Well, I guess technically, since Canada is in North America, Professor Mann would be an american. However, usually when people refer to someone as an american, they mean a citizen of the U.S.. Professor Mann is a Canadian.
Are you sure that Facebook has not created a "ghost" account for you with information they have gleaned from people who are actual Facebook users, just waiting for you to create a user account to link it to?
There is no need to assume that there are no conservatives (by U.S. definitions of the term) in the Democratic Party at the national level since they ran the last moderate (Joe Lieberman) out on a rail because he was not sufficiently liberal. If Joe Lieberman was too conservative for the Democratic Party, there is no way there is an actual conservative left.
They tried that and there weren't even fluff emails. The response was that there are no emails sent to or from the governor since the beginning of this year.
Well, except for the fact that Governor Cuomo is a big proponent in his speeches of all government decision making to be open to the public, there is nothing wrong with it. At least if you don't mind your public officials being hypocrites.
The problem is that the ones who are the biggest problem would never get that felony conviction because the only way anyone ends up with a felony conviction is if someone prosecutes them. Those who are violating the provisions of your proposed law the worst would still have significant political power, therefore very few prosecutors would be willing to risk prosecuting them.
Actually, it is because the American Revolution was led by the local political leaders in a war against the political powers of a distant land. The American Revolution did not attempt to overturn the governing institutions of the colonies, they merely fought to make those institution independent of a government that claimed authority over them. It would be interesting to see what would have happened if the British government had turned suppression of the revolution over to the colonial politicians who were loyalists rather than sending troops and governors from England to oversee the action. Of course, if the British government had been willing to take that sort of action to begin with, the revolution never would have happened.
The French did NOT get stable democracy out of their Revolution. They got the Reign of Terror followed by Napoleon. India did not have a revolution, they had an independence movement (although what would have happened if WWII had not intervened is open to question).
You mean the way they so effectively attacked the Mexican Drug Cartels? Oh no, that's right, as soon as the Mexican Drug Cartels demonstrated that they were serious by killing a couple of Anonymous members, Anonymous stopped targeting the drug cartels.
So what if the information is not on the device? You have lost access to it and someone else has gained access to it. How long will it take you to cut off their access to it? My problem with this is that it creates a single point of failure for even more elements of your life. While it is convenient to have all of that stuff in one place, at some point it becomes outrageously difficult to fix it if that place becomes compromised.
If the government does not back the corporation up, it will in the long run fail to maintain control of the market. The exception of course being where the corporation is allowed to take over a basic government function, the use of force.
Really, you have just lost your phone with your virtual wallet, how are you going to call and cancel all of your credit cards? For that matter, now that all of your credit card information is in your phone and you no longer carry any in your wallet, how are you going to pay for anything (such as gas to get home)?
What this does is substitute a single point of failure for what is now redundancy.
If the carrying capacity of a highway is 100 cars (that is there is room on that highway for 100 cars between exit A and exit B), and there are 100 cars on the road, then if another car attempts to get on the highway at exit A, there will be a backup. Look at a road sometime. You will notice that there is a finite amount of space on that road. That means that there is a finite number of cars that will fit onto that road. If the number of cars that attempt to get onto that road exceeds that number, there will be a backup even if everybody maintains a safe following distance. One thing that effects the carrying capacity of a road is how long cars stay on the road. The faster cars leave the road, the more cars that can use the road in a given time frame.
While it is true that people following cars in front of them too closely can cause a backup on a highway that has not reached carrying capacity, most of the roads where I experience backups are operating at their carrying capacity (and there are more cars that want to get onto them).
In the story you tell, the car attempting to pass should speed up a few miles an hour over the speed limit in order to get in front of the car in the right lane whose speed is varying. However, the guy tailgating him is the most in the wrong in this situation. It would be acceptable for the guy who wants to go faster to close the gap as he approaches the car in the left lane until he is just barely tailgating, then slow down to a safe following distance. By following that he communicates to the car in front of him that he desires to go faster, but is not rude about it. Of course if you are the car in front you should understand that while you are in the left lane, this guy is likely to drift up closer than you are comfortable with just because his "set" speed is faster than yours and it is hard to reset your default speed (I am assuming that the situation is one where it is not immediately obvious that setting a new cruise control speed is in order). However, unless he is rude it will not quite enter into the tailgating distance after the initial approach (and even then just barely). In the situation you described, usually the driver most at fault is the one in the right lane whose speed is drifting up and down. Usually someone who is doing that tends to speed up as someone comes into their peripheral vision and then slows down again once the other vehicle drops out of their peripheral vision. This is not conscious, but one should be aware enough of their surroundings and speed to notice when they are doing it and slow down slightly until the car passes (or if you realize that the car is passing because you slowed down below your intended speed, speed up slightly above intended speed until it becomes obvious to the person attempting to pass that you are going faster than they wish to go). The problem with the speed up solution is that people have a tendency that once they start passing someone they unconsciously speed up to continue the overtake and pass.
