Ah. The agreements among the consortium that will own, operate and finance the pipeline and the chinese gas company that intends to buy the bulk of the gas should be finalized within two months. I suppose that we'll have more information then.
LNG thing? My impression is that the LNG project is proceeding, if somewhat slowly. Why would an "LNG thing" contribute to his withdrawal from the race? Honestly, I thought that it had more to do with polls and Mallot's antics.
Nah. The soil up here is just fine. In my distant youth, I worked for barley farmers at about 64 degrees N Latitude, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, AK. It's hard, poor-paying work, but it put gas in my car and paid for a portion of my schooling.
I think that you're underestimating the flexibility of kids in particular, and people in general. I, my wife and my children, all flop around between ios, android (one of the kids), windows, linux (Arch, mostly) and MacOS. I don't see any reason to limit myself (or my kids) to Windows to be successful.
I'm far from a serious gamer, so take my opinion with the pound of salt that it deserves. I'm playing Doom on an older monitor with 1152 vertical pixels (at 60 hz, I think,) an rx480, ryzen CPU, and am quite happy. I've played Overwatch with my oldest kid (he's in California, and I'm in Alaska) and still managed to barely keep up with him and his 980Ti and i7-something-or-other. The rx480 is worth holding on to for a bit more, in my humble opinion.
hehe. The cheap bulbs that I bought from Lowes are the only ones that have lasted for me. The GE bulbs i bought all quit within a year. My experience with Cree and Philips bulbs has been similar to yours.
The lighting showroom is a darn good idea, and I think I'll swing by soon. I still have a few CFLs that will probably stop working any day now.
Taken in isolation, your statement presumes that the police are only a weapon and have no agency. I agree that the caller should face more severe charges than filing a false report, but it's quite dangerous to think of the police as little more than a tool to be wielded.
I see what you mean, but it seems to me that written language follows, rather than leads, spoken language. Speak what you wrote with and without the contractions, and you'll find that (some of) the contractions flow better than the longer form. (I did, though the fourth and fifth sentences were pretty awkward.
Here's an example:
I cannot argue with your assessment that they do not save any significant time, and in the case of "you're" and "it's" are a source of significant confusion.
I can't argue with your assessment that they don't save any significant time, and in the case of "you're" and "it's" are a source of significant confusion.
You remind me of a novel by Janet Kagan called "Hellspark" that I read about 30 years ago. In it, the protagonist alternates her pronunciation of her home planet as "Hellspark" and "Hell's Park." It's a touch I've always liked about her writing, and one that lead me to take notice of contractions.
huh. I also live in snow country, and don't have any power train problems to speak of on either of my cars (a '99 and a '97) beyond normal maintenance and a water pump. Oh yes, I have a minor oil leak on each car that needs to be addressed. Interestingly, I've just finished repairs on the front end to one of the cars, and will buy parts tonight to completely rebuild the front end of the other. Also, power antennae suck.
It's funny to me that our experiences have been so different.
Yes, it was directed at Zuckerberg, not you. I didn't make plain that I was agreeing with you. I don't understand the second half of your reply, though. Was that directed at me, or the world at large? I didn't intend to discuss ethnicity, only the absurdity of Zuckerberg's comparison.
Comparing the permanent fund to a UBI, is contrived, at best. The Alaska permanent fund is nothing more and nothing less that a dividend based on investment profit. There is no intent provide a basic income, as it's never been larger than about $2,000, other than the year that the-governor-we-all-want-to-forget (Sarah Palin) spearheaded an additional payout because of ridiculous oil prices.
The permanent fund is managed by a state-controlled corporation. A certain amount of the income from oil production is paid into the fund each year, and the corporation is required to invest the fund. The fund pays out a dividend each year that's based on a rolling five year average of the profits that the fund has earned. The principal of the fund is constitutionally protected, and barring mismanagement or a massive change in political views around the fund, will always exist. Last year the permanent fund earned about $1.37 billion on a fund of about $55 billion.
The standards for speed limits and such are set by engineering standards.
