So there's a total of one doctor in the whole hospital? I get it that "his doctor" wasn't available when the test results came in, but a visit from an associate who's on duty would still be more personal. The video conference could have happened between the two doctors so they could get the story right.
That's has got to be one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen. But "whimsical" architecture is all the rage right now. I guess I'm becoming an old fart, but this style seems like something that won't be remembered 50 years from now, except by other architects. Many of whom will pontificate about the wonderful daring steps these pioneers took, only to ignore it when it comes to their own commissions.
"Driving with Colorado license plates" is already probable cause in Kansas and Nebraska thanks to their anti-weed stance, now this. Selling your old phone on eBay? Better exclude sales in KS.
I did some account pruning at the end of last year, something that will probably become an annual tradition going forward. One of the accounts was the old Yahoo! account that hasnâ(TM)t been visited for about 5 years. I happened to remember that I also had a Flickr account that I used with my N95, so I grabbed a dump before deleting the account. Probably not enough to get purged, but fairly happy I did, some of those pictures werenâ(TM)t in any of my archives.
Modern uranium mining has more in common with oil and gas drilling than traditional mining. It's called in-situ leaching and is far safer and less impactful on the local environment. Downside risk is that dissolved U might get into local aquifers but proper mapping and monitoring will help avoid that. Like everything that impacts the world, proper management and being responsible for your fellow man is key.
The insurance problem is because instead of allowing markets to form at their own pace, the US government wanted production of nuclear materials in a hurry. Bonus that it made for cheap electricity. So they intervened and created their own insurance company specifically for nuclear plant operators.
MSRs sound great, but the problems aren't trivial. Most of the salts are highly corrosive to materials that are good for pipes and other infrastructure, so materials selection becomes the biggest hurtle.
Not saying that's insurmountable, but we already know how to build AP-1000 reactors which are "passive safe" designs.
Actually the OP was slightly off. Spent fuel is only kept in ponds for a few months until it cools enough to be transferred to dry cask storage on site. You can see these locations on Google Earth if you know where to look. They're hard to track down because they don't take up much room at all, considering they store 4 decades of spent fuel. Compare that, for example, to a coal ash pile, or the tons of CO2 released by burning natural gas. Heck, compare it to the land mass needed for solar and wind projects.
The dry cask storage solution has been in place since the Carter administration. No incidents in that time. It's ready to be shipped to wherever. If I were in charge they'd be shipped to Idaho for recycling, but FUD keeps them on their "temporary" storage pads. But even in their present state, any potential problem would be highly local.
But using the state's punishment system as a deterrent seems rather drastic to me, especially when you see what the War On Drugs® has done to the United States. And by driving it underground it will promote a certain counterculture aesthetic that might make the activity even more seductive to someone who's already vulnerable.
The only reason for flying the drone was for the "epic" selfie he'd post to the soc-nets. Only reason the BBC mentioned the drone was so they could add a few paragraphs about the airport incident before Christmas.
It's like the media elites don't want the rest of us invading their airspace. They paid big bucks for those helicopters and here you come with your Mavic Pro. Better make them illegal so the 'beeb can go back to their monopoly on TV.
Morse code is more popular than ever in amateur radio even though the ITU and most countries dropped the requirement years ago. Sure, many/most CW operators are using computers but they also pick up enough to copy it by ear. And just the thing for mountaintop operating with lots of different CW paddle manufacturers.
I work in cable. We're all remote workers in that if we're at the office we aren't working. I'm out at field hubs and headends. My boss is a three hour drive away. I go for weeks without seeing any of my direct coworkers, although I do see local techs and customer service people pretty regularly. We still feel like a team. I could work from home on office days if I wished but usually I go to a hub anyway just because I enjoy driving and my house isn't really set up for office work.
But I also feel like I'm an exception too. Most people could get used to remote/telework, but I also think there are a lot of people who crave face to face interaction and are too lazy to get to know people -much easier to treat the office as a social gathering- so they want the office experience. That and if you take away all the socializing most people would be done with their day at 10:30.
Surly this one will be good... (sip) Nope. Still bitter.
