The right thing would to have never tested a Cracker Jack box toy on real roads endangering human life. Google (waymo) is 500x better than this joke of a car and they don't think it's ready. Uber would already be firing workers with these if they could get away with it.
I don't see what the drugs in her system had to do with anything; I think this would have happened the same way even if she was completely sober. But she was doing an unsafe thing when she died.
She was crossing at a place everyone crosses. A bike path crosses the street there, though it's not printed on the pavement, and the right hand lane, which she was half in when struck, is a bike lane. The drug testing is obvious, it's the same reason it's done for worker comp. If she was high in the last week then all fault is hers, despite all facts and evidence to the contrary. Everyone knows this is true because drugs are the devil and the cause of all problems.
Maybe the costs could vastly exceed 20 trillion if we have to relocate or rebuild all cities affected by 10m of vertical ocean rise. Maybe it could cost the world 20 trillion dollars short term. But that's at least two quarters away or someone else's problem so it's completely unimportant. #CEOlogic.
"Accelerating over a large distance and suddenly stopping is how hammers break stuff."
Actually, it's just a practical way to exert a lot of force. A hydraulic press exerting the same force that builds up over weeks will break stuff just the same. The suddenly stopping has nothing to do with it. A common misconception. Neither does accelerating over a large distance. How would the material know what the hammer was doing before? Or whether it was accelerating or just moving by a constant velocity?
Like I said, it's balancing kinetic energy through energy conservation. At the end of acceleration your kenetic energy is 1/2 x mass x velocity^2 and this is the same as the force x distance. When you stop the kenetic energy is zero again. This is also force x distance. So force1 x distance1 = force2 x distance2 so therefore force1/force2= distance2/distance1. Stop suddenly and you need to apply a great force, slowly and the force is less. To smash something with a hammer you need a hard surface, or one that won't move much when hit, otherwise the hammer won't generate a high force due to conservation of kinetic energy. Given constant forces of acceleration and deceleration then it resolves to the ratio of distances involved as I've shown with elementary school math. Energy balance is a simple way to do the math and keep track of the variables. This is high school physics 101. You are mostly correct in that the strain rate is fairly independent of the force needed to break most things so it dosent matter if it's a hydraulic press or hammer the resultant force that is needed to break something is the same. Plastics do creep and there are materials that behave analogous to the non-newtonian behavior of ooblek (corn starch and water) where the strain rate is important. I did my masters thesis in mechanical engineering on impact orientation invariant design, but I'm trying to keep it simple here.
The weight won't affect the rate it falls in a significant way, and I assume it's similar in size to other phones so the physics is about the same scale. but having a bulky plastic frame that's light gives it great strength to weight and impact resistance. The plastic can deform more than metal giving it more distance to stop and this lowers the forces on internal parts. as long as brittle stuff like the screen is away from the edges it makes for a tough design.
You want distance to slow down. Accelerating over a large distance and suddenly stopping is how hammers break stuff. Say you drop 6 feet and stop over the 0.01" your cellphone corner dents inward - the kinetic energy gained through acceleration is the same as deceleration so in a napkin calculation the g forces are simply the ratio of distances, in this case 7,200g which makes your phone screen shatter and plastically deforms the metal case. Give that an elastic component and you could add 3/16" to reduce this to a manageable 384g. Adding a rigid metal case helps with bending, not with impact unless it has an elastic component, though mostly just with phones that have a plastic internal frame.
Except they were deemed "too big to fail" so they could get away with any behavior including illegal forclosures And laundering billions in drug money. Absolutely no punishment or even fines were leveled against the big banks. Breaking them up allows for thier complete collapse under thier own mismanagement without crashing the whole economy.
I agree completely. It's the corporate Republican Party that is sucking the corporate tit and ignoring constituents. Sane fiscally conservative republicans wouldn't have voted for the tax cuts that are poised to generate 2.5 trillion in debt over the next decade either. Dems or Republicans, or independent - vote for canidates not taking unlimited secret PAC money and even better no corporate money at all. If everyone did this the system would see immediate improvements.
Because our environmental laws won't allow them to be made here.
So the question is, why are you ok with Chinese workers and their environment being subjected to conditions the Left has deemed unacceptable for Americans and America??
None made in the USA?
