The same open standard network that cripples all of their Android phones?
At least now it's (supposedly) moving to Verizon later this year so we can have it on a decent network. AT&T is great if you travel overseas, but it's pretty awful where I happen to live.
Bullshit. iPhone is an open standard phone. There just happens to only be one open standard network is no-infrastructure USA. iPhone runs on over 100 carriers worldwide, including many in countries where it's not even sold, and on multiple carriers in many countries. Look at fucking Canada: iPhone is on 2 carriers. You can buy unlocked iPhones, even in the US, it's just that nobody wants them, because you only have the one open standard carrier who is giving a subsidy. You can buy used iPhones that have been carrier unlocked. I sold my first iPhone to a guy in fucking Italy that's how hard it is to run iPhones wherever you want to run them.
I believe the OP was referring to high speed driving, which generally involve some sort of safety equipment as well as track fees. SCCA events are all about tight cone courses and handling. What SCCA events have you averaged more than 40mph in?
Agreed - most SCCA events around here have tons of folks rolling around in their beaters.
Shotguns already have that capability, their projectiles are untraceable. Even when fired from a rifled barrel, forensics can only classify the type of weapon with 100% accuracy, regardless of what you saw on CSI:Miami last night.
A 1W laser is not a blinding device at long range, it's only useful for that purpose at fairly close range. At longer ranges it may dazzle a target, which may be hazardous in of itself, but it will not cause blindness.
You can buy a 12 gauge shotgun at Walmart for around $250. It is a lot more effective than this. In most states there is neither a waiting period or a license required.
Or on cops without leaving any sort of forensic trail?
Wool is the traditional choice for this application. Cotton is a lot more flammable albeit far more comfortable. Anything really flammable means nomex these days, though I'm unfamiliar with it's resistance to laser attack.
his is why the US military sends firefighters/combat troops/and others going "outside the wire" with cotton (doesn't melt into the skin) or flame retardant materials like nomex.
I'm not sure what this has to do with science, even in China or India engineers make a lot more than $2 an hour. They come here because they can jump from $40k/year to $80k/year.
Our cost of living is higher, but if they bank some of it they can do quite well once they migrate back home.
If you're referring to the manufacturing sector, just remember that anything that isn't automated or high margin has already moved overseas. That horse has left the barn quite some time ago. That sort of trade restriction will just cause the companies to incorporate offshore and use an intermediary to sell their goods here (at an additional markup of course)
Companies find it is cheaper to put these jobs in China or India.
And the solution (imho) is to require foreign companies to increase their minimum wage to at least 1/4 the US minimum wage, else we will not allow their goods to enter our country. As for the justification, we can say that paying workers a mere $30 a week is a human rights violation and the US will not be party to such things.
I respectfully disagree. Oscar Goldman's organization is still quite relevant in the fields of hostage negotiation, Bigfoot sightings and Russia oriented plot-lines.
The first is that we need something like this to carry water for putting out fires. While it can carry a ton at 20K, it can carry much more at a lower altitude.
I guess that rather depends on how quickly you want to douse that fire. Typically we want to put them out right away. Right away doesn't typically happen with a blimp.
1. U.S. Local implies (at least to me) that they were born here. There are huge cultural differences between our country and well, lots of other places that happen to include India. Handing someone a green card does not make them suddenly have the same world-view as someone born into it. I am by no means saying the the United States is free of corruption, merely that it is frowned upon, illegal and not the norm as it is in some other countries.
2. France is probably not something you should tout as an example. The disenfranchised minorities living in their slums are none to happy, as evidenced by the large riots in 2005, again in 2007, and most recently in 2009. This is bound to intensify as more and more of their workforce is replaced by immigrant labor. Currently this sits at around 10%, but with E.U birthrates at roughly 1.5 per woman, the percentage of immigrant labor is bound to increase sharply in the coming years.
While the people mentioned in the article were surely of Indian descent, they *are* indeed U.S. Locals just like the Li Pings, Pedro Gonzales', Jacob Weinblatts, Umfufus, Herman Meyers, Jean Grosjeans and Patrick O'Donnells of the United States.....statement. Quite frankly, I think this is much more how you do business in the US than, say, Holland, Sweden, France or many other countries in Europe. So when you talk about leaving that shit at the door, the shoe fits but not on my foot, if you know what I'm saying.
Drunk drivers only contribute to 40% of accidents and usually survive them...So clearly we have to keep all of the sober people off of the roads, problem solved?
