I like the idea of power generating shows. You could utilise the power from the audience applause to power the performers' amplifiers. If the audience doesn't clap loud enough the show can't continue.
We had days in the winter of 06-07 where school was closed with no snow on the ground. My understanding is that if the windchill factor drops the temperature below -25 or -30F that schools that have high walker percentages are required to close. Mine was and we had at least 2 and up to 4 days we closed due to cold that year. That was in Liverpool too!
It's not good that they use a percentage of walkers as a guide. If any kids are in danger, it should be enough. Why would kids' lives only matter in certain quantities?
School closings cost the school money. Districts budget a certain number of snow days a year, and when they go over, they have to dip into school vacations and other scheduled holidays to make up the difference. If you have a rural school district where all but 5 kids commute by bus, that's one thing. But I lived in a very suburban, very city school district. There were at least 1000 homes within 1 mile of the school. At least. It's horrible to say but it's all about the numbers.
Even in super rural NY districts tons of kids walk.
Yes, but they aren't classified as walkers because they live outside a certain radius. What that radius is I have no clue.
Well, in the T1 days, you still could due to the regulations on it. AT&T could order a Verizon T1 and lay their network on it. This was really a very standard practice back in the day.
I haven't tried letting all of that stuff connect on my Android device.
Does it allow the use of your real phone number, not a google voice number?
You can text from your phone with your real number via Hangouts but not from your PC. When you SMS from your PC with Hangouts, it always uses Google Voice. Your phone just uses the last number that sent a text to the number your text as the source. You can switch back and forth and Hangouts aggregates it all into one thread in Hangouts. It's nice.
The other side could be confused though if they don't have your google voice number in your contact, or worse, it can't aggregate sources.
Hangouts goes by contacts, so if you have someone who had 17 cellphone numbers and you had them all saved in your phone under one contact, all texts would be aggregated into one conversation. But yes, if someone doesn't have an SMS client that aggregates, it will make your texts via Google Voice and texts via your cell number as separate threads.
I don't ever use it so I wouldn't notice really. The only thing I see is the new groups thingy. Which because we don't use Lync any longer is useless to me.
