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Machine spit will be much nastier.

Well hold on here. Reckless driving is a criminal matter. He can claim reckless driving all he wants but without some sort of moving violation or other criminal charge against me how can he possibly bring that accusation up in court?

Here.

And also here

Most US households don't have 115V, 15A circuits. They're 120V, 20A. That's a full 2400W (VA, technically, but for a resistive heating element, it's the same). The 115V rating is an "average", since most power companies will guarantee between 110 and 125V. It's supposed to be 120V. Often it hangs around 122V where I live. The 15A rating is usually because stupid, panicky people install lower-than-necessary circuit breakers in their panels because "electricity might zap mah baybee!" This same dipshit sentiment is the reason I have to put up with arc-fault breakers that do nothing but fuck up all of the time. If I dare change them out for not-useless-shit breakers, the insurance company and county code inspector will have a shit hemorrhage if they find out.

For appliances that heat with electricity, typically they use a double circuit. 240V, 40A. Big-honkin' plug. With the exception of clothes dryers, you're better off with gas appliances if possible.

For hard-wired, installed resistive heat (such as baseboard heaters), they typically use a "death" circuit. These are named as such because they're wired hot-to-hot across the heating element with an inline switch/thermostat. There is no ground, just a 120V, 20A on one side, and another identical 120V, 20A on the other side, but 180 degrees out-of-phase with the first one. The result is that the heating element is powered with an opposed-2-phase push-pull circuit that basically shorts across the bus-bars in the distribution panel the the resistive load of the heating element. If you touch either side while it's live, you pretty much are guaranteed to die. (Wiring diagram)

Also, in the US, tea is for weirdos. I've never tasted tea that I wouldn't miss, and that includes some "properly made" stuff. Mostly, I drink water. And when I have a flavored beverage, I sure as hell don't flavor it with plant trimmings.

I'm afraid you're wrong. Police do keep records of arrests, and they can be revealed in enhanced CRB checks.

From here : "the fact that a person has been arrested is very likely to be stored on the person's police record on the Police National Computer. [...] if this is an Enhanced [CRB] check, there is an option for the police to include any other relevant information about the person that is stored on the PNC and that is considered relevant for the application. So if the police believe that the reason for the arrest is in some way relevant to the purpose for the CRB application, they can disclose these details in the 'Additional Information' section."

I'm quite a good example... I've been arrested once for ABH (I was attacked, tried to get away, eventually hit someone in self defence, charges dropped in a day), and once for GBH (wrong person, I was just walking past... released on bail next day, all my clothes went to forensics, no charges brought). These arrests will almost certainly be included by the police on any enhanced CRB check involving working with vulnerable people, so it's very unlikely I'd ever get a job in that sector. I'm completely innocent of these crimes, I'm just lucky I don't have any intention of working in that sector. Others are not so lucky.

such propulsion technologies have already been used for moving people in amusement parks, so it is a proven technology so far as moving vehicles is concerned.

Yet here is a doctor advising not to go on an amusement park ride with a linear accelerator if you have a pacemaker.

Are they going to start controlling what type of spectacles people wear when they drive?

Start?

I got a ticket for driving with designer Sunglasses

In this California case, the driver's designer glasses were obstructing his peripheral vision and he was hit with a $500 fine. The law has been on the books since 1959.

V C Section 23120 Temple Width of Glasses

Perhaps you're talking about different irregularities, but these days they use a scanner like this on your eyes to map it out instantly.

Really?

http://www.jeeppatriot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83320

http://www.justanswer.com/dodge/4v9d4-dodge-caliber-sxt-estimated-cost-replace-cvt-transmission.html

(Dodge Caliber uses the same CVT transmission.)

Both of these message threads have people answering back that it has around a $5,000 replacement cost ... and that's not factoring in the 4 wheel re-alignment you need to do after you disassemble things enough to take the old CVT out and swap the new one in. So $5,600 sounds fairly close

The "rotating ring" style throbber has been around for a bit in other GUIs and has come to replace the old hourglass animation.

I reluctantly agree that it's been a subtle replacement to XP wait. So subtle that I've been experiencing it for 3 years without realizing Vista did kill the hourglass completely. I'm sure all those claims that 'Seven is sooo fast' come from people who just skipped over Vista and had even less time to notice this small (and not the only) subliminal message that no hourglass on the same OS means you have a faster OS. Don't get me wrong, I do accept that some changes are nice, but I've tried all three OS's on this old dual-core laptop and Seven didn't seem faster than XP and Vista; just crisp and lean.

Someone'll need to check me on this, but I actually think the rotating ring came about before Windows started using it as their general "busy" indicator.

Well, I haven't found any article describing the history, but let me be the first. You are referring to an animation based off of the MacOS X "spinning gear". That image's waiting circular concentric circles was an evolution obviously made monocrome after the bad reception its "filled-in" predecesor, the MacOS inadvertently created with their creation of the rainbow ball of doom got. The Jargon file puts it that back to MacOS 10.2 days, it has darker origins. The ball had once been black and white, in the Hypercard or Applescript days and was a quarter divided ball. That goes back to the OS 7 days, prior to 1998.

Funny that MS adopted the new doughnut progress metaphor from Apple, since the latter made a slow evolution away from Windows' hourglass metaphor, from a black and white wristwatch to a pinwheels that ended back as a doughnut marker that MS stole.

As I said before, it's a stupid law, it should at least be posted, but I don't think the police are the ones who make those decisions. As they say, they don't make the laws, they just enforce them.

And if the cop made up the law to rationalize his abuse of authority?
You are quite right, posting is mandatory for enforcement.

If you think running someone's license plate is abusing authority, there is no reason to continue this discussion.

Good thing you made it up then.
What I think is that telling someone they had better not leave because he's running your license plates without any other reason to do so is abusive.

If you think that a cop enforcing a law about parking is abuse of his authority, well, I'm just glad I don't live near you.

Too bad that's not what he was doing. See the statute which requires proper marking in order to enforce the law.

So where is this proper authority you speak of now?

    I don't lie. The truth is fucked up enough.

    some info on the local statute.

    In talking to locals, there are signs scattered around the county which state "no parking on any roads at any time".

The 9th Circuit is legal precedent, at least for cases within the 9th Circuit.... But here you go.

Some links, many of which are not from the 9th:
http://www.iphonereal.com/iphone_news/200808/08-11492.html
http://www.uslaw.com/library/Legal_Research/Oregon_9th_Circ_Mandatory_Arbitration_Unconscionable.php?item=221171
http://www.thisistech.com/2008/01/25/class-actions-t-mobiles-mandatory-arbitration-clause-ruled-unconscionable-lawsuits/
http://www.constructionweblinks.com/Resources/Industry_Reports__Newsletters/Apr_02_2007/cour.html
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2007/omel051507.htm
http://www.calbizlit.com/cal_biz_lit/2007/09/how-to-get-out-.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3898/is_200103/ai_n8951872
http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/trial-procedure-appellate-decisions/8133987-1.html
http://www.stephenmmurphy.com/pdfs/Hancock_article.pdf
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/3rd-Circuit-Deals-Blow-to-law-14460950.html
http://kruismediation.com/cgi-bin/adrcases.cgi?case=ADR20071031.htm
http://www.justanswer.com/questions/16oig-wisconsin-courts-interpret-term
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1556074.htm
http://www.chicagobusinesslitigationlawyerblog.com/2008/10/chicago_federal_district_court_1.html
http://www.rtoonline.com/Content/Article/Aug_06/NewJerseyBindingArbitration081106.asp