I drink a liter of coffee a day. Good coffee, that costs more than most people are willing to pay. It's not bitter. It's coffee flavored. I have a $150 grinder for the whole bean coffee I buy. I'm considering purchasing raw beans and having a go at roasting them in the oven.
Apple is trying to keep their customer relationship to itself. The other FAANGs are happy to bring third parties into the business/customer relationship (ie advertisers and resellers) because it is a way to get quick growth and allows for singular focus. I also think that the current CEO probably puts a very high premium on privacy for some very personal reasons, and that alone is a good reason to consider paying Apple instead of going the free route.
Everyone here knows the saying "if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product," which becomes more relevant every day. Advertising tech continues to intrude into our personal lives in an attempt to figure out what we want (ironically many of us just want to be left alone). And the ad buyers want to know that their ads are reaching the intended audience so even more intrusive technology is introduced to provide feedback. Of course if these companies were a little more transparent in disclosing the intrusions perhaps we'd be less paranoid about its use. And once you allow someone to interrupt, the experience is changed forever and beyond your control, much like watching a movie on USA network vs in the theater vs on Netflix.
Apple puts money into customer service (even if you think they don't do a good job, the Apple store experience is still far superior to the old guard electronics stores, especially when there's a device failure). Google doesn't even have any customer facing email address (even if you're an advertiser or use adsense in your content). They depend entirely on third parties/partners like wireless carriers and department stores for providing the "customer experience," which is a mixed bag at best. This is of course the same model Microsoft used forever, and even though their reputation has improved in recent years you don't call them for tech support unless you're a fortune 100 company.
So for now I'm willing to pay Apple a subscription fee in exchange for product support and ad-free content. When (not if, because it's still Silicon Valley and growth is everything) they start charging me a monthly fee and inserting advertising (and the related intrusive tech), I'll look elsewhere. And if Mr Cook's replacement doesn't care about privacy then for sure I'll be going back to Linux and doing my own product support.
Well, to be fair there are relatively few films that are watched more than once or twice, and I'll bet the same holds true for books and almost certainly news stories. Having a large library is more of an interior design aesthetic than a valuable asset for most of us, and a liability when it comes time to downsize.
Qualifiers abound of course. And for whatever reason music seems to be an exception, probably because it lights up nostalgia pathways.
All these AR glasses and related systems are being developed by the kids, who have no issues with focusing on near and far objects at the same time. Anyone over 50 is going to have problems with presbyopia destroying the illusion. Either you can correct for near or far, but not both.
It isn't that a computer in every device is an issue, it's that these computers have to be free as in beer. We've squandered the massive decrease in network cost to the point of demanding no incremental increase in cost of smart devices vs traditional. I'm all for paying a little more for a smart thermostat that doesn't tell some ad server when I get home from work. And I'm happy to pay a little for firmware upgrades to my smart switch if it means my house isn't going to become part of a bot network. And no way do I see any value in bringing microphones into my home that offer "free" services in exchange for listening to keywords and embedded sub audible sounds in TV shows. But it seems like these Internet companies (and by extension IOT companies) have such little faith in their product that they feel it necessary to give it away for nothing and then try to survive by introducing third parties for their income. Until that changes (and it doesn't help the cause when the tech press howls about the $1000 iPhone vs the $200 Android phone with "free" OS), we're going to continue down the dystopian path.
CW and sideband voice are the lowest common denominator for communications. That's why everyone still uses it. There's definitely a "you first" attitude when it comes to doing anything new. Even the JT modes, which are far superior to CW for weak signal, are resisted. Codec 2 and FreeDV are actually better than SSB but because no one is willing to spend an hour figuring it out it languishes.
I'm amazed that in this day and age I still have problems going by my first initial and middle name. I have about a 30/70% shot of it being correct at any given time. And so many databases have no provision for middle name, only first name and initial.
About the only thing that would be more problematic would be to have an Arabic name.
Take a look at the number of units sold in country and religious genres. Number one selling albums in the pop charts wouldn't crack the top 10 for units sold on the contemporary christian charts.
These things are just there to justify the existence of the R&R guys at the label.
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So there's a total of one doctor in the whole hospital? I get it that "his doctor" wasn't available when the test results came in, but a visit from an associate who's on duty would still be more personal. The video conference could have happened between the two doctors so they could get the story right.
