"It's an easy joke made by Northerners," wrote Joe Sterling and Sarah Aarthun.
Perhaps if the region had not developed a reputation for constantly thumping their chests about how much more rugged and manly they are than people in the north, they'd get more sympathy from us. There was no small amount of mockery from those parts in 2012 when the Northeast freaked over Hurricane Sandy.
Yes, some cities are making other arrangements because digging up the entire sewer system to modernize it is prohibitively expensive. But as the article indicates, only a small number of communities are doing so ("About 772 communities in the United States have combined sewer systems, serving about 40 million people"). No one is building new systems that way.
Even if your community is being force to treat its runoff, I'd wager the storm water is still arriving at the treatment plant via an entirely independent pipe system than the sanitary sewer. If not, then you ought to prosecute whoever was in charge of designing it because they were incompetent to the point of negligence.
That's because NYC's sewer system is so old that when it was originally built, there was no such thing as a sewage treatment plant. They could use one set of pipes because everything was just getting dumped into the harbor anyways. Now that they have plants, they retain a problem of having to dump untreated sewage in the harbor when the plants get overloaded during storms.
If your municipal water system was built after activated sludge control became common in the 1930s, storm water is probably handled separately from sanitary sewage.
Combined sewer systems mostly predate the development of sewage treatment and only about 13% of the US is currently served by a system where sewage and storm water are sent through the same pipe. The remaining hold outs are largely being forced to separate their systems by the EPA to comply with the Clean Water Act.
Storm drains generally separate from the sewage system; the cost of treating hundreds of thousands of gallons of extra rainwater would bankrupt most communities. That's why it's usually illegal to dump waste into the storm drains.
We have one. You just replace the explosives with cement. 500 pound block of cement dropped from thousands of feet crushes the anti-aircraft gun with minimal damage to the surroundings:
1. I disagree about Generations being awesome. 2. Into Darkness isn't a subtitle. Word of God is that JJ Abrams considers Trek a verb and as such Into Darkness is a prepositional phrase describing where they were starily trekking in the movie.
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1. My point is not about how to teach someone how quicksort. It was refuting the commenters assertion that any code not understandble to regular people is bad code. Your quicksort.c file is not going to pick up a deck of cards and demonstrate what it's doing.
2. I'm betting that for 60% of the population out there, they still would not understand how quicksort works after your card demonstration.
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Please demonstrate a basic sorting algorithm that a non-programmer can understand that doesn't perform terribly on large lists. You might be able to write a bubble or insertion sort that makes sense to a layman, but for the majority of the population something like mergesort, quicksort, or heapsort is going to seem like voodoo no matter how elegantly it is coded.
The problem usually isn't getting 76% to agree, it's getting 76% to care enough to show up to the meeting and vote at all. Most homeowners don't go to HOA/COA meetings and in terms of changing covenants, an abstention is usually treated as a no vote.
What exactly is a "a semi-rural micropolitan area"?
It means that to afford a house, he had to move out into the middle of nowhere, but living in the middle of nowhere isn't cool, so he likes to pretend it's an urban area.
Given all the screwed up trials we've seen the last few years, it could be that this guy was railroaded by a corrupt prosecutor who hid evidence of his guilt, a bunch of corrupt forensic analysts that made up bullshit evidence he did it, and a bunch of corrupt cops that coerced witnesses into lying on the stand about what went on.
I'm for the death penalty in theory, but our law enforcement system is so rotten I no longer trust them to administer it in practice.
Because when you do that, the "patient" often twitches spasmodically during death. This doesn't bother them of course, since they're completely unconcious, but it might disturb the audience, and we would want people who were actually excited for the chance to see someone die to fell unhappy about their bloodlust, would we?
Cellphones on plane would be annoying, but as long as it's not dangerous, that's purely a business problem. The FCC shouldn't be getting involved with enforcing various people's aesthetics on others; that's not it's job.
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Perhaps if the region had not developed a reputation for constantly thumping their chests about how much more rugged and manly they are than people in the north, they'd get more sympathy from us. There was no small amount of mockery from those parts in 2012 when the Northeast freaked over Hurricane Sandy.
Well, payback is a dish best served artic cold.
