There seems to be a recurring ignorance in these threads about what a highway is.
Historically a highway is a road that is raised from the surrounding grade, so it will stay relatively dry. Basically, dig two ditches and pile it in the middle.
In modern usage, a highway is usually named such for historical reasons and for reasons of what governmental entity is responsible for its' construction and maintenance. Most of these do not prohibit pedestrians
A limited access highway does usually prohibit pedestrians.
You are right in that the driver, in almost all situations, would have fault. But it could very well be that the pedestrian shares some of the fault, especially if she was in the roadway rather than the shoulder, and also if she had a chance to get out of the way, but didn't. Of course, this varies from state to state.
Google having fault, though, I don't know.
IANAL, YMMV
Almost all roads have shoulders (including the highway in question if you look at the links above). I haven't seen anything that suggests she was in the roadway, if she was, she has fault.
The driver probably shares some of the fault, regardless of where the pedestrian was. (My son hit a pedestrian that was walking in the street where there was no sidewalk. Even though there was nice, level grass to walk on instead, and he got no tickets, he was civilly liable. The insurance company settled out-of-court, paying all the medical bills, even though they said the pedestrian was likely partly liable for being in the street, because it wouldn't be worth it for them to go to court.)
Google might not have any fault, but if it's found they have even a small percent of fault, then they have the deep pockets and end up making up for anything the other liable parties can't afford.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
... however she was on a highway as a pedestrian (which is almost always prohibited...
Though I don't know the road in question, there are plenty of highways that do not disallow pedestrian access. (stay on the shoulder, of course, or sidewalk where available). You appear to be thinking of a limited-access highway.
I don't understand why they didn't just do this in the first (or even second) place.
In essence, they did. They started drilling a relief well, constructing the containment dome, and preparing for a top kill more or less all at the beginning. Apparently the blowout preventer needed repairs before it could accommodate the top kill attempt. Also, they needed to asses the situation, as a damaged piping and well system could be made worse by trying to pump against the pressure - worst case you could end up with oil coming to the surface through surrounding rock outside of the well casing and uncontrolled. So they prepared (too slowly in my opinion) more than one option and tried the safer and faster ones first.
As others have said in this thread, a relief well will not allow continuing operations. It is meant to provide a means for a "Bottom Kill", filling the well with mud and concrete from below, which is much more effective and permanent than the "Top Kill" that they're doing now.
Learn some history.
MS bought DOS, it took them 4 years to write the unusable Windows 1.0 on top of DOS, took another 5 years to get a more-or-less usable Windows 3.0, hired away DEC guys to come up with NT (DEC sued and won), and threw away 3 years of Longhorn development because it sucked so bad (must've been really bad because the replacement project, Vista, didn't turn out so great).
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The point wasn't that Microsoft doesn't have focus follows mouse available, but rather, that their way of doing it sucks (like the way they raise a window to the foreground when the mouse is over that window). I also thought focus follows mouse was stupid when I tried it, until I tried it in Fedora. I now would hate to turn it off (except in MS Windows)
It's not who's losing general elections that cause me to say the Republicans has purged most of the moderates. It's who's losing in the Republican primaries.
If an individual did something like this, they would end up in jail.
Something analogous needs to be done to companies that negligently or fraudulently harm the public.
While I'm not fond of the idea of government ownership, I would have no problem with nationalizing them long enough to sell them off, or otherwise destroying the company.
While you're right that mixing the Social Security//Medicare funds with the general budget gives a false sense of budget security (or at least it has for the past few decades while the large numbers of baby-boomer workers per retiree were contributing to what should have been a build-up of SS trust fund), Clinton/Gingrinch did not make up the budgeting rules, and they did indeed balance the budget under the rules in place.
The US government runs on a cash basis, which is a very straightforward, legitimate accounting method. Most businesses run on an accrual basis, which would require entering a present liability for obligations to be paid in the future and would require entering accounts receivable as income. In spite of your statement that all companies must take that budgeting path, none of the companies that have employed me for the past 30 years used accrual accounting, they all all ran on a cash basis. This gave them a more conservative income statement, since accounts receivable were not counted as income (They had fairly regular expenses but often had significant, months- to year-long, delays between sending a bill and receiving full payment, and occasionally didn't collect at all).
Even on an accrual basis, there were one or two years of slight surpluses (though not enough to keep SS solvent when the baby boomers retire)
Depending on your contract, your state, and your employer, the company would probably own any copyrights on scripts you wrote.
Depending on your new situation, they would probably never have the information or inclination to sue you over it.
Depending on how original, creative, and expressive you scripts are, they may not be completely copyrightable. A script that is utilitarian and has limited ways of being written might not be copyrightable at all.
From a witness on 60 minutes, BP is the one who insisted, over the objections of the drilling service company, that the well not be filled with mud before plugging it for future connection to the production rig. Apparently it would have cost them some time and a few million dollars to add and later remove the mud, but if the mud was there, the failure of the cement would not have caused a catstrophic leak.
So you're here seriously arguing that birthrate and evolutionary advantage are unrelated ?
High "birthrate" is one way some species (usually the smaller ones, like insects and fish) ensure the next generation. Humans rely more on a high level of investment in the few offspring they have.