Heliene – Mountain Iron, MN (U.S. manufacturing facility)
Itek Energy – Bellingham, WA
Mission Solar – San Antonio, TX
Seraphim – Jackson, MS (U.S. headquarters)
Solaria – Fremont, CA (U.S. headquarters)
SolarTech Universal – Riviera Beach, FL
SolarWorld Americas – Hillsboro, OR
Suniva – Norcross, GA
SunSpark – Riverside, CA
Tesla/Panasonic – Buffalo, NY (U.S. manufacturing facility)
The reason they supply so little of the American market is the same reason all other manufacturing moved offshore, labor prices. But hey, let's trash the environment and cost more jobs in installation cutbacks than the tariffs generate jobs for American manufacturers. It's all in the name of the environment.
I am surprised there is not more motion to add batter plants like Australia's where they were able to really level out the generation requirement and feed a lot of short demand peaks with batter plants. It sure seems to add a lot of stability and efficiency to a system.
Part of the problem is republicans see these ideas as only half baked.
Natural Gas is a fossil fuel. Who writes this stuff?
Yea, but it's natural and everything natural is good for you right? Good thing we have those 30% tariffs on solar panels, they are so full of artificial chemicals that they are the cheapest power around but it just isn't worth the risk to the environment./s
No, it wouldn't. First off the NSA (along with other US and foreign agencies) isn't going to listen as they were doing this before the patriot act, but more importantly companies will continue to do this around the world outside European or American influence. Data collection, storage, and processing is only getting easier through moores law.
It's not my perceived problem, data security experts have been saying analogous things since forever. Second, voting democrat isn't going to work. Not only did obama extend the patriot act, he expanded spying and further weakened Habeas Corpus. Democrats haven't been a party of the people since citizens united, with a facist criminal in the whitehouse, not only did Dems expand his spying powers, but expanded his millitary capabilities as well. Why can't Dems poll better against this failed reality show host? Perhaps because they are corporate shills whose only difference from republicans are the exact companies bribing thier every move. Not only have I been active and donated to groups who refuse to take corporate money like the justice democrats, but have donated to wolfpac which seeks to add an amendment cementing the illegality of unlimited corporate money in politics. I don't care what side people vote for, of the many sides, but if you give half a crap about America don't give a single goddamn vote to anyone whoring company interests.
I'd say that when Google can concatenate & save forever EVERYTHING YOU DO to a degree that would make FB and Cambridge Analytica (you know, the guys being publicly lynched for doing exactly this?) blush, and use that data against you in ways ranging from subtle to blatant including simply handing your data over to authorities, then yeah, I'm going to call that a quasi-police state whose 'public/private' partnership borders on Fascism.
I'm actually concerned that people's data will be used against them to derive more than just a social score like China. Imagine if the Nazis had access to what religion, ethnicity, and political leanings of all within its borders who were tracked in real time - the damage that could be wrought would be far, far greater. There is the finnancial havoc you could wreak as well given the ability to effectively use this data. There needs to be more oversight and counterbalance to this because there is no putting the genie back in the bottle and if we don't push hard it will be forever consolidated into the hands of a few individuals and the idea that it will be used altruistically instead of maliciously for personal profit is fanciful . Even after Cambridge Analytica I still have difficulty getting people to understand why thier data privacy is important.
Canada just dosent have the culture to put assholes like that in authority and approve of thier treatment of citizens.
Bwahaha! Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder!
Canada is just like the US, except a bit more authoritarian while pretending to be nice and polite. I would know, I live here.
And you don't live in the US. I hear the same bitching from my family that lives there, they feel just like you because they don't experience all America has to offer. Every time I need a light hearted break from the harsh reality here I tune into Canadian news and listen to the cure problems you have there. Tredau crapping out on represtational voting, aww we have a corrupt greedy toddler dismantling the EPA, HUD, Department of Education, and who is breaking every promise America has made to the world under obama ruining our international reputation further. Aww, you sold a few APC to the saudis who might use them to kill civilians, trump sold 200 billion in planes, missles systems, and weapons of war to definately ethnicity cleanse Yemen. Oh and the poor Canadian guy who got a heart attack and was flown to ND hospital with no medical recriprocity so he owed 100k hospital bill and it was national news lmafo!!! I know three people who got fkd harder by the healthcare system here, that story happens every 5 minutes lmafo. But do go on about your problems, I've been depressed by the news lately.
Hahahaha - Canadians don't even know how to be assholes properly, though I've seen them try a few times. I live in Minnesota and am a dual citizen and have family in Canada so I cross the border a lot. I sometimes get a few curt questions from the Canadian customs, one sent me to immigration (lol) because I had forgotten my Canadian passport and didn't let me explain I was a citizen. But in perhaps 50 crossings I was treated rudely maybe 3-5 times and it was at best a 3/10. When I filed for my social insurance number the lady behind the desk at service Canada rudely said "and why do you think you need one?" Going off my American accent she probably thought I was a medical refugee. After saying "umm, because I'm a citizen..." she absolutely couldn't stop apologizing and directed me straight to an open agent lmao, here in America they would have called the cops over and doubled down and never, absolutely never apologized.