Yes, some cities are making other arrangements because digging up the entire sewer system to modernize it is prohibitively expensive. But as the article indicates, only a small number of communities are doing so ("About 772 communities in the United States have combined sewer systems, serving about 40 million people"). No one is building new systems that way.
Even if your community is being force to treat its runoff, I'd wager the storm water is still arriving at the treatment plant via an entirely independent pipe system than the sanitary sewer. If not, then you ought to prosecute whoever was in charge of designing it because they were incompetent to the point of negligence.
That's because NYC's sewer system is so old that when it was originally built, there was no such thing as a sewage treatment plant. They could use one set of pipes because everything was just getting dumped into the harbor anyways. Now that they have plants, they retain a problem of having to dump untreated sewage in the harbor when the plants get overloaded during storms.
If your municipal water system was built after activated sludge control became common in the 1930s, storm water is probably handled separately from sanitary sewage.
Exactly the opposite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Combined sewer systems mostly predate the development of sewage treatment and only about 13% of the US is currently served by a system where sewage and storm water are sent through the same pipe. The remaining hold outs are largely being forced to separate their systems by the EPA to comply with the Clean Water Act.
Storm drains generally separate from the sewage system; the cost of treating hundreds of thousands of gallons of extra rainwater would bankrupt most communities. That's why it's usually illegal to dump waste into the storm drains.
How many test tubes did you need to add before your childhood chemistry set became self-aware?
We have one. You just replace the explosives with cement. 500 pound block of cement dropped from thousands of feet crushes the anti-aircraft gun with minimal damage to the surroundings:
http://www.technewsdaily.com/1...
The cigarette butts at least appears to be because the nicotine repels parasitic mites:
http://www.nature.com/news/cit...
Kind of like how the flu season peaked in February 2013, and now there will never be big flu outbreaks again.
I assumed they were referring to base exchanges
. If they're actually protesting hospitals in general, this makes it even more ridiculous.
Oh God! Not military hospitals! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
1. I disagree about Generations being awesome.
2. Into Darkness isn't a subtitle. Word of God is that JJ Abrams considers Trek a verb and as such Into Darkness is a prepositional phrase describing where they were starily trekking in the movie.
1. My point is not about how to teach someone how quicksort. It was refuting the commenters assertion that any code not understandble to regular people is bad code. Your quicksort.c file is not going to pick up a deck of cards and demonstrate what it's doing.
2. I'm betting that for 60% of the population out there, they still would not understand how quicksort works after your card demonstration.
Please demonstrate a basic sorting algorithm that a non-programmer can understand that doesn't perform terribly on large lists. You might be able to write a bubble or insertion sort that makes sense to a layman, but for the majority of the population something like mergesort, quicksort, or heapsort is going to seem like voodoo no matter how elegantly it is coded.
Microsoft Windows: the Star Trek movies of Operating Systems
The problem usually isn't getting 76% to agree, it's getting 76% to care enough to show up to the meeting and vote at all. Most homeowners don't go to HOA/COA meetings and in terms of changing covenants, an abstention is usually treated as a no vote.
It means that to afford a house, he had to move out into the middle of nowhere, but living in the middle of nowhere isn't cool, so he likes to pretend it's an urban area.
Yeah, I was trying to figure out what's wrong with Command Line Arguments.
His housing development probably isn't zoned for non-residential use like this.
How much magnesium/manganeese is in the metal the skycrane/parachute that delivered curiousity to mars was made out of?
His supposed victim anyways.
Given all the screwed up trials we've seen the last few years, it could be that this guy was railroaded by a corrupt prosecutor who hid evidence of his guilt, a bunch of corrupt forensic analysts that made up bullshit evidence he did it, and a bunch of corrupt cops that coerced witnesses into lying on the stand about what went on.
I'm for the death penalty in theory, but our law enforcement system is so rotten I no longer trust them to administer it in practice.
Because when you do that, the "patient" often twitches spasmodically during death. This doesn't bother them of course, since they're completely unconcious, but it might disturb the audience, and we would want people who were actually excited for the chance to see someone die to fell unhappy about their bloodlust, would we?
Cellphones on plane would be annoying, but as long as it's not dangerous, that's purely a business problem. The FCC shouldn't be getting involved with enforcing various people's aesthetics on others; that's not it's job.
Free, as in jury duty, apparently.