False. Well, just about anything causes some noise, but it does not need to be noticeable. Think for a second. Recording studios and TV stations need air conditoining, and have strict limits onthe amount of noise that is tolerable.
You can easily convert energy into heat, another form of energy. But you can't convert it into cold, which is the lack of energy.
False. "Converting" energy into cold is the purpose of air conditioning
ou have to generate heat to generate cold -- in fact, more heat than you generate cold, due to entropy.
False. Study up on thermodynamics a little. The COP of A/C is usually well over 1.0.
Add to this that heat radiates, while cold doesn't.
False. Well, at least in the same sense that the standard direction of flow of electricity is from positive to negative. Radiant heat flow causes the cold side to get warmer and the warm side to get colder. Radiant cooling systems have been in use for a long time, though they're hard to manage in humid climates due to the need to avoid condensation
If you're used to 10 dB ambient sound levels when no one is talking, a "silent" central air unit of 30-35 dB sounds rather loud. I know, because I sit in an office with central air right now. Those who are conditioned to the sound won't hear it, but central air is far from silent.
Just because many central air systems are noisy, doesn't mean they have to be. Also, most heating systems include fans and coils/heat exchangers, so can be just as noisy. 10dB or 30 dB by themselves mean nothing, by the way, as dB are relative units, and you haven't indicated the base, nor have you stated whether you are talking sound pressure or sound power. Assuming 10 NC or RC, you're complaining about something that is too quiet to notice in almost all normal environments.
People here can't hear a mosquito from across the room or their watch ticking on their arm, because it's never silent.
Often true.
In large parts due to air conditioning, including central air.
Prices don't go down when demand increases, prices go down when you have more product than buyers.
Demand doesn't increase when prices go up, demand increases when you get more benefit than cost.
Prices go down in a competitive environment when improved technology allows cheaper manufacturing or improved efficiencies. Those sorts of improvements are what the subsidies were supposed to jump-start. (which is not the same thing as saying the subsidies were actually implemented in a way that was intended to improve the technology)
Get the government and unions out of education, and watch achievement return to what it was in the '50s and '60s.
First, government was just as involved, if not more so, in education in the 50s and 60s as it is now, and unions were prominent in education during that time (at least in Chicago, of which I'm most familiar with in the 60s)
Second, if you were aware of reporting about education in the popular press in the 50s and 60s, and even the 30s and 40s, you would be aware there have always been alarming stories about how bad public education is and how it's going downhill.
Use of electricity during the day = $0.05/kWh. Use of electricity an night = $0.50/kWh. Now you've got to solve the battery problem AND the solar panel problem.
Nah, then all you need is batteries and a charging and inverter system. No solar panels at all. Because all you'd have to do is store electricity from the company during the day, and use it at night or when the power is down. Right now, there's no great price advantage to doing this, but the second the day and night prices diverge significantly, there would be.
Citation needed. "Race" is obviously a simplification, but to deny there's no genetic difference between someone from China, someone from Africa, an aborigine from Australia, and someone from Germany is not only wrong but ridiculous. Furthermore, people from those different groups of people absolutely have recognizable genetic trends: i.e., two people from Germany will be much more similar genetically than a person from Germany and a person from China.
There are real differences among various populations spread around the world.
But they don't rise to meet the biological definition of race.
I grew up in Chicago, and I can tell you, everyone, including Obama, was aware of political corruption. But Obama was not inside the corrupt crowd. He was what the pols would deridingly call an elite Hyde Park liberal.
I know folks who go to the hospital for that and things even more trivial. Like - I am not making this up - heartburn.
Like my uncle, who went to the emergency room with chest pain, only to be treated for heartburn and sent home, only to come back to the emergency room several hours later and die of the heart attack he was actually having.
FYI, symptoms of heartburn are similar to symptoms heart attacks.
That's the one I did get wrong. I did it in my head, but that wasn't the main problem. Apparently I need glasses because I didn't see the "÷" as divide, but as minus. (still got it wrong, though.)
I don't understand why managers would go for a cheap hourly rate, when the total cost of the final product should be the measure of costs.
If you're "outsourcing", shouldn't you be defining the results needed and asking for al fee to accomplish it?
I work for consulting engineers, and typically the only times hourly rates come into play are when client changes come after work is completed. Everything else tends to be flat fee for a more-or-less defined project scope. That still leaves room for someone to fuck the job up, but it allows you to require them to fix it for free (or if they don't, to withhold payments)
This seems to be a tempest in a teapot.
If you're being paid by salary, you're almost certainly already exempt, and this change won't affect you.
If you're being paid an hourly rate less than $27.63 an hour, this change won't affect you.
If you're being paid an hourly rate greater than $27.63 an hour, you're probably already be exempt, but with this bill your company won't have to go to court to find out for sure.
