You mean companies with no discernable product other than the information their users share with them in exchange for free service sold that information to pay for the free service their users enjoy! Who could have seen this coming?
Most states in US are 'republican', so it isn't surprising that republican states are over-represented in the survey - they are over-represented in the sample!
In nearly all states, school funding is largely through local property taxes, more affluent communities pay nearly 100% of the cost of education (I recently lived in a district that was 94% self-funded, remaining 6% came from state and federal funds), less-affluent communities see the bulk of their school funding come from state and federal funds. In NJ, where I recently lived, they have Abbott districts that are simultaneously among the highest-funded districts in the state AND some of the lowest-performing districts in the state - increased funding doesn't always mean better schools/education - it can, but not always. Ask Cory Booker and Mark Zuckerberg how much education in Newark public schools improved when The Zuck gave Newark public schools $1BN.
For as long as I have been alive, teachers strike for better pay, health and retirement benefits, and only recently have they struck for increased education funding. I applaud the effort, but it's too little too late. Having driven local property taxes to the point of unaffordability for many, they now want to increase property taxes to restore spending previously cut to meet teacher salary and benefits demands.
In many (most?) states a single teacher salary after 5 years on the job is greater than the median wage level in the state - when teachers earn more than the people paying their salary, it takes a lot of guts to go on strike for higher wages.
Finally, the elephant in the room is the education teachers are offering is declining, as evidenced by the staggering amount of college freshman that require remedial math and English classes. Sure, it's fun to point out that certain failing districts (like Baltimore, MD) have high schools where NO STUDENTS are performing at grade level in math and science - NONE - but that is the exception, not the rule. Too many high school graduates enter college unable to read and write/perform math at an acceptable level. (I'd love to see the high schools that graduated them be put on the hook to pay for those remedial classes, but that isn't likely.)
No, the blue-collar workers live in their cars, tents, and RVs, live several workers to a small apartment, or they live 2 hours away and drive in in carpools. Most are paid to well to collect many means-tested programs (section 8 housing, welfare, SNAP, Aid for Women with dependent children, etc.).
I'd be curious to see Amazon's median salary minus the warehouse workers. They compared two marketing/advertising giants with a retail enterprise, and we're supposed to feel bad that Amazon's tens of thousands of warehouse workers don't earn a quarter-million dollars/year like top-talent programmers and technology specialists?
Nearly 2.7 million gallons of the water -- about 39 percent of the daily intake from the factory -- will be lost in the process, primarily from evaporation. The remaining water will be treated and returned to the lake basin.
From what I remember from 6th grade Earth Science classes, water evaporating simply cycles back into the ecosystem, being redeposited on earth as rain, entering creeks and streams which feed int rivers that feed lakes like Lake Michigan...
The rest of the water is used and returned to the lake, so the issue is what, exactly?
Operating system The following operating systems are supported on the ThinkPad X61 or X61s systems: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows Vista Home Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32 and 64 bit) Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (32 and 64 bit)
...crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games.
There are maintenance costs associated with keeping any 200' (or taller) tower up - lighting, electricity, safety checks, etc. - if the station is shuttered, who will cover those costs? Also, typically AM broadcast towers are not located in populous areas, they are built in remote locations to take advantage of elevation and lower land costs, building a wireless network where the access points are miles out of town may not in any way be ideal.
1) AM Transmission towers, if active, will have tens of thousands of watts of RF energy coursing through them while the station is transmitting - I suspect that will have a negative impact on the performance of the data systems you want to locate on the tower.
2) AM Transmission towers are hundreds of feet tall, and while properly zoned and permitted, are designed merely to support themselves - they are not designed or installed to support hundreds of pounds of radio equipment and antennas attached to the tower - that adds what is called windload, and will likely bring the tower down in the next big storm.
3) I would have to imagine that the data radio equipment will be installed at the base, and low-loss hardline will be run up hundreds of feet up the tower to provide a signal to the data system antennas - while you save weight on the tower by placing the radios on the ground, you incur a massive amount of weight running 300-400 feet of hardline up the tower.
4) The land the transmission tower is located on is huge, and probably worth far more than the fees a shuttered AM station owner could collect by adding some data service equipment on an idle tower. It takes acres and acres of land to properly support the average AM broadcast antenna system (it's not unusual for multiple several hundred foot towers to comprise one broadcast antenna).
5) TV and FM broadcasters typically share antennas on a broadcast tower, there is no glut of idle FM or TV broadcast towers.
6) Broadcast TV stations are going to remain on the air, because by being a local Over The Air broadcaster they have certain rights that gets their station on all local cable systems, increasing their market share.
