This is the basic reason that a private healthcare system can never be an ethical or ideal system. Making a profit can only come at the expense of someone's health, life, or livelihood. It ultimately places the burden of providing that profit on society as a whole.
The only rational and ethical health system is one that is non-profit.
That is why we who have universal (government funded) healthcare get cured and live more years in good health.
The USA is not a democracy. The 2% wealthy fund their people (representatives) for the senate, congress, judges, sherrifs, and any other place where the wealthy can profit from favourable outcomes for their own interests.
To be an independent contractor, the contractor has to bill UBER for services rendered. And that would make UBER a corporation that makes a profit thoughcontracting. If so, then UBER needs to pay appropriate taxes as a corporation offering a service.
Oh well, Just wait it out to see if I am wrong about contractor/employer/ Uber will pay them for services rendered.
Why come to Canada. Aside from Winter, here are the possible reasons: a) Money for research instead of going for fences. b) Reasonably sized classrooms c) Affordable housing d) Racial and religious tolerance e) Low cost of tuition for universities (compared to USA) f) Universal (portable) healthcare and pharmacare and about $10/00 day child care g) Canadians don't sue for trivial things. We don't see many lawyers adverts. g) Rifles are for sport. Rare to find a handgun unless its a police or military owner. h) Our average life expectancy is more than 2+ years above the USA. i) Homeless are only homeless if they want or because of drugs/alcohol or mental illness. Yet they are not discriminated against for healthcare benefits (To see doctor, to get treatments...)
Negative ======= High sales and income taxes. (Taxes pay for the items mentioned above). Country has lots of open space between cities. Major cities are distant from each other. While telephone and video web make up for it, travel costs are high.
If the tarifs are steep, the vendors will raise their prices and ask the USA to reduce tarifs. The deficit is not harmful. The USA receives goods for it's purchases, and those goods, coupled with ingenuity in the USA, makes the USA one of the most profitable countries in the world (for the billionaires).
The tarifs should only be applied against competing goods. The USA can't produce cellphones of the quality and quantity as can China. The USA's market is able to engineer well, but salaries are out of line with the rest of the world.
The tarifs are going to raise domestic costs substantially, which are also going to be reflected in the goods and services the USA sells globally.
But on the bright side, it is a hidden tax that Trump will use to cover the near trillion dollar gift to the super rich and to corporations. Now we wait for the cost sto trickle down. Should the tarifs persist, expect your car to cost your between $5K to $10K more in the coming two years.
Apple was one of the founders of ARM. An ARM license doesn't cost them very much at all.
Manufacturing chips on the scale of Apple's iPhone means the cost per chip is relatively low. The NRE is done; at that point the more you can manufacture the cheaper it is per unit. Certainly paying Intel to manufacture chips and sell them (even at the margin that Apple can command) is going to be more expensive for Apple.
As for benefits... Apple has always wanted to own the whole shebang. They get to know ahead of time what the schedule's going to be, they get to dictate the chip's abilities, and they already have the design capability in-house. I *think* it'll be cheaper for Apple, with lower thermals and higher efficiencies with potentially a better designed chip. Whether the user sees benefits from that is up for debate.
There are certainly issues with compatibility and emulation, and I don't have a good answer for that. I suspect, if Apple go ahead and do it, they will have a good-enough answer for a transition. As for recompiling etc., they'll just require an ARM64 variant of any app in the app-store for a year or so ahead of any transition in order to be listed. That'll be sufficient IMHO to get almost everyone on-board.
IBM wanted to also own the whole thing. And technology suddenly left IBM behind. IBM has a few specialty products now, but it's main business is in consulting and cloud computing.
The headlines on this story have all been uniformly Disingenuous and Sensationalist.
Twelve Mile a gallon cars are NOT going to be coming back, Standards are not going to be weakened.
What is changing is that the highly unrealistic target of 50 mpg for fleet average requirements in 2025 are going to be scaled down to something that is actually achievable.
Its a achievable fleet objective. Especially when you mix in electric cars, propane powered cars, and the rest.
Surely this change in regulation would do more to hurt US car companies that help them? If they don't design and build for efficiency, then surely this would limit their ability to export to any market that cares about efficiency or where fuel costs are already high? This feels like another short term action, just like trying to protect the coal industry, that will end up hurting more in the long run, than doing any real good.