Your general point is correct, but this detail is lacking, as it's substantially more complex. Speed limits are generally regulatory, and the road is designed with the regulatory speed in mind. Engineering judgment, backed by a speed study, can be used to set the regulatory speed, of course. The regulatory speed can also be modified by driver behaviour and politics. A few years ago, the speed limit on parts of the Rich and the Glenn was increased because of driver behaviour, even though many of the curves, both horizontal and vertical, were designed for 55 MPH.
Convince the board to change the standards, and essentially, you've changed the law.
Sort of. Many standards are set by local municipalities. Anchorage, Valdez, Fairbanks and Juneau all have different requirements for design snow loads, for example. The State has adopted the 2014 NEC for electrical design, but municipalities can modify it at need. The DOT sets the design standards for roads and highways, as allowed by statute. The board can recommend, but it's much more concerned with behaviour, ethics and competency than it is about the design standards.
Not quite. If you have license to practice in Oregon, that's the only state in which you can practice engineering. If you're registered in one state, you may be able to transfer your license through comity between the states, but that's not assured. For example, in Alaska, you also have to pass a class in Arctic Engineering to obtain the PE here, even if you're registered in Oregon. Washington requires that you work for longer under the supervision of another engineer than most other states. California requires that civil engineers pass additional exams covering seismic principles and engineering surveying.
The NCEES maintains, if you wish them to, a record of your licensure, including college transcripts, exam results, work experience, et c. that can make registering in multiple states easier.
The two exams that you have to take are the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering), and the PE (Professional Engineering) exams.
Is this due to the extensions you're using, perhaps? I'm fairly certain that Firefox hasn't been shut down or restarted since the last time it was updated. The only think that ever bothers me is its complete unresponsiveness when it's loading a large PDF. I'm pretty sure that my trouble started when I started using the decentraleyes extension, so I choose to live with and wait out Firefox's pauses.
Alas, your joke went live a few hours before the first of April where I am, so I was quite confused for a moment. Other than the colors, I really like the front page, though.:-)
I was also talking about working conditions. A lead-acid battery can work decently well in conditions right down to -60F. I've started a car that was stored in conditions that will leave the lithium-ion batteries as useful as a brick. (A few days ago, my wife's car started at -25F (~-30C) without any heat to the battery or engine.) About 15 years ago, I was working on a power cart intended to provide continuous cathodic protection to a pipeline in arctic conditions. We were able to design the system so that (with a small margin) the batteries could be stored outdoors without additional heat down to temperatures of -70F. Again, these are working conditions at which lithium ion batteries can't be made to work without difficult and potentially costly adaptations. You may think these fringe cases, but for me these are quite common conditions.
. ..and yet the electrolyte in a fully charged lead acid battery doesn't freeze until about -90F (~-65C). The battery continues to provide lesser current down to the freezing point. I can personally attest that there's enough juice in a good battery to start a car at -55F without either having been warmed or charged. (I only started a car that cold once.) My wife forgot to plug her car into the timer last night, and I started it this morning at -25F.
Lithium-ion batteries stop functioning at -40C, and are pretty useless at temperatures below -20C. Despite the recommendations you cite, lead-acid has a safe working range that covers a pretty darn wide temperature range.
p.s. I went looking and found a pretty chart for you: https://i2.wp.com/mathscinotes.... The chart shows a slightly lower freezing temperature than I recollect.
Go to the macsales home page. Don't click through to the detail page that the image of the product links to, though. Go ahead, I'll wait. . . . . . .
On the front page, and only on the front page is a picture that shows a little bridge joining one of the Mac's ports with the DEC. Every other picture that I've seen omits that little detail.
My wife and I both have an iphone 6s and use different carriers. I'm on a regional GSM carrier (GCI) while she uses Verizon (CDMA). We occasionally travel to Chena Hot Springs, where there is a single CDMA tower owned by GCI. (GCI recently bought the Alaska Communications System cell network, which is CDMA.) My wife has a signal, while I have nilch. I won't call this confirmation that a t-mobile phone won't roam onto a Verizon CDMA network, but it's suggestive. Isn't the spectrum also different?
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Ah. The agreements among the consortium that will own, operate and finance the pipeline and the chinese gas company that intends to buy the bulk of the gas should be finalized within two months. I suppose that we'll have more information then.
LNG thing? My impression is that the LNG project is proceeding, if somewhat slowly. Why would an "LNG thing" contribute to his withdrawal from the race? Honestly, I thought that it had more to do with polls and Mallot's antics.
