Cities do need to do some things. Citywide wireless is not on that list of things. Nor is a health club. Nor...
If you want them, remove the barriers to private companies providing it. Sure it will take a little longer at first, but if the private company does a bad job people can switch. (Unless you stupidly give them a monopoly like most phone and cable companies have) Don't make me pay for your health club even though I get my exercise elsewhere. Don't make me pay for broadband that doesn't meet my needs.
The government is carefully controlling how much they print. Keynes wrote it all down, and the government carefully controls how much is printed. When someone conterfits money they are messing with the careful controls in ways that are not known in advance. This can lead to recessions. Mind the government doesn't always do a good job, but if they are the only ones printing money they can at least take the blame for it. In the US Alan Greenspan is the major power behind thing. Other countries have their own guy(s) in change.
Note that I tend to prefer the Austrian school of economics view of things which conflicts with the above in some ways.
I've been working with CDs and DVDs a lot lately. (My day job is writing backup software) A large portion of the media I have fails within just a few months. Not everything, but just one unreadable sector is enough to cause problems.
Therefore I have to reccomend that you make several backups of everything important. Note however that important doesn't mean everything. You can download linux from anywhere, save the pictures. (though family and friends can get you copies of many of them too) IF you have any open source software, just post the patch, with a note that it isn't complete but just in case you die in the hurricane.
Not true, there are hurricanes in Wisconson and Minnesota. Of course by the time they make it even the worst of them are minor storms, less powerful than a normal summer thunderstorm. If it wasn't for the weathermen looking for trivia like hurricanes to try to make things interesting we would never know.
There are worse things than saying something positive about the Vikings, you slip in something positive about the packers for instance.
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I'd be more worried if they called it tamper proof. Nothing is perfect, but when you call it perfect people tend to treat it as perfect, while when you call it pretty good people tend to use a little care.
Unsinkable ships sink. The classical example is the Titanic, the captin could have gone around that iceberg, but it is generally believed he didn't consider it an issue as the ship couldn't sink anyway. (note, I don't know if this is true... icebergs are hard to avoid as they are mostly underware)
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"friend of a friend of a friend" did...
I've heard of more than once case of someone running a wire to the line with a (normal pole mounted type) transformer hidden in the attic. Not just illegal, but also very dangerous.
Snopes.com is silent on this, so I don't know what to think. I tend to belive it though, people are stupid enough to try it even though it could kill you.
Maybe in general, but this isn't true in my family. Both my sisters are color blind. So is my dad, my brother, and I. My mom isn't. What is interesting is that dad and my brother are about equal, unable to tell red from green, while my 2 sisters and I can tell there is a difference except in subtile things. (Well as far as I can tell, in any case when given yarn tests we get them right most of the time, while my bother doesn't)
APC has a nice trade in program, take ANY UPS, send it in, and get a nice discount on a new one. Check their website out for details. (I'm sure their comptition has something too)
Now I'm sure you are still paying more than just batteries. However you get a system that is designed to work, with electronics that are not used and have no seen some unknown number of surges. You don't take a chance that the charger is broken (which may or may not break the batteries)
If you really must go cheap, inverters are getting really cheap, connect a few batteries to an inverter with a standard battery charger. You don't get monitoring, but you know when the lights go out, plus you have a lot more runtime. For extra points you can make your charger a solar system and run your computers off the grid. (Note, to get a system that doesn't waste a lot of energy you must to some research, but this theory will work)
Two problems: first of all, there are too many deer in the world. In many places if hunters do not kill enough they will litterally eat all their winter food before the winter is over and starve to death! Ask a biologist who knows, it happens. (The whole herd starves, because all the deer eat until they run out, deer aren't smart enough to sacrafice a few so the rest survive)
Second, I like to eat. I like to eat deer in fact, it is generally healthier than beef. (essentially fat free) What difference does it make if I eat deer or a cow? Both are food.
Deer are tougher to kill than humans, or so I'm led to belive. (I don't know anyone with personal experience) That said, while I suppose a bullet that could kill a deer without going through a armor vest, but it would be a long, cruel, painful death for the deer, and likely would spoil a lot of the meat. In other words worse than useless for deer hunting even if it works.
