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No, but likely his face biometrics are off he happens to have been captured in the video. So if they are keeping the raw video, not just the processed license plate output, they may fall under this jurisdiction.


Assuming you're talking about the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, that only requires consent for facial recognition databases based on facial geometry. The law explicitly allows storing photographs of people's faces without consent.


Its a floating city, a floating airport, 2 nuclear reactors, supports 4500 people, and go at > 30 knots. Yeah, that comes at a cost.


27 million dollars of upkeep per person is still pretty ridiculous. How many parts are they burning up on a daily basis?


Why is the "per-person" cost relevant?


Because, after you remove the cost of having the crew and supplying them with basic maintenance parts, it gives you an idea of how many people on the ground are needed to support each person onboard, just to supply expensive parts that are being constantly burned through.

Ideally this supply of burned-up parts would not be particularly huge.

But I didn't realize that number was for a full fifty years, so I'll take back the 'ridiculous'. It's still a whole lot.


Over 50 years! Not so ridiculous. It even includes crew costs. Isn't it about as much as a software engineer total costs in a typical Valley company?


Not the OP, but my wife is a teacher and has one 50 minute prep during her day. She teaches 7 different classes. Most days the school can't find enough substitute teachers and she ends up having to sub for another class during her one prep hour.


> all nuclear weapons are banned

> US navy is banned from operating in NZ waters as they don't disclose what ships are nuclear powered or carrying weapons

One does not lead to the other. All of the US submarines and air craft carriers are nuclear powered (and no other ships). None of the aircraft carriers have nuclear weapons, and only the SSBN submarines can carry nuclear weapons on board. If your second statement is true (I don't know), then it is likely that NZ also is banning any nuclear powered ships; not just those with nuclear weapons.


It is a ban on nuclear propulsion as well as weapons, so nuclear powered submarines and carriers are banned. There was a bit of controversy a few years ago as well, when the NZ government was considering utilising a Russian nuclear powered icebreaker in Antarctica. No US Navy ship entered New Zealand waters for 33 years from 1984, the US Coast Guard did, however.

The ban on US Navy vessels stemmed from the fact that technically, any US Navy ship could carry nuclear weapons, and the USA would neither confirm nor deny if a particular ship had nuclear weapons. It was a bit of a hangover from the Cold War. The USA wasn't very happy at all in 1984 when NZ declared itself nuclear free.

Not all US Navy ships are banned in NZ waters now, a US Navy destroyer (USS Sampson) visited in 2016 for the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th birthday, and ended up helping in disaster recovery when the magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake happened at the same time, alongside the Canadian Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Japanese Navy. To reciprocate the favour, the frigate HMNZS Te Kaha joined the Nimitz carrier group to replace the USS Fitzgerald after it collided with a container ship.

Military relations with the USA have improved markedly in the past decade. Due to the whole nuclear free thing, the NZ Navy wasn't allowed to dock in the military area in Pearl Harbour for years, they had to dock with all the civilian ships, but now they're allowed to dock in the military area. They've also participated in RIMPAC since 2012.


It's interesting how long lasting the reaction to french terrorism is in NZ.


> french terrorism

Could you expand on that? Is it about Rainbow Warrior (just a guess)?


Yes, the ban is on propulsion as well as weaponry.


Interesting that since the official stance of the US government is they won't disclose capabilities that this puts a wholesale ban on US Navy ships. I did not know about that. Although, it does seems to be 'thawing' [0].

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-18/new-zealand-to-end-sta...


That is fantastic dedication to finding the source of the memory leak. I'm not sure I'd have quite the devotion or expertise to track that one down.


If a kid was in a baby seat in there, they (hopefully) wouldn't have left the car unattended!


> (perhaps in a move of trade protectionism)

I find it far more likely that the extra strength was required for the impact collisions. The other cars on the road in the US are just far larger and massive than those elsewhere, so a stronger heavier car is needed to stay safe.

It creates a bit of a Catch 22 when trying to bring down the average size / weight of a vehicle.



Thanks for this article. I thought that Square only supported the iPhone, not Android; is this a new development?

My brother and I are looking to sell some physical products (spice mixes / dry rubs) at farmer's markets. We were going to do Cash Only, but I just ordered my Square to handle the CC processing at the markets!


The Android app came out almost a year ago I think. I've had it for a while, it's on the market of course.


Use Windows 7 when doing engineering things (nearly all engineering programs are Windows only). Dual boots into Ubuntu for all my web development work.

OS X at work (Rails mostly & PHP).


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