At the border coming back the customs agents are assholes about 40% of the time, one asked why I was in Canada and part of my answer involved being a citizen at which point he interrupted me "Son, we don't recognize dual citizenship (lol a lie), just what kind of American are you? Son, If we went to war with Canada what side would you fight for??!?" Then he went off the goddamn handle and started to make racially charged comments about my family member names and asked me insane questions for another 5 minutes. Then I got sent to be searched. I felt lucky to have made it across alive and until I see it, Canada just dosent have the culture to put assholes like that in authority and approve of thier treatment of citizens.
Brah - your way to riled over a few letters. Smoke some weed, or whatever it takes. You need some of those med boxes so you dont forget a day, l can tell you skiped a few.
I Shakespeare up a word and yet you throw a fit over an extra "b" because I'm posting from a crappy mobile? Learn to prioritize literary atrocities you fast food slinging liberal arts major.
And they are only successful if the laws are not written well or correctly.
And that, my friend, is why companies pay lobbiests to write the laws that hold themselves accountable. Politicans cut and paste them then vote for thier monied interests over those unwashed sniveling constituents. Often paying both sides of the isle for maximum lawbricution to pass the bills.
In season 2 of the edgy "Flat earthers" reality show, we mourn the loss of Ed who was lost in the polar expedition of season 1 and sit on the edge of our seats as the show culminates in scaling the government sponsored ice cliffs to keep prying eyes away from the secret illuminati base doing experiments at the true edge of the world.
A conspiracy theory is simply when two or more people keep a plan secret that involves breaking the law. It's literally every single crime ever committed by two or more people. Not only are conspiracies real, you can get a respected job as a crazy conspiracy theorist, it's called being a detective.
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I thought it would beam them directly to your insurance company so they can deny you coverage.
The right thing would to have never tested a Cracker Jack box toy on real roads endangering human life. Google (waymo) is 500x better than this joke of a car and they don't think it's ready. Uber would already be firing workers with these if they could get away with it.
I don't see what the drugs in her system had to do with anything; I think this would have happened the same way even if she was completely sober. But she was doing an unsafe thing when she died.
She was crossing at a place everyone crosses. A bike path crosses the street there, though it's not printed on the pavement, and the right hand lane, which she was half in when struck, is a bike lane. The drug testing is obvious, it's the same reason it's done for worker comp. If she was high in the last week then all fault is hers, despite all facts and evidence to the contrary. Everyone knows this is true because drugs are the devil and the cause of all problems.
Maybe the costs could vastly exceed 20 trillion if we have to relocate or rebuild all cities affected by 10m of vertical ocean rise. Maybe it could cost the world 20 trillion dollars short term. But that's at least two quarters away or someone else's problem so it's completely unimportant. #CEOlogic.
"Accelerating over a large distance and suddenly stopping is how hammers break stuff."
Actually, it's just a practical way to exert a lot of force. A hydraulic press exerting the same force that builds up over weeks will break stuff just the same. The suddenly stopping has nothing to do with it. A common misconception. Neither does accelerating over a large distance. How would the material know what the hammer was doing before? Or whether it was accelerating or just moving by a constant velocity?
Like I said, it's balancing kinetic energy through energy conservation. At the end of acceleration your kenetic energy is 1/2 x mass x velocity^2 and this is the same as the force x distance. When you stop the kenetic energy is zero again. This is also force x distance. So force1 x distance1 = force2 x distance2 so therefore force1/force2= distance2/distance1. Stop suddenly and you need to apply a great force, slowly and the force is less. To smash something with a hammer you need a hard surface, or one that won't move much when hit, otherwise the hammer won't generate a high force due to conservation of kinetic energy. Given constant forces of acceleration and deceleration then it resolves to the ratio of distances involved as I've shown with elementary school math. Energy balance is a simple way to do the math and keep track of the variables. This is high school physics 101. You are mostly correct in that the strain rate is fairly independent of the force needed to break most things so it dosent matter if it's a hydraulic press or hammer the resultant force that is needed to break something is the same. Plastics do creep and there are materials that behave analogous to the non-newtonian behavior of ooblek (corn starch and water) where the strain rate is important. I did my masters thesis in mechanical engineering on impact orientation invariant design, but I'm trying to keep it simple here.
