IANASE but I believe 1930's tech meant steel framed, whereas ferroconcrete is more popular these days.
Reinforced concrete is used for most mid-rise buildings and some residential high-rise buildings because it sways less (and usually costs less, to a point). But steel is still the preferred choice for very tall buildings because it weighs less per unit strength, which makes a big difference since every floor has to support all the floors above it.
Seriously, who puts their top secret stuff on the Internet anyway?
In my (limited) experience, plans and specs are distributed and shared among the parties involved via the internet using limited, password-style protections. But nobody sees the security blueprints except the security system designer/installer and the owner. The general contractor never sees them. The electrical contractor only gets a plan with power requirements and conduit layouts. Those drawings are not freely shared with other sub-contractors. The electrical contractor provides power for unspecified devices and runs conduit so the security contractor can pull their own cables and wires.
Regardless of the headlines, I would assume that the Australian government was not so stupid as to allow the actual security equipment and wiring layouts and schematics for a top secret installation to be available on the internet - but I could be wrong.
Agreed, those were important to Sears' decline. But Sears was one of our biggest clients from the 80's through the mid 90's, and what I saw that hurt them was a lack of identity. One year they would try to compete with Kmart, then next year they would try to be higher end and compete with Marshall Fields and Nieman Marcus, then they would decide that Craftsman hardware and Kenmore appliances were their strength, then they would decide that apparel was higher margin, and they would try to emulate Penny's or maybe a Gap or Land's End, then they would decide that they needed to concentrate on electronics, and then that they needed to compete with appliance stores and offer more brands, etc. (not necessarily in that order) For example, I once worked on a new store in an upscale neighborhood (Chicago's New Town). We started out with a regular, but small store, then they put out a plan for a hard good sonly store (hardware and appliances, etc), then after the design was complete, they changed it to an all soft goods (clothing, etc.) store, necessitating a redesign. In the end, the store closed a couple of years after finally opening.
Sears does actually have experience with data centers. They've built and managed their own data centers (including a whole floor in the building previously known as the Sears Tower) and they've run credit card systems both for themselves and for other businesses. I don't know if they have useful institutional memory about it, though.
Typically I have seen ten-year leases with 5-year options to extend after that. Sears mall anchor stores are older than ten years, so they could have gotten out of those leases relatively quickly if they had wanted to. However, their standalone stores are almost all owned by Sears, no lease involved.
(sorry about replying twice)
Actually, Sears has many stores built before the 80's that they own outright. That's just about the only reason they were worth buying out in the first place.
"Sears" (though really a different company, then) has more or less done this once successfully in the 80's when they launched Discover card. They located most of their call centers/data centers in underutilized stores - back then there was a big push to reduce stock space and do "just-in-time"inventory, so they converted a lot of storage space and poorly performing retail space into office / call center / data processing space. Surprising as it may seem, they typically had sufficient A/C and electrical, though they did need to add emergency generators & UPSs.
Of course, since Discover actually made money, they spun it off to "return value to our shareholders and concentrate on our core competency" of losing money at retail sales. (In the past, Sears has owned and sold off or spun off profitable companies like Allstate insurance, Coldwell Banker, Homart developers, Dean Witter, Morgan Stanley, among others)
Interesting link. The Relativity Deniers in that article sound an awful lot like the Global Warming Deniers of today, not so much like the authors of the abstracts evaluated by the study in TFA.
However the conclusions broadcast by TFS and TFA have too much spin. They throw out those that did not take a stance one way or the other on the reality of global warming, and then took the "percentage" agreeing from only the remaining.
True, but when the government decides to regulate corporations, they have a right to speak, like the individual person does.
Corporations can't speak, though the people associating through them do have a First Amendment right that they can exercise through the corporation..
Those people do not have an inherent right to limit their liability to the assets of the corporation, though. So I suggest that they give up limited liability if they want to use the corporation to make campaign contributions.