Sorry, but you are mistaken. The primary cause of backups on most of the roads I drive are more cars on the road than its carrying capacity, when cars travel at a slower speed it reduces the carrying capacity of the road.
BTW driving the way you suggest on the roads I drive will further slow down traffic as it will cause cars in the other lane to believe that they can gain something by changing lanes into my lane, meaning that I will have to slow down even further to allow sufficient space between me and the car which just merged in front of me...repeated by the next car in line as soon as the gap opens up enough for them to perceive the same thing. I am familiar with the principle which you speak of, it works on roads with moderate traffic, but when traffic is travelling at 15 miles an hour on a road designed for 75 mph speeds it does not work.
I'm amazed they were buying Apple computers in the first place. Do San Francisco's taxpayers know that their local government is willing to spend twice what they need to on a computer just so they can have one that looks pretty?
Well of course they do, that's why they live in San Francisco.
There is some evidence that suggests that such is no longer the case. I cannot find the reference, but about two months ago I read an article that spoke about how San Francisco and California in general have stopped being that sort of trendsetters. The article was not positive that what they were looking at was conclusive, but they believed that the indicators they were looking at were predictive of that. I cannot remember what indicators they based the conclusion on, but it made sense to think that they were on to something. However, more time will be needed to see if those indicators actually mean what the authors of the article thought they meant.
I am hoping to see a follow up article in about 6 months to a year showing how the trend has progressed (I wish I could remember where I saw the original article so that I could go looking there for the follow up).
Whether the expansion of the federal government is a good thing or a bad thing (or is a liberal or conservative idea) has nothing to do with the fact that Washington, DC has been developed in such a manner as to tend toward being warmer. When you transform the land around an area from fields to buildings and parking lots, that area tends to be warmer because buildings and parking lots hold more heat than fields do. The area around Washington, DC has been transformed in the last 50 years from farmland to buildings and parking lots because the federal government has expanded causing more people to be employed near Washington, DC than before that time.
The reason that pickup trucks have become "luxury items" is because the CAFE standards now apply to them. This means that manufacturers cannot afford to sell as many of them as the demand would be if they were not priced as luxury items.
is that a huge concern ? is it a bigger hazard than somebody speeding ?
At times it is. I drive on a road that regularly gets backed up. One of the biggest reasons that its backups start is someone riding the passing lane at below the average speed for that lane with no one in front of them. If someone gets on the road half an hour before the normal rush hour backup and does that for the 10 miles of heavy traffic on that road with no one in front of them but just enough traffic to their right to prevent people more than one car back to get around them to the right, they will move rush hour up by about half an hour and make it overall worse.
And yet, the speed limit in the passing lane is the same as the speed limit in the right lane. If I'm going at least the speed limit, I don't give a fuck which lane I'm in or who is behind me.
Yes, but there is also a law that says you are only supposed to be in the passing lane if you are passing someone. If you are driving in the passing lane and are not going faster (which is what is required to pass) than the traffic to your right, you are violating the law every bit as much as the person who is trying to get around you at 10 mph over the speed limit.
The record high for July 9 and 10 in Washington DC was set in 1936 with 104 degrees on July 9, 1936 and 105 degrees on July 10, 1936. Those are the highest temperatures on record for Washington DC in July (the 7th this year matched the temperature from July 10,1936). The highest temperatures ever recorded in Washington, DC are from two consecutive days in August 1918. The events of this weekend do not represent an unprecedented heat level for Washington, DC. When one further considers that in the last 50 years Washington, DC has been developed in a manner that causes a local heat island effect, this has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with the expansion of the federal government.
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Well, I guess technically, since Canada is in North America, Professor Mann would be an american. However, usually when people refer to someone as an american, they mean a citizen of the U.S.. Professor Mann is a Canadian.
