72,000,000 cubic feet as the largest building in the world seems like it might be a typo to me - it seems that more space would be needed for building several 747s at a time.
I just worked on a new hangar for a major airline which was sized to work on a couple of wide body jets or three narrow bodies (not even a jumbo jet) and I calculate it to be around 20,000,000 cubic feet, give or take. The new hangar is connected to an old hangar of similar size, which technically makes the combined two hangars a single building, at least according to the building code officials. Also, it's not the largest hangar at that airport, and that airport is not where airlines sends their planes when they need a major overhaul.
Don't know where you live, but most states I know allow an employee to have the title of "engineer" as long as they're working for an engineering firm under a licensed PE, even if they wouldn't qualify to hang out their own shingle as an "engineer".
Most baby boomers I know had defined pension plans which were not market linked.
Then maybe you don't know a lot of baby boomers, because the only baby boomers I know with defined pension plans were union school teachers. The only other baby boomer I know who had a defined pension plan lost it when the company he worked for for decades went bankrupt. (Don't know why it's legal for a company to offer a self-financed pension plan.) And I know a lot of baby boomers, since I am one.
You missed at least half the story. Less than half of spending goes towards teaching. It is a huge pot of money without accountability and is getting "stolen" by administration.
From the link inside the linked article, which was about student fees,
under half of fee income goes on teaching but most of the rest also benefits students.
Oh, yeah, I remember my dad's old Ford, which my brother eventually bought. Starting that up in cold weather meant opening the hood, sticking a hairbrush handle in to hold open the choke, getting in and starting it, getting back out and removing the hair brush and closing the hood.
Yeah. I once walked out on a dealer because every time I tried to negotiate the price, he talked about monthly payments. The only time I've financed a car through a dealer is when the interest rate offered was less than inflation.
A software problem that was fixed for free in my wife's Honda Odyssey and never caused us a transmission problem for 240,000 miles.
Compared to the Dodge Caravan which needed a transmission work just before the 70,000 mile warranty was up, but the dealer insisted it didn't. Then it utterly failed just after 70,000 miles, and the dealer insisted it wasn't under warranty. And then the transmission needed to be replaced / repaired a couple more times before we got rid of that minivan at 120,000 miles when it started to give us transmission trouble once again.
My Honda only lasted 240,000 miles.
Donated it to the community college auto shop class rather than putting money into figuring out why it kept losing steering fluid and why the battery kept draining. (Electrical problems have been the hardest to figure out, in my experience.)
Either reading comprehension or troll
You left out the sentence before stating that the best selling American-made SUV is the Chevy Equinox. That's what the "290,000 of them" refers to.
Meant to also note:
Some of the commands that AutoCAD ships with are actually Lisp routines.
DXF files are lisp compatible lists full of parentheses and dotted pairs.
AutoLisp is better than the Visual Basic alternate AutoCAD offers. (At least once you learn the idiosyncrasies of AutoLisp).
I've only used the interpreter, the subject malware is compiled, which should mean I wouldn't trust it unless it was from a well-known trusted source, and even then I'd question it.
AutoCAD won't run a lisp routine unless the source is located in a directory that has been marked by the user as trusted. If you restrict write access to the trusted folder, that should help save you from attacks that can't elevate privileges. But it may give you a dialog box allowing you to run it from a non-trusted location, anyway, depending on the security settings you select.
I designed a pair of fan rooms, including banks of very noisy propeller exhaust fans along the outside wall. I had them put acoustical lining on the interior wall (which was a metal wall of an air handling unit). They didn't put acoustical treatment on the door, and you could hear a significant difference in sound level just walking past the door.
Rugs. Their almost as good as carpeting, easier to clean, easier to replace, and portable. So you can have solid, cleanable surfaces where and when you want, and soft, noise dampening, surfaces where and when you want..
The above post is clueless. ADA, Fire Safety, and Sanitation inspections may affect restaurant designs or costs some, but they have nothing to do with the excessive noise levels experienced at a lot of modern restaurants..
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Floor area is the usual metric for the size of a building. Leasable floor area is the important number for most commercial buildings.
72,000,000 cubic feet as the largest building in the world seems like it might be a typo to me - it seems that more space would be needed for building several 747s at a time.
