... because cars don't have things like clocks on the dashboard.
Not defending her, but the LCD display on the radio (also the clock) in my 2001 Honda Civic is now unreadable during the day, and *barely* readable at night. The LCD panel seems to be working, and I think the problem is with the plastic/acrylic. Could be from age and heat over 17 years. In any case, I don't have a visible clock in my car and would have to check my cell phone to know the time. And, yes, it's bitch re-programming the stations after disconnecting the battery.
... Some of them did it out of spite, disappointment, and bitterness, which is not excusable, but at least understandable.... These are the people I think are looking at Trump and realizing what a mistake it's all been and how much they want to take it back now.
Sure, I get that. But I wonder how many, like Trump himself, will double-down in the "us vs. them" environment it seems to be in the remote hope of coming out on top - even, or especially, if it's on top of the rubble of our society. Scorched-Earth campaigns have a certain appeal if you think you're better prepared than others to deal with the results or just don't care (about the results and/or others). Trump certainly doesn't seem to really care about anything except the adoration of the people at his rallies, nor does he seem to care to actually learn anything. Bribing his supporters, like with the recent proposed mandate to prop up the Coal industry, should only go so far, but who knows. This all makes me wonder who is actually making the decisions at the White House -- or across the Administration -- that Trump is just parroting for applause. My money is on Nurse Ratched.
For example, there are 75,000 coal miners, [workers - includes all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies]
There are 30,000 employed in the transport of said coal.
Coal power plants employ another 60,000.
Of course replacing coal with other forms of power still keeps power plant workers employed, so any shift away from coal will keep many of these still working.
As well as the people transporting coal who could transport other things. I'm not sure how useful it is to include people other than directly at the coal-mining companies as those people could probably readily find related work in other industries. As could the office-workers, sale staff and other non-miners at the coal companies, who are included in the 76,572 count. (To expand on my other reply - sorry I was incomplete.)
Deceptive counting.
Once you add in transportation, power plants, prospecting, refining, and the other dependent industries, the number goes up.
For example, there are 75,000 coal miners,
There are 30,000 employed in the transport of said coal.
Coal power plants employ another 60,000.
Prospectors employ another 10,000 or so.
Still not absurdly huge, but much larger than you are claiming.
This roughly correct, there are about 174,000 coal related jobs in the U.S., making it (if it were a single company) about the 48th largest employer in the country, behind Costco, and Walmart is still 13 times larger, and only one in 800 working Americans is employed by this industry at all. Of course replacing coal with other forms of power still keeps power plant workers employed, so any shift away from coal will keep many of these still working.
Deceptive counting, unless one can read... From the previously linked WP article:
There are various estimates of coal-sector employment, but according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns program, which allows for detailed comparisons with many other industries, the coal industry employed 76,572 people in 2014, the latest year for which data is available.
That number includes not just miners but also office workers, sales staff and all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies.
Note the stuff in bold. Seems your numbers differ from those of the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns program -- you know the people that track these things.
The coal industry employed 76,572 people in 2014, the latest year for which data is available. (That number includes not just miners but also office workers, sales staff and all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies.)
Although 76,000 might seem like a large number, consider that similar numbers of people are employed by, say, the bowling (69,088) and skiing (75,036) industries. Other dwindling industries, such as travel agencies (99,888 people), employ considerably more. Used-car dealerships provide 138,000 jobs. Theme parks provide nearly 144,000. Carwash employment tops 150,000.
Looking at the level of individual businesses, the coal industry in 2014 (76,572) employed about as many as Whole Foods (72,650), and fewer workers than Arby's (close to 80,000), Dollar General (105,000) or J.C. Penney (114,000). The country's largest private employer, Walmart (2.2 million employees) provides roughly 28 times as many jobs as coal.
Little does he know that many of them are capable of looking past the ends of their own noses and will see that things like this that he does will have far-reaching negative effects -- and ironically he'll lose supporters anyway.
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TFS makes things sound all unicorns and rainbows, but farther down TFA things get a little muddy -- which make me think the editors didn't read it through:
We also expect them to be targets for vandalism in San Francisco and Oakland. After all, it’s basically akin to putting Google Glass on one’s car, or, at the very least, a sign reading “Kick me, I’m the reason your landlord’s evicting you.”
The units are also expensive.... a Reviver setup will run you $699 for the digital plates, plus about $7 a month in recurring fees. That’s a pretty steep gouge just to trade away what little privacy you have left in exchange for not having to check the mail and place a fiddly little decal on your plate once every 12 months.
Your Subject Line is spot-on thogard. Let's make an more-expensive, easy-to-update electronic version of an inexpensive, hard-to-update metal thing -- that actually never needs to be updated.