Also, if you're being paid an hourly rate greater than $27.63 an hour, you should be compensated at your hourly rate for overtime, there just won't be a question in law of whether you should be compensated at 1.5 times your hourly rate.
This bill tries to clarify things so there are fewer lawsuits
(We'll see if it actually works.)
Frankly, I've worked as an engineer (mechanical, not software) being paid hourly rates for 30 years, and I've never gotten time-and-a-half for overtime, even when I was just a draftsman making $7 / hour. But I've always been paid my regular hourly rate for overtime, unless I chose to take compensatory time off, instead.
Sounded to me more like the people with enough money to buy "commercial real-estate and mult-unit dwellings" were the ones hoping a bit of retouching would help way potential condo buyers and office renters. In my limited experience, it would help sales/rentals.
"Copyright is for protecting written information."
Copyright is for controlling the distribution of information.
Neither is correct. Copyright is for a awarding a monopoly on creating tangible copies of a creative work. It does not need to be a written work (e.g. it could be an audio recording or a film), and it definitely does not include any information conveyed by the creative work.
Here (though it is an insane system, this part isn't) if there is only one way of expressing something, like a connection to a defined interface, then you cannot claim infringement for someone using that expression.
I believe it goes even further than that. If there are only a couple of ways of expressing something, then you cannot claim that expressing it is copyright infringement, even if the expression is an exact copy.
This is about INTERNAL mail. Don't know many companies who are opening lawsuits against themself. Not using email does not mean it will not be documented somehow.
For outside lawsuits, internal e-mails may still be evidence.
Regardless of that, internal e-mails still help document that you sent someone that file, that your boss directed you take some particular action, that you have a due date, etc. In my experience, not using e-mails severely reduces the chance that things will be documented as required, unless you're still using snail mail or faxes. (and, in my case, paper gets lost quickly, while I'm almost always able to find electronic on the server in my mail or in the job file.)
Actually, no, the Chernobyl disaster was sparked with a 'live' test of a new, untested mechanism for powering reactor cooling systems in the event of a disaster that brought down the power grid.
Like the GP said, it was because their procedures were shit, not because they were doing maintenance.
I am paying into it now and it's a fact that I won't receive it. I don't mind paying for the elderly, but the program needs to be cut off at its knees now because it is the height of injustice to expect us and Generation X to fund such a horribly mismanaged program now that the Boomers want to retire.
You are drinking the koolaid. Social Security by itself is completely solvent for the next 15 years, and the long term shortfall could be easily addressed by raising the cap on payments into it to a higher income level or cutting the benefits about 15% to 20%.
The real problem is not SS, but the fact that Congress borrows the SS surplus and counts it against the deficit.
The program that is actually in deep trouble is Medicare, and that's because of the rapidly accelerating inflation in the health care industry. But as bad as that is, try private insurance for your old age see how far you get without running out of money.
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False. Well, just about anything causes some noise, but it does not need to be noticeable. Think for a second. Recording studios and TV stations need air conditoining, and have strict limits onthe amount of noise that is tolerable.
False. "Converting" energy into cold is the purpose of air conditioning
False. Study up on thermodynamics a little. The COP of A/C is usually well over 1.0.
False. Well, at least in the same sense that the standard direction of flow of electricity is from positive to negative. Radiant heat flow causes the cold side to get warmer and the warm side to get colder. Radiant cooling systems have been in use for a long time, though they're hard to manage in humid climates due to the need to avoid condensation
Just because many central air systems are noisy, doesn't mean they have to be. Also, most heating systems include fans and coils/heat exchangers, so can be just as noisy. 10dB or 30 dB by themselves mean nothing, by the way, as dB are relative units, and you haven't indicated the base, nor have you stated whether you are talking sound pressure or sound power. Assuming 10 NC or RC, you're complaining about something that is too quiet to notice in almost all normal environments.
Often true.
Seldom true, especially least in the winter.
Wrong.
It has nothing to do with copyright.
Demand doesn't increase when prices go up, demand increases when you get more benefit than cost.
Prices go down in a competitive environment when improved technology allows cheaper manufacturing or improved efficiencies. Those sorts of improvements are what the subsidies were supposed to jump-start. (which is not the same thing as saying the subsidies were actually implemented in a way that was intended to improve the technology)
Really?
What was so hard about that?
First, government was just as involved, if not more so, in education in the 50s and 60s as it is now, and unions were prominent in education during that time (at least in Chicago, of which I'm most familiar with in the 60s)
Second, if you were aware of reporting about education in the popular press in the 50s and 60s, and even the 30s and 40s, you would be aware there have always been alarming stories about how bad public education is and how it's going downhill.
Renting a car for a weekend road trip every couple of months would be far cheaper than owning two cars, though.
People who did a little too much LDS in the '60s.
