Oxygen isn't a pollutant either, but in high enough concentrations can be fatal.
Fatal to what? Spacecraft with human occupants often have a 100% oxygen atmosphere.
(And in the Apollo I accident, it wasn't the 100% oxygen atmosphere that killed the astronauts; it was the fire.) Human life is sustainable in a 100% oxygen environment.
My wife opted to get Entertainment Weekly as a promotion from a Best Buy purchase. It was to be 6 months.
She continued to receive it for 3 or 4 years with no bills and she never got charged or even gave payment information. Because the parent company is the same as for Time Magazine, when she changed her mailing address with Time, EW was also updated.
Finally, we got a bill for EW for renewal for 1 year. I told them the situation and they said ignore the bill. We don't get EW anymore, but it was interesting how they kept sending it for years without even asking for payment.
I also find it odd that so many americans find the very idea (of workers gathering together to form a stronger position for bargaining with employers) somehow offensive.
I don't know about others, but what I dislike about unions in the general sense is the history of corruption and hard crime that went along with it in our past.
Who would want a group that bullies their members in order to present a "unified" position to the employer? Sometimes the bullying extended to criminal acts and even murder to protect the union bosses from being exposed.
Certainly unions have and continue to do good things for workers, but we've seen abuses, too.
Just thinking here... What about the limit being only 2 consecutive terms, but either no upper limit on number of terms or a high limit like 6 or 8 terms?
That might allow a chance to see something different, but allow the opportunity to bring back a good person if change didn't work out.
I had a bad experience with American Express's online payment system. I was in the middle of switching bank accounts, so I had a new account open, but with just $50 as the opening balance, as I had not yet transferred funds from the old to the new account.
I scheduled a payment to AmEx on AmEx's website and it displayed that the payment would come out of the old checking account. The following day, I was preparing all of my online payments to pull from the new checking account, including AmEx.
When I updated the checking account information for online payment, they retroactively changed the day-old transfer request and tried to pull the payment from the new account which did not have as much money in it as the requested payment.
This in itself upset me because I scheduled the payment before I made the change, but hey, you can't always guess how things are coded internally.
The silly thing, though, was that AmEx's ACH (automated clearing house: the auto-draft system) system tried the transfer from the new account, it failed with Not Sufficient Funds, so they charged a returned check fee, as did my new bank. *THEN* AmEx's system tried 2 more times over the course of a week because it's just set up to retry 3 times. I called after the 2nd attempt and they said there was no way to cancel it at all. The "kindly" refunded me one of the overdraft fees, but said the rest were my fault.
Folks who think a low ID means a old person: get real. Slashdot hasn't been around forever. It started in 1997. Accounts were added later.
Folks with a low ID just happened to register within the few months following the addition of accounts. Must have been 1998 or 1999. I was in college at the time. I'm currently not yet 30 years old. Is that old to you?
No male/female parts, and there's only one way it will fit. Doesn't solve the problem of needing to line up the "tops" of each half of the connection.
It is possible, however, to have a plug/socket set that allows you to plug it in "up" or "down". You just need double the number of contacts as signals and put all your signals on one half of the plug and wire each signal wire in the socket to two contacts on the socket, in a mirrored configuration. Waste of space, but orientation is irrelevant.
The blocks (allegedly symbolic of wind, water, etc.) looked real (I mean physically existing), but controlled by hydraulics. The "unveiling" of the fact that they were supposedly operated by people inside them, and the info-bit from the announcers that it wasn't hydraulics or motors, etc., seems obviously false.
At a few points, I though I could see the hydraulic pistons moving up and down. Especially near the end when the blocks were raised very high and you could see underneath them.
I would ask, "Do they think we're that stupid", but alas, many folks are willing to ignore facts observed by their own eyes if a credible TV person states something different.:-(
I watched the opening ceremony on NBC here in the U.S. There was a part of the ceremony called something like 'A walk through Beijing'. It showed a fly-through video of Beijing with "footsteps" made of fireworks popping up along the street/path. Those footstep fireworks looked pretty obviously computer-simulated. All other fireworks shown did not have that simulated appearance.
