have great customer service.
Actually, the grammar is pretty darn good. There are two compound, complex sentences. There is one compound sentence marred only by the lack of a comma between the words "interesting" and "since." There is no failure of subject-verb agreement. Pronouns are used correctly and with no confusion over attribution. Well above the usual standards here, I say.
If you override or jam the control frequencies, doesn't it just become an unguided flying object? My (very limited) experience with R/C flying indicates that usually results in a crash landing. I realize the drones will have some internal stabilizing circuitry, but shouldn't it fly until it runs out of fuel or hits something? The undamaged appearance would seem to indicate that they either took over the controls or faked the whole thing.
Texas also gave us George W. Bush and Rick Perry. Dr. Pepper tastes like fizzy cough syrup. I did my 40 hour Hazwopper training in Fort Worth in July. I have bad memories.
In Windows, the desktop is actually an app in and of itself. When explorer.exe is first run, it loads the desktop (all icons that go on it) and the taskbar. If you never run Explorer, you'll never get the desktop. It's the same thing here; a person doesn't actually have to run Explorer, and if they don't, then the desktop will never load. The first UI the user will see will be the Metro UI, not Explorer.
Agreed. If it's the same density then 2.4x radius would be 14x the mass. I'm trying to picture a planet with intelligent pancake beings.
Hal Clement did a nice job in Mission of Gravity. The planet Mesklin has 3 g at the equator and 700 g at the poles. Nice read. Clement knows his physics, so it is quite interesting on that level as well.
Yeah but the NSA, CIA and FBI aren't selling your secrets to your competitors. Or worse, setting a wholly-owned subsidiary up as a knockoff/competitor.
Document it thoroughly and submit a report to the authorities. If that doesn't work, go to their offices and switch off the main power panel a few times until they get the hint.
I was thinking more along the lines of thermite bomb on top of the main building transformer. Problem is that their servers are probably virtualized on some offshore blade farm.
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Insurance? You must have never worked in a public school system.
You obviously have not, or at least not in any capacity that had to do with administrative decision making, budget, or finance.
Entire buildings can burn down and they won't dare call the insurance company to collect on the policy. (don't know why they buy them, they never use them.)
You are simply wrong. Do you have any evidence for your silly assertion? Many school districts do belong to self-insurance pools rather than purchasing regular property insurance, but even those have a commercial reinsurance layer at the top end.
We had a flood do several thousand dollars in damage and no insurance claim was made, funny though i always here certain excuses of why some things can't be installed (like having a hole cut for a new A/C duct line) due the $1M insurance and warranty on the roof that they pay for because the warranty will be void and the deductible cost too much.
First, flood (and earthquake) are excluded from coverage in almost every policy or self-funding memorandum of coverage. If you want flood coverage, you have to buy National Flood from the feds. Second, "several thousand dollars in damage" is chump change on a large essentially commercial policy. Leaving aside that flood would be excluded anyway, your district's deductible is almost certainly several thousand dollars, perhaps more. Third, not cutting a hole in the roof for a new AC duct because it would void the warranty seems like a responsible decision. Fourth, I sincerely hope you are not a teacher, since your spelling, grammar, and composition skills need some major improvement.
They will buy insurance all day long but will never dare touch it or file a claim. They'll either ask the public for more money and build new and everything else falls under some disaster that the state/federal govt. will throw money at anyway.
INSURANCE! HAH! NEVER!
You sound like an unhappy person with an axe to grind over something about which you know nothing. Next time, post something specific that can be fact-checked.
I'll give you the Paris Air Show, but those are airplanes for goodness sake!
For many, the primary value of the Paris Air Show is to see if the Soviets/Russians will crash their latest Tupolev/Sukhoi/MiG. Can't be good for sales. To be fair, they haven't done it for a while at Paris.
>It is interesting to see who will gobble up RIM.
Dear God anybody but HP.
Actually, the Canadian dollar is worth 3% more than the US dollar.
Nope. You're reading the table backwards. One dollar US buys you 1.03 Canadian today. So the CAD is worth 3% less than the USD. See Bloomberg for example.
Dear Hoser,
The Canadian Air Force is the first line of defense in keeping that mad bitch Sarah Palin bottled up in Alaska until the Ruskis invade and do her in. Second, you don't get much sandier and oilier than the Athabascan tar sands. I'm sure you need to protect them from the Inuit Air Force or hordes of Laplanders coming over the pole or something. Anyway, hold them off long enough for us to steal all the oil, pump it south, and leave Alberta a stinking mudhole. Really, aside from Lake Louise, it kind of is anyway. Third, all those de Havilland Beavers are going to quit flying someday. You need a replacement. Fourth, the Canadian Dollar is still worth almost as much as a US Dollar. Buying a bunch of these jets will help return the CAD to its more natural $0.74 USD level.