. . . we aren't anywhere near peak oil, and there is likely vast amounts of oil not yet discovered.
Peak oil is when we extract oil faster than the proven reserves grow. The rise in prices allowed advances in fracking technology to be economical, which have gained us 10 years or so. Similar advances in the future are sure to gain us more. Nothing will prevent peak oil from being hit in the relatively near future, and in the meantime it will only get more expensive to extract oil.
Isn't it amazing that we had 16 years of growth before Clinton, and 7 decent years under Clinton before the.Com Bubble burst and 9/11 happened and yet it is all GWB's fault
It is obviously not all G W Bush's fault. However, Reagan's first years were in a recession, and so were the last year or so of George H W Bush's term, so we obviously didn't have 16 years of growth before Clinton. (also, the.dotcom bust didn't really have a great effect on the economy beyond the tech bubble - at least those were some of the busiest years in my career)
In a natural market when there is high unemployment there is a high interest rate.
Interesting that you should say that, since, in my experience, economists have said basically the opposite. In the late 70s & early 80s we simultaneously had double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation/interest rates, and it was described as something that shouldn't happen. (A significant factor was that capital was being greatly restricted by the Fed in order to squeeze out the inflation. And it worked, too, though it caused a lot of harm to individuals caught in the squeeze. Of course, Reagan and the Republicans took all the credit when the economy inevitably recovered.)
My old boss helped design a system like that, maybe 50 years ago (before my time) It had a tube to each seat hooked up to a central supply fan, with some sort of odor sources that emitted the smell into the inlet of the fan, timed to coincide with the movie. I'm not sure whether it had to have timers set up ahead of time, or it received a signal from the projection system. But either way, the problem was that there was a delay between releasing the odor and it getting to the seats, and you had to not only time that delay, you had to balance the airflows so that every seat got the smell at the same time. Apparently it was a real pain in the ass for him. I'm guessing that modern smell-o-vision could have an individual odor emitter at every seat or two to reduce those delay problems.
I don't know about your particular case, but you'll find that a lot of farm country has no building codes for what the farmers can build. A friend of mine built a house and workshop in rural Wisconsin, and they definitely had no code to follow, "as long as it wasn't commercial or industrial". Also, the IBC is definitely not the code used everywhere in the US. Some states, like Illinois, have their own codes. Large cities, like Chicago (separate from the state code), often have their own code (and some smaller towns, too). The Uniform Codes are still popular, especially the Uniform Plumbing Code and especially in the West. NFPA and NEC are often enforced. Most authorities promulgate amendments to the standard codes they cite, often significantly changing parts of the standard code.
What they have, instead of zoning, is a lot of restrictive covenants attached to the real estate deeds. So you can't just up and build a fertilizer factory in your back yard, because, even if the lack of zoning laws would allow it, your deed, and the neighborhood association groups that often enforce the restrictions, wouldn't allow it. Restrictive covenants also used to be popular to prevent you from selling to Jews, blacks, and other minorities, but those restrictions have been ruled unlawful. Nowadays they can be used to prevent you from painting your house garish colors, limit the types of fences you can put up, etc.
Take the Christian god. It's omniscient, omnipotent, yet has human form. It's described as one god, but is made up of three entities. Preordains everything, but simultaneously possesses free will.
The Christian God does not pre-ordain everything. Well, some Christian religions might believe that God has pre-ordained everything, but not all do.
Also, all the Christian discussions of free will I've heard are about humans having free will (usually in order to try to explain why misery exists even though the omnipotent God is loving). I don't think I've ever heard any Christian talking about God having a free will.
Put yourself in the place of some poor slob picking up the documentation 5 or 10 (or even 50) years from now, and decide whether reading what you're writing would be useful to them.
Hardly anything is useful 5 to 10 years out.
That is wrong.
There are many computer programs still in active use that are more than 10 years old that could benefit from good documentation.