As Canada and other countries are committed to the Paris accords, it will most likey be that American cars that don't meet the current and proposed targets for polution will not be allowed to be sold in those countries. I can see Kia, Honda, Toyota, and a whole slew of foreign companies meeting California's targets.
Bye bye Ford, Chrysler and GM. Sorry your cars are not selling. But don't worry, your employees will find other jobs after the government offers retraining. Perhaps the future laid off employees could transition to IT.
Battery production prices are dropping like a rock, too. Most of these studies budget something like $500/kWh, but I would not be surprised in the least to see ~$100/kWh in commercially available products in a few years time. And that's a gamechanger for solar timeshifting.
It works double when you need the pack for something else, too (for example, as a buffer to EV fast charging). Your buffer also contains at least an hour's worth of its peak consumption (multiple hours when charges are spread out) just in order to have enough power to feed the vehicles it's charging. No need to "double pay" for the battery.
I'm of the opinion that individually, solar costs are prohibitive, for the amount of electricity we need. However, if residents formed an energy union (like a credit union), and transmission stations could be erected to ship surplus electricity to the areas in the dark, then it is possible that uninterrupted electricity could be made available everywhere at low cost. That is the theory. When you bring in profit motive, private enterprise, and contracts that give long term favouritism to certain investors, the average homeowner is going to get screwed.
Hydro Quebec made a deal with NY state, Vermont, and Mass for electricity that is below 4 cents per kwhr. Electricity producers in Mass rejected the construction of transmission lines between Quebec and Mass. Electricity lines are not oil or gas. So, Plattsburg residents pay around 4.2 cents per KWH, and so do other locations in the N.E USA. Plattsburg council has put a stop to new bitcoin mining, as that raises the total city consumption to where the infrastructure cost goes out of reach.
What is the difference between Illegal and criminal? Is an illegal automatically a criminal? And then a criminal who is illegal, does he lose his illegal status?
You need several head-down coders to make stuff work.
You need a lot fewer old hands to look things over and point out the problems.
When Fat Lou Gerstner took over he essentially put everyone at IBM that didn't touch a product, deliver it, or face a customer on notice. Fortunately he spared the payroll department, but many mid managers disappeared. And so did many very capable people, some of whom went on to become IBM customers elsewhere.
Now the work has changed dramatically over the 8-10 years, and the employees have to change also, and to whine that they have to be 'allowed to change' doesn't work. IBM is in the midst of a lot of changes, GS being one, and they are playing a dangerous game by ditching experience and embracing offshoring in the name of cost reduction. It's not fair, but little in life is fair.
Is off shore where IBM and other companies are finding business growth. The USA market is saturated and is highly competitive. Foreign lands offer better opportunity than the domestic European/American market places.
The rules is: Go where your customers are located.
I wonder what people would think if Americas best and brightest security researchers/hackers were going to China to be involved in paid bug-hunts. I am suspecting the reaction would border on claiming treason, there would certainly be calls for them to be cut out of any real security work, and their personal lives would probably be destroyed also...
but no, apparently EVERYONE loses if China doesnt send their best and brightest over to help out American corps..
Grow up.
China is a hacking country. Why should they participate. If they present the flaws they found, it will be one strike or or more against China.
China is now a dictatorship with a President for life. He needs to keep knowledge internal to China
The time has come to stop owning a car. We are living within walking distance to a mall (supermarket). If we are just window shopping, I take an uber/Lyft from one mall to the next. My weekly uber/lyft expenses are around $50.00
When we do the grocery shopping, and we need a van for a few hours, we pickup a "local electric vehicle" for a few bucks per hour.
Here are the savings. Renting a vehicle or using taxis averages out to $250/month. We have not vehicle insurances or maintenance to worry about. And at times, when I visit my son who lives 400 miles away, I rent a car for about $200/week. Gasoline for that week is around anothe $100.00. We also use public transportation at around $3.25/ride
So, my annual transportation costs (vehicle, fuel, insurance) are around $ 2k/yr. Its family life rediscovered, to not always be walking around the Mall, or chewing on some "Chicken Delight burger".
Most of us around the world pay taxes on every liter or gallon of petroleum our cars consume. In some countries it's a pretty high tax. If electric vehicles start making up a larger and larger % of vehicles on the road will there come an end where to be fair you need to drop the tax on fuel and instead tax electricity- take a certain % of your electricity usage and put it towards maintaining roads and public transportation?
