Posts by Eddy Ito 4662 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007
It comes down to using the technology you've got. For all I know the kids are using mercury to salvage the metallic traces and are finding out the hard way that mercury and aluminum really don't like each other or are becoming as mad as hatters. The robot has all the tech advantages and a consistent supply of electricity that the kids likely do not. The robot is also immune to the minute particles of lead, cadmium, etc. that come flying off with the little buzz saw. We do know that children in Guiyu have a higher level of lead in their blood. Then there is also Agbogbloshie which is one of the larger dumps for electronic waste and has several stories about the problems.
I don't know that burning dung is all that hazardous however there is one study that seems to indicate the greatest danger from it is the airborne particulates and that it is either on par with or exceeds that of diesel or gasoline which puts it in the same realm of wood, straw or other typically available biomass. Since a good deal of the burning is done indoors in an open stove for cooking it compounds the issue presented for respiratory ailments including cancer. I would posit that proper ventilation and well designed stoves would reduce that problem greatly but again we're limited by the technology and affordability of the solution as compared to a fire pit dug in the middle of the room. Still, people have been burning wood and dung for several millennia with little ill effect but burning plastics, foam and rubber we know releases toxins like dioxin, furans and other carcinogens that have profound health risks.
I think it's because the typical image of people doing this job is children in developing countries where sanitation is a non-priority and any chemicals used are likely left on the hands and ingested with the next meal or drink or inhaled while boards are burned or dissolved to salvage the metal traces. Fortunately these robots will put these kids out of a job and they will know a deeper level of poverty, not that I've got a solution to either problem much less both.
Why are you so worried about fixed problems like Heartbleed and Bash? If you're a Windows guy you should be more worried about MS14-067, 66, 64, 58, 57, 43, 38, 36, 22, 19, 17, 13, 11, 08 and 07? I think those are all of the remote code execution vulnerabilities marked 'Critical' by Microsoft this year including their problems similar with SSL/TLS and drive by webpage exploits. That's more than one per month and three just this month and we've still got December to get through before we start on the MS15-series. NoteOf course I didn't include those like MS14-069 which is just an 'Important' remote code execution vulnerability or any of the privilege escalation or security bypass holes.
Let's not forget that Yelp itself isn't known to be overly kind to businesses. There is a reason some businessestry turning the tables especially given we now know Yelp's practices aren't illegal.
Actually, according to folks who should know the sign is over 77 feet tall and nearly 330 feet wide, which I assume includes the wrap around the corners.
The sign that's 820 x 39 is installed near the King Khaled International Airport in Saudi Arabia but it's nice to know I'm not the only one who misses a few details every now and again.
Let's see Apple got a $10 million grant Apple got for the construction of the plant, a new power station so the factory can use 100% renewable energy and let's not forget the area around the plant is designated a foreign trade zone cutting taxes over 70%. Why give that up? Apple is committed to making greater profit, regardless of what that Ive guy says.
Think I could move to Mesa and score a deal like that? Never mind, it's in the middle of the desert and I imagine the sushi isn't the freshest.
It's obviously the 2" square brain box for a connected cloud persona. You just leave it in your pocket and it works with all your other toys that change from being expensive devices with their own data plan to simple I/O interfaces that use the common box. Soon everything from your mirrorless system camera, phone earpiece, bonkable pay dongle or 9" web display will be simple and connected to a single point of intercloudy goodness.
Uhhh, you got 'em big heap axe grind, kemo slobby. Wear down fast keep talk, hav' mini-hatchet left.
Honest paleface. Ha ha, git it? No such thing, kemo slobby.
The thing is it does open a new bucket-o-chicken because if the court allows it then it will equally have to allow the opposite where someone out on disability is actually off water skiing in Miami. If it's known that they have such a device then it seems perfectly reasonable for someone to get and order for the records and prove one way or another that it is a fraudulent disability claim. Juries may not always be the brightest bulbs on the tree but they often have a good nose to smell when someone is trying to game them. It's the judge who makes the precedent by allowing the data as evidence and it's up to the jury to call bullshit. Something they are likely to do in this case but not in the reverse.
