Come to the states where some towns and counties will drop the speed limit just to hit commuters and get revenue.
The Reservation I'm from does that during the holidays, its on a main east/west highway in South Dakota and they hit out of county or state cars. Its 40 odd miles to the next town of size to the west and 70 miles to the east, so the Tribal Police lay in wait, hit out of county cars and ticket them.
Of course they don't tell you the tickets can't be enforced off reservation and it won't go on your record, they just press the drivers to pay right there and warn them about collection fees.
1. Its a for profit system - conflict of interest when private contractors are paid a commission based on the number of tickets they are able to issue. Pictures from the San Diego red light camera systems were ruled inadmissible as court evidence in September 2001. The judge said that the "total lack of oversight" and "method of compensation" made evidence from the cameras "so untrustworthy and unreliable that it should not be admitted".
2. Not accurate - Vibrations by heavy vehicles were found to cause the speed camera to record a false reading of passing cars and trucks by as much as 80 mph, according to the report.
3. Can violate the rights of the accused - In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city government attempted to bypass the legal issue of a defendant's right to cross-examine his accuser, as well as the issue of verifying the driver's identity. Automated red-light and speeding offenses are classed as public nuisances and fined to the vehicle's registered owner as civil violations, not as criminal offenses.
4. Revenue stream and the laws are violated - At some intersections where red-light cameras have been installed, it has been determined that the duration of the yellow signal was illegally shortened. In Tennessee, 176 tickets ($8,800 in fines) were refunded to drivers caught in the first 0.9 seconds after the signal turned red when it was discovered that the length of the yellow signal timing had been reduced by that amount.
5. Privation of law enforcement - In some areas, red light enforcement cameras are installed and maintained by private firms such as Affiliated Computer Services, American Traffic Solutions, Inc, and Redflex Traffic Systems. In Texas, red light violators caught by a red light camera are served with a civil citation rather than a criminal citation.
You've never dated much or even lived with someone other than your parents huh?
It's quite common to get a key to the other person's place, its one of those stages in a relationship. The movie Singles covered it with the lending of the garage door opener.
I got the keys to my GF's place at the end of a two week stay, it was the formalization/come back whenever symbol.
I used it to good effect to surprise her by showing up two weeks later out of the blue. (she was living 280 miles away).
Work key - big old thing GF's car key on a key ring with brass Iguana fob GF's car remove in key ring that has a Forza 3 fob House key on key ring Truck keys (2) on three key rings with a Chevrolet key fob
And when a volcano goes off there is a huge environmental impact too that has unmeasured impacts.
The Earth is not, was not and never will be a perfectly balanced system that we humans have thrown out of whack with our technology and population growth.
It was, is and will be an ever changing planet that goes through terrific changes.
You are saying you think a few more people will die of cancer than otherwise would have, not sure how familiar you are with cancer, I've had three different types over the last thirty years and have three organs in the process, and I can tell you cancer doesn't work that way.
Bubba Gump the shrimp boat captain might take in some of the particulates from this, he might get cancer. The cancer might be from the particulates, or its from a mutation, or its from a couple benzene molecules he inhaled in 1996 while refueling his boat, or its from an alpha emitter from a coal fire plant in New Mexico that floated to the gulf, or it might have been from a a cigar he smoked when his daughter was born.
Why are we paying the price for oil? Because we need fossil fuels. You are obviously on a computer, the plastics, the transportation of the components, much of the electricity that keeps all this going comes from fossil fuels. "Green energy" isn't there yet, even if the US poured the same amount of it's GDP it poured into the Manhattan project or Apollo program doesn't mean we will get "green energy" to work or scale in a timely manner.
We need fossil fuels and people will die from it (I know two of the seven who died in the April explosion in Anacortes Washington), theres no getting around the fact that our civilization needs oil and natural gas to function and to stay alive.
Log out, ditch your electronic devices and walk somewhere sustainable and warm if you don't want to contribute to the oil dependency, otherwise you are as guilty as BP and Halliburton to all of this.
Me, I'm going to burn some more gas when I drive a half a mile for an appointment in an hour, at 12 miles per gallon.
Or its a nice way of saying" it ends up as a part per hundred billion or trillion in the atmosphere and will come down bit by bit over the next year to three across the oceans and landmasses of the planet."
Heres a point - not everything that goes up in the atmosphere ends up in the food chain. Not everything that goes into the sea ends up in a human's digestive system.