Are you sure that Facebook has not created a "ghost" account for you with information they have gleaned from people who are actual Facebook users, just waiting for you to create a user account to link it to?
There is no need to assume that there are no conservatives (by U.S. definitions of the term) in the Democratic Party at the national level since they ran the last moderate (Joe Lieberman) out on a rail because he was not sufficiently liberal. If Joe Lieberman was too conservative for the Democratic Party, there is no way there is an actual conservative left.
They tried that and there weren't even fluff emails. The response was that there are no emails sent to or from the governor since the beginning of this year.
Well, considering that he has repeatedly stressed the importance of an "open and transparent" government, perhaps he is just a hypocrite.
Well, except for the fact that Governor Cuomo is a big proponent in his speeches of all government decision making to be open to the public, there is nothing wrong with it. At least if you don't mind your public officials being hypocrites.
The problem is that the ones who are the biggest problem would never get that felony conviction because the only way anyone ends up with a felony conviction is if someone prosecutes them. Those who are violating the provisions of your proposed law the worst would still have significant political power, therefore very few prosecutors would be willing to risk prosecuting them.
Actually, it is because the American Revolution was led by the local political leaders in a war against the political powers of a distant land. The American Revolution did not attempt to overturn the governing institutions of the colonies, they merely fought to make those institution independent of a government that claimed authority over them. It would be interesting to see what would have happened if the British government had turned suppression of the revolution over to the colonial politicians who were loyalists rather than sending troops and governors from England to oversee the action. Of course, if the British government had been willing to take that sort of action to begin with, the revolution never would have happened.
The French did NOT get stable democracy out of their Revolution. They got the Reign of Terror followed by Napoleon. India did not have a revolution, they had an independence movement (although what would have happened if WWII had not intervened is open to question).
You mean the way they so effectively attacked the Mexican Drug Cartels? Oh no, that's right, as soon as the Mexican Drug Cartels demonstrated that they were serious by killing a couple of Anonymous members, Anonymous stopped targeting the drug cartels.
Except that would be a lie (both that Romney outsourced jobs and that Obama was sorry it happened).
So what if the information is not on the device? You have lost access to it and someone else has gained access to it. How long will it take you to cut off their access to it? My problem with this is that it creates a single point of failure for even more elements of your life. While it is convenient to have all of that stuff in one place, at some point it becomes outrageously difficult to fix it if that place becomes compromised.
If the government does not back the corporation up, it will in the long run fail to maintain control of the market. The exception of course being where the corporation is allowed to take over a basic government function, the use of force.
Really, you have just lost your phone with your virtual wallet, how are you going to call and cancel all of your credit cards? For that matter, now that all of your credit card information is in your phone and you no longer carry any in your wallet, how are you going to pay for anything (such as gas to get home)?
What this does is substitute a single point of failure for what is now redundancy.
If the carrying capacity of a highway is 100 cars (that is there is room on that highway for 100 cars between exit A and exit B), and there are 100 cars on the road, then if another car attempts to get on the highway at exit A, there will be a backup. Look at a road sometime. You will notice that there is a finite amount of space on that road. That means that there is a finite number of cars that will fit onto that road. If the number of cars that attempt to get onto that road exceeds that number, there will be a backup even if everybody maintains a safe following distance. One thing that effects the carrying capacity of a road is how long cars stay on the road. The faster cars leave the road, the more cars that can use the road in a given time frame.
While it is true that people following cars in front of them too closely can cause a backup on a highway that has not reached carrying capacity, most of the roads where I experience backups are operating at their carrying capacity (and there are more cars that want to get onto them).
In the story you tell, the car attempting to pass should speed up a few miles an hour over the speed limit in order to get in front of the car in the right lane whose speed is varying. However, the guy tailgating him is the most in the wrong in this situation. It would be acceptable for the guy who wants to go faster to close the gap as he approaches the car in the left lane until he is just barely tailgating, then slow down to a safe following distance. By following that he communicates to the car in front of him that he desires to go faster, but is not rude about it. Of course if you are the car in front you should understand that while you are in the left lane, this guy is likely to drift up closer than you are comfortable with just because his "set" speed is faster than yours and it is hard to reset your default speed (I am assuming that the situation is one where it is not immediately obvious that setting a new cruise control speed is in order). However, unless he is rude it will not quite enter into the tailgating distance after the initial approach (and even then just barely). In the situation you described, usually the driver most at fault is the one in the right lane whose speed is drifting up and down. Usually someone who is doing that tends to speed up as someone comes into their peripheral vision and then slows down again once the other vehicle drops out of their peripheral vision. This is not conscious, but one should be aware enough of their surroundings and speed to notice when they are doing it and slow down slightly until the car passes (or if you realize that the car is passing because you slowed down below your intended speed, speed up slightly above intended speed until it becomes obvious to the person attempting to pass that you are going faster than they wish to go). The problem with the speed up solution is that people have a tendency that once they start passing someone they unconsciously speed up to continue the overtake and pass.