The weight won't affect the rate it falls in a significant way, and I assume it's similar in size to other phones so the physics is about the same scale. but having a bulky plastic frame that's light gives it great strength to weight and impact resistance. The plastic can deform more than metal giving it more distance to stop and this lowers the forces on internal parts. as long as brittle stuff like the screen is away from the edges it makes for a tough design.
You want distance to slow down. Accelerating over a large distance and suddenly stopping is how hammers break stuff. Say you drop 6 feet and stop over the 0.01" your cellphone corner dents inward - the kinetic energy gained through acceleration is the same as deceleration so in a napkin calculation the g forces are simply the ratio of distances, in this case 7,200g which makes your phone screen shatter and plastically deforms the metal case. Give that an elastic component and you could add 3/16" to reduce this to a manageable 384g. Adding a rigid metal case helps with bending, not with impact unless it has an elastic component, though mostly just with phones that have a plastic internal frame.
No single big bank has a monopoly
Except they were deemed "too big to fail" so they could get away with any behavior including illegal forclosures And laundering billions in drug money. Absolutely no punishment or even fines were leveled against the big banks. Breaking them up allows for thier complete collapse under thier own mismanagement without crashing the whole economy.
Wait, you read TFA?!?
I agree completely. It's the corporate Republican Party that is sucking the corporate tit and ignoring constituents. Sane fiscally conservative republicans wouldn't have voted for the tax cuts that are poised to generate 2.5 trillion in debt over the next decade either. Dems or Republicans, or independent - vote for canidates not taking unlimited secret PAC money and even better no corporate money at all. If everyone did this the system would see immediate improvements.
Do you know why we import these things?
Because our environmental laws won't allow them to be made here.
So the question is, why are you ok with Chinese workers and their environment being subjected to conditions the Left has deemed unacceptable for Americans and America??
None made in the USA?
Heliene – Mountain Iron, MN (U.S. manufacturing facility)
Itek Energy – Bellingham, WA
Mission Solar – San Antonio, TX
Seraphim – Jackson, MS (U.S. headquarters)
Solaria – Fremont, CA (U.S. headquarters)
SolarTech Universal – Riviera Beach, FL
SolarWorld Americas – Hillsboro, OR
Suniva – Norcross, GA
SunSpark – Riverside, CA
Tesla/Panasonic – Buffalo, NY (U.S. manufacturing facility)
The reason they supply so little of the American market is the same reason all other manufacturing moved offshore, labor prices. But hey, let's trash the environment and cost more jobs in installation cutbacks than the tariffs generate jobs for American manufacturers. It's all in the name of the environment.
Battery and solar are good solutions.
I am surprised there is not more motion to add batter plants like Australia's where they were able to really level out the generation requirement and feed a lot of short demand peaks with batter plants. It sure seems to add a lot of stability and efficiency to a system.
Part of the problem is republicans see these ideas as only half baked.
Natural Gas is a fossil fuel. Who writes this stuff?
Yea, but it's natural and everything natural is good for you right? Good thing we have those 30% tariffs on solar panels, they are so full of artificial chemicals that they are the cheapest power around but it just isn't worth the risk to the environment. /s
911 emergency, how can we help you?
*shaking* I've been in a car accident and am pretty badly hurt, can you send help?
Sir, I'm not sure who you are but placing a false call to 911 is a crime *click*
Hello? Hello?
Why not? All it would take is some legislation.
No, it wouldn't. First off the NSA (along with other US and foreign agencies) isn't going to listen as they were doing this before the patriot act, but more importantly companies will continue to do this around the world outside European or American influence. Data collection, storage, and processing is only getting easier through moores law.
It's not my perceived problem, data security experts have been saying analogous things since forever. Second, voting democrat isn't going to work. Not only did obama extend the patriot act, he expanded spying and further weakened Habeas Corpus. Democrats haven't been a party of the people since citizens united, with a facist criminal in the whitehouse, not only did Dems expand his spying powers, but expanded his millitary capabilities as well. Why can't Dems poll better against this failed reality show host? Perhaps because they are corporate shills whose only difference from republicans are the exact companies bribing thier every move. Not only have I been active and donated to groups who refuse to take corporate money like the justice democrats, but have donated to wolfpac which seeks to add an amendment cementing the illegality of unlimited corporate money in politics. I don't care what side people vote for, of the many sides, but if you give half a crap about America don't give a single goddamn vote to anyone whoring company interests.
I'd say that when Google can concatenate & save forever EVERYTHING YOU DO to a degree that would make FB and Cambridge Analytica (you know, the guys being publicly lynched for doing exactly this?) blush, and use that data against you in ways ranging from subtle to blatant including simply handing your data over to authorities, then yeah, I'm going to call that a quasi-police state whose 'public/private' partnership borders on Fascism.
