About two years ago I was offered the chance to ride the Harley Livewire electric motorcycle (http://www.harley-davidson.com/content/h-d/en_US/home/motorcycles/project-livewire.html).
I was part of a group of 6 other electric bikes that had to follow a regular ICE bike on a 5 mile trek around town. I was amazed at how quiet the thing is; dead silence at a stop light is a pretty weird feeling.
On the way back to the dealership, the 7 of us went to pull into the parking lot. There was a group of two pedestrians that were standing on the sidewalk waiting to cross the street. The regular ICE bike pulled in first; I was next to pull in. Right after the ICE bike pulled in the two pedestrians started to cross, and nearly stepped out right in front of me. I knew they were going to do this so I had plenty of room to stop, but they were completely astonished when they saw me there; "we didn't hear you".
I'm not a part of the whole "loud pipes save lives" crowd, but until all vehicles can move in dead silence, pedestrians beware!
If you switch to a straight popular vote, you'd have something similar but a switch in locations. Candidates would ignore rural areas and only campaign in cities:
"The urban areas of the United States for the 2010 Census contain 249,253,271 people, representing 80.7% of the population, and rural areas contain 59,492,276 people, or 19.3% of the population. " https://ask.census.gov/faq.php...
Maine and Nebraska can split their electoral votes....there's no legal hurdle preventing other states from doing the same.
- Nobody can be turned away due to pre-existing conditions. - All medications must be covered (minus deductible) though some may require petitioning. - No lifetime limits on care
In all fairness, Trump* has stated that he wants to keep some of those things:
"antivirus companies only received a week to make their antivirus software compatible with Windows 10."
This sounds like a gross over-simplification. The article itself says that Defender was included with Windows 8, which internally isn't all that different from Windows 10. Getting their software approved for the Windows Store in a short time frame sounds more likely.
People seem to be glancing over this from the article:
"Aspects of these proprietary systems are incompatible with LiMux, according to POR, citing the council's SAP security system, and errors in how PDFs are displayed by the open-source viewing software."
Having worked in plenty of state/local government offices, I can tell you that most of their work is done in proprietary software systems tailored to their specific job function (processing taxes, business registration, managing licenses, etc). There simply isn't enough of this software written for other platforms besides Windows. This is no fault of Munich of course, but it's because of this reason that they still end up having to maintain multiple operating systems. This isn't too much of a pain in a server environment, but it makes no sense at the desktop level. Munich is realizing this now and are discussing whether it not it should keep Linux and Windows, or just Windows.
The New Jersey fired 2700 pound Mark 8 shells which cost about $100,000 apiece, and the last time we used them (in Beirut) we fired 300 of the suckers.
While true for the New Jersey, the Missouri and the Wisconsin were both used during the Gulf War...both of these ships are Iowa Class battleships, same as the New Jersey. The Missouri fired 783 16-inch shells while Wisconsin fired 319. A curious development happened when a group of Iraqis tried to surrender to a drone launched from Wisconsin......the first such incident on record.
Both ships also fired dozens of cruise missiles and took part in mine sweeping efforts. While this suggest that the Iowa-Class may be multi-purpose, they were insanely expensive to keep in service after recommissioning, and the Navy decided that the same missions could be conducted by smaller ships such as Ticonderoga Cruisers and Arleigh Burke class destroyers.
Because, in the vastness of the Universe, with the probably tens of millions of intelligent species, the one thing an omnipotent infinite being cares about is whether Stan and Gary get hitched.
Well of course God cares......Gary doesn't love Stan, he's just getting married for the money and the stability.
I used to get a ton of these offering to sell me a high price car warranty. My car is still under warranty, so at first I dismissed it outright...but after 6 or 7 of these calls a week, I started to hassle the guys back. My favorite is when a guy tried to sell me a warranty, and I told him that I no longer had the car, but he could get me a quote for my new car if he wanted. I told him it was a Bugatti Veyron SuperSport (http://www.bugatti.com/veyron/veyron-164-super-sport/). He was like "hmm....I don't see that in my system. Is that Italian?". He was less than amused when I told him to Google it and the starting price was $1.8 million.
