The agreement Jones had with the mother is with the mother. It excuses Jones from any legal and moral obligation he has to her as a co-parent. It does not satisfies his moral obligations as the father to the child.

As a society we tend not to recognize that children have any kind of legal right to parental affection, but its pretty clear that Jones has opted not to fulfill that moral duty. He has given what amounts to pocket change to this girls mother, but no amount of money can substitute for not having a father.

Legally the woman cannot demand anything on the basis of that, but morally I'm all for her taking Jones for a ride. Fuck the guy. When you bastardize your own children, you are the bastard.

"the bitch" decided that the pocket change of a billionaire was not sufficient to offset the moral obligation to fulfill ones parental obligations.

I tend to agree with her. If Jerry Jones wants to make bastards of his children, then I'm all for those children taking every penny they can from him.

> At the very least someone in her circle should be on top of this.

Athletes don't make enough money to have a personal assistant to do this crap for them. When you say "her circle" you basically mean "her mom or dad, or her coach" both of whom likely have their own full-time jobs.

Also, only one person is allowed inside the throwing circle during a throw. Everyone else is supposed to be behind the cage.

Dog owners putting poop bags in trash cans isn't even that helpful. In my experience the trash guys often don't take it unless it is in proper garbage bag.

If you are going to throw your dog poop into someone else's trash either:

• Make sure it is a small enough trash bin that the garbage men can lift and dump the entire bin into the back of the truck.
• Or find a loosely tied bag of trash and slip it in.

Yeah but age catches up to everyone. Why would someone rich, successful, and popular want to saddle themselves with a fading star in their old age.

Of course Giselle wanted to dump Tom, she can do so much better.

Sure if more expensive to build than wind, but have you included the cost of the fuel?

Mrs. Columbo!

Not for me, I don't have a license to drive a golf cart. I'll just ride with one of the other players.

Better yet, show up and then ask where the club rental is.

Appraisers don't set the market price, buyers and sellers do during transactions.

Appraisals depend on the other transactions in the area that closed. If the offer is way above that average the appraisal will come in low.

There is a reinforcement effect from low sales prices on comps to low appraisals to lower approved loan amounts back to lower sales prices. The way out of this cycle is "cash offers". When wealthy people come in and throw cash down, prices rise and appraisals do too.

Minority communities don't have the stock market wealth that other communities do. The last decade of rock-bottom rates has increased the wealth of the already wealthy faster than those whose we wealth is tied more to their family home.

It isn't redlining although it is a really problematic economic situation.

If the utility was required to do a better job patching they might do a better job coordinating work.

Maybe they didn't want it to be 10-0?

There is a distinction between needing a way to synchronize, and needing accurate timekeeping.

GPS needs accuracy. The satellites are moving many kilometers per second and so to know where they are (and this where you are) you need to know the exact time a signal was sent, and then that pulse is synchronized across the globe.

It is a rather unique application. Lots of other applications need a global source to synchronize but are less sensitive to errors in that source.

For example you need to sync power across a large network to avoid blowing out transformers, but you have a rather wide acceptable variation in the frequency with which you can synchronize that network. For instance the Texas network ran at 59.4Hz during the 2021 blackouts without failing.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/leapseconds-expose-bugs-even-when-they-dont-happen/

Explains how gps deals with time fairly well.

No need to sign-up, you are already enrolled. Just leave the lights on and continue to burn that oil!

It sounds like glonass is assuming that atomic and solar time align to within 1 second?!

I don't get it either. A one second deviation in satnav is miles, right? I don't understand how the system could function if it assumed that UTC was TAI.

This probably explains it once I can drink my coffee:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/leapseconds-expose-bugs-even-when-they-dont-happen/

[Edit] apparently yes GLONASS just uses Moscow wall time. I don't understand how that works at all.

Very few (almost zero) digital systems need atomic time.

They need a coordinated time, but it need not be atomic.

Their ideal time is one with exactly 86400 seconds in a day, and each second being equal within the natural variation when measured by the quartz crystal in the system clock

That variation is relatively enormous and provides a wide range for how long a day could actually be according to a more accurate atomic clock.

The challenge is how to bootstrap a coordinated time across the worldwide network of computers without it being atomic time.

But almost no computer programs care if a second is long or short by a few parts per million. If they did they would already be exhibiting bugs on commodity hardware.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/negative-leap-second.html

Total forces set the general trend and in a thousand years or so we would have to deal with the fact that using 1970 definitions of 1 second = do many vibrations of a cesium atom and 1day = 86400 seconds, we would need to add a leap second almost every day.

But over the shorter time frame there is substantially more variability. So much so that there was actually discussion of a negative leap second.

At that point the big tech companies really put their feet down and said "enough with this bullshit" because removing a second is in some ways an even more complex engineering task than adding one.

In most use cases it is very helpful for there to be exactly 24 * 60 * 60 "seconds" in a day, but it's not all that important that a second be an SI second.

If you insist that a second is a physical second from an atomic time source you will eventually accumulate some noticable difference between the official time and the astronomical time.

The general public can probably accept a much greater deviation in that than the one second that has been the practice for the last few decades, but if the astronomical community thinks it is worth keeping world time in sync with astronomical time then they should bear the brunt of the adjustment.

A single second amortized over a full day is not detectable by commodity time sources. So if you want to make the adjustment do it that way. Lie about how long the seconds are, just make your lie so small that it falls below the natural variation in quartz time sources.

Moon isn't actually the cause. It's actually tectonics in the Earth's core. Earthquakes routinely change the Earth's rotation by measurable amounts.

Orbital mechanics and tidal lock are degrees of magnitude less noticable.

So the real solution is to blow up the earth.

I believe Google already ignores them and just amortizes the leap times over a longer period of time in their data centers.

https://developers.google.com/time/smear

Ultimately that should probably be the solution. Core atomic time sources can just lie in a coordinated fashion to amortize an adjustment as needed.

Astronomers (being the smaller community) can then program these adjustments into their time tables.

I demand a recount and the reinstatement of Donald J. Trump as World president.

They haven't been since the invention of the wheel. However in addition to the drugs the equipment keeps getting better, and the records are in part limited by somewhat arbitrary limitations on the forms the bicycle can take. A recumbent 1hr record is much longer.

When the queen captured a pawn, he actually shoved the pawn down the queen's throat.

Carlsen may have had insider information from chess.com due to a financial transaction between his chess website and chess.com.

I don't know the terms of that deal or if it was all cash or had some stock involved.