The dictionary has this for disperse - cause (gas, smoke, mist, or cloud) to thin out and eventually disappear : winds dispersed the bomb's radioactive cloud high in the atmosphere - distribute (small particles) uniformly in a medium.
From the 1991 fires - "The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects."
Airborne Studies of the Smoke from the Kuwait Oil Fires. Peter V. Hobbs and Lawrence F. Radke, Science. May 15, 1992
Oh hell no. But the courts and Congress will try to make them.
As for no one living south of the rig...Google Earth shows it is 580 miles southeast to land in Cuba and 330 miles to Florida. The smoke disperses well before land fall
There will be a class action against BP, just like Baker v. Exxon, but probably in every state effected by this, so Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
It'll go on for years and maybe there will be a huge hit on BP in excess of the 1.5 billion and 75 million.
People aren't swimming 50 miles out in the ocean, beaches can be closed and theres been no fires close enough to land to get smoke onto the land.
The workers of the rig, yea they were exposed to the smoke and toxins, people in Mobile, not so much.
The medical costs? Well, insurance for the 11 dead and medical bills for the rest of the workers will be pretty easy to figure out.
Tourism is pretty easy too, take 2009 tourism numbers, take 2010 tourism numbers and figure out the difference.
Same with fishing, hell we did that all up here in Alaska with Exxon and we've been figuring out what Pebble Mine will do to the Salmon and tourism, its not as abstract as you think.
Of course they won't pay for it all, but you said that they can't afford to pay for it, well they can.
BP could afford to pay every last penny for the damage done and income lost, with 26 billion in income and over 236 billion in assets they can afford it.
With BP's record here in Alaska of spills and botched cleanups someone should push them into paying for all the damage done in the Gulf, and go after their contractors and everyone else involved.
BP really should only be on the hook for 65% of the costs.
RIG Deepwater Horizon rig owner BP 65% working interest (operator) APC 25% working interest (operator) Mitsui 10% working interest (operator) CAM Manufacturer of blowout preventer (BOP) HAL Provided cementing services to the rig
Anadarko Petroleum Corp (APC.N) - The Houston company owns a 25 percent nonoperating interest in the well.
It was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard, Ulsan, South Korea in 2001.
Thanks, I just got my first computer with an i series, an i7-820QM and was just curious how it all works, what with the four cores, eight cores and why its a 1.6 GHz chip that goes up to 2.8 GHz or more.
My work machine is a 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz and wanted to figure out how the i7 mobility compared
The description said - "This article neatly explains how these speed up your PC, and the difference between the two approaches. Interesting reading if you're choosing between Intel and AMD for your next build."
But it really don't have any performance information to help you choose.
A KH-12 costs about 1.4 billion (at least) to build and launch, and are big enough that only Shuttle could bring them back, so refueling would be a good option there.
I really think this is an on orbit weapons platform, maybe a system that could be tasked with Rods from God and/or ASAT systems.
Yes, reusable have proven to be the way to go, but other forms of transport aren't going 17,500 miles an hour, getting up to 5,000 degrees and going millions of miles.
1. A robotic platform for working on, refueling, repairing and monitoring satellites, like Tekfactory talked out. 2. On station orbital weapons platform 3. Electronic warfare system for monitoring foreign satellites and disabling them.
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I'm totally against speed monitoring devices and automated ticketing.
A human needs to be in the loop and witness the speeding or other violation in person.
Sure they can use a LIDAR or RADAR but they need to be there.
Me, I've sped and I've been caught - when I was 18 I got dinged for 55 mph over the limit. Another time I got a verbal warning for going 121 mph.
I was speeding and I deserved it, but there was a human there to make the judgement call.
Come to the states where some towns and counties will drop the speed limit just to hit commuters and get revenue.
The Reservation I'm from does that during the holidays, its on a main east/west highway in South Dakota and they hit out of county or state cars. Its 40 odd miles to the next town of size to the west and 70 miles to the east, so the Tribal Police lay in wait, hit out of county cars and ticket them.
Of course they don't tell you the tickets can't be enforced off reservation and it won't go on your record, they just press the drivers to pay right there and warn them about collection fees.
What is wrong with speed cameras...
1. Its a for profit system - conflict of interest when private contractors are paid a commission based on the number of tickets they are able to issue. Pictures from the San Diego red light camera systems were ruled inadmissible as court evidence in September 2001. The judge said that the "total lack of oversight" and "method of compensation" made evidence from the cameras "so untrustworthy and unreliable that it should not be admitted".
