Granted all your points, but you categorically stating in your original post that the judge was incorrect has the same issues, but with the added one of him being a Judge with some actual experience and education on the matters at hand and you, well, not (I'm guessing, else you'd have mentioned that). So, at the moment, I'm inclined to side with the Judge. Just sayin'.
Couldn't this guy have avoided the whole lawsuit...
Actually, he could have easily avoided this lawsuit by not filing it. The charges where dropped by the city so it would have died there had he not filed suit in federal court.
But now this sets a precedent that may be referenced in other cases. Whether it helps is another matter, of course.
We are looking into this specific matter, but the company representative was mistaken. We’re going to redouble our representative education efforts on this topic.
Meaning, representatives will be beaten until they learn they may only reiterate the official company message (which may or may not be the actual truth). [Rule #1 about network throttling: You do not talk about network throttling. (I'm sure the other Fight Club inspired rules will be just as interesting...)]
Wind and solar have variable output, so they need to be partnered with flexible power generation. Nuclear is fundamentally inflexible because you can't quickly ramp up or down electricity output from a nuclear power plant.
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant, which is described as the “largest battery in the world”, with a generation capacity of 3,003 MW.
Water is released from the upper reservoir during periods of high demand and is used to generate electricity. What makes this different from other hydroelectric dams is that during times of low demand, power is taken from coal, nuclear, and other power plants and is used to pump water from the lower to the upper reservoir.
Although this plant uses more power than it generates, it allows these other plants to operate at close to peak efficiency for an overall cost savings.
Typically, contestants choose a single category and progressively move from the lowest amount up to the highest, giving viewers an easy-to-understand escalation of difficulty. But Arthur... begins at the most difficult questions. [then] quickly jumps to another category. It's a grating experience for the viewer, who isn't given enough to time to get in a rhythm or fully comprehend the new subject area.
Most people too dumb to appear on Jeopardy and get annoyed at player who makes them realize this. Film at 11.
[In addition, I've seen many cases where contestants don't run a category top to bottom.]
Do you pay a monthly fee to connect your router to your ISP?
Uh, yes. It's called my monthly bill for service.
But ISPs obviously have ongoing expenses related to delivering network traffic.
And they get monthly income from customers - as well as other sources.
I'm not really arguing with you about anything you've commented on, just saying that their expenses are covered by the bills they send out, otherwise they'd go out of business. As far as I can tell, the income at all the major ISPs far exceeds their expenses - so they have, you know, "profits". Of course they're greedy bastards who want to double-dip on the bandwidth charges and get more of that.
2) Anti Net Neutrality: The ISP's own their equipment, pay for their bandwidth,...
I'm pretty sure they get reimbursed every month from their customers. Also, exactly how much does "bandwidth" cost as an ongoing expense? For example, I bought my home switch and router a while back and have yet to incur any other expenses for them...
I can't understand why people support the republican agenda.
I understand your frustration, but both parties seem pretty bad in their own ways. I suspect most Republicans are actually just anti-Democrats, and vice versa.
To be fair, the Republican are probably more just anti-Obama. As one comedian said, they just can't get over the fact that he's black and are bitter that they lost two elections to him.
Better they keep putting out $500 Office suites that everyone has realised they don't need to own.
Or sell it for way less than $500. I paid way (way) less for Lotus SmartSuite back in 2002 and *still* find it much easier to use than Office with all the features I need. I like using Word Pro (and its predecessor Ami Pro) a whole lot more than I have ever liked using Word. Approach is much, much easier to use than Access. Even less expensive are {Open,Libre}Office -- free.
There's no reason, except greed, for Office to cost $500 (or more).
But I can tell you that there have been at least 5 times when I was sure the lane next to me was empty but the blind spot light was on. 4 times, somebody had legitimately come into my blind spot from an unseen angle.
Are you sure you have your mirrors adjusted correctly? Many (most?) people adjust their side mirrors so they can see the rear end of their car, but better method is to adjust them so the images slightly overlap with the center mirror - as described here or here or here. (or Google: adjust car side mirror) This method eliminates all of the blind spots.
To adjust mine, I simply park on a long straight road and adjust each side mirror until the image on the inside edge just overlaps the image on the outside edge of the center mirror.
Why buy something that isn't demonstratively faster than the old stuff...
The horse-less carriage wasn't originally faster than the horse-full type, but people bought them anyway. Perhaps they were better in other ways, people saw their potential or they were just novel. Anyway, adoption brought improvements, not just in the vehicles but roadways too, and ultimately, the automobile changed the way we all live - for, arguably, better and worse...
I think this Audi commercial is hilarious and hope the word "Doberhuahua" is now used for "something that sounds like a good idea, but would actually be very bad." Like, "That Unity interface is a Doberhuahua."
Obviously, that depends entirely on where you live (like New Orleans)...
The residents of New Orleans should have fled a century AGO. Living in a coastal area that was already below sea level is not a shining example of human intelligence.