I just worked on a new hangar for a major airline which was sized to work on a couple of wide body jets or three narrow bodies (not even a jumbo jet) and I calculate it to be around 20,000,000 cubic feet, give or take. The new hangar is connected to an old hangar of similar size, which technically makes the combined two hangars a single building, at least according to the building code officials. Also, it's not the largest hangar at that airport, and that airport is not where airlines sends their planes when they need a major overhaul.
When there is a ceiling on the rate (e.g. 100%), geometrical progression is a very poor model.
Don't know where you live, but most states I know allow an employee to have the title of "engineer" as long as they're working for an engineering firm under a licensed PE, even if they wouldn't qualify to hang out their own shingle as an "engineer".
Then maybe you don't know a lot of baby boomers, because the only baby boomers I know with defined pension plans were union school teachers. The only other baby boomer I know who had a defined pension plan lost it when the company he worked for for decades went bankrupt. (Don't know why it's legal for a company to offer a self-financed pension plan.) And I know a lot of baby boomers, since I am one.
From the link inside the linked article, which was about student fees,
under half of fee income goes on teaching but most of the rest also benefits students.
I prefer to serve my criminals with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
The return for the last 10 years is not a particularly good indicator, since 10 years ago was near the bottom of the recession.
Oh, yeah, I remember my dad's old Ford, which my brother eventually bought. Starting that up in cold weather meant opening the hood, sticking a hairbrush handle in to hold open the choke, getting in and starting it, getting back out and removing the hair brush and closing the hood.
Yeah. I once walked out on a dealer because every time I tried to negotiate the price, he talked about monthly payments. The only time I've financed a car through a dealer is when the interest rate offered was less than inflation.
My take on it is that the Japanese case were vastly inferior to American cars until up to maybe the '80s.
A software problem that was fixed for free in my wife's Honda Odyssey and never caused us a transmission problem for 240,000 miles.
Compared to the Dodge Caravan which needed a transmission work just before the 70,000 mile warranty was up, but the dealer insisted it didn't. Then it utterly failed just after 70,000 miles, and the dealer insisted it wasn't under warranty. And then the transmission needed to be replaced / repaired a couple more times before we got rid of that minivan at 120,000 miles when it started to give us transmission trouble once again.
My Honda only lasted 240,000 miles.
Donated it to the community college auto shop class rather than putting money into figuring out why it kept losing steering fluid and why the battery kept draining. (Electrical problems have been the hardest to figure out, in my experience.)
Either reading comprehension or troll
You left out the sentence before stating that the best selling American-made SUV is the Chevy Equinox. That's what the "290,000 of them" refers to.
Meant to also note:
Some of the commands that AutoCAD ships with are actually Lisp routines.
DXF files are lisp compatible lists full of parentheses and dotted pairs.
Yes. To automate tasks and to create custom commands. Makes it very easy and quick to do some things that would otherwise take multiple steps.
AutoLisp is better than the Visual Basic alternate AutoCAD offers. (At least once you learn the idiosyncrasies of AutoLisp).
I've only used the interpreter, the subject malware is compiled, which should mean I wouldn't trust it unless it was from a well-known trusted source, and even then I'd question it.
AutoCAD won't run a lisp routine unless the source is located in a directory that has been marked by the user as trusted. If you restrict write access to the trusted folder, that should help save you from attacks that can't elevate privileges. But it may give you a dialog box allowing you to run it from a non-trusted location, anyway, depending on the security settings you select.
I have found that the more they (CADD programs) do, the worse the end product. (I'm looking at you, Revit)
There's nothing special about acoustical ceiling tile. It's cheaper than gyp board or wood ceilings.
I designed a pair of fan rooms, including banks of very noisy propeller exhaust fans along the outside wall. I had them put acoustical lining on the interior wall (which was a metal wall of an air handling unit). They didn't put acoustical treatment on the door, and you could hear a significant difference in sound level just walking past the door.
Rugs. Their almost as good as carpeting, easier to clean, easier to replace, and portable. So you can have solid, cleanable surfaces where and when you want, and soft, noise dampening, surfaces where and when you want..
The above post is clueless. ADA, Fire Safety, and Sanitation inspections may affect restaurant designs or costs some, but they have nothing to do with the excessive noise levels experienced at a lot of modern restaurants..
The University of Chicago is in the middle of the country.
That has got to be the biggest pile of horseshit I've ever read about women in the workplace, at least based on my experience.
Based on what we found out about the 60s radicals, the ANTIFA members pushing violence the most would be plants working against ANTIFA.