I "retired" (fancy way of saying "was laid off") from programming seven years ago and I haven't written a line of code since. I'm happy to have completely missed out on the AI experience, although since I spent the last few years of my career mostly managing a team of offshore developers, I feel like I got close enough. Now I own my own small house and I drive a school bus and I couldn't be happier. At some point AI will be driving the school buses (so that the kids can still go to school and have AI do all their work for them) but hopefully I will have died a painless death by then.
The destroyers at the Battle off Samar took multiple hits from Yamato's 18.1" guns. The initial hits were armor-piercing rounds that passed right through without doing much of anything, but they took multiple hits before sinking even after the Japanese switched to high-explosive shells. I think a single hit on a destroyer from a 12" shell would certainly not sink it, and depending on where it hit it would probably not even be seriously disabled. Given the close range (less than 1000 yards), the destroyer's deck guns would still knock out the sub pretty quickly.
I gave it a listen since I grew up with U2's first albums and still liked their music through the '90s (it's of course hard for people today to imagine U2 being young and fresh in a world of overproduced pop music, but that's really what they were in the early '80s). I'm quite accustomed to music that gets better the more you listen to it, but that forced U2 album got worse every time.
My favorite line was "Every sailor knows / That the sea / is a friend turned enemy". Bono, nobody fucking sails any more, or even grew up knowing old people who once sailed.
there’s chicken in those
Wow, I didn't believe you, but I looked it up and you're right. They list "chicken" among the "natural flavors". Holy non-vegetarian, Batman!
Since the gun could only be loaded while the sub was surfaced, it had to sink its target in one shot, which was unlikely to be the case against warships, even something small and unarmored like a destroyer.
My cat used to love barbecue baked Lays, and absolutely no other human food. He liked to watch me cook, though, usually from his perch on top of the upper cabinets.
Do some people not? Crisps (aka potato chips) are a very common side with sandwiches in the US, most commonly at lunchtime.
I had a 30' tall tree of heaven with about a 1' diameter trunk fall over in a storm and land on my used school bus (aka a skoolie). The bus was completely undamaged, not even scratched anywhere. Those things grow really fast but they're very light, basically balsa wood.
Do they matter to cops? If they get paid, they get paid by tax money, no?
As I mentioned in another comment, apparently the PD splits the ticket revenue with the school district after the camera company gets their installation and profit margin covered. Cops get paid their salaries from the PD budget which is mostly from tax revenues but also from other sources like tickets and these cameras. A higher PD budget means more perks including higher salaries and paid overtime and more benefits, so while they can't just stuff the money in their pockets (usually) they do benefit from these alternative revenue sources.
does that make you a roving part of the survailance system, too?
Probably. There's nothing I can do about this without losing my job.
The cameras are from a company named Bus Patrol. They haven't really told us much about how the program works, but as I understand it the district pays nothing in upfront costs. Supposedly Bus Patrol pays for the installation and then they get all the revenue up to the point where the cameras and their profit margin are covered; after that the ticket revenues are split evenly between the local police department and the school district. A figure of a million dollars as the cost for installing cameras on our 40 buses was thrown up by somebody, but that seems a bit unlikely as that means the cameras cost $25,000 per bus. Maybe that's correct, I dunno.
I have nearly no info about the legality of this, but they're pretty common at this point. I know one difference is that if you're caught by an actual cop speeding past a bus' red lights you get a fine and points on your license, but if you get a mailed ticket from one of these cameras it's just a fine. Presumably it's because they can't always tell who was actually driving the vehicle. It might be a case where they can't really take any action if a person just refuses to pay the fine, and they just send out tickets because some or most people will just pay it.
I'm a school bus driver and a few years ago I had a cop pass me while my red flashers were on and the stop sign was out and kids were about to get off the bus and cross the street. He was driving with one hand and looking at his phone in the other hand. He could have easily run a kid over. And then they probably would have found some way to blame me for it.
We have cameras now that automatically detect this and send out tickets, but we didn't at the time. It wouldn't have mattered anyway since the cops have to review the footage before any ticket goes out.
Similar to this, by the best band to ever come out of The Gong Show.
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