My GPS screwup story is when we decided not to stay in the hotel connected to a casino (because it smelled like stale cigarette smoke and booze) and selected a nearby one from the GPS. It sent is out the parking lot, under the overpass, about a half mile down the road, making a few turns to get onto the overpass, then over the overpass and a few more turns, another mile or so, and we were at our destination - the same parking lot we started from! (two separate hotels with one parking lot)
And 100 years ago they said kids would be dumber for using pencils instead of slates.
Wrong in two ways:
- They used slates instead of paper, not instead of pencils.
- They used slates because it was cheaper, and they didn't think slates were making children more intelligent than using paper.
Where do you think rights come from? Nature? God? Out someone's ass?
Well, Americans are supposed to believe that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Reminds me of when I had to register a visitor to our company (can't get past the security desk without registering) from "Big Ass Fans".
(In spite of the company name, she had a nice, normal-sized ass, but I digress.)
Never thought much about the name until I had to write it down for all posterity to see, then it seemed wildly inappropriate.
Where the fuck did you go to college?
When I went to college 40 years ago, parroting the professors would've gotten me a D at best. And while there were plenty of students advocating various communistic/socialistic views, they were already in decline and no professors I ran into advocated that (or any other particular political view) in class.
Without tax subsidies that expensive solar plant will not pay off against the coal plant. What's more that's from the Obama EIA which was trying to kill off the coal industry.
Actually, according to the link you provided, which is projecting to 2022 costs, the only electricity sources beating photovoltaic without tax breaks are geothermal and combined cycle gas. And the only sources worse than coal are offshore wind and solar thermal. That said, it also discusses big regional variations in costs, so, of course, don't depend on solar in the winter in Alaska (and don't build a large scale coal plant far away from customers and existing coal transportation infrastructure).
Everyone voted 94% Democrat in 1964. (Except the South, where a lot of whites were pissed that the Dems were trying to give blacks equal rights, and a lot of blacks couldn't vote.)
In my experience with a not-publicly-traded company that decided to create an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), it was just a way for the owners to take cash out of the company without selling it on the market. Turns out they allotted shares worth 1/3 of the company to the ESOP, and had the coroporation borrow money in order to purchase those shares from the owners and give them to employees instead of contributing to 401Ks (I called it the "all eggs in one basket retirement plan"). The owners got cash and the employees got non-voting shares that dropped in value every year (especially 2009).
People who print out website are in a low percentage of users.
Actually, I imagine that a certain number of websites get a large enough percentage of users that make hard copy printouts of things like maps & directions, airline tickets/boarding passes, reservations, etc.
In the same way that "form follows function," beauty must be an afterthought of usability.
To me, anyway, "form follows function" does not mean that beauty is an afterthought, but rather that properly executed functionality is aesthetically pleasing.
Wrong. If it provides insight into understanding the subject and it makes testable predictions about that subject, then even after it's been scientifically tested and evidence for or against it is found, it's a scientific theory. No "only" about it.
If you adjust for inflation using the PCI index (rather then the bullshit CPI) you will notice that $200k is the mean income (in todays dollars) that your parents parents parents would have been making back then.
Since my father's father's father came to America in a sailing boat (not diesel or even coal-fired steam) and worked at a time before almost anyone had a phone (let alone a cell phone) or an automobile, and was amazed (so my father told me) at the new-fangled marvel the radio, I'd like to know how you came to the conclusion that you could convert his buying power into today's dollars?
Sitting still is like, 1.5~MET activity and standing still is about 20-30% more across fit to unhealthy people.
Really? Because according to an old article in the ASHRAE journal that I ran across, office work is only about 1.2 Met and sitting in a lecture hall or library is only around 1.0 Met.
RTFA:
If you exercise at least 1/2 hour a day, sitting the rest of the day doesn't make a difference.
Besides, your looks don't tell your age. As others have said, a lot of looks has to do with skin damage from sun exposure.
I design HVAC, plumbing, etc. for a living. 30 to 20 years ago, I used to do it by hand using calculators, pencil, paper, drafting tools, and specialized slide rule-like tools. First came fax machines, which meant you could fax questions and responses almost instantaneously, so you no longer had to think a couple of days ahead - so most people didn't. To get you started, the architect had to get you the background (paper or mylar "hard-copy") to draw on, with the building design more or less complete. Changes were a pain in the ass, which every understood meant you needed time and money to accommodate, so they made sure that plans were reviewed and approved before the design got beyond the conceptual stages. Changes did come, but they were few and far between, and you got paid to make them. Then we started using CAD programs to draw, which meant you could easily do things like erase, copy and paste, and slip in new electronic backgrounds at will. But, the architect could get changes to you at any time, and they started to do so closer and closer to the deadlines without thinking how it would affect other trades' designs. It's gotten worse every year, with the ease of e-mailing files, then posting large files to ftp servers, until now you often get major changes to the design a day or two before the due date. And now with Revit, much more detail is required to be input, most of which is up to the contractor's discretion, anyway. Revit also wants to automate a lot of the design work, but, so far, it is extremely terrible at it (even worse than most of those human designers that are bad at it). So my experience with automation-type "improvements" in my workplace is that they reduce some work loads, but encourage people to think less, and result in additional work that should otherwise be unnecessary.
Actually, the worst "thing that can be done is to start tailoring school curriculum with these disruptive technologies in-mind." Education should be about developing critical thinking skills. Teaching any particular technology is bound to failure, as it will likely become obsolete shortly after being taught.
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Sorry, but this is just not true.
