No he wouldn't. Those guys didn't take "smoke breaks." They would've just smoked in your face.
In today's era, they'd probably never have started smoking.
Plus.. that's a helluva list. I think there's like three guys on there I'd actually want to work with. None of whom were heads of state or giants of industry...
Acela is *not* high speed rail. The problem is that they tried to do it on the cheap, using existing tracks with no upgrades most of its length save for the wires. The train itself is *capable* of going over 120 mph, but I think there are only about 3 miles on the entire length of the track where it actually achieves this. The travel time from Boston to NY is, sadly, comparable to the same trip by car.
A 120 mph train should not take the same amount of time to travel the same distance as an 65 mph car....
$400 instead of $350 for the same machine? No, well say hello to bloatware!
Eh... Yes. Even if that was the only difference, as long as I could be certain that there really was no bloatware. My time is valuable to me, and I'm willing to pay for quality.
Other than "build-your-own" and maybe Apple, how can you be confident of not getting the bloatware, though? As far as I know, none of the big PC mass assemblers has even tried having a bloat-free model, let alone advertising it.
Now, at least the PC bloatware is something that can be dealt with. I'd like to see DVDs and Blu-Rays where you could skip past the warnings and previews and ads and stuff before the movie that that you paid for an individual license for comes on. It's almost as if they WANT you to violate the DMCA...
Although fuel is the cheapest part of the spacecraft flight, it still makes sense to optimize on it, because the sheer quantity of fuel required, as expressed as fraction of the total mass of the vehicle, means that the structures always have to be gossamer things with exotic enough materials and calculations out the wazoo to make that work.
If you could cut the fuel mass to even 50% of the total, you open up a whole slew of possibilities for economizing and safety that just aren't available at our current best of ~87%.
Sometimes. It's not the paragon of ethics, after all. There are downsides to it, too.
Particularly when it comes to giving yourself authority over another person's resources. I'm not sure you can call it fiscally responsible to be willing to spend other people's money on stuff you want.
Sometimes democracy is the best way of averaging out everyone's competing interests. But sometimes it's two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner...
That depends on the mass of the fuel and the friction of the hose. You could get something like a small-scale orbital fountain effect, so the hose could be designed to be self-supporting.
The problem of how you dispose of a 20 km hose after it detaches would still remain.
I'm going to guess that you paid the "small fee to avoid court action."
Regardless, if this happens in the future I urge you and anyone else, to opt for the court option. It's the fact that everyone basically takes option (1) that they can get away with that kind of shenanigans.
It could be worse. They could be voting for both spending increases and tax increases.
Taxes never balance the budget in a situation like you've apparently got, because when an "acceptable deficit level" is found, all that increasing taxes does is mask the cost of the spending and make it appear that even even more increases are possible...
The best "fake information" would have to be virtually indistinguishable from the real information. So how would YOU tell it apart. (or more generally, how would your successors be able to tell after you retire to your "fake" mansion on a "fake" island in tahiti?
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
(Jamie Zawinski, maybe?)
Anyway, you might be wondering why I would put that there. And that is because you wrote this:
There needs to be a little Federal oversight of these practices. Or a lot of Federal oversight...
Now you have two problems.
It's not so much that the phone companies are such great stewards of our spectrum that they don't need oversight or regulation, but moreso that there is already a lot of oversight, and it seems to be accomplishing only one thing: keeping the existing carriers entrenched as virtually unassailable monopolies. Any regulatory scheme you can propose to fix things must address that, and have some measures in place to prevent or mitigate the possibility of "regulatory capture" as it relates to the public's interest in the regulation of the carriers.
Lots of foods are "wasteful" to produce if you compare them to more efficient sources. However, I submit that your palate would not enjoy eating nothing but Spirulina all the time, with plain water to drink.
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Call me when you can drill sign-language on it.
No he wouldn't. Those guys didn't take "smoke breaks." They would've just smoked in your face.
In today's era, they'd probably never have started smoking.
Plus.. that's a helluva list. I think there's like three guys on there I'd actually want to work with. None of whom were heads of state or giants of industry...
Yeah, because the draw of the indie cafés is their low prices compared to the national chain coffee shops....