More than once, I've used documentation over 100 years old (obviously not computer-programming related) that proved to be very useful in designing heating, ventilation, and plumbing for an old building.
There's a very long list of warnings on that site, including how the magnets can fry your electronics, and how you should never put any in a body orifice (are those stupid enough to die from small magnets smart enough to know what an orifice is?)
The best warning is "This product contains small balls.".
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Reinforced concrete is used for most mid-rise buildings and some residential high-rise buildings because it sways less (and usually costs less, to a point). But steel is still the preferred choice for very tall buildings because it weighs less per unit strength, which makes a big difference since every floor has to support all the floors above it.
<sarcasm>Yes, that's why gunpowder is made of liquids.</sarcasm>
There is a lot of cross-pollination between Wine and ReactOS.
In my (limited) experience, plans and specs are distributed and shared among the parties involved via the internet using limited, password-style protections. But nobody sees the security blueprints except the security system designer/installer and the owner. The general contractor never sees them. The electrical contractor only gets a plan with power requirements and conduit layouts. Those drawings are not freely shared with other sub-contractors. The electrical contractor provides power for unspecified devices and runs conduit so the security contractor can pull their own cables and wires.
Regardless of the headlines, I would assume that the Australian government was not so stupid as to allow the actual security equipment and wiring layouts and schematics for a top secret installation to be available on the internet - but I could be wrong.
Agreed, those were important to Sears' decline.
But Sears was one of our biggest clients from the 80's through the mid 90's, and what I saw that hurt them was a lack of identity. One year they would try to compete with Kmart, then next year they would try to be higher end and compete with Marshall Fields and Nieman Marcus, then they would decide that Craftsman hardware and Kenmore appliances were their strength, then they would decide that apparel was higher margin, and they would try to emulate Penny's or maybe a Gap or Land's End, then they would decide that they needed to concentrate on electronics, and then that they needed to compete with appliance stores and offer more brands, etc. (not necessarily in that order)
For example, I once worked on a new store in an upscale neighborhood (Chicago's New Town). We started out with a regular, but small store, then they put out a plan for a hard good sonly store (hardware and appliances, etc), then after the design was complete, they changed it to an all soft goods (clothing, etc.) store, necessitating a redesign. In the end, the store closed a couple of years after finally opening.
Sears does actually have experience with data centers. They've built and managed their own data centers (including a whole floor in the building previously known as the Sears Tower) and they've run credit card systems both for themselves and for other businesses. I don't know if they have useful institutional memory about it, though.
Typically I have seen ten-year leases with 5-year options to extend after that. Sears mall anchor stores are older than ten years, so they could have gotten out of those leases relatively quickly if they had wanted to. However, their standalone stores are almost all owned by Sears, no lease involved.
(sorry about replying twice)
Actually, Sears has many stores built before the 80's that they own outright. That's just about the only reason they were worth buying out in the first place.
"Sears" (though really a different company, then) has more or less done this once successfully in the 80's when they launched Discover card. They located most of their call centers/data centers in underutilized stores - back then there was a big push to reduce stock space and do "just-in-time"inventory, so they converted a lot of storage space and poorly performing retail space into office / call center / data processing space. Surprising as it may seem, they typically had sufficient A/C and electrical, though they did need to add emergency generators & UPSs.
Of course, since Discover actually made money, they spun it off to "return value to our shareholders and concentrate on our core competency" of losing money at retail sales. (In the past, Sears has owned and sold off or spun off profitable companies like Allstate insurance, Coldwell Banker, Homart developers, Dean Witter, Morgan Stanley, among others)
Interesting link. The Relativity Deniers in that article sound an awful lot like the Global Warming Deniers of today, not so much like the authors of the abstracts evaluated by the study in TFA.
However the conclusions broadcast by TFS and TFA have too much spin. They throw out those that did not take a stance one way or the other on the reality of global warming, and then took the "percentage" agreeing from only the remaining.
Corporations can't speak, though the people associating through them do have a First Amendment right that they can exercise through the corporation..
