Well, you should be more specific. For some things, like trafficking, sentences should probably stand if prohibition is repealed. Trafficking is done in the pursuit of profit, with the knowledge that it is illegal.
However, many people are in prison simply for possession. These people should absolutely be released the day the laws are repealed.
A lot of people with undiagnosed mental problems self medicate with alcohol and marijuana so this is actually quite likely.
In states with sane marijuana laws these people are prescribed the same substance.
For everyone else, there's Xanax, Vicodin, Prozac, etc.
So, to keep in line with the comparison made a bit earlier in the thread, when slavery was abolished it would be reasonable to keep slaves that were bought and paid for before the law change?
Not many people go to jail for breaking traffic laws.
How about an Iranian citizen, jailed for some minor blasphemy (minor enough not to warrant execution), after the coming liberation from its oppressive regime? Should he stay in prison?
Actually, Africa is one of the richest areas on the planet. Diamonds, coltan, oil and numerous other natural resources are taken from there by western companies under the eyes of well paid dictators.
You can check on this by seeing what speed your DSL modem is connecting at and comparing that to your peak download speed. Traffic shaping happens on a higher level than the physical link.
Nevermind splitting the atom, inventing the Hamilton jet (everyone likes jetskis, right?:D), ending womans suffrage and (most likely) flying the first powered aircraft.
Er... buying a house 3 times your yearly income is gullible?
The average house price in New Zealand is about 11 times the average income. (400k vs 35k)
Don't forget that it weighs in at 1680kg. Which I suppose is light for the American market, but I have been driving sub-1000kg cars for years and when the rubber meets the road, it's easier to change the direction of momentum if the mass is smaller.
I used to drive an intercooled turbo nissan coupe, and some nights coming it would do the same thing you've said. The needle would be off the bottom of the temperature gauge when I got to the intersection at the bottom of the hill.
And downshifting is fine if you give it a wee stab on the throttle between gears so that the engine speed matches the new gear speed.:D But this is a fuel conservation discussion...
Completely agree here. Brakes are for full stops, and for doing tricky stuff like heel-toe'ing into corners (my third leg doesn't quite reach the pedal).
Unfortunately, the proliferation of automatic transmissions, ABS brakes and power steering (airbags are good things) have made it possible for the majority of drivers to just aim their vehicle, rather than actually learn how to control a 1 tonne (normally considerably more) mass of metal, fuel and passengers.
This is completely at odds with common sense. You SHOULD be engine braking, so as not to get into the habit of riding your brakes and overheating them (this is my main problem with automatic transmissions btw). And if you want to coast, take the car out of gear, you'll just give yourself a cramp holding the clutch in.
Tsunamis only get tall when they approach land. The danger to oil platforms is the massive energy involved, not the height of the wave. So this would only be impractical for structures close to the shore.
Some Nissan Silvias had a display in the top of the dash that reflected back to the driver, but it was just a secondary speedometer reading that you could see without looking away from the windshield.
A fetus becomes a human life when it is born (well, it gains legal personage when it is born - I don't want to turn this into an abortion argument).
So, Gone with the Wind becomes Gone with the Wind when it is Gone with the Wind, right?
If we looked at a string of integers representing Gone with the Wind, subtracted 1 and distributed it with instructions to add 1 before reading, it wouldn't be Gone with the Wind. The copyright holder would have no legal grounds to claim I am distributing Gone with the Wind illegally, and would have to go after the individual readers who add 1 to the string, right?
I'm on a 20GB fair useage DSL plan from Vodafone and I've found that if my router doesn't have to reconnect during the month my cap never comes into effect and my bandwidth is never throttled. This has happened for about four months and so far no word from Vodafone and no additional data charges.
If you're gonna do this a nice stable router is essential (probably not the one your ISP provided in a bundle deal).
Um.. we do have a mortgage crisis, a power supply bordering on third world standards, a massive over representation of indigneous peoples in our prisons, a telephone network monopoly that strangles competition to avoid having to upgrade its infrastructure, a spiralling methamphetamine epidemic driving youth crime, we pay about US$6.50 a gallon for gas and have one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
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Well, you should be more specific. For some things, like trafficking, sentences should probably stand if prohibition is repealed. Trafficking is done in the pursuit of profit, with the knowledge that it is illegal. However, many people are in prison simply for possession. These people should absolutely be released the day the laws are repealed.