In 50 years historians will be able to judge. Today they are unable to because they do not have the data they need. There is a reason they are called historians: they study history, not current events. They can get good results, but not until all the data is in, until then we have to work with not enough information and make a good guess.
The others can say anything they want. The fact is there is someone else who will disagree no matter what their side. Which economists are you asking? The marxists, the Austrian's, the Keyneses (or some other branch I've forgotten)? Which political scientist are you asking, the Marxist, the Libertarians, the Anarchists (Or anything mainstream that I can't recall the name to at the moment)? Even when they do happen to agree, their reasons for the position will be wildly different.
I'm amazed at how well the war/occupation is going. Few deaths, things getting into place, even signs that the occupation will end soon. (already we are not governing, though we have picked the government)
Every emergency room I know of would prefer to treat an allergic reaction to treating complete loss of blood. Allergies are serious, but the odds of surviving even the worst cases when you are in the hospital are much higher than the odds of surviving loss of most of your blood.
Sure, you will find a lot of them on the list. If you pick a book at random, you have about a 50% chance of reading one of the finest books ever written in the English language. You have about a 25% chance of getting a book that is a waste of a tree with the only goal to offend people. Thats not bad odds. (the other 25% are just books, there are better ones out there, I didn't like them but that is my taste)
Thats fine for now, but 500 years from now all people will have are accounts of the holocaust. Today I can still find a few people (if I look) who were there are nearly died themselves. My many times great grandchildren won't have that ability. In fact the holocaust will be barely more than a footnote in their history book. So when those people start researching, how will they know what happened?
This is real enough, Christians have many gospels to choose from as well as the 4 cananical ones. Some were written by someone who was there, most are fakes from long after. How do we choose? How do we even know that the 4 chosen are the right ones?
If you have two monitors you will be unable to go back to one. KVMs have their place, but if you have two monitors as well as two computers, then KVMs are the wrong solution.
Not true. There are companies that won't hire you of course, so you have limited yourself that way. However there are also many companies that not only will hire you, will hire you for more because you are proven honest! I've known a couple people that this happened to. (they weren't asked to do anything illegal, but it was unethical and might have allowed others to hide illegal activies though they weren't sure if any happened).
So? Once you reach a 6th grade reading level in English you are able to communicate all normal topics. Anything beyond a 6th grade reading level is focused on specific fields that most people don't have to deal with. I can read beyond a 6th grade level if the topic is computers, but I'm lost above the 6th grade level in medician.
Slashdot is written at a 6th grade level or below, by the posters, most of whom consider themselves well educated. There is no need to do more because a 6th grade level is up to the task of communication, A 4th grade reading level is not.
I'm told that for languages like Chinese and Japanese (where symbols represent words instead of sounds) a 9th grade reading level is not enough to communicate despite those people spending more time learning to read. (I have no way of verifying it, but I'll belive it) I wouldn't be surprized if a language like Spanish (one symbol per sound, no overloading like English has) can get by on a lower grade level standard reading.
That isn't a good idea. He is looking for a chair to sit in for 12 hours a day, 5(7?) days a week. 10 seconds per chair isn't enough to know which will work. Indeed a chair that is uncomfortable for 10 seconds may come out best after 12 hours! (unlikely, but how do you know?)
So ask them. Right out on the first day of class ask why you need that expensive new book. In fact don't buy your books until AFTER the first class, more than once I was told (before I asked...) that the older edition was just as good, if we could find it, the only difference was the page numbers, the price (more than double), and the color of the front cover. Course the bookstore didn't have it, but perhaps you could have found it. In another case I was told that I wouldn't need several of the books on the list.
Oh, and you know those evaluation forms at the end of class. Make sure you complain about the cost of text books there. In most cases the department chooses between one of several books. Make sure they know they are being rated down because of cost!
Depends... If you work in the a financial industry you are required by law to have non-eraseable backsup of all email for 7 years. Course if you really were in the industry you would know that, and also know all the little details and exceptions that I'm gonna hand wave over.
