It could be that someone who could have done something about it had noticed but let it stay that way. Maybe general cynicism, dislike of Yankee OSes, thought it was funny, maybe they wanted to switch to Linux but the boss forbade it.
Or they're not going to be paid overtime or even get a thanks if they come over the week-end.
I've never in my life experienced a robocall. If we can avoid them in Europe, so can the US.
I live in France and I regularly get telemarketing calls (which are typically included in the robocall category as far as I can tell). As for calls made by an automaton I receive a handful per year; typically scams telling me to call some expensive phone number. So no, Europe is not immune to either telemarketing calls or robocalls.
... different thermal expansions involved cause the glass to shatter.
And that will change after welding because... ?
Because the temperature range they seem to be interested in is -50C to 90C whereas welding requires much much higher temperatures; for instance around 1700C for glass.
Part of living in a free god damn society is having the freedom to do questionable, potentially stupid things. The individual learns from their mistakes, and is better for it.
Well no, people don't learn much once dead. In fact they don't even have to suffer the consequences of their actions. It's the spouses and kids, your own and the other's, who have to live with no resource or in a wheelchair for life.
What if you're a German rushing your poor sickly mother down the autobahn to the hospital for some emergency and you couldn't get her there in time and she died because some Swedish stuffed shirt decided that YOUR damn Volvo shouldn't go over 112mph?
Why didn't you call the emergency medical services? At least they would have been able to stabilize your mother during what you present as a long trip to the hospital.
Well, once the limit is 112 mph, they'll realize that 100 mph is safer still, so on the basis one the "just one life" argument they'll drop the speed again.
This logic cycle will repeat
The logic loop stops as soon as the cap becomes equal to the highest speed limit in the continent.
I don't do work off the clock for my employer. I sure as hell don't do work for the world for free either. You want my services, you pay me. So I have no sympathy for you crying idiots who bust your butts for no money.
Pathological selfishness. And people wonder why the world is going to hell...
Maybe. Fahrenheit is for humans and since this is published for normal people to understand then that makes sense.
Celsius is for machines. It's not granular enough for humans which means you have to go to fractional values (decimal) which makes it look even more obfuscated to humans.
Lol. So short-sighted! Fahrenheits mean nothing to 90% of the world's population. Are you saying that 90% of the people on the planet are machines?
Like ReactOS... it's a hobby project. A huge one with thousands of developers, but a hobby project.
You are greatly overestimating the number of contributors to ReactOS. They have 38 contributors with more than 100 commits and only 55 with more than 10.
The effort would be so much better off elsewhere (e.g. an open-source VMWare that does half what VMWare can do in terms of desktop integration!),
But no virtual machine technology is going to solve our societies utter dependency on Windows. Take away Windows and everything grinds to a halt: no more loan at your bank because the software for that runs on Windows, half the ATMs down, gas pumps too, cashiers at a significant fraction of the supermarkets revert to paper, and in a number of states no election anymore, etc.
And yet there is only one supplier. That would be totally unimaginable for oil, steel or most other critical resources. That's what makes Wine important: it is the only alternative Windows API implementation.
Simple solutions for simple minds. The speed limit on most highways is too low. Modern cars a requite capable; they handle and stop very well.
Modern cars may be more capable but how much has the performance of the most important piece of equipment of the car increased in the past century? The one that is hardest to replace. The driver's brain.
You are no different from everyone else then. Everyone knows how fast they can drive. Everyone drives better than the majority of other drivers. Etc.
If I'm in error, charge me when I do so. Don't charge me for a crime I didn't commit.
They do: you're charged for endangering the life of others. Or would you want a plane pilot to not be charged for being drunk on the job until he's crashed the plane with every one on board?
If you set the limit to 0 then 100% of drivers will break the law, yet that doesn't put "others life in danger". This is nothing but rhetoric. The percentage of drivers speeding is an indicator of the reasonableness of the limits, not of the behavior of the drivers.
If you set the speed limit to 100mph on small winding roads 0% of drivers will break the law. According to your argument that would mean a 100mph speed limit would be very reasonable. Clearly the rhetoric is all yours...
It would be nice if the police did something like this. Given that no one is telling the thieves to steal the packages, I don't think it would qualify as entrapment. So want to boost your police department's investigation success rate? Set up a dozen such packages on the doorstep of volunteers, track the thieves to their lair, arrest everyone who is full of glitter (or got stained through whichever method is appropriate). Open and shut cases. Fewer thieves on the streets.
I guess you'd need a bunch of different packages types, maybe some real ones in cooperation with Amazon, etc. And once the local thieves have learned not to steal packages on doorsteps, first you've won, and you can send the packages to the police department of the next town over. Borrow them back for a booster shot whenever the local thieves get stupid again.
