I would like to personally applaud you, since you are a better biker than virtually all the ones here in Boston. Our bikers pay no to stop signs or red lights, swerve between lanes, cut cars off, dodge back and forth from the sidewalks and generally make an unsafe nuisance of themselves
So, they're just like the auto drivers in Boston.
Your argument would have worked better if you'd chosen a city where you could actually find even a single driver obeying the rules on any given day.
No, they're on a fixed cycle because it's cheaper, and officious jackasses can adjust the signals for maximum inconvenience.
At least that's how it goes in my county. Every time there's an accident on one of the main roads, a block of people come out demanding more lights, not to protect intersections, but to slow down traffic. They never consider maybe reducing the number of cuts (there are spots where lights are no more than two truck-lengths apart! and that doesn't include the non-signaled intersections and driveways) and enforcing the "no backing out of driveways" rule would help more.
I'm not even sure what the goal is, other than "ever slower," since it currently takes thirty minutes to travel nine miles with just the lights and no traffic.
+/- 1?? BS. No driver or cruise control is that accurate. If you're measuring something that varies more than +/- 1, within +/- 1, you're doing something wrong.
Either that or you've got some "selection bias" combined with a little braggadocio.
Abiotic petroleum is not a good argument for using petroleum, though. Especially if you're a carbon-worrier: if the oil comes from deep within the earth, that means its carbon was never in the biosphere to begin with. It also doesn't bode well for renewability, since it suggests even longer timescales to produce.
You're going to have a lot of trouble getting buy-in from the people you need it from if you're telling them that they're the only ones who are going to take a hit on this thing....
I've heard "gamey" used to describe all manner of meats (including Bison, of all things) which, once I've tried them, have turned out to be flavorful and delicious. I've come to the conclusion that "gamey" means "doesn't taste like bland chicken" thus putting it outside of the comfort zone of the McDonald's generation of "connoisseurs."
Also, one of those animals, the pig, is certainly *not* an herbivore, and coincidentally is the second most delicious of the bunch. Undomesticated pigs, who are both not Herbivores, and actually have the diet to prove it, are even more delicious than the domesticated variety in this writer's opinion.
Therefore I'm hard pressed to conclude, having never tried other predators, mammalian or fowl, that they would necessarily be less delicious than the animals I have heretofore consumed.
No, they typically drain the battery a little bit just by being in standby mode. It's terrible. If I ignore my reader for two weeks the battery drops by half! Then I can only read for maybe six or seven hours straight before I have to plug the thing in again.
So yeah, if it takes 12 hours to read a book start-to-finish, on the B&N device at least, you're only going to be able to finish if you do that over a few days. Otherwise, you'll have to charge it to make up the losses.
ePub is modified HTML. Or rather, it's just strict XML with stylesheets, bundled up into a zip file. That's it. If you can make a web page, you can make an ePub.
Indeed. But all I can think of when reading that after the sentence about "will run on Intel or ARM processors" was that they hadn't even decided what the thing would run on, how could they possibly make claims about whether or not it runs flash? Will run, maybe. Planned to run, possibly.
But so far, if there's anything more than a description of the features and a 3DSmax mockup, I'll be quite surprised.
True, although the article seems to be complaining about devices for which no competitors have produced anything comparable yet, so it remains to be seen how much is lock-in and how much is "an extra $100 for a device that's not a piece of crap? I'm there."
The problem is the liability max. To bring BP up to the full level of accountability would require ex post facto laws and/or a bill of attainder. Both of which are prohibited by the constitution. The best we can hope for is to set things up so that the next company to have such a disaster, should such disaster occur in the future, would not be so protected.
8% is very difficult to believe, considering they took 14% off of all wages below $87.9k. I guess that leaves non-wage earnings making up the difference, but that tends to be weighted toward the already-wealthy...
Woah woah, No FDA at all??? Or just no FDA? 'Cause I rather like the idea (in principle) of an organization whose stamp on a food product means, "it is what it says it is" and/or "won't kill you if eaten"
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I would like to personally applaud you, since you are a better biker than virtually all the ones here in Boston. Our bikers pay no to stop signs or red lights, swerve between lanes, cut cars off, dodge back and forth from the sidewalks and generally make an unsafe nuisance of themselves
So, they're just like the auto drivers in Boston.
Your argument would have worked better if you'd chosen a city where you could actually find even a single driver obeying the rules on any given day.
No, they're on a fixed cycle because it's cheaper, and officious jackasses can adjust the signals for maximum inconvenience.