My GPS screwup story is when we decided not to stay in the hotel connected to a casino (because it smelled like stale cigarette smoke and booze) and selected a nearby one from the GPS. It sent is out the parking lot, under the overpass, about a half mile down the road, making a few turns to get onto the overpass, then over the overpass and a few more turns, another mile or so, and we were at our destination - the same parking lot we started from! (two separate hotels with one parking lot)
Wrong in two ways:
- They used slates instead of paper, not instead of pencils.
- They used slates because it was cheaper, and they didn't think slates were making children more intelligent than using paper.
Nonetheless, you chose the more evil one.
(FWIW, I would have chosen the 3rd choice, also, had there been a reasonable one)
Well, Americans are supposed to believe that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Just think of the size of the hands of the quarterback who could throw a perfect spiral with a meterball.
Reminds me of when I had to register a visitor to our company (can't get past the security desk without registering) from "Big Ass Fans". (In spite of the company name, she had a nice, normal-sized ass, but I digress.)
Never thought much about the name until I had to write it down for all posterity to see, then it seemed wildly inappropriate.
Where the fuck did you go to college?
When I went to college 40 years ago, parroting the professors would've gotten me a D at best. And while there were plenty of students advocating various communistic/socialistic views, they were already in decline and no professors I ran into advocated that (or any other particular political view) in class.
Actually, according to the link you provided, which is projecting to 2022 costs, the only electricity sources beating photovoltaic without tax breaks are geothermal and combined cycle gas. And the only sources worse than coal are offshore wind and solar thermal. That said, it also discusses big regional variations in costs, so, of course, don't depend on solar in the winter in Alaska (and don't build a large scale coal plant far away from customers and existing coal transportation infrastructure).
Everyone voted 94% Democrat in 1964. (Except the South, where a lot of whites were pissed that the Dems were trying to give blacks equal rights, and a lot of blacks couldn't vote.)
I've always said (only half jokingly) that jobs were invented by the ruling class to keep people too busy to cause trouble for the rich.
In my experience with a not-publicly-traded company that decided to create an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), it was just a way for the owners to take cash out of the company without selling it on the market. Turns out they allotted shares worth 1/3 of the company to the ESOP, and had the coroporation borrow money in order to purchase those shares from the owners and give them to employees instead of contributing to 401Ks (I called it the "all eggs in one basket retirement plan"). The owners got cash and the employees got non-voting shares that dropped in value every year (especially 2009).
I disagree. Case in point: using manure for fertilizer.
Having said that, though, The Ribbon still stinks after 10 years.
I remember watching an earlier launch, of a redstone rocket, and wondering why they would make a rocket out of stone.
Actually, I imagine that a certain number of websites get a large enough percentage of users that make hard copy printouts of things like maps & directions, airline tickets/boarding passes, reservations, etc.
To me, anyway, "form follows function" does not mean that beauty is an afterthought, but rather that properly executed functionality is aesthetically pleasing.
Wrong. If it provides insight into understanding the subject and it makes testable predictions about that subject, then even after it's been scientifically tested and evidence for or against it is found, it's a scientific theory. No "only" about it.
Since my father's father's father came to America in a sailing boat (not diesel or even coal-fired steam) and worked at a time before almost anyone had a phone (let alone a cell phone) or an automobile, and was amazed (so my father told me) at the new-fangled marvel the radio, I'd like to know how you came to the conclusion that you could convert his buying power into today's dollars?
Really? Because according to an old article in the ASHRAE journal that I ran across, office work is only about 1.2 Met and sitting in a lecture hall or library is only around 1.0 Met.
What part of your obvious conclusion has anything to do with measuring telomeres?
RTFA:
If you exercise at least 1/2 hour a day, sitting the rest of the day doesn't make a difference.
Besides, your looks don't tell your age. As others have said, a lot of looks has to do with skin damage from sun exposure.
I design HVAC, plumbing, etc. for a living. 30 to 20 years ago, I used to do it by hand using calculators, pencil, paper, drafting tools, and specialized slide rule-like tools. First came fax machines, which meant you could fax questions and responses almost instantaneously, so you no longer had to think a couple of days ahead - so most people didn't. To get you started, the architect had to get you the background (paper or mylar "hard-copy") to draw on, with the building design more or less complete. Changes were a pain in the ass, which every understood meant you needed time and money to accommodate, so they made sure that plans were reviewed and approved before the design got beyond the conceptual stages. Changes did come, but they were few and far between, and you got paid to make them. Then we started using CAD programs to draw, which meant you could easily do things like erase, copy and paste, and slip in new electronic backgrounds at will. But, the architect could get changes to you at any time, and they started to do so closer and closer to the deadlines without thinking how it would affect other trades' designs. It's gotten worse every year, with the ease of e-mailing files, then posting large files to ftp servers, until now you often get major changes to the design a day or two before the due date. And now with Revit, much more detail is required to be input, most of which is up to the contractor's discretion, anyway. Revit also wants to automate a lot of the design work, but, so far, it is extremely terrible at it (even worse than most of those human designers that are bad at it). So my experience with automation-type "improvements" in my workplace is that they reduce some work loads, but encourage people to think less, and result in additional work that should otherwise be unnecessary.
Actually, the worst "thing that can be done is to start tailoring school curriculum with these disruptive technologies in-mind." Education should be about developing critical thinking skills. Teaching any particular technology is bound to failure, as it will likely become obsolete shortly after being taught.
In the sense that when a big one eventually hits, we'll all vanish.
People affected by tritan color blindness confuse blue with green and yellow with violet.