However, one of the possible outcomes of climate change is more extreme weather patterns.
I don't mean to come across as pedantic, but the issue with "climate change" is that we don't know what will happen.
Will we see more powerful storms? Will we see storms where we don't normally? Will we see more storms that are less powerful? Will we see fewer storms that are more powerful? Will we see stronger winds? More moisture?
And what does that mean to businesses? I want to build a factory near this river. I build it based on the local building codes which are based on the climate. Now, the snow that used to fall further north now falls as a mixture of snow and rain, meaning that the river is seeing more flood conditions than it used to. Suddenly, my factory is getting flooded every year.
Things that used to be somewhat predictable suddenly aren't. That makes things like insurance companies nervous--If I'm going to paying to clean up your factory after a flood, I'm basing your premiums on how often the area has flooded in the past. Now those numbers don't mean anything.
It's been years, but I believe NYC has an income tax.
Ages ago, I worked on payroll software in NYC. Of course, to test that I was doing things correctly, I used my own paycheck. I couldn't get it to balance out. Turned out my boss was taking NYC taxes out, even though I didn't actually live in NYC (I lived out on Long Island and took the train in). She calculated everything out for my co-worker, who lived in the city, and then just used the same numbers for me (since we were paid the same).
He was a little annoyed when I got a "raise" and he didn't...
I'm an old person. But back when I was a teenager, I used to record stuff off the radio to listen to--the AM Radio. Why? Because it's free. Yeah, the quality sucked. Yeah, I sometimes ended up with some DJ talking up the song. But I was willing to forgo all that because it was free.
Collecting minimal voter information that's already mostly [emph mine] public to see whether there might be a problem with illegal voting? EPIC can't allow that!
Yeah...it's that mostly part.
Start with an obvious one--why do they need the last four digits of my SSN?
Actually, some states have done audits. And they actually found a case of a dead guy voting. Turned out he mailed in his ballot but died before the election, when the votes are counted.
But other than that mildly amusing story, it all pretty much turned into a big nothingburger.
Well, if it works "really well" and that asteroid is knocked into a collision course with Earth, we could always do it again and knock it somewhere else.
I'm pretty sure that NASA is smart enough to swat it "away" from Earth so that, at the very least, they'd have sufficient time to swat it away again.
"Dammit, I care about legroom and service and all those things!" "Okay, are you willing to pay more for your ticket?" "Well...how much more?"
Yes, it's predominantly about price. You could fly first class everywhere, have plenty of legroom and great service.
The legroom thing in particular is hard to shop for. What does 48 inches of legroom mean to a person? 54 inches? Obviously 54 is more than 48, but is 48 comfortable? If 48 is comfortable then that is acceptable, but no airline on Earth allows you a "test fitting" anywhere for you to understand what that means to you.
Agreed. But look at "Economy Plus" seating on airlines. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm flying in mid-August and I still get messages from the airline telling me that for $40 more, I can upgrade to a seat with more legroom. I assume that they still have these seats open, which is why they're pushing it.
So, yeah, everybody cares. But nobody is willing to pay more money for the extra space. "That extra 6 inches of legroom will cost me $40? Uh...no thank you."
I know I sound like a United shill, but as I mentioned above, United has "Economy Plus" with more legroom. I booked a flight about a month ago and I'm still getting messages from United saying that for an extra $39.99, I can upgrade.
I assume that means that the seats aren't full. Of course, it's United, so they may already be triple booked.
If all of these people were interested in extra legroom, why are those seats with extra legroom still available?
Check out United. They have a set of "Economy Plus" seats---no, not just the ones by the exit door--which you can get for an extra $40 or so. They have a bit more legroom, but the left/right distance in the same (you so you still fight over the armrest).
Think of it this way--the last time you booked a flight, what was foremost in your mind? Was it legroom? Was it the quality of the snacks? Was it the inflight entertainment system?