Nothing about being third. However last election there were over 1000 different people running for president, as in making an active attempt at getting on the ballot (not all got on of course, but if you figure all the people on various ballots you are looking at close to 100 different candidates to choose from. (only about 5 were on enough ballots that they could in theory win)
Don't overlook the write in vote. If nobody is worth voting for, a write in for yourself at least says you care enough to vote even though nobody was worth your vote. I keep hearing about disenfranchised voters, but I don't belive it, if they cared they would at least vote for themselves. They are voters who don't care, though the right candidate could convince them. (note that convincing these voters generally has little to do with what you will do politically as far as I can tell, so I'd prefer they stay home and let those who care how the candidates would run the country do the voting)
It isn't just the republicans, it is BOTH parties. They exact methods are slightly different, but they are both taking away your rights as fast as they can. Once in a while they fight for (and sometimes win) back a right that the other "evil" party took. Doesn't change the fact that both are doing it.
Vote for a third party. Lesser evils are still evil.
Heh? how would I recognize senator Kennedy? I've never seen him. I've MET representative Kennedy (no relation between the two, and politically close to opposites) and I still wouldn't recognize him.
These are just people, just like any other of the millions of people I meet every day. Some idiots, some smart. They all make mistakes. They are not kings, I don't bow down to them.
I'm sure there is a recruiter office near your house, walk in and tell them you want to sign up. They have to run some tests, and there is a bunch of paper work, but they need people so they will help you. Tell them you want to clear mine fields, and they will put you in a mind field and tell you to clear it.
Note that minesweeper is not a particularly good simulation of the work you will be done, but if you apply logic it will help.
I do live near a nuclear power plant. Just 5 miles away is a nice clean nuclear power plant. Most people in my town know it is close by, but when asked where point to the coal power plant 15 miles away.
So lets compare the two. The nuclear power plant pays a lot of taxes to my town, while the coal plant pays their taxes to a different town. Thats the most obvious difference. The coal power plant is one of the dirties in the nation, spewing tons of hazardous waste into the air every year. (mercury, uranium, and other things you don't want to breath or get into your water go up the chiney) The nuclear plant has a few waste casks on site, holding the waste until we get around to recycling it. (all the waste is recycleable so I oppose plans to dump it into the ground)
You can draw your own conclusions. Personally I'd like to shut down the coal power plant. I like to eat fish, yet due to mercury I have to limit my intake.
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Cities do need to do some things. Citywide wireless is not on that list of things. Nor is a health club. Nor...
If you want them, remove the barriers to private companies providing it. Sure it will take a little longer at first, but if the private company does a bad job people can switch. (Unless you stupidly give them a monopoly like most phone and cable companies have) Don't make me pay for your health club even though I get my exercise elsewhere. Don't make me pay for broadband that doesn't meet my needs.
The government is carefully controlling how much they print. Keynes wrote it all down, and the government carefully controls how much is printed. When someone conterfits money they are messing with the careful controls in ways that are not known in advance. This can lead to recessions. Mind the government doesn't always do a good job, but if they are the only ones printing money they can at least take the blame for it. In the US Alan Greenspan is the major power behind thing. Other countries have their own guy(s) in change.
Note that I tend to prefer the Austrian school of economics view of things which conflicts with the above in some ways.
I've been working with CDs and DVDs a lot lately. (My day job is writing backup software) A large portion of the media I have fails within just a few months. Not everything, but just one unreadable sector is enough to cause problems.
Therefore I have to reccomend that you make several backups of everything important. Note however that important doesn't mean everything. You can download linux from anywhere, save the pictures. (though family and friends can get you copies of many of them too) IF you have any open source software, just post the patch, with a note that it isn't complete but just in case you die in the hurricane.
Not true, there are hurricanes in Wisconson and Minnesota. Of course by the time they make it even the worst of them are minor storms, less powerful than a normal summer thunderstorm. If it wasn't for the weathermen looking for trivia like hurricanes to try to make things interesting we would never know.
There are worse things than saying something positive about the Vikings, you slip in something positive about the packers for instance.
I'd be more worried if they called it tamper proof. Nothing is perfect, but when you call it perfect people tend to treat it as perfect, while when you call it pretty good people tend to use a little care.
Unsinkable ships sink. The classical example is the Titanic, the captin could have gone around that iceberg, but it is generally believed he didn't consider it an issue as the ship couldn't sink anyway. (note, I don't know if this is true... icebergs are hard to avoid as they are mostly underware)
"friend of a friend of a friend" did...
