The new car has to get at least 10 mpg more than the trade in to get the maximum rebate -- NOT TRUE. If you trade in a pickup for a similar type vehicle, the mpg difference is less, e.g., trading an 2001 F150 (mpg 16) for a 2010 Ford Transit Connect (mpg 23) will get the maximum rebate. This is from the cars.gov website.
I have a long background in EMS also. Key differences between seeing someone shot down & dying near you & seeing the dead after a MVA are intention & proximity. It makes a difference knowing that someone intended to kill (when it might have been you) vs. death happening without that specific intention & without you being closely involved.
The US has been using these along the southern border for years. They are tethered & fly at 15,000 feet and provide radar coverage along the border to interdict drug smuggling by air. They had problems with leaky balloons, and the need to ground them for maintenance, at which time they were vulnerable to bad weather on the surface. There were formal no-fly zones posted in their vicinity. Apparently there was no problem with aircraft running into them. I've driven along I-10 and occasionally have been able to see them in the air, they definitely look like hovering flying saucers.
"We are less willing to induce control and "restraint" on children because they are not as capable of controlling themselves." Nope, most any adult would be willing, able & justified in grabbing a 30lb child by the collar to "control" and "restrain" his/her jumping off a curb & running into traffic. I have seen that done hundreds of times. If the child outweighed the adult 2:1, it would be a different matter.
Great idea. Years ago X10 used to sell a package that did the same thing. This was before MP3s. I believe they used a digital dog recorded on an EPROM. An IR motion sensor sent a radio signal to an X10 receiver, which triggered a minute of dog barking. Eventually the sound generator died & I haven't been able to replace it. X10 no longer sells it. It was also handy to tell us when the mail carrier came by. You could make it more menacing by putting speakers in different parts of the house & moving the sound around, &/or using more than one kind of dog.
Now if people would record a few hundred MP3's of barking dogs & post them somewhere on the internet.....
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The new car has to get at least 10 mpg more than the trade in to get the maximum rebate -- NOT TRUE. If you trade in a pickup for a similar type vehicle, the mpg difference is less, e.g., trading an 2001 F150 (mpg 16) for a 2010 Ford Transit Connect (mpg 23) will get the maximum rebate. This is from the cars.gov website.
I have a long background in EMS also. Key differences between seeing someone shot down & dying near you & seeing the dead after a MVA are intention & proximity. It makes a difference knowing that someone intended to kill (when it might have been you) vs. death happening without that specific intention & without you being closely involved.
The US has been using these along the southern border for years. They are tethered & fly at 15,000 feet and provide radar coverage along the border to interdict drug smuggling by air. They had problems with leaky balloons, and the need to ground them for maintenance, at which time they were vulnerable to bad weather on the surface. There were formal no-fly zones posted in their vicinity. Apparently there was no problem with aircraft running into them. I've driven along I-10 and occasionally have been able to see them in the air, they definitely look like hovering flying saucers.
"There are no safe methods for restraining a resistant person." This statement is impossible to prove.
"We are less willing to induce control and "restraint" on children because they are not as capable of controlling themselves." Nope, most any adult would be willing, able & justified in grabbing a 30lb child by the collar to "control" and "restrain" his/her jumping off a curb & running into traffic. I have seen that done hundreds of times. If the child outweighed the adult 2:1, it would be a different matter.
Northwestern's product appears exactly the same as the one I bought from x10 20 years ago. Of course it costs far more now.
Great idea. Years ago X10 used to sell a package that did the same thing. This was before MP3s. I believe they used a digital dog recorded on an EPROM. An IR motion sensor sent a radio signal to an X10 receiver, which triggered a minute of dog barking. Eventually the sound generator died & I haven't been able to replace it. X10 no longer sells it. It was also handy to tell us when the mail carrier came by. You could make it more menacing by putting speakers in different parts of the house & moving the sound around, &/or using more than one kind of dog. Now if people would record a few hundred MP3's of barking dogs & post them somewhere on the internet.....
Panera Bread on the Ohio Turnpike does not have free Wi-Fi.
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