Acela is *not* high speed rail. The problem is that they tried to do it on the cheap, using existing tracks with no upgrades most of its length save for the wires. The train itself is *capable* of going over 120 mph, but I think there are only about 3 miles on the entire length of the track where it actually achieves this. The travel time from Boston to NY is, sadly, comparable to the same trip by car.
A 120 mph train should not take the same amount of time to travel the same distance as an 65 mph car....
$400 instead of $350 for the same machine? No, well say hello to bloatware!
Eh... Yes. Even if that was the only difference, as long as I could be certain that there really was no bloatware. My time is valuable to me, and I'm willing to pay for quality.
Other than "build-your-own" and maybe Apple, how can you be confident of not getting the bloatware, though? As far as I know, none of the big PC mass assemblers has even tried having a bloat-free model, let alone advertising it.
Now, at least the PC bloatware is something that can be dealt with. I'd like to see DVDs and Blu-Rays where you could skip past the warnings and previews and ads and stuff before the movie that that you paid for an individual license for comes on. It's almost as if they WANT you to violate the DMCA...
For non-techies? I hope you're not suggesting Facebook as a viable option...
Although fuel is the cheapest part of the spacecraft flight, it still makes sense to optimize on it, because the sheer quantity of fuel required, as expressed as fraction of the total mass of the vehicle, means that the structures always have to be gossamer things with exotic enough materials and calculations out the wazoo to make that work.
If you could cut the fuel mass to even 50% of the total, you open up a whole slew of possibilities for economizing and safety that just aren't available at our current best of ~87%.
Indeed, but not because of the units. Just the amount....
It's a tablet. Form is part of its function...
Sometimes. It's not the paragon of ethics, after all. There are downsides to it, too.
Particularly when it comes to giving yourself authority over another person's resources. I'm not sure you can call it fiscally responsible to be willing to spend other people's money on stuff you want.
Sometimes democracy is the best way of averaging out everyone's competing interests. But sometimes it's two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner...
Does the tax increase apply to everybody, or just the people that voted for the increased spending?
That depends on the mass of the fuel and the friction of the hose. You could get something like a small-scale orbital fountain effect, so the hose could be designed to be self-supporting.
The problem of how you dispose of a 20 km hose after it detaches would still remain.
Well, the solution is simple. Outsource to someone who also has a spouse recovering from cancer....
I'm going to guess that you paid the "small fee to avoid court action."
Regardless, if this happens in the future I urge you and anyone else, to opt for the court option. It's the fact that everyone basically takes option (1) that they can get away with that kind of shenanigans.
It could be worse. They could be voting for both spending increases and tax increases.
Taxes never balance the budget in a situation like you've apparently got, because when an "acceptable deficit level" is found, all that increasing taxes does is mask the cost of the spending and make it appear that even even more increases are possible...
Well, if there have to be bad guys, why not us?
The best "fake information" would have to be virtually indistinguishable from the real information. So how would YOU tell it apart. (or more generally, how would your successors be able to tell after you retire to your "fake" mansion on a "fake" island in tahiti?
So, you're saying they stole Metacrawler's algorithm?
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
(Jamie Zawinski, maybe?)
Anyway, you might be wondering why I would put that there. And that is because you wrote this:
There needs to be a little Federal oversight of these practices. Or a lot of Federal oversight...
Now you have two problems.
It's not so much that the phone companies are such great stewards of our spectrum that they don't need oversight or regulation, but moreso that there is already a lot of oversight, and it seems to be accomplishing only one thing: keeping the existing carriers entrenched as virtually unassailable monopolies. Any regulatory scheme you can propose to fix things must address that, and have some measures in place to prevent or mitigate the possibility of "regulatory capture" as it relates to the public's interest in the regulation of the carriers.
Then we really can't be sure that it's class of tool is no longer in use, now can we.
Yeah, but shoe-fitting is only one application of the fluoroscope, a tool which is still in use in other areas.
Lots of foods are "wasteful" to produce if you compare them to more efficient sources. However, I submit that your palate would not enjoy eating nothing but Spirulina all the time, with plain water to drink.
But.. what's the dilemma?
Highlight, context-click, "goto address" from context menu is the preferred action now. But I agree that it's better to just link stuff.
Indeed. It's just a stupid number. How did we ever manage to get ourselves into a position where we could run out of numbers.