Not only does every first world country other than the US have some sort of universal healthcare/single payer system, the US spends more than every other country for healthcare for a lower level of care/poor outcomes.
A fan boy? Again, hardly. I did make about ~$600K off Tesla stock by buying it around ~$17/share, selling most of it at $190, and then buying it back up at $127. I'm pretty happy about that, but that doesn't make me a fan boy.
Musk used his own money to fund a rocket company. It's his fault if some of the launches on the manifest are government-purchased? Lets not even begin to discuss how incompetent and dysfunctional NASA is as a government institution.
And a Tesla Model S a Lotus? This isn't even arguing over. It was rated by Consumer Reports as their best car. Ever. It was rated by the NTHSA as their safest car. Ever. The Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt aren't even in the same class of vehicle.
Feel free to bitch on an internet forum. It'll make you feel better, but it doesn't change the world nor make you any more wealthy.
Because some believe everyone has the right to spend their resources the way they want, even inefficiently (I disagree with this viewpoint).
The way you fix this, of course, are market incentives. You raise the gas tax to promote fuel efficient vehicles. You raise the cost of fossil fuel produced electricity to promote renewable energy installations.
Out drinking one night, I dropped my Galaxy Nexus in a toilet. Fully submerged. Drunk me rinsed it off, powered it off, and then took it home. After sitting for 5 days in a container of rice, it powered back up without issue.
So most people think of a cow as something that's out grazing, and then is taken to the slaughterhouse.... No, not true. Cows see very little grass nowadays in their lives. They get them on corn as fast as they can, which speeds up their lifespan, gets them really fat, and allows you to slaughter them within 14 months.
The problem with this system, or one of the problems with this system, is that cows are not evolved to digest corn. It creates all sorts of problems for them. The rumen is designed for grass. And corn is just too rich, too starchy. So as soon as you introduce corn, the animal is liable to get sick.
It creates a whole [host] of changes to the animal. So you have to essentially teach them how to eat corn. You teach their bodies to adjust. And this is done in something called the backgrounding pen at the ranch, which is kind of the prep school for the feedlot. Here's where you teach them how to eat corn.
You start giving them antibiotics, because as soon as you give them corn, you've disturbed their digestion, and they're apt to get sick, so you then have to give them drugs. That's how you get in this whole cycle of drugs and meat. By feeding them what they're not equipped to eat well, we then go down this path of technological fixes, and the first is the antibiotics. Once they start eating the [corn], they're more vulnerable. They're stressed, so they're more vulnerable to all the different diseases cows get. But specifically they get bloat, which is just a horrible thing to happen. They stop ruminating.
I won't go into details about Autoland here, as you can read the Wikipedia link below. The takeaway is that Autoland has triple redundancy through the entire control and sensing systems, and will continue to function even if it has lost 2 out of 3 of any device in the workflow.
"During system design, the predicted reliability numbers for the individual equipment which makes up the entire autoland system (sensors, computers, controls, and so forth) are combined and an overall probability of failure is calculated. As the "threat" exists primarily during the flare through roll-out, this "exposure time" is used and the overall failure probability must be less than one in a million.[5]"
With regards to takeoff, I admit, this is the most vulnerable point of the flight (limited or lost forward thrust, extremely limited altitude). This will still be automated in good time though, as software won't panic. It'll be able to determine just how much the aircraft can still travel with limited or no power, and the safest area to put down.
Sort of. To get the value plan I had before the no-contract push, I had to sign a two year contract even though I brought my own Galaxy Nexus devices to my family plan. I've "switched" to the no-contract plans to get the cheaper rate, but still have a year on my contract *even though I brought my own devices and incurred no expense device-wise with T-mobile*.
We used ROCKS, and started running into the same problems you did. We were mid-process of moving to our own custom built solution when I left to work somewhere else.
If you're seeing boot storms, get a network switch that is managed and support vlans. Either programatically switch VLAN access on the switch, or use trunking support in Linux, so you have a production VLAN and an installation VLAN. This should segment your network to the point where boot storms are no longer an issue.
You don't multicast images to Linux machines when you're using configuration management tools. PXEBoot->Bare Image Install->Puppet system configuration upon first boot based on machine grouping/criteria.