I've heard of more than once case of someone running a wire to the line with a (normal pole mounted type) transformer hidden in the attic. Not just illegal, but also very dangerous.
Snopes.com is silent on this, so I don't know what to think. I tend to belive it though, people are stupid enough to try it even though it could kill you.
Maybe in general, but this isn't true in my family. Both my sisters are color blind. So is my dad, my brother, and I. My mom isn't. What is interesting is that dad and my brother are about equal, unable to tell red from green, while my 2 sisters and I can tell there is a difference except in subtile things. (Well as far as I can tell, in any case when given yarn tests we get them right most of the time, while my bother doesn't)
I'm not sure what this means.
APC has a nice trade in program, take ANY UPS, send it in, and get a nice discount on a new one. Check their website out for details. (I'm sure their comptition has something too)
Now I'm sure you are still paying more than just batteries. However you get a system that is designed to work, with electronics that are not used and have no seen some unknown number of surges. You don't take a chance that the charger is broken (which may or may not break the batteries)
If you really must go cheap, inverters are getting really cheap, connect a few batteries to an inverter with a standard battery charger. You don't get monitoring, but you know when the lights go out, plus you have a lot more runtime. For extra points you can make your charger a solar system and run your computers off the grid. (Note, to get a system that doesn't waste a lot of energy you must to some research, but this theory will work)
Two problems: first of all, there are too many deer in the world. In many places if hunters do not kill enough they will litterally eat all their winter food before the winter is over and starve to death! Ask a biologist who knows, it happens. (The whole herd starves, because all the deer eat until they run out, deer aren't smart enough to sacrafice a few so the rest survive)
Second, I like to eat. I like to eat deer in fact, it is generally healthier than beef. (essentially fat free) What difference does it make if I eat deer or a cow? Both are food.
Deer are tougher to kill than humans, or so I'm led to belive. (I don't know anyone with personal experience) That said, while I suppose a bullet that could kill a deer without going through a armor vest, but it would be a long, cruel, painful death for the deer, and likely would spoil a lot of the meat. In other words worse than useless for deer hunting even if it works.
In 50 years historians will be able to judge. Today they are unable to because they do not have the data they need. There is a reason they are called historians: they study history, not current events. They can get good results, but not until all the data is in, until then we have to work with not enough information and make a good guess.
The others can say anything they want. The fact is there is someone else who will disagree no matter what their side. Which economists are you asking? The marxists, the Austrian's, the Keyneses (or some other branch I've forgotten)? Which political scientist are you asking, the Marxist, the Libertarians, the Anarchists (Or anything mainstream that I can't recall the name to at the moment)? Even when they do happen to agree, their reasons for the position will be wildly different.
I'm amazed at how well the war/occupation is going. Few deaths, things getting into place, even signs that the occupation will end soon. (already we are not governing, though we have picked the government)
Every emergency room I know of would prefer to treat an allergic reaction to treating complete loss of blood. Allergies are serious, but the odds of surviving even the worst cases when you are in the hospital are much higher than the odds of surviving loss of most of your blood.
Sure, you will find a lot of them on the list. If you pick a book at random, you have about a 50% chance of reading one of the finest books ever written in the English language. You have about a 25% chance of getting a book that is a waste of a tree with the only goal to offend people. Thats not bad odds. (the other 25% are just books, there are better ones out there, I didn't like them but that is my taste)
Thats fine for now, but 500 years from now all people will have are accounts of the holocaust. Today I can still find a few people (if I look) who were there are nearly died themselves. My many times great grandchildren won't have that ability. In fact the holocaust will be barely more than a footnote in their history book. So when those people start researching, how will they know what happened?
This is real enough, Christians have many gospels to choose from as well as the 4 cananical ones. Some were written by someone who was there, most are fakes from long after. How do we choose? How do we even know that the 4 chosen are the right ones?
If you have two monitors you will be unable to go back to one. KVMs have their place, but if you have two monitors as well as two computers, then KVMs are the wrong solution.
Not true. There are companies that won't hire you of course, so you have limited yourself that way. However there are also many companies that not only will hire you, will hire you for more because you are proven honest! I've known a couple people that this happened to. (they weren't asked to do anything illegal, but it was unethical and might have allowed others to hide illegal activies though they weren't sure if any happened).
