Are you saying that those were Democrat bills that were passed because the Republicans compromised with the Democrats? If so, you're way off. The majority of Republican politicians supported those outside of any deals with Democratic politicians. Not to mention all of the years of massive deficit spending under Republican politicians' "leadership". (Please don't get me wrong - the Democratic politicians are not without blame in any of the above)
He made deals with OEMs stating, hey, your PC here is going to be running windows at some point, so you'll have to pay me a license fee. The PC OEMs who jumped on board are the ones that made users use windows, because they were essentially paying for it with the price of the PC, they could have offered you the competitor
That's not exactly correct. MS made deals like: We notice that 75% of your PCs are sold with windows installed. You can pay us X$ for every PC you sell, whether or not it has MS Windows on it, plus we'll throw in MS Word for free on each of them. Or else we'll charge you 3X$ for each copy of windows plus 3X$ for each copy of Word you sell.
So that, essentially, became the Windows tax we all love to hate, and if you wanted anything else, instead, the PC OEMs might offer it, but you had to pay extra.
Oh bullshit. I've never seen ANY professional jobs that required fingerprints, except for those requiring government security clearances.
Then you just haven't tried hard enough. I'm aware of several large companies that would fingerprint applicants, and have had to submit fingerprints for a background check just to qualify to be a consultant to them. It's really not uncommon for financial companies.
To pick a nit, the medallion market is a government run monopoly, but the taxi market is not.
Not in the city where I most often take a taxi, Chicago. There, the number of medallions is regulated by the government, but once issued (for a relatively modest fee), they can be bought and sold by private interests in a free market, not a government-run market. (YMMV)
Most of those points wouldn't be controlled by the thermostat (I would hope), but by the internal controls in the equipment. Even if they were accessible thru the thermostat, you shouldn't be able to change things like the anti-short cycle timer or the compressor low ambient lock-out.
The trend is for single phase motors to go ECM for any application where the speed needs to be adjustable or variable. This is a fact of life for all types and brands of equipment. 10 years ago, we had a job where dozens of ECM motors had to be replaced not long after being installed. The manufacturers seem to have caught on and now use motors that can handle the electronic switching better, so there's very few early failures anymore.
The other trend in appliances is to add digital electronics that fail easily and require wholesale board replacement when they fail. I guess the warranty expenses are worth it to the manufacturers compared to making (buying from an outsourced supplier) something better.
So, while I feel your pain, it is not Trane leading the way here, they're following the market trends.
First, you're talking about their residential lines. Nobody makes small, off-the-shelf refrigeration systems in the US anymore. Everybody makes them in Asia. (I think there's one manufacturer making them in Africa.)
Trane's commercial lines are considered middle-of-the-road: Not the high quality equipment that costs too much for the typical cheap budget, and not the piece of crap that will get the submittal rejected by the specifying engineer.
You are right, though, about branding, though by no means is that limited to Trane. Everyone keeps getting bought and sold and outsourcing their components - to the point that naming different models from different manufacturers in the spec can give you a choice of buying the exact same item with different labels.
Use lighter components that spin more easily, you say? If 10 mph is 1,000 units, the cube power law means 60 mph imparts 216,000 units of force to that lightweight structure, destroying it.
A cube power law is not a cube force law.
Wind has a velocity pressure that is proportional to the square of the speed. This pressure over an area gives you force. Adjusting the angle of the blades can change the force vectors and apparent area enough to withstand the wind. (In high enough winds, at the expense of shutting down power production)
Not that it's easy to make a big blade both strong enough for normal operation and light enough to start rotating at low wind speeds. I believe, however, that once you get one going, it can keep rotating in pretty low winds and produce at least some power.
Or are you confusing Deposit banks with Investment banks?
Problem is, the laws were changed in the 1990s to allow 'Deposit banks' to act like Investment banks and play Stock Market, REIT, Credit Default Swap, and other Option games with the deposits. That's been partly rolled back since the great recession.
And yes, when those houses of cards fell, that was a bank screw, as the taxpayers had to pony up money to shore up the inadequate deposit insurance pools and to prevent a depression.
Of course, you also need to take into account the size of the meteorite and the size of its' blast zone. It does not not need to be a direct hit to kill you, and this did not appear to be a direct hit, either.
Do we need the government to wipe our asses for us too?
Well, I have known some indigent senior citizens who did need that kind of help but couldn't afford the nursing care on their own, so yes, I guess, sometimes.