It sounds to me like these footsteps part were all that was simulated.
Does anyone know if the footage we saw on NBC (of the whole ceremony) was from an International common video feed or did NBC have their own cameras there? I ask because at large International events like this, there is often a common video feed and the commentators simple talk about what they see on their screen (which is the same thing we see, minus the fancy NBC info graphics and overlays.)
(I wrote this looking at the subscriber early-post version. A link to a sky.com article was later added to the summary which answers my question.)
C4 is not unstable. Even so, an electric shock will not cause C4 to detonate. Such explosives require a large and quick physical shock (pressure) to start detonation, usually supplied by a blasting cap, which can be triggered electrically.
I had a similar situation with USAA [note, the following story has nothing to do with faxes or signatures].
My truck was in an accident and since I'm not in a major city, they had the vehicle transferred many miles away to their nearest authorized auto salvage yard so their adjuster could assess the pre-damage value (it was totaled in any case).
I hadn't gotten any pictures of the damage for myself, but wanted some, just for my records, so I asked my agent if he could email me the photos the adjuster took. He said he could see the images on his computer, but had no way to get them into email...
It turns out the auto salvage/auction place took many photos when they logged in the vehicle and I was able to use their restricted non-member search function to find their record number of my vehicle. I emailed them and the boss man apparently authorized sending me their pictures. I thought that was classy of them, considering most auto salvage yards hardly have computers anyway.
I don't think USAA Insurance is particularly incompetent compared to other claims departments of any other major US auto insurance carrier.
I was involved in a different accident that could be repaired and was to be paid by the at-fault driver's insurance (State Farm). The local agent was great, but since it was a "typical" auto accident, it was handled by the national office. They were given all the required information about the repair shop by the local adjuster, but when I went to pick up my vehicle, the check hadn't been sent, so my truck was held hostage by the repair shop (rightly so, as they had not been paid for the work.)
The body shop called the insurance company for me and was told I could fax a statement of the situation to them and they would overnight a check to the shop. The shop said they would let me take my truck home in that situation. I asked how long after I faxed the letter would they send the check and they said it takes 7-10 days to *receive* a fax!! I ended up just paying out of pocket and sending the bill to the insurance directly for reimbursement...
I've personally never seen the conflict myself. If you salvage twice as much, provided it is done efficiently, then you reduce the cost of mining and ore processing (both of which are expensive), which must lead to a net reduction in cost of materials, which in turn must lead to a saving for the consumer. Efficient environmentalism is expensive to start, but would (on the longer-term) work out cheaper.
There may be an overall/net savings, but the cost of greener waste processing is borne by the taxpayers, whereas the savings produced by the resulting reduced demand (or perceived reduced demand) for mining and ore processing is considered a negative on the bottom line of the mining and ore processing companies.
I don't know if Oregon has much mining industry. If not, then the net result in Oregon is higher taxes and no change in the cost of goods, because the commodity price of metals would not be affected significantly by the relatively small increase in supply generated by the greener waste processing. If Oregon does have a significant mining industry, then a policy which would get the government into the metals business would likely not be something an Oregon politician would be likely to push.
Like it or not, politicians have an obligation to serve the interests of their constituents, which includes both individuals and the businesses that employ and serve the individuals.
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Oxygen isn't a pollutant either, but in high enough concentrations can be fatal.
Fatal to what? Spacecraft with human occupants often have a 100% oxygen atmosphere.
(And in the Apollo I accident, it wasn't the 100% oxygen atmosphere that killed the astronauts; it was the fire.) Human life is sustainable in a 100% oxygen environment.
My wife opted to get Entertainment Weekly as a promotion from a Best Buy purchase. It was to be 6 months.