Absolutely no argument here, just stating an easy example... Virginia Beach (where I live) is only an average of 12 feet (3.7m) above sea level, though.
Um... Mine was a serious comment *and* joke, so back at you - Double WHOOSH.:-)
Technically "ash" is basically carbon and, if I recall from the last few volcanic eruptions, it's rather polluting, at lease in the short term. [And, yes, I know the discussion is actually about CO2...]
Maybe it's more efficient to transport one product to refineries all over and let them break it out into all the various end products closer to where they're actually being used?
Oil can be and is refined into many different products, so that might be true if those refineries all over will extract/use everything. Otherwise it might make more sense to ship the crude oil fewer places that can extract everything, then ship only the refined products the remote places want. The crude oil and various refined, extraneous, and by- products can be better monitored, controlled and regulated if consolidated in fewer places.
"Now, see how far it gets you when millions of people fleeing the coastlines drive your property prices down."
In order for that to happen, the seal level would have to rise significantly, and at a far higher rate than it actually has been rising over the last century.
Even if IPCC's worst-case projections were correct, you have about a century before it would be a meter above where it is now. Better start fleeing.
Obviously, that depends entirely on where you live (like New Orleans) - even if you actually meant "seal level" - which actually sounds way scarier (and noisier) than rising sea level. [Bark, bark, bark...]
After five years and five environmental reviews, time and time again the Department of State analysis has shown that the pipeline is safe for the environment.
Actually, this report says providing a pipeline for the oil, so that oil can be processed and used, won't increase CO2 because the oil is going to be utilized anyway, through other means, if not via the pipeline. (Meaning, stopping the pipeline doesn't stop the oil.)
I believe some of what environmentalists are also concerned about is leaks and spills from the pipeline along the way. Though, given the number of incidents using train tank-cars, I can't imagine the pipeline being worst. I imagine, ultimately, it would be better than shipping by train/truck.
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Granted all your points, but you categorically stating in your original post that the judge was incorrect has the same issues, but with the added one of him being a Judge with some actual experience and education on the matters at hand and you, well, not (I'm guessing, else you'd have mentioned that). So, at the moment, I'm inclined to side with the Judge. Just sayin'.
No, it is not "Free Speech". It is criminal informant behavior.
Apparently, you're incorrect. I just read somewhere that a Judge ruled it Free Speech. :-)
Couldn't this guy have avoided the whole lawsuit ...
Actually, he could have easily avoided this lawsuit by not filing it. The charges where dropped by the city so it would have died there had he not filed suit in federal court.
But now this sets a precedent that may be referenced in other cases. Whether it helps is another matter, of course.
We are looking into this specific matter, but the company representative was mistaken. We’re going to redouble our representative education efforts on this topic.
Meaning, representatives will be beaten until they learn they may only reiterate the official company message (which may or may not be the actual truth). [Rule #1 about network throttling: You do not talk about network throttling. (I'm sure the other Fight Club inspired rules will be just as interesting...)]
Wind and solar have variable output, so they need to be partnered with flexible power generation. Nuclear is fundamentally inflexible because you can't quickly ramp up or down electricity output from a nuclear power plant.
I've posted this before, but an example of one idea that helps mitigate this is the Bath County Pumped Storage Station in Virginia:
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant, which is described as the “largest battery in the world”, with a generation capacity of 3,003 MW.
Water is released from the upper reservoir during periods of high demand and is used to generate electricity. What makes this different from other hydroelectric dams is that during times of low demand, power is taken from coal, nuclear, and other power plants and is used to pump water from the lower to the upper reservoir.
Although this plant uses more power than it generates, it allows these other plants to operate at close to peak efficiency for an overall cost savings.
Typically, contestants choose a single category and progressively move from the lowest amount up to the highest, giving viewers an easy-to-understand escalation of difficulty. But Arthur ... begins at the most difficult questions. [then] quickly jumps to another category. It's a grating experience for the viewer, who isn't given enough to time to get in a rhythm or fully comprehend the new subject area.
Most people too dumb to appear on Jeopardy and get annoyed at player who makes them realize this. Film at 11.
[In addition, I've seen many cases where contestants don't run a category top to bottom.]
Do you pay a monthly fee to connect your router to your ISP?
Uh, yes. It's called my monthly bill for service.
But ISPs obviously have ongoing expenses related to delivering network traffic.
And they get monthly income from customers - as well as other sources.
I'm not really arguing with you about anything you've commented on, just saying that their expenses are covered by the bills they send out, otherwise they'd go out of business. As far as I can tell, the income at all the major ISPs far exceeds their expenses - so they have, you know, "profits". Of course they're greedy bastards who want to double-dip on the bandwidth charges and get more of that.
2) Anti Net Neutrality: The ISP's own their equipment, pay for their bandwidth, ...
I'm pretty sure they get reimbursed every month from their customers. Also, exactly how much does "bandwidth" cost as an ongoing expense? For example, I bought my home switch and router a while back and have yet to incur any other expenses for them ...