There's always reading the PDF, it's free after all. The conic and cylindrical gear sets keep time for the sampling ratios. The amplitudes are determined by the position of bars placed along a set of rockers that are driven by the cylindrical gears. It's actually quite short and definitely worth the read. It was a rather long download but I don't know which end was the cause for the lack of speed.
I think it's also important that it's a ground/minced sausage rather than a coarse chop like you'd find in andouille and chouriço (which I assume is nearly the same as Spanish style chorizo which is almost impossible to get in the market as most all of it is Mexican style which is ground). Also, it should probably be raw/fresco and not dry/smoked sausage.
Pork mince would be a good place to start and add the usual suspects; pepper and minced or powdered chilies (cayenne, ancho, chipotle, chilli powder works in a pinch but it often includes salt and other spices). Often breakfast sausage will include sage and sometimes garlic as well.
Shake and Bake is a simply a flavored/spiced flour mix for dusting/dredging it comes in a 5 oz. box. You could simply mix parts by volume: 32 flour, 4 salt, 4 paprika, 2 onion powder, 2 dry mustard, 2 garlic powder & 1 black pepper.
Isn't that the point of standardized testing? Everyone studies for the test, not the actual material but the test. It doesn't matter if you know how to solve any problem as long as you can remembersolve the problems on the test.
In the real world, we get kids straight out of university who would use a 1/2-13 when a 10-32 would do simply because they saw a commercial showing a car company bragging about the bolts they use to hold the bed on their pick-up truck - and here I thought gravity did most of the job holding the bed on the truck. I'd wager Boeing and Airbus are rather embarrassed by that video - not!
"Amazon requires sellers to provide state tax registration numbers..."
You forgot to mention you also have to go to every state (I assume most have online registration) and acquire a tax registration number and hand it to Amazon so they can sell you the service. Does a little trinket maker in Vermont need tax registrations numbers in all 50 states just to sell their wares online?
The reason companies like Vertex exist is because it's too difficult for a small mom and pop shop to do keep up with all the rules. Saying that Rocko and his computer will gladly protect you from the California tax man - for a nominal fee, isn't much help.
Why does the seller have to sweat California's 'sales/use tax' on a nail file purchased by a California resident in Hong Kong? Why does California get a cut of business that was transacted outside of California? Why is the "internet", not the Californet, any different from Hong Kong? Why wasn't California taxing mail order/catalog sales forty years ago and why is the internet different? Well, we know that one since it's seen as a cash cow to cover the state's hyper-zealous spending that mail order never was, granted they will play the protectionist card and say it isn't fair to regular bricks and mortar stores but we know better than to buy what the state is selling.
That's just it. It's nearly impossible to tell because there is no such service as it would have to get down to areas so small that several fit into a single zip code. For instance zip code 90631 lies in both Orange and LA Counties meaning there are two different county tax rates in addition to the state sales tax and the part of the zip code in Orange also levies a city tax all in less than 14 sq. miles.
Complicated doesn't even begin to describe it. California can barely figure out how, when and if coffee is taxable so what hope does an out of state seller of anything have? I've reproduced the PDF link at the bottom of the article here if you want it straight(?) from the source.
Funny thing about Amazon. If you buy something from some sellers and not Amazon proper it's possible to not get charged sales tax since Amazon only acts as bank and bazaar but not the actual merchant. As a result if the merchant doesn't have the all important point of presence in the state thus no tax. I was shocked that the Cali tax didn't show up on one of my wife's purchases and it took me a while to figure out why and sure enough the seller was in Tennessee and the product shipped direct from China.
Estimates indicate that 10,000 years ago the human population of the entire world was about 5 million. If you're going on a reasonable length journey away from your own population center there isn't likely anyone to ask for directions until you get where you're going, e.g. the next population center. It might be wise to avoid any hunting parties along the way since they may be hunting long pork which would certainly change your travels for the worse.
Those things are that dense because they've been pulled together for quite some time rather nicely by gravity here on Earth. Most of your sedimentary stone can be much less dense without the big squeeze it undergoes here and that is likely the case way out yonder even though it's likely just iron and ice, although confirmation of it's true makeup would be nice.
In all, great stuff. It may seem easy to hit a dinner plate with a pea but not when you're in London and the plate is in Calais.