She continued to receive it for 3 or 4 years with no bills and she never got charged or even gave payment information. Because the parent company is the same as for Time Magazine, when she changed her mailing address with Time, EW was also updated.
Finally, we got a bill for EW for renewal for 1 year. I told them the situation and they said ignore the bill. We don't get EW anymore, but it was interesting how they kept sending it for years without even asking for payment.
I also find it odd that so many americans find the very idea (of workers gathering together to form a stronger position for bargaining with employers) somehow offensive.
I don't know about others, but what I dislike about unions in the general sense is the history of corruption and hard crime that went along with it in our past.
Who would want a group that bullies their members in order to present a "unified" position to the employer? Sometimes the bullying extended to criminal acts and even murder to protect the union bosses from being exposed.
Certainly unions have and continue to do good things for workers, but we've seen abuses, too.
Just thinking here... What about the limit being only 2 consecutive terms, but either no upper limit on number of terms or a high limit like 6 or 8 terms?
That might allow a chance to see something different, but allow the opportunity to bring back a good person if change didn't work out.
I had a bad experience with American Express's online payment system. I was in the middle of switching bank accounts, so I had a new account open, but with just $50 as the opening balance, as I had not yet transferred funds from the old to the new account.
I scheduled a payment to AmEx on AmEx's website and it displayed that the payment would come out of the old checking account. The following day, I was preparing all of my online payments to pull from the new checking account, including AmEx.
When I updated the checking account information for online payment, they retroactively changed the day-old transfer request and tried to pull the payment from the new account which did not have as much money in it as the requested payment.
This in itself upset me because I scheduled the payment before I made the change, but hey, you can't always guess how things are coded internally.
The silly thing, though, was that AmEx's ACH (automated clearing house: the auto-draft system) system tried the transfer from the new account, it failed with Not Sufficient Funds, so they charged a returned check fee, as did my new bank. *THEN* AmEx's system tried 2 more times over the course of a week because it's just set up to retry 3 times. I called after the 2nd attempt and they said there was no way to cancel it at all. The "kindly" refunded me one of the overdraft fees, but said the rest were my fault.
(rant over)
So... College Station or Lubbock?
Reisel's the worst small town for that kind of stuff.
Damn you! Please let me hold onto my youth!
Folks who think a low ID means a old person: get real. Slashdot hasn't been around forever. It started in 1997. Accounts were added later.
Folks with a low ID just happened to register within the few months following the addition of accounts. Must have been 1998 or 1999. I was in college at the time. I'm currently not yet 30 years old. Is that old to you?
Remember when karma was a number you could see in your preferences page?
There's quite a few. I mostly lurk, occasionally post when the topic is something I know well or if I have a snarky comment.
Have you tried taping over the "DO NOT DUPLICATE" stamp with a piece of masking tape? Just write something like "Bldg 5" or some other label on it.
I doubt most duplicators of keys would peel off the tape.
You're WRONG. It's entirely possible to produce green eggs and ham, the grammatical ambiguity notwithstanding. ;-)
HD is not the same as Digital (DTV).
The U.S. dollar has been worth more than the Canadian dollar since July 21, 2008.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDCAD
Maybe not symmetric, but "genderless". See Anderson PowerPole connectors:
http://www.powerwerx.com/assembly.asp
No male/female parts, and there's only one way it will fit. Doesn't solve the problem of needing to line up the "tops" of each half of the connection.
It is possible, however, to have a plug/socket set that allows you to plug it in "up" or "down". You just need double the number of contacts as signals and put all your signals on one half of the plug and wire each signal wire in the socket to two contacts on the socket, in a mirrored configuration. Waste of space, but orientation is irrelevant.
Could've been people. Just stating what I thought I saw. Certainly eyewitness evidence is not to be relied upon.
The blocks (allegedly symbolic of wind, water, etc.) looked real (I mean physically existing), but controlled by hydraulics. The "unveiling" of the fact that they were supposedly operated by people inside them, and the info-bit from the announcers that it wasn't hydraulics or motors, etc., seems obviously false.
