The purpose of this may well be to delay bills someone doesn't like while also making it harder to compromise, but it would be nice to see what the bills say before they're voted on.
This idea should be universal, every American state and territory, and even my own country, Canada.
The legislators do not have exclusivity on intelligence. My own city's councillors passed laws that are in direct opposition to the citizens. "Oh, we did not know!" was their response, after complaints came in to repeal the laws.
And if the Koch brothers via their surrogate Donald Trump win the presidency, Donald will insure that the USA will not be part of the other 99 countries, which, including China, India, Malaysia have signed on. The 99 other countries know what harm global warming is doing to the crops, the size of Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Oceans, and more. Pretty soon, a lot of Florida will be below sea-level.
I still run Windows 7 on my desktop and laptop, as a backup to Linux. I just keep it around because of nostalgia and because of older MS Office software. However, wps.com offers me a reason to free up that diskspace and replace it by a more recent operating system.
Did everyone suddenly forget how to use pen and paper for records?
Do they not have paper they can write on till the computer system is back up and then retroactively enter the data in?
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago that it was ALL paper records and charts....surely people can still write and notate on paper till the computer system comes up.
If not, then we all SERIOUSLY need to reconsider having only electronic records for medical treatment, or a few hackers could really kill people...literally.
With automation, pen and pencil have disappeared. Recall, schools do not teach recursive writing. And the advantage of electronic systems is sharing. Two hospitals can share xrays, mri info etc.
First, 5kw is a quarter the normal service normally provided. We have a 20 kw drop; that's normal. It's not about what you use normally, either, it's about the toaster, the vacuum, the frig, the freezer, the AC, etc. all kicking on at once. It happens -- don't think it doesn't. That's why there's a 100 amp main system breaker in your typical breaker box. 100 amps at 240 volts. 5kw is about 25 amps at 240 (yes, you almost certainly have a 240 system... there are two 120v legs, and some stuff in the house is on one, and some stuff is on the other. A few things -- dryers, electric stoves, AC systems, things like that -- are on both legs and actually use 240.)
Second, that battery... that's an expensive component, and one with a decidedly limited lifetime. There's going to be an ongoing maintainance cost there, and you should factor it in if you aren't just going to be compulsively home-swapping. Same with current EV designs, for that matter.
Third, watch out for microinverter-based designs. These place small inverters all over the solar cell system, typically one every panel or every few panels (in this case, it would X number of tiles, if it's a microinverter design.) Every installation that uses them that I've come across thus far is a horrific generator of radio frequency interference. It'll do everything from reduce your wifi and bluetooth ranges to blow out your AM and FM reception and anything else going on that actually uses, you know, radio. A quality installation has a central, single, high-quality, high-power inverter. Those shitty little "we do solar power cheap!" companies... there's a very good reason they're cheaper. Because the stuff they install is crapola.
All you want coming from the roof / panel farm is well-filtered DC. Period.
I would hope, given the size of the energy conversion systems in their vehicles, that they didn't go that way, or, that they broke new ground and built quality systems that are actually RF quiet. But it's something to keep in mind until we know more about these proposed systems.
My home has a 200 amp 240 volt entrance. I have a boiler to heat water for the radiators in each room. When it is -25C outdoors we still get temperatures in the house at around 72C. Do I care about global warming. The answer is NO, because I am a senior, and I will be dead when it finally hits you.
I can see a tremendous migration from the south and central United states towards Canada. Upstate USA will be where people will live. And your wonderful states that grow cattle, vegatables and fruit and going to shrink in size. Its time to realize that the future is coming and sending you a message every year. Welcome hurricanes and tornadoes, and welcome massage areas where damage is beginning to occur annually. In a tragic way, obesity will disappear, as food becomes very very expensive.
How do you define corruption? Is it selling you phony shares, is it swindling you out of money? Is it getting people to do crime? Ok, so maybe we should also look at the time these emails were sent. And we should look at determining if the official server was functioning.
Want to bet the messages were sent at very end of day, after meetings with other politicians.
What has Donald done, except to point out everyone elses faults He is by far, free from fault, Leave aside the sex scandals. He is still a racist, a divisor, (split consensus, and then conquer)
I feel bad for all the Republicans who are supporting him, They will be shafted. Pfssst, as the air is let out of their bag, and they just become memories.