I'm actually concerned that people's data will be used against them to derive more than just a social score like China. Imagine if the Nazis had access to what religion, ethnicity, and political leanings of all within its borders who were tracked in real time - the damage that could be wrought would be far, far greater. There is the finnancial havoc you could wreak as well given the ability to effectively use this data. There needs to be more oversight and counterbalance to this because there is no putting the genie back in the bottle and if we don't push hard it will be forever consolidated into the hands of a few individuals and the idea that it will be used altruistically instead of maliciously for personal profit is fanciful . Even after Cambridge Analytica I still have difficulty getting people to understand why thier data privacy is important.
War with Canada!!!! Yay!!!!
On cold, clear nights, you can hear sounds from sharpening hockey sticks eerily drifting across the border.
Canada just dosent have the culture to put assholes like that in authority and approve of thier treatment of citizens.
Bwahaha! Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder!
Canada is just like the US, except a bit more authoritarian while pretending to be nice and polite. I would know, I live here.
And you don't live in the US. I hear the same bitching from my family that lives there, they feel just like you because they don't experience all America has to offer. Every time I need a light hearted break from the harsh reality here I tune into Canadian news and listen to the cure problems you have there. Tredau crapping out on represtational voting, aww we have a corrupt greedy toddler dismantling the EPA, HUD, Department of Education, and who is breaking every promise America has made to the world under obama ruining our international reputation further. Aww, you sold a few APC to the saudis who might use them to kill civilians, trump sold 200 billion in planes, missles systems, and weapons of war to definately ethnicity cleanse Yemen. Oh and the poor Canadian guy who got a heart attack and was flown to ND hospital with no medical recriprocity so he owed 100k hospital bill and it was national news lmafo!!! I know three people who got fkd harder by the healthcare system here, that story happens every 5 minutes lmafo. But do go on about your problems, I've been depressed by the news lately.
Hahahaha - Canadians don't even know how to be assholes properly, though I've seen them try a few times. I live in Minnesota and am a dual citizen and have family in Canada so I cross the border a lot. I sometimes get a few curt questions from the Canadian customs, one sent me to immigration (lol) because I had forgotten my Canadian passport and didn't let me explain I was a citizen. But in perhaps 50 crossings I was treated rudely maybe 3-5 times and it was at best a 3/10. When I filed for my social insurance number the lady behind the desk at service Canada rudely said "and why do you think you need one?" Going off my American accent she probably thought I was a medical refugee. After saying "umm, because I'm a citizen..." she absolutely couldn't stop apologizing and directed me straight to an open agent lmao, here in America they would have called the cops over and doubled down and never, absolutely never apologized.
At the border coming back the customs agents are assholes about 40% of the time, one asked why I was in Canada and part of my answer involved being a citizen at which point he interrupted me "Son, we don't recognize dual citizenship (lol a lie), just what kind of American are you? Son, If we went to war with Canada what side would you fight for??!?" Then he went off the goddamn handle and started to make racially charged comments about my family member names and asked me insane questions for another 5 minutes. Then I got sent to be searched. I felt lucky to have made it across alive and until I see it, Canada just dosent have the culture to put assholes like that in authority and approve of thier treatment of citizens.
Brah - your way to riled over a few letters. Smoke some weed, or whatever it takes. You need some of those med boxes so you dont forget a day, l can tell you skiped a few.
WTF is a "lobbiests".
Learn to spell, you submoronic twit.
I Shakespeare up a word and yet you throw a fit over an extra "b" because I'm posting from a crappy mobile? Learn to prioritize literary atrocities you fast food slinging liberal arts major.
And they are only successful if the laws are not written well or correctly.
And that, my friend, is why companies pay lobbiests to write the laws that hold themselves accountable. Politicans cut and paste them then vote for thier monied interests over those unwashed sniveling constituents. Often paying both sides of the isle for maximum lawbricution to pass the bills.
In season 2 of the edgy "Flat earthers" reality show, we mourn the loss of Ed who was lost in the polar expedition of season 1 and sit on the edge of our seats as the show culminates in scaling the government sponsored ice cliffs to keep prying eyes away from the secret illuminati base doing experiments at the true edge of the world.
A conspiracy theory is simply when two or more people keep a plan secret that involves breaking the law. It's literally every single crime ever committed by two or more people. Not only are conspiracies real, you can get a respected job as a crazy conspiracy theorist, it's called being a detective.