Bike lanes in roundabouts? Fine - works all over the world.
Not here, the local municipality decided to just leave them out. The bike lanes disappear before the traffic circles and reappear on the other side. The DOT also seems to delight in installing "traffic calming" devices which narrow the road, throw in random sharp turns and eliminate the bike lane as well.
Not going to happen, the companies will just pressure the government to allow more foreign workers who will work for less (or hire subcontractors who already do.) Same thing has been happening in the US for years.
A proper education isn't possible with a public school system when certain political ideologies are trying to destroy it
FTFY. Seriously, public school education can be fine until a bunch of demagogues try to privatize it or cut its funding to nothing. I've known so many teachers who busted their ass, cared about their students and did a great job only to be hamstrung and crushed by the useless administration above them (up to and including the Governor.) The uncaring and/or insane parenting doesn't help either. And please don't mention charter schools; I live in Florida and have a front row seat to that sideshow of greed and incompetence.
But in all honesty your overall point about the entire system circling the drain is probably correct. There are just too many short sighted and/or psychopathic people in charge. But there's still a glimmer of hope that the populace in general may come around and begin to value intelligence and reason again. Hopefully before the planet is reduced to a lifeless pile of slag of course.
I can pinpoint it- when the Caffeine category started fitting on a single page. In fact, just went back for the first time in years and it's now "Food & Caffeine" but still fits on a single page. Sad really.
Man, XTZ Tea was great.
Yeah, they sent me a box instead of a cable card. Too much of a hassle to drive all the way to Comcast just to swap it. My main beef is requiring the equipment since they started encrypting all channels including OTA and then charging a monthly amount for it. It's not a large amount but the principle stinks.
Picked up an HDTV antenna and am looking forward to ditching cable TV. 99.99% of what everyone in the house watches is via Amazon Prime, Netflix or Hulu now anyway.
When a RAID goes down, isn't it wise to shut down the entire array until you can get a replacement in there and rebuild the set?
Yes, but sometimes the extra load put on the drives by rebuilding the RAID can cause another drive (or drives) to fail. Mount degraded array read-only, run a differential backup, rebuild and pray.
And for what it's worth, my anecdotal experience with a variety of Seagate's ES.2 "enterprise" drives has soured me on Seagate for a while. It's all cyclical though; like many others I remember cursing Western Digital and their Caviar drives back in the day. Company A sells more drives that Company B but Company A starts cutting back on quality to maximize profit while Company B starts increasing quality/features/whatever to win back market share. Switch positions and repeat.
Probably spot on unfortunately. Considering how militarized the police have become it's only a matter of time before they are deployed "for everyone's safety." Guessing the results will be something like the ED-209.
People forget to mention that all those panels they buy from China....How are they made? With GERMAN production equipment. That's how! The companies that produces these machines in combination with massive increase in solar installers because of the lower cost Chinese panels far exceeds the amount of jobs lost from production companies.
Until the Chinese get tired of paying the Germans and decide to reverse engineer (that was the most polite term I could think of) the production equipment and make their own.
Like, say, the 4th amendment protecting against unlawful search and seizure? Bastards were caught with their hands in the cookie jar and are trying anything to deflect attention.
Okay, let's put it this way: has the effective tax rate increased or decreased since the year 1995? How about the early 1900's? Here's an interesting link from Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates?op=1 discussing that.
Not sure where you got the "double negatives" idea from so can't really respond to it, but your logic statement is a bit shaky. If you are partying by definition you are not sleeping. However, if you are not sleeping you could be engaged in any manner of activities, not just partying. P implies not S, but not S does not imply P.
This whole rigmarole about "tax increases" is misleading as a more correct description would be the expiration of tax cuts. For example, in this case FICA returned to 6.2% due to the 2% reduction from the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 not being renewed.
For the record, the only thing recorded about Jesus and economics was the Parable of the Talents, in Matthew 25, verses 20 and 21. snip
I think you're confusing economics and accounting.
Oh, and e.g. Mark 10:21-22:
"Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions."
Actually took a quick introductory beekeeping course at a local agricultural university extension here recently. One of the things they mentioned was that the Chinese were now filtering the honey to get rid of the original pollen and then putting the "correct" pollen in. So even this method isn't foolproof.
Probably the best quote I've heard that addresses this is from Calvin and Hobbes: “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Maybe they're trying to prop up the US Treasury's minting operation by making cash more attractive. It will be interesting to see whether people start carrying more cash or simply avoid retailers with the added surcharge.
After RTFA, it seems like yet another hurdle for smaller businesses as the "big box" stores with higher profit margins are better able to absorb the processing fees. For example, I work for a nonprofit that handles a fair amount of credit card transactions and it's positively sickening how much processing fees cost the company.
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Bike lanes in roundabouts? Fine - works all over the world.
Not here, the local municipality decided to just leave them out. The bike lanes disappear before the traffic circles and reappear on the other side. The DOT also seems to delight in installing "traffic calming" devices which narrow the road, throw in random sharp turns and eliminate the bike lane as well.
Now Spain will raise pay for skilled labor
Not going to happen, the companies will just pressure the government to allow more foreign workers who will work for less (or hire subcontractors who already do.) Same thing has been happening in the US for years.