That chart only shows the percentage of asylum applications that were approved. There's no context on the total number of applications that were filed. If Switzerland only had 100 applications, they approved 70. 70% is high, but that may equate to only allowing 70 people into the country. I can't say that is "plenty" unless you put some context in there.
I started to read through the NYTimes article, and about half-way through realized that it's an opinion piece. I had to check the summary just to make sure I didn't get baited.
I looked up the author, Peter Wynn Kirby. http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff... "Peter Wynn Kirby is an environmental specialist, ethnographer, and Research Fellow in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford"
So you'd think this guy would have a PhD in geology, chemistry, or one of the other physical sciences. Nope, his PhD is in Social Anthropology from Cambridge. I'm sure he's a smart guy, but that's hardly what I'd call a "nuclear specialist from the University of Oxford" as the summary states.
Not to mention that this falls under Betteridge's Law....
International, yes, but domestic, hardly. I'm willing to bet that the highly conservative muslim population of Saudi Arabia is in favor of these sort of things.
If you look at the results of Arab Spring, the totalitarian regimes that were overthrown and replaced with "democratic" ones were done so with what I would not call forward-thinking progressive governments.
This is the sort of thing that SJW's should be fighting against......instead they decide to focus their efforts on restricting speech in some of the most liberal places on Earth.
Hollywood cares about how you look, not how old a piece of paper says you are
This reminds me of Guy Pearce in Prometheus. Ridley Scott got a 44 year old to play a 90 year old dude, required over 5 hours of makeup, and he doesn't even appear as his younger self in the final film release. Why didn't he just get a 90 year old to play that part?
is not in discussion with Apple in respect of any potential investment.
So they could be in discussion about putting apple software in the McLaren vehicles. That is not against what they said.
The article flatly states:
"The California technology group, which has been working on a self-driving electric vehicle for more than two years, is considering a full takeover of McLaren or a strategic investment, according to three people briefed on the negotiations who said talks started several months ago."
So McLaren's response is 100% against what the article says.
Not only that, but Financial Times is still sticking with their story: "Obviously we stand by our story despite McLaren's statement" https://twitter.com/tim/status...
If you gave them a choice between an $600 EpiPen that they may not need (but may save their life) and missing out on Keeping up with the Kardashians or Monday Night football, I'm sure the later would win out.
There's only one company making the EpiPen (Mylan).....they can charge what they want, even with a single payer system. The single payer (the goverment) can either not pay for it at that price, or Mylan can choose not to sell it.
The only way this works in single payer systems currently is that Mylan is able to make up the loss by charging higher prices in non-single payer markets. If every single country in the world was single-payer, EpiPens wouldn't exist because every country would want to pay $1 per pen.
This goes both ways. The EU also needs to show the numbers they used to decide this, which they haven't yet by their own admission:
"If it was up to me, the non-confidential version of the decision would have been published yesterday, because that is another way of enabling everyone to see what we have decided and on what basis we have made this decision"
"There are very, very few figures in the public domain"
What figures is it that she's referring to? Apple is publicly traded, are there numbers about revenue that are being hidden from her? Maybe, and that would be a whole other set of crimes to tack onto tax evasion.
"More transparency would be a good thing, for example, a country by country reporting"
Well let's start with Belgium....surely she has access to those numbers?
"If it was up to me, the non-confidential version of the decision would have been published yesterday, because that is another way of enabling everyone to see what we have decided and on what basis we have made this decision"
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About two years ago I was offered the chance to ride the Harley Livewire electric motorcycle (http://www.harley-davidson.com/content/h-d/en_US/home/motorcycles/project-livewire.html).
I was part of a group of 6 other electric bikes that had to follow a regular ICE bike on a 5 mile trek around town. I was amazed at how quiet the thing is; dead silence at a stop light is a pretty weird feeling.
On the way back to the dealership, the 7 of us went to pull into the parking lot. There was a group of two pedestrians that were standing on the sidewalk waiting to cross the street. The regular ICE bike pulled in first; I was next to pull in. Right after the ICE bike pulled in the two pedestrians started to cross, and nearly stepped out right in front of me. I knew they were going to do this so I had plenty of room to stop, but they were completely astonished when they saw me there; "we didn't hear you".
