If you follow the links in TFA you can get to a pdf of the actual report in question. It's says "Submitted by the Residents of North Raleigh". It doesn't have any sort of claim that it has been prepared by an engineer. It's not signed by anyone. It even ends with a call to do it "for our children" so there is your disclaimer right there.
What the report does is say that the report made by the DOT is wrong because it uses current conditions. It cites the part of the guidelines that explains why you can't do that in this case. Then it goes on to take the data that was already prepared and amend it using common sense and basic math. Half of the intersections are no longer going to be able to have a left turn. The DOT's report apparently makes this traffic just disappear. It adds that missing traffic to the left turns at the remaining intersections. It notes a development that is being expanded and factors in the additional traffic from that. Then it applies that corrected data to the conditions for having a traffic light and concludes that it now meets 3 of them, when only 1 is needed. And they don't just squeak by either, they exceed them by large margins.
It appears at the very least the guy caught a mistake, if not an intentional attempt to avoid having to install the lights. If the state wants anyone investigated it should be their own engineer who prepared the initial report, but gee there seems to be a conflict of interest there.
I remember in high school we were given a lab where we were instructed to determine if a person's arm angle (the degree to which the forearm is out of parallel to the upper arm) had any effect on throwing accuracy. We to had make a hypothesis on whether it would, figure out how to measure the angle, and design an experiment to test it. There wasn't a lot of that kind of stuff, but the things I remember from back then are when the teachers made us think for ourselves.
After you have cried wolf so many times that people ignore you then you need to move on to wolves with fricken laser beams, and then eventually wolves with ICBMs. After that maybe it's time to try something different. Maybe something with sharks.
Wow, thanks for that. Didn't even know it was possible to hook up component cables to it. Right now I am having to pass through the composite output through an ancient VCR (The front lcd stopped working about 3 years ago) because the TV has no inputs at all and there's a ground loop causing lovely darker/lighter horizontal stripes rolling down the screen. I'm on the bleeding edge, I tell ya.
The funny thing about being more than a generation behind the latest and greatest is you still get to be impressed by the 'new' graphics, but the games are dirt cheap. I suppose once I break down and get an hdtv I may want a PS3 or whatever. But if they are going to drag their feet bringing out the PS4 then that will keep the price of the PS3 up and thus I won't get one. The games will still be new to me whenever I get it.
...if you use that space to hoard more weapons and ammunition than the people who do have the water and food. Plus you'll need somewhere to put all the corpses.
You use a Facebook page to interact with customers but it is impossible to setup your business fan page to notify you when someone makes a comment, unless you personally "like" everything you post, making you look like a total jackass either way. Either to get around this or because Facebook makes setting up a fan page as difficult as possible and people can't even figure out where to get started, people use a personal account which is against the TOS and then after getting hundreds or thousands of people connected Facebook deletes the account. I find it to be a complete and utter waste of time.
It sounds like they have a similar setup to what we have. The city provides two bins, one for garbage and one for recycling. The recycle bin is the larger of the two. The rules are the lids on the bins have to be closed, they have to be facing the right way (the truck picks them up with a hydraulic arm), and they have to be 5 ft apart and away from other objects like mailboxes. The only incentive to recycle is if you would end up with more trash than could fit in the trash can, which results in none of it getting picked up and you have to bring it yourself. It's pretty easy to see the houses that always have the trash bin overflowing and the recycle bin not out.
My Dad bought a Dell at the beginning of this year and it was as you say. I bought one for my Mom just within the past month and there were zero disks included. The only option was to burn recovery disks and a drivers disk. I didn't see anywhere in the purchasing to request a Windows disk, but it's possible I missed it in the umpteen pages of crap you have to wade through.
After you write "That is all." you are supposed to stop writing. That is all.
Do you see how it sort of loses the effect when you keep right on going like this? Also we can pretty much tell when you're done by the period and then the lack of any more words.
The problem with most guard/splitter combinations is that they are difficult to align and keep aligned to the blade. So people end up just leaving them off rather than have to keep dealing with it. Just last year a new requirement for riving knives instead of splitters went into effect, though this is to be UL listed not a government rule. Riving knives are far superior and don't have the alignment problem because of the way they are mounted directly behind the blade instead of at the back of the saw.