That's not to say birthrate is totally unimportant (you've gotta have at least some surviving offspring), but that some species have managed to thrive because of relatively low birthrates.
The only thing that irritates me is people who persist in flying the battle flag of the confederacy.
I had a business trip in Virginia once and stayed over Saturday to see the sights in Washington DC. We (my co-travelers and I) were in the Capitol building, avoiding the long tourist lines by wandering by ourselves rather than taking a tour. We met Senator Strom Thrumond in the elevator going down from the gallery, he was there to address a group from the Daughters of the Confederacy. It was a strange speech, mixed with rhetoric about how great the USA is and how the great the Confederacy was and how states actually do have the right to secede, and other contradictory "patriotic" thoughts . . . But the really interesting thing was the quiet argument going on in the background between a DAR member who was trying to unfurl a confederate flag and a security guard who wouldn't let her. Apparently, the DAR thinks that the right to free speech includes the right to wave a rebel flag within the seat of the government, and the US government sees that as an act of sedition.
"Reagan's greatest tinkerer", I don't buy, but Volker is one of Obama's advisors because he was head of the Federal Reserve during pretty tough economic times.
By the way, Volker was appointed by Carter, and attacked inflation pretty aggressively. As a consequence,, unemployment worsened and we had a recession. Still, he stuck to his guns and Reagan benefited when inflation was subdued and the inevitable recovery happened about two or three years into Reagan's first term.
Actually from what I read, what I would consider the data is not lost at all, (except for change tracking info, if you're using that). Everything else they mentioned seems to be about formatting.
For electric motors, why not eliminate the transmission altogether and use Electronically Commutated Motors (DC) or AC motors with Variable Frequency Drives?
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There seems to be a recurring ignorance in these threads about what a highway is.
Historically a highway is a road that is raised from the surrounding grade, so it will stay relatively dry. Basically, dig two ditches and pile it in the middle.
In modern usage, a highway is usually named such for historical reasons and for reasons of what governmental entity is responsible for its' construction and maintenance. Most of these do not prohibit pedestrians
A limited access highway does usually prohibit pedestrians.
You are right in that the driver, in almost all situations, would have fault.
But it could very well be that the pedestrian shares some of the fault, especially if she was in the roadway rather than the shoulder, and also if she had a chance to get out of the way, but didn't. Of course, this varies from state to state.
Google having fault, though, I don't know.
IANAL, YMMV
Almost all roads have shoulders (including the highway in question if you look at the links above). I haven't seen anything that suggests she was in the roadway, if she was, she has fault.
The driver probably shares some of the fault, regardless of where the pedestrian was. (My son hit a pedestrian that was walking in the street where there was no sidewalk. Even though there was nice, level grass to walk on instead, and he got no tickets, he was civilly liable. The insurance company settled out-of-court, paying all the medical bills, even though they said the pedestrian was likely partly liable for being in the street, because it wouldn't be worth it for them to go to court.)
Google might not have any fault, but if it's found they have even a small percent of fault, then they have the deep pockets and end up making up for anything the other liable parties can't afford.
IANAL, YMMV, etc.
... however she was on a highway as a pedestrian (which is almost always prohibited...
Though I don't know the road in question, there are plenty of highways that do not disallow pedestrian access. (stay on the shoulder, of course, or sidewalk where available). You appear to be thinking of a limited-access highway.
Good, then they can move on to third-world countries where such control isn't in place, let impoverished foreigners suffer.
Last I checked, corporations drilling for oil have to operate where the oil is.
The oil does not simply sit on the surface waiting for a giant supertanker vacuum cleaner. It pollutes the entire water column over a vast area.
That does not mean you should let the oil that does get to the surface alone without trying to scoop it up.
"American beer" in this context refers more to a type of beer than a location of production.
Lager is a beer that ferments slowly at low temperatures.
Pale Lager is a light-colored lager beer Pale lagers tend to be dry, lean, clean-tasting and crisp . . . Flavours may be subtle..
American Lager is a pale lager made at a faster pace, sacrificing taste for production. Quality, from a flavor point of view, is very variable within this style and many cheaper examples use a proportion of non-malt additives such as rice or corn to reduce the production costs.
"Light Beer" is an American pale lager made with fewer calories and even less taste, and seems to be very popular with the American masses.
Let's face it, much of the American beer-drinking public doesn't really like (or know) the taste of real beer.
I don't understand why they didn't just do this in the first (or even second) place.
In essence, they did. They started drilling a relief well, constructing the containment dome, and preparing for a top kill more or less all at the beginning. Apparently the blowout preventer needed repairs before it could accommodate the top kill attempt. Also, they needed to asses the situation, as a damaged piping and well system could be made worse by trying to pump against the pressure - worst case you could end up with oil coming to the surface through surrounding rock outside of the well casing and uncontrolled. So they prepared (too slowly in my opinion) more than one option and tried the safer and faster ones first.
As others have said in this thread, a relief well will not allow continuing operations. It is meant to provide a means for a "Bottom Kill", filling the well with mud and concrete from below, which is much more effective and permanent than the "Top Kill" that they're doing now.