Nope. It was "How much does this cost?" Price was the overriding factor. If Flight A was $40 cheaper than Flight B, you took Flight A. You bitched and moaned and complained about being stuck in like sardine, but you weren't going to pay the extra $40.
There are a lot of people who feel that way, which is why websites like Expedia have a "sort by price" and don't have a "sort by legroom."
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 – about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population.
See! It's not 1%! It's only 0.91% Big difference! Huge!
When you've got a hundred providers, who makes the rules? The provider. I suspect Mr Wheeler is being disingenuous here.
Speaking of being disingenuous...
When you've got a hundred providers, who makes the rules? The provider you choose. Which means that market forces will shape those rules, rather than one provider (who is interested in collecting the most money while doing as little work as possible) or "the gubmint."
I have talked with some of my neighbors about what it would take to form a co-op to provide the homes in our area with fibre optic service. We know that there several fibre backbones that pass not very far from us and if we pooled our resources then we could likely provide ourselves far better service than is currently available.
Why does this sound somewhat nefarious...
"Fred and Louise have the metal detector--they'll find exactly where the cables are run. Once we find them, Bob'll take his backhoe and dig a trench from there back to Audrey's barn. Nate and his kids will dig down to the cable. Mark, your job will be to use that blow torch to carefully> cut through the cement around the cables. Then I'll come in and splice our cable in. Any questions?"
I don't think that having it or not having it will result in big monopoly providers extending service to areas they view as unprofitable.
This is actually where I get grouchy about the monopoly aspect.
Okay, I'm granting you exclusive rights to provide service for this community. That means everybody--not just the easy ones. So they set their rates, make money, and then whine because "providing service to these outlying areas is expensive!"
And they can't use a test track to figure this out?
I have nothing against autonomous cars. But I'd rather my epitaph not be delivered by some software engineer: "Oops! I guess we have a bug." Sure, my next of kin may be able to collect big money from these companies. But I'd still rather not be dead.
And, frankly, I'd rather let my local government decide the testing criteria going on because that's where I live, walk, and drive.
They're making a regulatory framework that allows you to have an autonomous vehicle that works properly, that doesn't stop at the state border and tell you it can't drive into Illinois* because Illinois doesn't have laws that allow it to drive you around.
Ultimately, you are correct.
That said, I'm not convinced we're at that point, yet, where we really need one unified law so people can autopilot their Teslas across the country. I'd rather wait and see what the states come up with and then try to unify from there.
For example, the other night a friend of mine and I were going out to dinner and she suddenly asked, "What time does the restaurant close?" She immediately brought up a browser to look up the closing time. I just pulled out my iPhone, pressed a button, and said, "What time does The Fish Company close?" and had the correct answer while she was waiting for her browser to launch.
I could see the "always-on" nature being worthwhile, mostly for lists. Get up in the morning, go to brush your teeth, and notice that you're running low on toothpaste? "Hey, Alexa, add toothpaste to my shopping list." Problem solved.
Again, these things are convenient. Sure, I can look up restaurant hours in my browser. Sure, I can keep a list on a notebook--or in my phone--so that when I go to the supermarket, I can look at my list and pick up toothpaste. But it's more convenient to be able to ask the question and get the answer. And, at least among most people, convenience wins out.
It's kind of funny to watch the "Breaking News" glitches. Besides, years ago they invented this thing called "Fast Forward", so you can kind of scan the video for anything that looks amusing.
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However, one of the possible outcomes of climate change is more extreme weather patterns.
I don't mean to come across as pedantic, but the issue with "climate change" is that we don't know what will happen.
Will we see more powerful storms? Will we see storms where we don't normally? Will we see more storms that are less powerful? Will we see fewer storms that are more powerful? Will we see stronger winds? More moisture?
And what does that mean to businesses? I want to build a factory near this river. I build it based on the local building codes which are based on the climate. Now, the snow that used to fall further north now falls as a mixture of snow and rain, meaning that the river is seeing more flood conditions than it used to. Suddenly, my factory is getting flooded every year.