Case in point: I've had the same license plates on my 2001 Honda Civic and 2002 Honda CR-V since, well, 2001 and 2002.
The additional "features" of easy upgrading and large fleet boon are unconvincing -- how often will one mess with the license plates?
It should also be a boon to companies with large fleets.
What's more, it's easy to upgrade to a special-interest plate if one chooses to do so.
>> Consumer Reports Recommends Tesla's Model 3 After Braking Fix
I've never seen "Braking Fix" as a euphemism for "Payola" before.
CR actually re-tested the car and it showed a braking improvement of 19 feet shorter -- which is now inline with what Tesla claimed and comparable to other cars of that size. They are also going to rent another Tesla Model 3 and test again.
Why keep paying these guys high salaries when fresh college grads will do the work for a fraction?
Because they have more experience.
Despite their many virtues, fresh college grads still need adult supervision and mentoring.
Real-life example. We had three software products to deliver to the Government every quarter - Solaris SPARC, X86 and Firmware patches. Each took a week to research, generate and package manually and was usually done by the newest, youngest, cheapest, and least experience team member. I worked with him one cycle (I was his mentor) and wrote a Perl script that automated almost the entire process enough to produce all three products in one afternoon.
Guess who they laid off?
Of course, they laid off their most experience Perl programmer, so I'm not sure who's maintaining my script, but it's not my problem anymore.
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It's a shame they can't make one that's powered by body heat.
That won't work until Congress repeals the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
So... Just ignoring it isn't good enough?
A plane zipped overhead pulling a banner that read "YOU BROKE DEMOCRACY" and advertising Freedom From Facebook, ...
They don't understand how a corporation works or voluntary use of its free services work.
Pro Tip: You don't have to have a Facebook account and/or use their free services -- or, I'll add, own their stock..
Yup, the only real issue is the reluctance to hold the telecoms accountable.
Ya, but I'm sure Ajit Pai will get right on that. :-)
As much as I'd like to string up that jackass, the FTC, not the FCC is who runs the national do not call list.
I was thinking more broadly, but you're right about that; good call.
... because cars don't have things like clocks on the dashboard.
Not defending her, but the LCD display on the radio (also the clock) in my 2001 Honda Civic is now unreadable during the day, and *barely* readable at night. The LCD panel seems to be working, and I think the problem is with the plastic/acrylic. Could be from age and heat over 17 years. In any case, I don't have a visible clock in my car and would have to check my cell phone to know the time. And, yes, it's bitch re-programming the stations after disconnecting the battery.
... Some of them did it out of spite, disappointment, and bitterness, which is not excusable, but at least understandable. ... These are the people I think are looking at Trump and realizing what a mistake it's all been and how much they want to take it back now.
Sure, I get that. But I wonder how many, like Trump himself, will double-down in the "us vs. them" environment it seems to be in the remote hope of coming out on top - even, or especially, if it's on top of the rubble of our society. Scorched-Earth campaigns have a certain appeal if you think you're better prepared than others to deal with the results or just don't care (about the results and/or others). Trump certainly doesn't seem to really care about anything except the adoration of the people at his rallies, nor does he seem to care to actually learn anything. Bribing his supporters, like with the recent proposed mandate to prop up the Coal industry, should only go so far, but who knows. This all makes me wonder who is actually making the decisions at the White House -- or across the Administration -- that Trump is just parroting for applause. My money is on Nurse Ratched.
Color me very cynical...
... external process like systemd can invoke the Emacs server process ...
Let Emacs and SystemD duke it out for a while -- There can only be ONE!
[ We're all rooting for -- and counting on -- you Emacs to vanquish The Kurgan. ]
Yup, the only real issue is the reluctance to hold the telecoms accountable.
Ya, but I'm sure Ajit Pai will get right on that. :-)
For example, there are 75,000 coal miners, [workers - includes all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies]
There are 30,000 employed in the transport of said coal.
Coal power plants employ another 60,000.
Of course replacing coal with other forms of power still keeps power plant workers employed, so any shift away from coal will keep many of these still working.
As well as the people transporting coal who could transport other things. I'm not sure how useful it is to include people other than directly at the coal-mining companies as those people could probably readily find related work in other industries. As could the office-workers, sale staff and other non-miners at the coal companies, who are included in the 76,572 count. (To expand on my other reply - sorry I was incomplete.)
Deceptive counting. Once you add in transportation, power plants, prospecting, refining, and the other dependent industries, the number goes up.
For example, there are 75,000 coal miners, There are 30,000 employed in the transport of said coal. Coal power plants employ another 60,000. Prospectors employ another 10,000 or so.
Still not absurdly huge, but much larger than you are claiming.