Very interesting, it just came up as £529 but other times it's 529€. It changed for me when I put it in my cart after checking the France site in case someone wants to see if it's repeatable, who knows which works. Either way, it's currently $599 in the US, which is about £380 if you happen to be on holiday.
It's 529€ including VAT and in stock. XE tells me that's about 415 quid so you've got to decide if it's close enough. I had been waiting for it to be in stock, I say 'had' as mine arrived Friday. It's only been the weekend, but I will say that so far I'm chuffed.
how exactly do non-millionaire people change anything at a state level
You could start at the city level. Depending on where you are, it could be either city, county or some other governmental sector that signs the contracts with the cable companies in compliance with 542(f) of the Communications Act which allows the municipality to charge the cable provider a fee which is essentially rent for the space the company uses to lay and service their lines. Most of these contracts have an exclusivity clause that grants the company an effective local monopoly.
You can work with your fellow constituents to get the village, town, parish, whatever to abolish the exclusivity arrangement when the contract is due for renewal. On the state or federal level it seems that a tweak to some legislation that prohibits or nullifies exclusivity clauses could be in order. That way if another cable company wanted to compete in an area, they could. It would certainly improve the situation for most people if they were given alternatives between the jitter that seems to be DSL and the stop motion that is cable when the local school lets out.
Sure they were. They were doing it everywhere Google rolled out its service which gave legacy providers actual competition.
Everywhere else the cable guys know the phone companies, like Verizon, are letting the lines rot and dumping the area on someone who will file chapter 11 shortly so no real worries about competition there.
Palin got in the circus because a bunch of analysts thought having a female on the ticket would win enough of the estrogen vote while keeping the Pat Robertsons of the world on board. Like most analysts they really don't understand what the market, which in this case means voting public, is really looking for. As a result we get these hackneyed combinations of candidates that try to pull in the outer fringe of a particular segment while not pissing off the ones they call their 'base'. You've hit the nail squarely on the head in that political life isn't a cabaret, it's definitely a circus with an odd emphasis for the hall of mirrors.
Funny thing is the San Francisco Belle operates out of San Francisco. Perhaps Google should have looked for the fellows who built that and asked for something similar. I think the juxtaposition of an old style paddlewheeler with high tech interior would have been rather appropriate in San Francisco.
While we may not have the whole tale, short of a very short list of things there is nothing deeply tragic enough for murder to be an acceptable response. The very fact that he seems to be in reasonably good physical health means he wasn't tortured and no mention was made of his children or family, should he have any, so it's unlikely that anything happened to justify strangling her, which is a very up close and personal way to commit murder. No, more likely than not she merely tried to break off the relationship and I'm sorry but even if he has abandonment issues because his mommy left him at the mall one weekend when he was six it isn't a reason for murder much less an excuse. According to the LA Times he has a criminal record which includes assault and domestic violence.
Have a look at wikipedia's improvised firearm page and the pdf Expedient Homemade Firearms. The basics are pretty simple.
What he has made is a tiny smoothbore muzzle loading cannon that has its lock work provided by another piece of equipment. The only difference between what he has made and these little fellas is that he has machined a standard primer pocket into the back end which necessitates a striker and 3D printed a cradle to temporarily hold both the striker and cannon.
Don't worry, while you're out it will be updated to a drive by installer on some website you trust that will install itself on your Mac and wait patiently for you to plug in your iDevice into the usb port. But there's nothing to fear since you're not some godless Chinese peasant who jailbroke their iDevice. Then again, it's pretty clear you didn't actually read the article and don't understand the actual infection vector.
Let me know how the whole head in the sand thing works out for you.
Seems complicated. I'm thinking it would be easier to skin and gut then either grill or fry and use as taco filling. Deboning can be either before or after cooking but I think after tends to be easier as it can be removed quickly with a fork, much like pulled pork only it's more delicate almost fish like.
@tsr chap
Yes, that was kind of my point. If you take the spike from the recession out of the price of gold and extend it from '07 via inflation the current value becomes much closer to $800 than the current price which would indicate it still could fall quite a bit. Of course that doesn't say anything about whether the price in '07 was a fair valuation since if you start a bit earlier, say '04, then we're looking at only a bit over $500 today but we may not want to go back as far as the spike in the late '70s/ early '80s.
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