That's has got to be one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen. But "whimsical" architecture is all the rage right now. I guess I'm becoming an old fart, but this style seems like something that won't be remembered 50 years from now, except by other architects. Many of whom will pontificate about the wonderful daring steps these pioneers took, only to ignore it when it comes to their own commissions.
But they told me to act like I own the company.
"Driving with Colorado license plates" is already probable cause in Kansas and Nebraska thanks to their anti-weed stance, now this. Selling your old phone on eBay? Better exclude sales in KS.
I did some account pruning at the end of last year, something that will probably become an annual tradition going forward. One of the accounts was the old Yahoo! account that hasnâ(TM)t been visited for about 5 years. I happened to remember that I also had a Flickr account that I used with my N95, so I grabbed a dump before deleting the account. Probably not enough to get purged, but fairly happy I did, some of those pictures werenâ(TM)t in any of my archives.
Old vehicles are highly recyclable.
Yep. But when you aged bulldog farts the house will stink for days.
Modern uranium mining has more in common with oil and gas drilling than traditional mining. It's called in-situ leaching and is far safer and less impactful on the local environment. Downside risk is that dissolved U might get into local aquifers but proper mapping and monitoring will help avoid that. Like everything that impacts the world, proper management and being responsible for your fellow man is key.
The insurance problem is because instead of allowing markets to form at their own pace, the US government wanted production of nuclear materials in a hurry. Bonus that it made for cheap electricity. So they intervened and created their own insurance company specifically for nuclear plant operators.
MSRs sound great, but the problems aren't trivial. Most of the salts are highly corrosive to materials that are good for pipes and other infrastructure, so materials selection becomes the biggest hurtle.
Not saying that's insurmountable, but we already know how to build AP-1000 reactors which are "passive safe" designs.
Actually the OP was slightly off. Spent fuel is only kept in ponds for a few months until it cools enough to be transferred to dry cask storage on site. You can see these locations on Google Earth if you know where to look. They're hard to track down because they don't take up much room at all, considering they store 4 decades of spent fuel. Compare that, for example, to a coal ash pile, or the tons of CO2 released by burning natural gas. Heck, compare it to the land mass needed for solar and wind projects.
The dry cask storage solution has been in place since the Carter administration. No incidents in that time. It's ready to be shipped to wherever. If I were in charge they'd be shipped to Idaho for recycling, but FUD keeps them on their "temporary" storage pads. But even in their present state, any potential problem would be highly local.
I guess the author really believes the old saying "One picture is worth 1000 words."
No photo gallery?
But using the state's punishment system as a deterrent seems rather drastic to me, especially when you see what the War On Drugs® has done to the United States. And by driving it underground it will promote a certain counterculture aesthetic that might make the activity even more seductive to someone who's already vulnerable.
The only reason for flying the drone was for the "epic" selfie he'd post to the soc-nets. Only reason the BBC mentioned the drone was so they could add a few paragraphs about the airport incident before Christmas.
It's like the media elites don't want the rest of us invading their airspace. They paid big bucks for those helicopters and here you come with your Mavic Pro. Better make them illegal so the 'beeb can go back to their monopoly on TV.
Morse code is more popular than ever in amateur radio even though the ITU and most countries dropped the requirement years ago. Sure, many/most CW operators are using computers but they also pick up enough to copy it by ear. And just the thing for mountaintop operating with lots of different CW paddle manufacturers.
I work in cable. We're all remote workers in that if we're at the office we aren't working. I'm out at field hubs and headends. My boss is a three hour drive away. I go for weeks without seeing any of my direct coworkers, although I do see local techs and customer service people pretty regularly. We still feel like a team. I could work from home on office days if I wished but usually I go to a hub anyway just because I enjoy driving and my house isn't really set up for office work.
But I also feel like I'm an exception too. Most people could get used to remote/telework, but I also think there are a lot of people who crave face to face interaction and are too lazy to get to know people -much easier to treat the office as a social gathering- so they want the office experience. That and if you take away all the socializing most people would be done with their day at 10:30.
Surly this one will be good...
(sip)
Nope. Still bitter.