While working at Fermilab on the LHC CMS data taking team, I used bittorrent to speed up re-installs of thousands of worker nodes. I was able to saturate 10Gb Ethernet links this way, and could reinstall ~5500 Linux boxes within 10-15 minutes (with only two initial OS source servers).
How long is it going to take to clean the atmosphere of all the pollutants pumped into it by thousands of coal plants around the world for the last 100+ years?
So what if it takes 40 years? Its contained to a small physical area.
Wow, great, we've had Chernobyl and Fukushima as major incidents. You know how many people die every year because of coal-fired generation? Hundreds of thousands. Greenies can fuck off.
My Platinum American Express was possibly skimmed when I flew from Chicago to Amsterdam a month ago; someone tried to use the information (not the card, the information) on Amazon, as well as at a hotel in Columbia. American Express immediately locked the card down, overnighted me a new card at no cost to myself, and told me I wasn't liable for any transactions I didn't make).
After your comment, I checked with my bank (PNC); they said I'm not liable *whatsoever* for any charges I did not make, whether the card was used or just the card information (card number, expiration).
Also, with a debit card, it's run as a Visa/Mastercard credit transaction when the RFID chip is not used, not as a PIN ACH/Debit transaction. Once again, zero liability for the cardholder.
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Not only does every first world country other than the US have some sort of universal healthcare/single payer system, the US spends more than every other country for healthcare for a lower level of care/poor outcomes.
USA! USA!
Because previously, those "cheap" plans covered almost nothing and were pure profit for insurance companies:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/1029/Millions-losing-health-plans-under-Obamacare.-Did-president-mislead-video
People are now paying for coverage they should have been previously receiving.
A fan boy? Again, hardly. I did make about ~$600K off Tesla stock by buying it around ~$17/share, selling most of it at $190, and then buying it back up at $127. I'm pretty happy about that, but that doesn't make me a fan boy.
Musk used his own money to fund a rocket company. It's his fault if some of the launches on the manifest are government-purchased? Lets not even begin to discuss how incompetent and dysfunctional NASA is as a government institution.
And a Tesla Model S a Lotus? This isn't even arguing over. It was rated by Consumer Reports as their best car. Ever. It was rated by the NTHSA as their safest car. Ever. The Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt aren't even in the same class of vehicle.
Feel free to bitch on an internet forum. It'll make you feel better, but it doesn't change the world nor make you any more wealthy.
A messiah? Hardly. Just a hard working guy who shuttles cargo and satellites to space and is revolutionizing transportation.
What did you do today?
Since when is paying off your government loan 9 years early a bad thing?
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/early-repayment-tesla%E2%80%99s-atvm-loan
Because some believe everyone has the right to spend their resources the way they want, even inefficiently (I disagree with this viewpoint).
The way you fix this, of course, are market incentives. You raise the gas tax to promote fuel efficient vehicles. You raise the cost of fossil fuel produced electricity to promote renewable energy installations.
Rule 1 of economics: Incentives Matter
I too am a TSLA shareholder, but can't complain. Bought ~6000 shares at $17/share, sold most of it at ~$190, bought it all back at $130.
Bad investment? Hardly.
Out drinking one night, I dropped my Galaxy Nexus in a toilet. Fully submerged. Drunk me rinsed it off, powered it off, and then took it home. After sitting for 5 days in a container of rice, it powered back up without issue.
I consider that damn near waterproof.
Please provide a citation that supports that theory. Failing that, shut the fuck up.
I think PBS Frontline is a fairly non-biased source of information:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/interviews/pollan.html
So most people think of a cow as something that's out grazing, and then is taken to the slaughterhouse. ... No, not true. Cows see very little grass nowadays in their lives. They get them on corn as fast as they can, which speeds up their lifespan, gets them really fat, and allows you to slaughter them within 14 months.
The problem with this system, or one of the problems with this system, is that cows are not evolved to digest corn. It creates all sorts of problems for them. The rumen is designed for grass. And corn is just too rich, too starchy. So as soon as you introduce corn, the animal is liable to get sick.
It creates a whole [host] of changes to the animal. So you have to essentially teach them how to eat corn. You teach their bodies to adjust. And this is done in something called the backgrounding pen at the ranch, which is kind of the prep school for the feedlot. Here's where you teach them how to eat corn.