I'm not a part of the whole "loud pipes save lives" crowd, but until all vehicles can move in dead silence, pedestrians beware!
Not to mention that this is really a suit being brought by the parents of these youths.....parents who themselves help contribute to global warming.
typically only focus on the swing states
If you switch to a straight popular vote, you'd have something similar but a switch in locations. Candidates would ignore rural areas and only campaign in cities:
"The urban areas of the United States for the 2010 Census contain 249,253,271 people, representing 80.7% of the population, and rural areas contain 59,492,276 people, or 19.3% of the population. "
https://ask.census.gov/faq.php...
Maine and Nebraska can split their electoral votes....there's no legal hurdle preventing other states from doing the same.
- Nobody can be turned away due to pre-existing conditions.
- All medications must be covered (minus deductible) though some may require petitioning.
- No lifetime limits on care
In all fairness, Trump* has stated that he wants to keep some of those things:
http://www.ontheissues.org/201...
*I didn't vote for him, and it's obviously hard to take what he says at face value.
Exactly. Wasn't there a public beta of Windows 10?
"antivirus companies only received a week to make their antivirus software compatible with Windows 10."
This sounds like a gross over-simplification. The article itself says that Defender was included with Windows 8, which internally isn't all that different from Windows 10. Getting their software approved for the Windows Store in a short time frame sounds more likely.
People seem to be glancing over this from the article:
"Aspects of these proprietary systems are incompatible with LiMux, according to POR, citing the council's SAP security system, and errors in how PDFs are displayed by the open-source viewing software."
Having worked in plenty of state/local government offices, I can tell you that most of their work is done in proprietary software systems tailored to their specific job function (processing taxes, business registration, managing licenses, etc). There simply isn't enough of this software written for other platforms besides Windows. This is no fault of Munich of course, but it's because of this reason that they still end up having to maintain multiple operating systems. This isn't too much of a pain in a server environment, but it makes no sense at the desktop level. Munich is realizing this now and are discussing whether it not it should keep Linux and Windows, or just Windows.
The New Jersey fired 2700 pound Mark 8 shells which cost about $100,000 apiece, and the last time we used them (in Beirut) we fired 300 of the suckers.
While true for the New Jersey, the Missouri and the Wisconsin were both used during the Gulf War...both of these ships are Iowa Class battleships, same as the New Jersey. The Missouri fired 783 16-inch shells while Wisconsin fired 319. A curious development happened when a group of Iraqis tried to surrender to a drone launched from Wisconsin......the first such incident on record.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Both ships also fired dozens of cruise missiles and took part in mine sweeping efforts. While this suggest that the Iowa-Class may be multi-purpose, they were insanely expensive to keep in service after recommissioning, and the Navy decided that the same missions could be conducted by smaller ships such as Ticonderoga Cruisers and Arleigh Burke class destroyers.
Because, in the vastness of the Universe, with the probably tens of millions of intelligent species, the one thing an omnipotent infinite being cares about is whether Stan and Gary get hitched.
Well of course God cares......Gary doesn't love Stan, he's just getting married for the money and the stability.
and keep seeking to make more and more money. Not Musk.
Soooo....that's why the superchargers cost money now?
I used to get a ton of these offering to sell me a high price car warranty. My car is still under warranty, so at first I dismissed it outright...but after 6 or 7 of these calls a week, I started to hassle the guys back. My favorite is when a guy tried to sell me a warranty, and I told him that I no longer had the car, but he could get me a quote for my new car if he wanted. I told him it was a Bugatti Veyron SuperSport (http://www.bugatti.com/veyron/veyron-164-super-sport/). He was like "hmm....I don't see that in my system. Is that Italian?". He was less than amused when I told him to Google it and the starting price was $1.8 million.
After her phone call a behind the scenes scramble would secure these particular jobs
I'm not so sure. Her husband sits on the board of UC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am Swiss. Switzerland provides safe haven for plenty of refugees: https://www.statista.com/stati...
