That is because of airplane departure time. If you push back on-time, then it was an on-time departure. Doesn't matter if you sit there for 3 hours before you finally take off - the departure was on-time because the definition of departure time is when you push back.
Apple sued Samsung for allegedly copying the design of the iPhone in the creation of its own line of smartphones
Samsung was making smartphones back in 2001, when Apple was trying to figure out how to copy Creative's MP3 player. Apple may have complained about Samsung copying the iPhone for a later line of smartphones, but Samsung was one of the early pioneers in the smartphone space, well before Apple even thought about getting into the space.
If you're selling a $399 consumer widget, and for people interested in the category of your widget tend to buy them at a rate of 2% based on exposure, I could pay $200 and pretty much guarantee a sale, on Instagram.
Ad companies indirectly pay users for displaying ads - they fund services like Instagram, Facebook, Google Maps, etc. via paying Facebook and Google for ads to you. Would you prefer to pay a $9.95/month subscription to Google Maps? Pay for GMail/Google Drive/tools $15/month like you pay for Microsoft Office? Would you like to pay $4.95/month + $10/GB of storage for your photo backups? Or would you rather advertisers pay Google, Instagram, etc. for ads shown to you, and you get their other services for free?
Think of it as Pandora with ads versus Pandora Premium without ads. You get ads if you want the free service; you get no ads if you want to pay. At the end of the day, SOMEONE has to pay for the computers, bandwidth, connections, people that keep your information flowing and services available - it's just a question if it comes out of your pocket directly, or out of your (probably unlimited) bandwidth and eye-space.
California raising taxes further to deal with a $52 billion projected backlog of road repairs. I guess having funds to repair 10% of all roads per year isn't enough; we need to raise more funds to deal with the issue - which CA DOT says is 16% of all roads. So somehow funding isn't available to deal with a total 16% backlog (and there is no way in hell that CA DOT is redoing 10% of the roads in California, just drive around and see for yourself).
Oh, I know it has a lot to do with the traffic - and type of traffic - on a road! The point is, that the Federal Government makes more of fuel taxes than it spends on roads. And at least in the State of California they have enough road revenue to repave literally 10% of all State and local roads, every year. And I know they don't do anywhere NEAR that amount of repaving, or even repairing. Gov't makes plenty on fuel taxes - they just choose to spend it on non-road expenses.
Take a look at the graph again. Roads have a negative subsidy - meaning, they actually generate revenue. Air, transit, rail all have positive subsidies. At least the Federal level, roads tend to be money-makers.
Now, I know some States are poor at road maintenance. I live in California, and I know CADOT loves to spend money on anything but roads. We have 360,000 miles of State and local roads in CA, and about $20 billion in revenues. Ohio says it costs about $500,000 to pave 1 mile of 4 lane road (and Ohio winters and summers are much more extreme than most of California). So California should be able to pave 10% of our roads, every year - and we're lucky to get a few potholes filled per year.
There is, in fact, enough money if it was spent on roads, but a lot of times it goes to non-road spending like trains between Bakersfield and Modesto, bike paths, and such - and let roads and bridges continue to deteriorate. And thus raise gas taxes even further...
The numbers are older, but at least at the Federal level, gas taxes cover costs of roads. It's just that lots of funds are also spent on rail and transit.
Do you own a vehicle? Do you fly in an airplane? Do you eat food that you did not personally grow? Do you use any medical equipment? If so - you're part of the problem...
Perhaps we should sue the people who really profit on a gallon of gas: the Governments that tax gasoline. Considering they have essentially zero cost for revenue, their net profit per gallon is larger than anyone else in the chain. Governments have benefited the most from the sale of gasoline, maybe they should bear the brunt of any costs you wish to attribute to that sale of a regulated and taxed commodity.
Hardware guy here. I do software for fun, but I do REAL engineering - tangible stuff. Software is relatively easy - it's either zero or one. Hardware is hard - you live between the zero and one, and work with gradients of results. It's why we can't just "compile clean once!" and we're done - we need to build a few hundred - or thousand - items, collect the data distribution of performance metrics, do the analysis, and determine what corrective actions are needed. We live - THRIVE - on statistics and data and sharing it.
If I went to my client and said "we have the FAI and CpK reports for the first off-tool part and trust me - it looks GREAT!" and didn't provide the data, I'd be fired on the spot. I have to provide the data, the methodology, and the conclusions before it's accepted. If there's a failure, it's hundreds of thousands of dollars of parts on the line, and weeks to rework tooling. So it has to be checked.
Likewise for science. If you cannot share your data and methodology, then don't publish in journals. It's not science.
Well, we did get John Cleese to live in Santa Barbara for an extended period, we keep hoping we'll get another decent Brit comedian to do the same. Alas, I guess that hope is as in vain as pining for a functioning Lucas refrigerator or palatable British food...