Since they seem to have such a high survival rate in accidents,I wonder if there some way we can incapacitate people just before a collision? Instead of airbags we could fit steering wheels with tranquilizer darts.
It often seems that the person hit by the drunk driver is the one that dies and not the drunk driver.
Don't forget all of the fake jobs from recruitment firms. Now there is nothing wrong with filling a few of those out, but they aren't jobs per-se, they are just collecting resumes for jobs that a client may have in the future. And yes H1-B is a scam. Just make degreed engineers citizens already. We already accept plenty of brown people who like tacos, why not accept the brown people with actual skills?
Also most of the jobs posted are fake jobs so the company can get an H1-B worker.
"...when the world was powered by the black fuel. And the
desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept
away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to
war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel,
they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering
machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and
talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche."
And for the record I agree with the OP. It's certainly possible to build a zero-footprint economy, but it won't happen until the cost of doing otherwise exceeds our means. There is no 'oh nos we're out of resource X'!, they just become rarer and more expensive. When oil gets expensive enough we won't be driving huge tankers around the world to deliver iPods and cut rate electronics because it won't make any financial sense. At the point that resource X becomes terribly expensive, it would be nice if we had some of our own.
What a ridiculously short-sighted point of view. THEIR resources will run out eventually, and then we'll start using OUR resources, which will run out as well. Then what? Mad Max time?
I'm not sure how you can protect a transformer from a spike like this except by via lots and lots of EM shielding. It is inherently a couple of long pieces of wire. You can protect downstream components, but the transformers themselves are probably going to fry.
In other news, unlike in the 1920's, lots and lots of things have transformers in them and are at least theoretically vulnerable. Your car, your computer, your television, etc. Hemisphere wide EMP = win?
there are breakers all over the electrical system, but everything in the system is calculated to protect from a lightning strike or equipment failure, NOT the entire network beginning to hum from a massive alien magnetic field frying all wires at the same time. the transformers in question are simply not protected from a carrington effect spike. they CAN be, but the cost associated with that is poopooed, and so they now sit, today, naked and unprotected and ready to be fried by the sun
I'm not sure it was counterproductive. Their initial basis of power was picking an unpopular minority and demonizing it. Backing away from that stance would have required some pretty savvy political maneuvering.
Assuming that they had created a functional nuclear weapon, said peace might have been signed if they'd managed to nuke Stalin, but remember that there were plenty more casualties due to conventional carpet bombing than there ever were from nukes and that did not cause a surrender from anyone.
Many people complain about predator drones in Iraq and Afganistan and mention that the 'al-queda'/insurgents survived longer than the Germans, but a little carpet bombing/nuclear holocaust might clear that problem right up...terribly bad PR though.
Is that you Godwin?
Germany COULD have had a nuclear weapon before the allies, if only they didn't engage in their futile/counterproductive policy of extermination, genocde and racial discrimination against Jews. Scientists like Szilard (father of nuclear fission) would have stayed in Germany instead of moving to the USA where they then worked on the Manhattan project.
And a note at the end: had the Nazis had a nuclear weapon, it would have changed the course of history. They didn't necessarily need more than one, either: just blow up one major USSR city (say, Moscow) and watch the Eastern front fold up and a truce being signed.
Quite a few HDTV's have an optical line out, so you can still run the sound through your home theater without encrypted HDMI support.
This does mean you'll have to do video source switching from the TV, something people with older receivers needed to do anyway.
Your not understanding.. All high def has to be encrypted. Which means pretty much any home theater stereo system (minus a few very, very high end ones) will no longer work with encrypted HDMI. I have my DVD player, and Boxee box outputting HDMI to the reciever. It strips the digital audio out of the system, and then passes the video on to the TV.
If they start doing AACS, and forcing encryption over HDMI, then if I buy a new component that meets the new standard; I either need to buy a very expensive receiver, or just watch video's in my room with the wonderful craptacular speakers built into my TV.
This was certainly true with the original Tbirds. I still remember the VIA chipset I had on that one, may it's designers forever burn in the 7th layer of hell. AMD now makes their own chipsets and they're generally pretty good.
That said, I don't know whether an X4 or an i3 system is really the better deal right now. With the X4 you get more cores per dollar but the i3 performs similarly on just the two cores+HT.
