That seems backwards. The linux user isn't going to be pestering support to tell them which key is the 'any' key, attempting to hammer a VGA connector into a DVI port.
Sometimes an accident is just an accident. Sometimes there's just not enough evidence to determine who (if anyone) is at fault. Sometimes you may suspect the driver was doing something other than driving, but you can't prove it.
However, generally if you hit someone after drifting out of your lane, you'll be charged.
Yep, actually. He is exempted from the law that makes typing while driving negligenmce per se.
All that particular law means is that if anyone other than a cop is typing while driving, no further discussion is required, it *IS* negligent.
Absent that law, the cop is still required to drive with due care. We cannot take his typing while driving as necessarily being negligent but we CAN take swerving into the bike lane and running someone over as evidence of negligence.
Just because there's no specific law against popping corn while driving doesn't mean you wouldn't get charged with negligence if you did it (somehow).
Oh sorry, I thought keeping society safe isn't part of your agenda. Got it.
Fortunately, it is part of my agenda AND I recognize that proper statistical analysis can point the way while junk statistics are better suited to hidden agendas.
So, were the second group perfectly psychologically healthy before they started smoking so much? Perhaps they were the few who were on the road to going postal one day but by the grace of THC they are able to at least live peaceful lives?
I have no doubt that chronic heavy use is bad for you. I suspect but cannot prove that at least some of the people who fall into that pattern had an underlying problem in the first place that they are self-medicating with varying success.
It wouldn't be too surprising if like alcohol, some people should avoid THC for their own good.
Given NHTSA's sloppy reasoning and screwy statistics WRT alcohol, they aren't a particularly good source of information.
An elderly man (a teetotaler) has a heart attack while driving and collides with a restaurant that serves alcohol. Fortunately, it is closed at the time so the only fatality is the driver. According to NHTSA's definitions, it is an alcohol related traffic fatality.
All of the stats you cite are such that no reasonable conclusion can be drawn. For example,
4 to 14 percent of drivers who sustained injury or died in traffic accidents tested positive for THC.
First, that's a pretty wide swing, can't they narrow it down if they have actual data? Answer, no because they extrapolated the data from a small (possibly cherry picked) sample.
Of that 4 to 14 percent, how many were currently high? You test positive for THC long after the high is gone.
What percent of drivers not involved in an accident tested positive for THC (or would have if anyone cared to test)?
Of that 4 to 14 percent, how many were concurrently drunk?
For the 3,000 Australians, were they at fault or were they 'at fault' because police found a roach in the ash tray and so decided they must have been at fault (quite common). I hear a question being begged.
Meanwhile, none of that has a single thing to do with overdose.
The DEA's criminal actions would, if anything, weaken the apparent results. The evidence really DOES strongly point to a reduction in prescription deaths where medical marijuana is legal.
How many hours of your time do you waste in a week trying to hunt down people you figure owe you $0.01 for the time you spent exchanging nods in the elevator?
Actually evidence suggests 8 hours a night is NOT what we're supposed to do. In the middle ages people would go to bed shortly after dark and sleep heavily until somewhere around midnight. They would then be quietly awake for a couple hours and go back to sleep (the beauty sleep), then wake around dawn.
The problem for most people is they don't allow themselves enough sleep at all. Hopefully if they can at least be OK with naps, they'll be a bit better off anyway.
It all comes down to tolerance. With a high caffeine tolerance, a small amount from a single cup of coffee has less stimulant effect than the relaxing effect of the warm beverage.
Not to mention that running the report will itself become part of a bizarre ritual. Not less than once a month, the report must be run, printed in triplicate, placed in a folder (yes, all three copies in the same folder) and filed away unread. It will remain there until the filing cabinet fills whereupon it will be moved to a larger filing facility, still unread. Meanwhile, the electronic copy will be moved from the file server to an archival tape in the library. Years later, the unread paper reports will be shredded (but not recycled, they contain vital information that must not get out) and the unread report on the archival tape will be sent to long term storage (still unread) where it will be forgotten. It will be kept under 24/7 armed guard because it contains vitally important information that must not leak out.
I can see the battered remains of Steve Jobs in a high-tech wheelchair with various wires and bits of technology embedded in him rolling out screaming in a ragged ring modulated voice: "Extirpate!...EXTIRPATE!!!!!!!!"
Generally bricked means the device cannot be recovered using a normal end-user procedure. Needs JTAG to recover (especially if you must solder the connection in) ==bricked. Needs to be turned on while holding volume up key == not bricked (wedged hard). Needs reset button or power cycle to recover == wedged. No procedure can recover it == dead.
That tells us only that it isn't the water itself that the witcher can locate. It says nothing about the ability to find a geologic structure that will typically have water.
I have to wonder why not back to the ocean (sufficiently diluted to avoid a high concentration area, of course) the water the sludge came out of will end up back there, why not the sludge?
The more relevant point is that we now have the awareness and technology proven to curb the problem. It would be irresponsible NOT to use it everywhere.
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How is the guy in the indian call center going to un-mash the pins?
What will actually happen is the user will return the board and say it looked like that when he got it.
That seems backwards. The linux user isn't going to be pestering support to tell them which key is the 'any' key, attempting to hammer a VGA connector into a DVI port.