At least that's how it goes in my county. Every time there's an accident on one of the main roads, a block of people come out demanding more lights, not to protect intersections, but to slow down traffic. They never consider maybe reducing the number of cuts (there are spots where lights are no more than two truck-lengths apart! and that doesn't include the non-signaled intersections and driveways) and enforcing the "no backing out of driveways" rule would help more.
I'm not even sure what the goal is, other than "ever slower," since it currently takes thirty minutes to travel nine miles with just the lights and no traffic.
+/- 1?? BS. No driver or cruise control is that accurate. If you're measuring something that varies more than +/- 1, within +/- 1, you're doing something wrong.
Either that or you've got some "selection bias" combined with a little braggadocio.
The incredible gift of... being wrong 6 times out of 7 and almost killing every patient?
He got freakin' chimerism wrong on a patient that had two different-colored pupils...
I dunno... Build another "largest unsupported concrete dome" but with with rebar and we'll talk.. in two thousand years...
Very good, sir. But this is a dry cleaning shop.
How do you make it through the day?
Extracting oil from tar sands IS cleanup....
Abiotic petroleum is not a good argument for using petroleum, though. Especially if you're a carbon-worrier: if the oil comes from deep within the earth, that means its carbon was never in the biosphere to begin with. It also doesn't bode well for renewability, since it suggests even longer timescales to produce.
So you can build your crappy "rustic looking" furniture and moth-proof closets. Also shingles. And some other fashionable wood products.
They're not chopping down "old growth" to make paper.
You're going to have a lot of trouble getting buy-in from the people you need it from if you're telling them that they're the only ones who are going to take a hit on this thing....
Paris was a city when Chicago was a marsh full of wild onions.
It's good to know that Paris was a city this year, but what does that have to do with Paris's history?
Uh, it was clearly towed...
I've heard "gamey" used to describe all manner of meats (including Bison, of all things) which, once I've tried them, have turned out to be flavorful and delicious. I've come to the conclusion that "gamey" means "doesn't taste like bland chicken" thus putting it outside of the comfort zone of the McDonald's generation of "connoisseurs."
Also, one of those animals, the pig, is certainly *not* an herbivore, and coincidentally is the second most delicious of the bunch. Undomesticated pigs, who are both not Herbivores, and actually have the diet to prove it, are even more delicious than the domesticated variety in this writer's opinion.
Therefore I'm hard pressed to conclude, having never tried other predators, mammalian or fowl, that they would necessarily be less delicious than the animals I have heretofore consumed.
No, they typically drain the battery a little bit just by being in standby mode. It's terrible. If I ignore my reader for two weeks the battery drops by half! Then I can only read for maybe six or seven hours straight before I have to plug the thing in again.
So yeah, if it takes 12 hours to read a book start-to-finish, on the B&N device at least, you're only going to be able to finish if you do that over a few days. Otherwise, you'll have to charge it to make up the losses.
With margins, pretty much everything formatted for either one will fit on the other, with just chopping some blank space on either the top or sides.
ePub is modified HTML. Or rather, it's just strict XML with stylesheets, bundled up into a zip file. That's it. If you can make a web page, you can make an ePub.
Millions of bees, but all daughters of one of two queens.
Indeed. But all I can think of when reading that after the sentence about "will run on Intel or ARM processors" was that they hadn't even decided what the thing would run on, how could they possibly make claims about whether or not it runs flash? Will run, maybe. Planned to run, possibly.
But so far, if there's anything more than a description of the features and a 3DSmax mockup, I'll be quite surprised.
This whole article smells of "Design contest"
Why? Tuna and Lobster are pretty tasty.
Uh.. the scientists who named it were fans of the show....
Doesn't have to be a government agency. A third party certifying agency could be sufficient. As long as them themselves are also audited somehow...
True, although the article seems to be complaining about devices for which no competitors have produced anything comparable yet, so it remains to be seen how much is lock-in and how much is "an extra $100 for a device that's not a piece of crap? I'm there."
The problem is the liability max. To bring BP up to the full level of accountability would require ex post facto laws and/or a bill of attainder. Both of which are prohibited by the constitution. The best we can hope for is to set things up so that the next company to have such a disaster, should such disaster occur in the future, would not be so protected.
8% is very difficult to believe, considering they took 14% off of all wages below $87.9k. I guess that leaves non-wage earnings making up the difference, but that tends to be weighted toward the already-wealthy...
Woah woah, No FDA at all??? Or just no FDA? 'Cause I rather like the idea (in principle) of an organization whose stamp on a food product means, "it is what it says it is" and/or "won't kill you if eaten"