Things that used to be somewhat predictable suddenly aren't. That makes things like insurance companies nervous--If I'm going to paying to clean up your factory after a flood, I'm basing your premiums on how often the area has flooded in the past. Now those numbers don't mean anything.
Humans are the most virulent form of disease.
Meet the cure.
It's been years, but I believe NYC has an income tax.
Ages ago, I worked on payroll software in NYC. Of course, to test that I was doing things correctly, I used my own paycheck. I couldn't get it to balance out. Turned out my boss was taking NYC taxes out, even though I didn't actually live in NYC (I lived out on Long Island and took the train in). She calculated everything out for my co-worker, who lived in the city, and then just used the same numbers for me (since we were paid the same).
He was a little annoyed when I got a "raise" and he didn't...
Actually, as I understand it, he's he's already filmed his cameos for the MCU.
I think that's Jaguar.
Hey, if you've got money coming out the wazoo, you should do something with it.
At least according to E-Trade.
Depends.
I'm an old person. But back when I was a teenager, I used to record stuff off the radio to listen to--the AM Radio. Why? Because it's free. Yeah, the quality sucked. Yeah, I sometimes ended up with some DJ talking up the song. But I was willing to forgo all that because it was free.
I assume it's a similar thing here.
Collecting minimal voter information that's already mostly [emph mine] public to see whether there might be a problem with illegal voting? EPIC can't allow that!
Yeah...it's that mostly part.
Start with an obvious one--why do they need the last four digits of my SSN?
2. You'll find a lot of dead voters still voting.
Actually, some states have done audits. And they actually found a case of a dead guy voting. Turned out he mailed in his ballot but died before the election, when the votes are counted.
But other than that mildly amusing story, it all pretty much turned into a big nothingburger.
Well, if it works "really well" and that asteroid is knocked into a collision course with Earth, we could always do it again and knock it somewhere else.
I'm pretty sure that NASA is smart enough to swat it "away" from Earth so that, at the very least, they'd have sufficient time to swat it away again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
"Dammit, I care about legroom and service and all those things!"
"Okay, are you willing to pay more for your ticket?"
"Well...how much more?"
Yes, it's predominantly about price. You could fly first class everywhere, have plenty of legroom and great service.
The legroom thing in particular is hard to shop for. What does 48 inches of legroom mean to a person? 54 inches? Obviously 54 is more than 48, but is 48 comfortable? If 48 is comfortable then that is acceptable, but no airline on Earth allows you a "test fitting" anywhere for you to understand what that means to you.
Agreed. But look at "Economy Plus" seating on airlines. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm flying in mid-August and I still get messages from the airline telling me that for $40 more, I can upgrade to a seat with more legroom. I assume that they still have these seats open, which is why they're pushing it.
So, yeah, everybody cares. But nobody is willing to pay more money for the extra space. "That extra 6 inches of legroom will cost me $40? Uh...no thank you."
I know I sound like a United shill, but as I mentioned above, United has "Economy Plus" with more legroom. I booked a flight about a month ago and I'm still getting messages from United saying that for an extra $39.99, I can upgrade.
I assume that means that the seats aren't full. Of course, it's United, so they may already be triple booked.
If all of these people were interested in extra legroom, why are those seats with extra legroom still available?
Check out United. They have a set of "Economy Plus" seats---no, not just the ones by the exit door--which you can get for an extra $40 or so. They have a bit more legroom, but the left/right distance in the same (you so you still fight over the armrest).
It's all about price.
Think of it this way--the last time you booked a flight, what was foremost in your mind? Was it legroom? Was it the quality of the snacks? Was it the inflight entertainment system?
Nope. It was "How much does this cost?" Price was the overriding factor. If Flight A was $40 cheaper than Flight B, you took Flight A. You bitched and moaned and complained about being stuck in like sardine, but you weren't going to pay the extra $40.