We all benefit from roads and bridges, even those that don't drive.
Obviously we're still at the stage where most governments are still trying to encourage more electric vehicles, but eventually if electric takes off like planned, it's going to become unfair to place all the burden of taxes to maintain roads on drivers of ICE vehicles. Especially since it will most likely be the poor and impoverished who will be the last to adapt to the new electric-vehicle age.
You might have to register your mileage or kilometrage. The government could use this as a way to tax you for your use of highways and road ways.
Manipulating markets with lies. Actually I thought that *was* grounds for prison.
They are not lying. They are stating facts and opinions, and mixing them to confuse naive investors. They preface many sentences with "We believe" and "We may". This "obituary" was almost certainly reviewed by lawyers, to ensure that it got as close to "the line" as possible, without crossing it.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and for securities manipulation, that is enough.
I have a Intel q9650 system. It has no EFI bios, it relies on Linux and Selinux security features. The TPM for my Asus P5Q is a plug in chip. So, the TPM is replaceable by someone when a technician comes over and pretends he is installing new hardware, as opposed to replacing a Security chip with one allowing dual access. Yes, anyone who has physical access to the computer can install new bios's, replace TPMs and even replace CPU Microcode fixes. This problem is no different from my taking my car to a local garage which has a workaround diagnostic and programming machine usually provided to dealers. If I brought my system to Geek Squad, want to bet that they have put in software that indicates who in their organization handled the system last, and what is the bypass (insecure) password.
CTS had a financial interest in dropping the AMD stock prices. And when they hit bottom, to buy them back. AMD is ok, the problem or issue, if any, may rest with the mother board manufacturer.
A 300 watt system at 120 volts will likely require a 325 watt wall plug supply, given inefficiencies. Suppose your requirement is to draw 300 watts for thirty minutes.
If your UPS is going to be powered from a 12 volt supply, your going to have to support about 30 amps of battery current. You are looking at connecting to the battery with 12 gauge wire.
If your UPS could support two 12 volt batteries in series, the amperage is now reduced to 15amps. That's about the size is today of a 14gauge house wire that is used to deliver power to your wall recepticle.
Consider the amperes from battery/batteries to the electronic power converter. Lots of amperes required between battery and the UPS electronics.
Car batteries are typically rated at sustained amp-hours. a 200 amp hour battery at 35 amperes would last less than 5 to 6 hours.
I removed the internal battery from my "over the counter" UPS, I got two "200 ampere/Hour" car batteries which I wired in parallel, to the UPS electronics. I used 12 gauge wire, to the UPS battery clips. We had a 12 hour failure once this past winter. Leaving the UPS for 15 hours to power router, cordless phone and some cellphone chargers took the power availability from 100% to 20%.
A residential UPS system should use 24 volt battery supply, at a minimum.
I am for it. I have digital timers that are not "Atomic". Atomic in this sense is the timer that listens to the low frequency transmitted time-signal, and corrects itself. So, twice a year I do the tour of heating systems, a/c systems, lighting systems and access control stuff.
I would just like to set the time once and forget it until the batteries fail
There is a role for AB&B. Several businesses need consultants, architects, construction workers for a few months at a time. Hotel costs are prohibitive. Motels are not geared to provide house comforts. The AB&B rental provides an affordable home for 5 for a few months, which include kitchen, laundry, bedrooms with clean linen, and parking. This works out well, for communities where there is no housing shortage. Yes AB&B is an affordable choice.
There is a second and third category of visitor -- Religious and parental. For the second, some individuals want to be near a specific religious community, near the specialty food (kosher/halal) stores, and for access to temples/mosques.
Regarding parental user of AB&B, the modern lifestyle has children relocating to chase a career. When there is a birth, the parents want to be near the mother and grandchild. These grandparents will book a place for a week to a month. I know of parents who came from Europe to North America to help the daughter.
Finally, there is the tourist. If affordable AB&B facilities was not available, people would remain at home. Tourists want safe clean accommodations, and often chose locations where the language and culture are different from their own.
Even where there is a housing shortage, there is a role for AB&B. I have seen the situation where UBER/Lyft availability encourages AB&B visits. That was not mentioned by anyone else so for.