You will never have a world without crime; even the most totalitarian regimes still have crime. What we can have is a world with crime - and the ability to provide for one's own safety, or a world with crime - and the inability to protect ourselves.
I wish people would read that again - the police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.
You are responsible for your own protection. Unfortunately, too many people wish to eliminate the ability to be responsible, via draconian (and most likely unconstitutional, given the decisions of DC v Heller and McDonald v Chicago) laws prohibiting ownership of firearms, concealed carry of firearms or knives, and most other weapons. The Government has NO DUTY to protect you, and that same Government will effectively BAN you from owning any tool to provide for self-defense.
How about making any crime with a deadly weapon - firearm, knife, baseball bat, etc. - punishable by life in prison? Use a deadly weapon, get locked up for life. And then open up the ability of citizens to actually provide for their own protection? Nah, we can't have that because of irrational fear of inanimate objects. Better to simply continue to prevent law-abiding citizens from defending themselves, and having officers arrive after the crime and sort out what happened...
They're trying to catch up. Consider that China is about the size of the US, geographically, with 4 times the population, and 1/3rd of that population living within a small, 100 mile wide strip of the East Coast. And power located all over. And you have a few dozen high voltage lines - and that includes the ones under construction.
Yep, and also from my link, the bottom 50% pay an average of 3.6% income tax rate. We have a HIGHLY progressive tax structure in the US, and the rich pay overwhelmingly the lion's share of taxes (include in capital gains and social security - which everyone in the 10% maxes out - and you'd find about half the Federal receipts come from those rich folks). Yet somehow - it's not enough?
The saying was that Lucas killed more RAF pilots than the Germans... Bad taste, but - if you've ever worked on a British pre-1975 car, you'd understand...
Power grid? This is a country plagued with Lucas electrics from their time dominated by the UK. The only people who have it worse are the Lebanese who not only have that fabulous British wiring but also benefit from French plumbing!
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The CAT S41 is close. Beveled corners instead of rounded, so you have 8 fairly sharp corners rather than 4 really sharp corners.
That is because of airplane departure time. If you push back on-time, then it was an on-time departure. Doesn't matter if you sit there for 3 hours before you finally take off - the departure was on-time because the definition of departure time is when you push back.
Apple sued Samsung for allegedly copying the design of the iPhone in the creation of its own line of smartphones
Samsung was making smartphones back in 2001, when Apple was trying to figure out how to copy Creative's MP3 player. Apple may have complained about Samsung copying the iPhone for a later line of smartphones, but Samsung was one of the early pioneers in the smartphone space, well before Apple even thought about getting into the space.
If you're selling a $399 consumer widget, and for people interested in the category of your widget tend to buy them at a rate of 2% based on exposure, I could pay $200 and pretty much guarantee a sale, on Instagram.
Ad companies indirectly pay users for displaying ads - they fund services like Instagram, Facebook, Google Maps, etc. via paying Facebook and Google for ads to you. Would you prefer to pay a $9.95/month subscription to Google Maps? Pay for GMail/Google Drive/tools $15/month like you pay for Microsoft Office? Would you like to pay $4.95/month + $10/GB of storage for your photo backups? Or would you rather advertisers pay Google, Instagram, etc. for ads shown to you, and you get their other services for free?
Think of it as Pandora with ads versus Pandora Premium without ads. You get ads if you want the free service; you get no ads if you want to pay. At the end of the day, SOMEONE has to pay for the computers, bandwidth, connections, people that keep your information flowing and services available - it's just a question if it comes out of your pocket directly, or out of your (probably unlimited) bandwidth and eye-space.
Around where I live, that's about all we get. You don't know any more yourself... Done with ACs here, I broke my own rule, I shouldn't have...
Or, each user is worth $4/month over a 2 year period. That's not a bad price, when you consider advertising rates...
California raising taxes further to deal with a $52 billion projected backlog of road repairs. I guess having funds to repair 10% of all roads per year isn't enough; we need to raise more funds to deal with the issue - which CA DOT says is 16% of all roads. So somehow funding isn't available to deal with a total 16% backlog (and there is no way in hell that CA DOT is redoing 10% of the roads in California, just drive around and see for yourself).
Oh, I know it has a lot to do with the traffic - and type of traffic - on a road! The point is, that the Federal Government makes more of fuel taxes than it spends on roads. And at least in the State of California they have enough road revenue to repave literally 10% of all State and local roads, every year. And I know they don't do anywhere NEAR that amount of repaving, or even repairing. Gov't makes plenty on fuel taxes - they just choose to spend it on non-road expenses.
Take a look at the graph again. Roads have a negative subsidy - meaning, they actually generate revenue. Air, transit, rail all have positive subsidies. At least the Federal level, roads tend to be money-makers.