Sometimes an accident is just an accident. Sometimes there's just not enough evidence to determine who (if anyone) is at fault. Sometimes you may suspect the driver was doing something other than driving, but you can't prove it.
However, generally if you hit someone after drifting out of your lane, you'll be charged.
Yep, actually. He is exempted from the law that makes typing while driving negligenmce per se.
All that particular law means is that if anyone other than a cop is typing while driving, no further discussion is required, it *IS* negligent.
Absent that law, the cop is still required to drive with due care. We cannot take his typing while driving as necessarily being negligent but we CAN take swerving into the bike lane and running someone over as evidence of negligence.
Just because there's no specific law against popping corn while driving doesn't mean you wouldn't get charged with negligence if you did it (somehow).
Yes. You will absolutely remember every detail of the explosion for the rest of your life.
Oh sorry, I thought keeping society safe isn't part of your agenda. Got it.
Fortunately, it is part of my agenda AND I recognize that proper statistical analysis can point the way while junk statistics are better suited to hidden agendas.
So, were the second group perfectly psychologically healthy before they started smoking so much? Perhaps they were the few who were on the road to going postal one day but by the grace of THC they are able to at least live peaceful lives?
I have no doubt that chronic heavy use is bad for you. I suspect but cannot prove that at least some of the people who fall into that pattern had an underlying problem in the first place that they are self-medicating with varying success.
It wouldn't be too surprising if like alcohol, some people should avoid THC for their own good.
Given NHTSA's sloppy reasoning and screwy statistics WRT alcohol, they aren't a particularly good source of information.
An elderly man (a teetotaler) has a heart attack while driving and collides with a restaurant that serves alcohol. Fortunately, it is closed at the time so the only fatality is the driver. According to NHTSA's definitions, it is an alcohol related traffic fatality.
All of the stats you cite are such that no reasonable conclusion can be drawn. For example,
4 to 14 percent of drivers who sustained injury or died in traffic accidents tested positive for THC.
First, that's a pretty wide swing, can't they narrow it down if they have actual data? Answer, no because they extrapolated the data from a small (possibly cherry picked) sample.
Of that 4 to 14 percent, how many were currently high? You test positive for THC long after the high is gone.
What percent of drivers not involved in an accident tested positive for THC (or would have if anyone cared to test)?
Of that 4 to 14 percent, how many were concurrently drunk?
For the 3,000 Australians, were they at fault or were they 'at fault' because police found a roach in the ash tray and so decided they must have been at fault (quite common). I hear a question being begged.
Meanwhile, none of that has a single thing to do with overdose.
The DEA's criminal actions would, if anything, weaken the apparent results. The evidence really DOES strongly point to a reduction in prescription deaths where medical marijuana is legal.
How many hours of your time do you waste in a week trying to hunt down people you figure owe you $0.01 for the time you spent exchanging nods in the elevator?
Actually evidence suggests 8 hours a night is NOT what we're supposed to do. In the middle ages people would go to bed shortly after dark and sleep heavily until somewhere around midnight. They would then be quietly awake for a couple hours and go back to sleep (the beauty sleep), then wake around dawn.
The problem for most people is they don't allow themselves enough sleep at all. Hopefully if they can at least be OK with naps, they'll be a bit better off anyway.
It all comes down to tolerance. With a high caffeine tolerance, a small amount from a single cup of coffee has less stimulant effect than the relaxing effect of the warm beverage.
That's a knee slapper.
Not to mention that running the report will itself become part of a bizarre ritual. Not less than once a month, the report must be run, printed in triplicate, placed in a folder (yes, all three copies in the same folder) and filed away unread. It will remain there until the filing cabinet fills whereupon it will be moved to a larger filing facility, still unread. Meanwhile, the electronic copy will be moved from the file server to an archival tape in the library. Years later, the unread paper reports will be shredded (but not recycled, they contain vital information that must not get out) and the unread report on the archival tape will be sent to long term storage (still unread) where it will be forgotten. It will be kept under 24/7 armed guard because it contains vitally important information that must not leak out.
Perhaps if you call and ask them to turn off the malware filter for your connection...
Best solution: Have all 100,000 claimants file in small claims court instead.
But I bet if you ask UPS they'll tell you that.
Easily avoided. Just stop selling a product with a known failure.
I can see the battered remains of Steve Jobs in a high-tech wheelchair with various wires and bits of technology embedded in him rolling out screaming in a ragged ring modulated voice: "Extirpate!...EXTIRPATE!!!!!!!!"
Generally bricked means the device cannot be recovered using a normal end-user procedure. Needs JTAG to recover (especially if you must solder the connection in) ==bricked. Needs to be turned on while holding volume up key == not bricked (wedged hard). Needs reset button or power cycle to recover == wedged. No procedure can recover it == dead.
That tells us only that it isn't the water itself that the witcher can locate. It says nothing about the ability to find a geologic structure that will typically have water.
Probably because gas and electric are easy to find using a defined procedure. They are also the most important to find.
I have to wonder why not back to the ocean (sufficiently diluted to avoid a high concentration area, of course) the water the sludge came out of will end up back there, why not the sludge?
They would, but nothing says respect my authoriti like a groping and a rapey scan.
The more relevant point is that we now have the awareness and technology proven to curb the problem. It would be irresponsible NOT to use it everywhere.