Kalamazoo is the result of consolidation. The graph incorrectly just lists them as "Kalamazoo Tower", but its also a TRACON facility.
They're handling multiple airports remotely. In 2016, this was planned to be Grand Rapids, Lansing, Muskegon, Flint, and Saginaw, though I'm not sure all of them were consolidated.
I believe just Flint, Saginaw, Lansing and Kalamazoo were consolidated when I last looked in 2022. For people who are unaware, Kalamazoo has one of the most substantial aviation programs in the country in town at WMU so centralizing there with a large staff is a great opportunity to cross train.
Because none of that is the purpose of cryptocurrency. It for tax evasion by the rich, and for the cryptocurrency to seize when its used for crimes or when its defrauded out of someone else. And for riding a seemingly permanently rising currency to riches.
In any case, it boils down to "I can make money off cryptocurrency". It doesn't "help" people. If someone says that, they just want to evangelize it because they think that's the key to 'crypto go up'.
Isn't cryptocurrency pretty much the worst way to avoid taxes?
The entire ledger is public. The IRS is going to know that several millions/billions was sent to an address and can just press the exchange to reveal who it is akin to gambling winnings.
I was there, at the dawn. I remember spigots giving out whole-ass bitcoins.
The "we're going to change the world" folks either became, or were pushed out by the, Gordon Gekko cosplayers approximately 227 milliseconds after the bitcoin whitepaper was published.
As far as I can tell, a larger value in goods and services, real non-crypto-related tangible things and actions, are purchased in Chuck-e-cheese tokens than crypto.
Crypto is tulip bulbs for the IT Crowd. It's hyper-tax-evading-money-laundering on steroids. It is everything about "duh banksters" the liars promoting crypto claimed to be against times ten trillion.
Crypto is like some very smart people took every negative aspect of the socio-economic system we find ourselves trapped within and amplified them because they realized the grift to be had, then they wrapped it all in a thin veneer of freedom and rebellion.
legal evasion is definitely a big part of it, but when your government is corrupt and mismanaged and makes it illegal to hold other currencies while devaluing the money you do hold, maybe a little law breaking is justified
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For the project as a whole, it is not free. You are FORBIDDEN to distribute the apk compiled by you (including modified, e.g., rename app name "Shizuku" to something else) to any store (IBNLT Google Play Store, F-Droid, Amazon Appstore etc.).
This is not Apache licensed, because the author is explicitly declaring its terms altered.
It is NOT open source, it violates freedom 1:
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There are tons of common words in English that use non English characters. No one argues those words need to be changed so I'm not sure why so many people here are so gungho about it.
> Its strange how much power we give employers over employees, and how regular people defend this, even when its actively working against them.
"Because, one day, I will be a rich person, and I will be able to be cruel to the little people. I don't want to prevent me being able to abuse people if I'm in that position!"
Also, "I am fundamentally smarter/better/more diligent than my fellow employees. My employer might recognize that with more compensation, but my fellow employees will not. They will drag me down and promote the unworthy."
Pitting employees against each other is a classic.
If you bought a Tesla, you have no right to a court of law involving Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the case will be secret, but Tesla will know the arguments and results of of all attempts against it, but not you. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter may be blacklisted from future cases if it rules against Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter's ruling is final and the law does not apply. Capricious? Does not matter.
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla.
The Sherman Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla.
No court of law will ever be permitted to apply those laws against Telsa by a Tesla owner.
This case was already dismissed once in Sept of last year when the motion to compel arbitration was granted. They're trying again with some sort of attempted resurrection, but its just a waste of money, because Tesla owners are barred from courts of law. They will go to a privatized pseudo-court where they will lose and where they can't do class action unless Telsa wants it.
> The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act.
Poking around, I found this [0] from 2015 that suggests the opposite, unless a certain malign President caused the FTC to switch policies.
> the FTC has taken the position since 1975 that binding arbitration provisions are prohibited in warranties. [...] The FTC specifically rejected the argument that an arbitration proceeding is not an [informal dispute settlement mechanism] because it is binding and therefore outside the [Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act], which permits warrantors to establish [informal dispute settlement mechanism]s for breach of warranty claims and require consumers to use such [informal dispute settlement mechanism]s before bringing a civil suit.
Courts have ruled in the past that arbitration clauses were illegal or unenforceable for various reasons so it not that cut and dry .
Contract law is not simple, just because I signed the contract doesn’t mean it is enforcement is guaranteed.
While I agree with the estimation that this is loosing and courts would either rule that is not a monopoly or enforce the arbitration clause and kick the case out , it is not a given .
Every case is unique, a lot depends on the judge or jury and background of the specific case.
Also filing suit doesn’t mean that trial is always the goal. It could be just a strategic move in the process between plantiffs and defense .
Sometimes companies would settle not because it will loose, but because it is cheaper to settle. Sometimes they don’t want discovery process opening up internal documents that could be damaging. Fox forked over 780M because of this (and also plaintiffs had a slam dunk case ).
This is not necessarily true in matters involving injunctive relief, depending on the wording of the contract, whether arbitration itself may be arbitrated, and whether the judge considers arbitration appropriate for the relief prayed for.