2. Not accurate - Vibrations by heavy vehicles were found to cause the speed camera to record a false reading of passing cars and trucks by as much as 80 mph, according to the report.
3. Can violate the rights of the accused - In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the city government attempted to bypass the legal issue of a defendant's right to cross-examine his accuser, as well as the issue of verifying the driver's identity. Automated red-light and speeding offenses are classed as public nuisances and fined to the vehicle's registered owner as civil violations, not as criminal offenses.
4. Revenue stream and the laws are violated - At some intersections where red-light cameras have been installed, it has been determined that the duration of the yellow signal was illegally shortened. In Tennessee, 176 tickets ($8,800 in fines) were refunded to drivers caught in the first 0.9 seconds after the signal turned red when it was discovered that the length of the yellow signal timing had been reduced by that amount.
5. Privation of law enforcement - In some areas, red light enforcement cameras are installed and maintained by private firms such as Affiliated Computer Services, American Traffic Solutions, Inc, and Redflex Traffic Systems. In Texas, red light violators caught by a red light camera are served with a civil citation rather than a criminal citation.
You've never dated much or even lived with someone other than your parents huh?
It's quite common to get a key to the other person's place, its one of those stages in a relationship. The movie Singles covered it with the lending of the garage door opener.
I got the keys to my GF's place at the end of a two week stay, it was the formalization/come back whenever symbol.
I used it to good effect to surprise her by showing up two weeks later out of the blue. (she was living 280 miles away).
Hang it on my belt.
Work key - big old thing
GF's car key on a key ring with brass Iguana fob
GF's car remove in key ring that has a Forza 3 fob
House key on key ring
Truck keys (2) on three key rings with a Chevrolet key fob
And when a volcano goes off there is a huge environmental impact too that has unmeasured impacts.
The Earth is not, was not and never will be a perfectly balanced system that we humans have thrown out of whack with our technology and population growth.
It was, is and will be an ever changing planet that goes through terrific changes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_glaciation#Wisconsin_glaciation.2C_in_North_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Pinatubo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-T_boundary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
You are saying you think a few more people will die of cancer than otherwise would have, not sure how familiar you are with cancer, I've had three different types over the last thirty years and have three organs in the process, and I can tell you cancer doesn't work that way.
Bubba Gump the shrimp boat captain might take in some of the particulates from this, he might get cancer. The cancer might be from the particulates, or its from a mutation, or its from a couple benzene molecules he inhaled in 1996 while refueling his boat, or its from an alpha emitter from a coal fire plant in New Mexico that floated to the gulf, or it might have been from a a cigar he smoked when his daughter was born.
Why are we paying the price for oil? Because we need fossil fuels. You are obviously on a computer, the plastics, the transportation of the components, much of the electricity that keeps all this going comes from fossil fuels. "Green energy" isn't there yet, even if the US poured the same amount of it's GDP it poured into the Manhattan project or Apollo program doesn't mean we will get "green energy" to work or scale in a timely manner.
We need fossil fuels and people will die from it (I know two of the seven who died in the April explosion in Anacortes Washington), theres no getting around the fact that our civilization needs oil and natural gas to function and to stay alive.
Log out, ditch your electronic devices and walk somewhere sustainable and warm if you don't want to contribute to the oil dependency, otherwise you are as guilty as BP and Halliburton to all of this.
Me, I'm going to burn some more gas when I drive a half a mile for an appointment in an hour, at 12 miles per gallon.
Or its a nice way of saying" it ends up as a part per hundred billion or trillion in the atmosphere and will come down bit by bit over the next year to three across the oceans and landmasses of the planet."
Heres a point - not everything that goes up in the atmosphere ends up in the food chain. Not everything that goes into the sea ends up in a human's digestive system.
The dictionary has this for disperse - cause (gas, smoke, mist, or cloud) to thin out and eventually disappear : winds dispersed the bomb's radioactive cloud high in the atmosphere - distribute (small particles) uniformly in a medium.
From the 1991 fires - "The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects."
Airborne Studies of the Smoke from the Kuwait Oil Fires. Peter V. Hobbs and Lawrence F. Radke, Science. May 15, 1992
Oh hell no. But the courts and Congress will try to make them.
As for no one living south of the rig...Google Earth shows it is 580 miles southeast to land in Cuba and 330 miles to Florida. The smoke disperses well before land fall
Well, the rig smoke went south east, so Mobile isn't going to get the smoke.