Why don’t communities vote on whether Waymo is allowed to drive in their town/neighborhood/street?
For the same reasons communities don't vote on whether to allow you to come and drive in their town/neighborhood/street. You don't need their authorization to drive on public roads. And I think you will agree that's a good thing (if not, please stay home until you've gotten all the votes arranged and have permission to go out).
It's also a 9 passengers plane. I don't know for London-Glasgow but that's way too small for most routes. It makes sense for them to start small to reduce the initial investment but for electric planes to spread to more routes we will need 50 - 100 passengers planes and it's not clear, at least to me, how easily their solution can be scaled up.
Probably has something to do with the energy required for 60mph being 4 times that of 30mph. On top of that you have aerodynamic resistance.
Not really. Yes there one needs to expend energy to get the vehicule's kinetic energy up to speed and that is proportional to the square of the speed: 0.5*m*v^2. But outside of city driving and 1/4 mile races that's peanuts and you can even recover most of it when you break. That leaves aerodynamic drag which, if you are going any distance, is the reason why 60mph consumes 4 times the energy of 30mph.
In the UK such numbers just come up as "unknown", which is reasonable. The display should only show a number if there is a reasonably high level of confidence that it is genuine.
Every time a city trader / UK retiree calls home from the other side of the EuroTunnel his number comes up as "unknown"? I very much doubt so. Do you have a source? But if that's true then we have different definitions of reasonable.
Just force calls originating from outside the country to have their actual numbers displayed
You're saying that as if there was such a thing as an "actual (phone) number" for ip. What is the phone number of a computer in a data center? How do you know if that computer is the origin of the call or just the n-th relay?
And what phone number would you display for people calling their family on their own cell phone from abroad? Or is your solution to make cell phones unusable abroad?
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Working or not earbuds block sound thus limiting the driver's ability to perceive his environment which makes it dangerous driving.
It could be that someone who could have done something about it had noticed but let it stay that way. Maybe general cynicism, dislike of Yankee OSes, thought it was funny, maybe they wanted to switch to Linux but the boss forbade it.
Or they're not going to be paid overtime or even get a thanks if they come over the week-end.
Where does it say they are using standard air for it?
Hint: Archimedes' principle.
If your phone rings, and you don't know the calling number - just let it go into voicemail.
By doing so you're helping them save money as they don't have to pay someone just to talk to you.
This gets you on a "live number" list, resulting in even more calls.
Thus causing them to waste even more time and money. Yes it requires a bit of effort on your part but it's for the common good.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I've never in my life experienced a robocall. If we can avoid them in Europe, so can the US.
I live in France and I regularly get telemarketing calls (which are typically included in the robocall category as far as I can tell). As for calls made by an automaton I receive a handful per year; typically scams telling me to call some expensive phone number. So no, Europe is not immune to either telemarketing calls or robocalls.
And that will change after welding because ... ?
Because the temperature range they seem to be interested in is -50C to 90C whereas welding requires much much higher temperatures; for instance around 1700C for glass.
Part of living in a free god damn society is having the freedom to do questionable, potentially stupid things. The individual learns from their mistakes, and is better for it.
Well no, people don't learn much once dead. In fact they don't even have to suffer the consequences of their actions. It's the spouses and kids, your own and the other's, who have to live with no resource or in a wheelchair for life.
What if you're a German rushing your poor sickly mother down the autobahn to the hospital for some emergency and you couldn't get her there in time and she died because some Swedish stuffed shirt decided that YOUR damn Volvo shouldn't go over 112mph?
Why didn't you call the emergency medical services? At least they would have been able to stabilize your mother during what you present as a long trip to the hospital.
Why would I buy something that comes with arbitrary limits?
Because you respect the life of others and thus the speed limits so the restriction makes no material change to you?
Well, once the limit is 112 mph, they'll realize that 100 mph is safer still, so on the basis one the "just one life" argument they'll drop the speed again.
This logic cycle will repeat
The logic loop stops as soon as the cap becomes equal to the highest speed limit in the continent.
I don't do work off the clock for my employer. I sure as hell don't do work for the world for free either. You want my services, you pay me. So I have no sympathy for you crying idiots who bust your butts for no money.
Pathological selfishness. And people wonder why the world is going to hell...
Maybe. Fahrenheit is for humans and since this is published for normal people to understand then that makes sense.
Celsius is for machines. It's not granular enough for humans which means you have to go to fractional values (decimal) which makes it look even more obfuscated to humans.
Lol. So short-sighted! Fahrenheits mean nothing to 90% of the world's population. Are you saying that 90% of the people on the planet are machines?