Now, I know some States are poor at road maintenance. I live in California, and I know CADOT loves to spend money on anything but roads. We have 360,000 miles of State and local roads in CA, and about $20 billion in revenues. Ohio says it costs about $500,000 to pave 1 mile of 4 lane road (and Ohio winters and summers are much more extreme than most of California). So California should be able to pave 10% of our roads, every year - and we're lucky to get a few potholes filled per year.
There is, in fact, enough money if it was spent on roads, but a lot of times it goes to non-road spending like trains between Bakersfield and Modesto, bike paths, and such - and let roads and bridges continue to deteriorate. And thus raise gas taxes even further...
The numbers are older, but at least at the Federal level, gas taxes cover costs of roads. It's just that lots of funds are also spent on rail and transit.
Well, the blob DID come from space in the 50s - and it did now, too... ;)
Do you own a vehicle? Do you fly in an airplane? Do you eat food that you did not personally grow? Do you use any medical equipment? If so - you're part of the problem...
Perhaps we should sue the people who really profit on a gallon of gas: the Governments that tax gasoline. Considering they have essentially zero cost for revenue, their net profit per gallon is larger than anyone else in the chain. Governments have benefited the most from the sale of gasoline, maybe they should bear the brunt of any costs you wish to attribute to that sale of a regulated and taxed commodity.
Hardware guy here. I do software for fun, but I do REAL engineering - tangible stuff. Software is relatively easy - it's either zero or one. Hardware is hard - you live between the zero and one, and work with gradients of results. It's why we can't just "compile clean once!" and we're done - we need to build a few hundred - or thousand - items, collect the data distribution of performance metrics, do the analysis, and determine what corrective actions are needed. We live - THRIVE - on statistics and data and sharing it.
If I went to my client and said "we have the FAI and CpK reports for the first off-tool part and trust me - it looks GREAT!" and didn't provide the data, I'd be fired on the spot. I have to provide the data, the methodology, and the conclusions before it's accepted. If there's a failure, it's hundreds of thousands of dollars of parts on the line, and weeks to rework tooling. So it has to be checked.
Likewise for science. If you cannot share your data and methodology, then don't publish in journals. It's not science.
Won't somebody PLEASE think about The Bacon! Pork is actually red meat, does this mean no more Bacon if bit?
Well, we did get John Cleese to live in Santa Barbara for an extended period, we keep hoping we'll get another decent Brit comedian to do the same. Alas, I guess that hope is as in vain as pining for a functioning Lucas refrigerator or palatable British food...
Oh for sure, but you have to talk Canadian, eh? Otherwise no one will know what you're talking aboot...
You will never have a world without crime; even the most totalitarian regimes still have crime. What we can have is a world with crime - and the ability to provide for one's own safety, or a world with crime - and the inability to protect ourselves.
Correct; in fact, the Supreme Court has explicitly stated that "the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm". Even in the case of a restraining order.
I wish people would read that again - the police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.
You are responsible for your own protection. Unfortunately, too many people wish to eliminate the ability to be responsible, via draconian (and most likely unconstitutional, given the decisions of DC v Heller and McDonald v Chicago) laws prohibiting ownership of firearms, concealed carry of firearms or knives, and most other weapons. The Government has NO DUTY to protect you, and that same Government will effectively BAN you from owning any tool to provide for self-defense.
How about making any crime with a deadly weapon - firearm, knife, baseball bat, etc. - punishable by life in prison? Use a deadly weapon, get locked up for life. And then open up the ability of citizens to actually provide for their own protection? Nah, we can't have that because of irrational fear of inanimate objects. Better to simply continue to prevent law-abiding citizens from defending themselves, and having officers arrive after the crime and sort out what happened...
They're trying to catch up. Consider that China is about the size of the US, geographically, with 4 times the population, and 1/3rd of that population living within a small, 100 mile wide strip of the East Coast. And power located all over. And you have a few dozen high voltage lines - and that includes the ones under construction.
Yep, and also from my link, the bottom 50% pay an average of 3.6% income tax rate. We have a HIGHLY progressive tax structure in the US, and the rich pay overwhelmingly the lion's share of taxes (include in capital gains and social security - which everyone in the 10% maxes out - and you'd find about half the Federal receipts come from those rich folks). Yet somehow - it's not enough?
The saying was that Lucas killed more RAF pilots than the Germans... Bad taste, but - if you've ever worked on a British pre-1975 car, you'd understand...
Well, this new capacity is 2% more - that's what I meant and tried to write - this new generation is actually about 2% of their needs.
Power grid? This is a country plagued with Lucas electrics from their time dominated by the UK. The only people who have it worse are the Lebanese who not only have that fabulous British wiring but also benefit from French plumbing!