So? Once you reach a 6th grade reading level in English you are able to communicate all normal topics. Anything beyond a 6th grade reading level is focused on specific fields that most people don't have to deal with. I can read beyond a 6th grade level if the topic is computers, but I'm lost above the 6th grade level in medician.
Slashdot is written at a 6th grade level or below, by the posters, most of whom consider themselves well educated. There is no need to do more because a 6th grade level is up to the task of communication, A 4th grade reading level is not.
I'm told that for languages like Chinese and Japanese (where symbols represent words instead of sounds) a 9th grade reading level is not enough to communicate despite those people spending more time learning to read. (I have no way of verifying it, but I'll belive it) I wouldn't be surprized if a language like Spanish (one symbol per sound, no overloading like English has) can get by on a lower grade level standard reading.
In short: 6th grade reading level is standard.
That isn't a good idea. He is looking for a chair to sit in for 12 hours a day, 5(7?) days a week. 10 seconds per chair isn't enough to know which will work. Indeed a chair that is uncomfortable for 10 seconds may come out best after 12 hours! (unlikely, but how do you know?)
So ask them. Right out on the first day of class ask why you need that expensive new book. In fact don't buy your books until AFTER the first class, more than once I was told (before I asked...) that the older edition was just as good, if we could find it, the only difference was the page numbers, the price (more than double), and the color of the front cover. Course the bookstore didn't have it, but perhaps you could have found it. In another case I was told that I wouldn't need several of the books on the list.
Oh, and you know those evaluation forms at the end of class. Make sure you complain about the cost of text books there. In most cases the department chooses between one of several books. Make sure they know they are being rated down because of cost!
Depends... If you work in the a financial industry you are required by law to have non-eraseable backsup of all email for 7 years. Course if you really were in the industry you would know that, and also know all the little details and exceptions that I'm gonna hand wave over.
Nothing about being third. However last election there were over 1000 different people running for president, as in making an active attempt at getting on the ballot (not all got on of course, but if you figure all the people on various ballots you are looking at close to 100 different candidates to choose from. (only about 5 were on enough ballots that they could in theory win)
Don't overlook the write in vote. If nobody is worth voting for, a write in for yourself at least says you care enough to vote even though nobody was worth your vote. I keep hearing about disenfranchised voters, but I don't belive it, if they cared they would at least vote for themselves. They are voters who don't care, though the right candidate could convince them. (note that convincing these voters generally has little to do with what you will do politically as far as I can tell, so I'd prefer they stay home and let those who care how the candidates would run the country do the voting)
It isn't just the republicans, it is BOTH parties. They exact methods are slightly different, but they are both taking away your rights as fast as they can. Once in a while they fight for (and sometimes win) back a right that the other "evil" party took. Doesn't change the fact that both are doing it.
Vote for a third party. Lesser evils are still evil.
Heh? how would I recognize senator Kennedy? I've never seen him. I've MET representative Kennedy (no relation between the two, and politically close to opposites) and I still wouldn't recognize him.
These are just people, just like any other of the millions of people I meet every day. Some idiots, some smart. They all make mistakes. They are not kings, I don't bow down to them.
I'm sure there is a recruiter office near your house, walk in and tell them you want to sign up. They have to run some tests, and there is a bunch of paper work, but they need people so they will help you. Tell them you want to clear mine fields, and they will put you in a mind field and tell you to clear it.
Note that minesweeper is not a particularly good simulation of the work you will be done, but if you apply logic it will help.
I do live near a nuclear power plant. Just 5 miles away is a nice clean nuclear power plant. Most people in my town know it is close by, but when asked where point to the coal power plant 15 miles away.
So lets compare the two. The nuclear power plant pays a lot of taxes to my town, while the coal plant pays their taxes to a different town. Thats the most obvious difference. The coal power plant is one of the dirties in the nation, spewing tons of hazardous waste into the air every year. (mercury, uranium, and other things you don't want to breath or get into your water go up the chiney) The nuclear plant has a few waste casks on site, holding the waste until we get around to recycling it. (all the waste is recycleable so I oppose plans to dump it into the ground)
You can draw your own conclusions. Personally I'd like to shut down the coal power plant. I like to eat fish, yet due to mercury I have to limit my intake.