Like ReactOS... it's a hobby project. A huge one with thousands of developers, but a hobby project.
You are greatly overestimating the number of contributors to ReactOS. They have 38 contributors with more than 100 commits and only 55 with more than 10.
The effort would be so much better off elsewhere (e.g. an open-source VMWare that does half what VMWare can do in terms of desktop integration!),
You mean like the open-source VirtualBox and QEmu?
But no virtual machine technology is going to solve our societies utter dependency on Windows. Take away Windows and everything grinds to a halt: no more loan at your bank because the software for that runs on Windows, half the ATMs down, gas pumps too, cashiers at a significant fraction of the supermarkets revert to paper, and in a number of states no election anymore, etc.
And yet there is only one supplier. That would be totally unimaginable for oil, steel or most other critical resources. That's what makes Wine important: it is the only alternative Windows API implementation.
Simple solutions for simple minds. The speed limit on most highways is too low. Modern cars a requite capable; they handle and stop very well.
Modern cars may be more capable but how much has the performance of the most important piece of equipment of the car increased in the past century? The one that is hardest to replace. The driver's brain.
Simple minds indeed...
I know how fast I can drive safely.
You are no different from everyone else then. Everyone knows how fast they can drive. Everyone drives better than the majority of other drivers. Etc.
If I'm in error, charge me when I do so. Don't charge me for a crime I didn't commit.
They do: you're charged for endangering the life of others. Or would you want a plane pilot to not be charged for being drunk on the job until he's crashed the plane with every one on board?
I agree with their view on speed cameras. Most cities use them as a huge revenue source.
Cities don't get the money from speed infractions in France. So your argument does not apply to the current situation.
Along with that, most are placed in areas where lower income people are.
Source please. Applicable to the current situation, i.e. speed limits in France.
If you set the limit to 0 then 100% of drivers will break the law, yet that doesn't put "others life in danger". This is nothing but rhetoric. The percentage of drivers speeding is an indicator of the reasonableness of the limits, not of the behavior of the drivers.
If you set the speed limit to 100mph on small winding roads 0% of drivers will break the law. According to your argument that would mean a 100mph speed limit would be very reasonable. Clearly the rhetoric is all yours...
Macron and his grandma are marching to the guillotine
Quite the opposite: taxing the GAFA is something that the yellow vest movement has been asking for.
It would be nice if the police did something like this. Given that no one is telling the thieves to steal the packages, I don't think it would qualify as entrapment. So want to boost your police department's investigation success rate? Set up a dozen such packages on the doorstep of volunteers, track the thieves to their lair, arrest everyone who is full of glitter (or got stained through whichever method is appropriate). Open and shut cases. Fewer thieves on the streets.
I guess you'd need a bunch of different packages types, maybe some real ones in cooperation with Amazon, etc. And once the local thieves have learned not to steal packages on doorsteps, first you've won, and you can send the packages to the police department of the next town over. Borrow them back for a booster shot whenever the local thieves get stupid again.
Why don’t communities vote on whether Waymo is allowed to drive in their town/neighborhood/street?
For the same reasons communities don't vote on whether to allow you to come and drive in their town/neighborhood/street. You don't need their authorization to drive on public roads. And I think you will agree that's a good thing (if not, please stay home until you've gotten all the votes arranged and have permission to go out).
It's also a 9 passengers plane. I don't know for London-Glasgow but that's way too small for most routes. It makes sense for them to start small to reduce the initial investment but for electric planes to spread to more routes we will need 50 - 100 passengers planes and it's not clear, at least to me, how easily their solution can be scaled up.
Probably has something to do with the energy required for 60mph being 4 times that of 30mph. On top of that you have aerodynamic resistance.
Not really. Yes there one needs to expend energy to get the vehicule's kinetic energy up to speed and that is proportional to the square of the speed: 0.5*m*v^2. But outside of city driving and 1/4 mile races that's peanuts and you can even recover most of it when you break. That leaves aerodynamic drag which, if you are going any distance, is the reason why 60mph consumes 4 times the energy of 30mph.
In the UK such numbers just come up as "unknown", which is reasonable. The display should only show a number if there is a reasonably high level of confidence that it is genuine.
Every time a city trader / UK retiree calls home from the other side of the EuroTunnel his number comes up as "unknown"? I very much doubt so. Do you have a source? But if that's true then we have different definitions of reasonable.
Just force calls originating from outside the country to have their actual numbers displayed
You're saying that as if there was such a thing as an "actual (phone) number" for ip. What is the phone number of a computer in a data center? How do you know if that computer is the origin of the call or just the n-th relay?
And what phone number would you display for people calling their family on their own cell phone from abroad? Or is your solution to make cell phones unusable abroad?