I drink a liter of coffee a day. Good coffee, that costs more than most people are willing to pay. It's not bitter. It's coffee flavored. I have a $150 grinder for the whole bean coffee I buy. I'm considering purchasing raw beans and having a go at roasting them in the oven.
I'm a coffee snob.
Apple is trying to keep their customer relationship to itself. The other FAANGs are happy to bring third parties into the business/customer relationship (ie advertisers and resellers) because it is a way to get quick growth and allows for singular focus. I also think that the current CEO probably puts a very high premium on privacy for some very personal reasons, and that alone is a good reason to consider paying Apple instead of going the free route.
Everyone here knows the saying "if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product," which becomes more relevant every day. Advertising tech continues to intrude into our personal lives in an attempt to figure out what we want (ironically many of us just want to be left alone). And the ad buyers want to know that their ads are reaching the intended audience so even more intrusive technology is introduced to provide feedback. Of course if these companies were a little more transparent in disclosing the intrusions perhaps we'd be less paranoid about its use. And once you allow someone to interrupt, the experience is changed forever and beyond your control, much like watching a movie on USA network vs in the theater vs on Netflix.
Apple puts money into customer service (even if you think they don't do a good job, the Apple store experience is still far superior to the old guard electronics stores, especially when there's a device failure). Google doesn't even have any customer facing email address (even if you're an advertiser or use adsense in your content). They depend entirely on third parties/partners like wireless carriers and department stores for providing the "customer experience," which is a mixed bag at best. This is of course the same model Microsoft used forever, and even though their reputation has improved in recent years you don't call them for tech support unless you're a fortune 100 company.
So for now I'm willing to pay Apple a subscription fee in exchange for product support and ad-free content. When (not if, because it's still Silicon Valley and growth is everything) they start charging me a monthly fee and inserting advertising (and the related intrusive tech), I'll look elsewhere. And if Mr Cook's replacement doesn't care about privacy then for sure I'll be going back to Linux and doing my own product support.
Well, to be fair there are relatively few films that are watched more than once or twice, and I'll bet the same holds true for books and almost certainly news stories. Having a large library is more of an interior design aesthetic than a valuable asset for most of us, and a liability when it comes time to downsize.
Qualifiers abound of course. And for whatever reason music seems to be an exception, probably because it lights up nostalgia pathways.
All these AR glasses and related systems are being developed by the kids, who have no issues with focusing on near and far objects at the same time. Anyone over 50 is going to have problems with presbyopia destroying the illusion. Either you can correct for near or far, but not both.
It isn't that a computer in every device is an issue, it's that these computers have to be free as in beer. We've squandered the massive decrease in network cost to the point of demanding no incremental increase in cost of smart devices vs traditional. I'm all for paying a little more for a smart thermostat that doesn't tell some ad server when I get home from work. And I'm happy to pay a little for firmware upgrades to my smart switch if it means my house isn't going to become part of a bot network. And no way do I see any value in bringing microphones into my home that offer "free" services in exchange for listening to keywords and embedded sub audible sounds in TV shows. But it seems like these Internet companies (and by extension IOT companies) have such little faith in their product that they feel it necessary to give it away for nothing and then try to survive by introducing third parties for their income. Until that changes (and it doesn't help the cause when the tech press howls about the $1000 iPhone vs the $200 Android phone with "free" OS), we're going to continue down the dystopian path.
CW and sideband voice are the lowest common denominator for communications. That's why everyone still uses it. There's definitely a "you first" attitude when it comes to doing anything new. Even the JT modes, which are far superior to CW for weak signal, are resisted. Codec 2 and FreeDV are actually better than SSB but because no one is willing to spend an hour figuring it out it languishes.
http://qso.freedv.org/
...And the company loves misery.
Get back to work, you!
I'm amazed that in this day and age I still have problems going by my first initial and middle name. I have about a 30/70% shot of it being correct at any given time. And so many databases have no provision for middle name, only first name and initial.
About the only thing that would be more problematic would be to have an Arabic name.
Take a look at the number of units sold in country and religious genres. Number one selling albums in the pop charts wouldn't crack the top 10 for units sold on the contemporary christian charts.
These things are just there to justify the existence of the R&R guys at the label.