A proper education isn't possible with a public school system when certain political ideologies are trying to destroy it
FTFY. Seriously, public school education can be fine until a bunch of demagogues try to privatize it or cut its funding to nothing. I've known so many teachers who busted their ass, cared about their students and did a great job only to be hamstrung and crushed by the useless administration above them (up to and including the Governor.) The uncaring and/or insane parenting doesn't help either. And please don't mention charter schools; I live in Florida and have a front row seat to that sideshow of greed and incompetence.
But in all honesty your overall point about the entire system circling the drain is probably correct. There are just too many short sighted and/or psychopathic people in charge. But there's still a glimmer of hope that the populace in general may come around and begin to value intelligence and reason again. Hopefully before the planet is reduced to a lifeless pile of slag of course.
I can pinpoint it- when the Caffeine category started fitting on a single page. In fact, just went back for the first time in years and it's now "Food & Caffeine" but still fits on a single page. Sad really. Man, XTZ Tea was great.
Wonder if they're randomizing the entire MAC or just the lower three bytes, and what this does for the odds of a MAC collision.
Any bets this ends up causing as many problems as Apple's broken DHCP implementation in iOS 3.2.1 through 6.1?
Yeah, they sent me a box instead of a cable card. Too much of a hassle to drive all the way to Comcast just to swap it. My main beef is requiring the equipment since they started encrypting all channels including OTA and then charging a monthly amount for it. It's not a large amount but the principle stinks. Picked up an HDTV antenna and am looking forward to ditching cable TV. 99.99% of what everyone in the house watches is via Amazon Prime, Netflix or Hulu now anyway.
And Washington was elected, not appointed. The President is also commander-in-chief of the armed forces so not strictly a civilian post.
Your move, AC.
... or is anyone else disturbed by the number of military personnel being appointed to civilian posts in the US government recently?
At what point do we just give up and announce that we're ruled by a junta already?
When a RAID goes down, isn't it wise to shut down the entire array until you can get a replacement in there and rebuild the set?
Yes, but sometimes the extra load put on the drives by rebuilding the RAID can cause another drive (or drives) to fail. Mount degraded array read-only, run a differential backup, rebuild and pray.
And for what it's worth, my anecdotal experience with a variety of Seagate's ES.2 "enterprise" drives has soured me on Seagate for a while. It's all cyclical though; like many others I remember cursing Western Digital and their Caviar drives back in the day. Company A sells more drives that Company B but Company A starts cutting back on quality to maximize profit while Company B starts increasing quality/features/whatever to win back market share. Switch positions and repeat.
"Congressman Accepts BitCoin For His Bribes"
In all fairness someone probably should have been imprisoned or at least fined heavily for that movie.
Probably spot on unfortunately. Considering how militarized the police have become it's only a matter of time before they are deployed "for everyone's safety." Guessing the results will be something like the ED-209.
People forget to mention that all those panels they buy from China....How are they made? With GERMAN production equipment. That's how! The companies that produces these machines in combination with massive increase in solar installers because of the lower cost Chinese panels far exceeds the amount of jobs lost from production companies.
Until the Chinese get tired of paying the Germans and decide to reverse engineer (that was the most polite term I could think of) the production equipment and make their own.
Will do, Rip Van Winkle. See you in a decade or two.
*monacle pops out* Shuuuuuulllltttz!!!!
Like, say, the 4th amendment protecting against unlawful search and seizure? Bastards were caught with their hands in the cookie jar and are trying anything to deflect attention.
... the tough get going! Who's with me? Let's go!!
What the fuck happened to the Slashdot I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts?
Archive.org to the rescue. Maybe the 9-June-2003 issue of Marsbugs (#23), page 5, "Martian Spiders"?: http://web.archive.org/web/20080725114636/http://www.lyon.edu/projects/marsbugs/volume10old.html
Man, just realized how long ago Spirit and Opportunity were.
Lean bacon, or would a low fat meat like ostrich work just as well? Also, ob WSPTOTC.
Okay, let's put it this way: has the effective tax rate increased or decreased since the year 1995? How about the early 1900's?
Here's an interesting link from Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates?op=1 discussing that.
Not sure where you got the "double negatives" idea from so can't really respond to it, but your logic statement is a bit shaky. If you are partying by definition you are not sleeping. However, if you are not sleeping you could be engaged in any manner of activities, not just partying. P implies not S, but not S does not imply P.
This whole rigmarole about "tax increases" is misleading as a more correct description would be the expiration of tax cuts. For example, in this case FICA returned to 6.2% due to the 2% reduction from the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 not being renewed.
For the record, the only thing recorded about Jesus and economics was the Parable of the Talents, in Matthew 25, verses 20 and 21.
snip
I think you're confusing economics and accounting.
Oh, and e.g. Mark 10:21-22:
"Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions."
Actually took a quick introductory beekeeping course at a local agricultural university extension here recently. One of the things they mentioned was that the Chinese were now filtering the honey to get rid of the original pollen and then putting the "correct" pollen in. So even this method isn't foolproof.
Probably the best quote I've heard that addresses this is from Calvin and Hobbes: “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Maybe they're trying to prop up the US Treasury's minting operation by making cash more attractive. It will be interesting to see whether people start carrying more cash or simply avoid retailers with the added surcharge.
After RTFA, it seems like yet another hurdle for smaller businesses as the "big box" stores with higher profit margins are better able to absorb the processing fees. For example, I work for a nonprofit that handles a fair amount of credit card transactions and it's positively sickening how much processing fees cost the company.