I understand your frustration, but both parties seem pretty bad in their own ways. I suspect most Republicans are actually just anti-Democrats, and vice versa.
To be fair, the Republican are probably more just anti-Obama. As one comedian said, they just can't get over the fact that he's black and are bitter that they lost two elections to him.
IIS appears to be hosting a lot of dead sites
Which is good news for the IIS performance metrics MS will be releasing... :-)
Better they keep putting out $500 Office suites that everyone has realised they don't need to own.
Or sell it for way less than $500. I paid way (way) less for Lotus SmartSuite back in 2002 and *still* find it much easier to use than Office with all the features I need. I like using Word Pro (and its predecessor Ami Pro) a whole lot more than I have ever liked using Word. Approach is much, much easier to use than Access. Even less expensive are {Open,Libre}Office -- free.
There's no reason, except greed, for Office to cost $500 (or more).
But I can tell you that there have been at least 5 times when I was sure the lane next to me was empty but the blind spot light was on. 4 times, somebody had legitimately come into my blind spot from an unseen angle.
Are you sure you have your mirrors adjusted correctly? Many (most?) people adjust their side mirrors so they can see the rear end of their car, but better method is to adjust them so the images slightly overlap with the center mirror - as described here or here or here. (or Google: adjust car side mirror) This method eliminates all of the blind spots.
To adjust mine, I simply park on a long straight road and adjust each side mirror until the image on the inside edge just overlaps the image on the outside edge of the center mirror.
Why buy something that isn't demonstratively faster than the old stuff...
The horse-less carriage wasn't originally faster than the horse-full type, but people bought them anyway. Perhaps they were better in other ways, people saw their potential or they were just novel. Anyway, adoption brought improvements, not just in the vehicles but roadways too, and ultimately, the automobile changed the way we all live - for, arguably, better and worse...
All I can offer you is a quantum of solace.
The six people in the world that understood that movie title thank you.
As a serious comment it failed then, because it's out of context. ... Moving the goalposts does not get you out from under the Whoosh.
So sorry, but who died and made you King (okay Queen) Of Anything?
I think this Audi commercial is hilarious and hope the word "Doberhuahua" is now used for "something that sounds like a good idea, but would actually be very bad." Like, "That Unity interface is a Doberhuahua."
Hotblack Desiato and his band Disaster Area
With *everything* painted black, of course.
Obviously, that depends entirely on where you live (like New Orleans)...
The residents of New Orleans should have fled a century AGO. Living in a coastal area that was already below sea level is not a shining example of human intelligence.
Absolutely no argument here, just stating an easy example... Virginia Beach (where I live) is only an average of 12 feet (3.7m) above sea level, though.
So. Clever and smart - maybe more than I am. Single? :-)
WHOOSH
Um... Mine was a serious comment *and* joke, so back at you - Double WHOOSH. :-)
Technically "ash" is basically carbon and, if I recall from the last few volcanic eruptions, it's rather polluting, at lease in the short term. [And, yes, I know the discussion is actually about CO2...]
But, seriously, those "sky trees" are dangerous.
Maybe it's more efficient to transport one product to refineries all over and let them break it out into all the various end products closer to where they're actually being used?
Oil can be and is refined into many different products, so that might be true if those refineries all over will extract/use everything. Otherwise it might make more sense to ship the crude oil fewer places that can extract everything, then ship only the refined products the remote places want. The crude oil and various refined, extraneous, and by- products can be better monitored, controlled and regulated if consolidated in fewer places.
"Now, see how far it gets you when millions of people fleeing the coastlines drive your property prices down."
In order for that to happen, the seal level would have to rise significantly, and at a far higher rate than it actually has been rising over the last century. Even if IPCC's worst-case projections were correct, you have about a century before it would be a meter above where it is now. Better start fleeing.
Obviously, that depends entirely on where you live (like New Orleans) - even if you actually meant "seal level" - which actually sounds way scarier (and noisier) than rising sea level. [Bark, bark, bark...]
It seems you need either a little more or way less coffee at this point. Step away from the keyboard and go for a walk.
Carbon is NOT a pollutant.
Exactly. If carbon is so bad, why are they always trying to save all those carbon filled trees?
I'm sure if all those trees were floating around in the upper atmosphere, they might feel differently.
After five years and five environmental reviews, time and time again the Department of State analysis has shown that the pipeline is safe for the environment.
Actually, this report says providing a pipeline for the oil, so that oil can be processed and used, won't increase CO2 because the oil is going to be utilized anyway, through other means, if not via the pipeline. (Meaning, stopping the pipeline doesn't stop the oil.)
I believe some of what environmentalists are also concerned about is leaks and spills from the pipeline along the way. Though, given the number of incidents using train tank-cars, I can't imagine the pipeline being worst. I imagine, ultimately, it would be better than shipping by train/truck.