This was an easy crime that fell into the Gov't lap - the gov't spotted the shipment of 48,000 counterfeit discs, staged a buy for 28,000 of them @ $0.15/ea, and arrested the seller, the 'E-Waste Innovator'.
To paraphrase something President Obama's once said, "Police can multi-task" - investigating counterfeiting doesn't prevent them from going after killers, robbers, etc.
This is a marketing story, not a tech story - Ford is going eliminate every consumer car but Mustang, some crossover vehicle, and trucks... big deal - I'm curious how they will meet their CAFE requirements? I thought the low-price, low-emission econo shit boxes were sold to bend the CAFE standard down to allow ford to sell Expeditions?
I remember one time ford used to force dealers to take delivery of an Escort with every Expedition they took delivery of from the factory, to ensure they met their CAFE requirements.
No. They think it's a tool to limit their ability to push through changes they want, rather than a common-sense approach to base regulation on provable standards based on publicly-available information.
They see the words Trump administration, science, and limit and argue it's bad because, well, because the Trump administration said it.
Why should scientists, whose positions are based on facts, evidence and logic demand that their findings be accepted and acted on without challenge or evidence?
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No, we will not...
The exact same company / tactic was used by Obama in 2012 ...
Yes, but that was used to elect a black man, not a white one...
You mean companies with no discernable product other than the information their users share with them in exchange for free service sold that information to pay for the free service their users enjoy! Who could have seen this coming?
Most states in US are 'republican', so it isn't surprising that republican states are over-represented in the survey - they are over-represented in the sample!
In nearly all states, school funding is largely through local property taxes, more affluent communities pay nearly 100% of the cost of education (I recently lived in a district that was 94% self-funded, remaining 6% came from state and federal funds), less-affluent communities see the bulk of their school funding come from state and federal funds. In NJ, where I recently lived, they have Abbott districts that are simultaneously among the highest-funded districts in the state AND some of the lowest-performing districts in the state - increased funding doesn't always mean better schools/education - it can, but not always. Ask Cory Booker and Mark Zuckerberg how much education in Newark public schools improved when The Zuck gave Newark public schools $1BN.
For as long as I have been alive, teachers strike for better pay, health and retirement benefits, and only recently have they struck for increased education funding. I applaud the effort, but it's too little too late. Having driven local property taxes to the point of unaffordability for many, they now want to increase property taxes to restore spending previously cut to meet teacher salary and benefits demands.
In many (most?) states a single teacher salary after 5 years on the job is greater than the median wage level in the state - when teachers earn more than the people paying their salary, it takes a lot of guts to go on strike for higher wages.
Finally, the elephant in the room is the education teachers are offering is declining, as evidenced by the staggering amount of college freshman that require remedial math and English classes. Sure, it's fun to point out that certain failing districts (like Baltimore, MD) have high schools where NO STUDENTS are performing at grade level in math and science - NONE - but that is the exception, not the rule. Too many high school graduates enter college unable to read and write/perform math at an acceptable level. (I'd love to see the high schools that graduated them be put on the hook to pay for those remedial classes, but that isn't likely.)
No, the blue-collar workers live in their cars, tents, and RVs, live several workers to a small apartment, or they live 2 hours away and drive in in carpools. Most are paid to well to collect many means-tested programs (section 8 housing, welfare, SNAP, Aid for Women with dependent children, etc.).
I'd be curious to see Amazon's median salary minus the warehouse workers. They compared two marketing/advertising giants with a retail enterprise, and we're supposed to feel bad that Amazon's tens of thousands of warehouse workers don't earn a quarter-million dollars/year like top-talent programmers and technology specialists?
Puh-leeze.
WTF is a "Canadian Gallon"?
Do you mean liters?
Nearly 2.7 million gallons of the water -- about 39 percent of the daily intake from the factory -- will be lost in the process, primarily from evaporation. The remaining water will be treated and returned to the lake basin.
From what I remember from 6th grade Earth Science classes, water evaporating simply cycles back into the ecosystem, being redeposited on earth as rain, entering creeks and streams which feed int rivers that feed lakes like Lake Michigan...
The rest of the water is used and returned to the lake, so the issue is what, exactly?
From: https://support.lenovo.com/us/...
Operating system
The following operating systems are supported on the ThinkPad X61 or X61s systems:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows Vista Home
Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32 and 64 bit)
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate (32 and 64 bit)
You have a wired network drop that is metered/pay per data transferred? That is not common.
look at something as stupid as Solitaire. Free in Windows 7, pay to remove ads in Windows 10. Not only pay, but pay $10 a year to remove ads.
So it's still free, and they have you the option of paying to remove ads - those heartless bastards!