Get a roladex postal sized card system. Typically the cards serve for keeping phone numbers and some crm information.
Use it for your planning and calendaring. When a project falls behind, remove the card and move it forward. Have some index cards that go from 1 to 53 (for each week). Do you need to project plan by the hour? Then look for some shop-floor software that takes machines, manpower, work, and does a MPS Schedule.
Clothing that was only pre-worn by svelte runway models, hand fed on vegan non-GMO wood pellets and rainwater direct from the skies, unsullied by man-made chemicals. Clothing whose materials are only the finest naturally grown, recycled hemp, crafted in the dark by underprivileged, overpaid tibetan monks. Clothing that is always one of a kind, and intentionally may not fit anyone perfectly to enhance our body positive vibes.
My brand is Smug - I'm Simply Better Than You.
I'm guessing the models are all kids, because I don't think humans will live all that long on a diet of wood.
Don't worry, it's all just a sales marketing pitch anyway. Their clothes come from the same asian workshops as everybody elses.
I am pushing age 80. My problem with jeans is the rise. I am not a teenager and I need more than having the belt sit on my waist. There is nothing more embarrassing than leaning over and the rear cheek halves show down to my crotch. I need that extra inch of rise so that the belt tightens the jean waist at least two fingers high above my hip bones. I also don't want leg/hip huggies. When I got to pee, I want to pee in the urinal, not half and half.
A student should have an uncluttered mind. A mind that is cluttered is a sign of someone impatient and lacking in self-discipline.
Have a programming apprenticeship program where the student writes code and the "advisor" reviews it for correctness, completeness and style. At first once per day review, then once very two days, to once per deliverable.
Most of all, the student for a few weeks, be given ample time and low priority tasks, and as the skills improve, tighten up the student's timeframe to deliver.
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What you need is flexible glass. Glass that is soft at room temperature and melts easily with anything above 100C
There's no money to be made in health.
This is the basic reason that a private healthcare system can never be an ethical or ideal system. Making a profit can only come at the expense of someone's health, life, or livelihood. It ultimately places the burden of providing that profit on society as a whole.
The only rational and ethical health system is one that is non-profit.
That is why we who have universal (government funded) healthcare get cured and live more years in good health.
The USA is not a democracy. The 2% wealthy fund their people (representatives) for the senate, congress, judges, sherrifs, and any other place where the wealthy can profit from favourable outcomes for their own interests.
Prove me wrong.
To be an independent contractor, the contractor has to bill UBER for services rendered.
And that would make UBER a corporation that makes a profit thoughcontracting.
If so, then UBER needs to pay appropriate taxes as a corporation offering a service.
Oh well, Just wait it out to see if I am wrong about contractor/employer/
Uber will pay them for services rendered.
Why come to Canada. Aside from Winter, here are the possible reasons:
a) Money for research instead of going for fences.
b) Reasonably sized classrooms
c) Affordable housing
d) Racial and religious tolerance
e) Low cost of tuition for universities (compared to USA)
f) Universal (portable) healthcare and pharmacare and about $10/00 day child care
g) Canadians don't sue for trivial things. We don't see many lawyers adverts.
g) Rifles are for sport. Rare to find a handgun unless its a police or military owner.
h) Our average life expectancy is more than 2+ years above the USA.
i) Homeless are only homeless if they want or because of drugs/alcohol or mental illness. Yet they are not discriminated against for healthcare benefits (To see doctor, to get treatments...)
Negative
=======
High sales and income taxes. (Taxes pay for the items mentioned above).
Country has lots of open space between cities. Major cities are distant from each other. While telephone and video web make up for it, travel costs are high.
If the tarifs are steep, the vendors will raise their prices and ask the USA to reduce tarifs.
The deficit is not harmful. The USA receives goods for it's purchases, and those goods, coupled with ingenuity in the USA, makes the USA one of the most profitable countries in the world (for the billionaires).
The tarifs should only be applied against competing goods. The USA can't produce cellphones of the quality and quantity as can China. The USA's market is able to engineer well, but salaries are out of line with the rest of the world.
The tarifs are going to raise domestic costs substantially, which are also going to be reflected in the goods and services the USA sells globally.