Once the fabrication has been successfully produced, a cheap lab (cheap in labor), can ramp up and make the expensive stuff and a very very competitive price.
American chips are too expensive. That is not to say they are superb in quality to match their price, but only that the volume manufactured of said chips is not high enough to allow a lower cost per unit.
Same is true in my experience. It doesn't matter what your record of accomplishment is either -- in fact it's almost a handicap to have an impressive resume when you're older.
One thing I noticed is when it started to get harder to get interviews, when I did get an interview everyone would seem excited about bringing me on... except the hiring manager. The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke, but after it happened a number of times I realized: nobody wants to supervise someone with more experience than they have.
So my advice to older programmers is: don't put your hopes in gaining even more expertise. It works against you. Start your own business, or get training in some other kind of job.
Perhaps you are being forced into becoming an independent consutant. I would not have a hope whatsover that the government will force a penalty for age discrimination.
It's not a separate country. It's a region of Belgium and Belgium has a very complicated federal system. In many cases, Belgium can only sign contracts, if all regions agree to said contract.
Same deal for Canada. All provinces and Territories have to agree.
Is it that Firefox and GeCko were written with internet speeds of 10megabytes (100megabits) per second, and with new higher speeds being demanded, that much more code has to be written at the C/C++ level, and less as java/javascript interpreter? If I can download a 5 gig file at a gig per second, then I would expect that downloads would be an entire set of pages, rather than small one page at a time of presentation. Perhaps browsers and web designers should plan what each has to do when speeds increase by a factor of 100.
Israel inherited a desert. Since 1948, Israel has been planting trees and using their drip water systems to encourage growth. Trees moderate the temperature and have a side effect that cooler land means less water evaporation. By the way, Jews do sponsor a tree for most celebrations (birthdays, anniversaries, marriages, funerals etc.).
Not if someone tries to browbeat into voting his way. That's the whole point behind making a secret vote mandatory.
There are leaders and followers in life. And there are the confused. By posting a selfie, you are swaying the confused. If the confused are going to vote, it should not be because they know you.
If you allow selfies, then a candidate can take a selfie of him/herself, and show you / convince you to vote. Voting results should be secret until the last poll has closed. Thats the way it works in other democracies.
Mittens had "binders of women" to ensure that, should he win, he would be sure to have a large list of qualified women to appoint and hire. He didn't say he HAD them, he said that women's groups had DELIVERED "binders full of women" to him.
"I had the chance to pull together a cabinet, and all the applicants seemed to be men... I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' and they brought us whole binders full of women."
This is Romney being sure that he couldn't be accused of being sexist, being sure that the "war on women" thing wouldn't apply to him, by working with people on both sides to avoid even the APPEARANCE of sexism. It became, of course, "proof" of his sexism, with predictable media slant.
The message was clear: any Republican, whether or not they are sexist, will be painted as sexist by the media, the painting will be fully effective. ALL this accomplished was the removal of "is not a sexist" from the list of requirements for Republican presidential candidates- after all, you'll be considered a sexist just for having (R) by your name, no matter your history, intentions, or statements.
I wonder if that had any effect? Now that you've opened up the pool of Republican presidential candidates to sexists, what would be the end result of that? Hrm....
I bet they will get tired reading about cake recipes, the son-in-law and Bills canvassing for funds for his foundation. And then you have to ask if there was intent to hide any emails from hackers who probably were following the messages to/from government servers.
laws and regulations give and unfair advantage to those who break them(like uber and airbnb) with impunity through loop holes, and to those who are well established(like the hotels here and regular taxi services) and can ensure the strict enforcement of them.
laws and regulations are unfair to those who are law abiding, in a environment where others do not follow them.
solution is to, have the least amount of laws and regulations practically possible, with least amount of complexity, and ensure these fewer simpler rules are followed.
I am a traveller. When I visit a second major city, I post the info on Facebook. I am able to pick up 3 or 4 passengers to cover the costs and some. Bus/train is about $100.00 each way. My sharing fee is one third of that. When I am in the other city, I can't pay $170/day for hotel, ABnB allows me to stay overnight a few days at $70/day. Thats what I, as a retiree can afford.