This roughly correct, there are about 174,000 coal related jobs in the U.S., making it (if it were a single company) about the 48th largest employer in the country, behind Costco, and Walmart is still 13 times larger, and only one in 800 working Americans is employed by this industry at all. Of course replacing coal with other forms of power still keeps power plant workers employed, so any shift away from coal will keep many of these still working.
Deceptive counting, unless one can read... From the previously linked WP article:
There are various estimates of coal-sector employment, but according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns program, which allows for detailed comparisons with many other industries, the coal industry employed 76,572 people in 2014, the latest year for which data is available.
That number includes not just miners but also office workers, sales staff and all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies.
Note the stuff in bold. Seems your numbers differ from those of the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns program -- you know the people that track these things.
Just passing along that, The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’s -- and just a bit more that Whole Foods:
The coal industry employed 76,572 people in 2014, the latest year for which data is available. (That number includes not just miners but also office workers, sales staff and all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies.)
Although 76,000 might seem like a large number, consider that similar numbers of people are employed by, say, the bowling (69,088) and skiing (75,036) industries. Other dwindling industries, such as travel agencies (99,888 people), employ considerably more. Used-car dealerships provide 138,000 jobs. Theme parks provide nearly 144,000. Carwash employment tops 150,000.
Looking at the level of individual businesses, the coal industry in 2014 (76,572) employed about as many as Whole Foods (72,650), and fewer workers than Arby's (close to 80,000), Dollar General (105,000) or J.C. Penney (114,000). The country's largest private employer, Walmart (2.2 million employees) provides roughly 28 times as many jobs as coal.
I openly admit that I voted for Trump because I didn't want to see the blatant corruption get into office.
"blatant, unproven -- except within the Fox 'News' and Alt-Right echo chambers -- corruption" - Fixed that for you.
52-dimensional chess
Sounds like a house of cards.
Little does he know that many of them are capable of looking past the ends of their own noses and will see that things like this that he does will have far-reaching negative effects -- and ironically he'll lose supporters anyway.
You sure about all that? I'm not.
News of Facebook not trending now trending - except on Facebook, where trending is not trending.
At least not all of them, and I hear there are some very fine people on both sides.
The Republicans ran a number of young candidates last time. It's the Democrats who look like a nursing home left the door unlocked.
Although, inexperienced, entitled, youngsters with no sense or appreciation of history aren't necessarily better.
China is also very well known for lying about things and faking stats to appear better than everyone else.
So is Trump. (just sayin')
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TFS makes things sound all unicorns and rainbows, but farther down TFA things get a little muddy -- which make me think the editors didn't read it through:
We also expect them to be targets for vandalism in San Francisco and Oakland. After all, it’s basically akin to putting Google Glass on one’s car, or, at the very least, a sign reading “Kick me, I’m the reason your landlord’s evicting you.”
The units are also expensive. ... a Reviver setup will run you $699 for the digital plates, plus about $7 a month in recurring fees. That’s a pretty steep gouge just to trade away what little privacy you have left in exchange for not having to check the mail and place a fiddly little decal on your plate once every 12 months.
Windows Server 2016 Essentials
It has just the essentials, so Microsoft doesn't consider it essential.
Your Subject Line is spot-on thogard. Let's make an more-expensive, easy-to-update electronic version of an inexpensive, hard-to-update metal thing -- that actually never needs to be updated.
Case in point: I've had the same license plates on my 2001 Honda Civic and 2002 Honda CR-V since, well, 2001 and 2002.
The additional "features" of easy upgrading and large fleet boon are unconvincing -- how often will one mess with the license plates?
It should also be a boon to companies with large fleets.
What's more, it's easy to upgrade to a special-interest plate if one chooses to do so.
>> Consumer Reports Recommends Tesla's Model 3 After Braking Fix I've never seen "Braking Fix" as a euphemism for "Payola" before.
CR actually re-tested the car and it showed a braking improvement of 19 feet shorter -- which is now inline with what Tesla claimed and comparable to other cars of that size. They are also going to rent another Tesla Model 3 and test again.
Consumer Reports Recommends Tesla's Model 3 After Braking Fix
Seems counter-productive. :-)
Every time I see a thread about the latest/greatest in computers or graphics, I always think of this Dilbert from 1995.
Why keep paying these guys high salaries when fresh college grads will do the work for a fraction?
Because they have more experience.
Despite their many virtues, fresh college grads still need adult supervision and mentoring.
Real-life example. We had three software products to deliver to the Government every quarter - Solaris SPARC, X86 and Firmware patches. Each took a week to research, generate and package manually and was usually done by the newest, youngest, cheapest, and least experience team member. I worked with him one cycle (I was his mentor) and wrote a Perl script that automated almost the entire process enough to produce all three products in one afternoon.
Guess who they laid off?
Of course, they laid off their most experience Perl programmer, so I'm not sure who's maintaining my script, but it's not my problem anymore.