...crap that is broadcast on it all day, every day. Right wing political rants, conspiracy theorists, and religious kooks have taken over all the space between the baseball games.
Remember when the Left decided to beat the Right at their own game? That was fun, I love to watch the movie that tracked the rise and fall of Air America, Left of the Dial.
Self- or battery-powered AM/FM radios are typically included in any "hurricane survival" preparation list.
Many phones have the hardware included to receive FM broadcast radio. Here's a list of phones that are compatible with the nextradio app.
There are maintenance costs associated with keeping any 200' (or taller) tower up - lighting, electricity, safety checks, etc. - if the station is shuttered, who will cover those costs? Also, typically AM broadcast towers are not located in populous areas, they are built in remote locations to take advantage of elevation and lower land costs, building a wireless network where the access points are miles out of town may not in any way be ideal.
1) AM Transmission towers, if active, will have tens of thousands of watts of RF energy coursing through them while the station is transmitting - I suspect that will have a negative impact on the performance of the data systems you want to locate on the tower.
2) AM Transmission towers are hundreds of feet tall, and while properly zoned and permitted, are designed merely to support themselves - they are not designed or installed to support hundreds of pounds of radio equipment and antennas attached to the tower - that adds what is called windload, and will likely bring the tower down in the next big storm.
3) I would have to imagine that the data radio equipment will be installed at the base, and low-loss hardline will be run up hundreds of feet up the tower to provide a signal to the data system antennas - while you save weight on the tower by placing the radios on the ground, you incur a massive amount of weight running 300-400 feet of hardline up the tower.
4) The land the transmission tower is located on is huge, and probably worth far more than the fees a shuttered AM station owner could collect by adding some data service equipment on an idle tower. It takes acres and acres of land to properly support the average AM broadcast antenna system (it's not unusual for multiple several hundred foot towers to comprise one broadcast antenna).
5) TV and FM broadcasters typically share antennas on a broadcast tower, there is no glut of idle FM or TV broadcast towers.
6) Broadcast TV stations are going to remain on the air, because by being a local Over The Air broadcaster they have certain rights that gets their station on all local cable systems, increasing their market share.
This was an easy crime that fell into the Gov't lap - the gov't spotted the shipment of 48,000 counterfeit discs, staged a buy for 28,000 of them @ $0.15/ea, and arrested the seller, the 'E-Waste Innovator'.
To paraphrase something President Obama's once said, "Police can multi-task" - investigating counterfeiting doesn't prevent them from going after killers, robbers, etc.
An SUV has to weigh over 8,500 pounds to be exempt - that's hummer/excursion-sized.
https://www.popularmechanics.c...
Why do you believe that SUVs are exempt from CAFE requirements?
How is this 'news for nerds, stuff that matters?'
This is a marketing story, not a tech story - Ford is going eliminate every consumer car but Mustang, some crossover vehicle, and trucks... big deal - I'm curious how they will meet their CAFE requirements? I thought the low-price, low-emission econo shit boxes were sold to bend the CAFE standard down to allow ford to sell Expeditions?
I remember one time ford used to force dealers to take delivery of an Escort with every Expedition they took delivery of from the factory, to ensure they met their CAFE requirements.
The guy bought 48,000 discs at less than 5 cents/each.
He bought the discs in 2012, around the time of Windows 8 general release.
He intended to sell them to other computer recyclers for about 25 cents/each
He does not personally recycle PCs, so he was not going to include them with PCs with COAs.
He included the logo/likeness of the Dell recovery CDs on each one, so that they looked to the casual observer the same as the official restore CDs.
In case you have a hard time visualizing it, this Washington Post story has a picture of this guy laying on top of 48,000 install discs.
His conviction was for selling 28,000 discs for 15 cents each to a broker in Florida as part of a gov't sting.
Source: E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term
P.S. The link is dead
So were the 28,000 discs this fellow had pressed Windows 8.1 discs?
BTW, these discs were seized in 2012, right around the time Windows 8 was released to the public, Aug. 1st, 2012, so he was likely sharing Windows 7 or Windows XP recovery discs, not the (now) freely available Windows 8.1 image you linked to.
Thank you for the link, but the real question is what was Microsoft's policy for replacement install discs in 2012, not today.
The question was about MS charging $25 to send an end user a recovery disc - that is what I was responding to...
No. They think it's a tool to limit their ability to push through changes they want, rather than a common-sense approach to base regulation on provable standards based on publicly-available information.
They see the words Trump administration, science, and limit and argue it's bad because, well, because the Trump administration said it.
Why should scientists, whose positions are based on facts, evidence and logic demand that their findings be accepted and acted on without challenge or evidence?