Middle class means different things in different places. In the bay area, you nearly need a 6 figure income to be middle class. In rural Arkansas, the median wage might be $20k a year, which makes these very much middle class jobs. In Mexico, these wages would be considered very generous.
The article is about how the 2nd largest employer is a temp agency, which largely exist to make it easy for companies to hire and fire people quickly.
At the manufacturing plants that I have worked at they all use temp agencies such as Kelly to handle peaks and dips in activity. The smart plant managers try to keep core people as employees to reduce turnover.
Cops around here have a dash cam that can show the image in the cabin. This is useful at night with low light or to verify the framing of the video. Your glaring plate is going to be a cop magnet, causing a lot of law enforcement attention. If enough people do it, or you are a big enough dick about it you can bet the law will be updated.
I think a better approach is to fight the routine collection of data instead of trying to figure out a stopgap workaround.
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Waves have some complex behavior. There are ocean swells coming from various directions which can interact with each other, giving constructive and destructive interference. There are also locally generated wind wave effects which interact with the swells. All of this is interacting with previous waves backward motion. On a particular day at a particular area you might be getting 5' breakers on average, but they will vary from nearly nothing to occasional 8' waves. It wasn't uncommon to see the occasional monster wave, double or more the average.
The used phone doesn't come with a 2 year contract. To many people that is worth paying more up front. I've bought used android phones that I use without a data plan, pretty sweet to get a GPS with navigation, handheld computer, camera, flashlight, bubble level, etc. for $30 with no monthly charges.
"Less evolved" is complicated. What do you measure? Physical complexity of the specimen? length of known family tree? Number of genes? Number of generations? Plus, everything is furiously exchanging DNA all the time with bacteria and viruses.
I suspect bacteria or fungi are highly evolved if you count number of generations. They evolve more in a day than long lived creatures do in years, although you couldn't possibly separate their genes.
It isn't hard to think of examples. Imagine a system that at the click of a button would create a porn website, fill it with stolen content, set up offshore banking, send millions of spam emails, blog posts, etc. Very good user experience, very bad rest of society experience.
It's a scary and exciting time. It's becoming easy to do all sorts of complex stuff automatically and this is an ethical debate that is going to come up. I don't think we can dodge the issue, if a particular person doesn't build this thing somebody else will.
What's going to happen when your optical implant gives a complete dossier on everybody you see on the street?
You're looking at it too narrowly. Ads are valuable because they drive sales. If there are secret uncounted viewers it makes the ads work better. The advertiser would then be willing to pay more. It's further complicated by the fact that many ads are local, viewers in texas are no use to a car dealership in NY.
I agree that throwing bourbon on someone isn't a great way to set them on fire, but I wanted to clarify on the flammability of ethanol.
EtOH / H2O mixtures have a flash point well within normal temperatures. You can set table wine on fire if you leave it in the sun for an hour to warm it up. Regular vodka burns at 79F which is not a pleasant temperature to drink vodka at, but you won't need a skillet. Conversely, ice cold everclear won't burn until it warms up to 63F.
Fascinating stuff! I love how it needs to be warmer to burn at 12.5% than 10% concentration.
10% — 49 C (120 F)
12.5% — about 52 C (126 F)
20% — 36 C (97 F)
30% — 29 C (84 F)
40% — 26 C (79 F)
50% — 24 C (75 F)
60% — 22 C (72 F)
70% — 21 C (70 F)
80% — 20 C (68 F)
90% — 17 C (63 F)
96% — 17 C (63 F)
Anytime I hear that tone I erase the number from my contacts. Have you noticed that you receive less calls in general since you started using this greeting?
You're OK with paying more than you need to? It makes me angry that the credit cards are siphoning off several percent of our economy. They bought off politicians and passed crooked laws making it illegal to offer cash discounts or to charge extra to cover their fees, knowing that consumers won't care if it is hidden from them.
There are numerous programs for free cremation for whole body donation. There is a grisly one around here where they harvest all the medically useful parts such as skin, bones, etc. and then cremate what is left over. It's about 20 lbs, often less.