ABnB posters will make new breakable leases. Lease according to the rules, with a penalty if the leasehttps://news.slashdot.org/story/16/10/27/0541223/hotel-ceo-openly-celebrates-higher-prices-after-anti-airbnb-law-passes# is broken before it's term. Or there is a sublet provision in the lease. Hotels are for corporate travellers.
What the fuck is wrong with you. You think global warming is going to make earth like Venus? Really? Did your mother drop you as a child. Because there is utterly no fucking science behind "be warned ye sinners, or ye be like Venus one day". NO FUCKING SCIENCE AT ALL.
So would you global warming religo nut bars fuck off.
I love global warming. When I was a child here in Montreal, we had cold and permenant snow by the second week of November, and we had the last snow sometime in mid April. Now, 70 years later, I can attest that our first permenant snowfall arrives within 5 days of Christmas (either way), and by end March, it is gone.
Our summers are longer, and warmer. My home heating is down in quantity of fuel used, though the charge for fuel is way up.
With robots able to work 24/7, without overtime pay, without pension deductions, without medical contributions, where a floor of 100 robots replaces 1000 workers, the question to answer is "Is there enough jobs to go around after retraining?". If the laied off workers have no money, who will be there to buy your products or services? Answer only a very few.
Car manufacturing is now done more by robots than by humans. 50,000 workers now down to 5000 for the same or improved output.
In the IT industries programming/system design, AI will eliminate many of the jobs. Those countries where the cost of living is so low as to be a poverty wage elsewhere will have the jobs.
I also see people flooding universities, schools, to increase their level of education. I see people who have no skills or having skills that are in abundance, unable to work and they will need not a minimal wage, but a living wage.
I see it with my adult children. They are working harder, and longer and earning comparatively less than what I earned at their age.
The best future job is to save your pennies and invest in real-estate.
The war is not with Russian Hackers but with the likelihood that it was Trump inspired or funded. The same evidence that Trump has. Who is more crooked? Trump or Hillary. Who has screwed more people? Trump or Hillary? Who has done more for children? Definitely definitely not Trump.
No. Not in Chicago. Modern system is that you cannot remove ballots from the polling area. However what precinct captains can and sometimes do do is to get a bunch of blank ballots prepunch them. Then meet a person outside give them a prepunched ballot which the person then takes and throws into the ballot box while keeping the blank ballot given him. He then turns it over to the precinct captain who pays him.
That is why it is highly illegal to posses blank ballots.
Where I live we have enumerators come around to each household, and register potential voters. They leave a slip as proof of registration. They also leave info for people who were not home. Around a week later the voter registration list is published, with some instructions explaining to those who were missed, how to register. (Usually at a local school).
Amendments are also made at this second chance. Forms for siblings to obtain information for parents or family who will be away on voting day are available. Early voting takes place a week early. When we enter the school gymn (usual voting location), there is a greeter. He directs us the the proper queue (lineup). When we vote, our name is struck from the list, thus preventing double voting. We get around 80% or better turnout.
Sees, I just spent $33k for a dual Xeon, 512 GB, and 4 Telsa K40. I suppose that will make up for > 10x standard PCs. I suppose you either need the horsepower, and it's still not enough, or you don't need it at all. I just hope the high end workstations continue to be available; noting Intel stopped their motherboard production.
For me, price is the reason I will not upgrade. I can't see spending $1000 for a desktop cpu that is worth $450 to $500. The CPU chip should not cost more than $100, the motherboard $100, the peripherals 150, and software, perhaps another $50.00
When I was a kid, 70 years ago, winter storms and cold arrived in the first week of November. We also had much more snow. Winter now arrives after Christmas.
70 years ago, by first week of April, we could say, winter has ended.
I see a one month shift and I also note mich less precipation. Want collaboration of my comment? Ask the ski hill operators.
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The purpose of this may well be to delay bills someone doesn't like while also making it harder to compromise, but it would be nice to see what the bills say before they're voted on.
This idea should be universal, every American state and territory, and even my own country, Canada.
The legislators do not have exclusivity on intelligence. My own city's councillors passed laws that are in direct opposition to the citizens. "Oh, we did not know!" was their response, after complaints came in to repeal the laws.