No, the prevailing view is that the translation of the Hebrew should be closer to "If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lies with her, and they be found" rather than "and rapes her" (It's two words in Hebrew, and different words, like those for "seized" or "forced" would more likely be used to describe rape). Context also suggests that the intent was for a case where the woman was willing or seduced. Also, Exodus 22:16-17 says almost the same thing, including the same punishment of requiring the paying of a bride-price and forcing the man to marry the woman, but uses a word translated as "entices" or "seduces" rather than "lays hold of".
It's not video games that are causing the things you see, it is people who are unhappy with their lives finding a way to escape them.
Bullshit. I mean, there is some of that in everybody, and that desire for avoidance can influence people's behaviour (I admit it has mine at times). But the companies that make games know perfectly well that the game does better the more addictive it is, even if they don't think about it in those terms.
Only drooling idiots think that unconditional love precludes treating a psyochopathic monster as such. (And someone who refers to a child as "it", is probably showing some psychopathic tendencies themselves.)
The researchers focused on two outcomes of the DAWBA: risk for depression, and risk for “conduct disorder,” which is a term describing antisocial behaviors in children.
Finding no significant correlation between video gaming and those outcomes does not really prove the broad conclusion of the headline that "Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK".
Then what is the Office of Weights and Measures for?
And what meaning would the Mendenhall Order of 1893 have had if the US didn't have a system?
If there were no system back in the days when money was backed by "precious" metals, how could have the value of the US dollar been set to a particular amount of gold?
In fewer words: Combustible: will burn. EG paper, wood shavings, coal... Flammable: easily ignited. EG gasoline vapor, ether,...
In the presence of sufficient oxygen and at normal temperatures.
FTFY
For liquids, in more words:
Flammable: Defined as liquids having closed cup flash points below 100F (37C) and vapor pressures not exceeding 40 psi (276 kPa) (2.76 bar) at 100F (37C)
Combustible: Defined as liquids having closed cup flash points at or above 100F (37C)
I agree that poor people take the brunt of the government incompetence, but that's simply because the rich people have folks on the government payroll looking out for their interests when resources get tight.
FTFY
Actually, though I doubt the state government purposefully lead-poisoned the citizens of Flint (they would have known it would be a scandal), you are underestimating the capacity of those in power to hold the working poor in contempt and being OK with letting those freeloaders get hurt: After all, you get out of life what you put into it, so they probably deserve it. (Even if on a personal level they feel some pity when they see it actually happen.)
Fun fact, the Romans DIDN'T have problems with lead in their drinking water.
Fun fact, the Romans DID purposefully put lead in their drinking wine, to make it taste sweeter, and used it in cosmetics and other things.
This is because the water is so hard that lime scale quickly builds up in the pipes. . . the cause to Flint, MI's problem might be the solution to it as well.
Lead leeching into Flint MI's water is apparently because the water is corrosive enough to remove the lime scale and dissolve lead from the pipe.
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Are you saying that those were Democrat bills that were passed because the Republicans compromised with the Democrats? If so, you're way off. The majority of Republican politicians supported those outside of any deals with Democratic politicians. Not to mention all of the years of massive deficit spending under Republican politicians' "leadership". (Please don't get me wrong - the Democratic politicians are not without blame in any of the above)
That's not exactly correct. MS made deals like: We notice that 75% of your PCs are sold with windows installed. You can pay us X$ for every PC you sell, whether or not it has MS Windows on it, plus we'll throw in MS Word for free on each of them. Or else we'll charge you 3X$ for each copy of windows plus 3X$ for each copy of Word you sell.
So that, essentially, became the Windows tax we all love to hate, and if you wanted anything else, instead, the PC OEMs might offer it, but you had to pay extra.
Then you just haven't tried hard enough. I'm aware of several large companies that would fingerprint applicants, and have had to submit fingerprints for a background check just to qualify to be a consultant to them. It's really not uncommon for financial companies.
Not in the city where I most often take a taxi, Chicago. There, the number of medallions is regulated by the government, but once issued (for a relatively modest fee), they can be bought and sold by private interests in a free market, not a government-run market. (YMMV)
Most of those points wouldn't be controlled by the thermostat (I would hope), but by the internal controls in the equipment. Even if they were accessible thru the thermostat, you shouldn't be able to change things like the anti-short cycle timer or the compressor low ambient lock-out.
The trend is for single phase motors to go ECM for any application where the speed needs to be adjustable or variable. This is a fact of life for all types and brands of equipment. 10 years ago, we had a job where dozens of ECM motors had to be replaced not long after being installed. The manufacturers seem to have caught on and now use motors that can handle the electronic switching better, so there's very few early failures anymore.
The other trend in appliances is to add digital electronics that fail easily and require wholesale board replacement when they fail. I guess the warranty expenses are worth it to the manufacturers compared to making (buying from an outsourced supplier) something better.