No matter how good the safety device is you still have to get people to use it. The Sawstop comes with an override switch to prevent false positives when cutting metal or very wet wood. How much do you want to bet that if this were on every saw a large number of people would just turn it off? Accidents are caused be people who think it's never going to happen to them.
The Ryobi saw he was using costs about $150. The only Sawstop saw available at the time cost over $3000. There is currently a cheaper one for a modest $1750.
Every table saw has a guard that covers the blade, though it is not usable for every possible cut. Was he performing a cut where the guard could have been used but didn't have it in place? How many of the safety procedures spelled out in the manual did he ignore? It is very difficult to hurt yourself with a table saw while following all the safety rules, and common sense.
I'll preface this by saying I'm using a windows version so I may be missing some things, but the only thing that really bothers me about GIMP is that it doesn't remember settings between sessions and many of the defaults are just stupid. Resize canvas is a prime example. Default is to maintain aspect ratio and not resize all layers. Unsharp mask doesn't remember it's settings and is buried deep in the menus, there's a big time waster. And unlike a lot of open source software it doesn't give you access to change those defaults.
If they are moving a high school one year after opening it something tells me a few MS licenses is the least of this school district's financial issues.
Whatever technological changes have come around are any of them the sort of thing that has one lying awake at night wondering how to cope? Only when a technology supersedes a previous technology does it really have a major impact, but only on those who directly made their living from the prior tech. The only real societal change I can point to that really affects how we live our lives is the role women are playing in society now, the prevalence of two income households where we are working twice as much but no further ahead than before, and the impact that has on the following generations. Technology has little to do with that.
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There were characters other than Kaylee?
Imagine the cargo bay full of seats. You rocket up into space at 3 G's and then the cargo bay doors open above you and you're looking down at Earth.
Or rent it out to shoot space porn.
If you follow the links in TFA you can get to a pdf of the actual report in question. It's says "Submitted by the Residents of North Raleigh". It doesn't have any sort of claim that it has been prepared by an engineer. It's not signed by anyone. It even ends with a call to do it "for our children" so there is your disclaimer right there.
What the report does is say that the report made by the DOT is wrong because it uses current conditions. It cites the part of the guidelines that explains why you can't do that in this case. Then it goes on to take the data that was already prepared and amend it using common sense and basic math. Half of the intersections are no longer going to be able to have a left turn. The DOT's report apparently makes this traffic just disappear. It adds that missing traffic to the left turns at the remaining intersections. It notes a development that is being expanded and factors in the additional traffic from that. Then it applies that corrected data to the conditions for having a traffic light and concludes that it now meets 3 of them, when only 1 is needed. And they don't just squeak by either, they exceed them by large margins.
It appears at the very least the guy caught a mistake, if not an intentional attempt to avoid having to install the lights. If the state wants anyone investigated it should be their own engineer who prepared the initial report, but gee there seems to be a conflict of interest there.
I was just searching for drill presses last night. Really.
"The 3,000 sensors, buried about nine inches apart, are able to pinpoint open parking spots within 980 feet"
Something doesn't seem right about that.
I remember in high school we were given a lab where we were instructed to determine if a person's arm angle (the degree to which the forearm is out of parallel to the upper arm) had any effect on throwing accuracy. We to had make a hypothesis on whether it would, figure out how to measure the angle, and design an experiment to test it. There wasn't a lot of that kind of stuff, but the things I remember from back then are when the teachers made us think for ourselves.
After you have cried wolf so many times that people ignore you then you need to move on to wolves with fricken laser beams, and then eventually wolves with ICBMs. After that maybe it's time to try something different. Maybe something with sharks.
Wow, thanks for that. Didn't even know it was possible to hook up component cables to it. Right now I am having to pass through the composite output through an ancient VCR (The front lcd stopped working about 3 years ago) because the TV has no inputs at all and there's a ground loop causing lovely darker/lighter horizontal stripes rolling down the screen. I'm on the bleeding edge, I tell ya.
The funny thing about being more than a generation behind the latest and greatest is you still get to be impressed by the 'new' graphics, but the games are dirt cheap. I suppose once I break down and get an hdtv I may want a PS3 or whatever. But if they are going to drag their feet bringing out the PS4 then that will keep the price of the PS3 up and thus I won't get one. The games will still be new to me whenever I get it.