And if the Koch brothers via their surrogate Donald Trump win the presidency, Donald will insure that the USA will not be part of the other 99 countries, which, including China, India, Malaysia have signed on. The 99 other countries know what harm global warming is doing to the crops, the size of Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Oceans, and more. Pretty soon, a lot of Florida will be below sea-level.
There is a large number of scientific studies ...
Quotation needed.
There is a large number of scientific studies ...
There you go.
I still run Windows 7 on my desktop and laptop, as a backup to Linux. I just keep it around because of nostalgia and because of older MS Office software. However, wps.com offers me a reason to free up that diskspace and replace it by a more recent operating system.
Did everyone suddenly forget how to use pen and paper for records?
Do they not have paper they can write on till the computer system is back up and then retroactively enter the data in?
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago that it was ALL paper records and charts....surely people can still write and notate on paper till the computer system comes up.
If not, then we all SERIOUSLY need to reconsider having only electronic records for medical treatment, or a few hackers could really kill people...literally.
With automation, pen and pencil have disappeared. Recall, schools do not teach recursive writing. And the advantage of electronic systems is sharing. Two hospitals can share xrays, mri info etc.
A few things.
First, 5kw is a quarter the normal service normally provided. We have a 20 kw drop; that's normal. It's not about what you use normally, either, it's about the toaster, the vacuum, the frig, the freezer, the AC, etc. all kicking on at once. It happens -- don't think it doesn't. That's why there's a 100 amp main system breaker in your typical breaker box. 100 amps at 240 volts. 5kw is about 25 amps at 240 (yes, you almost certainly have a 240 system... there are two 120v legs, and some stuff in the house is on one, and some stuff is on the other. A few things -- dryers, electric stoves, AC systems, things like that -- are on both legs and actually use 240.)
Second, that battery... that's an expensive component, and one with a decidedly limited lifetime. There's going to be an ongoing maintainance cost there, and you should factor it in if you aren't just going to be compulsively home-swapping. Same with current EV designs, for that matter.
Third, watch out for microinverter-based designs. These place small inverters all over the solar cell system, typically one every panel or every few panels (in this case, it would X number of tiles, if it's a microinverter design.) Every installation that uses them that I've come across thus far is a horrific generator of radio frequency interference. It'll do everything from reduce your wifi and bluetooth ranges to blow out your AM and FM reception and anything else going on that actually uses, you know, radio. A quality installation has a central, single, high-quality, high-power inverter. Those shitty little "we do solar power cheap!" companies... there's a very good reason they're cheaper. Because the stuff they install is crapola.
All you want coming from the roof / panel farm is well-filtered DC. Period.
I would hope, given the size of the energy conversion systems in their vehicles, that they didn't go that way, or, that they broke new ground and built quality systems that are actually RF quiet. But it's something to keep in mind until we know more about these proposed systems.
My home has a 200 amp 240 volt entrance. I have a boiler to heat water for the radiators in each room. When it is -25C outdoors we still get temperatures in the house at around 72C. Do I care about global warming. The answer is NO, because I am a senior, and I will be dead when it finally hits you.
I can see a tremendous migration from the south and central United states towards Canada. Upstate USA will be where people will live. And your wonderful states that grow cattle, vegatables and fruit and going to shrink in size. Its time to realize that the future is coming and sending you a message every year. Welcome hurricanes and tornadoes, and welcome massage areas where damage is beginning to occur annually. In a tragic way, obesity will disappear, as food becomes very very expensive.
How do you define corruption? Is it selling you phony shares, is it swindling you out of money? Is it getting people to do crime?
Ok, so maybe we should also look at the time these emails were sent. And we should look at determining if the official server was functioning.
Want to bet the messages were sent at very end of day, after meetings with other politicians.
What has Donald done, except to point out everyone elses faults He is by far, free from fault, Leave aside the sex scandals. He is still a racist, a divisor, (split consensus, and then conquer)
I feel bad for all the Republicans who are supporting him, They will be shafted. Pfssst, as the air is let out of their bag, and they just become memories.
Once the fabrication has been successfully produced, a cheap lab (cheap in labor), can ramp up and make the expensive stuff and a very very competitive price.