So, while I feel your pain, it is not Trane leading the way here, they're following the market trends.
First, you're talking about their residential lines. Nobody makes small, off-the-shelf refrigeration systems in the US anymore. Everybody makes them in Asia. (I think there's one manufacturer making them in Africa.)
Trane's commercial lines are considered middle-of-the-road: Not the high quality equipment that costs too much for the typical cheap budget, and not the piece of crap that will get the submittal rejected by the specifying engineer.
You are right, though, about branding, though by no means is that limited to Trane. Everyone keeps getting bought and sold and outsourcing their components - to the point that naming different models from different manufacturers in the spec can give you a choice of buying the exact same item with different labels.
A cube power law is not a cube force law.
Wind has a velocity pressure that is proportional to the square of the speed. This pressure over an area gives you force. Adjusting the angle of the blades can change the force vectors and apparent area enough to withstand the wind. (In high enough winds, at the expense of shutting down power production)
Not that it's easy to make a big blade both strong enough for normal operation and light enough to start rotating at low wind speeds. I believe, however, that once you get one going, it can keep rotating in pretty low winds and produce at least some power.
Problem is, the laws were changed in the 1990s to allow 'Deposit banks' to act like Investment banks and play Stock Market, REIT, Credit Default Swap, and other Option games with the deposits. That's been partly rolled back since the great recession.
And yes, when those houses of cards fell, that was a bank screw, as the taxpayers had to pony up money to shore up the inadequate deposit insurance pools and to prevent a depression.
Of course, you also need to take into account the size of the meteorite and the size of its' blast zone. It does not not need to be a direct hit to kill you, and this did not appear to be a direct hit, either.
I do not think "in lieu of" means what you think it means.
Well, I have known some indigent senior citizens who did need that kind of help but couldn't afford the nursing care on their own, so yes, I guess, sometimes.
No, the prevailing view is that the translation of the Hebrew should be closer to "If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lies with her, and they be found" rather than "and rapes her" (It's two words in Hebrew, and different words, like those for "seized" or "forced" would more likely be used to describe rape).
Context also suggests that the intent was for a case where the woman was willing or seduced.
Also, Exodus 22:16-17 says almost the same thing, including the same punishment of requiring the paying of a bride-price and forcing the man to marry the woman, but uses a word translated as "entices" or "seduces" rather than "lays hold of".
Bullshit. I mean, there is some of that in everybody, and that desire for avoidance can influence people's behaviour (I admit it has mine at times). But the companies that make games know perfectly well that the game does better the more addictive it is, even if they don't think about it in those terms.
Only drooling idiots think that unconditional love precludes treating a psyochopathic monster as such. (And someone who refers to a child as "it", is probably showing some psychopathic tendencies themselves.)
Finding no significant correlation between video gaming and those outcomes does not really prove the broad conclusion of the headline that "Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK".
I don't think "the last mile" means what you think it means.
Then what is the Office of Weights and Measures for?
And what meaning would the Mendenhall Order of 1893 have had if the US didn't have a system?
If there were no system back in the days when money was backed by "precious" metals, how could have the value of the US dollar been set to a particular amount of gold?
In fewer words: ... ...
Combustible: will burn. EG paper, wood shavings, coal
Flammable: easily ignited. EG gasoline vapor, ether,
In the presence of sufficient oxygen and at normal temperatures.
FTFY
For liquids, in more words:
Flammable: Defined as liquids having closed cup flash points below 100F (37C) and vapor pressures not exceeding 40 psi (276 kPa) (2.76 bar) at 100F (37C)
Combustible: Defined as liquids having closed cup flash points at or above 100F (37C)
I, for one, welcome our new naked mole rat visionary overlords.
When I first read it, I thought "What is 'Computer Beats', exactly, and what did it do to go 'Champion'?"
You should realize that plain ol' ASClI also has homographs, and that in many fonts those are harder to recognize than the accents.
FTFY
Actually, though I doubt the state government purposefully lead-poisoned the citizens of Flint (they would have known it would be a scandal), you are underestimating the capacity of those in power to hold the working poor in contempt and being OK with letting those freeloaders get hurt: After all, you get out of life what you put into it, so they probably deserve it. (Even if on a personal level they feel some pity when they see it actually happen.)
Fun fact, the Romans DID purposefully put lead in their drinking wine, to make it taste sweeter, and used it in cosmetics and other things.
Lead leeching into Flint MI's water is apparently because the water is corrosive enough to remove the lime scale and dissolve lead from the pipe.
The headline made me think somebody's making intelligent robots for industry, which might be interesting, then all it is is stupid chatbots.