Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
But if you were offering an EV as a premium upgrade it had to be a Tesla. Especially a few years ago when Hertz launched this.
It was also easier for a manager to swing an upgrade to a premium rental if it was part of the company's Green Agenda. I know were all allowed to rent 'Standard option' in the US but could rent any EV
undesirables' are too thick to procure a gov't id.
No you just make an NRA membership or a Gold AMEX the only accepted forms of voter ID.
Kind of like how a government a lot closer to home made a pensioners bus pass or a driving licence acceptable but not a student ID and were 'surprised' when the voters skewed older/richer
And don't forget to redraw the boundaries so that every voter for the evil opponent is in one multi-dimensional-hyper-fractal-Moebius district while you include a prison in each of your dozens of districts (prison populations count to the electoral vote weighting, but the prisoners can't vote)
Although not every vote will count. Remember to live in a small republican wholesome rural state so that your electoral college votes are worth more than the huddle masses yearning to be free in large metropolitan cities (where they are probably all communists anyway)
>a 60 MB external SCSI drive. It cost $600. I thought that I would never run out of storage
When external full height 1Gb SCSI drives dropped to 1000quid we bought one for every workstation. Unlimited storage, never have to copy data on-off tape again!
I just bought a 256Gb SD card for the dashcam, so small I will lose it, for the price of the SCSI terminator
We had the opposite, worked in the field but not in the office.
A Bluetooth connection between an oil field data logger and a PDA, with a pairing that was "simplified".
Great in the middle of nowhere with not a cell phone to the horizon. Took it to a trade show with 10,000 visitors, all with multiple Bluetoothy gadgets screaming for attention and our device went to have a little cry in the corner
The BSD license doesn't necessarily mean less code gets given back.
I've used the OpenCV (BSD licensed computer vision lib) in a few commercial products where I wouldn't have been able to use GPL, and even LGPL would have been a fight with legal.
I've also contributed code to it, personally and 'on company time'. But if it wasn't BSD we would have been forced to just write our own just concentrating on reinventing the bits of the wheel we needed ad that would have been locked away inside company
This seems to be a bit of red herring.
It's not clear what the pilots could have been saying or doing to cause this.
If they were hoping for a "hey what does this 'door eject' button do" ? to absolve Boeing - I suspect they were likely to get a lot more "what the BLEEEP", followed by a lot of wind noise
Quite a few doors on airliners aren't plug type (777 and A340 IIRC ) the old "pull in and rotate" plug doors take up a lot of internal space, and of course almost all cargo doors are open outwards
The open-outwards doors are still held closed by air-pressure (and a metric shit-tonne of safeties) by having the pressure difference act on the latches in a rather clever arrangement.
Democracy, if the people voting for you don't care about the environment then your duty is to not care about the environment.
That's why Blair won such a large mandate, working class voters are really pro middle east wars. While upper class voters preferred wars in the south Atlantic
Would be a good way to crush the emerging industry.
We should have done the same with airlines in the 1950s - fining the aircraft manufacturers $bn for each death
That way we would have high speed public transport, except we wouldn't have trains or subways cos we would have fined them all $M/death in C19
Bicycle manufacturers should be responsible for any accident where the bike's engineering doesn't perfectly protect the rider
Horses of course are a massive pollution hazard that would give the EPA and NIH the vapours