What did the Mormons have to do with Start Trek?
Use of electricity during the day = $0.05/kWh. Use of electricity an night = $0.50/kWh. Now you've got to solve the battery problem AND the solar panel problem.
Hhmmm, it seems those sorts of rates are already in use.
There are real differences among various populations spread around the world.
But they don't rise to meet the biological definition of race.
The biological context of the term race is only widely accepted when used to refer to a subspecies arising from a partially isolated reproductive population and thus share a considerable degree of genetic similarity.
I grew up in Chicago, and I can tell you, everyone, including Obama, was aware of political corruption. But Obama was not inside the corrupt crowd. He was what the pols would deridingly call an elite Hyde Park liberal.
Like my uncle, who went to the emergency room with chest pain, only to be treated for heartburn and sent home, only to come back to the emergency room several hours later and die of the heart attack he was actually having.
FYI, symptoms of heartburn are similar to symptoms heart attacks.
That's the one I did get wrong. I did it in my head, but that wasn't the main problem. Apparently I need glasses because I didn't see the "÷" as divide, but as minus. (still got it wrong, though.)
I don't understand why managers would go for a cheap hourly rate, when the total cost of the final product should be the measure of costs.
If you're "outsourcing", shouldn't you be defining the results needed and asking for al fee to accomplish it?
I work for consulting engineers, and typically the only times hourly rates come into play are when client changes come after work is completed. Everything else tends to be flat fee for a more-or-less defined project scope. That still leaves room for someone to fuck the job up, but it allows you to require them to fix it for free (or if they don't, to withhold payments)
Mod parent up, Informative.
This seems to be a tempest in a teapot.
If you're being paid by salary, you're almost certainly already exempt, and this change won't affect you.
If you're being paid an hourly rate less than $27.63 an hour, this change won't affect you.
If you're being paid an hourly rate greater than $27.63 an hour, you're probably already be exempt, but with this bill your company won't have to go to court to find out for sure.
Also, if you're being paid an hourly rate greater than $27.63 an hour, you should be compensated at your hourly rate for overtime, there just won't be a question in law of whether you should be compensated at 1.5 times your hourly rate.
This bill tries to clarify things so there are fewer lawsuits
(We'll see if it actually works.)
Frankly, I've worked as an engineer (mechanical, not software) being paid hourly rates for 30 years, and I've never gotten time-and-a-half for overtime, even when I was just a draftsman making $7 / hour. But I've always been paid my regular hourly rate for overtime, unless I chose to take compensatory time off, instead.
Too many lawsuits, not enough legal definition.
Neither.
It means the company is not required to pay them time and a half for overtime, unless they're making less than $27.63 an hour.
Sounded to me more like the people with enough money to buy "commercial real-estate and mult-unit dwellings" were the ones hoping a bit of retouching would help way potential condo buyers and office renters. In my limited experience, it would help sales/rentals.
Neither is correct. Copyright is for a awarding a monopoly on creating tangible copies of a creative work. It does not need to be a written work (e.g. it could be an audio recording or a film), and it definitely does not include any information conveyed by the creative work.
Here (though it is an insane system, this part isn't) if there is only one way of expressing something, like a connection to a defined interface, then you cannot claim infringement for someone using that expression.
I believe it goes even further than that. If there are only a couple of ways of expressing something, then you cannot claim that expressing it is copyright infringement, even if the expression is an exact copy.
For outside lawsuits, internal e-mails may still be evidence.
Regardless of that, internal e-mails still help document that you sent someone that file, that your boss directed you take some particular action, that you have a due date, etc. In my experience, not using e-mails severely reduces the chance that things will be documented as required, unless you're still using snail mail or faxes. (and, in my case, paper gets lost quickly, while I'm almost always able to find electronic on the server in my mail or in the job file.)
Like the GP said, it was because their procedures were shit, not because they were doing maintenance.
Plasmodium (malaria). Not a bacteria, but
Although the red blood cell surface adhesive proteins (called PfEMP1, for Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1) are exposed to the immune system, they do not serve as good immune targets, because of their extreme diversity; there are at least 60 variations of the protein within a single parasite and even more variants within whole parasite populations.[39] The parasite switches between a broad repertoire of PfEMP1 surface proteins, thus staying one step ahead of the pursuing immune system.
You are drinking the koolaid. Social Security by itself is completely solvent for the next 15 years, and the long term shortfall could be easily addressed by raising the cap on payments into it to a higher income level or cutting the benefits about 15% to 20%.
The real problem is not SS, but the fact that Congress borrows the SS surplus and counts it against the deficit.
The program that is actually in deep trouble is Medicare, and that's because of the rapidly accelerating inflation in the health care industry. But as bad as that is, try private insurance for your old age see how far you get without running out of money.
They may, but they don't.