Nah. The soil up here is just fine. In my distant youth, I worked for barley farmers at about 64 degrees N Latitude, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, AK. It's hard, poor-paying work, but it put gas in my car and paid for a portion of my schooling.
Here's an article if you want a few minutes reading.
I think that you're underestimating the flexibility of kids in particular, and people in general. I, my wife and my children, all flop around between ios, android (one of the kids), windows, linux (Arch, mostly) and MacOS. I don't see any reason to limit myself (or my kids) to Windows to be successful.
I'm far from a serious gamer, so take my opinion with the pound of salt that it deserves. I'm playing Doom on an older monitor with 1152 vertical pixels (at 60 hz, I think,) an rx480, ryzen CPU, and am quite happy. I've played Overwatch with my oldest kid (he's in California, and I'm in Alaska) and still managed to barely keep up with him and his 980Ti and i7-something-or-other. The rx480 is worth holding on to for a bit more, in my humble opinion.
hehe. The cheap bulbs that I bought from Lowes are the only ones that have lasted for me. The GE bulbs i bought all quit within a year. My experience with Cree and Philips bulbs has been similar to yours.
The lighting showroom is a darn good idea, and I think I'll swing by soon. I still have a few CFLs that will probably stop working any day now.
That's some pretty lousy trolling. I think you can do better. Try again.
Taken in isolation, your statement presumes that the police are only a weapon and have no agency. I agree that the caller should face more severe charges than filing a false report, but it's quite dangerous to think of the police as little more than a tool to be wielded.
It was a charge. I doubt that, even in Florida, she was convicted: https://nypost.com/2017/11/03/...
It gets worse, though: http://www.newsminer.com/junea...
I see what you mean, but it seems to me that written language follows, rather than leads, spoken language. Speak what you wrote with and without the contractions, and you'll find that (some of) the contractions flow better than the longer form. (I did, though the fourth and fifth sentences were pretty awkward.
Here's an example:
I cannot argue with your assessment that they do not save any significant time, and in the case of "you're" and "it's" are a source of significant confusion.
I can't argue with your assessment that they don't save any significant time, and in the case of "you're" and "it's" are a source of significant confusion.
You remind me of a novel by Janet Kagan called "Hellspark" that I read about 30 years ago. In it, the protagonist alternates her pronunciation of her home planet as "Hellspark" and "Hell's Park." It's a touch I've always liked about her writing, and one that lead me to take notice of contractions.
huh. I also live in snow country, and don't have any power train problems to speak of on either of my cars (a '99 and a '97) beyond normal maintenance and a water pump. Oh yes, I have a minor oil leak on each car that needs to be addressed. Interestingly, I've just finished repairs on the front end to one of the cars, and will buy parts tonight to completely rebuild the front end of the other. Also, power antennae suck.
It's funny to me that our experiences have been so different.
Yes, it was directed at Zuckerberg, not you. I didn't make plain that I was agreeing with you. I don't understand the second half of your reply, though. Was that directed at me, or the world at large? I didn't intend to discuss ethnicity, only the absurdity of Zuckerberg's comparison.
Comparing the permanent fund to a UBI, is contrived, at best. The Alaska permanent fund is nothing more and nothing less that a dividend based on investment profit. There is no intent provide a basic income, as it's never been larger than about $2,000, other than the year that the-governor-we-all-want-to-forget (Sarah Palin) spearheaded an additional payout because of ridiculous oil prices.
The permanent fund is managed by a state-controlled corporation. A certain amount of the income from oil production is paid into the fund each year, and the corporation is required to invest the fund. The fund pays out a dividend each year that's based on a rolling five year average of the profits that the fund has earned. The principal of the fund is constitutionally protected, and barring mismanagement or a massive change in political views around the fund, will always exist. Last year the permanent fund earned about $1.37 billion on a fund of about $55 billion.
The standards for speed limits and such are set by engineering standards.
Your general point is correct, but this detail is lacking, as it's substantially more complex. Speed limits are generally regulatory, and the road is designed with the regulatory speed in mind. Engineering judgment, backed by a speed study, can be used to set the regulatory speed, of course. The regulatory speed can also be modified by driver behaviour and politics. A few years ago, the speed limit on parts of the Rich and the Glenn was increased because of driver behaviour, even though many of the curves, both horizontal and vertical, were designed for 55 MPH.