Sorry, but you are mistaken. The primary cause of backups on most of the roads I drive are more cars on the road than its carrying capacity, when cars travel at a slower speed it reduces the carrying capacity of the road.
BTW driving the way you suggest on the roads I drive will further slow down traffic as it will cause cars in the other lane to believe that they can gain something by changing lanes into my lane, meaning that I will have to slow down even further to allow sufficient space between me and the car which just merged in front of me...repeated by the next car in line as soon as the gap opens up enough for them to perceive the same thing. I am familiar with the principle which you speak of, it works on roads with moderate traffic, but when traffic is travelling at 15 miles an hour on a road designed for 75 mph speeds it does not work.
I'm amazed they were buying Apple computers in the first place. Do San Francisco's taxpayers know that their local government is willing to spend twice what they need to on a computer just so they can have one that looks pretty?
Well of course they do, that's why they live in San Francisco.
There is some evidence that suggests that such is no longer the case. I cannot find the reference, but about two months ago I read an article that spoke about how San Francisco and California in general have stopped being that sort of trendsetters. The article was not positive that what they were looking at was conclusive, but they believed that the indicators they were looking at were predictive of that. I cannot remember what indicators they based the conclusion on, but it made sense to think that they were on to something. However, more time will be needed to see if those indicators actually mean what the authors of the article thought they meant.
I am hoping to see a follow up article in about 6 months to a year showing how the trend has progressed (I wish I could remember where I saw the original article so that I could go looking there for the follow up).
Whether the expansion of the federal government is a good thing or a bad thing (or is a liberal or conservative idea) has nothing to do with the fact that Washington, DC has been developed in such a manner as to tend toward being warmer. When you transform the land around an area from fields to buildings and parking lots, that area tends to be warmer because buildings and parking lots hold more heat than fields do. The area around Washington, DC has been transformed in the last 50 years from farmland to buildings and parking lots because the federal government has expanded causing more people to be employed near Washington, DC than before that time.
The reason that pickup trucks have become "luxury items" is because the CAFE standards now apply to them. This means that manufacturers cannot afford to sell as many of them as the demand would be if they were not priced as luxury items.
is that a huge concern ? is it a bigger hazard than somebody speeding ?
At times it is. I drive on a road that regularly gets backed up. One of the biggest reasons that its backups start is someone riding the passing lane at below the average speed for that lane with no one in front of them. If someone gets on the road half an hour before the normal rush hour backup and does that for the 10 miles of heavy traffic on that road with no one in front of them but just enough traffic to their right to prevent people more than one car back to get around them to the right, they will move rush hour up by about half an hour and make it overall worse.
And yet, the speed limit in the passing lane is the same as the speed limit in the right lane. If I'm going at least the speed limit, I don't give a fuck which lane I'm in or who is behind me.
Yes, but there is also a law that says you are only supposed to be in the passing lane if you are passing someone. If you are driving in the passing lane and are not going faster (which is what is required to pass) than the traffic to your right, you are violating the law every bit as much as the person who is trying to get around you at 10 mph over the speed limit.
I used to fully agree with this statement. However in the last couple of years I have noticed that the pricks seem to be migrating to Audis.
The record high for July 9 and 10 in Washington DC was set in 1936 with 104 degrees on July 9, 1936 and 105 degrees on July 10, 1936. Those are the highest temperatures on record for Washington DC in July (the 7th this year matched the temperature from July 10,1936). The highest temperatures ever recorded in Washington, DC are from two consecutive days in August 1918. The events of this weekend do not represent an unprecedented heat level for Washington, DC. When one further considers that in the last 50 years Washington, DC has been developed in a manner that causes a local heat island effect, this has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with the expansion of the federal government.