You start giving them antibiotics, because as soon as you give them corn, you've disturbed their digestion, and they're apt to get sick, so you then have to give them drugs. That's how you get in this whole cycle of drugs and meat. By feeding them what they're not equipped to eat well, we then go down this path of technological fixes, and the first is the antibiotics. Once they start eating the [corn], they're more vulnerable. They're stressed, so they're more vulnerable to all the different diseases cows get. But specifically they get bloat, which is just a horrible thing to happen. They stop ruminating.
Not true.
I won't go into details about Autoland here, as you can read the Wikipedia link below. The takeaway is that Autoland has triple redundancy through the entire control and sensing systems, and will continue to function even if it has lost 2 out of 3 of any device in the workflow.
"During system design, the predicted reliability numbers for the individual equipment which makes up the entire autoland system (sensors, computers, controls, and so forth) are combined and an overall probability of failure is calculated. As the "threat" exists primarily during the flare through roll-out, this "exposure time" is used and the overall failure probability must be less than one in a million.[5]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland#Autoland_for_civil_aviation
With regards to takeoff, I admit, this is the most vulnerable point of the flight (limited or lost forward thrust, extremely limited altitude). This will still be automated in good time though, as software won't panic. It'll be able to determine just how much the aircraft can still travel with limited or no power, and the safest area to put down.
If there was something that made your life extremely well off, would you pay more for it if the other option was to go without?
Less pain now, or more pain later.
Email away!
Disregard the sort of part.
Sort of. To get the value plan I had before the no-contract push, I had to sign a two year contract even though I brought my own Galaxy Nexus devices to my family plan. I've "switched" to the no-contract plans to get the cheaper rate, but still have a year on my contract *even though I brought my own devices and incurred no expense device-wise with T-mobile*.
It's a loan, not a cell service contract.
You can cancel your service anytime, just pay up the rest of the principal on the 0% interest loan they're giving you.
We used ROCKS, and started running into the same problems you did. We were mid-process of moving to our own custom built solution when I left to work somewhere else.
Something to think about:
If you're seeing boot storms, get a network switch that is managed and support vlans. Either programatically switch VLAN access on the switch, or use trunking support in Linux, so you have a production VLAN and an installation VLAN. This should segment your network to the point where boot storms are no longer an issue.
That's exactly what we used for configuration management and distributed/unattended installations :)
You don't multicast images to Linux machines when you're using configuration management tools. PXEBoot->Bare Image Install->Puppet system configuration upon first boot based on machine grouping/criteria.
Disclaimer: I'm OP.
While working at Fermilab on the LHC CMS data taking team, I used bittorrent to speed up re-installs of thousands of worker nodes. I was able to saturate 10Gb Ethernet links this way, and could reinstall ~5500 Linux boxes within 10-15 minutes (with only two initial OS source servers).
Yes, Bittorrent is not just for piracy.
How long is it going to take to clean the atmosphere of all the pollutants pumped into it by thousands of coal plants around the world for the last 100+ years?
So what if it takes 40 years? Its contained to a small physical area.
This is why the greenies roll their eyes when the nukies say "Trust us, we know what we're doing!"
And the rest of us roll their eyes when the greenies expect us to roll back ~100+ years of progress because nuclear accidents have happened.
Nuclear power has the lowest carbon output per megawatt of ANY base load power supply. Full stop.
This is a chart of deaths per TwH of power:
http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visualizations/2e5d4dcc4fb511e0ae0c000255111976/comments/2e70ae944fb511e0ae0c000255111976
Nuclear? 0.04. Coal? *161*
Wow, great, we've had Chernobyl and Fukushima as major incidents. You know how many people die every year because of coal-fired generation? Hundreds of thousands. Greenies can fuck off.
You have yet to outline how having an RFID chip in a school ID or a driver's license is a violation of someone's privacy.
My Platinum American Express was possibly skimmed when I flew from Chicago to Amsterdam a month ago; someone tried to use the information (not the card, the information) on Amazon, as well as at a hotel in Columbia. American Express immediately locked the card down, overnighted me a new card at no cost to myself, and told me I wasn't liable for any transactions I didn't make).
After your comment, I checked with my bank (PNC); they said I'm not liable *whatsoever* for any charges I did not make, whether the card was used or just the card information (card number, expiration).
Also, with a debit card, it's run as a Visa/Mastercard credit transaction when the RFID chip is not used, not as a PIN ACH/Debit transaction. Once again, zero liability for the cardholder.