But on the bright side, it is a hidden tax that Trump will use to cover the near trillion dollar gift to the super rich and to corporations. Now we wait for the cost sto trickle down. Should the tarifs persist, expect your car to cost your between $5K to $10K more in the coming two years.
Apple was one of the founders of ARM. An ARM license doesn't cost them very much at all.
Manufacturing chips on the scale of Apple's iPhone means the cost per chip is relatively low. The NRE is done; at that point the more you can manufacture the cheaper it is per unit. Certainly paying Intel to manufacture chips and sell them (even at the margin that Apple can command) is going to be more expensive for Apple.
As for benefits... Apple has always wanted to own the whole shebang. They get to know ahead of time what the schedule's going to be, they get to dictate the chip's abilities, and they already have the design capability in-house. I *think* it'll be cheaper for Apple, with lower thermals and higher efficiencies with potentially a better designed chip. Whether the user sees benefits from that is up for debate.
There are certainly issues with compatibility and emulation, and I don't have a good answer for that. I suspect, if Apple go ahead and do it, they will have a good-enough answer for a transition. As for recompiling etc., they'll just require an ARM64 variant of any app in the app-store for a year or so ahead of any transition in order to be listed. That'll be sufficient IMHO to get almost everyone on-board.
IBM wanted to also own the whole thing. And technology suddenly left IBM behind. IBM has a few specialty products now, but it's main business is in consulting and cloud computing.
The headlines on this story have all been uniformly Disingenuous and Sensationalist.
Twelve Mile a gallon cars are NOT going to be coming back, Standards are not going to be weakened.
What is changing is that the highly unrealistic target of 50 mpg for fleet average requirements in 2025 are going to be scaled down to something that is actually achievable.
Its a achievable fleet objective. Especially when you mix in electric cars, propane powered cars, and the rest.
Surely this change in regulation would do more to hurt US car companies that help them? If they don't design and build for efficiency, then surely this would limit their ability to export to any market that cares about efficiency or where fuel costs are already high? This feels like another short term action, just like trying to protect the coal industry, that will end up hurting more in the long run, than doing any real good.
As Canada and other countries are committed to the Paris accords, it will most likey be that American cars that don't meet the current and proposed targets for polution will not be allowed to be sold in those countries. I can see Kia, Honda, Toyota, and a whole slew of foreign companies meeting California's targets.
Bye bye Ford, Chrysler and GM. Sorry your cars are not selling. But don't worry, your employees will find other jobs after the government offers retraining. Perhaps the future laid off employees could transition to IT.
Battery production prices are dropping like a rock, too. Most of these studies budget something like $500/kWh, but I would not be surprised in the least to see ~$100/kWh in commercially available products in a few years time. And that's a gamechanger for solar timeshifting.
It works double when you need the pack for something else, too (for example, as a buffer to EV fast charging). Your buffer also contains at least an hour's worth of its peak consumption (multiple hours when charges are spread out) just in order to have enough power to feed the vehicles it's charging. No need to "double pay" for the battery.
I'm of the opinion that individually, solar costs are prohibitive, for the amount of electricity we need. However, if residents formed an energy union (like a credit union), and transmission stations could be erected to ship surplus electricity to the areas in the dark, then it is possible that uninterrupted electricity could be made available everywhere at low cost. That is the theory.
When you bring in profit motive, private enterprise, and contracts that give long term favouritism to certain investors, the average homeowner is going to get screwed.
Hydro Quebec made a deal with NY state, Vermont, and Mass for electricity that is below 4 cents per kwhr. Electricity producers in Mass rejected the construction of transmission lines between Quebec and Mass. Electricity lines are not oil or gas.
So, Plattsburg residents pay around 4.2 cents per KWH, and so do other locations in the N.E USA.
Plattsburg council has put a stop to new bitcoin mining, as that raises the total city consumption to where the infrastructure cost goes out of reach.
What is the difference between Illegal and criminal? Is an illegal automatically a criminal? And then a criminal who is illegal, does he lose his illegal status?
You need several head-down coders to make stuff work.
You need a lot fewer old hands to look things over and point out the problems.
When Fat Lou Gerstner took over he essentially put everyone at IBM that didn't touch a product, deliver it, or face a customer on notice. Fortunately he spared the payroll department, but many mid managers disappeared. And so did many very capable people, some of whom went on to become IBM customers elsewhere.