I think it makes a lot of sense. Nobody is using the body anymore, why not put it to use? Why not spare the estate the cost of cremation?
I've noticed that people who use moisturizer regularly blow through keyboards like crazy. I think the oils are slightly corrosive to the plastic and the ink. Our receptionist uses her keyboard less than anyone else around here, and her keyboards barely last a few months before many of the keys have no legible text and are pitted and eroding. Meanwhile I hammer 140WPM all day long on my $10 3 year old thing that looks like new.
It was for an application that was targeting 35F (I didn't pick the units) and I couldn't understand why if it overshot it would keep the compressor running, this only happened when the system was not loaded. Then it struck me that something special might be happening at 0C and that turned out to be the problem. It seemed humorous that in this one narrow instance Fahrenheit was the less difficult unit to use.
Celcius is such BS. 0 and 100 are too hard to remember. Give me good old 32 and 212 or whatever they are at sea level.
Seriously, I was programming some temperature sensors and ran into some overflow error due to negative temperatures. For that application Fahrenheit would have not failed.
Capacitors should outlast the equipment they are in. There was a problem with poor quality Taiwanese capacitors that exploded after a few months/years, but that isn't an inherent problem with the technology.
I've had to replace batteries many times, they fail more quickly in general than capacitors.
You may find your perspective changes when people you care about die. What they're doing now is pretty uninteresting and generally less than before. The past is all there is of them. When that happens it may be good to have a few photos or scribblings.
I used Backup Exec for many years and never had any complaints about it. It was tricky to get the tape and library drivers right (don't use the manufacturer's ones, use Backup Exec's) but once I got everything humming it worked great. I set up daily, weekly, monthly, and manual backups and managed tape rotations. I kept a set of onsite disk backups so I could restore files deleted in error quickly, and the software would automatically overwrite the oldest ones with no oversight. I spent very little time administering it, and restored countless files as well as one entire server no sweat.
Now we're forced to use Networker. I'm not impressed so far, stuff that was intuitive before now requires me to look up how to do it. I've also run into a bug where it appears to be running a restore but in reality will never complete. No error message.
Some mechanics like to disconnect the battery before doing much of anything, and some procedures indicate this. If your wrench slips or you find some bad insulation and smash a live wire into the frame you might blow a fuse or waste a fusable link.
I know what you mean about stereos. I think part of it is how good and customized stock stereos have gotten, there just isn't much demand for a used stereo that probably won't fit your car properly.
I left my blackberry in my car and somebody smashed the window and left another one next to it.
What a humorous example! I've run into numerous stereos that have an antitheft feature where it requires a code after losing power. Some dealerships will provide the code for free, most won't. The real bad ones demand that you bring the car in for service and pay an hour of labor. Sometimes the code was provided to the original owner of the car, sometimes not. Good luck finding it, you're not supposed to keep it in the car.
BTW, I've seen manufacturer's procedures for changing spark plugs call for disconnecting the battery. You'd literally have to phone them and re-activate your stereo every time you replaced your plugs. This has been going on since the 90s, and it is obvious you've never heard of it.
That isn't true for everyone. I know a lot of people who only have one option. If my line of sight was blocked I'd have exactly one potential tv provider, and blocked line of sight is common in my area. For internet, I have precisely two choices: The cable monopoly and the bastard step-grandpa of US West, whoever they are this year. CenturyLink (had to look it up)
Plain internet is $50 and up, and I am envious of people I know who live somewhere with competition.
I have one choice for tv, one choice for a landline, and two choices for internet which both conveniently charge the same inflated price. That is close enough to a monopoly to give them monopoly pricing on most of their services.
There are a lot of smartphones with FM tuners. Here is a review of several phones with tuners.
It isn't a feature that is important to most users, so the mobile providers and handset makers don't really emphasize it. If it matters to you, it isn't hard to track down a handset that has a tuner.
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Middle class means different things in different places. In the bay area, you nearly need a 6 figure income to be middle class. In rural Arkansas, the median wage might be $20k a year, which makes these very much middle class jobs. In Mexico, these wages would be considered very generous.