That chart only shows the percentage of asylum applications that were approved. There's no context on the total number of applications that were filed. If Switzerland only had 100 applications, they approved 70. 70% is high, but that may equate to only allowing 70 people into the country. I can't say that is "plenty" unless you put some context in there.
I started to read through the NYTimes article, and about half-way through realized that it's an opinion piece. I had to check the summary just to make sure I didn't get baited.
I looked up the author, Peter Wynn Kirby.
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff...
"Peter Wynn Kirby is an environmental specialist, ethnographer, and Research Fellow in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford"
So you'd think this guy would have a PhD in geology, chemistry, or one of the other physical sciences. Nope, his PhD is in Social Anthropology from Cambridge. I'm sure he's a smart guy, but that's hardly what I'd call a "nuclear specialist from the University of Oxford" as the summary states.
Not to mention that this falls under Betteridge's Law....
"I think Bigfoot is blurry. There's a large out-of-focus monster terrorizing the Pacific Northwest" --Mitch Hedberg
next several years spark enough domestic.
International, yes, but domestic, hardly. I'm willing to bet that the highly conservative muslim population of Saudi Arabia is in favor of these sort of things.
If you look at the results of Arab Spring, the totalitarian regimes that were overthrown and replaced with "democratic" ones were done so with what I would not call forward-thinking progressive governments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is the sort of thing that SJW's should be fighting against......instead they decide to focus their efforts on restricting speech in some of the most liberal places on Earth.
Hollywood cares about how you look, not how old a piece of paper says you are
This reminds me of Guy Pearce in Prometheus. Ridley Scott got a 44 year old to play a 90 year old dude, required over 5 hours of makeup, and he doesn't even appear as his younger self in the final film release. Why didn't he just get a 90 year old to play that part?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Something interesting....Eddy Cue is also on Ferrari's board of directors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.edmunds.com/car-new...
McLaren and Ferrari have a rivalry stretching back about 40 years, both on the street and on the track.
is not in discussion with Apple in respect of any potential investment.
So they could be in discussion about putting apple software in the McLaren vehicles. That is not against what they said.
The article flatly states:
"The California technology group, which has been working on a self-driving electric vehicle for more than two years, is considering a full takeover of McLaren or a strategic investment, according to three people briefed on the negotiations who said talks started several months ago."
So McLaren's response is 100% against what the article says.
Not only that, but Financial Times is still sticking with their story:
"Obviously we stand by our story despite McLaren's statement"
https://twitter.com/tim/status...
Meanwhile, the average American spends $775 dollars a year for Cable TV.
http://www.fool.com/investing/...
If you gave them a choice between an $600 EpiPen that they may not need (but may save their life) and missing out on Keeping up with the Kardashians or Monday Night football, I'm sure the later would win out.
There's only one company making the EpiPen (Mylan).....they can charge what they want, even with a single payer system. The single payer (the goverment) can either not pay for it at that price, or Mylan can choose not to sell it.
The only way this works in single payer systems currently is that Mylan is able to make up the loss by charging higher prices in non-single payer markets. If every single country in the world was single-payer, EpiPens wouldn't exist because every country would want to pay $1 per pen.
but to ban a harmless ingredient that could eventually prove to not be so harmless.
This is the same argument that the DEA has been making for years to keep marijuana illegal.
This goes both ways. The EU also needs to show the numbers they used to decide this, which they haven't yet by their own admission:
"If it was up to me, the non-confidential version of the decision would have been published yesterday, because that is another way of enabling everyone to see what we have decided and on what basis we have made this decision"
What's stopping them from doing this?
"There are very, very few figures in the public domain"
What figures is it that she's referring to? Apple is publicly traded, are there numbers about revenue that are being hidden from her? Maybe, and that would be a whole other set of crimes to tack onto tax evasion.
"More transparency would be a good thing, for example, a country by country reporting"
Well let's start with Belgium....surely she has access to those numbers?
"If it was up to me, the non-confidential version of the decision would have been published yesterday, because that is another way of enabling everyone to see what we have decided and on what basis we have made this decision"
So if it's not up to her, who is it up to?