Now the work has changed dramatically over the 8-10 years, and the employees have to change also, and to whine that they have to be 'allowed to change' doesn't work. IBM is in the midst of a lot of changes, GS being one, and they are playing a dangerous game by ditching experience and embracing offshoring in the name of cost reduction. It's not fair, but little in life is fair.
Is off shore where IBM and other companies are finding business growth. The USA market is saturated and is highly competitive. Foreign lands offer better opportunity than the domestic European/American market places.
The rules is: Go where your customers are located.
Everyone loses, really?
I wonder what people would think if Americas best and brightest security researchers/hackers were going to China to be involved in paid bug-hunts.
I am suspecting the reaction would border on claiming treason, there would certainly be calls for them to be cut out of any real security work, and their personal lives would probably be destroyed also...
but no, apparently EVERYONE loses if China doesnt send their best and brightest over to help out American corps..
Grow up.
China is a hacking country. Why should they participate. If they present the flaws they found, it will be one strike or or more against China.
China is now a dictatorship with a President for life. He needs to keep knowledge internal to China
The time has come to stop owning a car. We are living within walking distance to a mall (supermarket). If we are just window shopping, I take an uber/Lyft from one mall to the next.
My weekly uber/lyft expenses are around $50.00
When we do the grocery shopping, and we need a van for a few hours, we pickup a "local electric vehicle" for a few bucks per hour.
Here are the savings. Renting a vehicle or using taxis averages out to $250/month. We have not vehicle insurances or maintenance to worry about. And at times, when I visit my son who lives 400 miles away, I rent a car for about $200/week. Gasoline for that week is around anothe $100.00.
We also use public transportation at around $3.25/ride
So, my annual transportation costs (vehicle, fuel, insurance) are around $ 2k/yr. Its family life rediscovered, to not always be walking around the Mall, or chewing on some "Chicken Delight burger".
Most of us around the world pay taxes on every liter or gallon of petroleum our cars consume. In some countries it's a pretty high tax. If electric vehicles start making up a larger and larger % of vehicles on the road will there come an end where to be fair you need to drop the tax on fuel and instead tax electricity- take a certain % of your electricity usage and put it towards maintaining roads and public transportation?
We all benefit from roads and bridges, even those that don't drive.
Obviously we're still at the stage where most governments are still trying to encourage more electric vehicles, but eventually if electric takes off like planned, it's going to become unfair to place all the burden of taxes to maintain roads on drivers of ICE vehicles. Especially since it will most likely be the poor and impoverished who will be the last to adapt to the new electric-vehicle age.
You might have to register your mileage or kilometrage. The government could use this as a way to tax you for your use of highways and road ways.
If you can bypass the 4th amendment, then you can bypass the "right to carry arms".
Ether you abide by a constitution or you live in a pending dictatorship.
Manipulating markets with lies. Actually I thought that *was* grounds for prison.
They are not lying. They are stating facts and opinions, and mixing them to confuse naive investors. They preface many sentences with "We believe" and "We may". This "obituary" was almost certainly reviewed by lawyers, to ensure that it got as close to "the line" as possible, without crossing it.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, and for securities manipulation, that is enough.
I have a Intel q9650 system. It has no EFI bios, it relies on Linux and Selinux security features. The TPM for my Asus P5Q is a plug in chip.
So, the TPM is replaceable by someone when a technician comes over and pretends he is installing new hardware, as opposed to replacing a Security chip with one allowing dual access.
Yes, anyone who has physical access to the computer can install new bios's, replace TPMs and even replace CPU Microcode fixes.
This problem is no different from my taking my car to a local garage which has a workaround diagnostic and programming machine usually provided to dealers. If I brought my system to Geek Squad, want to bet that they have put in software that indicates who in their organization handled the system last, and what is the bypass (insecure) password.
CTS had a financial interest in dropping the AMD stock prices. And when they hit bottom, to buy them back. AMD is ok, the problem or issue, if any, may rest with the mother board manufacturer.
Hi There
Watts = volts times amperes
A 300 watt system at 120 volts will likely require a 325 watt wall plug supply, given inefficiencies. Suppose your requirement is to draw 300 watts for thirty minutes.
If your UPS is going to be powered from a 12 volt supply, your going to have to support about 30 amps of battery current. You are looking at connecting to the battery with 12 gauge wire.