The article is about how the 2nd largest employer is a temp agency, which largely exist to make it easy for companies to hire and fire people quickly.
At the manufacturing plants that I have worked at they all use temp agencies such as Kelly to handle peaks and dips in activity. The smart plant managers try to keep core people as employees to reduce turnover.
Cops around here have a dash cam that can show the image in the cabin. This is useful at night with low light or to verify the framing of the video. Your glaring plate is going to be a cop magnet, causing a lot of law enforcement attention. If enough people do it, or you are a big enough dick about it you can bet the law will be updated.
I think a better approach is to fight the routine collection of data instead of trying to figure out a stopgap workaround.
Waves have some complex behavior. There are ocean swells coming from various directions which can interact with each other, giving constructive and destructive interference. There are also locally generated wind wave effects which interact with the swells. All of this is interacting with previous waves backward motion. On a particular day at a particular area you might be getting 5' breakers on average, but they will vary from nearly nothing to occasional 8' waves. It wasn't uncommon to see the occasional monster wave, double or more the average.
The used phone doesn't come with a 2 year contract. To many people that is worth paying more up front. I've bought used android phones that I use without a data plan, pretty sweet to get a GPS with navigation, handheld computer, camera, flashlight, bubble level, etc. for $30 with no monthly charges.
"Less evolved" is complicated. What do you measure? Physical complexity of the specimen? length of known family tree? Number of genes? Number of generations? Plus, everything is furiously exchanging DNA all the time with bacteria and viruses.
I suspect bacteria or fungi are highly evolved if you count number of generations. They evolve more in a day than long lived creatures do in years, although you couldn't possibly separate their genes.
It isn't hard to think of examples. Imagine a system that at the click of a button would create a porn website, fill it with stolen content, set up offshore banking, send millions of spam emails, blog posts, etc. Very good user experience, very bad rest of society experience.
It's a scary and exciting time. It's becoming easy to do all sorts of complex stuff automatically and this is an ethical debate that is going to come up. I don't think we can dodge the issue, if a particular person doesn't build this thing somebody else will.
What's going to happen when your optical implant gives a complete dossier on everybody you see on the street?
You're looking at it too narrowly. Ads are valuable because they drive sales. If there are secret uncounted viewers it makes the ads work better. The advertiser would then be willing to pay more. It's further complicated by the fact that many ads are local, viewers in texas are no use to a car dealership in NY.
I agree that throwing bourbon on someone isn't a great way to set them on fire, but I wanted to clarify on the flammability of ethanol.
EtOH / H2O mixtures have a flash point well within normal temperatures. You can set table wine on fire if you leave it in the sun for an hour to warm it up. Regular vodka burns at 79F which is not a pleasant temperature to drink vodka at, but you won't need a skillet. Conversely, ice cold everclear won't burn until it warms up to 63F.
Fascinating stuff! I love how it needs to be warmer to burn at 12.5% than 10% concentration.
10% — 49 C (120 F)
12.5% — about 52 C (126 F)
20% — 36 C (97 F)
30% — 29 C (84 F)
40% — 26 C (79 F)
50% — 24 C (75 F)
60% — 22 C (72 F)
70% — 21 C (70 F)
80% — 20 C (68 F)
90% — 17 C (63 F)
96% — 17 C (63 F)
Anytime I hear that tone I erase the number from my contacts. Have you noticed that you receive less calls in general since you started using this greeting?
You're OK with paying more than you need to? It makes me angry that the credit cards are siphoning off several percent of our economy. They bought off politicians and passed crooked laws making it illegal to offer cash discounts or to charge extra to cover their fees, knowing that consumers won't care if it is hidden from them.
There are numerous programs for free cremation for whole body donation. There is a grisly one around here where they harvest all the medically useful parts such as skin, bones, etc. and then cremate what is left over. It's about 20 lbs, often less.
I think it makes a lot of sense. Nobody is using the body anymore, why not put it to use? Why not spare the estate the cost of cremation?