And like I said, they've not burned the oil that's on the surface near land yet. But they might today.
But as I said, they have quantified the damage done to fisheries before and they can do it again.
Thanks, I've always wondered that about them.
So fonts cost so much?
There will be a class action against BP, just like Baker v. Exxon, but probably in every state effected by this, so Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
It'll go on for years and maybe there will be a huge hit on BP in excess of the 1.5 billion and 75 million.
People aren't swimming 50 miles out in the ocean, beaches can be closed and theres been no fires close enough to land to get smoke onto the land.
The workers of the rig, yea they were exposed to the smoke and toxins, people in Mobile, not so much.
The medical costs? Well, insurance for the 11 dead and medical bills for the rest of the workers will be pretty easy to figure out.
Tourism is pretty easy too, take 2009 tourism numbers, take 2010 tourism numbers and figure out the difference.
Same with fishing, hell we did that all up here in Alaska with Exxon and we've been figuring out what Pebble Mine will do to the Salmon and tourism, its not as abstract as you think.
Jersey Shore filming moved to Florida.
Guess you aren't smarter than a 5th grader when it comes to popular media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)
Of course they won't pay for it all, but you said that they can't afford to pay for it, well they can.
BP could afford to pay every last penny for the damage done and income lost, with 26 billion in income and over 236 billion in assets they can afford it.
With BP's record here in Alaska of spills and botched cleanups someone should push them into paying for all the damage done in the Gulf, and go after their contractors and everyone else involved.
BP really should only be on the hook for 65% of the costs.
RIG Deepwater Horizon rig owner
BP 65% working interest (operator)
APC 25% working interest (operator)
Mitsui 10% working interest (operator)
CAM Manufacturer of blowout preventer (BOP)
HAL Provided cementing services to the rig
Anadarko Petroleum Corp (APC.N) - The Houston company owns a 25 percent nonoperating interest in the well.
It was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard, Ulsan, South Korea in 2001.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30850121/Deepwater-Horizon
If BP can't afford to clean it all up, then they can liquidate and other Supermajors can buy up the assets after the claimants sell it all.
BP can handle it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/7640072/BP-Gulf-clean-up-could-cost-200m.html
Cost of clean up, $200 million
http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2010/May/the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-disaster.html
$2-7 billion
BP
Revenue - $246.1 billion (2009)
Operating income - $26.43 billion (2009)
Net income - $16.58 billion (2009)
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/global_assets/downloads/B/bp_fourth_quarter_and_full_year_2009_results.pdf
Thanks, I just got my first computer with an i series, an i7-820QM and was just curious how it all works, what with the four cores, eight cores and why its a 1.6 GHz chip that goes up to 2.8 GHz or more.
My work machine is a 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz and wanted to figure out how the i7 mobility compared
The article was lacking in my opinion.
The description said - "This article neatly explains how these speed up your PC, and the difference between the two approaches. Interesting reading if you're choosing between Intel and AMD for your next build."
But it really don't have any performance information to help you choose.
That read like the pasting of two press releases together. That did very little to explain what is going on beyond press grade buzz words.
On the cost, Janes from 2001. I have the PDF here, the URL that wiki links is 404 now.
A KH-12 costs about 1.4 billion (at least) to build and launch, and are big enough that only Shuttle could bring them back, so refueling would be a good option there.
I really think this is an on orbit weapons platform, maybe a system that could be tasked with Rods from God and/or ASAT systems.
Is Virgin Galactic SS1 going into orbit?
No.
Is Virgin Galactic SS2 going to go 3 million miles a mission and reach 17,500 miles an hour?
No.
SS2 is a VW T2 Microbus to the Shuttle/Buran being Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4s
SS2 will reach 2600 mph and 68 miles for up to 10 minutes of weightlessness
Shuttle reaches 17,580 mph and up to 385 miles for up to 17 days
Apples and grapes.
X-15 and Dynasoar were first generation reusable.
Shuttle and Buran were second generation.
Yes, reusable have proven to be the way to go, but other forms of transport aren't going 17,500 miles an hour, getting up to 5,000 degrees and going millions of miles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-109 - 3.9 million miles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-80 - 7 million miles
1. A robotic platform for working on, refueling, repairing and monitoring satellites, like Tekfactory talked out.
2. On station orbital weapons platform
3. Electronic warfare system for monitoring foreign satellites and disabling them.
No. Reusable has been shown to be a money pit and failed too much. It was expensive for the US, it was expensive for the Soviets.