In Montana, you're paying for the liquor license. It's not uncommon to see hole-in-the-wall bars in 2000 person towns go for $1 million. They are quota-ed and similar to the NYC taxi medallion system.
FWIW, I grew up in Roundup (and am shocked to see it on HN). I remember the hanging tree being put up downtown sometime in late 80s or early 90s to (I suppose) add some Wild West decor. It’s entirely possible the whole hanging cattle rustlers and bystanders tale is apocryphal or loosely based on actual events. That’s not to say such things didn’t happen in the days of open range cattle ranching.
It’s somewhat common in oil companies to offer salaried employees a 9/80 schedule. The employee works 80 hours in 9 days and gets every other Friday off. Typically people are split into A and B crews so half the office is in on any given Friday. I enjoyed this scheme for two reasons: 1) every other weekend being three days long is magical and 2) even on your Fridays on, you can usually work meeting-free since half the office is out.
A thermostat in the context of an internal combustion engine is a coolant flow control device. It typically diverts coolant to the radiator when the engine initially reaches operating temperature and then directs flow to manage ideal operating temps.
Only if by Nobody you mean every person in the oil & gas industry. I find it funny that people get so worked up about different units in different industries. I get that common units would be great for a variety of reasons, but look around - the world can’t even unite on standard units for such tangible things as distance/length. People who work with MM as million are familiar with the vernacular, and it seems unreasonable for them to upend a model that works so a lay audience doesn’t have to pause and think.
I can only speak to the minerals extraction industry (oil & gas, specifically), but they (we) are well aware that hydrocarbons are a finite resource. The industry as a whole is arguably short sighted, but it’s not because they think the supply of oil is endless.
I remember the first iteration of these pumps that I saw did have a mute bottom. Unsurprisingly, on an otherwise pristine pump, the mute button tended to to be severely worn presumably from frequency of use and/or forceful pressing. The station never took a hint, and the screens still blare their ads only with broken mute buttons.
With the exception of the hacking case and maybe the legal ramifications of a fatal accident, I don't see how any of these are different than the status quo. Hit-and-run accidents and auto vandalism are an everyday occurrence whether a car is self-driven or not. I agree that there are a lot of questions and strange scenarios that should be considered. I think the assumption that none of these questions have been considered because they aren't being discussed in this thread on HN is flawed.
The earthquakes in OK aren’t a direct result of fracing. With a few rare exceptions, oil & gas fracs are accomplished through hydraulic force rather than thermal effects. The induced seismicity in OK is a product of water disposal wells which can raise pore pressure causing faults to slip. The microseismic events that occur during the actual fracing process can only be measured with highly sensitive geophones.
It certainly does. You just have to enter from a public access point. This point could be as formal as a maintained fishing access or as informal as any bridge on a public thoroughfare.
I grew up in central Montana but now live on the west coast too, and I’m astonished at how quickly it’s changing. The bellwether for me is the fact that stream access law* is being challenged (most notably by Gianforte and other wealthy, often absentee landowners). If public stream access is lost, I’ll know the state and it’s civic makeup has changed irreversibly.
*Everything below the high water mark is publicly accessible per Montana state law.
Oh, good, it wasn't their _core_ business. What a bullshit copout - you acquire a company, you own it, warts and all. Who's worse, the crappy company or the company that acquires it and continues to operate it without fixing it?
I've had this happen many times as well - a non-itemized invoice for services rendered six or more months ago. It's not my problem that they can't get their billing service sorted. When I worked in the oil industry, vendors were expected to bill promptly (within 30-60 days) or not get paid.
How are they not ok? Is the color palette used in propaganda eternally tainted in some way? The algorithm distilled the content into a representative palette, nothing more.
Indeed - their precious supply of "just hanging out" time will begin to evaporate quickly as they get older. There's plenty of time to be busy (shudder) when they are adults.