...if you use that space to hoard more weapons and ammunition than the people who do have the water and food. Plus you'll need somewhere to put all the corpses.
You use a Facebook page to interact with customers but it is impossible to setup your business fan page to notify you when someone makes a comment, unless you personally "like" everything you post, making you look like a total jackass either way. Either to get around this or because Facebook makes setting up a fan page as difficult as possible and people can't even figure out where to get started, people use a personal account which is against the TOS and then after getting hundreds or thousands of people connected Facebook deletes the account. I find it to be a complete and utter waste of time.
gov't messes with economy by laws, by taxes, by subsidies, by bailouts
Yeah!
by stimulus, by copyrights, by patents, by creating monopolies,
YEAH!
by setting interest rates, by passing wage laws
YEAH!
by creating moral hazards with FDIC, Freddie, Fannie, medicare
HELL YEAH!
CHIP
Whoa there, buddy. You leave Erik Estrada out of this.
"antisense compounds" tested on primates. Too easy.
It sounds like they have a similar setup to what we have. The city provides two bins, one for garbage and one for recycling. The recycle bin is the larger of the two. The rules are the lids on the bins have to be closed, they have to be facing the right way (the truck picks them up with a hydraulic arm), and they have to be 5 ft apart and away from other objects like mailboxes. The only incentive to recycle is if you would end up with more trash than could fit in the trash can, which results in none of it getting picked up and you have to bring it yourself. It's pretty easy to see the houses that always have the trash bin overflowing and the recycle bin not out.
They were both Inspirons
My Dad bought a Dell at the beginning of this year and it was as you say. I bought one for my Mom just within the past month and there were zero disks included. The only option was to burn recovery disks and a drivers disk. I didn't see anywhere in the purchasing to request a Windows disk, but it's possible I missed it in the umpteen pages of crap you have to wade through.
After you write "That is all." you are supposed to stop writing. That is all.
Do you see how it sort of loses the effect when you keep right on going like this? Also we can pretty much tell when you're done by the period and then the lack of any more words.
The problem with most guard/splitter combinations is that they are difficult to align and keep aligned to the blade. So people end up just leaving them off rather than have to keep dealing with it. Just last year a new requirement for riving knives instead of splitters went into effect, though this is to be UL listed not a government rule. Riving knives are far superior and don't have the alignment problem because of the way they are mounted directly behind the blade instead of at the back of the saw.
No matter how good the safety device is you still have to get people to use it. The Sawstop comes with an override switch to prevent false positives when cutting metal or very wet wood. How much do you want to bet that if this were on every saw a large number of people would just turn it off? Accidents are caused be people who think it's never going to happen to them.
The Ryobi saw he was using costs about $150. The only Sawstop saw available at the time cost over $3000. There is currently a cheaper one for a modest $1750.
Every table saw has a guard that covers the blade, though it is not usable for every possible cut. Was he performing a cut where the guard could have been used but didn't have it in place? How many of the safety procedures spelled out in the manual did he ignore? It is very difficult to hurt yourself with a table saw while following all the safety rules, and common sense.
I'll preface this by saying I'm using a windows version so I may be missing some things, but the only thing that really bothers me about GIMP is that it doesn't remember settings between sessions and many of the defaults are just stupid. Resize canvas is a prime example. Default is to maintain aspect ratio and not resize all layers. Unsharp mask doesn't remember it's settings and is buried deep in the menus, there's a big time waster. And unlike a lot of open source software it doesn't give you access to change those defaults.
If they are moving a high school one year after opening it something tells me a few MS licenses is the least of this school district's financial issues.
Whatever technological changes have come around are any of them the sort of thing that has one lying awake at night wondering how to cope? Only when a technology supersedes a previous technology does it really have a major impact, but only on those who directly made their living from the prior tech. The only real societal change I can point to that really affects how we live our lives is the role women are playing in society now, the prevalence of two income households where we are working twice as much but no further ahead than before, and the impact that has on the following generations. Technology has little to do with that.
The world is pretty much the same as when I entered it, except now everyone has a cellphone.
Yes, I think these would do the trick.