Is that AMD chipsets have been buggy in my experience. Well, for the most part it seems like there haven't been actual chipsets made by AMD, they've always been third party like nVidia, VIA or ATi. At any rate they seem to have bugs, sometimes minor, sometimes severe. The worst was back with the original Athlons, I got one and could not make it work with my GeForce 256. I found out this was because the AGP bus was out of spec and didn't work the GFs at all.
You can have an equally high speed launch with a clutch or an automatic. The key (for drag racing) is that an automatic transmission gives totally consistent results and a high rpm clutch engagement is dependant on how well the driver modulates the clutch at each launch. Also, good luck finding a consumer car with a built 2-speed Powerglide in it, they don't exist.
Unfortunately (in the United States at least) it's impossible to buy some cars with manual transmissions and sometimes they're pretty awful units besides. I personally prefer a manual but I have to buy what the dealers will sell me.
"Note that all race cars use manual transmissions, as does any decent sports car, for just these reasons. " (My emphasis)
Not true. Many drag racers are equipped with automatic transmissions. The slip inherent in having a torque converter allows the driver to keep the engine at a higher speed prior to launch, resulting in better quarter-mile times.
Nova was the perfect woman. Beautiful, compliant,... mute.
"perfect" is a subjective thing. There is no single "perfect" woman. Do you still find the same women attractive as you did 10 years ago, and is there just one such person?
In other news, whomever shall we turn to to fix the gender gap in Nursing, Auto Repair and oil pipeline Welding? It's clearly all about discriminatory hiring practices.
This just in, there are more female babysitters than males. Oh no, we have a babysitter gender gap!
I believe that the Lord Humongous swears by the.50 AE for penetrating steel plate and cracking timing casings.
Wait, you wanted to shoot PEOPLE with this gun?
Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror. I await your answer. You have one full day to decide.
The engineers who created the Ford Pinto, for instance, didn't exactly create something wonderful, and considering how that car killed people, it probably had negative utility. However, they did the work that their employers asked of them, and as management was in control and refused to allow engineers to improve the design, it was they who were responsible for any deaths. Less spectacularly, many engineers work on things which are ultimately trashed before seeing production. I've seen my share of that in my own work. But again, just because management decides to trash something doesn't mean it isn't "useful", it just wasn't profitable enough for them.
As a fun fact I would point out that those engineers had specified a lined gas tank for that very reason, but management decided to cheapen the design and deliver a bare steel tank instead. I still see these cars on the road occasionally so they must have done something right.
From my personal experience (computer) engineering pays a reasonable starting wage but there is no career path to speak of unless you jump into management. I do plenty to keep my skills up to date and all that really does is keep me at the same senior level salary I had 7 years ago...
The best proof of this is that small countries buy military technology from larger countries. If any engineer could build comparable technology, surely these nations would just build their own systems.
They buy military hardware, not technology. There are economies of scale at work here. Larger countries have big budgets and big production facilities. Why reverse engineer an AK-47 when a surplus model can be had for roughly $20USD. Why engineer a submarine when USSR is selling their older ones for pennies on the dollar?
It's not a matter of can it be done, it's a matter of what's most time and cost effective.
If someone brings an explosive piggy-bank shaped like a Raiders helmet, we will ban piggy-banks... and Raiders gear. We're just proactive like that.
I guess I was asleep when terrorists attempted to take over a plane with my nail clippers and 2 8oz bottles of shampoo. How about we just hand everyone a complimentary club during check-in and be done with it? Then we can take the billions we're throwing at Homeland security and throw them at some other overly expensive government mandate. Perhaps we could call it 'health insurance'...
I had it over the summer. Even having started Tamiflu within 24 hours of the first symptoms, it was a solid week of awfulness, followed by another week and a half of suckiness. I lost 8 pounds in the first four days. Extremely unpleasant. By far, the sickest I've been since scarlet fever.
You know, I've had the flu a few times in the last decade, and it sucks, but I don't ever recall being prescribed anything other than to go home, keep hydrated, and try not to infect anyone. Does having H1N1 grant you access to the strategic national Tamiflu stockpile?
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Both 40 and 20 years ago practical nuclear fusion was also "20 years away". Therefore this estimate is both time tested and quite unreliable.
"The life clocks are a lie. Carousel is a lie. There is no renewal"
My advice for the Google employees approaching LastDay, don't try to run from the Sandmen in HR, I hear they are well armed.
A 1W laser is not a blinding device at long range, it's only useful for that purpose at fairly close range. At longer ranges it may dazzle a target, which may be hazardous in of itself, but it will not cause blindness.