At least Microsoft can program an OS . . .
Learn some history.
MS bought DOS, it took them 4 years to write the unusable Windows 1.0 on top of DOS, took another 5 years to get a more-or-less usable Windows 3.0, hired away DEC guys to come up with NT (DEC sued and won), and threw away 3 years of Longhorn development because it sucked so bad (must've been really bad because the replacement project, Vista, didn't turn out so great).
The point wasn't that Microsoft doesn't have focus follows mouse available, but rather, that their way of doing it sucks (like the way they raise a window to the foreground when the mouse is over that window). I also thought focus follows mouse was stupid when I tried it, until I tried it in Fedora. I now would hate to turn it off (except in MS Windows)
how do you take advantage of software written specifically for a small screen on a device with a much larger screen?
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Not to belittle the problem, but 5,000 ft of water is around 2,200 psi. Cold salty seawater would be heavier, but not "over 100,000 PSI".
No, they'll just move elsewhere. . . They don't need to be US corporations, they don't need US basing, they only need to sell oil.
Huh?!?
BP is not a US corporation and is not US based.
TransOcean is not a US corporation and is not US based.
Haliburton deserves to die.
It's not who's losing general elections that cause me to say the Republicans has purged most of the moderates.
It's who's losing in the Republican primaries.
If an individual did something like this, they would end up in jail.
Something analogous needs to be done to companies that negligently or fraudulently harm the public.
While I'm not fond of the idea of government ownership, I would have no problem with nationalizing them long enough to sell them off, or otherwise destroying the company.
While you're right that mixing the Social Security//Medicare funds with the general budget gives a false sense of budget security (or at least it has for the past few decades while the large numbers of baby-boomer workers per retiree were contributing to what should have been a build-up of SS trust fund), Clinton/Gingrinch did not make up the budgeting rules, and they did indeed balance the budget under the rules in place.
The US government runs on a cash basis, which is a very straightforward, legitimate accounting method. Most businesses run on an accrual basis, which would require entering a present liability for obligations to be paid in the future and would require entering accounts receivable as income. In spite of your statement that all companies must take that budgeting path, none of the companies that have employed me for the past 30 years used accrual accounting, they all all ran on a cash basis. This gave them a more conservative income statement, since accounts receivable were not counted as income (They had fairly regular expenses but often had significant, months- to year-long, delays between sending a bill and receiving full payment, and occasionally didn't collect at all).
Even on an accrual basis, there were one or two years of slight surpluses (though not enough to keep SS solvent when the baby boomers retire)
Depending on your contract, your state, and your employer, the company would probably own any copyrights on scripts you wrote.
Depending on your new situation, they would probably never have the information or inclination to sue you over it.
Depending on how original, creative, and expressive you scripts are, they may not be completely copyrightable. A script that is utilitarian and has limited ways of being written might not be copyrightable at all.
From a witness on 60 minutes, BP is the one who insisted, over the objections of the drilling service company, that the well not be filled with mud before plugging it for future connection to the production rig. Apparently it would have cost them some time and a few million dollars to add and later remove the mud, but if the mud was there, the failure of the cement would not have caused a catstrophic leak.
So you're here seriously arguing that birthrate and evolutionary advantage are unrelated ?
High "birthrate" is one way some species (usually the smaller ones, like insects and fish) ensure the next generation. Humans rely more on a high level of investment in the few offspring they have.
That's not to say birthrate is totally unimportant (you've gotta have at least some surviving offspring), but that some species have managed to thrive because of relatively low birthrates.
DOC, not DAR (crap, I've got to pay more attention to preview)
The only thing that irritates me is people who persist in flying the battle flag of the confederacy.
I had a business trip in Virginia once and stayed over Saturday to see the sights in Washington DC. We (my co-travelers and I) were in the Capitol building, avoiding the long tourist lines by wandering by ourselves rather than taking a tour. We met Senator Strom Thrumond in the elevator going down from the gallery, he was there to address a group from the Daughters of the Confederacy. It was a strange speech, mixed with rhetoric about how great the USA is and how the great the Confederacy was and how states actually do have the right to secede, and other contradictory "patriotic" thoughts . . .
But the really interesting thing was the quiet argument going on in the background between a DAR member who was trying to unfurl a confederate flag and a security guard who wouldn't let her. Apparently, the DAR thinks that the right to free speech includes the right to wave a rebel flag within the seat of the government, and the US government sees that as an act of sedition.
"Reagan's greatest tinkerer", I don't buy, but Volker is one of Obama's advisors because he was head of the Federal Reserve during pretty tough economic times.
By the way, Volker was appointed by Carter, and attacked inflation pretty aggressively. As a consequence,, unemployment worsened and we had a recession. Still, he stuck to his guns and Reagan benefited when inflation was subdued and the inevitable recovery happened about two or three years into Reagan's first term.
Actually from what I read, what I would consider the data is not lost at all, (except for change tracking info, if you're using that). Everything else they mentioned seems to be about formatting.
For electric motors, why not eliminate the transmission altogether and use Electronically Commutated Motors (DC) or AC motors with Variable Frequency Drives?