I've noticed that people who use moisturizer regularly blow through keyboards like crazy. I think the oils are slightly corrosive to the plastic and the ink. Our receptionist uses her keyboard less than anyone else around here, and her keyboards barely last a few months before many of the keys have no legible text and are pitted and eroding. Meanwhile I hammer 140WPM all day long on my $10 3 year old thing that looks like new.
It was for an application that was targeting 35F (I didn't pick the units) and I couldn't understand why if it overshot it would keep the compressor running, this only happened when the system was not loaded. Then it struck me that something special might be happening at 0C and that turned out to be the problem. It seemed humorous that in this one narrow instance Fahrenheit was the less difficult unit to use.
Celcius is such BS. 0 and 100 are too hard to remember. Give me good old 32 and 212 or whatever they are at sea level.
Seriously, I was programming some temperature sensors and ran into some overflow error due to negative temperatures. For that application Fahrenheit would have not failed.
Capacitors should outlast the equipment they are in. There was a problem with poor quality Taiwanese capacitors that exploded after a few months/years, but that isn't an inherent problem with the technology.
I've had to replace batteries many times, they fail more quickly in general than capacitors.
A capacitor could hold enough power to finish a write cycle on SSD no problem. It wouldn't even have to be very large.
You may find your perspective changes when people you care about die. What they're doing now is pretty uninteresting and generally less than before. The past is all there is of them. When that happens it may be good to have a few photos or scribblings.
12345 is in the dictionary
I guess I'm old. I completely don't get the most popular definition. The one I'm familiar with, an idiotic luggage combination, is second.
I used Backup Exec for many years and never had any complaints about it. It was tricky to get the tape and library drivers right (don't use the manufacturer's ones, use Backup Exec's) but once I got everything humming it worked great. I set up daily, weekly, monthly, and manual backups and managed tape rotations. I kept a set of onsite disk backups so I could restore files deleted in error quickly, and the software would automatically overwrite the oldest ones with no oversight. I spent very little time administering it, and restored countless files as well as one entire server no sweat.
Now we're forced to use Networker. I'm not impressed so far, stuff that was intuitive before now requires me to look up how to do it. I've also run into a bug where it appears to be running a restore but in reality will never complete. No error message.
Some mechanics like to disconnect the battery before doing much of anything, and some procedures indicate this. If your wrench slips or you find some bad insulation and smash a live wire into the frame you might blow a fuse or waste a fusable link.
I know what you mean about stereos. I think part of it is how good and customized stock stereos have gotten, there just isn't much demand for a used stereo that probably won't fit your car properly.
I left my blackberry in my car and somebody smashed the window and left another one next to it.
What a humorous example! I've run into numerous stereos that have an antitheft feature where it requires a code after losing power. Some dealerships will provide the code for free, most won't. The real bad ones demand that you bring the car in for service and pay an hour of labor. Sometimes the code was provided to the original owner of the car, sometimes not. Good luck finding it, you're not supposed to keep it in the car.
BTW, I've seen manufacturer's procedures for changing spark plugs call for disconnecting the battery. You'd literally have to phone them and re-activate your stereo every time you replaced your plugs. This has been going on since the 90s, and it is obvious you've never heard of it.
That isn't true for everyone. I know a lot of people who only have one option. If my line of sight was blocked I'd have exactly one potential tv provider, and blocked line of sight is common in my area. For internet, I have precisely two choices: The cable monopoly and the bastard step-grandpa of US West, whoever they are this year. CenturyLink (had to look it up)
Plain internet is $50 and up, and I am envious of people I know who live somewhere with competition.
I have one choice for tv, one choice for a landline, and two choices for internet which both conveniently charge the same inflated price. That is close enough to a monopoly to give them monopoly pricing on most of their services.
There are a lot of smartphones with FM tuners. Here is a review of several phones with tuners.
It isn't a feature that is important to most users, so the mobile providers and handset makers don't really emphasize it. If it matters to you, it isn't hard to track down a handset that has a tuner.
Your comments are very similar to what I heard talking to members of the Red Elvises, thought you'd find that humorous considering your sig.