You can even read Hall Street Associates, L.L.C. v. Mattel, Inc, where even when the agreement said the courts could review. Where, no, courts of law may not review an arbiter's decision if you both agree it would be able to after arbitration.
You can read Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., where SCOTUS explicitly declared the American Arbitration Act overrides the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
You can read Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, where you find out you have no substantive rights where the AAA is involved.
There's still weak attempts to save it, but the The National Labor Relations Act is also likely superseded by the American Arbitration Act, basically voiding the NLRA from being ever applicable.
Courts of law are barred where arbitration is inserted, anywhere, whether you know it or not. You lose basic rights where arbitration is concerned.
> There were limitations to this study. A small number of studies were assessed, only five were chosen for mortality analysis with a total sample size of 1,474 patients, and two were chosen for symptomology with a sample size of 391 patients. The design of the studies chosen limits the conclusions made in this study regarding mortality as three of the studies are retrospective studies and only two are randomized control trials for mortality. Both papers that assessed symptomology were randomized control trials. Between studies, zinc formulations were different, and in some cases, zinc was given in combination with other drugs.
3 of those studies were retrospectives, 2 were randomized studies. One of those randomized studies was halted for "futility" at zinc treatment.
There have been more studies since when this came out, which signals the probable importance of zinc in COVID prevalence. Plus they were only looking at mortality so there will always be fewer papers. Does this leave you less suspicious?
Rediscovered the GitHub version of the problem recently when setting up some new IPv6-only VMs. They couldn't pull any code from our GitHub repos, making those VMs entirely useless.
This is very light on the details of their batteries, unfortunately.
Iron-air batteries have been known for awhile now, the challenge is making them commercially viable. If I recall, their efficiency is awful for one. There's a company called Form Energy in West Virginia that is supposedly nearly done with a factory to build them for grid storage.
>Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power, meanwhile, plans to deploy a 15 MW/1,500 MWh Form Energy system as early as 2026, pending regulatory approval
And zero actual stuff about I made a trial one and hooked it to my roof solar and it works fine - they started in 2017 so you think they might have done that by now.
I hope it all works though. It would be good for green energy.
For each kilo of iron you would like to extract electricity from by oxidizing it using ordinary air, you will need to process about 1.85 kilos of air.
This is the amount of air that contains the 0.43 kilos of oxygen that will be needed to effect the oxidation reaction by combining with the iron.
This much air will have to be processed at a rate and in such a way that the oxygen contained in the air will be efficiently made available for the iron to react with, at the desired rate of energy generation expected from a given mass of iron.
On the positive side, air is pretty light so it might not seem to require as much heavy lifting as the iron content, on the negative side air is pretty thin and kilos of air take up lots of space.
If something like this were to be scaled to absurd enough sizes, you never know what could happen.
Unlike huge wind turbines which can end up knocking birds out of the sky, a massive operation to remove oxygen from the air might just suffocate them from a distance.
There would be just as many sparks as there would from any other battery capable of delivering the same amperage at the same voltage level.
Oxidation of a given mass of iron may occur over a wildly variable amount of time depending on conditions.
This is where the implementation comes in, the rate of oxygen absorption when discharging may or may not be a limiting factor, considering other things like the working nature of the electrolyte, and the physical structure of the metallic iron in contact with the electrolyte.
In general the more surface area of a metal electrode of given mass, the more current it will be able to deliver at one time.
Rusting does not have to be slow, a good demo is to machine or polish plain iron (not steel) to a clean smooth rust-free appearance where it's pure bare metal. Bottom of a cast iron skillet works. Under ambient conditions of temperature and humidity it can retain its mirror-like appearance for weeks or months, but eventually will get a brown coating of surface rust. Sooner if the humidity is higher, and much sooner if temperature fluctuations have caused any humidity to condense at times. Or you can put the freshly polished metal out in the sun for a few minutes to heat up, add a drop of water, let it sit level and watch it rust before your eyes.
And that's plain water, which is actually not an electrolyte, since electrolytes' major property is to conduct electricity, versus very pure water whose quality is measured by its lack of conductivity.
The drop of water on the iron surface is not exactly a common catalyst either even though it increases the rate of reaction between the iron and the oxygen in the air. Water there is mainly the solvent that makes it more possible.
In the article water is considered the "electrolyte" but I would say it's more like the main low-cost ingredient that turns into electrolyte once you start putting electrodes in the water, and naturally changes constituency as discharging and charging take place. On contact some iron ions will dissolve in the water[0] and it will start to become capable of conducting electricity before too long. Like any other battery not only the electrode structure but also the electrolyte must be robust enough to carry the entire amount of current expected to be delivered.
[0] This happens without any acid being intentionally added, but when working there needs to be a fairly high concentration of ions in the electrolyte to support high conductivity. Conventionally not only the metal ions but also acid or alkali ions in the electrolyte contribute together.
They're handling multiple airports remotely. In 2016, this was planned to be Grand Rapids, Lansing, Muskegon, Flint, and Saginaw, though I'm not sure all of them were consolidated.