At a few points, I though I could see the hydraulic pistons moving up and down. Especially near the end when the blocks were raised very high and you could see underneath them.
I would ask, "Do they think we're that stupid", but alas, many folks are willing to ignore facts observed by their own eyes if a credible TV person states something different. :-(
I watched the opening ceremony on NBC here in the U.S. There was a part of the ceremony called something like 'A walk through Beijing'. It showed a fly-through video of Beijing with "footsteps" made of fireworks popping up along the street/path. Those footstep fireworks looked pretty obviously computer-simulated. All other fireworks shown did not have that simulated appearance.
It sounds to me like these footsteps part were all that was simulated.
Does anyone know if the footage we saw on NBC (of the whole ceremony) was from an International common video feed or did NBC have their own cameras there? I ask because at large International events like this, there is often a common video feed and the commentators simple talk about what they see on their screen (which is the same thing we see, minus the fancy NBC info graphics and overlays.)
(I wrote this looking at the subscriber early-post version. A link to a sky.com article was later added to the summary which answers my question.)
One company that sells disc polishing machines, http://www.azuradisc.com/ also has a mail-in service for anyone. At $1/disc it's cheap enough.
I've used it a few times on very badly scratched discs and it comes back great. Almost like new.
C4 is not unstable. Even so, an electric shock will not cause C4 to detonate. Such explosives require a large and quick physical shock (pressure) to start detonation, usually supplied by a blasting cap, which can be triggered electrically.
I had a similar situation with USAA [note, the following story has nothing to do with faxes or signatures].
My truck was in an accident and since I'm not in a major city, they had the vehicle transferred many miles away to their nearest authorized auto salvage yard so their adjuster could assess the pre-damage value (it was totaled in any case).
I hadn't gotten any pictures of the damage for myself, but wanted some, just for my records, so I asked my agent if he could email me the photos the adjuster took. He said he could see the images on his computer, but had no way to get them into email...
It turns out the auto salvage/auction place took many photos when they logged in the vehicle and I was able to use their restricted non-member search function to find their record number of my vehicle. I emailed them and the boss man apparently authorized sending me their pictures. I thought that was classy of them, considering most auto salvage yards hardly have computers anyway.
I don't think USAA Insurance is particularly incompetent compared to other claims departments of any other major US auto insurance carrier.
I was involved in a different accident that could be repaired and was to be paid by the at-fault driver's insurance (State Farm). The local agent was great, but since it was a "typical" auto accident, it was handled by the national office. They were given all the required information about the repair shop by the local adjuster, but when I went to pick up my vehicle, the check hadn't been sent, so my truck was held hostage by the repair shop (rightly so, as they had not been paid for the work.)
The body shop called the insurance company for me and was told I could fax a statement of the situation to them and they would overnight a check to the shop. The shop said they would let me take my truck home in that situation. I asked how long after I faxed the letter would they send the check and they said it takes 7-10 days to *receive* a fax!! I ended up just paying out of pocket and sending the bill to the insurance directly for reimbursement...
http://engineer.tamu.edu/news/story/?p_news_id=1220
Depends on the state and local laws.
You have to say touché.
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There may be an overall/net savings, but the cost of greener waste processing is borne by the taxpayers, whereas the savings produced by the resulting reduced demand (or perceived reduced demand) for mining and ore processing is considered a negative on the bottom line of the mining and ore processing companies.
I don't know if Oregon has much mining industry. If not, then the net result in Oregon is higher taxes and no change in the cost of goods, because the commodity price of metals would not be affected significantly by the relatively small increase in supply generated by the greener waste processing. If Oregon does have a significant mining industry, then a policy which would get the government into the metals business would likely not be something an Oregon politician would be likely to push.
Like it or not, politicians have an obligation to serve the interests of their constituents, which includes both individuals and the businesses that employ and serve the individuals.