Sincerely yours,
A. Murican
So 50 cal cap and ball then. Nice steampunk flair for the drone.
T-Mobile USA makes money. It just doesn't make enough money for the corporate overlords at DT. They don't view the United States as a growth market without billions of dollars in capital investment they've thus far been unwilling to make. Absent that investment T-Mobile USA will remain what it has always been: an urban focused value carrier.
I live in an urban/suburban area and have great coverage. When I travel to a more rural area, which I do frequently, my T-Mobile phone roams on the AT&T network if T-Mo isn't available. The collapse of this deal will only help since not only does T-Mo get $3 billion cash, they get a transfer of radio spectrum to T-Mobile and a more favorable network-sharing agreement. DT valued the breakup package at as much as $7 billion.
I travel to Europe enough that I need a GSM phone. T-Mo provides great service at better rates that AT&T. They unlock your phones at no charge and with no fuss, and they have great customer service.
Actually, the grammar is pretty darn good. There are two compound, complex sentences. There is one compound sentence marred only by the lack of a comma between the words "interesting" and "since." There is no failure of subject-verb agreement. Pronouns are used correctly and with no confusion over attribution. Well above the usual standards here, I say.
Good point and why I was asking. Of course, if I was designing it to fly over enemy territory, I might design it to self-destruct on loss of signal.
If you override or jam the control frequencies, doesn't it just become an unguided flying object? My (very limited) experience with R/C flying indicates that usually results in a crash landing. I realize the drones will have some internal stabilizing circuitry, but shouldn't it fly until it runs out of fuel or hits something? The undamaged appearance would seem to indicate that they either took over the controls or faked the whole thing.
Texas also gave us George W. Bush and Rick Perry. Dr. Pepper tastes like fizzy cough syrup. I did my 40 hour Hazwopper training in Fort Worth in July. I have bad memories.
In Windows, the desktop is actually an app in and of itself. When explorer.exe is first run, it loads the desktop (all icons that go on it) and the taskbar. If you never run Explorer, you'll never get the desktop. It's the same thing here; a person doesn't actually have to run Explorer, and if they don't, then the desktop will never load. The first UI the user will see will be the Metro UI, not Explorer.
Sounds sort of Windows 3ish.
Plus, Betamax was limited to two hours per tape, while the VHS had a six hour length in slow speed.
My Betamax got four hours per tape at slow speed and later five with the longer, thinner tapes.
Agreed. If it's the same density then 2.4x radius would be 14x the mass. I'm trying to picture a planet with intelligent pancake beings.
Hal Clement did a nice job in Mission of Gravity . The planet Mesklin has 3 g at the equator and 700 g at the poles. Nice read. Clement knows his physics, so it is quite interesting on that level as well.
You didn't take the blue pill?
The blue pills make you small.
The one's that Mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Sounds a bit like pre holiday shopping season FUD from the iPad marketing department.
Yet another instance of Belgian superiority.
>So, with the high-profile release of ANOTHER F'ING MARIO GAME, they throw themselves into it.
Maybe we could get them to give Mario the weapons catalog from MW3 and send him after Sonic.
Yeah but the NSA, CIA and FBI aren't selling your secrets to your competitors. Or worse, setting a wholly-owned subsidiary up as a knockoff/competitor.
So you're not competing with Halliburton then?
If you stir pots of rice, you're cooking it wrong.
Document it thoroughly and submit a report to the authorities. If that doesn't work, go to their offices and switch off the main power panel a few times until they get the hint.
I was thinking more along the lines of thermite bomb on top of the main building transformer. Problem is that their servers are probably virtualized on some offshore blade farm.
Meh! Any fourth grade beginning strings class does this. Mind you, the intent may be different, but the results are pretty much the same.
I refuse to waste my time on Angry Birds. I'm waiting for someone to port Lemmings to iOS.
And eating lots of greens causes buildup of gas, something that might impact on your social skills!
Let's not forget that methane is a greenhouse gas, so this is clearly putting us all at risk.
First, while I agree with the human-in-a-blender comments above, I think a better analogy is running over a big rat with a gang mower.
Second, who cares? This is seriously cool and way safer than that dude flying his rocket pack across the Channel. Progress is not made by chickens.
Third, MAJOR props to the pilot for using the approved video gamer slouch seating posture appropriate to the controller.