There are a lot of people who feel that way, which is why websites like Expedia have a "sort by price" and don't have a "sort by legroom."
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 – about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population.
See! It's not 1%! It's only 0.91% Big difference! Huge!
God made it.
When you've got a hundred providers, who makes the rules? The provider. I suspect Mr Wheeler is being disingenuous here.
Speaking of being disingenuous...
When you've got a hundred providers, who makes the rules? The provider you choose. Which means that market forces will shape those rules, rather than one provider (who is interested in collecting the most money while doing as little work as possible) or "the gubmint."
A city or county would have to decide to build an entire broadband network out of pocket and then force [emph mine] the ISPs to use it.
Yeah...I'm sure they'd have a hard time doing that.
"We'll take care of all the wires and the expensive part. You just have to provide your service on our wires."
I have talked with some of my neighbors about what it would take to form a co-op to provide the homes in our area with fibre optic service. We know that there several fibre backbones that pass not very far from us and if we pooled our resources then we could likely provide ourselves far better service than is currently available.
Why does this sound somewhat nefarious...
"Fred and Louise have the metal detector--they'll find exactly where the cables are run. Once we find them, Bob'll take his backhoe and dig a trench from there back to Audrey's barn. Nate and his kids will dig down to the cable. Mark, your job will be to use that blow torch to carefully> cut through the cement around the cables. Then I'll come in and splice our cable in. Any questions?"
I don't think that having it or not having it will result in big monopoly providers extending service to areas they view as unprofitable.
This is actually where I get grouchy about the monopoly aspect.
Okay, I'm granting you exclusive rights to provide service for this community. That means everybody--not just the easy ones. So they set their rates, make money, and then whine because "providing service to these outlying areas is expensive!"
And they can't use a test track to figure this out?
I have nothing against autonomous cars. But I'd rather my epitaph not be delivered by some software engineer: "Oops! I guess we have a bug." Sure, my next of kin may be able to collect big money from these companies. But I'd still rather not be dead.
And, frankly, I'd rather let my local government decide the testing criteria going on because that's where I live, walk, and drive.
They're making a regulatory framework that allows you to have an autonomous vehicle that works properly, that doesn't stop at the state border and tell you it can't drive into Illinois* because Illinois doesn't have laws that allow it to drive you around.
Ultimately, you are correct.
That said, I'm not convinced we're at that point, yet, where we really need one unified law so people can autopilot their Teslas across the country. I'd rather wait and see what the states come up with and then try to unify from there.
I'm not sure there's a huge hurry here.
I made a basic 3D model a few weeks ago and it took about half an hour to do a decent quality render on my moderately powerful desktop.
Obligatory Dilbert. It's a pretty old strip, so you might replace 286 PC with iPad...
Well, they can be convenient for certain things.
For example, the other night a friend of mine and I were going out to dinner and she suddenly asked, "What time does the restaurant close?" She immediately brought up a browser to look up the closing time. I just pulled out my iPhone, pressed a button, and said, "What time does The Fish Company close?" and had the correct answer while she was waiting for her browser to launch.
I could see the "always-on" nature being worthwhile, mostly for lists. Get up in the morning, go to brush your teeth, and notice that you're running low on toothpaste? "Hey, Alexa, add toothpaste to my shopping list." Problem solved.
Again, these things are convenient. Sure, I can look up restaurant hours in my browser. Sure, I can keep a list on a notebook--or in my phone--so that when I go to the supermarket, I can look at my list and pick up toothpaste. But it's more convenient to be able to ask the question and get the answer. And, at least among most people, convenience wins out.
I assume you have. So go ahead and give us your experience.
When my father started a business at home, the only issue he ran into was zoning--namely the size of his sign.
It's kind of funny to watch the "Breaking News" glitches. Besides, years ago they invented this thing called "Fast Forward", so you can kind of scan the video for anything that looks amusing.