You can buy a 12 gauge shotgun at Walmart for around $250. It is a lot more effective than this. In most states there is neither a waiting period or a license required.
Our cost of living is higher, but if they bank some of it they can do quite well once they migrate back home.
If you're referring to the manufacturing sector, just remember that anything that isn't automated or high margin has already moved overseas. That horse has left the barn quite some time ago. That sort of trade restriction will just cause the companies to incorporate offshore and use an intermediary to sell their goods here (at an additional markup of course)
I respectfully disagree. Oscar Goldman's organization is still quite relevant in the fields of hostage negotiation, Bigfoot sightings and Russia oriented plot-lines.
I guess that rather depends on how quickly you want to douse that fire. Typically we want to put them out right away. Right away doesn't typically happen with a blimp.
"Hello, airplanes? Yeah, it's blimps. You win!"
2. France is probably not something you should tout as an example. The disenfranchised minorities living in their slums are none to happy, as evidenced by the large riots in 2005, again in 2007, and most recently in 2009. This is bound to intensify as more and more of their workforce is replaced by immigrant labor. Currently this sits at around 10%, but with E.U birthrates at roughly 1.5 per woman, the percentage of immigrant labor is bound to increase sharply in the coming years.
Since they seem to have such a high survival rate in accidents,I wonder if there some way we can incapacitate people just before a collision? Instead of airbags we could fit steering wheels with tranquilizer darts.
And for the record I agree with the OP. It's certainly possible to build a zero-footprint economy, but it won't happen until the cost of doing otherwise exceeds our means. There is no 'oh nos we're out of resource X'!, they just become rarer and more expensive. When oil gets expensive enough we won't be driving huge tankers around the world to deliver iPods and cut rate electronics because it won't make any financial sense. At the point that resource X becomes terribly expensive, it would be nice if we had some of our own.
In other news, unlike in the 1920's, lots and lots of things have transformers in them and are at least theoretically vulnerable. Your car, your computer, your television, etc. Hemisphere wide EMP = win?
Assuming that they had created a functional nuclear weapon, said peace might have been signed if they'd managed to nuke Stalin, but remember that there were plenty more casualties due to conventional carpet bombing than there ever were from nukes and that did not cause a surrender from anyone.
Many people complain about predator drones in Iraq and Afganistan and mention that the 'al-queda'/insurgents survived longer than the Germans, but a little carpet bombing/nuclear holocaust might clear that problem right up...terribly bad PR though.
Is that you Godwin?
This does mean you'll have to do video source switching from the TV, something people with older receivers needed to do anyway.
That said, I don't know whether an X4 or an i3 system is really the better deal right now. With the X4 you get more cores per dollar but the i3 performs similarly on just the two cores+HT.
Unfortunately (in the United States at least) it's impossible to buy some cars with manual transmissions and sometimes they're pretty awful units besides. I personally prefer a manual but I have to buy what the dealers will sell me.
I believe that the Lord Humongous swears by the .50 AE for penetrating steel plate and cracking timing casings.
Wait, you wanted to shoot PEOPLE with this gun?
Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror. I await your answer. You have one full day to decide.
As a fun fact I would point out that those engineers had specified a lined gas tank for that very reason, but management decided to cheapen the design and deliver a bare steel tank instead. I still see these cars on the road occasionally so they must have done something right.
From my personal experience (computer) engineering pays a reasonable starting wage but there is no career path to speak of unless you jump into management. I do plenty to keep my skills up to date and all that really does is keep me at the same senior level salary I had 7 years ago...
They buy military hardware, not technology. There are economies of scale at work here. Larger countries have big budgets and big production facilities. Why reverse engineer an AK-47 when a surplus model can be had for roughly $20USD. Why engineer a submarine when USSR is selling their older ones for pennies on the dollar?
It's not a matter of can it be done, it's a matter of what's most time and cost effective.
I guess I was asleep when terrorists attempted to take over a plane with my nail clippers and 2 8oz bottles of shampoo. How about we just hand everyone a complimentary club during check-in and be done with it? Then we can take the billions we're throwing at Homeland security and throw them at some other overly expensive government mandate. Perhaps we could call it 'health insurance'...
You know, I've had the flu a few times in the last decade, and it sucks, but I don't ever recall being prescribed anything other than to go home, keep hydrated, and try not to infect anyone. Does having H1N1 grant you access to the strategic national Tamiflu stockpile?