If your UPS could support two 12 volt batteries in series, the amperage is now reduced to 15amps. That's about the size is today of a 14gauge house wire that is used to deliver power to your wall recepticle.
Consider the amperes from battery/batteries to the electronic power converter. Lots of amperes required between battery and the UPS electronics.
Car batteries are typically rated at sustained amp-hours. a 200 amp hour battery at 35 amperes would last less than 5 to 6 hours.
I removed the internal battery from my "over the counter" UPS, I got two "200 ampere/Hour" car batteries which I wired in parallel, to the UPS electronics. I used 12 gauge wire, to the UPS battery clips.
We had a 12 hour failure once this past winter. Leaving the UPS for 15 hours to power router, cordless phone and some cellphone chargers took the power availability from 100% to 20%.
A residential UPS system should use 24 volt battery supply, at a minimum.
I am for it. I have digital timers that are not "Atomic". Atomic in this sense is the timer that listens to the low frequency transmitted time-signal, and corrects itself. So, twice a year I do the tour of heating systems, a/c systems, lighting systems and access control stuff.
I would just like to set the time once and forget it until the batteries fail
There is a role for AB&B. Several businesses need consultants, architects, construction workers for a few months at a time. Hotel costs are prohibitive. Motels are not geared to provide house comforts. The AB&B rental provides an affordable home for 5 for a few months, which include kitchen, laundry, bedrooms with clean linen, and parking. This works out well, for communities where there is no housing shortage. Yes AB&B is an affordable choice.
There is a second and third category of visitor -- Religious and parental. For the second, some individuals want to be near a specific religious community, near the specialty food (kosher/halal) stores, and for access to temples/mosques.
Regarding parental user of AB&B, the modern lifestyle has children relocating to chase a career. When there is a birth, the parents want to be near the mother and grandchild. These grandparents will book a place for a week to a month. I know of parents who came from Europe to North America to help the daughter.
Finally, there is the tourist. If affordable AB&B facilities was not available, people would remain at home. Tourists want safe clean accommodations, and often chose locations where the language and culture are different from their own.
Even where there is a housing shortage, there is a role for AB&B. I have seen the situation where UBER/Lyft availability encourages AB&B visits. That was not mentioned by anyone else so for.
Get a roladex postal sized card system. Typically the cards serve for keeping phone numbers and some crm information.
Use it for your planning and calendaring. When a project falls behind, remove the card and move it forward.
Have some index cards that go from 1 to 53 (for each week).
Do you need to project plan by the hour? Then look for some shop-floor software that takes machines, manpower, work, and does a MPS Schedule.
My new product line:
Clothing that was only pre-worn by svelte runway models, hand fed on vegan non-GMO wood pellets and rainwater direct from the skies, unsullied by man-made chemicals. Clothing whose materials are only the finest naturally grown, recycled hemp, crafted in the dark by underprivileged, overpaid tibetan monks. Clothing that is always one of a kind, and intentionally may not fit anyone perfectly to enhance our body positive vibes.
My brand is Smug - I'm Simply Better Than You.
I'm guessing the models are all kids, because I don't think humans will live all that long on a diet of wood.
Don't worry, it's all just a sales marketing pitch anyway. Their clothes come from the same asian workshops as everybody elses.
I am pushing age 80. My problem with jeans is the rise. I am not a teenager and I need more than having the belt sit on my waist. There is nothing more embarrassing than leaning over and the rear cheek halves show down to my crotch. I need that extra inch of rise so that the belt tightens the jean waist at least two fingers high above my hip bones. I also don't want leg/hip huggies. When I got to pee, I want to pee in the urinal, not half and half.
Why not ask the drivers if they are netting $3.99 per hour?
Can I please have it this way instead? "Visa caused 70% of fraud by not implementing decades old system earlier than they did."
The glass can be half empty.
Presumeably, with less fraud, the fees paid by merchant and by consumer should drop, or am I joking?
A student should have an uncluttered mind. A mind that is cluttered is a sign of someone impatient and lacking in self-discipline.
Have a programming apprenticeship program where the student writes code and the "advisor" reviews it for correctness, completeness and style. At first once per day review, then once very two days, to once per deliverable.
Most of all, the student for a few weeks, be given ample time and low priority tasks, and as the skills improve, tighten up the student's timeframe to deliver.