A lot of people with undiagnosed mental problems self medicate with alcohol and marijuana so this is actually quite likely. In states with sane marijuana laws these people are prescribed the same substance. For everyone else, there's Xanax, Vicodin, Prozac, etc.
So, to keep in line with the comparison made a bit earlier in the thread, when slavery was abolished it would be reasonable to keep slaves that were bought and paid for before the law change? Not many people go to jail for breaking traffic laws. How about an Iranian citizen, jailed for some minor blasphemy (minor enough not to warrant execution), after the coming liberation from its oppressive regime? Should he stay in prison?
Actually, Africa is one of the richest areas on the planet. Diamonds, coltan, oil and numerous other natural resources are taken from there by western companies under the eyes of well paid dictators.
Way to read the article.
You can check on this by seeing what speed your DSL modem is connecting at and comparing that to your peak download speed. Traffic shaping happens on a higher level than the physical link.
It's like the difference between enrolling in college and actually passing your classes.
Err.. granting women suffrage. My bad :D
Nevermind splitting the atom, inventing the Hamilton jet (everyone likes jetskis, right? :D), ending womans suffrage and (most likely) flying the first powered aircraft.
Er... buying a house 3 times your yearly income is gullible? The average house price in New Zealand is about 11 times the average income. (400k vs 35k)
Dugg for 'making love'.
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Don't forget that it weighs in at 1680kg. Which I suppose is light for the American market, but I have been driving sub-1000kg cars for years and when the rubber meets the road, it's easier to change the direction of momentum if the mass is smaller.
Funny, they said that about polio vaccines.
I used to drive an intercooled turbo nissan coupe, and some nights coming it would do the same thing you've said. The needle would be off the bottom of the temperature gauge when I got to the intersection at the bottom of the hill.
And downshifting is fine if you give it a wee stab on the throttle between gears so that the engine speed matches the new gear speed. :D But this is a fuel conservation discussion...
Completely agree here. Brakes are for full stops, and for doing tricky stuff like heel-toe'ing into corners (my third leg doesn't quite reach the pedal). Unfortunately, the proliferation of automatic transmissions, ABS brakes and power steering (airbags are good things) have made it possible for the majority of drivers to just aim their vehicle, rather than actually learn how to control a 1 tonne (normally considerably more) mass of metal, fuel and passengers.
This is completely at odds with common sense. You SHOULD be engine braking, so as not to get into the habit of riding your brakes and overheating them (this is my main problem with automatic transmissions btw). And if you want to coast, take the car out of gear, you'll just give yourself a cramp holding the clutch in.
Tsunamis only get tall when they approach land. The danger to oil platforms is the massive energy involved, not the height of the wave. So this would only be impractical for structures close to the shore.
How many do that these days? I don't have any other mail aliases.
Some Nissan Silvias had a display in the top of the dash that reflected back to the driver, but it was just a secondary speedometer reading that you could see without looking away from the windshield.
A fetus becomes a human life when it is born (well, it gains legal personage when it is born - I don't want to turn this into an abortion argument). So, Gone with the Wind becomes Gone with the Wind when it is Gone with the Wind, right? If we looked at a string of integers representing Gone with the Wind, subtracted 1 and distributed it with instructions to add 1 before reading, it wouldn't be Gone with the Wind. The copyright holder would have no legal grounds to claim I am distributing Gone with the Wind illegally, and would have to go after the individual readers who add 1 to the string, right?
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I'm on a 20GB fair useage DSL plan from Vodafone and I've found that if my router doesn't have to reconnect during the month my cap never comes into effect and my bandwidth is never throttled. This has happened for about four months and so far no word from Vodafone and no additional data charges. If you're gonna do this a nice stable router is essential (probably not the one your ISP provided in a bundle deal).
Um.. we do have a mortgage crisis, a power supply bordering on third world standards, a massive over representation of indigneous peoples in our prisons, a telephone network monopoly that strangles competition to avoid having to upgrade its infrastructure, a spiralling methamphetamine epidemic driving youth crime, we pay about US$6.50 a gallon for gas and have one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.