Those people do not have an inherent right to limit their liability to the assets of the corporation, though. So I suggest that they give up limited liability if they want to use the corporation to make campaign contributions.
According to TFA, above 400ppm.
Daily peak is not the same as daily average.
Peak oil is when we extract oil faster than the proven reserves grow. The rise in prices allowed advances in fracking technology to be economical, which have gained us 10 years or so. Similar advances in the future are sure to gain us more. Nothing will prevent peak oil from being hit in the relatively near future, and in the meantime it will only get more expensive to extract oil.
It is obviously not all G W Bush's fault. However, Reagan's first years were in a recession, and so were the last year or so of George H W Bush's term, so we obviously didn't have 16 years of growth before Clinton. (also, the .dotcom bust didn't really have a great effect on the economy beyond the tech bubble - at least those were some of the busiest years in my career)
Interesting that you should say that, since, in my experience, economists have said basically the opposite. In the late 70s & early 80s we simultaneously had double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation/interest rates, and it was described as something that shouldn't happen. (A significant factor was that capital was being greatly restricted by the Fed in order to squeeze out the inflation. And it worked, too, though it caused a lot of harm to individuals caught in the squeeze. Of course, Reagan and the Republicans took all the credit when the economy inevitably recovered.)
The photo in TFA clearly shows scales, not feathers.
oops, mis-moderated
My old boss helped design a system like that, maybe 50 years ago (before my time) It had a tube to each seat hooked up to a central supply fan, with some sort of odor sources that emitted the smell into the inlet of the fan, timed to coincide with the movie. I'm not sure whether it had to have timers set up ahead of time, or it received a signal from the projection system. But either way, the problem was that there was a delay between releasing the odor and it getting to the seats, and you had to not only time that delay, you had to balance the airflows so that every seat got the smell at the same time. Apparently it was a real pain in the ass for him. I'm guessing that modern smell-o-vision could have an individual odor emitter at every seat or two to reduce those delay problems.
I don't know about your particular case, but you'll find that a lot of farm country has no building codes for what the farmers can build. A friend of mine built a house and workshop in rural Wisconsin, and they definitely had no code to follow, "as long as it wasn't commercial or industrial".
Also, the IBC is definitely not the code used everywhere in the US. Some states, like Illinois, have their own codes. Large cities, like Chicago (separate from the state code), often have their own code (and some smaller towns, too). The Uniform Codes are still popular, especially the Uniform Plumbing Code and especially in the West. NFPA and NEC are often enforced. Most authorities promulgate amendments to the standard codes they cite, often significantly changing parts of the standard code.
What they have, instead of zoning, is a lot of restrictive covenants attached to the real estate deeds. So you can't just up and build a fertilizer factory in your back yard, because, even if the lack of zoning laws would allow it, your deed, and the neighborhood association groups that often enforce the restrictions, wouldn't allow it. Restrictive covenants also used to be popular to prevent you from selling to Jews, blacks, and other minorities, but those restrictions have been ruled unlawful. Nowadays they can be used to prevent you from painting your house garish colors, limit the types of fences you can put up, etc.
The Christian God does not pre-ordain everything. Well, some Christian religions might believe that God has pre-ordained everything, but not all do.
Also, all the Christian discussions of free will I've heard are about humans having free will (usually in order to try to explain why misery exists even though the omnipotent God is loving). I don't think I've ever heard any Christian talking about God having a free will.
That is wrong.
There are many computer programs still in active use that are more than 10 years old that could benefit from good documentation.
More than once, I've used documentation over 100 years old (obviously not computer-programming related) that proved to be very useful in designing heating, ventilation, and plumbing for an old building.
There's a very long list of warnings on that site, including how the magnets can fry your electronics, and how you should never put any in a body orifice (are those stupid enough to die from small magnets smart enough to know what an orifice is?)
The best warning is "This product contains small balls.".