Convince the board to change the standards, and essentially, you've changed the law.
Sort of. Many standards are set by local municipalities. Anchorage, Valdez, Fairbanks and Juneau all have different requirements for design snow loads, for example. The State has adopted the 2014 NEC for electrical design, but municipalities can modify it at need. The DOT sets the design standards for roads and highways, as allowed by statute. The board can recommend, but it's much more concerned with behaviour, ethics and competency than it is about the design standards.
As physics different from one state to another?
No, but laws and local conditions do vary.
That is a NATIONAL licence.
Not quite. If you have license to practice in Oregon, that's the only state in which you can practice engineering. If you're registered in one state, you may be able to transfer your license through comity between the states, but that's not assured. For example, in Alaska, you also have to pass a class in Arctic Engineering to obtain the PE here, even if you're registered in Oregon. Washington requires that you work for longer under the supervision of another engineer than most other states. California requires that civil engineers pass additional exams covering seismic principles and engineering surveying.
The NCEES maintains, if you wish them to, a record of your licensure, including college transcripts, exam results, work experience, et c. that can make registering in multiple states easier.
The two exams that you have to take are the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering), and the PE (Professional Engineering) exams.
Is this due to the extensions you're using, perhaps? I'm fairly certain that Firefox hasn't been shut down or restarted since the last time it was updated. The only think that ever bothers me is its complete unresponsiveness when it's loading a large PDF. I'm pretty sure that my trouble started when I started using the decentraleyes extension, so I choose to live with and wait out Firefox's pauses.
Alas, your joke went live a few hours before the first of April where I am, so I was quite confused for a moment. Other than the colors, I really like the front page, though. :-)
I was also talking about working conditions. A lead-acid battery can work decently well in conditions right down to -60F. I've started a car that was stored in conditions that will leave the lithium-ion batteries as useful as a brick. (A few days ago, my wife's car started at -25F (~-30C) without any heat to the battery or engine.) About 15 years ago, I was working on a power cart intended to provide continuous cathodic protection to a pipeline in arctic conditions. We were able to design the system so that (with a small margin) the batteries could be stored outdoors without additional heat down to temperatures of -70F. Again, these are working conditions at which lithium ion batteries can't be made to work without difficult and potentially costly adaptations. You may think these fringe cases, but for me these are quite common conditions.
In the case of your car, the lead acid battery will be kept topped up all of the time, so won't normally freeze until much colder temperatures.
. . .and yet the electrolyte in a fully charged lead acid battery doesn't freeze until about -90F (~-65C). The battery continues to provide lesser current down to the freezing point. I can personally attest that there's enough juice in a good battery to start a car at -55F without either having been warmed or charged. (I only started a car that cold once.) My wife forgot to plug her car into the timer last night, and I started it this morning at -25F.
Lithium-ion batteries stop functioning at -40C, and are pretty useless at temperatures below -20C. Despite the recommendations you cite, lead-acid has a safe working range that covers a pretty darn wide temperature range.
p.s. I went looking and found a pretty chart for you: https://i2.wp.com/mathscinotes.... The chart shows a slightly lower freezing temperature than I recollect.
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On the front page, and only on the front page is a picture that shows a little bridge joining one of the Mac's ports with the DEC. Every other picture that I've seen omits that little detail.
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The Amsterdam foot (voet) consisted of 11 Amsterdam inches (duim). It was more complex than just 11 inches to the foot, though: Dutch feet varied from 10 to 13 inches depending on local laws. The variability in units of measure varied this way throughout Europe.
My wife and I both have an iphone 6s and use different carriers. I'm on a regional GSM carrier (GCI) while she uses Verizon (CDMA). We occasionally travel to Chena Hot Springs, where there is a single CDMA tower owned by GCI. (GCI recently bought the Alaska Communications System cell network, which is CDMA.) My wife has a signal, while I have nilch. I won't call this confirmation that a t-mobile phone won't roam onto a Verizon CDMA network, but it's suggestive. Isn't the spectrum also different?