American chips are too expensive. That is not to say they are superb in quality to match their price, but only that the volume manufactured of said chips is not high enough to allow a lower cost per unit.
Same is true in my experience. It doesn't matter what your record of accomplishment is either -- in fact it's almost a handicap to have an impressive resume when you're older.
One thing I noticed is when it started to get harder to get interviews, when I did get an interview everyone would seem excited about bringing me on ... except the hiring manager. The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke, but after it happened a number of times I realized: nobody wants to supervise someone with more experience than they have.
So my advice to older programmers is: don't put your hopes in gaining even more expertise. It works against you. Start your own business, or get training in some other kind of job.
Perhaps you are being forced into becoming an independent consutant. I would not have a hope whatsover that the government will force a penalty for age discrimination.
It's not a separate country. It's a region of Belgium and Belgium has a very complicated federal system. In many cases, Belgium can only sign contracts, if all regions agree to said contract.
Same deal for Canada. All provinces and Territories have to agree.
I switched to Korora Fedora Remix for my laptop. I have absolutely zero (no) issues with Korora on the laptop.
Is it that Firefox and GeCko were written with internet speeds of 10megabytes (100megabits) per second, and with new higher speeds being demanded, that much more code has to be written at the C/C++ level, and less as java/javascript interpreter? If I can download a 5 gig file at a gig per second, then I would expect that downloads would be an entire set of pages, rather than small one page at a time of presentation. Perhaps browsers and web designers should plan what each has to do when speeds increase by a factor of 100.
If an AI system can create strong encryption, a second AI system can figure out the keys and the algorithm(s).
Israel inherited a desert. Since 1948, Israel has been planting trees and using their drip water systems to encourage growth. Trees moderate the temperature and have a side effect that cooler land means less water evaporation. By the way, Jews do sponsor a tree for most celebrations (birthdays, anniversaries, marriages, funerals etc.).
Not if someone tries to browbeat into voting his way. That's the whole point behind making a secret vote mandatory.
There are leaders and followers in life. And there are the confused. By posting a selfie, you are swaying the confused. If the confused are going to vote, it should not be because they know you.
If you allow selfies, then a candidate can take a selfie of him/herself, and show you / convince you to vote. Voting results should be secret until the last poll has closed. Thats the way it works in other democracies.
Mittens had "binders of women" to ensure that, should he win, he would be sure to have a large list of qualified women to appoint and hire. He didn't say he HAD them, he said that women's groups had DELIVERED "binders full of women" to him.
"I had the chance to pull together a cabinet, and all the applicants seemed to be men... I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks?' and they brought us whole binders full of women."
This is Romney being sure that he couldn't be accused of being sexist, being sure that the "war on women" thing wouldn't apply to him, by working with people on both sides to avoid even the APPEARANCE of sexism.
It became, of course, "proof" of his sexism, with predictable media slant.
The message was clear: any Republican, whether or not they are sexist, will be painted as sexist by the media, the painting will be fully effective.
ALL this accomplished was the removal of "is not a sexist" from the list of requirements for Republican presidential candidates- after all, you'll be considered a sexist just for having (R) by your name, no matter your history, intentions, or statements.
I wonder if that had any effect? Now that you've opened up the pool of Republican presidential candidates to sexists, what would be the end result of that? Hrm....
I bet they will get tired reading about cake recipes, the son-in-law and Bills canvassing for funds for his foundation. And then you have to ask if there was intent to hide any emails from hackers who probably were following the messages to/from government servers.
laws and regulations give and unfair advantage to those who break them(like uber and airbnb) with impunity through loop holes, and to those who are well established(like the hotels here and regular taxi services) and can ensure the strict enforcement of them.
laws and regulations are unfair to those who are law abiding, in a environment where others do not follow them.
solution is to, have the least amount of laws and regulations practically possible, with least amount of complexity, and ensure these fewer simpler rules are followed.
I am a traveller. When I visit a second major city, I post the info on Facebook. I am able to pick up 3 or 4 passengers to cover the costs and some. Bus/train is about $100.00 each way. My sharing fee is one third of that.
When I am in the other city, I can't pay $170/day for hotel, ABnB allows me to stay overnight a few days at $70/day. Thats what I, as a retiree can afford.
ABnB posters will make new breakable leases. Lease according to the rules, with a penalty if the leasehttps://news.slashdot.org/story/16/10/27/0541223/hotel-ceo-openly-celebrates-higher-prices-after-anti-airbnb-law-passes# is broken before it's term. Or there is a sublet provision in the lease. Hotels are for corporate travellers.
What the fuck is wrong with you. You think global warming is going to make earth like Venus? Really? Did your mother drop you as a child. Because there is utterly no fucking science behind "be warned ye sinners, or ye be like Venus one day". NO FUCKING SCIENCE AT ALL.
So would you global warming religo nut bars fuck off.
I love global warming. When I was a child here in Montreal, we had cold and permenant snow by the second week of November, and we had the last snow sometime in mid April. Now, 70 years later, I can attest that our first permenant snowfall arrives within 5 days of Christmas (either way), and by end March, it is gone.
Our summers are longer, and warmer. My home heating is down in quantity of fuel used, though the charge for fuel is way up.
I call BS on the headline. Let the damn thing prove it can do it before we claim it can. And doing regression model tweaking doesn't prove anything.
The farmer's almanac does as as good a job of prediction as will any mega or super computer.
With robots able to work 24/7, without overtime pay, without pension deductions, without medical contributions, where a floor of 100 robots replaces 1000 workers, the question to answer is "Is there enough jobs to go around after retraining?". If the laied off workers have no money, who will be there to buy your products or services? Answer only a very few.
Car manufacturing is now done more by robots than by humans. 50,000 workers now down to 5000 for the same or improved output.
In the IT industries programming/system design, AI will eliminate many of the jobs. Those countries where the cost of living is so low as to be a poverty wage elsewhere will have the jobs.
I also see people flooding universities, schools, to increase their level of education. I see people who have no skills or having skills that are in abundance, unable to work and they will need not a minimal wage, but a living wage.
I see it with my adult children. They are working harder, and longer and earning comparatively less than what I earned at their age.
The best future job is to save your pennies and invest in real-estate.
I was sarcastic.
Yes. I have the ability to read and think and analyse.
The war is not with Russian Hackers but with the likelihood that it was Trump inspired or funded.
The same evidence that Trump has. Who is more crooked? Trump or Hillary. Who has screwed more people? Trump or Hillary? Who has done more for children? Definitely definitely not Trump.
No. Not in Chicago.
Modern system is that you cannot remove ballots from the polling area. However what precinct captains can and sometimes do do is to get a bunch of blank ballots prepunch them. Then meet a person outside give them a prepunched ballot which the person then takes and throws into the ballot box while keeping the blank ballot given him. He then turns it over to the precinct captain who pays him.
That is why it is highly illegal to posses blank ballots.
Where I live we have enumerators come around to each household, and register potential voters. They leave a slip as proof of registration. They also leave info for people who were not home. Around a week later the voter registration list is published, with some instructions explaining to those who were missed, how to register. (Usually at a local school).
Amendments are also made at this second chance.
Forms for siblings to obtain information for parents or family who will be away on voting day are available. Early voting takes place a week early.
When we enter the school gymn (usual voting location), there is a greeter. He directs us the the proper queue (lineup). When we vote, our name is struck from the list, thus preventing double voting. We get around 80% or better turnout.
Sees, I just spent $33k for a dual Xeon, 512 GB, and 4 Telsa K40. I suppose that will make up for > 10x standard PCs. I suppose you either need the horsepower, and it's still not enough, or you don't need it at all. I just hope the high end workstations continue to be available; noting Intel stopped their motherboard production.
For me, price is the reason I will not upgrade. I can't see spending $1000 for a desktop cpu that is worth $450 to $500. The CPU chip should not cost more than $100, the motherboard $100, the peripherals 150, and software, perhaps another $50.00
When I was a kid, 70 years ago, winter storms and cold arrived in the first week of November. We also had much more snow. Winter now arrives after Christmas.
70 years ago, by first week of April, we could say, winter has ended.
I see a one month shift and I also note mich less precipation. Want collaboration of my comment? Ask the ski hill operators.